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BOOKS
Big_Mind,_Big_Heart
City_of_God
Heart_of_Matter
Infinite_Library
Kosmic_Consciousness
Modern_Man_in_Search_of_a_Soul
My_Burning_Heart
Plotinus_-_Complete_Works_Vol_01
Practical_Ethics_and_Profound_Emptiness__A_Commentary_on_Nagarjuna's_Precious_Garland
The_Bible
The_Divine_Milieu
The_Essential_Songs_of_Milarepa
The_Imitation_of_Christ
The_Instructions_of_Gampopa__A_Precious_Garland_of_the_Supreme_Path
The_Precious_Treasury_Of_The_Way_Of_Abiding
The_Republic
The_Use_and_Abuse_of_History
The_Way_of_Perfection
The_Wit_and_Wisdom_of_Alfred_North_Whitehead
Toward_the_Future
Treasure_Trove_of_Scriptural_Transmission__A_Commentary_on_the_Precious_Treasury_of_the_Basic_Space_of_Phenomena

IN CHAPTERS TITLE
1.rajh_-_The_Word_Most_Precious
1.sb_-_Precious_Treatise_on_Preservation_of_Unity_on_the_Great_Way

IN CHAPTERS CLASSNAME

IN CHAPTERS TEXT
00.04_-_The_Beautiful_in_the_Upanishads
0.00_-_The_Book_of_Lies_Text
0.00_-_THE_GOSPEL_PREFACE
0.02_-_Letters_to_a_Sadhak
0.03_-_Letters_to_My_little_smile
0.05_-_Letters_to_a_Child
0.09_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Teacher
01.03_-_Mystic_Poetry
0_1956-10-08
0_1962-05-27
0_1962-07-04
0_1963-06-03
0_1963-08-10
0_1963-10-19
0_1965-11-27
0_1966-08-27
0_1967-09-30
0_1969-01-18
0_1969-08-27
0_1969-11-12
0_1969-12-13
0_1971-12-18
0_1972-07-19
02.01_-_The_World_War
02.13_-_On_Social_Reconstruction
05.01_-_Man_and_the_Gods
06.17_-_Directed_Change
07.16_-_Things_Significant_and_Insignificant
09.05_-_The_Story_of_Love
10.12_-_The_Divine_Grace_and_Love
1.01_-_Archetypes_of_the_Collective_Unconscious
1.01_-_BOOK_THE_FIRST
1.01_-_Description_of_the_Castle
1.01_-_Economy
1.01f_-_Introduction
1.01_-_Historical_Survey
1.01_-_NIGHT
1.01_-_On_knowledge_of_the_soul,_and_how_knowledge_of_the_soul_is_the_key_to_the_knowledge_of_God.
1.01_-_Tara_the_Divine
1.01_-_The_Castle
1.01_-_THE_OPPOSITES
1.01_-_The_Science_of_Living
1.01_-_To_Watanabe_Sukefusa
1.02_-_MAPS_OF_MEANING_-_THREE_LEVELS_OF_ANALYSIS
1.02_-_Meditating_on_Tara
1.02_-_SOCIAL_HEREDITY_AND_PROGRESS
1.02_-_The_Recovery
1.02_-_The_Stages_of_Initiation
1.03_-_A_Parable
1.03_-_Of_some_imperfections_which_some_of_these_souls_are_apt_to_have,_with_respect_to_the_second_capital_sin,_which_is_avarice,_in_the_spiritual_sense
1.03_-_On_Knowledge_of_the_World.
1.03_-_PERSONALITY,_SANCTITY,_DIVINE_INCARNATION
1.03_-_Reading
1.03_-_Some_Practical_Aspects
1.03_-_Sympathetic_Magic
1.03_-_THE_ORPHAN,_THE_WIDOW,_AND_THE_MOON
1.03_-_The_Sephiros
1.03_-_THE_STUDY_(The_Exorcism)
1.03_-_The_Tale_of_the_Alchemist_Who_Sold_His_Soul
1.03_-_To_Layman_Ishii
1.03_-_VISIT_TO_VIDYASAGAR
1.04_-_ADVICE_TO_HOUSEHOLDERS
1.04_-_BOOK_THE_FOURTH
1.04_-_GOD_IN_THE_WORLD
1.04_-_On_blessed_and_ever-memorable_obedience
1.04_-_On_Knowledge_of_the_Future_World.
1.04_-_The_Divine_Mother_-_This_Is_She
1.04_-_The_Paths
1.04_-_The_Praise
1.04_-_To_the_Priest_of_Rytan-ji
1.05_-_Buddhism_and_Women
1.05_-_Mental_Education
1.05_-_On_the_Love_of_God.
1.05_-_Pratyahara_and_Dharana
1.05_-_Problems_of_Modern_Psycho_therapy
1.05_-_The_Activation_of_Human_Energy
1.05_-_THE_HOSTILE_BROTHERS_-_ARCHETYPES_OF_RESPONSE_TO_THE_UNKNOWN
1.05_-_The_Magical_Control_of_the_Weather
1.06_-_LIFE_AND_THE_PLANETS
1.06_-_MORTIFICATION,_NON-ATTACHMENT,_RIGHT_LIVELIHOOD
1.06_-_On_Thought
1.06_-_THE_MASTER_WITH_THE_BRAHMO_DEVOTEES
1.07_-_A_Song_of_Longing_for_Tara,_the_Infallible
1.07_-_BOOK_THE_SEVENTH
1.07_-_On_Dreams
1.07_-_The_Fire_of_the_New_World
1.07_-_The_Magic_Wand
1.07_-_TRUTH
1.08a_-_The_Ladder
1.08_-_Attendants
1.08_-_EVENING_A_SMALL,_NEATLY_KEPT_CHAMBER
1.08_-_The_Depths_of_the_Divine
1.08_-_The_Supreme_Discovery
1.09_-_ADVICE_TO_THE_BRAHMOS
1.09_-_Legend_of_Lakshmi
1.09_-_SKIRMISHES_IN_A_WAY_WITH_THE_AGE
1.09_-_Talks
1.1.01_-_The_Divine_and_Its_Aspects
11.02_-_The_Golden_Life-line
1.10_-_BOOK_THE_TENTH
1.10_-_THE_NEIGHBORS_HOUSE
1.11_-_FAITH_IN_MAN
1.11_-_WITH_THE_DEVOTEES_AT_DAKSHINEWAR
1.11_-_Woolly_Pomposities_of_the_Pious_Teacher
1.12_-_BOOK_THE_TWELFTH
1.1.2_-_Commentary
1.12_-_God_Departs
1.12_-_Sleep_and_Dreams
1.12_-_The_Left-Hand_Path_-_The_Black_Brothers
1.13_-_BOOK_THE_THIRTEENTH
1.13_-_Gnostic_Symbols_of_the_Self
1.13_-_THE_HUMAN_REBOUND_OF_EVOLUTION_AND_ITS_CONSEQUENCES
1.14_-_INSTRUCTION_TO_VAISHNAVS_AND_BRHMOS
1.15_-_The_world_overrun_with_trees;_they_are_destroyed_by_the_Pracetasas
1.16_-_Man,_A_Transitional_Being
1.16_-_The_Process_of_Avatarhood
1.17_-_DOES_MANKIND_MOVE_BIOLOGICALLY_UPON_ITSELF?
1.17_-_Legend_of_Prahlada
1.17_-_M._AT_DAKSHINEWAR
1.17_-_The_Transformation
1.18_-_M._AT_DAKSHINESWAR
1.18_-_The_Perils_of_the_Soul
1.19_-_THE_MASTER_AND_HIS_INJURED_ARM
12.09_-_The_Story_of_Dr._Faustus_Retold
1.20_-_RULES_FOR_HOUSEHOLDERS_AND_MONKS
1.22__-_Dominion_over_different_provinces_of_creation_assigned_to_different_beings
1.23_-_Conditions_for_the_Coming_of_a_Spiritual_Age
1.23_-_FESTIVAL_AT_SURENDRAS_HOUSE
1.23_-_Improvising_a_Temple
1.240_-_1.300_Talks
1.240_-_Talks_2
1.24_-_PUNDIT_SHASHADHAR
1.25_-_ADVICE_TO_PUNDIT_SHASHADHAR
1.25_-_On_the_destroyer_of_the_passions,_most_sublime_humility,_which_is_rooted_in_spiritual_feeling.
1.27_-_AT_DAKSHINESWAR
1.28_-_Describes_the_nature_of_the_Prayer_of_Recollection_and_sets_down_some_of_the_means_by_which_we_can_make_it_a_habit.
1.28_-_The_Killing_of_the_Tree-Spirit
1.3.04_-_Peace
1.32_-_Expounds_these_words_of_the_Paternoster__Fiat_voluntas_tua_sicut_in_coelo_et_in_terra._Describes_how_much_is_accomplished_by_those_who_repeat_these_words_with_full_resolution_and_how_well
1.3.4.01_-_The_Beginning_and_the_End
1.35_-_Describes_the_recollection_which_should_be_practised_after_Communion._Concludes_this_subject_with_an_exclamatory_prayer_to_the_Eternal_Father.
1.39_-_The_Ritual_of_Osiris
14.01_-_To_Read_Sri_Aurobindo
1.439
1.43_-_Dionysus
15.03_-_A_Canadian_Question
15.06_-_Words,_Words,_Words...
15.07_-_Souls_Freedom
1.50_-_Eating_the_God
1.52_-_Family_-_Public_Enemy_No._1
1.52_-_Killing_the_Divine_Animal
1.57_-_Public_Scapegoats
1.60_-_Between_Heaven_and_Earth
1.65_-_Balder_and_the_Mistletoe
1.66_-_The_External_Soul_in_Folk-Tales
1.67_-_Faith
1.67_-_The_External_Soul_in_Folk-Custom
19.03_-_The_Mind
1914_11_20p
1916_12_20p
1916_12_21p
1916_12_30p
1917_01_04p
1920_06_22p
1929-06-02_-__Divine_love_and_its_manifestation_-_Part_of_the_vital_being_in_Divine_love
1929-08-04_-_Surrender_and_sacrifice_-_Personality_and_surrender_-_Desire_and_passion_-_Spirituality_and_morality
1951-02-03_-_What_is_Yoga?_for_what?_-_Aspiration,_seeking_the_Divine._-_Process_of_yoga,_renouncing_the_ego.
1951-05-14_-_Chance_-_the_play_of_forces_-_Peace,_given_and_lost_-_Abolishing_the_ego
1953-07-01
1953-07-15
1953-08-19
1953-09-09
1953-12-16
1954-06-02_-_Learning_how_to_live_-_Work,_studies_and_sadhana_-_Waste_of_the_Energy_and_Consciousness
1954-07-14_-_The_Divine_and_the_Shakti_-_Personal_effort_-_Speaking_and_thinking_-_Doubt_-_Self-giving,_consecration_and_surrender_-_Mothers_use_of_flowers_-_Ornaments_and_protection
1954-07-28_-_Money_-_Ego_and_individuality_-_The_shadow
1956-03-21_-_Identify_with_the_Divine_-_The_Divine,_the_most_important_thing_in_life
1956-08-29_-_To_live_spontaneously_-_Mental_formations_Absolute_sincerity_-_Balance_is_indispensable,_the_middle_path_-_When_in_difficulty,_widen_the_consciousness_-_Easiest_way_of_forgetting_oneself
1957-01-30_-_Artistry_is_just_contrast_-_How_to_perceive_the_Divine_Guidance?
1957-03-22_-_A_story_of_initiation,_knowledge_and_practice
1957-11-27_-_Sri_Aurobindos_method_in_The_Life_Divine_-_Individual_and_cosmic_evolution
1958-07-09_-_Faith_and_personal_effort
1958-07-16_-_Is_religion_a_necessity?
1958-08-13_-_Profit_by_staying_in_the_Ashram_-_What_Sri_Aurobindo_has_come_to_tell_us_-_Finding_the_Divine
1960_01_05
1963_08_10
1970_04_29
1970_06_05
1.ac_-_The_Four_Winds
1.anon_-_The_Epic_of_Gilgamesh_Tablet_VII
1.bni_-_Raga_Ramkali
1f.lovecraft_-_Discarded_Draft_of
1f.lovecraft_-_In_the_Walls_of_Eryx
1f.lovecraft_-_Medusas_Coil
1f.lovecraft_-_Old_Bugs
1f.lovecraft_-_Sweet_Ermengarde
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Call_of_Cthulhu
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Doom_That_Came_to_Sarnath
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Electric_Executioner
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Hoard_of_the_Wizard-Beast
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Last_Test
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Mound
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Night_Ocean
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Temple
1f.lovecraft_-_Till_A_the_Seas
1.fs_-_Elegy_On_The_Death_Of_A_Young_Man
1.fs_-_Genius
1.fs_-_Pompeii_And_Herculaneum
1.fs_-_Resignation
1.fs_-_The_Driver
1.fs_-_The_Sexes
1.jk_-_Endymion_-_Book_I
1.jk_-_Isabella;_Or,_The_Pot_Of_Basil_-_A_Story_From_Boccaccio
1.jk_-_Otho_The_Great_-_Act_I
1.jk_-_Otho_The_Great_-_Act_II
1.jk_-_Otho_The_Great_-_Act_IV
1.jk_-_Sleep_And_Poetry
1.jm_-_The_Song_of_View,_Practice,_and_Action
1.jwvg_-_Living_Remembrance
1.kbr_-_What_Kind_Of_God?
1.mb_-_The_Dagger
1.ml_-_Realisation_of_Dreams_and_Mind
1.nb_-_A_Poem_for_the_Sefirot_as_a_Wheel_of_Light
1.nrpa_-_Advice_to_Marpa_Lotsawa
1.okym_-_71_-_And_much_as_Wine_has_playd_the_Infidel
1.pbs_-_Alastor_-_or,_the_Spirit_of_Solitude
1.pbs_-_The_Cyclops
1.pbs_-_The_Witch_Of_Atlas
1.rajh_-_The_Word_Most_Precious
1.rb_-_Any_Wife_To_Any_Husband
1.rb_-_A_Pretty_Woman
1.rb_-_Holy-Cross_Day
1.rb_-_In_A_Gondola
1.rb_-_Old_Pictures_In_Florence
1.rb_-_Paracelsus_-_Part_III_-_Paracelsus
1.rb_-_Paracelsus_-_Part_II_-_Paracelsus_Attains
1.rb_-_Paracelsus_-_Part_IV_-_Paracelsus_Aspires
1.rb_-_Respectability
1.rb_-_Sordello_-_Book_the_Fourth
1.rt_-_Gitanjali
1.rt_-_Lovers_Gifts_IV_-_She_Is_Near_To_My_Heart
1.rt_-_The_Gardener_LIX_-_O_Woman
1.rt_-_The_Gardener_LXVIII_-_None_Lives_For_Ever,_Brother
1.rt_-_Ungrateful_Sorrow
1.rwe_-_Freedom
1.sb_-_Precious_Treatise_on_Preservation_of_Unity_on_the_Great_Way
1.sca_-_When_You_have_loved,_You_shall_be_chaste
1.sfa_-_The_Canticle_of_Brother_Sun
1.shvb_-_O_ignis_Spiritus_Paracliti
1.stl_-_The_Divine_Dew
1.wby_-_A_Dramatic_Poem
1.wby_-_Baile_And_Aillinn
1.wby_-_The_Shadowy_Waters_-_The_Shadowy_Waters
1.whitman_-_Aboard_At_A_Ships_Helm
1.whitman_-_A_Carol_Of_Harvest_For_1867
1.whitman_-_As_A_Strong_Bird_On_Pinious_Free
1.whitman_-_As_I_Sat_Alone_By_Blue_Ontarios_Shores
1.whitman_-_Election_Day,_November_1884
1.whitman_-_Manhattan_Streets_I_Saunterd,_Pondering
1.whitman_-_Over_The_Carnage
1.whitman_-_Pensive_On_Her_Dead_Gazing,_I_Heard_The_Mother_Of_All
1.whitman_-_Poems_Of_Joys
1.whitman_-_Sing_Of_The_Banner_At_Day-Break
1.whitman_-_Song_Of_The_Exposition
1.whitman_-_Song_Of_The_Open_Road
1.whitman_-_States!
1.ww_-_0-_The_White_Doe_Of_Rylstone,_Or,_The_Fate_Of_The_Nortons_-_Dedication
1.ww_-_3-_The_White_Doe_Of_Rylstone,_Or,_The_Fate_Of_The_Nortons
1.ww_-_7-_The_White_Doe_Of_Rylstone,_Or,_The_Fate_Of_The_Nortons
1.ww_-_Admonition
1.ww_-_Book_Fifth-Books
1.ww_-_Dion_[See_Plutarch]
1.ww_-_Feelings_Of_The_Tyrolese
1.ww_-_Her_Eyes_Are_Wild
1.ww_-_Laodamia
1.ww_-_September,_1819
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_II-_Book_First-_The_Wanderer
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_IV-_Book_Third-_Despondency
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_V-_Book_Fouth-_Despondency_Corrected
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_VII-_Book_Sixth-_The_Churchyard_Among_the_Mountains
1.ww_-_The_Last_Of_The_Flock
1.ww_-_The_Morning_Of_The_Day_Appointed_For_A_General_Thanksgiving._January_18,_1816
1.ww_-_The_Old_Cumberland_Beggar
1.ww_-_The_Prioresss_Tale_[from_Chaucer]
1.ww_-_Tribute_To_The_Memory_Of_The_Same_Dog
1.ww_-_Vaudracour_And_Julia
2.01_-_On_Books
2.01_-_THE_ARCANE_SUBSTANCE_AND_THE_POINT
2.02_-_Habit_2__Begin_with_the_End_in_Mind
2.03_-_Karmayogin__A_Commentary_on_the_Isha_Upanishad
2.03_-_THE_ENIGMA_OF_BOLOGNA
2.03_-_THE_MASTER_IN_VARIOUS_MOODS
2.03_-_The_Pyx
2.05_-_Apotheosis
2.05_-_The_Religion_of_Tomorrow
2.05_-_VISIT_TO_THE_SINTHI_BRAMO_SAMAJ
2.06_-_Two_Tales_of_Seeking_and_Losing
2.06_-_WITH_VARIOUS_DEVOTEES
2.10_-_On_Vedic_Interpretation
2.11_-_WITH_THE_DEVOTEES_IN_CALCUTTA
2.12_-_On_Miracles
2.1.4.1_-_Teachers
2.14_-_On_Movements
2.14_-_The_Unpacking_of_God
2.1.5.1_-_Study_of_Works_of_Sri_Aurobindo_and_the_Mother
2.17_-_December_1938
2.17_-_THE_MASTER_ON_HIMSELF_AND_HIS_EXPERIENCES
2.18_-_January_1939
2.20_-_The_Infancy_and_Maturity_of_ZO,_Father_and_Mother,_Israel_The_Ancient_and_Understanding
2.20_-_THE_MASTERS_TRAINING_OF_HIS_DISCIPLES
2.3.07_-_The_Vital_Being_and_Vital_Consciousness
2.4.1_-_Human_Relations_and_the_Spiritual_Life
27.01_-_The_Golden_Harvest
3.00.2_-_Introduction
30.10_-_The_Greatness_of_Poetry
3.01_-_THE_BIRTH_OF_THOUGHT
3.01_-_The_Mercurial_Fountain
3.02_-_SOL
3.02_-_The_Psychology_of_Rebirth
3.03_-_On_Thought_-_II
3.03_-_SULPHUR
3.03_-_The_Consummation_of_Mysticism
3.04_-_LUNA
3.07_-_The_Ascent_of_the_Soul
3.08_-_Purification
3.09_-_Evil
3.09_-_The_Return_of_the_Soul
32.08_-_Fit_and_Unfit_(A_Letter)
33.06_-_Alipore_Court
3-5_Full_Circle
37.04_-_The_Story_Of_Rishi_Yajnavalkya
40.02_-_The_Two_Chains_Of_The_Mother
4.01_-_The_Presence_of_God_in_the_World
4.02_-_BEYOND_THE_COLLECTIVE_-_THE_HYPER-PERSONAL
4.02_-_Humanity_in_Progress
4.03_-_The_Meaning_of_Human_Endeavor
4.03_-_The_Special_Phenomenology_of_the_Child_Archetype
4.03_-_THE_TRANSFORMATION_OF_THE_KING
4.04_-_In_the_Total_Christ
4.04_-_THE_REGENERATION_OF_THE_KING
4.06_-_THE_KING_AS_ANTHROPOS
4.08_-_THE_RELIGIOUS_PROBLEM_OF_THE_KINGS_RENEWAL
4.08_-_THE_VOLUNTARY_BEGGAR
4.13_-_ON_THE_HIGHER_MAN
4.2.5_-_Dealing_with_Depression_and_Despondency
4.3_-_Bhakti
4.43_-_Chapter_Three
5.01_-_EPILOGUE
5.02_-_THE_STATUE
5.03_-_ADAM_AS_THE_FIRST_ADEPT
5.05_-_Origins_Of_Vegetable_And_Animal_Life
5.06_-_THE_TRANSFORMATION
5.4.01_-_Notes_on_Root-Sounds
5_-_The_Phenomenology_of_the_Spirit_in_Fairytales
6.04_-_THE_MEANING_OF_THE_ALCHEMICAL_PROCEDURE
6.06_-_Remembrances
6.09_-_Imaginary_Visions
6.0_-_Conscious,_Unconscious,_and_Individuation
6.10_-_THE_SELF_AND_THE_BOUNDS_OF_KNOWLEDGE
7.06_-_The_Simple_Life
7.08_-_Sincerity
7.11_-_Building_and_Destroying
7.15_-_The_Family
7_-_Yoga_of_Sri_Aurobindo
Blazing_P3_-_Explore_the_Stages_of_Postconventional_Consciousness
BOOK_I._-_Augustine_censures_the_pagans,_who_attributed_the_calamities_of_the_world,_and_especially_the_sack_of_Rome_by_the_Goths,_to_the_Christian_religion_and_its_prohibition_of_the_worship_of_the_gods
BOOK_II._-_A_review_of_the_calamities_suffered_by_the_Romans_before_the_time_of_Christ,_showing_that_their_gods_had_plunged_them_into_corruption_and_vice
BOOK_II._--_PART_I._ANTHROPOGENESIS.
BOOK_II._--_PART_II._THE_ARCHAIC_SYMBOLISM_OF_THE_WORLD-RELIGIONS
BOOK_I._--_PART_I._COSMIC_EVOLUTION
BOOK_I._--_PART_III._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED
BOOK_IX._-_Of_those_who_allege_a_distinction_among_demons,_some_being_good_and_others_evil
Book_of_Genesis
Book_of_Imaginary_Beings_(text)
Book_of_Proverbs
Book_of_Psalms
BOOK_XI._-_Augustine_passes_to_the_second_part_of_the_work,_in_which_the_origin,_progress,_and_destinies_of_the_earthly_and_heavenly_cities_are_discussed.Speculations_regarding_the_creation_of_the_world
BOOK_XIII._-_That_death_is_penal,_and_had_its_origin_in_Adam's_sin
BOOK_XVIII._-_A_parallel_history_of_the_earthly_and_heavenly_cities_from_the_time_of_Abraham_to_the_end_of_the_world
BOOK_XVII._-_The_history_of_the_city_of_God_from_the_times_of_the_prophets_to_Christ
BOOK_XXI._-_Of_the_eternal_punishment_of_the_wicked_in_hell,_and_of_the_various_objections_urged_against_it
BOOK_XX._-_Of_the_last_judgment,_and_the_declarations_regarding_it_in_the_Old_and_New_Testaments
Conversations_with_Sri_Aurobindo
COSA_-_BOOK_I
COSA_-_BOOK_II
COSA_-_BOOK_IX
COSA_-_BOOK_V
COSA_-_BOOK_VI
COSA_-_BOOK_VIII
COSA_-_BOOK_XI
COSA_-_BOOK_XIII
ENNEAD_01.04_-_Whether_Animals_May_Be_Termed_Happy.
ENNEAD_01.06_-_Of_Beauty.
ENNEAD_03.05_-_Of_Love,_or_Eros.
ENNEAD_03.08b_-_Of_Nature,_Contemplation_and_Unity.
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PRIMARY CLASS

SIMILAR TITLES
Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness A Commentary on Nagarjuna's Precious Garland
precious
precious human life
The Instructions of Gampopa A Precious Garland of the Supreme Path
The Precious Treasury Of The Way Of Abiding
Treasure Trove of Scriptural Transmission A Commentary on the Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena

DEFINITIONS


TERMS STARTING WITH

precious ::: a. --> Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone.
Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections.
Particular; fastidious; overnice.


precious love of the Holy Spirit, perfect Trinity.

preciously ::: adv. --> In a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly. Also used ironically.

preciousness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness.

Precious metals - Are valuable commodities (e.g., gold and silver) representing a private store of value. Precious metals are liquid, have international markets, and provide a hedge against inflation, currency risk, and unfavourable political and economic developments.

Precious Things, Fourteen. See KURMA-AVATARA


TERMS ANYWHERE

2. precious jewel (S. maniratna; T. nor bu rin po che; C. [moni]zhubao [末尼]珠寶)

4. great bliss: keep the precious gem of speech (bde chen gsung gi rin chen zung)

9. like a precious image buried in the mud (S. mṛtsu ca ratnabimbam; T. sa la rin chen gzugs; C. jiaohei nimo zhong youshang miaobao xiang 焦黑泥模中有上妙寶像)

Airyema-ishyo (Avestan) Airyemā-ishyō. The much-desired brotherhood, or Yasna 54: “May brotherhood of man, for which we yearn, come down amongst us and rejoice the hearts of men and maidens of Zarathustra’s faith. Bringing fulfillment unto Vohu Man; when souls of men receive their precious mead, I pray too Asha in His Grace to grant these blessings for which human souls do long, which Mazda hath meant for all.” “This verse, though actually not included in the Gathas, follows immediately after the Fifth Gatha. Both the language and the metre are exactly the same, as those of the Fifth Gatha. . . . This verse is recited during the Zoroastrian marriage service as part of ‘the blessing’ ” (Taraporewala, The Religion of Zarathushtra 148).

akalpikavastu. (P. akappiyavatthu; T. rung ba ma yin pa'i dngos po; C. bujing wu; J. fujomotsu; K. pujong mul 不淨物). In Sanskrit, "inappropriate possessions" or "improper matters"; eight kinds of possessions or activities that monks and nuns are expected to avoid, since they may compromise their status as renunciants: (1) gold, (2) silver, (3) servants or slaves, (4) cattle, (5) sheep, (6) safe deposits or warehouses, (7) engaging in trade, and (8) engaging in farming. (An alternative version of this list does not include "sheep," but instead distinguishes between male and female servants or slaves). Another list has the following: (1) possessing land or property, (2) engaging in animal husbandry, (3) maintaining storage of grains or food and silk or other cloth, (4) having servants or slaves, (5) keeping animals (as either pets or livestock), (6) keeping money, (7) keeping cushions and pans, and (8) keeping furniture gilded with gold, ivory, or precious jewels.

alchemy ::: Alchemy The science, both physical and spiritual, of transforming base materials into superior forms, i.e. gold. Transmutation of base metals into gold was based on the belief that naturally occurring gold, silver and other precious substances were originally formed within the earth from lesser substances, and could be reconstituted through alchemical operations. The operations of alchemy were based on the Hermetic principle that everything on earth had a heavenly counterpart, and that through the 'principle of vibration', heavenly things could affect their earthly counterparts, and vice-versa. Consequently, each mineral, plant, and metal corresponded with a heavenly body, and thus contained the properties of its associated heavenly body. As a result, alchemical formulae for medicines were created, and the concept of spiritual development through alchemical work was developed. The Great Work became not simply transmuting base metals into precious ones, but the perfection of the divine in man himself.

alchemy ::: n. --> An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.
A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet.
Miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious.


amalgamator ::: n. --> One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.

amethyst ::: A purple or violet quartz; having the clear colour as of the precious stone. (Sri Aurobindo employs the word as an adj.)

amethyst ::: a purple or violet quartz; having the clear colour as of the precious stone. Sri Aurobindo uses the word as an adj."for Amethyst (the Mother)she has revealed that it has a power of protection” Huta

amethyst ::: A purple or violet quartz; having the clear colour as of the precious stone. Sri Aurobindo uses the word as an adj.

Appraisal – 1. evaluating the usefulness of the employee the business. Or 2. estimate of the value of an asset. An asset may be a piece of property, a collectible, or a precious metal. In the case of property, for example, an appraisal is made for the purposes of: (1) allocating the purchase price to the assets acquired (e.g., land, building, equipment); (2) determining the amount of hazard insurance to carry; (3) deter­mining the value at death for estate tax purposes; and (4) determining a reasonable asking price in a sale. Or 2. activities such as inspection and testing of materials, in-process items, finished goods, and packaging.

As Plato puts it in the Timaeus, the universe was constructed by divinity in accordance with geometrical laws, the first cosmogonic basis of which was the dodecahedron — outside of the ever-productive and cosmically fecund One. Philo Judaeus likewise regarded twelve as a sacred number, writing that the sun visits serially the signs of the zodiac monthly, during the twelve months of the year, “and it is to honour that sign that Moses divided his nation into twelve tribes, established the twelve cakes (Levit. xxiv, 5) of the shewbread, and placed twelve precious stones around the ephod of the pontiffs (See De Profugis)” (SD 1:649).

Bailian jiao. (白蓮教). In Chinese, "White Lotus teachings." As with the BAILIAN SHE, this name was used frequently during the Ming dynasty to refer pejoratively to various religious teachings and magical techniques deemed heretical or traitorous by local officials and Buddhist leaders. No specific religious group, however, seems to coincide precisely with this appellation. The White Lotus teachings are nonetheless often associated with millenarian movements that began to appear during the Mongol Yuan dynasty. Religious groups associated with these movements compiled their own scriptures, known as "precious scrolls" (BAOJUAN), which spoke of the future buddha MAITREYA and the worship of Wusheng Laomu ("Eternal Venerable Mother").

Bailian she. (J. Byakurensha; K. Paengnyonsa 白蓮社). In Chinese, "White Lotus Society." In the late fourth and early fifth centuries, the Chinese monk LUSHAN HUIYUAN assembled a group of 123 monks and laymen on LUSHAN and contemplated the image of the buddha AMITABHA; this group came to be known as the White Lotus Society. This name was also used by putatively heterodox lay Buddhist organizations that flourished during the Tang, Song, and early Yuan dynasties, as well as by monks mainly associated with the TIANTAI school. Inspired by Huiyuan's White Lotus Society and the repentance rituals of the Tiantai school, Mao Ziyuan (c. 1086-1166) constructed halls for repentance called White Lotus repentance halls and promoted the practice of NIANFO (see BUDDHANUSMṚTI) as a means of maintaining the five moral precepts (PANCAsĪLA). Mao Ziyuan's White Lotus Society was further popularized by the monk Pudu (1255-1330), who compiled an influential treatise known as the Lushan lianzong baojian ("Precious Mirror of the Lotus Tradition at Mt. Lu"). Despite ongoing governmental suppression, he and many other lay followers established cloisters and worship halls all over the country. There seems to be little if any connection between these later organizations and that of Lushan Huiyuan. These lay organizations primarily focused on the recitation of the name of AmitAbha in hopes of ensuring rebirth in his PURE LAND. During the early Ming, the name White Lotus Society was frequently associated with rebellious millenarian movements that worshipped the future buddha MAITREYA, which prompted the Ming government to ban any use of the name. Another more common name for these millenarian movements was BAILIAN JIAO. White Lotus societies also flourished in Korea during the Koryo dynasty, where they were called Paengnyon kyolsa (White Lotus retreat societies). Especially well known was the White Lotus Society (Paengnyonsa) established at Mandoksa in 1211 by WoNMYO YOSE (1163-1240), the mid-Koryo revitalizer of the Korean CH'oNT'AE (TIANTAI) tradition and a colleague of POJO CHINUL. See also JIESHE.

baojuan. (寶巻). In Chinese, "precious scrolls" or "treasure scrolls"; a genre of scripture produced mainly by popular religious sects with Buddhist orientations during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The baojuan are believed to have been divinely revealed to select beings who often became the leaders of these new religious movements (see also T. GTER MA). The earliest extant baojuan, which focuses on the worship of MAITREYA, the future buddha, is dated 1430, shortly after the fall of the Yuan dynasty. Lo Qing (1442-1527), a lay Buddhist, founded the Wuwei jiao ("Teachings of Noninterference"), for instance, for which he produced "five books and six volumes" of baojuan. Precious scrolls seem to share certain mythological elements, such as a new cosmogony of both the creation and demise of the world. Many of them also expound a new soteriology based on CHAN meditation and Daoist alchemy. The baojuan genre seems to be an evolutionary development from the earlier Buddhist vernacular narrative known as "transformation texts" (BIANWEN). Like bianwen, the baojuan were also employed for both popular entertainment and religious propagation.

base ::: a. --> Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
Low in place or position.
Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.
Illegitimate by birth; bastard.
Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.
Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base


bdellium ::: n. --> An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.
A gum resin of reddish brown color, brought from India, Persia, and Africa.


Bezoar: A precious stone said to be found in the innards of animals and to have magical properties.

Bhaisajyagurusutra. [alt. BhaisajyaguruvaiduryaprabhArAjasutra] (T. Sman gyi bla bai durya'i 'od kyi rgyal po'i sngon gyi smon lam gyi khyad par rgyas pa'i mdo; C. Yaoshi benyuan jing; J. Yakushi hongangyo; K. Yaksa ponwon kyong 藥師本願經). An eponymous MAHAYANA SuTRA that recounts the qualities, vows, and PURE LAND (BUDDHAKsETRA) of the buddha BHAIsAJYAGURU-the Master of Healing, also known as the Medicine Buddha, or the TathAgata of Lapis-Lazuli Light. The scripture was most likely written in northern India during the early centuries of the Common Era. In this sutra, at the request of MANJUsRĪ-kumAra, sAKYAMUNI describes this buddha and his pure land. Bhaisajyaguru's pure land lies in the east, separated from our world system by innumerable buddhaksetras. Like other pure lands, Bhaisajyaguru's realm is free from the miseries that invariably plague existence and is ideal for the acquisition of the dharma as taught by Bhaisajyaguru himself and his retinue of BODHISATTVAs. The ground in this realm is made of lapis lazuli. Its roads, also made of precious stones, are marked with ropes of gold. Its houses are made of jewels. sAkyamuni also describes the bodhisattva vows taken by Bhaisajyaguru in his quest for awakening. Bhaisajyaguru vowed that his name, if merely uttered, would cure diseases, free prisoners, secure food and clothing for the impoverished, and produce other similar benefits. He also vowed that his body would be as resplendent as lapis lazuli itself so that it might illuminate the world. This sutra describes methods by which one may gain Bhaisajyaguru's favor; these methods include making an image of Bhaisajyaguru, reciting the text of the Bhaisajyagurusutra, or merely thinking of his name. Chinese translations of this sutra were made by Dharmagupta in 616 and by XUANZANG in 650 at DACI'ENSI in the Tang capital of Chang'an.

Blo sbyong don bdun ma. (Lojong Dondünma). In Tibetan, "Seven Points of Mind Training"; an influential Tibetan work in the BLO SBYONG ("mind training") genre. The work was composed by the BKA' GDAMS scholar 'CHAD KA BA YE SHES RDO RJE, often known as Dge bshes Mchad kha ba, based on the tradition of generating BODHICITTA known as "mind training" transmitted by the Bengali master ATIsA DĪPAMKARAsRĪJNANA. It also follows the system laid out previously by Glang ri thang pa (Langri Tangpa) in his BLO SBYONG TSHIG BRGYAD MA ("Eight Verses on Mind Training"). Comprised of a series of pithy instructions and meditative techniques, the Blo sbyong don bdun ma became influential in Tibet, with scholars from numerous traditions writing commentaries to it. According to the commentary of the nineteenth-century Tibetan polymath 'JAM MGON KONG SPRUL, the seven points covered in the treatise are: (1) the preliminaries to mind training, which include the contemplations on the preciousness of human rebirth, the reality of death and impermanence, the shortcomings of SAMSARA, and the effects of KARMAN; (2) the actual practice of training in bodhicitta; (3) transforming adverse conditions into the path of awakening; (4) utilizing the practice in one's entire life; (5) the evaluation of mind training; (6) the commitments of mind training; and (7) guidelines for mind training.

Blo sbyong tshig brgyad ma. (Lojong Tsikgyema). In Tibetan, "Eight Verses on Mind Training"; a text composed by the BKA' GDAMS scholar Glang ri thang pa (Langri Thangpa, 1054-1123), based upon the instructions for generating BODHICITTA transmitted to Tibet by the Bengali master ATIsA DĪPAMKARAsRĪJNANA. The work became famous in Tibet for its penetrating advice for the practice of compassion (KARUnA). It formed the basis for future influential works, including the often-quoted BLO SBYONG DON BDUN MA ("Seven Points of Mind Training"), by the Bka' gdams scholar 'CHAD KA BA YE SHES RDO RJE, written several decades later. The first seven verses teach the practice of conventional (SAMVṚTI) bodhicitta, and the last verse ultimate (PARAMARTHA) bodhicitta. The first training is to view sentient beings as wish-granting gems because it is only by feeling compassion for beings that bodhisattvas reach enlightenment; the second is to cultivate an attitude similar to a person of low status whose natural place is serving others; and the third is to immediately confront and counteract afflictions (KLEsA) (here understood specifically as selfishness, attachment to one's own interests, and hatred for those who oppose them). The fourth training is to treat people who are actually cruel as extremely rare and precious because they present an opportunity to practice patience and compassion, without which enlightenment is impossible; the fifth is the famous advice to "give all victory to others; take all defeat for yourself;" the sixth is to treat ungrateful persons as special gurus, and the seventh is to practice GTONG LEN (giving and taking), a practice of breathing out love and compassion and breathing in the sufferings of others. The eighth training is in a mind free from all conceptions.

precious ::: a. --> Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone.
Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections.
Particular; fastidious; overnice.


precious love of the Holy Spirit, perfect Trinity.

preciously ::: adv. --> In a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly. Also used ironically.

preciousness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness.

breastplate ::: n. --> A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor.
A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool.
A strap that runs across a horse&


Brisingamen (Icelandic) [from brising fire + men jewel] In Norse myths the fire jewel represents the fire of enlightened intelligence in the human race, pictured as a gem which the goddess Freya wears on her bosom. She is the spiritual power imbodied in the planet Venus and the protectress of evolving, aspiring humanity. Her gem has on more than one occasion been stolen by Loki — the mischievous lower mind — which brought grief to the gods, who have the well-being of humanity at heart. Once the precious gem was in grave danger: the matter-giant Trym (our physical globe earth) stole Thor’s hammer of creation and destruction and hid it deep beneath the ground, and for its return he demanded that Freya become his wife. The story relates that she snorted with such fierce outrage that the gem was shattered.

cakravartin. (P. cakkavattin; T. 'khor lo sgyur ba'i rgyal po; C. zhuanlun wang; J. tenrin'o; K. chollyun wang 轉輪王). In Sanskrit, lit. "wheel-turning emperor" or "universal monarch"; a monarch who rules over the entire universe (CAKRAVAdA), commonly considered in Buddhism to be an ideal monarch who rules his subjects in accordance with the DHARMA. Just as with a buddha, only one cakravartin king can appear in a world system at any one time. Also like a buddha, a cakravartin is endowed with all the thirty-two major marks of a great man (MAHAPURUsALAKsAnA). Hence, when the future buddha GAUTAMA was born with these marks, seers predicted that he had two possible destinies: to become a cakravartin if he remained in the world, or a buddha if he renounced it. A cakravartin's power derives from a wheel or disc of divine attributes (CAKRA) that rolls across different realms of the earth, bringing them under his dominion. The ABHIDHARMAKOsABHAsYA lists four classes of cakravartin, depending on the basic element from which his disc is forged: (1) a suvarnacakravartin (referred to in some texts as a caturdvīpakacakravartin, or "cakravartin of four continents"), whose wheel is gold, who reigns over all the four continents of a world system (see CAKRAVAdA), and who conquers the world through the spontaneous surrender of all rival kings whose lands his wheel enters; (2) a rupyacakravartin, whose wheel is silver, who reigns over three continents (all except UTTARAKURU), and who conquers territory by merely threatening to move against his rivals; (3) a tAmracakravartin, whose wheel is copper, who reigns over two continents (JAMBUDVĪPA and VIDEHA), and who conquers territory after initiating battle with his rivals; (4) an ayascakravartin, whose wheel is iron, who reigns over one continent (Jambudvīpa only), and who conquers territory only after extended warfare with his rivals. Some texts refer to a balacakravartin or "armed cakravartin," who corresponds to the fourth category. The cakravartins discussed in the sutras typically refers to a suvarnacakravartin, who conquers the world through the sheer power of his righteousness and charisma. He possesses the ten royal qualities (rAjadharma) of charity, good conduct, nonattachment, straightforwardness, gentleness, austerity, nonanger, noninjury, patience, and tolerance. A cakravartin is also said to possess seven precious things (RATNA): a wheel (cakra), an elephant (HASTINAGA), a horse (asva), a wish-granting gem (MAnI), a woman (strī), a financial steward or treasurer (GṚHAPATI), and a counselor (parinAyaka). Various kings over the course of Asian history have been declared, or have declared themselves to be, cakravartins. The most famous is the Mauryan emperor AsOKA, whose extensive territorial conquests, coupled with his presumed support for the dharma and the SAMGHA, rendered him the ideal paradigm of Buddhist kingship.

calcedon ::: n. --> A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones.

carat ::: n. --> The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed.
A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold.


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chrysoprase ::: a brittle, translucent, semiprecious chalcedony (q.v.), a variety of the silica mineral quartz. It owes its bright apple-green colour to colloidally dispersed hydrated nickel silicate. Valued in ancient times as it shone in the dark.

cintAmani. (T. yid bzhin nor bu; C. ruyi baozhu; J. nyoihoju; K. yoŭi poju 如意寶珠). In Sanskrit, "wish-fulfilling gem"; in Indian mythology a magical jewel possessed by DEVAs and NAGAs that has the power to grant wishes. The term is often as a metaphor for various stages of the path, including the initial aspiration to achieve buddhahood (BODHICITTOTPADA), the rarity of rebirth as a human being with access to the dharma, and the merit arising from the teachings of the Buddha. According to the Ruyi baozhu zhuanlun mimi xianshen chengfo jinlunzhouwang jing (also known simply as the Jinlunzhouwang jing), which describes in great detail the inexhaustible merit of this gem, the cintAmani is rough in shape and is comprised of eleven precious materials, including gold and silver, and has thirty-two pieces of the Buddha's relics (sARĪRA) at its core, which give it its special power. In the DAZHIDU LUN, the gem is said to derive from the brain of the dragon king (nAgarAja), the undersea protector of Buddhism, or, alternatively, to be the main jewel ornamenting the top of his head. The text claims that it has the power to protect its carrier from poison and fire; other texts say that the cintAmani has the capacity to drive away evil, clarify muddy water, etc. This gem is also variously said to come from the head of a great makara fish (as in the RATNAKutASuTRAs) or the heart of a GARUdA bird (as in the GUAN WULIANGSHOU JING). Other texts suggest that while the king of the gods, INDRA, was fighting with the demigods (ASURA), part of his weapon dropped to the world and became this gem. The bodhisattvas AVALOKITEsVARA and KsITIGARBHA are also depicted holding a cintAmani so that they may grant the wishes of all sentient beings.

crown ::: n. **1. An ornament worn on the head by kings and those having sovereign power, often made of precious metal and ornamented with gems. 2. A wreath or garland for the head, awarded as a sign of victory, success, honour, etc. 3. The distinction that comes from a great achievement; reward, honour. 4. The top or summit of something, esp. of a rounded object. etc. 5. The highest or more nearly perfect state of anything. 6. An exalting or chief attribute. 7. The acme or supreme source of honour, excellence, beauty, etc. v. 8. To put a crown on the head of, symbolically vesting with royal title, powers, etc. 9. To place something on or over the head or top of. crowns, crowned.**

cupel ::: n. --> A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime). ::: v. t. --> To refine by means of a cupel.

Dalai Lama [from Mongolian ta-le ocean] The title of the Great Lama or abbot of the Gedun Dubpa Monastery situated at Lhasa, Tibet; used mainly by the Chinese and Mongols. One key to the Dalai Lama’s symbolical name, ocean-lama meaning wisdom-ocean, is found in the tradition of the great sea of knowledge or learning which remained for ages where now stretches the Shamo or Gobi Desert (SD 2:502). The Tibetans call him rgyal be rinpoche (precious victor) or often simply Kun-dun (the Presence). Popularly believed to be an incarnation of Chenresi (Avalokitesvara), he is regarded as the temporal ruler of Tibet.

Dalai Lama. (T. DA la'i bla ma). An honorific title given to members of a prominent Tibetan incarnation (SPRUL SKU) lineage belonging to the DGE LUGS sect of Tibetan Buddhism. The Dalai Lamas are traditionally revered as earthly manifestations of AVALOKITEsVARA, the BODHISATTVA of compassion and protector of Tibet. Although the term has become widely known outside the region, Tibetans most frequently refer to the Dalai Lama as Rgyal ba rin po che (Gyalwa Rinpoche) "Precious Conqueror," Sku mdun (Kundun) "The Presence," or Yid bzhin nor bu (Yishin Norbu) "Wish-fulfilling Gem." The name originated during the sixteenth century when ALTAN KHAN, ruler of the Tümed Mongols, bestowed the title on the Dge lugs teacher BSOD NAMS RGYA MTSHO by translating the prelate's name rgya mtsho ("ocean") into Mongolian as dalai. The name thus approximately means "ocean teacher." It is not the case, as is often reported, that the Dalai Lamas are so named because their wisdom is as vast as the ocean. After Bsod nams rgya mtsho, all subsequent incarnations have rgya mtsho as the second component of their name. At the time of his meeting with the Altan Khan, Bsod nams rgya mtsho was already a recognized incarnate lama of the Dge lugs. Bsod nams rgya mtsho became the third Dalai Lama and two of his previous incarnations were posthumously recognized as the first and second holders of the lineage. From that time onward, successive incarnations have all been known as the Dalai Lama. Although writings outside Tibet often describe the Dalai Lama as the head of the Dge lugs sect, that position is held by a figure called the DGA' LDAN KHRI PA, the "Throneholder of Ganden Monastery." The fourteen Dalai Lamas are:

dAnapAramitA. (P. dAnapAramī; T. sbyin pa'i pha rol tu phyin pa; C. bushi boluomi; J. fuseharamitsu; K. posi paramil 布施波羅蜜). In Sanskrit, the "perfection of giving"; the first of the six [or ten] perfections (PARAMITA) cultivated on the BODHISATTVA path. According to the PAli tradition, dAna is the first of ten perfections (P. PARAMĪ). Three kinds of DANA are often enumerated in this context: the "gift of material goods" (AMIsADANA); the "gift of fearlessness" (ABHAYADANA) and the "gift of the dharma" (DHARMADANA). Giving (DANA) is perfected on the first of the ten stages (DAsABHuMI) of the bodhisattva path, PRAMUDITA (joyful), where the bodhisattva's vision into the emptiness (suNYATA) of all things motivates him to perfect the practice of giving, learning to give away those things most precious to him, including his wealth, his wife, and family, and even his very body (see DEHADANA; SHESHEN). Thanks to his understanding of emptiness (suNYATA), the bodhisattva masters the perfection of giving by realizing there is no donor, no recipient, and no gift. It is with this insight that ordinary giving becomes perfected giving. The perfection of giving brings an end to the obstruction of the common illusions of the unenlightened (pṛthagjanatvAvarana; C. yishengxing zhang), leading in turn to the awareness of universal suchness (sarvatragatathatA; C. bianxing zhenru). See DAsABHuMI, VESSANTARA.

dasabhumi. (T. sa bcu; C. shidi; J. juji; K. sipchi 十地). In Sanskrit, lit., "ten grounds," "ten stages"; the ten highest reaches of the bodhisattva path (MARGA) leading to buddhahood. The most systematic and methodical presentation of the ten BHuMIs appears in the DAsABHuMIKASuTRA ("Ten Bhumis Sutra"), where each of the ten stages is correlated with seminal doctrines of mainstream Buddhism-such as the four means of conversion (SAMGRAHAVASTU) on the first four bhumis, the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS (CATVARY ARYASATYANI) on the fifth bhumi, and the chain of dependent origination (PRATĪTYASAMUTPADA) on the sixth bhumi, etc.-as well as with mastery of one of a list of ten perfections (PARAMITA) completed in the course of training as a bodhisattva. The list of the ten bhumis of the Dasabhumikasutra, which becomes standard in most MahAyAna traditions, is as follows: (1) PRAMUDITA (joyful) corresponds to the path of vision (DARsANAMARGA) and the bodhisattva's first direct realization of emptiness (suNYATA). The bodhisattva masters on this bhumi the perfection of giving (DANAPARAMITA), learning to give away those things most precious to him, including his wealth, his wife and family, and even his body (see DEHADANA); (2) VIMALA (immaculate, stainless) marks the inception of the path of cultivation (BHAVANAMARGA), where the bodhisattva develops all the superlative traits of character incumbent on a buddha through mastering the perfection of morality (sĪLAPARAMITA); (3) PRABHAKARĪ (luminous, splendrous), where the bodhisattva masters all the various types of meditative experiences, such as DHYANA, SAMAPATTI, and the BRAHMAVIHARA; despite the emphasis on meditation in this bhumi, it comes to be identified instead with the perfection of patience (KsANTIPARAMITA), ostensibly because the bodhisattva is willing to endure any and all suffering in order to master his practices; (4) ARCIsMATĪ (radiance, effulgence), where the flaming radiance of the thirty-seven factors pertaining to enlightenment (BODHIPAKsIKADHARMA) becomes so intense that it incinerates obstructions (AVARAnA) and afflictions (KLEsA), giving the bodhisattva inexhaustible energy in his quest for enlightenment and thus mastering the perfection of vigor or energy (VĪRYAPARAMITA); (5) SUDURJAYA (invincibility, hard-to-conquer), where the bodhisattva comprehends the various permutations of truth (SATYA), including the four noble truths, the two truths (SATYADVAYA) of provisional (NEYARTHA) and absolute (NĪTARTHA), and masters the perfection of meditative absorption (DHYANAPARAMITA); (6) ABHIMUKHĪ (immediacy, face-to-face), where, as the name implies, the bodhisattva stands at the intersection between SAMSARA and NIRVAnA, turning away from the compounded dharmas of saMsAra and turning to face the profound wisdom of the buddhas, thus placing him "face-to-face" with both the compounded (SAMSKṚTA) and uncompounded (ASAMSKṚTA) realms; this bhumi is correlated with mastery of the perfection of wisdom (PRAJNAPARAMITA); (7) DuRAnGAMA (far-reaching, transcendent), which marks the bodhisattva's freedom from the four perverted views (VIPARYASA) and his mastery of the perfection of expedients (UPAYAPARAMITA), which he uses to help infinite numbers of sentient beings; (8) ACALA (immovable, steadfast), which is marked by the bodhisattva's acquiescence or receptivity to the nonproduction of dharmas (ANUTPATTIKADHARMAKsANTI); because he is now able to project transformation bodies (NIRMAnAKAYA) anywhere in the universe to help sentient beings, this bhumi is correlated with mastery of the perfection of aspiration or resolve (PRAnIDHANAPARAMITA); (9) SADHUMATĪ (eminence, auspicious intellect), where the bodhisattva acquires the four analytical knowledges (PRATISAMVID), removing any remaining delusions regarding the use of the supernatural knowledges or powers (ABHIJNA), and giving the bodhisattva complete autonomy in manipulating all dharmas through the perfection of power (BALAPARAMITA); and (10) DHARMAMEGHA (cloud of dharma), the final bhumi, where the bodhisattva becomes autonomous in interacting with all material and mental factors, and gains all-pervasive knowledge that is like a cloud producing a rain of dharma that nurtures the entire world; this stage is also described as being pervaded by meditative absorption (DHYANA) and mastery of the use of codes (DHARAnĪ), just as the sky is filled by clouds; here the bodhisattva achieves the perfection of knowledge (JNANAPARAMITA). As the bodhisattva ascends through the ten bhumis, he acquires extraordinary powers, which CANDRAKĪRTI describes in the eleventh chapter of his MADHYAMAKAVATARA. On the first bhumi, the bodhisattva can, in a single instant (1) see one hundred buddhas, (2) be blessed by one hundred buddhas and understand their blessings, (3) live for one hundred eons, (4) see the past and future in those one hundred eons, (5) enter into and rise from one hundred SAMADHIs, (6) vibrate one hundred worlds, (7) illuminate one hundred worlds, (8) bring one hundred beings to spiritual maturity using emanations, (9) go to one hundred BUDDHAKsETRA, (10), open one hundred doors of the doctrine (DHARMAPARYAYA), (11) display one hundred versions of his body, and (12) surround each of those bodies with one hundred bodhisattvas. The number one hundred increases exponentially as the bodhisattva proceeds; on the second bhumi it becomes one thousand, on the third one hundred thousand, and so on; on the tenth, it is a number equal to the particles of an inexpressible number of buddhaksetra. As the bodhisattva moves from stage to stage, he is reborn as the king of greater and greater realms, ascending through the Buddhist cosmos. Thus, on the first bhumi he is born as king of JAMBUDVĪPA, on the second of the four continents, on the third as the king of TRAYATRIMsA, and so on, such that on the tenth he is born as the lord of AKANIstHA. ¶ According to the rather more elaborate account in chapter eleven of the CHENG WEISHI LUN (*VijNaptimAtratAsiddhi), each of the ten bhumis is correlated with the attainment of one of the ten types of suchness (TATHATA); these are accomplished by discarding one of the ten kinds of obstructions (Avarana) by mastering one of the ten perfections (pAramitA). The suchnesses achieved on each of the ten bhumis are, respectively: (1) universal suchness (sarvatragatathatA; C. bianxing zhenru), (2) supreme suchness (paramatathatA; C. zuisheng zhenru), (3) ubiquitous, or "supreme outflow" suchness (paramanisyandatathatA; C. shengliu zhenru), (4) unappropriated suchness (aparigrahatathatA; C. wusheshou zhenru), (5) undifferentiated suchness (abhinnajAtīyatathatA; C. wubie zhenru), (6) the suchness that is devoid of maculations and contaminants (asaMklistAvyavadAtatathatA; C. wuranjing zhenru), (7) the suchness of the undifferentiated dharma (abhinnatathatA; C. fawubie zhenru), (8) the suchness that neither increases nor decreases (anupacayApacayatathatA; C. buzengjian), (9) the suchness that serves as the support of the mastery of wisdom (jNAnavasitAsaMnisrayatathatA; C. zhizizai suoyi zhenru), and (10) the suchness that serves as the support for mastery over actions (kriyAdivasitAsaMnisrayatathatA; C. yezizai dengsuoyi). These ten suchnessses are obtained by discarding, respectively: (1) the obstruction of the common illusions of the unenlightened (pṛthagjanatvAvarana; C. yishengxing zhang), (2) the obstruction of the deluded (mithyApratipattyAvarana; C. xiexing zhang), (3) the obstruction of dullness (dhandhatvAvarana; C. andun zhang), (4) the obstruction of the manifestation of subtle afflictions (suksmaklesasamudAcArAvarana; C. xihuo xianxing zhang), (5) the obstruction of the lesser HĪNAYANA ideal of parinirvAna (hīnayAnaparinirvAnAvarana; C. xiasheng niepan zhang), (6) the obstruction of the manifestation of coarse characteristics (sthulanimittasamudAcArAvarana; C. cuxiang xianxing zhang), (7) the obstruction of the manifestation of subtle characteristics (suksmanimittasamudAcArAvarana; C. xixiang xianxing zhang), (8) the obstruction of the continuance of activity even in the immaterial realm that is free from characteristics (nirnimittAbhisaMskArAvarana; C. wuxiang jiaxing zhang), (9) the obstruction of not desiring to act on behalf of others' salvation (parahitacaryAkAmanAvarana; C. buyuxing zhang), and (10) the obstruction of not yet acquiring mastery over all things (fa weizizai zhang). These ten obstructions are overcome by practicing, respectively: (1) the perfection of giving (dAnapAramitA), (2) the perfection of morality (sīlapAramitA), (3) the perfection of forbearance (ksAntipAramitA), (4) the perfection of energetic effort (vīryapAramitA), (5) the perfection of meditation (dhyAnapAramitA), (6) the perfection of wisdom (prajNApAramitA), (7) the perfection of expedient means (upAyapAramitA), (8) the perfection of the vow (to attain enlightenment) (pranidhAnapAramitA), (9) the perfection of power (balapAramitA), and (10) the perfection of knowledge (jNAnapAramitA). ¶ The eighth, ninth, and tenth bhumis are sometimes called "pure bhumis," because, according to some commentators, upon reaching the eighth bhumi, the bodhisattva has abandoned all of the afflictive obstructions (KLEsAVARAnA) and is thus liberated from any further rebirth. It appears that there were originally only seven bhumis, as is found in the BODHISATTVABHuMI, where the seven bhumis overlap with an elaborate system of thirteen abidings or stations (vihAra), some of the names of which (such as pramuditA) appear also in the standard bhumi schema of the Dasabhumikasutra. Similarly, though a listing of ten bhumis appears in the MAHAVASTU, a text associated with the LOKOTTARAVADA subsect of the MAHASAMGHIKA school, only seven are actually discussed there, and the names given to the stages are completely different from those found in the later Dasabhumikasutra; the stages there are also a retrospective account of how past buddhas have achieved enlightenment, rather than a prescription for future practice. ¶ The dasabhumi schema is sometimes correlated with other systems of classifying the bodhisattva path. In the five levels of the YogAcAra school's outline of the bodhisattva path (PANCAMARGA; C. wuwei), the first bhumi (pramuditA) is presumed to be equivalent to the level of proficiency (*prativedhAvasthA; C. tongdawei), the third of the five levels; while the second bhumi onward corresponds to the level of cultivation (C. xiuxiwei), the fourth of the five levels. The first bhumi is also correlated with the path of vision (DARsANAMARGA), while the second and higher bhumis correlate with the path of cultivation (BHAVANAMARGA). In terms of the doctrine of the five acquiescences (C. ren; S. ksAnti) listed in the RENWANG JING, the first through the third bhumis are equivalent to the second acquiescence, the acquiescence of belief (C. xinren; J. shinnin; K. sinin); the fourth through the sixth stages to the third, the acquiescence of obedience (C. shunren; J. junnin; K. sunin); the seventh through the ninth stages to the fourth, the acquiescence to the nonproduction of dharmas (anutpattikadharmaksAnti; C. wushengren; J. mushonin; K. musaengin); the tenth stage to the fifth and final acquiescence, to extinction (jimieren; J. jakumetsunin; K. chongmyorin). FAZANG's HUAYANJING TANXUAN JI ("Notes Plumbing the Profundities of the AVATAMSAKASuTRA") classifies the ten bhumis in terms of practice by correlating the first bhumi to the practice of faith (sRADDHA), the second bhumi to the practice of morality (sĪLA), the third bhumi to the practice of concentration (SAMADHI), and the fourth bhumi and higher to the practice of wisdom (PRAJNA). In the same text, Fazang also classifies the bhumis in terms of vehicle (YANA) by correlating the first through third bhumis with the vehicle of humans and gods (rentiansheng), the fourth through the seventh stage to the three vehicles (TRIYANA), and the eighth through tenth bhumis to the one vehicle (EKAYANA). ¶ Besides the list of the dasabhumi outlined in the Dasabhumikasutra, the MAHAPRAJNAPARAMITASuTRA and the DAZHIDU LUN (*MahAprajNApAramitAsAstra) list a set of ten bhumis, called the "bhumis in common" (gongdi), which are shared between all the three vehicles of sRAVAKAs, PRATYEKABUDDHAs, and bodhisattvas. These are the bhumis of: (1) dry wisdom (suklavidarsanAbhumi; C. ganhuidi), which corresponds to the level of three worthies (sanxianwei, viz., ten abidings, ten practices, ten transferences) in the srAvaka vehicle and the initial arousal of the thought of enlightenment (prathamacittotpAda) in the bodhisattva vehicle; (2) lineage (gotrabhumi; C. xingdi, zhongxingdi), which corresponds to the stage of the "aids to penetration" (NIRVEDHABHAGĪYA) in the srAvaka vehicle, and the final stage of the ten transferences in the fifty-two bodhisattva stages; (3) eight acquiescences (astamakabhumi; C. barendi), the causal incipiency of stream-enterer (SROTAAPANNA) in the case of the srAvaka vehicle and the acquiescence to the nonproduction of dharmas (anutpattikadharmaksAnti) in the bodhisattva path (usually corresponding to the first or the seventh through ninth bhumis of the bodhisattva path); (4) vision (darsanabhumi; C. jiandi), corresponding to the fruition or fulfillment (PHALA) level of the stream-enterer in the srAvaka vehicle and the stage of nonretrogression (AVAIVARTIKA), in the bodhisattva path (usually corresponding to the completion of the first or the eighth bhumi); (5) diminishment (tanubhumi; C. baodi), corresponding to the fulfillment level (phala) of stream-enterer or the causal incipiency of the once-returner (sakṛdAgAmin) in the srAvaka vehicle, or to the stage following nonretrogression before the attainment of buddhahood in the bodhisattva path; (6) freedom from desire (vītarAgabhumi; C. liyudi), equivalent to the fulfillment level of the nonreturner in the srAvaka vehicle, or to the stage where a bodhisattva attains the five supernatural powers (ABHIJNA); (7) complete discrimination (kṛtAvibhumi), equivalent to the fulfillment level of the ARHAT in the srAvaka vehicle, or to the stage of buddhahood (buddhabhumi) in the bodhisattva path (buddhabhumi) here refers not to the fruition of buddhahood but merely to the state in which a bodhisattva has the ability to exhibit the eighteen qualities distinctive to the buddhas (AVEnIKA[BUDDHA]DHARMA); (8) pratyekabuddha (pratyekabuddhabhumi); (9) bodhisattva (bodhisattvabhumi), the whole bodhisattva career prior to the fruition of buddhahood; (10) buddhahood (buddhabhumi), the stage of the fruition of buddhahood, when the buddha is completely equipped with all the buddhadharmas, such as omniscience (SARVAKARAJNATĀ). As is obvious in this schema, despite being called the bhumis "common" to all three vehicles, the shared stages continue only up to the seventh stage; the eighth through tenth stages are exclusive to the bodhisattva vehicle. This anomaly suggests that the last three bhumis of the bodhisattvayāna were added to an earlier srāvakayāna seven-bhumi scheme. ¶ The presentation of the bhumis in the PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀ commentarial tradition following the ABHISAMAYĀLAMKĀRA uses the names found in the Dasabhumikasutra for the bhumis and understands them all as bodhisattva levels; it introduces the names of the ten bhumis found in the Dazhidu lun as levels that bodhisattvas have to pass beyond (S. atikrama) on the tenth bodhisattva level, which it calls the buddhabhumi. This tenth bodhisattva level is not the level of an actual buddha, but the level on which a bodhisattva has to transcend attachment (abhinivesa) to not only the levels reached by the four sets of noble persons (ĀRYAPUDGALA) but to the bodhisattvabhumis as well. See also BHuMI.

dear ::: 1. Precious in one"s regard; cherished. 2. Loved and cherished: Highly esteemed or regarded. 3. Heartfelt; earnest. dearer, dearest.

dearness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.
Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness.


dear ::: superl. --> Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.
Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year.
Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious.
Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention.
Of agreeable things and interests.
Of disagreeable things and antipathies.


dearworth ::: a. --> Precious.

derworth ::: a. --> Precious.

diamond ::: n. --> A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.
A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.
One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.


el dorado ::: --> A name given by the Spaniards in the 16th century to an imaginary country in the interior of South America, reputed to abound in gold and precious stones.
Any region of fabulous wealth; exceeding richness.


Eldorado (Spanish) [from el the + dorado golden, gilded] An imaginary region supposed to abound in gold and other precious elements, often located by early European explorers in the New World somewhere in Central or South America; figuratively, a speculative goal of blissful hopes. Such ideas, like that of the Promised Land, Elysium, or Paradise, are echoes of intuitive and traditional awareness of mankind’s divine origin and destiny — traditions also connected with certain spots on the earth, such as the north pole.

emerald ::: a brilliant, clear deep-green like the precious stone of the same name.

emerald ::: n. --> A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl.
A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare/l. It is used by English printers. ::: a. --> Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald.


envy, purloined the precious grimoire and cast it

Famensi. (法門寺). In Chinese, "Dharma-Gate Monastery," located approximately seventy miles outside the city of Chang'an (present-day Xi'an) in Shaanxi province, China. Though the exact dates of its construction are unknown, the monastery claims to have been built during the Eastern Han dynasty but more likely dates from the Northern Wei period (386-534). One of only four monasteries in China to house a relic (sARĪRA) of the Buddha, Famensi was particularly renowned for its four finger-bone relics, which were displayed in the Tang-dynasty capital several times during the seventh and eighth centuries. Famensi's renowned thirteen-story, octagonal brick pagoda (STuPA) collapsed in 1981 after a torrential rainfall, and excavations in 1987 revealed three secret stone chambers under the foundations, which had remained unopened since the ninth century. The chambers housed a large number of precious objects, including incense burners (see GANDHAGHAtIKĀ), jewelry, and textile items, as well as 122 gold and silver objects that are exhaustively inventoried in two stone tablets written in 874 and left with the cache. An exquisite, gilded reliquary casket containing a nested series of smaller reliquaries was also discovered in the chamber. One of the purported finger-bone relics of the Buddha was found intact within the innermost reliquary; the other three were located elsewhere in the chambers.

faqi. (S. *dharmabhājana; T. chos kyi snod; J. hoki; K. popki 法器). In Chinese, "dharma vessel" or "implement of dharma." When referring to objects, faqi is the collective name for all the implements used either for ritual and liturgical purposes (e.g., bells, drums, and wooden fish) or for decorative purposes (e.g., canopies, banners, flower vases, censers, and lamps). The term is also used to refer to the few possessions allowable to a monk or nun, such as the begging bowl (PĀTRA), recitation beads (JAPAMĀLĀ), and the staff; see also PARIsKĀRA. One of the six forms of AVALOKITEsVARA, the Thousand-Hands and Thousand-Eyes emanation (S. SĀHASRABHUJASĀHASRANETRĀVALOKITEsVARA; C. Qianshou Qianyan Guanshiyin Pusa), is commonly depicted in abbreviated form with forty hands, each of which holds a different faqi (cf. T. phyag mtshan, lag cha). According to the Nīlakantha[ka]sutra, these forty faqi include weapons, precious jewels, liturgical instruments, the sun and moon, and plants. The bodhisattva uses these various faqi to protect and save the sentient beings of the continent of JAMBUDVĪPA. When used metaphorically to refer to a person, faqi is a term of praise, meaning "one who has been, or has the potential to be, molded into a vessel of the dharma," or "someone who is suitably prepared to believe in and understand the teachings of Buddhism." In the CHAN tradition, one who is capable of being entrusted with the store of the proper dharma eye (ZHENFAYANZANG), the sublime mind of NIRVĀnA, is called a "dharma vessel."

  “Founder of the religion variously called Mazdaism, Magism, Parseeism, Fire-Worship, and Zoroastrianism. The age of the last Zoroaster (for it is a generic name) is not known, and perhaps for that very reason. Zanthus of Lydia, the earliest Greek writer who mentions this great lawgiver and religious reformer, places him about six hundred years before the Trojan War. But where is the historian who can now tell when the latter took place? Aristotle and also Eudoxus assign him a date of no less than 6,000 years before the days of Plato, and Aristotle was not one to make a statement without a good reason for it. Berosus makes him a king of Babylon some 2,200 years b.c.; but then, how can one tell what were the original figures of Berosus, before his MSS. passed through the hands of Eusebius, whose fingers were so deft at altering figures, whether in Egyptian synchronistic tables or in Chaldean chronology? Haug refers Zoroaster to at least 1,000 years b.c.; and Bunsen . . . finds that Zarathustra Spitama lived under the King Vistaspa about 3,000 years b.c., and describes him as ‘one of the mightiest intellects and one of the greatest men of all time. . . . the Occult records claim to have the correct dates of each of the thirteen Zoroasters mentioned in the Dabistan. Their doctrines, and especially those of the last (divine) Zoroaster, spread from Bactria to the Medes; thence, under the name of Magism, incorporated by the Adept-Astronomers in Chaldea, they greatly influenced the mystic teachings of the Mosaic doctrines, even before, perhaps, they had culminated into what is now known as the modern religion of the Parsis. Like Manu and Vyasa in India, Zarathustra is a generic name for great reformers and law-givers. The hierarchy began with the divine Zarathustra in the Vendidad, and ended with the great, but mortal man, bearing that title, and now lost to history. . . . the last Zoroaster was the founder of the Fire-temple of Azareksh, many ages before the historical era. Had not Alexander destroyed so many sacred and precious works of the Mazdeans, truth and philosophy would have been more inclined to agree with history, in bestowing upon that Greek Vandal the title of ‘the Great’ ” (TG 384-5).

