19. his body and limbs are perfectly proportionate and thus shaped like a fig tree (S. nyagrodhaparimandala; T. shing nya gro dha ltar chu zheng gab pa; C. shenxiang yuanman runuojutuo 身相圓滿如諾瞿陀)
abortive ::: v. --> Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child.
Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum.
Rendering fruitless or ineffectual.
Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt.
Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile;
a perfectly harmonious music, inaudible on the earth, thought to be produced by the movement of celestial bodies.
Agni ::: 1. the godhead of fire, [psychologically]: the divine will perfectly inspired by divine Wisdom, and indeed one with it, which is the active and effective power of the Truth-Consciousness. ::: 2. [one of the five bhutas]: fire; the formatory principle of intension, represented to our senses in matter as heat, light and fire.
“Agni is the leader of the sacrifice and protects it in the great journey against the powers of darkness. The knowledge and purpose of this divine Puissance can be entirely trusted; he is the friend and lover of the soul and will not betray it to evil gods. Even for the man sitting far off in the night, enveloped by the darkness of the human ignorance, this flame[Agni] is a light which, when it is perfectly kindled and in proportion as it mounts higher and higher, enlarges itself into the vast light of the Truth. Flaming upward to heaven to meet the divine Dawn, it rises through the vital or nervous mid-world and through our mental skies and enters at last the Paradise of Light, its own supreme home above where joyous for ever in the eternal Truth that is the foundation of the sempiternal Bliss the shining Immortals sit in their celestial sessions and drink the wine of the infinite beatitude.” The Secret of the Veda
*[Agni]. Sri Aurobindo: "Agni is the leader of the sacrifice and protects it in the great journey against the powers of darkness. The knowledge and purpose of this divine Puissance can be entirely trusted; he is the friend and lover of the soul and will not betray it to evil gods. Even for the man sitting far off in the night, enveloped by the darkness of the human ignorance, this flame[Agni] is a light which, when it is perfectly kindled and in proportion as it mounts higher and higher, enlarges itself into the vast light of the Truth. Flaming upward to heaven to meet the divine Dawn, it rises through the vital or nervous mid-world and through our mental skies and enters at last the Paradise of Light, its own supreme home above where joyous for ever in the eternal Truth that is the foundation of the sempiternal Bliss the shining Immortals sit in their celestial sessions and drink the wine of the infinite beatitude.” *The Secret of the Veda
ailantus ::: n. --> A genus of beautiful trees, natives of the East Indies. The tree imperfectly di/cious, and the staminate or male plant is very offensive when blossom.
albugineous ::: a. --> Of the nature of, or resembling, the white of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which are perfectly white.
Alipta (Sanskrit) Alipta [from a not + lipta smeared from the verbal root lip to smear, anoint] Unstained, unsoiled, undefiled; philosophically, unlimited, unbound. The highest principle in the human constitution, atman, may be called alipta — unstained and therefore unbound by all the principles inferior to it — since only those human principles which are imperfectly evolved, imperfect emanations from the latent divinity within, can be said to enjoy or suffer because of being soiled or defiled by being enchained to lower things.
All can be done by the Divine — the heart and nature puri- fied, the inner consciousness awakened, the veils removed, — if one gives oneself to the Divine with trust and confidence and even xf one cannot do so fully at once, yet the more one does so, the more the inner help and guidance comes and the experi- ence of the Divine grows nithin. If the questioning mind becomes less active and humility and the will to surrender grow, this ought to be perfectly possible. No other strength and tapasya are then needed, but this alone.
approximate ::: a. --> Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values. ::: v. t. --> To carry or advance near; to cause to approach.
To come near to; to approach.
Aryaman ::: "the Aspirer", a Vedic god, one of the Four who represent the "working of the Truth in the human mind and temperament"; he is "the deity of the human journey" who "sums up in himself the whole aspiration and movement of man in a continual self-enlargement and . self-transcendence to his divine perfection", bringing to this movement a "mighty strength and perfectly-guided happy inner upsurging".
asubhabhAvanA. (P. asubhabhAvanA; T. mi sdug pa bsgom pa; C. bujing guan; J. fujokan; K. pujong kwan 不淨觀). In Sanskrit, the "contemplation on the impure" or "foul"; a set of traditional topics of meditation (see KAMMAttHANA) that were intended to counter the affliction of lust (RAGA), develop mindfulness (SMṚTI; P. SATI) regarding the body, and lead to full mental absorption (DHYANA). In this form of meditation, "impure" or "foul" is most often used to refer either to a standardized list of thirty-one or thirty-two foul parts of the body or to the various stages in the decay of a corpse. In the case of the latter, for example, the meditator is to observe nine or ten specific types of putrefaction, described in gruesome detail in the Buddhist commentarial literature: mottled discoloration of the corpse (vinīlakasaMjNA), discharges of pus (vipuyakasaMjNA), decaying of rotten flesh (vipadumakasaMjNA), bloating and tumefaction (vyAdhmAtakasaMjNA), the exuding of blood and the overflow of body fluids (vilohitakasaMjNA), infestation of worms and maggots (vikhAditakasaMjNA), the dissolution of flesh and exposure of bones and sinews (viksiptakasaMjNA), the cremated remains (vidagdhakasaMjNA), and the dispersed skeletal parts (asthisaMjNA). The KAyagatAsatisutta of the MAJJIHIMANIKAYA includes the contemplation of the impure within a larger explanation of the contemplation of one's body with mindfulness (KAYANUPAsYANA; see also SMṚTYUPASTHANA); before the stages in the decay of the corpse, it gives the standardized list of thirty-one (sometimes thirty-two) foul parts of the body: the head hairs, body hairs, nails, teeth, skin, flesh, tendons, bones, bone marrow, kidneys, heart, liver, diaphragm, spleen, lungs, large intestines, small intestines, gorge, feces, bile, phlegm, pus, blood, sweat, fat, tears, skin-oil, saliva, mucus, fluid in the joints, and urine. These parts are chosen specifically because they will be easily visualized, and may have been intended to be the foul opposites of the thirty-two salutary marks of the great man (MAHAPURUsALAKsAnA). The Chinese tradition also uses a contemplation of seven kinds of foulness regarding the human body in order to counter lust and to facilitate detachment. (1) "Foulness in their seeds" (C. zhongzi bujing): human bodies derive from seminal ejaculate and, according to ancient medicine, mother's blood. (2) "Foulness in their conception" (C. shousheng bujing): human bodies are conceived through sexual intercourse. (3) "Foulness in their [gestational] residence" (C. zhuchu bujing): human bodies are conceived and nurtured inside the mother's womb. (4) "Foulness in their nutriments" (C. shidan bujing): human bodies in the prenatal stage live off and "feed on" the mother's blood. (5) "Foulness in their delivery" (C. chusheng bujing): it is amid the mess of delivery, with the discharge of placenta and placental water, that human bodies are born. (6) "Foulness in their entirety" (C. jüti bujing): human bodies are innately impure, comprising of innards, excrement, and other foul things underneath a flimsy skin. (7) "Foulness in their destiny" (C. jiujing bujing): human bodies are destined to die, followed by putrid infestation, decomposition, and utter dissolution. There is also a contemplation on the nine bodily orifices (C. QIAO), which are vividly described as constantly oozing pus, blood, secretions, etc. ¶ As contemplation on foulness deepens, first an eidetic image (S. udgrahanimitta, P. UGGAHANIMITTA), a perfect mental reproduction of the visualized corpse, is maintained steadily in mind; this is ultimately followed by the appearance of the representational image (S. pratibhAganimitta, P. PAtIBHAGANIMITTA), which the VISUDDHIMAGGA (VI.66) describes as a perfectly idealized image of, for example, a bloated corpse as "a man with big limbs lying down after eating his fill." Continued concentration on this representational image will enable the meditator to access up to the fourth stage of the subtle-materiality dhyAnas (ARuPYAVACARADHYANA). After perfecting dhyAna, this meditation may also be used to develop wisdom (PRAJNA) through developing increased awareness of the reality of impermanence (ANITYA). Foulness meditation is ritually included as part of the THERAVADA ordination procedure, during which monks are taught the list of the first five of the thirty-two foul parts of the body (viz., head hair, body hair, nails, teeth, and skin) in order to help them ward off lust.
“ At a certain spiritual and supramental level the Duality becomes still more perfectly Two-in-one, the Master Soul with the Conscious Force within it, and its potentiality disowns all barriers and breaks through every limit.” The Synthesis of Yoga
At the beginning the soul in Nature, the psychic entity, whose unfolding is the first step towards a spiritual change, is an entirely veiled part of us, although it is that by which we exist and persist as individual beings in Nature. The other parts of our natural composition are not only mutable but perishable; but the psychic entity in us persists and is fundamentally the same always: it contains all essential possibilities of our manifestation but is not constituted by them; it is not limited by what it manifests, not contained by the incomplete forms of the manifestation, not tarnished by the imperfections and impurities, the defects and depravations of the surface being. It is an ever-pure flame of the divinity in things and nothing that comes to it, nothing that enters into our experience can pollute its purity or extinguish the flame. This spiritual stuff is immaculate and luminous and, because it is perfectly luminous, it is immediately, intimately, directly aware of truth of being and truth of nature; it is deeply conscious of truth and good and beauty because truth and good and beauty are akin to its own native character, forms of something that is inherent in its own substance. It is aware also of all that contradicts these things, of all that deviates from its own native character, of falsehood and evil and the ugly and the unseemly; but it does not become these things nor is it touched or changed by these opposites of itself which so powerfully affect its outer instrumentation of mind, life and body. For the soul, the permanent being in us, puts forth and uses mind, life and body.
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At the end of the third round, there were forerunning monads who were already human in nature and characteristic, and who were leading the way towards the true humanity of the fourth round, and therefore were the guides of the less progressed human monads when it became the latter’s turn to incarnate during the fourth round. These advance-guard monads are sometimes termed the Sons of Yoga. As intellectual and moral responsibility appears in the evolving human monads only when mind enters the picture — which occurred for the majority of the human monads only during the third root-race of the fourth round — during the third round few monads had reached the stage of true intellectual and moral responsibility; and during the second round even these forerunners were themselves unfolding the powers and responsibilities of mind and of choice. During the third round: “He had now a perfectly concrete or compacted body; at first the form of a giant ape, and more intelligent (or rather cunning) than spiritual. For in the downward arc he has now reached the point where his primordial spirituality is eclipsed or over-shadowed by nascent mentality. In the last half of this third round his gigantic stature decreases, his body improves in texture . . . and he becomes a more rational being — through still more an ape than a Deva man” (ML 87-8) — that is, manas (mind) was not yet functioning. Thus while the third-round forerunners may be considered truly human, the great bulk of the human kingdom was still but in the elemental stages of intellectual and moral responsibility. Mind was only just beginning to show itself, and hence the humans were rather cunning than intellectual, instinctual rather than spiritual.
babble ::: 1. v. To utter sounds or words imperfectly, indistinctly, or without meaning. 2.* **n. *A murmuring sound or a confusion of sounds.
badly ::: adv. --> In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously.
Bhrantidarsana[tah] (Sanskrit) Bhrāntidarśana [from the verbal root bhram to wander + dṛṣ to see, know, perceive] False comprehension or false apprehension; perplexity or confusion in understanding due to false apprehension. Used to describe the illusions arising out of the egotistical, imperfect human mind in its attempts to understand reality, because this imperfectly evolved human mind is extremely apt to mistake illusions for verities, presentiments for realities, and appearances for the fundamental substratum of being. Any partially developed intellect or understanding can de facto have only an illusory conception of the manifestations of the supreme spirit.
bort ::: n. --> Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.
perfectly ::: adv. --> In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely; wholly; throughly; faultlessly.
catbird ::: n. --> An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat.
Chit ::: Chit, the divine Consciousness, is not our mental selfawareness; that we shall find to be only a form, a lower and limited mode or movement. As we progress and awaken to the soul in us and things, we shall realise that there is a consciousness also in the plant, in the metal, in the atom, in electricity, in everything that belongs to physical nature; we shall find even that it is not really in all respects a lower or more limited mode than the mental, on the contrary it is in many "inanimate" forms more intense, rapid, poignant, though less evolved towards the surface. But this also, this consciousness of vital and physical Nature is, compared with Chit, a lower and th
refore a limited form, mode and movement. These lower modes of consciousness are the conscious-stuff of inferior planes in one indivisible existence. In ourselves also there is in our subconscious being an action which is precisely that of the "inanimate" physical Nature whence has been constituted the basis of our physical being, another which is that of plantlife, and another which is that of the lower animal creation around us. All these are so much dominated and conditioned by the thinking and reasoning conscious-being in us that we have no real awareness of these lower planes; we are unable to perceive in their own terms what these parts of us are doing, and receive it very imperfectly in the terms and values of the thinking and reasoning mind. Still we know well enough that there is an animal in us as well as that which is characteristically human,—something which is a creature of conscious instinct and impulse, not
reflective or rational, as well as that which turns back in thought and will on its experience, meets it from above with the light and force of a higher plane and to some degree controls, uses and modifies it. But the animal in man is only the head of our subhuman being; below it there is much that is also sub-animal and merely vital, much that acts by an instinct and impulse of which the constituting consciousness is withdrawn behind the surface. Below this sub-animal being, there is at a further depth the subvital. When we advance in that ultra-normal self-knowledge and experience which Yoga brings with it, we become aware that the body too has a consciousness of its own; it has habits, impulses, instincts, an inert yet effective will which differs from that of the rest of our being and can resist it and condition its effectiveness. Much of the struggle in our being is due to this composite existence and the interaction of these varied and heterogeneous planes on each other. For man here is the result of an evolution and contains in himself the whole of that evolution up from the merely physical and subvital conscious being to the mental creature which at the top he is. But this evolution is really a manifestation and just as we have in us these subnormal selves and subhuman planes, so are there in us above our mental being supernormal and superhuman planes. There Chit as the universal conscious-stuff of existence takes other poises, moves out in other modes, on other principles and by other faculties of action. There is above the mind, as the old Vedic sages discovered, a Truth-plane, a plane of self-luminous, self-effective Idea, which can be turned in light and force upon our mind, reason, sentiments, impulses, sensations and use and control them in the sense of the real Truth of things just as we turn our mental reason and will upon our sense-experience and animal nature to use and control them in the sense of our rational and moral perceptions. There is no seeking, but rather natural possession; no conflict or separation between will and reason, instinct and impulse, desire and experience, idea and reality, but all are in harmony, concomitant, mutually effective, unified in their origin, in their development and in their effectuation. But beyond this plane and attainable through it are others in which the very Chit itself becomes revealed, Chit the elemental origin and primal completeness of all this varied consciousness which is here used for various formation and experience. There will and knowledge and sensation and all the rest of our faculties, powers, modes of experience are not merely harmonious, concomitant, unified, but are one being of consciousness and power of consciousness. It is this Chit which modifies itself so as to become on the Truthplane the supermind, on the mental plane the mental reason, will, emotion, sensation, on the lower planes the vital or physical instincts, impulses, habits of an obscure force not in superficially conscious possession of itself. All is Chit because all is Sat; all is various movement of the original Consciousness because all is various movement of the original Being. When we find, see or know Chit, we find also that its essence is Ananda or delight of self-existence. To possess self is to possess self-bliss; not to possess self is to be in more or less obscure search of the delight of existence. Chit eternally possesses its self-bliss; and since Chit is the universal conscious-stuff of being, conscious universal being is also in possession of conscious self-bliss, master of the universal delight of existence. The Divine whether it manifests itself in All-Quality or in No-Quality, in Personality or Impersonality, in the One absorbing the Many or in the One manifesting its essential multiplicity, is always in possession of self-bliss and all-bliss because it is always Sachchidananda. For us also to know and possess our true Self in the essential and the universal is to discover the essential and the universal delight of existence, self-bliss and all-bliss. For the universal is only the pouring out of the essential existence, consciousness and delight; and wherever and in whatever form that manifests as existence, there the essential consciousness must be and th
refore there must be an essential delight.
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cittakasa. These may be transcriptions there or impresses of physical things, persons, scenes, happenings, whatever is, was or will be or may be in the ph^ical universe. These images are very variously seen and under all kinds of conditions ; in samadhi or in the waking stale, and in the latter with the bodily eyes closed or open, projected on or into a physical object or medium or seen as if materialised in the physical atmosphere or only in a psychical ether revealing itself through this grosser physical atmosphere ; seen through the physical eyes themselves as a secondary instrument and as if under the conditions of the physical vision or by the psychical vision alone and indepen- dently of the relations of our ordinary sight to space. The real agent is always the psychical sight and the power indicates that the consciousness is more or less awake, intermittently or nor- mally and more or less perfectly, in the psj’chical body. It is possible to see In this way the transcriptions or impressions of things at any distance beyond the range of the physical vision or the images of the past or the future.
clock-work ::: with machinelike regularity and precision; perfectly.
cocksure ::: a. --> Perfectly safe.
Quite certain.
coincidental magick: An act of magick that can be passed off or regarded as some perfectly natural coincidence if witnessed by someone who does not understand or believe in magick. Magick that works within the dominant paradigm. (See vulgar magick.)
Communion In Christian Churches, the sacrament of the Eucharist, an ancient pagan rite early adopted by Christendom. It originally signified communion of the human self with its inner god, a state attained more or less perfectly during initiation, or by those who have attained the power thus to communicate, and symbolized in the Mysteries by ceremonial rites similar to those which the Church has borrowed. See also BREAD AND WINE
congruity ::: n. --> The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency.
Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another.
That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace.
Conscience The imperfectly received or recognized working of one’s spiritual being, in itself a spiritual activity of the inner god, which as yet is able to send only some faint gleams of light, truth, and harmony into the heavy and obscure brain-mind in which most people live. The higher the stage of evolution, the more easily and abundantly is this spiritual energy transmitted to the lower self. Conscience is the voice of innate and of garnered spiritual wisdom, emanating first from the spiritual monad (buddhi) and also from the stored-up higher experiences of previous incarnations, reaching us through the veils of the intermediate principles. The thinner these veils are made through the cultivation of the virtues involved in impersonal living, the more easily does the conscience rule us and work within us.
Conservation of Energy A scientific theory that the total energy of any material system is a quantity which cannot be increased or decreased by any action among the parts, and that when energy seems to disappear it is merely transformed into an equivalent quantity of another mode of energy. The theory, interpreted in its widest sense, means no more than an affirmation that something cannot be created out of nothing or resolved into nothing, and so would seem a perfectly harmless generalization. However, theosophy teaches that there is a constant inflow of force into any such physical or material system, which in the scientific view is from sources exterior to a “closed material system.” Theosophy does not regard such forces as exterior but looks upon closed material systems as merely phenomena on the physical plane of inner and powerful forces which produce such physical systems as an appearance — real enough for the entities within it while it lasts, but vanishing once the inner, controlling forces are withdrawn. Then the atoms simply vanish because the cohering energies which make them are likewise withdrawn.
constructive ::: (mathematics) A proof that something exists is constructive if it provides a method for actually constructing it. Cantor's proof that the real irrational numbers exist. (There are easy constructive proofs, too; but there are existence theorems with no known constructive proof).Obviously, all else being equal, constructive proofs are better than non-constructive proofs. A few mathematicians actually reject *all* makes proof by contradiction invalid. See intuitionistic logic for more information on this.Most mathematicians are perfectly happy with non-constructive proofs; however, the constructive approach is popular in theoretical computer science, both and because intuitionistic logic turns out to be the right theory for a theoretical treatment of the foundations of computer science. (1995-04-13)
Cosmically Siva-Rudra is the active force of mahat (cosmic mind), both regenerative and destructive; and following the same line of thought Virabhadra in his human application has reference to the incessant effort of the manasaputras to break forth through the veils of maya to bring mind to the mentally somnolent or imperfectly awakened earliest human races. Hence, the reference to Virabhadra as thousand-headed, -eyed, or -armed may likewise be applied to mind — for mind is not only all seeing but all performing and all wise.
Cosmos: (Gr. kosmos -- in order, duly; hence, good behavior, government, mode or fashion, ornament, dress (cf. cosmetic); a ruler; the world or universe as perfectly arranged and ordered; cf. providence.)
counterpart ::: n. --> A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile.
One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate.
A person who closely resembles another.
A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another thing, or which supplements it; that which serves to
crepusculous ::: a. --> Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous.
Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects.
crystalline ::: a. --> Consisting, or made, of crystal.
Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture.
Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized.
Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid. ::: n.
detached ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Detach ::: a. --> Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels.
Difference Engine ::: (computer, history) Charles Babbage's design for the first automatic mechanical calculator. The Difference Engine was a special purpose device Babbage and still works perfectly. The engine was never completed and most of the 12,000 parts manufactured were later melted for scrap.It was left to Georg and Edvard Schuetz to construct the first working devices to the same design which were successful in limited applications. The Difference Engine No. 2 was finally completed in 1991 at the Science Museum, London, UK and is on display there.The engine used gears to compute cumulative sums in a series of registers: r[i] := r[i] + r[i+1]. However, the addition had the side effect of zeroing r[i+1]. during the addition and then copying it back to r[i+1] at the end of each cycle (each turn of a handle). . (1997-09-29)
Difference Engine "computer, history" {Charles Babbage}'s design for the first automatic mechanical calculator. The Difference Engine was a special purpose device intended for the production of mathematical tables. Babbage started work on the Difference Engine in 1823 with funding from the British Government. Only one-seventh of the complete engine, about 2000 parts, was built in 1832 by Babbage's engineer, Joseph Clement. This was demonstrated successfully by Babbage and still works perfectly. The engine was never completed and most of the 12,000 parts manufactured were later melted for scrap. It was left to Georg and Edvard Schuetz to construct the first working devices to the same design which were successful in limited applications. The Difference Engine No. 2 was finally completed in 1991 at the Science Museum, London, UK and is on display there. The engine used gears to compute cumulative sums in a series of {registers}: r[i] := r[i] + r[i+1]. However, the addition had the {side effect} of zeroing r[i+1]. Babbage overcame this by simultaneously copying r[i+1] to a temporary register during the addition and then copying it back to r[i+1] at the end of each cycle (each turn of a handle). {Difference Engine at the Science Museum (http://nmsi.ac.uk/on-line/treasure/plan/2ndcomp.htm
diluvial ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.
Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.
dough-baked ::: a. --> Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding.
drowse ::: v. i. --> To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze. ::: v. t. --> To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.
Duff's device The most dramatic use yet seen of {fall through} in {C}, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm. Trying to {bum} all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then realised that the unrolled version could be implemented by *interlacing* the structures of a switch and a loop: register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count " 0 assumed */ switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *to = *from++; case 7: *to = *from++; case 6: *to = *from++; case 5: *to = *from++; case 4: *to = *from++; case 3: *to = *from++; case 2: *to = *from++; case 1: *to = *from++; } while (--n " 0); } Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default {fall through} in case statements has long been its most controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against." [For maximal obscurity, the outermost pair of braces above could be actually be removed - {GLS}] [{Jargon File}] (2001-06-22)
Each inner experience is perfectly real in its own way, although the values of different experiences differ greatly, but it is real
"Each inner experience is perfectly real in its own way, although the values of different experiences differ greatly, but it is real with the reality of the inner self and the inner planes. It is a mistake to think that we live physically only, with the outer mind and life. We are all the time living and acting on other planes of consciousness, meeting others there and acting upon them, and what we do and feel and think there, the forces we gather, the results we prepare have an incalculable importance and effect, unknown to us, upon our outer life.” Letters on Yoga
eccentric: The deviation from being perfectly circular.
efficaciously invoke you to appear now perfectly
Egyptian “but not perfectly,” according to
euharmonic ::: a. --> Producing mathematically perfect harmony or concord; sweetly or perfectly harmonious.
::: "Even Science believes that one day death may be conquered by physical means and its reasonings are perfectly sound. There is no reason why the supramental Force should not do it. Forms on earth do not last (they do in other planes) because these forms are too rigid to grow expressing the progress of the spirit. If they become plastic enough to do that there is no reason why they should not last.” Letters on Yoga
“Even Science believes that one day death may be conquered by physical means and its reasonings are perfectly sound. There is no reason why the supramental Force should not do it. Forms on earth do not last (they do in other planes) because these forms are too rigid to grow expressing the progress of the spirit. If they become plastic enough to do that there is no reason why they should not last.” Letters on Yoga
“Every man is knowingly or unknowingly the instrument of a universal Power and, apart from the inner Presence, there is no such essential difference between one action and another, one kind of instrumentation and another as would warrant the folly of an egoistic pride. The difference between knowledge and ignorance is a grace of the Spirit; the breath of divine Power blows where it lists and fills today one and tomorrow another with the word or the puissance. If the potter shapes one pot more perfectly than another, the merit lies not in the vessel but the maker. The attitude of our mind must not be ‘This is my strength’ or ‘Behold God’s power in me’, but rather ‘A Divine Power works in this mind and body and it is the same that works in all men and in the animal, in the plant and in the metal, in conscious and living things and in things apparently inconscient and inanimate.’” The Synthesis of Yoga
exact ::: a. --> Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.
Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact.
Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
feedback ::: (electronics) Part of a system output presented at its input. Feedback may be unintended. When used as a design feature, the output is usually transformed by passive components which attenuate it in some manner; the result is then presented at the system input.Feedback is positive or negative, depending on the sign with which a positive change in the original input reappears after transformation. Negative feedback largely a function of the feedback transformation and only minimally a function of factors such as transistor gain which are imperfectly known.Positive feedback can lead to instability; it finds wide application in the construction of oscillators.Feedback can be used to control a system, as in feedback control. (1996-01-02)
feedback "electronics" Part of a system output presented at its input. Feedback may be unintended. When used as a design feature, the output is usually transformed by passive components which attenuate it in some manner; the result is then presented at the system input. Feedback is positive or negative, depending on the sign with which a positive change in the original input reappears after transformation. Negative feedback was invented by Black to stabilise {vacuum tube} amplifiers. The behaviour becomes largely a function of the feedback transformation and only minimally a function of factors such as transistor gain which are imperfectly known. Positive feedback can lead to instability; it finds wide application in the construction of oscillators. Feedback can be used to control a system, as in {feedback control}. (1996-01-02)
frutescent ::: a. --> Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wistaria.
geli. (J. kyakuryaku; K. kyongnyok 隔). In Chinese, "separation," a term used in the HUAYAN and TIANTAI traditions to refer to the understanding of reality in terms of the discriminative phenomena of the conventional realm. "Separation" is distinguished from "consummate interfusion" (C. YUANRONG), which refers to the ultimate state of reality wherein all individual phenomena are perceived to be perfectly interfused and completely harmonized with one another. See YUANRONG.
genius ::: “Genius is one attempt of the universal Energy to so quicken and intensify our intellectual powers that they shall be prepared for those more puissant, direct and rapid faculties which constitute the play of the supra-intellectual or divine mind. It is not, then, a freak, an inexplicable phenomenon, but a perfectly natural next step in the right line of her [Nature’s] evolution.” The Synthesis of Yoga
gephyrea ::: n. pl. --> An order of marine Annelida, in which the body is imperfectly, or not at all, annulated externally, and is mostly without setae.
gland ::: n. --> An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth.
An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known.
A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product.
gloomy ::: superl. --> Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.
Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.
greensand ::: n. --> A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.
hack mode "jargon" Engaged in {hack}ing. A Zen-like state of total focus on The Problem that may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is part mystic). Ability to enter such concentration at will correlates strongly with wizardliness; it is one of the most important skills learned during {larval stage}. Sometimes amplified as "deep hack mode". Being yanked out of hack mode (see {priority interrupt}) may be experienced as a physical shock, and the sensation of being in hack mode is more than a little habituating. The intensity of this experience is probably by itself sufficient explanation for the existence of hackers, and explains why many resist being promoted out of positions where they can code. See also {cyberspace}. Some aspects of hackish etiquette will appear quite odd to an observer unaware of the high value placed on hack mode. For example, if someone appears at your door, it is perfectly okay to hold up a hand (without turning one's eyes away from the screen) to avoid being interrupted. One may read, type, and interact with the computer for quite some time before further acknowledging the other's presence (of course, he or she is reciprocally free to leave without a word). The understanding is that you might be in {hack mode} with a lot of delicate state in your head, and you dare not {swap} that context out until you have reached a good point to pause. See also {juggling eggs}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-07-31)
half-bred ::: a. --> Half-blooded.
Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained.
half-hatched ::: a. --> Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.
half-heard ::: a. --> Imperfectly or partly heard to the end.
half-learned ::: a. --> Imperfectly learned.
half-sighted ::: a. --> Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment.
halfway ::: adv. --> In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded. ::: a. --> Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway.
harmonize ::: v. i. --> To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.
To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations.
To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly.
Harmony, Pre-Established: The perfect functioning of mind and body, as ordained by God in the beginning. The dualism of Descartes (1596-1650) had precluded interaction between mind or soul and body by its absolute difference and opposition between res cogitans and res extensa. How does it happen, then, that the mind perceives the impressions of the body, and the body is ready to follow the mind's will? The Cartesians, in order to correct this difficulty, introduced the doctrine of "occasionalism", whereby when anything happens to either mind or body, God interferes to make the corresponding change in the other. Leibniz (1646-1716) countered by suggesting that the relation between mind and body is one of harmony, established by God before their creation. Earlier than mind or body, God had perfect knowledge of all possible minds and bodies. In an infinite number of creations all possible combinations are possible, including those minds whose sequence of ideas perfectly fits the motions of some bodies. In the latter, there is a perfect and pre-established harmony. A parallelism between mind and body exists, such that each represents the proper expression of the other. Leibniz compares their relation to that of two clocks which have been synchronized once for all and which therefore operate similarly without the need of either interaction or intervention. Expressed by Leibniz' follower, C. Wolff (1679-1754) as "that by which the intercourse of soul and bodv is explained by a series of perceptions and desires in the soul, and a series of motions in the body, which are harmonic or accordant through the nature of soul and body." -- J.K.F.
hermetical ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or taught by, Hermes Trismegistus; as, hermetic philosophy. Hence: Alchemical; chemic.
Of or pertaining to the system which explains the causes of diseases and the operations of medicine on the principles of the hermetic philosophy, and which made much use, as a remedy, of an alkali and an acid; as, hermetic medicine.
Made perfectly close or air-tight by fusion, so that no gas or spirit can enter or escape; as, an hermetic seal. See Note under
Humors In medieval European medical thought, a fluid or juice, applied especially the four fluids — blood, phlegm, choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black bile) — which were thought to determine a person’s health and temperament. This theory derived from classical sources. “These vital spirits and humors corresponded, however imperfectly, to the pranic fluids of ancient Hindu teaching — considered to be both ethereal essences and physical humors. From early mediaeval times up to the recent present, medicine consistently taught that normal physical health in the human body was maintained when these vital spirits and humors were operating in equilibrium, and that disease and even death were products of their malfunctioning. The archaic ages were unanimous in their agreement on these points” (FSO 556).
Hypnotism ::: Derived from a Greek word hypnos, which means "sleep," and strictly speaking the word hypnotismshould be used only for those psychological-physiological phenomena in which the subject manifestingthem is in a condition closely resembling sleep. The trouble is that in any attempt to study these variouspsychological powers of the human constitution it is found that they are many and of divers kinds; butthe public, and even the technical experimenters, usually group all these psychologicalphenomena under the one word hypnotism, and therefore it is a misnomer. One of such powers, forinstance, which is well known, is called fascination. Another shows a more or less complete suspensionof the individual will and of the individual activities of him who is the sufferer from such psychologicalpower, although in other respects he may show no signs of physical sleep. Another again -- and thisperhaps is the most important of all so far as actual dangers lie -- passes under the name of suggestion, anexceedingly good name, because it describes the field of action of perhaps the most subtle and dangerousside-branch of the exercise of the general power or force emanating from the mind of the operator.The whole foundation upon which this power rests lies in the human psychological constitution; and itcan be easily and neatly expressed in a few words. It is the power emanating from one mind, which canaffect another mind and direct or misdirect the latter's course of action. This is in nine hundred andninety-nine times out of a thousand a wrong thing to do; and this fact would readily be understood byeverybody did men know, as they should, the difference between the higher and the lower nature of man,the difference between his incorruptible, death-defying individuality, his spiritual nature, on the onehand; and, on the other hand, the brain-mind and all its train of weak and fugitive thoughts.Anyone who has seen men and women in the state of hypnosis must realize not only how dangerous,how baleful and wrong it is, but also that it exemplifies the trance state perfectly. The reason is that theintermediate nature, or the psychomental apparatus, of the human being in this state has been displacedfrom its seat, in other words, is disjoined or dislocated; and there remains but the vitalized human body,with its more or less imperfect functioning of the brain cells and nervous apparatus. H. P. Blavatsky inher Theosophical Glossary writes: "It is the most dangerous of practices, morally and physically, as itinterferes with the nerve-fluid and the nerves controlling the circulation in the capillary blood-vessels."(See also Mesmerism)
idealised ::: brought under the control or influence of ideality; rendered "perfectly & spontaneously true & luminous".
If biological scientists recognize that inner and invisible worlds are the noumenal causes of the exterior or physical world, the difficulty in reconciling the perfectly true adage “nature makes no jumps,” would then vanish; they would then see that the physical plane in its manifestation is the effect of inner and driving causes, and that what appears separate on the physical plane is only so because it is the plane of bodies of a physically material character. Indeed, had we the percipient vision to see it and therefore to know it, we should perceive that even this apparently discrete physical plane, broken up as it apparently is into uncounted myriads of different entities, is really itself no exception to nature’s rule of unbroken continuity throughout; for even the apparently separate entities composing the physical plane are inextricably woven together into a vast web of life by the underlying substances of nature and the ever-active and continuously moving forces which are physical nature itself.
If we would understand the difference of this global Overmind Consciousness from our separative and only imperfectly synthetic mental consciousness, we may come near to it if we compare the strictly mental with what would be an overmental view of activities in our material universe. To the Overmind, for example, all religions would be true as developments of the one eternal religion, all philosophies would be valid each in its own field as a statement of its own universe-view from its own angle, all political theories with their practice would be the legitimate working out of an Idea Force with its right to application and practical development in the play of the energies of Nature. In our separative consciousness, imperfectly visited by glimpses of catholicity and universality, these things exist as opposites; each claims to be the truth and taxes the others with error and falsehood, each feels impelled to refute or destroy the others in order that itself alone may be the Truth and live: at best, each must claim to be superior, admit all others only as inferior truth-expressions. An overmental Intelligence would refuse to entertain this conception or this drift to exclusiveness for a moment; it would allow all to live as necessary to the whole or put each in its place in the whole or assign to each its field of realisation or of endeavour. This is because in us consciousness has come down completely into the divisions of the Ignorance; Truth is no longer either an Infinite or a cosmic whole with many possible formulations, but a rigid affirmation holding any other affirmation to be false because different from itself and entrenched in other limits. Our mental consciousness can indeed arrive in its cognition at a considerable approach towards a total comprehensiveness and catholicity, but to organise that in action and life seems to be beyond its power. Evolutionary Mind, manifest in individuals or collectivities, throws up a multiplicity of divergent viewpoints, divergent lines of action and lets them work themselves out side by side or in collision or in a certain intermixture; it can make selective harmonies, but it cannot arrive at the harmonic control of a true totality. Cosmic Mind must have even in the evolutionary Ignorance, like all totalities, such a harmony, if only of arranged accords and discords; there is too in it an underlying dynamism of oneness: but it carries the completeness of these things in its depths, perhaps in a supermind-overmind substratum, but does not impart it to individual Mind in the evolution, does not bring it or has not yet brought it from the depths to the surface. An Overmind world would be a world of harmony; the world of Ignorance in which we live is a world of disharmony and struggle. …
inconcocted ::: a. --> Imperfectly digested, matured, or ripened.
Indian Aesthetics: Art in India is one of the most diversified subjects. Sanskrit silpa included all crafts, fine art, architecture and ornament, dancing, acting, music and even coquetry. Behind all these endeavors is a deeprooted sense of absolute values derived from Indian philosophy (q.v.) which teaches the incarnation of the divine (Krsna, Shiva, Buddha), the transitoriness of life (cf. samsara), the symbolism and conditional nature of the phenomenal (cf. maya). Love of splendour and exaggerated greatness, dating back to Vedic (q.v.) times mingled with a grand simplicity in the conception of ultimate being and a keen perception and nature observation. The latter is illustrated in examples of verisimilous execution in sculpture and painting, the detailed description in a wealth of drama and story material, and the universal love of simile. With an urge for expression associated itself the metaphysical in its practical and seemingly other-worldly aspects and, aided perhaps by the exigencies of climate, yielded the grotesque as illustrated by the cave temples of Ellora and Elephanta, the apparent barbarism of female ornament covering up all organic beauty, the exaggerated, symbol-laden representations of divine and thereanthropic beings, a music with minute subdivisions of scale, and the like. As Indian philosophy is dominated by a monistic, Vedantic (q.v.) outlook, so in Indian esthetics we can notice the prevalence of an introvert unitary, soul-centric, self-integrating tendency that treats the empirical suggestively and by way of simile, trying to stylize the natural in form, behavior, and expression. The popular belief in the immanence as well as transcendence of the Absolute precludes thus the possibility of a complete naturalism or imitation. The whole range of Indian art therefore demands a sharing and re-creation of absolute values glimpsed by the artist and professedly communicated imperfectly. Rules and discussions of the various aspects of art may be found in the Silpa-sastras, while theoretical treatments are available in such works as the Dasarupa in dramatics, the Nrtya-sastras in dancing, the Sukranitisara in the relation of art to state craft, etc. Periods and influences of Indian art, such as the Buddhist, Kushan, Gupta, etc., may be consulted in any history of Indian art. -- K.F.L.
Inner God ::: Mystics of all the ages have united in teaching this fact of the existence and ever-present power of anindividual inner god in each human being, as the first principle or primordial energy governing theprogress of man out of material life into the spiritual. Indeed, the doctrine is so perfectly universal, and isso consistent with everything that man knows when he reflects over the matter of his own spiritual andintellectual nature, that it is small wonder that this doctrine should have acquired foremost place inhuman religious and philosophical consciousness. Indeed, it may be called the very foundation-stone onwhich were builded the great systems of religious and philosophical thinking of the past; and rightly so,because this doctrine is founded on nature herself.The inner god in man, man's own inner, essential divinity, is the root of him, whence flow forth ininspiring streams into the psychological apparatus of his constitution all the inspirations of genius, all theurgings to betterment. All powers, all faculties, all characteristics of individuality, which blossomthrough evolution into individual manifestation, are the fruitage of the working in man's constitution ofthose life-giving and inspiring streams of spiritual energy.The radiant light which streams forth from that immortal center or core of our inmost being, which is ourinner god, lightens the pathway of each one of us; and it is from this light that we obtain idealconceptions. It is by this radiant light in our hearts that we can guide our feet towards an ever largerfulfilling in daily life of the beautiful conceptions which we as mere human beings dimly or clearlyperceive, as the case may be.The divine fire which moves through universal Nature is the source of the individualized divine firecoming from man's inner god.The modern Christians of a mystical bent of mind call the inner god the Christ Immanent, the immanentChristos; in Buddhism it is called the living Buddha within; in Brahmanism it is spoken of as the Brahmain his Brahmapura or Brahma-city, which is the inner constitution.Hence, call it by what name you please, the reflective and mystical mind intuitively realizes that thereworks through him a divine flame, a divine life, a divine light, and that this by whatever name we maycall it, is himself, his essential SELF. (See also God)
Inspiration ::: “Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge; it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.” The Hour of God
Inspiration ::: Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast & eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 12, Page: 423
In the New Testament Belial is associated with Satan (2 Cor 6:15), although “if Belial must be personified to please our religious friends, we would be obliged to make him perfectly distinct from Satan, and to consider him as a sort of spiritual ‘Diakka’ [Kama-lokic elementary]. The demonographers, however, who enumerate nine distinct orders of daimonia, make him chief of the third class — a set of hobgoblins, mischievous and good-for-nothing” (IU 2:482).
intuitionistic logic ::: (logic, mathematics) Brouwer's foundational theory of mathematics which says that you should not count a proof of (There exists x such that P(x)) valid proof of (A or B) is valid only if it actually exhibits either a proof of A or a proof of B.In intuitionism, you cannot in general assert the statement (A or not-A) (the principle of the excluded middle); (A or not-A) is not proven unless you have a proof of A or a proof of not-A. If A happens to be undecidable in your system (some things certainly will be), then there will be no proof of (A or not-A).This is pretty annoying; some kinds of perfectly healthy-looking examples of proof by contradiction just stop working. Of course, excluded middle is a theorem of classical logic (i.e. non-intuitionistic logic). .(2001-03-18)
intuitionistic logic "logic, mathematics" Brouwer's foundational theory of mathematics which says that you should not count a proof of (There exists x such that P(x)) valid unless the proof actually gives a method of constructing such an x. Similarly, a proof of (A or B) is valid only if it actually exhibits either a proof of A or a proof of B. In intuitionism, you cannot in general assert the statement (A or not-A) (the principle of the {excluded middle}); (A or not-A) is not proven unless you have a proof of A or a proof of not-A. If A happens to be {undecidable} in your system (some things certainly will be), then there will be no proof of (A or not-A). This is pretty annoying; some kinds of perfectly healthy-looking examples of {proof by contradiction} just stop working. Of course, excluded middle is a theorem of {classical logic} (i.e. non-intuitionistic logic). {History (http://britanica.com/bcom/eb/article/3/0,5716,118173+14+109826,00.html)}. (2001-03-18)
Invisible Worlds ::: The ancient wisdom teaches that the universe is not only a living organism, but that physical humanbeings live in intimate connection, in intimate contact, with invisible spheres, with invisible andintangible realms, unknown to man because the physical senses are so imperfectly evolved that weneither see these invisible realms nor feel nor hear nor smell nor taste them, nor cognize them except bythat much more highly evolved and subtle sensorium which men call the mind. These inner realmsinterpenetrate our physical sphere, permeate it, so that in our daily affairs as we go about our duties weactually pass through the dwellings, through the mountains, through the lakes, through the very beings,mayhap, of the entities of and dwelling in these invisible realms. These invisible realms are built ofmatter just as this our physical world is, but of a more ethereal matter than ours is; but we cognize themnot at all with our physical senses. The explanation is that it is all a matter of differing rates of vibrationof substances.The reader must be careful not to confuse this theosophical teaching of inner worlds and spheres withwhat the modern Spiritism of the Occident has to say on the matter. The "Summerland" of the Spiritistsin no wise resembles the actuality which the theosophical philosophy teaches of, the doctrine concerningthe structure and operations of the visible and invisible kosmos. The warning seems necessary lest anunwary reader may imagine that the invisible worlds and spheres of the theosophical teachings areidentic with the Summerland of the Spiritists, for it is not so.Our senses tell us absolutely nothing of the far-flung planes and spheres which belong to the ranges andfunctionings of the invisible substances and energies of the universe; yet those inner and invisible planesand spheres are actually inexpressibly more important than what our physical senses tell us of thephysical world, because these invisible planes are the causal realms, of which our physical world oruniverse, however far extended in space, is but the effectual or phenomenal or resultant production.But while these inner and invisible worlds or planes or spheres are the fountainhead, ultimately, of all theenergies and matters of the whole physical world, yet to an entity inhabiting these inner and invisibleworlds or planes, these latter are as substantial and "real" -- using the popular word -- to that entity as ourgross physical world is to us. Just as we know in our physical world various grades or conditions ofenergy and matter, from the physically grossest to the most ethereal, precisely after the same general plando the inhabitants of these invisible and inner and to us superior worlds know and cognize their owngrossest and also most ethereal substances and energies.Man as well as all the other entities of the universe is inseparably connected with these worlds invisible.
Ishin Suden. (以心崇傳) (1569-1633). Japanese ZEN master in the RINZAISHu. Suden was born in Kii (present-day Wakayama prefecture) and, while still a youth, left home to become a monk at the Zen monastery of NANZENJI. In 1608, he was appointed the scribe of the new shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616). Suden was put in charge of foreign correspondence and was also given the important title of soroku, or registrar general of monks. As soroku, Suden established the hatto ("laws") for temples and monasteries and put them under the direct control of the bakufu government. Suden thus came to be known as the kokui no saisho, or "black-robed minister." With the assistance of the bakufu, Suden also restored Nanzenji to its former glory. Konchi'in, the name of Suden's residences at both Nanzenji and Edo, came to be synonymous with Suden and his policies. After Ieyasu's death, Suden continued to assist the second shogun Tokugawa Hidetada (1579-1632) in political and religious affairs. In 1626, Suden was given the honorary title Ensho Honko kokushi (State Preceptor Perfectly Illuminating, Original Radiance) from Emperor Gomizunoo (r. 1611-1629). His diary, the Honko kokushi nikki, is a valuable source for studying the sociopolitical history of the early Tokugawa bakufu. Suden also left a collection of poems known as the Kanrin gohoshu.
"It is He that has gone abroad — That which is bright, bodi-less, without scar of imperfection, without sinews, pure, unpierced by evil. The Seer, the Thinker,(1) the One who becomes everywhere, the Self-existent has ordered objects perfectly according to their nature from years sempiternal.” The Upanishads
“It is He that has gone abroad—That which is bright, bodi-less, without scar of imperfection, without sinews, pure, unpierced by evil. The Seer, the Thinker,(1) the One who becomes everywhere, the Self-existent has ordered objects perfectly according to their nature from years sempiternal.” The Upanishads
jNānasattva. (T. ye shes sems dpa'). In Sanskrit, "knowledge being;" in later tantric visualization practice, one is first instructed to create a visualized image, called the "pledge being" (SAMAYASATTVA), of the deity (DEVATĀ) being propitiated. Once that image is perfectly visualized, the true form of the deity, called the "knowledge being," is invited to come from his or her abode and fuse with the visualized form created by the meditator during the SĀDHANA ritual.
lientery ::: n. --> A diarrhea, in which the food is discharged imperfectly digested, or with but little change.
lisp ::: v. i. --> To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.
To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.
To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid. ::: v. t.
live data 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it. One use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings to program keys; this can be used to write live data that, when listed to the terminal, infects it with a security-breaking {virus} that is triggered the next time a hapless user strikes that key. For another, there are some well-known bugs in {vi} that allow certain texts to send arbitrary commands back to the machine when they are simply viewed. 2. In {C}, data that includes pointers to functions (executable code). 3. An object, such as a {trampoline}, that is constructed on the fly by a program and intended to be executed as code. 4. Actual real-world data, as opposed to "test data". For example, "I think I have the record deletion module finished." "Have you tried it out on live data?" This usage usually carries the connotation that live data is more fragile and must not be corrupted, or bad things will happen. So a more appropriate response to the above claim might be: "Well, make sure it works perfectly before we throw live data at it." The implication here is that record deletion is something pretty significant, and a haywire record-deletion module running amok on live data would probably cause great harm. [{Jargon File}]
Lorem ipsum "text" A common piece of text used as mock-{content} when testing a given page layout or {font}. The following text is often used: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetaur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum." This continues at length and variously. The text is not really Greek, but badly garbled Latin. It started life as extracted phrases from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of Cicero's "De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" ("The Extremes of Good and Evil"), which read: Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur? At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate non provident, similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga. Et harum quidem rerum facilis est et expedita distinctio. Nam libero tempore, cum soluta nobis est eligendi optio cumque nihil impedit quo minus id quod maxime placeat facere possimus, omnis voluptas assumenda est, omnis dolor repellendus. Temporibus autem quibusdam et aut officiis debitis aut rerum necessitatibus saepe eveniet ut et voluptates repudiandae sint et molestiae non recusandae. Itaque earum rerum hic tenetur a sapiente delectus, ut aut reiciendis voluptatibus maiores alias consequatur aut perferendis doloribus asperiores repellat. Translation: But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains. -- Translation by H. Rackham, from his 1914 edition of De Finibus. However, since textual fidelity was unimportant to the goal of having {random} text to fill a page, it has degraded over the centuries, into "Lorem ipsum...". The point of using this text, or some other text of incidental intelligibility, is that it has a more-or-less normal (for English and Latin, at least) distribution of ascenders, descenders, and word-lengths, as opposed to just using "abc 123 abc 123", "Content here content here", or the like. The text is often used when previewing the layout of a document, as the use of more understandable text would distract the user from the layout being examined. A related technique is {greeking}. {Lorem Ipsum - All the facts (http://lipsum.com/)}. (2006-09-18)
lossless "algorithm, compression" A term describing a data {compression} {algorithm} which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression. {Unix} {compress} and {GNU} {gzip} perform lossless compression. Opposite: {lossy}. (1995-03-29)
lossless ::: (algorithm, compression) A term describing a data compression algorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression.Unix compress and GNU gzip perform lossless compression.Opposite: lossy. (1995-03-29)
Madhav: “The earth is imaged to be travelling upon some wheel and it is a ‘jewelled wheel’, a perfectly designed, intricately constructed wheel. It is speeding and the earth is a prisoner of that speed.
mahāpurusalaksana. (P. mahāpurisalakkhana; T. skyes bu chen po'i mtshan; C. darenxiang; J. daininso; K. taeinsang 大人相). In Sanskrit, "the marks of a great man," sometimes referred to in English as the "major marks"; a list of thirty-two marks (dvātriMsadvaralaksana) possessed by both buddhas and "wheel-turning emperors" (CAKRAVARTIN); such beings possess in addition eighty minor marks (ANUVYANJANA). These marks are understood to be the karmic result of countless eons of effort on the path to either worldly or spiritual perfection (viz., ANUTTARASAMYAKSAMBODHI). These are said to be fully present on the body of a buddha, especially in the SAMBHOGAKĀYA, with similitudes of the marks found on the body of cakravartin. Each of the marks is said to result from the practice of a specific virtue in past lives, and elaborate commentary is provided on some of the marks, especially the UsnĪsA and the uRnĀ. Although the lists vary considerably, they typically include (1) supratisthitapāda-his feet stand firmly on the ground; (2) adhastāt pādatalayos cakre jāte-he has thousand-spoked wheels on the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet; (3) āyatapādapārsni-the heels of his feet are broad; (4) dīrghānguli-he has long fingers; (5) mṛdutarunahastapāda-his hands and feet are smooth; (6) jālahastapāda-his hands and feet are webbed; (7) ucchankhapāda-his legs are long; (8) aineyajangha-he has thighs like an antelope; (9) sthitānavanata-pralambabāhu-his arms extend below the knees; (10) kosopagata-vastiguhya-his penis is retracted; (11) suvarnavarna-his complexion is golden; (12) suksmachavi-his skin is smooth (so that no dust clings to his body); (13) ekaikaroma-he has one hair in each pore of his body; (14) urdhvāgraroma-the hairs of his body point upward; (15) bṛhadṛju-gātra-his body is tall and straight; (16) saptotsada-the seven parts of his body are well-proportioned; (17) siMhapurvārdhakāya-the upper part of his body is like a lion's; (18) citāntarāMsa-he has broad shoulders; (19) nyagrodhaparimandala-his body and limbs are perfectly proportionate and thus shaped like a fig tree; (20) susaMvṛttaskandha-he has full, round shoulders; (21) rasarasāgra-he has an excellent sense of taste; (22) siMhahanu-he has a jaw like a lion's; (23) catvāriMsaddanta-he has forty teeth; (24) samadanta-his teeth are even; (25) aviraladanta-his teeth are evenly spaced; (26) susukladaMstra-his teeth are white; (27) prabhutajihva-his tongue is long and broad; (28) brahmasvara-his voice is like that of BRAHMĀ; (29) abhinīlanetra-his eyes are deep blue; (30) gopaksma-his eyelashes are like those of a bull; (31) urnā or uRnĀKEsA-he has a white tuft of hair between his eyebrows; and (32) usnīsasīrsa-he has a protrusion on the crown of the head. See also RĀstRAPĀLAPARIPṚCCHĀ.
Market power – Where a firm is said to be a price setter. Market power benefits the powerful at the expense of others. When firms have market power over prices, they can use this to raise prices and profits above the perfectly competitive level. Other things being equal, the firm will gain at the expense of the consumer. Similarly, if consumers or workers have market power, they can use this to their own benefit.
maturation ::: n. --> The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.
“means man whose frame is built up, finished and decorated without the least noise. But the materials had to be found, gathered together and fashioned in other and distant places. . . . Man could not have his bodily temple to live in until all the matter in and about his world had been found by the Master, who is the inner man, when found the plans for working it required to be detailed. They then had to be carried out in different detail until all the parts should be perfectly ready and fit for placing in the final structure. So in the vast stretch of time which began after the first almost intangible matter had been gathered and kneaded, the material and vegetable kingdoms had sole possession here with the Master — man — who was hidden from sight within carrying forward the plans for the foundations of the human temple. All of this requires many, many ages, since we know that nature never leaps. And when the rough work was completed, when the human temple was erected, many more ages would be required for all the servants, the priests, and the counselors to learn their parts properly so that man, the Master, might be able to use the temple for its best and highest purposes” (Ocean 20).
Mind and life in the body are in the state of Death because by Ignorance they fail to realise Sachchidananda. Realising perfectly Sachchidananda, they can convert themselves, Mind into the nature of the Truth, vijnana, Life into the nature of caitanya, Body into the nature of sat, that is, into the pure essence. When this cannot be done perfectly in the body, the soul realises its true state in other forms of existence or worlds, the sunlit worlds and states of felicity, and returns upon material existence to complete its evolution in the body. A progressively perfect realisation [of Sachchidananda] in the body is the aim of human evolution.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 17, Page: 41-42
misreform ::: v. t. --> To reform wrongly or imperfectly.
misregulate ::: v. t. --> To regulate wrongly or imperfectly; to fail to regulate.
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missit ::: v. t. --> To sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome.
Mitra ::: "the Friend of all beings", a Vedic god, one of the Four who represent the "working of the Truth in the human mind and temperament"; he is the lord of the luminous harmony by which "the manifold workings of the Truth agree together in a perfectly wedded union".
Mohe zhiguan. (J. Makashikan; K. Maha chigwan 摩訶止觀). In Chinese, "The Great Calming and Contemplation"; a comprehensive treatise on soteriological theory and meditation according to the TIANTAI ZONG; attributed to TIANTAI ZHIYI (538-597). The Mohe zhiguan is based on a series of lectures Zhiyi delivered in 594, which were transcribed and edited by his disciple GUANDING. Zhi (lit. "stopping") is the Chinese translation for sAMATHA (calmness, serenity) and guan (lit. "observation") is the Chinese for VIPAsYANĀ (insight); the work as a whole seeks to establish a proper balance between meditative practice and philosophical insight. Zhi and guan practice are treated in three different ways in this treatise. Zhi in its denotation of "stopping" means calming the mind so that it is not buffeted by distracting thoughts; fixing the mind so that it stays focused on the present; and recognizing that distraction and concentration are both manifestations of a unitary, nondual reality. Guan in its denotation of "observation" means to illuminate the illusory nature of thought so that distractions are brought to an end; to have insight into the suchness (TATHATĀ) that is the ultimate nature of all phenomena in the universe; and to recognize that in suchness both insight and noninsight ultimately are identical. The original text of the Mohe zhiguan consists of ten chapters, but only the titles of the last three chapters survive. The last extant chapter, Chapter 7 on "Proper Contemplation," comprises approximately half of the entire treatise and, as the title suggests, provides a detailed description of the ten modes of contemplation and the ten spheres of contemplation. The first of the ten spheres of contemplation is called "the realm of the inconceivable" (S. ACINTYA). In his discussion of this realm in the first part of the fifth roll, Zhiyi covers one of the most famous of Tiantai doctrines: "the TRICHILIOCOSM in a single instant of thought" (YINIAN SANQIAN), which Zhiyi frames here as the "the trichiliocosm contained in the mind during an instant of thought" (sanqian zai yinian xin), viz., that any given thought-moment perfectly encompasses all reality, both temporally and spatially. By emphatically noting the "inconceivable" ability of the mind to contain the trichiliocosm, Zhiyi sought to emphasize the importance and mystery of the mind during the practice of meditation. This chapter, however, remains incomplete. The work also offers an influential presentation of the "four SAMĀDHIs," that is, the samādhis of constant sitting, constant walking, both sitting and walking, and neither sitting nor walking. Along with Zhiyi's FAHUA XUANYI and FAHUA WENJU, the Mohe zhiguan is considered to be one of the three most important treatises in the Tiantai tradition and is regarded as Zhiyi's magnum opus. The Tiantai monk ZHANRAN's MOHE ZHIGUAN FUXING ZHUANHONG JUE is considered to be the most authoritative commentary on the Mohe zhiguan.
mump ::: v. i. --> To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.
To talk imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly; to chatter unintelligibly.
To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
To be sullen or sulky. ::: v. t.
munge /muhnj/ 1. A derogatory term meaning to imperfectly transform information. 2. A comprehensive rewrite of a routine, data structure or the whole program. This term is often confused with {mung} and may derive from it, or possibly vice-versa. One correspondent believes it derives from the french "mange" /monzh/, eat. [{Jargon File}] (2002-04-15)
munge ::: /muhnj/ 1. A derogatory term meaning to imperfectly transform information.2. A comprehensive rewrite of a routine, data structure or the whole program.This term is often confused with mung and may derive from it, or possibly vice-versa. One correspondent believes it derives from the french mange /monzh/, eat.[Jargon File](2002-04-15)
Music of the Spheres An extremely archaic teaching repeated by Pythagoras, and therefore in the West commonly associated with his doctrine, for he taught that the world had been called forth out of Chaos by sound or harmony, and that the universe is constructed on harmonic proportions. He further taught that the planets were arranged in relation to each other and to the Sun in the progression of a musical scale; thus the distance of the Moon from the Earth was called a tone, from Moon to Mercury half a tone, Mercury to Venus half a tone, Venus to Sun one and a half tones, Sun to Mars a tone, Mars to Jupiter half a tone, Jupiter to Saturn half a tone, Saturn to the zodiac a tone — thus completing the seven tones of the scale or the diapason-harmony, as it is reported that Pythagoras reckoned — although the actual addition of the half-tones and tones includes only 6 1/2 tones. As Censorinus (De die natali 13) expressed it, “the intervals correspond to musical diastemes, rendering various sounds, so perfectly consonant, that they produce the sweetest melody, which is inaudible to us, only by reason of the greatness of the sound, which our ears are incapable of receiving” (SD 1:433).
Nature Spirits Those imperfectly evolved elementals or elemental spirits which in their unthinkably vast aggregate form the entire background of all the manifested cosmos in its seven-, ten-, or twelve-fold ranges of being. The beings in hierarchies further advanced in evolution than the human kingdom are termed dhyani-chohans. The nature spirits of the three higher cosmic planes are of incomprehensibly greater power as well as even possibly of lofty spiritual and intellectual development than those of the four lower cosmic planes, although unevolved monads or spiritual elementals exist in multitudinous hosts on these three spiritual cosmic planes likewise. Hence it is that the harmonious work of all the cosmic planes depends upon their interactions and interrelations, under the guidance of highly evolved cosmic spirits or dhyani-chohans. The nature spirits therefore are as much present and active in the visible world as they are in the invisible spheres.
neuter ::: a. --> Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.
Intransitive; as, a neuter verb.
Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones;
“No system of Yoga should ever be practiced unless under the direct teaching of one who knows the dangers of meddling with the psycho-mental apparatus of the human constitution, for dangers lurk at every step, and the meddler in these things is likely to bring disaster upon himself, both in matters of health and as regards sane mental equilibrium. The higher branches of Yoga, however, such as the Raja-Yoga and Jnana-Yoga, implying strict spiritual and intellectual discipline combined with a fervid love for all beings, are perfectly safe. It is, however, the ascetic practices, etc., and the teachings that go with them, wherein lies the danger to the unwary, and they should be carefully avoided” (OG 183).
obscure ::: superl. --> Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim.
Of or pertaining to darkness or night; inconspicuous to the sight; indistinctly seen; hidden; retired; remote from observation; unnoticed.
Not noticeable; humble; mean.
Not easily understood; not clear or legible; abstruse or blind; as, an obscure passage or inscription.
obscurity ::: 1. Deficiency or absence of light; darkness. 2. The quality or condition of being imperfectly known or difficult to understand. obscurities.
obsolete ::: a. --> No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances.
Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive. ::: v. i.
One may assert that the human brain, capable of forming ideas, does so not prior to or independently of the rest of the natural world, but in relation to it, moved and stimulated by its manifold content. Ideas reflect things, but the reflection, like everything else, is dialectical, not inert, but active. Ideas grow out of and lead back to things, sometimes very circuitously; things may be reflected fancifully, by abstraction or in new combinations as well as directly. While there is a perfectly objective reality to reflect, the reflection is never perfect: truth is absolute, but knowledge relative.
paranirvana. ::: the Supreme; Final Nirvana; when the perfectly enlightened individual is released from physical embodiment, never to return to birth in any world, high or low
parfitly ::: adv. --> Perfectly.
Perfectly contestable market - A market where there is free and costless entry and exit.
Perfectly elastic demand - Demand with an elasticity of infinity; the quantity demanded becomes zero if the price rises by the smallest amount and the quantity demanded becomes infinite if the price falls by the smallest amount.
Perfectly elastic supply - Elasticity of supply is infinite; the quantity supplied becomes zero if the price falls by the slightest amount, and the quantity supplied becomes infinite if the price rises by the slightest amount.
Perfectly inelastic demand - Demand with an elasticity of zero; the quantity demanded does not change as the price rises.
