1. The act or process of translating, especially from one language into another. 2. The act of converting something into another form. Also fig.
ablactation ::: n. --> The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam.
The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.
ablaqueation ::: n. --> The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water.
a process in which all elements behave in the same way at the same time; simultaneous or synchronous parallel action.
abscess ::: n. --> A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process.
abscission ::: n. --> The act or process of cutting off.
The state of being cut off.
A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more."
abscond ::: v. i. --> To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.
To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one&
absorption ::: n. --> The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.
An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.
In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.
abstraction ::: a. --> The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.
acantha ::: n. --> A prickle.
A spine or prickly fin.
The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.
accelerate ::: v. t. --> To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.
To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure.
acclimation ::: n. --> The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.
acclimatization ::: n. --> The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured.
accrementition ::: n. --> The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.
accrument ::: n. --> The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase.
accuse ::: n. --> Accusation. ::: v. t. --> To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense
to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.
acescency ::: n. --> The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.
acetification ::: n. --> The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.
"A change into a higher consciousness or state of being is not only the whole aim and process of religion, of all higher askesis, of Yoga, but it is also the very trend of our life itself, the secret purpose found in the sum of its labour.” *The Life Divine
“A change into a higher consciousness or state of being is not only the whole aim and process of religion, of all higher askesis, of Yoga, but it is also the very trend of our life itself, the secret purpose found in the sum of its labour.” The Life Divine
achromatization ::: n. --> The act or process of achromatizing.
acidification ::: n. --> The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.
acidimetry ::: n. --> The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required.
acierage ::: n. --> The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.
acquisition ::: n. --> The act or process of acquiring.
The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition.
action ::: 1. The process or condition of acting or doing (in the widest sense), the exertion of energy, influence, power or force. 2. A way or manner of moving. 3. A thing done, a deed**. action"s, actions, self-action.
action ::: n. --> A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.
An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.
The event or connected series of events, either real or
adaptation ::: n. --> The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.
The result of adapting; an adapted form.
adipoceration ::: n. --> The act or process of changing into adipocere.
adjudication ::: n. --> The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.
A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence.
The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
A process by which land is attached security or in satisfaction of a debt.
adulterant ::: n. --> That which is used to adulterate anything. ::: a. --> Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.
advance ::: n. **1. Fig. Onward movement in any process or course of action; progress. v. 2. To move or go forward; to proceed. 3. Fig. To go forward or make progress in life, or in any course. 3. To move, put, or push (a thing) forward. Also fig. advances, advanced, advancing.**
advocation ::: n. --> The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy.
Advowson.
The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.
aemail ombrant ::: --> An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain.
agglomeration ::: n. --> The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
aging ::: the process of growing old or maturing; showing signs of advancing age.
albication ::: n. --> The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks.
albification ::: n. --> The act or process of making white.
alchemy ::: Any magical or miraculous power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value. alchemies.
alchemy ::: any magical or miraculous power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value. alchemies.
alcoholometry ::: n. --> The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain.
aldehyde ::: n. --> A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation.
algebraically ::: adv. --> By algebraic process.
alimentation ::: n. --> The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.
State or mode of being nourished.
alkalimetry ::: n. --> The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.
"All depends on the meaning you attach to words used; it is a matter of nomenclature. Ordinarily, one says a man has intellect if he can think well; the nature and process and field of the thought do not matter. If you take intellect in that sense, then you can say that intellect has different strata, and Ford belongs to one stratum of intellect, Einstein to another — Ford has a practical and executive business intellect, Einstein a scientific discovering and theorising intellect. But Ford too in his own field theorises, invents, discovers. Yet would you call Ford an intellectual or a man of intellect? I would prefer to use for the general faculty of mind the word intelligence. Ford has a great and forceful practical intelligence, keen, quick, successful, dynamic. He has a brain that can deal with thoughts also, but even there his drive is towards practicality. He believes in rebirth (metempsychosis), for instance, not for any philosophic reason, but because it explains life as a school of experience in which one gathers more and more experience and develops by it. Einstein has, on the other hand, a great discovering scientific intellect, not, like Marconi, a powerful practical inventive intelligence for the application of scientific discovery. All men have, of course, an ‘intellect" of a kind; all, for instance, can discuss and debate (for which you say rightly intellect is needed); but it is only when one rises to the realm of ideas and moves freely in it that you say, ‘This man has an intellect".” Letters on Yoga
“All depends on the meaning you attach to words used; it is a matter of nomenclature. Ordinarily, one says a man has intellect if he can think well; the nature and process and field of the thought do not matter. If you take intellect in that sense, then you can say that intellect has different strata, and Ford belongs to one stratum of intellect, Einstein to another—Ford has a practical and executive business intellect, Einstein a scientific discovering and theorising intellect. But Ford too in his own field theorises, invents, discovers. Yet would you call Ford an intellectual or a man of intellect? I would prefer to use for the general faculty of mind the word intelligence. Ford has a great and forceful practical intelligence, keen, quick, successful, dynamic. He has a brain that can deal with thoughts also, but even there his drive is towards practicality. He believes in rebirth (metempsychosis), for instance, not for any philosophic reason, but because it explains life as a school of experience in which one gathers more and more experience and develops by it. Einstein has, on the other hand, a great discovering scientific intellect, not, like Marconi, a powerful practical inventive intelligence for the application of scientific discovery. All men have, of course, an ‘intellect’ of a kind; all, for instance, can discuss and debate (for which you say rightly intellect is needed); but it is only when one rises to the realm of ideas and moves freely in it that you say, ‘This man has an intellect’.” Letters on Yoga
All Rajayoga depends on this perception and experience that our inner elements, combinations, functions, forces, can be sepa- rated or dissolved, can be new-combined and set to novel and formerly impossible workings or can be transformed and re- solved into a new general synthesis by fixed internal processes.
"All true law is the right motion and process of a reality, an energy or power of being in action fulfilling its own inherent movement self-implied in its own truth of existence. This law may be inconscient and its working appear to be mechanical, — that is the character or, at least, the appearance of law in material Nature: it may be a conscious energy, freely determined in its action by the consciousness in the being aware of its own imperative of truth, aware of its plastic possibilities of self-expression of that truth, aware, always in the whole and at each moment in the detail, of the actualities it has to realise; this is the figure of the law of the Spirit.” *The Life Divine
“All true law is the right motion and process of a reality, an energy or power of being in action fulfilling its own inherent movement self-implied in its own truth of existence. This law may be inconscient and its working appear to be mechanical,—that is the character or, at least, the appearance of law in material Nature: it may be a conscious energy, freely determined in its action by the consciousness in the being aware of its own imperative of truth, aware of its plastic possibilities of self-expression of that truth, aware, always in the whole and at each moment in the detail, of the actualities it has to realise; this is the figure of the law of the Spirit.” The Life Divine
aludel ::: n. --> One of the pear-shaped pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation.
amalgamation ::: n. --> The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury.
The mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union.
Amal: “If nothing existed except the Gods there would be no mediating passage for the spirit awaking in matter and moving towards the higher regions and reaching the glory of the Oversoul after much labour and gradual process.”
Amal: “This is the scientific building of knowledge by a logical process—a massing together of little observations into a coherent whole. It implies the loss of the original knowledge which was direct and grasped at once from all sides and not structured piece by piece from small bits of logical deduction.”
amassette ::: n. --> An instrument of horn used for collecting painters&
amendment ::: n. --> An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.
Correction of an error in a writ or process.
americanization ::: n. --> The process of Americanizing.
anabolic ::: a. --> Pertaining to anabolism; an anabolic changes, or processes, more or less constructive in their nature.
anaesthetization ::: n. --> The process of anaesthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by anaesthetics.
analysis ::: n. --> A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.
The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present.
anapophysis ::: n. --> An accessory process in many lumbar vertebrae.
anastate ::: n. --> One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate.
anastatic ::: a. --> Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.
anemometry ::: n. --> The act or process of ascertaining the force or velocity of the wind.
animalization ::: n. --> The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.
Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation.
animalize ::: v. t. --> To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.
To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation.
To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize.
animal ::: n. --> An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.
One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.
annealing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Anneal ::: n. --> The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.
The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware,
annexation ::: v. t. --> The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.
The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture. Bouvier. (b) (Scots Law) The appropriation of lands or rents to the crown.
antiplastic ::: a. --> Diminishing plasticity.
Preventing or checking the process of healing, or granulation.
ANUBHAVA. ::: The system of getting rid of things by anubhava* has behind it two well-known psychological motives. One, the motive of purposeful exhaustion, is valid only in some cases, especially when some natural tendency has too strong a hold or too strong a drive in it to be got rid of by vicāra+ t or by the process of rejection and the substitution of the true movement in its place. The other motive for anubhava is of a more general applicability ; for in order to reject anything from the being, one has first to become conscious of it, to have the clear inner experience of its action and to discover its actual place in the workings of the nature. One can then work upon it to eliminate it, if it is en entirely wrong movement, or to transform it if it is only the degradation of a higher and true movement.
aphesis ::: n. --> The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire.
apodeme ::: n. --> One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.
apolar ::: a. --> Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells.
apophysis ::: n. --> A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.
An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses.
apostemation ::: n. --> The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration.
apparitor ::: n. --> Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.
apprehend ::: v. t. --> To take or seize; to take hold of.
Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
To know or learn with certainty.
To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety,
apprehension ::: n. --> The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
areometry ::: n. --> The art or process of measuring the specific gravity of fluids.
argument ::: 1. A fact or statement put forth as proof or evidence; a reason; persuasive discourse, debate. 2. A process of reasoning; series of reasons.
argumentative ::: a. --> Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.
Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.
Given to argument; characterized by argument; disputatious; as, an argumentative writer.
argument ::: n. --> Proof; evidence.
A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it.
A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation.
The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic
aristate ::: a. --> Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned.
Having a slender, sharp, or spinelike tip.
arrestment ::: n. --> The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.
A stoppage or check.
arterialization ::: n. --> The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aeration and hematosis.
articular ::: n. --> Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process.
Alt. of Articulary
ascension ::: the act or process of ascending; upward movement. flame-ascensions.
assaying ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Assay ::: n. --> The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal.
assay ::: n. --> Trial; attempt; essay.
Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine.
Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
Tested purity or value.
The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of
assimilation ::: n. --> The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.
The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals.
assimilative ::: a. --> Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance.
atmolysis ::: n. --> The act or process of separating mingled gases of unequal diffusibility by transmission through porous substances.
::: ". . . a true occultism means no more than a research into supraphysical realities and an unveiling of the hidden laws of being and Nature, of all that is not obvious on the surface. It attempts the discovery of the secret laws of mind and mental energy, the secret laws of life and life-energy, the secret laws of the subtle-physical and its energies, — all that Nature has not put into visible operation on the surface; it pursues also the application of these hidden truths and powers of Nature so as to extend the mastery of the human spirit beyond the ordinary operations of mind, the ordinary operations of life, the ordinary operations of our physical existence. In the spiritual domain which is occult to the surface mind in so far as it passes beyond normal and enters into supernormal experience, there is possible not only the discovery of the self and spirit, but the discovery of the uplifting, informing and guiding light of spiritual consciousness and the power of the spirit, the spiritual way of knowledge, the spiritual way of action. To know these things and to bring their truths and forces into the life of humanity is a necessary part of its evolution. Science itself is in its own way an occultism; for it brings to light the formulas which Nature has hidden and it uses its knowledge to set free operations of her energies which she has not included in her ordinary operations and to organise and place at the service of man her occult powers and processes, a vast system of physical magic, — for there is and can be no other magic than the utilisation of secret truths of being, secret powers and processes of Nature. It may even be found that a supraphysical knowledge is necessary for the completion of physical knowledge, because the processes of physical Nature have behind them a supraphysical factor, a power and action mental, vital or spiritual which is not tangible to any outer means of knowledge.” The Life Divine
“… a true occultism means no more than a research into supraphysical realities and an unveiling of the hidden laws of being and Nature, of all that is not obvious on the surface. It attempts the discovery of the secret laws of mind and mental energy, the secret laws of life and life-energy, the secret laws of the subtle-physical and its energies,—all that Nature has not put into visible operation on the surface; it pursues also the application of these hidden truths and powers of Nature so as to extend the mastery of the human spirit beyond the ordinary operations of mind, the ordinary operations of life, the ordinary operations of our physical existence. In the spiritual domain which is occult to the surface mind in so far as it passes beyond normal and enters into supernormal experience, there is possible not only the discovery of the self and spirit, but the discovery of the uplifting, informing and guiding light of spiritual consciousness and the power of the spirit, the spiritual way of knowledge, the spiritual way of action. To know these things and to bring their truths and forces into the life of humanity is a necessary part of its evolution. Science itself is in its own way an occultism; for it brings to light the formulas which Nature has hidden and it uses its knowledge to set free operations of her energies which she has not included in her ordinary operations and to organise and place at the service of man her occult powers and processes, a vast system of physical magic,—for there is and can be no other magic than the utilisation of secret truths of being, secret powers and processes of Nature. It may even be found that a supraphysical knowledge is necessary for the completion of physical knowledge, because the processes of physical Nature have behind them a supraphysical factor, a power and action mental, vital or spiritual which is not tangible to any outer means of knowledge.” The Life Divine
attenuation ::: n. --> The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.
The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases.
The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.
augmentation ::: n. --> The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.
The state of being augmented; enlargement.
The thing added by way of enlargement.
A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor.
The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing.
auricula ::: n. --> A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear&
AUSTERITY. ::: A premature and excessive physical austerity, tapasyā, may endanger the process of the sadhana by establishing a disturbance and abnormality of the forces in the different parts of the system. A great energy may pour into the mental and vital parts, but the nerves and the body may be overstrained and lose the strength to support the play of these higher energies.
autographical ::: a. --> Pertaining to an autograph, or one&
autography ::: n. --> The science of autographs; a person&
autophony ::: n. --> An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer&
autoplasty ::: n. --> The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.
autotypography ::: n. --> A process resembling "nature printing," by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate.
autotypy ::: n. --> The art or process of making autotypes.
“Avatarhood would have little meaning if it were not connected with the evolution. The Hindu procession of the ten Avatars is itself, as it were, a parable of evolution. First the Fish Avatar, then the amphibious animal between land and water, then the land animal, then the Man-Lion Avatar, bridging man and animal, then man as dwarf, small and undeveloped and physical but containing in himself the godhead and taking possession of existence, then the rajasic, sattwic, nirguna Avatars, leading the human development from the vital rajasic to the sattwic mental man and again the overmental superman. Krishna, Buddha and Kalki depict the last three stages, the stages of the spiritual development—Krishna opens the possibility of overmind, Buddha tries to shoot beyond to the supreme liberation but that liberation is still negative, not returning upon earth to complete positively the evolution; Kalki is to correct this by bringing the Kingdom of the Divine upon earth, destroying the opposing Asura forces. The progression is striking and unmistakable.” Letters on Yoga
avicularia ::: n. pl. --> See prehensile processes on the cells of some Bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird&
bafflement ::: n. --> The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.
baking ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Bake ::: n. --> The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.
The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.
baldachin ::: n. --> A rich brocade; baudekin.
A structure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter&
ballooning ::: n. --> The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales.
balsamation ::: n. --> The act of imparting balsamic properties.
The art or process of embalming.
bankruptcy ::: n. --> The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.
The act or process of becoming a bankrupt.
Complete loss; -- followed by of.
banner ::: n. --> A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.
A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.
Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner.
bannerol ::: n. --> A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.
barbicel ::: n. --> One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.
barbule ::: n. --> A very minute barb or beard.
One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.
barometry ::: n. --> The art or process of making barometrical measurements.
beadle ::: v. --> A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.
An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students.
An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.
beaked ::: a. --> Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.
Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.
beatification ::: n. --> The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization.
beatify ::: v. t. --> To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.
To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized.
beetle ::: v. t. --> A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.
To beat with a heavy mallet.
To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
"Behind this petty instrumental action of the human will there is something vast and powerful and eternal that oversees the trend of the inclination and presses on the turn of the will. There is a total Truth in Nature greater than our individual choice. And in this total Truth, or even beyond and behind it, there is something that determines all results; its presence and secret knowledge keep up steadily in the process of Nature a dynamic, almost automatic perception of the right relations, the varying or persistent necessities, the inevitable steps of the movement. There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“Behind this petty instrumental action of the human will there is something vast and powerful and eternal that oversees the trend of the inclination and presses on the turn of the will. There is a total Truth in Nature greater than our individual choice. And in this total Truth, or even beyond and behind it, there is something that determines all results; its presence and secret knowledge keep up steadily in the process of Nature a dynamic, almost automatic perception of the right relations, the varying or persistent necessities, the inevitable steps of the movement. There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga
being ::: 1. The state or quality of having existence. 2. The totality of all things that exist. 3. One"s basic or essential nature; self. 4. All the qualities constituting one that exists; the essence. 5. A person; human being. 6. The Divine, the Supreme; God. Being, being"s, Being"s, beings, Beings, beings", earth-being"s, earth-beings, fragment-being, non-being, non-being"s, Non-Being, Non-Being"s, world-being"s.
Sri Aurobindo: "Pure Being is the affirmation by the Unknowable of Itself as the free base of all cosmic existence.” *The Life Divine :::
"The Absolute manifests itself in two terms, a Being and a Becoming. The Being is the fundamental reality; the Becoming is an effectual reality: it is a dynamic power and result, a creative energy and working out of the Being, a constantly persistent yet mutable form, process, outcome of its immutable formless essence.” *The Life Divine
"What is original and eternal for ever in the Divine is the Being, what is developed in consciousness, conditions, forces, forms, etc., by the Divine Power is the Becoming. The eternal Divine is the Being; the universe in Time and all that is apparent in it is a Becoming.” Letters on Yoga
"Being and Becoming, One and Many are both true and are both the same thing: Being is one, Becomings are many; but this simply means that all Becomings are one Being who places Himself variously in the phenomenal movement of His consciousness.” The Upanishads :::
"Our whole apparent life has only a symbolic value & is good & necessary as a becoming; but all becoming has being for its goal & fulfilment & God is the only being.” *Essays Divine and Human
"Our being is a roughly constituted chaos into which we have to introduce the principle of a divine order.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
bench warrant ::: --> A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice&
bessemer steel ::: --> Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.
bidding ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Bid ::: n. --> Command; order; a proclamation or notifying.
The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.
bidentate ::: a. --> Having two teeth or two toothlike processes; two-toothed.
bile ::: n. --> A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.
Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one&
biochemistry ::: n. --> The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.
birostrated ::: a. --> Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks.
birth ::: “Birth is the first spiritual mystery of the physical universe, death is the second which gives its double point of perplexity to the mystery of birth; for life, which would otherwise be a self-evident fact of existence, becomes itself a mystery by virtue of these two which seem to be its beginning and its end and yet in a thousand ways betray themselves as neither of these things, but rather intermediate stages in an occult processus of life.” The Life Divine
biting in ::: --> The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch.
bituminization ::: n. --> The process of bituminizing.
blacking ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Black ::: n. --> Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.
The act or process of making black.
blasting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Blast ::: n. --> A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.
The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts.
blaze ::: n. --> A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.
Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.
A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.
A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark,
bleaching ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Bleach ::: n. --> The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents.
ble and even manifest themselves without being sought for. They can be acquired and fixed by processes which the science gives, and their use then becomes subject to the will ; or they can be allowed to develop of themselves and used only when they come, or when the Divine within moves us to use them ; or else,. even though thus naturally developing and acting, they may be rejected in a siogle-minded devotion to the one supreme goal of the Yoga. Secondly, there are fuller, • greater powers belonging to the supramental planes which are the very powers of the
bloodletting ::: n. --> The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.
blooming ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Bloom ::: n. --> The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron. ::: a.
blunging ::: n. --> The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger.
Body consciousness ::: The body has its own consciousness and acts from it, even without any mental will of our own or even against that will, and our surface mind knows very little about this body consciousness, feels it only in an imperfect way, sees only its results and has the greatest dihiculty in finding out their causes. It is part of the yoga to become aware of this separate consciousness of the body, to sec and feel its movements and the forces that act upon it from inside or outside and to learn how to control and direct it even in its most hidden and (to us) subconscient processes.
bookbinding ::: n. --> The art, process, or business of binding books.
boottopping ::: n. --> The act or process of daubing a vessel&
boring ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Bore ::: n. --> The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.
A hole made by boring.
boss ::: n. --> Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.
A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus.
A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations.
bottling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Bottle ::: n. --> The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.
bowing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Bow
of Bow ::: n. --> The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.
In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and
boycott ::: v. t. --> To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott. ::: n. --> The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman,
process ::: a continuous action, operation, or series of changes taking place in a definite manner. processes.
procession ::: 1. A group of people or things moving forwards in an orderly, regular, or ceremonial manner. 2. The line or body of persons or things moving along in such a manner. 3. Fig. An orderly succession.
breathe ::: v. i. --> To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.
To take breath; to rest from action.
To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently. ::: v. t. --> To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to
breathing ::: the act or process of respiration.
breath ::: n. --> The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc.
The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath.
The power of respiration, and hence, life.
Time to breathe; respite; pause.
A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single
breeding ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Breed ::: n. --> The act or process of generating or bearing.
The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
Nurture; education; formation of manners.
breeze ::: n. --> Alt. of Breeze fly
A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.
Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning
brewing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Brew ::: n. --> The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale.
The quantity brewed at once.
A mixing together.
bronzing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Bronze ::: n. --> The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes.
A material for bronzing.
brutalization ::: n. --> The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.
bucking ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Buck ::: n. --> The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.
A washing.
The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
budding ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Bud ::: n. --> The act or process of producing buds.
A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to
build ::: 1. To construct; erect; lit. and fig. (sometimes with up). 2. To mould, form, create. 3. To found, form or construct (a plan, system, etc.) on a basis. 4. To develop or give form to according to a plant or process; create; construct (something immaterial). builds, built, building.
burnettize ::: v. t. --> To subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.
burning ::: adj. 1. Aflame; on fire. Also fig. 2. Very bright; glowing; luminous. 3. Characterized by intense emotion; passionate. 4. Urgent or crucial. 5. Extremely hot; scorching. 6. Very hot. ever-burning.* *n. 7. The state, process, sensation, or effect of being on fire, burned, or subjected to intense heat. altar-burnings.**
But conversion may also come as the culmination of a long process of aspiration and tapasya. if the psychic being comes to the front, then conversion becomes easy or may come instanta- neously or the conversion may bring the psychic being to the front.
"But great art is not satisfied with representing the intellectual truth of things, which is always their superficial or exterior truth; it seeks for a deeper and original truth which escapes the eye of the mere sense or the mere reason, the soul in them, the unseen reality which is not that of their form and process but of their spirit.” The Human Cycle etc.
“But great art is not satisfied with representing the intellectual truth of things, which is always their superficial or exterior truth; it seeks for a deeper and original truth which escapes the eye of the mere sense or the mere reason, the soul in them, the unseen reality which is not that of their form and process but of their spirit.” The Human Cycle etc.
"But in a higher than our present mental consciousness we find that this duality is only a phenomenal appearance. The highest and real truth of existence is the one Spirit, the supreme Soul, Purushottama, and it is the power of being of this Spirit which manifests itself in all that we experience as universe. This universal Nature is not a lifeless, inert or unconscious mechanism, but informed in all its movements by the universal Spirit. The mechanism of its process is only an outward appearance and the reality is the Spirit creating or manifesting its own being by its own power of being in all that is in Nature. Soul and Nature in us too are only a dual appearance of the one existence.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“But in a higher than our present mental consciousness we find that this duality is only a phenomenal appearance. The highest and real truth of existence is the one Spirit, the supreme Soul, Purushottama, and it is the power of being of this Spirit which manifests itself in all that we experience as universe. This universal Nature is not a lifeless, inert or unconscious mechanism, but informed in all its movements by the universal Spirit. The mechanism of its process is only an outward appearance and the reality is the Spirit creating or manifesting its own being by its own power of being in all that is in Nature. Soul and Nature in us too are only a dual appearance of the one existence.” The Synthesis of Yoga
cabbling ::: n. --> The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.
cachexy ::: n. --> A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).
cadrans ::: n. --> An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.
calamistration ::: n. --> The act or process of curling the hair.
calcar ::: n. --> A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.
A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.
A spur, or spurlike prominence.
A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.
calcification ::: n. --> The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.
calcination ::: n. --> The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.
The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation.
calculate ::: v. i. --> To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.
To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to calculate or cast one&
calculation ::: n. --> The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.
An expectation based on circumstances.
calculus ::: n. --> Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.
A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation.
calibration ::: n. --> The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument.
calking ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Calk ::: n. --> The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.
calorimeter ::: n. --> An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc.
An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam.
calorimetric ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the process of using the calorimeter.
cancellation ::: n. --> The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor.
canonization ::: n. --> The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.
The state of being canonized or sainted.
capias ::: n. --> A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias.
capitalization ::: n. --> The act or process of capitalizing.
caption ::: n. --> A caviling; a sophism.
The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process.
That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed.
The heading of a chapter, section, or page.
caravan ::: a company of travelers journeying together, as across a desert or through hostile territory. 2. A procession or train likened to a caravan. caravans.
carbonization ::: n. --> The act or process of carbonizing.
carburization ::: n. --> The act, process, or result of carburizing.
carburize ::: v. t. --> To combine with carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of volatile hydrocarbons.
carding ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Card ::: a. --> The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t. ::: v. t.
caries ::: pl. --> of Carib ::: n. --> Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses.
carnification ::: n. --> The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh.
cartilaginification ::: n. --> The act or process of forming cartilage.
casehardening ::: n. --> The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel.
caseharden ::: v. t. --> To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.
To render insensible to good influences.
casing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Case
of Cash ::: n. --> The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.
An outside covering, for protection or ornament, or to
casting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Cast ::: n. --> The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing.
The act or process of making casts or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold.
catalysis ::: n. --> Dissolution; degeneration; decay.
A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by mere contact. It is now believed that such reactions are attended with the formation of an intermediate compound or compounds, so that by alternate composition and decomposition the agent is apparenty left unchanged; as, the catalysis of making ether from alcohol by means of sulphuric acid; or catalysis in the action of soluble ferments (as
caudicula ::: n. --> A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.
cause ::: v. --> That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.
That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing.
Sake; interest; advantage.
A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
cavalcade ::: n. --> A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade.
cavicornia ::: n. pl. --> A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.
celebration ::: n. --> The act, process, or time of celebrating.
cementation ::: n. --> The act or process of cementing.
A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.
centralization ::: n. --> The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.
centrobaric ::: a. --> Relating to the center of gravity, or to the process of finding it.
cerebroscopy ::: n. --> Examination of the brain for the diagnosis of disease; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope).
Chance ::: Madhav: “Chance, erratic happening, is only an appearance. It is not the governing truth or feature of this existence. What look like unregulated result is really an effect foreseeable by an Intelligence higher than the mental reason; in fact, it is part of a process initiated and conducted by a divine wisdom, prajna, that rules the universe. What passes for chance is a purposive movement permitted and contained in the larger operations of the Law.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. I.
chancroid ::: n. --> A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre.
changings ::: the action, process, or result of altering or modifying things.
channeling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Channel ::: n. --> The act or process of forming a channel or channels.
A channel or a system of channels; a groove.
characterization ::: n. --> The act or process of characterizing.
charcoal ::: v. t. --> Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.
Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.
chariot ::: n. --> A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc.
A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat. ::: v. t. --> To convey in a chariot.
cheiloplasty ::: n. --> The process of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.
chemical ::: a. --> Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical combinations. ::: n. --> A substance used for producing a chemical effect; a reagent.
chemically ::: adv. --> According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.
chemitype ::: n. --> One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.
chipping ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Chip ::: n. --> A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.
The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or
chitinization ::: n. --> The process of becoming chitinous.
chlorination ::: n. --> The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.
chlorometry ::: n. --> The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.
christianization ::: n. --> The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity.
chromatype ::: n. --> A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.
The process by which such picture is made.
chromolithograph ::: n. --> A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.
chromotype ::: n. --> A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph.
A photographic picture in the natural colors.
chrysotype ::: n. --> A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold.
2process, invented by Sir J.Herschel.
chylifaction ::: n. --> The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
cibation ::: n. --> The act of taking food.
The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material.
cicatrix ::: n. --> The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.
cicatrization ::: n. --> The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized.
cilia ::: n. pl. --> The eyelashes.
Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.
Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash.
ciliary ::: a. --> Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.
Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion.
\cil of sleep — very largely indeed these two elements get mixed up together. For in fact a large part of our consciousness in sleep docs not sink into this subconscious slate ; it passes beyond the veil into other planes of being which arc connected with our own inner planes, planes of supraphj'sical existence, w'orlds of a larger life, mind or psychic which arc there behind and whose influences come to us without our knowledge. Occasionally we get a dream from these planes, something more than a dream, — a dream experience which is a record direct or symbolic of what happens to us or around us there. As the inner consciousness grows by sadhana, these dream experiences increase In number, dearness, coherence, accuracy and after some growth of experi- ence and consciousness, we can, if we observe, come to under- stand them and their significance to our loner life. Even we can by training become so coosetous as to follow our own passage, usually veiled to our arvarencss and memory, through many realms and the process of the return to the waking state. At a certain pitch of this inner wakefulness this kind of sleep, a sleep experience, can replace the ordinary subconscious slumber.
circumgestation ::: n. --> The act or process of carrying about.
ciselure ::: n. --> The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased.
citrination ::: n. --> The process by which anything becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher&
civilization ::: n. --> The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.
Rendering a criminal process civil.
civillty ::: n. --> The state of society in which the relations and duties of a citizen are recognized and obeyed; a state of civilization.
A civil office, or a civil process
Courtesy; politeness; kind attention; good breeding; a polite act or expression.
clarification ::: n. --> The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.
The act of freeing from obscurities.
clarifier ::: n. --> That which clarifies.
A vessel in which the process of clarification is conducted; as, the clarifier in sugar works.
claw ::: n. --> A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.
The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.
Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.
A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink.
To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.
clearing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Clear ::: n. --> The act or process of making clear.
A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation.
A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling
clinoid ::: a. --> Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.
clothing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Clothe ::: n. --> Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.
The art of process of making cloth.
A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.
clouding ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Cloud ::: n. --> A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing.
A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals.
cnidocil ::: n. --> The fine filiform process of a cnidoblast.
codification ::: n. --> The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.
coercion ::: n. --> The act or process of coercing.
The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion)
cohobation ::: n. --> The process of cohobating.
coinage ::: v. t. --> The act or process of converting metal into money.
Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.
The cost or expense of coining money.
The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged.
colation ::: n. --> The act or process of straining or filtering.
colature ::: n. --> The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer.
collection ::: n. --> The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
That which is collected
A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.
That which is obtained in payment of demands.
An accumulation of any substance.
colligation ::: n. --> A binding together.
That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse.
colliquation ::: n. --> A melting together; the act of melting; fusion.
A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages.
collodiotype ::: n. --> A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype.
combination ::: n. --> The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.
The result of combining or uniting; union of persons or things; esp. a union or alliance of persons or states to effect some purpose; -- usually in a bad sense.
The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds.
combing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Comb ::: n. --> The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one&
comfortment ::: n. --> Act or process of administering comfort.
commentation ::: n. --> The act or process of commenting or criticising; exposition.
The result of the labors of a commentator.
commixture ::: n. --> The act or process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound.
The mass formed by mingling different things; a compound; a mixture.
compilation ::: n. --> The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
complainant ::: n. --> One who makes complaint.
One who commences a legal process by a complaint.
The party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law.
completion ::: n. --> The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service.
State of being complete; fulfillment; accomplishment; realization.
complication ::: n. --> The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
comprehension ::: n. --> The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.
That which is comprehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome.
The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles.
The complement of attributes which make up the
compression ::: 1. The act or process of compressing. 2. The process or result of constricting; becoming smaller or pressed together.
computation ::: n. --> The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
The result of computation; the amount computed.
concentration ::: n. --> The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.
The act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
conciliation ::: n. --> The act or process of conciliating; the state of being conciliated.
concoction ::: n. --> A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.
The act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.
The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising; rumination.
Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition.
concretion ::: n. --> The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.
A mass or nodule of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus.
A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of clay.
condensation ::: n. --> The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.
The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water.
A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in
confiscation ::: n. --> The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use.
confutation ::: n. --> The act or process of confuting; refutation.
congealment ::: n. --> The act or the process of congealing; congeliation.
That which is formed by congelation; a clot.
congelation ::: n. --> The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.
The state of being congealed.
That which is congealed.
conglaciation ::: n. --> The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost.
conglobation ::: n. --> The act or process of forming into a ball.
A round body.
conglomeration ::: n. --> The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is conglomerated; a mixed mass.
conjuration ::: n. --> The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner; the act of binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration.
The act or process of invoking supernatural aid by the use of a magical form of words; the practice of magic arts; incantation; enchantment.
A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy.
conquest ::: 1. The act or process of conquering, being victorious. 2. Something, such as territory, acquired by conquering. conquests.
conquest ::: n. --> The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory.
That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.
The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle;
CONSECRATION. ::: A process by which one trains the consciousness to give itself to the Divine ; becomes in its fullness a devoting of all our being to the Divine, therefore also of all our thoughts and our works.
"Consecration is a process by which one trains the consciousness to give itself to the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
“Consecration is a process by which one trains the consciousness to give itself to the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
consideration ::: n. --> The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention.
Attentive respect; appreciative regard; -- used especially in diplomatic or stately correspondence.
Thoughtful or sympathetic regard or notice.
Claim to notice or regard; some degree of importance or consequence.
The result of delibration, or of attention and
consolidation ::: n. --> The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination.
To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.
The combination of several actions into one.
constitution ::: n. --> The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.
