1. Not stable; not firm or firmly fixed; unsteady. 2. Not remaining steadily in the same place; apt to move or be moved about. 3. Of movement: Unsteady; irregular.
ABDOMINAL CENTRE. ::: Below the navel, commanding (the small vital movements, the little greeds, lusts, desires, the small sense-movements.
“About the subconscient—it is the sub-mental base of the being and is made up of impressions, instincts, habitual movements that are stored there. Whatever movement is impressed in it, it keeps. If one impresses the right movement in it, it will keep and send up that. That is why it has to be cleared of old movements before there can be a permanent and total change in the nature. When the higher consciousness is once established in the waking parts, it goes down into the subconscient and changes that also, makes a bedrock of itself there also.” Letters on Yoga
advance ::: n. **1. Fig. Onward movement in any process or course of action; progress. v. 2. To move or go forward; to proceed. 3. Fig. To go forward or make progress in life, or in any course. 3. To move, put, or push (a thing) forward. Also fig. advances, advanced, advancing.**
Adversary ::: “When there is some lowering or diminution of the consciousness or some impairing of it at one place or another, the Adversary—or the Censor—who is always on the watch presses with all his might wherever there is a weak point lying covered from your own view, and suddenly a wrong movement leaps up with unexpected force. Become conscious and cast out the possibility of its renewal, that is all that is to be done.” Letters on Yoga
Aeroplane, steamer or train ::: Always symbols of a rapid pro- gross or forward movement.
“Akshara, the immobile, the immutable, is the silent and inactive self, it is the unity of the divine Being, Witness of Nature, but not involved in its movement; it is the inactive Purusha free from Prakriti and her works.” Essays on the Gita
::: "All conscious being is one and indivisible in itself, but in manifestation it becomes a complex rhythm, a scale of harmonies, a hierarchy of states or movements.” The Upanishads
“All conscious being is one and indivisible in itself, but in manifestation it becomes a complex rhythm, a scale of harmonies, a hierarchy of states or movements.” The Upanishads
::: "All energies put into activity — thought, speech, feeling, act — go to constitute Karma. These things help to develop the nature in one direction or another, and the nature and its actions and reactions produce their consequences inward and outward: they also act on others and create movements in the general sum of forces which can return upon oneself sooner or later. Thoughts unexpressed can also go out as forces and produce their effects. It is a mistake to think that a thought or will can have effect only when it is expressed in speech or act: the unspoken thought, the unexpressed will are also active energies and can produce their own vibrations, effects or reactions.” Letters on Yoga*
“All energies put into activity—thought, speech, feeling, act—go to constitute Karma. These things help to develop the nature in one direction or another, and the nature and its actions and reactions produce their consequences inward and outward: they also act on others and create movements in the general sum of forces which can return upon oneself sooner or later. Thoughts unexpressed can also go out as forces and produce their effects. It is a mistake to think that a thought or will can have effect only when it is expressed in speech or act: the unspoken thought, the unexpressed will are also active energies and can produce their own vibrations, effects or reactions.” Letters on Yoga
"All phenomenal existence resolves itself into Force, into a movement of energy that assumes more or less material, more or less gross or subtle forms for self-presentation to its own experience.” The Life Divine
“All phenomenal existence resolves itself into Force, into a movement of energy that assumes more or less material, more or less gross or subtle forms for self-presentation to its own experience.” The Life Divine
"All true law is the right motion and process of a reality, an energy or power of being in action fulfilling its own inherent movement self-implied in its own truth of existence. This law may be inconscient and its working appear to be mechanical, — that is the character or, at least, the appearance of law in material Nature: it may be a conscious energy, freely determined in its action by the consciousness in the being aware of its own imperative of truth, aware of its plastic possibilities of self-expression of that truth, aware, always in the whole and at each moment in the detail, of the actualities it has to realise; this is the figure of the law of the Spirit.” *The Life Divine
“All true law is the right motion and process of a reality, an energy or power of being in action fulfilling its own inherent movement self-implied in its own truth of existence. This law may be inconscient and its working appear to be mechanical,—that is the character or, at least, the appearance of law in material Nature: it may be a conscious energy, freely determined in its action by the consciousness in the being aware of its own imperative of truth, aware of its plastic possibilities of self-expression of that truth, aware, always in the whole and at each moment in the detail, of the actualities it has to realise; this is the figure of the law of the Spirit.” The Life Divine
"All world is a movement of the Spirit in itself and is mutable and transient in all its formations and appearances; its only eternity is an eternity of recurrence, its only stability a semblance caused by certain fixities of relation and grouping.” *The Upanishads
“All world is a movement of the Spirit in itself and is mutable and transient in all its formations and appearances; its only eternity is an eternity of recurrence, its only stability a semblance caused by certain fixities of relation and grouping.” The Upanishads
"Always keep in touch with the Divine Force. The best thing for you is to do that simply and allow it to do its own work; wherever necessary, it will take hold of the inferior energies and purify them; at other times it will empty you of them and fill you with itself. But if you let your mind take the lead and discuss and decide what is to be done, you will lose touch with the Divine Force and the lower energies will begin to act for themselves and all go into confusion and a wrong movement.” Letters on Yoga
“Always keep in touch with the Divine Force. The best thing for you is to do that simply and allow it to do its own work; wherever necessary, it will take hold of the inferior energies and purify them; at other times it will empty you of them and fill you with itself. But if you let your mind take the lead and discuss and decide what is to be done, you will lose touch with the Divine Force and the lower energies will begin to act for themselves and all go into confusion and a wrong movement.” Letters on Yoga
Amal: “I suppose they are the movements of the consciousness which try to catch in advance various glimpses of Truth, before the Truth is realised.”
Amal: “They are beings and powers in our subconscious parts, who are bent on upsetting all our luminous movements and on creating utter disorder—anarchy—in our nature.”
Ananda) and if the lower movements are active, it forms an obstacle to the establishment of the higher consciousness. But the higher can descend, if there is at all an opening, even before
Ananda that holds the key of a wonderful divines! Life and even now supports from its secrecies the work of all the other Powers of the universe. But human nature bounded, egoistic and obscure is inapt to receive these great Presences or to support their mighty action. Only when the Four have founded their harmony and freedom of movement in the transformed mind and life and body, can those other rarer Powers manifest in the earth move- ment and the supramental action become possible.
And still we can recognise at once in the Overmind the original cosmic Maya, not a Maya of Ignorance but a Maya of Knowledge, yet a Power which has made the Ignorance possible, even inevitable. For if each principle loosed into action must follow its independent line and carry out its complete consequences, the principle of separation must also be allowed its complete course and arrive at its absolute consequence; this is Overmind in its descent reaches a line which divides the cosmic Truth from the cosmic Ignorance; it is the line at which it becomes possible for Consciousness-Force, emphasising the separateness of each independent movement created by Overmind and hiding or darkening their unity, to divide Mind by an exclusive concentration from the overmental source. There has already been a similar separation of Overmind from its supramental source, but with a transparency in the veil which allows a conscious transmission and maintains a certain luminous kinship; but here the veil is opaque and the transmission of the Overmind motives to the Mind is occult and obscure. Mind separated acts as if it were an independent principle, and each mental being, each basic mental idea, power, force stands similarly on its separate self; if it communicates with or combines or contacts others, it is not with the catholic universality of the overmind movement, on a basis of underlying oneness, but as independent units joining to form a separate constructed whole. It is by this movement that we pass from the cosmic Truth into the cosmic Ignorance. The cosmic Mind on this level, no doubt, comprehends its own unity, but it is not aware of its own source and foundation in the Spirit or can only comprehend it by the intelligence, not in any enduring experience; it acts in itself as if by its own right and works out what it receives as material without direct communication with the source from which it receives it. Its units also act in ignorance of each other and of the cosmic whole except for the knowledge that they can get by contact and communication,—the basic sense of identity and the mutual penetration and understanding that comes from it are no longer there. All the actions of this Mind Energy proceed on the opposite basis of the Ignorance and its divisions and, although they are the results of a certain conscious knowledge, it is a partial knowledge, not a true and integral self-knowledge, nor a true and integral world-knowledge. This character persists in Life and in subtle Matter and reappears in the gross material universe which arises from the final lapse into the Inconscience. …
— anger and sensitiveness and pride as well as desire and the rest, — not to let them get hold of the emotional being and disturb the inner peace, not to speak and act in the rush and impulsion of thesS things, always to act and speak out of a calm inner poise of the spirit. It is not easy to have this equality in any full perfect measure, but one should always try more and more to make it the basis of one's inner state and outer movements.
::: "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
“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
ANUBHAVA. ::: The system of getting rid of things by anubhava* 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 vicāra+ t or by the process of rejection and the substitution of the true movement in its place. 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 en entirely wrong movement, or to transform it if it is only the degradation of a higher and true movement.
a perfectly harmonious music, inaudible on the earth, thought to be produced by the movement of celestial bodies.
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface and you will feel your true being within separate from them, observing but not carried away, able to watch and judge them and reject all that has to be rejected and to accept and keep to all that is true consciousness and true experience.” Letters on Yoga
ARRESTS IN SADHANA. ::: A difficulty comes or an arrest in some movement which you have begun or have been carrying on for some time. Such arrests are inevitably frequent enough; one might almost say that every step forward is followed by an arrest. 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 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, helps the obstructions to recur with force instead of progressively diminishing in their incidence.
"Art is a living harmony and beauty that must be expressed in all the movements of existence. This manifestation of beauty and harmony is part of the Divine realisation upon earth, perhaps even its greatest part.” Questions and Answers, MCW Vol. 3.
“Art is a living harmony and beauty that must be expressed in all the movements of existence. This manifestation of beauty and harmony is part of the Divine realisation upon earth, perhaps even its greatest part.” Questions and Answers, MCW Vol. 3.
ascension ::: the act or process of ascending; upward movement. flame-ascensions.
ASCENT AND RETURN. ::: Once the being or its different parts begin to ascend to the planes above, any part of the being may do it, frontal or other. The samskāra that one cannot come back must be got rid of. One can have the experience of Nirvana at the summit of the mind or anywhere in those planes that are now superconscient to the mind; the mind spiritualised by the ascent into Self has the sense of laya, dissolution of itself, its thoughts, movements, samskāras into a superconscient Silence and Infinity which it is unable to grasp, - the Unknowable. But this would bring or lead to some form of Nirvana only if one makes Nirvana the goal, if one is tied to the mind and accepts its dissolution into the Infinite as one’s own dissolution or if one has not the capacity to reorganise experience on a higher than the mental plane. But otherwise what was superconscient becomes conscient, one begins to possess or else to be the instrument of the dynamis of the higher planes and there is a movement, not of liberation into Nirvana but of liberation and transformation. However high one goes one can always return, unless one has the will not to do so.
ascent ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The ascent or the upward movement takes place when there is a sufficient aspiration from the being, i.e., from the various mental, vital and physical planes.” *Letters on Yoga
ascent ::: “The ascent or the upward movement takes place when there is a sufficient aspiration from the being, i.e., from the various mental, vital and physical planes.” Letters on Yoga
ASPECTS OF THE DIVINE. ::: The Divine has three aspects for us :
1. It is the Cosmic Self and Spirit that is in and behind all things and beings, from which and in which all is manifested in the universe- although it is now a manifestation in the Ignorance.
2. It is the Spirit and Master of our own being within us whom we have to serve and learn to express his will in all our movements so that we may grow out of the Ignorance into the Light.
3. The Divine is transcendent Being and Spirit, all bliss and light and divine knowledge and power, and towards that highest divine existence and its Light we have to rise and bring down the reality of it more and more into our consciousness and life.
ASSIMILATION. ::: There has to be a period of assimilation. When the being is unconscious, the assimilation goes on behind the veil or below the surface and meanwhile the surface consciousness sees only dullness and the loss of what it had got; but when one is conscious, then one can see the assimilation going on and one sees that nothing is lost, it is only a quiet settling in of what has come down.
To remain quiet for a time after the descent of Force is the best way of assimilating it.
There are always pauses of preparation and assimilation between two movements.
The periods of assimilation continue till all that has to be done is fundamentally done. Only they have a different character in the later stages of sadhana. If they cease altogether at an early stage, it is because all that the nature was capable of has been done and that would mean it was not capable of much.
"As supramental Truth is not merely a sublimation of our mental ideas, so Divine Love is not merely a sublimation of human emotions; it is a different consciousness, with a different quality, movement and substance.” Letters on Yoga
“As supramental Truth is not merely a sublimation of our mental ideas, so Divine Love is not merely a sublimation of human emotions; it is a different consciousness, with a different quality, movement and substance.” Letters on Yoga
". . . 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
“… 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
* attachment must draw away altogether from the object of its love. The vital can be as absolute in its unquestioning self-giving as any other part or the nature ; nothing can be more generous than its movement when it forgets self for the Beloved. The vital and physical should both give themselves in the true way — the way of true love, not of ego-desire.
AU should be done quietly from within — working, speaking, reading, writing as part of real consciousness — not with the dispersed and unquiet movement of the ordinary consciousness.
beatitude ::: Madhav: “Beatitude is different from bliss. In bliss there is a constant vibration, there is a movement, but beatitude is something tranquil and joyous, I would not call it a vibration; it is a state of happiness oozing out benevolence.” Sat-Sang Vol. VIII
behaviour ::: 1. Manner of behaving or conducting oneself. 2. The aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation, or the manner in which a thing acts under such circumstances. behaviour"s.
"Behind this petty instrumental action of the human will there is something vast and powerful and eternal that oversees the trend of the inclination and presses on the turn of the will. There is a total Truth in Nature greater than our individual choice. And in this total Truth, or even beyond and behind it, there is something that determines all results; its presence and secret knowledge keep up steadily in the process of Nature a dynamic, almost automatic perception of the right relations, the varying or persistent necessities, the inevitable steps of the movement. There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“Behind this petty instrumental action of the human will there is something vast and powerful and eternal that oversees the trend of the inclination and presses on the turn of the will. There is a total Truth in Nature greater than our individual choice. And in this total Truth, or even beyond and behind it, there is something that determines all results; its presence and secret knowledge keep up steadily in the process of Nature a dynamic, almost automatic perception of the right relations, the varying or persistent necessities, the inevitable steps of the movement. There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga
being ::: 1. The state or quality of having existence. 2. The totality of all things that exist. 3. One"s basic or essential nature; self. 4. All the qualities constituting one that exists; the essence. 5. A person; human being. 6. The Divine, the Supreme; God. Being, being"s, Being"s, beings, Beings, beings", earth-being"s, earth-beings, fragment-being, non-being, non-being"s, Non-Being, Non-Being"s, world-being"s.
Sri Aurobindo: "Pure Being is the affirmation by the Unknowable of Itself as the free base of all cosmic existence.” *The Life Divine :::
"The Absolute manifests itself in two terms, a Being and a Becoming. The Being is the fundamental reality; the Becoming is an effectual reality: it is a dynamic power and result, a creative energy and working out of the Being, a constantly persistent yet mutable form, process, outcome of its immutable formless essence.” *The Life Divine
"What is original and eternal for ever in the Divine is the Being, what is developed in consciousness, conditions, forces, forms, etc., by the Divine Power is the Becoming. The eternal Divine is the Being; the universe in Time and all that is apparent in it is a Becoming.” Letters on Yoga
"Being and Becoming, One and Many are both true and are both the same thing: Being is one, Becomings are many; but this simply means that all Becomings are one Being who places Himself variously in the phenomenal movement of His consciousness.” The Upanishads :::
"Our whole apparent life has only a symbolic value & is good & necessary as a becoming; but all becoming has being for its goal & fulfilment & God is the only being.” *Essays Divine and Human
"Our being is a roughly constituted chaos into which we have to introduce the principle of a divine order.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“Being and Becoming, One and Many are both true and are both the same thing: Being is one, Becomings are many; but this simply means that all Becomings are one Being who places Himself variously in the phenomenal movement of His consciousness.” The Upanishads
Being or a Presence — sometimes one of these, sometimes several of them or all together. The movement of ascension has diffe- rent results ; it may liberate the consciousness so that one feels no longer in he body, but above it or else spread in wideness with the body whether almost non-existent or only a point in one’s free expanse. It may enable the being or some part of the being to go out from the body and move elsewhere, and this action is usually accompanied by some kind of partial Samadhi or else a complete trance. Or, it may result in empowering the cons- ciousness, no longer limited by the body and the habits of the external nature, to go within, to enter the inner mental depths, the inner vital, the inner (subtle) physical, the psychic, to become aware of its inmost psychic self or its inner mental, vital, and subtle physical being, and it may be, to move and live in the domains, the planes, the worlds that correspond to these parts of the nature. It is the repeated and constant ascent of the lower consciousness that enables the mind, the vital, the physical to come into touch with the higher planes up to the Supramental and get impregnated with their light and power and influence.
bird ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Bird in the Veda is the symbol, very frequently, of the soul liberated and upsoaring, at other times of energies so liberated and upsoaring, winging upwards towards the heights of our being, winging widely with a free flight, no longer involved in the ordinary limited movement or labouring gallop of the Life-energy, the Horse, Ashwa.” *The Secret of the Veda
bird ::: “The Bird in the Veda is the symbol, very frequently, of the soul liberated and upsoaring, at other times of energies so liberated and upsoaring, winging upwards towards the heights of our being, winging widely with a free flight, no longer involved in the ordinary limited movement or labouring gallop of the Life-energy, the Horse, Ashwa.” The Secret of the Veda
movement ::: 1. The act or an instance of moving; a change in place or position. A particular manner of moving. 2. Usually, movements, actions or activities, as of a person or a body of persons. ::: movement"s, movements, many-movemented.
Sri Aurobindo: "When we withdraw our gaze from its egoistic preoccupation with limited and fleeting interests and look upon the world with dispassionate and curious eyes that search only for the Truth, our first result is the perception of a boundless energy of infinite existence, infinite movement, infinite activity pouring itself out in limitless Space, in eternal Time, an existence that surpasses infinitely our ego or any ego or any collectivity of egos, in whose balance the grandiose products of aeons are but the dust of a moment and in whose incalculable sum numberless myriads count only as a petty swarm." *The Life Divine
". . . the purest, freest form of insight into existence as it is shows us nothing but movement. Two things alone exist, movement in Space, movement in Time, the former objective, the latter subjective.” The Life Divine
"The world is a cyclic movement (samsâra ) of the Divine Consciousness in Space and Time. Its law and, in a sense, its object is progression; it exists by movement and would be dissolved by cessation of movement. But the basis of this movement is not material; it is the energy of active consciousness which, by its motion and multiplication in different principles (different in appearance, the same in essence), creates oppositions of unity and multiplicity, divisions of Time and Space, relations and groupings of circumstance and Causality. All these things are real in consciousness, but only symbolic of the Being, somewhat as the imaginations of a creative Mind are true representations of itself, yet not quite real in comparison with itself, or real with a different kind of reality.” The Upanishads*
movement ::: “When we withdraw our gaze from its egoistic preoccupation with limited and fleeting interests and look upon the world with dispassionate and curious eyes that search only for the Truth, our first result is the perception of a boundless energy of infinite existence, infinite movement, infinite activity pouring itself out in limitless Space, in eternal Time, an existence that surpasses infinitely our ego or any ego or any collectivity of egos, in whose balance the grandiose products of aeons are but the dust of a moment and in whose incalculable sum numberless myriads count only as a petty swarm.” The Life Divine
Body consciousness ::: The body has its own consciousness and acts from it, even without any mental will of our own or even against that will, and our surface mind knows very little about this body consciousness, feels it only in an imperfect way, sees only its results and has the greatest dihiculty in finding out their causes. It is part of the yoga to become aware of this separate consciousness of the body, to sec and feel its movements and the forces that act upon it from inside or outside and to learn how to control and direct it even in its most hidden and (to us) subconscient processes.
Body-mind ::: There is an obscure mind of the body, of the very cells, molecules, corpuscles. This body-mind is a very tangible truth ; owing to its obscurity and mechanical clinging to past movements, and facile oblivion and rejection of the new. we find in it one of the chief obstacles to pemiealion by the Supermind
But all this must not be taken in too rigid and mechanical a sense. It is an immense plastic movement full of the play of possibilities and must be seized by a flexible and subtle tact or sense in the seeing conscioosness. It cannot be reduced to a too rigorous logical or mathematical formula. Two or three points must be pressed in order that this plasticity may not be lost to our view.
But a time will come when you will feel more and more that you are the instrument and not the worker. For first by the force of your devotion your contact with the Divine Mother will become so intimate that at all times you will have only to con- centrate and to put everything into her hands to have her present guidance, her direct command or impulse, the sure indi- cation of the thing to be done and the way to do it and the result. And afterwards you wfil realise that the divine Shakti not only inspires and guides, but initiates and carries out your works ; all your movements are originated by her, all your powers are hers, mind, life and body are conscious and joyful instruments of her action, means for her play, moulds for her manifestation in the physical universe. There can be
"But in a higher than our present mental consciousness we find that this duality is only a phenomenal appearance. The highest and real truth of existence is the one Spirit, the supreme Soul, Purushottama, and it is the power of being of this Spirit which manifests itself in all that we experience as universe. This universal Nature is not a lifeless, inert or unconscious mechanism, but informed in all its movements by the universal Spirit. The mechanism of its process is only an outward appearance and the reality is the Spirit creating or manifesting its own being by its own power of being in all that is in Nature. Soul and Nature in us too are only a dual appearance of the one existence.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“But in a higher than our present mental consciousness we find that this duality is only a phenomenal appearance. The highest and real truth of existence is the one Spirit, the supreme Soul, Purushottama, and it is the power of being of this Spirit which manifests itself in all that we experience as universe. This universal Nature is not a lifeless, inert or unconscious mechanism, but informed in all its movements by the universal Spirit. The mechanism of its process is only an outward appearance and the reality is the Spirit creating or manifesting its own being by its own power of being in all that is in Nature. Soul and Nature in us too are only a dual appearance of the one existence.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"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
“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
But sometimes it is a condition that has to be crossed through, e.g. the neutral or dry quietude which sometimes comes when the ordinary movements have been thrown out but nothing positive has yet come to take their place, i.e, peace, joy, a higher know- ledge or force or action.
But with the extension of our knowledge we discover what this spirit or oversoul is: it is ultimately our own highest deepest vastest Self, it is apparent on its summits or by reflection in ourselves as Sachchidananda creating us and the world by the power of His divine Knowledge-Will, spiritual, supramental, truth-conscious, infinite. That is the real Being, Lord and Creator, who, as the Cosmic Self veiled in Mind and Life and Matter, has descended into that which we call the Inconscient and constitutes and directs its subconscient existence by His supramental will and knowledge, has ascended out of the Inconscient and dwells in the inner being constituting and directing its subliminal existence by the same will and knowledge, has cast up out of the subliminal our surface existence and dwells secretly in it over seeing with the same supreme light and mastery its stumbling and groping movements.
"By Force I mean not mental or vital energy but the Divine Force from above — as peace comes from above and wideness also, so does this Force (Shakti). Nothing, not even thinking or meditating can be done without some action of Force. The Force I speak of is a Force for illumination, transformation, purification, all that has to be done in the yoga, for removal of hostile forces and the wrong movements — it is also of course for external work, whether great or small in appearance does not matter — if that is part of the Divine Will. I do not mean any personal force egoistic or rajasic.” Letters on Yoga
“By Force I mean not mental or vital energy but the Divine Force from above—as peace comes from above and wideness also, so does this Force (Shakti). Nothing, not even thinking or meditating can be done without some action of Force. The Force I speak of is a Force for illumination, transformation, purification, all that has to be done in the yoga, for removal of hostile forces and the wrong movements—it is also of course for external work, whether great or small in appearance does not matter—if that is part of the Divine Will. I do not mean any personal force egoistic or rajasic.” Letters on Yoga
By its numerous asanas or fixed postures it first cures the body of that restlessness which is a sign of its inability to contain without working them off in action and movement the vital forces poured into it from the universal Life-Ocean, gives to ft an
By negative I mean merely repressing the desires and wrong movements and egoism ; by positive I mean the bring-
::: "By self-realisation of Brahman as our self we find the force, the divine energy which lifts us beyond the limitation, weakness, darkness, sorrow, all-pervading death of our mortal existence; by the knowledge of the one Brahman in all beings and in all the various movement of the cosmos we attain beyond these things to the infinity, the omnipotent being, the omniscient light, the pure beatitude of that divine existence.” The Upanishads
“By self-realisation of Brahman as our self we find the force, the divine energy which lifts us beyond the limitation, weakness, darkness, sorrow, all-pervading death of our mortal existence; by the knowledge of the one Brahman in all beings and in all the various movement of the cosmos we attain beyond these things to the infinity, the omnipotent being, the omniscient light, the pure beatitude of that divine existence.” The Upanishads
"By the supermind is meant the full Truth-Consciousness of the Divine Nature in which there can be no place for the principle of division and ignorance; it is always a full light and knowledge superior to all mental substance or mental movement.” Letters on Yoga
“By the supermind is meant the full Truth-Consciousness of the Divine Nature in which there can be no place for the principle of division and ignorance; it is always a full light and knowledge superior to all mental substance or mental movement.” Letters on Yoga
cause ::: 1. A person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect. 2. A basis for an action or response; a reason. 3. Grounds for action; motive; justification. 4. Good or sufficient reason. 5. The principle, ideal, goal, or movement to which a person or group is dedicated. Cause.
Chakra (circular movement) ::: Always sign of energy in action, generally creative action.
Chance ::: Madhav: “Chance, erratic happening, is only an appearance. It is not the governing truth or feature of this existence. What look like unregulated result is really an effect foreseeable by an Intelligence higher than the mental reason; in fact, it is part of a process initiated and conducted by a divine wisdom, prajna, that rules the universe. What passes for chance is a purposive movement permitted and contained in the larger operations of the Law.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. I.
CHANGE OF NATURE. ::: The first step is to become cons- cious and separate from the old surface nature. For this rajasic vital naturemovements. Behind is the true mental and vital being supported by the psychic. The true being is calm, wide, peaceful. By drawing back and becoming separate one creates the possibility of living in the peace of this inner Purusha and no longer identified with the surface Prakriti. Afterwards it will be much easier to change by the force of the psychic perception and the Peace and Power and Light from above the surface being.
Citlavriti-nirodha ::: conquest of all the movements of the mind.
Citta-suddhi (purification of the mental or moral habits form- ed in the citta) was preached by the yogins as a first movement towards realisation and they got by it the saintliness of the saint and the quietude of the sage but the transformation of the nature of which w« speak Is something more than that, and this trans- formation does not come by contemplation alone.
CITTA. ::: Tlw stuff of mixed mentaMital-phjsical conscious- ness out of which arise the movements of thought, emotion, sen-
clumsy or ponderous as in movement or expressiveness.
columns ::: long, narrow formations of troops in which there are more members in line in the direction of movement than at right angles to the direction.—(distinguished from line).
CONCENTRATION ::: Fixing the consciousness in one place or on one object and in a single condition.
A gathering together of the consciousness and either centralising at one point or turning on a single object, e.g. the Divine; there can also be a gathered condition throughout the whole being, not at a point.
Concentration is necessary, first to turn the whole will and mind from the discursive divagation natural to them, following a dispersed movement of the thoughts, running after many-branching desires, led away in the track of the senses and the outward mental response to phenomena; we have to fix the will and the thought on the eternal and real behind all, and this demands an immense effort, a one-pointed concentration. Secondly, it is necessary in order to break down the veil which is erected by our ordinary mentality between ourselves and the truth; for outer knowledge can be picked up by the way, by ordinary attention and reception, but the inner, hidden and higher truth can only be seized by an absolute concentration of the mind on its object, an absolute concentration of the will to attain it and, once attained, to hold it habitually and securely unite oneself with it.
Centre of Concentration: The two main places where one can centre the consciousness for yoga are in the head and in the heart - the mind-centre and the soul-centre.
Brain concentration is always a tapasyā and necessarily brings a strain. It is only if one is lifted out of the brain mind altogether that the strain of mental concentration disappears.
At the top of the head or above it is the right place for yogic concentration in reading or thinking.
In whatever centre the concentration takes place, the yoga force generated extends to the others and produces concentration or workings there.
Modes of Concentration: There is no harm in concentrating sometimes in the heart and sometimes above the head. But concentration in either place does not mean keeping the attention fixed on a particular spot; you have to take your station of consciousness in either place and concentrate there not on the place, but on the Divine. This can be done with eyes shut or with eyes open, according as it best suits.
If one concentrates on a thought or a word, one has to dwell on the essential idea contained in the word with the aspiration to feel the thing which it expresses.
There is no method in this yoga except to concentrate, preferably in the heart, and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up the being and by the workings of her force to transform the consciousness; one can concentrate also in the head or between the eye-brows, but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspiration intense, then there is a beginning of experience. The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be.
Powers (three) of Concentration ::: By concentration on anything whatsoever we are able to know that thing, to make it deliver up its concealed secrets; we must use this power to know not things, but the one Thing-in-itself. By concentration again the whole will can be gathered up for the acquisition of that which is still ungrasped, still beyond us; this power, if it is sufficiently trained, sufficiently single-minded, sufficiently sincere, sure of itself, faithful to itself alone, absolute in faith, we can use for the acquisition of any object whatsoever; but we ought to use it not for the acquisition of the many objects which the world offers to us, but to grasp spiritually that one object worthy of pursuit which is also the one subject worthy of knowledge. By concentration of our whole being on one status of itself we can become whatever we choose ; we can become, for instance, even if we were before a mass of weaknesses and fears, a mass instead of strength and courage, or we can become all a great purity, holiness and peace or a single universal soul of Love ; but we ought, it is said, to use this power to become not even these things, high as they may be in comparison with what we now are, but rather to become that which is above all things and free from all action and attributes, the pure and absolute Being. All else, all other concentration can only be valuable for preparation, for previous steps, for a gradual training of the dissolute and self-dissipating thought, will and being towards their grand and unique object.
Stages in Concentration (Rajayogic) ::: that in which the object is seized, that in which it is held, that in which the mind is lost in the status which the object represents or to which the concentration leads.
Concentration and Meditation ::: Concentration means fixing the consciousness in one place or one object and in a single condition Meditation can be diffusive,e.g. thinking about the Divine, receiving impressions and discriminating, watching what goes on in the nature and acting upon it etc. Meditation is when the inner mind is looking at things to get the right knowledge.
vide Dhyāna.
Conditions of Transformafirm ::: If you desire this transforma- tion, put yourself in the hands of the Mother and her Powers without cavil or resistance and let her do unhindered her work within you. Three things you roust have, consciousness, plasti- city, unreserved surrender. For you must be conscious in your mind and soul and heart and life and the very cells of your body, aware of the Mother and her Powers and their working ; for although she can and does work in yt)u even in your obscurity and your unconscious parts and moments, it is not the same thing as when you are in an awakened and living communion with her. All your nature must be plasUc to her touch, — • not questioning as the self-sufficient ignorant mind questions and doubts and disputes and is the enemy of its enlightenment and change ; not insisting on its own movements as the vital In man insists and persistently opposes its rcfractoiy desires and ill-wilt to every divine influence ; not obstructing and entrenched m
*consciousforce. ::: Sri Aurobindo: "In actual fact Mind measures Time by event and Space by Matter; but it is possible in pure mentality to disregard the movement of event and the disposition of substance and realise the pure movement of Conscious-Force which constitutes Space and Time; these two are then merely two aspects of the universal force of Consciousness which in their intertwined interaction comprehend the warp and woof of its action upon itself. And to a consciousness higher than Mind which should regard our past, present and future in one view, containing and not contained in them, not situated at a particular moment of Time for its point of prospection, Time might well offer itself as an eternal present. And to the same consciousness not situated at any particular point of Space, but containing all points and regions in itself, Space also might well offer itself as a subjective and indivisible extension, — no less subjective than Time.” The Life Divine
consciousness ::: “Consciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence—it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is in it—not only the macrocosm but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself.” Letters on Yoga
Consciousness for true action ::: If you want the consciousness for true action very much and aspire for it, it may come in one of several ways ::: (1) You may gel the habit or faculty of watch- ing your movements in such a way that you see the impulse to action coming and can see too Its nature. (2) A consciousness may come which feels uneasy whenever a wrong thought or impulse to action or feeling is there, (3) Something within you may warn and stop you when you are going to do the wrong action.
“Consciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence—it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is in it—not only the macrocosm but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself.” Letters on Yoga
Consecration vs. Conversion ::: Conversion is a spontaneous movement of the consciousness, a turning of it away from external things towards the Divine. It comes as well as is the result of a touch from within and above. Self-consecration may help one to open to the touch or the touch may come of itself.
COSMIC IGNORANCE. ::: The whole movement of world- consciousness separated from the supreme Truth and acting in an inferior motion in which the Truth is per%’ertcd, diminished, mixed and clouded with falsehood and error.
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*
Cosmic vision is the seeing of the uni\ersal movements. It can be in the universal mind, the universal vital, the universal physical or anywhere.
“Cosmic vision is the seeing of the universal movements—it has nothing to do with the psychic necessarily. It can be in the universal mind, the universal vital, the universal physical or anywhere.” Letters on Yoga
cosmic vision ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Cosmic vision is the seeing of the universal movements — it has nothing to do with the psychic necessarily. It can be in the universal mind, the universal vital, the universal physical or anywhere.” Letters on Yoga*
course ::: 1. A direction or route taken or to be taken. 2. The path, route, or channel along which anything moves. 3. Advance or progression in a particular direction; forward or onward movement. 4. The continuous passage or progress through time or a succession of stages. chariot-course.
crawl ::: n. 1. The action of moving slowly on the hands or knees or dragging the body along the ground. 2. A very slow movement or progress. v. 3. To move slowly, either by dragging the body along the ground or on the hands and knees. 4. To advance slowly, feebly, laboriously, or with frequent stops. crawls, crawled, crawling.
creeping ::: the act of creeping or a creeping movement.
\-crsaliscd consciousness, be aware of their movements, live in harmony with them in the Divine All, but not allow or call their presence within the personal aJhira. Very often that leads to (fitf invasion of the consciousness by vital powers or presences which assume the forms of those who are so admitted >— and that is most undesirable.
CYCLE. ::: In all things there is a cycle of their action and a period of the divine movement
darting ::: an act of darting; a sudden swift movement.
Dats ::: Forces of the night, i.c. ignorant movements finding a lodging in the obscurity of the unenlightened nature.
DAY AND NIGHT. ::: The up and down movement is com- mon to all ways of yoga. It is there in the path of Bhakti, but there are equally alternations of states of light and states of darkness, sometimes sheer and prolonged darkness, when one follows the path of Knowledge. Those who have occult experi- ences come to periods when all experiences cease and even seem finished for ever.
deliberate ::: 1. Carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional. 2. Leisurely and steady in movement or action; slow and even; unhurried.
Descent into the most physical ::: It brings light, consciousness, force, Ananda into the cells and all the physical movements. The body becomes conscious and vi^ant and performs the right movements, obeying the higher will or else automatically by the force of the consciousness that has come into iL It becomes more possible to control the functions of the body and set right any> thing that is mong, to deal with illness and pain etc. A greater control comes over the actions of the body and even ov'er bap> penings to it from outside, e.g. minimising of aeddents and small happenings. The body becomes a more effective instrument for work. It becomes possible to mimmise fatigue. Peace, happiness, strength, lightness come in the whole system. There is also the unity with the earth-consdousness, the constant sense of the
destruction ::: “Destruction in itself is neither good nor evil. It is a fact of Nature, a necessity in the play of forces, as things are in this world. The Light destroys the Darkness and the Powers of Darkness, and that is not a movement of Ignorance!” Letters on Yoga
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
detached ::: “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
Divine and led by Utc common habits of the mind, life and body which are the laws of the Ignorance. Tltc religious life is a movement of the same Ignorant human consciousness, turning or trying to turn away from the earth towards the Divine but as yet without knowledge and led by the dogmatic tenets and rules of some sect or creed which claims to have found the way out of the bonds of the earth-consciousness into some beatific Beyond.
divine Mother ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Supreme and far above all she creates.” *The Mother
Divine. That is the attitude into which one must grow ; for certainly it cannot be made perfect at once— -mental and vital movements come across — but if one keeps the will to it, it will grow in the being. The rest is a matter of obedience when it makes itself manifest, not allowing one’s mental and vital move- ments to interfere.
DOUBLE FOUNDATION OF YOGA. ::: If you Leep the wide- ness and calm and also the love for the Mother in the heart, then all is safe for it means the double foundation of the Yoga ::: the descent of the higher consciousness with its peace, freedom and serenity from above and the openness of the psychic which keeps all the effort or all the spontaneous movement turned towards the true goal.
DOUBLE MOVEMENT. ::: Our yoga is a double movement of ascent and descent ; one rises to higher and higher levels of consciousness, but at the same time one brings down their power not only into mind and life, but in the end even into the body.
Doubts cannot be overcome by ^viog them their full force ; it can be rather done by learning to stand back from them and to refuse to be carried away ; then there is a chance of the still small voice from within getting itself heard and pushing out these loud clamorous voices and movements from outside. It is the light from within that you have to make room for ; the light of the outer mind is quite insufficient for the discovery of the inner values or to judge the truth of spiritual experience.
drag ::: n. 1. A slow, laborious motion or movement against resistance. v. 2. To pull along with difficulty or effort; haul. 3. To trail along the ground. 4. To be drawn or hauled along. 5. To introduce; inject; insert. drags, dragged, dragging.
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.
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.
Dryness comes usually when the vital dislikes a movement or' condition or the refusal of its desires and starts non-co-operation.
ego ::: “Ego is only a faculty put forward by the discriminative mind to centralise round itself the experiences of the sense-mind and to serve as a sort of lynch-pin in the wheel which keeps together the movement. It is no more than an instrument, although it is true that so long as we are limited by our normal mentality, we are compelled by the nature of that mentality and the purpose of the instrument to mistake our ego-function for our very self.” The Upanishads
embargo ::: a government order prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
^emo^'e the cause ; for the cause is always in oneself, perhaps a vital defect somewhere, a wrong movement indulged or a petty desire causing a recoil, sometimes by its satisfaction, sometimes by its disappointment.
"Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very usually a necessary transition from one state to another. When mind and vital fall quiet and their restless movements, thoughts and desires cease, then one feels empty. This is at first often a neutral emptiness with nothing in it, nothing in it either good or bad, happy or unhappy, no impulse or movement. This neutral state is often or even usually followed by the opening to inner experience. There is also an emptiness made of peace and silence, when the peace and silence come out from the psychic within or descend from the higher consciousness above. This is not neutral, for in it there is the sense of peace, often also of wideness and freedom. There is also a happy emptiness with the sense of something close or drawing near which is not yet there, e.g. the closeness of the Mother or some other preparing experience.” Letters on Yoga*
“Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very usually a necessary transition from one state to another. When mind and vital fall quiet and their restless movements, thoughts and desires cease, then one feels empty. This is at first often a neutral emptiness with nothing in it, nothing in it either good or bad, happy or unhappy, no impulse or movement. This neutral state is often or even usually followed by the opening to inner experience. There is also an emptiness made of peace and silence, when the peace and silence come out from the psychic within or descend from the higher consciousness above. This is not neutral, for in it there is the sense of peace, often also of wideness and freedom. There is also a happy emptiness with the sense of something close or drawing near which is not yet there, e.g. the closeness of the Mother or some other preparing experience.” Letters on Yoga
ENERGIES. ::: All energies put info activity — thought, speech, feeling, act — go to constitute Karma. These things help to develop the nature in one direction or Another, and the nature and Us actions and reactions produce their consequences inward and outward ::: they also act on others and create movements in the general sum of forces which can return upon oneself sooner or later. Thoughts unexpressed can also go out as forces and produce their elTccts. It Is a mistake to think that a thought or will can have effect only when it is expressed in speech or act ::: the unspoken thought, the unexpressed w-ill arc also active energies and can produce their own vibrations, effects or reac- tions.
energy ::: “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
Energy ::: The creative Energy in Matter is a movement of the power of the Spirit.
Equality is the chief support of the true spiritual conscious- ness and it is this from which a sadhaka deviates when he allows a vital movement to carry him away in feeling or speech or action. Equality is not the same thing as forbearance, — though undoubtedly a settled equality immensely extends, even inimit- ably, a man’s power of endurance and forbearance.
"Equality is the chief support of the true spiritual consciousness and it is this from which a sadhak deviates when he allows a vital movement to carry him away in feeling or speech or action. Equality is not the same thing as forbearance, — though undoubtedly a settled equality immensely extends, even illimitably, a man"s power of endurance and forbearance. Letters on Yoga
“Equality is the chief support of the true spiritual consciousness and it is this from which a sadhak deviates when he allows a vital movement to carry him away in feeling or speech or action. Equality is not the same thing as forbearance,—though undoubtedly a settled equality immensely extends, even illimitably, a man’s power of endurance and forbearance. Letters on Yoga
::: Equality means a quiet and unmoved mind and vital, it means not to be touched or disturbed by things that happen or things said or done to you, but to look at them with a straight look, free from the distortions created by personal feeling, and to try to understand what is behind them, why they happen, what is to be learnt from them, what is it in oneself which they are cast against and what inner profit or progress one can make out of them; it means self-mastery over the vital movements, — anger and sensitiveness and pride as well as desire and the rest, — not to let them get hold of the emotional being and disturb the inner peace, not to speak and act in the rush and impulsion of these things, always to act and speak out of a calm inner poise of the spirit.” *Letters on Yoga
Equality means a quiet and unmoved mind and vital, it means not to be touched or disturbed by things that happen or things said or done to you, but to look at them with a straight look, free from the distortions created by personal feeling, and to try to understand what is behind them, why they happen, what is to be learnt from them, what is it in oneself which they are cast against and what inner profit or progress one can make out of them; it means self-mastery over the vital movements,—anger and sensitiveness and pride as well as desire and the rest,—not to let them get hold of the emotional being and disturb the inner peace, not to speak and act in the rush and impulsion of these things, always to act and speak out of a calm inner poise of the spirit.” Letters on Yoga
Equality means a quiet and unmoved mind and vital, it means not to be touched or disturbed by things that happen or things satd or done to you, but to look at them with a straight look, free from the distortions created by personal feelings, and to try to understand what is behind them, why they happen, what is to be learnt from them, what is it in oneself which they are cast against and what inner profit or progress one can make out of them ; it means self-mastery over the vital movements,
eternity ::: “The timeless Spirit is not necessarily a blank; it may hold all in itself, but in essence, without reference to time or form or relation or circumstance, perhaps in an eternal unity. Eternity is the common term between Time and the Timeless Spirit. What is in the Timeless unmanifested, implied, essential, appears in Time in movement, or at least in design and relation, in result and circumstance. These two then are the same Eternity or the same Eternal in a double status; they are a twofold status of being and consciousness, one an eternity of immobile status, the other an eternity of motion in status.” The Life Divine
EVIL PERSONA. ::: A person greatly endowed for the work has, always or almost alway's, — pwrhaps one ought not to make a too rigid universal rule about these things — a being attached to him, sometimes appearing like a part of him, which is just the contradiction of the thing he centrally represents in the work to be done. Or, if it is not there at first, not bound to his per- sonality, a force of this kind enters into his environment as soon as he begins his movement to realise. Its business seems to be to oppose, to create stumblings and wrong conditions, in a word, to set before him the whole problem of the w’ork he has started to do. It would seem as if the problem could not, in the occult
expression ::: 1. The act of expressing, conveying, or representing in something such as a movement, etc. 2. A manifestation. self-expression.
FAITHFULNESS. ::: To admit and to manifest no other move- ments but only the movements prompted and guided by the
feint ::: a movement made in order to deceive (an adversary). feints.
fettered ::: bound with chains or ropes, etc. around the legs, as an animal, to restrict the movement of. Hence, fig. imposed restraint upon; confined, impeded, restrained.
::: "Finally, the mind will come to know the Purusha in the mind as the master of Nature whose sanction is necessary to her movements.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“Finally, the mind will come to know the Purusha in the mind as the master of Nature whose sanction is necessary to her movements.” The Synthesis of Yoga
First, each plane, in spite of Its connection with others aboie and below it, is yet a world in itself, with its own movements, forces, beings, types, forms existing as if for its and their own sake, under its ovs-n laws, for its own manifestation nithouf appa-
flight ::: 1. The act or process of flying through the air with or without wings. 2. Fig. A passing above and beyond ordinary bounds. 3. A swift movement, transition, or progression. 4. A series of steps, terraces, etc., ascending without change of direction. flights.
flutter ::: 1. To flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements. 2. To move quickly in a nervous, restless, or excited fashion; flit. 3. Generally of the heart: to beat abnormally rapidly, esp. in a regular rhythm. 4. To wave, flap or toss about. 5. To move (a thing) in quick irregular motions. flutters, fluttered, fluttering, flutterest.
flux ::: 1. Constant or frequent change; fluctuation; movement. 2. A flowing or flow: Also used with reference to other forms of matter and energy that can be regarded as flowing, such as radiant energy, particles, etc.
follow ::: 1. To come or go after; proceed behind. 2. Lit. and fig. To move along the course of; take a path. 3. Fig. To come after in order, time, or position. 4. To occur or be evident as a consequence; result. 5. Fig. To accompany; attend. 6. To take (a person) as a guide, leader, or master; to accept the authority or example of, obey the dictates or guidance of; to adhere to, espouse the opinions, side, or cause of. 7. Fig. To go after in or as if in pursuit. 8. To accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of. 9. To watch or trace the movements, progress, or course of. follows, followed, following. ::: following out. Proceeding; following; pursuing something to an end or conclusion.
For the others, the “ baby monkey ” type or those who are still more independent, following their own ideas, doing their own sadhana, asking only for some instruction or help, the grace of the Guru is there, but it acts according to the nature of the sadhaka and counts upon his efforts to a greater or less degree ; it helps, succours in difficulty, saves in the time of danger ; the disciple is not always, is perhaps hardly at all aware of what is being done as he is absorbed in himself and his endeavour. In such cases the decisive psychological movement, the touch that makes all clear, may lake longer to come.
"For these are achievements of the spiritual mind in man; they are movements of that mind passing beyond itself, but on its own plane, into the splendours of the Spirit. The Life Divine
“For these are achievements of the spiritual mind in man; they are movements of that mind passing beyond itself, but on its own plane, into the splendours of the Spirit. The Life Divine
“For the subconscient is the Inconscient in the process of becoming conscious; it is a support and even a root of our inferior parts of being and their movements.” The Life Divine
"For the supermind is a Truth-Consciousness in which the Divine Reality, fully manifested, no longer works with the instrumentation of the Ignorance; a truth of status of being which is absolute becomes dynamic in a truth of energy and activity of the being which is self-existent and perfect. Every movement there is a movement of the self-aware truth of Divine Being and every part is in entire harmony with the whole. Even the most limited and finite action is in the Truth-Consciousness a movement of the Eternal and Infinite and partakes of the inherent absoluteness and perfection of the Eternal and Infinite.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“For the supermind is a Truth-Consciousness in which the Divine Reality, fully manifested, no longer works with the instrumentation of the Ignorance; a truth of status of being which is absolute becomes dynamic in a truth of energy and activity of the being which is self-existent and perfect. Every movement there is a movement of the self-aware truth of Divine Being and every part is in entire harmony with the whole. Even the most limited and finite action is in the Truth-Consciousness a movement of the Eternal and Infinite and partakes of the inherent absoluteness and perfection of the Eternal and Infinite.” The Synthesis of Yoga
::: "For what we understand by law is a single immutably habitual movement or recurrence in Nature fruitful of a determined sequence of things and that sequence must be clear, precise, limited to its formula, invariable.” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“For what we understand by law is a single immutably habitual movement or recurrence in Nature fruitful of a determined sequence of things and that sequence must be clear, precise, limited to its formula, invariable.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
FOUNDATION IN YOGA. ::: The things that have to be established are . brahmacarya, complete sex-purity ; samah, quiet and harmony in the being, its forces maintained but con- trolled, harmonised, disciplined ; satyam, truth and sincerity in the whole nature ; prasanfUj, a general state of peace and calm ; atmasanyaina, the power and habit to control whatever needs control in the movements of the nature. When these are fairly established, one has laid the foundation on which one can deve- lop the yoga consciousness and with the yoga consciousness there comes an easy opening to realisation and experience.
— free, wide, without limits, pure, untroubled by the mental, vital and physical movements, empty of ego and limited perso- nality. Secondly, the Divine Power descends through this silence and freedom of the Self and begins to work in the Adhara.
Grace ::: Madhav: “Grace is that special movement of the Divine Consciousness, which enables us to live, to move.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Hathayoga with its physical material, first to purify and to tran- quillisc. 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 facul- ties, subjected even to his subjects, the instruments of sensation, emotion, action, enjoyment. Suarajya. self-rule, must be sub- stituted for this subjection. Fits!, therefore, the powers of ordei must be helped to overcome the powers of disorder. The pre- liminary movement of Rajayoga is a careful self-discipline by which good habits of mind are substituted for the lawless move- ments that indulge the lower nervous being. By the practice of
having a particular pace or movement. large-paced, quick-paced, slow-paced.
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.
Higher vital ::: Usually refers to the vital mind and emouve being as opposed to the middle vital which has its scat in the navel and is dynamic, sensational and passionate and the lower which is made up the smaBer movements of human Jj/e-desjre and life-reactions.
HOLOCAUST OF THE DIVINE. ::: The Mother not only governs all from above but she descends into this lesser tnple universe. Impersonally, all things here, even the movements of the Ignorance, are herself in veiled power and her creations in diminished substance, her Nafure-b^y and Nature-force, and they exist because moved by the mysterious fiat of the Supreme to work out something that was fbere «i 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 assimilate it ; avoid self-dispersion and all externalising of the consciousness.
holocaust ::: “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
Human nature is shot through in all its stuff with the thread of the ego ; even when one tries to get away from it, it is in front or could be behind all the thoughts and actions like a shadow. To see that is the first step, to discern the falsity and absurdity of the ego-movements is the second, to discourage and refuse it at each step is the third ; but it goes entirely only when one sees, experiences and lives the One in everything and equally everywhere.
idea ::: Madhav: “Each form in Creation is governed by the Real-Idea which has impelled it into existence. Behind every object in manifestation, every formation that comes into being, there is a truth which demands fulfilment in and through it. It is a truth from the Being of the Divine that seeks expression. Each truth that so urges to manifest forms itself into a source-Idea, a concentration of the perception and the power to effectuate it. This Idea is always there in the depths of every manifestation ruling its forms and its movements according to its Will in execution. All formation and activities proceed according to the law of this indwelling Truth-Idea.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. I.
“If one stands back from the mind and its activities so that they fall silent at will or go on as a surface movement of which one is the detached and disinterested witness, it becomes possible eventually to realise oneself as the inner Self of mind, the true and pure mental being, the Purusha; …” The Life Divine
If there is the predisposition one may have all kinds of attacks from vital or other forces or from one’s own movements of the lower nature, as violent as possible, but there will be no madness.
“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
IGNORANCE. ::: Avidya, the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life that flow from it and all that is natural to the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life.
This Ignorance is the result of a movement by which the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the light of the Supermind (the divine Gnosis) and lost the Truth.
Sevenfold Ignorance ::: If we look at this Ignorance in which ordinarily we live by the very circumstance of our separative existence in a material, ip a spatial and temporal universe, wc see that on its obscurer side it reduces itself, from whatever direction we look at or approach it, into the fact of a many- sided self-ignorance. We are Ignorant of the Absolute which is the source of all being and becoming ; we take partial facts of being, temporal relations of the becoming for the whole truth of existence — that is the first, the original ignorance. We are ignorant of the spaceless, timeless, immobile and immutable Self ; we take the constant mobility and mutation of the cosmic becom- ing in Time and Space for the whole truth of existence — that is the second, the cosmic ignorance. We are ignorant of our universal self, the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, our infinite unity with all being and becoming ; we take our limited egoistic mentality, vitality, corporeality for our true self and regard everything other than that as not-sclf — that is the tViTid, \Vie egoistic ignorance. V/c aie ignorant of oat eteinai becoming in Time ; we take this Uttle life in a small span of Time, in a petty field of Space for our beginning, our middle and our end, — that is the fourth, the temporal ignorance. Even within this brief temporal becoming we are ignorant of our large and complex being, of that in us which is super-conscient, sub- conscient, intraconscient, circumcooscient to our surface becoming; we take that surface becoming with its small selection of overtly mentalised experiences for our whole existence — that is the fifth, the psychological ignorance. We are ignorant of the true constitution of our becoming ; we take the mind or life or body or any two or all three tor our true principle or the whole account of what we are, losing sight of that which constitutes them and determines by its occult presence and is meant to deter- mine sovereignly by its emergence from their operations, — that is the sixth, the constitutional ignorance. As a result of all these ignorances, we miss the true knowledge, government and enjoy- ment of our life in the world ; we are ignorant in our thought, will, sensations, actions, return wrong or imperfect responses at every point to the questionings of the world, wander in a maze of errors and desires, strivings and failures, pain and pleasure, sin and stumbling, follow a crooked road, grope blindly for a changing goal, — that is the seventh, the practical ignorance.
“Ignorance means Avidya, the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life that flow from it and all that is natural to the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life. This Ignorance is the result of a movement by which the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the light of the Supermind (the divine Gnosis) and lost the Truth,—truth of being, truth of divine consciousness, truth of force and action, truth of Ananda. As a result, instead of a world of integral truth and divine harmony created in the light of the divine Gnosis, we have a world founded on the part truths of an inferior cosmic Intelligence in which all is half-truth, half-error. . . . All in the consciousness of this creation is either limited or else perverted by separation from the integral Light; even the Truth it perceives is only a half-knowledge. Therefore it is called the Ignorance.” The Mother
ignorance ::: the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information. Ignorance, ignorance"s, Ignorance"s, ignorance", world-ignorance, World-Ignorance.
Sri Aurobindo: "Ignorance is the absence of the divine eye of perception which gives us the sight of the supramental Truth; it is the non-perceiving principle in our consciousness as opposed to the truth-perceiving conscious vision and knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"Ignorance is the consciousness of being in the successions of Time, divided in its knowledge by dwelling in the moment, divided in its conception of self-being by dwelling in the divisions of Space and the relations of circumstance, self-prisoned in the multiple working of the unity. It is called the Ignorance because it has put behind it the knowledge of unity and by that very fact is unable to know truly or completely either itself or the world, either the transcendent or the universal reality.” The Life Divine
"Ignorance means Avidya, the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life that flow from it and all that is natural to the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life. This Ignorance is the result of a movement by which the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the light of the Supermind (the divine Gnosis) and lost the Truth, — truth of being, truth of divine consciousness, truth of force and action, truth of Ananda. As a result, instead of a world of integral truth and divine harmony created in the light of the divine Gnosis, we have a world founded on the part truths of an inferior cosmic Intelligence in which all is half-truth, half-error. . . . All in the consciousness of this creation is either limited or else perverted by separation from the integral Light; even the Truth it perceives is only a half-knowledge. Therefore it is called the Ignorance.” The Mother
". . . all ignorance is a penumbra which environs an orb of knowledge . . . .”The Life Divine
"This world is not really created by a blind force of Nature: even in the Inconscient the presence of the supreme Truth is at work; there is a seeing Power behind it which acts infallibly and the steps of the Ignorance itself are guided even when they seem to stumble; for what we call the Ignorance is a cloaked Knowledge, a Knowledge at work in a body not its own but moving towards its own supreme self-discovery.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"Knowledge is no doubt the knowledge of the One, the realisation of the Being; Ignorance is a self-oblivion of Being, the experience of separateness in the multiplicity and a dwelling or circling in the ill-understood maze of becomings: . . . .” The Life Divine*
II is there that habitual movements, mental and vital, arc stored and from there they come up into the waking mind. Driven out, of the upper consciousness, it is in this cavern of the Pam’s that they take refuge. No longer fllJowed to emerge freely in the waking state, they come up in sleep as dreams. It is when they arc cleared out ol the sub^nscient, their very seeds killed by the enlightening of these hidden layers, Chat they cease for good.
“In actual fact Mind measures Time by event and Space by Matter; but it is possible in pure mentality to disregard the movement of event and the disposition of substance and realise the pure movement of Conscious-Force which constitutes Space and Time; these two are then merely two aspects of the universal force of Consciousness which in their intertwined interaction comprehend the warp and woof of its action upon itself. And to a consciousness higher than Mind which should regard our past, present and future in one view, containing and not contained in them, not situated at a particular moment of Time for its point of prospection, Time might well offer itself as an eternal present. And to the same consciousness not situated at any particular point of Space, but containing all points and regions in itself, Space also might well offer itself as a subjective and indivisible extension,—no less subjective than Time.” The Life Divine
In a more outward sense the word Silence is applied to the condition in which there is no movement of thought or feeling etc., only a great stillness of the mind.” Letters on Yoga*;
In a more outward sense the word Silence is applied to the condition in which there is no movement of thought or feeling etc., only a great stillness of the mind.” Letters on Yoga
INDIVIDUAL. ::: The individual is the key of the evolutionary movement.
In its nature and law the Overmind is a delegate of the Supermind Consciousness, its delegate to the Ignorance. Or we might speak of it as a protective double, a screen of dissimilar similarity through which Supermind can act indirectly on an Ignorance whose darkness could not bear or receive the direct impact of a supreme Light. Even, it is by the projection of this luminous Overmind corona that the diffusion of a diminished light in the Ignorance and the throwing of that contrary shadow which swallows up in itself all light, the Inconscience, became at all possible. For Supermind transmits to Overmind all its realities, but leaves it to formulate them in a movement and according to an awareness of things which is still a vision of Truth and yet at the same time a first parent of the Ignorance. A line divides Supermind and Overmind which permits a free transmission, allows the lower Power to derive from the higher Power all it holds or sees, but automatically compels a transitional change in the passage. The integrality of the Supermind keeps always the essential truth of things, the total truth and the truth of its individual self-determinations clearly knit together; it maintains in them an inseparable unity and between them a close interpenetration and a free and full consciousness of each other: but in Overmind this integrality is no longer there. And yet the Overmind is well aware of the essential Truth of things; it embraces the totality; it uses the individual self-determinations without being limited by them: but although it knows their oneness, can realise it in a spiritual cognition, yet its dynamic movement, even while relying on that for its security, is not directly determined by it. Overmind Energy proceeds through an illimitable capacity of separation and combination of the powers and aspects of the integral and indivisible all-comprehending Unity. It takes each Aspect or Power and gives to it an independent action in which it acquires a full separate importance and is able to work out, we might say, its own world of creation. Purusha and Prakriti, Conscious Soul and executive Force of Nature, are in the supramental harmony a two-aspected single truth, being and dynamis of the Reality; there can be no disequilibrium or predominance of one over the other. In Overmind we have the origin of the cleavage, the trenchant distinction made by the philosophy of the Sankhyas in which they appear as two independent entities, Prakriti able to dominate Purusha and cloud its freedom and power, reducing it to a witness and recipient of her forms and actions, Purusha able to return to its separate existence and abide in a free self-sovereignty by rejection of her original overclouding material principle. So with the other aspects or powers of the Divine Reality, One and Many, Divine Personality and Divine Impersonality, and the rest; each is still an aspect and power of the one Reality, but each is empowered to act as an independent entity in the whole, arrive at the fullness of the possibilities of its separate expression and develop the dynamic consequences of that separateness. At the same time in Overmind this separateness is still founded on the basis of an implicit underlying unity; all possibilities of combination and relation between the separated Powers and Aspects, all interchanges and mutualities of their energies are freely organised and their actuality always possible.
In joga a desire satisfied, a false movement given its head
INNER GUIDE. ::: The supreme Guide and Teacher is the inner Guide, the World-Teacher, jagad-guru, secret within us. He dis- closes progressively in us his own nature of freedom, bliss, love, power, immortal being. He has no method and every method.
His system is a natural organisation of the highest processes and movements of which the nature is capable. In his yoga there is nothing too small to be used and nothing too great to be attempted. This inner Guide is often veiled at first by the very intensity of our personal effort and by the ego's preoccupation with itself and its aims.
::: ". . . in such a view, the word consciousness changes its meaning. It is no longer synonymous with mentality but indicates a self-aware force of existence of which mentality is a middle term; below mentality it sinks into vital and material movements which are for us subconscient; above, it rises into the supramental which is for us the superconscient. But in all it is one and the same thing organising itself differently. This is, once more, the Indian conception of Chit which, as energy, creates the worlds.” *The Life Divine
“… in such a view, the word consciousness changes its meaning. It is no longer synonymous with mentality but indicates a self-aware force of existence of which mentality is a middle term; below mentality it sinks into vital and material movements which are for us subconscient; above, it rises into the supramental which is for us the superconscient. But in all it is one and the same thing organising itself differently. This is, once more, the Indian conception of Chit which, as energy, creates the worlds.” The Life Divine
"In Supermind being, consciousness of knowledge and consciousness of will are not divided as they seem to be in our mental operations; they are a trinity, one movement with three effective aspects. Each has its own effect. Being gives the effect of substance, consciousness the effect of knowledge, of the self-guiding and shaping idea, of comprehension and apprehension; will gives the effect of self-fulfilling force. But the idea is only the light of the reality illumining itself; it is not mental thought nor imagination, but effective self-awareness. It is Real-Idea.” The Life Divine
“In Supermind being, consciousness of knowledge and consciousness of will are not divided as they seem to be in our mental operations; they are a trinity, one movement with three effective aspects. Each has its own effect. Being gives the effect of substance, consciousness the effect of knowledge, of the self-guiding and shaping idea, of comprehension and apprehension; will gives the effect of self-fulfilling force. But the idea is only the light of the reality illumining itself; it is not mental thought nor imagination, but effective self-awareness. It is Real-Idea.” The Life Divine
INTEGRAL YOGA ::: This yoga accepts the value of cosmic existence and holds it to be a reality; its object is to enter into a higher Truth-Consciousness or Divine Supramental Consciousness in which action and creation are the expression not of ignorance and imperfection, but of the Truth, the Light, the Divine Ānanda. But for that, the surrender of the mortal mind, life and body to the Higher Consciousnessis indispensable, since it is too difficult for the mortal human being to pass by its own effort beyond mind to a Supramental Consciousness in which the dynamism is no longer mental but of quite another power. Only those who can accept the call to such a change should enter into this yoga.
Aim of the Integral Yoga ::: It is not merely to rise out of the ordinary ignorant world-consciousness into the divine consciousness, but to bring the supramental power of that divine consciousness down into the ignorance of mind, life and body, to transform them, to manifest the Divine here and create a divine life in Matter.
Conditions of the Integral Yoga ::: This yoga can only be done to the end by those who are in total earnest about it and ready to abolish their little human ego and its demands in order to find themselves in the Divine. It cannot be done in a spirit of levity or laxity; the work is too high and difficult, the adverse powers in the lower Nature too ready to take advantage of the least sanction or the smallest opening, the aspiration and tapasyā needed too constant and intense.
Method in the Integral Yoga ::: To concentrate, preferably in the heart and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up the being and by the workings of her force transform the consciousness. One can concentrate also in the head or between the eye-brows, but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspiration intense, then there is the beginning of experience. The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be. For the rest one must not depend on one’s own efforts only, but succeed in establishing a contact with the Divine and a receptivity to the Mother’s Power and Presence.
Integral method ::: The method we have to pursue 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, so that in a sense God Himself, the real Person in us, becomes the sādhaka of the sādhana* as well as the Master of the Yoga by whom the lower personality is used as the centre of a divine transfiguration and the instrument of its own perfection. In effect, the pressure of the Tapas, the force of consciousness in us dwelling in the Idea of the divine Nature upon that which we are in our entirety, produces its own realisation. The divine and all-knowing and all-effecting descends upon the limited and obscure, progressively illumines and energises the whole lower nature and substitutes its own action for all the terms of the inferior human light and mortal activity.
In psychological fact this method translates itself into the progressive surrender of the ego with its whole field and all its apparatus to the Beyond-ego with its vast and incalculable but always inevitable workings. Certainly, this is no short cut or easy sādhana. 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 the 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 yet some kind of Shastra or scientific method of the synthetic Yoga.
Secondly, the process, being integral, accepts our nature such as it stands organised by our past evolution and without rejecting anything essential compels all to undergo a divine change. Everything in us is seized by the hands of a mighty Artificer and transformed into a clear image of that which it now seeks confusedly to present. In that ever-progressive experience we begin to perceive how this lower manifestation is constituted and that everything in it, however seemingly deformed or petty or vile, is the more or less distorted or imperfect figure of some elements or action in the harmony of the divine Nature. We begin to understand what the Vedic Rishis meant when they spoke of the human forefathers fashioning the gods as a smith forges the crude material in his smithy.
Thirdly, the divine Power in us uses all life as the means of this integral Yoga. Every experience and outer contact with our world-environment, however trifling or however disastrous, is used for the work, and every inner experience, even to the most repellent suffering or the most humiliating fall, becomes a step on the path to perfection. And we recognise in ourselves with opened eyes the method of God in the world, His purpose of light in the obscure, of might in the weak and fallen, of delight in what is grievous and miserable. We see the divine method to be the same in the lower and in the higher working; only in the one it is pursued tardily and obscurely through the subconscious in Nature, in the other it becomes swift and selfconscious 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.
Key-methods ::: The way to devotion and surrender. It is the psychic movement that brings the constant and pure devotion and the removal of the ego that makes it possible to surrender.
The way to knowledge. Meditation in the head by which there comes the opening above, the quietude or silence of the mind and the descent of peace etc. of the higher consciousness generally till it envelops the being and fills the body and begins to take up all the movements.
Yoga by works ::: Separation of the Purusha from the Prakriti, the inner silent being from the outer active one, so that one has two consciousnesses or a double consciousness, one behind watching and observing and finally controlling and changing the other which is active in front. The other way of beginning the yoga of works is by doing them for the Divine, for the Mother, and not for oneself, consecrating and dedicating them till one concretely feels the Divine Force taking up the activities and doing them for one.
Object of the Integral Yoga is to enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine’s sake alone, to be tuned in our nature into the nature of the Divine, and in our will and works and life to be the instrument of the Divine.
Principle of the Integral Yoga ::: The whole principle of Integral Yoga is to give oneself entirely to the Divine alone and to nobody else, and to bring down into ourselves by union with the Divine Mother all the transcendent light, power, wideness, peace, purity, truth-consciousness and Ānanda of the Supramental Divine.
Central purpose of the Integral Yoga ::: Transformation of our superficial, narrow and fragmentary human way of thinking, seeing, feeling and being into a deep and wide spiritual consciousness and an integrated inner and outer existence and of our ordinary human living into the divine way of life.
Fundamental realisations of the Integral Yoga ::: The psychic change so that a complete devotion can be the main motive of the heart and the ruler of thought, life and action in constant union with the Mother and in her Presence. The descent of the Peace, Power, Light etc. of the Higher Consciousness through the head and heart into the whole being, occupying the very cells of the body. The perception of the One and Divine infinitely everywhere, the Mother everywhere and living in that infinite consciousness.
Results ::: 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 the relative consciousness; not only realisation of unity in the Self, but of unity in the infinite diversity of activities, worlds and creatures.
Therefore, also, an integral liberation. Not only the freedom born of unbroken contact of the individual being in all its parts with the Divine, sāyujya mukti, by which it becomes free even in its separation, even in the duality; not only the sālokya mukti by which the whole conscious existence dwells in the same status of being as the Divine, in the state of Sachchidananda ; but also the acquisition of the divine nature by the transformation of this lower being into the human image of the divine, sādharmya mukti, and the complete and final release of all, the liberation of the consciousness from the transitory mould of the ego and its unification with the One Being, universal both in the world and the individual and transcendentally one both in the world and beyond all universe.
By this integral realisation and liberation, the perfect harmony of the results of Knowledge, Love and Works. For there is attained the complete release from ego and identification in being with the One in all and beyond all. But since the attaining consciousness is not limited by its attainment, we win also the unity in Beatitude and the harmonised diversity in Love, so that all relations of the play remain possible to us even while we retain on the heights of our being the eternal oneness with the Beloved. And by a similar wideness, being capable of a freedom in spirit that embraces life and does not depend upon withdrawal from life, we are able to become without egoism, bondage or reaction the channel in our mind and body for a divine action poured out freely upon the world.
The divine existence is of the nature not only of freedom, but of purity, beatitude and perfection. In integral purity which shall enable on the one hand the perfect reflection of the divine Being in ourselves and on the other the perfect outpouring of its Truth and Law in us in the terms of life and through the right functioning of the complex instrument we are in our outer parts, is the condition of an integral liberty. Its result is an integral beatitude, in which there becomes possible at once the Ānanda of all that is in the world seen as symbols of the Divine and the Ānanda of that which is not-world. And it prepares the integral perfection of our humanity as a type of the Divine in the conditions of the human manifestation, a perfection founded on a certain free universality of being, of love and joy, of play of knowledge and of play of will in power and will in unegoistic action. This integrality also can be attained by the integral Yoga.
Sādhanā of the Integral Yoga does not proceed through any set mental teaching or prescribed forms of meditation, mantras or others, but by aspiration, by a self-concentration inwards or upwards, by a self-opening to an Influence, to the Divine Power above us and its workings, to the Divine Presence in the heart and by the rejection of all that is foreign to these things. It is only by faith, aspiration and surrender that this self-opening can come.
The yoga does not proceed by upadeśa but by inner influence.
Integral Yoga and Gita ::: The Gita’s Yoga consists in the offering of one’s work as a sacrifice to the Divine, the conquest of desire, egoless and desireless action, bhakti for the Divine, an entering into the cosmic consciousness, the sense of unity with all creatures, oneness with the Divine. This yoga adds the bringing down of the supramental Light and Force (its ultimate aim) and the transformation of the nature.
Our yoga is not identical with the yoga of the Gita although it contains all that is essential in the Gita’s yoga. In our yoga we begin with the idea, the will, the aspiration of the complete surrender; but at the same time we have to reject the lower nature, deliver our consciousness from it, deliver the self involved in the lower nature by the self rising to freedom in the higher nature. If we do not do this double movement, we are in danger of making a tamasic and therefore unreal surrender, making no effort, no tapas and therefore no progress ; or else we make a rajasic surrender not to the Divine but to some self-made false idea or image of the Divine which masks our rajasic ego or something still worse.
Integral Yoga, Gita and Tantra ::: The Gita follows the Vedantic tradition which leans entirely on the Ishvara aspect of the Divine and speaks little of the Divine Mother because its object is to draw back from world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation beyond it.
The Tantric tradition leans on the Shakti or Ishvari aspect and makes all depend on the Divine Mother because its object is to possess and dominate the world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation through it.
This yoga insists on both the aspects; the surrender to the Divine Mother is essential, for without it there is no fulfilment of the object of the yoga.
Integral Yoga and Hatha-Raja Yogas ::: For an integral yoga the special methods of Rajayoga and Hathayoga may be useful at times in certain stages of the progress, but are not indispensable. Their principal aims must be included in the integrality of the yoga; but they can be brought about by other means. For the methods of the integral yoga must be mainly spiritual, and dependence on physical methods or fixed psychic or psychophysical processes on a large scale would be the substitution of a lower for a higher action. Integral Yoga and Kundalini Yoga: There is a feeling of waves surging up, mounting to the head, which brings an outer unconsciousness and an inner waking. It is the ascending of the lower consciousness in the ādhāra to meet the greater consciousness above. It is a movement analogous to that on which so much stress is laid in the Tantric process, the awakening of the Kundalini, the Energy coiled up and latent in the body and its mounting through the spinal cord and the centres (cakras) and the Brahmarandhra to meet the Divine above. In our yoga it is not a specialised process, but a spontaneous upnish of the whole lower consciousness sometimes in currents or waves, sometimes in a less concrete motion, and on the other side a descent of the Divine Consciousness and its Force into the body.
Integral Yoga and other Yogas ::: The old yogas reach Sachchidananda through the spiritualised mind and depart into the eternally static oneness of Sachchidananda or rather pure Sat (Existence), absolute and eternal or else a pure Non-exist- ence, absolute and eternal. Ours having realised Sachchidananda in the spiritualised mind plane proceeds to realise it in the Supramcntal plane.
The suprcfhe supra-cosmic Sachchidananda is above all. Supermind may be described as its power of self-awareness and W’orld- awareness, the world being known as within itself and not out- side. So to live consciously in the supreme Sachchidananda one must pass through the Supermind.
Distinction ::: The realisation of Self and of the Cosmic being (without which the realisation of the Self is incomplete) are essential steps in our yoga ; it is the end of other yogas, but it is, as it were, the beginning of outs, that is to say, the point where its own characteristic realisation can commence.
It is new as compared with the old yogas (1) Because it aims not at a departure out of world and life into Heaven and Nir- vana, but at a change of life and existence, not as something subordinate or incidental, but as a distinct and central object.
If there is a descent in other yogas, yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent — the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent. It is the descent of the new coosdousness attain- ed by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sadhana. Even the Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life ; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life.
(2) Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth-consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic acbievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing of a Power of consciousness (the Supramental) not yet organised or active directly in earth-nature, even in the spiritual life, but yet to be organised and made directly active.
(3) Because a method has been preconized for achieving this purpose which is as total and integral as the aim set before it, viz., the total and integral change of the consciousness and nature, taking up old methods, but only as a part action and present aid to others that are distinctive.
Integral Yoga and Patanjali Yoga ::: Cilia is the stuff of mixed mental-vital-physical consciousness out of which arise the movements of thought, emotion, sensation, impulse etc.
It is these that in the Patanjali system have to be stilled altogether so that the consciousness may be immobile and go into Samadhi.
Our yoga has a different function. The movements of the ordinary consciousness have to be quieted and into the quietude there has to be brought down a higher consciousness and its powers which will transform the nature.
INTERCHANGE. ::: When one is with another for sometime talking etc., there is always some vital interchange, unless one rejects what comes from others instinctively or deliberately. If one is impressionable, there may be a strong impression or influence from the others. Then when one goes to another per- son it is possible to pass it on to the other. That is a thing which is constantly happening. But this happens without the knowledge of the transmitter. When one is conscious, one can prevent it happening.
Every letter means an interchange with the person who writes It ; for something is there behind the words, something of hfs person or of the forces he has put out or had around him while w’riting. Our thougiifs and feeJinp arc also forces and can hav« effects upon others. One has to grow conscious of the movement of these forces and then one can control one's own mental and vital formations and cease to be affected by those of others.
In this simultaneous development of multitudinous independent or combined Powers or Potentials there is yet—or there is as yet—no chaos, no conflict, no fall from Truth or Knowledge. The Overmind is a creator of truths, not of illusions or falsehoods: what is worked out in any given overmental energism or movement is the truth of the Aspect, Power, Idea, Force, Delight which is liberated into independent action, the truth of the consequences of its reality in that independence. There is no exclusiveness asserting each as the sole truth of being or the others as inferior truths: each God knows all the Gods and their place in existence; each Idea admits all other ideas and their right to be; each Force concedes a place to all other forces and their truth and consequences; no delight of separate fulfilled existence or separate experience denies or condemns the delight of other existence or other experience. 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….
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
“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
is another centre of small movements below it, — between the navel and the Muladhara.
“It could be affirmed as a consequence that there is one all-pervading Life or dynamic energy—the material aspect being only its outermost movement—that creates all these forms of the physical universe, Life imperishable and eternal which, even if the whole figure of the universe were quite abolished, would itself still go on existing and be capable of producing a new universe in its place, must indeed, unless it be held back in a state of rest by some higher Power or hold itself back, inevitably go on creating. In that case Life is nothing else than the Force that builds and maintains and destroys forms in the world; it is Life that manifests itself in the form of the earth as much as in the plant that grows upon the earth and the animals that support their existence by devouring the life-force of the plant or of each other. All existence here is a universal Life that takes form of Matter. It might for that purpose hide life-process in physical process before it emerges as submental sensitivity and mentalised vitality, but still it would be throughout the same creative Life-principle.” The Life Divine
It is also better to be more strict about not talking of others and criticising them with the ordinary mind. It is necessary in order to develop a deeper consciousness and outlook on things that understands in silence the movements of Nature in oneself and othere and is not moved or disturbed or superficially inte* rested and drawn Into an external movement.
It is on the Silence behind the cosmos that all the movement of the universe Is supported. It is from the SUence that the peace comes ; when the peace deepens and deepens, it becomes more and more the Silence.
"It is on the Silence behind the cosmos that all the movement of the universe is supported.
“It is on the Silence behind the cosmos that all the movement of the universe is supported.
It is the cryptic verses of the Veda that help us here; for they contain, though concealed, the gospel of the divine and immortal Supermind and through the veil some illumining flashes come to us. We can see through these utterances the conception of this Supermind as a vastness beyond the ordinary firmaments of our consciousness in which truth of being is luminously one with all that expresses it and assures inevitably truth of vision, formulation, arrangement, word, act and movement and therefore truth also of result of movement, result of action and expression, infallible ordinance or law. Vast all-comprehensiveness; luminous truth and harmony of being in that vastness and not a vague chaos or self-lost obscurity; truth of law and act and knowledge expressive of that harmonious truth of being: these seem to be the essential terms of the Vedic description.” *The Life Divine
It is the cryptic verses of the Veda that help us here; for they contain, though concealed, the gospel of the divine and immortal Supermind and through the veil some illumining flashes come to us. We can see through these utterances the conception of this Supermind as a vastness beyond the ordinary firmaments of our consciousness in which truth of being is luminously one with all that expresses it and assures inevitably truth of vision, formulation, arrangement, word, act and movement and therefore truth also of result of movement, result of action and expression, infallible ordinance or law. Vast all-comprehensiveness; luminous truth and harmony of being in that vastness and not a vague chaos or self-lost obscurity; truth of law and act and knowledge expressive of that harmonious truth of being: these seem to be the essential terms of the Vedic description.” The Life Divine
It is the submental base of the being and is made up of impressions, instincts, habitual movements that are stored there.
It is when all the movements of thought, impulse and action are governed and directed by a self-existent and luminously auto- matic truth-consciousness and our whole nature comes to be constituted by it and made of its stuff that the life divine svill be
It very often happens that when there is an exceptional power in the nature, there is found in the exterior being some contrary element which opens it to a quite opposite influence. It is this that makes the endeavour after a spiritual life so often a difficult struggle ; but the existence of this kind of contradiction even in an intense form does not make that life impossible. Doubt, struggle, efforts and failures, lapses, alternations of happy and unhappy or good and bad conditions, states of light and stales of darkness are the common lot of human beings. They are not created by yoga or by the effort after perfection ; only, in yoga one becomes conscious of their movements and their causes instead of feeling them blindly, and in the end one makes one’s way out of them into a clearer and happier consciousness.
JEALOUSY. ::: A common movement of the human egoistic lower vital with its grasping instinct.
jerk ::: a quick, sharp pull, thrust, twist, throw, or the like; a sudden movement.
Jhumur: “It is the very principle of life which is a projection and emanation of the Divine Force. Wings symbolise freedom of movement joining various planes and the coming down of the Angel bringing the divine principles with her.”
Jhumur: “Law is capital, it has to be! It is a very powerful dominating force, a force of resistance, a force of refusal, whatever in us denies the acceptance of light. If this law were not there then there would be an immediate rising into the light and there would be perhaps no play of the manifestation. For a long time there was a kind of a backward pull for each forward attempt so that you would have to work your way up from below and these lower levels have their very strong demands or pulls to resist. Slowly you have to take up all these movements and rise, otherwise the spirit would have risen really without any restriction and that would not have been what the divine intention was, to manifest here in the inconscient, the Divine.”
Jhumur: “There are moments when something calls to us—those magical inspirations. The birds move freely through the wind, they are the symbols of the freedom of movement and they are singers who link the worlds together in their song.”
Jhumur: “These are not just images and not just there for effect. They represent certain movements in the being, certain forces that are universal, independent. It is not one man who suffers. At a certain level of existence these experiences are universal. There are forces that are at work on these levels, forces that really prey on man, really hound him in that sense. You can’t seem to escape them. When one is semi-conscious or lives as we do in an in-between state, not knowing exactly which is your direction, you have this force really at your heels, pushing you sometimes into suffering, into death. You feel that you have been deserted. Sometimes there is a notion of karma, at other times you feel that it is some force that is pushing you. These are universal forces in the field of life, in the field of the subconscient, in the unconsciousness. On these levels they are not images they are powers which Sri Aurobindo has given a certain shape, form, image.”
Jhumur: “The soul has made this sacrifice of entering into darkness and now it has to pay the price of pain and suffering and work its way up. But each time it makes some kind of forward progress, more darkness, constantly more unconscious movements, imperfections, pile up. One might say the price that the spirit has to pay for having made this daring descent keeps on going up. It is like a very long journey and she [Savitri] has come to strike that out.”
JOURNEY. ::: Sifinifics a movement in life or a progress in s.’ldhanS. vide Symbol.
Journey ::: The passage from one consciousness to another ; a movement in life or a progress in sadhana.
Joy ::: “Pleasure, joy and delight, as man uses the words, are limited and occasional movements which depend on certain habitual causes and emerge, like their opposites pain and grief which are equally limited and occasional movements, from a background other than themselves. Delight of being is universal, illimitable and self-existent, not dependent on particular causes, the background of all backgrounds, from which pleasure, pain and other more neutral experiences emerge. When delight of being seeks to realise itself as delight of becoming, it moves in the movement of force and itself takes different forms of movement of which pleasure and pain are positive and negative currents.” The Life Divine
lame ::: 1. Crippled. 2. Disabled so that movement, especially walking, is difficult or impossible. lamed.
liberated movement, its central station is very usually felt above the head, though its influence can extend downward through all the being and outward through space.
". . . Life-Force emerging turns upon Matter, imposes a vital content on the operations of material Energy while it develops also its own new movements and operations; Life-Mind emerges in Life-Force and Matter and imposes its content of consciousness on their operations while it develops also its own action and faculties; . . . .” The Life Divine*
“… Life-Force emerging turns upon Matter, imposes a vital content on the operations of material Energy while it develops also its own new movements and operations; Life-Mind emerges in Life-Force and Matter and imposes its content of consciousness on their operations while it develops also its own action and faculties; …” The Life Divine
LIFE. ::: Life in man seeks expression mainly through the vital being. Desire, attachment, ambition, greed, lust etc. constitute its ordinary movements. But it is not necessary that the action of the vital should always remain bound to the lower conscious- ness.
•Light and movement.
line ::: 1. *Gen.* Text consisting of a row of words written across a page. 2. A chronological or ancestral series, esp. of people. 3. A course of progress or movement; a route. 4. A manner or course of procedure determined by a specified factor. 5. A sequence of related things that leads to a certain ending. 6. A border or boundary. 7. A narrow continuous mark, as one made by a pencil, pen, or brush across a surface.
Madhav: “It is what is described in the Upanishads as prajna-chakshu, the eye of Wisdom. And in the very act of regarding, the very act of the look, it supports. That regard itself is the sanction without which the movement would come to a standstill.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhav: “Moment is the sequence of Time. Each moment records what is happening at that point. It relates to the present. The Ray of the Eternal interrupts the movement of Time for a while and lights up things that are not yet manifest. It gives a peep into the future. The Ray of the Eternal is able to do it because the future is already present in the vision of the Eternal.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhav: “Now here is a reference to the Vedic imagery where the Rishi speaks of the child being suckled by two mothers. He refers to two mothers, one dark and the other rosy—Night and Dawn or Day signifying movement of obscurity and movement of light. This divine soul, soul that is given to the Divine is nursed by both the mothers. He needs the succour of night and the nourishment of the day. To rest for a while he needs to be in the lap of Mother Night. To be active he is in the lap of Mother Dawn.” Sat-Sang Vol. IX
Madhav: “Space which is normally occupied by movements in the world is now occupied by the spiritual silence of the Self. Mark, it is not physical silence but spiritual silence. Spiritual silence permits activity, even speech, unlike physical silence which shuts off speech. Spiritual silence is silence of the whole being, whereas physical silence, mauna as we call it, is only abstention from speech, vocal activity, which makes the mind, very often, more active than before.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhav: “The powers that create and fashion this world in accordance with the Truth with which they are charged, are not involved, lost in the world-movement. They stand above, governing, shaping, directing the growing world-complex. They know precisely what takes place and why. They are not misled by appearances of phenomena; each event is seen by them as developing from its veiled cause which they perceive undeceived by apparent sequences on the surface.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. II.
Madhav: “There is in this creation of God an everlasting No. ‘NO’ is negation of the fleeting pleasures of life, unsubstantial movements of life, the attraction of the senses, the hold of ego, ignorance. For that the answer is no. This is not it, this is not it, neti, neti, thou hast only neared this everlasting No.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhav: “The wheel of determinism in material Nature turns mechanically without any saving sensation, it moves under the pressure of a gathered momentum without questioning; it is immaterial in its operations without the slightest breath of the warmth of life. All circumstances are cogs in this wheel of Fate that revolves relentlessly. It is only a force of will from an existence beyond the domain of this mechanism that can hold the movement, change its direction and displace the instrumental condition.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. I.
Madhav: “The Word from above is not uttered as the human word is. It is not articulated by the tongue. Unuttered Word—the silent Word. But the hushed heart—the heart in which all the emotive movements have been hushed, silent for the time being—hears the Word from above though it is not spelt out.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhav: “This creation is an ordered manifestation of the Divine. There is a central Will, expressing the originating Truth-vision, impelling the whole movement. But also there are special emanations from the Divine charged with specific tasks in the organisation and maintenance of the emerging creation. These are the gods and goddesses, deities, Powers and Personalities that are in charge of their respective domains, on different levels of existence. Each world has its own guardians entrusted by the Supreme Creative Spirit with the work of building and furthering the manifestation of the particular Truth-principle that pushes for expression in that world-formula.” Readings in Savitri Vol. I.
Main support of all habitual movements, especially the physi- cal and lower vital movements.
march ::: n. 1. The steady forward movement of a body of troops. 2. Steady forward movement or progression. Also fig. marches, marchings, sun-march. v. 3. To walk steadily and rhythmically forward in step with others, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body. 4. To proceed directly and purposefully; to go forward; advance; proceed. 5. To progress steadily onward; advance. Also fig. marches, marched, marching. ::: forced marches. Marches that are longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
Material consciousness ::: It is mostly subconscienl, but part of it that is conscious is mechanical, inertly moved by habits or by the forces of the lower nature- Always repeating the same unintelligent and unenlightened movements, it is attached to the routine and established rule of what already exists, unwilling to change, unwilling to receive the Light or obey the higher Force.
Materialistic psychology calls this hidden part the Inconscient, although practically admitting that it is far greater, more power- ful and profound than the surface coasclous self, — very much as the Upanishads called the superconsclent in us the Sleep-self, although this Sleep-self is said to be an iniuiitely greater Intelli- gence, omniscient, omnipotent, Prajna, the Ishwara. Psychic science calls this hidden consciousness the subliminal self, and here loo it is seen that this subliminal self has more powers, more knowledge, a freer field of movement than the smaller self that is on the surface. But the truth is that all this that is behind, this sea of which our waking consciousness is only a wave or series of waves, cannot be described by any one term, for it is very complex. Part of it is subconscient, lower than our waking consciousness, part of it is on a level with it but behind and much larger than it ; part is above and superconscient to us.
Material vital ::: The \ital so involved in Matter as to be bound by its movements and gross physical character; the action is to support and energise the body and keep in it the capacity of life, groulh, movement, etc., also of sensitiveness to outside impacts.
material world ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Our material world is the result of all the others, for the other principles have all descended into Matter to create the physical universe, and every particle of what we call Matter contains all of them implicit in itself; their secret action, as we have seen, is involved in every moment of its existence and every movement of its activity. And as Matter is the last word of the descent, so it is also the first word of the ascent; as the powers of all these planes, worlds, grades, degrees are involved in the material existence, so are they all capable of evolution out of it. It is for this reason that material being does not begin and end with gases and chemical compounds and physical forces and movements, with nebulae and suns and earths, but evolves life, evolves mind, must evolve eventually Supermind and the higher degrees of the spiritual existence.” The Life Divine
"Matter is the form of substance of being which the existence of Sachchidananda [a trinity of Existence (sat), Consciousness (cit), and Delight (ananda),] assumes when it subjects itself to this phenomenal action of its own consciousness and force.” The "Matter is the body or field of a consciousness hidden within it, the material universe a form and movement of the Spirit.” The Renaissance in India
“Matter is the form of substance of being which the existence of Sachchidananda [a trinity of Existence (sat), Consciousness (cit), and Delight (ananda),] assumes when it subjects itself to this phenomenal action of its own consciousness and force.” The”Matter is the body or field of a consciousness hidden within it, the material universe a form and movement of the Spirit.” The Renaissance in India
measured ::: 1. Deliberate and restrained; careful; carefully weighed or considered. 2. Regular in rhythm, movement and number. 3. Ascertained or apportioned by measure. 4. Accurately regulated or proportioned.
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.
Mechanical Movements
MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS. ::: They are always more difficult to stop by the mental nail, because they do not In the least depend upon reason or any mental justification but are founded upon association or else a mere mechanical memory
Mind and the Divine Sakti ::: Be on your guard and do not try to understand and judge the Divine Mother by your little earthly mind that loves to subject even the things that arc beyond it to its own norms and standards, its narrow reasonings and erring impressions, its bottomless aggressive ignorance and its petty self-confident knowledge. The human mind shut in the prison of its half-lit obscurity cannot follow the many-sided freedom of the steps of the Divine Shakti. The rapidity and com- plexity of her vision and action outrun its stumbling comprehen- sion ; the measures of her movement are not its measures. Open rather your soul to her and be content to feel her with the psychic nature and see her with the psychic vision that alone make a straight response to the Truth.
mind, Self of ::: Sri Aurobindo: "If one stands back from the mind and its activities so that they fall silent at will or go on as a surface movement of which one is the detached and disinterested witness, it becomes possible eventually to realise oneself as the inner Self of mind, the true and pure mental being, the Purusha; . . . .” The Life Divine
mind, silent ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The first thing to do in the sadhana is to get a settled peace and silence in the mind. Otherwise you may have experiences, but nothing will be permanent. It is in the silent mind that the true consciousness can be built. ::: A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface and you will feel your true being within separate from them, observing but not carried away, able to watch and judge them and reject all that has to be rejected and to accept and keep to all that is true consciousness and true experience.” *Letters on Yoga
mind, spiritual ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The spiritual mind is a mind which, in its fullness, is aware of the Self, reflecting the Divine, seeing and understanding the nature of the Self and its relations with the manifestation, living in that or in contact with it, calm, wide and awake to higher knowledge, not perturbed by the play of the forces. When it gets its full liberated movement, its central station is very usually felt above the head, though its influence can extend downward through all the being and outward through space.” Letters on Yoga
mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The ‘Mind" in the ordinary use of the word covers indiscriminately the whole consciousness, for man is a mental being and mentalises everything; but in the language of this yoga the words ‘mind" and ‘mental" are used to connote specially the part of the nature which has to do with cognition and intelligence, with ideas, with mental or thought perceptions, the reactions of thought to things, with the truly mental movements and formations, mental vision and will, etc., that are part of his intelligence.” *Letters on Yoga
"Mind in its essence is a consciousness which measures, limits, cuts out forms of things from the indivisible whole and contains them as if each were a separate integer.” The Life Divine
"Mind is an instrument of analysis and synthesis, but not of essential knowledge. Its function is to cut out something vaguely from the unknown Thing in itself and call this measurement or delimitation of it the whole, and again to analyse the whole into its parts which it regards as separate mental objects.” The Life Divine
"The mind proper is divided into three parts — thinking Mind, dynamic Mind, externalising Mind — the former concerned with ideas and knowledge in their own right, the second with the putting out of mental forces for realisation of the idea, the third with the expression of them in life (not only by speech, but by any form it can give).” Letters on Yoga
"The difference between the ordinary mind and the intuitive is that the former, seeking in the darkness or at most by its own unsteady torchlight, first, sees things only as they are presented in that light and, secondly, where it does not know, constructs by imagination, by uncertain inference, by others of its aids and makeshifts things which it readily takes for truth, shadow projections, cloud edifices, unreal prolongations, deceptive anticipations, possibilities and probabilities which do duty for certitudes. The intuitive mind constructs nothing in this artificial fashion, but makes itself a receiver of the light and allows the truth to manifest in it and organise its own constructions.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"He [man] has in him not a single mentality, but a double and a triple, the mind material and nervous, the pure intellectual mind which liberates itself from the illusions of the body and the senses, and a divine mind above intellect which in its turn liberates itself from the imperfect modes of the logically discriminative and imaginative reason.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"Our mind is an observer of actuals, an inventor or discoverer of possibilities, but not a seer of the occult imperatives that necessitate the movements and forms of a creation. . . .” *The Life Divine
"The human mind is an instrument not of truth but of ignorance and error.” Letters on Yoga
"For Mind as we know it is a power of the Ignorance seeking for Truth, groping with difficulty to find it, reaching only mental constructions and representations of it in word and idea, in mind formations, sense formations, — as if bright or shadowy photographs or films of a distant Reality were all that it could achieve.” The Life Divine
The Mother: "The true role of the mind is the formation and organization of action. The mind has a formative and organizing power, and it is that which puts the different elements of inspiration in order for action, for organizing action. And if it would only confine itself to that role, receiving inspirations — whether from above or from the mystic centre of the soul — and simply formulating the plan of action — in broad outline or in minute detail, for the smallest things of life or the great terrestrial organizations — it would amply fulfil its function. It is not an instrument of knowledge. But is can use knowledge for action, to organize action. It is an instrument of organization and formation, very powerful and very capable when it is well developed.” Questions and Answers 1956, MCW Vol. 8.*
mind ::: “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
"Moreover we see that this cosmic action or any cosmic action is impossible without the play of an infinite Force of Existence which produces and regulates all these forms and movements; and that Force equally presupposes or is the action of an infinite Consciousness, because it is in its nature a cosmic Will determining all relations and apprehending them by its own mode of awareness, and it could not so determine and apprehend them if there were no comprehensive Consciousness behind that mode of cosmic awareness to originate as well as to hold, fix and reflect through it the relations of Being in the developing formation or becoming of itself which we call a universe.” The Life Divine
“Moreover we see that this cosmic action or any cosmic action is impossible without the play of an infinite Force of Existence which produces and regulates all these forms and movements; and that Force equally presupposes or is the action of an infinite Consciousness, because it is in its nature a cosmic Will determining all relations and apprehending them by its own mode of awareness, and it could not so determine and apprehend them if there were no comprehensive Consciousness behind that mode of cosmic awareness to originate as well as to hold, fix and reflect through it the relations of Being in the developing formation or becoming of itself which we call a universe.” The Life Divine
mother ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Supreme and far above all she creates.” The Mother ::: "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.**
Mother ::: “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
Movement
moving picture ::: a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement. moving pictures.
n. **1. A manner of walking or running. 2. Fig. The relative speed of progress or change. 3. A rate of activity, progress, growth, performance; tempo. 4. Fig. The rate of speed at which an activity or movement proceeds. v. 5. To walk with slow regular strides. 6. To walk with regular slow or fast paces or steps. paces, paced, pacing.**
NAVEL CENTRE. ::: The Nabbipadma commanding the larger life-forces and passions and larger desire-movements is the main seat of the centralised «tal consciousness (dynamic centre) which ranges from the heart level (emotional) to the centre below the navel (lower vital, sensational desire centre).
nimble ::: quick, light, or agile in movement or action; deft.
no-gestures ::: the gestures or movements of a classical drama of Japan, with music and dance performed in a highly stylised manner by elaborately dressed performers on an almost bare stage.
Nolini: Chance is like a child at play. That is to say, it laughs and goes about, there is no rule about anything it does; laughter at play. There is no wisdom in its movements. The wisdom is behind and comes out of the irregular movements of Chance. It is not meaningless, there is some knowledge behind.
Nolini: “Mind is always searching, bubbling, the bubbling is that of a dwarf. A dwarf when he walks is not elegant, is ungainly as are mind’s movements.”
Not to mix with others deprives of the test which contact with them imposes on the consciousness and the chance to progress in these respects. Mixing is unproStabJe from the spiriluaJ point of view when it is only to indulge the vital, chat, interchange vital movements etc. ; but abstentioa from all mixing and con- tact is also not desirable. It is only when the consciousness truly needs full retirement that such retirement can be made and even then it may be full but not absolute. For in the absolute retire- ment one lives a purely subjectiw life and the opportunity for extending the spiritual progress to the outer life and testing it thoroughly is not there.
“ Now, that a conscious Infinite is there in physical Nature, we are assured by every sign, though it is a consciousness not made or limited like ours. All her constructions and motions are those of an illimitable intuitive wisdom too great and spontaneous and mysteriously self-effective to be described as an intelligence, of a Power and Will working for Time in eternity with an inevitable and forecasting movement in each of its steps, even in those steps that in their outward or superficial impetus seem to us inconscient. And as there is in her this greater consciousness and greater power, so too there is an illimitable spirit of harmony and beauty in her constructions that never fails her, though its works are not limited by our aesthetic canons. An infinite hedonism too is there, an illimitable spirit of delight, of which we become aware when we enter into impersonal unity with her; and even as that in her which is terrible is a part of her beauty, that in her which is dangerous, cruel, destructive is a part of her delight, her universal Ananda. Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
of Force. The Force I speak of is a Force for illumination, transformation, purification, all that has to be done in the yoga, for removal of hostile forces and the wrong movements—it is also of course for external work, whether great or small in appearance does not matter—if that is part of the Divine Will. I do not mean any personal force egoistic or rajasic.” Letters on Yoga
*"OM is the syllable (the Imperishable); one should follow after it as the upward song (movement); for with OM one sings (goes) upwards;
“OM is the syllable (the Imperishable); one should follow after it as the upward song (movement); for with OM one sings (goes) upwards;
One may say that these are projections of the Jivatman put there to uphold Prakriti on the various levels of the being. The Upa- nishad speaks also of a Supramental and a Bliss Purusha, and if the Supramental and the Bliss Nature were organised in the evolution on earth, we could become aware of them upholding the movements here.
“On the surface of life all appears to be a game of Chance. There is no certainty about any movement; ups and downs, vicissitudes, cataclysms, actions, passions and thoughts crowd in medley and it is impossible to anticipate or regulate them with any definiteness. But a deeper scrutiny reveals a pattern behind all the apparent workings of Chance. What looks like Chance is itself a part of the process; it is called Chance because the particular operation does not take place within the framework of the laws erected by the limited empirical mind; there is really no Chance in the working out of the divine Intention that is this Universe.” Readings in Savitri Vol. III.
Or it may be a pressure from above ; let us say, some supra- mental or mental power precipitating its formation from above and developing forms and movements on the vital level as a means of transit to its self-creation in the material world. Or it may be all these things acting together, in which case there is the greatest possibility of an effective creation.
oscillation ::: a regular and periodic movement such as in the swinging of a pendulum.
"Our ego is only a face of the universal being and has no separate existence; our apparent separative individuality is only a surface movement and behind it our real individuality stretches out to unity with all things and upward to oneness with the transcendent Divine Infinity. Thus our ego, which seems to be a limitation of existence, is really a power of infinity; the boundless multiplicity of beings in the world is a result and signal evidence, not of limitation or finiteness, but of that illimitable Infinity.” The Life Divine
“Our ego is only a face of the universal being and has no separate existence; our apparent separative individuality is only a surface movement and behind it our real individuality stretches out to unity with all things and upward to oneness with the transcendent Divine Infinity. Thus our ego, which seems to be a limitation of existence, is really a power of infinity; the boundless multiplicity of beings in the world is a result and signal evidence, not of limitation or finiteness, but of that illimitable Infinity.” The Life Divine
“Our material world is the result of all the others, for the other principles have all descended into Matter to create the physical universe, and every particle of what we call Matter contains all of them implicit in itself; their secret action, as we have seen, is involved in every moment of its existence and every movement of its activity. And as Matter is the last word of the descent, so it is also the first word of the ascent; as the powers of all these planes, worlds, grades, degrees are involved in the material existence, so are they all capable of evolution out of it. It is for this reason that material being does not begin and end with gases and chemical compounds and physical forces and movements, with nebulae and suns and earths, but evolves life, evolves mind, must evolve eventually Supermind and the higher degrees of the spiritual existence.” The Life Divine
“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
Our notion of free will is apt to be tainted with the excessive individualism of the human ego and to assume the figure of an independent will acting on its own isolated account, in a complete liberty without any determination other than its own choice and single unrelated movement. This idea ignores the fact that our natural being is a part of cosmic Nature and our spiritual being exists only by the supreme Transcendence. Our total being can rise out of subjection to fact of present Nature only by an identification with a greater Truth and a greater Nature. The will of the individual, even when completely free, could not act in an isolated independence, because the individual being and nature are included in the universal Being and Nature and dependent on the all-overruling Transcendence. There could indeed be in the ascent a dual line. On one line the being could feel and behave as an independent self-existence uniting itself with its own impersonal Reality; it could, so self-conceived, act with a great force, but either this action would be still within an enlarged frame of its past and present self-formation of power of Nature or else it would be the cosmic or supreme Force that acted in it and there would be no personal initiation of action, no sense therefore of individual free will but only of an impersonal cosmic or supreme Will or Energy at its work. On the other line the being would feel itself a spiritual instrument and so act as a power of the Supreme Being, limited in its workings only by the potencies of the Supernature, which are without bounds or any restriction except its own Truth and self-law, and by the Will in her. But in either case there would be, as the condition of a freedom from the control of a mechanical action of Nature-forces, a submission to a greater conscious Power or an acquiescent unity of the individual being with its intention and movement in his own and in the world’s existence.” The Life Divine
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.
PAST. ::: The feelings and movements of the past always return at night in sleep. It is only when the consciousness that gene- rated them is changed and cleared in the waking state, that after- wards one can clear them out of the sleep also.
Physical consciousness ::: There is the universal physical cons- ciousness of Nature and there is our own which is a part of it, moved by it, and used by the central being for the support of its expression in the physical world and for a direct dealing with all these external objects and movements and forces. This physical consciousness-plane receives from the other planes their powers and influences and makes formations of them in its own province. Therefore we have a physical mind as well as a vital mind and the mind proper ; we have a vital-physical part in us
PHYSICAL OPENING. ::: The opening of the physical and the subconscient always takes a long time as it is a thing of habits and constant repetition of the old movements, obscure and stiff and not plastic, yielding only little by little. The physical mind can be more easily opened and converted than the rest but the vital-physical and the mental-physical arc obstinate. The old things are always recurring there without reason and by force of habit. Much of the vital-physical and most of the material are in the subconsciencc or depend upon it. U needs a strong and sustained action to progress there.
physical ::: The Mother: “The physical is the concrete domain that crystallises and defines the thoughts, the movements of the vital, etc. It is a solid foundation for action.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
physical ::: the Mother: "The physical is the concrete domain that crystallises and defines the thoughts, the movements of the vital, etc. It is a solid foundation for action.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
PLANES. ::: If we regard the gmdatton of worlds or planes as a whole, we see them as a great connected complex move- ment ; the higher precipitate their influences on the lower, the lotver react to the higher and develop or manifest in themselves within their own formula something that corresponds to the superior power and its action. The material world has evolved life in obedience to a pressure from the vital plane, mind in obedience to a pressure from the mental plane. It is now trying to evolve supermind in obedica^ to a pressure from the supra- mental plane. In more detail, particular forces, movements, powers, beings of a higher world can throw themselves on the lower to establish appropriate and corresponding forms which will connect them with the material domain and, as it were, reproduce or project their action here. And each thing created here has, supporting it, subtler envelopes or forms of itself which make it subsist and connect it with forces acting from above. Man, for instance, has, besides his gross physical body, subtler sheaths or bodies by which he lives behind the s’eil in direct connection with suprapbysical planes of consciousness and can be influenced by their powers, movements and beings. What takes place in life has always behind it pie-existeni movements and forms in the occult vital planes ; what takes place in mind presupposes prc-cxistcnt movements and forms in the occult mental planes. That is an aspect of things which becomes more and more evident, insistent and important, the more we progress in a dynamic yoga.
Power, Force, Bliss, Furitj' into the whole being, even into the lowest recesses of the life and body, even into the darkness of our subconscience ; last, there must supervene the supramental transmutation, — there must take place as the crowning movement the ascent into the supcixoind and the transforming descent of the supramental Consciousness into our entire being and nature.
POWER. ::: Whatever or whoever exercises a conscious power in the cosmic field and has authority over the world-movement or some movement in it.
PRAJNAt^A. The apprehending Truth-consciousness; the apprehending movement of the Truth-consciousness ; apprehend- ing consciousness.
PRAYER. ::: The life of man is a life of wants and needs and therefore of desires, not only in his physical and vital, but in his mental and spiritual being. When he becomes conscious of a greater Power governing the world, he approaches it through prayer for the fulfilment of his needs, for help in his rough journey, for protection and aid in his struggle. Whatever crudi- ties there may be in the ordinary religious approach to God by prayer, and there are many, especially that attitude which ima- gines the Divine as if capable of being propitiated, bribed, flat- tered into acquiescence or indulgence by praise, entreaty and gifts and has often little te^td to the spirit in which he is approached, still this way of turning to the Divine is an essen- tial movement of our religious being and reposes on a universal truth.
The efficacy of prayer is often doubted and prayer itself supposed to be a thing irrational and necessarily superfluous and ineffective. It is true that the universal will executes always its aim and cannot be deflected by egoistic propitiation and entreaty, it is true of the Transcendent who expresses himself in the universal order that, being omniscient, his larger knowledge must foresee the thing to be done and it does not need direction or stimulation by human thought and that the individual's desires are not and cannot be in any world-order the true determining factor. But neither is that order or the execution of the universal will altogether effected by mechanical Law, but by powers and forces of which for human life at least, human will, aspiration and faith are not among the least important. Prayer is only a particular form given to that will, aspiration and faith. Its forms are very often crude and not only childlike, which is in itself no defect, but childish; but still it has a real power and significance. Its power and sense is to put the will, aspiration and faith of man into touch with the divine Will as that of a conscious Being with whom we can enter into conscious and living relations. For our will and aspiration can act either by our own strength and endeavour, which can no doubt be made a thing great and effective whether for lower or higher purposes, -and there are plenty of disciplines which put it forward as the one force to be used, -- or it can act in dependence upon and with subordination to the divine or the universal Will. And this latter way, again, may either look upon that Will as responsive indeed to our aspiration, but almost mechanically, by a sort of law of energy, or at any rate quite impersonally, or else it may look upon it as responding consciously to the divine aspiration and faith of the human soul and consciously bringing to it the help, the guidance, the protection and fruition demanded, yogaksemam vahamyaham. ~ TSOY, SYN
Prayer helps to prepare this relation for us at first on the lower plane even while it is (here consistent with much that is mere egoism and self-delusion; but afterwards we can draw towards the spiritual truth which is behind it. It is not then the givinc of the thing asked for that matters, but the relation itself, the contact of man’s life with God, the conscious interchange.
In spiritual matters and in the seeking of spiritual gains, this conscious relation is a great power; it is a much greater power than our own entirely self-reliant struggle and effort and it brings a fuller spiritual growth and experience. Necessarily, in the end prayer either ceases in the greater thing for which it prepared us, -- in fact the form we call prayer is not itself essential so long as the faith, the will, the aspiration are there, -- or remains only for the joy of the relation. Also its objects, the artha or interest it seeks to realise, become higher and higher until we reach the highest motiveless devotion, which is that of divine love pure and simple without any other demand or longing.
Prayer for others ::: The fact of praying and the attitude it brings, especially unselfish prayer for others, itself opens you to the higher Power, even if there is no corresponding result in the person prayed for. 'Nothing can be positively said about that, for the result must necessarily depend on the persons, whe- ther they arc open or receptive or something in them can res- pond to any Force the prayer brings down.
Prayer must well up from the heart on a crest of emotion or aspiration.
Prayer {Ideal)'. Not prayer insisting on immediate fulfilment, but prayer that is itself a communion of the mind and heart with the Divine*and can have the joy and satisfaction of itself, trusting for fulfilment by the Divine in his own time.
Psychic awakening means the conscious action of the psychic from behind. When it comes to the front, it invades the mind and vital and body and psychidscs their movement. It comes best by aspiration and an unquestioning and entire turning and surrender to the Mother. But also it sometimes comes of itself when the ddhara is ready.
Psychic being is quite di/Terent from the mind or vital; it stands behind them where they meet in the heart. Its central place is there, but behind the heart rather than in the heart ; for what men call usually the heart is the seat of emotion, and human emotions are mental-vital impulses, not ordinarily psychic in their nature. This mostly secret power behind, other than the mind and the life-force, is the true soul, the psychic being in us. The power of the psychic, however, can act upon the mind and vital and body, purifying thought and perception and emotion (which then becomes psychic feeling) and sensaUon and action and everything else in us and preparing them to be divine movements. The psychic being may be described in Indian lan- guage as the Purusha in the heart or the Chaitya Purusha, but the inner or secret heart must be understood, hrdaye guhayom, not the outer vital-emotional centre. The supramental change can take place only if the psychic is awake and is made the chief support of the descending supramental power.
Psychic emergence ::: When the psychic being comes in front, there is an automatic perception of the true and untrue, the divine and the undivine, the spiritual right and wrong of things, and the false vital and mental movements and attacks are imme- diately exposed and fall away and can do nothing ; gradually the vital and physical as well as flte mind get full of this psychic licht and truth and sound feeling and purit>'.
PSYCHICISATION. ::: Change of the lower nature bringing right vision into the mind, right impulse and feeling into the vital, ri^t movement and habit into the physical — all turned towards the Divine, all based on love, adoration, bhakti — finally the vision and sense of the Mother everywhere in all as w’ell as in the heart, her Force working in the being, faith, con- secration, surrender.
Purani: “—a fine expressive word coined by the poet. Fluttering indicates movement, a changing movement and hue suggests colour. The movement of ‘desire’ is very nicely indicated by this word—an unsteady movement, constantly changing colour.”
Purity is more a condition than a substance. Peace helps to purity — since in peace disturbing influences cease and the essence of purity b to respond only to the Divine Influence and not to have affini^ with other movements.
purity ::: “It [purity] is more a condition than a substance. Peace helps to purity—since in peace disturbing influences cease and the essence of purity is to respond only to the Divine Influence and not to have an affinity with other movements.” Letters on Yoga
"Purity means freedom from soil or mixture. The divine Purity is that in which there is no mixture of the turbid ignorant movements of the lower nature. Ordinarily, purity is used to mean (in the common language) freedom from sexual passion and impulse.” *Letters on Yoga
“Purity means freedom from soil or mixture. The divine Purity is that in which there is no mixture of the turbid ignorant movements of the lower nature. Ordinarily, purity is used to mean (in the common language) freedom from sexual passion and impulse.” Letters on Yoga
purity ::: Sri Aurobindo: "It [purity] is more a condition than a substance. Peace helps to purity — since in peace disturbing influences cease and the essence of purity is to respond only to the Divine Influence and not to have an affinity with other movements.” *Letters on Yoga
quiver ::: n. 1. The act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor. quivering, quiverings. v. 2. To shake with a slight, rapid, tremulous movement esp. with emotion. quivers, quivered, quivering.
Rakshasa and Pishacha, — Titan, vita! giant and demon, — are superhuman in the pitch and force and movement and in the make of their characteristic nature, but these are not divine and these are not supremely divine, for they live in a greater mind- power, or life-power only, but they do not live in the supreme
rapidities ::: movements that are extremely rapid; having great velocity.
reach ::: n. 1. Range of effective action, power, or capacity, area, sphere, scope. 2. The range of influence, power, jurisdiction, etc. reaches. v. 3. To stretch out or put forth (a body part); extend. 4. To arrive at or get to (a place, person, etc.) in the course of movement or action. 5. To arrive at; attain. 6. To make contact or communication with (someone). 7. To extend in influence or operation. reaches, reached, reaching.
refusing to regard its desires and clamours as one’s own, and cultivates an entire equality and equanimity in the consciousness with respect to them that the lower vital itself becomes gradually purified and itself also calm and equal. Each wave of desire as it comes must be observed, as quietly and with as much unmoved detachment as you would observe something going on outside you, and must be allowed to pass, rejected from the cons- ciousness, and the true movement, the true consciousness steadily put in its place.
REGULARITY. ::: To be able to be regular is a great force, one becomes master of one’s time and one's movements.
regurgitations ::: movements of rushing or surging back.
REJECTION. ::: The jjersonal effort required is a itficdon of the movements of the lower nature — rejection of the mind’s ideas, opinions, preferences, habits, constructions, so that the true knowledge may find free room in a silent mind ; rejection of
rent regard for the other members of the great series. Thus, if we regard the vital or the subtle physical plane, we see great ranges of it, (most of it), existing in themselves, without any relation with the material world and with no movement to affect or influence it, still less to precipitate a corresponding manifes- tation in the physical formula. At most we can say that the existence of anything in the vital, subtle physical or any other plane creates a possibility for a corresponding movement of manifestation in the physical world. But something more is needed to turn that static or latent possibility into a dynamic potentiality or an actual urge towards a material creation. That something may be a call from the material plane, e.g., some force or some one on the physical existence entering into touch with a supraphysical power or world or part of it and moved to bring it down into the earth-life. Or it may be an impulse in the vital or other plane itself, e.g., a vital being moved to extend his action towards the earth and establish there a kingdom for himself or the play of the forces for which he stands in his own domain.
RESISTANCE. ::: When the soul draws towards the Divine, there may be a resistance in the mind and the common form of that is denial and doubt — which may create mental and vital su/Tering. There may again be a resistance in the vital nature ivhose principal characer is desire and the attachment to the objects of desire, and if in this field there is conflict between the soul and the vital nature, between the Divine Attraction and the pull of the Ignorance, then obviously there may be much suffer- ing of the mind and vital parts. The pbj-sical consciousness also may offer a resistance which is usually that of a fundamental inertia, an obscurity in the very stuff of the physical, an incom- prehension, an inability to respond to the higher consciousness, a habit of helplessly responding to the lower mechanically, even when it docs not want to do so ; both lital and physical suffer- ing may be the consequence. There is, moreover, the resistance of the Universal Nature which does not want the being to escape from the Ignorance into the Light. This may take the form of a vehement insistence in the continuation of the old movements, waves of them thrown on the mind and vital and body so that old ideas, impulses, desires, feelings, responses continue even after they are thrown out and rejected, and can return like an invading army from outside, until the whole nature, given to (he
Retrograde movement ::: There may be what seem to be retro- grade movements but these are only like zigzag movements, not a real falling back, but a return on something not worked out so as to go on better afterwards. The soul does not go back to animal condition, but a part of the vital personality may disjoin itself and join an animal birth to work out its animal propensi- ties there.
Returns of an old nature that is long expelled from the con- scious part of the being always happen in sadhana. It docs not at all mean that the nature is unchangeable. Try to recover the inner quietude, draw back from these movements and look at them calmly, reducing them to their true proportions. Your true nature is that in which you have peace and Ananda and the love of the Divine. This other B only a fringe of the outer personality which in spite of these returns is destined to drop away as the true being extends and increases.
revolt ::: 1. An expression or movement of spirited protest or dissent. 2. An uprising, especially against state authority; a rebellion. revolts.
revolution ::: 1. A turning or rotational motion about an axis. 2. A sudden or momentous change in a situation esp. one accompanied by violence. 3. The orbital or circular movement of the stars, etc. **revolution"s, revolutions.
revolution ::: “ . . . for what we inappropriately call revolution, is only a rapidly concentrated movement of evolution—a yet remote end which in the ordinary course of events could only be realised, if at all, in the far distant future.” The Human Cycle, etc.
rhythm ::: 1. Procedure marked by the regular recurrence of particular elements, phases, etc.; flow, pulse, cadence. 2. Regular recurrence of elements in a system of motion. 3. Music. The pattern of regular or irregular pulses caused in music by the occurrence of strong and weak melodic and harmonic beats. 4. Measured movement, as in dancing. 5. Physiol. The regular recurrence of an action of function, as of the beat of the heart. 6. The arrangement of words into a more or less regular sequence of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables. 7. Pros. Metrical or rhythmical form; metre; a particular kind of metrical form or metrical movement. rhythms, rhythm-beats, fire-rhythm, jewel-rhythm, world-rhythms. (Sri Aurobindo also employs rhythms as a v., rhythmed as a v. and an adj., and rhythming as a v. and an adj.)
ripple ::: a small wave or undulation, as on water; any similar movement or appearance. ripples, ripple-passion.
River ::: Some movement of the consciousness.
ROTATORY MOVEMENT. ::: The movement of the Force of the higher spiritual or divine consciousness when it is work- ing and forming something in tbe being.
rustle ::: a continuous succession of slight soft or light crisp sounds produced by some kind of movement, esp. as of parts rubbing against each other as leaves, silk, etc. rustling
scope ::: 1. A purpose or an aim. 2. Space for movement or activity; opportunity for operation. 3. Extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc. 4. The range of one"s perceptions, thoughts, or actions.
Self. But there is another, a hidden consciousness within behind the surface one in which we can become aware of the real Self and of a larger, deeper truth of nature, can realise the Self and liberate and transform the nature. To quiet the surface mind and begin to live within is the object of concentration. Of this true consciousness other than the superficial there are two main centres, one in the heart (not the physical heart, but the cardiac centre in the middle of the chest), one in the head. The con- centration in the heart opens within and by following this inward opening and going deep one becomes aware of the soul or psy- chic being, the divine element in the individual. This being unveiled begins to come forward, to govern the nature, to turn it and all its movements towards the Truth, towards the Divine, and to call down into it all that is above. It brings the conscious- ness of the Presence, the dedication of the being to the Highest and invites the descent into our nature of a greater Force and
serpentine ::: 1. Of, characteristic of, or resembling a serpent, as in form or movement; sinuous. 2. Having a twisting or winding course similar to that of a serpent"s motion.
Sex and the subconscient ::: The subconscient acts of itself on its own store of impressions or habitual past movements. When one drives sex from the mind and conscious vital and physical, it remains in the subconscient and rises from there in sleep.
shake ::: 1. To cause to move to and fro with jerky movements; quiver; tremble; vibrate, etc. 2. To dislodge or discharge something adhering or contained. shakes, shook, shaking.
shudder ::: to tremble with a sudden convulsive movement as from horror, fear, or cold. shuddered.
Silence and thoughts ::: To silence the mind it is not enough to throw back each thought as it comes, that can only be a subordinate movement. One must get back from all thought and be separate from it, a silent consciousness observing the thoughts if they come, but not oneself thinking or identified with the thoughts. Thoughts must be felt as outside things altogether.
Silence is a ‘state in which either there is no movement of the mind or vital or else a great stillness which no surface move- ment can pierce or alter.
"Silence means freedom from thoughts and vital movements —- when the whole consciousness is quite still.” The Mother - Flowers and Their Messages, Glossary Of Philosophical And Psychological Terms.
“Silence means freedom from thoughts and vital movements—when the whole consciousness is quite still.” The Mother—Flowers and Their Messages, Glossary Of Philosophical And Psychological Terms.
Silence of the ordinary rmnd-mechanism is necessary in order that the higher meiitahty nray mamifest, descend, occupy by degrees the place of the present im|«rfect mentality and trans- form the activities ot the latter into its own fuller movements.
silence ::: “Silence is a state in which either there is no movement of the mind or vital or else a great stillness which no surface movement can pierce or alter.” Letters on Yoga
silence ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Silence is a state in which either there is no movement of the mind or vital or else a great stillness which no surface movement can pierce or alter.” *Letters on Yoga
Sincerity exacts the unification and harmonisation of the whole being in all its parts and movements around the central Divine
"Sincerity means to lift all the movements of the being to the level of the highest consciousness and realisation already attained.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 14.
“Sincerity means to lift all the movements of the being to the level of the highest consciousness and realisation already attained.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 14.
SINCERITY. ::: SiDcezity means to lilt all the movements of the being to the level of the highest consciousness and realisation already attained.
slid ::: glided or passed from one place or point to another with a smooth and continuous movement, esp. through the air or water or along a surface.
slink ::: a furtive, sneaking, or stealthy movement in an abject manner, as from fear, cowardice, etc.
Space ::: “It is possible in pure mentality to disregard the movement of event and the disposition of substance and realise the pure movement of Conscious-Force which constitutes Space and Time; these two are then merely two aspects of the universal force of Consciousness which in their intertwined interaction comprehend the warp and woof of its action upon itself. And to a consciousness higher than Mind which should regard our past, present and future in one view, containing and not contained in them, not situated at a particular moment of Time for its point of prospection, Time might well offer itself as an eternal present. And to the same consciousness not situated at any particular point of Space, but containing all points and regions in itself, Space also might well offer itself as a subjective and indivisible extension,—no less subjective than Time.” The Life Divine
Space. Sri Aurobindo: "It is possible in pure mentality to disregard the movement of event and the disposition of substance and realise the pure movement of Conscious-Force which constitutes Space and Time; these two are then merely two aspects of the universal force of Consciousness which in their intertwined interaction comprehend the warp and woof of its action upon itself. And to a consciousness higher than Mind which should regard our past, present and future in one view, containing and not contained in them, not situated at a particular moment of Time for its point of prospection, Time might well offer itself as an eternal present. And to the same consciousness not situated at any particular point of Space, but containing all points and regions in itself, Space also might well offer itself as a subjective and indivisible extension, — no less subjective than Time.” The Life Divine
spearhead ::: fig. The driving force in a given action, endeavour, or movement; the leading force in a military thrust.