Perfectly inelastic supply - Elasticity of supply is zero; the quantity supplied does not change as the price changes.
pinfeathered ::: a. --> Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
Plato's theory of knowledge can hardly be discussed apart from his theory of reality. Through sense perception man comes to know the changeable world of bodies. This is the realm of opinion (doxa), such cognition may be more or less clear but it never rises to the level of true knowledge, for its objects are impermanent and do not provide a stable foundation for science. It is through intellectual, or rational, cognition that man discovers another world, that of immutable essences, intelligible realities, Forms or Ideas. This is the level of scientific knowledge (episteme); it is reached in mathematics and especially in philosophy (Repub. VI, 510). The world of intelligible Ideas contains the ultimate realities from which the world of sensible things has been patterned. Plato experienced much difficulty in regard to the sort of existence to be attributed to his Ideas. Obviously it is not the crude existence of physical things, nor can it be merely the mental existence of logical constructs. Interpretations have varied from the theory of the Christian Fathers (which was certainly not that of Plato himself) viz , that the Ideas are exemplary Causes in God's Mind, to the suggestion of Aristotle (Metaphysics, I) that they are realized, in a sense, in the world of individual things, but are apprehended only by the intellect The Ideas appear, however, particularly in the dialogues of the middle period, to be objective essences, independent of human minds, providing not only the foundation for the truth of human knowledge but afso the ontological bases for the shadowy things of the sense world. Within the world of Forms, there is a certain hierarchy. At the top, the most noble of all, is the Idea of the Good (Repub. VII), it dominates the other Ideas and they participate in it. Beauty, symmetry and truth are high-ranking Ideas; at times they are placed almost on a par with the Good (Philebus 65; also Sympos. and Phaedrus passim). There are, below, these, other Ideas, such as those of the major virtues (wisdom, temperance, courage, justice and piety) and mathematical terms and relations, such as equality, likeness, unlikeness and proportion. Each type or class of being is represented by its perfect Form in the sphere of Ideas, there is an ideal Form of man, dog, willow tree, of every kind of natural object and even of artificial things like beds (Repub. 596). The relationship of the "many" objects, belonging to a certain class of things in the sense world, to the "One", i.e. the single Idea which is their archetype, is another great source of difficulty to Plato. Three solutions, which are not mutually exclusive, are suggested in the dialogues (1) that the many participate imperfectly in the perfect nature of their Idea, (2) that the many are made in imitation of the One, and (3) that the many are composed of a mixture of the Limit (Idea) with the Unlimited (matter).
pratyekabuddha. (P. paccekabuddha; T. rang sangs rgyas; C. yuanjue/dujue; J. engaku/dokukaku; K. yon'gak/tokkak 覺/獨覺). In Sanskrit, "individually enlightened one" or "solitary buddha"; an ARHAT who becomes enlightened through his own efforts without receiving instruction from a buddha in his final lifetime. Unlike the "perfectly enlightened buddhas" (SAMYAKSAMBUDDHA), the pratyekabuddha refrains from teaching others about his experience because he has neglected to develop the same degree of great compassion (MAHĀKARUnĀ) that motivates the samyaksaMbuddhas. Even though he does not teach others, he may still guide by example, or through the use of gestures. Pratyekabuddhas are also distinguished from those who achieve the goal of arhat via the sRĀVAKA ("disciple") path, because srāvakas are unable to achieve enlightenment on their own and must be instructed in the principles of Buddhism in order to succeed in their practice. A pratyekabuddha is also distinguished from the srāvaka by the duration of his path: the pratyekabuddha path is longer because he must accumulate the necessary amount of merit (PUnYA) to allow him to achieve liberation without relying on a teacher in his final lifetime. A pratyekabuddha is said to achieve liberation through contemplation of the principle of dependent origination (PRATĪTYASAMUTPĀDA), which accounts for the Chinese translation of yuanjue ("awakening via conditionality"). Two types of pratyekabuddhas are commonly enumerated in the literature: those who wander alone "like a rhinoceros" (KHAdGAVIsĀnAKALPA) and the "congregators" (VARGACĀRIN). According to the MAHĀYĀNA, the path of the pratyekabuddha, together with the path of the srāvaka, constitutes the HĪNAYĀNA, or "lesser vehicle"; these two categories are also often referred to as the "two vehicles" (C. ER SHENG) and their followers as "two-vehicle adherents." These lesser "two vehicles" contrast with the third and highest vehicle, the BODHISATTVAYĀNA.
pseudo-dipteral ::: a. --> Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column. ::: n. --> A pseudo-dipteral temple.
pseudo-metallic ::: a. --> Falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind of luster, as in minerals.
pseuso-peripteral ::: a. --> Falsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end. ::: n. --> A pseudo-peripteral temple.
puny ::: superl. --> Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty. ::: n. --> A youth; a novice.
purus.a-prakr.ti (purusha-prakriti; purusha prakriti) ::: "the great dupurusa-prakrti ality, Soul-Nature" which "in aspect separate, is inseparable", the dualism of purus.a, "a witness recipient observing experiencing Consciousness which does not appear to act but for which all these activities inside and outside us seem to be undertaken and continue" and prakr.ti,"an executive Force or an energy of Process which is seen to constitute, drive and guide all conceivable activities and to create a myriad forms visible to us and invisible and use them as stable supports for its incessant flux of action and creation". On the lower planes of existence, purus.a-prakr.ti differs from isvara-sakti in that "Purusha and Prakriti are separate powers, but Ishwara and Shakti contain each other", but at "a certain spiritual and supramental level", this dual power becomes "perfectly Two-in-one, the Master Soul with the Conscious Force within it, and its potentiality disowns all barriers and breaks through every limit"; in the perception of the world, the darsana of purus.a-prakr.ti in all things and beings rises to the vision of Kr.s.n.akali.
Pyrrhonism The philosophy of Pyrrho, the Greek Skeptic (c. 365-275 BC); also a general name for philosophic doubt. Pyrrho left no writings, but lives in those of his pupil Timon. His doctrine was that we can know nothing about reality by the use of our senses or mental faculties; against every statement its opposite may be maintained with equal justice; hence it is necessary to preserve a balanced judgment, the result of which is imperturbability, a tranquil acceptance of the events of life. The moral attitude thus engendered is somewhat like that of the Epicureans and Stoics, which has often been wrongly described as a self-centered indifference, bent upon the happiness of the individual, but this is only the negative aspect of the doctrine. His teachings approximate those of the Sankhya philosophy, and of some later philosophers — as in the doctrine of maya, that all is illusion save the divine. Whether Pyrrho himself stopped short at a suspense of judgment, or whether his teachings were imperfectly handed down by his followers, may be questioned. The ardent desire for knowledge may result in that illumination by which we becomes aware of the deceptive character of our faculties and the illusory nature of the images they create; but if our skepticism is merely the result of an intellectual disillusionment, unaccompanied by any inward vision, the result is usually selfish indifference bringing about a lapse into mere sensuality.
quite ::: v. t. & i. --> See Quit. ::: a. --> Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken.
To a great extent or degree; very; very much; considerably.
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ::: (humour) Back in the good old days - the Golden Era of computers, it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called Real Men and out that Real Men don't relate to anything, and aren't afraid of being impersonal.)But, as usual, times change. We are faced today with a world in which little old ladies can get computers in their microwave ovens, 12-year-old kids can blow danger of becoming extinct, of being replaced by high-school students with TRASH-80s.There is a clear need to point out the differences between the typical high-school junior Pac-Man player and a Real Programmer. If this difference is why it would be a mistake to replace the Real Programmers on their staff with 12-year-old Pac-Man players (at a considerable salary savings).LANGUAGESThe easiest way to tell a Real Programmer from the crowd is by the programming language he (or she) uses. Real Programmers use Fortran. Quiche Eaters use need all these abstract concepts to get their jobs done - they are perfectly happy with a keypunch, a Fortran IV compiler, and a beer.Real Programmers do List Processing in Fortran.Real Programmers do String Manipulation in Fortran.Real Programmers do Accounting (if they do it at all) in Fortran.Real Programmers do Artificial Intelligence programs in Fortran.If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in assembly language. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing.STRUCTURED PROGRAMMINGThe academics in computer science have gotten into the structured programming rut over the past several years. They claim that programs are more easily in the world won't help you solve a problem like that - it takes actual talent. Some quick observations on Real Programmers and Structured Programming:Real Programmers aren't afraid to use GOTOs.Real Programmers can write five-page-long DO loops without getting confused.Real Programmers like Arithmetic IF statements - they make the code more interesting.Real Programmers write self-modifying code, especially if they can save 20 nanoseconds in the middle of a tight loop.Real Programmers don't need comments - the code is obvious.Since Fortran doesn't have a structured IF, REPEAT ... UNTIL, or CASE statement, Real Programmers don't have to worry about not using them. Besides, they can be simulated when necessary using assigned GOTOs.Data Structures have also gotten a lot of press lately. Abstract Data Types, Structures, Pointers, Lists, and Strings have become popular in certain circles. Languages, as we all know, have implicit typing based on the first letter of the (six character) variable name.OPERATING SYSTEMSWhat kind of operating system is used by a Real Programmer? CP/M? God forbid - CP/M, after all, is basically a toy operating system. Even little old ladies and grade school students can understand and use CP/M.Unix is a lot more complicated of course - the typical Unix hacker never can remember what the PRINT command is called this week - but when it gets right systems: they send jokes around the world on UUCP-net and write adventure games and research papers.No, your Real Programmer uses OS 370. A good programmer can find and understand the description of the IJK305I error he just got in his JCL manual. A great outstanding programmer can find bugs buried in a 6 megabyte core dump without using a hex calculator. (I have actually seen this done.)OS is a truly remarkable operating system. It's possible to destroy days of work with a single misplaced space, so alertness in the programming staff is people claim there is a Time Sharing system that runs on OS 370, but after careful study I have come to the conclusion that they were mistaken.PROGRAMMING TOOLSWhat kind of tools does a Real Programmer use? In theory, a Real Programmer could run his programs by keying them into the front panel of the computer. Back the first operating system for the CDC7600 in on the front panel from memory when it was first powered on. Seymore, needless to say, is a Real Programmer.One of my favorite Real Programmers was a systems programmer for Texas Instruments. One day he got a long distance call from a user whose system had includes a keypunch and lineprinter in his toolkit, he can get along with just a front panel and a telephone in emergencies.In some companies, text editing no longer consists of ten engineers standing in line to use an 029 keypunch. In fact, the building I work in doesn't contain a system is called SmallTalk, and would certainly not talk to the computer with a mouse.Some of the concepts in these Xerox editors have been incorporated into editors running on more reasonably named operating systems - Emacs and VI being two. The the Real Programmer wants a you asked for it, you got it text editor - complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. TECO, to be precise.It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text [4]. One of the more entertaining will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine.For this reason, Real Programmers are reluctant to actually edit a program that is close to working. They find it much easier to just patch the binary object Programmer to do the job - no Quiche Eating structured programmer would even know where to start. This is called job security.Some programming tools NOT used by Real Programmers:Fortran preprocessors like MORTRAN and RATFOR. The Cuisinarts of programming - great for making Quiche. See comments above on structured programming.Source language debuggers. Real Programmers can read core dumps.Compilers with array bounds checking. They stifle creativity, destroy most of the interesting uses for EQUIVALENCE, and make it impossible to modify the operating system code with negative subscripts. Worst of all, bounds checking is inefficient.Source code maintenance systems. A Real Programmer keeps his code locked up in a card file, because it implies that its owner cannot leave his important programs unguarded [5].THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT WORKWhere does the typical Real Programmer work? What kind of programs are worthy of the efforts of so talented an individual? You can be sure that no Real or sorting mailing lists for People magazine. A Real Programmer wants tasks of earth-shaking importance (literally!).Real Programmers work for Los Alamos National Laboratory, writing atomic bomb simulations to run on Cray I supercomputers.Real Programmers work for the National Security Agency, decoding Russian transmissions.It was largely due to the efforts of thousands of Real Programmers working for NASA that our boys got to the moon and back before the Russkies.Real Programmers are at work for Boeing designing the operating systems for cruise missiles.Some of the most awesome Real Programmers of all work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Many of them know the entire operating system of the bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter.The current plan for the Galileo spacecraft is to use a gravity assist trajectory past Mars on the way to Jupiter. This trajectory passes within 80 +/-3 kilometers of the surface of Mars. Nobody is going to trust a Pascal program (or a Pascal programmer) for navigation to these tolerances.As you can tell, many of the world's Real Programmers work for the U.S. Government - mainly the Defense Department. This is as it should be. Recently, programmers and Quiche Eaters alike.) Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language.The Real Programmer might compromise his principles and work on something slightly more trivial than the destruction of life as we know it, providing Fortran, so there are a fair number of people doing graphics in order to avoid having to write COBOL programs.THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT PLAYGenerally, the Real Programmer plays the same way he works - with computers. He is constantly amazed that his employer actually pays him to do what he would be breath of fresh air and a beer or two. Some tips on recognizing Real Programmers away from the computer room:At a party, the Real Programmers are the ones in the corner talking about operating system security and how to get around it.At a football game, the Real Programmer is the one comparing the plays against his simulations printed on 11 by 14 fanfold paper.At the beach, the Real Programmer is the one drawing flowcharts in the sand.At a funeral, the Real Programmer is the one saying Poor George, he almost had the sort routine working before the coronary.In a grocery store, the Real Programmer is the one who insists on running the cans past the laser checkout scanner himself, because he never could trust keypunch operators to get it right the first time.THE REAL PROGRAMMER'S NATURAL HABITATWhat sort of environment does the Real Programmer function best in? This is an important question for the managers of Real Programmers. Considering the amount of money it costs to keep one on the staff, it's best to put him (or her) in an environment where he can get his work done.The typical Real Programmer lives in front of a computer terminal. Surrounding this terminal are:Listings of all programs the Real Programmer has ever worked on, piled in roughly chronological order on every flat surface in the office.Some half-dozen or so partly filled cups of cold coffee. Occasionally, there will be cigarette butts floating in the coffee. In some cases, the cups will contain Orange Crush.Unless he is very good, there will be copies of the OS JCL manual and the Principles of Operation open to some particularly interesting pages.Taped to the wall is a line-printer Snoopy calendar for the year 1969.Strewn about the floor are several wrappers for peanut butter filled cheese bars - the type that are made pre-stale at the bakery so they can't get any worse while waiting in the vending machine.Hiding in the top left-hand drawer of the desk is a stash of double-stuff Oreos for special occasions.Underneath the Oreos is a flowcharting template, left there by the previous occupant of the office. (Real Programmers write programs, not documentation. Leave that to the maintenance people.)The Real Programmer is capable of working 30, 40, even 50 hours at a stretch, under intense pressure. In fact, he prefers it that way. Bad response time project done on time, but creates a convenient excuse for not doing the documentation. In general:No Real Programmer works 9 to 5 (unless it's the ones at night).Real Programmers don't wear neckties.Real Programmers don't wear high-heeled shoes.Real Programmers arrive at work in time for lunch [9].A Real Programmer might or might not know his wife's name. He does, however, know the entire ASCII (or EBCDIC) code table.Real Programmers don't know how to cook. Grocery stores aren't open at three in the morning. Real Programmers survive on Twinkies and coffee.THE FUTUREWhat of the future? It is a matter of some concern to Real Programmers that the latest generation of computer programmers are not being brought up with the same ever learning Fortran! Are we destined to become an industry of Unix hackers and Pascal programmers?From my experience, I can only report that the future is bright for Real Programmers everywhere. Neither OS 370 nor Fortran show any signs of dying out, one of them has a way of converting itself back into a Fortran 66 compiler at the drop of an option card - to compile DO loops like God meant them to be.Even Unix might not be as bad on Real Programmers as it once was. The latest release of Unix has the potential of an operating system worthy of any Real in - like having the best parts of Fortran and assembly language in one place. (Not to mention some of the more creative uses for
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal "humour" Back in the good old days - the "Golden Era" of computers, it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called "Real Men" and "Quiche Eaters" in the literature). During this period, the Real Men were the ones that understood computer programming, and the Quiche Eaters were the ones that didn't. A real computer programmer said things like "DO 10 I=1,10" and "ABEND" (they actually talked in capital letters, you understand), and the rest of the world said things like "computers are too complicated for me" and "I can't relate to computers - they're so impersonal". (A previous work [1] points out that Real Men don't "relate" to anything, and aren't afraid of being impersonal.) But, as usual, times change. We are faced today with a world in which little old ladies can get computers in their microwave ovens, 12-year-old kids can blow Real Men out of the water playing Asteroids and Pac-Man, and anyone can buy and even understand their very own Personal Computer. The Real Programmer is in danger of becoming extinct, of being replaced by high-school students with {TRASH-80s}. There is a clear need to point out the differences between the typical high-school junior Pac-Man player and a Real Programmer. If this difference is made clear, it will give these kids something to aspire to -- a role model, a Father Figure. It will also help explain to the employers of Real Programmers why it would be a mistake to replace the Real Programmers on their staff with 12-year-old Pac-Man players (at a considerable salary savings). LANGUAGES The easiest way to tell a Real Programmer from the crowd is by the programming language he (or she) uses. Real Programmers use {Fortran}. Quiche Eaters use {Pascal}. Nicklaus Wirth, the designer of Pascal, gave a talk once at which he was asked how to pronounce his name. He replied, "You can either call me by name, pronouncing it 'Veert', or call me by value, 'Worth'." One can tell immediately from this comment that Nicklaus Wirth is a Quiche Eater. The only parameter passing mechanism endorsed by Real Programmers is call-by-value-return, as implemented in the {IBM 370} {Fortran-G} and H compilers. Real programmers don't need all these abstract concepts to get their jobs done - they are perfectly happy with a {keypunch}, a {Fortran IV} {compiler}, and a beer. Real Programmers do List Processing in Fortran. Real Programmers do String Manipulation in Fortran. Real Programmers do Accounting (if they do it at all) in Fortran. Real Programmers do {Artificial Intelligence} programs in Fortran. If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in {assembly language}. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing. STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING The academics in computer science have gotten into the "structured programming" rut over the past several years. They claim that programs are more easily understood if the programmer uses some special language constructs and techniques. They don't all agree on exactly which constructs, of course, and the examples they use to show their particular point of view invariably fit on a single page of some obscure journal or another - clearly not enough of an example to convince anyone. When I got out of school, I thought I was the best programmer in the world. I could write an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program, use five different computer languages, and create 1000-line programs that WORKED. (Really!) Then I got out into the Real World. My first task in the Real World was to read and understand a 200,000-line Fortran program, then speed it up by a factor of two. Any Real Programmer will tell you that all the Structured Coding in the world won't help you solve a problem like that - it takes actual talent. Some quick observations on Real Programmers and Structured Programming: Real Programmers aren't afraid to use {GOTOs}. Real Programmers can write five-page-long DO loops without getting confused. Real Programmers like Arithmetic IF statements - they make the code more interesting. Real Programmers write self-modifying code, especially if they can save 20 {nanoseconds} in the middle of a tight loop. Real Programmers don't need comments - the code is obvious. Since Fortran doesn't have a structured IF, REPEAT ... UNTIL, or CASE statement, Real Programmers don't have to worry about not using them. Besides, they can be simulated when necessary using {assigned GOTOs}. Data Structures have also gotten a lot of press lately. Abstract Data Types, Structures, Pointers, Lists, and Strings have become popular in certain circles. Wirth (the above-mentioned Quiche Eater) actually wrote an entire book [2] contending that you could write a program based on data structures, instead of the other way around. As all Real Programmers know, the only useful data structure is the Array. Strings, lists, structures, sets - these are all special cases of arrays and can be treated that way just as easily without messing up your programing language with all sorts of complications. The worst thing about fancy data types is that you have to declare them, and Real Programming Languages, as we all know, have implicit typing based on the first letter of the (six character) variable name. OPERATING SYSTEMS What kind of operating system is used by a Real Programmer? CP/M? God forbid - CP/M, after all, is basically a toy operating system. Even little old ladies and grade school students can understand and use CP/M. Unix is a lot more complicated of course - the typical Unix hacker never can remember what the PRINT command is called this week - but when it gets right down to it, Unix is a glorified video game. People don't do Serious Work on Unix systems: they send jokes around the world on {UUCP}-net and write adventure games and research papers. No, your Real Programmer uses OS 370. A good programmer can find and understand the description of the IJK305I error he just got in his JCL manual. A great programmer can write JCL without referring to the manual at all. A truly outstanding programmer can find bugs buried in a 6 megabyte {core dump} without using a hex calculator. (I have actually seen this done.) OS is a truly remarkable operating system. It's possible to destroy days of work with a single misplaced space, so alertness in the programming staff is encouraged. The best way to approach the system is through a keypunch. Some people claim there is a Time Sharing system that runs on OS 370, but after careful study I have come to the conclusion that they were mistaken. PROGRAMMING TOOLS What kind of tools does a Real Programmer use? In theory, a Real Programmer could run his programs by keying them into the front panel of the computer. Back in the days when computers had front panels, this was actually done occasionally. Your typical Real Programmer knew the entire bootstrap loader by memory in hex, and toggled it in whenever it got destroyed by his program. (Back then, memory was memory - it didn't go away when the power went off. Today, memory either forgets things when you don't want it to, or remembers things long after they're better forgotten.) Legend has it that {Seymore Cray}, inventor of the Cray I supercomputer and most of Control Data's computers, actually toggled the first operating system for the CDC7600 in on the front panel from memory when it was first powered on. Seymore, needless to say, is a Real Programmer. One of my favorite Real Programmers was a systems programmer for Texas Instruments. One day he got a long distance call from a user whose system had crashed in the middle of saving some important work. Jim was able to repair the damage over the phone, getting the user to toggle in disk I/O instructions at the front panel, repairing system tables in hex, reading register contents back over the phone. The moral of this story: while a Real Programmer usually includes a keypunch and lineprinter in his toolkit, he can get along with just a front panel and a telephone in emergencies. In some companies, text editing no longer consists of ten engineers standing in line to use an 029 keypunch. In fact, the building I work in doesn't contain a single keypunch. The Real Programmer in this situation has to do his work with a "text editor" program. Most systems supply several text editors to select from, and the Real Programmer must be careful to pick one that reflects his personal style. Many people believe that the best text editors in the world were written at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center for use on their Alto and Dorado computers [3]. Unfortunately, no Real Programmer would ever use a computer whose operating system is called SmallTalk, and would certainly not talk to the computer with a mouse. Some of the concepts in these Xerox editors have been incorporated into editors running on more reasonably named operating systems - {Emacs} and {VI} being two. The problem with these editors is that Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor - complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. TECO, to be precise. It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text [4]. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine. For this reason, Real Programmers are reluctant to actually edit a program that is close to working. They find it much easier to just patch the binary {object code} directly, using a wonderful program called SUPERZAP (or its equivalent on non-IBM machines). This works so well that many working programs on IBM systems bear no relation to the original Fortran code. In many cases, the original source code is no longer available. When it comes time to fix a program like this, no manager would even think of sending anything less than a Real Programmer to do the job - no Quiche Eating structured programmer would even know where to start. This is called "job security". Some programming tools NOT used by Real Programmers: Fortran preprocessors like {MORTRAN} and {RATFOR}. The Cuisinarts of programming - great for making Quiche. See comments above on structured programming. Source language debuggers. Real Programmers can read core dumps. Compilers with array bounds checking. They stifle creativity, destroy most of the interesting uses for EQUIVALENCE, and make it impossible to modify the operating system code with negative subscripts. Worst of all, bounds checking is inefficient. Source code maintenance systems. A Real Programmer keeps his code locked up in a card file, because it implies that its owner cannot leave his important programs unguarded [5]. THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT WORK Where does the typical Real Programmer work? What kind of programs are worthy of the efforts of so talented an individual? You can be sure that no Real Programmer would be caught dead writing accounts-receivable programs in {COBOL}, or sorting {mailing lists} for People magazine. A Real Programmer wants tasks of earth-shaking importance (literally!). Real Programmers work for Los Alamos National Laboratory, writing atomic bomb simulations to run on Cray I supercomputers. Real Programmers work for the National Security Agency, decoding Russian transmissions. It was largely due to the efforts of thousands of Real Programmers working for NASA that our boys got to the moon and back before the Russkies. Real Programmers are at work for Boeing designing the operating systems for cruise missiles. Some of the most awesome Real Programmers of all work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Many of them know the entire operating system of the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft by heart. With a combination of large ground-based Fortran programs and small spacecraft-based assembly language programs, they are able to do incredible feats of navigation and improvisation - hitting ten-kilometer wide windows at Saturn after six years in space, repairing or bypassing damaged sensor platforms, radios, and batteries. Allegedly, one Real Programmer managed to tuck a pattern-matching program into a few hundred bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter. The current plan for the Galileo spacecraft is to use a gravity assist trajectory past Mars on the way to Jupiter. This trajectory passes within 80 +/-3 kilometers of the surface of Mars. Nobody is going to trust a Pascal program (or a Pascal programmer) for navigation to these tolerances. As you can tell, many of the world's Real Programmers work for the U.S. Government - mainly the Defense Department. This is as it should be. Recently, however, a black cloud has formed on the Real Programmer horizon. It seems that some highly placed Quiche Eaters at the Defense Department decided that all Defense programs should be written in some grand unified language called "ADA" ((C), DoD). For a while, it seemed that ADA was destined to become a language that went against all the precepts of Real Programming - a language with structure, a language with data types, {strong typing}, and semicolons. In short, a language designed to cripple the creativity of the typical Real Programmer. Fortunately, the language adopted by DoD has enough interesting features to make it approachable -- it's incredibly complex, includes methods for messing with the operating system and rearranging memory, and Edsgar Dijkstra doesn't like it [6]. (Dijkstra, as I'm sure you know, was the author of "GoTos Considered Harmful" - a landmark work in programming methodology, applauded by Pascal programmers and Quiche Eaters alike.) Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language. The Real Programmer might compromise his principles and work on something slightly more trivial than the destruction of life as we know it, providing there's enough money in it. There are several Real Programmers building video games at Atari, for example. (But not playing them - a Real Programmer knows how to beat the machine every time: no challenge in that.) Everyone working at LucasFilm is a Real Programmer. (It would be crazy to turn down the money of fifty million Star Trek fans.) The proportion of Real Programmers in Computer Graphics is somewhat lower than the norm, mostly because nobody has found a use for computer graphics yet. On the other hand, all computer graphics is done in Fortran, so there are a fair number of people doing graphics in order to avoid having to write COBOL programs. THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT PLAY Generally, the Real Programmer plays the same way he works - with computers. He is constantly amazed that his employer actually pays him to do what he would be doing for fun anyway (although he is careful not to express this opinion out loud). Occasionally, the Real Programmer does step out of the office for a breath of fresh air and a beer or two. Some tips on recognizing Real Programmers away from the computer room: At a party, the Real Programmers are the ones in the corner talking about operating system security and how to get around it. At a football game, the Real Programmer is the one comparing the plays against his simulations printed on 11 by 14 fanfold paper. At the beach, the Real Programmer is the one drawing flowcharts in the sand. At a funeral, the Real Programmer is the one saying "Poor George, he almost had the sort routine working before the coronary." In a grocery store, the Real Programmer is the one who insists on running the cans past the laser checkout scanner himself, because he never could trust keypunch operators to get it right the first time. THE REAL PROGRAMMER'S NATURAL HABITAT What sort of environment does the Real Programmer function best in? This is an important question for the managers of Real Programmers. Considering the amount of money it costs to keep one on the staff, it's best to put him (or her) in an environment where he can get his work done. The typical Real Programmer lives in front of a computer terminal. Surrounding this terminal are: Listings of all programs the Real Programmer has ever worked on, piled in roughly chronological order on every flat surface in the office. Some half-dozen or so partly filled cups of cold coffee. Occasionally, there will be cigarette butts floating in the coffee. In some cases, the cups will contain Orange Crush. Unless he is very good, there will be copies of the OS JCL manual and the Principles of Operation open to some particularly interesting pages. Taped to the wall is a line-printer Snoopy calendar for the year 1969. Strewn about the floor are several wrappers for peanut butter filled cheese bars - the type that are made pre-stale at the bakery so they can't get any worse while waiting in the vending machine. Hiding in the top left-hand drawer of the desk is a stash of double-stuff Oreos for special occasions. Underneath the Oreos is a flowcharting template, left there by the previous occupant of the office. (Real Programmers write programs, not documentation. Leave that to the maintenance people.) The Real Programmer is capable of working 30, 40, even 50 hours at a stretch, under intense pressure. In fact, he prefers it that way. Bad response time doesn't bother the Real Programmer - it gives him a chance to catch a little sleep between compiles. If there is not enough schedule pressure on the Real Programmer, he tends to make things more challenging by working on some small but interesting part of the problem for the first nine weeks, then finishing the rest in the last week, in two or three 50-hour marathons. This not only impresses the hell out of his manager, who was despairing of ever getting the project done on time, but creates a convenient excuse for not doing the documentation. In general: No Real Programmer works 9 to 5 (unless it's the ones at night). Real Programmers don't wear neckties. Real Programmers don't wear high-heeled shoes. Real Programmers arrive at work in time for lunch [9]. A Real Programmer might or might not know his wife's name. He does, however, know the entire {ASCII} (or EBCDIC) code table. Real Programmers don't know how to cook. Grocery stores aren't open at three in the morning. Real Programmers survive on Twinkies and coffee. THE FUTURE What of the future? It is a matter of some concern to Real Programmers that the latest generation of computer programmers are not being brought up with the same outlook on life as their elders. Many of them have never seen a computer with a front panel. Hardly anyone graduating from school these days can do hex arithmetic without a calculator. College graduates these days are soft - protected from the realities of programming by source level debuggers, text editors that count parentheses, and "user friendly" operating systems. Worst of all, some of these alleged "computer scientists" manage to get degrees without ever learning Fortran! Are we destined to become an industry of Unix hackers and Pascal programmers? From my experience, I can only report that the future is bright for Real Programmers everywhere. Neither OS 370 nor Fortran show any signs of dying out, despite all the efforts of Pascal programmers the world over. Even more subtle tricks, like adding structured coding constructs to Fortran have failed. Oh sure, some computer vendors have come out with Fortran 77 compilers, but every one of them has a way of converting itself back into a Fortran 66 compiler at the drop of an option card - to compile DO loops like God meant them to be. Even Unix might not be as bad on Real Programmers as it once was. The latest release of Unix has the potential of an operating system worthy of any Real Programmer - two different and subtly incompatible user interfaces, an arcane and complicated teletype driver, virtual memory. If you ignore the fact that it's "structured", even 'C' programming can be appreciated by the Real Programmer: after all, there's no type checking, variable names are seven (ten? eight?) characters long, and the added bonus of the Pointer data type is thrown in - like having the best parts of Fortran and assembly language in one place. (Not to mention some of the more creative uses for
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resiled ::: Sri Aurobindo: "It is a perfectly good English word, meaning originally to leap back, rebound (like an elastic) — so to draw back from, recoil, retreat (in military language it means to fall back from a position gained or to one"s original position): but it is specially used for withdrawing from a contract, agreement, previous statement.” Letters on Savitri.
rudimentary ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays.
Very imperfectly developed; in an early stage of development; embryonic.
saga "jargon" (WPI) A {cuspy} but bogus raving story about N {random} broken people. Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by {Guy Steele} (GLS): Jon L. White (login name JONL) and I (GLS) were office mates at {MIT} for many years. One April, we both flew from Boston to California for a week on research business, to consult face-to-face with some people at {Stanford}, particularly our mutual friend {Richard Gabriel} (RPG). RPG picked us up at the San Francisco airport and drove us back to {Palo Alto} (going {logical} south on route 101, parallel to {El Camino Bignum}). Palo Alto is adjacent to Stanford University and about 40 miles south of San Francisco. We ate at The Good Earth, a "health food" restaurant, very popular, the sort whose milkshakes all contain honey and protein powder. JONL ordered such a shake - the waitress claimed the flavour of the day was "lalaberry". I still have no idea what that might be, but it became a running joke. It was the colour of raspberry, and JONL said it tasted rather bitter. I ate a better tostada there than I have ever had in a Mexican restaurant. After this we went to the local Uncle Gaylord's Old Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor. They make ice cream fresh daily, in a variety of intriguing flavours. It's a chain, and they have a slogan: "If you don't live near an Uncle Gaylord's - MOVE!" Also, Uncle Gaylord (a real person) wages a constant battle to force big-name ice cream makers to print their ingredients on the package (like air and plastic and other non-natural garbage). JONL and I had first discovered Uncle Gaylord's the previous August, when we had flown to a computer-science conference in {Berkeley}, California, the first time either of us had been on the West Coast. When not in the conference sessions, we had spent our time wandering the length of Telegraph Avenue, which (like Harvard Square in Cambridge) was lined with picturesque street vendors and interesting little shops. On that street we discovered Uncle Gaylord's Berkeley store. The ice cream there was very good. During that August visit JONL went absolutely bananas (so to speak) over one particular flavour, ginger honey. Therefore, after eating at The Good Earth - indeed, after every lunch and dinner and before bed during our April visit --- a trip to Uncle Gaylord's (the one in Palo Alto) was mandatory. We had arrived on a Wednesday, and by Thursday evening we had been there at least four times. Each time, JONL would get ginger honey ice cream, and proclaim to all bystanders that "Ginger was the spice that drove the Europeans mad! That's why they sought a route to the East! They used it to preserve their otherwise off-taste meat." After the third or fourth repetition RPG and I were getting a little tired of this spiel, and began to paraphrase him: "Wow! Ginger! The spice that makes rotten meat taste good!" "Say! Why don't we find some dog that's been run over and sat in the sun for a week and put some *ginger* on it for dinner?!" "Right! With a lalaberry shake!" And so on. This failed to faze JONL; he took it in good humour, as long as we kept returning to Uncle Gaylord's. He loves ginger honey ice cream. Now RPG and his then-wife KBT (Kathy Tracy) were putting us up (putting up with us?) in their home for our visit, so to thank them JONL and I took them out to a nice French restaurant of their choosing. I unadventurously chose the filet mignon, and KBT had je ne sais quoi du jour, but RPG and JONL had lapin (rabbit). (Waitress: "Oui, we have fresh rabbit, fresh today." RPG: "Well, JONL, I guess we won't need any *ginger*!") We finished the meal late, about 11 P.M., which is 2 A.M Boston time, so JONL and I were rather droopy. But it wasn't yet midnight. Off to Uncle Gaylord's! Now the French restaurant was in Redwood City, north of Palo Alto. In leaving Redwood City, we somehow got onto route 101 going north instead of south. JONL and I wouldn't have known the difference had RPG not mentioned it. We still knew very little of the local geography. I did figure out, however, that we were headed in the direction of Berkeley, and half-jokingly suggested that we continue north and go to Uncle Gaylord's in Berkeley. RPG said "Fine!" and we drove on for a while and talked. I was drowsy, and JONL actually dropped off to sleep for 5 minutes. When he awoke, RPG said, "Gee, JONL, you must have slept all the way over the bridge!", referring to the one spanning San Francisco Bay. Just then we came to a sign that said "University Avenue". I mumbled something about working our way over to Telegraph Avenue; RPG said "Right!" and maneuvered some more. Eventually we pulled up in front of an Uncle Gaylord's. Now, I hadn't really been paying attention because I was so sleepy, and I didn't really understand what was happening until RPG let me in on it a few moments later, but I was just alert enough to notice that we had somehow come to the Palo Alto Uncle Gaylord's after all. JONL noticed the resemblance to the Palo Alto store, but hadn't caught on. (The place is lit with red and yellow lights at night, and looks much different from the way it does in daylight.) He said, "This isn't the Uncle Gaylord's I went to in Berkeley! It looked like a barn! But this place looks *just like* the one back in Palo Alto!" RPG deadpanned, "Well, this is the one *I* always come to when I'm in Berkeley. They've got two in San Francisco, too. Remember, they're a chain." JONL accepted this bit of wisdom. And he was not totally ignorant - he knew perfectly well that University Avenue was in Berkeley, not far from Telegraph Avenue. What he didn't know was that there is a completely different University Avenue in Palo Alto. JONL went up to the counter and asked for ginger honey. The guy at the counter asked whether JONL would like to taste it first, evidently their standard procedure with that flavour, as not too many people like it. JONL said, "I'm sure I like it. Just give me a cone." The guy behind the counter insisted that JONL try just a taste first. "Some people think it tastes like soap." JONL insisted, "Look, I *love* ginger. I eat Chinese food. I eat raw ginger roots. I already went through this hassle with the guy back in Palo Alto. I *know* I like that flavour!" At the words "back in Palo Alto" the guy behind the counter got a very strange look on his face, but said nothing. KBT caught his eye and winked. Through my stupor I still hadn't quite grasped what was going on, and thought RPG was rolling on the floor laughing and clutching his stomach just because JONL had launched into his spiel ("makes rotten meat a dish for princes") for the forty-third time. At this point, RPG clued me in fully. RPG, KBT, and I retreated to a table, trying to stifle our chuckles. JONL remained at the counter, talking about ice cream with the guy b.t.c., comparing Uncle Gaylord's to other ice cream shops and generally having a good old time. At length the g.b.t.c. said, "How's the ginger honey?" JONL said, "Fine! I wonder what exactly is in it?" Now Uncle Gaylord publishes all his recipes and even teaches classes on how to make his ice cream at home. So the g.b.t.c. got out the recipe, and he and JONL pored over it for a while. But the g.b.t.c. could contain his curiosity no longer, and asked again, "You really like that stuff, huh?" JONL said, "Yeah, I've been eating it constantly back in Palo Alto for the past two days. In fact, I think this batch is about as good as the cones I got back in Palo Alto!" G.b.t.c. looked him straight in the eye and said, "You're *in* Palo Alto!" JONL turned slowly around, and saw the three of us collapse in a fit of giggles. He clapped a hand to his forehead and exclaimed, "I've been hacked!" [My spies on the West Coast inform me that there is a close relative of the raspberry found out there called an "ollalieberry" - ESR] [Ironic footnote: it appears that the {meme} about ginger vs. rotting meat may be an urban legend. It's not borne out by an examination of mediaeval recipes or period purchase records for spices, and appears full-blown in the works of Samuel Pegge, a gourmand and notorious flake case who originated numerous food myths. - ESR] [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-08)
saga ::: (jargon) (WPI) A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy Steele (GLS):Jon L. White (login name JONL) and I (GLS) were office mates at MIT for many years. One April, we both flew from Boston to California for a week on research business, to consult face-to-face with some people at Stanford, particularly our mutual friend Richard Gabriel (RPG).RPG picked us up at the San Francisco airport and drove us back to Palo Alto (going logical south on route 101, parallel to El Camino Bignum). Palo Alto is raspberry, and JONL said it tasted rather bitter. I ate a better tostada there than I have ever had in a Mexican restaurant.After this we went to the local Uncle Gaylord's Old Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor. They make ice cream fresh daily, in a variety of intriguing flavours. It's a very good. During that August visit JONL went absolutely bananas (so to speak) over one particular flavour, ginger honey.Therefore, after eating at The Good Earth - indeed, after every lunch and dinner and before bed during our April visit --- a trip to Uncle Gaylord's (the one in failed to faze JONL; he took it in good humour, as long as we kept returning to Uncle Gaylord's. He loves ginger honey ice cream.Now RPG and his then-wife KBT (Kathy Tracy) were putting us up (putting up with us?) in their home for our visit, so to thank them JONL and I took them out to a (rabbit). (Waitress: Oui, we have fresh rabbit, fresh today. RPG: Well, JONL, I guess we won't need any *ginger*!)We finished the meal late, about 11 P.M., which is 2 A.M Boston time, so JONL and I were rather droopy. But it wasn't yet midnight. Off to Uncle Gaylord's!Now the French restaurant was in Redwood City, north of Palo Alto. In leaving Redwood City, we somehow got onto route 101 going north instead of south. JONL headed in the direction of Berkeley, and half-jokingly suggested that we continue north and go to Uncle Gaylord's in Berkeley.RPG said Fine! and we drove on for a while and talked. I was drowsy, and JONL actually dropped off to sleep for 5 minutes. When he awoke, RPG said, Gee, said Right! and maneuvered some more. Eventually we pulled up in front of an Uncle Gaylord's.Now, I hadn't really been paying attention because I was so sleepy, and I didn't really understand what was happening until RPG let me in on it a few moments later, but I was just alert enough to notice that we had somehow come to the Palo Alto Uncle Gaylord's after all.JONL noticed the resemblance to the Palo Alto store, but hadn't caught on. (The place is lit with red and yellow lights at night, and looks much different from in Berkeley! It looked like a barn! But this place looks *just like* the one back in Palo Alto!RPG deadpanned, Well, this is the one *I* always come to when I'm in Berkeley. They've got two in San Francisco, too. Remember, they're a chain.JONL accepted this bit of wisdom. And he was not totally ignorant - he knew perfectly well that University Avenue was in Berkeley, not far from Telegraph Avenue. What he didn't know was that there is a completely different University Avenue in Palo Alto.JONL went up to the counter and asked for ginger honey. The guy at the counter asked whether JONL would like to taste it first, evidently their standard procedure with that flavour, as not too many people like it.JONL said, I'm sure I like it. Just give me a cone. The guy behind the counter insisted that JONL try just a taste first. Some people think it tastes like ginger roots. I already went through this hassle with the guy back in Palo Alto. I *know* I like that flavour!At the words back in Palo Alto the guy behind the counter got a very strange look on his face, but said nothing. KBT caught his eye and winked. Through my launched into his spiel (makes rotten meat a dish for princes) for the forty-third time. At this point, RPG clued me in fully.RPG, KBT, and I retreated to a table, trying to stifle our chuckles. JONL remained at the counter, talking about ice cream with the guy b.t.c., comparing Uncle Gaylord's to other ice cream shops and generally having a good old time.At length the g.b.t.c. said, How's the ginger honey? JONL said, Fine! I wonder what exactly is in it? Now Uncle Gaylord publishes all his recipes and for the past two days. In fact, I think this batch is about as good as the cones I got back in Palo Alto!G.b.t.c. looked him straight in the eye and said, You're *in* Palo Alto!JONL turned slowly around, and saw the three of us collapse in a fit of giggles. He clapped a hand to his forehead and exclaimed, I've been hacked![My spies on the West Coast inform me that there is a close relative of the raspberry found out there called an ollalieberry - ESR][Ironic footnote: it appears that the meme about ginger vs. rotting meat may be an urban legend. It's not borne out by an examination of mediaeval recipes or Samuel Pegge, a gourmand and notorious flake case who originated numerous food myths. - ESR][Jargon File] (1994-12-08)
Sakwala (Sinhalese, Cakkavāḷa in Pali) Gautama Buddha uttered this “word” (bana) in his oral instructions to denote “a solar system, of which there is an infinite number in the universe, and which denotes that space to which the light of every sun extends. Each Sakwala contains earths, hells and heavens (meaning good and bad spheres, our earth being considered as hell, in Occultism); attains its prime, then falls into decay and is finally destroyed at regularly recurring periods, in virtue of one immutable law. Upon the earth, the Master taught that there have been already four great ‘continents’ (the Land of the Gods, Lemuria, Atlantis, and the present ‘continent’ divided into five parts of the Secret Doctrine), and that three more have to appear. The former ‘did not communicate with each other,’ a sentence showing that Buddha was not speaking of the actual continents known in his day (for Patala or America was perfectly familiar to the ancient Hindus), but of the four geological formations of the earth, with their four distinct root-races which had already disappeared” (TG 285). See also SAHA
Samyak-Karmanta (Sanskrit) Samyakkarmānta [from samyak perfect + karmānta accomplishment, conclusion of a sacred action] Literally, “working out perfectly the very end of one’s karmic destiny.” In Buddhism, “Right Action,” one Path of the Holy Eightfold Path.
sanguan. (J. sangan; K. samgwan 三觀). In Chinese, "threefold contemplation"; several versions of such a threefold contemplation are elaborated in Chinese exegetical traditions, of which the most influential was the TIANTAI version outlined by TIANTAI ZHIYI in his MOHE ZHIGUAN. Zhiyi's version entails a system of contemplative practice that leads to the attainment of insight into the nature of reality. Zhiyi's "threefold contemplation" consists of the contemplations of the "three truths: (SANDI): emptiness, conventional existence, and their mean (C. kong jia zhong sanguan; J. ku ge chu sangan; K. kong ka chung samgwan). The first, "contemplation on emptiness" (kongguan), is the step of practice that advances beyond naïve realism by penetrating into the conditionally constructed, and therefore insubstantial, nature of all phenomena (see suNYATĀ). The second, the "contemplation on conventionality" (jiaguan), involves the reaffirmation of the conventional existence of all phenomena, whereby a bodhisattva actively engages the world in spite of his awareness of the reality of emptiness. The third, the "contemplation of their mean" (zhongguan), is understood as a dialectical transcendence of the previous two modes of practice. This transcendence has two aspects: it is transcendent because it is neither ("the middle that negates both," C. shuangfei zhi zhong) and because it affirms both ("the middle that illuminates both," C. shuangzhao zhi zhong). It is "neither" because the middle way is not fixed exclusively on either abiding in emptiness or on wallowing in mundane existence. It is "both" because it elucidates that "emptiness" and "conventionality" are not opposing realities but are in fact mutually validating. "The threefold contemplation" is understood variously as a gradual or a simultaneous practice ("two kinds of 'threefold contemplation,'" C. erzhong sanguan; J. nishu no sangan; K. ijong samgwan). The gradual practice of the "threefold contemplation" begins with the contemplation of emptiness, advances to that of conventional existence, and culminates in the contemplation of their mean. Tiantai exegetes variously labeled this approach "the threefold contemplation" by either "graduated stages" (C. cidi sanguan; J. shidai sangan; K. ch'aje samgwan) or "differentiation" (C. biexiang sanguan; J. besso no sangan; K. pyolsang samgwan). As a simultaneous practice, all three aspects of the reality are to be contemplated simultaneously within any given instant of thought: a true understanding of "emptiness" is the same as the correct understanding of "conventional existence," for they are just different emphases of the same truth of conditionality; only an erroneous construction of "emptiness" and "conventional existence" would lead to the conclusion that they are separate, contradictory realities. This approach is variously referred to as "the threefold contemplation that does not involve graduated stages" (C. bucidi sanguan; J. fushidai sangan; K. pulch'aje samgwan), "the perfectly interfused threefold contemplation" (C. yuanrong sanguan; J. ennyu no sangan; K. wonyung samgwan), or "the threefold contemplation [that is to be conducted within] a single moment of thought" (C. yixin sanguan; J. isshin sangan; K. ilsim samgwan). See also SANZHI.
Science has not yet solved the problem of the origin of the Cromagnons. Blavatsky hints that they came indirectly from Atlantis by way of Africa: “The earliest Palaeolithic men in Europe — about whose origin Ethnology is silent, and whose very characteristics are but imperfectly known . . . were of pure Atlantean and ‘Africo’-Atlantean stocks. . . . As to the African tribes — themselves diverging offshoots of Atlanteans modified by climate and conditions — they crossed into Europe over the peninsula which made the Mediterranean an inland sea. Fine races were many of these European cave-men; the Cro-Magnon, for instance. But, as was to be expected, progress is almost non-existent through the whole of the vast period allotted by Science to the Chipped Stone-Age. The cyclic impulse downwards weighs heavily on the stocks thus transplanted — the incubus of the Atlantean Karma is upon them” (SD 2:740-1).
Science ::: When the ancient thinkers of India set themselves to study the soul of man in themselves and others, they, unlike any other nation or school of early thought, proceeded at once to a process which resembles exactly enough the process adopted by modern science in its study of physical phenomena. For their object was to study, arrange and utilise the forms, forces and working movements of consciousness, just as the modern physical Sciences study, arrange and utilize the forms, forces and working movements of objective Matter. The material with which they had to deal was more subtle, flexible and versatile than the most impalpable forces of which the physical Sciences have become aware; its motions were more elusive, its processes harder to fix; but once grasped and ascertained, the movements of consciousness were found by Vedic psychologists to be in their process and activity as regular, manageable and utilisable as the movements of physical forces. The powers of the soul can be as perfectly handled and as safely, methodically and puissantly directed to practical life-purposes of joy, power and light as the modern power of electricity can be used for human comfort, industrial and locomotive power and physical illumination; but the results to which they give room and effect are more wonderful and momentous than the results of motorpower and electric luminosity. For there is no difference of essential law in the physical and the psychical, but only a difference and undoubtedly a great difference of energy, instrumentation and exact process.
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sciolous ::: a. --> Knowing superficially or imperfectly.
semi- ::: --> A prefix signifying half, and sometimes partly or imperfectly; as, semiannual, half yearly; semitransparent, imperfectly transparent.
semicolumnar ::: a. --> Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.
semicompact ::: a. --> Half compact; imperfectly indurated.
semiconscious ::: a. --> Half conscious; imperfectly conscious.
semidiaphanous ::: a. --> Half or imperfectly transparent; translucent.
semifluid ::: a. --> Imperfectly fluid. ::: n. --> A semifluid substance.
semiformed ::: a. --> Half formed; imperfectly formed; as, semiformed crystals.
semiimute ::: a. --> Having the faculty of speech but imperfectly developed or partially lost.
semiindurated ::: a. --> Imperfectly indurated or hardened.
semilapidified ::: a. --> Imperfectly changed into stone.
semilenticular ::: a. --> Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens.
semipellucid ::: a. --> Half clear, or imperfectly transparent; as, a semipellucid gem.
semipellucidity ::: n. --> The qualiti or state of being imperfectly transparent.
semiperspicuous ::: a. --> Half transparent; imperfectly clear; semipellucid.
semitransparent ::: a. --> Half or imperfectly transparent.
semivitrification ::: n. --> The quality or state of being semivitrified.
A substance imperfectly vitrified.
semivitrified ::: a. --> Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.
semivocal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.
Shinchi Kakushin. (心地覺心) (1207-1298). Japanese ZEN teacher in the RINZAISHu, who is retrospectively regarded as the founder of the small FUKESHu branch of the Zen tradition; also known by his posthumous title HOTTo KOKUSHI. He became a monk at the age of fourteen in the SHINGONSHu esoteric tradition, and received full ordination at twenty-nine at ToDAIJI in Nara, the ancient capital of Japan. Shinchi studied esoteric teachings at KoYASAN, the headquarters of the Shingon school, and engaged in Zen training under the Rinzai master Taiko Gyoyu (1163-1241) and the SoToSHu master DoGEN KIGEN (1200-1253). Shinchi left for China in 1249 to study under the Chinese Linji master WUZHUN SHIFAN (1177-1249). Unfortunately, the master died before Shinchi arrived, so Shichi instead traveled to Hangzhou to study under WUMEN HUIKAI (1183-1260), in the YANGQI PAI of the LINJI ZONG. Wumen is said to have given Shinchi dharma transmission (CHUANFA) after just six months of training. Shinchi returned to Japan in 1254 with the master's robe and portrait, as well as a copy of the master's WUMEN GUAN, which was the first introduction of that famous GONG'AN (J. koan) collection to the Japanese isles. In present-day Wakayama prefecture, Shinchi built a monastery called Saihoji, which was later renamed Kokokuji. Shinchi resided there for the rest of his life, but often traveled to Kyoto to lecture on Buddhism before the retired monarchs Gofukakusa (r. 1246-1259), Kameyama (r. 1259-74) and Gouda (r. 1274-87). Kameyama granted him the honorary title "Hotto Zenji" (Zen Master Dharma Lamp). After his death, the Emperor Godaigo (r. 1318-1339) later bestowed on him the posthumous title of Hotto Enmyo Kokushi (State Preceptor Lamp of Dharma that is Perfectly Bright). Shinchi came to be regarded as the founder of the Fukeshu, a smaller secondary school of Japanese Zen, whose itinerant practitioners played the bamboo flute (shakuhachi) as a form of meditation and wore a distinctive bamboo hat that covered the entire face. The school was proscribed in 1871 and vanished from the scene.
Short-run supply curve - A curve showing the relationship between quantity supplied and market price, with one or more fixed factors; it is the horizontal sum of marginal cost curves (above the level of average variable costs) of all firms in a perfectly competitive industry.
silent ::: a. --> Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent.
Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable."
slubber ::: v. t. --> To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely.
To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly. ::: n. --> A slubbing machine.
smoothbore ::: a. --> Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled. ::: n. --> A smoothbore firearm.
SNAFU principle /sna'foo prin'si-pl/ [WWII Army acronym for "Situation Normal: All Fucked Up"] "True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth." - a central tenet of {Discordianism}, often invoked by hackers to explain why authoritarian hierarchies screw up so reliably and systematically. The effect of the SNAFU principle is a progressive disconnection of decision-makers from reality. This lightly adapted version of a fable dating back to the early 1960s illustrates the phenomenon perfectly: In the beginning was the plan, and then the specification; And the plan was without form, and the specification was void. And darkness was on the faces of the implementors thereof; And they spake unto their leader, saying: "It is a crock of shit, and smells as of a sewer." And the leader took pity on them, and spoke to the project leader: "It is a crock of excrement, and none may abide the odor thereof." And the project leader spake unto his section head, saying: "It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, such that none may abide it." The section head then hurried to his department manager, and informed him thus: "It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide its strength." The department manager carried these words to his general manager, and spoke unto him saying: "It containeth that which aideth the growth of plants, and it is very strong." And so it was that the general manager rejoiced and delivered the good news unto the Vice President. "It promoteth growth, and it is very powerful." The Vice President rushed to the President's side, and joyously exclaimed: "This powerful new software product will promote the growth of the company!" And the President looked upon the product, and saw that it was very good. After the subsequent disaster, the {suits} protect themselves by saying "I was misinformed!", and the implementors are demoted or fired. [{Jargon File}]
SNAFU principle ::: /sna'foo prin'si-pl/ [WWII Army acronym for Situation Normal: All Fucked Up] True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more decision-makers from reality. This lightly adapted version of a fable dating back to the early 1960s illustrates the phenomenon perfectly: In the beginning was the plan,and then the specification; was misinformed!, and the implementors are demoted or fired.[Jargon File]
Sona-Kotikanna. (S. srona-Kotikarna; T. Gro bzhin skyes rna ba bye ba; C. Yi'er; J. Okuni; K. ogi 億耳). Pāli name of an ARHAT declared by the Buddha to be foremost among monks in eloquence (S. PRATIBHĀNA; P. patibhāna). Sona's mother was Kālī Kuraragharikā and his father a wealthy merchant. He received the epithet Kotikanna (S. Kotikarna) because he wore an earring (kanna) worth a crore (KOtI). Sona's mother had become a stream-enterer (SROTAĀPANNA) on the night he was born. The monk MAHĀKĀsYAPA was a family friend and often visited the family in the town of Kuraraghara. As a young man, Sona once traveled with a caravan headed towards Ujjayinī (P. Ujjeni), but along the way got left behind. Continuing the journey alone, he encountered a hungry ghost in the form of a man eating his own flesh. He learned that in an earlier existence the ghost had been a miserly merchant who cheated his customers. He then encountered two ghosts in the form of boys spitting up blood. In a previous life they had criticized their mother for feeding an arhat. Filled with misgiving, he returned to his home and related what he had seen to Mahākāsyapa, after which he requested permission to enter the order. Mahākāsyapa immediately ordained Sona as a novice and after three years gave him the UPASAMPADĀ higher ordination as a monk (P. bhikkhu, S. BHIKsU). The delay was caused by the fact that in the outlying town of Kuraraghara it was difficult to gather the quorum of ten monks needed to perform the upasaMpadā ceremony. Sona gained preeminence for perfectly reciting the AttHAKAVAGGA for the Buddha, a text he had learned from Mahākāsyapa. To reward his skill, the Buddha granted Sona a boon. Sona requested to be allowed to ordain new monks using a quorum of only five rather than ten monks to facilitate the performance of the ritual procedure in outlying areas.
Space ::: Our universe, as popularly supposed, consists of space and matter and energy; but in theosophy we saythat space itself is both conscious and substantial. It is in fact the root of the other two, matter andenergy, which are fundamentally one thing, and this one fundamental thing is SPACE -- their essentialand also their instrumental cause as well as their substantial cause -- and this is the reality of being, theheart of things.Our teaching is that there are many universes, not merely one, our own home-universe; therefore arethere many spaces with a background of a perfectly incomprehensible greater SPACE inclosing all -- aspace which is still more ethereal, tenuous, spiritual, yes, divine, than the space-matter that we know orrather conceive of, which in its lowest aspect manifests the grossness of physical matter of commonhuman knowledge. Space, therefore, considered in the abstract, is BEING, filled full, so to say, withother entities and things, of which we see a small part -- globes innumerable, stars and planets, nebulaeand comets.But all these material bodies are but effectual products or results of the infinitudes of the invisible andinner causal realms -- by far the larger part of the spaces of Space. The space therefore of any oneuniverse is an entity -- a god. Fundamentally and essentially it is a spiritual entity, a divine entity indeed,of which we see naught but what we humans call the material and energic aspect -- behind which is thecausal life, the causal intelligence.The word is likewise frequently used in theosophical philosophy to signify the frontierless infinitudes ofthe Boundless; and because it is the very esse of life-consciousness-substance, it is incomparably morethan the mere "container" that it is so often supposed to be by Occidental philosophers. (See alsoUniverse; Milky Way)
spheroid ::: n. --> A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes.
Sri Aurobindo: "Every man is knowingly or unknowingly the instrument of a universal Power and, apart from the inner Presence, there is no such essential difference between one action and another, one kind of instrumentation and another as would warrant the folly of an egoistic pride. The difference between knowledge and ignorance is a grace of the Spirit; the breath of divine Power blows where it lists and fills today one and tomorrow another with the word or the puissance. If the potter shapes one pot more perfectly than another, the merit lies not in the vessel but the maker. The attitude of our mind must not be ‘This is my strength" or ‘Behold God"s power in me", but rather ‘A Divine Power works in this mind and body and it is the same that works in all men and in the animal, in the plant and in the metal, in conscious and living things and in things apparently inconscient and inanimate."” The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Genius is one attempt of the universal Energy to so quicken and intensify our intellectual powers that they shall be prepared for those more puissant, direct and rapid faculties which constitute the play of the supra-intellectual or divine mind. It is not, then, a freak, an inexplicable phenomenon, but a perfectly natural next step in the right line of her [Nature"s] evolution.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge; it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.” *The Hour of God
sruti (shruti; sruti; çruti) ::: hearing; inspiration, a faculty of jñana which "is of the nature of truth hearing: it is an immediate reception of the very voice of the truth, it readily brings the word that perfectly embodies it and it carries something more than the light of its idea; there is seized some stream of its inner reality and vivid arriving movement of its substance". It is an element in all the inspirational and interpretative forms of the logistic ideality and is the essence of the srauta vijñana.
STAMMER. ::: I do not think stammering has anything to do with insuflScient lung-power not is it caused by malformation of the vocal organs ; it is commonly a nervous (physico-nervous) impediment and is perfectly curable. People have used various kinds of devices to get over it, but behind them all will-power and a patient discipline of the utterance are indispensable.
stammer ::: v. i. --> To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter. ::: v. t. --> To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly; -- sometimes with out.
stock-still ::: a. --> Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still.
straightedge ::: n. --> A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines.
subconscious ::: not wholly conscious; partially or imperfectly conscious; existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness.
Sri Aurobindo: "The subconscious in us is the extreme border of our secret inner existence where it meets the Inconscient, it is a degree of our being in which the Inconscient struggles into a half consciousness. . . .” The Life Divine
sūkta ::: perfectly expressed; a Vedic hymn. sukta
The causes which it is the aim of scientific inquiry to discover are of four sorts: the material cause (that of which a thing is made), the efficient cause (that by which it comes into being), the formal cause (its essence or nature, i.e. what it is), and the final cause (its end, or that for which it exists). In natural objects, as distinct from the products of art, the last three causes coincide; for the end of a natural object is the realization of its essence, and likewise it is this identical essence embodied in another individual that is the efficient cause in its production. Thus for Aristotle every object in the sense world is a union of two ultimate principles: the material constituents, or matter (hyle), and the form, structure, or essence which makes of these constituents the determinate kind of being it is. Nor is this union an external or arbitrary one; for the matter is in every case to be regarded as possessing the capacity for the form, as being potentially the formed matter. Likewise the form has being only in the succession of its material embodiments. Thus Aristotle opposes what he considers to be the Platonic doctrine that real being belongs only to the forms or universals, whose existence is independent of the objects that imperfectly manifest them. On the other hand, against the earlier nature-philosophies that found their explanatory principles in matter, to the neglect of form, Aristotle affirms that matter must be conceived as a locus of determinate potentialities that become actualized only through the activity of forms.
There is an automatic phase of free will in the purposeful instinct which marks the various activities of even minute and lowly forms of life. The unself-conscious beasts are protected, and therefore guided, by the wills of celestial beings who make the so-called laws of nature, yet even the beasts instinctively choose to run true to their own inner types or svabhava. They unconsciously will to be themselves and to copy no other. They have free will exactly in proportion to their consciousness, just as any person has it in the higher degrees of his intelligence and more active intuition. Thus human beings have the power to work out their evolution, for the kingdom of heaven is taken by strength. The gods have gone ahead on the pathway towards omniscience — so far as our universe is concerned — by their own individual efforts consciously to act with an ever-enlarging measure of harmony with the one divine will. Thus the volume or power of free will is in strict proportion with the degree in which the entity has brought forth the central spark of divine willing fire which animates all that is. Nevertheless no single being or entity has completely unfettered and perfectly irresponsible free will, because of its relative imperfection and because of its inescapable subordination to greater wills, each such entity ever evolving from its stage of imperfection as it ascends along the scales of being: those on the higher rungs of the hierarchical ladder consciously willing in ever-enlarging degree to follow the greater divine will which holds all in its keeping.
These elementals are the principal nature forces used by the disimbodied human dead, very real but never visible “shells” mistaken for spirits at seances, and are the producers of all the phenomena except the purely subjective. They may be described as centers of force having instinctive desires but no consciousness as we understand it. Hence their acts may be what we humans call good or bad, indifferently. They have astral forms which partake, to a distinguishing degree, of the element to which they belong and also of the universally encompassing ether. They are a combination of sublimated matter and a purely rudimental mind. Some remain throughout several cycles relatively unchanging, so far as radical change goes, but still have no separate individuality, and usually acting collectively, so to speak. Others, of certain elements and species, change under a fixed law which Qabbalists explain. The most solid of their bodies are ordinarily just immaterial enough to escape perception by our physical eyesight, but not so unsubstantial that they cannot be perfectly recognized by the inner or clairvoyant vision. They not only exist and can all live in ether, but can handle and direct it for the production of physical effects, as readily as we can compress air or water for the same purpose by pneumatic and hydraulic apparatus; in which occupation they are readily helped by the human elementaries or astral shells.
The Seer, the Thinker, the Self-existent who becomes everywhere has ordered perfectly all things from years sempiternal. Isha Upanishad. (1) The Life Divine
The theosophic study of sterility also throws a strong light upon the origin of the anthropoids. This dates back to hybrids resulting form the union of certain imperfectly evolved groups of the Atlanteans with females of a semi-human, if not quite animal race, itself the progeny of the “sin of the mindless” Lemurians. This took place at the period of the greatest materialization of physical man, when the unnatural union was fertile “because the mammalian types were not remote enough from their Root-type — Primeval Astral Man — to develop the necessary barrier” (SD 2:688-9; cf 195-6). Since then, nature has changed its ways, and the general rule for the crime of human bestiality is a resulting sterility.