The state of being; that form of being, or structure and connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes a system or body; natural condition; structure; texture; conformation.
The aggregate of all one&
construction ::: n. --> The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.
The form or manner of building or putting together the parts of anything; structure; arrangement.
The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement.
The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining
consumption ::: n. --> The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption.
contamination ::: n. --> The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
contempt ::: n. --> The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
The state of being despised; disgrace; shame.
An act or expression denoting contempt.
Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court,
contentment ::: v. t. --> The state of being contented or satisfied; content.
The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice is impossible.
Gratification; pleasure; satisfaction.
contignation ::: n. --> The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric.
A framework or fabric, as of beams.
contraction ::: n. --> The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
The process of shortening an operation.
The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease.
contusion ::: n. --> The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.
A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.
convection ::: n. --> The act or process of conveying or transmitting.
A process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from changes of temperature and other causes.
convertend ::: n. --> Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse. See Converse, n. (Logic).
converter ::: n. --> One who converts; one who makes converts.
A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal.
conveyance ::: n. --> The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.
The instrument or means of carrying or transporting anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or means by which, anything is carried from one place to another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water.
The act or process of transferring, transmitting,
conviction ::: n. --> The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.
A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal.
The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation.
The state of being convinced or convicted; strong
cookery ::: n. --> The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.
A delicacy; a dainty.
cope ::: n. --> A covering for the head.
Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.
An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the
coracoid ::: a. --> Shaped like a crow&
cormus ::: n. --> See Corm.
A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached.
corniculum ::: n. --> A small hornlike part or process.
coronoid ::: a. --> Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna.
corrosion ::: n. --> The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion.
corruption ::: n. --> The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
The product of corruption; putrid matter.
The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.
The act of changing, or of being changed, for the
cortege ::: n. --> A train of attendants; a procession.
cosmic mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Nevertheless, the fact of this intervention from above, the fact that behind all our original thinking or authentic perception of things there is a veiled, a half-veiled or a swift unveiled intuitive element is enough to establish a connection between mind and what is above it; it opens a passage of communication and of entry into the superior spirit-ranges. There is also the reaching out of mind to exceed the personal ego limitation, to see things in a certain impersonality and universality. Impersonality is the first character of cosmic self; universality, non-limitation by the single or limiting point of view, is the character of cosmic perception and knowledge: this tendency is therefore a widening, however rudimentary, of these restricted mind areas towards cosmicity, towards a quality which is the very character of the higher mental planes, — towards that superconscient cosmic Mind which, we have suggested, must in the nature of things be the original mind-action of which ours is only a derivative and inferior process.” *The Life Divine
"If we accept the Vedic image of the Sun of Truth, . . . we may compare the action of the Higher Mind to a composed and steady sunshine, the energy of the Illumined Mind beyond it to an outpouring of massive lightnings of flaming sun-stuff. Still beyond can be met a yet greater power of the Truth-Force, an intimate and exact Truth-vision, Truth-thought, Truth-sense, Truth-feeling, Truth-action, to which we can give in a special sense the name of Intuition; . . . At the source of this Intuition we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies, — not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative Oversoul this whole lower hemisphere of Knowledge-Ignorance, links it with that greater Truth-Consciousness while yet at the same time with its brilliant golden Lid it veils the face of the greater Truth from our sight, intervening with its flood of infinite possibilities as at once an obstacle and a passage in our seeking of the spiritual law of our existence, its highest aim, its secret Reality.” The Life Divine
"There is one cosmic Mind, one cosmic Life, one cosmic Body. All the attempt of man to arrive at universal sympathy, universal love and the understanding and knowledge of the inner soul of other existences is an attempt to beat thin, breach and eventually break down by the power of the enlarging mind and heart the walls of the ego and arrive nearer to a cosmic oneness.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"[The results of the opening to the cosmic Mind:] One is aware of the cosmic Mind and the mental forces that move there and how they work on one"s mind and that of others and one is able to deal with one"s own mind with a greater knowledge and effective power. There are many other results, but this is the fundamental one.” Letters on Yoga
"The cosmic consciousness has many levels — the cosmic physical, the cosmic vital, the cosmic Mind, and above the higher planes of cosmic Mind there is the Intuition and above that the overmind and still above that the supermind where the Transcendental begins. In order to live in the Intuition plane (not merely to receive intuitions), one has to live in the cosmic consciousness because there the cosmic and individual run into each other as it were, and the mental separation between them is already broken down, so nobody can reach there who is still in the separative ego.” Letters on Yoga*
costeaning ::: n. --> The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.
counterirritate ::: v. t. --> To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.
crabbing ::: n. --> The act or art of catching crabs.
The fighting of hawks with each other.
A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.
create ::: 1. To cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes. 2. To evolve from one"s own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention. 3. To cause to happen; to bring about; arrange, as by intention or design. creates, created, creating, all-creating, self-creating, world-creating, new-create.
creation ::: 1. The act or process of creating, esp. the universe as thus brought into being by God. 2. Something that has been brought into existence or created, esp. a product of human intelligence or imagination, as a work of art, music, etc. creation"s, creations, half-creations, **self-creation.
crefting ::: n. --> Croftland.
Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching.
cresset ::: n. --> An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions.
A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
cribration ::: n. --> The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting.
crispation ::: n. --> The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled.
A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal.
cross-week ::: n. --> Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions.
crude ::: superl. --> In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh.
Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.
Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.
Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.
crystallite ::: n. --> A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called trichites, belonites, globulites, etc.
crystallization ::: n. --> The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.
The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.
Dangers of descern ::: In this process of the descent from above
"Death has no reality except as a process of life. Disintegration of substance and renewal of substance, maintenance of form and change of form are the constant process of life; death is merely a rapid disintegration subservient to life"s necessity of change and variation of formal experience. Even in the death of the body there is no cessation of Life, only the material of one form of life is broken up to serve as material for other forms of life.” The Life Divine
“Death has no reality except as a process of life. Disintegration of substance and renewal of substance, maintenance of form and change of form are the constant process of life; death is merely a rapid disintegration subservient to life’s necessity of change and variation of formal experience. Even in the death of the body there is no cessation of Life, only the material of one form of life is broken up to serve as material for other forms of life.” The Life Divine
decadence ::: 1. The act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state; deterioration; decay. 2. Moral degeneration; turpitude.
deduction ::: logic. A process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.
degree ::: 1. Fig. One of a series of steps in a process, course, or progression; a stage. 2. Relative intensity or amount, as of a quality or attribute. degrees.
developing ::: undergoing the process of growth; evolving; unfolding.
diminution ::: the act or process of diminishing; a lessening or reduction.
discernment ::: **The act or process of exhibiting keen insight and keen perception; acuteness of judgement, discrimination and understanding. discernment"s.**
"Everybody now knows that Science is not a statement of the truth of things, but only a language expressing a certain experience of objects, their structure, their mathematics, a coordinated and utilisable impression of their processes — it is nothing more.” Letters on Yoga
“Everybody now knows that Science is not a statement of the truth of things, but only a language expressing a certain experience of objects, their structure, their mathematics, a coordinated and utilisable impression of their processes—it is nothing more.” Letters on Yoga
“Evolution, as we see it in this world, is a slow and difficult process and, indeed, needs usually ages to reach abiding results; but this is because it is in its nature an emergence from inconscient beginnings, a start from nescience and a working in the ignorance of natural beings by what seems to be an unconscious force. There can be, on the contrary, an evolution in the light and no longer in the darkness, in which the evolving being is a conscious participant and cooperator, and this is precisely what must take place here.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"Evolution is an inverse action of the involution: what is an ultimate and last derivation in the involution is the first to appear in the evolution; what was original and primal in the involution is in the evolution the last and supreme emergence.” The Life Divine ::: "Evolution, as we see it in this world, is a slow and difficult process and, indeed, needs usually ages to reach abiding results; but this is because it is in its nature an emergence from inconscient beginnings, a start from nescience and a working in the ignorance of natural beings by what seems to be an unconscious force. There can be, on the contrary, an evolution in the light and no longer in the darkness, in which the evolving being is a conscious participant and cooperator, and this is precisely what must take place here.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"Evolution is the one eternal dynamic law and hidden process of the earth-nature.” Essays Divine and Human
“Evolution is the one eternal dynamic law and hidden process of the earth-nature.” Essays Divine and Human
EVOLUTION. ::: The one eternal dynamic law and hidden process of the earth-nature.
exchange ::: the act, process or an instance of exchanging; interchange, trade, traffic, business, commerce. Exchange.
ferment ::: 1. A state of agitation or of turbulent change or development. 2. A process of nature involving the addition of yeasts, moulds and certain bacteria (to liquids or solids) causing an effervescence or internal commotion, with evolution of heat, in the substance operated on, and a resulting alteration of its properties.
final ::: 1. Of or constituting the end result of a succession or process; ultimate. 2. Constituting the end or purpose.
flight ::: 1. The act or process of flying through the air with or without wings. 2. Fig. A passing above and beyond ordinary bounds. 3. A swift movement, transition, or progression. 4. A series of steps, terraces, etc., ascending without change of direction. flights.
"For each birth is a new start; it develops indeed from the past, but is not its mechanical continuation: rebirth is not a constant reiteration but a progression, it is the machinery of an evolutionary process.” The Life Divine
“For each birth is a new start; it develops indeed from the past, but is not its mechanical continuation: rebirth is not a constant reiteration but a progression, it is the machinery of an evolutionary process.” The Life Divine
::: "For God the Time-Spirit does not destroy for the sake of destruction, but to make the ways clear in the cyclic process for a greater rule and a progressing manifestation, . . . .” *Essays on the Gita
“For God the Time-Spirit does not destroy for the sake of destruction, but to make the ways clear in the cyclic process for a greater rule and a progressing manifestation, …” Essays on the Gita
FORM. ::: Form is the basic means of manifestation and with- out it, it may be said that the manifestation of anything is not complete. Even if the Formless logically precedes the Form, yet it is not illogical to assume that in the Formless, Form is inherent and already existent in a mystic latency, otherwise how could it be manifested? For any other process would be the creation of the non-existent, not manifestation.
“For the subconscient is the Inconscient in the process of becoming conscious; it is a support and even a root of our inferior parts of being and their movements.” The Life Divine
"Genius is Nature"s first attempt to liberate the imprisoned god out of her human mould; the mould has to suffer in the process. It is astonishing that the cracks are so few and unimportant.” Essays Divine and Human
“Genius is Nature’s first attempt to liberate the imprisoned god out of her human mould; the mould has to suffer in the process. It is astonishing that the cracks are so few and unimportant.” Essays Divine and Human
grades ::: stages or degrees in a process.
growth ::: 1. The process of growing in all senses of the word. 2. Something that has grown or developed by or as if by a natural process. growths.
harvest ::: n. 1.* fig. The result or consequence of an activity. v. *2. To gain, win, acquire, or use (a prize, product, or result of any past act, process, plan, etc.).
Hathayogic ^-stem its devices of mana and pran^-amz, but reduces their multiple and elaborate forms in each case to one simplest and most directly effective process suffidcnl for its own imme- diate object. Thus it gets rid of the Hathayogic complexity and cumbrousness while it utilises the swift and powerful eOicacy of its methods for the control of the body and the sital functions and for the awakening of that interual dynamism, full of a latent supernormal faculty’, typified in Yogic lenninologj’ by the kuru^alini, the coiled and sleeping serpent of Bnergy within.
"If we take this fourfold status as a figure of the Self passing from its superconscient state, where there is no subject or object, into a luminous trance in which superconscience becomes a massed consciousness out of which the subjective status of being and the objective come into emergence, then we get according to our view of things either a possible process of illusionary creation or a process of creative Self-knowledge and All-knowledge.” The Life Divine
“If we take this fourfold status as a figure of the Self passing from its superconscient state, where there is no subject or object, into a luminous trance in which superconscience becomes a massed consciousness out of which the subjective status of being and the objective come into emergence, then we get according to our view of things either a possible process of illusionary creation or a process of creative Self-knowledge and All-knowledge.” The Life Divine
inference ::: the act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true.
infiltration ::: the act or process of penetrating or seeping into slowly; permeating.
influence ::: the action or process (by a person or thing) of producing effects on the actions, behaviour, opinions, etc. of another or others. influences, Influence, Influences.
inhibitions ::: conscious or unconscious restraint of a behavioural process, a desire, or an impulse.
INNER GUIDE. ::: The supreme Guide and Teacher is the inner Guide, the World-Teacher, jagad-guru, secret within us. He dis- closes progressively in us his own nature of freedom, bliss, love, power, immortal being. He has no method and every method.
His system is a natural organisation of the highest processes and movements of which the nature is capable. In his yoga there is nothing too small to be used and nothing too great to be attempted. This inner Guide is often veiled at first by the very intensity of our personal effort and by the ego's preoccupation with itself and its aims.
In proportion as the surrender and self-consecration progress the sadhaka becomes conscious of the Divine Shakti doing the sadhana, pouring into him more and more of herself, founding in him the freedom and perfection of the Divine Nature. The more this conscious process replaces his own effort, the more rapid and true becomes his progress. But it cannot completely replace the necessity of personal effort until the surrender and consecration arc pure and complete from top to bottom.
INTEGRAL YOGA ::: This yoga accepts the value of cosmic existence and holds it to be a reality; its object is to enter into a higher Truth-Consciousness or Divine Supramental Consciousness in which action and creation are the expression not of ignorance and imperfection, but of the Truth, the Light, the Divine Ānanda. But for that, the surrender of the mortal mind, life and body to the Higher Consciousnessis indispensable, since it is too difficult for the mortal human being to pass by its own effort beyond mind to a Supramental Consciousness in which the dynamism is no longer mental but of quite another power. Only those who can accept the call to such a change should enter into this yoga.
Aim of the Integral Yoga ::: It is not merely to rise out of the ordinary ignorant world-consciousness into the divine consciousness, but to bring the supramental power of that divine consciousness down into the ignorance of mind, life and body, to transform them, to manifest the Divine here and create a divine life in Matter.
Conditions of the Integral Yoga ::: This yoga can only be done to the end by those who are in total earnest about it and ready to abolish their little human ego and its demands in order to find themselves in the Divine. It cannot be done in a spirit of levity or laxity; the work is too high and difficult, the adverse powers in the lower Nature too ready to take advantage of the least sanction or the smallest opening, the aspiration and tapasyā needed too constant and intense.
Method in the Integral Yoga ::: To concentrate, preferably in the heart and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up the being and by the workings of her force transform the consciousness. One can concentrate also in the head or between the eye-brows, but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspiration intense, then there is the beginning of experience. The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be. For the rest one must not depend on one’s own efforts only, but succeed in establishing a contact with the Divine and a receptivity to the Mother’s Power and Presence.
Integral method ::: The method we have to pursue is to put our whole conscious being into relation and contact with the Divine and to call Him in to transform Our entire being into His, so that in a sense God Himself, the real Person in us, becomes the sādhaka of the sādhana* as well as the Master of the Yoga by whom the lower personality is used as the centre of a divine transfiguration and the instrument of its own perfection. In effect, the pressure of the Tapas, the force of consciousness in us dwelling in the Idea of the divine Nature upon that which we are in our entirety, produces its own realisation. The divine and all-knowing and all-effecting descends upon the limited and obscure, progressively illumines and energises the whole lower nature and substitutes its own action for all the terms of the inferior human light and mortal activity.
In psychological fact this method translates itself into the progressive surrender of the ego with its whole field and all its apparatus to the Beyond-ego with its vast and incalculable but always inevitable workings. Certainly, this is no short cut or easy sādhana. It requires a colossal faith, an absolute courage and above all an unflinching patience. For it implies three stages of which only the last can be wholly blissful or rapid, - the attempt of the ego to enter into contact with the Divine, the wide, full and therefore laborious preparation of the whole lower Nature by the divine working to receive and become the higher Nature, and the eventual transformation. In fact, however, the divine strength, often unobserved and behind the veil, substitutes itself for the weakness and supports us through all our failings of faith, courage and patience. It” makes the blind to see and the lame to stride over the hills.” The intellect becomes aware of a Law that beneficently insists and a Succour that upholds; the heart speaks of a Master of all things and Friend of man or a universal Mother who upholds through all stumblings. Therefore this path is at once the most difficult imaginable and yet in comparison with the magnitude of its effort and object, the most easy and sure of all.
There are three outstanding features of this action of the higher when it works integrally on the lower nature. In the first place, it does not act according to a fixed system and succession as in the specialised methods of Yoga, but with a sort of free, scattered and yet gradually intensive and purposeful working determined by the temperament of the individual in whom it operates, the helpful materials which his nature offers and the obstacles which it presents to purification and perfection. In a sense, therefore, each man in this path has his own method of Yoga. Yet are there certain broad lines of working common to all which enable us to construct not indeed a routine system, but yet some kind of Shastra or scientific method of the synthetic Yoga.
Secondly, the process, being integral, accepts our nature such as it stands organised by our past evolution and without rejecting anything essential compels all to undergo a divine change. Everything in us is seized by the hands of a mighty Artificer and transformed into a clear image of that which it now seeks confusedly to present. In that ever-progressive experience we begin to perceive how this lower manifestation is constituted and that everything in it, however seemingly deformed or petty or vile, is the more or less distorted or imperfect figure of some elements or action in the harmony of the divine Nature. We begin to understand what the Vedic Rishis meant when they spoke of the human forefathers fashioning the gods as a smith forges the crude material in his smithy.
Thirdly, the divine Power in us uses all life as the means of this integral Yoga. Every experience and outer contact with our world-environment, however trifling or however disastrous, is used for the work, and every inner experience, even to the most repellent suffering or the most humiliating fall, becomes a step on the path to perfection. And we recognise in ourselves with opened eyes the method of God in the world, His purpose of light in the obscure, of might in the weak and fallen, of delight in what is grievous and miserable. We see the divine method to be the same in the lower and in the higher working; only in the one it is pursued tardily and obscurely through the subconscious in Nature, in the other it becomes swift and selfconscious and the instrument confesses the hand of the Master. All life is a Yoga of Nature seeking to manifest God within itself. Yoga marks the stage at which this effort becomes capable of self-awareness and therefore of right completion in the individual. It is a gathering up and concentration of the movements dispersed and loosely combined in the lower evolution.
Key-methods ::: The way to devotion and surrender. It is the psychic movement that brings the constant and pure devotion and the removal of the ego that makes it possible to surrender.
The way to knowledge. Meditation in the head by which there comes the opening above, the quietude or silence of the mind and the descent of peace etc. of the higher consciousness generally till it envelops the being and fills the body and begins to take up all the movements.
Yoga by works ::: Separation of the Purusha from the Prakriti, the inner silent being from the outer active one, so that one has two consciousnesses or a double consciousness, one behind watching and observing and finally controlling and changing the other which is active in front. The other way of beginning the yoga of works is by doing them for the Divine, for the Mother, and not for oneself, consecrating and dedicating them till one concretely feels the Divine Force taking up the activities and doing them for one.
Object of the Integral Yoga is to enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine’s sake alone, to be tuned in our nature into the nature of the Divine, and in our will and works and life to be the instrument of the Divine.
Principle of the Integral Yoga ::: The whole principle of Integral Yoga is to give oneself entirely to the Divine alone and to nobody else, and to bring down into ourselves by union with the Divine Mother all the transcendent light, power, wideness, peace, purity, truth-consciousness and Ānanda of the Supramental Divine.
Central purpose of the Integral Yoga ::: Transformation of our superficial, narrow and fragmentary human way of thinking, seeing, feeling and being into a deep and wide spiritual consciousness and an integrated inner and outer existence and of our ordinary human living into the divine way of life.
Fundamental realisations of the Integral Yoga ::: The psychic change so that a complete devotion can be the main motive of the heart and the ruler of thought, life and action in constant union with the Mother and in her Presence. The descent of the Peace, Power, Light etc. of the Higher Consciousness through the head and heart into the whole being, occupying the very cells of the body. The perception of the One and Divine infinitely everywhere, the Mother everywhere and living in that infinite consciousness.
Results ::: First, an integral realisation of Divine Being; not only a realisation of the One in its indistinguishable unity, but also in its multitude of aspects which are also necessary to the complete knowledge of it by the relative consciousness; not only realisation of unity in the Self, but of unity in the infinite diversity of activities, worlds and creatures.
Therefore, also, an integral liberation. Not only the freedom born of unbroken contact of the individual being in all its parts with the Divine, sāyujya mukti, by which it becomes free even in its separation, even in the duality; not only the sālokya mukti by which the whole conscious existence dwells in the same status of being as the Divine, in the state of Sachchidananda ; but also the acquisition of the divine nature by the transformation of this lower being into the human image of the divine, sādharmya mukti, and the complete and final release of all, the liberation of the consciousness from the transitory mould of the ego and its unification with the One Being, universal both in the world and the individual and transcendentally one both in the world and beyond all universe.
By this integral realisation and liberation, the perfect harmony of the results of Knowledge, Love and Works. For there is attained the complete release from ego and identification in being with the One in all and beyond all. But since the attaining consciousness is not limited by its attainment, we win also the unity in Beatitude and the harmonised diversity in Love, so that all relations of the play remain possible to us even while we retain on the heights of our being the eternal oneness with the Beloved. And by a similar wideness, being capable of a freedom in spirit that embraces life and does not depend upon withdrawal from life, we are able to become without egoism, bondage or reaction the channel in our mind and body for a divine action poured out freely upon the world.
The divine existence is of the nature not only of freedom, but of purity, beatitude and perfection. In integral purity which shall enable on the one hand the perfect reflection of the divine Being in ourselves and on the other the perfect outpouring of its Truth and Law in us in the terms of life and through the right functioning of the complex instrument we are in our outer parts, is the condition of an integral liberty. Its result is an integral beatitude, in which there becomes possible at once the Ānanda of all that is in the world seen as symbols of the Divine and the Ānanda of that which is not-world. And it prepares the integral perfection of our humanity as a type of the Divine in the conditions of the human manifestation, a perfection founded on a certain free universality of being, of love and joy, of play of knowledge and of play of will in power and will in unegoistic action. This integrality also can be attained by the integral Yoga.
Sādhanā of the Integral Yoga does not proceed through any set mental teaching or prescribed forms of meditation, mantras or others, but by aspiration, by a self-concentration inwards or upwards, by a self-opening to an Influence, to the Divine Power above us and its workings, to the Divine Presence in the heart and by the rejection of all that is foreign to these things. It is only by faith, aspiration and surrender that this self-opening can come.
The yoga does not proceed by upadeśa but by inner influence.
Integral Yoga and Gita ::: The Gita’s Yoga consists in the offering of one’s work as a sacrifice to the Divine, the conquest of desire, egoless and desireless action, bhakti for the Divine, an entering into the cosmic consciousness, the sense of unity with all creatures, oneness with the Divine. This yoga adds the bringing down of the supramental Light and Force (its ultimate aim) and the transformation of the nature.
Our yoga is not identical with the yoga of the Gita although it contains all that is essential in the Gita’s yoga. In our yoga we begin with the idea, the will, the aspiration of the complete surrender; but at the same time we have to reject the lower nature, deliver our consciousness from it, deliver the self involved in the lower nature by the self rising to freedom in the higher nature. If we do not do this double movement, we are in danger of making a tamasic and therefore unreal surrender, making no effort, no tapas and therefore no progress ; or else we make a rajasic surrender not to the Divine but to some self-made false idea or image of the Divine which masks our rajasic ego or something still worse.
Integral Yoga, Gita and Tantra ::: The Gita follows the Vedantic tradition which leans entirely on the Ishvara aspect of the Divine and speaks little of the Divine Mother because its object is to draw back from world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation beyond it.
The Tantric tradition leans on the Shakti or Ishvari aspect and makes all depend on the Divine Mother because its object is to possess and dominate the world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation through it.
This yoga insists on both the aspects; the surrender to the Divine Mother is essential, for without it there is no fulfilment of the object of the yoga.
Integral Yoga and Hatha-Raja Yogas ::: For an integral yoga the special methods of Rajayoga and Hathayoga may be useful at times in certain stages of the progress, but are not indispensable. Their principal aims must be included in the integrality of the yoga; but they can be brought about by other means. For the methods of the integral yoga must be mainly spiritual, and dependence on physical methods or fixed psychic or psychophysical processes on a large scale would be the substitution of a lower for a higher action. Integral Yoga and Kundalini Yoga: There is a feeling of waves surging up, mounting to the head, which brings an outer unconsciousness and an inner waking. It is the ascending of the lower consciousness in the ādhāra to meet the greater consciousness above. It is a movement analogous to that on which so much stress is laid in the Tantric process, the awakening of the Kundalini, the Energy coiled up and latent in the body and its mounting through the spinal cord and the centres (cakras) and the Brahmarandhra to meet the Divine above. In our yoga it is not a specialised process, but a spontaneous upnish of the whole lower consciousness sometimes in currents or waves, sometimes in a less concrete motion, and on the other side a descent of the Divine Consciousness and its Force into the body.
Integral Yoga and other Yogas ::: The old yogas reach Sachchidananda through the spiritualised mind and depart into the eternally static oneness of Sachchidananda or rather pure Sat (Existence), absolute and eternal or else a pure Non-exist- ence, absolute and eternal. Ours having realised Sachchidananda in the spiritualised mind plane proceeds to realise it in the Supramcntal plane.
The suprcfhe supra-cosmic Sachchidananda is above all. Supermind may be described as its power of self-awareness and W’orld- awareness, the world being known as within itself and not out- side. So to live consciously in the supreme Sachchidananda one must pass through the Supermind.
Distinction ::: The realisation of Self and of the Cosmic being (without which the realisation of the Self is incomplete) are essential steps in our yoga ; it is the end of other yogas, but it is, as it were, the beginning of outs, that is to say, the point where its own characteristic realisation can commence.
It is new as compared with the old yogas (1) Because it aims not at a departure out of world and life into Heaven and Nir- vana, but at a change of life and existence, not as something subordinate or incidental, but as a distinct and central object.
If there is a descent in other yogas, yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent — the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent. It is the descent of the new coosdousness attain- ed by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sadhana. Even the Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life ; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life.
(2) Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth-consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic acbievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing of a Power of consciousness (the Supramental) not yet organised or active directly in earth-nature, even in the spiritual life, but yet to be organised and made directly active.
(3) Because a method has been preconized for achieving this purpose which is as total and integral as the aim set before it, viz., the total and integral change of the consciousness and nature, taking up old methods, but only as a part action and present aid to others that are distinctive.
Integral Yoga and Patanjali Yoga ::: Cilia is the stuff of mixed mental-vital-physical consciousness out of which arise the movements of thought, emotion, sensation, impulse etc.
It is these that in the Patanjali system have to be stilled altogether so that the consciousness may be immobile and go into Samadhi.
Our yoga has a different function. The movements of the ordinary consciousness have to be quieted and into the quietude there has to be brought down a higher consciousness and its powers which will transform the nature.
In the process of our yoga the centres, called tectmlcally lotuses or circles {cakra), have each a fi.ted psychological use and general function which bases all theif special powers and func- tionings.
In the receiving there must be no inability to contain, no breaking down of anything In the system, mind or life or nerv'e or body under the traasmudng stress. There must be an endless receptivity, an always increasing edacity to bear an ever stronger and more and more insistent action of the divine Force. Other- wise notlung great or permanent can be done ; the Yoga will end in a break-down or an inert stoppage or a stultifying or a disastrous arrest in a process which must be absolute and integral if it is not to be a failure.
intuition ::: direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process. intuition"s, intuitions, half-intuition.
Sri Aurobindo: "Intuition is a power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by identity; for it is always something that leaps out direct from a concealed identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even without any such meeting, looks into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again, when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of things and beings and has a contactual union with it, then the spark, the flash or the blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths. This close perception is more than sight, more than conception: it is the result of a penetrating and revealing touch which carries in it sight and conception as part of itself or as its natural consequence. A concealed or slumbering identity, not yet recovering itself, still remembers or conveys by the intuition its own contents and the intimacy of its self-feeling and self-vision of things, its light of truth, its overwhelming and automatic certitude.” *The Life Divine
"Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind-substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of ``stable lightnings"". When this original or native Intuition begins to descend into us in answer to an ascension of our consciousness to its level or as a result of our finding of a clear way of communication with it, it may continue to come as a play of lightning-flashes, isolated or in constant action; but at this stage the judgment of reason becomes quite inapplicable, it can only act as an observer or registrar understanding or recording the more luminous intimations, judgments and discriminations of the higher power. To complete or verify an isolated intuition or discriminate its nature, its application, its limitations, the receiving consciousness must rely on another completing intuition or be able to call down a massed intuition capable of putting all in place. For once the process of the change has begun, a complete transmutation of the stuff and activities of the mind into the substance, form and power of Intuition is imperative; until then, so long as the process of consciousness depends upon the lower intelligence serving or helping out or using the intuition, the result can only be a survival of the mixed Knowledge-Ignorance uplifted or relieved by a higher light and force acting in its parts of Knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"I use the word ‘intuition" for want of a better. In truth, it is a makeshift and inadequate to the connotation demanded of it. The same has to be said of the word ‘consciousness" and many others which our poverty compels us to extend illegitimately in their significance.” *The Life Divine - Sri Aurobindo"s footnote.
"For intuition is an edge of light thrust out by the secret Supermind. . . .” The Life Divine
". . . intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data.” The Life Divine
"Intuition is above illumined Mind which is simply higher Mind raised to a great luminosity and more open to modified forms of intuition and inspiration.” Letters on Yoga
"Intuition sees the truth of things by a direct inner contact, not like the ordinary mental intelligence by seeking and reaching out for indirect contacts through the senses etc. But the limitation of the Intuition as compared with the supermind is that it sees things by flashes, point by point, not as a whole. Also in coming into the mind it gets mixed with the mental movement and forms a kind of intuitive mind activity which is not the pure truth, but something in between the higher Truth and the mental seeking. It can lead the consciousness through a sort of transitional stage and that is practically its function.” Letters on Yoga
“Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind-substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of ``stable lightnings’’. When this original or native Intuition begins to descend into us in answer to an ascension of our consciousness to its level or as a result of our finding of a clear way of communication with it, it may continue to come as a play of lightning-flashes, isolated or in constant action; but at this stage the judgment of reason becomes quite inapplicable, it can only act as an observer or registrar understanding or recording the more luminous intimations, judgments and discriminations of the higher power. To complete or verify an isolated intuition or discriminate its nature, its application, its limitations, the receiving consciousness must rely on another completing intuition or be able to call down a massed intuition capable of putting all in place. For once the process of the change has begun, a complete transmutation of the stuff and activities of the mind into the substance, form and power of Intuition is imperative; until then, so long as the process of consciousness depends upon the lower intelligence serving or helping out or using the intuition, the result can only be a survival of the mixed Knowledge-Ignorance uplifted or relieved by a higher light and force acting in its parts of Knowledge.” The Life Divine
“It could be affirmed as a consequence that there is one all-pervading Life or dynamic energy—the material aspect being only its outermost movement—that creates all these forms of the physical universe, Life imperishable and eternal which, even if the whole figure of the universe were quite abolished, would itself still go on existing and be capable of producing a new universe in its place, must indeed, unless it be held back in a state of rest by some higher Power or hold itself back, inevitably go on creating. In that case Life is nothing else than the Force that builds and maintains and destroys forms in the world; it is Life that manifests itself in the form of the earth as much as in the plant that grows upon the earth and the animals that support their existence by devouring the life-force of the plant or of each other. All existence here is a universal Life that takes form of Matter. It might for that purpose hide life-process in physical process before it emerges as submental sensitivity and mentalised vitality, but still it would be throughout the same creative Life-principle.” The Life Divine
Jhumur: “Savitri has gone into the very beginning of evolution, origin, where in the crypt the involved consciousness is hidden deep within, from which the whole process of evolution can grow. In a deep crypt, in an underground vault, the involved Supreme in a seed form has coiled himself and then slowly uncoils through time and evolution.”
KRIYA. ::: The process of action, practice, rites.
landings ::: the act or process of coming to land or rest, especially after a voyage or flight.
"Law is a process or a formula; but the soul is the user of processes and exceeds formulas.” Essays Divine and Human ::: **law"s, laws, stone-laws, world-law, world-laws.**
“Law is a process or a formula; but the soul is the user of processes and exceeds formulas.” Essays Divine and Human
Mahashakti she creates all these beings and contains and enters, supports and conducts all these million processes and forces.
MEDITATION. ::: A process leading towards knowledge and through knowledge; it is a thing of the, head and not of the heart.
::: "Meditation, by the way, is a process leading towards knowledge and through knowledge, it is a thing of the head and not of the heart, so if you want dhyana , you can"t have an aversion to knowledge. Concentration in the heart is not meditation, it is a call on the Divine, on the Beloved.” Letters on Yoga
“Meditation, by the way, is a process leading towards knowledge and through knowledge, it is a thing of the head and not of the heart, so if you want dhyana , you can’t have an aversion to knowledge. Concentration in the heart is not meditation, it is a call on the Divine, on the Beloved.” Letters on Yoga
Meditation is the easiest process for the human mind, but the narrtyftest in its results ; contemplation more difficult, but greater; self-observation and liberation from the chains of Thought the most difficult of all, but the widest and greatest in its fruits.
memory ::: 1. The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience. 2. The act or an instance of remembering; recollection. 3. The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered. Memory, memory"s, memories.
memory ::: “… memory is only a process of consciousness, a utility; it cannot be the substance of being or the whole of our personality: it is simply one of the workings of consciousness as radiation is one of the workings of Light.” The Life Divine
mother ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Supreme and far above all she creates.” The Mother ::: "The one original transcendent Shakti, the Mother stands above all the worlds and bears in her eternal consciousness the Supreme Divine.