Spirit is an act of the supreme Reality from above which makes the realisation possible and it can appear either as the divine aid which brings about the fulfilment of the progress and process or as the sanction of the miracle. Evolution, as we see it in this world, is a slow and difficult process and, indeed, needs usual- ly ages to reach abiding results ; but this is because it is in its nature an emergence from ioconscient beginnings, a start from nescience and a working in the ignorance of natural beings by what seems to be an unconscious force. There can be, on the contrary, an evolution in the light and no longer in the darkness, in which the evolving being is a conscious participant and co- operator, and this is precisely what must take place here. Even in the effort and progress from the Ignorance to Knowledge this must be in part if not wholly the endeavour to be made on the heights of the nature and it must be wholly that in the final movement towards the spiritual change, realisation, transforma- tion. It must be still more so when there is a transition across the dividing line between the Ignorance and the Knowledge and the evolution is from knowledge to greater knowledge, from consciousness to greater consciousness, from being to greater being. There is then no longer any necessity for the slow pace of the ordinary evolution; there can be rapid consersion. quick transformation after transformation, what would seem to our
spirit of Delight ::: Sri Aurobindo: " Now, that a conscious Infinite is there in physical Nature, we are assured by every sign, though it is a consciousness not made or limited like ours. All her constructions and motions are those of an illimitable intuitive wisdom too great and spontaneous and mysteriously self-effective to be described as an intelligence, of a Power and Will working for Time in eternity with an inevitable and forecasting movement in each of its steps, even in those steps that in their outward or superficial impetus seem to us inconscient. And as there is in her this greater consciousness and greater power, so too there is an illimitable spirit of harmony and beauty in her constructions that never fails her, though its works are not limited by our aesthetic canons. An infinite hedonism too is there, an illimitable spirit of delight, of which we become aware when we enter into impersonal unity with her; and even as that in her which is terrible is a part of her beauty, that in her which is dangerous, cruel, destructive is a part of her delight, her universal Ananda. Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
spontaneities ::: spontaneous impulses, movements or actions.
Sraddhalu: “… at the very height of creation, at the very roots of creation, there is a spontaneous movement, a selfborn Word, a concept, an idea, which has not been given an overt expression. It is in the state of pure vibration. This is why ‘Word’ is put with a capital ‘W’. It is pure vibration of consciousness which is put out.”
Sri Aurobindo: "Akshara, the immobile, the immutable, is the silent and inactive self, it is the unity of the divine Being, Witness of Nature, but not involved in its movement; it is the inactive Purusha free from Prakriti and her works.” Essays on the Gita
Sri Aurobindo: "Consciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence — it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is in it — not only the macrocosm but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Destruction in itself is neither good nor evil. It is a fact of Nature, a necessity in the play of forces, as things are in this world. The Light destroys the Darkness and the Powers of Darkness, and that is not a movement of Ignorance!” *Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "Ego is only a faculty put forward by the discriminative mind to centralise round itself the experiences of the sense-mind and to serve as a sort of lynch-pin in the wheel which keeps together the movement. It is no more than an instrument, although it is true that so long as we are limited by our normal mentality, we are compelled by the nature of that mentality and the purpose of the instrument to mistake our ego-function for our very self.” The Upanishads
*Sri Aurobindo: " . . . for what we inappropriately call revolution, is only a rapidly concentrated movement of evolution — a yet remote end which in the ordinary course of events could only be realised, if at all, in the far distant future.” The Human Cycle, etc.
Sri Aurobindo: "It could be affirmed as a consequence that there is one all-pervading Life or dynamic energy — the material aspect being only its outermost movement — that creates all these forms of the physical universe, Life imperishable and eternal which, even if the whole figure of the universe were quite abolished, would itself still go on existing and be capable of producing a new universe in its place, must indeed, unless it be held back in a state of rest by some higher Power or hold itself back, inevitably go on creating. In that case Life is nothing else than the Force that builds and maintains and destroys forms in the world; it is Life that manifests itself in the form of the earth as much as in the plant that grows upon the earth and the animals that support their existence by devouring the life-force of the plant or of each other. All existence here is a universal Life that takes form of Matter. It might for that purpose hide life-process in physical process before it emerges as submental sensitivity and mentalised vitality, but still it would be throughout the same creative Life-principle.” *The Life Divine
*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: " Love? It is not Love who meets the burdened great and governs the fate of men! Nor is it Pain. Time also does not do these things — it only provides the field and movement of events. If I had wanted to give a name, I would have done it, but it has purposely to be left nameless because it is indefinable. He may use Love or Pain or Time or any of these powers but is not any of them. You can call him the Master of the Evolution, if you like. Letters of Savitri
Sri Aurobindo: “ Love? It is not Love who meets the burdened great and governs the fate of men! Nor is it Pain. Time also does not do these things—it only provides the field and movement of events. If I had wanted to give a name, I would have done it, but it has purposely to be left nameless because it is indefinable. He may use Love or Pain or Time or any of these powers but is not any of them. You can call him the Master of the Evolution, if you like. Letters of Savitri
*Sri Aurobindo: "Pleasure, joy and delight, as man uses the words, are limited and occasional movements which depend on certain habitual causes and emerge, like their opposites pain and grief which are equally limited and occasional movements, from a background other than themselves. Delight of being is universal, illimitable and self-existent, not dependent on particular causes, the background of all backgrounds, from which pleasure, pain and other more neutral experiences emerge. When delight of being seeks to realise itself as delight of becoming, it moves in the movement of force and itself takes different forms of movement of which pleasure and pain are positive and negative currents.” The Life Divine*
Sri Aurobindo: "Substance, then, as we know it, material substance, is the form in which Mind acting through sense contacts the Conscious Being of which it is itself a movement of knowledge.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "The lower nature is ignorant and undivine, not in itself hostile but shut to the Light and Truth. The hostile forces are anti-divine, not merely undivine; they make use of the lower nature, pervert it, fill it with distorted movements and by that means influence man and even try to enter and possess or at least entirely control him.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The 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 is no ignorance that is not part of the Cosmic Ignorance, only in the individual it becomes a limited formation and movement, while the Cosmic Ignorance is the whole movement of world consciousness separated from the supreme Truth and acting in an inferior motion in which the Truth is perverted, diminished, mixed and clouded with falsehood and error.” Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "The timeless Spirit is not necessarily a blank; it may hold all in itself, but in essence, without reference to time or form or relation or circumstance, perhaps in an eternal unity. Eternity is the common term between Time and the Timeless Spirit. What is in the Timeless unmanifested, implied, essential, appears in Time in movement, or at least in design and relation, in result and circumstance. These two then are the same Eternity or the same Eternal in a double status; they are a twofold status of being and consciousness, one an eternity of immobile status, the other an eternity of motion in status.” The Life Divine ::: "The spiritual fullness of the being is eternity; . . . ” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "This material universe is itself only existence as we see it when the soul dwells on the plane of material movement and experience in which the spirit involves itself in form, and therefore all the framework of things in which it moves by the life and which it embraces by the consciousness is determined by the principle of infinite division and aggregation proper to Matter, to substance of form.” The Upanishads
Sri Aurobindo: "Time and Space . . . are the conceptual movement and extension of the Godhead in us.” *Essays on the Gita
Sri Aurobindo: "Weakness puts the same test and question to the strengths and energies and greatnesses in which we glory. Power is the play of life, shows its degree, finds the value of its expression; weakness is the play of death pursuing life in its movement and stressing the limit of its acquired energy.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "When there is some lowering or diminution of the consciousness or some impairing of it at one place or another, the Adversary — or the Censor — who is always on the watch presses with all his might wherever there is a weak point lying covered from your own view, and suddenly a wrong movement leaps up with unexpected force. Become conscious and cast out the possibility of its renewal, that is all that is to be done.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Yes: the purpose is to create a large luminous trailing repetitive movement like the flight of the Bird with its dragon tail of white fire.” *Letters on Savitri
Sri Aurobindo: “Yes: the purpose is to create a large luminous trailing repetitive movement like the flight of the Bird with its dragon tail of white fire.” Letters on Savitri
"Stability and movement, we must remember, are only our psychological representations of the Absolute, even as are oneness and multitude. The Absolute is beyond stability and movement as it is beyond unity and multiplicity. But it takes its eternal poise in the one and the stable and whirls round itself infinitely, inconceivably, securely in the moving and multitudinous.” The Life Divine
“Stability and movement, we must remember, are only our psychological representations of the Absolute, even as are oneness and multitude. The Absolute is beyond stability and movement as it is beyond unity and multiplicity. But it takes its eternal poise in the one and the stable and whirls round itself infinitely, inconceivably, securely in the moving and multitudinous.” The Life Divine
standing, function and work in the universe. They are not imper- sonal entities but cosmic Personalities, although they can and do veil themselves behind the movement of impersonal forces. But while in the Overmlnd and the triple world they appear as inde- pendent beings, they return in the Supermind into the One and stand there united in a single harmonious action as multiple personalities of the one Person, the Divine Purushottama.
start ::: n. 1. A beginning of an action, journey, series of events, etc. 2. An initial but often transient display of energy at the onset of an activity. 3. A sudden involuntary jerking movement of the body. starts. v. 4. To begin or set out, as on a journey or activity. 5. To appear or come suddenly into action, life, view, etc.; rise or issue suddenly forth. starts, started, starting.
steadies ::: makes or keeps stable, as in position, movement, action, character, etc.
Still what is important is to develop the psychic within and bring down the higher consciousness from above. The psychic, as it grows and manifests, detects immediately all wrong move- ments or elements and at the same lime supplies almost auto- matically the true element or movement which will replace them ; this process is much easier and more effective than that of a severe tapasy& of purification. The higher consciousness In des-
stir ::: n. 1. A slight movement. 2. A strong reaction, esp. a movement of activity; excitement, emotion, etc. v. 3. To rouse, as from indifference or inaction and prompt to action. 4. To move, esp. slightly or lightly. 5. To become active, as from some rousing or quickening impulse. 6. To provoke one to be moved emotionally to feeling, emotion, or passion or action. 7. To prod into brisk or vigorous action; bestir. stirs, stirred, stirring.
stony ::: 1. Covered with or full of stones; rocky. 2 . Resembling stone, as in hardness. 3. Exhibiting no feeling or warmth; impassive; rigid; esp. of movement, a look, etc. 4. Rigid, fixed, motionless; destitute of movement or expression: esp. of the eyes or look. stony-eyed.
stroke ::: 1. The act or an instance of striking, as with the hand, a weapon, or a tool; a blow or impact. 2. A blow struck at an object; e.g. with a hammer, axe, etc. 3. An act of hitting, or the blow given; also said of divine retribution. 4. A movement or mark made in one direction by a pen, pencil, paintbrush etc. 5. A single complete movement, esp. one continuously repeated in some process. strokes.
subconscient ::: “In our yoga we mean by the subconscient that quite submerged part of our being in which there is no wakingly conscious and coherent thought, will or feeling or organised reaction, but which yet receives obscurely the impressions of all things and stores them up in itself and from it too all sorts of stimuli, of persistent habitual movements, crudely repeated or disguised in strange forms can surge up into dream or into the waking nature. No, subliminal is a general term used for all parts of the being which are not on the waking surface. Subconscient is very often used in the same sense by European psychologists because they do not know the difference. But when I use the word, I mean always what is below the ordinary physical consciousness, not what is behind it. The inner mental, vital, physical, the psychic are not subconscious in this sense, but they can be spoken of as subliminal.” The Synthesis of Yoga.
subconscient ::: Sri Aurobindo: "In our yoga we mean by the subconscient that quite submerged part of our being in which there is no wakingly conscious and coherent thought, will or feeling or organised reaction, but which yet receives obscurely the impressions of all things and stores them up in itself and from it too all sorts of stimuli, of persistent habitual movements, crudely repeated or disguised in strange forms can surge up into dream or into the waking nature. No, subliminal is a general term used for all parts of the being which are not on the waking surface. Subconscient is very often used in the same sense by European psychologists because they do not know the difference. But when I use the word, I mean always what is below the ordinary physical consciousness, not what is behind it. The inner mental, vital, physical, the psychic are not subconscious in this sense, but they can be spoken of as subliminal.” *The Synthesis of Yoga.
"The subconscient is a concealed and unexpressed inarticulate consciousness which works below all our conscious physical activities. Just as what we call the superconscient is really a higher consciousness above from which things descend into the being, so the subconscient is below the body-consciousness and things come up into the physical, the vital and the mind-nature from there.
Just as the higher consciousness is superconscient to us and supports all our spiritual possibilities and nature, so the subconscient is the basis of our material being and supports all that comes up in the physical nature.” Letters on Yoga
"That part of us which we can strictly call subconscient because it is below the level of mind and conscious life, inferior and obscure, covers the purely physical and vital elements of our constitution of bodily being, unmentalised, unobserved by the mind, uncontrolled by it in their action. It can be held to include the dumb occult consciousness, dynamic but not sensed by us, which operates in the cells and nerves and all the corporeal stuff and adjusts their life process and automatic responses. It covers also those lowest functionings of submerged sense-mind which are more operative in the animal and in plant life.” *The Life Divine
"The subconscient is a thing of habits and memories and repeats persistently or whenever it can old suppressed reactions, reflexes, mental, vital or physical responses. It must be trained by a still more persistent insistence of the higher parts of the being to give up its old responses and take on the new and true ones.” Letters on Yoga
"About the subconscient — it is the sub-mental base of the being and is made up of impressions, instincts, habitual movements that are stored there. Whatever movement is impressed in it, it keeps. If one impresses the right movement in it, it will keep and send up that. That is why it has to be cleared of old movements before there can be a permanent and total change in the nature. When the higher consciousness is once established in the waking parts, it goes down into the subconscient and changes that also, makes a bedrock of itself there also.” Letters on Yoga
"The sub-conscious is the evolutionary basis in us, it is not the whole of our hidden nature, nor is it the whole origin of what we are. But things can rise from the subconscient and take shape in the conscious parts and much of our smaller vital and physical instincts, movements, habits, character-forms has this source.” Letters on Yoga
"The subconscient is the support of habitual action — it can support good habits as well as bad.” Letters on Yoga
"For the subconscient is the Inconscient in the process of becoming conscious; it is a support and even a root of our inferior parts of being and their movements.” The Life Divine *subconscient"s.
SUBCONSCIENT. ::: That quite submerged part of our being in which there is no wakingly conscious or coherent thought, will or feeling or organised reaction, but which yet receives obscurely the impressions of all things and stores them up in itself and from it too all sorts of stimulii, of persistent habitual movements, crudely repeated or disguised in strange forms can surge up into dream or into the waking nature.
substance ::: “Substance, then, as we know it, material substance, is the form in which Mind acting through sense contacts the Conscious Being of which it is itself a movement of knowledge.” The Life Divine
subtle vision ("s) ::: Sri Aurobindo: " This power of vision is sometimes inborn and habitual even without any effort of development, sometimes it wakes up of itself and becomes abundant or needs only a little practice to develop; it is not necessarily a sign of spiritual attainment, but usually when by practice of yoga one begins to go inside or live within, the power of subtle vision awakes to a greater or less extent; . . . .”*Letters on Yoga
"It is not necessary to have the mind quiet in order to see the lights — that depends only on the opening of the subtle vision in the centre which is in the forehead between the eyebrows. Many people get that as soon as they start sadhana. It can even be developed by effort and concentration without sadhana by some who have it to a small extent as an inborn faculty.” Letters on Yoga
"When the centres begin to open, inner experiences such as the seeing of light or images through the subtle vision in the forehead centre or psychic experiences and perceptions in the heart, become frequent — gradually one becomes aware of one"s inner being as separate from the outer, and what can be called a yogic consciousness with all its deeper movements develops in the place of the ordinary superficial mental and vital movements.” Letters on Yoga
(supported by the lowest part of the vital proper) is therefore the agent of most of the lesser movements of our external life ; its habitual reactions and obstinate pettinesses are the chief stumbling-block in the way of transformation of the outer cons- ciousness by the yoga. It is also largely responsible for most of the suffering and disease of mind or body to which the physical being is subject in Nature.
Supporting from its place behind the heart-centre the mental, vital, physical, psychic evolution of the being in Nature. Its realisation brings Bhakti, self-^ving, surrender, turning of all the 'movements Godward, discrimination and choice of all that
surge ::: n. 1. A strong, wavelike forward movement, rush, or sweep. 2. The swelling and rolling sea. surges, surgings. v. 3. To rise as if by a heaving or swelling force. 4. To rise, roll, move, or swell forward in or like waves. surges, surged, surging.
Surrender of the nature is not an easy thing and may take a long lime ; surrender of the self, if one can do it, is easier and once that is done, that of the nature will come about sooner or later. For that it is necessary to detach oneself from the action of the Prakriti and see oneself as separate. To observe the movements as a witness without being discouraged or disturbed is the best way to cfTccl the necessary detachment and separation.
sweep ::: 1. *n. A broad reach, extent or range. lit. and fig. 2. A curving, esp. widely or gently curving, line, form, part, or mass. storm-sweeps. v. 3. To drive or carry by some steady force, as of a wind or wave. 4. To pass over (a surface, region, etc.) with a steady, driving movement or unimpeded course, as winds, floods, etc. 5. To move with a strong or swift even motion; to move over or through a surface or region, usually rapidly. 6. To pass the gaze, eyes, etc., over (a region, area, etc.). *sweeps, swept, rain-swept.
sweeping ::: 1. Passing over or through a surface or medium with a continuous movement. 2. Moving, driving, or passing steadily and forcibly on or through something.
swing ::: n. 1. A seat suspended from above by means of a loop of rope or between ropes or rods, on which one may sit and swing to and fro for recreation. 2. The act, manner, or progression of swinging; movement in alternate directions or in a particular direction. 3. The act or an instance of swinging; movement back and forth or in one particular direction. v. 4. To move in alternate directions or in either direction around a point, an axis, or a line of support, as a gate on its hinges. 5. To move back and forth suspended or as if suspended from above. Swung.
Symbolic dreams may s>Tnbolisc anything, forces at play, the underlying structure and tissue of things done or experienced, actual or potential happenings, real or suggested movements or changes in the inner or outer nature. The exact meaning varies with the mind and the condition of the one who sees them.
symphonies ::: 1. Harmonies, especially of sound or color. 2. Extended large-scale orchestral compositions, usually with several movements. 3. Anything characterized by a harmonious combination of elements.
tardily ::: 1. Occurring, arriving, acting, or done after the scheduled, expected, or usual time; late. 2. With slow, sluggish movement.
tether ::: n. 1. A rope, cord, chain or the like by which an animal is fastened to a fixed object so as to limit its range of movement. v. 2. To fasten or confine with or as with a tether. tethers.
The abdominal centre, svadhijihana, commanding the small vital movements, the little creeds, lusts, desires, the small sense- movements, governs the lower vital. (Colour ::: deep purple red ; petals ::: six.)
"The Absolute neither creates nor is created, — in the current sense of making or being made; we can speak of creation only in the sense of the Being becoming in form and movement what it already is in substance and status.” *The Life Divine
“The Absolute neither creates nor is created,—in the current sense of making or being made; we can speak of creation only in the sense of the Being becoming in form and movement what it already is in substance and status.” The Life Divine
::: "The ancient Vedanta presents us with . . . the conception and experience of Brahman as the one universal and essential fact and of the nature of Brahman as Sachchidananda [Existence, Consciousness, Bliss]. In this view the essence of all life is the movement of a universal and immortal existence, the essence of all sensation and emotion is the play of a universal and self-existent delight in being, the essence of all thought and perception is the radiation of a universal and all-pervading truth, the essence of all activity is the progression of a universal and self-effecting good.” The Life Divine
“The ancient Vedanta presents us with . . . the conception and experience of Brahman as the one universal and essential fact and of the nature of Brahman as Sachchidananda [Existence, Consciousness, Bliss]. In this view the essence of all life is the movement of a universal and immortal existence, the essence of all sensation and emotion is the play of a universal and self-existent delight in being, the essence of all thought and perception is the radiation of a universal and all-pervading truth, the essence of all activity is the progression of a universal and self-effecting good.” The Life Divine
"The characteristic power of the reason in its fullness is a logical movement assuring itself first of all available materials and data by observation and arrangement, then acting upon them for a resultant knowledge gained, assured and enlarged by a first use of the reflective powers, and lastly assuring itself of the correctness of its results by a more careful and formal action, more vigilant, deliberate, severely logical which tests, rejects or confirms them according to certain secure standards and processes developed by reflection and experience.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“The characteristic power of the reason in its fullness is a logical movement assuring itself first of all available materials and data by observation and arrangement, then acting upon them for a resultant knowledge gained, assured and enlarged by a first use of the reflective powers, and lastly assuring itself of the correctness of its results by a more careful and formal action, more vigilant, deliberate, severely logical which tests, rejects or confirms them according to certain secure standards and processes developed by reflection and experience.” The Synthesis of 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 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 creative Energy in Matter is a movement of the power of the Spirit. Matter itself cannot be the original and ultimate reality. At the same time the view that divorces Matter and Spirit and puts them as opposites is unacceptable; Matter is a form of Spirit, a habitation of S Life Divine
“… the creative Energy in Matter is a movement of the power of the Spirit. Matter itself cannot be the original and ultimate reality. At the same time the view that divorces Matter and Spirit and puts them as opposites is unacceptable; Matter is a form of Spirit, a habitation of Spirit. The Life Divine
The difficulty comes when either the vital with its desires or the physical with its past habitual movements comes in — as they do with almost everyone. It is then that the dryness and diffi-
::: "The first condition of inner progress is to recognise whatever is or has been a wrong movement in any part of the nature, — wrong idea, wrong feeling, wrong speech, wrong action, — and by wrong is meant what departs from the truth, from the higher consciousness and higher self, from the way of the Divine. Once recognised it is admitted, not glossed over or defended, — and it is offered to the Divine for the Light and Grace to descend and substitute for it the right movement of the true Consciousness.” *Letters on Yoga
“The first condition of inner progress is to recognise whatever is or has been a wrong movement in any part of the nature,—wrong idea, wrong feeling, wrong speech, wrong action,—and by wrong is meant what departs from the truth, from the higher consciousness and higher self, from the way of the Divine. Once recognised it is admitted, not glossed over or defended,—and it is offered to the Divine for the Light and Grace to descend and substitute for it the right movement of the true Consciousness.” Letters on Yoga
``The first step on this free, this equal, this divine way of action is to put from you attachment to fruit and recompense and to labour only for the sake of the work itself that has to be done. For you must deeply feel that the fruits belong not to you but to the Master of the world. Consecrate your labour and leave its returns to the Spirit who manifests and fulfils himself in the universal movement. The outcome of your action is determined by his will alone and whatever it be, good or evil fortune, success or failure, it is turned by him to the accomplishment of his world purpose.” Essays on the Gita*
``The first step on this free, this equal, this divine way of action is to put from you attachment to fruit and recompense and to labour only for the sake of the work itself that has to be done. For you must deeply feel that the fruits belong not to you but to the Master of the world. Consecrate your labour and leave its returns to the Spirit who manifests and fulfils himself in the universal movement. The outcome of your action is determined by his will alone and whatever it be, good or evil fortune, success or failure, it is turned by him to the accomplishment of his world purpose.” Essays on the Gita
The gestures or movements of a classical drama of Japan, with music and dance performed in a highly stylised manner by elaborately dressed performers on an almost bare stage.
::: "The Gods, as has already been said, are in origin and essence permanent Emanations of the Divine put forth from the Supreme by the Transcendent Mother, the Adya Shakti; in their cosmic action they are Powers and Personalities of the Divine each with his independent cosmic standing, function and work in the universe. They are not impersonal entities but cosmic Personalities, although they can and do ordinarily veil themselves behind the movement of impersonal forces.” Letters on Yoga
“The Gods, as has already been said, are in origin and essence permanent Emanations of the Divine put forth from the Supreme by the Transcendent Mother, the Adya Shakti; in their cosmic action they are Powers and Personalities of the Divine each with his independent cosmic standing, function and work in the universe. They are not impersonal entities but cosmic Personalities, although they can and do ordinarily veil themselves behind the movement of impersonal forces.” Letters on Yoga
"The gospel of the Gita reposes upon this fundamental Vedantic truth that all being is the one Brahman and all existence the wheel of Brahman, a divine movement opening out from God and returning to God. All is the expressive activity of Nature and Nature a power of the Divine which works out the consciousness and will of the divine Soul master of her works and inhabitant of her forms.” Essays on the Gita
“The gospel of the Gita reposes upon this fundamental Vedantic truth that all being is the one Brahman and all existence the wheel of Brahman, a divine movement opening out from God and returning to God. All is the expressive activity of Nature and Nature a power of the Divine which works out the consciousness and will of the divine Soul master of her works and inhabitant of her forms.” Essays on the Gita
::: "The heart is the centre of the emotional being and the emotions are vital movements. When the heart is purified, the vital emotions change into psychic feelings or else psychicised vital movements.” Letters on Yoga
“The heart is the centre of the emotional being and the emotions are vital movements. When the heart is purified, the vital emotions change into psychic feelings or else psychicised vital movements.” Letters on Yoga
The Jiva is realised as the individual Self, Atman, the central being above the Nature, calm, untouched by the movements of
The last stage of this perfection will come when you are com* pletely identified with the Divine Mother and feel yourself to be no longer another and separate being, hstwmeM, sen'ani or worker but truly a child and eternal portion of her conscious- ness and force. Always she will be in you and you in her ; it will be your constant, simple and natural experience that all your thought and seeing and action, your very breathing or moving come from her and are here. You will know and see and feel that you are a person and power formed by her out of herself, put out from her for the play and yet always safe in her, being of her being, consciousness of her consciousness, force of her force, ananda of her Ananda. When this condition is entire and her supramental energies can freely move you then you will be perfect in divine works; knowledge, will, action will become sure, simple, luminous, spontaneous, flawless, an outflow from the Supreme, a divine movement of the Eternal.
the lower movements have definitely gone — it has then to com- plete the work of displacing them.
::: "The lower nature is ignorant and undivine, not in itself hostile but shut to the Light and Truth. The hostile forces are anti-divine, not merely undivine; they make use of the lower nature, pervert it, fill it with distorted movements and by that means influence man and even try to enter and possess or at least entirely control him.” *Letters on Yoga
“The lower nature is ignorant and undivine, not in itself hostile but shut to the Light and Truth. The hostile forces are anti-divine, not merely undivine; they make use of the lower nature, pervert it, fill it with distorted movements and by that means influence man and even try to enter and possess or at least entirely control him.” Letters on Yoga
"The mental or vital demigod, the Asura, Rakshasa and Pishacha, — Titan, vital giant and demon, — are superhuman in the pitch and force and movement and in the make of their characteristic nature, but these are not divine and those not supremely divine, for they live in a greater mind power or life power only, but they do not live in the supreme Truth, and only the supreme Truth is divine. Only those who live in a supreme Truth consciousness and embody it are inwardly made or else remade in the Divine image.” Essays Divine and Human
“The mental or vital demigod, the Asura, Rakshasa and Pishacha,—Titan, vital giant and demon,—are superhuman in the pitch and force and movement and in the make of their characteristic nature, but these are not divine and those not supremely divine, for they live in a greater mind power or life power only, but they do not live in the supreme Truth, and only the supreme Truth is divine. Only those who live in a supreme Truth consciousness and embody it are inwardly made or else remade in the Divine image.” Essays Divine and Human
The mind, the vital, the physical consciousness (and even each part of these in all its movements) have one after the other to surrender separately, to give up ibeir own and to accept the way of the Divine.
The more intense the experiences that come, the higher the forces that descend, the greater become the possibilities of deviation and error. For the very intensity and the very height of the force excites and aggrandises the movements of the lower nature and raises up in it all opposing elements in their full force, but often in the dbguisc of truth, wearing a mask of plausible justification. There is needed a great patience, calm, sobriety, balance, an impersonal dciachmcnx and sincerity free from all taint of ego or personal human desire. There must be no attachment to any idea of one’s owm, to any experience, to any kind of imagination, mental building or vital demand ::: the light of discrimination must alx^i'ays play to detect those
The more intimate Yo^a of Bhakti resolves itself simply into these four movements, tlic desire of the Soul when it turns towards God and the straining of its emotion towards him, the pain of love and the divine return of love, the delight of love possessed and the play of that delight, and the eternal enjoy- ment of the divine Lover which is the heart of celestial bliss.
The most important thing for this purifiration of the heart is an absolute sincerity. No pretence with oneself, no conceal- ment from the Divine, or oneself, or the Guru, a straight look at one’s movements, a straight will to make them strai^t.
The Mother: “Transformation. The change by which all the elements and all the movements of the being become ready to manifest the supramental Truth.”
The navel centre, nabhlpadma or manipura, commanding the larger life-forces and the passions and larger desire-movements, governs the larger vital. (Colour ::: violet ; petals ::: ten.)
“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 personal effort has to be transformed progressively into a movement of the Divine Force. If you feel conscious of the
The personal effort required Is a triple labour of aspiration, rejection and surrender ; an aspiration vigilant, constant, un- ceasing — the mind’s will, the heart's seeking, the assent of the vital being, the will to open and make plastic the physical consciousness and nature ; rejection of the movements of the lower nature — rejection of the mind’s ideas, opinions, prefer- ences, habits, constructions, so that the true knowledge may find room in a silent mind, — rejection of the vital nature’s desires, demands, cravings, sensations, passions, selfishness, pride, arro- gance, lust, greed, jealousy, envy, hostility to the Truth, so that the true power and joy may pour from above into a calm, large, strong and consecrated vital being, — rejection of the physical nature’s stupidity, doubt, disbelief, obscurity, obstinacy, pettiness, laziness, unwillingness to change, tamas, so that the true stability of Light, Power, Ananda may establish itself in a body growing always more divine ; surrender of oneself and all one is and has and every plane of the consciousness and every movement to the Divine and the ShaUi.
"The progress of Life involves the development and interlocking of an immense number of things that are in conflict with each other and seem often to be absolute oppositions and contraries. To find amid these oppositions some principle or standing-ground of unity, some workable lever of reconciliation which will make possible a larger and better development on a basis of harmony and not of conflict and struggle, must be increasingly the common aim of humanity in its active life-evolution, if it at all means to rise out of life"s more confused, painful and obscure movement, out of the compromises made by Nature with the ignorance of the Life-mind and the nescience of Matter. This can only be truly and satisfactorily done when the soul discovers itself in its highest and completest spiritual reality and effects a progressive upward transformation of its life-values into those of the spirit; for there they will all find their spiritual truth and in that truth their standing-ground of mutual recognition and reconciliation. The spiritual is the one truth of which all others are the veiled aspects, the brilliant disguises or the dark disfigurements, and in which they can find their own right form and true relation to each other.” *The Human Cycle, etc.
“The progress of Life involves the development and interlocking of an immense number of things that are in conflict with each other and seem often to be absolute oppositions and contraries. To find amid these oppositions some principle or standing-ground of unity, some workable lever of reconciliation which will make possible a larger and better development on a basis of harmony and not of conflict and struggle, must be increasingly the common aim of humanity in its active life-evolution, if it at all means to rise out of life’s more confused, painful and obscure movement, out of the compromises made by Nature with the ignorance of the Life-mind and the nescience of Matter. This can only be truly and satisfactorily done when the soul discovers itself in its highest and completest spiritual reality and effects a progressive upward transformation of its life-values into those of the spirit; for there they will all find their spiritual truth and in that truth their standing-ground of mutual recognition and reconciliation. The spiritual is the one truth of which all others are the veiled aspects, the brilliant disguises or the dark disfigurements, and in which they can find their own right form and true relation to each other.” The Human Cycle, etc.
The psychic part oS us is something that comes direct from the Divine and is in touch with the Divine. In its origin Jt is the nucleus pregnant with divine possibilities that supports this lower triple ma^estation of mind, life and body. There is this divine element in all living beings, but it stands bidden behind the ordinary cemsdousness, is not at first developed and, even when developed, is not always or often in the front ; it expresses itself so far as the imperfection of the instruments anon’s, by their means and imdcr their limitations. It grows in the cons- ciousness by Godward experience, gaining strength every time there is a Wgher movement in us, and, finally, by the accumu- lation of these deeper and higher movements, there is developed a psychic individuality, — that which we call usually the psychic being, ft is afways tius p^-chic hem? ffcif £f c&e reaf, often the secret cause of man’s turning to the spiritual life and his greatest help in it.
“… the purest, freest form of insight into existence as it is shows us nothing but movement. Two things alone exist, movement in Space, movement in Time, the former objective, the latter subjective.” The Life Divine
There are other dreams that have not the same character but are a representation or transcription of things that actually hap- pen on other planes, in other worlds under other conditions than ours. There are, again, some dreams that are purely symbolic and some that indicate existing movements and propensities in us.
• There are two mutually complementary movements ; In one the inner being comes to the front and impresses its own not- mal motions on the outer consciousness to which they are unusual and abnormal ; the other is to draw back from the outer consciousness, to go inside into the inner planes, enter the world of your inner self and wake In the hidden parts of your being.
There intervenes, third, uplifting our knowledge and effort into the domain of spiritual experience, the direct suggestion, example and influence of the Teacher — guru. Last comes the instru- mentality of Time — kala ; for in all things there is a cycle of thtit action and a period of the dWine movement.
There is also the way -of the psychic, — when the psychic being comes out in its inherent power, its consecration, adoration, love of the Divine, self-^ving, surrendei and imposes these on the mind, vital and physical consciousness and compels them to turn all their movements Godward. If the psychic is strong and master throughout, then there is no or little subjective suffering and the objective cannot affect either the sou! or the other parts of the consciousness the way is sunlit and a great joy and sweetness are the note of the whole sadhana.
“There is no ignorance that is not part of the Cosmic Ignorance, only in the individual it becomes a limited formation and movement, while the Cosmic Ignorance is the whole movement of world consciousness separated from the supreme Truth and acting in an inferior motion in which the Truth is perverted, diminished, mixed and clouded with falsehood and error.” Letters on Yoga
There is one way by which it is possible to get rid of the per- verse habit ::: to establish a strong mental control and so get rid of the wrong movement. A resolute and persistent effort of will can enforce in the end the rejection of the desire and finally even of any roechanical habit of the movement upon this part of the nature also.
There must be a desceat of the light not merely into the mind or part of it but into all the being down to the physical and below before a real Iransformatioo can take place. A-ligbt in the mind may spiritualise or otherwise change .the mind or part of it in one way or another, but it need not change the vital nature ; a light in the vital may purify and enlarge the vital movements or else silence and immobilise the vital being, but leave the body and the physical consciousness as it was, or even leave it inert or shake its balance. And the descent of Light is not enough, it must be the descent of the whole higher conscious- ness, its Peace, Power, Knowledge, Love, Ananda. Moreover the descent may be enough to liberate, but not to perfect, or it may be enough to make a great change in the inner being, while the outer remains an imperfect instrument, clumsy, sick or inexpressive. Finaliy, transfonnation eflected by the sadhana cannot be complete unless it is a supramenfalisafion of the being.
The sexual desires show that the subconscient still retains the old impressions, movements and impulses ; make the conscious parts of the being entirely free and aspire and will for the higher consciousness to come fully into the subconscient so that even in sleep and dream something in you may be aware and on guard and reject these things when they try to take form at that time.
“The spiritual mind is a mind which, in its fullness, is aware of the Self, reflecting the Divine, seeing and understanding the nature of the Self and its relations with the manifestation, living in that or in contact with it, calm, wide and awake to higher knowledge, not perturbed by the play of the forces. When it gets its full liberated movement, its central station is very usually felt above the head, though its influence can extend downward through all the being and outward through space.” Letters on Yoga
“The sub-conscious is the evolutionary basis in us, it is not the whole of our hidden nature, nor is it the whole origin of what we are. But things can rise smaller vital and physical instincts, movements, habits, character-forms has this source.” Letters on Yoga
"The Supermind is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which is the foundation of our present natural or evolutionary existence and from which nature in us is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and world-knowledge and a right consciousness and the right use of our existence in the universe. The Supermind, because it is a truth-consciousness, has this knowledge inherent in it and this power of true existence; its course is straight and can go direct to its aim, its field is wide and can even be made illimitable. This is because its very nature is knowledge: it has not to acquire knowledge but possesses it in its own right; its steps are not from nescience or ignorance into some imperfect light, but from truth to greater truth, from right perception to deeper perception, from intuition to intuition, from illumination to utter and boundless luminousness, from growing widenesses to the utter vasts and to very infinitude. On its summits it possesses the divine omniscience and omnipotence, but even in an evolutionary movement of its own graded self-manifestation by which it would eventually reveal its own highest heights it must be in its very nature essentially free from ignorance and error: it starts from truth and light and moves always in truth and light. As its knowledge is always true, so too its will is always true; it does not fumble in its handling of things or stumble in its paces. In the Supermind feeling and emotion do not depart from their truth, make no slips or mistakes, do not swerve from the right and the real, cannot misuse beauty and delight or twist away from a divine rectitude. In the Supermind sense cannot mislead or deviate into the grossnesses which are here its natural imperfections and the cause of reproach, distrust and misuse by our ignorance. Even an incomplete statement made by the Supermind is a truth leading to a further truth, its incomplete action a step towards completeness.” The Supramental Manifestation
“The Supermind is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which is the foundation of our present natural or evolutionary existence and from which nature in us is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and world-knowledge and a right consciousness and the right use of our existence in the universe. The Supermind, because it is a truth-consciousness, has this knowledge inherent in it and this power of true existence; its course is straight and can go direct to its aim, its field is wide and can even be made illimitable. This is because its very nature is knowledge: it has not to acquire knowledge but possesses it in its own right; its steps are not from nescience or ignorance into some imperfect light, but from truth to greater truth, from right perception to deeper perception, from intuition to intuition, from illumination to utter and boundless luminousness, from growing widenesses to the utter vasts and to very infinitude. On its summits it possesses the divine omniscience and omnipotence, but even in an evolutionary movement of its own graded self-manifestation by which it would eventually reveal its own highest heights it must be in its very nature essentially free from ignorance and error: it starts from truth and light and moves always in truth and light. As its knowledge is always true, so too its will is always true; it does not fumble in its handling of things or stumble in its paces. In the Supermind feeling and emotion do not depart from their truth, make no slips or mistakes, do not swerve from the right and the real, cannot misuse beauty and delight or twist away from a divine rectitude. In the Supermind sense cannot mislead or deviate into the grossnesses which are here its natural imperfections and the cause of reproach, distrust and misuse by our ignorance. Even an incomplete statement made by the Supermind is a truth leading to a further truth, its incomplete action a step towards completeness.” The Supramental Manifestation
The throat centre, \iiuddha, commanding expression and all cxtemalisation of the mind movements and mental forces, governs the expressive and externalising mind, (Colour ::: grey ; petals ::: sixteen.)
::: "The use of the word Power has already been explained — it can be applied to whatever or whoever exercises a conscious power in the cosmic field and has authority over the world-movement or some movement in it.” Letters on Yoga
“The use of the word Power has already been explained—it can be applied to whatever or whoever exercises a conscious power in the cosmic field and has authority over the world-movement or some movement in it.” Letters on Yoga
The wall is indeed the wall of the ego which is based on the insistent identification of oneself with the outer personality and its movements. It is that identification which is the key-stone of the limitation and bondage from which the outer being su/Tcrs, prevenUng expansion, self-knowledge, spiritual freedom. But still the wall must not be prematurely broken down, because that may lead to a disruption or confusion or invasion of either part by the movements of the two separated worlds before they are ready to harmonise. A certain separation is necessary for some time after one has become aware of these two parts of the being as existing together. The force of the Yoga must be given time to make the necessary adjustments and openings, and to take the being inward and then from this inward poise to work on the outer nature.
“The world is a cyclic movement (samsâra ) of the Divine Consciousness in Space and Time. Its law and, in a sense, its object is progression; it exists by movement and would be dissolved by cessation of movement. But the basis of this movement is not material; it is the energy of active consciousness which, by its motion and multiplication in different principles (different in appearance, the same in essence), creates oppositions of unity and multiplicity, divisions of Time and Space, relations and groupings of circumstance and Causality. All these things are real in consciousness, but only symbolic of the Being, somewhat as the imaginations of a creative Mind are true representations of itself, yet not quite real in comparison with itself, or real with a different kind of reality.” The Upanishads
thirst ::: Madhav: “… all the power, all the knowledge that the world can give us are products of time, products of the movements of time. Truly they cannot satisfy the sacred thirst of the spirit. Mark the words ‘sacred thirst’ (III. 1. 305.). Mother uses the word ‘thirst’ so often; it is an intense aspiration that cannot be satisfied, cannot be fulfilled by the gifts of time; it can be fulfilled only by the gifts of what is beyond time, of what is eternal. The hunger of the soul in us can be satisfied only by a response from the Eternal.” The Book of the Divine Mother
This movement as it proceeds opens up the six centres of the subtle nervous system and by the opening one escapes from the limitations of the surface consciousness bound to the gross body and great ranges of experiences proper to the subliminal self, mental, vitalj subtle physical, are shown to the sadhaka. When the Kundalini meets the higher Consciousness as it ascends through the summit of the head, there is an opening of the higher superconscient reaches above the normal mind. It is by ascend- ing through these in our consciousness and receiring a descent of their energies that it is possible ultimately to reach the Super- mind. This is the method of the Tantra. In our Yoga it is not necessary to go through the sysiemaihed method. It takes place spontaneously according to the need by the force of the aspira- tion. As soon as (here is an openmg the Divine Power descends and conducts the necessary working, does what is needed, each thing in its time and the Consciousness begins to be bom
This decisive touch comes most easily to the baby cat ” people, those who have at some point between the psychic and the emotional vital a quick and decisive movement of surrender to the Guru or the Divine. I have seen that when that is there and there is the conscious central dependence compelling the mind also and the rest of the vital, then the fundamental diffi- culty disappears. If others remain they are not felt as difficulties, but simply as things that have just to be done and need cause no worry. Sometimes no tapasya is necessary — one just refers things to the Power that one feels guiding or doing the sadhana and assents to its action, rejecting all that is contrary to it, and the Power removes what has to be removed or changes what
"This eternity is not of Time; the eternity of Time is an extension in movement of the Timeless.” Essays Divine and Human
“This eternity is not of Time; the eternity of Time is an extension in movement of the Timeless.” Essays Divine and Human
This inward movement takes place in many difTercnt ways and there is sometimes a complex experience combining all the signs of the complete plunge. There is a sense of going in or deep down, a feeling of the movement towards inner depths ; there is often a stillness, a pleasant numbness, a stiffness of the hmhs.
This is because its very nature is knowledge ::: it has not to acquire knowledge but possesses it in itS own right ; its steps are not from nescience or ignorance into some imperfect light, but from truth to greater truth, from right perception to deeper per- ception, from intuition to intuition, from illumination to utter end boundless luminousness, from growing widenesses to the utter vasts and to very infinitude. On its summits it possesses the divine omniscience and omnipotence, but even in an evolutionary movement of its own graded self-manifestation by which it would eventually reveal its own highest heights it must be in its very nature essentially free from ignorance and error ::: it starts from truth and light and moves always in troth and light. As its know- ledge is always true, so too its will is always true ; it does not fumble in its handling of things or stumble in its paces. In the
“This material universe is itself only existence as we see it when the soul dwells on the plane of material movement and experience in which the spirit involves itself in form, and therefore all the framework of things in which it moves by the life and which it embraces by the consciousness is determined by the principle of infinite division and aggregation proper to Matter, to substance of form.” The Upanishads
This tendency to irrational sadness and despondency and these imaginations, fears and perverse reasonings — always repeating, if you will take careful notice, the same movements, ideas and feelings and even the same language and phrases like a machine
Th-o movements in yoga ::: Yoga means union witli the Divine, but it also means awaking first to your'hner self and then to your highest self, — a movement inward and a movement upward, ft is, in fact, only through the awakening and coming to the front of the inner being that you can get into union with the Divine.
THROAT CENTRE. ::: The centre in the throat commanding expression and all cxtcrnalisation of the mind movements and mental forces is the centre of the physical mind. It is the centre
THw iVpjvftf /Uvfty if that in which Ihe.re is mitnup of ihe turbid Ignorant movements of the loner nature. The Divine Purity is a more wide and all-embracing experience than the psychic.
tide ::: fig. 1. Something that fluctuates like the waters of the tide. 2. A time or season. Often used in combination: eventide; Christmastide. 3. A widespread tendency or movement. tides.
time ::: “Time and Space . . . are the conceptual movement and extension of the Godhead in us.” Essays on the Gita
tion 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 Us hands, but a subtle intimate personal change.
"To me, for instance, consciousness is the very stuff of existence and I can feel it everywhere enveloping and penetrating the stone as much as man or the animal. A movement, a flow of consciousness is not to me an image but a fact. If I wrote "His anger climbed against me in a stream", it would be to the general reader a mere image, not something that was felt by me in a sensible experience; yet I would only be describing in exact terms what actually happened once, a stream of anger, a sensible and violent current of it rising up from downstairs and rushing upon me as I sat in the veranda of the Guest-House, the truth of it being confirmed afterwards by the confession of the person who had the movement. This is only one instance, but all that is spiritual or psychological in Savitri is of that character. What is to be done under these circumstances? The mystical poet can only describe what he has felt, seen in himself or others or in the world just as he has felt or seen it or experienced through exact vision, close contact or identity and leave it to the general reader to understand or not understand or misunderstand according to his capacity. A new kind of poetry demands a new mentality in the recipient as well as in the writer.” Letters on Savitri
“To me, for instance, consciousness is the very stuff of existence and I can feel it everywhere enveloping and penetrating the stone as much as man or the animal. A movement, a flow of consciousness is not to me an image but a fact. If I wrote ’His anger climbed against me in a stream’, it would be to the general reader a mere image, not something that was felt by me in a sensible experience; yet I would only be describing in exact terms what actually happened once, a stream of anger, a sensible and violent current of it rising up from downstairs and rushing upon me as I sat in the veranda of the Guest-House, the truth of it being confirmed afterwards by the confession of the person who had the movement. This is only one instance, but all that is spiritual or psychological in Savitri is of that character. What is to be done under these circumstances? The mystical poet can only describe what he has felt, seen in himself or others or in the world just as he has felt or seen it or experienced through exact vision, close contact or identity and leave it to the general reader to understand or not understand or misunderstand according to his capacity. A new kind of poetry demands a new mentality in the recipient as well as in the writer.” Letters on Savitri
traffic ::: 1. The movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc. 2. The business of moving passengers and cargo through a transportation system. 3. Social or verbal exchange; communication.
transcendent ::: Sri Aurobindo: "A Transcendent who is beyond all world and all Nature and yet possesses the world and its nature, who has descended with something of himself into it and is shaping it into that which as yet it is not, is the Source of our being, the Source of our works and their Master. But the seat of the Transcendent Consciousness is above in an absoluteness of divine Existence — and there too is the absolute Power, Truth, Bliss of the Eternal — of which our mentality can form no conception and of which even our greatest spiritual experience is only a diminished reflection in the spiritualised mind and heart, a faint shadow, a thin derivate. Yet proceeding from it there is a sort of golden corona of Light, Power, Bliss and Truth — a divine Truth-Consciousness as the ancient mystics called it, a Supermind, a Gnosis, with which this world of a lesser consciousness proceeding by Ignorance is in secret relation and which alone maintains it and prevents it from falling into a disintegrated chaos.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"The Transcendent, the Universal, the Individual are three powers overarching, underlying and penetrating the whole manifestation; this is the first of the Trinities. In the unfolding of consciousness also, these are the three fundamental terms and none of them can be neglected if we would have the experience of the whole Truth of existence. Out of the individual we wake into a vaster freer cosmic consciousness; but out of the universal too with its complex of forms and powers we must emerge by a still greater self-exceeding into a consciousness without limits that is founded on the Absolute.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"We see then that there are three terms of the one existence, transcendent, universal and individual, and that each of these always contains secretly or overtly the two others. The Transcendent possesses itself always and controls the other two as the basis of its own temporal possibilities; that is the Divine, the eternal all-possessing God-consciousness, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, which informs, embraces, governs all existences. The human being is here on earth the highest power of the third term, the individual, for he alone can work out at its critical turning-point that movement of self-manifestation which appears to us as the involution and evolution of the divine consciousness between the two terms of the Ignorance and the Knowledge.” The Life Divine
The Transcendent
This is what is termed the Adya Shakti; she is the Supreme Consciousness and Power above the universe and it is by her that all the Gods are manifested, and even the supramental Ishwara comes into manifestation through her — the supramental Purushottama of whom the Gods are Powers and Personalities.” Letters on Yoga
**Transcendent"s.**
transformation ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Transformation means that the higher consciousness or nature is brought down into the mind, vital and body and takes the place of the lower. There is a higher consciousness of the true self, which is spiritual, but it is above; if one rises above into it, then one is free as long as one remains there, but if one comes down into or uses mind, vital or body — and if one keeps any connection with life, one has to do so, either to come down and act from the ordinary consciousness or else to be in the self but use mind, life and body, then the imperfections of these instruments have to be faced and mended — they can only be mended by transformation.” *Letters on Yoga
"‘Transformation" is a word that I have brought in myself (like ‘supermind") to express certain spiritual concepts and spiritual facts of the integral yoga. People are now taking them up and using them in senses which have nothing to do with the significance which I put into them. Purification of the nature by the ‘influence" of the Spirit is not what I mean by transformation; purification is only part of a psychic change or a psycho-spiritual change — the word besides has many senses and is very often given a moral or ethical meaning which is foreign to my purpose.” *Letters on Yoga
"It is indeed as a result of our evolution that we arrive at the possibility of this transformation. As Nature has evolved beyond Matter and manifested Life, beyond Life and manifested Mind, so she must evolve beyond Mind and manifest a consciousness and power of our existence free from the imperfection and limitation of our mental existence, a supramental or truth-consciousness and able to develop the power and perfection of the spirit. Here a slow and tardy change need no longer be the law or manner of our evolution; it will be only so to a greater or less extent so long as a mental ignorance clings and hampers our ascent; but once we have grown into the truth-consciousness its power of spiritual truth of being will determine all. Into that truth we shall be freed and it will transform mind and life and body. Light and bliss and beauty and a perfection of the spontaneous right action of all the being are there as native powers of the supramental truth-consciousness and these will in their very nature transform mind and life and body even here upon earth into a manifestation of the truth-conscious spirit. The obscurations of earth will not prevail against the supramental truth-consciousness, for even into the earth it can bring enough of the omniscient light and omnipotent force of the spirit conquer. All may not open to the fullness of its light and power, but whatever does open must that extent undergo the change. That will be the principle of transformation.” The Supramental Manifestation
The Mother: "Transformation. The change by which all the elements and all the movements of the being become ready to manifest the supramental Truth.”
"One thing you must know and never forget: in the work of transformation all that is true and sincere will always be kept; only what is false and insincere will disappear.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
TRANSFORMATION. ::: The change by which all the ele- ments and all the movements of the being become ready to manifest the supramental Truth.
tremble ::: 1. Shake involuntarily, as from excitement or anger; quake. 2. Feel fear or anxiety. 3. Vibrate with short slight movements. 4. Vibrate with emotion such as joy. trembles, trembled.
triple heavens ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Vishnu is the wide-moving one. He is that which has gone abroad — as it is put in the language of the Isha Upanishad, sa paryagât, — triply extending himself as Seer, Thinker and Former, in the superconscient Bliss, in the heaven of mind, in the earth of the physical consciousness, tredhâ vicakramânah. In those three strides he has measured out, he has formed in all their extension the earthly worlds; for in the Vedic idea the material world which we inhabit is only one of several steps leading to and supporting the vital and mental worlds beyond. In those strides he supports upon the earth and mid-world, — the earth the material, the mid-world the vital realms of Vayu, Lord of the dynamic Life-principle, — the triple heaven and its three luminous summits, trîni rocanâ. These heavens the Rishi describes as the higher seat of the fulfilling. Earth, the mid-world and heaven are the triple place of the conscious being"s progressive self-fulfilling, trishadhastha, earth the lower seat, the vital world the middle, heaven the higher. All these are contained in the threefold movement of Vishnu.” The Secret of the Veda
tumblings ::: actions or incidences of rolling end over end, pitching about, or tossing with a rolling movement.
turning ::: n. 1. A movement in a new direction. Also fig. **2.** A deviation from a straight course; a turn.
twitchings ::: sudden involuntary or spasmodic muscular movements.
undivine ::: “The lower nature is ignorant and undivine, not in itself hostile but shut to the Light and Truth. The hostile forces are anti-divine, not merely undivine; they make use of the lower nature, pervert it, fill it with distorted movements and by that means influence man and even try to enter and possess or at least entirely control him.” Letters on Yoga
vibrant ::: 1. Pulsating with vigour and energy. 2. Vigorous; energetic; vital. 3. Characterized by or exhibiting vibration; pulsating or trembling. 4. Exhibiting or characterized by rapid, rhythmic movement back and forth or to and fro; vibrating.
Vilal being — its four parts ::: There arc four parts of the vital being— first, the menial vital which gives a mental expres- sion by thought, speech or olher^vise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations and other movements of the vital being ; the emotional vital which is the seat of various feelings such as love, joy, sorrow, hatred, and the rest ; the central vital which is the seat of the stronger vital longings and reactions, e.g. ambi- tion, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kinds and the field of many vital ener- gies ; last, the lower vital which is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as make the greater part of daily life, e.g. food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame, litfle wishes of all kinds — and a numberless host of other things. Their respective seats are
VIRAHA.* A transitional experience on the plane of the vital seeking for the Spirit. The pure feeling of viraha is psy- chic ; but if rajasic or tamasic movements come in (such as depression, complaint, revolt, etc.) then it becomes tantasic or rSjasic.
“Vishnu is the wide-moving one. He is that which has gone abroad—as it is put in the language of the Isha Upanishad, sa paryagât,—triply extending himself as Seer, Thinker and Former, in the superconscient Bliss, in the heaven of mind, in the earth of the physical consciousness, tredhâ vicakramânah. In those three strides he has measured out, he has formed in all their extension the earthly worlds; for in the Vedic idea the material world which we inhabit is only one of several steps leading to and supporting the vital and mental worlds beyond. In those strides he supports upon the earth and mid-world,—the earth the material, the mid-world the vital realms of Vayu, Lord of the dynamic Life-principle,—the triple heaven and its three luminous summits, trîni rocanâ. These heavens the Rishi describes as the higher seat of the fulfilling. Earth, the mid-world and heaven are the triple place of the conscious being’s progressive self-fulfilling, trishadhastha, earth the lower seat, the vital world the middle, heaven the higher. All these are contained in the threefold movement of Vishnu.” The Secret of the Veda
Vital being — its four parts: There arc four parts of the vital being — first, the mental vital which gives a mental expres- sion by thought, speech or otherwise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations and other movements of the vital being ; the emotional vital which is the scat of various feelings such as love, Joy, sorrow, hatred, and the rest ; the central vital which is the seat of the stronger rilal longings and reactions, e.g. ambi- tion, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kinds and the held of many vital ener- gies ; last, the lower vital which is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as make the greater part of daily life, e.g. food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame, little wishes of all kinds — and a numberless host of other tlungs. Their respective seats are
wave ::: 1. A disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell. 2. Any surging or progressive movement resembling a wave of the sea. 3. A surge or rush, as of sensation. waves, wave-depths, wave-sparks", wave-throbs.
weakness ::: “Weakness puts the same test and question to the strengths and energies and greatnesses in which we glory. Power is the play of life, shows its degree, finds the value of its expression; weakness is the play of death pursuing life in its movement and stressing the limit of its acquired energy.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"We. . . become conscious, in our physical movements, in our nervous and vital reactions, in our mental workings, of a Force greater than body, mind and life which takes hold of our limited instruments and drives all their motion. There is no longer the sense of ourselves moving, thinking or feeling but of that moving, feeling and thinking in us. This force that we feel is the universal Force of the Divine, which, veiled or unveiled, acting directly or permitting the use of its powers by beings in the cosmos, is the one Energy that alone exists and alone makes universal or individual action possible. For this force is the Divine itself in the body of its power; all is that, power of act, power of thought and knowledge, power of mastery and enjoyment, power of love.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“We. . . become conscious, in our physical movements, in our nervous and vital reactions, in our mental workings, of a Force greater than body, mind and life which takes hold of our limited instruments and drives all their motion. There is no longer the sense of ourselves moving, thinking or feeling but of that moving, feeling and thinking in us. This force that we feel is the universal Force of the Divine, which, veiled or unveiled, acting directly or permitting the use of its powers by beings in the cosmos, is the one Energy that alone exists and alone makes universal or individual action possible. For this force is the Divine itself in the body of its power; all is that, power of act, power of thought and knowledge, power of mastery and enjoyment, power of love.” The Synthesis of Yoga
—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….
“We see then that there are three terms of the one existence, transcendent, universal and individual, and that each of these always contains secretly or overtly the two others. The Transcendent possesses itself always and controls the other two as the basis of its own temporal possibilities; that is the Divine, the eternal all-possessing God-consciousness, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, which informs, embraces, governs all existences. The human being is here on earth the highest power of the third term, the individual, for he alone can work out at its critical turning-point that movement of self-manifestation which appears to us as the involution and evolution of the divine consciousness between the two terms of the Ignorance and the Knowledge.” The Life Divine
::: "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 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
Whatever movement is impressed in it, it keeps. If one impresses the right movement in it, it will keep and send up that. That is why it has to be cleared of old movements, before there can be a permanent and total change in natuce. When the higher consciousness Is once established in the waking parts, it goes down into the subconsclent and changes that also, makes a bed- rock of itself there also. Then no further trouble from the subconsclent will be possible. But even before that one can minimise the trouble by putting the right will and the right habit of reaction in the subconsclent parts.
wheeling ::: n. 1. Motion in a circle or curve; circling, circuitous movement. adj. 2. Turning like a wheel; revolving about an axis; rotating, rolling, whirling, swirling. Also fig. of a recurring or ‘revolving" period of time. ever-wheeling.
wheel ::: n. 1. A solid disk or a rigid circular ring connected by spokes to a hub, designed to turn around an axle passed through the centre. 2. Something resembling such a disk or ring in appearance or movement or having a wheel as its principal part or characteristic. 3. Moving, propelling, or animating agencies. 4. Fig. Signifying the eternal recurrence of all things. Wheel, Wheel"s, wheels, the wheels of Circumstance, the wheels of Doom, the wheel of God, the wheels of life, the wheel of works. v. 5. To turn or cause to turn on or as if on an axis. wheels, wheeled.
When mind and vital fall quiet and their restless movements, thoughts and desires cease, then one feels empty. This is at first a neutral emptiness with nothing in it either good or bad, happy or unhappy, no impulse or movement. The neutral state is often or 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.
“When the centres begin to open, inner experiences such as the seeing of light or images through the subtle vision in the forehead centre or psychic experiences and perceptions in the heart, become frequent—gradually one becomes aware of one’s inner being as separate from the outer, and what can be called a yogic consciousness with all its deeper movements develops in the place of the ordinary superficial mental and vital movements.” Letters on Yoga
(When the psychic comes in front) one is aware of the psy- chic being with its simple, spontaneous self-giving and feels its increasing direct control (not merely a veiled or half-veiled influence) over mind, vital and physical. Especially there is the psychic discernment which at once lights up the thoughts, emo- tional movements, vital pushes, physical habits and leaves nothing there obscure, substituting the right movements for the wrong ones.
When there is some lowering or dlroinulion of the conscious- ness or some impairing of it at one place or another, the Adver- sary— or the CcMor — who is always on the watch presses with all his might wherever there is a weak point lying covered from your own view and suddenly a wrong movement leaps up with unexpected force.
"When we study this Life as it manifests itself upon earth with Matter as its basis, we observe that essentially it is a form of the one cosmic Energy, a dynamic movement or current of it positive and negative, a constant act or play of the Force which builds up forms, energises them by a continual stream of stimulation and maintains them by an unceasing process of disintegration and renewal of their substance. This would tend to show that the natural opposition we make between death and life is an error of our mentality, one of those false oppositions — false to inner truth though valid in surface practical experience — which, deceived by appearances, it is constantly bringing into the universal unity.” The Life Divine ::: *life"s, life-born, life-curve, life-delight"s, life-drift, life-foam, life-giving, life-impulse, life-impulse"s, life-motives, life-nature"s, life-pain, life-plan, life-power, life-room, life-scene, life-self, life-thought, life-wants, all-life, sense-life.
“When we study this Life as it manifests itself upon earth with Matter as its basis, we observe that essentially it is a form of the one cosmic Energy, a dynamic movement or current of it positive and negative, a constant act or play of the Force which builds up forms, energises them by a continual stream of stimulation and maintains them by an unceasing process of disintegration and renewal of their substance. This would tend to show that the natural opposition we make between death and life is an error of our mentality, one of those false oppositions—false to inner truth though valid in surface practical experience—which, deceived by appearances, it is constantly bringing into the universal unity.” The Life Divine
whirl ::: v. 1. To revolve rapidly about a centre or an axis. 2. To hurl; fling, often violently. 3. To cause to spin. 4. To drive, send, or carry along with great or dizzying rapidity. whirls, whirled.* n. 5. The act of rotating or revolving rapidly. 6. Something, such as a cloud of dust, that whirls or is whirled. *7. Swift rotation or a rapid whirling movement.
will, free ::: Sri Aurobindo: Our notion of free will is apt to be tainted with the excessive individualism of the human ego and to assume the figure of an independent will acting on its own isolated account, in a complete liberty without any determination other than its own choice and single unrelated movement. This idea ignores the fact that our natural being is a part of cosmic Nature and our spiritual being exists only by the supreme Transcendence. Our total being can rise out of subjection to fact of present Nature only by an identification with a greater Truth and a greater Nature. The will of the individual, even when completely free, could not act in an isolated independence, because the individual being and nature are included in the universal Being and Nature and dependent on the all-overruling Transcendence. There could indeed be in the ascent a dual line. On one line the being could feel and behave as an independent self-existence uniting itself with its own impersonal Reality; it could, so self-conceived, act with a great force, but either this action would be still within an enlarged frame of its past and present self-formation of power of Nature or else it would be the cosmic or supreme Force that acted in it and there would be no personal initiation of action, no sense therefore of individual free will but only of an impersonal cosmic or supreme Will or Energy at its work. On the other line the being would feel itself a spiritual instrument and so act as a power of the Supreme Being, limited in its workings only by the potencies of the Supernature, which are without bounds or any restriction except its own Truth and self-law, and by the Will in her. But in either case there would be, as the condition of a freedom from the control of a mechanical action of Nature-forces, a submission to a greater conscious Power or an acquiescent unity of the individual being with its intention and movement in his own and in the world"s existence.” *The Life Divine
Work and meditation ::: Those who have an expansive creative vital or a vital made for action are usually at their best when the vital is not held back from its movement and they can deve- lop faster by it than by introspective meditation. All that is needed is that the action should be dedicated, so that they may grow by it more and more prepared to feel and follow the Divine
WRONG MOVEMENT. ::: The first condition of inner pro- gress is to recognise whatever is or has been a wrong movement in any part of the nature, — wrong idea, wrong feeling, wrong speech, wrong action, — and by wrong is meant what departs from truth, from the higher consciousness and higher self, from the way of the Divine. Once recognised it is admitted, not glossed over or defended, — and It is offered to the Divine for the Light and Grace to descend and substitute for it the right movement of the true consciousness.
KEYS (10k)
95 Sri Aurobindo
26 The Mother
3 Hermes
2 Tao Te Ching
2 Saint Maximus of Turin
2 Nolini Kanta Gupta
2 Mahatma Gandhi
2 Apollonius of Tyana
1 V. S. Naipaul
1 Thales
1 Tchuang-Tse
1 Sri Aurobindo
1 Ramesh Balsekar
1 Ralph W. Trine
1 Rajneesh
1 Philo of Alexandria
1 Paul Auster
1 Osho
1 N Postman
1 Nikola Tesla
1 Maximus the Confessor
1 M Alan Kazlev
1 Laws of Manu
1 Jean Gebser
1 James Allen
1 Heraclitus
1 Giordano Bruno
1 Espen J Aarseth
1 Deepak Chopra
1 Daniel C Matt
1 Book of Golden Precepts
1 Boethius
1 Aquinas
1 Alan Watts
1 Swami Vivekananda
1 Sri Ramakrishna
1 Saint Thomas Aquinas
1 Plotinus
1 Leonardo da Vinci
1 Kabir
1 Jorge Luis Borges
1 Hafiz
1 Aleister Crowley
1 ?
NEW FULL DB (2.4M)
26 Sri Aurobindo
14 Anonymous
10 Eric Hoffer
9 Gloria Steinem
9 Bell Hooks
8 Martha Graham
8 Donald Trump
8 bell hooks
7 Seth Godin
7 Paulo Coelho
7 Bruce Lee
6 Isadora Duncan
6 Frederick Lenz
6 Deepak Chopra
6 B K S Iyengar
6 Bill Ayers
6 Adolf Hitler
5 Rush Limbaugh
5 Rajneesh
5 Noam Chomsky
1:Life is a balance between rest and movement." ~ Rajneesh, #KEYS
2:In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
~ Deepak Chopra,#KEYS
3:People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement. ~ V. S. Naipaul, #KEYS
4:Return is the movement of the Tao. Yielding is the way of the Tao. ~ Tao Te Ching, ch.40, #KEYS
5:The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. ~ Tao Te Ching, ch.26, #KEYS
6:Wherever you find movement, there you find life and a soul. ~ Thales, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
7:The instant does not have time; and time is made from the movement of the instant. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #KEYS
8:Drop the craving for self, for permanence, for particular circumstances, and go straight ahead with the movement of life." ~ Alan Watts, #KEYS
9:Without a great ideal there can be no great movement. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I, The Leverage of Faith, #KEYS
10:Time is a convention of movement, not a condition of existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, The Isha Upanishad, #KEYS
11:Each separate movement is produced by the same energy that moves the sum of things. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
12:ll is movement and nothing is fixed; we cannot cross over the same stream twice. ~ Heraclitus, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
13:The movement that stores up and concentrates is no less needed than the movement that spreads and diffuses. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
14:The stumbling-block of romanticism is falsity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Movement of Modern Literature - I, #KEYS
15:Essence without form divided itself; then a movement took place and life was produced. ~ Tchuang-Tse, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
16:Greed is a great flood, a whirlpool sucking one down, a constant yearning, seeking a hold, continually in movement. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
17:In one and the same movement, our Savior's passion raises men from the depths, lifts them up from the earth, and sets them in the heights. ~ Saint Maximus of Turin, #KEYS
18:So the world, grounded in a timeless movement by the Soul which suffuses it with intelligence, becomes a living and blessed being. ~ Plotinus, #KEYS
19:It is on the Silence behind the cosmos that all the movement of the universe is supported. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Silence, #KEYS
20:The Absolute is beyond stability and movement as it is beyond unity and multiplicity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Pure Existent, #KEYS
21:Life pervades and animates everything; it gives its movement to Nature and subjects her to itself. ~ Giordano Bruno, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
22:In all very great drama the true movement and result is psychological. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Course of English Poetry - II, #KEYS
23:Material universe a form and movement of the Spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India, A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture - V, #KEYS
24:The chain of Karma only binds the movement of Nature and not the soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad: The Inhabiting Godhead, Life and Action, #KEYS
25:The vital can take part in a movement but it must not be in control. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, The Vital and Other Levels of Being, #KEYS
26:Love illuminated fulfils the harmony which is the goal of the divine movement. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, Agni, the Illumined Will, #KEYS
27:Time and Space that are the conceptual movement and extension of the Godhead in us. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, God in Power of Becoming, #KEYS
28:The element of the vital being is not earth but air; it has more movement, less status. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Triple Transformation, #KEYS
29:All movement forward implies a certain amount of friction and difficulty of adjustment ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Problem of Uniformity and Liberty, #KEYS
30:Wealth is a force and it should be a means of circulation, a power in movement, as flowing water is a power in movement.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955,#KEYS
31:What is not real or vital to thought, imagination and feeling cannot be powerfully creative. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Movement of Modern Literature - II, #KEYS
32:Time observation and Time movement are relative, but Time itself is real and eternal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti, #KEYS
33:Mere force of language tacked on to the trick of the metrical beat does not answer the higher description of poetry. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, Rhythm and Movement, #KEYS
34: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
35:The secret of our apparent bondage is the Spirit's play by which It consents to forget God-consciousness in the absorption of Nature's movement.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad,#KEYS
36:The proper way to deal with a wrong movement is to look quietly at it and put the consciousness right at that point. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Depression and Despondency, #KEYS
37:Realism is in its essence an attempt to see man and his world as they really are without veils and pretences. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Movement of Modern Literature - I, #KEYS
38:The justification of a sinner is a certain movement by which the human mind is moved by God from the state of sin to the state of justice ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.113.5)., #KEYS
39:The rediscovery of the soul is the last stage of the round described by this age of the intellect and reason. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Movement of Modern Literature - II, #KEYS
40:The mysterious and unchanging change
Of the persistent movement we call Time ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
41:A perfect rhythm will often even give immortality to work which is slight in vision and very far from the higher intensities of style. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, Rhythm and Movement, #KEYS
42:My ideal indeed can be put into a few words and that is : to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, (C.W. VII. 501), #KEYS
43:When one is in the right consciousness, then there is the right movement, the right happiness, everything in harmony with the Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III, The Inward Movement, #KEYS
44:Action like inaction may find its place in thee; if thy body is in movement, let thy mind be calm, let thy soul be as limpid as a mountain lake. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
45:All the movement and action of Rudra the Terrible is towards perfection and divine light and completeness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, The Vision of the World-Spirit - The Double Aspect, #KEYS
46:Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presuppositions." ~ Osho, (aka Acharya Rajneesh, 1931 - 1990) Indian spiritual guru, philosopher and the leader of the Rajneesh movement, Wikipedia., #KEYS
47:Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." ~ Mahatma Gandhi, (1869 -1948) Indian activist, leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule, led India to independence, Wikipedia., #KEYS
48:But the man who bringeth not by his own movement on living beings the pains of slavery and death and who desireth the good of all creatures, attaineth to happiness. ~ Laws of Manu, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
49:This apparent paradox of a development draped in the colours of revolt is a constant psychological feature of all human evolution. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Movement of Modern Literature - I, #KEYS
50:Whatever name he gives to this Power or whether he gives it a name or not, it is Isha, the Lord, whose presence he must feel around every object and movement in the Universe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, #KEYS
51:When one comes out of the world, the forces that govern the world do all they can to pull you back into their own unquiet movement. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram, Departure from the Ashram, #KEYS
52:Because of Christ's resurrection the thief ascends to paradise, the bodies of the blessed enter the holy city, and the dead are restored to the company of the living. There is an upward movement in the whole of creation. ~ Saint Maximus of Turin, #KEYS
53:Consciousness is all there is, and whatever appears to happens is merely a movement of consciousness… Consciousness is where God resides." ~ Ramesh Balsekar, (1917 - 2009), a disciple of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, wrote more than 20 books, Wikipedia., #KEYS
54:Divine Love is not merely a sublimation of human emotions; it is a different consciousness, with a different quality, movement and substance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Divine Love, Psychic Love and Human Love, #KEYS
55:For the most part our psychological account of others is only an account of the psychological impressions of them they produce in our own mentality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Movement of Modern Literature - II, #KEYS
56:If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further." ~ Mahatma Gandhi, (1869 -1948) an Indian activist, leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule, led India to independence, Wikipedia., #KEYS
57:[Noetic movement] is the movement of the soul circling around God in a manner beyond knowledge, for the soul does not know God after the manner of beings, owing to God's absolute transcendence of beings. ~ Maximus the Confessor, Ambiguum 10.3 [1112d-1113a], #KEYS
58:For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?" ~ James Allen, (1864 - 1912) British philosopher, wrote inspirational books and poetry, pioneer of the self-help movement. His best known work, "As a Man Thinketh," Wikipedia., #KEYS
59:Because of our wisdom, we will travel far for love. All movement is a sign of thirst. Most speaking really says "I am hungry to know you." Every desire of your body is holy. Dear one, why wait until you are dying to discover that divine Truth? ~ Hafiz, #KEYS
60:The thought of God is the movement of the universe: never at any time can there perish a being, that is to say, a portion of God, for God contains all beings; nothing is outside him and he is outside of nothing. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
61:Everything proceeding from the profound nature of things shows the influence of the law of number... From this are derived the four elements, the succession of the seasons, the movement of the stars, and the course of the heavens. ~ Boethius, De arithmeticae artis libri duo, #KEYS
62:He who lives in the realization of his oneness with the Infinite Power becomes a magnet to attract to himself a continual supply of whatever things he desires… " ~ Ralph W. Trine, (1866-1958) American philosopher, author & teacher, wrote on the New Thought movement, Wikipedia., #KEYS
63:Feasting on sights displayed [in the heavens], his soul was insatiate in beholding. It went on to to ask: What is the essence of these visible objects and the method of their movement? It was out of the investigation of these problems that philosophy grew… ~ Philo of Alexandria, #KEYS
64:Creation places something in the thing created according to relation only... When movement is removed from action and passion, only relation remains. Hence creation in the creature is only a certain relation to the Creator as to the principle of its being. ~ Aquinas, ST I q45 a3, #KEYS
65:The movement toward standardization of scientific discourse resulted in uniform mathematical symbols....Galileo's reference to mathematics as the language or alphabet of nature could be made with assurance that other scientists could speak and understand that language ~ N Postman, #KEYS
66:Mother, I see that mosquitos are biting You in the evening during meditation. Would you allow me to drive them away with a fan? ... No, the movement of the fan would be even more bothersome than the mosquitos.
~ The Mother, More Answers From The Mother, 12 June 1939,#KEYS
67:Into a simplest movement she could bring
A oneness with earth's glowing robe of light,
A lifting up of common acts by love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain,#KEYS
68:the demand on us :::
This, in short, is the demand made on us, that we should turn our whole life into a conscious sacrifice. Every moment and every movement of our being is to be resolved into a continuous and devoted self-giving to the Eternal.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
69:The universe was not now this senseless whirl
Borne round inert on an immense machine;
It cast away its grandiose lifeless front,
A mechanism no more or work of Chance,
But a living movement of the body of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
70:An essential movement of the Yoga is to draw back from the outward ego sense by which we are identified with the action of mind, life and body and live inwardly in the soul. The liberation from an externalised ego sense is the first step towards the soul's freedom and mastery.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, 633 [T7],#KEYS
71:All thoughts really come from outside, but one is not conscious of their coming. You have become conscious of this movement. There are different ways of getting rid of them; one is to reject them one by one before they can come in; another is to look at them with detachment till they fade away.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
72:Napoleon's mind was swift and bold and vast,
His heart was calm and stormy like the sea,
His will dynamic in its grip and clasp.
His eye could hold a world within its grasp
And see the great and small things sovereignly.
A movement of gigantic d ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Dwarf Napoleon,#KEYS
73:Concentration, for our Yoga, means when the consciousness is fixed in a particular state (e.g. peace) or movement (e.g. aspiration, will, coming into contact with the Mother, taking the Mother's name); meditation is when the inner mind is looking at things to get the right knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, [concentration is:],#KEYS
74:Kata is a term used by some programmers in the Software Craftsmanship[9] movement. Computer programmers who call themselves Software Craftsmen[10] will write Kata[11]
- small snippets of code that they write in one sitting, sometimes repeatedly,[12] often daily, in order to build muscle memory and practise their craft, much like a soldier, a musician, a doctor or a dancer.[13] ~ ?,#KEYS
75:In ergodic literature, nontrivial effort is required to allow the reader to traverse the text. If ergodic literature is to make sense as a concept, there must also be nonergodic literature, where the effort to traverse the text is trivial, with no extranoematic responsibilities placed on the reader except (for example) eye movement and the periodic or arbitrary turning of pages ~ Espen J Aarseth, #KEYS
76:All that exists in the world, without exception, is the seat of a movement of augmentation or of diminution. All that moves is alive, and the universal life is a necessary transformation: nothing is destroyed and nothing lost. If that is so, ail is immortal, matter, life, intelligence, the breath, the soul, all that constitutes the living being. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
77:In the first movement of self-preparation, the period of personal effort, the method we have to use is this concentration of the whole being on the Divine that it seeks and, as its corollary, this constant rejection, throwing out, katharsis, of all that is not the true Truth of the Divine. An entire consecration of all that we are, think, feel and do will be the result of this persistence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
78:None dies except in appearance. In fact what is called birth is the passage from essence to substance, and what is called death is on the contrary the passage from substance to essence. Nothing is born and nothing dies in reality, but all first appears and then becomes invisible. The first effect is produced by the density of matter, the second by the subtlety of essence which remains always the same but is sometimes in movement, sometimes in repose. ~ Apollonius of Tyana, #KEYS
79:None dies except in appearance. In fact what is called birth is the passage from essence to substance, and what is called death is on the contrary the passage from substance to essence. Nothing is born and nothing dies in reality, but all first appears and then becomes invisible. The first effect is produced by the density of matter, the second by the subtlety of essence which remains always the same but is sometimes in movement, sometimes in repose. ~ Apollonius of Tyana, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
80:This gesture of the Divine Mother teaches us also what should be the approach and attitude of human beings in all their activities. In all our movements we should always remember Him, refer to Him, consider that in the last analysis each and every movement comes from Him and we must always offer them to Him, return them to the parent-source from where they come, therein lies freedom, the divine detachment which the individual must possess always in order to be one with Him, feel one's identity with Him. ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, On Savitri, 12, #KEYS
81:Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within... By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere. ~ Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy, #KEYS
82:Yet would the ideal working of an integral Yoga be a movement, even from the beginning, integral in its process and whole and many-sided in its progress. In any case our present preoccupation is with a Yoga, integral in its aim and complete movement, but starting from works and proceeding by works althrough at each step more and more moved by a vivifying divine love and more and more illumined by a helping divine knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga Of Divine Works, Self-Surrender In Works - The Way Of The Gita, 93,#KEYS
83:Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast, has represented the side of consciousness or wakefulness. Through the late twentieth century, the movement of the Left limited themselves to a materialist understanding of reality- exemplified by Marxism- demanding social justice and economic equality but not the restoration of intuition and the recognition of the hidden, qualitative dimensions of being suppressed by the mental-rational consciousness, narrowly focused on the quantifiable. ~ Jean Gebser, #KEYS
84:Mother, Some people criticise the fact that we have too many rules in our physical education and that we impose too much discipline on the children.
There can be no physical education without discipline. The body itself could not function without a strict discipline. Actually, the failure to recognise this fact is the principal cause of illness. Digestion, growth, blood-circulation, everything, everything is a discipline. Thought, movement, gestures, everything is a discipline, and if there is no discipline people immediately fall ill.
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS
85: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.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Life and Yoga, [6],#KEYS
86:They climb Indra like a ladder. As one mounts peak after peak, there becomes clear the much that has still to be done. Indra brings consciousness of That as the goal.
Like a hawk, a kite He settles on the Vessel and upbears it; in His stream of movement He discovers the Rays, for He goes bearing his weapons: He cleaves to the ocean surge of the waters; a great King, He declares the fourth status. Like a mortal purifying his body, like a war-horse galloping to the conquest of riches He pours calling through all the sheath and enters these vessels. Rig Veda.2 ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 1.26,#KEYS
87: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. But something of her ways can be seen and felt through her embodiments and the more seizable because more defined and limited temperament and action of the goddess forms in whom she consents to be manifest to her creatures. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, [T4], #KEYS
88:This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the Divine. As I looked at the door, I knew and willed, in a single movement of consciousness, that "the time has come," and lifting with both hands a mighty golden hammer I struck one blow, one single blow on the door and the door was shattered to pieces.
Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted flow.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I, [T2],#KEYS
89:There are two factors that have to be considered in the matter [the causes of illness]. There is what comes from outside and there is what comes from your inner condition. Your inner condition becomes a cause of illness when there is a resistance or revolt in it or when there is some part in you that does not respond to the protection; or even there may be something there that almost willingly and wilfully calls in the adverse forces. It is enough if there is a slight movement of this kind in you; the hostile forces are at once upon you and their attack takes often the form of illness. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #KEYS
90:DR. MANILAL: How can one succeed in meditation?
SRI AUROBINDO: By quietude of mind. There is not only the Infinite in itself, but also an infinite sea of peace, joy, light, power above the head. The golden Lid, Hiranmaya Patram, intervenes between the mind and what is above the mind. Once you break this lid ( making a movement of the hands above the head ) they can come down any time at your will. But for that, quietude is essential. Of course, there are people who can get them without first establishing the quietude, but it is very difficult. ( On 13-12-1938 ) ~ Sri Aurobindo, TALKS WITH SRI AUROBINDO VOLUME 1, BY NIRODBARAN (Page no.17),#KEYS
91:But if human mind can become capable of the glories of the divine Light, human emotion and sensibility can be transformed into the mould and assume the measure and movement of the supreme Bliss, human action not only represent but feel itself to be the motion of a divine and non-egoistic Force and the physical substance of our being suffiently partake of the purity of the supernal essence, suffiently unify plasticity and durable constancy to support and prolong these highest experiences and agencies, then all the long labour of Nature will end in a crowning justification and her evolutions reveal their profound significance.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
92:To what shore would you cross, O my heart?
there is no traveller before you, there is no road:
Where is the movement, where is the rest, on that shore?
There is no water; no boat, no boatman, is there;
There is not so much as a rope to tow the boat, nor a man to draw it.
No earth, no sky, no time, no thing, is there: no shore, no ford!
There, there is neither body nor mind: and where is the place that shall still the thirst of the soul?
You shall find naught in that emptiness.
Be strong, and enter into your own body: for there your foothold is firm.
Consider it well, O my heart! go not elsewhere,
Kabîr says: 'Put all imaginations away, and stand fast in that which you are. ~ Kabir,#KEYS
93:It is in the silence of the mind that the strongest and freest action can come, e.g. the writing of a book, poetry, inspired speech etc. When the mind is active it interferes with the inspiration, puts in its own small ideas which get mixed up with the inspiration or starts something from a lower level or simply stops the inspiration altogether by bubbling up with all sorts of mere mental suggestions. So also intuitions or action etc. can come more easily when the ordinary inferior movement of the mind is not there. It is also in the silence of the mind that it is easiest for knowledge to come from within or above, from the psychic or from the higher consciousness.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,#KEYS
94:The vital can rise to the head in two ways - one to cloud the mind with the vital impulses, the other to aspire and join with the higher Consciousness. If you noticed the aspiration, it was evidently the latter movement. It is true that for the external vital an outer discipline is necessary for the purification, otherwise it remains restless and fanciful and at the mercy of its own impulses - so that no basis can be built there for a quiet and abiding higher consciousness to remain firmly. The attitude you have taken for the work is of course the best one and, applying it steadily, the progress you feel was bound to come and is sure to increase.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV, The Vital Being and Sadhana,#KEYS
95:I am not this, not that, neti, neti :::
We say then to the mind This is a working of Prakriti, this is neither thyself nor myself; stand back from it. We shall find, if we try, that the mind has this power of detachment and can stand back from the body not only in idea, but in act and as it were physically or rather vitally. This detachment of the mind must be strengthened by a certain attitude of indifference to the things of the body; we must not care essentially about its sleep or its waking, its movement or its rest, its pain or its pleasure, its health or ill-health, its vigour or its fatigue, its comfort or its discomfort, or what it eats or drinks.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Release from Subjection to the Body, 344,#KEYS
96:But his most important capacity is that of developing the powers of the higher principles in himself, a greater power of life, a purer light of mind, the illumination of supermind, the infinite being, consciousness and delight of spirit. By an ascending movement he can develop his human imperfection towards that greater perfection. But whatever his aim, however exalted his aspiration, he has to begin from the law of his present imperfection, to take full account of it and see how it can be converted to the law of a possible perfection. This present law of his being starts from the inconscience of the material universe, an involution of the soul in form and subjection to material nature; and
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Psychology Of Perfection,#KEYS
97:We see then that there are three terms of the one existence, transcendent, universal and individual, and that each of these always contains secretly or overtly the two others. The Transcendent possesses itself always and controls the other two as the basis of its own temporal possibilities; that is the Divine, the eternal all-possessing God-consciousness, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, which informs, embraces, governs all existences. The human being is here on earth the highest power of the third term, the individual, for he alone can work out at its critical turning-point that movement of self-manifestation which appears to us as the involution and evolution of the divine consciousness between the two terms of the Ignorance and the Knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, #KEYS
98:[the four aids ::: YOGA-SIDDHI, the perfection that comes from the practice of Yoga, can be best attained by the combined working of four great instruments. There is, first, the knowledge of the truths, principles, powers and processes that govern the realisation - sastra. Next comes a patient and persistent action on the lines laid down by this knowledge, the force of our personal effort - utsaha. There intervenes, third, uplifting our knowledge and effort into the domain of spiritual experience, the direct suggestion, example and influence of the Teacher - guru. Last comes the instrumentality of Time - kala; for in all things there is a cycle of their action and a period of the divine movement.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Four Aids, 53 [T0],#KEYS
99:The up and down movement which you speak of is common to all ways of Yoga. It is there in the path of bhakti, but there are equally alternations of states of light and states of darkness, sometimes sheer and prolonged darkness, when one follows the path of knowledge. Those who have occult experiences come to periods when all experiences cease and even seem finished for ever. Even when there have been many and permanent realisations, these seem to go behind the veil and leave nothing in front except a dull blank, filled, if at all, only with recurrent attacks and difficulties. These alternations are the result of the nature of human consciousness and are not a proof of unfitness or of predestined failure. One has to be prepared for them and pass through. They are the day and night of the Vedic mystics.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
100:The transformation of our superficial, narrow and fragmentary human way of thinking, seeing, feeling and being into a deep and wide spiritual consciousness and an integrated inner and outer existence and of our ordinary human living into the divine way of life must be its central purpose. The means towards this supreme end is a self-giving of all our nature to the Divine. Everything must be given to the Divine within us, to the universal All and to the transcendent Supreme. An absolute concentration of our will, our heart and our thought on that one and manifold Divine, an unreserved self-consecration of our whole being to the Divine alone - this is the decisive movement, the turning of the ego to That which is infinitely greater than itself, its self-giving and indispensable surrender
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Surrender in Works - The Way of the Gita, 89,#KEYS
101:Necessarily, when we say it is without them, we mean that it exceeds them, that it is something into which they pass in such a way as to cease to be what we call form, quality, quantity and out of which they emerge as form, quality and quantity in the movement.
They do not pass away into one form, one quality, one quantity which is the basis of all the rest, - for there is none such, - but into something which cannot be defined by any of these terms.
So all things that are conditions and appearances of the movement pass into That from which they have come and there, so far as they exist, become something that can no longer be described by the terms that are appropriate to them in the movement.
Therefore we say that the pure existence is an Absolute and in itself unknowable by our thought although we can go back to it in a supreme identity that transcends the terms of knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 1.09-09,#KEYS
102:Forgetful of her spirit and her fate.
The impassive skies were neutral, empty, still.
Then something in the inscrutable darkness stirred;
A nameless movement, an unthought Idea
Insistent, dissatisfied, without an aim,
Something that wished but knew not how to be,
Teased the Inconscient to wake Ignorance.
A throe that came and left a quivering trace,
Gave room for an old tired want unfilled,
At peace in its subconscient moonless cave
To raise its head and look for absent light,
Straining closed eyes of vanished memory,
Like one who searches for a bygone self
And only meets the corpse of his desire.
It was as though even in this Nought's profound,
Even in this ultimate dissolution's core,
There lurked an unremembering entity,
Survivor of a slain and buried past
Condemned to resume the effort and the pang,
Reviving in another frustrate world.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
103:an all-inclusive concentration is required for an Integral Yoga :::
Concentration is indeed the first condition of any Yoga, but it is an all-receiving concentration that is the very nature of the integral Yoga. A separate strong fixing of the thought, of the emotions or of the will on a single idea, object, state, inner movement or principle is no doubt a frequent need here also; but this is only a subsidiary helpful process. A wide massive opening, a harmonised concentration of the whole being in all its parts and through all its powers upon the One who is the All is the larger action of this Yoga without which it cannot achieve its purpose. For it is the consciousness that rests in the One and that acts in the All to which we aspire; it is this that we seek to impose on every element of our being and on every movement of our nature. This wide and concentrated totality is the essential character of the sadhana and its character must determine its practice.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
104:In ancient times the disciple had to undergo severe tests to prove his ability for initiation. Here we do not follow that method. Apparently there is no test and no trial. But if you see the truth, you will find that here it is much more difficult. There the disciple knew that he was undergoing a period of trial and after he had passed through some outward tests, he was taken in. But here you have to face life and you are watched at every moment. It is not only your outer actions that count. Each and every thought and inner movement is seen, every reaction is noticed. It is not what you do in the solitude of the forest, but what you do in the thick of the battle of life that is important.
Are you ready to submit yourself for such tests? Are you ready to change yourself completely? You will have to throw off your ideas, ideals, values, interests and opinions. Everything will have to be learnt anew. If you are ready for all this, then take a plunge; otherwise don't try to step in. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
105:On the back part of the step, toward the right, I saw a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brilliance. At first I thought it was revolving; then I realised that this movement was an illusion created by the dizzying world it bounded. The Aleph's diameter was probably little more than an inch, but all space was there, actual and undiminished. Each thing (a mirror's face, let us say) was infinite things, since I distinctly saw it from every angle of the universe. I saw the teeming sea; I saw daybreak and nightfall; I saw the multitudes of America; I saw a silvery cobweb in the center of a black pyramid; I saw a splintered labyrinth (it was London); I saw, close up, unending eyes watching themselves in me as in a mirror; I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me; I saw in a backyard of Soler Street the same tiles that thirty years before I'd seen in the entrance of a house in Fray Bentos; I saw bunches of grapes, snow, tobacco, lodes of metal, steam; I saw convex equatorial deserts and each one of their grains of sand... ~ Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph, #KEYS
106:So the devotion must be accompanied by another movement, that is, gratitude. This feeling of gratitude that the Divine exists, this gratefulness, full of wonder, that truly fills your heart with a sublime delight, because the Divine exists, because there is something in the universe that is the Divine, and there is not merely the monstrosity that we see—because there is the Divine, because the Divine is there.
And each time any least thing puts you in contact with this sublime reality of the Divine existence, your heart is filled with so intense and wonderful a delight, such gratefulness as is of all things the most delectable in taste.
Nothing can give you a delight equal to that of gratitude. You hear a bird singing, you see a flower, you look at a child, you witness an act of generosity, you read a beautiful sentence, you stand before a sunset, it does not matter what the thing is— all on a sudden it comes upon you, a kind of emotion, but so deep, so intense, because the world manifests the Divine, because there is something behind the world which is the Divine. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
107:This concentration proceeds by the Idea, using thought, form and name as keys which yield up to the concentrating mind the Truth that lies concealed behind all thought, form and name; for it is through the Idea that the mental being rises beyond all expression to that which is expressed, to that of which the Idea itself is only the instrument. By concentration upon the Idea the mental existence which at present we are breaks open the barrier of our mentality and arrives at the state of consciousness, the state of being, the state of power of conscious-being and bliss of conscious-being to which the Idea corresponds and of which it is the symbol, movement and rhythm. Concentration by the Idea is, then, only a means, a key to open to us the superconscient planes of our existence; a certain self-gathered state of our whole existence lifted into that superconscient truth, unity and infinity of self-aware, self-blissful existence is the aim and culmination; and that is the meaning we shall give to the term Samadhi.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Integral Knowledge, Concentration [321],#KEYS
108:the supreme third period of greater divine equality :::
If we can pass through these two stages of the inner change without being arrested or fixed in either, we are admitted to a greater divine equality which is capable of a spiritual ardour and tranquil passion of delight, a rapturous, all-understanding and all-possessing equality of the perfected soul, an intense and even wideness and fullness of its being embracing all things. This is the supreme period and the passage to it is through the joy of a total self-giving to the Divine and to the universal Mother. For strength is then crowned by a happy mastery, peace deepens into bliss, the possession of the divine calm is uplifted and made the ground for the possession of the divine movement. But if this greater perfection is to arrive, the soul's impartial high-seatedness looking down from above on the flux of forms and personalities and movements and forces must be modified and change into a new sense of strong and calm submission and a powerful and intense surrender. ...
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Equality and the Annihilation of Ego,#KEYS
109:Ishwara-Shakti is not quite the same as Purusha-Prakriti; for Purusha and Prakriti are separate powers, but Ishwara and Shakti contain each other. Ishwara is Purusha who contains Prakriti and rules by the power of the Shakti within him. Shakti is Prakriti ensouled by Purusha and acts by the will of the Ishwara which is her own will and whose presence in her movement she carries always with her. The Purusha-Prakriti realisation is of the first utility to the seeker on the Way of Works; for it is the separation of the conscient being and the Energy and the subjection of the being to the mechanism of the Energy that are the efficient cause of our ignorance and imperfection; by this realisation the being can liberate himself from the mechanical action of the nature and become free and arrive at a first spiritual control over the nature. Ishwara-Shakti stands behind the relation of Purusha-Prakriti and its ignorant action and turns it to an evolutionary purpose. The Ishwara-Shakti realisation can bring participation in a higher dynamism and a divine working and a total unity and harmony of the being in a spiritual nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 216, #KEYS
110:It is always better to try to concentrate in a centre, the centre of aspiration, one might say, the place where the flame of aspiration burns, to gather in all the energies there, at the solar plexus centre and, if possible, to obtain an attentive silence as though one wanted to listen to something extremely subtle, something that demands a complete attention, a complete concentration and a total silence. And then not to move at all. Not to think, not to stir, and make that movement of opening so as to receive all that can be received, but taking good care not to try to know what is happening while it is happening, for it one wants to understand or even to observe actively, it keeps up a sort of cerebral activity which is unfavourable to the fullness of the receptivity - to be silent, as totally silent as possible, in an attentive concentration, and then be still. If one succeeds in this, then, when everything is over, when one comes out of meditation, some time later - usually not immediately - from within the being something new emerges in the consciousness: a new understanding, a new appreciation of things, a new attitude in life - in short, a new way of being.
~ Sri Aurobindo, [where to concentrate?],#KEYS
111:The whole principle of this Yoga is to give oneself entirely to the Divine alone and to nobody and to nothing else, and to bring down into ourselves by union with the Divine Mother-Power all the transcendent light, force, wideness, peace, purity, truth-consciousness and Ananda of the supramental Divine. In this Yoga, therefore, there can be no place for vital relations or interchanges with others; any such relation or interchange immediately ties down the soul to the lower consciousness and its lower nature, prevents the true and full union with the Divine and hampers both the ascent to the supramental Truth consciousness and the descent of the supramental Ishwari Shakti. Still worse would it be if this interchange took the form of a sexual relation or a sexual enjoyment, even if kept free from any outward act; therefore these things are absolutely forbidden in the sadhana. It goes without saying that any physical act of the kind is not allowed, but also any subtler form is ruled out. It is only after becoming one with the supramental Divine that we can find our true spiritual relations with others in the Divine; in that higher unity this kind of gross lower vital movement can have no place. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, #KEYS
112:The pure existent is then a fact and no mere concept; it is the fundamental reality. But, let us hasten to add, the movement, the energy, the becoming are also a fact, also a reality. The supreme intuition and its corresponding experience may correct the other, may go beyond, may suspend, but do not abolish it. We have therefore two fundamental facts of pure existence and of worldexistence, a fact of Being, a fact of Becoming. To deny one or the other is easy; to recognise the facts of consciousness and find out their relation is the true and fruitful wisdom.
Stability and movement, we must remember, are only our psychological representations of the Absolute, even as are oneness and multitude. The Absolute is beyond stability and movement as it is beyond unity and multiplicity. But it takes its eternal poise in the one and the stable and whirls round itself infinitely, inconceivably, securely in the moving and multitudinous. World-existence is the ecstatic dance of Shiva which multiplies the body of the God numberlessly to the view: it leaves that white existence precisely where and what it was, ever is and ever will be; its sole absolute object is the joy of the dancing. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Pure Existent, 85,#KEYS
113:From above to below, the sefirot depict the drama of emanation, the transition from Ein Sof to creation. In the words of Azriel of Gerona, "They constitute the process by which all things come into being and pass away." From below to above, the sefirot constitute a ladder of ascent back to the One. The union of Tif'eret and Shekhinah gives birth to the human soul, and the mystical journey begins with the awareness of this spiritual fact of life. Shekhinah is the opening to the divine: "One who enters must enter through this gate." Once inside, the sefirot are no longer an abstract theological system; they become a map of consciousness. The mystic climbs and probes, discovering dimensions of being. Spiritual and psychological wholeness is achieved by meditating on the qualities of each sefirah, by imitating and integrating the attributes of God. "When you cleave to the sefirot, the divine holy spirit enters into you, into every sensation and every movement." But the path is not easy. Divine will can be harsh: Abraham was commanded to sacrifice Isaac in order to balance love with rigor. From the Other Side, demonic forces threaten and seduce. [The demonic is rooted in the divine]. Contemplatively and psychologically, evil must be encountered, not evaded. By knowing and withstanding the dark underside of wisdom, the spiritual seeker is refined.~ Daniel C Matt, The Essential Kabbalah, 10, #KEYS
114:A certain inertia, tendency to sleep, indolence, unwillingness or inability to be strong for work or spiritual effort for long at a time, is in the nature of the human physical consciousness. When one goes down into the physical for its change (that has been the general condition here for a long time), this tends to increase. Even sometimes when the pressure of the sadhana on the physical increases or when one has to go much inside, this temporarily increases - the body either needing more rest or turning the inward movement into a tendency to sleep or be at rest. You need not, however, be anxious about that. After a time this rights itself; the physical consciousness gets the true peace and calm in the cells and feels at rest even in full work or in the most concentrated condition and this tendency of inertia goes out of the nature. Even for those who have never been in trance, it is good to repeat a mantra, a word, a prayer before going into sleep. But there must be a life in the words; I do not mean an intellectual significance, nothing of that kind, but a vibration. And its effect on the body is extraordinary: it begins to vibrate, vibrate, vibrate... and quietly you let yourself go, as though you wanted to go to sleep. The body vibrates more and more, more and more, more and more, and away you go. That is the cure for tamas.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III,#KEYS
115:In Rajayoga the chosen instrument is the mind. our ordinary mentality is first disciplined, purified and directed towards the divine Being, then by a summary process of Asana and Pranayama the physical force of our being is stilled and concentrated, the life-force released into a rhythmic movement capable of cessation and concentrated into a higher power of its upward action, the mind, supported and strengthened by this greater action and concentration of the body and life upon which it rests, is itself purified of all its unrest and emotion and its habitual thought-waves, liberated from distraction and dispersion, given its highest force of concentration, gathered up into a trance of absorption. Two objects, the one temporal, the other eternal,are gained by this discipline. Mind-power develops in another concentrated action abnormal capacities of knowledge, effective will, deep light of reception, powerful light of thought-radiation which are altogether beyond the narrow range of our normal mentality; it arrives at the Yogic or occult powers around which there has been woven so much quite dispensable and yet perhaps salutary mystery. But the one final end and the one all-important gain is that the mind, stilled and cast into a concentrated trance, can lose itself in the divine consciousness and the soul be made free to unite with the divine Being.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Self-Perfection, The Principle of the Integral Yoga, 609,#KEYS
116:the first necessity; :::
The first necessity is to dissolve that central faith and vision in the mind which concentrate it on its development and satisfaction and interests in the old externalised order of things. It is imperative to exchange this surface orientation for the deeper faith and vision which see only the Divine and seek only after the Divine. The next need is to compel all our lower being to pay homage to this new faith and greater vision. All our nature must make an integral surrender; it must offer itself in every part and every movement to that which seems to the unregenerated sensemind so much less real than the material world and its objects. Our whole being - soul, mind, sense, heart, will, life, body - must consecrate all its energies so entirely and in such a way that it shall become a fit vehicle for the Divine. This is no easy task; for everything in the world follows the fixed habit which is to it a law and resists a radical change. And no change can be more radical than the revolution attempted in the integral Yoga. Everything in us has constantly to be called back to the central faith and will and vision. Every thought and impulse has to be reminded in the language of the Upanishad that That is the divine Brahman and not this which men here adore. Every vital fibre has to be persuaded to accept an entire renunciation of all that hitherto represented to it its own existence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, 72,#KEYS
117:When, then, by the withdrawal of the centre of consciousness from identification with the mind, life and body, one has discovered ones true self, discovered the oneness of that self with the pure, silent, immutable Brahman, discovered in the immutable, in the Akshara Brahman, that by which the individual being escapes from his own personality into the impersonal, the first movement of the Path of Knowledge has been completed. It is the sole that is absolutely necessary for the traditional aim of the Yoga of Knowledge, for immergence, for escape from cosmic existence, for release into the absolute and ineffable Parabrahman who is beyond all cosmic being. The seeker of this ultimate release may take other realisations on his way, may realise the Lord of the universe, the Purusha who manifests Himself in all creatures, may arrive at the cosmic consciousness, may know and feel his unity with all beings; but these are only stages or circumstances of his journey, results of the unfolding of his soul as it approaches nearer the ineffable goal. To pass beyond them all is his supreme object. When on the other hand, having attained to the freedom and the silence and the peace, we resume possession by the cosmic consciousness of the active as well as the silent Brahman and can securely live in the divine freedom as well as rest in it, we have completed the second movement of the Path by which the integrality of self-knowledge becomes the station of the liberated soul.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
118:The hours spent in meditation is no proof of spiritual progress. It is proof of your progress when you no longer have to make an effort to meditate. Then you have rather to make an effort to stop meditating: it becomes difficult to stop meditation, difficult to stop thinking of the Divine, difficult to come down to the ordinary consciousness. Then you are sure of progress, then you have made real progress when concentrating on the Divine is the necessity of your life, when you cannot do without it, when it continues naturally from morning to night whatever you may be engaged in doing. Whether you sit down to meditation or go about and do things and work, what is required of you is consciousness; that is the one need - to be constantly conscious of the Divine.
But is not sitting down to meditation an indispensable discipline, and does it not give a more intense and concentrated union with the Divine?
That may be. But a discipline in itself is not what we are seeking. What we are seeking is to be concentrated on the Divine in all that we do, at all times, in all our acts and in every movement. There are some here who have been told to meditate; but also there are others who have not been asked to do any meditation at all. But it must not be thought that they are not progressing. They too follow a discipline, but it is of another nature. To work, to act with devotion and an inner consecration is also a spiritual discipline. The final aim is to be in constant union with the Divine, not only in meditation but in all circumstances and in all the active life. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
119:I have spoken of Sri Aurobindo's life as a series of radical turns that changed the movement, the mode of life, almost radically every time the turn came. The turn meant a break with the past and a moving into the future. We have a word for this phenomenon of radical and unforeseen change. You know the word, it is intervention. Intervention means, as the Mother has explained to us more than once, the entry of a higher, a greater force from another world into the already existent world. Into the familiar established mode of existence that runs on the routine of some definite rules and regulations, the Law of the present, there drops all on a sudden another mode of being and consciousness and force, a Higher Law which obliterates or changes out of recognition the familiar mode of living; it is thus that one rises from level to level, moves out into wider ranges of being, otherwise one stands still, remains for ever what he is, stagnant, like an unchanging clod or at the most a repetitive animal. The higher the destiny, the higher also the source of intervention, that is to say, more radical - more destructive yet more creative - destructive of the past, creative of the future.
I have spoken of the passing away of Sri Aurobindo as a phenomenon of intervention, a great decisive event in view of the work to be done. Even so we may say that his birth too was an act of intervention, a deliberate divine intervention. The world needed it, the time was ripe and the intervention happened and that was his birth as an embodied human being - to which we offer our salutation and obeisance today. ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta,#KEYS
120:How can faith be increased?
Through aspiration, I suppose. Some have it spontaneously... You see, it is difficult to pray if one doesn't have faith, but if one can make prayer a means of increasing one's faith, or aspiring, having an aspiration, having an aspiration to have faith... Most of these qualities require an effort. If one does not have a thing and wants to have it, well, it needs great, great, great sustained efforts, a constant aspiration, an unflagging will, a sincerity at each moment; then one is sure, it will come one day - it can come in a second. There are people who have it, and then they have contrary movements which come and attack. These people, if their will is sincere, can shield their faith, repel the attacks. There are others who cultivate doubt because it is a kind of dilettantism - that, there's nothing more dangerous than that. It is as though one were letting the worm into the fruit: it eventually eats it up completely. This means that when a movement of this sort comes - it usually comes first into the mind - the first thing to do is to be very determined and refuse it. Surely one must not enjoy looking on just to see what is going to happen; that kind of curiosity is terribly dangerous.
It is perhaps more difficult for intellectuals to have faith than for those who are simple, sincere, who are straightforward, without intellectual complications. But I think that if an intellectual person has faith, then that becomes very powerful, a very powerful thing which can truly work miracles. ~ The Mother, Question and Answers, Volume-6, page no.121),#KEYS
121:These are the conditions of our effort and they point to an ideal which can be expressed in these or in equivalent formulae. To live in God and not in the ego; to move, vastly founded, not in the little egoistic consciousness, but in the consciousness of the All-Soul and the Transcendent. To be perfectly equal in all happenings and to all beings, and to see and feel them as one with oneself and one with the Divine; to feel all in oneself and all in God; to feel God in all, oneself in all. To act in God and not in the ego. And here, first, not to choose action by reference to personal needs and standards, but in obedience to the dictates of the living highest Truth above us. Next, as soon as we are sufficiently founded in the spiritual consciousness, not to act any longer by our separate will or movement, but more and more to allow action to happen and develop under the impulsion and guidance of a divine Will that surpasses us. And last, the supreme result, to be exalted into an identity in knowledge, force, consciousness, act, joy of existence with the Divine Shakti; to feel a dynamic movement not dominated by mortal desire and vital instinct and impulse and illusive mental free-will, but luminously conceived and evolved in an immortal self-delight and an infinite self-knowledge. For this is the action that comes by a conscious subjection and merging of the natural man into the divine Self and eternal Spirit; it is the Spirit that for ever transcends and guides this world-Nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, Self-Surrender in Works - The Way of the Gita, [101],#KEYS
122:Instruction about Sadhana to a disciple:
Disciple: What is the nature of realisation in this yoga?
Sri Aurobindo: In this yoga we want to bring down the Truth-consciousness into the whole being - no part being left out. This can be done by the Higher Power itself. What you have to do is to open yourself to it.
Disciple: As the Higher Power is there why does it not work in all men - consciously?
Sri Aurobindo: Because man, at present, is shut up in his mental being, his vital nature and physical consciousness and their limitations. You have to open yourself. By an opening I mean an aspiration in the heart for the coming down of the Power that is above, and a will in the Mind, or above the Mind, open to it.
The first thing this working of the Higher Power does is to establish Shanti - peace - in all the parts of the being and an opening above. This peace is not mere mental Shanti, it is full of power and, whatever action takes place in it, Samata, equality, is its basis and the Shanti and Samata are never disturbed. What comes from Above is peace, power and joy. It also brings about changes in various parts of our nature so that they can bear the pressure of the Higher Power.
Knowledge also progressively develops showing all in our being that is to be thrown out and what is to be retained. In fact, knowledge and guidance both come and you have constantly to consent to the guidance. The progress may be more in one direction than in another. But it is the Higher Power that works. The rest is a matter of experience and the movement of the Shakti. ~ Sri Aurobindo, EVENING TALKS WITH SRI AUROBINDO, RECORDED BY A B PURANI (28-09-1923),#KEYS
123:Often in the beginning of the action this can be done; but as one gets engrossed in the work, one forgets. How is one to remember?
The condition to be aimed at, the real achievement of Yoga, the final perfection and attainment, for which all else is only a preparation, is a consciousness in which it is impossible to do anything without the Divine; for then, if you are without the Divine, the very source of your action disappears; knowledge, power, all are gone. But so long as you feel that the powers you use are your own, you will not miss the Divine support.
In the beginning of the Yoga you are apt to forget the Divine very often. But by constant aspiration you increase your remembrance and you diminish the forgetfulness. But this should not be done as a severe discipline or a duty; it must be a movement of love and joy. Then very soon a stage will come when, if you do not feel the presence of the Divine at every moment and whatever you are doing, you feel at once lonely and sad and miserable.
Whenever you find that you can do something without feeling the presence of the Divine and yet be perfectly comfortable, you must understand that you are not consecrated in that part of your being. That is the way of the ordinary humanity which does not feel any need of the Divine. But for a seeker of the Divine Life it is very different. And when you have entirely realised unity with the Divine, then, if the Divine were only for a second to withdraw from you, you would simply drop dead; for the Divine is now the Life of your life, your whole existence, your single and complete support. If the Divine is not there, nothing is left. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
124:The sign of the immersion of the embodied soul in Prakriti is the limitation of consciousness to the ego. The vivid stamp of this limited consciousness can be seen in a constant inequality of the mind and heart and a confused conflict and disharmony in their varied reactions to the touches of experience. The human reactions sway perpetually between the dualities created by the soul's subjection to Nature and by its often intense but narrow struggle for mastery and enjoyment, a struggle for the most part ineffective. The soul circles in an unending round of Nature's alluring and distressing opposites, success and failure, good fortune and ill fortune, good and evil, sin and virtue, joy and grief, pain and pleasure. It is only when, awaking from its immersion in Prakriti, it perceives its oneness with the One and its oneness with all existences that it can become free from these things and found its right relation to this executive world-Nature. Then it becomes indifferent to her inferior modes, equal-minded to her dualities, capable of mastery and freedom; it is seated above her as the high-throned knower and witness filled with the calm intense unalloyed delight of his own eternal existence. The embodied spirit continues to express its powers in action, but it is no longer involved in ignorance, no longer bound by its works; its actions have no longer a consequence within it, but only a consequence outside in Prakriti. The whole movement of Nature becomes to its experience a rising and falling of waves on the surface that make no difference to its own unfathomable peace, its wide delight, its vast universal equality or its boundless God-existence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
125:The whole crux and difficulty of human life lies here. Man is this mental being, this mental consciousness working as mental force, aware in a way of the universal force and life of which he is part but, because he has not knowledge of its universality or even of the totality of his own being, unable to deal either with life in general or with his own life in a really effective and victorious movement of mastery. He seeks to know Matter in order to be master of the material environment, to know Life in order to be master of the vital existence, to know Mind in order to be master of the great obscure movement of mentality in which he is not only a jet of light of self-consciousness like the animal, but also more and more a flame of growing knowledge. Thus he seeks to know himself in order to be master of himself, to know the world in order to be master of the world. This is the urge of Existence in him, the necessity of the Consciousness he is, the impulsion of the Force that is his life, the secret will of Sachchidananda appearing as the individual in a world in which He expresses and yet seems to deny Himself. To find the conditions under which this inner impulsion is satisfied is the problem man must strive always to resolve and to that he is compelled by the very nature of his own existence and by the Deity seated within him; and until the problem is solved, the impulse satisfied, the human race cannot rest from its labour. Either man must fulfil himself by satisfying the Divine within him or he must produce out of himself a new and greater being who will be more capable of satisfying it. He must either himself become a divine humanity or give place to Superman.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,#KEYS
126:In all that is done in the universe, the Divine through his Shakti is behind all action but he is veiled by his Yoga Maya and works through the ego of the Jiva in the lower nature.
In Yoga also it is the Divine who is the Sadhaka and the Sadhana; it is his Shakti with her light, power, knowledge, consciousness, Ananda, acting upon the adhara and, when it is opened to her, pouring into it with these divine forces that makes the Sadhana possible. But so long as the lower nature is active the personal effort of the Sadhaka remains necessary.
The personal effort required is a triple labour of aspiration, rejection and surrender, -
an aspiration vigilant, constant, unceasing - the mind's will, the heart's seeking, the assent of the vital being, the will to open and make plastic the physical consciousness and nature;
rejection of the movements of the lower nature - rejection of the mind's ideas, opinions, preferences, habits, constructions, so that the true knowledge may find free room in a silent mind, - rejection of the vital nature's desires, demands, cravings, sensations, passions, selfishness, pride, arrogance, lust, greed, jealousy, envy, hostility to the Truth, so that the true power and joy may pour from above into a calm, large, strong and consecrated vital being, - rejection of the physical nature's stupidity, doubt, disbelief, obscurity, obstinacy, pettiness, laziness, unwillingness to change, tamas, so that the true stability of Light, Power, Ananda may establish itself in a body growing always more divine;
surrender of oneself and all one is and has and every plane of the consciousness and every movement to the Divine and the Shakti.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother,#KEYS
127:The link between the spiritual and the lower planes of the mental being is that which is called in the old Vedantic phraseology the vijnana and which we may term the Truth-plane or the ideal mind or supermind where the One and the Many meet and our being is freely open to the revealing light of the divine Truth and the inspiration of the divine Will and Knowledge. If we can break down the veil of the intellectual, emotional, sensational mind which our ordinary existence has built between us and the Divine, we can then take up through the Truth-mind all our mental, vital and physical experience and offer it up to the spiritual -- this was the secret or mystic sense of the old Vedic "sacrifice" -- to be converted into the terms of the infinite truth of Sachchidananda, and we can receive the powers and illuminations of the infinite Existence in forms of a divine knowledge, will and delight to be imposed on our mentality, vitality, physical existence till the lower is transformed into the perfect vessel of the higher. This was the double Vedic movement of the descent and birth of the gods in the human creature and the ascent of the human powers that struggle towards the divine knowledge, power and delight and climb into the godheads, the result of which was the possession of the One, the Infinite, the beatific existence, the union with God, the Immortality. By possession of this ideal plane we break down entirely the opposition of the lower and the higher existence, the false gulf created by the Ignorance between the finite and the Infinite, God and Nature, the One and the Many, open the gates of the Divine, fulfil the individual in the complete harmony of the cosmic consciousness and realise in the cosmic being the epiphany of the transcendent Sachchidananda. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, 2.15, #KEYS
128:There is, indeed, a higher form of the buddhi that can be called the intuitive mind or intuitive reason, and this by its intuitions, its inspirations, its swift revelatory vision, its luminous insight and discrimination can do the work of the reason with a higher power, a swifter action, a greater and spontaneous certitude. It acts in a self-light of the truth which does not depend upon the torch-flares of the sense-mind and its limited uncertain percepts; it proceeds not by intelligent but by visional concepts: It is a kind of truth-vision, truth-hearing, truth-memory, direct truth-discernment. This true and authentic intuition must be distinguished from a power of the ordinary mental reason which is too easily confused with it, that power of Involved reasoning that reaches its conclusion by a bound and does not need the ordinary steps of the logical mind. The logical reason proceeds pace after pace and tries the sureness of each step like a marl who is walking over unsafe ground and has to test by the hesitating touch of his foot each span of soil that he perceives with his eye. But this other supralogical process of the reason is a motion of rapid insight or swift discernment; it proceeds by a stride or leap, like a man who springs from one sure spot to another point of sure footing, -- or at least held by him to be sure. He sees this space he covers in one compact and flashing view, but he does not distinguish or measure either by eye or touch its successions, features and circumstances. This movement has something of the sense of power of the intuition, something of its velocity, some appearance of its light and certainty, arid we always are apt to take it for the intuition. But our assumption is an error and, if we trust to it, it may lead us into grievous blunders.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
129: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
130:A distinction has to be firmly seized in our consciousness, the capital distinction between mechanical Nature and the free Lord of Nature, between the Ishwara or single luminous divine Will and the many executive modes and forces of the universe. Nature, - not as she is in her divine Truth, the conscious Power of the Eternal, but as she appears to us in the Ignorance, - is executive Force, mechanical in her steps, not consciously intelligent to our experience of her, although all her works are instinct with an absolute intelligence. Not in herself master, she is full of a self-aware Power which has an infinite mastery and, because of this Power driving her, she rules all and exactly fulfils the work intended in her by the Ishwara. Not enjoying but enjoyed, she bears in herself the burden of all enjoyments. Nature as Prakriti is an inertly active Force, - for she works out a movement imposed upon her; but within her is One that knows,
- some Entity sits there that is aware of all her motion and process. Prakriti works containing the knowledge, the mastery, the delight of the Purusha, the Being associated with her or seated within her; but she can participate in them only by subjection and reflection of that which fills her. Purusha knows and is still and inactive; he contains the action of Prakriti within his consciousness and knowledge and enjoys it. He gives the sanction to Prakriti's works and she works out what is sanctioned by him for his pleasure. Purusha himself does not execute; he maintains Prakriti in her action and allows her to express in energy and process and formed result what he perceives in his knowledge. This is the distinction made by the Sankhyas; and although it is not all the true truth, not in any way the highest truth either of Purusha or of Prakriti, still it is a valid and indispensable practical knowledge in the lower hemisphere of existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
131:One can concentrate in any of the three centres which is easiest to the sadhak or gives most result. The power of the concentration in the heart-centre is to open that centre and by the power of aspiration, love, bhakti, surrender remove the veil which covers and conceals the soul and bring forward the soul or psychic being to govern the mind, life and body and turn and open them all-fully-to the Divine, removing all that is opposed to that turning and opening.
This is what is called in this Yoga the psychic transformation. The power of concentration above the head is to bring peace, silence, liberation from the body sense, the identification with mind and life and open the way for the lower (mental vital-physical) consciousness to rise up to meet the higher Consciousness above and for the powers of the higher (spiritual or divine) Consciousness to descend into mind, life and body. This is what is called in this Yoga the spiritual transformation. If one begins with this movement, then the Power from above has in its descent to open all the centres (including the lowest centre) and to bring out the psychic being; for until that is done there is likely to be much difficulty and struggle of the lower consciousness obstructing, mixing with or even refusing the Divine Action from above. If the psychic being is once active this struggle and these difficulties can be greatly minimised. The power of concentration in the eyebrows is to open the centre there, liberate the inner mind and vision and the inner or Yogic consciousness and its experiences and powers. From here also one can open upwards and act also in the lower centres; but the danger of this process is that one may get shut up in one's mental spiritual formations and not come out of them into the free and integral spiritual experience and knowledge and integral change of the being and nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, [where to concentrate?],#KEYS
132:A distinction has to be firmly seized in our consciousness, the capital distinction between mechanical Nature and the free Lord of Nature, between the Ishwara or single luminous divine Will and the many executive modes and forces of the universe. Nature, - not as she is in her divine Truth, the conscious Power of the Eternal, but as she appears to us in the Ignorance, - is executive Force, mechanical in her steps, not consciously intelligent to our experience of her, although all her works are instinct with an absolute intelligence. Not in herself master, she is full of a self-aware Power which has an infinite mastery and, because of this Power driving her, she rules all and exactly fulfils the work intended in her by the Ishwara. Not enjoying but enjoyed, she bears in herself the burden of all enjoyments. Nature as Prakriti is an inertly active Force, - for she works out a movement imposed upon her; but within her is One that knows, - some Entity sits there that is aware of all her motion and process. Prakriti works containing the knowledge, the mastery, the delight of the Purusha, the Being associated with her or seated within her; but she can participate in them only by subjection and reflection of that which fills her. Purusha knows and is still and inactive; he contains the action of Prakriti within his consciousness and knowledge and enjoys it. He gives the sanction to Prakriti's works and she works out what is sanctioned by him for his pleasure. Purusha himself does not execute; he maintains Prakriti in her action and allows her to express in energy and process and formed result what he perceives in his knowledge. This is the distinction made by the Sankhyas; and although it is not all the true truth, not in any way the highest truth either of Purusha or of Prakriti, still it is a valid and indispensable practical knowledge in the lower hemisphere of existence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Surrender in Works,#KEYS
133:It must also be kept in mind that the supramental change is difficult, distant, an ultimate stage; it must be regarded as the end of a far-off vista; it cannot be and must not be turned into a first aim, a constantly envisaged goal or an immediate objective. For it can only come into the view of possibility after much arduous self-conquest and self-exceeding, at the end of many long and trying stages of a difficult self-evolution of the nature. One must first acquire an inner Yogic consciousness and replace by it our ordinary view of things, natural movements, motives of life; one must revolutionise the whole present build of our being. Next, we have to go still deeper, discover our veiled psychic entity and in its light and under its government psychicise our inner and outer parts, turn mind-nature, life-nature, body-nature and all our mental, vital, physical action and states and movements into a conscious instrumentation of the soul. Afterwards or concurrently we have to spiritualise the being in its entirety by a descent of a divine Light, Force, Purity, Knowledge, freedom and wideness. It is necessary to break down the limits of the personal mind, life and physicality, dissolve the ego, enter into the cosmic consciousness, realise the self, acquire a spiritualised and universalised mind and heart, life-force, physical consciousness. Then only the passage into the supramental consciousness begins to become possible, and even then there is a difficult ascent to make each stage of which is a separate arduous achievement. Yoga is a rapid and concentrated conscious evolution of the being, but however rapid, even though it may effect in a single life what in an instrumental Nature might take centuries and millenniums or many hundreds of lives, still all evolution must move by stages; even the greatest rapidity and concentration of the movement cannot swallow up all the stages or reverse natural process and bring the end near to the beginning.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supermind and the Yoga of Works, 281,#KEYS
134:indifference to things of the body :::
This detachment of the mind must be strengthened by a certain attitude of indifference to the things of the body; we must not care essentially about its sleep or its waking, its movement or its rest, its pain or its pleasure, its health or ill-health, its vigour or its fatigue, its comfort or its discomfort, or what it eats or drinks. This does not mean that we shall not keep the body in right order so far as we can; we have not to fall into violent asceticisms or a positive neglect of the physical frame. But we have not either to be affected in mind by hunger or thirst or discomfort or ill-health or attach the importance which the physical and vital man attaches to the things of the body, or indeed any but a quite subordinate and purely instrumental importance. Nor must this instrumental importance be allowed to assume the proportions of a necessity; we must not for instance imagine that the purity of the mind depends on the things we eat or drink, although during a certain stage restrictions in eating and drinking are useful to our inner progress; nor on the other hand must we continue to think that the dependence of the mind or even of the life on food and drink is anything more than a habit, a customary relation which Nature has set up between these principles. As a matter of fact the food we take can be reduced by contrary habit and new relation to a minimum without the mental or vital vigour being in any way reduced; even on the contrary with a judicious development they can be trained to a greater potentiality of vigour by learning to rely on the secret fountains of mental and vital energy with which they are connected more than upon the minor aid of physical aliments. This aspect of self-discipline is however more important in the Yoga of self-perfection than here; for our present purpose the important point is the renunciation by the mind of attachment to or dependence on the things of the body.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Release from Subjection to the Body,#KEYS
135:... The first opening is effected by a concentration in the heart, a call to the Divine to manifest within us and through the psychic to take up and lead the whole nature. Aspiration, prayer, bhakti, love, surrender are the main supports of this part of the sadhana - accompanied by a rejection of all that stands in the way of what we aspire for. The second opening is effected by a concentration of the consciousness in the head (afterwards, above it) and an aspiration and call and a sustained will for the descent of the divine Peace, Power, Light, Knowledge, Ananda into the being - the Peace first or the Peace and Force together. Some indeed receive Light first or Ananda first or some sudden pouring down of knowledge. With some there is first an opening which reveals to them a vast infinite Silence, Force, Light or Bliss above them and afterwards either they ascend to that or these things begin to descend into the lower nature. With others there is either the descent, first into the head, then down to the heart level, then to the navel and below and through the whole body, or else an inexplicable opening - without any sense of descent - of peace, light, wideness or power or else a horizontal opening into the cosmic consciousness or, in a suddenly widened mind, an outburst of knowledge. Whatever comes has to be welcomed - for there is no absolute rule for all, - but if the peace has not come first, care must be taken not to swell oneself in exultation or lose the balance. The capital movement however is when the Divine Force or Shakti, the power of the Mother comes down and takes hold, for then the organisation of the consciousness begins and the larger foundation of the Yoga.