"This universal aesthesis of beauty and delight does not ignore or fail to understand the differences and oppositions, the gradations, the harmony and disharmony obvious to the ordinary consciousness; but, first of all, it draws a Rasa from them and with that comes the enjoyment, Bhoga. and the touch or the mass of the Ananda. It sees that all things have their meaning, their value, their deeper or total significance which the mind does not see, for the mind is only concerned with a surface vision, surface contacts and its own surface reactions. When something expresses perfectly what it was meant to express, the completeness brings with it a sense of harmony, a sense of artistic perfection; it gives even to what is discordant a place in a system of cosmic concordances and the discords become part of a vast harmony, and wherever there is harmony, there is a sense of beauty. ” Letters on Savitri*
“This universal aesthesis of beauty and delight does not ignore or fail to understand the differences and oppositions, the gradations, the harmony and disharmony obvious to the ordinary consciousness; but, first of all, it draws a Rasa from them and with that comes the enjoyment, Bhoga. and the touch or the mass of the Ananda. It sees that all things have their meaning, their value, their deeper or total significance which the mind does not see, for the mind is only concerned with a surface vision, surface contacts and its own surface reactions. When something expresses perfectly what it was meant to express, the completeness brings with it a sense of harmony, a sense of artistic perfection; it gives even to what is discordant a place in a system of cosmic concordances and the discords become part of a vast harmony, and wherever there is harmony, there is a sense of beauty.” Letters on Savitri
Tiantai zong. (J. Tendaishu; K. Ch'ont'ae chong 天台宗). In Chinese, "Terrace of Heaven School"; one of the main schools of East Asian Buddhism; also sometimes called the "Lotus school" (C. Lianhua zong), because of its emphasis on the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA ("Lotus Sutra"). "Terrace of Heaven" is a toponym for the school's headquarters on Mt. Tiantai in present-day Zhejiang province on China's eastern seaboard. Although the school retrospectively traces its origins back to Huiwen (fl. 550-577) and NANYUE HUISI (515-577), whom the school honors as its first and second patriarchs, respectively, the de facto founder was TIANTAI ZHIYI (538-597), who created the comprehensive system of Buddhist teachings and practices that we now call Tiantai. Zhiyi advocated the three truths or judgments (SANDI): (1) the truth of emptiness (kongdi), viz., all things are devoid of inherent existence and are empty in their essential nature; (2) the truth of being provisionally real (jiadi), viz., all things are products of a causal process that gives them a derived reality; and (3) the truth of the mean (zhongdi), viz., all things, in their absolute reality, are neither real nor unreal, but simply thus. Zhiyi described reality in terms of YINIAN SANQIAN (a single thought contains the TRICHILIOCOSM [TRISĀHASRAMAHĀSĀHASRALOKADHĀTU]), which posits that any given thought-moment perfectly encompasses the entirety of reality; at the same time, every phenomenon includes all other phenomena (XINGJU SHUO), viz., both the good and evil aspects of the ten constituents (DHĀTU) or the five sense organs (INDRIYA) and their respective objects and the three realms of existence (TRAIDHĀTUKA) are all contained in the original nature of all sentient beings. Based on this perspective on reality, Zhiyi made unique claims about the buddha-nature (FOXING) and contemplation (GUAN): he argued that not only buddhas but even sentient beings in such baleful existences as animals, hungry ghosts, and hell denizens, possess the capacity to achieve buddhahood; by the same token, buddhas also inherently possess all aspects of the unenlightened three realms of existence. The objects of contemplation, therefore, should be the myriad of phenomena, which are the source of defilement, not an underlying pure mind. Zhiyi's grand synthesis of Buddhist thought and practice is built around a graduated system of calmness and insight (jianzi ZHIGUAN; cf. sAMATHA and VIPAsYANĀ), which organized the plethora of Buddhist meditative techniques into a broad, overarching soteriological system. To Zhiyi is also attributed the Tiantai system of doctrinal classification (panjiao; see JIAOXIANG PANSHI) called WUSHI BAJIAO (five periods and eight teachings), which the Koryo Korean monk CH'EGWAN (d. 970) later elaborated in its definitive form in his CH'oNT'AE SAGYO ŬI (C. Tiantai sijiao yi). This system classifies all Buddhist teachings according to the five chronological periods, four types of content, and four modes of conversion. Zhiyi was succeeded by Guanding (561-632), who compiled his teacher's works, especially his three masterpieces, the FAHUA XUANYI, the FAHUA WENJU, and the MOHE ZHIGUAN. The Tiantai school declined during the Tang dynasty, overshadowed by the newer HUAYAN and CHAN schools. The ninth patriarch JINGXI ZHANRAN (711-782) was instrumental in rejuvenating the school; he asserted the superiority of the Tiantai school over the rival Huayan school by adapting Huayan concepts and terminologies into the tradition. Koryo monks such as Ch'egwan and Ŭit'ong (927-988) played major roles in the restoration of the school by helping to repatriate lost Tiantai texts back to China. During the Northern Song period, Wu'en (912-988), Yuanqing (d. 997), Zhiyuan (976-1022), and their disciples, who were later pejoratively called the SHANWAI (Off-Mountain) faction by their opponents, led the resurgence of the tradition by incorporating Huayan concepts in the school's thought and practice: they argued that since the true mind, which is pure in its essence, produces all phenomena in accord with conditions, practitioners should contemplate the true mind, rather than all phenomena. Believing this idea to be a threat to the tradition, SIMING ZHILI (960-1028) and his disciples, who called themselves SHANJIA (On-Mountain), criticized such a concept of pure mind as involving a principle of separateness, since it includes only the pure and excludes the impure, and led a campaign to expunge the Huayan elements that they felt were displacing authentic Tiantai doctrine. Although Renyue (992-1064) and Congyi (1042-1091), who were later branded as the "Later Off-Mountain Faction," criticized Zhili and accepted some of the Shanwai arguments, the Shanjia faction eventually prevailed and legitimized Zhili's positions. The orthodoxy of Zhili's position is demonstrated in the FOZU TONGJI ("Comprehensive History of the Buddhas and Patriarchs"), where the compiler Zhipan (1220-1275), himself a Tiantai monk, lists Zhili as the last patriarch in the dharma transmission going back to the Buddha. Tiantai theories and practices were extremely influential in the development of the thought and practice of the Chan and PURE LAND schools; this influence is especially noticeable in the white-lotus retreat societies (JIESHE; see also BAILIAN SHE) organized during the Song dynasty by such Tiantai monks as Zhili and Zunshi (964-1032) and in Koryo Korea (see infra). After the Song dynasty, the school declined again, and never recovered its previous popularity. ¶ Tiantai teachings and practices were transmitted to Korea during the Three Kingdoms period through such Korean monks as Hyon'gwang (fl. sixth century) and Yon'gwang (fl. sixth century), both of whom traveled to China and studied under Chinese Tiantai teachers. It was not until several centuries later, however, that a Korean analogue of the Chinese Tiantai school was established as an independent Buddhist school. The foundation of the Korean CH'oNT'AE CHONG is traditionally assumed to have occurred in 1097 through the efforts of the Koryo monk ŬICH'oN (1055-1101). Ŭich'on was originally a Hwaom monk, but he sought to use the Ch'ont'ae tradition in order to reconcile the age-old tension in Korean Buddhism between KYO (Doctrine) and SoN (Meditation). In the early thirteenth century, the Ch'ont'ae monk WoNMYO YOSE (1163-1245) organized the white lotus society (PAENGNYoN KYoLSA), which gained great popularity especially among the common people; following Yose, the school was led by Ch'on'in (1205-1248) and CH'oNCH'AEK (b. 1206). Although the Ch'ont'ae monk Chogu (d. 1395) was appointed as a state preceptor (K. kuksa; C. GUOSHI) in the early Choson period, the Ch'ont'ae school declined and eventually died out later in the Choson dynasty. The contemporary Ch'ont'ae chong is a modern Korean order established in 1966 that has no direct relationship to the school founded by Ŭich'on. ¶ In Japan, SAICHo (767-822) is credited with founding the Japanese TENDAISHu, which blends Tiantai and tantric Buddhist elements. After Saicho, such Tendai monks as ENNIN (793-864), ENCHIN (814-891), and ANNEN (b. 841) systematized Tendai doctrines and developed its unique forms, which are often called TAIMITSU (Tendai esoteric teachings). Since the early ninth century, when the court granted the Tendai school official recognition as an independent sect, Tendai became one of the major Buddhist schools in Japan and enjoyed royal and aristocratic patronage for several centuries. The Tendai school's headquarters on HIEIZAN became an important Japanese center of Buddhist learning: the founders of the so-called new Buddhist schools of the Kamakura era, such as HoNEN (1133-1212), SHINRAN (1173-1263), NICHIREN (1222-1282), and DoGEN KIGEN (1200-1253), all first studied on Mt. Hiei as Tendai monks. Although the Tendai school has lost popularity and patrons to the ZENSHu, PURE LAND, and NICHIRENSHu schools, it remains still today an active force on the Japanese Buddhist landscape.
tired iron ::: [IBM] Hardware that is perfectly functional but far enough behind the state of the art to have been superseded by new products, presumably with sufficient improvement in bang-per-buck that the old stuff is starting to look a bit like a dinosaur.
tired iron [IBM] Hardware that is perfectly functional but far enough behind the state of the art to have been superseded by new products, presumably with sufficient improvement in bang-per-buck that the old stuff is starting to look a bit like a {dinosaur}.
Transactions balances - Money balances held to finance payments because payments and receipts are not perfectly synchronized.
Transmigration ::: This word is grossly misunderstood in the modern Occident, as also is the doctrine comprised under theold Greek word metempsychosis, both being modernly supposed to mean, through the commonmisunderstanding of the ancient literatures, that the human soul at some time after death migrates into thebeast realm and is reborn on earth in a beast body. The real meaning of this statement in ancient literaturerefers to the destiny of what theosophists call the life-atoms, but it has absolutely no reference to thedestiny of the human soul, as an entity.Theosophy accepts all aspects of the ancient teaching, but explains and interprets them. Our doctrine inthis respect unless, indeed, we are treating of the case of a "lost soul,"is "once a man, always a man." Thehuman soul can no more migrate over and incarnate in a beast body than can the psychical apparatus of abeast incarnate in human flesh. Why? Because in the former case, the beast vehicle offers to the humansoul no opening at all for the expression of the spiritual and intellectual and psychical powers andfaculties and tendencies which make a man human. Nor can the soul of the beast enter into a humanbody, because the impassable gulf of a psychical and intellectual nature, which separates the twokingdoms, prevents any such passage from the one up into another so much its superior in all respects. Inthe former case, there is no attraction for the man beastwards; and in the latter case there is theimpossibility of the imperfectly developed beast mind and beast soul finding a proper lodgment in whatto it is truly a godlike sphere which it simply cannot enter.Transmigration, however, has a specific meaning when the word is applied to the human soul: the livingentity migrates or passes over from one condition to another condition or state or plane, as the case maybe, whether these latter be in the invisible realms of nature or in the visible realms, and whether the stateor condition be high or low. The specific meaning of this word, therefore, implies nothing more than achange of state or of condition or of plane: a migrating of the living entity from one to the other, butalways in conditions or estates or habitudes appropriate and pertaining to its human dignity.In its application to the life-atoms, to which are to be referred the observations of the ancients withregard to the lower realms of nature, transmigration means briefly that the particular life-atoms, which intheir aggregate compose man's lower principles, at and following the change that men call death migrateor transmigrate or pass into other bodies to which these life-atoms are attracted by similarity ofdevelopment -- be these attractions high or low, and they are usually low, because their own evolutionarydevelopment is as a rule far from being advanced. Nevertheless, it should be remembered that theselife-atoms compose man's inner -- and outer -- vehicles or bodies, and that in consequence there arevarious grades or classes of these life-atoms, from the physical upwards (or inwards if you please) to theastral, purely vital, emotional, mental, and psychical.This is, in general terms, the meaning of transmigration. The word means no more than the specificsenses just outlined, and stops there. But the teaching concerning the destiny of the entity is continuedand developed in the doctrine pertaining to the word metempsychosis.
trionyx ::: n. --> A genus of fresh-water or river turtles which have the shell imperfectly developed and covered with a soft leathery skin. They are noted for their agility and rapacity. Called also soft tortoise, soft-shell tortoise, and mud turtle.
troff "text, tool" /T'rof/ or /trof/ The grey eminence of {Unix} text processing; a formatting and phototypesetting program, written originally in {PDP-11} {assembly code} and then in barely-structured early {C} by the late Joseph Ossanna, modelled after the earlier {ROFF} which was in turn modelled after {Multics}' {RUNOFF} by Jerome Saltzer (*that* name came from the expression "to run off a copy"). A companion program, {nroff}, formats output for terminals and line printers. In 1979, Brian Kernighan modified troff so that it could drive phototypesetters other than the Graphic Systems CAT. His paper describing that work ("A Typesetter-independent troff", AT&T CSTR
troff ::: (text, tool) /T'rof/ or /trof/ The grey eminence of Unix text processing; a formatting and phototypesetting program, written originally in PDP-11 assembly Jerome Saltzer (*that* name came from the expression to run off a copy). A companion program, nroff, formats output for terminals and line printers.In 1979, Brian Kernighan modified troff so that it could drive phototypesetters other than the Graphic Systems CAT. His paper describing that work (A for computer resources and noting the ugliness and extreme hairiness of the code and internals, Kernighan concludes:None of these remarks should be taken as denigrating Ossanna's accomplishment with TROFF. It has proven a remarkably robust tool, taking unbelievable abuse from a variety of preprocessors and being forced into uses that were never conceived of in the original design, all with considerable grace under fire.The success of TeX and desktop publishing systems have reduced troff's relative importance, but this tribute perfectly captures the strengths that secured troff indication of those qualities of good programs that, in the long run, hackers most admire.groff is GNU's implementation of roff in C++.[Jargon File] (1995-03-21)
Turiya is a state or condition of consciousness which to the eye of an observer seems to be that of the deepest abstraction from things of the material world — that state which to most people would seem to be a complete or perfect trance, physically speaking. The higher consciousness of the human being, often unconsciously to the brain-mind consciousness, enters into turiya and brings about for the physical person a condition of perfectly dreamless sleep; however, it is a state of the highest or most exalted spiritual and intellectual activity.
two-in-One ::: Sri Aurobindo: " At a certain spiritual and supramental level the Duality becomes still more perfectly Two-in-one, the Master Soul with the Conscious Force within it, and its potentiality disowns all barriers and breaks through every limit.” The Synthesis of Yoga
tyro ::: n. --> A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice.
uncertainty ::: 1. Something not definitely known or knowable; a doubtful point. 2. The state of not being definitely known or perfectly clear; doubtfulness or vagueness. uncertainty"s, uncertainties.
undersaturated ::: a. --> Not fully saturated; imperfectly saturated.
usnīsa. (P. unhīsa; T. gtsug tor; C. foding/rouji; J. butcho/nikukei; K. pulchong/yukkye 佛頂/肉髻). In Sanskrit, lit. "turban," the protuberance appearing on the crown of a buddha's head, which is commonly depicted in buddha images. The MAHĀPADĀNASUTTANTA and LAKKHAnASUTTANTA of the Pāli DĪGHANIKĀYA refer to the unhīsasīsa ("wearing a turban on the head") as one of the thirty-two major "marks of a superman" (P. mahāpurisalakkhana; S. MAHĀPURUsALAKsAnA). Many texts report that the usnīsa is endowed with a variety of magical powers. For example, it is said that, although the usnīsa is perfectly proportional to the Buddha's head, it cannot be measured. It is impossible to see the top of the usnīsa, and divinities (DEVA) are unable to fly above it. Many scriptures, including the Usnīsavijayadhāranī, also mention the Buddha radiating light from his usnīsa. Later Buddhist works in Sanskrit refer to this protuberance as the usnīsa-siraskatā (lit. "head-bone"). The origin and precise interpretation of this unique feature of a Buddha remains in dispute. The Sanskrit term usnīsa is in fact a common word for turban. Some art historians have argued that the usnīsa originated as a topknot of hair, such as is found depicted in Graeco-Gandhāran Buddhist sculpture from northwestern India from around the first century CE; the interpretation of the usnīsa as a protuberance on the top of the skull subsequently evolved at MATHURĀ, where artists began to cover the usnīsa with little snail-curled hair, due to a misinterpretation of the wavy hairstyle of Gandhāran sculptures. The Chinese pilgrims FAXIAN and XUANZANG report seeing the "usnīsa bone" of the Buddha being worshipped at a monastery in Hadda (in present-day Afghanistan).
VAIRACYA. ::: A liberating distaste. The vaimgya of one who has tasted the world’s gifts or prizes but found them insufficient or tasteless and turns away towards a higher ideal or the vaiVngya of one who has done his part in life’s battles but seen that some- thing greater is demanded of the soul, is perfectly helpful and a good gate to the yoga.
Vergil says that bees have a portion of the divine mind, from which aethereal particles stream, and that divinity permeates the whole earth so that all beings draw from it the streams of life (Georgics 4, 320). The spiritual or monadic consciousness (the nous) manifests itself in innumerable ways, and this same consciousness is in man. A little later Vergil says that bees are born from the carcass of a slain bullock or bull. The bull or cow is a symbol of the moon, and the moon has always stood as a symbol of the psychic intelligence or lower human mind; thus the meaning is that out of his perfectly subordinated (“slain”) bull — the lunar body or psychic nature — is born the “bee” of the disciple, the will and the urge to enter into the solar life or the spirit. In the Finnish mythology of the Kalevala, a bee is the messenger between this world and higher realms. In Scandinavian mythology bees again play an important part with the world tree (Yggdrasil).
Vortex-Atom Theory The theory devised by Kelvin (1824-1907), more or less copied after misunderstood teachings of the ancients, to represent the atoms of matter as vortices in a homogeneous, incompressible, and perfectly nonviscous fluid. It can be shown, both mathematically and by experiments with smoke rings, that such vortices would have many of the properties attributed to atoms — they are indestructible, when two meet they rebound and vibrate — but the property of mass is not sufficiently explained. A vortical motion in such a fluid should keep on forever, but the hypothesis supplies no explanation of how such a motion could ever have been started. Descartes propounded a vortical theory, relating however to the physical universe of stars and planets; but, in his theory, it was God who set his vortices in motion.
waney ::: n. --> A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring. See Wany, a.
wholly ::: adv. --> In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.
To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully.
Will power is a mighty, colorless force or energy which can be set in motion by one who has the power and knowledge to do so. In India, in combination with abstract desire, it is mentioned as one of six primary powers (ichchhasakti) by which the adept accomplishes many of his wonders. “The ancients held that any idea will manifest itself externally, if one’s attention (and Will) is deeply concentrated upon it; similarly, an intense volition will be followed by the desired result . . . For creation is but the result of will acting on phenomenal matter, the calling forth out of the primordial divine Light and eternal Life “(SD 2:173). The occult power of will explains many scientific problems of animate and inanimate matter. In human beings, it may consciously and unconsciously act upon other human wills and upon that of beasts; likewise, it may act upon physical and astral substance to produce various phenomena such as levitation, fire-walking, birthmarks, etc. “Paracelsus teaches that ‘determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain’ ” (TG 370).
window shopping "jargon" A term used among users of {WIMP} environments like the {X Window System} or the {Macintosh} at the US Geological Survey for extended experimentation with new window colours, {fonts}, and {icon} shapes. This activity can take up hours of what might otherwise have been productive working time. "I spent the afternoon window shopping until I found the coolest shade of green for my active window borders --- now they perfectly match my medium slate blue background." Serious window shoppers will spend their days with bitmap editors, creating new and different icons and background patterns for all to see. Also: "window dressing", the act of applying new fonts, colours, etc. See {fritterware}, compare {macdink}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-07-08)
worker ::: n. --> One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.
One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White.
yathatathyatah ::: perfectly, according to (their) nature. [Isa 8]
yinian sanqian. (J. ichinen sanzen; K. illyom samch'on 一念三千). In Chinese, lit. "the TRICHILIOCOSM in a single instant of thought"; a TIANTAI teaching that posits that any given thought-moment perfectly encompasses the entirety of reality both spatially and temporally. An instant (KsAnA) of thought refers to the shortest period of time and the trichiliocosm (TRISĀHASRAMAHĀSĀHASRALOKADHĀTU) to the largest possible universe; hence, according to this teaching, the microcosm contains the macrocosm and temporality encompasses spatiality. Thus, whenever a single thought arises, there also arise the myriad dharmas; these two events occur simultaneously, not sequentially. Any given thought can be categorized as belonging to one of the ten realms of reality (DHARMADHĀTU). For example, a thought of charity metaphorically promotes a person to the realm of the heavens at that instant, whereas a subsequent thought of consuming hatred metaphorically casts the same person into the realm of the hells. Tiantai exegetes also understood each of the ten dharmadhātus as containing and pervading all the other nine dharmadhātus, making one hundred dharmadhātus in total (ten times ten). In turn, each of the one hundred dharmadhātus contains "ten aspects of reality" (or the "ten suchnesses"; see SHI RUSHI) that pervade all realms of existence, which makes one thousand "suchnesses" (qianru, viz., one hundred dharmadhātus times ten "suchnesses"). Finally the one thousand "suchnesses" are said to be found in the categories of the "five aggregates" (SKANDHA), "sentient beings" (SATTVA), and the physical environment (guotu). These three latter categories times the one thousand "suchnesses" thus gives the "three thousand realms," which are said to be present in either potential or activated form in any single moment of thought. This famous dictum is attributed to the eminent Chinese monk TIANTAI ZHIYI, who spoke of the "trichiliocosm contained in the mind during an instant of thought" (sanqian zai yinian xin) in the first part of the fifth roll of his magnum opus, MOHE ZHIGUAN. Zhiyi's discussion of this dictum appears in a passage on the "inconceivable realm" (ACINTYA) from the chapter on the proper practice of sAMATHA and VIPAsYANĀ. Emphatically noting the "inconceivable" ability of the mind to contain the trichiliocosm, Zhiyi sought through this teaching to emphasize the importance and mystery of the mind during the practice of meditation. Within the context of the practice of contemplation of mind (GUANXIN), this dictum also anticipates a "sudden" theory of awakening (see DUNWU). TIANTAI exegetes during the Song dynasty expanded upon the dictum and applied it to practically every aspect of daily activity, such as eating, reciting scriptures, and ritual prostration. See also SHANJIA SHANWAI.
Yoga(Sanskrit) ::: Literally "union," "conjunction," etc. In India it is the technical name for one of the sixDarsanas or schools of philosophy, and its foundation is ascribed to the sage Patanjali. The name Yogaitself describes the objective of this school, the attaining of union or at-one-ness with the divine-spiritualessence within a man. The yoga practices when properly understood through the instructions of genuineteachers -- who, by the way, never announce themselves as public lecturers or through books oradvertisements -- are supposed to induce certain ecstatic states leading to a clear perception of universaltruths, and the highest of these states is called samadhi.There are a number of minor forms of yoga practice and training such as the karma yoga, hatha yoga,bhakti yoga, raja yoga, jnana yoga, etc. Similar religious aspirations or practices likewise exist inOccidental countries, as, for instance, what is called salvation by works, somewhat equivalent to theHindu karma yoga or, again, salvation by faith -- or love, somewhat similar to the Hindu bhakti yoga;while both Orient and Occident have, each one, its various forms of ascetic practices which may begrouped under the term hatha yoga.No system of yoga should ever be practiced unless under the direct teaching of one who knows thedangers of meddling with the psychomental apparatus of the human constitution, for dangers lurk atevery step, and the meddler in these things is likely to bring disaster upon himself, both in matters ofhealth and as regards sane mental equilibrium. The higher branches of yoga, however, such as the rajayoga and jnana yoga, implying strict spiritual and intellectual discipline combined with a fervid love forall beings, are perfectly safe. It is, however, the ascetic practices, etc., and the teachings that go withthem, wherein lies the danger to the unwary, and they should be carefully avoided.
Yogi: One who practises Yoga; one who strives earnestly for union with God; an aspirant going through any course of spiritual discipline; one going particularly through the scheduled course of Raja Yoga; a spiritually advanced person with a perfectly unruffled mind under all conditions; a Siddha.
yuanrong. (J. ennyu; K. wonyung 圓融). In Chinese, "consummate interfusion," "perfectly interfused"; a term used in the HUAYAN and TIANTAI traditions to refer to the ultimate state of reality wherein each individual phenomenon is perceived to be perfectly interfused and completely harmonized with every other phenomena. Yuanrong is contrasted with "separation" (GELI), the understanding of reality in terms of the discriminative phenomena of the conventional realm. ¶ The concept of yuanrong is deployed soteriologically as one of the two modes of describing the bodhisattva path in the Huayan tradition, viz., the "approach of consummate interfusion" (yuanrong men), also known as the "approach of consummate interfusion and mutual conflation" (YUANRONG XIANGSHE MEN); this mode is contrasted with the "approach of sequential practices" (CIDI XINGBU MEN). The approach of sequential practices refers to the different stages in the process of religious training, which progress through the fifty-two stages of the bodhisattva path (MĀRGA). By contrast, the yuanrong men focuses instead on the principle of equivalency (pingdeng) and indicates the way in which any one stage of training subsumes all stages of the path, or how the inception of the path is in fact identical to its consummation. According to this mode of description, then, the completion of the ten stages of faith (shixin), a preliminary stage of the mārga in the Huayan tradition, is often stated to be identical to the achievement of buddhahood (XINMAN CHENGFO). In the Huayan school's fivefold taxonomy of the teachings (HUAYAN WUJIAO) as systematized by FAZANG (643-712), the three vehicles are considered to represent the xingbu men, while the "consummate teaching" (YUANJIAO), the final and highest level of teaching in this schema, corresponds to the yuanrong men. ¶ Yuanrong is also used in accounts of contemplation practice in the Huayan school, as, for example, in the "contemplation on the consummate interfusion of the three sages" (sansheng yuanrong guan), which was treated by both CHENGGUAN (738-839) and LI TONGXUAN (635-730). In this Huayan meditation, the bodhisattvas MANJUsRĪ and SAMANTABHADRA represent the causal aspects of practice (yinfen), and the buddha VAIROCANA, the fruition aspect (guofen); the consummate interfusion of the causal and effect aspects of practice thus indicates enlightenment. Samantabhadra and MaNjusrī are juxtaposed as, respectively, the DHARMADHĀTU as the object of faith (suoxin) and the mind as the subject of faith (nengxin), as practice (xing) and understanding (jie), and as principle (LI) and wisdom (zhi). When these juxtaposed aspects are perfectly interfused with each other, the causal aspect is consummated and becomes perfectly interfused with the effect aspect. Thus Samantabhadra as the "empty TATHĀGATAGARBHA" (kong rulaizang) and MaNjusrī as the "nonempty tathāgatagarbha" (bukong rulaizang) are interfused with Vairocana Buddha's "comprehensive tathāgatagarbha" (zong rulaizang). ¶ In the Tiantai tradition, the "consummate interfusion of the three truths" (yuanrong sandi) is one of the two ways of interpreting the three truths (SANDI), viz., of emptiness (kongdi), provisionally real (jiadi), and the mean (zhongdi). The yuanrong sandi, also termed the "nonsequential three truths" (BU CIDI SANDI), refers to the notion that each truth (di) is endowed with all three of these truths together, and thus the particular and the universal are not separate from one another. This mode is distinguished from the "differentiated three truths" (GELI SANDI), also known as the "sequential three truths" (cidi sandi), where each truth is treated independently; in this mode, the first two truths represent the aspect of phenomena, while the last truth, of the mean, refers to the aspect of principle. In the Tiantai doctrinal taxonomy (see TIANTAI BAJIAO; WUSHI BAJIAO), geli sandi and yuanrong sandi are said to correspond, respectively, to the "distinct teaching" (biejiao) and the "consummate teaching" (yuanjiao), the third and fourth of the "four types of teaching according to their content" (huafa sijiao) in the Tiantai doctrinal classification. ¶ In both the Huayan and Tiantai traditions, yuanrong is also employed as a defining characteristic of the "dharma realm" (fajie; S. dharmadhātu). The term "consummate interfusion of the dharma realm" (fajie yuanrong) describes both the infinitely interdependent state of the Huayan "dharmadhātu of the unimpeded interpenetration of phenomenon with phenomena" (SHISHI WU'AI FAJIE), as well as the Tiantai doctrine of "intrinsic inclusiveness" (xingju), in which each individual phenomenon is said to be endowed with the TRICHILIOCOSM (SANQIAN DAQIAN SHIJIE; see TRISĀHASRAMAHĀSĀHASRALOKADHĀTU), which represents the entirety of existence in the Tiantai cosmology. The Huayan "dharmadhātu of the unimpeded interpenetration of phenomenon with phenomena" is systematized in the doctrine of the Huayan version of causality, the "conditioned origination of the dharmadhātu" (FAJIE YUANQI), and this Huayan causality of the dharmadhātu is also explained as the "consummate interfusion of the six aspects" (LIUXIANG yuanrong).
yuzunenbutsu. (融通念佛). In Japanese, lit. "consummate-interfusion recitation of the Buddha's name"; a method of chanting Amida (S. AMITĀBHA) Buddha's name (J. nenbutsu; C. NIANFO), devised by the founder of the YuZuNENBUTSU school, RYoNIN (1072-1132). The principle of yuzunenbutsu is derived from Kegonshu (C. HUAYAN ZONG) and TENDAISHu (C. TIANTAI ZONG) philosophy, especially the Kegon teachings of "comsummate interfusion" ( J. yuzu, C. YUANRONG) and the unobstructed interpenetration of all phenomena ( J. jiji muge; see C. SHISHI WU'AI FAJIE) and the Tendai teaching of the mutual inclusion of the ten dharma-realms ( J. jikkai goku; C. shijie huju). The principle of yuzunenbutsu builds upon this sense that each and every phenomenon is perfectly interfused with all other phenomena to propose that the merit coming from one person's chanting of Amitābha's name is transferred to all other persons and vice versa. When more people chant the Buddha's name, more merit is thus transferred to all people, and the merit derived from these cooperative efforts reaches not only the dharma-realm (DHARMADHĀTU) in which it is created but also all other dharma-realms as well. Therefore, all things in all realms of existence receive benefit from any one individual's practice of chanting the Buddha's name. The practice of yuzunenbutsu thus has two major characteristics: (1) the individual's burden to practice is relieved because salvation is due not just to one's own merit but to everyone's merit; (2) the notion of "other power" (TARIKI) in this form of pure land means both the power of one's fellow beings and the power deriving from Amitābha Buddha's vow of compassion.
zoon ::: n. --> An animal which is the sole product of a single egg; -- opposed to zooid.
Any one of the perfectly developed individuals of a compound animal.
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1:True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. ~ Tao Te Ching, ch.45, #KEYS
2:You cannot realize God unless you are perfectly and transparently sincere. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
3:o not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #KEYS
4:Since the object of our love is infinite, we can always love more and more perfectly. ~ Saint Ignatius of Loyola, #KEYS
5:Only those who are perfectly truthful can be my true children.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
6:Be perfectly sincere and no victory will be denied to you.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Sincerity,#KEYS
7:Mary was the most perfect among the saints only because she was always perfectly united to the will of God." ~ Saint Alphonsus Liguori, #KEYS
8:Never get excited, nervous or agitated. Remain perfectly calm in the face of all circumstances.
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS
9:red leaves
perfectly silent
a temple of prayer
~ Ogawa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
10:The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. … " ~ Thomas Merton, #KEYS
11:Whatever work you do, do it as perfectly as you can. That is the best service to the Divine in man
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
12:He who has perfectly mastered himself in thought and speech and act, he is indeed a man of religion. ~ Buddhist Text, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
13:We know perfectly well that baptism, besides washing away our sins and bringing us the gift of the Holy Spirit, is a symbol of the sufferings of Christ. ~ Jerusalem Catecheses, #KEYS
14:When the Idea has been perfectly assimilated, one will retain only the appearance of having feelings and impulses of their own. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
15:Divine Incarnation is a fact. One cannot make this perfectly clear through words, it must be seen and realized by spiritual eyes. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
16:When one works for the Divine, it is much better to do perfectly what one does than to aim at a very big work.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Work,#KEYS
17:Be perfectly sincere in your consecration to the Divine's work. This will assure you strength and success.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Sincerity,#KEYS
18:I give order to those who are perfectly and totally surrendered, as these orders cannot be discussed or disobeyed.
~ The Mother, More Answers From The Mother,#KEYS
19:The dim Intellect sees an absolute Oneness, the perfectly clear Intellect knowingly perceives it. Distinction & Plurality lie in the Betwixt. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notebooks 1:1725, #KEYS
20:Nature creates perfectly because she creates directly out of life and is not intellectually self-conscious. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Form and the Spirit, #KEYS
21:Whatever work you do, do it as perfectly as you can. That is the best service to the Divine in man
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Progress and Perfection in Work,#KEYS
22:How can I make Sri Aurobindo's influence living and dynamic in my daily activities?
Be perfectly sincere and He will answer your call.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I,#KEYS
23:The created intellect knows the Divine essence more or less perfectly in proportion as it receives a greater or lesser light of glory ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.12.7)., #KEYS
24:Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi,#KEYS
25:He whose senses have become calm like horses perfectly tamed by a driver, who has rid himself of pride and concupiscence, the gods themselves envy his lot. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
26:While thou livest, perfectly fulfil
Thy part, conceive
Earth as thy stage, thyself the actor strong,
The drama His. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Rishi,#KEYS
27:The light of glory, whereby God is seen, is in God perfectly and naturally; whereas in any creature, it is imperfectly and by likeness or participation ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1-2.5.6ad2)., #KEYS
28:The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~ Thomas merton. "No man is an island", #KEYS
29:When his thought and feeling are perfectly under regulation and stand firm in his Self, then, unmoved to longing by any desire, he is said to be in union with the Self. ~ Bhagavad Gita VI.18, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
30:Now I beseech you, brethren, that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, 1 Corinthians, I. 10, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
31:You must never cease from calling on the Lord, and know this for certain that the Lord's name cuts through all obstacles. However it may be - be it perfectly or imperfectly - keep on repeating His name, which has a power of its own. ~ SWAMI SUBODHANANDA, #KEYS
32:So the divine light of contemplation, when it beats on the soul, not yet perfectly enlightened, causes spiritual darkness, because it not only surpasses its strength, but because it blinds it and deprives it of its natural perceptions… ~ John of the Cross, Dark Night II.v, #KEYS
33:The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules-but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them. ~ Aleister Crowley, Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law, #KEYS
34:The man of wisdom does not wish for the dissolution of the universe nor is he interested in its continuance. The blessed one lives perfectly contented with whatever turns up in life." ~ "Ashtavakra Gita" [163], (just after 400 BC), classical Advaita Vedanta scripture, Wikipedia, #KEYS
35:To know God as unknown is said to be the pinnacle of knowledge... the mind is found to be most perfectly in possession of knowledge of God when it is recognized that God's essence is above everything that the mind is capable of apprehending. ~ Aquinas, On Boethius's De Trinitate, #KEYS
36:We must seek out with much research the things that can save us. Let us flee perfectly from all the works of lawlessness, in case the works of lawlessness overtake us, and let us hate the deception of this present time, so that in the future we may be loved. ~ Letter of Barnabas, #KEYS
37:All is coordinated in the universe. All things depend mutually on each other. All conspires to one sole end, not only in the individual whose parts are perfectly linked together, but anteriorly and to a higher degree in the universe. ~ Plotinus, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
38:We must lie before the Divine always like a page perfectly blank, so that the Divine's will may be inscribed in us without any difficulty or mixture. 20 November 1954
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Surrender to the Divine Will, TO WILL WHAT THE DIVINE WILLS [108],#KEYS
39:Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
~ Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden Of Forking Paths?,#KEYS
40:Evil is worked, not justice, when into the mould of our thinkings
God we would force and enchain to the throb of our hearts the immortals,—
Justice and Virtue, her sister,—for where is justice mid creatures
Perfectly? Even the gods are betrayed by o ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,#KEYS
41:he light of the sun is the same every where where it may fall, but it is the clear surfaces, water and mirror and polished metals, that can give its perfect reflection. Even such is the light of the Divine. It falls equally and impartially on every heart, but only the clean and pure heart can perfectly reflect it. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
42:Addicts of drunkenness or other habit-forming vices cannot possibly hope to be students of concentration for the simple reason that their real will-power is too close to zero. If they cannot stop their bad habits, which they know perfectly well are harmful for them, where then would they find enough inner strength to overcome their mental apathy and laziness? ~ Mouni Sadhu, Concentration, Obstacles and Aids, #KEYS
43:If thou shalt perfectly observe these rules, all the following Symbols and an infinitude of others will be granted unto thee by thy Holy Guardian Angel; thou thus living for the Honour and Glory of the True and only God, for thine own good, and that of thy neighbour. Let the Fear of God be ever before the eyes and the heart of him who shall possess this Divine Wisdom and Sacred Magic. ~ MacGregor Mathers, The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, #KEYS
44:47. A jnani who is a perfectly Self-realized yogi, sees by the eye of wisdom all objective phenomena to be in and of the Self and thus the Self to be the sole being.1
The allusion is to the story of a lady wearing a precious necklace, who suddenly forgot where it was, grew anxious, looked for it everywhere and even asked others to help, until a kind friend pointed out that it was round the seeker's own neck. ~ Adi Sankara, Atma Bodha, trans. Sri Ramana Maharshi, Collected Works of Sri Ramana Maharshi,#KEYS
45:That all opposites-such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death-are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only because we accept as real the boundary line between the opposites. It is, recall, the boundaries themselves which create the seeming existence of separate opposites. To put it plainly, to say that 'ultimate reality is a unity of opposites' is actually to say that in ultimate reality there are no boundaries. Anywhere.
~ Ken Wilber, No Boundary,#KEYS
46:In Japanese language, kata (though written as 方) is a frequently-used suffix meaning way of doing, with emphasis on the form and order of the process. Other meanings are training method and formal exercise. The goal of a painter's practicing, for example, is to merge his consciousness with his brush; the potter's with his clay; the garden designer's with the materials of the garden. Once such mastery is achieved, the theory goes, the doing of a thing perfectly is as easy as thinking it
~ Boye De Mente, Japan's Secret Weapon - The Kata Factor,#KEYS
47:Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhh'ed. Too sensitive. Too mushy. Too wishy washy. Blah blah. Don't let someone steal your tenderness. Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it's a song, a stranger, a mountain, a rain drop, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep, feel it all - look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love. ~ Zooey Deschanel, #KEYS
48:It is the foundation of the pure spiritual consciousness that is the first object in the evolution of the spiritual man, and it is this and the urge of that consciousness towards contact with the Reality, the Self or the Divine Being that must be the first and foremost or even, till it is perfectly accomplished, the sole preoccupation of the spiritual seeker. It is the one thing needful that has to be done by each on whatever line is possible to him, by each according to the spiritual capacity developed in his nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 892 [T1],#KEYS
49:I feel all kinds of....
Yes, yes, of course, it's inevitable. But you must call in tranquillity, that's the only thing.... It keeps coming and coming from all sides; but when you feel things going badly, when you're uneasy or thoroughly upset, you must remember to call in tranquillity.
But it's about you, directed against you, all sorts of suggestions that make me....
That want to cut you off from me. Yes, I know perfectly well. It's like that for everybody, not just for you. We must keep going right to the end, that's all - there's nothing else to do. January 31, 1961
~ The Mother, Agenda Vol 4, Satprem, 32,#KEYS
50:Mahasamadhi
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Lord, this morning Thou hast given me the assurance that Thou wouldst stay with us until Thy work is achieved, not only as a consciousness which guides and illumines but also as a dynamic Presence in action. In unmistakable terms Thou hast promised that all of Thyself would remain here and not leave the earth atmosphere until earth is transformed. Grant that we may be worthy of this marvellous Presence and that henceforth everything in us be concentrated on the one will to be more and more perfectly consecrated to the fulfilment of Thy sublime Work. 7 December 1950
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I,#KEYS
51:When a man is the Divine's enemy...
But after all, suppose there is one man in a million who has realised this consciousness in himself. It is possible he may have had an effect on those around him - and yet I took care to tell you that for this state to be perfectly realised, generally it is necessary to live in solitude, otherwise there are too many contradictory things, there are too many brutally material necessities which contradict it, for you to be able to attain that state absolutely perfectly. But if you do attain it absolutely perfectly, everything around you will necessarily become divine. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1956,#KEYS
52:Attacks from adverse forces are inevitable: you have to take them as tests on your way and go courageously through the ordeal. The struggle may be hard, but when you come out of it, you have gained something, you have advanced a step. There is even a necessity for the existence of the hostile forces. They make your determination stronger, your aspiration clearer.
"It is true, however, that they exist because you gave them reason to exist. So long as there is something in you which answers to them, their intervention is perfectly legitimate. If nothing in you responded, if they had no hold upon any part of your nature, they would retire and leave you.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931, (5 May 1929),#KEYS
53:The theory of masturbation as a physiological necessity is a most extraordinary idea. It weakens the nervous force and nervous balance,-as is natural since it is an artificial and wholly uncompensated waste of the energy-and it disorganises the sex-centre. Those who indulge in it inordinately may even upset their nervous balance altogether and bring about neurasthenia or worse. It is not by disorganisation of the sex-centre and sex-functioning that one should avoid the consequences of the sex-action, but by control of the sex itself so that it may be turned into higher forms of Energy. It is perfectly possible to check the habit. There are any number of people who have had it for years and yet been able to stop it.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,#KEYS
54:The surest way towards this integral fulfilment is to find the Master of the secret who dwells within us, open ourselves constantly to the divine Power which is also the divine Wisdom and Love and trust to it to effect the conversion. But it is difficult for the egoistic consciousness to do this at all at the beginning. And, if done at all, it is still difficult to do it perfectly and in every strand of our nature. It is difficult at first because our egoistic habits of thought, of sensation, of feeling block up the avenues by which we can arrive at the perception that is needed. It is difficult afterwards because the faith, the surrender, the courage requisite in this path are not easy to the ego-clouded soul.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, [63] [T7],#KEYS
55:The Gods, who in their highest secret entity are powers of this Supermind, born of it, seated in it as in their proper home, are in their knowledge 'truth-conscious' and in their action possessed of the 'seer-will'. Their conscious-force turned towards works and creation is possessed and guided by a perfect and direct knowledge of the thing to be done and its essence and its law, - a knowledge which determines a wholly effective will-power that does not deviate or falter in its process or in its result, but expresses and fulfils spontaneously and inevitably in the act that which has been seen in the vision. Light is here one with Force, the vibrations of knowledge with the rhythm of the will and both are one, perfectly and without seeking, groping or effort, with the assured result.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Supermind as Creator 132,#KEYS
56:Thou must teach us the path to be followed and Thou must give us the power to follow it to the very end. . . .
O Thou source of all love and all light, Thou whom we cannot know in Thyself but can manifest ever more completely and perfectly, Thou whom we cannot conceive but can approach in profound silence, to complete Thy incommensurable boons Thou must come to our help until we have gained Thy victory. . . .
Let that true love be born which soothes all suffering; establish that immutable peace wherein resides true power; give us the sovereign knowledge which dispels all darkness. . . .
From the infinite depths to this most external body, in its smallest elements, Thou dost move and live and vibrate and set all in motion, and the whole being is now only a single block, infinitely multiple yet absolutely coherent, animated by one tremendous vibration: Thou.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#KEYS
57:[invocation] Let us describe the magical method of identification. The symbolic form of the god is first studied with as much care as an artist would bestow upon his model, so that a perfectly clear and unshakeable mental picture of the god is presented to the mind. Similarly, the attributes of the god are enshrined in speech, and such speeches are committed perfectly to memory. The invocation will then begin with a prayer to the god, commemorating his physical attributes, always with profound understanding of their real meaning. In the second part of the invocation, the voice of the god is heard, and His characteristic utterance is recited. In the third portion of the invocation the Magician asserts the identity of himself with the god. In the fourth portion the god is again invoked, but as if by Himself, as if it were the utterance of the will of the god that He should manifest in the Magician. At the conclusion of this, the original object of the invocation is stated.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 4, Magick, Part 3, The Formuale of the Elemental Weapons [149] [T4],#KEYS
58: Swami Vivekananda summarised Yoga under four headings, and I do not think that one can improve on that classification. His four are: Gnana, Raja, Bhakti and Hatha, and comprise all divisions that it is desirable to make. As soon as one begins to add such sections as Mantra Yoga, you are adding to without enriching the classification, and once you begin Where are you to stop? But I honestly believe that the excessive simplication given in Eight Lectures on Yoga is a practical advantage. Any given type of Yogas is the work of a lifetime and for that reason alone it is desirable to confine oneself from the beginning to an absolutely simple programme.
What then is the difference between Yoga and Magick? Magick is extraversion, the discovery of and subsequently the classification of and finally the control of new worlds on new planes. So far as it concerns the development of the mind its object and method are perfectly simple. What is wanted is exaltation. The aim is to identify oneself with the highest essence of whatever world is under consideration. ~ Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears, 1.83 - Epistola Ultima,#KEYS
59:Supermind and the human mind are a number of ranges, planes or layers of consciousness - one can regard it in various ways - in which the element or substance of mind and consequently its movements also become more and more illumined and powerful and wide. The Overmind is the highest of these ranges; it is full of lights and powers; but from the point of view of what is above it, it is the line of the soul's turning away from the complete and indivisible knowledge and its descent towards the Ignorance. For although it draws from the Truth, it is here that begins the separation of aspects of the Truth, the forces and their working out as if they were independent truths and this is a process that ends, as one descends to ordinary Mind, Life and Matter, in a complete division, fragmentation, separation from the indivisible Truth above. There is no longer the essential, total, perfectly harmonising and unifying knowledge, or rather knowledge for ever harmonious because for ever one, which is the character of Supermind. In the Supermind mental divisions and oppositions cease, the problems created by our dividing and fragmenting mind disappear and Truth is seen as a luminous whole. In the Overmind there is not yet the actual fall into Ignorance, but the first step is taken which will make the fall inevitable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - I, #KEYS
60:Sometimes when an adverse force attacks us and we come out successful, why are we attacked once again by the same force?
Because something was left inside. We have said that the force can attack only when there is something which responds in the nature - however slight it may be. There is a kind of affinity, something corresponding, there is a disorder or an imperfection which attracts the adverse force by responding to it. So, if the attack comes, you must keep perfectly quiet and send it back, but it does not necessarily follow that you have got rid of that small part in you which allows the attack to come.
You have something in you which attracts this force; take, for example (it is one of the most frequent things), the force of depression, that kind of attack of a wave of depression that falls upon you: you lose confidence, you lose hope, you have the feeling you will never be able to do anything, you are cast down.
It means there is in your vital being something which is naturally egoistic, surely a little vain, which needs encouragement to remain in a good state. So it is like a little signal for those forces which intimates to them: "You can come, the door is open." But there is another part in the being that was watching when these forces arrived; instead of allowing them to enter, the part which... ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953,#KEYS
61:If the spirit of divine love can enter, the hardness of the way diminishes, the tension is lightened, there is a sweetness and joy even in the core of difficulty and struggle. The indispensable surrender of all our will and works and activities to the Supreme is indeed only perfect and perfectly effective when it is a surrender of love. All life turned into this cult, all actions done in the love of the Divine and in the love of the world and its creatures seen and felt as the Divine manifested in many disguises become by that very fact part of an integral Yoga.
It is the inner offering of the heart's adoration, the soul of it in the symbol, the spirit of it in the act, that is the very life of the sacrifice. If this offering is to be complete and universal, then a turning of all our emotions to the Divine is imperative. This is the intensest way of purification for the human heart, more powerful than any ethical or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power and superficial pressure. A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name upon it. In that fire all the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine perversions are burned away and the others discard their insufficiencies, till a spirit of largest love and a stainless divine delight arises out of the flame and smoke and frankincense. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 165, [T2],#KEYS
62: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
63: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
64:science of consciousness, the soul and objective matter :::
When the ancient thinkers of India set themselves to study the soul of man in themselves and others, they, unlike any other nation or school of early thought, proceeded at once to a process which resembles exactly enough the process adopted by modern science in its study of physical phenomena. For their object was to study, arrange and utilise the forms, forces and working movements of consciousness, just as the modern physical Sciences study, arrange and utilize the forms, forces and working movements of objective Matter. The material with which they had to deal was more subtle, flexible and versatile than the most impalpable forces of which the physical Sciences have become aware; its motions were more elusive, its processes harder to fix; but once grasped and ascertained, the movements of consciousness were found by Vedic psychologists to be in their process and activity as regular, manageable and utilisable as the movements of physical forces. The powers of the soul can be as perfectly handled and as safely, methodically and puissantly directed to practical life-purposes of joy, power and light as the modern power of electricity can be used for human comfort, industrial and locomotive power and physical illumination; but the results to which they give room and effect are more wonderful and momentous than the results of motorpower and electric luminosity. For there is no difference of essential law in the physical and the psychical, but only a difference and undoubtedly a great difference of energy, instrumentation and exact process. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Towards a True Scientific Psychology, 106,#KEYS
65: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
66:I know perfectly well that pain and suffering and struggle and excesses of despair are natural - though not inevitable - on the way, - not because they are helps, but because they are imposed on us by the darkness of this human nature out of which we have to struggle into the Light. . . .
The dark path is there and there are many who make like the Christians a gospel of spiritual suffering; many hold it to be the unavoidable price of victory. It may be so under certain circumstances, as it has been in so many lives at least at the beginning, or one may choose to make it so. But then the price has to be paid with resignation, fortitude or a tenacious resilience. I admit that if borne in that way the attacks of the Dark Forces or the ordeals they impose have a meaning. After each victory gained over them, there is then a sensible advance; often they seem to show us the difficulties in ourselves which we have to overcome and to say, "Here you must conquer us and here."
But all the same it is a too dark and difficult way which nobody should follow on whom the necessity does not lie.
In any case one thing can never help and that is to despond always and say, "I am unfit; I am not meant for the Yoga." And worse still are these perilous mental formations such as you are always accepting that you must fare like X (one whose difficulty of exaggerated ambition was quite different from yours) and that you have only six years etc. These are clear formations of the Dark Forces seeking not only to sterilise your aspiration but to lead you away and so prevent your sharing in the fruit of the victory hereafter. I do not know what Krishnaprem has said but his injunction, if you have rightly understood it, is one that cannot stand as valid, since so many have done Yoga relying on tapasya or anything else but not confident of any Divine Grace. It is not that, but the soul's demand for a higher Truth or a higher life that is indispensable. Where that is, the Divine Grace whether believed in or not, will intervene. If you believe, that hastens and facilitates things; if you cannot yet believe, still the soul's aspiration will justify itself with whatever difficulty and struggle. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,#KEYS
67:But now thou askest me how thou mayest destroy this naked knowing and feeling of thine own being. For peradventure thou thinkest that if it were destroyed, all other hindrances were destroyed ; and if thou thinkest thus, thou thinkest right truly. But to this I answer thee and I say, that without a full special grace full freely given by God, and also a full according ableness on thy part to receive this grace, this naked knowing and feeling of thy being may in nowise be destroyed. And this ableness is nought else but a strong and a deep ghostly sorrow. ... All men have matter of sorrow; but most specially he feeleth matter of sorrow that knoweth and feeleth that he is. All other sorrows in comparison to this be but as it were game to earnest. For he may make sorrow earnestly that knoweth and feeleth not only what he is, but that he is. And whoso felt never this sorrow, let him make sorrow; for he hath never yet felt perfect sorrow. This sorrow, when it is had, cleanseth the soul, not only of sin, but also of pain that it hath deserved for sin ; and also it maketh a soul able to receive that joy, the which reave th from a man all knowing and feeling of his being. This sorrow, if it be truly conceived, is full of holy desire; and else a man might never in this life abide it or bear it. For were it not that a soul were somewhat fed with a manner of comfort by his right working, he should not be able to bear that pain that he hath by the knowing and feeling of his being. For as oft as he would have a true knowing and a feeling of his God in purity of spirit (as it may be here), and then feeleth that he may not for he findeth evermore his knowing and his feeling as it were occupied and filled with a foul stinking lump of himself, the which must always be hated and despised and forsaken, if he shall be God's perfect disciple, taught by Himself in the mount of perfection so oft he goeth nigh mad for sorrow. . . . This sorrow and this desire must every soul have and feel in itself (either in this manner or in another), as God vouchsafed! to teach his ghostly disciples according to his good will and their according ableness in body and in soul, in degree and disposition, ere the time be that they may perfectly be oned unto God in perfect charity such as may be had here, if God vouchsafed!.
~ Anonymous, The Cloud Of Unknowing,#KEYS
68:PROTECTION
Going to sleep is a little like dying, a journey taken alone into the unknown. Ordinarily we are not troubled about sleep because we are familiar with it, but think about what it entails. We completely lose ourselves in a void for some period of time, until we arise again in a dream. When we do so, we may have a different identity and a different body. We may be in a strange place, with people we do not know, involved in baffling activities that may seem quite risky.
Just trying to sleep in an unfamiliar place may occasion anxiety. The place may be perfectly secure and comfortable, but we do not sleep as well as we do at home in familiar surroundings. Maybe the energy of the place feels wrong. Or maybe it is only our own insecurity that disturbs us,and even in familiar places we may feel anxious while waiting for sleep to come, or be frightenedby what we dream. When we fall asleep with anxiety, our dreams are mingled with fear and tension, sleep is less restful, and the practice harder to do. So it is a good idea to create a sense of protection before we sleep and to turn our sleeping area into a sacred space.
This is done by imagining protective dakinis all around the sleeping area. Visualize the dakinis as beautiful goddesses, enlightened female beings who are loving, green in color, and powerfully protective. They remain near as you fall asleep and throughout the night, like mothers watching over their child, or guardians surrounding a king or queen. Imagine them everywhere, guarding the doors and the windows, sitting next to you on the bed, walking in the garden or the yard, and so on, until you feel completely protected.
Again, this practice is more than just trying to visualize something: see the dakinis with your mind but also use your imagination to feel their presence. Creating a protective, sacred environment in this way is calming and relaxing and promotes restful sleep. This is how the mystic lives: seeing the magic, changing the environment with the mind, and allowing actions, even actions of the imagination, to have significance.
You can enhance the sense of peace in your sleeping environment by keeping objects of a sacred nature in the bedroom: peaceful, loving images, sacred and religious symbols, and other objects that direct your mind toward the path.
The Mother Tantra tells us that as we prepare for sleep we should maintain awareness of the causes of dream, the object to focus upon, the protectors, and of ourselves. Hold these together inawareness, not as many things, but as a single environment, and this will have a great effect in dream and sleep.
~ Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep,#KEYS
69: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
70:3. Conditions internal and external that are most essential for meditation. There are no essential external conditions, but solitude and seculsion at the time of meditation as well as stillness of the body are helpful, sometimes almost necessary to the beginning. But one should not be bound by external conditions. Once the habit of meditation is formed, it should be made possible to do it in all circumstances, lying, sitting, walking, alone, in company, in silence or in the midst of noise etc.
The first internal condition necessary is concentration of the will against the obstacles to meditation, i.e. wandering of the mind, forgetfulness, sleep, physical and nervous impatience and restlessness etc. If the difficulty in meditation is that thoughts of all kinds come in, that is not due to hostile forces but to the ordinary nature of the human mind. All sadhaks have this difficulty and with many it lasts for a very long time. There are several was of getting rid of it. One of them is to look at the thoughts and observe what is the nature of the human mind as they show it but not to give any sanction and to let them run down till they come to a standstill - this is a way recommended by Vivekananda in his Rajayoga. Another is to look at the thoughts as not one's own, to stand back as the witness Purusha and refuse the sanction - the thoughts are regarded as things coming from outside, from Prakriti, and they must be felt as if they were passers-by crossing the mind-space with whom one has no connection and in whom one takes no interest. In this way it usually happens that after the time the mind divides into two, a part which is the mental witness watching and perfectly undisturbed and quiet and a part in which the thoughts cross or wander. Afterwards one can proceed to silence or quiet the Prakriti part also. There is a third, an active method by which one looks to see where the thoughts come from and finds they come not from oneself, but from outside the head as it were; if one can detect them coming, then, before enter, they have to be thrown away altogether. This is perhaps the most difficult way and not all can do it, but if it can be done it is the shortest and most powerful road to silence. It is not easy to get into the Silence. That is only possible by throwing out all mental-vital activities. It is easier to let the Silence descend into you, i.e., to open yourself and let it descend. The way to do this and the way to call down the higher powers is the same. It is to remain quiet at the time of efforts to pull down the Power or the Silence but keeping only a silent will and aspiration for them. If the mind is active one has to learn to look at it, drawn back and not giving sanction from within, until its habitual or mechanical activities begin to fall quiet for want of support from within. if it is too persistent, a steady rejection without strain or struggle is the one thing to be done.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Autobiographical Notes,#KEYS
71: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
72:Allow the Lord to Do Everything :::
Now, when I start looking like this (Mother closes her eyes), two things are there at the same time: this smile, this joy, this laughter are there, and such peace! Such full, luminous, total peace, in which there are no more conflicts, no more contradictions. There are no more conflicts. It is one single luminous harmony - and yet everything we call error, suffering, misery, everything is there. It eliminates nothing. It is another way of seeing.
(long silence)
There can be no doubt that if you sincerely want to get out of it, it is not so difficult after all: you have nothing to do, you only have to allow the Lord to do everything. And He does everything. He does everything. It is so wonderful, so wonderful!
He takes anything, even what we call a very ordinary intelligence and he simply teaches you to put this intelligence aside, to rest: "There, be quiet, don't stir, don't bother me, I don't need you." Then a door opens - you don't even feel that you have to open it; it is wide open, you are tkane over to the other side. All that is done by Someone else, not you. And then the other way becomes impossible.
All this... oh, this tremendous labour of hte mind striving to understand, toiling and giving itself headaches!... It is absolutely useless, absolutely useless, no use at all, it merely increases the confusion.
You are faced with a so-called problem: what should you say, what should you do, how should you act? There is nothing to do, nothing, you only have to say to the Lord, "There, You see, it is like that" - that's all. And then you stay very quiet. And then quite spontaneously, without thinking about it, without reflection, without calculation, nothing, nothing, without the slightest effect - you do what has to be done. That is to say, the Lord does it, it is no longer you. He does it. He arranges the circumstances, He arranges the people, He puts the words into your mouth or your pen - He does everything, everything, everything, everything; you have nothing more to do but allow yourself to live blissfully.
I am more and more convinced that people do not really want it.
But clearing the ground is difficult, the work of clearing the ground before hand.
But you don't even need to do it! He does it for you.
But they are constantly breaking in: the old consciousness, the old thoughts....
Yes, they try to come in again, by habit. You only have to say, "Lord, You see, You see, You see, it is like that" - that's all. "Lord, You see, You see this, You see that, You see this fool" - and it is all over immediately. And it changes automatically, my child, without the slightest effort. Simply to be sincere, that is to say, to truly want everything to be right. You are perfectly conscious that you can do nothing about it, that you have no capacity.... But there is always something that wants to do it by itself; that's the trouble, otherwise...
No, you may be full of an excellent goodwill and then you want to do it. That's what complicated everything. Or else you don't have faith, you believe that the Lord will not be able to do it and that you must do it yourself, because He does not know! (Mother laughs.) This, this kind of stupidity is very common. "How can He see things? We live in a world of Falsehood, how can He see Falsehood and see..." But He sees the thing as it is! Exactly!
I am not speaking of people of no intelligence, I am speaking of people who are intelligent and try - there is a kind of conviction, like that, somewhere, even in people who know that we live in a world of Ignorance and Falsehood and that there is a Lord who is All-Truth. They say, "Precisely because He is All-Truth, He does not understand. (Mother laughs.) He does not understand our falsehood, I must deal with it myself." That is very strong, very common.
Ah! we make complications for nothing. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
73:Chapter LXXXII: Epistola Penultima: The Two Ways to Reality
Cara Soror,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
How very sensible of you, though I admit somewhat exacting!
You write-Will you tell me exactly why I should devote so much of my valuable time to subjects like Magick and Yoga.
That is all very well. But you ask me to put it in syllogistic form. I have no doubt this can be done, though the task seems somewhat complicated. I think I will leave it to you to construct your series of syllogisms yourself from the arguments of this letter.
In your main question the operative word is "valuable. Why, I ask, in my turn, should you consider your time valuable? It certainly is not valuable unless the universe has a meaning, and what is more, unless you know what that meaning is-at least roughly-it is millions to one that you will find yourself barking up the wrong tree.
First of all let us consider this question of the meaning of the universe. It is its own evidence to design, and that design intelligent design. There is no question of any moral significance-"one man's meat is another man's poison" and so on. But there can be no possible doubt about the existence of some kind of intelligence, and that kind is far superior to anything of which we know as human.
How then are we to explore, and finally to interpret this intelligence?
It seems to me that there are two ways and only two. Imagine for a moment that you are an orphan in charge of a guardian, inconceivably learned from your point of view.
Suppose therefore that you are puzzled by some problem suitable to your childish nature, your obvious and most simple way is to approach your guardian and ask him to enlighten you. It is clearly part of his function as guardian to do his best to help you. Very good, that is the first method, and close parallel with what we understand by the word Magick.
We are bothered by some difficulty about one of the elements-say Fire-it is therefore natural to evoke a Salamander to instruct you on the difficult point. But you must remember that your Holy Guardian Angel is not only far more fully instructed than yourself on every point that you can conceive, but you may go so far as to say that it is definitely his work, or part of his work; remembering always that he inhabits a sphere or plane which is entirely different from anything of which you are normally aware.
To attain to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel is consequently without doubt by far the simplest way by which you can yourself approach that higher order of being.
That, then, is a clearly intelligible method of procedure. We call it Magick.
It is of course possible to strengthen the link between him and yourself so that in course of time you became capable of moving and, generally speaking, operating on that plane which is his natural habitat.
There is however one other way, and one only, as far as I can see, of reaching this state.
It is at least theoretically possible to exalt the whole of your own consciousness until it becomes as free to move on that exalted plane as it is for him. You should note, by the way, that in this case the postulation of another being is not necessary. There is no way of refuting the solipsism if you feel like that. Personally I cannot accede to its axiom. The evidence for an external universe appears to me perfectly adequate.
Still there is no extra charge for thinking on those lines if you so wish.
I have paid a great deal of attention in the course of my life to the method of exalting the human consciousness in this way; and it is really quite legitimate to identify my teaching with that of the Yogis.
I must however point out that in the course of my instruction I have given continual warnings as to the dangers of this line of research. For one thing there is no means of checking your results in the ordinary scientific sense. It is always perfectly easy to find a subjective explanation of any phenomenon; and when one considers that the greatest of all the dangers in any line of research arise from egocentric vanity, I do not think I have exceeded my duty in anything that I have said to deter students from undertaking so dangerous a course as Yoga.
It is, of course, much safer if you are in a position to pursue in the Indian Jungles, provided that your health will stand the climate and also, I must say, unless you have a really sound teacher on whom you can safely rely. But then, if we once introduce a teacher, why not go to the Fountain-head and press towards the Knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel?
In any case your Indian teacher will ultimately direct you to seek guidance from that source, so it seems to me that you have gone to a great deal of extra trouble and incurred a great deal of unnecessary danger by not leaving yourself in the first place in the hands of the Holy Guardian Angel.
In any case there are the two methods which stand as alternatives. I do not know of any third one which can be of any use whatever. Logically, since you have asked me to be logical, there is certainly no third way; there is the external way of Magick, and the internal way of Yoga: there you have your alternatives, and there they cease.
Love is the law, love under will.
Fraternally,
666 ~ Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears,#KEYS
74: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
75:How to Meditate
Deep meditation is a mental procedure that utilizes the nature of the mind to systematically bring the mind to rest. If the mind is given the opportunity, it will go to rest with no effort. That is how the mind works.
Indeed, effort is opposed to the natural process of deep meditation. The mind always seeks the path of least resistance to express itself. Most of the time this is by making more and more thoughts. But it is also possible to create a situation in the mind that turns the path of least resistance into one leading to fewer and fewer thoughts. And, very soon, no thoughts at all. This is done by using a particular thought in a particular way. The thought is called a mantra.
For our practice of deep meditation, we will use the thought - I AM. This will be our mantra.
It is for the sound that we will use I AM, not for the meaning of it.
The meaning has an obvious significance in English, and I AM has a religious meaning in the English Bible as well. But we will not use I AM for the meaning - only for the sound. We can also spell it AYAM. No meaning there, is there? Only the sound. That is what we want. If your first language is not English, you may spell the sound phonetically in your own language if you wish. No matter how we spell it, it will be the same sound. The power of the sound ...I AM... is great when thought inside. But only if we use a particular procedure. Knowing this procedure is the key to successful meditation. It is very simple. So simple that we will devote many pages here to discussing how to keep it simple, because we all have a tendency to make things more complicated. Maintaining simplicity is the key to right meditation.