Fourteen A septenate in which each member is dual. In the Hindu Laws of Manu, fourteen manus are enumerated; and in theosophy a root-manu and a seed-manu are given for each round. In a Hindu allegory, there arise from the churning of the ocean fourteen “precious things,” which in a corresponding Japanese system are enumerated as seven. See also KURMA-AVATARA

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garland ::: n. --> The crown of a king.
A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath.
The top; the thing most prized.
A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.
A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience


gem ::: n. --> A bud.
A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel.
Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying.


glyptics ::: n. --> The art of engraving on precious stones.

glyptographic ::: a. --> Relating to glyptography, or the art of engraving on precious stones.

glyptography ::: n. --> The art or process of engraving on precious stones.

golden ::: a. --> Made of gold; consisting of gold.
Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain.
Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions.


gold ::: n. --> Alt. of Goolde ::: v. t. --> A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite

gter ma. (terma). In Tibetan, "hidden treasures" or "treasure text," a source of Tibetan Buddhist and BON sacred objects, including a wide range of manuscripts, relics, statuary, and ritual implements from earlier periods. Such treasure texts have been found in caves, mountains, lakes, valleys, or sequestered away in monasteries, sometimes within a pillar. Whether gter ma are BUDDHAVACANA, i.e., authentic words of the Buddha (or a buddha) or whether they are APOCRYPHA, is contested. In the RNYING MA canon, a division is made between gter ma and BKA' MA, the latter made up of commonly authenticated canonical works. Some gter ma are authentic (although proper criteria for authenticity is a subject of debate in both traditional and modern sources), and some are clearly forgeries and fabricated antiquities. Gter ma are of three types: sa gter ("earth treasure"), dgongs gter ("mind treasure"), and dag snang ("pure vision"). Those physically discovered in caves and so on are sa gter; they may be revealed in a public gathering (khrom gter) or found privately (gsang gter) and then shown to others; they may be accompanied by a prophecy (lung bstan; gter lung; see VYĀKARAnA) of the discovery, made at the time of concealment; the gter ma may have a guardian (gter srung), and the revealer (GTER STON) is often assisted by a dĀKINĪ. Dgongs gter are discovered in the mindstream of the revealer, placed there as seeds to be found, coming from an earlier lifetime, often as a direct disciple of PADMASAMBHAVA. Dag snang are discovered by the revealer through the power of the innate purity of the mind. Gter ma are associated most closely with the RNYING MA sect, although not exclusively so. The basic account of gter ma, in which myth and historical fact are interwoven, relates that prior to the persecution of Buddhism by GLANG DAR MA (reigned c. 838-842), PADMASAMBHAVA hid many teachings, often dictated to YE SHES MTSHO RGYAL, as treasures to be discovered in later times in order to ensure the continuation of the doctrine and to provide appropriate teachings for future generations. The first Tibetan gter ma appear sometime after the start of the second dispensation (PHYI DAR), c. 1000, with the rise of the new (GSAR MA) sects of BKA' GDAMS, SA SKYA, and BKA' BRGYUD, who in many cases call into question the authenticity of earlier Tibetan practices and translations. Gter ma became more common in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Prominent among the revealers is PADMA LAS 'BREL RTSAL, a shadowy figure who revealed the RDZOGS CHEN SNYING THIG that KLONG CHEN RAB 'BYAMS PA then systematized into the definitive RDZOGS CHEN teachings. Klong chen pa's scholarly presentation was again made more accessible through a series of gter ma (called the KLONG CHEN SNYING THIG) discovered by 'JIGS MED GLING PA. These are the basis of the rdzogs chen teachings as they are commonly found today in most branches of the Rnying ma sect. According to traditional accounts, Padmasambhava taught a system of meditation called the MKHA' 'GRO SNYING THIG ("Heart Essence of the dākinī") to PADMA GSAL, the daughter of king KHRI SRONG SDE BTSAN, in whose heart he had inscribed a sacred syllable after bringing her back from the dead. They were discovered there by Padma las 'brel rtsal and Klong chen pa, who are her reincarnations. Besides this widely acknowledged tradition, there are numerous other gter ma that form the basis of practices and rituals in specific Rnying ma monasteries. For example, the main line of teachings and consecrations (ABHIsEKA) in the DPAL YUL monastery in the Khams region of eastern Tibet, and in its reestablished Indian branch near Mysore in South India, is based on gter ma teachings combining Rnying ma and Bka' brgyud practices, revealed by Mi 'gyur rdo rje and redacted by KARMA CHAGS MED; the gter ma discovered by PADMA GLING PA are held in great reverence by the 'BRUG PA BKA' BRGYUD sect in Bhutan; and the secret teachings of the fifth DALAI LAMA (1617-1682) that later locate and legitimate the role of the Dalai Lamas in the Dge lugs pa sect originated in gter ma that he revealed. The different gter ma were brought together in a quasi-canonical form by 'JAM MGON KONG SPRUL BLO GROS MTHA' YAS in his RIN CHEN GTER MDZOD ("Treasury of Precious Treasure Teachings"). It is believed that the sacred and even political space of Tibet is empowered through the discovery of gter ma and, by extension, that the religious practice of a region is empowered through the discovery of treasures within it.

Guru Rin po che. A devotional title for PADMASAMBHAVA. The name, mixing Sanskrit and Tibetan, literally means "precious teacher" and is the appellation of Padmasambhava most commonly used by Tibetans.

ham, “fall into a basin and turn into precious

In regard to the remarkable achievements that the Atlanteans made in all the arts and sciences, we read that the early fifth root-race received their knowledge from the fourth root-race. “It is from them that they learnt aeronautics, Viwan Vidya [vimana-vidya] (the ‘knowledge of flying in air-vehicles’), and, therefore, their great arts of meteorography and meteorology. It is from them, again, that the Aryans inherited their most valuable science of the hidden virtues of precious and other stones, of chemistry, or rather alchemy, of mineralogy, geology, physics and astronomy” (SD 2:426).

invaluable ::: a. --> Valuable beyond estimation; inestimable; priceless; precious.

jeweler ::: n. --> One who makes, or deals in, jewels, precious stones, and similar ornaments.

jewel ::: n. --> An ornament of dress usually made of a precious metal, and having enamel or precious stones as a part of its design.
A precious stone; a gem.
An object regarded with special affection; a precious thing.
A bearing for a pivot a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone, as a ruby. ::: v. t.


Jhumur: “She (Savitri) has gone into this world of light not having really left her body. It is not an experience that is beyond the body. It is in the physical life that she has attained this plane, so topaz, a yellow colour, is the colour of the mind, stone is the consciousness in matter, so physical life, body, life, mind. Mother had told us I remember that a precious stone symbolises consciousness that is lodged in matter. It shows how blazing light is present even in the hardest matter. So you have the image of the physical light, like a kind of a wall, a barrier.”

Jo bo Shākyamuni. Chief image of the JO KHANG and of Tibet's most sacred Buddhist images. Called the Jo bo (Jowo, "Lord") or Jo bo rin po che ("Precious Lord"), this statue of sĀKYAMUNI as a young man is claimed to have been crafted in India during the Buddha's lifetime and brought to Tibet by the Chinese princess WENCHENG during the reign of the Tibetan King SRONG BTSAN SGAM PO. It lends its name to the monastery where it is enshrined, the Jo khang.

Jo khang. In Tibetan, "House of the Lord"; the earliest Tibetan temple and monastery, located in the capital of LHA SA. The central image is a statue of sĀKYAMUNI Buddha as a youth, said to have been sculpted in India during the Buddha's lifetime. This statue, the most sacred in Tibet, is known simply as the JO BO ("Lord") SHĀKYAMUNI or Jo bo Rin po che ("Precious Lord"). The temple takes its name from this image housed within it. Indeed, the name Lha sa ("Place of the Gods") may have referred originally to the Jo khang, only later becoming by extension to be the name of the city that surrounds it. The Jo khang stands at the heart of the old city, and is the central point for three circumambulation routes. The most famous of these is the BAR BSKOR, or middle circuit, which passes around the outer walls and surrounding structures of the Jo khang. The Jo khang and bar bskor together have long been Lha sa's primary religious space, with pilgrims circling it in a clockwise direction each day. The central market of Lha sa is also located along the bar bskor. Despite its well-known name, Tibetans tend to refer to the Jo khang simply as the Gtsug lag khang (Tsuklakang), the Tibetan term for VIHĀRA, meaning "monastery"; the original structure was likely laid out by Newari artisans following the plan of an Indian Buddhist vihāra. Western sources have rather misleadingly dubbed the Jo khang the "Cathedral of Lhasa." According to traditional Tibetan sources (most importantly, the MAnI BKA' 'BUM) the original structure was established by the Tibetan king SRONG BTSAN SGAM PO and his two queens (one Chinese and one Nepalese), around 640 CE. The statue of sākyamuni, said to have been crafted during the Buddha's lifetime, eventually made its way to China. It is said to have been brought to Tibet from China by the king's Chinese bride, Princess WENCHENG. The many difficulties she encountered en route from China convinced her that the landscape of Tibet was in fact a supine demoness (SRIN MO), who was inimical to the introduction of Buddhism. On her advice, the king (who had recently converted to Buddhism), the Chinese princess, and the king's other wife, the Nepalese princess BHṚKUTĪ, built the Jo khang directly over the heart of the demoness; according to Tibetan legends, the king himself built much of the first-floor structure. Other temples were subsequently built across Tibet, corresponding to other parts of the demoness's vast body, in order essentially to nail her to the earth and prevent her further obstruction of the dharma (see MTHA' 'DUL GTSUG LAG KHANG). When the Jo khang was completed, a different statue than the more famous Jo bo Shākyamuni or Jo bo rin bo che, was the central image; it was a statue of the buddha called JO BO MI BSKYOD RDO RJE brought to Tibet by Bhṛkutī. The statue brought by Wencheng (known as Jo bo rin bo che) was housed in the nearby RA MO CHE temple, founded by Wencheng. After the king's death, the two statues were switched, moving the Jo bo Shākyamuni statue to the Jo khang and the Jo bo mi bskyod rdo rje statue to Ra mo che, where they would remain over the subsequent centuries. Modern scholarship has raised questions about many details of this tale, including the degree of Srong btsan sgam po's devotion to Buddhism and the existence of his Nepalese queen. However, the story of the Jo khang's founding, depicted on murals inside the temple itself, is widely known, and the Jo khang remains central to the sacred geography of the Tibetan Buddhist world. The Jo khang has been the site of many important moments of Tibetan history, including the establishment of the SMON LAM CHEN MO festival in 1409, when TSONG KHA PA offered a crown to the Jo bo statue, giving it the aspect of a SAMBHOGAKĀYA. Over the course of its long history, the Jo khang has been enlarged and renovated many times (although elements of the original structure, such as juniper beams, are still visible) to become a complex of chapels, courtyards, residential quarters (including those for the DALAI LAMA and PAn CHEN LAMA), monastic dormitories, government offices, and storerooms. The temple suffered during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), when parts of the complex and much of its original statuary and murals were damaged or destroyed, including the central image. During this period, the complex was occupied by Red Guards and People's Liberation Army troops, and the temple was used as a pigsty. The temple has since been restored, beginning in 1972 and again during the early 1990s. In 2000, it was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

Kailāsa. The Sanskrit name for one of the most important sacred mountains in Asia, generally referred to in English as Kailash or Mount Kailash. It is 21,778 ft. high and is located in southwestern Tibet, not far from the current borders of India and Nepal. Lake Manasarovar is located eighteen miles to the southeast; these two sites have long been places of pilgrimage for Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, and followers of Tibetan BON, some of whom have regarded the striking dome-shaped peak as Mount SUMERU. The mountain is particularly important in Tibetan Buddhism, where it is called Gangs dkar Ti se ("White Snow Mountain Ti se") or simply Gangs rin po che ("Precious Snow Mountain"). Pilgrims from across the Tibetan Buddhist world visit Mount Kailāsa, especially in the Year of the Horse, which occurs once every twelve years in the Tibetan calendrical cycle. Within that year, it is considered auspicious to visit the mountain at the time that marks the Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and passage into PARINIRVĀnA (generally falling in May or June, depending on the lunar calendar). The primary form of practice is the thirty-two mile clockwise circumambulation of the mountain, often completed in a single day, with specific rituals and practices performed along the route. It is said that one circumambulation purifies the negative KARMAN of one lifetime, ten circumambulations purify the negative KARMAN accumulated over the course of a KALPA, and one hundred circumambulations ensure enlightenment. The mountain came to take on numerous tantric associations beginning in the eleventh century. According to a popular story, the yogin MI LA RAS PA won control of the mountain for the Buddhists by defeating a rival Bon priest, Na ro bon chung, in a contest of miracles. The mountain later became an important meditation site for the followers of Mi la ras pa, principally members of the 'BRUG PA BKA' BRGYUD and 'BRI GUNG BKA' BRGYUD sects. Both sĀKYAMUNI Buddha and PADMASAMBHAVA are said to have visited Kailāsa. One of the most important associations of Mount Kailāsa is with the CAKRASAMVARATANTRA, which names twenty-four sacred lands (PĪtHA) as potent locations for tantric practice. The CakrasaMvara literature recounts how long ago these twenty-four lands came under the control of Mahesvara (siva) in the form of Rudra Bhairava. The buddha VAJRADHARA, in the wrathful form of a HERUKA deity, subdued BHAIRAVA, transforming each of the twenty-four sites into a MAndALA of the deity CakrasaMvara and his retinue. In Tibetan literature, Mount Kailāsa came to be identified with one of the twenty-four sites, the one called Himavat or Himālaya ("The Snowy," or "The Snow Mountain"); this was one of several important transpositions of sacred locations in India onto Tibetan sites. The BKA' BRGYUD sect grouped the peak together with two other important mountain pilgrimage sites in southern Tibet, LA PHYI and TSA RI, identified respectively as CakrasaMvara's body, speech, and mind. These claims drew criticism from some Tibetan quarters, such as the renowned scholar SA SKYA PAnDITA, who argued that the sites associated with CakrasaMvara were located not in Tibet but in India. Such criticism has not prevented Mount Kailāsa from remaining one of the most important pilgrimage places in the Tibetan cultural domain.

kapāla. (T. thod pa; C. dulou qi/jiebobei; J. dokuroki/kohahai; K. ch'ongnu ki/kopp'abae 髑髏器/劫波杯). In Sanskrit, "skull"; used in Buddhist TANTRA to refer to the skull cup that is often one of the accoutrements of MAHĀSIDDHAs and wrathful deities. The vessel, made from the cranium of a human skull, is often elaborately carved and inlaid with precious metals. The symbolism of the skull cup is variously explained; most generally, it is yet another antinomian aspect of Buddhist tantra, in which things that would be regarded as polluting in Indian culture (in this case the skull of a corpse) are put to use to overcome dualities. It is also said that the skull cup is a constant reminder of death. In tantric SĀDHANAs, the skull cup is often said to contain the elixir of immortality (AMṚTA). The skull cup figures prominently in tantric iconography (being held, for example, by PADMASAMBHAVA) and in tantric practice. For example, in GCOD practice, one visualizes the top of one's own head being cut off and transformed into a huge vessel, where one's own body is cooked and offered to VAJRAYOGINĪ.

Kong sprul mdzod lnga. (Kongtrül dzo nga). In Tibetan, lit. "five treasuries of Kong sprul"; the name for a collection of five encyclopedic works composed by the Tibetan author 'JAM MGON KONG SPRUL BLO GROS MTHA' YAS. Kong sprul himself classified his writings in more than ninety volumes into a scheme of five "treasuries," in order to preserve and systematize numerous teachings that were in danger of being forgotten or lost. These collections of works, which belonged primarily to the BKA' BRGYUD and RNYING MA sects of Tibetan Buddhism, are now regarded as a primary source for the so-called nonsectarian (RIS MED) movement of the late nineteenth century and as outstanding literary achievements. The five treasuries are (1) SHES BYA KUN KHYAB MDZOD ("Treasury Embracing All Knowledge"); (2) BKA' BRGYUD SNGAGS MDZOD ("Treasury of Bka' brgyud Mantra"); (3) RIN CHEN GTER MDZOD ("Treasury of Precious Treasure Teachings"); (4) GDAMS NGAG MDZOD ("Treasury of Practical Instructions"); and (5) THUN MONG MA YIN PA'I MDZOD ("Uncommon Treasury").

Kurma-avatara (Sanskrit) Kūrma-avatāra The Tortoise avatara; a descent of Vishnu, the sustainer of life, in the form of a tortoise. In the Puranas, a portion of cosmic Vishnu descended as the kurma to restore to mankind the mystic nectar (amrita), the essence of life and truth, as well as other holy and precious things needful to humanity, which had been lost. Vishnu ordered the gods to churn the sea of milk that they might procure once more these precious things, and he promised to become the tortoise on which the mountain Mandara as a churning stick should rest. Out of the sea of churned milk arose the 14 precious things, and with these the gods won their authority over the demons once more. Cosmically this churning of the sea of milk relates to a period before the earth’s formation, the sea of milk being the expanse of space populated by the nebulae and diffuse star-stuff, the seeds and substance of future worlds and their hierarchies.

Lakshmi (Sanskrit) Lakṣmī Prosperity, happiness; the Hindu Venus, goddess of fortune and beauty who sprang with other precious things from the foam of the ocean when churned by the gods and demons for the recovery of the amrita. She is variously regarded as the wife or sakti of several of the great gods, notably Vishnu.

lapidary ::: n. --> An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones.
A virtuoso skilled in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work. ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the art of cutting stones, or


ligure ::: n. --> A kind of precious stone.

lithoglypher ::: n. --> One who curs or engraves precious stones.

lithoglyphic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the art of cutting and engraving precious stones.

Lithomancy: Divination by observing precious stones.

Mandara (Sanskrit) Mandara A sacred mountain which in Hindu mythology served the gods and asuras as a churning-stick on the occasion of the churning of the ocean for the recovery of the amrita and 13 other precious and holy things, which had been lost during the preceding deluge. See also KURMA-AVATARA

Mangalasutta. In Pāli, "Discourse on the Auspicious"; one of the best-loved and most frequently recited texts in the Southeast Asian Buddhist world. The Mangalasutta appears in an early scriptural anthology, the SUTTANIPĀTA; a later collection, the KHUDDAKAPĀtHA; and in a postcanonical anthology of "protection texts," the PARITTA. The text itself is a mere twelve verses in length and is accompanied by a brief preface inquiring about what is true auspiciousness. The Buddha's response provides a straightforward recital of auspicious things, beginning with various social virtues and ending with the achievement of nibbāna (S. NIRVĀnA). The Mangalasutta's great renown derives from its inclusion in the Paritta, a late anthology of texts that are chanted as part of the protective rituals performed by Buddhist monks to ward off misfortunes; indeed, it is this apotropaic quality of the scripture that accounts for its enduring popularity. Paritta suttas refer to specific discourses delivered by the Buddha that are believed to offer protection to those who either recite the sutta or listen to its recitation. Other such auspicious apotropaic suttas are the RATANASUTTA ("Discourse on the Precious") and the METTĀSUTTA ("Discourse on Loving-Kindness"). These paritta texts are commonly believed in Southeast Asia to bring happiness and good fortune when chanted by the SAMGHA. The Mangalasutta has been the subject of many Pāli commentaries, one of the largest of which, the Mangalatthadīpanī, composed in northern Thailand in the sixteenth century, is over five hundred pages in length and continues to serve as the core of the monastic curriculum in contemporary Thailand. The Mangalasutta's twelve verses are: "Many divinities and humans, desiring well-being, have thought about auspiciousness; tell us what is the highest auspiciousness./ Not to associate with fools, to associate with the wise, to worship those worthy of worship-that is the highest auspiciousness./ To live in a suitable place and to have done good deeds before, having a proper goal for oneself-that is the highest auspiciousness./ Learning, craftsmanship, and being well-trained in discipline, being well-spoken-that is the highest auspiciousness./ Care for mother and father, supporting wife and children, and types of work that bring no conflict-that is the highest auspiciousness./ Generosity, morality, helping relatives and performing actions that are blameless-that is the highest auspiciousness./ Ceasing and refraining from evil, abstaining from intoxicants, diligence in morality-that is the highest auspiciousness./ Respect, humility, contentment, gratitude, listening to the dhamma at the proper time-that is the highest auspiciousness./ Patience, obedience, seeing ascetics and timely discussions of the dhamma-that is the highest auspiciousness./ Ascetic practice, the religious life, seeing the four noble truths, and the realization of nibbāna-that is the highest auspiciousness./ If someone's mind is sorrowless, stainless, secure, and does not shake when touched by the things of the world-that is the highest auspiciousness./ Having acted in this wise, unconquered everywhere they go to well-being everywhere-for them, this is the highest auspiciousness."

mani. (T. nor bu; C. moni/zhu; J. mani/shu; K. mani/chu 摩尼/珠). In Sanskrit and Pāli, "jewel"; one of the generic terms for a precious gem in Buddhist texts, appearing in such compounds as "wish-fulfilling jewel" (CINTĀMAnI) and the famous MANTRA, OM MAnI PADME HuM. In this mantra and elsewhere, the term is particularly associated with the bodhisattva AVALOKITEsVARA. The term occurs commonly in most strata of Buddhist texts, both literally in descriptions of the heavens and pure lands and figuratively as a metaphor for something beautiful, precious, and rare.

Mettāsutta. (C. Ci jing; J. Jikyo; K. Cha kyong 慈經). In Pāli, the "Discourse on Loving-Kindness"; one of the best-loved and most frequently recited texts in the THERAVĀDA Buddhist world. According to the Mettāsutta's framing narrative, a group of monks went into the forest during the rainy season to meditate. The tree deities of the forest were disturbed by the presence of the monks and sought to drive them away by frightening them during the night. The monks went to the Buddha and requested his assistance in quelling the disturbance. The Mettāsutta was the discourse that the Buddha then delivered in response, instructing the monks to meditate on loving-kindness (P. mettā; S. MAITRĪ), thinking, "May all beings be happy and safe. May they have happy minds. Whatever living beings there may be-feeble or strong, long, stout, or of medium size, short, small, large, those seen or those unseen, those dwelling far or near, those who are born as well as those yet to be born-may all beings have happy minds." Having radiated these thoughts throughout the forest, the monks were no longer troubled by the spirits. The Mettāsutta appears in an early scriptural anthology, the SUTTANIPĀTA, a later collection, the KHUDDAKAPĀtHA, and in a postcanonical anthology of "protection texts," (PARITTA). (Separate recensions appear in the Chinese translations of the EKOTTARĀGAMA and the SAMYUKTĀGAMA, the latter affiliated with the SARVĀSTIVĀDA school.) The Mettāsutta's great renown derives from its inclusion among the paritta texts, which are chanted as part of the protective rituals performed by Buddhist monks to ward off misfortunes; indeed, it is this apotropaic quality of the scripture that accounts for its enduring popularity. Paritta suttas refer to specific discourses delivered by the buddha that are believed to offer protection to those who either recite the sutta or listen to its recitation. Other such auspicious apotropaic suttas are the MAnGALASUTTA ("Discourse on the Auspicious") and the RATANASUTTA ("Discourse on the Precious"). These paritta texts are commonly believed to bring happiness and good fortune when chanted by the SAMGHA. See also BRAHMAVIHĀRA.

Miaoshan. (J. Myozen; K. Myoson 妙善). In Chinese, "Sublime Wholesomeness"; a legendary Chinese princess who is said to have been an incarnation of the BODHISATTVA GUANYIN (S. AVALOKITEsVARA). According to legend, Princess Miaoshan was the youngest of three daughters born to King Zhuangyan. As in the legend of Prince SIDDHĀRTHA, Miaoshan refused to fulfill the social expectations of her father and instead endured great privations in order to pursue her Buddhist practice. In frustration, Miaoshan's father banished her to a convent, where the nuns were ordered to break the princess's religious resolve. The nuns were ultimately unsuccessful, however, and in anger, the king ordered the convent set ablaze. Miaoshan escaped to the mountain of Xiangshan, where she pursued a reclusive life. After several years, her father contracted jaundice, which, according to his doctors' diagnosis, was caused by his disrespect toward the three jewels (RATNATRAYA). The only thing that could cure him would be a tonic made from the eyes and ears of a person who was completely free from anger. As fate would have it, the only person who fulfilled this requirement turned out to be his own daughter. When Miaoshan heard of her father's dilemma, she willingly donated her eyes and ears for the tonic; and upon learning of their daughter's selfless generosity and filiality, Miaoshan's father and mother both repented and became devoted lay Buddhists. Miaoshan then apotheosized into the goddess Guanyin, specifically her manifestation as the "thousand-armed and thousand-eyed Guanyin" (SĀHASRABHUJASĀHASRANETRĀVALOKITEsVARA). Later redactions of the legend include Miaoshan's visit to hell, where she was said to have relieved the suffering of the hell denizens. The earliest reference to the Miaoshan legend appears in stele fragments that date from the early eleventh century, discovered at a site near Hangzhou. Other written sources include the Xiangshan baojuan ("Precious Scroll of Xiangshan Mountain"), which was revealed to a monk and then transmitted and disseminated by a minor civil servant. With the advent of the Princess Miaoshan legend, the Upper Tianzhu monastery, already recognized as early as the tenth century as a Guanyin worship site, became a major pilgrimage center. The earliest complete rendition of the Miaoshan legend dates from the early Song dynasty (c. twelve century). Thereafter, several renditions of the legend were produced up through the Qing dynasty.

miner ::: n. --> One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.
Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.
The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula).


mound ::: n. --> A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.
An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.


mṛtyumāra. (T. 'Chi bdag gi bdud; C. Simo; J. Shima; K. Sama 死魔). In Sanskrit, "māra of death"; one of the four metaphorical forms of MĀRA, the personification of evil, along with the māra of the afflictions (klesamāra), the māra of the aggregates (SKANDHAMĀRA), and the deity Māra (DEVAPUTRAMĀRA). In this form, death itself is an aspect of Māra, since death brings an end to everything that one holds precious in this current life.

n. 1. A fashioned ornament for personal adornment, especially of a precious metal set with gems. 2. Something resembling a jewel in appearance, ornamental effect, or the like, as a star. jewels, jewel-faces", jewel-lamp, jewel-lamps, jewel-rhythm. *v. 3. Fig. To adorn, as with jewels. *jewelled.

naif ::: a. --> Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone.
Naive; as, a naif remark.


Nitika —a genius of precious stones; he presides

nugget ::: n. --> A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold.

occidental ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; -- opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.
Possessing inferior hardness, brilliancy, or beauty; -- used of inferior precious stones and gems, because those found in the Orient are generally superior.


onycha ::: n. --> An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus.
The precious stone called onyx.


ornaments, such as bracelets, necklaces, or rings, made of precious metals set with gems or imitation gems. Also fig.

Orphaniel —in occult lore, “a great, precious

Orpheus (Greek) An early religious teacher and reformer in Greece about whom clustered so many legends that in course of time his historic existence came to be disputed. He was, however, an actual historic character, probably born in Thrace about the 13th century BC, lived and taught at Pimpleia on Mount Olympus, revived the ancient wisdom-religion, reformed the then degraded popular religion, and was killed — according to the story — because of it. He gathered pupils or disciples about him, and founded a famous Mystery school from which in time emanated a vast literature, now perished with the exception of the Orphic Hymns, the Lithica (a poem on the nature of precious stones), the Argonautica (which recites the connection of Orpheus with the Argonautic expedition), and some other fugitive fragments — and in our time these are supposed to be apocryphal or of a far later date than Orpheus himself, although certainly containing Orphic elements.

ouch ::: n. --> A socket or bezel holding a precious stone; hence, a jewel or ornament worn on the person.

Padmasambhava. (T. Padma 'byung gnas) (fl. eighth century). Indian Buddhist master and tantric adept widely revered in Tibet under the appellation Guru rin po che, "Precious Guru"; considered to be the "second buddha" by members of the RNYING MA sect of Tibetan Buddhism, who view him as a founder of their tradition. In Tibetan, he is also known as Padma 'byung gnas (Pemajungne), "the Lotus Born," which translates his Sanskrit name. It is difficult to assess the many legends surrounding his life and deeds, although the scholarly consensus is that he was a historical figure and did visit Tibet. The earliest reference to him is in the SBA BZHED (a work that purports to be from the eighth century, but is likely later), where he is mentioned as a water diviner and magician, suggesting that he may have been an expert in irrigation, which would have required the ability to subdue local spirits. Two texts in the Tibetan canon are attributed to him. The first is the Man ngag lta ba'i phreng ba, which is a commentary on the thirteenth chapter of the GUHYAGARBHATANTRA. The second is a commentary on the Upāyapāsapadmamālā, a MAHĀYOGA TANTRA. Regardless of his historical status and the duration of his stay in Tibet, the figure of Padmasambhava has played a key role in the narrative of Buddhism's arrival in Tibet, its establishment in Tibet, and its subsequent transmission to later generations. He is also venerated throughout the Himalayan regions of India, Bhutan, and Nepal and by the Newar Buddhists of the Kathmandu Valley. According to many of his traditional biographies, Padmasambhava was miraculously born in the center of a lotus blossom (PADMA) on Lake Danakosa in the land of OddIYĀNA, a region some scholars associate with the Swat Valley of modern Pakistan. Discovered and raised by King Indrabodhi, he abandoned his royal life to pursue various forms of Buddhist study and practice, culminating in his training as a tantric adept. He journeyed throughout the Himalayan regions of India and Nepal, meeting his first consort MANDĀRAVĀ at Mtsho padma in Himachal Pradesh, and later remaining in prolonged retreat in various locations around the Kathmandu Valley including MĀRATIKA, YANG LE SHOD and the ASURA CAVE. His reputation as an exorcist led to his invitation, at the behest of the Indian scholar sĀNTARAKsITA, to travel to Tibet in order to assist with the construction of BSAM YAS monastery. According to traditional accounts, Padmasambhava subdued and converted the indigenous deities inimical to the spread of Buddhism and, together with sāntaraksita and the Tibetan king KHRI SRONG LDE BTSAN, established the first Buddhist lineage and monastic center of Tibet. He remained in Tibet as a court priest, and, together with his Tibetan consort YE SHES MTSHO RGYAL, recorded and then concealed numerous teachings as hidden treasure texts (GTER MA), to be revealed by a later succession of masters spiritually linked to Padmasambhava. The Rnying ma sect preserves the corpus of instructions stemming from the master in two classes of materials: those revealed after his passing as treasure texts and those belonging to an unbroken oral tradition (BKA' MA). It is believed that Padmasambhava departed Tibet for his paradise known as the Glorious Copper-Colored Mountain (ZANGS MDOG DPAL RI), where he continues to reside. From the time of the later dissemination of the doctrine (PHYI DAR) in the eleventh century onwards, numerous biographies of the Indian master have been revealed as treasure texts, including the PADMA BKA' THANG YIG, BKA' THANG GSER 'PHRENG, and the BKA' THANG ZANGS GLING MA. Padmasambhava is the focus of many kinds of ritual activities, including the widely recited "Seven Line Prayer to Padmasambhava" (Tshig 'dun gsol 'debs). The tenth day of each lunar month is dedicated to Padmasambhava, a time when many monasteries, especially those in Bhutan, perform religious dances reverencing the Indian master in his eight manifestations. In iconography, Padmasambhava is depicted in eight forms, known as the guru mtshan brgyad, who represent his eight great deeds. They are Padma rgyal po, Nyi ma 'od zer, Blo ldan mchog sred, Padmasambhava, Shākya seng ge, Padmakara (also known as Sororuhavajra, T. Mtsho skyes rdo rje), Seng ge sgra sgrogs, and RDO RJE GRO LOD.

Panchen Rimpoche or Rimboche (Tibetan) [from panchen abbreviation for pandita chenpo from Sanskrit pandita pundit + Tibetan chen po great + Tibetan rin po che precious one] Precious great teacher; the title of the Tashi or Panchen Lama, the spiritual ruler of Tibet, who had his seat at Tashi Lhunpo. The second great incarnation (along with the Dalai Lama) of the Gelukpa sect.

paritta. [alt. parittā] (BHS. parītta, T. yongs su skyob pa; C. minghu/minghu jing; J. myogo/myogokyo; K. myongho/myongho kyong 明護/明護經). In Pāli, "protection" (classical S. paritrāna); referring to both the practice of reciting a short passage from a SuTRA in order to draw on the text's apotropaic powers, as well as to the passages themselves. The use of paritta are said to have been sanctioned by the Buddha: after a monk had died of a snake bite, the Buddha recited a text (the Khandhaparitta, or "Protection of the Aggregates") for the monks to repeat as protection, which states that loving-kindness (P. mettā; S. MAITRĪ) and the infinite power of the Buddha, DHARMA, and SAMGHA would guard the monks from the finite power of snakes, scorpions, and other dangerous creatures. There were many specific instances that subsequently led the Buddha to deliver different paritta verses, including protection from evil spirits, the assurance of good fortune, exorcism, curing serious illness, and even safe childbirth. The power of these verses often is thought to derive from an asseveration of truth (S. SATYAVACANA; P. saccavacana, saccakiriyā), as in the famous paritta associated with AnGULIMĀLA, who offered this statement to help ease a woman's labor pains: "Since I was born of āryan birth, O sister, I am not aware of having intentionally deprived any living being of its life. By this asseveration of truth, may you be well and may your unborn child be well." (There is intentional irony in this statement, since Angulimāla was well known to have been a murderous highwayman before he became a monk; his "āryan birth" here refers to his ordination into the SAMGHA.) ¶ Collections of paritta are particularly common in Southeast Asian Buddhism, and the texts included in these collections are among the most widely known of Buddhist scriptures among the laity. One of the most popular such Pāli anthologies is the Catubhanavara ("The Text of the Four Recitals"), which contains twenty-nine (or in some recensions twenty-four) Pāli suttas whose protective powers are thought to be particularly efficacious. (This text is widely used in Sri Lanka, where it is known as the Pirit Potha.) Scriptures commonly presumed to have apotropaic powers in Pāli Buddhism include the METTĀSUTTA ("Discourse on Loving-Kindness"), the MAnGALASUTTA ("Discourse on the Auspicious"), the RATANASUTTA ("Discourse on the Precious"), and the ĀTĀNĀTIYASUTTA ("Discourse on the Ātānātiya Protective Spell"). The recitation of these texts accompanies all sorts of Buddhist ceremonies, from weddings to funerals to house blessings. In Southeast Asia, the monks performing a parittarecitation ritual are sometimes connected to the congregation with a ritual string, through which blessings and protection are transferred to the participants. See also RAKsĀ.


   silver - (Ag) Precious metal that does not easily corrode and is more conductive than copper.



perrie ::: n. --> Precious stones; jewels.

plating ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Plate ::: n. --> The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition.

Pophae pobol. (法海寶筏). In Korean, "Precious Raft on the Ocean of Dharma." See SoNMUN CH'WARYO.

preciosity ::: n. --> Preciousness; something precious.

Precious metals - Are valuable commodities (e.g., gold and silver) representing a private store of value. Precious metals are liquid, have international markets, and provide a hedge against inflation, currency risk, and unfavourable political and economic developments.

Precious Things, Fourteen. See KURMA-AVATARA

Propitiation: The attempt by act or intent of gaining the favor of a god, demon, spirit, etc., removing one’s guilt and the divine displeasure. Such acts have taken on innumerable forms: sacrifice of precious possessions, even of human life, of animals, by pilgrimages, tithing, self-imposed asceticism of one kind or another, fastings, rituals, tortures, contrition, etc.

Propitiation: The attempt by act or intent of gaining the favor of a god, removing one's guilt and the divine displeasure. Such acts have taken on innumerable forms: sacrifice of precious possessions, even of human life, of animals, by pilgrimages, tithing, self-imposed asceticism of one kind or another, fastings, rituals, tortures, contrition, etc. The substitution of some one else as an act of voluntary propitiation has found classic expression in Christian tradition in the estimation of Jesus' life and death as the supreme Ransom, Substitute and Mediator. -- V.F.

prospector ::: n. --> One who prospects; especially, one who explores a region for minerals and precious metals.

quote :::When man has risen to the stage of development where he can be the perfect instrument of God, when nothing of his own being stands in the way of the direct impulse that comes from within -- that spirit may be called perfect. That which is most precious, that which is the purpose of man's life is to arrive at that state of perfection when he can be the perfect instrument of God.

      


Ratanasutta. In Pāli, "Discourse on the Precious," one of the best loved and most widely-recited Buddhist texts in the THERAVĀDA Buddhist world (there is no analogous recension in the Chinese translations of the ĀGAMAs). The Ratanasutta appears in an early scriptural anthology, the SUTTANIPĀTA, a later collection, the KHUDDAKAPĀtHA, and in a postcanonical anthology of PARITTA ("protection texts"). The Pāli commentaries say that the discourse was first delivered to the Buddha's attendant ĀNANDA, who then went around the city of the Licchavis reciting the text and sprinkling holy water from the Buddha's own begging bowl (PĀTRA). Through this performance, the baleful spirits harassing the city were vanquished and all the people's illnesses were cured. The text itself consists of a mere seventeen verses, twelve of which recount the virtues of the three jewels (RATNATRAYA) of the Buddha, DHARMA, and SAMGHA. The Ratanasutta's great renown derives from its inclusion in the Paritta anthology, texts that are chanted as part of the protective rituals performed by Buddhist monks to ward off misfortunes; indeed, it is this apotropaic quality of the text that accounts for its enduring popularity. Paritta suttas refer to specific discourses delivered by the Buddha that are believed to offer protection to those who either recite the sutta or listen to its recitation. Other such auspicious apotropaic suttas are the MAnGALASUTTA and the METTĀSUTTA. In Southeast Asia, these paritta texts are commonly believed to bring happiness and good fortune when chanted by the saMgha. See also RAKsĀ.

RatnagunasaMcayagāthā. (T. Yon tan rin po che sdud pa tshigs su bcad pa; C. Fomu baodezang bore boluomi jing; J. Butsumo hotokuzo hannya haramitsukyo; K. Pulmo podokchang panya paramil kyong 佛母寶德藏般若波羅蜜經). In Sanskrit, "Verses on the Collection of Precious Qualities," the longer title is PrajNāpāramitāratnagunasaMcayagāthā, or "Verses on the Collection of the Precious Qualities of the Perfection of Wisdom." The RatnagunasaMcayagāthā epitomizes the early MAHĀYĀNA in its emphasis on the emptiness (suNYATĀ) of the aggregates (SKANDHA) and its praise of the path of the BODHISATTVA over that of the ARHAT. The text is considered to be of particular importance in the history of the Mahāyāna because many of its verses, particularly those that appear early in the text, may represent some of the earliest expressions of Mahāyāna philosophy and may date as far back as 100 BCE. Another indication of the text's antiquity is that it was translated into Chinese as early as the second century CE. The only extant Sanskrit version is that edited in the eighth century by HARIBHADRA to conform to the structure of the ABHISAMAYĀLAMKĀRA, making the precise order of the original verses difficult to determine. Many Mahāyāna sutras are composed of alternating verse and prose. The verses of the RatnagunasaMcayagāthā are written in an ancient meter, suggesting to some that they constitute part of an original sutra, with the AstASĀHASRIKĀPRAJÑĀPĀRAMITĀ ("Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines") supplying the prose section. However, because the verses that appear in the RatnagunasaMcayagāthā are not in all cases identical to those in the Astasāhasrikā, the RatnagunasaMcayagāthā may have originally been a separate work. It appears as the verse recapitulations in the Chinese translation of the Astasāhasrikā and as the eighty-fourth chapter of the Astadasasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā ("Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines") in its Tibetan translation.

ratna. (P. ratana; T. rin chen/dkon mchog; C. zhenbao; J. chinbo; K. chinbo 珍寶). In Sanskrit, "jewel," "valuable," or "treasure," the most common term for a precious object in Buddhist texts and regularly used in Buddhist literature as a metaphor for enlightenment, since jewels represent purity, permanence, preciousness, rarity, etc. TATHĀGATAGARBHA texts often call the tathāgatagarbha or buddha-nature the jewel-nature, since the preciousness of a jewel is unaffected even when it is sullied by mud (defilements); the TATHĀGATAGARBHASuTRA, for example, specifically compares the tathāgatagarbha to a jewel buried in the dirt (see also RATNAGOTRAVIBHĀGA). In the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA ("Lotus Sutra"), the buddha-nature is described in a simile as a jewel that a rich man (the Buddha) has surreptitiously sown into the robes of his destitute friend (sentient beings). Such CHAN masters as GUIFENG ZONGMI (780-840) and POJO CHINUL (1158-1210) use jewels as metaphors to explain their theories of the buddha-nature. A jewel is also used to represent the pristine nature of the realm of enlightenment: in the AVATAMSAKASuTRA, the bejeweled canopy of the king of the gods, INDRA (see INDRAJĀLA), is deployed to illustrate the mutual interdependence that pertains between all phenomena in the universe. Several different lists of jewels are found in Buddhist literature. The most important is the "three jewels" (RATNATRAYA; TRIRATNA) of the Buddha, DHARMA, and SAMGHA; commentaries explain that these three are called jewels because they are difficult to find and, once found, are of great value. The Tibetan translation of "three jewels," dkon mchog gsum (konchok sum) (lit. "three rare excellences") reflects this meaning. There are also several different lists of "seven jewels" (saptaratna). One list describes the seven "valuables" that are essential to the successful reign of a wheel-turning monarch (CAKRAVARTIN): a wheel, elephant, horse, gems, a queen, an able minister or treasurer, and a loyal adviser. Another list of seven is of the jewels decorating SUKHĀVATĪ, the PURE LAND of AMITĀBHA; these are listed in the AMITĀBHASuTRA (see also SUKHĀVATĪVYuHASuTRA) as gold, silver, lapis lazuli, crystal, agate, ruby, and carnelian. Finally, there are seven "moral" jewels listed in mainstream Buddhist literature, as in the Pāli list of morality (P. sīla; S. sĪLA), concentration (SAMĀDHI), wisdom (P. paNNā; S. PRAJNĀ), liberation (P. vimutti; S. VIMUKTI), the knowledge and vision of liberation (P. vimuttiNānadassana; S. vimuktijNānadarsana), analytical knowledge (P. patisambhidā; S. PRATISAMVID), and the factors of enlightenment (P. bojjhanga; S. BODHYAnGA).

REBIRTH (Reincarnation) Man is reborn as a man (never as an animal), until he has learned everything he can learn in the human kingdom, and has acquired all the qualities and abilities necessary to enable him to continue his consciousness expansion in the fifth natural kingdom. Rebirth explains both the seeming injustices of life (since in new lives the individual has to reap what he has sown in precious lives) and the innate, latent understanding and the once self-acquired abilities existing as predispositions. K 1.34.4

riches ::: a. --> That which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence.
That which appears rich, sumptuous, precious, or the like.


rin chen gter mdzod. (rinchen terdzo). In Tibetan, "treasury of precious treasure teachings"; a collection of root texts, liturgical and ritual works, meditation manuals (SĀDHANA), commentarial, and supplemental literature pertaining to the genre of discovered treasure teachings (GTER MA) of the RNYING MA sect of Tibetan Buddhism. The collection was compiled and edited by the nineteenth-century savant 'JAM MGON KONG SPRUL BLO GROS MTHA' YAS and forms one of his five treasuries (KONG SPRUL MDZOD LNGA). Kong sprul's motivation for this massive project, resulting in sixty-three volumes of literature (over one hundred in modern redactions), was complex. The compilation preserves many systems of instruction that were in danger of being lost or forgotten, but it also forms a canonical collection of authoritative treasure texts-one of the first projects of its kind.

rin po che. In Tibetan, lit. "of great value," hence "precious one"; most commonly an honorific added to the name of a Tibetan BLA MA (lama), which is also used as a term of respect for addressing and referring to one's own or another's lama or teacher. The term may be used for any lama, but the term is most commonly used for incarnate lamas (SPRUL SKU), in which case it is often affixed to the name of the lineage, for example, Rgyal ba rin po che (a common appellation of the DALAI LAMA), Pan chen rin po che (the PAn CHEN BLA MA), mkhan rin po che ("precious abbot"), and so on. In ordinary Tibetan parlance, to refer to someone as a rin po che means that he (rarely she) is a sprul sku (incarnate lama).

rose-cut ::: a. --> Cut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows; -- said of diamonds and other precious stones. See Rose diamond, under Rose. Cf. Brilliant, n.

rubies ::: precious stones of a dark or deep red to deep purplish red; often used poetically, such as ruby red cheeks.

ruby ::: n. --> A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
See Agate, n., 2.
Any species of South American humming birds of the genus


saMvara. (P. saMvara; T. sdom pa; C. lüyi/sanbaluo; J. ritsugi/sanbara; K. yurŭi/samballa 律儀/三跋羅). In Sanskrit, "restraint," referring generally to the restraint from unwholesome (AKUsALA) actions (KARMAN) that is engendered by observance of the monastic disciplinary code (PRĀTIMOKsA), the BODHISATTVA precepts, and tantric vows. In the VAIBHĀsIKA school of SARVĀSTIVĀDA ABHIDHARMA, three specific types of restraint (SAMVARA) against unwholesomeness (akusala) are mentioned, which are all associated with "unmanifest material force" or "hidden imprints" (AVIJNAPTIRuPA): (1) the restraint proffered to a monk or nun when he or she accepts the disciplinary rules of the order (PRĀTIMOKsASAMVARA); (2) the restraint that is engendered by mental absorption (dhyānajasaMvara); and (3) the restraint that derives from being free from the contaminants (anāsravasaMvara). The restraint inherent in the disciplinary code (prātimoksasaMvara) creates a special kind of protective force field that helps to dissuade monks and nuns from unwholesome activity, even when they are not consciously aware they are following the precepts or even when they are asleep. This specific type of restraint is what makes a person a monk, since just wearing robes or following an ascetic way of life would not in themselves be sufficient to instill in him the protective power offered by the prātimoksa. The restraint engendered by DHYĀNA (dhyānajasaMvara) refers to the fact that absorption in meditation was thought to confer on the monk protective power against physical harm: the literature abounds with stories of monks who discover tiger tracks all around them after withdrawing from dhyāna, thus suggesting that dhyāna itself was a force that provided a protective shield against accident or injury. Finally, anāsravasaMvara is the restraint that precludes someone who has achieved the extinction of the contaminants (ĀSRAVA)-that is, enlightenment-from committing any action (karman) that would produce a karmic result (VIPĀKA), thus ensuring that their remaining actions in this life do not lead to any additional rebirths. ¶ In MAHĀYĀNA materials, such as the BODHISATTVABHuMI, the first of three types of morality that together codify the moral training of a bodhisattva is called saMvarasīla ("restraining morality"); under this heading is included the different sets of rules for BHIKsU, BHIKsUnĪ and so on in the prātimoksa, taken as a whole; two further codifications of rules called the morality of collecting wholesome factors (kusalasaMgrāhakasīla), and the morality that acts for the welfare of beings (sattvārthakriyāsīla; see ARTHAKRIYĀ); together, these three constitute the definitive and exhaustive explanation of bodhisattva morality, known as TRISAMVARA, the "three restraints" or "triple code." The original meaning of saMvara as "restraint" remains central in the Bodhisattvabhumi's account, but the text expands the scope of morality (sIKsĀPADA) widely, incorporating all altruistic acts under the rubric of skillful means employed for the sake of others, in essence formulating a code for bodhisattvas who are committed to acting like buddhas. In Indian and Tibetan tantra, the meaning of trisaMvara undergoes yet further expansion. Each of the five buddha KULA (in one list AKsOBHYA, VAIROCANA, RATNASAMBHAVA, AMITĀBHA, and AMOGHASIDDHI) has a vowed morality, called SAMAYA. This tantric code is the third of the three codes, the other two being the prātimoksa codes and the Bodhisattvabhumi's code for bodhisattvas. These three, then, are called the prātimoksasaMvara, the bodhisattvasaMvara, and the guhyamantrasaMvara ("secret mantra vows") (see SDOM GSUM RAB DBYE). ¶ In tantric literature, saMvara also has the sense of "union," a meaning that is conveyed in the proper name of (CAKRA)SAMVARA (see also HERUKA), a principal deity of the VAJRAYĀNA ANUTTARAYOGATANTRA tradition. A god named SaMvara appears in the Ṛg Veda as an enemy of the gods who hoarded the precious soma (the divine nectar) and kept it from INDRA, who eventually destroyed SaMvara's mountain fortress. The myth suggests the possibility that SaMvara or CakrasaMvara began his existence as a pre-Vedic Indian deity preserved in Buddhist tantra in a subordinated position. With his adoption into the Buddhist pantheon, SaMvara (likely the Buddhist version of siva) himself vanquishes the Vedic god-he is commonly depicted trampling BHAIRAVA (siva) and/or his consort. Alternate Indian names for him include sambara and Paramasukha CakrasaMvara. The Tibetan Bde mchog, or "supreme bliss," is a translation of paramasukha. Tantric cycles connected to SaMvara were introduced to Tibet by the translator MAR PA in the eleventh century CE. He is said to reside at the mountain of TSHA RI in Rdza yul, southern Tibet, as well as in the Bde mchog pho brang on Mount KAILĀSA, where the nearby Lake Manasarovar is sacred to him. His consort is VAJRAVĀRĀHĪ.

Sapphire Many ancient peoples knew how to avail themselves of the magical virtues of precious stones. The sapphire was especially valued because supposed to enshrine some of the influences of Venus as transmitted through other attributes to Luna or the higher aspect of the Moon, and so to be able to induce equanimity and banish evil thoughts. ” ‘The sapphire,’ say the Buddhists, ‘will open barred doors and dwellings (for the spirit of man); it produces a desire for prayer, and brings with it more peace than any other gem; but he who would wear it must lead a pure and holy life’ ” (IU 1:265). Modern authorities surmise that the sappheiros of the Greeks and the sappir of the Bible were our lapis lazuli, while our sapphire was called hyacinthus. The same qualities are attributed to the color blue.

sardel ::: n. --> A sardine.
A precious stone. See Sardius.


sardius ::: n. --> A precious stone, probably a carnelian, one of which was set in Aaron&

scratch monkey "humour" As in "Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a {scratch monkey}", a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices. Used to refer to any scratch volume hooked to a computer during any risky operation as a replacement for some precious resource or data that might otherwise get trashed. This term preserves the memory of Mabel, the Swimming Wonder Monkey, star of a biological research program at the University of Toronto. Mabel was not (so the legend goes) your ordinary monkey; the university had spent years teaching her how to swim, breathing through a regulator, in order to study the effects of different gas mixtures on her physiology. Mabel suffered an untimely demise one day when a DEC engineer troubleshooting a crash on the program's VAX inadvertently interfered with some custom hardware that was wired to Mabel. It is reported that, after calming down an understandably irate customer sufficiently to ascertain the facts of the matter, a DEC troubleshooter called up the {field circus} manager responsible and asked him sweetly, "Can you swim?" Not all the consequences to humans were so amusing; the sysop of the machine in question was nearly thrown in jail at the behest of certain clueless droids at the local "humane" society. The moral is clear: When in doubt, always mount a scratch monkey. {ESR} notes: There is a version of this story, complete with reported dialogue between one of the project people and DEC field service, that has been circulating on Internet since 1986. It is hilarious and mythic, but gets some facts wrong. For example, it reports the machine as a {PDP-11} and alleges that Mabel's demise occurred when DEC {PM}ed the machine. Earlier versions of this entry were based on that story; this one has been corrected from an interview with the hapless sysop. A corespondent adds: The details you give are somewhat consistent with the version I recall from the Digital "War Stories" notesfile, but the name "Mabel" and the swimming bit were not mentioned, IIRC. Also, there's {a very detailed account (http://mv.com/ipusers/arcade/monkey.htm)} that claims that three monkies died in the incident, not just one. I believe Eric Postpischil wrote the original story at DEC, so his coming back with a different version leads me to wonder whether there ever was a real Scratch Monkey incident. [{Jargon File}] (2004-08-22)

scratch monkey ::: (humour) As in Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey, a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data risky operation as a replacement for some precious resource or data that might otherwise get trashed.This term preserves the memory of Mabel, the Swimming Wonder Monkey, star of a biological research program at the University of Toronto. Mabel was not (so the day when a DEC engineer troubleshooting a crash on the program's VAX inadvertently interfered with some custom hardware that was wired to Mabel.It is reported that, after calming down an understandably irate customer sufficiently to ascertain the facts of the matter, a DEC troubleshooter called up the field circus manager responsible and asked him sweetly, Can you swim?Not all the consequences to humans were so amusing; the sysop of the machine in question was nearly thrown in jail at the behest of certain clueless droids at the local humane society. The moral is clear: When in doubt, always mount a scratch monkey.ESR notes: There is a version of this story, complete with reported dialogue between one of the project people and DEC field service, that has been entry were based on that story; this one has been corrected from an interview with the hapless sysop.A corespondent adds: The details you give are somewhat consistent with the version I recall from the Digital War Stories notesfile, but the name Mabel with a different version leads me to wonder whether there ever was a real Scratch Monkey incident.[Jargon File](2004-08-22)

semiprecious ::: a. --> Somewhat precious; as, semiprecious stones or metals.

sheshen. (S. ātmaparityāga/dehadāna; T. rang gi lus yongs su gtong ba / lus kyi sbyin pa; J. shashin; K. sasin 捨身). In Chinese, lit. "relinquishing the body," viz., "self-immolation"; a whole complex of religiously motivated types of suicide in the MAHĀYĀNA tradition, of which "autocremation" (shaoshen) is best known but which may also include suicide by drowning, starvation, feeding oneself to wild animals, etc. (The Sanskrit ātmabhāvaparityāga means "giving up one's self," as soldiers might for their country, and by extension an act of extreme charity.) This practice is associated with the perfection of giving (DĀNAPĀRAMITĀ) that occurs on the first BHuMI, PRAMUDITĀ (joyful), of the bodhisattva path, where the bodhisattva learns to abandon everything that is most precious to him, including his wealth, his wife and family, and even his own body. Self-immolation is a common trope in Indian Mahāyāna literature, where this "gift of the body" (DEHADĀNA) is performed as an ultimate act of self-sacrifice. One of best-known examples is BHAIsAJYAGURURĀJA (Medicine King) in the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA, who pays homage to the buddhas by burning himself alive. Self-immolation goes back to at least the late-fourth century in Chinese Buddhism but is perhaps best known today through the suicides of such Vietnamese monks as THÍCH QUẢNG ĐỨC (1897-1963), whose autocremation in 1963 at his residence of THIÊN MỤ TỰ drew attention to the persecution of Buddhists by the pro-Catholic Vietnamese government of Ngô Đình Diẹm. The legitimacy of the act of self-immolation was a matter of continued debate within the Buddhist tradition, since suicide could be viewed as a form of attachment or passion (RĀGA), viz., the attachment to "nonexistence" (S. abhavarāga; C. wuyou ai). But there were also vehement supporters of self-immolation, who saw it as the consummate expression of asceticism (see DHUTAnGA) and selflessness (ANĀTMAN). The Chinese term sheshen is used interchangeably with the synonyms wangshen (to lose the body) and yishen (to let go of the body); an analogous Sanskrit term is svadehaparityāga (abandoning the body). See also DEHADĀNA.

shittah tree ::: n. --> A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; -- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color.

Silk Road. (C. Silu 絲路; J. Shiruku rodo シルクロード; K. Pidan kil 緋緞). Term coined by the German geographer Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen in 1877 to describe the ancient caravan routes through Central Asia that connected China, India, Syria, and the Roman Empire; also called the Silk Route. (Translations or transcriptions of the English term are now widely used in Asian languages as well, as in the CJK examples above.) Because silk was among the most highly prized commodities in this East-West trade, von Richthofen chose it as the symbolic designation for these trade routes. Other commodities that were traded along these routes included spices, livestock, perfumes, precious metals, and ceramics. The term Silk Road does not refer to a single road, but rather to a network of major and minor trade routes running through Central Asia that connected East and West. Looked at broadly, the Silk Road ultimately extended as far west as the Mediterranean Sea and as far east as modern Guangzhou (Canton) in China. In addition to facilitating trade, these routes also served as a principal conduit for cultural and religious interaction between the peoples of the different regions of Asia. Thus, it was via the Silk Road that Buddhism migrated out of its Indian homeland and into Central and East Asia; over the centuries, adherents of other religions, such as Nestorian Christianity, Manichaeism, and eventually Islam, would follow the same routes into India and China. From the Indian subcontinent, the Silk Road led northwest through KASHMIR to the outpost of Kashgar; there, it split, with a western route leading to SOGDIANA and eventually Damascus in the Middle East, and an eastern route leading through Central Asia into China and the rest of East Asia. There were two main routes through the oasis kingdoms of Central Asia, both skirting the Takla Makan desert in the Tarim basin. Starting at the city of Kashgar in the west, the northern route moved along the oases kingdoms of KUCHA, TURFAN, and KIZIL along the Tian Mountains; the southern route traveled along the base of the Kunlun Mountains through Niya and KHOTAN, until both routes reconnected at DUNHUANG, often the farthest outpost of the Chinese empire. From Dunhuang the route continued east until it terminated in the Chinese co-capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang, whence it connected to domestic feeder routes spreading throughout East Asia. Many of these Central Asian city-states were populated by various Indo-European peoples. The only remaining evidence of the long-lost native languages of these peoples are inscriptions and fragments of religious and civil-government manuscripts, such as the Niya documents, Gandhāran texts in the KHAROstHĪ script, documents written in the TOCHARIAN and Kuchean languages, and so on. Scores of these documents were discovered in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In missions that began shortly after the death of the Buddha, Indian Buddhist monks accompanied the trading caravans that plied the overland Silk Road. These missions lasted for centuries and changed the religious and cultural landscape of Asia. Buddhist inscriptions, sculptures, manuscripts, reliquary mounds (STuPA), and paintings have been discovered along the Silk Road. From northwestern India, Buddhism was taken to Central Asia. We find a host of inscriptions, texts, and images in the regions of modern-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia, and the Islamic states of the former Soviet Union. By the first century CE, there existed a network of Buddhist religious centers stretching from northwestern India, to the Tarim basin, and into China. Buddhism entered East Asia along the Silk Road as well. According to Chinese sources, interaction between Indian and Chinese culture began as early as the first century BCE, when an emperor of the Han dynasty-by some accounts Emperor Wu (156-87 BCE), by others Emperor Ming (MINGDI) (r. 58-76 CE)-is said to have sent an emissary to the west along the Silk Road in response to the expansion of the KUSHAN empire to gather evidence of the new religion of Buddhism. In the second century CE, monks from India and the oasis kingdoms along the Silk Road began translating Indian and Central Asian Buddhist texts into Chinese. One of the earliest of these translators was AN SHIGAO, who translated dozens of Indian works into Chinese. In the centuries that followed, East Asian pilgrims such as FAXIAN, XUANZANG, YIJING, and HYECH'O used the Silk Road to make their way back and forth between East Asia and the Buddhist homeland of India. From India, these pilgrims brought back manuscripts, relics, and insights into proper religious practice. Today the travelogues of these East Asian monks provide invaluable information regarding the development of Buddhism in Asia. Of the regions along the Silk Road where Buddhism flourished, China, Tibet, and Mongolia are the only ones where Buddhism survived beyond the first millennium CE. This decline was the result of a number of historical factors, including the revival of brahmanical Hinduism in India and the expansion of Islam into Central Asia.

soil, ground; little, precious little; peaceful; low, humble.

Sojiji. (總持寺). In Japanese, "DHĀRAnĪ Monastery"; one of the two main monasteries of the SoToSHu of ZEN Buddhism, located in Tsurumi, Yokohama. This monastery was originally established on the Noto peninsula (present-day Ishikawa prefecture) in 740 as Morookadera by the monk GYoGI (668-749), who also founded ToDAIJI. In 1321, KEIZAN JoKIN (1268-1325), the founding patriarch of the Soto Zen institution, came into possession of this local monastery, which he renamed Sojiji. In 1322, Sojiji were sanctioned as an official monastery by Emperor Godaigo (r. 1318-1339), an event that is traditionally considered to mark the official establishment of Soto as an independent Zen institution in Japan. Keizan later entrusted Sojiji to his disciple Gasan Joseki (1276-1366). Sojiji was an important government-sponsored monastery during the Muromachi and Edo periods and its status rivaled that of the other main Soto monastery, EIHEIJI; in its heyday, the monastery is said to have had more than seventy buildings within its precincts. After burning to the ground in 1898, the monastery was rebuilt in Yokohama in 1911, because Soto Zen leaders calculated that a location near Tokyo would have strategic value for the growth of the sect. Sojiji is entered through a gigantic copper-roofed gate (sanmon) that was built in 1969. The butsuden, or main buddha hall, was completed in 1915 and enshrines a statue of sĀKYAMUNI with his disciples MAHĀKĀsYAPA and ĀNANDA. There is a founders' hall (taisodo) for Keizan Jokin that displays statues of the major historical figures of the Soto Zen tradition and that also doubles as a lecture hall; in addition, there is a large SAMGHA hall (daisodo) for ordaining and training monks, which displays a statue of the BODHISATTVA MANJUsRĪ. Other buildings at the monastery include additional living quarters for the monks, a hall for Emperor Godaigo, and a homotsukan, or treasure house, full of important cultural properties held at the monastery, including a hanging tapestry from the Edo period that originally served as a cover for the chair of senior monks delivering sermons, and several precious buddha images.

solitaire ::: n. --> A person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit.
A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone.
A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping," as in draughts.


Sona-Kolivīsa. (S. srona-ViMsatikoti/srona-KotiviMsa; T. Gro bzhin skyes bye ba nyi shu pa; C. Shoulongna/Ershiyi'er; J. Shurona/Nijuokuni; K. Surongna/Isibogi 守籠那/二十億耳). Pāli name of an ARHAT declared by the Buddha to be foremost among his monk disciples in striving energetically. According to the Pāli account, he was born the son of a wealthy man in the country of Campā. Because he had given a precious ring to a PRATYEKABUDDHA (P. paccekabuddha) in a previous life, his body was the color of burnished gold. His hands and feet were delicate, and fine curly hair covered his feet. King BIMBISĀRA of MAGADHA wished to see the unusual markings of the youth and sent for him. While at the Magadha capital of RĀJAGṚHA, Sona and eighty thousand companions went to see the Buddha, who was preaching at that time in the city. Impressed by the miraculous powers displayed by Sāgata (S. SVĀGATA), the Buddha's attendant, Sona asked his parents to allow him to enter the order. After his ordination, the Buddha gave Sona a subject of meditation (KAMMAttHĀNA), and Sona retired to the sītavana grove to practice. Sona strove diligently, taking up walking meditation as his main practice; however, because he was interrupted by frequent visitors, he made little progress and grew despondent. His feet became blistered and bled, so much so that the meditation path (P. cankama, S. CAnKRAMA) upon which he walked was soaked in blood like a slaughter house. Seeing this scene, the Buddha instructed Sona on how to temper his energy with tranquility, and in due time he attained arhatship. Because of his delicate feet, the Buddha is said to have given Sona dispensation to wear sandals of a single layer, even though monks and nuns were required to go barefoot. Sona declined the exemption, however, for he did not wish to be treated more leniently than his fellow monks. In response, the Buddha then gave permission to all his monks to use such sandals.

Sonmun ch'waryo. (禪門撮要). In Korean, "Selected Essentials from the Gate of Son"; a Korean anthology of the essential canon of the Korean SoN (CHAN) school, in two rolls. Although the Sonmun ch'waryo is often attributed to the late-Choson-period Son master KYoNGHo SoNGU (1849-1912), its authorship remains a matter of debate. The text uses as its primary source material the Pophae pobol ("Precious Raft on the Ocean of Dharma"), which was compiled in 1883 at Kamnosa. The Sonmun ch'waryo contains texts that are foundational to the Korean Son tradition. The first roll consists of the writings of the Chinese Chan patriarchs and teachers: the Xuemo lun ("Treatise of the Blood Lineage"), the Guanxin lun ("Treatise of Contemplating the Mind," sometimes otherwise attributed to SHENXIU [606?-706]), and the ERRU SIXING LUN ("Treatise on the Two Accesses and Four Practices"), all attributed to the first Chan patriarch, BODHIDHARMA; the Xiuxin yao lun ("Treatise on the Essentials of Cultivating the Mind"), attributed to the fifth patriarch HONGREN (600-674); the Wanleng lu ("Wanleng Record") and the CHUANXIN FAYAO ("Essential Teachings on Transmitting the Mind"), attributed to HUANGBO XIYUN (d. 850); the Mengshan fayu ("Mengshan's Dharma Discourses") composed of eleven dharma-talks by five masters including Mengshan Deyi (1231-1308) and NAONG HYEGŬN (1320-1376); and an excerpt from the Canchan jingyu ("Words of Admonition on Investigating Chan") attributed to Boshan Wuyi (1575-1630). The second roll consists of the writings of eminent Korean Son monks from the Koryo and Choson periods: POJO CHINUL's (1158-1210) SUSIM KYoL ("Secrets on Cultivating the Mind"), Chinsim chiksol ("Straight Talk on the True Mind"), Kwonsu Chonghye kyolsa mun ("Encouragement to Practice: The Compact of the Samādhi and PrajNā Community"), and KANHWA KYoRŬI NON ("Resolving Doubts About Observing the Hwadu"); the SoNMUN POJANG NOK ("Record of the Treasure Trove of the Son Tradition") and the Sonmun kangyo ("Essentials of the Son Gate"), both attributed to CH'oNCH'AEK (b. 1206); and the Son'gyo sok ("Explication of Son and Kyo") attributed to CH'oNGHo HYUJoNG (1520-1604). The first roll of the Sonmun ch'waryo was published in 1907 at the monastery of Unmunsa and the second in 1908 at PoMoSA. Among the 118 total xylographs of the book, the seventy-eighth and 118th xylographs list the names of people involved in the publication of the text, such as proofreaders, transcribers, and engravers, as well the donors, government officials, and landed gentry who contributed to the cost of the publication.

sprul sku. A Tibetan term often seen transcribed in English as "tulku"; it is the Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit term NIRMĀnAKĀYA, the third of the three bodies of a buddha (TRIKĀYA), the "emanation body" that appears in the world for the benefit of sentient beings. Although the term retains this standard Buddhological meaning in Tibetan, sprul sku is used by extension to refer to an "incarnate lama," and the term is sometimes translated as such. It is not believed in every case that each incarnate lama is the emanation body of a buddha. However, the implication is that there is a difference in the processes whereby ordinary beings and incarnate lamas take birth in the world. For the former, rebirth is process over which one has no control, with a strong possibility that one's new life will be in the lower rebirth destinies (DURGATI) as an animal, hungry ghost, or hell denizen. The rebirth of an "emanation body" is instead considered to be a voluntary choice. The sprul sku are said to exercise control over their rebirth; a dying incarnation will often leave instructions for his disciples as to where to find his next rebirth. The practice of identifying children as the incarnations of deceased masters may date from as early as the eleventh or twelfth century. By the fifteenth century, all sects of Tibetan Buddhism had adopted the practice of identifying the successive rebirths of a great teacher, the most famous instance of which are the DALAI LAMAs. There were some three thousand lines of incarnation in Tibet (only several of whom are female). It was also the case that a single lama may have more than one incarnation; there were sometimes three, which were considered individual incarnations of the body, speech, and mind of the deceased master. The institution of the incarnate lama became a central component of Tibetan society, providing the means by which authority and charisma, both symbolic and material, was passed from one generation to another. The spread of Tibetan Buddhism can be traced by the increasingly large geographical areas in which incarnate lamas have been discovered. A variety of types and levels of sprul sku are identified. A mchog gi sprul sku (choki tulku) (UTTAMANIRMĀnAKĀYA) is a buddha, such as sĀKYAMUNI, who appears in the world with a body adorned with the major and minor marks of a MAHĀPURUsA. A skye ba'i sprul sku (kyewe tulku) (JANMANIRMĀnAKĀYA) is the appearance of a buddha in the form of an animal, human, or divinity. Tibetan incarnate lamas would fall into this category. Also in this category would be those cases in which a buddha appears as an inanimate object that provides benefit to sentient beings, such as a bridge across a river, a path, a tree, or a cooling breeze. A bzo bo sprul sku (sowo tulku) (sILPANIRMĀnAKĀYA) is an artisan or craftsman or a particular manifestation of artistic beauty that subdues the afflictions (KLEsA). Within the the large DGE LUGS PA monasteries, a monk with the title of tshogs chen sprul sku (tsokchen tulku, "great assembly tulku") is excused from performing regular assembly duties. In Tibetan, an incarnate lama is addressed and referred to as RIN PO CHE (precious one), although that term is also used for abbots and other holders of high ecclesiastical office; it may also be used for one's teacher, even if he or she is not an incarnate lama. The term BLA MA (lama) is typically used to refer to incarnations but is also used widely for a teacher.

Sri Aurobindo: A symbol, as I understand it, is the form on one plane that represents a truth of another. For instance, a flag is the symbol of a nation…. But generally all forms are symbols. This body of ours is a symbol of our real being and everything is a symbol of some higher reality. There are, however, different kinds of symbols: 1. Conventional symbols, such as the Vedic Rishis formed with objects taken from their surroundings. The cow stood for light because the same word `go ‘ meant both ray and cow, and because the cow was their most precious possession which maintained their life and was constantly in danger of being robbed and concealed. But once created, such a symbol becomes alive. The Rishis vitalised it and it became a part of their realisation. It appeared in their visions as an image of spiritual light. The horse also was one of their favourite symbols, and a more easily adaptable one, since its force and energy were quite evident. 2. What we might call Life-symbols, such as are not artificially chosen or mentally interpreted in a conscious deliberate way, but derive naturally from our day-to-day life and grow out of the surroundings which condition our normal path of living. To the ancients the mountain was a symbol of the path of yoga, level above level, peak upon peak. A journey, involving the crossing of rivers and the facing of lurking enemies, both animal and human, conveyed a similar idea. Nowadays I dare say we would liken yoga to a motor-ride or a railway-trip. 3. Symbols that have an inherent appositeness and power of their own. Akasha or etheric space is a symbol of the infinite all-pervading eternal Brahman. In any nationality it would convey the same meaning. Also, the Sun stands universally for the supramental Light, the divine Gnosis. 4.* Mental symbols, instances of which are numbers or alphabets. Once they are accepted, they too become active and may be useful. Thus geometrical figures have been variously interpreted. In my experience the square symbolises the supermind. I cannot say how it came to do so. Somebody or some force may have built it before it came to my mind. Of the triangle, too, there are different explanations. In one position it can symbolise the three lower planes, in another the symbol is of the three higher ones: so both can be combined together in a single sign. The ancients liked to indulge in similar speculations concerning numbers, but their systems were mostly mental. It is no doubt true that supramental realities exist which we translate into mental formulas such as Karma, Psychic evolution, etc. But they are, so to speak, infinite realities which cannot be limited by these symbolic forms, though they may be somewhat expressed by them; they might be expressed as well by other symbols, and the same symbol may also express many different ideas. Letters on Yoga

srīsiMha. (T. Shrī sing ha) (fl. eighth century). Sanskrit proper name of an important figure in the early dissemination (SNGA DAR) of Buddhism to Tibet, especially in the propagation of the RDZOGS CHEN teachings. According to some Tibetan accounts, he was born in China, although other sources identify his birthplace as Khotan or Kinnaur. At the age of eighteen, he is said to have traveled to Suvarnadvīpa, often identified as the island of Sumatra. There he has a vision of AVALOKITEsVARA, who advised him to go to India. Before doing so, he studied at "five-peak mountain," which some sources assume is WUTAISHAN in China. He next went to the Sosadvīpa charnel ground (sMAsĀNA), where he studied with MANJUsRĪMITRA for twenty-five years. After his teacher's death, he traveled to BODHGAYĀ, where he unearthed tantric texts hidden there by MaNjusrīmitra. srīsiMha is especially remembered in Tibet as the teacher of VAIROCANA, one of the most important figures in the earlier dissemination of Buddhism to Tibet. Vairocana was one of the first seven Tibetans (SAD MI BDUN) ordained as Buddhist monks by sĀNTARAKsITA at the monastery of BSAM YAS, and he soon became an illustrious translator. He is said to have been a disciple of PADMASAMBHAVA and a participant on the Indian side in the BSAM YAS DEBATE. After Padmasambhava's departure from Tibet, the king required a fuller exposition of TANTRA and sent Vairocana to India to obtain further tantric instructions. After many trials, he arrived in India, where he was instructed by srīsiMha. Fearing that other Indian masters would object to his imparting the precious esoteric teachings to a foreigner, srīsiMha insisted that he study sutras and less esoteric tantric texts with other teachers during the day, conveying the most secret teachings to him under the cover of darkness; these were the rdzogs chen teachings that Vairocana took back to Tibet and taught to king KHRI SRONG LDE BTSAN. Among other esoteric teachings that Vairocana gave to srīsiMha is srīsiMha's tantric commentary on the PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀHṚDAYASuTRA.