The result of the concentration is not usually immediate - though to some there comes a swift and sudden outflowering; but with most there is a time longer or shorter of adaptation or preparation, especially if the nature has not been prepared already to some extent by aspiration and tapasya. ... ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother,#KEYS
136:My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance. There is no difference whatever; the results are the same. In this way I am able to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement I can think of and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form this final product of my brain. Invariably my device works as I conceived that it should, and the experiment comes out exactly as I planned it. In twenty years there has not been a single exception. Why should it be otherwise? Engineering, electrical and mechanical, is positive in results. There is scarcely a subject that cannot be examined beforehand, from the available theoretical and practical data. The carrying out into practice of a crude idea as is being generally done, is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money, and time. My early affliction had however, another compensation. The incessant mental exertion developed my powers of observation and enabled me to discover a truth of great importance. I had noted that the appearance of images was always preceded by actual vision of scenes under peculiar and generally very exceptional conditions, and I was impelled on each occasion to locate the original impulse. After a while this effort grew to be almost automatic and I gained great facility in connecting cause and effect. Soon I became aware, to my surprise, that every thought I conceived was suggested by an external impression. Not only this but all my actions were prompted in a similar way. In the course of time it became perfectly evident to me that I was merely an automation endowed with power OF MOVEMENT RESPONDING TO THE STIMULI OF THE SENSE ORGANS AND THINKING AND ACTING ACCORDINGLY.
~ Nikola Tesla, The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla,#KEYS
137:outward appearances..." I did not quite understand "the egoistic state of consciousness absorbed in the outward People are occupied with outward things. That means that the consciousness is turned towards external things - that is, all the things of life which one sees, knows, does - instead of being turned inwards in order to find the deeper truth, the divine Presence. This is the first movement. You are busy with all that you do, with the people around you, the things you use; and then with life: sleeping, eating, talking, working a little, having a little fun also; and then beginning over again: sleeping, eating, etc., etc., and then it begins again. And then what this one has said, what that one has done, what one ought to do, the lesson one ought to learn, the exercise one ought to prepare; and then again whether one is keeping well, whether one is feeling fit, etc.
This is what one usually thinks about.
So the first movement - and it is not so easy - is to make all that pass to the background, and let one thing come inside and in front of the consciousness as the important thing: the discovery of the very purpose of existence and life, to learn what one is, why one lives, and what there is behind all this. This is the first step: to be interested more in the cause and goal than in the manifestation. That is, the first movement is a withdrawal of the consciousness from this total identification with outward and apparent things, and a kind of inward concentration on what one wants to discover, the Truth one wants to discover.
This is the first movement.
Many people who are here forget one thing. They want to begin by the end. They think that they are ready to express in their life what they call the supramental Force or Consciousness, and they want to infuse this in their actions, their movements, their daily life. But the trouble is that they don't at all know what the supramental Force or Consciousness is and that first of all it is necessary to take the reverse path, the way of interiorisation and of withdrawal from life, in order to find within oneself this Truth which has to be expressed.
For as long as one has not found it, there is nothing to ~ The Mother,#KEYS
138:In the Indian spiritual tradition, a heart's devotion to God, called Bhakti, is regarded as the easiest path to the Divine. What is Bhakti? Is it some extravagant religious sentimentalism? Is it inferior to the path of Knowledge? What is the nature of pure and complete spiritual devotion to God and how to realise it?
What Is Devotion?
...bhakti in its fullness is nothing but an entire self-giving. But then all meditation, all tapasya, all means of prayer or mantra must have that as its end... [SABCL, 23:799]
Devotion Is a State of the Heart and Soul
Bhakti is not an experience, it is a state of the heart and soul. It is a state which comes when the psychic being is awake and prominent. [SABCL, 23:776]
...Worship is only the first step on the path of devotion. Where external worship changes into the inner adoration, real Bhakti begins; that deepens into the intensity of divine love; that love leads to the joy of closeness in our relations with the Divine; the joy of closeness passes into the bliss of union. [SABCL, 21:525]
Devotion without Gratitude Is Incomplete
...there is another movement which should constantly accompany devotion. ... That kind of sense of gratitude that the Divine exists; that feeling of a marvelling thankfulness which truly fills you with a sublime joy at the fact that the Divine exists, that there is something in the universe which is the Divine, that it is not just the monstrosity we see, that there is the Divine, the Divine exists. And each time that the least thing puts you either directly or indirectly in contactwith this sublime Reality of divine existence, the heart is filled with so intense, so marvellous a joy, such a gratitude as of all things has the most delightful taste.
There is nothing which gives you a joy equal to that of gratitude. One hears a bird sing, sees a lovely flower, looks at a little child, observes an act of generosity, reads a beautiful sentence, looks at the setting sun, no matter what, suddenly this comes upon you, this kind of emotion-indeed so deep, so intense-that the world manifests the Divine, that there is something behind the world which is the Divine.
So I find that devotion without gratitude is quite incomplete, gratitude must come with devotion. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
139:Imperial Maheshwari is seated in the wideness above the thinking mind and will and sublimates and greatens them into wisdom and largeness or floods with a splendour beyond them. For she is the mighty and wise One who opens us to supramental infinities and the cosmic vastness, to the grandeur of the supreme Light, to a treasure-house of miraculous knowledge, to the measureless movement of the Mother's eternal forces. Tranquil is she and wonderful, great and calm for ever. Nothing can move her because all wisdom is in her; nothing is hidden from her that she chooses to know; she comprehends all things and all beings and their nature and what moves them and the law of the world and its times and how all was and is and must be. A strength is in her that meets everything and masters and none can prevail in the end against her vast intangible wisdom and high tranquil power. Equal, patient, unalterable in her will she deals with men according to their nature and with things and happenings according to their Force and truth that is in them. Partiality she has none, but she follows the decrees of the Supreme and some she raises up and some she casts down or puts away into the darkness. To the wise she gives a greater and more luminous wisdom; those that have vision she admits to her counsels; on the hostile she imposes the consequence of their hostility; the ignorant and foolish she leads them according to their blindness. In each man she answers and handles the different elements of his nature according to their need and their urge and the return they call for, puts on them the required pressure or leaves them to their cherished liberty to prosper in the ways of the Ignorance or to perish. For she is above all, bound by nothing, attached to nothing in the universe. Yet she has more than any other the heart of the universal Mother. For her compassion is endless and inexhaustible; all are to her eyes her children and portions of the One, even the Asura and Rakshasa and Pisacha and those that are revolted and hostile. Even her rejections are only a postponement, even her punishments are a grace. But her compassion does not blind her wisdom or turn her action from the course decreed; for the Truth of things is her one concern, knowledge her centre of power and to build our soul and our nature into the divine Truth her mission and her labour.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, [39],#KEYS
140:requirements for the psychic :::
At a certain stage in the Yoga when the mind is sufficiently quieted and no longer supports itself at every step on the sufficiency of its mental certitudes, when the vital has been steadied and subdued and is no longer constantly insistent on its own rash will, demand and desire, when the physical has been sufficiently altered not to bury altogether the inner flame under the mass of its outwardness, obscurity or inertia, an inmost being hidden within and felt only in its rare influences is able to come forward and illumine the rest and take up the lead of the sadhana. Its character is a one-pointed orientation towards the Divine or the Highest, one-pointed and yet plastic in action and movement; it does not create a rigidity of direction like the one-pointed intellect or a bigotry of the regnant idea or impulse like the one-pointed vital force; it is at every moment and with a supple sureness that it points the way to the Truth, automatically distinguishes the right step from the false, extricates the divine or Godward movement from the clinging mixture of the undivine. Its action is like a searchlight showing up all that has to be changed in the nature; it has in it a flame of will insistent on perfection, on an alchemic transmutation of all the inner and outer existence. It sees the divine essence everywhere but rejects the mere mask and the disguising figure. It insists on Truth, on will and strength and mastery, on Joy and Love and Beauty, but on a Truth of abiding Knowledge that surpasses the mere practical momentary truth of the Ignorance, on an inward joy and not on mere vital pleasure, -- for it prefers rather a purifying suffering and sorrow to degrading satisfactions, -- on love winged upward and not tied to the stake of egoistic craving or with its feet sunk in the mire, on beauty restored to its priesthood of interpretation of the Eternal, on strength and will and mastery as instruments not of the ego but of the Spirit. Its will is for the divinisation of life, the expression through it of a higher Truth, its dedication to the Divine and the Eternal.
But the most intimate character of the psychic is its pressure towards the Divine through a sacred love, joy and oneness. It is the divine Love that it seeks most, it is the love of the Divine that is its spur, its goal, its star of Truth shining over the luminous cave of the nascent or the still obscure cradle of the new-born godhead within us.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 1,#KEYS
141: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
142:
Are not offering and surrender to the Divine the same thing?
They are two aspects of the same thing, but not altogether the same. One is more active than the other. They do not belong to quite the same plane of existence.
For example, you have decided to offer your life to the Divine, you take that decision. But all of a sudden, something altogether unpleasant, unexpected happens to you and your first movement is to react and protest. Yet you have made the offering, you have said once for all: "My life belongs to the Divine", and then suddenly an extremely unpleasant incident happens (that can happen) and there is something in you that reacts, that does not want it. But here, if you want to be truly logical with your offering, you must bring forward this unpleasant incident, make an offering of it to the Divine, telling him very sincerely: "Let Your will be done; if You have decided it that way, it will be that way." And this must be a willing and spontaneous adhesion. So it is very difficult.
Even for the smallest thing, something that is not in keeping with what you expected, what you have worked for, instead of an opposite reaction coming in - spontaneously, irresistibly, you draw back: "No, not that" - if you have made a complete surrender, a total surrender, well, it does not happen like that: you are as quiet, as peaceful, as calm in one case as in the other. And perhaps you had the notion that it would be better if it happened in a certain way, but if it happens differently, you find that this also is all right. You might have, for example, worked very hard to do a certain thing, so that something might happen, you might have given much time, much of your energy, much of your will, and all that not for your own sake, but, say, for the divine work (that is the offering); now suppose that after having taken all this trouble, done all this work, made all these efforts, it all goes just the other way round, it does not succeed. If you are truly surrendered, you say: "It is good, it is all good, it is all right; I did what I could, as well as I could, now it is not my decision, it is the decision of the Divine, I accept entirely what He decides." On the other hand, if you do not have this deep and spontaneous surrender, you tell yourself: "How is it? I took so much trouble to do a thing which is not for a selfish purpose, which is for the Divine Work, and this is the result, it is not successful!" Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it is like that.
True surrender is a very difficult thing.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 52,#KEYS
143:they are acting all the while in the spirit of rajasic ahaṅkara, persuade themselves that God is working through them and they have no part in the action. This is because they are satisfied with the mere intellectual assent to the idea without waiting for the whole system and life to be full of it. A continual remembrance of God in others and renunciation of individual eagerness (spr.ha) are needed and a careful watching of our inner activities until God by the full light of self-knowledge, jñanadı̄pena bhasvata, dispels all further chance of self-delusion. The danger of tamogun.a is twofold, first, when the Purusha thinks, identifying himself with the tamas in him, "I am weak, sinful, miserable, ignorant, good-for-nothing, inferior to this man and inferior to that man, adhama, what will God do through me?" - as if God were limited by the temporary capacities or incapacities of his instruments and it were not true that he can make the dumb to talk and the lame to cross the hills, mūkaṁ karoti vacalaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim, - and again when the sadhak tastes the relief, the tremendous relief of a negative santi and, feeling himself delivered from all troubles and in possession of peace, turns away from life and action and becomes attached to the peace and ease of inaction. Remember always that you too are Brahman and the divine Shakti is working in you; reach out always to the realisation of God's omnipotence and his delight in the Lila. He bids Arjuna work lokasaṅgraharthaya, for keeping the world together, for he does not wish the world to sink back into Prakriti, but insists on your acting as he acts, "These worlds would be overpowered by tamas and sink into Prakriti if I did not do actions." To be attached to inaction is to give up our action not to God but to our tamasic ahaṅkara. The danger of the sattvagun.a is when the sadhak becomes attached to any one-sided conclusion of his reason, to some particular kriya or movement of the sadhana, to the joy of any particular siddhi of the yoga, perhaps the sense of purity or the possession of some particular power or the Ananda of the contact with God or the sense of freedom and hungers after it, becomes attached to that only and would have nothing else. Remember that the yoga is not for yourself; for these things, though they are part of the siddhi, are not the object of the siddhi, for you have decided at the beginning to make no claim upon God but take what he gives you freely and, as for the Ananda, the selfless soul will even forego the joy of God's presence, ... ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #KEYS
144:How can one become conscious of Divine Love and an instrument of its expression?
First, to become conscious of anything whatever, you must will it. And when I say "will it", I don't mean saying one day, "Oh! I would like it very much", then two days later completely forgetting it.
To will it is a constant, sustained, concentrated aspiration, an almost exclusive occupation of the consciousness. This is the first step. There are many others: a very attentive observation, a very persistent analysis, a very keen discernment of what is pure in the movement and what is not. If you have an imaginative faculty, you may try to imagine and see if your imagination tallies with reality. There are people who believe that it is enough to wake up one day in a particular mood and say, "Ah! How I wish to be conscious of divine Love, how I wish to manifest divine Love...." Note, I don't know how many millions of times one feels within a little stirring up of human instinct and imagines that if one had at one's disposal divine Love, great things could be accomplished, and one says, "I am going to try and find divine Love and we shall see the result." This is the worst possible way. Because, before having even touched the very beginning of realisation you have spoilt the result. You must take up your search with a purity of aspiration and surrender which in themselves are already difficult to acquire. You must have worked much on yourself only to be ready to aspire to this Love. If you look at yourself very sincerely, very straight, you will see that as soon as you begin to think of Love it is always your little inner tumult which starts whirling. All that aspires in you wants certain vibrations. It is almost impossible, without being far advanced on the yogic path, to separate the vital essence, the vital vibration from your conception of Love. What I say is founded on an assiduous experience of human beings. Well, for you, in the state in which you are, as you are, if you had a contact with pure divine Love, it would seem to you colder than ice, or so far-off, so high that you would not be able to breathe; it would be like the mountain-top where you would feel frozen and find it difficult to breathe, so very far would it be from what you normally feel. Divine Love, if not clothed with a psychic or vital vibration, is difficult for a human being to perceive. One can have an impression of grace, of a grace which is something so far, so high, so pure, so impersonal that... yes, one can have the feeling of grace, but it is with difficulty that one feels Love.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1950-1951,#KEYS
145:Vijnana, true ideation, called ritam, truth or vedas, knowledge in the Vedas, acts in human mind by four separate functions; revelation, termed drishti, sight; inspiration termed sruti,hearing; and the two faculties of discernment, smriti, memory,which are intuition, termed ketu, and discrimination, termed daksha, division, or viveka, separation. By drishti we see ourselves the truth face to face, in its own form, nature or self-existence; by sruti we hear the name, sound or word by which the truth is expressed & immediately suggested to the knowledge; by ketu we distinguish a truth presented to us behind a veil whether of result or process, as Newton discovered the law of gravitation hidden behind the fall of the apple; by viveka we distinguish between various truths and are able to put them in their right place, order and relation to each other, or, if presented with mingled truth & error, separate the truth from the falsehood. Agni Jatavedas is termed in the Veda vivichi, he who has the viveka, who separates truth from falsehood; but this is only a special action of the fourth ideal faculty & in its wider scope, it is daksha, that which divides & rightly distributes truth in its multiform aspects. The ensemble of the four faculties is Vedas or divine knowledge. When man is rising out of the limited & error-besieged mental principle, the faculty most useful to him, most indispensable is daksha or viveka. Drishti of Vijnana transmuted into terms of mind has become observation, sruti appears as imagination, intuition as intelligent perception, viveka as reasoning & intellectual judgment and all of these are liable to the constant touch of error. Human buddhi, intellect, is a distorted shadow of the true ideative faculties. As we return from these shadows to their ideal substance viveka or daksha must be our constant companion; for viveka alone can get rid of the habit of mental error, prevent observation being replaced by false illumination, imagination by false inspiration, intelligence by false intuition, judgment & reason by false discernment. The first sign of human advance out of the anritam of mind to the ritam of the ideal faculty is the growing action of a luminous right discernment which fixes instantly on the truth, feels instantly the presence of error. The fullness, the manhana of this viveka is the foundation & safeguard of Ritam or Vedas. The first great movement of Agni Jatavedas is to transform by the divine will in mental activity his lower smoke-covered activity into the bright clearness & fullness of the ideal discernment. Agne adbhuta kratw a dakshasya manhana.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns To The Mystic Fire, 717,#KEYS
146:The last sentence: "...in the Truth-Creation the law is that of a constant unfolding without any Pralaya." What is this constant unfolding?
The Truth-Creation... it is the last line? (Mother consults the book) I think we have already spoken about this several times. It has been said that in the process of creation, there is the movement of creation followed by a movement of preservation and ending in a movement of disintegration or destruction; and even it has been repeated very often: "All that begins must end", etc., etc.
In fact in the history of our universe there have been six consecutive periods which began by a creation, were prolonged by a force of preservation and ended by a disintegration, a destruction, a return to the Origin, which is called Pralaya; and that is why this tradition is there. But it has been said that the seventh creation would be a progressive creation, that is, after the starting-point of the creation, instead of its being simply followed by a preservation, it would be followed by a progressive manifestation which would express the Divine more and more completely, so that no disintegration and return to the Origin would be necessary. And it has been announced that the period we are in is precisely the seventh, that is, it would not end by a Pralaya, a return to the Origin, a destruction, a disappearance, but that it would be replaced by a constant progress, because it would be a more and more perfect unfolding of the divine Origin in its creation.
And this is what Sri Aurobindo says. He speaks of a constant unfolding, that is, the Divine manifests more and more completely; more and more perfectly, in a progressive creation. It is the nature of this progression which makes the return to the Origin, the destruction no longer necessary. All that does not progress disappears, and that is why physical bodies die, it's because they are not progressive; they are progressive up to a certain moment, then there they stop and most often they remain stable for a certain time, and then they begin to decline, and then disappear. It's because the physical body, physical matter as it is at present is not plastic enough to be able to progress constantly. But it is not impossible to make it sufficiently plastic for the perfecting of the physical body to be such that it no longer needs disintegration, that is, death.
Only, this cannot be realised except by the descent of the Supermind which is a force higher than all those which have so far manifested and which will give the body a plasticity that will allow it to progress constantly, that is, to follow the divine movement in its unfolding. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955, 207-209,#KEYS
147:Has creation a definite aim? Is there something like a final end to which it is moving?
The Mother: No, the universe is a movement that is eternally unrolling itself. There is nothing which you can fix upon as the end and one aim. But for the sake of action we have to section the movement, which is itself unending, and to say that this or that is the goal, for in action we need something upon which we can fix our aim. In a picture you need a definite scheme of composition and colour; you have to set a limit, to put the whole thing within a fixed framework; but the limit is illusory, the frame is a mere convention. There is a constant continuation of the picture that stretches beyond any particular frame, and each continuation can be drawn in the same conditions in an unending series of frames. Our aim is this or that, we say, but we know that it is only the beginning of another aim beyond it, and that in its turn leads to yet another; the series develop always and never stop.
What is the proper function of the intellect? Is it a help or a hindrance to Sadhana?
Whether the intellect is a help or a hindrance depends upon the person and upon the way in which it is used. There is a true movement of the intellect and there is a wrong movement; one helps, the other hinders. The intellect that believes too much in its own importance and wants satisfaction for its own sake, is an obstacle to the higher realisation.
But this is true not in any special sense or for the intellect alone, but generally and of other faculties as well. For example, people do not regard an all-engrossing satisfaction of the vital desires or the animal appetites as a virtue; the moral sense is accepted as a mentor to tell one the bounds that one may not transgress. It is only in his intellectual activities that man thinks he can do without any such mentor or censor!
Any part of the being that keeps to its proper place and plays its appointed role is helpful; but directly it steps beyond its sphere, it becomes twisted and perverted and therefore false. A power has the right movement when it is set into activity for the divine's purpose; it has the wrong movement when it is set into activity for its own satisfaction.
The intellect, in its true nature, is an instrument of expression and action. It is something like an intermediary between the true knowledge, whose seat is in the higher regions above the mind, and realisation here below. The intellect or, generally speaking, the mind gives the form; the vital puts in the dynamism and life-power; the material comes in last and embodies. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931, 28th April 1931 and 5th May 1929,#KEYS
148:The preliminary movement of Rajayoga is careful self-discipline by which good habits of mind are substituted for the lawless movements that indulge the lower nervous being. By the practice of truth, by renunciation of all forms of egoistic seeking, by abstention from injury to others, by purity, by constant meditation and inclination to the divine Purusha who is the true lord of the mental kingdom, a pure, clear state of mind and heart is established.
This is the first step only. Afterwards, the ordinary activities of the mind and sense must be entirely quieted in order that the soul may be free to ascend to higher states of consciousness and acquire the foundation for a perfect freedom and self-mastery. 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 pranayama, 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 kundalini, 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 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.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Systems of Yoga, 36,#KEYS
149:
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
150:It is then by a transformation of life in its very principle, not by an external manipulation of its phenomena, that the integral Yoga proposes to change it from a troubled and ignorant into a luminous and harmonious movement of Nature. There are three conditions which are indispensable for the achievement of this central inner revolution and new formation; none of them is altogether sufficient in itself, but by their united threefold power the uplifting can be done, the conversion made and completely made. For, first, life as it is is a movement of desire and it has built in us as its centre a desire-soul which refers to itself all the motions of life and puts in them its own troubled hue and pain of an ignorant, half-lit, baffled endeavour: for a divine living, desire must be abolished and replaced by a purer and firmer motive-power, the tormented soul of desire dissolved and in its stead there must emerge the calm, strength, happiness of a true vital being now concealed within us. Next, life as it is is driven or led partly by the impulse of the life-force, partly by a mind which is mostly a servant and abettor of the ignorant life-impulse, but in part also its uneasy and not too luminous or competent guide and mentor; for a divine life the mind and the life-impulse must cease to be anything but instruments and the inmost psychic being must take their place as the leader on the path and the indicator of a divine guidance. Last, life as it is is turned towards the satisfaction of the separative ego; ego must disappear and be replaced by the true spiritual person, the central being, and life itself must be turned towards the fulfilment of the Divine in terrestrial existence; it must feel a Divine Force awaking within it and become an obedient instrumentation of its purpose.
There is nothing that is not ancient and familiar in the first of these three transforming inner movements; for it has always been one of the principal objects of spiritual discipline. It has been best formulated in the already expressed doctrine of the Gita by which a complete renouncement of desire for the fruits as the motive of action, a complete annulment of desire itself, the complete achievement of a perfect equality are put forward as the normal status of a spiritual being. A perfect spiritual equality is the one true and infallible sign of the cessation of desire, - to be equal-souled to all things, unmoved by joy and sorrow, the pleasant and the unpleasant, success or failure, to look with an equal eye on high and low, friend and enemy, the virtuous and the sinner, to see in all beings the manifold manifestation of the One and in all things the multitudinous play or the slow masked evolution of the embodied Spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 176,#KEYS
151:- for every well-made and significant poem, picture, statue or building is an act of creative knowledge, a living discovery of the consciousness, a figure of Truth, a dynamic form of mental and vital self-expression or world-expression, - all that seeks, all that finds, all that voices or figures is a realisation of something of the play of the Infinite and to that extent can be made a means of God-realisation or of divine formation. But the Yogin has to see that it is no longer done as part of an ignorant mental life; it can be accepted by him only if by the feeling, the remembrance, the dedication within it, it is turned into a movement of the spiritual consciousness and becomes a part of its vast grasp of comprehensive illuminating knowledge.
For all must be done as a sacrifice, all activities must have the One Divine for their object and the heart of their meaning. The Yogin's aim in the sciences that make for knowledge should be to discover and understand the workings of the Divine Consciousness-Puissance in man and creatures and things and forces, her creative significances, her execution of the mysteries, the symbols in which she arranges the manifestation. The Yogin's aim in the practical sciences, whether mental and physical or occult and psychic, should be to enter into the ways of the Divine and his processes, to know the materials and means for the work given to us so that we may use that knowledge for a conscious and faultless expression of the spirit's mastery, joy and self-fulfilment. The Yogin's aim in the Arts should not be a mere aesthetic, mental or vital gratification, but, seeing the Divine everywhere, worshipping it with a revelation of the meaning of its own works, to express that One Divine in ideal forms, the One Divine in principles and forces, the One Divine in gods and men and creatures and objects. The theory that sees an intimate connection between religious aspiration and the truest and greatest Art is in essence right; but we must substitute for the mixed and doubtful religious motive a spiritual aspiration, vision, interpreting experience. For the wider and more comprehensive the seeing, the more it contains in itself the sense of the hidden Divine in humanity and in all things and rises beyond a superficial religiosity into the spiritual life, the more luminous, flexible, deep and powerful will the Art be that springs from that high motive. The Yogin's distinction from other men is this that he lives in a higher and vaster spiritual consciousness; all his work of knowledge or creation must then spring from there: it must not be made in the mind, - for it is a greater truth and vision than mental man's that he has to express or rather that presses to express itself through him and mould his works, not for his personal satisfaction, but for a divine purpose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 1, 142 [T4],#KEYS
152:An integral Yoga includes as a vital and indispensable element in its total and ultimate aim the conversion of the whole being into a higher spiritual consciousness and a larger divine existence. Our parts of will and action, our parts of knowledge, our thinking being, our emotional being, our being of life, all our self and nature must seek the Divine, enter into the Infinite, unite with the Eternal. But mans present nature is limited, divided, unequal, -- it is easiest for him to concentrate in the strongest part of his being and follow a definite line of progress proper to his nature: only rare individuals have the strength to take a large immediate plunge straight into the sea of the Divine Infinity. Some therefore must choose as a starting-point a concentration in thought or contemplation or the minds one-pointedness to find the eternal reality of the Self in them; others can more easily withdraw into the heart to meet there the Divine, the Eternal: yet others are predominantly dynamic and active; for these it is best to centre themselves in the will and enlarge their being through works. United with the Self and source of all by their surrender of their will into its infinity, guided in their works by the secret Divinity within or surrendered to the Lord of the cosmic action as the master and mover of all their energies of thought, feeling, act, becoming by this enlargement of being selfless and universal, they can reach by works some first fullness of a spiritual status. But the path, whatever its point of starting, must debouch into a vaster dominion; it must proceed in the end through a totality of integrated knowledge, emotion, will of dynamic action, perfection of the being and the entire nature. In the supramental consciousness, on the level of the supramental existence this integration becomes consummate; there knowledge, will, emotion, the perfection of the self and the dynamic nature rise each to its absolute of itself and all to their perfect harmony and fusion with each other, to a divine integrality, a divine perfection. For the supermind is a Truth-Consciousness in which the Divine Reality, fully manifested, no longer works with the instrumentation of the Ignorance; a truth of status of being which is absolute becomes dynamic in a truth of energy and activity of the being which is self-existent and perfect. Every movement there is a movement of the self-aware truth of Divine Being and every part is in entire harmony with the whole. Even the most limited and finite action is in the Truth-Consciousness a movement of the Eternal and Infinite and partakes of the inherent absoluteness and perfection of the Eternal and Infinite. An ascent into the supramental Truth not only raises our spiritual and essential consciousness to that height but brings about a descent of this Light and Truth into all our being and all our parts of nature. All then becomes part of the Divine Truth, an element and means of the supreme union and oneness; this ascent and descent must be therefore an ultimate aim of this Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Supermind and the Yoga of Works [279-280],#KEYS
153:What do you mean by these words: 'When you are in difficulty, widen yourself'?
I am speaking, of course, of difficulties on the path of yoga, incomprehension, limitations, things like obstacles, which prevent you from advancing. And when I say "widen yourself", I mean widen your consciousness.
Difficulties always arise from the ego, that is, from your more or less egoistic personal reaction to circumstances, events and people around you, to the conditions of your life. They also come from that feeling of being closed up in a sort of shell, which prevents your consciousness from uniting with higher and vaster realities.
One may very well think that one wants to be vast, wants to be universal, that all is the expression of the Divine, that one must have no egoism - one may think all sorts of things - but that is not necessarily a cure, for very often one knows what one ought to do, and yet one doesn't do it, for one reason or another.
But if, when you have to face anguish, suffering, revolt, pain or a feeling of helplessness - whatever it may be, all the things that come to you on the path and which precisely are your difficulties-if physically, that is to say, in your body- consciousness, you can have the feeling of widening yourself, one could say of unfolding yourself - you feel as it were all folded up, one fold on another like a piece of cloth which is folded and refolded and folded again - so if you have this feeling that what is holding and strangling you and making you suffer or paralysing your movement, is like a too closely, too tightly folded piece of cloth or like a parcel that is too well-tied, too well-packed, and that slowly, gradually, you undo all the folds and stretch yourself out exactly as one unfolds a piece of cloth or a sheet of paper and spreads it out flat, and you lie flat and make yourself very wide, as wide as possible, spreading yourself out as far as you can, opening yourself and stretching out in an attitude of complete passivity with what I could call "the face to the light": not curling back upon your difficulty, doubling up on it, shutting it in, so to say, into yourself, but, on the contrary, unfurling yourself as much as you can, as perfectly as you can, putting the difficulty before the Light - the Light which comes from above - if you do that in all the domains, and even if mentally you don't succeed in doing it - for it is sometimes difficult - if you can imagine yourself doing this physically, almost materially, well, when you have finished unfolding yourself and stretching yourself out, you will find that more than three-quarters of the difficulty is gone. And then just a little work of receptivity to the Light and the last quarter will disappear.
This is much easier than struggling against a difficulty with one's thought, for if you begin to discuss with yourself, you will find that there are arguments for and against which are so convincing that it is quite impossible to get out of it without a higher light. Here, you do not struggle against the difficulty, you do not try to convince yourself; ah! you simply stretch out in the Light as though you lay stretched on the sands in the sun. And you let the Light do its work. That's all. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers, Volume-8, page no.286-288),#KEYS
154:At it's narrowest (although this is a common and perhaps the official position; need to find ref in What is Enlightenment) "integral", "turquois" (Spiral Dynamics), and "second tier" (ditto) are all synonms, and in turn are equivalent to Wilber IV / AQAL/Wilber V "Post-metaphysical" AQAL. This is the position that "Integral = Ken Wilber". It constitutes a new philosophical school or meme-set, in the tradition of charismatic spiritual teachers of all ages, in which an articulate, brilliant, and popular figure would arise, and gather a following around him- or her-self. After the teacher passes on, their teaching remains through books and organisations dedicated to perpetuating that teaching; although without the brilliant light of the Founder, things generally become pretty stultifying, and there is often little or no original development. Even so, the books themselves continue to inspire, and many people benefit greatly from these tecahings, and can contact the original Light of the founders to be inspired by them on the subtle planes. Some late 19th, 20th, and early 21st century examples of such teachers, known and less well-known, are Blavatsky, Theon, Steiner, Aurobindo, Gurdjieff, Crowley, Alice Bailey, Carl Jung, Ann Ree Colton, and now Ken Wilber. Also, many popular gurus belong in this category. It could plausibly be suggested that the founders of the great world religions started out no different, but their teaching really caught on n a big way.
...
At its broadest then, the Integral Community includes not only Wilber but those he cites as his influences and hold universal and evolutionary views or teachings, as well as those who, while influenced by him also differ somewhat, and even those like Arthur M Young that Wilber has apparently never heard of. Nevertheless, all share a common, evolutionary, "theory of everything" position, and, whilst they may differ on many details and even on many major points, taken together they could be considered a wave front for a new paradigm, a memetic revolution. I use the term Daimon of the Integral Movement to refer to the spiritual being or personality of light that is behind and working through this broader movement.
Now, this doesn't mean that this daimon is necessarily a negative entity. I see a lot of promise, a lot of potential, in the Integral Approach. From what I feel at the moment, the Integral Deva is a force and power of good.
But, as with any new spiritual or evolutionary development, there is duality, in that there are forces that hinder and oppose and distort, as well as forces that help and aid in the evolution and ultimate divinisation of the Earth and the cosmos. Thus even where a guru does give in the dark side (as very often happens with many gurus today) there still remains an element of Mixed Light that remains (one finds this ambiguity with Sai Baba, with Da Free John, and with Rajneesh); and we find this same ambiguity with the Integral Community regarding what seems to me a certain offputting devotional attitude towards Wilber himself. The light will find its way, regardless. However, an Intregral Movement that is caught up in worship of and obedience to an authority figure, will not be able to achieve what a movement unfettered by such shackles could. ~ M Alan Kazlev, Kheper, Wilber, Integral,#KEYS
155:But still the greater and wider the moving idea-force behind the consecration, the better for the seeker; his attainment is likely to be fuller and more ample. If we are to attempt an integral Yoga, it will be as well to start with an idea of the Divine that is itself integral. There should be an aspiration in the heart wide enough for a realisation without any narrow limits. Not only should we avoid a sectarian religious outlook, but also all onesided philosophical conceptions which try to shut up the Ineffable in a restricting mental formula. The dynamic conception or impelling sense with which our Yoga can best set out would be naturally the idea, the sense of a conscious all-embracing but all-exceeding Infinite. Our uplook must be to a free, all-powerful, perfect and blissful One and Oneness in which all beings move and live and through which all can meet and become one. This Eternal will be at once personal and impersonal in his self-revelation and touch upon the soul. He is personal because he is the conscious Divine, the infinite Person who casts some broken reflection of himself in the myriad divine and undivine personalities of the universe. He is impersonal because he appears to us as an infinite Existence, Consciousness and Ananda and because he is the fount, base and constituent of all existences and all energies, -the very material of our being and mind and life and body, our spirit and our matter. The thought, concentrating on him, must not merely understand in an intellectual form that he exists, or conceive of him as an abstraction, a logical necessity; it must become a seeing thought able to meet him here as the Inhabitant in all, realise him in ourselves, watch and take hold on the movement of his forces. He is the one Existence: he is the original and universal Delight that constitutes all things and exceeds them: he is the one infinite Consciousness that composes all consciousnesses and informs all their movements; he is the one illimitable Being who sustains all action and experience; his will guides the evolution of things towards their yet unrealised but inevitable aim and plenitude. To him the heart can consecrate itself, approach him as the supreme Beloved, beat and move in him as in a universal sweetness of Love and a living sea of Delight. For his is the secret Joy that supports the soul in all its experiences and maintains even the errant ego in its ordeals and struggles till all sorrow and suffering shall cease. His is the Love and the Bliss of the infinite divine Lover who is drawing all things by their own path towards his happy oneness. On him the Will can unalterably fix as the invisible Power that guides and fulfils it and as the source of its strength. In the impersonality this actuating Power is a self-illumined Force that contains all results and calmly works until it accomplishes, in the personality an all wise and omnipotent Master of the Yoga whom nothing can prevent from leading it to its goal. This is the faith with which the seeker has to begin his seeking and endeavour; for in all his effort here, but most of all in his effort towards the Unseen, mental man must perforce proceed by faith. When the realisation comes, the faith divinely fulfilled and completed will be transformed into an eternal flame of knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration [83],#KEYS
156:If this is the truth of works, the first thing the sadhaka has to do is to recoil from the egoistic forms of activity and get rid of the sense of an "I" that acts. He has to see and feel that everything happens in him by the plastic conscious or subconscious or sometimes superconscious automatism of his mental and bodily instruments moved by the forces of spiritual, mental, vital and physical Nature. There is a personality on his surface that chooses and wills, submits and struggles, tries to make good in Nature or prevail over Nature, but this personality is itself a construction of Nature and so dominated, driven, determined by her that it cannot be free. It is a formation or expression of the Self in her, - it is a self of Nature rather than a self of Self, his natural and processive, not his spiritual and permanent being, a temporary constructed personality, not the true immortal Person. It is that Person that he must become. He must succeed in being inwardly quiescent, detach himself as the observer from the outer active personality and learn the play of the cosmic forces in him by standing back from all blinding absorption in its turns and movements. Thus calm, detached, a student of himself and a witness of his nature, he realises that he is the individual soul who observes the works of Nature, accepts tranquilly her results and sanctions or withholds his sanction from the impulse to her acts. At present this soul or Purusha is little more than an acquiescent spectator, influencing perhaps the action and development of the being by the pressure of its veiled consciousness, but for the most part delegating its powers or a fragment of them to the outer personality, - in fact to Nature, for this outer self is not lord but subject to her, anı̄sa; but, once unveiled, it can make its sanction or refusal effective, become the master of the action, dictate sovereignly a change of Nature. Even if for a long time, as the result of fixed association and past storage of energy, the habitual movement takes place independent of the Purusha's assent and even if the sanctioned movement is persistently refused by Nature for want of past habit, still he will discover that in the end his assent or refusal prevails, - slowly with much resistance or quickly with a rapid accommodation of her means and tendencies she modifies herself and her workings in the direction indicated by his inner sight or volition. Thus he learns in place of mental control or egoistic will an inner spiritual control which makes him master of the Nature-forces that work in him and not their unconscious instrument or mechanic slave. Above and around him is the Shakti, the universal Mother and from her he can get all his inmost soul needs and wills if only he has a true knowledge of her ways and a true surrender to the divine Will in her. Finally, he becomes aware of that highest dynamic Self within him and within Nature which is the source of all his seeing and knowing, the source of the sanction, the source of the acceptance, the source of the rejection. This is the Lord, the Supreme, the One-in-all, Ishwara-Shakti, of whom his soul is a portion, a being of that Being and a power of that Power. The rest of our progress depends on our knowledge of the ways in which the Lord of works manifests his Will in the world and in us and executes them through the transcendent and universal Shakti. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 216, #KEYS
157:It is thus by an integralisation of our divided being that the Divine Shakti in the Yoga will proceed to its object; for liberation, perfection, mastery are dependent on this integralisation, since the little wave on the surface cannot control its own movement, much less have any true control over the vast life around it. The Shakti, the power of the Infinite and the Eternal descends within us, works, breaks up our present psychological formations, shatters every wall, widens, liberates, presents us with always newer and greater powers of vision, ideation, perception and newer and greater life-motives, enlarges and newmodels increasingly the soul and its instruments, confronts us with every imperfection in order to convict and destroy it, opens to a greater perfection, does in a brief period the work of many lives or ages so that new births and new vistas open constantly within us. Expansive in her action, she frees the consciousness from confinement in the body; it can go out in trance or sleep or even waking and enter into worlds or other regions of this world and act there or carry back its experience. It spreads out, feeling the body only as a small part of itself, and begins to contain what before contained it; it achieves the cosmic consciousness and extends itself to be commensurate with the universe. It begins to know inwardly and directly and not merely by external observation and contact the forces at play in the world, feels their movement, distinguishes their functioning and can operate immediately upon them as the scientist operates upon physical forces, accept their action and results in our mind, life, body or reject them or modify, change, reshape, create immense new powers and movements in place of the old small functionings of the nature. We begin to perceive the working of the forces of universal Mind and to know how our thoughts are created by that working, separate from within the truth and falsehood of our perceptions, enlarge their field, extend and illumine their significance, become master of our own minds and active to shape the movements of Mind in the world around us. We begin to perceive the flow and surge of the universal life-forces, detect the origin and law of our feelings, emotions, sensations, passions, are free to accept, reject, new-create, open to wider, rise to higher planes of Life-Power. We begin to perceive too the key to the enigma of Matter, follow the interplay of Mind and Life and Consciousness upon it, discover more and more its instrumental and resultant function and detect ultimately the last secret of Matter as a form not merely of Energy but of involved and arrested or unstably fixed and restricted consciousness and begin to see too the possibility of its liberation and plasticity of response to higher Powers, its possibilities for the conscious and no longer the more than half-inconscient incarnation and self-expression of the Spirit. All this and more becomes more and more possible as the working of the Divine Shakti increases in us and, against much resistance or labour to respond of our obscure consciousness, through much struggle and movement of progress and regression and renewed progress necessitated by the work of intensive transformation of a half-inconscient into a conscious substance, moves to a greater purity, truth, height, range. All depends on the psychic awakening in us, the completeness of our response to her and our growing surrender. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 183, #KEYS
158:THE WAND
THE Magical Will is in its essence twofold, for it presupposes a beginning and an end; to will to be a thing is to admit that you are not that thing.
Hence to will anything but the supreme thing, is to wander still further from it - any will but that to give up the self to the Beloved is Black Magick - yet this surrender is so simple an act that to our complex minds it is the most difficult of all acts; and hence training is necessary. Further, the Self surrendered must not be less than the All-Self; one must not come before the altar of the Most High with an impure or an imperfect offering. As it is written in Liber LXV, "To await Thee is the end, not the beginning."
This training may lead through all sorts of complications, varying according to the nature of the student, and hence it may be necessary for him at any moment to will all sorts of things which to others might seem unconnected with the goal. Thus it is not "a priori" obvious why a billiard player should need a file.
Since, then, we may want "anything," let us see to it that our will is strong enough to obtain anything we want without loss of time.
It is therefore necessary to develop the will to its highest point, even though the last task but one is the total surrender of this will. Partial surrender of an imperfect will is of no account in Magick.
The will being a lever, a fulcrum is necessary; this fulcrum is the main aspiration of the student to attain. All wills which are not dependent upon this principal will are so many leakages; they are like fat to the athlete.
The majority of the people in this world are ataxic; they cannot coordinate their mental muscles to make a purposed movement. They have no real will, only a set of wishes, many of which contradict others. The victim wobbles from one to the other (and it is no less wobbling because the movements may occasionally be very violent) and at the end of life the movements cancel each other out. Nothing has been achieved; except the one thing of which the victim is not conscious: the destruction of his own character, the confirming of indecision. Such an one is torn limb from limb by Choronzon.
How then is the will to be trained? All these wishes, whims, caprices, inclinations, tendencies, appetites, must be detected, examined, judged by the standard of whether they help or hinder the main purpose, and treated accordingly.
Vigilance and courage are obviously required. I was about to add self-denial, in deference to conventional speech; but how could I call that self-denial which is merely denial of those things which hamper the self? It is not suicide to kill the germs of malaria in one's blood.
Now there are very great difficulties to be overcome in the training of the mind. Perhaps the greatest is forgetfulness, which is probably the worst form of what the Buddhists call ignorance. Special practices for training the memory may be of some use as a preliminary for persons whose memory is naturally poor. In any case the Magical Record prescribed for Probationers of the A.'.A.'. is useful and necessary.
Above all the practices of Liber III must be done again and again, for these practices develop not only vigilance but those inhibiting centres in the brain which are, according to some psychologists, the mainspring of the mechanism by which civilized man has raised himself above the savage.
So far it has been spoken, as it were, in the negative. Aaron's rod has become a serpent, and swallowed the serpents of the other Magicians; it is now necessary to turn it once more into a rod.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 4, The Wand,#KEYS
159:The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching the divine Being. In an ordinary Yoga one main power of being or one group of its powers is made the means, vehicle, path. In a synthetic Yoga all powers will be combined and included in the transmuting instrumentation.
In Hathayoga the instrument is the body and life. All the power of the body is stilled, collected, purified, heightened, concentrated to its utmost limits or beyond any limits by Asana and other physical processes; the power of the life too is similarly purified, heightened, concentrated by Asana and Pranayama. This concentration of powers is then directed towards that physical centre in which the divine consciousness sits concealed in the human body. The power of Life, Nature-power, coiled up with all its secret forces asleep in the lowest nervous plexus of the earth-being,-for only so much escapes into waking action in our normal operations as is sufficient for the limited uses of human life,-rises awakened through centre after centre and awakens, too, in its ascent and passage the forces of each successive nodus of our being, the nervous life, the heart of emotion and ordinary mentality, the speech, sight, will, the higher knowledge, till through and above the brain it meets with and it becomes one with the divine consciousness.
In Rajayoga the chosen instrument is the mind. our ordinary mentality is first disciplined, purified and directed towards the divine Being, then by a summary process of Asana and Pranayama the physical force of our being is stilled and concentrated, the life-force released into a rhythmic movement capable of cessation and concentrated into a higher power of its upward action, the mind, supported and strengthened by this greater action and concentration of the body and life upon which it rests, is itself purified of all its unrest and emotion and its habitual thought-waves, liberated from distraction and dispersion, given its highest force of concentration, gathered up into a trance of absorption. Two objects, the one temporal, the other eternal,are gained by this discipline. Mind-power develops in another concentrated action abnormal capacities of knowledge, effective will, deep light of reception, powerful light of thought-radiation which are altogether beyond the narrow range of our normal mentality; it arrives at the Yogic or occult powers around which there has been woven so much quite dispensable and yet perhaps salutary mystery. But the one final end and the one all-important gain is that the mind, stilled and cast into a concentrated trance, can lose itself in the divine consciousness and the soul be made free to unite with the divine Being.
The triple way takes for its chosen instruments the three main powers of the mental soul-life of the human being. Knowledge selects the reason and the mental vision and it makes them by purification, concentration and a certain discipline of a Goddirected seeking its means for the greatest knowledge and the greatest vision of all, God-knowledge and God-vision. Its aim is to see, know and be the Divine. Works, action selects for its instrument the will of the doer of works; it makes life an offering of sacrifice to the Godhead and by purification, concentration and a certain discipline of subjection to the divine Will a means for contact and increasing unity of the soul of man with the divine Master of the universe. Devotion selects the emotional and aesthetic powers of the soul and by turning them all Godward in a perfect purity, intensity, infinite passion of seeking makes them a means of God-possession in one or many relations of unity with the Divine Being. All aim in their own way at a union or unity of the human soul with the supreme Spirit.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Self-Perfection, The Principle of the Integral Yoga, 609,#KEYS
160:The perfect supramental action will not follow any single principle or limited rule.It is not likely to satisfy the standard either of the individual egoist or of any organised group-mind. It will conform to the demand neither of the positive practical man of the world nor of the formal moralist nor of the patriot nor of the sentimental philanthropist nor of the idealising philosopher. It will proceed by a spontaneous outflowing from the summits in the totality of an illumined and uplifted being, will and knowledge and not by the selected, calculated and standardised action which is all that the intellectual reason or ethical will can achieve. Its sole aim will be the expression of the divine in us and the keeping together of the world and its progress towards the Manifestation that is to be. This even will not be so much an aim and purpose as a spontaneous law of the being and an intuitive determination of the action by the Light of the divine Truth and its automatic influence. It will proceed like the action of Nature from a total will and knowledge behind her, but a will and knowledge enlightened in a conscious supreme Nature and no longer obscure in this ignorant Prakriti. It will be an action not bound by the dualities but full and large in the spirit's impartial joy of existence. The happy and inspired movement of a divine Power and Wisdom guiding and impelling us will replace the perplexities and stumblings of the suffering and ignorant ego.
If by some miracle of divine intervention all mankind at once could be raised to this level, we should have something on earth like the Golden Age of the traditions, Satya Yuga, the Age of Truth or true existence. For the sign of the Satya Yuga is that the Law is spontaneous and conscious in each creature and does its own works in a perfect harmony and freedom. Unity and universality, not separative division, would be the foundation of the consciousness of the race; love would be absolute; equality would be consistent with hierarchy and perfect in difference; absolute justice would be secured by the spontaneous action of the being in harmony with the truth of things and the truth of himself and others and therefore sure of true and right result; right reason, no longer mental but supramental, would be satisfied not by the observation of artificial standards but by the free automatic perception of right relations and their inevitable execution in the act. The quarrel between the individual and society or disastrous struggle between one community and another could not exist: the cosmic consciousness imbedded in embodied beings would assure a harmonious diversity in oneness.
In the actual state of humanity, it is the individual who must climb to this height as a pioneer and precursor. His isolation will necessarily give a determination and a form to his outward activities that must be quite other than those of a consciously divine collective action. The inner state, the root of his acts, will be the same; but the acts themselves may well be very different from what they would be on an earth liberated from ignorance. Nevertheless his consciousness and the divine mechanism of his conduct, if such a word can be used of so free a thing, would be such as has been described, free from that subjection to vital impurity and desire and wrong impulse which we call sin, unbound by that rule of prescribed moral formulas which we call virtue, spontaneously sure and pure and perfect in a greater consciousness than the mind's, governed in all its steps by the light and truth of the Spirit. But if a collectivity or group could be formed of those who had reached the supramental perfection, there indeed some divine creation could take shape; a new earth could descend that would be a new heaven, a world of supramental light could be created here amidst the receding darkness of this terrestrial ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom, 206,#KEYS
161:There is a true movement of the intellect and there is a wrong movement: one helps, the other hinders." Questions and Answers 1929 - 1931 (5 May 1929)
What is the true movement of the intellect?
What exactly do you understand by intellect? Is it a function of the mind or is it a part of the human being? How do you understand it?
A function of the mind.
A function of the mind? Then it is that part of the mind which deals with ideas; is that what you mean?
Not ideas, Mother.
Not ideas? What else, then?
Ideas, but...
There is a part of the mind which receives ideas, ideas that are formed in a higher mind. Still, I don't know, it is a question of definition and one must know what exactly you mean to say.
It is intellect that puts ideas in the form of thoughts, gathering and organising the thoughts at the same time. There are great ideas which lie beyond the ordinary human mentality, which can put on all possible forms. These great ideas tend to descend, they want to manifest themselves in precise forms. These precise forms are the thoughts; and generally it is this, I believe, that is meant by intellect: it is this that gives thought-form to the ideas.
And then, there is also the organisation of the thoughts among themselves. All that has to be put in a certain order, otherwise one becomes incoherent. And after that, there is the putting of these thoughts to use for action; that is still another movement.
To be able to say what the true movement is, one must know first of all which movement is being spoken about. You have a body, well, you don't expect your body to walk on its head or its hands nor to crawl flat on its belly nor indeed that the head should be down and the legs up in the air. You give to each limb a particular occupation which is its own. This appears to you quite natural because that is the habit; otherwise, the very little ones do not know what to do, neither with their legs nor with their hands nor with their heads; it is only little by little that they learn that. Well, it is the same thing with the mind's functions. You must know which part of the mind you are speaking about, what its own function is, and then only can you say what its true movement is and what is not its true movement. For example, for the part which has to receive the master ideas and change them into thought, its true movement is to be open to the master ideas, receive them and change them into as exact, as precise, as expressive a thought as possible. For the part of the mind which has the charge of organising all these thoughts among themselves so that they might form a coherent and classified whole, not a chaos, the true movement is just to make the classification according to a higher logic and in a thoroughly clear, precise and expressive order which may be serviceable each time a thought is referred to, so that one may know where to look for it and not put quite contradictory things together. There are people whose mind does not work like that; all the ideas that come into it, without their being even aware of what the idea is, are translated into confused thoughts which remain in a kind of inner chaos. I have known people who, from the philosophical point of view - although there is nothing philosophical in it - could put side by side the most contradictory things, like ideas of hierarchic order and at the same time ideas of the absolute independence of the individual and of anarchism, and both were accepted with equal sympathy, knocked against each other in the head in the midst of a wild disorder, and these people were not even aware of it!... You know the saying: "A question well put is three-fourths solved." So now, put your question. What do you want to speak about? I am stretching out a helping hand, you have only to catch it. What is it you are speaking about, what is it that you call intellect? Do you know the difference between an idea and a thought?
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 107,#KEYS
162:[an Integral conception of the Divine :::
But on that which as yet we know not how shall we concentrate? And yet we cannot know the Divine unless we have achieved this concentration of our being upon him. A concentration which culminates in a living realisation and the constant sense of the presence of the One in ourselves and in all of which we are aware, is what we mean in Yoga by knowledge and the effort after knowledge. It is not enough to devote ourselves by the reading of Scriptures or by the stress of philosophical reasoning to an intellectual understanding of the Divine; for at the end of our long mental labour we might know all that has been said of the Eternal, possess all that can be thought about the Infinite and yet we might not know him at all. This intellectual preparation can indeed be the first stage in a powerful Yoga, but it is not indispensable : it is not a step which all need or can be called upon to take. Yoga would be impossible, except for a very few, if the intellectual figure of knowledge arrived at by the speculative or meditative Reason were its indispensable condition or a binding preliminary. All that the Light from above asks of us that it may begin its work is a call from the soul and a sufficient point of support in the mind. This support can be reached through an insistent idea of the Divine in the thought, a corresponding will in the dynamic parts, an aspiration, a faith, a need in the heart. Any one of these may lead or predominate, if all cannot move in unison or in an equal rhythm. The idea may be and must in the beginning be inadequate; the aspiration may be narrow and imperfect, the faith poorly illumined or even, as not surely founded on the rock of knowledge, fluctuating, uncertain, easily diminished; often even it may be extinguished and need to be lit again with difficulty like a torch in a windy pass. But if once there is a resolute self-consecration from deep within, if there is an awakening to the soul's call, these inadequate things can be a sufficient instrument for the divine purpose. Therefore the wise have always been unwilling to limit man's avenues towards God; they would not shut against his entry even the narrowest portal, the lowest and darkest postern, the humblest wicket-gate. Any name, any form, any symbol, any offering has been held to be sufficient if there is the consecration along with it; for the Divine knows himself in the heart of the seeker and accepts the sacrifice.
But still the greater and wider the moving idea-force behind the consecration, the better for the seeker; his attainment is likely to be fuller and more ample. If we are to attempt an integral Yoga, it will be as well to start with an idea of the Divine that is itself integral. There should be an aspiration in the heart wide enough for a realisation without any narrow limits. Not only should we avoid a sectarian religious outlook, but also all onesided philosophical conceptions which try to shut up the Ineffable in a restricting mental formula. The dynamic conception or impelling sense with which our Yoga can best set out would be naturally the idea, the sense of a conscious all-embracing but all-exceeding Infinite. Our uplook must be to a free, all-powerful, perfect and blissful One and Oneness in which all beings move and live and through which all can meet and become one. This Eternal will be at once personal and impersonal in his self-revelation and touch upon the soul. He is personal because he is the conscious Divine, the infinite Person who casts some broken reflection of himself in the myriad divine and undivine personalities of the universe. He is impersonal because he appears to us as an infinite Existence, Consciousness and Ananda and because he is the fount, base and constituent of all existences and all energies, -the very material of our being and mind and life and body, our spirit and our matter. The thought, concentrating on him, must not merely understand in an intellectual form that he exists, or conceive of him as an abstraction, a logical necessity; it must become a seeing thought able to meet him here as the Inhabitant in all, realise him in ourselves, watch and take hold on the movement of his forces. He is the one Existence: he is the original and universal Delight that constitutes all things and exceeds them: he is the one infinite Consciousness that composes all consciousnesses and informs all their movements; he is the one illimitable Being who sustains all action and experience; his will guides the evolution of things towards their yet unrealised but inevitable aim and plenitude. To him the heart can consecrate itself, approach him as the supreme Beloved, beat and move in him as in a universal sweetness of Love and a living sea of Delight. For his is the secret Joy that supports the soul in all its experiences and maintains even the errant ego in its ordeals and struggles till all sorrow and suffering shall cease. His is the Love and the Bliss of the infinite divine Lover who is drawing all things by their own path towards his happy oneness. On him the Will can unalterably fix as the invisible Power that guides and fulfils it and as the source of its strength. In the impersonality this actuating Power is a self-illumined Force that contains all results and calmly works until it accomplishes, in the personality an all wise and omnipotent Master of the Yoga whom nothing can prevent from leading it to its goal. This is the faith with which the seeker has to begin his seeking and endeavour; for in all his effort here, but most of all in his effort towards the Unseen, mental man must perforce proceed by faith. When the realisation comes, the faith divinely fulfilled and completed will be transformed into an eternal flame of knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, 82-83 [T1],#KEYS
163:Education
THE EDUCATION of a human being should begin at birth and continue throughout his life.
Indeed, if we want this education to have its maximum result, it should begin even before birth; in this case it is the mother herself who proceeds with this education by means of a twofold action: first, upon herself for her own improvement, and secondly, upon the child whom she is forming physically. For it is certain that the nature of the child to be born depends very much upon the mother who forms it, upon her aspiration and will as well as upon the material surroundings in which she lives. To see that her thoughts are always beautiful and pure, her feelings always noble and fine, her material surroundings as harmonious as possible and full of a great simplicity - this is the part of education which should apply to the mother herself. And if she has in addition a conscious and definite will to form the child according to the highest ideal she can conceive, then the very best conditions will be realised so that the child can come into the world with his utmost potentialities. How many difficult efforts and useless complications would be avoided in this way!
Education to be complete must have five principal aspects corresponding to the five principal activities of the human being: the physical, the vital, the mental, the psychic and the spiritual. Usually, these phases of education follow chronologically the growth of the individual; this, however, does not mean that one of them should replace another, but that all must continue, completing one another until the end of his life.
We propose to study these five aspects of education one by one and also their interrelationships. But before we enter into the details of the subject, I wish to make a recommendation to parents. Most parents, for various reasons, give very little thought to the true education which should be imparted to children. When they have brought a child into the world, provided him with food, satisfied his various material needs and looked after his health more or less carefully, they think they have fully discharged their duty. Later on, they will send him to school and hand over to the teachers the responsibility for his education.
There are other parents who know that their children must be educated and who try to do what they can. But very few, even among those who are most serious and sincere, know that the first thing to do, in order to be able to educate a child, is to educate oneself, to become conscious and master of oneself so that one never sets a bad example to one's child. For it is above all through example that education becomes effective. To speak good words and to give wise advice to a child has very little effect if one does not oneself give him an example of what one teaches. Sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self-control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches. Parents, have a high ideal and always act in accordance with it and you will see that little by little your child will reflect this ideal in himself and spontaneously manifest the qualities you would like to see expressed in his nature. Quite naturally a child has respect and admiration for his parents; unless they are quite unworthy, they will always appear to their child as demigods whom he will try to imitate as best he can.
With very few exceptions, parents are not aware of the disastrous influence that their own defects, impulses, weaknesses and lack of self-control have on their children. If you wish to be respected by a child, have respect for yourself and be worthy of respect at every moment. Never be authoritarian, despotic, impatient or ill-tempered. When your child asks you a question, do not give him a stupid or silly answer under the pretext that he cannot understand you. You can always make yourself understood if you take enough trouble; and in spite of the popular saying that it is not always good to tell the truth, I affirm that it is always good to tell the truth, but that the art consists in telling it in such a way as to make it accessible to the mind of the hearer. In early life, until he is twelve or fourteen, the child's mind is hardly open to abstract notions and general ideas. And yet you can train it to understand these things by using concrete images, symbols or parables. Up to quite an advanced age and for some who mentally always remain children, a narrative, a story, a tale well told teach much more than any number of theoretical explanations.
Another pitfall to avoid: do not scold your child without good reason and only when it is quite indispensable. A child who is too often scolded gets hardened to rebuke and no longer attaches much importance to words or severity of tone. And above all, take good care never to scold him for a fault which you yourself commit. Children are very keen and clear-sighted observers; they soon find out your weaknesses and note them without pity.
When a child has done something wrong, see that he confesses it to you spontaneously and frankly; and when he has confessed, with kindness and affection make him understand what was wrong in his movement so that he will not repeat it, but never scold him; a fault confessed must always be forgiven. You should not allow any fear to come between you and your child; fear is a pernicious means of education: it invariably gives birth to deceit and lying. Only a discerning affection that is firm yet gentle and an adequate practical knowledge will create the bonds of trust that are indispensable for you to be able to educate your child effectively. And do not forget that you have to control yourself constantly in order to be equal to your task and truly fulfil the duty which you owe your child by the mere fact of having brought him into the world.
Bulletin, February 1951
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS
164:To what gods shall the sacrifice be offered? Who shall be invoked to manifest and protect in the human being this increasing godhead?
Agni first, for without him the sacrificial flame cannot burn on the altar of the soul. That flame of Agni is the seven-tongued power of the Will, a Force of God instinct with Knowledge. This conscious and forceful will is the immortal guest in our mortality, a pure priest and a divine worker, the mediator between earth and heaven. It carries what we offer to the higher Powers and brings back in return their force and light and joy into our humanity.
Indra, the Puissant next, who is the power of pure Existence self-manifested as the Divine Mind. As Agni is one pole of Force instinct with knowledge that sends its current upward from earth to heaven, so Indra is the other pole of Light instinct with force which descends from heaven to earth. He comes down into our world as the Hero with the shining horses and slays darkness and division with his lightnings, pours down the life-giving heavenly waters, finds in the trace of the hound, Intuition, the lost or hidden illuminations, makes the Sun of Truth mount high in the heaven of our mentality.
Surya, the Sun, is the master of that supreme Truth, - truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of process and act and movement and functioning. He is therefore the creator or rather the manifester of all things - for creation is out-bringing, expression by the Truth and Will - and the father, fosterer, enlightener of our souls. The illuminations we seek are the herds of this Sun who comes to us in the track of the divine Dawn and releases and reveals in us night-hidden world after world up to the highest Beatitude.
Of that beatitude Soma is the representative deity. The wine of his ecstasy is concealed in the growths of earth, in the waters of existence; even here in our physical being are his immortalising juices and they have to be pressed out and offered to all the gods; for in that strength these shall increase and conquer.
Each of these primary deities has others associated with him who fulfil functions that arise from his own. For if the truth of Surya is to be established firmly in our mortal nature, there are previous conditions that are indispensable; a vast purity and clear wideness destructive of all sin and crooked falsehood, - and this is Varuna; a luminous power of love and comprehension leading and forming into harmony all our thoughts, acts and impulses, - this is Mitra; an immortal puissance of clear-discerning aspiration and endeavour, - this is Aryaman; a happy spontaneity of the right enjoyment of all things dispelling the evil dream of sin and error and suffering, - this is Bhaga. These four are powers of the Truth of Surya. For the whole bliss of Soma to be established perfectly in our nature a happy and enlightened and unmaimed condition of mind, vitality and body are necessary. This condition is given to us by the twin Ashwins; wedded to the daughter of Light, drinkers of honey, bringers of perfect satisfactions, healers of maim and malady they occupy our parts of knowledge and parts of action and prepare our mental, vital and physical being for an easy and victorious ascension.
Indra, the Divine Mind, as the shaper of mental forms has for his assistants, his artisans, the Ribhus, human powers who by the work of sacrifice and their brilliant ascension to the high dwelling-place of the Sun have attained to immortality and help mankind to repeat their achievement. They shape by the mind Indra's horses, the chariot of the Ashwins, the weapons of the Gods, all the means of the journey and the battle. But as giver of the Light of Truth and as Vritra-slayer Indra is aided by the Maruts, who are powers of will and nervous or vital Force that have attained to the light of thought and the voice of self-expression. They are behind all thought and speech as its impellers and they battle towards the Light, Truth and Bliss of the supreme Consciousness.
There are also female energies; for the Deva is both Male and Female and the gods also are either activising souls or passively executive and methodising energies. Aditi, infinite Mother of the Gods, comes first; and there are besides five powers of the Truthconsciousness, - Mahi or Bharati, the vast Word that brings us all things out of the divine source; Ila, the strong primal word of the Truth who gives us its active vision; Saraswati, its streaming current and the word of its inspiration; Sarama, the Intuition, hound of heaven who descends into the cavern of the subconscient and finds there the concealed illuminations; Dakshina, whose function is to discern rightly, dispose the action and the offering and distribute in the sacrifice to each godhead its portion. Each god, too, has his female energy.
All this action and struggle and ascension is supported by Heaven our Father and Earth our Mother Parents of the Gods, who sustain respectively the purely mental and psychic and the physical consciousness. Their large and free scope is the condition of our achievement. Vayu, master of life, links them together by the mid-air, the region of vital force. And there are other deities, - Parjanya, giver of the rain of heaven; Dadhikravan, the divine war-horse, a power of Agni; the mystic Dragon of the Foundations; Trita Aptya who on the third plane of existence consummates our triple being; and more besides.
The development of all these godheads is necessary to our perfection. And that perfection must be attained on all our levels, - in the wideness of earth, our physical being and consciousness; in the full force of vital speed and action and enjoyment and nervous vibration, typified as the Horse which must be brought forward to upbear our endeavour; in the perfect gladness of the heart of emotion and a brilliant heat and clarity of the mind throughout our intellectual and psychical being; in the coming of the supramental Light, the Dawn and the Sun and the shining Mother of the herds, to transform all our existence; for so comes to us the possession of the Truth, by the Truth the admirable surge of the Bliss, in the Bliss infinite Consciousness of absolute being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns to the Mystic Fire, The Doctrine of the Mystics,#KEYS
165:Depression, unless one has a strong will, suggests, "This is not worth while, one may have to wait a lifetime." As for enthusiasm, it expects to see the vital transformed overnight: "I am not going to have any difficulty henceforth, I am going to advance rapidly on the path of yoga, I am going to gain the divine consciousness without any difficulty." There are some other difficulties.... One needs a little time, much perseverance. So the vital, after a few hours - perhaps a few days, perhaps a few months - says to itself: "We haven't gone very far with our enthusiasm, has anything been really done? Doesn't this movement leave us just where we were, perhaps worse than we were, a little troubled, a little disturbed? Things are no longer what they were, they are not yet what they ought to be. It is very tiresome, what I am doing." And then, if one pushes a little more, here's this gentleman saying, "Ah, no! I have had enough of it, leave me alone. I don't want to move, I shall stay in my corner, I won't trouble you, but don't bother me!" And so one has not gone very much farther than before.
This is one of the big obstacles which must be carefully avoided. As soon as there is the least sign of discontentment, of annoyance, the vital must be spoken to in this way, "My friend, you are going to keep calm, you are going to do what you are asked to do, otherwise you will have to deal with me." And to the other, the enthusiast who says, "Everything must be done now, immediately", your reply is, "Calm yourself a little, your energy is excellent, but it must not be spent in five minutes. We shall need it for a long time, keep it carefully and, as it is wanted, I shall call upon your goodwill. You will show that you are full of goodwill, you will obey, you won't grumble, you will not protest, you will not revolt, you will say 'yes, yes', you will make a little sacrifice when asked, you will say 'yes' wholeheartedly."
So we get started on the path. But the road is very long. Many things happen on the way. Suddenly one thinks one has overcome an obstacle; I say "thinks", because though one has overcome it, it is not totally overcome. I am going to take a very obvious instance, of a very simple observation. Someone has found that his vital is uncontrollable and uncontrolled, that it gets furious for nothing and about nothing. He starts working to teach it not to get carried away, not to flare up, to remain calm and bear the shocks of life without reacting violently. If one does this cheerfully, it goes quite quickly. (Note this well, it is very important: when you have to deal with your vital take care to remain cheerful, otherwise you will get into trouble.) One remains cheerful, that is, when one sees the fury rise, one begins to laugh. Instead of being depressed and saying, "Ah! In spite of all my effort it is beginning all over again", one begins to laugh and says, "Well, well! One hasn't yet seen the end of it. Look now, aren't you ridiculous, you know quite well that you are being ridiculous! Is it worthwhile getting angry?" One gives it this lesson cheerfully. And really, after a while it doesn't get angry again, it is quiet - and one relaxes one's attention. One thinks the difficulty has been overcome, one thinks a result has at last been reached: "My vital does not trouble me any longer, it does not get angry now, everything is going fine." And the next day, one loses one's temper. It is then one must be careful, it is then one must not say, "Here we are, it's no use, I shall never achieve anything, all my efforts are futile; all this is an illusion, it is impossible." On the contrary, one must say, "I wasn't vigilant enough." One must wait long, very long, before one can say, "Ah! It is done and finished." Sometimes one must wait for years, many years....
I am not saying this to discourage you, but to give you patience and perseverance - for there is a moment when you do arrive. And note that the vital is a small part of your being - a very important part, we have said that it is the dynamism, the realising energy, it is very important; but it is only a small part. And the mind!... which goes wandering, which must be pulled back by all the strings to be kept quiet! You think this can be done overnight? And your body?... You have a weakness, a difficulty, sometimes a small chronic illness, nothing much, but still it is a nuisance, isn't it? You want to get rid of it. You make efforts, you concentrate; you work upon it, establish harmony, and you think it is finished, and then.... Take, for instance, people who have the habit of coughing; they can't control themselves or almost can't. It is not serious but it is bothersome, and there seems to be no reason why it should ever stop. Well, one tells oneself, "I am going to control this." One makes an effort - a yogic effort, not a material one - one brings down consciousness, force, and stops the cough. And one thinks, "The body has forgotten how to cough." And it is a great thing when the body has forgotten, truly one can say, "I am cured." But unfortunately it is not always true, for this goes down into the subconscient and, one day, when the balance of forces is not so well established, when the strength is not the same, it begins again. And one laments, "I believed that it was over! I had succeeded and told myself, 'It is true that spiritual power has an action upon the body, it is true that something can be done', and there! it is not true. And yet it was a small thing, and I who want to conquer immortality! How will I succeed?... For years I have been free from this small thing and here it is beginning anew!" It is then that you must be careful. You must arm yourself with an endless patience and endurance. You do a thing once, ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times if necessary, but you do it till it gets done. And not done only here and there, but everywhere and everywhere at the same time. This is the great problem one sets oneself. That is why, to those who come to tell me very light-heartedly, "I want to do yoga", I reply, "Think it over, one may do the yoga for a number of years without noticing the least result. But if you want to do it, you must persist and persist with such a will that you should be ready to do it for ten lifetimes, a hundred lifetimes if necessary, in order to succeed." I do not say it will be like that, but the attitude must be like that. Nothing must discourage you; for there are all the difficulties of ignorance of the different states of being, to which are added the endless malice and the unbounded cunning of the hostile forces in the world.... They are there, do you know why? They have been.... ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1950-1951,#KEYS
166:
Why do we forget our dreams?
Because you do not dream always at the same place. It is not always the same part of your being that dreams and it is not at the same place that you dream. If you were in conscious, direct, continuous communication with all the parts of your being, you would remember all your dreams. But very few parts of the being are in communication.
For example, you have a dream in the subtle physical, that is to say, quite close to the physical. Generally, these dreams occur in the early hours of the morning, that is between four and five o'clock, at the end of the sleep. If you do not make a sudden movement when you wake up, if you remain very quiet, very still and a little attentive - quietly attentive - and concentrated, you will remember them, for the communication between the subtle physical and the physical is established - very rarely is there no communication.
Now, dreams are mostly forgotten because you have a dream while in a certain state and then pass into another. For instance, when you sleep, your body is asleep, your vital is asleep, but your mind is still active. So your mind begins to have dreams, that is, its activity is more or less coordinated, the imagination is very active and you see all kinds of things, take part in extraordinary happenings.... After some time, all that calms down and the mind also begins to doze. The vital that was resting wakes up; it comes out of the body, walks about, goes here and there, does all kinds of things, reacts, sometimes fights, and finally eats. It does all kinds of things. The vital is very adventurous. It watches. When it is heroic it rushes to save people who are in prison or to destroy enemies or it makes wonderful discoveries. But this pushes back the whole mental dream very far behind. It is rubbed off, forgotten: naturally you cannot remember it because the vital dream takes its place. But if you wake up suddenly at that moment, you remember it. There are people who have made the experiment, who have got up at certain fixed hours of the night and when they wake up suddenly, they do remember. You must not move brusquely, but awake in the natural course, then you remember.
After a time, the vital having taken a good stroll, needs to rest also, and so it goes into repose and quietness, quite tired at the end of all kinds of adventures. Then something else wakes up. Let us suppose that it is the subtle physical that goes for a walk. It starts moving and begins wandering, seeing the rooms and... why, this thing that was there, but it has come here and that other thing which was in that room is now in this one, and so on. If you wake up without stirring, you remembeR But this has pushed away far to the back of the consciousness all the stories of the vital. They are forgotten and so you cannot recollect your dreams. But if at the time of waking up you are not in a hurry, you are not obliged to leave your bed, on the contrary you can remain there as long as you wish, you need not even open your eyes; you keep your head exactly where it was and you make yourself like a tranquil mirror within and concentrate there. You catch just a tiny end of the tail of your dream. You catch it and start pulling gently, without stirring in the least. You begin pulling quite gently, and then first one part comes, a little later another. You go backward; the last comes up first. Everything goes backward, slowly, and suddenly the whole dream reappears: "Ah, there! it was like that." Above all, do not jump up, do not stir; you repeat the dream to yourself several times - once, twice - until it becomes clear in all its details. Once that dream is settled, you continue not to stir, you try to go further in, and suddenly you catch the tail of something else. It is more distant, more vague, but you can still seize it. And here also you hang on, get hold of it and pull, and you see that everything changes and you enter another world; all of a sudden you have an extraordinary adventure - it is another dream. You follow the same process. You repeat the dream to yourself once, twice, until you are sure of it. You remain very quiet all the time. Then you begin to penetrate still more deeply into yourself, as though you were going in very far, very far; and again suddenly you see a vague form, you have a feeling, a sensation... like a current of air, a slight breeze, a little breath; and you say, "Well, well...." It takes a form, it becomes clear - and the third category comes. You must have a lot of time, a lot of patience, you must be very quiet in your mind and body, very quiet, and you can tell the story of your whole night from the end right up to the beginning.
Even without doing this exercise which is very long and difficult, in order to recollect a dream, whether it be the last one or the one in the middle that has made a violent impression on your being, you must do what I have said when you wake up: take particular care not even to move your head on the pillow, remain absolutely still and let the dream return.
Some people do not have a passage between one state and another, there is a little gap and so they leap from one to the other; there is no highway passing through all the states of being with no break of the consciousness. A small dark hole, and you do not remember. It is like a precipice across which one has to extend the consciousness. To build a bridge takes a very long time; it takes much longer than building a physical bridge.... Very few people want to and know how to do it. They may have had magnificent activities, they do not remember them or sometimes only the last, the nearest, the most physical activity, with an uncoordinated movement - dreams having no sense.
But there are as many different kinds of nights and sleep as there are different days and activities. There are not many days that are alike, each day is different. The days are not the same, the nights are not the same. You and your friends are doing apparently the same thing, but for each one it is very different. And each one must have his own procedure.
Why are two dreams never alike?
Because all things are different. No two minutes are alike in the universe and it will be so till the end of the universe, no two minutes will ever be alike. And men obstinately want to make rules! One must do this and not that.... Well! we must let people please themselves.
You could have put to me a very interesting question: "Why am I fourteen years old today?" Intelligent people will say: "It is because it is the fourteenth year since you were born." That is the answer of someone who believes himself to be very intelligent. But there is another reason. I shall tell this to you alone.... I have drowned you all sufficiently well! Now you must begin to learn swimming!
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 36?,#KEYS
167:This, in short, is the demand made on us, that we should turn our whole life into a conscious sacrifice. Every moment and every movement of our being is to be resolved into a continuous and a devoted self-giving to the Eternal. All our actions, not less the smallest and most ordinary and trifling than the greatest and most uncommon and noble, must be performed as consecrated acts. Our individualised nature must live in the single consciousness of an inner and outer movement dedicated to Something that is beyond us and greater than our ego. No matter what the gift or to whom it is presented by us, there must be a consciousness in the act that we are presenting it to the one divine Being in all beings. Our commonest or most grossly material actions must assume this sublimated character; when we eat, we should be conscious that we are giving our food to that Presence in us; it must be a sacred offering in a temple and the sense of a mere physical need or self-gratification must pass away from us. In any great labour, in any high discipline, in any difficult or noble enterprise, whether undertaken for ourselves, for others or for the race, it will no longer be possible to stop short at the idea of the race, of ourselves or of others. The thing we are doing must be consciously offered as a sacrifice of works, not to these, but either through them or directly to the One Godhead; the Divine Inhabitant who was hidden by these figures must be no longer hidden but ever present to our soul, our mind, our sense. The workings and results of our acts must be put in the hands of that One in the feeling that that Presence is the Infinite and Most High by whom alone our labour and our aspiration are possible. For in his being all takes place; for him all labour and aspiration are taken from us by Nature and offered on his altar. Even in those things in which Nature is herself very plainly the worker and we only the witnesses of her working and its containers and supporters, there should be the same constant memory and insistent consciousness of a work and of its divine Master. Our very inspiration and respiration, our very heart-beats can and must be made conscious in us as the living rhythm of the universal sacrifice.
It is clear that a conception of this kind and its effective practice must carry in them three results that are of a central importance for our spiritual ideal. It is evident, to begin with, that, even if such a discipline is begun without devotion, it leads straight and inevitably towards the highest devotion possible; for it must deepen naturally into the completest adoration imaginable, the most profound God-love. There is bound up with it a growing sense of the Divine in all things, a deepening communion with the Divine in all our thought, will and action and at every moment of our lives, a more and more moved consecration to the Divine of the totality of our being. Now these implications of the Yoga of works are also of the very essence of an integral and absolute Bhakti. The seeker who puts them into living practice makes in himself continually a constant, active and effective representation of the very spirit of self-devotion, and it is inevitable that out of it there should emerge the most engrossing worship of the Highest to whom is given this service. An absorbing love for the Divine Presence to whom he feels an always more intimate closeness, grows upon the consecrated worker. And with it is born or in it is contained a universal love too for all these beings, living forms and creatures that are habitations of the Divine - not the brief restless grasping emotions of division, but the settled selfless love that is the deeper vibration of oneness. In all the seeker begins to meet the one Object of his adoration and service. The way of works turns by this road of sacrifice to meet the path of Devotion; it can be itself a devotion as complete, as absorbing, as integral as any the desire of the heart can ask for or the passion of the mind can imagine.
Next, the practice of this Yoga demands a constant inward remembrance of the one central liberating knowledge, and a constant active externalising of it in works comes in too to intensify the remembrance. In all is the one Self, the one Divine is all; all are in the Divine, all are the Divine and there is nothing else in the universe, - this thought or this faith is the whole background until it becomes the whole substance of the consciousness of the worker. A memory, a self-dynamising meditation of this kind, must and does in its end turn into a profound and uninterrupted vision and a vivid and all-embracing consciousness of that which we so powerfully remember or on which we so constantly meditate. For it compels a constant reference at each moment to the Origin of all being and will and action and there is at once an embracing and exceeding of all particular forms and appearances in That which is their cause and upholder. This way cannot go to its end without a seeing vivid and vital, as concrete in its way as physical sight, of the works of the universal Spirit everywhere. On its summits it rises into a constant living and thinking and willing and acting in the presence of the Supramental, the Transcendent. Whatever we see and hear, whatever we touch and sense, all of which we are conscious, has to be known and felt by us as That which we worship and serve; all has to be turned into an image of the Divinity, perceived as a dwelling-place of his Godhead, enveloped with the eternal Omnipresence. In its close, if not long before it, this way of works turns by communion with the Divine Presence, Will and Force into a way of Knowledge more complete and integral than any the mere creature intelligence can construct or the search of the intellect can discover.
Lastly, the practice of this Yoga of sacrifice compels us to renounce all the inner supports of egoism, casting them out of our mind and will and actions, and to eliminate its seed, its presence, its influence out of our nature. All must be done for the Divine; all must be directed towards the Divine. Nothing must be attempted for ourselves as a separate existence; nothing done for others, whether neighbours, friends, family, country or mankind or other creatures merely because they are connected with our personal life and thought and sentiment or because the ego takes a preferential interest in their welfare. In this way of doing and seeing all works and all life become only a daily dynamic worship and service of the Divine in the unbounded temple of his own vast cosmic existence. Life becomes more and more the sacrifice of the eternal in the individual constantly self-offered to the eternal Transcendence. It is offered in the wide sacrificial ground of the field of the eternal cosmic Spirit; and the Force too that offers it is the eternal Force, the omnipresent Mother. Therefore is this way a way of union and communion by acts and by the spirit and knowledge in the act as complete and integral as any our Godward will can hope for or our soul's strength execute.
It has all the power of a way of works integral and absolute, but because of its law of sacrifice and self-giving to the Divine Self and Master, it is accompanied on its one side by the whole power of the path of Love and on the other by the whole power of the path of Knowledge. At its end all these three divine Powers work together, fused, united, completed, perfected by each other.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [111-114],#KEYS
168:The Supermind [Supramental consciousness] is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which is the foundation of our present natural or evolutionary existence and from which nature in us is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and world-knowledge and a right consciousness and the right use of our existence in the universe. The Supermind, because it is a truth-consciousness, has this knowledge inherent in it and this power of true existence; its course is straight and can go direct to its aim, its field is wide and can even be made illimitable. This is because its very nature is knowledge: it has not to acquire knowledge but possesses it in its own right; its steps are not from nescience or ignorance into some imperfect light, but from truth to greater truth, from right perception to deeper perception, from intuition to intuition, from illumination to utter and boundless luminousness, from growing widenesses to the utter vasts and to very infinitude. On its summits it possesses the divine omniscience and omnipotence, but even in an evolutionary movement of its own graded self-manifestation by which it would eventually reveal its own highest heights, it must be in its very nature essentially free from ignorance and error: it starts from truth and light and moves always in truth and light. As its knowledge is always true, so too its will is always true; it does not fumble in its handling of things or stumble in its paces. In the Supermind feeling and emotion do not depart from their truth, make no slips or mistakes, do not swerve from the right and the real, cannot misuse beauty and delight or twist away from a divine rectitude. In the Supermind sense cannot mislead or deviate into the grossnesses which are here its natural imperfections and the cause of reproach, distrust and misuse by our ignorance. Even an incomplete statement made by the Supermind is a truth leading to a further truth, its incomplete action a step towards completeness. All the life and action and leading of the Supermind is guarded in its very nature from the falsehoods and uncertainties that are our lot; it moves in safety towards its perfection. Once the truth-consciousness was established here on its own sure foundation, the evolution of divine life would be a progress in felicity, a march through light to Ananda. Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and the divine Nature. In its own plane it already and always exists and possesses its own essential law of being; it has not to be created or to emerge or evolve into existence out of involution in Matter or out of non-existence, as it might seem to the view of mind which itself seems to its own view to have so emerged from life and Matter or to have evolved out of an involution in life and Matter. The nature of Supermind is always the same, a being of knowledge, proceeding from truth to truth, creating or rather manifesting what has to be manifested by the power of a pre-existent knowledge, not by hazard but by a self-existent destiny in the being itself, a necessity of the thing in itself and therefore inevitable. Its -manifestation of the divine life will also be inevitable; its own life on its own plane is divine and, if Supermind descends upon the earth, it will bring necessarily the divine life with it and establish it here. Supermind is the grade of existence beyond mind, life and Matter and, as mind, life and Matter have manifested on the earth, so too must Supermind in the inevitable course of things manifest in this world of Matter. In fact, a supermind is already here but it is involved, concealed behind this manifest mind, life and Matter and not yet acting overtly or in its own power: if it acts, it is through these inferior powers and modified by their characters and so not yet recognisable. It is only by the approach and arrival of the descending Supermind that it can be liberated upon earth and reveal itself in the action of our material, vital and mental parts so that these lower powers can become portions of a total divinised activity of our whole being: it is that that will bring to us a completely realised divinity or the divine life. It is indeed so that life and mind involved in Matter have realised themselves here; for only what is involved can evolve, otherwise there could be no emergence. The manifestation of a supramental truth-consciousness is therefore the capital reality that will make the divine life possible. It is when all the movements of thought, impulse and action are governed and directed by a self-existent and luminously automatic truth-consciousness and our whole nature comes to be constituted by it and made of its stuff that the life divine will be complete and absolute. Even as it is, in reality though not in the appearance of things, it is a secret self-existent knowledge and truth that is working to manifest itself in the creation here. The Divine is already there immanent within us, ourselves are that in our inmost reality and it is this reality that we have to manifest; it is that which constitutes the urge towards the divine living and makes necessary the creation of the life divine even in this material existence. A manifestation of the Supermind and its truth-consciousness is then inevitable; it must happen in this world sooner or lateR But it has two aspects, a descent from above, an ascent from below, a self-revelation of the Spirit, an evolution in Nature. The ascent is necessarily an effort, a working of Nature, an urge or nisus on her side to raise her lower parts by an evolutionary or revolutionary change, conversion or transformation into the divine reality and it may happen by a process and progress or by a rapid miracle. The descent or self-revelation of the Spirit is an act of the supreme Reality from above which makes the realisation possible and it can appear either as the divine aid which brings about the fulfilment of the progress and process or as the sanction of the miracle. Evolution, as we see it in this world, is a slow and difficult process and, indeed, needs usually ages to reach abiding results; but this is because it is in its nature an emergence from inconscient beginnings, a start from nescience and a working in the ignorance of natural beings by what seems to be an unconscious force. There can be, on the contrary, an evolution in the light and no longer in the darkness, in which the evolving being is a conscious participant and cooperator, and this is precisely what must take place here. Even in the effort and progress from the Ignorance to Knowledge this must be in part if not wholly the endeavour to be made on the heights of the nature, and it must be wholly that in the final movement towards the spiritual change, realisation, transformation. It must be still more so when there is a transition across the dividing line between the Ignorance and the Knowledge and the evolution is from knowledge to greater knowledge, from consciousness to greater consciousness, from being to greater being. There is then no longer any necessity for the slow pace of the ordinary evolution; there can be rapid conversion, quick transformation after transformation, what would seem to our normal present mind a succession of miracles. An evolution on the supramental levels could well be of that nature; it could be equally, if the being so chose, a more leisurely passage of one supramental state or condition of things to something beyond but still supramental, from level to divine level, a building up of divine gradations, a free growth to the supreme Supermind or beyond it to yet undreamed levels of being, consciousness and Ananda.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, 558,#KEYS
169:
The whole question.
The whole question? And now, do you understand?... Not quite? I told you that you did not understand because it was muddled up; in one question three different ideas were included. So naturally it created a confusion. But taken separately they are what I explained to you just now, most probably; that is to say, one has this altogether ignorant and obliterated consciousness and is convinced that he is the cause and effect, the origin and result of himself, separate from all others, separate with a limited power to act upon others and a little greater capacity to be set in movement by others or to react to others' influence. That is how people think usually, something like that, isn't that so? How do you feel, you? What effect do you have upon yourself? And you? And you?... You have never thought about it? You have never looked into yourself to see what effect you exercise upon yourself? Never thought over it? No? How do you feel? Nobody will tell me? Come, you tell me that. Never tried to understand how you feel? Yes? No? How strange! Never sought to understand how, for example, decisions take place in you? From where do they come? What makes you decide one thing rather than another? And what is the relation between a decision of yours and your action? And to what extent do you have the freedom of choice between one thing and another? And how far do you feel you are able to, you are free to do this or that or that other or nothing at all?... You have pondered over that? Yes? Is there any one among the students who has thought over it? No? Nobody put the question to himself? You? You?...
Even if one thinks over it, perhaps one is not able to answer!
One cannot explain?
No.
It is difficult to explain? Even this simple little thing, to see where in your consciousness the wills that come from outside meet your will (which you call yours, which comes from within), at what place the two join together and to what extent the one from outside acts upon that from within and the one from within acts upon that from outside? You have never tried to find this out? It has never seemed to you unbearable that a will from outside should have an action upon your will? No?
I do not know.
Oh! I am putting very difficult problems! But, my children, I was preoccupied with that when I was a child of five!... So I thought you must have been preoccupied with it since a long time. In oneself, there are contradictory wills. Yes, many. That is one of the very first discoveries. There is one part which wants things this way; and then at another moment, another way, and a third time, one wants still another thing! Besides, there is even this: something that wants and another which says no. So? But it is exactly that which has to be found if you wish in the least to organise yourself. Why not project yourself upon a screen, as in the cinema, and then look at yourself moving on it? How interesting it is!
This is the first step.
You project yourself on the screen and then observe and see all that is moving there and how it moves and what happens. You make a little diagram, it becomes so interesting then. And then, after a while, when you are quite accustomed to seeing, you can go one step further and take a decision. Or even a still greater step: you organise - arrange, take up all that, put each thing in its place, organise in such a way that you begin to have a straight movement with an inner meaning. And then you become conscious of your direction and are able to say: "Very well, it will be thus; my life will develop in that way, because that is the logic of my being. Now, I have arranged all that within me, each thing has been put in its place, and so naturally a central orientation is forming. I am following this orientation. One step more and I know what will happen to me for I myself am deciding it...." I do not know, I am telling you this; to me it seemed terribly interesting, the most interesting thing in the world. There was nothing, no other thing that interested me more than that.
This happened to me.... I was five or six or seven years old (at seven the thing became quite serious) and I had a father who loved the circus, and he came and told me: "Come with me, I am going to the circus on Sunday." I said: "No, I am doing something much more interesting than going to the circus!" Or again, young friends invited me to attend a meeting where we were to play together, enjoy together: "No, I enjoy here much more...." And it was quite sincere. It was not a pose: for me, it was like this, it was true. There was nothing in the world more enjoyable than that.
And I am so convinced that anybody who does it in that way, with the same freshness and sincerity, will obtain most interesting results.... To put all that on a screen in front of yourself and look at what is happening. And the first step is to know all that is happening and then you must not try to shut your eyes when something does not appear pleasant to you! You must keep them wide open and put each thing in that way before the screen. Then you make quite an interesting discovery. And then the next step is to start telling yourself: "Since all that is happening within me, why should I not put this thing in this way and then that thing in that way and then this other in this way and thus wouldn't I be doing something logical that has a meaning? Why should I not remove that thing which stands obstructing the way, these conflicting wills? Why? And what does that represent in the being? Why is it there? If it were put there, would it not help instead of harming me?" And so on.
And little by little, little by little, you see clearer and then you see why you are made like that, what is the thing you have got to do - that for which you are born. And then, quite naturally, since all is organised for this thing to happen, the path becomes straight and you can say beforehand: "It is in this way that it will happen." And when things come from outside to try and upset all that, you are able to say: "No, I accept this, for it helps; I reject that, for that harms." And then, after a few years, you curb yourself as you curb a horse: you do whatever you like, in the way you like and you go wherever you like.
It seems to me this is worth the trouble. I believe it is the most interesting thing.
...
You must have a great deal of sincerity, a little courage and perseverance and then a sort of mental curiosity, you understand, curious, seeking to know, interested, wanting to learn. To love to learn: that, one must have in one's nature. To find it impossible to stand before something grey, all hazy, in which nothing is seen clearly and which gives you quite an unpleasant feeling, for you do not know where you begin and where you end, what is yours and what is not yours and what is settled and what is not settled - what is this pulp-like thing you call yourself in which things get intermingled and act upon one another without even your being aware of it? You ask yourself: "But why have I done this?" You know nothing about it. "And why have I felt that?" You don't know that, either. And then, you are thrown into a world outside that is only fog and you are thrown into a world inside that is also for you another kind of fog, still more impenetrable, in which you live, like a cork thrown upon the waters and the waves carry it away or cast it into the air, and it drops and rolls on. That is quite an unpleasant state. I do not know, but to me it appears unpleasant.
To see clearly, to see one's way, where one is going, why one is going there, how one is to go there and what one is going to do and what is the kind of relation with others... But that is a problem so wonderfully interesting - it is interesting - and you can always discover things every minute! One's work is never finished.
There is a time, there is a certain state of consciousness when you have the feeling that you are in that condition with all the weight of the world lying heavy upon you and besides you are going in blinkers and do not know where you are going, but there is something which is pushing you. And that is truly a very unpleasant condition. And there is another moment when one draws oneself up and is able to see what is there above, and one becomes it; then one looks at the world as though from the top of a very very high mountain and one sees all that is happening below; then one can choose one's way and follow it. That is a more pleasant condition. This then is truly the truth, you are upon earth for that, surely. All individual beings and all the little concentrations of consciousness were created to do this work. It is the very reason for existence: to be able to become fully conscious of a certain sum of vibrations representing an individual being and put order there and find one's way and follow it.
And so, as men do not know it and do not do it, life comes and gives them a blow here: "Oh! that hurts", then a blow there: "Ah! that's hurting me." And the thing goes on like that and all the time it is like that. And all the time they are getting pain somewhere. They suffer, they cry, they groan. But it is simply due to that reason, there is no other: it is that they have not done that little work. If, when they were quite young, there had been someone to teach them to do the work and they had done it without losing time, they could have gone through life gloriously and instead of suffering they would have been all-powerful masters of their destiny.
This is not to say that necessarily all things would become pleasant. It is not at all that. But your reaction towards things becomes the true reaction and instead of suffering, you learn; instead of being miserable, you go forward and progress. After all, I believe it is for this that you are here - so that there is someone who can tell you: "There, well, try that. It is worth trying." ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 199,#KEYS
170:The Science of Living
To know oneself and to control oneself
AN AIMLESS life is always a miserable life.
Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life.
Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others.
But whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realised unless you have realised perfection in yourself.
To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their respective activities. You must learn to distinguish these different parts one from another, so that you may become clearly aware of the origin of the movements that occur in you, the many impulses, reactions and conflicting wills that drive you to action. It is an assiduous study which demands much perseverance and sincerity. For man's nature, especially his mental nature, has a spontaneous tendency to give a favourable explanation for everything he thinks, feels, says and does. It is only by observing these movements with great care, by bringing them, as it were, before the tribunal of our highest ideal, with a sincere will to submit to its judgment, that we can hope to form in ourselves a discernment that never errs. For if we truly want to progress and acquire the capacity of knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, what we are truly created for, what we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is opposed to it. In this way, little by little, all the parts, all the elements of our being can be organised into a homogeneous whole around our psychic centre. This work of unification requires much time to be brought to some degree of perfection. Therefore, in order to accomplish it, we must arm ourselves with patience and endurance, with a determination to prolong our life as long as necessary for the success of our endeavour.
As you pursue this labour of purification and unification, you must at the same time take great care to perfect the external and instrumental part of your being. When the higher truth manifests, it must find in you a mind that is supple and rich enough to be able to give the idea that seeks to express itself a form of thought which preserves its force and clarity. This thought, again, when it seeks to clothe itself in words, must find in you a sufficient power of expression so that the words reveal the thought and do not deform it. And the formula in which you embody the truth should be manifested in all your feelings, all your acts of will, all your actions, in all the movements of your being. Finally, these movements themselves should, by constant effort, attain their highest perfection.
All this can be realised by means of a fourfold discipline, the general outline of which is given here. The four aspects of the discipline do not exclude each other, and can be followed at the same time; indeed, this is preferable. The starting-point is what can be called the psychic discipline. We give the name "psychic" to the psychological centre of our being, the seat within us of the highest truth of our existence, that which can know this truth and set it in movement. It is therefore of capital importance to become conscious of its presence in us, to concentrate on this presence until it becomes a living fact for us and we can identify ourselves with it.
In various times and places many methods have been prescribed for attaining this perception and ultimately achieving this identification. Some methods are psychological, some religious, some even mechanical. In reality, everyone has to find the one which suits him best, and if one has an ardent and steadfast aspiration, a persistent and dynamic will, one is sure to meet, in one way or another - outwardly through reading and study, inwardly through concentration, meditation, revelation and experience - the help one needs to reach the goal. Only one thing is absolutely indispensable: the will to discover and to realise. This discovery and realisation should be the primary preoccupation of our being, the pearl of great price which we must acquire at any cost. Whatever you do, whatever your occupations and activities, the will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must be always living and present behind all that you do, all that you feel, all that you think.
To complement this movement of inner discovery, it would be good not to neglect the development of the mind. For the mental instrument can equally be a great help or a great hindrance. In its natural state the human mind is always limited in its vision, narrow in its understanding, rigid in its conceptions, and a constant effort is therefore needed to widen it, to make it more supple and profound. So it is very necessary to consider everything from as many points of view as possible. Towards this end, there is an exercise which gives great suppleness and elevation to the thought. It is as follows: a clearly formulated thesis is set; against it is opposed its antithesis, formulated with the same precision. Then by careful reflection the problem must be widened or transcended until a synthesis is found which unites the two contraries in a larger, higher and more comprehensive idea.
Many other exercises of the same kind can be undertaken; some have a beneficial effect on the character and so possess a double advantage: that of educating the mind and that of establishing control over the feelings and their consequences. For example, you must never allow your mind to judge things and people, for the mind is not an instrument of knowledge; it is incapable of finding knowledge, but it must be moved by knowledge. Knowledge belongs to a much higher domain than that of the human mind, far above the region of pure ideas. The mind has to be silent and attentive to receive knowledge from above and manifest it. For it is an instrument of formation, of organisation and action, and it is in these functions that it attains its full value and real usefulness.
There is another practice which can be very helpful to the progress of the consciousness. Whenever there is a disagreement on any matter, such as a decision to be taken, or an action to be carried out, one must never remain closed up in one's own conception or point of view. On the contrary, one must make an effort to understand the other's point of view, to put oneself in his place and, instead of quarrelling or even fighting, find the solution which can reasonably satisfy both parties; there always is one for men of goodwill.
Here we must mention the discipline of the vital. The vital being in us is the seat of impulses and desires, of enthusiasm and violence, of dynamic energy and desperate depressions, of passions and revolts. It can set everything in motion, build and realise; but it can also destroy and mar everything. Thus it may be the most difficult part to discipline in the human being. It is a long and exacting labour requiring great patience and perfect sincerity, for without sincerity you will deceive yourself from the very outset, and all endeavour for progress will be in vain. With the collaboration of the vital no realisation seems impossible, no transformation impracticable. But the difficulty lies in securing this constant collaboration. The vital is a good worker, but most often it seeks its own satisfaction. If that is refused, totally or even partially, the vital gets vexed, sulks and goes on strike. Its energy disappears more or less completely and in its place leaves disgust for people and things, discouragement or revolt, depression and dissatisfaction. At such moments it is good to remain quiet and refuse to act; for these are the times when one does stupid things and in a few moments one can destroy or spoil the progress that has been made during months of regular effort. These crises are shorter and less dangerous for those who have established a contact with their psychic being which is sufficient to keep alive in them the flame of aspiration and the consciousness of the ideal to be realised. They can, with the help of this consciousness, deal with their vital as one deals with a rebellious child, with patience and perseverance, showing it the truth and light, endeavouring to convince it and awaken in it the goodwill which has been veiled for a time. By means of such patient intervention each crisis can be turned into a new progress, into one more step towards the goal. Progress may be slow, relapses may be frequent, but if a courageous will is maintained, one is sure to triumph one day and see all difficulties melt and vanish before the radiance of the truth-consciousness.
Lastly, by means of a rational and discerning physical education, we must make our body strong and supple enough to become a fit instrument in the material world for the truth-force which wants to manifest through us.
In fact, the body must not rule, it must obey. By its very nature it is a docile and faithful servant. Unfortunately, it rarely has the capacity of discernment it ought to have with regard to its masters, the mind and the vital. It obeys them blindly, at the cost of its own well-being. The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance of the body and create in it fatigue, exhaustion and disease. It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the psychic centre of the being. The body has a wonderful capacity of adaptation and endurance. It is able to do so many more things than one usually imagines. If, instead of the ignorant and despotic masters that now govern it, it is ruled by the central truth of the being, you will be amazed at what it is capable of doing. Calm and quiet, strong and poised, at every minute it will be able to put forth the effort that is demanded of it, for it will have learnt to find rest in action and to recuperate, through contact with the universal forces, the energies it expends consciously and usefully. In this sound and balanced life a new harmony will manifest in the body, reflecting the harmony of the higher regions, which will give it perfect proportions and ideal beauty of form. And this harmony will be progressive, for the truth of the being is never static; it is a perpetual unfolding of a growing perfection that is more and more total and comprehensive. As soon as the body has learnt to follow this movement of progressive harmony, it will be possible for it to escape, through a continuous process of transformation, from the necessity of disintegration and destruction. Thus the irrevocable law of death will no longer have any reason to exist.
When we reach this degree of perfection which is our goal, we shall perceive that the truth we seek is made up of four major aspects: Love, Knowledge, Power and Beauty. These four attributes of the Truth will express themselves spontaneously in our being. The psychic will be the vehicle of true and pure love, the mind will be the vehicle of infallible knowledge, the vital will manifest an invincible power and strength and the body will be the expression of a perfect beauty and harmony.