Here is the procedure of deep meditation: While sitting comfortably with eyes closed, we'll just relax. We will notice thoughts, streams of thoughts. That is fine. We just let them go by without minding them. After about a minute, we gently introduce the mantra, ...I AM...
We think the mantra in a repetition very easily inside. The speed of repetition may vary, and we do not mind it. We do not intone the mantra out loud. We do not deliberately locate the mantra in any particular part of the body. Whenever we realize we are not thinking the mantra inside anymore, we come back to it easily. This may happen many times in a sitting, or only once or twice. It doesn't matter. We follow this procedure of easily coming back to the mantra when we realize we are off it for the predetermined time of our meditation session. That's it.
Very simple.
Typically, the way we will find ourselves off the mantra will be in a stream of other thoughts. This is normal. The mind is a thought machine, remember? Making thoughts is what it does. But, if we are meditating, as soon as we realize we are off into a stream of thoughts, no matter how mundane or profound, we just easily go back to the mantra.
Like that. We don't make a struggle of it. The idea is not that we have to be on the mantra all the time. That is not the objective. The objective is to easily go back to it when we realize we are off it. We just favor the mantra with our attention when we notice we are not thinking it. If we are back into a stream of other thoughts five seconds later, we don't try and force the thoughts out. Thoughts are a normal part of the deep meditation process. We just ease back to the mantra again. We favor it.
Deep meditation is a going toward, not a pushing away from. We do that every single time with the mantra when we realize we are off it - just easily favoring it. It is a gentle persuasion. No struggle. No fuss. No iron willpower or mental heroics are necessary for this practice. All such efforts are away from the simplicity of deep meditation and will reduce its effectiveness.
As we do this simple process of deep meditation, we will at some point notice a change in the character of our inner experience. The mantra may become very refined and fuzzy. This is normal. It is perfectly all right to think the mantra in a very refined and fuzzy way if this is the easiest. It should always be easy - never a struggle. Other times, we may lose track of where we are for a while, having no mantra, or stream of thoughts either. This is fine too. When we realize we have been off somewhere, we just ease back to the mantra again. If we have been very settled with the mantra being barely recognizable, we can go back to that fuzzy level of it, if it is the easiest. As the mantra refines, we are riding it inward with our attention to progressively deeper levels of inner silence in the mind. So it is normal for the mantra to become very faint and fuzzy. We cannot force this to happen. It will happen naturally as our nervous system goes through its many cycles ofinner purification stimulated by deep meditation. When the mantra refines, we just go with it. And when the mantra does not refine, we just be with it at whatever level is easy. No struggle. There is no objective to attain, except to continue the simple procedure we are describing here.
When and Where to Meditate
How long and how often do we meditate? For most people, twenty minutes is the best duration for a meditation session. It is done twice per day, once before the morning meal and day's activity, and then again before the evening meal and evening's activity.
Try to avoid meditating right after eating or right before bed.
Before meal and activity is the ideal time. It will be most effective and refreshing then. Deep meditation is a preparation for activity, and our results over time will be best if we are active between our meditation sessions. Also, meditation is not a substitute for sleep. The ideal situation is a good balance between meditation, daily activity and normal sleep at night. If we do this, our inner experience will grow naturally over time, and our outer life will become enriched by our growing inner silence.
A word on how to sit in meditation: The first priority is comfort. It is not desirable to sit in a way that distracts us from the easy procedure of meditation. So sitting in a comfortable chair with back support is a good way to meditate. Later on, or if we are already familiar, there can be an advantage to sitting with legs crossed, also with back support. But always with comfort and least distraction being the priority. If, for whatever reason, crossed legs are not feasible for us, we will do just fine meditating in our comfortable chair. There will be no loss of the benefits.
Due to commitments we may have, the ideal routine of meditation sessions will not always be possible. That is okay. Do the best you can and do not stress over it. Due to circumstances beyond our control, sometimes the only time we will have to meditate will be right after a meal, or even later in the evening near bedtime. If meditating at these times causes a little disruption in our system, we will know it soon enough and make the necessary adjustments. The main thing is that we do our best to do two meditations every day, even if it is only a short session between our commitments. Later on, we will look at the options we have to make adjustments to address varying outer circumstances, as well as inner experiences that can come up.
Before we go on, you should try a meditation. Find a comfortable place to sit where you are not likely to be interrupted and do a short meditation, say ten minutes, and see how it goes. It is a toe in the water.
Make sure to take a couple of minutes at the end sitting easily without doing the procedure of meditation. Then open your eyes slowly. Then read on here.
As you will see, the simple procedure of deep meditation and it's resulting experiences will raise some questions. We will cover many of them here.
So, now we will move into the practical aspects of deep meditation - your own experiences and initial symptoms of the growth of your own inner silence. ~ Yogani, Deep Meditation,#KEYS
76: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
77:It does not matter if you do not understand it - Savitri, read it always. You will see that every time you read it, something new will be revealed to you. Each time you will get a new glimpse, each time a new experience; things which were not there, things you did not understand arise and suddenly become clear. Always an unexpected vision comes up through the words and lines. Every time you try to read and understand, you will see that something is added, something which was hidden behind is revealed clearly and vividly. I tell you the very verses you have read once before, will appear to you in a different light each time you re-read them. This is what happens invariably. Always your experience is enriched, it is a revelation at each step.
But you must not read it as you read other books or newspapers. You must read with an empty head, a blank and vacant mind, without there being any other thought; you must concentrate much, remain empty, calm and open; then the words, rhythms, vibrations will penetrate directly to this white page, will put their stamp upon the brain, will explain themselves without your making any effort.
Savitri alone is sufficient to make you climb to the highest peaks. If truly one knows how to meditate on Savitri, one will receive all the help one needs. For him who wishes to follow this path, it is a concrete help as though the Lord himself were taking you by the hand and leading you to the destined goal. And then, every question, however personal it may be, has its answer here, every difficulty finds its solution herein; indeed there is everything that is necessary for doing the Yoga.
*He has crammed the whole universe in a single book.* It is a marvellous work, magnificent and of an incomparable perfection.
You know, before writing Savitri Sri Aurobindo said to me, *I am impelled to launch on a new adventure; I was hesitant in the beginning, but now I am decided. Still, I do not know how far I shall succeed. I pray for help.* And you know what it was? It was - before beginning, I warn you in advance - it was His way of speaking, so full of divine humility and modesty. He never... *asserted Himself*. And the day He actually began it, He told me: *I have launched myself in a rudderless boat upon the vastness of the Infinite.* And once having started, He wrote page after page without intermission, as though it were a thing already complete up there and He had only to transcribe it in ink down here on these pages.
In truth, the entire form of Savitri has descended "en masse" from the highest region and Sri Aurobindo with His genius only arranged the lines - in a superb and magnificent style. Sometimes entire lines were revealed and He has left them intact; He worked hard, untiringly, so that the inspiration could come from the highest possible summit. And what a work He has created! Yes, it is a true creation in itself. It is an unequalled work. Everything is there, and it is put in such a simple, such a clear form; verses perfectly harmonious, limpid and eternally true. My child, I have read so many things, but I have never come across anything which could be compared with Savitri. I have studied the best works in Greek, Latin, English and of course French literature, also in German and all the great creations of the West and the East, including the great epics; but I repeat it, I have not found anywhere anything comparable with Savitri. All these literary works seems to me empty, flat, hollow, without any deep reality - apart from a few rare exceptions, and these too represent only a small fraction of what Savitri is. What grandeur, what amplitude, what reality: it is something immortal and eternal He has created. I tell you once again there is nothing like in it the whole world. Even if one puts aside the vision of the reality, that is, the essential substance which is the heart of the inspiration, and considers only the lines in themselves, one will find them unique, of the highest classical kind. What He has created is something man cannot imagine. For, everything is there, everything.
It may then be said that Savitri is a revelation, it is a meditation, it is a quest of the Infinite, the Eternal. If it is read with this aspiration for Immortality, the reading itself will serve as a guide to Immortality. To read Savitri is indeed to practice Yoga, spiritual concentration; one can find there all that is needed to realise the Divine. Each step of Yoga is noted here, including the secret of all other Yogas. Surely, if one sincerely follows what is revealed here in each line one will reach finally the transformation of the Supramental Yoga. It is truly the infallible guide who never abandons you; its support is always there for him who wants to follow the path. Each verse of Savitri is like a revealed Mantra which surpasses all that man possessed by way of knowledge, and I repeat this, the words are expressed and arranged in such a way that the sonority of the rhythm leads you to the origin of sound, which is OM.
My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny - all is there. You can find all the answers to all your questions there. Everything is explained, even the future of man and of the evolution, all that nobody yet knows. He has described it all in beautiful and clear words so that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But this mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophesies, all that is going to come is presented with the precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Consciousness, to solve the problem of what the universe is. He has also indicated how to open the door of the Inconscience so that the light may penetrate there and transform it. He has shown the path, the way to liberate oneself from the ignorance and climb up to the superconscience; each stage, each plane of consciousness, how they can be scaled, how one can cross even the barrier of death and attain immortality. You will find the whole journey in detail, and as you go forward you can discover things altogether unknown to man. That is Savitri and much more yet. It is a real experience - reading Savitri. All the secrets that man possessed, He has revealed, - as well as all that awaits him in the future; all this is found in the depth of Savitri. But one must have the knowledge to discover it all, the experience of the planes of consciousness, the experience of the Supermind, even the experience of the conquest of Death. He has noted all the stages, marked each step in order to advance integrally in the integral Yoga.
All this is His own experience, and what is most surprising is that it is my own experience also. It is my sadhana which He has worked out. Each object, each event, each realisation, all the descriptions, even the colours are exactly what I saw and the words, phrases are also exactly what I heard. And all this before having read the book. I read Savitri many times afterwards, but earlier, when He was writing He used to read it to me. Every morning I used to hear Him read Savitri. During the night He would write and in the morning read it to me. And I observed something curious, that day after day the experiences He read out to me in the morning were those I had had the previous night, word by word. Yes, all the descriptions, the colours, the pictures I had seen, the words I had heard, all, all, I heard it all, put by Him into poetry, into miraculous poetry. Yes, they were exactly my experiences of the previous night which He read out to me the following morning. And it was not just one day by chance, but for days and days together. And every time I used to compare what He said with my previous experiences and they were always the same. I repeat, it was not that I had told Him my experiences and that He had noted them down afterwards, no, He knew already what I had seen. It is my experiences He has presented at length and they were His experiences also. It is, moreover, the picture of Our joint adventure into the unknown or rather into the Supermind.
These are experiences lived by Him, realities, supracosmic truths. He experienced all these as one experiences joy or sorrow, physically. He walked in the darkness of inconscience, even in the neighborhood of death, endured the sufferings of perdition, and emerged from the mud, the world-misery to breathe the sovereign plenitude and enter the supreme Ananda. He crossed all these realms, went through the consequences, suffered and endured physically what one cannot imagine. Nobody till today has suffered like Him. He accepted suffering to transform suffering into the joy of union with the Supreme. It is something unique and incomparable in the history of the world. It is something that has never happened before, He is the first to have traced the path in the Unknown, so that we may be able to walk with certitude towards the Supermind. He has made the work easy for us. Savitri is His whole Yoga of transformation, and this Yoga appears now for the first time in the earth-consciousness.
And I think that man is not yet ready to receive it. It is too high and too vast for him. He cannot understand it, grasp it, for it is not by the mind that one can understand Savitri. One needs spiritual experiences in order to understand and assimilate it. The farther one advances on the path of Yoga, the more does one assimilate and the better. No, it is something which will be appreciated only in the future, it is the poetry of tomorrow of which He has spoken in The Future Poetry. It is too subtle, too refined, - it is not in the mind or through the mind, it is in meditation that Savitri is revealed.
And men have the audacity to compare it with the work of Virgil or Homer and to find it inferior. They do not understand, they cannot understand. What do they know? Nothing at all. And it is useless to try to make them understand. Men will know what it is, but in a distant future. It is only the new race with a new consciousness which will be able to understand. I assure you there is nothing under the blue sky to compare with Savitri. It is the mystery of mysteries. It is a *super-epic,* it is super-literature, super-poetry, super-vision, it is a super-work even if one considers the number of lines He has written. No, these human words are not adequate to describe Savitri. Yes, one needs superlatives, hyperboles to describe it. It is a hyper-epic. No, words express nothing of what Savitri is, at least I do not find them. It is of immense value - spiritual value and all other values; it is eternal in its subject, and infinite in its appeal, miraculous in its mode and power of execution; it is a unique thing, the more you come into contact with it, the higher will you be uplifted. Ah, truly it is something! It is the most beautiful thing He has left for man, the highest possible. What is it? When will man know it? When is he going to lead a life of truth? When is he going to accept this in his life? This yet remains to be seen.
My child, every day you are going to read Savitri; read properly, with the right attitude, concentrating a little before opening the pages and trying to keep the mind as empty as possible, absolutely without a thought. The direct road is through the heart. I tell you, if you try to really concentrate with this aspiration you can light the flame, the psychic flame, the flame of purification in a very short time, perhaps in a few days. What you cannot do normally, you can do with the help of Savitri. Try and you will see how very different it is, how new, if you read with this attitude, with this something at the back of your consciousness; as though it were an offering to Sri Aurobindo. You know it is charged, fully charged with consciousness; as if Savitri were a being, a real guide. I tell you, whoever, wanting to practice Yoga, tries sincerely and feels the necessity for it, will be able to climb with the help of Savitri to the highest rung of the ladder of Yoga, will be able to find the secret that Savitri represents. And this without the help of a Guru. And he will be able to practice it anywhere. For him Savitri alone will be the guide, for all that he needs he will find Savitri. If he remains very quiet when before a difficulty, or when he does not know where to turn to go forward and how to overcome obstacles, for all these hesitations and incertitudes which overwhelm us at every moment, he will have the necessary indications, and the necessary concrete help. If he remains very calm, open, if he aspires sincerely, always he will be as if lead by the hand. If he has faith, the will to give himself and essential sincerity he will reach the final goal.
Indeed, Savitri is something concrete, living, it is all replete, packed with consciousness, it is the supreme knowledge above all human philosophies and religions. It is the spiritual path, it is Yoga, Tapasya, Sadhana, in its single body. Savitri has an extraordinary power, it gives out vibrations for him who can receive them, the true vibrations of each stage of consciousness. It is incomparable, it is truth in its plenitude, the Truth Sri Aurobindo brought down on the earth. My child, one must try to find the secret that Savitri represents, the prophetic message Sri Aurobindo reveals there for us. This is the work before you, it is hard but it is worth the trouble. - 5 November 1967
~ The Mother, Sweet Mother, The Mother to Mona Sarkar, [T0],#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:most people are perfectly afraid of silence ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 2:I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 3:I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 4:Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 5:I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 6:There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 7:You don't love perfectly without first loving imperfectly. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 8:I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 9:I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 10:I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 11:The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 12:Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. ~ robert-h-schuller, @wisdomtrove 13:Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 14:There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 15:We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 16:It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly. ~ robert-h-schuller, @wisdomtrove 17:My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 18:Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 19:Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 20:I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 21:The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 22:Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 23:Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 24:Tis’ better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else’s perfectly. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 25:As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 26:Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 27:In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 28:I live in Jesus, on Jesus, with Jesus, and soon hope to be perfectly conformed to His likeness. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 29:It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 30:You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 31:I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 32:There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 33:Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 34:For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 35:The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 36:I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 37:I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 38:One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 39:The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 40:It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 41:To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 42:When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 43:I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 44:Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 45:One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 46:That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 47:Stop trying to & 48:In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 49:May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 50:Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 51:The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 52:Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 53:Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 54:If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 55:You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 56:The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 57:Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 58:How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 59:There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 60:I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 61:If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 62:Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 63:Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 64:I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 65:The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 66:I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove 67:The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want. ~ byron-katie, @wisdomtrove 68:The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 69:The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 70:For I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove 71:To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 72:I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 73:It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 74:Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 75:The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19) ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 76:A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 77:The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 78:A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 79:Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 80:Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 81:I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 82:Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 83:The great way is not difficult if you don't cling to good or bad. Just let go of your preferences; and everything will become perfectly clear. ~ jianzhi-sengcan, @wisdomtrove 84:This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 85:The person in the business suit who works on Wall Street, who does their work perfectly, is probably evolving a lot faster, if they also meditate. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 86:In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 87:Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them. ~ michael-beckwith, @wisdomtrove 88:I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 89:There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 90:Be courteous to all, but personal with number of, and allow those couple be perfectly attempted ahead of you provide them with your self-assurance. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 91:By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 92:If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 93:It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 94:This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 95:God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 96:Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 97:It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 98:Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 99:I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 100:Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 101:Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 102:The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 103:There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 104:The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 105:Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 106:.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 107:God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 108:Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 109:Though he lives in the conditionings (Upadhis), he, the contemplative one, remains ever unconcerned with anything or he may move about like the wind, perfectly unattached. ~ adi-shankara, @wisdomtrove 110:It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an attache in the diplomatic service. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 111:Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 112:Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 113:Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 114:How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons. ~ francis-crick, @wisdomtrove 115:When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 116:I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 117:The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 118:An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 119:The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 120:Not once does the Bible report that (Jesus) rushed anywhere. He was often busy, but never in a mad dash. And yet He perfectly accomplished all the Father designed for Him to do. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 121:Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else from our awareness and focuses us as perfectly as we can ever be focused. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 122:Christ came to bring healing to those who are spiritually sick-you say that you are perfectly well, so you must go your own way and Christ will go in another direction-towar ds sinners. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 123:If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 124:Can't you fall in love and not have a possessive relationship? I love someone and she loves me and we get married - that is all perfectly straightforward and simple, in that there is no ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 125:If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position‚¶ to make all the difference in the world. ~ james-redfield, @wisdomtrove 126:I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 127:Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 128:The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 129:Surrender is perfectly compatible with taking action, initiating change, or achieving goals. But in the surrendered state a totally different energy, a different quality, flows into your doing. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 130:Romanticism, which encourages variety, meshes perfectly with consumerism. Their marriage has given birth to the infinite ‘market of experiences’, on which the modern tourism industry is founded. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 131:The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 132:If you ever come to one of my seminars, you will notice I have volunteer workers. When I work with individuals like that, I expect a level of excellence displayed. Everything has to be done perfectly. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 133:While non of us understands the Grand Design, we can commit to using all our experiences, good or bad, as the building blocks of a powerful and loving life. Then it is, indeed, all happening perfectly. ~ susan-jeffers, @wisdomtrove 134:While non of us understands the Grand Design, we can commit to using all our experiences, good or bad, as the building blocks of a powerful and loving life. Then it is, indeed, all happening perfectly." ~ susan-jeffers, @wisdomtrove 135:Fear is the cause of every problem. It’s the root of all prejudices and the negative emotions of anger, jealousy, and possessiveness. If you had no fear, you could be perfectly happy living in this world. ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove 136:It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 137:I am powerful and I am loving. I have much to give to this world. I am a person of worth. I deserve love. I am a capable person. My life has meaning. My life is unfolding perfectly. There is plenty of time. ~ susan-jeffers, @wisdomtrove 138:Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is HIS business. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 139:A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 140:Perfectionism is a shield that we carry with a thought process that says this, & 141:Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 142:As God is omnipresent in the cosmos but is undisturbed by its variety, so man, who as a soul is individualized Spirit, must learn to participate in this cosmic drama with a perfectly poised and equilibrated mind. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 143:A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 144:When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not be able to believe that this had happened. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 145:We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove 146:Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 147:For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I’d say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove 148:To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 149:You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace and recollection. You will never be able to pray perfectly until you are detached from the pleasures of prayer. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 150:. . . Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings. . . . We will do great things yet. . . . So long as you have faith and honesty and devotion, everything will prosper. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 151:Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 152:The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 153:Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. Rumi ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 154:One of the best pieces of advice that my dad has given me is this: & 155:As you practice your more positive, better-feeling story, in time your pleasure will become the dominant vibration within you, and then as you couple your pleasure with your means of earning, the two will blend perfectly and enhance each other. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 156:I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 157:There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 158:Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove 159:The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 160:Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 161:After I got shot, you want to know the very first thing that entered my mind? The U.S. Mint. I am coin in the U.S. Army. Now, I have two small holes in me. I'm no longer perfectly culled. Do you want to know the very last thing that entered my mind, You. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 162:India saw from the beginning, - and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, - that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 163:And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 164:A race or nation stands so much the higher, the more perfectly its members express the pure, ideal human type ... The evolution of man through the incarnations in ever higher national and racial forms is thus a process of liberation [leading to] an ideal future. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 165:It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 166:Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 167:You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' & 168:Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 169:Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 170:Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 171:I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly because I wanted to understand them. The study of quantum physics helped me to have a deeper understanding of the Secret, on an energetic level. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 172:The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 173:All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 174:And there, right in the middle of it, I find & 175:Our own intuition of what we're called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 176:I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 177:The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairly simple tasks involving perhaps four or five movements or procedures in sequence, can do these perfectly if they work to music. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 178:... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 179:Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 180:Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving for excellence. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth. Perfectionism is a defensive move. It’s the belief that if we do things perfectly and look perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgment, and shame. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 181:Trust God's love. His perfect love. Don't fear He will discover your past. He already has. Don't fear disappointing Him in the future. He can show you the chapter in which you will. With perfect knowledge of the past and perfect vision of the future, He loves you perfectly in spite of both. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 182:Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish... It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 183:Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence. ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove 184:The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world. He is like a traveler in an inn, perfectly satisfied with the inn and its accommodation, considering it as an inn, but putting quite out of all consideration the idea of making it his home. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 185:We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human and visible means, nor rests in any visible end. He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 186:We don't think there's something wrong with one-year-old children because they can't walk perfectly. They fall down frequently, but we pick them up, love them, bandage them if necessary, and keep working with them. Surely our heavenly Father can do even more for us than we do for our children. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 187:This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I’d only ever experienced love and certainty in my life. How can I describe the warmth of affection in that voice, as it gave me the answer that would forever seal my faith in the divine? ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 188:I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 189:Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 190:I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 191:I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 192:I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human race, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 193:Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 194:This is not a haphazard Universe in which you live. It is a very well defined, perfectly organized Universe. Your only work is get in alignment with the perfection of it, which means that you must believe that all is well, and in the moment that you believe that all is well – everything that touches you is well. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 195:It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 196:The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature... a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 197:How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 198:I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 199:Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 200:Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove 201:What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money." When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 202:Along this gravity-driven journey, some snowflakes collide and damage each other, some collide and join together, some are influenced by wind... there are so many transitions and changes that take place along the journey of the snowflake. But, no matter what the transition, the snowflake always finds itself perfectly shaped for its journey. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 203:When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 204:The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy tribe, but there's a wonderful quotation from Nietzsche. Nietzsche said, Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism. Something perfectly is going on. I do not doubt it, but the explanations I hear do not satisfy me. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 205:Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 206:The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn't want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly-except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 207:We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform. Our corner of the universe is our own life - our relationships, our homes, our work, our current circumstances -. exactly as they are. Every situation we find ourselves in is an opportunity, perfectly planned by the Holy Spirit, to teach love instead of fear. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 208:Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 209:It is by the Holy Spirit that we love those who are united to us in Christ. The more plentifully we have received of the Spirit of Christ, the more perfectly we are able to love them: and the more we love them the more we receive the Spirit. It is clear, however, that since we love them by the Spirit Who is given to us by Jesus, it is Jesus Himself Who loves them in us. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 210:Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived forward. The more one thinks through this clause, the more one concludes that life in temporality never becomes properly understandable, simply because never at any time does one get perfect repose to take the stance - backward. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 211:As a rule, critics don’t get to the bottom of anything; they are superficial. It doesn’t really matter. Art critics are a sort of ridiculous bunch, for the most part. In general, I suppose I’m respected by critics and other photographers, but I also annoy a lot of young people. It’s perfectly natural that they oppose what they consider my conservative ideas about photography. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove 212:If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell we really got this way. It's a perfectly natural human thought and, okay, if you go into the science class you can't think this. Well, alright, as soon as you leave you can start thinking about it again without giving aid and comfort to the lunatic fringe of the Christian religion. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 213:In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 214:An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that 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. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 215:For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 216:Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes... This serves *you*... Your body was not created to bear the burden of your overattachment to it, but was created as a container for the light of your spirit. It will more easily remember how to function perfectly when you remember the perfection in everyone. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 217:If you can sit quietly after difficult news; if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm; if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy; if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate; you can fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill; if you can always find contentment just where you are: you are probably a dog. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 218:I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing... .Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 219:What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy... should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 220:If Spirit has any meaning, it must be omnipresent, or all-pervading and all-encompassing. There can't be a place where Spirit is not, or it wouldn't be infinite. Therefore, Spirit has to be completely present, right here, right now, in your own awareness. That is, your own present awareness, precisely as it is, without changing it or altering it in any way, is perfectly and completely permeated by Spirit. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 221:No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend. I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 222:Perfectly Imperfect... We have all heard that no two snowflakes are alike. Each snowflake takes the perfect form for the maximum efficiency and effectiveness for its journey. And while the universal force of gravity gives them a shared destination, the expansive space in the air gives each snowflake the opportunity to take their own path. They are on the same journey, but each takes a different path. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 223:Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in life. He may not have been perfectly unselfish; yet he was tending towards it. If he had been perfectly unselfish, his would have been as great a success as that of the Buddha or of the Christ. The degree of unselfishness marks the degree of success everywhere. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 224:All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job... And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 225:Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to to find other people or to even know they're alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 226:Q: I find that I am always restless, longing, hoping, seeking, finding, enjoying, abandoning, searching again. What is it that keeps me on the boil? M: You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfectly lovable. Due to ignorance, you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 227:it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 228:What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows! Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 229:When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds ... Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived? ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove 230:God& 231:Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer." Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered. "Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master. "So you are an atheist?" "Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it. ~ anthony-de-mello, @wisdomtrove 232:I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove 233:Even the sense of & 234:This is no kindergarten fairy tale, but an extremely powerful myth that continues to shape the lives of billions of humans and animals in the early twenty-first century. The belief that humans have eternal souls whereas animals are just evanescent bodies is a central pillar of our legal, political and economic system. It explains why, for example, it is perfectly okay for humans to kill animals for food, or even just for the fun of it. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 235:Think of what understanding this great orchestration could mean for relationships. Imagine interacting with others knowing that they too each share this parallel with the snowflake. Like you, they are headed to the same place and no matter what they may appear like to you, they have taken the perfect form for their journey. How strong our relationships would be if we could see and respect that we are all perfectly imperfect for our journey. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 236:Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting in one in the representation of the divine goodness might be supplied by another. For goodness, which in God is simple and uniform, in creatures is manifold and divided. Thus the whole universe together participates in the divine goodness more perfectly and represents it better than any single creature. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 237:I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 238:Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting in one in the representation of the divine goodness might be supplied by another. For goodness, which in God is simple and uniform, in creatures is manifold and divided. Thus the whole universe together participates in the divine goodness more perfectly and represents it better than any single creature. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 239:My fingers,' said Elizabeth, & 240:You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's no way you can get out.The world is your cradle and your trap. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 241:What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the young in knowably false or biased history - the heroic legend drably disguised as text-book fact. With this creeps in the tacit assumption that other nations have not equally their heroes; perhaps even the belief - surely it is very bad biology - that we can literally & 242:Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting "Gotcha". It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it.' & 243:That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only because we accept as real the boundary line between the opposites. It is, recall, the boundaries themselves which create the seeming existence of separate opposites. To put it plainly, to say that "ultimate reality is a unity of opposites" is actually to say that in ultimate reality there are no boundaries. Anywhere. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 244:If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 245:The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 246:Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here's the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 247:The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so well educated that you can build a nuclear bomb, and still get& 248:Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away. It wasn’t that she was ugly, or had bad breath or a bad personality. She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high school education. She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone through so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 249:For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 250:Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius - man in the abstract - was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 251:This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desire for name and fame. Those who know this secret pass beyond this round of birth and death and become immortal. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 252:So far we have looked at two of the three practical threats to liberalism: firstly, that humans will lose their value completely; secondly, that humans will still be valuable collectively, but they will lose their individual authority, and will instead be managed by external algorithms. The system will still need you to compose symphonies, teach history or write computer code, but the system will know you better than you know yourself, and will therefore make most of the important decisions for you – and you will be perfectly happy with that. It won’t necessarily be a bad world; it will, however, be a post-liberal world. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 253:All is well, and you will never get it done. Life is supposed to be fun. No one is taking score of any kind, and if you will stop taking score so much, you will feel a whole lot better — and as you feel a whole lot better, more of the things that you want right now will flow to you. You will never be in a place where all of the things that you are wanting will be satisfied right now, or then you could be complete — and you never can be. This incomplete place that you stand is the best place that you could be. You are right on track, right on schedule. Everything is unfolding perfectly. All is really well. Have fun. Have fun. Have fun!" ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 254:If a man approaches a fact in the world around him with a judgment arising from his previous experiences, he shuts himself off by this judgment from the quiet, complete effect which this fact can have on him. The learner must be able each moment to make himself a perfectly empty vessel into which the new world flows. Knowledge is received only in those moments in which every judgment, every criticism coming from ourselves, is silent. For example, when we meet a person, the question is not at all whether we are wiser than he. Even the most unreasoning child has something to reveal to the greatest sage. And if he approach the child with his prejudgment, be it ever so wise, he pushes his wisdom like a dulled glass in front of what the child ought to reveal to him. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 255:Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely. The only sense to make of tragedies like this is that terrible things can happen to perfectly innocent people. This understanding inspires compassion. Religious faith, on the other hand, erodes compassion. Thoughts like, & 256:I find parallels in nature to be a beautiful reflection of grand orchestration. One of these parallels is of snowflakes and us. We, too, are all headed in the same direction. We are being driven by a universal force to the same destination. We are all individuals taking different journeys and along our journey, we sometimes bump into each other, we cross paths, we become altered... we take different physical forms. But at all times we too are 100% perfectly imperfect. At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey. I’m not perfect for your journey and you’re not perfect for my journey, but I’m perfect for my journey and you’re perfect for your journey. We’re heading to the same place, we’re taking different routes, but we’re both exactly perfect the way we are. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 257:It is by participation of species that we call every sensible object beautiful. Thus, since everything void of form is by nature fitted for its reception, as far as it is destitute of reason and form it is base and separate from the divine reason, the great fountain of forms; and whatever is entirely remote from this immortal source is perfectly base and deformed. And such is matter, which by its nature is ever averse from the supervening irradiations of form. Whenever, therefore, form accedes, it conciliates in amicable unity the parts which are about to compose a whole; for being itself one it is not wonderful that the subject of its power should tend to unity, as far as the nature of a compound will admit. Hence beauty is established in multitude when the many is reduced into one, and in this case it communicates itself both to the parts and to the whole. But when a particular one, composed from similar parts, is received it gives itself to the whole, without departing from the sameness and integrity of its nature. Thus at one and the same time it communicates itself to the whole building and its several parts; and at another time confines itself to a single stone, and then the first participation arises from the operations of art, but the second from the formation of nature. And hence body becomes beautiful through the communion supernally proceeding from divinity. ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove 258:The Battle of Good and Evil Polytheism gave birth not merely to monotheist religions, but also to dualistic ones. Dualistic religions espouse the existence of two opposing powers: good and evil. Unlike monotheism, dualism believes that evil is an independent power, neither created by the good God, nor subordinate to it. Dualism explains that the entire universe is a battleground between these two forces, and that everything that happens in the world is part of the struggle. Dualism is a very attractive world view because it has a short and simple answer to the famous Problem of Evil, one of the fundamental concerns of human thought. ‘Why is there evil in the world? Why is there suffering? Why do bad things happen to good people?’ Monotheists have to practise intellectual gymnastics to explain how an all-knowing, all-powerful and perfectly good God allows so much suffering in the world. One well-known explanation is that this is God’s way of allowing for human free will. Were there no evil, humans could not choose between good and evil, and hence there would be no free will. This, however, is a non-intuitive answer that immediately raises a host of new questions. Freedom of will allows humans to choose evil. Many indeed choose evil and, according to the standard monotheist account, this choice must bring divine punishment in its wake. If God knew in advance that a particular person would use her free will to choose evil, and that as a result she would be punished for this by eternal tortures in hell, why did God create her? Theologians have written countless books to answer such questions. Some find the answers convincing. Some don’t. What’s undeniable is that monotheists have a hard time dealing with the Problem of Evil. For dualists, it’s easy to explain evil. Bad things happen even to good people because the world is not governed single-handedly by a good God. There is an independent evil power loose in the world. The evil power does bad things. Dualism has its own drawbacks. While solving the Problem of Evil, it is unnerved by the Problem of Order. If the world was created by a single God, it’s clear why it is such an orderly place, where everything obeys the same laws. But if Good and Evil battle for control of the world, who enforces the laws governing this cosmic war? Two rival states can fight one another because both obey the same laws of physics. A missile launched from Pakistan can hit targets in India because gravity works the same way in both countries. When Good and Evil fight, what common laws do they obey, and who decreed these laws? So, monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order. There is one logical way of solving the riddle: to argue that there is a single omnipotent God who created the entire universe – and He’s evil. But nobody in history has had the stomach for such a belief. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:I'm perfectly healthy. ~ Emmanuel Lewis, #NFDB
2:Dance when you're perfectly free. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
3:I have to be perfectly honest: ~ Big Pun, #NFDB
4:You were perfectly fine. ~ Dorothy Parker, #NFDB
5:perfectly clear. To me, and to ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
6:to a perfectly terrible day. ~ Carl Hiaasen, #NFDB
7:Imperfect, but Perfectly Loved ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
8:then a perfectly healthy woman ~ Karyn Bosnak, #NFDB
9:And waste perfectly good beetles? ~ Will Wight, #NFDB
10:Death is perfectly safe. (55) ~ Stephen Levine, #NFDB
11:I am perfectly aware,
perfectly cold; ~ H D,#NFDB
12:TEN I RUIN A PERFECTLY GOOD BUS ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
13:Character is perfectly educated will. ~ Novalis, #NFDB
14:I'm a perfectly equipped failure. ~ Azar Nafisi, #NFDB
15:Art is all just perfectly imperfect. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
16:Character is a perfectly educated will. ~ Novalis, #NFDB
17:He was the perfectly flawed man. ~ Samantha Chase, #NFDB
18:I have perfectly symmetrical ankles. ~ T J Miller, #NFDB
19:Nobody's perfect. I'm perfectly flawed. ~ Amy Lee, #NFDB
20:How perfectly, annoyingly unhelpful. ~ Megan Chance, #NFDB
21:Perfect love is perfectly patient. ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
22:Few things are worth doing perfectly. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
23:I have no name for what circles so perfectly. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
24:I know perfectly well my own egotism. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
25:Perfectly normal, thank you very much. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
26:I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it. ~ Rihanna, #NFDB
27:It is perfectly American to be wrong. ~ Newt Gingrich, #NFDB
28:I am being perfectly fucking civil. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
29:I perfectly feele even at my fingers end. ~ John Heywood, #NFDB
30:She will do this job perfectly for you; ~ Sarah Bakewell, #NFDB
31:You need not laugh; 'tis perfectly true. ~ Patrice Kindl, #NFDB
32:most people are perfectly afraid of silence ~ E E Cummings, #NFDB
33:most people are perfectly afraid of silence ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
34:A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient. ~ Nancy Gibbs, #NFDB
35:I got into some perfectly beautiful trouble ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
36:It was perfectly horrible. But it was perfect. ~ Fiona Paul, #NFDB
37:thought the whole plan had ended perfectly ~ Laurelin Paige, #NFDB
38:To know silence perfectly is to know music. ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB
39:I have no name for what circles so perfectly ~ Coleman Barks, #NFDB
40:I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human. ~ Donald Miller, #NFDB
41:Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless. ~ Aristophanes, #NFDB
42:I have no name for what circles so perfectly. ~ Coleman Barks, #NFDB
43:She’s so perfectly imperfect, and perfect for me. ~ Jay McLean, #NFDB
44:To find perfectly ripe fruit, catch it. ~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen, #NFDB
45:Your soul fits the void in my soul perfectly. ~ Maria V Snyder, #NFDB
46:Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
47:I don't care what you think, so it's perfectly ok. ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
48:Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory. ~ Garry Kasparov, #NFDB
49:What's life without perfectly certifiable friends? ~ Alexa Land, #NFDB
50:I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
51:It is perfectly clear. Mr. Owen is one of us.… ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
52:Khalil Gibran stated it perfectly in The Prophet: ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
53:Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up ~ John Ashbery, #NFDB
54:When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want. ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
55:It's an imperfect world, so you fit in perfectly. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
56:Whatever I do, I should do it perfectly and correctly ~ Nayantara, #NFDB
57:Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy... ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
58:I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
59:Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex! ~ Margaret Deland, #NFDB
60:It would make this a perfectly normal alien invasion. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
61:No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
62:... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered. ~ Mavis Gallant, #NFDB
63:Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon. ~ Graham Chapman, #NFDB
64:How predictable, how perfectly average, how amusing. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
65:I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
66:I was perfectly calm, I was the anchor of the world. ~ Per Petterson, #NFDB
67:Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
68:We just have to accept that life is perfectly imperfect. ~ Han Nolan, #NFDB
69:Alone, one can live perfectly. But not a life. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
70:A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization. ~ Karen Horney, #NFDB
71:I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness. ~ John Green, #NFDB
72:Once you absorb the maths, it’s all perfectly clear. ~ Elizabeth Bear, #NFDB
73:I know what’s required. It’s perfectly simple: Justice. ~ Alan Bennett, #NFDB
74:I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole. ~ Kurt Cobain, #NFDB
75:I’m perfectly cheerful, thank you,’ said Flosshilde coldly. ~ Tom Holt, #NFDB
76:iPhone just synced perfectly with toaster. All is well. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
77:Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
78:We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up. ~ Stephen Fry, #NFDB
79:Be perfectly sincere and no victory will be denied to you. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
80:I am perfectly capable of causing my own share of trouble. ~ Kat Howard, #NFDB
81:It’s perfectly legitimate to ask What Would Batman Do? ~ Lynne M Thomas, #NFDB
82:perfectly awful things. Farces,—that’s what they are! ~ Thornton Wilder, #NFDB
83:To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy. ~ Nikki Cox, #NFDB
84:A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality. ~ David B Lentz, #NFDB
85:Be perfectly sincere and no victory will be denied to you. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
86:Cornering perfectly is like bringing a woman to climax. ~ Jackie Stewart, #NFDB
87:I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual. ~ Christi Caldwell, #NFDB
88:Technology is always perfectly dependable until it isn't. ~ Kevin Hearne, #NFDB
89:There are perfectly good independent small nations. ~ David Attenborough, #NFDB
90:The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical. ~ Beth Lisick, #NFDB
91:It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water. ~ Stone Gossard, #NFDB
92:Perfectly,” replied Syme; “always be comic in a tragedy. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
93:What is perfectly true is perfectly witty. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
94:Fight evil. Do it perfectly. Then come back and we'll see. ~ Michael Poore, #NFDB
95:I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
96:I'm perfectly happy and rewarded and fulfilled where I am. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
97:Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ~ R D Laing, #NFDB
98:I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
99:Oh, there's no use talking to him. He's perfectly idiotic! ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
100:Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos. ~ I A Richards, #NFDB
101:The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter. ~ Timothy Hallinan, #NFDB
102:Too normal, I’d worry about. Too weird is perfectly fine. ~ Annabel Joseph, #NFDB
103:Yes, I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness. ~ John Green, #NFDB
104:I am not in need of saving. I am perfectly well without it. ~ Sarah MacLean, #NFDB
105:Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ~ R D Laing, #NFDB
106:I’ve never quite seen the truth spun so perfectly into a lie. ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
107:Only those who are perfectly truthful can be my true children. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
108:There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
109:You don't love perfectly without first loving imperfectly. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
110:A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
111:Dance when you are perfectly free and enjoy every step along the way. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
112:He’s so perfectly sculpted he could be an anatomy lesson. ~ Kristen Callihan, #NFDB
113:I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
114:I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
115:I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny. ~ Joan Rivers, #NFDB
116:I think it's perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls. ~ James M Barrie, #NFDB
117:It is astonishing how few stories have been told perfectly. ~ Mark Van Doren, #NFDB
118:Oh, why does college have to happen to perfectly good people? ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
119:A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting. ~ Amartya Sen, #NFDB
120:Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
121:His suit is perfectly pressed, his blond hair expertly combed, ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
122:I'm perfectly happy about being superstitious and atheistic. ~ Philip Pullman, #NFDB
123:I was almost annoyed at her for spoiling my perfectly good sulk. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
124:Mr. Dursley, however, had a perfectly normal, owl-free morning. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
125:Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. ~ Laurence Sterne, #NFDB
126:Only those who are perfectly truthful can be my true children. ~ ~ The Mother, #NFDB
127:When you're connected to God, every moment is perfectly perfect. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
128:As many as touched [him] were made perfectly whole. Matthew 14:36 ~ T L Osborn, #NFDB
129:Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
130:I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
131:She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. ~ Stieg Larsson, #NFDB
132:The women looked lovely. The poor men looked perfectly ridiculous. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
133:But your perfectly good bed doesn’t come with a blanket of stars. ~ Tracy March, #NFDB
134:Do not strive to be perfect. Strive to be perfectly imperfect. ~ Imania Margria, #NFDB
135:Each fragrance bottle and name captured a moment in time perfectly. ~ Roja Dove, #NFDB
136:Everything went so perfectly I started to annoy myself. How ~ Rachel Held Evans, #NFDB
137:Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans. ~ John T Flynn, #NFDB
138:It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
139:That's what all crazy people say, that they're perfectly normal. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
140:Their mouths fit perfectly together—they didn’t bang teeth once. ~ Sara Shepard, #NFDB
141:The perfectly good car comes with a perfectly dangerous girl. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
142:You can imagine another well— but never quite perfectly, you know? ~ John Green, #NFDB
143:Harry knew perfectly well that Dudley had not been to tea anywhere ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
144:he argued, was not perfectly round but “in the shape of a pear, ~ Charles C Mann, #NFDB
145:If your house runs perfectly, you can win anywhere in the world. ~ Rashmi Bansal, #NFDB
146:To know that one is dreaming
is to be no longer perfectly asleep. ~ C S Lewis,#NFDB
147:Wife murder is perfectly possible - almost natural, let's say! ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
148:A perfectly sane intellect is hardly at home in this insane world. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
149:At the level of spirit, everything is always unfolding perfectly. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
150:I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly. ~ Sean Parker, #NFDB
151:Just remember, family isn't perfect. It's just perfectly ours. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
152:Just remember, family isn’t perfect. It’s just perfectly ours. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
153:me has a perfectly structured face, beautiful lips, and eyes greener ~ Katy Evans, #NFDB
154:Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant. ~ Bobby Flay, #NFDB
155:There are bands of this era that are perfectly acceptable to cry to. ~ Kasie West, #NFDB
156:You can still bake a perfectly good cake while losing your mind. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
157:eastern horizon perfectly. The colors of sunrise are masterful. ~ Kathryn Le Veque, #NFDB
158:I can't think of enough expletives to perfectly capture this moment. ~ Nina LaCour, #NFDB
159:I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
160:It’s perfectly possible to love Paris while detesting the French, ~ Marius Gabriel, #NFDB
161:I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
162:Sometimes the best you can do is your small part, perfectly ~ Hilary Thayer Hamann, #NFDB
163:The guy I want is perfectly imperfect, and I'm completely fine with it. ~ L J Shen, #NFDB
164:Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first. ~ Ken Blanchard, #NFDB
165:My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly. ~ Sierra DeMulder, #NFDB
166:People who are perfectly sane and happy don't make good literature, alas. ~ Colette, #NFDB
167:Sometimes the best you can do is your small part, perfectly. ~ Hilary Thayer Hamann, #NFDB
168:The stars don't have to be perfectly aligned for me to do a good job. ~ Laura Regan, #NFDB
169:When he has become perfectly satisfied, he has no more cravings ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
170:Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying. ~ Martha MacIsaac, #NFDB
171:Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it. ~ Karl Kraus, #NFDB
172:Just do everything we didn't do and you will be perfectly safe. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
173:Just do everything we didn’t do and you will be perfectly safe. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
174:Kissing the frog to get the prince is a waste of a perfectly good frog. ~ Jim Benton, #NFDB
175:Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence. ~ Emily Carr, #NFDB
176:The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
177:There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life. ~ Emma Forrest, #NFDB
178:Up to this point, your family was perfectly content with what they had. ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
179:Every system is perfectly designed to get the result that it does. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB
180:He wanted to be perfectly safe and yet also very nonchalant and daring... ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
181:It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly. ~ C J Cherryh, #NFDB
182:The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery. ~ Adam Smith, #NFDB
183:Whatever else could be said of Eunice Park, she was perfectly true. ~ Gary Shteyngart, #NFDB
184:What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots? ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
185:I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste. ~ David Tudor, #NFDB
186:It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly. ~ C J Cherryh, #NFDB
187:Ultimately, if you protect yourself perfectly, you will never grow. ~ Michael A Singer, #NFDB
188:We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. ~ Cyril Connolly, #NFDB
189:You are exactly
Precisely and perfectly
What I waited for. ~ Tyler Knott Gregson,#NFDB
190:Anywhere that fits your soul perfectly is a real paradise for you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
191:Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
192:girls would also join in, executing all the dance moves perfectly and ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
193:I love you as much as you love me... So if you hate me, it works out perfectly. ~ Drake, #NFDB
194:I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am. ~ David Johansen, #NFDB
195:I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer. ~ Cornelia Funke, #NFDB
196:I wanted so badly to kick in his perfectly white, good dental plan teeth. ~ Bobby Adair, #NFDB
197:Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
198:People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
199:It’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
200:It's more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly. ~ Ray Dalio, #NFDB
201:Life is simply too short to live it less perfectly than it could be lived. ~ J P Delaney, #NFDB
202:Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes. ~ Elisabeth Elliot, #NFDB
203:There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses. ~ Dorothy Parker, #NFDB
204:The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet. ~ Wernher von Braun, #NFDB
205:To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible. ~ Ernest Holmes, #NFDB
206:Why clone cats when there's perfectly good Russell Crowe lying around? ~ Celia Rivenbark, #NFDB
207:Your system is perfectly designed to give you the results you’re getting. ~ David Murrow, #NFDB
208:and slip my arm over her shoulders. She fits under me just perfectly. “I ~ Winter Renshaw, #NFDB
209:Deliver us, O Lord, from darkness; grant that we may become perfectly awake. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
210:Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
211:If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
212:If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they’ll never happen. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
213:No on thought that they would be anything more or less than perfectly fine. ~ Emma Straub, #NFDB
214:One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli, #NFDB
215:Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition. ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
216:Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death. ~ Seth Grahame Smith, #NFDB
217:We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
218:What perfectly sensible advice. It sat in my stomach, an indigestible lump. ~ Naomi Novik, #NFDB
219:When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
220:An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
221:Far better to live your own path imperfectly than to live another’s perfectly. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
222:I’m going to live in theory, because in theory everything goes perfectly . . . ~ Marc Levy, #NFDB
223:Is it truly so unfathomable, that an imperfect girl might be perfectly loved? ~ Tessa Dare, #NFDB
224:It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment. ~ Melissa Bank, #NFDB
225:Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sam Keen, #NFDB
226:Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances. ~ Leigh Brackett, #NFDB
227:The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe. ~ James M Barrie, #NFDB
228:The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
229:You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it's true. ~ James Salter, #NFDB
230:It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time. ~ Sigourney Weaver, #NFDB
231:It’s when something is illegal, but you consider it to be perfectly legal. ~ Alycia Linwood, #NFDB
232:monarchy wasn’t inherently evil, nor was a democratic system perfectly good. ~ Randi Darren, #NFDB
233:You did what you were supposed to. Played your part perfectly. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, #NFDB
234:Desolate’ was the most perfectly beautiful word for how she felt. Sometimes ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
235:Donald Trump is perfectly made up. He's perfectly coiffed. He's perfectly lit. ~ Roger Stone, #NFDB
236:I didn't know it was possible to fit so perfectly inside someone else's arms. ~ Tomi Adeyemi, #NFDB
237:I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
238:It’s more important to do big things well than to do the small things perfectly. ~ Ray Dalio, #NFDB
239:...she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
240:Your systems are perfectly designed to get the results that you are getting. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
241:Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
242:Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. ~ Francis de Sales, #NFDB
243:for twenty-three minutes, according to his perfectly accurate digital display. ~ Sally Thorne, #NFDB
244:I don't have to be perfect.
I only need to be perfectly loved.
And I am. ~ Holley Gerth,#NFDB
245:I hate it when the real world ignores a perfectly logical, rational assumption. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
246:I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
247:...I won't sell influence and I'm perfectly willing to be cussed if I'm right. ~ Harry Truman, #NFDB
248:The Chanel suit perfectly fitted into prevailing aesthetics of socialist fashion, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
249:We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated. ~ Lewis Terman, #NFDB
250:When we're focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
251:Your system is perfectly designed to yield the result you are getting.” This ~ Dallas Willard, #NFDB
252:It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently... ~ Andre Maurois, #NFDB
253:Only a White Eyes would walk when she had a perfectly good horse to ride. ~ Catherine Anderson, #NFDB
254:That was the whole point of home, the comfort of a perfectly effortless existence. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
255:Being something for someone else is a perfectly good waste of a life, isn’t it? ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
256:He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal ~ Loretta Chase, #NFDB
257:It's perfectly okay to fail. It sounds corny, but it truly is about the journey. ~ Urijah Faber, #NFDB
258:Opposites in every way, which must have been the reason we fit together perfectly ~ Celia Aaron, #NFDB
259:That scene, like the one before it, is perfectly believable and totally made up ~ Laurent Binet, #NFDB
260:That she saw through this ploy did not prevent it from working perfectly. ~ Charlie Jane Anders, #NFDB
261:the Son is perfectly glorified by being perfectly abandoned by the Father. ~ Adrienne von Speyr, #NFDB
262:We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much. ~ James Hilton, #NFDB
263:Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away? ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
264:Yes - I've learned from my mistakes, and I'm sure I could repeat them perfectly. ~ Jonathan Coe, #NFDB
265:Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray, #NFDB
266:Do not pollute my perfectly acceptable figurative speech with irrelevant facts! ~ Courtney Milan, #NFDB
267:Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright, #NFDB
268:I'm slowly learning it's not about being perfect but about being perfectly loved. ~ Holley Gerth, #NFDB
269:It doesn't translate perfectly, but the gist is this; fear is the heart alone. ~ T Ellery Hodges, #NFDB
270:I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
271:My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round. ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
272:@ O Lord,give me a perfect sincerity. O Lord,let me be perfectly yours for ever. - ~ The Mother, #NFDB
273:Person describes himself throughout life. To know oneself perfectly means to die. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
274:Together we would not be perfectly pragmatic. We would be impressively impractical. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
275:You did what you had to do. Nothing works out perfectly in the ballroom world. ~ Alana Albertson, #NFDB
276:Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi, #NFDB
277:He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor. ~ Venerable Bede, #NFDB
278:It was perfectly possible to be an artist, yet also to be robust and responsible. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
279:One day, I’m going to live in theory, because in theory everything goes perfectly . . ~ Marc Levy, #NFDB
280:Our lips moved together perfectly. A perfect match. Because we had skills like that. ~ Nyrae Dawn, #NFDB
281:Right. Silver bullets is crazy,” Keo said. “Because all of this is perfectly sane. ~ Sam Sisavath, #NFDB
282:Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them. ~ Susan Cain, #NFDB
283:The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms. ~ Camille Paglia, #NFDB
284:Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
285:Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free? ~ Gloria Allred, #NFDB
286:A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen, #NFDB
287:Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
288:He has officially ruined all other men for me and I am perfectly fine with that. ~ Jessica Daniels, #NFDB
289:I found everything perfectly clear, and I really understood absolutely nothing. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB
290:I wasn't looking for someone who was perfect, just someone who perfectly affected me. ~ Max Monroe, #NFDB
291:Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death ~ Andre Gide, #NFDB
292:Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death. ~ Andr Gide, #NFDB
293:To behave "humanely" it is perfectly possible to do without the notion of "humanity." ~ Talal Asad, #NFDB
294:Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #NFDB
295:Hartmann had the ideas and Fibich did the worrying: it suited them both perfectly. ~ Anita Brookner, #NFDB
296:I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
297:Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
298:One day, I’m going to live in theory, because in theory everything goes perfectly . . . ~ Marc Levy, #NFDB
299:One day, I’m going to live in theory, because in theory everything goes perfectly . . . ~ Marc Levy, #NFDB
300:The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
301:They did not have problems. They had been perfectly, utterly happy.
Hadn't they? ~ Susin Nielsen,#NFDB
302:They’re both black. I don’t like to cut perfectly fine coffee with cream or sugar. ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB
303:trying to look as if this was all perfectly ordinary and not in the least an adventure. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
304:When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story. ~ Charles Baxter, #NFDB
305:Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly. ~ William Cavendish 1st Duke of Newcastle, #NFDB
306:Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule. ~ Jules Michelet, #NFDB
307:Your burdens are perfectly measured and gifted to you according to your resistance. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
308:Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB
309:It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism. ~ Brit Hume, #NFDB
310:I was perfectly happy where I was, deliquescing, atom by atom, amid a riot of luxury. ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
311:Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear. ~ Michael Ignatieff, #NFDB
312:A perfectly imperfect friendship had somehow formed, and losing Lev was not an option. ~ Belle Aurora, #NFDB
313:Every project and goal deserves an approach fitted perfectly to what needs to be done. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
314:He waited day after day, saying that it was perfectly absurd to expect, yet expecting. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
315:it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
316:No man has believed perfectly until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
317:trying not to lose my balance. I was perfectly sober, but I was not wearing my own shoes. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
318:I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one. ~ C P Snow, #NFDB
319:It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion. ~ Leonard Bernstein, #NFDB
320:Love would be two animals: a hummingbird and a snake. Both are perfectly untrainable. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
321:Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz. ~ Wynton Marsalis, #NFDB
322:Only those who are perfectly truthful can be my true children.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#NFDB
323:Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, #NFDB
324:The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible. ~ George Polya, #NFDB
325:The truth is simple: Life is perfectly imperfect, unpredictable, and unexplainable. ~ HeatherAsh Amara, #NFDB
326:The voice was almost perfectly human. “Hello, Anthony.” “Hello, Ultron,” said Tony Stark. ~ Dan Abnett, #NFDB
327:But remember when you're scared, I'm perfectly fine with you climbing into bed with me. ~ Erin Nicholas, #NFDB
328:He stood there as I walked on. Never trust a man with a perfectly-trimmed mustache … ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
329:I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
330:Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment. ~ R D Laing, #NFDB
331:I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away. ~ Sofia Vergara, #NFDB
332:I was not insecure. I was a perfectly normal combination of arrogant and narcissistic. ~ Dani Alexander, #NFDB
333:Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
334:There’s always something lacking for human happiness, we can never be perfectly content. ~ Hans Fallada, #NFDB
335:You're perfectly right. There's no two ways about it. When you leave, it will slay me. ~ Courtney Milan, #NFDB
336:But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33) ~ Milan Kundera, #NFDB
337:can any of us ever perfectly understand another person? However much we may love them? ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
338:Everybody could have their own body scanned and just order clothes that fit perfectly. ~ Iris van Herpen, #NFDB
339:I tend to really like things that are broken, I like the ones that are perfectly imperfect. ~ Frank Iero, #NFDB
340:I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional ~ Matthew Gray Gubler, #NFDB
341:I understand a hen, perfectly. I mean, the intimate life of a hen, I know how it is. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
342:The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB
343:We were from two different puzzles, yet still, we seemed to fit perfectly together. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
344:He understood perfectly the connection between booze and botany, which fascinates me as well. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
345:Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
346:I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable. ~ Siobhan Davis, #NFDB
347:I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like. ~ Bill Nighy, #NFDB
348:Isn’t that everybody, though? Who walks around every day feeling perfectly worthy of love? ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
349:Their bodies fit perfectly like this, two continents pulled eons ago but now rejoined. ~ Scott Westerfeld, #NFDB
350:The list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
351:The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE ~ Tom Standage, #NFDB
352:The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. —Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE ~ Tom Standage, #NFDB
353:The room suited my father perfectly: it was larger than life and wonderfully incongruous. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
354:Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen. ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #NFDB
355:We expect role models to model the behaviors we are perfectly capable of modeling ourselves. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
356:A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away. ~ Joseph Joubert, #NFDB
357:Fuck golf anyway. Stupid goddamn game, chasing a ball around a perfectly good cow pasture. ~ John Sandford, #NFDB
358:Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
359:I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park. ~ Jorge Garcia, #NFDB
360:Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
361:The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation. ~ G H Hardy, #NFDB
362:You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly ~ Sam Keen, #NFDB
363:A great life is not the result of a formula perfectly followed. Rather of a God wholly trusted. ~ Eric Ludy, #NFDB
364:His domed head was perfectly buffed and polished, cleanly reflecting the halogen lighting above. ~ J R Rain, #NFDB
365:I believe if everyone fulfilled their deepest life purpose, the world would work perfectly. ~ Jack Canfield, #NFDB
366:I entered his apartment without being invited, which is perfectly fine if you're not a vampire. ~ Lisa Lutz, #NFDB
367:If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen. ~ Horace Mann, #NFDB
368:I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments. ~ Evan Parker, #NFDB
369:I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas. ~ Robert Stromberg, #NFDB
370:Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
371:Like a perfectly timed chorus they greet me with an off-key “Happy Birthday” song. “Officially ~ Erica Cope, #NFDB
372:Look at
how deeply flawed
we are
and yet
capable of loving
so perfectly. ~ Sanober Khan,#NFDB
373:Our self-made crises are custom-tailored, painstakingly crafted, and always fit perfectly. ~ David Schnarch, #NFDB
374:Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great. ~ Aaron Levie, #NFDB
375:The Lord will possess His universe perfectly only when the universe will have become the Lord. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
376:Time taught me how to see every second as heaven, even though they're perfectly disguised as hell. ~ Eyedea, #NFDB
377:Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
378:Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
379:Christianity is perfectly easy or perfectly impossible. It depends on who’s running the ship. ~ John Crowder, #NFDB
380:He perfectly fits the profile of a Hut 8 man, who need not know anything except pure math. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
381:I don't "need" the rush to be happy. I'd be perfectly happy without the attention and action. ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB
382:India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
383:Not everyone is capable of seduction, yet everyone is perfectly capable of being seduced. ~ Delilah Marvelle, #NFDB
384:Oh, there’s no use in talking to him,’ said Alice desperately: ‘he’s perfectly idiotic!’ And ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
385:On the face of things, we were hopelessly mismatched, but somehow we fit together perfectly. ~ Tiffany Baker, #NFDB
386:The Perfect Gentlemen are perfectly delightful, musically superb and thoroughly entertaining. ~ David Zippel, #NFDB
387:To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
388:We don’t perfectly understand how much God does for us every day to keep us in the faith—to ~ Andrew M Davis, #NFDB
389:When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light. ~ Charles Hard Townes, #NFDB
390:When you’re still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
391:am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect. He owns it himself without disguise. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
392:Be perfectly sincere and no victory will be denied to you.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Sincerity,#NFDB
393:I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at. ~ Mitch Daniels, #NFDB
394:I’d be perfectly frank with you and reply, “One of my life strategies is never to go into Sears. ~ Herb Cohen, #NFDB
395:It is not necessary to be large to be a perfectly good arthropod (or mollusc, come to that). ~ Richard Fortey, #NFDB
396:It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done. ~ Andrew Greeley, #NFDB
397:It used to be a perfectly ordinary day but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.) ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
398:I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly. ~ Douglas Hofstadter, #NFDB
399:mats perfectly picks up the color of the chairs?” “Honey, it’s my restaurant. I’m the one who ~ Sujata Massey, #NFDB
400:The Lord will possess His universe perfectly only when the universe will have become the Lord. ~ ~ The Mother, #NFDB
401:As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
402:But I’m not convinced I won’t be perfectly barbecued by the time we reach the city’s center. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
403:I had a thought, absurd but perfectly clear: When I grow up, I want to look just like this guy. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
404:it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time. ~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, #NFDB
405:I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings. ~ John Cage, #NFDB
406:No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins. ~ Phil Jackson, #NFDB
407:There are natural phases to all life and wherever you are in life, you are perfectly becoming. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
408:Wasn't Atlanta the murder capital of the U.S. last year?" "Yes, but the airport's perfectly safe. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
409:We are imperfect humans growing imperfect humans in an imperfect world, and that's perfectly okay. ~ L R Knost, #NFDB
410:We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency. ~ Andrei Tarkovsky, #NFDB
411:You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play. ~ Lin Manuel Miranda, #NFDB
412:You can still practice to be a better and kinder and happier person. That's perfectly possible. ~ Tenzin Palmo, #NFDB
413:a third of an inch in profile, Kindle fits perfectly in your hands. Ergonomic Design Kindle is easy ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
414:feels like some kind of ride but it's turning out just
to be life going absolutely perfectly ~ Brian Andreas,#NFDB
415:I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know? ~ John Green, #NFDB
416:I can’t be you. You can’t be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know? ~ John Green, #NFDB
417:I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, #NFDB
418:I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly. ~ Douglas R Hofstadter, #NFDB
419:Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain! ~ Tryon Edwards, #NFDB
420:Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
421:The way the big top looked right then expressed perfectly how she felt. Empty. Abandoned. Alone. ~ Sarah Noffke, #NFDB
422:Today is a BRAND NEW day—a perfectly good reason to get up and start over. Never give up. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
423:When you’re still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. By ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
424:Comfort is key. I need to make sure the cleat first my foot perfectly. Weight is important, too. ~ Amy Rodriguez, #NFDB
425:Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty. ~ Walter Savage Landor, #NFDB
426:I happen to think that there are already tons of perfectly good babies out there already born. ~ Sarah Silverman, #NFDB
427:I'm a domna. I can smile at even the ugliest toad and flatter him on his perfectly placed warts. ~ Susan Dennard, #NFDB
428:In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right. ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
429:It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well. ~ Andrew Sean Greer, #NFDB
430:It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today ~ Jeff Bezos, #NFDB
431:of answering him, Mace kissed him and then they came after me. Which I was perfectly fine with. ~ Sloane Kennedy, #NFDB
432:Oh! to be loved by a man I respect, To bask in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect. ~ Frank Loesser, #NFDB
433:Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
434:Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there. ~ Garrison Keillor, #NFDB
435:Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together. ~ Sam Levenson, #NFDB
436:The perfect day is caffeine for 10 hours, alcohol for 4. It balances everything out perfectly. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
437:To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear. ~ Avital Ronell, #NFDB
438:We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
439:Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemon grenades? ~ Melissa de la Cruz, #NFDB
440:...a nagging bitch of a doubt, burrowing painlessly inside a conscience that felt perfectly clear ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB
441:And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. ~ John Crowe Ransom, #NFDB
442:I’d say perfectly balanced, but just fucking fuckable was all that came to mind around Gray. “Cosy. ~ Jack L Pyke, #NFDB
443:Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it. ~ Peter Marshall, #NFDB
444:She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high-school education. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
445:that’s a perfectly disastrous way to think and a perfectly disastrous way to operate in the world. ~ Rolf Dobelli, #NFDB
446:There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne. ~ Harriet Martineau, #NFDB
447:The whole place seemed like the look-don’t-touch kind of home. Perfectly manicured. Never enjoyed. ~ Cynthia Hand, #NFDB
448:We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sam Keen, #NFDB
449:Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
450:And a beautiful garden, not far from a beautiful lake, and I said it sounded perfectly perfect. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
451:Aspirin is perfectly legal, but if you take 13 of them motherf***ers, it'll be your last headache. ~ Katt Williams, #NFDB
452:Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
453:If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem. ~ Soundarya, #NFDB
454:I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged. Style is to be simple. ~ Elsa Peretti, #NFDB
455:I live in Jesus, on Jesus, with Jesus, and soon hope to be perfectly conformed to His likeness. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
456:I’m not expressing myself very well—’
‘Dexter, I understand you perfectly, that’s the problem— ~ David Nicholls,#NFDB
457:Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists. ~ Gail Carriger, #NFDB
458:People always said they wanted the truth, but really they were perfectly content with a facsimile. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
459:Reef changed what he knew about his Sense. They spoke little but understood each other perfectly. ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
460:The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball. ~ Frank Thomas, #NFDB
461:the only way to become perfect is to find that perfectly imperfect person who brings it out of you. ~ Harper Sloan, #NFDB
462:To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
463:at a view that promises them seven states on the rare sunny days when the air is perfectly clear. And ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
464:Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. ~ Judith Martin, #NFDB
465:There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
466:Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it. ~ Robert Anton Wilson, #NFDB
467:We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sam Keen, #NFDB
468:Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemonade grenades? ~ Melissa de la Cruz, #NFDB
469:Why is that fairy-tales always treat marriage as an ending? And always such a perfectly happy one? ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
470:Wow,” Bob said, in a perfectly calm, matter-of-fact, conversational tone. “That is incredibly unfair. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
471:Ah, shit,” he said, “you wake me up from my own perfectly good dream to show me somebody else’s.” He ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
472:Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game. ~ Vladimir Kramnik, #NFDB
473:He who has perfectly mastered himself in thought and speech and act, he is indeed a man of religion. ~ Buddhist Text, #NFDB
474:I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is he'll be much godlier after he's dead. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
475:Is motherhood really optional when you’re a perfectly normal woman married to a perfectly normal man? ~ Tayari Jones, #NFDB
476:It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly. ~ David Eddings, #NFDB
477:No key fit a perfectly ruined lock. Because that was what we were. Both ruined, but perfect together. ~ Nashoda Rose, #NFDB
478:One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
479:she freely admitted that of old she had been a little mad, and now she pretended to be perfectly sane. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
480:The fact is the statements are perfectly consistent, but more importantly, I don't have all the facts. ~ Paul Martin, #NFDB
481:There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable ~ Benoit Mandelbrot, #NFDB
482:There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself ~ Osho, #NFDB
483:We fit together perfectly. Like we were carved from the same piece of wood, from the same tree. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
484:Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
485:You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sam Keen, #NFDB
486:You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
487:A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls. ~ Charlie Munger, #NFDB
488:a perfectly just God must punish bad deeds regardless of how many good ones someone has performed. ~ Norman L Geisler, #NFDB
489:Aside from his teeth being perfectly white, their ghostly shimmer as straight as a stick figure’s dick, ~ Gail McHugh, #NFDB
490:I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
491:My friendship with the Hitch has always been perfectly cloudless. It is a love whose month is ever May. ~ Martin Amis, #NFDB
492:My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad. ~ Brandon Sanderson, #NFDB
493:Stache’s attack was perfectly timed, thanks to his veteran-pirate grasp tactics—and a big piece if luck. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
494:The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct. ~ Timothy Leary, #NFDB
495:To behold his glory is to be made holy, and to be made holy is to be made perfectly happy (John 17:24). ~ Tony Reinke, #NFDB
496:Von Köckritz’s entire higher education was free. She considers that perfectly normal—and in Europe, it is. ~ T R Reid, #NFDB
497:All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper. ~ Beth Nielsen Chapman, #NFDB
498:In some company it’s perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
499:I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films. ~ Mike Leigh, #NFDB
500:I was too shocked to register that he’d just cursed in Ancient Greek, and I’d understood him perfectly. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
501:One does not question miracles, or complain that they are not constructed perfectly to one's liking. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
502:One does not question miracles, or complain that they are not constructed perfectly to one’s liking. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
503:People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered. ~ Jennifer Gilmore, #NFDB
504:Rest assured you make perfectly good nonsense. I understand you one-hundred-percent not at all. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
505:Anyone can read comics, and if you don't it's perfectly okay to enjoy the characters in other mediums. ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
506:Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. ~ Henry Van Dyke, #NFDB
507:Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
508:God is perfectly holy, then we can be confident that His actions toward us are always perfect and just. ~ Jerry Bridges, #NFDB
509:I am not perfectly certain I believe in marriage. Why have just one bonbon when you can have the box? ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
510:If I didnt do something perfectly, I had to do it again. I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head. ~ Alexis Stewart, #NFDB
511:If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live ~ Lin Yutang, #NFDB
512:includes an instant and lifelong duty to love God with every power of mind and soul, to obey Him perfectly, ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
513:...It is perfectly obvious that I, as the conscious witness of my experience, am not the deep cause of it. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
514:It’s perfectly possible to hold two opposing points of view in the mind at once, oscillating between them. ~ S J Watson, #NFDB
515:I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me. ~ Geezer Butler, #NFDB
516:I wish as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy, but like everybody else it must be in my own way. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
517:One has to be done with the pretense of being just fine, unscarred, perfectly self-sufficient. No one is. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
518:Peanut butter sandwiches go perfectly well with a glass of white wine. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
519:The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light ~ Saint John of the Cross, #NFDB
520:Throughout the Dog Project, I had been struck by how perfectly dogs and humans complemented each other. ~ Gregory Berns, #NFDB
521:We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly, ~ Melanie Harlow, #NFDB
522:When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
523:Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
524:I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence. ~ Bobby Jones, #NFDB
525:I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
526:I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy. ~ Joss Whedon, #NFDB
527:Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
528:On the page, I'm perfectly charming, but that's just a trick I learned. It has nothing to do with me. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer, #NFDB
529:There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
530:Yahweh is truth—perfectly dependable—and He has sealed a covenant of love with us that He’ll never break. ~ Mesu Andrews, #NFDB
531:Yes, everything’s just fine.