Stolas: In demonography, a general of the infernal empire, a demon who teaches mankind astronomy and the properties of precious stones.

stone ::: n. --> Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
A precious stone; a gem.
Something made of stone. Specifically: -
The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or


Sukhāvatīvyuhasutra. (T. Bde ba can gyi bkod pa'i mdo; C. Wuliangshou jing; J. Muryojukyo; K. Muryangsu kyong 無量壽經). Literally, the "Sutra Displaying [the Land of] Bliss," the title of the two most important Mahāyāna sutras of the "PURE LAND" tradition. The two sutras differ in length, and thus are often referred to in English as the "larger" and "smaller" (or "longer" and "shorter") Sukhāvatīvyuhasutras; the shorter one is commonly called the AMITĀBHASuTRA. Both sutras are believed to date from the third century CE. The longer and shorter sutras, together with the GUAN WULIANGSHOU JING (*Amitāyurdhyānasutra), constitute the three main texts associated with the pure land tradition of East Asia (see JINGTU SANBUJING). There are multiple Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan versions of both the longer and shorter sutras, with significant differences among them. ¶ The longer Sukhāvatīvyuhasutra begins with ĀNANDA noticing that the Buddha is looking especially serene one day, and so asks him the reason. The Buddha responds that he was thinking back many millions of eons in the past to the time of the buddha LOKEsVARARĀJA. The Buddha then tells a story in the form of a flashback. In the audience of this buddha was a monk named DHARMĀKARA, who approached Lokesvararāja and proclaimed his aspiration to become a buddha. Dharmākara then requested the Buddha to describe all of the qualities of the buddha-fields (BUDDHAKsETRA). Lokesvararāja provided a discourse that lasted one million years, describing each of the qualities of the lands of trillions of buddhas. Dharmākara then retired to meditate for five eons, seeking to concentrate all of the marvelous qualities of the millions of buddha-fields that had been described to him into a single pure buddha-field. When he completed his meditation, he returned to describe this imagined land to Lokesvararāja, promising to create a place of birth for fortunate beings and vowing that he would follow the bodhisattva path and become the buddha of this new buddha-field. He described the land he would create in a series of vows, stating that if this or that marvel was not present in his pure land, may he not become a buddha: e.g., "If in my pure land there are animals, ghosts, or hell denizens, may I not become a buddha." He made forty-eight such vows. These included the vow that all the beings in his pure land will be the color of gold; that beings in his pure land will have no conception of private property; that no bodhisattva will have to wash, dry, or sew his own robes; that bodhisattvas in his pure land will be able to hear the dharma in whatever form they wish to hear it and whenever they wish to hear it; that any woman who hears his name, creates the aspiration to enlightenment (BODHICITTA), and feels disgust at the female form, will not be reborn as a woman again. Two of these vows would become the focus of particular attention. In the eighteenth vow (seventeenth in the East Asian versions), Dharmākara vows that when he has become a buddha, he will appear at the moment of death to anyone who creates the aspiration to enlightenment, hears his name, and remembers him with faith. In the nineteenth vow (eighteenth in the East Asian versions), he promises that anyone who hears his name, wishes to be reborn in his pure land, and dedicates their merit to that end, will be reborn there, even if they make such a resolution as few as ten times during the course of their life. Only those who have committed one of the five inexpiable transgressions bringing immediate retribution (ĀNANTARYAKARMAN, viz., patricide, matricide, killing an ARHAT, wounding a buddha, or causing schism in the SAMGHA) are excluded. The scene then returns to the present. Ānanda asks the Buddha whether Dharmākara was successful, whether he did in fact traverse the long path of the bodhisattva to become a buddha. The Buddha replies that he did indeed succeed and that he became the buddha Amitābha (Infinite Light). The pure land that he created is called sukhāvatī. Because Dharmākara became a buddha, all of the things that he promised to create in his pure land have come true, and the Buddha proceeds to describe sukhāvatī in great detail. It is carpeted with lotuses made of seven precious substances, some of which reach ten leagues (YOJANA) in diameter. Each lotus emits millions of rays of light and from each ray of light there emerge millions of buddhas who travel to world systems in all directions to teach the dharma. The pure land is level, like the palm of one's hand, without mountains or oceans. It has great rivers, the waters of which rise as high or sink as low as one pleases, from the shoulders to the ankles, and vary in temperature as one pleases. The sound of the river takes the form of whatever auspicious words one wishes to hear, such as "buddha," "emptiness," "cessation," and "great compassion." The words "hindrance," "misfortune," and "pain" are never heard, nor are the words "day" and "night" used, except as metaphors. The beings in the pure land do not need to consume food. When they are hungry, they simply visualize whatever food they wish and their hunger is satisfied without needing to eat. They dwell in bejeweled palaces of their own design. Some of the inhabitants sit cross-legged on lotus blossoms while others are enclosed within the calyx of a lotus. The latter do not feel imprisoned, because the calyx of the lotus is quite large, containing within it a palace similar to that inhabited by the gods. Those who dedicate their merit toward rebirth in the pure land yet who harbor doubts are reborn inside lotuses where they must remain for five hundred years, enjoying visions of the pure land but deprived of the opportunity to hear the dharma. Those who are free from doubt are reborn immediately on open lotuses, with unlimited access to the dharma. Such rebirth would become a common goal of Buddhist practice, for monks and laity alike, in India, Tibet, and throughout East Asia. ¶ The "shorter" Sukhāvatīvyuhasutra was translated into Chinese by such famous figures as KUMĀRAJĪVA and XUANZANG. It is devoted largely to describing this buddha's land and its many wonders, including the fact that even the names for the realms of animals and the realms of hell-denizens are not known; all of the beings born there will achieve enlightenment in their next lifetime. In order to be reborn there, one should dedicate one's merit to that goal and bear in mind the name of the buddha here known as AMITĀYUS (Infinite Life). Those who are successful in doing so will see Amitāyus and a host of bodhisattvas before them at the moment of death, ready to escort them to sukhāvatī, the land of bliss. In order to demonstrate the efficacy of this practice, the Buddha goes on to list the names of many other buddhas abiding in the four cardinal directions, the nadir, and the zenith, who also praise the buddha-field of Amitāyus. Furthermore, those who hear the names of the buddhas that he has just recited will be embraced by those buddhas. Perhaps to indicate how his own buddha-field (that is, our world) differs from that of Amitāyus, sākyamuni Buddha concludes by conceding that it has been difficult to teach the dharma in a world as degenerate as ours.

Sumeru, Mount. (T. Ri rab; C. Xumishan/Miaogaoshan; J. Shumisen/Myokosen; K. Sumisan/Myogosan 須彌山/妙高山). The central axis of the universe in Buddhist cosmology; also known as Mount Meru. Mount Sumeru stands in the middle of the world as its axis and is eight leagues (YOJANA) high. It is surrounded by seven mountain ranges of gold, each separated from the other by an ocean. At the foot of the seventh range, there is a great ocean, contained at the perimeter of the world by a circle of iron mountains (CAKRAVĀdA). In this vast ocean, there are four island continents in the four cardinal directions, each flanked by two island subcontinents. The northern continent is square, the eastern semicircular, the southern triangular, and the western round. Although humans inhabit all four continents, the "known world" is the southern continent, named JAMBUDVĪPA, where the current average height is four cubits and the current life span is one hundred years. The four faces of Mount Sumeru are flat, and are each composed of a different precious stone: gold in the north, silver in the east, lapis lazuli in the south, and crystal in the west. The substance determines the color of the sky over each of the four continents. The sky is blue in the southern continent of Jambudvīpa because the southern face of the Mount Sumeru is made of lapis. The slopes of Sumeru are the abode of demigods (ASURA), and its upper reaches are the heavens of the four heavenly kings (see CĀTURMAHĀRĀJAKĀYIKA, LOKAPĀLA). At the summit of the mountain is the heaven of the thirty-three (TRĀYASTRIMsA), ruled by the king of the gods, sAKRA. Above Mount Sumeru are located the remaining heavens of the sensuous realm (KĀMADHĀTU). Different Buddhist traditions identify Mount Sumeru with different local mountains, including Mount KAILĀSA in the Indian and Tibetan traditions, NAMSAN in the Korean tradition, etc. See also SHUMIDAN.

Surabhi (Sanskrit) Surabhi Sweetly-smelling, lovely, charming; a name for the earth, also for the mystical cow of plenty, Kamaduh, one of the 14 precious things yielded by the ocean of milk (space) when churned by the gods to produce the worlds. Among other meanings in all ancient lands, both bull and cow were emblems of the moon and of its manifold generative and productive influences.

Sutrasamuccaya. (T. Mdo kun las btus pa; C. Dasheng baoyaoyi lun; J. Daijo hoyogiron; K. Taesŭng poyoŭi non 大乘寶要義論). In Sanskrit, "Compendium of Sutras," a work attributed to NĀGĀRJUNA, an anthology of passages from sixty-eight mainly MAHĀYĀNA sutras (or collections of sutras), organized under thirteen topics. These topics extol the bodhisattva and the Mahāyāna path, noting the rarity and hence precious nature of such things as faith in the Buddha, great compassion, and laymen who are able to follow the bodhisattva path. The text is of historical interest because it provides evidence of the Mahāyāna sutras that were extant at the time of Nāgārjuna. These include, in addition to various PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀ sutras, such famous works as the LAnKĀVATĀRASuTRA, the DAsABHuMIKASuTRA, the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA, and the VIMALAKĪRTINIRDEsA. The Chinese translation was made by Dharmaraksa (c. 1018-1058) during the Northern Song dynasty and was among the last stratum of Indian materials to be entered into the Chinese Buddhist canon (C. DAZANGJING).

Suttung, Suttungr (Icelandic) In the Norse Edda, a giant who guards the mead (of experience) in the depths of matter, where the gods must find it and raise it to higher levels. Odin is said to have enlisted the aid of a squirrel or bore to penetrate the mountain in which the mead was hidden, and to have entered through the borehole in the guise of a serpent. Once in, he seduced Suttung’s daughter into giving him a draft of the precious mead.

symbol ::: A symbol, as I understand it, is the form on one plane that represents a truth of another. For instance, a flag is the symbol of a nation…. But generally all forms are symbols. This body of ours is a symbol of our real being and everything is a symbol of some higher reality. There are, however, different kinds of symbols: 1. Conventional symbols, such as the Vedic Rishis formed with objects taken from their surroundings. The cow stood for light because the same word `go ‘ meant both ray and cow, and because the cow was their most precious possession which maintained their life and was constantly in danger of being robbed and concealed. But once created, such a symbol becomes alive. The Rishis vitalised it and it became a part of their realisation. It appeared in their visions as an image of spiritual light. The horse also was one of their favourite symbols, and a more easily adaptable one, since its force and energy were quite evident. 2. What we might call Life-symbols, such as are not artificially chosen or mentally interpreted in a conscious deliberate way, but derive naturally from our day-to-day life and grow out of the surroundings which condition our normal path of living. To the ancients the mountain was a symbol of the path of yoga, level above level, peak upon peak. A journey, involving the crossing of rivers and the facing of lurking enemies, both animal and human, conveyed a similar idea. Nowadays I dare say we would liken yoga to a motor-ride or a railway-trip. 3. Symbols that have an inherent appositeness and power of their own. Akasha or etheric space is a symbol of the infinite all-pervading eternal Brahman. In any nationality it would convey the same meaning. Also, the Sun stands universally for the supramental Light, the divine Gnosis. 4. Mental symbols, instances of which are numbers or alphabets. Once they are accepted, they too become active and may be useful. Thus geometrical figures have been variously interpreted. In my experience the square symbolises the supermind. I cannot say how it came to do so. Somebody or some force may have built it before it came to my mind. Of the triangle, too, there are different explanations. In one position it can symbolise the three lower planes, in another the symbol is of the three higher ones: so both can be combined together in a single sign. The ancients liked to indulge in similar speculations concerning numbers, but their systems were mostly mental. It is no doubt true that supramental realities exist which we translate into mental formulas such as Karma, Psychic evolution, etc. But they are, so to speak, infinite realities which cannot be limited by these symbolic forms, though they may be somewhat expressed by them; they might be expressed as well by other symbols, and the same symbol may also express many different ideas. Letters on Yoga

test ::: n. --> A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man&


The_current_price ::: is the actual selling price of a security trading on an exchange, as well as the most recent price of a security listed in an investment portfolio. In the case of a bond, a bond's current price will often be quoted as 10% of the par value of $1000. A bond that currently trades at $99 is really priced at $990. Current price also refers to the present price of a stock, currency, commodity, stamps or a precious metal.

  “The ’Urim and Thummim’ originated in Egypt, and symbolized the Two Truths, the two figures of Ra and Thmei being engraved on the breastplate of the Hierophant and worn by him during the initiation ceremonies. Diodorus adds that this necklace of gold and precious stones was worn by the High Priest when delivering judgment. . . . Philo Judaeus affirms that Urim and Thummim were ‘the two small images of Revelation and Truth, put between the double folds of the breastplate,’ and passes over the latter, with its twelve stones typifying the twelve signs of the Zodiac, without explanation” (TG 355-6).

toadstone ::: n. --> A local name for the igneous rocks of Derbyshire, England; -- said by some to be derived from the German todter stein, meaning dead stone, that is, stone which contains no ores.
Bufonite, formerly regarded as a precious stone, and worn as a jewel. See Bufonite.


Todaiji. (東大寺). In Japanese, "Great Monastery of the East"; a major monastery in the ancient Japanese capital of Nara affiliated with the Kegon (HUAYAN) school of Buddhism, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The monastery was founded by the Hossoshu (FAXIANG ZONG) monk GYoGI (668-749). The monastery is renowned for its colossal buddha image of VAIROCANA (J. Birushana nyorai), which is commonly known as the NARA DAIBUTSU; at forty-eight feet (fifteen meters) high, this image is the largest extant gilt-bronze image in the world and the Daibutsuden where the image is enshrined is the world's largest wooden building. The Indian monk BODHISENA (J. Bodaisenna) (704-760), who traveled to Japan in 736 at the invitation of Emperor Shomu (r. 724-749), performed the "opening the eyes" (KAIYAN; NETRAPRATIstHĀPANA) ceremony for the 752 dedication of the great buddha image. Todaiji was founded on the site of Konshusenji by order of Emperor Shomu and became the headquarters of a network of provincial monasteries and convents in the Yamato region. The first abbot, Ryoben (689-773), is commemorated in the kaisando (founder's hall; see KAISHAN). Other halls include the inner sanctuary of the hokkedo (lotus hall), which was probably once Konshusenji's main hall. The hall enshrines the Fukukensaku Kannon, a dry lacquer statue of the BODHISATTVA AVALOKITEsVARA, which dates from 746. The monastery was renamed Konkomyoji in 741 and, in 747 when major construction began on the large compound, it finally became known as Todaiji, the name it retains today. The Todaiji complex was completed in 798; monastery records state that 50,000 carpenters, 370,000 metal workers, and 2.18 million laborers worked on the compound, its buildings, and their furnishings, almost bankrupting the country. Entering the monastery through the Great Gate to the South (Nandaimon), itself a Japanese national treasure, a visitor would have passed through two seven-storied, 328-foot high pagodas to the east and west (both subsequently destroyed by earthquakes), before passing through the Inner Gate to the Daibutsuden. North of the Daibutsuden, which is flanked by a belfry and a SuTRA repository, is the kodo (lecture hall), which is surrounded on three sides by the monk's quarters. An ordination hall displays exceptional clay-modeled shitenno (four heavenly kings; see LOKAPĀLA) dating from the Tenpyo Era (729-749). Of the eighth-century buildings, only the tegaimon (the western gate) and the Hokkedo's inner sanctuary have survived. After a conflagration in 1180, then-abbot Chogen (1121-1206) spearheaded a major reconstruction in a style he had seen in Southern Song-dynasty China. This style is exemplified by the south gate, which is protected by two humane-kings statues, both twenty-eight feet in height, carved in 1203. The Tokugawa Shogunate sponsored a second reconstruction after another fire in 1567 and the current Daibutsuden dates from about 1709. The Shosoin repository at the monastery, itself a Japanese national treasure (kokuho), contains over nine thousand precious ornamental and fine-art objects that date from the monastery's founding in the eighth century, including scores of objects imported into Japan via the SILK ROAD from all over Asia, including cut-glass bowls and silk brocade from Persia, Byzantine cups, Egyptians chests, and Indian harps, as well as Chinese Tang and Korean Silla musical instruments, etc. Every spring, the two-week long Omizutori (water-drawing) festival is conducted at Todaiji, which is thought to cure physical ailments and cleanse moral transgressions.

topaz ::: a highly valued precious stone, transparent and lustrous, usually of a deep yellow but occasionally other colours.

to the angels [Rf The Zohar I, 55b]. The precious

treasure ::: n. 1. Accumulated or stored wealth in the form of money, jewels, or other valuables. 2. Fig. One or something greatly valued or highly prized. treasures. v. 3. To keep or regard as precious; value highly. 4. To retain carefully or keep in store, as in the mind. treasures, treasured, treasuring.

Tsong kha pa Blo bzang grags pa. (Tsong kha pa Losang Drakpa) (1357-1419). A Tibetan scholar and teacher venerated as the founder of the DGE LUGS sect of Tibetan Buddhism; typically known simply as Tsong kha pa. Born in the Tsong kha region of A mdo in northeastern Tibet, he received his initial lay vows under the fourth KARMA PA and began his religious education in the BKA' GDAMS tradition. In 1372, he traveled to central Tibet for further study. He became a disciple of the SA SKYA scholar Red mda' ba Gzhon nu blo gros (Rendawa Shonu Lodro, 1349-1412) but went on to study under many of the leading scholars of the day, including masters of various schools and sectarian affiliations. Another influential teacher was the lama Dbu ma pa (Umapa), from whom he received instructions on the KĀLACAKRATANTRA. He distinguished himself as a brilliant scholar and exegete of both SuTRA and TANTRA. According to his traditional biographies, Tsong kha pa experienced visions of Indian masters such as NĀGĀRJUNA and BUDDHAPĀLITA, who helped to clarify difficult points of doctrine. He is also said to have maintained a special relationship with MANJUsRĪ, the bodhisattva of wisdom, who appeared in visions throughout Tsong kha pa's life offering instruction and advice; Tsong kha pa is sometimes called 'Jam mgon, or "protected by MaNjusrī." Tsong kha pa's biographies speak of four major deeds undertaken during his lifetime. The first, in 1399, was his restoration of an image of the future buddha, MAITREYA. The second was a council to reform the code of VINAYA, convened in 1403 and attended by monks representing all sects of Tibetan Buddhism. The third was the Great Prayer Festival (SMON LAM CHEN MO) inaugurated in 1409 at the JO KHANG in LHA SA, in which he offered the ornaments of a SAMBHOGAKĀYA to the famous statue of JO BO SHĀKYAMUNI, celebrating the Buddha's performance of the sRĀVASTĪ MIRACLES. The festival became an important annual event, drawing thousands of participants from all quarters of the Tibetan Buddhist world. The fourth was the founding in 1409 of DGA' LDAN monastery, which would become one of principal religious institutions in the Lha sa region and seat of the leader of the Dge lugs sect. Tsong kha pa was an original and penetrating philosopher, who saw reason and intellectual development as key aspects of the path to enlightenment. Born during a period when the Tibetan Buddhist canon had been newly formulated, he sought a comprehensive explanation of the Buddhist path, with the PRĀSAnGIKA-MADHYAMAKA of BUDDHAPĀLITA and CANDRAKĪRTI as the highest philosophical view. His works are marked with a concern with systematic consistency, whether it be between sutra and tantra or PRAMĀnA and MADHYAMAKA. A prolific author, Tsong kha pa's works fill eighteen volumes. Among his best known writings are the LAM RIM CHEN MO ("Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment"), composed in 1402 at RWA SGRENG monastery, the SNGAGS RIM CHEN MO ("Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra"), and the Drang nges LEGS BSHAD SNYING PO ("Essence of Eloquence on the Definitive and Interpretable"). Tsong kha pa called his system of religious practice the Bka' gdams gsar ma, or "New Bka' gdams," after the sect founded by the Bengali master ATIsA DĪPAMKARAsRĪJNĀNA. His followers were later known as Dga' ldan pa (Gandenpa), "those of Dga' ldan," after the monastic seat established by Tsong kha pa. This was sometimes abbreviated as Dga' lugs pa, "those of the system of Dga' ldan," eventually evolving into the current name Dge lugs pa, "those of the system of virtue." Tsong kha pa's fame was greatly elevated through the political power of the Dge lugs sect after the establishment of the institution of the DALAI LAMA. His tomb at Dga' ldan became an important site of pilgrimage prior to its destruction during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Tsong kha pa's fame in Tibet was sufficiently great that he is commonly known simply as Rje rin po che, the "precious leader."

Uchchaih-sravas (Sanskrit) Uccaiḥ-śravas [from uccaiḥ aloft, high above + śravas ear] Long-eared, he who hears what is above, one having spiritual or inner hearing; the white horse of Indra, one of the 14 precious things that issued from the waters churned by the gods in Hindu legend, regarded as the prototype and king of horses. In this connection one is reminded of the many statues of the buddhas with pendant ears, symbolizing a spiritual power — he who hears the cries of all.

upper memory block "storage" (UMB) Up to 64 {kilobytes} of the {expanded memory page frame} above the first 64 kilobytes. The UMB can be used to store {TSR} programs or {device drivers} thereby freeing parts of the precious {conventional memory}. The UMB is provided by special memory manager programs; many {EMMs} can provide UMB as well. (1996-01-10)

Vaijayanti (Sanskrit) Vaijayantī A flag, banner; the masculine noun vaijayanta refers specifically to the emblem of Indra. In the Puranas, used as the name of a magical necklace of Vishnu, “imitated by certain Initiates among the temple Brahmans. It is made of five precious stones, each symbolizing one of the five elements of our Round; namely, the pearl, ruby, emerald, sapphire and diamond, or water, fire, earth, air and ether, called ‘the aggregate of the five elemental rudiments’ — the word ‘powers’ being, perhaps, more correct than ‘rudiments’ ” (TG 358).

valuable ::: a. --> Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly; as, a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable cargo.
Worthy; estimable; deserving esteem; as, a valuable friend; a valuable companion. ::: n.


  “were the instruments of magic divination and oracular communication — theurgic and astrological. This is shown in the following well-known facts: — (1) upon each of the twelve precious stones was engraved the name of one of the twelve sons of Jacob, each of these ‘sons’ personating one of the signs of the zodiac; (2) both were oracular images, like the teraphim, and uttered oracles by a voice, and both were agents for hypnotisation and throwing the priests who wore them into an ecstatic condition. The Urim and Thummim were not original with the Hebrews, but had been borrowed, like most of their other religious rites, from the Egyptians, with whom the mystic scarabaeus, worn on the breast by the Hierophants, had the same functions. . . . when the Jewish ‘Lord God was called upon to manifest his presence and speak out his will through the Urim by preliminary incantations, the modus operandi was the same as that used by all the Gentile priests the world over” (TG 334).

Wolchongsa. (月精寺). In Korean, "Lunar Essence Monastery"; the fourth district monastery (PONSA) of the contemporary CHOGYE CHONG of Korean Buddhism, located on Odaesan (see WUTAISHAN) in Kangwon province. The monastery's history is closely linked to the VINAYA master CHAJANG (fl. c. 590-658). While Chajang was on pilgrimage at Wutaishan in China, he came across a mysterious old monk who interpreted a prophetic dream he had had and gave him relics (K. sari; S. sARĪRA) of the buddha to take back to Korea with him. Seven days later, a dragon told him to return to Odaesan in Korea to build a monastery; in 643, Chajang arrived at Odaesan, where he eventually constructed Wolchongsa. Wolchongsa's main shrine hall, Chokkwang chon (Calm Radiance Hall), enshrines an image of sĀKYAMUNI as well as a mysterious statue that was found in the diamond pond south of the monastery. This statue, delicately carved in a style common to the eleventh century, is believed to be of BHAIsAJYAGURU. In front of the main hall is a nine-story octagonal pagoda, fifty feet (15.2 meters) high, that was constructed in the tenth century. Skillfully carved and multiangled, it is representative of Koryo-era STuPAs. In front of the stupa is a seated BODHISATTVA, perhaps MANJUsRĪ, making an offering. The statue has been carved with detailed attention to ornamental accessories and clothing. The Chongmyol pogung (Precious Basilica of Calm Extinction) houses the relics of the Buddha that Chajang brought back to Korea and is one of four major shrine halls in Korea that does not enshrine a buddha image (the relics take the place of an image). One of Wolchongsa's most famous residents during the twentieth century was the monk HANAM CHUNGWoN (1876-1951), who helped save some of its buildings from soldiers who had been ordered to burn them down during the Korean War (seventeen buildings were unfortunately burned and had to be reconstructed). Sangwonsa, one of Wolchongsa's branch monasteries (MALSA), is famous among Korean monasteries for its spectacular scenery and is a popular tourist stop.

Yamabushi (Japanese) A sect in Japan of ancient origin, but now inclining to Buddhism. Often regarded as the fighting monks, inasmuch as they have not hesitated to take up arms in case of necessity somewhat like certain yogis in Rajputana or the lamas in Tibet. They are perhaps most numerous near Kyoto, where they are famed for their healing powers. Yamabushi hold a “Japanese Secret Science of the Buddhist Mystics,” calling their seven mystery-teachings the seven precious things or jewels (SD 1:67).

yiji. (J. yuige; K. yuge 遺偈). In Chinese, "bequeathed verse" or "death verse"; a verse (C. ji; lit. S. GĀTHĀ) left by eminent monks and nuns, especially in the CHAN school, just before the moment of death, as a final expression of their enlightenment experience; also called a "taking leave of the world hymn" (cishi song) or, especially in the Korean tradition, a "moment of death gāthā" (imjongge). The verse may be either recited or written and is left as the master's last bequeathed teaching immediately before he passes away, often delivered as part of a final sermon. The final instructions of a buddha or a monk for the edification of his disciples are referred to as a "bequeathed teaching" (yijiao; see also YIJIAO JING), and the tradition of specifically bequeathing a verse as part of this final instruction is thought to have originated in the Tang-dynasty Chan tradition. Such bequeathed verses usually consisted of four lines of four, five, or seven Sinographs per line and thus are similar in format to other types of verses found within the Chan tradition, such as an "enlightenment hymn" (C. wudao song), the verse recited by a student upon achieving enlightenment, and "dharma-transmission gāthā" (C. chuanfa ji), the verse bestowed on a dharma successor as an authorization to teach. As an example of such a bequeathed verse, HONGZHI ZHENGJUE (1091-1157), a well-known teacher in the CAODONG ZONG, is said to have written the following gāthā just before his death: "An illusory fantasy and a flower in the sky (KHAPUsPA),/ Are these sixty-seven years,/ A white bird fades into the mist,/ The autumnal waters merge with the sky." Not all renowned Chan masters left yiji and others derided the practice. The yiji of DAHUI ZONGGAO (1089-1163), the influential LINJI ZONG master and a contemporary of Hongzhi, expressed ironically his indifference to yiji: "Birth is thus,/ Death is thus,/ Verse or no verse,/ What's the fuss?" In Japan, handwritten death verses were treasured as precious calligraphic art and a virtual relic of the deceased master. They were thus often hung in the abbot's quarters (J. hojo, C. FANGZHANG) or in the retirement cloisters.

Yinyuan Longxi. (J. Ingen Ryuki 隠元隆琦) (1592-1673). Chinese CHAN master and founding patriarch of the Japanese oBAKUSHu. Yinyuan was a native of Fuzhou, in present-day Fujian province. He began his training as a monk in his early twenties on PUTUOSHAN and was formally ordained several years later at Wanfusi on Mt. Huangbo. Yinyuan continued his training under the Chan master MIYUN YUANWU and, while serving under the Chan master FEIYIN TONGRONG at Wanfusi Yinyuan, was formally recognized as an heir to Feiyin's lineage in 1633. Seven years later, in 1640, Yinyuan found himself at the monastery of Fuyansi in Zhejiang province and at Longquansi in Fujian province in 1645. The next year, in 1646, he returned to Mt. Huangbo and revitalized the community at Wanfusi. In 1654, at the invitation of Yiran Xingrong (1601-1668), the abbot of the Chinese temple of Kofukuji in Nagasaki, Yinyuan decided to leave China to escape the succession wars and political turmoil that had accompanied the fall of the Chinese Ming dynasty. He was to be accompanied by some thirty monks and artisans. Due to political issues, however, Yinyuan was only allowed to enter Japan a year later in 1655. That same year, largely through the efforts of the Japanese monk Ryokei Shosen (1602-1670), the abbot of MYoSHINJI, Yinyuan was allowed to stay at Ryokei's home temple of Fumonji under virtual house arrest. The next year when Yinyuan expressed his wishes to return to China, Ryokei arranged a visit to Edo and an audience with the young shogun. At the end of 1658, Yinyuan made the trip to Edo and won the patronage of the shogun and his ministers. With their support, Yinyuan began the construction of MANPUKUJIs in Uji in 1661. The site came to be known as Mt. obaku, the Japanese pronunciation of his mountain home of Huangbo, and served as the center for the introduction of Ming-dynasty Chan into Japan. Yinyuan's teachings, especially those concerning monastic rules, catalyzed institutional and doctrinal reform among the entrenched Japanese ZEN communities. In 1664, Yinyuan left his head disciple MU'AN XINGTAO in charge of all administrative matters involving the monastery and retired to his hermitage on the compounds of Manpukuji. Nine years later Emperor Gomizunoo (r. 1611-1629) bestowed upon him the title state preceptor (J. kokushi, C. GUOSHI) Daiko Fusho (Great Radiance, Universal Illumination). He died shortly thereafter. Yinyuan brought many texts and precious art objects with him from China, and composed numerous texts himself such as the Huangbo yulu, Hongjie fayi, Fusho kokushi koroku, obaku osho fuso goroku, Ingen hogo, and obaku shingi.

Zimen jingxun. (J. Shimon kyokun/Shimon keikun; K. Ch'imun kyonghun 緇門警訓). In Chinese, "Admonitions for Those in the Dark-(Robed) School"; an important Buddhist primer, in nine rolls, compiled in 1313 by the CHAN monk YONGZHONG (d.u.) in the LINJI ZONG lineage of ZHONGFENG MINGBEN. Yongzhong's text is an expansion of an earlier one-roll primer entitled Zilin baoxun ("Precious Admonitions to the Forest of the Dark-[Robed]"), by the Song-dynasty monk Zexian (d.u.). In 1474, the monk Rujin (d.u.) of the monastery of Zhenrusi added some additional work of his own to Yongzhong's text and published the compilation as Zimen jingxun, in a total of ten rolls. The text contains 170 anecdotes, instructions, admonitions, and suggestions to neophytes, derived from eminent monks who lived between the Northern Song and the Ming dynasties. The author admonishes Chan students to observe the Buddhist precepts and to exert themselves in the study of Buddhism. Citing such Confucian classics as the Lunyu ("Analects of Confucius") and the Shijing ("Book of Poetry"), Yongzhong admonishes students to be diligent in their learning, even encouraging them to study Confucianism and Daoism in order better to promote Buddhism, just as ancient eminent masters had done. He provides several masters' detailed instructions on Chan meditation, including proper physical posture, and offers instructions on the proper way of reading Buddhist scriptures. Finally, Yongzhong includes the instructions of many renowned Chan masters, as conveyed in their sermons (SHANGTANG) and letters (SHUZHUANG). Rujin's edition of Yongzhong's work continues to be widely used today to instruct novices and neophytes. In Korea, Yongzhong's nine-roll version has been republished several times since T'AEGO POU (1301-1381) imported it to the peninsula during the Koryo period.



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   13 Charles Haddon Spurgeon
   9 Rick Riordan
   9 Mary Oliver
   9 Laurelin Paige
   9 Kate DiCamillo
   9 John Piper
   8 Thich Nhat Hanh
   8 Mitch Albom
   8 Mark Twain
   7 Kristen Ashley
   7 John Milton
   7 John Green
   7 Haruki Murakami
   7 Alex Flinn
   6 Thomas Jefferson
   6 Stephen King
   6 Raine Miller

1:Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends." ~ African proverb,
2:Do not let your precious movements come to naught. ~ Hafiz,
3:The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
   ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan,
4:One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious. ~ Abraham Maslow,
5:All religions are precious pearls strung upon the golden thread of divinity. ~ Samael Aun Weor,
6:But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious. ~ Ajahn Chah,
7:... rending asunder the precious bond of their mutual Love." ~ Our Lady to Father Stefano Gobbi ,
8:Run my dear,
   From anything
   That may not strengthen
   Your precious budding wings. ~ Hafiz,
9:Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself." ~ Maya Angelou,
10:Wisdom is the most precious riches. ~ Chinese Buddhistic, Scriptures, the Eternal Wisdom
11:What is there more precious than a sage? He sets peace between all men. ~ Tsu-king, the Eternal Wisdom
12:There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us. ~ Saint Jean John Vianney,
13:Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. ~ Dalai Lama,
14:What is greatest in our existence, what makes it precious beyond words, is the modesty to use sorrow so that it penetrates our soul. ~ Rilke,
15:When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." ~ Marcus Aurelius,
16:A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. ~ John Milton, Areopagitica,
17:Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold. ~ Nichiren,
18:No name is applicable to God, only He is called Love,-so great and precious a thing is Love. ~ id, the Eternal Wisdom
19:Do not occupy your precious time except with the most precious of things, and the most precious of things is the state of being occupied with the present. ~ Abu Said,
20:I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have." ~ Danny Kaye,
21:Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. ~ Carl Sagan,
22:The present is the most precious moment. Use all the forces of thy spirit not to let that momentescape thee. ~ Tolstoy, the Eternal Wisdom
23:Oh my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value. ~ Saint Teresa of Jesus,
24:Your name, O Mary, is a precious ointment, which breathes forth the odor of divine grace. Let this ointment of salvation enter the inmost recesses of our souls. ~ Saint Ambrose,
25:My Heart, so precious, I won't trade for a hundred thousand souls, yet your one smile takes it for Free." ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path
26:The most precious gift that you could ever give to somebody is the Dharma.
The most precious gift that you could ever give to yourself is the practice of it. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche,
27:May your love for your beloved be as great as the love of the bottle for the glass. Look, how one gives and one receives, lip against lip, the precious blood of the grapes. ~ Omar Khayyam,
28:Courtesy is the most precious of jewels. The beauty that is not perfected by courtesy is like a garden without a flower. ~ Buddhacharita, the Eternal Wisdom
29:The holiness of justice is the health of the soul; it is more precious than heaps ol gold and silver. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ecclesiasucus, the Eternal Wisdom
30:just as a good father of a family may give something precious to a sick servant, which he does not give to a healthy son ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.20.4ad2).,
31:You have gold which you can give, for God does not exact of you the precious gift of shining metal, but that gold which at the day of judgment the fire shall be unable to consume. ~ Saint Ambrose,
32:Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well. ~ Philip K Dick,
33:Mercy, my God, mercy! Descend, O Precious Blood, and deliver these souls from their prison. Poor souls! you suffer so cruelly, and yet you are content and cheerful. ~ Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi,
34:'Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints' ~ Ps. 116:15). No degree of cruel inhumanity can destroy the religion founded on the mystery of the cross of Christ. ~ Saint Leo the Great,
35:let it be molten by divine fire; let the gold and silver vessels be made better, in order that understanding and speech, refined by the heat of suffering, may begin to be more precious." ~ Saint Ambrose,
36:Let us fasten our eyes on the blood of Christ and let us realize how precious it is to his Father because it was shed for our salvation and it brought the grace of repentance to the whole world. ~ Clement of Rome,
37:To my eyes treasures, diamonds and precious stones are as mere charcoal and coarseness; to my eyes cloth of silk and brocades of price are but rags and tatters. ~ id, the Eternal Wisdom
38:With every inhalation, utter the Name of the Lord. With every exhalation, utter the Name of the Lord. Use this splendid and precious chance in your life to the fullest. Live in God, for Him and with Him. ~ SRI SATHYA SAI,
39:She is the flower of the field from whom bloomed the precious lily of the valley. Through her birth the nature inherited from our first parents is changed. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo,
40:The glory of the sacraments is the redemption of captives. Truly they are precious vessels, for they redeem men from death. That, indeed, is the true treasure of the Lord which effects what His blood effected. ~ Saint Ambrose,
41:The cup which Christ offered to the disciples at the Last Supper was not made of gold. Yet it was precious above all measure. If you want to honor Christ, do it when you see Him naked, in the person of the poor. ~ Saint John Chrysostom,
42:Whoever gives himself up to rational meditations, finds very soon the joy in all that is good. He sees that riches and beauty are impermanent and wisdom the most precious of jewels. ~ Fo-shu-hing-tsan-king, the Eternal Wisdom
43:In following the heart in its purer impulses one follows something that is at least as precious as the mind's loyalty to its own conceptions of what the Truth may be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I, The Divine and Its Aspects,
44:Ask yourself: Do I want to continue being a great practitioner of ignorance, anger, and desire? Or do I want to become a great practitioner of wisdom and compassion instead?
Do not waste your precious human rebirth by making the wrong decision. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche,
45:Each one of us is responsible for other living beings' happiness, besides our own. As a result, your loving kindness is the most wish-fulfilling thing in life, more precious than anything else in this world. That makes for a most satisfying, fulfilling life. ~ Lama Zopa Rinpoche,
46:The ocean is full of precious pearls,but you may not get them at the first dive. My boys, once again I enjoin you, have firm faith in the words of your Guru, & try to get absorbed in deep meditation. Be sure, sooner or later you will have a vision of the Lord. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA,
47:Our DEEDS or our THOUGHTS or our WORDS are not in harmony with Christ if they issue from passion. They then bear the mark of the enemy who smears the pearl of the heart with the slime of passion, dimming and even destroying the luster of the precious stone. ~ Saint Gregory of Nyssa,
48:To slander is to speak ill of an absent person in order to blacken his good name. Now it is a very grave matter to blacken a man's good name, because of all temporal things a man's good name seems the most precious ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.73.2).,
49:The possession of Knowledge, unless accompanied by a manifestation and expression in Action, is like the hoarding of precious metals - a vain and foolish thing. Knowledge, like Wealth, is intended for Use. The Law of Use is Universal, and he who violates it suffers by reason of his conflict with natural forces. ~ The Kybalion,
50:The mind may be compared to a precious stone which is pure and brilliant in itself, but hidden in a coarse coating of foulness. There is no reason to suppose that anyone will be able to clean and purify it simply by gazing at it without any process of cleansing. ~ Aowaghoatia, the Eternal Wisdom
51:Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, and happy is everyone that retaineth her. ~ Proverbs, the Eternal Wisdom
52:Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments. ~ Susan Sontag,
53:47. 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,
54:{3:13} Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom, and the man [that] getteth understanding.
{3:14} For the merchandise of it [is] better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
{3:15} She [is] more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire arenot to be compared unto her.
{3:16} Length of days [is] in her right hand; [and] in her left hand riches and honour.
{3:17} Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and all her paths [are] peace.
{3:18} She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Proverbs, 3:13-18,
55:Sweet Mother,
One day in class you said, with your hands wide open, that we should give you everything, even our defects and vices and all the dirt in us. Is this the only way to get rid of them, and how can one do it?


One keeps one's defects because one hangs on to them as if they were something precious; one clings to one's vices as one clings to a part of one's body, and pulling out a bad habit hurts as much as pulling out a tooth. That is why one does not progress.

   Whereas if one generously makes an offering of one's defect, vice or bad habit, then one has the joy of making an offering and one receives in exchange the force to replace what has been given, by a better and truer vibration. 13 June 1960 ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother,
56:When ye look at me I am an idle, idle man; when I look at myself I am a busy, busy man. Since upon the plain of uncreated infinity I am building, building the tower of ecstasy, I have no time for building houses. Since upon the steppe of the void of truth I am breaking, breaking the savage fetter of suffering, I have no time for ploughing family land. Since at the bourn of unity ineffable I am subduing, subduing the demon-foe of self, I have no time for subduing angry foe-men. Since in the palace of mind which transcends duality I am waiting, waiting for spiritual experience as my bride, I have no time for setting up house. Since in the circle of the Buddhas of my body I am fostering, fostering the child of wisdom, I have no time for fostering snivelling children. Since in the frame of the body, the seat of all delight, I am saving, saving precious instruction and reflection, I have no time for saving wordly wealth. ~ Jetsun Milarepa, Songs of Milarepa,
57:The Palace

The Palace is not infinite.

The walls, the ramparts, the gardens, the labyrinths, the staircases, the terraces, the parapets, the doors, the galleries, the circular or rectangular patios, the cloisters, the intersections, the cisterns, the anterooms, the chambers, the alcoves, the libraries, the attics, the dungeons, the sealed cells and the vaults, are not less in quantity than the grains of sand in the Ganges, but their number has a limit. From the roofs, towards sunset, many people can make out the forges, the workshops, the stables, the boatyards and the huts of the slaves.

It is granted to no one to traverse more than an infinitesimal part of the palace. Some know only the cellars. We can take in some faces, some voices, some words, but what we perceive is of the feeblest. Feeble and precious at the same time. The date which the chisel engraves in the tablet, and which is recorded in the parochial registers, is later than our own death; we are already dead when nothing touches us, neither a word nor a yearning nor a memory. I know that I am not dead. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand,
58:Why God sometimes allows people who are genuinely good to be hindered in the good that they do. God, who is faithful, allows his friends to fall frequently into weakness only in order to remove from them any prop on which they might lean. For a loving person it would be a great joy to be able to achieve many great feats, whether keeping vigils, fasting, performing other ascetical practices or doing major, difficult and unusual works. For them this is a great joy, support and source of hope so that their works become a prop and a support upon which they can lean. But it is precisely this which our Lord wishes to take from them so that he alone will be their help and support. This he does solely on account of his pure goodness and mercy, for God is prompted to act only by his goodness, and in no way do our works serve to make God give us anything or do anything for us. Our Lord wishes his friends to be freed from such an attitude, and thus he removes their support from them so that they must henceforth find their support only in him. For he desires to give them great gifts, solely on account of his goodness, and he shall be their comfort and support while they discover themselves to be and regard themselves as being a pure nothingness in all the great gifts of God. The more essentially and simply the mind rests on God and is sustained by him, the more deeply we are established in God and the more receptive we are to him in all his precious gifts - for human kind should build on God alone. ~ Meister Eckhart,
59:The Song Of View, Practice, And Action :::
Oh, my Guru! The Exemplar of the View, Practice, and Action,
Pray vouchsafe me your grace, and enable me
To be absorbed in the realm of Self-nature!

For the View, Practice, Action, and Accomplishment
There are three Key-points you should know:

All the manifestation, the Universe itself, is contained in the mind;
The nature of Mind is the realm of illumination
Which can neither be conceived nor touched.
These are the Key-points of the View.

Errant thoughts are liberated in the Dharmakaya;
The awareness, the illumination, is always blissful;
Meditate in a manner of non-doing and non-effort.
These are the Key-points of Practice.

In the action of naturalness
The Ten Virtues spontaneously grow;
All the Ten Vices are thus purified.
By corrections or remedies
The Illuminating Void is ne'er disturbed.
These are the Key-points of Action.

There is no Nivana to attain beyond;
There is no Samsara here to renounce;
Truly to know the Self-mind
It is to be the Buddha Himself.
These are the Key-points of Accomplishment.

Reduce inwardly the Three Key-points to One.
This One is the Void Nature of Being,
Which only a wondrous Guru
Can clearly illustrate.

Much activity is of no avail;
If one sees the Simultaneously Born Wisdom,
He reaches the goal.

For all practioners of Dharma
The preaching is a precious gem;
It is my direct experience from yogic meditation.
Think carefully and bear it in your minds,
Oh, my children and disciples. ~ Jetsun Milarepa,
60:WHEN THE GREAT YOGIN Padmasambhava, called by Tibetans Guru Rinpoche, "the precious teacher," embarks on his spiritual journey, he travels from place to place requesting teachings from yogins and yoginls. Guided by visions and dreams, his journey takes him to desolate forests populated with ferocious wild animals, to poison lakes with fortified islands, and to cremation grounds. Wherever he goes he performs miracles, receives empowerments, and ripens his own abilities to benefit others.

   When he hears of the supreme queen of all dakinls, the greatly accomplished yogini called Secret Wisdom, he travels to the Sandal Grove cremation ground to the gates of her abode, the Palace of Skulls. He attempts to send a request to the queen with her maidservant Kumari. But the girl ignores him and continues to carry huge brass jugs of water suspended from a heavy yoke across her shoulders. When he presses his request, Kumari continues her labors, remaining silent. The great yogin becomes impatient and, through his yogic powers, magically nails the heavy jugs to the floor. No matter how hard Kumari struggles, she cannot lift them.

   Removing the yoke and ropes from her shoulders, she steps before Padmasambhava, exclaiming, "You have developed great yogic powers. What of my powers, great one?" And so saying, she draws a sparkling crystal knife from the girdle at her waist and slices open her heart center, revealing the vivid and vast interior space of her body. Inside she displays to Guru Rinpoche the mandala of deities from the inner tantras: forty-two peaceful deities manifested in her upper torso and head and fifty-eight wrathful deities resting in her lower torso. Abashed that he did not realize with whom he was dealing, Guru Rinpoche bows before her and humbly renews his request for teachings. In response, she offers him her respect as well, adding, "I am only a maidservant," and ushers him in to meet the queen Secret Wisdom. ~ Judith Simmer-Brown, Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism, Introduction: Encountering the Dakini,
61:If we analyse the classes of life, we readily find that there are three cardinal classes which are radically distinct in function. A short analysis will disclose to us that, though minerals have various activities, they are not "living." The plants have a very definite and well known function-the transformation of solar energy into organic chemical energy. They are a class of life which appropriates one kind of energy, converts it into another kind and stores it up; in that sense they are a kind of storage battery for the solar energy; and so I define THE PLANTS AS THE CHEMISTRY-BINDING class of life.
   The animals use the highly dynamic products of the chemistry-binding class-the plants-as food, and those products-the results of plant-transformation-undergo in animals a further transformation into yet higher forms; and the animals are correspondingly a more dynamic class of life; their energy is kinetic; they have a remarkable freedom and power which the plants do not possess-I mean the freedom and faculty to move about in space; and so I define ANIMALS AS THE SPACE-BINDING CLASS OF LIFE.
   And now what shall we say of human beings? What is to be our definition of Man? Like the animals, human beings do indeed possess the space-binding capacity but, over and above that, human beings possess a most remarkable capacity which is entirely peculiar to them-I mean the capacity to summarise, digest and appropriate the labors and experiences of the past; I mean the capacity to use the fruits of past labors and experiences as intellectual or spiritual capital for developments in the present; I mean the capacity to employ as instruments of increasing power the accumulated achievements of the all-precious lives of the past generations spent in trial and error, trial and success; I mean the capacity of human beings to conduct their lives in the ever increasing light of inherited wisdom; I mean the capacity in virtue of which man is at once the heritor of the by-gone ages and the trustee of posterity. And because humanity is just this magnificent natural agency by which the past lives in the present and the present for the future, I define HUMANITY, in the universal tongue of mathematics and mechanics, to be the TIME-BINDING CLASS OF LIFE. ~ Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity,
62:Evil
Hasten towards the good, leave behind all evil thoughts, for to do good without enthusiasm is to have a mind which delights in evil.

If one does an evil action, he should not persist in it, he should not delight in it. For full of suffering is the accumulation of evil.

If one does a good action, he should persist in it and take delight in it. Full of happiness is the accumulation of good.

As long as his evil action has not yet ripened, an evildoer may experience contentment. But when it ripens, the wrong-doer knows unhappiness.

As long as his good action has not yet ripened, one who does good may experience unhappiness. But when it ripens, the good man knows happiness.

Do not treat evil lightly, saying, "That will not touch me." A jar is filled drop by drop; even so the fool fills himself little by little with wickedness.

Do not treat good lightly, saying, "That will not touch me." A jar is filled drop by drop; even so the sage fills himself little by little with goodness.

The merchant who is carrying many precious goods and who has but few companions, avoids dangerous roads; and a man who loves his life is wary of poison. Even so should one act regarding evil.

A hand that has no wound can carry poison with impunity; act likewise, for evil cannot touch the righteous man.

If you offend one who is pure, innocent and defenceless, the insult will fall back on you, as if you threw dust against the wind.

Some are reborn here on earth, evil-doers go to the worlds of Niraya,1 the just go to the heavenly worlds, but those who have freed themselves from all desire attain Nirvana.

Neither in the skies, nor in the depths of the ocean, nor in the rocky caves, nowhere upon earth does there exist a place where a man can find refuge from his evil actions.

Neither in the skies, nor in the depths of the ocean, nor in the rocky caves, nowhere upon earth does there exist a place where a man can hide from death.

People have the habit of dealing lightly with thoughts that come. And the atmosphere is full of thoughts of all kinds which do not in fact belong to anybody in particular, which move perpetually from one person to another, very freely, much too freely, because there are very few people who can keep their thoughts under control.

When you take up the Buddhist discipline to learn how to control your thoughts, you make very interesting discoveries. You try to observe your thoughts. Instead of letting them pass freely, sometimes even letting them enter your head and establish themselves in a quite inopportune way, you look at them, observe them and you realise with stupefaction that in the space of a few seconds there passes through the head a series of absolutely improbable thoughts that are altogether harmful.
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Conversion of the aim of life from the ego to the Divine: instead of seeking one's own satisfaction, to have the service of the Divine as the aim of life.
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What you must know is exactly the thing you want to do in life. The time needed to learn it does not matter at all. For those who wish to live according to Truth, there is always something to learn and some progress to make. 2 October 1969 ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,
63: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,
64:Mental Education

OF ALL lines of education, mental education is the most widely known and practised, yet except in a few rare cases there are gaps which make it something very incomplete and in the end quite insufficient.

   Generally speaking, schooling is considered to be all the mental education that is necessary. And when a child has been made to undergo, for a number of years, a methodical training which is more like cramming than true schooling, it is considered that whatever is necessary for his mental development has been done. Nothing of the kind. Even conceding that the training is given with due measure and discrimination and does not permanently damage the brain, it cannot impart to the human mind the faculties it needs to become a good and useful instrument. The schooling that is usually given can, at the most, serve as a system of gymnastics to increase the suppleness of the brain. From this standpoint, each branch of human learning represents a special kind of mental gymnastics, and the verbal formulations given to these various branches each constitute a special and well-defined language.

   A true mental education, which will prepare man for a higher life, has five principal phases. Normally these phases follow one after another, but in exceptional individuals they may alternate or even proceed simultaneously. These five phases, in brief, are:

   (1) Development of the power of concentration, the capacity of attention.
   (2) Development of the capacities of expansion, widening, complexity and richness.
   (3) Organisation of one's ideas around a central idea, a higher ideal or a supremely luminous idea that will serve as a guide in life.
   (4) Thought-control, rejection of undesirable thoughts, to become able to think only what one wants and when one wants.
   (5) Development of mental silence, perfect calm and a more and more total receptivity to inspirations coming from the higher regions of the being.

   It is not possible to give here all the details concerning the methods to be employed in the application of these five phases of education to different individuals. Still, a few explanations on points of detail can be given.

   Undeniably, what most impedes mental progress in children is the constant dispersion of their thoughts. Their thoughts flutter hither and thither like butterflies and they have to make a great effort to fix them. Yet this capacity is latent in them, for when you succeed in arousing their interest, they are capable of a good deal of attention. By his ingenuity, therefore, the educator will gradually help the child to become capable of a sustained effort of attention and a faculty of more and more complete absorption in the work in hand. All methods that can develop this faculty of attention from games to rewards are good and can all be utilised according to the need and the circumstances. But it is the psychological action that is most important and the sovereign method is to arouse in the child an interest in what you want to teach him, a liking for work, a will to progress. To love to learn is the most precious gift that one can give to a child: to love to learn always and everywhere, so that all circumstances, all happenings in life may be constantly renewed opportunities for learning more and always more.

   For that, to attention and concentration should be added observation, precise recording and faithfulness of memory. This faculty of observation can be developed by varied and spontaneous exercises, making use of every opportunity that presents itself to keep the child's thought wakeful, alert and prompt. The growth of the understanding should be stressed much more than that of memory. One knows well only what one has understood. Things learnt by heart, mechanically, fade away little by little and finally disappear; what is understood is never forgotten. Moreover, you must never refuse to explain to a child the how and the why of things. If you cannot do it yourself, you must direct the child to those who are qualified to answer or point out to him some books that deal with the question. In this way you will progressively awaken in the child the taste for true study and the habit of making a persistent effort to know.

   This will bring us quite naturally to the second phase of development in which the mind should be widened and enriched.

   You will gradually show the child that everything can become an interesting subject for study if it is approached in the right way. The life of every day, of every moment, is the best school of all, varied, complex, full of unexpected experiences, problems to be solved, clear and striking examples and obvious consequences. It is so easy to arouse healthy curiosity in children, if you answer with intelligence and clarity the numerous questions they ask. An interesting reply to one readily brings others in its train and so the attentive child learns without effort much more than he usually does in the classroom. By a choice made with care and insight, you should also teach him to enjoy good reading-matter which is both instructive and attractive. Do not be afraid of anything that awakens and pleases his imagination; imagination develops the creative mental faculty and through it study becomes living and the mind develops in joy.

   In order to increase the suppleness and comprehensiveness of his mind, one should see not only that he studies many varied topics, but above all that a single subject is approached in various ways, so that the child understands in a practical manner that there are many ways of facing the same intellectual problem, of considering it and solving it. This will remove all rigidity from his brain and at the same time it will make his thinking richer and more supple and prepare it for a more complex and comprehensive synthesis. In this way also the child will be imbued with the sense of the extreme relativity of mental learning and, little by little, an aspiration for a truer source of knowledge will awaken in him.

   Indeed, as the child grows older and progresses in his studies, his mind too ripens and becomes more and more capable of forming general ideas, and with them almost always comes a need for certitude, for a knowledge that is stable enough to form the basis of a mental construction which will permit all the diverse and scattered and often contradictory ideas accumulated in his brain to be organised and put in order. This ordering is indeed very necessary if one is to avoid chaos in one's thoughts. All contradictions can be transformed into complements, but for that one must discover the higher idea that will have the power to bring them harmoniously together. It is always good to consider every problem from all possible standpoints so as to avoid partiality and exclusiveness; but if the thought is to be active and creative, it must, in every case, be the natural and logical synthesis of all the points of view adopted. And if you want to make the totality of your thoughts into a dynamic and constructive force, you must also take great care as to the choice of the central idea of your mental synthesis; for upon that will depend the value of this synthesis. The higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts which it will be able to organise and harmonise.

   It goes without saying that this work of organisation cannot be done once and for all. The mind, if it is to keep its vigour and youth, must progress constantly, revise its notions in the light of new knowledge, enlarge its frame-work to include fresh notions and constantly reclassify and reorganise its thoughts, so that each of them may find its true place in relation to the others and the whole remain harmonious and orderly.

   All that has just been said concerns the speculative mind, the mind that learns. But learning is only one aspect of mental activity; the other, which is at least equally important, is the constructive faculty, the capacity to form and thus prepare action. This very important part of mental activity has rarely been the subject of any special study or discipline. Only those who want, for some reason, to exercise a strict control over their mental activities think of observing and disciplining this faculty of formation; and as soon as they try it, they have to face difficulties so great that they appear almost insurmountable.

   And yet control over this formative activity of the mind is one of the most important aspects of self-education; one can say that without it no mental mastery is possible. As far as study is concerned, all ideas are acceptable and should be included in the synthesis, whose very function is to become more and more rich and complex; but where action is concerned, it is just the opposite. The ideas that are accepted for translation into action should be strictly controlled and only those that agree with the general trend of the central idea forming the basis of the mental synthesis should be permitted to express themselves in action. This means that every thought entering the mental consciousness should be set before the central idea; if it finds a logical place among the thoughts already grouped, it will be admitted into the synthesis; if not, it will be rejected so that it can have no influence on the action. This work of mental purification should be done very regularly in order to secure a complete control over one's actions.

   For this purpose, it is good to set apart some time every day when one can quietly go over one's thoughts and put one's synthesis in order. Once the habit is acquired, you can maintain control over your thoughts even during work and action, allowing only those which are useful for what you are doing to come to the surface. Particularly, if you have continued to cultivate the power of concentration and attention, only the thoughts that are needed will be allowed to enter the active external consciousness and they then become all the more dynamic and effective. And if, in the intensity of concentration, it becomes necessary not to think at all, all mental vibration can be stilled and an almost total silence secured. In this silence one can gradually open to the higher regions of the mind and learn to record the inspirations that come from there.

   But even before reaching this point, silence in itself is supremely useful, because in most people who have a somewhat developed and active mind, the mind is never at rest. During the day, its activity is kept under a certain control, but at night, during the sleep of the body, the control of the waking state is almost completely removed and the mind indulges in activities which are sometimes excessive and often incoherent. This creates a great stress which leads to fatigue and the diminution of the intellectual faculties.

   The fact is that like all the other parts of the human being, the mind too needs rest and it will not have this rest unless we know how to provide it. The art of resting one's mind is something to be acquired. Changing one's mental activity is certainly one way of resting; but the greatest possible rest is silence. And as far as the mental faculties are concerned a few minutes passed in the calm of silence are a more effective rest than hours of sleep.

   When one has learned to silence the mind at will and to concentrate it in receptive silence, then there will be no problem that cannot be solved, no mental difficulty whose solution cannot be found. When it is agitated, thought becomes confused and impotent; in an attentive tranquillity, the light can manifest itself and open up new horizons to man's capacity. Bulletin, November 1951

   ~ The Mother, On Education,
65:The Supreme Discovery
   IF WE want to progress integrally, we must build within our conscious being a strong and pure mental synthesis which can serve us as a protection against temptations from outside, as a landmark to prevent us from going astray, as a beacon to light our way across the moving ocean of life.
   Each individual should build up this mental synthesis according to his own tendencies and affinities and aspirations. But if we want it to be truly living and luminous, it must be centred on the idea that is the intellectual representation symbolising That which is at the centre of our being, That which is our life and our light.
   This idea, expressed in sublime words, has been taught in various forms by all the great Instructors in all lands and all ages.
   The Self of each one and the great universal Self are one. Since all that is exists from all eternity in its essence and principle, why make a distinction between the being and its origin, between ourselves and what we place at the beginning?
   The ancient traditions rightly said:
   "Our origin and ourselves, our God and ourselves are one."
   And this oneness should not be understood merely as a more or less close and intimate relationship of union, but as a true identity.
   Thus, when a man who seeks the Divine attempts to reascend by degrees towards the inaccessible, he forgets that all his knowledge and all his intuition cannot take him one step forward in this infinite; neither does he know that what he wants to attain, what he believes to be so far from him, is within him.
   For how could he know anything of the origin until he becomes conscious of this origin in himself?
   It is by understanding himself, by learning to know himself, that he can make the supreme discovery and cry out in wonder like the patriarch in the Bible, "The house of God is here and I knew it not."
   That is why we must express that sublime thought, creatrix of the material worlds, and make known to all the word that fills the heavens and the earth, "I am in all things and all beings."When all shall know this, the promised day of great transfigurations will be at hand. When in each atom of Matter men shall recognise the indwelling thought of God, when in each living creature they shall perceive some hint of a gesture of God, when each man can see God in his brother, then dawn will break, dispelling the darkness, the falsehood, the ignorance, the error and suffering that weigh upon all Nature. For, "all Nature suffers and laments as she awaits the revelation of the Sons of God."
   This indeed is the central thought epitomising all others, the thought which should be ever present to our remembrance as the sun that illumines all life.
   That is why I remind you of it today. For if we follow our path bearing this thought in our hearts like the rarest jewel, the most precious treasure, if we allow it to do its work of illumination and transfiguration within us, we shall know that it lives in the centre of all beings and all things, and in it we shall feel the marvellous oneness of the universe.
   Then we shall understand the vanity and childishness of our meagre satisfactions, our foolish quarrels, our petty passions, our blind indignations. We shall see the dissolution of our little faults, the crumbling of the last entrenchments of our limited personality and our obtuse egoism. We shall feel ourselves being swept along by this sublime current of true spirituality which will deliver us from our narrow limits and bounds.
   The individual Self and the universal Self are one; in every world, in every being, in every thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man's mission is to manifest it.
   In order to do that, he must become conscious of this Divine Presence within him. Some individuals must undergo a real apprenticeship in order to achieve this: their egoistic being is too all-absorbing, too rigid, too conservative, and their struggles against it are long and painful. Others, on the contrary, who are more impersonal, more plastic, more spiritualised, come easily into contact with the inexhaustible divine source of their being.But let us not forget that they too should devote themselves daily, constantly, to a methodical effort of adaptation and transformation, so that nothing within them may ever again obscure the radiance of that pure light.
   But how greatly the standpoint changes once we attain this deeper consciousness! How understanding widens, how compassion grows!
   On this a sage has said:
   "I would like each one of us to come to the point where he perceives the inner God who dwells even in the vilest of human beings; instead of condemning him we would say, 'Arise, O resplendent Being, thou who art ever pure, who knowest neither birth nor death; arise, Almighty One, and manifest thy nature.'"
   Let us live by this beautiful utterance and we shall see everything around us transformed as if by miracle.
   This is the attitude of true, conscious and discerning love, the love which knows how to see behind appearances, understand in spite of words, and which, amid all obstacles, is in constant communion with the depths.
   What value have our impulses and our desires, our anguish and our violence, our sufferings and our struggles, all these inner vicissitudes unduly dramatised by our unruly imagination - what value do they have before this great, this sublime and divine love bending over us from the innermost depths of our being, bearing with our weaknesses, rectifying our errors, healing our wounds, bathing our whole being with its regenerating streams?
   For the inner Godhead never imposes herself, she neither demands nor threatens; she offers and gives herself, conceals and forgets herself in the heart of all beings and things; she never accuses, she neither judges nor curses nor condemns, but works unceasingly to perfect without constraint, to mend without reproach, to encourage without impatience, to enrich each one with all the wealth he can receive; she is the mother whose love bears fruit and nourishes, guards and protects, counsels and consoles; because she understands everything, she can endure everything, excuse and pardon everything, hope and prepare for everything; bearing everything within herself, she owns nothing that does not belong to all, and because she reigns over all, she is the servant of all; that is why all, great and small, who want to be kings with her and gods in her, become, like her, not despots but servitors among their brethren.
   How beautiful is this humble role of servant, the role of all who have been revealers and heralds of the God who is within all, of the Divine Love that animates all things....
   And until we can follow their example and become true servants even as they, let us allow ourselves to be penetrated and transformed by this Divine Love; let us offer Him, without reserve, this marvellous instrument, our physical organism. He shall make it yield its utmost on every plane of activity.
   To achieve this total self-consecration, all means are good, all methods have their value. The one thing needful is to persevere in our will to attain this goal. For then everything we study, every action we perform, every human being we meet, all come to bring us an indication, a help, a light to guide us on the path.
   Before I close, I shall add a few pages for those who have already made apparently fruitless efforts, for those who have encountered the pitfalls on the way and seen the measure of their weakness, for those who are in danger of losing their self-confidence and courage. These pages, intended to rekindle hope in the hearts of those who suffer, were written by a spiritual worker at a time when ordeals of every kind were sweeping down on him like purifying flames.
   You who are weary, downcast and bruised, you who fall, who think perhaps that you are defeated, hear the voice of a friend. He knows your sorrows, he has shared them, he has suffered like you from the ills of the earth; like you he has crossed many deserts under the burden of the day, he has known thirst and hunger, solitude and abandonment, and the cruellest of all wants, the destitution of the heart. Alas! he has known too the hours of doubt, the errors, the faults, the failings, every weakness.
   But he tells you: Courage! Hearken to the lesson that the rising sun brings to the earth with its first rays each morning. It is a lesson of hope, a message of solace.
   You who weep, who suffer and tremble, who dare not expect an end to your ills, an issue to your pangs, behold: there is no night without dawn and the day is about to break when darkness is thickest; there is no mist that the sun does not dispel, no cloud that it does not gild, no tear that it will not dry one day, no storm that is not followed by its shining triumphant bow; there is no snow that it does not melt, nor winter that it does not change into radiant spring.
   And for you too, there is no affliction which does not bring its measure of glory, no distress which cannot be transformed into joy, nor defeat into victory, nor downfall into higher ascension, nor solitude into radiating centre of life, nor discord into harmony - sometimes it is a misunderstanding between two minds that compels two hearts to open to mutual communion; lastly, there is no infinite weakness that cannot be changed into strength. And it is even in supreme weakness that almightiness chooses to reveal itself!
   Listen, my little child, you who today feel so broken, so fallen perhaps, who have nothing left, nothing to cover your misery and foster your pride: never before have you been so great! How close to the summits is he who awakens in the depths, for the deeper the abyss, the more the heights reveal themselves!
   Do you not know this, that the most sublime forces of the vasts seek to array themselves in the most opaque veils of Matter? Oh, the sublime nuptials of sovereign love with the obscurest plasticities, of the shadow's yearning with the most royal light!
   If ordeal or fault has cast you down, if you have sunk into the nether depths of suffering, do not grieve - for there indeed the divine love and the supreme blessing can reach you! Because you have passed through the crucible of purifying sorrows, the glorious ascents are yours.
   You are in the wilderness: then listen to the voices of the silence. The clamour of flattering words and outer applause has gladdened your ears, but the voices of the silence will gladden your soul and awaken within you the echo of the depths, the chant of divine harmonies!
   You are walking in the depths of night: then gather the priceless treasures of the night. In bright sunshine, the ways of intelligence are lit, but in the white luminosities of the night lie the hidden paths of perfection, the secret of spiritual riches.
   You are being stripped of everything: that is the way towards plenitude. When you have nothing left, everything will be given to you. Because for those who are sincere and true, from the worst always comes the best.
   Every grain that is sown in the earth produces a thousand. Every wing-beat of sorrow can be a soaring towards glory.
   And when the adversary pursues man relentlessly, everything he does to destroy him only makes him greater.
   Hear the story of the worlds, look: the great enemy seems to triumph. He casts the beings of light into the night, and the night is filled with stars. He rages against the cosmic working, he assails the integrity of the empire of the sphere, shatters its harmony, divides and subdivides it, scatters its dust to the four winds of infinity, and lo! the dust is changed into a golden seed, fertilising the infinite and peopling it with worlds which now gravitate around their eternal centre in the larger orbit of space - so that even division creates a richer and deeper unity, and by multiplying the surfaces of the material universe, enlarges the empire that it set out to destroy.
   Beautiful indeed was the song of the primordial sphere cradled in the bosom of immensity, but how much more beautiful and triumphant is the symphony of the constellations, the music of the spheres, the immense choir that fills the heavens with an eternal hymn of victory!
   Hear again: no state was ever more precarious than that of man when he was separated on earth from his divine origin. Above him stretched the hostile borders of the usurper, and at his horizon's gates watched jailers armed with flaming swords. Then, since he could climb no more to the source of life, the source arose within him; since he could no more receive the light from above, the light shone forth at the very centre of his being; since he could commune no more with the transcendent love, that love offered itself in a holocaust and chose each terrestrial being, each human self as its dwelling-place and sanctuary.
   That is how, in this despised and desolate but fruitful and blessed Matter, each atom contains a divine thought, each being carries within him the Divine Inhabitant. And if no being in all the universe is as frail as man, neither is any as divine as he!
   In truth, in truth, in humiliation lies the cradle of glory! 28 April 1912 ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, The Supreme Discovery,