Bulletin, November 1950
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Don't mistake movement for achievement. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 2:Action is movement with intelligence ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 3:God means movement, and not explanation. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 4:Never confuse movement with action. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 5:Life is a movement outward, an unfolding. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 6:What is true stillness? Stillness in movement. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 7:I'm not focused on the gay and lesbian movement. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 8:Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 9:Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 10:Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 11:The development of the mind comes through movement ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 12:The movement of life has its rest in its own music. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 13:The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 14:Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 15:Without the accurate spine movement, one can't exist dynamically. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 16:Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 17:Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 18:Yoga is a movement in consciousness, awareness in action. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 19:Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 20:To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 21:Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 22:The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 23:There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 24:Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 25:It's only when they join together in a forward movement that this country moves ahead. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 26:Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 27:Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 28:It's only when they join together in a forward movement that this country moves ahead... ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 29:Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 30:Suffering is primarily a call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 31:The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 32:Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 33:I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 34:The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 35:Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 36:The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 37:When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 38:You will always see, if this group is a highly evolved group or on the way up, a movement towards oneness. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 39:The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 40:The labor movement was the principal force that transforme¬≠d misery and despair into hope and progress. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 41:Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what? ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 42:Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 43:there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 44:Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 45:There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 46:Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 47:The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 48:Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers). ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 49:What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 50:The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry. ~ francis-crick, @wisdomtrove 51:Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 52:Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 53:I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 54:Without contradiction, there would be no life, no movement, no progress, a deadly slumber of all forces. ~ friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling, @wisdomtrove 55:The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 56:We call dialectic the higher movement of reason in which utterly separate terms pass over into each other spontaneously. ~ arthur-schopenhauer, @wisdomtrove 57:If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 58:I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 59:Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 60:The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 61:Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 62:You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 63:A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 64:Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 65:I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 66:In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 67:Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 68:A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 69:The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 70:There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 71:Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 72:Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 73:Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 74:That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 75:There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 76:We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 77:There are three things in this world that you need: respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 78:Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 79:Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 80:Our mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch the movement of thoughts in the mind. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 81:Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 82:The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 83:The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 84:The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 85:It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 86:My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: & 87:The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 88:My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 89:There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, & 90:Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 91:Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 92:Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 93:Knowledge , surely, is always of time , whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 94:What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 95:The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally. ~ barbara-marx-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 96:As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 97:Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 98:The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 99:Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 100:The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 101:These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 102:Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. ~ henri-cartier-bresson, @wisdomtrove 103:Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido! ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 104:I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. ~ arthur-rubinstein, @wisdomtrove 105:I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 106:If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 107:No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 108:Relationship is the mirror in which we see ourselves as we are. All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 109:Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 110:Communion is mutual trust, mutual belonging; it is the to-and-fro movement of love between two people where each one gives and each one receives. Communion is not a fixed state, it is an... ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 111:The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 112:Awareness becomes consciousness when it has an object. The object changes all the time. In consciousness, there is movement; awareness by itself is motionless and timeless, here and now. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 113:The Buddha's teachings on love are clear. It is possible to live twenty- four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 114:The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 115:This is something called walking meditation. The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 116:Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 117:Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 118:a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 119:Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 120:It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 121:Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 122:We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 123:I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove 124:Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 125:Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 126:Having totality means being capable of following what is, because what is is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of what is. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 127:Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise." "Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 128:Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 129:Being nothing, I am all. Everything is me, everything is mine. Just as my body moves by my mere thinking of the movement, so do things happen as I think of them. Mind you, I do nothing. I just see them happen. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 130:The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 131:Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in the aspect of time Caught in the form of limitation Between un-being and being. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 132:All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 133:If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 134:Most of the teaching I do is not verbal. It's in every movement of my body. It's in my dance. It's in the way I lift a glass of water. It's in my voice tone. It's in every aspect of my life - because it isn't my life anymore. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 135:The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 136:The secret gem of truth has been hidden in the core of your own heart all along. My invitation is to stop all movement of your mind away from truth so that you can discover directly, for yourself, this jewel that is alive within you. ~ gangaji, @wisdomtrove 137:Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 138:Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 139:Life is always moving, changing, shifting into its next shape. The movement is natural. It is how we evolve. Let the shifts happen. Take responsibility for yourself each step of the way. Trust the new shape and form of your world ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 140:The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 141:Before the 1940s the terms system and systems thinking had been used by several scientists, but it was Bertalanffy's concepts of an open system and a general systems theory that established systems thinking as a major scientific movement ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove 142:Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove 143:My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement is unique to human beings. Why else would children start to dance when they're two or three? Chimpanzees don't dance. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 144:The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind. ~ bodhidharma, @wisdomtrove 145:The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 146:We have surface time, which is the time we move through every day, but we need to reach the rhythms of deep time. Like the ocean is all waves and movement on the surface, we need to sink through time to the depths where the true rhythm lies. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 147:The same areas which are active in listening to music are also active when you imagine music, and this includes the motor areas, too. That explains why earlier, even though I was only thinking of the mazurka, I was thinking in terms of movement. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 148:Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 149:Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a meditor who is meditating . . . The mind must be clear, without movement, and in the light of that clarity the timeless will be revealed. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 150:Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by several cults. They felt that Protestantism had become much too lax, so they came to America and set up a hard line religious cult. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 151:The sphere of sense, the Soul in its slumber; for all of the Soul that is in body is asleep and the true getting-up is not bodily but from the body: in any movement that takes the body with it there is no more than passage from sleep to sleep, from bed to bed. ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove 152:The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 153:Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive; the place occupied by my figures, the empty space around them, the proportions, everything has its share. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove 154:Great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 155:It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 156:How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances... The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man! ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 157:Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 158:Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 159:Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 160:His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony. Even in sleep he could not altogether escape form her image. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 161:A given circle cannot be so true that a truer one cannot be found; and the movement of a sphere at one moment is never precisely equal to its movement at another, nor does it ever describe two circles similar and equal, even if from appearances the opposite may seem true. ~ nicholas-of-cusa, @wisdomtrove 162:Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 163:Living is not this tawdry, mediocre, disciplined thing which we call our existence. Living is something entirely different; it is abundantly rich, timelessly changing, and as long as we don't understand that eternal movement, our lives are bound to have very little meaning. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 164:There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 165:The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words & 166:Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 167:To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time , for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret I am free, then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 168:The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and given them common tools for common goals. Their goals are goals for all America - and their enemies are the enemies for progress. The two cannot be separated. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 169:Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 170:The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 171:A thought may arise: & 172:We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society . . . . What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 173:It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 174:When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me. I seem to transform myself into the opponent, and every movement he makes as well as every thought he conceives are felt as if they were my own and I intuitively... know when and how to strike him. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove 175:One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to preach the gospel to some tribe of aborigines, that king would be elevated above anything he had known before. Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 176:Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 177:Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one's suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 178:We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 179:Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my country and my friends to do anything, outside of serving on a commission, that I can in this great movement. But you will have to give me some idea of where "confidence" is. And just who you want it restored to. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 180:Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 181:The human mind can’t stand nothing. It cannot stand looking at nothing for long. But I am asking you to look inside and see nothing. For as I see nothing, I become nothing and this is how I clear my mind. I clarify my consciousness. I take the past, the movement, out of my consciousness, by looking at nothing inside. ~ barry-long, @wisdomtrove 182:Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 183:Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is. This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate & 184:The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity — a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 185:When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 186:The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 187:You are always new. THe last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass'd my window home yesterday, I was fill'd with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time... Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 188:The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle. ~ leonardo-da-vinci, @wisdomtrove 189:There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 190:Descriptions of inner, spiritual processes are much more liable to misunderstanding than descriptions of events in the physical world. Such misunderstandings arise easily because the life of the soul is in constant movement and because we fail to bear in mind that the life of the soul is very different from life in the physical world. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 191:The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 192:The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 193:Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow that in Christ there was no movement of the will proper to human nature, for the good wills of other saints are moved by God's will... For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 194:Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow that in Christ there was no movement of the will proper to human nature, for the good wills of other saints are moved by God's will... For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 195:If he remembers who he became when he merged with the One, he will bear its image in himself. He was himself one, with no diversity in himself or his outward relations; for no movement was in him, no passion, no desire for another, once the ascent was accomplished. Nor indeed was there any reason or though, nor, if we dare say it, any trace of himself. ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove 196:Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 197:One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as writing that line. A 198:Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 199:It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 200:Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles and American institutions. It is a wicked thing either to support or oppose a man because of the creed he possesses. . . . Such a movement directly contravenes the spirit of the Constitution itself. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 201:Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by which it tries to find its inward force. Its expansive movement comes in the thought which it throws out on life, the ideals which open up new horizons and which the intellect accepts and life labours to assimilate. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 202:Vipassana arises as you pay awareness to the inner and outer experience unfolding at the present moment. Vipassana is not associated with any rigid formula or methods. Whenever you are aware of your mental or physical feelings like tension in the muscles, movement of limbs, stiffness, heat or cold, you have begun to develop special understanding of realities. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 203:We are particularly thankful to you for your part in the movement to have the words under God added to our Pledge of Allegiance. These words will remind Americans that despite our great physical strength we must remain humble. They will help us keep constantly in our minds and hearts the spiritual and moral principles which alone give dignity to man. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 204:Even as you grow wiser and wiser with age you must remind yourself that an understanding is never absolutely final. What’s currently right could easily be wrong later. Thus, the most destructive illusion is a settled point of view. Since life is continuous growth and movement, choosing a fixed point of view is essentially a declaration of death. ~ marc-and-angel-chernoff, @wisdomtrove 205:There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 206:Even as you grow wiser and wiser with age you must remind yourself that an understanding is never absolutely final. What’s currently right could easily be wrong later. Thus, the most destructive illusion is a settled point of view. Since life is continuous growth and movement, choosing a fixed point of view is essentially a declaration of death. ~ marc-and-angel-chernoff, @wisdomtrove 207:While there are many who would say that the race to the moon was hardly green, many others have noted that the photographs brought back from Apollo 8 created the environmental movement. "They fuelled an awareness of the vulnerability of the Earth which still resonates with us today and shapes our behaviour." It was Kennedy who started it all with his pledge: ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 208:This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 209:In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 210:Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 211:History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 212:Consciousness is always of movement, of change. There can be no such thing as changeless consciousness. Changelessness wipes out consciousness immediately. A man deprived of outer or inner sensations blanks out, or goes beyond consciousness and unconsciousness into the birthless and deathless state. Only when spirit and matter come together consciousness is born. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 213:Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity. As we start to really get to know others, as we begin to listen to each other's stories, things begin to change. We begin the movement from exclusion to inclusion, from fear to trust, from closedness to openness, from judgment and prejudice to forgiveness and understanding. It is a movement of the heart. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 214:At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 215:Q: Is there any particular place you would advise me to go to for spiritual attainment? M: The only proper place is within. The outer world neither can help nor hinder. No system, no pattern of action will take you to your goal. Give up all working for a future, concentrate totally on the now, be concerned only with your response to every movement of life as it happens. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 216:The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there is no security... ..When there is no security there is an endless movement and then life and death are the same... .The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 217:Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realizing that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor-that is the only way out of a "hole." This process of surrender-this movement full speed astern-is repentance. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 218:he'd once believed that the answer lay somehow in the music he created, he suspected now that He'd been mistaken. The more he thought about it, the more he'd come to realize that for him, music had always been a movement away from reality rather than a means of living in it more deeply. .. he now knew that burying himself in music had less to do with God than a selfish desire to escape. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 219:The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 220:Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 221:Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 222:It is amazing but true that it is easy for any of us to rebuke someone else who is intending to do something evil and say, Don’t do that—that’s a sin! And yet it is difficult for us to say the same thing to ourselves. The reason is that saying it to ourselves requires a movement of the will, but saying it to someone else requires only a low level of thought based on things we have heard. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 223:Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind working? Or rather, has your mind watched itself in operation, just to see what your thoughts are, what your feelings are, how you look at the trees, at the flowers, at the birds, at people, how you respond to a suggestion or react to a new idea? Have you ever done this? ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 224:She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure in the special self-consciousness it gave her. When she crossed her legs, when she leaned on her arm against the window sill, when she brushed her hair off her forehead - every movement of her body was underscored by a feeling the unadmitted words for which were: Is he seeing it? ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 225:When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, & 226:All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 227:Her partially open lips now opened wide, and her soft, fragrant tongue entered his mouth, where it began a relentless search for unformed words, for a secret code engraved there. Tengo's own tongue responded unconsciously to this movement and soon their tongues were like two young snakes in a spring meadow, newly wakened from their hibernation and hungrily intertwining, each led on by the other's scent. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 228:Knowing yourself as the dweller in both the personal body and the universal body [the world], you will disown nothing. All the universe will be your concern; every living thing you will love and help most tenderly and wisely. There will be no clash of interests between you and others. All exploitation will cease absolutely. Your every action will be beneficial, every movement will be a blessing. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 229:Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says "Whatever is, isn't the way it is supposed to be." So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called "the peace that passes all understanding." ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 230:What remains when self disperses, even temporarily? The wholehearted movement to contribute, and the wish to thrive and prosper as one human animal among six billion. To be healthy and strong and live many more years. To be caring and kind. To awaken, abiding as radiant, spacious, loving consciousness. To feel protected and supported. To be happy and comfortable, serene and fulfilled. To live and love in peace. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 231:Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 232:As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only by the inertia of a void and the momentum of disintegration. A social movement that began with the ponderous, brain-cracking, dialectical constructs of Hegel and Marx, and ends up with a horde of morally unwashed children stamping their foot and shrieking: "I want it now is through." ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 233:The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon earth, not because vegetarianism itself is such an important step towards the realization of this kingdom (all real steps are equally important or unimportant), but because it serves as a criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of man is genuine and sincere. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 234:What relationship can there be between what is and what merely appears to be? Is there any relationship between the ocean and its waves? The real enables the unreal to appear and causes it to disappear. the succession of transient moments creates the illusion of time, but the timeless reality of pure being is not in movement, for all movement requires a motionless background. It is itself the background. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 235:If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 236:You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realise that bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness altogether. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 237:Life is about movement, expansion, growth, and actualizing potential. If you stay in a home, relationship, or job beyond the time it is healthy for you, the universe will prod you with thorns as if to say, “It’s time to move to a broader domain.” If you do not heed the message, the thorns will get sharper and at some point you will have no choice but to fly. When you do, you will understand why a once comfortable situation became uncomfortable. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 238:To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and feel pretty cool and all that. I can make all kinds of phoney things. Blinded by it. Or I can show some really fancy movement. But to experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 239:To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 240:Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, & 241:Lovers, the followers of the path of love, make love their undercurrent. They eat, but they eat with love. They walk, but they walk with love - because the earth is holy ground. They sit under a tree; they sit with love - because the tree is divine. They look at somebody; they look with love - because there also is divinity. Everywhere they see their beloved, in each movement they remember their beloved. It becomes their constant remembrance. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 242:The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 243:When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long. Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 244:There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement. ~ barbara-marx-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 245:The world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less, and you have to compete with other people in order to try to get ahead. You have to sell yourself at every available opportunity. The shift, the enlightened shift, has to do with a movement from competition to collaboration, from sales to service, from ambition to inspiration, and to a belief in scarcity to a belief in abundance as an eternal spiritual quality. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 246:What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of great ecstasy which is not to be confounded with pleasure. It is this ecstasy which gives to the eye, to the brain and to the heart, the quality of innocency. Without seeing life as something totally new, it is a routine, a boredom, a meaningless affair. So meditation is of the greatest importance. It opens the door to the incalculable, to the measureless. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 247:If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and opportunity. Being sick is then not a condemnation or a moral judgement, but a movement in a larger process of healing and restoration. When sickness is viewed positively and in supportive terms, then illness has a much better chance to heal, with the concomitant result that the entire person may grown and be enriched in the process. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 248:Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 249:The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by the proper government authorities will not succeed, in my judgment, in checking the progress of the movement. But if they did succeed they would find that they had sown the wind and would surely reap the whirlwind, for they would ultimately provoke the violent excesses which accompany a reform coming by convulsion instead of by steady and natural growth. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 250:A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift. By focusing on springtime and summer, we have turned the natural process of life into a process of loss rather than a process of celebration and appreciation. Life is neither linear nor stagnant. It is movement from mystery to mystery. Just as a year includes autumn and winter, life includes death, not as an opposite but as an integral part of the way life is made. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 251:There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 252:Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 253:In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to flowing movement. In either case, it is an embodiment of wise attention, an inward gesture undertaken for the most part in silence, a shift from doing to simply being. It is an act that may at first seem artificial but that we soon discover, if we keep at it, is ultimately one of pure love for the life unfolding within us and around us. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 254:He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or cicadas. Something was out there. An intruder of which the ordinary forest creatures clearly did not approve. He took a deep breath and held it again, straining to hear the slightest movement in the woods. This time he detected the rustle of brush, a snapping twig, the soft crunch of dry leaves-and the unnervingly peculiar, heavy, ragged breathing of something big. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 255:I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the better and to find dignity as individuals rather than as drones in one mass movement or another. We have the ability to love, the need to be loved, and the willingness to put our own lives on the line to protect those we love, and it is in these aspects of ourselves that we can glimpse the face of God; and through the exercise of these qualities, we come to a Godlike state. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 256:There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a & 257:I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 258:The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 259:How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally different. When we start meditating in silence, right from the beginning we feel the bottom of a sea within us and without. The life of activity movement and restlessness is on the surface, but deep below, underneath our human life, there is poise and silence. So, either we shall imagine this sea of silence within us or we shall feel that we are nothing but a sea of poise itself. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 260:Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 261:I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice. …but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 262:Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement to this foundation. Free collective bargaining is good for the entire Nation. In my view, it is the only alternative to State regulation of wages and prices - a path which leads far down the grim road of totalitarianism. Those who would destroy or further limit the rights of organized labor - those who would cripple collective bargaining or prevent organization of the unorganized - do a disservice to the cause of democracy. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 263:The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further. What helps is silence. Look at yourself in total silence, do not describe yourself. Look at the being you believe you are and remember - you are not what you see. & 264:How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way, a definite path, but not to that which is living. Do not reduce reality to a static thing and then invent methods to reach it. ... Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. It has no resting place, no form, no organized institution, no philosophy. When you see that, you will understand that this living thing is also what you are. You cannot express and be alive through static, put-together form, through stylized movement. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 265:The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 266:Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession... . Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood& 267:Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession... . Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood& 268:But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels drew level with her, she threw away the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the car, and with a light movement, as though she would rise immediately, dropped on her knees. And at the instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing. & 269:Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of it. It isn't something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority. Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy. If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation. Then that movement is endless, timeless. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 270:We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was & 271:Many times when we help we do not really serve. . . . Serving is also different from fixing. One of the pioneers of the Human Potential Movement, Abraham Maslow, said, "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.' Seeing yourself as a fixer may cause you to see brokenness everywhere, to sit in judgment of life itself. When we fix others, we may not see their hidden wholeness or trust the integrity of the life in them. Fixers trust their own expertise. When we serve, we see the unborn wholeness in others; we collaborate with it and strengthen it. Others may then be able to see their wholeness for themselves for the first time. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 272:In order for slavery to work, in order for us to buy, sell, beat, and trade people like animals, Americans had to completely dehumanize slaves. And whether we directly participated in that or were simply a member of a culture that at one time normalized that behavior, it shaped us. We can’t undo that level of dehumanizing in one or two generations. I believe Black Lives Matter is a movement to rehumanize black citizens. All lives matter, but not all lives need to be pulled back into moral inclusion. Not all people were subjected to the psychological process of demonizing and being made less than human so we could justify the inhumane practice of slavery. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 273:In the immensity of consciousness, a light appears, a tiny point that moves rapidly and traces shapes, thoughts and feelings, concepts and ideas, like the pen writing on paper. And the ink that leaves a trace is memory. You are that tiny point and by your movement the world is ever re-created. Stop moving, and there will be no world. Look within and you will find that the point of light is the reflection of the immensity of light in the body, as the sense & 274:It is of interest to inquire what happens when the aviator’s speed… approximates to the velocity of light. Lengths in the direction of flight become smaller and smaller, until for the speed of light they shrink to zero. The aviator and the objects accompanying him shrink to two dimensions. We are saved the difficulty of imagining how the processes of life can go on in two dimensions, because nothing goes on. Time is arrested altogether. This is the description according to the terrestrial observer. The aviator himself detects nothing unusual; he does not perceive that he has stopped moving. He is merely waiting for the next instant to come before making the next movement; and the mere fact that time is arrested means that he does not perceive that the next instant is a long time coming. Arthur S. Eddington ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove 275:Following Homo sapiens, domesticated cattle, pigs and sheep are the second, third and fourth most widespread large mammals in the world. From a narrow evolutionary perspective, which measures success by the number of DNA copies, the Agricultural Revolution was a wonderful boon for chickens, cattle, pigs and sheep. Unfortunately, the evolutionary perspective is an incomplete measure of success. It judges everything by the criteria of survival and reproduction, with no regard for individual suffering and happiness. Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an evolutionary success story, but they are also among the most miserable creatures that ever lived. The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries. The natural lifespan of wild chickens is about seven to twelve years, and of cattle about twenty to twenty-five years. In the wild, most chickens and cattle died long before that, but they still had a fair chance of living for a respectable number of years. In contrast, the vast majority of domesticated chickens and cattle are slaughtered at the age of between a few weeks and a few months, because this has always been the optimal slaughtering age from an economic perspective. (Why keep feeding a cock for three years if it has already reached its maximum weight after three months?) Egg-laying hens, dairy cows and draught animals are sometimes allowed to live for many years. But the price is subjugation to a way of life completely alien to their urges and desires. It’s reasonable to assume, for example, that bulls prefer to spend their days wandering over open prairies in the company of other bulls and cows rather than pulling carts and ploughshares under the yoke of a whip-wielding ape. In order for humans to turn bulls, horses, donkeys and camels into obedient draught animals, their natural instincts and social ties had to be broken, their aggression and sexuality contained, and their freedom of movement curtailed. Farmers developed techniques such as locking animals inside pens and cages, bridling them in harnesses and leashes, training them with whips and cattle prods, and mutilating them. The process of taming almost always involves the castration of males. This restrains male aggression and enables humans selectively to control the herd’s procreation. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Desire itself is movement ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
2:Movement eases turmoil. ~ Tim Sandlin, #NFDB
3:Movement isn't progress. ~ Thomas Leonard, #NFDB
4:Transcendentalist movement? ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
5:stillness, the ruler of movement. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
6:World Peace Prayer movement. ~ Ervin Laszlo, #NFDB
7:Evil is movement towards void. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
8:I am a movement chauvinist. ~ Daniel Wolpert, #NFDB
9:Feminist movement is pro-family. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
10:Returning is the movement of the Way. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
11:Not all speed is movement. ~ Toni Cade Bambara, #NFDB
12:The world is always in movement. ~ V S Naipaul, #NFDB
13:Life for me is about movement. ~ Elvis Costello, #NFDB
14:Movement for me is meditation. ~ Conor McGregor, #NFDB
15:Cinema is movement, after all. ~ Jean Luc Godard, #NFDB
16:Every movement reveals us. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
17:movement from inside, the sound of ~ Paul Levine, #NFDB
18:The hippy movement was a failure. ~ Joe Strummer, #NFDB
19:thing, though, and the movement ~ Leighann Dobbs, #NFDB
20:We need a Drop the Ball movement— ~ Tiffany Dufu, #NFDB
21:Movement is the essence of life. ~ Bernd Heinrich, #NFDB
22:Seeing is in itself a movement. ~ Robert Delaunay, #NFDB
23:Don't mistake movement for achievement. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
24:A movement has to move. Constantly. ~ Gloria Feldt, #NFDB
25:Action is movement with intelligence ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
26:impersonal, slowly swelling movement ~ Timothy Leary, #NFDB
27:Never mistake movement for action ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
28:Action is movement with intelligence. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
29:A large movement covers a small movement ~ Dai Vernon, #NFDB
30:every movement needs to pause at times ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
31:I was involved in the anti-war movement. ~ Bill Ayers, #NFDB
32:Movement is meditation. Move to win. ~ Conor McGregor, #NFDB
33:Be your own guide, follow your own movement. ~ Heavy D, #NFDB
34:God means movement, and not explanation. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
35:Never confuse movement with action. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
36:Zen movement is a meditative practice. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
37:Hip is the knowledge and Hop is the movement. ~ KRS One, #NFDB
38:Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
39:Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement. ~ Danny Glover, #NFDB
40:I'm very close to the pro-life movement. ~ Roger Mahony, #NFDB
41:I who was a house full of bowel movement, ~ Anne Sexton, #NFDB
42:Leadership is about movement and growth. ~ Mark Sanborn, #NFDB
43:Life is a balance between rest and movement. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
44:A moving or movement away from a station ~ Jim Morrison, #NFDB
45:Disruptive movement must come from within. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
46:I can be a part of everything. Every movement. ~ Pitbull, #NFDB
47:Nothing is more revealing than movement. ~ Martha Graham, #NFDB
48:Everything feels too important for movement. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
49:Life is a movement outward, an unfolding. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
50:May this not be a moment, but a movement. ~ Robert Whitlow, #NFDB
51:Movement is life; stillness is death. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, #NFDB
52:The movement must go beyond its leaders ~ Philip Vera Cruz, #NFDB
53:What is true stillness? Stillness in movement. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
54:all of life is a movement toward perfection, ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
55:Every little movement has a meaning of its own. ~ Tony Sarg, #NFDB
56:Everytime I move, I make a woman's movement. ~ Ani DiFranco, #NFDB
57:slightest touch or movement brought on nausea ~ Vince Flynn, #NFDB
58:Thinking is movement confined to the brain ~ Arvid Carlsson, #NFDB
59:to find stillness in the middle of movement. ~ James Runcie, #NFDB
60:Dressmaking is the architecture of movement ~ Pierre Balmain, #NFDB
61:Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement. ~ Leland Ryken, #NFDB
62:All creative activity begins with movement. ~ Joseph C Zinker, #NFDB
63:Focus on stillness, rather than on movement ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
64:Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it. ~ Jack Dorsey, #NFDB
65:The movement of you brought forward is love. ~ John de Ruiter, #NFDB
66:A moment will pass, but a movement will last. ~ Chamillionaire, #NFDB
67:Change means movement. Movement means friction. ~ Saul Alinsky, #NFDB
68:Movement will fail sooner than usefulness. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
69:Van Der Vaart's movement is always on the move ~ Chris Coleman, #NFDB
70:I'm not focused on the gay and lesbian movement. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
71:I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement. ~ Peter Hain, #NFDB
72:We have to realize we are building a movement. ~ Dorothy Height, #NFDB
73:Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
74:Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
75:People's lives can be transformed by the movement. ~ Cleve Jones, #NFDB
76:the economy of movement of a battery-powered toy. ~ Daniel Silva, #NFDB
77:Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome. ~ Peter David, #NFDB
78:Light in Nature creates the movement of colors. ~ Robert Delaunay, #NFDB
79:There's always been a women's movement this century! ~ Mary Stott, #NFDB
80:I was very active in the peace movement, still am. ~ Margot Kidder, #NFDB
81:Jesus gave the world its most influential movement. ~ John Ortberg, #NFDB
82:Movement in new direction helps find new cheese. ~ Spencer Johnson, #NFDB
83:Play is free movement within a more rigid structure. ~ Katie Salen, #NFDB
84:the movement is not anti-men—it’s simply not about men. ~ Alex Mar, #NFDB
85:EFT is at the forefront of the new healing movement. ~ Candace Pert, #NFDB
86:'Powell movement.' What do you think 'PM' stands for? ~ Jon Stewart, #NFDB
87:The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody. ~ Sammy Davis Jr, #NFDB
88:I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again. ~ Bryan Clay, #NFDB
89:Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
90:Such a movement would cause the ACLU to go bananas! ~ Donald Wildmon, #NFDB
91:We want to make nation-building a people's movement. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
92:Wherever you find movement, there you find life and a soul. ~ Thales, #NFDB
93:You can't create a political movement out of pabulum. ~ Robert Reich, #NFDB
94:All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
95:Every party and every movement tends to need a hero. ~ Chris Matthews, #NFDB
96:it’s only really a movement if it moves without you. ~ Jeremy Heimans, #NFDB
97:Movement means freedom. That's what life's all about. ~ Collette West, #NFDB
98:One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement. ~ Pauli Murray, #NFDB
99:Style is the form of the ideal; rhythm is its movement. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
100:Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
101:The development of the mind comes through movement ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
102:I believe that women will lead the democracy movement. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
103:Life is movement-we breathe, we eat, we walk-we move! ~ John Pierrakos, #NFDB
104:Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement ~ Edgar Degas, #NFDB
105:A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
106:Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
107:The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground. ~ Harry Hay, #NFDB
108:the Maker Movement has serious abundance potential. ~ Peter H Diamandis, #NFDB
109:There will be no prison which can hold our movement down. ~ Huey Newton, #NFDB
110:The soreness I have is expected. I have total movement. ~ Roger Clemens, #NFDB
111:To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable. ~ Vijay Prashad, #NFDB
112:Movement stimulates our brains in ways we don't appreciate ~ Twyla Tharp, #NFDB
113:The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate. ~ Mina Loy, #NFDB
114:All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. ~ Ellen Glasgow, #NFDB
115:Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement. ~ Milo Yiannopoulos, #NFDB
116:Decriminalizing bodies - this is a big and growing movement. ~ Sean Strub, #NFDB
117:Each movement was a syllable leading to a greater meaning. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
118:First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB
119:His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
120:I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement. ~ Jen Lancaster, #NFDB
121:The movement is everything, the final goal is nothing. ~ Eduard Bernstein, #NFDB
122:The movement of life has its rest in its own music. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
123:Those who fear risk also begin to fear movement of any kind. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
124:You can't start a movement, but you can prepare for one ~ Vincent Harding, #NFDB
125:And the movement in your brain
Sends you out into the rain ~ Nick Drake,#NFDB
126:I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher. ~ Bill W, #NFDB
127:pads of his fingers, their dark claws a whisper of movement ~ Grace Draven, #NFDB
128:Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop. ~ Cornel West, #NFDB
129:the modern social pattern of unending change and movement ~ Spike Milligan, #NFDB
130:Action is a forward movement, fear and procrastination are not. ~ I T Lucas, #NFDB
131:Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement. ~ Karlie Kloss, #NFDB
132:Movement begets movement, so just take the smallest first step. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
133:Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable. ~ Moshe Feldenkrais, #NFDB
134:The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB
135:The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy. ~ Susan Faludi, #NFDB
136:Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement. ~ Egon Friedell, #NFDB
137:Gravity is the root of lightness; stillness, the ruler of movement. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
138:Hypothesis: Intentional or not, movement to a beat = dancing. ~ Gordon Korman, #NFDB
139:I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is. ~ Bernardine Dohrn, #NFDB
140:It is important to practice so your movement is the minimum ~ Masaaki Hatsumi, #NFDB
141:Let movement go on, and the condition of rest will gradually arise. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
142:The movement
Of the body is
Where poetry
Begins ~ Clint Catalyst,#NFDB
143:They's making it worse, the labor movement got the mafia curse. ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
144:We have a movement going on, folks. I will never let you down. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
145:Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
146:Falling on your face, at the very least, is a forward movement. ~ Pat Mitchell, #NFDB
147:Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart. ~ Natalie Goldberg, #NFDB
148:I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement. ~ Fidel Castro, #NFDB
149:I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. ~ Elia Kazan, #NFDB
150:My ultimate goal in life, with my music, is to make a movement. ~ Prince Royce, #NFDB
151:No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time. ~ Alice Hoffman, #NFDB
152:Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
153:Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
154:True aspiration is not a movement of the mind but of the psychic. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
155:I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement. ~ Henry Louis Gates, #NFDB
156:Innovation, born from true creativity, depends on movement. ~ Georges St Pierre, #NFDB
157:In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people. ~ Marcel Marceau, #NFDB
158:Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind. ~ Sakyong Mipham, #NFDB
159:The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
160:This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement ~ Hamid Dabashi, #NFDB
161:Yoga is both the movement toward and the arrival at a point. ~ T K V Desikachar, #NFDB
162:. . . as long as there are movement and harmony, there are words. ~ Shannon Hale, #NFDB
163:Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. ~ Dwight L Moody, #NFDB
164:If you want to create opportunities, you have to create movement. ~ Barry Eisler, #NFDB
165:Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life. ~ Eugen Sandow, #NFDB
166:You can destroy wood and brick, but you can't destroy a movement. ~ Angie Thomas, #NFDB
167:You can destroy wood and brick, but you can’t destroy a movement. ~ Angie Thomas, #NFDB
168:You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people. ~ Bayard Rustin, #NFDB
169:Every tiny movement seemed magnified in the vastness of the forest. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
170:In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
171:Rapid movement was a relief in the midst of so much feeling. ~ Gail Carson Levine, #NFDB
172:Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning. ~ Ron Atkinson, #NFDB
173:Without the accurate spine movement, one can't exist dynamically. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
174:You know there’s always prejudice in a revolutionary movement. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
175:As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized... ~ Common, #NFDB
176:A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement. ~ William Golding, #NFDB
177:Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
178:The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement. ~ Anna Lindh, #NFDB
179:To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz, #NFDB
180:A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement. ~ Blake Mycoskie, #NFDB
181:Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
182:If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today. ~ Sally Ride, #NFDB
183:Movement is the only way you can effect the world around you . . . ~ Daniel Wolpert, #NFDB
184:She shifts and—vast, monumental in sleep—becomes tiny in movement. I ~ Joanna Walsh, #NFDB
185:The greatest enemy to the movement of Jesus Christ is Christianity. ~ Erwin McManus, #NFDB
186:tried to shrug but the movement was lost under the layers of clothing, ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
187:In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
~ Deepak Chopra,#NFDB
188:The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement ~ Naomi Klein, #NFDB
189:The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love. ~ Mark Helprin, #NFDB
190:Where there is movement, there is reach. Reach engenders communion. ~ John de Ruiter, #NFDB
191:Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru, #NFDB
192:Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement ~ Jean Nouvel, #NFDB
193:Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. ~ Marcel Duchamp, #NFDB
194:Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual. ~ Isadora Duncan, #NFDB
195:People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement. ~ V S Naipaul, #NFDB
196:The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
197:Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
198:Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. ~ Vladimir Lenin, #NFDB
199:Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that. ~ Scott Joplin, #NFDB
200:In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still. ~ Pico Iyer, #NFDB
201:I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. ~ Dorothy Allison, #NFDB
202:Seeing the whole truth of something requires some movement of mind. ~ Frederick Dodson, #NFDB
203:So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date. ~ William Kunstler, #NFDB
204:Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest. ~ Ai Qing, #NFDB
205:Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement. ~ Vladimir Lenin, #NFDB
206:Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is. ~ Paul Hawken, #NFDB
207:Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. ~ Bell Hooks, #NFDB
208:Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
209:If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement. ~ Fred Astaire, #NFDB
210:It was stillness, she learned, that at the time was the greatest movement. ~ Shobha Rao, #NFDB
211:No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression. ~ James Connolly, #NFDB
212:The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness. ~ Sakyong Mipham, #NFDB
213:The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement. ~ Elbert Guillory, #NFDB
214:Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. ~ U G Krishnamurti, #NFDB
215:We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society. ~ Betty Friedan, #NFDB
216:Ah, the ocean. The movement of eternity right in front of us." (61) ~ Carol Lynn Pearson, #NFDB
217:A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
218:Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it. ~ Scott Hamilton, #NFDB
219:For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
220:I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement. ~ Jason Patric, #NFDB
221:Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
222:One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
223:Faith is never simply a feeling. Faith always involves movement. Get moving. ~ Tony Evans, #NFDB
224:Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
225:Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. ~ Plato, #NFDB
226:My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement. ~ Tamara Ecclestone, #NFDB
227:Nothing is more revealing than movement. The body says what words cannot. ~ Martha Graham, #NFDB
228:Snake oil, movement: all the world really needed was a little removal. ~ Kirsten Kaschock, #NFDB
229:Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement. ~ Vladimir Lenin, #NFDB
230:Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
231:Governments come and go. Life is the only movement that keeps going,’ he ~ Antoine Laurain, #NFDB
232:I didn't want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn't want to use. ~ Pina Bausch, #NFDB
233:Megan, you just single handedly set the women’s movement back twenty years ~ Anie Michaels, #NFDB
234:Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower. ~ Linda Ellerbee, #NFDB
235:That was the hippie age, and truth was in movement and bodies and actions. ~ Walter Mosley, #NFDB
236:The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order. ~ Lech Walesa, #NFDB
237:Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks. ~ Rachael Yamagata, #NFDB
238:You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
239:Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously. ~ Yi Sun sin, #NFDB
240:Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
241:History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things. ~ Ben H Winters, #NFDB
242:[I like] Victor Jara and the music of Chile, and the social movement in Chile. ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
243:Isn’t the spiritual search, at its essence, a movement toward objectivity? ~ Roland Merullo, #NFDB
244:There’s a brief movement at the window – someone waving to say they’re coming ~ Claire Adam, #NFDB
245:Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice. ~ Bill James, #NFDB
246:A liquid movement below on the tarmac; a cat, hunting in the shadows. ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
247:During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement. ~ Joe Biden, #NFDB
248:Each separate movement is produced by the same energy that moves the sum of things. ~ Hermes, #NFDB
249:I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam. ~ Al Franken, #NFDB
250:I stick to safe, controlled movement. If it's not safe, I just won't do it. ~ Prince Fielder, #NFDB
251:Is your home a retreat from responsibility, or a place of movement and growth? ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
252:It became a lucrative misconception, that movement in any direction is progression ~ Canibus, #NFDB
253:I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me. ~ Edwyn Collins, #NFDB
254:The feminist movement has far more anger for men than it has love for women. ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
255:There is never any reason for jealousy. It is a very low and ignorant movement. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
256:there’s a difference between telling people what to do and inciting a movement. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
257:To see the clothes in movement like that, to create for dancers, is special. ~ Isabel Toledo, #NFDB
258:You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement. ~ Gillian Jacobs, #NFDB
259:Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. ~ Arnold J Toynbee, #NFDB
260:In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
261:I was moving like an epileptic on crack—shitloads of movement with no purpose—but ~ Mark Tufo, #NFDB
262:Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement. ~ Bashar al Assad, #NFDB
263:The conservative movement is like a country club based in Washington, D.C. ~ Andrew Breitbart, #NFDB
264:The difference between fashion and art is that fashion is art in movement. ~ Carolina Herrera, #NFDB
265:The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement. ~ Joseph James Ettor, #NFDB
266:The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one. ~ Morarji Desai, #NFDB
267:We divide those between the person that we love and the movement that we hate. ~ Scott Lively, #NFDB
268:All is movement and nothing is fixed; we cannot cross over the same stream twice. ~ Heraclitus, #NFDB
269:Each movement reminds us that every moment invites a new opportunity for change. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
270:hitching your wagon blindly to any standards movement is rarely a good idea. ~ Kelly Gallagher, #NFDB
271:I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable. ~ Kenneth P Thompson, #NFDB
272:Jesus’s early followers formed a movement of dreamers and visionaries. ~ Erwin Raphael McManus, #NFDB
273:Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement. ~ Yip Man, #NFDB
274:Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think. ~ Jeane Kirkpatrick, #NFDB
275:The faith a movement proclaims doesn’t count: what counts is the hope it offers. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
276:The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
277:There's no time to waste. Every day, there needs to be movement on something. ~ Desiree Rogers, #NFDB
278:I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism". ~ Tony Blair, #NFDB
279:I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress. ~ Donald Barthelme, #NFDB
280:In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement. ~ Marisa Tomei, #NFDB
281:It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know. ~ Jimi Hendrix, #NFDB
282:It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it - the rest is just movement. ~ Shigeo Shingo, #NFDB
283:misted again, like the dew-covered earth, as her throat tightened. Mark’s movement ~ Jamie Beck, #NFDB
284:Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once. ~ Robert Anton Wilson, #NFDB
285:There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
286:You can't have problems with hand movement, if you're going to be a good putter. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
287:You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman. ~ Dyllan McGee, #NFDB
288:I really wanted to be a part of that movement or better yet create that movement. ~ Kofi Siriboe, #NFDB
289:Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. ~ Richard Stallman, #NFDB
290:People do grow up, unless stunted by some mass movement or other group sickness. ~ Warren Murphy, #NFDB
291:Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody, and I will join it at once. ~ Robert Anton Wilson, #NFDB
292:The corrupt media is trying to do everything in their power to stop our movement. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
293:The purpose of the environmental movement is to establish control over the people. ~ Kent Hovind, #NFDB
294:This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law. ~ Julian Assange, #NFDB
295:A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little ~ Cleve Jones, #NFDB
296:But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors. ~ Robert Delaunay, #NFDB
297:Caffeinated! Temporary changes: Movement speed +10%! Charisma -2. Intelligence +1! ~ Dakota Krout, #NFDB
298:In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi, #NFDB
299:Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
300:Social evolution is demonstrated by movement towards unity, not separatism. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
301:Tearing others down is never as helpful to a movement as building your followers up. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
302:Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
303:Not every movement is progress; Some movements are just a way of burning fats! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
304:People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself. ~ Edgar Degas, #NFDB
305:The best tonic for soreness is to do the movement that got you sore in the first place. ~ Dan John, #NFDB
306:The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics. ~ Chris Hardwick, #NFDB
307:To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving. ~ Jerry Seinfeld, #NFDB
308:We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future. ~ Daniel Carter Beard, #NFDB
309:Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary. ~ Josip Broz Tito, #NFDB
310:I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
311:Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze. ~ Alexander McCall Smith, #NFDB
312:The Nazis learned their propaganda from the progressive movement in the United States. ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
313:To understand techniques, you must learn that they contain a lot of condensed movement. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
314:What is the future of the woman's movement How in the hell do I know I don't run it. ~ Kate Millett, #NFDB
315:any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. ~ Mary Heaton Vorse, #NFDB
316:Change can be quick, or it can be slow. But the movement should always be forward ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
317:Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer, #NFDB
318:Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
319:Essence without form divided itself; then a movement took place and life was produced. ~ Tchuang-Tse, #NFDB
320:In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
321:I take [all slings and arrows] for our movement so that we can have our country back. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
322:Kindness is kindness, Samantha. It’s not a theory or an effect or a movement. It just is. ~ J R Rain, #NFDB
323:Mortals trotted about in shoes and corsets made to limit movement, fashion for prey. ~ Gail Carriger, #NFDB
324:Movement is medicine for changing a person’s physical, emotional, and mental state. ~ Maria Emmerich, #NFDB
325:Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas. ~ John Locke, #NFDB
326:Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. ~ Friedrich August von Hayek, #NFDB
327:The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
328:The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle. ~ Carol Tavris, #NFDB
329:The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
330:The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak. ~ John L Lewis, #NFDB
331:There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
332:The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. ~ Andrew Young, #NFDB
333:Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB
334:I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.” —Sir Isaac Newton ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
335:It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. ~ Jack Levine, #NFDB
336:Legal gun ownership always prevails over the emotionalism of the gun control movement. ~ Greg Gutfeld, #NFDB
337:My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave. ~ Isadora Duncan, #NFDB
338:Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return. ~ Martin Buber, #NFDB
339:People don't want to commit until they have clarity, but clarity comes with movement. ~ Michael Hyatt, #NFDB
340:The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement. ~ Diane Wilson, #NFDB
341:Every little detail to every little movement must be perfect. Perfection in movement. ~ Conor McGregor, #NFDB
342:If I didn’t stop falling down, my body was going to go on strike and refuse all movement. ~ Jaymin Eve, #NFDB
343:I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules. ~ Glenn Close, #NFDB
344:I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others. ~ Shane Claiborne, #NFDB
345:Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
346:Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect. ~ Esa Pekka Salonen, #NFDB
347:Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality. ~ Boy George, #NFDB
348:The movement is contagious, and the people in it are the ones who pass on the spirit. ~ Yuri Kochiyama, #NFDB
349:There would be no need for the women's movement if the church and Bible hadn't abused them ~ Leo Booth, #NFDB
350:(These moments of idleness are not stagnant, there is a movement in them, an achievement.) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
351:Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~ Alfred Adler, #NFDB
352:We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
353:When I want to be bold about my movement ... I for sure do not call it exercise! ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
354:It's only when they join together in a forward movement that this country moves ahead. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
355:One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible. ~ Charles M Blow, #NFDB
356:The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform. ~ Urvashi Vaid, #NFDB
357:The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. ~ Nora Ephron, #NFDB
358:When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course. ~ John Cale, #NFDB
359:And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them. ~ Henri Bergson, #NFDB
360:Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement. ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
361:INTO THE WILD was a lot of fun, but challenging, 'cause you can get lost in the movement. ~ Shannon Leto, #NFDB
362:It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone has something to offer the movement of justice ~ Shane Claiborne, #NFDB
363:It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement. ~ Danny Glover, #NFDB
364:It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. ~ Nicholas D Kristof, #NFDB
365:Keith Ellison is the future of the Democratic Party, the future of the progressive movement. ~ Van Jones, #NFDB
366:Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
367:Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance. ~ Nikola Tesla, #NFDB
368:Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on. ~ Beau Bridges, #NFDB
369:Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement? ~ Edward Said, #NFDB
370:There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
371:Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history. ~ Todd Gitlin, #NFDB
372:We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration. ~ James Larkin, #NFDB
373:WE ARE STRUGGLING FOR A UNITING WORD BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE HAVE A UNITING MOVEMENT. ~ Emma Watson, #NFDB
374:We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys. ~ Cesar Chavez, #NFDB
375:6. Slowness of movement is the key to awareness, and awareness is the key to learning. As ~ Norman Doidge, #NFDB
376:But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here. ~ Terry Tempest Williams, #NFDB
377:How can someone be so close to you and then so far away in the span of a single movement? ~ Sarah McCarry, #NFDB
378:In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class. ~ Beth Henley, #NFDB
379:Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows. ~ Marilyn vos Savant, #NFDB
380:The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens. ~ Jesse Jackson, #NFDB
381:You steer down lightless highways, and you invent a destination because movement is key. ~ Nic Pizzolatto, #NFDB
382:Ascribing movement to the Sun was a later on introduced heresy by the ancient Egyptians. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim, #NFDB
383:Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society. ~ Jean Paul Gaultier, #NFDB
384:First of all," said Serafim, "there are no advanced skills; there is only skillful movement. ~ Dan Millman, #NFDB
385:Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now its nascent. ~ Peter Brimelow, #NFDB
386:In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
387:It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
388:Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. ~ E E Cummings, #NFDB
389:Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
390:People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning. ~ Ellen Goodman, #NFDB
391:Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance. ~ George Rickey, #NFDB
392:the entire Vietnam "peace movement" had been KGB funded, as were many journalism departments. ~ John Ringo, #NFDB
393:A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. ~ Barbara Deming, #NFDB
394:At the very root of the modern liberal movement is the loss of the consciousness of sin. ~ J Gresham Machen, #NFDB
395:Clearly, some cryptic, evil movement was afoot on a large scale—just what, I could not say. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
396:If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years. ~ Pitbull, #NFDB
397:I hear nothing and see no movement. There’s nothing but my fear telling me to abort. So I go on. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
398:In the cycle of nature, there is no such thing as victory or defeat: there is only movement. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
399:In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
400:Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
401:The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory. ~ Alveda King, #NFDB
402:The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members. ~ Tom Hayden, #NFDB
403:There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement. ~ Galen Rowell, #NFDB
404:True belief is movement toward God even in the midst of confusion or frustration or fear. ~ Emily P Freeman, #NFDB
405:with one goal, seeking information of some movement of the enemy, whether anyone was shifting ~ Jeff Shaara, #NFDB
406:Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket. ~ Christopher McDougall, #NFDB
407:If a movement is to have an impact it must belong to those who join it, not those who lead it. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
408:If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius. ~ Van Jones, #NFDB
409:It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party. ~ Franz von Papen, #NFDB
410:My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement. ~ Alexander Calder, #NFDB
411:The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
412:The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water'. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
413:The freedom movement is built around the principle of democracy and universality of freedom. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
414:The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
415:There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
416:To pray 'your kingdom come' at Jesus' bidding meant to align oneself with his kingdom movement. ~ N T Wright, #NFDB
417:Without doubt, in animation each frame is important, every movement defines the character. ~ Lucrecia Martel, #NFDB
418:Gravity is the root of lightness; stillness the ruler of movement.” (Mueller, op. cit., p. 69.) ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB
419:Particular experiences – that is, particular contents of mind – are just mind in movement. ~ Bernardo Kastrup, #NFDB
420:Some people come in and really freak. There's movement everywhere, even a dancing housekeeper! ~ Tom Bergeron, #NFDB
421:Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere. ~ Bill Ayers, #NFDB
422:The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
423:With its mysterious, fluid movement, the snail was the quintessential tai chi master. ~ Elisabeth Tova Bailey, #NFDB
424:Christianity has done more to elevate the status of women than any other movement in history. ~ Stasi Eldredge, #NFDB
425:Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for. ~ Allen W Wood, #NFDB
426:Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
427:How much humanity has been spoiled for the confusion of movement with progress, my friend? ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
428:nothing short of a major social movement can successfully dismantle the new caste system. ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
429:The anti-Semitism of the new movement was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
430:The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep. ~ Elia Kazan, #NFDB
431:"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
432:there was no beatnik movement in Germany because there were now no traditions to revolt against; ~ Ian Fleming, #NFDB
433:The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally. ~ Robin Morgan, #NFDB
434:You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot. ~ Kim Stanley, #NFDB
435:You have to simply become aware of the movement of the mind, which begins this endless trouble. ~ H W L Poonja, #NFDB
436:Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground? ~ Andrea Dworkin, #NFDB
437:Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
438:Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders. ~ Warren Farrell, #NFDB
439:Hazare movement didn’t breathe a word against privatization, corporate power, or economic “reforms. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
440:Her name is Lenore Skenazy, and she founded a blog, a book, and a movement called Free-Range Kids. ~ Kim Brooks, #NFDB
441:I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon. ~ John Leguizamo, #NFDB
442:I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did. ~ Bernardine Dohrn, #NFDB
443:Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
444:Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
445:The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny. ~ Terry Tempest Williams, #NFDB
446:Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement. ~ Gjon Mili, #NFDB
447:We would also lean on Turkey to ensure that it closes its border to the movement of jihadi groups. ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
448:You explained to me that inspiration is born of stillness, and creativity comes from movement. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
449:A Hunter-sized bowel movement on her head would go a long way toward making me feel better. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
450:A movement is thrilling. It’s the work of many people, all connected, all seeking something better. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
451:If a movement is to have an impact it must belong to those who join it not just those who lead it. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
452:In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press. ~ Christiane Amanpour, #NFDB
453:The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and the power of movement, of action, in man. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
454:The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis. ~ Samuel Alexander, #NFDB
455:There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. ~ Frank Gehry, #NFDB
456:There will be no equity without solidarity. There will be no justice without a social movement. ~ Joia Mukherjee, #NFDB
457:United we stand, divided we fall is one of the oldest and truest slogans of the Labour movement. ~ Jeremy Corbyn, #NFDB
458:Without a great ideal there can be no great movement. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram - I, The Leverage of Faith, #NFDB
459:According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual. ~ Jessica Valenti, #NFDB
460:A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some. ~ Judith Martin, #NFDB
461:I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation. ~ John Lewis, #NFDB
462:I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
463:Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder ~ Paul Ricoeur, #NFDB
464:President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. ~ Danny Glover, #NFDB
465:The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
466:The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
467:The movement of the trains created an illusion of purpose that kept hope alive against all odds. ~ Barbara Demick, #NFDB
468:The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible. ~ Sarah Palin, #NFDB
469:the shimmering movement of God’s hand across time, drawing life toward the knowledge of him. I ~ Whitley Strieber, #NFDB
470:a man can go 70 years without a piece of ass but he can die in a week without a bowel movement. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
471:A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
472:Eight years after Reagan's nomination for president, the conservative movement is directionless ~ Richard Viguerie, #NFDB
473:He heard movement in the kitchen, the soft shuffle of steps, the whisper of something like sand, ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
474:I really think that 'Sports Illustrated' is a big step in the "healthy is the new skinny" movement. ~ Ronda Rousey, #NFDB
475:Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women. ~ Carlos Andres Gomez, #NFDB
476:Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement. ~ Robert Delaunay, #NFDB
477:Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to. ~ Pico Iyer, #NFDB
478:Populism was a grassroots movement to disrupt the political status quo in favor of everyday people. ~ Bob Woodward, #NFDB
479:Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed. ~ Karl Kraus, #NFDB
480:So, a little morphine, a good sweat, and a bowel movement—the cure for everything that ails you. ~ Charles Frazier, #NFDB
481:The consciousness-raising, the advocacy, the passion, the youth of your movement is so critical. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
482:The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. ~ Alexis Korner, #NFDB
483:the whimsical first movement of Violin Concerto no. 1, featuring Wilhelm Friedemann Herzog, playing ~ Bill Clinton, #NFDB
484:The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled. ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
485:They developed this influence and this clout and they shared it. It’s a very inclusive movement. ~ Michael Azerrad, #NFDB
486:True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB
487:Development should be a mass movement. We need to integrate the people and make it a mass movement. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
488:...even the straightest
Of issues looks pretty oblique
When a movement turns into a clique... ~ Kingsley Amis,#NFDB
489:Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
490:I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
491:I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself. ~ Pablo Picasso, #NFDB
492:Life pervades and animates everything; it gives its movement to Nature and subjects her to itself. ~ Giordano Bruno, #NFDB
493:Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective. ~ Pico Iyer, #NFDB
494:My every meeting, movement, my every word, will be available to all my constituents and to the world. ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
495:The great movement of the spiritual life is from a deaf, nonhearing life to a life of listening. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
496:What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists. ~ Pablo Picasso, #NFDB
497:A life filled with movement, with constant motion and no rest stops, isn’t a life at all. It’s tourism. ~ Jeff Goins, #NFDB
498:A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation. ~ Pico Iyer, #NFDB
499:Her every movement transfixed him; she was graceful and refined. She’d become a woman. An elegant woman. ~ Jan Moran, #NFDB
500:I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. ~ Muhammad Iqbal, #NFDB
501:I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. ~ Christian Louboutin, #NFDB
502:I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so. ~ A J McLean, #NFDB
503:it’s fair to say that we have advanced further in duplicating human thought than human movement. In ~ Garry Kasparov, #NFDB
504:The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement. ~ Andrew Sullivan, #NFDB
505:The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it. ~ Gary Johnson, #NFDB
506:The real dance is a spontaneous body movement that in harmony with the beats of the music in your heart. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
507:Time is a convention of movement, not a condition of existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, The Isha Upanishad, #NFDB
508:And in the movement of the sun, I felt something I hardly know how to name: some huge, cosmic love. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
509:Courage implies action. like you are going somewhere or going to do something. Courage. Maps.Movement ~ Annie F Downs, #NFDB
510:His sharp eyes scanned everything, but they didn’t dart. Nothing about him promised sudden movement... ~ Cara McKenna, #NFDB
511:I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement.. ~ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, #NFDB
512:I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement. ~ Nick Cave, #NFDB
513:I think we should start a movement, and everyone should just start wearing metal pants to the airport. ~ Ed Robertson, #NFDB
514:Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
515:My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement. ~ Mike Lee, #NFDB
516:Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
517:The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course. ~ Henri Bergson, #NFDB
518:The Nazi movement had been made out of propaganda, and now it would cover Germany like an explosion. ~ Upton Sinclair, #NFDB
519:We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
520:Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one ~ Christopher Dawson, #NFDB
521:[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement. ~ Nat Hentoff, #NFDB
522:And in the movement of the sun, I felt something I hardly know how to name: some huge, cosmic love. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
523:Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement ~ Aamir Khan, #NFDB
524:Here, there's more of a movement, it doesn't mean we're winning any more, but we're at least fighting. ~ Bill McKibben, #NFDB
525:History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
526:In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor! ~ David Duke, #NFDB
527:In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
528:I think you can say a lot with the movement of your camera but you can also say a lot by keeping it still. ~ James Wan, #NFDB
529:I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown. ~ Gary Oldman, #NFDB
530:Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it. ~ Toni Packer, #NFDB
531:Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. ~ Martha Graham, #NFDB
532:The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire. ~ Richard M Nixon, #NFDB
533:The modern conservative movement was largely started by former Marxists who had been mugged by reality— ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
534:The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
535:Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement. ~ Gerald Scarfe, #NFDB
536:Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
537:But the basic principle remains the same: a people’s movement built on participation – not money power. ~ Rashmi Bansal, #NFDB
538:I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky,
And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,#NFDB
539:I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement. ~ Harry Hay, #NFDB
540:Inches for Miles. Change can be quick, or it can be slow. But the movement should always be forward. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
541:In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
542:I think speaking Italian affects your whole body movement. It's so musical and animated and passionate. ~ Juliet Aubrey, #NFDB
543:Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance. ~ Ti Grace Atkinson, #NFDB
544:The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
545:There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form. ~ Daphne Guinness, #NFDB
546:There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people. ~ Fannie Lou Hamer, #NFDB
547:The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living. ~ Guy Debord, #NFDB
548:Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement. ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
549:You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB
550:All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
551:As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
552:But in truth,' said Bull, 'we are going nowhere. That my friend, is the irony of our constant movement. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
553:Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things. ~ Chris Murray, #NFDB
554:Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
555:God bless mood equalizers. and all moods are created equal. i am the fucking civil rights movement of moods ~ John Green, #NFDB
556:Most people think combat's about attacks and weapons but it's not. It's about movement and information. ~ Benedict Jacka, #NFDB
557:The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength and wellbeing. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
558:behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government. ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
559:Even as a Muslim minister in the Muslim movement, I have always said that I would work with any organization. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
560:If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble air. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
561:I instantly feel like the world has turned to glass. Every moment is delicate. Every movement is a risk. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
562:In our lives are special moments that live as their own, the rest is movement with the passage of time. ~ Donna Lynn Hope, #NFDB
563:I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African. ~ J M Coetzee, #NFDB
564:I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it. ~ Henri Bergson, #NFDB
565:I twist to look at him. Even that movement feels painful. Maybe I’m slowly turning to stone myself. ~ Huntley Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
566:Life is simply a process of stimulus and response; and stimulus and response are one unitary movement. ~ U G Krishnamurti, #NFDB
567:Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes. ~ Claude Debussy, #NFDB
568:Never had movement been such a burden. Never had a heart been so definite and big in her adolescent chest. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
569:No social movement has ever progressed without emphasizing division, and doing that means stirring up hate. ~ Nancy Kress, #NFDB
570:Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism, and today's liberalism is the daughter of Progressivism. ~ Jonah Goldberg, #NFDB
571:the movement of people fleeing tyranny, violence, and withered opportunities is sacrosanct to Americans. ~ Carol Anderson, #NFDB
572:The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle. ~ Johannes Stark, #NFDB
573:The movement that stores up and concentrates is no less needed than the movement that spreads and diffuses. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
574:The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
575:The stumbling-block of romanticism is falsity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Movement of Modern Literature - I, #NFDB
576:The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
577:The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
578:The very truths that gave birth to the Pentecostal movement are today generally rejected as too strong. ~ Frank Bartleman, #NFDB
579:The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out. ~ John D Agata, #NFDB
580:They had seen how the taint of being pro-German had weakened the Irish-American movement during the war. ~ Tim Pat Coogan, #NFDB
581:and behind the stone the faint drifting of the stars that is not movement, but the heavens breathing. Still ~ Mary Stewart, #NFDB
582:Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government. ~ John William Draper, #NFDB
583:Hollywood, Woodstock, nor the hippie culture was the source of power of the 1960's freedom movement. God was. ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
584:If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
585:It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else. ~ Charles Williams, #NFDB
586:The apostles understood the church to be a movement birthed by the mighty, rushing wind of the Spirit of God. ~ J D Greear, #NFDB
587:The integration of movement, breath, and voice helps to integrate and balance the body, mind, and emotions. ~ Roger Jahnke, #NFDB
588:The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. ~ Henry James Sumner Maine, #NFDB
589:We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook ~ Steven Biko, #NFDB
590:When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
591:Why, like all men," she replied. Then added, repulsing him with a languid movement - "You are all evil! ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
592:You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement. ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
593:Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend! ~ Lauryn Hill, #NFDB
594:I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement. ~ Donald Tusk, #NFDB
595:I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening. ~ Susanna Hoffs, #NFDB
596:Nothing encumbered movement more than fear, which was often the most difficult burden to surrender. ~ Christina Baker Kline, #NFDB
597:The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone. ~ Greg Laurie, #NFDB
598:What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence. ~ Joan Miro, #NFDB
599:You will always see, if this group is a highly evolved group or on the way up, a movement towards oneness. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
600:Donald Trump has shown us who he is. And we ought to believe him. He is taking a hate movement mainstream. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
601:Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world. ~ Pierce Brosnan, #NFDB
602:I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born. ~ Isadora Duncan, #NFDB
603:If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race. ~ Henry Louis Gates, #NFDB
604:I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill. ~ Diane Cilento, #NFDB
605:In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also underestimated. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
606:Ironically, the rise of the Tea Party increased the interventions of the Fed that the movement denounced. ~ Yanis Varoufakis, #NFDB
607:I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity. ~ Ramez Naam, #NFDB
608:The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
609:The president’s position is about the guidance of our society, not trying to control its every movement.” “Well, ~ S H Jucha, #NFDB
610:There are two movements within life. One is love and the other is fear. All movement is motivated by one of these. ~ Nirmala, #NFDB
611:We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together. ~ Cesar Chavez, #NFDB
612:What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. ~ Thomas Friedman, #NFDB
613:Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion. ~ Emmet Fox, #NFDB
614:Do my movement and my thinking have an intimate connection? First of all, I don't think my body doesn't think. ~ Trisha Brown, #NFDB
615:Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of # movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
616:I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit. ~ Peter Garrett, #NFDB
617:"Movement overcomes cold; stillness overcomes heat. Stillness and tranquility set things in order in the universe." ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
618:The omen Stillness had flipped, become Movement. And Justice was about to land before me, clear and unambiguous. ~ Ann Leckie, #NFDB
619:The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too. ~ Susan George, #NFDB
620:Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what? ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
621:I realized, watching that supple and sinuous movement, that life was the only magic all humanity could agree upon. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
622:It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as Utopian proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for war. ~ Arundhati Roy, #NFDB
623:The Dean campaign had accidentally created a movement for a passionate few rather than a vote-getting operation. ~ Clay Shirky, #NFDB
624:The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share. ~ Joseph Gordon Levitt, #NFDB
625:As Bernie Sanders said himself, it's a movement, not a man. And that movement continues to move into our campaign. ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
626:. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government. ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
627:Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
628:Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation ~ Anthony Marra, #NFDB
629:One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them. ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB
630:Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics. ~ Northrop Frye, #NFDB
631:The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
632:Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too. ~ Jim Thompson, #NFDB
633:When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
634:You can watch a clock tick. You can witness a sunrise or a sunset, but that is not time. That is simply movement. ~ Zen proverb, #NFDB
635:I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking. ~ Amber Hollibaugh, #NFDB
636:I’d heard it said that “when a man is tired of moving, he moves to New York, and the movement comes to him. ~ Seth Grahame Smith, #NFDB
637:In his mind the movement of money forms a fine lattice-work, a three dimensional cat's-cradle of light and motion. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
638:International Yoga Day is a reflection of the largest knowledge based peoples' movement the world has ever seen. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
639:I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole. ~ Bell Hooks, #NFDB
640:It's crucial we know the facts and science, but it's naïve to rely on them alone to build a movement for change. ~ Annie Leonard, #NFDB
641:Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation. ~ Anthony Marra, #NFDB
642:One of the less publicized benefits of the open source movement is that it has made it easier to learn to program. ~ Paul Graham, #NFDB
643:Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare. ~ Salvador Dal, #NFDB
644:The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom. ~ Gertrude Himmelfarb, #NFDB
645:there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
646:There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement. ~ Joy Ann Reid, #NFDB
647:There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few. ~ Bell Hooks, #NFDB
648:There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
649:The truth of the matter is President Trump brought together the Republican Party and the conservative movement. ~ Reince Priebus, #NFDB
650:We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
651:What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
652:A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
653:Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
654:First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
655:For me, the movement has to be bigger than just a record. For me, a movement represents like taking over the world. ~ Miley Cyrus, #NFDB
656:For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving. ~ Henri Cartier Bresson, #NFDB
657:How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary. ~ Craig Thompson, #NFDB
658:husband’s memory. Why was she thinking about laying with another man? Thomas’s black eyes followed her movement, a ~ Cheryl Bolen, #NFDB
659:In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party. ~ Andrew Breitbart, #NFDB
660:I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed. ~ Joel Stein, #NFDB
661:I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris. ~ Sonia Rykiel, #NFDB
662:The bottom line was that while everyone was rowing the boat, to use Andrew’s analogy, there was no forward movement. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
663:The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
664:The omen Stillness had flipped, become Movement. And Justice was about to land before me, clear and unambiguous. The ~ Ann Leckie, #NFDB
665:There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
666:A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance. ~ Charlotte Bronte, #NFDB
667:After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. ~ Jeffrey Deitch, #NFDB
668:Every movement, every glance, every low-pitched word is a work of art. Yes, they are performers, too, like me. ~ Storm Constantine, #NFDB
669:I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf. ~ Glenn Reynolds, #NFDB
670:If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too ~ John Fante, #NFDB
671:If we have to have a real movement on this issue if you support gun control, it has to come from the Republican side. ~ Chuck Todd, #NFDB
672:I pray that the Holy Spirit puts His Words in my mouth, His movement in my heart and His direction in my path. ~ Alisa Hope Wagner, #NFDB
673:I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward. ~ Brittany Maynard, #NFDB
674:Just as a wave is a movement of the whole ocean, you are the energy of the cosmos. Don't underestimate your power. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
675:The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end. ~ Samuel Bowers, #NFDB
676:The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
677:There's nothing revolutionary about Saturday Night Fever . You can see the same kind of movement at your local disco. ~ Gene Kelly, #NFDB
678:The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
679:To a man with an internet connection, every thought and every movement sounds like a tweet or status update. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
680:We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives... ~ Nikki Giovanni, #NFDB
681:When remaining in awareness itself, every thought movement, no matter what kind, is like a drawing in air. ~ Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, #NFDB
682:[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement. ~ Jonah Goldberg, #NFDB
683:His thumb rubbed the center of my palm. All my nerves concentrated there, alive to every movement of his skin on mine. ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
684:I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time. ~ Chris Hardwick, #NFDB
685:Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation. If ~ Anthony Marra, #NFDB
686:There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
687:There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. ~ Stokely Carmichael, #NFDB
688:There is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
689:The supernatural is natural, and wonderment can come from the most mundane movement, like a heartbeat or a glance. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
690:The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda. ~ Michele Bachmann, #NFDB
691:I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement. ~ Alexander Herzen, #NFDB
692:If we're going to be successful in taking on the billionaire class, we need a strong national grassroots movement. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
693:It's not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it's the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson. ~ Bill Ayers, #NFDB
694:I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement. ~ Caity Lotz, #NFDB
695:I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement. ~ Bill Ayers, #NFDB
696:My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. ~ Martha Graham, #NFDB
697:Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
698:Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
699:Some of life's best moments are during a good bowel movement, and to have that robbed from you, I can't even imagine. ~ Chuck Wendig, #NFDB
700:The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. ~ Margaret Fuller, #NFDB
701:The Hamas movement will lead Intifada after Intifada until we liberate Palestine – all of Palestine, Allah willing. ~ Ismail Haniyeh, #NFDB
702:The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change. ~ David Suzuki, #NFDB
703:The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles). ~ Paul Klee, #NFDB
704:To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity' ~ Carl von Clausewitz, #NFDB
705:When awareness believes what it knows is true, the truth of what awareness really is, moves. That movement is love. ~ John de Ruiter, #NFDB
706:A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev, #NFDB
707:How was work?” I asked to keep the conversation going. Even if it was a downhill direction, movement was movement. ~ Rachel Hawthorne, #NFDB
708:In order to live fully, it is necessary to be in constant movement, only then can each day be different from the last. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
709:I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors! ~ Ani DiFranco, #NFDB
710:I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment. ~ Danny Glover, #NFDB
711:Men fancy that they recognise a woman by dress, figure and face but it is more through movement that gender is revealed. ~ Rod Duncan, #NFDB
712:People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc. ~ Paul Beatty, #NFDB
713:People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement. ~ Michael Foot, #NFDB
714:The ocean calls my name, the peace its movement brought to me would help with the typhoon whirling inside my head. ~ Claudia Y Burgoa, #NFDB
715:There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head. ~ Peter Singer, #NFDB
716:To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power and movement. The enemy’s "center of gravity ~ Carl von Clausewitz, #NFDB
717:All human control comes to an end when the individual is caught in a mass movement. Then the archetypes begin to function. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
718:A lot of people think a high armhole is restrictive, but it gives you total movement because it's cut right up to your arm. ~ Tom Ford, #NFDB
719:Each movement during combat honors the movements that the previous generations tried to transmit through the Tradition. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
720:Gudrun entered the taxi, with the deliberate cold movement of a woman who is well-dressed and contemptuous in her soul. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
721:I am a man, not a movement,” he said. “But if a movement is what it takes to end this war, then I will play my part. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
722:In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist. ~ Nat Hentoff, #NFDB
723:It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
724:Magic is natural. It is a harmonious movement of energies to create a needed change. If you wish to practice magic, ~ Scott Cunningham, #NFDB
725:That Newton shuddered now [at slavery] is a testimony to they way a strong social movement can awaken a conscience.. ~ Adam Hochschild, #NFDB
726:The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
727:There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement. ~ Andrew Young, #NFDB
728:Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers). ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB
729:What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
730:What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement. ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
731:3D computer animation combines 3D models of objects and programmed or hand "keyframed" movement. Models are constructed out ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
732:A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
733:Chaos and barbarism, which always threatened to overwhelm the movement, sharply increased as bin Laden took the helm. ~ Lawrence Wright, #NFDB
734:For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much. ~ Haile Gerima, #NFDB
735:I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary. ~ Hiroshi Sugimoto, #NFDB
736:I'm not a dancer, so I have to find a movement that belongs to me. I dance within my limits and with my imagination. ~ Juliette Binoche, #NFDB
737:Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself. ~ Moshe Feldenkrais, #NFDB
738:People yearn for change, they relish being part of a movement, and they talk about things that are remarkable, not boring. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
739:The gay movement has realized its agenda, so they've gotta transfer that energy somewhere and transgenders is the next. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
740:The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. ~ Bell Hooks, #NFDB
741:The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry. ~ Francis Crick, #NFDB
742:AIM in essence is a movement rather than just an organization. It is a manifestation of the desperation of our people. ~ Leonard Peltier, #NFDB
743:A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation ~ Tahir Shah, #NFDB
744:Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious. ~ Marc Chagall, #NFDB
745:Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
746:Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement. ~ Ira Glass, #NFDB
747:How can this 'I' be said to have any being other than as a pattern of movement in Heaven and Earth's unfolding union. ~ Douglas J Penick, #NFDB
748:I guess what's so frustrating about the drug movement is that it's not much of a movement that's too many stoners involved. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
749:I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies. ~ Paul Krugman, #NFDB
750:Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement. ~ Vernon Howard, #NFDB
751:That is one of the great secrets of life, that life is a movement. And if you are stuck somewhere you lose contact with life. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
752:...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
753:the peace movement sometimes does underestimate the problem of evil, and in doing so weakens its authority and its message. ~ Jim Wallis, #NFDB
754:We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a 'movement' not to bring anything about ~ Masanobu Fukuoka, #NFDB
755:with red ink, and referred to it nightly. Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, ~ Anthony Marra, #NFDB
756:You must direct the fire and movement of the entire element and resist the instinct to become just another gun in the fight. ~ Jack Carr, #NFDB
757:If I wanted to contribute to the hyphy movement, what good is it making a hyphy record that isn't embraced by that community? ~ DJ Shadow, #NFDB
758:I resolved that no revolutionary movement was going to be brought into being in the USA unless I brought it into being. ~ Lyndon LaRouche, #NFDB
759:No self-respecting right-wing populist movement in India can succeed without targeting the Muslims as alien to the nation. ~ Gyan Prakash, #NFDB
760:Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
761:Oh I do want that thing, that oneness of movement that will catch the thing up into one movement and sing - harmony of life. ~ Emily Carr, #NFDB
762:The modern conservative movement was inspired by Barry Goldwater’s canonical text from 1960, The Conscience of a Conservative. ~ Max Boot, #NFDB
763:The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
764:All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
765:A movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write. ~ Robert Hass, #NFDB
766:And so worship is bound up with all three dimensions of the circular movement: the personal, the social, and the universal. ~ Benedict XVI, #NFDB
767:Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure. ~ Cleve Jones, #NFDB
768:As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
769:God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement. ~ Margaret Feinberg, #NFDB
770:Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops. ~ Corliss Lamont, #NFDB
771:If this book is a thriller, it’s also a requiem, the story of the last days of a great figure and the end of his movement. ~ Hampton Sides, #NFDB
772:In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words. ~ Paul Claudel, #NFDB
773:It is on the Silence behind the cosmos that all the movement of the universe is supported. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Silence, #NFDB
774:It must not be claimed that anyone can sense time by itself apart from the movement of things. LUCRETIUS, De rerum natura1 ~ Carlo Rovelli, #NFDB
775:I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement. ~ Marisa Tomei, #NFDB
776:Life without momentum is not truly life. A person needs movement, or they eventually begin to forget that they even exist. ~ Damien Echols, #NFDB
777:Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration. ~ Edward Kennedy, #NFDB
778:Pain creates movement, and movement controls balance. If the opponent does not feel any pain you may be forced to break bones. ~ Ed Martin, #NFDB
779:Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919) ~ Paul Strand, #NFDB
780:The Absolute is beyond stability and movement as it is beyond unity and multiplicity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Pure Existent, #NFDB
781:The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst. ~ Jim Costa, #NFDB
782:The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam. ~ Bill Ayers, #NFDB
783:The mysterious and unchanging change
Of the persistent movement we call Time ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
784:To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word. ~ Nancy Duarte, #NFDB
785:What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity. ~ Juliette Binoche, #NFDB
786:Consecrate your labour and leave its returns to the Spirit who manifests and fulfills himself in the universal movement." ~ ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
787:Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. ~ Raymond Carver, #NFDB
788:Frank Forencich, who lives in Portland, Oregon, and writes and thinks about the role of movement and play in people’s lives; ~ John J Ratey, #NFDB
789:Is there's always an idea that the party will continue the movement but that movement always dies inside the Democratic Party. ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
790:It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground. ~ Friedrich Engels, #NFDB
791:It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it". ~ Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, #NFDB
792:It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we. ~ Edgar Degas, #NFDB
793:It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.' ~ Paloma Faith, #NFDB
794:Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work. ~ Andy Goldsworthy, #NFDB
795:One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there. ~ Andre Balazs, #NFDB
796:Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect. ~ Hedy Lamarr, #NFDB
797:The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
798:The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself. ~ Storm Jameson, #NFDB
799:The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
800:The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers. ~ Chris Hardwick, #NFDB
801:A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement. ~ Abba Eban, #NFDB
802:I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement. ~ Isadora Duncan, #NFDB
803:I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
804:It would be hard to believe that the continuous movement of tectonic plates has no effect on the development of life on earth. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
805:I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB
806:Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive. ~ Arnaud Desjardins, #NFDB
807:The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement. ~ Jim DeMint, #NFDB
808:The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
809:The multiculturalism movement must be unmasked for the fraud that it is. There are superior cultures, and ours is one of them. ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
810:A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage. ~ Ken Loach, #NFDB
811:Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups. ~ Paul Ryan, #NFDB
812:I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end. ~ Alice Paul, #NFDB
813:In all very great drama the true movement and result is psychological. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Course of English Poetry - II, #NFDB
814:It was surreal, an all-white landscape with little movement—the vehicles like desultory ants after an outsized picnic. Swerving ~ J T Ellison, #NFDB
815:Material universe a form and movement of the Spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India, A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture - V, #NFDB
816:Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement. ~ Nick Rhodes, #NFDB
817:The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
818:The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself. ~ Mike Figgis, #NFDB
819:The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement. ~ Velupillai Prabhakaran, #NFDB
820:What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car! ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
821:Without contradiction, there would be no life, no movement, no progress, a deadly slumber of all forces. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, #NFDB
822:Every moment & every movement of our being is to be resolved into a continuous & a devoted self-giving to the Eternal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
823:In this flow, mind and matter are not separate substances. Rather, they are different aspects of one whole and unbroken movement. ~ David Bohm, #NFDB
824:I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers. ~ John Ridley, #NFDB
825:Keep your soul at peace, in order to be able to be attentive and very faithful to the inner movement of the Holy Spirit. ~ Peter Julian Eymard, #NFDB
826:One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. ~ Edgar Degas, #NFDB
827:Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation. ~ Paul Virilio, #NFDB
828:Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn't just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic. ~ Aisha Hinds, #NFDB
829:So the world, grounded in a timeless movement by the Soul which suffuses it with intelligence, becomes a living and blessed being. ~ Plotinus, #NFDB
830:The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
831:Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
832:we longed for healing and happiness—as if happiness is a state of being. But it’s not. Happiness is a vector. It’s movement. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
833:Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing. ~ Martha Graham, #NFDB
834:...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'. ~ David Icke, #NFDB
835:If the Bible is true, history cannot end without first seeing a movement of the peoples now living in Islamic lands to the gospel. ~ J D Greear, #NFDB
836:In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
837:I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail. ~ Alan Moore, #NFDB
838:I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt. ~ Alex Cox, #NFDB
839:I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement, and it's really shaped my life and my career. ~ Julianne Moore, #NFDB
840:Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
841:My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anticolonial movement. ~ Tom Morello, #NFDB
842:The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough. ~ Steve McQueen, #NFDB
843:Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
844:To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God's love toward people, since God is a fountain of sending love. ~ David Bosch, #NFDB
845:Ty got the feeling, from cues in the Teklan’s physique and general style of movement, that he was some manner of Snake Eater. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
846:...a journey into the unknown in the world without produces a movement towards new and unknown areas in our world within. ~ Laurens van der Post, #NFDB
847:He wanted to believe that his own lack of movement had stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog abolishes winter. ~ K b Abe, #NFDB
848:Hopefully our great movement powered by everyday citizens will overcome the sickness that is plaguing our politics and our media. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
849:Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever. ~ Paul Watson, #NFDB
850:Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
851:No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step. ~ Sidney Hook, #NFDB
852:One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward. ~ Thom Gunn, #NFDB
853:The chain of Karma only binds the movement of Nature and not the soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad: The Inhabiting Godhead, Life and Action, #NFDB
854:The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
855:The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
856:The vital can take part in a movement but it must not be in control. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, The Vital and Other Levels of Being, #NFDB
857:We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real. ~ Tilda Swinton, #NFDB
858:A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement. ~ Ben Katchor, #NFDB
859:Fresh air, quiet, and the calming stimulus of the movement on the earth beneath the sky; that's why she loves to walk so much. ~ Richard Matheson, #NFDB
860:In one movement he launched her into the rear of the vehicle and slammed the door shut. It made the same tinny noise it had days ~ Angela Marsons, #NFDB
861:Love illuminated fulfils the harmony which is the goal of the divine movement. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, Agni, the Illumined Will, #NFDB
862:Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation. ~ Pam Houston, #NFDB
863:Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
864:Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice. ~ Gerry Adams, #NFDB
865:The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
866:The women's movement has not found a way to reconnect comfortably with the religious impulse that was central to its origin. ~ Helen LaKelly Hunt, #NFDB
867:We'll organize workers in this movement as long as we're willing to sacrifice. The moment we stop sacrificing, we stop organizing. ~ Cesar Chavez, #NFDB
868:When I write, I am trying through the movement of my fingers to reach my head. I’m trying to build a word ladder up to my brain. ~ Heidi Julavits, #NFDB
869:When the will is enchained as the slave of sin, it cannot make a movement towards goodness, far less steadily pursue it. John Calvin ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
870:You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. ~ John Keats, #NFDB
871:You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society. ~ Andrew Aydin, #NFDB
872:A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
873:A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement. ~ Emily Matchar, #NFDB
874:Awareness means to be in the moment so totally that there is no movement toward the past, no movement toward the future—all movement stops. ~ Osho, #NFDB
875:Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible. ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov, #NFDB
876:Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
877:Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness. ~ Bell Hooks, #NFDB
878:For a moment, all movement ceases and the scene is one of crystalline stillness, silent except for a slow, melodramatic heartbeat. ~ Daniel Clowes, #NFDB
879:Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer. ~ William O Douglas, #NFDB
880:He was particularly good at apprehending movement, from the motions of a flapping wing to the emotions flickering across a face. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
881:I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear. ~ Pol Pot, #NFDB
882:If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
883:I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~ Mos Def, #NFDB
884:I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
885:Practice is the interest, the love, the drive, the tendency, the movement, to be as authentic as possible, to be as real as possible. ~ A H Almaas, #NFDB
886:The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind. ~ Carol P Christ, #NFDB
887:Time and Space that are the conceptual movement and extension of the Godhead in us. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, God in Power of Becoming, #NFDB
888:You can learn to perceive your life as an ever-flowing movement. You can learn to see the continuous flow of all conditioned ~ Henepola Gunaratana, #NFDB
889:Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life. ~ Richard Allen Epstein, #NFDB
890:Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev, #NFDB
891:He might well have gone on to bow with a flourish had not the precarious position of his codpiece precluded any sudden movement. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
892:Music loud, I can't help but wiggle a bit and I think that movement finds its way into the paintings... I can see it in the strokes. ~ Laura Harris, #NFDB
893:Spirituality is a flower with a thousand petals: every act, every thought, every talk, every movement of our heart is a part of it. ~ Robert Muller, #NFDB
894:The best thing, and the most important thing the labor movement cannot do without, and must have and fight to keep, is solidarity. ~ Charles Brandt, #NFDB
895:There is a time for flight, and a time for descent; a time for movement, and a time for rest; a time to do, and a time to prepare.” “This ~ Ken Liu, #NFDB
896:The whole politically correct movement, if it - if that's what it is, was spawned by liberals. So I try to avoid categorizing myself. ~ Nat Hentoff, #NFDB
897:This is not the party of Reagan. Today the conservative movement took a backseat to liberal Democrats in the state of Mississippi. ~ Chris McDaniel, #NFDB
898:We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology ~ James Luther Adams, #NFDB
899:America, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world. ~ Stephen Harper, #NFDB
900:And behind all this human movement the ocean bobbed and folded and slid, for nothing could keep still, not people, not water, not time. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
901:Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal. ~ Cassandra Wilson, #NFDB
902:Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously. ~ Bell Hooks, #NFDB
903:It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people. ~ Lance Armstrong, #NFDB
904:Nisargadatta: "When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two. ~ Nirmala, #NFDB
905:Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement. ~ Rosa Luxemburg, #NFDB
906:The element of the vital being is not earth but air; it has more movement, less status. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Triple Transformation, #NFDB
907:This is a movement like nobody's ever seen in this country before. Even our enemies admit that. We're going to make history together. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
908:Trump is a symptom of widespread disgust, not the head of a carefully crafted ideological movement with a checklist of issues. ~ Victor Davis Hanson, #NFDB
909:We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants. ~ Cornel West, #NFDB
910:You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket) ~ Oscar Levant, #NFDB
911:A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character. ~ William Carlos Williams, #NFDB
912:...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment. ~ David Bohm, #NFDB
913:From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia. ~ John N Gray, #NFDB
914:In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better. ~ Brian Ferneyhough, #NFDB
915:In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
916:The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty. ~ Virginia Hamilton, #NFDB
917:There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement. ~ Shane Claiborne, #NFDB
918:Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
919:a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement. ~ Min Jin Lee, #NFDB
920:A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect ~ Roy Jenkins, #NFDB
921:Even after many years, kata practice is never finished, for there is always something new to be learned about executing a movement. ~ Shoshin Nagamine, #NFDB
922:In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film. ~ Norman McLaren, #NFDB
923:I sit in the rocking chair and sway back and forth. The movement calms me. The range of motion is limited. Confined. It fits in a box. ~ Jessica Brody, #NFDB
924:No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. ~ Milan Kundera, #NFDB
925:the Family' movement,* is equally acquainted with the principle: 'Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
926:The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening. Gratitude is peace. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
927:To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
928:We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery. ~ Joseph Stalin, #NFDB
929:When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #NFDB
930:When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
931:Where else but in America could the women's liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of support? ~ Bob Hope, #NFDB
932:Where uniformity reigns, movement from point to point is no longer movement; and where movement is no longer movement, there is no time. ~ Thomas Mann, #NFDB
933:You can choose to establish a monument for prayer or pray to unleash a movement. One is religious; the other revolutionary. In ~ Erwin Raphael McManus, #NFDB
934:1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement. ~ Quentin S Crisp, #NFDB
935:How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement. ~ Michelangelo, #NFDB
936:I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement. ~ August Spies, #NFDB
937:I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on. ~ Charlayne Hunter Gault, #NFDB
938:There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer. ~ Denis Hayes, #NFDB
939:The seed has been sown that will grow one day . . . to the glorious rebirth of the National Socialist movement of a truly united nation. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
940:Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings. ~ Ari Shapiro, #NFDB
941:An imagination submitted to the movement of the Holy Spirit is a powerful tool in the hands of God to write testaments of His glory. ~ Alisa Hope Wagner, #NFDB
942:Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick, #NFDB
943:I am not good at aligning myself with any movement that comes along but also I don't like the thought of sitting back and doing nothing. ~ Vashti Bunyan, #NFDB
944:I join a heart of snow to the whiteness of swans; I hate movement for it displaces lines, And never do I weep and never do I laugh. ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
945:I think spiritualism, mesmerism, the mental healing movement, provided some people with the most meaningful experiences of their lives. ~ Mitch Horowitz, #NFDB
946:The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic. ~ Bell Hooks, #NFDB
947:The idea that if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave is so engrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise. ~ Gail Collins, #NFDB
948:This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy. ~ Phillip E Johnson, #NFDB
949:Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it. ~ Guy de Maupassant, #NFDB
950:When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement. ~ Janeane Garofalo, #NFDB
951:When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is because "moon atoms" penetrate my eye. ~ Jostein Gaarder, #NFDB
952:A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
953:Ballet is merely a new rationalization of society's instinctive movement towards self-destruction. A dance of death for the Gadarene swine. ~ Eric Ambler, #NFDB
954:Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents. ~ John Stott, #NFDB
955:For every noble movement or advancement in the human endeavor across time, there were always betrayers who set everything a step back. ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB
956:For Jung, fantasy is not a derogatory term, but a discourse that most nearly approximates to the substance and movement of the unconscious. ~ David Tacey, #NFDB
957:Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
958:He was now convinced that Hitler had brought the movement to a dead end. The more radical followers were going over to the Communists. ~ William L Shirer, #NFDB
959:I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination. ~ Martha Graham, #NFDB
960:I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of film more than anything else. ~ George Lucas, #NFDB
961:I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior. ~ Beryl Bainbridge, #NFDB
962:Movement, after all, seemed futile to him. He felt that imagination could easily be substituted for the vulgar realities of things. ~ Joris Karl Huysmans, #NFDB
963:Perlstein says a movement gives you a chance, "to make anger boiling inside you ennobling, productive, powerful, instead of embittering. ~ Rick Perlstein, #NFDB
964:The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization. ~ Danny Glover, #NFDB
965:The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.
~ Virginia Hamilton,#NFDB
966:The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
967:The other boys started to complain that pushing off walls was movement, not combat. "There is no combat without movement," Ender said. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
968:The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon. ~ Jean Pierre de Caussade, #NFDB
969:The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime. ~ Andy Stern, #NFDB
970:The White House is dismissing these town hall fireworks as AstroTurf movements which means it`s the opposite of a true grass roots movement. ~ Chuck Todd, #NFDB
971:an elderly camper realizes, with heart-skipping dismay, that during his afternoon bowel movement, he is unwittingly shitting on a zombie. ~ Robert Kirkman, #NFDB
972:A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
973:Her mind emptied of everything but the gusting wind and how fragile Wolf looked in that heartbeat, like one movement could break him open. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
974:I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. ~ Rick Santorum, #NFDB
975:I became really interested in the community health care movement and community health centers, which Boston was sort of a leading center for. ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
976:I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
977:I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement. ~ Alfred Rosenberg, #NFDB
978:Justice” [Sept. 15]: It appears that the outcome of the civil rights movement has been to replace “Blacks not welcome” with “This is not about ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
979:Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth. . . . ~ Reginald Horace Blyth, #NFDB
980:The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair. ~ Margot Robbie, #NFDB
981:The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
982:The movement of time is guaranteed by the birth of generation after generation, a never-ending succession that fills the gods with fear. ~ Mikhail Bakhtin, #NFDB
983:The real danger of the gay movement is its necessary goal of the elimination of this moral system in order to achieve this [sexual freedom] ~ Scott Lively, #NFDB
984:There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities. ~ Carl Rogers, #NFDB
985:The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated. ~ Volkmar Sigusch, #NFDB
986:Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction. ~ Gary L Francione, #NFDB
987:We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what's coming up next. ~ Joan Baez, #NFDB
988:Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting. ~ George Clooney, #NFDB
989:If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me an A. ~ Franklyn Ajaye, #NFDB
990:I was merely an automaton endowed with power of movement, responding to the stimuli of the sense organs and thinking and acting accordingly. ~ Nikola Tesla, #NFDB
991:Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years. ~ Edward Norton, #NFDB
992:Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
993:The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent. ~ Robert Greenwald, #NFDB
994: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,#NFDB
995:The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass movement. ~ Isabel Briggs Myers, #NFDB
996:We can refer to this one process as experience-knowledge (the hyphen indicating that these are two inseparable aspects of one whole movement). ~ David Bohm, #NFDB
997:We were ashes to ashes fascinated by this movement, heaven bound invariably, for there is no hell anymore when it has arrived here on earth. ~ Camilla Gibb, #NFDB
998:What did it say about the movement of time, about what was about to happen, that I could understand the hummingbird spin of human voices? ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
999:It's all about her. Every movement, every breath, the way my heart beats firecely inside my chest, is all because of her. Violet owns me. ~ Jessica Sorensen, #NFDB
1000:Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
1001:Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. ~ Norman Jewison, #NFDB
1002:The movement has kept itself from full development by denying, ignoring, and rejecting parts of itself, including its spiritual legacy. ~ Helen LaKelly Hunt, #NFDB
1003:You don’t know what you are writing. You’re like a painter who has gone blind to his work. Go out. Get on your bicycle. You need movement, rest. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
1004:As Christ’s body on earth we are compelled to move, as he did, toward those who hurt. That has been God’s consistent movement in all history. ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
1005:Even though Im pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. Theyre putting important issues on the agenda. ~ Amartya Sen, #NFDB
1006:Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it. ~ Alexis Korner, #NFDB
1007:Existentialism is a 'movement' which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. That center is the thought of Heidegger. ~ Leo Strauss, #NFDB
1008:In a burst of movement I’m up the crates, scaling the wall, and rolling onto the tiles of the roof next to me, a handful of stories in the air. ~ Sara Raasch, #NFDB
1009:it’s a major accomplishment for sponsors like the Kochs that they’ve turned corporate self-interest into a movement among people on the streets. ~ Jane Mayer, #NFDB
1010:Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement. ~ Oliver Sacks, #NFDB
1011:My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well. ~ Janis Ian, #NFDB
1012:That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1013:The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels ~ Theodor Herzl, #NFDB
1014:To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people. ~ Van Jones, #NFDB
1015:when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry. ~ Sybil Marshall, #NFDB
1016:You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement. ~ Karlie Kloss, #NFDB
1017:His arms around her, that’s what she wanted, and… she wanted movement that spoke to movement, skin to skin and sweat to heat to breath to gasp. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
1018:In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't. ~ Richard Stallman, #NFDB
1019:It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism. ~ Norman Tebbit, #NFDB
1020:It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way. ~ Graham Linehan, #NFDB
1021:Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became. ~ Anton Szandor LaVey, #NFDB
1022:Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real. ~ Cornel West, #NFDB
1023:The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power. ~ Chris Murphy, #NFDB
1024:The feminist movement is often clouded with Gloria Steinem's perspective, but I feel like denying women their sexuality is just as chauvinistic. ~ Amber Heard, #NFDB
1025:There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer. ~ Robin Williams, #NFDB
1026:All movement forward implies a certain amount of friction and difficulty of adjustment ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Problem of Uniformity and Liberty, #NFDB
1027:Anonymous was like any other modern-day movement that had become fragmented by the user-generated, crowd-sourced nature of a web-enabled society. ~ Parmy Olson, #NFDB
1028:In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
1029:I realized that there wasn't accessible, user-friendly content out there that really empowered people to find a way into the green movement. ~ Elizabeth Rogers, #NFDB
1030:I want to be clear. Who knows if [ Donald Trump] will be a vessel that people will get behind, it might not be, but there is a movement out there. ~ Ken Moelis, #NFDB
1031:Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people . ~ Jefferson Davis, #NFDB
1032:Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, #NFDB
1033:[People] have a fear of the, the Muslim movement and the Muslim religion because it has a tendency to make the people who accept it stick together. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
1034:"Suffragette" is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fight for the right to vote. ~ Sarah Gavron, #NFDB
1035:The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making. ~ Ted Danson, #NFDB
1036:These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers. ~ Rupert Everett, #NFDB
1037:We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive. ~ Yvon Chouinard, #NFDB
1038:When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two. —NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ ~ David Richo, #NFDB
1039:If I talk to rural people where I live - mostly Hispanic but also poor white - they're not sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement. ~ Victor Davis Hanson, #NFDB
1040:It was in that small lack of movement that Poet could see true horror. A mirror held up to the human race and how it can be manipulated. Ruined. ~ Suzanne Young, #NFDB
1041:I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. ~ Jon Voight, #NFDB
1042:Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves. ~ Arshile Gorky, #NFDB
1043:Only what is mortal bears life, Arren. Only in death is there rebirth. The Balance is not a stillness. it is a movement--an eternal becoming. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1044:The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture. ~ James Fenton, #NFDB
1045:Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it. ~ Mao Zedong, #NFDB
1046:Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular. ~ Emile Durkheim, #NFDB
1047:From my perspective, there wasn't much difference between a socialist movement, a nationalist movement, and a brutal brawl in the black market. ~ Masaji Ishikawa, #NFDB
1048:I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement. ~ Nick Park, #NFDB
1049:It’s okay. I’m used to people not wanting me at their parties.” I pushed to my feet. The stars seemed to twirl a bit with the movement. “No big
deal. ~ J Lynn,#NFDB
1050:Let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it. ~ Matt Kibbe, #NFDB
1051:Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain. ~ Rama Swami, #NFDB
1052:Since any armed movement against an established Government can be justified only by success, strength is an important revolutionary virtue. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
1053:The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking. ~ Leslie Stephen, #NFDB
1054:The evolution of our unique brains was locked into the evolution of our wide range of movement. Mental and physical agility run on the same track. ~ John J Ratey, #NFDB
1055:The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works. ~ Thomas Erskine 1st Baron Erskine, #NFDB
1056:The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics. ~ Luis Gutierrez, #NFDB
1057:There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day. ~ J D Vance, #NFDB
1058:we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
1059:You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it. ~ Ethan Zuckerman, #NFDB
1060:You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example. ~ Tony Blair, #NFDB
1061:As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to "the difference personalities make". ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
1062:Dark blue, heavy with emotion, gazed up unblinkingly into wide chestnut. Every movement, every yearning was reflected between the couple's eyes. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
1063:For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire. ~ Iman Abdulmajid, #NFDB
1064:I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. ~ Andy Goldsworthy, #NFDB
1065:Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
1066:One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues. ~ Hanna Rosin, #NFDB
1067:Shockley had the ability to visualize quantum theory, how it explained the movement of electrons, the way a choreographer can visualize a dance. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
1068:There's no real organised body, ... so through the internet people have spread their videos, spread photos, and spread word of a new urban movement. ~ Chris Hayes, #NFDB
1069:The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size strength and intelligence. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
1070:Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again. ~ Matthew Arnold, #NFDB
1071:We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1072:Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement? ~ Alan Caruba, #NFDB
1073:Yoga is not a new path to follow but a way to become conscious of the original impetus of life. Yoga is the movement and evolution of Life itself. ~ David Frawley, #NFDB
1074:You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement. ~ Ben Stein, #NFDB
1075:For me, then, territory and movement are linked. For instance, territory is controlled by the movements of horsemen, of tanks, of planes, and so on. ~ Paul Virilio, #NFDB
1076:Have your life properly aligned with dharma. The technicalities of the movement of the kundalini are easy to master. Dharma is much more complex. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1077:His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made no movement at all. ~ Mervyn Peake, #NFDB
1078:I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers. ~ Fidel Castro, #NFDB
1079:I believe that Providence would never have allowed us to see the victory of the Movement if it had the intention after all to destroy us at the end. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
1080:If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based. ~ Betty Friedan, #NFDB
1081:If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible. ~ David Harvey, #NFDB
1082:I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement. ~ Matt Taibbi, #NFDB
1083:I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity. ~ Lou Doillon, #NFDB
1084:It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all was taken for progress in my family. ~ Mary Karr, #NFDB
1085:I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that. ~ Bonnie Raitt, #NFDB
1086:Let the professionals like doctors & engineers teach in schools once a week. Let's make teaching a national movement necessary for Nation building. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1087:Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement. ~ George Clooney, #NFDB
1088:Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. ~ Jacob Burckhardt, #NFDB
1089:The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people. ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB
1090:We’re going to try a little eye movement desensitization and reprocessing treatment as well.” “Are you going to start speaking English at some point? ~ Shay Savage, #NFDB
1091:And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union. ~ Warren Beatty, #NFDB
1092:By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first. ~ Martha Gellhorn, #NFDB
1093:Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1094:Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into their movement. ~ Clara Zetkin, #NFDB
1095:He was a beautiful man. What more than this need be said? The sort of man who makes you think the movement of foliage might be causing the breeze. ~ Joseph O Connor, #NFDB
1096:I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement. ~ Ani DiFranco, #NFDB
1097:I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting. ~ Cecily Brown, #NFDB
1098:It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1099:it’s a major accomplishment for sponsors like the Kochs that they’ve turned corporate self-interest into a movement among people on the streets.” While ~ Jane Mayer, #NFDB
1100:It seems a fair test of any political movement to enquire not whether it is capitalist, communist or fascist, but whether it is fundamentally humane. ~ Max Hastings, #NFDB
1101:Kaz's art is a powerful example of discipline and freedom. His classical calligraphy captures the inner movement and stillness of the brush and mind. ~ Joan Halifax, #NFDB
1102:Mottled light swept the garden, creating an
illusion of movement. The air rippled, on the edge of hearing, with the bittersweet song of a wingen. ~ Janalyn Voigt,#NFDB
1103:My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.' ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
1104:My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality. ~ Anne Waldman, #NFDB
1105:Shifting Lucy to his shoulder, he began to rock without moving his feet, a movement new to him but as old as fire and having the grace of 1000 years. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
1106:The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling. ~ Marshall McLuhan, #NFDB
1107:The so-called Muslim women's movement is predicated on the idea that Muslim men, not Islam, have been responsible for the suppression of women's rights ~ Reza Aslan, #NFDB
1108:The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
1109:Wealth is a force and it should be a means of circulation, a power in movement, as flowing water is a power in movement.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955,#NFDB
1110:...we need to start a new philisophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
1111:Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch the movement of thoughts in the mind. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1112:Comey was of the political right and a movement Republican. Until Trump came along, this socially conservative faction dominated the Republican Party. ~ Luke Harding, #NFDB
1113:Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not ~ John Turturro, #NFDB
1114:In fact, I was in a lab that was a hundred percent funded by the Pentagon, and it was one of the centers of the organized antiwar resistance movement. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1115:In our day governments not only fail to encourage, but directly hinder every movement by which people try to work out new forms of life for themselves. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1116:Liberation Theology led nowhere because it was neither a revolutionary nor a religious movement, but involved a weak, self-cancelling mixture of each. ~ Rodney Stark, #NFDB
1117:Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it. ~ Kazimir Malevich, #NFDB
1118:[Me attacked by media] is nothing more than an attempt to destroy our movement and for the Clintons to keep their corrupt control over our government. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1119:She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing. ~ Anna Godbersen, #NFDB
1120:Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1121:The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
1122:The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
1123:The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers? ~ Andy Stern, #NFDB
1124:White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity. ~ Mark Tobey, #NFDB
1125:And Bernice Johnson, who organized the Albany Freedom Singers and was expelled from Albany State College for her determined involvement in the movement. ~ Howard Zinn, #NFDB
1126:Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role. ~ Assata Shakur, #NFDB
1127:for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. Poor old man, with a perfectly new heart! ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1128:Instead, as we shall see, such figures emerged from the turmoil of first-century Palestine, the setting in which the Christian movement began to grow. ~ Elaine Pagels, #NFDB
1129:I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence. ~ Hafez, #NFDB
1130:Lisa smiled. 'You know how sometimes, you catch the faintest hint of movement in the corner of your eye, then you blink and it's gone? That's them. ~ Jennifer McMahon, #NFDB
1131:[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician. ~ Bill Ayers, #NFDB
1132:Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself. ~ Herbert Marcuse, #NFDB
1133:Real movement in the Kerry campaign now. His poll numbers are moving, donations are moving, endorsements are moving. The only thing not moving is his hair. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
1134:that “television advertisements would be most effective if the visual display created repetitive vertical movement of the television viewers’ heads ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1135:There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day. Here ~ J D Vance, #NFDB
1136:Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air. ~ Lyonel Feininger, #NFDB
1137:Your ecstasy is a movement towards the height and your meditation is a movement towards the depth. And once you have both, your life becomes a celebration. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1138:A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital. ~ George Soros, #NFDB
1139:All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. ~ Martha Graham, #NFDB
1140:...And there's the Midnight Growlers, a philosophical movement dedicated to high spiritual ideals and the pursuit of truth and -'
Beer,' said Tinto. ~ Robert Rankin,#NFDB
1141:An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority. ~ Rose Wilder Lane, #NFDB
1142:Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it. ~ Bill McKibben, #NFDB
1143:Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform. ~ Marco Rubio, #NFDB
1144:I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking. ~ Rachel Zucker, #NFDB
1145:I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking. ~ C L R James, #NFDB
1146:In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country. ~ Karl Radek, #NFDB
1147:I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have. ~ Kristi Noem, #NFDB
1148:I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work. ~ Morgan Freeman, #NFDB
1149:My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became static. ~ Gabriel Orozco, #NFDB
1150:The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
1151:We must begin to create a revolutionary, multiracial women’s movement that seriously addresses the main issues affecting poor and working-class women. ~ Angela Y Davis, #NFDB
1152:Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for. ~ Otis Moss III, #NFDB
1153:Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms. ~ Eliphas Levi, #NFDB
1154:Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms. ~ liphas L vi, #NFDB
1155:Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office. ~ Gwen Ifill, #NFDB
1156:I am always concerned with ideas of territory and movement. Indeed, my first book after Bunker Archeology was entitled L'insecurite du territoire (1976). ~ Paul Virilio, #NFDB
1157:I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happened. I think the world would be a much nicer place. ~ Quinlan Terry, #NFDB
1158:If the day hadn’t yet convinced him of the merits of women’s suffrage, it had certainly convinced him of the justness of the movement for Rational Dress. ~ Graham Moore, #NFDB
1159:[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew. ~ Margaret Mead, #NFDB
1160:"Make America great again." You know, to a lot of people, well, that's jingoistic. That's nationalism. That's cheap, that's rank, that's not a movement. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
1161:My biggest concern about the effects of the prosperity movement is that it diminishes Christ by making him less central and less satisfying than his gifts. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
1162:[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less. ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, #NFDB
1163:The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death. ~ Riane Eisler, #NFDB
1164:Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
1165:We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races. ~ Josephine St Pierre Ruffin, #NFDB
1166:What is not real or vital to thought, imagination and feeling cannot be powerfully creative. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Movement of Modern Literature - II, #NFDB
1167:You see shape, and how the light hits things, how the color changes from one end of the photo to the other, and how movement affects the mood of the photo. ~ Jay Maisel, #NFDB
1168:A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses. ~ Irving Babbitt, #NFDB
1169:Backwards movement is expected by any bad guy and it’s quite easy to “steer” the uninitiated pretty much anywhere, once this basic reaction is understood. ~ Massad Ayoob, #NFDB
1170:Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note. ~ Jeffrey Jones, #NFDB
1171:It’s is good you are about something. But wait and ask, “why and how?”. Without “whys and hows”, not every energetic movement can be called progress. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1172:My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement. ~ Isadora Duncan, #NFDB
1173:The pedometer doesn’t just spur us to move, though it certainly does that. It changes the way we think about movement. What was once a chore becomes a game. ~ A J Jacobs, #NFDB
1174:The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity. ~ Moby, #NFDB
1175:We have endorsements of our plan from key leaders within the environmental movement. That doesn't mean that it includes the whole environmental movement. ~ Rachel Notley, #NFDB
1176:When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1177:With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat. ~ Bill Gross, #NFDB
1178:Action like inaction may find its place in thee; if thy body is in movement, let thy mind be calm, let thy soul be as limpid as a mountain lake. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, #NFDB
1179:A good citizen must follow the movement of public affairs, so as to cast his vote intelligently, and know whether the party in power deserved his vote. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
1180:Belief in saturated fat and cholesterol as killers achieved a kind of critical mass when an anti-fat, anti-meat movement evolved independent of the science. ~ Gary Taubes, #NFDB
1181:Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled. ~ Greil Marcus, #NFDB
1182:Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent. ~ Camille Paglia, #NFDB
1183:I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth. ~ Martha Graham, #NFDB
1184:If it is a real movement, in a short space of time the natural, normal reaction will have been recovered, and the stock will be selling in new high territory. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1185:I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery. ~ Nigel Farage, #NFDB
1186:It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1187:I want to remind the viewers that people like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement which is actually full of anarchists. ~ Katie Pavlich, #NFDB
1188:I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. ~ Cheech Marin, #NFDB
1189:Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement whose time has come. ~ Asha Rose Migiro, #NFDB
1190:She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more. ~ J Courtney Sullivan, #NFDB
1191:The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. ~ Phyllis Schlafly, #NFDB
1192:The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt for us. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
1193:The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1194:The thing was, I didn't love him anymore. You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a whole poetry movement. ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
1195:When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
1196:You want to be a corporate success; you want to be an entrepreneurial success. That's the beginnings of the feminist movement which sought to emulate men. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
1197:Any racial justice movement, to be successful, must vigorously challenge the public consensus that underlies the prevailing system of control. Nooses, ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
1198:I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation. ~ C L R James, #NFDB
1199:I'm very unphysical and graceless so basically if you save 10 people to be with you in a resistance movement, you would never save me. I'd be the last one. ~ Connor Jessup, #NFDB
1200:In the sense of movement a boat is a living thing.
It is a companion in the night. Each boat has its own manner and character.”
Travis McGee, 1985 ~ John D MacDonald,#NFDB
1201:It is a truism that many who join a rising revolutionary movement are attracted by the prospect of sudden and spectacular change in their conditions of life. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
1202:It was as if I was attached to her with a tether, her every movement yanking at me, my own hands reaching to shield her from the dangers of her waving arms. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
1203:Knowledge is fixed in time, whereas, knowing is continual. Knowledge comes from a source, from an accumulation, from a conclusion, while knowing is a movement. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
1204:My ideal indeed can be put into a few words and that is : to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1205:No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB
1206:Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness. ~ Robert Bresson, #NFDB
1207:The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1208:The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few. ~ John L Lewis, #NFDB
1209:The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket. ~ Christopher McDougall, #NFDB
1210:Time observation and Time movement are relative, but Time itself is real and eternal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti, #NFDB
1211:Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital. ~ Angela Davis, #NFDB
1212:We talked about the reasons to support political leaders who support us, never mind party labels. It was the kind of campaigning only a movement could do. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
1213:When Zeno the Cynic was confronted with Eleatic proofs of the non-existence of movement, he simply raised and moved his middle finger, or so the story goes … ~ Slavoj i ek, #NFDB
1214:I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom. ~ Bell Hooks, #NFDB
1215:If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus. ~ Kinky Friedman, #NFDB
1216:I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough. ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
1217:I'm doing this [running for presidency] for the people and for the movement, and we will take back this country for you and we will make America great again. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1218:I think that music is a very, very powerful thing, especially when you have a movement like this [CBGB club] to shed new light on music and the power of it. ~ Ashley Greene, #NFDB
1219:Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
1220:[Our] struggle for liberation has significance only if it takes place within a feminist movement that has as its fundamental goal the liberation of all people. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
1221:The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket." ~ Christopher McDougall, #NFDB
1222:The world and Being hold together only in movement; it is only in this way that all things can be together. Philosophy is a reminding of this being. ~ Maurice Merleau Ponty, #NFDB
1223:They had children to take care of and felt wary of supporting any environmental movement or federal government action that might jeopardize them. ~ Arlie Russell Hochschild, #NFDB
1224:We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community. ~ Henry Louis Gates, #NFDB
1225:When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really. ~ Jude Law, #NFDB
1226:Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me to sympathize with the feminist movement. ~ Elisabeth Kubler Ross, #NFDB
1227:If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once. ~ Karl Radek, #NFDB
1228:I'm doing my bit for the women's movement. The women have always been naked in movies, and now I'm just desperate to take my clothes off as much as possible. ~ Ewan McGregor, #NFDB
1229:Mere force of language tacked on to the trick of the metrical beat does not answer the higher description of poetry. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, Rhythm and Movement, #NFDB
1230:My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1231:Only one possibility remains: the movement by which the will turns from enjoying the Creator to enjoying his creatures belongs to the will itself. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1232:Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression. I liked this definition because it does not imply that men were the enemy. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
1233:Sound when stretched is music. Movement when stretched is dance. Mind when stretched is meditation. Life when stretched is celebration. Shri Ravishankar Jee ~ Steve Chandler, #NFDB
1234:The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
1235:The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family. ~ Jonathan Reckford, #NFDB
1236:The essential lesson of the zoetrope is this: movement, indeed all progress, even the passage of time, is an illusion. Life is the repetition of stillness. ~ Josiah Bancroft, #NFDB
1237:The [Ronald] Reagan administration picked up the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement; they said "Yyeah, you're right." We have to eliminate nuclear weapons. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1238:What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy. ~ Bell Hooks, #NFDB
1239:What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
1240:You can't isolate yourself, because that's the worst thing you can do. There's no healing if there's no movement, and isolation is the same as standing still. ~ Andrea Speed, #NFDB
1241:Having Alexander and Khan trying to broker a peace deal was like having Donald Trump in charge of the civil rights movement; it wasn’t going to end well for anyone. ~ Kim Fox, #NFDB
1242:In movement there is balance. In balance there is movement. Yoga is all about balance. Within and Without. Above, Below. Front, Behind. Male, Female. In, Out. ~ Mark Whitwell, #NFDB
1243:In the South, through the Jim Crow era and the civil rights movement, it was well known locally that many police officers were also members of the Ku Klux Klan. ~ Ijeoma Oluo, #NFDB
1244:Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
1245:mistrust towards you can erect a veritable psychic wall which can be an insurmountable obstacle to your movement aiming at contact and the communication of ideas. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1246:Only If there is devotion to knowledge, the 21st century will become India's century and the foundation of that will be laid by the 'Vanche Gujarat' movement. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1247:Party thinking equated Bolshevism with the movement of history and thereby made all critics into counterrevolutionaries, even if they were fellow socialists. ~ Stephen Kotkin, #NFDB
1248:People do what they think works for them, but the sport is about instinct, movement, balance, power... it's too animalistic to get rigid about your training. ~ Conor McGregor, #NFDB
1249:She could envision the opposite of the UpPaying trend making its way toward all of them: a movement in which people paid a premium for more contact, not less. ~ Courtney Maum, #NFDB
1250:The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
1251:The effort of Reince Priebus and the RNC to reach out to movement conservatives has been impressive and will, I believe pay great dividends come election time ~ Ken Blackwell, #NFDB
1252:There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts. ~ Bayard Rustin, #NFDB
1253:There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is not one. It is you, my friend, who go away. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1254:We've seen a great deal of interest from the Occupy movement. It's a diverse movement, not everyone embraces electoral politics, and no one can speak for Occupy. ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
1255:When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement. The ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
1256:As long as females take up the banner of feminist politics
without addressing and transforming their own sexism, ultimately
the movement will be undermined. ~ bell hooks,#NFDB
1257:External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement? ~ Gilles Deleuze, #NFDB
1258:For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change. ~ Mike McCurry, #NFDB
1259:Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
1260:I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement. ~ Hans Frank, #NFDB
1261:It condemned The Wave as a dangerous and mindless movement that suppressed freedom of speech and thought and ran against everything the country was founded on. ~ Todd Strasser, #NFDB
1262:Let me stress that in this work flights of Christian religious experience and bursts of erotic impulses are seen to be part and parcel of the same movement. ~ Georges Bataille, #NFDB
1263:Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
1264:Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it! ~ Andrew Aydin, #NFDB
1265:Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to. ~ Edward Snowden, #NFDB
1266:Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men. ~ Wyndham Lewis, #NFDB
1267:Ray looked like a linebacker sitting in a skeletal chair. Mason had tried the same movement in front of a mirror at home and could never replicate the results. ~ Kendra Elliot, #NFDB
1268:Scandal does not destroy American fundamentalism. Rather, like a natural fire that purges the forest of overgrowth, it makes the movement stronger. And fiercer. ~ Jeff Sharlet, #NFDB
1269:The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations. ~ Thomas Keating, #NFDB
1270:THE END OF THE nineteenth century saw the rise of a movement thoroughly hostile to the underlying principles of the nation’s founding—the “Progressive Movement. ~ Mark R Levin, #NFDB
1271:The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power. ~ Craig Shirley, #NFDB
1272:There was no wind, in a human sense; but a steady stertorous breathing from the fir-trees showed that, now as always, there was movement in apparent stagnation. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
1273:To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together. ~ Warren Beatty, #NFDB
1274:Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice? ~ Florynce Kennedy, #NFDB
1275:When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
1276:With the possible exception of the Shakers, it is difficult to think of an American movement that has failed more spectacularly than antipornography feminism. ~ Andrea Dworkin, #NFDB
1277:And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw. ~ Joe Shuster, #NFDB
1278:Bipedal movement is the skill of controlled falling," said Square. "If it weren't so commonplace, it would seem miraculous - like much out here, to be truthful. ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
1279:Desire to always be on the right way no matter how tough it gets. A very slow movement on the right way is better than overwhelming speed on the wrong path! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1280:Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting. ~ Frederick Buechner, #NFDB
1281:In so many ways, forces unleashed in response to the Movement have come to dominate our politics, and technology is allowing the same injustices to be seen anew. ~ Andrew Aydin, #NFDB
1282:Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead. ~ Thomas Frank, #NFDB
1283:Knowledge , surely, is always of time , whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
1284:Look, this CPAC convention is increasingly the Star Wars bar scene of the conservative movement. All that’s missing from that convention is a couple of Wookies. ~ Steve Schmidt, #NFDB
1285:People can stand around and share movement with each other, whether it's professional or not. That's how it grows. That's what dance does. It's its own language. ~ Stephen Boss, #NFDB
1286:People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement. ~ Marsha M Linehan, #NFDB
1287:The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1288:The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion. ~ Vivienne Westwood, #NFDB
1289:The success of trust-based peer organizations such as eBay, Wikipedia, and the open-source movement, indicates that trust is a highly expandable network property. ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
1290:What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
1291:A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist. ~ Coco Chanel, #NFDB
1292:A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less. ~ Martha Graham, #NFDB
1293:A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too. ~ Kate Elliott, #NFDB
1294:Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational. ~ Dolores Huerta, #NFDB
1295:How is it that human anatomy evolved so
that something as stupid-looking as a repetitive back-and-forth movement can generate the peak of physical ecstasy? ~ Daria Snadowsky,#NFDB
1296:I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog. ~ Jean Dujardin, #NFDB
1297:My theories on the evils of the designated hitter are far more compelling than anything I have to say about the merits and hypocrisies of the feminist movement. ~ Cecilia London, #NFDB
1298:No one is born with the anticipatory skills required of an elite athlete. When Abernethy studied the eye movement patterns of elite and novice badminton players, ~ David Epstein, #NFDB
1299:on vacation. Leave a message. “Still here. No movement inside, far as I can tell. View’s partially blocked by a large window sign. Bank’s offering free checking, ~ Alan Jacobson, #NFDB
1300:The religiosity of the prohibition movement was stoked by a genuine desire to lead holy lives pleasing to God. But purity is easier to regulate than holiness. ~ Nadia Bolz Weber, #NFDB
1301:This stopping of the movement outwards is not self-defense, but rather an effort to have the response come from within, from the deepest part of one's being. ~ Morra Aarons Mele, #NFDB
1302:An innocent smile skates closer with her movement, walking fingers up my stomach to halt over my heart, “Mate, you.” She nods, as if declaring this is easy and absolute. ~ Poppet, #NFDB
1303:Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits. ~ Van Jones, #NFDB
1304:Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest. ~ Frank Knight, #NFDB
1305:I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government. ~ Jesse Ventura, #NFDB
1306:I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement. ~ Astrid Lindgren, #NFDB
1307:I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement. ~ Bill McKibben, #NFDB
1308:I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money. ~ Beryl Bainbridge, #NFDB
1309:Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali, #NFDB
1310:People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes. ~ Edgar Degas, #NFDB
1311:[T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went into the environmental movement. ~ Harrison Schmitt, #NFDB
1312:There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. ~ Doris Humphrey, #NFDB
1313:When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country. ~ Ralph Nader, #NFDB
1314:But the man who bringeth not by his own movement on living beings the pains of slavery and death and who desireth the good of all creatures, attaineth to happiness. ~ Laws of Manu, #NFDB
1315:Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1316:I also swim four to five times a week, and once you get rolling into a rhythm of breathing and movement, your mind can truly untether, which I find so refreshing. ~ Patrick Fabian, #NFDB
1317:I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. ~ Marie Louise Duchess of Parma, #NFDB
1318:In its critical aspect, the revolutionary movement of our times is primarily a
violent denunciation of the formal hypocrisy that presides over bourgeois society. ~ Albert Camus,#NFDB
1319:Nature is your friend; it helps you to win. Your enemy will have unnatural movement, therefore you will be able to know what he is going to do before he does it. ~ Masaaki Hatsumi, #NFDB
1320:Oh no I have not lain
on Beauty Rests like this
afraid to rise at night
for fear that I might somehow miss
some movement beauty might have made ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti,#NFDB
1321:The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
1322:The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny. ~ Marcus Garvey, #NFDB
1323:The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul. ~ Vinoba Bhave, #NFDB
1324:Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement. ~ David Bohm, #NFDB
1325:The only thing what matters in the Life is going Forward...
Or Backwards, Sideways, Ditto the movement, just never stop on one place:
Up 'n' down just fock around! ~ Unknown,#NFDB
1326:The secret of our apparent bondage is the Spirit's play by which It consents to forget God-consciousness in the absorption of Nature's movement.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad,#NFDB
1327:Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
1328:What moves you, you move. That brings your sexuality into your being, through your heart, and that movement brings your being, through your heart, into your self. ~ John de Ruiter, #NFDB
1329:Women's liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn't matter who wears the pants - as long as there's money in the pockets. ~ Ava Gardner, #NFDB
1330:America will never resist abortion until America sees abortion... The pro-life movement is not primarily a response to Roe vs Wade. It is a response to Jesus Christ. ~ Frank Pavone, #NFDB
1331:... as I said; the Nazi party was built on ruined lives - a failed career, the bitterness that feeds on injustice, redemption promised by a radical political movement. ~ Alan Furst, #NFDB
1332:But this quantum only takes on its full significance when we try to define it with regard to a concrete natural movement — that is to say, in duration. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #NFDB
1333:Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate with Reagan. ~ Sam Tanenhaus, #NFDB
1334:He also placed three articles by Hitler on the aims of the movement in the Hearst press, the powerful American media concern, at a handsome fee of 1,000 Marks for each. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1335:He cannot act except with kindness, he cannot feel anything but forgiveness; every movement he makes, everything he does, speaks of his love, but not his lips. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, #NFDB
1336:I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there. ~ David Levinthal, #NFDB
1337:I don't want the stage. I'm terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement. ~ Edward Snowden, #NFDB
1338:If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me. ~ Bill Walsh, #NFDB
1339:in Christ, and because of Christ, we are invited to participate in the Kingdom of God through redemptive movement—for both men and women—toward equality and freedom. ~ Sarah Bessey, #NFDB
1340:Instead, we talked about the reasons to support political leaders who support us, never mind party labels. It was the kind of campaigning only a movement could do. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
1341:It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.' ~ Mos Def, #NFDB
1342:Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
1343:My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement. ~ Herbie Hancock, #NFDB
1344:There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional. ~ Yvon Chouinard, #NFDB
1345:The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built. ~ Susan Faludi, #NFDB
1346:We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by a clown by profession, Beppe Grillo, in Italy. ~ Lionel Barber, #NFDB
1347:All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement. ~ Owen Hart, #NFDB
1348:He looked, from behind, like a fleshless stick figure in overlarge black clothing, a caricature poised for stringy movement at the direction of a puppet master. Only ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
1349:In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international. ~ Vladimir Lenin, #NFDB
1350:It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
1351:It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. – Frederick Douglass, African-American social reformer and a leader of the abolitionist movement ~ Philip G Zimbardo, #NFDB
1352:Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement. ~ Dick Armey, #NFDB
1353:Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass. ~ Rebecca Harding Davis, #NFDB
1354:She thanked God that life was not always winter, that spring always came at last to chase away the cold and heaviness, and to release one to warmth and movement again. ~ Janette Oke, #NFDB
1355:The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. ~ Louise Brooks, #NFDB
1356:The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture. ~ Meyer Schapiro, #NFDB
1357:The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion. ~ Steven Biko, #NFDB
1358:The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally. ~ Barbara Marx Hubbard, #NFDB
1359:This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were echoing their approach to things. ~ Bill Ayers, #NFDB
1360:Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience. ~ Eric Alterman, #NFDB
1361:You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1362:Ah, I like the look of packing crates! A household in preparation for a journey! ... Something full of the flow of life, do you understand? Movement, progress... ~ Lorraine Hansberry, #NFDB
1363:A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
1364:Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong. ~ Jet Li, #NFDB
1365:By showing that exercise sparks the master molecule of the learning process, Cotman nailed down a direct biological connection between movement and cognitive function. ~ John J Ratey, #NFDB
1366:Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit? ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
1367:Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections. ~ Ron Paul, #NFDB
1368:In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again. ~ David Suzuki, #NFDB
1369:once you become aware of the movement to define integrity as a commitment to self-made principles (no matter how evil), you see it everywhere you look in popular culture. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1370:One of the confusions surrounding the Intelligent Design movement’s propaganda is a failure to distinguish between the fact of evolution and the mechanism of evolution. ~ Paul Davies, #NFDB
1371:People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state. ~ Adam Ross, #NFDB
1372:Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.' ~ Gail Collins, #NFDB
1373:The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life. ~ Albert Pike, #NFDB
1374:The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public. In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information. ~ Akbar Ganji, #NFDB
1375:The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body, but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. ~ Louise Brooks, #NFDB
1376:The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution. ~ Vladimir Lenin, #NFDB
1377:There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. People so tired, mutilated either by love or no love ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1378:You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble. ~ Chris Murray, #NFDB
1379:And then, the sky is what we'll share,
the earth's spin, forward movement
of time. That, and the love that makes
all things seem forgivable. Most of the time. ~ Ellen Hopkins,#NFDB
1380:As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1381:But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions. ~ Bjork, #NFDB
1382:Expanding your body language—through posture, movement, and speech—makes you feel more confident and powerful, less anxious and self-absorbed, and generally more positive. ~ Amy Cuddy, #NFDB
1383:It was a truism to people active in the gay movement that the greatest impediments to homosexuals’ progress often were not heterosexual bigots but closeted homosexuals. ~ Randy Shilts, #NFDB
1384:I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work. ~ Amelie Nothomb, #NFDB
1385:Research conducted over many years has shown that in terms of brain activity and behavioral effects, mental imagery of movement closely resembles actual physical movement. ~ Amy Cuddy, #NFDB
1386:Significantly, I am among those rare feminist theorists who believe that it is crucial for feminist movement to have as an overriding agenda ending all forms of violence. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
1387:Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. ~ H Jackson Brown Jr, #NFDB
1388:The first time I played against Seattle was the only time I felt destroyed. Vin Baker just manhandled me. The whole thing, their double teams, their movement, everything. ~ Tim Duncan, #NFDB
1389:The movement designated as "liberalism" is regarded as "liberal" only by its friends; to its opponents it seems to involve a narrow ignoring of many relevant facts. ~ J Gresham Machen, #NFDB
1390:The proper way to deal with a wrong movement is to look quietly at it and put the consciousness right at that point. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Depression and Despondency, #NFDB
1391:We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican. ~ Kate Clinton, #NFDB
1392:What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe. ~ Russell Means, #NFDB
1393:I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi. ~ Dick Gregory, #NFDB
1394:Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter, and love. The ~ Mark Helprin, #NFDB
1395:My story is the story of a life shaped by and devoted to the movement for women’s liberation” would be cheered, not jeered. But that’s not who we are. Not yet. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton, #NFDB
1396:One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely. ~ Alan Perlis, #NFDB
1397:Realism is in its essence an attempt to see man and his world as they really are without veils and pretences. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Movement of Modern Literature - I, #NFDB
1398:Realistically speaking, Ayn Rand should not have opposed the antidraft movement and supported the Vietnam War effort - in effect, she supported military conscription. ~ Murray Bookchin, #NFDB
1399:Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen. ~ Yochai Benkler, #NFDB
1400:The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product. ~ Paul Klee, #NFDB
1401:The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright - and makes me really happy. ~ Josie Maran, #NFDB
1402:The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another. ~ Gabriel Kolko, #NFDB
1403:The most pure form of the movement of rebellion is thus crowned with the heart-rending cry
of Karamazov: if all are not saved, what good is the salvation of one only? ~ Albert Camus,#NFDB
1404:There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women. ~ Nicholas D Kristof, #NFDB
1405:A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
1406:As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it. ~ Michael J Fox, #NFDB
1407:But mainstreaming the movement doesn't mean changing the movement's values. It means framing or presenting them in a way that speaks to the people it is trying to attract. ~ Melanie Joy, #NFDB
1408:Fast movement during exercise does not produce fast muscles, or strong muscles, or large muscles, it produces only one thing, a thing to be avoided, it produces injuries. ~ Arthur Jones, #NFDB
1409:I don't understand if the conservative movement says you can't be gay and conservative, and I'm straight, then I don't think I can abide by that form of conservatism. ~ Andrew Breitbart, #NFDB
1410:In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined. ~ David Bohm, #NFDB
1411:In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights. ~ Pauley Perrette, #NFDB
1412:I shift from one foot to the other, trying to get a good look at him. When I finally do, I look away. His eyes were already on me, probably drawn by my nervous movement. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
1413:I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life. ~ Mike Huckabee, #NFDB
1414:On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punchline in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience. ~ Sylvester McCoy, #NFDB
1415:Putting the AR movement directly in opposition to the environmental movement, which should be our natural allies in fighting human arrogance and domination of the planet. ~ Peter Singer, #NFDB
1416:Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media. ~ Judith Butler, #NFDB
1417:The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals. ~ Jonathan Lethem, #NFDB
1418:The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movement of his spirit with the acts of his life, is and overpowering thing. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1419:The rediscovery of the soul is the last stage of the round described by this age of the intellect and reason. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Movement of Modern Literature - II, #NFDB
1420:There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America. ~ Harold Pinter, #NFDB
1421:There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction? ~ Larry Kramer, #NFDB
1422:The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change. ~ Van Jones, #NFDB
1423:We recognize and respect the right of either country to build a physical barrier or wall on any of its borders to stop the illegal movement of people, drugs, and weapons. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1424:When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy. ~ Sergio Leone, #NFDB
1425:You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know. ~ Janet Fitch, #NFDB
1426:CHANGEMAKERS A single person is all it takes to start a movement. While the world laments ‘what is’, the changemaker takes a small step towards making it as it should be. ~ Rashmi Bansal, #NFDB
1427:Could we have seen this efflorescence of stupidity? Yes, because every mass political movement unleashes the worst in human behaviour and admires it. For a time at least. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
1428:everything is intertwined in a continuous movement, arising in certain forms that we call bodies or thoughts or feelings, and then dissolving or changing into new forms. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
1429:If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to. ~ Caitlin Stasey, #NFDB
1430:I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts. ~ Richard Schmid, #NFDB
1431:More than a third of our brain is devoted to processing visual information, far exceeding that given over to sounds or smells, or those supporting language and movement. ~ Matthew Walker, #NFDB
1432:The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass. ~ Henry Louis Gates, #NFDB
1433:When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close. ~ Brice Marden, #NFDB
1434:But those prison tats make me glad I got out of the gang before I ended up in jail.” He shook his hair off his face in a dramatic movement. “I’m way too pretty for prison. ~ Melinda Leigh, #NFDB
1435:Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. ~ Felix Adler, #NFDB
1436:Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored. ~ Tony Campolo, #NFDB
1437:Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement. ~ Salvatore Quasimodo, #NFDB
1438:I know people have embraced Donald Trump. He may not have embraced them. But he has every - he should distance himself. This sort of alt-right movement is very disturbing. ~ Donna Brazile, #NFDB
1439:I love physical movement. Dance was my favorite thing, and I was a gymnast. I find that expression through movement is easier, in some ways, than expression through words. ~ Kristin Kreuk, #NFDB
1440:Most young people are or will soon enough be workers. They can help to energize and radicalize the workers' movement. And what revolution has ever succeeded without youth? ~ Michael Yates, #NFDB
1441:My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature. ~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, #NFDB
1442:nodded at Cole. “Long time ago,” Marlys said. “Did he come right straight to Iowa?” Likely opened his mouth to reply, as Cole pulled the gun and in a single movement, shot ~ John Sandford, #NFDB
1443:[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves. ~ Samuel Gompers, #NFDB
1444:The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea. ~ Pierre de Coubertin, #NFDB
1445:The sad fact is that biblical truth has never been the hallmark of the Charismatic Movement, where spiritual experience is continually elevated above sound doctrine. ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
1446:Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1447:Action is a forward movement, fear and procrastination are not. You have already made the decision to tie your life with my son’s. Do not let fear hold you from moving forward. ~ I T Lucas, #NFDB
1448:As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had deserted Cubism. ~ Alfred H Barr Jr, #NFDB
1449:Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life. ~ Alan Keyes, #NFDB
1450:If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality and then all of a sudden you're back in your office, that disconnect is pretty notable. ~ Palmer Luckey, #NFDB
1451:I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1452:The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will have become the movement of the body. ~ Isadora Duncan, #NFDB
1453:They, the lawmakers, were hoodwinked by the insurance companies who are still funding the national tort reform movement, a political crusade that has been wildly successful. ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
1454:Zionism began as a European national movement but turned into a colonialist one once its leaders decided to implement their vision of national revival in the land of Palestine. ~ Ilan Papp, #NFDB
1455:A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation. People ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
1456:Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15. ~ Daniel J Boorstin, #NFDB
1457:I approach this project in the spirit of a fast: an intentional reduction, a deliberate abstinence to summon God's movement in my life. A fast creates margin for God to move. ~ Jen Hatmaker, #NFDB
1458:If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle? ~ Colin Wilson, #NFDB
1459:I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas. ~ David Rubenstein, #NFDB
1460:I think ['March'] is not just for the Black Lives Matter movement. It's for everyone. We all have to understand what happened then, so we can understand what's happening now. ~ Andrew Aydin, #NFDB
1461:Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1462:People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state. ~ Adam Ross, #NFDB
1463:Real equality for men and women needs a men’s movement to sweep away the gender roles that we continue to impose on men even as we struggle to remove them from women. ~ Anne Marie Slaughter, #NFDB
1464:Reincarnation is a dance. It is a movement of life to the rhythm of the universe. Spirit and matter join together as one dancing partner. They dance and it goes on forever. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1465:Sometimes, a man must muster all of his courage simply to sit still. How much humanity has been spoiled for the confusion of movement with progress, my friend? How much? ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
1466:The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them. ~ Christian Lous Lange, #NFDB
1467:The law and order perspective, first introduced during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement by rabid segregationists, had become nearly hegemonic two decades later. By ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
1468:The Paralympic movement has given me a lifetime of joy and accomplishment but really, the pleasure has been all mine. I've loved every single moment and continue to be involved. ~ Tim Frick, #NFDB
1469:The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto. ~ George Shearing, #NFDB
1470:The willingness to sacrifice on the part of workers and members is perhaps the key practical index of whether you have become a movement or have become institutionalized. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
1471:They ate in religious silence, the corners of their mouths smeared with ricotta cream. Which, the rules say, must be removed with a slow, circular movement of the tongue. ~ Andrea Camilleri, #NFDB
1472:We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them. ~ Arthur Golden, #NFDB
1473:With every movement the claustrophobia threatened to consume me, and several times I had to stop as the fear rang bells in my brain, making my entire body convulse. ~ Alexander Gordon Smith, #NFDB
1474:With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk. ~ Sarah Waters, #NFDB
1475:You had bands like D.O.A., or Black Flag, and a whole network opened up to trailblazer a counter culture movement. I'm more interested in the less sensational type of stories. ~ Ian MacKaye, #NFDB
1476:Although Kit and Rafe had met in the peace movement, marching, organizing, making no nukes signs, now they wanted to kill each other. They had become, also, a little pro-nuke. ~ Lorrie Moore, #NFDB
1477:Bossie said he had a roadmap. “It’s the conservative movement. Tea Party comes and goes. Populism comes and goes. The conservative movement has been a bedrock since Goldwater. ~ Bob Woodward, #NFDB
1478:Cats don't have shoulders, not like people do. But the cat shrugged, in one smooth movement that started at the tip of it's tail and ended in a raised movement of its whiskers. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1479:I've always considered myself a man of integrity as a leader of the American Indian Movement and of Indian people. I will stand that test against anyone at anytime, anywhere. ~ Russell Means, #NFDB
1480:Many years ago I was part of a public health movement that raised concerns about the mercury in vaccines and about the heavy dose that infants get - used to. They don't anymore. ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
1481:Mass incarceration—not attacks on affirmative action or lax civil rights enforcement—is the most damaging manifestation of the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
1482:My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers. ~ Yaya DaCosta, #NFDB
1483:No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step. ~ Angela Davis, #NFDB
1484:Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
1485:Reincarnation is an apprehension of a movement and the movement occurs in time. Without time, there is no reincarnation. Reincarnation is a reflection of time in this world. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1486:The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq. ~ Spencer Bachus, #NFDB
1487:The diagonal gives a three-dimensional feeling to dancers that cannot be achieved when they are only front and back. On the diagonal, more movement is automatically visible. ~ Lucinda Childs, #NFDB
1488:The Olympic movement simply cannot allow the Russians to become estranged, because Russia is a vital part of the world sports community, in the sense of having nuclear missiles. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
1489:The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
1490:These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
1491:twofold profession of faith, or shahadah, that would henceforth define both the mission and principles of the movement: There is no god but God, and Muhammad is God’s Messenger. ~ Reza Aslan, #NFDB
1492:A perfect rhythm will often even give immortality to work which is slight in vision and very far from the higher intensities of style. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, Rhythm and Movement, #NFDB
1493:But it could be that we, as early as spring, will need to embark on a new policy in order to save one of the cornerstones of European politics: personal freedom of movement. ~ Paolo Gentiloni, #NFDB
1494:Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. ~ Henri Cartier Bresson, #NFDB
1495:I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
1496:Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido! ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
1497:Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement. ~ Rob Marshall, #NFDB
1498:Silence. All around him silence, wrapping up his spoken words and making them loud. Making them sharp in the stillness, like a movement, like a drop in temperature. Silence. There ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1499:So the merman cannot belong to Agnes unless, after having made the infinite movement, the movement of repentance, he makes still one more movement by virtue of the absurd. ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
1500:The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate. ~ Al Franken, #NFDB
1731 Integral Yoga
104 Christianity
74 Philosophy
60 Poetry
46 Yoga
44 Occultism
29 Science
22 Psychology
22 Fiction
15 Integral Theory
14 Education
11 Mysticism
6 Hinduism
5 Theosophy
5 Sufism
3 Baha i Faith
2 Mythology
2 Cybernetics
2 Buddhism
1 Thelema
1 Alchemy
1087 Sri Aurobindo
738 The Mother
432 Satprem
313 Nolini Kanta Gupta
47 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
39 Plotinus
24 Swami Krishnananda
24 A B Purani
22 Carl Jung
22 Aleister Crowley
19 H P Lovecraft
17 Saint Augustine of Hippo
15 Sri Ramakrishna
10 Paul Richard
10 George Van Vrekhem
10 Friedrich Nietzsche
9 Saint John of Climacus
9 Nirodbaran
7 Walt Whitman
7 Swami Vivekananda
7 Aldous Huxley
6 Sri Ramana Maharshi
6 Jorge Luis Borges
5 Rudolf Steiner
5 Rabindranath Tagore
5 Plato
5 Lucretius
5 Jordan Peterson
4 William Butler Yeats
4 Alice Bailey
3 William Wordsworth
3 Percy Bysshe Shelley
3 Ken Wilber
3 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3 James George Frazer
3 Baha u llah
3 Al-Ghazali
2 Saint Teresa of Avila
2 Robert Browning
2 Peter J Carroll
2 Norbert Wiener
2 Mahendranath Gupta
2 Kabir
2 Joseph Campbell
2 Jean Gebser
2 Genpo Roshi
2 Edgar Allan Poe
481 Record of Yoga
138 The Synthesis Of Yoga
72 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
67 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
66 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
57 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
51 The Life Divine
47 Letters On Yoga IV
47 Letters On Yoga III
44 Agenda Vol 08
43 Agenda Vol 04
42 Questions And Answers 1956
42 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
42 Agenda Vol 01
41 Letters On Yoga II
40 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
39 Agenda Vol 03
38 Agenda Vol 10
36 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
35 Questions And Answers 1953
34 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
33 Savitri
32 Agenda Vol 07
32 Agenda Vol 02
31 Questions And Answers 1955
30 Agenda Vol 06
29 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
29 Agenda Vol 09
27 Questions And Answers 1954
26 Essays On The Gita
24 The Study and Practice of Yoga
24 Letters On Yoga I
24 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
23 Agenda Vol 05
21 Agenda Vol 11
19 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
19 Lovecraft - Poems
18 The Human Cycle
18 The Future of Man
18 Agenda Vol 12
17 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
17 City of God
16 Essays Divine And Human
15 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
14 The Secret Of The Veda
14 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
14 Prayers And Meditations
14 Isha Upanishad
13 Words Of The Mother II
13 The Phenomenon of Man
13 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
13 On the Way to Supermanhood
13 On Education
13 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
13 Agenda Vol 13
12 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
12 Some Answers From The Mother
12 Magick Without Tears
11 Let Me Explain
10 Words Of Long Ago
10 Vedic and Philological Studies
10 Talks
10 Preparing for the Miraculous
10 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
9 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
9 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
9 Liber ABA
8 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
8 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
8 Mysterium Coniunctionis
7 Whitman - Poems
7 Twilight of the Idols
7 The Perennial Philosophy
7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
7 Aion
6 Words Of The Mother III
6 The Integral Yoga
6 Letters On Poetry And Art
6 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
6 Collected Poems
5 The Secret Doctrine
5 Tagore - Poems
5 Raja-Yoga
5 Of The Nature Of Things
5 Maps of Meaning
5 Hymn of the Universe
4 Yeats - Poems
4 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
4 The Practice of Psycho therapy
4 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
4 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
3 Wordsworth - Poems
3 The Golden Bough
3 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
3 The Alchemy of Happiness
3 Shelley - Poems
3 Sex Ecology Spirituality
3 Labyrinths
2 Words Of The Mother I
2 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
2 The Ever-Present Origin
2 The Essentials of Education
2 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
2 Songs of Kabir
2 Poe - Poems
2 Liber Null
2 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
2 Kena and Other Upanishads
2 Faust
2 Dark Night of the Soul
2 Cybernetics
2 Browning - Poems
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
2 5.1.01 - Ilion
00.01 - The Approach to Mysticism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There are modes of knowledge that are occultand to that extent mystic and can be mastered by practices in which the heart has no share. But they have not the saving grace that comes by the touch of the Divine. They are not truly mystic the truly mystic belongs to the ultimate realities, the deepest and the highest,they, on the other hand, are transverse and tangential movements belonging to an intermediate region where light and obscurity are mixed up and even for the greater part the light is swallowed up in the obscurity or utilised by it.
The mystic's knowledge and experience is not only true and real: it is delightful and blissful. It has a supremely healing virtue. It brings a sovereign freedom and ease and peace to the mystic himself, but also to those around him, who come in contact with him. For truth and reality are made up of love and harmony, because truth is, in its essence, unity.
00.02 - Mystic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
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 something 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.
And there is such a commensurability or parallelism between the various levels of consciousness, in and through all the differences that separate them from one another. Thus an object or a movement apprehended on the physical plane has a sort of line of re-echoing images extended in a series along the whole gradation of the inner planes; otherwise viewed, an object or movement in the innermost consciousness translates itself in varying modes from plane to plane down to the most material, where it appears in its grossest form as a concrete three-dimensional object or a mechanical movement. This parallelism or commensurability by virtue of which the different and divergent states of consciousness can portray or represent each other is the source of all symbolism.
A symbol symbolizes something for this reason that both possess in common a certain identical, at least similar, quality or rhythm or vibration, the symbol possessing it in a grosser or more apparent or sensuous form than the thing symbolized does. Sometimes it may happen that it is more than a certain quality or rhythm or vibration that is common between the two: the symbol in its entirety is the thing symbolized but thrown down on another plane, it is the embodiment of the latter in a more concrete world. The light and the fire that Saint Paul and Moses saw appear to be of this kind.
--
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
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
--
From the psychological standpoint, the four oblations are movements or reactions of consciousness in its urge towards the utterance and expression of Divine Truth. Like some other elements in the cosmic play, these also form a quartetcaturvyha and work together for a common purpose in view of a perfect and all-round result.
Svh is the offering and invocation. One must dedicate everything to the Divine, cast all one has or does into the Fire of Aspiration that blazes up towards the Most High, and through the tongue of that one-pointed flame call on the Divinity.
--
The Gods feed upon Svdh and Vaa, as these represent the ascending movement of human consciousness: it is man's self-giving and aspiration and the upward urge of his heart and soul that reach to the Gods, and it is that which the immortals take into themselves and are, as it were, nourished by, since it is something that appertains to their own nature.
And in response they descend and approach and enter into the aspiring human soulthis descent and revelation and near and concrete presence of Divinity, this Hanta is man's food, for by it his consciousness is nourished.
--
Water represents the next rung the vital world, the world life-force (pra). Physiologically also we know that water is the element forming three-fourths of the constituents of a living body and that dead and dry are synonymous terms; it is the medium in which the living cells dwell and through which they draw their sustenance. Water is the veritable sap of lifeit is the emblem of life itself. The principle it represents is that of movement, continuity, perpetuity.
Fire represents the Heart. It is that which gives the inner motive to the forces of life, it is the secret inspiration and aspiration that drive the movements of life. It is the heat of consciousness, the ardour of our central being that lives in the Truth and accepts nothing, nothing but the Truth. It is the pure and primal energy of our divine essence, driving ever upward and onward life's course of evolution.
Air is Mind, the world of thought, of conscious formation; it is where life- movements are taken up and given a shape or articulate formula for an organised expression. The forms here have not, however, the concrete rigidity of Matter, but are pliant and variable and fluidin fact, they are more in the nature of possibilities, rather than actualities. The Vedic Maruts are thought-gods, and lndra (the Luminous Mind), their king, is called the Fashioner of perfect forms.