It’s all perfectly fine.
Except for one thing: it’s all screwed up. ~ Fernando Pessoa,#NFDB
532:You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy. ~ Deborah Moggach, #NFDB
533:But, Mr. Kafuku, can any of us ever perfectly understand another person? However much we may love them? ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
534:He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
535:If you were married to a dipsomaniac, would you pretend that the mania for alcohol was perfectly harmless? ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
536:It being perfectly acceptable, in an office environment, to rest your breasts on the desk when they hurt. ~ Caitlin Moran, #NFDB
537:It’s a perfectly handy skill for any boy to know.” “Certainly it is, if he needs to hail a passing tugboat. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
538:It's interesting that you don't always fall in love with someone that you're perfectly perfect for. ~ Emily Bett Rickards, #NFDB
539:I will understand perfectly if you don’t want to answer, but I will just keep pestering you until you do. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
540:Just to make things perfectly clear between us, you can have my peanut butter, but my bed is off-limits. ~ Michelle Rowen, #NFDB
541:Love and truth are perfectly symbiotic. Love without truth has no character. Truth without love has no power. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
542:My fingers stop spinning the thumb ring that sits perfectly on my left hand. Blinking, I meet Dr. Olson’s ~ Amanda Maxlyn, #NFDB
543:Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator. ~ Nancy Astor, #NFDB
544:Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
545:The animal part of his mind wasn’t made for this, to be calmly ushered to a death it was perfectly aware of. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
546:There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
547:[...] the sense of entitlement [...] is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
548:We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Angelina Jolie, #NFDB
549:When a man feels he has come to the end of his rope, it is perfectly natural that he should want to scream. ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
550:An English silence—one in which all the unspoken words are perfectly understood by both parties—prevailed. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
551:Despite the fact that coins are perfectly good cash, they are treated with far less respect than paper money. ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
552:For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
553:For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone. ~ Mark Helprin, #NFDB
554:Hear me when I say I believe nothings gonna change destiny. Whatevers meant to be will work out perfectly. ~ Avril Lavigne, #NFDB
555:I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly. ~ George Lopez, #NFDB
556:I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. ~ Orson Welles, #NFDB
557:My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly. ~ Olivia Newton John, #NFDB
558:Seems like the more you grow, the more time you spend alone, before you know it you end up perfectly on your own. ~ Lights, #NFDB
559:The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
560:The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn’t think. To think is to make mistakes. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
561:When one works for the Divine,it is much better to do perfectly what one does than to aim at a very big work. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
562:Why should I care about keeping my life on a perfectly straight course when it kept throwing wild curves at me? ~ R S Grey, #NFDB
563:and to know, by his ironical eyes, that he perfectly well understood the reason of her unusual meekness. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
564:He is an honorable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
565:if you eat less than you burn, you will lose weight. This seems perfectly logical. The problem? It’s not true. ~ Mark Hyman, #NFDB
566:I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
567:Ivan muttered in that perfectly balanced voice that was deep but not too deep, just perfectly aggravating. ~ Mariana Zapata, #NFDB
568:I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
569:One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
570:Stop trying to 'fix' yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
571:The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
572:Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties. ~ Chris Patten, #NFDB
573:War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly. ~ Angelina Jolie, #NFDB
574:We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sandrine Gasq Dion, #NFDB
575:Yes, it had been a perfect match, except for the fact that he had been perfectly in love with someone else. ~ Sarah MacLean, #NFDB
576:Act as though everything will be perfectly fine — because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
577:authorities often exploit their subordinates for their own benefit while believing they are perfectly just. ~ Jonathan Haidt, #NFDB
578:God sees within me the ability to be the one He’s perfectly designed to raise up this strong little person. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
579:I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like. ~ Clare Boothe Luce, #NFDB
580:I’ll be fine,” I reply. “Why shouldn’t I be? Everything’s going just . . . perfectly.” I give her a tense smile. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
581:I'm smiling because I know perfectly well what I am and I honestly don't give a damn what you think of me ~ Adam Troy Castro, #NFDB
582:Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk." "It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face? ~ David Eddings, #NFDB
583:Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had. ~ Steve Wozniak, #NFDB
584:The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law. ~ Tom Shadyac, #NFDB
585:The pieces don't fit perfectly together and don't tell the whole story. Only the viewer can say if I succeeded. ~ Susan Juby, #NFDB
586:There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
587:When faced with a result that doesn’t go according to plan, a series of perfectly effective short-term tactics ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
588:Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things. ~ John Frusciante, #NFDB
589:I had lived and left all the living I'd done in that strange, perfectly sculpted yet empty echo of my life, ~ Suzanne Rindell, #NFDB
590:I'm a badass. I really am. When you see me hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg, I am perfectly at home and comfortable. ~ Joan Baez, #NFDB
591:It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, #NFDB
592:It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
593:I want to be a big model. I know I still have a lot to learn, but I believe that will be one day I do it perfectly! ~ Ming Xi, #NFDB
594:I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else, it must be in my own way. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
595:Never get excited, nervous or agitated. Remain perfectly calm in the face of all circumstances.
~ The Mother, On Education,#NFDB
596:One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
597:She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose! ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
598:That same sense of direction that animals possess perfectly also awakens in man under the right conditions. ~ Varlam Shalamov, #NFDB
599:The beauty of ethics is that nobody can be perfectly certain about what it includes or even what it means. ~ Robertson Davies, #NFDB
600:The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches. ~ Anatoly Karpov, #NFDB
601:There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré. ~ Georges Clemenceau, #NFDB
602:There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it. ~ Walter Savage Landor, #NFDB
603:This new guy had shoulder-length, darkish hair and a face so perfectly handsome he could’ve been a movie star. ~ Joanna Wylde, #NFDB
604:To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
605:We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
606:When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
607:When travelling, dress as comfortably as possible and don't have expectations of everything going perfectly. ~ Tommy Hilfiger, #NFDB
608:You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly---Sam Keen, Author ~ Sam Keen, #NFDB
609:For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
610:I am black with love/ neither boy nor nightingale/ perfectly whole as a flower/ I desire without impulse ~ Pier Paolo Pasolini, #NFDB
611:I fit perfectly right on his chest, under his chin. Although right now, I just wanted him to fit in my ass. I ~ Megan Erickson, #NFDB
612:I know that life, I’ve done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine. ~ Charles M Blow, #NFDB
613:...it's perfectly possible to live without expecting anything of life; in fact, it's the most common way. ~ Michel Houellebecq, #NFDB
614:It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals. ~ DeForest Kelley, #NFDB
615:Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
616:Philosophy calls for plain living, but not for penance; and we may perfectly well be plain and neat at the same time. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
617:She didn’t have to go to these things. And she could wear her damn diamonds in her bathrobe and be perfectly happy. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
618:To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, #NFDB
619:We should not judge our books by their covers, some books exist between covers that are perfectly people-shaped ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
620:When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly. ~ Steve Lacy, #NFDB
621:And his mother, especially as Botticelli had painted her and Auge carved her, seemed like a perfectly nice goddess. ~ Jo Walton, #NFDB
622:Don’t ever be a stupid shadow who follows perfectly his leader no matter what foolishness his leader does! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
623:I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
624:I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking. ~ Julie Delpy, #NFDB
625:I have a perfectly horrible name. I was called Alexander as a vain propitiation, quite useless, to my grandfather. ~ A J Cronin, #NFDB
626:In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful. ~ Abby Sunderland, #NFDB
627:Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk."
"It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face? ~ David Eddings,#NFDB
628:It’s Ben. Ben is the Master. I fucked the Master. No, the Master fucked me. Hard. Perfectly. Oh shit. Oh shit! ~ Nicola Rendell, #NFDB
629:I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me. ~ Charles Comiskey, #NFDB
630:Kissing her just then felt perfectly normal and completely self-explanatory, the only possible course of action. ~ Tom Perrotta, #NFDB
631:No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments. ~ Book of Common Prayer, Shorter Catechism, #NFDB
632:Perfectly clear, it’s part of our plans, we’re eliminating the Jews, exterminating them. Ha! A small matter. ~ Heinrich Himmler, #NFDB
633:The best things aren’t perfectly constructed. They aren’t illusions. They aren’t larger than life. They are life. ~ Nina LaCour, #NFDB
634:The best things aren't perfectly constructed. They aren't illusions. they aren't larger than life. They are life. ~ Nina LaCour, #NFDB
635:Their voices fit together so perfectly, it makes him, for the first time, actually like the concept of perfection. ~ Mary Amato, #NFDB
636:The real strength came from a perfectly simple maxim: Be completely honest with yourself; only ever deceive others. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
637:They don’t look miserable. Most seem perfectly content. Like me, they don’t need constant human contact. ~ Victoria Helen Stone, #NFDB
638:We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him. ~ Ronald Frame, #NFDB
639:Whoever designed this city built it to complement the setting sun as perfectly as the stars complement the night. ~ Sara Raasch, #NFDB
640:You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that. ~ Abe Burrows, #NFDB
641:A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt, #NFDB
642:Her tone made everything she hadn't said perfectly clear. I was a psychopathic kidnapper. No two ways about it. ~ Melissa Wright, #NFDB
643:People are messy. Life gets messy. Things are not always going to work out perfectly just because you want them to. ~ Kevin Kwan, #NFDB
644:People who are placed on pedestals are expected to pose, perfectly. Then they get knocked off when they fuck it up. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
645:That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
646:The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, #NFDB
647:The Empress doesn't get collared, or caged, or tortured. How artfully she beckons, how perfectly she punishes.... ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
648:There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
649:There is one thing we must appreciate about the disasters: They are perfectly just when they do their jobs! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
650:We can’t live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
651:Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books? ~ Helene Hanff, #NFDB
652:Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
653:His voice was hesitant and colourless, as in those who hope for nothing because it’s perfectly useless to hope. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
654:In my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
655:I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience. ~ Charles Edison, #NFDB
656:Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
657:Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
658:Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons. ~ Jennifer Fallon, #NFDB
659:That is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
660:The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
661:The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
662:The real beauty created by man never competes with the beauty of nature; but it only perfectly completes it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
663:The way her body fit against his perfectly, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, was so incredibly good it scared him. ~ Scarlett Cole, #NFDB
664:Unless you have perfectly conventional beliefs, it’s rarely a good idea to tell everybody everything that you know. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
665:usually perfectly curled and braided, has been slicked back into a simple bun. When I see gray at her temples, ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
666:You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe. ~ James Whistler, #NFDB
667:a “procrastinating perfectionist.” I would wait until the last minute and then try to do it all perfectly and at once. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
668:...a temple was never perfectly a temple, till it was ruined and mixed up with the winds and the sky and the herbs. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
669:Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
670:Corn might be the epidemic that kills us, but I've always loved staring at a big field of it, perfectly planted. ~ Nickolas Butler, #NFDB
671:Google knows more about what I’m thinking of than I do, because Google remembers all of it perfectly and forever. ~ Bruce Schneier, #NFDB
672:I don’t particularly want Kay to be a good person. I’m perfectly comfortable thinking about her as the wicked witch ~ Cynthia Hand, #NFDB
673:I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2. ~ Kate Jackson, #NFDB
674:In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
675:it’s perfectly reasonable to delete a test that provided value as part of a TDD cycle, but no longer has positive ROI. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
676:Somehow I get the idea that being whole is about being perfectly consistent. I'd rather we be perfectly honest. ~ Danielle LaPorte, #NFDB
677:To the dump kids, it also seemed perfectly logical that they were driven to the circus by a transvestite prostitute. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
678:for here, finally and at last, is a true Son, one who can and will perfectly trust, obey, and please his Father. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
679:I don't have scientific data, but I think plenty of perfectly nice weekends are being given over to the binge craze. ~ Hank Stuever, #NFDB
680:If everyone always knows what they’re doing and acts in a perfectly rational way, how did most of world history happen? ~ M R Carey, #NFDB
681:I perfectly agree with you, sir,' was then his remark. 'You did behave very shamefully. You never wrote a truer line. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
682:I understand perfectly why some of my autistic patients scream and flap their arms--it's to frighten off extroverts ~ Mark Vonnegut, #NFDB
683:May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
684:Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it. ~ Mehmet Oz, #NFDB
685:My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
686:Taxis are useful in this town, aren’t they?” Clayton mused. “So perfectly anonymous. And they all look the same. ~ Peter F Hamilton, #NFDB
687:That sounds perfectly reasonable …” he said in a reassuring tone of voice, wondering who he was trying to reassure. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
688:Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter. ~ Freya Stark, #NFDB
689:Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
690:You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains. ~ Helen Oyeyemi, #NFDB
691:But I knew... I knew I was the only one who fit I that void, because it was Elizabeth that perfectly filled mine, too. ~ A L Jackson, #NFDB
692:Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
693:For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong. — ~ David Graeber, #NFDB
694:He answered my plea with a roar and our chests met hard as we came undone together. Came so perfectly undone together. ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
695:Honestly, you tried your best and sometimes everything worked out perfectly. Other times, it went all horribly wrong. ~ Jill Mansell, #NFDB
696:In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer. ~ Neil Shubin, #NFDB
697:I wonder if you have to spend your whole life suddenly understanding facts that were perfectly obvious all the time. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
698:Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. ~ Kevyn Aucoin, #NFDB
699:Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time. ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #NFDB
700:Many residents exhort each other to “Keep Portland Weird,” usually via bumper stickers on perfectly normal automobiles. ~ Anna Clark, #NFDB
701:Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists. ~ Hermann von Helmholtz, #NFDB
702:The sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
703:The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come. ~ Heather O Neill, #NFDB
704:Until everything topples, we have no idea what we actually have, how precarously and perfectly it all hangs together. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
705:You have to question the originality of your life when it can be captured perfectly in the lyrics of a rock song. ~ Jonathan Tropper, #NFDB
706:You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
707:Actually I think 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think. ~ Kenneth Branagh, #NFDB
708:All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area. ~ Sergio Leone, #NFDB
709:I don't listen to recordings very much now, to be perfectly honest. I listened to them a lot when I was younger. ~ Marc Andre Hamelin, #NFDB
710:I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't. ~ John Lithgow, #NFDB
711:It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did. ~ Kim Stanley, #NFDB
712:I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
713:Leaking sacks of mutated maggots?" He raises his perfectly arched eyebrow as though I'd just failed my verbal insult exam. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
714:Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. ~ Milton Friedman, #NFDB
715:That is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. *** ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
716:The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
717:There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
718:Until everything topples, we have no idea what we actually have, how precariously and perfectly it all hangs together. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
719:Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
720:Victor was the first to speak, and when he did, it was with an eloquence and composure perfectly befitting the situation ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
721:We all throw away perfectly wonderful lives because our foolish, sinful appetites take us places we should not go. ~ Liz Curtis Higgs, #NFDB
722:Doc, I'm feeling different from my usual whorish self. I think I might be ill." It's a perfectly legitimate concern. ~ Sabrina Paige, #NFDB
723:If I'm in love with him, how come I can so perfectly inhabit the mindset of thinking he's a git and the bane of my life? ~ Adele Parks, #NFDB
724:In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls. ~ Susan Kay, #NFDB
725:It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy. ~ Horace Kephart, #NFDB
726:It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French. ~ James A Baldwin, #NFDB
727:I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly. ~ Bipasha Basu, #NFDB
728:Make a habit to remember God in your perfectly beautiful days, because in bad days even atheists do remember Him! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
729:She understood perfectly that when the object of anticipation becomes paramount, trouble begins to lurk like a panther. ~ Richard Ford, #NFDB
730:Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
731:Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
732:Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important then proving anything to anyone ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB
733:God guides best when He tempts worst,loves entirely when he punishes cruelly,helps perfectly when violently He opposes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
734:I can keep a perfectly good eye on Simon, thank you. He's my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
735:I don't care what the weather is, I will always wear my coats. I am always freezing, so it works out perfectly for me! ~ Kim Kardashian, #NFDB
736:I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally. ~ Matt Dillon, #NFDB
737:Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
738:Now, that is very interesting history," said Jack, well pleased; "and I understand it perfectly all but the explanation. ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
739:The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
740:To be perfectly frank, his ding-dong wouldn’t have been what you might call the subject of an exhaustive search. Albert ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
741:To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less. ~ Elizabeth Edwards, #NFDB
742:World knows I am pathetic in remembering dates. I really wonder how I perfectly remember all the dates on which we met ~ Anamika Mishra, #NFDB
743:You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
744:Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"
"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober. ~ Dorothy L Sayers,#NFDB
745:Even should we find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. —Henry Van Dyke ~ William Paul Young, #NFDB
746:I figured I must be more present now, in this perfectly excruciating moment when my fondest wish was to be absent. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde, #NFDB
747:I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux. ~ Linus Torvalds, #NFDB
748:Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
749:My name is Rachel Morgan,” Al said, mimicking my voice perfectly. “I like black panties, action movies, and being on top. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
750:Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. ~ Martin Bormann, #NFDB
751:Well, now I felt horrible. I'd marred perfectly good ass cheeks for no reason. It was as if I'd sneezed on the Mona Lisa. ~ Molly Harper, #NFDB
752:"We suffer when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want." ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
753:Your Grace,” he said, bowing as if it was perfectly normal for him to have an ermine weasel clinging to him like a leech. ~ Jill Barnett, #NFDB
754:Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information. ~ Dave Winer, #NFDB
755:All the same, there was no need to prime my children to be paranoid—not when I was perfectly happy to fret for all of us. ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
756:By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up. ~ Lori Gottlieb, #NFDB
757:God guides best when He tempts worst, loves entirely when He punishes cruelly, helps perfectly when violently He opposes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
758:I think the most important thing is to start with something that fits perfectly. Don't worry about having it in five colors. ~ Jack White, #NFDB
759:It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war. ~ Martin Firrell, #NFDB
760:Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content. ~ Lauren Conrad, #NFDB
761:Men tend to carry their honesty in pigeonholes. They can be perfectly honest in some ways and fool themselves in other ways. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
762:Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
763:The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem. ~ E L Doctorow, #NFDB
764:The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
765:we should not judge our books by their covers, and that some books exist between covers that are perfectly people-shaped.) ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
766:We, too, will have fellowship with the sublime if we know how to be perfectly obedient to the Word of the Lord. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
767:Where do they come from, thoughts?
Like wrens, out of the sky.
They arrive.
Noisy, hungry, perfectly themselves. ~ Peter Behrens,#NFDB
768:You are aware, are you, that painting a few stars on a perfectly ordinary broomstick doesn’t mean it will get airborne? ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
769:You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear. ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB
770:But you have two perfectly good Doms at your beck and call. You don’t need to take taxis and deal with doctors on your own. ~ Sean Michael, #NFDB
771:I don't know what to saw about a man who calls a perfectly adorable three-year old a fucker, but "my hero" comes to mind. ~ Kelly Corrigan, #NFDB
772:I felt pretty good, actually. When you’re still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
773:I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly. ~ Barry Goldwater, #NFDB
774:Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly. ~ Matt Smith, #NFDB
775:Maybe some love is guaranteed? Maybe if it fits snugly and perfectly inside you and around you? Like your skin and bones... ~ Jos N Harris, #NFDB
776:Nikola Tesla predicted in 1926 that “when wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain ~ Jason Fagone, #NFDB
777:our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB
778:Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
779:Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another. ~ Hugh Nibley, #NFDB
780:Whatever work you do, do it as perfectly as you can. That is the best service to the Divine in man
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#NFDB
781:Your foot is perfectly happy molding itself around rocks. All you’ve got to do is relax and let your foot flex. It ~ Christopher McDougall, #NFDB
782:All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
783:But Dante made talking and living and feeling seem like all those things were perfectly natural. Not in my world, they weren’t. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
784:How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
785:It was as if my body were his instrument and he learned to play it so perfectly that the melody vibrated within my very soul ~ Mia Sheridan, #NFDB
786:I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work. ~ Michelle M Pillow, #NFDB
787:I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities. ~ Banksy, #NFDB
788:Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me. ~ Elvis Costello, #NFDB
789:There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
790:When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question. ~ Annabelle Selldorf, #NFDB
791:For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong. —H.L. Mencken ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
792:God does everything perfectly. The world doesn't really need saving; it's exactly the way God wants it to be at the moment. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
793:I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
794:I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government. ~ Ted Cruz, #NFDB
795:I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything. ~ Graham Norton, #NFDB
796:No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable. ~ Ferdinand Mount, #NFDB
797:Puck said the shittier the hotel, the less likely it was anyone would remember us. By that logic, we were now perfectly safe. ~ Joanna Wylde, #NFDB
798:Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can't do any of them well - and I like to do everything perfectly. ~ Sophia Loren, #NFDB
799:#Suffering is at the heart of the human experience. The definition of suffering is whenever you are not perfectly in control. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
800:What an amazing day this has been, he thought. What a perfectly amazing day . . . and it’s not even one in the afternoon yet. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
801:A perfectly tuned conversation is a vision of sanity--a ratification of one's way of being human and one's way in the world. ~ Deborah Tannen, #NFDB
802:Even when I was happy, I felt like I was always looking for the edges on life. The seams. I was so perfectly born to die. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
803:Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal. ~ Richard K Morgan, #NFDB
804:How beautiful that after 2,000 years, no one can outdo "God is love." It's the most perfectly concise, hopeful phrase in history. ~ Mark Hart, #NFDB
805:I love you.” Finn kissed my hair. “In case that wasn’t perfectly clear. I love you, my darling Molly. For the rest of my days. ~ Devney Perry, #NFDB
806:I think i always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. "Give'em what they never knew they wanted". ~ Diana Vreeland, #NFDB
807:It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
808:Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way. ~ Daniel Quinn, #NFDB
809:See, I told you it would all work out,” Niniane said to Tiago.
“You are, as always, perfectly right,” Tiago told her. ~ Thea Harrison,#NFDB
810:Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly. ~ Sri Chinmoy, #NFDB
811:There are ten thousand perfectly good reasons not to have children but hearing the love in Feather’s voice trumped every one. ~ Walter Mosley, #NFDB
812:We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
813:You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
814:A boyfriend—a husband?—might just do the trick. It wasn’t that I needed anyone. I was, as I previously stated, perfectly fine. ~ Gail Honeyman, #NFDB
815:As far as DSA is concerned, I'm perfectly happy to be associated with it while disagreeing with a large part of the leadership. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
816:Because in some other universe, you are me, I am you, and we are perfectly happy together. Or perhaps not… and just like this… ~ Abhimanyu Jha, #NFDB
817:being mostly correct and decisive typically yields better results than taking the time to figure out what is perfectly correct. ~ Richard Koch, #NFDB
818:Everyone just wants to hear the exact jokes that apply to them and want to - everyone wants a perfectly crafted joke for them. ~ Brad Williams, #NFDB
819:Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
820:If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on. ~ Alfred Hitchcock, #NFDB
821:If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
822:I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up ~ Frank O Hara, #NFDB
823:It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB
824:I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but like every body else in my own way. Greatness will not make me so". ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
825:Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. ~ Erin Morgenstern, #NFDB
826:One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. ~ Thomas Mann, #NFDB
827:San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
828:She couldn't tolerate mistakes and almost always chose inactivity over the possibility of doing something less than perfectly. ~ Randy O Frost, #NFDB
829:The Elvish language had a word that perfectly expressed his feeling: Vaendin-thiil, which meant “fatigued by life’s dark trials. ~ Paul S Kemp, #NFDB
830:What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
831:What’s the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that’s what I always say. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
832:Adam could not very well judge Ronan for dreaming so vastly; Adam was also trading in magic he didn’t understand perfectly. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
833:But when I put those things together with the rest of you, it makes you into the most perfectly imperfect woman I’ve ever known. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
834:I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it and have it work as perfectly as it did... I sleep clearly every night. ~ Paul Tibbets, #NFDB
835:I understand now that desperate, clumsy desire to make people feel better—even when you know perfectly well that nothing will. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
836:People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
837:The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational. ~ Dahlia Lithwick, #NFDB
838:Apart, we were nothing more than two broken halves, but together, our jagged edges fit perfectly, sealed into something whole again. ~ Keri Lake, #NFDB
839:I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit. ~ Oswald J Smith, #NFDB
840:In this way, faith is the exact opposite of trusting in ourselves, and therefore it is the attitude that perfectly fits salvation ~ Wayne Grudem, #NFDB
841:In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
842:I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother. ~ Yoko Ono, #NFDB
843:I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed. ~ Annie Lennox, #NFDB
844:No matter how hard they try, they'll never create anything so perfectly beautiful as what plays out in my own imagination. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
845:Politics is like theatre. An actor has confidence when he knows he is perfectly constumed, made-up and lit for the boards or film. ~ Roger Stone, #NFDB
846:States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law. ~ Kenneth Waltz, #NFDB
847:the domain of quantum world is so astonishingly strange that it even makes tales of alien abductions sound perfectly reasonable ~ Jim Al Khalili, #NFDB
848:Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
849:triangle offense, that aligned perfectly with the values of selflessness and mindful awareness I’d been studying in Zen Buddhism. ~ Phil Jackson, #NFDB
850:we, dear wife of my bosom, could have been perfectly happy if you had ever given us half a chance, for we are so much alike. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
851:Why is a useless question, an unknowable object. But to suspend thought is impossible. The mind is made perfectly of possibilities. ~ Sarah Hall, #NFDB
852:A personal relation was a relation only so long as people either perfectly understood or, better still, didn’t care if they didn’t. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
853:Her four pupils bored into his, her white face perfectly immobile. “Altruism? What’s happening to you?” “I don’t know,” he said. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
854:I'd thought I remembered her perfectly. But it is much better to see her imperfectly, to see something new every time she moves. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
855:If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting. ~ Sandra Cisneros, #NFDB
856:I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below used-car salesmen. ~ Cher, #NFDB
857:I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet. ~ Robyn Davidson, #NFDB
858:I know that's an endorsement I've been waiting for," Skye added. "Perfectly adequate in bed. They should make that into a T-shirt ~ Susan Mallery, #NFDB
859:I'm not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don't give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic. ~ Bill Nighy, #NFDB
860:I'm perfectly natural the way I am. Why can't you humans ever understand that I might not want to be afflicted with gender? ~ Carolyn Ives Gilman, #NFDB
861:It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin. ~ Stephen Mitchell, #NFDB
862:it's perfectly okay to paraphrase Nietzche: if you keep your focus, eventually your focus will keep you. Sometimes without parole. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
863:The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
864:A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts. ~ Thomas B Macaulay, #NFDB
865:I'm giving you my son and my neice. You bring then back to me or I'll mount your head on a spike, you understand?
Perfectly. ~ Bec McMaster,#NFDB
866:I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival. ~ David Attenborough, #NFDB
867:It's amazing […] how perfectly honest people who would starve rather than steal sixpence, will steal books without compunction. ~ Jill Paton Walsh, #NFDB
868:IT’S NOT AS IF IT DOES ANYTHING FOR THE FLAVOUR. WHY DOES ANYONE TAKE A PERFECTLY GOOD DRINK AND THEN PUT IN A CHERRY ON A POLE? ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
869:Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
870:The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace. ~ Thomas M Disch, #NFDB
871:Victor was the first to speak, and when he did, it was with an eloquence and composure perfectly befitting the situation. “Holy shit. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
872:Why couldn't anyone ever take him at face value? He'd come up with a perfectly believable lie and she was still questioning him. ~ Santino Hassell, #NFDB
873:according to rationality norms requiring only internal coherence, one can be perfectly consistent, and yet wrong about everything ~ Gerd Gigerenzer, #NFDB
874:Don't waste your whole lifetime waiting for the perfect life when there's a perfectly good one within and right in front of you. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru, #NFDB
875:Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, #NFDB
876:Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
877:Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
878:One thing you should know about me is that I am not a hugger. For the record, in New York, that is a perfectly acceptable way to be. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
879:Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
880:The problem with paranoia was that if you let it rule all your decisions, then you would miss some perfectly good opportunities. ~ Genevieve Cogman, #NFDB
881:But I felt that it was my heart which was broken. Something had broken in me to make me so cold and so perfectly still and far away. ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
882:Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
883:Failure doesn’t define you. It’s what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
884:George Carlin once observed, in some company it’s perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick. 2 ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
885:If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time. ~ Scott Derrickson, #NFDB
886:I'm following it perfectly. Although, if this were a novel, I'd take the trouble to reread the last paragraph as carefully as possible. ~ C sar Aira, #NFDB
887:I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out. ~ Colin Baker, #NFDB
888:In silence, the consciousness grows. It aspires to know You more and more perfectly.
More Answers From The Mother, vol 17, p.380 ~ The Mother,#NFDB
889:It seems perfectly plain to me that it is war itself which must be halted, without wanting one side or another defeated in particular. ~ Naomi Novik, #NFDB
890:James looked up at the form of his dead wife and studied it for a moment. It was perfectly vivid. “You’re not dead,” Katherine said, ~ David Simpson, #NFDB
891:Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
892:Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
893:The organized person ... makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal. ~ George Matthew Adams, #NFDB
894:They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures ~ Tawni O Dell, #NFDB
895:Under the new law, drug busts motivated by the desire to seize cash, cars, homes, and other property are still perfectly legal. ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
896:agent was lying flushed and insensible; the other, bent over his books, was making correct entries of perfectly correct transactions; ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
897:And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you. ~ Elizabeth Hay, #NFDB
898:If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
899:I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration. ~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, #NFDB
900:Irregularity is inherent in our very nature; expecting people to be perfectly wise is as crazy as putting wings on dogs or horns on eagles ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
901:Mr. Tulkinghorn is always the same, speechless repository of noble confidences, so oddly out of place and yet so perfectly at home. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
902:No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands. ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
903:No one had any business with an ass like that. Or abs…or arms…or face. It was obnoxious, really. The whole perfectly built picture. ~ Kate Canterbary, #NFDB
904:She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell. ~ Florence Louisa Barclay, #NFDB
905:Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. ~ Hal Clement, #NFDB
906:That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
907:The dream state just before wakening when it seems perfectly logical for the goldfish not to like peeling its own potatoes on the bus. ~ Kate Griffin, #NFDB
908:There's one way to do showbiz, if you want to do it perfectly, you have to be disciplined and you have to be ready to work really hard. ~ Celine Dion, #NFDB
909:When I try to speak perfectly then I am not Jackie Chan anymore. Some words sound like I am trying too hard. The whole thing is not me. ~ Jackie Chan, #NFDB
910:You're perfectly capable of learning. You mustn't listen to people who don't know you. Listen to what you know, yourself. ~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, #NFDB
911:As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place. ~ Luis Figo, #NFDB
912:At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
913:Beside me, Adrian’s own smile vanished, and he went perfectly still. Tatiana, the former Moroi queen, had been Christian’s great-aunt. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
914:Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human. ~ Juliet Marillier, #NFDB
915:He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, #NFDB
916:I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you. ~ Drew Barrymore, #NFDB
917:In the deepest poverty you should never do anything perfectly. If you do you are stealing resources from where they can be better used. ~ Hans Rosling, #NFDB
918:It is possible for a Christian to be perfectly orthodox and yet to be defeated, and to be living a defeated and a useless life. ~ D Martyn Lloyd Jones, #NFDB
919:It’s Too Hard Remember, perfectionism has no sense of gray, things are only black or white. You do it perfectly or you don’t do it at all. ~ Jon Acuff, #NFDB
920:Men tend to carry their honesty in pigeonholes, Jean Louise. They can be perfectly honest in some ways and fool themselves in other ways. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
921:People always think that a suicide is commited for one reason. But it is perfectly possible to commit a suicide for two reasons. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
922:The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
923:They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction. ~ Loretta Chase, #NFDB
924:Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping. ~ Jon Anderson, #NFDB
925:You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
926:A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
927:And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
928:A text pops up on the screen. It’s from Luis. I can’t help but grin when I read his perfectly thought-out message.
Luis: Hey ~ Simone Elkeles,#NFDB
929:Don't you think it would be interesting if you could read the story of your life - written perfectly truthfully by an omniscient author? ~ Jean Webster, #NFDB
930:Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after the failure that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
931:Headaches were like birds. Starlings. They could be perfectly calm, then a single acorn could drop and send the entire flock to the sky. ~ Erika Swyler, #NFDB
932:I believe it’s perfectly normal to love both lipstick and literature, to be a woman who paints her nails while shouting at Question Time. ~ Sali Hughes, #NFDB
933:I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious. ~ George Harrison, #NFDB
934:I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
935:If you think that you did everything and know everything and that everything has been done perfectly well, then it's time to retire. ~ Carolina Herrera, #NFDB
936:I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up ~ Frank O Hara,#NFDB
937:Lament turned to Skulduggery. "Do you want me to hold your hand?"
"I'd rather you didn't."
"Perfectly understandable," Lament said. ~ Derek Landy,#NFDB
938:Lev could not be fixed. And I didn’t want to repair the broken part of him. He was perfectly imperfect, and I was his in heart and soul. ~ Belle Aurora, #NFDB
939:Like everything else he did perfectly, Ronin was a perfect travel partner. Knowledgeable. Attentive. Flexible. Spontaneous. Passionate. ~ Lorelei James, #NFDB
940:Salvation is not sin perfectly avoided, as the ego would prefer; but in fact, salvation is sin turned on its head and used in our favor. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
941:So truly perfectly the skies
by merciful love whispered were,
completes its brightness with your eyes
any illimitable star. ~ E E Cummings,#NFDB
942:The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
943:The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want. ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
944:When Chveya was seven years old she had understood perfectly how the world worked. Now she was eight, and there were some questions. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
945:All the human love we’ve experienced has been flawed in some way. But not God’s; his love is perfect and perfectly steadfast forever. ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
946:His mother he can see perfectly. But how do you say goodbye to your mother? The person who gave you breath, who taught you how to live? ~ Heather Morris, #NFDB
947:I shall be perfectly content to spend time with Mr Darcy and enjoy his manner of flattering my ego, for I must confess he does it very well. ~ P O Dixon, #NFDB
948:It's impossible to make everyone happy. Some will choose to see the negative. None is perfect but find a way of loving them perfectly! ~ Oscar Pistorius, #NFDB
949:I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi. ~ Joan Collins, #NFDB
950:Keynes knew perfectly well that fascist economic policy could never have succeeded in the long-run without war, occupation and exploitation. ~ Tony Judt, #NFDB
951:My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all? ~ Mara Wilson, #NFDB
952:No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
953:Perfectly. I’m a terrific success at pottering round asking sloppy questions. And I can put away quite a lot of beer in a good cause. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
954:The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
955:The great way is not difficult if you don't cling to good or bad. Just let go of your preferences; and everything will become perfectly clear. ~ Sengcan, #NFDB
956:The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
957:Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags. ~ David Harsanyi, #NFDB
958:We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
959:When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
960:With this magnificent God positioned among us, Jesus brings the assurance that our universe is a perfectly safe place for us to be. The ~ Dallas Willard, #NFDB
961:Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
962:Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a good waste of perfectly good air. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
963:For I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration. ~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, #NFDB
964:For perfectly crisp waffles, melt butter to add to the batter, but brush the hot iron with fat that’s rendered out of the breakfast bacon. ~ Samin Nosrat, #NFDB
965:God will always have a church on earth; but he never said it should be infallible, or perfectly pure from corruption on this side heaven. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
966:I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine labor secretary. From what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
967:If he were only interested in me for one thing, he’d have moved on when it didn’t go perfectly the first time.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow ~ Kailin Gow, #NFDB
968:I have no desire to sleep with you. I want to fuck you. And there is no such thing as perfectly good sex. If it’s ‘perfectly good,’ ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
969:In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
970:I observed the cowboy in his natural element. He liked to work with no shirt on, which seemed so perfectly right and not at all beefcake. ~ Alice Clayton, #NFDB
971:I used to think every fool was out of his senses, but now I see that lack of sense is a man's normal state, and you are perfectly normal. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
972:Mr. Thomas Cresswell might not truly hold the title of prince, but the was perfectly fine. To me, he'd always be the king of my heart. ~ Kerri Maniscalco, #NFDB
973:Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left only with the amount that fits perfectly in the space you currently own. ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
974:On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly - you are still going in the right direction. ~ Charles Garfield, #NFDB
975:Thankfulness is the attitude that perfectly displaces my sinful tendency to complain and thereby release joy and blessing into my life. ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
976:The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
977:Your amoral ingenuity in the pursuit of your interest is perfectly shocking,” said Zacharias severely. “Yes, isn’t it?” said Prunella, pleased. ~ Zen Cho, #NFDB
978:A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks. ~ Robert Southey, #NFDB
979:Failure doesn’t define you. It’s what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.” Afya ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
980:Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat prevents them from doing things they could do
perfectly well. ~ Colin Wilson,#NFDB
981:Humans weren't made to be perfect, Daniel. We were made to screw up, fuck up, and learn new things. We were made perfectly imperfect. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
982:know better than anyone that love isn’t always perfectly balanced — it doesn’t break even, doesn’t weigh the scales equally on both sides. ~ Julie Johnson, #NFDB
983:Mr. Thomas Cresswell might not truly hold the title of prince, but that was perfectly fine. To me, he’d always be the king of my heart. ~ Kerri Maniscalco, #NFDB
984:Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie! ~ John Lydon, #NFDB
985:That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
986:There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences. ~ Georges Vantongerloo, #NFDB
987:There’s nothing worse than ruining a perfectly good moment by thinking someone else will find humor in something they absolutely do not. ~ Chelsea Handler, #NFDB
988:The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
989:We went wrong by failing to take into account a great truth, namely, that teals are stupid and lazy and perfectly content to stay that way. ~ Daniel Quinn, #NFDB
990:Women who would have been perfectly happy at a nice restaurant generally didn’t react well to men who suggested hang gliding as a first date. ~ Lucy Kevin, #NFDB
991:You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing. ~ Victoria Justice, #NFDB
992:You want to leave the queen’s employ?” He nodded with an uncompromising stare. “Complicated. Unprecedented. Perfectly insane…I’m in! ~ Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, #NFDB
993:As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence. ~ Ian Fleming, #NFDB
994:I am perfectly capable of keeping my eyes open. Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
995:if dog owners observe a lot of droppings around the condo area, they will find it perfectly acceptable to further contribute to this behavior. ~ Dan Ariely, #NFDB
996:If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust. ~ Charles Sanders Peirce, #NFDB
997:Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework. ~ Angela Davis, #NFDB
998:Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable. ~ Cheryl Hines, #NFDB
999:People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy. ~ Christina Ricci, #NFDB
1000:Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now. ~ Warren Farrell, #NFDB
1001:To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1002:Tuxedos were meant for the glamour of nighttime, and Dave looked forward to when the sun would set and the tuxedo would finally fit perfectly. ~ Adi Alsaid, #NFDB
1003:When you go into samadhi there is no breath at all. The kundalini is perfectly stabilized. Usually it stabilizes in the solar plexus area. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1004:Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing. ~ Joseph Priestley, #NFDB
1005:Her perfectly shaped eyebrows furrowed as she ran through what i said. I loved how her lips twiched in humor and a blush touched her cheeks. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
1006:If your goal is to polish up a fake person you can sell to a public you perceive as dumb, the unexamined life will do perfectly well, thank you. ~ Mary Karr, #NFDB
1007:The pen is to thought what the stick is to walking, but one walks most easily without a stick, and thinks most perfectly when no pen is at hand. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1008:The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness. ~ David Mazzucchelli, #NFDB
1009:When one works for the Divine, it is much better to do perfectly what one does than to aim at a very big work.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Work,#NFDB
1010:A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will. ~ Thomas Nagel, #NFDB
1011:At least the Howler had done one good thing: Hermione seemed to think they had now been punished enough and was being perfectly friendly again. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1012:Be perfectly sincere in your consecration to the Divine's work. This will assure you strength and success.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Sincerity,#NFDB
1013:I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks? ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
1014:It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. ~ Walter Lippmann, #NFDB
1015:It’s as if Midori popped out of the womb fiddling, Michael Jordan dribbling, and Picasso doodling. This captures the fixed mindset perfectly. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
1016:I was not going to nod. Everything that had ever happened to me in my whole life was mixed into the cement that kept my head perfectly still ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
1017:Life very rarely ever works out perfectly. We have to accept the people we love, flaws and all, and be thankful we got them in the first place. ~ Liz Schulte, #NFDB
1018:Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
1019:So I pull Tifanny closer, kiss the hard spot between her perfectly plucked eyebrows, and after a deep breath, I say, "I think I need you too. ~ Matthew Quick, #NFDB
1020:Some yogīs perfectly worship the demigods by offering different sacrifices to them, and some offer sacrifices in the fire of the Supreme Brahman. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1021:The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19) ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
1022:We’ve been taught that it’s never safe to assume we’ll be perfectly fine, walking around our own neighborhoods after dark, like normal people. ~ Kate Harding, #NFDB
1023:A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
1024:earth. In case you missed it, it’s now perfectly acceptable for whites and blacks to have relationships. To be friends or relatives. Or lovers. ~ Julie Kibler, #NFDB
1025:Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow. ~ George Lois, #NFDB
1026:If she looks like you, everyone will know you’re her dad,” Henry said, his voice perfectly level, his eyes solemn. “And that will make her happy. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
1027:I think a lot of people get into stand-up to be the center of attention, which is perfectly legitimate. But I think I got in there to be heard. ~ W Kamau Bell, #NFDB
1028:...Job lifted his revolver, fired, and hit a man - not the man he aimed at, by the way: anything that Job shot at was perfectly safe. ~ H Rider Haggard, #NFDB
1029:Lowery would half kill himself to make an extra dollar, and he’d be perfectly willing to kill any of his employees for another fifty cents. But ~ Robert Bloch, #NFDB
1030:One day you’re going through life and everything seems perfectly ordinary, and then you stumble across a person who makes you feel so alive…. ~ Stephanie Bond, #NFDB
1031:She was frozen, and something under her bed was perfectly willing to lie there and sing with her, sing her to death, scare her heart to splinters. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1032:The Kingdom Among Us is simply God himself and the spiritual realm of beings over which his will perfectly presides—“as it is in the heavens. ~ Dallas Willard, #NFDB
1033:the sort of creature whose wildest fantasies were filled with ledgers that balanced perfectly, and rows of clocks chiming in eternal unison. ~ Daniel Polansky, #NFDB
1034:this was the first reason he came to love her: because she had blended in so perfectly, because she had seemed so completely and utterly at home. ~ Celeste Ng, #NFDB
1035:When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes. ~ Calamity Jane, #NFDB
1036:AND NOW I KNOW THAT YOUR MORAL COMPASS IS PERFECTLY ALIGNED, THAT YOU SEE CLEARLY WHEN THINGS ARE WRONG, AND YOU DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO STOP IT. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
1037:"Do it perfectly or Not" .... that what i say
Although i believe that no perfect thing 100% ...but i should to aiming that along the life ~ Reham Ahmed,#NFDB
1038:For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1039:In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place. ~ Brian Selznick, #NFDB
1040:It is clear, then, that the soul which loves God seeks and looks for no other reward of its service than to love God perfectly. INTRODUCTION. ~ Juan de la Cruz, #NFDB
1041:It is perfectly possible to believe two contradictory things at one and the same time - that is one of the brilliant faculties of the human mind. ~ Simon Mawer, #NFDB
1042:It takes some of us a lifetime to learn that Christ, our Good Shepherd, knows exactly what He is doing with us. He understands us perfectly. ~ W Phillip Keller, #NFDB
1043:Perfect understanding between beings is no guarantor of happiness. To perfectly understand another’s madness, for instance, is to be mad oneself. ~ Andr Alexis, #NFDB
1044:Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore. ~ Evelyn Waugh, #NFDB
1045:The book was so clean and white, and the letters were so perfectly black and defenseless; it would have been like tearing the ears off a kitten. ~ Haven Kimmel, #NFDB
1046:The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
1047:There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are, ~ Eve Ensler, #NFDB
1048:There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are. ~ Eve Ensler, #NFDB
1049:A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
1050:A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people ~ Edgar Degas, #NFDB
1051:But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel…it’s ridiculous. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1052:Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1053:Everything felt awkward. There was a sense of being on a perfectly good road in a perfectly sound car that was, however, veering into a ditch. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
1054:I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1055:I give order to those who are perfectly and totally surrendered, as these orders cannot be discussed or disobeyed.
~ The Mother, More Answers From The Mother,#NFDB
1056:In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
1057:It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions. ~ John E Sarno, #NFDB
1058:it’s like leaving the Hope Diamond in a bus station locker: as long as nobody really understands its value, it’s perfectly safe where it is.” Felz ~ Nick Cutter, #NFDB
1059:I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
1060:Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
1061:...one story after another, all plausible, all perfectly woven until she picked at the one semi-loose thread and they unraveled in her hands. ~ Lucie Whitehouse, #NFDB
1062:Roan tried not to stare, but the guard’s head was almost perfectly egg shaped. He wanted to ask him if he’d ever had a hen sit on him by mistake. ~ Andrea Speed, #NFDB
1063:That’s the problem with depression—it discourages its own treatment. It’s like a virus, almost, perfectly adapted against its only natural predator. ~ Dan Wells, #NFDB
1064:The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death. ~ William C Brown, #NFDB
1065:The sun will rise tomorrow morning; I know that perfectly well. But figuring out how I could know it is, as Hume pointed out, a bit of a puzzle. ~ Jerry A Fodor, #NFDB
1066:We have seen," Terman concluded, with more than a touch of disappointment, "that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1067:A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people. ~ Edgar Degas, #NFDB
1068:Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored. ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
1069:I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything. ~ Brian May, #NFDB
1070:The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
1071:The Great Way is not difficult if you do not make distinctions. Only throw away likes and dislikes, and everything will be perfectly clear. So ~ Stephen Mitchell, #NFDB
1072:The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly. ~ Gordon Willis, #NFDB
1073:The officer sat with his long, fine hands lying on the table, perfectly still, and all his blood seemed to be corroding.
- The Prussian Officer ~ D H Lawrence,#NFDB
1074:They fit so perfectly on her hip, but she always had to give them back to their mothers.
Not this baby. This one is mine. With David as dad. ~ Debra Anastasia,#NFDB
1075:This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1076:Unless you are perfectly narcissistic and psychopathic—even then—your worst-case scenario is never limited to the loss of only your life. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1077:With that he takes a few steps backward and executes a perfect backflip. My poor shocked heart does the same thing, though a little less perfectly. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
1078:As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, #NFDB
1079:Besides...' She smiled. 'I'm perfectly safe, remember? I've got you. I've always got you.'
'Please always stay mine,' he whispered.
'Always. ~ Thea Harrison,#NFDB
1080:But that's not the point!" raged Ford "The point is that I am now a perfectly safe penguin, and my colleague here is rapidly running out of limbs! ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1081:But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel.. it's ridiculous. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1082:Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom. ~ Francis George, #NFDB
1083:If I’m being perfectly frank, there is no elegant way to tell Prince Snarls-a-Lot that my petticoats and underskirts make it impossible to walk. “Well? ~ K M Shea, #NFDB
1084:I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that. ~ Oliver Jackson Cohen, #NFDB
1085:In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case. ~ Gary Hamel, #NFDB
1086:She was my living, breathing doll. She wore the face of the purest angel, masking such evil living within. My soul’s perfectly fucked-up counterpart ~ Tillie Cole, #NFDB
1087:Thing that people forget is, we all die, right? We all die and no matter what we do, the universe is going to go on, perfectly happy without us. ~ Charles de Lint, #NFDB
1088:What I cannot understand about the Russian,” Roosevelt complained, “is the way he will lie when he knows perfectly well that you know he is lying. ~ Edmund Morris, #NFDB
1089:But this girl...she doesn’t feel pointless. She’s real and she’s beautiful and she fits perfectly when she’s in my arms. She makes me want to feel. ~ Monica Murphy, #NFDB
1090:Every Anarchist, as an Anarchist, would be perfectly willing to surrender his own scheme directly, if he saw that another worked better. For ~ Voltairine de Cleyre, #NFDB
1091:He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions. ~ Barbara Kingsolver, #NFDB
1092:I am perfectly qualified to give you an injection. You're not going to tell me you're afraid of a little prick?"
"I wouldn't call you that... ~ Anthony Horowitz,#NFDB
1093:I’d be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can’t think of a better way to go insane.”) ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
1094:In thought and practice we are far from holy, but in the new nature we are perfectly holy: “In Him [we] have been made complete” (Col. 2:10). ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
1095:Isaac slipped her a subtle grin that she understood perfectly. "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" was apparently a universal concept. ~ Chloe Jacobs, #NFDB
1096:Stop being jealous, I mean, to be jealous is to suggest that God doesn't know what she is doing. This is ridiculous! She does everything perfectly ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1097:The person in the business suit who works on Wall Street, who does their work perfectly, is probably evolving a lot faster, if they also meditate. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1098:Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry. ~ Billy Collins, #NFDB
1099:Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new." "Well, then, it would be better not to study it. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1100:Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure. ~ Kanye West, #NFDB
1101:A £30 watch will answer your timekeeping needs perfectly — anything else is simply jewellery for men, and mostly of quite spectacular hideousness. ~ Rory Sutherland, #NFDB
1102:An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch, #NFDB
1103:but to be perfectly honest, I have never been spooked by the dead. It is the living who terrify me. The dead are much more predictable and co-operative. ~ Sue Black, #NFDB
1104:Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us. ~ Amor Towles, #NFDB
1105:—Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn’t very polite. —I’m sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn’t seem to stop the rest of us. ~ Amor Towles, #NFDB
1106:He has stopped eating eggs, because he is afraid of what might be inside. An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1107:I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself, young lady. I have plenty of cartridges for my shotgun and this is a new pair of trousers. I’m ready. ~ Derek Landy, #NFDB
1108:If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all. It becomes merely a dream. ~ Chogyam Trungpa, #NFDB
1109:In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
1110:It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity. ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #NFDB
1111:Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know. ~ Cate Blanchett, #NFDB
1112:Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them. ~ Michael Beckwith, #NFDB
1113:These emotional cues were distracting. I was used to arguing with scientists who would explain with perfectly bland faces why you were wrong and stupid. ~ Max Barry, #NFDB
1114:What Martin Shkreli will end up if he does wind up going to prison. I think that`s I think what shocks a lot of people, that this is perfectly legal. ~ Joy Ann Reid, #NFDB
1115:When we asked, What do you love? Sylvia looked around her perfectly pink room and said, I’m not the boss of me. How the hell would I even know. ~ Jacqueline Woodson, #NFDB
1116:You Anglo-Saxons have largely broken away from such dependence on family. Each generation feels perfectly free to act alone and you are not afraid. ~ Helen Simonson, #NFDB
1117:You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
1118:And yet always you feel as though you understood perfectly the people and why they do everything as they do.Still you are absolutely severed from them. ~ Paul Bowles, #NFDB
1119:arching one perfectly shaped dark brow. “How so?” “You’re no longer acting like a brute, and when you’re not trying to look scary, you’re quite handsome. ~ I T Lucas, #NFDB
1120:Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1121:I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
1122:I have bemoaned people who say they feel old, but I now realize it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
1123:In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
1124:In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1125:I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy. ~ Darin Strauss, #NFDB
1126:My sister never had children. She and her husband had a grand, adventuresome life together, and were perfectly content in their roles as aunt and uncle. ~ Jamie Beck, #NFDB
1127:No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
1128:There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness. ~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer, #NFDB
1129:We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us. ~ Maria Edgeworth, #NFDB
1130:we see that the description given by Moses of that far, far off period is not only correct but likewise has a depth of meaning that is perfectly sublime. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1131: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
1132:I am perfectly imperfect. I strive for better while loving all that I am today. In loving myself today, I am better equipped to improve myself tomorrow. ~ Pepper Pace, #NFDB
1133:If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way. ~ Bill Nighy, #NFDB
1134:I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the deserts of Egypt in his soul. ~ Lynn Andrews, #NFDB
1135:In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every world of it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1136:Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the coast and the heartland. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
1137:Panchakrama, When voidness and appearance both Are seen as each the aspect of the other, They blend together perfectly And thus are said to be united. ~ Jamg n Mipham, #NFDB
1138:The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19) ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1139:There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
1140:There was a game called "Work." and on of the most-often-repeated Soviet jokes described it perfectly: "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us. ~ Masha Gessen, #NFDB
1141:Be courteous to all, but personal with number of, and allow those couple be perfectly attempted ahead of you provide them with your self-assurance. ~ George Washington, #NFDB
1142:By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
1143:Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop. ~ Joe Haldeman, #NFDB
1144:For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong. — H. L. Mencken (slightly rephrased) ~ David Graeber, #NFDB
1145:God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other. ~ George Sand, #NFDB
1146:Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish, and he perfectly chose the time to be selfish and made plays. ~ Michael Irvin, #NFDB
1147:If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1148:My stomach churned. The monster had mimicked Thalia perfectly. If I'd heard that voice in the dark, calling for help, I would've run straight toward it. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1149:Personally, I don’t care very much about everything working out perfectly, but I’m not going to not take a chance because of all the what-ifs involved. ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
1150:The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving. ~ Lou Boudreau, #NFDB
1151:This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
1152:Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly. ~ Loretta Lux, #NFDB
1153:Well, write me into the list of Those Who Don’t Mind a Bit,” said Cupid, eyeing his perfectly toned arms and chest. “My, but he will break a few hearts. ~ Shannon Hale, #NFDB
1154:We will never be perfect or without flaws, the lives we've been given are not like that. But, Lily, in my heart, you are perfect for me. Perfectly mine. ~ Mia Sheridan, #NFDB
1155:When you get right down to it, everybody's having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everyone. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1156:You can waste a perfectly good life trying to meet the standards of someone who thinks you’re not good enough because they can’t understand who you are. ~ Barbara Sher, #NFDB
1157:Awareness of our problems thus does not necessarily mean that they get solved. It may just mean that we are able to perfectly anticipate where we will fail. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1158:Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
1159:Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment. ~ Mallory Ortberg, #NFDB
1160:He whose senses have become calm like horses perfectly tamed by a driver, who has rid himself of pride and concupiscence, the gods themselves envy his lot. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
1161:Home was this whole perfectly contained universe--town, friends, acquaintances, the streets we traveled every day...And we were about to leave it all. ~ Katrina Kenison, #NFDB
1162:I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects. ~ Neil Postman, #NFDB
1163:I didn't remember it to be so...naked. With so much... yearning. God, why do I have to be a person who yearns so much? How horrible. How perfectly horrible. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
1164:I know perfectly well my own egotism,
And know my omnivorous words, and cannot say any less,
And would fetch you whoever you are flush with myself. ~ Walt Whitman,#NFDB
1165:Laughter is such a healthy exercise. Somebody is laughing - that's perfectly good exercise, join him. Somebody is being playful - if you have time, join him. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1166:Nature creates perfectly because she creates directly out of life and is not intellectually self-conscious. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, The Form and the Spirit, #NFDB
1167:Poison doesn't break Oberon's law unless somebody dies. There are circles where putting your enemies to sleep for a thousand years is perfectly normal. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
1168:Ray Bradbury was not ahead of his time. He was perfectly of his time, and more than that: he created his time and left his mark on the time that followed. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1169:The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn, #NFDB
1170:There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still convinced that its ways are perfectly adequate. ~ Edsger Dijkstra, #NFDB
1171:To be perfectly honest, it scared me a little. You get so used to seeing the same thing in the mirror every day you stop thinking about what you look like. ~ Cat Clarke, #NFDB
1172:We destroyed him. We turned a perfectly normal, young man who would’ve grown into a good husband and father into a criminal monster who feeds on pain. ~ Charmaine Pauls, #NFDB
1173:Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1174:Falling into Place:
deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly. ~ Brian Andreas,#NFDB
1175:I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless. ~ Michael Frayn, #NFDB
1176:If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising. ~ Alexis Korner, #NFDB
1177:If tomorrow all the bridges disappear in the world, then we can learn perfectly how very useful they were! Losing something is an excellent teacher! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1178:It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things are somewhat flawed. ~ Hoda Kotb, #NFDB
1179:Ps. I am pretty certain Beyonce doesn't need you fighting any battles on her account. Seems like she's got everything covered perfectly well on her own. ~ Shirley Manson, #NFDB
1180:simply because his mind aligned perfectly with the nexus of logic and technology (which it did) but because, he says, “I really wanted to change the world. ~ Steven Levy, #NFDB
1181:small teams consistently outperform larger organizations when it comes to innovation. Incentive prizes are perfectly designed to harness this energy. ~ Peter H Diamandis, #NFDB
1182:The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1183:What we venerate in the Saints, beyond and above all that we know is this secret; the mystery of an innocence and of an identity perfectly hidden in God. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1184:While thou livest, perfectly fulfil
Thy part, conceive
Earth as thy stage, thyself the actor strong,
The drama His. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Rishi,#NFDB
1185:won’t go wrong.” Hana stands up and stares at me for a moment. “I promise,” she says slowly, giving each word weight, “that everything will go perfectly. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
1186:Above all, she was a baby, not a 'big baby' like so many adults, but a small baby perfectly preserved in the pickling jar of money, alcohol and fantasy. ~ Edward St Aubyn, #NFDB
1187:[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience. ~ Raoul Hausmann, #NFDB
1188:Her secret? It is every artist's secret--passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is inimitable in cheap materials. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
1189:I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so. ~ Alain Rene Lesage, #NFDB
1190:If one thing was perfectly, crystalline clear, it was that I could take care of myself. I just kept coming and coming and coming. I was what I was. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #NFDB
1191:I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow. ~ Adam Smith, #NFDB
1192:I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it. ~ Steve Wozniak, #NFDB
1193:Intelligent transportation technology is key to better parking management. The adage that "You can't manage what you can't measure" fits parking perfectly. ~ Donald Shoup, #NFDB
1194:Perfectly surrounded by rough five o’clock shadow that makes me shiver at the mere thought of it scraping along my skin, because the man is built for sin. ~ Ainsley Booth, #NFDB
1195:Personally, I don’t care very much about everything working out perfectly, but I’m not going to not take a chance because of all the what-ifs involved.” I ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
1196:Sometimes it is perfectly acceptable to decide not to decide, to remain confused and wide-eyed about the next thing that will pop up in the road you build. ~ Andrew Smith, #NFDB
1197:That's what spies do, right? They walk to the bakery and buy a loaf of bread everyday - perfectly normal - until one day they buy a loaf of uranium instead. ~ Robin Sloan, #NFDB
1198:There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong. ~ Bill de Blasio, #NFDB
1199:What job a fascinating view does, apart from fascinating you? It does this: It perfectly motivates you to love existence much more than you can love! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1200:You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on. ~ Phil Anselmo, #NFDB
1201:Finally, it became perfectly obvious. A finish line marks a stopping point. Once we stop, we must start over, and starting over is harder than continuing. ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
1202:[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science. ~ Rosa Luxemburg, #NFDB
1203:God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory. ~ Charles R Swindoll, #NFDB
1204:I'm eating breakfast with half the royal family, Golden Guard, and a Western noble, at the siege of Soricium," Vhalla wheezed. "And it feels perfectly normal. ~ Elise Kova, #NFDB
1205:It’s not like a puzzle piece where there’s an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
1206:Like a child playing find-and-catch, it was my sincere hope that if I closed my eyes and remained perfectly still, the pain wouldn’t be able to find me. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1207:Music was alchemy.