*** WISDOM TROVE ***

1:My Precious, my Precious. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
2:A word in season is most precious. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove
3:All great and precious things are lonely. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
4:Precious Stones, Elements, Time Management ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove
5:There is nothing more precious than laughter ~ frida-kahlo, @wisdomtrove
6:Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
7:Precious and spacious The aspiring heart has to remain ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove
8:Time is the most precious element of human existence. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove
9:... it is the work and not the reward that is precious. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove
10:Only the heart knows how to find what is precious. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
11:Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day.   ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove
12:Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life? ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove
13:The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove
14:The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
15:Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove
16:Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove
17:Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
18:The search for truth is more precious than its possession. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove
19:Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove
20:Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don’t lose it for anything. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove
21:The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
22:Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove
23:In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove
24:It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
25:The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove
26:Stop giving your precious energy to things that make you feel bad. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove
27:Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove
28:There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove
29:Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove
30:Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove
31:Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life? ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove
32:Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove
33:Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove
34:Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove
35:Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth. ~ norman-cousins, @wisdomtrove
36:Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. ~ albert-camus, @wisdomtrove
37:One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove
38:Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove
39:I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell. ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove
40:All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don't come back. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove
41:Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove
42:Blood, always precious, is priceless when it streams from Immanuel's side. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
43:The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
44:The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove
45:The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove
46:My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove
47:The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove
48:Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
49:Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
50:The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove
51:Virtue is like precious odors - most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. ~ francis-bacon, @wisdomtrove
52:Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
53:Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
54:Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove
55:Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
56:God Is Using Gianna Jessen To Remind The World, That Each Human Being Is Precious To Him. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove
57:Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
58:In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove
59:Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove
60:The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove
61:Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
62:If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove
63:Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove
64:In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove
65:But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
66:I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove
67:The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove
68:I do believe in love. It’s wonderful, especially love third time around; it’s even more precious. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove
69:The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
70:The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It's their energy. Manage it well. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove
71:Your words are so powerful and precious. Learn to harness them, guide them and let them work for you. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove
72:The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove
73:Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
74:If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove
75:The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove
76:What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up! ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove
77:People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove
78:Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove
79:Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove
80:To Christ we are to be always coming; upon Him always relying; to His precious blood always looking. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
81:We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
82:Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove
83:To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove
84:Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove
85:Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove
86:One of the most precious things you should always preserve in a friendship and in love is your own difference. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
87:Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove
88:Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove
89:The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God’s sight as Rembrandt or anyone else. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove
90:Consider what you give your attention to each day. It’s a precious resource, and determines the shape of your life. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove
91:Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove
92:It is your holy work, to deeply love, honor and respect the precious self that you are, the soul that only you hold. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove
93:One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift... and never waste such an opportunity. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove
94:Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
95:What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew? ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove
96:There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove
97:There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
98:My favourite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove
99:Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts? ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove
100:Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove
101:Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove
102:Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove
103:I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove
104:We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
105:You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
106:It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove
107:Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove
108:She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove
109:Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove
110:You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove
111:He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove
112:A precious, mouldering pleasure &
113:Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.  ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove
114:When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove
115:Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove
116:Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
117:The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
118:But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it? ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
119:The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
120:Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove
121:She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove
122:If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove
123:A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove
124:You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove
125:I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove
126:Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove
127:Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove
128:There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
129:Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
130:“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.” ~ william-james, @wisdomtrove
131:Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
132:When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count! ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove
133:Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove
134:I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove
135:I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. ~ nathaniel-hawthorne, @wisdomtrove
136:Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove
137:Being a lover of life means being open to the present moment as a precious opportunity to experience the richness of life and feel its transformational power. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
138:But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
139:Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
140:Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove
141:Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove
142:When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove
143:Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God's eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God's heart. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
144:Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove
145:To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.  ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove
146:Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more precious, for it reveals eternal things, and ministers to our immortal natures. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
147:Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove
148:The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
149:My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove
150:Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
151:Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ~ francis-bacon, @wisdomtrove
152:Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
153:If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
154:Maintain your physical, emotional, and spiritual harmony with the universe by meditating every day. Inhale the precious breath of life. It is your connection to your Higher power. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove
155:Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
156:Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove
157:Behold , I have graven you upon the palm of my hand, that is what Jesus came on earth to do: to proclaim, to give us the Good News that God loves us, that we are precious to Him. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove
158:I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
159:The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove
160:Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove
161:It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove
162:The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove
163:We're all - all of us - a minute away from dying. If you're aware of that, life becomes a little more precious. Also, you have a slightly different outlook. It's not so much "gimme, gimme." ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove
164:The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove
165:If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove
166:No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove
167:I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news. ~ john-muir, @wisdomtrove
168:It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove
169:Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. ~ w-clement-stone, @wisdomtrove
170:Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove
171:I am a Divine, magnificent expression of life, and deserve the very best. I accept miracles. I accept healing. I accept wholeness. And most of all, I accept myself. I am precious, and I cherish who I am. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove
172:My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove
173:An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove
174:Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove
175:The moment you wake up, right away, you can smile... You are aware that a new day is beginning, that life is offering you twenty-four brand new hours to live, and that that's the most precious of gifts. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
176:Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove
177:The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove
178:Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove
179:Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove
180:The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove
181:We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove
182:I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take our being, that which is most precious to us, and we throw it into eternity with a total sense of offering. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
183:Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an &
184:Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children... let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money... and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove
185:If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
186:The more I dissolve into the oneness, the more animated I feel as a unique individual. The more I feel filled with limitless love, the more I long to share it. The more I wake up, the more precious this dream of life becomes to me. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
187:Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove
188:Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Dont wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether its at work or with your family. ~ earl-nightingale, @wisdomtrove
189:Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
190:Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove
191:If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove
192:I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove
193:The General who in advancing does not seek personal fame, and in withdrawing is not concerned with avoiding punishment, but whose only purpose is to protect the people and promote the best interests of his sovereign, is the precious jewel of the state. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
194:When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, &
195:Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live! ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
196:I enjoy that, and the idea of doing small things over a period of time. I think there are certain things you can do for water control in America, because that will be our most precious resource. In America, you pay more for water than you do for gas. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove
197:And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove
198:The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home... . I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove
199:One of the things that is particularly precious about working at Apple is that many of us on the design team have worked together for 15-plus years, and there's a wonderful thing about learning as a group. A fundamental part of that is making mistakes together. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove
200:We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. &
201:Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness, our smile. And this precious gift costs nothing. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
202:I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest! ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
203:Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person's soul. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
204:Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person’s soul. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
205:What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset. "Not fair! not fair!" he hissed. "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess? ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
206:Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
207:Music is to be praised as second only to the Word of God because by her all the emotions are swayed. That is why there are so many songs and psalms. This precious gift has been bestowed on men alone to remind them that they are created to praise and magnify the Lord. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove
208:Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private.   ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove
209:You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove
210:Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. ~ earl-nightingale, @wisdomtrove
211:This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of that precious nourishing love from which flowers and children have their strength and which could help all human beings if they would take it without doubting. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
212:If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove
213:Wake up! If you knew for certain that you had a terminal illness - if you had precious little time left to make use of your life and consider who you are, you'd not waste time on self-indulgence or fear, lethargy or ambition. Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove
214:Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
215:Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. &
216:God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove
217:Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove
218:Love is a word that is constantly heard, Hate is a word that is not. Love, I am told, is more precious than gold. Love, I have read, is hot. But hate is the verb that to me is superb, And Love but a drug on the mart. Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove
219:My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove
220: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
221:The reputations of the Lord's people should be very precious in our sight... We may ourselves one of these dark days need forbearance and silence from our brethren, let us render it cheerfully to those who require it now. Be this our family rule, and our personal bond: Speak evil of no man. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
222:Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been... frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
223:For more than 2 million years, human neural networks kept growing and growing, but apart from some flint knives and pointed sticks, humans had precious little to show for it. What then drove forward the evolution of the massive human brain during those 2 million years? Frankly, we don’t know. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove
224:For it is a horrible blasphemy to imagine that there is any work by which you should presume to pacify God, since you see that there is nothing which is able to pacify Him but this inestimable price, even the death and the blood of the Son of God, one drop of which is more precious than the whole world. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove
225:Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove
226:Precious few are those who can live in the lap of luxury ... who can keep their moral, spiritual and financial equilibrium ... while balancing on the elevated tightrope of success. ... there is about one in a hundred who can dance to the tune of success without paying the piper named Compromise. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove
227:If you are not living with a whole heart now, the end of the world poses no threat; your life is already gone. Life is only as valuable as our presence to enjoy it. To miss the beauty of the moment because you are preparing to protect yourself from the next one, is to trade a precious gem for a cheap trinket. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove
228:I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
229:By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible. ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove
230:Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove
231:My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste." ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove
232:Your fear is just as boring as mine is. Everyone's got the same one. It is not precious. It is not special. It is not singular to you. It's just the one we all got wired with when we came in. Focus on your unique qualities that deserve to be celebrated and put fear back in its place. Don't listen to it. Onward. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove
233:I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.   ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove
234:To every description of citizens, let praise be given. but let them persevere in their affectionate vigilance over that precious depository of American happiness, the Constitution of the United States. Let them cherish it, too, for the sake of those who, from every clime, are daily seeking a dwelling in our land. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove
235:I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of a book; it's like childbirth. And, like childbirth, one forgets the pains immediately so that when you come to write another one you dare to take it up again. Some precious anesthesia sees you through. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
236:The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the Beloved from all eternity and held safe in an everlasting embrace... We must dare to opt consciously for our chosenness and not allow our emotions, feelings, or passions to seduce us into self-rejection. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
237:There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a law-abiding universe. This is a moral universe. It hinges on moral foundations. If we are to make of this a better world, we've got to go back and rediscover that precious value that we've left behind. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
238:[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove
239:My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind. That's the only way that we would be able to make of our world a better world, and to make of this world what God wants it to be and the real purpose and meaning of it. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
240:You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved... well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were. That's what you've taught me, fur face,and because of you I'll never be the same. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove
241:There are a million blogs, people, services, media, competing for our attention. Our attention is limited, and valuable, making it one of the most precious resources we have. The world wants that attention. Only you can decide where it goes.  And it does determine the shape of your life: what you pay attention to becomes your reality.  ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove
242:As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped. Such rites made belonging to the guild or corporation more precious to those who were accepted, and survived. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove
243:Nobody likes to let go of the ego- it is so precious to everyone. However, once you have attained a state of egolessness, the world won't disappear, as you may think it will. The world will continue, but a change takes place within you. Something is uncovered. You start seeing everything with the wonder and innocence of a child. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove
244:The purpose of our journey on this precious Earth is now to align our personalities with our souls and the souls of others. It is to create harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. It is to grow spiritually. This is our new evolutionary pathway. The old pathway - pursuing the ability to manipulate and control - no longer works. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove
245:Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness&
246:I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove
247:Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts, and pray long prayers? ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
248:When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva&
249:This is where the children of honest poverty have the most precious of all advantages over those of wealth. The mother, nurse, cook, governess, teacher, saint, all in one; the father, exemplar, guide, counselor, and friend! Thus were my brother and I brought up. What has the child of millionaire or nobleman that counts compared to such a heritage? ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove
250:A precious, mouldering pleasure &
251:Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
252:If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is wrong to be insincere. The best time to begin a religious life is when you are youthful and well. If you have a short time to live, you must work harder at it. And if you have along time to live, you should not waste that precious opportunity. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove
253:What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman? With her children, I suppose. For a while... " "In her house, maybe." She looked around the kitchen. "But the doors are shut," she said, "the doors are locked." "Because you're valuable." "Oh yes. We're precious. So long as we're powerless. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove
254:Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other's home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for. God, the true Philosopher's Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart, The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart! ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove
255:If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove
256:I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I am finding that when I choose to let go of my sometimes petty and superficial wishes and trust that my life is precious and meaningful in the eyes of God something really new, something beyond my own expectations begins to happen for me. (Finding My Way Home) ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
257:A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
258:As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we should reflect on the full meaning of this day as we enjoy the fellowship that is so much a part of the holiday festivities. Searching our hearts, we should ask what we can do as individuals to demonstrate our gratitude to God for all He has done. Such reflection can only add to the significance of this precious day of remembrance. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
259:Our breath is the most precious substance in our lives, and yet we totally take for granted when we exhale that our next breath will be there. If we did not take another breath, we would not last 3 minutes. Now if the Power that created us has given us enough breath to last for as long as we shall live, can we not trust that everything else we need will also be supplied? ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove
260:We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove
261:Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
262:A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or worship and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God's most precious will. . . . There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and strength. ~ meister-eckhart, @wisdomtrove
263:As we drifted to earth I sat up on the glass roof of the capsule, watching the beauty of the golden dawn as it broke over the desert. This was a day I never thought I'd see and the rising sun and growing warmth of the day seemed very precious. It made me aware that hard-won things are more valuable than those that come too easily. It reminded me to always enjoy the moment. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove
264:Sometimes when people talk about awakening they describe the dream of life as a pernicious illusion we need to escape, but that doesn’t feel right to me. The more I dissolve into the oneness, the more animated I feel as a unique individual. The more I feel filled with limitless love, the more I long to share it. The more I wake up, the more precious this dream of life becomes to me. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
265:We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are privileged to influence and perhaps control our future. I believe we have an obligation to fight for life on Earth - not just for ourselves, but for all those, humans and others, who came before us, and to whom we are beholden, and for all those who, if we are wise enough, will come after. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove
266:When we spend our lives waiting until we’re perfect or bulletproof before we walk into the arena, we ultimately sacrifice relationships and opportunities that may not be recoverable, we squander our precious time, and we turn our backs on our gifts, those unique contributions that only we can make. Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove
267:Do not waste the precious moments of this, your present reality, seeking to unveil all of life's secrets. Those secrets are a secret for a reason. Grant your God the benefit of the doubt. Use your NOW moment for the Highest Purpose - the creation and the expression of Who You Really Are. Decide who you are - who you want to be-and then do everything in your power to be that. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove
268:I have forgiven myself; I'll make a change. Once that forgiveness has taken place you can console yourself with the knowledge that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure. Less pressure is crystal, less than that is coal, less than that is fossilized leaves or plain dirt. Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful, quote beautiful and extremely hard. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove
269:It is often said that the Buddha's teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to the moon. Don't aistake the finger for the moon. The raft is not the shore. If we cling to the raft, if we cling to the finger, we miss everything. We cannot, in the name of the finger or the raft kill each other. Human life is more precious than any ideology, any doctrine. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
270:When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as to identity, then understanding is called for. The gentle and sensitive companionship of an empathic stance… provides illumination and healing. In such situations deep understanding is, I believe, the most precious gift one can give to another. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove
271:To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove
272: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
273:I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove
274:First, make a list of the things you truly want to do. The things you love to do. The things you want to spend your precious time doing. Shorten it to four to five things, if possible—this is your Short List, the things that are most important. Eliminate as much of the rest of the stuff as possible from your private life. Schedule your free time so that you’re doing the things on your Short List. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove
275:I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
276:Do not be dismayed, daughters, at the number of things that you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove
277:At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried with him and in which he tirelessly entered in the form of quotations what daily living and reading netted him in the way of "pearls" and "coral." On occasion he read from them aloud, showed them around like items from a choice and precious collection. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove
278:Now there are many, many people in the world, but relatively few with whom we interact, and even fewer who cause us problems. So when you come across such a chance for practicing patience and tolerance, you should treat it with gratitude. It is rare. Just as having unexpectedly found a treasure in your own house, you should be happy and grateful toward your enemy for providing you that precious opportunity.    ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove
279:There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age... can light the rest of our lives, elevating our ideals, deepening our tolerance, and sharpening our appetite for knowledge about the rest of the world. Educational and cultural exchanges... provide a perfect opportunity for this precious spark to grow, making us more sensitive and wiser international citizens through our careers. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
280:The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove
281:It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove
282:Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove
283:There is something rejuvenating in the possession of Zen. The spring flowers look prettier, and the mountain stream runs cooler and more transparent. The subjective revolution that brings about this state of things cannot be called abnormal. When life becomes more enjoyable and its expense broadens to include the universe itself, there must be something in ‘satori’ that is quite precious and well worth one’s striving after. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove
284:Get a single, solitary thought in your mind, and that thought - the precious love of Jesus. Go and live it out, and come what may, you will be respected though abused. They may say you are an enthusiast, a fanatic, a fool, but those names from the world are titles of praise and glory. The world does not take the trouble to nickname a man unless he is worth it. It will not give you any censure unless it trembles at you. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
285:This letter [to the Romans] is truly the most important piece in the New Testament. It is purest Gospel. It is well worth a Christian's while not only to memorize it word for word but also to occupy himself with it daily, as though it were the daily bread of the soul. It is impossible to read or to meditate on this letter too much or too well. The more one deals with it, the more precious it becomes, and the better it tastes. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove
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287:You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove
288:No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God's strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
289:Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove
290:In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance policy against catastrophe at home. During the next millennium there is a significant chance that civilization on Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid, a killer plague or a global war. A Martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until Earth could be reverse-colonized from Mars. ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove
291:Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love life means to love its vulnerability, asking for care, attention, guidance, and support. Life and death are connected by vulnerability. The newborn child and the dying elder both remind us of the preciousness of our lives. Let's not forget the preciousness and vulnerability of life during the times we are powerful, successful, and popular. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
292:Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient. So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove
293:I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove
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295:Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even mighty death could not tear it, a garment that could not be frayed by use, that brought warmth into what would otherwise be an intolerable, cold world- but at times love could also be as heavy as chain mail. Bearing the burden of love, on those occasions when it was a solemn weight, made it more precious when, in better times, it caught the wind in sleeves like wings, and lifted you. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove
296:Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow! ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove
297:Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the sun is rising in the vast space of primordial awareness, and there is just this. Yasutani Roshi once said, speaking of satori, that it was the most precious realization in the world, because all the great philosophers had tried to understand ultimate reality but had failed to do so, yet with satori or awakening all of your deepest questions are finally answered: it's just this. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove
298:It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now it's over, and it doesn't make any difference to anyone, and it isn't that they are indifferent, it's just that they don't know, they don't know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there's something about it that they should understand. I don't understand it myself, but there's something that should be understood by all of us. Only what is it? What? ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove
299:Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism - victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove
300:Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove
301:Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into it by one single desire. You want a thing and it's precious to you. Do you know who is standing ready to tear it out of your hands? You can't know, it may be so involved and so far away, but someone is ready, and you're afraid of them all. And you cringe and you crawl and you beg and you accept them&
302:Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove
303:Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It's not only possible, it's essential. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove
304:Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove
305:These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth is that joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself, and of everything, that it is conscious of nothing, and able to speak of nothing, save of that which proceeds from its joy... Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should we want to be more sensible than she? What can give us greater pleasure than to do as she does? And may all the creatures join with us for ever and ever. Amen, amen, amen. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove
306:Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that &
307:The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope and life and says: &
308:The Buddha spoke gently, "Once a person is caught by belief in a doctrine, one loses all one's freedom. When one becomes dogmatic, that person believes his or her doctrine is the only truth and that all other doctrines are heresy.  Disputes and conflicts all arise from narrow views.  They can extend endlessly, wasting precious time and sometimes even leading to war.  Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.  Bound to narrow views, one becomes so entangled that it is no longer possible to let the door of truth open. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
309:By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove
310:If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove
311:When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and I look upon time as no more than an idea, and I consider eternity as another possibility, and I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular, and each name a comfortable music in the mouth, tending, as all music does, toward silence, and each body as a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth. [from the poem "When Death Comes"] ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove
312:Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove
313:Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
314:People who do not examine themselves are like people with a sickness that closes off their capillaries and therefore corrupts their blood, causing their limbs to go to sleep and atrophy, and resulting in severe chronic diseases because their humors, and therefore the blood that arises from them, are viscous, sticky, irritating, and acidic. People who do examine themselves, however, including the intentions of their will, are like people who are healed from these diseases and regain the vitality they felt when they were young. People who examine themselves in the right way are like ships from Ophir completely filled with gold, silver, and precious stones; before they examined themselves, though, they were like barges loaded down with unclean freight, carting away the filth and excrement from city streets. . . . ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove
315:Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. The things which are sacred or precious to us are the things we withdraw from promiscuous sharing. But now we are taught to throw everything within us into public light and common pawing. To seek joy in meeting halls. We haven't even got a word for the quality I mean&
316:The freer the mind is, the more powerful and worthy, the more useful, praiseworthy and perfect the prayer and the work become. A free mind can achieve all things. But what is a free mind? A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or devotion and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God’s most precious will, having gone out of what is its own. There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and its strength. We should pray with such intensity that we want all the members of our body and all its faculties, eyes, ears, mouth, heart and all our senses to turn to this end; and we should not cease in this until we feel that we are close to being united with him who is present to us and to whom we are praying: God. ~ meister-eckhart, @wisdomtrove
317:In everyone's life, there is great need for an anam cara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person's soul. This recognition is described in a beautiful line from Pablo Neruda: "You are like nobody since I love you." This art of love discloses the special and sacred identity of the other person. Love is the only light that can truly read the secret signature of the other person's individuality and soul. Love alone is literate in the world of origin; it an decipher identity and destiny. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove

*** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***

1:The precious ordinary. I ~ Kent Haruf,
2:Children are so precious. ~ Shayne Ward,
3:Summer is very precious. ~ Dylan Lauren,
4:There is a Precious Mountain ~ Hanshan,
5:Precious, sun ray. See? ~ Laurelin Paige,
6:Every life is precious. ~ Stephenie Meyer,
7:My Precious, my Precious. ~ J R R Tolkien,
8:A word in season is most precious. ~ Aesop,
9:Precious and spacious    ~ Sri Chinmoy,
10:Ruin me, Precious. Ruin me. ~ Dannika Dark,
11:All human life is precious. ~ George W Bush,
12:Time is precious, make a count. ~ Anonymous,
13:Life feels precious. It is. ~ Katrina Kenison,
14:Time is precious, waste it wisely ~ K Bromberg,
15:Time is precious. Waste it wisely, ~ K Bromberg,
16:Time is precious. Waste it wisely. ~ K Bromberg,
17:Attention is a precious commodity. ~ Brian Solis,
18:The life of a child is precious. ~ Asa Don Brown,
19:the most precious thing I have, ~ Oliver P tzsch,
20:And every human being is precious. ~ Desmond Tutu,
21:Hands off the Precious, Gollum. ~ Sylvain Reynard,
22:Life is only precious because it ends, ~ Anonymous,
23:Searching for precious goods leads astray. ~ Laozi,
24:These precious things, let them bleed. ~ Tori Amos,
25:An enemy is indeed a precious teacher. ~ Dalai Lama,
26:Life is too precious to be unhappy. ~ Kate Atkinson,
27:Do things to make your day precious. ~ Bernie Siegel,
28:Every living thing is precious somehow. ~ T A Barron,
29:Genius, like gold and precious stones, ~ Mark Twain,
30:It was ugly and precious all at once. ~ Alice Sebold,
31:Life is only precious because it ends ~ Rick Riordan,
32:My life is Avatar, your life is Precious. ~ Ras Kass,
33:time is precious waste it wisely... ~ Colleen Hoover,
34:Time is precious. Waste it wisely.” She ~ K Bromberg,
35:Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious. ~ Leo Rosten,
36:It is right precious to behold ~ James Russell Lowell,
37:Life is only precious because it ends, ~ Rick Riordan,
38:Life is only precious because it ends. ~ Rick Riordan,
39:So sweet and precious is family life. ~ James McBride,
40:Light is precious in a world so dark. ~ Kate DiCamillo,
41:Love's too precious to be lost, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson,
42:My weekends are extremely precious. ~ Mariska Hargitay,
43:The world is full of precious garbage. ~ Ryan Boudinot,
44:Words are plentiful; deeds are precious. ~ Lech Walesa,
45:A good name is better than precious ointment. ~ Solomon,
46:Nothing is more precious than your baby. ~ Jane Goodall,
47:The right is more precious than peace. ~ Woodrow Wilson,
48:Be yourself.Life is precious as it is. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
49:Every moment is precious. And precarious. ~ Edward Abbey,
50:Everything matters. Time is precious. ~ Jessica Hagedorn,
51:Everything precious was also vulnerable. ~ Mary H K Choi,
52:Have we wasted precious space dust on you? ~ Dave Eggers,
53:Life is too precious to be left to chance ~ Walter Moers,
54:The mind of a child is a precious thing. ~ Asa Don Brown,
55:The most precious resource we have is time. ~ Steve Jobs,
56:The prize of all too precious you. ~ William Shakespeare,
57:...because even the alphabet is precious. ~ Adrienne Rich,
58:This, precious. This is for real. ~ Laurelin Paige,
59:Life is holy and every moment is precious. ~ Jack Kerouac,
60:Life is only precious because it ends, kid ~ Rick Riordan,
61:Money is a needful and precious thing ~ Louisa May Alcott,
62:My body is precious and not separate from my soul. ~ Sark,
63:The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift. ~ Konrad Lorenz,
64:The uneventful day is a precious gift. ~ Abraham Verghese,
65:Woman is the most precious gift known to man. ~ Rick Ross,
66:All great and precious things are lonely. ~ John Steinbeck,
67:I love you, Alayna. My precious. My love. ~ Laurelin Paige,
68:Life is only precious because it ends, kid. ~ Rick Riordan,
69:Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword. ~ Idries Shah,
70:Peace is more precious than a piece of land. ~ Anwar Sadat,
71:Precious things are for those that can prize them. ~ Aesop,
72:The edge of sleep can be such a precious time. ~ Anne Rice,
73:The only precious things in life breathe. ~ Kristen Ashley,
74:There is nothing more precious than laughter ~ Frida Kahlo,
75:The uneventful day was a precious gift. ~ Abraham Verghese,
76:The world is dark, and light is precious. ~ Kate DiCamillo,
77:War kills time, precious human time. ~ Svetlana Alexievich,
78:Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost! ~ J R R Tolkien,
79:Life is a gift. Immortality is a precious gift. ~ Anne Rice,
80:life is precious. Every moment is precious ~ David Walliams,
81:Life was so short. Every moment was precious! ~ Luanne Rice,
82:Love is a precious gift – one without strings ~ Amber Kizer,
83:Love is too precious to be ashamed of. ~ Laurell K Hamilton,
84:Relax in the precious arms of the Holy Spirit. ~ T B Joshua,
85:Truth is life's most precious commodity. ~ Edwin Louis Cole,
86:Character is the most precious gift of education. ~ Sai Baba,
87:Human dignity is more precious than prestige. ~ Claude McKay,
88:Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt ~ Anne Rice,
89:My body is precious and not separate from my soul. ~ S A R K,
90:No One in the Entire World is as Precious as You are. ~ Rumi,
91:Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but ~ Ovid,
92:For life is holy and every moment is precious. ~ Jack Kerouac,
93:I love you, precious. I've always loved you. ~ Laurelin Paige,
94:Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health ~ Aristotle,
95:Love adds a precious seeing to the eye. ~ William Shakespeare,
96:Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. ~ Herodotus,
97:We need to appreciate how precious life is. ~ Shelley Fabares,
98:A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price ~ Alex Flinn,
99:Life was such a precious thing, easily broken. ~ Shaun Jeffrey,
100:Remember, Had. Time is precious. Waste it wisely. ~ K Bromberg,
101:For every man, peace of soul is precious. ~ Nikolaj Velimirovic,
102:Life is precious to us because it is ephemeral. ~ Carlo Rovelli,
103:Life was precious and not to be taken for granted, ~ Robyn Carr,
104:My private life is the most precious thing to me. ~ Leona Lewis,
105:Sell Not Yourself At Little Price, Being So Precious In ~ Rumi,
106:Sin - sin is God’s most precious gift. ~ Halld r Kiljan Laxness,
107:Something that is yours forever is never precious ~ Chaim Potok,
108:Things are precious when they're hard to come by. ~ Lauren Kate,
109:A beautiful thing is precious, no matter the price. ~ Alex Flinn,
110:Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious. ~ Vince Clarke,
111:Protecting the precious flower of their innocence. ~ J K Rowling,
112:There's precious little reform in the human race. ~ Stephen King,
113:All the bright precious things fade so fast. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
114:B2uties are the most precious thing to me in this world. ~ Yoseob,
115:Freedom is precious to those who don't have it. ~ Virginia Prodan,
116:There's precious little to say between day and dark, ~ Allen Tate,
117:This hand once held something really precious... ~ Makoto Shinkai,
118:What will you do with your one precious, wild life? ~ Mary Oliver,
119:Agreement is made more precious by disagreement. ~ Publilius Syrus,
120:and I can make him smile. And smiles are precious. ~ Harry Bingham,
121:Be yourself.Life is precious as it is. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh❈ 🌲❄🌲 ♥ 🌲❄,
122:Nothing so precious as memory, nothing so useless. ~ Isaac Adamson,
123:Pain pays the income of each precious thing. ~ William Shakespeare,
124:What can be more precious than life? Nothing! ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
125:With him, she felt breakable, precious. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
126:And with precious and royal perfume you anointed yourself. ~ Sappho,
127:Even at its darkest moment, life was a precious gift. ~ Mary Balogh,
128:My precious things… are things I’ve made for myself. ~ Kanae Hazuki,
129:The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty. ~ Donald Richie,
130:Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy. ~ Philip Sidney,
131:Every hour of useful work is precious. ~ William Lyon Mackenzie King,
132:Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious. ~ Ross Perot,
133:this is the first part of this precious manuscript ~ Alexandre Dumas,
134:Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones ~ Dorothy Allison,
135:What made something precious? Losing it and finding it. ~ Celeste Ng,
136:Wisdom is the most precious riches. ~ Chinese Buddhistic, Scriptures,
137:As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious ~ Henry Rollins,
138:... it is the work and not the reward that is precious. ~ Leo Tolstoy,
139:Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day. ~ Dalai Lama,
140:Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty. ~ Ho Chi Minh,
141:Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty. ~ Carson McCullers,
142:The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. ~ Homer,
143:Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics ~ Elie Saab,
144:What do you treasure? Is anything precious to you? ~ Penelope Douglas,
145:What people consider precious is different for everybody. ~ Ai Yazawa,
146:Your most precious asset is your right thinking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
147:Good criticism is very rare and always precious. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
148:Life is too precious to spend it with important people. ~ Harry Partch,
149:Only the heart knows how to find what is precious. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky,
150:Precious stones need sculpting before they become gems. ~ Shamim Sarif,
151:Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
152:We do have the precious opportunity of this human life. ~ Tenzin Palmo,
153:What will you do with your wild & precious self? ~ Lance Armstrong,
154:When you is precious to God, you become important to Satan. ~ Ron Hall,
155:Which meant he was just plain precious, all the way around. ~ J R Ward,
156:A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. ~ John Milton,
157:But I have three precious things which I prize and hold fast. ~ Lao Tzu,
158:Faith is as precious to die by as to live by. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
159:It was the end. And at the end, life becomes precious. ~ Adrienne Young,
160:Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost. ~ Norm MacDonald,
161:Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth. ~ Roman Payne,
162:Rare and precious is the truly disinterested man. ~ Winston S Churchill,
163:The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. ~ Nhat Hanh,
164:What a precious triple donkey I had made of myself! ~ Robert W Chambers,
165:Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life? ~ Mary Oliver,
166:You are precious to me. I love you with all my heart. ~ Regina Carlysle,
167:You only realize how precious it is when it is gone. ~ Georgia Le Carre,
168:As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious. ~ Nancy Reagan,
169:Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time. ~ David Brainerd,
170:It was the last, which made it the most precious. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer,
171:The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious. ~ Martin Luther,
172:The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell. ~ Haruki Murakami,
173:Wasn't history full of the destruction of precious things? ~ Henry James,
174:A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit"― ~ John Milton,
175:For precious friends hid in death's dateless night. ~ William Shakespeare,
176:Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day. ~ Dalai Lama XIV,
177:Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. ~ Ambrose Bierce,
178:Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger. ~ Fran Drescher,
179:Life is precious and we don't realize that at the time. ~ Jennifer L Holm,
180:No society is so precious as that of one’s own family. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
181:Some things are more precious because they don't last long. ~ Oscar Wilde,
182:Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. ~ Kate DiCamillo,
183:The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection. ~ Nicholas Ray,
184:Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it. ~ Tori Amos,
185:As time together grows scarce, it also becomes more precious. ~ Penny Reid,
186:Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured. ~ Walter Anderson,
187:Jade is praised as precious,
but its strength is being stone. ~ Lao Tzu,
188:Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste. ~ Bonnie Raitt,
189:The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves. ~ John Locke,
190:Time is precious, my darling - so don't you drown it in tears. ~ Shae Ford,
191:You are infinitely precious because you are loved by God. ~ Fulton J Sheen,
192:You are the most precious thing - a living soul, ~ William Walker Atkinson,
193:A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven,
194:Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder. ~ Brian Cox,
195:Don’t squander precious ignorance by researching it away. ~ Richard Dawkins,
196:For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin. ~ Cher,
197:My ship finally came in and I saw the precious cargo was me. ~ Tosha Silver,
198:Proust is long-winded, precious, and a bit of an old woman ~ Claude Debussy,
199:Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. ~ Benjamin Disraeli,
200:TIME. THE LESS you have of it, the more precious it becomes. ~ Leylah Attar,
201:Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong. ~ Julia Cameron,
202:Your life is too precious to risk it by protesting, right? ~ Koushun Takami,
203:education is more precious than that which we call so. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
204:Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing ~ Loretta Chase,
205:Sometimes a truth is so precious that it cannot be disowned. ~ Galen Beckett,
206:Stories are light.
Light is precious in a world so dark. ~ Kate DiCamillo,
207:Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious. ~ Ovid,
208:Time is your most precious commodity and it is nonrenewable ~ Robin S Sharma,
209:We travel the world, and our right to free speech is precious. ~ Killer Mike,
210:Young love is common, but that doesn't mean it's not precious. ~ Eoin Colfer,
211:Your time is precious, and your company is unforgettable. ~ Sahndra Fon Dufe,
212:Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. ~ Emily Bronte,
213:Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader. ~ Marcus Buckingham,
214:Do not waste precious time trying to steal a sheep or two ... ~ Robert Greene,
215:Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else. ~ Martin Buber,
216:Faith is as precious to die by as it is to live by. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
217:Few gifts are as precious as the gifts of freedom and freewill. ~ Johan Twiss,
218:Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are. ~ Katherine Applegate,
219:more precious than ever. And Mama and Claude acted like randy ~ Haywood Smith,
220:Ozorne, my precious, where are you?

- Rikash Moonsword ~ Tamora Pierce,
221:The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh. ~ Robert Ludlum,
222:The most precious things in life are not those you get for money. ~ Anonymous,
223:Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time. ~ Maira Kalman,
224:You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it. ~ Rumi,
225:A man’s most precious possession is the woman who walks by his side. ~ M Never,
226:Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth. ~ Mary Oliver,
227:It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious. ~ J R R Tolkien,
228:One day, something happened. It made life very precious to me. ~ Lee Van Cleef,
229:Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good. ~ Rajneesh,
230:There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a yeti. ~ Edmund Hillary,
231:The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession. ~ Mark Twain,
232:We carry your precious misery with us like a holy fucking relic. ~ Scott Lynch,
233:because something as precious as a secret should always have a name. ~ Joe Hart,
234:In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind. ~ Arthur C Clarke,
235:Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions. ~ Ambrose Bierce,
236:Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him. ~ Yann Martel,
237:Medical care has become a lot of crust and precious little pie. ~ Mark Vonnegut,
238:Stop giving your precious energy to things that make you feel bad. ~ Louise Hay,
239:The small landholders are the most precious part of a state. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
240:Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. ~ Ovid,
241:Your time is precious so this book is short and to the point. ~ Luke Wroblewski,
242:life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom. ~ Louisa May Alcott,
243:My precious Lord; My only hope; My Saviour, how I need You now. ~ Michelle Griep,
244:...nothing is more precious than independence and freedom... ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen,
245:The most precious resource in the world economy is human genius. ~ George Gilder,
246:Time is precious, she says, and it’s rude to waste someone else’s. ~ Nicola Yoon,
247:Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use. ~ Mark Twain,
248:Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan,
249:... gold mould as if blisters of the body can become precious metals. ~ Ali Smith,
250:I have called you by name, you are mine... you are precious in my sight. ~ Isaiah,
251:Life gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste. ~ Marianne Williamson,
252:Moral indignation is too precious an export to be wasted at home ~ Perry Anderson,
253:The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly. ~ Mark Twain,
254:The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. ~ Robin S Sharma,
255:Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed. ~ Emmuska Orczy,
256:A good memory is one of the most precious assets of spiritual living. ~ Max Anders,
257:because something as precious as a secret should always have a name. In ~ Joe Hart,
258:Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away. ~ Arthur Golden,
259:From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious. ~ Sappho,
260:He earned every precious beautiful moment life gave back to him. ~ Brendan Gleeson,
261:I love life. Life is too precious to me not to live it fully. ~ Jeanette Winterson,
262:Life is so precious, such a gift, and that you have to live for you. ~ Tyler Perry,
263:The most precious wealth is wisdom, and the most miserable poverty is stupidity. ~,
264:There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong. ~ Thomas Carlyle,
265:Those things that are precious are saved only by sacrifice. ~ David Kenyon Webster,
266:Time is precious, she says, and it’s rude to waste someone else’s. I ~ Nicola Yoon,
267:Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it. ~ Vladimir Lenin,
268:What is there more precious than a sage? He sets peace between all men. ~ Tsu-king,
269:And what would you know of escape, precious mad thing that you are? ~ Lisa Mantchev,
270:Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don't lose it for anything. . . . ~ Rajneesh,
271:I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. ~ Lois Lowry,
272:Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it. ~ Mother Teresa,
273:Nobody makes us buy shoes.  We covet them and their precious beauty. ~ Debora Geary,
274:The most precious things in life are not those you get for money. ~ Albert Einstein,
275:Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world ~ Bah u ll h,
276:Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg,
277:Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little. ~ Leonard Michaels,
278:Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality. ~ Thomas More,
279:take advantage of this beautiful, precious, God’s gift of a day. ~ Suzanne Brockmann,
280:THE MOST PRECIOUS AND SACRED THINGS IN LIFE ARE THE MOST SIMPLE THINGS. ~ Mandy Hale,
281:The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret. ~ Ally Carter,
282:We know that family is precious, that love is rare, that fate is unkind. ~ Susan Sey,
283:Where are my two precious human books so I may turn their pages, aye? ~ Ray Bradbury,
284:All great and precious things are lonely. —JOHN STEINBECK, EAST OF EDEN ~ Aspen Matis,
285:Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. ~ Jim Butcher,
286:children from the same womb would share the same precious blood.” I gag. ~ Tara Brown,
287:...each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth. ~ Mary Oliver,
288:I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising. ~ William Monahan,
289:Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed. ~ Gordon B Hinckley,
290:Such a precious sun it is, the one that shines after a cold, harsh rain. ~ K A Tucker,
291:The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return. ~ Seth Grahame Smith,
292:The search for truth is more precious than its possession. ~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing,
293:The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan,
294:Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
295:Be like a diamond, precious and rare
Not like a stone, found everywhere ~ Anonymous,
296:don’t waste your precious life only dreaming, but not mental mapping ~ Jesse Duplantis,
297:I had a parabatai myself once, and the bond of it is precious to me. ~ Cassandra Clare,
298:Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best. ~ Dexter Scott King,
299:Like cats' eyes gleaming in the gloom, the precious diamonds rest. ~ Robert B Leighton,
300:Lookit Gollum, bust me out of here and I'll help you find your precious ~ Kresley Cole,
301:Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious ~ Ayn Rand,
302:Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~ Kate Bolick,
303:Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~ Mary Oliver,
304:there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now ~ Obert Skye,
305:The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver. ~ John Bunyan,
306:Those who have such a family seldom realize how rare and precious it is. ~ Jim Butcher,
307:Time is our most precious asset, we should invest it wisely. ~ Michael Levy Baron Levy,
308:Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession. ~ Dale Carnegie,
309:We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time. ~ Cressida Cowell,
310:You're their fucking daughter! Do they not know how precious you are? ~ Kristen Ashley,
311:All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. ~ Homer,
312:And for one precious moment out of time, Anna knew what it meant to belong ~ Lora Leigh,
313:Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. ~ Abdelkader El Djezairi,
314:Death was precious. That didn't change the fact that life was limited. ~ Seanan McGuire,
315:Death was precious. That didn’t change the fact that life was limited. ~ Seanan McGuire,
316:Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it. ~ Guy Finley,
317:Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life. ~ Elizabeth Lesser,
318:I’m going to write the last chapter in his precious history. Right now. ~ Pittacus Lore,
319:I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more. ~ Edward Norton,
320:Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth. ~ Norman Cousins,
321:strung a small white stone with a hole in it. ‘This is more precious ~ Juliet Marillier,
322:There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious. ~ Ethan Hawke,
323:We're all damaged. Every single beautiful, stupid, precious one of us. ~ Matthew Norman,
324:Where there is a sincere effort, there happens a precious success! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
325:A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
326:A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected. ~ Hans Kung,
327:Because friends like that are more precious than all the tiaras in the world ~ Meg Cabot,
328:Colt looked at her and said, “The only things precious in life breathe. ~ Kristen Ashley,
329:Discomfort is sometimes what is most precious to me about great art. ~ Christos Tsiolkas,
330:If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious. ~ Henry Hazlitt,
331:Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. ~ Albert Camus,
332:More precious than life is love, for there can be no life without love. ~ Sun Myung Moon,
333:Munatara a la frah. (The most precious lady of my life) [Dancer Hauk] ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,
334:Next to his pecker, a picker’s fingers are his most precious body parts. ~ Willie Nelson,
335:No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for. ~ Terry Pratchett,
336:One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious. ~ Abraham Maslow,
337:There is a reason God limits our days.” “Why?” “To make each one precious. ~ Mitch Albom,
338:There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow more precious than a pot of gold. ~ Gary Gulman,
339:The things that are the most precious to us are sometimes the most secret. ~ Ally Carter,
340:The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
   ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan,
341:to know that the most precious materials came from the clashes of titans. ~ Jodi Picoult,
342:We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days. ~ Paul Feig,
343:All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use. ~ A E Housman,
344:A rather arrogant beggar – you are nothing without your precious title. ~ Ian C Esslemont,
345:Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
346:Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious. ~ Bryant McGill,
347:"Life is all the more precious and beautiful because it is so fleeting." ~ Jack Kornfield,
348:Look it Gollum, if you spring me, I’ll help you find your Precious.--Regin ~ Kresley Cole,
349:Memories are precious,” Stella adds. “They help tell us who we are. ~ Katherine Applegate,
350:One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious. ~ Abraham Maslow,
351:Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life? ~ Mary Oliver,
352:The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you. ~ Marilyn Manson,
353:The most precious smile is the smile we see in the people in misery! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
354:To name God as a god of love is to strip love of all its precious meaning. ~ C J Anderson,
355:With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame- and something precious. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
356:Ah, my dear. Sometimes God takes the most precious children to his own. ~ Philippa Gregory,
357:All creatures whether large of small are precious because God created them. ~ Heather Wolf,
358:All creatures whether large or small are precious because God created them. ~ Heather Wolf,
359:A minute of kindness is more precious than a hundred years of intense austerities. ~ Sri M,
360:Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man. ~ Benjamin Disraeli,
361:How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world. ~ Jean Piaget,
362:If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are? ~ Bill Watterson,
363:I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell. ~ Omar Khayyam,
364:Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan ~ Mary Balogh,
365:Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact. ~ Ed Koch,
366:One’s first existence was a precious gift which would never be repeated. ~ Arthur C Clarke,
367:Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life? ~ Mary Oliver,
368:Tell me, what is it you plan to do/With your one wild and precious life? ~ Robyn Schneider,
369:There were many kinds of freedom, and the most precious ones were secret. ~ Steven Erikson,
370:Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with. ~ Elizabeth Chandler,
371:All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don't come back. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
372:Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
373:Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco. ~ Colin Bateman,
374:Giving to others is most precious when it is done quietly and selflessly. ~ Daniel Gottlieb,
375:Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious. ~ Bryant H McGill,
376:I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me. ~ William Shakespeare,
377:It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is. ~ Rob Bell,
378:I've never kissed you just for show, precious. I'm not about to start now. ~ Laurelin Paige,
379:Learn a little bit about an awful lot and an awful lot about precious little. ~ Bill Rancic,
380:Life is a precious gift, but we realize this only when we give it to others. ~ Pope Francis,
381:Most inherent beauties are hidden, as are precious stones in the rocks ~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi,
382:Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth. ~ Matthew Henry,
383:The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life. ~ John Piper,
384:We'll go to a place that's quiet and dry and talk about precious things. ~ Douglas Coupland,
385:You guys (E.L.F.) are all so precious for me. Can't be changed with other things. ~ Eunhyuk,
386:An excellent wife who can find?         She is far more precious than  v jewels. ~ Anonymous,
387:Cursed be the immortal that believed time was more precious than love. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,
388:Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves. ~ Tim Berners Lee,
389:Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. ~ Tina Fey,
390:Dung is more valuable than any precious metal. You cannot grow food in gold. ~ Michael Scott,
391:Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. ~ Anais Nin,
392:Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. ~ Ana s Nin,
393:Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality. ~ Daphne du Maurier,
394:Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do. ~ Charles Schumer,
395:My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal part pirate. ~ Jeanette Winterson,
396:Now I understood what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift. ~ Abraham Verghese,
397:O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre! ~ Johannes Kepler,
398:People who say life is precious don't spend much time on line at the airport. ~ Dov Davidoff,
399:To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
400:Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care. ~ Gautama Buddha,
401:Blood, always precious, is priceless when it streams from Immanuel's side. ~ Charles Spurgeon,
402:Danger is what makes life precious. Death is the constant danger of life. ~ Clarice Lispector,
403:Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious. ~ Haruki Murakami,
404:How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith. ~ Pope Francis,
405:Love is hard to find and easy to lose, same as anything small and precious. ~ Kristina Riggle,
406:Maybe our intimacies are more precious if we know they may be taken away. ~ Madeleine L Engle,
407:She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. ~ John Green,
408:She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. ~ John Green,
409:Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
410:The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering. ~ Gregory David Roberts,
411:The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
412:The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox. ~ Maneka Gandhi,
413:The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it. ~ Charles Spurgeon,
414:To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child. ~ Rumi,
415:We have earned our peace. It is, by now, more precious than honor, or even pity. ~ David Brin,
416:Your lesson in this lifetime is to find and trust your own precious voice. ~ Elizabeth Lesser,
417:A mermaid’s tears are precious. Sea glass is said to be made of mermaid tears. ~ Colleen Coble,
418:Each moment spent on this bright blue planet is precious so use it carefully. ~ Santosh Kalwar,
419:Everything in my world is dimmed next to the spotlight of my precious Alayna. ~ Laurelin Paige,
420:How can something so rare and so precious exist one moment and vanish the next? ~ Amie Kaufman,
421:It is ... courage to choose not what will make us happy, but what is precious. ~ Sofia Samatar,
422:Life goes on, regardless of the future, each day was precious all by itself. ~ Karen Kingsbury,
423:Life is precious and relationships are precious. I'm a great believer in family. ~ Len Goodman,
424:Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites. ~ Jim Butcher,
425:Never let fear and stupid pride make you lose someone who's precious to you. ~ Haruki Murakami,
426:Run my dear,
   From anything
   That may not strengthen
   Your precious budding wings. ~ Hafiz,
427:The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood. ~ Giordano Bruno,
428:There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious. ~ Mitch Albom,
429:Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy. ~ Alex Flinn,
430:those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy. ~ Alex Flinn,
431:To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. ~ Anthony Burgess,
432:"When I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious." ~ Ajahn Chah,
433:All religions are precious pearls strung upon the golden thread of divinity. ~ Samael Aun Weor,
434:A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society. ~ Epictetus,
435:He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him. ~ Yann Martel,
436:In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony... ~ Jane Austen,
437:My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order. ~ John Piper,
438:No one knows how many tomorrows they have. That’s what makes it all so precious. ~ Leylah Attar,
439:Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure. ~ Christopher Dodd,
440:save my precious hide, trying to preserve the few pieces of meat that hid my bones. ~ Anonymous,
441:Tell me, what is it you plan to do       With your one wild and precious life? ~ Cheryl Strayed,
442:The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious. ~ William Shakespeare,
443:the sage dresses plainly, even though his interior is filled with precious gems. ~ Wayne W Dyer,
444:To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
445:But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious. ~ Ajahn Chah,
446:Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love. ~ Leonardo da Vinci,
447:Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero,
448:Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst ~ John Piper,
449:Life truly is precious. Gather every moment of it into your arms & embrace it. ~ Paula Abdul,
450:Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware. ~ Nhat Hanh,
451:The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin. ~ Murray Kempton,
452:Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. ~ Francis Bacon,
453:We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves. ~ Rowan Williams,
454:what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost ~ Amiri Baraka,
455:Adrienne, no one is guaranteed a tomorrow. Life is a precious and delicate thing. ~ Heather Burch,
456:All religions are like precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity. ~ Samael Aun Weor,
457:A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original. ~ Ken Liu,
458:Because unity and friendship is so precious that even God wants to be part of it. ~ Noah Weinberg,
459:Don’t waste a single moment of your precious life! Wake up now! And now! And now! 6. ~ Ruth Ozeki,
460:Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me. ~ Sylvia Plath,
461:For the truth is so precious she must be accompanied by a bodyguard of lies. ~ Susan Elia MacNeal,
462:God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self. ~ Nicole Ari Parker,
463:. . . her energy existed in precious spools that came unwound faster than she liked. ~ Zoje Stage,
464:I entered this Health Dojo because the war ended and life suddenly became precious. ~ Osamu Dazai,
465:No name is applicable to God, only He is called Love,—so great and precious a thing is Love. ~ id,
466:Shy hasn’t exactly lived his life holding it precious waiting for the one ~ Kristen Ashley,
467:Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life? ~ Mary Oliver,
468:The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest. ~ Victor Hugo,
469:We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations. ~ Alma Adams,
470:Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked? ~ Emperor Wu of Han,
471:I told you, Addy, I'll always keep you safe. You're too precious to do otherwise. ~ Kimberly Reese,
472:Life was too short and too precious to waste making decisions you didn't really want. ~ J Sterling,
473:My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind. ~ Tahir Shah,
474:President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics. ~ Imelda Marcos,
475:Resolve to make every day count. Be a woman of action. Treat each day as precious. ~ Emilie Barnes,
476:Sometimes that which is most precious can be found where you would least expect to. ~ David Gaider,
477:The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious. ~ William Shakespeare,
478:Those two women bore precious children that I had the honor of raising. Thank you. ~ Laila Ibrahim,
479:When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message. ~ Oswald Chambers,
480:You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in. ~ Jodi Picoult,
481:A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original. • ~ Ken Liu,
482:Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value. ~ Bel Kaufman,
483:It’s never been like this. It was beautiful and savage – it was filthy and precious. ~ Raine Miller,
484:My identity will be my precious, my only true possession, my access to the only truth. ~ Ian McEwan,
485:My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. ~ Helen Keller,
486:Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures. ~ David Richo,
487:Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun,
488:Talking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
489:The freedom of speech and the freedom of press, it's just precious man, it really is. ~ Killer Mike,
490:The more precious His gift,” said Henry, “the more anxious God for its return. ~ Seth Grahame Smith,
491:We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond. ~ Malala Yousafzai,
492:Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost. ~ Russ Roberts,
493:Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. ~ Willa Cather,
494:what is lost because it is most precious
what is most precious because it is lost ~ Amiri Baraka,
495:Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg,
496:All evil begins with this belief: that another’s existence is less precious than mine. ~ Tony Hendra,
497:A loving heart, a heart full of love, is the precious essence of human life. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
498:Lies are a precious currency—you have to be careful how and where you spend them. ~ Richard K Morgan,
499:Look not long at what’s offered, for every precious thing has wings and may fly away. ~ Stephen King,
500:More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy. ~ Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl of Strafford,
501:The most precious thing you can give to the people you love is your true presence. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
502:The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
503:You are truly the most expensive girl in all God’s creation. And the most precious. ~ Rachelle Ayala,
504:Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child. ~ Anthony Horowitz,
505:Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom. ~ Elizabeth George,
506:I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions. ~ Orson Welles,
507:I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities. ~ Eloisa James,
508:It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed. ~ Vladimir Lenin,
509:Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane. ~ John Milton,
510:Nothing, I have decided, could waste precious life more than trigonometry and logarithms. ~ Morrissey,
511:... see how everything now is precious, how someday I'll know I was lucky to be here. ~ Jennifer Egan,
512:      Tell me, what is it you plan to do       With your one wild and precious life? ~ Cheryl Strayed,
513:The cross is a precious treasure to be kept secret, lest we be robbed of it. ~ Margaret Mary Alacoque,
514:The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society. ~ Peter Drucker,
515:The simple truth - every day is precious. When it's gone, it never comes back to you. ~ Emilie Barnes,
516:Your wealth can be stolen, but the precious riches buried deep in your soul cannot. ~ Minnie Riperton,
517:As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning. ~ John Gray,
518:Each sunrise is a precious jewel . . . for it may never be followed by its sunset. ~ Robert A Heinlein,
519:For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country. ~ Ann Coulter,
520:Freedom is more precious than any gifts for which you may be tempted to give it up. ~ Baltasar Graci n,
521:I’m like a beautiful tortoise. I don’t waste my energy. Life is precious to me now. ~ Ottessa Moshfegh,
522:I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. & he has betrayed me ~ Suzanne Collins,
523:It’s mighty hard right now to think of anything that’s precious that isn’t endangered. ~ Wendell Berry,
524:life is short and we can’t waste precious time feeling hateful or carrying grudges. ~ Julianne MacLean,
525:Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders. ~ Mark Twain,
526:Rare and precious gifts,
gold and myrrh and frankincense,
to offer a king. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,
527:That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
528:The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious. ~ Emily Dickinson,
529:When you hit the rock bottom of life, ponder! A precious gold might be there! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah,
530:You are my heart. The most beautiful and precious thing in my world. Don’t forget that. ~ Kahlen Aymes,
531:and all of the books are behind metal grates, protected like the precious objects they are. ~ Jenny Han,
532:As Mary Oliver puts it, “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~ Richard Rohr,
533:Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious. ~ Michel Faber,
534:Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child. A ~ Anthony Horowitz,
535:He had so very nearly lost his life, that what remained was wonderfully precious to him. ~ D H Lawrence,
536:In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession. ~ John Bright,
537:Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying. ~ John O Callaghan,
538:Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
539:Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was just a fine and precious thing. ~ John Green,
540:Normal is a precious kind of freedom, and if you don't have it, it's all you ever want. ~ Carolyn Crane,
541:Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness. ~ Abbi Glines,
542:Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,
543:Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ~ Napol on Bonaparte,
544:Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !! ~ Winston Churchill,
545:There is beauty born from tragedy. Look at these precious fault lines of experience.” As ~ Leisa Rayven,
546:This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. ~ Deepak Chopra,
547:Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
548:Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities. ~ Sakyong Mipham,
549:But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story... ~ David Clement Davies,
550:I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time ~ Robert Earl Keen,
551:I don't have kids, but I do understand family, and I understand how precious family is. ~ Lindsey Graham,
552:My heart beats for you and the most precious and beautifully fated life we share together. ~ Jewel E Ann,
553:Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it. ~ David Sylvian,
554:wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ~ Ben Macintyre,
555:We still say ‘the apple of the eye’ when we wish to describe something superlatively precious. ~ O Henry,
556:When you lose the most precious thing in your life, how do you go on? How do you not? ~ Barbara Delinsky,
557:Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it. ~ J R R Tolkien,
558:Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource. ~ Nicholas Negroponte,
559:Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining. ~ Casper Smart,
560:All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine. ~ William Cowper,
561:DO NOT WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME GIVING ONE SINGLE CRAP ABOUT WHAT ANYBODY ELSE THINKS OF YOU. ~ Anonymous,
562:Forgetting is the precious balm that helps us to travel on, past the depredations of memory. ~ Jesse Ball,
563:God Is Using Gianna Jessen To Remind The World, That Each Human Being Is Precious To Him. ~ Mother Teresa,
564:It's always been hard for me to do without sounding precious or too corny or whatever. ~ Lucinda Williams,
565:Loving yourself unconditionally is one of the most precious gifts you can give back to God. ~ Nancy Rynes,
566:Maybe that's why life is so precious. No rewind or fast forward...just patience and faith. ~ Kent Marrero,
567:Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed. ~ William Wordsworth,
568:There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me. ~ Jimmy Page,
569:There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate but we are wasting precious time. ~ James Hansen,
570:This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows. ~ Olga Korbut,
571:Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress. ~ Seth Godin,
572:We all have secrets. Most are guilty, a few are wretched and some are too precious to share. ~ C L Taylor,
573:Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl. ~ Saadi,
574:What a fool she had been to waste the most precious gift of all, the gift of today. She ~ Barbara Bretton,
575:Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.   THE ~ Willa Cather,
576:Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little. ~ Erich Maria Remarque,
577:Each moment is precious to act, react and keep in tact, all those lives close to our own. ~ Santosh Kalwar,
578:For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving. ~ William Shakespeare,
579:He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost. ~ William Shakespeare,
580:Life alone is precious, but conscious thought is the greatest gift the universe offers. ~ Peter F Hamilton,
581:Loved people forgive and encourage, serve and uplift, because they are precious to someone. ~ Jen Hatmaker,
582:Love is too precious to waste, too good to let go, and too wonderful not to enjoy.” “Hear, ~ Jennifer Ryan,
583:Man-made light was once a thing that was too precious to use. Now it is too cheap to notice. ~ Tim Harford,
584:Precious little. Most of the strife I foresee will be on the Sword Coast and its backlands. ~ Ed Greenwood,
585:[T]he Dollar is always too light, a genuine Holy Ghost, more precious than blood. ~ Louis Ferdinand C line,
586:The most precious love is often the kind that isn't returned, and that is given freely. ~ Emily Susan Rapp,
587:Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. ~ Jorge Luis Borges,
588:We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them. ~ Simone Weil,
589:Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost.
~ Russell Roberts,
590:Altruistic love: giving to others is most precious when it is done quietly and selflessly ~ Daniel Gottlieb,
591:DO NOT WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME GIVING ONE SINGLE CRAP ABOUT WHAT ANYBODY ELSE THINKS OF YOU. ~ Jen Sincero,
592:Every mundanity of life grows infinitely more precious in the face of impending death. ~ Guillermo del Toro,
593:It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping. ~ Dolley Madison,
594:My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious. ~ Shannon Hale,
595:"Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment, fully alive and fully aware." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
596:Our hearts thundered against each other, speaking in Morse code just how precious this was ~ Pepper Winters,
597:Precious was in sniff-mode as she entered Strawberry Park with her newly-appointed babysitter. ~ Rich Amooi,
598:Shakespeare told us precious little of the man whom he entombed in his linguistic sarcophagus. ~ John Green,
599:that life is short and we can’t waste precious time feeling hateful or carrying grudges. ~ Julianne MacLean,
600:Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy. from Beastly ~ Alex Flinn,
601:We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected. ~ Tony Levin,
602:What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful? ~ William Shakespeare,
603:any time I spent with Ruth should be regarded as precious. War, after all, was everywhere. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
604:I am so over Sookie and her precious fairy vagina and her unbelievably stupid name. - Pam ~ Charlaine Harris,
605:I don't want you to think that your life has been wasted while you have been so precious to me. ~ Kiera Cass,
606:if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
607:It’s Ovid. The most acceptable gifts . . . are the ones made precious by our love of the giver. ~ Lydia Kang,
608:I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious; it's almost sacred. ~ John Lewis,
609:The most precious inheritance that parents can give their children is their own happiness. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
610:Things that have been lost and then found are doubly precious, don't you think. People too. ~ Susan Vreeland,
611:To all the seeds that follow me protect your essence, Born with less, but you still precious. ~ Tupac Shakur,
612:too often I’ve used up precious time preparing for experiences rather than just having them. ~ Joan Anderson,
613:You hold precious what you create for yourself in your life that makes you comfortable. ~ Keegan Michael Key,
614:It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious. ~ Willa Cather,
615:Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious. ~ Stephen King,
616:The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith. ~ Confucius,
617:Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, thy dial how thy precious minutes waste ~ William Shakespeare,
618:When we attempt to reduce the infinitely precious to a number, monstrosities result. For ~ Charles Eisenstein,
619:Your every breath of life is so precious, so don't waste any moment of life while sitting idol. ~ Wiz Khalifa,
620:Your most precious journey is the journey to your own mistakes and so you can face them! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
621:Every fucking corner of everything you write is precious, if it isn't why would you write it? ~ Theresa Rebeck,
622:Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! ~ Nhat Hanh,
623:Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time, ~ Nicholas Sparks,
624:Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
625:Guard your writing time--zealously. It's precious, even if it's only one or two hours a day. ~ Mark Rubinstein,
626:he prayed to the God he’d always believed in but had spent precious little time talking with. ~ Marie Bostwick,
627:If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. ~ Benjamin Franklin,
628:I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value. ~ David Letterman,
629:I remembered every moment between us, and every moment felt more precious as time passed. ~ Shannon A Thompson,
630:Life is precious because it ends. Take it from a god. You mortals don’t know how lucky you are. ~ Rick Riordan,
631:Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value. ~ Jean Vanier,
632:Oh, but he allooowed it. Like he gave me some precious permission slip to ride his cock. ~ Mimi Jean Pamfiloff,
633:We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. ~ Edward Dahlberg,
634:We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious. ~ Marcus Buckingham,
635:A hundred square feet of heaven is far more precious than a million square feet of hell. ~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen,
636:Death sucks — and it should. Life is precious, and we should treasure it, and mourn its loss. ~ Greta Christina,
637:Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. ~ Cassandra Clare,
638:In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ~ Winston Churchill,
639:It’s crucial to remember that your attention is one of the most precious capacities you possess. ~ Michael Taft,
640:I want to live a lifetime in this moment--these precious seconds between anticipation and ectasy. ~ J A DeRouen,
641:Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. ~ William Shakespeare,
642:Love is the human family’s most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance. ~ Michael Jackson,
643:personal power — the state of being in command of our most precious and authentic inner resources — ~ Amy Cuddy,
644:But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious. ~ John Steinbeck,
645:Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter. ~ Mark Twain,
646:Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now! ~ Ruth Ozeki,
647:neighbourly kindness is among those things that are the more precious the older they get. Indeed, ~ George Eliot,
648:Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious. ~ Narendra Modi,
649:Sometimes you have to work hard for what you want. Sometimes, hard work is what makes it precious. ~ Ute Carbone,
650:The new lover, of a few weeks standing, may seem more precious than friends of decades. ~ Alexander McCall Smith,
651:Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. ~ George Gissing,
652:Time is the most precious thing of all, and the easiest resource to waste if we aren’t careful. ~ Lauren Blakely,
653:What made something precious? Losing it and finding it. All those times he’d pretended to lose her. ~ Celeste Ng,
654:Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
655:He listened the way a cactus drinks rain—every word a precious drop in a world frugal with wonder. ~ Laini Taylor,
656:I don't consider myself to be precious, necessarily, but give me air-conditioning or give me death. ~ Tim Federle,
657:In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ~ Winston S Churchill,
658:My son's the most precious thing to me: He's changed me from being selfish to selfless. ~ Ricardo Antonio Chavira,
659:People have a deep need to be legislators, and the idea of autonomy has become very precious. ~ Martha C Nussbaum,
660:Sometimes when we lose something of importance what we have left becomes even more precious. ~ Victoria Alexander,
661:But we know what’s important. We know that family is precious, that love is rare, that fate is unkind. ~ Susan Sey,
662:Every life is precious. Please treasure each and every day, the present, the moment, and yourself. ~ Ichigo Takano,
663:have precious little free will," he was saying. "We're too intelligent not to see the right answers. ~ Larry Niven,
664:I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging. ~ Helen Hunt,
665:The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It's their energy. Manage it well. ~ Robin Sharma,
666:There comes an age in life when you realize that blaming and regretting are a waste of precious time. ~ Cleo Coyle,
667:We’re all damaged. Every single beautiful, stupid, precious one of us. Damaged, damaged, damaged. ~ Matthew Norman,
668:When you love someone, the most precious gift you can give your loved one is your true presence. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
669:Your words are so powerful and precious. Learn to harness them, guide them and let them work for you. ~ Louise Hay,
670:At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion. ~ Czes aw Mi osz,
671:In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession. ~ Phyllis Schlafly,
672:It made him wonder which pain was greater: to give up something precious, or to see it taken away. ~ Marie Rutkoski,
673:Life is only precious because it ends, take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are. ~ Rick Riordan,
674:Music has become more pervasive and portable than ever. But it feels less precious in the bargain. I ~ Steve Almond,
675:Talent is something rare and beautiful and precious,
and it must not be allowed to go to waste. ~ George Selden,
676:There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that. ~ Raymond Chandler,
677:There is no other rational response but happiness. Despair is a foolish squandering of precious time. ~ Dean Koontz,
678:The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day. ~ Mother Teresa,
679:You must write as if each word is a precious drop of blood, or a tear to be saved in a glass phial. ~ Chloe Thurlow,
680:Your life is a precious gift from an imaginative loving Source that endlessly breathes life. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon,
681:Your soul is a precious gift from an imaginative loving Source that endlessly breathes life. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon,
682:he was always on time because, as he said, her time was precious to him, so why would he make her wait ~ Mary Calmes,
683:I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up. ~ Megan Whalen Turner,
684:If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. ~ Thomas Carlyle,
685:I'm Beatrice. You were my first kiss, I fell asleep in your arms in your precious orchard." -Julia ~ Sylvain Reynard,
686:It’s Ovid. The most acceptable gifts . . . are the ones made precious by our love of the giver.” Allene ~ Lydia Kang,
687:It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building. ~ K Pattabhi Jois,
688:Life is too short and too precious to waste it living out someone else’s values. We must find our own. ~ John Norman,
689:My heart, body, and soul are too precious to give away lightly. But at least I was still open for love, ~ J S Cooper,
690:Nothing is so precious to a woman's heart as the glory and excellence of him she loves ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
691:Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral. ~ Lester Bangs,
692:Sometimes your best way to deal with shit is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize. ~ Chuck Palahniuk,
693:So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth. ~ Angelina Grimke,
694:The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
695:The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious. ~ Mark Nepo,
696:The strangest things in life were precious. Someone to tell you when you were wrong was one of them. “I ~ Sonali Dev,
697:What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up! ~ Hafez,
698:A man who will give up something precious to himself for the sake of a woman most certainly loves her. ~ Sarah M Eden,
699:God your love is so precious! You

protect people in the shadow of your

wings. Psalms 36:7 ~ Anonymous,
700:He grinned. “Madam, I was not willing to gamble with so precious a prize.”

-Christopher ~ Kathleen E Woodiwiss,
701:I have neither silver nor gold, but I bring with me the most precious thing given to me: Jesus Christ. ~ Pope Francis,
702:My precious Alyssa, share reality with me. Give me forever. We will wreak such beautiful havoc together. ~ A G Howard,
703:Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz,
704:People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true. ~ George Santayana,
705:Some family we’re born with. Some we adopt along the way. But they’re all precious. Every one of them. ~ G A McKevett,
706:Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering. ~ Townes Van Zandt,
707:The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold. ~ Martin Luther King Jr,
708:The holiness of justice is the health of the soul; it is more precious than heaps ol gold and silver. ~ Ecclesiasucus,
709:The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed. ~ Walter Benjamin,
710:Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too. ~ Muhammad Ali,
711:Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take. ~ John Piper,
712:Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful? ~ Laozi,
713:Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present. ~ Jerome Hines,
714:If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. ~ John Burroughs,
715:Janes, and the white canvas bag beside them. “You are so precious in your defiance,” said Clevenger, ~ William Lashner,
716:Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. ~ John Green,
717:My capacity for vanishing into whatever shadows happen to be around is a hard-won and precious skill. ~ John Darnielle,
718:Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it. ~ Martin Luther,
719:So it was that part of my last precious hours were spent sitting on a folding chair in a laundromat. ~ Haruki Murakami,
720:Tears are infinitely more precious than blood. Blood spurts from the body; tears stream from the soul. ~ Shinde Sweety,
721:The present is the most precious moment. Use all the forces of thy spirit not to let that momentescape thee. ~ Tolstoy,
722:THERE IS IN every delicate thing, no matter how precious, nor how beautiful, a challenge. Break me. No ~ Mark Lawrence,
723:Anna would say that she was a cat like Gemma, with nine lives to spend, all nine precious and delicious. ~ Beth Kephart,
724:Every moment God gives you is precious. Never take the life and moments He has given you for granted ~ Stormie Omartian,
725:Every moment with your child is precious, no matter how long they live, no matter the number of their days. ~ Ned Hayes,
726:Every time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die. ~ Katherine Mansfield,
727:It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious. Sometimes ~ Willa Cather,
728:Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are ~ Rick Riordan,
729:Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious. ~ Joseph Stalin,
730:Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself. ~ Maya Angelou,
731:Precious moments are small elements of time, we show and share love and kindness, with those we care about. ~ Tom Baker,
732:Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious. ~ Molly Ivins,
733:The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious. ~ John Milton,
734:To Christ we are to be always coming; upon Him always relying; to His precious blood always looking. ~ Charles Spurgeon,
735:We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt,
736:But you knoe, she's right. Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious. ~ Haruki Murakami,
737:He saw her see herself as he saw her. Abrihet. She who brings light. More precious than any mountain. ~ Jessie Ann Foley,
738:I have a palate, Williams. A precious possession. And I have no intention of prostituting it to pickles. ~ Josephine Tey,
739:Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don’t know how lucky you are. ~ Rick Riordan,
740:Life was precious. Life was all that mattered. Yet it meant nothing if you weren't living as you wanted. ~ Edward Bunker,
741:Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.”
cThe Rescue ~ Nicholas Sparks,
742:Margo was not a miracle.She was not an adventure.She was not a fine and precious thing.She was just a girl. ~ John Green,
743:Now I know whatever he guards so carefully inside must surely be truly precious or ugly beyond words. ~ Georgia Le Carre,
744:Now more than ever we are all becoming more aware about the need to conserve our precious living heritage. ~ Steve Irwin,
745:The heart, like the mind, has a memory.
And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
746:The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is. ~ Yolanda Adams,
747:Understanding what I give up and knowing that I choose freely makes my choice more precious to me. ~ Jennifer Beckstrand,
748:We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way. ~ John Steinbeck,
749:Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset—time—to what is most meaningful to you. ~ Randy Komisar,
750:Arf!” “No, Precious, don’t do that,” she whispered. “We don’t want Giovanni to know you’re here.” “Arf! Arf! ~ Rich Amooi,
751:Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed? ~ Marilyn vos Savant,
752:But the lovely Madonna, mother of his precious Jesus, couldn’t hold a candle to the madonna before him. They ~ Amy Harmon,
753:If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.... ~ John Burroughs,
754:I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you. ~ John McCain,
755:I wonder how his dad has managed to live in the world all his life without knowing what was precious in it. ~ Nicola Yoon,
756:Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today. ~ John Piper,
757:Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don’t presume you will have it tomorrow, and don’t waste it today. ~ John Piper,
758:Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all. ~ Andr Gide,
759:My dear Tartini, one’s life is so sweet and precious that even honey tastes like salt in comparison! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
760:Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. —Napoleon Bonaparte ~ Daniel C Dennett,
761:O, what a precious comfort 'tis, to have so many, like brothers, commanding one another's fortunes! ~ William Shakespeare,
762:Parents are always precious. But when you have only one, they become crucial.