"That which we call Nature or Prakriti is only her [the Mother"s] most outward executive aspect; she marshals and arranges the harmony of her forces and processes, impels the operations of Nature and moves among them secret or manifest in all that can be seen or experienced or put into motion of life.” *The Mother
: "The Mother comes in order to bring down the Supramental and it is the descent which makes her full manifestation here possible.” *Letters on the Mother
"When one does sadhana, the inner consciousness begins to open and one is able to go inside and have all kinds of experiences there. As the sadhana progresses, one begins to live more and more in this inner being and the outer becomes more and more superficial. At first the inner consciousness seems to be the dream and the outer the waking reality. Afterwards the inner consciousness becomes the reality and the outer is felt by many as a dream or delusion, or else as something superficial and external. The inner consciousness begins to be a place of deep peace, light, happiness, love, closeness to the Divine or the presence of the Divine, the Mother.” Letters on Yoga ::: **mighty Mother, World-Mother, World-Mother"s.**
motion ::: 1. The action or process of changing position or place. 2. The ability or power to move. 3. A meaningful or expressive change in the position of the body or a part of the body; a gesture. motion"s, motions, motion-parable myriad-motioned.
multiplication (‘s) ::: the act or process of multiplying or the condition of being multiplied.
“My researches first convinced me that words, like plants, like animals, are in no sense artificial products, but growths,—living growths of sound with certain seed-sounds as their basis. Out of these seed-sounds develop a small number of primitive root-words with an immense progeny which have their successive generations and arrange themselves in tribes, clans, families, selective groups each having a common stock and a common psychological history. For the factor which presided over the development of language was the association, by the nervous mind of primitive man, of certain general significances or rather of certain general utilities and sense-values with articulate sounds. The process of this association was also in no sense artificial but natural, governed by simple and definite psychological laws.” The Secret of the Veda
nature ::: 1. The universe, with all its phenomena. 2. The forces and processes that produce and control all the phenomena of the material world. 3. The material world, esp. as surrounding human kind and existing independently of human activities. 4. The essential characteristics and qualities of a human being. 5. A particular combination of qualities belonging to a person, animal, thing, of class by birth, origin, or constitution; native or inherent character. 6. Characteristic disposition; temperament. nature"s, Nature"s, natures, earth-nature ("s), Earth-Nature"s, Heaven-nature"s, life-nature"s, soul-nature, World-Nature"s, twi-natured.
Nature and kept within the narrow bounds of her normal ope- rations. Id the ancient tradition of Hatha Yoga it has always been supposed that this conquest could be pushed so far even as to conquer to a great extent the force of gravitation. By various subsidiary but elaborate processes the Hatha Yogin next contrives to keep the body free from all impurities and the ner- vous system unclogged for those exercises of respiration which are his most important instruments. These are called prana- yama, the control of the breath or vital power ; for breathing is the chief physical functioning of the vital forces. Prdnayaina, for the Hatha Yogin, serves a double purpose. First, it completes the perfection of the body. The vitality is liberated from many of the ordinary necessities of physical Nature ; robust health, prolonged youth, often an extraordinary longevity arc attained.
“Nevertheless, the fact of this intervention from above, the fact that behind all our original thinking or authentic perception of things there is a veiled, a half-veiled or a swift unveiled intuitive element is enough to establish a connection between mind and what is above it; it opens a passage of communication and of entry into the superior spirit-ranges. There is also the reaching out of mind to exceed the personal ego limitation, to see things in a certain impersonality and universality. Impersonality is the first character of cosmic self; universality, non-limitation by the single or limiting point of view, is the character of cosmic perception and knowledge: this tendency is therefore a widening, however rudimentary, of these restricted mind areas towards cosmicity, towards a quality which is the very character of the higher mental planes,—towards that superconscient cosmic Mind which, we have suggested, must in the nature of things be the original mind-action of which ours is only a derivative and inferior process.” The Life Divine
Occult and spiritual ::: The spiritual realisation is of primary importance and indispensable. I would consider it best to have the spiritual and psychic development first and have it with the same fullness before entering the occult regions. Those who enter the latter first may find their spiritual realisation much delayed ; others fall into the ma^ traps of the occult and do not come out in this life. Some no doubt can cany on both together, the occult and the spiritual, and make them help each other ; but the process I suggest is the safer.
“On the surface of life all appears to be a game of Chance. There is no certainty about any movement; ups and downs, vicissitudes, cataclysms, actions, passions and thoughts crowd in medley and it is impossible to anticipate or regulate them with any definiteness. But a deeper scrutiny reveals a pattern behind all the apparent workings of Chance. What looks like Chance is itself a part of the process; it is called Chance because the particular operation does not take place within the framework of the laws erected by the limited empirical mind; there is really no Chance in the working out of the divine Intention that is this Universe.” Readings in Savitri Vol. III.
"Our explanation of the evolution in Matter is that the universe is a self-creative process of a supreme Reality whose presence makes spirit the substance of things, — all things are there as the spirit"s powers and means and forms of manifestation.” The Life Divine
“Our explanation of the evolution in Matter is that the universe is a self-creative process of a supreme Reality whose presence makes spirit the substance of things,—all things are there as the spirit’s powers and means and forms of manifestation.” The Life Divine
Our outer mind is blind to Ihb process of Nature ; but by the awakening of the inner mind we can become aware of it.
"Our thoughts are not really created within ourselves independently in the small narrow thinking machine we call our mind; in fact, they come to us from a vast mental space or ether either as mind-waves or waves of mind-force that carry a significance which takes shape in our personal mind or as thought-formations ready-made which we adopt and call ours. Our outer mind is blind to this process of Nature; but by the awakening of the inner mind we can become aware of it.” Letters on Yoga
“Our thoughts are not really created within ourselves independently in the small narrow thinking machine we call our mind; in fact, they come to us from a vast mental space or ether either as mind-waves or waves of mind-force that carry a significance which takes shape in our personal mind or as thought-formations ready-made which we adopt and call ours. Our outer mind is blind to this process of Nature; but by the awakening of the inner mind we can become aware of it.” Letters on Yoga
output ::: 1. The act or process of producing; production. 2. An amount produced or manufactured during a certain time.
pageant ::: something comparable to a procession in colourful variety, splendour, or grandeur.
passage ::: 1. A movement from one place to another, as by going by, through, over, or across; transit or migration. 2. Fig. The process of passing from one condition or stage to another; transition. 3. An opening or entrance into, through, or out of something. 4. A path, channel, or duct through, over, or along which something may pass. 5. A hall or corridor; passageway. passages, cavern-passages.
pass ::: v. 1. To move on or ahead; proceed. 2. To move by. 3. To go or get through (something), lit. and fig. **4. To go across or over (a stream, threshold, etc.); cross. 5. To cross, traverse, in reference to times, stages, states, conditions, processes, actions, experiences, etc. 6. To be transferred from one to another; circulate. 7. To come to or toward, then go beyond. 8. To come to an end. 9. To cease to exist. 10. To convey, transfer, or transmit; deliver (often followed by on). 11. To be accepted as or believed to be. 12. To sanction or approve. passes, passed, passing. n. 13. A way, such as a narrow gap between mountains, that affords passage around, over, or through a barrier. passes. ::: pass by. To let go without notice, action, remark, etc.; leave unconsidered; disregard; overlook.
pathology ::: the scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences and in other uses, a departure or deviation from a normal condition.
phase ::: a particular stage in a periodic process or phenomenon.
physical and its energies, — all that Nature has not put into visi- ble operation on the surface ; It pursues also the application of these hidden truths and powers of Nature so as to extend the mastery of the human spirit beyond the ordinary operations of mind, the ordinary operations of life, the ordinary operations of our physical existence. In the spiritual domain, which is occult to the surface mind in so far as it passes beyond normal and enters into supernormal experience, there is possible not only the discovery of the self and spirit, but the discovery of the uplift- ing, informing and guiding light of spiritual consciousness and the power of the spirit, the spiritual way of knowledge, the spiri- tual way of action. To know these things and to bring their truths and forces into the life of humanity is a necessary part of its evolution. Science itself is in Its own way an occultism ; for it brings to light the formulas which Nature has hidden and it uses its knowledge to set free operations of her energies which she has not included in her ordinary operations and to organise and place at the service of man her occult powers and processes, a vast system of physical magic, — for there is and can be no other magic than the utilisation of secret truths of being, secret powers and processes of Nature. It may even be found that a supra- physical knowledge Is necessary for the completion of physical knowledge, because the processes of physical Nature have behind them a supraphysical factor, a power and action mental, vital or spiritual which is not tangible to any outer means of knowledge.
pomp ::: 1. Dignified or magnificent display; splendour. Also fig. 2. A procession or pageant. 3. Vain or ostentatious display. pomps.
PROCESS. ::: At first what has (o be established comes with difficulty and is felt as if abnormal, an experience that one loses easily: afterwards it comes of itself, but docs not )ci stay; finally it becomes a frequent and intimate state of the being and makes itself constant and normal On the other hand all the confusions and erron habitual to the nature arc pushed out ; at first they return frequently, but afterxsards they in their turn
product ::: 1. A thing produced by labour. 2. Something produced by human or mechanical effort or by a natural process. products.
Purani: “He [Sri Aurobindo] does the same [improving spontaneously upon the original in the alchemy of his poetical process] with several Vedic symbols which he employs. It [gold-horned herds] indicates the descent of the ‘gold-horned’ Cows—symbolising the richly-laden Rays of Knowledge—into the Inconscient of the earth, its ‘cave-heart’. Generally in the Veda the action is that of breaking open the Cave of the inconscient and releasing the pen of Cows, the imprisoned Rays of Life for the conscious possessions by the seeker. Here is how a Vedic hymn speaks about it: ‘They drove upwards, the luminous ones,—the good milch-cows, in their stone-pen within the hiding cave.’ Rig Veda IV, 1-13. One sees in Savitri the process reversed and the Master’s vision lays open the original act of involution of the Light into the darkness of the Inconscient.” Sri Aurobindo’s”Savitri”: An Approach and a Study.
Purani: “The Red-Wolf is the symbol of the powers that tear the ‘being’, that suddenly fall upon it to destroy it. They are persistent, destructive, cruel, unscrupulous powers of the lower Darkness. Sri Aurobindo in his expression has made the symbol more effective, improving spontaneously upon the original in the alchemy of his poetical process by the image of ‘fordless steam’. In the original hymn there is only ‘path’. The ‘fordless stream’ brings in the needed element of danger and difficulty of the path of the aspirant when he has to cross this dangerous region.”“Savitri”—An Approach and a Study
raw ::: 1. Being in a natural condition; not processed or refined. 2. In an unrefined or unripe stage. Chiefly fig.
raw material ::: unmanufactured material; material which is in a preparatory stage in a manufacturing process. Also fig.
repetition ::: the act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
revel ::: n. 1. Boisterous festivity. 2. A spectacular dance performed in processions and pageants. revels. v. 3. To take great pleasure or delight. 4. To indulge in boisterous festivities; to take part in noisy festivities; make merry. revels, revelled. adj. revelling.
Samadbi or Yogic trance retires to increasing depths accord* lag as it dran^ farther and farther away from the nonnal or waking state and enters into degrees of consciousness less and less communicable to the waking mind, less and less ready to receive a summons from the waking world. Beyond a certain point the trance becomes complete and it is then almost or quite impossible to awaken or calf back the soul that has receded into them ; it can only come back by its own will or at most by a violent shock of physical appeal dangerous to the sj'stem owing to the abrupt upheaval of return. There are said to be supreme states of trance in which the soul persisting for too long a lime cannot return ; for it loses its hold on the cord which binds it to the consciousness of life, and the body is left, maintained indeed in its set position, not dead by dissolution, but incapable of recovering the ensouled life which had rnhahifed it. finally, the Yogin acquires at a certain stage of development the power of abandoning his body definitively without the ordinary pheno- mena of death, by an act of will, or by a process of withdrawing the pranic life-force through the gate of the upward life-current
"Science is a right knowledge, in the end only of processes, but still the knowledge of processes too is part of a total wisdom and essential to a wide and a clear approach towards the deeper Truth behind.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Science is a right knowledge, in the end only of processes, but still the knowledge of processes too is part of a total wisdom and essential to a wide and a clear approach towards the deeper Truth behind.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
secretion ::: 1. A functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not waste) released from a gland or cell. 2. The product of this act or process, such as saliva, mucus, tears, bile, or a hormone that is secreted. secretion"s.
seed-sounds ::: Sri Aurobindo: "My researches first convinced me that words, like plants, like animals, are in no sense artificial products, but growths, — living growths of sound with certain seed-sounds as their basis. Out of these seed-sounds develop a small number of primitive root-words with an immense progeny which have their successive generations and arrange themselves in tribes, clans, families, selective groups each having a common stock and a common psychological history. For the factor which presided over the development of language was the association, by the nervous mind of primitive man, of certain general significances or rather of certain general utilities and sense-values with articulate sounds. The process of this association was also in no sense artificial but natural, governed by simple and definite psychological laws.” *The Secret of the Veda
seer ::: “The seer does not need the aid of thought in its process as a means of knowledge, but only as a means of representation and expression,—thought is to him a lesser power and used for a secondary purpose. If a further extension of knowledge is required, he can come at it by new seeing without the slower thought processes that are the staff of support of the mental search and its feeling out for truth,—even as we scrutinise with the eye to find what escaped our first observation” The Synthesis of Yoga
serpent ::: “On the other hand, Pranayama awakens the coiled-up serpent of the Pranic dynamism in the vital sheath and opens to the Yogin fields of consciousness, ranges of experience, abnormal faculties denied to the ordinary human life while it puissantly intensifies such normal powers and faculties as he already possesses. These advantages can be farther secured and emphasised by other subsidiary processes open to the Hathayogin.” The Synthesis of Yoga
severance ::: the act or process of severing or separating; separation. soul-severance.
siege ::: the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible. Also fig.
Since the Consciousness-Force of the eternal Existence is the universal creatrix, the nature of a given world will depend on whatever self-formulation of that Consciousness expresses itself in that world. Equally, for each individual being, his seeing or representation to himself of the world he lives in will depend on the poise or make which that Consciousness has assumed in him. Our human mental consciousness sees the world in sections cut by the reason and sense and put together in a formation which is also sectional; the house it builds is planned to accommodate one or another generalised formulation of Truth, but excludes the rest or admits some only as guests or dependents in the house. Overmind Consciousness is global in its cognition and can hold any number of seemingly fundamental differences together in a reconciling vision. Thus the mental reason sees Person and the Impersonal as opposites: it conceives an impersonal Existence in which person and personality are fictions of the Ignorance or temporary constructions; or, on the contrary, it can see Person as the primary reality and the impersonal as a mental abstraction or only stuff or means of manifestation. To the Overmind intelligence these are separable Powers of the one Existence which can pursue their independent self-affirmation and can also unite together their different modes of action, creating both in their independence and in their union different states of consciousness and being which can be all of them valid and all capable of coexistence. A purely impersonal existence and consciousness is true and possible, but also an entirely personal consciousness and existence; the Impersonal Divine, Nirguna Brahman, and the Personal Divine, Saguna Brahman, are here equal and coexistent aspects of the Eternal. Impersonality can manifest with person subordinated to it as a mode of expression; but, equally, Person can be the reality with impersonality as a mode of its nature: both aspects of manifestation face each other in the infinite variety of conscious Existence. What to the mental reason are irreconcilable differences present themselves to the Overmind intelligence as coexistent correlatives; what to the mental reason are contraries are to the Overmind intelligence complementaries. Our mind sees that all things are born from Matter or material Energy, exist by it, go back into it; it concludes that Matter is the eternal factor, the primary and ultimate reality, Brahman. Or it sees all as born of Life-Force or Mind, existing by Life or by Mind, going back into the universal Life or Mind, and it concludes that this world is a creation of the cosmic Life-Force or of a cosmic Mind or Logos. Or again it sees the world and all things as born of, existing by and going back to the Real-Idea or Knowledge-Will of the Spirit or to the Spirit itself and it concludes on an idealistic or spiritual view of the universe. It can fix on any of these ways of seeing, but to its normal separative vision each way excludes the others. Overmind consciousness perceives that each view is true of the action of the principle it erects; it can see that there is a material world-formula, a vital world-formula, a mental world-formula, a spiritual world-formula, and each can predominate in a world of its own and at the same time all can combine in one world as its constituent powers. The self-formulation of Conscious Force on which our world is based as an apparent Inconscience that conceals in itself a supreme Conscious-Existence and holds all the powers of Being together in its inconscient secrecy, a world of universal Matter realising in itself Life, Mind, Overmind, Supermind, Spirit, each of them in its turn taking up the others as means of its self-expression, Matter proving in the spiritual vision to have been always itself a manifestation of the Spirit, is to the Overmind view a normal and easily realisable creation. In its power of origination and in the process of its executive dynamis Overmind is an organiser of many potentialities of Existence, each affirming its separate reality but all capable of linking themselves together in many different but simultaneous ways, a magician craftsman empowered to weave the multicoloured warp and woof of manifestation of a single entity in a complex universe. …
Soul and pjyc/iic being ::: The soul, representative of the central being, is a spark of the Divine supporting all individual existence in Nature ; the psychic being is a conscious form of that soul growing in the evolution — in the persistent process that develops first life in matter, mind in life, until finally mind can develop into overniind and ovetmind into the Supramental Truth.
Spirit is an act of the supreme Reality from above which makes the realisation possible and it can appear either as the divine aid which brings about the fulfilment of the progress and process or as the sanction of the miracle. Evolution, as we see it in this world, is a slow and difficult process and, indeed, needs usual- ly ages to reach abiding results ; but this is because it is in its nature an emergence from ioconscient beginnings, a start from nescience and a working in the ignorance of natural beings by what seems to be an unconscious force. There can be, on the contrary, an evolution in the light and no longer in the darkness, in which the evolving being is a conscious participant and co- operator, and this is precisely what must take place here. Even in the effort and progress from the Ignorance to Knowledge this must be in part if not wholly the endeavour to be made on the heights of the nature and it must be wholly that in the final movement towards the spiritual change, realisation, transforma- tion. It must be still more so when there is a transition across the dividing line between the Ignorance and the Knowledge and the evolution is from knowledge to greater knowledge, from consciousness to greater consciousness, from being to greater being. There is then no longer any necessity for the slow pace of the ordinary evolution; there can be rapid consersion. quick transformation after transformation, what would seem to our
Spiritual effort by concentration of the energies in a spiritual discipline or process.
Sri Aurobindo: "Avatarhood would have little meaning if it were not connected with the evolution. The Hindu procession of the ten Avatars is itself, as it were, a parable of evolution. First the Fish Avatar, then the amphibious animal between land and water, then the land animal, then the Man-Lion Avatar, bridging man and animal, then man as dwarf, small and undeveloped and physical but containing in himself the godhead and taking possession of existence, then the rajasic, sattwic, nirguna Avatars, leading the human development from the vital rajasic to the sattwic mental man and again the overmental superman. Krishna, Buddha and Kalki depict the last three stages, the stages of the spiritual development — Krishna opens the possibility of overmind, Buddha tries to shoot beyond to the supreme liberation but that liberation is still negative, not returning upon earth to complete positively the evolution; Kalki is to correct this by bringing the Kingdom of the Divine upon earth, destroying the opposing Asura forces. The progression is striking and unmistakable.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Birth is the first spiritual mystery of the physical universe, death is the second which gives its double point of perplexity to the mystery of birth; for life, which would otherwise be a self-evident fact of existence, becomes itself a mystery by virtue of these two which seem to be its beginning and its end and yet in a thousand ways betray themselves as neither of these things, but rather intermediate stages in an occult processus of life.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "It could be affirmed as a consequence that there is one all-pervading Life or dynamic energy — the material aspect being only its outermost movement — that creates all these forms of the physical universe, Life imperishable and eternal which, even if the whole figure of the universe were quite abolished, would itself still go on existing and be capable of producing a new universe in its place, must indeed, unless it be held back in a state of rest by some higher Power or hold itself back, inevitably go on creating. In that case Life is nothing else than the Force that builds and maintains and destroys forms in the world; it is Life that manifests itself in the form of the earth as much as in the plant that grows upon the earth and the animals that support their existence by devouring the life-force of the plant or of each other. All existence here is a universal Life that takes form of Matter. It might for that purpose hide life-process in physical process before it emerges as submental sensitivity and mentalised vitality, but still it would be throughout the same creative Life-principle.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: ". . . memory is only a process of consciousness, a utility; it cannot be the substance of being or the whole of our personality: it is simply one of the workings of consciousness as radiation is one of the workings of Light.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "On the other hand, Pranayama awakens the coiled-up serpent of the Pranic dynamism in the vital sheath and opens to the Yogin fields of consciousness, ranges of experience, abnormal faculties denied to the ordinary human life while it puissantly intensifies such normal powers and faculties as he already possesses. These advantages can be farther secured and emphasised by other subsidiary processes open to the Hathayogin.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: *"The seer does not need the aid of thought in its process as a means of knowledge, but only as a means of representation and expression, — thought is to him a lesser power and used for a secondary purpose. If a further extension of knowledge is required, he can come at it by new seeing without the slower thought processes that are the staff of support of the mental search and its feeling out for truth, — even as we scrutinise with the eye to find what escaped our first observation” The Synthesis of Yoga
stage ::: n. 1. A raised platform on which theatrical performances are presented. 2. The scene of any action. 3. The distance between two places of rest on a journey; each of the portions of a journey. 4. A level, degree, or period of time or development in the course of a process. 5. A point in the course of a life, an action or series of events. stages, earth-stage. v. 6. staged. Represented, produced, or exhibited on or as if on a stage.
stay ::: 1. To continue or remain in a certain place, or in the company of others. 2. To hold back or restrain. 3. To delay or hinder an action or a process. stays, stayed.
stereotypes ::: 1. A process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal. 2. Also fig. Of unchanging, habitually repeated things, set forms; conventions.
Still what is important is to develop the psychic within and bring down the higher consciousness from above. The psychic, as it grows and manifests, detects immediately all wrong move- ments or elements and at the same lime supplies almost auto- matically the true element or movement which will replace them ; this process is much easier and more effective than that of a severe tapasy& of purification. The higher consciousness In des-
stream ::: n. 1. A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river. Also fig. 2. A continuous flow of anything. thought-streams. 3. A beam or ray of light. v. 4. To pour forth or cause to flow outward or give off a stream; flow. 5. To move or proceed continuously like a flowing stream, as a procession. 6. To extend in a beam or in rays, as light. streams, streamed.
stroke ::: 1. The act or an instance of striking, as with the hand, a weapon, or a tool; a blow or impact. 2. A blow struck at an object; e.g. with a hammer, axe, etc. 3. An act of hitting, or the blow given; also said of divine retribution. 4. A movement or mark made in one direction by a pen, pencil, paintbrush etc. 5. A single complete movement, esp. one continuously repeated in some process. strokes.
subconscient ::: Sri Aurobindo: "In our yoga we mean by the subconscient that quite submerged part of our being in which there is no wakingly conscious and coherent thought, will or feeling or organised reaction, but which yet receives obscurely the impressions of all things and stores them up in itself and from it too all sorts of stimuli, of persistent habitual movements, crudely repeated or disguised in strange forms can surge up into dream or into the waking nature. No, subliminal is a general term used for all parts of the being which are not on the waking surface. Subconscient is very often used in the same sense by European psychologists because they do not know the difference. But when I use the word, I mean always what is below the ordinary physical consciousness, not what is behind it. The inner mental, vital, physical, the psychic are not subconscious in this sense, but they can be spoken of as subliminal.” *The Synthesis of Yoga.
"The subconscient is a concealed and unexpressed inarticulate consciousness which works below all our conscious physical activities. Just as what we call the superconscient is really a higher consciousness above from which things descend into the being, so the subconscient is below the body-consciousness and things come up into the physical, the vital and the mind-nature from there.
Just as the higher consciousness is superconscient to us and supports all our spiritual possibilities and nature, so the subconscient is the basis of our material being and supports all that comes up in the physical nature.” Letters on Yoga
"That part of us which we can strictly call subconscient because it is below the level of mind and conscious life, inferior and obscure, covers the purely physical and vital elements of our constitution of bodily being, unmentalised, unobserved by the mind, uncontrolled by it in their action. It can be held to include the dumb occult consciousness, dynamic but not sensed by us, which operates in the cells and nerves and all the corporeal stuff and adjusts their life process and automatic responses. It covers also those lowest functionings of submerged sense-mind which are more operative in the animal and in plant life.” *The Life Divine
"The subconscient is a thing of habits and memories and repeats persistently or whenever it can old suppressed reactions, reflexes, mental, vital or physical responses. It must be trained by a still more persistent insistence of the higher parts of the being to give up its old responses and take on the new and true ones.” Letters on Yoga
"About the subconscient — it is the sub-mental base of the being and is made up of impressions, instincts, habitual movements that are stored there. Whatever movement is impressed in it, it keeps. If one impresses the right movement in it, it will keep and send up that. That is why it has to be cleared of old movements before there can be a permanent and total change in the nature. When the higher consciousness is once established in the waking parts, it goes down into the subconscient and changes that also, makes a bedrock of itself there also.” Letters on Yoga
"The sub-conscious is the evolutionary basis in us, it is not the whole of our hidden nature, nor is it the whole origin of what we are. But things can rise from the subconscient and take shape in the conscious parts and much of our smaller vital and physical instincts, movements, habits, character-forms has this source.” Letters on Yoga
"The subconscient is the support of habitual action — it can support good habits as well as bad.” Letters on Yoga
"For the subconscient is the Inconscient in the process of becoming conscious; it is a support and even a root of our inferior parts of being and their movements.” The Life Divine *subconscient"s.
suffer ::: 1. To undergo or sustain (something painful, injurious, or unpleasant). distress, grief, etc. 2. To tolerate or allow. 3. To undergo or experience (any action, process, or condition). 4. To submit to endure or to be something. suffers, suffered.
suggestion ::: 1. The act of proposing an idea or a course of action. 2. A hint or indication of the existence of something. 3. The sequential process by which one thought or mental image leads to another. suggestions.
SUPERMIND (DESCENT). The process is a, spiritual evolutionary process, concentrated into a brief period. As we envisage it, it must manifest m a few first and then spread, but is not likely to overpower the earth in a moment.
Surrender and tapasya ::: The process of sadhana is itself a
Tapasya. Not only so, but in fact a double process of Tapasya and increasing surrender persists for a long time even when the surrender has fairly well begun. But a time comes when one feels the Presence and the force constantly and more and more feels ’that that is doing everylhmg — so that the worst difficul- ties cannot disturb this sense and personal effort is no longer necessary, hardly even possible. That is the sign of the full surrender of the nature into the bands of the Divine. There are some who take this position in faith even before there is this experience and if the Bhakti and the faith are strong it carries them through till the experience is there. But all cannot take this position from the beginning — and for some it would be dangerous since they might pul themselves into the hand of a wrong Force thinking it to be the Divine. For most it is neces- sary to grow through Tapasya into surrender.
tension ::: 1. The act or process of stretching something tight. 2. Mental, emotional, or nervous strain.
“That part of us which we can strictly call subconscient because it is below the level of mind and conscious life, inferior and obscure, covers the purely physical and vital elements of our constitution of bodily being, unmentalised, unobserved by the mind, uncontrolled by it in their action. It can be held to include the dumb occult consciousness, dynamic but not sensed by us, which operates in the cells and nerves and all the corporeal stuff and adjusts their life process and automatic responses. It covers also those lowest functionings of submerged sense-mind which are more operative in the animal and in plant life.” The Life Divine
“That which we call Nature or Prakriti is only her [the Mother’s] most outward executive aspect; she marshals and arranges the harmony of her forces and processes, impels the operations of Nature and moves among them secret or manifest in all that can be seen or experienced or put into motion of life.” The Mother
“The Absolute manifests itself in two terms, a Being and a Becoming. The Being is the fundamental reality; the Becoming is an effectual reality: it is a dynamic power and result, a creative energy and working out of the Being, a constantly persistent yet mutable form, process, outcome of its immutable formless essence.” The Life Divine
The ascent is necessarily an effort, a working of Nature, an urge or nisus on her side to raise her lower parts by an evolu- tionary or revolutionary change, conversion or transformation into the divine reality and it may happen by a process and pro- gress or by a rapid miracle. The descent or self-revelalion of the
The process of the integral yoga has three stages, not indeed sharply distingnlsbed or ^parate, but in a certain measure suc- cessive. There must be, first, the effort towards at least an initial and enabling self-transcendence and contact with the Divine ; next, the reception of that which transcends, that with which we have gained communion, into ourselves for the transformation of our whole conscious being ; fast, the utilisation of our trans- formed hiunanity as a divine centre in the world.
The process of the Kundalini awakened rising through the centres as also the purification of the centres is a Taniric know- ledge. In our yoga there is no willed process of the punfication and opening of the centres, no raising up of the Kundalini by a set process either. Another method is used, but stiff there is the ascent of the consciousness from and through the different fc\cls to join the higher consciousness above ; there is the open- ing of the centres and of the planes (mental, vital, physical) which these centres command ; there is also the descent which is the main key of the spiritual transformation.
The process of yoga is a tumiog of the human soul from the egoistic state of consciousness absorbed in outer appearances and attractions of things to a higher state .in which the Trans- cendent and Universal can pour itself into the individual mould and transform it.
"The characteristic power of the reason in its fullness is a logical movement assuring itself first of all available materials and data by observation and arrangement, then acting upon them for a resultant knowledge gained, assured and enlarged by a first use of the reflective powers, and lastly assuring itself of the correctness of its results by a more careful and formal action, more vigilant, deliberate, severely logical which tests, rejects or confirms them according to certain secure standards and processes developed by reflection and experience.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“The characteristic power of the reason in its fullness is a logical movement assuring itself first of all available materials and data by observation and arrangement, then acting upon them for a resultant knowledge gained, assured and enlarged by a first use of the reflective powers, and lastly assuring itself of the correctness of its results by a more careful and formal action, more vigilant, deliberate, severely logical which tests, rejects or confirms them according to certain secure standards and processes developed by reflection and experience.” The Synthesis of Yoga
". . . the cosmic Force, masked as a material Energy, hides from our view by its insistent materiality of process the occult fact that the working of the Inconscient is really the expression of a vast universal Life, a veiled universal Mind, a hooded Gnosis, and without these origins of itself it could have no power of action, no organising coherence.” The Life Divine
“… the cosmic Force, masked as a material Energy, hides from our view by its insistent materiality of process the occult fact that the working of the Inconscient is really the expression of a vast universal Life, a veiled universal Mind, a hooded Gnosis, and without these origins of itself it could have no power of action, no organising coherence.” The Life Divine
The leader of the journey, the captain of the march, the first and most ancient priest of our sacrifice is the Will. This Will is not the wish of the heart or the demand or preference of the mind to which we often give the name. It is that inmost, dominant and often veiled conscious force of our being and of all being, Tapas, Sbakti, Shraddha, that sovereignly determines our orientation and of which the intellect and the heart are more or less blind and automatic servants and instruments. The Self that is quiescent, at rest, vacant of things and happenings is n support and background to existence, a silent channel or a hypostasis of something Supreme ::: it is not itself the one entirely real existence, not itself the Supreme. The Eternal, the Supreme is the Lord and the all-originating Spirit. Superior to all activi- ties and not bound by any of them, it is the source, sanction, material, efficient power, master of all activities. All activities proceed from this supreme Self and are determined by it ; all are its operations, processes of its own conscious force and not ot something alien to Self, some power other than this Spirit.
The Mother: "Surrender is the decision taken to hand over the responsibility of your life to the Divine. Without this decision nothing is at all possible; if you do not surrender, the Yoga is entirely out of the question. Everything else comes naturally after it, for the whole process starts with surrender.” Questions and Answers, MCW Vol. 3.
The Mother: “Surrender is the decision taken to hand over the responsibility of your life to the Divine. Without this decision nothing is at all possible; if you do not surrender, the Yoga is entirely out of the question. Everything else comes naturally after it, for the whole process starts with surrender.” Questions and Answers, MCW Vol. 3.
The Rajayogic Pranayama purifies and clears- theaiervous system ; it enables us to circulate the vital energy equally through the body and direct it also where we will nccarding to need, and thus maintain a perfect health and soundness of the body and the vital being ; it gives us control of all the five habitual opera- tions of the vital energy in the system and at the same time breaks down the habitual divisions by which only the ordinary mechanical processes of the vitality arc possible (o the norma! life. It opens entirely the six centres of the psycho-physical system and brings Into (he waking consciousness the power of the awakened Shakti and the light of the unveiled Furusba on each of the as^nding planes. Cbupled with (be use of the mantra it brings the ^vine energy into the body and prepares for and facilitates that concentration in Samadbi which is the crown of the Rajayogic method.
The sex-energy is a great power with two components in its physical basis, one ntcant for procreation and the process neces- sary for it, the other for feeding the general energies of the body, mind and vital, — also of the spiritual energies of the body.