--
Apart from the question whether the biological phenomenon described is really a symbol and a cloak for another order of reality, and even taking it at its face value, what is to be noted here is the idea of a cosmic cycle, and a cosmic cycle that proceeds through the principle of sacrifice. If it is asked what there is wonderful or particularly spiritual in this rather naf description of a very commonplace happening that gives it an honoured place in the Upanishads, the answer is that it is wonderful to see how the Upanishadic Rishi takes from an event its local, temporal and personal colour and incorporates it in a global movement, a cosmic cycle, as a limb of the Universal Brahman. The Upanishads contain passages which a puritanical mentality may perhaps describe as 'pornographic'; these have in fact been put by some on the Index expurgatorius. But the ancients saw these matters with other eyes and through another consciousness.
We have, in modern times, a movement towards a more conscious and courageous, knowledge of things that were taboo to puritan ages. Not to shut one's eyes to the lower, darker and hidden strands of our nature, but to bring them out into the light of day and to face them is the best way of dealing with such elements, which otherwise, if they are repressed, exert an unhealthy influence on the mind and nature. The Upanishadic view runs on the same lines, but, with the unveiling and the natural and not merely naturalisticdelineation of these under-worlds (concerning sex and food), it endows them with a perspective sub specie aeternitatis. The sexual function, for example, is easily equated to the double movement of ascent and descent that is secreted in nature, or to the combined action of Purusha and Prakriti in the cosmic Play, or again to the hidden fount of Delight that holds and moves the universe. In this view there is nothing merely secular and profane, but all is woven into the cosmic spiritual whole; and man is taught to consider and to mould all his movementsof soul and mind and bodyin the light and rhythm of that integral Reality.11
The central secret of the transfigured consciousness lies, as we have already indicated, in the mystic rite or law of Sacrifice. It is the one basic, fundamental, universal Law that upholds and explains the cosmic movement, conformity to which brings to the thrice-bound human being release and freedom. Sacrifice consists essentially of two elements or processes: (i) The offering or self giving of the lower reality to the higher, and, as a consequence, an answering movement of (ii) the descent of the higher into the lower. The lower offered to the higher means the lower sublimated and integrated into the higher; and the descent of the higher into the lower means the incarnation of the former and the fulfilment of the latter. The Gita elaborates the same idea when it says that by Sacrifice men increase the gods and the gods increase men and by so increasing each other they attain the supreme Good. Nothing is, nothing is done, for its own sake, for an egocentric satisfaction; all, even movements relating to food and to sex should be dedicated to the Cosmic BeingVisva Purusha and that alone received which comes from Him.
VII. The Cosmic and the Transcendental
--
TheChhandyogya12 gives a whole typal scheme of this universal reality and explains how to realise it and what are the results of the experience. The Universal Brahman means the cosmic movement, the cyclic march of things and events taken in its global aspect. The typical movement that symbolises and epitomises the phenomenon, embodies the truth, is that of the sun. The movement consists of five stages which are called the fivefold sma Sma means the equal Brahman that is ever present in all, the Upanishad itself says deriving the word from sama It is Sma also because it is a rhythmic movement, a cadencea music of the spheres. And a rhythmic movement, in virtue of its being a wave, consists of these five stages: (i) the start, (ii) the rise, (iii) the peak, (iv) the decline and (v) the fall. Now the sun follows this curve and marks out the familiar divisions of the day: dawn, forenoon, noon, afternoon and sunset. Sometimes two other stages are added, one at each end, one of preparation and another of final lapse the twilights with regard to the sun and then ,we have seven instead of five smas Like the Sun, the Fire that is to say, the sacrificial Firecan also be seen in its fivefold cyclic movement: (i) the lighting, (ii) the smoke, (iii) the flame, (iv) smouldering and finally (v) extinction the fuel as it is rubbed to produce the fire and the ashes may be added as the two supernumerary stages. Or again, we may take the cycle of five seasons or of the five worlds or of the deities that control these worlds. The living wealth of this earth is also symbolised in a quintetgoat and sheep and cattle and horse and finally man. Coming to the microcosm, we have in man the cycle of his five senses, basis of all knowledge and activity. For the macrocosm, to I bring out its vast extra-human complexity, the Upanishad refers to a quintet, each term of which is again a trinity: (i) the threefold Veda, the Divine Word that is the origin of creation, (ii) the three worlds or fieldsearth, air-belt or atmosphere and space, (iii) the three principles or deities ruling respectively these worldsFire, Air and Sun, (iv) their expressions, emanations or embodimentsstars and birds and light-rays, and finally, (v) the original inhabitants of these worldsto earth belong the reptiles, to the mid-region the Gandharvas and to heaven the ancient Fathers.
Now, this is the All, the Universal. One has to realise it and possess in one's consciousness. And that can be done only in one way: one has to identify oneself with it, be one with it, become it. Thus by losing one's individuality one lives the life universal; the small lean separate life is enlarged and moulded in the rhythm of the Rich and the Vast. It is thus that man shares in the consciousness and energy that inspire and move and sustain the cosmos. The Upanishad most emphatically enjoins that one must not decry this cosmic godhead or deny any of its elements, not even such as are a taboo to the puritan mind. It is in and through an unimpaired global consciousness that one attains the All-Life and lives uninterruptedly and perennially: Sarvamanveti jyok jvati.
--
Elsewhere the Upanishad describes more graphically this truth and the experience of it. It is said there that the sun has fivewe note the familiar five movements of rising and setting: (i) from East to West, (ii) from South to North, (iii) from West to East, (iv) from North to South and (v) from abovefrom the Zenithdownward. These are the five normal and apparent movements. But there is a sixth one; rather it is not a movement, but a status, where the sun neither rises nor sets, but is always visible fixed in the same position.
Some Western and Westernised scholars have tried to show that the phenomenon described here is an exclusively natural phenomenon, actually visible in the polar region where the sun never sets for six months and moves in a circle whose plane is parallel to the plane of the horizon on the summer solstice and is gradually inclined as the sun regresses towards the equinox (on which day just half the solar disc is visible above the horizon). The sun may be said there to move in the direction East-South-West-North and again East. Indeed the Upanishad mentions the positions of the sun in that order and gives a character to each successive station. The Ray from the East is red, symbolising the Rik, the Southern Ray is white, symbolising the Yajur, the Western Ray is black symbolising the Atharva. The natural phenomenon, however, might have been or might not have been before the mind's eye of the Rishi, but the symbolism, the esotericism of it is clear enough in the way the Rishi speaks of it. Also, apart from the first four movements (which it is already sufficiently difficult to identify completely with what is visible), the fifth movement, as a separate descending movement from above appears to be a foreign element in the context. And although, with regard to the sixth movement or status, the sun is visible as such exactly from the point of the North Pole for a while, the ring of the Rishi's utterance is unmistakably spiritual, it cannot but refer to a fact of inner consciousness that is at least what the physical fact conveys to the Rishi and what he seeks to convey and express primarily.
Now this is what is sought to be conveyed and expressed. The five movements of the sun here also are nothing but the five smas and they refer to the cycle of the Cosmic or Universal Brahman. The sixth status where all movements cease, where there is no rising and setting, no ebb and flow, no waxing and waning, where there is the immutable, the ever-same unity, is very evidently the Transcendental Brahman. It is That to which the Vedic Rishi refers when he prays for a constant and fixed vision of the eternal Sunjyok ca sryam drie.
It would be interesting to know what the five ranges or levels or movements of consciousness exactly are that make up the Universal Brahman described in this passage. It is the mystic knowledge, the Upanishad says, of the secret delight in thingsmadhuvidy. The five ranges are the five fundamental principles of delightimmortalities, the Veda would say that form the inner core of the pyramid of creation. They form a rising tier and are ruled respectively by the godsAgni, Indra, Varuna, Soma and Brahmawith their emanations and instrumental personalities the Vasus, the Rudras, the Adityas, the Maruts and the Sadhyas. We suggest that these refer to the five well-known levels of being, the modes or nodi of consciousness or something very much like them. The Upanishad speaks elsewhere of the five sheaths. The six Chakras of Tantric system lie in the same line. The first and the basic mode is the physical and the ascent from the physical: Agni and the Vasus are always intimately connected with the earth and -the earth-principles (it can be compared with the Muladhara of the Tantras). Next, second in the line of ascent is the Vital, the centre of power and dynamism of which the Rudras are the deities and Indra the presiding God (cf. Swadhishthana of the Tantras the navel centre). Indra, in the Vedas, has two aspects, one of knowledge and vision and the other of dynamic force and drive. In the first aspect he is more often considered as the Lord of the Mind, of the Luminous Mind. In the present passage, Indra is taken in his second aspect and instead of the Maruts with whom he is usually invoked has the Rudras as his agents and associates.
The third in the line of ascension is the region of Varuna and the Adityas, that is to say, of the large Mind and its lightsperhaps it can be connected with Tantric Ajnachakra. The fourth is the domain of Soma and the Marutsthis seems to be the inner heart, the fount of delight and keen and sweeping aspirations the Anahata of the Tantras. The fifth is the region of the crown of the head, the domain of Brahma and the Sadhyas: it is the Overmind status from where comes the descending inflatus, the creative Maya of Brahma. And when you go beyond, you pass into the ultimate status of the Sun, the reality absolute, the Transcendent which is indescribable, unseizable, indeterminate, indeterminable, incommensurable; and once there, one never returns, neverna ca punarvartate na ca punarvartate.
00.05 - A Vedic Conception of the Poet, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
'Kavi' is an invariable epithet of the gods. The Vedas mean by this attri bute to bring out a most fundamental character, an inalienable dharma of the heavenly host. All the gods are poets; and a human being can become a poet only in so far as he attains to the nature and status of a god. Who is then a kavi? The Poet is he who by his poetic power raises forms of beauty in heavenkavi kavitv divi rpam sajat.1Thus the essence of poetic power is to fashion divine Beauty, to reveal heavenly forms. What is this Heaven whose forms the Poet discovers and embodies? HeavenDyaushas a very definite connotation in the Veda. It means the luminous or divine Mind 2the mind purified of its obscurity and limitations, due to subjection to the external senses, thus opening to the higher Light, receiving and recording faithfully the deeper and vaster movements and vibrations of the Truth, giving them a form, a perfect body of the right thought and the right word. Indra is the lord of this world and he can be approached only with an enkindled intelligence, ddhay man,3a faultless understanding, sumedh. He is the supreme Artisan of the poetic power,Tash, the maker of perfect forms, surpa ktnum.4 All the gods turn towards Indra and become gods and poets, attain their Great Names of Supreme Beauty.5 Indra is also the master of the senses, indriyas, who are his hosts. It is through this mind and the senses that the poetic creation has to be manifested. The mind spreads out wide the Poet's weaving;6 the poet is the priest who calls down and works out the right thinking in the sacrificial labour of creation.7 But that creation is made in and through the inner mind and the inner senses that are alive to the subtle formation of a vaster knowledge.8 The poet envisages the golden forms fashioned out of the very profundity of the consciousness.9 For the substance, the material on which the Poet works, is Truth. The seat of the Truth the poets guard, they uphold the supreme secret Names.10 The poet has the expressive utterance, the creative word; the poet is a poet by his poetic creation-the shape faultlessly wrought out that unveils and holds the Truth.11The form of beauty is the body of the Truth.
The poet is a trinity in himself. A triune consciousness forms his personality. First of all, he is the Knower-the Seer of the Truth, kavaya satyadrara. He has the direct vision, the luminous intelligence, the immediate perception.12 A subtle and profound and penetrating consciousness is his,nigam, pracetas; his is the eye of the Sun,srya caku.13 He secures an increased being through his effulgent understanding.14 In the second place, the Poet is not only Seer but Doer; he is knower as well as creator. He has a dynamic knowledge and his vision itself is power, ncak;15 he is the Seer-Will,kavikratu.16 He has the blazing radiance of the Sun and is supremely potent in his self-Iuminousness.17 The Sun is the light and the energy of the Truth. Even like the Sun the Poet gives birth to the Truth, srya satyasava, satyya satyaprasavya. But the Poet as Power is not only the revealer or creator,savit, he is also the builder or fashioner,ta, and he is the organiser,vedh is personality. First of all, he is the Knower-the Seer of the Truth, kavaya satyadrara, of the Truth.18 As Savita he manifests the Truth, as Tashta he gives a perfected body and form to the Truth, and as Vedha he maintains the Truth in its dynamic working. The effective marshalling and organisation of the Truth is what is called Ritam, the Right; it is also called Dharma,19 the Law or the Rhythm, the ordered movement and invincible execution of the Truth. The Poet pursues the Path of the Right;20 it is he who lays out the Path for the march of the Truth, the progress of the Sacrifice.21 He is like a fast steed well-yoked, pressing forward;22 he is the charger that moves straight and unswerving and carries us beyond 23into the world of felicity.
Indeed delight is the third and the supremely intimate element of the poetic personality. Dear and delightful is the poet, dear and delightful his works, priya, priyi His hand is dripping with sweetness,kavir hi madhuhastya.24 The Poet-God shines in his pristine beauty and is showering delight.25 He is filled with utter ecstasy so that he may rise to the very source of the luminous Energy.26? Pure is the Divine Joy and it enters and purifies all forms as it moves to the seat of the Immortals.27Indeed this sparkling Delight is the Poet-Seer and it is that that brings forth the creative word, the utterance of Indra.28
--
All the gods are poetstheir forms are perfect, surpa, suda, their Names full of beauty,cru devasya nma.31 This means also that the gods embody the different powers that constitute the poetic consciousness. Agni is the Seer-Will, the creative vision of the Poet the luminous energy born of an experience by identity with the Truth. Indra is the Idea-Form, the architectonic conception of the work or achievement. Mitra and Varuna are the large harmony, the vast cadence and sweep of movement. The Aswins, the Divine Riders, represent the intense zest of well-yoked Life-Energy. Soma is Rasa, Ananda, the Supreme Bliss and Delight.
The Vedic Poet is doubtless the poet of Life, the architect of Divinity in man, of Heaven upon earth. But what is true of Life is fundamentally true of Art tooat least true of the Art as it was conceived by the ancient seers and as it found expression at their hands.32
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
About this time he began to worship God by assuming the attitude of a servant toward his master. He imitated the mood of Hanuman, the monkey chieftain of the Ramayana, the ideal servant of Rama and traditional model for this self-effacing form of devotion. When he meditated on Hanuman his movements and his way of life began to resemble those of a monkey. His eyes became restless. He lived on fruits and roots. With his cloth tied around his waist, a portion of it hanging in the form of a tail, he jumped from place to place instead of walking. And after a short while he was blessed with a vision of Sita, the divine consort of Rama, who entered his body and disappeared there with the words, "I bequeath to you my smile."
Mathur had faith in the sincerity of Sri Ramakrishna's spiritual zeal, but began now to doubt his sanity. He had watched him jumping about like a monkey. One day, when Rani Rasmani was listening to Sri Ramakrishna's singing in the temple, the young priest abruptly turned and slapped her. Apparently listening to his song, she had actually been thinking of a law-suit. She accepted the punishment as though the Divine Mother Herself had imposed it; but Mathur was distressed. He begged Sri Ramakrishna to keep his feelings under control and to heed the conventions of society. God Himself, he argued, follows laws. God never permitted, for instance, flowers of two colours to grow on the same stalk. The following day Sri Ramakrishna presented Mathur Babu with two hibiscus flowers growing on the same stalk, one red and one white.
--
But the most remarkable experience during this period was the awakening of the Kundalini Sakti, the "Serpent Power". He actually saw the Power, at first lying asleep at the bottom of the spinal column, then waking up and ascending along the mystic Sushumna canal and through its six centres, or lotuses, to the Sahasrara, the thousand-petalled lotus in the top of the head. He further saw that as the Kundalini went upward the different lotuses bloomed. And this phenomenon was accompanied by visions and trances. Later on he described to his disciples and devotees the various movements of the Kundalini: the fishlike, birdlike, monkeylike, and so on. The awaken- ing of the Kundalini is the beginning of spiritual consciousness, and its union with Siva in the Sahasrara, ending in samadhi, is the consummation of the Tantrik disciplines.
About this time it was revealed to him that in a short while many devotees would seek his guidance.
--
Keshab was the leader of the Brahmo Samaj, one of the two great movements that, during the latter part of the nineteenth century, played an important part in shaping the course of the renascence of India. The founder of the Brahmo movement had been the great Raja Rammohan Roy (1774-1833). Though born in an orthodox brahmin family, Rammohan Roy had shown great sympathy for Islam and Christianity. He had gone to Tibet in search of the Buddhist mysteries. He had extracted from Christianity its ethical system, but had rejected the divinity of Christ as he had denied the Hindu Incarnations. The religion of Islam influenced him, to a great extent, in the formulation of his monotheistic doctrines. But he always went back to the Vedas for his spiritual inspiration. The Brahmo Samaj, which he founded in 1828, was dedicated to the "worship and adoration of the Eternal, the Unsearchable, the Immutable Being, who is the Author and Preserver of the Universe". The Samaj was open to all without distinction of colour, creed, caste, nation, or religion.
The real organizer of the Samaj was Devendranath Tagore (1817-1905), the father of the poet Rabindranath. His physical and spiritual beauty, aristocratic aloofness, penetrating intellect, and poetic sensibility made him the foremost leader of the educated Bengalis. These addressed him by the respectful epithet of Maharshi, the "Great Seer". The Maharshi was a Sanskrit scholar and, unlike Raja Rammohan Roy, drew his inspiration entirely from the Upanishads. He was an implacable enemy of image worship ship and also fought to stop the infiltration of Christian ideas into the Samaj. He gave the movement its faith and ritual. Under his influence the Brahmo Samaj professed One Self-existent Supreme Being who had created the universe out of nothing, the God of Truth, Infinite Wisdom, Goodness, and Power, the Eternal and Omnipotent, the One without a Second. Man should love Him and do His will, believe in Him and worship Him, and thus merit salvation in the world to come.
By far the ablest leader of the Brahmo movement was Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-1884). Unlike Raja Rammohan Roy and Devendranath Tagore, Keshab was born of a middle-class Bengali family and had been brought up in an English school. He did not know Sanskrit and very soon broke away from the popular Hindu religion. Even at an early age he came under the spell of Christ and professed to have experienced the special favour of John the Baptist, Christ, and St. Paul. When he strove to introduce Christ to the Brahmo Samaj, a rupture became inevitable with Devendranath. In 1868 Keshab broke with the older leader and founded the Brahmo Samaj of India, Devendra retaining leadership of the first Brahmo Samaj, now called the Adi Samaj.
Keshab possessed a complex nature. When passing through a great moral crisis, he spent much of his time in solitude and felt that he heard the voice of God, When a devotional form of worship was introduced into the Brahmo Samaj, he spent hours in singing kirtan with his followers. He visited England land in 1870 and impressed the English people with his musical voice, his simple English, and his spiritual fervour. He was entertained by Queen Victoria. Returning to India, he founded centres of the Brahmo Samaj in various parts of the country. Not unlike a professor of comparative religion in a European university, he began to discover, about the time of his first contact with Sri Ramakrishna, the harmony of religions. He became sympathetic toward the Hindu gods and goddesses, explaining them in a liberal fashion. Further, he believed that he was called by God to dictate to the world God's newly revealed law, the New Dispensation, the Navavidhan.
In 1878 a schism divided Keshab's Samaj. Some of his influential followers accused him of infringing the Brahmo principles by marrying his daughter to a wealthy man before she had attained the marriageable age approved by the Samaj. This group seceded and established the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, Keshab remaining the leader of the Navavidhan. Keshab now began to be drawn more and more toward the Christ ideal, though under the influence of Sri Ramakrishna his devotion to the Divine Mother also deepened. His mental oscillation between Christ and the Divine Mother of Hinduism found no position of rest. In Bengal and some other parts of India the Brahmo movement took the form of unitarian Christianity, scoffed at Hindu rituals, and preached a crusade against image worship. Influenced by Western culture, it declared the supremacy of reason, advocated the ideals of the French Revolution, abolished the caste-system among its own members, stood for the emancipation of women, agitated for the abolition of early marriage, sanctioned the remarriage of widows, and encouraged various educational and social-reform movements. The immediate effect of the Brahmo movement in Bengal was the checking of the proselytizing activities of the Christian missionaries. It also raised Indian culture in the estimation of its English masters. But it was an intellectual and eclectic religious ferment born of the necessity of the time. Unlike Hinduism, it was not founded on the deep inner experiences of sages and prophets. Its influence was confined to a comparatively few educated men and women of the country, and the vast masses of the Hindus remained outside it. It sounded monotonously only one of the notes in the rich gamut of the Eternal Religion of the Hindus.
--- ARYA SAMAJ
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
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
men into Slaves, obliged to report their movements to
the government like so many ticket-of-leave men.
0.01f - FOREWARD, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
A sense of movement, capable of perceiving the irresistible
developments hidden in extreme slowness extreme agitation
0.01 - Letters from the Mother to Her Son, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
of 110 to 120 people and to avoid movements that would be
detrimental to the achievement of our yogic aim.
0.01 - Life and Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
HERE are two necessities of Nature's workings which seem always to intervene in the greater forms of human activity, whether these belong to our ordinary fields of movement or seek those exceptional spheres and fulfilments which appear to us high and divine. Every such form tends towards a harmonised complexity and totality which again breaks apart into various channels of special effort and tendency, only to unite once more in a larger and more puissant synthesis. Secondly, development into forms is an imperative rule of effective manifestation; yet all truth and practice too strictly formulated becomes old and loses much, if not all, of its virtue; it must be constantly renovated by fresh streams of the spirit revivifying the dead or dying vehicle and changing it, if it is to acquire a new life. To be perpetually reborn is the condition of a material immortality. We are in an age, full of the throes of travail, when all forms of thought and activity that have in themselves any strong power of utility or any secret virtue of persistence are being subjected to a supreme test and given their opportunity of rebirth. The world today presents the aspect of a huge cauldron of Medea in which all things are being cast, shredded into pieces, experimented on, combined and recombined either to perish and provide the scattered material of new forms or to emerge rejuvenated and changed for a fresh term of existence. Indian Yoga, in its essence a special action or formulation of certain great powers of Nature, itself specialised, divided and variously formulated, is potentially one of these dynamic elements of the future life of humanity. The child of immemorial ages, preserved by its vitality and truth into our modern times, it is now emerging from the secret schools and ascetic retreats in which it had taken refuge and is seeking its place in the future sum of living human powers and utilities. But it has first to rediscover itself, bring to the surface
The Conditions of the Synthesis
--
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 something 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
--
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
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The lack of precaution is a part of the movement of hurry
and impatience.
--
with Mother; all movements should be movements of
joy, including the movement of asking. As this is lacking,
Mother is training us by making us ask with joy.
--
The movement comes from a subconscient layer which is not
allowed to express itself in the daytime.
--
These movements spring from desire and ignorance (X's desire
for a frame without any exact knowledge of how the frame has
--
irritability and anger will arouse similar movements in others.
The explanation of many events may be found along this line -
--
pendulum is, the slower the movement. (I knew that very well
- but this is not an ordinary pendulum since it works by rotary
--
It is here that on your side a freedom of movement and speech
arising from an affectionate confidence must come in: if there is
--
exists; then, by a slight movement of will, one can succeed at
identification. But it is not very easy to do and there are other
--
different movements in me: (1) one which decides to
avoid all contact with X, direct or indirect, and (2) the
--
It may be the contradiction between these two movements which
is the cause of the headache. No. 1 wants peace with a minimum
--
You have made me aware of the subconscious movements governing my action. Whenever a similar opportunity arises, will You please make me more and more
aware. Do not withdraw from me when You see me sad.
0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Matter, which, however the too ethereally spiritual may despise it, is our foundation and the first condition of all our energies and realisations, and the Life-Energy which is our means of existence in a material body and the basis there even of our mental and spiritual activities. She has successfully achieved a certain stability of her constant material movement which is at once sufficiently steady and durable and sufficiently pliable and mutable to provide a fit dwelling-place and instrument for the progressively manifesting god in humanity. This is what is meant by the fable in the Aitareya Upanishad which tells us that the gods rejected the animal forms successively offered to them by the Divine Self and only when man was produced, cried out, "This indeed is perfectly made," and consented to enter in. She has effected also a working compromise between the inertia of matter and the active Life that lives in and feeds on it, by which not only is vital existence sustained, but the fullest developments of mentality are rendered possible. This equilibrium constitutes the basic status of Nature in man and is termed in the language of Yoga his gross body composed
The Three Steps of Nature
--
If, then, this inferior equilibrium is the basis and first means of the higher movements which the universal Power contemplates and if it constitutes the vehicle in which the Divine here seeks to reveal Itself, if the Indian saying is true that the body is the instrument provided for the fulfilment of the right law of our nature, then any final recoil from the physical life must be a turning away from the completeness of the divine Wisdom and a renunciation of its aim in earthly manifestation. Such a refusal may be, owing to some secret law of their development, the right attitude for certain individuals, but never the aim intended for mankind. It can be, therefore, no integral Yoga which ignores the body or makes its annulment or its rejection indispensable to a perfect spirituality. Rather, the perfecting of the body also should be the last triumph of the Spirit and to make the bodily life also divine must be God's final seal upon His work in the universe. The obstacle which the physical presents to the spiritual is no argument for the rejection of the physical; for in the unseen providence of things our greatest difficulties are our best opportunities. A supreme difficulty is Nature's indication to us of a supreme conquest to be won and an ultimate problem to be solved; it is not a warning of an inextricable snare to be shunned or of an enemy too strong for us from whom we must flee.
Equally, the vital and nervous energies in us are there for a great utility; they too demand the divine realisation of their possibilities in our ultimate fulfilment. The great part assigned to this element in the universal scheme is powerfully emphasised by the catholic wisdom of the Upanishads. "As the spokes of a wheel in its nave, so in the Life-Energy is all established, the triple knowledge and the Sacrifice and the power of the strong and the purity of the wise. Under the control of the LifeEnergy is all this that is established in the triple heaven."2 It is therefore no integral Yoga that kills these vital energies, forces them into a nerveless quiescence or roots them out as the source
--
Nor are the disturbances created by her process as great as is often represented. Some of them are the crude beginnings of new manifestations; others are an easily corrected movement of disintegration, often fruitful of fresh activities and always a small price to pay for the far-reaching results that she has in view.
We may perhaps, if we consider all the circumstances, come
--
Moreover the whole trend of modern thought and modern endeavour reveals itself to the observant eye as a large conscious effort of Nature in man to effect a general level of intellectual equipment, capacity and farther possibility by universalising the opportunities which modern civilisation affords for the mental life. Even the preoccupation of the European intellect, the protagonist of this tendency, with material Nature and the externalities of existence is a necessary part of the effort. It seeks to prepare a sufficient basis in man's physical being and vital energies and in his material environment for his full mental possibilities. By the spread of education, by the advance of the backward races, by the elevation of depressed classes, by the multiplication of labour-saving appliances, by the movement
The Three Steps of Nature
--
towards ideal social and economic conditions, by the labour of Science towards an improved health, longevity and sound physique in civilised humanity, the sense and drift of this vast movement translates itself in easily intelligible signs. The right or at least the ultimate means may not always be employed, but their aim is the right preliminary aim, - a sound individual and social body and the satisfaction of the legitimate needs and demands of the material mind, sufficient ease, leisure, equal opportunity, so that the whole of mankind and no longer only the favoured race, class or individual may be free to develop the emotional and intellectual being to its full capacity. At present the material and economic aim may predominate, but always, behind, there works or there waits in reserve the higher and major impulse.
And when the preliminary conditions are satisfied, when the great endeavour has found its base, what will be the nature of that farther possibility which the activities of the intellectual life must serve? If Mind is indeed Nature's highest term, then the entire development of the rational and imaginative intellect and the harmonious satisfaction of the emotions and sensibilities must be to themselves sufficient. But if, on the contrary, man is more than a reasoning and emotional animal, if beyond that which is being evolved, there is something that has to be evolved, then it may well be that the fullness of the mental life, the suppleness, flexibility and wide capacity of the intellect, the ordered richness of emotion and sensibility may be only a passage towards the development of a higher life and of more powerful faculties which are yet to manifest and to take possession of the lower instrument, just as mind itself has so taken possession of the body that the physical being no longer lives only for its own satisfaction but provides the foundation and the materials for a superior activity.
--
The immanence itself would have no credible reason for being if it did not end in such a transfiguration. But if human mind can become capable of the glories of the divine Light, human emotion and sensibility can be transformed into the mould and assume the measure and movement of the supreme Bliss, human action not only represent but feel itself to be the motion of a divine and non-egoistic Force and the physical substance of our being sufficiently partake of the purity of the supernal essence, sufficiently unify plasticity and durable constancy to support and prolong these highest experiences and agencies, then all the long labour of Nature will end in a crowning justification and her evolutions reveal their profound significance.
So dazzling is even a glimpse of this supreme existence and so absorbing its attraction that, once seen, we feel readily justified in neglecting all else for its pursuit. Even, by an opposite exaggeration to that which sees all things in Mind and the mental life as an exclusive ideal, Mind comes to be regarded as an unworthy deformation and a supreme obstacle, the source of an illusory universe, a negation of the Truth and itself to be denied and all its works and results annulled if we desire the final liberation. But this is a half-truth which errs by regarding only the actual limitations of Mind and ignores its divine intention.
0.03 - III - The Evening Sittings, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Integral Yoga
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
You must not exaggerate. Certainly there are movements of vanity - rather childish besides - but they are not the only ones.
I am quite sure that while you were listening to the music, you
--
precise movement, one loses one's patience and calm and the
work one does is no longer neat and trim; everything becomes
--
I don't think it would be good to dye it again. It would become too dark. But we can take the irregularities as movements
of water and underline them with a fine gold thread; then it will
0.03 - The Threefold Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Nevertheless it is possible to make the material man and his life moderately progressive by imprinting on the material mind the custom of progress, the habit of conscious change, the fixed idea of progression as a law of life. The creation by this means of progressive societies in Europe is one of the greatest triumphs of Mind over Matter. But the physical nature has its revenge; for the progress made tends to be of the grosser and more outward kind and its attempts at a higher or a more rapid movement bring about great wearinesses, swift exhaustions, startling recoils.
It is possible also to give the material man and his life a moderate spirituality by accustoming him to regard in a religious spirit all the institutions of life and its customary activities. The creation of such spiritualised communities in the East has been one of the greatest triumphs of Spirit over Matter. Yet here, too, there is a defect; for this often tends only to the creation of a religious temperament, the most outward form of spirituality.
--
But if Progress also is one of the chief terms of worldexistence and a progressive manifestation of the Divine the true sense of Nature, this limitation also is invalid. It is possible for the spiritual life in the world, and it is its real mission, to change the material life into its own image, the image of the Divine. Therefore, besides the great solitaries who have sought and attained their self-liberation, we have the great spiritual teachers who have also liberated others and, supreme of all, the great dynamic souls who, feeling themselves stronger in the might of the Spirit than all the forces of the material life banded together, have thrown themselves upon the world, grappled with it in a loving wrestle and striven to compel its consent to its own transfiguration. Ordinarily, the effort is concentrated on a mental and moral change in humanity, but it may extend itself also to the alteration of the forms of our life and its institutions so that they too may be a better mould for the inpourings of the Spirit. These attempts have been the supreme landmarks in the progressive development of human ideals and the divine preparation of the race. Every one of them, whatever its outward results, has left Earth more capable of Heaven and quickened in its tardy movements the evolutionary Yoga of Nature.
In India, for the last thousand years and more, the spiritual life and the material have existed side by side to the exclusion of the progressive mind. Spirituality has made terms for itself with Matter by renouncing the attempt at general progress. It has obtained from society the right of free spiritual development for all who assume some distinctive symbol, such as the garb of the Sannyasin, the recognition of that life as man's goal and those who live it as worthy of an absolute reverence, and the casting of society itself into such a religious mould that its most customary acts should be accompanied by a formal reminder of the spiritual symbolism of life and its ultimate destination. On the other hand, there was conceded to society the right of inertia and immobile self-conservation. The concession destroyed much of the value of the terms. The religious mould being fixed, the formal reminder tended to become a routine and to lose its living sense. The constant attempts to change the mould by new sects and religions ended only in a new routine or a modification of the old; for the saving element of the free and active mind had been exiled. The material life, handed over to the Ignorance, the purposeless and endless duality, became a leaden and dolorous yoke from which flight was the only escape.
The schools of Indian Yoga lent themselves to the compromise. Individual perfection or liberation was made the aim, seclusion of some kind from the ordinary activities the condition, the renunciation of life the culmination. The teacher gave his knowledge only to a small circle of disciples. Or if a wider movement was attempted, it was still the release of the individual soul that remained the aim. The pact with an immobile society was, for the most part, observed.
The utility of the compromise in the then actual state of the world cannot be doubted. It secured in India a society which lent itself to the preservation and the worship of spirituality, a country apart in which as in a fortress the highest spiritual ideal could maintain itself in its most absolute purity unoverpowered by the siege of the forces around it. But it was a compromise, not an absolute victory. The material life lost the divine impulse to growth, the spiritual preserved by isolation its height and purity, but sacrificed its full power and serviceableness to the world. Therefore, in the divine Providence the country of the Yogins and the Sannyasins has been forced into a strict and imperative contact with the very element it had rejected, the element of the progressive Mind, so that it might recover what was now wanting to it.
0.04 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
time, so that he may have air, sun and movement without doing
work. This question must be put clearly to the doctor asking for
0.04 - The Systems of Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
By its numerous asanas or fixed postures it first cures the body of that restlessness which is a sign of its inability to contain without working them off in action and movement the vital forces poured into it from the universal Life-Ocean, gives to it an extraordinary health, force and suppleness and seeks to liberate it from the habits by which it is subjected to ordinary physical
Nature and kept within the narrow bounds of her normal operations. In the ancient tradition of Hathayoga it has always been supposed that this conquest could be pushed so far even as to conquer to a great extent the force of gravitation. By various subsidiary but elaborate processes the Hathayogin next contrives to keep the body free from all impurities and the nervous system unclogged for those exercises of respiration which are his most important instruments. These are called pran.ayama, the control of the breath or vital power; for breathing is the chief physical functioning of the vital forces. Pranayama, for the Hathayogin, serves a double purpose. First, it completes the perfection of the body. The vitality is liberated from many of the ordinary necessities of physical Nature; robust health, prolonged youth, often an extraordinary longevity are attained.
--
the powers of disorder. The preliminary movement of Rajayoga is a careful self-discipline by which good habits of mind are substituted for the lawless movements that indulge the lower nervous being. By the practice of truth, by renunciation of all forms of egoistic seeking, by abstention from injury to others, by purity, by constant meditation and inclination to the divine
Purusha who is the true lord of the mental kingdom, a pure, glad, clear state of mind and heart is established.
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
my movements. I want to feel your presence everywhere.
Mother, accept my prayer.
--
from its heaviness and inertia. But it is an ignorant movement,
for violent sensations can never be a remedy; on the contrary,
0.05 - The Synthesis of the Systems, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
- and Yoga is nothing but practical psychology, - is the conception of Nature from which we have to start. It is the selffulfilment of the Purusha through his Energy. But the movement of Nature is twofold, higher and lower, or, as we may choose to term it, divine and undivine. The distinction exists indeed for practical purposes only; for there is nothing that is not divine, and in a larger view it is as meaningless, verbally, as the distinction between natural and supernatural, for all things that are are natural. All things are in Nature and all things are in God.
But, for practical purposes, there is a real distinction. The lower
--
Prakriti and turn them towards the Divine. But the normal action of Nature in us is an integral movement in which the full complexity of all our elements is affected by and affects all our environments. The whole of life is the Yoga of Nature. The
Yoga that we seek must also be an integral action of Nature, and the whole difference between the Yogin and the natural man will be this, that the Yogin seeks to substitute in himself for the integral action of the lower Nature working in and by ego and division the integral action of the higher Nature working in and by God and unity. If indeed our aim be only an escape from the world to God, synthesis is unnecessary and a waste of time; for then our sole practical aim must be to find out one path out of the thousand that lead to God, one shortest possible of short cuts, and not to linger exploring different paths that end in the same goal. But if our aim be a transformation of our integral being into the terms of God-existence, it is then that a synthesis becomes necessary.
--
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
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, my help is with you to master all the movements which are
opposed to the Divine.
0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
not depend on such surface movements.
I can add today that I am not at all tired of the "problem
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the feelings, all the movements of emotion can be captured,
experienced, re-felt as if they were produced in ourselves.
01.01 - Sri Aurobindo - The Age of Sri Aurobindo, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Apart from the well-recognised fact that only in distress does the normal man think of God and non-worldly things, the real matter, however, is that the inner life is a thing apart and follows its own line of movement, does not depend upon, is not subservient to, the kind of outer life that one may happen to live under. The Bible says indeed, "Blessed are the poor, blessed are they that mourn"... But the Upanishad declares, on the other hand, that even as one lies happily on a royal couch, bathes and anoints himself with all the perfumes of the world, has attendants all around and always to serve him, even so, one can be full of the divine consciousness from the crown of the head to the tip of his toe-nail. In fact, a poor or a prosperous life is in no direct or even indirect ratio to a spiritual life. All the miseries and immediate needs of a physical life do not and cannot detain or delay one from following the path of the ideal; nor can all your riches be a burden to your soul and overwhelm it, if it chooses to walk onit can not only walk, but soar and fly with all that knapsack on its back.
If one were to be busy about reforming the world and when that was done then alone to turn to other-worldly things, in that case, one would never take the turn, for the world will never be reformed totally or even considerably in that way. It is not that reformers have for the first time appeared on the earth in the present age. Men have attempted social, political, economic and moral reforms from times immemorial. But that has not barred the spiritual attempt or minimised its importance. To say that because an ideal is apparently too high or too great for the present age, it must be kept in cold storage is to set a premium on the present nature of humanity arid eternise it: that would bind the world to its old moorings and never give it the opportunity to be free and go out into the high seas of larger and greater realisations.
The ideal or perhaps one should say the policy of Real-politick is the thing needed in this world. To achieve something actually in the physical and material field, even a lesser something, is worth much more than speculating on high flaunting chimeras and indulging in day-dreams. Yes, but what is this something that has to be achieved in the material world? It is always an ideal. Even procuring food for each and every person, clothing and housing all is not less an ideal for all its concern about actuality. Only there are ideals and ideals; some are nearer to the earth, some seem to be in the background. But the mystery is that it is not always the ideal nearest to the earth which is the easiest to achieve or the first thing to be done first. Do we not see before our very eye show some very simple innocent social and economic changes are difficult to carry outthey bring in their train quite disproportionately gestures and movements of violence and revolution? That is because we seek to cure the symptoms and not touch the root of the disease. For even the most innocent-looking social, economic or political abuse has at its base far-reaching attitudes and life-urgeseven a spiritual outlook that have to be sought out and tackled first, if the attempt at reform is to be permanently and wholly successful. Even in mundane matters we do not dig deep enough, or rise high enough.
Indeed, looking from a standpoint that views the working of the forces that act and achieve and not the external facts and events and arrangements aloneone finds that things that are achieved on the material plane are first developed and matured and made ready behind the veil and at a given moment burst out and manifest themselves often unexpectedly and suddenly like a chick out of the shell or the young butterfly out of the cocoon. The Gita points to that truth of Nature when it says: "These beings have already been killed by Me." It is not that a long or strenuous physical planning and preparation alone or in the largest measure brings about a physical realisation. The deeper we go within, the farther we are away from the surface, the nearer we come to the roots and sources of things even most superficial. The spiritual view sees and declares that it is the Brahmic consciousness that holds, inspires, builds up Matter, the physical body and form of Brahman.
01.01 - The New Humanity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
That Power, that Spirit has been growing and gathering its strength during all the millenniums that humanity has lived through. On the momentous day when man appeared on earth, the Higher Man also took his birth. Since the hour the Spirit refused to be imprisoned in its animal sheath and came out as man, it approached by that very uplift a greater freedom and a vaster movement. It was the crest of that underground wave which peered over the surface from age to age, from clime to clime through the experiences of poets and prophets and sages the Head of the Sacrificial Horse galloping towards the Dawn.
And now the days of captivity or rather of inner preparation are at an end. The voice in the wilderness was necessary, for it was a call and a communion in the silence of the soul. Today the silence seeks utterance. Today the shell is ripe enough to break and to bring out the mature and full-grown being. The king that was in hiding comes in glory and triumph, in his complete regalia.
01.01 - The One Thing Needful, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
... the principle of this Yoga is not perfection of the human nature as it is but a psychic and spiritual transformation of all the parts of the being through the action of an inner consciousness and then of a higher consciousness which works on them, throws out the old movements or changes them into the image of its own and so transmutes lower into higher nature. It is not so much the perfection of the intellect as a transcendence of it, a transformation of the mind, the substitution of a larger greater principle of knowledge - and so with all the rest of the being.
This is a slow and difficult process; the road is long and it is hard to establish even the necessary basis. The old existing nature resists and obstructs and difficulties rise one after another and repeatedly till they are overcome. It is therefore necessary to be sure that this is the path to which one is called before one finally decides to tread it.
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A nameless movement, an unthought Idea
Insistent, dissatisfied, without an aim,
--
A narrow movement on Time's deep abysm,
Life's fragile littleness denied the power,
01.02 - Natures Own Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the Supermind things exist in their perfect spiritual reality; each is consciously the divine reality in its transcendent essence, its cosmic extension, its, spiritual individuality; the diversity of a manifested existence is there, but the mutually exclusive separativeness has not yet arisen. The ego, the knot of separativity, appears at a later and lower stage of involution; what is here is indivisible nexus of individualising centres of the one eternal truth of being. Where Supermind and Overmind meet, one can see the multiple godheads, each distinct in his own truth and beauty and power and yet all together forming the one supreme consciousness infinitely composite and inalienably integral. But stepping back into Supermind one sees something moreOneness gathering into itself all diversity, not destroying it, but annulling and forbidding the separative consciousness that is the beginning of Ignorance. The first shadow of the Illusory Consciousness, the initial possibility of the movement of Ignorance comes in when the supramental light enters the penumbra of the mental sphere. The movement of Supermind is the movement of light without obscurity, straight, unwavering, unswerving, absolute. The Force here contains and holds in their oneness of Reality the manifold but not separated lines of essential and unalloyed truth: its march is the inevitable progression of each one assured truth entering into and upholding every other and therefore its creation, play or action admits of no trial or stumble or groping or deviation; for each truth rests on all others and on that which harmonises them all and does not act as a Power diverging from and even competing with other Powers of being. In the Overmind commences the play of divergent possibilities the simple, direct, united and absolute certainties of the supramental consciousness retire, as it were, a step behind and begin to work themselves out through the interaction first of separately individualised and then of contrary and contradictory forces. In the Overmind there is a conscious underlying Unity but yet each Power, Truth, Aspect of that Unity is encouraged to work out its possibilities as if it were sufficient to itself and the others are used by it for its own enhancement until in the denser and darker reaches below Overmind this turns out a thing of blind conflict and battle and, as it would appear, of chance survival. Creation or manifestation originally means the concretisation or devolution of the powers of Conscious Being into a play of united diversity; but on the line which ends in Matter it enters into more and more obscure forms and forces and finally the virtual eclipse of the supreme light of the Divine Consciousness. Creation as it descends' towards the Ignorance becomes an involution of the Spirit through Mind and Life into Matter; evolution is a movement backward, a return journey from Matter towards the Spirit: it is the unravelling, the gradual disclosure and deliverance of the Spirit, the ascension and revelation of the involved consciousness through a series of awakeningsMatter awakening into Life, Life awakening into Mind and Mind now seeking to awaken into something beyond the Mind, into a power of conscious Spirit.
The apparent or actual result of the movement of Nescienceof Involutionhas been an increasing negation of the Spirit, but its hidden purpose is ultimately to embody the Spirit in Matter, to express here below in cosmic Time-Space the splendours of the timeless Reality. The material body came into existence bringing with it inevitably, as it seemed, mortality; it appeared even to be fashioned out of mortality, in order that in this very frame and field of mortality, Immortality, the eternal Spirit Consciousness which is the secret truth and reality in Time itself as well as behind it, might be established and that the Divine might be possessed, or rather, possess itself not in one unvarying mode of the static consciousness, as it does even now behind the cosmic play, but in the play itself and in the multiple mode of the terrestrial existence.
II
The secret of evolution, I have said, is an urge towards the release and unfoldment of consciousness out of an apparent unconsciousness. In the early stages the movement is very slow and gradual; there it is Nature's original unconscious process. In man it acquires the possibility of a conscious and therefore swifter and concentrated process. And this is in fact the function of Yoga proper, viz, to bring about the evolution of consciousness by hastening the process of Nature through the self-conscious will of man.
An organ in the human being has been especially developed to become the effective instrument of this accelerated Yogic process the self-consciousness which I referred to as being the distinctive characteristic of man is a function of this organ. It is his soul, his psychic being; originally it is the spark of the Divine Consciousness which came down and became involved in Matter and has been endeavouring ever since to release itself through the upward march of evolution. It is this which presses on continually as the stimulus to the evolutionary movement; and in man it has attained sufficient growth and power and has come so far to the front from behind the veil that it can now lead and mould his external consciousness. It is also the channel through which the Divine Consciousness can flow down into the inferior levels of human nature. It is the being no bigger than the thumb ever seated within the heart, spoken of in the Upanishads. It is likewise the basis of true individuality and personal identity. It is again the reflection or expression in evolutionary Nature of one's essential selfjivtman that is above, an eternal portion of the Divine, one with the Divine and yet not dissolved and lost in it. The psychic being is thus on the one hand in direct contact with the Divine and the higher consciousness, and on the other it is the secret upholder and controller' (bhart, antarymin) of the inferior consciousness, the hidden nucleus round which the body and the life and the mind of the individual are built up and organised.
The first decisive step in Yoga is taken when one becomes conscious of the psychic being, or, looked at from the other side, when the psychic being comes forward and takes possession of the external being, begins to initiate and influence the movements of the mind and life and body and gradually free them from the ordinary round of ignorant nature. The awakening of the psychic being means, as I have said, not only a deepening and heightening of the consciousness and its release from the obscurity and limitation of the inferior Prakriti, confined to the lower threefold status, into what is behind and beyond; it means also a return of the deeper and higher consciousness upon the lower hemisphere and a consequent purification and illumination and regeneration of the latter. Finally, when the psychic being is in full self-possession and power, it can be the vehicle of the direct supramental consciousness which will then be able to act freely and absolutely for the entire transformation of the external nature, its transfiguration into a perfect body of the Truth-consciousness in a word, its divinisation.
This then is the supreme secret, not the renunciation and annulment, but the transformation of the ordinary human nature : first of all, its psychicisation, that is to say, making it move and live and be in communion and identification with the light of the psychic being, and, secondly, through the soul and the ensouled mind and life and body, to open out into the supramental consciousness and let it come down here below and work and achieve.
01.02 - Sri Aurobindo - Ahana and Other Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
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 something other, something 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, something aloof and other-worldly"introvert", a modern mind would term it that is to say, something 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.
--
Mark the stately march, the fullness of voice, the wealth of imagery, the vigour of movement of these lines:
What though it's true that the river of Life
01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
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 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.
Man's consciousness is further to rise from the mental to over-mental regions. Accordingly, his life and activities and along with that his artistic creations too will take on a new tone and rhythm, a new mould and constitution even. For this transition, the higher mentalwhich is normally the field of philosophical and idealistic activitiesserves as the Paraclete, the Intercessor; it takes up the lower functionings of the consciousness, which are intense in their own way, but narrow and turbid, and gives, by purifying and enlarging, a wider frame, a more luminous pattern, a more subtly articulated , form for the higher, vaster and deeper realities, truths and harmonies to express and manifest. In the old-world spiritual and mystic poets, this intervening medium was overlooked for evident reasons, for human reason or even intelligence is a double-edged instrument, it can make as well as mar, it has a light that most often and naturally shuts off other higher lights beyond it. So it was bypassed, some kind of direct and immediate contact was sought to be established between the normal and the transcendental. The result was, as I have pointed out, a pure spiritual poetry, on the one hand, as in the Upanishads, or, on the other, religious poetry of various grades and denominations that spoke of the spiritual but in the terms and in the manner of the mundane, at least very much coloured and dominated by the latter. Vyasa was the great legendary figure in India who, as is shown in his Mahabharata, seems to have been one of the pioneers, if not the pioneer, to forge and build the missing link of Thought Power. The exemplar of the manner is the Gita. Valmiki's represented a more ancient and primary inspiration, of a vast vital sensibility, something of the kind that was at the basis of Homer's genius. In Greece it was Socrates who initiated the movement of speculative philosophy and the emphasis of intellectual power slowly began to find expression in the later poets, Sophocles and Euripides. But all these were very simple beginnings. The moderns go in for something more radical and totalitarian. The rationalising element instead of being an additional or subordinate or contri buting factor, must itself give its norm and form, its own substance and manner to the creative activity. Such is the present-day demand.
The earliest preoccupation of man was religious; even when he concerned himself with the world and worldly things, he referred all that to the other world, thought of gods and goddesses, of after-death and other where. That also will be his last and ultimate preoccupation though in a somewhat different way, when he has passed through a process of purification and growth, a "sea-change". For although religion is an aspiration towards the truth and reality beyond or behind the world, it is married too much to man's actual worldly nature and carries always with it the shadow of profanity.
--
This, I say, is something different from the religious and even from the mystic. It is away from the merely religious, because it is naked of the vesture of humanity (in spite of a human face that masks it at times) ; it is something more than the merely mystic, for it does not stop being a signpost or an indication to the Beyond, but is itself the presence and embodiment of the Beyond. The mystic gives us, we can say, the magic of the Infinite; what I term the spiritual, the spiritual proper, gives in addition the logic of the Infinite. At least this is what distinguishes modern spiritual consciousness from the ancient, that is, Upanishadic spiritual consciousness. The Upanishad gives expression to the spiritual consciousness in its original and pristine purity and perfection, in its essential simplicity. It did not buttress itself with any logic. It is the record of fundamental experiences and there was no question of any logical exposition. But, as I have said, the modern mind requires and demands a logical element in its perceptions and presentations. Also it must needs be a different kind of logic that can satisfy and satisfy wholly the deeper and subtler movements of a modern consciousness. For the philosophical poet of an earlier age, when he had recourse to logic, it was the logic of the finite that always gave him the frame, unless he threw the whole thing overboard and leaped straight into the occult, the illogical and the a logical, like Blake, for instance. Let me illustrate and compare a little. When the older poet explains indriyani hayan ahuh, it is an allegory he resorts to, it is the logic of the finite he marshals to point to the infinite and the beyond. The stress of reason is apparent and effective too, but the pattern is what we are normally familiar with the movement, we can say, is almost Aristotelian in its rigour. Now let us turn to the following:
Our life is a holocaust of the Supreme. ||26.15||
--
To sum up and recapitulate. The evolution of the poetic expression in man has ever been an attempt at a return and a progressive approach to the spiritual source of poetic inspiration, which was also the original, though somewhat veiled, source from the very beginning. The movement has followed devious waysstrongly negative at timeseven like man's life and consciousness in general of which it is an organic member; but the ultimate end and drift seems to have been always that ideal and principle even when fallen on evil days and evil tongues. The poet's ideal in the dawn of the world was, as the Vedic Rishi sang, to raise things of beauty in heaven by his poetic power,kavi kavitv divi rpam sajat. Even a Satanic poet, the inaugurator, in a way, of modernism and modernistic consciousness, Charles Baudelaire, thus admonishes his spirit:
"Flyaway, far from these morbid miasmas, go and purify yourself in the higher air and drink, like a pure and divine liquor, the clear fire that fills the limpid spaces."18
--
Poetry, actually however, has been, by and large, a profane and mundane affair: for it expresses the normal man's perceptions and feelings and experiences, human loves and hates and desires and ambitions. True. And yet there has also always been an attempt, a tendency to deal with them in such a way as can bring calm and puritykatharsisnot trouble and confusion. That has been the purpose of all Art from the ancient days. Besides, there has been a growth and development in the historic process of this katharsis. As by the sublimation of his bodily and vital instincts and impulses., man is gradually growing into the mental, moral and finally spiritual consciousness, even so the artistic expression of his creative activity has followed a similar line of transformation. The first and original transformation happened with religious poetry. The religious, one may say, is the profane inside out; that is to say, the religious man has almost the same tone and temper, the same urges and passions, only turned Godward. Religious poetry too marks a new turn and development of human speech, in taking the name of God human tongue acquires a new plasticity and flavour that transform or give a new modulation even to things profane and mundane it speaks of. Religious means at bottom the colouring of mental and moral idealism. A parallel process of katharsis is found in another class of poetic creation, viz., the allegory. Allegory or parable is the stage when the higher and inner realities are expressed wholly in the modes and manner, in the form and character of the normal and external, when moral, religious or spiritual truths are expressed in the terms and figures of the profane life. The higher or the inner ideal is like a loose clothing upon the ordinary consciousness, it does not fit closely or fuse. In the religious, however, the first step is taken for a mingling and fusion. The mystic is the beginning of a real fusion and a considerable ascension of the lower into the higher. The philosopher poet follows another line for the same katharsisinstead of uplifting emotions and sensibility, he proceeds by thought-power, by the ideas and principles that lie behind all movements and give a pattern to all things existing. The mystic can be of either type, the religious mystic or the philosopher mystic, although often the two are welded together and cannot be very well separated. Let us illustrate a little:
The spacious firmament on high,
--
A finite movement of the Infinite
Came winging its way through a wide air of Time;
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Humanity framed his movements less and less;
A greater being saw a greater world.
--
And movements pushed by a superconscient force,
And joys that never flowed through mortal limbs,
--
But a living movement of the body of God.
A spirit hid in forces and in forms
--
Attuned to her movements that exceed our ken,
He grew one with a covert universe.
01.03 - Yoga and the Ordinary Life, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I may say briefly that there are two states of consciousness in either of which one can live. One is a higher consciousness which stands above the play of life and governs it; this is variously called the Self, the Spirit or the Divine. The other is the normal consciousness in which men live; it is something quite superficial, an instrument of the Spirit for the play of life. Those who live and act in the normal consciousness are governed entirely by the common movements of the mind and are naturally subject to grief and joy and anxiety and desire or to everything else that makes up the ordinary stuff of life.
Mental quiet and happiness they can get, but it can never be permanent or secure. But the spiritual consciousness is all light, peace, power and bliss. If one can live entirely in it, there is no question; these things become naturally and securely his.
--
The religious life is a movement of the same ignorant human consciousness, turning or trying to turn away from the earth towards the Divine but as yet without knowledge and led by the dogmatic tenets and rules of some sect or creed which claims to have found the way out of the bonds of the earth-consciousness into some beatific Beyond. The religious life may be the first approach to the spiritual, but very often it is only a turning about in a round of rites, ceremonies and practices or set ideas and forms without any issue. The spiritual life, on the contrary, proceeds directly by a change of consciousness, a change from the ordinary consciousness, ignorant and separated from its true self and from God, to a greater consciousness in which one finds one's true being and comes first into direct and living contact and then into union with the Divine. For the spiritual seeker this change of consciousness is the one thing he seeks and nothing else matters.
Morality is a part of the ordinary life; it is an attempt to govern the outward conduct by certain mental rules or to form the character by these rules in the image of a certain mental ideal. The spiritual life goes beyond the mind; it enters into the deeper consciousness of the Spirit and acts out of the truth of the Spirit.
01.04 - The Intuition of the Age, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
All movementswhe ther of thought or of life, whether in the individual or in the massproceed from a fundamental intuition which lies in the background as the logical presupposition, the psychological motive and the spiritual force. A certain attitude of the soul, a certain angle of vision is what is posited first; all other thingsall thoughts and feelings and activities are but necessary attempts to express, to demonstrate, to realise on the conscious and dynamic levels, in the outer world, the truth which has thus already been seized in some secret core of our being. The intuition may not, of course, be present to the conscious mind, it may not be ostensibly sought for, one may even deny the existence of such a preconceived notion and proceed to establish truth on a tabula rasa; none the less it is this hidden bias that judges, this secret consciousness that formulates, this unknown power that fashions.
Now, what is the intuition that lies behind the movements of the new age? What is the intimate realisation, the underlying view-point which is guiding and modelling all our efforts and achievementsour science and art, our poetry and philosophy, our religion and society? For, there is such a common and fundamental note which is being voiced forth by the human spirit through all the multitude of its present-day activities.
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.
--
And the faculty of Intuition said to be the characteristic of the New Man does not mean all that it should, if we confine ourselves to Bergson's definition of it. Bergson says that Intuition is a sort of sympathy, a community of feeling or sensibility with the urge of the life-reality. The difference between the sympathy of Instinct and the sympathy of Intuition being that while the former is an unconscious or semi-conscious power, the latter is illumined and self-conscious. Now this view emphasises only the feeling-tone of Intuition, the vital sensibility that attends the direct communion with the life movement. But Intuition is not only purified feeling and sensibility, it is also purified vision and knowledge. It unites us not only with the movement of life, but also opens out to our sight the Truths, the fundamental realities behind that movement. Bergson does not, of course, point to any existence behind the continuous flux of life-power the elan vital. He seems to deny any static truth or truths to be seen and seized in any scheme of knowledge. To him the dynamic flow the Heraclitian panta reei is the ultimate reality. It is precisely to this view of things that Bergson owes his conception of Intuition. Since existence is a continuum of Mind-Energy, the only way to know it is to be in harmony or unison with it, to move along its current. The conception of knowledge as a fixing and delimiting of things is necessarily an anomaly in this scheme. But the question is, is matter the only static and separative reality? Is the flux of vital Mind-Energy the ultimate truth?
Matter forms the lowest level of reality. Above it is the elan vital. Above the elan vital there is yet the domain of the Spirit. And the Spirit is a static substance and at the same a dynamic creative power. It is Being (Sat) that realises or expresses itself through certain typal nuclei or nodi of consciousness (chit) in a continuous becoming, in a flow of creative activity (ananda). The dynamism of the vital energy is only a refraction or precipitation of the dynamism of the spirit; and so also static matter is only the substance of the spirit concretised and solidified. It is in an uplift both of matter and vital force to their prototypesswarupa and swabhavain the Spirit that lies the real transformation and transfiguration of the humanity of man.
This is the truth that is trying to dawn upon the new age. Not matter but that which forms the substance of matter, not intellect but a vaster consciousness that informs the intellect, not man as he is, an aberration in the cosmic order, but as he may and shall be the embodiment and fulfilment of that orderthis is the secret Intuition which, as yet dimly envisaged, nevertheless secretly inspires all the human activities of today. Only, the truth is being interpreted, as we have said, in terms of vital life. The intellectual and physical man gave us one aspect of the reality, but neither is the vital and psychical man the complete reality. The one acquisition of this shifting of the viewpoint has been that we are now in touch with the natural and deeper movement of humanity and not as before merely with its artificial scaffolding. The Alexandrine civilisation of humanity, in Nietzsche's phrase, was a sort of divagation from nature, it was following a loop away from the direct path of natural evolution. And the new Renaissance of today has precisely corrected this aberration of humanity and brought it again in a line with the natural cosmic order.
Certainly this does not go far enough into the motive of the change. The cosmic order does not mean mentalised vitalism which is also in its turn a section of the integral reality. It means the order of the spirit, it means the transfiguration of the physical, the vital and the intellectual into the supernal Substance, Power and Light of that Spirit. The real transcendence of humanity is not the transcendence of one or other of its levels but the total transcendence to an altogether different status and the transmutation of humanity in the mould of that statusnot a Nietzschean Titan nor a Bergsonian Dionysus but the tranquil vision and delight and dynamism of the Spirit the incarnation of a god-head.
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Not only so, the future development of the poetic consciousness seems inevitably to lead to such a consummation in which the creative and the critical faculties will not be separate but form part of one and indivisible movement. Historically, human consciousness has grown from unconsciousness to consciousness and from consciousness to self-consciousness; man's creative and artistic genius too has moved pari passu in the same direction. The earliest and primitive poets were mostly unconscious, that is to say, they wrote or said things as they came to them spontaneously, without effort, without reflection, they do not seem to know the whence and wherefore and whither of it all, they know only that the wind bloweth as it listeth. That was when man had not yet eaten the fruit of knowledge, was still in the innocence of childhood. But as he grew up and progressed, he became more and more conscious, capable of exerting and exercising a deliberate will and initiating a purposive action, not only in the external practical field but also in the psychological domain. If the earlier group is called "primitives", the later one, that of conscious artists, usually goes by the name of "classicists." Modern creators have gone one step farther in the direction of self-consciousness, a return upon oneself, an inlook of full awareness and a free and alert activity of the critical faculties. An unconscious artist in the sense of the "primitives" is almost an impossible phenomenon in the modern world. All are scientists: an artist cannot but be consciously critical, deliberate, purposive in what he creates and how he creates. Evidently, this has cost something of the old-world spontaneity and supremacy of utterance; but it cannot be helped, we cannot comm and the tide to roll back, Canute-like. The feature has to be accepted and a remedy and new orientation discovered.
The modern critical self-consciousness in the artist originated with the Romantics. The very essence of Romanticism is curiosity the scientist's pleasure in analysing, observing, experimenting, changing the conditions of our reactions, mental or sentimental or even nervous and physical by way of discovery of new and unforeseen or unexpected modes of "psychoses" or psychological states. Goethe, Wordsworth, Stendhal represented a mentality and initiated a movement which led logically to the age of Hardy, Housman and Bridges and in the end to that of Lawrence and Joyce, Ezra Pound and Eliot and Auden. On the Continent we can consider Flaubert as the last of the classicists married to the very quintessence of Romanticism. A hard, self-regarding, self-critical mentality, a cold scalpel-like gaze that penetrates and upturns the reverse side of things is intimately associated with the poetic genius of Mallarm and constitutes almost the whole of Valry's. The impassioned lines of a very modern poet like Aragon are also characterised by a consummate virtuosity in chiselled artistry, conscious and deliberate and willed at every step and turn.
The consciously purposive activity of the poetic consciousness in fact, of all artistic consciousness has shown itself with a clear and unambiguous emphasis in two directions. First of all with regard to the subject-matter: the old-world poets took things as they were, as they were obvious to the eye, things of human nature and things of physical Nature, and without questioning dealt with them in the beauty of their normal form and function. The modern mentality has turned away from the normal and the obvious: it does not accept and admit the "given" as the final and definitive norm of things. It wishes to discover and establish other norms, it strives to bring about changes in the nature and condition of things, envisage the shape of things to come, work for a brave new world. The poet of today, in spite of all his effort to remain a pure poet, in spite of Housman's advocacy of nonsense and not-sense being the essence of true Art, is almost invariably at heart an incorrigible prophet. In revolt against the old and established order of truths and customs, against all that is normally considered as beautiful,ideals and emotions and activities of man or aspects and scenes and movements of Natureagainst God or spiritual life, the modern poet turns deliberately to the ugly and the macabre, the meaningless, the insignificant and the triflingtins and teas, bone and dust and dustbin, hammer and sicklehe is still a prophet, a violent one, an iconoclast, but one who has his own icon, a terribly jealous being, that seeks to pull down the past, erase it, to break and batter and knead the elements in order to fashion out of them something conforming to his heart's desire. There is also the class who have the vision and found the truth and its solace, who are prophets, angelic and divine, messengers and harbingers of a new beauty that is to dawn upon earth. And yet there are others in whom the two strains mingle or approach in a strange way. All this means that the artist is far from being a mere receiver, a mechanical executor, a passive unconscious instrument, but that he is supremely' conscious and master of his faculties and implements. This fact is doubly reinforced when we find how much he is preoccupied with the technical aspect of his craft. The richness and variety of patterns that can be given to the poetic form know no bounds today. A few major rhythms were sufficient for the ancients to give full expression to their poetic inflatus. For they cared more for some major virtues, the basic and fundamental qualitiessuch as truth, sublimity, nobility, forcefulness, purity, simplicity, clarity, straightforwardness; they were more preoccupied with what they had to say and they wanted, no doubt, to say it beautifully and powerfully; but the modus operandi was not such a passion or obsession with them, it had not attained that almost absolute value for itself which modern craftsmanship gives it. As technology in practical life has become a thing of overwhelming importance to man today, become, in the Shakespearean phrase, his "be-all and end-all", even so the same spirit has invaded and pervaded his aesthetics too. The subtleties, variations and refinements, the revolutions, reversals and inventions which the modern poet has ushered and takes delight in, for their own sake, I repeat, for their intrinsic interest, not for the sake of the subject which they have to embody and clothe, have never been dream by Aristotle, the supreme legislator among the ancients, nor by Horace, the almost incomparable craftsman among the ancients in the domain of poetry. Man has become, to be sure, a self-conscious creator to the pith of his bone.
Such a stage in human evolution, the advent of Homo Faber, has been a necessity; it has to serve a purpose and it has done admirably its work. Only we have to put it in its proper place. The salvation of an extremely self-conscious age lies in an exceeding and not in a further enhancement or an exclusive concentration of the self-consciousness, nor, of course, in a falling back into the original unconsciousness. It is this shift in the poise of consciousness that has been presaged and prepared by the conscious, the scientific artists of today. Their task is to forge an instrument for a type of poetic or artistic creation completely new, unfamiliar, almost revolutionary which the older mould would find it impossible to render adequately. The yearning of the human consciousness was not to rest satisfied with the familiar and the ordinary, the pressure was for the discovery of other strands, secret stores of truth and reality and beauty. The first discovery was that of the great Unconscious, the dark and mysterious and all-powerful subconscient. Many of our poets and artists have been influenced by this power, some even sought to enter into that region and become its denizens. But artistic inspiration is an emanation of Light; whatever may be the field of its play, it can have its origin only in the higher spheres, if it is to be truly beautiful and not merely curious and scientific.
That is what is wanted at present in the artistic world the true inspiration, the breath from higher altitudes. And here comes the role of the mystic, the Yogi. The sense of evolution, the march of human consciousness demands and prophesies that the future poet has to be a mysticin him will be fulfilled the travail of man's conscious working. The self-conscious craftsman, the tireless experimenter with his adventurous analytic mind has sharpened his instrument, made it supple and elastic, tempered, refined and enriched it; that is comparable to what we call the aspiration or call from below. Now the Grace must descend and fulfil. And when one rises into this higher consciousness beyond the brain and mind, when one lives there habitually, one knows the why and the how of things, one becomes a perfectly conscious operator and still retains all spontaneity and freshness and wonder and magic that are usually associated with inconscience and irreflection. As there is a spontaneity of instinct, there is likewise also a spontaneity of vision: a child is spontaneous in its movements, even so a seer. Not only so, the higher spontaneity is more spontaneous, for the higher consciousness means not only awareness but the free and untrammelled activity and expression of the truth and reality it is.
Genius had to be generally more or less unconscious in the past, because the instrument was not ready, was clogged as it were with its own lower grade movements; the higher inspiration had very often to bypass it, or rob it of its serviceable materials without its knowledge, in an almost clandestine way. Wherever it was awake and vigilant, we have seen it causing a diminution in the poetic potential. And yet even so, it was being prepared for a greater role, a higher destiny it is to fulfil in the future. A conscious and full participation of a refined and transparent and enriched instrument in the delivery of superconscious truth and beauty will surely mean not only a new but the very acme of aesthetic creation. We thus foresee the age of spiritual art in which the sense of creative beauty in man will find its culmination. Such an art was only an exception, something secondary or even tertiary, kept in the background, suggested here and there as a novel strain, called "mystic" to express its unfamiliar nature-unless, of course, it was openly and obviously scriptural and religious.
I have spoken of the source of inspiration as essentially and originally being a super-consciousness or over-consciousness. But to be more precise and accurate I should add another source, an inner consciousness. As the super-consciousness is imaged as lying above the normal consciousness, so the inner consciousness may be described as lying behind or within it. The movement of the inner consciousness has found expression more often and more largely than that of over-consciousness in the artistic creation of the past : and that was in keeping with the nature of the old-world inspiration, for the inspiration that comes from the inner consciousness, which can be considered as the lyrical inspiration, tends to be naturally more "spontaneous", less conscious, since it does not at all go by the path of the head, it evades that as much as possible and goes by the path of the heart.
But the evolutionary urge, as I have said, has always been to bring down or instil more and more light and self-consciousness into the depths of the heart too: and the first result has been an intellectualisation, a rationalisation of the consciousness, a movement of scientific observation and criticism which very naturally leads to a desiccation of the poetic enthusiasm and fervour. But a period of transcendence is in gestation. All efforts of modern poets and craftsmen, even those that seem apparently queer, bizarre and futile, are at bottom a travail for this transcendence, including those that seem contradictory to it.
Whether the original and true source of the poet's inspiration lies deep within or high above, all depends upon the mediating instrument the mind (in its most general sense) and speech for a successful transcription. Man's ever-growing consciousness demanded also a conscious development and remoulding of these two factors. A growth, a heightening and deepening of the consciousness meant inevitably a movement towards the spiritual element in things. And that means, we have said, a twofold change in the future poet's make-up. First as regards the substance. The revolutionary shift that we notice in modern poets towards a completely new domain of subject-matter is a signpost that more is meant than what is expressed. The superficialities and futilities that are dealt with do not in their outward form give the real trend of things. In and through all these major and constant preoccupation of our poets is "the pain of the present and the passion for the future": they are, as already stated, more prophets than poets, but prophets for the moment crying in the wildernessalthough some have chosen the path of denial and revolt. They are all looking ahead or beyond or deep down, always yearning for another truth and reality which will explain, justify and transmute the present calvary of human living. Such an acute tension of consciousness has necessitated an overhauling of the vehicle of expression too, the creation of a mode of expressing the inexpressible. For that is indeed what human consciousness and craft are aiming at in the present stage of man's evolution. For everything, almost everything that can be normally expressed has been expressed and in a variety of ways as much as is possible: that is the history of man's aesthetic creativity. Now the eye probes into the unexpressed world; for the artist too the Upanishadic problem has cropped up:
By whom impelled does the mind fall to its target, what is the agent that is behind the eye and sees through the eyes, what is the hearing and what the speech that their respective sense organs do not and cannot convey and record adequately or at all?
Like the modern scientist the artist or craftsman too of today has become a philosopher, even a mystic philosopher. The subtler and higher ranges of consciousness are now the object of inquiry and investigation and expression and revelation for the scientist as well as for the artist. The external sense-objects, the phenomenal movements are symbols and signposts, graphs and pointer-readings of facts and realities that lie hidden, behind or beyond. The artist and the scientist are occult alchemists. What to make of this, for example:
Beyond the shapes of empire, the capes of Carbonek, over
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
He acts as in the movements of a dream,
An automaton stepping in the grooves of Fate,
01.05 - Rabindranath Tagore: A Great Poet, a Great Man, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Both the poets were worshippers, idolaters, of beauty, especially of natural physical beauty, of beauty heaped on beauty, of beauty gathered, like honey from all places and stored and ranged and stalled with the utmost decorative skill. Yet the difference between the two is not less pronounced. A philosopher is reminded of Bergson, the great exponent of movement as reality, in connection with certain aspects of Tagore. Indeed, Beauty in Tagore is something moving, flowing, dancing, rippling; it is especially the beauty which music embodies and expresses. A Kalidasian beauty, on the contrary, is statuesque and plastic, it is to be appreciated in situ. This is, however, by the way.
Sri Aurobindo: "Ahana", Collected Poems & Plays, Vol. 2
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Significant of the movements of our fate:
The symbol powers of number and of form,
01.06 - On Communism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Against this tyranny of the group, this absolute rule of the collective will, the human mind rose in revolt and the result was Individualism. For whatever may be the truth and necessity of the Collective, the Individual is no less true and necessary. The individual has his own law and urge of being and his own secret godhead. The collective godhead derides the individual godhead at its peril. The first movement of the reaction, however, was a run to the other extremity; a stern collectivism gave birth to an intransigent individualism. The individual is sacred and inviolable, cost what it may. It does not matter what sort of individuality one seeks, it is enough if the thing is there. So the doctrine of individualism has come to set a premium on egoism and on forces that are disruptive of all social bonds. Each and every individual has the inherent right, which is also a duty, to follow his own impetus and impulse. Society is nothing but the battle ground for competing individualities the strongest survive and the weakest go to the wall. Association and co-operation are instruments that the individual may use and utilise for his own growth and development but in the main they act as deterrents rather than as aids to the expression and expansion of his characteristic being. In reality, however, if we probe sufficiently deep into the matter we find that there is no such thing as corporate life and activity; what appears as such is only a camouflage for rigorous competition; at the best, there maybe only an offensive and defensive alliancehumanity fights against nature, and within humanity itself group fights against group and in the last analysis, within the group, the individual fights against the individual. This is the ultimate Law-the Dharma of creation.
Now, what such an uncompromising individualism fails to recognise is that individuality and ego are not the same thing, that the individual may have his individuality intact and entire and yet sacrifice his ego, that the soul of man is a much greater thing than his vital being. It is simply ignoring the fact and denying the truth to say that man is only a fighting animal and not a loving god, that the self within the individual realises itself only through competition and not co-operation. It is an error to conceive of society as a mere parallelogram of forces, to suppose that it has risen simply out of the struggle of individual interests and continues to remain by that struggle. Struggle is only one aspect of the thing, a particular form at a particular stage, a temporary manifestation due to a particular system and a particular habit and training. It would be nearer the truth to say that society came into being with the demand of the individual soul to unite with the individual soul, with the stress of an Over-soul to express itself in a multitude of forms, diverse yet linked together and organised in perfect harmony. Only, the stress for union manifested itself first on the material plane as struggle: but this is meant to be corrected and transcended and is being continually corrected and transcended by a secret harmony, a real commonality and brotherhood and unity. The individual is not so self-centred as the individualists make him to be, his individuality has a much vaster orbit and fulfils itself only by fulfilling others. The scientists have begun to discover other instincts in man than those of struggle and competition; they now place at the origin of social grouping an instinct which they name the herd-instinct: but this is only a formulation in lower terms, a translation on the vital plane of a higher truth and reality the fundamental oneness and accord of individuals and their spiritual impulsion to unite.
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"The last movement of reason is to know that there is an infinity of things that are beyond it. It must be a very weak reason if it does not arrive there."2
"One must know where one should doubt, where one should submit."3
--
Pascal's faith had not the calm, tranquil, serene, luminous and happy self-possession of an Indian Rishi. It was ardent and impatient, fiery and vehement. It had to be so perhaps, since it was to stand against his steely brain (and a gloomy vital or life force) as a counterpoise, even as an antidote. This tension and schism brought about, at least contri buted to his neuras thenia and physical infirmity. But whatever the effect upon his inner consciousness and spiritual achievement, his power of expression, his literary style acquired by that a special quality which is his great gift to the French language. If one speaks of Pascal, one has to speak of his language also; for he was one of the great masters who created the French prose. His prose was a wonderful blend of clarity, precision, serried logic and warmth, colour, life, movement, plasticity.
A translation cannot give any idea of the Pascalian style; but an inner echo of the same can perhaps be caught from the thought movement of these characteristic sayings of his with which we conclude:
"Contradiction is not a mark of falsehood, nor is uncontradiction a mark of truth."8
01.07 - The Bases of Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
What then is required is a complete spiritual regeneration in man, a new structure of his soul and substancenot merely the realisation of the highest and supreme Truth in mental and emotional consciousness, but the translation and application of the law of that truth in the power of the vital. It is here that failed all the great spiritual or rather religious movements of the past. They were content with evoking the divine in the mental being, but left the vital becoming to be governed by the habitual un-divine or at the most to be just illumined by a distant and faint glow which served, however, more to distort than express the Divine.
The Divine Nature only can permanently reform the vital nature that is ours. Neither laws and institutions, which are the results of that vital nature, nor ideas and ideals which are often a mere revolt from and more often an auxiliary to it, can comm and the power to regenerate society. If it is thought improbable for any group of men to attain to that God Nature, then there is hardly any hope for mankind. But improbable or probable, that is the only way which man has to try and test, and there is none other.
01.08 - A Theory of Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
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.
Secondly, there is the line of Substitution. Here the mind does not stand in an antagonistic and protestant mood to combat and repress the impulse, but seeks to divert it into other channels, use it to other purposes which do not demand equal sacrifice, may even, on the other hand, be considered by the conscious mind as worthy of human pursuit. Thus the energy that normally would seek sexual gratification might find its outlet in the cultivation of art and literature. It is a common thing in novels to find the heroine disappointed in love taking finally to works of charity and beneficence and thus forgetting her disappointment. Another variety of this is what is known as "drowning one's sorrow in drinking."
01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Here is the Augustinian mantra taken as the motto of The Scale of Perfection: We ascend the ascending grades in our heart and we sing the song of ascension1. The journey's end is heavenly Jerusalem, the House of the Lord. The steps of this inner ascension are easily visible, not surely to the outer eye of the sense-burdened man, but to the "ghostly seeing" of the aspirant which is hazy in the beginning but slowly clears as he advances. The first step is the withdrawal from the outer senses and looking and seeing within. "Turn home again in thyself, and hold thee within and beg no more without." The immediate result is a darkness and a restless darknessit is a painful night. The outer objects of attraction and interest have been discarded, but the inner attachments and passions surge there still. If, however, one continues and persists, refuses to be drawn out, the turmoil settles down and the darkness begins to thin and wear away. One must not lose heart, one must have patience and perseverance. So when the outward world is no more-there and its call also no longer awakes any echo in us, then comes the stage of "restful darkness" or "light-some darkness". But it is still the dark Night of the soul. The outer light is gone and the inner light is not yet visible: the night, the desert, the great Nought, stretches between these two lights. But the true seeker goes through and comes out of the tunnel. And there is happiness at the end. "The seeking is travaillous, but the finding is blissful." When one steps out of the Night, enters into the deepest layer of the being, one stands face to face to one's soul, the very image of God, the perfect God-man, the Christ within. That is the third degree of our inner ascension, the entry into the deepest, purest and happiest statein which one becomes what he truly is; one finds the Christ there and dwells in love and union with him. But there is still a further step to take, and that is real ascension. For till now it has been a going within, from the outward to the inner and the inmost; now one has to go upward, transcend. Within the body, in life, however deep you may go, even if you find your soul and your union with Jesus whose tabernacle is your soul, still there is bound to remain a shadow of the sinful prison-house; the perfect bliss and purity without any earthly taint, the completeness and the crowning of the purgation and transfiguration can come only when you go beyond, leaving altogether the earthly form and worldly vesture and soar into Heaven itself and be in the company of the Trinity. "Into myself, and after... above myself by overpassing only into Him." At the same time it is pointed out, this mediaeval mystic has the common sense to see that the going in and going above of which one speaks must not be understood in a literal way, it is a figure of speech. The movement of the mystic is psychological"ghostly", it is saidnot physical or carnal.
This spiritual march or progress can also be described as a growing into the likeness of the Lord. His true self, his own image is implanted within us; he is there in the profoundest depth of our being as Jesus, our beloved and our soul rests in him in utmost bliss. We are aware neither of Jesus nor of his spouse, our soul, because of the obsession of the flesh, the turmoil raised by the senses, the blindness of pride and egoism. All that constitutes the first or old Adam, the image of Nought, the body of death which means at bottom the "false misruled love in to thyself." This self-love is the mother of sin, is sin itself. What it has to be replaced by is charity that is the true meaning of Christian charity, forgetfulness of self. "What is sin but a wanting and a forbearing of God." And the whole task, the discipline consists in "the shaping of Christ in you, the casting of sin through Christ." Who then is Christ, what is he? This knowledge you get as you advance from your sense-bound perception towards the inner and inmost seeing. As your outer nature gets purified, you approach gradually your soul, the scales fall off from your eyes too and you have the knowledge and "ghostly vision." Here too there are three degrees; first, you start with faith the senses can do nothing better than have faith; next, you rise to imagination which gives a sort of indirect touch or inkling of the truth; finally, you have the "understanding", the direct vision. "If he first trow it, he shall afterwards through grace feel it, and finally understand it."
--
The ultimate truth is that God is the sole doer and the best we can do is to let him do freely without let or hindrance. "He that through Grace may see Jhesu, how that He doth all and himself doth right nought but suffereth Jhesu work in him what him liketh, he is meek." And yet one does not arrive at that condition from the beginning or all at once. "The work is not of the hour nor of a day, but of many days and years." And for a long time one has to take up one's burden and work, co-operate with the Divine working. In the process there is this double movement necessary for the full achievement. "Neither Grace only without full working of a soul that in it is nor working done without grace bringeth a soul to reforming but that one joined to that other." Mysticism is not all eccentricity and irrationality: on the contrary, sanity seems to be the very character of the higher mysticism. And it is this sanity, and even a happy sense of humour accompanying it, that makes the genuine mystic teacher say: "It is no mastery to me for to say it, but for to do it there is mastery." Amen.
Ascendimus ascensiones in corde et cantamus canticum graduum." Confessions of St. Augustine XIII. 9.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
watch all one's emotional movements and vital reactions, never
close one's eyes with indulgence to one's own weaknesses, and
--
carefully observe your movements and reactions with a will to
overcome desires, and aspire to find your psychic being and unite
--
one's movements - those that come from the light of truth and
those that come from the old inertia and falsehood - in order
--
India ought to be the spiritual guide who explains what is happening and helps to hasten the movement. But unfortunately,
in her blind ambition to imitate the West, she has become
--
Danger and risk are part of every forward movement. Without
them nothing would ever stir; and also they are indispensable
01.10 - Nicholas Berdyaev: God Made Human, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Eastern spirituality does not view sorrow and sufferingevilas an integral part of the Divine Consciousness. It is born out of the Divine, no doubt, as nothing can be outside the Divine, but it is a local and temporal formation; it is a disposition consequent upon certain conditions and with the absence or elimination of those conditions, this disposition too disappears. God and the Divine Consciousness can only be purity, light, immortality and delight. The compassion that a Buddha feels for the suffering humanity is not at all a feeling of suffering; pain or any such normal human reaction does not enter into its composition; it is the movement of a transcendent consciousness which is beyond and purified of the normal reactions, yet overarching them and entering into them as a soothing and illumining and vivifying presence. The healer knows and understands the pain and suffering of his patient but is not touched by them; he need not contract the illness of his patient in order to be in sympathy with him. The Divine the Soulcan be in flesh and yet not smirched with its mire; the flesh is not essentially or irrevocably the ooze it is under certain given conditions. The divine physical body is composed of radiant matter and one can speak of it even as of the soul that weapons cannot pierce it nor can fire burn it.
***
01.11 - The Basis of Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And still this was not the lastit could not be the lastanti thesis that had to be synthetized. The dialectical movement led to a more serious and fiercer contradiction. The Buddhistic schism was after all a division brought about from within: it could be said that the two terms of the antinomy belonged to the same genus and were commensurable. The idea or experience of Asat and Maya was not unknown to the Upanishads, only it had not there the exclusive stress which the later developments gave it. Hence quite a different, an altogether foreign body was imported into what was or had come to be a homogeneous entity, and in a considerable mass.
Unlike the previous irruptions that merged and were lost in the general life and consciousness, Islam entered as a leaven that maintained its integrity and revolutionized Indian life and culture by infusing into its tone a Semitic accent. After the Islamic impact India could not be what she was beforea change became inevitable even in the major note. It was a psychological cataclysm almost on a par with the geological one that formed her body; but the spirit behind which created the body was working automatically, inexorably towards the greater and more difficult synthesis demanded by the situation. Only the thing is to be done now consciously, not through an unconscious process of laissez-faire as on the inferior stages of evolution in the past. And that is the true genesis of the present conflict.
01.12 - Goethe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Thus, as sanctioned by God, there is a competition, a wager between man and Satan. The pact between the parties is this that, on the one hand, Satan will serve man here in life upon earth, and on the other hand, in return, man will have to serve Satan there, on the other side of life. That is to say, Satan will give the whole world to man to enjoy, man will have to give Satan only his soul. Man in his ignorance says he does not care for his soul, does not know of a there or elsewhere: he will be satisfied if he gets what he wants upon earth. That, evidently, is the demand of what is familiarly known as life-force (lan vital): the utmost fulfilment of the life-force is what man stands for, although the full significance of the movement may not be clear to him or even to Satan at the moment. For life-force does not necessarily drag man down, as its grand finale as it were, into hellhowever much Satan might wish it to be so. In what way, we shall see presently. Now Satan promises man all that he would desire and even more: he would give him his fill so' that he will ask for no more. Man takes up the challenge and declares that his hunger is insatiable, whatever Satan can bring to it, it will take in and press on: satisfaction and satiety will never come in his way. Satan thinks he knows better, for he is armed with a master weapon to lay man low and make him cry halt!
Love Human and Love Divine
01.12 - Three Degrees of Social Organisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indian wisdom has found this other, a fairer terma tertium quid,the mystic factor, sought for by so many philosophers on so many counts. That is the very well- known, the very familiar termDharma. What is Dharma then? How does it accomplish the miracle which to others seems to have proved an impossibility? Dharma is self-law, that is to say, the law of the Self; it is the rhythm and movement of our inner or inmost being, the spontaneous working out of our truth-conscious nature.
We may perhaps view the three terms Right, Duty and Dharma as degrees of an ascending consciousness. Consciousness at Its origin and in its primitive formulation is dominated by the principle of inertia (tamas); in that state things have mostly an undifferentiated collective existence, they helplessly move about acted upon by forces outside them. A rise in growth and evolution brings about differentiation, specialisation, organisation. And this means consciousness of oneself of the distinct and separate existence of each and everyone, in other words, self-assertion, the claim, the right of each individual unit to be itself, to become itself first and foremost. It is a necessary development; for it signifies the growth of self consciousness in the units out of a mass unconsciousness or semi-consciousness. It is the expression of rajas, the mode of dynamism, of strife and struggle, it is the corrective of tamas.
--
The principle of Dharma then inculcates that each individual must, in order to act, find out his truth of being, his true soul and inmost consciousness: one must entirely and integrally merge oneself into that, be identified with it in such a manner that all acts and feelings and thoughts, in fact all movements, inner and outerspontaneously and irrepressibly well out of that fount and origin. The individual souls, being made of one truth-nature in its multiple modalities, when they live, move and have their being in its essential law and dynamism, there cannot but be absolute harmony and perfect synthesis between all the units, even as the sun and moon and stars, as the Veda says, each following its specific orbit according to its specific nature, never collide or haltna me thate na tas thatuh but weave out a faultless pattern of symphony.
The future society of man is envisaged as something of like nature. When the mortal being will have found his immortal soul and divine self, then each one will be able to give full and free expression to his self-nature (swabhava); then indeed the utmost sweep of dynamism in each and all will not cause clash or conflict; on the contrary, each will increase the other and there will be a global increment and fulfilmentparasparam bhavayantah. The division and conflict, the stress and strain that belong to the very nature of the inferior level of being and consciousness will then have been transcended. It is only thus that a diviner humanity can be born and replace all the other moulds and types that can never lead to anything final and absolutely satisfactory.
01.13 - T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A modern Neo-Brahmin, Aldous Huxley, has given a solution of the problem in his now famous Shakespearean apothegm, "Time must have a stop". That is an old-world solution rediscovered by the modern mind in and through the ravages of Time's storm and stress. It means, salvation lies, after all, beyond the flow of Time, one must free oneself from the vicious and unending circle of mortal and mundane life. As the Rajayogi controls and holds his breath, stills all life- movement and realises a dead-stop of consciousness (Samadhi), even so one must control and stop all secular movements in oneself and attain a timeless stillness and vacancy in which alone the true spiritual light and life can descend and manifest. That is the age-long and ancient solution to which the Neo-Brahmin as well the Neo-Christian adheres.
Eliot seems to demur, however, and does not go to that extreme length. He wishes to go beyond, but to find out the source and matrix of the here below. As I said, he seeks a synthesis and not a mere transcendence: the transcendence is indeed a part of the synthesis, the other part is furnished by an immanence. He does not cut away altogether from Time, but reaches its outermost limit, its rim, its summit, where it stops, not altogether annihilated, but held in suspended animation. That is the "still point" to which he refers in the following lines:
--
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
--
First, the movement towards transcendence, that is the journey in the Night which you do throwing away one by one all your possessions and burdens till you make yourself bare and naked, you die but you are reborn a new babe:
Into another intensity
--
It is true the movement towards transcendence is stronger and apparent in our poet, but the other kindred point-of home and time-is not forgotten. So he says:
.History may be servitude,
01.14 - Nicholas Roerich, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The stress of the inner urge to the heights and depths of spiritual values and realities found special and significant expression in his paintings. It is a difficult problem, a problem which artists and poets are tackling today with all their skill and talent. Man's consciousness is no longer satisfied with the customary and the ordinary actions and reactions of life (or thought), with the old-world and time-worn modes and manners. It is no more turned to the apparent and the obvious, to the surface forms and movements of things. It yearns to look behind and beyond, for the secret mechanism, the hidden agency that really drives things. Poets and artists are the vanguards of the age to come, prophets and pioneers preparing the way for the Lord.
Roerich discovered and elaborated his own technique to reveal that which is secret, express that which is not expressed or expressible. First of all, he is symbolical and allegorical: secondly, the choice of his symbols and allegories is hieratic, that is to say, the subject-matter refers to objects and events connected with saints and legends, shrines and enchanted places, hidden treasures, spirits and angels, etc. etc.; thirdly, the manner or style of execution is what we may term pantomimic, in other words, concrete, graphic, dramatic, even melodramatic. He has a special predilection for geometrical patterns the artistic effect of whichbalance, regularity, fixity, soliditywas greatly utilised by the French painter Czanne and poet Mallarm who seem to have influenced Roerich to a considerable degree. But this Northerner had not the reticence, the suavity, the tonic unity of the classicist, nor the normality and clarity of the Latin temperament. The prophet, the priest in him was the stronger element and made use of the artist as the rites andceremoniesmudras and chakrasof his vocation demanded. Indeed, he stands as the hierophant of a new cultural religion and his paintings and utterances are, as it were, gestures that accompany a holy ceremonial.
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
goodwill; all its movements are ignorant and so they distort and
disfigure the Divine Presence.
--
Meditations, I wished to know which movement comes
first, "to live in Thee" or "to live for Thee". Before the
--
(2) Never allow any part of the being or any of its movements to contradict one's aspiration.
This also makes it necessary to become conscious of one's
--
Even "good and innocent movements" are said to take
on different colours in the light of the psychic flame.
0.12 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
only thing or does becoming conscious of one's movements, of one's speech, etc. also count?
Series Twelve - To a Student
0.13 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Desire is a vital movement, aspiration is a psychic movement.
When one has had a true aspiration, unselfish and sincere,
--
of them, all one's movements, impulses, thoughts and acts of
will, so that the psychic being may accept or reject each of these
0 1954-08-25 - what is this personality? and when will she come?, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Before, when there were we started with 35 or 36 people but even when it got up to 150, even with 150it was as if they were all nestled in a cocoon in my consciousness: they were so near to me that I could constantly guide ALL their inner or outer movements. Day and night, at each moment, everything was totally under my control. And naturally, I think they made a great deal of progress at that time: it is a fact that I was CONSTANTLY doing the sadhana2 for them. But then, with this baby boom The sadhana cant be done for little sprouts who are 3 or 4 or 5 years old! Its out of the question. The only thing I can do is wrap them in the Consciousness and try to see that they grow up in the best of all possible conditions. However, the one advantage to all this is that instead of there being such a COMPLETE and PASSIVE dependence on the disciples part, each one has to make his own little effort. Truly, thats excellent.
I dont know to whom I was mentioning this today (I think it was for a Birthday3 No, I dont know now. It was to someone who told me he was 18 years old. I said that between the ages of 18 and 20, I had attained a constant and conscious union with the Divine Presence and that I had done this ALL ALONE, without ANYONES help, not even books. When a little later I chanced upon Vivekanandas Raja Yoga, it really seemed so wonderful to me that someone could explain something to me! And it helped me realize in only a few months what would have otherwise taken years.
0 1955-09-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Mother suddenly everything seems to have crystallizedall the little revolts, the little tensions, the ill will and petty vital demandsforming a single block of open, determined resistance. I have become conscious that from the beginning of my sadhana, the mind has led the gamewith the psychic behind and has held me in leash, helped muzzle all contrary movements, but at no time, or only rarely, has the vital submitted or opened to the higher influence. The rare times when the vital participated, I felt a great progress. But now, I find myself in front of this solid mass that says No and is not at all convinced of what the mind has been imposing upon it for almost two years now.
Mother, I am sufficiently awakened not to rebel against your Light and to understand that the vital is but one part of my being, but I have come to the conclusion that the only way of convincing this vital is not to force or stifle it, but to let it go through its own experience so it may understand by itself that it cannot be satisfied in this way. I feel the need to leave the Ashram for a while to see how I can get along away from here and to realize, no doubt, that one can really brea the only here.
I have friends in Bangalore whom I would like to join for two or three weeks, perhaps more, perhaps less, however long it may take to confront this vital with its own freedom. I need a vital activity, to move, to sail, for example, to have friends etc. The need I am feeling is exactly that which I sought to satisfy in the past through my long boat journeys along the coast of Brittany. It is a kind of thirst for space and movement.
Otherwise, Mother, there is this block before me that is obscuring all the rest and taking away my taste for everything. I would like to leave, Mother, but not in revolt; may it be an experience to go through that receives your approval. I would not like to be cut off from you by your displeasure or your condemnation, for this would seem to me terrible and leave me no other recourse but to plunge into the worst excesses in order to forget.
0 1955-10-19, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
2) To unfold ones being before Him, to open entirely ones body from head to toe, as one opens a book, spreading open ones centers so as to make all their movements visible in a total SINCERITY that allows nothing to remain hidden.
3) To nestle in His arms, to melt in Him in a tender and absolute CONFIDENCE.
These movements may be accompanied by three formulas, or any one of them, depending upon the case:
1) May Your Will be done and not mine.
--
Generally, when these movements are made in the right way, they are followed by a perfect identification, a dissolution of the ego, bringing about a sublime felicity.
***
0 1956-02-29 - First Supramental Manifestation - The Golden Hammer, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
As I looked at the door, I knew and willed, in a single movement of consciousness, that THE TIME HAS COME, and lifting with both hands a mighty golden hammer I struck one blow, one single blow1 on the door and the door was shattered to pieces.
Then the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted flow.
0 1956-03-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
The control over the movements of the vertebrae, lost a long time ago (which resulted in a kind of insensitivity and incapacity to move them at will) has returned to a great extent: the consciousness is once again able to express itself and the back can straighten up very visibly.
***
0 1956-05-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Thats how the universal movement works (I read this to you a few days ago): through their inner effort and inner progress, certain individuals, who are the pioneers, the forerunners, enter into communication with the new Force which is to manifest, and they receive it in themselves. And because a number of calls like this surge forth, the thing becomes possible, and the era, the time, the moment for the manifestation comes. This is how it happened and the Manifestation took place.
But then, all those who were ready should have recognized it.
--
What I call a descent is the individual movement in an individual consciousness. But when a new world is manifesting in an old worldas when similarly the mind spread over the earth I call it a manifestation.
You may call it whatever you like, it makes no difference to me, but we must understand each other.
0 1957-07-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
It went something like this: somewhere, in the center of this enormous edifice, there was a room reservedas it seemed in the story for a mother and her daughter. The mother was a lady, an elderly lady, a very influential matron who had a great deal of authority and her own views concerning the entire organization. Her daughter seemed to have a power of movement and activity enabling her to be everywhere at once while at the same time remaining in her room, which was well, a bit more than a roomit was a kind of apartment which, above all, had the characteristic of being very central. But she was constantly arguing with her mother. The mother wanted to keep things just as they were, with their usual rhythm, which precisely meant the habit of tearing down one thing to rebuild another, then again tearing down that to build still another, thus giving the building an appearance of frightful confusion. But the daughter did not like this, and she had another plan. Most of all, she wanted to bring something completely new into the organization: a kind of super-organization that would render all this confusion unnecessary. Finally, as it was impossible for them to reach an understanding, the daughter left the room to go on a kind of general inspection She went out, looked everything over, and then wanted to return to her room to decide upon some final measures. But this is where something rather peculiar began happening.
She clearly remembered where her room was, but each time she set out to go there, either the staircase disappeared or things were so changed that she could no longer find her way! So she went here and there, up and down, searched, went in and out but it was impossible to find the way to her room! Since all of this assumed a physical appearanceas I said, a very familiar and very common appearance, as is always the case in these symbolic visions there was somewhere (how shall I put it?) the hotels administrative office and a woman who seemed to be the manager, who had all the keys and who knew where everyone was staying. So the daughter went to this person and asked her, Could you show me the way to my room?But of course! Easily! Everyone around the manager looked at her as if to say, How can you say that? However, she got up, and with authority asked for a key the key to the daughters roomsaying, I shall take you there. And off she went along all kinds of paths, but all so complicated, so bizarre! The daughter was following along behind her very attentively, you see, so as not to lose sight of her. But just as they should have come to the place where the daughters room was supposed to be, suddenly the manageress (let us call her the manageress), both the manageress and her key vanished! And the sense of this vanishing was so acute that at the same time, everything vanished!
--
It is certainly not an arbitrary construction of the type built by men, where everything is put pell-mell, without any order, without reality, and which is held together by only illusory ties. Here, these ties were symbolized by the hotels walls, while actually in ordinary human constructions (if we take a religious community, for example), they are symbolized by the building of a monastery, an identity of clothing, an identity of activities, an identity even of movementor to put it more precisely: everyone wears the same uniform, everyone gets up at the same time, everyone eats the same thing, everyone says his prayers together, etc.; there is an overall identity. But naturally, on the inside there remains the chaos of many disparate consciousnesses, each one following its own mode, for this kind of group identification, which extends right up to an identity of beliefs and dogma, is absolutely illusory.
Yet it is one of the most common types of human collectivityto group together, band together, unite around a common ideal, a common action, a common realization but in an absolutely artificial way. In contrast to this, Sri Aurobindo tells us that a true communitywhat he terms a gnostic or supramental communitycan be based only upon the INNER REALIZATION of each one of its members, each realizing his real, concrete oneness and identity with all the other members of the community; that is, each one should not feel himself a member connected to all the others in an arbitrary way, but that all are one within himself. For each one, the others should be as much himself as his own bodynot in a mental and artificial way, but through a fact of consciousness, by an inner realization.
--
This is why Sri Aurobindo has also written somewhere else that a double movement is necessary: the effort for individual progress and realization must be combined with the effort of trying to uplift the whole so as to enable it to make a progress indispensable for the greater progress of the individual: a mass progress, if you will, that allows the individual to take a further step forward.
And now you understand why I had thought it would be useful to have a few meditations in common, to work at creating a common atmosphere a bit more organized than my big hotel of last night!
0 1958-01-01, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
The evening I told you these things, I totally identified myself with Nature and I entered into her play. And this movement of identification brought forth a response, a new kind of intimacy between Nature and myself, a long movement of drawing ever nearer which culminated in an experience that came on November 8.
Nature suddenly understood. She understood that this newborn Consciousness does not seek to reject her, but wants to embrace her entirely. She understood that this new spirituality does not stand apart from life, does not timorously recoil before the awesome richness of her movement, but on the contrary wants to integrate all her facets. She understood that the supramental consciousness is not there to diminish her but to make her complete.
Then, from the supreme Reality came this command: Awaken, O Nature, to the joy of collaboration. And suddenly, all Nature rushed forth in an immense bounding of joy, saying, I accept! I will collaborate! And at the same time, there came a calm, an absolute tranquillity, to allow this receptacle, this body, to receive and contain without breaking and without losing anything of the Joy of Nature that was rushing forth in a movement of grateful recognition like an overwhelming flood. She accepted, she sawwith all eternity before her that this supramental consciousness would fulfill her more perfectly and impart a still greater force to her movement and more richness, more possibilities to her play.
And suddenly, as if resounding from every corner of the earth, I heard these great notes which are sometimes heard in the subtle physicalra ther like those of Beethovens Concerto in Dwhich come at moments of great progress, as though fifty orchestras were bursting forth all at once without a single discordant note, to sound the joy of this new communion of Nature and Spirit, the meeting of old friends who, after a long separation, find each other once more.
--
I have one thing to add: we must not misinterpret the meaning of this experience and imagine that henceforth everything will take place without difficulties or always in accordance with our personal desires. It is not at this level. It does not mean that when we do not want it to rain, it will not rain! Or when we want some event to take place in the world, it will immediately take place, or that all difficulties will be abolished and everything will be like a fairy tale. It is not like that. It is something more profound. Nature has accepted into her play of forces the newly manifested Force and has included it in her movements. But as always, the movements of Nature take place on a scale infinitely surpassing the human scale and invisible to the ordinary human consciousness. It is more of an inner, psychological possibility that has been born in the world than a spectacular change in earthly events.
I mention this because you might be tempted to believe that fairy tales are going to be realized upon earth. The time has not yet come.
0 1958-02-03b - The Supramental Ship, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
What I can say is that the criterion or the judgment was based EXCLUSIVELY on the substance constituting the peoplewhe ther they belonged completely to the supramental world or not, whether they were made of this very special substance. The criterion adopted was neither moral nor psychological. It is likely that their bodily substance was the result of an inner law or an inner movement which, at that time, was not in question. At least it is quite clear that the values are different.
When I came back, along with the memory of the experience, I knew that the supramental world was permanent, that my presence there is permanent, and that only a missing link is needed to allow the consciousness and the substance to connectand it is this link that is being built. At that time, my impression (an impression which remained rather long, almost the whole day) was of an extreme relativityno, not exactly that, but an impression that the relationship between this world and the other completely changes the criterion by which things are to be evaluated or judged. This criterion had nothing mental about it, and it gave the strange inner feeling that so many things we consider good or bad are not really so. It was very clear that everything depended upon the capacity of things and upon their ability to express the supramental world or be in relationship with it. It was so completely different, at times even so opposite to our ordinary way of looking at things! I recall one little thing that we usually consider bad actually how funny it was to see that it is something excellent! And other things that we consider important were really quite unimportant there! Whether it was like this or like that made no difference. What is very obvious is that our appreciation of what is divine or not divine is incorrect. I even laughed at certain things Our usual feeling about what is anti-divine seems artificial, based upon something untrue, unliving (besides, what we call life here appeared lifeless in comparison with that world); in any event, this feeling should be based upon our relationship between the two worlds and according to whether things make this relationship easier or more difficult. This would thus completely change our evaluation of what brings us nearer to the Divine or what takes us away from Him. With people, too, I saw that what helps them or prevents them from becoming supramental is very different from what our ordinary moral notions imagine. I felt just how ridiculous we are.
0 1958-05-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
When it is a question of movements like anger, desire, etc., you recognize that they are wrong and must disappear, but when material laws are in questionlaws of the body, for example, its needs, its health, its nourishment, all those things they have such a solid, compact, established and concrete reality that it appears absolutely unquestionable.
Well, to be able to cure that, which of all the obstacles is the greatest (I mean the habit of putting spiritual life on one side and material life on the other, of acknowledging the right of material laws to exist), one must make a resolution never to legitimize any of these movements, at any cost.
To be able to see the problem as it is, it is absolutely indispensable, as a first step, to get out of the mental consciousness, even out of a mental transcription (in the highest mind) of the supramental vision and truth. A thing cannot be seen as it is, in its truth, except in the supramental consciousness, and if you try to explain, it immediately begins to escape you because you are obliged to give it a mental formulation.
0 1958-07-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
When the Grace acts on the collectivity, each thing, each element, each principle, is put in its place as the result of a karmic logic in the universal movement. This is what gives us the impression of disorder and confusion as we see it.
When the Grace acts on the individual, it gives to each the maximum position according to what he is and what he has realized.
0 1958-07-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
A personal realization is very easy, it is nothing at all; a personal realization is one thing, but the power to control it among all men that is, to control or master such movements at will, everywhereis quite another. I dont believe that this condition has been fulfilled. If what the serpent said is true and if this is really what will vanquish these hostile forces that rule over money, well then, it has not been fulfilled.
It has been fulfilled to a certain extent but its negligible. It is conditional, limited: in one case, it works; in another, it doesnt. It is quite problematic. And naturally, where terrestrial things are involved (I dont say universal, but in any case terrestrial), when it is something involving the earth, it must be complete; there cannot be any approximations.
--
Perhaps it would not be necessary to have this power over all men, but in any event, it should be great enough to act upon the mass. It is likely that once a certain movement has been mastered to some degree, what the mass does or doesnt do (this whole human mass that has barely, barely emerged into even the mental consciousness) will become quite irrelevant. You see, the mass is still under the great rule of Nature. I am referring to mental humanity, predominantly mental, which developed the mind but misused it and immediately set out on the wrong pathfirst thing.
There is nothing to say since the first thing done by the divine forces which emanated for the Creation was to take the wrong path!6 That is the origin, the seed of this marvelous spirit of independence the negation of surrender, in other words. Man said, I have the power to think; I will do with it what I want, and no one has the right to intervene. I am free, I am an independent being, IN-DE-PEN-DENT! So thats how things stand: we are all independent beings!
But yesterday, in fact, I was looking (with all these mantras and these prayers and this whole vibration that has descended into the atmosphere, creating a state of constant calling in the atmosphere), and I remembered the old movements and how everything now has changed! I was also thinking of the old disciplines, one of which is to say, I am That.7 People were told to sit in meditation and repeat, I am That, to reach an identification. And it all seemed to me so obsolete, so childish, but at the same time a part of the whole. I looked, and it seemed so absurd to sit in meditation and say, I am That! I, what is this I who is That; what is this I, where is it? I was trying to find it, and I saw a tiny, microscopic point (to see it would almost require some gigantic instrument), a tiny, obscure point in an im-men-sity of Light, and that little point was the body. At the same timeit was absolutely simultaneous I saw the Presence of the Supreme as a very, very, very, VERY immense Being, within which was I in an attitude of (I was only a sensation, you see), an attitude (gesture of surrender) like this. There were no limits, yet at the same time, one felt the joy of being permeated, enveloped and of being able to widen, widen, widen indefinitelyto widen the whole being, from the highest consciousness to the most material consciousness. And then, at the same time, to look at this body and to see every cell, every atom vibrating with a divine, radiant Presence with all its Consciousness, all its Power, all its Will, all its Loveall, all, really and a joy! An extraordinary joy. And one did not disturb the other, nothing was contradictory and everything was felt at the same time. That was when I said, But truly! This body had to have the training it has had for more than seventy years to be able to bear all that without starting to cry out or dance or leap up or whatever it might be! No, it was calm (it was exultant, but it was very calm), and it remained in control of its movements and its words. In spite of the fact that it was really living in another world, it could apparently act normal due to this strenuous training in self-control by the REASONby the reasonover the whole being, which has tamed it and given it such a great cohesive power that I can BE in the experience, I can LIVE this experience, and at the same time respond with the most amiable of smiles to the most idiotic questions!
And then, it always ends in the same way, by a canticle to the action of the grace: O, Lord! You are truly marvelous! All the experiences I have needed to pass through You have given to me, all the things I needed to do to make this body ready You have made me do, and always with the feeling that it was You who was making me do itand with the universal disapproval of all the right-minded humanity!
0 1958-07-19, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
At heart, this is the symbol of the earthly Paradise and the tree of Knowledge: by biting into the fruit of Knowledge, one loses the spontaneity of movement and begins objectivizing, learning, questioning. So as soon as they ate of this fruit, they were full of sin.
I say that every fruit should be eaten in its own way. The being who lives according to his own nature, his own truth, must spontaneously find the right way of using things. When you live according to the truth of your being, you dont need to learn things: you do them spontaneously, according to the inner law. When you sincerely follow your nature, spontaneously and sincerely, you are divine. As soon as you think or look at yourself acting or start questioning, you are full of sin.
0 1958-07-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
But instead of using the energy in this way, they immediately throw it out. They start stirring about, reacting, working, speaking They feel full of energy and they throw it all out! They cant keep anything. So naturally, since the energy was not sent to be wasted like that but for an inner use, they feel absolutely flat, run down. And it is universal. They dont know, they do not know how to make this movementto turn within, to use the energy (not to keep it, it doesnt keep), to use it to repair the damage done to the body and to go deeply within to find the reason for this accident or illness, and there to change it by an aspiration, an inner transformation. Instead of that, right away they start speaking, stirring about, reacting, doing this or that!
In fact, the immense majority of human beings feel they are living only when they waste their energy. Otherwise, it does not seem to them to be life.
0 1958-09-16 - OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
The other day (I was in my bathroom upstairs), it came; it took hold of the entire body. It rose up in the same way, and all the cells were trembling. And with such a power! So I stopped everything, all movement, and I let the thing grow. The vibration went on expanding, ever widening, as the sound itself was expanding, expanding, and all the cells of the body were seized with an intensity of aspiration as if the entire body were swellingit became overwhelming. I felt that it would all burst.
I understood those who withdraw from everything to live that totally.
--
For me, on the days when I have no special preoccupations or difficulties (days I could call normal, when I am normal), everything I do, all the movements of this body, all, all the words I utter, all the gestures I make, are accompanied and upheld by or lined, as it were, with this mantra:
OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH
0 1958-10-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
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.
--
We are told that in a few millions or billions of years, the earth will become some kind of moon. The movement should be the opposite: the earth should become more and more a resplendent sun, but a sun of life. Not a sun that burns, but a sun that illuminesa radiant glory.
Puja: ceremony , invocation or evocation of a god (in this case, a tantric ritual ).
0 1958-11-04 - Myths are True and Gods exist - mental formation and occult faculties - exteriorization - work in dreams, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Then comes the story of Anusuya and her husb and (who is truly a husb and a very good man, but well, not a god, after all!), who was sleeping with his head resting upon Anusuyas knees. They had finished their puja (both of them were worshippers of Shiva), and after their puja he was resting, sleeping, with his head on Anusuyas knees. Meanwhile, the gods had descended upon earth, particularly this Parvati, and they saw Anusuya like that. Then Parvati exclaimed, This is a good occasion! Not very far away a cooking fire was burning. With her power, she sent the fire rolling down onto Anusuyas feetwhich startled her because it hurt. It began to burn; not one cry, not one movement, nothing because she didnt want to awaken her husband. But she began invoking Shiva (Shiva was there). And because she invoked Shiva (it is lovely in the story), because she invoked Shiva, Shivas foot began burning! (Mother laughs) Then Narada showed Shiva to Parvati: Look what you are doing; you are burning your husbands foot! So Parvati made the opposite gesture and the fire was put out.
Thats how it went.
0 1958-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Scarcely had these words been formulated when there I was, at the bottom of the hole! And it was absolutely as if a tremendous, almighty spring were there, and then (Mother hits the table) vrrrm! I was cast out of the abyss into a vastness. My body immediately sat straight up, head on high, following the movement. If someone had been watching, this is what he would have seen: in a single bound, vrrrm! Straight up, to the maximum, my head on high.
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.
--
I dont think I am mistaken, for there was such a superabundant feeling of power, of warmth, of gold It was not fluid, it was like a powdering. And each of these things (they cannot be called specks or fragments, nor even points, unless you understand it in the mathematical sense, a point that occupies no space) was something equivalent to a mathematical point, but like living gold, a powdering of warm gold. I cannot say it was sparkling, I cannot say it was dark, nor was it made of light, either: a multitude of tiny points of gold, nothing but that. They seemed to be touching my eyes, my face and with such an inherent power and warmthit was a splendor! And then, at the same time, the feeling of a plenitude, the PEACE of omnipotence It was rich, it was full. It was movement at its ultimate, infinitely swifter than all one can imagine, and at the same time it was absolute peace, perfect tranquillity.
(Mother resumes her message)
0 1958-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
The quality or the kind of relationship I had with the Supreme at that moment was entirely different from the one we have hereeven the identification had a different quality. One can very well understand that all the lower movements are different but this identification by which the Supreme governs and lives in us was the summit of our experience herewell, the way He governs and lives is different depending on whether we are in this hemisphere here or in the supramental life. And at that moment (the experience of November 13), what made the experience so intense was that I came to perceive vaguely both these states of consciousness at once. It was almost as if the Supreme Himself were different, or our experience of Him. And yet, in both cases, it was a contact with the Supreme. It is probably how we perceive Him or the way in which we translate it that differs, but the fact is that the quality of the experience is different.
In the other hemisphere, there is an intensity and a plenitude which are translated by a power different from the one here. How can I formulate it?I cannot.
0 1958-11-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
If you can when the attack comes, if you can cling to something that knows, or to something in you that has had the experience, and if you can hold onto that memory, even if it is only a memory, and cling to that in spite of all that denies and revolts Above all not To keep your head as still as possible. And not follow the movement, not succumb to the vibration.
Because from what I have seen and from what I was told, I am sure that it is decisive, that what is offered to you is the possibility of a decisive victory, which means that it will no longer recur in the same way.
0 1958-11-27 - Intermediaries and Immediacy, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
One day I had mentioned this to X1 when he was showing me or describing to me the different movements of the pujas, the procedure, the process of the puja. I said to him, Oh, I see! For the action to be immediate, for the result to be immediate, one must acknowledge, for example, the role or the participation of certain spirits or certain forces and enter into a friendly relationship or collaboration with these forces in order to obtain an immediate result, is it not so? Then he told me, Yes, otherwise it leaves an indefinite time to the play of the forces, and you dont know when you will get the result of your puja.
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.
0 1959-03-10 - vital dagger, vital mass, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
I, who know the consequences of these things, stopped him just in time I gave him a blow. Then I had enough of all this and it was over, I cleaned the place out. It was almost a physical cleaning, for I had my hands clasped together (I was in a semitrance) and I threw them apart in an abrupt movement, left and right, powerfully, as if to sweep something away, and frrt! immediately everything was gone.
But had that not happened I was watching, not exactly with curiosity, but in order to learnto learn what kind of atmosphere people live in! And it is ALWAYS like that! They are always pestered by HORDES of little formations that are absolutely swarming and disgusting, each one making its nasty little suggestion.
Take these movements of anger, for example, when someone is carried away by his passion and does things which, in his normal state, he would never do: he is not doing it, it is done by these little formations which are there, swarming in the atmosphere, just waiting for an occasion to rush in.
When you see them, oh! its suffocating. When youre in contact with that Really, you wonder how anyone can brea the in such an atmosphere. And yet people CONSTANTLY live in that atmosphere! They live in it. Only when they rise above are they NOT in it. Or else there are those who are entirely below; but those are the toys of these things, and their reactions are sometimes not only unexpected but absolutely dreadfulbecause they are puppets in the hands of these things.
--
And I express this in my own way when I say1 that thoughts come and go, flow in and out. But thoughts concerning material things are formations originating in that world, they are kinds of wills coming from the vital plane which try to express themselves, and most often they are truly deadly. If you are annoyed, for example, if someone says something unpleasant to you and you react It always happens in the same way; these little entities are there waiting, and when they feel its the right moment, they introduce their influence and their suggestions. This is what is vitally symbolized by the being with his dagger rushing forward to stab youand in the back, at that! Not even face to face! This then expresses itself in the human consciousness by a movement of anger or rage or indignation: How intolerable! How ! And the other fellow says, Yes! We shall put an end to it!
It is quite interesting to watch it once, but it isnt very pleasant.
0 1959-06-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
You are constantly with me, and I am following all your inner movements with love and concern.
The great secret is to learn to give oneself
0 1959-10-06 - Sri Aurobindos abode, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
In fact, when I walk back and forth in my room, I dont cut myself off from the rest of the worldalthough it would be so much more convenient! All kinds of things come to mesuggestions, wills, aspirations. But automatically I make a movement of offering: things come to me and just as they are about to touch my head, I turn them upwards and offer them to the Light. They dont enter into me. For example, if someone speaks to me while I am saying my japa, I hear quite well what is being said, I may even answer, but the words remain a little outside, at a certain distance from the head. And yet sometimes, there are things that insist, more defined wills that present themselves to me, so then I have to do a little work, but all that without a pause in the japa. If that happens, there is sometimes a change in the quality of my japa, and instead of being fully the power, fully the light, it is certainly something that produces results, but results more or less sure, more or less long to fructify; it becomes uncertain, as with all things of this physical world. Yet the difference between the two japas is imperceptible; its not a difference between saying the japa in a more or less mechanical way and saying it consciously, because even while I work I remain fully conscious of the japa I continue to repeat it putting the full meaning into each syllable. But nevertheless, there is a difference. One is the all-powerful japa; the other, an almost ordinary japa There is a difference in the inner attitude. Perhaps for the japa to become true, a kind of joy, an elation, a warmth of enthusiasm has to be added but especially joy. Then everything changes.
Well, it is the same thing, the same imperceptible difference, when it comes to entering the world of Truth. On one side there is the falsehood, and on the other, close by, like the lining of this one, the true life. Only a little difference in the inner quality, a little reversal, is enough to pass to the other side, into the Truth and Light.
0 1959-11-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
The deathless state is what can be envisaged for the human physical body in the future: it is constant rebirth. Instead of again tumbling backwards and falling apart due to a lack of plasticity and an incapacity to adapt to the universal movement, the body is undone futurewards, as it were.
There is one element that remains fixed: for each type of atom, the inner organization of the elements is different, which is what creates the difference in their substance. So perhaps similarly, each individual has a different, particular way of organizing the cells of his body, and it is this particular way that persists through all the outer changes. All the rest is undone and redone, but undone in a forward thrust towards the new instead of collapsing backwards into death, and redone in a constant aspiration to follow the progressive movement of the divine Truth.
But for that, the body the body-consciousness must first learn to widen itself. It is indispensable, for otherwise all the cells become a kind of boiling porridge under the pressure of the supramental light.
What usually happens is that when the body reaches its maximum intensity of aspiration or of ecstasy of Love, it is unable to contain it. It becomes flat, motionless. It falls back. Things settle downyou are enriched with a new vibration, but then everything resumes its course. So you must widen yourself in order to learn to bear unflinchingly the intensities of the supramental force, to go forward always, always with the ascending movement of the divine Truth, without falling backwards into the decrepitude of the body.
That is what Sri Aurobindo means when he speaks of an intolerable ecstasy1; it is not an intolerable ecstasy: it is an unflinching ecstasy.
0 1960-04-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Our turn will come in twenty to thirty years. To win, we need an element of surprise. The bourgeoisie should be lulled to sleep. Therefore, we must first launch the most spectacular peace movement that has ever existed, replete with inspiring proposals and extraordinary concessions. The stupid and decadent capitalist countries will cooperate joyfully in their own destruction. They will jump at this new opportunity for friendship. As soon as their guard is down, we shall crush them beneath our closed fist.
(Quoted in the Revue Militaire d Information, December 1959.)
0 1960-05-21 - true purity - you have to be the Divine to overcome hostile forces, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
For example, there was one difficulty he helped me resolve. I have always been literally pestered, constantly, night and day, by all kinds of thoughts coming from peopleall kinds of calls, questions, formations2 that have naturally to be answered. For I have trained myself to be conscious of everything, always. But it disturbed me in the work, particularly when I needed absolute concentration and I could never cut myself off from people or cut myself off from the world. I had to answer all these calls and these questions, I had to send the necessary force, the necessary light, the healing power, I constantly had to purify all these formations, these thoughts, these wills, these false movements that were falling on me.
What was needed was to effect a shift, a sort of transference upwards, a lifting up of all these things that come to meso that each one, each thing, each circumstance could directly and automatically receive the force from above, the light, the response from above, and I would be a mere intermediary and a channel of the Light and the Force.
--
Formations, in occult language, refer to all the psychological movements and impulses, conscious or unconscious, constantly emanating from the disciples and others, and which leave an imprint in the subtle atmosphere or a wandering entity seeking to fulfill itself.
***
0 1960-05-24 - supramental flood, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
It was as vast as the universe, a continuous movement the movement of manifestation of something which was EVERYTHING at once, a single whole. There was no division. And such a variety of colors, vibrations, powersextraordinary! It was one single thing, and everything was within it.
The three Supreme Principles were very clearly there: Existence, Consciousness (an active, realizing consciousness) and Ananda. A universal vastness that kept going on and on and on
0 1960-05-28 - death of K - the death process- the subtle physical, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
For theres a consciousness of the form, a life of the form. Theres a consciousness, a consciousness in the form assumed by the cells. That takes SEVEN DAYS to come out. So sometimes the body makes abrupt movements when burnedpeople say its mechanical. Its not mechanical, I know its not.
I know it. I know that this consciousness of the form exists since I have actually gone out of it. Once, long back, I was in a so-called cataleptic state, and after awhile, while still in this state, the body began living again2; that is, it was capable of speaking and even moving (it was Theon who gave me this training). The body managed to get up and move. And yet, everything had gone out of it!
--
I know one person, a boy who died here, who was burned before he had left! He had a weak heart, and not enough care was taken that is, they probably should not have operated on him. He was our engineer. He died in the hospital. Not a serious operation, an appendicitis, but his heart could not take up its natural movement.
But as he was accustomed to going out of his body, he didnt know! He even used to make experimentshe would go out, circle around in his room, see his body from outside, observe the difference between the subtle physical and the material physical, etc. So he didnt know. And its only when they burned his body
--
It was at Tlemcen, in Algeria. While Mother was in trance, Theon caused the thread which linked Mother to her body to break through a movement of anger. He was angry because Mother, who was in a region where she saw the 'mantra of life,' refused to tell him the mantra. Faced with the enormity of the result of his anger Theon got hold of himself, and it took all Mother's force and all Theon's occult science to get Mother back into her bodywhich created a kind of very painful friction at the moment of re-entry, perhaps the type of friction that makes new born children cry out.
***
0 1960-06-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
This is the main reason for my japa. Theres a power in the sound itself, and by forcing the body to repeat the sound, you force it to receive the vibration at the same time. But Ive noticed that if something in the bodys working gets disturbed (a pain or disorder, the onset of some illness) and I repeat my mantra in a certain waystill the same words, the same mantra, but said with a certain purpose and above all in a movement of surrender, surrender of the pain, the disorder, and a call, like an openingit has a marvelous effect. The mantra acts in just the right way, in this way and in no other. And after a while everything is put back in order. And simultaneously, of course, the precise knowledge of what lies behind the disorder and what I must do to set it right comes to me. But quite apart from this, the mantra acts directly upon the pain itself.