Music was sex.
When it was right, when everything fit together just perfectly, it was better than any feeling he’d ever experienced. ~ Lauren Dane,#NFDB
1208:The trouble with good manners is that people are persuaded that you are all right, require no protection, are perfectly capable of looking after yourself. ~ Anita Brookner, #NFDB
1209:Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
1210:Whatever work you do, do it as perfectly as you can. That is the best service to the Divine in man
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Progress and Perfection in Work,#NFDB
1211:Awareness of our problems thus does not necessarily mean that they get solved. I t may just mean that we are able to perfectly anticipate where we will fall. ~ Esther Duflo, #NFDB
1212:By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout. ~ Jo Brand, #NFDB
1213:Her strawberry hair bounced when she walked, her chin tilted upward when she saw us, and her body was the most perfectly fuckable thing to ever grace the earth. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
1214:I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school. ~ James Lipton, #NFDB
1215:I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love. ~ Anne Truitt, #NFDB
1216:If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment. ~ Lars von Trier, #NFDB
1217:I love to find new people. It's not for the sake of their being new; it's because if you find someone who perfectly fits a part, that's such a great thing. ~ Robert De Niro, #NFDB
1218:I’m sure there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation, Em,’ Lizzy said, joining them as the taxi drove off. Emma looked up at the top window of their rented ~ Paul Pilkington, #NFDB
1219:In her exquisite handwriting, Eva Maria anticipated that her clothes might not fit me perfectly. But, she concluded, it was better than running around naked. ~ Anne Fortier, #NFDB
1220:It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be perfectly free and perfectly happy. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1221:It took some time to realize just how important it is to love your own story. Even if it's not some perfectly scripted traditional fairy tale, it's still yours. ~ B L Berry, #NFDB
1222:Like nothing else in life, sex is perfectly selfless and selfish all at once. Hot and cold, yin and yang, black and white, and all of the shades in between. ~ Renee Carlino, #NFDB
1223:My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky. ~ Jennifer Lynch, #NFDB
1224:Now I beseech you, brethren, that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. ~ I Corinthians I. 10, #NFDB
1225:People in Italy seem to be very capable of singing along with 'Wish You Were Here' perfectly, yet it's hard to get someone in the street who speaks english. ~ David Gilmour, #NFDB
1226:Predators go on vacations, too. They take drives in the country and enjoy the smell of the sea, just like everyone else. They are perfectly human. Outside, ~ Tess Gerritsen, #NFDB
1227:Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films. ~ Michael Snow, #NFDB
1228:The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art". ~ David Shields, #NFDB
1229:The book didn't come to any conclusion, and nobody wants to read a book that doesn't have one. For me, though, having no conclusion seemed perfectly fine. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1230:The clear lesson of New England’s history is that when there are not enough suitable men around to run the world, women are perfectly capable of doing so. ~ Wallace Stegner, #NFDB
1231:The first move was to turn to the one great, perfectly visible and certified revolution in the recent history of the human race [the Google search-engine]. ~ Nicola Lagioia, #NFDB
1232:Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1233:But as the Interdiction has shown us, the gods function perfectly well whether we believe in them or not, so why devote all that energy to a pointless purpose? ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
1234:...but no one was interested in the facts. They preferred the invention because this invention expressed and corroborated their hates and fears so perfectly. ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
1235:If I do it you won't ever worry?'
'I won't worry about that because it's perfectly simple.'
"Then I'll do it. Because I don't care about me. ~ Ernest Hemingway,#NFDB
1236:I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by testing out my pronunciations ~ Lana Wood, #NFDB
1237:I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1238:I'll be a great doctor with excellent bedside skills.
I'll be perfectly happy.
But something about Natasha makes me think my life could be extraordinary. ~ Nicola Yoon,#NFDB
1239:It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
1240:It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
1241:It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
1242:Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1243:One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf. ~ David Ignatow, #NFDB
1244:Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink. ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB
1245:So, congratulations, you’re finally getting what you dreamed of." I take the key from around my neck, drop it into his hand, and say, “I understand perfectly. ~ Jillian Dodd, #NFDB
1246:When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place. ~ Shane Carruth, #NFDB
1247:Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya. ~ Akhmad Kadyrov, #NFDB
1248:For some reason, Talon Steel paralyzed me. He was perfectly cordial but not friendly. Impenetrable. Like a suit of invisible armor covered him from head to toe. ~ Helen Hardt, #NFDB
1249:General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results. ~ Rutherford B Hayes, #NFDB
1250:He knew it was perfect, and perfectly beautiful. He thought about how much she would like it. When he thought like that, happiness swelled up warm within him. ~ Cynthia Voigt, #NFDB
1251:He who thinks in a sunny garden about the miners who work in the dark galleries of mines will understand so perfectly how beautiful and how hard life is! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1252:if we want to love Jesus completely, ardently, and perfectly — as did Mother Teresa — then we need his Spirit of Love, and Mary Immaculate brings him to us. ~ Michael Gaitley, #NFDB
1253:It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse. ~ Arlene Francis, #NFDB
1254:It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas. ~ Andrei Tarkovsky, #NFDB
1255:It was perfectly innocent.’ That’s what Gary Hart said. One day he’s running for president, the next he’s sitting in an office somewhere making paper-clip chains. ~ Tami Hoag, #NFDB
1256:My mother is not evil, Faith reminded herself. She is just a perfectly sensible snake, protecting her eggs and making her way in the world as best she can. ~ Frances Hardinge, #NFDB
1257:Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1258:The bloodied angel must have one hell of a reputation because despite his condition, the perfectly healthy and beefy Burnt slams his sword back into his sheath. He ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
1259:The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on. ~ Will Cuppy, #NFDB
1260:What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration. ~ Elizabeth Bishop, #NFDB
1261:You could teach [George] Carlin in college. It's the construction of the word and the order of things and how they go. How all those sentences are timed perfectly. ~ Jay Mohr, #NFDB
1262:You know what's the worst part about being an actress? It's the pressure to look gorgeous all the time and to behave perfectly. But I'm not perfect, nobody is. ~ Preity Zinta, #NFDB
1263:Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks. ~ Jennifer Crusie, #NFDB
1264:Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way. ~ John P Kotter, #NFDB
1265:I begin to see that a man’s got to be in his own Heaven to be happy.” “Perfectly correct,” says he. “Did you imagine the same heaven would suit all sorts of men? ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1266:If love were an animal, what species would it be and could you train it? Love would be two animals: a hummingbird and a snake. Both are perfectly untrainable. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
1267:I'm not naive. I know perfectly well that there isn't a single Arab or Muslim in the world who would say: There has to be a Jewish state in the Middle East. ~ Daniel Barenboim, #NFDB
1268:It is simply a question of fulfilment. You feel perfectly alive and magnificently perfected by the knowledge that you are doing what you were put on earth to do. ~ Stephen Fry, #NFDB
1269:(“It’s crazy,” she’d said, “but I’d be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can’t think of a better ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
1270:I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me. ~ Father Damien, #NFDB
1271:Oh wow. Bliss. The adobo was perfectly calibrated between my two favorite flavor juxtapositions: sweet and tangy. And the shrimp: practically dissolving in my mouth. ~ S K Ali, #NFDB
1272:Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1273:she had been perfectly agreeable until I showed my face. That’s how it is with that kind of madness. Ninety-nine per cent of the time they seem perfectly sane. ~ Peter Lovesey, #NFDB
1274:the ladder, the metal freezing, biting my fingers. When I get up to the roof I press myself perfectly flat, belly-down on a coating of bird shit and rust. Even ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
1275:The perfectly measured burr of a dispassionate detective had suddenly changed into the explosive boom of a take-no-shit street cop.
Suffice it to say, I froze. ~ Cleo Coyle,#NFDB
1276:The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is feasible. ~ George Polya, #NFDB
1277:To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.] ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
1278:Usually what everyone knows is insulting and sort of ableist, because the people who know everything always seem to think of themselves as being perfectly normal. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
1279:Whatever you need will be provided. Eternity takes care of everything perfectly. So never want for that which you do not have; you have exactly what you need. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1280:It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1281:It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing. ~ Reid Hoffman, #NFDB
1282:Please relax,” said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines, one of which is on fire, “you are perfectly safe. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1283:She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements. ~ Alice Munro, #NFDB
1284:So singularly clear was the water, that where it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom was so perfectly distinct that the boat seemed floating in the air! ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1285:the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn’t know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn’t want to leave until he understood. That’s heroic to me. ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
1286:Well, if you're not a man in glasses standing in front of me with a tape recorder going like this, I can't see anything. But if you are, then I see perfectly well. ~ Colm Feore, #NFDB
1287:I am not at all sure whether I would not much rather have given birth to one perfectly formed son by commerce with the Muses than by commerce with my wife. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1288:It is entirely possible to have an interest in alchemy, religious history and other assorted old-fashioned things while maintaining a perfectly materialistic stance. ~ Lucretius, #NFDB
1289:Knowledge is not enough. It never is. It's the capacity to do something with that knowledge. To do it perfectly. Absolute timing. With devastating consequences. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
1290:Music as social glue, as a self-empowering change agent, is maybe more profound than how perfectly a specific song is composed or how immaculately tight a band is. ~ David Byrne, #NFDB
1291:My will for you is not harsh or unpleasant. It is gentle and perfectly tailored to your unique needs. Do not fear my direction. I am your heart's happiest guide. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
1292:Our values are like words of a language that would make no sense to a person who does not know that language, but looks perfectly meaningful to the one who does. ~ Awdhesh Singh, #NFDB
1293:Thank you all for such a warm and generous welcome. As we all are perfectly aware, my first act as mistress of the house shall be to bed your master. Do excuse. ~ Alissa Johnson, #NFDB
1294:The Ratignolles understood each other perfectly. If ever the fusion of two human beings into one has been accomplished on this sphere it was surely in their union. ~ Kate Chopin, #NFDB
1295:[T]o a limited being its limited understanding is not felt to be a limitation; on the contrary, it is perfectly happy and contented with this understanding[.] ~ Ludwig Feuerbach, #NFDB
1296:You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings. ~ Jane Goodall, #NFDB
1297:You left the door unlocked," he answered casually, as if it was still perfectly acceptable to come into someone's home if they were negligent in locking the door. ~ Andrea Smith, #NFDB
1298:Anyone who believes that God is watching us from beyond the stars will feel that punishing peaceful men and women for their private pleasure is perfectly reasonable. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
1299:Boyfriend?”
Her cheeks heated. “Yes.”
“Funny name.”
“What?” She frowned. “Ernest is a perfectly nice name.”
“Oh, I thought I heard you call him Ermine. ~ Nalini Singh,#NFDB
1300:Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty. ~ Robert Boyle, #NFDB
1301:Felicity grimaced in agreement. “No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one’s butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy. ~ Gail Carriger, #NFDB
1302:He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1303:How typical of this Court for everyone else to act mad and then, when I’ve behaved in a perfectly reasonable manner, compel me to feel as if I were the mad one. ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
1304:I am a thornbush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab wounds, and my thorns fit perfectly into them. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
1305:I can pass for normal most of the time, but I understand perfectly why some of my autistic patients scream and flap their arms -- it's to frighten off extroverts. ~ Mark Vonnegut, #NFDB
1306:I felt the soldiers understood perfectly well that we were making sums out of them—this many safe to spend, this number too high, as if each one wasn’t a whole man. ~ Naomi Novik, #NFDB
1307:I’m a perfectly normal Aspie girl. I just feel broken because I’m trying to fit into a nonautistic world. I’m a square peg trying to squeeze myself into a round hole. ~ Jen Wilde, #NFDB
1308:Io. My name is Io." She pronounced the name "eye-oh" as if there perfectly ordinary. Which was ridiculous, because no one he knew bore a name with only vowels. ~ Katie MacAlister, #NFDB
1309:No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
1310:Of them all, he had been the most perfectly made, a man whose deeply romantic core was encased in a brutally simple box which consisted of instinct and pragmatism. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1311:The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1312:The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph. ~ Norm MacDonald, #NFDB
1313:The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them. ~ Aleister Crowley, #NFDB
1314:Thus the sun which possesses light perfectly, can shine by itself; whereas the moon which has the nature of light imperfectly, sheds only a borrowed light. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB
1315:When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1316:Adrian, we hashed this out! Everything's gone perfectly until now. Why would you even think about deviating from the plan?'
'Um, because that's how we roll? ~ Richelle Mead,#NFDB
1317:How can I make Sri Aurobindo's influence living and dynamic in my daily activities?
Be perfectly sincere and He will answer your call.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I,#NFDB
1318:Presence and Absence
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence: I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence. ~ Idries Shah,#NFDB
1319:The people blocking buses in Murrieta, California, didn't come from radical groups, they were everyday Americans who were perfectly willing to frighten those children ~ Mark Potok, #NFDB
1320:The popular idea of a Potions expert within the wizarding community is of a brooding, slow-burning personality: Snape, in fact, conforms perfectly to the stereotype. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1321:There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
1322:There is no perfect decision—only the perfectly surrendered decision to press through our fears and know that God is working in us to bring about good through us. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
1323:To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time. ~ Simon Winchester, #NFDB
1324:Vade Mecum
I want the scissors to be sharp
and the table perfectly level
when you cut me out of my life
and paste me in that book you always carry. ~ Billy Collins,#NFDB
1325:You just missed a perfectly good opportunity to toast an awful Coldplay T-shirt. If I ever spontaneously combust, I hope I’m holding a whole stack of their CDs.” Harper ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
1326:As soon as we got to the next exit, his ass was getting kicked to the curb. That perfectly round mass of muscle could walk through bumfuck Nebraska for all I cared. ~ Penelope Ward, #NFDB
1327:He pulled the accelerator and let the roaring engines fill him. Space awaited, that impossible vastness, as empty as his heart, where he could be perfectly free. ~ Daniel Jos Older, #NFDB
1328:I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a matter of fact, simply have no value. ~ Pentti Linkola, #NFDB
1329:I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
1330:Let’s be sure we’d be acting perfectly right in bustin’ that there door open. A door onbust is always open to bustin’, but ye can’t onbust a door once you’ve busted en. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
1331:Shane was born perfectly fine, despite the same genetic pairing.
One in four.
That's what their odds were.
God gave Shelby SMA.
Shane just got "gay". ~ Ellen Hopkins,#NFDB
1332:Then Jack takes me in his arms, and although I am still distraught, I cannot help but notice how well I fit in them, my head perfectly right for the crook of his neck. ~ Alex Flinn, #NFDB
1333:The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion ~ E E Cummings, #NFDB
1334:The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
1335:To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock. ~ Michael Biehn, #NFDB
1336:At that time, for the thought written in stone, there existed a privilege perfectly comparable to our present liberty of the press. It was the liberty of architecture. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1337:Essentially, this means that the Food and Drug Administration wants control over animals that have simply inherited genetic changes through perfectly natural breeding. ~ Nessa Carey, #NFDB
1338:From this close, she could see the color of his eyes perfectly. They were a misty, shifting blue marbled with gray, like smoke rising through an early morning sky. ~ Maureen Johnson, #NFDB
1339:God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
1340:If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war. ~ Francois Hollande, #NFDB
1341:I have always felt that no matter how inscrutable its ways and means, the universe is working perfectly and working according to a greater plan than we can know. ~ John Perry Barlow, #NFDB
1342:In all of modern history, no single invention has so perfectly captured the perverse power of the mind to defeat its own best intentions as the snooze button. Situated ~ Mel Robbins, #NFDB
1343:I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you. ~ Carrie Underwood, #NFDB
1344:Nothing I had drunk had ever tasted like that before: rich and warm and perfectly happy in my mouth. I remembered that milk long after I had forgotten everything else. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1345:She had to admit, she was impressed.
Not that she was going to commence praising on cue. The eagle in him was perfectly capable of preening his own feathers. ~ Thea Harrison,#NFDB
1346:The Frenchman doesn't really know what he wants, but knows perfectly well that he doesn't want what he has. And the only way he knows of saying it is by singing songs. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
1347:The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years. ~ Edward T Hall, #NFDB
1348:There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins. ~ Brit Hume, #NFDB
1349:The wanting, the needing, the distance, the disappointment: growing, knowing, committing, aging beside another. Alone, one can live perfectly. But not a life. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
1350:Women were perfectly capable of handling pain but not emotion. Men handled emotion but not pain. The differences were sometimes subtle, but they were there nonetheless. ~ J D Barker, #NFDB
1351:A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend.
If men were perfectly virtuous, they wouldn’t have friends. ~ Montesquieu,#NFDB
1352:But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
1353:Dance, when you're broken open.
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you're perfectly free. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
1354:Dance, when you’re broken open.
Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you’re perfectly free. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
1355:Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter? ~ William Makepeace Thackeray, #NFDB
1356:Hell was a place of remembering, each beautiful moment passed through the mind’s eye until it fell to the ground like a rotten mango, perfectly useless, uselessly perfect ~ Yaa Gyasi, #NFDB
1357:Here's to loving for that long, too, and loving perfectly, without error or sorrow, held forever on the edge of madness by our desire, but never tumbling over. Salud. ~ Ron Currie Jr, #NFDB
1358:I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping. ~ Patricia Heaton, #NFDB
1359:I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry. ~ Diane Wakoski, #NFDB
1360:It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an attache in the diplomatic service. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB
1361:It must have been perfectly dreadful to see a woman every day for five years, and not give her a pie, when you felt sure yours were better than she could make. ~ Gene Stratton Porter, #NFDB
1362:It’s all right,’ he insisted, ‘I’m perfectly well. Thought I heard, well, a noise
that startled me. But it was nothing. Just overcome with the tea fumes, I expect ~ Douglas Adams,#NFDB
1363:It’s perfectly fine if you don’t believe in these “superstitions.” In fact, it’s better than fine—it’s perfect. Because no matter what you believe, fukú believes in you. ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
1364:Over in Iraq after you vote they paint your finger purple so you can't vote again. It's a flawless system. It works perfectly unless, of course, someone has paint remover. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
1365:Really, Mr. Hollander.” Her mother smiled, though clearly embarrassed. “We are perfectly able to keep a cook for Ivy Cottage. As well as our own in London, of course. ~ Julie Klassen, #NFDB
1366:She was perfectly sanguine about fighting a nest of Creeps, or jumping into the middle of a vampire turf war, but Elly would never be so reckless as to text and drive. ~ Lauren M Roy, #NFDB
1367:...then tossed the coat into the water. “Hurst! That’s a perfectly good coat!”
“Yes, and I have a perfectly good life. One of those two things is not replaceable. ~ Karen Hawkins,#NFDB
1368:The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them. ~ Dennis Lehane, #NFDB
1369:Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely. ~ John Mayer, #NFDB
1370:We will never be perfect or without flaws, the lives we've been given are not like that. But, Lily, in my heart, you are perfect for me. Perfectly mine. And I'm yours. ~ Mia Sheridan, #NFDB
1371:A half-billion-dollar subsidy was unthinkable in the mid-2000s. It’s unthinkable today. There was only one moment where that was possible, and Tesla played it perfectly. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1372:A smell of spoiled shellfish drifted inland from the harbor as if the New York oysters, knowing perfectly well that no one was going to eat them in a month without an R, ~ Amor Towles, #NFDB
1373:Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi,#NFDB
1374:Hell was a place of remembering, each beautiful moment passed through the mind’s eye until it fell to the ground like a rotten mango, perfectly useless, uselessly perfect. ~ Yaa Gyasi, #NFDB
1375:I don't know why I did it, except that I understand now that desperate, clumsy desire to make people feel better -even when you know perfectly well that nothing will. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
1376:In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must be perfectly trimmed for the chi to flow properly. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1377:It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so. ~ J Robert Oppenheimer, #NFDB
1378:To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God. ~ John Ortberg, #NFDB
1379:We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are looking in from the outside. To me, that seems to be perfectly natural. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
1380:We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
1381:It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1382:It is perfectly true that in that sense we all of us, very often, conduct ourselves like mad folk, with the slight distinction that the “mentally ill” are a little ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1383:It's perfectly fine if you don't believe in these "superstitions". In fact, it's better than fine - it's perfect. Because no matter what you believe, fukú believes in you. ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
1384: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
1385:Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1386:One of the hardest obstacles I've had to overcome in my life was not understanding how to draw healthy boundaries. I finally learned it's perfectly OK to say no. ~ Maria Canals Barrera, #NFDB
1387:Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manner were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1388:being ordained is not about serving God perfectly but about serving God visibly, allowing other people to learn whatever they can from watching you rise and fall. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor, #NFDB
1389:.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
1390:Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them. ~ T E Lawrence, #NFDB
1391:Humans are so Funny. So much moralising about words while at the same time thinking it perfectly "moral" to pepper-bomb cities full of people to protect them from violence. ~ David Icke, #NFDB
1392:Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
1393:I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny. And when you're very, very happy, you're not very funny. You're just happy. I'd rather be damaged and funny. ~ Joan Rivers, #NFDB
1394:It seems the word ‘slut’ can be applied to any activity that doesn’t include knitting, praying, or sitting perfectly still lest any sudden movements be deemed whorish. ~ Jessica Valenti, #NFDB
1395:It’s entitled ‘Revenge.’ Subtitled ‘How to pay Duke back for using not only his ability but his exceptionally good looks against two unsuspecting, perfectly innocent girls. ~ Kasie West, #NFDB
1396:It was unfair. Unjust. How could human nature perfectly disguise such a monster? What did that say about all the other perfectly normal people functioning all around her? ~ Blake Pierce, #NFDB
1397:Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor – at least no one worth speaking of. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
1398:Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination. ~ Michael Pollan, #NFDB
1399:Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1400:So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense. ~ Kurt Loder, #NFDB
1401:We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
1402:When I was young, men like my father would often come home and put on their smoking jacket over their perfectly ordinary trousers, as a way of relaxing in the evening. ~ Julian Fellowes, #NFDB
1403:.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1404:He pulled her in to his chest, his chin resting on the top of her head. “I need you to trust me on this. I will keep you safe.” Damn if she didn’t fit perfectly in his arms. ~ Lucy Score, #NFDB
1405:I'm not a fan of Donald Trump. To be perfectly honest, I don't think violence is the answer to anything and I think, hopefully, she [Hillary Clinton] will be our president. ~ Donna Karan, #NFDB
1406:I understand perfectly. He's fallen for your quiet, timid shell. For who you used to be. He has no idea what you're capable of. What you might do if you're pushed too far. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
1407:Masters of the first rank are recognized by the fact that in matters great and small they know how to find an end perfectly, be it the end of a melody or a thought. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1408:She dropped her hand to the side of the chair and it dangled in the air between them. And, like it had been perfectly choreographed, Henry reached over and took it. ~ Sarah Addison Allen, #NFDB
1409:Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1410:The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1411:The main reason for the people who support a dictator is that their character perfectly match with the character of that dictator! They both have a mean personality! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1412:To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God. ~ John Ortberg Jr, #NFDB
1413:You ought to live in such a way that you would be perfectly happy to have everything that you do known. And if you don't do that, maybe you'd better change a little bit. ~ Henry B Eyring, #NFDB
1414:Her internalization of Catholicism and its institutional disappointments suited a dental office perfectly, where guilt was often our last resort for motivating the masses. ~ Joshua Ferris, #NFDB
1415:I said nothing. Like a child playing find-and-catch, it was my sincere hope that if I closed my eyes and remained perfectly still, the pain wouldn´t be able to find me. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1416:I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting. ~ Paul McGann, #NFDB
1417:It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London? ~ Moby, #NFDB
1418:It was perfectly possible to become the prisoner of an artist’s vision, I said. Like love, I said, being understood creates the fear that you will never be understood again. ~ Rachel Cusk, #NFDB
1419:My laughter won't last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn't perfect. And it isn't. It isn't perfectly good. But, it also isn't perfectly bad, either. ~ Yasmin Mogahed, #NFDB
1420:really was the most tactless person upon earth,—a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
1421:The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1422:Therefore if a man has in his heart that love to God which the Law enjoins, it is perfectly lawful, nay, laudable in him to take part in exercises which promote it. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, #NFDB
1423:Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death. ~ Darren Shan, #NFDB
1424:We have made clocks that are perfectly in sync with the industrial machinery and the Information Age and perfectly out of sync with nature and our circadian rhythm. ~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen, #NFDB
1425:As accomplished as Aboujaoude?” “He was accomplished and humble. You, my son, are ambitious. And proud. And your feet smell strongly of dung, if I am being perfectly honest. ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
1426:crazy,” she’d said, “but I’d be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can’t think of a better way to go insane.”) ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
1427:Finally, being sensitive to the discomfort, disapproval, or anger of others probably made you quick to follow every rule as perfectly as possible, afraid to make a mistake. ~ Elaine N Aron, #NFDB
1428:He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
1429:I have it on good authority- well, I have it on distinctly disreputable but probably truthful authority- that his enterprises are perfectly well known to the local new police. ~ M J Carter, #NFDB
1430:I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business. ~ Barry Hughart, #NFDB
1431:I have the love of the greatest man and his family. But most of all, I have the love of my own self and each and every perfectly imperfect moment I’ve lived, loved, and won. ~ Harper Sloan, #NFDB
1432:I'm here today because God has brought me here. Jesus has brought me here...I'm with an amazing team. I believe He perfectly placed me in the right spot at the right time. ~ Russell Wilson, #NFDB
1433:Lindbergh knew perfectly well what modern bombs could do to cities but, seeing Nazi Germany for the first time, the idea of a new and very dangerous war became real to him. ~ Winston Groom, #NFDB
1434:Perhaps I do not have the sense to tell a duke from a dray horse. But such a thing might prove easier if the former did not so perfectly resemble the latter’s backside.” The ~ Elisa Braden, #NFDB
1435:Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth." ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
1436:The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent. ~ Stefan Zweig, #NFDB
1437:Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it. ~ Thomas Paine, #NFDB
1438:Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native luster about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame that cannot be painted. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
1439:An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental. ~ Richard Russo, #NFDB
1440:Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary. ~ Robin McKinley, #NFDB
1441:It’s crazy, she’d said, but I’d be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can’t think of a better way to go insane. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
1442:It was so big, that view. I'll never remember it perfectly. How can anyone remember something that big? I don't think people's brains are designed for memories like that. ~ Lucy Christopher, #NFDB
1443:She gently placed his hand against the beating pulse of her heart. Always, always it beat out of control, and he held his hand to it until he felt it perfectly match his. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1444:Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject. ~ George Washington, #NFDB
1445:Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
1446:When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
1447:When the pieces fell around him, he'd pick them up.
It was what he was good at, after all.
Restoring what was once lost, what could never be perfectly whole again. ~ Carrie Ann Ryan,#NFDB
1448:An English silence—one in which all the unspoken words are perfectly understood by both parties—prevailed. I got into my bed and wept. The matter was never referred to again. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
1449:Good for you, Jason. It's perfectly natural to be angry with your mother for dying. Everybody who loses someone special goes through that. It's just part of the grieving process. ~ Han Nolan, #NFDB
1450:His eyebrow is raised again. I wonder if he practices these looks in the mirror. Each one seems perfectly crafted to make a girl want to drop her shorts right then and there. ~ Jen Frederick, #NFDB
1451:I expected you to look... content, happy even, after your alone time with Sammi, not all mopey and depressed. You didn't screw up, did you? Don't all Kings make love perfectly? ~ Donna Grant, #NFDB
1452:In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares. ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
1453:In truth, my purpose on earth is not fully accomplished yet so nothing can harm me. Once my task is completed, then it will be time to go, but until then I’m perfectly safe ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
1454:Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1455:Married silence is a specific kind of silence, typically one in which the woman goes mute while the man pretends as if it's perfectly normal that she hasn't spoken in hours. ~ Matthew Norman, #NFDB
1456:One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse. ~ Sarah Wayne Callies, #NFDB
1457:Saint Augustine said it perfectly back in the fourth century: “What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
1458:The basic trouble, you see, is that people think that 'right' and 'wrong' are absolute; that everything that isn't perfectly and completely right is totally and equally wrong. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
1459:The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values. ~ Charles A Reich, #NFDB
1460:The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
1461:When his thought and feeling are perfectly under regulation and stand firm in his Self, then, unmoved to longing by any desire, he is said to be in union with the Self. ~ Bhagavad Gita VI.18, #NFDB
1462:But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope,
That one day we shall thank thee perfectly
For pain and hope and all that led or drove
Us back into the bosom of thy love. ~ George MacDonald,#NFDB
1463:How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons. ~ Francis Crick, #NFDB
1464:I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly. ~ Bowie Kuhn, #NFDB
1465:I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable. ~ Terry Brooks, #NFDB
1466:It’s crazy,” she’d said, “but I’d be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can’t think of a better way to go insane. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
1467:There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing. ~ James Mercer, #NFDB
1468:this first meeting is over, I feel perfectly easy. I know my own strength, and I shall never be embarrassed again by his coming. I am glad he dines here on Tuesday. It will then ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1469:We fit perfectly, like the bullet in the barrel of a gun. You can’t use one without the other, that’s exactly how I feel about us. I can’t be me without her, not the real me. ~ Abigail Davies, #NFDB
1470:When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
1471:Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
1472:But even in the full flower of her fury, Carceret was perfectly in control. She didn't lash out wildly or snarl at me. She kept her words inside her, burning them like fuel. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1473:Fermat never cared to publish his investigations, but was always perfectly ready, as we see from his letters, to acquaint his friends and contemporaries with his results. ~ Thomas Little Heath, #NFDB
1474:He is wearing he same black pants from yesterday, but no shirt, his body is brown and hard, perfectly proportioned. He knows that he is beautiful and somehow his makes him ugly. ~ Damon Galgut, #NFDB
1475:I am carried off. We yield to this slow flood.... In and out, we are swept; ...we can not step outside its sinuous, its hesitating, its abrupt, its perfectly encircling walls. ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
1476:I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming. ~ Linus Torvalds, #NFDB
1477:It doesn't seem like them, somehow, I said. They don't usually do good by stealth. No, Julian agreed, their left hand usually knows perfectly well what their right hand is doing. ~ Barbara Pym, #NFDB
1478:It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth. ~ Vaclav Havel, #NFDB
1479:Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually. ~ Guido van Rossum, #NFDB
1480:Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this. ~ Golda Meir, #NFDB
1481:So once again, let me be perfectly clear. If anything happens to Murphy and I even *think* you had a hand in it, fuck right and wrong. If you touch her, I'm declaring war on you. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1482:The icing on the cake was that tomorrow he (Silas) and Sarah had a perfectly acceptable excuse to leave this cold, nut-strewn, shrew-infested treehouse and return to civilisation. ~ Angie Sage, #NFDB
1483:The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1484:The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature. ~ William Ames, #NFDB
1485:There never seemed to be any spontaneity with Pauline. If she saw you, she meant to. If she spoke to you, she’d already planned what to say so it came out sharply and perfectly. ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB
1486:For you, there is underage, and then, there is underage. I believe a taste of wine is perfectly acceptable, but please stick to one glass tonight. Now, let’s work on ambiance. ~ Maureen Johnson, #NFDB
1487:God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle—or instruction. ~ Harold Brodkey, #NFDB
1488:He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases ~ Hjalmar S derberg, #NFDB
1489:If an artistic object represents the thing-itself perfectly, it is just another copy of that thing. The point of art is to emphasize some elements at the expense of others... ~ Daniel J Levitin, #NFDB
1490:I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither. ~ Mary Pipher, #NFDB
1491:I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me. ~ Jackie DeShannon, #NFDB
1492:It was an epitaph in an Irish cemetery and it just seems to fit perfectly. It says, ‘Death leaves a heartache difficult to heal. Love leaves sweet memories impossible to steal. ~ RaeAnne Thayne, #NFDB
1493:Louise? Oh, you would remember. She doesn’t look like anyone else. Her hair is black like Myra’s, but perfectly straight like an Oriental’s, and she wears it in a Buster Brown. ~ Laura Moriarty, #NFDB
1494:My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right. ~ Patricia Wentworth, #NFDB
1495:Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs. ~ Emily Carr, #NFDB
1496:Sometimes we can thank our feelings for sharing and ignore them. Maybe wanting doesn’t have to perfectly coincide with getting. Maybe sometimes not-getting has a value of its own. ~ Ada Calhoun, #NFDB
1497:To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication that I want to be in a political office. ~ Steve Garvey, #NFDB
1498:When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth? ~ Mavis Leno, #NFDB
1499:Who were these people, all of them young couples, a few fabulous ones, tall thin-haired blondes with toned men in perfectly pressed jeans -- neither fearing the loss of the other. ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
1500:as normally solved by engineers, would require any number of perfectly reasonable but aesthetically displeasing approximations. Lawrence’s solution would provide exact results. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
728 Integral Yoga
83 Occultism
53 Christianity
46 Philosophy
26 Poetry
21 Yoga
21 Psychology
21 Fiction
17 Science
10 Hinduism
7 Theosophy
6 Cybernetics
4 Integral Theory
4 Education
4 Buddhism
3 Mysticism
2 Sufism
1 Thelema
1 Kabbalah
1 Alchemy
427 The Mother
385 Sri Aurobindo
280 Satprem
60 Nolini Kanta Gupta
59 Aleister Crowley
23 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
20 H P Lovecraft
19 Carl Jung
16 Plotinus
14 James George Frazer
14 Aldous Huxley
13 Swami Vivekananda
11 Saint Augustine of Hippo
10 Saint Teresa of Avila
9 A B Purani
8 Walt Whitman
7 Sri Ramakrishna
7 Plato
6 Rudolf Steiner
6 Norbert Wiener
6 Friedrich Nietzsche
5 Saint John of Climacus
5 Nirodbaran
4 Patanjali
4 Jorge Luis Borges
4 Henry David Thoreau
4 Bokar Rinpoche
3 Ken Wilber
3 Jordan Peterson
3 George Van Vrekhem
3 Anonymous
3 Alice Bailey
2 William Wordsworth
2 Vyasa
2 Swami Krishnananda
2 Sri Ramana Maharshi
2 Rabindranath Tagore
2 Edgar Allan Poe
2 Al-Ghazali
147 Record of Yoga
56 The Synthesis Of Yoga
41 Magick Without Tears
31 Prayers And Meditations
30 Agenda Vol 05
29 Agenda Vol 08
29 Agenda Vol 04
26 Agenda Vol 07
26 Agenda Vol 03
24 The Life Divine
24 Agenda Vol 06
22 Letters On Yoga IV
22 Agenda Vol 10
21 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
21 Agenda Vol 02
20 Lovecraft - Poems
19 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
18 Liber ABA
18 Letters On Yoga II
16 Questions And Answers 1956
15 Questions And Answers 1954
15 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
14 The Perennial Philosophy
14 The Golden Bough
14 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
14 Agenda Vol 11
13 Questions And Answers 1953
13 Essays On The Gita
13 Agenda Vol 09
12 Agenda Vol 13
12 Agenda Vol 01
11 The Future of Man
11 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
10 The Secret Of The Veda
10 Some Answers From The Mother
10 Essays Divine And Human
10 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
10 City of God
9 The Practice of Psycho therapy
9 The Human Cycle
9 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
9 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
9 Agenda Vol 12
8 Raja-Yoga
8 Questions And Answers 1955
8 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
7 Whitman - Poems
7 Vedic and Philological Studies
7 On the Way to Supermanhood
7 Letters On Poetry And Art
7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
6 The Way of Perfection
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
6 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
6 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
6 Mysterium Coniunctionis
6 Letters On Yoga I
6 Let Me Explain
6 Isha Upanishad
6 Cybernetics
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
5 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
5 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
5 On Education
4 Words Of The Mother II
4 Words Of Long Ago
4 Walden
4 Twilight of the Idols
4 The Problems of Philosophy
4 The Phenomenon of Man
4 Theosophy
4 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
4 Tara - The Feminine Divine
4 Talks
4 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
4 Letters On Yoga III
4 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
4 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
3 Words Of The Mother III
3 The Bible
3 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
3 Sex Ecology Spirituality
3 Preparing for the Miraculous
3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
3 Maps of Meaning
3 Labyrinths
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
3 Collected Poems
3 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
2 Wordsworth - Poems
2 Words Of The Mother I
2 Vishnu Purana
2 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
2 The Study and Practice of Yoga
2 The Integral Yoga
2 The Alchemy of Happiness
2 Tagore - Poems
2 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
2 Kena and Other Upanishads
2 Hymn of the Universe
2 Anonymous - Poems
2 Agenda Vol 1
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
2 5.1.01 - Ilion
0 0.01 - Introduction, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This fabulous discovery is the whole story of the AGENDA. What is the passage? How is the path to the new species hewed open? ... Then suddenly, there, on the other side of this old millennial habit - a habit, nothing more than a habit! - of being like a man endowed with time and space and disease: an entire geometry, perfectly implacable and 'scientific' and medical; on the other side ... none of that at all! An illusion, a fantastic medical and scientific and genetic illusion:
death does not exist, time does not exist, disease does not exist, nor do 'scar' and 'far' - another way of being IN A BODY. For so many millions of years we have lived in a habit and put our own thoughts of the world and of Matter into equations. No more laws! Matter is FREE. It can create a little lizard, a chipmunk or a parrot - but it has created enough parrots. Now it is SOMETHING
00.01 - The Mother on Savitri, #Sweet Mother - Harmonies of Light, #unset, #Integral Yoga
In truth, the entire form of Savitri has descended "en masse" from the highest region and Sri Aurobindo with His genius only arranged the lines - in a superb and magnificent style. Sometimes entire lines were revealed and He has left them intact; He worked hard, untiringly, so that the inspiration could come from the highest possible summit. And what a work He has created! Yes, it is a true creation in itself. It is an unequalled work. Everything is there, and it is put in such a simple, such a clear form; verses perfectly harmonious, limpid and eternally true. My child, I have read so many things, but I have never come across anything which could be compared with Savitri. I have studied the best works in Greek, Latin, English and of course French literature, also in German and all the great creations of the West and the East, including the great epics; but I repeat it, I have not found anywhere anything comparable with Savitri. All these literary works seems to me empty, flat, hollow, without any deep reality - apart from a few rare exceptions, and these too represent only a small fraction of what Savitri is. What grandeur, what amplitude, what reality: it is something immortal and eternal He has created. I tell you once again there is nothing like in it the whole world. Even if one puts aside the vision of the reality, that is, the essential substance which is the heart of the inspiration, and considers only the lines in themselves, one will find them unique, of the highest classical kind. What He has created is something man cannot imagine. For, everything is there, everything.
It may then be said that Savitri is a revelation, it is a meditation, it is a quest of the Infinite, the Eternal. If it is read with this aspiration for Immortality, the reading itself will serve as a guide to Immortality. To read Savitri is indeed to practice Yoga, spiritual concentration; one can find there all that is needed to realise the Divine. Each step of Yoga is noted here, including the secret of all other Yogas. Surely, if one sincerely follows what is revealed here in each line one will reach finally the transformation of the Supramental Yoga. It is truly the infallible guide who never abandons you; its support is always there for him who wants to follow the path. Each verse of Savitri is like a revealed Mantra which surpasses all that man possessed by way of knowledge, and I repeat this, the words are expressed and arranged in such a way that the sonority of the rhythm leads you to the origin of sound, which is OM.
0 0.03 - 1951-1957. Notes and Fragments, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The lack of the earth's receptivity and the behavior of Sri Aurobindo's disciples 1 are largely responsible for what happened to his body. But one thing is certain: the great misfortune that has just beset us in no way affects the truth of his teaching. All he said is perfectly true and remains so.
Time and the course of events will make this abundantly clear.
0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
For example, Keser is called "The Admirable or the Hidden Intelligence; it is the Primal Glory, for no created being can attain to its essence." This seems perfectly all right; the meaning at first sight seems to fit the significance of Keser as the first emanation from Ain Soph. But there are half a dozen other similar attri butions that would have served equally well. For instance, it could have been called the "Occult Intelligence" usually attri buted to the seventh Path or Sephirah, for surely Keser is secret in a way to be said of no other Sephirah. And what about the "Absolute or Perfect Intelligence." That would have been even more explicit and appropriate, being applicable to Keser far more than to any other of the Paths. Similarly, there is one attri buted to the 16th Path and called "The Eternal or Triumphant Intelligence," so-called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous." Any of these several would have done equally well. Much is true of so many of the other attri butions in this particular area-that is the so-called Intelligences of the Sepher Yetzirah. I do not think that their use or current arbitrary usage stands up to serious examination or criticism.
A good many attri butions in other symbolic areas, I feel are subject to the same criticism. The Egyptian Gods have been used with a good deal of carelessness, and without sufficient explanation of motives in assigning them as I did. In a recent edition of Crowley's masterpiece Liber 777 (which au fond is less a reflection of Crowley's mind as a recent critic claimed than a tabulation of some of the material given piecemeal in the Golden Dawn knowledge lectures), he gives for the first time brief explanations of the motives for his attri butions. I too should have been far more explicit in the explanations I used in the case of some of the Gods whose names were used many times, most inadequately, where several paths were concerned. While it is true that the religious coloring of the Egyptian Gods differed from time to time during Egypt's turbulent history, nonetheless a word or two about just that one single point could have served a useful purpose.
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Two famous pundits of the time were invited: Vaishnavcharan, the leader of the Vaishnava society, and Gauri. The first to arrive was Vaishnavcharan, with a distinguished company of scholars and devotees. The Brahmani, like a proud mother, proclaimed her view before him and supported it with quotations from the scriptures. As the pundits discussed the deep theological question, Sri Ramakrishna, perfectly indifferent to everything happening around him, sat in their midst like a child, immersed in his own thoughts, sometimes smiling, sometimes chewing a pinch of spices from a pouch, or again saying to Vaishnavcharan with a nudge: "Look here. Sometimes I feel like this, too." Presently Vaishnavcharan arose to declare himself in total agreement with the view of the Brahmani. He declared that Sri Ramakrishna had undoubtedly experienced mahabhava and that this was the certain sign of the rare manifestation of God in a man. The people assembled
there, especially the officers of the temple garden, were struck dumb. Sri Rama- krishna said to Mathur, like a boy: "Just fancy, he too says so! Well, I am glad to learn that after all it is not a disease."
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Sri Ramakrishna, on the other hand, though fully aware, like his guru, that the world is an illusory appearance, instead of slighting maya, like an orthodox monist, acknowledged its power in the relative life. He was all love and reverence for maya, perceiving in it a mysterious and majestic expression of Divinity. To him maya itself was God, for everything was God. It was one of the faces of Brahman. What he had realized on the heights of the transcendental plane, he also found here below, everywhere about him, under the mysterious garb of names and forms. And this garb was a perfectly transparent sheath, through which he recognized the glory of the Divine Immanence. Maya, the mighty weaver of the garb, is none other than Kali, the Divine Mother. She is the primordial Divine Energy, Sakti, and She can no more be distinguished from the Supreme Brahman than can the power of burning be distinguished from fire. She projects the world and again withdraws it. She spins it as the spider spins its web. She is the Mother of the Universe, identical with the Brahman of Vedanta, and with the Atman of Yoga. As eternal Lawgiver, She makes and unmakes laws; it is by Her imperious will that karma yields its fruit. She ensnares men with illusion and again releases them from bondage with a look of Her benign eyes. She is the supreme Mistress of the cosmic play, and all objects, animate and inanimate, dance by Her will. Even those who realize the Absolute in nirvikalpa samadhi are under Her jurisdiction as long as they still live on the relative plane.
Thus, after nirvikalpa samadhi, Sri Ramakrishna realized maya in an altogether new role. The binding aspect of Kali vanished from before his vision. She no longer obscured his understanding. The world became the glorious manifestation of the Divine Mother. Maya became Brahman. The Transcendental Itself broke through the Immanent. Sri Ramakrishna discovered that maya operates in the relative world in two ways, and he termed these "avidyamaya" and "vidyamaya". Avidyamaya represents the dark forces of creation: sensuous desires, evil passions, greed, lust, cruelty, and so on. It sustains the world system on the lower planes. It is responsible for the round of man's birth and death. It must be fought and vanquished. But vidyamaya is the higher force of creation: the spiritual virtues, the enlightening qualities, kindness, purity, love, devotion. Vidyamaya elevates man to the higher planes of consciousness. With the help of vidyamaya the devotee rids himself of avidyamaya; he then becomes mayatita, free of maya. The two aspects of maya are the two forces of creation, the two powers of Kali; and She stands beyond them both. She is like the effulgent sun, bringing into existence and shining through and standing behind the clouds of different colours and shapes, conjuring up wonderful forms in the blue autumn heaven.
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Sarada Devi, in the company of her husband, had rare spiritual experiences. She said: "I have no words to describe my wonderful exaltation of spirit as I watched him in his different moods. Under the influence of divine emotion he would sometimes talk on abstruse subjects, sometimes laugh, sometimes weep, and sometimes become perfectly motionless in samadhi. This would continue throughout the night. There was such an extraordinary divine presence in him that now and then I would shake with fear and wonder how the night would pass. Months went by in this way. Then one day he discovered that I had to keep awake the whole night lest, during my sleep, he should go into samadhi — for it might happen at any moment —, and so he asked me to sleep in the nahabat."
--- SUMMARY OF THE MASTER'S SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
This chapter is perfectly clear to anyone who has
studied the career of an Adept.
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This chapter is perfectly simple, and needs no
comment whatsoever.
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or because that it feels that it needs exercise. perfectly
unconscious, perfectly indifferent, it obeys the laws of
Cohesion and of Gravitation.
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The chapter is perfectly simple and needs no com-
ment.
0.01 - Letters from the Mother to Her Son, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
and total immobility, while the consciousness remains perfectly
awake; or else I enter into an internal activity of one or more
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and which, needless to say, is also perfectly conscious. So I can
say, in all truth, that I never lose consciousness throughout the
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I ask you to discard all obstinacy and to be perfectly sincere.
Go and see with no preconceived idea.
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pendulum and now the clock is working perfectly all right.
I believe in the superiority of the inner vision over the outer
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
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Indeed, the increasing effort towards a more intense mental life seems to create, frequently, an increasing disequilibrium of the human elements, so that it is possible for eminent scientists to describe genius as a form of insanity, a result of degeneration, a pathological morbidity of Nature. The phenomena which are used to justify this exaggeration, when taken not separately, but in connection with all other relevant data, point to a different truth. Genius is one attempt of the universal Energy to so quicken and intensify our intellectual powers that they shall be prepared for those more puissant, direct and rapid faculties which constitute the play of the supra-intellectual or divine mind. It is not, then, a freak, an inexplicable phenomenon, but a perfectly natural next step in the right line of her evolution.
She has harmonised the bodily life with the material mind, she is harmonising it with the play of the intellectual mentality; for that, although it tends to a depression of the full animal and vital vigour, need not produce active disturbances. And she is shooting yet beyond in the attempt to reach a still higher level.
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Your reply to the doctor was very good and you are perfectly
right. One should never talk about others - it is always useless
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For years I was perfectly satisfied with two saris a year - but I
am proud of the beautiful things my dear children make for me
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My mother was perfectly right and I have always been very
grateful to her for having taught me the discipline and the necessity of self-forgetfulness through concentration on what one
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I want all that to go away and I want you to be perfectly
healthy. For that, you must follow a physical discipline: sleep
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I know perfectly well what I want or rather what the divine Will
is, and it is that which will triumph in time.
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one does it. It is difficult to keep one's mind perfectly quiet; it
is better to engage it in studies than in silly ideas or unhealthy
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
it is the perfectly effective remedy for the fatigue, tension and
exhaustion arising from that internal over-activity and noise
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
personal divine", you would know perfectly well "how to approach the Transcendent Divine". For the two are identical; it is
only the mode of approach that differs: one is through the heart,
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Is it possible to love You perfectly, absolutely, before
finding the psychic being within us?
01.03 - Sri Aurobindo and his School, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And, properly speaking, it is not at all a school, least of all a mere school of thought, that is growing round Sri Aurobindo. It is rather the nucleus of a new life that is to come. Quite naturally it has almost insignificant proportions at present to the outward eye, for the work is still of the nature of experiment and trial in very restricted limits, something in the nature of what is done in a laboratory when a new power has been discovered, but has still to be perfectly formulated in its process. And it is quite a mistake to suppose that there is a vigorous propaganda carried on in its behalf or that there is a large demand for recruits. Only the few, who possess the call within and are impelled by the spirit of the future, have a chance of serving this high attempt and great realisation and standing among its first instruments and pioneer workers.
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01.04 - The Intuition of the Age, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This then is the mantra of the new ageLife with Intuition as its guide and not Reason and mechanical efficiency, not Man but Superman. The right mantra has been found, the principle itself is irreproachable. But the interpretation, the application, does not seem to have been always happy. For, Nietzsche's conception of the Superman is full of obvious lacunae. If we have so long been adoring the intellectual man, Nietzsche asks us, on the other hand, to deify the vital man. According to him the superman is he who has (1) the supreme sense of the ego, (2) the sovereign will to power and (3) who lives dangerously. All this means an Asura, that is to say, one who has, it may be, dominion over his animal and vital impulsions in order, of course, that he may best gratify them but who has not purified them. Purification does not necessarily mean, annihilation but it does mean sublimation and transformation. So if you have to transcend man, you have to transcend egoism also. For a conscious egoism is the very characteristic of man and by increasing your sense of egoism you do not supersede man but simply aggrandise your humanity, fashion it on a larger, a titanic scale. And then the will to power is not the only will that requires fulfilment, there is also the will to knowledge and the will to love. In man these three fundamental constitutive elements coexist, although they do it, more often than not, at the expense of each other and in a state of continual disharmony. The superman, if he is to be the man "who has surmounted himself", must embody a poise of being in which all the three find a fusion and harmonya perfect synthesis. Again, to live dangerously may be heroic, but it is not divine. To live dangerously means to have eternal opponents, that is to say, to live ever on the same level with the forces you want to dominate. To have the sense that one has to fight and control means that one is not as yet the sovereign lord, for one has to strive and strain and attain. The supreme lord is he who is perfectly equanimous with himself and with the world. He has not to batter things into a shape in order to create. He creates means, he manifests. He wills and he achieves"God said 'let there be light' and there was light."
As a matter of fact, the superman is not, as Nietzsche thinks him to be, the highest embodiment of the biological force of Nature, not even as modified and refined by the aesthetic and aristocratic virtues of which the higher reaches of humanity seem capable. For that is after all humanity only accentuated in certain other fundamentally human modes of existence. It does not carry far enough the process of surmounting. In reality it is not a surmounting but a new channelling. Instead of the ethical and intellectual man, we get the vital and aesthetic man. It may be a change but not a transfiguration.
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I said that the supreme artist is superconscious: his consciousness withdraws from the normal mental consciousness and becomes awake and alive in another order of consciousness. To that superior consciousness the artist's mentalityhis ideas and dispositions, his judgments and valuations and acquisitions, in other words, his normal psychological make-upserves as a channel, an instrument, a medium for transcription. Now, there are two stages, or rather two lines of activity in the processus, for they may be overlapping and practically simultaneous. First, there is the withdrawal and the in-gathering of consciousness and then its reappearance into expression. The consciousness retires into a secret or subtle worldWords-worth's "recollected in tranquillity"and comes back with the riches gathered or transmuted there. But the purity of the gold thus garnered and stalled in the artistry of words and sounds or lines and colours depends altogether upon the purity of the channel through which it has to pass. The mental vehicle receives and records and it can do so to perfection if it is perfectly in tune with what it has to receive and record; otherwise the transcription becomes mixed and blurred, a faint or confused echo, a poor show. The supreme creators are precisely those in whom the receptacle, the instrumental faculties offer the least resistance and record with absolute fidelity the experiences of the over or inner consciousness. In Shakespeare, in Homer, in Valmiki the inflatus of the secret consciousness, the inspiration, as it is usually termed, bears down, sweeps away all obscurity or contrariety in the recording mentality, suffuses it with its own glow and puissance, indeed resolves it into its own substance, as it were. And the difference between the two, the secret norm and the recording form, determines the scale of the artist's creative value. It happens often that the obstruction of a too critically observant and self-conscious brain-mind successfully blocks up the flow of something supremely beautiful that wanted to come down and waited for an opportunity.
Artists themselves, almost invariably, speak of their inspiration: they look upon themselves more or less as mere instruments of something or some Power that is beyond them, beyond their normal consciousness attached to the brain-mind, that controls them and which they cannot control. This perception has been given shape in myths and legends. Goddess Saraswati or the Muses are, however, for them not a mere metaphor but concrete realities. To what extent a poet may feel himself to be a mere passive, almost inanimate, instrumentnothing more than a mirror or a sensitive photographic plateis illustrated in the famous case of Coleridge. His Kubla Khan, as is well known, he heard in sleep and it was a long poem very distinctly recited to him, but when he woke up and wanted to write it down he could remember only the opening lines, the rest having gone completely out of his memory; in other words, the poem was ready-composed somewhere else, but the transmitting or recording instrument was faulty and failed him. Indeed, it is a common experience to hear in sleep verses or musical tunes and what seem then to be very beautiful things, but which leave no trace on the brain and are not recalled in memory.
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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.
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"What will men do in such a state? Will he doubt everything?... Will he doubt whether he doubts ? Will he doubt whether he exists?. . . In fact there has never been a perfectly effective Pyrrhonian."6
The process of conversion of the doubting mind, of the dry intellectual reason as propounded and perhaps practised by Pascal is also a characteristic mark of his nature and genius. It is explained in his famous letter on "bet" or "game of chance" (Le Pari). Here is how he puts the issue to the doubting mind (I am giving the substance, not his words): let us say then that in the world we are playing a game of chance. How do the chances stand? What are the gains and losses if God does not exist? What 'are the gains and losses if God does exist? If God exists, by accepting and reaching him what do we gain? All that man cares forhappiness, felicity. And what do we lose? We lose the world of misery. If, on the other 'hand, God does not exist, by believing him to exist, we lose nothing, we are not more miserable than what we are. If, however, God exists and we do not believe him, we gain this world of misery but we lose all that is worth having. Thus Pascal concludes that even from the standpoint of mere gain and loss, belief in God is more advantageous than unbelief. This is how he applied to metaphysics the mathematics of probability.
One is not sure if such reasoning is convincing to the intellect; but perhaps it is a necessary stage in conversion. At least we can conclude that Pascal had to pass through such a stage; and it indicates the difficulty his brain had to undergo, the tension or even the torture he made it pass through. It is true, from Reason Pascal went over to Faith, even while giving Reason its due. Still it seems the two were not perfectly synthetised or fused in him. There was a gap between that was not thoroughly bridged. Pascal did not possess the higher, intuitive, luminous mind that mediates successfully between the physical discursive ratiocinative brain-mind and the vision of faith: it is because deep in his consciousness there lay this chasm. Indeed,Pascal's abyss (l' abme de Pascal) is a well-known legend. Pascal, it appears, used to have very often the vision of an abyss about to open before him and he shuddered at the prospect of falling into it. It seems to us to be an experience of the Infinity the Infinity to which he was so much attracted and of which he wrote so beautifully (L'infiniment grand et l'infiniment petit)but into which he could not evidently jump overboard unreservedly. This produced a dichotomy, a lack of integration of personality, Jung would say. Pascal's brain was cold, firm, almost rigid; his heart was volcanic, the faith he had was a fire: it lacked something of the pure light and burned with a lurid glare.
And the reason is his metaphysics. It is the Jansenist conception of God and human nature that inspired and coloured all his experience and consciousness. According to it, as according to the Calvinist conception, man is a corrupt being, corroded to the core, original sin has branded his very soul. Only Grace saves him and releases him. The order of sin and the order of Grace are distinct and disparate worlds and yet they complement each other and need each other. Greatness and misery are intertwined, united, unified with each other in him. Here is an echo of the Manichean position which also involves an abyss. But even then God's grace is not a free agent, as Jesuits declare; there is a predestination that guides and controls it. This was one of the main subjects he treated in his famous open letters (Les Provinciales) that brought him renown almost overnight. Eternal hell is a possible prospect that faces the Jansenist. That was why a Night always over-shadowed the Day in Pascal's soul.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Besides, who is perfectly disinterested? One should not pretend to be what one is not. It is better to be frank than hypocritical.
12 April 1963
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Before criticising others, it is better to be sure that one is perfectly
sincere oneself.
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
of the consciousness of the soul and manifests it perfectly.
1 February 1967
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Only the Supreme Lord is perfectly sincere.
And when the ego is abolished, only the Supreme Lord
0.12 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
ask it to remain perfectly quiet and silent so that your body
can rest properly. A little concentration for that, before going to
0 1957-12-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
This experience showed me once more the necessity to be perfectly humble before the Lord. It is not enough merely to rise to the heights, to the ethereal planes of consciousness: these planes have also to descend into matter and illuminate it. Otherwise, nothing is really done. One must have the patience to establish the communication between the high and the low. I am like a tempest, a hurricaneif I listened to myself, I would tear into the future, and everything would go flying! But then, there would no longer be any communication with the rest.
One must have the patience to wait.
0 1958-01-01, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Then, from the supreme Reality came this command: Awaken, O Nature, to the joy of collaboration. And suddenly, all Nature rushed forth in an immense bounding of joy, saying, I accept! I will collaborate! And at the same time, there came a calm, an absolute tranquillity, to allow this receptacle, this body, to receive and contain without breaking and without losing anything of the Joy of Nature that was rushing forth in a movement of grateful recognition like an overwhelming flood. She accepted, she sawwith all eternity before her that this supramental consciousness would fulfill her more perfectly and impart a still greater force to her movement and more richness, more possibilities to her play.
And suddenly, as if resounding from every corner of the earth, I heard these great notes which are sometimes heard in the subtle physicalra ther like those of Beethovens Concerto in Dwhich come at moments of great progress, as though fifty orchestras were bursting forth all at once without a single discordant note, to sound the joy of this new communion of Nature and Spirit, the meeting of old friends who, after a long separation, find each other once more.
0 1958-10-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
If we could truly, perfectly know all the details of the ceremony of life, the worship of the Lord in physical life, it would be wonderfulto know, and no longer to err, never again to err. To perform the ceremony as perfectly as an initiation.
To know life utterly Oh, there is a very interesting thing in this regard! And its strange, but this particular knowledge reminds me of one of my Sutras1 (which I read out, but no one understood or understood only vaguely, like that):
0 1960-04-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
It will be a joy to be with you again and resume the work. Here, I am sparing as many hours as I can to correcting The Human Cycle I follow X perfectly in his inner life, unreservedly, but I have to force myself to follow him in his outer life.
Mother, I am at your feet, with my love and my gratitude.
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
This is what I am constantly seeing now, but along with this Divine Force or this Divine Consciousness that Sri Aurobindo speaks of when he says, Mothers Force is with you. When it comes, it is sparkling white, perfectly white and perfectly luminous. And as it accumulates inside, it makes living vibrations of every color. And it goes on and on and on. Sometimes it lasts half an hour, three-quarters of an hour, an hournothing goes out. And it keeps constantly entering. And it piles up. Its as if it is all being accumulated or compressed together.
So, the observing mind, the intelligence that watches, looked at all thisAh, thats what its like (an intelligence that watches without interfering in the least). Its like a spectator talking to himself.
0 1960-08-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
But then Id rather not die if possible. And if I dont die, it will be perfectly useless, because that would then be the obvious proof of an uninterrupted ascent; consequently, what there will be at the very end will be much more interesting.
You alone have convinced me that the history of the way might be of some interest, so Im letting you do it Ive taken a very, very handsome file upstairs with all your notes in it.8 Its filling up; its going to be formidable! (Mother laughs) a frightful documentation.
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 1960-10-19, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Its the same as when X tells people, I am feeding you, so eat! And he serves you ten times more than you can put in. If you tell him, My stomach cant digest it, he answers that this is nonsense: Eat, and you will see! And in fact, up above that is, once youve mastered itits perfectly true. But we arent there yet, far from it! He himself is sick all the time.
Then he would answer, Everyone is sick.But thats no reason.
0 1960-11-05, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
So then I went in search of its origin. Its something in the subconscientin the cells subconscient. Its roots are there, and on the least occasion And its so very, very ingrained that For example, you can be feeling very good, the body can be perfectly harmonious (and when the body is perfectly harmonious, its motions are harmonious, things are in their true places, everything works exactly as it should without needing the least attentiona general harmony), when suddenly the clock strikes, for example, or someone utters a word, and you have just the faint impression Oh, its late, Im not going to be on timea second, a split second, and the whole working of the body falls apart. You suddenly feel feeble, drained, uneasy. And you have to intervene. Its terrible. And were at the mercy of such things!
To change it, you have to descend into itwhich is what Im in the midst of doing. But you know, it makes for painful moments. Anyway, once its done, it will be something. When that is done, Ill explain it to you. And then Ill have the power to restore you to health.
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
I have experienced all kinds of things in life, but I have always felt a sort of lightso INTANGIBLE, So perfectly pure (not in the moral sense, but pure light!)and it could go anywhere, mix everywhere without ever really getting mixed with anything. I felt this flame as a young childa white flame. And NEVER have I felt disgust, contempt, recoil, the sense of being dirtiedby anything or anyone. There was always this flamewhite, white, so white that nothing could make it other than white. And I started feeling it long ago in the past (now my approach is entirely differentit comes straight from above, and I have other reasons for seeing the Purity in everything). But it came back when I met Z (because of the contact with him)and I felt nothing negative, absolutely nothing. Afterwards, people said, Oh, how he used to be this, how he used to be that! And now look at him! See what hes become! Someone even used the word rotten that made me smile. Because, you see, that doesnt exist for me.