The weakness of Hatha Yoga is that its laborious and difficult processes make so great a demand on the time and energy and impose so complete a severance from the ordinary life of men that the utilisation of its results for the life of the world becomes either impracticable or is extraordinarily restricted. The physical results, increased vitality, prolonged youth, health, longevity are of small avail if they must be held by us as misers of ourselves apart from the common life for their own sake, not utilised, not thrown into the common sura of the world’s activity. Hatha
"The Word has its seed-sounds — suggesting the eternal syllable of the Veda, A U M, and the seed-sounds of the Tantriks — which carry in them the principles of things; it has its forms which stand behind the revelatory and inspired speech that comes to man"s supreme faculties, and these compel the forms of things in the universe; it has its rhythms, — for it is no disordered vibration, but moves out into great cosmic measures, — and according to the rhythm is the law, arrangement, harmony, processes of the world it builds. Life itself is a rhythm of God.” The Upanishads
“The Word has its seed-sounds—suggesting the eternal syllable of the Veda, A U M, and the seed-sounds of the Tantriks—which carry in them the principles of things; it has its forms which stand behind the revelatory and inspired speech that comes to man’s supreme faculties, and these compel the forms of things in the universe; it has its rhythms,—for it is no disordered vibration, but moves out into great cosmic measures,—and according to the rhythm is the law, arrangement, harmony, processes of the world it builds. Life itself is a rhythm of God.” The Upanishads
"The world we live in is not a meaningless accident that has unaccountably taken place in the void of Space; it is the scene of an evolution in which an eternal Truth has been embodied, hidden in a form of things, and is secretly in process of unfoldment through the ages. There is a meaning in our existence, a purpose in our birth and death and travail, a consummation of all our labour. All are parts of a single plan; nothing has been idly made in the universe; nothing is vain in our life.” Essays Divine and Human
“The world we live in is not a meaningless accident that has unaccountably taken place in the void of Space; it is the scene of an evolution in which an eternal Truth has been embodied, hidden in a form of things, and is secretly in process of unfoldment through the ages. There is a meaning in our existence, a purpose in our birth and death and travail, a consummation of all our labour. All are parts of a single plan; nothing has been idly made in the universe; nothing is vain in our life.” Essays Divine and Human
thickening ::: the act or process of making or becoming thick.
This is a long, subtle and persistent process. The incarnating
"This is the great truth now dawning on the world, that Will is the thing which moves the world and that Fate is merely a process by which Will fulfils itself.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“This is the great truth now dawning on the world, that Will is the thing which moves the world and that Fate is merely a process by which Will fulfils itself.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
This may be called the dhyana of liberation, as it frees the mind from slavery to the mechanical process of thinking and allows it to think or not to think, as it pleases and when it pleases, or to choose Its own thoughts or else to go beyond thought to
thought ::: n. 1. The act or process of thinking; cogitation. 2. The faculty of thinking or reasoning. 3. Intention, design, or purpose. Thought, thought"s, Thought"s, thoughts, thought-blinded, thought-born, thought-conscious, thought-created, thought-driven, thought-food, thought-forms, thought-free, thought-hue, thought-racked, thought-screened, thought-shrouded, thought-sounds, thought-stare, thought-streams, million-thoughted. *v. 5. Pt. and pp. of think.
training ::: the process of bringing a person, etc., to an agreed standard of proficiency, etc., by practice and instruction.
Transformation of the gunas ::: If the force and the Inner consciousness are very strong, then there is a tendency for rafas to become like some inferior fapas and the lamas to become like a kind of inert Sama. That Is how the transformation begins, but usually it is very slow in Its process.
TRUTH. ::: An inherent imperative truth of things unseen by us capable of manifold manifestation This inherent Truth governs automatically all the processes In the universe. The Supra-
TTie chief processes of Hatha Yoga are itsana and pranayama.
ultimate ::: 1. Lying beyond all others; forming the final aim or object. 2. Coming at the end of a process, course of action, etc., or as the last in a succession or series; arrived at as a final result or in the last resort. 3. Not to be improved upon or surpassed; greatest; highest. 4. Putting an end to further continuance, development, or action; final, decisive.
Visions — colours: When i!»c colours begin lo take definite shapes in the >jslons, it is a sign of some dynamic work of formation in the consciousness ::: a square, for instance, means that some kind of creation is in process in some field of the being ; the square indicates that the creation is to be complete in itself ; while the rectangle indicates somcihws partial and preliminary.
watch ::: n. 1. The act or process of keeping awake or mentally alert, especially for the purpose of guarding. 2. The act of observing closely or the condition of being closely observed; surveillance. v. 3. To keep under attentive view or observation, as in order to see or learn something; view attentively or with interest. 4. To guard, tend, or oversee, esp. for protection or safe keeping. watches, watched, watching, serpent-watched.
weeping ::: n. 1. The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds). adj. 2. Dropping rain.
"When we see with the inner vision and sense and not with the physical eye a tree or other object, what we become aware of is an infinite one Reality constituting the tree or object, pervading its every atom and molecule, forming them out of itself, building the whole nature, process of becoming, operation of indwelling energy; all of these are itself, are this infinite, this Reality: we see it extending indivisibly and uniting all objects so that none is really separate from it or quite separate from other objects. ‘It stands," says the Gita, ‘undivided in beings and yet as if divided." Thus each object is that Infinite and one in essential being with all other objects that are also forms and names, — powers, numens, — of the Infinite.” The Life Divine
“When we see with the inner vision and sense and not with the physical eye a tree or other object, what we become aware of is an infinite one Reality constituting the tree or object, pervading its every atom and molecule, forming them out of itself, building the whole nature, process of becoming, operation of indwelling energy; all of these are itself, are this infinite, this Reality: we see it extending indivisibly and uniting all objects so that none is really separate from it or quite separate from other objects. ‘It stands,’ says the Gita, ‘undivided in beings and yet as if divided.’ Thus each object is that Infinite and one in essential being with all other objects that are also forms and names,—powers, numens,—of the Infinite.” The Life Divine
"When we study this Life as it manifests itself upon earth with Matter as its basis, we observe that essentially it is a form of the one cosmic Energy, a dynamic movement or current of it positive and negative, a constant act or play of the Force which builds up forms, energises them by a continual stream of stimulation and maintains them by an unceasing process of disintegration and renewal of their substance. This would tend to show that the natural opposition we make between death and life is an error of our mentality, one of those false oppositions — false to inner truth though valid in surface practical experience — which, deceived by appearances, it is constantly bringing into the universal unity.” The Life Divine ::: *life"s, life-born, life-curve, life-delight"s, life-drift, life-foam, life-giving, life-impulse, life-impulse"s, life-motives, life-nature"s, life-pain, life-plan, life-power, life-room, life-scene, life-self, life-thought, life-wants, all-life, sense-life.
“When we study this Life as it manifests itself upon earth with Matter as its basis, we observe that essentially it is a form of the one cosmic Energy, a dynamic movement or current of it positive and negative, a constant act or play of the Force which builds up forms, energises them by a continual stream of stimulation and maintains them by an unceasing process of disintegration and renewal of their substance. This would tend to show that the natural opposition we make between death and life is an error of our mentality, one of those false oppositions—false to inner truth though valid in surface practical experience—which, deceived by appearances, it is constantly bringing into the universal unity.” The Life Divine
whitening ::: the act or process of turning or becoming white.
working ::: 1. Operation; action. 2. The process of shaping a material. Also fig. 3. The process of fermenting, as of yeasts. 4. The operation or mode of operation of something. workings. (All other uses are as v. or adj.)
Yoga Slddhl ; The perfection that comes from the practice ot yoga can be best attained by the combined working of four great instruments. There is, first, the knowledge of the truths, princi- ples, powers and processes that govern the realisation — sdstra.
Yogic kriya ::: A special process or discipline in yoga.
Yogin fields of consciousness, ranges of experience, abnormal faculties denied to the ordinary human life while it puissantly intensifies such normal powers and faculties as he already pos- sesses. These advantages can be further secured and emphasised by other subsidiary processes open to the Hatha Yogin.
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1:Do not worry about the results, but be concerned with the process.
~ Nemoto,#KEYS
2:Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end. ~ Bruce Lee, #KEYS
3:The process that goes on inside you is not apparent to you. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
4:I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
~ Albert Einstein,#KEYS
5:Life itself is not a thing-. . . but an act and process. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Theory of Life, #KEYS
6:We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
~ Plato,#KEYS
7:Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. ~ Robert Anton Wilson, #KEYS
8:Man is in the process of changing to forms of light that are not of this world.
~ Emerald Tablets of Thoth,#KEYS
9:Death has no reality except as a process of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Life, #KEYS
10:Though reason is present TO the understanding alone, it is present IN the whole process of nature. ~ Owen Barfield, What Coleridge Thought, #KEYS
11:Night a process of the eternal light ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
12:One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice.
~ Phil Hine, Condensed Chaos,#KEYS
13:The universe is a self-creative process of a supreme Reality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Philosophy of Rebirth, #KEYS
14:The animal prepares human intelligence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Evolutionary Process - Ascent and Integration, #KEYS
15:Each individual mind is bound to attain to freedom, and perfection through gradual experience; by going through the process of evolution. ~ SWAMI ABHEDANANDA, #KEYS
16:Memory is only a process of consciousness, a utility. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Memory, Self-Consciousness and the Ignorance, #KEYS
17:When intellect, egoism - all the aspects of mind - have passed through the process of cleansing, there arises unbroken recollectedness of God. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
18:...thought immediately closes itself off since in its process of deduction discursive thought always excludes any openness in its compulsion to system. ~ Jean Gebser, #KEYS
19:Law and Process are one side of our existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Rebirth and Other Worlds; Karma, the Soul and Immortality, #KEYS
20:Time is but the mysterious transit in which the created freedoms signify their consent to the uncreated liberty, in a process of Love calling Love. ~ Louis Bouyer, Cosmos, #KEYS
21:What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process. ~ Thomas Keating, [T5], #KEYS
22:Mental man has not been Nature's last effort or highest reach. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Evolutionary Process - Ascent and Integration, #KEYS
23:Standardization is one of the cornerstones of continuous improvement. The starting point for any improvement effort is knowing where the process stands now.
~ Ernst & Young,#KEYS
24:What is the process of the cleansing of the mirror of the heart? It is an unending battle with one's ego, whose purpose is to distort reality. ~ Ibn Arabi, #KEYS
25:The Avatar of sorrow and suffering must come before there can be the Avatar of divine joy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, The Process of Avatarhood, #KEYS
26:A great Negation was the Real's face
Prohibiting the vain process of Time: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
27:The most difficult mental process of all is to consider objectively any concept which, if accepted as fact, will toss into discard a lifetime of training and experience. ~ Robert Monroe, #KEYS
28:But all is not Law and Process, there is also Being and Consciousness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Rebirth and Other Worlds; Karma, the Soul and Immortality, #KEYS
29:Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." ~ Jim Rohn, #KEYS
30:Physical science may give clues of process, but cannot lay hold on the reality of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, Rebirth and Soul Evolution, #KEYS
31:The illusory individual, along with the rest of the phenomenal manifestation, disappears into its source, as soon as it's involvement in the process of conceptualization ceases. ~ Ramesh Balsekar, #KEYS
32:It is by the process of repeated impressions that consciousness was made to manifest in matter. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Difficulties of the Physical Nature, #KEYS
33:In the unfolding process of the Self
Sometimes the inexpressible Mystery
Elects a human vessel of descent. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
34:Keep full reliance on the Mother. When one does that, the victory even if delayed, is sure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III, Feelings and Sensations in the Process of Descent, #KEYS
35:Man is not and cannot be wholly governed either in his thought or his action by the reason alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supramental Instruments - Thought-Process, #KEYS
36:The future like the past presents itself to knowledge in the supermind as a memory of the preknown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supramental Instruments - Thought-Process, #KEYS
37:After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. ~ Sophia Loren, #KEYS
38:We must finally get over seeing modernity as a single process of which Europe is the paradigm. . . . Then the real positive work of building mutual understanding can begin. ~ Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries, #KEYS
39:A beginner shouldn't meditate and do japa excessively, foregoing sleep in the process. Meditation, japa, physical work and studying the scriptures should all be done gradually in a regulated way. ~ MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI, #KEYS
40:Art and love are the same thing: It's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you." ~ - Chuck Klosterman, (born 1972) American author and essayist, author of eleven books, including two novels, Wikipedia., #KEYS
41:Prakriti is the field of law and process, but the soul, the Purusha, is the giver of the sanction. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Rebirth and Other Worlds; Karma, the Soul and Immortality, #KEYS
42:The end of a stage of evolution is usually marked by a powerful recrudescence of all that has to go out of the evolution. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, The Process of Evolution, #KEYS
43:I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing - a noun, I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process - an integral function of the universe. ~ R Buckminster Fuller, #KEYS
44:Rebirth is not a constant reiteration but a progression, it is the machinery of an evolutionary process. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Rebirth and Other Worlds; Karma, the Soul and Immortality, #KEYS
45:All harmony proceeds upon seen or given lines and carries with it a constant pulsation and rhythmic recurrence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supramental Instruments - Thought-Process, #KEYS
46:The whole world is in a process of progressive transformation; if you take up the discipline of Yoga, you speed up in yourself the process.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Path of Yoga, Yoga,#KEYS
47:He made of Nothingness his living-room
And Night a process of the eternal light
And death a spur towards immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
48:The real truth of things lies not in their process, but behind it, in whatever determines, effects or governs the process. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Memory, Self-Consciousness and the Ignorance, #KEYS
49:It is the constant upward effort that has kept humanity alive and maintained for it its place in the front of creation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Evolutionary Process - Ascent and Integration, #KEYS
50:Even with skills that are primarily mental, such as computer programming or speaking a foreign language, it remains the case that we learn best through practice and repetition-the natural learning process.
~ Robert Greene, Mastery,#KEYS
51:On a certain level all knowledge presents itself as a remembering, because all is latent or inherent in the self of supermind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supramental Instruments - Thought-Process, #KEYS
52:The slow process of a material mind
Which serves the body it should rule and use
And needs to lean upon an erring sense. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
53:The spiritual change begins by an influence of the inner being and the higher spiritual mind, an action felt and accepted on the surface. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Evolutionary Process - Ascent and Integration, #KEYS
54:Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, #KEYS
55:... maintains that, along with Aurobindo's Life Divine, Heidegger's Being and Time, and Whitehead's Process and Reality, Wilber's Sex Ecology Spirituality [SES] is 'one of the four great books of this [twentieth] century'
~ Michael Murphy, Integral, 2004.,#KEYS
56:God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery, transformation, God and Grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process. ~ Saint John of the Cross, #KEYS
57:We neither discover an objective reality nor invent a subjective reality, but… there is a process of responsive evocation, the world 'calling forth' something in me that in turn 'calls forth' something in the world. ~ Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary p. 133, #KEYS
58:One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #KEYS
59:Nature's Process
A nearness thrilled of the spirit to its source
And deepest things seemed obvious, close and true. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
60:The subconscient is the Inconscient in the process of becoming conscious; it is a support and even a root of our inferior parts of being and their movements. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Out of the Sevenfold Ignorance towards the Sevenfold Knowledge, #KEYS
61:Some huge somnambulist Intelligence
Devising without thought process and plan
Arrayed the burning stars' magnificence,
The living bodies of beasts and the brain of man. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Inconscient,#KEYS
62:The essence of slavery is to imagine yourself to be a process, to have past and future, to have history. In fact, we have no history, we are not a process, we do not develop, nor decay; also see all as a dream and stay out of it. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
63:I know, O God, the day shall dawn at last
When man shall rise from playing with the mud
And taking in his hands the sun and stars
Remould appearance, law and process old. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Meditations of Mandavya,#KEYS
64:The true method of discovery is like the flight of an airplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, #KEYS
65:Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.
~ Robert Anton Wilson,#KEYS
66: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 #KEYS
67:We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity. ~ Abraham Maslow, #KEYS
68:600 million years ago, the monopolizing grip of the algae was broken and an enormous proliferation of new lifeforms emerged, an event called the Cambrian explosion. Life had arisen almost immediately after the origin of the Earth, which suggests that life may be an inevitable chemical process on an Earth-like planet. ~ Carl Sagan, #KEYS
69:In each case it is Tapas that is effective, but it acts in a different manner according to the thing that has to be done, according to the predetermined process, dynamism, self-deploying of the Infinite.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Exclusive Concentration of Consciousness-Force and the Ignorance,#KEYS
70:Process is merely a utility; it is a habitual adoption of certain effective relations which might in the infinite possibility of things have been arranged otherwise, for the production of effects which might equally have been quite different. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Memory, Self-Consciousness and the Ignorance, #KEYS
71:We know the Divine and become the Divine, because we are That already in our secret nature. All teaching is a revealing, all becoming is an unfolding. Self-attainment is the secret; self-knowledge and an increasing consciousness are the means and the process.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Four Aids, 54, [T5],#KEYS
72:What is the true meaning of tapasya?
Tapasya is the discipline one imposes upon oneself to arrive at the discovery of the Divine.
Are tapasya and aspiration the same thing?
No, you cant do tapasya without aspiration. Aspiration is first, the will to attain something. Tapasya is the process there is indeed a process, a method. ~ The Mother, 1950-1951#KEYS
73:Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers. As they evolve, processes manipulate other abstract things called data. The evolution of a process is directed by a pattern of rules called a program. People create programs to direct processes. In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells. ~ Harold Abelson, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, #KEYS
74:tapasya :::
Tapasya: a discipline aiming at the realisation of the Divine.
Mental tapasya: the process leading to the goal.
Vital tapasya: the vital undergoes a rigorous discipline in order to transform itself.
Integral tapasya: the whole being lives only to know and serve the Divine.
Perfect tapasya: that which will reach its goal. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
75:When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me figure out where they are living and I get to fill in the gaps with that and where we are. So when I get to the end of the process of composition, if I feel that I have really done my job, I have no idea what I've got - and I then spend essentially the rest of my life figuring out what it might mean. ~ William Gibson, #KEYS
76:Because genius is a characteristic of consciousness, genius is also universal. That which is universal is, therefore, theoretically available to every man. The process of creativity and genius are inherent in human consciousness. Inasmuch as every human has within himself the same essence of consciousness, genius is a potential that resides within everyone. It awaits only the right circumstances to express it.
~ David R Hawkins,#KEYS
77:The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. ~ Carl Jung, #KEYS
78:You should not imagine that your reason can evolve to the extent of understanding God. Rather, if God is to shine divinely within you, your natural light cannot assist this process but must become a pure nothingness, going out of itself. Only then can God enter with his light, bringing back with him all that you have renounced and a thousand times more, including a new form which contains all things in itself. ~ Meister Eckhart, #KEYS
79:As it gradually dawns on people, one by one, that the transformation of God is not just an interesting idea but is a living reality, it may begin to function as a new myth. Whoever recognizes this myth as his own personal reality will put his life in the service of this process. Such an individual offers himself as a vessel for the [continuing] incarnation of deity and thereby promotes the on-going transformation of God by giving Him human manifestation. ~ Edward Edinger, #KEYS
80:St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent. ~ Thomas Keating, Fruits & Gifts of the Spirit, #KEYS
81:powers of freedom from subjection to the body :::
By a similar process the habit by which the bodily nature associates certain forms and degrees of activity with strain, fatigue, incapacity can be rectified and the power, freedom, swiftness, effectiveness of the work whether physical or mental which can be done with this bodily instrument marvelously increased, doubled, tripled, decupled.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Renunciation, 346,#KEYS
82:Then comes the process of visualization. You must see the picture more and more complete, see the detail, and, as the details begin to unfold the ways and means for bringing it into manifestation will develop. One thing will lead to another. Thought will lead to action, action will develop methods, methods will develop friends, and friends will bring about circumstances, and, finally, the third step, or Materialization, will have been accomplished. ~ Charles F Haanel, The Master Key System, #KEYS
83:Cast in an instant on the secret sense
Which feels the shock of the invisible,
And seldom in the few who answer give
The mighty process of the cosmic Will
Communicates its image to our sight,
Identifying the world’s mind with ours. ||11.30||
Our range is fixed within the crowded arc
Of what we observe and touch and thought can guess
And rarely dawns the light of the Unknown
Waking in us the prophet and the seer. ||11.31|| ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:3, || 11.30 - 11.31 ||,#KEYS
84:Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb to a divine supermanhood. The step from man towards superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth's evolution. There lies our destiny and the liberating key to our aspiring, but troubled and limited human existence - inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature's process. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, #KEYS
85:the process of unifying the being :::
(1) becoming aware of one's psychic being
(2) putting before the psychic being, as one becomes aware of them, all one's movements, impulses, thoughts and acts of will, so that the psychic being may accept or reject each of these movements, impulses, thoughts or acts of will. Those that are accepted will be kept and carried out; those that are rejected will be driven out of the consciousness so that they may never come back again. ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother,#KEYS
86:In Japanese language, kata (though written as 方) is a frequently-used suffix meaning way of doing, with emphasis on the form and order of the process. Other meanings are training method and formal exercise. The goal of a painter's practicing, for example, is to merge his consciousness with his brush; the potter's with his clay; the garden designer's with the materials of the garden. Once such mastery is achieved, the theory goes, the doing of a thing perfectly is as easy as thinking it
~ Boye De Mente, Japan's Secret Weapon - The Kata Factor,#KEYS
87:SLEIGHT OF MIND IN INVOCATION
Invocation is a three stage process. Firstly the magician consciously identifies with what is traditionally called a god-form, secondly he enters gnosis and thirdly the magicians subconsciousness manifests the powers of the god-form. A successful invocation means nothing less than full "possession" by the god-form. With practice the first stage of conscious identification can be abbreviated greatly to the point where it may only be necessary to concentrate momentarily on a well used god-form. ~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Kaos,#KEYS
88:Few of us can escape being neurotic or character disordered to at least some degree (which is why essentially everyone can benefit from psychotherapy if he or she is seriously willing to participate in the process). The reason for this is that the problem of distinguishing what we are and what we are not responsible for in this life is one of the greatest problems of human existence. It is never completely solved; for the entirety of our lives we must continually assess and reassess where our responsibilities lie in the ever-changing course of events. ~ M Scott Peck, #KEYS
89:Yet would the ideal working of an integral Yoga be a movement, even from the beginning, integral in its process and whole and many-sided in its progress. In any case our present preoccupation is with a Yoga, integral in its aim and complete movement, but starting from works and proceeding by works althrough at each step more and more moved by a vivifying divine love and more and more illumined by a helping divine knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga Of Divine Works, Self-Surrender In Works - The Way Of The Gita, 93,#KEYS
90:To merely gaze upon the images of alchemy, is to in a sense, enter into a kind of psychoanalytical process because what alchemy was, and I should stress this or the rap makes no sense at all alchemy was not the vulgar pursuit of the transmutation of lesser metals into gold or silver. That was the charlatan's game played in every market in Europe for centuries among the simple people. Alchemy is the body of symbols and of literature that accreted around the effort to extract a universal medicine out of Nature for the transformation of societies and human beings. ~ Terence McKenna, #KEYS
91:Any limiting categorization is not only erroneous but offensive, and stands in opposition to the basic human foundations of the therapeutic relationship. In my opinion, the less we think (during the process of psychotherapy) in terms of diagnostic labels, the better. (Albert Camus once described hell as a place where one's identity was eternally fixed and displayed on personal signs: Adulterous Humanist, Christian Landowner, Jittery Philosopher, Charming Janus, and so on.8 To Camus, hell is where one has no way of explaining oneself, where one is fixed, classified-once and for all time.) ~ Irvin D Yalom, #KEYS
92:Purusha and Prakriti :::
... On one side he becomes aware of a witness recipient observing experiencing Consciousness which does not appear to act but for which all these activities inside and outside us seem to be undertaken and continue. On the other side he is aware at the same time of an executive Force or an energy of Process which is seen to constitute, drive and guide all conceivable activities and to create a myraid form visible to us and invisible and use them as stable supports for its incessant flux of action and creation.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
93:What is needed is perseverance-to go on without discouragement, recognising that the process of the nature and the action of the Mother's force is working through the difficulty even and will do all that is needed. Our incapacity does not matter-there is no human being who is not in his parts of nature incapable-but the Divine Force is also there. If one puts one's trust in that, incapacity will be changed into capacity. Difficulty and struggle themselves then become a means towards the achievement.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, Letters On The Mother,#KEYS
94:The reason why you do not touch fire is because you know that it will cause you to suffer. Likewise, if you truly understand karma, you will not commit a single negative action, because unless that negative karma is purified, you know that it will eventually ripen into suffering.
You might forget this natural process, or you might not believe in it, because the ripening does not always happen immediately. But your karma will follow you like your shadow, that gets closer and closer without you realising, until you are eventually touched by it. Please, I urge you to always remember this. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche,#KEYS
95:Breathe. It's okay. You're going to be okay. Just breathe. Breathe, and remind yourself of all the times in the past you felt this scared. All of the times you felt this anxious and this overwhelmed. All of the times you felt this level of pain. And remind yourself how each time, you made it through. Life has thrown so much at you, and despite how difficult things have been, you've survived. Breathe and trust that you can survive this too. Trust that this struggle is part of the process. And trust that as long as you don't give up and keep pushing forward, no matter how hopeless things seem, you will make it. ~ Daniell Koepke, #KEYS
96:You cannot seek the unknown. What is sought must already be known, otherwise, it could not be recognized.
All recognition requires memory. What is recognized must have been cognized before. The process works as cognize, then name, and subsequently recognize.
There is nothing to be gained by pursuing the unknown. It is sufficient to fully comprehend the known.
Wu Hsin comes to take you to the real; his words are final. Drink them fully and your thirst has ended.
You are no longer mesmerized by your own self-importance. To have done so means to reach the state in which imagination is no longer taken for the actual. ~ Wu Hsin,#KEYS
97:Imaginary Bondage ::: Once you realize that all comes from within, that the world in which you live has not been projected onto you but by you, your fear comes to an end. Without this realization you identify yourself with externals, like the body, the mind, society, nation, humanity, even God or the Absolute. But these are all escapes from fear. It is only when you fully accept your responsibility for the little world in which you live and watch the process of its creation, preservation, and destruction, that you may be free from your imaginary bondage. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That, Talks with Sri Nisargadatta, #KEYS
98:Hermetic philosophy is complex and many-layered. At the heart, the Hermetics profess the drive to perfection. This drive manifests through trials, tests, self-discovery, and the rejoining of fragmented patterns like disparate languages or mathematical conundrums. Ideally, each individual has a Word, a divine imperative that drives the figure's revelations. By exploring the boundaries of that Word and all of its meanings, the individual rises to his inner nature, then beyond. Each step in the process is a challenge that requires a leap of perception but also opens the way to the next path. Eventually, the human passes far enough to become something cosmically divine. ~ Mage the Ascension, Order of Hermes, #KEYS
99:If the magician wishes to put himself into or out of any emotional state, then he should be provided with the techniques to accomplish this. The process requires no justification
- that he wills it is sufficient. One cannot escape emotional experience in a human incarnation, and it is preferable to adopt a master rather than a slave relationship to it. The occult priest should be capable of instructing anyone in the procedures of emotional engineering. The main methods are the gnostic ones of casting oneself into a frenzied ecstacy, stilling the mind to a point of absolute quiescence, and evoking the laughter of the gods by combining laughter with the contemplation of paradox. ~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#KEYS
100:Why do we go through the struggle to be educated? Is it merely in order to pass some examinations and get a job? Or is it the function of education to prepare us while we are young to understand the whole process of life?
And what does life mean? Is not life an extraordinary thing? The birds, the flowers, the flourishing trees, the heavens, the stars, the rivers and the fish therein-all this is life. Life is the poor and the rich; life is the constant battle between groups, races and nations; life is meditation; life is what we call religion, and it is also the subtle, hidden things of the mind-the envies, the ambitions, the passions, the fears, fulfilments and anxieties. All this and much more is life. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti,#KEYS
101:It is therefore sufficient to start by one of them and find the point at which it meets the other at first parallel lines of advance and melts into them by its own widenings. At the same time a more difficult, complex, wholly powerful process would be to start, as it were, on three lines together, on a triple wheel of soul-power But the consideration of this possibility must be postponed till we have seen what are the conditions and means of the Yoga of self-perfection. For we shall see that this also need not be postponed entirely, but a certain preparation of it is part of and a certain initiation into it proceeds by the growth of the divine works, love and knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
102:Happy is the man who can recognize in the work of to-day a connected portion of the work of life and an embodiment of the work of Eternity. The foundations of his confidence are unchangeable, for he has been made a partaker of Infinity. He strenuously works out his daily enterprises because the present is given him for a possession.
Thus ought man to be an impersonation of the divine process of nature, and to show forth the union of the infinite with the finite, not slighting his temporal existence, remembering that in it only is individual action possible, nor yet shutting out from his view that which is eternal, knowing that Time is a mystery which man cannot endure to contemplate until eternal Truth enlighten it. ~ James Clerk Maxwell,#KEYS
103:... All the works of mind and intllect must be first heightened and widened, then illumined, lifted into the domain of a higher Intelligence, afterwards translated into workings of a greater non-mental Intuition, these again transformed into the dynamic outpourings of the Overmind radiance, and those transfigured into the full light and sovereignty of the supramental Gnosis. It is this that the evolution of consciousness in the world carries prefigured but latent in its seed and in the straining tense intention of its process; nor can that process, that evolution cease till it has evolved the instruments of a perfect in place of its now imperfect manifestation of the Spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 1, 149, #KEYS
104:Hearing has consequences. When I truly hear a person and the meanings that are important to him at that moment, hearing not simply his words, but him, and when I let him know that I have heard his own private personal meanings, many things happen. There is first of all a grateful look. He feels released. He wants to tell me more about his world. He surges forth in a new sense of freedom. He becomes more open to the process of change. I have often noticed that the more deeply I hear the meanings of the person, the more there is that happens. Almost always, when a person realize he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me. ~ Carl Rogers, #KEYS
105:To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink. ~ George Orwell, 1984, #KEYS
106:The Gods, who in their highest secret entity are powers of this Supermind, born of it, seated in it as in their proper home, are in their knowledge 'truth-conscious' and in their action possessed of the 'seer-will'. Their conscious-force turned towards works and creation is possessed and guided by a perfect and direct knowledge of the thing to be done and its essence and its law, - a knowledge which determines a wholly effective will-power that does not deviate or falter in its process or in its result, but expresses and fulfils spontaneously and inevitably in the act that which has been seen in the vision. Light is here one with Force, the vibrations of knowledge with the rhythm of the will and both are one, perfectly and without seeking, groping or effort, with the assured result.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Supermind as Creator 132,#KEYS
107:Far away in the heavenly abode of the great god Indra, there is a wonderful net which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions. In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities, the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each eye of the net, and since the net itself is infinite in dimension, the jewels are infinite in number. There hang the jewels, glittering like stars in the first magnitude, a wonderful sight to behold. If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it, we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number. Not only that, but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels, so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurring.
~ Francis H Cook,#KEYS
108:Metamorphosis: The transmutation of the mind to magical consciousness has often been called the Great Work. It has a far-reaching purpose leading eventually to the discovery of the True Will. Even a slight ability to change oneself is more valuable than any power over the external universe.
Metamorphosis is an exercise in willed restructuring of the mind. All attempts to reorganize the mind involve a duality between conditions as they are and the preferred condition. Thus it is impossible to cultivate any virtue like spontaneity, joy, pious, pride, grace or omnipotence without involving oneself in more conventionality, sorrow, guilt, sin and impotence in the process. Religions are founded on the fallacy that one can or ought to have one without the other.
High magic recognizes the dualistic condition but does not care whether life is bittersweet or sweet and sour; rather it seeks to achieve any arbitrary perceptual perspective at will.
~ Peter J Carroll, Liber MMM,#KEYS
109:Even on Earth, the first steps in this direction had been taken. There were millions of men, doomed in earlier ages, who now lived active and happy lives thanks to artificial limbs, kidneys, lungs, and hearts. To this process there could be only one conclusion - however far off it might be.
And eventually even the brain might go. As the seat of consciousness, It was not essential; the development of electronic intelligence had proved that. The conflict between mind and machine might be resolved at last in the eternal truce of complete symbiosis.
But was even this the end? A few mystically inclined biologists went still further. They speculated, taking their cues from the beliefs of many religions, that mind would eventually free itself from matter. The robot body, like the flesh-and-blood one, would be no more than a stepping-stone to something which, long ago, men bad called "spirit."
And if there was anything beyond that, its name could only be God.
~ Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey,#KEYS
110:an all-inclusive concentration is required for an Integral Yoga :::
Concentration is indeed the first condition of any Yoga, but it is an all-receiving concentration that is the very nature of the integral Yoga. A separate strong fixing of the thought, of the emotions or of the will on a single idea, object, state, inner movement or principle is no doubt a frequent need here also; but this is only a subsidiary helpful process. A wide massive opening, a harmonised concentration of the whole being in all its parts and through all its powers upon the One who is the All is the larger action of this Yoga without which it cannot achieve its purpose. For it is the consciousness that rests in the One and that acts in the All to which we aspire; it is this that we seek to impose on every element of our being and on every movement of our nature. This wide and concentrated totality is the essential character of the sadhana and its character must determine its practice.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
111:In the terrestrial formulation of Knowledge and Power, this correlation is not altogether apparent because there consciousness itself is concealed in an original Inconscience and the natural strength and rhythm of its powers in their emergence are diminished and disturbed by the discordances and the veils of the Ignorance. The Inconscient there is the original, potent and automatically effective Force, the conscious mind is only a small labouring agent; but that is because the conscious mind in us has a limited individual action and the Inconscient is an immense action of a universal concealed Consciousness: the cosmic Force, masked as a material Energy, hides from our view by its insistent materiality of process the occult fact that the working of the Inconscient is really the expression of a vast universal Life, a veiled universal Mind, a hooded Gnosis, and without these origins of itself it could have no power of action, no organising coherence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 2.28 - The Divine Life, #KEYS
112:The personal will of the sadhaka has first to seize on the egoistic energies and turn them towards the light and the right; once turned, he has still to train them to recognise that always, always to accept, always to follow that. Progressing, he learns, still using the personal will, personal effort, personal energies, to employ them as representatives of the higher Power and in conscious obedience to the higher Influence. Progressing yet farther, his will, effort, energy become no longer personal and separate, but activities of that higher Power and Influence at work in the individual. But there is still a sort of gulf or distance which necessitates an obscure process of transit, not always accurate, sometimes even very distorting, between the divine Origin and the emerging human current. At the end of the process, with the progressive disappearance of egoism and impurity and ignorance, this last separation is removed; all in the individual becomes the divine working. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, #KEYS
113:The Teacher of the integral Yoga will follow as far as he may the method of the Teacher within us. He will lead the disciple through the nature of the disciple. Teaching, example, influence, - these are the three instruments of the Guru. But the wise Teacher will not seek to impose himself or his opinions on the passive acceptance of the receptive mind; he will throw in only what is productive and sure as a seed which will grow under the divine fostering within. He will seek to awaken much more than to instruct; he will aim at the growth of the faculties and the experiences by a natural process and free expansion. He will give a method as an aid, as a utilisable device, not as an imperative formula or a fixed routine. And he will be on his guard against any turning of the means into a limitation, against the mechanising of process. His whole business is to awaken the divine light and set working the divine force of which he himself is only a means and an aid, a body or a channel. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, #KEYS
114:the importance and power of surrender :::
Surrender is the decision taken to hand over the responsibility of your life to the Divine. Without this decision nothing is at all possible; if you do not surrender, the Yoga is entirely out of the question. Everything else comes naturally after it, for the whole process starts with surrender. You can surrender either through knowledge or through devotion. You may have a strong intuition that the Divine alone is the truth and a luminous conviction that without the Divine you cannot manage. Or you may have a spontaneous feeling that this line is the only way of being happy, a strong psychic desire to belong exclusively to the Divine: I do not belong to my self, you say, and give up the responsibility of your being to the Truth. Then comes self-offering: Here I am, a creature of various qualities, good and bad, dark and enlightened. I offer myself as I am to you, take me up with all my ups and downs, conflicting impulses and tendencies - do whatever you like with me.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
115:THE PROGRESSIVE revelation of a great, a transcendent, a luminous Reality with the multitudinous relativities of this world that we see and those other worlds that we do not see as means and material, condition and field, this would seem then to be the meaning of the universe, - since meaning and aim it has and is neither a purposeless illusion nor a fortuitous accident.