I also use my mantra to go into trance. After relaxing on the bed and making as total a self-offering as possible of everything, from top to bottom, and after removing as fully as possible all resistance of the ego, I start repeating the mantra.1 After repeating it two or three times, I am in trance (at the beginning it took longer). And from this trance I pass into sleep; the trance lasts as long as necessary and, quite naturally, spontaneously, I pass into sleep. And when I come back, I remember everything. The sleep was like a continuation of the trance. And essentially, the only reason for sleep is to allow the body to assimilate the results of the trance, then to allow these results to be accepted throughout and to let the body do its natural nights work of eliminating toxins. My periods of sleep practically dont exist sometimes they are as short as half an hour or 15 minutes. But in the beginning, I had long periods of sleep, one or even two hours in succession. And when I woke up, I did not feel this residue of heaviness which comes from sleep the effects of the trance continued.
0 1960-06-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
The ego, the knot, I dont know. I dont know what movement to make.
(silence)
0 1960-07-12 - Mothers Vision - the Voice, the ashram a tiny part of myself, the Mothers Force, sparkling white light compressed - enormous formation of negative vibrations - light in evil, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
What was me was up above, and the Ashram was It began just here (the navel) and went that way (downwards), and it was encircled, to show that it was a special formationencircled in the inconscience of the terrestrial creation. And I was everything else, with the usual vibrations of power and light. And then one current and another current and another were passing into it, into this formation, and they kept going in and in and in, accumulating. They kept going in, and yet they did not come out, they did not leave. It was not an undulatory movement, but rather a pulsating movementit had no beginning, it didnt go out, and yet it kept moving. Its very difficult to describe.
The formation represented by the Ashram was located approximately here, at the height of the navel in relation to what I was but although the body was not delimited, it had certain attri butes or undefined forms, each one of which was situated in relation to the other as though each represented one part of the body; each was symbolic of either an activity or a part of the world or a mode of manifestation. So the formation started from about here, near the navel, and went down towards the appendix Here, Ill draw you a sketch:
--
You know, so there is no longer this uneasiness, this shrinking. You feel carried more and more by all that you reject; you are in a forward movement, further and further, higher, constantly further.
***
0 1960-07-23 - The Flood and the race - turning back to guide and save amongst the torrents - sadhana vs tamas and destruction - power of giving and offering - Japa, 7 lakhs, 140000 per day, 1 crore takes 20 years, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
The water was flowing off towards the right. From time to time there were these fissured dips or depressions along the vehicles path where the water rushed through, and in fact it must have rushed through each one just as soon as I had sped past. It was most dangerous, for if you had reached there a second too late, the water would already have flooded in and you would no longer have been able to get across; it was such that with even only a few drops, you would no longer get across. Not that they were very wide, but And the water was pouring in (pouring in our words are very small), it was pouring in, and I could see it ahead, but then the vehicle would arrive at full speed and instead of stopping, in a wild roller coaster-like movement it would plunge through, vroom!just in time, exactly like a roller coaster. I always arrived just in time to get through. And then again the same thing, broken here and there (in this way there were many fissures, though Ive only drawn two; there were quite a few, five or six at least), and again we would dart across, then race on until we would reach the spot where I have drawn the water turning.
Right at the end, there was a place where the water had to turn to run downthis was the Great Passage. If you got caught in that, it was all over. You had to reach this spot and cross over before the water came. It was the only place you could get across. Then a last plunge, and like an arrow shot from a bow, full speed ahead, I crossed over and there I was.
--
The vehicle and the forward movement are the sadhana, beyond the shadow of a doubt. I understood that the speed of sadhana was greater than the speed of the forces of destruction. And it ended in certain victory, there is not a shadow of doubt. This feeling of POWER once I was firmly grounded there [in the square], enough power to help others.
These were universal forces. I cant say it means war. Ive foreseen many warswidespread wars, local wars, so many warsand up to now they have never been presented to me in that form. Theyve always come as a fireflames, flames, the home burning. Not as an inundation.
0 1960-07-26 - Mothers vision - looking up words in the subconscient, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
However, its not a personal subconscient, but a its more than the Ashram. For me, the Ashram is not a separate individualityexcept in that vision the other day,1 which is what surprised me. Its hardly that. Rather, it is still this movement of everything, of everything that is included. So its like entering into the subconscient of the whole earth, and it takes on forms which are quite familiar images to me, but they are absolutely symbolic and very, very funny! It took a moment to see that vainquons is spelled q-u-o-n-s. And I wasnt sure! I meant to ask Pavitra for a dictionary which gives verb conjugations, for then if Im stuck on something while writing, I can look it up.
The other day I wrote somethingit was a letter I gave Pavitra to read. I think theres a spelling mistake, he said. Its quite possible, I answered, I make plenty of them. He looked it up in a splendid dictionary and, as a matter of fact, it was a mistake. I meant to ask him for a dictionary this morning.
0 1960-09-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Actually, it was very different at that time because I was not even aware of any resistance or any difficulty in the outer being; it was automatic, the work was done automatically. Later on, when I had to do both thingswhat he had been doing as well as what I was doingit became rather complicated and I realized there were many what we could call gapsthings which had to be worked out, transformed, set right before the total work could be done without hindrance. So then I began. And several times I thought how unfortunate it was that I had never studied or pursued certain ancient Indian disciplines. Because, for example, when Sri Aurobindo and I were working to bring down the supramental forces, a descent from the mental plane to the vital plane, he was always telling me that everything I did (when we meditated together, when we worked)all my movements, all my gestures, all my postures, all my reactionswas absolutely tantric, as if I had pursued a tantric discipline. But it was spontaneous, it did not correspond to any knowledge, any idea, any will, nothing, and I thought it was like that simply because, as He knew, naturally I followed.
Later on, when Sri Aurobindo left his body, I said to myself, If only I knew what he had known, it would be easier! So when Swami and later X came, I thought, I am going to take advantage of this opportunity. I had written to Swami that I was working on transforming the cells of the body and that I had noticed the work was going faster with Xs influence. So it was understood that X would help when he came thats how things began, and this idea has remained with X. But I have raced on I dont wait. Ive raced on, Ive gone like wildfire. And now the situation is reversed. What I wanted to find out, I found out. I experienced what I wanted to experience, but he is still He is very kind, actually, he wants really to help me. So, when I identified with him the other day during our meditation, I realized that he wanted to give silence, control and perfect peace to the physical mind. My own trick, if you will, is to have as little relationship with the physical mind as possible, to go up above and stay therethis (Mother indicates her forehead), silent, motionless, turned upwards, while That (gesture above the head) sees, acts, knows, decidesall is done from there. Only there can you feel at ease.
--
When I got there, I felt a moment of anguish; my feeling was that nothing could be done. Not for him in particular, but universally, for all those in his categoryit seemed hopeless.6 If that was perfection, then nothing more could be done. This lasted only a second, but it was painful. And then I tried that is, I wanted to bring my consciousness down into the highest cubethis eternal, universal and infinite consciousness which is the first and foremost expression of the manifestation but nothing doing. It was impossible. I tried for several minutes and saw that it was absolutely impossible. So I had to make a curious movement (I couldnt get through it, it was impassable), I had to come back down into the so-called lower consciousness (not lower, actuallyit was vast and impersonal), and from there I came out and regained my equilibrium. This is what gave me that splitting headache I told you about. I came out of there as if I were carrying the weight the weight of an irreducible absoluteit was dreadful. Unfortunately, I was unable to rest afterwards, and as people were waiting to see me, I had to talkwhich is very tiring for me. And this produced a bubbling in my head, like a this dark blue light of power in matter was there, shot through with streaks of white and gold, and all this was flashing back and forth in my head, this way and that way I thought I was going to have a stroke! (Mother laughs)
This lasted a good half hour before I could calm it down, make it quiet, quiet. And I saw that this came from the fact that he wanted to bring the Power down, to transmit the Power into the physical mind! But as soon as Im put in contact with the Power, you understand, it makes everything explode! (Mother laughs) It felt exactly like my head was going to explode!
0 1960-10-02a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
It always gives me the feeling that I am shrinking a little, but its interesting. And its useful, for I am constantly moving about and doing things with people; it indicates to me what I have to say and do with each one. Its useful. But all the same, I miss the fullness and joy of the more impersonal movement of forces.
Before going to bed, sometimes I say to myself, I will do what is necessary to spend my night in these great currents of force(because there is a way to do it). And then I think, Oh, what an egotist you are, my girl! So sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesntwhen theres something important to do, it doesnt happen. But all I have to do is concentrate in a certain way before going to sleep to spend my whole night in these very far from here, very far I cant say very far from the earth, for surely its in an intermediate zone between the forces from above and the earths atmosphere. Thats what it mainly is, in any case. Its a great universal current as well, but mainly its what descends and comes onto the earth, and it is permeating the earths atmosphere all the time, all the time, and it comes with this wide, overall visionit makes for wonderful nights I no longer bother about people at allat least not as such, but in a more impersonal way.
--
This, too, Sri Aurobindo had explained to me. I used to tell him, Yes, you always speak of lifes delight, life for the sake of its delight. But as soon as I had the notion, as soon as I was put in the presence of the Supreme, it was: For Youexclusively what You want. You are the sole, the unique and exclusive reason for being. And that has remained, and this movement is so strong that even when you see, now I have ecstasy and ananda in abundanceeverything comes, everything. But even then, even when that is there, something in me always turns towards the Supreme and says, Does this TRULY serve You? Is it what You expect of me, what You want from me?
This has protected me from all seeking for pleasure in life. It was a wonderful protection, because pleasure always seemed so futile to meyes, futile; for the sake of your personal satisfaction. Later, I even understood how foolish it is, for you can never be satisfiedthough when youre small you dont yet know that. I never liked it: But is it really useful, does it serve some purpose? And I still have this attitude in regard to my nights. I have this widening of the consciousness, this impersonalization, this wonderful joy of being above all that. But at the same time I also have, Im here in this body, on earth, to do something I mustnt forget it. And this is what I have to do. But probably Im wrong!
0 1960-10-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
The day before yesterday, I spent the whole night looking on. I had read the passage by Sri Aurobindo in The Synthesis on supramental time (wherein past, present and future coexist in a global consciousness). While youre in it, its marvelous! You understand things perfectly. But when youre not in it Above all, theres this problem of how to keep the force of ones aspiration, the power of progress, this power which seems so inevitableso inevitable if existence (lets simply take terrestrial existence) is to mean anything and its presence to be justified. (This ascending movement towards a progressive better that will be eternally better)How is this to be kept when you have the total vision this vision in which everything coexists. At that moment, the other becomes something like a game, an amusement, if you will. (Not everyone finds it amusing!) And when you contain all that, why allow yourself the pleasure of succession? Is this pleasure of succession, of seeing things one after the other, equal to this intensity of the will for progress? Words are foolish!
The effort to see and to understand this gripped me all night. And when I woke up this morning, I thanked the Lord; I said to Him, Obviously, if You were to keep me totally in that consciousness, I could no longer I could no longer do my work! How could I do my work? For I can only say something to people when I feel it or see it, when I see that its what must be said, but if I am simultaneously in a consciousness in which Im aware of everything that has led to that situation, everything that is going to happen, everything Im going to say, everything the others going to feel then how could I do it!
0 1960-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
It all began the day I received the news of Zs arrival. All right, I thought, heres a chunk of life sent back to me for clarifying. I must work on it. But it didnt stop there Its strange how all this past had been swept clean I could no longer remember dates, I couldnt even remember when Z had been here before, I no longer knew what had happened, it had all been wiped cleanwhich means that it had all been pushed down into the subconscient. I didnt even know how I used to speak to him when I saw him, nothing, it was all gone. All that had remained alive were one or two movements or facts which were clearly connected to the psychic life, the psychic consciousness but just one or two or three such memories; all the rest was gone.
So a whole slice of my life came back, but it didnt stop there! It keeps extending back further and further, and memories keep on coming, things that go back sixty years now, even beyond, seventy, seventy-five yearsthey are all coming back. And so it all has to be put in order.
0 1960-12-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
A sort of unification is taking place [in you], as if you had become a more uniform whole within-without. I dont know how to explain thisit feels more unified, more organizeduniform. Not some parts more developed and others less so, some more luminous and others less so; its much more uniform, and uniform even in the vibration, a kind of really a uniformity in all its movements, responses, vibrations, light. And this kind of powdering of the new light which I see is much more widespread. Its as if everything, everything what is happening is really a work of unifyingstabilizing, unifying. And this powdering of golden light has completely enveloped you, with this same blue light in your japa, with different intensities of powerboth are there. Like a unifying of the consciousness, as if all the less receptive elements were starting to open, thereby creating a much more homogeneous whole. I dont know how your nights are, but
Not very conscious.
0 1960-12-13, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
For the last several days, Ive been at grips fighting with it. How can I stop this idiotic, coarse and above all defeatist automatism from constantly manifesting? Its truly an automatism; it doesnt respond to any conscious will, nothing. So what will it take to ? And its QUITE INTIMATELY related to the bodys illnesses (the old habits the body has of coming out of its rhythmic movement, of entering into confusion)the two things are very intimately linked.
Im deep in the problem.
0 1960-12-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
And now, all these different attitudes which individuals, groups and categories of men hold are coming from every direction (while Im walking upstairs) to assert their own points of view as the true thing. And I see that for myself, Im being forced to deal with a whole mass of things, most of which are quite futile from an ordinary point of viewnot to mention the things of which these moral or religious types disapprove. Quite interestingly, all kinds of mental formations come like arrows while Im walking for my japa upstairs (Mother makes a gesture of little arrows in the air coming into her mental atmosphere from every direction); and yet, Im entirely in what I could call the joy and happiness of my japa, full of the energy of walking (the purpose of walking is to give a material energy to the experience, in all the bodys cells). Yet in spite of this, one thing after another comes, like this, like that (Mother draws little arrows in the air): what I must do, what I must answer to this person, what I must say to that one, what has to be done All kinds of things, most of which might be considered most futile! And I see that all this is SITUATED in a totality, and this totality I could say that its nothing but the body of the Divine. I FEEL it, actually, I feel it as if I were touching it everywhere (Mother touches her arms, her hands, her body). And all these things neither veil nor destroy nor divert this feeling of being entirely this a movement, an action in the body of the Divine. And its increasing from day to day, for it seems that He is plunging me more and more into entirely material things with the will that THERE TOO it must be done that all these things must be consciously full of Him; they are full of Him, in actual fact, but it must become conscious, with the perception that it is all the very substance of His being which is moving in everything
It was quite beautiful on the balcony this morning
0 1960-12-31, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Noise, movement, confusion, people Noise always gives me the impression of chaos, always.
I must say that downstairs on Darshan days people chat, look each other over, see how he or she is dressedits like a county fair around the Samadhi.
0 1961-01-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You have this experience when for some reason or other, depending on the case, you come into contact with the universal consciousness not in its limitless essence but on any level of Matter. There is an atomic consciousness, a purely material consciousness and an even more generally prevailing psychological consciousness. When, through interiorization or a sort of withdrawal from the ego you enter into contact with that zone of consciousness we can call psychological terrestrial or human collective (there is a difference: human collective is restricted, while terrestrial includes many animal and even plant vibrations; but in the present case, since the moral notion of guilt, sin and evil belongs exclusively to human consciousness, let us simply say human collective psychological consciousness); when you contact that through identification, you naturally feel or see or know yourself capable of any human movement whatsoever. To some extent, this constitutes a Truth-Consciousness, or at such times the egoistical sense of what does or doesnt belong to you, of what you can or cannot do, disappears; you realize that the fundamental construction of human consciousness makes any human being capable of doing anything. And since you are in a truth-consciousness, you are aware at the same time that to feel judgmental or disgusted or revolted would be an absurdity, for EVERYTHING is potentially there inside you. And should you happen to be penetrated by certain currents of force (which we usually cant follow: we see them come and go but we are generally unaware of their origin and direction), if any one of these currents penetrates you, it can make you do anything.
If one always remained in this state of consciousness, keeping alive the flame of Agni, the flame of purification and progress, then after some time, not only could one prevent these movements from taking an active form in oneself and becoming expressed physically, but one could act upon the very nature of the movement and transform it. Needless to say, however, that unless one has attained a very high degree of realization it is virtually impossible to keep this state of consciousness for long. Almost immediately one falls back into the egoistic consciousness of the separate self, and all the difficulties return: disgust, the revolt against certain things and the horror they create in us, and so on.
It is probableeven certain that until one is completely transformed these movements of disgust and revolt are necessary to make one do WITHIN ONESELF what is needed to slam the door on them. For after all, the point is to not let them manifest.
In another aphorism, Sri Aurobindo says (I no longer recall his exact words) that sin is simply something no longer in its place. In this perpetual Becoming nothing is ever reproduced and some things disappear, so to speak, into the past; and when its time for them to disappear, they seemto our very limited consciousness evil and repulsive: we revolt against them because their time is past.
--
Of course, people who dont think deeply enough will say, Oh, but if we see that things are exactly as they should be, then nothing will budge. But no! There isnt a fraction of a second when things arent moving: theres a continuous and total transformation, a movement that never stops. Only because its difficult for us to feel that way can we imagine that by our entering certain states of consciousness things would not change. Even if we entered into an apparently total inertia, things would continue to change and we along with them!
Ultimately, disgust, rebellion and anger, all movements of violence, are necessarily movements of ignorance and of limitation with all the weakness that limitation implies. Rebellion is a weakness, for its the feeling of an impotent will. When you feel, when you see that things are not as they should be, then you rebel against whatever is out of keeping with your vision. But if you were all-powerful, if your will and your vision were all-powerful, there would be no opportunity to rebel! You would always see that all things are as they should be! That is omnipotence.1 Then all these movements of violence become not only useless but profoundly ridiculous.
Consequently, there is only one solution: by aspiration, concentration, interiorization and identification, to unite with the supreme Will. And that is both omnipotence and perfect freedom. Its the only omnipotence, the only freedomall the rest are approximations. You may be en route, but its not That, not the total thing.
0 1961-01-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This mental habit of always cloaking everything with a favorable appearance, of giving all movements a favorable explanation, is at times so flagrant that it can fool nobody but oneself (although it may occasionally be subtle enough to create an illusion). It is a sort of habitual self-exoneration, the habit of giving a favorable mental excuse, a favorable mental explanation for all one does, all one says, all one feels. For example, someone with no self-control who strikes another in great indignation and is ready to call it divine wrath! Righteous2 is perfect, because righteous immediately introduces this element of puritanical moralitywonderful!
This power of self-deception, the minds craft in devising splendid justifications for any ignorance or folly whatsoever, is tremendous.
0 1961-01-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, personal surrender and devotion is an excellent solution for the individual, but it doesnt work for the collectivity. For example, as soon as I am alone and lying on my bedpeace! (Ah, I forgot! They had invented yet another thing: making my heartbeats irregular. Every three or four beats it would stop; then it would start up again, pounding as if I had been struck. Three, four beats, a faint little beat, then stop then, bang! Blow after blow. One more of their extraordinary inventions!) But, as soon as I stretch out and make a total surrender of all the cellsno more activity, nothingeverything goes well. But I am well aware that this surrender has an effect on the action only to the extent that the Supreme Lord has decided upon the action, and those movements stretch over long periods of time5: all sorts of things may happen before the final Victory is won. Because, for us, the scale is very small; even if it were of terrestrial proportions, it would be a very small scale; but on a universal scale. These forces have their place and their action, their universe, and as long as their place and their action are maintained, they will be here. So before their action can be exhausted or become useless, many things can happen.
Individually, however, there is almost instantaneous bliss. But this is not a true solution its a solution in the long run, by repercussion. To have true comm and here in this world, all of that must be mastered.
--
Later, on the 27th, Mother remarked: 'I was reading about this very thing yesterday in The Secret of the Veda, in the first hymn translated by Sri Aurobindo (the reference is to the colloquy between Indra and Agastya, Rig Veda I.170cf. The Secret of the Veda, Cent. Ed., X.241 ff.), and it helped me put my finger on the problem. In this hymn there is a dispute between Indra and the Rishi because the Rishi wants to progress too quickly without first passing through Indra [the god of the Mind], and Indra stops him; finally they reach an agreement. Sri Aurobindo's commentary is quite interesting: when one has the INDIVIDUAL power to go directly, but neglects the steps which are still necessary for the whole, for the universal movement, then one is stopped short. That is absolutely my experience.'
***
0 1961-01-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It lasted the remainder of the night and all day long I had considerable trouble containing an overwhelming power that spontaneously created reactions utterly disproportionate to a human body and made me speak in a way that. When something was not going well: wham! Such an instantaneous and strong reply that it looked like anger. And I found it difficult to control the movementit had happened already in the morning and it very nearly happened again in the afternoon. That last attack has weakened me terribly! I told myself, I dont have the strength to contain this Power; its difficult to remain calm and controlled. That was my first thought, so I insisted upon calm.
Then yesterday afternoon, when I went upstairs to walk,1 a couple of things occurrednot personal, but of a general natureconcerning, for instance, certain old-fashioned conventions having to do with women and their particular nature (not psychological, physical)old ideas like that which had always seemed utterly stupid to me suddenly provoked a kind of reprobation completely out of proportion to the fact itself. Then one or two other things2 happened in regard to certain people, certain circumstances (nothing to do with me personally: it came from here and there). Then suddenly, I saw a Force coming (coming, well, manifesting) which was the same as that thing I had felt within me but even bigger; it began whirling upon the earth and within circumstances oh, like a cyclone of compact power moving forward with the intention of changing all this! It had to change. At all costs, it must change!
--
I must say that after this, when I read The Secret of the Veda as I do each evening. In fact, I am in very close contact with the entire Vedic world since Ive been reading that book: I see beings, hear phrases. It comes up in a sort of subliminal consciousness, a lot of things are from the ancient Vedic tradition. (By the way, I have even come to see that the pink marble bathtub I told you about last time, which Nature had offered me, belongs to the Vedic world, to a civilization of that epoch.3) There werethere are alwaysSanskrit words coming up, sentences, bits of dialogue. This is of interest, because I realized that what I had seen the other day (I told you about it) and then what I saw yesterday that whole domainwas connected to what the Vedas call the dasyus the panis and the dasyus4the enemies of the Light. And this Force that came was very clearly a power like Indras5 (though something far, far greater), and at war with darkness everywhere, like this (Mother sketches in space a whirling force touching points here and there throughout the world), this Force attacked all darkness: ideas, people, movements, events, whatever made stains, patches of shadow. And it kept on going, a formidable power, so great that my hands were like this (Mother clenches her fists). Later when I read (I happened to be reading just the chapter concerning the fight against the dasyus), this proximity to my own experience became interesting, for it was not at all intellectual or mental there was no idea, no thought involved.
The remainder of the evening passed as usual. I went to bed, and at exactly a quarter to twelve I got up with the feeling that this presence in me had increased even further and really become rather formidable. I had to instill a great deal of peace and confidence into my body, which felt as though it wasnt so easy to bear. So I concentrated, I told my body to be calm and to let itself go completely.
--
Thus the consciousness became the ONE Consciousness: perfect, eternal, outside time, outside space, outside movement beyond everything, in I dont know, in an ecstasy, a beatitude, something ineffable.
(silence)
--
And it went on like that. After this, Slowly, Still WITHOUT MOVING, everything went back into each of the different centers of the being. (Ah, let me say parenthetically that it wasnt AT ALL the ascent of a force like the ascent of the Kundalini! It had absolutely nothing to do with the Kundalini movement and the centers, it wasnt that at all.) But while re-descending, it was as though WITHOUT LEAVING THIS STATE, without leaving this state which remained conscious ALL the time, this supreme Consciousness began to reactivate the different centers: first here (Mother points to the center above the head and then touches the crown of the head, the forehead, throat, chest, etc.) then there, there, there. At each there was a pause while this new realization organized everything. It organized and made the necessary decisions, sometimes down to the most minute details: what had to be done in this case or said in that case; and all of that TOGETHER, at once, not one by one but seen entirely as a whole. It kept on descending I noted many things, it was extremely interestingdown and down, farther and farther, right to the depths. Everything went on at the same time,7 simultaneously, and at the same time this supreme Consciousness was organizing everything separately.8
This descending reorganization ended exactly when the clock struck one. At that moment I knew that I had to go into trance for the work to be perfected, but until then I was wide awake.
0 1961-02-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I find this very interesting, for WE didnt decide it should be like this: these are conscious vibrations in Nature. The fragrance, the color, the shape, are simply the spontaneous expressions of a true movement.
What does the serpent represent physically? What does it embody in the material world?
--
A formidable concentration of vitalityof all animals, the serpent has the most vitality. Its tremendous! And energy progressive energy, energy of movement (progressive in the mechanical sense). Its meaning has been changed to a psychological one, but its a force of movement.
Then why do these creatures always seem so evil to us?
--
I can assure you that you are well fastened, very well indeed; you are automatically caught up in my whole forward movement. So dont worry. Begin your book on Sri Aurobindo.
But first I would have to reread everything!
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Three years earlier, in 1958, Mother had told Satprem that February and March were 'bad months,' and she had spoken of cyclical movements in Nature like those in the individual consciousness, with alternating periods of difficulty and progress.
Four times a year, for 'darshan,' visitors poured into the Ashram to pass one by one before Mother (and formerly Sri Aurobindo as well) to receive her look.
0 1961-03-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Listen, mon petit, you dont need to ask, I will tell you right away. Sri Aurobindo has written somewhere that the movement of world transformation is double: first, the individual who does sadhana6 and establishes contact with higher things; but at the same time, the world is a base and it must rise up a little and prepare itself for the realization to be achieved (this is putting it simply). Some people live merely on the surface they come alive only when they stir about restlessly. Whatever happens inside them (if anything does!) is immediately thrown out into movement. Such people always need an outer activity; take J. for example: he fastened onto Sri Aurobindos phrase, World Union, and came to tell me he wanted.
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.
--
Listen to this appeal: If the opportunity offered by this movement appeals to you, if you have the feeling that you are one of those who have been prepared to collaborate in the spiritual adventure, we invite you to write to us, enrolling yourself as a member of World Union.
Im going to send this to V, asking her innocently, Has this appeared in your journal? Because it would be better if it didnt: we dont make propaganda. Oh, I am hard on them, you know!
--
A movement launched by some disciples for 'the unification of the world.'
Sadhana: spiritual quest and discipline.
0 1961-03-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mon petit, I dont claim to be totally universal, but in any case I am open enough to receive. You see, given the quantity of material I have taken into my consciousness, its quite natural that the body bears the consequences. There is nothing, not one wrong movement, that my body doesnt feel5; generally, though, things are automatically set in order (gesture indicating that Mother automatically purifies and masters the vibrations coming to her). But there are timesespecially when it coincides with a revolt of adverse forces who dont want to give up their domain and enter into battle with all their mightwhen I must admit its hard. If I had some hours of solitude it would be easier. But particularly during the period of my Playground activities, I was badgered, harassed; I would rush from one thing to the next, one thing to the next, I had no nights to speak ofnights of two and a half or three hours rest, which isnt enough, theres no time to put things in order.
Under those conditions I could only hold the thing like this (same gesture of muzzling the illness or holding it in abeyance).
--
Mother is referring to the movements of consciousness, both good and bad, of those whom she has accepted as disciples and taken into her consciousness.
Mother was already seeking the 'new food.'
0 1961-03-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It doesnt matter. Fundamentally, it doesnt matter. Yesterday, while I was walking I was walking in a kind of universe that was EXCLUSIVELY the Divineit could be touched, felt: it was within, without, everywhere. For three-quarters of an hour, NOTHING but that, everywhere. Well, I can assure you, at that moment there were certainly no more problems! And what simplicitynothing to think about, nothing to want, nothing to decide: to BE, be, be! (Mother seems to dance) To be in the infinite complexity of a perfect unity: all was there but nothing was separate; all was in movement yet nothing changed place. Truly an experience.
When we become like that, it will be very easy.
0 1961-03-21, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We simply have to hold on and endureno movement. The remedy is the same as for an illness: no movement.7
It will pass.
0 1961-03-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was mainly on your right side I banged on it. But strangely enough, it didnt break it became supple, but then it lost its beauty. (It was so beautiful, as though sculptured!) I tried to pass through it, but to do so (this is what I found interesting), instead of passing through at this level (the chest), the psychic plane the level of the souls vibration I had to climb up above and then descend; and finally, without even realizing it, I found myself inside I had entered through sheer force of concentration. There, at the vital level, the emotional vital (solar plexus), I put two flowers: one very large Endurance in the Most Material Vital [zinnia] and another flower like the one X just gave me [cosmos] but bigger and pure white (it concerns sexual movements, light in sexual movements). But curiously enough, I passed inside through a trance; I was quite busy trying to make it more fluid when all at once, poof! I found myself inside. But since I entered through a trance it became completely objective: no more thought, nothing. And I saw I had put these two flowers there (at the levels of the abdomen and chest), one more active, a very large, dark purple Endurance flower, and another much smaller, pure white, slightly lower down. While I was watching this I think the clock must have struck something pulled me and it all faded away.
And I found it interesting that when I received your letter yesterday evening I concentrated for a moment, almost out of curiosity: Why doesnt he ever feel he has an experience? Why doesnt he feel anything? I wanted to know precisely what type of experience would give you the feeling of having an experience!
0 1961-03-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday, while waiting for X, I was as usual in communion with the Supreme in his aspect of Love. Suddenly I felt X arriving and spontaneously, like a Veda, a movement of gratitude for his great goodwill arose from my heart, and it was formulated as a prayer to the Supreme: Give him [X] the bliss of Your Love and the joys of Your Truth.
For a long time X has said nothing about his meditations with me, but just yesterday he told N. that he had some difficulty at the start of the meditation due to the presence of an adverse force, and it took him five minutes to overcome it!
--
Still, it surprises me. Because sitting in that room, one has the feeling (I say one, its probably I dont know what it is), I thought he had the same feeling I did: oh, it could last an eternity! Its like that: tranquil, tranquil, peaceful, balanced, strong. On other occasions there was a kind of movement: it came, went, came, went; but this time (Mother stretches forth her arms as if time had stopped) and I am like that (not the I here, the I above), I see it like that. Then just as the clock is about to strike, when the half-hour is finished, something comes and tells my body, Now! A tiny shock, and two or three seconds later the clock strikes. I always feel beforehand, Now its over. Otherwise there would be no reason for it to endits so peaceful! And not something diluted, as it were, but strong, compact. Compact. Then that tiny shock and the body comes to attention: Ah, Im going to have to move! And always after about two seconds, the clock strikes. I open my eyes, look at X and wait. Three or four seconds later, or after a minute or two, he opens his eyes, bows to me and gets up. Then I get up. Its always the same. So I dont know why. I dont understand what goes on in his consciousness. I no longer understand.
Im not so sure about what he said to N.
0 1961-04-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But both times, the incarnation was so (how to put it?) powerful that the eyes changed; the eyes of the cat changed completely into the eyes of the dead person. Unmistakable. Both came to me and both times there was the same movement, the same kind of feline howlyou know how they sound.
But I have had some cats. I had a cat who was the reincarnation of the mind of a Russian woman. I had a vision of it one day, it was so strangethis woman had been murdered at the time of the Russian Revolution, along with her two little children. And her mind entered a cat here. (How? I dont know.) But this cat, mon petit. I got her when she was very young. She would come and lie down, stretched out like a human being, with her head on my arm! (I used to sleep on a Japanese tatami on the floor.) And she would stay there, so well-behaved, didnt stir all night long! I was really amazed. Then she had kittens, and wanted to give birth to them lying stretched out, not at all like a cat. It was very difficult to make her understand that it couldnt be done that way! And one night after she had had her kittens, I saw her I saw a young woman in furs, with a fur bonnetyou could just see a tiny human face; she had two little ones and she came to me and placed them at my feet. Her whole story was there in her consciousness: how she and the two children had been murdered. And then I realized she was the cat!
--
I had another cat named Kiki. He had a wonderful color and was just like velvet. We used to have meditations and he would come, get up on a chair and go into trance; he would make the brusque movements of trance during the meditation. And I had to rouse him out of it, otherwise he wouldnt wake up!
Once this cat was stung by a scorpion. A foolhardy youngster, he used to play with scorpions. I had to rescue him one day; I came onto the verandah just when he was playing with a big scorpion. I caught the cat, put him on my shoulder and killed the scorpion. But another time I wasnt there, and he was stung. He came inside, done for. I clearly saw the signs that he had been poisoned by a scorpion. I put him on a table and went to call Sri Aurobindo. Kiki has been stung by a scorpion, I said. (He was dying, almost in a coma.) Sri Aurobindo pulled up a chair, sat down facing the table and began to gaze at Kiki. This lasted about twenty or twenty-five minutes. Then suddenly the cat relaxed completely and fell asleep. When he woke up, he was entirely cured.
0 1961-04-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All who experience this say that the first movement of the manifestation, or the creation (creation, manifestation, objectification: all these words are imperfect) is CHIT, Consciousness that becomes Power. Consequently, Consciousness goes voyaging along in SAT, in Beingstatic, eternal, infinite and necessarily outside time and space and this movement of Consciousness is what produces time and space within this Infinity and Eternity.8 This leads to the understanding that things can simultaneously be absolutely free and absolutely determined.
This vision I had is of no value to anyone else, but it gave me a kind of satisfaction, a kind of peace (for a while).
--
Yesterday, this ardor of the Flame was thereburning all to offer all. It was absolutely concrete, an intensity of vibrations; I could see the vibrationsall the movements of obscurity and ignorance were cast into that. And I recall a time when I was translating these hymns to Agni with Sri Aurobindo, and Agni was real for me. Well, yesterday it wasnt that, it wasnt the god Agni, it was a STATE OF BEING. It was a state of the Supreme, and as such, it was intimate, clear, intense, vibrant and living.
(silence)
Only just towards the end of the night, after 2 a.m., does all this subconscient rise up to be relived. And with such a new and unexpected perception, oh! Its incredible! It changes all values and relationships and reactions (Mother shapes great movements of shifting forces); its like a chessboard absolutely unexpected!
And I see a very steady, insistent and regular action to eliminate moral values. How I have been plagued all my life by these moral values! Everything is immediately placed on a scale of moral values (not ordinary moralityfar from it! But a sense of what has to be encouraged or discouraged, what helps me towards progress or what hampers it); instantly everything was seen from the angle of this will to progresseverything, all circumstances, reactions, movements, absolutely everything was translated by that. Now, the subconscient is mounting upwards and, knee-deep in it, you see it as a lesson to tell you: so much for all your notions of progress! They are all based on illusionsa general lie. Things are not at all what they seem, they dont have the effects they appear to have, nor the results that are perceivedall, all, all, oh Lord!
(silence)
--
Once during the night, I went exploring inside this head; some cells still had fresh imprints of things registered during the day for whatever reason they hadnt had time to be combined into the whole, so they showed up as tiny, very clear images, minuscule things utterly devoid of any mental or psychological movementsimply like tiny photographic images. There were three or four images like that, and it was so shocking to see them in this Presence that all at once I said to myself, Am I going mad?! It was that shocking. And I had to bring in a peace, a peacenot to make the movement of possession stop, but to accompany it simultaneously with a mighty peace so I wouldnt tell myself, Youre losing your head. Thats how shocking it was.
A tiny, very tiny image, just like a little photograph, clear! Everything else was in a vibration of transformationsplendid!
--
But for those who are here, we can say, It is what the Supreme Lord is preparing for the earth. He sent Sri Aurobindo to prepare it; Sri Aurobindo called it the supramental realization, and to facilitate communication we can use the same words. Well, this movement (gesture of a rising flame) towards That must be constantconstant, total. All the rest is none of our business, and the less we meddle with it mentally, the better. But THAT, that Flame, is indispensable. And when it goes out, light it again; when it falters, rekindle itall the time, all the time, ALL THE TIMEwhen sleeping, walking, reading, moving around, speaking all the time.
The rest doesnt matter, one can do anything (it depends on people and their ways of thinking). You can just ask people like X, they will tell you: You can do anything at allit doesnt matter in the least. Only you mustnt feel its you doing it, thats all. You have to feel that Nature does it. But I dont much approve of this system.
--
Once again, Mother's experience coincides with modern science, which is beginning to discover that time and space are not fixed and INDEPENDENT quantitiesas, from the Greeks right up to Newton, we had been accustomed to believe but a four-dimensional system, with three coordinates of space and one of time, DEPENDENT UPON THE PHYSICAL PHENOMENA DEVELOPING THEREIN. Such is 'Riemann's Space,' used by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity. Thus, a trajectoryi.e., in principle, a fixed distance, a quantity of space to be traversed-is a function of the time taken to traverse it: there is no straight line between two points, or rather the I straight' line is a function of the rate of speed. There is no 'fixed' quantity of space, but rather rates of speed which determine their own space (or their own measure of space). Space-time is thus no longer a fixed quantity, but, according to science, the PRODUCT ... of what? Of a certain rate of unfolding? But what is unfolding? A rocket, a train, muscles?... Or a certain brain which has generated increasingly perfected instruments adapted to its own mode of being, like a flying fish flying farther and farther (and faster and faster) but finally failing back into its own oceanic fishbowl. Yet what would this space-time be for another kind of fishbowl, another kind of consciousness: a supramental consciousness, for example, which can be instantaneously at any point in 'space'there is no more space! And no more time. There is no more 'trajectory': the trajectory is within itself. The fishbowl is shattered, and the whole evolutionary succession of little fishbowls as well. Thus, as Mother tells it, space and time are a 'PRODUCT Of the movement of consciousness.' A variable space-time, which not only changes according to our mechanical equipment, but according to the consciousness utilizing the equipment, and which ultimately utilizes only itself; consciousness, at the end of the evolutionary curve, has become its own equipment and the sole mechanism of the universe.
***
0 1961-04-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother comes in with a book by Alice Bailey, 'Discipleship in the New Age,' which had recently been sent to her. Pavitra is present and shows Mother a brochure he has received, 'World Goodwill Bulletin,' and protests against this proliferation of movements all claiming to work towards 'world union,' and proselytes making so-called 'spiritual' propaganda without having found, within and by themselves, the true spiritual foundation. Mother goes on.)
But these people just cant get out of their education! Here is a lady [A. Bailey], quite renowned, it seems (shes dead now), who became the disciple of a Tibetan lama and she still speaks of Christ as the sole Avatar! She just cant get out of it!
--
Now a kind of absoluteness prevails at each and every second, in each movement, from the most subtle, the most spiritual, to the most material. The sense of linking has disappeared: that isnt the cause of this, and this isnt done for that; there is no there one is heading towardsit all seems.
(silence)
--
Each each what? What is that that? You cant say a movement, you cant say a state of consciousness, you cant say a vibration (all this still belongs to our ordinary mode of perception), so you say thingthing means nothing. Each thing carries in itself its own absolute law.
Oh, how clumsy all this is! But what is clear, completely clear, is the total absence of cause and effect and of goal, of intentionpurpose. There is no (Mother makes a horizontal motion) this kind of connection doesnt exist; its like this (Mother makes a vertical motion which towers over and embraces everything at once).
--
The following is the exact text referred to, an extract from one of Sri Aurobindo's letters: 'I don't believe in advertisement except for books etc., and in propaganda except for politics and patent medicines. But for serious work it is a poison. It means either a stunt or a boom and stunts and booms exhaust the thing they carry on their crest and leave it lifeless and broken high and dry on the shores of nowhereor it means a movement. A movement in the case of a work like mine means the founding of a school or a sect or some other damned nonsense. It means that hundreds or thousands of useless people join in and corrupt the work or reduce it to a pompous farce from which the Truth that was coming down recedes into secrecy and silence. It is what has happened to the "religions" and is the reason of their failure....'
2.10.1934
0 1961-05-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have seen people (people from outside) who were enemiesall their enmity was pacified, pacified, pacified. They were unable to do any harm, even when they wanted to. Everything was made innocuous in that way. And it was the same thing here in the Ashram; as always, people had wrong movements and wrong thoughts, but all this, too, was dominatedit was pacified, pacified.
I had continued to work in the same way. But now its as if everything has been engulfed. And the number of ugly things, petty movements, nasty reactionseverywhere, everywhere, in everyone, oh! I am swamped with letters, and such letters! Such letters!
And I dont see, I really do not see why all that needs to manifest in order to disappear. Because before, when it didnt manifest, it faded away by itself; but now it creates problems and problems and problems. (For me they are not problems but stupidities; they are problems and complications for others.) And its so useless! So much time is lost, so much time coping with stupid reactions. I dont know why.
0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When these promised things are achieved, then something like a Power will comepersonally I dont consider that I have power. For the moment its nothing. It is NOTHING. My conception of Power is that when this must be comes into the consciousness, well, it MUST be. But its not like that now. All the other forces, the other movements of consciousness, enter and interfere,4 and the usual mess results; there is a little bit of that, a bit of this, a bit of the otherin short, an approximation. Sometimes it works, but then it is.
The movement of initiating the action always proceeds in the same wayas something imperatively SEEN. Consequently, it should ALWAYS have an effect; but all kinds of things enter and cause a disturbance. So I dont call that Powerits too haphazard. But dont worry yourself over all this chatter.
Oh, listen!
0 1961-06-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Fundamentally, I have noticed one thing: if you yourself are in the right state, the right atmosphere is immediately created. And in addition, I am always in a sort of not even a convictionan ABSOLUTE perception that all that happens is the Lords doing. When He makes me late going upstairs its because He wants me to be late, and consequently, if I take it wellif instead of closing myself and getting annoyed I say, Good, thats fineimmediately a very interesting atmosphere is created, because at the same time I see all the advantages of this change. But this movement must not be mentalit has to be spontaneous.
Therefore, I have told her (to put it simply): provided you are sincere in your attitude, all is well.
--
But to get there, believe me, you must accept to be a total imbecile for quite some time! I am not exaggerating. I have found myself in such states: you no longer understand anything, no longer know anything, no longer think anything, no longer want anything, no longer can do anythingno more power, no more will, no more thought, no more anythingyou are like that. And when I am like that (when I WAS, because now its beginning to go away), I see the external world, people like those around me, looking at me and thinking, Ah! Mother is lapsing into her second childhood! Their vibrations come to me and unfortunately they sometimes have the power to shake me I have to make a movement to free myself from the thoughts of others.
(silence)
0 1961-06-06, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Take absolutely identical circumstances: the same outer circumstances, the same inner circumstances the psychological condition is the same; circumstances of life, the same; events, the same; people, no appreciable difference. Identical circumstances, a few hoursnot even a dayapart. And in one case, the body that is, the cellular consciousness feels a sort of eurhythmy and general harmony, everything dovetails in such a marvelous way, without rubbing, without frictioneverything functions and organizes itself in a total harmony. Its a peace and a joy (without the vital intensity, of courseits something physical). All, all is so harmonious and truly you feel a sense of the divine organization of everything, of all the cellsall is marvelous and the body feels well. Then in the other case everything is the same, the consciousness is the same and something escapes the perception of harmony is no longer there. For what reason? One doesnt understand anymore. And then the body begins to function wrongly. Yet everything is absolutely identicalmental conditions, vital conditions, physical conditions, all identical and suddenly it all seems meaningless. One still has the consciousness, the full consciousness of the divine Presence, and one senses somewhere something escaping, and all becomes its like running after something that escapes. Things become meaningless. In absolutely identical conditionseven the movements of the body (functional movements, I mean) may be identical, but they are felt to be disharmonious (these words are much too crude, its more subtle than that), meaningless, disharmonious. And what escapes? You cant make it out.
What is it?
--
And when the body makes this movement (gesture of stepping back from physical appearances)what to call it? This movement of fusion (is it fusion?), of no longer being a separate body, of being the Divine there is something which. There is a sort of abstraction of something (and even that is putting it too concretely). And sometimes it succeeds, the body floats in the Light; sometimes its only partial. Sometimes all the inner consciousness is there, full and total but HERE things remain as they are, stupid, stupid, utterly stupid! Blind, in shifting sands, painful (and its not a thought, its not even a sensation; I dont know what it is).
And THERE the conscious will can do nothing. Nothing. All it could do it has done, and it continues to do all it can at each minute, and its nothing, it is not THATwhat is it??
0 1961-06-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, he is splendid! There is such a sweet warmth in him, so good, and a mastery (mastery of inner movements, of the vital movement) and the ability to bring into the physical this peace, this absolute immobility. Its splendid! I have been doing this for something like forty years and you cant imagine how difficult it is, how much effort it takes to achieve it! With him it comes all by itself. Thats the tantric mastery.
And to a certain extent it has a healing power (to a certain extent). But its not that supramental thing Sri Aurobindo had: he would pass his hand like this (gesture), and the disorder would be gone completely!
0 1961-06-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its simply thatyou take a step, and you enter another room. And when you live in your soul there is a continuity, because the soul remembers, it keeps the whole memory; it remembers all occurrences, even outer occurrences, all the outer movements it has been associated with. So its a continuous, uninterrupted movement, here and there, from one room to another, from one house to another, from one life to another.
People are so ignorant! Thats what irritates those who have passed to the other sidepeople dont understand, they shoo them away: What does he want? Why does he bother me? Hes DEAD!
0 1961-06-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Does the past? We know it remains present somewhere. Does this fact enable the past to participate in the progressive movement (progressive for us) of universal change within the manifestation? There is no reason why not.
But it remains present through its consequences.
0 1961-07-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo also had to struggle against this because he too received a Christian education. And these Aphorisms are the result the floweringof the necessity to struggle against the subconscious formation which has produced such questions (Mother takes on a scandalized tone): How can God be weak? How can God be foolish? How. But there is nothing but God! He alone exists, there is nothing outside of Him. And whatever seems repugnant to us is something He no longer wishes to existHe is preparing the world so that this no longer manifests, so that the manifestation can pass beyond this state to something else. So of course we violently reject everything in us that is destined to leave the active manifestation. There is a movement of rejection.
Yet it is He. There is nothing other than He! This should be repeated from morning to night, from night to morning, because we forget it every minute.
0 1961-07-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In his cosmogony, Theon accounted for the successive pralayas2 of the different universes by saying that each universe was an aspect of the Supreme manifesting itself: each universe was built upon one aspect of the Supreme, and all, one after the other, were withdrawn into the Supreme. He enumerated all the successively manifested aspects, and what an extraordinarily logical sequence it was! I have kept it some place, but I no longer know where. Nor do I remember exactly what number this universe has in the sequence, but this time it was supposed to be the universe which would not be withdrawn, which would, so to speak, follow an indefinite progression of Becoming. And this universe is to manifest Equilibrium, not a static but a progressive equilibrium.3 Equilibrium, as he explains it, is each thing exactly in its place: each vibration, each movement, each and so on down the lineeach form, each activity, each element exactly in its place in relation to the whole.
This is quite interesting to me because Sri Aurobindo says the same thing: that nothing is bad, simply things are not in their placetheir place not only in space but in time, their place in the universe, beginning with the planets and stars, each thing exactly in its place. Then when each thing, from the most colossal to the most microscopic, is exactly in place, the whole Will PROGRESSIVELY express the Supreme, without having to be withdrawn and emanated anew. On this also, Sri Aurobindo based the fact that this present creation, this present universe, will be able to manifest the perfection of a divine worldwhat Sri Aurobindo calls the Supermind.
--
No, the only solution is occult power. But that. Before anything at all can be done, it already demands a certain number of individuals who have reached a great perfection of realization. Granting this, a place is conceivable (set apart from the outside worldno actual contacts) where each thing is exactly in its place, setting an example. Each thing exactly in its place, each person exactly in his place, each movement in its place, and all in its place in an ascending, progressive movement without relapse (that is, the very opposite of what goes on in ordinary life). Naturally, this also means a sort of perfection, it means a sort of unity; it means that the different aspects of the Supreme can be manifested; and, necessarily, an exceptional beauty, a total harmony; and a power sufficient to keep the forces of Nature obedient: even if this place were encircled by destructive forces, for example, these forces would be powerless to act the protection would be sufficient.
It would all require the utmost perfection in the individuals organizing such a thing.
--
The incomprehension generated by doubt (the kind of doubt that always results from an egoistic movement) is very dangerous. Very dangerous. Its not even necessary to be in a psychic consciousness even for an enlightened vital consciousness, it produces no effect; but HERE, in this material swarm.
But I dont see how all this work could be done in the solitude of the Himalayas or the forest. Theres a great risk of entering into that very impersonal, universal consciousness where things are relatively easy the material consequences are so far below that it doesnt much matter! One can act directly only in the MIDST of things.
--
It makes you sense so clearly that things in themselves dont count. What we call things in themselves are of no true importance! What really counts is the relationship of consciousness to these things. And theres a formidable power in this, since in one instance you touch something and drop or mishandle it, while in the other its so lovely, it works so smoothly. Even the most difficult movements are made without difficulty. Its an unheard-of power! We dont give it importance because it has no grandiose effects, its not spectacular. Yes, there are indeed states of grace when one is in the presence of a great difficulty and suddenly has all the power needed to face ityes, but thats something else. I am speaking of a power active in ordinary life.
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.
--
I have made it a habit to always do this (gesture of abandonment to the Light). When a problem comes up, I offer it to the Lord and then leave it. And the moment the solution is required, it comesit comes in facts, in deeds, in movements.
I would be satisfied only if. Can one ever be satisfied? At any rate, I would begin to be satisfied only if this were a constant and total condition, active in all circumstances and at every moment, day and night. But is it possible with this INUNDATION pouring in from outside? Constantly! While walking this morning I was (how to put it?) something of a witness, watching what was coming in from outside. One thing after another, one thing after anotherwhat a mixture! From all sides, from everyone and everything and everywhere. And not only from here, but from far, far away on the earth and sometimes from far back in time, back into the pastthings out of the past coming up, presenting themselves to the new Light to be put in their place. Its always that: each thing wanting to be put in its place. And this work has to be done constantly. Its as if one keeps catching a new illness to be cured.
0 1961-08-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Evolution begins with the Inconscient, complete Inconscience; and from this Inconscient a Subconscient gradually emerges that is, a half or quarter-consciousness. There are two different things here. Consider life on earth (because the process is slightly different in the universe); earth-life begins with total Inconscience and little by little what was involved within it works out and changes this Inconscience into semi-consciousness or subconsciousness. At the same time, there is an individual working that awakens the INDIVIDUAL inconscient to an individual semiconsciousness, and here, of course, the individual has controlalthough its not actually individualized because individualization begins with consciousness. The subconscient of plants or animals, for example, isnt individualized; what we call an animals behavior doesnt arise from individualization but from the genius of the species. Consequently, the individual subconscient is something already evolved out of the general Subconscient. But when one descends to accomplish a work of transformationto bring Light into the different layers of life, for instanceone descends into a cosmic, terrestrial Subconscient, not an individual Subconscient. And the work of transformation is done within the wholenot through individualization, but through the opposite movement, through a sort of universalization.
No, what I mean is that as we progress, we automatically become universalized.
--
Even Buddha said that if you have a vibration of desire, this vibration goes all around the terrestrial atmosphere. The opposite is whats impossible! Its impossible to separate yourself. You can have the idea of being separate, but you cant be separate in reality. In fact, if you are trying to eliminate the Subconscient in yourself your movement must necessarily be general; it cant be personal, you would never get anywhere.
Yes, of course, but these vibrations are ceaselessly re-created.
--
But there are people having wrong movements at every instant, so?
So it all keeps circling round and round in the earths atmosphere. But compared to the universe, the earths atmosphere is a very tiny thing. Well, all this keeps circling around within it. And in fact, because of the movement of evolution, there is a progress. The present Inconscient is not as unconscious as the initial Inconscient, and the present Subconscient is not as subconscious nor as generalized as it was at the beginning. This is the meaning of terrestrial evolution.
But if, as you say, it keeps circling around in the earths atmosphere, doesnt this mean that vibrations are ceaselessly re-created?
--
I knew how it was with her because I remember the days when Sri Aurobindo was here and I used to go downstairs to give meditations to the people assembled in the hall. Theres a ledge above the pillars there, where all the gods used to sitShiva, Krishna, Lakshmi, the Trimurti, all of them the little ones, the big ones, they all used to come regularly, every day, to attend these meditations. It was a lovely sight. But they didnt have this kind of adoration for the Supreme. They had no use for that concepteach one, in his own mode of being, was fully aware of his own eternal divinity; and each one knew as well that he could represent all the others (such was the basis of popular worship,7 and they knew it). They felt they were a kind of community, but they had none of those qualities that the psychic life gives: no deep love, no deep sympathy, no sense of union. They had only the sense of their OWN divinity. They had certain very particular movements, but not this adoration for the Supreme nor the feeling of being instruments: they felt they were representing the Supreme, and so each one was perfectly satisfied with his particular representation.
Except for Krishna. In 1926, I had begun a sort of overmental creation, that is, I had brought the Overmind down into matter, here on earth (miracles and all kinds of things were beginning to happen). I asked all these gods to incarnate, to identify themselves with a body (some of them absolutely refused). Well, with my very own eyes I saw Krishna, who had always been in rapport with Sri Aurobindo, consent to come down into his body. It was on November 24th, and it was the beginning of Mother.8
0 1961-08-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh no, nothing doing! Whats marvelous is that I havent a single idea in my headnothing. Not idea; I never have many of them! (laughing) No words, mon petit, nothing. I have two of T.s notebooks here I read them, said Ah!, and put them away. Theyve already stayed there for two weeks or I dont know how long. NOTHING, completely blank. But on the lowest plane, some interesting things: suddenly (not from time to time, but all the time, or almost all the time), all the bodys cells suddenly seem to participate in a movement of force, a sort of circular movement containing all the vibrationsphysical vibrationsright from the most material sensation (Mother touches the skin of her hands) to all the feelings of strength, power and comprehension (especially from an active standpoint, the standpoint of actions, movements, influences). Its not at all limited to the body; its like that, like that, like that (Mother makes a gesture stretching to infinity). It has neither beginning nor end. The body itself is starting to feel how Energy behaves.
Its very interesting.
--
The moments of forgetting are briefplunk! A knock from someone or something the shock of the ordinary vibration. Its unimportant, you turn your head and push it away. But I dont want that either, it [the movement of rejection] must go away entirely.
From a practical, concrete, effective standpoint, there are some results. Even when they dont write, people are beginning to receive my response very clearly, very precisely. People I dont know at all have written, and they receive my reply even before I write back (they tell this to intermediaries). I had another example only today. Its having results.
0 1961-09-16, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This morning when I was walking, the program of the day and the work ahead of me was so formidable that I felt it to be impossible. And yet simultaneously there was this immobile inner POSITION in me; as soon as I stop my movement of formation and action, it becomes like a dance of joy: all the cells vibrating (there is a sort of vivacity, and an extraordinary music), all the cells vibrant with the joy of the Presence the divine Presence. But when I see the outside world entering and attacking, well this joy doesnt exactly disappear, but it retreats. And the result is that I always feel like sitting down and keeping stillwhen I can do that it is marvelous. But of course, all the suggestions from outside come in: suggestions of helplessness and old age, of wear and tear, of diminishing power, all thatand I know positively that its false. But calm in the body is indispensable. Well, for me also Sri Aurobindos answer is always the same: Be simple, be simple, very simple.
And I know what he means: to deny entry to regimenting, organizing, prescriptive, judgmental though the wants none of all that. What he calls being simple is a joyous spontaneity; in action, in expression, in movement, in lifebe simple, be simple, be simple. A joyous spontaneity. To rediscover in evolution that condition he calls divine, which was a spontaneous and happy condition. He wants us to rediscover that. And for days now he has been here telling me (and the same goes for your work): Be simple, be simple, be simple. And in his simplicity was a luminous joy.
A joyous spontaneity.
0 1961-10-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I was giving him the example of BEING the thing you manipulate and sosince you ARE the thinghaving not only the joy of perfect knowledge of manipulation, but the joy of collaboration as well (not collaboration: rather a participation from the thing being utilized). And this from the smallest thing (objects you put in order, for example) right up to the universal transformation that comes with the new Creation and its all the same movement of abolishing limits, the movement of expansion, of a generosity that abolishes limits. It begins with self-giving, it ends in identification.
(silence)
--
It was interesting because it was so concrete. I was conscious of my movement of compassion and love and of what it had become in the other persons consciousness!
Its very easy to explain: she was already more than half possessed, and of course this spirit of falsehood hardly felt comfortable! And the identification2 (not only mental but sensory, vital) was so complete that she felt this love as a movement of hatred. When I saw the two phenomena, I also saw that this is exactly what happens in the world! Its exactly what EVERYONE is.
I must add that the experience came after I had been concentrating for three days (concentrating almost constantly) on finding an explanation for this: why has it become this way? It is impossible to find the why because its the reason asking and this goes beyond reason but what is the MECHANISM? Finding the mechanism would already be somethingto have the experience of the mechanism. And then came this CONCRETE superposition of the vibration of Love and the reception of hate. But this is exactly what happens! I said. The Lord is All-Love, All-Truth, All-Bliss, All-Deligh tHe is CONSTANTLY like thatand the world, especially the human world, constantly receives him in the other way. And the two things are superposed (Mother covers her left hand with her right).
--
This concentration on finding the mechanism sprang from the fact that there were disorders in the body which were vanishing and then reappearingpermanent cure seemed impossible. So I told myself, Somewhere, probably in the subconscient, something must be justifying their presence. Then, after concentrating and searching and concentrating some more, suddenly a memory rose up from the subconscient (a memory which is a kind of continued existence under a certain form), the memory of a particular set of movements and actions (not physical movements, but attitudes) that go back many years and had never attracted my attention. None of it had ever been included in the general clearing-out because, like so many other things, it all seemed to be due to normal, ongoing circumstances. But thats just where I saw (what to call it?) the hue, the taint of Falsehood. Its very subtle. These are very subtle things. But suddenly, oh! It caught hold of me and created a revolution in the whole being. All those vibrations were cast up and transformedan extraordinary thing. It stirred up much more commotion and revolution than I had ever expected. And ah! A relief. Something was clarified, bringing a brilliant, new comprehension, and then quite interesting physical results. Before this, I was really feeling rather poorly, extremely tired, with the impression of a decline into decrepituderelatively speaking! (It was in a very superficial part of the being, but it was enough to be disagreeable.) And all of itpfft! Gone in a single stroke.
And that very day, I had this experience with the possessed personit all came together. And then afterwards, a sort of mastery over the problem and the impression of a breakthroughan opening up of the WAY to change, which is this enlargement. First, the movement of generosity (not that shriveling movement, but its exact opposite the movement of expansion), and from there you go on to universality, and from universality to Totality.
It makes a whole set of interesting experiences.
0 1961-10-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And this light was absolutely immobilevibrationless, totally compact and coherent. When I see Xs light, for example, there are always vibrations in it; it vibrates, vibrates, things are shifting about; out with this, not a single vibration, not one movement: a MASS that seemed eternally immobile but which was (how to put it?) attentive, listening. It was a volume with the form of the head, as if that had wholly taken over the head. It was full, so full, yet with no feeling of tension or of anything resisting, none at all; there was only a kind of immobile eternity and COMPACT, compact, absolutely coherent, no vibrations. And it increased, increased more and more, it became heavy, but with a very particular heavinessnot a weight, the feeling of a mass.
And within all this, I no longer existed. I seemed to vanish into a kind of trance, yet I was consciousnot I: the consciousness was conscious of what Sri Aurobindo was conscious of. And he was following the reading. But I couldnt remember anything; at the time, it was impossible to observe. I can only describe it all to you now because the experience remained for at least an hour and a half afterwards; when I left here, I began to objectify it, to see what it wasaside from that, it was merely a STATE I found myself in. But in this state there was an awareness of what he was hearing, and at two or three places in your reading he seemed to be saying (I cant be exact, I can only give the impression), Not necessary. In fact, thats what made me call this passage too philosophical (although when you first asked my opinion I was in a peculiar condition, nothing was active in me). With him, it was very clear, it was almost as if there were a certain number of words about which he said, That, not necessary. That, not necessary. Not many, not often, but once in a while. Especially at the end (he was still there inside my head while you were talking), when you were saying that its necessary to explain to people; there he very clearly said, No, not necessary.
0 1961-10-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Nor was it insignificant that fire, Agni, was the core of the Vedic mysteries: Agni, the inner flame, the soul within us (for who can deny that the soul is fire?), the innate aspiration drawing man towards the heights; Agni, the ardent will within us that sees, always and forever, and remembers; Agni, the priest of the sacrifice, the divine worker, the envoy between earth and heaven (Rig-veda III, 3.2) he is there in the middle of his house (I.70.2). The Fathers who have divine vision set him within as a child that is to be born (IX.83.3). He is the boy suppressed in the secret cavern (V.2.1). He is as if life and the breath of our existence, he is as if our eternal child (I.66.1). O Son of the body (III.4.2), O Fire, thou art the son of heaven by the body of the earth (III.25.1). Immortal in mortals (IV.2. 1), old and outworn he grows young again and again (II.4.5). When he is born he becomes one who voices the godhead: when as life who grows in the mother he has been fashioned in the mother he becomes a gallop of wind in his movement (III.29.11). O Fire, when thou art well borne by us thou becomest the supreme growth and expansion of our being, all glory and beauty are in thy desirable hue and thy perfect vision. O Vastness, thou art the plenitude that carries us to the end of our way; thou art a multitude of riches spread out on every side (II.1.12). O Fire brilliant ocean of light in which is divine vision (III.22.2), the Flame with his hundred treasures O knower of all things born(I.59).
But the divine fire is not our exclusive privilegeAgni exists not only in man: He is the child of the waters, the child of the forests, the child of things stable and the child of things that move. Even in the stone he is there (I.70.2).
--
All is reconciled. The Rishi is the son of two mothers: son of Aditi, the luminous cow, Mother of infinite Light, creatrix of the worlds; and son as well of Diti, the black cow, Mother of the tenebrous infinite and divided existence for when Diti at last reaches the end of her apparent Night, she gives us divine birth and the milk of heaven. All is fulfilled, The Rishi sets flowing in one movement human strengths and things divine (IX.70.3), he has realized the universal in the individual, become the Infinite in the finite: Then shall thy humanity become as if the workings of these gods; it is as if the visible heaven of light were founded in thee (V.66.2). Far from spurning the earth, he prays: O Godhead, guard for us the Infinite and lavish the finite(IV.2.11).
The voyage draws to its close. Agni has recovered its solar totality, its two concealed extremities. The inviolable work is fulfilled. For Agni is the place where high meets lowand in truth, there is no longer high nor low, but a single Sun everywhere: O Flame, thou goest to the ocean of Heaven, towards the gods; thou makest to meet together the godheads of the planes, the waters that are in the realm of light above the sun and the waters that abide below (III.22.3). O Fire O universal Godhead, thou art the navel-knot of the earths and their inhabitants; all men born thou controllest and supportest like a pillar (I.59.1). O Flame, thou foundest the mortal in a supreme immortality thou createst divine bliss and human joy (I.31.7). For the worlds heart is Joy, Joy dwells in the depths of all things, the well of honey covered by the rock (II.24.4).
0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One thing is certainas soon as one goes beyond the terrestrial atmosphere, beyond the higher minds highest region, the sensation of high and low totally vanishes. There are no longer movements of ascent and descent, but (Mother turns her hand over) something like inner reversals.
I think the problem arises only when you try to see and understand with the mental consciousness, even with the higher mind.
0 1961-12-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because there comes a time when one perceives the entire universe in such a total and comprehensive way that, in truth, it is impossible to remove anything from it without disturbing everything. And going a couple of steps further, one knows for certain that things which shock us as contradictions of the Divine are simply things out of place. Each thing must be exactly in its place, and whats more, be supple enough, plastic enough, to admit into a harmonious, progressive organization all the new elements constantly being added to the manifest universe. The universe is in a perpetual movement of internal reorganization, and at the same time its growing: its becoming more and more complex, more and more complete, more and more integralindefinitely. And as the new elements manifest, the whole reorganization must be built on a new basis, and thus there isnt a second when ALL is not in perpetual movement. And when the movement is in accord with the divine order, its harmonious, so perfectly harmonious that its almost imperceptible. Now, if you descend from this consciousness towards a more external consciousness, you begin naturally to have a very precise feeling of what helps you attain the true consciousness and what bars the way or pulls you backwards or even fights against your progress. And so the perspective changes and you are obliged to say: this is divine or a help towards the Divine; and that goes against the Divine, its the Divines enemy. But this is a pragmatic standpoint, geared to action, to movement in material lifebecause you havent yet attained the consciousness surpassing all that; because you havent reached that inner perfection where you no longer have to fight, since you have gone beyond the field or the time or the utility of struggle. But before reaching that state in your consciousness and action, there is necessarily struggle; and if there is struggle, there is choice; and to choose, you need discrimination.
(Mother remains silent)
0 1962-01-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Someone happened to be there last time so I didnt fall and hurt myself. But this time I was alone in my bathroom and actually I was going through a phenomenon of consciousness in which I was spreading over the worldspreading PHYSICALLY, thats the strange thing! The sensation is in the CELLS. There was a movement of diffusion in me, becoming more and more rapid and intense, and then suddenly I found myself on the floor.
Theres a seat in my bathroom upstairs, and between the seat and the wall are two small tables (not tables, but small stools where a few things are kept), and a porcelain towel bar (luckily, everything has rounded corners). I found myself wedged in between the seat and the two small tables (a space about this wide!). And all that matter the material substance of the table and the objects on the table and the porcelain seatit all seemed so unreceptive! It doesnt give way like it should for things to be comfortable; but it wasnt that my body was uncomfortable there was no body! The whole set-up was bizarre, everything was in a bizarre and absurd situation which I couldnt really understand, couldnt make out: Whats this big lump doing here, I seemed to be wondering, taking up so much room, getting in the way?
--
These past few days Ive had some interesting experiences from this standpoint. I had what is commonly called fever, but it wasnt feverit was a resurfacing from the subconscient of all the struggles, all the tensions this body has had for what will soon be eighty-three years. I went through a period in my life when the tension was tremendous, because it was psychological and vital as well as physical: a perpetual struggle against adverse forces; and during my stay in Japan, particularly oh, it was terrible! So at night, everything that had been part of that life in Japanpeople, things, movements, circumstancesall of it seemed to be surrounding my body in the form of vital3 vibrations, and to be taking the place of my present state, which had completely vanished. For hours during the night, the body was reliving all the terrible tensions it had during those four years in Japan. And I realized how much (because at the time you pay no attention; the consciousness is busy with something else and not concentrated on the body), how much the body resists and is tense. And just as I was realizing this, I had a communication with Sri Aurobindo: But youre keeping it up! he told me. Your body still has the habit of being tense. (Its much less now, of course; its quite different since the inner consciousness is in perfect peace, but the BODY keeps the habit of being tense.) For instance, in the short interval between the time I get up and the time I come down to the balcony,4 when I am getting ready (I have to get this body ready to come down) well, the body is tense about being ready in time. And thats why accidents happen at that moment. So the following morning I said, All right, no more tension, and I was exclusively concerned with keeping my body perfectly tranquil I was no later than usual! So its obviously just one of the bodys bad habits. Everything went off the same as usual, and since then things are better. But its a nasty habit.
And so I looked. Is it something particular to this body? I wondered. To everyone who has lived closely with it, my body gives the impression of two things: a very concentrated, very stubborn will, and such endurance! Sri Aurobindo used to tell me he had never dreamed a body could have such endurance. And thats probably why. But I dont want to curtail this ability in any way, because it is a CELLULAR will, and a cellular endurance toowhich is quite intriguing. Its not a central will and central endurance (thats something else altogether)its cellular. Thats why Sri Aurobindo used to tell me this body had been specially prepared and chosen for the Workbecause of its capacity for obstinate endurance and will. But thats no reason to exercise this ability uselessly! So I am making sure it relaxes now; I tell it constantly, Now, now! Just let go! Relax, have some fun, wheres the harm in it? I have to tell it to be quiet, very quiet. And its very surprised to hear that: Ah! Can I live that way? I dont have to hurry? I can live that way?
--
Its exactly what I was complaining about: If this stuff cant go on without flagging, if it cant take it and absolutely has to relax, if it cant keep up with the movement of consciousness and just has to slacken from time to time, well how can it ever be supramentalized? Precisely what everyone has always said: It CANNOT hold the charge, it has to let go. It cant hold the charge of Energy. And especially THIS Energy, which seems almost abnormal to peoplean Energy that works like this (inflexible gesture) and can keep it up indefinitely.
And when the body cant take it like this, it breaksyou find yourself between a table and and suddenly youre flat on the floor!
--
The criterion or the judgment [for passing the tests] was based EXCLUSIVELY on the substance constituting the peoplewhe ther they belonged completely to the supramental world or not, whether they were made of this very special substance. The criterion adopted was neither moral nor psychological. It is likely that their bodily substance was the result of an inner law or an inner movement which, at that time, was not in question. At least it is quite clear that the values are different.
And then you add:
0 1962-01-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the movement of becoming.
Perfect equality
0 1962-01-12 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Once and for all it has swept away all these notionsnot merely ordinary moral notions, but everything people here in India consider necessary for the spiritual life. In that respect, it was very instructive. And first and foremost, this so-called ascetic purity. Ascetic purity is merely the rejection of all vital movements. Instead of taking these movements and turning them towards the Divine, instead of seeing, that is, the supreme Presence in them (and so letting the Supreme deal with them freely), He is told (laughing): Noits none of Your business! You have no say in it.
As for the physical, its an old and well-known storyascetics have always rejected it; but they also reject the vital. And theyre all like that here, even X may have changed somewhat by now, but at the beginning he was no different either. Only things classically recognized as holy or admitted by religious tradition were accepted the sanctity of marriage, for example, and things like that. But a free life? Not a chance! It was wholly incompatible with religious life.
--
I mentioned the principal psychological requirement in my answer to that American: a state of perfect equality. This is an ABSOLUTE condition. Over the years since that experience I have observed that no supramental vibration whatsoever can be transmitted without this perfect equality. The slightest contradiction of that equalityin other words, the least movement of ego, of egoistic preference and everything is blocked, transmission stops. This is already quite a large stumbling block.
And, over and above this, for the realization to be total, there are two other conditions, which arent easy either. Intellectually, theyre not too difficult; in fact, for someone who has practiced yoga, followed a discipline (I am not speaking here of just anyone), theyre relatively easy. Psychologically too, given this equality, theres no great difficulty. But as soon as you come to the material plane the physical plane and then to the body, it isnt easy. These two conditions are first, the power to expand, to widen almost indefinitely, enabling you to widen to the dimensions of the supramental consciousness which is total. The supramental consciousness is the consciousness of the Supreme in his totality. By totality, I mean the Supreme in his aspect of Manifestation. Naturally, from a higher point of view, from the viewpoint of the essence the essence of that which in Manifestation becomes the Supermindwhats necessary is a capacity for total identification with the Supreme, not only in his aspect of Manifestation, but in his static or nirvanic aspect, outside of the Manifestation: Nonbeing. But in addition, one must be capable of identifying with the Supreme in the Becoming. And that implies both these things: an expansion that is nothing less than indefinite, and that should simultaneously be a total plasticity enabling one to follow the Supreme in his Becoming. You dont merely have to be as vast as the universe at one point in time, but indefinitely in the Becoming. These are the two conditions. They must be potentially present.
--
But even accepting all these misadventures a priori, things remain difficult because theres a double movement: both a cellular transformation and a capacity for something that could replace expansion with readjustment, a constant intercellular reorganization.3 The way they are now, of course, our bodies are rigid and heavyits unspeakable, actually; if it werent for that we would never grow old. For instance, my vital being is more full of energy, and thus full of youth and power to grow, than when I was twenty. Theres really no comparison. The power is INFINITELY greater yet the body is going to piecesits really something unspeakable. So a way has to be found to bridge this gap between the vital and the material being.
Not that the problem hasnt been partially solved: hatha yogis have solved it, partiallyprovided you do nothing else (thats the trouble). Yet having the knowledge, we should have the power to do whats necessary without making it our exclusive preoccupation. At any rate, this possibility is certainly not altogether unknown; for the first few months after I retired to my room,4 when I had cut all contact with the outside, it was working very well even extraordinarily so! Lots of disorders in my body were surmounted, and I had many fairly precise indications that if I continued like that long enough I would regain everything that had been lost, and with an even better equilibrium. I mean that the functional equilibrium was far superior. Only when I came back into contact with the world did it all come to a halt and begin to deteriorateall the more so as it was aggravated by this discipline of expansion making me constantlyCONSTANTLYabsorb mountains of difficulties to be resolved. And so.
--
There have been times, while working in the most material mind (the mind ingrained in the material substance), when I felt my brain swelling and swelling and swelling, and my head becoming so large it seemed about to burst! On two occasions I was forced to stop, because it was (was it only an impression, or was it a fact?) in any event it seemed dangerous, as if the head would burst, because what was inside was becoming too tremendous (it was that power in Matter, that very powerful deep blue light which has such powerful vibrations; it is able to heal, for example, and change the functioning of the organsreally a very powerful thing materially). Well then, thats what was filling my head, more and more, more and more, and I had the feeling that my skull was (it was painful, you know) that there was a pressure inside my skull pushing out, pushing everything out. I wondered what was going to happen. Then, instead of following the movement, helping it along and going with it, I became immobile, passive, to see what would happen. And both times it stopped. I was no longer helping the movement along, you see, I simply remained passive and it came to a halt, there was a sort of stabilization.
(silence)
--
The question, of course, is the supramentalization of MATTER the consciousness, thats nothing at all. Most people who have had that experience had it on the mental level, which is relatively easy. Its very easy: abolition of limits set by the ego, indefinite expansion with a movement following the rhythm of the Becoming. Mentally, its all very easy. Vitally. A few months after I withdrew to my room, I had the experience in the vitalwonderful, magnificent! Of course to have the experience there, the mind must have undergone a change, one must be in complete communion; without exception, any individual vital being that hasnt been prepared by what might be called a sufficient mental foundation would be panic-stricken. All those poor people who get scared at the least little experience had better not dabble with thistheyd panic! But as it happensthrough divine grace, you might saymy vital, the vital being of this present incarnation, was born free and victorious. It has never been afraid of anything in the vital world; the most fantastic experiences were practically childs play. But when I had that experience, it was so interesting that for a few weeks I was tempted to stay in it; it was. I once told you a little about that experience (it was quite a while ago, at least two years).5 I told you that even during the day I seemed to be sitting on top of the Earth that was this realization in the vital world. And what fantastic nights it gave me! Nights I have never been able to describe to anyone and never mentioned but I would look forward to the night as a marvelous adventure.
I voluntarily renounced all that in order to go further. And when I did it, I understood what people here in India mean when they say: he surrendered his experience. I had never really understood what that meant. When I did it, I understood. No, I said, I dont want to stop there; I am giving it all to You, that I may go on to the end. Then I understood what it meant.
--
The people on that ship had these two capacities: one, the capacity for indefinite expansion of consciousness on all planes, including the material; and two, limitless plasticity in order to follow the movement of the Becoming.
It was taking place in the subtle physical. The people who had patches on their bodies and had to be sent back were always the ones who lacked the plasticity those two movements required. But the main thing was the movement of expansion; the progressive movement, the movement of following the Becoming, seemed to be a subsequent preoccupation for those who had landed. The preparation on the boat concerned that capacity for expansion.
Another thing I didnt mention to you when I related the experience was that the ship had no engine. Everything was set in motion through will powerpeople, things (even the clothes people wore were a result of their will). And this gave all things and every persons shape a great suppleness, because there was an awareness of this willwhich is not a mental will but a will of the Self, what could be called a spiritual will or a soul-will (to give the word soul that particular meaning). I have that experience right here when theres an absolute spontaneity in action, I mean when the action for instance, an utterance or a movementis not determined by the mind, and not even (not to mention thought or intellect), not even by the mind that usually sets us in motion. Generally, when we do something, we can perceive in ourselves a will to do it; when you watch yourself, you see this: there is always (it can happen in a flash) the will to do. When you are conscious and watch yourself doing something, you see in yourself the will to do itthis is where the mind intervenes, its normal intervention, the established order in which things happen. But the supramental action is decided by a leap over the mind. The action is direct, with no need to go through the mind. Something enters directly into contact with the vital centers and activates them without going through the mindyet in full consciousness. The consciousness doesnt function in the usual sequence, it functions from the center of spiritual will straight to matter.
And so long as you can keep that absolute immobility in the mind, the inspiration is absolutely pureit comes pure. When you can catch and hold onto this while youre speaking, then what comes to you is unmixed too, it stays pure.
This is an extremely delicate functioning, probably because were not used to it the slightest movement, the slightest mental vibration disrupts everything. But as long as it lasts, its perfectly pure. And in a supramentalized life this has to be the CONSTANT state. Mentalized will should no longer intervene; because you may well have a spiritual will, your life may be the constant expression of spiritual will (its what happens to all who feel themselves guided by the Divine within), but it still comes through a mental transcription. Well, as long as its that way, its not the supramental life. The supramental life NO LONGER goes through the mind the mind is an immobile zone of transmission. The least little twitch is enough to upset everything.
(silence)
So we can say that the Supermind can express itself through a terrestrial consciousness only when there is a constant state of perfect equalityequality arising out of spiritual identification with the Supreme: all becomes the Supreme in perfect equality. And it must be automatic, not an equality obtained through conscious will or intellectual effort or an understanding preceding the state itselfnone of that. It has to be spontaneous and automatic; one must no longer react to what comes from outside as though it were coming from outside. That pattern of reception and reaction must be replaced by a state of constant perception and (I dont mean identical in all cases, because each thing necessarily calls forth its own particular reaction) but practically free from all rebound, you might say. Its the difference between something coming from outside and striking you, making you react, and something freely circulating and quite naturally generating the vibrations needed for the overall action. I dont know if I am making myself clear. Its the difference between a vibratory movement circulating within an IDENTICAL field of action, and a movement from an outside source, touching you and getting a reaction (this is the usual state of human consciousness). But once the consciousness is identified with the Supreme, all movements are, so to speak, innerinner in the sense that nothing comes from outside; there are only things circulating, which, through similarity or necessity, naturally generate or change the vibrations within the circulatory milieu.
I am very familiar with this, because I am now constantly in that state. I never have the feeling of something coming from outside and bumping into me; theres rather the sense of multiple and sometimes contradictory inner movements, and of a constant circulation generating the inner changes necessary to the movement.
This is the indispensable foundation.
--
Then that suppleness. It means a capacity for decrystallizing oneself; the whole span of life given over to self-individualization is a period of conscious, willed crystallization, which then has to be undone. To become a conscious, individualized being there has to be a constant, constant, willed crystallization, in everything; and afterwards, again constantly, the opposite movement has to be madewith an even greater will. But at the same time, the consciousness must not lose the benefit of what has been acquired through individualization.
It is difficult, I must say.
0 1962-01-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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
But I did note that down.
0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The adverse forces were necessitated by all these negations of the divine life. And this movement of earth consciousness towards the Supreme, the offering of all these things with such extraordinary intensity, was a kind of reparation so that those adverse forces might disappear.
The experience was very intense. It crystallized around a small nucleus of experiences too personal to mention (because I wasnt the only one involved), which translated into this: Take all my wrongdoings, take them all, accept them, obliterate them, and may those forces disappear.
--
It came after the vision of the great divine Becoming.2 Since this world is progressive, I was wondering, since it is increasingly becoming the Divine, wont there always be this deeply painful sense of the nondivine, of the state that, compared with the one to come, is not divine? Wont there always be what we call adverse forces, in other words, things that dont harmoniously follow the movement? Then came the answer, the vision of That: No, the moment of this very Possibility is drawing near, the moment for the manifestation of the essence of perfect Love, which can transform this unconsciousness, this ignorance and this ill will that goes with it into a luminous and joyous progression, wholly progressive, wholly comprehensive, thirsting for perfection.
It was very concrete.
--
The system of getting rid of things by anubhava [experience] can also be a dangerous one; for on this way one can easily become more entangled instead of arriving at freedom. This method has behind it two well-known psychological motives. One, the motive of purposeful exhaustion, is valid only in some cases, especially when some natural tendency has too strong a hold or too strong a drive in it to be got rid of by vicra [intellectual reflection] or by the process of rejection and the substitution of the true movement in its place; when that happens in excess, the sadhak has sometimes even to go back to the ordinary action of the ordinary life, get the true experience of it with a new mind and will behind and then return to the spiritual life with the obstacle eliminated or else ready for elimination. But this method of purposive indulgence is always dangerous, though sometimes inevitable. It succeeds only when there is a very strong will in the being towards realisation; for then indulgence brings a strong dissatisfaction and reaction, vairagya, and the will towards perfection can be carried down into the recalcitrant part of the nature.
The other motive for anubhava is of a more general applicability; for in order to reject anything from the being one has first to become conscious of it, to have the clear inner experience of its action and to discover its actual place in the workings of the nature. One can then work upon it to eliminate it, if it is an entirely wrong movement, or to transform it if it is only the degradation of a higher and true movement. It is this or something like it that is attempted crudely and improperly with a rudimentary and insufficient knowledge in the system of psycho-analysis. The process of raising up the lower movements into the full light of consciousness in order to know and deal with them is inevitable; for there can be no complete change without it. But it can truly succeed only when a higher light and force are sufficiently at work to overcome, sooner or later, the force of the tendency that is held up for change. Many, under the pretext of anubhava, not only raise up the adverse movement, but support it with their consent instead of rejecting it, find justifications for continuing or repeating it and so go on playing with it, indulging its return, eternising it; afterwards when they want to get rid of it, it has got such a hold that they find themselves helpless in its clutch and only a terrible struggle or an intervention of divine grace can liberate them.Some do this out of a vital twist or perversity, others out of sheer ignorance; but in yoga, as in life, ignorance is not accepted by Nature as a justifying excuse. This danger is there in all improper dealings with the ignorant parts of the nature; but none is more ignorant, more perilous, more unreasoning and obstinate in recurrence than the lower vital subconscious and its movements. To raise it up prematurely or improperly for anubhava is to risk suffusing the conscious parts also with its dark and dirty stuff and thus poisoning the whole vital and even the mental nature. Always therefore one should begin by a positive, not a negative experience, by bringing down something of the divine nature, calm, light, equanimity, purity, divine strength into the parts of the conscious being that have to be changed; only when that has been sufficiently done and there is a firm positive basis, is it safe to raise up the concealed subconscious adverse elements in order to destroy and eliminate them by the strength of the divine calm, light, force and knowledge. Even so, there will be enough of the lower stuff rising up of itself to give you as much of the anubhava as you will need for getting rid of the obstacles; but then they can be dealt with with much less danger and under a higher internal guidance.
***
0 1962-02-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There has been a kind of perception of a variety of bodily activities, a whole series of them, having to do exclusively (or so it seems) with the maintenance of the body. Some are on the borderlinesleep, for instance: one portion of it is necessary for good maintenance of the body, and another portion puts it in contact with other parts and activities of the being; but one portion of sleep is exclusively for maintaining the bodys balance. Then there is food, keeping clean, a whole range of things. And according to Sri Aurobindo, spiritual life shouldnt suppress those things; whatever is indispensable for the bodys well-being must be kept up. For ordinary people, all other bodily activities are used for personal pleasure and benefit. The spiritual man, on the other hand, has given his body to serve the Divine, so that the Divine may use it for His work and perhaps, as Sri Aurobindo said, for His joyalthough given the present state of Matter and the body, that seems to me unlikely or at best very intermittent and partial, because this body is much more a field of misery than a field of joy. (None of this is based on speculation, but on personal experience I am relating my personal experience.) But with work, its different: when the body is at work, its in full swing. Thats its joy, its needto exist only to serve Him. To exist only to serve. And of course, to reduce maintenance to a bare minimum while trying to find a way for the Divine to participate in the very restricted, limited and meager possibilities of joy this maintenance may give. To associate the Divine with all those movements and things, like keeping clean, sleeping (although sleep is different, its already a lot more interesting); but especially with personal hygiene, eating and other absolutely indispensable things, the attempt is to associate them with the Divine Presence so that they may be as much an expression of divine joy as possible. (This is realized to a certain extent.)
Now where does japa fit into all this?
0 1962-02-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Practically, you go from one to the other, or one is in front and the other behind, one active and the other passive. With the feeling of perfect joy comes an almost static state (certainly the joy of movement is also there, but all anticipation of the goal stays in the background). Then, when the aspiration of the Becoming is there, the joy of divine perfection at each moment withdraws into a static state.
And this very going back and forth is the problem.
--
And the experience is renewable, renewable, renewable I have only to make a slight inner movement and there it is.
Ultimately, looking at it like any idiot who thinks himself intelligent, one could say: this must be why the Lord created the universe.
0 1962-02-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So the tendency is always to step back and go within. But thats not the way! Its a natural movement, but I clearly see that its false.
Both were there this morning.
0 1962-02-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For a long time, several months, things were constantly on the brink, and dangerously so; I felt they could go either this way or that. Then on my birthday1 something suddenly tilted. All at once a formation seemed to have been lifted, a formation weighing terribly on I wont say on what, because it appeared to be everything it was lifted with the sweep of a hand, exactly the same movement Sri Aurobindo used for taking away illnesses.2
It has made a tremendous change for this body, as though I had abruptly gotten out of a very tight corner.
--
I should mention that three or four days before my birthday something apparently very troublesome happened5 (it could have been troublesome, anyway), and it made me wonder: Will I be able to do what I have to on the 21st? I wasnt happy about it. No, I said, I cant let these people down when theyre expecting so much from this day; thats not right. So throughout the 20th I stayed exclusively concentrated in a very, very deep, very interiorized invocation, not in the least superficial, far from all emotions and sentiments something really at the summit of the being. And I remained in contact with That, for everything to be truly for the best, free from any false movement in Matter whatsoever. And that night I was CLEARLY cured; I mean I followed the action and saw myself really and truly cured. When I got up in the morning, I got up cured. All the things I constantly had to do, all the tapasyas just to keep going, were no longer necessarysomeone had taken charge of everything, and it was all over and done with. And on the morning of the 21st, with a crowd of two thousand and some hundred people, it went perfectly smoothly, without the slightest hitch. Then in the afternoon I had that very special experience for my legs.
So on the 21st morning I could say quite spontaneously and unhesitatingly, Today the Lord has given me the gift of healing me. (I was speaking in English about the things people had given me, and I said, and the Lord has given me the gift of healing me.)
This explanation is clear; and the healing was the result of tapasya. Its self-explanatory. Something was even saying to my body, to the bodys SUBSTANCE, O unbelieving substance, now you wont be able to say there are no miracles. Throughout all the work that was being done on the 20th, something was saying (I dont know who, because it doesnt come like something foreign to me any more, its like a Wisdom, it seems like a Wisdom, something that knows: not someone in particular, but that which knows, whatever its form), something that knows was insisting to the body, by showing it certain things, vibrations, movements, From now on, O unbelieving substance, you cant say there are no miracles. Because the substance itself is used to each thing having its effect, to illnesses following a particular course and certain things even being necessary for it to be cured. This process is very subtle, and it doesnt come from the intellect, which can have a totally different interpretation of it; its rather a kind of consciousness ingrained in physical substance, and thats what was being addressed and being shown certain movements, certain vibrations and so forth: You see, from now on you cant say there are no miracles. In other words, a direct intervention of the Lord, who doesnt follow the beaten path, but does things in His own way.
There was also that attack (it was rather serious and threw the doctor into a fit of anxiety) which took place, I think, the day before sari distribution.6 The next morning, throughout the distribution, someone else seemed to have taken possession of my body and to be doing what had to be done, taking care of all the difficulties; I was comfortable, serene, simply like a carefree spectator. I had nothing to worry about, someone was. (What someone? Someone, something, I dont know, theres no more difference, its not delineated like that any more; but anyway, it was a being, a force, a consciousness perhaps a part of myself, I dont know; none of this is clear-cut; its quite precise, but not divided, very smoothMo ther makes a rounded gestureno breaks.) Something, then, a will or a force or a consciousness plainly a powerhad taken possession of the body and was doing all the work, looking after everything. I was witnessing everything, smiling. But its gone now. It came specifically for that work (I was in pretty bad shape); when the work was over, it dissolvedit didnt leave abruptly but it became inactive. Afterwards, I felt rather confident. Well in any case, I thought, something similar could happen on the 21st, since it just happened now.
The 19th was so-so, and on the 20th I was concentrated all day long: no contacts with anyone, nothing external, only an intense invocation as intense and concentrated as when youre trying to melt into the Lord at death. It was like that. The same movement of identification, but at its core a will for everything to work out in a good way here [on the material plane]. In a good way I mean I said to the Lord, YOUR Good, the true Good, not. The true Good, a victorious Good, a real progress over the way life is usually lived. And I stayed in this unwavering concentration the whole day, all the time, all the time: even when I spoke, it was something very external speaking. And then at night when I went to bed I felt something had changed the body felt completely different. When I got up in the morning, all the pains and disorders and dangers had vanished. Lord, I said, You have given me a gift of health.
And with this change, the bodily substance, the very stuff of the cells, was constantly being told, Dont you forget, now you see that miracles CAN happen. In other words, the way things work out in physical substance may not at all conform to the laws of Nature. Dont forget, now! It kept coming back like a refrain: Dont forget, now! This is how it is. And I saw how necessary this repetition was for the cells: they forget right away and try to find explanations (oh, how stupid can you be!). Its a sort of feeling (not at all an individual way of thinking), its Matters way of thinking. Matter is built like that, its part of its make-up. We call it thinking for lack of a better word, but its not thinking: it is a material way of understanding things, the way Matter is able to understand.
--
I did it myself for years, using the same system: inhale, hold, exhale, remain empty. But holding the lungs empty is said to be dangerous, so I dont advise it. I did it for years. Without knowing it, Sri Aurobindo and I did it nearly the same way, along with all sorts of other things that arent supposed to be done! This is to tell you that the danger is mainly in what you think. In the course of certain movements, both of us made the air go out through the crown of the headapparently thats only to be done when you want to die! (Mother laughs) It didnt kill us.
No, the danger is MAINLY a thought formation.
0 1962-03-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Although sometimes, yes, all of a sudden. Take this example (it may seem a mere trifle, but when you have reached this point): the first sudden glimmer of conscious control over a bodily functioning, giving you a glimpse of the time when everything will function through the action of a conscious will. That has begun but its a tiny, tiny, tiny beginning. And the slightest mental intrusion from the old movement spoils it all I mean the old way of behaving with your body: you want this and you want that and you want to make it do this and you want to make it The minute that pops up, everything stops. Progress comes to a standstill. One must be in a state of beatific union then one can feel the new functioning begin.
But it has become such a delicate play! A MINUTE thing, minute, can throw everything out of gearone simple ordinary movement. If through habit you slip back into the ordinary functioning (these are infinitesimal things, not easily seen, subtle, tenuous; one must be very, very, VERY alert), if this happens, the whole new thing stops. Then you have to wait. Wait until the ordinary functioning consents to stop, and that means meditating, entering into contemplationgoing over the whole path again. Then, when you have caught hold of That again and can stay there for a few seconds, sometimes a few minutes (its marvelous when it lasts a few minutes). And then it gets jammed again and everything has to be done over.
I am not saying this to discourage you, but to tell you that one must really and truly be patient. The only possible way to do it is in a sort of passivity: not to WANT the resultWANTING the result brings in an ego movement which spoils it all.
I have been telling you for a long time that we are VERY close for a long time.
--
Before, the mind was always creating, setting actions, wills and movements into motion, producing consequences; and its very frightening when that stopsyou feel youre becoming an idiot. But its quite the opposite! No more ideas, no more will, no more impulsions, nothing. You act only when something makes you act, without knowing why or how.
This something doesnt come from below, of course, it mustnt come from below. But that condition can truly be achieved only when all the work below has been completed.
0 1962-03-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Actually, thats the main reason I dont like to talk about occultism. It puts people in touch with an extremely dangerous world which cant be safely entered unless one is (I cant even say a saint, because its not true; some saints enter the vital world and get right into it!) unless one is transformed, unless one has the true spiritual consciousness. On this condition alone are you perfectly safe. So where are the people with the spiritual consciousness? There are really very few of them, very few. And above all, in those who have this occult curiosity there are also all sorts of vital movements, which make it dangerous for them to enter that world. Unless, of course, they go shielded by the gurus presence; with that, you can go anywhere, its the same as going there with him. And if you do go with him, all is well; he has the knowledge and he protects you. But going there all on your own is you need the Divine Protection itself! Or the protection of the guru who represents the Divine. With the gurus protection you are safe.
But isnt it possible to have a fruitful collaboration with those beings? Should they be avoided altogether, or what?
0 1962-05-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For instance, I am walking a little now, with someones assistance, to get the body used to it again. And when I started walking, I became aware of a rather peculiar state I might describe it as: what gives me the illusion of a body (Mother laughs). I entrust it to the person I walk with. In other words, its not my responsibility: the other person has to make sure it doesnt fall, doesnt bump into anythingyou see what I mean. And the consciousness is a limitless consciousness, like a material equivalent or expression of these gustsits like waves, but waves with no. Not separate waves, but a movement of waves; a movement of what might be called material, corporeal waves, as vast as the earth, but not not round, not flat. Something giving a great sense of infinity but moving in waves. And this wave movement is the movement of life. And the consciousness (the body-consciousness, I suppose) floats along in this, with a sensation of eternal peace. But its not an expanse thats not the word for it. It is a limitless movement, with a very harmonious and very tranquil rhythm, very vast, very calm. And this movement is life itself.
I walk around the room, and that is what is walking.
And it is very silent there is no thought; there is barely, barely the ability to observe. And all kinds of movements, an infinity of movements and vibrations of something that could be the essence of thoughts, move there, rhythmically, in a movement of waves without beginning or end, with a condensation like this (gesture from above down), with a condensation like that (horizontal gesture), and a movement of expansion (gesture like a pulsating ocean). That is, a sort of contraction, concentration, and then expansion, diffusion.2
Yesterday I had the total experience I let myself go completely. It lasted something like forty minutes as I walked around the room.
And actually, apart from the fact of suffering (you know, an ache here, an ache there, a pain here, a pain there, giving the sense of bodily individuality), apart from that, that great undulating movement of life is my normal consciousness. Meaning that I what I call Me (gesture high above), my consciousness, is completely outside the body. Thats what the consciousness of the body is (what Ive just been describing), with only points of pain as reminders of what a body usually is: an ache here, an ache there, another ache here. Thats what its like. And this pain has a small and extremely limited life; its not general, its not a body that suffers: it is suffering that suffers. Its a point, a point of paina scratch here, a sore there, things like that. Thats what is individual and suffersits not the body that has a sore, you understand.
It is difficult to express.
--
My physical consciousness has been universalized for a long, long time, it encompasses all terrestrial movements3; but the body is limited solely to this small concentration of substance (Mother touches her body)thats what I call the body-consciousness.
And when I said, I have left the body,4 it certainly didnt mean I have left the physical consciousness my overall contact with the terrestrial world has remained the same. It concerns only the purely bodily aspect, the specific concretization or concentration of substance giving each of us a different bodya different APPEARANCE.
--
(On the wave movement Mother lived in her body:)
Once again, with Mother, we find ourselves deep into modern physics. All theories of physics attempting to describe the structure of our universe and the composition of matter, whether they emanate from official scientific laboratories or from the work of independent researchers, point to the wavelike or sinusoidal movement as the constituent and dynamic foundation of physical reality. Indeed, whether in electromagnetic or gravitational fields, or in atomic interactions, everything, from the heart of the atom to the farthest reaches of the universe, moves or is propagated as waves. With striking succinctness Mother says, The wave movement is the movement of life.
A movement of waves without beginning or end, with a condensation like this (gesture from above down), with a condensation like that (horizontal gesture). We cannot fail to be reminded of the electromagnetic field with its two perpendicular components, the electric and magnetic fields, which are propagated along an infinite sinusoidal wave. And then again: A movement of expansion a sort of contraction, concentration, and then expansion, diffusion. Unmistakably, this is an exact description of the propagation in space of a sinusoidal wave.
Striking though the parallel may be, there is still a fundamental difference between these mathematical concepts and Mothers experience. In the first case, we are dealing with conceptual instruments used by the human mind to better explain and master the world: no one has actually seen electromagnetic wavesnot to speak of gravitational ones! They are images, convenient models, invisible and nonexistent in themselves. They exist only through their effects: a beam of sunlight, which is an electromagnetic wave, strikes our retina and enables us to distinguish a flower; by means of gravitational waves, Newtons apple falls from the tree but no one has lived the reality of those waves. The way Mother grasps reality, on the contrary, is first and foremost through lived experience. She is the movement, she is the wave: I walk around the room, and that is what is walking. Here we touch upon a stupendous mystery and a formidable question: How is it possible for a material and cellular body to be the wave that at once constitutes and carries the worlds along in its infinite undulating movement and governs the existence of atoms and galaxies? How is it possible to be an infinite and ubiquitous electromagnetic wave while remaining within the narrow confines of a human body?
In being THAT, it might be said, Mother thus resolves the famous question of the unified-field theory, the theory to which Einstein devoted the last years of his life in vain, that would describe the movements of both planets and atoms in a single mathematical equation. Mothers body-consciousness is one with the movement of the universe, Mother lives the unified-field theory in her body. In so doing she opens up to us not merely one more physical theory, but the very path to a new species on earth, a species that will physically and materially live on the scale of the universe. The posthuman species might not simply be one with a few organs more or less, but rather one capable of being at every point in the universe. A sort of material ubiquity. It may not be so much a new as an ubiquitous species, a species that embraces everything, from the blade of grass under our feet to the far galaxies. A multifarious, undulating existence. A resume or epitome of evolution, really, which at the end of its course again becomes each point and each species and each movement of its own evolution.
There was, in fact, a whole group of Ashram people (they might be called the Ashram "intelligentsia") who, influenced by Subhas Bose, were strongly in favor of the Nazis and the Japanese against the British. (It should be recalled that the British were the invaders of India, and thus many people considered Britain's enemies to be automatically India's friends.) It reached the point where Sri Aurobindo had to intervene forcefully and write: "I affirm again to you most strongly that this is the Mother's war.... The victory of one side (the Allies) would keep the path open for the evolutionary forces: the victory of the other side would drag back humanity, degrade it horribly and might lead even, at the worst, to its eventual failure as a race, as others in the past evolution failed and perished.... The Allies at least have stood for human values, though they may often act against their own best ideals (human beings always do that); Hitler stands for diabolical values or for human values exaggerated in the wrong way until they become diabolical.... That does not make the English or Americans nations of spotless angels nor the Germans a wicked and sinful race, but...." (July 29, 1942 and Sept. 3, 1943, Cent. Ed., Vol. XXVI.394 ff.) And on her side also, Mother had to publicly declare: "It has become necessary to state emphatically and clearly that all who by their thoughts and wishes are supporting and calling for the victory of the Nazis are by that very fact collaborating with the Asura against the Divine and helping to bring about the victory of the Asura.... Those, therefore, who wish for the victory of the Nazis and their associates should now understand that it is a wish for the destruction of our work and an act of treachery against Sri Aurobindo." (May 6, 1941, original English.)
0 1962-05-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Concerning the "wave movement" in the experience of April 13.)
What I say there is quite true. When I dont observe, formulate or explain, the state is absolutely tranquil, peaceful, contented, sufficient unto itself. And out of it, I can see that something will definitely emerge.
0 1962-05-29, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know, I cant define it very clearly. Instead of trying to push down walls, I feel I may be remaining more passive. Its that kind of movement now, a movement of surrender rather than concentration.
Yes, exactly! Thats where I find fault with the Tantric system they have no belief in the possibility of something helping you from above. They believe in walking the tightrope. Its no good.
--
For my taste (do I still have tastes? I certainly have no preferences, but some things do come more spontaneously than others) my spontaneous movement, you know, would be this (all-embracing gesture, open to all horizons)and then just let go.
If I could plunge you into certain vibrations, you wouldnt need the mountains.
--
It is very interesting, mon petit. As you were telling me about it, I automatically went into that state. And there was a kind ofhow shall I put it? I dont know what to call it. It is a movement akin to will, but it has nothing to do with thought, its a feeling: I wanted to take you into the experience. And it was shown to meliterally shown that your whole relationship with the inner and outer worlds is situated here (gesture above the head); thats why it is so well expressed through intellectual activity. But here (gesture to the solar plexus) theres not much. And I was seeing this, you know, I was touching it. It only comes indirectly, as a consequence. And then down here (gesture lower down): NOTHING. It remains just the way it was formed when you came down to earth!
And here (umbilical region) I was shown that a sort of widening of the being is needed, a widening of the vibrationsa peace, a calm within the immensity. HEREthe prana, that isis where there should be a widening into peace, peace, peace and calm. But within the immensity.
--
And here (umbilical region): something 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.
Like this: relax, relax, relax. Youre floating on an infinite undulating movementfloating, floating, floating. Shall we try?
But dont get into a meditation posture! And dont tense up; just let yourself go, as if you simply wanted to rest but not in an empty hole. To rest in a mass of infinite force a supple solidity.
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 something very, very material) I have sometimes 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 sometimes 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.
--
Several times (because I am almost never alone in my room, though there may be many other reasons), I have noticed a slight change, a small movement in the consciousness of the person or persons in the room. But I always hesitate to throw the responsibility onto something external, because that takes three-quarters of the possibility of control away from you.
If only the mechanism could be found!
--
Thats it, thats what we must catch hold ofa sort of cadence, a wave movement, and it has such vastness, such power! Its tremendous, really. And it doesnt disrupt anything. It doesnt displace anything, it doesnt clash with anything.4 And it carries the universe in its undulatory movementso smoothly!
(silence)
--
But with a very simple movement, you can easily eliminate that from the consciousness; this movement can be formulated in an almost childlike way: You alone, Lord, You alone can act. You alone, Lord, You alone can act. And then that easing off (its relaxation, actually): you just let yourself melt, let yourself melt. This (the head) keeps still, it doesnt stir; you are wholly in the sensation, you let yourself melt. And with a sense of boundlessness.
And no more distinctions.
--
Words that repeat themselves automatically, with no effort of will (but the body itself is quite aware that although these three particular Words happen to have been given to it, it might also have been something elseit was originally the choice of a higher Intelligence). This has become an automatic accompaniment. It is not so much the words in themselves as what they will represent and bring with them in their vibration. I mean it would be quite inaccurate to say, Only these Words are helpful, no, not that. But they provide an accompaniment, an accompaniment of subtle, physical vibrations, which has built up a certain state or experience, a sort of association between the presence of those words and this movement of eternal Life, that undulating vibration.
Obviously, another center of consciousness, another (how shall I put it?) another concretization, another amalgam, mightwould of coursehave another vibration.
--
Interestingly enough, physicists also say that the wave movement does not displace matter. For example, the concentric ripples caused on the surface of a pond by the fall of a pebble do not carry the water molecules along with them: a cork floating on the water rises and falls with the undulatory rhythm without traveling on the pond.
Mother is not speaking here of only her mantra but of all mantras. As she later added: "No mantra has any effect unless it is ACCEPTED by the Power being addressed. When (like the Tantrics, for example) you do a mantra for a certain deity, if this deity accepts the mantra, that gives it power; but if the deity doesn't accept your mantra, it has no power at all. This isn't something I got out of a book, I know it from my own experience but I believe it has been explained in Tantric texts."
0 1962-06-02, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Immediately, as soon as I am in that state, theres an instantaneous will to spread it around as much as possible, so that all who are close to me in some way, materially or spiritually, may benefit from it. Thats my very first movement. And its probably also how I catch the contagion of the wrong room!
Very probably. But after all, its necessary.
--
I have seen instances of people having quite unexpected experiences, experiences out of all proportion to their normal state of consciousness, and very clearly resulting from that movement. It wouldnt be kind to name them, because really, you would never expect them to have such experiences! And it certainly comes from that.
Yes, it has effectsfar and near. The people nearest to me dont seem to be the most receptive; but with them the action is much more complex and SOLIDI mean instead of a sudden experience thats almost, as I said, out of proportion to their normal condition, something is being progressively BUILT. I constantly find myself in the midst of constructions, immense constructions in the making. It was like that last night; I had to flounder about in something like cement, a kind of batter. And then I meet all sorts of people who are also more or less symbolic, but who sometimes have the features of a specific person. Its a whole WORLD of circumstances, symbolic down to the most minute details. I remember everything, but I would have to describe a whole world and an apparently uninteresting world, at that (outwardly uninteresting, I mean); but it gives me the key, from every point of view, to the present state of things, to the world now in the making.
0 1962-06-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It must give a sort of woolly effect to someone not used to it. You know, when you want to draw your consciousness withinwhat people call concentrating for meditation, for instance, or japa, well, to the sharp-edged surface consciousness the movement of interiorization is like entering something not exactly smoky, because it isnt dark, but woolly: the feeling of something with no angles, no precise demarcations. Dont you have that impression when you concentrate?
I dont see anything when I concentrate.
--
But one thing has happened practically without my noticing it. In the past, before that experience [April 13], the body used to feel the struggle against the forces of wear and tear (different organs wearing out, losing their endurance, their power of reaction, and certain movements, for instance, becoming less easy to make). Thats what the body felt, although the body-consciousness never sensed any aging, never, none that simply didnt exist. But in actual material fact, there was some difficulty. And now, looking at it in the ordinary way, externally, superficially, you might say there has been a great deterioration; well, the body doesnt feel that way at all! What it feels is that a particular movement, effort, gesture or action belongs to the worldthis world of ignorance and isnt being performed in the true way: its not the true movement, done in the true way. And its sensation or perception is that the state I was speaking of, soft, with no angles, has to develop along a certain line and produce effects on the body that will make true action possible, action expressing the true will. With no difference on the surface, perhaps (I dont know about that yet) but done in another way. And I am not talking about grandiose things, mind you, but of everyday activities: getting up, walking, taking a bath. I no longer have a feeling of incapacity, but a feeling of (whats the word for it?) an unwillingnessa bodily unwillingnessto do things in the old way.
There is another way to be found.
0 1962-06-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No; you cant grasp what I mean by the word relation unless you take it scientifically. Your body, and my body, this table, this carpet, are all made up of atoms; and these atoms are constituted of the SAME thing. The differences we seedifferent bodies, different formsare due to the movements or the interrelations within this same thing.
Yes, so then its the interrelations that have to change.
But this has to be very concretely grasped. Well, I say that the power must change this intra-atomic movement. Then, instead of disintegrating, your bodily substance will obey the movement of Transformation, you follow? But its all the SAME thing! What must change are the relations among things.
And so it becomes EVIDENT that immortality can be achieved! Things get destroyed simply because of their own rigidity and even then, its only a semblance of destruction; the essential element stays the same, everywhere, in everything, in decay just as much as in life.
0 1962-06-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, the trouble is hes a man whose principles and education prevent him from believing in progress and transformation. He believes that if you fulfill the conditions you get the siddhi,3 and thats the end of it the goal is reached. He had already attained his goal before meeting us, and then he could have kept his distance, but he became intimately connected with something full of all kinds of difficulties (which we neither ignore nor call for), but its essentially a Power for progressan awesome force for progress. Well, when I saw that, I wondered, How can he possibly bear it? I thought he would keep his distance and not enter the atmosphere, but he did try to enterhe linked up with certain people, and particularly when he started meditating with me (he asked for it, not me), suddenly something responded. And that triggered the conflict in him. One part of his being has gone along with the movement, while the other is left strandeddoesnt budge. That created a gap.
Of course, one has to be in a terribly superficial consciousness to react the way he did. He had a rather deep contact with you, and there were moments when he understood very well who you arehe knows, he told me so. Consequently, had he truly been in a yogic state, then even if you had done something tactless or wrong, he would have just smiled! He would have said, Oh, hes just impetuous, but I dont mind.
0 1962-06-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Some interesting things have been happening in that world [since the supramental descent]. How can I explain? Those beings have an independence, an absolute freedom of movement (although at the same time, they are all a single Being), but they had the true sense of perfect Unity only with the supreme Consciousness. And now with this present intervention [Mothers], with this incarnation and the establishment of the Consciousness here, like this (Mother makes a fist in a gesture of immutable solidity), in such an absolute way (I mean there are no fluctuations) HERE, on earth, in the terrestrial atmosphere, this incarnation has a radiating action throughout all those worlds, all those universes, all those Entities. And it results in small events,7 incidents scaled to the size of the earthwhich in themselves are quite interesting.
(long silence)
0 1962-06-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In those movements of consciousness, in this state of consciousness, I am comfortable (Mother heaves a sigh). But it has taken me a lot of discipline to concentrate here [in the body]: there was always something, from my very childhood, that felt hemmed in, squeezed, really oh! And with a sense of something so powerful that if it ever went into action (gesture of unleashing), it would smash everything.
Now it has been tamed.
0 1962-07-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They tried, fought, operated: no movement, nothing moved. Then one day they declared him dead (by the way, according to doctors, when the body dies the heart beats on faintly for a few seconds; then it stops and its all over). In his case, those faint beats (not strong enough to pump blood) continued for half an hour the kind of heartbeats typical of the trance state. (They all seem to be crassly ignorant! But anyway, it doesnt matter.) And they all said, even the doctors, Oooh, he must be a great yogi, this only happens to yogis! I have no idea what they mean by that. But I do know that although those heartbeats arent strong enough to pump blood through the body (thus putting the body into a cataleptic state), they do suffice to maintain life, and thats how yogis can remain in trance for months on end. Well, I dont know what type of doctors they are (probably very modern), but theyre ignorant of this fact. Anyway, according to them he had those pulsations for half an hour (normally they last a few seconds). All right. Hence their remarks. And he was here the whole while, immutable. Then suddenly I felt a kind of shudder; I lookedhe was gone. I was busy and didnt note the time, but it was in the afternoon, thats all I know. Later I was told that they had decided to cremate him, and had done so at that time.
The violence of the accident had brutally exteriorized him, but when it happened he must have been thinking of me with trust. He came and didnt budgehe never knew what was happening to his body. He didnt know he was dead! And if.
--
Even now, my one feeling about this form is that its too rigid. Those stupendous inner revelations, those great movements of creative consciousness are constantly hampered by this. Its trying, its trying its best, but it is still governed by such appallingly rigid laws! Appalling. How long will it take to overcome this?
We mustnt be in a hurry.
0 1962-07-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And simultaneously there is an automatic perception of timeclock timewhich is rather curious (everything is regulated by the comings and goings of the people around me, you see: such a thing at this time, such a thing at that time), I dont need to hear the clock I am warned just before it strikes. I repeat one part of the japa in a particular way while lying down, because the Power is greater (these arent meditations, they are actions), and another part while walking. So I stay stretched out for a certain time, I walk for a certain time, and at a fixed hour this one goes, another comes, and so on. But none of them are people; I dont tell them so, but theyre not people: they are movements of the Lord. And its extremely interestingone of the Lords movements will have this particular character, another movement will have a different type of vibration, and they all harmonize very nicely into a whole. But I know what time it is just before the clock strikes: six oclock, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, like that. Not with the words six, seven, but: its time, its time, its time. And along with thisthis clockwork precision I have that other notion of time which is quite different, its. Although its a very rigid convention, our time is a living formation with its own living power here in the world of action. The other time is the rhythm of consciousness. So according to the intensity of the Presence (theres a concentration and an expansion, I mean), according to this pulsationwhich can vary, its not regular and mechanicalwalking around the room takes either no time at all, or else an ENORMOUS amount of time. But this doesnt interfere with the other time, theres no contradiction. Our time is on a different plane, something far more external; but it has its usefulness and its own law, and the one doesnt hinder the other.4
And its gradually becoming foreseeable that.5
--
A few in India, but a more widespread movement in America.
Strange, theyre on that side! (Mother gestures to the right.) Why are they on the right? Ah, thats where it is on the map! Its on the other side of the ocean, isnt it? (Mother looks in the direction of the Pondicherry coast.) Thats it. No, but it does have something to do with the right. Action: the right side is action.
--
When one goes out of the body (and probably at death), there is always the impression of moving "upwards," or "inwards," which means into a deeper plane (either way, it is simply the expression of a change of dimension). What is striking about Mother's experience is this LEVEL movement, indicating that she had not left the physical world. We are faced with a strange enigma: a physical world WITHIN the physical worldano ther world, or the same one lived differently? A physical world where death no longer exists: one has died unto death. The world to come?...
Mother's japa.
0 1962-07-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But now the body the body itself, its very own selffeels it is WITHIN things or WITHIN people or WITHIN an action. There are no more limits, none of this (Mother touches the skin of her hands as if all separation had disappeared). Take this example: someone accidentally bumps me (it does happen) with an object or a part of his body. Well, it is NEVER something external: it happens INSIDE the bodys consciousness is much larger than my body. Yesterday, the table leg bumped my foot; so there was the ordinary outward reaction (it operates automatically and in a curious way the body jumped), and then the body-consciousness now I am speaking of the body-consciousness saw that an unexpected and involuntary collision of two objects had taken place INSIDE ITSELF. And it also saw that if it made a certain movement of concentration at that particular spot, inside itself, some pain or damage would result; but if it made the other movement of (how shall I put it?) of union, of abolishing all separation (which it can do very well), well, then the results of the blow would be annulled. And thats what happened, I did it. I was simply sitting down, and I let my body cope with the whole thing (while I watched with keen interest); and I noticed it really did feel the blow inside and not outsideit wasnt that something from outside had struck it, but that there had been an unexpected, or rather an unforeseen and involuntary collision of two things inside itself. And I clearly followed how the body made a more complete movement of identification (you see, someone with the sense of separation had moved the table, so the sense of separation accompanied the blow, and then of course there was all the regret,2 and so on and so forth); well, the body simply went into its usual state where theres no sense of separation, and the effect vanished instantaneously. Had I been asked, Where were you hit, what spot?, I couldnt have told, I dont know. All I know, because of words I heard spoken, is that the table leg bumped into my foot. But where? I cant say; I couldnt have said even five minutes after the incidentit had utterly disappeared, and disappeared through a VOLUNTARY movement.
This body-consciousness has a will; it is constantly, constantly calling upon the Lords will: Lord, take possession of this, take possession of that, take. Theres no question of taking possession of the will, that was done ages ago, but: Take possession of these cells, those cells, this, that. It is the BODYS aspiration. Well, the blow wasnt caused by this will acting in the body; the blow didnt come directly from the body, but from something that had slipped in through an unconscious element; and the body simply erased, or absorbed, digested this unconsciousness and the thing vanished without a trace!
--
For instance, sometimes He tells me (of course its not external; its an extremely delicate working, and sort of automatic; no time elapses between the order and its execution: theyre not two movements but one single thing) when He says Speak, or when He says Keep silentlike the other day when, as you pointed out, I stopped in the middle of a sentenceits that all of a sudden (Mother makes a gesture as if she were unable to speak, or as if suddenly held by silence). At other times it pours out like its doing now. And I dont hear an order, I dont feel an order: I LIVE the Order; and its so patently the Lords that it seems stupid to even mention it.
Oh, such humorous things happen. The other day I saw T. Her old mother lives in Moscow; shes very old and on her deathbed, and has asked T. to come see her. So T. is going to go there. Its a risky adventure. She wrote to ask if she could see me before leaving (I dont see anyone and I had no intention of receiving her, but it was decided in spite of me and I let her come). She had been told not to speak, but thats impossible for such a chatterbox! So she began by lamenting (probably thinking it was the thing to do) over my serious illness and god knows what else I didnt listen. I simply told her, No, its not that, its the yoga. Then, with the effervescence of an ignorant child: Yoga! But you shouldnt be doing yoga! You shouldnt be. Just then, the Lords face came (the Lords face often takes on Sri Aurobindos appearancean idealized Sri Aurobindo, not exactly as he was physically), and it came here (right up against Mothers face), and it was blue. Then It made my finger touch her cheek, like this (Mother seems to tap T.s cheek), and It told that child, Little children dont know what theyre talking about. And it was so thoroughly Him! He was speaking and I saw only Him, his appearance: Little children dont know what theyre talking about.
--
"The regret of the person who bumped me," Mother specified. "This person's state of consciousness entered the body along with the blow. And this kind of regret for having given a blow was an ego movement. All these vibrations accompanied the blow and that's what the body had to annul in order to annul the result."
***
0 1962-07-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You may say, what need is there of a Samgha? Let me be free and live in every vessel; let all become one without form and let whatever must be happen in the midst of that vast formlessness. There is a truth there, but only one side of the truth. Our business is not with the formless Spirit alone; we have also to direct the movement of life. And there can be no effective movement of life without form. It is the Formless that has taken form and that assumption of name and form is not a caprice of Maya. Form is there because it is indispensable. We do not want to rule out any activity of the world as beyond our province. Politics, industry, society, poetry, literature, art will all remain, but we must give them a new soul and a new form.
Why have I left politics? Because the politics of the country is not a genuine thing belonging to India. It is an importation from Europe and an imitation. At one time there was a need of it. We also have done politics of the European kind. If we had not done it, the country would not have risen and we too would not have gained experience and attained full development. There is still some need of it, not so much in Bengal as in the other provinces of India. But the time has come to stop the shadow from extending and to seize on the reality. We must get to the true soul of India and in its image fashion all works.
--
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.
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But whenever there was unpleasantness with my relatives, with playmates or friends, I would feel all the nastiness or bad willall sorts of pretty ugly things that came (I was rather sensitive, for I instinctively nurtured an ideal of beauty and harmony, which all the circumstances of life kept denying) so whenever I felt sad, I was most careful not to say anything to my mother or father, because my father didnt give a hoot and my mother would scold me that was always the first thing she did. And so I would go to my room and sit down in my little armchair, and there I could concentrate and try to understand in my own way. And I remember that after quite a few probably fruitless attempts I wound up telling myself (I always used to talk to myself; I dont know why or how, but I would talk to myself just as I talked to others): Look here, you feel sad because so-and-so said something really disgusting to you but why does that make you cry? Why are you so sad? Hes the one who was bad, so he should be crying. You didnt do anything bad to him. Did you tell him nasty things? Did you fight with her, or with him? No, you didnt do anything, did you; well then, you neednt feel sad. You should only be sad if youve done something bad, but. So that settled it: I would never cry. With just a slight inward movement, or something that said, Youve done no wrong, there was no sadness.
But there was another side to this someone: it was watching me more and more, and as soon as I said one word or made one gesture too many, had one little bad thought, teased my brother or whatever, the smallest thing, it would say (Mother takes on a severe tone), Look out, be careful! At first I used to moan about it, but by and by it taught me: Dont lamentput right, mend. And when things could be mendedas they almost always could I would do so. All that on a five to seven-year-old childs scale of intelligence.
--
Its the Shakti. He said, you know (I am still translating it), that the shakti drawn up from below (this is what happens in the individual process) is already what could be called a veiled shakti (it has power, but it is veiled). While the Shakti drawn down from above is a PURE Shakti; and if it can be brought down carefully and slowly enough so that it isnt (how shall I put it?) polluted or, in any case, obscured as it enters matter, then the result is immediately much better. As he has explained, if you start out with this feeling of a great power in yourself (because its always a great power no matter where it awakens), theres inevitably a danger of the ego meddling in. But if it comes pure and you are very careful to keep it pure, not to rush the movement but let it purify as it descends, then half the work is done.
Its a problem. When you contact the Supraconscient and the Shakti emerges at the crown of the head, its something rising from below, isnt it? Is it then another movement, an ascending movement?
That is the consciousness of the jiva [soul], the personal, individual consciousness.