The Rest of the Story ~ Sarah Dessen,
763:Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor. ~ Anandamayi Ma,
764:Tears are infinitely more precious than blood.
Blood spurts from the body, tears stream from the soul. ~ Shinde Sweety,
765:Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? MARY OLIVER,
“The Summer Day ~ Cheryl Strayed,
766:Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift. ~ Janine Benyus,
767:You are precious" I insisted. "Stubborn and secretive and independent to a fault, but precious. ~ Alyxandra Harvey,
768:A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste. ~ Andre Maurois,
769:I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day. ~ Steven Cojocaru,
770:It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost. ~ Carolyn Turgeon,
771:Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all. ~ Andre Gide,
772:Open your heart. Friendships and love require risk, but nothing is more precious. It’s worth it. I promise. ~ Nancy Naigle,
773:Our worst memories are precious, things we can’t or won’t forget, and sometimes they’re what we guard the most. ~ Joe Hart,
774:...the best gift we can give each other is the gift of time -- those precious, special, eternal moments. ~ Shmuley Boteach,
775:The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle,
776:There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious. ~ Brian Jacques,
777:To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else. ~ Jack Kornfield,
778:You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little. ~ Pat Buchanan,
779:And so she had found a name for the owl, because something as precious as a secret should always have a name. In ~ Joe Hart,
780:A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together. ~ Friedrich Schiller,
781:Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while. ~ Jim Butcher,
782:Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth. ~ Seneca the Younger,
783:He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious. ~ Arundhati Roy,
784:I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband. ~ Pat Nixon,
785:It is always harder to make time for the truly precious experiences; there is always the ordinary to do. ~ Philippa Gregory,
786:I trembled. I was done. This was it. I wanted to die, right here in the kitchen, beside my precious basil. ~ Scott Hildreth,
787:No war can be won without young men dying. Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice. ~ Stephen E Ambrose,
788:Precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the hearth knows how to find what is precious ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
789:Precious souls are the materials of the gospel tabernacle; they are built up a spiritual house, 1 Pet. 2:5. ~ Matthew Henry,
790:Sex fills a few hours of our lives yet those precious minutes count for more than months and years ~ Simon Sebag Montefiore,
791:The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone. ~ Max Muller,
792:what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors. ~ Bill McKibben,
793:As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift. ~ David O McKay,
794:Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi,
795:Could I do this? Could I spend an hour dominating this woman? I didn’t want to hurt her. She was precious to me. ~ C D Reiss,
796:He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife. ~ Nicolas Bentley,
797:I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. ~ Mitch Albom,
798:If you are late, you are wasting precious moments of another person's life. Moments they can never get back! ~ Rowan Coleman,
799:In war-time,” I said, “truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ~ Winston S Churchill,
800:It is secondary whether we choose belief or defiance. What is precious is that we are always able to choose. ~ Ming Dao Deng,
801:It’s precious real estate. Tread carefully and use it wisely. In other words, be selective about your attention. ~ Anonymous,
802:Life is precious, fragile and will be gone before you know it. Do what you love now, while it's still possible. ~ Lori Lesko,
803:Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. ~ Arthur Miller,
804:Life, woman, life is God’s most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. ~ Arthur Miller,
805:Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do. ~ Ian McGuire,
806:Promise was like a precious stone, she told me: hypnotising, but after a while the weight of it could sink you. ~ Meg Haston,
807:Tell me, what is it you plan to do       With your one wild and precious life? MARY OLIVER, “The Summer Day ~ Cheryl Strayed,
808:There are no atheists in the foxholes, I’ve been told, and precious few agnostics in the Intensive Care ward. ~ Stephen King,
809:There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us. ~ John Vianney,
810:Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it. ~ Voltaire,
811:We all come unique packages with strength and weakness, and somewhere there is a precious gift in all of us ~ Samantha Abeel,
812:What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad. ~ Michael Ealy,
813:Worry causes your precious mental energy and potential to leak, just like air leaking out of an inner tube. ~ Robin S Sharma,
814:Although people all over the world pray in different ways, it is to each heart the most precious light. ~ Rabiah York Lumbard,
815:Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character. ~ Rod Paige,
816:Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world. ~ Groucho Marx,
817:Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love. ~ Bryant McGill,
818:Every time I build a fire to heat up a cup of coffee, it represents precious time that I have had to invest. ~ Bernd Heinrich,
819:Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life. ~ Jess C Scott,
820:Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold. ~ Nichiren,
821:Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind. ~ Daisaku Ikeda,
822:Precious Christ!” cried Sir Balthasar, looking down at what lay on the floor. “Has he been torn by demons? ~ Douglas Nicholas,
823:The cause of death listed by the coroner would be swooning over elderly men who were too precious for this world. ~ T J Klune,
824:The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
825:Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas. ~ David Suzuki,
826:Why should she spend her time dwelling on the past when she had something precious right here in front of her? ~ Anne Calhoun,
827:At a certain point, you have to stop being precious with your material and be cruel and harsh and judgmental. ~ Marshall Curry,
828:El mundo está lleno de libros preciosos que nadie lee”
"The world is full of precious books that nobody reads ~ Umberto Eco,
829:If our awareness of indwelling sin humbles us and makes our sovereign Christ more precious to us, we are safe.39 ~ Tony Reinke,
830:I got precious little time for you to belong to me. I’m gonna make sure it isn’t any shorter than it has to be. ~ Jodi Picoult,
831:I love you, precious. I’ve always loved you. From the moment I first saw you. I knew before you did, I think. ~ Laurelin Paige,
832:Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else! ~ Patrick Henry,
833:Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold. ~ Nichiren,
834:Love is precious. Treasure it and those who give it. Lavish it more on those who don't. ~ Shalonda Treasure Williams McClendon,
835:Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose. ~ David Brainerd,
836:Oh, my God. I need an invisibility pill right now. I need the ring from Frodo Baggins. Precious! Where is the ring? ~ A S King,
837:The body is precious and the body is always going to speak through its own capacity for communication and love. ~ Dolores Hart,
838:The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right. ~ Paul Farmer,
839:The most precious gift you can ever give to a young woman is, appreciating and understanding her true feelings ~ M F Moonzajer,
840:This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human. ~ Tenzin Palmo,
841:Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world. ~ Robin Sharma,
842:You’re so careful with me, Bevin murmured, awed.
That’s because you’re so precious to me, Tim replied ~ Savannah J Frierson,
843:And in whatever afterlife your precious Light grants you, your parents will wish Queen Tiffin had miscarried. ~ Christie Golden,
844:Books are the most precious things we have in this world. Anything you might want to know, you can find in a book. ~ D M Pulley,
845:Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love. ~ Bryant H McGill,
846:Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people. ~ Ed Miliband,
847:Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole. ~ Joanna Baillie,
848:It would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen. ~ Lisa Kleypas,
849:Life is too precious to waste it with the wrong person. You're better off alone until the right one comes along. ~ Tony Gaskins,
850:Life, precious life, always bound to her by a spider's thread when everyone else had an iron chain. (Spice Bringer) ~ H L Burke,
851:Like anyone else who harbors precious secrets wrought from years of searching, I have longed for someone to tell. ~ Hope Jahren,
852:Precious is a survivor, and I refuse to be anyone’s survivor because I prefer to think of myself as a winner. ~ Gabourey Sidibe,
853:Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?
-Mary Oliver
"The Summer Day ~ Cheryl Strayed,
854:The Dharma is a very, very special and precious thing. The more you practice it, the more you will realize this. ~ Tenzin Palmo,
855:There’s a paralysis in choice, especially when what’s at stake is more precious to a person than what they own. ~ Mark Lawrence,
856:They say that life is just a blank chain, and precious moments are the beads we hang off it to make it beautiful. ~ Holly Smale,
857:Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. ~ Cecelia Ahern,
858:You tell me why's a man's blood is any better or any more precious than a dog's blood? It sure ain't to the dog. ~ Jack Ketchum,
859:Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious. ~ Rabindranath Tagore,
860:Dreams. They were such precious commodities, and she'd given so many of hers away without a fight. Never again. ~ Kristin Hannah,
861:It wasn’t that she was getting older, but that the years were getting shorter, and were therefore more precious. ~ Dexter Palmer,
862:Live each moment, each precious moment that you have. Live each one as if it were your last. And your first. Miss ~ Steven James,
863:Then his lips found mine and the room fell away. The whole world disappeared for those precious moments. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout,
864:We've been bought with a price, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. So none of us really have any rights. ~ Bill Bright,
865:Why would they use up their precious moments for living by worrying about something they can’t do anything about? ~ Wayne W Dyer,
866:An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
867:Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away. ~ Storm Constantine,
868:But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us. ~ Ken Follett,
869:Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious. ~ Charles Eisenstein,
870:He touched her as he would touch his violin: it was how he knew to touch something that was precious and loved. ~ Cassandra Clare,
871:More valuable than gold, more precious than life, is mercy bestowed upon he who hast not known its soft kiss ~ Michael J Sullivan,
872:My dream had been shattered, but then re-created, fashioned into something with more meaning and becoming more precious. ~ J Lynn,
873:Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. ~ George Santayana,
874:One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift...and never waste such an opportunity. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi,
875:Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty! ~ James Monroe,
876:Semco’s most precious asset is the wisdom of its workforce, and our success grows out of our employees’ success. ~ Ricardo Semler,
877:The dead in Nigeria are always waking up. When somebody dies there, they only seem to die for a little while, ~ Precious Williams,
878:The idea was precious to her. Doll...but with death behind her, and all the peace that would come with that. ~ Marilynne Robinson,
879:The more you are focused on time — past and future — the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
880:The past is only the present become invisible and mute; its memoried glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. ~ Mary Webb,
881:There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence. ~ Ed Greenwood,
882:The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible-that is precisely why they are so precious. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates,
883:The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story. ~ Kate DiCamillo,
884:What is precious
inside us does not
care to be known
by the mind
in ways that diminish
its presence. ~ David Whyte,
885:A writer is precious and necessary for us only to the extent to which he reveals to us the inner labour of his soul. ~ Leo Tolstoy,
886:ECCLESIASTES 7  h A good name is better than precious ointment,         and  i the day of death than the day of birth. ~ Anonymous,
887:Florida's full of old people-they don't call it God's waiting room for nothing-but precious few of em grew up here. ~ Stephen King,
888:I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain. ~ L A Meyer,
889:It is your holy work, to deeply love, honor and respect the precious self that you are, the soul that only you hold. ~ Debbie Ford,
890:Our time, however much it talks of economy, is a squanderer: it squanders what is most precious, the spirit. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
891:Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift. ~ Kate DiCamillo,
892:She gathered the cat up in her arms and held it to her chest as if it was the most precious thing in the world. ~ Jonathan Maberry,
893:      Tell me, what is it you plan to do       With your one wild and precious life? MARY OLIVER, “The Summer Day ~ Cheryl Strayed,
894:There isn’t going to be some precious future time when all the loose ends will be tied up. ~ Pema Chodron, The Pocket Pema Chodron,
895:The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible--that is precisely why they are so precious. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates,
896:When nobody is applauding you, applaud yourself! Your most precious support is the support you give yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
897:You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift. ~ Sandra Dallas,
898:Your guardian angel loves you. You are precious to it. You are the most important person in the world to this angel. ~ Lorna Byrne,
899:Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness. ~ Bryant McGill,
900:As long as we string out the ecstasy of awe, we won’t do the work required to mine its precious teachings. ~ S Kelley Harrell M Div,
901:he’d never treated her like a lady. He’d treated her like an equal instead, and that had seemed far more precious. ~ Courtney Milan,
902:He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature. 2 Peter 1:4 ~ Beth Moore,
903:He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it. ~ Cassandra Clare,
904:Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is precious. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
905:Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained. ~ Charles Spurgeon,
906:READING SHOULD NOT BE PRESENTED TO CHILDREN AS A CHORE OR A DUTY. IT SHOULD BE OFFERED TO THEM AS A PRECIOUS GIFT. ~ Kate DiCamillo,
907:The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you. ~ Timothy Keller,
908:The truth is so precious,” Churchill told Stalin, “that she should always be protected by a bodyguard of lies. ~ William Manchester,
909:Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited. ~ Melissa de la Cruz,
910:What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew? ~ John Dryden,
911:A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. ~ John Milton,
912:A stair will be precious for you if only you climb up it! For a thing to be precious for you, you must live it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
913:As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious. ~ Walter Savage Landor,
914:A text message from Death. I'VE JUST HAD A KIT KAT THAT WAS ALL CHOCOLATE NO WAFER. WHERE'S YOUR PRECIOUS SCIENCE NOW? ~ Dave Turner,
915:Don't waste time with people who waste time. Time is precious, fragile as a butterfly wing, meaningful as an orgasm. ~ Chloe Thurlow,
916:Every step of every stairs contains many precious treasures for you to ascend further up and to go further far! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
917:He who knows Mars, Venus, Mercury or Jupiter very well will also know very well how very precious our earth is! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
918:My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. ~ Steve Jobs,
919:Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them. ~ Dalai Lama,
920:Precious Child... nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn. ~ Judy Blume,
921:There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. ~ Henry Ford,
922:There is little good in people. Little good"
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"Yet it can be found. All the more precious for its rarity ~ Steven Erikson,
923:There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,
924:The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible -- that is precisely why they are so precious. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates,
925:We pimp our precious lives to the infernal gnashing babble - Follow me! Friend me! Like me! But don't ever know me. ~ Patrick Marber,
926:A man doesn't need to be flawless to be a perfect father, but the commitment to his family is a precious responsibility. ~ Paul Young,
927:Little girls are twice as precious and innocent as little boys. I do not know a culture that does not make them that way. ~ Glen Cook,
928:Our overvaluation of speed (time here as only money) has robbed us of many things that are at least equally precious. ~ Doreen Massey,
929:Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne,
930:Spiritual relationship is far more precious than Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
931:The spirit and soul are the body and the brain, which are destructible—that is precisely why they are so precious. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates,
932:You belong to me, precious. You belong with me. I won't let anything come between us. I won't let anything hurt you. ~ Laurelin Paige,
933:All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ~ Albert Einstein,
934:Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts? ~ Martin Luther,
935:For me, this baby was the most precious thing I had ever had. He was my treasure, my joy, my world, my everything now. ~ Preeti Shenoy,
936:Grandparents who show a great interest in their grandchildren are among the most precious people on this earth. What ~ Stephen R Covey,
937:How easy it is to dismiss the outer packaging without an inkling that one is thereby missing the precious beauty within. ~ Mary Balogh,
938:It is in your power even now to break the alabaster box and pour the precious oil of joy upon His head, like ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
939:It's strange - some directors are really talented but they can be so precious when it comes to letting you be a part of it. ~ Skrillex,
940:Some maladies are rich and precious, and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne,
941:Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. ~ Mitch Albom,
942:Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else. ~ Mitch Albom,
943:Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. ~ William Shakespeare,
944:The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive. ~ Ray Bradbury,
945:There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality. ~ Woodrow Wilson,
946:This is a precious gateway into the alleviation of suffering, which I believe to be our principal task on this earth. ~ Dalai Lama XIV,
947:Tsze-kung asked, "What do you think of me?" The Master said, "You are a pot." "What sort of pot?" "A precious ritual vase. ~ Confucius,
948:We should learn how to differentiate between ordinary and extraordinary persons . Not losing the precious ones ! ~ Walaa WalkademAgmal,
949:When you lost something precious, the memories of it became a tormenting reminder of what you could never have again. ~ Gena Showalter,
950:You never know what's going to happen. That's why I like acting. It's precious to me to be able to live more than one life. ~ Bai Ling,
951:Captain Optimism,” Danny said. “Because you’re already assuming we’re going to survive tonight. That’s kind of precious. ~ Sam Sisavath,
952:criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment. ~ Dale Carnegie,
953:Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow. ~ Victor Hugo,
954:I'm in another country, the one called home. I am alive. I am a precious jewel. I am a drop of blood. I am Ruby Lennox. ~ Kate Atkinson,
955:It’s hard to fathom that something as tangible as shoes could survive when the precious lives they held did not. ~ Nancy Sprowell Geise,
956:Jess had never imagined that someone would be so empty that they’d need to destroy something that precious to feel full. ~ Rachel Caine,
957:love you, Quinn Sullivan. You are precious to me, and I will love you always. And if I die before you, I plan to haunt you ~ Penny Reid,
958:Mon amor. Mon precieux, I say at her ear. Mon cheri. Mon bien-aime.
My love. My precious. My cherished. My beloved. ~ Laurelin Paige,
959:Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness. ~ Luanne Rice,
960:They had her heart open. Right now. Doctors were touching the most precious thing in my world, and I had zero control. ~ Rebecca Yarros,
961:You never know when God's going to replace what you thought was gone forever. What a gift - a precious gift from God. ~ Regina Jennings,
962:6:26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life. ~ Anonymous,
963:Christian placed a hand over my heart, his gaze reeling me in. “Don’t you know? You’re my home, Precious. Always will be. ~ Dannika Dark,
964:Courtesy is the most precious of jewels. The beauty that is not perfected by courtesy is like a garden without a flower. ~ Buddhacharita,
965:each day is precious and love is something to be protected as a priceless treasure that only the fortunate find and keep. ~ Sejal Badani,
966:Every day it feels less like something I shouldn’t be allowed to have, and more like something precious I can’t throw away. ~ Emma Scott,
967:Every day, think as you wake up, ‘I am fortunate to be alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it, ~ Dalai Lama XIV,
968:Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. ~ Dalai Lama,
969:General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau,
970:Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body. ~ Norman Vincent Peale,
971:Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear. ~ Nando Parrado,
972:Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. ~ Jean Anouilh,
973:Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light. ~ Kate DiCamillo,
974:When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings,  Then Learning shines, the best of precious things. ~ Edward Cocker, Urania (1670).,
975:You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious. ~ Lawrence M Krauss,
976:A company and leaders of the company have the responsibility of the precious lives of all the human beings that work there. ~ Simon Sinek,
977:And because, in all the galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. ~ Arthur C Clarke,
978:I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing. ~ Robin Williams,
979:If nobody knocks your door, knock your own door! The most precious support for you is the support you give yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
980:I love you. Really, I do. Now love yourself more and each other a lot more. And please take care of this precious planet. ~ Alysia Reiner,
981:Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. ~ Richard Chenevix Trench,
982:Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people. ~ Malcolm McDowell,
983:Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
984:Oh, God, today I pray [to] you on my knees for Dostoevsky’s obscurity, blindness, the most sacred and precious of all things. ~ Ana s Nin,
985:Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover. ~ Giotto di Bondone,
986:True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give. ~ Sara Bareilles,
987:We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false! ~ J R R Tolkien,
988:A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. ~ Richard de Bury,
989:A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think. ~ Emily Dickinson,
990:Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous. ~ Josef Albers,
991:Hope is sometimes fleeting, but always precious. Sad to say, when the battle began, most of my companions had no hope at all. ~ T A Barron,
992:Humans are fundamentally irrational. They use what precious rationality they have justifying their irrational behavior. A ~ Rita Mae Brown,
993:She looks very virtuous and very melancholy."

"Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed. ~ Emmuska Orczy,
994:So here we are, in our rare and precious lives, surrounded by gorgeous moments begging to be noticed and celebrated. Go! Celebrate! ~ Sark,
995:The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story. ~ Kate DiCamillo,
996:We are all accountable for ourselves. Think of yourself as a precious commodity, and then protect your investment each day. ~ Monica Brant,
997:We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives. ~ Cesar Chavez,
998:World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,
999:You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must. ~ Seth Godin,
1000:A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
1001:Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment. ~ Dale Carnegie,
1002:Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women. ~ Wilkie Collins,
1003:I might not have any right to your love, and it might be stolen, but it’s mine and it’s precious and you can’t have it back. ~ Meghan March,
1004:I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious. ~ Melanie Griffith,
1005:Life equaled love plus passion squared. Loving and being passionate about what one did was what made life so precious. ~ Karen Marie Moning,
1006:name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. ~ Laila Lalami,
1007:Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible. ~ A A Gill,
1008:One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all. ~ Michael Flynn,
1009:Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ~ Oscar Wilde,
1010:She died for him. She died so that you could have him. It was a gift. The most precious fucking gift you could ever receive. ~ Alice Tribue,
1011:She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers. ~ Jennifer E Smith,
1012:She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it. ~ Alice Walker,
1013:Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.” The ~ Mitch Albom,
1014:Stop making things of less value your food for thought each moment of time! Your mind is precious. Mind your mind! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah,
1015:The most precious moments of war are the moments where the soldiers remember their ordinary calm lives before the war! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1016:This is precious. This is love. This is something I’ll never take for granted, because I know how it feels to be without it. ~ Leisa Rayven,
1017:You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever ~ Jane Austen,
1018:Aluminium’s sixty-year reign as the world’s most precious substance was glorious, but soon an American chemist ruined everything. ~ Sam Kean,
1019:Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. ~ Maxim Gorky,
1020:It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul. ~ Willie Dixon,
1021:Listen, your asshole is precious. It deserves to be shown love, and that's all I'm doing. Let me live. Let your asshole live. ~ Tyler Oakley,
1022:make me precious. make me lovely. make me unlonely. make me a star. like Gollum, like Ginsberg, like gratitude, like grace. ~ Kai Cheng Thom,
1023:Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world. ~ Mother Teresa,
1024:Sometimes you hide away a memory because it is so precious that you don’t want to dilute it with the attempt to recount it. ~ Joshua Gaylord,
1025:Sweet are the uses of adversity
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. ~ William Shakespeare,
1026:The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose. ~ Jonathan Haidt,
1027:The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace ~ Marie Curie,
1028:The one thing that Jane’s death should teach us is that life is precious and every day is a gift that we should treasure. ~ Philippa Gregory,
1029:There is no bad luck. There is only life, and it's heartbreaking and awful sometimes, but it's still beautiful and precious. ~ Viola Shipman,
1030:To love as God loves, in other words, you may have to part with whatever is most precious to you for the sake of someone else. ~ Bill Hybels,
1031:To stand alone in a field in England and listen to the morning chorus of the birds is to remember why life is precious. ~ John Lewis Stempel,
1032:You always said time was precious, and we should never be afraid to show our feelings, that there’s no place for pride in love. ~ Ay e Kulin,
1033:You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
1034:You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. ~ Jane Austen,
1035:Always remember, life is precious; rejoice evermore when you have it, and be ever grateful when there is good health ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah,
1036:(...) and how precious was life that two such friends, in so big world, should find each other again after so great separation? ~ Donna Tartt,
1037:Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail. ~ Desmond Tutu,
1038:But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts ~ Woodrow Wilson,
1039:Capture my heart and my mind. Become my ultimate challenge, greatest vexation, strongest desire, and most precious blessing. ~ Imania Margria,
1040:Coins and precious metals, food, slaves, and luxury goods flowed to Rome; little came back except tax collectors and soldiers. ~ Rodney Stark,
1041:He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. ~ Emily Dickinson,
1042:His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat. ~ Angela Carter,
1043:I cannot but remember such things were,  That were most precious to me. ~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth, c. 1606, Act IV, scene 3, line 222.,
1044:I knew more happiness and love than I’d ever experienced in my life, and now understood how precious it was to have that love. ~ Raine Miller,
1045:Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite. ~ Cassius Jackson Keyser,
1046:Remaining positive is one of the most precious qualities in an athlete. That, and the ability to stay focussed and disciplined. ~ Parul Sheth,
1047:What happened in Flint is immoral. The children of Flint are just as precious as the children of any other part of America. ~ Hillary Clinton,
1048:Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing. ~ Philippa Gregory,
1049:Do people ever realize how precious life is? I know I never did before. There was always time. There was always a future. ~ Susan Beth Pfeffer,
1050:If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. ~ Thomas Carlyle, Essays, Goethe's Helena.,
1051:I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is. ~ Ryan Reynolds,
1052:Lost love, precious,” Grams replied, turning her head to look out the side window. “Stings like a wasp bite that never fades. ~ Kristen Ashley,
1053:Precious is the assurance that our God never changes! The wheel of providence revolves—but its axle is eternal love! ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
1054:Renunciation, or refusing to identify with that which one gathers (however precious it may be), is the ultimate doorway to knowing. ~ Sadhguru,
1055:The human memory is such a cruel, frustrating thing, the way it just discards things without asking permission, precious things. ~ Lisa Jewell,
1056:The privilege of freedom is precious, the responsibilities of freedom are serious, and we can’t have one without the other. ~ Warren W Wiersbe,
1057:Was he the only person in the world who knew how precious her trust was, who knew how difficult it was for her to give it? ~ Melanie Dickerson,
1058:What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen. ~ Joyce Carol Oates,
1059:When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love ~ Marcus Aurelius,
1060:When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive-to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. ~ Marcus Aurelius,
1061:You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates,
1062:A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle,
1063:Even if I could only bring Him one little grape, I knew that grape was precious to Him because I had worked my whole life for it. ~ Heidi Baker,
1064:Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession. ~ Gautama Buddha,
1065:Having a drink in bed while listening to music and reading a book. As precious to me as a beautiful sunset or good clean air. ~ Haruki Murakami,
1066:...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen. ~ Plato,
1067:No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,” Pa whispers softly. ~ Loung Ung,
1068:Remember... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love. ~ Meg Cabot,
1069:Saying no to the inevitable is one of the few precious ways our own species redeems itself from oblivion- or at least tries to. ~ David Quammen,
1070:See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious. ~ William Dean Howells,
1071:Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
1072:The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. ~ Konrad Lorenz,
1073:The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. ~ Nhat Hanh,
1074:What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs. ~ Steven Chu,
1075:His arms surrounded me, pulling me close, holding me as if I was infinitely precious. I burned and trembled in his embrace. ~ Julianne Donaldson,
1076:How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~ Thomas Jefferson,
1077:I don't think about politics," Rabbit says. "That's one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics. ~ John Updike,
1078:Learn to relax. Your body is precious,
as it houses your mind and spirit.
Inner peace begins with a relaxed body. ~ Norman Vincent Peale,
1079:Man, I want to die, is all," cried Ploy.
"Don't you know," said Dahoud, "that life is the most precious possession you have? ~ Thomas Pynchon,
1080:My love,” he whispered, “my precious love. You are my beatitude, my destroyer of all vices, my endorser of all virtue, my salvation. ~ Anonymous,
1081:The cosmic perspective shows Earth to be a mote. But it’s a precious mote and, for the moment, it’s the only home we have. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,
1082:the opportunity to meet our internalized abuser. We all have one: it’s not if you discover your precious inner bully, it’s when. ~ Dossie Easton,
1083:We’d get one precious hour of making out or talking—usually making out, made more frantic by the pressure bearing down on us—and ~ Richelle Mead,
1084:When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. ~ Marcus Aurelius,
1085:When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. ~ Terry Pratchett,
1086:Blessed be the name of the Lord, the disease is not incurable; the Savior’s precious blood is the universal remedy, and ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
1087:Commitment is actually built on thinking and then communicating to one’s partner that he or she is precious, and not replaceable ~ John M Gottman,
1088:Have learned that the most precious thing is a place where you can be as you are, where someone can see you as your true self. ~ Philippa Gregory,
1089:If the gate to your precious room is always left ajar, people shall least knock before entering into your precious room! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah,
1090:I wanted her to know how happy I was at the end of my life…because I’d been blessed with the rare and precious gift…of loving her. ~ Raine Miller,
1091:Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own. ~ Harmon Killebrew,
1092:Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster. ~ Henry Ward Beecher,
1093:Oh, precious losing streak,
you're too cute for your own good.
I try to laugh about it
but my face is made of wood. ~ Casey Renee Kiser,
1094:That precious fruit which all men eagerly go searching for on many different boughs will give,today, peace to your hungry soul. ~ Dante Alighieri,
1095:The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. ~ Maria Mitchell,
1096:There is nothing so fine as a new friend, for in time they become the most precious of all the Comforter's gifts—old friends! ~ Stephen R Lawhead,
1097:This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy. ~ Tracy Chapman,
1098:We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others. ~ Dalai Lama,
1099:We have been given this precious human incarnation in which each and every one of us is a candidate for enlightenment. ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith,
1100:A beautiful thing is precious, no matter the price. Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy. ~ Alex Flinn,
1101:After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society. ~ Melanie Phillips,
1102:I decided to go to the beach at San Quentin, and practice living as if today was one of the precious few left to me. What a concept. ~ Anne Lamott,
1103:I once lost something in precious in this place.

But I think it's by losing things...

... that we grow up to be adults. ~ Inio Asano,
1104:It's amazing to see the beauty of the world. It's so beautiful and so brutal. It's a reminder that every second of life is precious. ~ Sally Green,
1105:Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul. ~ Orhan Pamuk,
1106:Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about. ~ Sydney J Harris,
1107:you can hang on to your hurt out of some misplaced sense of pride, or you can just let go and relish whatever precious time you have. ~ Jojo Moyes,
1108:A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. ~ John Milton, Areopagitica,
1109:Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious. ~ Sharon Horgan,
1110:Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery. ~ Seth Godin,
1111:He could lose himself in the copper warmth of her eyes. Except, no, this wasn't losing himself. This was finding something precious. ~ Melissa Tagg,
1112:I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time. ~ Stanis aw Lem,
1113:I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time. ~ Stanislaw Lem,
1114:It is nice enough to be a child, but it is far rarer, and much more precious, to no longer be young, and to truly feel young again. ~ Dexter Palmer,
1115:Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process. ~ Helen Simonson,
1116:Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs. ~ Andrew Lam,
1117:Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,
1118:She felt as though she’d been unforgivably negligent—careless! sloppy!—with the most precious, wonderful gift she’d ever received. ~ Liane Moriarty,
1119:She looked very much like one who is afraid to speak, because she might lose something precious that was hidden under her tongue. ~ Timothy Findley,
1120:Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process. ~ Hillary Clinton,
1121:We’re taught to work foolishly hard for a non-living entity, donating our most precious commodity—our time—for a paycheck. ~ Joshua Fields Millburn,
1122:why should I seek to change, what has been so precious to me for so long! you can never show better than as your own natural self ~ Charles Dickens,
1123:WRITER Actors come and go, pal—you guys are the furniture, okay? What I write is the house. Let’s not get all precious about it . . . ~ Neil LaBute,
1124:A beautiful thing is precious, no matter the price. Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy... ~ Alex Flinn,
1125:Anyway, that's the past, and what matters is the future. That's how life works, because it's short and precious and kind of doubtful. ~ Terry Brooks,
1126:Emotions somehow meant more when they were handwritten on precious scraps of paper and conveyed on slow trains running out of fuel. ~ Barbara Demick,
1127:Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent. ~ Alfred North Whitehead,
1128:I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more. ~ Hayao Miyazaki,
1129:In her year without words, a well-meaning art teacher had given her a brush and paints. And for one precious hour, it had set her free. ~ Sonali Dev,
1130:I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes. Now I wear more black. ~ Rachel Zoe,
1131:My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do. ~ James Purefoy,
1132:No, precious creature. I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, than you should such dishonor undergo while I sit lazy by. ~ William Shakespeare,
1133:There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love and the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence. - Gaston Berger ~ Ed Greenwood,
1134:This was why I published the Institutes — to defend against unjust slander my brothers whose death was precious in the Lord’s sight. A ~ John Calvin,
1135:When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
1136:A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think? ~ Christa Wolf,
1137:But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it? ~ Haruki Murakami,
1138:I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? ~ Walt Whitman,
1139:I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés. ~ Patti Smith,
1140:In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday! ~ Bill Cosby,
1141:My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. —STEVE JOBS ~ Anthony Robbins,
1142:The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
1143:The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.^ ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
1144:Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.
Life itself had become a secret affair. ~ Mary Balogh,
1145:A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think. ~ Emily Dickinson,
1146:I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on a single planet. ~ Michio Kaku,
1147:I looked at the empty suitcase. On the bottom was Karl Marx. On the lid was Brodsky. And between them, my lost, precious, only life. ~ Sergei Dovlatov,
1148:I'm not a precious text protector, or anything like that, you know, because it's a much more vital form than that. You have to rock. ~ William Monahan,
1149:Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older. ~ Louise Hay,
1150:My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life. ~ Alan Cumming,
1151:No, precious creature: I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, Than you should such dishonour undergo, While I sit lazy by. ~ William Shakespeare,
1152:When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”’ The ~ Terry Pratchett,
1153:You are not the only one with sorrows in this world. Don't hoard them like they are precious. There is always plenty of them to go around. ~ Matt Haig,
1154:Your most precious memories will focus on those you loved, those who loved you, and what you did together in the service of the Lord. ~ James C Dobson,
1155:If we die without making peace with God through His precious blood which was shed for us on the cross surely we shall end up in hellfire. ~ Bakht Singh,
1156:I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.The first is gentleness;the second is frugality;the third is humility. ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching,
1157:It's difficult dating, as an actor because your free time is precious. The guy I end up with someday is going to have to love traveling. ~ Serinda Swan,
1158:Martin Luther King Jr. stated, “If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values that all reality hinges ~ Stephen R Covey,
1159:Occasionally, there are minutes that get extra seconds. Moments so precious the universe stretches to make additional room for them. ~ Stephanie Garber,
1160:PRECIOUS AS IT IS TO PROCLAIM,          “CHRIST DIED FOR THE WORLD,”          EVEN SWEETER IT IS TO WHISPER,          “CHRIST DIED FOR ME. ~ Max Lucado,
1161:She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart. ~ Steve Martin,
1162:She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn’t be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart. ~ Steve Martin,
1163:The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for. ~ John Piper,
1164:There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from hinges where you've hung it so careful. ~ Sue Monk Kidd,
1165:What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment. ~ Nick Saban,
1166:You are not the only one with sorrows in this world. Don't hoard them like they are precious . There is always plenty of them to go around. ~ Matt Haig,
1167:You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life? ~ Ben Feldman,
1168:All of us waste precious life doing things we don’t like, to prove ourselves to people we don’t respect, and to get things we don’t want. ~ Ryan Holiday,
1169:But freedom, his father had taught him, was more precious than anything in life. And freedom, sometimes, had to be earned repeatedly. They ~ Morgan Rice,
1170:Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life ~ Erich Fromm,
1171:Days of the future are coming towards us like crazy waves! Let us welcome every such wave as precious blessings from the existence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1172:For a few precious moments... I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky... where all things are again possible... and the wind blows free. ~ Larry L King,
1173:[from the Acknowledgments page] ...and while comments are very welcome, I would suggest it is a waste of your precious time. ~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse,
1174:How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day? ~ Jerry Spinelli,
1175:If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti,
1176:In the perfect society, there is neither emotion nor mercy; precious space cannot be wasted on those who have outlived their usefulness. ~ Frank Herbert,
1177:I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch. ~ Karl Lagerfeld,
1178:making the most of every second, because seconds became minute sand minutes became precious when life could be taken in less than a breath. ~ Amy Harmon,
1179:My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~ Thomas Jefferson,
1180:Oh! how sweet to view the flowing Of my Saviour's precious blood; With divine assurance knowing He has made my peace with God. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
1181:recall a chunk of amber in my family’s cache of precious stones and gems. My skin looks like that now. Baltic amber trapped in sunlight. ~ Sophie Jordan,
1182:That's the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. ~ Mitch Albom,
1183:There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing. ~ Baltasar Gracian,
1184:Time is always precious,” Hirianthial said softly. “Only if you fill it with something,” Sascha said. “Otherwise it’s marking the hours. ~ M C A Hogarth,
1185:What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance. ~ Andre Gide,
1186:A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. ~ John Milton, Areopagitica (1644).,
1187:And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images. ~ Maya Deren,
1188:Every single employee is someone’s son or someone’s daughter. Like a parent, a leader of a company is responsible for their precious lives. ~ Simon Sinek,
1189:Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends ~ Thomas Jefferson,
1190:Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox,...that longs for certainty, fidelity, compassion, and plays roulette with anything precious. ~ Jeanette Winterson,
1191:I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me. ~ Esperanza Spalding,
1192:Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace. ~ Walter Wangerin,
1193:Once you believe in yourself and see your soul as divine and precious, you'll automatically be converted to a being who can create miracles. ~ Wayne Dyer,
1194:The digital revolution has changed the way we do things because you're not under that pressure that film is precious and film is expensive. ~ Colm Meaney,
1195:THE FOUR REFLECTIONS Precious Human Birth The first of the mind-changing reflections contemplates the preciousness of our human birth. ~ Joseph Goldstein,
1196:The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch,
1197:Time is money but I say money is time, for every luxury costs so many precious hours of your life.” Hold back on purchasing all you desire, ~ H W Charles,
1198:What’s friendship’s realest measure? I’ll tell you. The amount of precious time you’ll squander on someone else’s calamities and fuck-ups. ~ Richard Ford,
1199:A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls ~ Hermann Hesse,
1200:Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg,
1201:Content and peace of mind are valuable things: I could wish, my dear friend, that these precious jewels were less transitory. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
1202:Freedom is dangerous but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage. ~ Octavia E Butler,
1203:Here is a precious message for the New Year from the old year: Be an octopus in the New Year and hold the life tightly with six arms! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1204:he rested in the knowledge that he was a child of the King, a saved, forgiven, precious, beloved son safe in the hollow of his Father’s hand. ~ Tim LaHaye,
1205:He’s been protecting this intense, precious bond we share that is more than desire, more than tenderness, more than adoration, more than love. ~ Nina Lane,
1206:I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."

[Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842] ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne,
1207:I could do with a little more fun and a bit less being precious. It isn't all fun, being a princess. In fact, a lot of it is pretty grim. ~ Melvin Burgess,
1208:If you hurt Muse, I will hunt you down, use every rusted weapon I own, cut off your precious parts and feed them to the hellhounds." Ryder ~ Pippa DaCosta,
1209:I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift. ~ Steven Pinker,
1210:Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth. ~ Robert Muller,
1211:Life is a procession of painful lessons, and how precious those lessons are; so precious that we rejoice in the bitter-sweet gift of life. ~ Bryant McGill,
1212:life is way too precious to spend it pretending like we’re super-cool and totally in control when we could be laughing, singing, and dancing. ~ Bren Brown,
1213:Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable. ~ Mary H K Choi,
1214:Man is an idea, and a precious small idea, once he turns his back on love. And that's my point; we -mankind- haelost the capacity for love. ~ Albert Camus,
1215:There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children. ~ William J Clinton,
1216:The small things in lyf r sumtyms the most precious gifts we r given & when you recognize them when they arrive,then u r truly blessed. ~ Raine Miller,
1217:The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past. ~ Bryant McGill,
1218:To share is precious, pure and fair. Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there? ~ Marvin Gaye,
1219:You have so much love in you. Trust your firends and family. They're all you have, but they're precious, the most important part of your life. ~ Deb Baker,
1220:You would never have possessed the precious faith which now supports you—if the trial of your faith had not been like unto fire. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
1221:A man may have the best of wealth, cars and fame. But there is nothing more precious in life that he will get than a woman's heart. ~ Jean Claude Van Damme,
1222:Everything in this universe is evanescent. Because it is evanescent, it is also precious. Spend this precious moment wisely and beautifully. ~ Haemin Sunim,
1223:For as is often the happenstance with that which is precious and lost, when you find him again, he may well not be quite as you left him. ~ Cassandra Clare,
1224:If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads. ~ Jeff Bridges,
1225:I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time. ~ Lorene Scafaria,
1226:I was filled with awe at being able hold this precious woman again, the one who had invaded every thought of mine for more than eleven years. ~ A L Jackson,
1227:I will whisper secrets in your ears,
just nod yes and be silent.
A soul moon appeared in the path of my heart.
How precious is this journey ~ Rumi,
1228:Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon,
1229:Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight. ~ Jesse Jackson,
1230:She knew exactly what was weighing him down: that helpless feeling that you were wasting your precious youth and it was your own damn fault. ~ Tom Perrotta,
1231:There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful. ~ Sue Monk Kidd,
1232:There’s nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you’ve hung it so careful. ~ Sue Monk Kidd,
1233:These lives we lived were a gift and precious and so short. I wanted to spend my time authentically, surrounded by people I truly loved. ~ Rachel Higginson,
1234:We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower,
1235:All of us waste precious life doing things we don’t like, to prove ourselves to people we don’t respect, and to get things we don’t want. Why ~ Ryan Holiday,
1236:Days are precious, dinna lose them. Flo`ers will fade and so will ye... Come to me, ye fair young maidens. While young and fair ye still may be. ~ L J Smith,
1237:Everything is just for a while. Everything is just for its time. Everything is finite. Live and love with these precious moments in mind. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru,
1238:> Why does everything that lives have to die?
< So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious. ~ Chaim Potok,
1239:I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious. ~ Stephen King,
1240:In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945. ~ Queen Elizabeth II,
1241:In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children. ~ M Russell Ballard,
1242:It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. ~ Dawn French,
1243:Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace. ~ Walter Wangerin Jr,
1244:My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is. ~ Jack Kemp,
1245:No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight. ~ John Calvin,
1246:Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes. ~ James Lipton,
1247:So one moment you have lost something precious, and then, in the very next moment, you find your mind is resting in a deep state of peace. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche,
1248:The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights. ~ David Harvey,
1249:There are few things in life as precious to us as our children. Rare is the woman or the man who wouldn’t readily die for his or her offspring. ~ Debra Webb,
1250:There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future moments play out. ~ Obert Skye,
1251:The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past. ~ Bryant H McGill,
1252:What's friendship's realest measure?
I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups. ~ Richard Ford,
1253:You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. ~ Og Mandino,
1254:All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879–1955) ~ Carl Sagan,
1255:Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing ~ Don DeLillo,
1256:Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done. ~ Caroline Polachek,
1257:"Everything in this universe is evanescent. Because it is evanescent, it is also precious. Spend this precious moment wisely and beautifully." ~ Haemin Sunim,
1258:Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi,
1259:Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? ~ Mitch Albom,
1260:If you felt like somebody made you feel worthless, that is a lie. You are valuable, you deserve to be treated as a valuable precious treasure. ~ Lacey Mosley,
1261:Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future. ~ Enrique Pena Nieto,
1262:Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight. ~ Jesse Jackson,
1263:Please don't waste-away in front of a TV waiting to win a lottery during the precious few hours you are not imprisoned in corporate shackles. ~ Bryant McGill,
1264:Since the day I first met you, you've given me so many precious things. If I hadn't met you, I would never have become the person I am today. ~ Hisaya Nakajo,
1265:There are no permanent things, only fleeting moments of warmth and companionship, precious stationary seconds in a flicker of troubled days. ~ Winston Graham,
1266:To share is precious, pure and fair.
Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there? ~ Marvin Gaye,
1267:What we learn through failure becomes a precious part of us, strengthening us in everything we do. So let the tough things make you tougher. ~ Soichiro Honda,
1268:You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along. ~ William Monahan,
1269:You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you’ve broken—rather than being careful with them in the first place. ~ Guillermo del Toro,
1270:After the age of about . . . what, sixteen? We’re all damaged. Every single beautiful, stupid, precious one of us. Damaged, damaged, damaged. ~ Matthew Norman,
1271:All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have. Albe rt Einstein (1879-1955 ~ Anonymous,
1272:All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ~ Anonymous,
1273:All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it. ~ John Ruskin,
1274:analyzing where his precious time was going. We have 168 hours in a week, and time is our most precious resource. How are you spending your time? ~ Steve Kamb,
1275:I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left. ~ Alice Walker,
1276:Living creatures, if nothing else, have the right to life. It is their only truly precious possession, and the stealing of life is a wicked theft ~ Jack Vance,
1277:Oh, Louisa, you can hang on to your hurt out of some misplaced sense of pride, or you can just let go and relish whatever precious time you have. ~ Jojo Moyes,
1278:The most precious truth in the Bible is that God’s greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him—in Him! ~ John Piper,
1279:There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer. ~ Marcel Proust,
1280:There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip through the hinges where you've hung it so careful. ~ Sue Monk Kidd,
1281:The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost. ~ Laozi,
1282:What made something precious? Losing it and finding it. All those times he’d pretended to lose her. He sinks down on the carpet, dizzy with loss. ~ Celeste Ng,
1283:But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall. ~ James K Baxter,
1284:Fine," he says, his words coming out breathless. "I'll save your precious sword-master, McKenzie. But I will never, ever give you back to him. ~ Sandy Williams,
1285:It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted. ~ Aberjhani,
1286:Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever? ~ William S Burroughs,
1287:Now he knew that he'd never miss these moments and he'd always feel that beautiful pain because he'd always understand how precious they were. ~ Kristen Ashley,
1288:Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late. ~ Cecelia Ahern,
1289:She did not know what sort of person he was. But she thought---she hoped---that he would hold her trust as the fragile, precious thing it was. ~ Theresa Romain,
1290:So take good care of your time. Watch how you spend it, for nothing is more precious. In the twinkling of an eye, heaven can be won or lost. Here’s ~ Anonymous,
1291:That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands. ~ Ramona Koval,
1292:When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. —MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Jennifer Wright,
1293:You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place. ~ Guillermo del Toro,
1294:All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ALBERT EINSTEIN
(1879–1955) ~ Carl Sagan,
1295:Oh yes. You’ve caught me. I confess. My sole purpose in life is to gleefully, willfully, maniacally destroy all of your precious chrome babies. ~ Jennifer Estep,
1296:Sometimes it’s wise not to dwell on the incomprehensible, for if you do, you waste those precious moments of actually accepting it for what it is. ~ K M Golland,
1297:There’s a spiritual lassitude that comes with wealth. When you can have anything you want, anytime you want it, very little is precious to you. ~ Patrick W Carr,
1298:A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids. ~ Jason Statham,
1299:An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. ~ John Locke,
1300:As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
1301:But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It’s the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding. ~ Claire Messud,
1302:In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. ~ Mark Twain,
1303:Peace is a precious jewel, but who can value truth? The wise merchant will sell all that he hath with joy to buy this, and blesses God for the bargain. ~ Various,
1304:Tell me... what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Dis-moi ce que tu planifies de faire de ta vie si précieuse, et si excitante! ~ ONE,
1305:There are no permanent things, only fleeting moments of warmth and companionship, precious stationary seconds in a flicker of troubled days. The ~ Winston Graham,
1306:They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life. ~ Ignatius of Loyola,
1307:We don't know how much time one spirit will spend in our lives, but love is too precious to hide from it. A chance at real love is worth the risk. ~ Lisa Kessler,
1308:You're terribly selfish, you know. I've loved you so long, and it was never dear or precious to you. I might as well have not loved you at all. ~ Brenna Yovanoff,
1309:Don't waste your precious time on people who do not appreciate your value. Learn to use your perfume on the pigs when they also learn to bath. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
1310:How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. ~ Anonymous,
1311:If it isn't something precious, it doesn't serve as a price!" "But if it means I'm throwing away the most precious thing I have ... what's the good of it? ~ CLAMP,
1312:Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on it's boundless grief and how precious is our soul. ~ Pio of Pietrelcina,
1313:Man is an idea, and a precious small
idea, once he turns his back on love. And
that's my point; we, mankind, have lost the capacity for love. ~ Albert Camus,
1314:Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious ~ Yann Martel,
1315:Our love is not effortless. We've clawed our way through the brush and fire to get here today. But aren't the things we bleed for the most precious? ~ J A DeRouen,
1316:There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,
1317:What is precious to us in an author’s work is the labor of his soul and not the architectural structure in which he packs his thoughts and feelings. ~ Leo Tolstoy,
1318:Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
1319:Every day is precious. You will never live THIS day again. It is ONE event in human history. Why not make it count? Time is a nonrenewable resource. ~ Kristen Lamb,
1320:For Armand Gamache knew what not-nice was. He knew what cruelty, despair, horror were. And he knew what a forgotten, and precious quality 'nice'was. ~ Louise Penny,
1321:He hoped it would snow recklessly and bring to the island the impossible winter purity, so rare and precious, he remembered fondly from his youth. ~ David Guterson,
1322:He kissed me as if I were something delicate and precious, something he cherished and held with reverence. "My first kiss. This is my first real kiss. ~ Emma Scott,
1323:His body smelled like a precious-wood forest; his hair, like sandalwood, his skin, like cedar. It was as if he had always lived among trees and plants. ~ Ana s Nin,
1324:Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement. ~ Mark Twain,
1325:There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. ~ Marilynne Robinson,
1326:The small things in life are sometimes the most precious gifts we are given, and if you recognize them when they arrive, then you are truly blessed. ~ Raine Miller,
1327:To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time. ~ Anton Szandor LaVey,
1328:We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives. ~ Maya Angelou,
1329:After the age of about . . . what, sixteen? We’re all damaged. Every single beautiful, stupid, precious one of us. Damaged, damaged, damaged.” When ~ Matthew Norman,
1330:And your precious reputation will remain unblemished by any act of kindness that doesn't meet the approval of those worried only about themselves. ~ Melissa Jagears,
1331:Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'

What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing ~ Don DeLillo,
1332:For those with the purity to see it, a nursing mother is one of the most precious, most beautiful, and most holy of all possible images of woman. ~ Christopher West,
1333:Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance. ~ William James,
1334:He isn't going to be happy with me. I don't want his anger directed my way when I snuff out his precious one. After all, who wants to fuck with Death. ~ Abbi Glines,
1335:How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering ~ Louis Kahn,
1336:I exist for you, Nina. This mortal being so precious to the Creator of the Universe that it allowed for my existence. Tell me that's not incredible. ~ Jamie McGuire,
1337:Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain. ~ Hasso Plattner,
1338:Nevertheless, until the postman comes, be happy. There is no other rational response but happiness. Despair is a foolish squandering of precious time. ~ Dean Koontz,
1339:one of the chief purposes of emotions is to give us values, so we can decide what is important, what is expensive, what is pretty, and what is precious. ~ Anonymous,
1340:Prosperity depends on ferocity. The only things that keep your precious grandmothers in their tea and cookies are the fists at the end of your arms. ~ Anthony Doerr,
1341:You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.” Jane Austen, Persuasion ~ Louise Bay,
1342:You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you. ~ N K Jemisin,
1343:Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their way, but we, poor mortals, in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company. ~ Jerome K Jerome,
1344:As we adopt routines over spontaneity, the scales shift off of zero. We live less in the precious world of unfolding experience and more in our heads. ~ Andrew Furst,
1345:Count Drake had told him that life was precious, that suicide was a coward’s way out, a sin against the God by flinging his gift back in his holy face. ~ Brent Weeks,
1346:Don't be precious about anything-much less a certain guitar sound. There is always another interesting sound or effect just waiting to be discovered. ~ Robin Guthrie,
1347:embraces. I was filled with awe at being able hold this precious woman again, the one who had invaded every thought of mine for more than eleven years. ~ A L Jackson,
1348:Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years. ~ Margaret Thatcher,
1349:I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
1350:Live your life so that you’ll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms. ~ Masashi Kishimoto,
1351:Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world! ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,
1352:Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood. ~ Charles Spurgeon,
1353:The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything. ~ Deepak Chopra,
1354:Then she said the prayer that started all her midwifing: “Dear Lord, please guide me in gettin’ this baby born and savin’ this precious woman’s life. ~ Laila Ibrahim,
1355:The old drunk told me about trout fishing. When he could talk, he had a way of describing trout as if they were a precious and intelligent metal. ~ Richard Brautigan,
1356:The small things in life are sometimes the most precious gifts we are given, and when you recognize them when they arrive, then you are truly blessed. ~ Raine Miller,
1357:To my eyes treasures, diamonds and precious stones are as mere charcoal and coarseness; to my eyes cloth of silk and brocades of price are but rags and tatters. ~ id,
1358:At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself. ~ Benny Carter,
1359:Blake could own me, he could hold something deep in me, but I knew I'd captured something precious in him too. Something he'd never given anyone else. ~ Meredith Wild,
1360:I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence. ~ Brian Greene,
1361:I missed that he could toss me around like a rag doll, while at the same time worshipping me like I was the most precious object in the world to him. We ~ T M Frazier,
1362:... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm. ~ George Eliot,
1363:Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon. ~ Henri Nouwen,
1364:There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious. ~ Ricky Gervais,
1365:These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends. ~ Alanis Morissette,
1366:We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it. ~ Fisher Ames,
1367:When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count! ~ Steve Maraboli,
1368:You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious. ~ Mark Ruffalo,
1369:Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery,
1370:Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,
1371:However difficult death is for us to accept, we must... how would we learn to appreciate each moment if it were not precious? If life were forever? ~ Michelle Harrison,
1372:In my world, there are no simple questions, and precious few answers of any kind. If you are going to write about me, you must resign yourself to that. ~ John Banville,
1373:Life is precious. Infinitely so. Perhaps it takes a machine intelligence to appreciate that." ~ Alastair Reynolds"Understanding Space & Time ~ Alastair Reynolds,
1374:Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. ~ Willa Cather,
1375:Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away. ~ Graham Greene,
1376:Once you believe in yourself
and see your soul as divine and precious,
you'll automatically be converted
to a being who can create miracles. ~ Wayne W Dyer,
1377:The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one... ~ Lawrence Block,
1378:The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them. ~ Walter Savage Landor,
1379:They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life. ~ Saint Ignatius of Loyola,
1380:At night and during winter afternoons, in the absence of adequate lighting, Anne wrote by candlelight and had only one precious copy of her writings. ~ Helena Whitbread,
1381:Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be. ~ Nhat Hanh,
1382:Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will ~ David Foster,
1383:Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be. ~ Hillary Clinton,
1384:My most basic credo is: I never said freedom was cheap. And it ain't. Never will be. It's been the highest priced and most precious commodity in my life. ~ Sonny Barger,
1385:since there was precious little a person could do about someone else’s choices, the shortest route to sanity was simply taking care of oneself. ~ Patricia Perry Donovan,
1386:This is a perpetual theme in Newton’s writings. The more aware we are of indwelling sin and its vile nature, the more precious and beautiful Christ grows. ~ Tony Reinke,
1387:To say that he hated it would be unjust, for, like most sensible people, he held hatred to be an elixir far too precious to be wasted on trivial matters. ~ Edgar Saltus,
1388:We burn because of the beauty in the burning, because life is precious, extraordinary, and we would live as if we were on fire with the brightness of it. ~ Kate Griffin,
1389:Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in us is that which remains unexpressed. ~ Andr Gide,
1390:Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. ~ W Clement Stone,
1391:A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone. ~ Kevin McCloud,
1392:Because he tells me. All the fucking time. I’m precious to him and I know it because he shows me and he tells me. It’s beautiful. It’s real. It’s right. ~ Kristen Ashley,
1393:Dear God Please help me to release that most precious gift you have given me of love, That gift of love that comes from Heaven and is connected to my soul. ~ Lorna Byrne,
1394:Everything struck her at times as too precious, impossible to touch. And, at times, what people used as air to breathe, was weight and death for her. ~ Clarice Lispector,
1395:I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright. ~ Bob Dylan,
1396:I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne,
1397:Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None. ~ Jack Kevorkian,
1398:One can do many external deeds of love and still hold back the really precious gift, the inner self. This gift can be given only through communication.”3 ~ Gary L Thomas,
1399:We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it. ~ Mitchell Hurwitz,
1400:Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we? ~ Leigh Hunt,
1401:4.3) Administrative capabilities"The present war has shown that in refusing the co-operation of women the governments deprived themselves of precious help.." ~ The Mother,
1402:7 These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. ~ Anonymous,
1403:Anything.” I loved the way she said that. Granny’s “Christian women” came out like new spit on a dusty morning, pure and precious and deeply satisfying. ~ Dorothy Allison,
1404:Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well. ~ Eugene Ionesco,
1405:But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky,
1406:I know how precious life is. You had no right to take Renaud's and you have no right to take your own now. Not over this. Too much death. It needs to stop. ~ Louise Penny,
1407:I’m so in love with Gideon. He’s changed my life in so many ways. He makes me feel beautiful and precious. I know it seems too fast, but he’s the one for me. ~ Sylvia Day,
1408:Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon. ~ Henri J M Nouwen,
1409:Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost. ~ Julian of Norwich,
1410:Self-awareness is the rarest power of all, precious and vulnerable to the highest degree, the supreme and generally fleeting achievement of a person. ~ Ernst F Schumacher,
1411:Silveo, please tell me when I do stupid things. You’re precious to me; I hate to hurt you, but sometimes you read my mind a lot better than I read yours. ~ Abigail Hilton,
1412:The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told. ~ Bram Stoker,
1413:What fun it all was, she thought, and how entirely new and delicious being taken care of as though she were a thing that mattered, a precious thing! ~ Elizabeth von Arnim,
1414:What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious. ~ Scott Russell Sanders,
1415:When the olfactory alphabet, which made them so many words in a precious lexicon, is forgotten, perfumes will be left speechless, inarticulate, illegible. ~ Italo Calvino,
1416:When you speak about these miracles, I laugh within Myself out of pity, that you allow yourself so easily to loose the precious awareness of My Reality. ~ Sathya Sai Baba,
1417:All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson,
1418:But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
1419:He had the terrible feeling that he had just lost something very precious. Something he had never owned but that nevertheless should have belonged to him. ~ Kathryn Hughes,
1420:I didn’t lose everyone I loved.” He looked up at her, and she saw that his eyes had gold in them too, precious bright flakes among the brown. “I had you. ~ Cassandra Clare,
1421:I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved. ~ Garrison Keillor,
1422:It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools! ~ E D E N Southworth,
1423:It was an eye-opener to Charlotte that she could love somebody in this mad way with a wild sweet tenerness that made everything he touched precious to her. ~ D E Stevenson,
1424:Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? ~ Mary Oliver,
1425:The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart. ~ Horace Mann,
1426:Then as each daughter left her bower King Janak gave a splendid dower, Rugs, precious silks, a warrior force, Cars, elephants, and foot, and horse, Divine to see ~ Valmiki,
1427:Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us. ~ Stephen Levine,
1428:You've got to know what your magic is. How else will you fully share your gifts with others and enrich the world for these precious years that you live? ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru,
1429:All precious things discovered late
To those that seek them issue forth,
For Love in sequel works with Fate,
And draws the veil from hidden worth ~ Alfred Tennyson,
1430:Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. ~ Carl Sagan,
1431:Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer,
1432:I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in open air. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne,
1433:I need you to know that I adore you. I worship you. I don’t just love you, Nila Weaver. I treasure you. I’ve never had anything so goddamn precious as you. ~ Pepper Winters,
1434:It was a peaceful, unassuming life scored by birds in the morning and crickets in the evening, and because it was precious to us, we handled it with care. ~ Ruth Emmie Lang,
1435:Life is so precious. Please, please, let's love one another, live each day, reach out to each other, be kind to each other. Peace be with you. God is great. ~ Julia Roberts,
1436:Life was often so cruel, so ugly. And then, in the midst of all the madness, a precious gift would be placed in your lap.

Because life could also be sweet. ~ Various,
1437:Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro,
1438:Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty? ~ Jean Dubuffet,
1439:That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians. ~ Ian Mckellen,
1440:Were you watching, my precious kits? I killed him for you! I hope you never see Ravenwing in StarClan. He should be in the Place of No Stars for all eternity. ~ Erin Hunter,
1441:We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value. ~ Patricia Deegan,
1442:What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book. ~ Winifred Holtby,
1443:When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder. ~ D H Lawrence,
1444:When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux,
1445:You don’t lack anything. Be confident and be bold. That’s all you need. Never let fear and stupid pride make you lose someone who’s precious to you.” ========== ~ Anonymous,
1446:You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever . . . I have loved none but you, ~ Mia Sheridan,
1447:Found and lost and found again, lost in plain sight, pressed to his back, her feet clasped in his hands. What made something precious? Losing it and finding it. ~ Celeste Ng,
1448:I am the dust and the ashes of the temple of the Holy Ghost, and what marble is so precious? But I am more than dust and ashes: I am my best part, I am my soul. ~ John Donne,
1449:Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near. ~ George Villiers 1st Duke of Buckingham,
1450:No, Charlotte, I’m not going to tell him,” I said drily. “The hymen of your integrity remains intact. Your precious jewel of a reputation is un-besmirched. ~ Robyn Schneider,
1451:Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God's eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God's heart. ~ Henri Nouwen,
1452:The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him. ~ George MacDonald,
1453:There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of yourself. (emphasis added) ~ Janusz Korczak,
1454:There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible. ~ A Alfred Taubman,
1455:When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love ... then make that day count! ~ Marcus Aurelius,
1456:Additionally, I have spent approximately 1,736 hours of this one precious life waiting for the man to finish and pretending that felt good. And I want a refund. ~ Anne Lamott,
1457:And now Coin, with her fistful of precious nukes and her well-oiled machine of a district, finding it’s even harder to groom a Mockingjay than to catch one. ~ Suzanne Collins,
1458:Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
1459:By wisdom a house is built up,
And by discernment it is made secure.
By knowledge its rooms are filled
With all sorts of precious and pleasant treasures. ~ Anonymous,
1460:God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character. ~ John Ortberg,
1461:Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of this darkness. ~ Dan Wells,
1462:Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people. ~ Mark Nepo,
1463:She loves you. Do you even know what to do with that?”
I kissed the top of her head. “Cherish it like it’s the most precious thing on the face of the earth. ~ Abbi Glines,
1464:Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil. ~ Howard Warren Buffett,
1465:Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken. ~ Paul Gauguin,
1466:That's how memories work, I suppose; you just go through life collecting them, never letting go of the precious ones but leaving room in your heart for more. ~ Dan Gemeinhart,
1467:The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious ~ Uta Hagen,
1468:Unfortunately, Sir Gerald, people rarely get what they deserve in this life. Perhaps that is why we have had to invent a heaven. - Miss Blythe, A Precious Jewel ~ Mary Balogh,
1469:What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again. ~ Steve Hagen,
1470:But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
1471:Chocolate is the divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food. ~ Hernando Cortes,
1472:humility is in reality the opposite of self-deprecation. It is the grateful recognition that we are precious in God’s eyes and that all we are is pure gift. ~ Henri J M Nouwen,
1473:I don’t know, man.” I sighed. “I can’t explain it. I guess that’s just what happens when we live. Nobody is promised anything. That’s why life’s so precious ~ Rachel Van Dyken,
1474:Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. ~ Albert Schweitzer,
1475:I think I’ll call you Cygnus,” Chelsea said.
“The swan?” I said. A bit precious, but it could have been worse.
She shook her head. “Black hole. Cygnus X-1. ~ Peter Watts,
1476:Let me tell you what having cancer does to a person. It makes you realize life is short and precious and every minute matters. It makes you intolerant of bullshit. ~ M S Force,
1477:Life always fights with the thoughts against life by presenting us the excellent beauties of life! What keeps us in life is this precious efforts of life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1478:Life is precious—every day, every step of it—and sometimes it changes. Tomorrows were treated like a right, when really, you never knew how many you would have. ~ Nancy Naigle,
1479:Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives. ~ Kate Mosse,
1480:Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila,
1481:Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the wolf. ~ Theodore L Cuyler,
1482:Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's going to take a lot of brains in Russia to create a drain. ~ George W Bush,
1483:This city is alive. It has a soul, and that soul is a glorious mess of beliefs and cultures all swirling together into something precious and strange and new. ~ William Ritter,
1484:Women don't always want to be treated like we're delicate, or rare, or somehow more precious. We want to be wanted. We want sex to be just as raw as you do. ~ Christina Lauren,
1485:Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body. ~ Tayari Jones,
1486:A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers. ~ Francis Bacon,
1487:Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal. ~ Charles Baudelaire,
1488:Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw. ~ Jacques Benigne Bossuet,
1489:Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. ~ Doris Lessing,
1490:I care for you-you're precious to me. And one of the most precious things to me is your voice. Please tell me what you want, what you need, what you desire... ~ Sylvain Reynard,
1491:I don’t know, man.” I sighed. “I can’t explain it. I guess that’s just what happens when we live. Nobody is promised anything. That’s why life’s so precious. ~ Rachel Van Dyken,
1492:I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love. ~ William Shakespeare,
1493:It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass. ~ Robert Collier,
1494:Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. ~ John Milton,
1495:She has sold them some of her time for the money she needs to live, but hoarded these moments for herself, and each one is precious, to be wasted as she wishes. ~ Dexter Palmer,
1496:And now was one to believe that there was nowhere a god of hogs, to whom this hog personality was precious, to whom these hog squeals and agonies had a meaning? ~ Upton Sinclair,
1497:BECAUSE HE GAVE BIRTH So
precious
is a person’s faith in God,
so precious; never should we harm
that. Because
He gave birth
to all religions. ~ Daniel Ladinsky,
1498:Each patient is precious. Be careful. If a patient dies, it is just one more hospital death for the doctor. But for the unfortunate family, it is a permanent loss. ~ Sudha Murty,
1499:he replied with unusual meekness – it just seems a terrible waste, Ruth, an awful waste of precious electricity. I now think he knew that he was soon going to die ~ William Boyd,
1500:I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. ~ Van Jones,

IN CHAPTERS [300/432]



   99 Integral Yoga
   97 Poetry
   52 Christianity
   42 Occultism
   28 Psychology
   27 Philosophy
   22 Yoga
   17 Fiction
   9 Mysticism
   8 Science
   7 Mythology
   5 Sufism
   5 Hinduism
   5 Buddhism
   5 Baha i Faith
   4 Education
   3 Integral Theory
   1 Thelema
   1 Philsophy
   1 Kabbalah
   1 Alchemy


   61 The Mother
   26 Carl Jung
   23 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   22 Sri Ramakrishna
   20 William Wordsworth
   19 Sri Aurobindo
   18 Satprem
   15 Saint Augustine of Hippo
   15 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
   14 H P Lovecraft
   13 Walt Whitman
   13 James George Frazer
   11 Plotinus
   10 Robert Browning
   9 Anonymous
   7 Aleister Crowley
   6 Ovid
   6 John Keats
   6 Friedrich Schiller
   6 A B Purani
   5 Saint Teresa of Avila
   5 Rabindranath Tagore
   5 Nirodbaran
   5 Jorge Luis Borges
   5 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
   5 Baha u llah
   4 Vyasa
   4 Al-Ghazali
   4 Aldous Huxley
   3 William Butler Yeats
   3 Sri Ramana Maharshi
   3 Plato
   3 Percy Bysshe Shelley
   3 Friedrich Nietzsche
   3 Bokar Rinpoche
   2 Saint John of Climacus
   2 Rudolf Steiner
   2 Ken Wilber
   2 Jordan Peterson
   2 Henry David Thoreau


   21 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
   20 Wordsworth - Poems
   15 Mysterium Coniunctionis
   14 Lovecraft - Poems
   13 Whitman - Poems
   13 The Golden Bough
   11 The Bible
   10 Browning - Poems
   9 Words Of Long Ago
   9 City of God
   7 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
   6 Schiller - Poems
   6 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
   6 Prayers And Meditations
   6 Metamorphoses
   6 Keats - Poems
   6 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
   5 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
   5 The Practice of Psycho therapy
   5 The Future of Man
   5 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
   5 Tagore - Poems
   5 Questions And Answers 1953
   5 Magick Without Tears
   5 Labyrinths
   5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
   4 Vishnu Purana
   4 The Secret Doctrine
   4 The Perennial Philosophy
   4 The Alchemy of Happiness
   4 Some Answers From The Mother
   4 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
   4 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
   4 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
   4 On Education
   4 Hymn of the Universe
   4 Faust
   4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
   4 Agenda Vol 10
   4 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
   3 Yeats - Poems
   3 The Way of Perfection
   3 The Phenomenon of Man
   3 Tara - The Feminine Divine
   3 Talks
   3 Shelley - Poems
   3 Questions And Answers 1954
   3 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
   3 Let Me Explain
   3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
   3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
   3 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
   3 Agenda Vol 04
   2 Walden
   2 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
   2 The Lotus Sutra
   2 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
   2 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
   2 The Book of Certitude
   2 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
   2 Sex Ecology Spirituality
   2 Questions And Answers 1956
   2 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
   2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
   2 Maps of Meaning
   2 Letters On Yoga IV
   2 Letters On Yoga I
   2 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
   2 Essays Divine And Human
   2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
   2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
   2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
   2 Agenda Vol 03


00.04 - The Beautiful in the Upanishads, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   And what else is the true character, the soul of beauty than light and delight? "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever." And a thing of joy is a thing of light. Joy is the radiance rippling over a thing of beauty. Beauty is always radiant: the charm, the loveliness of an object is but the glow of light that it emanates. And it would not be a very incorrect mensuration to measure the degree of beauty by the degree of light radiated. The diamond is not only a thing of value, but a thing of beauty also, because of the concentrated and undimmed light that it enshrines within itself. A dark, dull and dismal thing, devoid of interest and attraction becomes aesthetically precious and significant as soon as the artist presents it in terms of the values of light. The entire art of painting is nothing but the expression of beauty, in and through the modalities of light.
   And where there is light, there is cheer and joy. Rasamaya and jyotirmayaare thus the two conjoint characteristics fundamental to the nature of the ultimate reality. Sometimes these two are named as the 'solar and the lunar aspect. The solar aspect refers obviously to the Light, that is to say, to the Truth; the lunar aspect refers to the rasa (Soma), to Immortality, to Beauty proper,

0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
          Wears yet a precious jewel in his head"
                   -Romeo and Juliet-

0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  "M", as the author modestly styles himself, was peculiarly qualified for his task. To a reverent love for his master, to a deep and experiential knowledge of that master's teaching, he added a prodigious memory for the small happenings of each day and a happy gift for recording them in an interesting and realistic way. Making good use of his natural gifts and of the circumstances in which he found himself, "M" produced a book unique, so far as my knowledge goes, in the literature of hagiography. No other saint has had so able and indefatigable a Boswell. Never have the small events of a contemplative's daily life been described with such a wealth of intimate detail. Never have the casual and unstudied utterances of a great religious teacher been set down with so minute a fidelity. To Western readers, it is true, this fidelity and this wealth of detail are sometimes a trifle disconcerting; for the social, religious and intellectual frames of reference within which Sri Ramakrishna did his thinking and expressed his feelings were entirely Indian. But after the first few surprises and bewilderments, we begin to find something peculiarly stimulating and instructive about the very strangeness and, to our eyes, the eccentricity of the man revealed to us in "M's" narrative. What a scholastic philosopher would call the "accidents" of Ramakrishna's life were intensely Hindu and therefore, so far as we in the West are concerned, unfamiliar and hard to understand; its "essence", however, was intensely mystical and therefore universal. To read through these conversations in which mystical doctrine alternates with an unfamiliar kind of humour, and where discussions of the oddest aspects of Hindu mythology give place to the most profound and subtle utterances about the nature of Ultimate Reality, is in itself a liberal, education in humility, tolerance and suspense of judgment. We must be grateful to the translator for his excellent version of a book so curious and delightful as a biographical document, so precious, at the same time, for what it teaches us of the life of the spirit.
  --------------------
  --
  During the Master's lifetime M. does not seem to have revealed the contents of his diary to any one. There is an unconfirmed tradition that when the Master saw him taking notes, he expressed apprehension at the possibility of his utilising these to publicise him like Keshab Sen; for the Great Master was so full of the spirit of renunciation and humility that he disliked being lionised. It must be for this reason that no one knew about this precious diary of M. for a decade until he brought out selections from it as a pamphlet in English in 1897 with the Holy Mother's blessings and permission. The Holy Mother, being very much pleased to hear parts of the diary read to her in Bengali, wrote to M.: "When I heard the Kathmrita, (Bengali name of the book) I felt as if it was he, the Master, who was saying all that." ( Ibid Part I. P 37.)
  The two pamphlets in English entitled the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna appeared in October and November 1897. They drew the spontaneous acclamation of Swami Vivekananda, who wrote on 24th November of that year from Dehra Dun to M.:"Many many thanks for your second leaflet. It is indeed wonderful. The move is quite original, and never was the life of a Great Teacher brought before the public untarnished by the writer's mind, as you are doing. The language also is beyond all praise, so fresh, so pointed, and withal so plain and easy. I cannot express in adequate terms how I have enjoyed them. I am really in a transport when I read them. Strange, isn't it? Our Teacher and Lord was so original, and each one of us will have to be original or nothing.

0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  It is adoration expressing itself in work - all the more precious.
  31 July 1932

0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  To [my little smile] whose precious help prevents my feet from
  being hurt by the stones on the way.

0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Carefully keep this bliss, this repose, this assurance of Victory; they are more precious than all the riches of this world,
  and they will keep you very close to me.

0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  they were something precious; one clings to one's vices as one
  clings to a part of one's body, and pulling out a bad habit
  --
  to use these precious things in such a free and common
  way?
  --
  as in what we keep preciously, in what we trample on as in what
  we adore. We must learn to live with respect and never forget

01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   It is not merely by addressing the beloved as your goddess that you can attain this mysticism; the Elizabethan did that in merry abundance,ad nauseam.A finer temper, a more delicate touch, a more subtle sensitiveness and a kind of artistic wizardry are necessary to tune the body into a rhythm of the spirit. The other line of mysticism is common enough, viz., to express the spirit in terms and rhythms of the flesh. Tagore did that liberally, the Vaishnava poets did nothing but that, the Song of Solomon is an exquisite example of that procedure. There is here, however, a difference in degrees which is an interesting feature worth noting. Thus in Tagore the reference to the spirit is evident, that is the major or central chord; the earthly and the sensuous are meant as the name and form, as the body to render concrete, living and vibrant, near and intimate what otherwise would perhaps be vague and abstract, afar, aloof. But this mundane or human appearance has a value in so far as it is a support, a pointer or symbol of the spiritual import. And the mysticism lies precisely in the play of the two, a hide-and-seek between them. On the other hand, as I said, the greater portion of Vaishnava poetry, like a precious and beautiful casket, no doubt, hides the spiritual import: not the pure significance but the sign and symbol are luxuriously elaborated, they are placed in the foreground in all magnificence: as if it was their very purpose to conceal the real meaning. When the Vaishnava poet says,
   O love, what more shall I, shall Radha speak,

0 1956-10-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   This is what I wanted to take with me to my super-heaven, as the most precious thing in the human heart.
   ***

0 1962-05-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   What youre asking of Sujata is nothing short of sacrifice. Not outwardly, perhaps, but it would be a sacrifice for her. She would be sacrificing something to you, something very precious. To help you she would have to sacrifice her own realization. Well, that in itself has a place in the spectrum of realizations.
   I understand.