For the same reasoning which leads us to conclude that world-existence is not a deceptive trick of Mind, justifies equally the certainty that it is no blindly and helplessly self-existent mass of separate phenomenal existences clinging together and struggling together as best they can in their orbit through eternity, no tremendous self-creation and self-impulsion of an ignorant Force without any secret Intelligence within aware of its starting-point and its goal and guiding its process and its motion.
An existence, wholly self-aware and therefore entirely master of itself, possesses the phenomenal being in which it is involved, realises itself in form, unfolds itself in the individual. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 1.6-1,#KEYS
116:One perceives the true nature of existence. One discovers the why and the raison d'être of existence, not by the mind and the scientific pursuit, but by the knowledge of the self and the discovery of one's soul which is all-powerful.
This is the true method for knowing, for understanding and for realising the secrets of Nature, of the universe and the path which leads to the Divine. One can do everything with this realisation, one can know everything and finally become the master of one's existence. Nothing will be impossible … nothing will be left out. One has only to see with another sense which is within us, develop another faculty by a rigourous sadhana, to discover the secrets of all existence. Voilà.
The means are in you, the path opens up more and more, gets clearer and clearer, and with the help which is at your disposal, you have only to make an effort and you shall be crowned with a Knowledge, a Light and an Ananda which surpass all existence. Whether it be to see the functioning of the atom, or to know the process of thought or the flights of imagination or even the unknown … to know oneself is to know all. It is this that one must find. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
117:3. Meeting the Mentor:For those who have not refused the call, the first encounter of the hero journey is with a protective figure (often a little old crone or old man) who provides the adventurer with amulets against the dragon forces he is about to pass. What such a figure represents is the benign, protecting power of destiny. The fantasy is a reassurance-promise that the peace of Paradise, which was known first within the mother womb, is not to be lost; that it supports the present and stands in the future as well as in the past (is omega as well as alpha); that though omnipotence may seem to be endangered by the threshold passages and life awakenings, protective power is always and ever present within or just behind the unfamiliar features of the world. One has only to know and trust, and the ageless guardians will appear. Having responded to his own call, and continuing to follow courageously as the consequences unfold, the hero finds all the forces of the unconscious at his side. Mother Nature herself supports the mighty task. And in so far as the hero's act coincides with that for which his society is ready, he seems to ride on the great rhythm of the historical process. ~ Joseph Campbell, #KEYS
118:Therefore the age of intuitive knowledge, represented by the early Vedantic thinking of the Upanishads, had to give place to the age of rational knowledge; inspired Scripture made room for metaphysical philosophy, even as afterwards metaphysical philosophy had to give place to experimental Science.
Intuitive thought which is a messenger from the superconscient and therefore our highest faculty, was supplanted by the pure reason which is only a sort of deputy and belongs to the middle heights of our being; pure reason in its turn was supplanted for a time by the mixed action of the reason which lives on our plains and lower elevations and does not in its view exceed the horizon of the experience that the physical mind and senses or such aids as we can invent for them can bring to us.
And this process which seems to be a descent, is really a circle of progress.
For in each case the lower faculty is compelled to take up as much as it can assimilate of what the higher had already given and to attempt to re-establish it by its own methods.
By the attempt it is itself enlarged in its scope and arrives eventually at a more supple and a more ample selfaccommodation to the higher faculties. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 1.08-13,#KEYS
119:It's a strange world. It seems that about fifteen billion years ago there was, precisely, absolute nothingness, and then within less than a nanosecond the material universe blew into existence.
Stranger still, the physical matter so produced was not merely a random and chaotic mess, but seemed to organize itself into ever more and complex and intricate forms. So complex were these forms that, many billions of years later, some of them found ways to reproduce themselves, and thus out of matter arose life.
Even stranger, these life forms were apparently not content to merely reproduce themselves, but instead began a long evolution that would eventually allow them to represent themselves, to produce sign and symbols and concepts, and thus out of life arose mind.
Whatever this process of evolution was, it seems to have been incredibly driven from matter to life to mind.
But stranger still, a mere few hundred years ago, on a small and indifferent planet around an insignificant star, evolution became conscious of itself.
And at precisely the same time, the very mechanisms that allowed evolution to become conscious of itself were simultaneously working to engineer its own extinction.
And that was the strangest of all. ~ Ken Wilber, Sex Ecology Spirituality, p. 3,#KEYS
120:on cultivating equality :::
For it is certain that so great a result cannot be arrived at immediately and without any previous stages. At first we have to learn to bear the shocks of the world with the central part of our being untouched and silent, even when the surface mind, heart, life are strongly shaken; unmoved there on the bedrock of our life, we must separate the soul watching behind or immune deep within from these outer workings of our nature. Afterwards, extending this calm and steadfastness of the detached soul to its instruments, it will become slowly possible to radiate peace from the luminous centre to the darker peripheries. In this process we may take the passing help of many minor phases; a certain stoicism, a certain calm philosophy, a certain religious exaltation may help us towards some nearness to our aim, or we may call in even less strong and exalted but still useful powers of our mental nature. In the end we must either discard or transform them and arrive instead at an entire equality, a perfect self-existent peace within and even, if we can, a total unassailable, self-poised and spontaneous delight in all our members.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, Self-Surrender in Works - The Way of the Gita, [103-104],#KEYS
121:For our concentration on the Eternal will be consummated by the mind when we see constantly the Divine in itself and the Divine in ourselves, but also the Divine in all things and beings and happenings. It will be consummated by the heart when all emotion is summed up in the love of the Divine, - of the Divine in itself and for itself, but love too of the Divine in all its beings and powers and personalities and forms in the Universe. It will be consummated by the will when we feel and receive always the divine impulsion and accept that alone as our sole motive force; but this will mean that, having slain to the last rebellious straggler the wandering impulses of the egoistic nature, we have universalised ourselves and can accept with a constant happy acceptance the one divine working in all things. This is the first fundamental siddhi of the integral Yoga.
It is nothing less that is meant in the end when we speak of the absolute consecration of the individual to the Divine. But this total fullness of consecration can only come by a constant progression when the long and difficult process of transforming desire out of existence is completed in an ungrudging measure. Perfect self-consecration implies perfect self-surrender.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, 85-86, [T1],#KEYS
122:But before entering into the details of I. A. O. as a magical formula it should be remarked that it is essentially the formula of Yoga or meditation; in fact, of elementary mysticism in all its branches. In beginning a meditation practice, there is always a quiet pleasure, a gentle natural growth; one takes a lively interest in the work; it seems easy; one is quite pleased to have started. This stage represents Isis. Sooner or later it is succeeded by depression-the Dark Night of the Soul, an infinite weariness and detestation of the work. The simplest and easiest acts become almost impossible to perform. Such impotence fills the mind with apprehension and despair. The intensity of this loathing can hardly be understood by any person who has not experienced it. This is the period of Apophis.
It is followed by the arising not of Isis, but of Osiris. The ancient condition is not restored, but a new and superior condition is created, a condition only rendered possible by the process of death. The Alchemists themselves taught this same truth. The first matter of the work was base and primitive, though 'natural.' After passing through various stages the 'black dragon' appeared; but from this arose the pure and perfect gold
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 4, Magick, Part 3, The Formula of I. A. O. [158-159],#KEYS
123:Supermind and the human mind are a number of ranges, planes or layers of consciousness - one can regard it in various ways - in which the element or substance of mind and consequently its movements also become more and more illumined and powerful and wide. The Overmind is the highest of these ranges; it is full of lights and powers; but from the point of view of what is above it, it is the line of the soul's turning away from the complete and indivisible knowledge and its descent towards the Ignorance. For although it draws from the Truth, it is here that begins the separation of aspects of the Truth, the forces and their working out as if they were independent truths and this is a process that ends, as one descends to ordinary Mind, Life and Matter, in a complete division, fragmentation, separation from the indivisible Truth above. There is no longer the essential, total, perfectly harmonising and unifying knowledge, or rather knowledge for ever harmonious because for ever one, which is the character of Supermind. In the Supermind mental divisions and oppositions cease, the problems created by our dividing and fragmenting mind disappear and Truth is seen as a luminous whole. In the Overmind there is not yet the actual fall into Ignorance, but the first step is taken which will make the fall inevitable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - I, #KEYS
124:From above to below, the sefirot depict the drama of emanation, the transition from Ein Sof to creation. In the words of Azriel of Gerona, "They constitute the process by which all things come into being and pass away." From below to above, the sefirot constitute a ladder of ascent back to the One. The union of Tif'eret and Shekhinah gives birth to the human soul, and the mystical journey begins with the awareness of this spiritual fact of life. Shekhinah is the opening to the divine: "One who enters must enter through this gate." Once inside, the sefirot are no longer an abstract theological system; they become a map of consciousness. The mystic climbs and probes, discovering dimensions of being. Spiritual and psychological wholeness is achieved by meditating on the qualities of each sefirah, by imitating and integrating the attributes of God. "When you cleave to the sefirot, the divine holy spirit enters into you, into every sensation and every movement." But the path is not easy. Divine will can be harsh: Abraham was commanded to sacrifice Isaac in order to balance love with rigor. From the Other Side, demonic forces threaten and seduce. [The demonic is rooted in the divine]. Contemplatively and psychologically, evil must be encountered, not evaded. By knowing and withstanding the dark underside of wisdom, the spiritual seeker is refined.~ Daniel C Matt, The Essential Kabbalah, 10, #KEYS
125:the fourth aid, time, kala :::
The sadhaka who has all these aids is sure of his goal. Even a fall will be for him only a means of rising and death a passage towards fulfilment. For once on this path, birth and death become only processes in the development of his being and the stages of his journey.
Time is the remaining aid needed for the effectivity of the process. Time presents itself to human effort as an enemy or a friend, as a resistance, a medium or an instrument. But always it is really the instrument of the soul.
Time is a field of circumstances and forces meeting and working out a resultant progression whose course it measures. To the ego it is a tyrant or a resistance, to the Divine an instrument. Therefore, while our effort is personal, Time appears as a resistance, for it presents to us all the obstruction of the forces that conflict with our own. When the divine working and the personal are combined in our consciousness, it appears as a medium and a condition. When the two become one, it appears as a servant and instrument.
The ideal attitude of the sadhaka towards Time is to have an endless patience as if he had all eternity for his fulfilment and yet to develop the energy that shall realise now and with an ever-increasing mastery and pressure of rapidity till it reaches the miraculous instantaneousness of the supreme divine Transformation.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids,#KEYS
126:Behind the traditional way of Knowledge, justifying its thought-process of elimination and withdrawal, stands an over-mastering spiritual experience. Deep, intense, convincing, common to all who have overstepped a certain limit of the active mind-belt into the horizonless inner space, this is the great experience of liberation, the consciousness of something within us that is behind and outside of the universe and all its forms, interests, aims, events and happenings, calm, untouched, unconcerned, illimitable, immobile, free, the uplook to something above us indescribable and unseizable into which by abolition of our personality we can enter, the presence of an omnipresent eternal witness Purusha, the sense of an Infinity or a Timelessness that looks down on us from an august negation of all our existence and is alone the one thing Real. This experience is the highest sublimation of spiritualised mind looking resolutely beyond its own existence. No one who has not passed through this liberation can be entirely free from the mind and its meshes, but one is not compelled to linger in this experience for ever. Great as it is, it is only the Mind's overwhelming experience of what is beyond itself and all it can conceive. It is a supreme negative experience, but beyond it is all the tremendous light of an infinite consciousness, an illimitable Knowledge, an affirmative absolute Presence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Object of Knowledge, 278-279,#KEYS
127:In Rajayoga the chosen instrument is the mind. our ordinary mentality is first disciplined, purified and directed towards the divine Being, then by a summary process of Asana and Pranayama the physical force of our being is stilled and concentrated, the life-force released into a rhythmic movement capable of cessation and concentrated into a higher power of its upward action, the mind, supported and strengthened by this greater action and concentration of the body and life upon which it rests, is itself purified of all its unrest and emotion and its habitual thought-waves, liberated from distraction and dispersion, given its highest force of concentration, gathered up into a trance of absorption. Two objects, the one temporal, the other eternal,are gained by this discipline. Mind-power develops in another concentrated action abnormal capacities of knowledge, effective will, deep light of reception, powerful light of thought-radiation which are altogether beyond the narrow range of our normal mentality; it arrives at the Yogic or occult powers around which there has been woven so much quite dispensable and yet perhaps salutary mystery. But the one final end and the one all-important gain is that the mind, stilled and cast into a concentrated trance, can lose itself in the divine consciousness and the soul be made free to unite with the divine Being.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Self-Perfection, The Principle of the Integral Yoga, 609,#KEYS
128:People think of education as something that they can finish. And what's more, when they finish, it's a rite of passage. You're finished with school. You're no more a child, and therefore anything that reminds you of school - reading books, having ideas, asking questions - that's kid's stuff. Now you're an adult, you don't do that sort of thing any more.
You have everybody looking forward to no longer learning, and you make them ashamed afterward of going back to learning. If you have a system of education using computers, then anyone, any age, can learn by himself, can continue to be interested. If you enjoy learning, there's no reason why you should stop at a given age. People don't stop things they enjoy doing just because they reach a certain age.
What's exciting is the actual process of broadening yourself, of knowing there's now a little extra facet of the universe you know about and can think about and can understand. It seems to me that when it's time to die, there would be a certain pleasure in thinking that you had utilized your life well, learned as much as you could, gathered in as much as possible of the universe, and enjoyed it. There's only this one universe and only this one lifetime to try to grasp it. And while it is inconceivable that anyone can grasp more than a tiny portion of it, at least you can do that much. What a tragedy just to pass through and get nothing out of it. ~ Isaac Asimov, Carl Freedman - Conversations with Isaac Asimov-University Press of Mississippi (2005).pdf,#KEYS
129:There must be accepted and progressively accomplished a surrender of our capacities of working into the hands of a greater Power behind us and our sense of being the doer and worker must disappear. All must be given for a more direct use into the hands of the divine Will which is hidden by these frontal appearances; for by that permitting Will alone is our action possible. A hidden Power is the true Lord and overruling Observer of our acts and only he knows through all the ignorance and perversion and deformation brought in by the ego their entire sense and ultimate purpose. There must be effected a complete transformation of our limited and distorted egoistic life and works into the large and direct outpouring of a greater divine Life, Will and Energy that now secretly supports us. This greater Will and Energy must be made conscious in us and master; no longer must it remain, as now, only a superconscious, upholding and permitting Force. There must be achieved an undistorted transmission through us of the all-wise purpose and process of a now hidden omniscient Power and omnipotent Knowledge which will turn into its pure, unobstructed, happily consenting and participating channel all our transmuted nature. This total consecration and surrender and this resultant entire transformation and free transmission make up the whole fundamental means and the ultimate aim of an integral Karmayoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, Self-Surrender in Works - The Way of the Gita, [92],#KEYS
130:But even when the desire to know exists in the requisite strength, the mental vision by which abstract truth is recognised is hard to distinguish from vivid imaginability and consonance with mental habits. It is necessary to practise methodological doubt, like Descartes, in order to loosen the hold of mental habits; and it is necessary to cultivate logical imagination, in order to have a number of hypotheses at command, and not to be the slave of the one which common sense has rendered easy to imagine. These two processes, of doubting the familiar and imagining the unfamiliar, are correlative, and form the chief part of the mental training required for a philosopher.
The naïve beliefs which we find in ourselves when we first begin the process of philosophic reflection may turn out, in the end, to be almost all capable of a true interpretation; but they ought all, before being admitted into philosophy, to undergo the ordeal of sceptical criticism. Until they have gone through this ordeal, they are mere blind habits, ways of behaving rather than intellectual convictions. And although it may be that a majority will pass the test, we may be pretty sure that some will not, and that a serious readjustment of our outlook ought to result. In order to break the dominion of habit, we must do our best to doubt the senses, reason, morals, everything in short. In some directions, doubt will be found possible; in others, it will be checked by that direct vision of abstract truth upon which the possibility of philosophical knowledge depends. ~ Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World,#KEYS
131:The whole history of mankind and especially the present condition of the world unite in showing that far from being merely hypothetical, the case supposed has always been actual and is actual to-day on a vaster scale than ever before. My contention is that while progress in some of the great matters of human concern has been long proceeding in accordance with the law of a rapidly increasing geometric progression, progress in the other matters of no less importance has advanced only at the rate of an arithmetical progression or at best at the rate of some geometric progression of relatively slow growth. To see it and to understand it we have to pay the small price of a little observation and a little meditation.
Some technological invention is made, like that of a steam engine or a printing press, for example; or some discovery of scientific method, like that of analytical geometry or the infinitesimal calculus; or some discovery of natural law, like that of falling bodies or the Newtonian law of gravitation. What happens? What is the effect upon the progress of knowledge and invention? The effect is stimulation. Each invention leads to new inventions and each discovery to new discoveries; invention breeds invention, science begets science, the children of knowledge produce their kind in larger and larger families; the process goes on from decade to decade, from generation to generation, and the spectacle we behold is that of advancement in scientific knowledge and technological power according to the law and rate of a rapidly increasing geometric progression or logarithmic function. ~ Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity,#KEYS
132:There is in her an overwhelming intensity, a mighty passion of force to achieve, a divine violence rushing to shatter every limit and obstacle. All her divinity leaps out in a splendour of tempestuous action; she is there for swiftness, for the immediately effective process, the rapid and direct stroke, the frontal assault that carries everything before it. Terrible is her face to the Asura, dangerous and ruthless her mood against the haters of the Divine; for she is the Warrior of the Worlds who never shrinks from the battle. Intolerant of imperfection, she deals roughly with all in man that is unwilling and she is severe to all that is obstinately ignorant and obscure; her wrath is immediate and dire against treachery and falsehood and malignity, ill-will is smitten at once by her scourge. Indifference, negligence and sloth in the divine work she cannot bear and she smites awake at once with sharp pain, if need be, the untimely slumberer and the loiterer. The impulses that are swift and straight and frank, the movements that are unreserved and absolute, the aspiration that mounts in flame are the motion of Mahakali. Her spirit is tameless, her vision and will are high and far-reaching like the flight of an eagle, her feet are rapid on the upward way and her hands are outstretched to strike and to succour. For she too is the Mother and her love is as intense as her wrath and she has a deep and passionate kindness. When she is allowed to intervene in her strength, then in one moment are broken like things without consistence the obstacles that immobilise or the enemies that assail the seeker
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, [19],#KEYS
133:scope and aim of the works of sacrifice :::
Into the third and last category of the works of sacrifice can be gathered all that is directly proper to the Yoga of works; for here is its field of effectuation and major province. It covers the entire range of lifes more visible activities; under it fall the multiform energies of the Will-to-Life throwing itself outward to make the most of material existence. It is here that an ascetic or other-worldly spirituality feels an insurmountable denial of the Truth which it seeks after and is compelled to turn away from terrestrial existence, rejecting it as for ever the dark playground of an incurable Ignorance. Yet it is precisely these activities that are claimed for a spiritual conquest and divine transformation by the integral Yoga. Abandoned altogether by the more ascetic disciplines, accepted by others only as a field of temporary ordeal or a momentary, superficial and ambiguous play of the concealed spirit, this existence is fully embraced and welcomed by the integral seeker as a field of fulfilment, a field for divine works, a field of the total self-discovery of the concealed and indwelling Spirit. A discovery of the Divinity in oneself is his first object, but a total discovery too of the Divinity in the world behind the apparent denial offered by its scheme and figures and, last, a total discovery of the dynamism of some transcendent Eternal; for by its descent this world and self-will be empowered to break their disguising envelopes and become divine in revealing form and manifesting process as they now are secretly in their hidden essence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 169,#KEYS
134:science of consciousness, the soul and objective matter :::
When the ancient thinkers of India set themselves to study the soul of man in themselves and others, they, unlike any other nation or school of early thought, proceeded at once to a process which resembles exactly enough the process adopted by modern science in its study of physical phenomena. For their object was to study, arrange and utilise the forms, forces and working movements of consciousness, just as the modern physical Sciences study, arrange and utilize the forms, forces and working movements of objective Matter. The material with which they had to deal was more subtle, flexible and versatile than the most impalpable forces of which the physical Sciences have become aware; its motions were more elusive, its processes harder to fix; but once grasped and ascertained, the movements of consciousness were found by Vedic psychologists to be in their process and activity as regular, manageable and utilisable as the movements of physical forces. The powers of the soul can be as perfectly handled and as safely, methodically and puissantly directed to practical life-purposes of joy, power and light as the modern power of electricity can be used for human comfort, industrial and locomotive power and physical illumination; but the results to which they give room and effect are more wonderful and momentous than the results of motorpower and electric luminosity. For there is no difference of essential law in the physical and the psychical, but only a difference and undoubtedly a great difference of energy, instrumentation and exact process. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Towards a True Scientific Psychology, 106,#KEYS
135:[the first aid, shastra, the lotus of the eternal knowledge:]
The supreme Shastra of the Integral Yoga is the eternal Veda secret in the heart of every thinking and living being. The lotus of the eternal knowledge and the eternal perfection is a bud closed and folded up within us. It opens swiftly or gradually, petal by petal, through successive realisations, once the mind of man begins to turn towards the Eternal, once his heart, no longer compressed and confined by attachment to finite appearances, becomes enamoured, in whatever degree, of the Infinite. All life, all thought, all energising of the faculties, all experiences passive or active, become thenceforward so many shocks which disintegrate the teguments of the soul and remove the obstacles to the inevitable efflorescence. He who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite. He has received the divine touch without which there is no awakening, no opening of the spirit; but once it is received, attainment is sure, whether conquered swiftly in the course of one human life or pursued patiently through many stadia of the cycle of existence in the manifested universe.
Nothing can be taught to the mind which is not already concealed as potential knowledge in the unfolding soul of the creature. So also all perfection of which the outer man is capable, is only a realising of the eternal perfection of the Spirit within him. We know the Divine and become the Divine, because we are That already in our secret nature. All teaching is a revealing, all becoming is an unfolding. Self-attainment is the secret; self-knowledge and an increasing consciousness are the means and the process.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids [53] [T1],#KEYS
136:the second aid, the need for effort and aspiration, utsaha :::
The development of the experience in its rapidity, its amplitude, the intensity and power of its results, depends primarily, in the beginning of the path and long after, on the aspiration and personal effort of the sadhaka. The process of Yoga is a turning of the human soul from the egoistic state of consciousness absorbed in the outward appearances and attractions of things to a higher state in which the Transcendent and Universal can pour itself into the individiual mould and transform it. The first determining element in the siddhi is, therefore, the intensity of the turning, the force which directs the soul inward. The power of aspiration of the heart, the force of the will, the concentration of the mind, the perseverance and determination of the applied energy are the measure of that intensity. The ideal sadhaka should be able to say in the Biblical phrase, 'My zeal for the Lord has eaten me up.' It is this zeal for the Lord, -utsaha, the zeal of the whole nature for its divine results, vyakulata, the heart's eagerness for the attainment of the Divine, - that devours the ego and breaks up the petty limitations ...
So long as the contact with the Divine is not in some considerable degree established, so long as there is not some measure of sustained identity, sayujya, the element of personal effort must normally predominate. But in proportion as this contact establishes itself, the sadhaka must become conscious that a force other than his own, a force transcending his egoistic endeavour and capacity, is at work in him and to this Power he learns progressively to submit himself and delivers up to it the charge of his Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids,#KEYS
137:Sweet Mother, You have asked the teachers "to think with ideas instead of with words".4 You have also said that later on you will ask them to think with experiences. Will you throw some light on these three ways of thinking?
Our house has a very high tower; at the very top of this tower there is a bright and bare room, the last before we emerge into the open air, into the full light.
Sometimes, when we are free to do so, we climb up to this bright room, and there, if we remain very quiet, one or more visitors come to call on us; some are tall, others small, some single, others in groups; all are bright and graceful.
Usually, in our joy at their arrival and our haste to welcome them, we lose our tranquillity and come galloping down to rush into the great hall that forms the base of the tower and is the storeroom of words. Here, more or less excited, we select, reject, assemble, combine, disarrange, rearrange all the words in our reach, in an attempt to portray this or that visitor who has come to us. But most often, the picture we succeed in making of our visitor is more like a caricature than a portrait.
And yet if we were wiser, we would remain up above, at the summit of the tower, quite calm, in joyful contemplation.
Then, after a certain length of time, we would see the visitors themselves slowly, gracefully, calmly descend, without losing anything of their elegance or beauty and, as they cross the storeroom of words, clothe themselves effortlessly, automatically, with the words needed to make themselves perceptible even in the material house.
This is what I call thinking with ideas.
When this process is no longer mysterious to you, I shall explain what is meant by thinking with experiences. ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother,#KEYS
138:But this is only one side of the force that works for perfection. The process of the integral Yoga has three stages, not indeed sharply distinguished or separate, but in a certain measure successive. There must be, first, the effort towards at least an initial and enabling self-transcendence and contact with the Divine; next, the reception of that which transcends, that with which we have gained communion, into ourselves for the transformation of our whole conscious being; last, the utilisation of our transformed humanity as a divine centre in the world. So long as the contact with the Divine is not in some considerable degree established, so long as there is not some measure of sustained identity, sayujya, the element of personal effort must normally predominate. But in proportion as this contact establishes itself, the sadhaka must become conscious that a force other than his own, a force transcending his egoistic endeavour and capacity, is at work in him and to this Power he learns progressively to submit himself and delivers up to it the charge of his Yoga. In the end his own will and force become one with the higher Power; he merges them in the divineWill and its transcendent and universal Force. He finds it thenceforward presiding over the necessary transformation of his mental, vital and physical being with an impartial wisdom and provident effectivity of which the eager and interested ego is not capable. It is when this identification and this self-merging are complete that the divine centre in the world is ready. Purified, liberated, plastic, illumined, it can begin to serve as a means for the direct action of a supreme Power in the larger Yoga of humanity or superhumanity, of the earth's spiritual progression or its transformation.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, [T2],#KEYS
139:There is, indeed, a higher form of the buddhi that can be called the intuitive mind or intuitive reason, and this by its intuitions, its inspirations, its swift revelatory vision, its luminous insight and discrimination can do the work of the reason with a higher power, a swifter action, a greater and spontaneous certitude. It acts in a self-light of the truth which does not depend upon the torch-flares of the sense-mind and its limited uncertain percepts; it proceeds not by intelligent but by visional concepts: It is a kind of truth-vision, truth-hearing, truth-memory, direct truth-discernment. This true and authentic intuition must be distinguished from a power of the ordinary mental reason which is too easily confused with it, that power of Involved reasoning that reaches its conclusion by a bound and does not need the ordinary steps of the logical mind. The logical reason proceeds pace after pace and tries the sureness of each step like a marl who is walking over unsafe ground and has to test by the hesitating touch of his foot each span of soil that he perceives with his eye. But this other supralogical process of the reason is a motion of rapid insight or swift discernment; it proceeds by a stride or leap, like a man who springs from one sure spot to another point of sure footing, -- or at least held by him to be sure. He sees this space he covers in one compact and flashing view, but he does not distinguish or measure either by eye or touch its successions, features and circumstances. This movement has something of the sense of power of the intuition, something of its velocity, some appearance of its light and certainty, arid we always are apt to take it for the intuition. But our assumption is an error and, if we trust to it, it may lead us into grievous blunders.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
140:Hence, it's obvious to see why in AA the community is so important; we are powerless over ourselves. Since we don't have immediate awareness of the Higher Power and how it works, we need to be constantly reminded of our commitment to freedom and liberation. The old patterns are so seductive that as they go off, they set off the association of ideas and the desire to give in to our addiction with an enormous force that we can't handle. The renewal of defeat often leads to despair. At the same time, it's a source of hope for those who have a spiritual view of the process. Because it reminds us that we have to renew once again our total dependence on the Higher Power. This is not just a notional acknowledgment of our need. We feel it from the very depths of our being. Something in us causes our whole being to cry out, "Help!" That's when the steps begin to work. And that, I might add, is when the spiritual journey begins to work. A lot of activities that people in that category regard as spiritual are not communicating to them experientially their profound dependence on the grace of God to go anywhere with their spiritual practices or observances. That's why religious practice can be so ineffective. The real spiritual journey depends on our acknowledging the unmanageability of our lives. The love of God or the Higher Power is what heals us. Nobody becomes a full human being without love. It brings to life people who are most damaged. The steps are really an engagement in an ever-deepening relationship with God. Divine love picks us up when we sincerely believe nobody else will. We then begin to experience freedom, peace, calm, equanimity, and liberation from cravings for what we have come to know are damaging-cravings that cannot bring happiness, but at best only momentary relief that makes the real problem worse. ~ Thomas Keating, Divine Therapy and Addiction, #KEYS
141:the aim of our yoga :::
The aim set before our Yoga is nothing less than to hasten this supreme object of our existence here. Its process leaves behind the ordinary tardy method of slow and confused growth through the evolution of Nature. For the natural evolution is at its best an uncertain growth under cover, partly by the pressure of the environment, partly by a groping education and an ill-lighted purposeful effort, an only partially illumined and half-automatic use of opportunities with many blunders and lapses and relapses; a great portion of it is made up of apparent accidents and circumstances and vicissitudes, - though veiling a secret divine intervention and guidance. In Yoga we replace this confused crooked crab-motion by a rapid, conscious and self-directed evolution which is planned to carry us, as far as can be, in a straight line towards the goal set before us. In a certain sense it may be an error to speak of a goal anywhere in a progression which may well be infinite. Still we can conceive of an immediate goal, an ulterior objective beyond our present achievement towards which the soul in man can aspire. There lies before him the possibility of a new birth; there can be an ascent into a higher and wider plane of being and its descent to transform his members. An enlarged and illumined consciousness is possible that shall make of him a liberated spirit and a perfected force - and, if spread beyond the individual, it might even constitute a divine humanity or else a new, a supramental and therefore a superhuman race. It is this new birth that we make our aim: a growth into a divine consciousness is the whole meaning of our Yoga, an integral conversion to divinity not only of the soul but of all the parts of our nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Surrender in Works - The Way of the Gita, 89-90,#KEYS
142:principle of Yogic methods :::
Yogic methods have something of the same relation to the customary psychological workings of man as has the scientific handling of the force of electricity or of steam to their normal operations in Nature. And they, too, like the operations of Science, are formed upon a knowledge developed and confirmed by regular experiment, practical analysis and constant result. All Rajayoga, for instance, depends on this perception and experience that our inner elements, combinations, functions, forces can be separated or dissolved, can be new-combined and set to novel and formerly impossible workings or can be transformed and resolved into a new general synthesis by fixed internal processes. Hathayoga similarly depends on this perception and experience that the vital forces and function to which our life is normally subjected and whose ordinary operations seem set and indispensable, can be mastered and the operations changed or suspended with results that would otherwise be impossible and that seem miraculous to those who have not seized the raionale of their process. And if in some other of its forms this character of Yoga is less apparent, because they are more intuitive and less mechanical, nearer, like the Yoga of Devotion, to a supernal ecstasy or, like the Yoga of Knowledge, to a supernal infinity of consciousness and being, yet they too start from the use of some principal faculty in us by ways and for ends not contemplated in its everyday spontaneous workings. All methods grouped under the common name of Yoga are special psychological processes founded on a fixed truth of Nature and developing, out of normal functions, powers and results which were always latent but which her ordinary movements do not easily or do not often manifest.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Introduction - The Conditions of the Synthesis, Life and Yoga,#KEYS
143:A distinction has to be firmly seized in our consciousness, the capital distinction between mechanical Nature and the free Lord of Nature, between the Ishwara or single luminous divine Will and the many executive modes and forces of the universe. Nature, - not as she is in her divine Truth, the conscious Power of the Eternal, but as she appears to us in the Ignorance, - is executive Force, mechanical in her steps, not consciously intelligent to our experience of her, although all her works are instinct with an absolute intelligence. Not in herself master, she is full of a self-aware Power which has an infinite mastery and, because of this Power driving her, she rules all and exactly fulfils the work intended in her by the Ishwara. Not enjoying but enjoyed, she bears in herself the burden of all enjoyments. Nature as Prakriti is an inertly active Force, - for she works out a movement imposed upon her; but within her is One that knows,
- some Entity sits there that is aware of all her motion and process. Prakriti works containing the knowledge, the mastery, the delight of the Purusha, the Being associated with her or seated within her; but she can participate in them only by subjection and reflection of that which fills her. Purusha knows and is still and inactive; he contains the action of Prakriti within his consciousness and knowledge and enjoys it. He gives the sanction to Prakriti's works and she works out what is sanctioned by him for his pleasure. Purusha himself does not execute; he maintains Prakriti in her action and allows her to express in energy and process and formed result what he perceives in his knowledge. This is the distinction made by the Sankhyas; and although it is not all the true truth, not in any way the highest truth either of Purusha or of Prakriti, still it is a valid and indispensable practical knowledge in the lower hemisphere of existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
144:One can concentrate in any of the three centres which is easiest to the sadhak or gives most result. The power of the concentration in the heart-centre is to open that centre and by the power of aspiration, love, bhakti, surrender remove the veil which covers and conceals the soul and bring forward the soul or psychic being to govern the mind, life and body and turn and open them all-fully-to the Divine, removing all that is opposed to that turning and opening.