--- Overview of noun movement
The noun movement has 11 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)
1. (24) motion, movement, move, motility ::: (a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility")
2. (16) motion, movement, move ::: (the act of changing location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path")
3. (14) movement, motion ::: (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)
4. (4) movement, social movement, front ::: (a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front")
5. (4) movement ::: (a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the second movement is slow and melodic")
6. (4) campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort ::: (a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort")
7. (3) apparent motion, motion, apparent movement, movement ::: (an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object; "the cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement")
8. bowel movement, movement, bm ::: (a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement")
9. drift, trend, movement ::: (a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right")
10. movement ::: (the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock); "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement")
11. movement ::: (the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun movement
11 senses of movement
Sense 1
motion, movement, move, motility
=> change
=> action
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
motion, movement, move
=> change
=> action
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
movement, motion
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
movement, social movement, front
=> social group
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
movement
=> musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music
=> music
=> auditory communication
=> communication
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 6
campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort
=> venture
=> undertaking, project, task, labor
=> work
=> activity
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 7
apparent motion, motion, apparent movement, movement
=> optical illusion
=> optical phenomenon
=> physical phenomenon
=> natural phenomenon
=> phenomenon
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 8
bowel movement, movement, bm
=> defecation, laxation, shitting
=> elimination, evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding
=> discharge, emission, expelling
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 9
drift, trend, movement
=> inclination, disposition, tendency
=> attitude, mental attitude
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 10
movement
=> action, action mechanism
=> mechanism
=> device
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 11
movement
=> change
=> action
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun movement
8 of 11 senses of movement
Sense 1
motion, movement, move, motility
=> abduction
=> adduction
=> agitation
=> body English
=> circumduction
=> disturbance
=> fetal movement, foetal movement
=> flit, dart
=> gesture
=> headshake, headshaking
=> inclination, inclining
=> inversion, eversion, everting
=> inversion, upending
=> jerk, jerking, jolt, saccade
=> kick, kicking
=> kneel, kneeling
=> lurch, pitch, pitching
=> eye movement
=> opening
=> prostration
=> reach, reaching, stretch
=> reciprocation
=> reclining
=> retraction
=> retroflection, retroflexion
=> rotation, rotary motion
=> shutting, closing
=> sitting
=> sitting, posing
=> snap
=> squat, squatting
=> sweep
=> toss
=> vibration, quiver, quivering
=> wave
=> waver, flutter, flicker
=> standing
=> straddle, span
=> stroke
=> wiggle, wriggle, squirm
=> eurythmy, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurhythmics
Sense 2
motion, movement, move
=> approach, approaching, coming
=> progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion
=> locomotion, travel
=> lurch, lunge
=> travel, traveling, travelling
=> pursuit, chase, pursual, following
=> rise, ascent, ascension, ascending
=> descent
=> swing, swinging, vacillation
=> return
=> slide, glide, coast
=> slippage
=> flow, stream
=> crawl
=> speed, speeding, hurrying
=> translation, displacement
=> shift, shifting
=> haste, hurry, rush, rushing
=> maneuver, manoeuvre, play
=> migration
Sense 3
movement, motion
=> crustal movement, tectonic movement
=> approach, approaching
=> passing, passage
=> deflection, deflexion
=> bending, bend
=> change of location, travel
=> wave, undulation
=> jitter
=> periodic motion, periodic movement
=> heave
=> recoil, repercussion, rebound, backlash
=> recoil, kick
=> seek
=> squeeze, wring
=> throw, stroke, cam stroke
=> turning, turn
=> twist, wrench
=> undulation
=> wave, moving ridge
=> wobble
=> whirl, commotion
=> Brownian movement, Brownian motion, pedesis
Sense 4
movement, social movement, front
=> Free French, Fighting French
=> artistic movement, art movement
=> Boy Scouts
=> Civil Rights movement
=> common front
=> cultural movement
=> ecumenism, oecumenism
=> falun gong
=> political movement
=> reform movement
=> religious movement
=> Zionism, Zionist movement
Sense 5
movement
=> intermezzo
=> scherzo
Sense 6
campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort
=> advertising campaign, ad campaign, ad blitz
=> anti-war movement
=> charm campaign
=> consumerism
=> campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign
=> fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort
=> feminist movement, feminism, women's liberation movement, women's lib
=> gay liberation movement, gay lib
=> lost cause
=> reform
=> war
=> youth movement, youth crusade
Sense 9
drift, trend, movement
=> evolutionary trend
=> gravitation
Sense 11
movement
=> displacement, deracination
=> transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance
=> insertion, introduction, intromission
=> lowering, letting down
=> transplant, transplantation, transplanting
=> troop movement
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun movement
11 senses of movement
Sense 1
motion, movement, move, motility
=> change
Sense 2
motion, movement, move
=> change
Sense 3
movement, motion
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
Sense 4
movement, social movement, front
=> social group
Sense 5
movement
=> musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music
Sense 6
campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort
=> venture
Sense 7
apparent motion, motion, apparent movement, movement
=> optical illusion
Sense 8
bowel movement, movement, bm
=> defecation, laxation, shitting
Sense 9
drift, trend, movement
=> inclination, disposition, tendency
Sense 10
movement
=> action, action mechanism
Sense 11
movement
=> change
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun movement
11 senses of movement
Sense 1
motion, movement, move, motility
-> change
=> entail
=> about-face, volte-face, reversal, policy change
=> adulteration
=> move, relocation
=> downshift
=> downshift
=> filtration
=> reduction, simplification
=> decimalization, decimalisation
=> metrification, metrication
=> variation
=> turning
=> diversification, variegation
=> flux
=> switch, switching, shift
=> substitution, exchange, commutation
=> promotion
=> demotion
=> change of state
=> alteration, modification, adjustment
=> motion, movement, move
=> movement
=> motion, movement, move, motility
=> change of direction, reorientation
=> change of magnitude
=> change of integrity
=> conversion
=> updating
=> change of shape
=> satisfaction
=> nationalization, nationalisation
=> communization, communisation
=> secularization, secularisation
=> rollover
Sense 2
motion, movement, move
-> change
=> entail
=> about-face, volte-face, reversal, policy change
=> adulteration
=> move, relocation
=> downshift
=> downshift
=> filtration
=> reduction, simplification
=> decimalization, decimalisation
=> metrification, metrication
=> variation
=> turning
=> diversification, variegation
=> flux
=> switch, switching, shift
=> substitution, exchange, commutation
=> promotion
=> demotion
=> change of state
=> alteration, modification, adjustment
=> motion, movement, move
=> movement
=> motion, movement, move, motility
=> change of direction, reorientation
=> change of magnitude
=> change of integrity
=> conversion
=> updating
=> change of shape
=> satisfaction
=> nationalization, nationalisation
=> communization, communisation
=> secularization, secularisation
=> rollover
Sense 3
movement, motion
-> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> accompaniment, concomitant, attendant, co-occurrence
=> avalanche
=> experience
=> trouble
=> treat
=> miracle
=> wonder, marvel
=> thing
=> episode
=> eventuality, contingency, contingence
=> beginning
=> ending, conclusion, finish
=> one-off
=> periodic event, recurrent event
=> change, alteration, modification
=> error, computer error
=> accident, stroke, fortuity, chance event
=> fire
=> incident
=> discharge
=> case, instance, example
=> movement, motion
=> failure
=> success
=> appearance
=> destiny, fate
=> disappearance
=> disappearance
=> contact, impinging, striking
=> finish
=> collapse
=> interruption, break
=> sound
=> union
=> news event
=> flash
=> convergence
=> juncture, occasion
=> outburst, burst, flare-up
=> outbreak, eruption, irruption
=> reverse, reversal, setback, blow, black eye
=> boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce
=> crash, collapse
=> supervention
Sense 4
movement, social movement, front
-> social group
=> body
=> society
=> minority
=> sector
=> interest, interest group
=> kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe
=> kith
=> fringe
=> gathering, assemblage
=> congregation, fold, faithful
=> organization, organisation
=> phylum
=> force
=> platoon
=> revolving door
=> set, circle, band, lot
=> organized crime, gangland, gangdom
=> subculture
=> nonalignment, nonalinement
=> political system, form of government
=> moiety
=> tribe, folk
=> movement, social movement, front
=> Jewry
=> wing
Sense 5
movement
-> musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music
=> morceau
=> sheet music
=> musical arrangement, arrangement
=> realization, realisation
=> intermezzo
=> allegro
=> allegretto
=> andante
=> introit
=> solo
=> duet, duette, duo
=> trio
=> quartet, quartette
=> quintet, quintette
=> sextet, sextette, sestet
=> septet, septette
=> octet, octette
=> bagatelle
=> divertimento, serenade
=> canon
=> etude
=> pastorale, pastoral, idyll, idyl
=> toccata
=> fantasia
=> passage, musical passage
=> movement
=> largo
=> larghetto
=> suite
=> symphonic poem, tone poem
=> medley, potpourri, pastiche
=> nocturne, notturno
=> adagio
=> song, vocal
=> study
=> capriccio
=> motet
=> program music, programme music
=> incidental music
Sense 6
campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort
-> venture
=> joint venture
=> experiment
=> campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort
=> sally, sallying forth
=> risk, peril, danger
Sense 7
apparent motion, motion, apparent movement, movement
-> optical illusion
=> apparent motion, motion, apparent movement, movement
=> mirage
Sense 8
bowel movement, movement, bm
-> defecation, laxation, shitting
=> bowel movement, movement, bm
=> hematochezia, haematochezia
=> shit, dump
=> urochesia, urochezia
Sense 9
drift, trend, movement
-> inclination, disposition, tendency
=> direction
=> drift, trend, movement
=> Call
=> denominationalism
=> devices
=> sympathy, understanding
=> favoritism, favouritism
=> proclivity, propensity, leaning
=> bent, set
=> literalism
=> perseveration
=> predisposition
=> favor, favour
=> disfavor, disfavour, dislike, disapproval
=> partiality, partisanship
=> impartiality, nonpartisanship
Sense 10
movement
-> action, action mechanism
=> gunlock, firing mechanism
=> movement
=> piano action
=> pump action, slide action
Sense 11
movement
-> change
=> entail
=> about-face, volte-face, reversal, policy change
=> adulteration
=> move, relocation
=> downshift
=> downshift
=> filtration
=> reduction, simplification
=> decimalization, decimalisation
=> metrification, metrication
=> variation
=> turning
=> diversification, variegation
=> flux
=> switch, switching, shift
=> substitution, exchange, commutation
=> promotion
=> demotion
=> change of state
=> alteration, modification, adjustment
=> motion, movement, move
=> movement
=> motion, movement, move, motility
=> change of direction, reorientation
=> change of magnitude
=> change of integrity
=> conversion
=> updating
=> change of shape
=> satisfaction
=> nationalization, nationalisation
=> communization, communisation
=> secularization, secularisation
=> rollover
--- Grep of noun movement
anti-war movement
apparent movement
art movement
artistic movement
black september movement
bowel movement
brownian movement
civil rights movement
crustal movement
cultural movement
east turkestan islamic movement
east turkistan islamic movement
ecumenical movement
eye movement
feeling of movement
feminist movement
fetal movement
foetal movement
gay liberation movement
islamic resistance movement
labor movement
lautaro faction of the united popular action movement
lautaro youth movement
lubavitch movement
movement
movement for revenge
movement of holy warriors
nonrapid eye movement
nonrapid eye movement sleep
oxford movement
periodic movement
political movement
rapid eye movement
rapid eye movement sleep
reform movement
religious movement
romantic movement
salafi movement
sense of movement
social movement
tectonic movement
trade union movement
troop movement
tupac amaru revolutionary movement
women's liberation movement
world tamil movement
youth movement
zionist movement
Wikipedia - 1969 Libyan coup d'etat -- Coup d'etat carried out by the Libyan Free Unionist Officers Movement (1969)
Wikipedia - 1989 Tiananmen Square protests -- 1989 Chinese pro-democracy movement
Wikipedia - 2011 Egyptian protest movement
Wikipedia - 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine -- Anti-government demonstrations in Ukraine after the Euromaidan movement
Wikipedia - 2018 Bangladesh quota reform movement -- Students' movement demanding reforms in Bangladesh government services
Wikipedia - 2019-2020 Maltese protests -- 2019 protest movement started in Malta
Wikipedia - 2020 Malaysia movement control order -- Quarantine in Malaysia
Wikipedia - 26th of July Movement -- Cuban political organization
Wikipedia - 2 June Movement -- West German terrorist organization
Wikipedia - 30 September Movement -- Military organization that attempted a coup d'etat in Indonesia in 1965
Wikipedia - 4M-bM-^@M-233M-bM-^@M-3 -- Three-movement composition by John Cage
Wikipedia - 9/11 Truth movement -- Group of loosely affiliated 9/11 conspiracy theorists
Wikipedia - 969 Movement
Wikipedia - Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat -- An international movement for religious preaching and reform of Islam
Wikipedia - Abahlali baseMjondolo -- Shack dwellers' movement in South Africa
Wikipedia - Abaz Kupi -- Albanian military officer, anti-communist politician and founder of the Legaility Movement (1892-1976)
Wikipedia - Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi -- Leader of the Zaidi revolution movement Ansar Allah
Wikipedia - Abolitionism in the United States -- Movement to end slavery in the United States
Wikipedia - Abolitionism -- Movement to end slavery
Wikipedia - Abortion-rights movements -- Social movement that advocates for the right of access to abortion services
Wikipedia - Absorption (pharmacology) -- Movement of a drug into the bloodstream or lymph
Wikipedia - Abstract expressionism -- American post-World War II art movement
Wikipedia - Academic Spring -- reform movement
Wikipedia - Academic study of new religious movements
Wikipedia - Access to Knowledge movement
Wikipedia - Accion Comunal -- Panama political movement (1923-1932)
Wikipedia - Action and Renewal Movement -- Political party in the Republic of the Congo
Wikipedia - Action Canada -- Defunct Canadian political movement
Wikipedia - Action Francaise -- French royalist movement
Wikipedia - Addiopizzo -- Grassroots Sicilian movement against Mafia extortion
Wikipedia - Adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder -- Painful disease restricting movement
Wikipedia - Adi Dharm -- Religious movement from mid-19th century Bengal
Wikipedia - Aestheticism -- Art movement emphasizing aesthetic considerations over social values
Wikipedia - Aesthetic movement
Wikipedia - AfD pro-Russia movement -- Movement of the Alternative for Germany that support Russia
Wikipedia - African-American women's suffrage movement
Wikipedia - Africana philosophy -- Philosophical movement
Wikipedia - African Content Movement -- Political party from South Africa
Wikipedia - African Movement for Development and Progress -- Political party in Benin
Wikipedia - African Resistance Movement
Wikipedia - African Transformation Movement -- South African political party (e. 2019)
Wikipedia - Africa Scout Region (World Organization of the Scout Movement) -- Divisional office of the World Scout Bureau headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya
Wikipedia - Age of Enlightenment -- European cultural movement of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries
Wikipedia - Aging movement control -- Changes in men and women as they get older
Wikipedia - Ahl-i Hadith -- Religious movement that emerged in Northern India in the mid-nineteenth century
Wikipedia - Ahmadiyya views on evolution -- The Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam universally accepts a process of divinely guided evolution
Wikipedia - Ahmadiyya -- Islamic religious movement
Wikipedia - Ahoti - for Women in Israel -- Israeli feminist social movement
Wikipedia - Air guitar -- Form of dance and movement
Wikipedia - Air Movement and Control Association
Wikipedia - Akathisia -- Movement disorder involving a feeling of inner restlessness
Wikipedia - Akram Vignan Movement
Wikipedia - A Letter to a Hindu -- Letter from Leo Tolstoy about the Indian independence movement in 1908
Wikipedia - Alexander Lion -- Co-founder of the German scout movement
Wikipedia - Algerian Movement for Justice and Development -- Political party in Algeria
Wikipedia - Algerian Popular Movement -- Political party in Algeria
Wikipedia - Algerian War -- War between France and the Algerian independence movement from 1954 to 1962
Wikipedia - Algernon B. Jackson -- African American physician who contributed to the National Negro Health Movement
Wikipedia - Alicia Garza -- Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter International movement
Wikipedia - Alieu Kosiah -- Former commander of the United Liberation movement of Liberia for democracy
Wikipedia - Aligarh Movement
Wikipedia - Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya -- Egyptian Sunni Islamist movement
Wikipedia - All Ethiopian National Movement -- Political party in Ethiopia
Wikipedia - All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement -- Political party in Ethiopia
Wikipedia - Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal -- Political party in Mauritania
Wikipedia - Alliance of Movements for the Emergence of Niger -- Political party in Niger
Wikipedia - Allied Peoples Movement -- Political party in Nigeria
Wikipedia - All Lives Matter -- Slogan created as a counter-movement to Black Lives Matter
Wikipedia - Alter-globalization -- Social movement
Wikipedia - Alternatiba, Village of Alternatives -- French social movement fighting climate change
Wikipedia - Altriciality -- Species in which the young are minimally-capable of independent movement soon after hatching or birth
Wikipedia - Alt-right -- Loosely connected far-right, white nationalist movement based in the U.S.
Wikipedia - American folk music revival -- 20th-century American musical movement
Wikipedia - American Indian Movement
Wikipedia - American militia movement -- Political movement of paramilitary groups in the United States
Wikipedia - American proletarian poetry movement -- political poetry movement in the US-1920s and 1930s
Wikipedia - Aminul Islam Badsha -- Bangladeshi language movement activist
Wikipedia - Amoeboid movement
Wikipedia - Amsterdam Impressionism -- Art movement
Wikipedia - Anabaptism -- A Christian movement and set of beliefs that started as a result of the Bible being translated into the languages of the common people, and the European Reformation in Western Christianity.
Wikipedia - Anan ben David -- Major founder of the Karaite movement of Judaism
Wikipedia - Ananda movement
Wikipedia - Anarcha-feminism -- Movement combining anarchism and feminism
Wikipedia - Anarchism in Puerto Rico -- Social movement of political left within the working classes of Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Anarchism in the United States -- History of the anarchist movement in the United States
Wikipedia - Anarchism -- Political philosophy and movement
Wikipedia - Anarchist archives -- historical records of the anarchist movement as preserved in personal and institutional collections
Wikipedia - Anatomical plane -- Plane used to transect the human body, in order to describe the location of structures or the direction of movements
Wikipedia - And-JM-CM-+f/Revolutionary Movement for New Democracy -- Political party in Senegal
Wikipedia - Anglican realignment -- Religious movement
Wikipedia - Angura -- Japanese theatrical movement
Wikipedia - Animal liberation movement
Wikipedia - Animal rights movement
Wikipedia - Anne Ward (suffragist) -- Prominent member of women's temperance movement in New Zealand
Wikipedia - Anti-abortion movements -- Movement that believes abortion should be illegal
Wikipedia - Anti-aging movement -- Social movement devoted to eliminating or reversing aging, or reducing the effects of it
Wikipedia - Anti-Apartheid Movement
Wikipedia - Anti-apartheid movement
Wikipedia - Anti-austerity movement in Greece
Wikipedia - Anti-austerity movement in the United Kingdom -- Early 2011 series of major demonstrations
Wikipedia - Anti-cession movement of Sarawak -- Anti-colonial activism in Sarawak, 1946-1950
Wikipedia - Anti-Christian Movement (China)
Wikipedia - Anti-cult movement
Wikipedia - Anti-Duvalier protest movement -- Movement to overthrow Jean-Claude Duvalier
Wikipedia - Antifa (Germany) -- Far-left anti-fascist movement in Germany
Wikipedia - Anti-Fascist Youth Union of the Free Territory of Trieste -- Post-World War II youth movement
Wikipedia - Antifa (United States) -- Anti-fascist political activist movement in the United States
Wikipedia - Anti-Federalism -- Movement that opposed the creation of a strong U.S. federal government and later the ratification of the Constitution
Wikipedia - Anti-form movement
Wikipedia - Anti-globalisation movement
Wikipedia - Anti-globalization movement -- Worldwide political movement against multinational corporations
Wikipedia - Anti-jock movement -- Cyber-movement whose goal is to challenge the perceived cultural dominance of institutionalized competitive sports
Wikipedia - Anti-nuclear movement in California -- Anti-nuclear social movement, California, U.S.
Wikipedia - Anti-nuclear movement
Wikipedia - Anti-psychiatry -- Movement against psychiatric treatment
Wikipedia - Anti-suffragism -- Political movement opposing votes for women
Wikipedia - Anti-sweatshop movement -- Campaigns to improve the conditions of workers in abusive workplaces
Wikipedia - Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany -- Overview about the anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany
Wikipedia - Anti-war movement
Wikipedia - April 19 University Movement -- Nicaraguan anti-Ortega student movement
Wikipedia - Aquatic sill -- A sea floor barrier of relatively shallow depth restricting water movement between oceanic basins
Wikipedia - Arabic Popular Movement -- Political party in Egypt
Wikipedia - Arab separatism in Khuzestan -- Arab nationalist movement in Khuzestan advocating for Arab separatism from Iran
Wikipedia - Arab Socialist Movement (Damascus branch) -- Syrian political party
Wikipedia - Arkeon -- Italian personal growth movement founded by Vito Carlo Moccia
Wikipedia - Art et Liberte -- Egyptian artistic movement 1938-1948
Wikipedia - Art manifesto -- Public declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of an artist or artistic movement
Wikipedia - Art movement
Wikipedia - Art of the Umbrella Movement -- Artistic works created as part of the pro-democracy Umbrella movement in Hong Kong
Wikipedia - Arts and Crafts movement -- Design movement c. 1880-1920
Wikipedia - Asian American movement -- Social movement surrounding Asian Americans originating in the United States
Wikipedia - Asociacion Obrera Asambleista -- Spanish trade union movement
Wikipedia - Association for Defence of National Rights Movement Party -- Turkish political party
Wikipedia - Assyrian independence movement -- Movement calling for Assyrian independence and self-governance
Wikipedia - Astrometry -- Branch of astronomy involving positioning and movements of celestial bodies
Wikipedia - Ataxia -- Neurological impairment of voluntary muscle movement
Wikipedia - Atmospheric circulation -- The large-scale movement of air, a process which distributes thermal energy about the Earth's surface
Wikipedia - Aufbau Vereinigung -- Russian-German far-right political movement
Wikipedia - August 24th Movement -- Italian political party
Wikipedia - Australian Aboriginal sovereignty -- Concept and political movement regarding land ownership by Indigenous peoples in Australia
Wikipedia - Australian Red Cross -- National society of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in Australia
Wikipedia - Autism rights movement
Wikipedia - Autonomism -- Anti-authoritarian left-wing political and social movement and theory
Wikipedia - Avrutch (Hasidic dynasty) -- Branch of the Chabad movement
Wikipedia - Awakening (Finnish religious movement)
Wikipedia - Azat Civil Movement of Kazakhstan -- Kazakhstan political party
Wikipedia - Azm Movement -- Lebanese political party
Wikipedia - Baal teshuva movement -- Return of secular Jews to religious Judaism since the 1960s
Wikipedia - Babae Ako movement -- Women's rights movement
Wikipedia - Back to Godhead -- Main magazine of the Hare Krishna Movement
Wikipedia - Back-to-the-land movement
Wikipedia - Bahaa Abu el-Atta -- Commander of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
Wikipedia - Balasaheb Thorat -- Indian politician, agricultural cooperative and reforestation movement founder
Wikipedia - Ballistic conduction -- Movement of charge carriers with negligible scattering
Wikipedia - Ballistic movement -- Muscle contractions that exhibit maximum velocities and accelerations over a very short period of time
Wikipedia - Balloonist theory -- A theory in early neuroscience that attempted to explain muscle movement
Wikipedia - Baloch nationalism -- movement that claims the Baloch people are a distinct nation
Wikipedia - Baroque Revival architecture -- Architectural movement
Wikipedia - Baroque sculpture -- Sculpture of the Baroque movement
Wikipedia - Basmachi movement -- Uprising against Russian Imperial and Soviet rule by the Muslim peoples of Central Asia (1916-1934)
Wikipedia - Baton Rouge bus boycott -- Part of the American Civil Rights Movement
Wikipedia - Bauhaus Foundation Tel Aviv -- Museum dedicated to the Bauhaus movement
Wikipedia - Bearing (mechanical) -- Mechanism to constrain relative movement to the desired motion and reduce friction
Wikipedia - Beat Generation -- Literary movement
Wikipedia - Believers' Movement for Equality and Peace -- Political party in Togo
Wikipedia - Bengali language movement -- Movement to make Bengali a state language
Wikipedia - Bengali Renaissance -- Socio-cultural and religious reform movement in Bengal, in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Wikipedia - Berber Arouch Citizens' Movement -- Political party in Algeria
Wikipedia - Berberism -- Berber political-cultural movement of North Africa
Wikipedia - Beyond War -- Movement for peace
Wikipedia - Bhakti movement -- Period of common people's devotion to God in the Medieval Indian Subcontinent
Wikipedia - Bible student movement
Wikipedia - Bible Student movement -- Christian movement founded by Charles Taze Russell
Wikipedia - Bibliography of the Latter Day Saint movement -- Wikipedia bibliography
Wikipedia - Biedermeier -- 19th century art movement from Central Europe
Wikipedia - Biomorphism -- Art movement
Wikipedia - Bionic architecture -- Contemporary architetonic movement
Wikipedia - Bird migration -- Seasonal movement of birds
Wikipedia - Birth control movement in the United States -- Social reform campaign beginning in 1914
Wikipedia - Birth of a Movement -- 2017 US documentary film
Wikipedia - Black Arts Movement
Wikipedia - Black Consciousness Movement
Wikipedia - Black conservatism in the United States -- Movement within conservatism
Wikipedia - Black Front (Netherlands) -- Dutch fascist movement active before the Second World War
Wikipedia - Black Hebrew Israelites -- Black American movement
Wikipedia - Black is Beautiful -- Cultural movement started in the 1960s by African Americans
Wikipedia - Black Legion (political movement) -- American white supremacist terrorist organization active in the 1930s
Wikipedia - Black Lions -- Ethiopian anti-fascist resistance movement
Wikipedia - Black Lives Matter -- Social movement originating in the United States
Wikipedia - Black Panthers (Israel) -- Israeli protest movement
Wikipedia - Black Power movement
Wikipedia - Black Power -- Political and social movement and ideology
Wikipedia - Black Renaissance in D.C. -- African-American cultural movement in Washington DC
Wikipedia - Black separatism -- Movement for separate institutions
Wikipedia - Black Twitter -- Black social media movement
Wikipedia - Black Unity and Freedom Party -- Defunct Black British political movement 1970-1999
Wikipedia - Blind thrust earthquake -- Movement along a thrust fault that is not visible at the surface
Wikipedia - Blocking (stage) -- Theatre term that refers to the precise movement and positioning of actors on a stage
Wikipedia - Blockupy movement -- Movement protesting against austerity
Wikipedia - Blue Lives Matter -- Social activist movement
Wikipedia - Blue ribbon badge -- Symbol of the temperance movement
Wikipedia - Bnei Akiva -- Largest religious Zionist youth movement in the world
Wikipedia - Body language of dogs -- Communication whereby dogs express emotions and intentions through bodily movements
Wikipedia - Bohemian Reformation -- Protestant movement of the 16th century
Wikipedia - Bongal Kheda -- Movement against the Bengali Hindus in Assam, India
Wikipedia - Bonus Army -- 1930s US veterans protest movement
Wikipedia - Boogaloo (funk dance) -- Improvisational American street dance movement
Wikipedia - Boogaloo movement -- Loose American far-right extremist movement
Wikipedia - Book of Mormon -- Sacred text of the <!-- Do not change to a specific denomination. The term "Latter Day Saint movement" encompasses all the different denominations. -->Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - Book of Moses -- Part of the scriptural canon of the LDS movement
Wikipedia - Borno Youth Movement -- Defunct political party in Nigeria
Wikipedia - Botswana Movement for Democracy -- Political party in Botswana
Wikipedia - Bow stroke -- Movement of the bow on a bowed string instrument to produce sound
Wikipedia - Boychukism -- 20th-century Ukrainian art movement
Wikipedia - Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions -- Palestinian-led movement demanding international sanctions against Israel
Wikipedia - Boycotts of Japanese products -- movements when Chinese or Korean consumers have stopped buying from Japan
Wikipedia - Brahmoism -- Religious movement from mid-19th century Bengal originating the Bengali Renaissance
Wikipedia - Brahmo Samaj -- Hindu reform movement
Wikipedia - Brain Gym International -- Brain training and body movement programme
Wikipedia - Branch Davidians -- Religious movement
Wikipedia - Brandalism -- Anti-advertisimg movement
Wikipedia - Brazilian Democratic Movement -- Big tent political party in Brazil
Wikipedia - Brights movement -- International intellectual movement
Wikipedia - British Movement -- British Neo-Nazi organisation
Wikipedia - British Red Cross -- British humanitarian organisation, part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
Wikipedia - Britpop -- 1990s UK pop culture movement
Wikipedia - Buddhist modernism -- New movements based on reinterpreted Buddhism
Wikipedia - Bulk movement
Wikipedia - Bull Connor -- Birmingham, Alabama public safety commissioner during the Civil Rights Movement
Wikipedia - Bundism -- Secular Jewish socialist movement
Wikipedia - Cadiz sisters -- Two Irish sisters notable for their involvement in the Irish suffrage movement
Wikipedia - Calcium channel blocker -- Group of medications that disrupt movement of calcium through calcium channels
Wikipedia - California Scene Painting -- American regionalist art movement
Wikipedia - Cambodian irredentism -- Irredentist movement in Cambodia
Wikipedia - Cambridge movement (civil rights) -- American social movement in Dorchester County, Maryland
Wikipedia - Cameroon People's Democratic Movement -- Political party in Cameroon
Wikipedia - Cameroon Renaissance Movement -- Political party in Cameroon
Wikipedia - Camp Gilboa -- U.S. summer camp in California for socialist-Zionist youth movement, Habonim Dror
Wikipedia - Camphill movement
Wikipedia - Camphill Movement -- Special education
Wikipedia - Canaanism -- Jewish-Palestinian cultural and ideological movement
Wikipedia - Canadian social credit movement -- Political movement
Wikipedia - Canadian Young Judaea -- Canadian Zionist youth movement
Wikipedia - CancelYale -- Movement demanding renaming Yale University
Wikipedia - Car-free movement -- Movement to reduce the use of private vehicles
Wikipedia - Carlebach movement -- Orthodox Jewish movement inspired by the legacy of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
Wikipedia - Carlism -- Political movement supporting the claim to the Spanish throne by Don Carlos and his successors
Wikipedia - Cascadia (independence movement) -- Bioregion, proposed country in North America
Wikipedia - Catalan Action -- Catalanist political movement
Wikipedia - Category:Art movements
Wikipedia - Category:Bhakti movement
Wikipedia - Category:Buddhist new religious movements
Wikipedia - Category:Christian theological movements
Wikipedia - Category:Ethical schools and movements
Wikipedia - Category:Founders of new religious movements
Wikipedia - Category:Free culture movement
Wikipedia - Category:Free software movement
Wikipedia - Category:Hindu new religious movements
Wikipedia - Category:Human Potential Movement
Wikipedia - Category:Indian independence movement
Wikipedia - Category:Lists related to philosophical movements
Wikipedia - Category:Mindfulness movement
Wikipedia - Category:Movements in ancient Chinese philosophy
Wikipedia - Category:Movements in ancient Indian philosophy
Wikipedia - Category:Movements in classical Greek philosophy
Wikipedia - Category:New religious movement mystics
Wikipedia - Category:New religious movements
Wikipedia - Category:Occupy movement in the United States
Wikipedia - Category:Open-source movement
Wikipedia - Category:Philosophical movements
Wikipedia - Category:Poetry movements
Wikipedia - Category:Political movements
Wikipedia - Category:Realism (art movement)
Wikipedia - Category:Researchers of new religious movements and cults
Wikipedia - Category:Russian literary movements
Wikipedia - Category:Social movements
Wikipedia - Category:Utopian movements
Wikipedia - Catharism -- Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe
Wikipedia - Catholic Marian movements and societies
Wikipedia - Catholic Worker movement
Wikipedia - Catholic Worker Movement -- Autonomous communities of Catholics and their associates
Wikipedia - Cerebral palsy -- A group of permanent movement disorders that appear in early childhood
Wikipedia - Ceux de la Liberation -- French resistance movement
Wikipedia - Chabad affiliated organizations -- Organizations affiliated with the Chabad movement within Hasidic Judaism
Wikipedia - Chabad offshoot groups -- Religious groups spawned from the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic Jewish movement
Wikipedia - Chabad philosophy -- The teachings of the leaders of Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement in Judaism
Wikipedia - Champaran Satyagraha -- First civil resistance movement led by Gandhi in India in 1916
Wikipedia - Charge-coupled device -- Device for the movement of electrical charge
Wikipedia - Charismatic Movement
Wikipedia - Charismatic (movement)
Wikipedia - Charismatic movement -- Trend of historically mainstream congregations adopting beliefs and practices similar to Pentecostalism
Wikipedia - Charles Taze Russell -- Founder of the Bible Student movement
Wikipedia - Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK -- Membership organisation for United Kingdom professionals involved in the movement of goods and people and their associated supply chains
Wikipedia - Chartism -- British democratic movement (1838-1857)
Wikipedia - Chartist movement
Wikipedia - Chautauqua Institution -- about origination place of the Chautauqua Movement
Wikipedia - Chemorepulsion -- Directional movement of a cell away from a substance
Wikipedia - Chetniks -- WWII guerilla movement in Yugoslavia
Wikipedia - Chicano movement
Wikipedia - Chinese democracy movement
Wikipedia - Chipko movement -- Indian forest conservation movement
Wikipedia - Choreography -- Art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies
Wikipedia - Christian countercult movement
Wikipedia - Christian Family Movement
Wikipedia - Christian fundamentalism -- British and American Protestant movement opposed to modernist theology
Wikipedia - Christian Life Movement
Wikipedia - Christian naturism -- Movement which believes that God never intended for people to be ashamed of their bodies
Wikipedia - Christian Patriot movement -- Christian movement
Wikipedia - Christian Political Movement -- Political party in South Africa
Wikipedia - Christian right -- Political ideology and movement
Wikipedia - Christian Science -- Set of beliefs and practices belonging to the metaphysical family of new religious movements
Wikipedia - Churches of Christ in Australia -- Christian movement in Australia
Wikipedia - Church of God (Huntsville, Alabama) -- Pentecostal holiness movement body of Christians
Wikipedia - Church of God (Jerusalem Acres) -- Holiness Pentecostal body that descends from the Christian Union movement of Richard Spurling, A. J. Tomlinson and others
Wikipedia - Cinema 1: The Movement Image
Wikipedia - Circular motion -- Object movement along a circular path
Wikipedia - Citizen and Republican Movement -- Political party in France
Wikipedia - Citizen Revolution Movement -- Political party in Ecuador
Wikipedia - Citizens' Footprint Movement -- Political party in Colombia
Wikipedia - Citizens' Movement for Democracy and Development -- Political party in Togo
Wikipedia - Citizens' Movement (Iceland) -- Icelandic political party
Wikipedia - Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz -- German political party
Wikipedia - Citizens' Political Movement for Bocaya -- Political party in Colombia
Wikipedia - City Beautiful Movement
Wikipedia - Civil Rights Memorial -- An American memorial in Montgomery, Alabama dedicated to 41 people who were killed in the civil rights movement
Wikipedia - Civil rights movement (1865-1896) -- Movement aiming to eliminating racial discrimination against African Americans
Wikipedia - Civil rights movement (1896-1954) -- Social movement in the United States
Wikipedia - Civil rights movements -- Worldwide social and political movements against racism
Wikipedia - Civil Rights Movement
Wikipedia - Civil rights movement -- 20th-century U.S. social movement against racism
Wikipedia - Clap for Our Carers -- British social movement
Wikipedia - Classical education movement
Wikipedia - Classicism -- Art movement and architectural style
Wikipedia - Claudette Colvin -- African-American activist in the civil rights movement
Wikipedia - Clean and jerk -- Composite of two weightlifting movements
Wikipedia - Clement Pansaers -- Belgian poet and proponent of the Dada movement
Wikipedia - Climate movement
Wikipedia - COBRA (avant-garde movement)
Wikipedia - Colombian Community and Communal Political Movement -- Political party in Colombia
Wikipedia - Comicsgate -- movement against progressivism in the comics industry
Wikipedia - Communion and Liberation -- Lay Italian Catholic ecclesial movement
Wikipedia - Community of Christ -- Second-largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - Concentrative movement therapy
Wikipedia - Conceptual art -- Art movement
Wikipedia - Conciliarism -- 14th-16th cent. movement for supremacy of church councils over popes
Wikipedia - Conciliar Movement
Wikipedia - Conciliar movement
Wikipedia - Confessing Movement
Wikipedia - Confessional poetry -- American movement in 20th-century poetry
Wikipedia - Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development -- Political party in the Republic of the Congo
Wikipedia - Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne -- Modern architecture movement organization
Wikipedia - Conservation movement -- Social and political advocacy for protecting natural resources
Wikipedia - Conservative holiness movement
Wikipedia - Conservative Judaism -- Jewish religious movement
Wikipedia - Conservative revolutionary movement
Wikipedia - Conservative Revolution -- German national conservative movement during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
Wikipedia - Constitutional Movement -- British right wing political group
Wikipedia - Constraint-induced movement therapy -- Rehabilitation program for cases of CNS damage
Wikipedia - Consumer/survivor movement
Wikipedia - Contemporary Sant Mat movement
Wikipedia - Continental drift -- The movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other
Wikipedia - Continuing Anglican movement
Wikipedia - Convergence Movement
Wikipedia - Coolie-Begar movement
Wikipedia - Cooling load -- Rate of air temperature movement
Wikipedia - Cooperative movement
Wikipedia - Cosmic Movement
Wikipedia - Council of Federated Organizations -- Coalition of advocacy groups in the Civil Rights Movement
Wikipedia - Covenanters -- Scottish religious movement
Wikipedia - Cryonics movement
Wikipedia - Cubist sculpture -- sculptures made during the Cubist art movement
Wikipedia - Cultural Bolshevism -- Nazi slogan opposing modernist and progressive cultural movements
Wikipedia - Cultural environmentalism -- Movement that seeks to protect the public domain
Wikipedia - Cultural movement
Wikipedia - Cultural Revolution -- Maoist sociopolitical movement intended to strengthen Chinese Communism
Wikipedia - Cunning folk traditions and the Latter Day Saint movement -- Early practices of the Latter Day Saints
Wikipedia - Current of Love -- Tunisian political movement
Wikipedia - Currentology -- A science that studies the internal movements of water masses
Wikipedia - Cursed soldiers -- Term applied to a variety of anti-Soviet and anti-communist Polish resistance movements
Wikipedia - Czech National Revival -- Cultural movement
Wikipedia - Czechoslovak New Wave -- Filmmaking movement in 1960s Czechoslovakia
Wikipedia - Czech Pirate Party -- Political party in the Czech Republic, member of the broader international Pirate politics movement
Wikipedia - Dada -- Avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
Wikipedia - Daesun Jinrihoe -- Korean new religious movement, founded in April 1969
Wikipedia - Dame Blanche (resistance) -- Resistance movement
Wikipedia - Dance movement therapy
Wikipedia - Dance/movement therapy
Wikipedia - Dance -- performing art consisting of movement of the body
Wikipedia - Death marches (Holocaust) -- Forcible movements of prisoners between Nazi camps
Wikipedia - Death of Joseph Smith -- 1844 extrajudicial murder of the founder and leader of the <!-- "LDS Church" is in accordance with the Wikipedia Manual of Style, and disagreements should be addressed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Latter_Day_Saints. Any change made to "LDS Church" or "Latter Day Saint Movement" will be reverted. -->Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - Death-positive movement
Wikipedia - Decadent Movement
Wikipedia - Decadent movement
Wikipedia - Declaration of Boulogne -- Declaration about the nature and purpose of the Esperanto movement and the Fundamento as a basis for the Esperanto language; authored by L. L. Zamenhof and approved at the First World Esperanto Congress, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1905
Wikipedia - Deconstructivism -- Architectural movement
Wikipedia - Deep carbon cycle -- Movement of carbon through Earth's mantle and core
Wikipedia - Deep water cycle -- Movement of water in the deep Earth
Wikipedia - Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 -- Pan-European political project
Wikipedia - Democratic and Social Movement (Algeria) -- Political party in Algeria
Wikipedia - Democratic and Social Movement (Morocco) -- Political party in Morocco
Wikipedia - Democratic League/Movement for the Labour Party -- Political party in Senegal
Wikipedia - Democratic Movement for the Renaissance and Evolution of Central Africa -- Political party in the Central African Republic
Wikipedia - Democratic Movement (France) -- political party in France
Wikipedia - Democratic Movement of Mozambique -- Political party in Mozambique
Wikipedia - Democratic movement
Wikipedia - Democratic Socialist Movement (Nigeria) -- Political party in Nigeria
Wikipedia - Democratic Socialist Movement (South Africa)
Wikipedia - Deobandi -- Revivalist movement within Sunni Islam
Wikipedia - Deo Kumar Singh -- leader of the Indian Maoist movement
Wikipedia - De Stijl -- Dutch art movement
Wikipedia - Deutsche Physik -- Nationalist movement in the German physics community in the early 1930s
Wikipedia - Developmental coordination disorder -- Neurodevelopmental disorder affecting planning of movements
Wikipedia - Devrimci Yol -- Former left-wing political movement in Turkey
Wikipedia - Dhammakaya Movement
Wikipedia - Dharam Yudh Morcha -- Sikh regionalist protest movement
Wikipedia - Diarrhea -- Loose or liquid bowel movements
Wikipedia - Diel vertical migration -- A pattern of daily vertical movement characteristic of many aquatic species
Wikipedia - Diffusion -- movement of molecules, atoms, or ions from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration
Wikipedia - Dinkoism -- Indian religion and social movement
Wikipedia - Direct pathway -- Neural pathway that executes voluntary movements
Wikipedia - Disability rights movement
Wikipedia - Documentary Film Movement -- Group of British film-makers
Wikipedia - Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement -- Former African-American trade union movement in the United States
Wikipedia - Do-it-yourself biology -- Biotechnological social movement
Wikipedia - Dolce Stil Novo -- Medieval Italian literary movement
Wikipedia - Don Finto -- Figure in the movement among evangelicals to support the evangelism of the Jewish people
Wikipedia - Down to the Countryside Movement
Wikipedia - Draft Condi movement -- 2008 grassroots effort to draft Condoleezza Rice to run for President of the United States
Wikipedia - Draft:Fairbnb -- Movement composed loosely of a variety of FairBnb entities
Wikipedia - Draft:Khilafat Movement (Pakistan) -- political movement in Pakistan
Wikipedia - Draft:Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail -- 1977 book by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward
Wikipedia - Draft:Rush-art -- Movement in decorative art
Wikipedia - Drift current -- Is the electric current, or movement of charge carriers, which is due to the applied electric field, often stated as the electromotive force over a given distance
Wikipedia - Druidry (modern) -- Modern spiritual or religious movement that promotes connection and reverence for the natural world
Wikipedia - Dystonia -- Neurological movement disorder
Wikipedia - Eaismo -- Avant-garde art movement in mid-century Italy
Wikipedia - Earth Strike -- Climate activist movement
Wikipedia - Eckankar -- Religious movement founded in 1965 by Paul Twitchell
Wikipedia - Eco-Kashrut -- Political movement
Wikipedia - Ecological Movement of Venezuela -- Political party in Venezuela
Wikipedia - Economy for the Common Good -- Social movement advocating for an alternative economic model
Wikipedia - Ecumenical movement
Wikipedia - Education 2030 Agenda -- Global commitment of the Education for All movement to ensure access to basic education for all
Wikipedia - Effective altruism -- Philosophy and social movement that applies evidence and reason to determine the most effective ways to benefit others
Wikipedia - Egyptian Patriotic Movement -- Political party in Egypt
Wikipedia - Eight-hour day -- Social movement to regulate the length of the working day
Wikipedia - Eleanor Barton -- British co-operative movement activist
Wikipedia - Electric power transmission -- Bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site to an electrical substation
Wikipedia - Ele Nao movement -- Protests against Jair Bolsonaro in 2018
Wikipedia - Elias Higbee -- Early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - El-Infitah Movement -- Political party in Algeria
Wikipedia - Elizabeth Pipko -- American author, model and founder of Exodus Movement
Wikipedia - Elizabeth Tate -- Civil rights advocate during the American Civil Rights Movement
Wikipedia - El Shaddai (movement)
Wikipedia - Embusen -- Kata movement
Wikipedia - Emigration from the Eastern Bloc -- Movements of people during the Cold War
Wikipedia - Emil G. Hirsch -- American Reform movement rabbi (1851-1923)
Wikipedia - Emmanuel Movement -- Psychotherapy approach, 1906-1931
Wikipedia - Empire style -- 19th-century art movement
Wikipedia - End SARS -- Decentralized social movement against police brutality in Nigeria
Wikipedia - English Defence League -- Far-right political movement
Wikipedia - English Renaissance -- Cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th century to the early 17th century
Wikipedia - Enlightenment in Spain -- The enlightenment movement in Spain
Wikipedia - Ennahda Movement -- Political party in Tunisia
Wikipedia - Ensaf Movement -- Political party in Libya
Wikipedia - Entanglement (hazard) -- Environment which may restrain the diver's freedom of movement by snagging on the diver or equipment
Wikipedia - Environmentalism -- Broad philosophy, ideology and social movement concerning environmental wellbeing
Wikipedia - Environmentalist -- Someone who supports the goals of the environmental movement
Wikipedia - Environmental justice -- Social movement
Wikipedia - Environmental movement in the United States
Wikipedia - Environmental movement -- Movement for addressing environmental issues
Wikipedia - Epeirogenic movement -- Upheavals or depressions of land exhibiting long wavelengths and little folding
Wikipedia - Eric S. Raymond -- American computer programmer, author, and advocate for the open source movement
Wikipedia - Eritrean Liberation Front -- Independence movement in Eritrea
Wikipedia - Ero guro nansensu -- Artistic eroticism movement in Japan
Wikipedia - Essential tremor -- Movement disorder that causes involuntary tremors
Wikipedia - Esther Eillam -- Founder of Israeli feminist movement, gender researcher and activist
Wikipedia - Estonian Citizens' Committees -- Nonpartisan political movement in Estonia
Wikipedia - Etching revival -- Art movement between 1850s and c. 1930
Wikipedia - Ethical movement -- Ethical, educational, and religious movement
Wikipedia - EUR.1 movement certificate -- Form used in international commodity traffic
Wikipedia - European Christian Political Movement
Wikipedia - European Democrats (Georgia) -- Georgian political movement
Wikipedia - European New Right -- Far-right political movement that emerged in Europe in the 1960s
Wikipedia - European Social Movement -- European neo-fascist organization
Wikipedia - Eurythmy -- Expressive movement art associated with anthroposophy
Wikipedia - Evangelicalism -- Protestant Christian movement
Wikipedia - Exceptionalism -- belief that a species, country, society, institution, movement, individual, or time period is "exceptional"
Wikipedia - Ex-gay movement -- Movement that encourages people to refrain from homosexual relationships
Wikipedia - Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing -- Form of psychotherapy
Wikipedia - Eye movement in music reading
Wikipedia - Eyes on the Prize -- American civil rights movement documentary TV series
Wikipedia - Falun Gong -- New religious movement originating from China
Wikipedia - Far East Movement -- American hip hop and electronic music group
Wikipedia - Farm Animal Rights Movement
Wikipedia - Father Divine -- U.S. religious leader, founder of the International Peace Mission movement (1876-1965)
Wikipedia - Fatima Movement of Priests
Wikipedia - February 25th Movement -- Political movement in Mauritania
Wikipedia - FeesMustFall -- Student Movement
Wikipedia - Feminism in France -- History of the feminist movement in France
Wikipedia - Feminism in Germany -- History of the feminist movement in Germany
Wikipedia - Feminism in Greece -- History of the feminist movement in Greece
Wikipedia - Feminism in Italy -- History of the feminist movement in Italy
Wikipedia - Feminism in Norway -- History of the feminist movement in Norway
Wikipedia - Feminism in Poland -- History of the feminist movement in Poland
Wikipedia - Feminism in Russia -- History of the feminist movement in Russia
Wikipedia - Feminism in Sweden -- History of the feminist movement in Sweden
Wikipedia - Feminism in the Netherlands -- History of the feminist movement in the Netherlands
Wikipedia - Feminism in the Republic of Ireland -- History of the feminist movement in Ireland
Wikipedia - Feminism in the United Kingdom -- History of the feminist movement in the UK
Wikipedia - Feminism in the United States -- History of the feminist movement in the USA
Wikipedia - Feminism -- Movements and ideologies aimed at establishing gender equality
Wikipedia - Feminist art movement in the United States
Wikipedia - Feminist art movement
Wikipedia - Feminist movements and ideologies
Wikipedia - Feminist movement -- Series of political campaigns for reforms on feminist issues
Wikipedia - Feminist theology -- Movement to reconsider theological doctrine
Wikipedia - Fence -- Freestanding structure preventing movement across a boundary
Wikipedia - Fight for $15 -- Political movement in the United States
Wikipedia - Film -- Sequence of images that give the impression of movement, stored on film stock
Wikipedia - Fire and movement -- Basic modern military low-level unit tactic
Wikipedia - FIRE movement -- Movement whose goal is financial independence and retiring early
Wikipedia - Fish migration -- Movement of fishes from one part of a water body to another on a regular basis
Wikipedia - Fitts's law -- Predictive model of human movement
Wikipedia - Five-Percent Nation -- Religious movement
Wikipedia - Five Star Movement
Wikipedia - Flaggers (movement) -- Neo-Confederate group
Wikipedia - Flamenco rock -- Spanish cultural movement and music genre
Wikipedia - Flarf poetry -- Avant-garde poetry movement of the early 21st century
Wikipedia - Flemish Baroque painting -- Painting movement
Wikipedia - Flemish movement
Wikipedia - Flemish Movement -- Political movement for emancipation and greater autonomy of the Belgian region of Flanders
Wikipedia - Floating hinge -- Type of hinge that allows rotation and some linear movement
Wikipedia - Flood mitigation -- Management and control of flood water movement
Wikipedia - Floruit -- Certified period of time when a person, school or movement was active; not always indicative of entire active period
Wikipedia - Flow measurement -- Quantification of bulk fluid movement
Wikipedia - Focolare Movement
Wikipedia - For Britain Movement -- British far-right political party
Wikipedia - Forced displacement -- Coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region
Wikipedia - Force for Change Democratic Movement - Liberal Party -- Political party in Sao Tome and Principe
Wikipedia - Forlivese school of art -- Renaissance art movement
Wikipedia - Forshang Buddhism World Center -- New religious movement based in Taiwan
Wikipedia - Fractionism -- Political movement
Wikipedia - Frank Marshall Davis -- United States writer, political and labor movement activist
Wikipedia - Fraternity Movement -- Indian student organization
Wikipedia - Frederick Gordon Pearce -- English educationist, regarded as the founder of the Indian public school movement
Wikipedia - Free Alabama Movement -- Prison reform group
Wikipedia - Free Bolivia Movement -- Political party in Bolivia
Wikipedia - Free culture movement
Wikipedia - Free-culture movement -- Social movement promoting the freedom to distribute and modify the creative works of others
Wikipedia - Freedom and People's Rights Movement
Wikipedia - Freedom of movement
Wikipedia - Free love -- Social movement that accepts all forms of love
Wikipedia - Free Papua Movement -- Umbrella term for independence movement for West Papua (the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua), with both militant and nonviolent elements
Wikipedia - Free Patriotic Movement -- Lebanese Christian political party
Wikipedia - Free school movement
Wikipedia - Free Software Foundation Europe -- Foundation promoting Free Software movement
Wikipedia - Free Software Foundation Latin America -- Foundation promoting Free Software movement
Wikipedia - Free Software Foundation of India -- Foundation promoting Free Software movement
Wikipedia - Free software movement -- Social and political movement
Wikipedia - Free South Africa Movement
Wikipedia - Free Speech Movement
Wikipedia - Free Speech movement
Wikipedia - French India Students Congress -- Student movement in French India
Wikipedia - French New Wave -- Movement in French cinema
Wikipedia - French Renaissance -- Cultural and artistic movement in France dating from the 15th century to the early 17th century
Wikipedia - French Resistance -- Collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy regime
Wikipedia - Friendly Floatees -- Plastic rubber ducks made famous by the work of Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements.
Wikipedia - Fry's Army -- Political protest movement
Wikipedia - Fueguian People's Movement -- Argentine political party
Wikipedia - Funk art -- American art movement
Wikipedia - Funnel-mantle locking apparatus -- Structure found in many cephalopods that connects the mantle and hyponome and restricts their movement relative to each other
Wikipedia - Futurism -- Artistic and social movement
Wikipedia - Futurist cooking -- Comprised a cuisine and style of dining advocated by some members of the Futurist movement, particularly in Italy
Wikipedia - Gag Law (Puerto Rico) -- An act passed in 1948 to suppress the independence movement in Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Gait (human) -- Locomotion achieved through the movement of human limbs
Wikipedia - Galant style -- 18th-century movement in music, visual arts and literature
Wikipedia - Gamergate movement
Wikipedia - Garden city movement -- Urban planning movement
Wikipedia - Gay liberation -- Social and political movement in the 1960s and 70s.
Wikipedia - Gay Shame -- Radical queer collective and movement
Wikipedia - Gedatsukai -- Japanese new religious movement founded in 1929
Wikipedia - George Howell (entrepreneur) -- American entrepreneur and a pioneer of the American specialty-coffee movement
Wikipedia - Gerakan Harapan Baru -- An ongoing social movement in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Gerakan Nelajan Marhaenis -- Gerakan Nelajan Marhaenis ('Marhaenist Fishermen's Movement') was an organization of fishermen in Indonesia
Wikipedia - German Christians (movement) -- A movement within the German Evangelical Church
Wikipedia - German Renaissance -- Cultural movement from the 15th to 16th century
Wikipedia - German student movement
Wikipedia - German Youth Movement -- German cultural and educational movement
Wikipedia - Gertrud Adelborg -- Swedish teacher, feminist and leading member of the women's rights movement.
Wikipedia - Ghadar Movement -- Indian Revolutionary Party
Wikipedia - Ghana Union Movement -- Political party in Ghana
Wikipedia - Ghulam Arieff Tipoo -- Bangladeshi jurist and language movement activist
Wikipedia - Girl Guides -- Movement for girls and young women
Wikipedia - Girls at Dhabas -- Pakistani based social movement
Wikipedia - Global Call to Action Against Poverty -- Global anti-poverty movement/coalition
Wikipedia - Global Citizens Movement
Wikipedia - Global citizens movement
Wikipedia - Global governance -- Movement towards political cooperation among transnational actors
Wikipedia - Global Justice Movement
Wikipedia - Global justice movement
Wikipedia - Gobinism -- Academic, political and social movement
Wikipedia - Goddess movement -- Modern revival of divine feminine or female-centered spirituality
Wikipedia - Goddess of Democracy (Hong Kong) -- Sculpture in Hong Kong honoring Chinese pro-democracy movement
Wikipedia - Goddess Remembered -- 1989 documentary on the Goddess movement and feminist theories surrounding Goddess worship
Wikipedia - Goods Vehicle Movement Service -- UK government border control IT system
Wikipedia - Gopal Krishna Gokhale -- Social and political leader during the Indian Independence Movement
Wikipedia - Gothic Revival architecture -- Architectural movement
Wikipedia - Go Topless Day -- Gender equality protest by Raelian movement
Wikipedia - GPS wildlife tracking -- Remotely observe movement or migratory patterns in a wild animal using the Global Positioning System
Wikipedia - Grace Gospel Fellowship -- A Christian denomination associated with the Grace Movement
Wikipedia - Grace Road Church -- South Korean religious movement
Wikipedia - Graeco-Arabic translation movement -- Movement that resulted in the translation of texts from various languages into Arabic
Wikipedia - Grassroots -- Political or economic movement based on local communities and everyday people
Wikipedia - Greater Britain Movement -- British far right political organisation
Wikipedia - Great Indonesia Movement Party -- political party in Indonesia
Wikipedia - Green movement
Wikipedia - Group 24 -- Tajik political opposition movement
Wikipedia - Groyne -- Structure extending into body of water to limit movement of sediment
Wikipedia - Guild socialism -- Political labor movement
Wikipedia - Guinean Democratic Movement -- Political party in Guinea-Bissau
Wikipedia - Guiyidao -- Chinese salvationist folk religious movement
Wikipedia - Gulen movement -- Transnational civic movement
Wikipedia - Gurdjieff movements
Wikipedia - Handwriting movement analysis
Wikipedia - Hanef Bhamjee -- Organiser in the Anti-Apartheid Movement
Wikipedia - Hans and Sophie Scholl -- Siblings in the White Rose nonviolent anti-Nazi movement
Wikipedia - Happy Science -- New religious movement founded in Japan by Ryuho Okawa
Wikipedia - Harlem Renaissance -- African-American cultural movement in New York City in the 1920s
Wikipedia - Hasidic philosophy -- The teachings of the Hasidic movement
Wikipedia - Haskalah -- Intellectual movement among the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, 1770-1890
Wikipedia - Haugean movement
Wikipedia - Hawaiian sovereignty movement -- Grassroots movement to gain self-determination and rule for Hawaiians
Wikipedia - Hazara Province Movement -- A movement for a separate province in Pakistan
Wikipedia - Hearing Voices Movement
Wikipedia - Heathenry (new religious movement) -- Modern Pagan religion
Wikipedia - Hebrew Roots -- Religious movement
Wikipedia - Hellenism (neoclassicism) -- Art movement
Wikipedia - Hemiballismus -- Rare, extreme form of the movement disorder chorea
Wikipedia - Hezb-i Islami Khalis -- Afghan political movement
Wikipedia - Higher Life movement -- Movement devoted to Christian holiness in England
Wikipedia - High Victorian Gothic -- Eclectic architectural style and movement during the mid-late 19th century
Wikipedia - Hikari no Wa -- A new religious movement in Japan started in 2007
Wikipedia - Him Too movement -- Movement against false rape allegations.
Wikipedia - Hindu reform movements -- Several contemporary Hindu groups
Wikipedia - History of human migration -- Movement by people from one place to another over the course of history
Wikipedia - History of the cooperative movement -- Cooperative movement history
Wikipedia - History of the hippie movement
Wikipedia - History of the Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - History of the socialist movement in Brazil
Wikipedia - History of the socialist movement in the United Kingdom
Wikipedia - History of the socialist movement in the United States
Wikipedia - Holiness Movement
Wikipedia - Holiness movement -- Set of beliefs and practices which emerged from 19th-century Methodism
Wikipedia - Holistic education -- Education movement
Wikipedia - Holomovement
Wikipedia - Homespun movement -- 18th-century boycott movement in United States
Wikipedia - Horizontal transfer of mitochondria -- Movement of whole mitochondria between cells
Wikipedia - Horse gait -- Ways of movement of equines
Wikipedia - Hostosian National Independence Movement -- Pro-independence organization (and unregistered political party) in Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - House church movement
Wikipedia - Houthi movement -- A political-religious armed movement in Yemen
Wikipedia - Hovercraft -- Vehicle capable of movement within ground effect at speed or stationary over all surfaces
Wikipedia - Howl -- 1955 poem by Allen Ginsberg, part of the Beat Generation movement
Wikipedia - Hoxhaism -- Variant of anti-revisionist Marxism-Leninism that developed in the late 1970s due to a split in the Maoist movement
Wikipedia - Hukbalahap -- 20th-century communist guerrilla movement in the Philippines
Wikipedia - Humanistic Judaism -- Movement in Judaism that offers a nontheistic alternative in contemporary Jewish life
Wikipedia - Human migration -- |Movement of people for resettlement
Wikipedia - Human potential movement
Wikipedia - Human Potential Movement -- Cultivating extraordinary potential that its advocates believe to lie largely untapped in all people.
Wikipedia - Human relations movement
Wikipedia - Human Rights Logo -- Logo to support the global human rights movement
Wikipedia - Hundred Days' Reform -- Failed reform movement in late Qing dynasty China
Wikipedia - Hungry generation -- 1960s literary movement in the Bengali language
Wikipedia - Hussards (literary movement) -- Anti-existentialist literary movement
Wikipedia - Hussites -- Czech pre-Protestant Christian movement
Wikipedia - Hydrogeology -- The study of the distribution and movement of groundwater
Wikipedia - Hydrology -- The science of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth and other planets
Wikipedia - Hydropower -- Power generation via movement of water
Wikipedia - Hyperkinesia -- Excessive movements due to basal ganglia dysfunction
Wikipedia - Hypokinesia -- Decreased movement due to basal ganglia dysfunction
Wikipedia - Icelandic independence movement -- 19th and 20th century efforts to achieve Icelandic independence from Denmark
Wikipedia - Icelandic Movement - Living Country -- Defunct political party in Iceland
Wikipedia - Identitarian movement -- European far-right political movement
Wikipedia - Idle No More -- Grassroots movement for indigenous rights
Wikipedia - I Don't Pay Movement
Wikipedia - Illyrian movement -- Cultural and political movement
Wikipedia - Imaginism -- Russian poetry movement
Wikipedia - Imagism -- 20th-century poetry movement
Wikipedia - Imbokodvo National Movement -- Political party in Eswatini
Wikipedia - Imperial Fascist League -- British fascist political movement
Wikipedia - Impressionism in music -- Movement in Western classical music
Wikipedia - Impressionism -- 19th-century art movement
Wikipedia - Incoherents -- 19th-century French art movement
Wikipedia - InconfidM-CM-*ncia Mineira -- Unsuccessful 18th century separatist movement in Brazil
Wikipedia - Independence movement in Puerto Rico -- Initiatives by inhabitants throughout the history of Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Independence of Brazil -- Independence movement
Wikipedia - Independent Group (art movement) -- Group of painters, sculptors, architects, writers and critics in England, active in the 1950s
Wikipedia - Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation -- Political party in Colombia
Wikipedia - Independent Network Charismatic Christianity -- Movement within evangelical charismatic Christianity
Wikipedia - India Against Corruption -- Anti-corruption movement in India
Wikipedia - India and the Non-Aligned Movement -- In non aligned movement Role of India in multilateral movements of colonies and newly independent countries
Wikipedia - India Home Rule movement
Wikipedia - Indian Home Rule movement
Wikipedia - Indian independence movement -- Indian national movement seeking to end British rule (1857-1947)
Wikipedia - Indianist movement -- Movement in American classical music (1880s-1920s)
Wikipedia - Indian nationalist movement
Wikipedia - IndieBound -- American marketing movement for independent bookstores
Wikipedia - IndieWeb -- Movement to self-host, customise, and self-test web content and software
Wikipedia - Indigenous feminism -- Political, social, and cultural movement and theory
Wikipedia - Indigenous Social Alliance Movement -- Political party in Colombia
Wikipedia - Indirect pathway -- Neuronal circuit that suppresses unwanted movements
Wikipedia - Indivisible movement -- Progressive movement in the United States
Wikipedia - Ingression coast -- A generally low coastline that is shaped by the penetration of the sea as a result of crustal movements or a rise in the sea level
Wikipedia - Input method -- Operating system component or program that allows any data, such as keyboard strokes or mouse movements, to be received as input
Wikipedia - Integral movement
Wikipedia - Intellectual movements in Iran
Wikipedia - Intelligent designer -- Hypothetical willed and self-aware entity that the intelligent design movement argues had some role in the origin and/or development of life
Wikipedia - Interior lines -- Method of movement and operation in warfare
Wikipedia - Internal resistance to apartheid -- Social movement about apartheid
Wikipedia - International Co-operative Alliance -- Federation representing co-operatives and the worldwide co-operative movement
Wikipedia - International Falcon Movement - Socialist Educational International -- Belgian non-profit organization
Wikipedia - International Olympic Committee -- Non-governmental ruling body of the Olympic Movement
Wikipedia - International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement -- International humanitarian movement
Wikipedia - International Tibet Independence Movement
Wikipedia - International Workers' Day -- Celebration in the international labour movement on May Day
Wikipedia - Intimism (art movement) -- Art movement of paintings and drawings of quiet domestic scenes
Wikipedia - Intracellular transport -- Directed movement of vesicles and substances within a cell
Wikipedia - Irish Dominion League -- Irish political movement (1919-1921)
Wikipedia - Irish Home Rule Movement
Wikipedia - Irish Home Rule movement
Wikipedia - Irish nationalism -- Political movement asserting the sovereignty of the Irish people
Wikipedia - Irish republicanism -- Political movement for the unity and independence of Ireland
Wikipedia - Irish Traveller Movement -- National organisation for members of the Travelling community and Traveller organisations in Ireland
Wikipedia - Iron Guard -- 20th-century fascist movement and political party in Romania
Wikipedia - Irredentism -- Political movement for claiming territory considered lost
Wikipedia - Isatabu Freedom Movement -- Militant organisation from the Solomon Islands
Wikipedia - Ishikism -- A new syncretic religious movement among Alevis
Wikipedia - Isis Unveiled -- Key text in the Theosophical movement
Wikipedia - ISKCON Revival Movement -- Gaudiya Vaishnavite movement
Wikipedia - Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine -- Palestinian Islamist terror organization
Wikipedia - Islamic Movement (Nigeria) -- Part of islam in Nigeria
Wikipedia - Islamic Renaissance Movement -- Political party in Algeria
Wikipedia - Italian Baroque art -- Italian art movement
Wikipedia - Italian irredentism -- Italian nationalist movement
Wikipedia - Italian neorealism -- National film movement
Wikipedia - Italian Renaissance painting -- Art movement
Wikipedia - Italian Renaissance -- Cultural movement from the 14th to 17th century
Wikipedia - Italian resistance movement
Wikipedia - Italian Social Movement -- Italian neo-fascist party
Wikipedia - Italian Unionist Movement -- Italian political party
Wikipedia - Ital -- Food celebrated in the Rastafari movement
Wikipedia - Ivorian Popular Movement of the Great West -- Rebel movement and political party in Ivory Coast
Wikipedia - Iyaric -- Created dialect of English used by the Rastafari movement
Wikipedia - James Brighouse -- Late-nineteenth-century American leader of a splinter sect in the Latter Day Saint movement called the Order of Enoch
Wikipedia - James Millar (educationalist) -- Scottish labour-movement educationalist
Wikipedia - Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna -- A mainstream leftist political movement in Sri Lanka
Wikipedia - Jan Karski -- Polish World War II resistance movement fighter
Wikipedia - Jansenism -- Christian theological movement
Wikipedia - Japanese new religions -- New religious movements founded in Japan since mid-19th century
Wikipedia - Jatindra Nath Das -- Indian independence movement activist
Wikipedia - Jesus freak -- pejorative term used for those involved in the Jesus movement
Wikipedia - Jesus movement -- former evangelical Christian movement
Wikipedia - Jeune Europe -- Euro-nationalist movement
Wikipedia - Jeune Nation -- French nationalist movement
Wikipedia - Jewish Autonomism -- Non-Zionist Jewish political movement
Wikipedia - Jewish Christian -- Members of the Jewish movement that later became Christianity
Wikipedia - Jewish fundamentalism -- Jewish anti-modernist movements based on biblical literalism
Wikipedia - Jewish left -- A movement of activists whose Judaism informs their support left-wing or liberal causes
Wikipedia - Jewish political movements
Wikipedia - Jewish religious movements -- Jewish religious movements
Wikipedia - Jewish Renewal -- Movement to reinvigorate modern Judaism with Kabbalistic, Hasidic, musical and meditative practices
Wikipedia - Jihadism -- 21-century Western neologism to describe armed Islamist movements
Wikipedia - Jindyworobak Movement
Wikipedia - John Wesley -- Founder of the Methodist movement
Wikipedia - Joint mobilization -- Type of passive movement of a skeletal joint
Wikipedia - Jose Celso Barbosa Day (Puerto Rico) -- Commemorates the birth of the father of Puerto Rico's statehood movement
Wikipedia - Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta -- Basque Catholic priest and founder of the Mondragon cooperative movement
Wikipedia - Josephite Movement
Wikipedia - Joseph Smith -- the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - Jumping -- Form of movement in which an organism or mechanical system propels itself into the air
Wikipedia - Justice for Janitors -- social movement organization
Wikipedia - K-16 -- American education movement to merge tertiary and pre-tertiary education
Wikipedia - Karaite Judaism -- A Jewish religious movement characterized by the recognition of the written Torah alone as its supreme authority in Jewish religious law and theology.
Wikipedia - Karl Gustav Stricker Brondsted -- Member of the Danish resistance movement
Wikipedia - Kata -- Detailed choreographed patterns of movements in martial arts
Wikipedia - Kate Sheppard -- Prominent member of women's suffrage movement in New Zealand
Wikipedia - Kazim Rashti -- Successor of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i, leader of the Shaykhi movement
Wikipedia - Kehot Publication Society -- Publication Society of the Chabad Lubavitch hasidic movement.
Wikipedia - Kerala Catholic Youth Movement
Wikipedia - Khalistan movement
Wikipedia - Khan Bahadur Hasem Ali Khan -- Bengali politician, lawyer, peasant movement leader and social worker (1888-1962)
Wikipedia - Kheda Satyagraha of 1918 -- Civil resistance movement organized by Gandhi in India
Wikipedia - Khilafat Movement
Wikipedia - Khoisan Aboriginal and Others Movement -- Political party in South Africa
Wikipedia - Kibbutz Movement
Wikipedia - Kinesiology -- The study of anatomy, physiology, and mechanics of body movement, especially in humans
Wikipedia - Kingdom Governance Movement -- Political party in South Africa
Wikipedia - King James Only movement -- Movement asserting the superiority of the King James Version of the Bible
Wikipedia - Kinism -- White supremacist religious movement
Wikipedia - Kino (movement) -- Film-making organization
Wikipedia - Kirchnerism -- Argentine political movement
Wikipedia - Kitchen sink realism -- British social realist artistic movement
Wikipedia - Kopust -- Branch of the Chabad movement
Wikipedia - Korean Independence Movement
Wikipedia - Korean independence movement -- 1900s-1940s movement against Japanese rule of Korea
Wikipedia - Krzysztof Markiewicz -- Polish underground resistance movement officer
Wikipedia - Kuwaiti Progressive Movement -- Political group
Wikipedia - Labor movement
Wikipedia - Labour movement
Wikipedia - Labour Representation Committee (2004) -- British socialist pressure group within the Labour Party and wider labour movement
Wikipedia - Lacanian movement
Wikipedia - Laestadianism -- Pietistic Lutheran revival movement started in Sapmi in the middle of the 19th century
Wikipedia - Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam
Wikipedia - La Movida MadrileM-CM-1a -- Countercultural movement during the Spanish transition after Francisco Franco's 1975 death
Wikipedia - Landless People's Movement (Namibia) -- A political party in Namibia
Wikipedia - Landslide -- Type of natural disasters involving ground movements, often caused by slope instability triggered by specific event
Wikipedia - La Onda -- Multidisciplinary artistic movement created in Mexico
Wikipedia - Lapua Movement -- Former political party in Finland
Wikipedia - LaRouche movement -- Political movement promoting Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas
Wikipedia - Latter Day Saint movement -- Church groups that trace their origins to a Christian primitivist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s
Wikipedia - Lavinia Engle -- Women's suffrage movement leader (1892-1979)
Wikipedia - Lay Claretian Movement
Wikipedia - Leaching (pedology) -- The removal of soluble materials from one zone in soil to another via water movement in the profile
Wikipedia - League of German Girls -- Girls' wing of the Nazi Party youth movement
Wikipedia - Lebensphilosophie -- German philosophical movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Wikipedia - Left Front (France) -- French electoral alliance and political movement
Wikipedia - Legality Movement -- Albanian royalist and pro-monarchy political faction (1941-1945)
Wikipedia - Leigh syndrome -- A mitochondrial metabolism disease characterized by progressive loss of mental and movement abilities.
Wikipedia - Lesbian Movement (Denmark) -- Danish lesbian organization
Wikipedia - Les Identitaires -- French identitarian political movement
Wikipedia - Let the Moreno Play Movement -- Political party in Colombia
Wikipedia - Levellers -- Political movement during the English Civil War, committed to popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance
Wikipedia - Lewis Charlton (slave) -- American slave, speaker in the temperance movement
Wikipedia - LGBT social movements
Wikipedia - Liadi (Hasidic dynasty) -- Branch of the Chabad movement
Wikipedia - Liberal Christianity -- Movement that interprets and reforms Christian teaching by taking into consideration modern knowledge, science and ethics
Wikipedia - Liberal Movement (Australia) -- South Australian political party (1973-1976)
Wikipedia - Liberal Opening Movement -- Political party in Colombia
Wikipedia - Liberal Socialist Movement -- Italian political party
Wikipedia - Libertarian Movement (Costa Rica) -- Political party in Costa Rica
Wikipedia - Liberty Movement of Cameroon Youth -- Cameroonian political party
Wikipedia - Library of Agudas Chassidei Chabad -- Research library at the headquarters of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Judaism
Wikipedia - Librotraficante -- American protest movement
Wikipedia - Libyan National Movement -- Political party in Libya
Wikipedia - Libyan Popular National Movement -- Political party in Libya
Wikipedia - Light and Space -- Art movement
Wikipedia - Like a G6 -- 2010 single by Far East Movement
Wikipedia - Linda Burnham -- American journalist, activist, and leader in women's rights movements
Wikipedia - Lion Versus -- Russian youth social movement
Wikipedia - List of active separatist movements in Africa -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of active separatist movements in Asia -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of active separatist movements in Europe -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of active separatist movements in North America -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of active separatist movements in Oceania -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of active separatist movements in South America -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of active separatist movements recognized by intergovernmental organizations -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of anarchist movements by region -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of ancient oceans -- A list of former oceans that disappeared due to tectonic movements and other geographical and climatic changes
Wikipedia - List of art movements -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of busiest airports by aircraft movements -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Christian movements -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of denominations in the Latter Day Saint movement -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Dhammakaya branches -- List of branch centers of the Thai Buddhist Dhammakaya Movement
Wikipedia - List of fascist movements by country -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of fascist movements -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of guerrilla movements
Wikipedia - List of historical separatist movements -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Italian Social Movement politicians -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of literary movements
Wikipedia - List of movements of the human body -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of movements that dispute the legitimacy of a reigning monarch -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Neopagan movements -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Nepali democratic movement (1951) activists -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of networks and movements of the French Resistance -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of new religious movements -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Occupy movement protest locations -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Pakistan Movement activists -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of people who support the BDS movement -- list article
Wikipedia - List of photographers of the civil rights movement -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of poetry groups and movements
Wikipedia - List of political movements named after dates -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of politicians affiliated with the Tea Party movement -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of religious movements that began in the United States -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of social movements in South Africa -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of social movements -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of South African airports by passenger movements -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of subjects related to the Quebec independence movement -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - Lists of active separatist movements -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - Liturgical movement
Wikipedia - Liturgical Movement -- A 19th-century movement of scholarship for the reform of worship within the Roman Catholic Church
Wikipedia - Livestock transportation -- The movement of livestock by ship, rail, road or air
Wikipedia - Living Colombia Movement -- Political party in Colombia
Wikipedia - L'M-EM-^Ruvre Francaise -- French nationalist movement
Wikipedia - Localism in Hong Kong -- Political movement in Hong Kong
Wikipedia - Logical positivism -- Movement in Western philosophy
Wikipedia - Log jam -- Accumulation of large wood in a stream or river, preventing movement downstream
Wikipedia - Lollardy -- Radical Christian reform movement in late medieval, pre-Reformation England
Wikipedia - London Street Commune -- 1960s social movement
Wikipedia - Lord Byron -- English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement (1788-1824)
Wikipedia - Lowbrow (art movement)
Wikipedia - Lulin -- A major agrarian rebellion movement against Wang Mang's Xin dynasty
Wikipedia - Lyceum Movement
Wikipedia - Lyceum movement -- US series of organizations sponsoring public education programs and entertainments
Wikipedia - Lying press -- pejorative political term used largely by German political movements for the press
Wikipedia - Lyon Commune -- 1870-1871 revolutionary movement in Lyon, France
Wikipedia - Macedonian nationalism -- 19th- and 20th-century social movement
Wikipedia - Macedonian Partisans -- Communist and antifascist resistance movement
Wikipedia - Machneh Israel (Chabad) -- Social service organization of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement
Wikipedia - Madangguk -- Korean theatre form associated with the Minjung Movement
Wikipedia - Madaraka People's Movement -- Political party in Kenya
Wikipedia - Madari Pasi -- Indian militant peasant movement leader
Wikipedia - Madkhalism -- A heterodox strain of Islam within the larger Salafist movement based on the writings of Rabee al-Madkhali
Wikipedia - Magic realism -- Artistic genre and movement
Wikipedia - Mahagujarat movement -- 1956 political movement demanding the creation of Gujarat state from Bombay state
Wikipedia - Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti -- Political Movement in Western India
Wikipedia - Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat -- Islamic religious movement in Pakistan
Wikipedia - Major religious groups -- Religious movement with major international spread
Wikipedia - Maldives Reform Movement -- political party
Wikipedia - Managed retreat -- The purposeful, coordinated movement of people and buildings away from risks
Wikipedia - Maneuver warfare -- Military strategy focused on movement
Wikipedia - Manosphere -- Loose collection of predominantly web-based misogynist movements
Wikipedia - Marada Movement
Wikipedia - March 1st Movement -- 1919 Korean public display of resistance against Japanese rule
Wikipedia - March Against Fear -- 1966 demonstration in the US Civil Rights Movement
Wikipedia - March for the Equal Rights Amendment -- Social movement
Wikipedia - Marian Movement of Priests
Wikipedia - Market trend -- Perceived financial market movement tendency over time
Wikipedia - Martian poetry -- Movement in British poetry
Wikipedia - Martin Luther King Jr. -- American activist and leader in the civil rights movement (1929-1968)
Wikipedia - Mary Fielding Smith -- English member of the Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - Mass in B minor structure -- Structure of the movements in Bach's Mass in B minor
Wikipedia - MassResistance -- 501(c)(4) group in Massachusetts that promotes social conservatism and opposes the LGBT+ movement
Wikipedia - Mastigoneme -- Tubular "hairs" that cover the flagella of algae and assist in movement
Wikipedia - Material flow analysis -- Analysis of the movement of substances within various systems
Wikipedia - Mau movement
Wikipedia - Mauritian Militant Movement -- Political party in Mauritius
Wikipedia - Mauritian Militant Socialist Movement -- Political party in Mauritius
Wikipedia - Mavo -- Art movement in Japan
Wikipedia - May Fourth Movement
Wikipedia - May Fourth movement
Wikipedia - McOndo -- Latin American literary movement
Wikipedia - Mec Art -- 20th-century art movement
Wikipedia - Media activism -- form of activism using media for social or political movements
Wikipedia - MELS Movement of Botswana -- Political party in Botswana
Wikipedia - Men's movement
Wikipedia - Men's rights movement -- Social movement concerned with discrimination against men
Wikipedia - Mental hygiene movement
Wikipedia - Mentuhui -- Christian movement in China
Wikipedia - Messianic Judaism -- New religious movement that combines Christianity, Judaism and belief in Jesus as saviour
Wikipedia - Metamodernism -- A movement which emerged from and reacts to postmodernism
Wikipedia - Methodist movement
Wikipedia - Me Too movement (Pakistan)
Wikipedia - Me Too movement -- movement against sexual harassment and assault
Wikipedia - Mexican muralism -- 20th century art movement in Mexico
Wikipedia - Migration (ecology) -- large-scale movement of members of a species to a different environment
Wikipedia - Miley: The Movement -- 2013 documentary starring Miley Cyrus
Wikipedia - Militant Socialist Movement -- Political party in Mauritius
Wikipedia - Military Sexual Trauma Movement -- American sexual assault prevention organization
Wikipedia - Milk Tea Alliance -- Asian democracy and human rights movement
Wikipedia - Millerism -- Christian movement founded by William Miller, which held that the Second Coming would come in 1844
Wikipedia - Minimalism (visual arts) -- Visual arts movement
Wikipedia - Minimalism -- Movements in various forms of art and design
Wikipedia - Mir iskusstva -- early 20th-century Russian art movement with magazine of the same name
Wikipedia - Mission Revival architecture -- Architectural movement and style
Wikipedia - Mission School -- Art movement in 1990s & 2000s, Mission District, San Francisco, California.
Wikipedia - Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party -- Branch of Freedom Democratic party during 1960s Civil Rights Movement
Wikipedia - MitlM-CM-$ufer -- Person associated with a controversial movement
Wikipedia - Mizrahi feminism -- Movement within Israeli feminism representing Mizrahi women
Wikipedia - Maori King Movement -- Movement that arose among some of the Maori tribes of New Zealand in the central North Island in the 1850s.
Wikipedia - Modernisme -- Architectural and artistic movement originating in late-19th-century Catalonia, Spain
Wikipedia - Modernism -- Philosophical and art movement (late 19th - early 20th century)
Wikipedia - Modernize Sao Vicente Movement -- Political party in Cape Verde
Wikipedia - Modern Pagan views on LGBT people -- LGBTQ topics and issues within modern pagan spiritual and religious movements
Wikipedia - Moggmentum -- Online conservative campaign and grassroots movement supporting Jacob Rees-Mogg
Wikipedia - Molotov Movement -- Danish hip hop and rap collective
Wikipedia - Monowara Islam -- Bangladeshi professor, litterateur and language movement activist
Wikipedia - Montanism -- 2nd century Christian movement
Wikipedia - Montreal Citizens' Movement -- Municipal political party in Montreal
Wikipedia - Mormonism -- Religious tradition of the Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - Mormons -- Religious group part of the Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - Mothers of the Movement -- Group whose African American children have been killed by police or gun violence
Wikipedia - Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo -- A movement of Argentine mothers who campaigned for their children who had been "disappeared"
Wikipedia - Motion capture -- Process of recording the movement of objects or people
Wikipedia - Movement conservatism -- Inside term for the American New Right
Wikipedia - Movement context in handwriting
Wikipedia - Movement disorders
Wikipedia - Movement for Active Democracy -- British political party
Wikipedia - Movement for a People's Party -- Progressive pressure group
Wikipedia - Movement for a Responsible, Sustainable and Entrepreneurial Venezuela -- Political party in Venezuela
Wikipedia - Movement for a Socialist Alternative (Nigeria) -- Political party in Nigeria
Wikipedia - Movement for Black Lives -- Coalition of U.S. racial justice groups
Wikipedia - Movement for Citizens' Commitment and Awakening -- Political party in Benin
Wikipedia - Movement for Compassionate Living
Wikipedia - Movement for Democracy and Development (Central African Republic) -- Political party in the Central African Republic
Wikipedia - Movement for Democracy and Progress (Niger) -- Political party in Niger
Wikipedia - Movement for Democracy and Progress (Republic of the Congo) -- Political party in the Republic of the Congo
Wikipedia - Movement for Democracy (Cape Verde) -- Political party in Cape Verde
Wikipedia - Movement for Democracy in Africa -- Political party in Burkina Faso
Wikipedia - Movement for Democracy in Algeria -- Political party in Algeria
Wikipedia - Movement for Democracy, Independence and Social Progress -- Political party in the Central African Republic
Wikipedia - Movement for Democratic Change (2018) -- Zimbabwean political party
Wikipedia - Movement for Democratic Change - Ncube -- Zimbabwean political party
Wikipedia - Movement for Democratic Change - Tsvangirai -- Political party in Zimbabwe
Wikipedia - Movement for Democratic Renewal and Development -- Political party in Djibouti
Wikipedia - Movement for Development and Solidarity -- Political party in Benin
Wikipedia - Movement for Development by Culture -- Political party in Benin
Wikipedia - Movement for Economic Change -- Political party in Lesotho
Wikipedia - Movement for Genuine Democratic Change -- Political party in Malawi
Wikipedia - Movement for Justice and Peace -- Rebel group and political party in Ivory Coast
Wikipedia - Movement for Justice in Africa -- Political organization in Liberia
Wikipedia - Movement for Multi-Party Democracy -- Zambian political party, dominate 1991-2011
Wikipedia - Movement for National Rectification-Unionist -- Political party in Gabon
Wikipedia - Movement for National Rectification -- Political party in Gabon
Wikipedia - Movement for National Reform -- Political party in Algeria
Wikipedia - Movement for Socialism (Bolivia) -- Political party in Bolivia
Wikipedia - Movement for Socialism (Venezuela) -- Political party in Venezuela
Wikipedia - Movement for Solidarity and Development -- Political party in the Republic of the Congo
Wikipedia - Movement for the Defence of the Republic -- Political party in Cameroon
Wikipedia - Movement for the Democracy of Angola -- Political party in Angola
Wikipedia - Movement for the Independence, Renaissance, and Integration of Africa -- Political party in Mali
Wikipedia - Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore -- Singapore voluntary welfare organisation
Wikipedia - Movement for the Left -- Italian political party
Wikipedia - Movement for the Liberation of Sao TomM-CM-) and Principe/Social Democratic Party -- Political party in Sao TomM-CM-) and Principe
Wikipedia - Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People -- Political party in the Central African Republic
Wikipedia - Movement for the Liberation of the Congo -- Political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wikipedia - Movement for the People's Alternative -- Political party in Benin
Wikipedia - Movement for the Progress of Madagascar -- Political party in Madagascar
Wikipedia - Movement for the Rehabilitation of Citizens - Rurenzangemero -- Political party in Burundi
Wikipedia - Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia -- Monarchist party in Serbia
Wikipedia - Movement for the Self-Determination of Bioko Island -- Political organization in Equatorial Guinea
Wikipedia - Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa-Boganda -- Political party in the Central African Republic
Wikipedia - Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa -- Political party in the Central African Republic
Wikipedia - Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People -- Social movement organization of the indigenous Ogoni people of Central Niger Delta
Wikipedia - Movement for Tolerance and Progress -- Political party in Burkina Faso
Wikipedia - Movement for Youth and Democracy -- Political party in Algeria
Wikipedia - Movement (Hozier song) -- 2018 song by Hozier
Wikipedia - Movement in Support of the Army -- Russian radical political movement
Wikipedia - Movement of Animals
Wikipedia - Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland -- National advocacy group in Ireland
Wikipedia - Movement of Centrist Republicans -- Political party in Togo
Wikipedia - Movement of Independent Citizens of Sao TomM-CM-) and Principe -- Political party
Wikipedia - Movement of National Responsibility -- Italian political party
Wikipedia - Movement of National Understanding -- Political party in Algeria
Wikipedia - Movement of Popular Participation -- Political party in Uruguay
Wikipedia - Movement of Socialist Left -- Defunct socialist party in Portugal
Wikipedia - Movement of Society for Peace -- Political party in Algeria
Wikipedia - Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness -- 501(c)(3) non-profit religious corporation
Wikipedia - Movement of the Forces of the Future -- Political party in Ivory Coast
Wikipedia - Movement of Unitarian Communists -- Italian political party
Wikipedia - Movement of Young Marxist-Leninists -- Marxist-Leninist group in Senegal
Wikipedia - Movement Party (Tunisia) -- Tunisian political party
Wikipedia - Movement-related potentials
Wikipedia - Movements for the annexation of Canada to the United States -- Campaigns in favor of American annexation of Canada
Wikipedia - Movements (sacred dances)
Wikipedia - Movement We Are Venezuela -- Political party in Venezuela
Wikipedia - Movement Without Fear -- Political party in Bolivia
Wikipedia - Mozambican Nationalist Movement -- Political party in Mozambique
Wikipedia - Muhammad Takiullah -- Bangladeshi language movement veteran
Wikipedia - Murder of Jeff Hall -- Regional leader of the National Socialist Movement
Wikipedia - Musar movement
Wikipedia - Muscles of the hip -- Causes movement in the hip.
Wikipedia - Muscular Christianity -- Religious and social movement
Wikipedia - Music in the movement against apartheid -- One of the methods of opposition used against the apartheid regime
Wikipedia - Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt -- Sunni Islamist movement in Egypt
Wikipedia - Muslim Scout Association of Lebanon -- Scout movement in Lebanon
Wikipedia - Mussar movement
Wikipedia - Mute R. Kelly -- Movement against R. Kelly's musical career
Wikipedia - Mutualism (movement) -- Social movement that aims at creating and promoting mutual organizations, mutual insurances and mutual funds
Wikipedia - Myslim Peza -- Albanian war veteran and leader of the anti-fascist movement "M-CM-^Geta e PezM-CM-+s" (1897-1984)
Wikipedia - Mythopoetic men's movement
Wikipedia - Nadaism -- Colombian counterculture movement
Wikipedia - Nahda -- Cultural movement in the Arabic-speaking world, especially Egypt and the Ottoman-ruled Levant
Wikipedia - Nahdlatul Ulama -- Traditionalist Sunni Islam movement in Indonesia
Wikipedia - Namantar Andolan -- University's Name Change Movement by Buddhists & Dalits
Wikipedia - Namibian Democratic Movement for Change -- Political party in Namibia
Wikipedia - Narodniks -- Politically conscious movement of the Russian middle class in the 1860s and 1870s
Wikipedia - National Action Movement (Venezuela) -- Defunct far-right political party in Venezuela
Wikipedia - National Democratic Action Movement -- Political party in the Gambia
Wikipedia - National Fascist Movement -- Romanian political movement
Wikipedia - Nationalist Alliance -- British far-right movement
Wikipedia - National Movement for Nature and Development -- Political party in Algeria
Wikipedia - National Movement for Reconciliation -- Political party in Colombia
Wikipedia - National Movement for the Development of Society -- Political party in Niger
Wikipedia - National Movement of Hope -- Political party in Algeria
Wikipedia - National Movement of Servants of the Masses -- Political party in Senegal
Wikipedia - National Olympic Committee -- National constituent of the worldwide Olympic movement
Wikipedia - National Paralympic Committee -- National constituent of Paralympic movement
Wikipedia - National People's Power -- A mainstream leftist political movement in Sri Lanka
Wikipedia - National Popular Movement -- Political party in Morocco
Wikipedia - National Regeneration Movement -- Mexican political party
Wikipedia - National Republican Movement -- French nationalist political party
Wikipedia - National Resistance Movement -- Political party in Uganda
Wikipedia - National Scout jamboree (Boy Scouts of America) -- American quadrennial event of the scouting youth movement
Wikipedia - National Socialist League -- British Nazi political movement
Wikipedia - National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands -- Dutch fascist movement that became a Nazi political party, 1931-1945
Wikipedia - National Socialist Movement (UK, 1962) -- British neo-Nazi organisation
Wikipedia - National Socialist Movement (United Kingdom) -- British neo-Nazi organisation
Wikipedia - National Torch Movement -- Mexican political organization
Wikipedia - National Transformation Movement -- Political party in Trinidad and Tobago
Wikipedia - Nation of Islam -- African American political and religious movement
Wikipedia - Nation of Yahweh -- Predominantly African American religious movement
Wikipedia - Naturalism (literature) -- Literary movement
Wikipedia - Naturism -- Movement for social nudity and naked lifestyle
Wikipedia - Navigation -- Process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another
Wikipedia - Nazarene movement
Wikipedia - Nazi archaeology -- Historical movement aimed at studying German history to strengthen nationalism
Wikipedia - Nazi movement
Wikipedia - Neighbourhood Action Movement -- Argentine political party
Wikipedia - Neoauthoritarianism (China) -- Political movement in China
Wikipedia - Neo-Buddhist movement
Wikipedia - Neo-charismatic movement -- Movement within evangelical Protestant Christianity
Wikipedia - Neoclassicism -- Western cultural movement inspired by ancient Greece and Rome
Wikipedia - Neoconservatism -- Political movement among liberal hawks born in reaction to pacifist foreign policy, the New left and counterculture
Wikipedia - Neo-futurism -- Late-20th- to early-21st-century movement in the arts, design, and architecture
Wikipedia - Neo-pop -- Postmodern art movement of the 1980s and 1990s
Wikipedia - Neo-primitivism -- Russian art movement
Wikipedia - Nepal Bhasa renaissance -- Movement to revive and modernize the Nepal Bhasa language
Wikipedia - Net.art -- Art movement
Wikipedia - Network Lateral Movement -- Cybersecurity term for attack strategies
Wikipedia - Neue Rechte -- German right-wing political movement
Wikipedia - NeuquM-CM-)n People's Movement -- Political party in Argentina
Wikipedia - Never Trump movement -- Political resistance to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign
Wikipedia - New Age movement
Wikipedia - New Apostolic Reformation -- Movement which seeks to establish a fifth branch within Christendom
Wikipedia - New Athenian School -- Greek literary movement
Wikipedia - New Classical architecture -- Architectural movement
Wikipedia - New Communist movement
Wikipedia - New Culture Movement
Wikipedia - New Deal Movement -- Political party in Liberia
Wikipedia - New European Order -- European neo-fascist movement
Wikipedia - New Generation (Malayalam film movement)
Wikipedia - New Hollywood -- US-American film movement between the mid-1960s and early 1980s
Wikipedia - New Left Movement (Peru) -- Political party in Peru
Wikipedia - New Left -- Political movement
Wikipedia - New Life Movement
Wikipedia - New Objectivity (architecture) -- Architecture movement in (mainly German-speaking) Europe
Wikipedia - New Objectivity -- 1920s German art movement against expressionism
Wikipedia - New Puritans (literary movement) -- Literary movement
Wikipedia - New religious movements
Wikipedia - New religious movement -- Religious community or spiritual group of modern origins
Wikipedia - New Sincerity -- Artistic and philosophical movement
Wikipedia - New social movements
Wikipedia - New Thought Movement
Wikipedia - New Thought -- Religious movement emphasizing accessible divine power, positive thinking, and faith healing
Wikipedia - New Urbanism -- Urban design movement promoting environmentally friendly habits
Wikipedia - New wave of British heavy metal -- Heavy metal movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s
Wikipedia - New Way Movement -- Political party in Sao TomM-CM-) and Principe
Wikipedia - Niagara Movement -- Civil rights organization
Wikipedia - Niezhin (Hasidic dynasty) -- Branch of the Chabad movement
Wikipedia - Nigerien Democratic Movement for an African Federation -- Political party in Niger
Wikipedia - Nigerien Movement for Democratic Renewal -- Political party in Niger
Wikipedia - Nigerien Patriotic Movement -- Political party in Niger
Wikipedia - NIMBY -- Movement of opposition to development projects by residents
Wikipedia - Nipponzan-MyM-EM-^MhM-EM-^Mji-Daisanga -- A Japanese new religious movement and activist group founded in 1917 by Nichidatsu Fujii
Wikipedia - Nkenge TourM-CM-) -- Leader in the reproductive justice, anti-racism and black women's health movements
Wikipedia - Noahidism -- Jewish religious movement based on the Seven Laws of Noah in Rabbinic Judaism
Wikipedia - Noelani Goodyear-KaM-JM-;M-EM-^Mpua -- Kanaka Maoli scholar of Hawaiian social movements
Wikipedia - No Food Waste -- Movement to reduce hunger
Wikipedia - Non-Aligned Movement -- Group of states which are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc
Wikipedia - Nonchurch movement
Wikipedia - Non-cooperation movement -- Resistance of British rule in India through non violent means
Wikipedia - Non-European Unity Movement
Wikipedia - Non-Instrumental Movement Inhibition
Wikipedia - Non-possessors -- 16th-century movement in the Russian Orthodox Church in opposition to ecclesiastical land-ownership
Wikipedia - Non-rapid eye movement sleep
Wikipedia - Nordic Resistance Movement -- Pan-Nordic neo-Nazi movement
Wikipedia - Norman Olson -- American militia movement activist
Wikipedia - Northern Men's Federation for Women's Suffrage -- Scottish women's suffrage movement
Wikipedia - Northern soul -- Music and dance movement that emerged, initially in Northern England in the late 1960s
Wikipedia - Norwegian resistance movement -- Resistance to German occupation in WWII
Wikipedia - Nouveau roman -- French literary movement
Wikipedia - Nouvelle Droite -- French far-right political movement emerging in the 1960s
Wikipedia - No Wave Cinema -- American film movement from the 1970s and 1980s
Wikipedia - Nur movement
Wikipedia - Nut art -- Art movement
Wikipedia - Nuyorican movement -- Cultural movement for Puerto Ricans living in or near New York City in the late 1960s / early 1970s
Wikipedia - Objectivist movement -- A movement of individuals who seek to study and advance Objectivism
Wikipedia - Occident (movement) -- French nationalist movement
Wikipedia - Occupy Homes -- Housing activist movement in 2010s United States
Wikipedia - Occupy Movement
Wikipedia - Occupy movement
Wikipedia - Oculomotor apraxia -- The absence or defect of controlled, voluntary, and purposeful eye movement
Wikipedia - Odd Fellows -- Fraternal service movement
Wikipedia - Ogaden National Liberation Front -- Ethiopian political movement
Wikipedia - Old Colony Mennonites -- Part of the Russian Mennonite movement
Wikipedia - Old Order Movement -- Religious reform movement
Wikipedia - Oliver Cowdery -- American Mormon leader during the formative period of the Latter Day Saint movement (1806-1850)
Wikipedia - Olive Tree (religious movement) -- Christian new religious movement founded in South Korea by Park Tae Son
Wikipedia - Olympic Order -- Highest award of the Olympic Movement
Wikipedia - Op art -- Art movement
Wikipedia - Open access movement
Wikipedia - Open border -- A border with few or no restrictions on movement between jurisdictions
Wikipedia - Open-design movement -- movement for product development with publicly shared designs
Wikipedia - Open learning -- Innovative movement in education
Wikipedia - Open-source appropriate technology -- appropriate technology from the open-design movement
Wikipedia - Open-source hardware -- Hardware from the open-design movement
Wikipedia - Open Source movement
Wikipedia - Open source movement
Wikipedia - Open-source movement
Wikipedia - Open-source software movement
Wikipedia - Open-source-software movement -- open collaboration movement supporting open-source licenses
Wikipedia - Open theism -- Theological movement de-emphasizing God's meticulous control of all things
Wikipedia - Orange Democratic Movement -- Political party in Kenya
Wikipedia - Orbital maneuver -- A movement during spaceflight
Wikipedia - Order of the Star in the East -- Spiritual movement in India, 1911 to 1927
Wikipedia - Organic movement
Wikipedia - Oriental Revolutionary Movement -- Communist party in Uruguay
Wikipedia - Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement -- Political party in Ethiopia
Wikipedia - Orthodox Inter-Seminary Movement
Wikipedia - Ostsiedlung -- High Middle Age German migration movement
Wikipedia - Otpor -- Former Serbian civic movement and political party
Wikipedia - Oulipo -- French literary movement
Wikipedia - Our Teachings -- Urdu book published in 1902 by the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Wikipedia - Outline of the psychiatric survivors movement
Wikipedia - Oxford Movement
Wikipedia - Paganism -- Non-Abrahamic religion, or modern religious movement such as nature worship
Wikipedia - Pakistan Democratic Movement
Wikipedia - Pakistan Movement -- Political movement responsible for creation of Pakistan
Wikipedia - Pan-Africanism -- Worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent
Wikipedia - Pan Africanist Movement -- Political party in South Africa
Wikipedia - Pan Africanist Socialist Movement - Inkinzo -- Political party in Burundi
Wikipedia - Pan-Armenian National Movement -- Armenian political party
Wikipedia - Panathinaikos Movement -- Greek political party
Wikipedia - Panfuturism -- 20th-century Ukrainian art movement developed by Mykhaylo Semenko, inspired by various other contemporaneous art movements
Wikipedia - Panhellenic Liberation Movement
Wikipedia - Panic Movement
Wikipedia - Pank-a-Squith -- Board game about the suffragette movement
Wikipedia - Paracelsianism -- Early modern medical movement
Wikipedia - Parallel cinema -- Film movement in Indian cinema that originated in West Bengal in the 1950s
Wikipedia - Paralympics Ireland -- National committee for the paralympic games movement in Ireland
Wikipedia - Parkour -- Movement efficiency athletic training discipline
Wikipedia - Parley P. Pratt -- Early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - Parnassianism -- 19th century French literary movement
Wikipedia - Partisan (military) -- Member of a resistance movement
Wikipedia - Passionism -- Contemporary art movement in Scandinavia, anti-avantgarde in its approach
Wikipedia - Patriotic Movement for Democracy and Development -- Togolese political party
Wikipedia - Patriotic Movement for Renewal -- Political party in Mali
Wikipedia - Patriotic Movement for the Republic -- Political party in Niger
Wikipedia - Patriotic Movement of Cote d'Ivoire -- Rebel group and political party in Ivory Coast
Wikipedia - Patriotic Salvation Movement -- Political party in Chad
Wikipedia - Patriot movement -- American conservative political movement
Wikipedia - Peace and Truce of God -- Massive medieval Catholic-led peace movement
Wikipedia - Peace movement -- Social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars)
Wikipedia - Peasant Movement Institute station -- Guangzhou Metro station
Wikipedia - Pegida -- Political movement
Wikipedia - Pennsylvania Impressionism -- Impressionist art movement
Wikipedia - Pentecostalism -- Renewal movement within Protestant Christianity
Wikipedia - People's Champ Movement -- Political party in the Philippines
Wikipedia - People's Charter Movement -- Political party in Lesotho
Wikipedia - Peoples' Democratic Congress -- Political movement in Turkey
Wikipedia - People's Democratic Movement (Meghalaya) -- Political party in Meghalaya, India
Wikipedia - People's Movement for Democracy in Chad -- Political party in Chad
Wikipedia - People's Movement for Democratic Change -- Political party in Sierra Leone
Wikipedia - People's Movement for Progress -- Political party in Burkina Faso
Wikipedia - People's Movement of Ukraine -- Ukrainian pro-independence organisation, then political party
Wikipedia - People's National Movement -- Political party in Trinidad and Tobago
Wikipedia - People's Participation Movement -- Political party in Colombia
Wikipedia - People's Progressive Movement (Malawi) -- Political party in Malawi
Wikipedia - People's Revolutionary Movement (South Africa) -- Political party in South Africa
Wikipedia - People's United Democratic Movement -- Political party in Eswatini
Wikipedia - People's Will Movement -- Political party in Colombia
Wikipedia - Periodic limb movement disorder
Wikipedia - Petroleum geology -- The study of the origin, occurrence, movement, accumulation, and exploration of hydrocarbon fuels
Wikipedia - Pharisees -- Political party, a social movement, and a school of thought during the time of Second Temple Judaism
Wikipedia - Philosophical movement
Wikipedia - Pictorialism -- Photography movement
Wikipedia - Pictures at an Exhibition -- Suite for piano in ten movements by Modest Mussorgsky
Wikipedia - Pietism -- Movement within Lutheranism
Wikipedia - Pincer movement -- Military tactic
Wikipedia - Planetshakers -- Pentecostal Christian adults and youth movement in Melbourne, Australia
Wikipedia - Playing for Change -- World music movement and multimedia project
Wikipedia - Plowshares movement -- Christian pacifist movement
Wikipedia - Plume tectonics -- Geophysical theory of movement of mantle plumes under tectonic plates
Wikipedia - Plymouth Brethren -- Christian movement
Wikipedia - Podcast Movement -- Annual conference (e. 2014)
Wikipedia - Police abolition movement -- Political movement in the United States
Wikipedia - Polish resistance movement in World War II
Wikipedia - Political colour -- Colours used to represent a political ideology, movement or party
Wikipedia - Political Movement for Social Security -- Political party in Colombia
Wikipedia - Political movement -- Movement to obtain a political goal
Wikipedia - Pop art -- Art movement
Wikipedia - Popular Christian Movement -- Defunct political party in Bolivia
Wikipedia - Popular Democratic Movement -- Political party in Namibia
Wikipedia - Popular Movement (Morocco) -- Political party in Morocco
Wikipedia - Popular Republican Movement -- Defunct political party in France
Wikipedia - Popular Socialist Movement -- Marxist and pro-independence organization in Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Population transfer -- Movement of a large group of people from one region to another
Wikipedia - Portal:Civil rights movement
Wikipedia - Portal:Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - Port Militarization Resistance -- American anti-war movement
Wikipedia - Portuguese Democratic Movement -- Defunct political party in Portugal
Wikipedia - Positive Christianity -- Movement within Nazi Germany which mixed ideas of racial purity and Nazi ideology with elements of Christianity
Wikipedia - Posselt's envelope of motion -- The range of movement of the mandible
Wikipedia - Post-Impressionism -- Predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905
Wikipedia - Postliberal theology -- Christian faith development of coherent systematic theology movements
Wikipedia - Postmodern art -- Art movement
Wikipedia - Postmodernism -- A broad movement in the mid-to-late 20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism
Wikipedia - Post-postmodernism -- Artistic and philosophical movement
Wikipedia - Post-processual archaeology -- Movement in archaeological theory
Wikipedia - Post-World War II anti-fascism -- History of movements and networks opposing fascism after WWII
Wikipedia - Potassium channel blocker -- Several medications that disrupt movement of K+ ions
Wikipedia - Pragmatism -- Philosophical movement
Wikipedia - Prarthana Samaj -- Movement for religious and social reform in Bombay, India
Wikipedia - Precisionism -- Art movement
Wikipedia - Prescriptive authority for psychologists movement
Wikipedia - Presiding Patriarch -- Leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - Primitivism -- Art movement
Wikipedia - Prince Philip Movement -- Religious sect followed by Kastom people in Vanuatu
Wikipedia - Prise de fer -- Movement in the sport of fencing
Wikipedia - Prison abolition movement -- Movement to end incarceration as a means to address harm
Wikipedia - Prisoners' Justice Day -- Annual solidarity movement
Wikipedia - PrM-CM-)cieuses -- Art movement in literature
Wikipedia - Process art -- Art movement
Wikipedia - Progressive Dawoodi Bohra -- A reform movement within the Dawoodi Bohra subsect of Mustaali Ismai'li Shi'a Islam
Wikipedia - Progressive Movement (Cameroon) -- Political party in Cameroon
Wikipedia - Progressive National Movement -- Political party in Colombia
Wikipedia - Progressivism in the United States -- Reform movement in the United States advocating the idea of progress
Wikipedia - Progress -- Movement towards a refined, improved, or otherwise desired state
Wikipedia - Pro-independence movements in the Russian Civil War
Wikipedia - Project Chanology -- Protest movement against the practices of the Church of Scientology
Wikipedia - Pro-life movement
Wikipedia - Proper Cantonese pronunciation -- Movement to teach "correct" Cantonese pronunciation in Hong Kong
Wikipedia - Proprioception -- Sense of the relative position of one's own body parts and strength of effort employed in movement
Wikipedia - Propulsion -- Means of creating force leading to movement
Wikipedia - Protest song -- Song that is associated with a movement for social change
Wikipedia - Provincial Integration Movement -- Political party in Ecuador
Wikipedia - Provo (movement) -- Dutch counterculture movement in the 1960s
Wikipedia - Prussian Reform Movement -- Series of constitutional, administrative, social and economic reforms early in the nineteenth-century Kingdom of Prussia
Wikipedia - Psilocybin decriminalization in the United States -- Movement to decriminalize psilocybin in the United States
Wikipedia - Psychedelic movement
Wikipedia - Psychiatric survivors movement
Wikipedia - Pueblo Deco architecture -- Architectural movement
Wikipedia - Pueblo Revival architecture -- Architectural movement
Wikipedia - Puerto Rican independence movement
Wikipedia - Pulley -- grooved wheel to support movement and change of direction of a taut cable
Wikipedia - Pure Church of Christ -- Schismatic organization within the Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - Pure Film Movement
Wikipedia - Qigong fever -- Chinese religious movement
Wikipedia - Qigong -- Chinese system of coordinated posture and movement, breathing, and meditation
Wikipedia - Qissa Khwani massacre -- event during the independence movement in British India
Wikipedia - Quakers in the abolition movement -- Quaker activism
Wikipedia - Quakers -- Family of Protestant religious movements
Wikipedia - Quantified self -- Movement of people who track themselves with body-related data
Wikipedia - Quebec sovereignty movement
Wikipedia - Quit India Movement -- Political and social movement in British India during World War II
Wikipedia - Quiverfull -- Pro-natalist Christian movement
Wikipedia - Quorum of the Twelve -- Governing body in Latter Day Saint religious movement
Wikipedia - Radical Faeries -- Counter-cultural movement
Wikipedia - Radical feminism -- Feminist movement seeking to abolish patriarchy
Wikipedia - Radical lesbianism -- Radical lesbian movement in reaction to mainstream feminism
Wikipedia - Radical Reformation -- Anabaptist movement concurrent with the Protestant Reformation
Wikipedia - Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement
Wikipedia - Rainbow Ethiopia: Movement for Democracy and Social Justice -- Political party in Ethiopia
Wikipedia - Rainbow flag (LGBT) -- Symbol of LGBTQ movement
Wikipedia - Rain City Superhero Movement -- Costumed vigilante organization in Seattle, USA
Wikipedia - Rajneesh movement -- Persons inspired by the Indian mystic Osho
Wikipedia - Rajneesh -- Leader of the Rajneesh movement
Wikipedia - Rakat -- Unit of prayer in Islam equal to one iteration of a specific series of movements
Wikipedia - Ralph Abernathy -- American Civil Rights Movement leader
Wikipedia - Ram pressure -- Pressure due to movement through a fluid medium
Wikipedia - Rangaku -- Japanese cultural movement
Wikipedia - Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder
Wikipedia - Rapid eye movement sleep -- Unique phase of sleep in mammals and birds, characterized by random/rapid movement of the eyes
Wikipedia - Rastafari Movement
Wikipedia - Rastafari movement
Wikipedia - Ravidas -- 16 century Indian mystic poet-sant of the Bhakti movement
Wikipedia - Rayonism -- Russian art movement
Wikipedia - Realism (art movement) -- French painting movement
Wikipedia - Redemption movement -- Debt resistance movement
Wikipedia - Red-Letter Christians -- A non-denominational movement within Christianity
Wikipedia - Red Spear Society -- A rural self-defense movement during the Warlord Era
Wikipedia - Red Stocking Movement (Denmark) -- Danish women's rights movement
Wikipedia - Reform and Renewal Movement -- Political party in Suriname
Wikipedia - Reform Movement for Social Development -- Political party in Senegal
Wikipedia - Reform movement
Wikipedia - Regenerationism -- Intellectual and political movement in late 19th century and early 20th century Spain
Wikipedia - Regional Integration Movement -- Political party in Colombia
Wikipedia - Reichsburger movement -- Far-right antigovernment movement in Germany
Wikipedia - ReiyM-EM-+kai -- Japanese Buddhist new religious movement founded in 1919 by KakutarM-EM-^M Kubo and Kimi Kotani
Wikipedia - Relationships between Jewish religious movements
Wikipedia - Religious movements
Wikipedia - Religious movement
Wikipedia - Remonstrants -- Dutch Reformed Christian movement
Wikipedia - Renewed African Socialist Movement -- Political party in Chad
Wikipedia - Renovation Movement Labour Action -- Political party in Colombia
Wikipedia - Republican Democratic Movement -- Rwandan political party
Wikipedia - Republicanism in Barbados -- Political movement
Wikipedia - Republicanism in New Zealand -- Political movement in New Zealand
Wikipedia - Republicanism in the United Kingdom -- Movement to make the United Kingdom a republic
Wikipedia - Republican Movement (Colombia) -- Political party in Colombia
Wikipedia - Republican Movement (Mauritius) -- Political party in Mauritius
Wikipedia - Republic of New Afrika -- Black nationalism American social movement
Wikipedia - Resistance movement -- Refusal of obedience toward the government or an occupying power
Wikipedia - Resistance of Guinea-Bissau-Bafata Movement -- Political party in Guinea-Bissau
Wikipedia - Responsible Government League -- Political movement in the Dominion of Newfoundland
Wikipedia - Restoration Movement -- Christian movement seeking church reformation and unification
Wikipedia - Resurgent dome -- A dome formed by swelling or rising of a caldera floor due to movement in the magma chamber beneath it
Wikipedia - Retreat (survivalism) -- Place of refuge for those in the survivalist subculture or movement
Wikipedia - Retroflect -- The movement of an ocean current that doubles back on itself
Wikipedia - Retrofuturism -- Creative arts movement
Wikipedia - Retrogradation -- Movement of the front of a river delta inland over time
Wikipedia - Revisionist school of Islamic studies -- movement in Islamic studies
Wikipedia - Revisionist Zionism -- Right-leaning faction of the Zionist movement
Wikipedia - Revitalization movement
Wikipedia - Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- Colombian guerrilla movement
Wikipedia - Revolutionary Left Movement (Bolivia) -- Political party in Bolivia
Wikipedia - Revolutionary movement for Indian independence
Wikipedia - Revolutionary Unity Movement -- Nicaraguan political party
Wikipedia - Revolutionary Youth Movement
Wikipedia - Revolutionary Youth of Angola -- Angolan political movement
Wikipedia - Rhodes Must Fall -- Anti-apartheid protest movement regarding statues at the University of Cape Town in South Africa
Wikipedia - Ribbonism -- A 19th-century popular movement of poor Catholics in Ireland
Wikipedia - Rime movement
Wikipedia - Ring deutscher PfadfinderverbM-CM-$nde -- German national Scouting organization within the World Organization of the Scout Movement
Wikipedia - Riot grrrl -- American underground feminist punk rock movement
Wikipedia - Rise Above Movement -- US far right organization
Wikipedia - Rizalista religious movements
Wikipedia - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell -- British Army officer, founder of the world-wide Scout Movement
Wikipedia - Roberto Burioni -- Italian doctor known for his strong stand against the antivaccination movement.
Wikipedia - Rocco Armento -- American artist and member of the NO!art movement (b. 1924, df. 2011)
Wikipedia - Rocketeer (song) -- 2010 single by Far East Movement featuring Ryan Tedder
Wikipedia - Rococo -- 18th-century artistic movement and style
Wikipedia - Rodrigues Movement -- Political party in Mauritius
Wikipedia - Roerichism -- Spiritual, cultural and social movement
Wikipedia - Role of skin in locomotion -- Use of the integumentary system in animal movement
Wikipedia - Roman Polytheistic Reconstructionism -- Contemporary reconstructionist movement reviving traditional Roman religion
Wikipedia - Romanticism -- Period of artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that started in 18th-century Europe
Wikipedia - Romantic Movement
Wikipedia - Romantic movement
Wikipedia - Roman Traditional Movement -- Italian neopagan organisation
Wikipedia - Rope bondage -- Bondage involving the use of rope to restrict movement, wrap, suspend, or restrain a person
Wikipedia - Rosicrucianism -- Spiritual and cultural movement originating in 17th century Europe
Wikipedia - Rotation -- Movement of an object around an axis
Wikipedia - Running -- Method of terrestrial locomotion allowing rapid movement on foot
Wikipedia - Rurality Movement -- Agrarianist political party in France
Wikipedia - Rural People's Movement -- Farmers' protest movement in northern Germany from 1928 to 1933
Wikipedia - Russian Fascism: Traditions, Tendencies, Movements -- 2001 book
Wikipedia - Russian nihilist movement -- Russian movement during 1860-1917 that advocated negation and liberation
Wikipedia - Russian symbolism -- activities and events of the Symbolist movement in 19th-century Russia
Wikipedia - Russian twist -- Exercise movement
Wikipedia - Ryukyu independence movement -- Japanese political movement
Wikipedia - Sabre Dance -- Movement in Khachaturian's ballet Gayane
Wikipedia - Saccade -- Quick, simultaneous movement of both eyes between two or more phases of fixation in the same direction
Wikipedia - Sacred Grove (Latter Day Saint movement)
Wikipedia - Safety for Sarah movement -- Social media movement & campaign for safety on film sets, in memory of Sarah Jones
Wikipedia - Sahaja Yoga -- Religious movement, founded in 1970 by Nirmala Srivastava
Wikipedia - Sahwa movement
Wikipedia - Salafi movement
Wikipedia - Saminism Movement
Wikipedia - Sam Spanier -- American artist from New York City, who helped to develop the Integral Yoga movement
Wikipedia - Sant Mat -- Hindu spiritual movement on the Indian subcontinent during the 13th century.
Wikipedia - Sardines movement -- Political movement in Italy
Wikipedia - Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement -- Self-governance movement in Sri Lanka
Wikipedia - Sathya Sai Baba movement -- Movement inspired by Hindu guru Sathya Sai Baba
Wikipedia - Satyavati Devi -- Participant in Indian independence movement
Wikipedia - Save Uganda Movement -- Ugandan militant opposition group
Wikipedia - Sayed Haider -- Bangladeshi physician and language movement veteran
Wikipedia - Schism -- Division between people, usually belonging to an organization, movement, or religious denomination
Wikipedia - Schmid peoplemover -- An elevator capable of horizontal movement
Wikipedia - Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement
Wikipedia - Schoenstatt Movement
Wikipedia - School of Paris -- loose term for painters and artistic movements based in Paris during the early 20th century
Wikipedia - School strike for climate -- International youth movement for climate action
Wikipedia - Scottish Enlightenment -- Intellectual movement in 18th-19th century Scotland
Wikipedia - Scouting in Puerto Rico -- History of the Scouting movement in Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Scouting -- World-wide movement for the education of youth
Wikipedia - Scout (Scouting) -- Member of the Scouting movement
Wikipedia - Scouts South Africa -- World Organization of the Scout Movement recognised Scout association in South Africa
Wikipedia - Scratch video -- 1980s British video art movement
Wikipedia - Secessionism in Western Australia -- Pro-independence sentiment and movement in Western Australia
Wikipedia - Second British Invasion -- Music cultural movement
Wikipedia - Secular movement
Wikipedia - Sediment transport -- The movement of solid particles, typically by gravity and fluid entrainment
Wikipedia - Seed dispersal -- Movement or transport of seeds away from the parent plant
Wikipedia - Seilbahnen Beatenberg-Niederhorn -- pulsed movement gondola lift
Wikipedia - Self-Respect Movement -- Social movement for lower-caste equity
Wikipedia - Self-Strengthening Movement -- 1861-1895 modernization and reform period in Qing China
Wikipedia - Senegalese Popular Movement -- Political party in Senegal
Wikipedia - Senegalese Republican Movement -- Political party in Senegal
Wikipedia - Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik
Wikipedia - Serve America Movement -- American big tent conservative party
Wikipedia - Service for Poland's Victory -- First Polish resistance movement in World War II
Wikipedia - Sestigers -- Afrikaans writers' movement
Wikipedia - Settlement movement (Israel) -- Israeli kibbutzim, moshavim, moshavim shitufiim, and community settlements
Wikipedia - Settlement movement -- Reformist social movement that began in the 1880s in England and the US
Wikipedia - Sex-positive movement -- Ideology which promotes and embraces open sexuality
Wikipedia - Sex Workers' Rights Movement -- Movement to improve working conditions, increase benefits and eliminate discrimination on behalf of individuals working within the sex industry, whether legal or criminalized
Wikipedia - Seychelles Movement for Democracy -- Former political party in Seychelles
Wikipedia - Shanrendao -- A Confucian-Taoism religious movement in northeast China
Wikipedia - Sharism -- Social movement around sharing within a community
Wikipedia - Shaykhism -- Twelver ShiM-bM-^@M-^Yi Islamic movement founded in the early 19th century by Shaykh Ahmad
Wikipedia - Shepherds' Crusade (1251) -- Popular crusading movement
Wikipedia - Shetland Movement -- Defunct political group in the United Kingdom
Wikipedia - Shincheonji Church of Jesus -- Korean new religious movement
Wikipedia - Shin-hanga -- Japanese art movement
Wikipedia - Shinji Shumeikai -- A Japanese new religious movement
Wikipedia - Shinmeiaishinkai -- Japanese new religious movement
Wikipedia - Shirdi Sai Baba movement -- Religious movement of devotees of Indian saint Sai Baba of Shirdi
Wikipedia - Short-sea shipping -- Movement of cargo and passengers by sea along a cost, without crossing an ocean
Wikipedia - Showgirl -- A performer who highlights their physical attributes through dance and movement
Wikipedia - ShutItAllDown -- Protest movement in Namibia
Wikipedia - Silver Badge Party -- Defunct veterans' political movement in the United Kingdom
Wikipedia - SiM-LM-^Mt-chM-CM-;n Movement -- Philosophical movement in Taiwan
Wikipedia - Simple church -- Evangelical Christian movement
Wikipedia - Singapore Dark Alternative Movement
Wikipedia - Singapore Kindness Movement -- Organization to promote kindness in Singapore
Wikipedia - Sive Siyinqaba National Movement -- Political party in Eswatini
Wikipedia - Six degrees of freedom -- Types of movement possible for a rigid body in three-dimensional space
Wikipedia - Skeptical movement -- Modern social movement based on the idea of scientific skepticism
Wikipedia - Skoptsy -- Sect within the larger Spiritual Christianity movement in the Russian Empire, best known for practicing castration of men and the mastectomy of women
Wikipedia - Slack water -- A short period in a body of tidal water when the water is completely unstressed, and there is no movement either way in the tidal stream, and which occurs before the direction of the tidal stream reverses
Wikipedia - Slavic Native Faith -- Modern religious movement based on pre-Christian Slavic beliefs
Wikipedia - Slogan of the Houthi movement -- Houthi movement motto
Wikipedia - Slosh dynamics -- Movement of liquid inside another moving object
Wikipedia - Slow movement (culture)
Wikipedia - Slump (geology) -- Short distance movement of coherent earth down a slope
Wikipedia - Small house movement
Wikipedia - Small schools movement
Wikipedia - Smile -- Conscious or subconscious facial muscular movement conveying smile or pleasure
Wikipedia - Smuggling -- Illegal movement of goods or people
Wikipedia - Social Bastion -- French neo-fascist movement
Wikipedia - Social democracy -- political ideology within the socialist movement
Wikipedia - Social feminism -- Feminist movement
Wikipedia - Social hygiene movement
Wikipedia - Socialism in New Zealand -- a political movement advocating socio-economic change in New Zealand
Wikipedia - Socialist Education Movement -- Chinese reform movement led by Mao Zedong
Wikipedia - Socialist Movement of the Senegalese Union -- Political group in Senegal
Wikipedia - Socialist movement
Wikipedia - Social Liberal Movement -- Swiss political party
Wikipedia - Social Movement for Renewal -- Political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wikipedia - Social movement organization -- Organized component of a social movement
Wikipedia - Social movements
Wikipedia - Social movement theory
Wikipedia - Social movement -- Loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal
Wikipedia - Social Patriot Movement -- Chilean neo-nazi group
Wikipedia - Social purity movement -- 1800s temperance movement against prostitution
Wikipedia - Sociological classifications of religious movements
Wikipedia - Sodium channel blocker -- Several medications which disrupt the movement of Na+ ions
Wikipedia - Soka Gakkai International -- International Nichiren Buddhist movement founded in 1975 by Daisaku Ikeda
Wikipedia - Soka Gakkai -- Japanese Buddhist religious movement
Wikipedia - Solarpunk -- Movement which encourages optimistic envisionings of the future
Wikipedia - Solidarity Fatherland Movement -- Political party in Ecuador
Wikipedia - Somali Patriotic Movement -- Political party and paramilitary group in Somalia
Wikipedia - South Russian Government -- Russian White movement government, 1920
Wikipedia - Sovereign citizen movement -- Anti-government, anti-taxation protesters
Wikipedia - Soviet influence on the peace movement
Wikipedia - Spanish Libertarian Movement -- Spanish anarchist organisation
Wikipedia - Spartacus League -- World War I German Marxist revolutionary movement
Wikipedia - Speculative realism -- Movement in contemporary Continental-inspired philosophy
Wikipedia - Spidercam -- Camera movement system
Wikipedia - Spinal precautions -- Efforts to prevent movement of the spine in those with a risk of a spine injury
Wikipedia - Spiritism -- Religious movement started in the 19th century by Allan Kardec
Wikipedia - Spiritual Christianity -- Russian religious movement, non-Orthodox
Wikipedia - Spiritual church movement
Wikipedia - Spiritualism (religious movement)
Wikipedia - Spiritualist church -- Any church affiliated with the informal spiritualist movement that began in the United States in the 1840s
Wikipedia - Sri Lankan independence movement
Wikipedia - Startle response -- Action or movement due to the application of a sudden unexpected stimulus
Wikipedia - Statehood movement in the District of Columbia
Wikipedia - Stereotypic movement disorder
Wikipedia - Stiff-person syndrome -- Movement disease that is of unknown etiology characterized by progressive rigidity
Wikipedia - Strashelye (Hasidic dynasty) -- Branch of the Chabad movement
Wikipedia - Strawman theory -- Strawman theory (also called the Strawman illusion) is a pseudolegal theory prevalent in various movements
Wikipedia - Structuralism (architecture) -- Movement in architecture
Wikipedia - Stuckism -- International art movement
Wikipedia - Students Islamic Movement of India
Wikipedia - Studio furniture -- American art movement
Wikipedia - Sturm und Drang -- Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
Wikipedia - Subud -- Spiritual movement
Wikipedia - Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition -- Political party in South Sudan
Wikipedia - Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North -- Political party and militant organisation in Sudan
Wikipedia - Sudan People's Liberation Movement -- Political party in South Sudan
Wikipedia - Sufan movement -- Chinese political campaign under Mao Zedong
Wikipedia - Sunrise Movement -- American youth movement advocating political action on climate change
Wikipedia - Survivalism -- Movement of individuals or households preparing for emergencies and natural disasters
Wikipedia - Susan B. Anthony abortion dispute -- A leader of the American women's suffrage movement
Wikipedia - Swaddling -- Practice of wrapping infants so as to restrict movement
Wikipedia - Swadeshi movement -- Movement begun as part of the Indian independence movement
Wikipedia - Swadhyaya Movement
Wikipedia - Swaraj -- Self-rule concept and movement in India
Wikipedia - Swedish emigration to the United States -- Swedish population movements to the USA
Wikipedia - Syed Nazeer Husain -- Indian Muslim scholar of the reformist Ahl-i Hadith movement (1805-1902)
Wikipedia - Symbolism (arts) -- Late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin
Wikipedia - Symphony in Three Movements (Stravinsky)
Wikipedia - Synchromism -- Art movement
Wikipedia - Tablighi Jamaat -- Islamic missionary movement
Wikipedia - Taiwanese nationalism -- Nationalist movement on the island of Taiwan
Wikipedia - Taiwan independence movement -- Political movement in Taiwan to found a state independent of "China"
Wikipedia - Taliban -- Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan
Wikipedia - Tantric movement
Wikipedia - Taxiing -- Movement of an aircraft on the ground, under its own power
Wikipedia - Tea Party movement -- American fiscally conservative political movement
Wikipedia - Technocracy movement -- A non-political social movement popular in the United States and Canada in the 1930s
Wikipedia - Tekojoja People's Movement -- Political party in Paraguay
Wikipedia - Temperance movement in the United States
Wikipedia - Temperance movement -- 19th- and 20th-century global social movement
Wikipedia - Template talk:Hindu reform movements
Wikipedia - Template talk:Indian Independence Movement
Wikipedia - Template talk:New Age Movement
Wikipedia - Template talk:Objectivist movement
Wikipedia - Template talk:Western art movements
Wikipedia - Temple garment -- Type of underwear worn by adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement after they have taken part in the endowment ceremony
Wikipedia - Temple (LDS Church) -- Latter Day Saint movement place of worship
Wikipedia - Tengir Ordo -- Tengrist movement in Kyrgyzstan
Wikipedia - TenshM-EM-^M KM-EM-^Mtai JingM-EM-+kyM-EM-^M -- Japanese religious movement
Wikipedia - Terasem Movement
Wikipedia - Tetrabenazine -- Medication for hyperkinetic movement disorders
Wikipedia - Texas divisionism -- Historical movement that advocates the division of the U.S. state of Texas into as many as five states
Wikipedia - The 5% Club -- UK movement of employers
Wikipedia - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Kingdom of God -- Fundamentalist church in the Latter-day Saint movement
Wikipedia - The European Alliance of EU-critical Movements
Wikipedia - The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
Wikipedia - The Little Movement
Wikipedia - The Movement (dance band) -- American techno group
Wikipedia - The Movement (literature)
Wikipedia - The Movement (populist group) -- Brussels-based conservative organization
Wikipedia - The Movement (reggae band) -- American reggae band
Wikipedia - The personal is political -- Political rallying slogan and argument derived from second-wave feminism movements
Wikipedia - The Promised Key -- 1935 Rastafari movement tract
Wikipedia - The Stars and the Roses -- Three-movement composition
Wikipedia - The Symbolist Movement in Literature
Wikipedia - The Theosophical Movement
Wikipedia - The Zeitgeist Movement
Wikipedia - Third wave of coffee -- Movement aiming to enhance coffee diversity
Wikipedia - Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns -- Chinese reform movement led by Mao Zedong
Wikipedia - Three-Self Patriotic Movement
Wikipedia - Thule Society -- German nationalist and occultist movement active in early 20th-century Germany
Wikipedia - Tibetan independence movement -- Political movement for Tibet to be independent from China
Wikipedia - Tic -- Repetitive, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization involving discrete muscle groups
Wikipedia - Time's Up (movement) -- Movement against sexual harassment
Wikipedia - Timurid Renaissance -- Cultural movement from the 14th to 17th century
Wikipedia - Tiny house movement
Wikipedia - Tiny-house movement -- Architectural and social movement
Wikipedia - Tlatelolco massacre -- Social movement of Mexico
Wikipedia - Toc H -- International Christian movement
Wikipedia - Tolstoyan movement
Wikipedia - Toronto Blessing -- Christian revival movement
Wikipedia - Tractarian movement
Wikipedia - Trade unions in Norway -- Labour movement in Norway
Wikipedia - Trade unions in the Faroe Islands -- Labour movement of the Faroe Islands
Wikipedia - Traditionalist Catholicism -- Movement of Catholics in favour of restoring many or all of the liturgy, practice, and beliefs of Catholics from before the Second Vatican Council
Wikipedia - Traffic management -- Branch of logistics concerning the movement of vehicles
Wikipedia - Transavantgarde -- Art movement in Italy
Wikipedia - Transcendentalism -- Philosophical movement
Wikipedia - Transcendental Meditation movement -- Programs and organizations connected to Transcendental Meditation
Wikipedia - Transhumanism -- Philosophical movement
Wikipedia - Translation Movement
Wikipedia - Translation (relic) -- Movement of a holy relic from one location to another
Wikipedia - Transmodernism -- Philosophical and cultural movement
Wikipedia - Transport -- Human-directed movement of things or people between locations
Wikipedia - Travel -- Movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations
Wikipedia - Trickjump -- A form of movement, often in video games.