0 1962-07-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   There has never been too great an attachment to this form. There was never any attachment (even in so-called full Ignorance) to anything but consciousness yes, something set great store by this consciousness, wouldnt let it be destroyed, saying, This is something precious. But the body. Its not even too good an instrument; simply modest, plastic, self-effacing, and molding itself to every necessity. An ability to mold itself to all points of view and to realize every ideal it deemed worthy of realizingthis very suppleness was its one virtue. And extremely modest, never wanting to impose itself on anything or anyone. Fully conscious of its incapacity, but capable of doing anything, of realizing anything. It was consciously formed with this make-up, because thats what was necessary. And nothing is too great or overwhelming, since there isnt the resistance put up by a small personality with the sense of its own smallness. No, none of that mattersCONSCIOUSNESS matters; consciousness vast as the universe, even vaster. And along with consciousness, the capacity to adaptto adapt and mold itself to every necessity.
   Even now, my one feeling about this form is that its too rigid. Those stupendous inner revelations, those great movements of creative consciousness are constantly hampered by this. Its trying, its trying its best, but it is still governed by such appallingly rigid laws! Appalling. How long will it take to overcome this?

0 1963-06-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And there is too an obscure mind of the body, of the very cells, molecules, corpuscles. Haeckel, the German materialist, spoke somewhere of the will in the atom, and recent science, dealing with the incalculable individual variation in the activity of the electrons, comes near to perceiving that this is not a figure but the shadow thrown by a secret reality. This body-mind is a very tangible truth; owing to its obscurity and mechanical clinging to past movements and facile oblivion and rejection of the new, we find in it one of the chief obstacles to permeation by the supermind Force and the transformation of the functioning of the body. On the other hand, once effectively converted, it will be one of the most precious instruments for the stabilisation of the supramental Light and Force in material Nature.
   (XXII.340)

0 1963-08-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The last one is probably not within everybodys reach (!) but the first three are quite obvious I know it works like that. The only point that bothered me (I told you once) is that it isnt a purely psychological experience and that enduring pain causes wear and tear in the body. But I inquired with the doctor (I casually made him talk), and he told me that if the body is taught very young to bear pain, its capacity to bear increases so much that it can effectively withstand illnesses, which means that the illness doesnt follow its course, it aborts. Thats precious.
   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?

0 1963-10-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But because of my inner work, I become increasingly aware of things, increasingly aware of the Care, the Solicitude and the hierarchical Organization of circumstances so that the most precious and useful thing for the divine work is favoredof course not conspicuously so, but inwardly. And yet, in the three domainsgovernment, money and healththings always reach a POINT, a point of such tension and complication that if you didnt have the inner certitude, they would always seem to point simply to the catastrophe, the fall. And its ALWAYS at that point that (gesture of abrupt reversal) everything turns aroundnot before, not one minute before.
   Its not to give me faith I have it; its not to give me consciousness I have it; its for an outward reason. I cannot yet grasp why. Because inwardly, even if I were told that everything would be demolished in the most tragic manner, I would say, Very well. And in all sincerity, you know, nothing anywhere in me starts protesting or vibrating, nothing at all. I say, All right. But I see I do see that in that tension, a certain power is released, like a power intense enough to cure a tamas, to change a tamas.1

0 1965-11-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But it was so living, so real, that my whole attitude (how can I explain? A passive attitude, which isnt the result of an active will), the whole position taken in the work has changed. And this has brought a peacean absolutely decisive peace and tranquillity and trust. A decisive change. And even, all that in the previous position seemed to be obstinacy, clumsiness, unconsciousness, all sorts of deplorable things, all that has disappeared. It was like a vision of a great universal Rhythm in which each thing takes its own place and everything is just fine. And the effort of transformation limited to a small number becomes something FAR MORE precious and FAR MORE powerful for the realization. Its as if a choice had been made of those who will be the pioneers of the new creation. And all those ideas of spreading [the ideal], of preparing or churning Matterchildishness. Its human agitation.
   The vision had such majestic and calm and smiling beauty, oh! It was full, really full of divine Love. And not a divine Love that forgives thats not at all the point, not at all!each thing in its own place, realizing its inner rhythm as perfectly as it can. Thats all.

0 1966-08-27, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Yes, thats the trouble! If only I could make them receive my answer without writing words, it would be really precious, it would save a lot of time. But not one in a thousand receives like that. Some do receive, but very few.
   ***

0 1967-09-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And it explains the manner in which he received P. when he went there. P. (an Indian disciple), as you know, paid him a visit; he was taken there by an Italian who had come here (a very nice boy who showed him around Italy and took him to the Pope). The Pope gave him a private audience, and after talking to him, asking questions, replying (it was a whole conversation), he said to P. with a smile, And now what are you going to give me? (They spoke in French.) Then P. said, I have only one thing, which I always keep with me and is infinitely precious to me, but I will give it to you, and he gave him Prayers and Meditations. And the Pope answered, I am going to read them.
   So it all fits together.

0 1969-01-18, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   There is in it a consciousness (something VERY precious) that gives lessons to the body, teaches it what it has to do, that is, the attitude it should have, the reaction it should have. I had already told you a few times how difficult it is to find the procedure of the transformation when theres no one to give you indications; and its the response, as it were: he1 comes and tells the body, Have this attitude, do this, do that in that way. So then the body is happy, its quite reassured, it cant make a mistake anymore.
   Very interesting.

0 1969-08-27, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   He regards that book by his friend as a very precious gift (I dont know whether its published or not), as a revolution. So I prefer to send him this note in advance, because, I dont know whats in that book, but if its a similar idea, I want him to know that we had it before!
   (long silence)

0 1969-11-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   In life the most precious things are among those you do not see with your physical eyes.
   (Satprem translates into French, omitting among)

0 1969-12-13, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Ah, yes, thats the general rule. Whats needed is the opposite! Instead of repelling it, to offer it. Its to put the thing, the movement itself, to CAST it into the Light . Generally, it squirms and refuses! But (laughing) its the only way. Thats why this Consciousness is so precious . You understand, what caused the repression is the idea of good and evila sort of contempt or shame at whats regarded as evil and so one goes like this (gesture of repelling), one doesnt want to see it, doesnt want to let it be. Whats needed The first thing the first thing to be realized is that the infirmity of our consciousness is what creates this division, and that there is a Consciousness (I am sure of it now), there is a Consciousness in which that doesnt exist, in which what we call evil is as necessary as what we call good, and if we could cast our sensationor our activity or perceptioncast it into this Light, thats what cures.2 Instead of repressing or repelling it as something one wants to destroy (it cant be destroyed!), one must cast it into the Light. I had in fact several days of an experience which for that reason was very interesting; instead of trying to drive far away from yourself certain things (which you dont accept or which cause a disequilibrium in the being), instead of that, accept them, take them as a part of yourself, and (Mother opens her hands) offer themthey dont want to be offered, but theres a way to compel them. A way to compel them: the resistance is lessened to the extent that we can lessen in us the sense of disapproval. If we can replace that sense of disapproval with a higher understanding, then we can do it. Its much easier.
   I had a whole baggage which remained like that, of things I did when I was young; it remained like that (gesture on the side), and in fact, after that supramental experience, I was able to gather all of it, and all of a sudden, it got entirely clarified, I understood everything, and it evaporated. Things I had been dragging along for a very long time I didnt want to know, you understand, didnt want to have anything to do with them anymore and then it was all over. It melted, it was clarified like Well, it was in its place.

0 1971-12-18, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Perhaps Mother is referring to this text of Sri Aurobindo: "And there is too an obscure mind of the body, of the very cells, molecules, corpuscles. Haeckel, the German materialist, spoke somewhere of the will in the atom, and recent science, dealing with the incalculable individual variation in the activity of the electrons, comes near to perceiving that this is a very tangible truth; owing to its obscurity and mechanical clinging to past movements and facile oblivion and rejection of the new, we find in it one of the chief obstacles to permeation by the supermind Force and the transformation of the functioning of the body. On the other hand, once effectively converted, it will be one of the most precious instruments for the stabilisation of the supramental Light and Force in the material Nature."
   XXII.340

0 1972-07-19, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And we fear. We fear for its life (Mother touches the skin of her hands), for this thing, as if it were precious, because we want to stay conscious. But lets unite with the Supreme Consciousness, and well stay conscious forever! Thats IT, thats exactly it.
   I could put it this way: we unite our consciousness with what is perishable and were afraid to perish!1 I Well, I say: lets unite our consciousness with the eternal Consciousness and we will enjoy eternal consciousness.

02.01 - The World War, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   "Since the end of the Middle Ages, conquerors did harm perhaps to civilization, but they never claimed to bring it into question. They ascribed their excesses and crimes to motives of necessity, but never dreamed for a moment to hold them up as exemplary actions on which subject nations were called upon to fashion their morality, their code, their gospel.. . Since the dawn of modern times the accidents of military history in Europe have never meant for her the end of her most precious spiritual and moral values and a sudden annulment of all the work done by the past generations in the direction of mutual respect, equity, goodwillor, to put all into a single word, in the direction of humanity."
   Modern thinkers do not speak of the Asura the Demon or the Titanalthough the religiously minded sometimes refer to the Anti-Christ; but the real, the inner significance of the terms, is lost to a mind nurtured in science and empiricism; they are considered as more or less imaginative symbols for certain undesirable qualities of nature and character. Yet some have perceived and expressed the external manifestation and activities of the Asura in a way sufficient to open men's eyes to the realities involved. Thus they have declared that the present war is a conflict between two ideals, to be sure, but also that the two ideals are so different that they do not belong to the same plane or order; they belong to different planes and different orders. On one side the whole endeavour is to bring man down from the level to which he has arisen in the course of evolution to something like his previous level and to keep him imprisoned there. That this is really their aim, the protagonists and partisans themselves have declared frankly and freely and loudly enough, without any hesitation or reservation. Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' has become the Scripture of the New Order; it has come with a more categorical imperative, a more supernal authority than the Veda, the Bible or the Koran.

02.13 - On Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   If it is said that the proletarian the manual laboureris given economic freedom not for the sake of that freedom merely, but for the sake of the cultural opportunity also that he will have in that way. None can demur to this noble and generous ideal, but- what must not be forgotten in that preoccupation is the fact that there exists already a culturally predisposed class in the present society who also require immediate care and nourishment so that they may grow and flourish as they should. In our eagerness to take up the enterprise and adventure of reclaiming deserts and heaths and moorlands, there is a chance of our losing sight of the precious fertile lands, rich in possibilities that we already possess. The economic status has to be improved for all who are adversely placed in the modern system, certainly; but for a real improvement based upon just and true needs, for an adjustment that will make for the highest good of the society, what is first required is to ascertain the psychological status which should alone, at least chiefly, determine the economic status.
   In the old Indian social organisation there was at the basis such a psychological pattern and that must have been the reason why the structure lasted through millenniums. It was a hierarchical system but based upon living psychological forces. Each group or section or class in it had inevitably its appropriate function and an assured economic status. The Four Orders the Brahmin (those whose pursuit was knowledgeacquiring and giving knowledge), the Kshattriya (the fighters, whose business it was to give physical protection), the Vaishya (traders and farmers who were in charge of the wealth of the society, its production and distribution) and the Sudra (servants and mere labourers )are a natural division or stratification of the social body based upon the nature and function of its different members. In the original and essential pattern there is no sinister mark of inferiority branded upon what are usually termed as the lower orders, especially the lowest order. If some are considered higher and are honoured and respected as such, it meant simply that the functions and qualities they stand for constitute in some way higher values, it did not mean that the others have no value or are to be spurned or neglected. The brain must be given a higher place than the stomach, although all its support and nourishment come from there. Hierarchy means, in modern terms, that the essential services must pass first, should have certain priorities. And according to the older view-point, the Brahmin, being the emblem and repository of knowledge, was considered as the head of the social body. He is the fount and origin of a culture, the creator of a civilisation; the others protect, nourish and serve, although all are equally necessary for the common welfare.

05.01 - Man and the Gods, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Human understanding, we know, is a tangled skein of light and shademore shade perhaps than lightof knowledge and ignorance, of ignorance straining towards knowledge. And yet this limited and earthly frame that mind is has something to give which even the overmind of the gods does not possess and needs. It is indeed a frame, even though perhaps a steel frame, to hold and fix the pattern of knowledge, that arranges, classifies, consolidates effective ideas, as they are translated into facts and events. It has not the initiative, the creative power of the vision of a god, but it is an indispensable aid, a precious instrument for the canalisation and expression of that vision, for the intimate application of the divine inspiration to physical life and external conduct. If nothing else, it is a sort of blue print which an engineer of life cannot forego if he has to execute his work of building a new life accurately and beautifully and perfectly.
   III

06.17 - Directed Change, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Never to be bound by the experiences of the past, never to try to recover and stick to the knowledge or realisation gained, even though it may appear particularly precious or unique. This is a motto you should always keep before your mind. When you try to repeat what you have once said, done or experienced, you are sure to find very soon that the thing is becoming more and more lifeless, mechanical, a matter of routine and therefore perfectly useless. The soul has disappeared, the skeleton remains. You must live the word you utter at the time of uttering it, you must live the experience that you wish to recall or express. It is only thus that truth becomes living, possesses its force and light and gains its full value.
   In point of fact, however, no two succeeding moments, whether in your consciousness or in the world movement, are exactly the same. Even if you try seriously and sincerely, you can never recapture a thing of the past as it was or as it came to you, not, that is to say, in the same exact manner. For you are no longer the same nor is the world. The world is a continuous flow, it has been very often declared: but it is not a continual repetition or recurrence, a mere cyclic order. On the other hand, constant renewal is the very character of the change. At every moment something new is coming down on the scene, something that was not surges out: Nature is bringing out at every step something that was hidden or latent in her secret depth, something is dropped from above into her normal movement, something unforeseen and unexpected. The march of time means evolution, that is to say, the addition of a new factor to the existing factors, making manifest some-thing that was unmanifestmrtam kacana bodhayanti, as the Vedic Rishi says. Even if to an apparent sight everything seems to remain the same, yet it is not so in reality; always a new element is being poured into the existing circumstances, always an additional spark or influence enters into actual play of forces. It is the accumulated pressure of all the variables that brings about the great changes upon earth and in humanity which are summed up in the word evolutionchanges cosmological and psychological.

07.16 - Things Significant and Insignificant, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   All things are insignificant in ordinary life. The thoughts you think, the actions you do, the feelings you experience, all your movements have no significance at all, they possess no value. They belong to the superficial part of your being, they come and pass away, like ripples on the sea, leaving no trace or effect in the depths. Only at a rare moment, if ever you come in contact with a corner of your soul, if something of that inmost consciousness touches or gazes at any limb of yours, that flash of a moment is the only significant thing that happens in the midst of all the useless mass that is your life. This is the only precious point and the rest a world of rubbish. To make your life significant, to give it its true meaning and value, you must then draw back from the surface trivialities and look for something else behind. You must go very deep indeed if things are to cease being insignificant.
   ***

09.05 - The Story of Love, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   You can take what you call a precious stone and concentrate a force or forces in it. It retains them. These forces radiate afterwards very slowly, but increasingly, progressively. And if you know how to do it, you can charge it with a quantity of force quite enough to last almost indefinitely so to say. There are stones that serve as intermediaries of union, stones that serve as accumulators of energy and stones that may serve as foretellers of circumstances, they may carry messages. Therefore, as they can serve as accumulators, it means that they carry in themselves the source of the Force itself, otherwise they would not be receptive.
   It is a force of this kind that is the origin of the phenomenon of crystallisation. Crystals gather together in matter, it is already a movement of love. Stones that crystallise, rock crystals, for example, form wonderful designs, so magnificent in their absolute harmony; that comes because of only one thing the Force of Love.

10.12 - The Divine Grace and Love, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   But instead of giving any boon, any treasure physical or material or even spiritual, however precious, instead of giving anything the Divine may give Himself to one who approaches Him; then it becomes something more than the Grace, it is Love, the Divine's LoveHis own Self. It is His own substance, His own delight of being that He gives, not anything external or extraneous. One remembers the story of Arjuna and Duryodhana. Duryodhana approached Krishna and thought the utmost, the best that he could secure from Krishna was Krishna's battalions, for that seemed to him the most precious gift of all, for that is the thing he would need most in the coming battle. Arjuna asked for nothing else but Krishna Himself.
   Grace is of Maheshwari, that is to say, it is the special attribute, a particular emanation of her own self, it is a form of herself in an attitude that belongs particularly to her. Love is of Mahalaxmi it is her own special form and gesture. Or, varying the image we may say Grace is Shiva, the benign white radiance on the supreme heights enveloping the creation in its calm immutable compassion; while Krishna is Love, the immortal delight dwelling in the heart of mortality.

1.01 - Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  peoples, only to find that everything most dear and precious to
  us has already been said in the most superb language. Like
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  downward, if we would raise up the treasure, the precious herit-
  age of the father. In the Gnostic hymn to the soul, 24 the son is
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  much do we know of ourselves? precious little, to judge by
  experience. Hence there is still a great deal of room left for the

1.01 - BOOK THE FIRST, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  Digg'd from her entrails first the precious oar;
  Which next to Hell, the prudent Gods had laid;

1.01 - Description of the Castle, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
  3.: As this is so, we need not tire ourselves by trying to realize all the beauty of this castle, although, being His creature, there is all the difference between the soul and God that there is between the creature and the Creator; the fact that it is made in God's image teaches us how great are its dignity and loveliness. It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. Would it not be gross ignorance, my daughters, if, when a man was questioned about his name, or country, or parents, he could not answer? Stupid as this would be, it is unspeakably more foolish to care to learn nothing of our nature except that we possess bodies, and only to realize vaguely that we have souls, because people say so and it is a doctrine of faith. Rarely do we reflect upon what gifts our souls may possess, Who dwells within them, or how extremely precious they are. Therefore we do little to preserve their beauty; all our care is concentrated on our bodies, which are but the coarse setting of the diamond, or the outer walls of the castle.6
  4.: Let us imagine, as I said, that there are many rooms in this castle, of which some are above, some below, others at the side; in the centre, in the very midst of them all, is the principal chamber in which God and the soul hold their most secret intercourse.7' Think over this comparison very carefully; God grant it may enlighten you about the different kinds of graces He is pleased to bestow upon the soul. No one can know all about them, much less a person so ignorant as I am. The knowledge that such things are possible will console you greatly should our Lord ever grant you any of these favours; people themselves deprived of them can then at least praise Him for His great goodness in bestowing them on others. The thought of heaven and the happiness of the saints does us no harm, but cheers and urges us to win this joy for ourselves, nor will it injure us to know that during this exile God can communicate Himself to us loathsome worms; it will rather make us love Him for such immense goodness and infinite mercy.

1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
  Leaven, which some deem the soul of bread, the _spiritus_ which fills its cellular tissue, which is religiously preserved like the vestal fire,some precious bottle-full, I suppose, first brought over in the
  Mayflower, did the business for America, and its influence is still rising, swelling, spreading, in cerealian billows over the land,this seed I regularly and faithfully procured from the village, till at length one morning I forgot the rules, and scalded my yeast; by which accident I discovered that even this was not indispensable,for my discoveries were not by the synthetic but analytic process, and I have gladly omitted it since, though most housewives earnestly assured me that safe and wholesome bread without yeast might not be, and elderly people prophesied a speedy decay of the vital forces. Yet I find it not to be an essential ingredient, and after going without it for a year am still in the land of the living; and I am glad to escape the trivialness of carrying a bottle-full in my pocket, which would sometimes pop and discharge its contents to my discomfiture. It is simpler and more respectable to omit it. Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances. Neither did I put any sal soda, or other acid or alkali, into my bread. It would seem that I made it according to the recipe which Marcus Porcius

1.01f - Introduction, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
  All the sentient beings in those worlds living in the six transmigratory states became visible from this world. The buddhas in those worlds were also seen, and the Dharma they were teaching could be heard. The monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen and those who had practiced and achieved the path were also to be seen, while the bodhisattva mahsattvas, of various background causes and conditions, endowed in various degrees with the willingness to understand and having various appearances, were also seen practicing the bodhisattva path. All of the buddhas who had achieved parinirva were seen, as well as their relic stupas made of the seven precious treasures.
  At that moment it occurred to Bodhisattva Maitreya: The Bhagavat has now manifested the sign of great transcendent power. What could be the reason for this marvel? The Buddha, the Bhagavat, has now entered samdhi.
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  Which they protected like a precious jewel.
  There were bodhisattvas,

1.01 - Historical Survey, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  Pardis Rimonim, and Sepher haZohar - is either mostly unintelligible or, at first sight, apparent nonsense to the ordinary " logical " person. But it contains as its ground plan that most precious jewel of human thought, that geometrical arrangement of Names, Numbers, Sym- bols, and Ideas called "The Tree of Life". It is called
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   most precious, because it has been found to be the most convenient system yet discovered of classifying the phe- nomena of the Universe and recording their relations, whereof the proof is the limitless possibilities for analytic and synthetic thought which follow the adoption of this schema.
  The history of the Qabalah, so far as the publication of early exoteric texts is concerned, is indeterminate and vague. Literary criticism traces the Sepher Yetsirah (sup- posedly by Rabbi Akiba) and the Sepher haZohar (by

1.01 - NIGHT, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
  With spices and precious
  Balm, we arrayed him;

1.01 - On knowledge of the soul, and how knowledge of the soul is the key to the knowledge of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
  If you wish, O seeker of the way! to know your own soul, know that the blessed and glorious God created you of two things: the one is a visible body, and the other is a something internal, that is called spirit and heart, which can only be perceived by the mind. But when we speak of heart, we do not mean the piece of flesh which is in the left side of the breast of a man, for that is found in a dead body and in animals: it may be seen with the eyes, and belongs to the visible world. That heart, which is emphatically called spirit, does not belong to this world, and although it has come to this world, it has only come to leave it. It is the sovereign of the body, which is its vehicle, and all the external and internal organs of the body are its subjects. Its especial attribute is to know God and to [16] enjoy the vision of the beauty of the Lord God. The invitation to salvation is addressed to the spirit. The commandment is also addressed to it, for it is capable of happiness or misery. The knowledge of what it is in reality, is the key to the knowledge of God. Beloved, strive to obtain this knowledge, for there is no more precious jewel. In its origin it comes from God, and again returns to him. It has come hither but for a time for intercourse and action.
  Be sure, O seeker after knowledge! that it is impossible to obtain a knowledge of the heart, until you know its essence and its true nature, its faculties, and its relations with its faculties,-nor until you know its attributes, and how through them the knowledge of God is obtained, and what happiness is, and how happiness is to be secured. Know then, that the existence of the spirit is evident and is not involved in doubt. Still, it is not body, which is found in corpses and in animals generally. If a person with his eyes wide open should look upon the world and upon his own body, and then shut his eyes, everything would be veiled from his view, so that he could not see even his own body. But the existence of his spirit would not be at the same time shut out from his view. Again, at death, the body turns to earth, but the spirit undergoes no corruption. Still it is not permitted to us to know what the spirit is in its real nature and in its essence, as God says in his Holy Word : "They will ask you about the spirit. Answer, the spirit is a creation by decree of the Lord."1 The spirit belongs to the world of decrees.
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  Know, thou seeker of divine mysteries! that there is no end to the wonderful operations of the heart. For, to pursue the same subject, the dignity of the heart is of two kinds; one kind is by means of knowledge, and the other through the exertion of divine power. Its dignity by means of knowledge is also of two kinds. The first is external knowledge, which every one understands: the second kind is veiled and cannot be understood by all, and is extremely precious. That which we have designated as external, refers to that faculty of the heart by which the sciences of geometry, medicine, astronomy, numbers, the science of law and all the arts are understood; and although the heart is a thing which cannot be divided, still the knowledge of all the world exists in it. All the world indeed, in comparison with it, is as a grain compared with the sun, or as a drop in the ocean. In a second, by the power of thought, the soul passes from the abyss to the highest heaven, and from the east to the west. Though on the earth, it knows the latitude of the stars and their distances. It knows the course, the size and the peculiarities of the sun. It knows the nature and cause of the clouds and the rain, the lightning and the thunder. It ensnares the fish from the depths of the sea, and the bird from the end of heaven. By knowledge it subdues the elephant, the camel and the tiger. All these kinds of knowledge, it acquires with its internal and external senses.
  The most wonderful thing of all is, that there is a window in the heart from whence it surveys the world. This is called the invisible world, the world of intelligence, [23] or the spiritual world. People in general look only at the visible world, which is called also the present world, the sensible world and the material world; their knowledge of it also is trivial and limited. And there is also a window in the heart from whence it surveys the intelligible world. There are two arguments to prove that there are such windows in the heart. One of the arguments is derived from dreams. When an individual goes to sleep, these windows remain open and the individual is able to perceive events which will befall him from the invisible world or from the hidden table of decrees,1 and the result corresponds exactly with the vision. Or he sees a similitude, and those who are skilled in the science of interpretation of dreams understand the meaning. But the explanation of this science of interpretation would be too long for this treatise. The heart resembles a pure mirror, you must know, in this particular, that when a man falls asleep, when his senses are closed, and when the heart, free and pure from blameable affections, is confronted with the preserved tablet, then the tablet reflects upon the heart the real states and hidden forms inscribed upon it. In that state the heart sees most wonderful forms and combinations. But when the heart is not free from impurity, or when, on waking, it busies itself with things of sense, the side towards the tablet will be obscured, and it can view nothing. For, although in sleep the senses are blunted, the imaginative faculty is not, but preserves the forms reflected upon the mirror of the heart. But as the perception does not take place by means of the external senses, but only in the imagination, the heart does not see them with absolute clearness, but sees only a phantom. But in death, as the senses are completely separated and the veil of the body is removed, the heart can contemplate the invisible [24] world and its hidden mysteries, without a veil, just as lightning or the celestial rays impress the external eye.
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  You have now learned, student of the divine mysteries, the dignity of the heart through knowledge, and what kind of knowledge it possesses. Now listen and learn its dignity through divine power and on account of the greatness of which it is capable, that you may see how precious you are in yourself, and yet how vile and contemptible you make yourself by your own choice. Know then, that the heart is endowed with properties like those of angels and such as are not found in animals; and just as the material world is subjected by divine permission to the angels, and when God wills it, the angels send forth the winds, cause rain to [28] fall, bring forth the embryo in animals, shape their forms, cause seeds to sprout in the earth and plants to grow, many legions of angels being appointed to this service, so also the heart of man being created with angelic properties must have influence and power over the material world. In man's own body, which is peculiarly his own world, its control and influence are very evident. The hand, for example, does not in writing move of itself, but depends for motion on volition proceeding from the heart. And in eating, it is the heart which by an exertion of its will, causes moisture to rise in the mouth from under the tongue, to mix with the food that it may be swallowed and digested. These facts clearly substantiate the dominion and control of the heart, and the subordination of the body.
  Know also, that if the heart should not be tarnished with the rust of rebellion, and if the animal and ferocious qualities should not be dominant, that it would be capable, on account of the presence in it of angelic properties, of manifesting this same influence over other bodies. If it should look upon a lion or tiger with severity, they would become weak and submissive. If it should look with kindness upon one who is sick, his infirmity might be changed to health. If it should look upon the vigorous with majesty, they might become infirm. The realty of the existence of these influences is known both by reason and experience. Sorcery with the eyes, is of this kind of power. If for example, a man of a malicious disposition look upon some little thing with envy, and if while he is looking, the destruction of the object should come into his mind, an influence upon it may be observed immediately, and directly or after a while that object will be destroyed: the prophet of God has said: "the eye brings man to the grave and the camel to the seething pot."
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  Since you have learned, O inquirer after the divine mysteries, the dignity and nobleness of the heart, know also that this precious jewel has been confided to you and wrapped in a veil, that you may preserve it from too close a contact with the world, and may lead it to perfection and to its place of rest, making it a partaker of manifest happiness in the eternal mansions. In the house of reunion you will have reached an eternal rest, where no evil enters, a joy where no pain mingles, a strength without infirmity, a knowledge without doubt, and a vision of the Lord, the enjoyment of which shall be endless.
  If the heart strive not after its own glory and dignity, but [40] inclines to the cares of the world and sensual pleasures, no creature is more feeble, infirm and contemptible than man. At one time he will be the slave of disappointment and melancholy, at another suffering from disease and misfortune; at one time exposed to hunger and thirst, and at another the slave of avarice or ambition. He is not indulged with the enjoyment of a single day in peace. And when he is disposed to partake of the pleasures of the world and stretches out his hand to them, for a long time he cannot succeed in freeing himself from calamity. Even the pleasure of eating will be attended with oppression and pain, and afterwards be followed by some adverse accident. In short, of whatever enjoyment he partakes, regret is sure to follow it. If we regard knowledge, power, will, beauty and grace of form as constituting the glory and honor of this world, what is the wisdom of man ? If his head pain him, he knows not the cause or the remedy. If he have pain at his heart, he knows not the occasion of it, or why it increases, or what will cure it. He sees the plants and medicines that could cure it, perhaps even holds them in his hands, and is not aware of it. He knows nothing of what will happen to him on the morrow, nor what action will be a source of enjoyment to him, nor what will be to him a source of pain. If you look only to the strength of a man, what is more impotent than he is. If a fly or mosquito molest him, he cannot get rid of it. If he is attacked by disease, he has no remedy to meet it with. He has no power to preserve himself from destruction. If you look at the firmness and resolution of man, what is more contemptible than he is ! If he see any thing more extra-ordinary than a piece of money, he changes color and loses his presence of mind. If a beggar meet him, he turns away, and dares not look him in the face. If you look at the form of man, you see that it is skin, drawn over blood and impurity....

1.01 - Tara the Divine, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
  Besides this precious treat, our caravan carried
  many presents for the Karmapa, offerings for rituals,

1.01 - The Castle, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  When our supper ended in a muteness which the sounds of chewing and the smacking of lips gulping wine did not make more pleasant, we remained seated, looking one another in the face, with the torment of not being able to exchange the many experiences each of us had to communicate. At that point, on the table which had just been cleared, the man who seemed the lord of the castle set a pack of playing cards. They were tarot cards, larger than the kind we use for ordinary games or that gypsies employ for predicting the future, but it was possible to discern more or less the same figures that are painted in the enamels of the most precious miniatures. Kings, Queens, Knights, and Pages were all young people magnificently dressed, as if for a princely feast; the twenty-two Major Arcana seemed the tapestries of a court theater; and cups, coins, swords, clubs shone like heraldic devices adorned with scrolls and arabesques.
  We began to spread out the cards on the table, face up, and to give them their proper value in games, or their true meaning in the reading of fortunes. And yet none of us seemed to wish to begin playing, and still less to question the future, since we were as if drained of all future, suspended in a journey that had not ended nor was to end. There was something else we saw in those tarots, something that no longer allowed us to take our eyes from the gilded pieces of that mosaic.

1.01 - The Science of Living, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself
  and to others.

1.01 - To Watanabe Sukefusa, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
  In ancient China, there was a gentleman named Shu-liang who lived at a place called Han-yin with his mother, wife, and son. He was extremely quick-tempered, and would often fly off the handle, venting his spleen on his wife and mother, causing them great distress. No matter how ferocious a tiger is, it does not devour its cubs; it cares for them lovingly, as though they were precious jewels.
  One day when Shu-liang was away on a trip, his wife accidentally hurt the son, leaving him with a scar. "Woe is me!" she lamented with tears in her eyes. "When my husb and returns, there's no telling what he will do. I would be better off flinging myself from a high cliff."a
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  The mother, though suspicious and disinclined to see her son, appeared from her room and fearfully agreed to visit the shrine with him. As they walked along, Shu-liang said, "Our worries are over, mother. I'm going to show you a secret place where many precious gems have been dug up. I promise you, by tomorrow our family will be rich and prosperous." Coming to a grim-looking place at the base of a mountain, he pointed to a hole in the ground seven or eight feet deep. "Come here and look into it, mother," he said, leading her to the hole. Suddenly, he reached out to grab her and push her over the edge into the hole, but in doing that he lost his footing, slipped, and fell in himself.
  "Help me, mother," he pleaded. "Please, take hold of my hand. Pull me out of here. The earth in this hole is sandy and burning hot. I can't bear it any more." His mother, confused and upset, moved this way and that attempting to reach out her hand to him. But by then the intense heat inside the hole was sending up thick billows of black smoke.
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  Good deeds, no matter how many you perform, need no repentance. But evil deeds, even minor ones, are a cause of endless regret and heartache. According to what is written in the sutras, even if a person erects a pagoda twenty yojanas in height, adorns it with the seven precious gems, and enshrines Buddha relics in it, so that every arhat in the world comes to revere it, the arising in his mind of even a single angry thought becomes a fire that will at once turn into a great, all-consuming conflagration. The fires of wrath and anger consume entire forests of merit and virtue.
  Until now, your mother could not devote herself to good works because from the time you were born she lavished her every moment on you, caring for you and seeing that you were provided with everything necessary for your upbringing. If she did find time to enter the family altar room, the sutras and dharanis she recited were always dedicated to your good health and long life, without a thought for her own karmic future, and heedless of her own physical exhaustion. Now, having retired in recent years from her former busy life, she has time to spend quietly on Buddhist devotions-but you come around, hatching your malicious schemes to frustrate and upset her, spreading silly rumors at the yearend cleaning, thinking up ways to anger her at the busy year-end season. What a bitterly cruel thing to do.
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  Now, on happy and auspicious occasions, Sukefusa puts on a clean robe, clears his desk, takes out the letter, and slowly and carefully rereads it, treasuring it as a precious jewel. After I returned home from my pilgrimage in my early thirties and took up residence in Shin-ji, a strong friendship formed between us. We became closer than brothers. He kept the letter inside a fabric slipcase on which I had inscribed the characters nuno-tsutsumi (the "cloth drum") [something that is utterly useless].
  One day during a conversation he said, "You know, at first the words 'cloth drum' seemed strange to me. But now, after having read and reread the letter with great care, I have come to understand what a welcome and valuable work it is." Seeing the joy beam from his face as he spoke, I was filled with joy as well.

1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  After a time three wagonloads of gold and precious stones came to the King for his youngest son. They
  were sent by the kings who had been saved by the Princes sword and miraculous loaf, and who now

1.02 - SOCIAL HEREDITY AND PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  except inasmuch as it becomes the most precious and incorruptible
  of all things by adding itself to an immortal center of love: such is

1.02 - The Recovery, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
  His hair also caused some trouble, for it was in a terribly tangled "intrinsicate" mess due to its prolonged fixed position a network as complicated as its definition by Dr. Johnson. How to untangle it? I do not know what made us bold enough to tackle that feminine problem instead of placing it in the Mother's proper care. We had no idea then that she would be only too glad to do the job; neither did she offer to do it. And Sri Aurobindo, of course, kept quiet. It is we who must ask, must "open"! It took us about an hour's desperate and delicate handling to disentangle that conglomerate skein like Lord Shiva's matted locks and bring all into a decent order. Sri Aurobindo accepted this torture with his usual submission. At the end of the perpetration, he simply asked, "Have you left some hair?" We laughed. True, this was meant as a joke, but he was not indifferent to physical grace and beauty. Later on when the Mother took up his toilet and attended to his hair, after each combing, tufts of the precious glossy hair, were loosened off, and enriched Champaklal's treasury. Sri Aurobindo on being informed of this loss, did something to stop the falling, and till the end the hair retained its glistening abundance.
  When Dr. Manilal arrived, I breathed a sigh of relief! He was not very happy to see the new development, but hoped that everything would be all right. He was confronted with three problems: the swelling, educating the patient to walk and the bending of the knee, all of which he dealt with in his characteristic efficient manner. The swelling according to him would subside in due course. Gentle massage and hot and cold compress continued, followed later by hot douche. We used to note its diminution week by week. But it took some months to disappear completely. The bending of the knee would also take some time in view of the adhesion of the patella to the underlying tissues, in spite of passive movements. The re-education in walking seemed to be rather a straightforward job, though it was the most awkward and difficult one, for Sri Aurobindo had to walk with crutches! All that was needed was a patient and persistent effort. For Sri Aurobindo's nature, unaccustomed to physical or mechanical contrivances, and the narrow space in the room made the venture somewhat risky. The first day he got up to use the crutches was a memorable one for us. In the presence of the Mother we made him stand up, handed him the crutches and showed him how to use them. He fumbled and remarked, "Yes, it is easy to say." Two or three different pairs were tried out, but as he could not handle them properly, the Mother proposed that he had better walk leaning on two persons one on either side; It was certainly a bright suggestion, for Sri Aurobindo walking on crutches would have reminded us of his own phrase about Hephaestus' "lame omnipotent motion", an insult to his shining majestic figure. Purani and Satyendra were selected by Dr. Manilal as his human supports, much less incongruous than the ungainly wooden instruments! That was how the re-education started. The paradox of the Divine seeking frail human aid gave food to my sense of humour. However, both men proved unequal in stature; the Mother made Champaklal replace Satyendra on the left side. Now the arrangement was just and perfect and Champaklal had his aspiration fulfilled. His was the last support Sri Aurobindo was to give up. For, as his steps gained in strength and firmness, he used a stick in the right hand, and Champaklal on the left. Finally he too was dropped. As soon as it came to be known that the Master was using a walking stick, several were presented to him and there was one even of tea-wood from Assam! Thus everyday after the noon and night meals the Mother would come to his room and present the stick, and he would walk about for half an hour in her presence.

1.02 - The Stages of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
  People whose mode of thought tends to fancifulness and superstition can never make progress on the path to higher knowledge. It is indeed a precious treasure that the student is to acquire. All doubt regarding the higher worlds is removed from him. With all their laws they reveal themselves to his gaze. But he cannot acquire this treasure so long as he is the prey of fancies and illusions. It would indeed be fatal if his imagination and his prejudices ran away with his intellect. Dreamers and fantastical people are as unfit for the path to higher knowledge as superstitious people. This cannot be over-emphasized. For
   p. 91

1.03 - A Parable, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
  O riputra! What do you think about this? This afuent man gave to his children equally a large cart decorated with precious treasures. Has he deceived them or not?
  riputra replied: No Bhagavat! The afuent man only tried to help his children escape from the disastrous re. He saved their lives and did not deceive them. This is by no means a deception. Why? Because by saving their lives they obtained marvelous toys. Moreover, they were saved from the burning house by skillful means.
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  O riputra! Although that afuent man had physical strength he did not use it. He only earnestly employed skillful means to save his children from the disaster of the burning house, and later he gave each of them a large cart decorated with precious treasures. The Tathgata is exactly like this.
  Although the Tathgata has power and fearlessness he does not use them, but rescues sentient beings from the burning house of the triple world only through wisdom and skillful means, teaching the three vehicles to the
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  Adorned with various precious things
  Like gold, silver, lapis lazuli,

1.03 - Of some imperfections which some of these souls are apt to have, with respect to the second capital sin, which is avarice, in the spiritual sense, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
  a fish; his devotion was certainly no less precious on that account in the sight of
  God, for it is clear that these things carried no devotion in their workmanship or

1.03 - On Knowledge of the World., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
  The people of this world are also like the passengers in a ship, who while sailing upon the sea, arrive at an island. The sailors draw the ship to the shore, and then call out and say, "whoever wishes for water or other provisions, let him leave the ship and go and procure them : let him not delay, for the ship will not remain long. It is besides a dangerous place, and whoever remains here will perish." After receiving this warning, the passengers leave the ship, and are all scattered about, one in this direction and another in that. The wise passengers, remembering the admonition of the sailors, attended quickly to their affairs, and immediately returned to the ship. They selected the places in the ship [73] that pleased them best, and sat down calm and tranquil. Some of the passengers, however, gazed at the trees, the flowers and the fruits of the island, listened to and admired the notes of the birds, and became absorbed in looking at the wonderful curiosities found there. They delayed so long, that when they came to the ship, they found every place in the ship occupied, and no room for them to sit down. They finally entered, and found a corner with great difficulty, where they could just press themselves in. Others, not satisfied with gazing around, loaded themselves with stones that had the appearance of being precious, and after a time returned to the ship. They found it completely full, and absolutely no place to sit down. After they had entered, they were compelled from necessity to stow themselves in a dark place at the bottom. As for the stones which they had thought were jewels, they lost their color, putrefied, and sent forth such a disagreeable odor, as to affect the passengers to nausea. It was impossible to expel the odor and they remained to the last with its disagreeableness in the midst of them. Others still took so much pleasure in looking about the island, that they said to themselves, "where shall we be able to find a more delightful retreat than this ? It is not clear that the place where we are going is better than this," And so they chose to remain there; and after the departure of the ship some of them perished with hunger and thirst, and some were devoured by wild beasts. Not one of them was saved. In the future world they will certainly suffer pain and retribution.
  The Alchemy of Happiness, by Mohammed Al-Ghazzali, the Mohammedan Philosopher, trans. Henry A. Homes (Albany, N.Y.: Munsell, 1873). Transactions of the Albany Institute, vol. VIII.

1.03 - PERSONALITY, SANCTITY, DIVINE INCARNATION, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  Paradoxical as it may seem, it is, for very many persons, much easier to behave selflessly in time of crisis than it is when life is taking its normal course in undisturbed tranquillity. When the going is easy, there is nothing to make us forget our precious selfness, nothing (except our own will to mortification and the knowledge of God) to distract our minds from the distractions with which we have chosen to be identified; we are at perfect liberty to wallow in our personality to our hearts content. And how we wallow! It is for this reason that all the masters of the spiritual life insist so strongly upon the importance of little things.
  God requires a faithful fulfilment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.

1.03 - Reading, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
  No wonder that Alexander carried the Iliad with him on his expeditions in a precious casket. A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips;not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself. The symbol of an ancient mans thought becomes a modern mans speech. Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time. Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind. When the illiterate and perhaps scornful trader has earned by enterprise and industry his coveted leisure and independence, and is admitted to the circles of wealth and fashion, he turns inevitably at last to those still higher but yet inaccessible circles of intellect and genius, and is sensible only of the imperfection of his culture and the vanity and insufficiency of all his riches, and further proves his good sense by the pains which he takes to secure for his children that intellectual culture whose want he so keenly feels; and thus it is that he becomes the founder of a family.
  Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge of the history of the human race; for it is remarkable that no transcript of them has ever been made into any modern tongue, unless our civilization itself may be regarded as such a transcript. Homer has never yet been printed in English, nor schylus, nor Virgil evenworks as refined, as solidly done, and as beautiful almost as the morning itself; for later writers, say what we will of their genius, have rarely, if ever, equalled the elaborate beauty and finish and the lifelong and heroic literary labors of the ancients. They only talk of forgetting them who never knew them. It will be soon enough to forget them when we have the learning and the genius which will enable us to attend to and appreciate them. That age will be rich indeed when those relics which we call Classics, and the still older and more than classic but even less known Scriptures of the nations, shall have still further accumulated, when the Vaticans shall be filled with Vedas and

1.03 - Some Practical Aspects, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
  Patience has the effect of attraction, impatience the effect of repulsion on the treasures of higher knowledge. In the higher regions of existence nothing can be attained by haste and unrest. Above all things, desire and craving must be silenced, for these are qualities of the soul before which all higher knowledge shyly withdraws. However precious this knowledge is accounted, the student must not crave it if he wishes to attain it. If he wishes to have it for his own sake, he will never attain it. This requires him to be honest with himself in his innermost soul. He must in no case be under any illusion concerning
   p. 102

1.03 - Sympathetic Magic, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  filled with the precious crystals, would be empty like the spaces
  between the teeth of a comb. In the Kei Islands, to the southwest of
  --
  may be sweet and precious things may stick to his hands as if they
  were glued. The Greeks thought that a garment made from the fleece
  --
  The ancients set great store on the magical qualities of precious
  stones; indeed it has been maintained, with great show of reason,
  --
  generation." The precious ointment compounded out of these and other
  ingredients was applied, as the philosopher explains, not to the

1.03 - THE ORPHAN, THE WIDOW, AND THE MOON, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  [13] In the text cited at the end of the last section Dorn continues: Hermes Trismegistus called the stone orphan.66 Orphan as the name of a precious stone is found in Albertus Magnus. The stone was called orphan because of its uniquenessit was never seen elsewhere and it was said to be in the Emperors crown. It was wine-coloured and sometimes shone in the night, but nowadays it does not shine [any more] in the darkness.67 As Albertus Magnus was an authority on alchemy, he may have been the direct source both for Dorn and for Petrus Bonus (see n. 66). Orphan as the name of a gem may therefore mean something like the modern solitairea very apt name for the unique lapis Philosophorum. Apart from Dorn and Petrus Bonus, it seems that this name is found only in the Carmina Heliodori.68 There it refers to the
   (homeless orphan) who is slain at the beginning of the work for purposes of transformation.

1.03 - The Sephiros, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  The Diamond is attri buted to Keser, because it is the most permanent and glittering of precious jewels. For various reasons, too, the ancients made the Swan a corres- pondence of this digit. In the legends of all peoples, the
  Swan is the symbol of Spirit and Ecstasy. The Hindu legends narrate that the Swan (Hansa) when given milk mixed with water for its food separated the two, drinking the milk and leaving the water - this being supposed to show its transcendent wisdom. The Hawk also is a corres- pondence. Bearing in mind that Keser is the Monad, the individual point-of-view, we can understand that the Hawk is so attri buted because it has the habit of remaining poised in mid-air, looking down from the blue aether to earth and beholding all things with the eye of utter detachment.
  Ambergris, that rarest and most precious of perfumes - while having little perfume in itself is most admirable as the basis of compounds, bringing out the best of any other with which it may be mixed - finds its place in this category of ideas. The colour attri buted to Keser is White, its
  Tarotic attri butions are the four Aces, and it is called in the
  --
  Four Twos of the Tarot. Its precious stones are the Star
  Ruby representing the male energy of the creative Star, and the Turquoise suggesting Mazlos, the Sphere of the
  --
  Its colour is black, since it is negative and receptive of all things ; the precious stone attri buted hereto being the
  Pearl, on account of its being the typical stone of the sea, and also referring to the manner in which the pearl has its

1.03 - THE STUDY (The Exorcism), #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
  Not soon a second time he'll catch a prey so precious.
  MEPHISTOPHELES

1.03 - The Tale of the Alchemist Who Sold His Soul, #The Castle of Crossed Destinies, #Italo Calvino, #Fiction
  Now there was still The Wheel of Fortune to interpret, one of the most complicated images in the whole tarot game. It could mean simply that fortune had turned in Faust's direction, but this explanation seemed too obvious for the alchemist's narrative style, always elliptical and allusive. On the other hand, it was legitimate to suppose that our doctor, having got possession of the diabolical secret, conceived a monstrous plan: to change into gold all that was changeable. The wheel of the Tenth Arcanum would then literally mean the toiling gears of the Great Gold Mill, the gigantic mechanism which would raise up the Metropolis of precious Metal; and the human forms of various ages seen pushing the wheel or rotating with it were there to indicate the crowds of men who eagerly lent a hand to the project and dedicated the years of their lives to turning those wheels day and night. This interpretation failed to take into account all the details of the miniature (for example, the animalesque ears and tails that adorned some of the revolving human figures), but it was a basis for interpreting the following cards of cups and coins as the Kingdom of Abundance in which the City of Gold's inhabitants wallowed. (The rows of yellow circles perhaps evoked the gleaming domes of golden skyscrapers that flanked the streets of the Metropolis.)
  But when would the established price be collected by the Cloven Contracting Party? The story's two final cards were already on the table, placed there by the first narrator: the Two of Swords and Temperance. At the gates of the City of Gold armed guards blocked the way to anyone who wished to enter, to prevent access to the Cloven-hooved Collector, no matter in what guise he might turn up. And even if a simple maiden, like the one in the last card, were to approach, the guards made her halt.

1.03 - To Layman Ishii, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
  "The exchanges that took place when teachers and students faced each other in the past did not necessarily dispense with words, but when the students asked questions, they were generally for the purpose of seeking instruction, receiving appraisal of an opinion, probing the other's insight, resolving a troubling problem, or making a personal assertion.q They were nothing like the half-baked encounters carried out by the pseudo-Zennists of today, with teachers who can't tell the difference between fine and coarse, between rock and precious jade, wading in from the outset, doing what they can to free up the cicada's wings, r spewing out great quantities of the worst imaginable filth and lacquering their students' faces with the stuff."
  Boku said, "But there are students who reach satori by studying the words and teachings of the
  --
  "It was for students of the second and third type, who are engaged in the practice that one of the ancients described as gradual practice followed by sudden realization, that the step-by-step process set forth in the Ten Oxherding Pictures and the precious norms laid out in the Five Ranks were devised.u If they continue to practice assiduously, it is possible for them to advance into the ranks of those who have fully penetrated.
  "Finally, there are students who come to believe in a teaching they hear, accepting it as true even though it has no more substance than a shadow, and cling fast to it until the day they die. These are the hoodwinked. They have been bamboozled by words, yet continue to follow them scrupulously. They have not penetrated the wondrous and perfect self-nature that exists within their own minds, nor do they understand that the true reality of all forms in the external world is no-form. They follow arbitrarily the movements of their own minds and perceptions, confounding them for manifestations of truth, picking up various plausible notions that they begin spouting to everyone they meet: 'It's like a precious mirror that reflects unerringly a Chinese or a foreigner in all their perfections and imperfections when they come before it. It's like a mani gem set out on a tray reflecting all shapes and all colors without a single trace remaining behind. Your own mind is like that intrinsically. There is no need to refine it. No need to attain it through practice.' Having no doubt that they themselves belong to the ranks of the genuine priests who have achieved final cessation, if they hear of someone engaging in secret training and hidden practice, they fall about clutching their bellies in paroxysms of laughter.v
  "Ahh! They are plausible, all too plausible. The trouble is, having not yet broken free of that indestructible adamantine cage, they wander ever deeper into a forest of thorn, acknowledging a thief as their own son. It is because of this that the great master Ch'ang-sha said, 'The reason practicers fail to attain the Way is because they confound the ordinary working of their minds for truth. Although that has been the source of birth and death from the beginning of time, the fools insist on calling it their "original self."' They are like Temple Supervisor Tse before he visited master Fa-yen, like
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   maintained without alteration or diminution to the present day. Even students who have broken free of the adamantine cage and negotiated their way through the thicket of razor-edged briars, unless they also encounter a genuine teacher along the way and receive his personal instruction, they will be unable to grasp this matter even in their dreams. Why is that? Because from the very beginning, the sage teachers have been like celestial dragons grasping the precious night-shining gem tightly in their claws, not allowing turtles, sea urchins, fish, or other inhabitants of the deep to observe it. They are like venerable dragons, masters of the clouds and rain, whose essential role is totally beyond the ken of frogs and earthworms and other denizens of the waters. I speak of Zen masters like Nan-ch'uan,
  Ch'ang-sha, Huang-po, Su-shan, Tz'u-ming, Shao-shih, Chen-ching, Hsi-keng, Dai, and Wu-hsueh

1.03 - VISIT TO VIDYASAGAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  After a few days he reflected, 'The holy man asked me to go forward. He didn't tell me to stop here.' So he went forward and found a silver-mine. After a few days he went still farther and discovered a gold-mine, and next, mines of diamonds and precious stones.
  With these he became immensely rich.
  --
  MASTER (smiling): "Oh yes. There are many wealthy people who don't know the names of all their servants, and are even unaware of many of the precious things in their houses."(All laugh.)
  Everybody was delighted with the Master's conversation. Again addressing Vidyasagar, he said with a smile: "Please visit the temple garden some time - I mean the garden of Rasmani. It's a charming place."

1.04 - ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  Where many a precious gem lies hid.
  But never believe the bed of the ocean bare of gems If in the first few dives you fail;
  --
  Unnumbered pearls and precious gems;
  Plunge in, says Ramprasad, and gather up handfuls there!

1.04 - BOOK THE FOURTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  Tho' rich (he cry'd) with many a precious stain,
  Still from my blood a deeper tincture gain.

1.04 - GOD IN THE WORLD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  Li-lou lived in the reign of the Emperor Huang. He is said to have been able to distinguish the point of a soft hair at a distance of one hundred paces. His eyesight was extraordinary. When the Emperor Huang took a pleasure cruise on the River Chih, he dropped his precious jewel in the water and made Li fetch it up. But he failed. The Emperor made Chih-kou search for it; but he also failed to find it. Later Hsiang-wang was ordered to get it, and he got it. Hence,
  When Hsiang-wang goes down, the precious gem shines most brilliantly;
  But where Li-lou walks about, the waves rise even to the sky.
  --
  The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones of the street were as precious as gold. The gates at first were the end of the world. The green trees, when I saw them first through one of the gates, transported and ravished me; their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstasy, they were such strange and wonderful things. The Men! O what venerable and reverend creatures did the aged seem! Immortal Cherubim! And young men glittering and sparkling angels, and maids strange seraphic pieces of life and beauty! Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born or should the. But all things abided eternally as they were in their proper places. Eternity was manifested in the light of the day, and something infinite behind everything appeared; which talked with my expectation and moved my desire. The city seemed to stand in Eden, or to be built in Heaven. The streets were mine, the temple was mine, the people were mine, their clothes and gold and silver were mine, as much as their sparkling eyes, fair skins and ruddy faces. The skies were mine, and so were the sun and moon and stars, and all the world was mine; and I the only spectator and enjoyer of it. And so it was that with much ado I was corrupted and made to learn the dirty devices of the world. Which now I unlearn, and become as it were a little child again, that I may enter into the Kingdom of God.
  Thomas Traherne

1.04 - On blessed and ever-memorable obedience, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  fragrance. Then the great man allowed us to uncover the coffin in which he had been placed, and when this was done we all saw that fragrant myrrh was flowing like two fountains from his precious feet. Then that teacher said to all: Look! The sweat of his toils and labours have been offered as myrrh to God and truly accepted.
  The fathers of that place told us of many triumphs of this most saintly Menas, and amongst others the following: Once the superior wanted to test his God-given patience. In the evening Menas came to the abbots cell, and having prostrated before the abbot, asked him as usual to give him instruction. But the abbot left him lying on the ground till the hour of the Office, and only then blessed him; and having rebuked him for being fond of self-display and for being impatient, he ordered him to get up. The holy man knew Menas would bear all this courageously, and therefore he made this scene for the edification of all. A disciple of Saint Menas confirmed what was told us about his director, and added: I was inquisitive to know whether sleep overcame him while he lay prostrate before the abbot. But he assured me that while lying on the ground he had recited by heart the whole psalter.

1.04 - On Knowledge of the Future World., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
  If one of these men should, however, reply: "Indeed I do not" know for a certainty, but why should I on account of an uncertainty, pass my precious life in devotional austerities, and forbid myself the delights and pleasures of the world ?" We observe in return. According to your principles, the probabilities are balanced as to whether the events spoken of as belonging to the future world will or will not happen. It follows then as a most rational conclusion, that you ought to act in the same way you would do, if you wished to preserve yourself from a great risk and danger. For, if these events should take place, you may thereby be saved from intense torment and obtain eternal felicity; whereas, if they should not occur, you will have suffered no injury from your precautions. We [101] have, besides, the inspired word which declares that all these things will take place; and all the prophets (upon whom be peace!) and all the saints and teachers of religion (upon whom may God have mercy !) have testified to the truth of them.
  Do you not see that if you were desirous to partake of food and were just stretching forth your hand to take it, and some one should say, "Beware, and do not eat of that food, for it is deadly poison," or "a serpent has vomited upon it," that although there was a doubt in your mind whether what he said was true or false, still you would believe him and refrain from eating the food ? You would say to yourself: "If I do not eat it, I have nothing to suffer but to remain hungry for a while longer, but if I eat it, I may kill myself. It is prudent, therefore, for me to refrain from it."

1.04 - The Divine Mother - This Is She, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
  Then a year later I believe it was in 1935, he came to me for treatment for the first time. I wrote to Sri Aurobindo in my medical report, "S's story is out. In addition to green mangoes, he had some rasagollas too. This food business is almost a possession with him." Sri Aurobindo wrote back, "So I heard. Why almost?" "We have decided to remove his stove for good. Rather childish, but what else can be done?" I continued, and he replied, "Quite right. The Doctor said that he was surprised by the relapses of S's health until he found that when he was not there, S used to get up and secretly cook food for himself on the stove! Palate satisfaction seems to be more precious to him than his life." After about five months I received a note from Sri Aurobindo, "Is the condition of S dangerous or critical? If it is so or if it becomes so, it will be better to send for a French doctor who will take the responsibility of the case.... The Mother was knocked up in the small hours and informed that S was very bad and hiccoughing. I presume the French Doctor has been sent for by this time. If it is serious, let us have news 2 or 3 times a day." I replied to him, "S's condition is neither dangerous nor critical. It is a case of hyperacidity. He has vomited a lot and has found some relief now. But I hear that he wants to be treated by our renowned homeopath R. I have no objection, subject to your approval." And this is what Sri Aurobindo wrote to me, "I expect you to put your medical feelings under a glass case in a corner for the time and help the... Homeopath so far as nursing and other care for S goes." I handed over the patient to R and did the nursing part as asked by Sri Aurobindo. He also wanted me to send him a regular report of the case. The patient started copious vomiting of blood and passing blood in the stool. When I asked the Guru how far the exact reporting was essential for the action of the Force, he replied, "It is absolutely essential. Wrong information or concealment of important facts may have disastrous consequences." I reported, "His condition will be critical at night. Two things must be done: hiccough has to stop, and he must have sleep. He is extremely weak. Are you sure about him?" His answer came, "No. From the beginning of the case I have not been at all sure of it.... The circumstances have been very contrary and there has not been the usual response to the Force which makes recovery only a matter of time. It seems to me that it is an old illness which has Suddenly taken an acute and perilous form. If tomorrow morning there is no improvement, we can call Philaire5 (I hope it will be in time)."
  The next day, there was a sudden good turn putting the patient beyond the danger zone. Synchronous with the Mother's coming down to give general blessings, he went into a sound sleep with the temporary cessation of the hiccough. It was at this time that I felt that he had crossed the danger line. Sri Aurobindo, confirming my feelings, wrote, "There was something a sense of a danger passed and a Force put out.... There is a change in so far as S's physical has begun to respond while before it was not responsive at all. There is no longer the predominance of the dark forces that there was before. But the response has to increase before one can be absolutely sure of the result. The obstinacy of the hiccough is a dark point that ought to disappear."

1.04 - The Paths, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  Intelligence ". All hybrids are attri buted here ; its bird is the Magpie, and Alexandrite and Tourmaline its precious stones. Its colour is Mauve, and its plants are all forms and species of Orchids.
  The Tarot card is VI. - The Lovers. Ancient packs describe this as representing a man between two women, who arc Vice and Virtue, Lilith, the wife of the evil Samael, and Eve. Modern cards, however, show a nude male and female figure, with an angel or a Cupid with outspread wings hovering above them.
  --
  Snake, and Scorpion, representing the unredeemed man, his magical force, and his final " salvation ". All water plants and the Lotus are proper correspondences. Aqua- marine or Beryl is its precious stone, and Onycha and
  Myrrh its perfumes.

1.04 - The Praise, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
  the various precious stones that make
  her tiara shine of their own radiance.
  --
  moon crescent and the ornaments inlaid with precious
  stones adorning Tara's body and shining with a

1.04 - To the Priest of Rytan-ji, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
  Ttmi Province to lecture on a Chinese Zen text, precious Lessons of the Zen School. He was in the middle of his second decade of teaching at Shin-ji, having two years before completed a highly successful meeting that had established his reputation as one of the foremost Zen teachers in the country, and had also attracted a large assembly of trainees to the temple. Hakuin now seems more willing to accept requests from other temples to conduct lecture meetings.
  It was a convention to address letters of this type to the attendant rather than to the head priest himself. Hakuin also mentions that this is the third time he has received a letter from the attendant, alluding to a famous episode from the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history when the warlord
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  Ttmi Province to lecture on precious Lessons of the Zen School."
  But we learn from Trei's draft manuscript of the Chronological Biography that the meeting was actually held in autumn to commemorate the 650th anniversary of the temple's founding, and that "a hundred monks accompanied Hakuin on the journey to Ttmi to take part in the meeting." precious
  Lessons of the Zen School is a late twelfth-century work Hakuin frequently used as a text for lectures.

1.05 - Buddhism and Women, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
  given him the precious food. The two men became so
  angry that they threw the poor woman out without

1.05 - Mental Education, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Undeniably, what most impedes mental progress in children is the constant dispersion of their thoughts. Their thoughts flutter hither and thither like butterflies and they have to make a great effort to fix them. Yet this capacity is latent in them, for when you succeed in arousing their interest, they are capable of a good deal of attention. By his ingenuity, therefore, the educator will gradually help the child to become capable of a sustained effort of attention and a faculty of more and more complete absorption in the work in hand. All methods that can develop this faculty of attention from games to rewards are good and can all be utilised according to the need and the circumstances. But it is the psychological action that is most important and the sovereign method is to arouse in the child an interest in what you want to teach him, a liking for work, a will to progress. To love to learn is the most precious gift that one can give to a child: to love to learn always and everywhere, so that all circumstances, all happenings in life may be constantly renewed opportunities for learning more and always more.
  For that, to attention and concentration should be added observation, precise recording and faithfulness of memory. This faculty of observation can be developed by varied and spontaneous exercises, making use of every opportunity that presents itself to keep the child's thought wakeful, alert and prompt. The growth of the understanding should be stressed much more than that of memory. One knows well only what one has understood. Things learnt by heart, mechanically, fade away little by little and finally disappear; what is understood is never forgotten. Moreover, you must never refuse to explain to a child the how and the why of things. If you cannot do it yourself, you must direct the child to those who are qualified to answer or point out to him some books that deal with the question. In this way you will progressively awaken in the child the taste for true study and the habit of making a persistent effort to know.

1.05 - On the Love of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
  believers, "He loves them and they love Him,"[1] and the Prophet said, "Till a man loves God and His Prophet more than anything else he has not the right faith." When the angel of death came to take the soul of Abraham the latter said, "Have you ever seen a friend take his friend's life?" God answered him, "Have you ever seen a friend unwilling to see his friend?" Then Abraham said, "O Azrael! take my soul!" The following prayer was taught by the Prophet to his companions, "O God, grant me to love Thee and to love those who love Thee, and whatsoever brings me nearer to Thy love, and make Thy love more precious to me than cold water to the thirsty." Hassan Basri used to say, "He who knows God loves Him, and he who knows the world hates it."
  We come now to treat of love in its essential nature. Love may be defined as an inclination to that which is pleasant. This is apparent in the case of the five senses, each of which may be said to love that which gives it delight; thus the eye loves beautiful forms, the ear music, etc. This is a kind of love we share with the

1.05 - Pratyahara and Dharana, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
  Be like the pearl oyster. There is a pretty Indian fable to the effect that if it rains when the star Svti is in the ascendant, and a drop of rain falls into an oyster, that drop becomes a pearl. The oysters know this, so they come to the surface when that star shines, and wait to catch the precious raindrop. When a drop falls into them, quickly the oysters close their shells and dive down to the bottom of the sea, there to patiently develop the drop into the pearl. We should be like that. First hear, then understand, and then, leaving all distractions, shut your minds to outside influences, and devote yourselves to developing the truth within you. There is the danger of frittering away your energies by taking up an idea only for its novelty, and then giving it up for another that is newer. Take one thing up and do it, and see the end of it, and before you have seen the end, do not give it up. He who can become mad with an idea, he alone sees light. Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything. They may titillate their nerves for a moment, but there it will end. They will be slaves in the hands of nature, and will never get beyond the senses.
  Those who really want to be Yogis must give up, once for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced. Others are mere talking machines. If we really want to be blessed, and make others blessed, we must go deeper. The first step is not to disturb the mind, not to associate with persons whose ideas are disturbing. All of you know that certain persons, certain places, certain foods, repel you. Avoid them; and those who want to go to the highest, must avoid all company, good or bad. Practise hard; whether you live or die does not matter. You have to plunge in and work, without thinking of the result. If you are brave enough, in six months you will be a perfect Yogi. But those who take up just a bit of it and a little of everything else make no progress. It is of no use simply to take a course of lessons. To those who are full of Tamas, ignorant and dull those whose minds never get fixed on any idea, who only crave for something to amuse them religion and philosophy are simply objects of entertainment. These are the unpersevering. They hear a talk, think it very nice, and then go home and forget all about it. To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean," says the persevering soul, "at my will mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.

1.05 - Problems of Modern Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  ridden world a truth is so precious that nobody wants to let it slip merely
  for the sake of a few so-called exceptions which refuse to toe the line. And

1.05 - The Activation of Human Energy, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  himself on pain of death. precious though it is, the human
  monad remains vitally subjected to the law that, before his

1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  Yet no one prizes it, though, next to the human soul, it is the most beautiful and most precious thing
  upon earth [and has power to pull down kings and princes. Nevertheless, it is esteemed the vilest and
  --
  posterity how this most precious tree is planted, and how he that eats of its fruits shall hunger no
  more.642
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  cheap, immature and volatile; perfect, precious, ancient and solid; visible to all yet mysterious; costly, dark,
  hidden and evident, having one name and many names. The lapis was also the renewed King, the wise old
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  central and more precious fruit.
  Jung amplifies this comment:

1.05 - The Magical Control of the Weather, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  the precious stone, anoint it with oil, and put it in a pot full of
  water. After that the rain cannot fail to come. In the arid wastes

1.06 - LIFE AND THE PLANETS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  tates the birth of the most precious and essential beings. We can
  only bow before this universal law whereby, so strangely to our

1.06 - MORTIFICATION, NON-ATTACHMENT, RIGHT LIVELIHOOD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  A simple heart will love all that is most precious on earth, husb and or wife, parent or child, brother or friend, without marring its singleness; external things will have no attraction save inasmuch as they lead souls to Him; all exaggeration or unreality, affectation and falsehood must pass away from such a one, as the dews dry up before the sunshine. The single motive is to please God, and hence arises total indifference as to what others say and think, so that words and actions are perfectly simple and natural, as in his sight only. Such Christian simplicity is the very perfection of interior lifeGod, his will and pleasure, its sole object.
  N. Grou

1.06 - On Thought, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Without hoping to reach that point at once, we can strive to acquire an individual thought that is both original and as equitable as possible. Thus we shall have become minds of some consequence, with the right to bring to society the precious contri butions of their highest intuitions.
  I have several times spoken to you this evening of thought as a living and active being. This calls for an explanation. At our next meeting, I shall give you what I might call the chemical or inner structure of thought, its composition, how it is formed, how it lives, acts and transforms.

1.06 - THE MASTER WITH THE BRAHMO DEVOTEES, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  "Once a thief stole the jewels from the images in the temple of Radhakanta. Mathur Babu entered the temple and said to the Deity: 'What a shame, O God! You couldn't save Your own ornaments.' 'The idea!' I said to Mathur. 'Does He who has Lakshmi for His handmaid and attendant ever lack any splendour? Those jewels may be precious to you, but to God they are no better than lumps of clay. Shame on you! You shouldn't have spoken so meanly. 'What riches can you give to God to magnify His glory?'
  "Therefore I say, a man seeks the person in whom he finds joy. What need has he to ask where that person lives, the number of his houses, gardens, relatives, and servants, or the amount of his wealth? I forget everything when I see Narendra. Never, even unwittingly, have I asked him where he lived, what his father's profession was, or the number of his brothers.
  --
  Then he said: "Chaitanya used to shed tears of joy at the very mention of Krishna's name. God alone is the real Substance; all else is illusory. Man can realize God if he wants to, but he madly craves the enjoyment of 'woman and gold'. The snake has a precious stone in its head, but it is perfectly satisfied to eat a mere frog.
  "Bhakti is the one essential thing. Who can ever know God through reasoning? I want love of God. What do I care about knowing His infinite glories? One bottle of wine makes me drunk. What do I care about knowing how many gallons there are in the grog-shop?

1.07 - A Song of Longing for Tara, the Infallible, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
  From my heart I bow to Divine Mother Tara, essence of love and compassion, the most precious objects of refuge gathered into one. From
  now until I reach enlightenment, hook me with your great love and
  --
  From my heart I bow to Divine Mother Tara, essence of love and compassion, the most precious objects of refuge gathered into one. From now until
  I reach enlightenment, hook me with your great love and kindness to liberate me.
  --
  The most precious objects of refuge gathered into one highlights that
  Tara embodies all three objects of refugeBuddha, Dharma, and Sangha.
  --
  such as precious human life, the more layers of meaning I discover in them.
  If there are so many layers of meaning in a topic found at the beginning of the
  --
  We think that will bring us happiness. Our precious human life, which could
  be used to progress along the path to enlightenment and to unveil our
  --
  Sometimes we pray to be reborn with a precious human life and at other
  times in a pure land such as Tushita, Sukhavati, or Akanishta. In the Six-Session Guru Yoga we aspire to be reborn in Shambhala. You may wonder: Why
  --
  A precious human life in this world is the best basis for practicing highest yoga tantra, which, in turn, can bring disciples of great faculties to
  enlightenment in this lifetime. But doing tantric practice properly requires
  --
  to the pleasures of this life. Even with a precious human life, we are pulled in
  a lot of non-Dharma directions, as we know from our own experience. So
  --
  But the bottom line is that our mother gave us this body, this precious human
  life. That alone constitutes tremendous kindness because without this body,
  --
  regard Tara and the Triple Gem as rare and precious. Through this, we will
  subdue the four negative forces the four maras. The rst mara is death

1.07 - BOOK THE SEVENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  (Each life more precious than our golden fleece);
  A nobler soil by me shall be possest,

1.07 - On Dreams, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Although there are dreams which we should contend with or transform, there are others which should on the contrary be cultivated as precious auxiliaries in our work within and around us.
  There can be no doubt that from many points of view our subconscient knows more than our habitual consciousness.