This is what is called in this Yoga the psychic transformation. The power of concentration above the head is to bring peace, silence, liberation from the body sense, the identification with mind and life and open the way for the lower (mental vital-physical) consciousness to rise up to meet the higher Consciousness above and for the powers of the higher (spiritual or divine) Consciousness to descend into mind, life and body. This is what is called in this Yoga the spiritual transformation. If one begins with this movement, then the Power from above has in its descent to open all the centres (including the lowest centre) and to bring out the psychic being; for until that is done there is likely to be much difficulty and struggle of the lower consciousness obstructing, mixing with or even refusing the Divine Action from above. If the psychic being is once active this struggle and these difficulties can be greatly minimised. The power of concentration in the eyebrows is to open the centre there, liberate the inner mind and vision and the inner or Yogic consciousness and its experiences and powers. From here also one can open upwards and act also in the lower centres; but the danger of this process is that one may get shut up in one's mental spiritual formations and not come out of them into the free and integral spiritual experience and knowledge and integral change of the being and nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, [where to concentrate?],#KEYS
145:A distinction has to be firmly seized in our consciousness, the capital distinction between mechanical Nature and the free Lord of Nature, between the Ishwara or single luminous divine Will and the many executive modes and forces of the universe. Nature, - not as she is in her divine Truth, the conscious Power of the Eternal, but as she appears to us in the Ignorance, - is executive Force, mechanical in her steps, not consciously intelligent to our experience of her, although all her works are instinct with an absolute intelligence. Not in herself master, she is full of a self-aware Power which has an infinite mastery and, because of this Power driving her, she rules all and exactly fulfils the work intended in her by the Ishwara. Not enjoying but enjoyed, she bears in herself the burden of all enjoyments. Nature as Prakriti is an inertly active Force, - for she works out a movement imposed upon her; but within her is One that knows, - some Entity sits there that is aware of all her motion and process. Prakriti works containing the knowledge, the mastery, the delight of the Purusha, the Being associated with her or seated within her; but she can participate in them only by subjection and reflection of that which fills her. Purusha knows and is still and inactive; he contains the action of Prakriti within his consciousness and knowledge and enjoys it. He gives the sanction to Prakriti's works and she works out what is sanctioned by him for his pleasure. Purusha himself does not execute; he maintains Prakriti in her action and allows her to express in energy and process and formed result what he perceives in his knowledge. This is the distinction made by the Sankhyas; and although it is not all the true truth, not in any way the highest truth either of Purusha or of Prakriti, still it is a valid and indispensable practical knowledge in the lower hemisphere of existence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Surrender in Works,#KEYS
146:middle vision logic or paradigmatic ::: (1:25) Cognition is described as middle-vision logic, or paradigmatic in that it is capable of co-ordinating the relations between systems of systems, unifying them into principled frameworks or paradigms. This is an operation on meta-systems and allows for the view described above, a view of human development itself. Self-sense at teal is called Autonomous or Strategist and is characterized by the emergent capacity to acknowledge and cope with inner conflicts in needs, ... and values. All of which are part of a multifacted and complex world. Teal sees our need for autonomy and autonomy itself as limited because emotional interdependence is inevitable. The contradictory aspects of self are weaved into an identity that is whole, integrated and commited to generating a fulfilling life.
Additionally, Teal allows individuals to link theory and practice, perceive dynamic systems interactions, recognize and strive for higher principles, understand the social construction of reality, handle paradox and complexity, create positive-sum games and seek feedback from others as a vital source for growth. Values embrace magnificence of existence, flexibility, spontaneioty, functionality, the integration of differences into interdependent systems and complimenting natural egalitarianism with natural ranking. Needs shift to self-actualization, and morality is in both terms of universal ethical principles and recognition of the developmental relativity of those universals. Teal is the first wave that is truly able to see the limitations of orange and green morality, it is able to uphold the paradox of universalism and relativism. Teal in its decision making process is able to see ... deep and surface features of morality and is able to take into consideration both those values when engaging in moral action. Currently Teal is quite rare, embraced by 2-5% of the north american and european population according to sociological research. ~ Essential Integral, L4.1-53, Middle Vision Logic,#KEYS
147:What is the most useful idea to spread and what is the best example to set?
The question can be considered in two ways, a very general one applicable to the whole earth, and another specific one which concerns our present social environment.
From the general point of view, it seems to me that the most useful idea to spread is twofold:
1) Man carries within himself perfect power, perfect wisdom and perfect knowledge, and if he wants to possess them, he must discover them in the depth of his being, by introspection and concentration.
2) These divine qualities are identical at the centre, at the heart of all beings; this implies the essential unity of all, and all the consequences of solidarity and fraternity that follow from it.
The best example to give would be the unalloyed serenity and immutably peaceful happiness which belong to one who knows how to live integrally this thought of the One God in all.
From the point of view of our present environment, here is the idea which, it seems to me, it is most useful to spread:
True progressive evolution, an evolution which can lead man to his rightful happiness, does not lie in any external means, material improvement or social change. Only a deep and inner process of individual self-perfection can make for real progress and completely transform the present state of things, and change suffering and misery into a serene and lasting contentment.
Consequently, the best example is one that shows the first stage of individual self-perfection which makes possible all the rest, the first victory to be won over the egoistic personality: disinterestedness.
At a time when all rush upon money as the means to sat- isfy their innumerable cravings, one who remains indifferent to wealth and acts, not for the sake of gain, but solely to follow a disinterested ideal, is probably setting the example which is most useful at present.
~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, Volume-2, 22-06-1912, page no.66-67,#KEYS
148:It must also be kept in mind that the supramental change is difficult, distant, an ultimate stage; it must be regarded as the end of a far-off vista; it cannot be and must not be turned into a first aim, a constantly envisaged goal or an immediate objective. For it can only come into the view of possibility after much arduous self-conquest and self-exceeding, at the end of many long and trying stages of a difficult self-evolution of the nature. One must first acquire an inner Yogic consciousness and replace by it our ordinary view of things, natural movements, motives of life; one must revolutionise the whole present build of our being. Next, we have to go still deeper, discover our veiled psychic entity and in its light and under its government psychicise our inner and outer parts, turn mind-nature, life-nature, body-nature and all our mental, vital, physical action and states and movements into a conscious instrumentation of the soul. Afterwards or concurrently we have to spiritualise the being in its entirety by a descent of a divine Light, Force, Purity, Knowledge, freedom and wideness. It is necessary to break down the limits of the personal mind, life and physicality, dissolve the ego, enter into the cosmic consciousness, realise the self, acquire a spiritualised and universalised mind and heart, life-force, physical consciousness. Then only the passage into the supramental consciousness begins to become possible, and even then there is a difficult ascent to make each stage of which is a separate arduous achievement. Yoga is a rapid and concentrated conscious evolution of the being, but however rapid, even though it may effect in a single life what in an instrumental Nature might take centuries and millenniums or many hundreds of lives, still all evolution must move by stages; even the greatest rapidity and concentration of the movement cannot swallow up all the stages or reverse natural process and bring the end near to the beginning.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supermind and the Yoga of Works, 281,#KEYS
149:So then let the Adept set this sigil upon all the Words he hath writ in the book of the Works of his Will. And let him then end all, saying: Such are the Words!2 For by this he maketh proclamation before all them that be about his Circle that these Words are true and puissant, binding what he would bind, and loosing what he would loose. Let the Adept perform this ritual right, perfect in every part thereof, once daily for one moon, then twice, at dawn and dusk, for two moons; next thrice, noon added, for three moons; afterwards, midnight making up his course, for four moons four times every day. Then let the Eleventh Moon be consecrated wholly to this Work; let him be instant in constant ardour, dismissing all but his sheer needs to eat and sleep.3 For know that the true Formula4 whose virtue sufficed the Beast in this Attainment, was thus:
INVOKE OFTEN
So may all men come at last to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel: thus sayeth The Beast, and prayeth his own Angel that this Book be as a burning Lamp, and as a living Spring, for Light and Life to them that read therein.
1. There is an alternative spelling, TzBA-F, where the Root, "an Host," has the value of 93. The Practicus should revise this Ritual throughout in the Light of his personal researches in the Qabalah, and make it his own peculiar property. The spelling here suggested implies that he who utters the Word affirms his allegiance to the symbols 93 and 6; that he is a warrior in the army of Will, and of the Sun. 93 is also the number of AIWAZ and 6 of The Beast.
2. The consonants of LOGOS, "Word," add (Hebrew values) to 93 [reading the Sigma as Samekh = 60; reading it as Shin = 300 gives 333], and ΕΠΗ, "Words" (whence "Epic") has also that value; ΕΙ∆Ε ΤΑ ΕΠΗ might be the phrase here intended; its number is 418. This would then assert the accomplishment of the Great Work; this is the natural conclusion of the Ritual. Cf. CCXX, III, 75.
3. These needs are modified during the process of Initiation both as to quantity and quality. One should not become anxious about one's phyiscal or mental health on à priori grounds, but pay attention only to indubitable symptoms of distress should such arise. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber Samekh,#KEYS
150:And for the same reason, because that which we are seeking through beauty is in the end that which we are seeking through religion, the Absolute, the Divine. The search for beauty is only in its beginning a satisfaction in the beauty of form, the beauty which appeals to the physical senses and the vital impressions, impulsions, desires. It is only in the middle a satisfaction in the beauty of the ideas seized, the emotions aroused, the perception of perfect process and harmonious combination. Behind them the soul of beauty in us desires the contact, the revelation, the uplifting delight of an absolute beauty in all things which it feels to be present, but which neither the senses and instincts by themselves can give, though they may be its channels, - for it is suprasensuous, - nor the reason and intelligence, though they too are a channel, - for it is suprarational, supra-intellectual, - but to which through all these veils the soul itself seeks to arrive. When it can get the touch of this universal, absolute beauty, this soul of beauty, this sense of its revelation in any slightest or greatest thing, the beauty of a flower, a form, the beauty and power of a character, an action, an event, a human life, an idea, a stroke of the brush or the chisel or a scintillation of the mind, the colours of a sunset or the grandeur of the tempest, it is then that the sense of beauty in us is really, powerfully, entirely satisfied. It is in truth seeking, as in religion, for the Divine, the All-Beautiful in man, in nature, in life, in thought, in art; for God is Beauty and Delight hidden in the variation of his masks and forms. When, fulfilled in our growing sense and knowledge of beauty and delight in beauty and our power for beauty, we are able to identify ourselves in soul with this Absolute and Divine in all the forms and activities of the world and shape an image of our inner and our outer life in the highest image we can perceive and embody of the All-Beautiful, then the aesthetic being in us who was born for this end, has fulfilled himself and risen to his divine consummation. To find highest beauty is to find God; to reveal, to embody, to create, as we say, highest beauty is to bring out of our souls the living image and power of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, 144, #KEYS
151:This is the real sense and drive of what we see as evolution: the multiplication and variation of forms is only the means of its process. Each gradation contains the possibility and the certainty of the grades beyond it: the emergence of more and more developed forms and powers points to more perfected forms and greater powers beyond them, and each emergence of consciousness and the conscious beings proper to it enables the rise to a greater consciousness beyond and the greater order of beings up to the ultimate godheads of which Nature is striving and is destined to show herself capable. Matter developed its organised forms until it became capable of embodying living organisms; then life rose from the subconscience of the plant into conscious animal formations and through them to the thinking life of man. Mind founded in life developed intellect, developed its types of knowledge and ignorance, truth and error till it reached the spiritual perception and illumination and now can see as in a glass dimly the possibility of supermind and a truthconscious existence. In this inevitable ascent the mind of Light is a gradation, an inevitable stage. As an evolving principle it will mark a stage in the human ascent and evolve a new type of human being; this development must carry in it an ascending gradation of its own powers and types of an ascending humanity which will embody more and more the turn towards spirituality, capacity for Light, a climb towards a divinised manhood and the divine life.
In the birth of the mind of Light and its ascension into its own recognisable self and its true status and right province there must be, in the very nature of things as they are and very nature of the evolutionary process as it is at present, two stages. In the first, we can see the mind of Light gathering itself out of the Ignorance, assembling its constituent elements, building up its shapes and types, however imperfect at first, and pushing them towards perfection till it can cross the border of the Ignorance and appear in the Light, in its own Light. In the second stage we can see it developing itself in that greater natural light, taking its higher shapes and forms till it joins the supermind and lives as its subordinate portion or its delegate.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, Mind of Light, 587,#KEYS
152:The one high and reasonable course for the individual human being, - unless indeed he is satisfied with pursuing his personal purposes or somehow living his life until it passes out of him, - is to study the laws of the Becoming and take the best advantage of them to realise, rationally or intuitionally, inwardly or in the dynamism of life, its potentialities in himself or for himself or in or for the race of which he is a member; his business is to make the most of such actualities as exist and to seize on or to advance towards the highest possibilities that can be developed here or are in the making. Only mankind as a whole can do this with entire effect, by the mass of individual and collective action, in the process of time, in the evolution of the race experience: but the individual man can help towards it in his own limits, can do all these things for himself to a certain extent in the brief space of life allotted to him; but, especially, his thought and action can be a contribution towards the present intellectual, moral and vital welfare and the future progress of the race. He is capable of a certain nobility of being; an acceptance of his inevitable and early individual annihilation does not preclude him from making a high use of the will and thought which have been developed in him or from directing them to great ends which shall or may be worked out by humanity. Even the temporary character of the collective being of humanity does not so very much matter, - except in the most materialist view of existence; for so long as the universal Becoming takes the form of human body and mind, the thought, the will it has developed in its human creature will work itself out and to follow that intelligently is the natural law and best rule of human life. Humanity and its welfare and progress during its persistence on earth provide the largest field and the natural limits for the terrestrial aim of our being; the superior persistence of the race and the greatness and importance of the collective life should determine the nature and scope of our ideals. But if the progress or welfare of humanity be excluded as not our business or as a delusion, the individual is there; to achieve his greatest possible perfection or make the most of his life in whatever way his nature demands will then be life's significance.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, [T1],#KEYS
153:the three stages of the ascent :::
There are three stages of the ascent, -at the bottom the bodily life enslaved to the pressure of necessity and desire, in the middle the mental, the higher emotional and psychic rule that feels after greater interests, aspirations, experiences, ideas, and at the summits first a deeper psychic and spiritual state and then a supramental eternal consciousness in which all our aspirations and seekings discover their own intimate significance.In the bodily life first desire and need and then the practical good of the individual and the society are the governing consideration, the dominant force. In the mental life ideas and ideals rule, ideas that are half-lights wearing the garb of Truth, ideals formed by the mind as a result of a growing but still imperfect intuition and experience. Whenever the mental life prevails and the bodily diminishes its brute insistence, man the mental being feels pushed by the urge of mental Nature to mould in the sense of the idea or the ideal the life of the individual, and in the end even the vaguer more complex life of the society is forced to undergo this subtle process.In the spiritual life, or when a higher power than Mind has manifested and taken possession of the nature, these limited motive-forces recede, dwindle, tend to disappear. The spiritual or supramental Self, the Divine Being, the supreme and immanent Reality, must be alone the Lord within us and shape freely our final development according to the highest, widest, most integral expression possible of the law of our nature. In the end that nature acts in the perfect Truth and its spontaneous freedom; for it obeys only the luminous power of the Eternal. The individual has nothing further to gain, no desire to fulfil; he has become a portion of the impersonality or the universal personality of the Eternal. No other object than the manifestation and play of the Divine Spirit in life and the maintenance and conduct of the world in its march towards the divine goal can move him to action. Mental ideas, opinions, constructions are his no more; for his mind has fallen into silence, it is only a channel for the Light and Truth of the divine knowledge. Ideals are too narrow for the vastness of his spirit; it is the ocean of the Infinite that flows through him and moves him for ever.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will,#KEYS
154:Daemons
A daemon is a process that runs in the background, not connecting to any controlling terminal. Daemons are normally started at boot time, are run as root or some
other special user (such as apache or postfix), and handle system-level tasks. As a
convention, the name of a daemon often ends in d (as in crond and sshd), but this is
not required, or even universal.
The name derives from Maxwell's demon, an 1867 thought experiment by the physicist James Maxwell. Daemons are also supernatural beings in Greek mythology,
existing somewhere between humans and the gods and gifted with powers and divine
knowledge. Unlike the demons of Judeo-Christian lore, the Greek daemon need not
be evil. Indeed, the daemons of mythology tended to be aides to the gods, performing
tasks that the denizens of Mount Olympus found themselves unwilling to do-much
as Unix daemons perform tasks that foreground users would rather avoid.
A daemon has two general requirements: it must run as a child of init, and it must
not be connected to a terminal.
In general, a program performs the following steps to become a daemon:
1. Call fork( ). This creates a new process, which will become the daemon.
2. In the parent, call exit( ). This ensures that the original parent (the daemon's
grandparent) is satisfied that its child terminated, that the daemon's parent is no
longer running, and that the daemon is not a process group leader. This last
point is a requirement for the successful completion of the next step.
3. Call setsid( ), giving the daemon a new process group and session, both of
which have it as leader. This also ensures that the process has no associated controlling terminal (as the process just created a new session, and will not assign
one).
4. Change the working directory to the root directory via chdir( ). This is done
because the inherited working directory can be anywhere on the filesystem. Daemons tend to run for the duration of the system's uptime, and you don't want to
keep some random directory open, and thus prevent an administrator from
unmounting the filesystem containing that directory.
5. Close all file descriptors. You do not want to inherit open file descriptors, and,
unaware, hold them open.
6. Open file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 (standard in, standard out, and standard error)
and redirect them to /dev/null.
Following these rules, here is a program that daemonizes itself:
~ OReilly Linux System Programming,#KEYS
155:Integral knowledge will then mean the cancelling of the sevenfold Ignorance by the discovery of what it misses and ignores, a sevenfold self-revelation within our consciousness:- it will mean the knowledge of the Absolute as the origin of all things; the knowledge of the Self, the Spirit, the Being and of the cosmos as the Self's becoming, the becoming of the Being, a manifestation of the Spirit; the knowledge of the world as one with us in the consciousness of our true self, thus cancelling our division from it by the separative idea and life of ego; the knowledge of our psychic entity and its immortal persistence in Time beyond death and earth-existence; the knowledge of our greater and inner existence behind the surface; the knowledge of our mind, life and body in its true relation to the self within and the superconscient spiritual and supramental being above them; the knowledge, finally, of the true harmony and true use of our thought, will and action and a change of all our nature into a conscious expression of the truth of the Spirit, the Self, the Divinity, the integral spiritual Reality. But this is not an intellectual knowledge which can be learned and completed in our present mould of consciousness; it must be an experience, a becoming, a change of consciousness, a change of being. This brings in the evolutionary character of the Becoming and the fact that our mental ignorance is only a stage in our evolution. The integral knowledge, then, can only come by an evolution of our being and our nature, and that would seem to signify a slow process in Time such as has accompanied the other evolutionary transformations. But as against that inference there is the fact that the evolution has now become conscious and its method and steps need not be altogether of the same character as when it was subconscious in its process. The integral knowledge, since it must result from a change of consciousness, can be gained by a process in which our will and endeavour have a part, in which they can discover and apply their own steps and method: its growth in us can proceed by a conscious self-transformation. It is necessary then to see what is likely to be the principle of this new process of evolution and what are the movements of the integral knowledge that must necessarily emerge in it,-or, in other words, what is the nature of the consciousness that must be the base of the life divine and how that life may be expected to be formed or to form itself, to materialise or, as one might say, to realise.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Reality and the Integral Knowledge, 681,#KEYS
156:Vijnana, true ideation, called ritam, truth or vedas, knowledge in the Vedas, acts in human mind by four separate functions; revelation, termed drishti, sight; inspiration termed sruti,hearing; and the two faculties of discernment, smriti, memory,which are intuition, termed ketu, and discrimination, termed daksha, division, or viveka, separation. By drishti we see ourselves the truth face to face, in its own form, nature or self-existence; by sruti we hear the name, sound or word by which the truth is expressed & immediately suggested to the knowledge; by ketu we distinguish a truth presented to us behind a veil whether of result or process, as Newton discovered the law of gravitation hidden behind the fall of the apple; by viveka we distinguish between various truths and are able to put them in their right place, order and relation to each other, or, if presented with mingled truth & error, separate the truth from the falsehood. Agni Jatavedas is termed in the Veda vivichi, he who has the viveka, who separates truth from falsehood; but this is only a special action of the fourth ideal faculty & in its wider scope, it is daksha, that which divides & rightly distributes truth in its multiform aspects. The ensemble of the four faculties is Vedas or divine knowledge. When man is rising out of the limited & error-besieged mental principle, the faculty most useful to him, most indispensable is daksha or viveka. Drishti of Vijnana transmuted into terms of mind has become observation, sruti appears as imagination, intuition as intelligent perception, viveka as reasoning & intellectual judgment and all of these are liable to the constant touch of error. Human buddhi, intellect, is a distorted shadow of the true ideative faculties. As we return from these shadows to their ideal substance viveka or daksha must be our constant companion; for viveka alone can get rid of the habit of mental error, prevent observation being replaced by false illumination, imagination by false inspiration, intelligence by false intuition, judgment & reason by false discernment. The first sign of human advance out of the anritam of mind to the ritam of the ideal faculty is the growing action of a luminous right discernment which fixes instantly on the truth, feels instantly the presence of error. The fullness, the manhana of this viveka is the foundation & safeguard of Ritam or Vedas. The first great movement of Agni Jatavedas is to transform by the divine will in mental activity his lower smoke-covered activity into the bright clearness & fullness of the ideal discernment. Agne adbhuta kratw a dakshasya manhana.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns To The Mystic Fire, 717,#KEYS
157:INVOCATION
The ultimate invocation, that of Kia, cannot be performed. The paradox is that as Kia has no dualized qualities, there are no attributes by which to invoke it. To give it one quality is merely to deny it another. As an observant dualistic being once said:
I am that I am not.
Nevertheless, the magician may need to make some rearrangements or additions to what he is. Metamorphosis may be pursued by seeking that which one is not, and transcending both in mutual annihilation. Alternatively, the process of invocation may be seen as adding to the magician's psyche any elements which are missing. It is true that the mind must be finally surrendered as one enters fully into Chaos, but a complete and balanced psychocosm is more easily surrendered.
The magical process of shuffling beliefs and desires attendant upon the process of invocation also demonstrates that one's dominant obsessions or personality are quite arbitrary, and hence more easily banished.
There are many maps of the mind (psychocosms), most of which are inconsistent, contradictory, and based on highly fanciful theories. Many use the symbology of god forms, for all mythology embodies a psychology. A complete mythic pantheon resumes all of man's mental characteristics. Magicians will often use a pagan pantheon of gods as the basis for invoking some particular insight or ability, as these myths provide the most explicit and developed formulation of the particular idea's extant. However it is possible to use almost anything from the archetypes of the collective unconscious to the elemental qualities of alchemy.
If the magician taps a deep enough level of power, these forms may manifest with sufficient force to convince the mind of the objective existence of the god. Yet the aim of invocation is temporary possession by the god, communication from the god, and manifestation of the god's magical powers, rather than the formation of religious cults.
The actual method of invocation may be described as a total immersion in the qualities pertaining to the desired form. One invokes in every conceivable way. The magician first programs himself into identity with the god by arranging all his experiences to coincide with its nature. In the most elaborate form of ritual he may surround himself with the sounds, smells, colors, instruments, memories, numbers, symbols, music, and poetry suggestive of the god or quality. Secondly he unites his life force to the god image with which he has united his mind. This is accomplished with techniques from the gnosis. Figure 5 shows some examples of maps of the mind. Following are some suggestions for practical ritual invocation.
~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#KEYS
158:The last sentence: "...in the Truth-Creation the law is that of a constant unfolding without any Pralaya." What is this constant unfolding?
The Truth-Creation... it is the last line? (Mother consults the book) I think we have already spoken about this several times. It has been said that in the process of creation, there is the movement of creation followed by a movement of preservation and ending in a movement of disintegration or destruction; and even it has been repeated very often: "All that begins must end", etc., etc.
In fact in the history of our universe there have been six consecutive periods which began by a creation, were prolonged by a force of preservation and ended by a disintegration, a destruction, a return to the Origin, which is called Pralaya; and that is why this tradition is there. But it has been said that the seventh creation would be a progressive creation, that is, after the starting-point of the creation, instead of its being simply followed by a preservation, it would be followed by a progressive manifestation which would express the Divine more and more completely, so that no disintegration and return to the Origin would be necessary. And it has been announced that the period we are in is precisely the seventh, that is, it would not end by a Pralaya, a return to the Origin, a destruction, a disappearance, but that it would be replaced by a constant progress, because it would be a more and more perfect unfolding of the divine Origin in its creation.
And this is what Sri Aurobindo says. He speaks of a constant unfolding, that is, the Divine manifests more and more completely; more and more perfectly, in a progressive creation. It is the nature of this progression which makes the return to the Origin, the destruction no longer necessary. All that does not progress disappears, and that is why physical bodies die, it's because they are not progressive; they are progressive up to a certain moment, then there they stop and most often they remain stable for a certain time, and then they begin to decline, and then disappear. It's because the physical body, physical matter as it is at present is not plastic enough to be able to progress constantly. But it is not impossible to make it sufficiently plastic for the perfecting of the physical body to be such that it no longer needs disintegration, that is, death.
Only, this cannot be realised except by the descent of the Supermind which is a force higher than all those which have so far manifested and which will give the body a plasticity that will allow it to progress constantly, that is, to follow the divine movement in its unfolding. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955, 207-209,#KEYS
159:The preliminary movement of Rajayoga is careful self-discipline by which good habits of mind are substituted for the lawless movements that indulge the lower nervous being. By the practice of truth, by renunciation of all forms of egoistic seeking, by abstention from injury to others, by purity, by constant meditation and inclination to the divine Purusha who is the true lord of the mental kingdom, a pure, clear state of mind and heart is established.
This is the first step only. Afterwards, the ordinary activities of the mind and sense must be entirely quieted in order that the soul may be free to ascend to higher states of consciousness and acquire the foundation for a perfect freedom and self-mastery. But Rajayoga does not forget that the disabilities of the ordinary mind proceed largely from its subjection to the reactions of the nervous system and the body. It adopts therefore from the Hathayogic system its devices of asana and pranayama, but reduces their multiple and elaborate forms in each case to one simplest and most directly effective process sufficient for its own immediate object. Thus it gets rid of the Hathayogic complexity and cumbrousness while it utilises the swift and powerful efficacy of its methods for the control of the body and the vital functions and for the awakening of that internal dynamism, full of a latent supernormal faculty, typified in Yogic terminology by the kundalini, the coiled and sleeping serpent of Energy within. This done, the system proceeds to the perfect quieting of the restless mind and its elevation to a higher plane through concentration of mental force by the successive stages which lead to the utmost inner concentration or ingathered state of the consciousness which is called Samadhi.
By Samadhi, in which the mind acquires the capacity of withdrawing from its limited waking activities into freer and higher states of consciousness, Rajayoga serves a double purpose. It compasses a pure mental action liberated from the confusions of the outer consciousness and passes thence to the higher supra-mental planes on which the individual soul enters into its true spiritual existence. But also it acquires the capacity of that free and concentrated energising of consciousness on its object which our philosophy asserts as the primary cosmic energy and the method of divine action upon the world. By this capacity the Yogin, already possessed of the highest supracosmic knowledge and experience in the state of trance, is able in the waking state to acquire directly whatever knowledge and exercise whatever mastery may be useful or necessary to his activities in the objective world.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Systems of Yoga, 36,#KEYS
160:The Teacher of the integral Yoga will follow as far as he may the method of the Teacher within us. He will lead the disciple through the nature of the disciple. Teaching, example, influence, - these are the three instruments of the Guru. But the wise Teacher will not seek to impose himself or his opinions on the passive acceptance of the receptive mind; he will throw in only what is productive and sure as a seed which will grow under the divine fostering within. He will seek to awaken much more than to instruct; he will aim at the growth of the faculties and the experiences by a natural process and free expansion. He will give a method as an aid, as a utilisable device, not as an imperative formula or a fixed routine. And he will be on his guard against any turning of the means into a limitation, against the mechanising of process. His whole business is to awaken the divine light and set working the divine force of which he himself is only a means and an aid, a body or a channel.
The example is more powerful than the instruction; but it is not the example of the outward acts nor that of the personal character which is of most importance. These have their place and their utility; but what will most stimulate aspiration in others is the central fact of the divine realisation within him governing his whole life and inner state and all his activities. This is the universal and essential element; the rest belongs to individual person and circumstance. It is this dynamic realisation that the sadhaka must feel and reproduce in himself according to his own nature; he need not strive after an imitation from outside which may well be sterilising rather than productive of right and natural fruits.
Influence is more important than example. Influence is not the outward authority of the Teacher over his disciple, but the power of his contact, of his presence, of the nearness of his soul to the soul of another, infusing into it, even though in silence, that which he himself is and possesses. This is the supreme sign of the Master. For the greatest Master is much less a Teacher than a Presence pouring the divine consciousness and its constituting light and power and purity and bliss into all who are receptive around him.
And it shall also be a sign of the teacher of the integral Yoga that he does not arrogate to himself Guruhood in a humanly vain and self-exalting spirit. His work, if he has one, is a trust from above, he himself a channel, a vessel or a representative. He is a man helping his brothers, a child leading children, a Light kindling other lights, an awakened Soul awakening souls, at highest a Power or Presence of the Divine calling to him other powers of the Divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga,#KEYS
161:The Mahashakti, the universal Mother, works out whatever is transmitted by her transcendent consciousness from the Supreme and enters into the worlds that she has made; her presence fills and supports them with the divine spirit and the divine all-sustaining force and delight without which they could not exist. That which we call Nature or Prakriti is only her most outward executive aspect; she marshals and arranges the harmony of her forces and processes, impels the operations of Nature and moves among them secret or manifest in all that can be seen or experienced or put into motion of life. Each of the worlds is nothing but one play of the Mahashakti of that system of worlds or universe, who is there as the cosmic Soul and Personality of the transcendent Mother. Each is something that she has seen in her vision, gathered into her heart of beauty and power and created in her Ananda.
But there are many planes of her creation, many steps of the Divine Shakti. At the summit of this manifestation of which we are a part there are worlds of infinite existence, consciousness, force and bliss over which the Mother stands as the unveiled eternal Power. All beings there live and move in an ineffable completeness and unalterable oneness, because she carries them safe in her arms for ever. Nearer to us are the worlds of a perfect supramental creation in which the Mother is the supramental Mahashakti, a Power of divine omniscient Will and omnipotent Knowledge always apparent in its unfailing works and spontaneously perfect in every process. There all movements are the steps of the Truth; there all beings are souls and powers and bodies of the divine Light; there all experiences are seas and floods and waves of an intense and absolute Ananda. But here where we dwell are the worlds of the Ignorance, worlds of mind and life and body separated in consciousness from their source, of which this earth is a significant centre and its evolution a crucial process. This too with all its obscurity and struggle and imperfection is upheld by the Universal Mother; this too is impelled and guided to its secret aim by the Mahashakti.
The Mother as the Mahashakti of this triple world of the Ignorance stands in an intermediate plane between the supramental Light, the Truth life, the Truth creation which has to be brought down here and this mounting and descending hierarchy of planes of consciousness that like a double ladder lapse into the nescience of Matter and climb back again through the flowering of life and soul and mind into the infinity of the Spirit. Determining all that shall be in this universe and in the terrestrial evolution by what she sees and feels and pours from her, she stands there... ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother,#KEYS
162:If we look at this picture of the Self-Existence and its works as a unitary unlimited whole of vision, it stands together and imposes itself by its convincing totality: but to the analysis of the logical intellect it offers an abundance of difficulties, such as all attempts to erect a logical system out of a perception of an illimitable Existence must necessarily create; for any such endeavour must either effect consistency by an arbitrary sectioning of the complex truth of things or else by its comprehensiveness become logically untenable. For we see that the Indeterminable determines itself as infinite and finite, the Immutable admits a constant mutability and endless differences, the One becomes an innumerable multitude, the Impersonal creates or supports personality, is itself a Person; the Self has a nature and is yet other than its nature; Being turns into becoming and yet it is always itself and other than its becomings; the Universal individualises itself and the Individual universalises himself; Brahman is at once void of qualities and capable of infinite qualities, the Lord and Doer of works, yet a non-doer and a silent witness of the workings of Nature. If we look carefully at these workings of Nature, once we put aside the veil of familiarity and our unthinking acquiescence in the process of things as natural because so they always happen, we discover that all she does in whole or in parts is a miracle, an act of some incomprehensible magic. The being of the Self-existence and the world that has appeared in it are, each of them and both together, a suprarational mystery. There seems to us to be a reason in things because the processes of the physical finite are consistent to our view and their law determinable, but this reason in things, when closely examined, seems to stumble at every moment against the irrational or infrarational and the suprarational: the consistency, the determinability of process seems to lessen rather than increase as we pass from matter to life and from life to mentality; if the finite consents to some extent to look as if it were rational, the infinitesimal refuses to be bound by the same laws and the infinite is unseizable. As for the action of the universe and its significance, it escapes us altogether; if Self, God or Spirit there be, his dealings with the world and us are incomprehensible, offer no clue that we can follow. God and Nature and even ourselves move in a mysterious way which is only partially and at points intelligible, but as a whole escapes our comprehension. All the works of Maya look like the production of a suprarational magical Power which arranges things according to its wisdom or its phantasy, but a wisdom which is not ours and a phantasy which baffles our imagination. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 2.02, #KEYS
163:the process of unification, the perfecting our one's instrumental being, the help one needs to reach the goal :::
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 endeavor.