What I saw is this world, this realm where people are like that, they live that, for its necessary to get out from below and this is a wayits a way, the only way. It was the only way for the vital formation and the vital creation to enter into the material world, into inert matter. An intellectualized vital, a vital of ideas, an artist; it even fringes upon or has the first drops of Poetrythis Poetry which upon its peaks goes beyond the mind and becomes an expression of the Spirit. Well, when these first drops fall on earth, it stirs up mud.
0 1960-12-17, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
This realm that Im now investigating, oh! I spend whole nights visiting certain places, and there I meet people I know here materially [in the Ashram]. So many are perfectly satisfied with their their infirmities, their incapacities, their ugliness, their powerlessness.
And they protest when you want them to change!
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And the problem is to hold both of them so perfectly together that they are no longer in opposition. For one second, it comesah!just a thousandth of a secondah, yes!and then its over, its gone. And you have to begin again.
(silence)
0 1960-12-31, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
And IMMEDIATELY, I found myself down below, relieved of my packages. And everything was perfectly simple. (I had even brought the packages along without realizing it.) All, all was in order, very neat, very luminous, very simplesimply because I had said, Ah, no! Ive had enough of this business! Why all these stupid complications!5
But these are not dreams, they are types of activitymore real, more concrete than material life; the experience is much more concrete than ordinary life.
0 1961-01-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, I am disrupting their work I know perfectly well that I am disrupting their domination of the world! All these vital beings have taken possession of the whole of Matter (Mother touches her body)life and action and have made it their domain, this is evident. But they are beings of the lower vital, for they seemed artificial they didnt express any higher form, but an entire range of artificial mechanisms, artificial will, artificial organization, all deriving from their own imagination and not at all from a higher inspiration.1 The symbol was very clear.
And I saw my own domain through them and through it all; I saw my domain: I can see it!, I said. But no sooner would I start on my way than the path would be lost, I no longer saw it, I couldnt see anymore where I was going. It became almost impossible to get my bearings there: hundreds and thousands of people, thingsutter confusion. An incoherent immensity and violent, what violence!
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I remained perfectly tranquil, there was nothing else to do; I knew it meant a battle. I was perfectly tranquil, but I could no longer eat, I could no longer rest, do japa2 or walk, and my head felt as though it would burst. I could only abandon myself (Mother opens her arms in a gesture of surrender), enter into a very, very deep trance, a very deep samadhithis is something one can always do. But that was the only thing left to me. Ideas were just as clear as ever (all that is above and doesnt budge), but my body was in a very bad way. It was a fight, a fight at each second. The least thing, just to walk a step, was a struggle, an awful battle!
Then last night I saw the symbol, the image of the thing. But what was it? It was an element in the most material Matter,3 because it was deep down below; yet despite it all, Mother Nature was in charge there: she was familiar with everything, knew everything and it was all at her disposalabsolutely the most material Nature. And she herself had no light, but was very, very she had a concealed power that was completely invisible.
0 1961-01-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I was perfectly conscious (now when I say I, it refers to my body, I am not speaking of the whole higher consciousness), the body was perfectly conscious of its suffering, the reason for its suffering, the cause of its suffering, everything and it did not suffer. You understand, the two perceptions were there together: the body saw the disorder, saw the suffering just as it would have felt it a few weeks earlier, it saw all that (saw, knew I dont know how to express itit was conscious, it was aware) and it did not suffer. The two awarenesses were absolutely simultaneous.
There is now a kind of VERY PRECISE knowledge of the whole inner mechanism for all thingsand what has to be done materially. This is developing, as a flower blossoms: you see one petal open and then another and then another; it is proceeding like that, slowly, taking its time. Its the same process for the Power.
0 1961-01-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That want to cut you off from me. Yes, I know perfectly well. Its like that for everybody, not just for you.
We must keep going right to the end, thats alltheres nothing else to do.
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But this body feels so strongly that it exists ONLY because the divine Power is in it. And constantly, for the least thing, it has only one remedy (it doesnt think of resting, of not doing this or that, of taking medicine), its sole remedy is to call and call the Supremeit goes on repeating its mantra. And as soon as it quietly repeats its mantra, it is perfectly content. perfectly content.
(silence)
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When I am perfectly tranquil, I immediately live in a beatific joy where questions dont arisethere are no questions! One asks for nothingone LIVES! One lives happily, and thats all. Theres no, Will it be like this? Will it be like that?how childish! There are no questions, questions dont arise. One is a beatitude manifesting, that is all.
All the rest is unimportant.
0 1961-02-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Anyhow, I was sent here to do this work, so I am trying to do it, thats all. I could have. If it hadnt been for the work, I would have left with Sri Aurobindo; there you have it. I remained only for the sake of the workbecause it was there to be done and he told me to do it and I am doing it. Otherwise, when one is perfectly conscious, one is far less limited without a body: one can see a hundred people at the same time, in a hundred different places, just as Sri Aurobindo is doing right now.
If I may ask, has Sri Aurobindo remained quite conscious of material things?
0 1961-03-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, Ive had all sorts of examples! All these errors serve as tests. Take the case of P.: for a long time, whenever someone arrived from the outside world and asked to be instructed, he was sent to P.s room. (I didnt send them, but they would be told, Go speak to P.!) And P. is the sectarian par excellence! He would tell people, Unless you acknowledge Sri Aurobindo as the ONLY one who knows the truth, you are good for nothing! Naturally (laughing), many rebelled! (You see, out of lazinessso as not to be bothered with seeing people or answering their questionsone says, Go find so-and-so, go ask so-and-so, and passes off the work to another.) Well, it was finally understood that this wasnt very tactful, and perhaps it would be better not to send visitors to P., since so many had been put off. But actually. I was told about it afterwards and I replied, Let people read and see for THEMSELVES whether or not it suits them! What difference does it make if theyre put off! If they are, it means they NEED to be put off! Well see later. Some of them have come full circle and returned. Others never came backbecause they werent meant to. Thats how it goes. Basically, all this has NO importance. Or we could put it in another way: everything is perfectly all right.
(silence)
Each one of us must learn his lesson thats a different matter. WE are not perfectly all right because we can be bettercircumstances are simply the outgrowth of what we are, nothing else. And we neednt worry I never worry myself!
Whats more, I find it so funny! A time comes when all such things seem so childish, so stupid, so meaningless! What difference can it make! As long as people are still at that level, thats where they are. The day they get away from it, they too will smile!
0 1961-03-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From an historical viewpoint (not psychological, but historical), based on my memories (only I cant prove it, nothing can be proved, and I dont believe any truly historical proof has come down to usor in any case, it hasnt been found yet), but according to my memories. (Mother shuts her eyes as if she were going off in search of her memories; she will speak all the rest of the time with eyes closed.) Certainly at one period of the earths history there was a kind of earthly paradise, in the sense that there was a perfectly harmonious and perfectly natural life: the manifestation of Mind was in accordwas STILL in complete accord and in total harmony with the ascending march of Nature, without perversion or deformation. This was the first stage of Minds manifestation in material forms.
How long did it last? Its hard to say. But for man it was a life like a sort of flowering of animal life. My memory is of a life where the body was perfectly adapted to its natural surroundings. The climate was in harmony with the needs of the body, the body with the demands of the climate. Life was wholly spontaneous and natural, as a more luminous and conscious animal life would be, with absolutely none of the complications and deformations brought in later by the mind as it developed.
I have a recollection of this life, for I relived it when I first became conscious of the life of the entire earth; but I cant say how long it lasted or what area it covered I dont know. I only remember the conditions at that time, the state of material Nature and the human form and human consciousness, and this state of harmony with all the other elements of the earth: harmony with animal life and a great harmony with plant lifethere was a kind of spontaneous knowledge of how to use the things of Nature, the qualities of plants, fruits and all that vegetal nature could offer. There was no aggressiveness, no fear, no contradictions or frictions, and no perversion the mind was pure, simple, luminous, uncomplicated.
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A similar memory has recurred several times under different circumstancesnot exactly the same scene and the same images, because it wasnt something I was seeing but A LIFE I was living. During a certain period, at any time, night or day, I would experience a particular state of trance in which I was rediscovering a life I had lived. I was fully conscious that this life had to do with the first flowering of the human form upon earth, the first human forms able to incarnate the divine being from above. This was the first time I could manifest in a particular terrestrial form (not a general life but an individual form); that is, for the first time, through the mentalization of this material substance, the junction between the higher Being and the lower being was made. I have lived that several times, and always in a similar setting and with quite a similar feeling of such joyous simplicity, without complexity, without problems, without all these questions. It was the blossoming of a joy of lifenothing but that; love and harmony prevailed: flowers, minerals, animals all got along together perfectly.
Things began to go wrong only a LONG time afterwards, long after (but this is a personal impression), probably because certain mental crystallizations were necessary, inevitable, for the general evolution, so that the mind might prepare itself to move on to something else. That was when oh, it seems like a fall into a pitinto ugliness, darkness! Everything became so dark, so ugly, so difficult, so painful. Really really the sense of a fall.
0 1961-03-14, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yet the cells sense so perfectly that. All the experiences in the subconscient at night are quite clear proofs that a a WORLD of things and vibrations is being cleaned outall the vibrations opposed to the cellular transformation. But how can one poor little body do all that work! The body is quite aware of being a sort of accumulation and concentration of things (yet there is inevitably a selectionMo ther laughsbecause if everything had to be worked out in one center like this [her body] it would be it would be impossible!). Oh, if you knew how deeply and perfectly convinced these cells are, in all their groups and sub-groups, each one individually and within the whole, that everything is not only decreed but executed by the Divine, everything! They have a kind of constant awareness so filled with a conscious faith in His infinite wisdom, even when there is what the ordinary consciousness calls suffering or pain. Thats not what it is for the cellsits something else! And the result is a state of yes, a state of peaceful combat. There is a sense of Peace, the vibration of Peace, and simultaneously an impression of being (how to put it?) on the alert, in constant combat. Taken all together it creates a rather odd situation.
And within oh! Its like waves, constantly, the equivalent of those nuances of color I was speaking about, waves of this joy of life, the joy of life rippling past, touching; but instead of being. At times, you see, the body is in a sort of equilibrium (what we, in our ordinary outer consciousness, call equilibrium that is, good health), and then this joy is constant, like swells on the sea (Mother shapes great waves): it seems to flow on behind everything; it comes and shows its face for a moment, then vanishes. In the very tiny things of lifeyes, physical life the joy of these things, the joy life contains, this luminous, special kind of vibration, rises up as if to remind us that its here; it is here, it mustnt be forgotten, its here but its kept down by this tension.
0 1961-03-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Of course, all of you would be perfectly justified in replying, What good does that do if were not aware of it! But it must be a phenomenon like the one I described. I am looking for the reason something which refuses the knowledge. A part of the being is refusingalthough not consciouslyto become aware of the experience.
Can I do something practical about it?
0 1961-04-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it isnt true that they dont obey! Its just that we dont know how to handle them. Cats are extremely sensitive to the vital force, to vital power, and they can be made perfectly obedientand with such devotion! Cats are said to be neither devoted nor attached nor faithful, but thats not true at all. You can have quite a friendly relationship with them.
And, an incredible thing this cat was very pretty, but she had a wretched tail, a tail like an ordinary cat; and one day when I was with her at the window, one of the neighbors cats wandered into the gardenan angora with three colors, three very prominent colors, and such a beautiful tail trailing behind! So I said (my cat was just beside me), Oh! Just see how beautiful she is! What a beautiful tail she has! And I could see my cat looking at her. My child, in her next litter she had one exactly like that! How did she manage it? I dont know. Three prominent colors and a magnificent tail! Did she hunt up a male angora? Or did she just will for it intensely?
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And she used to count her little ones. She knew perfectly well how many she had. I just had to tell her, Keep only two or threealthough the first time there were only three, which was still too many, yet it was absolutely impossible not to let her keep them all. But later on I had to chide her. I didnt take them from her, but I would speak to her, convince her: Its too much, youll be ill. Just keep these. See how nice these two are. Take care of them.
Oh, what lovely cat stories! That was a whole period for many, many years. Many years.
0 1961-04-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In a certain state of consciousness (I no longer remember what he calls it I think its in the Yoga of Self-Perfection), one is perfectly identified with the Supreme, not in his static but in his dynamic aspect, the state of becoming. In this state, everything is already there from all eternity, even though here it gives us the impression of a becoming. And Sri Aurobindo says that if you are capable of maintaining this state,2 then you know everything: all that has been, all that is and all that will bein an absolutely simultaneous way.
But you must have a firm head on your shoulders! Reading some of these chapters in Self-Perfection, I thought it would be better if it didnt fall into just anyones hands.
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Narayana came first. I put him there and told him to stay and be happy. A while later, I was given a very nice Ganapati; so I asked Narayana I didnt ask his permission, I told him, Dont be angry, you know, but Im going to give you a companion; I like you both very much, theres no preference; the other is much better looking, but you, you are Narayana! I flattered him, I told him pleasant things, and he was perfectly happy.
It has always been like that for mealways. And I have never, never had the religious sense at allyou know, what people call this kind of what they have in religions, especially in Europe. I see only the English word for it: awe, like a kind of terror. This always made me laugh! But I have always felt whats behind, the presences behind.
0 1961-06-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What is necessary is to abandon EVERYTHING. Everything: all power, all comprehension, all intelligence, all knowledge, everything. To become perfectly nonexistent, thats the important thing. But the very atmosphere makes things difficultwhat people expect of you, what they want of you, what they think of youits very bothersome. You have to spend all your time fanning it away.
In one of the handwritten notes left by Mother, we found the following: 'Sri Aurobindo told me: Never give them the impression that they can do whatever they like, they will always be protected.'
0 1961-06-06, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its so subtle! It could almost be. Its almost like being on the border between two worlds. Its the same world and itsis it two aspects of this world? I cant even say that. Yet its the SAME world; all is the Lord, He and nothing but He, only its. And so subtle, so subtle: if you go like this (Mother tilts her hand slightly to the right), its perfectly harmonious; if you go like that (Mother tilts her hand slightly to the left), oof! Its its at once absurd, meaningless, and laborious, painful. But its the SAME thing! Its all the same thing.
What is it?
0 1961-06-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And even when we say there is only that we are situating it somewherewhich is perfectly idiotic. It is everywhereso how can anything be thrown out of it?
Of course, one can conceive of a universe being thrown out of the present manifestation that, yes; one can conceive of successive universes, with what was in the first universes no longer being in the othersits even obvious. One can imagine how a whole sum of falsity and untruth (what for us, NOW, is falsity and untruth) may come to no longer belong to the world in its future unfolding; one can comprehend all that. But destroy? Where can it go to be destroyed? When we say something is destroyed, its only a form which is destroyed (it may be a form of consciousness, it may not be a material form, but its always a form). But how can the formless be destroyed?
0 1961-07-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its like the word purityone could lecture endlessly on the difference between divine purity and what people call purity. Divine purity (at the lowest level) is to admit but one influence the divine Influence (but this is at the lowest level, and already terribly distorted). Divine purity means that only the Divine existsnothing else. It is perfectly pureonly the Divine exists, nothing other than He.
And so on.
0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From experience, I know perfectly well that when one is satisfied with being a saint or a sage and constantly maintains the right attitude, all goes well the body doesnt get sick, and even if there are attacks it recovers very easily; all goes very well AS LONG AS THERE IS NOT THIS WILL TO TRANSFORM. All the difficulties arise in protest against the will to transform; while if one says, Very well, its all right, let things be as they are, I dont care, I am perfectly happy, in a blissful state, then the body begins to feel content!
Thats the problem: something totally new is being introduced into Matter, and the body is protesting.
0 1961-08-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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
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Each devotee of a particular cult knows perfectly well that his god is simply one way of representing something that is One.
From 1926, Sri Aurobindo officially introduced Mother to the disciples as the 'Mother'; previously he often called her 'Mirra.'
0 1961-11-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Here in Pondicherry, those last days might have become tragic (but of course it was impossible). There was the great argument (for he was perfectly aware of who I was): But after all, he would tell me, since you are the eternal Mother, why have you chosen Aurobindo as Avatar? Choose me! You must choose meme! It was the Asura speaking through him. I would smile and not discuss it. Thats not how its done! I would tell him (laughing). Then one day he said, Ah, so you dont want to. (gesture to the throat) Well, if you dont choose me, then. He was a strong fellow with powerful hands. I kept quite calm and said inwardly, My Lord, my Lord. I called Sri Aurobindo and I saw him come, like that (gesture enveloping Mother and immobilizing everything). Then Richards hands loosened their grip.
There were marks on my neck.
0 1961-12-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I know it would create a furor if I wrote this book! Because any fool could read it like a story and feel perfectly satisfied and he wouldnt even notice it taking hold of him inside and changing him.
A philosophical book? No. A spiritual book? No, not at all! Just a nice, little commonsense book thats what they would see!
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Yes if its not too much trouble! (Mother laughs) Spontaneously, simplyif you want to, if you feel like it. You know what I mean: a book that is TRUE, in the sense that you wont say anything not perfectly true, but accessible not only accessible to the superior man, but to the honest man who finds that life really isnt good or pleasant and is wondering if there isnt some way to make it better.
Without without great speculations.
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
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?
0 1962-01-12 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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)
0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it corresponds to a state where you are so perfectly identified with all that is, that you concretely become all that is antidivine and so you can offer it up. It can be offered up and really transformed through this offering.
This sort of will in people for purity, for Good (which in ordinary mentality is expressed by a need to be virtuous) is actually the GREAT OBSTACLE to true self-giving. Its the root of Falsehood, the very source of hypocrisy: the refusal to take up ones share of the burden of difficulties. And thats what Sri Aurobindo has touched on in this aphorism, directly and very simply.
0 1962-01-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was written in English and I am the one who translated it into Frenchinto horrible French, perfectly ghastly, because I put in all the new words Theon had dreamed up. He had made a detailed description of all the faculties latent in man, and it was remarkable but with such barbarous words! You can make up new words in English and get away with it, but in French its utterly ridiculous. And there I was, very conscientiously putting them all in! Yet in terms of experience, it was splendid. It really was an experienceit came from Madame Theons experiences in exteriorization. She had learned what Theon also taught me, to speak while youre in the seventh heaven (the body goes on speaking, rather slowly, in a rather low voice, but it works quite well). She would speak and a friend of hers, another English woman who was their secretary, would note it all down as she went along (I think she knew shorthand). And afterwards it was made into stories, told as stories. It was all shown to Sri Aurobindo and it greatly interested him. He even adopted some of the words into his own terminology.
The divisions and subdivisions of the being were described down to the slightest detail and with perfect precision. I went through the experience again on my own, without any preconceived ideas, just like that: leaving one body after the other, one body after the other, and so on twelve times. And my experienceapart from certain quite negligible differences, doubtless due to differences in the receiving brainwas exactly the same.
0 1962-02-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Perhaps the problem is the opposition (if it is an opposition) between two attitudes, both of which should express our relationship with the Supreme. One is the acceptancenot only voluntary but perfectly contentof everything, even the worst calamities (what are conventionally called the worst calamities). I wont use this story as an example because its self-explanatory, but if Andromeda were a yogi (with ifs you can build castles in the air, but I am trying to explain what I mean), she would accept the idea of death readily, easily. Well, its precisely this conflict between an attitude quite ready to accept death (I am not talking about what happens in the story itself, but merely giving a case in point to make myself clear) because it is the divine Will, for this reason aloneits the divine Will, so its quite all right; since thats how it is, its quite all rightand at the same time, the love of Life. This love of Life.3 Following the story, you would say: she lived because she had to live and everything is explained. But thats not what I mean. I am looking at this outside the context of the story.
Because things like that happen in the consciousness of. It always bothers me to get into big ideas and big words, but to truly explain myself, I should say: the Universal Mother.
--
From that moment on there was an inexpressible Sweetness, and within that Sweetness, a Voice so sweet and harmonious too! There was a sound but no wordsyet it held a perfectly clear meaning for me, like very precise words: You have just had your most creative moment!
Oh really! Well, thats fine!
0 1962-02-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Take Z, for instanceshe told me that Maharshi1 wrote in his book that if I were Hindu and did asanas every day, all India would be at my feet! This has certainly been Zs biggest difficulty: it was easy to come here, she could speak to me perfectly freely, I didnt behave mysteriously. So of course, it was too simple!
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0 1962-02-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Really, you must stay perfectly, perfectly calm inside; externally, you do things, brush your teeth and so forth, but within you must keep very calm if you dont want to fall over.1
But what prevents the two from joining?
0 1962-02-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All sorts of things. But quite often we are looking for things related to expression sometimes images, sometimes sentences, sometimes. I have told you I frequently meet you in a kind of library without books. Its very interesting. It is open on top, below too, and no walls; it is extremely spacious, certainly almost as vast as the earth. And there are pigeonholes that seem to hang in the air, with all kinds of things filed in them. We are often sorting through these pigeonholes to find certain txtsideas, I mean. Ideas, explanations, sometimes memories, all kinds of things. This world is mental but very luminous and clear; full of clarity, perfectly ordered, without confusion, and all open. Wide open.
I frequently find you there.
0 1962-02-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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.)
0 1962-02-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This is so because the original Will is reflected, as it were, in different realms, and in each realm the organization and relation of the images are changed. The world we live in is a world of imagesnot THE thing itself in its essence, but its reflection. We could say that in our material existence we are merely a reflection, an image of what we are in our essential reality. And the modalities of these reflections are what introduce all the errors and all the falsifications (what is seen in its essence is perfectly true and pure, existing from all eternity, while images are essentially variable). And according to the amount of falsehood introduced into the vibrations, the amount of distortion and alteration increases. Each circumstance, each event and each thing can be said to have one pure existenceits true existence and a considerable number of impure or distorted existences in the various realms of being. There is a substantial beginning of distortion, for instance, in the intellectual realm (indeed, the mental realm holds a considerable amount of distortion), and it increases as all the emotional and censorial realms interfere. Arriving at the material plane, the vision is most often unrecognizable. Completely distorted. To such a point that its sometimes very hard to realize that this is the material expression of thattheres not much resemblance any longer!
This approach to the problem is rather new and can provide the key to many things.
0 1962-03-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So when people ask me, I say (to tell them something), We shall see. Its certainly not that I dont know; I know perfectly well how it will be. But (laughing) I dont know when! That, I dont know. Even at this point, I dont know when.
In fact, if something wants to know when, then its still in a hurry.
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You know, all those little rules were enjoined to follow: Above all, dont do that; and be sure to do this, dont forget that. Like ablutions, for instance, or attitudes, or what to eattheres no dearth of them. A mountain of dos and dontsall completely swept away! And swept away to the point where sometimes a rule, something highly recommended (Be sure to do this, be careful to do thatan attitude or an action) becomes an obstacle. I hardly dare say it, but one example is having a regular schedulealways making ablutions at the same hour, always doing japa in the same manner and so on. And I am perfectly aware that Sri Aurobindo himself puts all sorts of trivial obstacles in my wayobstacles I could hurdle with a single second of reflection; he sets them up as if in play. Do you remember the aphorism where he says he was quarreling with the Lord and the Lord made him fall in the mud?2 Thats just what I feel. He puts a stick in my spokes and laughs. So I say, All right, thats enough, I dont give a hoot! Ill do whatever You want, its not my problem; I can do it or not do it, do it this way or that. It has all gone up in smoke now.
What has become constant, though. I shouldnt say it, because its going to get me into trouble again! But anyway, whats trying to be constant is DISCRIMINATION: taking all circumstances, vibrations, relationships, what comes from the people around me, what responds, and putting each in its proper place. A second-to-second discrimination. I know where things are coming from, why they come, their effect, where theyre going to lead me, and so on. Its growing more and more frequent, constant, automaticlike a state of being.
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He mentions it when he explains mental equality3that a state is reached where one is unable to initiate any activity; only the stimulus of an impulsion from above can move you. So you do nothing, you just stay like that, perfectly immobile in your mind (not only physicallyespecially in your mind): you dont initiate anything.
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.
0 1962-03-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Only its perfectly true that to deal with those realms one must either be fully protected by a guru, a real guru, a man with knowledge, or else have purity (not saintliness), an unmixed vital and mental purity. Very, very often, bhaktas [devotees] of Sri Aurobindo or mewhen they are sincere, truly sincere, that is, people of great spiritual purityhave dozens of beings appear to them, saying, I am Sri Aurobindo. It happens all the time, with all the right external appearancesits very easy for such beings to put on a disguise. It takes the inner psychic purity not to be deceivedyou invariably FEEL something that makes it impossible for you to be duped. But otherwise, many, many people are taken in.
I dont like to talk about this because people here have no discrimination; they would be left with nothing but fear and would no longer believe in anything, forever asking me, Oh, isnt this a trick? Which paralyzes everything. Thats why I didnt speak about that in this Talk.
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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?
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Then it becomes inanitiesits too incomplete. Id rather not attract peoples attention to these topics too much. There must be other things to publish. Since you cant give the full picture, it becomes sheer inanity. If you wanted to be perfectly complete, you could write volumes (its a tremendous world of experiences!). And saying just a thing or two makes you look like one of those ninnies who have a few experiences and think theyve discovered the world!
Bhikku: Buddhist monk.
0 1962-05-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You would be perfectly happy, and healthy besides.
But its because of this blockage that the body wonders, Whats the matter with me?
0 1962-06-02, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was delightful (it happened around 1:30 in the afternoon): sitting on the water the way you would sit on a chair! And the water was so clear, crystal clear, transparent, rippled with tiny waves; the depths were dark blue, but the surface was perfectly clear, transparent, almost colorless. Then when the big brother came, boasting that he knew how to do it too, and would take me across, the water began to get muddy, as river water always isa dirty grayish yellow.
It must be the continuation of that experience the other day. I was beginning to find the key.
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But that is a singular state: there is no mental intervention at all; you live things POSITIVELY, just as you experience them physically, in the same way that this (Mother knocks on the table next to her) is physically a table. Its that kind of perception something positive. I positively said, I am going to my cousins place, and the relationship had an absolutely positive vibrationit wasnt at all something thought or even remembered: theres no remembering anything, its simply there, alive. A strange state. I have had it on several occasions, and when I have it I am aware that this must be the state people who know what is happening and make predictions are inin this state there is no possibility of doubt. No thoughts intervenenone at all, not one. Absolutely nothing intellectual: simply certain vital-physical vibrations, and then you know. And you dont even wonder how you know; its not that kind of thingits self-evident. And since I was in that state when I saw the reincarnation of the cousin, I am perfectly sure of what I saw. And god knows (Mother laughs), when I came out of it and began to look at it all with my usual consciousness, I said to myself, My word! I would never have thought of such a thing! It was millions of miles from any thought of mine. Besides, I never used to think of that cousin; he was a fine boy but I never paid much attention to him, he had no place in my active consciousness.
Its fun.
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Is it different for men? I dont know. Sri Aurobindos case was quite special, and apart from him I dont see any convincing example. But generally speaking, what is most developed in a man, along with the mind, is the physical consciousness; the vital is very impulsive, practically ungoverned. Thats my experience of the hundreds and hundreds of men I have met. Theres normally a physical strength built up through games and exercises, and side by side a more or less advanced, but primarily mental development, very mental. The vital is terribly impulsive and barely organized, except in artists, and even there. I lived among artists for ten years and found this ground to be mostly fallow. I mingled with all the great artists of the time, I was like a kid sister to them (it was at the turn of the century, with the Universal Exposition in 1900; and these were the leading artists of the epoch); so I was by far the youngest, much younger than any of themthey were all thirty, thirty-five, forty years old, while I was nineteen or twenty. Well I was much more advanced in their own fieldnot in what I was producing (I was a perfectly ordinary artist), but from the viewpoint of consciousness: observations, experiences, studies.
I am not sure, but it seems to me that the problem of consciousness ought to come first.
0 1962-08-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What you say about all those things entering through the centers is perfectly correct.
Interestingly enough, these last few days I have been making a sort of detailed study of the various kinds of vibrations, how they approach you and enter the various centers. I dont know how to explain itcertain differences between vibrations resemble differences in tastes. Theres a whole gamut, you see, all vibrations, nothing but vibrations, and the differences between them resemble differences in taste or color or intensity, perhaps differences in force as wellessentially, of course, they are differences in quality.
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And through certain things, I can perceive the very clear, precise and absolute Direction coming from the Supreme. And He is arranging all those thingsforms, various intellectual formsexactly as they should be. Because here (pointing to the crown of the head), and even from here (lower) down to here (the forehead), its all immobile. All these vibrations come, pass through, whirl around, they come from everywhere, but here (the head) nothing moves, theres no response. And yet I have seen that on the intellectual level there are a number of what Sri Aurobindo calls frames, certain principles of organization6 giving a precise orientation to the yogas action. One of them, the strongest, is my translation of The Synthesis of Yoga. I do a page almost every day and on that page I invariably find an idea or a sentence that EXACTLY expresses the field of experiences I was in that day and the night before; and some of the details. And interestingly enough, certain points in the pages you read me today were the EXACT frame of a series of experiences Ive been havingalmost word for word, with the same words.7 That sort of thing. Its like intellectual forms being assembled to give the field of experience precision, because theres nothing here (the forehead), its blankyet some form is necessary! Well, the forms Sri Aurobindo has given predominate, but what you write has its place, and a very precise and interesting place: the way of thinking. And I see that theres an immense field of intellectual thought, intellectual formulation, with varying degrees of intensity and precision, serving as a SIEVE for the Supremes Will to pass through. And the sievethis sort of immense universal sieveis what gives the precision.8 Its very interesting. That way, the mind remains perfectly stillit has nothing to do, everything is done for it! It is nothing but a mirrora living mirror where everything gets inscribed and which can reflect back its image without becoming active.
The nature of my nights is changing, the nature of my days is changing.
0 1962-08-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I understand. I understand full well. But you must learn how to wait. Were you to write in that way now, it would be perfectly useless to the reading public they wouldnt understand a thing.
What you read to me is very goodvery good, very useful. Au revoir, mon petit.
0 1962-08-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One of our children, V., a courageous boy, went up there all by himself. In winter its completely isolated, theres nothing nearby. It was May and still frightfully cold, it seems, snow still covered the ground. And the man was sitting there stark naked as though it were perfectly natural! He even asked the boy, Do you want to spend the night here? That was a bit too much!
Anyway, V. went there, sat down next to him, and after a while the man went into a sort of trance and began to tell V. about his life (the boys life, not his own!). So V. was interested and wanted to know more. Where do I come from? he asked. The man answered, Oh, from an ashram by the sea the sea is there. Then he began to speak (I must mention that outwardly he knew nothing about Sri Aurobindo or me or the Ashram, absolutely nothing at all), and he told V. that a great sage and the Mother were there, and that they wanted to do something on earth that had never been done before something very difficult. Then, I dont know whether he mentioned I was alone now (I have no idea), but he said, Oh, she has had to withdraw2 because the people around her dont understand and life there has become very difficult. It will be very difficult until 1964.
0 1962-08-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mon petit, we had a meditation here on the 15th, at ten oclock.2 At a quarter to ten, I was sitting here at the table in a total silence. And then I cant say Sri Aurobindo came, for he is always here, but he manifested in a special way. Concretely, in the subtle physical, he became so tall that, sitting cross-legged as they do here, he covered the whole compoundeven extended a bit beyond it! He was literally sitting upon the compound; so to the extent that the people meditating were not closed, they were all inside him. He was sitting like that (not on their heads!), and I could feel (I was here, you see) the FRICTION of his presence in the subtle physicalan utterly physical friction! And I saw him (as you well know, I am not shut up in here [the body]), I saw him sitting there, very tall and perfectly proportioned; and then he started gently, gently descendingthis descent is what caused the frictiongently, very gently, so as not to give people a shock. Then he settled there and stayed for a little more than half an hour, a few minutes more, like that, absolutely still, but fully concentrated on all the people they were inside him.
I was sitting here smiling, almost almost laughing, really; you could feel him like that everywhere (Mother touches her whole body), everywhere. And with such peace! Such peace, such force, such power. And a sense of eternity, immensity, and absoluteness. A sense of absoluteness, as if all were fulfilled, so to speak, and one lived in Eternity.
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Theres still a bit too much of the old outlook left in you, and thats what keeps worrying you. Something that keeps worrying you, and which is perfectly uselesswe waste our time worrying.
Sri Aurobindo withdrew in 1926, but it was in 1927 that he moved from the Ashram's left wing and settled permanently in the right wing.
0 1962-08-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It can be, its possible. Its possible, I dont say it isnt; it is possible, it can happen, but more and more, the life allotted to this body is to do things without knowing it, to change the world without seeing it, and to to ignore all that, to be absolutely unconcerned with the results. And (to be perfectly explicit) I have a feeling that to have access to the highest and purest Power, the very notion of result must disappear completely the Supreme Power has no sense of result AT ALL. The sense of result is yet another rift between the essential, supreme Power, and the consciousness. In other words, its because the consciousness begins to separate slightly [from its identity with the Supreme Power], that the sense of result is created, but otherwise it doesnt exist.
Its as if everything had to be to be the Action, the eternal Action at each second of the Manifestation THE thing. At each pulsationwhich corresponds to time in the ManifestationTHAT alone is THE thing. And the idea of something having a result is already a distortion.
0 1962-09-05, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember that one of the first things I asked Sri Aurobindo when I came here, after innumerable experiences and innumerable realizations, was, Why am I so mediocre? Everything I do is mediocre, all my realizations are mediocre, theres never anything remarkable or exceptionalits just average. It isnt low, but its not high eithereverything is average. And thats really how I felt. I painted: it wasnt bad painting, but many others could do as well. I played music: it wasnt bad music, but you couldnt say, Oh, what a musical genius! I wrote: it was perfectly ordinary. My thoughts slightly excelled those of my friends, but nothing exceptional; I had no special gift for philosophy or whatever. Everything I did was like that: my body had its skills, but nothing fantastic; I wasnt ugly, I wasnt beautiful you see, everything was mediocre, mediocre, mediocre, mediocre. Then he told me, It was indispensable.
All right, so I kept quietand very quickly, within a few weeks, I understood.
0 1962-09-26, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am unfamiliar with the purely Hindu traditions, but the gods are the beings the Vedas and people of Vedic times were in touch wi that least I think so. I learned what I know about the gods before coming here, through the other tradition, the Chaldean. But Thon used to say that this tradition and the Vedic (which he knew well) were outgrowths of a more ancient tradition common to both. The story goes, according to him, that the first Emanations, who were perfectly independent, separated themselves from the Supreme in their action, creating all the disorder thats what caused the creations disorder. Afterwards the gods were emanated, to repair the evil that had been wrought and to organize the world according to the supreme Will. Of course, this is a childlike way of putting it, but its comprehensible. So all these gods work in harmony and order. Thats what the ancient tradition says.
As far as Ive understood, the Indian tradition has embraced everything that came from the first Emanations, since all the gods of destruction, of unconsciousness and of suffering are included in its pantheon.
0 1962-10-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You say I didnt understand your question, but I understood it perfectly, I knew perfectly well what you wanted. But what can be said about That! It simply cannot be spoken of, and heres the proof: if we could talk about it, it would be here. And even then we probably wouldnt talk about it.
We cant talk about it, we cant say anything; whatever we say about it is nonsense! Of course its nonsensewhat else could it be?
0 1962-11-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its true that they deserve it! They have acted perfectly stupidly all along. Out of ambition, vanity, all sorts of things, but especially out of stupidity and total lack of understandinga blind vision, reaching no farther than their noses.
Dont keep this. I dont want to keep political memories. I havent said anything about the world situation for a long time, because I dont want people to know (its not that I dont know, but I dont want it known). If I ever get involved in politicsif things take a positive turn, that is I will start saying what I know in 1967. But not before.
0 1962-11-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When Sri Aurobindo was here, you went to sit in the room he was in, and felt perfectly sheltered from everything and it was true.
The only danger at the time was Japan, and Japan had officially declared it wouldnt bomb Pondicherry because of Sri Aurobindo. But at least there were still men in their planes, and they could choose not to bomb. But you dont tell a jet plane Dont crash here! It crashes wherever it can.
0 1962-11-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He obviously knows that some work is being done here. Its perfectly obvious that this cease-fire2 results from what Ive doneall the countries are astounded that it could happen. And my impression was like this: an invisible action working on people WITHOUT THEIR NOTICING ITnot through the mind.
Ostensibly its because Kennedy told them to cease firing or he would send in troops.
0 1963-01-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I may even keep the manuscript in pencil: the temptation to correct is very bad. Very bad because its the surface understanding that wants to correctliterary taste, poetical sense and all those things that are down there (gesture down below). You know, its as if (I dont mean the words themselves), as if the CONTENT of the words were projected on a perfectly blank and still screen (Mother points to her forehead), as if the words were projected on it.
The trouble is writing, the materialization between the vision and the writing; the Force has to drive the hand and the pencil, and there is a slight theres still a very slight resistance. Otherwise, if I could write automatically, oh, how nice it would be!
0 1963-02-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it was all a living, palpable experience which lasted for a day and a half. The entire universal movement was LIVED and sensed. Not merely seen but lived and in what light! What stupendous power! With that kind of certitude at the core of everything something very odd. Its very difficult to express. But the experience lasted so long that it became perfectly familiar. To translate it into words I might say: it is the Supremes way of seeingof feeling, of living. I was living things the way He does. And it gives a power of certitude of realization. In the sense that what we are heading for is already here; the road we look back on, the road we have traveled and the road yet to travel, it all lives simultaneously. And with such logic! An eternal, wonderful superlogic which makes it obviousness itselfeverything is obviousness itself. Struggle, effort, fear, all of that, oh, absolutely, absolutely nonexistent. And together with this, the explanation of the feeling we have of not wanting certain things any more: they leave the Manifest. You see, its like a sieve into which everything is thrown and where He to Him, everything, but everything is the same, but there is the vision of what He wants, and also of what is useless for what He wants or would prevent the fullness and totality of what He wants (contradictions of sorts, I dont know how to explain it)so with that He just goes this way (gesture of reswallowing) and it goes out of the Manifestation.
At the time I could have said it in a more understandable language, while now
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Only, you cannot see it unless you see the whole. At the time, everything was preexistent, although unfolding in time for the Manifestation. But it was preexistent. Not preexistent as we understand it, not everything at a given moment. Oh, how impossible! Its impossible to express it. I still feel what I could call the warmth of the experience the reality, the life, the warmth of the experience are there. You know, I have lived in a Light! A Light which isnt our light, which has nothing to do with what we call light, a Light so warm and powerful! A creative Light. So powerful! Everything was so perfectly harmonious: everything, everything without exception, even the things that appear to be the very negation of divinity. And a rhythm! (gesture as of great waves) A harmony, so wonderful a TOTALITY, where the sense of sequence Sequence doesnt mean things being like this (chopping gesture), one being abolished by the next, it is At the time I might have been able to find or invent the words, I dont know, now now, its only the memory of it. The memory, not the presence itself.
The experience lasted long. It started in the night, lasted through the whole day, and last night there was still something of it lingering, but then (laughing) I seemed to be told, So then, arent you going to move on? Are you going to stay with this experience, are you stuck there?! It is so true: things move fast, fast, fast, and run as you may, youre still not going fast enough.
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To make some decision or organize something (I am referring to practical examples I have four, five, ten of them every day), all it would take is a few minutes of clear and quiet, but TOTAL vision, and things would work out perfectly well. But then there are four or five of them to make a decision. Each one brings in his own idea, his own viewpoint, his own little angle. They throw it all together, jabber away for two hours and nothing gets done.
So the conclusion is that I shall have to start again. I had stopped long ago taking care of everythinglong before I came upstairs, I told people, See to your business yourselves. And what chaos it has become! That, too, made worse by the fact that they stopped seeing me physically. The physical presence was simply keeping a rein on them.
0 1963-03-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Basically, people with a very strict logic tell you, Why pray? Why aspire, why ask? The Lord does what He wills and will always do what He wills. Its perfectly obvious, it goes without saying, but this fervor, Lord, manifest Yourself! gives His manifestation a more intense vibration.
Otherwise He would never have made the world as it isthere is a special power, a special joy, a special vibration in the worlds intensity of aspiration to become again what it is.
0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, listen (this is not meant to be published or told), I dont know if Ive told you already. I was nine or ten years old, I was running with some friends in the forest of Fontainebleau (Ive told this story somewhere). The forest is rather dense, so you cant see very far ahead. We were running, and speeding along as I was, I didnt see I was coming to the edge overhanging the road. The place where we were was about ten feet above the road (more than a story high), and the road was paved with stonesfreshly paved. And we were running. I was racing ahead, the others were behind. Well, Id built up such momentum that I couldnt stopwhoosh! I went sailing into the air. I was ten, eleven at the most, mind you, with no notion of the miraculous or the marvelous, nothing, nothing I was just flung into the air. And I felt something supporting me, holding me up, and I was literally SET DOWN on the ground, on the stones. I got up (I found it perfectly natural, you understand!): not a scratch, not a speck of dust, nothing, absolutely intact. I fell down very, very slowly. Then everyone rushed up to see. Oh, its nothing! I said, I am all right. And I left it at that. But the impression lingered. That feeling of something carrying me (gesture of a slow fall, like a leaf falling in stages with slight pauses): I fell down that slow. And the material proof was there, it was no illusion since I was unscathed the road was paved with stones (you know the flint stones of France?): not a scratch, nothing. Not a speck of dust.
The soul was very alive at the time, and with all its strength it resisted the intrusion of the material logic4 of the worldso it seemed to me perfectly natural. I simply thought, No. Accidents cant happen to me.
But flung like that! For a very long time the memory of the SENSATION remained: something that went like this (same gesture of a leaf falling) and simply set me down on the road. When I worked with Thon, the memory came back, and I saw it was an entity: what people in Europe call angels (what do they call it?) guardian angels, thats right. An entity. Thon had told me of certain worlds (worlds of the higher intellect I dont remember, he had named all the different planes), and in that world are winged beingswho have wings of their own free choice, because they find it pretty! And Madame Thon had always seen two such beings with me. Yet she knew me more than ten years later. And it appears they were always with me. So I took a look and, sure enough, there they were. One even tried to draw: he asked me to lend him my hand to do drawings. I lent my hand, but when I saw the drawing (he did one), I told him, The ones I do without you are much better! So that was the end of the matter!
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All this took place before the age of thirteen or fourteen (from eight to thirteen or fourteen). Many things of the kind, all of which seemed to me perfectly naturalit didnt feel as though I was doing something miraculous. perfectly natural.
I remember also, once, there were iron hoops (I dont know if they still exist) bordering the lawns in the Bois de Boulogne and I used to take a walk on them! It was a challenge I threw to my brother (there was a difference of sixteen months between us, he was older and much better behaved too!). I told him, Can you walk on these? Leave me alone, he answered, its not interesting. Just watch! I told him. And I started walking on them, with such ease! As if I had done it all my life. It was the same phenomenon: I felt weightless.
0 1963-04-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So I advised him to be sure to keep his eyes open: it maintains a certain activity. When you close your eyes, you plunge into trance (you are perfectly conscious, but you go into trance and the body is absolutely stilled). Thats what Thon had taught me: you free the body consciousness and train it in such a way that it can act on its own, so that while you are deep in trance, you can get up, write, speak, do anythingyou are outside the body, theres just a link left. But its a whole training. Its not too easy, but still it can be done.
I did it to the point that even if the link is cut (I had the experience), the body can go on speaking. Very useful.
0 1963-05-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Why not? It doesnt occur to him [X] because hes used to sitting and writing on the ground. Its the same as if I thought it impossible to meditate unless I sat cross-legged and bolt upright! Fortunately, I lived with Sri Aurobindo, who never used to sit cross-legged. He told me right away that it was all a question of habitssubconscious habits. It has no importance whatsoever. And how well he explained: if a posture is necessary for you, it will come by itself. And its perfectly true, for instance, that when necessary, the body will suddenly sit up straightit comes spontaneously. As he said, the important thing is not the external frame but the inner experience, and if there is a physical necessity and your inner experience is entirely sincere, that physical necessity will come ALL BY ITSELF.2 This is something I am absolutely sure of. And he gave me his own example (I had mine, too) of certain things considered dangerous or bad, which we both did independently and spontaneously, and which were a great help to us! Consequently, all those stories of posture and so on are the petty mechanical bounds of the human mind.
It came to me while I was walking [for the japa]. I had a kind of vision of you squatting askew and writing. And I thought, But thats awful! Hell ruin his health!
0 1963-05-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You suffer from, say, a physical trouble, purely physical (morally speaking, it goes without saying, the thing is quite clear; I mean something purely material). Something is disorganized in the working or the structure of the organs. The result is pain. At first you endure, then out of endurance comes perfect equality, and out of perfect equality comes ecstasyits perfectly possible; its not only possible, it has been proved. But the experiment should be carried through TO THE END to know whether ecstasy has the power to restore the bodys order, or whether it ends in dissolution: you are in ecstasy and die in ecstasy. That is, you leave your body while in ecstasy. Is that so? Its not only possible, its perfectly obvious. But thats not what we want! We want to restore order, to eliminate disorder IN MATTERdoes ecstasy have the power to restore order in the physical working and triumph over the forces of dissolution?
The only way to find out is to make the experiment!
0 1963-05-29, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And in as much as the very cells of the body no longer feel their separateness (that is almost entirely gone, even in the sensation), then something is done (or takes place), but without any self-observation. Somewhere (gesture above), something knows, wills and acts; somewhere else, there is a certain number of things in a state of happy receptivity, and absolutely, extraordinarily passive, not interfering. And the less it observes, the better. It remains in an inner contemplation, or rather turned to the Heights (a Height that is everywhere, of course, not just above), a Height perfectly luminous, perfectly conscious, perfectly effective. And thats all that is needed.
The less the consciousness is turned to the outside, the less it perceives obstacles, resistancesall that appears more and more unreal, transient, extremely relative.
In the necessary and unavoidable everyday contact with people, there is a growing perception that whatever the circumstance (which in itself is so simple, simpler than a child, you knowa perfect simplicity), as soon as it comes into contact with the terrestrial human atmosphere, it becomes ever so complicated! And quite unnecessarily. It seems as if the normal human occupation is to complicate all that could be extremely simple. I see this day after day, for all the small events of every day, of each and every minute. With certain consciousnesses as soon as it touches certain consciousnesses it is twisted, sometimes into terrible knots. Then it takes a fantastic labor to undo it the whole thing perfectly unnecessary!
These last few days, in fact, I have been observing it all and wondering, Why are things this way? It must have been the meansprobably the most effective means, I dont knowto emerge from inertia, from tamas. If everything worked in that Simplicity, that perfect Quietness, well, human consciousness would be in such a state that it would have simply fallen asleep. It would have reached the state not even of an animal, perhaps of a slumbering plant!
0 1963-06-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its perfectly obvious that people can live, that men can exist and live BECAUSE they are unconscious. If they were conscious, really conscious of the state they live in, it would be intolerable. And I can see that there is a very difficult period when you go from that unconsciousness (unconsciousness of the habit of living in that state) to a conscious vision of the state you live in. When you become totally conscious of things as they areof what you are, of your condition and when you do not yet have the power to get out, like last night, its almost intolerable. And there was a very clear awareness, very precise, that it isnt a question of life or death: it doesnt depend on that sort of thing, which ultimately changes nothing but a wholly superficial appearance thats not it! You know, people who are unhappy think, Ah, a day will come when Ill die, and all my difficulties will be overtheyre simpletons! It wont be over at all, it will go on. It will go on until the time when they get out for good, that is, when they emerge from Ignorance into Knowledge. Its the only way out: to emerge from Ignorance into Knowledge. And you can die a thousand times, it wont get you out, its perfectly uselessit just goes on. Sometimes, on the contrary, it drags you even further down.
Thats the thing.
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It was very strange because I was in that state all the time, saying to myself, I must find something, I must find something, theres something to find. And I tried to call down the experiences of the higher beings,1 but it couldnt reach downit couldnt reach down, couldnt make contact. So when I saw that old man come (I knew perfectly well that he could do nothing whatsoever, but I thought, I must ask him, I must ask him just the same, I must ask him), I asked himalthough I knew perfectly well that he couldnt give me the key. There was that double thing: the knowledge that all that goes on there2 is useless, useless, that thats not where the solution lies; and yet you should neglect nothing, overlook nothing, leave no stone unturned. Give everything a try.
(silence)
0 1963-06-29, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But clay, that was something really newand lovely! Pink. Pink, a warm, golden pink. They were cutting out [of the clay] rooms, stairways, ship decks and funnels, captains cabins. Sri Aurobindo himself is as he was, but more with a harmony of form: very, very broad here (in the chest), broad and solid. And very agile: he comes and goes, sits down, gets up, always with great majesty. His color is a sort of golden bronze, a color like the coagulation of his supramental gold, of his golden supramental being; as if it were very concentrated and coagulated to fashion his appearance; and it doesnt reflect light: it seems as if lit from within (but it doesnt radiate), and it doesnt cast any shadows. But perfectly natural, it doesnt surprise you, the most natural thing in the world: thats the way he is. Ageless; his hair has the same color as his body: he has hair, but you cant say if its hair, its the same color; the eyes too: a golden look. Yet its perfectly natural, nothing surprising. He sits down just as he used to, with his leg as he used to put it [the right leg in front], and at the same time, when he gets up, he is agile: he comes and goes. Then when he went out of the house (he had told me he would have to go, he had an appointment with someone: he had promised to see two people, he had to go), he went out into a big garden, and down to the boatwhich wasnt exactly a boat, it was a flat boatand he had to go to the captains cabin (he had to see the captain about some work), but it was with that boat that he was returning to his room elsewherehe has a room elsewhere. Then after a while I thought, Ill follow him so I can see. So I followed him; as long as I saw him in front of me I followed him. And when I came to the boat, I saw it was entirely built out of pink clay! Some workmen were working thereadmirable workmen. So Sri Aurobindo went down quite naturally, down into the ship under construction, without (I dont think there were any stairs), and I followed him down. Then I saw him enter the captains room; as he had told me he had some work to do, I thought (laughing), I dont want to meddle in others business! Ill go back home (and I did well, I was already late in waking up!), Ill go back home. And I saw one of the workmen leaving (as Sri Aurobindo had come back to the ship, they stopped the work). He was leaving. I called him, but he didnt know my language or any of the languages I know; so I called him in thought and asked him to pull me up, as I was below and there was a sheer wall of slippery clay. Then he smiled and with his head he said, I certainly dont mind helping you, but it isnt necessary! You can climb up all by yourself. And indeed he held out his hand, I took it (I only touched him slightly), and climbed up all by myself without the slightest difficulty I was weightless! I didnt have to pull at his hand, he didnt pull me up. And as soon as I was up, I went back home I woke up and found myself in my bed five minutes later than my usual time.
But what struck me was the clayit means something very material, doesnt it? And pink! A pink, oh, lovely! A golden pink.
0 1963-07-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The experiences go on multiplying. But then, outwardly, everyone seems to start squabbling and quarreling with each other (laughing) much more than before, even (!), over the most futile things in the world and most unnecessarily, without any ground, just like that. And then, to me the two sides become visible at once: the true thing and its deformation; the event as it should occur and its deformation. Yet the event REMAINS THE SAMEthe deformation is merely a sort of excrescence added on to it, which is absolutely unnecessary and complicates things atrociously, for no reason. And also which gives a strong impression of Falsehood (in the English sense of falsehood, not lie1): something without meaning or purpose, absolutely unnecessary and perfectly idiotic then why is it there?? Seized and twistedeverything is seized and twisted. Where does that habit of twisting things come from? I dont know.
Ultimately one wonders who finds it amusing?! People complain, they say theyre wretched but its their own fault! Theyre the first to twist things! If they didnt have that habit, everything would be perfectly simple.
And events would NOT be changed.
0 1963-07-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The importance of the body is obvious; it is because he has developed or been given a body and brain capable of receiving and serving a progressive mental illumination that man has risen above the animal. Equally, it can only be by developing a body or at least a functioning of the physical instrument capable of receiving and serving a still higher illumination that he will rise above himself and realise, not merely in thought and in his internal being but in life, a perfectly divine manhood. Otherwise either the promise of Life is cancelled, its meaning annulled and earthly being can only realise Sachchidananda by abolishing itself, by shedding from it mind, life and body and returning to the pure Infinite, or else man is not the divine instrument, there is a destined limit to the consciously progressive power which distinguishes him from all other terrestrial existences and as he has replaced them in the front of things, so another must eventually replace him and assume his heritage.
(The Life Divine, XVIII.231)
0 1963-07-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But this one [M.] knew very little, he wasnt an intellectual, he was a man of action, very psychicvery much so! Lovely, oh, lovely! He was like a little child, naked, of course, a baby this big, with small arms, small legsdancing about, he was glad, laughing and laughing, he was happy. And all luminous. I immediately told his son (he did a pranam and rose with his eyes full of tears), I told him, Dont weep, he is now where he wants to be and perfectly at rest. I didnt tell him the storyhe wouldnt have understood a thing!
(Then Mother reads two letters by Sri Aurobindo which will appear in a future Bulletin:)
0 1963-07-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, each cell is perfectly conscious.
Then they would go into other bodies?
0 1963-08-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The last experience (which Ive had these last few days), in which apparently there was a hitch (it wasnt really one) was a sort of demonstration. I told you what it was, you remember: its like a purge of all the vibrations that are false vibrations, that arent the pure and simple response to the supreme Influence (all that in the cells still responds to the vibrations of falsehood, either from habit or from the people around or the food takenfifty thousand things). Then, with an aspiration or a decision, almost a prayer for purification coming from the body, something happens which, naturally, upsets the balance; the imbalance in turn brings about a general discomfort. The form discomfort takes is habitually the same: first, pains and all kinds of sensations I need not describe; if that state goes on developing, if it is allowed to assume its full proportions, it results in the past it resulted in a faint. But this time, I followed the process for about two hours from the moment I got up: the struggle between the new balance, the new Influence that was getting established, and the resistance of all the existing elements forced to go away. That created a sort of conflict. The consciousness remained very clear the consciousness of the BODY remained very clear, very quiet, perfectly trusting. So for two hours I was able to follow the process (while going on with all my usual activities, without changing anything), until I felt, or rather was told sufficiently clearly that the Lord wanted my body to be completely immobile for a while so that He might complete His work. But I am not all alone: there are other people here to help me and watch over everything (but I dont say or explain anything to them, those are things I dont talk about I dont say what goes on, I dont say anything), so I sat there wondering, Is it really and truly indispensable? (Mother laughs) Then I felt the Lord exert a little more pressure, which heightened the intensity of the conflict, so that I had all the signs of fainting I understood (!) I stood up, let my body moan a little to make it plain it didnt feel too well (!) and I stretched out. Then I was immobile, and in that immobility, I saw the work that was being donea work that cannot be done if you go on moving about. I saw the work. It took nearly half an hour; in half an hour it was over. Which means there is really there is a fact I cannot doubt, even if all the surrounding thoughts and forces contradict it: I cannot doubt that the consciousness is increasing more and more the consciousness in the body. It is growing more and more precise, luminous, exactQUIETvery peaceful. Yet very conscious of a TREMENDOUS battle against millennial habits. Do you follow?
When it was over, I saw that even physically, bodily, there is a strength: the result is an increased strength. A very clearly increased strength.
0 1963-08-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At times For the body its a constant worka constant laborvery tiny, of every instant, an unceasing effort, with, so to say, an imperceptible result (externally at any rate, quite nonexistent), so for someone who doesnt have my consciousness, its perfectly obvious that the body appears to wear out and age, to be slowly heading for decomposition: thats in everyones atmosphere and consciousness (Mother laughs), its the kind of appreciation and vibration thats being thrown all the time on this poor body, which besides is quite conscious of its infirmityit doesnt entertain any illusions! But that quiet, peaceful, but UNCEASING endurance in the effort of transformation makes it sometimes yearn for a little ecstasynot as an abolition or annihilation, not at all, but it seems to be saying, Oh, Lord, I beg you, let me be You in all tranquillity. In fact, thats its prayer every evening when people are supposed to leave it in peace (unfortunately they leave it in peace physically, but mentally they dont). But that I could cut off, I learned to cut off long, long ago, I could cut off, but something, I mean somewhere, someone doesnt approve! (Mother laughs) Obviously what the Someone the great Someonewants to see realized is perfect peace, perfect rest, and joy, a passive joy (not too active; a passive joy is enough), a passive, constant joy, WITHOUT forsaking the work. In other words, the individual experience isnt regarded as all-importantvery far from it: the help given to the whole, the leaven which makes the whole rise, is AT LEAST equally important. Ultimately, thats probably the major reason for persisting in this body.
Nothing inside asks any questions, there are no problems there; all the problems I am talking about are posed by the body, for the body; otherwise, inside, everything is perfect, everything is exactly as it should be. And totally so: what people call good, what they call evil, the beautiful, the ugly, the all that is a small immensity (not a big immensity), a small immensity that is moving more and more towards a progressive realization thats the correct phrasewithin an integral Consciousness which integrally (how should I put it?) enjoys, or I could say, feels the plenitude of what He doesdoes, is and so forth (its all the same thing). But this poor body
0 1963-08-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, but then I would have to tell everything. Its exactly as your friend wrote in that letter: if you present an objective theory, then its finepeople can take it or leave it, it doesnt matter; but when you introduce that personal element Not that I am afraid people may not appreciate (I am perfectly indifferent to that), its that I fear it may harm some.
Harm, how?
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Either I should give lessons, or else But I must say that nowadays I dont enjoy it. I find it so childish to say, Things happen in this way I know perfectly well they dont happen in this way! They happen in this way and they happen in another way, and everything is possible. You cant keep telling people, Everything is possible, you know. To keep repeating, Everything is possible, you know, is absurd.
So either I should keep quiet, or else
0 1963-08-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
These last few days, I had an opportunity to work on the proportion between the expression and the fact. Let me explain: for example, you have an experience (there are two cases where its very clear) first you have the experience, then comes the expression of that experience; and the proportion between the divine simplicity of the experience and the realizing power of the expression is what gives the measure of perfect sincerity the ratio between the two must be perfectly true.
I saw in that almost a key to assess sincerity.
0 1963-09-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the night before, I was with Sri Aurobindo, who gave me a revelation. I was with him, he was reclining (not stretched out but on a sort of chaise longue) and I was supposed to bring him something to eat (not at all like physical food, its something else I dont know what it is its rather different in that world the subtle physical), and it was expressed to me (there were no words in my consciousness; I dont know why, no words), he told me something which I understood perfectly, not only understood but it made me very happy, a joy came into me, and I answered, Yes, exactly! It corresponds to the experience I had today and which is??? (Mother leaves her sentence hanging) You see, I was conscious while I was having all the activity, but it was expressed in words [there] that arent words [here], so I dont know what to do! And he told me in the tone you take when expressing a definitive and overwhelming experience (his tone was one of absolute power) something that was translated like this: Now, the nourishment (it wasnt nourishment but food) comes from the whole of Nature at once. (Mother utters those words like a riddle or an open sesame that has not yet opened the door) And he told me to bring it to him (that too was a translation): Yes, you will bring it (the it was that food coming from the whole Nature at onceits a seemingly silly transcription, but anyway), you will bring it in this translucent bowl. And I replied, Yes, I knew, I knew that I had to use this translucent bowl to bring you the food. But what on earth does that correspond to?? Yet it was so evident! There was such a joy! (Because as I was conscious, I thought, Well, all the same, I am still following him closely in his development, its going on as when he was here: when he wins a victory, it is materialized in me.) Thus I was perfectly conscious and I told him, Ah, I am glad! (I am faltering, of course, it wasnt that at allit was admirable.) Oh, I am glad, I knew that I had to bring you the food in this translucent bowl. And the translucent bowl was a marvel! I had it, you see, it was beautiful! It was like opaline, living glass, all luminous but with all the lights alive and moving, and what colors! Pink, mauve, silver and gold, oh, it was so very beautiful. And I brought it to him.
It impressed me very strongly. Very strongly: I was under a spell, probably because the experience was still too strong and powerful for the material brain. And I saw it immediately; at the very moment of the experience, I saw it was a transcription, and an extraordinarily poor transcription, but nothing better could be done.
0 1963-09-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The difference is this: In one case, the purpose of the earth is a concentration of the Work (which means it can be done more rapidly, consciously and perfectly here), and so there is a serious reason to stay on and do it. In the other case, its just one experiment amidst thousands or millions of others; and if that experiment doesnt particularly appeal to you, to want to get out of it is legitimate.
I dont see how it would be possible for one point of the Supreme not to be the whole Supreme. If there is a difficulty here, its a difficulty for the WHOLE, isnt it?
0 1963-10-05, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On the way, the same thing happened again: I went the usual wayplop! cut off, nothing left, I cant get through; I come back, start another wayplop! cut off, I cant get through. Yet I kept going up (how, I dont know). Then I reached a sort of square terrace-balcony, perfectly square, and ALL its doors were closed. There was no way of going farther: all the doors were closed. Then I see water rising, rising, rising in the ENTIRE building, except the places where the doors were closed. Downstairs (I dont know, I was very high up, maybe on the fourth or fifth floor) the doors were closed, so naturally water could not get in. All the courtyards (large, immense courtyards) were turned into swimming pools. What water! I kept watching it, admiring it; I said to myself, What wonderful water! So clear, so clear, clearer than any I ever saw. Water that was I cant say, it was transparent like like purity itself, it was marvelous. It was rising and rising and rising. I saw in one of the courtyards on my left (a very large courtyard: it had become an immense swimming pool!), I saw a person in a bathing suit come out of the water, as if he had taken his bath in it, and wrap himself up (a very tall person, very tall, who was neither a man nor a woman), he wrapped himself up in a bathrobe, then walked away on the water (!) I was watching this till suddenly I realized that the water was beginning to reach my feet. Then I KNEW: Ah, yes! Theyve decided to do this. I was a little upset: They really could have told me they were going to do this! I thought. Its something they must do regularly. Did they inform some people? (All this in my head, of course.)
And I kept admiring that water, thinking, But its purity itself! It was reaching my feet, yet I wasnt getting wet. Then I remarked, If I stay here (Because I was standing with my back against closed doors and the building extended beyond them, but in front of me there was nothing, so normally the water should have flowed out that wayhow is it then that it didnt? I dont know the whole thing was quite marvelous!) And it was rising and rising and rising, until it reached my ankles and suddenly triggered something within me I woke up.
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I kept going up, but all the ways I knew stopped short. First I had started up a very large staircase, a magnificent staircase of pink marble, that was the way I had to go upstairs, but just as I turned on the landingplop! impossible to get through. (But how is it? Impossible to get through, yet I went up just the same?..) And I find myself on another landing, I try again to go up from thereplop! stopped, impossible to get through. I try again and find myself on the third landing (but in fact I was on a higher floor, because I had already climbed two flights before I was stopped), I reach the third landing and find myself on a squarea perfect squareedged with a parapet of pink marble, but with reddish veins, very beautiful: very beautiful, it was chiseledmagnificent. Then a door, a sort of bronze door behind me, which was closed. So I watched and saw the water rising and rising (it wasnt water, but it was liquid like water). And in front of me: an immensity. No limits. I seemed to be above all the other houses; there were no trees, no mountains, nothingan immensity, like a perfectly cloudless sky; and it wasnt white, but there was light in it. I was looking down and I saw the water rising and rising and risinglike the Flood. But it wasnt water.