1.07 - The Fire of the New World, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  And we return again to our question: What is this new consciousness? Where did it come from if it is not the fruit of our precious brain?... At bottom, the dread of the materialist is to find himself suddenly face to face, without warning, with a God to adore, and we certainly sympathize with him when we see the puerile pictures the religions have painted of Him. The apes, too, if they had such an idea, would have painted as childish a picture of the supernatural and divine powers of man. Is to be worshipped what makes us wider, more beautiful, more sunlit; and ultimately, that wideness, beauty and sunlight are accessible to us only because they are already there in us, otherwise we would not recognize them. Only the like recognizes the like. This growing likeness is the only godhead worthy of worship. But we want to believe that it does not stop with the gilded mediocrity of our scientific feats, any more than it stopped with the prowess of the Pithecanthropus. This new consciousness is therefore not so new; it is our look which is new, the likeness which is growing more perfect (we should perhaps say the world's exactitude which is drawing closer). This world, as we now all know, is not as it appears; this matter, so solid to our eyes, this water so crystalline, this exquisite rose vanish into something else, and the rose never was rose, nor the water crystalline; this water flows and bubbles as much as this table and this rock, and nothing is immobile. We have widened our field of vision. But what destroyed the rose? Which is right, the microscope or our eyes? Probably both, and neither completely. The microscope neither cancels nor negates our superficial vision; it only touches another degree of reality, a second level of the same thing. And because the microscope sees differently, it can act differently and open up to us a whole spectrum of rays that are going to change our surface. But there may be a third, unexplored level of the same eternal Thing yet another look, for what is new under the stars except our look at the stars? And most likely there are still more levels, infinitely more levels awaiting our discovery, for what could possibly put a final stop to the great efflorescence? There is no stop, no distant Goal; there is our growing look and a Goal which is here at each instant. There is a great blossoming gradually stripping its marvel, petal by petal. And each new look changes our world and all the surface laws as drastically as the laws of Einstein have changed Newton's world. To see differently is to be able to do differently. That third level is the new consciousness. And it cancels neither the rose nor the microscope nothing is canceled in the end, except, gradually, our folly. It only links that rose to the great total blossoming, and that bubbling water, that chance pebble, that little being alone in his corner, to the great flow of the one and only Power which gradually molds us into the golden likeness of a great inner Look. And perhaps it will open for us the door to less monstrous miracles: tiny natural miracles that bring the great Goal alive at each instant and reveal the totality of the marvel in one point.
  But where is the mysterious key to that third level? In reality, it is not mysterious after all, although it is full of mysteries. It does not depend on complicated instruments, does not hide under a secret knowledge, does not fall from the sky for the elect it is there, almost visible to the naked eye, utterly simple and natural. It has been there since the beginning of time, in that seed harboring a smoldering fire: a need to reach out and take; in that great nebula gathering its grains of atoms: a need to grow and be; under those sleeping waters already simmering with an impatient fire of life: a need for air and open space. And everything began to move, impelled by the same fire: the heliotrope toward the sun, the dove toward its companion and man toward we know not what. An immense Need in the heart of the worlds, all the way to the galaxies out there, to the limits of Andromeda, which drew each other into a mortal gravitational embrace. That need we see at our own level; it is small or less small, it asks for air or sunlight, a companion and children, books, art and music, objects by the millions but it has really only one object, it asks for only one music, a single sun and a single air. It is a need for infinity. For it was born out of infinity. And so long as it does not meet its one object, it will not stop, nor will the galaxies stop devouring each other, nor men struggling and toiling to seize the one thing they think they do not have, but which pushes and prods inside, poking its unsatisfied fire until we attain the ultimate satisfaction and at once the plenitude of millions of vain objects, of an ephemeral rose and a trivial little gesture. It is this Fire that is the key, because it is born out of the supreme Power that set the world on fire; it is this Fire that sees, because it is born out of the supreme Vision that conceived this seed; it is this Fire that knows, because it recognizes itself everywhere, in things and beings, in the pebble and the stars. This is the Fire of the new world which burns in the heart of man, This that wakes in the sleepers, says the Upanishad.14 And it will not rest until everything is restored to its full truth, and the world to its joy, for it is born of Joy and for Joy.

1.07 - TRUTH, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  With Keatss statement in its secondary meaning the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy would certainly disagree. The experience of beauty in art or in nature may be qualitatively akin to the immediate, unitive experience of the divine Ground or Godhead; but it is not the same as that experience, and the particular beauty-fact experienced, though partaking in some sort of the divine nature, is at several removes from the Godhead. The poet, the nature lover, the aesthete are granted apprehensions of Reality analogous to those vouchsafed to the selfless contemplative; but because they have not troubled to make themselves perfectly selfless, they are incapable of knowing the divine Beauty in its fulness, as it is in itself. The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater. True, his idolatry is among the highest of which human beings are capable; but an idolatry, none the less, it remains.
  The experience of beauty is pure, self-manifested, compounded equally of joy and consciousness, free from admixture of any other perception, the very twin brother of mystical experience, and the very life of it is super-sensuous wonder It is enjoyed by those who are competent thereto, in identity, just as the form of God is itself the joy with which it is recognized.

1.08a - The Ladder, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  " Good the long hours of sun-drenched silence, wherein through the wide-flung doors of the spirit crept in the crystal light and the sea's low music, to dwell there long after the doors were shut again. Full length in the sand or diving under the water, Being was ecstasy. There was an intense consciousness of youth which one knows not in towns, lusty and happy youth which is made of the Sun's ardour and the sea's rhythm. . . . One's body there in the sand was a vessel to hold them all, a precious and God-given chalice tense with love and pity, that dared not move lest the magical wine be spilled and the spell be broken. ... I thought I had never been so happy, that I had drunk of the wine of the gods rather than the common elements of earth, perceiving faintly that they might be one and the same.
  ... For hidden in them and yet revealed was that secret

1.08 - Attendants, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
  "Sri Aurobindo did not speak much or often but I heard Him on several subjects. He did not speak to me directly except a few times and the memory of this is very precious. I had, however, the great good fortune of being able to make my private pranams to Him on Darshan days and lay my head in His lap and look closely into His eyes. But otherwise, except for being in His immediate presence for an hour each day, I did not have close contact with Him.
  "One day, however, a few days before His passing I found him looking at me very closely and intensely with such a love and compassion that passes all description. I was alone with Him at the time. I did not know why He was looking at me so, but I was so carried away with joy by the love He showered on me in His look that I did not bother about the reason for it. It was only later, when comparing notes with the others who served Him personally, that I discovered that He was bidding me a physical good-bye. He had done the same to others to each differently and, it seems, each one was puzzled at the time. But when He left us physically soon after, we guessed the reason."

1.08 - EVENING A SMALL, NEATLY KEPT CHAMBER, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
  Naught was to him more precious;
  He drained it at every bout:

1.08 - The Depths of the Divine, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
  Which is why Teresa sings of embracing all creatures from the center of the love and joy that now overflows from her innermost being: "These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth is that this joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself, and of everything, that it is conscious of nothing, and able to speak of nothing, save of that which proceeds from its joy. . . . Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should we want to be more sensible than she? What can give us greater pleasure than to do as she does? And may all the creatures join with us for ever and ever. Amen, amen, amen."43
  And the little butterfly? What has become of her? As the ego (silkworm) died and was reborn as the soul (butterfly), so now the soul, after traversing the psychic and subtle domains and serving its purpose well, enters finally into its Spiritual Marriage, its own omega point, its deeper and greater context, and thus dies to its lesser being, dies as a separate self. "For it is here," she says softly, "that the little butterfly dies, and with the greatest joy, because Christ is now its life."

1.08 - The Supreme Discovery, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  That is why I remind you of it today. For if we follow our path bearing this thought in our hearts like the rarest jewel, the most precious treasure, if we allow it to do its work of illumination and transfiguration within us, we shall know that it lives in the centre of all beings and all things, and in it we shall feel the marvellous oneness of the universe.
  Then we shall understand the vanity and childishness of our meagre satisfactions, our foolish quarrels, our petty passions, our blind indignations. We shall see the dissolution of our little faults, the crumbling of the last entrenchments of our limited personality and our obtuse egoism. We shall feel ourselves being swept along by this sublime current of true spirituality which will deliver us from our narrow limits and bounds.

1.09 - ADVICE TO THE BRAHMOS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  Cherish my precious Mother Syama
  Tenderly within, O mind;
  --
  Round the neck, on one side, a wild-flower garl and hangs, And, on the other, there swings a necklace of precious gems.
  A ring of gold adorns one ear, a ring of shell the other; Half of the brow is bright as the blazing midday sun, The other softly gleams with the glow of the rising moon.

1.09 - Legend of Lakshmi, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
  Thus prayed to, the supreme deity, the mighty holder of the conch and discus, shewed himself to them: and beholding the lord of gods, bearing a shell, a discus, and a mace, the assemblage of primeval form, and radiant with embodied light, Pitāmahā and the other deities, their eyes moistened with rapture, first paid him homage, and then thus addressed him: "Repeated salutation to thee, who art indefinable: thou art Brahmā; thou art the wielder of the Pināka bow (Śiva); thou art Indra; thou art fire, air, the god of waters, the sun, the king of death (Yama), the Vasus, the Māruts (the winds), the Sādhyas, and Viśvadevas. This assembly of divinities, that now has come before thee, thou art; for, the creator of the world, thou art every where. Thou art the sacrifice, the prayer of oblation, the mystic syllable Om, the sovereign of all creatures: thou art all that is to be known, or to be unknown: oh universal soul, the whole world consists of thee. We, discomfited by the Daityas, have fled to thee, oh Viṣṇu, for refuge. Spirit of all, have compassion upon us; defend us with thy mighty power. There will be affliction, desire, trouble, and grief, until thy protection is obtained: but thou art the remover of all sins. Do thou then, oh pure of spirit, shew favour unto us, who have fled to thee: oh lord of all, protect us with thy great power, in union with the goddess who is thy strength[6]." Hari, the creator of the universe, being thus prayed to by the prostrate divinities, smiled, and thus spake: "With renovated energy, oh gods, I will restore your strength. Do you act as I enjoin. Let all the gods, associated with the Asuras, cast all sorts of medicinal herbs into the sea of milk; and then taking the mountain Mandara for the churning-stick, the serpent Vāsuki for the rope, churn the ocean together for ambrosia; depending upon my aid. To secure the assistance of the Daityas, you must be at peace with them, and engage to give them an equal portion of the fruit of your associated toil; promising them, that by drinking the Amrita that shall be produced from the agitated ocean, they shall become mighty and immortal. I will take care that the enemies of the gods shall not partake of the precious draught; that they shall share in the labour alone."
  Being thus instructed by the god of gods, the divinities entered into alliance with the demons, and they jointly undertook the acquirement of the beverage of immortality. They collected various kinds of medicinal herbs, and cast them into the sea of milk, the waters of which were radiant as the thin and shining clouds of autumn. They then took the mountain Mandara for the staff; the serpent Vāsuki for the cord; and commenced to churn the ocean for the Amrita. The assembled gods were stationed by Kṛṣṇa at the tail of the serpent; the Daityas and Dānavas at its head and neck. Scorched by the flames emitted from his inflated hood, the demons were shorn of their glory; whilst the clouds driven towards his tail by the breath of his mouth, refreshed the gods with revivifying showers. In the midst of the milky sea, Hari himself, in the form of a tortoise, served as a pivot for the mountain, as it was whirled around. The holder of the mace and discus was present in other forms amongst the gods and demons, and assisted to drag the monarch of the serpent race: and in another vast body he sat upon the summit of the mountain. With one portion of his energy, unseen by gods or demons, he sustained the serpent king; and with another, infused vigour into the gods.

1.09 - SKIRMISHES IN A WAY WITH THE AGE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
  contented and even thankful; and at times he gets preciously near to
  that serene superiority of the worthy bourgeois who returning from an

1.09 - Talks, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
  In the beginning, as I said, Dr. Manilal was the spearhead of the attack. What we did not dare to ask because of our youth, our shyness or even our sophistication, he, our elderly doctor, babbled away like a simple child, bluntly and sweetly, and we were greatly rewarded. We were so much charmed by the novelty of the talks that none of us thought of keeping any record. I would make some mental notes and when I visited Dilip's place for tea pour them out and make everybody roar with laughter. He would regale me with a sumptuous breakfast, in return for the divine ambrosia. After about a fortnight of squandering the precious talks which, had they been noted and published, would have made another volume, I realised my mistake and thought, "Why not keep a record?" But I would debate, "What's the use since they will never be published?" Thus in two minds, I started noting them down in the middle of the night after the work was over or at other odd hours. Quite often my colleagues would help me in rescuing some of the points I had lost, or correcting and adding others. Still almost one third of the talks were not recorded for want of time or sheer laziness. Meanwhile the news had gone abroad that Sri Aurobindo was having talks with us. So people began to waylay or hunt us out for some nectar and our stock went up. Groups were formed, according to the law of sympathy and attraction for hearing the "Divine news". Some approached Dr. Manilal, some Purani some Satyendra and others came to me. Many advised us to keep a diary and others must have suspected that we were doing so already. Sri Aurobindo did not know, at least physically, about it and there was even a fear that if he did, he might stop talking altogether. Now I feel that some Hand must have pushed me over my reluctance and turned out a fairly good record, after all.
  With Sri Aurobindo's gradual recovery the time of the talks also changed. They were held mostly during his sponging and later during his bath. As the years passed, the original stream of abundance began to get thinner and thinner till in the last years there was practically a silent attendance on a silent Presence. Either we had exhausted all topics and a satiation had followed and dried up all our inspiration or Sri Aurobindo had withdrawn his inner gesture of approval. Only when Dr. Manilal arrived from Baroda, the still atmosphere quickened with life for a while but he too would soon lapse into a quiescent mood.

1.1.01 - The Divine and Its Aspects, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
      In X's case there exists a conflict between his ideas of the Truth and his heart. But in following the heart in its purer impulses one follows something that is at least as precious as the mind's loyalty to its own conceptions of what the Truth may be.
      *

11.02 - The Golden Life-line, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The Upanishad speaks of the creation as a garl and and all the elements of life that are like precious jewelsare strung upon a secret thread. Indeed, it is not on nothing that this multiplicity which is the creation is standing and holding together. There is however a twofold secret threadone that binds together a world of ignorance: that is the thread of ignorance which passes through, even keeps alive as it were, all the expressions and embodiments of the ignorance, pain and suffering, greed and hunger, egoism and selfishness and all forms of what is called evil. But it is the apparent world; even so, it is not pure delusion: it is a make-believe or falsehood which keeps behind it the true, the real world. That world lies behind the mask, the present actual world; it is another world of light and truth, power and delight and purity. There the link that binds together the succession of events and realities is a golden thread of pure consciousness. The link of ignorance is, one may say, the iron link, and is open to rust and decay inevitably. It is the link that binds together the ordinary life of ignorance, that pulls always backward, clings to all that has gone by, seeks to extend the past into the present and the future, feels unhappy if that is disturbed.
   In a new and higher life we are asked to discard that link and come out of it, to discover the other inner link, the link of light. That turns always to the future, directs all impulses and activities towards the realities that are to be.

1.10 - BOOK THE TENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  Her fragrant flow'rs, her trees with precious tears,
  Her second harvests, and her double years;
  --
  For still the precious drops her name retain.
  Mean-time the mis-begotten infant grows,
  --
  Fair author of the precious gift, he said,
  Be thou, O Goddess, author of my aid!

1.10 - THE NEIGHBORS HOUSE, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
  Whoever could have brought me things so precious?
  That something's wrong, I feel suspicious.

1.11 - FAITH IN MAN, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  common view of the world, infinitely precious in itself, if we con-
  sider it simply in terms of its application and result, without look-

1.11 - WITH THE DEVOTEES AT DAKSHINEWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  How many pearls and precious stones
  Are scattered all about
  --
  Master's exhortation to a devotee to go forward Kedar believed in certain queer practices of a religious sect to which he had once belonged. He held the Master's big toe in his hand, believing that in this way the Master's spiritual power would be transmitted to him. As Sri Ramakrishna regained partial consciousness, he said, "Mother, what can he do to me by holding my toe?" Kedar sat humbly with folded hands. Still in an ecstatic mood, the Master said to Kedar: "Your mind is still attracted by 'woman and gold'. What is the use of saying you don't care for it? Go forward. Beyond the forest of sandalwood there are many more things: mines of silver, gold, diamonds, and other precious stones. Having a glimpse of spirituality, don't think you have attained everything." The Master was again in an ecstatic mood. He said to the Divine Mother, "Mother, take him away." At these words Kedar's throat dried up.
  In a frightened tone he said to Ram, "What is the Master saying?"
  --
  Go forward. The wood-cutter, following the instructions of the holy man, went forward and found in the forest sandalwood and mines of silver and gold; and going still farther, he found diamonds and other precious stones.
  "The ignorant are like people living in a house with clay walls. There is very little light inside, and they cannot see outside at all. But those who enter the world after attaining the Knowledge of God are like people living in a house made of glass. For them both inside and outside are light. They can see things outside as well as inside.
  --
  When you must forfeit your precious field;
  Gather, O mind, what fruit you may.

1.11 - Woolly Pomposities of the Pious Teacher, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
    Wears yet a precious jewel in its head."
  and the result of letting

1.12 - BOOK THE TWELFTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  Of precious weight: a sconce that hung on high,
  With tapers fill'd, to light the sacristy,

1.1.2 - Commentary, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  things are so precious to him that for what he can get of them
  he is ready to pay the price of continual suffering from the

1.12 - God Departs, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
  "I who had depended so much on Sri Aurobindo in all my writing work when he had woken to inspiration the labouring poet, stirred to literary insight the fumbling critic, shaped out of absolute nothing the political commentator I who had almost every day despatched to him some piece of writing for consideration felt a void at the thought that he would not be in that room of his, listening so patiently to my poetry or prose and sending me by letter or telegram his precious guidance. A fellow-sadhak, Udar, spoke to the Mother about my plight. On December 12, the inmates of the Ashram met her again and each received from her hands a photograph of Sri Aurobindo taken after his passing. It was dusk, as far as I recollect. She must have seen a certain helplessness on my face. Smiling as she alone can do, she looked me in the eyes and said, 'Nothing has changed. Call for inspiration and help as you have always done. You will get everything from Sri Aurobindo as before.'"
  Champaklal remained sitting at the foot of the bed day and night. The Mother gave him a good quantity of milk to drink at night that was all for physical sustenance.

1.12 - Sleep and Dreams, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Sri Aurobindo and of his help given through an intimate and true relation, even though veiled to the outer consciousness. This is a precious experience worth being kept in the most sacred corner of the remembrance.
  The six couches: the seats, basis of the powers of creation (6).

1.12 - The Left-Hand Path - The Black Brothers, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
    And thou shalt give thy wisdom unto the world, and that shall be thy garden. And concerning time and death, thou hast naught to do with these things. For though a precious stone be hidden in the sand of the desert, it shall not heed for the wind of the desert, although it be but sand. For the worker of works hath worked thereupon; and because it is clear, it is invisible; and because it is hard, it moveth not.
    All these words are heard by everyone that is called NEMO. And with that doth he apply himself to understanding. And he must understand the virtue of the waters of death, and he must understand the virtue of the sun and of the wind, and of the worm that turneth the earth, and of the stars that roof in the garden. And he must understand the separate nature and property of every flower, or how shall he tend his garden?

1.13 - BOOK THE THIRTEENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  Pond'rous with precious weight, and rough with cost
  Of the round world in rising gold emboss'd.

1.13 - Gnostic Symbols of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  qualities of marcasites, all the essence of precious stones. How should I count all
  these things, and name them? They are all within man, no fewer and no less, as

1.13 - THE HUMAN REBOUND OF EVOLUTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  ply not to any one part, but to all that is deepest, most precious and
  most incommunicable in our consciousness. So that the process of

1.14 - INSTRUCTION TO VAISHNAVS AND BRHMOS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  Saying this, Sri Ramakrishna began to sing in his soul-enthralling voice: Cherish my precious Mother Syama
  Tenderly within, O mind;

1.15 - The world overrun with trees; they are destroyed by the Pracetasas, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
  WHILST the Pracetasas were thus absorbed in their devotions, the trees spread and overshadowed the unprotected earth, and the people perished: the winds could not blow; the sky was shut out by the forests; and mankind was unable to labour for ten thousand years. When the sages, coming forth from the deep, beheld this, they were angry, and, being incensed, wind and flame issued from their mouths. The strong wind tore up the trees by their roots, and left them sear and dry, and the fierce fire consumed them, and the forests were cleared away. When Soma (the moon), the sovereign of the vegetable world, beheld all except a few of the trees destroyed, he went to the patriarchs, the Pracetasas, and said, "Restrain your indignation, princes, and listen to me. I will form an alliance between you and the trees. Prescient of futurity, I have nourished with my rays this precious maiden, the daughter of the woods. She is called Māṛṣā, and is assuredly the offspring of the trees. She shall be your bride, and the multiplier of the race of Dhruva. From a portion of your lustre and a portion of mine, oh mighty sages, the patriarch Dakṣa shall be born of her, who, endowed with a part of me, and composed of your vigour, shall be as resplendent as fire, and shall multiply the human race.
  "There was formerly (said Soma) a sage named Kaṇḍu, eminent in holy wisdom, who practised pious austerities on the lovely borders of the Gomati river. The king of the gods sent the nymph Pramlocā to disturb his penance, and the sweet-smiling damsel diverted the sage from his devotions. They lived together, in the valley of Mandara, for a hundred and fifty years; during which, the mind of the Muni was wholly given up to enjoyment. At the expiration of this period the nymph requested his permission to return to heaven; but the Muni, still fondly attached to her, prevailed upon her to remain for some time longer; and the graceful damsel continued to reside for another hundred years, and delight the great sage by her fascinations. Then again she preferred her suit to be allowed to return to the abodes of the gods; and again the Muni desired her to remain. At the expiration of more than a century the nymph once more said to him, with a smiling countenance, 'Brahman, I depart;' but the Muni, detaining the fine-eyed damsel, replied, 'Nay, stay yet a little; you will go hence for a long period.' Afraid of iñcurring an imprecation, the graceful nymph continued with the sage for nearly two hundred years more, repeatedly asking his permission to go to the region of the king of the gods, but as often desired by him to remain. Dreading to be cursed by him, and excelling in amiable manners, well knowing also the pain that is inflicted by separation from an object of affection, she did not quit the Muni, whose mind, wholly subdued by love, became every day more strongly attached to her.

1.16 - Man, A Transitional Being, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  Nevertheless, he was no philosopher. And philosophy! Let me tell you in confidence that I never, never, never was a philosopher although I have written philosophy which is another story altogether. I knew precious little about philosophy before I did the Yoga and came to Pondicherry I was a poet and a politician, not a philosopher. How I
  managed to do it and why? First, because Paul Richard proposed to me to cooperate in a philosophic review and as my theory was that a Yogi ought to be able to turn his hand to anything, I could not very well refuse; and then he had to go to the war and left me in the lurch with sixty-four pages a month of philosophy all to write by my lonely self. Secondly, because I had only to write down in the terms of the intellect all that I had observed and come to know in practising Yoga daily and the philosophy was there automatically. But that is not being a philosopher!301 And so it was that Sri Aurobindo became a writer. He was forty-two. Typically, he himself had decided nothing:

1.16 - The Process of Avatarhood, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  He is ignorant because there is upon the eyes of his soul and all its organs the seal of that Nature, Prakriti, Maya, by which he has been put forth into manifestation out of God's eternal being; she has minted him like a coin out of the precious metal of the divine substance, but overlaid with a strong coating of the alloy of her phenomenal qualities, stamped with her own stamp and mark of animal humanity, and although the secret sign of the Godhead is there, it is at first indistinguishable and always with difficulty decipherable, not to be really discovered except by that initiation into the mystery of our own being which distinguishes a Godward from an earthward humanity.
  In the Avatar, the divinely-born Man, the real substance shines

1.17 - DOES MANKIND MOVE BIOLOGICALLY UPON ITSELF?, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  us along because we fear that in doing so we shall lose the precious
  fragment, "me", which we have acquired. But how can we fail to

1.17 - Legend of Prahlada, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
  Again established in the dwelling of his preceptor, Prahlāda gave lessons himself to the sons of the demons, in the intervals of his leisure. "Sons of the offspring of Diti," he was accustomed to say to them, "hear from me the supreme truth; nothing else is fit to be regarded; nothing, else here is an object to be coveted. Birth, infancy, and youth are the portion of all creatures; and then succeeds gradual and inevitable decay, terminating with all beings, children of the Daityas, in death: this is manifestly visible to all; to you as it is to me. That the dead are born again, and that it cannot be otherwise, the sacred texts are warrant: but production cannot be without a material cause; and as long as conception and parturition are the material causes of repeated birth, so long, be sure, is pain inseparable from every period of existence. The simpleton, in his inexperience, fancies that the alleviation of hunger, thirst, cold, and the like is pleasure; but of a truth it is pain; for suffering gives delight to those whose vision is darkened by delusion, as fatigue would be enjoyment to limbs that are incapable of motion[3]. This vile body is a compound of phlegm and other humours. Where are its beauty, grace, fragrance, or other estimable qualities? The fool that is fond of a body composed of flesh, blood, matter, ordure, urine, membrane, marrow, and bones, will be enamoured of hell. The agreeableness of fire is caused by cold; of water, by thirst; of food, by hunger: by other circumstances their contraries are equally agreeable[4]. The child of the Daitya who takes to himself a wife introduces only so much misery into his bosom; for as many as are the cerished affections of a living creature, so many are the thorns of anxiety implanted in his heart; and he who has large possessions in his house is haunted, wherever he goes, with the apprehension that they may be lost or burnt or stolen. Thus there is great pain in being born: for the dying man there are the tortures of the judge of the deceased, and of passing again into 'the womb. If you conclude that there is little enjoyment in the embryo state, you must then admit that the world is made up of pain. Verily I say unto you, that in this ocean of the world, this sea of many sorrows, Viṣṇu is your only hope. If ye say, you know nothing of this; 'we are children; embodied spirit in bodies is eternal; birth, youth, decay, are the properties of the body, not of the soul[5].' But it is in this way that we deceive ourselves. I am yet a child; but it is my purpose to exert myself when I am a youth. I am yet a youth; but when I become old I will do what is needful for the good of my soul. I am now old, and all my duties are to be fulfilled. How shall I, now that my faculties fail me, do what was left undone when my strength was unimpaired?' In this manner do men, whilst their minds are distracted by sensual pleasures, ever propose, and never attain final beatitude: they die thirsting[6]. Devoted in childhood to play, and in youth to pleasure, ignorant and impotent they find that old age is come upon them. Therefore even in childhood let the embodied soul acquire discriminative wisdom, and, independent of the conditions of infancy, youth, or age, strive incessantly to be freed. This, then, is what I declare unto you; and since you know that it is not untrue, do you, out of regard to me, call to your minds Viṣṇu, the liberator from all bondage. What difficulty is there in thinking upon him, who, when remembered, bestows prosperity; and by recalling whom to memory, day and night, all sin is cleansed away? Let all your thoughts and affections be fixed on him, who is present in all beings, and you shall laugh at every care. The whole world is suffering under a triple affliction[7]. 'What wise man would feel hatred towards beings who are objects of compassion? If fortune be propitious to them, and I am unable to partake of the like enjoyments, yet wherefore should I cerish malignity towards those who are more prosperous than myself: I should rather sympathise with their happiness; for the suppression of malignant feelings is of itself a reward[8]. If beings are hostile, and indulge in hatred, they are objects of pity to the wise, as encompassed by profound delusion. These are the reasons for repressing hate, which are adapted to the capacities of those who see the deity distinct from his creatures. Hear, briefly, what influences those who have approached the truth. This whole world is but a manifestation of Viṣṇu, who is identical with all things; and it is therefore to be regarded by the wise as not differing from, but as the same with themselves. Let us therefore lay aside the angry passions of our race, and so strive that we obtain that perfect, pure, and eternal happiness, which shall be beyond the power of the elements or their deities, of fire, of the sun, of the moon, of wind, of Indra, of the regent of the sea; which shall be unmolested by spirits of air or earth; by Yakṣas, Daityas, or their chiefs; by the serpent-gods or monstrous demigods of Swerga; which shall be uninterrupted by men or beasts, or by the infirmities of human nature; by bodily sickness and disease[9], or hatred, envy, malice, passion, or desire; which nothing shall molest, and which every one who fixes his whole heart on Keśava shall enjoy. Verily I say unto you, that you shall have no satisfaction in various revolutions through this treacherous world, but that you will obtain placidity for ever by propitiating Viṣṇu, whose adoration is perfect calm. What here is difficult of attainment, when he is pleased? Wealth, pleasure, virtue, are things of little moment. precious is the fruit that you shall gather, be assured, from the exhaustless store of the tree of true wisdom."
  Footnotes and references:

1.17 - M. AT DAKSHINEWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  The Master said to him: "Dive deep; one does not get the precious gems by merely floating on the surface. God is without form, no doubt; but He also has form. By meditating on God with form one speedily acquires devotion; then one can meditate on the formless God. It is like throwing a letter away, after learning its contents, and then setting out to follow its instructions."
  Saturday, December 22, 1883

1.17 - The Transformation, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  owing to its obscurity and mechanical clinging to past movements and facile oblivion and rejection of the new, we find in it one of the chief obstacles to permeation by the supermind Force and the transformation of the functioning of the body. On the other hand, once effectively converted, it will be one of the most precious instruments of the stabilisation of the supramental Light and Force in material Nature.370
  This work is so minute that it is hard to describe. The only way of working is not to go into deep meditations, which affect only the summits of our being, or to attain an extraordinary concentration or ecstasies, but to remain right in the midst of things, to work at the level of the body, at the very lowest rungs of the ladder, so to speak,

1.18 - M. AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  "But it is easy to meditate on an Incarnation-God born as man. Yes, God in man. The body is a mere covering. It is like a lantern with a light burning inside, or like a glass case in which one sees precious things."
  Arriving at the garden, the Master got out of the carriage and accompanied Ram and the other devotees to the sacred tulsi-grove. Standing near it, he said: "How nice! It is a fine place. You can easily meditate on God here."
  --
  MASTER: "That may be true. But he has renounced everything. He who has renounced the world has already made great progress. The sdhu belongs to the stage of the beginner. Nothing can be achieved without the realization of God. When a man is intoxicated with ecstatic love of God, he dosn't take delight in anything else. Then-Cherish my precious Mother Syama Tenderly within, O mind;
  May you and I alone behold Her,

1.18 - The Perils of the Soul, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  with a handkerchief to prevent the escape of his precious soul. In
  Hawaii there were sorcerers who caught souls of living people, shut

1.19 - THE MASTER AND HIS INJURED ARM, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  MASTER (smiling): "Why, is the name a trifling thing? God is not different from His name. Satyabhama tried to balance Krishna with gold and precious stones, but could not do it. Then Rukmini put a tulsi-leaf with the name of Krishna on the scales. That balanced the Lord."
  The doctor was ready to bandage the Master's arm. A bed was spread on the floor and the Master, laughing, lay down upon it. He said, intoning the words: "Ah! This is Radha's final stage. But Brinde says, 'Who knows what is yet to be?' "

12.09 - The Story of Dr. Faustus Retold, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   One day when Dr. Faust was deeply engaged in this interesting occupation, suddenly he saw standing in front of him a figurea strange figure, black, robed in black, huge in staturehe was taken by surprise. Half in curiosity, half in fear he asked who he was. The figure answered: he was what Dr. Faust wanted, that is to say, he could give Faust whatever he wanted, he was that Power. Dr. Faust questioned him and he was answered that the person was indeed what he was claiming to be. Faust was to ask only to have the thing he wanted. Faust could have more and more knowledge, more and more power. Not only that, but something infinitely greater and more precious. Dr. Faust wanted to know what that was. "Infinite pleasure, infinite delight. You will never be sad or sorrowful, never suffer, I will give you perfect enjoyment." This ambitious greedy man swallowed the bait. Faust asked whether it was all truewhat he was professing. The person answered: "More than what I have promised, I will give you. But it is give and take, you can take only when you give." "Give! What can I give? What have I got?" Oh! it is nothing, it is just a trifle. You won't ever know that you are giving. Ready?" "Ready? Yes, quite. But just tell me what it is?" "Oh! it is indeed nothingyour soul!" "Soul?" Faust did not know what the soul was. He nodded assent, strange to say, somewhat hesitatinglyalthough so eager and ardent till now. Take it then, he said.
   In the meanwhile, somewhere in the background of his mind, he felt a little queer, just a twitch, felt the presence of something, even perhaps saw a figure deep inside or far off on the horizon. The other one that was talking to him was a dark black huge, even ominous shape. But this one, although somewhat vague, was robed in white and luminous, even soft like a moonbeam. The Doctor, a little stunned, gazed and gazed at the luminous spot, rubbed his eyes, heaved a sigh, and said: "It is nothing, just an illusion", but it was his soul visiting him to give him a warning. He however turned away and looked at the tempter and with a snatch of bravado declared: "I am ready. Take my soul and give me all that you promise", and thus with his consent, through his free choice, the Devil approached him, opened his breast and took out his soul. As the operation was being done, he felt a great shadow, an infinite sadness invading him but he pushed it away and told his master: "Now bring me all that I want and all that you promised." Henceforth he virtually became lord of all things, he was taken to all kinds of worlds, offered all kinds of powers and all enjoyments, the aa-siddhi of our Indian yogalevitation, gravitation, telekinesisaim, laghim etc.were within his grasp. Even then at times a great dissatisfaction rose within him as from a secret fount and he found himself unconsciously uttering "Oh God! Oh God!". And he used to glimpse at a distance that white vague moonlight-figure. But the Devil used to reappear immediately and threaten him: "You are going to lose everything, drive away all those illusions, be your normal self, come with me, I will show you greater miracles. " He was taken to the world of beauty and beauties, the source of poignant delight, even the most poignant of all, a human physical love. He saw there rising before his eyes her who was the most beautiful woman in the world. Bewitched, beside himself, he cried out:

1.20 - RULES FOR HOUSEHOLDERS AND MONKS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  Mani Mallick and Bhavanath referred to the exhibition which was then being held near the Asiatic Museum. They said: "Many maharajas have sent precious articles to the exhibition-gold couches and the like. It is worth seeing."
  MASTER (to the devotees, with a smile): "Yes, you gain much by visiting those things.

1.22 - Dominion over different provinces of creation assigned to different beings, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
  kāra) in its twofold division, into elements and organs of sense, in the emblems of his conch-shell and his bow. In his hand Viṣṇu holds, in the form of his discus, the mind, whose thoughts (like the weapon) fly swifter than the winds. The necklace of the deity Vaijayantī, composed of five precious gems[8], is the aggregate of the five elemental rudiments. Janārddana bears, in his numerous shafts, the faculties both of action and of perception. The bright sword of Achyuta is holy wisdom, concealed at some seasons in the scabbard of ignorance. In this manner soul, nature, intellect, egotism, the elements, the senses, mind, ignorance, and wisdom, are all assembled in the person of Hṛṣikeśa. Hari, in a delusive form, embodies the shapeless elements of the world, as his weapons and his ornaments, for the salvation of mankind[9]. Puṇḍarikākṣa, the lord of all, assumes nature, with all its products, soul and all the world. All that is wisdom, all that is ignorance, all that is, all that is not, all that is everlasting, is centred in the destroyer of Madhu, the lord of all creatures. The supreme, eternal Hari is time, with its divisions of seconds, minutes, days, months, seasons, and years: he is the seven worlds, the earth, the sky, heaven, the world of patriarchs, of sages, of saints, of truth: whose form is all worlds; first-born before all the first-born; the supporter of all beings, himself self-sustained: who exists in manifold forms, as gods, men, and animals; and is thence the sovereign lord of all, eternal: whose shape is all visible things; who is without shape or form: who is celebrated in the Vedanta as the Rich, Yajush, Sāma, and Atharva Vedas, inspired history, and sacred science. The Vedas, and their divisions; the institutes of Manu and other lawgivers; traditional scriptures, and religious manuals[10]; poems, and all that is said or sung; are the body of the mighty Viṣṇu, assuming the form of sound. All kinds of substances, with or without shape, here or elsewhere, are the body of Viṣṇu. I am Hari. All that I behold is Janārddana; cause and effect are from none other than him. The man who knows these truths shall never again experience the afflictions of worldly existence.
  Thus, Brahman, has the first portion of this Purāṇa been duly revealed to you: listening to which, expiates all offences. The man who hears this Purāṇa obtains the fruit of bathing in the Puṣkara lake[11] for twelve years, in the month of Kārtik. The gods bestow upon him who hears this work the dignity of a divine sage, of a patriarch, or of a spirit of heaven.

1.23 - Conditions for the Coming of a Spiritual Age, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  A spiritualised society would live like its spiritual individuals, not in the ego, but in the spirit, not as the collective ego, but as the collective soul. This freedom from the egoistic standpoint would be its first and most prominent characteristic. But the elimination of egoism would not be brought about, as it is now proposed to bring it about, by persuading or forcing the individual to immolate his personal will and aspirations and his precious and hard-won individuality to the collective will, aims and egoism of the society, driving him like a victim of ancient sacrifice to slay his soul on the altar of that huge and shapeless idol. For that would be only the sacrifice of the smaller to the larger egoism, larger only in bulk, not necessarily greater in quality or wider or nobler, since a collective egoism, result of the united egoisms of all, is as little a god to be worshipped, as flawed and often an uglier and more barbarous fetish than the egoism of the individual. What the spiritual man seeks is to find by the loss of the ego the self which is one in all and perfect and complete in each and by living in that to grow into the image of its perfection,individually, be it noted, though with an all-embracing universality of his nature and its conscious circumference. It is said in the old Indian writings that while in the second age, the age of Power, Vishnu descends as the King, and in the third, the age of compromise and balance, as the legislator or codifier, in the age of the Truth he descends as Yajna, that is to say, as the Master of works and sacrifice manifest in the heart of his creatures. It is this kingdom of God within, the result of the finding of God not in a distant heaven but within ourselves, of which the state of society in an age of the Truth, a spiritual age, would be the result and the external figure.
  Therefore a society which was even initially spiritualised would make the revealing and finding of the divine Self in man the supreme, even the guiding aim of all its activities, its education, its knowledge, its science, its ethics, its art, its economical and political structure. As it was to some imperfect extent in the ancient Vedic times with the cultural education of the higher classes, so it would be then with all education. It would embrace all knowledge in its scope, but would make the whole trend and aim and the permeating spirit not mere worldly efficiency, though that efficiency would not be neglected, but this self-developing and self-finding and all else as its powers. It would pursue the physical and psychic sciences not in order merely to know the world and Nature in her processes and to use them for material human ends, but still more to know through and in and under and over all things the Divine in the world and the ways of the Spirit in its masks and behind them. It would make it the aim of ethics not to establish a rule of action whether supplementary to the social law or partially corrective of it, the social law that is after all only the rule, often clumsy and ignorant, of the biped pack, the human herd, but to develop the divine nature in the human being. It would make it the aim of Art not merely to present images of the subjective and objective world, but to see them with the significant and creative vision that goes behind their appearances and to reveal the Truth and Beauty of which things visible to us and invisible are the forms, the masks or the symbols and significant figures.

1.23 - FESTIVAL AT SURENDRAS HOUSE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  Again: "Do not bother about my ornaments. I have lost my most precious Ornament."
  And again: "Alas! I have fallen on evil days. My happy days are over." And finally: "This unhappy time lingers so long!"
  --
  Repeating her precious Krishna's name,
  And straightway doses both her eyes.
  --
  "Again, a few days afterwards, he went still deeper into the forest and found heaps of diamonds and other precious gems. He took these also and became as rich as the god of wealth himself.
  Go forward

1.23 - Improvising a Temple, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  I was often reduced to such expedients when wandering in strange lands, camping on glaciers, and so on. I fixed it workably well. In Mexico, D.F. for instance, I took my bedroom itself for the Circle, my night-table for the Altar, my candle for the Lamp; and I made the Weapons compact. I had a Wand eight inches long, all precious stones and enamel, to represent the Tree of Life; within, an iron tube containing quicksilver very correct, lordly, and damsilly. What a club! Also, bought, a silver-gilt Cup; for Air and Earth I made one sachet of rose-petals in yellow silk, and another in green silk packed with salt. In the wilds it was easy, agreeable and most efficacious to make a Circle, and build an altar, of stones; my Alpine Lantern served admirably for the Lamp. It did double duty when required: e.g. in partaking of the Sacrament of the Four Elements, it served for Fire. But your conditions are not so restricted as this.
  Let us consider what one can do with an ordinary house, such as you are happy enough to possess.

1.240 - 1.300 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
  [A request from the same seeker: The above questioner has spent two very precious days in physical proximity to Bhagavan Maharshi
  (whom he has not seen since - 17 years ago - he visited Him for a few minutes on the hillside). His duties now compel him to take his body far away again to the north, and it may be years before he can return.

1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
  [A request from the same seeker: The above questioner has spent two very precious days in physical proximity to Bhagavan Maharshi
  (whom he has not seen since - 17 years ago - he visited Him for a few minutes on the hillside). His duties now compel him to take his body far away again to the north, and it may be years before he can return.

1.24 - PUNDIT SHASHADHAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  PUNDIT: "It is true, sir. Going on a pilgrimage is like seeking diamonds and gems, while discarding the precious stone that is worn by Narayana Himself on His breast."
  MASTER: "I want you to remember this. You may impart thousands of instructions to people, but they will not bear fruit except in proper time. On going to bed, a child said to his mother, 'Mother, please wake me up when I feel the call of nature.' The mother said: 'Don't worry about it, my child. That call will wake you up itself.' (All laugh.) One feels yearning for God at the proper time.

1.25 - ADVICE TO PUNDIT SHASHADHAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  O Mother, for Yaoda Thou wouldst dance, when she called Thee her precious "Blue Jewel";
  Where hast Thou hidden that lovely form, O terrible Syama?

1.25 - On the destroyer of the passions, most sublime humility, which is rooted in spiritual feeling., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  3. Let all who are led by the Spirit of God enter with us into this spiritual and wise gathering, holding in their spiritual hands the God-inscribed tablets of knowledge. We have met, we have investigated, and we have probed the meaning of this precious inscription. And one said: It2 means constant oblivion of ones achievements. Another: It is the acknowledgement of oneself as the last of all and the greatest sinner of all. And another: The minds recognition of ones weakness and impotence. Another again: In fits of rage it means to forestall ones neighbour and be first to stop the quarrel. And again another: Recognition of divine grace and divine mercy. And again another: The feeling of a contrite soul, and the renunciation of ones own will. But when I had listened to all this and had attentively and soberly considered it, I found that I had not been able to comprehend the blessed sense of that virtue from what had been said. Therefore, last of all, having gathered what fell from the lips of those learned and blessed fathers as a dog gathers the crumbs that fall from the table, I too gave my definition of it and said: Humility is a nameless grace in the soul, its name known only to those who have learned it by experience. It is unspeakable wealth, a name and gift from God, for it is said: Learn not from an angel, not from man, and not from a book, but from Me, that is, from Me indwelling, from My illumination and action in you, for I am meek and humble in heart and in thought and in spirit, and your souls shall find rest from conflicts and relief from arguments.3
  4. The appearance of this sacred vine is one thing during the winter of the passions, another in the spring of fruit-blossom, yet another in the actual harvest of the virtues. Yet all these different stages concur in gladness and fruit-bearing, and therefore they all have their own signs and sure evidence of fruit to come. For as soon as the cluster of holy humility begins to blossom within us, we at once begin, though with an effort, to hate all human glory and praise, and to banish from ourselves irritation and anger. In proportion as this queen of virtues makes progress in our soul by spiritual growth, so we regard all the good deeds accomplished by us as nothing, or rather as an abomination, assuming that

1.27 - AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  Cherish my precious Mother Syama
  Tenderly within, O mind;
  --
  " Cherish my precious Mother Syama tenderly within."
  Then he danced and sang:

1.28 - Describes the nature of the Prayer of Recollection and sets down some of the means by which we can make it a habit., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
  gold and precious stones- a palace, in short, fit for so great a Lord. Imagine that it is partly your
  doing that this palace should be what it is- and this is really true, for there is no building so
  --
  us incomparably more precious than anything we see outside. Do not let us suppose that the interior
  of the soul is empty; God grant that only women may be so thoughtless as to suppose that. If we

1.28 - The Killing of the Tree-Spirit, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  therefore have been held very precious by his worshippers, and was
  probably hedged in by a system of elaborate precautions or taboos

1.3.04 - Peace, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  It is the Vaishnava feeling that the Vedantic peace is not enough, the love and joy of the Divine is more precious. But unless the two things go together, the love and joy felt is perhaps intense, but impermanent, and it is also true that it gets easily mixed, misdirected or turns to something that is not the true thing at all. Peace and purity must be got as the foundation of the consciousness, otherwise there is no firm standing ground for the divine play.
  Active experience of the joy, peace, love, etc. when the direct contact is there; but even when it is not there, a quiet mind, heart and vital waiting and aspiring for the contact and the

1.32 - Expounds these words of the Paternoster Fiat voluntas tua sicut in coelo et in terra. Describes how much is accomplished by those who repeat these words with full resolution and how well, #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
  thing so precious that it includes all we can desire on earth, and has granted us the great favour of
  making us His brethren, let us see what He desires us to give to His Father, and what He offers

1.3.4.01 - The Beginning and the End, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  When we have entered into the Unknowable, then all this other knowledge becomes valid. When we have sacrificed all forms into the Formless, then all forms become at once negligible and infinitely precious.
  For the rest, that is true of all things. What we have not renounced, has no worth. Sacrifice is the great revealer of values.

1.35 - Describes the recollection which should be practised after Communion. Concludes this subject with an exclamatory prayer to the Eternal Father., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
  way in which we can offer Him up frequently as a sacrifice, let us make use of this precious gift
  so that it may stay the advance of such terrible evil and irreverence as in many places is paid to this

1.39 - The Ritual of Osiris, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  mould, moistened it with water, mixed it with precious spices and
  incense, and moulded the paste into a small moon-shaped image, which

14.01 - To Read Sri Aurobindo, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   You can't help it; so here also; even without your knowing it you are soaked with the inner consciousness of your soul. It is a very precious thing I should say, the only precious thing in the world. And through that, if you study, you learn if you approach that way, you will get another taste, another interest in things.
   When I was reading with Sri Aurobindo, he didn't lay much stress upon the grammar or the language just the most elementary grammar that was necessary. He used to put me in contact with the life, the living personality of the poet what he was, what he represented in his consciousness. That was the central theme, because a truly great poet means a status of consciousness; in order to understand his consciousness you must become identified with his being.

1.439, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
  to illustrate this point: A lady had a precious necklace round her neck.
  Once in her excitement she forgot it and thought that the necklace was

1.43 - Dionysus, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  off on the deity less precious victims than living men and women.
  This interpretation is supported by many undoubted cases in which

15.03 - A Canadian Question, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The world has survived, mankind has an assured future, that is the work done by her body. It aimed at a little more, to show us something of the concrete form of the future, but evidently that was not to be, because something from us also, from the world and mankind, some helping hand in the labour was neededwe remember her ringing words: Si lhumanit consentait tre spiritualise4well, that is the minimum, that minimum was also not granted to her body. Her body was made so easily available to all without any trouble and effort on our part that we lost all sense of the precious things brought to us, brought to our very door. We did not know how to make use of it and have the true benefit out of it. Many a time she did say something to us to that effect regretfully, we wasted a treasure like the pampered prodigal son.
   It is regrettable but she has left no cause for our regret She has left with us the true source of her protective power, her living Consciousness concretised in the earth's atmosphere, in the personal atmosphere of each one of us. We have only to open our grateful eyes and see it. The ladder has been taken away, but she has come nearer to us and a little uplift will replace us within her arms.

15.06 - Words, Words, Words..., #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   While coming to you, I saw your beautiful display of excerpts and quotations from the writings of Mother and Sri Aurobindo on the walls all around. Yes, it was a beautiful picture and the sayings and mottoes and lines of poetry were, needless to say, precious treasures dear to us. Butleft at that, to see, admire and pass on, wellthey are dead thingswords, words, wordslifeless skeletons. They have a meaning and they serve their purpose only when you come in contact with the life and consciousness in them, when you live them with your own life and be the consciousness that is there.
   You know the well-known phrase: the letter kills, the spirit saves. Without the spirit, the word is only a dead shell, even a mantra is a dead thinga mere jumble of sounds if it is not enkindled, enlivened with the spirit. Now I say you are to brea the your own spirit into the apparently dead or lifeless forms. For children are nothing but spirit: spirit means new consciousness, living light, it is not a tall claim I make on your behalf. I will explain.

15.07 - Souls Freedom, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   In any case if one is to possess truly something one must acquire it by one's exertion and in one's complete liberty. A free gift or an imposition even of a precious object is always something foreign and unnatural to it. One must learn to love a thing in order to have it wholly for oneself, it must be made part and parcel of one's being. And true love can exist only in free choice.
   Latterly the Mother was saying whenever the question of the descent of supermind was raised that there was no descent any longer: for, the thing has descended and it is here, it is no more a question of descent, that is to say, something arriving from elsewhere that was not here before. At present it is simply the question of manifestation of the thing that is with us and among us.

1.50 - Eating the God, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  ram's skull, a variety of precious objects such as gold-leaf,
  silver, and turquoise, also some dry food, such as rice, wheat, and

1.52 - Family - Public Enemy No. 1, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  Only one reminder: it is worse than useless to take these Oaths with any such ambition. One of the most precious privileges thus gained is the clean sweep that is made of all pretence.
  This too is painful beyond words at first. Until the process starts, you have not the faintest idea of how you have wrapped yourself in layers of lies.

1.52 - Killing the Divine Animal, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  "'Poor younger brother!' he said at last, 'know you not how precious
  it is? It die? It will _not_ die; I tell you, it cannot die.'
  --
  for us to hunt. O thou precious little divinity, we worship thee;
  pray hear our prayer. We have nourished thee and brought thee up
  --
  saying: "O precious divinity, O thou divine bird, pray listen to my
  words. Thou dost not belong to this world, for thy home is with the
  --
  these _inao_ and cakes and other precious things. Do thou ride upon
  the _inao_ and ascend to thy home in the glorious heavens. When thou
  --
  beseech thee, and rule over us. O my precious one, go thou quietly."
  Once more, the Aino revere hawks, keep them in cages, and offer them

1.57 - Public Scapegoats, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  shops. The idols in it are richly inlaid with gold and precious
  stones.
  --
  sufficed for one who had wasted so many precious years. Hence in the
  jack-pudding who now masquerades with motley countenance in the

1.60 - Between Heaven and Earth, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  be emptied of the precious substance or fluid with which he, as a
  vial, is filled to the brim. And in many cases apparently the
  --
  subjects and worshippers. Nowhere, it is thought, can his precious
  yet dangerous life be at once so safe and so harmless as when it is

1.65 - Balder and the Mistletoe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  the most precious of all the virtues of mistletoe is that it affords
  efficient protection against sorcery and witchcraft. That, no doubt,

1.66 - The External Soul in Folk-Tales, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  head was a precious stone, and if this stone were put under his
  pillow he would die. The prince procured the stone, and the princess
  --
  made himself master of the precious egg and slew the giant by merely
  striking it against the mole on his right breast. Similarly in a
  --
  show his skill by stealing a precious stone on which the khan's life
  depended. The sage contrived to purloin the talisman while the khan

1.67 - Faith, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  After all, that is neither here nor there; there is but one material issue: how to acquire that kind of faith. Suppose we hunt it up in that precious Book of Lies! Any luck? Sure, kiddums, here we are!
    Steeped Horsehair

1.67 - The External Soul in Folk-Custom, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  the species, they are not all equally precious to him; far from it,
  out of the whole species there is only one which is specially dear

19.03 - The Mind, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Know this body to be a mere ear then pot. Establish this mind like a city. And with knowledge as your weapon fight with Mara; guard preciously what you have conquered.
   [9]

1914 11 20p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Often one clings to that which was, fearing to lose the result of a precious experience, to give up a vast and high consciousness, to fall back into a lower state.
   And yet, what should he fear who is Thine? Can he not walk with joyful soul and illumined brow upon the path Thou tracest for him, whatever it may be, even if this path be altogether incomprehensible to his limited reason?

1916 12 20p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   As thou art contemplating me, I shall speak to thee this evening. I see in thy heart a diamond surrounded by a golden light. It is at once pure and warm, something which may manifest impersonal love; but why dost thou keep this treasure enclosed in that dark casket lined with deep purple? The outermost covering is of a deep lustreless blue, a real mantle of darkness. It would seem that thou art afraid of showing thy splendour. Learn to radiate and do not fear the storm: the wind carries us far from the shore but shows us over the world. Wouldst thou be thrifty of thy tenderness? But the source of love is infinite. Dost thou fear to be misunderstood? But where hast thou seen man capable of understanding the Divine? And if the eternal truth finds in thee a means of manifesting itself, what dost thou care for all the rest? Thou art like a pilgrim coming out of the sanctuary; standing on the threshold in front of the crowd, he hesitates before revealing his precious secret, that of his supreme discovery. Listen, I too hesitated for days, for I could foresee both my preaching and its results: the imperfection of expression and the still greater imperfection of understanding. And yet I turned to the earth and men and brought them my message. Turn to the earth and menisnt this the comm and thou always hearest in thy heart?in thy heart, for it is that which carries a blessed message for those who are athirst for compassion. Henceforth nothing can attack the diamond. It is unassailable in its perfect constitution and the soft radiance that flashes from it can change many things in the hearts of men. Thou doubtest thy power and fearest thy ignorance? It is precisely this that wraps up thy strength in that dark mantle of starless night. Thou hesitatest and tremblest as on the threshold of a mystery, for now the mystery of the manifestation seems to thee more terrible and unfathomable than that of the Eternal Cause. But thou must take courage again and obey the injunction from the depths. It is I who am telling thee this, for I know thee and love thee as thou didst know and love me once. I have appeared clearly before thy sight so that thou mayst in no way doubt my word. And also to thy eyes I have shown thy heart so that thou canst thus see what the supreme Truth has willed for it, so that thou mayst discover in it the law of thy being. The thing still seems to thee quite difficult: a day will come when thou wilt wonder how for so long it could have been otherwise.
   Skyamuni

1916 12 21p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Lord, Thou didst speak to me through the lips of one of those who have known Thee bestmost probably to make me understand Thy lesson better (was I then deaf to Thy direct suggestion?). And still I do not understand at the moment what to do. Thou knowest what happiness would be mine if by Thy grace I could be integrally transformed into a hearth of divine love that love which is the first and highest manifestation of Thy eternal Truth, that love which is at once the completest expression in this world of Thy Truth and the most direct road to lead to it the human consciousness that has gone astray. In the days when I used to aspire, desire and ask, how many times have I asked of Thee the grace of this state as the one most in conformity with my present ideal of action! And at that time it seemed to me that the day I should be purified of all egoistic preference, Thou wouldst choose this individual terrestrial being as an instrument of Thy manifestation of love upon earth. And now that Thou askest it of me, more than ever before do I feel my helplessness. For such a long time I thought I knew what love was, and now that I no longer see anything that cannot be called love, I also no longer see anything that may specially be called love. And how can I be that which I can no longer define, that state which I can no longer distinguish? And yet Thou didst show me yesterday that I was holding enclosed in a dark sheath one of Thy most precious and powerful gifts. Lord, all my being aspires to obey Thy voice, to conform to Thy Law; but it does not know in its outer consciousness, does not understand what Thou expectest of it. It feels indeed that at present its love is a passive state and that Thou wouldst awaken it to an active state; but how to pass from one to the other is what escapes it. It knows that this active state of love should be constant and impersonal, that is, absolutely independent of circumstances and persons, since it cannot and must not be concentrated upon any one thing in particular; and in this it will resemble the present passive state of love which is pure, unchanging and impersonal. But what it still does not know is how, even while retaining its purity, unchangeability and impersonality, qualities now inherent in its being, it can resume its activity.
   That is why this evening I implored Lord Mitra who so perfectly symbolises Thy truth of love, asking him to come to my help and enlighten my ignorance, dissolve my doubts, vanquish my hesitations, break down the last obstacles and take possession of this physical instrument so that it may become what Thou expectest it to be.

1916 12 30p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I feel, I see my soul living deep within my being, and my soul sees Thee, recognises Thee and loves Thee in all things, in everything that is; it is fully conscious of this, and as the outer being is surrendered to it, it too is conscious; the mind knows and never forgets; the purified vital being no longer has any attractions and repulsions, and more and more does it taste of the joy of Thy Presence in all things and always. But the heart seems to have fallen asleep in a slumber of exhaustion, and the soul no longer finds sufficient activity within it to respond fully to its impulsion. Why? Was it so poor that the struggle could thus wear it out, or so deeply wounded that it has become quite stiff? And yet it would like to answer the inner call; it wants this with a faith and ardour which have never wavered; but it is like an old man smiling benevolently at the games of youth but unable to take part in them. And yet it is full of joy and confidence, it overflows with gratitude for all the treasures of affection which Nature has so generously lavished upon it; it would like, in exchange for these precious gifts, to pour out in inexhaustible streams the golden wine of tenderness which restores and fortifies, enlivens and consoles, the true wine of life for human beings. It would like to and tries but how poor is what it does beside what it dreams of doing, how mediocre what it is able to do beside what it hopes, for it hopes always. It knows that Thy call is never heard in vain, and it has no doubt it can one day realise the splendours of which Thou hast given it a glimpse.
   Who will open these closed flood-gates?

1917 01 04p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   O Lord, Thou showerest upon me all Thy boons. Now that this being expects nothing, desires nothing from life any longer, life brings it its most precious treasures, those coveted by all men. In all the domains of my individual being Thou showerest Thy boons, in the mind, the psychic and even the physical. Thou hast placed me amidst abundance, and abundance seems to me as natural as scarcity and does not bring me a greater joy, for often in poverty the spiritual life was more intense and conscious for me; but I see this abundance very clearly, and my individual being on whom Thou heapest Thy boons thus, prostrates itself before Thee in inexpressible gratitude.
   Thy goodness is unequalled and Thy mercy infinite.

1920 06 22p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   After granting me the joy which surpasses all expression, Thou hast sent me, O my beloved Lord, the struggle, the ordeal and on this too I have smiled as on one of Thy precious messengers. Before, I dreaded the conflict, for it hurt in me the love of harmony and peace. But now, O my God, I welcome it with gladness: it is one among the forms of Thy action, one of the best means for bringing back to light some elements of the work which might otherwise have been forgotten, and it carries with it a sense of amplitude, of complexity, of power. And even as I have seen Thee, resplendent, exciting the conflict, so also it is Thou whom I see unravelling the entanglement of events and jarring tendencies and winning in the end the victory over all that strives to veil Thy light and Thy power: for out of the struggle it is a more perfect realisation of Thyself that must arise.
   ***

1929-06-02 - Divine love and its manifestation - Part of the vital being in Divine love, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  The Divine love of which I speak is a Love that manifests here upon this physical earth, in matter, but it must be pure of its human distortions, if it is to incarnate. The vital is an indispensable agent in this as in all manifestation. But as has happened always, the adverse powers have put their hold on this most precious thing. It is the energy of the vital that enters into dull and insensitive matter and makes it responsive and alive. But the adverse forces have distorted it; they have turned it into a field of violence and selfishness and desire and every kind of ugliness and prevented it from taking part in the divine work. The one thing to be done is to change it, not to suppress its movement or destroy it. For without it no intensity is possible anywhere. The vital is in its very nature that in us which can give itself away. Just because it is that which has always the impulse and the strength to take, it is also that which is capable of giving itself to the utmost; because it knows how to possess, it knows also how to abandon itself without reserve. The true vital movement is the most beautiful and magnificent of movements; but it has been twisted and turned into the most ugly, the most distorted, the most repulsive. Wherever into a human story of love, there has entered even an atom of pure love and it has been allowed to manifest without too much distortion, we find a true and beautiful thing. And if the movement does not last, it is because it is not conscious of its own aim and seeking; it has not the knowledge that it is not the union of one being with another that it is seeking after but the union of all beings with the Divine.
  Love is a supreme force which the Eternal Consciousness sent down from itself into an obscure and darkened world that it might bring back that world and its beings to the Divine. The material world in its darkness and ignorance had forgotten the Divine. Love came into the darkness; it awakened all that lay there asleep; it whispered, opening the ears that were sealed, There is something that is worth waking to, worth living for, and it is love! And with the awakening to love there entered into the world the possibility of coming back to the Divine. The creation moves upward through love towards the Divine and in answer there leans downward to meet the creation the Divine Love and Grace. Love cannot exist in its pure beauty, love cannot put on its native power and intense joy of fullness until there is this interchange, this fusion between the earth and the Supreme, this movement of Love from the Divine to the creation and from the creation to the Divine. This world was a world of dead matter, till Divine love descended into it and awakened it to life. Ever since it has gone in search of this divine source of life, but it has taken in its search every kind of wrong turn and mistaken way, it has wandered hither and thither in the dark. The mass of this creation has moved on its road like the blind seeking for the unknown, seeking but ignorant of what it sought. The maximum it has reached is what seems to human beings love in its highest form, its purest and most disinterested kind, like the love of the mother for the child. This human movement of love is secretly seeking for something else than what it has yet found; but it does not know where to find it, it does not even know what it is. The moment mans consciousness awakens to the Divine love, pure, independent of all manifestation in human forms, he knows for what his heart has all the time been truly longing. That is the beginning of the Souls aspiration, that brings the awakening of the consciousness and its yearning for union with the Divine. All the forms that are of the ignorance, all the deformations it has imposed must from that moment fade and disappear and give place to one single movement of the creation answering to the Divine love by its love for the Divine. Once the creation is conscious, awakened, opened to love for the Divine, the Divine love pours itself without limit back into the creation. The circle of the movement turns back upon itself and the ends meet; there is the joining of the extremes, supreme Spirit and manifesting Matter, and their divine union becomes constant and complete.

1929-08-04 - Surrender and sacrifice - Personality and surrender - Desire and passion - Spirituality and morality, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  There are many wrong ideas current about surrender. Most people seem to look upon surrender as an abdication of the personality; but that is a grievous error. For the individual is meant to manifest one aspect of the Divine Consciousness, and the expression of its characteristic nature is what creates his personality; then, by taking the right attitude towards the Divine, this personality is purified of all the influences of the lower nature which diminish and distort it and it becomes more strongly personal, more itself, more complete. The truth and power of the personality come out with a more resplendent distinctness, its character is more precisely marked than it could possibly be when mixed with all the obscurity and ignorance, all the dirt and alloy of the lower nature. It undergoes a heightening and glorification, an aggrandisement of capacity, a realisation of the maximum of its possibilities. But to have this sublimating change, he must first give up all that, by distorting, limiting and obscuring the true nature, fetters and debases and disfigures the true personality; he must throw from him whatever belongs to the ignorant lower movements of the ordinary man and his blind limping ordinary life. And first of all he must give up his desires; for desire is the most obscure and the most obscuring movement of the lower nature. Desires are motions of weakness and ignorance and they keep you chained to your weakness and to your ignorance. Men have the impression that their desires are born within; they feel as if they come out of themselves or arise within themselves; but it is a false impression. Desires are waves of the vast sea of the obscure lower nature and they pass from one person to another. Men do not generate a desire in themselves, but are invaded by these waves; whoever is open and without defence is caught in them and tossed about. Desire by engrossing and possessing him makes him incapable of any discrimination and gives him the impression that it is part of his nature to manifest it. In reality, it has nothing to do with his true nature. It is the same with all the lower impulses, jealousy or envy, hatred or violence. These too are movements that seize you, waves that overwhelm and invade; they deform, they do not belong to the true character or the true nature; they are no intrinsic or inseparable part of yourself, but come out of the sea of surrounding obscurity in which move the forces of the lower nature. These desires, these passions have no personality, there is nothing in them or their action that is peculiar to you; they manifest in the same way in everyone. The obscure movements of the mind too, the doubts and errors and difficulties that cloud the personality and diminish its expansion and fulfilment, come from the same source. They are passing waves and they catch anyone who is ready to be caught and utilised as their blind instrument. And yet each goes on believing that these movements are part of himself and a precious product of his own free personality. Even we find people clinging to them and their disabilities as the very sign or essence of what they call their freedom.
  If you have understood this, you will be ready to understand the difference, the great difference between spirituality and morality, two things that are constantly confused with each other. The spiritual life, the life of Yoga, has for its object to grow into the divine consciousness and for its result to purify, intensify, glorify and perfect what is in you. It makes you a power for manifesting of the Divine; it raises the character of each personality to its full value and brings it to its maximum expression; for this is part of the Divine plan. Morality proceeds by a mental construction and, with a few ideas of what is good and what is not, sets up an ideal type into which all must force themselves. This moral ideal differs in its constituents and its ensemble at different times and different places. And yet it proclaims itself as a unique type, a categoric absolute; it admits of none other outside itself; it does not even admit a variation within itself. All are to be moulded according to its single ideal pattern, everybody is to be made uniformly and faultlessly the same. It is because morality is of this rigid unreal nature that it is in its principle and its working the contrary of the spiritual life. The spiritual life reveals the one essence in all, but reveals too its infinite diversity; it works for diversity in oneness and for perfection in that diversity. Morality lifts up one artificial standard contrary to the variety of life and the freedom of the spirit. Creating something mental, fixed and limited, it asks all to conform to it. All must labour to acquire the same qualities and the same ideal nature. Morality is not divine or of the Divine; it is of man and human. Morality takes for its basic element a fixed division into the good and the bad; but this is an arbitrary notion. It takes things that are relative and tries to impose them as absolutes; for this good and this bad differ in differing climates and times, epochs and countries. The moral notion goes so far as to say that there are good desires and bad desires and calls on you to accept the one and reject the other. But the spiritual life demands that you should reject desire altogether. Its law is that you must cast aside all movements that draw you away from the Divine. You must reject them, not because they are bad in themselves,for they may be good for another man or in another sphere,but because they belong to the impulses or forces that, being unillumined and ignorant, stand in the way of your approach to the Divine. All desires, whether good or bad, come within this description; for desire itself arises from an unillumined vital being and its ignorance. On the other hand you must accept all movements that bring you into contact with the Divine. But you accept them, not because they are good in themselves, but because they bring you to the Divine. Accept then all that takes you to the Divine. Reject all that takes you away from it, but do not say that this is good and that is bad or try to impose your outlook on others; for, what you term bad may be the very thing that is good for your neighbour who is not trying to realise the Divine Life.

1951-02-03 - What is Yoga? for what? - Aspiration, seeking the Divine. - Process of yoga, renouncing the ego., #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This is the second step. That is to say, you begin wanting to find and know the Divine and live it. You must feel at the same time that the thing is so precious, so important that your entire life is not sufficient for acquiring it. Then, the first movement is a self-giving; you tell yourself, I do not want any longer to belong to myself, for the sake of my little personal satisfaction, I wish to belong to this marvellous thing which one must find, must know, must live and for which I aspire.
   Concentrate in the heart. Enter into it; go within and deep and far, as far as you can. Gather all the strings of your consciousness that are spread abroad, roll them up and take a plunge and sink down.

1951-05-14 - Chance - the play of forces - Peace, given and lost - Abolishing the ego, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It is special, it is something put upon you, with insistence, and then, for some seconds or some minutes, or even some hours, you feel it. You feel suddenly filled with peace, force, light sometimes even with yet more precious things: knowledge, consciousness, love. And then, it disappears. Then you say, Oh! Truly, these divine forces are not generous. They make you taste the thing to see how good it is, then take it away from you so that you may desire it all the more! This is the usual conclusion.
   Yet we know the causes which prevent us from keeping the given peace and we try to get rid of these obstacles.

1953-07-01, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But if you have lived in your vital with all its impulses, each impulse will try to realise itself here and there. For example, a miser who is concentrated upon his money, when he dies, the part of the vital that was interested in his money will be stuck there and will continue to watch over the money so that nobody may take it. People do not see him, but he is there all the same, and is very unhappy if something happens to his precious money. I knew quite well a lady who had a good amount of money and children; she had five children who were all prodigals each one more than the other. The same amount of care she had taken in amassing the money, they seemed to take in squandering it; they spent it at random. So when the poor old lady died, she came to see me and told me: Ah, now they are going to squander my money! And she was extremely unhappy. I consoled her a little, but I had a good deal of difficulty in persuading her not to keep watching over her money so that it might not be wasted.
   Now, if you live exclusively in your physical consciousness (it is difficult, for you have, after all, thoughts and feelings, but if you live exclusively in your physical, when the physical being disappears, you disappear at the same time, it is finished. There is a spirit of the form: your form has a spirit which persists for seven days after your death. The doctors have declared that you are dead, but the spirit of your form lives, and not only does it live but it is conscious in most of the cases. But that lasts for seven or eight days and afterwards it is dissolved. I am not speaking of yogis; I am speaking of ordinary people. Yogis have no laws, it is quite different; for them the world is different. I am speaking to you of ordinary men living an ordinary life; for these it is like that.

1953-07-15, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   If you come to the spiritual life with a sincere aspiration, sometimes an avalanche of unpleasant things falls upon you: you quarrel with your best friends, your family kicks you out of the house, you lose what you thought you had gained. I knew someone who had come to India with a great aspiration and after a very long effort towards knowledge and even towards Yoga. That was long long ago. At that time, people used to put on watch-chains and trinkets. This gentleman had a golden pencil which his grandmo ther had given him to which he was attached as the most precious thing in the world. It was fixed to his chain. When he landed at one of these portsat Pondicherry or perhaps elsewhere in India or at Colombo, I believe it was at Colombo they used to get into small boats and the boats took you ashore. And so this gentleman had to jump from the gangway of the ship into the boat. He missed his step, somehow got back his balance, but he made a sudden movement and the little gold pencil dropped into the sea and went straight down into the depths. He was at first very much aggrieved, but he told himself: Why, that is the effect of India: I am freed from my attachments. It is for very sincere people that the thing takes such a form. Fundamentally, the avalanche of troubles is always for sincere people. Those who are not sincere receive things with the most beautiful bright colours just to deceive them, and then in the end to enable them to find out that they are mistaken! But when someone has big troubles, it proves that he has reached a certain degree of sincerity.
   Here you say: When you come to the Divine, you must abandon all mental conceptions; but, instead of doing that, you throw your conceptions upon the Divine and want the Divine to obey them.

1953-08-19, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Even in things, even in objects, even in stones, there is a strange receptivity which comes from this Presence. There are stonesif you know how to do it that can accumulate forces. They can accumulate forces, keep them and transmit them. One can take stones (what are called precious stones) and concentrate forces into them and they keep them. And these forces irradiate slowly, very gradually. But if one knows how to do it one can accumulate such a quantity as would last, so to speak, indefinitely.
   Are these forces of any use when they come out from the stones?

1953-09-09, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And this vital, if you place it in a bad environment, it will imitate the bad environment and do bad things with violence and to an extreme degree. If you place it in the presence of something wonderfully beautiful, generous, great, noble, divine, it can be carried away with that also, forget everything else and give itself wholly. It will give itself more completely than any other part of the being, for it does not calculate. It follows its passion and enthusiasm. When it has desires, its desires are violent, arbitrary, and it does not at all take into account the good or bad of others; it doesnt care the least bit. But when it gives itself to something beautiful, it does not calculate either, it will give itself entirely without knowing whether it will do good or harm to it. It is a very precious instrument.
   It is like a horse of pure breed: if it lets itself be directed, then it will win all the races, everywhere it will come first. If it is untamed, it will trample people and cause havoc and break its own legs or back! It is like that. The one thing to know is to which side it will turn. It loves exceptional thingsexceptionally bad or exceptionally good, it loves the exceptional. It does not like ordinary life. It becomes dull, it becomes half inert. And if it is shut up in a corner and told: Keep quiet there, it will remain there and become more and more like something crumbling away, and finally just like a mummy: there is no more life in it, it is dried up. And one will no longer have the strength to do what one wants to do. One will have fine ideas, excellent intentions, but one wont have the energy to execute them.