As you pursue this labor 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 movements of your being. Finally, these movements themselves should, by constant effort, attain their highest perfection. ... It is therefore of capital importance to become conscious of its presence in us [the psychic being], 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 perfection 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 realize. This discovery and realization 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.
~ The Mother, On Education, [T1],#KEYS
164:Our culture, the laws of our culture, are predicated on the idea that people are conscious. People have experience; people make decisions, and can be held responsible for them. There's a free will element to it. You can debate all that philosophically, and fine, but the point is that that is how we act, and that is the idea that our legal system is predicated on. There's something deep about it, because you're subject to the law, but the law is also limited by you, which is to say that in a well-functioning, properly-grounded democratic system, you have intrinsic value. That's the source of your rights. Even if you're a murderer, we have to say the law can only go so far because there's something about you that's divine.
Well, what does that mean? Partly it means that there's something about you that's conscious and capable of communicating, like you're a whole world unto yourself. You have that to contribute to everyone else, and that's valuable. You can learn new things, transform the structure of society, and invent a new way of dealing with the world. You're capable of all that. It's an intrinsic part of you, and that's associated with the idea that there's something about the logos that is necessary for the absolute chaos of the reality beyond experience to manifest itself as reality. That's an amazing idea because it gives consciousness a constitutive role in the cosmos. You can debate that, but you can't just bloody well brush it off. First of all, we are the most complicated things there are, that we know of, by a massive amount. We're so complicated that it's unbelievable. So there's a lot of cosmos out there, but there's a lot of cosmos in here, too, and which one is greater is by no means obvious, unless you use something trivial, like relative size, which really isn't a very sophisticated approach.
Whatever it is that is you has this capacity to experience reality and to transform it, which is a very strange thing. You can conceptualize the future in your imagination, and then you can work and make that manifest-participate in the process of creation. That's one way of thinking about it. That's why I think Genesis 1 relates the idea that human beings are made in the image of the divine-men and women, which is interesting, because feminists are always criticizing Christianity as being inexorably patriarchal. Of course, they criticize everything like that, so it's hardly a stroke of bloody brilliance. But I think it's an absolute miracle that right at the beginning of the document it says straightforwardly, with no hesitation whatsoever, that the divine spark which we're associating with the word, that brings forth Being, is manifest in men and women equally. That's a very cool thing. You got to think, like I said, do you actually take that seriously? Well, what you got to ask is what happens if you don't take it seriously, right? Read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. That's the best investigation into that tactic that's ever been produced. ~ Jordan Peterson, Biblical Series, 1,#KEYS
165:The Mother once described the characteristics of the unity-body, of the future supramental body, to a young Ashramite: 'You know, if there is something on that window-sill and if I [in a supramental body] want to take it, I stretch out my hand and it becomes - wow! - long, and I have the thing in my hand without even having to get up from my chair ... Physically, I shall be able to be here and there at the same time. I shall be able to communicate with many people at the same time. To have something in my hand, I'll just have to wish for it. I think about something and I want it and it is already in my hand. With this transformed body I shall be free of the fetters of ignorance, pain, of mortality and unconsciousness. I shall be able to do many things at the same time. The transparent, luminous, strong, light, elastic body won't need any material things to subsist on ... The body can even be lengthened if one wants it to become tall, or shrunk when one wants it to be small, in any circumstances ... There will be all kinds of changes and there will be powers without limit. And it won't be something funny. Of course, I am giving you somewhat childish examples to tease you and to show the difference. 'It will be a true being, perfect in proportion, very, very beautiful and strong, light, luminous or else transparent. It will have a supple and malleable body endowed with extraordinary capacities and able to do everything; a body without age, a creation of the New Consciousness or else a transformed body such as none has ever imagined ... All that is above man will be within its reach. It will be guided by the Truth alone and nothing less. That is what it is and more even than has ever been conceived.'895 This the Mother told in French to Mona Sarkar, who noted it down as faithfully as possible and read it out to her for verification. The supramental body will not only be omnipotent and omniscient, but also omnipresent. And immortal. Not condemned to a never ending monotonous immortality - which, again, is one of our human interpretations of immortality - but for ever existing in an ecstasy of inexhaustible delight in 'the Joy that surpasses all understanding.' Moment after moment, eternity after eternity. For in that state each moment is an eternity and eternity an ever present moment. If gross matter is not capable of being used as a permanent coating of the soul in the present phase of its evolution, then it certainly is not capable of being the covering of the supramental consciousness, to form the body that has, to some extent, been described above. This means that the crux of the process of supramental transformation lies in matter; the supramental world has to become possible in matter, which at present still is gross matter. - Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were supramentalized in their mental and vital, but their enormous problem was the supramentalization of the physical body, consisting of the gross matter of the Earth. As the Mother said: 'It is matter itself that must change so that the Supramental may manifest. A new kind of matter no longer corresponding with Mendeleyev's periodic table of the elements? Is that possible?
~ Georges Van Vrekhem,#KEYS
166:Can it be said in justification of one's past that whatever has happened in one's life had to happen?
The Mother: Obviously, what has happened had to happen; it would not have been, if it had not been intended. Even the mistakes that we have committed and the adversities that fell upon us had to be, because there was some necessity in them, some utility for our lives. But in truth these things cannot be explained mentally and should not be. For all that happened was necessary, not for any mental reason, but to lead us to something beyond what the mind imagines. But is there any need to explain after all? The whole universe explains everything at every moment and a particular thing happens because the whole universe is what it is. But this does not mean that we are bound over to a blind acquiescence in Nature's inexorable law. You can accept the past as a settled fact and perceive the necessity in it, and still you can use the experience it gave you to build up the power consciously to guide and shape your present and your future.
Is the time also of an occurrence arranged in the Divine Plan of things?
The Mother: All depends upon the plane from which one sees and speaks. There is a plane of divine consciousness in which all is known absolutely, and the whole plan of things foreseen and predetermined. That way of seeing lives in the highest reaches of the Supramental; it is the Supreme's own vision. But when we do not possess that consciousness, it is useless to speak in terms that hold good only in that region and are not our present effective way of seeing things. For at a lower level of consciousness nothing is realised or fixed beforehand; all is in the process of making. Here there are no settled facts, there is only the play of possibilities; out of the clash of possibilities is realised the thing that has to happen. On this plane we can choose and select; we can refuse one possibility and accept another; we can follow one path, turn away from another. And that we can do, even though what is actually happening may have been foreseen and predetermined in a higher plane.
The Supreme Consciousness knows everything beforehand, because everything is realised there in her eternity. But for the sake of her play and in order to carry out actually on the physical plane what is foreordained in her own supreme self, she moves here upon earth as if she did not know the whole story; she works as if it was a new and untried thread that she was weaving. It is this apparent forgetfulness of her own foreknowledge in the higher consciousness that gives to the individual in the active life of the world his sense of freedom and independence and initiative. These things in him are her pragmatic tools or devices, and it is through this machinery that the movements and issues planned and foreseen elsewhere are realised here.
It may help you to understand if you take the example of an actor. An actor knows the whole part he has to play; he has in his mind the exact sequence of what is to happen on the stage. But when he is on the stage, he has to appear as if he did not know anything; he has to feel and act as if he were experiencing all these things for the first time, as if it was an entirely new world with all its chance events and surprises that was unrolling before his eyes. 28th April ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
167:In our world error is continually the handmaid and pathfinder of Truth; for error is really a half-truth that stumbles because of its limitations; often it is Truth that wears a disguise in order to arrive unobserved near to its goal. Well, if it could always be, as it has been in the great period we are leaving, the faithful handmaid, severe, conscientious, clean-handed, luminous within its limits, a half-truth and not a reckless and presumptuous aberration.
A certain kind of Agnosticism is the final truth of all knowledge. For when we come to the end of whatever path, the universe appears as only a symbol or an appearance of an unknowable Reality which translates itself here into different systems of values, physical values, vital and sensational values, intellectual, ideal and spiritual values. The more That becomes real to us, the more it is seen to be always beyond defining thought and beyond formulating expression. "Mind attains not there, nor speech."3 And yet as it is possible to exaggerate, with the Illusionists, the unreality of the appearance, so it is possible to exaggerate the unknowableness of the Unknowable. When we speak of It as unknowable, we mean, really, that It escapes the grasp of our thought and speech, instruments which proceed always by the sense of difference and express by the way of definition; but if not knowable by thought, It is attainable by a supreme effort of consciousness. There is even a kind of Knowledge which is one with Identity and by which, in a sense, It can be known. Certainly, that Knowledge cannot be reproduced successfully in the terms of thought and speech, but when we have attained to it, the result is a revaluation of That in the symbols of our cosmic consciousness, not only in one but in all the ranges of symbols, which results in a revolution of our internal being and, through the internal, of our external life. Moreover, there is also a kind of Knowledge through which That does reveal itself by all these names and forms of phenomenal existence which to the ordinary intelligence only conceal It. It is this higher but not highest process of Knowledge to which we can attain by passing the limits of the materialistic formula and scrutinising Life, Mind and Supermind in the phenomena that are characteristic of them and not merely in those subordinate movements by which they link themselves to Matter.
The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existent and at a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them; where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally, all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity. And since in man there is the inalienable impulse of Nature towards self-realisation, no struggle of the intellect to limit the action of our capacities within a determined area can for ever prevail. When we have proved Matter and realised its secret capacities, the very knowledge which has found its convenience in that temporary limitation, must cry to us, like the Vedic Restrainers, 'Forth now and push forward also in other fields.'
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,#KEYS
168:This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of the spiritual intelligence, its tranquil daylight, gives place or subordinates itself to an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination of the spirit: a play of lightnings of spiritual truth and power breaks from above into the consciousness and adds to the calm and wide enlightenment and the vast descent of peace which characterise or accompany the action of the larger conceptual-spiritual principle, a fiery ardour of realisation and a rapturous ecstasy of knowledge. A downpour of inwardly visible Light very usually envelops this action; for it must be noted that, contrary to our ordinary conceptions, light is not primarily a material creation and the sense or vision of light accompanying the inner illumination is not merely a subjective visual image or a symbolic phenomenon: light is primarily a spiritual manifestation of the Divine Reality illuminative and creative; material light is a subsequent representation or conversion of it into Matter for the purposes of the material Energy. There is also in this descent the arrival of a greater dynamic, a golden drive, a luminous enthousiasmos of inner force and power which replaces the comparatively slow and deliberate process of the Higher Mind by a swift, sometimes a vehement, almost a violent impetus of rapid transformation.
But these two stages of the ascent enjoy their authority and can get their own united completeness only by a reference to a third level; for it is from the higher summits where dwells the intuitional being that they derive the knowledge which they turn into thought or sight and bring down to us for the mind's transmutation. Intuition is a power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by identity; for it is always something that leaps out direct from a concealed identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even without any such meeting, looks into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again, when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of things and beings and has a contactual union with it, then the spark, the flash or the blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths. This close perception is more than sight, more than conception: it is the result of a penetrating and revealing touch which carries in it sight and conception as part of itself or as its natural consequence. A concealed or slumbering identity, not yet recovering itself, still remembers or conveys by the intuition its own contents and the intimacy of its self-feeling and self-vision of things, its light of truth, its overwhelming and automatic certitude. ... Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of stable lightnings.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,#KEYS
169:In the process of this change there must be by the very necessity of the effort two stages of its working. First, there will be the personal endeavour of the human being, as soon as he becomes aware by his soul, mind, heart of this divine possibility and turns towards it as the true object of life, to prepare himself for it and to get rid of all in him that belongs to a lower working, of all that stands in the way of his opening to the spiritual truth and its power, so as to possess by this liberation his spiritual being and turn all his natural movements into free means of its self-expression. It is by this turn that the self-conscious Yoga aware of its aim begins: there is a new awakening and an upward change of the life motive. So long as there is only an intellectual, ethical and other self-training for the now normal purposes of life which does not travel beyond the ordinary circle of working of mind, life and body, we are still only in the obscure and yet unillumined preparatory Yoga of Nature; we are still in pursuit of only an ordinary human perfection. A spiritual desire of the Divine and of the divine perfection, of a unity with him in all our being and a spiritual perfection in all our nature, is the effective sign of this change, the precursory power of a great integral conversion of our being and living. By personal effort a precursory change, a preliminary conversion can be effected; it amounts to a greater or less spiritualising of our mental motives, our character and temperament, and a mastery, stilling or changed action of the vital and physical life. This converted subjectivity can be made the base of some communion or unity of the soul in mind with the Divine and some partial reflection of the divine nature in the mentality of the human being. That is as far as man can go by his unaided or indirectly aided effort, because that is an effort of mind and mind cannot climb beyond itself permanently: at most it arises to a spiritualised and idealised mentality. If it shoots up beyond that border, it loses hold of itself, loses hold of life, and arrives either at a trance of absorption or a passivity. A greater perfection can only be arrived at by a higher power entering in and taking up the whole action of the being. The second stage of this Yoga will therefore be a persistent giving up of all the action of the nature into the hands of this greater Power, a substitution of its influence, possession and working for the personal effort, until the Divine to whom we aspire becomes the direct master of the Yoga and effects the entire spiritual and ideal conversion of the being. Two rules there are that will diminish the difficulty and obviate the danger. One must reject all that comes from the ego, from vital desire, from the mere mind and its presumptuous reasoning incompetence, all that ministers to these agents of the Ignorance. One must learn to hear and follow the voice of the inmost soul, the direction of the Guru, the command of the Master, the working of the Divine Mother. Whoever clings to the desires and weaknesses of the flesh, the cravings and passions of the vital in its turbulent ignorance, the dictates of his personal mind unsilenced and unillumined by a greater knowledge, cannot find the true inner law and is heaping obstacles in the way of the divine fulfilment. Whoever is able to detect and renounce those obscuring agencies and to discern and follow the true Guide within and without will discover the spiritual law and reach the goal of the Yoga. A radical and total change of consciousness is not only the whole meaning but, in an increasing force and by progressive stages, the whole method of the integral Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Self-Perfection, The Integral Perfection [618],#KEYS
170:EVOCATION
Evocation is the art of dealing with magical beings or entities by various acts which create or contact them and allow one to conjure and command them with pacts and exorcism. These beings have a legion of names drawn from the demonology of many cultures: elementals, familiars, incubi, succubi, bud-wills, demons, automata, atavisms, wraiths, spirits, and so on. Entities may be bound to talismans, places, animals, objects, persons, incense smoke, or be mobile in the aether. It is not the case that such entities are limited to obsessions and complexes in the human mind. Although such beings customarily have their origin in the mind, they may be budded off and attached to objects and places in the form of ghosts, spirits, or "vibrations," or may exert action at a distance in the form of fetishes, familiars, or poltergeists. These beings consist of a portion of Kia or the life force attached to some aetheric matter, the whole of which may or may not be attached to ordinary matter.
Evocation may be further defined as the summoning or creation of such partial beings to accomplish some purpose. They may be used to cause change in oneself, change in others, or change in the universe. The advantages of using a semi-independent being rather than trying to effect a transformation directly by will are several: the entity will continue to fulfill its function independently of the magician until its life force dissipates. Being semi-sentient, it can adapt itself to a task in that a non-conscious simple spell cannot. During moments of the possession by certain entities the magician may be the recipient of inspirations, abilities, and knowledge not normally accessible to him.
Entities may be drawn from three sources - those which are discovered clairvoyantly, those whose characteristics are given in grimoires of spirits and demons, and those which the magician may wish to create himself.
In all cases establishing a relationship with the spirit follows a similar process of evocation. Firstly the attributes of the entity, its type, scope, name, appearance and characteristics must be placed in the mind or made known to the mind. Automatic drawing or writing, where a stylus is allowed to move under inspiration across a surface, may help to uncover the nature of a clairvoyantly discovered being. In the case of a created being the following procedure is used: the magician assembles the ingredients of a composite sigil of the being's desired attributes. For example, to create an elemental to assist him with divination, the appropriate symbols might be chosen and made into a sigil such as the one shown in figure 4.
A name and an image, and if desired, a characteristic number can also be selected for the elemental.
Secondly, the will and perception are focused as intently as possible (by some gnostic method) on the elemental's sigils or characteristics so that these take on a portion of the magician's life force and begin autonomous existence. In the case of preexisting beings, this operation serves to bind the entity to the magician's will.
This is customarily followed by some form of self-banishing, or even exorcism, to restore the magician's consciousness to normal before he goes forth.
An entity of a low order with little more than a singular task to perform can be left to fulfill its destiny with no further interference from its master. If at any time it is necessary to terminate it, its sigil or material basis should be destroyed and its mental image destroyed or reabsorbed by visualization. For more powerful and independent beings, the conjuration and exorcism must be in proportion to the power of the ritual which originally evoked them. To control such beings, the magicians may have to re-enter the gnostic state to the same depth as before in order to draw their power. ~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#KEYS
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As an inner equality increases and with it the sense of the true vital being waiting for the greater direction it has to serve, as the psychic call too increases in all the members of our nature, That to which the call is addressed begins to reveal itself, descends to take possession of the life and its energies and fills them with the height, intimacy, vastness of its presence and its purpose. In many, if not most, it manifests something of itself even before the equality and the open psychic urge or guidance are there. A call of the veiled psychic element oppressed by the mass of the outer ignorance and crying for deliverance, a stress of eager meditation and seeking for knowledge, a longing of the heart, a passionate will ignorant yet but sincere may break the lid that shuts off that Higher from this Lower Nature and open the floodgates. A little of the Divine Person may reveal itself or some Light, Power, Bliss, Love out of the Infinite. This may be a momentary revelation, a flash or a brief-lived gleam that soon withdraws and waits for the preparation of the nature; but also it may repeat itself, grow, endure. A long and large and comprehensive working will then have begun, sometimes luminous or intense, sometimes slow and obscure. A Divine Power comes in front at times and leads and compels or instructs and enlightens; at others it withdraws into the background and seems to leave the being to its own resources. All that is ignorant, obscure, perverted or simply imperfect and inferior in the being is raised up, perhaps brought to its acme, dealt with, corrected, exhausted, shown its own disastrous results, compelled to call for its own cessation or transformation or expelled as worthless or incorrigible from the nature. This cannot be a smooth and even process; alternations there are of day and night, illumination and darkness, calm and construction or battle and upheaval, the presence of the growing Divine Consciousness and its absence, heights of hope and abysses of despair, the clasp of the Beloved and the anguish of its absence, the overwhelming invasion, the compelling deceit, the fierce opposition, the disabling mockery of hostile Powers or the help and comfort and communion of the Gods and the Divine Messengers. A great and long revolution and churning of the ocean of Life with strong emergences of its nectar and its poison is enforced till all is ready and the increasing Descent finds a being, a nature prepared and conditioned for its complete rule and its all-encompassing presence. But if the equality and the psychic light and will are already there, then this process, though it cannot be dispensed with, can still be much lightened and facilitated: it will be rid of its worst dangers; an inner calm, happiness, confidence will support the steps through all the difficulties and trials of the transformation and the growing Force profiting by the full assent of the nature will rapidly diminish and eliminate the power of the opposing forces. A sure guidance and protection will be present throughout, sometimes standing in front, sometimes working behind the veil, and the power of the end will be already there even in the beginning and in the long middle stages of the great endeavour. For at all times the seeker will be aware of the Divine Guide and Protector or the working of the supreme Mother-Force; he will know that all is done for the best, the progress assured, the victory inevitable. In either case the process is the same and unavoidable, a taking up of the whole nature, of the whole life, of the internal and of the external, to reveal and handle and transform its forces and their movements under the pressure of a diviner Life from above, until all here has been possessed by greater spiritual powers and made an instrumentation of a spiritual action and a divine purpose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 179,#KEYS
172:Of course we do." Dresden's voice was cutting. "But you're thinking too small. Building humanity's greatest empire is like building the world's largest anthill. Insignificant. There is a civilization out there that built the protomolecule and hurled it at us over two billion years ago. They were already gods at that point. What have they become since then? With another two billion years to advance?"
With a growing dread, Holden listened to Dresden speak. This speech had the air of something spoken before. Perhaps many times. And it had worked. It had convinced powerful people. It was why Protogen had stealth ships from the Earth shipyards and seemingly limitless behind-the-scenes support.
"We have a terrifying amount of catching up to do, gentlemen," Dresden was saying. "But fortunately we have the tool of our enemy to use in doing it."
"Catching up?" a soldier to Holden's left said. Dresden nodded at the man and smiled.
"The protomolecule can alter the host organism at the molecular level; it can create genetic change on the fly. Not just DNA, but any stable replicatoR But it is only a machine. It doesn't think. It follows instructions. If we learn how to alter that programming, then we become the architects of that change."
Holden interrupted. "If it was supposed to wipe out life on Earth and replace it with whatever the protomolecule's creators wanted, why turn it loose?"
"Excellent question," Dresden said, holding up one finger like a college professor about to deliver a lecture. "The protomolecule doesn't come with a user's manual. In fact, we've never before been able to actually watch it carry out its program. The molecule requires significant mass before it develops enough processing power to fulfill its directives. Whatever they are."
Dresden pointed at the screens covered with data around them.
"We are going to watch it at work. See what it intends to do. How it goes about doing it. And, hopefully, learn how to change that program in the process."
"You could do that with a vat of bacteria," Holden said.
"I'm not interested in remaking bacteria," Dresden said.
"You're fucking insane," Amos said, and took another step toward Dresden. Holden put a hand on the big mechanic's shoulder.
"So," Holden said. "You figure out how the bug works, and then what?"
"Then everything. Belters who can work outside a ship without wearing a suit. Humans capable of sleeping for hundreds of years at a time flying colony ships to the stars. No longer being bound to the millions of years of evolution inside one atmosphere of pressure at one g, slaves to oxygen and water. We decide what we want to be, and we reprogram ourselves to be that. That's what the protomolecule gives us."
Dresden had stood back up as he'd delivered this speech, his face shining with the zeal of a prophet.
"What we are doing is the best and only hope of humanity's survival. When we go out there, we will be facing gods."
"And if we don't go out?" Fred asked. He sounded thoughtful.
"They've already fired a doomsday weapon at us once," Dresden said.
The room was silent for a moment. Holden felt his certainty slip. He hated everything about Dresden's argument, but he couldn't quite see his way past it. He knew in his bones that something about it was dead wrong, but he couldn't find the words. Naomi's voice startled him.
"Did it convince them?" she asked.
"Excuse me?" Dresden said.
"The scientists. The technicians. Everyone you needed to make it happen. They actually had to do this. They had to watch the video of people dying all over Eros. They had to design those radioactive murder chambers. So unless you managed to round up every serial killer in the solar system and send them through a postgraduate program, how did you do this?"
"We modified our science team to remove ethical restraints."
Half a dozen clues clicked into place in Holden's head. ~ James S A Corey, Leviathan Wakes,#KEYS
173:The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching the divine Being. In an ordinary Yoga one main power of being or one group of its powers is made the means, vehicle, path. In a synthetic Yoga all powers will be combined and included in the transmuting instrumentation.
In Hathayoga the instrument is the body and life. All the power of the body is stilled, collected, purified, heightened, concentrated to its utmost limits or beyond any limits by Asana and other physical processes; the power of the life too is similarly purified, heightened, concentrated by Asana and Pranayama. This concentration of powers is then directed towards that physical centre in which the divine consciousness sits concealed in the human body. The power of Life, Nature-power, coiled up with all its secret forces asleep in the lowest nervous plexus of the earth-being,-for only so much escapes into waking action in our normal operations as is sufficient for the limited uses of human life,-rises awakened through centre after centre and awakens, too, in its ascent and passage the forces of each successive nodus of our being, the nervous life, the heart of emotion and ordinary mentality, the speech, sight, will, the higher knowledge, till through and above the brain it meets with and it becomes one with the divine consciousness.
In Rajayoga the chosen instrument is the mind. our ordinary mentality is first disciplined, purified and directed towards the divine Being, then by a summary process of Asana and Pranayama the physical force of our being is stilled and concentrated, the life-force released into a rhythmic movement capable of cessation and concentrated into a higher power of its upward action, the mind, supported and strengthened by this greater action and concentration of the body and life upon which it rests, is itself purified of all its unrest and emotion and its habitual thought-waves, liberated from distraction and dispersion, given its highest force of concentration, gathered up into a trance of absorption. Two objects, the one temporal, the other eternal,are gained by this discipline. Mind-power develops in another concentrated action abnormal capacities of knowledge, effective will, deep light of reception, powerful light of thought-radiation which are altogether beyond the narrow range of our normal mentality; it arrives at the Yogic or occult powers around which there has been woven so much quite dispensable and yet perhaps salutary mystery. But the one final end and the one all-important gain is that the mind, stilled and cast into a concentrated trance, can lose itself in the divine consciousness and the soul be made free to unite with the divine Being.
The triple way takes for its chosen instruments the three main powers of the mental soul-life of the human being. Knowledge selects the reason and the mental vision and it makes them by purification, concentration and a certain discipline of a Goddirected seeking its means for the greatest knowledge and the greatest vision of all, God-knowledge and God-vision. Its aim is to see, know and be the Divine. Works, action selects for its instrument the will of the doer of works; it makes life an offering of sacrifice to the Godhead and by purification, concentration and a certain discipline of subjection to the divine Will a means for contact and increasing unity of the soul of man with the divine Master of the universe. Devotion selects the emotional and aesthetic powers of the soul and by turning them all Godward in a perfect purity, intensity, infinite passion of seeking makes them a means of God-possession in one or many relations of unity with the Divine Being. All aim in their own way at a union or unity of the human soul with the supreme Spirit.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Self-Perfection, The Principle of the Integral Yoga, 609,#KEYS
174:PRATYAHARA
PRATYAHARA is the first process in the mental part of our task. The previous practices, Asana, Pranayama, Yama, and Niyama, are all acts of the body, while mantra is connected with speech: Pratyahara is purely mental.
And what is Pratyahara? This word is used by different authors in different senses. The same word is employed to designate both the practice and the result. It means for our present purpose a process rather strategical than practical; it is introspection, a sort of general examination of the contents of the mind which we wish to control: Asana having been mastered, all immediate exciting causes have been removed, and we are free to think what we are thinking about.
A very similar experience to that of Asana is in store for us. At first we shall very likely flatter ourselves that our minds are pretty calm; this is a defect of observation. Just as the European standing for the first time on the edge of the desert will see nothing there, while his Arab can tell him the family history of each of the fifty persons in view, because he has learnt how to look, so with practice the thoughts will become more numerous and more insistent.
As soon as the body was accurately observed it was found to be terribly restless and painful; now that we observe the mind it is seen to be more restless and painful still. (See diagram opposite.)
A similar curve might be plotted for the real and apparent painfulness of Asana. Conscious of this fact, we begin to try to control it: "Not quite so many thoughts, please!" "Don't think quite so fast, please!" "No more of that kind of thought, please!" It is only then that we discover that what we thought was a school of playful porpoises is really the convolutions of the sea-serpent. The attempt to repress has the effect of exciting.
When the unsuspecting pupil first approaches his holy but wily Guru, and demands magical powers, that Wise One replies that he will confer them, points out with much caution and secrecy some particular spot on the pupil's body which has never previously attracted his attention, and says: "In order to obtain this magical power which you seek, all that is necessary is to wash seven times in the Ganges during seven days, being particularly careful to avoid thinking of that one spot." Of course the unhappy youth spends a disgusted week in thinking of little else.
It is positively amazing with what persistence a thought, even a whole train of thoughts, returns again and again to the charge. It becomes a positive nightmare. It is intensely annoying, too, to find that one does not become conscious that one has got on to the forbidden subject until one has gone right through with it. However, one continues day after day investigating thoughts and trying to check them; and sooner or later one proceeds to the next stage, Dharana, the attempt to restrain the mind to a single object.
Before we go on to this, however, we must consider what is meant by success in Pratyahara. This is a very extensive subject, and different authors take widely divergent views. One writer means an analysis so acute that every thought is resolved into a number of elements (see "The Psychology of Hashish," Section V, in Equinox II).
Others take the view that success in the practice is something like the experience which Sir Humphrey Davy had as a result of taking nitrous oxide, in which he exclaimed: "The universe is composed exclusively of ideas."
Others say that it gives Hamlet's feeling: "There's nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so," interpreted as literally as was done by Mrs. Eddy.
However, the main point is to acquire some sort of inhibitory power over the thoughts. Fortunately there is an unfailing method of acquiring this power. It is given in Liber III. If Sections 1 and 2 are practised (if necessary with the assistance of another person to aid your vigilance) you will soon be able to master the final section. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,#KEYS
175:To arrive then at this settled divine status must be the object of our concentration. The first step in concentration must be always to accustom the discursive mind to a settled unwavering pursuit of a single course of connected thought on a single subject and this it must do undistracted by all lures and alien calls on its attention. Such concentration is common enough in our ordinary life, but it becomes more difficult when we have to do it inwardly without any outward object or action on which to keep the mind; yet this inward concentration is what the seeker of knowledge must effect. Nor must it be merely the consecutive thought of the intellectual thinker, whose only object is to conceive and intellectually link together his conceptions. It is not, except perhaps at first, a process of reasoning that is wanted so much as a dwelling so far as possible on the fruitful essence of the idea which by the insistence of the soul's will upon it must yield up all the facets of its truth. Thus if it be the divine Love that is the subject of concentration, it is on the essence of the idea of God as Love that the mind should concentrate in such a way that the various manifestation of the divine Love should arise luminously, not only to the thought, but in the heart and being and vision of the Sadhaka. The thought may come first and the experience afterwards, but equally the experience may come first and the knowledge arise out of the experience. Afterwards the thing attained has to be dwelt on and more and more held till it becomes a constant experience and finally the Dharma or law of the being.
This is the process of concentrated meditation; but a more strenuous method is the fixing of the whole mind in concentration on the essence of the idea only, so as to reach not the thought-knowledge or the psychological experience of the subject, but the very essence of the thing behind the idea. In this process thought ceases and passes into the absorbed or ecstatic contemplation of the object or by a merging into it m an inner Samadhi. If this be the process followed, then subsequently the state into which we rise must still be called down to take possession of the lower being, to shed its light, power and bliss on our ordinary consciousness. For otherwise we may possess it, as many do, in the elevated condition or in the inward Samadhi, but we shall lose our hold of it when we awake or descend into the contacts of the world; and this truncated possession is not the aim of an integral Yoga.
A third process is neither at first to concentrate in a strenuous meditation on the one subject nor in a strenuous contemplation of the one object of thought-vision, but first to still the mind altogether. This may be done by various ways; one is to stand back from the mental action altogether not participating in but simply watching it until, tired of its unsanctioned leaping and running, it falls into an increasing and finally an absolute quiet. Another is to reject the thought-suggestions, to cast them away from the mind whenever they come and firmly hold to the peace of the being which really and always exists behind the trouble and riot of the mind. When this secret peace is unveiled, a great calm settles on the being and there comes usually with it the perception and experience of the all-pervading silent Brahman, everything else at first seeming to be mere form and eidolon. On the basis of this calm everything else may be built up in the knowledge and experience no longer of the external phenomena of things but of the deeper truth of the divine manifestation.
Ordinarily, once this state is obtained, strenuous concentration will be found no longer necessary. A free concentration of will using thought merely for suggestion and the giving of light to the lower members will take its place. This Will will then insist on the physical being, the vital existence, the heart and the mind remoulding themselves in the forms of the Divine which reveal themselves out of the silent Brahman. By swifter or slower degrees according to the previous preparation and purification of the members, they will be obliged with more or less struggle to obey the law of the will and its thought-suggestion, so that eventually the knowledge of the Divine takes possession of our consciousness on all its planes and the image of the Divine is formed in our human existence even as it was done by the old Vedic Sadhakas. For the integral Yoga this is the most direct and powerful discipline.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Integral Knowledge, Concentration,#KEYS
176:The ancient Mesopotamians and the ancient Egyptians had some very interesting, dramatic ideas about that. For example-very briefly-there was a deity known as Marduk. Marduk was a Mesopotamian deity, and imagine this is sort of what happened. As an empire grew out of the post-ice age-15,000 years ago, 10,000 years ago-all these tribes came together. These tribes each had their own deity-their own image of the ideal. But then they started to occupy the same territory. One tribe had God A, and one tribe had God B, and one could wipe the other one out, and then it would just be God A, who wins. That's not so good, because maybe you want to trade with those people, or maybe you don't want to lose half your population in a war. So then you have to have an argument about whose God is going to take priority-which ideal is going to take priority.
What seems to happen is represented in mythology as a battle of the gods in celestial space. From a practical perspective, it's more like an ongoing dialog. You believe this; I believe this. You believe that; I believe this. How are we going to meld that together? You take God A, and you take God B, and maybe what you do is extract God C from them, and you say, 'God C now has the attributes of A and B.' And then some other tribes come in, and C takes them over, too. Take Marduk, for example. He has 50 different names, at least in part, of the subordinate gods-that represented the tribes that came together to make the civilization. That's part of the process by which that abstracted ideal is abstracted. You think, 'this is important, and it works, because your tribe is alive, and so we'll take the best of both, if we can manage it, and extract out something, that's even more abstract, that covers both of us.'