It will come back until I understand.
0 1963-10-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It would succeed with any ordinary medium, or with a faker. A faker, someone insincere, would be immediately taken in, because in such cases IT IS SINCERITY THAT SAVES. Going by appearances its very, very difficult to make out the difference. It is sincerity that saves (its the same thing I said to Sujata3). I remember how Madame Thon, after I told her several of my experiences, said to me, Nobody can deceive you because you are perfectly sincere (occultly, I dont say outwardly: occultly). And its true, it depends on the sincerity. Consequently, that X should attempt this shows he has a peculiar opinion of me!
But why all this? To what end?
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And always that question of age In everybody, everybody, without even their noticing it, there is always in the background (for the slightest thing, at the slightest opportunity), always the idea of old age, of going downhill, of decrepitude. And it comes a thousand times a day! (Mother laughs) So here too, I say to the Lord, Listen, am I really going downhill? Then He shows me one or two things in a dazzling light. It happens to me off and onnot oftenwhen the avalanche has been considerable enough; then there is a bedazzlement of Light and Power, sometimes of such a formidable Power that you get the feeling that if you were to wield it what would happen? For instance, if I simply come into contact with a malicious ill will (thats rare), an urge or a desire to harm, I do this (Mother pinches the vibration between her fingers), I do this (but it corresponds to an inner action: its a Power that acts together with a white Light, absolutely white, you know, intolerant of anything but the perfectly white), and almost instantly, in the person in whom the movement of ill will resulted in a partial possession of the vital: an attack of nerves or (what do they call it?) a vital collapse or a nervous collapse, very tangible. So naturally, you curb all movements and you watch it all, perfectly quiet, with the eternal Smile. But its as if to show me: herehere is the potentiality (!) Only there is no Order to wield it, except now and then just to see.
(silence)
0 1963-10-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But that thing I saw yesterday, that bubbly formation of joie de vivre, I saw clearly that its one of the greatest obstaclesone of the greatest obstacles: a vital joy that knows only itself, that knows nothing other than its own vital joy and is perfectly content. I saw it was a great obstacle, because it already contained a sort of reflection of the True Thing. And then, you can only laugh, but there are stern people who say, Youll see when you get sick, youll see when you get old. (All that came because there was a whole work, which represents a whole great drama on the earths scale, there was this and that and that.) What for? Why be stern? Let them be happy, they represent why, its like foam on fresh beer!
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0 1963-11-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday, I had resolved to see Sujata, and they kept me standing there arranging objects, perfectly unnecessarily, under the pretext that there are showcases, that visitors are expected and that the objects should be arranged in the showcases. After spending more than an hour on that work, I told them, Go away, Ive had enough! Anddo whatever you like. I was exasperated.
An avalanche of people, of letters, of things, of complications. But at the same time, theres an avalanche of (how can I put it?)everything, everything is becoming so new. Everything. Everything.
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Its impossible to satisfy desire perfectlyits something. impossible. And to renounce desire too: you renounce one desire and get another one. Therefore, both ways are relatively impossiblewhats possible is to enter a condition in which there is no desire.
(long silence)
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If we look at it from a psychological standpoint On the mental plane, its very easy; on the vital plane, its not too difficult; on the physical plane, its a little heavier, because desires are passed off as needs. But there too, there has been a field of experience these last few days: the study of medical and scientific conceptions on the bodys makeup, its needs, and whats good or bad for it. And all this, in its essence, again boils down to the same question of vibrations. It was quite interesting: there was an appearance (because all things as the ordinary consciousness sees them are nothing but appearances), there was an appearance of food poisoning (mushrooms that are thought to have been bad). It was the object of a particular study to find out whether there was something absolute about the poisoning, or whether it was relative, that is, based on ignorance, a wrong reaction and the absence of the true Vibration. And the conclusion was as follows: its a question of proportion between the amount, the sum of the vibrations that belong to the Supreme, and the sum of the vibrations that still belong to darkness. Depending on the proportion, the poisoning appears as something concrete, real, or else as something that can be eliminated, in other words, that doesnt resist the influence of the Vibration of Truth. And it was very interesting, because, immediately, as soon as the consciousness became aware of the cause of the trouble in the bodys functioning (the consciousness perceived where it came from and what it was), immediately the observation began, with the idea: Lets see what happens. First set the body perfectly at rest with the certainty (which is always there) that nothing happens except by the Lords Will and that the effect too is the Lords Will, all the consequences are the Lords Will, and consequently one should be very still. So the body is very still: untroubled, not agitated, it doesnt vibrate, nothingvery still. Once this is achieved, to what extent are the effects unavoidable? Because a certain quantity of matter that contained an element unfavorable to the bodys elements and life was absorbed, what is the proportion between the favorable and the unfavorable elements, or between the favorable and the unfavorable vibrations? And I saw very clearly: the proportion varies according to the amount of cells in the body that are under the direct Influence, that respond to the supreme Vibration alone, and the amount of other cells that still belong to the ordinary way of vibrating. It was very clear, because I could see all the possibilities, from the ordinary mass [of cells], which is completely upset by that intrusion and where you have to fight with all the ordinary methods to get rid of the undesirable element, to the totality of the cellular response to the supreme Force, which renders the intrusion perfectly innocuous. But this is still a dream for tomorrowwere on the way. But the proportion has become rather favorable (I cant say all-powerful, far from it, but rather favorable), so that the consequences of the ill-being didnt last very long and the damage was, so to say, minimal.
But all the experiences nowadays, one after the otherall the PHYSICAL experiences, of the bodypoint to the same conclusion: everything depends on the proportion between the elements that respond exclusively to the Supremes Influence, the half-and-half elements, on the road to transformation, and the elements that still follow Matters old vibratory process. The latter appear to be decreasing in number, to a great extent, but there are still enough of them to bring about unpleasant effects or unpleasant reactionsthings that are untransformed, that still belong to ordinary life. But all problems, whether psychological or purely material or chemical, all problems boil down to this: they are nothing but questions of vibrations. And there is the perception of that totality of vibrations and of what we could call (in a very rough and approximative way) the difference between the constructive and the destructive vibrations. We can say (to put it very simply) that all the vibrations that come from the One and express Oneness are constructive, while all the complications of the ordinary, separative consciousness lead to destruction.
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have been shown in a perfectly objective, but tenuous, way some effects that are insignificant in their dimensions, yet OVERWHELMING, I am telling you, overwhelming in their quality. And with a smile, as if I were made fun of and told, Oh, so you want results? Well, here they are. You want effects? Well, here they are. And then it went on (you know, what I call insignificant is what concerns lifes tiny little circumstances of every minute): You want TERRESTRIAL results? Well, these are far more considerable in their quality than you can see. And indeed, I saw small, very small things, movements of consciousness in Matter, tiny little things that were truly astounding in their quality, and that are never noticed because they are totally unimportant (outwardly unimportant). Only if you observe in a most tenuous way do you notice them, because they are, in fact, phenomena of consciousness in the cellsare you conscious of your cells?
(Satprem shakes his head)
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All these last few days, it has been coming as as proofs, proofs that can crush any doubt: proofs of the Supremes omnipresence in the apparently MOST UNCONSCIOUS MATTER something so overwhelming that the rational reason can hardly believe it. But it is forced to. Only, of course, you notice it when you have reached that most tenuous degree of attention and when, instead of wanting great things that cause a lot of noise and movement and appear very dazzling, you content yourself with observing very, very little, very tiny things that are to our pretentious reason perfectly insignificant, but to the Lord are crushing proofs.
But I dont need proofs! I dont doubt for a second, there isnt one doubt in my consciousness.
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There are times when one is disgusted, and thats just when one should remember this. Now, your disgust may have reasons of its own (!) But you have only to endure. You know, there is one thing, I dont know if you have savored it yet: as soon as you have a difficulty, dissatisfaction, revolt, disgustanythingfatigue, tension, discomfort, all, all that negative side (there are lots and lots and lots of such things, they take on all kinds of different colors), the immediate movementimmediateof calling the Lord and saying, Its up to You. As long as you try (instinctively you try to arrange things with your best light, your best consciousness, your best knowledge), its stupid, because that prolongs the struggle, and ultimately its not very effective. There is only one effective thing, thats to step back from whats still called me and with or without words, it doesnt matter, but above all with the flame of aspiration, this (gesture to the heart), and something perfectly, perfectly sincere: Lord, its You; and only You can do it, You alone can do it, I cant. Its excellent, you cant imagine how excellent! For instance, someone comes and deluges you with impossible problems, wants you to make instant decisions; you have to write, you have to answer, you have to sayall of itand its like truckloads of darkness and stupidity and wrong movements and all that being dumped on you; and its dumped and dumped and dumpedyou are almost stoned to death with all that. You begin to stiffen, you get tense; then, immediately (gesture of stepping back): O Lord. You stay quiet, take a little step back (gesture of offering): Its up to you.
But you cant imagine, its wonderful! Immediately there comesclear, simple, effortlessly, without seeking for itexactly what has to be done or said or written: the whole tension stops, its over. And then, if you need paper, the paper is there; if you need a fountain pen, you find just the one you need; if you need (theres no seeking: above all dont seek, dont try to seek, youll just make another mess)its there. And thats a fact of EVERY MINUTE. You have the field of experience every second. For instance, youre dealing with a servant who doesnt do things properly or as you think they should be done, or youre dealing with a stomach that doesnt work the way youd like it to and it hurts: its the same method, there is no other. You know, at times situations get so tense that you feel as if youre about to faint, the body cant stand it any more, its so tense; or else theres a pain, something wrong, things arent sorting themselves out, and theres a tension; so immediately you stop everything: Lord, You, its up to You. At first there comes a peace, as if you were entirely outside existence, and then its gone the pain goes, the dizziness disappears. And what is to happen happens automatically. And, you see, its not in meditation, not in actions of terrestrial importance: its the field of experience you have ALL the time, without interruptionwhen you know how to put it to use. And for everything: when something hurts, for instance, when things resist or grate or howl inside there, instead of your saying, Oh, how it hurts! you call the Lord in there: Come in here, and then you stay calm, not thinking of anythingyou simply stay still in your sensation. And more than a thousand times, you know, I was almost bewildered: Look! The pain is gone! You didnt even notice how it went. So people who want to lead a special life or have a special organization to have experiences, thats quite silly the greatest possible diversity of experiences is at your disposal every minute, every minute. Only you must learn not to have a mental ambition for great things. Just the other day, I was shown in such a clear way a very small thing I had done (I, its the body speaking), a very small things that had been done by the Lord in this body (thats a long sentence!), and I was shown the terrestrial consequence of that very small thingit was visible, I mean, as my hand is visible to my eyesand the terrestrial correspondence. Then I understood.
0 1963-11-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So there is the good destiny and the bad destiny; there is a divine force which one regards as something entirely beyond understanding, whose designs and aims are perfectly inexplicable, and the submission, the surrender consists in acceptingblindlyall that happens. Ones nature revolts, but revolts against an Absolute against which it is helpless. And all of that is Ignorance. Not one of all those movements is truefrom the most intense revolt to the blindest submission, its all false, not one true movement.
I dont know if its in Sri Aurobindos writings (I dont remember), but I hear very strongly (not for me, for mankind):
0 1963-11-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The intelligences that have emerged into a higher light are like stars scattered over a perfectly dark sky perfectly dark.
But this trigger you mention, Kennedys death, will it precipitate things in the sense of a shake-up?
0 1963-12-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When we speak of perception or knowledge through identity, it is still something that projects itself, identifies itself and OBSERVES itself while doing so; and it is conscious of the result. But my experience now isnt like that; it isnt something projecting itself: its an overall perception. So instead of being able to say, You think this way, THIS ONE thinks that way, THAT ONE feels this way, one thinks it or feels it with more or less clarity in the perception, more or less precision in the perception, but its always oneyou dont feel like saying I; theres no I, its one, its something. Listen, Ill give you an example: this morning I received that Italian, he started speaking, making gestures, telling me thingsNOT ONE sound reached my ears yet I knew perfectly well what he was saying. And I answered him in the same way, without speaking. I didnt feel it was someone else talking to me and that I was answering him: it was a totality of movements more or less conscious of themselves, a totality and an exchange, an interchange of movements more or less conscious of themselves, with some vibrations more conscious, some less conscious, but the whole thing very living, very active. But then, in order to speak, I would have had to put myself in the ordinary consciousness in which the Italian was over there and I was here but it didnt mean anything any more, it wasnt true. So there was something answering within, very actively, very distinctly, and all of it went on together (gesture showing movements of consciousness or waves of vibrations), and at the same time, there was a consciousnessa very, very vast consciousness which was watching it all [those exchanges of vibrations] and exerting a sort of control, a very, very slight but very precise control, so as to put each vibration in its place.
Thats how it is now when I see people. And it seems to be becoming more and more constant.
0 1963-12-14, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The way the world is now physically organized, with the difference and specialization in the forms, in sexes, encourages a kind of opposition between the two poles, the union of which results in creation. So, naturally, each pole has enormous difficulty understanding the other (although it thinks and believes it does), especially understanding the pole I place underneath (gesture signifying the basis of the world), which is the effectively creative pole, that is to say, what is expressed by woman. She feels very well that without this (gesture above) the full understanding isnt there; but this, which is above, doesnt AT ALL understand the creative power of that which is belowit knows it in principle, but doesnt understand it. And there is a lack of adaptation, a sort of conflict, which shouldnt exist. It never existedneverbetween Sri Aurobindo and me, but I could see it didnt exist because he had adopted the attitude of complete surrender to the eternal Mother (the stage, in the creation, of complete surrender). I would see it, and it embarrassed me! It embarrassed me, I thought, But why does he think he has to do that (laughing), as if I couldnt understand! On the contrary, I thirst for the other attitude for identifying myself this way instead of that way (Mother presses her fist upward against her hand above): for identifying myself from below upward instead of from above downward. It was an aspiration, which has been there almost for eternities for the universal creative Force to identify itself with the Creator. And to identify itself not through the descent of the Creator, but through the ascent of the Force the conscious ascent. But Sri Aurobindo willed it that way, so it was that way and then I was very busy with my work. For the thirty years we lived together, it went on that way, perfectly smoothly; and I kept my aspiration quiet because I knew that it was his will. But since he left and I was obliged to do his work, so to speak, things have changed. But I didnt in the least want the Creator, because of my taking up the work, to be obliged to adapt himself to the creative Force (that wont do at all!), and my whole aspiration has been for the creative Force to consciously BECOME the Creator. Its becoming increasingly that way. And at the last meeting [with Sri Aurobindo], for a time (not the whole time, but some time), it was that way. Then I understood; it made me understand the play of all the forces in the two elements the two polesand how they could be joined, through what process that opposition could disappear so that the total Being might exist.
Were on the way. And its growing clearer and clearer. It will be tremendously interesting. But thats for later on.
0 1964-01-15, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And this field of experience also includes the physical mindall the mental constructions that have a direct action on life and on the body; there is there an almost unlimited field of experiences. And everything takes the form not of a speculation or a thought, but of an experience. Ill give you an example to make myself understood. I wont tell you the thing as it occurred, but as I now know it to be. There is in France someone very devoted, born Catholic, and who was seriously ill. He wrote to me asking what he should do; he said that people around him naturally wanted him to receive extreme unction (they thought he was about to die), and he wrote to ask me if it had any influence on the progress of his inner being and whether he should refuse categorically. I knew none of this [as Mother had not yet received the letter], but I had an experience here, in which a priest and altar boys came to give me extreme unction! (Thats how it presented itself to me.) They wanted to give me extreme unction, so I watched I watched, I wanted to see; I thought, Well, before dismissing them abruptly, lets see what it is. (I had no idea why they had come, you understand; someone had sent them to give me extreme unctionnot that I felt particularly sick! But anyhow thats how it was.) So before dismissing them, I watched carefully to find out if really it had a power of action, if extreme unction had the power to disturb the progress of the soul and tie it down to old religious formations. I watched and I saw how thin and tenuous it was, without force; I saw clearly that it could have some force only if the priest who performed it was a conscious soul and did it consciously, in relationship with an inner power or force (vital or other), but that if it was an ordinary man doing his job and giving the sacraments with the ordinary belief and nothing more, it was perfectly harmless.
Once I had seen that, suddenly (it was as if on a screen) the whole story vanished and it was over. It had come only to make me see it, thats all. But it presented itself in that way in order to make me watch intently, seriously, not as a mental consideration: a vision and an experience.
Immediately afterwards, I had a visit from the Pope! The Pope [Paul VI] had come to Pondicherry (he does intend to visit India), he had come to Pondicherry and asked to see me (quite impossible things materially, of course, but they were perfectly simple and straightforward). So I saw him. He came, we met each other over there (in the music room), and we actually did speak to each other. I really felt the man in front of me (gesture of feeling), felt what he was. And he was very worried at the thought of what I was going to say to people about his visit: the revelation I would give of his visit. I saw that, but I didnt say anything. Finally he said (we were speaking in French, he had an Italian accent; but all this, you see, doesnt correspond to any thought: its like pictures in a film), he said, What will you tell people about my visit? So I looked at him (inner contacts are more concrete than pictures or words) and I simply answered him, after staring at him intently, I will tell them that we have been in communion in our love for the Lord. And there was in it the warmth of a golden lightextraordinary! Then I saw something relax in him, as if an anxiety were leaving him, and he left like that, in a great concentration.
Why did that come? I dont know.
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I didnt think about it. It was perfectly blank in my head. I didnt know at all. And then that came.
On February 29, 1964, second anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation upon earth.
0 1964-01-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I said this yesterday or the day before, because I was very angry with the Ashram people! We are going through a very difficult period financially, and so, you know, people they respect you only as long as you have money; when you have no more money, they dont respect you anymore and they find it so self-evident, so natural! They dont even feel ill at ease, not at all: its perfectly obvious that you respect someone only when he has money and holds you in his grip.
I wasnt happy, so I wrote this note.
0 1964-02-05, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But when you have the experience perfectly sincerely, that is, when you dont kid yourself, its necessarily one single point, ONE WAY of putting it, thats all. And it can only be that. There is, besides, the very obvious observation that when you habitually use a certain language, the experience expresses itself in that language: for me, it always comes either in English or in French; it doesnt come in Chinese or Japanese! The words are necessarily English or French, with sometimes a Sanskrit word, but thats because physically I learned Sanskrit. Otherwise, I heard (not physically) Sanskrit uttered by another being, but it doesnt crystallize, it remains hazy, and when I return to a completely material consciousness, I remember a certain vague sound, but not a precise word. Therefore, the minute it is formulated, its ALWAYS an individual angle.
It takes a sort of VERY AUSTERE sincerity. You are carried away by enthusiasm because the experience brings an extraordinary power, the Power is there its there before the words, it diminishes with the words the Power is there, and with that Power you feel very universal, you feel, Its a universal Revelation. True, it is a universal revelation, but once you say it with words, its no longer universal: its only applicable to those brains built to understand that particular way of saying it. The Force is behind, but one has to go beyond the words.
0 1964-02-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The whole day yesterday, I had an impressionnot a vague impression: a very precise sensationof the Pressure of something that was trying to manifest. But it was so material that it was almost like a physical pressure. And then a kind of Force that not only resisted, but revolted, trying to make a muddle of everythingto create unpleasant circumstances, trouble people, all sorts of perfectly unpleasant little nothings. I was watching all that.
And in the evening the resistance and revolt took a concrete form, as it were. Then, in response, there was in all the cells of the body a call, a desperate call for the Truth, as if all the cells were crying out, Ah, no! Weve had enough of this Falsehood, enough, enough, enough!the Truth, the Truth, the Truth. It put my body in a very deep trance. And it had the impression of a very, very intense struggle.
0 1964-02-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And whats going to come? Itll be like a perfectly innocuous little rain! Which probably will not even be perceptible for the ordinary consciousness.
Maybe the work would go faster if instead of burdening me with such superficial choressending blessings, signing photographs
0 1964-03-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then one has to hold still, put the Force and Now, I am conscious of where it comes from, of what it is, of who it is (when it comes from someone), of all that. And the response can be perfectly conscious and willed. And when I restore order here (gesture to the abdomen), it restores order there, too.
This, in the realm of thought, is something that has been there for a very long timevery long, years and years: the shock that comes from outside exactly as if it were its YOUR thought, but it comes from over there, it isnt actually here; and then the response. Since soon after the beginning of the century, this work has been going on. Afterwards, there was all the psychic work, in the same way (gesture of widening): the identification and the response. Then the vital work, which I began with Sri Aurobindo when we were staying over there [at the Guest House]; then the physical work, but there its gropingly learning ones job. Now there is a sort of certainty (not absolute and constant, but not far away), a sort of certainty: you see, you come into contact with something, and then you know instantly what should be done and how it should be done; the vibration comes, meets a response, and goes back and this is going on every minute, all the time.
0 1964-03-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was only this to be done: I kept perfectly still, callingcalling for the Lords Peace and Calm, that ever-widening Peace. The Infinite of the Lords Peace.
Then it became possible to bear the Vibration.
0 1964-03-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As soon as it concerns mental things, he understands perfectly well; as soon as it concerns material things, he doesnt understand anymore. But who can understand?
I cant say I understand, but
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I see the problem very clearly, because all these experiences (if you reread Prayers and Meditations, you will see), I had them in the mind, even in the vital, and at the time, naturally, what I said was very clear, it made perfect sense; but the body didnt participate: it obeyed. When its perfectly docile, it obeys, and it didnt stand in the way. But whats happening now is that all this, all these living experiences are taking place in the body itself; and unless one has them HERE, all my explanations of vibrations are meaningless
Its only when the experience becomes mental and psychological that people understand it.
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This very morning, I was following the movement, observing the control this Vibration of Truth has in the body in the presence of certain disorders (very small things in the body, you know: discomforts, disorders), I was observing how this Vibration of Truth abolishes those disorders and discomforts. It was very clear, very obvious, and ABSOLUTELY REMOVED from any spiritual notion, from any religious notion, from any psychological notion, so that the person who possessed this knowledge of opposition of one vibration to the other very clearly didnt in any way need to be a disciple or someone with philosophical knowledge or anything at all: he only had to have mastered this in order to realize a perfectly harmonious existence.
It was absolutely concrete and irrefutable. It was a lived, absolute experience.
0 1964-07-31, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem then explains to Mother the mystery of the tape recorder, which, four times in a row, did not work in Mothers roomMo thers recorded voice was very faint, as if vetted by somethingwhile during checkup in the electricians workshop, four times in a row it worked perfectly well.)
The four times I came to see you, it was the same thing. And every time we test it downstairs, it works fine!
0 1964-08-11, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The strange thing is that (I was very conscious, perfectly conscious; the Witness consciousness is never canceled, but it isnt in the way) is that I knew, I saw (yet my eyes were closed, I was lying in my bed), I saw my body movingit had movements of such a Rhythm! You see, every movement, every gesture, every finger, every attitude was a thing that was being realized. Then what I studied, what I saw during the half-hour that followed (with my eyes closed, seeing much more clearly than with my ordinary eyes) was the difference in the body the difference in the bodys movements between that moment [during the experience] and after [when Mother returned to the personal consciousness]. At that moment, the movements were it was creation! And with an EXACTNESS, a majesty! (Mother stretches out her arms and moves them slowly in a vast Rhythm.) I dont know what other people might have seen, I have no idea, but as for me, I saw myself; I saw especially the arms because it was the arms that acted: they were like the realizing intermediaries I dont know how to put it. But it was as vast as the world. It was the earth (its always the earth consciousness), not the universe: the earth, the earth consciousness. But I was conscious then of the universe and of the action on the earth (both things), of the earth as a very small thing in the universe (Mother holds a small ball in her hands). I dont know, its hard to say, but when it expressed itself, there was also the perception of the difference in vision between that moment [during the experience] and afterwards. But all this is inexpressible. Yet it is an absolute knowledgeits another way of knowing. Sri Aurobindo explained this, that all mental knowledge is a seeking: you seek; while this knowledge has another quality, another flavor. And then the power of the Harmony is so wonderful! (Mother again depicts a great Rhythm, her arms outstretched) So wonderful, so spontaneous, so SIMPLE. And It stays there, as if It supported the entire world as it is; it is a kind of inner support of the world the world leans on it.
But outwardly, that sort of film its like a thin film of difficulties, of complications, added on by the human consciousness (its much stronger with man than with the animal; the animal doesnt have that, very littleit has it more and more because of man, but very little; its something specific to man and the mental function), its something very thinas thin as an onion skin, as dry as an onion skinyet it spoils everything. It spoils everything ONLY FOR THE HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS. At the time [of the experience], it was unimportant. Unimportant, in the sense that it takes away all the Beauty, all the Power, all the Magnificence of the thing for the human consciousness. For man, it is of paramount importance. But for the Action, its almost negligible. Basically, its rather that it makes it difficult for man to become conscious and PARTICIPATE; otherwise, my feeling is that truly the time has come for things to get done: that experience was a NEW descent, that is, something new entering the terrestrial manifestation; it wasnt that I became conscious of how the world is: I WAS the Lords Will coming into the world to change it. Thats what it was. And that action was only very slightly affected (assuming it was affected at all) by that stupid onion skin of human mentality.
0 1964-08-19, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But thats exactly the point, she is perfectly right.
I have myself never stopped telling them (you understand, I see the quality of the atmosphere [Mother fingers the air]), I told them that all those people who came worsened the stupidity of the atmosphere very seriously.
0 1964-08-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its very different from what it was before for so many yearsvery different. I feel a sort of Oh, its an impression equivalent to the one I had when Sri Aurobindo gave my mind silence. It became perfectly blank and empty (gesture to the forehead), blank and empty, and there was nothing anymore: I couldnt think anymore, not one idea, not one system anymore, nothingin a word, total imbecility! It never came back. You see, it went up above, and here there was nothing. Well, this time, it was the same thing for the body consciousness: before, it was everywhere like something holding everything together (to such a point that when there was a difficulty, I only had to stop bothering about it all and let that act, and the difficulty would automatically be sorted out by that body consciousness, which knows far better than our active thought what the body should do), and that day it left DELIBERATELY. The decision had been made the night before, but I was resisting it, as I knew the normal consequence was fainting. But that willed it so and that chose its own time (when there was no danger, when no accident could happen and someone was there to help me), that chose its own time and that did it deliberatelygone. And it has never returned.
So the first day, I was almost dazed; I was constantly groping for the way to do things. Yesterday, it was still strong. And this morning, suddenly I began to understand (what I call to understand is to have control), I understood: Ah, thats it! Because I was wondering, But what on earth does all this mean? How can I do my work? I remember, yesterday I had to see a host of people, people who arent close and whose atmosphere isnt good: it was very difficult, I had to keep a hold on myself, and I must have looked strange, very absent I was very far away, in a very deep consciousness, so that my body wouldnt be you know, that gave it discomfort of sortsdiscomfort, yesit was hard to bear. Yesterday the body was still that way the whole morning; towards evening it got better. But the night wasnt good, oh! In the night, I am always given a state of human consciousness to put right, one after another there are millions of them. And there are always all the images and events that illustrate that particular state of consciousness. At times, its very hard going: I wake up tired, as after a long period of work. And last night, thats how it was; its always the various, multiple ways which men have of complicating the original Simplicity: of turning a simple vibration into extremely complicated eventswhere the thing should be simple and flow naturally, there are endless complications, and such difficulties! Unbearable and insuperable difficulties. I dont know if you have experienced that: you want to go somewhere, but there are hindrances everywhere; you want to go out of a room, but there is no way out, or there is one, but you have to crawl on the ground under kinds of rocks and then something in the being refuses, No, I wont do it. And with a sense of insecurity, as if at any moment the thing could topple over and crush you. There are people who want to help you, but they cant do anything at all, they only make the complication still more complicated; you start on a road with the certainty of reaching a particular place, then all of a sudden, in the middle of it the road changes, everything changes, and you have your back to the place you wanted to go. All kinds of things like that. The symbolism of it is extremely clear. But then, it makes for a lot of work.
0 1964-08-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, for our consolation we are told in every possible way that the work done isnt lost and that all this action on the cells to make them conscious of the higher life isnt lost thats not true, its absolutely lost! Suppose I leave my body tomorrow; this body (not immediately, but after a time) reverts to dust; then all that Ive done for these cells is perfectly useless! Except that the consciousness will come out of the cells but it always does!
Its really during the Workers lifetime that the thing must be done.
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I am perfectly convinced of that.
What is said is all very well for the mind and vital, because the mind and vital are immortal they can be, at any rate; they have the possibility of being immortal. Whereas for the physical, that possibility is what is needed: a certain quality of cells should be able to allow the form to become different (the form can change, it changes all the time, its never the same), but with the conscious interrelationships of the cells persisting.3
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So then, that would be the difference between the subtle physical and the physicalimmortality in the subtle physical is even perfectly obvious: its not only easy to imagine, its a fact; but the PASSAGE? The passage, which for most people is like passing from the waking consciousness to the sleep consciousness and from the sleep consciousness to the waking consciousness. The most concrete experience I have had was like taking a step here and then taking a step therethere is still a step; there is still this-that (gesture of reversal).
But this subtle physical is very, very concrete, in the sense that you find things again in the same place and in the same way: YEARS LATER, I found again some places where I had been, with certain little inner differences, if I may say so, but the thing, for instance a house or a landscape, remains the same, with little differences in the arrangementas there are in life. Anyway it has a continuity, a sort of permanence.
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But when you want to be absolutely sincere and not to kid yourself, in other words, not to be satisfied with explanations of appearances, you realize that you know nothing. All the experiences I have with people leaving their bodies, the more I have, the more puzzling it is. For instance, not very long ago, I had an experience with L. The night before she officially died, she came to me in an absolutely concrete manner: she had settled down and didnt want to leave mewherever I went she followed me. She seemed to be clinging to me, talking to me, asking me questionsofficially she was still alive. And there was a sort of tall being (those beings are connected to Death; I dont know their exact name, in the traditions they have been given all kinds of namesthose are things I dont know at all theoretically). This time, a being of that sort was there, and it was as if he had given her permission to be there for a certain time, as if he were in charge of her and of taking her away once the time was up (all this without words, but understood). Then she told me (after literally sticking to me: I couldnt do anything anymore, she was taking up all my time), she told me, I wanted to leave my body on (I dont remember exactly, it was a Darshan day, November 24 or August 15, but if it was August 15, then she came to see me on the 14th). So I answered her, Listen, today isnt the 15th yet; if you want to leave on the 15th, you should go back now. (That was to get rid of her! It was so concrete, you know, like when you have someone in your room and cant get rid of him.) Finally, I looked at that tall individual who was standing there perfectly peacefully and as if indifferent (he was there as an active permission), and I I didnt tell him, but communicated to him that perhaps it was time to take her away. And prrt! she left instantlyhe was awaiting my order. None of this corresponds to any active knowledge on my part: thats just how it happened. And when she came back into her body in the morning, she told those waiting around her, I spent the night with Mother, I was with her, I didnt leave her. She sent me back, but now I am going back to her. I was told this in the morning. A few hours later, she died. So the agreement is excellent, everything tallies. But her intention was not to leave me after her death (she came in the night with the idea that she was dead and that she was leaving me). Well, after she really died, I didnt get a SINGLE sign of her!
So I sat there wondering, Is there really a difference of consciousness between the time when there is life in the body and the time when one leaves? It was a problem for me for days.
0 1964-08-29, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And as always, when there is nothing pleasant to say, its better to keep quiet. One has no right to give ones Knowledge, which stems from a higher Consciousness, to those who arent capable of having it; this is why, in fact, from the beginning I decided never to talk to X: I never tell him anything, I will never tell him anything, because there are things I know and see, and I have no right to reveal them to those who arent capable of seeing and feeling. Far more complications and disorders are created by an excess of words than by silence. So one shouldnt say anything, one should just let things follow their courseone knows, one KNOWS perfectly well, one isnt deceived, one knows whats what, but one does what one has to do, without comments.
In your case, I had known it from the beginning. From the beginning, I had seen the proportion between what agreed with the truth and what was the product (how should I put it?) of the mental hope you placed on X, but I didnt say anything. I knew that his passage through our life here, that contact of a moment, was necessary for certain things to be realized and I let him enter and exit.
0 1964-09-16, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Basically, the moral of all these aphorisms is that it is far more important to BE than to be seen to beyou must live, not pretend and that it is far more important to realize a thing entirely, sincerely and perfectly than to let others know youre realizing it!
Its the same thing again: when you feel the need to proclaim what you are doing, you spoil half of your action.
0 1964-09-23, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is a whole part of the most material consciousness, the utterly physical consciousness (precisely the one that participates in incalculable, minuscule activity of every day) which, of course, is very hard to bear. In ordinary life, its tolerable, its bearable because you take interest in it and sometimes pleasureall that life on the surface that makes you you see a pretty thing, it gives you pleasure; you have something tasty in your mouth, it gives you pleasure; anyway, all these little pleasures that are so futile, but help people bear existence. Those who dont have the inner consciousness and the contact with whats behind all that wouldnt be able to live if they didnt have little pleasures. So a host of tiny little problems crop up, problems of material existence, which explain perfectly well that those who no longer had any desire, and therefore no longer took any pleasure in anything, had one single idea: Whats the use of it all! And indeed, if we didnt have the feeling that all that must be borne because it leads to something else of an altogether different nature and expression, it would be so insipid and puerile, so petty that it would become quite unbearable. Thats certainly what explains the aspiration for Nirvana and the flight from this world.
So there is this problem, a problem of every second, which I must solve every second by the corresponding attitude that leads to the True Thing; and at the same time, there is the other attitude of acceptance of all that is for instance, of what leads to disintegration: the acceptance of disintegration, defeat, decomposition, weakening, decayall things that, naturally, to the ordinary man, are detestable and against which he reacts violently. But since you are told that everything is the expression of the divine Will and must be accepted as the divine Will, there comes this problem, which crops up almost constantly and every minute: if you accept those things as the expression of the divine Will, quite naturally things will follow their habitual course towards disintegration, but what is the TRUE ATTITUDE that can give you that perfect equanimity in all circumstances, and at the same time give a maximum of force and power and will to the Perfection that must be realized?
0 1964-09-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, what a beautiful realization to achieve! A beautiful work can be done in that way. To be able to feel and SEE the thing to be said, and THATS what should be saidnot with the thought, This man is going to die, I shouldnt make him too unhappy, I should, all that is perfectly useless. perfectly useless, and you put yourself in a kind of mental muddle; besides, it doesnt really help, it doesnt have the expected effect. While this inner vision to see why that being is ill and what that physical disorder expresses in the destiny of the soul of that man or this womanits magnificent, magnificent!
And ultimately, saying, You will be cured, is just as useless as saying, You wont be cured, both are equally incorrect from the point of view of the true Truth, and unsatisfactory for someone who has had a first contact with a life other than physical life.
0 1964-10-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then (Mother points to her own body), this seems to be the lesson for these aggregates (bodies, you know, seem to me to be simply aggregates). And as long as there is, behind, a will to keep this together for some reason or other, it stays together, but These last few days (yesterday or the day before), there was this: a sort of completely decentralized consciousness (I am always referring to the physical consciousness, of course, not at all to the higher consciousness), a decentralized consciousness that happened to be here, there, there, in this body, that body (in what people call this person and that person, but that notion doesnt quite exist anymore), and then there was a kind of intervention of a universal consciousness in the cells, as though it were asking these cells what their reason was for wanting to retain this combination (if we may say so) or this aggregate while in fact making them understand or feel the difficulties that come, for example, from the number of years, wear and tear, external difficultiesfrom all the deterioration caused by friction, wear and tear. But they seemed to be perfectly indifferent to that! The response of the cells was interesting enough, in the sense that they seemed to attach importance ONLY TO THE CAPACITY TO REMAIN IN CONSCIOUS CONTACT WITH THE HIGHER FORCE. It was like an aspiration (not formulated in words, naturally), and like a what in English they call yearning, a longing for that Contact with the divine Force, the Force of Harmony, the Force of Truth and the Force of Love, and [the cells response was] that because of that, they valued the present combination.
It was an altogether different point of view.
0 1964-10-10, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For a very long time, I used to seesee images, scenes and so on I used to see, but I didnt hear. Then, all of a sudden, I began to hear; and I would hear the slightest noise, I would hear in a perfectly coherent and natural way. It was as though the sense had suddenly developed. Well, there is a certain state of vision as a result of which I read I read written things; now that I no longer read physically, I read at night. Which means that all this inner development of the physical and subtle physical is still a whole unknown world to be learned.
I dont know its laws, I am only a spectator. And it obeys a will of an absolutely different order from the will at work in the physical world.
0 1964-10-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its also learning the lesson of illnessof the illusion of illness Oh, thats very, very amusing. Very amusing. The difference between the thing itself, as it is, the particular kind of disorder, whatever it is, and the old habit of feeling and receiving the thing, the ordinary habit, what people call an illness: I am ill. Thats very amusing. And ALWAYS, if you stay truly still (its difficult to be really and truly stillin the vital and mind, its very easy, but in the bodys cells, to be perfectly still WITHOUT BEING TAMASIC is a little difficult, it has to be learned), but when you are able to be truly still, there is ALWAYS a little lighta warm little light, very bright and wonderfully still, behind; as if it were saying, You only have to will. Then the bodys cells panic: Will, how? How can I? The illness is on me, I am overcome. How can I will? Its AN ILLNESS the whole drama (and that wasnt in sleep: I was completely awake, it was this morning), its an illness. Then something with a general wisdom says, Calm down, calm down, (laughing) dont remain attached to your illness! Calm down. As if you wished to be ill! Calm down. So they consentconsent, you know, like a child who has been scolded, All right, very well, Ill try. They tryimmediately, that light comes again: You only have to will. And once or twice, for one thing or another (because the Disorder is something general: you may suffer at any spot, have a disorder at any spot if you accept a certain vibration), on THIS POINT, you consent the next minute, its over. Not the next minute: a few seconds and its over. Then the cells remember: But how come? I had a pain herepop! It all comes back. And the whole drama unfolds like that, constantly.
So if they really learned the lesson
0 1964-10-17, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Maybe its into the past that I wander? It may be into the past, it may be into the future, it may be in the present. I have noticed that the costumes arent at all like todays or like anything we know. But when I am there, in the activity, its perfectly natural, you dont notice it: its like something you see every day, you dont notice it. Only when I come back and objectify a little do I say to myself, Well, how odd! (for myself and for others). And I am not at all as I am now, not at all. Moreover, I think I have been what is called different persons at different times. There was even a time when I looked to see if it wasnt that I was identifying with different persons, but there is no identification, I dont feel I am entering someone, nothing like that. But in appearance, I am not always the same person: sometimes I am very tall, sometimes I am small, sometimes I am young, sometimes I am not old but grownup. Very, very different. But there is always the same central consciousness, there is always (Mother collects herself) the Witness who watches on behalf of the Lord and decides on behalf of the Lord. This is the attitude: the Witness who watches that is to say, who sees everything, observes everything, and who decides, either for himself or for others (indifferently), always. That is the fixed point. On behalf of of the something thats eternaleternal, eternally true, eternally powerful and eternally knowing. That is there, through everything. Otherwise, there are different things all the time, different circumstances, different surroundings; there are ways of life that are very, very different. And also, if I wake up at the beginning of the night, its one particular type of thing; if I wake up in the middle of the night, its another type of thing; if I wake up wake up, lets be clear, it isnt coming out of sleep, its returning to the present consciousness. And every time, its different, like coming from different worlds, different times, different activities.
And its clear that one doesnt expect me to remember that doesnt matter at all. It is an ACTION. Its an action, it isnt a knowledge I am givenan action. I am working. Is it I have worked? Is it I am going to work? Is it I am working? I dont know. Probably all three.
0 1964-10-24a, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No powers I knew very well I had no powers! And I couldnt have cared less because I understood perfectly well that what is being attempted now isnt miraculous events at all, but the LOGICAL and normal and inevitable CONSEQUENCE of the supramental transformation that is the whole point. That I know and knew, and thats why I didnt even bother about powers; anyway it hadnt even remotely occurred to me that I might work a miracle for the doctor or for this or that other person who approaches me I didnt think about it, it didnt enter my consciousness. Only, on the 18th, through that occasion it entered my consciousness, and so I asked the question to find out why I never thought about it: Why? And I was positively told: You MUST NOT wield powers, because thats not the way things should be done.
I do understand, but
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And it made me understand that one of the most considerable obstacles is that deviation of aspiration into a thirst for something. But who doesnt deviate? You see, I always start by looking at myself and at all that I know of this beings conscious life (thats my first observation), and all the images come; well, the self-offering, the perfectly pure aspiration that doesnt expect any resultabsolutely free from the slightest idea of result the aspiration in its essential purity thats not frequent. Its not frequent.
Now the conditions are totally different, but I see the mass of aspirations, of approaches, and I always compare with my attitude towards Sri Aurobindo at that time, when it was he who, to me, represented the Intermediary; well, I understand I understand that the absolutely pure thing, that is, free of all mixture with the ego consciousness (its the ego consciousness), free of all mixture with the ego consciousness, is its still rare.
0 1964-10-30, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So that doesnt help, because the mental atmosphere isnt favorable. Mentally, you look at it and smile; but the body feels it a little bit, it feels a little the pressure of defeatist formations around. But it knows why those around are like thatfrom the material point of view, those around are just what is needed, just what is needed; the body needs such an atmosphere so that material difficulties arent made worse. So its perfectly happy, only it dare not be joyous; it immediately says, Oh, its still too beautiful a thing for life as it is!
I dont know how long it will last.
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Now and then, when I am perfectly at rest and perfectly quiet (when I know, for instance, that I have half an hour of perfect quiet and no one will disturb me), at such time, the Lord becomes very close, very close, and often I feel Him saying (not with words), saying to my body, Let yourself go, let yourself go; be joyous, be joyous, let yourself go, relax, and the immediate result is that it completely relaxes, and I go into a bliss but I no longer have any contact with the outside! The body goes into a deep trance, I think, and it loses all contact; for instance, the clock strikes, but I dont hear it.
One should be able to keep that bliss while being quite active and hard at work. I am not referring to the inner joy, not at all, theres no question of that, its out of the question, its immutably established: I am referring to that Joy IN THE BODY ITSELF.
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And that wisdom! Its an almost cellular wisdom (its odd). For instance, I was looking at the relationship I had with all those great beings of the Overmind and higher, the perfectly objective and very familiar relationship I had with all those beings and the inner perception of being the eternal Motherall that is very well, but for me its almost ancient history! The me that exists now is HERE, its at ground level, in the body; its the body, its Matter; its at ground level; and to tell the truth, it doesnt care much about the intervention of all those beings who ultimately know nothing at all! They dont know the true problem: they live in a place where there are no problems. They dont know the true problem the true problem is here.
Its an amused way of looking at religions and all the gods the way you would look at they are like theater performances. Theyre pastimes; but thats not what can teach you to know yourself, not at all, not at all! You must go right down to the bottom.
0 1964-11-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He said (it was translated into words: I heard them, in what language I dont know, but I understood very well), I heard the words and he said to me: Through you, I am charging. I am charging, as if he were launching into a battle against the worlds Falsehood. Through you, I am charging, thats perfectly clear, and it was against I saw little aggregates of black dots being scattered.
But at that moment, I felt something like the representation of certain states of mind, certain intellectual conditions, a whole series of things that represented doubts, negations, ignorant attitudes, revolts and all at once, this came.
0 1964-11-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I have some peace, I am perfectly well. But
Theres obviously something going on, but I dont know what it is. It seems to be going quickly now, a little more quickly.
0 1964-11-12, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the same thing again: Truth is there, Falsehood is there (Mother presses her two hands together); perfection is there, imperfection is there (same gesture); theyre perfectly coexistent, in the same place the minute you perceive perfection, imperfection disappears, the Illusion disappears.
Only, I am not speaking here of a mental conception of some vague and general state: I am referring to that state of infinitesimal vibration (which they discovered when they tried to find the makeup of Matter: thats what they are trying to reduce Matter to), it is that state of vibration, it is THERE, its in that state of vibration that, for the concrete world, imperfection must be replaced by perfection. Do you understand what I am saying? Or does it make no sense?
0 1964-11-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Khrushchev affair has been a bad thing. But generally things in the outer world move in a zigzag; instead of going straight, they go like this (zigzag gesture): action, reaction, action, reaction. Thats what Thon always said: in the outer world, a victory for one side always means a sort of RIGHT to victory for the other side; and then he added, Those who know must be ever vigilant and on the alert, so that when the enemies win a little victory (which may be a perfectly superficial and insignificant victory), they immediately win a big victory! (Laughing) He said that with great humor. And I noticed that on the individual level, its true. On the level of countries unfortunately, the people who determine the destiny of countries (the outer destiny) are incompetent and stupid, and they miss the opportunity. But that Khrushchev affair gave a right to a victory, you understand. It gave the other side a right to a victory.
I told you I would show you the photo of the man [Suslov] whos behind Khrushchevs downfall.
0 1964-11-21, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the body no longer finds pleasure in any of those things that are usually pleasant to a body: its perfectly indifferent to them. But slowly, something, or someone, is teaching it to have, not pleasure or anything that looks (even remotely) like excitement, but a comfortable vibration in certain things of the senses. But thats very, very different from what it was before.
It is clear that in order to follow its own rhythm, the body should reduce its activities to the minimum; not exactly reduce, but have the freedom of choice of its movements: nothing should be imposed on it from outsidewhich is quite far from reality. And yet, if one looks at the whole, there is an absolute conviction, even in the body, that nothing happens that isnt the effect of the supreme Will. Therefore, the conditions in which it finds itself are the conditions that He has wanted and wants that He wantsat every second. So the conclusion is that there must be in the body a resistance or an incapacity to follow the Movement.
0 1964-11-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I am obliged to keep regular hours because the entire life of others depends on it. That was why people wanted to withdraw into solitude there is an advantage and a drawback; the advantage is that I try to make things very automatic, that is, quite outside a conscious will: they should work by themselves. On the mental level, its very easy, you can detach yourself completely and nothing matters; but for the body, its difficult, because its rhythm The whole rhythm of ordinary life is a mentalized one; even people who live in vital freedom are at odds with the whole social organizationits a mentalized life: there are clocks that strike the hour and it is agreed that things must be that way. Mentally, you can be perfectly free: you leave your body in the cogwheels and stop bothering about it; but when its this poor body itself that has to find its own rhythm, how difficult it is! How difficult. Sometimes, all of a sudden, it feels a discomfort; then I look and I see that there is something that could be an experience, but that would necessitate certain conditions of isolation, of quietness and independence, and it isnt possible. Then, very well as far as I can, I go within and do the minimum (the maximum of what can be done, which is a minimum compared to what could be done).
But of course, Sri Aurobindo always said: For the Work to be complete, it must be generalone cannot give up. An individual attempt is only a very partial attempt. But the fact that the Work is general delays the results considerablywell, we have to put up with it. Thats how it is, so thats how it is.
0 1964-12-02, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive had some very precise memorieslived memoriesof a human life on earth, quite primitive (I mean outside any mental civilization), a human life on earth that wasnt an evolutionary life, but the manifestation of beings from another world. I lived in that way for a timea lived memory. I still see it, I still have the image of it in my memory. It had nothing to do with civilization and mental development: it was a blossoming of force, of beauty, in a NATURAL, spontaneous life, like animal life, but with a perfection of consciousness and power that far surpasses the one we have now; and indeed with a power over all surrounding Nature, animal nature and vegetable nature and mineral nature, a DIRECT handling of Matter, which men do not havethey need intermediaries, material instruments, whereas this was direct. And there were no thoughts or reasoning: it was spontaneous (gesture indicating the direct radiating action of will on Matter). I have the lived memory of this. It must have existed on earth because it wasnt premonitory: it wasnt a vision of the future, it was a past memory. So there must have been a moment It was limited to two beings: I dont have the feeling there were many. And there was no childbirth or anything animal, absolutely not; it was a life, yes, a truly higher life in a natural setting, but with an extraordinary beauty and harmony! And I dont have the feeling it was (how can I explain?) something known; the relationships with vegetable life and animal life were spontaneous ones, absolutely harmonious, and with the sensation of an undisputed power (you didnt even feel it was possible for it not to be), undisputed, but without any idea that there were other beings on earth and that it was necessary to look after them or make a demonstrationnothing of the sort, absolutely nothing of mental life, nothing. A life just like that, like a beautiful plant or a beautiful animal, but with an inner knowledge of things, perfectly spontaneous and effortlessan effortless life, perfectly spontaneous. I dont even have the feeling that there was any question of food, not that I remember; but there was the joy of Life, the joy of Beauty: there were flowers, there was water, there were trees, there were animals, and all that was friendly, but spontaneously so. And there were no problems! No problems to be solved, nothing at allone just lived!
An uncomplicated life, definitely.
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He has a political attachment to the dogma. For instance, after one of my conversations (I had a good number of conversations with him, three or four, on the mental level, and perfectly objective because his reactions were unexpected; to me they were very spontaneous, in the sense that I received answers that werent at all those I might have expectedwhich proves it was genuine), but for example, before his election, I met him once (there is a part of his mental being, a higher intelligence, thats very well formed, conscious, individualized), and I had a spontaneous conversation that I hadnt sought and which was very interesting. But at one point, I replied to something he said, and I told him with the force I have there [on that higher plane], The Lord is everywhereeven in hell the Lord is there. And then it caused such a violent reaction in him that, pfft! he vanished. I found it very striking. I dont know the dogma, but it seems that in hell, according to the Catholics, whats worse than suffering, the fire and all that, is the absence of the Lord. It seems its a dogma that the Lord is absent from hell; and me, I was speaking of universal Oneness and I told him that.
There is another thing I remember very clearly, which struck me. It was after his election (but long before his trip to India was decided upon): he had come to India and he came to Pondicherry to meet me (not to meet me: he had come to Pondicherry, then he came and met me). Once in Pondicherry, he came and I saw him there, in the room where I receive people. We had a long conversation, a very long and interesting conversation, and suddenly (it was towards the end, it was time for him to go), when he rose, he was preoccupied by something. He told me, When you speak to your children about me, what will you tell them? You understand, the ego showing itself. So I looked at him (Mother smiles) and said, I will only tell them that we have been in communion in our love for the Supreme. Then he relaxed and left. It struck me. These things are very objective.
0 1965-01-12, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We never told this, of course, but it was perfectly precise.
But I knew that being, I had already seen him in Japanhe called himself the Lord of Nations. And he really was a form of the Asura of Falsehood, that is, of Truth which became Falsehood: the first Emanation of Truth, who became Falsehood.
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But all those things cannot be explained: they are personal experiences. This knowledge isnt objective enough to be taught. It comes from my relationship with all those beings, from exchanges with them I knew them even before I knew the Hindu tradition. But you cant say anything about a phenomenon that depends on a personal experience and has value only for the one who had the experience. Because everyone has the right to say, Well, yes, YOU think that way, YOUR experience is that way, but it has value only for you. And its perfectly true.
What Sri Aurobindo says was based on his erudition of Indias tradition, and he says what was in agreement with his own experience, but he based himself on an erudition and knowledge that I dont have.
0 1965-02-19, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Perfect surrender in all the states of being. That comes progressively, it comes through years of repetition, but thats what the word must represent when it is said: total self-giving to this Supreme, who naturally is beyond all conception. Perfect surrender, that is, spontaneous surrender, which requires neither effort nor anythinga surrender that must be perfectly spontaneous. This, too, is something that is attained little by little; thats why I said that the mantra is progressive, in the sense that it grows more and more perfect.
The third word represents:
0 1965-03-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I learned the exact place, the relationship of those who work. But I cannot reveal it. But what I always told you about your place and your work was perfectly true I saw it at that moment. perfectly true. Some things were revelations about other peoplenot many people; not many, but those who have a true relationship with me for the work. And very different relationships, in different worlds, on different levels and for different activities. But they arent very numerous, and it was very precise. And then I saw that what I had seen for you was perfectly correct, and that he is HERE, you understand: to do the work, he is with you. When I told you he was in your book, its an absolute fact.
That was one of the things I had decided to tell you one day, because
0 1965-03-20, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The body follows the action very well and does all that it has to do, but when around it there are consciousnesses that feel or think otherwise, that still has a considerable action; although the consciousness isnt affected: its perfectly lucid, it sees the whole play all the time, and it is conscious of the forces that come and of the whole play. So how is it that, the consciousness being conscious of the forces that come, those forces still have the power to act on the cells directly? Thats a problem.
It means a cellular interdependence that makes the program very, very, VERY difficult.
0 1965-03-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And completely, completely outside thought. The thought comes AFTER. For instance, for this dream, when you asked me the question, I said, Logically, since the vibration is here (indicates below the feet), it must be a memory. And with a kind of certainty because because the perception is perfectly impersonal.
Its an extraordinarily sensitive mechanism, and with an almost infinite field of receptivity (gesture of gradation).
0 1965-04-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Switching to a new body. The method may be used again, IF IT IS FELT TO BE NECESSARY. It wasnt the central idea, it was perfectly incidentalit may happen. And all I said was that the consciousness of these cells having lost the sense of ego (I think they have lost it, though this body was formed without the sense of egoat any rate, if it was necessary at a given time, it no longer is), having lost the sense of ego, it finds no difficulty in manifesting in another body. And this is a perfectly practical and material experience, I mean I have had multiple experiences of this consciousness using that body, this body, that other body for certain things; of course it was momentary, not in a permanent way, but at will and anyway lasting long enough to make me experience it concretely.
But this is a personal affair, it has nothing to do with the public or collectivity, while the other point is interesting: I have a feeling it is Natures collaboration, pushing humanity in that direction in order to prepare a matter more receptive to the ideal that wants to manifest.
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Basically, once there is a body formed, precisely, by an ideal and an increasing development, a body with sufficient stuff and capacities, sufficient potential, there may very well be a rapid Descent of a supramental form, just as there was one with the human form. Because I know that (I know it from having lived it), I know that when the transitiona very obscure transitionfrom the animal to man (of which they have found fairly convincing traces) was sufficient, when the result was plastic enough, there was a Descent there was a mental descent of the human creation. And they were beings (there was a double descent; it was in fact particular in that it was double, male and female: it wasnt the descent of a single being, it was the descent of two beings), they were beings who lived in Nature an animal life, but with a mental consciousness; but there was no conflict with the general harmony. All the memories are absolutely clear of a spontaneous, animal life, perfectly natural, in Nature. A marvelously beautiful Nature that strangely resembles the nature in Ceylon and tropical countries: water, trees, fruits, flowers. And a life in harmony with animals: there was no sense of fear or difference. It was a very luminous, very harmonious, and very NATURAL life, in Nature.
And strangely, the story of Paradise would seem to be a mental distortion of what really happened. Of course, it all became ridiculous, and also with a tendency it gives you the feeling that a hostile will or an Asuric being tried to use that to make it the basis for a religion and to keep man under his thumb. But thats another matter.
0 1965-05-08, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And its perfectly true. All our incapacities, all our limitations, all our impossibilities, its this idiotic Matter that chooses them allnot with intelligence, but with a sort of feeling that thats how things must be, that they are naturally like that. An adherencean idiotic adherenceto the mode of the lower nature.
Then there was laughter, tears, a whole revolution, and afterwards all was fine.
0 1965-05-29, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I mean that this inner knowledge doesnt have the power to convince them, thats an experience I have almost every day. So that when, concerning some event or other, I see, Oh, but its perfectly, perfectly obvious (for me): I saw the Lords Force act there, I saw such-and-such a thing happen, and so, quite naturally, this is what must take place, for me, its as obvious as could be, but I dont tell what I know, because it doesnt correspond to anything in their experience, so to them its raving or pretension. Which means that when you havent had the experience yourself, anothers experience isnt convincing, it cannot convince you.
The power isnt so much of acting on Matter thats something happening CONSTANTLYbut unless hypnotic means are used (and they are worthless, they dont lead anywhere), the difficulty is to open the understanding (gesture of breaking free at the top of the head), thats what is so difficult. The thing which you havent experienced is nonexistent.
0 1965-06-02, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As for the sense of smell, the nature of my sense of smell changed long, long ago. To begin with, I practiced this (a long time ago, years, many years ago): being able to smell only when I wanted to and only what I wanted to. And it was perfectly mastered. It already prepared the instrument a great deal. I can see it was already a preparation. I can smell things I can smell the vibratory quality of things rather than simply their odor. There is a whole classification of odors: there are odors that lighten you, as if they opened up horizons to youthey lighten you, make you lighter, more joyful; there are odors that excite you (those belong to the category of odors I learnt not to smell); as for all the odors that disgust you, I smell them only when I want towhen I want to know, I smell them, but when I dont want to know, I dont. Now its automatic. But my sense of smell was very much cultivated even when I was just a child, very long ago: at that time I cultivated the eyes and the sense of smell, both. But my eyes have been used for everything, for all the visions, so its something much more complex, while the sense of smell has remained as it was: I can smell peoples psychological state when I come near them; I can smell it, it has an odorthere are very special odors a whole gamut. Ive had that for a very, very long time, its something thats quite dominated, mastered. I am able not to smell anything at all: when, for instance, there are bad odors that upset the bodys system, I can cut off the connection completely.
But I dont notice a great change in this domain because it had already been cultivated very much, while my eyes are much more (how can I put it?) ahead, in the sense that there is already a much greater difference between the old habit of seeing and the present one. I seem to be behind a veil thats really the feeling: a veil; and then, suddenly, something lives with the true vibration. But thats rare, its still rare. Probably (laughing) there arent many things worth seeing!
Oh, listen, it was Y.s birthday the other day. I told her to come. She came: her face was exactly like her monkeys! She sat down in front of me, we exchanged a few words, then I concentrated and closed my eyes, and then I opened my eyesshe had the face of the ideal madonna! So beautiful! And as I had seen the monkey (the monkey wasnt ugly, but it was a monkey, of course), and then that, Ah! it struck me, I thought, What wonderful plasticity. A face oh, a truly beautiful face, perfectly harmonious and pure, with such a lovely aspirationoh, a beautiful face! Then I looked a few times: it was no longer one or the other, it was it was something (what she usually is, I mean), and it was behind the veil. But those two visions were without the veil.
And for me thats how it is, I dont see people, I no longer see (but that has been going on for a long time), I no longer see the way people do, the way they are used to seeing. At times someone tells me, Have you noticed, so-and-so is like this or like that? I answer, No, I havent seen anything. And at other times I see things no one else sees! Its a much more complete development than simply switching from one vision to the other.
0 1965-06-05, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, its always the same thing: I dont think I dont think, I dont try to answer, I dont have any questions; when I read something, a letter, I let it enter into the Silence, and thats all. Then, suddenly, at any moment, prrt! up comes the answer. It doesnt come from my head, which is perfectly still: it just comes. And it pesters me: it comes and repeats itself until Ive written it down. So I have papers in every corner and pens in every corner! I take a paper and write, then its over; and as soon as its written down, I have peace. And when I have time to start writing a letter, I settle down, I choose a good piece of paper and I write it out again.
But the papers and pens depend on the place where Ive written!
0 1965-06-18 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The consciousness that will learn to use that substance (just as there was a consciousness that learned to use the bodys substance) will probably know how to turn it into something that can be used. Because we have grown accustomed to it, but obviously its a sort of superchemistry that made this corporeal substance. We find it perfectly natural, but it hasnt always been this waythere is a long way from the jellyfish, for example, to this body.
I had the impression of a substance that has to undergo a work of adaptation, transformation, utilization, and that would serve as an outer form for the supramental being.
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But in my night activities, its perfectly natural, I dont give it a thought I dont stand there, observing with the petty idiotic understanding of habit: its all perfectly natural.
There, weve chatted long enough!
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Yes, I have noticed: I often look at people like this (Mother leans over her armchair). But its perfectly natural, I dont have a feeling of being tall.
(silence)
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At any rate, if a new domination is indispensable, it would be INFINITELY better for it to be by the Americans than by the Russians because what would be learned from the Russians is an UNNECESSARY lesson: its community, the truth of community the Indians knew it before the Russians (the Sannyasins were the ideal community); they knew it before the Russians, so they have nothing to learn there, it would be perfectly unnecessary. And to tell the truth, I am completely indifferent as to whether or not the Russiansbecome spiritualists, because the Russians, in their soul, are mystics they are AT LEAST (at least) as mystical as the Indians. So all their community and Communism is pretentiousness. It would be no useno use at all.
An American occupation is a drastic method, but Oh, when I see here the extent to which they can be imbued with the English spirit, oh, its hideous I dont like the English. And the English the English have learned the maximum from the Indians, but for them the maximum is nothing much. The Americans want to learn. They are young and they want to learn; the English are old, stale, hardened and oh, so conceited they know everything better than everyone else. So they learned very little. They benefited the maximum, but thats very little; their maximum is very little. The English (gesture of sinking) they are destined to sink underwater.7
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 59min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 1 June 2005 (USA) -- Four best girlfriends hatch a plan to stay connected with one another as their lives start off in different directions: they pass around a pair of secondhand jeans that fits each of their bodies perfectly. Director: Ken Kwapis Writers:
Touch of Pink (2004) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 31min | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 16 July 2004 (USA) -- A gay Canadian living in London has his perfectly crafted life upset when his devoutly Muslim mother comes to visit. Director: Ian Iqbal Rashid Writers: Ian Iqbal Rashid, Ken Chubb (story editor)
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Weiß Survive -- -- Studio Hibari -- 16 eps -- Card game -- Game Comedy Ecchi -- Weiß Survive Weiß Survive -- Takeshi was just an ordinary guy until a perfectly innocent study session with Michi - the most beautiful girl in the school - ended up with him being mysteriously transported into the strange dimension known as the Weiss Schwarz Battle Space. Once there, a crazy but enthusiastic old man informs him that he is the chosen warrior and must win a succession of card battles to get back home. -- -- The only problem: he doesn't know how to play! However, with the expert Michi ready to teach him the ins and outs of this bizarre and improbably slapstick card game, Takeshi will learn the ropes and get ready for the card battle of a lifetime. Assuming he survives the training... -- -- (Source: ANN) -- 19,048 6.09
Witch Craft Works -- -- J.C.Staff -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Supernatural Magic Fantasy Seinen -- Witch Craft Works Witch Craft Works -- Even though they shared the same bus every morning and sat next to each other in class, Ayaka Kagari, the "Princess" of Tougetsu High School, was nothing more than an unreachable idol for Honoka Takamiya. The horde of students who worshipped the "Princess" was merely a nuisance to Honoka, living his lazy, regular high school life. -- -- Everything seemed perfectly normal until, one day, Honoka is attacked out of the blue by a mysterious witch. To his surprise, Ayaka saves his life, revealing herself to be a fire witch on a covert mission to protect Honoka. -- -- From that fateful day, the ordinary life of Honoka is turned upside down as he is thrown into the war between the Workshop Witches, who strive to protect the citizens, and the Tower Witches, who desire to steal a power hidden within him. -- -- TV - Jan 5, 2014 -- 249,978 7.05
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