1953-12-16, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   After that you have said: This will make your life precious to yourself and to all.
   Yes. If you are useless, it is not precious, if you are useful, it becomes precious! There is nothing more disgusting than to be busy with all the little details of a narrow personal existence. One feels empty, hollow, useless. One has no interest in life. There are people all shut up in their little family, and if the baby coughs, they spend hours in fretting, if the dinner is not well-cooked, they quarrel, or if the gentleman has lost his job and is looking for another, he laments: How shall I feed my family?Thats existing like an earth-worm in a hole.
   In everybody, is the psychic always pure or has it to be made pure?

1954-06-02 - Learning how to live - Work, studies and sadhana - Waste of the Energy and Consciousness, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Who thinks that all this Force that is here, that is infinitely greater, infinitely more precious than all money-forces, this Force which is here and is given consciously, constantly, with an endless perseverance and patience, only for one sole purpose, that of realising the divine workwho thinks of not wasting it? Who realises that it is a sacred duty to make progress, to prepare oneself to understand better and live better? For people live by the divine Energy, they live by the divine Consciousness, and use them for their personal, selfish ends.
  You are shocked when a few thousand rupees are wasted but not shocked when there are when streams of Consciousness and Energy are diverted from their true purpose!

1954-07-14 - The Divine and the Shakti - Personal effort - Speaking and thinking - Doubt - Self-giving, consecration and surrender - Mothers use of flowers - Ornaments and protection, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Perhaps they have even something resembling sensitivity. For instance, if you have a precious stone precious stones of course have a much more perfect structure than ordinary ones, and with perfection consciousness increases but if you take a precious stone, you can charge it with consciousness and force; you can put, accumulate force within it. So it is receptive, otherwise it will not receive it, it could not keep it. You can charge it. As one charges an electric battery, you can charge a stone with force, put conscious force into a stone; it keeps it and can transmit it to someone. Therefore this stone has a receptivity. Otherwise it could not do this.
  Flowers are extremely receptive. All the flowers to which I have given a significance receive exactly the force I put into them and transmit it. People dont always receive it because most of the time they are less receptive than the flower, and they waste the force that has been put in it through their unconsciousness and lack of receptivity. But the force is there, and the flower receives it wonderfully.

1954-07-28 - Money - Ego and individuality - The shadow, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  (After a silence) You see, when one thinks of money, one thinks of bank-notes or coins or some kind of wealth, some precious things. But this is only the physical expression of a force which may be handled by the vital and which, when possessed and controlled, almost automatically brings along these more material expressions of money. And that is a kind of power. (Silence) It is a power of attracting certain very material vibrations, which has a capacity for utilisation that increases its strengthwhich is like the action of physical exercise, you seeit increases its strength through utilisation.
  For example, if you have a control over this forceit is a force which, in the vital world, has a colour varying between red, a dark, extremely strong red and a deep gold thats neither bright nor very pale. Well, this forcewhen it is made to move, to circulate, its strength increases. It is not something one can accumulate and keep without using. It is a force which must always be circulated. For example, people who are misers and accumulate all the money, all the wealth they can attract towards themselves, put this force aside without using its power of movement; and either it escapes or it lies benumbed and loses its strength.

1956-03-21 - Identify with the Divine - The Divine, the most important thing in life, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  I can say this, that the most precious gifts are given in silence.
  (Meditation)

1956-08-29 - To live spontaneously - Mental formations Absolute sincerity - Balance is indispensable, the middle path - When in difficulty, widen the consciousness - Easiest way of forgetting oneself, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  And it is still the same thing: instead of doubling up on oneself and brooding over oneself or coddling oneself as it were, like the most precious thing in the world, if one can unfold oneself and get busy with something else, something which is not quite ones own self, then that is the simplest and quickest way of forgetting oneself.
  There are many others but this one is within everyones reach. So there we are, my children.

1957-01-30 - Artistry is just contrast - How to perceive the Divine Guidance?, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Therefore, one cannot give this as a sure sign, for if you have disobeyed this little indication several times, well, it will no longer come. But I tell you that if in all sincerity you are very attentive to it, then it will be a very sure and precious guide.
  But if there is an uneasiness, it comes at the beginning, almost immediately, and when it doesnt show itself, well, no matter what one has started, it is preferable to do it to the very end so that the experience may be complete, unless one receives, as I said, an absolutely precise and categorical indication that it should not be done.

1957-03-22 - A story of initiation, knowledge and practice, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Crestfallen, Yusuf returned to the Mahatma and confessed his fault. Yusuf, he said, you have lost a wonderful opportunity. I gave you a worthless mouse to take care of and you couldnt do even that! How then do you expect to keep the most precious of all treasures, the divine Truth? For that you must have self-control. Go and learn. Learn to be master of your mind, for without that nothing great can be accomplished.
  Yusuf went away ashamed, head down, and from then on he had only one thought: to become master of himself. For years and years he made tireless efforts, he underwent a hard and difficult tapasya, and finally succeeded in becoming master of his nature. Then, full of confidence Yusuf went back to his Master. The Mahatma was overjoyed to see him again and find him ready. And this is how Yusuf received from Mahatma Junun the great initiation.

1957-11-27 - Sri Aurobindos method in The Life Divine - Individual and cosmic evolution, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  What Sri Aurobindo has presented here is the explanation of a world which would function quite logically and comprehensibly without any need of an individual being passing from one form into another, without anything permanent which would be free from all destruction, all death, which would persist through all its forms and would itself have a personal, individual progression parallel to the evolution of Nature. It is as though in the form you have made, at the centre there were a little precious stone which you had placed there and wanted to cover with successive forms. You transfer your little precious stone from one form to another and the comparison is still incomplete, for the precious stone becomes more and more precious as it passes from one object to another and it would be as though, by passing from one form to another, it became more and more luminous and pure, and more and more clear-cut in form.
  There. Do you understand or not?

1958-07-09 - Faith and personal effort, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  One must watch over ones faith as one watches over the birth of something infinitely precious, and protect it very carefully from everything that can impair it.
  In the ignorance and darkness of the beginning, faith is the most direct expression of the Divine Power which comes to fight and conquer.

1958-07-16 - Is religion a necessity?, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  There it is a necessity. In ordinary life, an individual, whether he knows it or not, always has a religion but the object of his religion is sometimes of a very inferior kind. The god he worships may be the god of success or the god of money or the god of power, or simply a family god: the god of children, the god of the family, the god of the ancestors. There is always a religion. The quality of the religion is very different according to the individual, but it is difficult for a human being to live and to go on living, to survive in life without having something like a rudiment of an ideal which serves as the centre for his existence. Most of the time he doesnt know it and if he were asked what his ideal is, he would be unable to formulate it; but he has one, vaguely, something that seems to him the most precious thing in life.
  For most people, it is security, for instance: living in security, being in conditions where one is sure of being able to go on existing. That is one of the great aims, one might say, one of the great motives of human effort. There are people for whom comfort is the important thing; for others it is pleasure, amusement.

1958-08-13 - Profit by staying in the Ashram - What Sri Aurobindo has come to tell us - Finding the Divine, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Ah! That is very simple; it is because it is too easy! When you have to go all round the world to find a teacher, when you have to give up everything to obtain only the first words of a teaching, then this teaching, this spiritual help becomes something very precious, like everything that is difficult to obtain, and you make a great effort to deserve it.
  Most of you came here when you were very small, at an age when there can be no question of the spiritual life or spiritual teaching it would be altogether premature. You have indeed lived in this atmosphere but without even being aware of it; you are accustomed to seeing me, hearing me; I speak to you as one does to all children, I have even played with you as one plays with children; you only have to come and sit here and you hear me speak, you only have to ask me a question and I answer you, I have never refused to say anything to anybody it is so easy. It is enough to live to sleep, to eat, to do exercises and study at school. You live here as you would live anywhere else. And so, you are used to it.

1960 01 05, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It was while discussing these and other similar things that Sri Aurobindo was told that they were hallucinations. When you look up the word hallucination in the dictionary, you find this definition: Morbid sensation not produced by any real object. Objectless perception. Sri Aurobindo interprets this or puts it more precisely: A subjective or psychical experience which corresponds to no objective or no physical reality. There could be no better definition of these phenomena of the inner consciousness, which are most precious to man and make him something more than a mere thinking animal. Human reason is so limited, so down to earth, so arrogantly ignorant that it wants to discredit by a pejorative word the very faculties which open the gates of a higher and more marvellous life to man. In the face of this obstinate incomprehension Sri Aurobindo wonders ironically at the miracles of the human reason. For the power to change truth into falsehood to such a degree is certainly a miracle.
   5 January 1960

1963 08 10, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The last one is probably not within everyones reach, but the first three are quite evident I know it is like that. The only thing that used to worry me was that it was not a purely psychological experience and that there was some wear in the body by the fact of enduring suffering. But I have asked doctors and I was told that if the body is taught to bear pain when it is very young, its capacity to endure increases so much that it can really resist disease; that is, the disease does not follow its normal course, it is arrested. That is precious.
   10 August 1963

1970 04 29, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   In our sorrowful age, almost withered by the excessive domination of the intellect, nothing can be at once more necessary and more precious than Divine Love.
   29 April 1970

1970 06 05, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   537There are many profound truths which are like weapons dangerous to the unpractised wielder. Rightly handled, they are the most precious and potent in Gods armoury.
   One drop of true knowledge can create a revolution if it falls into a world of ignorance.

1.ac - The Four Winds, #Crowley - Poems, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  Are precious in my sight.
  Peace to your mischief-brewing!

1.anon - The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet VII, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  "I appeal to you, O Shamash, on behalf of my precious life (?),
  because of that notorious trapper

1.bni - Raga Ramkali, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   Original Language Hindi The ira-vein, the pingala-vein, the sukhmana-vein -- these three converge at one spot. Where the three rivers meet, there is found holy Prayag -- and it is there that the heart bathes and becomes clean. O you saints, it is there that you find the faultless Ram. Only the fortunate few who follow the guru's path understand this truth: the eternal Ram is forever blended therein. What are the manifestations of Deva's abode? There, resounds the Word unspoken. There, neither moon nor sun, air nor water exist. Those who follow the guru's words know all this already. Divine wisdom awakens and hard-heartedness melts away; sweet ambrosia soaks and wets the inner sky. Those who know the secret of this discipline will surely meet the primal Gurudeva. Beyond the Tenth Door is the abode of the inaccessible, the unfathomable Primal Being. Above the body, upon the body is an alcove. Within this alcove is His abode. Be vigilant; do not fall asleep. Attain that stage wherein the three qualities and the three worlds count for nothing. Place the seed-mantra within your heart. Turn back your mind and fix it upon Silence. Be vigilant; do not dwell in falsehood. Restrain and hold back the five senses. Place the guru's teaching in your thoughts, and lay your body and your soul as an offering to Krishna's love. Deem your hands and fingers as branches of a tree: do not lose your life as in a gambling match. Well up the spring that feeds the stream of evil deeds; drive the sun away from the west. Restrain what cannot be restrained, and let the spring gush forth: thus converse with Jaganath. A lamp with four wicks illumines the Tenth Door: countless petals surround the flower's cup. Therein dwells the Lord Himself, holding all His power: a ruby hidden by another precious ruby. In the brain is the lotus encircled by diamonds. Therein is Niranjan, the Holder of the three worlds. All the five types of instruments play sweetly on; the fan sways; the conch forever resounds. The guru's enlightenment tramples all demons underfoot: Beni begs for Your name. [2184.jpg] -- from Songs of the Saints from the Adi Granth, Translated by Nirmal Dass

1f.lovecraft - Discarded Draft of, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   precious alloy, whose general effect was suggested in several
   colour-plates. Something about these pictured things fascinated me

1f.lovecraft - In the Walls of Eryx, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   precious object I had transferred to myself the doom which had
   overtaken its earlier bearer. However, my qualms soon passed, and I
  --
   of my precious food tablets. Even had I been willing to spare the
   latter, there would not have been even nearly enoughbesides which the

1f.lovecraft - Medusas Coil, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   You lack logic. You want me to be interested in this precious
   painting of yours, yet you never let me see what youre doing. Always

1f.lovecraft - Old Bugs, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   strong, wicked whiskeya precious kind of forbidden fruit indeed in
   this year of grace 1950.

1f.lovecraft - Sweet Ermengarde, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   only, my most precious but here he paused to wipe his eyes and mop
   his brow, and the fair responded:
  --
   Jackmy precious!
   My darling!
  --
   How like my precious Maude, she sighed, as she watched the fair
   brunette return to blondeness. And so several weeks passed, with the

1f.lovecraft - The Call of Cthulhu, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   Eagerly clearing the sheet of its precious contents, I scanned the item
   in detail; and was disappointed to find it of only moderate length.

1f.lovecraft - The Doom That Came to Sarnath, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   on to the border of the lake and built Sarnath at a spot where precious
   metals were found in the earth.
  --
   route, and the precious metals from the earth were exchanged for other
   metals and rare cloths and jewels and books and tools for artificers
  --
   and its precious metals no more. It was long ere any traveller went
   thither, and even then only the brave and adventurous young men of
  --
   water-lizard. Not even the mines of precious metal remained, for DOOM
   had come to Sarnath.

1f.lovecraft - The Electric Executioner, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   countless delays were wasting precious hours. There were waits on
   sidings all along the single-tracked route, and now and then a hot-box

1f.lovecraft - The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   piled high with precious objects; the hoard of the wizard-beast.
   At sight of this unattainable wealth, Yaldens fervour well-nigh

1f.lovecraft - The Last Test, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   where life was still a precious and sacred thing. Thus they went on,
   and the papers were glad to publish all they wrote, since the sharpness

1f.lovecraft - The Mound, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   menis the one precious metal of the blue-lighted abyss. None knows
   what it is or where it occurs in Nature, and the amount of it on this

1f.lovecraft - The Night Ocean, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   precious, some golden virtue that we must grasp. And yet when such a
   scene or arrangement is viewed later, or from another point, we find

1f.lovecraft - The Temple, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   our complement of officers, since German lives are precious; but the
   constant ravings of the two concerning a terrible curse were most

1f.lovecraft - Till A the Seas, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   in one place and never having occasion to bear their precious water
   away, made no vessels of any kind. Ull hoped to reach his goal within a

1.fs - Elegy On The Death Of A Young Man, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
  Yet 'tis well!for precious is the rest,
   In that narrow house the sleep is calm;

1.fs - Genius, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
  Oh, then, go thy way in all thy innocence precious!
  Knowledge can teach thee in naught; thou canst instruct her in much!

1.fs - Pompeii And Herculaneum, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
  More precious yet in yon papyrus lies,
  And see ev'n still the tokens of their toil

1.fs - Resignation, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
  "Give me the woman precious to thy heart,
   Give up to me thy Laura!

1.fs - The Driver, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
   Thou couldst tempt me not e'en with that precious foe;
  What under the howling deep is concealed
  --
  Then eager the precious guerdon to win,
  For life or for death, lo! he plunges him in!

1.fs - The Sexes, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
  How precious allyet naught can still the longing heart within.
  In ripening charms the virgin bloom to woman shape hath grown,

1.jk - Endymion - Book I, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
  Into o'er-hanging boughs, and precious fruits.
  And it had gloomy shades, sequestered deep,
  --
  Buds lavish gold; or ye, whose precious charge
  Nibble their fill at ocean's very marge,

1.jk - Isabella; Or, The Pot Of Basil - A Story From Boccaccio, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
  Of precious flowers pluck'd in Araby,
  And divine liquids come with odorous ooze

1.jk - Otho The Great - Act I, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
  And precious goblets that make rich the wine.
  But why do I stand babbling to myself?

1.jk - Otho The Great - Act II, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
  I have news precious as we pass along.
  Ethelbert. Dear daughter, you shall guide me.

1.jk - Otho The Great - Act IV, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
  Bearing a fruit more precious! graceful thing.
  Delicate, godlike, magic! must I leave

1.jk - Sleep And Poetry, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
      The morning precious: beauty was awake!
      Why were ye not awake? But ye were dead
  --
      Some precious book from out its snug retreat,
      To cluster round it when we next shall meet.

1.jm - The Song of View, Practice, and Action, #Milarepa - Poems, #Jetsun Milarepa, #Buddhism
  The preaching is a precious gem;
  It is my direct experience from yogic meditation.

1.jwvg - Living Remembrance, #Goethe - Poems, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
  Thou precious gift, thou beauteous prey.
  Remain my joy and bliss to tell!

1.kbr - What Kind Of God?, #Songs of Kabir, #Kabir, #Sufism
  if a leafs prayer was not as precious to creation
  as the prayer His own son sang

1.mb - The Dagger, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Robert Bly The Dark One threw me a glance like a dagger today. Since that moment, I am insane; I can't find my body. The pain has gone through my arms and legs, and I can't find my mind. At least three of my friends are completely mad. I know the thrower of daggers well; he enjoys roving the woods. The partridge loves the moon; and the lamplight pulls in the moth. You know, for the fish, water is precious; without it, the fish dies. If he is gone, how shall I live? I can't live without him. Go and speak to the dagger-thrower: Say, Mira belongs to you. [1689.jpg] -- from Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems, Translated by Robert Bly <
1.ml - Realisation of Dreams and Mind, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   Lord Paindapa, you who practice yogic discipline! Your name has been prophesied by the devas; what a great wonder! Under the hand of glorious Advayalalita Are the vajra brothers and sisters whose minds do not differ. Headed by Sri Gunamati, Dakas who are sitting in the right hand row, listen to me! After them, the secret yoginis, Headed by the consort Sukhavajri, Dakinis who are sitting in the left hand row, listen to me! Generally, all Dharmas are illusion. Dreams are exalted as special illusion. Early in the night, dreams arise born from habitual patterns. There is nothing whatsoever to rely on there. At midnight, the deceptions of Mara appear. One should not trust in these. At dawn, there are prophecies by the devas. How wondrous, how great indeed! At the break of dawn this morning, The great lord master appeared And taught the Dharma which revealed the ultimate. This is the unforgettable memory of what Maitripa said: "In general, all Dharmas are mind. The Guru arises from mind. The Guru is nothing other than mind. Everything that appears is the nature of mind. This mind itself is primordially non-existent. In the natural state, unborn and innate, There is nothing to abandon by discursive effort. Rest at ease, naturally, without restriction. This can be shown by signs: A human corpse, an outcast, a dog, a pig, An infant, a madman, an elephant, A precious jewel, a blue lotus, Quicksilver, a deer, a lion, A Brahman, and a black antelope; did you see them?" Maitripa asked. The realization of the truth was shown by these signs: Not fixated on either samsara or Nirvana, Not holding acceptance or rejection in one's being, Not hoping for fruition from others, Mind free from occupation and complexity, Not falling into the four extremes, Nonmeditation and nonwandering, Free from thought and speech, Beyond any analogy whatsoever. Through the kindness of the Guru, I realised these. Since the experience of these realisations has dawned, Mind and mental events have ceased, And space and insight are inseparable. Faults and virtues neither increase nor decrease. Bliss, emptiness, and luminosity are unceasing. Therefore, luminosity dawns beyond coming or going. This transmission of the innate, the pith of the view Through the sign meanings which reveal the unborn, I heard from the great lord master. The reason why I sing these words Is the insistent request of the honourable lords. I could not refuse the Dharma brothers and sisters. Dakinis, do not be jealous! Thus, this song was sung for the Dharma brothers and sisters headed by Paindapa at the Rinchen Tsul monastery in Nepal to show the meaning of the signs of mahamudra as revealed by Maitripa's appearance in a dream.

1.nb - A Poem for the Sefirot as a Wheel of Light, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Jerome Rothenberg and Harris Lenowitz Original Language Hebrew (the rim) & going 'round the ten sefirot of the ball & orbit of the world of first space . . . . . . . . . (the spokes) 1 crown light from light extreme light 2 wisdom splendor from splendor hidden light 3 understanding sparkle from sparkle sparkling light 4 greatness splendor from splendor pure light 5 power light from splendor of light pure 6 beauty sparkle from light light shining 7 victory light from sparkle light refined 8 majesty splendor from sparkle light bright 9 foundation sparkle from splendor purer light pure pure 10 kingdom most precious precious shining light is [bk1sm.gif] -- from A Big Jewish Book: Poems and Other Visions of the Jews from Tribal Times to the Present, Edited by Jerome Rothenberg

1.nrpa - Advice to Marpa Lotsawa, #Naropa - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  This precious jewel of your mind,
  Do not throw it in the river like an idiot.

1.okym - 71 - And much as Wine has playd the Infidel, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Edward FitzGerald Original Language Persian/Farsi And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel, And robb'd me of my Robe of Honor -- well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the Goods they sell. [bk1sm.gif] -- from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam / Translated by Edward FitzGerald <
1.pbs - Alastor - or, the Spirit of Solitude, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
  Its precious charge, and silent death exposed,
  Faithless perhaps as sleep, a shadowy lure,

1.pbs - The Cyclops, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
  This precious drink, which if enjoyed alone
  Would make life sweeter for a longer time.

1.pbs - The Witch Of Atlas, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
   Each flame of it is as a precious stone
  Dissolved in ever-moving light, and this

1.rajh - The Word Most Precious, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  object:1.rajh - The Word Most precious
  author class:Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
  --
   English version by Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi Original Language English, Yiddish Each single moment greets my life, A message clear from timelessness. All names and words recall to me The word most precious: God! Pebbles twinkle up like stars, Silent raindrops echo true, What all creation echoes too, My Father, Teacher, word from You. My All, Your Name is my safe refuge. Without Your nearness I am naught, So lonely, saddening, is that thought. All I possess, is just this word -- If forgetfulness would snatch a name from me Let it be mine not Thine, So screams in dread that heart of mine. With every word I nickname You, I call you 'Woods' and 'Night' and 'Ah' and 'Yes,' With all my instants weaving sacred time A bit of ever-always is my gift to You. Would that for Eternity I could celebrate a holiday for You. Not just a day -- a lifetime. Please! How insignificant my thrift and gift Of offerings and adoration. What can my efforts do for You But this: to wander everywhere and bear a living witness that shows I care. - from "Human, God's Ineffable Name," by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, freely rendered by Rabbi Zalman M. Schacter-Shalomi. Available from the Reb Zalman Legacy Project <
1.rb - Any Wife To Any Husband, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
   Joy to thy sense, for that was precious too.
  It is not to be granted. But the soul

1.rb - A Pretty Woman, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
     precious metals
     Ape the petals,-

1.rb - Holy-Cross Day, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
  On these precious facts and truths sublime,-
  Let us fitly ennploy it, under our breath,

1.rb - In A Gondola, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
  ``A precious thing, or choose to fling
  ``Over the boat-side, ring by ring.''

1.rb - Old Pictures In Florence, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
   That a certain precious little tablet
  Which Buonarroti eyed like a lover,-

1.rb - Paracelsus - Part III - Paracelsus, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
  Would not be precious as those blooms to him.
  Just so, allowing I am passing sage,
  --
  Trust to Frobenius' press the precious lore
  Obscured by uncouth manner, or unfit

1.rb - Paracelsus - Part II - Paracelsus Attains, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
  Mind should be precious. Spare my mind alone!
  All else I will endure; if, as I stand

1.rb - Paracelsus - Part IV - Paracelsus Aspires, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
  'T is probable, than the precious folk I leave
  Said fiftyfold more roughly. Well-a-day,
  --
  Which had received our precious freight:
   Yet we called out"Depart!

1.rb - Respectability, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
  How many precious months and years
   Of youth had passed, that speed so fast,

1.rb - Sordello - Book the Fourth, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
  Or share itself; but Naddo's precious gift
  Of gifts, he owned, be certain! At the close
  --
  "Too precious, certainly.
               "How now? Compete

1.rt - Gitanjali, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
  Ah, my sleep, precious sleep, which only waits for his touch to vanish. Ah, my closed eyes that would open their lids only to the light of his smile when he stands before me like a dream emerging from darkness of sleep.
  Let him appear before my sight as the first of all lights and all forms. The first thrill of joy to my awakened soul let it come from his glance. And let my return to myself be immediate return to him.

1.rt - Lovers Gifts IV - She Is Near To My Heart, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
  making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.

1.rt - The Gardener LIX - O Woman, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
  make you more precious.
  The desire of men's hearts has shed

1.rt - The Gardener LXVIII - None Lives For Ever, Brother, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
    Knowledge is precious to us, because
  we shall never have time to

1.rt - Ungrateful Sorrow, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
  like a precious jewel in a necklace."
  I replied in anger: "How do you know?

1.rwe - Freedom, #Emerson - Poems, #Ralph Waldo Emerson, #Philosophy
  Gift too precious to be prayed,
  Passion not to be expressed

1.sb - Precious Treatise on Preservation of Unity on the Great Way, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  object:1.sb - precious Treatise on Preservation of Unity on the Great Way
  author class:Sun Buer

1.sca - When You have loved, You shall be chaste, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP & Ignatius C. Brady, OFM Original Language Italian When You have loved, You shall be chaste; when You have touched, You shall become pure; when You have accepted, You shall be a virgin. Whose power is stronger, Whose generosity is more abundant, Whose appearance more beautiful, Whose love more tender, Whose courtesy more gracious. In Whose embrace You are already caught up; Who has adorned Your breast with precious stones and has placed priceless pearls in Your ears and has surrounded You with sparkling gems as though blossoms of springtime and placed on Your head a golden crown as a sign of Your holiness. [1495.jpg] -- from Francis and Clare: The Complete Works: The Classics of Western Spirituality, Translated by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP / Translated by Ignatius C. Brady, OFM <
1.sfa - The Canticle of Brother Sun, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Ivan M. Granger Original Language Italian My Lord most high, all-powerful, all-good, Celebration, light, and all sweet blessings are yours, yours alone. No man speaks who can speak your Name. Praise to you, my Lord, and to all beings of your creation! Praise especially to brother sun, who fills the day with light -- through whom you shine! Beautiful and bright, magnificent with splendor, He shows us your Face. Praise to my Lord for sister moon and for the stars. You have formed them in the firmament, fine and rare and fair. Praise to you, Lord, for brother wind, for the air, for the clouds, for fair days and every turn of weather -- through which you feed the world. Praise to my Lord for sister water, precious and pure, who selflessly serves all. Praise to my Lord for brother fire, through whom you fill the dark with light. Lovely is he in his delight, mighty and strong. Praise to my Lord for our sister, mother earth, who nourishes us and surrounds us in a world ripe with fruit, pregnant with grassy fields, spangled with flowers. Praise to my Lord for those seeking your love, who discover within themselves forgiveness, rejecting neither frailty nor sorrow. Enduring in serenity, they are blessed, For they shall be crowned by your hand, Most High. Praise to my Lord for our sister death, the body's death, whom none avoid. A great sadness for those who die having missed life's mark; Yet blessed they whose way is your most holy will -- Having died once, the second death does them no ill. Sing praises! Offer holy blessings to my Lord! In gratitude, selflessly offer yourself to him. [2652.jpg] -- from The Longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology), Edited by Ivan M. Granger <
1.shvb - O ignis Spiritus Paracliti, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Ivan M. Granger Original Language Latin O Holy Spirit of Fire, life in the life of all life, holy are you, enlivening all things. Holy are you, a healing balm to the broken. Holy are you, washing blistered wounds. O Holy Breath, O Fire of Life, O Sweetness in my breast infusing my heart with the fine scent of truth. O Pure Fountain through which we know God unites strangers and gathers the lost. O Heart's Shield, guarding life and hope, joining the many members into one body; Belt of Truth, wrap them in beauty. Protect those ensnared by the enemy, and free the worthy from their fetters. O Great Way that runs through all, from the heights, across the earth, and in the depths, you encompass all and unify all. From you the clouds stream and the ether rises; from your stones precious water pours, springs well and birth waterways, and the earth sweats green with life. And eternally do you bring forth knowledge by the breath of wisdom. All praise to you, you who are the song of praise and the joy of life, you who are hope and the greatest treasure, bestowing the gift of Light. <
1.stl - The Divine Dew, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Donald Kinney, OCD Original Language French My Sweet Jesus, You appear to me On your Mother's breast, all radiant with love. Love is the ineffable mystery That exiled you from your Heavenly Home... Ah! let me hide myself under the veil Concealing you from all mortal eyes, And near you, O Morning Star! I shall find a foretaste of Heaven. From the moment a new dawn awakens, When we see the first lights of the sun, The young flower beginning to open Awaits a precious balm from on high. It is the good-giving morning dew, Which, producing an abundant sap, Makes the flower of the new bud open a little. Jesus, you are that Flower just open. I gaze on you at your first awakening. Jesus, you are the ravishing Rose, The new bud, gracious and scarlet red. The ever-so-pure arms of your dear Mother For for you a cradle, a royal throne, Your sweet sun is Mary's breast, And your Dew is Virginal Milk!... My Beloved, my divine little Brother, In your gaze I see all the future. Soon, for me, you will leave your Mother. Already Love impels you to suffer. But on the cross, O Full-blossomed Flower! I recognize your morning fragrance. I recognize Mary's Dew. Your divine blood is Virginal Milk!... This Dew hides in the sanctuary. The angels of Heaven, enraptured, contemplate it, Offering to God their sublime prayer. Like Saint John, they repeat: "Behold." Yes, behold, this Word made Host. Eternal Priest, sacerdotal Lamb, The Son of God is the Son of Mary. The bread of Angels is Virginal Milk. The seraphim feeds on glory. In Paradise his joy is full. Weak child that I am, I only see in the ciborium The color and figure of Milk. But that is the Milk a child needs, And Jesus' Love is beyond compare. O tender Love! Unfathomable power, My white Host is Virginal Milk!... [2320.jpg] -- from The Poetry of Saint Therese of Lisieux, by St. Therese of Lisieux / Translated by Donald Kinney, OCD <
1.wby - A Dramatic Poem, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
  Third Sailor.          Boxes of precious spice.
  First Sailor. Ivory images with amethyst eyes.

1.wby - Baile And Aillinn, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
  But fruit that is of precious stone,
  Or apples of the sun and moon.

1.wby - The Shadowy Waters - The Shadowy Waters, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
  Third Sailor.          Boxes of precious spice.
  First Sailor. Ivory images with amethyst eyes.

1.whitman - Aboard At A Ships Helm, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  The beautiful and noble ship, with all her precious wealth, speeds
      away gaily and safe.

1.whitman - A Carol Of Harvest For 1867, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
      the precious values fallen upon thee, and risen out of thee!
   Thou envy of the globe! thou miracle!

1.whitman - As A Strong Bird On Pinious Free, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   Yet in beginning onlyincalculable masses of composite, precious
      materials,

1.whitman - As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontarios Shores, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   Cold, cold in death, for precious life of you,
   Angry cloth I saw there leaping.)

1.whitman - Election Day, November 1884, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships,
  Swelld Washingtons, Jeffersons, Lincolns sails.

1.whitman - Manhattan Streets I Saunterd, Pondering, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   All the limitless sweet love and precious suffering of mothers,
   All honest men baffled in strifes recorded or unrecorded,

1.whitman - Over The Carnage, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  More precious to each other than all the riches of the earth.  
  To Michigan, Florida perfumes shall tenderly come;

1.whitman - Pensive On Her Dead Gazing, I Heard The Mother Of All, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
       precious, precious, precious blood;
  Which holding in trust for me, faithfully back again give me, many a

1.whitman - Poems Of Joys, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   The watchingthe endurancethe precious lovethe anguishthe
      patiently yielded life.

1.whitman - Sing Of The Banner At Day-Break, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   I do not deny the precious results of peaceI see populous cities,
      with wealth incalculable;                
  --
   O banner! not money so precious are you, not farm produce you, nor
      the material good nutriment,

1.whitman - Song Of The Exposition, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   With precious benefits to bothglory to all,
   To thee, Americaand thee, Eternal Muse.

1.whitman - Song Of The Open Road, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  I give you my love, more precious than money,
  I give you myself, before preaching or law;

1.whitman - States!, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
      be friends triune, more precious to each other than all the
      riches of the earth.

1.ww - 0- The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons - Dedication, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  And the tear precious in compassion shed        
  For Her, who, pierced by sorrow's thrilling dart,

1.ww - 3- The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  The precious folds--"behold," said he,
  "The ransom of a sinful world;            

1.ww - 7- The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  This was for you a precious greeting;
  And may it prove a fruitful meeting!

1.ww - Admonition, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  This precious leaf, with harsh impiety.
  Think what the home must be if it were thine,

1.ww - Book Fifth-Books, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  One precious gain, that he forgets himself.
   These mighty workmen of our later age,
  --
   A precious treasure had I long possessed,      
  A little yellow, canvas-covered book,

1.ww - Dion [See Plutarch], #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   That brought their precious liberty again.
   Lo! when the gates are entered, on each hand,

1.ww - Feelings Of The Tyrolese, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  Old songs, the precious music of the heart!      
  Give, herds and flocks, your voices to the wind!

1.ww - Her Eyes Are Wild, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  He saves for me my precious soul;
  Then happy lie; for blest am I;

1.ww - Laodamia, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   This precious boon; and blest a sad abode."
   "Great Jove, Laodama! doth not leave

1.ww - September, 1819, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  One precious, tender-hearted scroll
  Of pure Simonides.

1.ww - The Excursion- II- Book First- The Wanderer, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  How precious, when in riper days I learned
  To weigh with care his words, and to rejoice
  --
  A precious gift; for, as he grew in years,
  With these impressions would he still compare

1.ww - The Excursion- IV- Book Third- Despondency, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  And precious interests? Smoothly did our life
  Advance, swerving not from the path prescribed;

1.ww - The Excursion- V- Book Fouth- Despondency Corrected, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  Preserved from age to age; more precious far
  Than that accumulated store of gold
  --
  Shall be a precious visitant; and then,
  And only then, be worthy of her name:

1.ww - The Excursion- VII- Book Sixth- The Churchyard Among the Mountains, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  In search of precious ore: they tried, were foiled--
  And all desisted, all, save him alone.
  --
  There, by her innocent Baby's precious grave,
  And on the very turf that roofs her own,

1.ww - The Last Of The Flock, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  "Sir! 'twas a precious flock to me,
  As dear as my own children be;

1.ww - The Morning Of The Day Appointed For A General Thanksgiving. January 18, 1816, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  Lives inexhaustibly in precious gems,
  Fixed on the front of Eastern diadems,

1.ww - The Old Cumberland Beggar, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  (A thing more precious far than all that books
  Or the solicitudes of love can do!)

1.ww - The Prioresss Tale [from Chaucer], #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  Thy worship is performed and precious laud;
  But by the mouths of children, gracious God!
  --
  And in a tomb of precious marble clear
  Enclosed his uncorrupted body sweet.--

1.ww - Tribute To The Memory Of The Same Dog, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  But for some precious boons vouchsafed to thee,
  Found scarcely anywhere in like degree!

1.ww - Vaudracour And Julia, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  Obsequious service to the precious child,
  Which, after a short time, by some mistake

2.01 - On Books, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   She is not clear about what she wants to say. India seems to be the old woman in the poem and the idea is that she has something very precious which nobody knows about and which she may discover some day.
   20 AUGUST 1943

2.01 - THE ARCANE SUBSTANCE AND THE POINT, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  [36] The tremendous role which the opposites and their union play in alchemy helps us to understand why the alchemists were so fond of paradoxes. In order to attain this union, they tried not only to visualize the opposites together but to express them in the same breath.1 Characteristically, the paradoxes cluster most thickly round the arcane substance, which was believed to contain the opposites in uncombined form as the prima materia, and to amalgamate them as the lapis Philosophorum. Thus the lapis2 is called on the one hand base, cheap, immature, volatile, and on the other hand precious, perfect, and solid; or the prima materia is base and noble,3 or precious and parvi momenti (of little moment). The materia is visible to all eyes, the whole world sees it, touches it, loves it, and yet no one knows it.4 This stone therefore is no stone,5 says the Turba, that thing is cheap and costly, dark, hidden, and known to everyone, having one name and many names.6 The stone is thousand-named like the gods of the mystery religions, the arcane substance is One and All (
  ). In the treatise of Komarios, where the philosopher Komarios teaches the Philosophy to Cleopatra, it is said: He showed with his hand the unity of the whole.7 Pelagios asks: Why speak ye of the manifold matter? The substance of natural things is one, and of one nature that which conquers all.8

2.02 - Habit 2 Begin with the End in Mind, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
  One of the major problems that arises when people work to become more effective in life is that they don't think broadly enough. They lose the sense of proportion, the balance, the natural ecology necessary to effective living. They may get consumed by work and neglect personal health. In the name of professional success, they may neglect the most precious relationships in their lives.
  You may find that your mission statement will be much more balanced, much easier to work with, if you break it down into the specific role areas of your life and the goals you want to accomplish in each area. Look at your professional role. You might be a salesperson, or a manager, or a product developer. What are you about in that area? What are the values that should guide you? Think of your personal roles -- husband, wife, father, mother, neighbor, friend. What are you about in those roles?

2.03 - Karmayogin A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
  all things as the only reality for whose sake alone transitory phenomena are precious or desirable. How in this imperfect stage
  of development can the Karmayogin escape from covetousness

2.03 - THE ENIGMA OF BOLOGNA, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  [61] Neither husb and nor lover etc. means that Aelia Laelia drew him to herself as the magnet the iron and changed him into her nebulous and black nature. In the coniunctio he became her husband, and was necessary142 to the work. But Maier does not tell us to what extent he was not the husb and etc. Barnaud says: These are the chief causes, namely marriage, love, and consanguinity, which move a man to raise a column to the dead in the temple of memory, and none of these can here be considered. Lucius had another purpose in mind: he wished the art, which teaches everything, which is of all things the most precious and is concealed under this enigma, to appear upon the scene, so that the investigators might apply themselves to the art and true science, which surpasses all else in worth. True, he makes an exception of that holiest investigation [agnitionem] of God and Christ, whereon our salvation depends,143 a proviso we often meet in the texts.
  [62] Maier ignores the negative in neither mourning etc. just as he did in neither husband. In truth, he says, all this can as well be said positively of Lucius and not negatively. On the other hand Barnaud remarks that it draws a picture of an intrepid philosopher, smooth and rounded.144 Neither mound etc. is again explained positively by Maier: Aelia is herself the mound, which endures as something firm and immovable. This is a reference to the incorruptibility which the opus sought to achieve. He says the pyramid signifies a flame to eternal remembrance, and this was Aelia herself. She was buried because Lucius did everything he had to do in her name. He takes her place, as it were, just as the filius philosophorum takes the place of the maternal prima materia, which till then had been the only effective arcane substance. Barnaud declares that though Lucius is a building, it does not fulfil its purpose (since it is a symbol). But all he refers to the Tabula smaragdina, because the epitaph as a whole points to the medicina summa et catholica.

2.03 - THE MASTER IN VARIOUS MOODS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  O Mother, for Yaoda Thou wouldst dance, when she called Thee her precious "Blue Jewel":
  Where hast Thou hidden that lovely form, O terrible Syama? . .
  --
  NILKANTHA: "I shall get a precious gem from here."
  MASTER: "You already have that precious gem. What will you gain by adding again the letter 'a' to 'ka'? If you didn't have the gem, should I like your songs so much?
  Ramprasad had attained divine realization; that is why his songs appeal so much.

2.03 - The Pyx, #Hymn of the Universe, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  ing an atom's breadth of precious content with it,
  what happened was, in effect, that each touch pro-
  --
  you close them, is this: Nothing is precious save
  what is yourself in others and others in yourself. In

2.05 - Apotheosis, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
  mother, chewed into fragments and assimilated to the worldannihilating body of the ogre for whom all the precious forms
  and beings are only the courses of a feast; but then, miraculously

2.05 - The Religion of Tomorrow, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  tially most precious in the Universe is concentrated and
  preserved.

2.05 - VISIT TO THE SINTHI BRAMO SAMAJ, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  How many pearls and precious stones
  Are scattered all about

2.06 - Two Tales of Seeking and Losing, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  As things stand, the two stories constantly risk stumbling over each other, if the mechanism is not made quite clear. The alchemist is the man who, to achieve transformations of matter, tries to make his soul become as unchangeable and pure as gold; but there is the instance of a Doctor Faust, who inverts the alchemist's rules, makes the soul an object of exchange, and thus hopes nature will become incorruptible and it will no longer be necessary to seek gold because all elements will be equally precious: the world is gold, and gold is the world. In the same way a knight-errant is one who submits his actions to an absolute and severe moral law, so that natural law can maintain abundance on earth with absolute freedom; but let us try to imagine a Perceval-Parzival-Parsifal who inverts the rule of the Round Table, knightly virtues in him will be involuntary, they will come forth as a gift of nature, like the colors of butterflies' wings, and while performing his exploits with dazed nonchalance, he will perhaps succeed in subduing nature to his will, in possessing the knowledge of the world like an object, in becoming magician and thaumaturge, in healing the wound of the Fisher King, and in restoring green sap to the wasteland.
  The mosaic of cards that we are watching, fixed here, is therefore the Work of the Quest that one would like to conclude without work or search. Doctor Faust has wearied of having the instantaneous metamorphoses of metals depend on the slow transformations that take place within himself, he doubts the wisdom accumulated in the solitary life of a Hermit, he is disappointed in the powers of his art as he is in this dawdling over the tarot combinations. At that moment a thunderbolt illuminates his little cell at the top of The Tower. A personage appears before him with a broad-brimmed hat, such as the students wear at Wittenberg, a wandering clerk perhaps, or a charlatan Juggler, a mountebank at a fair, who has laid out on a stand a laboratory of ill-assorted jars.

2.06 - WITH VARIOUS DEVOTEES, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  "There was a farmer who lived in the countryside. He was a real Jnni. He earned his living by farming. He was married, and after many years a son was born to him, whom he named Haru. The parents loved the boy dearly. This was natural, since he was the one precious gem in the family. On account of his religious nature the farmer was loved by the villagers. One day he was working in the field when a neighbour came and told him that Haru had had an attack of cholera. The farmer at once returned home and arranged for treatment for the boy. But Haru died. The other members of the family were grief-stricken, but the farmer acted as if nothing had happened. He consoled his family and told them that grieving was futile. Then he went back to his field. On returning home he found his wife weeping even more bitterly. She said to him: "How heartless you are! You haven't shed one tear for the child.' The farmer replied quietly: 'Shall I tell you why I haven't wept? I had a very vivid dream last night. I dreamt I had become a king; I was the father of eight sons and was very happy with them. Then I woke up. Now I am greatly perplexed. Should I weep for those eight sons or for this one Haru?'
  'The farmer was a Jnni; therefore he realized that the waking state is as unreal as the dream state. There is only one eternal Substance, and that is the tman.

2.10 - On Vedic Interpretation, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   There are authentic symbols like the Vedic 'cow' which means Light and the quadruped of that name. It was something precious to the Aryan people and it was taken away by the robbers. The Rishis gave life to this symbol; form was given by their mind, and it became an experience.
   There are people who say cow should not mean Light. But what can "herds of the Sun" mean? It can only mean "Rays of solar light". There are certain life-symbols: e.g., 'Mountain' stands for ascent, going high up. 'Bridge' or 'crossing of rivers' is also a symbol from life-surroundings.

2.11 - WITH THE DEVOTEES IN CALCUTTA, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  Cherish my precious Mother Syama
  Tenderly within, O mind;

2.12 - On Miracles, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   Sri Aurobindo: They have been there for twenty thousand years. They are not new. Japan is a country of wooden houses and a Japanese goes to sleep dressed so that he can jump out at the first sign of danger. The Japanese are accustomed to keep their most precious possessions in one place. So, if there is a fire or earthquake, he simply runs out with them and then builds the house over again.
   They are accustomed to live dangerously. Only recently they have begun to introduce the American style and stone buildings have been constructed. But that has brought disastrous consequences. The whole city of Yokohama is practically destroyed.

2.1.4.1 - Teachers, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  To love to learn is the most precious gift that one can make to a child, to learn always and everywhere.
  ***

2.14 - On Movements, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   Sri Aurobindo: You did well. We cannot afford to pay two annas to have the pleasure of reading K's letter. Money is too precious nowadays.
   (After some time) At times I wonder why at all I thought of bringing down the Supermind into this mass of idiots!

WORDNET



--- Overview of adj precious

The adj precious has 4 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
                    
1. (7) cherished, precious, treasured, wanted ::: (characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for; "a cherished friend"; "children are precious"; "a treasured heirloom"; "so good to feel wanted")
2. (3) precious ::: (of high worth or cost; "diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and emeralds are precious stones")
3. valued, precious ::: (held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature; "a valued friend"; "precious memories")
4. cute, precious ::: (obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms")

--- Overview of adv precious

The adv precious has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
                  
1. precious, preciously ::: (extremely; "there is precious little time left")





--- Similarity of adj precious

4 senses of precious                          

Sense 1
cherished, precious, treasured, wanted
   => loved (vs. unloved)

Sense 2
precious
   => valuable (vs. worthless)

Sense 3
valued, precious
   => worthy (vs. unworthy)

Sense 4
cute, precious
   => artful (vs. artless)


--- Antonyms of adj precious

4 senses of precious                          

Sense 1
cherished, precious, treasured, wanted

INDIRECT (VIA loved) -> unloved

Sense 2
precious

INDIRECT (VIA valuable) -> worthless

Sense 3
valued, precious

INDIRECT (VIA worthy) -> unworthy

Sense 4
cute, precious

INDIRECT (VIA artful) -> artless



--- Pertainyms of adj precious

4 senses of precious                          

Sense 1
cherished, precious, treasured, wanted

Sense 2
precious

Sense 3
valued, precious

Sense 4
cute, precious


--- Derived Forms of adj precious

3 of 4 senses of precious                      

Sense 1
cherished, precious, treasured, wanted
   RELATED TO->(noun) preciousness#2
     => invaluableness, preciousness, pricelessness, valuableness

Sense 2
precious
   RELATED TO->(noun) preciousness#1
     => costliness, dearness, preciousness

Sense 4
cute, precious
   RELATED TO->(noun) preciousness#3
     => preciosity, preciousness
   RELATED TO->(noun) preciosity#1
     => preciosity, preciousness


--- Grep of noun precious
precious coral
precious metal
precious stone
preciousness



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Je Bul Chal-ssi Iyagi -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Comedy Horror Fantasy -- Je Bul Chal-ssi Iyagi Je Bul Chal-ssi Iyagi -- An unprecedented media show is on air at a TV broadcasting studio. The show is asking people whether a spider that drove an assemblyman crazy should be publicly executed or not. The spider in question is Je Bul-chal(meaning 'my mistake'), a hardworking young individual who became 'an ear cleaner' because of a precious memory he holds concerning his sister. In order to take a poll about his execution, the story of how Mr. Sorry became a spider is gradually revealed. -- -- (Source: Official website) -- Movie - Mar 12, 2009 -- 471 5.81
Kamisama Hajimemashita: Kako-hen -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 4 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Demons Supernatural Romance Fantasy Shoujo -- Kamisama Hajimemashita: Kako-hen Kamisama Hajimemashita: Kako-hen -- While playing in the snow one day at her shrine, the land god Nanami Momozono witnesses her familiar—the fox youkai Tomoe—collapse, with dark markings appearing on his body. Tomoe's former master, Lord Mikage, appears after his long absence and places Tomoe into a magical pocket mirror in order to stave off his ailment. -- -- Mikage explains that long ago, before he and Tomoe had met, the fox youkai was in love with a human woman. Seeking to live as a human with his beloved, he made a deal with a fallen god, but he only ended up cursed and dying. When Mikage discovered Tomoe, the god made the youkai forget his human love as a quick solution. However, something has changed recently to reactivate the curse; Tomoe has fallen in love with his new human master, Nanami. Since there is no way to stop the curse, Nanami wants to stop Tomoe from getting cursed in the first place by traveling back through time, even if it means they may never meet. As Nanami travels back hundreds of years to save her precious familiar, she discovers that she is far more closely bonded to Tomoe than she previously thought. -- -- OVA - Aug 20, 2015 -- 121,684 8.37
Karneval (TV) -- -- Manglobe -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Fantasy Josei Mystery Sci-Fi -- Karneval (TV) Karneval (TV) -- While in search of his precious friend, a young boy named Nai falls captive to a beautiful woman, whose looks are matched only by her taste for human flesh. Meanwhile Gareki, a clever thief, is in the midst of robbing her luxurious home. After causing a distraction, Gareki agrees to help Nai escape, but they are discovered upon the woman's return. As she transforms into a ghoulish monster, the boys flee. -- -- On the run, Nai and Gareki are found by "Circus," a government defense agency that deals with criminal activity too difficult for the police to handle and protects civilians from "varuga"—terrible monsters that devour humans for sustenance. In the hope that it will lead Nai to his missing friend, he and Gareki decide to join Circus. On their perilous journey, they face dangerous varuga and begin to uncover the secrets behind a shadowy organization known as Kafka. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Apr 4, 2013 -- 183,160 7.13
Kirepapa. -- -- A.C.G.T. -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance Yaoi -- Kirepapa. Kirepapa. -- Chisato Takatsukasa, a 35-year-old author, has such a youthful appearance that anyone would think him to be in his early twenties. His work is inspired by his idol—the best-selling mystery author Saki Shunka, who is as much of an enigma herself as the plots of the books she writes. -- -- Chisato is also the extremely overprotective father of 15-year old Riju, convinced that the "friends" his son constantly brings over are nothing but predators waiting for the perfect opportunity to defile his precious boy. As a result, Chisato will stop at nothing to ensure they never come over again, resorting to the most extreme of methods. -- -- There is not a man he hates more, however, than Riju's rather persistent best friend Shunsuke Sakaki, who just won't go away regardless of what Chisato tries to do. But the motivations of these characters lie as secrets bubbling just below the surface. Why is Chisato so wary of Riju's friends, and what exactly does Shunsuke know about the mysterious author his friend's father idolizes? -- -- OVA - Jan 25, 2008 -- 47,596 6.68
K-On! Movie -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 1 ep -- 4-koma manga -- Music Slice of Life Comedy -- K-On! Movie K-On! Movie -- Graduation looms for the founding members of the Light Music Club. With only a few precious weeks of school left, the girls decide to make the most of it and plan a trip abroad. Hawaii, New York, Dubai—many destinations are suggested, but after a little help from the club's precious pet turtle, Ton-chan, London is chosen as the host of their next misadventure! -- -- Yui Hirasawa, Mio Akiyama, Tsumugi Kotobuki, Ritsu Tainaka, and Azusa Nakano will visit famous landmarks, perform live music for Londoners, and eat all sorts of delicious food, all while stumbling clumsily from place to place. But the fun won't last forever, as heartfelt songs and goodbyes will be made as their high school days together come to a close. One thing is for certain though: the undeniable friendships these girls have formed is something that will carry on long after the final scene rolls. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Movie - Dec 3, 2011 -- 248,642 8.33
Magic Kaito -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Comedy Romance Shounen -- Magic Kaito Magic Kaito -- Magic is not real—everyone knows that. When performed by a true expert, however, magic possesses the ability to amaze and wonder its audience. Kaito Kuroba, son of world-famous stage magician Touichi Kuroba, is no stranger to this fact. Well-versed in the arts of deception and misdirection, Kaito frequently disrupts the lives of those around him with flashy tricks and pranks. But when Kaito accidentally stumbles upon a hidden passage in his home, he discovers a secret that may well have been the cause of his father's death eight years ago—the dove-white outfit of Kid the Phantom Thief. Wanting to find out more about his father, Kaito dons the outfit and searches for the Pandora Gem that is said to grant immortality. However, he is not the only one after the gem—the organization responsible for his father's death is also hot on his tail! -- -- Magic Kaito follows the rebirth of Kaitou Kid, phantom thief of the night. Utilizing his dummies, disguises, and signature card gun, Kaito sets out to steal the world's most precious jewels, uncovering the truth behind his father's death and the rumored Pandora Gem along the way. -- -- Special - Apr 17, 2010 -- 57,983 7.80
Momo Kyun Sword -- -- Project No.9, Tri-Slash -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Ecchi Fantasy -- Momo Kyun Sword Momo Kyun Sword -- Momoko is a beautiful young sword fighter who was born inside a peach (momo in Japanese). She lives with her constant companions—the dog god Inugami, the monkey god Sarugami, and the pheasant god Kijigami—in a peaceful paradise. However, a demon army led by devil king invades the paradise and steals the precious treasure that protects Momoko's land. To retrieve the treasure and save the people, Momoko embarks on a great adventure with her three companions. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Jul 9, 2014 -- 29,403 5.59
Myself; Yourself -- -- Doga Kobo -- 13 eps -- Visual novel -- Drama Romance School -- Myself; Yourself Myself; Yourself -- In the peaceful little town of Sakuranomori, a group of young friends are about to bid farewell to one of their own. Due to his parents’ business plans, Sana Hidaka has to move away from his quiet childhood home to the boisterous city of Tokyo. Though it pains him, he must say goodbye to his precious friends—the kind-hearted Aoi Oribe, the spunky Wakatsuki twins, Shuri and Shuusuke, and the cheerful and upbeat Nanaka Yatsushiro. But even though he is reluctant to leave them behind, he believes that no matter how far apart they are, they will always cherish the memories of their friendship. -- -- Five years later, Sana, now a 16-year-old high school student, returns to his hometown with the hope of restoring his old life. However, he quickly realizes that although his town may not have changed drastically, the friends he left behind are not who they used to be. Unsettling shadows loom over Sakuranomori as his friends hold new secrets and bear burdens that threaten the bonds they once shared. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Maiden Japan -- TV - Oct 3, 2007 -- 167,103 7.19
Pupa -- -- Studio Deen -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Fantasy Horror Psychological -- Pupa Pupa -- Abandoned by their abusive parents and with only each other to depend on, siblings Utsutsu and Yume Hasegawa find themselves led astray by beautiful red butterflies that have appeared in their world. Unbeknownst to them, these crimson winged heralds trumpet the beginning of a cannibalistic nightmare—a mysterious virus known as Pupa is about to hatch. -- -- After succumbing to the full effects of Pupa, Yume undergoes a grotesque metamorphosis into a monstrous creature with an insatiable desire for flesh; Utsutsu, on the other hand, is only partially affected, gaining remarkable regenerative powers instead. Reaffirming the resolve to keep the promise he made to himself years ago, Utsutsu is willing to sacrifice everything in order to always be there for his precious little sister. -- -- Pupa tells the story of a loving brother's desperate struggles to save his sister while protecting the world from her uncontrollable hunger. -- -- 154,549 3.39
Sarazanmai -- -- Lapin Track, MAPPA -- 11 eps -- Original -- Action Supernatural Fantasy -- Sarazanmai Sarazanmai -- After the noble Kappa Kingdom falls to the Otter Empire, the Kappa prince Keppi loses much of his power and becomes helpless against the unseen Kapa-zombies. These zombies plague the world, and are the creations of the Otters and manifestations of people's deepest desires. With no other choice, Keppi must rely on three young boys: Kazuki Yasaka, who must carry a box with him wherever he goes; Enta Jinnai, Kazuki's childhood friend; and Tooi Kuji, a delinquent and a school truant. -- -- By having the mythical organ called a shirikodama removed from them, the boys are able to become Kappa themselves and fight the Kapa-zombies. However, to defeat them, the boys must connect with each other via their minds, bodies, and—most importantly—secrets. As the Kappa Kingdom relies on these boys, they must reveal themselves as they have never done before, all the while learning that connections are fragile and truly precious things. -- -- 100,723 7.53
Sarazanmai -- -- Lapin Track, MAPPA -- 11 eps -- Original -- Action Supernatural Fantasy -- Sarazanmai Sarazanmai -- After the noble Kappa Kingdom falls to the Otter Empire, the Kappa prince Keppi loses much of his power and becomes helpless against the unseen Kapa-zombies. These zombies plague the world, and are the creations of the Otters and manifestations of people's deepest desires. With no other choice, Keppi must rely on three young boys: Kazuki Yasaka, who must carry a box with him wherever he goes; Enta Jinnai, Kazuki's childhood friend; and Tooi Kuji, a delinquent and a school truant. -- -- By having the mythical organ called a shirikodama removed from them, the boys are able to become Kappa themselves and fight the Kapa-zombies. However, to defeat them, the boys must connect with each other via their minds, bodies, and—most importantly—secrets. As the Kappa Kingdom relies on these boys, they must reveal themselves as they have never done before, all the while learning that connections are fragile and truly precious things. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 100,723 7.53
Shakugan no Shana Movie -- -- J.C.Staff -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Supernatural Fantasy -- Shakugan no Shana Movie Shakugan no Shana Movie -- Crimson Denizens and Rinne, beings from a parallel world, seek to devour humans' precious existences. To restore the delicate balance of the world, Flame Hazes hunt these entities down. -- -- Yet such things are unknown to Yuuji Sakai, who starts his day like any other and heads to school. His day, however, takes a turn for the extraordinary when he witnesses everyone around him freeze in place and is left the only one able to move. Immediately, a Rinne begins devouring the souls of those around him, but as the creature sets its sights on Yuuji, a katana-wielding Flame Haze with blazing red hair saves him. -- -- After his protector fixes the damage done, she explains why Yuuji was able to move: he has become a Torch, a remnant of a dead human being that will eventually fade from memory. Furthermore, he is also a Mystes, a Torch that houses an unknown treasure. Before his flame burns out completely, a Crimson Denizen will try to seize the treasure he holds, so the fiery hunter decides to watch over him. As Yuuji comes to terms with being dead, he resolves to live his life the best he can with the time he has remaining. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Apr 21, 2007 -- 57,208 7.38
Shakugan no Shana Movie -- -- J.C.Staff -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Supernatural Fantasy -- Shakugan no Shana Movie Shakugan no Shana Movie -- Crimson Denizens and Rinne, beings from a parallel world, seek to devour humans' precious existences. To restore the delicate balance of the world, Flame Hazes hunt these entities down. -- -- Yet such things are unknown to Yuuji Sakai, who starts his day like any other and heads to school. His day, however, takes a turn for the extraordinary when he witnesses everyone around him freeze in place and is left the only one able to move. Immediately, a Rinne begins devouring the souls of those around him, but as the creature sets its sights on Yuuji, a katana-wielding Flame Haze with blazing red hair saves him. -- -- After his protector fixes the damage done, she explains why Yuuji was able to move: he has become a Torch, a remnant of a dead human being that will eventually fade from memory. Furthermore, he is also a Mystes, a Torch that houses an unknown treasure. Before his flame burns out completely, a Crimson Denizen will try to seize the treasure he holds, so the fiery hunter decides to watch over him. As Yuuji comes to terms with being dead, he resolves to live his life the best he can with the time he has remaining. -- -- Movie - Apr 21, 2007 -- 57,208 7.38
Shin Koihime†Musou -- -- Doga Kobo -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Comedy Ecchi Fantasy Historical -- Shin Koihime†Musou Shin Koihime†Musou -- Kanuu and Chouhi's group rescue a mysterious girl, who is actually the real Ryuubi, her name and heirloom sword stolen after the events of the last season. The group sets off to recover Ryuubi's sword. At the same time, a group of street performers, the three Chou Sisters, are given a mysterious magic book that may be more trouble than they think....The franchise re-imagines the classic Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Sangokushi) as a "moe (fiery), moe (preciously cute) action love comedy" with an almost all-female cast. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Oct 5, 2009 -- 28,312 6.83
Shinryaku! Ika Musume -- -- Diomedéa -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Shounen Slice of Life -- Shinryaku! Ika Musume Shinryaku! Ika Musume -- Humans have been polluting the ocean for a long time, carelessly pouring their garbage and desecrating the waters that many creatures call home. The denizens of the sea have suffered at their poisoning hands. Finally, one certain squid has had enough and vows to punish the humans' selfish actions. -- -- Possessing all the fearsome abilities of a squid such as powerful hair-tentacles, the ability to spit ink, and even use bioluminescence at will, Ika Musume takes it upon herself to rise from the depths of the ocean and exact revenge upon humanity! She surfaces at a certain Lemon Beach House, a restaurant managed by the sisters Eiko and Chizuru Aizawa. Thinking them to be an easy first step toward world domination, she immediately declares war against them, only to find out that she is, quite literally, a fish out of water! To make things worse, she destroys a part of a wall of the beach house in an attempt to flaunt her squiddy superiority and is consequently forced into becoming a waitress to pay the repair costs. Beached for the time being after tasting a thorough defeat at the hands of the Aizawa sisters, Ika Musume is forced to put her plans for world domination on hold. -- -- Despite these setbacks, Ika Musume soon finds herself right at home in her unexpected position as Lemon Beach House's newest employee. Wacky and hilarious, Shinryaku! Ika Musume follows her brand new life on the surface as she makes precious memories and meet lots of new people. With her newfound acquaintances, Ika Musume is looking to take the world by storm, one squid ink spaghetti at a time! -- -- TV - Oct 5, 2010 -- 162,731 7.45
Shuumatsu no Harem -- -- AXsiZ, Studio Gokumi -- ? eps -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Harem Ecchi Shounen -- Shuumatsu no Harem Shuumatsu no Harem -- The Man-Killer Virus: a lethal disease that has eradicated 99.9% of the world's male population. Mizuhara Reito has been in cryogenic sleep for the past five years, leaving behind Tachibana Erisa, the girl of his dreams. When Reito awakens from the deep freeze, he emerges into a sex-crazed new world where he himself is the planet's most precious resource. Reito and four other male studs are given lives of luxury and one simple mission: repopulate the world by impregnating as many women as possible! All Reito wants, however, is to find his beloved Erisa who went missing three years ago. Can Reito resist temptation and find his one true love? -- -- (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment) -- TV - ??? ??, 2021 -- 15,282 N/A -- -- Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Returns -- -- Toei Animation -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Mystery Shounen -- Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Returns Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Returns -- High school student Hajime Kindaichi is the supposed grandson of famous private detective Kosuke Kindaichi. Visiting Hong Kong for a fashion event with Kindaichi, our hero's girlfriend Miyuki is captured by a stranger in a case of mistaken identity. The journey to save Miyuki itself leads to yet another crime case... -- -- (Source: YTV) -- TV - Apr 5, 2014 -- 15,198 7.52
Shuumatsu no Harem -- -- AXsiZ, Studio Gokumi -- ? eps -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Harem Ecchi Shounen -- Shuumatsu no Harem Shuumatsu no Harem -- The Man-Killer Virus: a lethal disease that has eradicated 99.9% of the world's male population. Mizuhara Reito has been in cryogenic sleep for the past five years, leaving behind Tachibana Erisa, the girl of his dreams. When Reito awakens from the deep freeze, he emerges into a sex-crazed new world where he himself is the planet's most precious resource. Reito and four other male studs are given lives of luxury and one simple mission: repopulate the world by impregnating as many women as possible! All Reito wants, however, is to find his beloved Erisa who went missing three years ago. Can Reito resist temptation and find his one true love? -- -- (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment) -- TV - ??? ??, 2021 -- 15,282 N/AGinga Tetsudou 999 (Movie) -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Adventure Space Drama Fantasy -- Ginga Tetsudou 999 (Movie) Ginga Tetsudou 999 (Movie) -- Tetsurou Hoshino is a boy bent on obtaining an immortal mechanical body in order to take revenge against his mother's murderer, the machine man Count Mecha. However, due to the incredible cost of obtaining what he seeks, his only hope is to steal a boarding pass for the Galaxy Express 999, a space train that travels across the galaxy and whose final stop is a planet where the metal replacements are provided for free. After swiping a pass, Tetsurou is pursued by the police and ends up collapsing into the arms of a mysterious woman named Maetel, who closely resembles his mother. Once he awakens, she tells the boy that she will provide him entry onto the 999 as long as he agrees to travel with her. Accepting her proposition, Tetsurou boards the cosmic railway with Maetel and begins a journey across the galaxy. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- Movie - Aug 4, 1979 -- 15,280 7.56
Tales of Crestoria -- -- Kamikaze Douga -- 4 eps -- Game -- Game Fantasy -- Tales of Crestoria Tales of Crestoria -- The Bandai Namco concept movies for Tales of Crestoria. It is promoting the new mobile RPG game. While part of the "Tales of..." franchise, the game will feature original characters and story, to act as an entrance into the franchise for new fans who have no yet partaken in any of the anime/manga/video games of the franchise. The main theme of the work is "sin" and follows people who are living for their precious things while being chased by those who want to convict them for their sins. -- -- There is no word yet as to when the game will be released. -- ONA - Sep 11, 2018 -- 1,126 6.06
Tennis no Ouji-sama: Sonzoku Yama no Hi -- -- Production I.G -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Adventure Comedy Sports Shounen -- Tennis no Ouji-sama: Sonzoku Yama no Hi Tennis no Ouji-sama: Sonzoku Yama no Hi -- Echizen and the Seigaku regulars took a day off of their normal routines and went hiking on a mountain, where a tennis resort awaits their arrival. Expecting to do some special training, the team reaches the destination only to find their precious tennis courts taken over by a group of college tennis players. However, Ryoma is more than happy to teach them a thing or two about how to play "real" tennis. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- OVA - ??? ??, 2003 -- 14,523 7.39
TO -- -- - -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Space Drama Seinen -- TO TO -- Elliptical Orbit: -- Fifteen years after its last contact with our world, a space freighter known as the Flying Dutchman requests permission to dock at a remote moon base. This mysterious ship carries liquid protons: a power source essential to the survival of Earth’s population. But before the precious cargo can be delivered, the base is ambushed by galactic terrorists who seek to destroy the new form of energy and issue a death sentence to all of humanity. -- -- -- Symbiotic Planet: -- Against a backdrop of intergalactic colonization and bizarre alien life forms, Aon and Elena – star-crossed lovers from rival countries competing for valuable natural resources – struggle to build a life together despite the objections of their superiors. Their budding romance is thwarted by an outbreak of alien fungus and the interference of a cutthroat militaristic madman. To survive, the young couple must maintain their faith in each other and learn to trust the unique creatures which inhabit this strange and wondrous new world. -- -- (Source: Funimation) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- OVA - Oct 2, 2009 -- 5,096 6.39
Tokyo Ghoul √A -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Mystery Horror Psychological Supernatural Drama Seinen -- Tokyo Ghoul √A Tokyo Ghoul √A -- Ken Kaneki has finally come to accept the monstrous, flesh-craving part of himself that he has feared and despised for so long. After escaping captivity and torture, Kaneki joins Aogiri Tree—the very militant ghoul organization that had abducted him, leading his friends to question his true motive and loyalty. -- -- As tension between the government and the ghouls continues to rise, the Commission of Counter Ghoul, the government's specialized anti-ghoul agency, has intensified their efforts to completely purge Tokyo of ghouls. This threatens the transient peace of Kaneki's friends and former comrades—the ghouls at the Anteiku coffee shop. Aware of the dangerous situation, Kaneki faces several battles that puts his precious fleeting humanity on the line. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 1,314,152 7.05
Tokyo Marble Chocolate -- -- Production I.G -- 2 eps -- Original -- Slice of Life Romance -- Tokyo Marble Chocolate Tokyo Marble Chocolate -- Serious and generous, but a bit shy, Yuudai has been unsuccessful with the opposite gender. Chizuru is an energetic and cheerful girl, but when it comes to boyfriends, she's been unlucky and clumsy, and never had a steady relationship. This is the first Christmas the couple spends together. Chizuru loves animals and Yuudai plans to give her a rabbit in a box, but it turns out to be... a mini donkey?! As the funny creature escapes, Chizuru goes after it, and Yuudai loses sight of them both! -- -- The time that should have been spent together... -- The important feeling that should have been revealed... -- Small, but precious things that tend to be buried in every day life. -- What answer will the two youngsters find while separated from each other? -- -- Yuudai and Chizuru—their feelings and the time they spent far from each other are delicately unfolded in this double-sided pure love story told from two different perspectives! -- -- (Source: Production I.G) -- OVA - Dec 5, 2007 -- 22,688 7.20
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Kan OVA -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Slice of Life Comedy Drama Romance School -- Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Kan OVA Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Kan OVA -- (No synopsis yet.) -- OVA - ??? ??, ???? -- 38,919 N/ASuper Cub -- -- Studio Kai -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Slice of Life School -- Super Cub Super Cub -- Second year high school student Koguma doesn't lead a very interesting life. She has no parents, and no friends nor hobbies to keep her daily life busy. One day, she acquires a second-hand Honda Super Cub motorcycle and rides it to school. As time goes by, not only does Koguma have a new adventurous life, but she also forges precious friendships thanks to her precious little motorcycle. -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 38,894 7.56
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou: Quiet Country Cafe -- -- Ajia-Do -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Slice of Life Seinen -- Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou: Quiet Country Cafe Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou: Quiet Country Cafe -- In the near-future Japan, global warming has brought the large city Yokohama underwater, and only the hills remain above the ocean surface. What used to be one of the largest cities in Japan now feels like a small town. Basically, the existence of the island country itself has been threatened. However, there is no feeling of desperation, devastation, nor hopelessness. People are enjoying laid-back lives, and they seem to appreciate each other's company, enjoying the quiet and peaceful time together. -- -- This is especially so with Alpha, a carefree young woman who runs a cafe, named Cafe Alpha. She enjoys her life immersing herself in the beautiful nature all around her. There is nothing more precious to her than spending quality time with her kind friends. Oh, the fulfillment and the joy she finds in life... it all indicates her to be a compassionate human being, but she is not quite a human. She is actually a type A7M2 robot. -- -- One day, upon hearing a radio forecast warning an approaching typhoon, her old friend who lives close by invites her to the gas station he runs, worried that her old cafe may not withstand the typhoon. Indeed, the passing of typhoon leaves Alpha with her cafe severely damaged. That's when she decides to go on a journey to raise money to rebuild her cafe, and also to see the outside world away from her friends and the comfort of a peaceful life. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- OVA - Dec 18, 2002 -- 15,050 7.15
Youkai Watch -- -- OLM -- 214 eps -- Game -- Comedy Demons Kids Supernatural -- Youkai Watch Youkai Watch -- Primary school student Keita Amano's curiosity is as innocent as any other child's his age. But when one day he decides to venture deeper into the forest, he encounters a small and mysterious capsule. Out from its depths comes Whisper. After 190 years of imprisonment, this ghost-like creature is glad that someone has been kind enough to set him free. He decides to reward Keita by becoming his guardian against supernatural forces. Whisper is one of many Youkai that exist in the world, and provides Keita with a special Youkai Watch, which enables him to see and interact with all the other Youkai. -- -- Youkai Watch follows Keita, Whisper and the cat spirit Jibanyan as they encounter Youkai, befriend them, fix all the trouble that they so often cause, and, with the help of the watch, use the powers of previously encountered Youkai to aid them. Young Keita may have been just an ordinary primary school student when he first encountered the Youkai, but the many adventures that follow his discovery provide him with invaluable experiences and precious life lessons that help him grow. -- 21,141 6.52
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