Wikipedia - Tropicalia -- Brazilian music genre and cultural movement
Wikipedia - True Orthodoxy -- Movement within Orthodox Christianity that has been separated from the mainstream Eastern Orthodox Church over issues of ecumenism and calendar reform since the 1920s
Wikipedia - Trummerliteratur -- German literary movement
Wikipedia - Trumpism -- Political mechanisms of persuasion, movement and themes of United States president Donald Trump and his followers
Wikipedia - Tulin (geology) -- Landform caused by earth movement and erosion
Wikipedia - Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement -- Marxist-Leninist organization in Peru
Wikipedia - Turaga nation -- Indigenous movement in Vanuatu
Wikipedia - Turkish War of Independence -- War fought between the Turkish National Movement and the proxies of the Allies
Wikipedia - Twelve Tribes communities -- New religious Cult movement founded by Gene Spriggs that sprang out of the Jesus movement in 1972
Wikipedia - Ukrainian avant-garde -- Avant-garde movements in 20th-century Ukraine
Wikipedia - Ultraist movement
Wikipedia - Umbrella Movement -- political movement involved with the Hong Kong protests of 2014
Wikipedia - Unification Church of the United States -- Religious movement in the United States of America
Wikipedia - Unification movement -- South Korean new religious movement
Wikipedia - Unification of Romania and Moldova -- Political movement
Wikipedia - Unilalianism -- internet-based, satifical art and aesthetic movement
Wikipedia - Union for a Popular Movement
Wikipedia - Union for People's Democracy -- Political movement in Senegal
Wikipedia - Union for the Republic - National Movement -- Political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wikipedia - Unionist Movement (Colombia) -- Colombian political party
Wikipedia - Union Movement -- Defunct British far-right political party
Wikipedia - Unir Movement -- Chilean political party
Wikipedia - Unitarianism -- Christian theological movement which believes that the God in Christianity is one person, as opposed to a Trinity
Wikipedia - United Democratic Movement (Kenya) -- Political party in Kenya
Wikipedia - United Democratic Movement -- Political party in South Africa
Wikipedia - United Ghana Movement -- Political party in Ghana
Wikipedia - United Hearts Movement -- Political party in the Central African Republic
Wikipedia - United Liberation Movement for West Papua -- Non-profit
Wikipedia - United Movement for Democratic Change -- Political party in Zimbabwe
Wikipedia - United Nation of Islam -- African American religious movement founded in 1978 as an offshoot of the Nation of Islam
Wikipedia - United People's Movement (Namibia) -- Political party in Namibia
Wikipedia - United States abortion-rights movement -- Support for women's right to elective abortion
Wikipedia - United States anti-abortion movement -- Movement opposed to abortion in the United States
Wikipedia - United World Colleges -- Education movement
Wikipedia - Unite the Right (Canada) -- 1996 to 2003 Canadian movement to unite right-of-center parties
Wikipedia - Universalism and the Latter Day Saint movement -- Universalism and the Latter Day Saint Movement
Wikipedia - Urbanization -- Process of population movement to cities
Wikipedia - Uttarakhand movement -- An activism in Uttar Pradesh, India
Wikipedia - Vailala Madness -- Social movement in the Papuan Gulf, in the Territory of Papua
Wikipedia - Valencian regionalism -- Regionalist movement in the Valencian region of Spain
Wikipedia - Venizelism -- Political movement
Wikipedia - Versatilist manifesto -- Artistic movement
Wikipedia - Via Rasella attack -- 1944 action taken by the Italian resistance movement against Nazi Germany
Wikipedia - Victoria Woodhull -- American women's suffrage movement leader (1838-1927)
Wikipedia - Viet Minh -- Communist Vietnamese independence movement between 1941 and 1951
Wikipedia - Vietnamese irredentism -- Irredentism movement in Vietnam
Wikipedia - Village Prose -- Movement in Soviet literature
Wikipedia - Vipassana movement -- Buddhist meditation movement
Wikipedia - Visual poetry -- Literary and artistic movement
Wikipedia - Vlkisch movement
Wikipedia - Voluntary Human Extinction Movement -- American antinatalist association
Wikipedia - Vox Italia -- Italian political movement
Wikipedia - Vulgar auteurism -- Movement in latter-day cinephilia and film criticism
Wikipedia - Death of Joseph Smith -- 1844 extrajudicial murder of the founder and leader of the <!-- "LDS Church" is in accordance with the Wikipedia Manual of Style, and disagreements should be addressed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Latter_Day_Saints. Any change made to "LDS Church" or "Latter Day Saint Movement" will be reverted. -->Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - Wafa Movement -- Tunisian political party
Wikipedia - Wage reform in the Soviet Union, 1956-1962 -- Economic reform movement
Wikipedia - Wages for housework -- Global feminist movement
Wikipedia - Waldensians -- Christian movement
Wikipedia - WalkAway campaign -- Social movement originating in the United States
Wikipedia - Walla Walla expeditions -- Movements of Indigenous peoples
Wikipedia - Wandervogel -- German youth movement
Wikipedia - War on gangs -- United States movement to reduce gang-related activity
Wikipedia - Washingtonian movement
Wikipedia - Water cycle -- Continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth
Wikipedia - Waterloo campaign: Quatre Bras to Waterloo -- Army movements inbetween the two battles
Wikipedia - Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen -- Thai Buddhist temple, origin of Dhammakaya Movement and represented in Supreme Sangha Council
Wikipedia - Wave-piercing hull -- Hull with a very fine bow with low reserve buoyancy which allows it to pass through the wave with minimum vertical movement
Wikipedia - Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition -- A Confucian congregational religious movement
Wikipedia - Weimar Classicism -- German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism
Wikipedia - We Shall Overcome -- Protest song of the civil rights movement\
Wikipedia - Western esotericism -- Range of related philosophical ideas and movements that have developed in the Western world
Wikipedia - Western Sufism -- A new religious movement with its origins in traditional Sufism
Wikipedia - Wheeling Convention -- 1861 secession movement of West Virginia from Virginia
Wikipedia - White Lotus -- Religious and political movement in China
Wikipedia - White Movement
Wikipedia - White movement
Wikipedia - Wh-movement
Wikipedia - Wikimedia movement affiliates
Wikipedia - Wikimedia movement -- Social movement around Wikimedia including content publications, Wikimedia organizations, and independent editors
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement -- Wikimedia subject-area collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/New religious movements work group -- Sub-project of WikiProject Religion
Wikipedia - Wildlife radio telemetry -- Tool to track the movement and behavior of animals
Wikipedia - William "Hawk" Birdshead -- Lakota activist working in the suicide prevention movement
Wikipedia - Willows Korean Aviation School -- Aviation school to train fighter pilots for the Korean Independence Movement
Wikipedia - Wiper Democratic Movement - Kenya -- Kenyan political party
Wikipedia - WM-CM-$isi movement -- Religious, social and political movement in Tatarstan and other Tatar-populated parts of Russia which took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Wikipedia - Woman's club movement in the United States -- Women's social movement in 19th and 20th centuries
Wikipedia - Woman's Exchange Movement -- System of benevolent consignment stores
Wikipedia - Women in Black -- Women's anti-war movement
Wikipedia - Women of the World Festival -- Annual arts and science festival and global feminist movement, based in London
Wikipedia - Women's Library -- Library and museum resource on women and the women's movement
Wikipedia - Women's poll tax repeal movement -- Movement to abolish US poll taxes
Wikipedia - Women's School of Planning and Architecture -- The Women's School of Planning and Architecture (WSPA) was an educational program for women interested in architecture, planning, and environmental design that presented sessions and symposia based on principles of the women's liberation movement between 1976 and 1981
Wikipedia - Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom -- Movement to gain women the right to vote
Wikipedia - Women surrealists -- women involved with the Surrealist movement
Wikipedia - Women Wage Peace -- Israeli grassroots peace movement
Wikipedia - Word of Faith -- Worldwide Christian movement which teaches that Christians can access the power of faith through speech
Wikipedia - Word of Wisdom -- Dietary code of the Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - Workers' movement
Wikipedia - Workers' Political Movement -- Italian political party
Wikipedia - Workers' Socialist Movement (Puerto Rico) -- Puerto Rican political organization
Wikipedia - World Convention of Churches of Christ -- Convention of some Restoration Movement church congregations
Wikipedia - World Federalist Movement -- Global citizens movement
Wikipedia - World Mission Society Church of God -- Religious movement
Wikipedia - World Movement of Christian Workers
Wikipedia - World Pantheist Movement
Wikipedia - World Rainforest Movement
Wikipedia - World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day -- Annual celebration of the principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
Wikipedia - World Social Forum -- Social movement organization
Wikipedia - World Socialist Movement
Wikipedia - Wotansvolk -- White nationalist neopagan movement
Wikipedia - Wovoka -- 19th and 20th-century founder of the Ghost Dance movement
Wikipedia - W. W. Phelps (Mormon) -- Early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - Xiamen Dada-Exhibition of Modern Art -- Major exhibition that emerged from the Chinese 85 New Wave art movement
Wikipedia - Yeh hum naheen -- Movement against terrorism
Wikipedia - Yellow vests movement -- 2018 social movement started in France
Wikipedia - Yes Solidarity for Hungary Movement -- Political party in Hungary
Wikipedia - Yoshikazu Okada -- The founder of a religious movement in Japan generally referred to as Mahikari
Wikipedia - Young Bosnia -- Revolutionary movement during Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Wikipedia - Young Humanists International -- Secular youth movement
Wikipedia - Young Ireland -- 19th-century Irish nationalist movement
Wikipedia - Young Poland -- 1890-1918 modernist arts movement in Poland
Wikipedia - Young Turks -- Political reform movement in the Ottoman Empire
Wikipedia - Youth Independent Movement -- Political party in Peru
Wikipedia - Youth in Movement -- Political party in the Republic of the Congo
Wikipedia - Zainul Abedin -- Bangladeshi painter and pioneer of the modern art movement
Wikipedia - Zealots -- Political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism
Wikipedia - Zenas H. Gurley Sr. -- Leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
Wikipedia - Zenitism -- Yugoslavian avant-garde art movement,
Wikipedia - Zionism -- Movement that supports the creation of a Jewish homeland
Wikipedia - Zionist movement
Wikipedia - Zo Artzeinu -- Right-wing nationalist political protest movement
Wikipedia - Zoid -- A specialised reproductive cell of plants and algae, capable of independent movement
Wikipedia - Zona Vallance -- A writer, lecturer, and member of the Ethical movement, born in 1860.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10292893-peace-movements-worldwide-3-volumes
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108398.Anatomy_of_Movement_Exercises
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11199545-southern-women-in-the-recent-educational-movement-in-the-south
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/115510.Engaging_the_Movement_of_Life
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11830958-hello-bastar---the-untold-story-of-india-s-maoist-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11857782-saving-the-redwoods-an-account-of-the-movement-during-1919-to-preserve
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12408640-human-tradition-in-the-civil-rights-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13144423-voices-of-the-women-s-health-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13153620-voices-of-the-women-s-health-movement-volume-1
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13153621-voices-of-the-women-s-health-movement-volume-2
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13216725-leo-strauss-and-the-conservative-movement-in-america
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13269589-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1336515.The_Black_Power_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1350408.International_Capital_Movements
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13622001-women-s-movements-and-the-filipina-1986-2008
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1408163.Modern_Movements_in_European_Philosophy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1511828.New_Thoughts_on_the_Black_Arts_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1534470.Islam_Politics_and_Social_Movements
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1601420.Zen_Yoga_A_Path_To_Enlightenment_Through_Breathing__Movement_and_Meditation
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1632838.Mother_Jones_Woman_Organizer_and_Her_Relations_with_Miners_Wives_Working_Women_and_the_Suffrage_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1657933.The_Chinese_Labor_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16949133-civil-rights-movements
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17228474-menudo-herb-a-little-book-to-reach-for-during-big-bowel-movements
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17569603-women-and-the-movement-to-build-a-new-america
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1758983.Secret_Societies_And_Subversive_Movements
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17601160-the-primacy-of-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17778692-latin-american-social-movements-in-the-twenty-first-century
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17798134-the-history-of-women-s-movements-in-kerala
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179438.Awareness_Through_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18445108-mindful-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18722334-the-joey-parker-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18811423-the-critical-legal-studies-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1898262.Juan_de_La_Rosa_Memoirs_of_the_Last_Soldier_of_the_Independence_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/190511.The_Black_Power_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1928043.Mind_And_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1959845.Black_Movements_in_America
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201112.The_Green_Belt_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20609832-basic-politics-of-movement-security
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20947630-the-origins-of-the-anarchist-movement-in-china
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2116862.History_Of_The_Freedom_Movement_In_India_3_Vols
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21172018-conservative-and-right-wing-movements
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2126392.Building_The_Green_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21494501-hope-and-history-why-we-must-share-the-story-of-the-movement-2d-ed
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2173926.Brown_V_Board_of_Education_and_the_Civil_Rights_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21874533-fire-and-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21988559-move-your-dna-restore-your-health-through-natural-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22166453-the-joey-parker-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22766380-how-to-stay-awake-during-anybody-s-second-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23865386-let-s-split-a-complete-guide-to-separatist-movements-and-aspirant-natio
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24183506-the-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25113167-building-a-movement-to-end-the-new-jim-crow
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25494448-new-age-neopagan-and-new-religious-movements
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25696166-movement-no-1
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25897678.We_Will_Not_Be_Silent_The_White_Rose_Student_Resistance_Movement_That_Defied_Adolf_Hitler
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25985643-al-qaeda-the-islamic-state-and-the-global-jihadist-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26014020-movement-meaning
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26269261-movement-meaning
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26491528-the-composition-of-movements-to-come
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26491529-the-composition-of-movements-to-come
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27804516-the-changing-voice-of-the-anti-abortion-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27804523-the-changing-voice-of-the-anti-abortion-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27888796-parties-movements-and-democracy-in-the-developing-world
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2844839-the-woman-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28765573-a-citizen-s-guide-to-social-movements
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28958282-hyperkinetic-movement-disorders
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29386104.Umbrellas_in_Bloom_Hong_Kong_S_Occupy_Movement_Uncovered
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30104911-movement-matters
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3063090.Strategic_Action_for_Animals_A_Handbook_on_Strategic_Movement_Building__Organizing__and_Activism_for_Animal_Liberation
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31212971-the-new-human-rights-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31357117-movement-that-matters
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31493830-women-s-suffrage-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3240620-the-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3256917-the-conservative-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32598718-the-quimby-manuscripts-the-new-thought-movement-and-an-early-influence
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328142.The_American_Labor_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32847439-the-birth-of-a-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3333338-people-s-movements-people-s-press
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33404346-the-origins-of-the-anarchist-movement-in-china
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/340704.How_the_Pro_Choice_Movement_Saved_America
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35629519-a-brief-history-of-the-men-s-rights-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3746405-the-many-paths-of-the-independent-sacramental-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37660321-ghadr-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37771521-communities-magazine-34-september-1978-west-coast-communal-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381409.The_Movement_of_the_Free_Spirit
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3847176-the-history-of-the-american-women-s-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40870178-play-creativity-and-social-movements
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4139386-senator-joseph-mc-carthy-and-the-american-labor-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42089275.Up_In_Arms_How_The_Bundy_Family_Hijacked_Federal_Lands__Outfoxed_the_Federal_Government__and_Ignited_America_s_Patriot_Militia_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4310662-the-primacy-of-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43156657-lead-a-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/436771.Building_the_Interfaith_Youth_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44059505-m-is-for-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44780556-the-joy-of-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/449717.Debating_the_Civil_Rights_Movement_1945_1968
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450396.The_International_Revolutionary_Solidarity_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45143089-training-in-night-movements
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45845.Anatomy_of_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/480001.Quantitative_Analysis_of_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5489810-eye-movement-integration-therapy-emi
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/604555.Liberation_Movements
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6204634-a-history-of-the-french-anarchist-movement-1917-1945
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/635220.The_Psychoanalytic_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/636711.The_Theory_of_the_Four_Movements
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6395652-the-zeitgeist-movement---observations-and-responses
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6491866-ghost-dance-in-33-movements
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6738493.The_Beauty_of_Humanity_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6738493-the-beauty-of-humanity-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7042455-the-social-movements-reader
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/719796.Proper_Balance_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7327724-the-biblical-counseling-movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7456400-women-s-movements-in-asia
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/748569.Social_Movements_1768_2004
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/749941.Movement_That_Matters
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/801716.The_May_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8143984-static-movement-print-special-no-2
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/845228.Social_Movements_and_State_Power
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/848742.Rain_Without_Thunder_The_Ideology_of_the_Animal_Rights_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8759161-black-protest-and-the-great-migration-american-women-s-movement-rise
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/880711.New_Thoughts_on_the_Black_Arts_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/897438.Body_Movement_And_Nonverbal_Communication
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/897439.Psychoanalytic_Perspectives_Of_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/908722.Europe_s_Steppe_Frontier_1500_1800_a_Study_of_the_Eastward_Movement_in_Europe
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/940498.The_Making_Of_Social_Movements_In_Latin_America
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9450656.While_the_World_Watched_A_Birmingham_Bombing_Survivor_Comes_of_Age_During_the_Civil_Rights_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/985172.African_Anarchism_The_History_Of_A_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16674844.The_SISO_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16826501.Revolutionary_Abolitionist_Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18157110.Movement_for_No_Society
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7819857.The_Zeitgeist_Movement
https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Holiness_movement
https://india.wikia.org/wiki/Quit_India_Movement
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/1811_Independence_Movement
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Danish_resistance_movement
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Free_Thai_Movement
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Islamic_Movement_of_Uzbekistan
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Italian_resistance_movement
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Latvian_anti-Nazi_resistance_movement_1941
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Norwegian_resistance_movement
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Polish_resistance_movement_in_World_War_II
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Quit_India_Movement
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Romanian_anti-communist_resistance_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/de/wiki/Community_Church_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Ahmadiya_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Baal_teshuva_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Brahma_Kumaris_World_Spiritual_University#Splinter_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Brights_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Buddha-nature#The_Rim.C3.A9_movement_of_Tibet
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Christian_denominations,_unions,_and_movements_established_in_the_2nd_century
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Christian_Movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Christian_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Christian_theological_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Hindu_movements_and_organizations
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:History_of_the_Latter_Day_Saint_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Jewish_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Josephite_sects_in_the_Latter_Day_Saint_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:King_James_Only_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Latter_Day_Saint_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Mussar_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:New_religious_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Philosophical_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Religious_faiths,_traditions,_and_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Restoration_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Subcultures_of_religious_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Synagogues_by_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Syncretic_political_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Christian_Movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category_talk:New_religious_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Temperance_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Catholic_Worker_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Charismatic_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Christian_countercult_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Christian_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Christian_worship#The_Charismatic_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Community_Church_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Community_Church_movement#Community_Churches
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Community_Church_movement#Community_Church_Workers
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Community_Church_movement#External_links
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Community_Church_movement#International_Council_of_Community_Churches
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Community_Church_movement#The_origins_of_the_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Confirmation#Latter_Day_Saint_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Sant_Mat_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Sant_Mat_movements#Further_reading
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Sant_Mat_movements#General_tenets
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Sant_Mat_movements#Geographical_Reach
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Sant_Mat_movements#Helping_Factors
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Sant_Mat_movements#Introduction
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Sant_Mat_movements#Origins
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Sant_Mat_movements#Other_contemporary_movements_described_as_having_a_Sant_Mat_origin
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Sant_Mat_movements#Politics
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Sant_Mat_movements#Practices
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Sant_Mat_movements#References
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Sant_Mat_movements#See_also
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Continuing_Anglican_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Continuing_Anglican_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Devil#New_Age_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Eastern_Christianity#Dissenting_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/End_time#Specific_prophetic_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Christian_Church_in_Canada#Restoration_Movement_history
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro#26th_of_July_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Freethought#Modern_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/German_Reform_movement_(Judaism)
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/God_is_dead#Death_of_God_theological_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/History_of_Christian_theology#Restoration_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/History_of_Protestantism#Pentecostal_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/History_of_Protestantism#Puritan_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Holiness_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Humanism#Consequences_of_the_Renaissance_humanist_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/International_Peace_Mission_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Jewish_beliefs_and_practices_in_the_reform_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Jewish_Christians#Contemporary_movements:_Jewish_Christians.2C_Messianic_Jews.2C_Ebionites
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Jewish_political_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Judaism#Syncretic_movements_incorporating_Judaism
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Latter_Day_Saint_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Latter_Day_Saint_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Latter_Rain_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Liturgical_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Liturgical_Movement#Anglican_Communion
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Liturgical_Movement#Churches_of_the_Lutheran_Tradition
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Liturgical_Movement#Development
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Liturgical_Movement#Influence_.26_criticisms
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Liturgical_Movement#Notes
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Liturgical_Movement#Origins
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Liturgical_Movement#References
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Liturgical_Movement#See_also
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Liturgical_Movement#The_Second_Vatican_Council
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Masonic_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Modern_history_of_Christianity#Puritan_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Movement_for_the_Restoration_of_the_Ten_Commandments
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Mussar_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Mysticism#New_religious_movements.2C_perennial_philosophy_and_entheogens
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Native_Missionary_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Nazarene_(sect)#Modern_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/New_Age#Integral_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/New_Age#Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement#Charismatic_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement#Criticism
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement#Definitions
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement#Examples
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement#External_links
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement#Further_reading
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement#Joining
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement#Leaving
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement#NRMs_and_the_media
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement#References
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement#See_also
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement#Terminology
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Noahidism#Modern_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Original_sin#Restoration_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Inter-Seminary_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Oxford_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#.22-isms.22
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Afrocentrism
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Ceremonies
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Church_and_the_Holy_Trinity
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Doctrines
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Dreadlocks
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Early_written_foundations
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Early_years
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Ganja
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Haile_Selassie_and_the_Bible
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#History_of_the_Rastafari_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Homosexuality
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Language
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Marcus_Garvey
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Music
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Physical_immortality
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Politics
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Popularization_and_recording
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Rastafari_today
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Reggae
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Reggae_music_exressing_Rasta_doctrine
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Repatriation_and_race
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Symbols
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Visit_of_Selassie_I_to_Jamaica
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Walter_Rodney
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Reform_movement_in_Judaism
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Reform_movement_in_Judaism#Orthodoxy_and_the_Reform_movement_in_Judaism
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Reincarnation#The_New_Age_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Relationships_between_Jewish_religious_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Religion_and_drugs#Rastafari_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Religion_and_science#Anti-psychiatry_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Africa#Rastafari_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Religious_and_spiritual_use_of_cannabis#Other_modern_religious_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Requiem#Added_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Sacred_Name_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Sexual_abstinence#Modern_abstinence_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Religious_faiths,_traditions,_and_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Student_Volunteer_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Church_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Talk:Contemporary_Sant_Mat_movements
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Talk:International_Peace_Mission_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Talk:Liturgical_Movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_for_the_Restoration_of_the_Ten_Commandments
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Talk:New_religious_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Talk:Rastafari_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Template:Latter_Day_Saint_movement
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/The_movement_of_the_mind_by_TA_Kukrit
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Warsangeli_Daraawiish#Connections_Between_the_Somali_Dervish_movement_and_Warsangeli_sultanates
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Warsangeli_Daraawiish#The_Genesis_of_the_Somali_Dervish_movement
https://wicca.wikia.org/wiki/Category:New_religious_movements
Kheper - movement_inward -- 26
Kheper - daimon_of_integral_movement -- 37
auromere - triple-movement-of-integral-yoga
auromere - the-occult-forces-behind-artistic-movements
auromere - four-movements-of-consciousness
auromere - four-movements-of-consciousness
Integral World - The Creative Artist, The Reality Argument, and the Conscious Evolution Movement, Elliot Benjamin
Integral World - Archetypal Astrology and the Kosmic Holomovement, Joe Corbett
Integral World - The Fractal Holomovement, Joe Corbett
Integral World - Eros, or Spirit-in-Action, and the Holomovement: Whitehead, Wilber, and Bohm, Joe Corbett
Integral World - The Integral Movement Is A Lot Like Hollywood: Nobody Knows Anything, Conrad Goehausen
Integral World - Left, Right or just plain wrong? - Politics in the integral movement, Ray Harris
Integral World - The Integral movement in social and historical context (Integral Esotericisn - Part Two), Alan Kazlev
Integral World - Art, Postmodern Criticism, and the Emerging Integral Movement, Keith Martin-Smith
Integral World - Andrew Cohen's Disappearing Act, Seeing Through Cultic Tendencies in Our Most Favorite Movements, Frank Visser
Integral World - Lotus Feet of Clay, A Reluctant Mystic Looks At Spiritual Movements, John Wren-Lewis
Divine Pride and the Integral Movement
Hope for the Christian Contemplative Movement
Hope for the Christian Contemplative Movement (with Fr. Thomas Keating)
The Integral Movement: Past, Present, and Future
What Is the Integral Movement?
http://integraltransformation.blogspot.com/2007/12/integral-movement-page-on-wikipedia.html
selforum - godfather of americas new age movement
selforum - saksi is spiritual movement
selforum - humanism religious movement
selforum - history of traditionalist movement
selforum - integral movement must break free
selforum - new age movement near quagmire
selforum - integral movement page on wikipedia
selforum - bhakti movements in medieval india were
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-new-age-movement.html
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2012/10/new-religous-movement.html
https://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2014/10/hearing-voices-movement.html
dedroidify.blogspot - new-age-movement-aliens-and-cosmic
dedroidify.blogspot - zeitgeist-movement-orientation
dedroidify.blogspot - jacque-fresco-zeitgeist-movement-new
dedroidify.blogspot - what-is-integral-movement
https://esotericotherworlds.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-new-age-movement.html
Dharmapedia - 2011_Indian_anti-corruption_movement
Dharmapedia - 2012_Indian_anti-corruption_movement
Dharmapedia - 969_Movement
Dharmapedia - Category:Hindu_movements_and_organisations
Dharmapedia - Category:Indian_independence_movement
Dharmapedia - Category:Movements_in_ancient_Indian_philosophy
Dharmapedia - Cow_protection_movement
Dharmapedia - Dalit_Buddhist_movement
Dharmapedia - Hindu_reform_movements
Dharmapedia - History_of_the_Freedom_movement_in_India
Dharmapedia - Indian_independence_movement
Dharmapedia - Self-Respect_Movement
Dharmapedia - Students_Islamic_Movement_of_India
Dharmapedia - Swadeshi_movement
Dharmapedia - Vipassana_movement
Psychology Wiki - Apostasy#In_new_religious_movements_.28NRMs.29_apostate
Psychology Wiki - Category:People_associated_with_the_Human_Potential_Movement
Psychology Wiki - Category:Religious_faiths,_traditions,_and_movements
Psychology Wiki - Human_Potential_Movement
Psychology Wiki - Human_potential_movement
Psychology Wiki - Integral_theory#Other_movements
Psychology Wiki - Moksha#Non-Alligned_spiritual_movements
Psychology Wiki - New_religious_movement
Psychology Wiki - Opposition_to_cults_and_new_religious_movements
Psychology Wiki - Philosophical_movement
Psychology Wiki - Rapid_eye_movement_sleep
Psychology Wiki - Religious_conversion#Conversion_to_new_religious_movements_and_cults
Psychology Wiki - Social_movements
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TheMovement
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheMovement
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdvancedMovementTechnique
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterRightsMovement
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MovementMascot
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Movement
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anti-war_movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Antiwar_movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Art_movements
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Labor_movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Leaders_of_the_Pakistan_Movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:New_religious_movement_leaders
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:New_religious_movements
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Pakistan_Movement_activists
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Social_movements
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christian_Ashram_Movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/COBRA_(avant-garde_movement)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ethical_movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/File:Blason_du_National_Socialist_Movement_usa.svg
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/File:Devlok_the_great_gods_of_the_Hindu_pantheon_bless_the_leaders_of_the_Independence_movement.jpg
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/File:National_Socialist_Movement_Rally_US_Capitol.jpg
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Freedom_movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grassroots_movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/International_Red_Cross_and_Red_Crescent_Movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Khilafat_Movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Labor_movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Labour_movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/List_of_art_movements
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Never_Trump_movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/New_religious_movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Resistance_movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Social_movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Social_movements
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Students_Islamic_Movement_of_India
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tiny_house_movement
The Young Ones (1982 - 1984) - The Young Ones first aired in 1982 on British television as part of the 'alternative comedy movement'. It was about four dysfunctional college students sharing a house. Neil Pye, is the hippie that does all the cleaning and lentil cooking. Mike TheCoolPerson is the smooth but mysterious 'normal'...
First Kid(1996) - Some say that to be the leader of a country is one of the loneliest jobs in the world. But being the child of a world leader can be doubly so. Constantly surrounded by security officers, restricted in movements and having almost every waking moment carefully monitored makes normalcy an impossibility...
Scanners(1981) - Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Revok hasn...
Born on the Fourth of July(1989) - This movie is based on the true story of Ron Kovic. Kovic, played here by Tom Cruise, is a man who dreamed of becoming a Marine. Wounded in Vietnam, he ends up becoming one of the leading lights of the anti-war movement. The movie won several Oscars, including a Best Director for Oliver Stone (himse...
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues(1993) - Sissy Hankshaw is born with thumbs that are larger than those of the average person. Missy sees her thumbs, as it says under the definition of thumbs, as greater freedom of movement. She uses them to hitchhike all over the country because she believes that is what she was born to do. A gay man named...
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack(1988) - In UC 0093 the Federation has recovered from its defeat and has created a new anti-colonial special forces unit to deal with rebel forces: Londo Bell. Elsewhere in space Char Aznable re-appears out of self imposed hiding with a declaration that he now commands his own Neo-Zeon movementand intends to...
Your Mommy Kills Animals(2007) - Your Mommy Kills Animals is an American 2007 documentary film written and directed by Curt Johnson. Filmed in several locations across the United States, the film is about the animal liberation movement and takes its name from a 2003 PETA comic book of the same name. The film was picked up for distr...
Women In Revolt(1971) - This film is a satire of the women's liberation movement, staring a trio of female impersonators. Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a virginal intellectual who believes women are oppressed in contemporary American society. And Holly is a nymphoma...
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones(2002) - It has now been ten years since the invasion of Naboo by the Trade Federation. The Galactic Republic is in turmoil and the former Jedi Night Count Dooku has organized a separatist movement against the Republic. The Republic is preparing for a counterattack on the Federation. After the former queen o...
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker(2019) - The remaining traces of the Resistance movement assemble in their quest to overthrow the First Order, once and for all. Each member of the Resistance must contend with both their own demons and how the events of the past have affected them, learning to overcome their struggles to create a unified fr...
1942: A Love Story (1994) ::: 7.2/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 37min | Action, Drama, History | 15 July 1994 (India) -- A young Indian couple, both from wealthy backgrounds, find themselves caught up in the 1940's Indian revolutionary movement against their families whom are under the thumb a sadistic British general. Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra Writers:
Iron Jawed Angels (2004) ::: 7.5/10 -- TV-14 | 2h 3min | Biography, Drama, History | TV Movie 15 February 2004 -- Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote. Director: Katja von Garnier Writers:
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) ::: 7.2/10 -- The Butler (original title) -- Lee Daniels' The Butler Poster -- As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. Director: Lee Daniels Writers:
Meet John Doe (1941) ::: 7.6/10 -- Passed | 2h 2min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 3 May 1941 (USA) -- A man needing money agrees to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a political movement begins. Director: Frank Capra Writers:
Military Wives (2019) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 52min | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 22 May 2020 (USA) -- With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media sensation and global movement. Director: Peter Cattaneo Writers:
One Night in Miami... (2020) ::: 7.2/10 -- One Night in Miami (original title) -- One Night in Miami... Poster -- A fictional account of one incredible night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural upheaval of the 60s. Director: Regina King Writers:
Renaissance (2006) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 45min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi | 15 March 2006 (France) -- In 2054, Paris is a labyrinth where all movement is monitored and recorded. Casting a shadow over everything is the city's largest company, Avalon, which insinuates itself into every aspect of contemporary life to sell its primary export, youth and beauty. In this world of stark contrasts and rigid laws, the populace is kept in line and accounted for. Director: Christian Volckman
Soldier of Orange (1977) ::: 7.7/10 -- Soldaat van Oranje (original title) -- Soldier of Orange Poster During World War II, Dutch students join the resistance movement against the German occupation of The Netherlands. Director: Paul Verhoeven Writers: Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema (book), Kees Holierhoek | 2 more credits Stars:
The Help (2011) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 26min | Drama | 10 August 2011 (USA) -- An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis. Director: Tate Taylor Writers:
The Lady (2011) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 2h 12min | Biography, Drama, History | 30 November 2011 (France) -- The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris. Director: Luc Besson Writer:
https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/2009:_Rise_of_the_Red_Fox_Movement
https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/'New_Soviets'_Movement_(1987:_Bombs_Over_Kabul)
https://aoc.fandom.com/wiki/Movement_Speed
https://athletics.fandom.com/wiki/Functional_movement
https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Movements_of_Fire_and_Shadow
https://bridge.fandom.com/wiki/Movement?t=20120510101130
https://christianity.fandom.com/wiki/Rastafari_movement
https://comics.fandom.com/wiki/The_Movement
https://counterculture.fandom.com/wiki/Anti-Vietnam_War_movement
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/The_Movement_Vol_1_1
https://dcuniverseonline.fandom.com/wiki/Movement_Modes
https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Movement_Speed
https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Elusive_Movement
https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Forced_movement
https://dota2.fandom.com/wiki/Movement_speed
https://dreamfiction.fandom.com/wiki/Augustine_Democratic_Movement
https://dreamfiction.fandom.com/wiki/Free_People_Movement_(Schelipoerys)
https://dreamfiction.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_active_separatist_movements_in_North_America_(fictional)
https://dreamfiction.fandom.com/wiki/Witch_Hunt:_The_Truth_About_The_MeToo_Movement
https://dreams.fandom.com/wiki/Movement_Sensor
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Deft_Movement
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Movement_Speed
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Movement_speed
https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/Agile_Movements
https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/Hierophant_Movement
https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/Movement
https://everquest.fandom.com/wiki/Movement_and_Commands
https://evolutionaryspirituality.fandom.com/wiki/Evolutionary_Movement
https://evolutionaryspirituality.fandom.com/wiki/My_sense_of_an_evolutionary_movement
https://ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Movement_Speed
https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Infinite_Movement_Glitch
https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Movement
https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Movement_+1
https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Movement_Star
https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Rally_Movement
https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Skip_forced_movement_glitch
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Freedom_of_movement
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Ring_of_freedom_of_movement
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Slippers_of_soft_movement
https://gknowledge.fandom.com/wiki/Environmental_movement
https://gknowledge.fandom.com/wiki/Peace_Movement
https://greatwar.fandom.com/wiki/Arathi_Freedom_Movement
https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Neo_Zeon_Movements
https://humanscience.fandom.com/wiki/Ego_Movement_Attracts_Difficulty;_Cancels_Further_Success
https://humanscience.fandom.com/wiki/Process_of_movement_becoming_skill
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Art_Groups,_Movements,_Schools,_and_Styles
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Art_Movements
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Art_Schools_Groups_Movements
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Art_Styles_and_Movements,_Christianity_and_Medieval_Times
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Art_Styles_and_Movements,_Classical_and_Egyptian
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Art_Styles_and_Movements,_Late_18th-Early_19th_Century
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Art_Styles_and_Movements,_Late_19th-Early_20th_Century
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Art_Styles_and_Movements,_Late_20th-Early_21st_Century
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Art_Styles_and_Movements,_Non-Western
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Art_Styles_and_Movements,_Paleolithic_and_Primitive
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Art_Styles_and_Movements,_Renaissance_To_Middle_18th_Century
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Art_Styles_and_Movements,_Western_Art
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Cults_and_new_religious_movements_in_literature_and_popular_culture
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Cultural_Movements,_Events,_and_Institutions
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/Fictional_resistance_movements_and_groups
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Nordic_Resistance_Movement
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Alsaurian_resistance_movement
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Cardassian_dissident_movement
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Civil_Rights_Movement
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/New_Essentialists_Movement
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Resistance_movement
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Romulan_Rebirth_movement
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Romulan_underground_movement
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Social_Movements_and_the_Collective_Identity_of_the_Star_Trek_Fandom
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Vulcan_Isolationist_Movement
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Eden_Movement
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Enlightened_Mind_Movement
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Optimum_Movement
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Unification_movement
https://norwichmusic.fandom.com/wiki/White_Rose_Movement
https://nrm.fandom.com/wiki/New_religious_movements
https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki/Barbarian_fast_movement
https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki/Freedom_of_movement
https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki/Movement_speed_decrease
https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki/Movement_speed_increase
https://parkour.fandom.com/wiki/Parkour_movements
https://polytopia.fandom.com/wiki/Movement
https://psytrancereleases.fandom.com/wiki/Tash_and_Stage_Van_H_-_Movement
https://quantumbreak.fandom.com/wiki/Anti-Monarch_Movement
https://second-renaissance.fandom.com/wiki/Augment_Rights_Movement
https://second-renaissance.fandom.com/wiki/Non-Human_Civil_Rights_Movement
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Bail_Organa's_resistance_movement
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Droid_rights_(movement)
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Free_Ryloth_Movement
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Free_Ryloth_movement
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Garm_Bel_Iblis's_movement
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Independent_Movement_for_Self-Determination
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Refugee_Relief_Movement
https://stencyl.fandom.com/wiki/2_Way_Horizontal_Movement
https://stencyl.fandom.com/wiki/2_Way_Vertical_Movement
https://stencyl.fandom.com/wiki/4_Way_Movement
https://stencyl.fandom.com/wiki/8_Way_Movement
https://stencyl.fandom.com/wiki/Asteroids_Movement
https://swfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Movement_in_the_Dark_series
https://texmurphy.fandom.com/wiki/Hologram_Rights_movement
https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/An_Involuntary_Movement
https://wakfu.fandom.com/wiki/Movement_Point
https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Anarch_Movement
https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Carthian_Movement
https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Movement
https://witchblade.fandom.com/wiki/Movement
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Events/Movement
Ahiru no Sora -- -- Diomedéa -- 50 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Sports Drama School Shounen -- Ahiru no Sora Ahiru no Sora -- Lacking what is considered the most important asset in basketball, Sora Kurumatani has struggled with his short height since the inception of his love for the game. Despite missing this beneficial aspect, Sora's unwavering drive never allowed his small stature to dictate his ability to play, believing strongly in trying his hardest and persistently practicing to prove his capability. -- -- In hopes of satisfying his mother's wishes, Sora enters Kuzuryuu High School to become a member of the basketball club and compete wholeheartedly in tournaments. However, Sora is disappointed to find out that the boy's basketball team is nothing but a retreat for punks who have no interest in the sport. Sora also comes to learn that brothers Chiaki and Momoharu Hanazono—whom he becomes acquainted with—have also lost their once spirited motivation to play. -- -- Determined to revive the basketball team, Sora challenges the boys to a match against him, where his quick feet and swift movements overwhelm the group. Gradually affected by Sora's impressive skills, sheer effort, and tireless devotion to basketball, the boys unexpectedly find their burnt-out passion for the game rekindling once again. -- -- 139,580 7.33
Ahiru no Sora -- -- Diomedéa -- 50 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Sports Drama School Shounen -- Ahiru no Sora Ahiru no Sora -- Lacking what is considered the most important asset in basketball, Sora Kurumatani has struggled with his short height since the inception of his love for the game. Despite missing this beneficial aspect, Sora's unwavering drive never allowed his small stature to dictate his ability to play, believing strongly in trying his hardest and persistently practicing to prove his capability. -- -- In hopes of satisfying his mother's wishes, Sora enters Kuzuryuu High School to become a member of the basketball club and compete wholeheartedly in tournaments. However, Sora is disappointed to find out that the boy's basketball team is nothing but a retreat for punks who have no interest in the sport. Sora also comes to learn that brothers Chiaki and Momoharu Hanazono—whom he becomes acquainted with—have also lost their once spirited motivation to play. -- -- Determined to revive the basketball team, Sora challenges the boys to a match against him, where his quick feet and swift movements overwhelm the group. Gradually affected by Sora's impressive skills, sheer effort, and tireless devotion to basketball, the boys unexpectedly find their burnt-out passion for the game rekindling once again. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 139,580 7.33
An Expression -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia -- An Expression An Expression -- Symbolized an urban man with a triangle figure, a country woman with a circle, and represented the encounter between the two by movement. -- -- Director Shigenji Ogino tried to naturally color the movie via the kinema color technique. Due to being an early work, the technique isn't smooth. Because of this the film has a photosensitive epileptic seizure warning as there are high frequency flashes of red and green frames for the duration of the entire film. -- -- Please be careful while viewing. -- Movie - ??? ??, 1935 -- 615 4.41
Eureka Seven AO -- -- Bones -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Drama Mecha Sci-Fi -- Eureka Seven AO Eureka Seven AO -- The story is set on Okinawa's isolated island of Iwado, which has seen a growing movement advocating a return to an autonomous government. Ao Fukai, a 12-year-old boy with a missing father, lives on the island with an old doctor named Toshio and is about to enter middle school. Ao's mother was taken away a decade ago by unknown individuals. Naru Arata, Ao's 12-year-old childhood friend and the story's heroine, lives with her father, older sister, and grandmother. She has a "Yuta" power awakened within her due to an incident when she was young. A mysterious entity called "Secret" suddenly appears and launches an attack on the Scub Coral lifeform on the island. Ao launches a certain military FP called "Nirvash" aboard a Japanese military transport in his fervent desire to protect the island. -- -- (Source: FUNimation) -- 85,142 6.69
Eureka Seven AO -- -- Bones -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Drama Mecha Sci-Fi -- Eureka Seven AO Eureka Seven AO -- The story is set on Okinawa's isolated island of Iwado, which has seen a growing movement advocating a return to an autonomous government. Ao Fukai, a 12-year-old boy with a missing father, lives on the island with an old doctor named Toshio and is about to enter middle school. Ao's mother was taken away a decade ago by unknown individuals. Naru Arata, Ao's 12-year-old childhood friend and the story's heroine, lives with her father, older sister, and grandmother. She has a "Yuta" power awakened within her due to an incident when she was young. A mysterious entity called "Secret" suddenly appears and launches an attack on the Scub Coral lifeform on the island. Ao launches a certain military FP called "Nirvash" aboard a Japanese military transport in his fervent desire to protect the island. -- -- (Source: FUNimation) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 85,142 6.69
Eve no Jikan (Movie) -- -- Studio Rikka -- 1 ep -- Original -- Sci-Fi Slice of Life -- Eve no Jikan (Movie) Eve no Jikan (Movie) -- In the Japan of the future, employing androids for various purposes is nothing out of the ordinary. However, treating androids on the same level as humans is frowned upon, and there is constant paranoia surrounding the possibility of robots defying humans, their masters. Those who appear too trustworthy of their androids are chided and labeled "dori-kei," or "android-holics." -- -- High school student Rikuo Sakisaka notices when his house droid, Sammy, starts behaving curiously—she has been leaving the house without his instruction. When he inspects the movement logs in her database, a cryptic line grabs his attention: "Are you enjoying the time of EVE?" Accompanied by his friend Masakazu Masaki, Rikuo tracks the whereabouts of his houseroid to a cafe called Time of Eve, where it is forbidden for customers to display prejudice against one another. The cafe, Rikuo realizes, is frequented by both man and machine, with no evidence to tell either apart. -- -- Each customer—from the cheerful Akiko, to a robot dangerously close to breaking down—has their own story and challenges to overcome. While Rikuo tries to reveal Sammy's intentions, he begins to question the legitimacy of the fear that drives humans to regard androids as nothing more than mere tools. -- -- -- Licensor: -- NYAV Post, Pied Piper -- Movie - Mar 6, 2010 -- 108,248 8.04
Eve no Jikan (Movie) -- -- Studio Rikka -- 1 ep -- Original -- Sci-Fi Slice of Life -- Eve no Jikan (Movie) Eve no Jikan (Movie) -- In the Japan of the future, employing androids for various purposes is nothing out of the ordinary. However, treating androids on the same level as humans is frowned upon, and there is constant paranoia surrounding the possibility of robots defying humans, their masters. Those who appear too trustworthy of their androids are chided and labeled "dori-kei," or "android-holics." -- -- High school student Rikuo Sakisaka notices when his house droid, Sammy, starts behaving curiously—she has been leaving the house without his instruction. When he inspects the movement logs in her database, a cryptic line grabs his attention: "Are you enjoying the time of EVE?" Accompanied by his friend Masakazu Masaki, Rikuo tracks the whereabouts of his houseroid to a cafe called Time of Eve, where it is forbidden for customers to display prejudice against one another. The cafe, Rikuo realizes, is frequented by both man and machine, with no evidence to tell either apart. -- -- Each customer—from the cheerful Akiko, to a robot dangerously close to breaking down—has their own story and challenges to overcome. While Rikuo tries to reveal Sammy's intentions, he begins to question the legitimacy of the fear that drives humans to regard androids as nothing more than mere tools. -- -- Movie - Mar 6, 2010 -- 108,248 8.04
Frame Arms Girl -- -- Studio A-CAT, Zexcs -- 12 eps -- Other -- Action Sci-Fi Slice of Life Mecha -- Frame Arms Girl Frame Arms Girl -- The story begins when Ao opens a package that arrives at her doorstep. Inside the package is Gourai, a Frame Arms Girl: a small robot capable of independent movement. Gourai is a newly-developed prototype: a Frame Arms Girl equipped with an "Artificial Self," an advanced AI that gives her a personality. Ao is the only one that has activated her. Gourai begins to gather both battle data and emotions, starting a day-to-day life with Ao, who knows nothing about Frame Arms Girls. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 28,905 6.41
Futon -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Music Dementia -- Futon Futon -- A futon, a traditional Japanese mattress, as seen by Yoriko Mizushiri, becomes the vehicle of dream fantasies combining the most pleasant sensations such as the morning coffee, the warmth of bedding and a soft rice carpet under one’s feet. Lazy stretching serves as a start of sensuous, sleepy gymnastics. With a fluid movement, the passive body will turn once again from the left to the right of the mattress to dive into the fantasies of even deeper unconsciousness a little while later. -- -- (Source: Krakow Film Festival) -- Movie - ??? ??, 2012 -- 708 5.18
Itai no wa Iya nano de Bougyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu. II -- -- - -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Comedy Fantasy -- Itai no wa Iya nano de Bougyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu. II Itai no wa Iya nano de Bougyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu. II -- Second season of Itai no wa Iya nano de Bougyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu. -- TV - ??? ??, 2022 -- 53,031 N/A -- -- Shangri-La -- -- Gonzo -- 24 eps -- Novel -- Action Drama Sci-Fi -- Shangri-La Shangri-La -- In a post-apocalyptic society, much of earthquake-riddled Japan has been left to ruin, resulting in an abundance of greenery. Governments manage much of the world's emissions, resulting in a massive class divide and economic disparity. The Japanese government launches "Project Atlas," a utopian city that will replace Tokyo but can only fit a certain amount of people. This limitation means that some people will have to live outside the city in jungles, as refugees. -- -- However, with any flawed plan comes those who are willing to challenge it. These include Kuniko Houjou, an heir to a renegade town; Mikuni, a mysterious and powerful child kept in a secret temple; Kunihito Kusanagi, a soldier for the high-tech and exclusive monopoly Atlas; Karin Ishida, a genius economics whiz with her hand in markets across the world; and the villainous Ryouko Naruse, leading Atlas in its domination of this future world. -- -- Can this group of rebels, forming a movement known as "Metal-Age," band together to demonstrate that inclusion and teamwork prevail over cruel segregation? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Apr 6, 2009 -- 52,746 7.07
Jam -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Music Dementia Fantasy -- Jam Jam -- This film is based on a very simple idea: the increasingly varied the sounds, the greater is the number of creatures... My intention in this film was to fill the screen with chaotic movements. -- -- (Source: Mirai Mizue) -- Music - ??? ??, 2009 -- 740 4.77
Kaibutsu Gakushou -- -- Yamamura Animation, Inc. -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia -- Kaibutsu Gakushou Kaibutsu Gakushou -- An animated archive of imaginary monsters written by a fictitious monsterologist in Medieval Europe. -- This work depicts the habits of monsters using movement inspired by short phrases such as “Taste of Tears”, “Tamed Wildness”, etc. -- -- (Source: Yamamura Animation) -- Movie - Nov ??, 2016 -- 322 5.80
Kairaku no Sono -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Dementia Music -- Kairaku no Sono Kairaku no Sono -- A study for the relation between movements and music. -- -- (Source: Official website) -- Movie - ??? ??, 2008 -- 598 4.57
Kuroshitsuji: Book of Circus -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 10 eps -- Manga -- Action Mystery Comedy Historical Demons Supernatural Shounen -- Kuroshitsuji: Book of Circus Kuroshitsuji: Book of Circus -- Full of wonder and excitement, the Noah's Arc Circus troupe has captured audiences with their dazzling performances. Yet these fantastic acts don't come without a price. Children have mysteriously gone missing around London, correlating to that of the groups' movements. Unsettled by these kidnappings, Queen Victoria sends in her notorious guard dog, Ciel Phantomhive, and his ever-faithful demon butler, Sebastian Michaelis, on an undercover mission to find these missing children. -- -- Trying to balance their new circus acts with their covert investigation under the big top, however, proves to be quite a challenge. With the other performers growing suspicious and the threat of the circus' mysterious benefactor looming overhead, what the two discover will shake Ciel to his very core. -- -- 308,857 8.11
Kuroshitsuji: Book of Circus -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 10 eps -- Manga -- Action Mystery Comedy Historical Demons Supernatural Shounen -- Kuroshitsuji: Book of Circus Kuroshitsuji: Book of Circus -- Full of wonder and excitement, the Noah's Arc Circus troupe has captured audiences with their dazzling performances. Yet these fantastic acts don't come without a price. Children have mysteriously gone missing around London, correlating to that of the groups' movements. Unsettled by these kidnappings, Queen Victoria sends in her notorious guard dog, Ciel Phantomhive, and his ever-faithful demon butler, Sebastian Michaelis, on an undercover mission to find these missing children. -- -- Trying to balance their new circus acts with their covert investigation under the big top, however, proves to be quite a challenge. With the other performers growing suspicious and the threat of the circus' mysterious benefactor looming overhead, what the two discover will shake Ciel to his very core. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 308,857 8.11
Liz to Aoi Tori -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Drama Music School -- Liz to Aoi Tori Liz to Aoi Tori -- Liz's days of solitude come to an end when she meets a blue bird in the form of a young girl. Although their relationship blossoms, Liz must make a heart-wrenching decision in order to truly realize her love for Blue Bird. -- -- High school seniors and close friends Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki are tasked to play the lead instruments in the third movement of Liz and the Blue Bird, a concert band piece inspired by this fairy tale. The introverted and reserved Mizore plays the oboe, representing the kind and gentle Liz. Meanwhile, the radiant and popular Nozomi plays the flute, portraying the cheerful and energetic Blue Bird. -- -- However, as they rehearse, the distance between Mizore and Nozomi seems to grow. Their disjointed duet disappoints the band, and with graduation on the horizon, uncertainty about the future spurs complicated emotions. With little time to improve as their performance draws near, they desperately attempt to connect with their respective characters. But when Mizore and Nozomi consider the story from a brand-new perspective, will the girls find the strength to face harsh realities? -- -- A spin-off film adaptation of the Hibike Euphonium! series, Liz to Aoi Tori dances between the parallels of a charming fairy tale, a moving musical piece, and a delicate high school friendship. -- -- Movie - Apr 21, 2018 -- 85,893 8.21
Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space Drama Mecha -- Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash -- —Do you know the Nejen? -- If you know it, then I'll take you there— -- -- The year is U.C. 0105. Twelve years have passed since the end of the second Neo Zeon War (Char's Rebellion). Even after "the Axis Shock," which seemed to indicate the future of humanity and the Universal Century, the world is still in a chaotic situation where intermittent military conflicts continue to break out. The Earth Federation government is more corrupt than ever, and its leadership has not only accelerated Earth's pollution, but also implemented an inhuman "Man Hunting" policy in which civilians are forcibly exiled to outer space. -- -- The anti-Federation government organization "Mafty," led by someone called "Mafty Navue Erin," has taken a stand against the corruption of the Earth Sphere. Mafty carries out fierce acts of terrorism, assassinating high officials of the Federation government one after another, but it gains a certain level of support from the populace who are growing more opposed to the Federation government. -- -- The person who calls himself "Mafty" and leads this organization is Hathaway Noa, the son of Bright Noa, an officer of the Earth Federation Forces who once participated in the One Year War. Hathaway himself joined the forces trying to stop Char’s Rebellion. With firsthand knowledge of the ideals and ideologies of Amuro Ray and Char Aznable, he has become a warrior following in their footsteps, and plans to clear a path forward through armed resistance. His destiny, however, is drastically altered as he encounters the Federation Forces officer Kenneth Sleg and a mysterious young beauty named Gigi Andalucia. -- -- (Source: Gundam.info) -- Movie - May 7, 2021 -- 6,999 N/A -- -- Vandread: Taidou-hen -- -- Gonzo -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Adventure Comedy Ecchi Mecha Sci-Fi Space -- Vandread: Taidou-hen Vandread: Taidou-hen -- Vandread The First Stage (season one) was immediately followed up by this TV special. This TV special, also known as Vandread Taidouhen Stage (The Movement Stage) was a recap of the first 13 episodes with additional footage. So, Vandread Taidouhen is not really a bridge between Vandread The First Stage and Vandread The Second Stage (season two). It was made to bring new viewers up to date as to what happened during the first season -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- OVA - Jan 21, 2001 -- 6,833 6.79
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans -- -- Sunrise -- 25 eps -- Original -- Action Drama Mecha Sci-Fi Space -- Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans -- Over three hundred years have passed since the Calamity War, the great conflict between Earth and its outer space colonies. Now Earth is ruled over by four economic blocs, and the military organization Gjallarhorn is responsible for keeping the peace. Mars, on the other hand, depends heavily on Earth's economy. -- -- Horrified by the appalling living conditions that Mars' inhabitants have to bear, Kudelia Aina Bernstein, a young aristocrat from the Chryse Autonomous Region, gets involved in the Red Planet's independence movement. She hires the services of a local company, Chryse Guard Security (CGS), to escort her on the journey to Earth to negotiate economic conditions with the earthly bloc that controls the region. The Third Army Division—consisting of Mikazuki Augus, Orga Itsuka, and many other child soldiers—are chosen to protect her. -- -- When Gjallarhorn attacks the CGS facilities to assassinate the young revolutionary threatening their interests, Orga and his comrades must not let the attackers accomplish their goal—in fact, Gjallarhorn's actions might turn out to be the unintentional catalyst that leads the children to be the forgers of their own destiny. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 172,819 8.03
Samurai Champloo -- -- Manglobe -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Adventure Comedy Historical Samurai Shounen -- Samurai Champloo Samurai Champloo -- Fuu Kasumi is a young and clumsy waitress who spends her days peacefully working in a small teahouse. That is, until she accidentally spills a drink all over one of her customers! With a group of samurai now incessantly harassing her, Fuu desperately calls upon another samurai in the shop, Mugen, who quickly defeats them with his wild fighting technique, utilizing movements reminiscent to that of breakdancing. Unfortunately, Mugen decides to pick a fight with the unwilling ronin Jin, who wields a more precise and traditional style of swordfighting, and the latter proves to be a formidable opponent. The only problem is, they end up destroying the entire shop as well as accidentally killing the local magistrate's son. -- -- For their crime, the two samurai are captured and set to be executed. However, they are rescued by Fuu, who hires the duo as her bodyguards. Though she no longer has a place to return to, the former waitress wishes to find a certain samurai who smells of sunflowers and enlists the help of the now exonerated pair to do so. Despite initially disapproving of this idea, the two eventually agree to assist the girl in her quest; thus, the trio embark upon an adventure to find this mysterious warrior—that is, if Fuu can keep Mugen and Jin from killing each other. -- -- Set in an alternate Edo Period of Japan, Samurai Champloo follows the journey of these three eccentric individuals in an epic quest full of action, comedy, and dynamic sword fighting, all set to the beat of a unique hip-hop infused soundtrack. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- 935,197 8.50
Seisenshi Dunbine -- -- Sunrise -- 49 eps -- Novel -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Drama Fantasy Mecha -- Seisenshi Dunbine Seisenshi Dunbine -- Shou Zama is an ordinary 18-year-old from Tokyo who finds himself summoned to the medieval fantasy world of Byston Well. Upon arrival, he is put into service under the ambitious lord Drake Luft, who seeks to greatly expand his power. Those like Shou who come from "Upper Earth" possess strong aura power and are ordered to pilot "Aura Battlers," insectoid mecha designed by a man named Shot Weapon, who also came from Upper Earth. -- -- However, Shou's alliances quickly change when he meets Marvel Frozen, a young woman who has decided to rebel against Drake's political agenda. As he realizes the lord's true intentions, the boy chooses to join the fight against Drake and team up with Neal Given, who leads the resistance movement. The resistance isn't alone—Riml, daughter of their enemy and Neal's secret love, aids their efforts, hoping to escape from her father's clutches. As Shou finds himself fighting alongside his new comrades, they put their lives on the line to prevent the villainous Drake from taking over Byston Well before it's too late. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Feb 5, 1983 -- 8,897 7.05
Shangri-La -- -- Gonzo -- 24 eps -- Novel -- Action Drama Sci-Fi -- Shangri-La Shangri-La -- In a post-apocalyptic society, much of earthquake-riddled Japan has been left to ruin, resulting in an abundance of greenery. Governments manage much of the world's emissions, resulting in a massive class divide and economic disparity. The Japanese government launches "Project Atlas," a utopian city that will replace Tokyo but can only fit a certain amount of people. This limitation means that some people will have to live outside the city in jungles, as refugees. -- -- However, with any flawed plan comes those who are willing to challenge it. These include Kuniko Houjou, an heir to a renegade town; Mikuni, a mysterious and powerful child kept in a secret temple; Kunihito Kusanagi, a soldier for the high-tech and exclusive monopoly Atlas; Karin Ishida, a genius economics whiz with her hand in markets across the world; and the villainous Ryouko Naruse, leading Atlas in its domination of this future world. -- -- Can this group of rebels, forming a movement known as "Metal-Age," band together to demonstrate that inclusion and teamwork prevail over cruel segregation? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Apr 6, 2009 -- 52,746 7.07
Starry Tales: Seiza wa Toki wo Koete -- -- KAGAYA Studio -- 1 ep -- Original -- Fantasy Space -- Starry Tales: Seiza wa Toki wo Koete Starry Tales: Seiza wa Toki wo Koete -- Constellations were created thousands years ago and they have been handed down generation after generation up to now. This show focuses on this great fact. In the show, you will see instruction on constellations and movement of the sun, moon and planets against constellations. An associated story from Greek myths is provided with beautiful CG including the tale of Astraea, the goddess of justice, who is closely related to the constellation Libra. -- Movie - Mar 19, 2011 -- 881 5.51
Wena Wrist -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Military Music -- Wena Wrist Wena Wrist -- Sony unveiled its new "wena wrist" smartwatch's "kawamori Edition" with Macross anime director and mechanical designer Shoji Kawamori, and naturally, it comes complete with an anime ad. -- -- The aircraft shown in the video closely evokes the forward-swept-wing YF-19/VF-19 variable fighter designs first seen in Macross Plus and Macross 7, but appears to also draw inspiration from real-life fighter craft, with canards common in European fighters, and an air intake similar to the F-16. The iconic motif of hands in the shape of a fighter also first appeared in Macross Plus. -- -- Kawamori designed the case that will ship alongside the Wena Wrist product. The watch itself is a mechanical design, evoking pilot watch-style elements. The dial's design evokes the attitude indicator/artificial horizon seen on fighter instrument panels, with one side being an open-heart design showing the mechanical movement. The 12:00 position is indicated by a white arrow, common to many pilot watches. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Special - Jan 28, 2020 -- 248 5.36
Yokoo's 3 Animation Films -- -- - -- 3 eps -- Original -- Psychological Romance -- Yokoo's 3 Animation Films Yokoo's 3 Animation Films -- Three short films by the Japanese avant-garde illustrator and animator. Regarded (unfairly) as the Japanese equivalent of Andy Warhol, these films showcase a distinctively commercial illustration look reminiscent of the current pop art movement of that decade (1960s). -- OVA - ??? ??, 1964 -- 791 4.62
Youjo Senki Movie -- -- Nut -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Military Magic -- Youjo Senki Movie Youjo Senki Movie -- With its armies sweeping across the continent, the Empire seems unstoppable. After securing victory over the remnants of the Republic's army, the Empire's ultimate victory is finally within reach. However, dark clouds are gathering in the East. The communist-led Russy Federation is mustering troops on its western border, preparing to enter the war. Supported by a detachment of Allied volunteer magicians—among whom is Mary Sioux, the daughter of a soldier killed by Tanya Degurechaff—the Federation is determined to spread the communist creed and bring the Empire to its knees. -- -- Meanwhile, Tanya and her battalion return to the imperial capital from the southern front. Upon their arrival, they are tasked with investigating troop movements on the border with the Federation. Any escalation of violence at this point may lead to new conflicts, plunging the world into a devastating global war. -- -- Will the Empire eventually emerge victorious from its struggle, or will it crumble in the face of superior enemies and radically different ideologies? -- -- Movie - Feb 8, 2019 -- 170,545 8.26
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/New_religious_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Animal_rights_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Anti_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_about_new_religious_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Charismatic_Movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Christian_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Christian_theological_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:"Dziewuchy_Dziewuchom"_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ethical_schools_and_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fellowship_Movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Feminist_movements_and_ideologies
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Glimpses_of_a_Popular_Movement;_Or,_Sketches_of_the_W.C.T.U._of_Pennsylvania
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hair_in_movement_in_sports
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:History_of_the_Latter_Day_Saint_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jewish_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Laymen's_Home_Missionary_Movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Movements_in_hellenistic_philosophy
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:New_religious_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:New_religious_movements_by_religion
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:People_associated_with_the_pro-life_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:People_by_new_religious_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Philosophical_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Political_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Reform_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Religious_faiths,_traditions_and_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Religious_faiths,_traditions,_and_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Researchers_of_cults_and_new_religious_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Restoration_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Social_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sovereign_citizen_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Student_Volunteer_Movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Subcultures_of_religious_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Temperance_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Timelines_of_the_Latter_Day_Saint_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tolstoyan_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Youth_Climate_Movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Quality_images#Movement_control
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Quality_images/Technical/Movement_control
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1vs0_Fumesv4_Movements1_2_3.ogg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annual_movement_of_stars_depending_on_distance_from_ecliptic,_proper_motion_and_distance_from_earth.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atendees_of_2nd_Congress_of_3H_Movement.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conservative_movement_flyer_Yokneam.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conservative_movement_flyer_Yokneam.jpg#file
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conservative_movement_flyer_Yokneam.jpg#filehistory
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conservative_movement_flyer_Yokneam.jpg#filelinks
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conservative_movement_flyer_Yokneam.jpg#metadata
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EGO_Movement_C
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_representative_of_the_umbanda_movement.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glimpses_of_a_Popular_Movement;_Or,_Sketches_of_the_W.C.T.U._of_Pennsylvania_(1899;_frontispiece).png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Libertarian_movement_of_Belarus_logo.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mahasati_Rhythmic_Movements.gif
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rainbow_Sash_Movement_Logo.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rainbow_Sash_Movement_Logo.jpg#file
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rainbow_Sash_Movement_Logo.jpg#filehistory
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rainbow_Sash_Movement_Logo.jpg#filelinks
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rainbow_Sash_Movement_Logo.jpg#globalusage
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rainbow_Sash_Movement_Logo.jpg#metadata
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Report_on_study_of_movements_of_articulated_conduits_under_earth_dams_on_compressible_foundations_(IA_CAT83787319).pdf
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Category:"Dziewuchy_Dziewuchom"_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Category:Religious_faiths,_traditions_and_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/File:Conservative_movement_flyer_Yokneam.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/File:Rainbow_Sash_Movement_Logo.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:"Dziewuchy_Dziewuchom"_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:History_of_the_Latter_Day_Saint_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Movements_in_classical_Greek_philosophy
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Movements_in_presocratic_philosophy
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Religious_faiths,_traditions_and_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category_talk:"Dziewuchy_Dziewuchom"_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category_talk:Religious_faiths,_traditions_and_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Tolstoyan_movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Quality_images/Technical/Movement_control/Sample
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Conservative_movement_flyer_Yokneam.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Rainbow_Sash_Movement_Logo.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File_talk:Conservative_movement_flyer_Yokneam.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File_talk:Rainbow_Sash_Movement_Logo.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator&referer=Category:"Dziewuchy+Dziewuchom"+movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator&referer=Category:Religious+faiths,+traditions+and+movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Category:"Dziewuchy+Dziewuchom"+movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Category:Religious+faiths,+traditions+and+movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=File:Conservative+movement+flyer+Yokneam.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=File:Rainbow+Sash+Movement+Logo.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&categories=Religious_faiths,_traditions_and_movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Category:"Dziewuchy+Dziewuchom"+movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Category:Religious+faiths,+traditions+and+movements
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=File:Conservative+movement+flyer+Yokneam.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=File:Rainbow+Sash+Movement+Logo.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere&target=Category:History+of+the+Latter+Day+Saint+movement
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere&target=Category:Tolstoyan+movement
11th Nationalist Movement Party Ordinary Congress
1389 Movement
16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement
1811 Independence Movement
19171919 Brazil strike movement
1960s Brazilian student movement
1968 movement in Italy
1972 Jai Andhra movement
19th of April Movement
2011 Indian anti-corruption movement
2013 Bangladesh quota reform movement
2018 Bangladesh quota reform movement
24 October Movement
26th of July Movement
2 June Movement
30 September Movement
7 October Movement
8 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements
8th October Revolutionary Movement
9/11 Truth movement
969 Movement
Abortion-rights movements
Academic study of new religious movements
Access to Knowledge movement
Achievers with Integrity Movement
Action and Renewal Movement
Action Committee for the Defense of Democracy Youth Movement
Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System
Adverse Childhood Experiences movement
African-American women's suffrage movement
African-American women in the civil rights movement
African Autonomist Movement
African Development Movement
African independence movements
African Movement for Development and Progress
African Movement of Working Children and Youth
African Resistance Movement
African Transformation Movement
Africa Scout Region (World Organization of the Scout Movement)
Afrikaans language movement
Aging movement control
Air Movement and Control Association
Akali movement
kerblom Movement
Akram Vignan Movement
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
Albanian Democratic Monarchist Movement Party
Albanian Workers Movement Party
Albany Movement
Algerian Movement for Justice and Development
Algerian National Movement
Aligarh Movement
All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement
Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal
Alliance of European National Movements
Alliance of European Republican Movements
Alliance of Movements for the Emergence of Niger
All of Mexico Movement
All Parties Democratic Movement
Al-Nusra FrontSRF/Hazzm Movement conflict
Alternative Democratic Movement
Amal Movement
American Indian Movement
American Indian Movement of Colorado
American militia movement
American proletarian poetry movement
AmericanSoviet friendship movement
Americus movement
Amrita movement
Andhra movement
And-Jf/Revolutionary Movement for New Democracy
Anguilla Progressive Movement
Animal rights movement
Ansor Youth Movement
Antagonist Movement
Anti-abortion movements
Anti-aging movement
Anti-Apartheid Movement
Anti-austerity movement
Anti-austerity movement in Greece
Anti-austerity movement in Ireland
Anti-austerity movement in Portugal
Anti-austerity movement in Spain
Anti-austerity movement in the United Kingdom
Anti-Black Box Curriculum Movement
Anti-cession movement of Sarawak
Anti-Christian Movement (China)
Anti-cult movement
Anti-Duvalier protest movement
Anti-gender movement
Anti-globalization movement
Antigonish Movement
Anti-Hong Kong Express Rail Link movement
Anti-incinerator movement in China
Anti-Japanese resistance movement in Malaya during World War II
Anti-jock movement
Anti-lynching movement
Anti-Nebraska movement
Anti-nuclear movement
Anti-nuclear movement in Australia
Anti-nuclear movement in Canada
Anti-nuclear movement in Kazakhstan
Anti-nuclear movement in South Korea
Anti-nuclear movement in the United Kingdom
Anti-nuclear power movement in Japan
Antioch International Movement of Churches
Anti-rape movement
Antisec Movement
Anti-sweatshop movement
Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany
Anti-war movement
Apostolic-Prophetic Movement
April 6 Youth Movement
April 6 Youth Movement Democratic Front
Arab and Druze Scouts Movement
Arab Ba'ath Movement
Arab Movement of Azawad
Arab Nationalist Movement
Arab People's Movement
Arab Scout Region (World Organization of the Scout Movement)
Arab Socialist Movement
Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz
Armed Forces Movement
Armenian national liberation movement
Artistic depictions of the Bengali Language Movement
Artistic Dress movement
Art movement
Art of the Umbrella Movement
Arts and Crafts movement
Asian American movement
Asia-Pacific Scout Region (World Organization of the Scout Movement)
Assamese Language Movement
Assam Movement
Assam separatist movements
Assyrian Democratic Movement
Assyrian independence movement
Atlanta Student Movement
Audiovisual Archive of the Democratic and Labour Movement
Audubon movement
August 29th Movement
Australian Family Movement
Australian labour movement
Australian Republic Movement
Authentic Costeo Autonomy Movement
Authentic Nationalist Revolutionary Movement
Autism rights movement
Average directional movement index
Awakening (Finnish religious movement)
Baal teshuva movement
Babbar Akali movement
Babylon Movement
Back-to-Africa movement
Back to Jerusalem movement
Back-to-the-land movement
Bahrain Freedom Movement
Bakassi Movement for Self-Determination
Baloch National Movement
Banshkhali power plant movement
Bapticostal movement
Basmachi movement
Basque National Liberation Movement
Basque National Liberation Movement prisoners
Bay Area Figurative Movement
Begun farmer's movement
Belarusian democracy movement
Belgian National Movement
Believers' Movement for Equality and Peace
Benesh Movement Notation
Bengali language movement
Bengali Language Movement (Barak Valley)
Bengali language movement in India
Bengali Language Movement (Manbhum)
Berber Arouch Citizens' Movement
Bergamasco Autonomist Movement
Besa Movement
Bhakti movement
Bhoodan movement
Bible Student movement
Bibliography of the Latter Day Saint movement
Bihar Movement
BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change
Birth of a Movement
Black Arts Movement
Black Catholic Movement
Black Consciousness Movement
Black Legion (political movement)
Black Movement of Brazil
Black Power movement
Black Power movement in Montreal
Black Ribbon Movement Myanmar
Blitz (movement)
Blockupy movement
BMG movement
Bolivarian Continental Movement
Boogaloo movement
Book:LaRouche movement
Book:List of denominations in the Latter Day Saint movement
Born Again Movement
Bosnian Movement of National Pride
Brandenburg United Civic Movements/Free Voters
Bratachari movement
Brazilian Abolitionist Movement for Animal liberation
Brazilian Democratic Movement
Breton Social-National Workers' Movement
Brights movement
British Cattle Movement Service
British Columbia Moderate Democratic Movement
British co-operative movement
British counter-intelligence against the Indian revolutionary movement during World War I
British New Church Movement
Brittany Movement and Progress
B.R.O.T.H.E.R. movement
Bulgaria for Citizens Movement
Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II
Bulk movement
Bundschuh movement
Burmese resistance movement 188595
California Clay Movement
Cambridge movement
Cambridge movement (civil rights)
Cameroon People's Democratic Movement
Camphill Movement
Canadianization movement
Canadian social credit movement
Canary Islands Independence Movement
Cn Vng movement
Car-free movement
Casamancian Autonomous Movement
Cascadia (independence movement)
Caspian Flotilla of the White Movement
Casualty movement
Catalan independence movement
Catalan Patriotic Movement
Catamarca Popular Movement
Category:Converts to new religious movements from Anabaptism
Catholic Marian movements and societies
Catholic temperance movement
Catholic Worker Movement
Cecilian Movement
Central Headquarters of the Partisan Movement
Centre of People's Movements
Chadian People's Revolutionary Movement
Champa independence movement
Charismatic movement
Chicago Freedom Movement
Chicano art movement
Chicano Movement
Child evangelism movement
Chipko movement
Chollima Movement
Christian Ashram Movement
Christian Congregation (Restoration Movement)
Christian countercult movement
Christian Democratic Movement
Christian fellowships of "the Remnants" movement
Christian Liberation Movement
Christian Life Movement
Christian Movement for a New Haiti
Christian Patriot movement
Christian Social Movement in Ukraine
Christian Unity Movement
Chuvash National Movement
Cinema 1: The Movement Image
Citi Movement (Griot New York)
Citizen and consumer movements in Japan
Citizen and Republican Movement
Citizens' Footprint Movement
Citizens' Movement
Citizens' Movement for Democracy and Development
Citizens' Movement for Democratic Action
Citizens' Movement (Iceland)
Citizens' Movement (Mexico)
Citizens' Political Movement
City Beautiful movement
Civic Revolutionary Movement (Argentina)
Civil Democratic Movement (2012)
Civil movement "Chesno"
Civil Movement "People's Self-Defense"
Civil rights movement
Civil rights movement (18651896)
Civil rights movement (18961954)
Civil Rights Movement Archive
Civil rights movement (disambiguation)
Civil rights movement in Omaha, Nebraska
Civil rights movement in popular culture
Civil rights movements
Civitas (movement)
Clean living movement
Clement Payne Movement
Climate movement
COBRA (art movement)
Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief
Colombian Community and Communal Political Movement
Colored Conventions Movement
Common Movement for Development
Communist Movement
Communist Movement of Aragon
Communist Movement of Asturias
Communist Movement of Euskadi
Communist Movement of Turkey
Communist Revolution Movement/Leninist (Turkey)
Communist Unity Movement of the Netherlands (MarxistLeninist)
Communist Youth Movement (Netherlands)
Community Church movement
Community Movement
Concerned Citizens' Movement
Concerned Officers Movement
Confessing Movement
Congenital mirror movement disorder
Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development
Conservation movement
Conservative holiness movement
Conservative movement
Constitutional militia movement
Constitutional Movement
Constitutional Protection Movement
Consumer movement
Contemporary Sant Mat movements
Continuing Anglican movement
Contra body movement
Convergence Movement
Coolie-Begar movement
Cooperative movement in India
Co-partnership housing movement
Cordillera autonomy movement
Corrective Movement (Syria)
Countermovement
Country life movement
Cow protection movement
Crack Movement
Creation Science Movement
Croatian Catholic movement
Cuban dissident movement
Cuban Libertarian Movement
Cultural movement
Cunning folk traditions and the Latter Day Saint movement
Daegu Democracy Movement
Dahomeyan Democratic Movement
Dalit Buddhist movement
Danish cooperative movement
Danish resistance movement
Danish shooting movement
Dark-sky movement
Deaf rights movement
Decadent movement
December 9th Movement
Decolonization and Social Emancipation Movement
Democracy in Europe Movement 2025
Democracy Movement
Democracy Movement (Iceland)
Democracy movements of China
Democratic and Social Movement
Democratic and Social Movement (Algeria)
Democratic and Social Movement (Morocco)
Democratic Evolution Movement of Central Africa
Democratic Italian Movement
Democratic Labour Movement
Democratic Left Movement
Democratic Left Movement (Lebanon)
Democratic Left Movement (Peru)
Democratic Movement
Democratic Movement for Algerian Renewal
Democratic Movement for Change
Democratic Movement for National Liberation
Democratic Movement (France)
Democratic Movement (MoDem) and affiliated democrats group
Democratic Movement of Kyrgyzstan
Democratic Movement of Serbia
Democratic Movement United Georgia
Democratic National Union Movement
Democratic People's Movement
Democratic Social Movement
Democratic Youth Movement
Democrat Social Movement
Dervish movement
Dervish movement (Somali)
Dieu Python movement
Dignity Movement
Dig Where You Stand movement
Diligent Work-Frugal Study Movement
Direction of movement
Disability rights movement
Dispensary movement in Manchester
Dissident movement in the People's Republic of Poland
Documentary Film Movement
Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
Donglin movement
Down to the Countryside Movement
Draft Bloomberg movement
Draft Condi movement
Draft Eisenhower movement
Draft Mark Warner movement
Draft:V Narod movement
Dravidian movement
Dump Johnson movement
Eastlake Movement
East Turkestan independence movement
East Turkistan National Awakening Movement
Echo Movement
Efficiency movement
Egyptian Patriotic Movement
Eighth of May Movement
Eki Movement
Ekumeku Movement
Electoral history of the Tea Party movement
Ele No movement
El-Infitah Movement
El Shaddai (movement)
Emblems of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
Emin (esoteric movement)
Emmanuel Movement
Encyclopedia of the Consumer Movement
End Poverty in California movement
English-only movement
Ennahda Movement
Ensaf Movement
Environmental movement
Environmental movement in Australia
Environmental movement in New Zealand
Environmental movement in South Africa
Environmental movement in Switzerland
Epeirogenic movement
Eschatology (religious movement)
Eshkol-Wachman movement notation
Esperanto movement
Essence of Time (movement)
Estonian anti-German resistance movement 194144
Estonian Patriotic Movement
Ethical movement
Ethiopian movement
Ettajdid Movement
EUR.1 movement certificate
Eurasian Scout Region (World Organization of the Scout Movement)
European Christian Political Movement
European Federalist Movement
European Movement for Efficient Energy
European Movement International
European Movement Ireland
European Movement UK
European Republicans Movement
European Scout Region (World Organization of the Scout Movement)
Evangelical Movement of Wales
Every Little Movement (Has a Meaning All Its Own)
Evita Movement
Executionist movement
Ex-gay movement
Eye movement
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
Eye movement in reading
Faith movement
Faraizi movement
Far East Movement
Far East Movement discography
Farm Animal Rights Movement
FarmerCitizen Movement
Farmers' movement
Faroese independence movement
Fascism and Freedom Movement
Fat acceptance movement
Fathers' rights movement
Fathers' rights movement by country
Fathers' rights movement in the United Kingdom
Feeling Nuts Movement
Feminist art movement
Feminist movement
Feminist movements and ideologies
Fennoman movement
Ferrer movement
Fetal movement
Fifth Republic Movement
Fighting Democratic Movement
Filmmovement.com
Fire & Movement
Fire and movement
First generation of intellectual movements in Iran
First national architectural movement
Five Goods Movement
Five Movements, Three Repeats
Five Star Movement
Flaggers (movement)
Flag of the movement for the autonomy of Kabylia
Flags of active autonomist and secessionist movements
Flemish Movement
Flemish-Socialist Movement
Focolare Movement
Food Justice Movement
For Britain Movement
Force for Change Democratic Movement Liberal Party
Former Liberation Movements of Southern Africa
Forward Movement
Four Mothers (anti-war protest movement)
Free Access to Law Movement
Free Aceh Movement
Free Bolivia Movement
Free Brazil Movement
Free-culture movement
Freedom and People's Rights Movement
Freedom movement
Freedom Movement of Iran
Freedom of Intellect Movement
Freedom of movement
Freedom of movement for workers in the European Union
Free Gaza Movement
Free-Germany Movement
Free Lula movement
Freemen of the South Movement
Free movement
Free Movement of Workers Regulation 2011
Free Officers and Civilians Movement
Free Officers Movement
Free Officers Movement (Syria)
Free Papua Movement
Free Patriotic Movement
Free Princes Movement
Free-produce movement
Free Shia Movement
Free software movement
Free Software Movement of India
Free Software Movement of Karnataka
Free Speech Movement
Free Thai Movement
Free Yemeni Movement
Front of the Popular Movement
Fueguian People's Movement
Functional movement
Fusion Sarvodaya ICT4D Movement
Future Movement
Gaia Movement USA
Galveston Movement
Gambela People's Liberation Movement
Garden city movement
Garibaldian Antifascist Partisan Movement of Italy
Geneva Citizens' Movement
German Christians (movement)
German Faith Movement
German National Movement in Liechtenstein
German Reform Movement
German Youth Movement
Ghadar Movement
Gibraltar in Westminster Movement
Gilgit-Baltistan United Movement
Global citizens movement
Global justice movement
Goa liberation movement
Goddess movement
Goguryeo revival movements
Gombey Liberation Movement
Gongche Shangshu movement
Goods Vehicle Movement Service
Gordonia (youth movement)
Gorkhaland movement
Gorran Movement
Graeco-Arabic translation movement
Grail (women's movement)
Grassroots Democratic Movement
Great Commission church movement
Great Indonesia Movement Party
Great Legalisation Movement India
Green AlternativeEcologist Movement of Catalonia
Green Belt Movement
Green Movement
Green Movement of Sri Lanka
Guerrilla movements in Colombia
Guinean Democratic Movement
Glen movement
Gurdjieff movements
Gwangju Student Independence Movement
Ham and Eggs Movement
Handwriting movement analysis
Hanfu movement
Haq Movement
Hare Krishna movement and sexual orientation
Hasm Movement
Haugean movement
Hawaiian sovereignty movement
Hayist Bases Movement
Hazara Province Movement
Hazzm Movement
Health freedom movement
Hearing Voices Movement
Heathenry (new religious movement)
Hebrew Christian movement
Hebrew Scouts Movement in Israel
Herut The National Movement
Hezbollah Movement in Iraq
Higher Life movement
Him Too movement
Hindu devotional movements
Hindu reform movements
Hineni (Australian youth movement)
Hip Hop Movement
Hirak Rif Movement
Historians of the Latter Day Saint movement
History of far-right movements in France
History of the cooperative movement
History of the hippie movement
History of the Latter Day Saint movement
History of the Movement from 1854 to 1890
History of the Quebec sovereignty movement
History of the socialist movement in Brazil
History of the socialist movement in the United Kingdom
History of the Telangana movement
History of the trust movement in Scotland
History of the Walloon Movement
Holiness movement
Holy Spirit Movement
Homeland Movement
Homeless Workers' Movement
Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China
Hong Kong Autonomy Movement
Hope for Portugal Movement
Hostosian National Independence Movement
Houthi movement
Humanist Movement
Human movement
Human Potential Movement
Human relations movement
Human Rights and Democracy Movement
Human rights movement
Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement
Hungarian Hope Movement
Hurufiyya movement
Iberian Liberation Movement
Icelandic independence movement
Icelandic Movement Living Country
Identitarian movement
Identity (Far East Movement album)
Illyrian movement
IMRO Bulgarian National Movement
Independence movement in Puerto Rico
Independence Movement (Lebanon)
Independence movements in Mozambique
Independent Citizens Movement
Independent Civic Movement
Independent Ecological Movement
Independent Movement for National Reconciliation
Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation
Independent sacramental movement
Independent voting movement
India and the Non-Aligned Movement
Indian Home Rule movement
Indian independence movement
Indian Movement Tpac Katari
Indian Movement Tpac Katari-One
Indigenous movements in the Americas
Indigenous Social Alliance Movement
Individual movement techniques
Indivisible movement
Indonesian Christian Student Movement
Indonesian New Art Movement
Induced movement
Initiative and Liberty Movement
Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement
Inner Healing Movement
Inner Mongolian independence movement
Insider movement
Institute for Social Movements, Pakistan
Insubordinate movement in Spain
Integration and Development Movement
Intellectual movements in Iran
Intelligent design movement
Interamerican Scout Region (World Organization of the Scout Movement)
Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements
Intermovement
International Committee of Children's and Adolescents' Movements
International factor movements
International Falcon Movement Socialist Educational International
International Movement ATD Fourth World
International Movement for a Just World
International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus
International Movement Writing Alphabet
International Peace Mission movement
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
International Solidarity Movement
International Tibet Independence Movement
Internet Party and Mana Movement
Intimism (poetic movement)
Iranian Green Movement
Iraqi National Movement
Irish Home Rule movement
Irish Republican Socialist Movement
Irish Sovereignty Movement
Irish Women's Liberation Movement
Isatabu Freedom Movement
ISKCON Revival Movement
Islamic and National Revolution Movement of Afghanistan
Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
Islamic Movement
Islamic Movement in Israel
Islamic Movement (Nigeria)
Islamic Movement of Afghanistan
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
Islamic Muthanna Movement
Islamic Renaissance Movement
Islamic Unification Movement
Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism
Italian resistance movement
Italian Social Movement
Italian Unionist Movement
Ivorian Popular Movement of the Great West
Jger Movement
Jasmine Movement
Jesus movement
Jewish art music movement
Jewish Labour Movement
Jewish movements
Jewish national movements
Jewish political movements
Jewish religious movements
Jewish Resistance Movement
Jindyworobak Movement
John Smith (Restoration Movement)
June 3 Resistance movement
June Movement
Jungle Movement of Gilan
Justice and Equality Movement
Kagal (Finnish resistance movement)
Karabakh movement
Kerala Catholic Youth Movement
Kerala reformation movement
Khaksar movement
Khalistan movement
Khilafat Movement
Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement
Kibbutz Movement
Killington, Vermont secession movement
Kind Movement
King James Only movement
Kitsch movement
Koijrvi Movement
Korea Federation for Environmental Movements
Korean independence movement
Korpela movement
Kurdish Future Movement in Syria
Kurdistan Islamic Movement
Kurdistan Islamic Movement (Turkey)
KuToo movement
Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies
Laban movement analysis
Labor movement in Taiwan
Labourist Movement Party
Labour movement
Labour movement of Singapore
Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam
Landless People's Movement
Landless People's Movement (Namibia)
Landless Workers' Movement
Language movement
Language Movement Day
Lapua Movement
LaRouche movement
Latter Day Saint movement
Latter Day Saint movement and engraved metal plates
Latter Rain Movement
Latter Rain (postWorld War II movement)
Latvian anti-Nazi resistance movement 194145
Latvian independence movement
Latvian National Independence Movement
Lautaro Youth Movement
LawCitizenshipRights Movement
Law enforcement and the Occupy movement
Lawyers' Movement
Laymen's Home Missionary Movement
Lebanese National Movement
Lebanese Youth Movement (MKG)
Left-Green Movement
Left Movement
Leftwing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
Leftwing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement 1
Leftwing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement 20th Century
Legality Movement
Legality Movement Party
Lesbian Movement (Denmark)
Le Travail movement
Let the Moreno Play Movement
LGBT social movements
LGBT student movement
Liberal Catholic movement
Liberal Movement
Liberal Movement (Lithuania)
Liberal Opening Movement
Liberal Socialist Movement
Liberal Social Movement (Portugal)
Liberation movement
Libertarian Movement
Libertarian Movement (Costa Rica)
Libertarian Movement (Italy)
Liberty Movement
Liberty Movement of Cameroon Youth
Libyan resistance movement
Light-Life Movement
Ligurian Independentist Movement
Lily-white movement
List of active separatist movements in Africa
List of active separatist movements in Asia
List of active separatist movements in Europe
List of active separatist movements in North America
List of active separatist movements in Oceania
List of active separatist movements in South America
List of active separatist movements recognized by intergovernmental organizations
List of anarchist movements by region
List of art movements
List of Ba'athist movements
List of busiest airports by aircraft movements
List of Christian movements
List of churches in the Latter Day Saint Reorganization movement
List of denominations in the Latter Day Saint movement
List of fascist movements
List of fascist movements by country AF
List of fascist movements by country GM
List of fascist movements by country NT
List of fascist movements by country UZ
List of French artistic movements
List of guerrilla movements
List of historical separatist movements
List of historical sites related to the Illinois labor movement
List of Indigenous Australian art movements and cooperatives
List of Latter Day Saint movement topics
List of leaders of the Five Star Movement
List of literary movements
List of Neopagan movements
List of networks and movements of the French Resistance
List of new religious movements
List of New Wave movements
List of Occupy movement protest locations
List of Occupy movement protest locations in California
List of Occupy movement topics
List of organisations in Irish Language Movement
List of organizations that have endorsed the BDS movement
List of Pakistan Movement activists
List of photographers of the civil rights movement
List of poetry groups and movements
List of references to seer stones in the Latter Day Saint movement history
List of Scripture Union movements
List of social movements in South Africa
List of South African airports by passenger movements
List of subjects related to the Quebec independence movement
List of Unification movement people
List of women of the Restoration Movement
List of World Organization of the Scout Movement members
Lists of active separatist movements
Lists of secessionist movements
Little Theatre Movement
Liturgical Movement
Living Colombia Movement
Logi Boitha Movement
Lok Satta Movement
Long civil rights movement
Lowbrow (art movement)
Lutheran Student Movement USA
Lyceum movement
Ma'aynei Hayeshua Movement
Madaraka People's Movement
Madhes Movement
Magnificat Meal Movement
Mahagujarat movement
Mahor People's Movement
Majd Movement
Malaysia Youth and Students Democratic Movement
Mana Mori Movement
Mana Movement
Maoist Bolshevik Reorganisation Movement of the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party
Maoist Internationalist Movement
Mori King Movement
Mori protest movement
Marada Movement
March 1st Movement
March 23 Movement
March 26 Movement
March on Washington Movement
Mar Gregorios Orthodox Christian Student Movement
Martinican Independence Movement
MarxistLeninist Popular Action Movement
Marxist Unification Movement
Mashtots Park Movement
Mass movement
Mau movement
Mauritian Militant Movement
Mauritian Militant Socialist Movement
May Fourth Movement
May Thirtieth Movement
MELS Movement of Botswana
Memorial of the Second Resistance Movement
Men's liberation movement
Men's movement
Men's rights movement
Mercantile Movements Division (Royal Navy)
Me Too movement
Me Too movement (India)
Me Too movement (Pakistan)
Me Too movement (South Korea)
Mexican Indignados Movement
Mexican Movement of 1968
Militant Socialist Movement
Millions More Movement
Miroslav koro Homeland Movement
Modern Hungary Movement
Modernize So Vicente Movement
Molotov Movement
Money Free movement
Montreal Citizens' Movement
Mor Gregorios Jacobite Students' Movement
Moshavim Movement
Mothers' movement
Motive for Movement
Movement
Movement (9mm Parabellum Bullet album)
Movement Action Plan
Movement Against Illegal Immigration
Movement Against the Monarchy
Movement and Location
Movement assessment
Movement (clockwork)
Movement conservatism
Movement controller
Movement Coordination Centre Europe
Movement demanding trial of war criminals (Bangladesh)
Movement director
Movement disorders
Movement Disorders (journal)
Movement Ecuador's Force
Movement For!
Movement for Active Democracy
Movement for a Democratic Society
Movement for a New Country
Movement for a People's Party
Movement for a Responsible, Sustainable and Entrepreneurial Venezuela
Movement for a United Communist Party of Greece
Movement for Autonomous DemocracyParty for Moravia and Silesia
Movement for Black Lives
Movement for Change (Greece)
Movement for Change in Turkey
Movement for Changes
Movement for Citizens' Commitment and Awakening
Movement for Defence of Human and Civic Rights
Movement for Defence of the Land
Movement for Democracy
Movement for Democracy and Development
Movement for Democracy and Development (Central African Republic)
Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad
Movement for Democracy and Progress
Movement for Democracy and Progress (Niger)
Movement for Democracy (Cape Verde)
Movement for Democracy in Africa
Movement for Democracy in Liberia
Movement for Democracy (Slovakia)
Movement for Democratic Change
Movement for Democratic Change (19992005)
Movement for Democratic Change (2018)
Movement for Democratic Change Alliance
Movement for Democratic Change Ncube
Movement for Democratic Change Tsvangirai
Movement for Democratic Change Tsvangirai Congress 2006
Movement for Democratic Renewal and Development
Movement for Development and Solidarity
Movement for Development by Culture
Movement for Dignity and Independence
Movement for Diversity
Movement for European Reform
Movement for France
Movement for Humanist Socialism
Movement for Integration and Unification
Movement for Italy
Movement for Justice and Peace
Movement for Justice by Any Means Necessary
Movement for Justice in Africa
Movement for Justice in el Barrio
Movement for Liberty - European Georgia
Movement for Multi-Party Democracy
Movement for National Alliance
Movement for National Rectification
Movement for National RectificationUnionist
Movement for National Reform
Movement for National Renewal
Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa
Movement for Peace
Movement for Peace and Socialism
Movement for People's UnityRepublicans
Movement for Quality Government in Israel
Movement for Reconstruction of Poland
Movement for Reform Judaism
Movement for Rights and Freedoms
Movement for Social Democracy
Movement for Socialism
Movement for Socialism (Argentina)
Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)
Movement for Socialism (Britain)
Movement for Socialism (Venezuela)
Movement for Socialist Democracy
Movement for Solidarity and Development
Movement for the Autonomies
Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylie
Movement for the Confederation of the Communists
Movement for the Defence of the Republic
Movement for the Development of Mayotte
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
Movement for the Future of Curaao
Movement for the Independence of Sicily
Movement for the Independence of Sicily (2004)
Movement for the Independence, Renaissance, and Integration of Africa
Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore
Movement for the Left
Movement for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Wadi el Dhahab
Movement for the Liberation of So Tom and Prncipe/Social Democratic Party
Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People
Movement for the Liberation of the Congo
Movement for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda
Movement for the National Independence of Angola
Movement for the People's Alternative
Movement for the Progress of Madagascar
Movement for the Recovery of the PCE
Movement for the Rehabilitation of Citizens Rurenzangemero
Movement for the Reorganization of the Communist Party of Greece 191855
Movement for the Restoration of Democracy
Movement for the Restoration of the Independence of Southern Cameroons
Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
Movement for the Return of Constitutional Legitimacy Libya
Movement for the Return of Constitutional Legitimacy Zliten
Movement for the Self-Determination of Bioko Island
Movement for the Sick
Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa
Movement for the Social Evolution of Black AfricaBoganda
Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties
Movement for the Unity of the Communists
Movement for Tolerance and Progress
Movement for Unification
Movement for United Albania
Movement for United Georgia
Movement for Youth and Democracy
Movement in Black
Movement in Still Life
Movement in Support of the Army
Movement marketing
Movement (music)
Movement (New Order album)
Movement Now
Movement of 22 March
Movement of Animals
Movement of animals
Movement of Bonaire People
Movement of Central African Liberators for Justice
Movement of Centrist Republicans
Movement of Democratic Action
Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance
Movement of Democratic Socialists
Movement of Democratic Unity
Movement of Ecologists Citizens' Cooperation
Movement of Free Citizens
Movement of Militant Muslims
Movement of National Antifascist Unity
Movement of National Liberation
Movement of National Responsibility
Movement of National Understanding
Movement of Popular Participation
Movement of Priests for the Third World
Movement of Progressive Democrats
Movement of Progressives
Movement of Salah al-Din the Kurd
Movement of Socialist Affirmation
Movement of Socialist Democrats
Movement of Socialist Left
Movement of Society for Peace
Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness
Movement of the Forces of the Future
Movement of Trique Unification and Struggle
Movement of Unitarian Communists
Movement of Young Intellectuals
Movement of Young MarxistLeninists
Movement of Young Socialists
Movement paradox
Movement parameter
Movement Party (Tunisia)
Movement pattern analysis
Movement protein
Movement Report System
Movements (band)
Movement (song)
Movements.org
Movement (The Fray EP)
Movement to impeach Pervez Musharraf
Movement We Are Venezuela
Movement Without Fear
Moves International Festival of Movement on Screen
Mozambican Nationalist Movement
Muhajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi)
Musar movement
Museum of Independence Movement in Krakw
Museum of the Polish Peasant Movement
Music in the movement against apartheid
Muslim Independence Movement
Muttahida Qaumi Movement
Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan
Mythopoetic men's movement
Nacionalismo (Argentine political movement)
Namibian Democratic Movement for Change
Nashi (youth movement)
Nasserist Unionists Movement
Nastic movements
National Action Movement
National Action Movement (Portugal)
National Alliance of People's Movements
National-Catholic Movement
National Debt Repayment Movement
National Democracy Movement (Philippines)
National Democratic Action Movement
National Democratic Movement
National Democratic Movement (Jamaica)
National European Social Movement
National Fascist Movement
National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan
Nationalist Movement
Nationalist Movement Party
Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement
National Italo-Romanian Cultural and Economic Movement
National Justice Movement
National Liberation Movement
National Liberation Movement (Albania)
National Liberation Movement (Guatemala)
National Liberation Movement of Ahwaz
National Liberation Movement (Upper Volta)
National Movement
National Movement for Development and Reform
National Movement for Nature and Development
National Movement for Reconciliation
National Movement for Reform and Development
National Movement for Sovereignty
National Movement for Stability and Progress
National Movement for the Development of Society
National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad
National Movement for the Liberation of Kosovo
National Movement for the Salvation of the Fatherland
National Movement fraction
National Movement of Afghanistan
National Movement of Hope
National Movement of Rural Women
National Movement of Switzerland
National Movement of the Revolution
National Movement of Young Legislators
National Movement Party
National Movement (Poland)
National People's Movement
National People's Movement (Sri Lanka)
National Popular Movement
National Reform Movement
National Regeneration Movement
National Renewal Movement
National Republican Movement
National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development
National Resistance Movement of Iran
National Revival Movement Party
National Royalist Movement
National Savings Movement
National Scout Movement of Armenia
National Socialist Freedom Movement
National Socialist Movement
National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands
National Socialist Movement of Chile
National Socialist Movement of Denmark
National Socialist Movement of Norway
National Socialist Movement (UK, 1962)
National Social Movement (Bulgaria)
National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan
National Spiritual Mobilization Movement (Japan)
National Torch Movement
National Unemployed Workers' Movement
National Unity Movement
National Unity Movement (Nicaragua)
National Workers' Movement (St. Vincent)
Natural hair movement
Nazarene movement
Neo-charismatic movement
Neo-Concrete Movement
Neo-vlkisch movements
Nepal Bhasa movement
Nepalese democracy movement
Netball and the Olympic Movement
Network Lateral Movement
Neuqun People's Movement
Never Trump movement
New American Movement
New Citizens' Movement
New Communist movement
New Culture Movement
New Economy movement
New generation (Malayalam film movement)
New Generation Movement
New Italian Social Movement
New Jewel Movement
New Left Movement (Peru)
New Liberal Movement
New Life Movement
New Nation Movement NPC v President of the Republic of South Africa
New People's Liberation Movement
New Puritans (literary movement)
New religious movement
New religious movements and cults in popular culture
New religious movements and right-wing politics
New religious movements in the Pacific Northwest
New Rural Reconstruction Movement
New Socialist Movement
New social movements
New Swedish Movement
New towns movement
New Way Movement
Nga Iwi Morehu Movement
Niagara Movement
Nicaraguan Democratic Movement
Nida Civic Movement
Nigerian Youth Movement
Nigerien Democratic Movement for an African Federation
Nigerien Movement for Democratic Renewal
Nigerien Patriotic Movement
Niger Movement for Justice
Nine-Hour Movement
No Child Left Inside (movement)
Non-Aligned Movement
Non-church movement
Non-cooperation movement
Non-European Unity Movement
Non-rapid eye movement sleep
No NRC movement
Nordic Resistance Movement
Northern Ireland civil rights movement
Norwegian Labour Movement Archives and Library
Norwegian resistance movement
Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement
Nur movement
Nuyorican movement
Objectivist movement
Occident (movement)
Occupy movement
Occupy movement hand signals
Olive Tree (religious movement)
Onch Movement
One Cook Islands Movement
One Village One Product movement
OneVoice Movement
Online social movement
Only Croatia Movement for Croatia
On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants
Open-design movement
Open-source-software movement
Orange Democratic Movement
Organization for Popular Democracy Labour Movement
Organization of the Scout Movement of Kazakhstan
Organ reform movement
Oriental Revolutionary Movement
Orkney and Shetland Movement
Oswego Movement
Our Homeland Movement
Outline of the psychiatric survivors movement
Overactive disorder associated with mental retardation and stereotyped movements
Oxford Movement
Pachakuti Indigenous Movement
Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement New Country
Pacific Movement of the Eastern World
Pais Movement
Pakistan Movement
Pakistan National Movement
Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement
Paleo movement
Palestine Solidarity Movement
Palestinian Freedom Movement
Palestinian freedom of movement
Pan-African Freedom Movement for East and Central Africa
Pan Africanist Socialist Movement Inkinzo
Pan Africanist Student Movement of Azania
Pan-Armenian National Movement
Panic Movement
Panic Movement (album)
Pan-Maya movement
Papaye Peasant Movement
Paralympic movement in Tasmania
Parents' rights movement
Party of the Popular Movement (Djibouti)
Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
Patriote movement
Patriotic Movement for Democracy and Development
Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth
Patriotic Movement for Renewal
Patriotic Movement of Cte d'Ivoire
Patriotic People's Movement
Patriotic People's Movement (1993)
Patriotic Salvation Movement
Patriot movement
Pattern Is Movement
Peace and Democracy Movement
Peace movement
Peasant movement
Peasant Movement Training Institute
Pedestrian Accessibility and Movement Environment Laboratory
Pentecostal revival movement in Chile
People's Action Movement
People's Climate Movement
People's Democratic Movement (Turks and Caicos Islands)
People's Electoral Movement (Aruba)
People's Electoral Movement (Venezuela)
People's Freedom Movement (Serbia)
People's Integration Movement
People's Liberation Movement - Cinchoneros
People's Liberation Movement (El Salvador)
People's Movement
People's Movement against the EU
People's Movement for Change
People's Movement for Democracy in Chad
People's Movement for Democratic Change
People's Movement for Justice and Welfare
People's Movement for Progress
People's Movement for the Liberation of Azawad
People's Movement (Ireland)
People's Movement (Lebanon)
People's Movement of Kosovo
People's Movement of Ukraine
People's Movement Party
People's Movement to Stop Haze
People's National Movement
People's Participation Movement
People's Party Movement for a Democratic Slovakia
People's Progressive Movement
People's Progressive Movement (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
People's Revolutionary Movement (South Africa)
People's science movement
People's United Democratic Movement
People's Will Movement
Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement
Perestroika Movement (political science)
Periodic limb movement disorder
Perpetual Movement
Peruvian Democratic Movement
Petition Movement for the Establishment of a Taiwanese Parliament
Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement
Philosophical movement
Phrenology and the Latter Day Saint movement
Physiological movement
Pincer movement
Pioneer movement
Plant nucleus movement
Plowshares movement
Podcast Movement
Police abolition movement
Polish resistance movement in World War II
Political movement
Political Movement for Social Security
Political Movement "Social Democrats"
Political Prisoners Movement of Tibet
Popular Autonomy Movement
Popular Christian Movement
Popular Democratic Movement
Popular Independent Movement
Popular Movement for National Liberation
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Cabinda
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Chad
Popular Movement (Italy)
Popular Movement (Montenegro)
Popular Movement (Morocco)
Popular Movement of the Revolution
Popular Republican Movement
Popular Unitary Action Movement
Popular Unity Movement
Porn Art Movement
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Nominate/Selected article
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Nominate/Selected picture
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Opentask
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Projects
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected article/4
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected biography/1
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected biography/2
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected biography/3
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected biography/4
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected biography/5
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected biography/6
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected biography/7
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected biography/8
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected biography/9
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected picture/1
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected picture/2
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected picture/3
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected picture/4
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected picture/5
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected picture/6
Portal:Civil Right Movement/Selected picture/7
Portal:Civil rights movement
Portal:Civil rights movement/box-header
Portal:Civil rights movement/Categories
Portal:Civil rights movement/Did you know
Portal:Civil rights movement/Did you know/archive
Portal:Civil rights movement/Intro
Portal:Civil rights movement/Nominate/Selected biography
Portal:Civil rights movement/Related portals
Portal:Civil rights movement/Selected article
Portal:Civil rights movement/Selected article/1
Portal:Civil rights movement/Selected article/10
Portal:Civil rights movement/Selected article/2
Portal:Civil rights movement/Selected article/3
Portal:Civil rights movement/Selected article/5
Portal:Civil rights movement/Selected article/6
Portal:Civil rights movement/Selected article/7
Portal:Civil rights movement/Selected article/8
Portal:Civil rights movement/Selected article/9
Portal:Civil rights movement/Selected biography
Portal:Civil rights movement/Selected picture
Portal:Latter Day Saint movement
Portal:Latter Day Saint movement/Featured content
Portal:Latter Day Saint movement/Timeline of Mormonism
Portuguese Democratic Movement
PostSeptember 11 anti-war movement
Praja Mandal movement (Orissa)
Preparedness Movement
Prescriptive authority for psychologists movement
Prince Philip Movement
Prison abolition movement
Pro-Emancipation Movement of Chilean Women
Pro Germany Citizens' Movement
Progressive Movement (Cameroon)
Progressive National Movement
Progressive Writers' Movement
Pro-independence movements in the Russian Civil War
Pro-Kremlin youth movement
Pro-nuclear movement
Propaganda Movement
Providence (religious movement)
Provincial Integration Movement
Provo (movement)
Prussian Reform Movement
Psalmody Movement
Psychiatric survivors movement
Public Scout and Girl Guide Movement
Pump handle movement
Punjabi Suba movement
Quakers in the abolition movement
Quartet Movement in B-flat major (Tchaikovsky)
Quartet Movement in E-flat major (Shostakovich)
Quartet Movement in F major, B.120 (Dvok)
Quebec sovereignty movement
Quit India Movement
Radical Federative Movement
Radical Movement
Rainbow Sash Movement
Rain City Superhero Movement
Rajah Sulaiman Movement
Rajneesh movement
Raoul Wallenberg International Movement for Humanity
Rape crisis movement
Rapid eye movement
Rapid eye movement sleep
Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder
Rapid Response to Population Movements
Raskamboni Movement
Real Democracy Movement (New Zealand)
Realism (art movement)
Rectification movement
Red culture movement
Redemption movement
Red Power movement
Red Stocking Movement (Denmark)
Reformist Movement (France)
Reform movement
Reform Movement (disambiguation)
Reform Movement for Social Development
Reform movement (pre-Confederation Canada)
Reform movement (Upper Canada)
Reichsbrger movement
Relationships between Jewish religious movements
Religious Kibbutz Movement
Renewal Movement
Renovation Movement Labour Action
Republican Democratic Movement
Republican Movement
Republican movement (Ireland)
Republican Movement (Mauritius)
Republican Movement (Switzerland)
Republican Social Movement
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
Resistance: Journal of the Earth Liberation Movement
Resistance movement
Resistance movement in Auschwitz
Resistance movements in partitioned Poland (17951918)
Resistance of Guinea-Bissau-Bafat Movement
Restoration Movement
Reunification Movement for Change
Revitalization movement
Revolutionary Action Movement
Revolutionary Agrarian Movement of the Bolivian Peasantry
Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200
Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece
Revolutionary Independent Labour Movement
Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
Revolutionary Left Movement
Revolutionary Left Movement (Bolivia)
Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile)
Revolutionary Left Movement (Peru)
Revolutionary Liberation Movement Tupaq Katari
Revolutionary movement
Revolutionary Movement 13th November
Revolutionary movement for Indian independence
Revolutionary Movement of the Congo
Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
Revolutionary Nationalist MovementAlliance
Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (Honduras)
Revolutionary Nationalist MovementJulio
Revolutionary Social Movement
Revolutionary Unity Movement
Revolutionary Youth Movement
Rhythmic movement disorder
Rim movement
Rise Above Movement
Rizalista religious movements
Rodrigues Movement
Role of political parties during Bengali Language Movement
Romanian anti-communist resistance movement
Roman Traditional Movement
Roshani movement
Round Table movement
Roving Picket Movement
Rurality Movement
Rural People's Movement
Rural Reconstruction Movement
Russian Fascism: Traditions, Tendencies, Movements
Russian Libertarian Movement
Russian nihilist movement
Russian Women's Fascist Movement
Rwenzururu movement
Ryukyu independence movement
Sacred Name Movement
Sadrist Movement
Safety for Sarah movement
Sahwa movement
Salafi movement
Samaikyandhra Movement
Saminism Movement
Sanctuary movement
Sandinista Renovation Movement
Sardines movement
Sardinian Armed Movement
Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement
Sathya Sai Baba movement
Save Urdu Movement
Savoy Region Movement
Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement
Science to Youth Movement
Scientific Charity Movement
Scottish Republican Socialist Movement
Seattle movement
Secessionist movements of Canada
Second Movement Opera
Self-Respect Movement
Self-Strengthening Movement
Senegalese Popular Movement
Senegalese Republican Movement
Separatist movements of India
Separatist movements of Pakistan
Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik
Serbian Renewal Movement
Set Sail (The Movement album)
Settlement movement
Seven Star Movement
Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement
Sex-positive movement
Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement
Shepherding movement
Shikharji movement
Ship movement service
Shop Stewards Movement
Sicilian People's Movement
Silesian Autonomy Movement
Silk Letter Movement
Singapore Dads for Life movement
Singapore Dark Alternative Movement
Singapore Kindness Movement
Singh Sabha Movement
Sit-chn Movement
Sit-in movement
Six point movement
Sixth of February Movement
Sixty-Four Counties Youth Movement
Skeptical movement
Slogan of the Houthi movement
Slow movement
Slow movement (culture)
Slow movement (music)
Social hygiene movement
Social Idea Movement
Socialist Alternative Movement
Socialist Education Movement
Socialist Movement for Integration
Socialist Movement of the Senegalese Union
Socialist Struggle Movement
Socialist Workers Movement (Mexico)
Social movement
Social Movement for Renewal
Social movement impact theory
Social movement organization
Social Movement Studies
Social movement theory
Social movement unionism
Social-Political Movement of the Roma
Social purity movement
Sociological classifications of religious movements
Solidarity Fatherland Movement
Solidarity Movement with Chile
Solidarity Youth Movement
Somali National Movement
Somali Patriotic Movement
South African Gentile National Socialist Movement
South Carolina in the civil rights movement
Southern Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement
Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement
Southern Italy autonomist movements
Southern Movement
South Sudan Democratic Movement
South Sudan Liberation Movement
South Tyrolean independence movement
Sovereign citizen movement
Soviet influence on the peace movement
Soviet Jewry Movement
Spanish Libertarian Movement
Speak Good English Movement
Speaking Out movement
Spiritual church movement
Sporadic Movements
Sri Lankan independence movement
Stakhanovite movement
Startle Evoked Movement
St. Augustine movement
Stereotypic movement disorder
Stone Love Movement
Stop the Violence Movement
Strength of Serbia Movement
Student Christian Movement
Student Christian Movement of Canada
Student Christian Movement of Great Britain
Student Movement in the Philippines (19651972)
Student movements in Korea
Students' Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh
Students Islamic Movement of India
Students Movement of the African and Malagasy Common Organization
Sudan Liberation Movement/Army
Sudan People's Liberation Movement
Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition
Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North
Sufan movement
Sunflower Student Movement
Sunrise Movement
Super Eurobeat Presents Euro Movement
Svecoman movement
Swadeshi movement
Swadhyaya Movement
Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement
Swedish Pentecostal Movement
Swedish shooting movement
Swedish temperance movements
Swiss Guide and Scout Movement
Swiss movement
Symbolist movement in Romania
Symphony in One Movement (Barber)
Symphony in Three Movements
Syntactic movement
Syria's Tomorrow Movement
Syriac Assembly Movement
Syrian Democratic Turkmen Movement
Syrian Turkmen Movement
Szkely autonomy movement
Tacuara Nationalist Movement
Taiwanese literature movement
Taiwan independence movement
Talk:Men's rights movement/Article probation
Tangwai movement
Tanka movement
Tea Party movement
Tebhaga movement
Technocracy movement
Te Kura O Te Au People's Movement
Telangana movement
Temperance movement
Temperance movement in Australia
Temperance movement in Ireland
Temperance movement in New Zealand
Temperance movement in Sri Lanka
Temperance movement in the United Kingdom
Temple Mount and Eretz Yisrael Faithful Movement
Tenther movement
Terasem Movement
Territories in Movement
Texas secession movements
The Caribbean Artists Movement
The Critical Legal Studies Movement
The Cross Movement
The Cross Movement discography
The Dolly Rocker Movement
The Electors' Action Movement
The European Alliance of EU-critical Movements
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 18501920
The Free Movement
The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
The Isaac Hayes Movement
The Life of Bakuvians and Their Movement Along the Velikokniaz Avenue
The Movement
The Movement (dance band)
The Movement (Diggin' in the Crates Crew album)
The Movement Disorder Society
The Movement For a Democracy of Content
The Movement (Iceland)
The Movement (literature)
The Movement of the Free Spirit
The Movement (populist group)
The Movement (reggae band)
The Movement Revisited
The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements
The Temperance Movement (band)
The Theosophical Movement
The Volvry Movement
The World Movement for Nonviolence
The Zeitgeist Movement
Three-day movement
Three-Self Patriotic Movement
Tibetan independence movement
Time's Up (movement)
Timeline of the civil rights movement
Timeline of the feminist art movement in New Zealand
Timeline of the open-access movement
Timeline of the yellow vests movement
Timurite movement
Tiny-house movement
Tobago Council of the People's National Movement
Togolese People's Movement
Tolstoyan movement
Tough movement
Trade Justice Movement
Transcendental Meditation movement
Transgender rights movement
Tricolour Citizens' Movement
Troops Out Movement
Tunisian Ba'ath Movement
Tunisian national movement
Tpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
Tupac Katari Revolutionary Movement
Turkish governmentGlen movement conflict
Turkish National Movement
Turkmen Democratic Movement
Uhuru Movement
Ukrainian Green movement
Ulster Independence Movement
Ultraist movement
Umbrella Movement
Underground Music Movement
Unification movement
Union for a Popular Movement
Union for the Republic National Movement
Unionist Movement
Unionist Movement of the Republic of Moldova
Union Movement
Unir Movement
United Democratic Movement
United Independent Left Movement
United Liberation Movement for West Papua
United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy
United National Movement
United National Movement (Georgia)
United National Movement (Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla)
United People's Movement
United People's Movement (Colombia)
United People's Movement (Kyrgyzstan)
United People's Movement (Namibia)
United Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
United Student Movement
Unity Movement for Democracy
Universalism and the Latter Day Saint movement
User:Bri/Promena Movement
User:Kin Khan/The Movement
Uttarakhand movement
Vn Thn movement
Vaps Movement
Vault (urban movement)
Venetian National Liberation Movement
Venetians Movement
Vietnamese democracy movement
Views of Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche movement
Vigil India Movement
Vipassana movement
Viridian design movement
Visalandhra movement
Vojvodina Autonomist Movement
Vlkisch movement
Voltaic Democratic Movement
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
Volya Movement
Wisi movement
Walloon Movement
Washingtonian movement
Weiquan movement
Welsh Republican Movement
Welsh Socialist Republican Movement
Western Army of the White Movement
West German student movement
Westward movement
We the People Reform Movement
White movement
White Rose Movement
Wh-movement
Wikimedia movement
Wild Lily student movement
Wild Strawberries Movement
Windward Islands People's Movement
Wiper Democratic Movement Kenya
Wise use movement
With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
Woman's Exchange Movement
Women's liberation movement
Women's liberation movement in Oceania
Women's rights movement in Iran
Women to drive movement
Workers' Political Movement
Workers' Socialist Movement
Workers' Socialist Movement (Argentina)
Workers' Socialist Movement (Bolivia)
Workers' Socialist Movement (Puerto Rico)
Workers Solidarity Movement
Working Class Movement Library
World Federalist Movement
World Federalist Movement-Canada
World Organization of the Scout Movement
World Pantheist Movement
World Socialist Movement
Worldwide LaRouche Youth Movement
World Youth Movement for Democracy
XORKO Collaborative Arts Movement
Xungen movement
Ya'ad Civil Rights Movement
Yan'an Rectification Movement
Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress
Yellow vests movement
Yiddishist movement
Yoga for movement disorders
You Know Me movement
Young America movement
Young Army Cadets National Movement
Young European Movement UK
Young Russia (youth movement)
Young Socialist Movement
Your Movement
Youth Climate Movement
Youth in Movement
Youth movement in Flanders
Yugoslav National Movement
Zadruga (movement)
Zanzibar independence movement
Zionist youth movement
convenience portal:
recent: Section Maps - index table - favoritesSavitri --Savitri extended toc Savitri Section Map --1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
authors -- Crowley - Peterson - Borges - Wilber - Teresa -Aurobindo -Ramakrishna - Maharshi -Mother
places -- Garden - Inf. Art Gallery - Inf. Building - Inf. Library - Labyrinth - Library - School -Temple - Tower - Tower of MEM
powers -- Aspiration - Beauty - Concentration - Effort - Faith - Force - Grace - inspiration -Presence - Purity - Sincerity - surrender
difficulties -- cowardice - depres. - distract. - distress - dryness - evil - fear - forget - habits - impulse - incapacity - irritation - lost - mistakes - obscur. - problem - resist - sadness - self-deception - shame - sin - suffering
practices -- Lucid Dreaming - meditation - project - programming - Prayer - read Savitri - studysubjects -- CS - Cybernetics - Game Dev - Integral Theory - Integral Yoga - Kabbalah - Language - Philosophy - Poetry - Zen
6.01 books -- KC - ABA - Null -Savitri - SA O TAOC -SICP - The Gospel of SRK - TIC - The Library of Babel -TLD -TSOY - TTYODAS - TSZ - WOTM II
8 unsorted / add here -- Always - Everyday - Verbs