I'll give you a couple of Marduk's interesting features. He has eyes all the way around his head. He's elected by all the other gods to be king God. That's the first thing. That's quite cool. They elect him because they're facing a terrible threat-sort of like a flood and a monster combined. Marduk basically says that, if they elect him top God, he'll go out and stop the flood monster, and they won't all get wiped out. It's a serious threat. It's chaos itself making its comeback. All the gods agree, and Marduk is the new manifestation. He's got eyes all the way around his head, and he speaks magic words. When he fights, he fights this deity called Tiamat. We need to know that, because the word 'Tiamat' is associated with the word 'tehom.' Tehom is the chaos that God makes order out of at the beginning of time in Genesis, so it's linked very tightly to this story. Marduk, with his eyes and his capacity to speak magic words, goes out and confronts Tiamat, who's like this watery sea dragon. It's a classic Saint George story: go out and wreak havoc on the dragon. He cuts her into pieces, and he makes the world out of her pieces. That's the world that human beings live in.
The Mesopotamian emperor acted out Marduk. He was allowed to be emperor insofar as he was a good Marduk. That meant that he had eyes all the way around his head, and he could speak magic; he could speak properly. We are starting to understand, at that point, the essence of leadership. Because what's leadership? It's the capacity to see what the hell's in front of your face, and maybe in every direction, and maybe the capacity to use your language properly to transform chaos into order. God only knows how long it took the Mesopotamians to figure that out. The best they could do was dramatize it, but it's staggeringly brilliant. It's by no means obvious, and this chaos is a very strange thing. This is a chaos that God wrestled with at the beginning of time.
Chaos is half psychological and half real. There's no other way to really describe it. Chaos is what you encounter when you're blown into pieces and thrown into deep confusion-when your world falls apart, when your dreams die, when you're betrayed. It's the chaos that emerges, and the chaos is everything it wants, and it's too much for you. That's for sure. It pulls you down into the underworld, and that's where the dragons are. All you've got at that point is your capacity to bloody well keep your eyes open, and to speak as carefully and as clearly as you can. Maybe, if you're lucky, you'll get through it that way and come out the other side. It's taken people a very long time to figure that out, and it looks, to me, that the idea is erected on the platform of our ancient ancestors, maybe tens of millions of years ago, because we seem to represent that which disturbs us deeply using the same system that we used to represent serpentile, or other, carnivorous predators. ~ Jordan Peterson, Biblical Series, 1,#KEYS
177:CHAPTER XIII
OF THE BANISHINGS: AND OF THE PURIFICATIONS.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one. The wand is not a wand if it has something sticking to it which is not an essential part of itself. If you wish to invoke Venus, you do not succeed if there are traces of Saturn mixed up with it.
That is a mere logical commonplace: in magick one must go much farther than this. One finds one's analogy in electricity. If insulation is imperfect, the whole current goes back to earth. It is useless to plead that in all those miles of wire there is only one-hundredth of an inch unprotected. It is no good building a ship if the water can enter, through however small a hole.
That first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.
If one littlest thought intrude upon the mind of the Mystic, his concentration is absolutely destroyed; and his consciousness remains on exactly the same level as the Stockbroker's. Even the smallest baby is incompatible with the virginity of its mother. If you leave even a single spirit within the circle, the effect of the conjuration will be entirely absorbed by it.> {101}
The Magician must therefore take the utmost care in the matter of purification, "firstly", of himself, "secondly", of his instruments, "thirdly", of the place of working. Ancient Magicians recommended a preliminary purification of from three days to many months. During this period of training they took the utmost pains with diet. They avoided animal food, lest the elemental spirit of the animal should get into their atmosphere. They practised sexual abstinence, lest they should be influenced in any way by the spirit of the wife. Even in regard to the excrements of the body they were equally careful; in trimming the hair and nails, they ceremonially destroyed> the severed portion. They fasted, so that the body itself might destroy anything extraneous to the bare necessity of its existence. They purified the mind by special prayers and conservations. They avoided the contamination of social intercourse, especially the conjugal kind; and their servitors were disciples specially chosen and consecrated for the work.
In modern times our superior understanding of the essentials of this process enables us to dispense to some extent with its external rigours; but the internal purification must be even more carefully performed. We may eat meat, provided that in doing so we affirm that we eat it in order to strengthen us for the special purpose of our proposed invocation.> {102}
By thus avoiding those actions which might excite the comment of our neighbours we avoid the graver dangers of falling into spiritual pride.
We have understood the saying: "To the pure all things are pure", and we have learnt how to act up to it. We can analyse the mind far more acutely than could the ancients, and we can therefore distinguish the real and right feeling from its imitations. A man may eat meat from self-indulgence, or in order to avoid the dangers of asceticism. We must constantly examine ourselves, and assure ourselves that every action is really subservient to the One Purpose.
It is ceremonially desirable to seal and affirm this mental purity by Ritual, and accordingly the first operation in any actual ceremony is bathing and robing, with appropriate words. The bath signifies the removal of all things extraneous to antagonistic to the one thought. The putting on of the robe is the positive side of the same operation. It is the assumption of the fame of mind suitable to that one thought.
A similar operation takes place in the preparation of every instrument, as has been seen in the Chapter devoted to that subject. In the preparation of theplace of working, the same considerations apply. We first remove from that place all objects; and we then put into it those objects, and only those {103} objects, which are necessary. During many days we occupy ourselves in this process of cleansing and consecration; and this again is confirmed in the actual ceremony.
The cleansed and consecrated Magician takes his cleansed and consecrated instruments into that cleansed and consecrated place, and there proceeds to repeat that double ceremony in the ceremony itself, which has these same two main parts. The first part of every ceremony is the banishing; the second, the invoking. The same formula is repeated even in the ceremony of banishing itself, for in the banishing ritual of the pentagram we not only command the demons to depart, but invoke the Archangels and their hosts to act as guardians of the Circle during our pre-occupation with the ceremony proper.
In more elaborate ceremonies it is usual to banish everything by name. Each element, each planet, and each sign, perhaps even the Sephiroth themselves; all are removed, including the very one which we wished to invoke, for that force ... ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,#KEYS
178: Sri Aurobindo writes here: "...Few and brief in their visits are the Bright Ones who are willing or permitted to succour." Why?
(1 "The Way", Cent. Vol. 17, p. 40.)
One must go and ask them! But there is a conclusion, the last sentences give a very clear explanation. It is said: "Nay, then, is immortality a plaything to be given lightly to a child, or the divine life a prize without effort or the crown for a weakling?" This comes back to the question why the adverse forces have the right to interfere, to harass you. But this is precisely the test necessary for your sincerity. If the way were very easy, everybody would start on the way, and if one could reach the goal without any obstacle and without any effort, everybody would reach the goal, and when one has come to the end, the situation would be the same as when one started, there would be no change. That is, the new world would be exactly what the old has been. It is truly not worth the trouble! Evidently a process of elimination is necessary so that only what is capable of manifesting the new life remains. This is the reason and there is no other, this is the best of reasons. And, you see, it is a tempering, it is the ordeal of fire, only that which can stand it remains absolutely pure; when everything has burnt down, there remains only the little ingot of pure gold. And it is like that. What puts things out very much in all this is the religious idea of fault, sin, redemption. But there is no arbitrary decision! On the contrary, for each one it is the best and most favourable conditions which are given. We were saying the other day that it is only his friends whom God treats with severity; you thought it was a joke, but it is true. It is only to those who are full of hope, who will pass through this purifying flame, that the conditions for attaining the maximum result are given. And the human mind is made in such a way that you may test this; when something extremely unpleasant happens to you, you may tell yourself, "Well, this proves I am worth the trouble of being given this difficulty, this proves there is something in me which can resist the difficulty", and you will notice that instead of tormenting yourself, you rejoice - you will be so happy and so strong that even the most unpleasant things will seem to you quite charming! This is a very easy experiment to make. Whatever the circumstance, if your mind is accustomed to look at it as something favourable, it will no longer be unpleasant for you. This is quite well known; as long as the mind refuses to accept a thing, struggles against it, tries to obstruct it, there are torments, difficulties, storms, inner struggles and all suffering. But the minute the mind says, "Good, this is what has to come, it is thus that it must happen", whatever happens, you are content. There are people who have acquired such control of their mind over their body that they feel nothing; I told you this the other day about certain mystics: if they think the suffering inflicted upon them is going to help them cross the stages in a moment and give them a sort of stepping stone to attain the Realisation, the goal they have put before them, union with the Divine, they no longer feel the suffering at all. Their body is as it were galvanised by the mental conception. This has happened very often, it is a very common experience among those who truly have enthusiasm. And after all, if one must for some reason or other leave one's body and take a new one, is it not better to make of one's death something magnificent, joyful, enthusiastic, than to make it a disgusting defeat? Those who cling on, who try by every possible means to delay the end even by a minute or two, who give you an example of frightful anguish, show that they are not conscious of their soul.... After all, it is perhaps a means, isn't it? One can change this accident into a means; if one is conscious one can make a beautiful thing of it, a very beautiful thing, as of everything. And note, those who do not fear it, who are not anxious, who can die without any sordidness are those who never think about it, who are not haunted all the time by this "horror" facing them which they must escape and which they try to push as far away from them as they can. These, when the occasion comes, can lift their head, smile and say, "Here I am."
It is they who have the will to make the best possible use of their life, it is they who say, "I shall remain here as long as it is necessary, to the last second, and I shall not lose one moment to realise my goal"; these, when the necessity comes, put up the best show. Why? - It is very simple, because they live in their ideal, the truth of their ideal; because that is the real thing for them, the very reason of their being, and in all things they can see this ideal, this reason of existence, and never do they come down into the sordidness of material life.
So, the conclusion:
One must never wish for death.
One must never will to die.
One must never be afraid to die.
And in all circumstances one must will to exceed oneself. ~ The Mother, Question and Answers, Volume-4, page no.353-355,#KEYS
179:[the sevenfold ignorance and the integral knowledge:]
We are ignorant of the Absolute which is the source of all being and becoming; we take partial facts of being, temporal relations of the becoming for the whole truth of existence,-that is the first, the original ignorance. We are ignorant of the spaceless, timeless, immobile and immutable Self; we take the constant mobility and mutation of the cosmic becoming in Time and Space for the whole truth of existence, -that is the second, the cosmic ignorance. We are ignorant of our universal self, the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, our infinite unity with all being and becoming; we take our limited egoistic mentality, vitality, corporeality for our true self and regard everything other than that as not-self,-that is the third, the egoistic ignorance. We are ignorant of our eternal becoming in Time; we take this little life in a small span of Time, in a petty field of Space, for our beginning, our middle and our end,-that is the fourth, the temporal ignorance. Even within this brief temporal becoming we are ignorant of our large and complex being, of that in us which is superconscient, subconscient, intraconscient, circumconscient to our surface becoming; we take that surface becoming with its small selection of overtly mentalised experiences for our whole existence,-that is the fifth, the psychological ignorance. We are ignorant of the true constitution of our becoming; we take the mind or life or body or any two of these or all three for our true principle or the whole account of what we are, losing sight of that which constitutes them and determines by its occult presence and is meant to determine sovereignly by its emergence their operations,-that is the sixth, the constitutional ignorance. As a result of all these ignorances, we miss the true knowledge, government and enjoyment of our life in the world; we are ignorant in our thought, will, sensations, actions, return wrong or imperfect responses at every point to the questionings of the world, wander in a maze of errors and desires, strivings and failures, pain and pleasure, sin and stumbling, follow a crooked road, grope blindly for a changing goal,-that is the seventh, the practical ignorance.
Our conception of the Ignorance will necessarily determine our conception of the Knowledge and determine, therefore, since our life is the Ignorance at once denying and seeking after the Knowledge, the goal of human effort and the aim of the cosmic endeavour. Integral knowledge will then mean the cancelling of the sevenfold Ignorance by the discovery of what it misses and ignores, a sevenfold self-revelation within our consciousness:- it will mean [1] the knowledge of the Absolute as the origin of all things; [2] the knowledge of the Self, the Spirit, the Being and of the cosmos as the Self's becoming, the becoming of the Being, a manifestation of the Spirit; [3] the knowledge of the world as one with us in the consciousness of our true self, thus cancelling our division from it by the separative idea and life of ego; [4] the knowledge of our psychic entity and its immortal persistence in Time beyond death and earth-existence; [5] the knowledge of our greater and inner existence behind the surface; [6] the knowledge of our mind, life and body in its true relation to the self within and the superconscient spiritual and supramental being above them; [7] the knowledge, finally, of the true harmony and true use of our thought, will and action and a change of all our nature into a conscious expression of the truth of the Spirit, the Self, the Divinity, the integral spiritual Reality.
But this is not an intellectual knowledge which can be learned and completed in our present mould of consciousness; it must be an experience, a becoming, a change of consciousness, a change of being. This brings in the evolutionary character of the Becoming and the fact that our mental ignorance is only a stage in our evolution. The integral knowledge, then, can only come by an evolution of our being and our nature, and that would seem to signify a slow process in Time such as has accompanied the other evolutionary transformations. But as against that inference there is the fact that the evolution has now become conscious and its method and steps need not be altogether of the same character as when it was subconscious in its process. The integral knowledge, since it must result from a change of consciousness, can be gained by a process in which our will and endeavour have a part, in which they can discover and apply their own steps and method: its growth in us can proceed by a conscious self-transformation. It is necessary then to see what is likely to be the principle of this new process of evolution and what are the movements of the integral knowledge that must necessarily emerge in it,-or, in other words, what is the nature of the consciousness that must be the base of the life divine and how that life may be expected to be formed or to form itself, to materialise or, as one might say, to realise.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, pg 680-683 [T1],#KEYS
180:What are these operations? They are not mere psychological self-analysis and self-observation. Such analysis, such observation are, like the process of right thought, of immense value and practically indispensable. They may even, if rightly pursued, lead to a right thought of considerable power and effectivity. Like intellectual discrimination by the process of meditative thought they will have an effect of purification; they will lead to self-knowledge of a certain kind and to the setting right of the disorders of the soul and the heart and even of the disorders of the understanding. Self-knowledge of all kinds is on the straight path to the knowledge of the real Self. The Upanishad tells us that the Self-existent has so set the doors of the soul that they turn outwards and most men look outward into the appearances of things; only the rare soul that is ripe for a calm thought and steady wisdom turns its eye inward, sees the Self and attains to immortality. To this turning of the eye inward psychological self-observation and analysis is a great and effective introduction.We can look into the inward of ourselves more easily than we can look into the inward of things external to us because there, in things outside us, we are in the first place embarrassed by the form and secondly we have no natural previous experience of that in them which is other than their physical substance. A purified or tranquillised mind may reflect or a powerful concentration may discover God in the world, the Self in Nature even before it is realised in ourselves, but this is rare and difficult. (2) And it is only in ourselves that we can observe and know the process of the Self in its becoming and follow the process by which it draws back into self-being. Therefore the ancient counsel, know thyself, will always stand as the first word that directs us towards the knowledge. Still, psychological self-knowledge is only the experience of the modes of the Self, it is not the realisation of the Self in its pure being.
The status of knowledge, then, which Yoga envisages is not merely an intellectual conception or clear discrimination of the truth, nor is it an enlightened psychological experience of the modes of our being. It is a "realisation", in the full sense of the word; it is the making real to ourselves and in ourselves of the Self, the transcendent and universal Divine, and it is the subsequent impossibility of viewing the modes of being except in the light of that Self and in their true aspect as its flux of becoming under the psychical and physical conditions of our world-existence. This realisation consists of three successive movements, internal vision, complete internal experience and identity.
This internal vision, dr.s.t.i, the power so highly valued by the ancient sages, the power which made a man a Rishi or Kavi and no longer a mere thinker, is a sort of light in the soul by which things unseen become as evident and real to it-to the soul and not merely to the intellect-as do things seen to the physical eye. In the physical world there are always two forms of knowledge, the direct and the indirect, pratyaks.a, of that which is present to the eyes, and paroks.a, of that which is remote from and beyond our vision. When the object is beyond our vision, we are necessarily obliged to arrive at an idea of it by inference, imagination, analogy, by hearing the descriptions of others who have seen it or by studying pictorial or other representations of it if these are available. By putting together all these aids we can indeed arrive at a more or less adequate idea or suggestive image of the object, but we do not realise the thing itself; it is not yet to us the grasped reality, but only our conceptual representation of a reality. But once we have seen it with the eyes,-for no other sense is adequate,-we possess, we realise; it is there secure in our satisfied being, part of ourselves in knowledge. Precisely the same rule holds good of psychical things and of he Self. We may hear clear and luminous teachings about the Self from philosophers or teachers or from ancient writings; we may by thought, inference, imagination, analogy or by any other available means attempt to form a mental figure or conception of it; we may hold firmly that conception in our mind and fix it by an entire and exclusive concentration;3 but we have not yet realised it, we have not seen God. It is only when after long and persistent concentration or by other means the veil of the mind is rent or swept aside, only when a flood of light breaks over the awakened mentality, jyotirmaya brahman, and conception gives place to a knowledge-vision in which the Self is as present, real, concrete as a physical object to the physical eye, that we possess in knowledge; for we have seen. After that revelation, whatever fadings of the light, whatever periods of darkness may afflict the soul, it can never irretrievably lose what it has once held. The experience is inevitably renewed and must become more frequent till it is constant; when and how soon depends on the devotion and persistence with which we insist on the path and besiege by our will or our love the hidden Deity.
(2) And it is only in ourselves that we can observe and know the 2 In one respect, however, it is easier, because in external things we are not so much hampered by the sense of the limited ego as in ourselves; one obstacle to the realisation of God is therefore removed.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Status of Knowledge,#KEYS
181:summary of the entire process of psychic awakening :::
You have asked what is the discipline to be followed in order to convert the mental seeking into a living spiritual experience. The first necessity is the practice of concentration of your consciousness within yourself. The ordinary human mind has an activity on the surface which veils the real Self. But there is another, a hidden consciousness within behind the surface one in which we can become aware of the real Self and of a larger deeper truth of nature, can realise the Self and liberate and transform the nature. To quiet the surface mind and begin to live within is the object of this concentration. Of this true consciousness other then the superficial there are two main centres, one in the heart (not the physical heart, but the cardiac centre in the middle of the chest), one in the head. The concentration in the heart opens within and by following this inward opening and going deep one becomes aware of the soul or psychic being, the divine element in the individual. This being unveiled begins to come forward, to govern the nature, to turn it an d all its movements towards the Truth, towards the Divine, and to call down into it all that is above. It brings the consciousness of the Presence, the dedication of the being to the Highest and invites the descent into our nature of a greater Force and Consciousness which is waiting above us. To concentrate in the heart centre with the offering of oneself to the Divine and the aspiration for this inward opening and for the Presence in the heart is the first way and, if it can be done, the natural beginning; for its result once obtained makes the spiritual path far more easy and safe than if one begins the other way.
That other way is the concentration in the head, in the mental centre. This, if it brings about the silence of the surface mind, opens up an inner, larger, deeper mind within which is more capable of receiving spiritual experience and spiritual knowledge. But once concentrated here one must open the silent mental consciousness upward to all that is above mind. After a time one feels the consciousness rising upward and it the end it rises beyond the lid which has so long kept it tied in the body and finds a centre above the head where it is liberated into the Infinite. There it behind to come into contact with the universal Self, the Divine Peace, Light, Power, Knowledge, Bliss, to enter into that and become that, to feel the descent of these things into the nature. To concentrate in the head with the aspiration for quietude in the mind and the realisation of the Self and Divine above is the second way of concentration. It is important, however, to remember that the concentration of the consciousness in the head is only a preparation for its rising to the centre above; otherwise, one may get shut up in one's own mind and its experiences or at best attain only to a reflection of the Truth above instead of rising into the spiritual transcendence to live there. For some the mental consciousness is easier, for some the concentration in the heart centre; some are capable of doing both alternatively - but to begin with the heart centre, if one can do it, is the more desirable.
The other side of the discipline is with regard to the activities of the nature, of the mind, of the life-self or vital, of the physical being. Here the principle is to accord the nature with the inner realisation so that one may not be divided into two discordant parts. There are here several disciplines or processes possible. One is to offer all the activities to the Divine and call for the inner guidance and the taking up of one's nature by a Higher Power. If there is the inward soul-opening, if the psychic being comes forward, then there is no great difficulty - there comes with it a psychic discrimination, a constant intimation, finally a governance which discloses and quietly and patiently removes all imperfections, bring the right mental and vital movements and reshapes the physical consciousness also. Another method is to stand back detached from the movements of the mind, life, physical being, to regard their activities as only a habitual formation of general Nature in the individual imposed on us by past workings, not as any part of our real being; in proportion as one succeeds in this, becomes detached, sees mind and its activities as not oneself, life and its activities as not oneself, the body and its activities as not oneself, one becomes aware of an inner Being within us - inner mental, inner vital, inner physical - silent, calm, unbound, unattached which reflects the true Self above and can be its direct representative; from this inner silent Being proceeds a rejection of all that is to be rejected, an acceptance only of what can be kept and transformed, an inmost Will to perfection or a call to the Divine Power to do at each step what is necessary for the change of the Nature. It can also open mind, life and body to the inmost psychic entity and its guiding influence or its direct guidance. In most cases these two methods emerge and work together and finally fuse into one. But one can being with either, the one that one feels most natural and easy to follow.
Finally, in all difficulties where personal effort is hampered, the help of the Teacher can intervene and bring above what is needed for the realisation or for the immediate step that is necessary.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, 6, {871},#KEYS
182:To what gods shall the sacrifice be offered? Who shall be invoked to manifest and protect in the human being this increasing godhead?
Agni first, for without him the sacrificial flame cannot burn on the altar of the soul. That flame of Agni is the seven-tongued power of the Will, a Force of God instinct with Knowledge. This conscious and forceful will is the immortal guest in our mortality, a pure priest and a divine worker, the mediator between earth and heaven. It carries what we offer to the higher Powers and brings back in return their force and light and joy into our humanity.
Indra, the Puissant next, who is the power of pure Existence self-manifested as the Divine Mind. As Agni is one pole of Force instinct with knowledge that sends its current upward from earth to heaven, so Indra is the other pole of Light instinct with force which descends from heaven to earth. He comes down into our world as the Hero with the shining horses and slays darkness and division with his lightnings, pours down the life-giving heavenly waters, finds in the trace of the hound, Intuition, the lost or hidden illuminations, makes the Sun of Truth mount high in the heaven of our mentality.
Surya, the Sun, is the master of that supreme Truth, - truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of process and act and movement and functioning. He is therefore the creator or rather the manifester of all things - for creation is out-bringing, expression by the Truth and Will - and the father, fosterer, enlightener of our souls. The illuminations we seek are the herds of this Sun who comes to us in the track of the divine Dawn and releases and reveals in us night-hidden world after world up to the highest Beatitude.
Of that beatitude Soma is the representative deity. The wine of his ecstasy is concealed in the growths of earth, in the waters of existence; even here in our physical being are his immortalising juices and they have to be pressed out and offered to all the gods; for in that strength these shall increase and conquer.
Each of these primary deities has others associated with him who fulfil functions that arise from his own. For if the truth of Surya is to be established firmly in our mortal nature, there are previous conditions that are indispensable; a vast purity and clear wideness destructive of all sin and crooked falsehood, - and this is Varuna; a luminous power of love and comprehension leading and forming into harmony all our thoughts, acts and impulses, - this is Mitra; an immortal puissance of clear-discerning aspiration and endeavour, - this is Aryaman; a happy spontaneity of the right enjoyment of all things dispelling the evil dream of sin and error and suffering, - this is Bhaga. These four are powers of the Truth of Surya. For the whole bliss of Soma to be established perfectly in our nature a happy and enlightened and unmaimed condition of mind, vitality and body are necessary. This condition is given to us by the twin Ashwins; wedded to the daughter of Light, drinkers of honey, bringers of perfect satisfactions, healers of maim and malady they occupy our parts of knowledge and parts of action and prepare our mental, vital and physical being for an easy and victorious ascension.
Indra, the Divine Mind, as the shaper of mental forms has for his assistants, his artisans, the Ribhus, human powers who by the work of sacrifice and their brilliant ascension to the high dwelling-place of the Sun have attained to immortality and help mankind to repeat their achievement. They shape by the mind Indra's horses, the chariot of the Ashwins, the weapons of the Gods, all the means of the journey and the battle. But as giver of the Light of Truth and as Vritra-slayer Indra is aided by the Maruts, who are powers of will and nervous or vital Force that have attained to the light of thought and the voice of self-expression. They are behind all thought and speech as its impellers and they battle towards the Light, Truth and Bliss of the supreme Consciousness.
There are also female energies; for the Deva is both Male and Female and the gods also are either activising souls or passively executive and methodising energies. Aditi, infinite Mother of the Gods, comes first; and there are besides five powers of the Truthconsciousness, - Mahi or Bharati, the vast Word that brings us all things out of the divine source; Ila, the strong primal word of the Truth who gives us its active vision; Saraswati, its streaming current and the word of its inspiration; Sarama, the Intuition, hound of heaven who descends into the cavern of the subconscient and finds there the concealed illuminations; Dakshina, whose function is to discern rightly, dispose the action and the offering and distribute in the sacrifice to each godhead its portion. Each god, too, has his female energy.
All this action and struggle and ascension is supported by Heaven our Father and Earth our Mother Parents of the Gods, who sustain respectively the purely mental and psychic and the physical consciousness. Their large and free scope is the condition of our achievement. Vayu, master of life, links them together by the mid-air, the region of vital force. And there are other deities, - Parjanya, giver of the rain of heaven; Dadhikravan, the divine war-horse, a power of Agni; the mystic Dragon of the Foundations; Trita Aptya who on the third plane of existence consummates our triple being; and more besides.
The development of all these godheads is necessary to our perfection. And that perfection must be attained on all our levels, - in the wideness of earth, our physical being and consciousness; in the full force of vital speed and action and enjoyment and nervous vibration, typified as the Horse which must be brought forward to upbear our endeavour; in the perfect gladness of the heart of emotion and a brilliant heat and clarity of the mind throughout our intellectual and psychical being; in the coming of the supramental Light, the Dawn and the Sun and the shining Mother of the herds, to transform all our existence; for so comes to us the possession of the Truth, by the Truth the admirable surge of the Bliss, in the Bliss infinite Consciousness of absolute being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns to the Mystic Fire, The Doctrine of the Mystics,#KEYS
183:The Two Paths Of Yoga :::
14 April 1929 - What are the dangers of Yoga? Is it especially dangerous to the people of the West? Someone has said that Yoga may be suitable for the East, but it has the effect of unbalancing the Western mind.
Yoga is not more dangerous to the people of the West than to those of the East. Everything depends upon the spirit with which you approach it. Yoga does become dangerous if you want it for your own sake, to serve a personal end. It is not dangerous, on the contrary, it is safety and security itself, if you go to it with a sense of its sacredness, always remembering that the aim is to find the Divine.
Dangers and difficulties come in when people take up Yoga not for the sake of the Divine, but because they want to acquire power and under the guise of Yoga seek to satisfy some ambition. if you cannot get rid of ambition, do not touch the thing. It is fire that burns.
There are two paths of Yoga, one of tapasya (discipline), and the other of surrender. The path of tapasya is arduous. Here you rely solely upon yourself, you proceed by your own strength. You ascend and achieve according to the measure of your force. There is always the danger of falling down. And once you fall, you lie broken in the abyss and there is hardly a remedy. The other path, the path of surrender, is safe and sure. It is here, however, that the Western people find their difficulty. They have been taught to fear and avoid all that threatens their personal independence. They have imbibed with their mothers' milk the sense of individuality. And surrender means giving up all that. In other words, you may follow, as Ramakrishna says, either the path of the baby monkey or that of the baby cat. The baby monkey holds to its mother in order to be carried about and it must hold firm, otherwise if it loses its grip, it falls. On the other hand, the baby cat does not hold to its mother, but is held by the mother and has no fear nor responsibility; it has nothing to do but to let the mother hold it and cry ma ma.
If you take up this path of surrender fully and sincerely, there is no more danger or serious difficulty. The question is to be sincere. If you are not sincere, do not begin Yoga. If you were dealing in human affairs, then you could resort to deception; but in dealing with the Divine there is no possibility of deception anywhere. You can go on the Path safely when you are candid and open to the core and when your only end is to realise and attain the Divine and to be moved by the Divine. There is another danger; it is in connection with the sex impulses. Yoga in its process of purification will lay bare and throw up all hidden impulses and desires in you. And you must learn not to hide things nor leave them aside, you have to face them and conquer and remould them. The first effect of Yoga, however, is to take away the mental control, and the hungers that lie dormant are suddenly set free, they rush up and invade the being. So long as this mental control has not been replaced by the Divine control, there is a period of transition when your sincerity and surrender will be put to the test. The strength of such impulses as those of sex lies usually in the fact that people take too much notice of them; they protest too vehemently and endeavour to control them by coercion, hold them within and sit upon them. But the more you think of a thing and say, "I don't want it, I don't want it", the more you are bound to it. What you should do is to keep the thing away from you, to dissociate from it, take as little notice of it as possible and, even if you happen to think of it, remain indifferent and unconcerned. The impulses and desires that come up by the pressure of Yoga should be faced in a spirit of detachment and serenity, as something foreign to yourself or belonging to the outside world. They should be offered to the Divine, so that the Divine may take them up and transmute them. If you have once opened yourself to the Divine, if the power of the Divine has once come down into you and yet you try to keep to the old forces, you prepare troubles and difficulties and dangers for yourself. You must be vigilant and see that you do not use the Divine as a cloak for the satisfaction of your desires. There are many self-appointed Masters, who do nothing but that. And then when you are off the straight path and when you have a little knowledge and not much power, it happens that you are seized by beings or entities of a certain type, you become blind instruments in their hands and are devoured by them in the end. Wherever there is pretence, there is danger; you cannot deceive God. Do you come to God saying, "I want union with you" and in your heart meaning "I want powers and enjoyments"? Beware! You are heading straight towards the brink of the precipice. And yet it is so easy to avoid all catastrophe. Become like a child, give yourself up to the Mother, let her carry you, and there is no more danger for you.
This does not mean that you have not to face other kinds of difficulties or that you have not to fight and conquer any obstacles at all. Surrender does not ensure a smooth and unruffled and continuous progression. The reason is that your being is not yet one, nor your surrender absolute and complete. Only a part of you surrenders; and today it is one part and the next day it is another. The whole purpose of the Yoga is to gather all the divergent parts together and forge them into an undivided unity. Till then you cannot hope to be without difficulties - difficulties, for example, like doubt or depression or hesitation. The whole world is full of the poison. You take it in with every breath. If you exchange a few words with an undesirable man or even if such a man merely passes by you, you may catch the contagion from him. It is sufficient for you to come near a place where there is plague in order to be infected with its poison; you need not know at all that it is there. You can lose in a few minutes what it has taken you months to gain. So long as you belong to humanity and so long as you lead the ordinary life, it does not matter much if you mix with the people of the world; but if you want the divine life, you will have to be exceedingly careful about your company and your environment.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
184:
Why do we forget our dreams?
Because you do not dream always at the same place. It is not always the same part of your being that dreams and it is not at the same place that you dream. If you were in conscious, direct, continuous communication with all the parts of your being, you would remember all your dreams. But very few parts of the being are in communication.
For example, you have a dream in the subtle physical, that is to say, quite close to the physical. Generally, these dreams occur in the early hours of the morning, that is between four and five o'clock, at the end of the sleep. If you do not make a sudden movement when you wake up, if you remain very quiet, very still and a little attentive - quietly attentive - and concentrated, you will remember them, for the communication between the subtle physical and the physical is established - very rarely is there no communication.
Now, dreams are mostly forgotten because you have a dream while in a certain state and then pass into another. For instance, when you sleep, your body is asleep, your vital is asleep, but your mind is still active. So your mind begins to have dreams, that is, its activity is more or less coordinated, the imagination is very active and you see all kinds of things, take part in extraordinary happenings.... After some time, all that calms down and the mind also begins to doze. The vital that was resting wakes up; it comes out of the body, walks about, goes here and there, does all kinds of things, reacts, sometimes fights, and finally eats. It does all kinds of things. The vital is very adventurous. It watches. When it is heroic it rushes to save people who are in prison or to destroy enemies or it makes wonderful discoveries. But this pushes back the whole mental dream very far behind. It is rubbed off, forgotten: naturally you cannot remember it because the vital dream takes its place. But if you wake up suddenly at that moment, you remember it. There are people who have made the experiment, who have got up at certain fixed hours of the night and when they wake up suddenly, they do remember. You must not move brusquely, but awake in the natural course, then you remember.
After a time, the vital having taken a good stroll, needs to rest also, and so it goes into repose and quietness, quite tired at the end of all kinds of adventures. Then something else wakes up. Let us suppose that it is the subtle physical that goes for a walk. It starts moving and begins wandering, seeing the rooms and... why, this thing that was there, but it has come here and that other thing which was in that room is now in this one, and so on. If you wake up without stirring, you remembeR But this has pushed away far to the back of the consciousness all the stories of the vital. They are forgotten and so you cannot recollect your dreams. But if at the time of waking up you are not in a hurry, you are not obliged to leave your bed, on the contrary you can remain there as long as you wish, you need not even open your eyes; you keep your head exactly where it was and you make yourself like a tranquil mirror within and concentrate there. You catch just a tiny end of the tail of your dream. You catch it and start pulling gently, without stirring in the least. You begin pulling quite gently, and then first one part comes, a little later another. You go backward; the last comes up first. Everything goes backward, slowly, and suddenly the whole dream reappears: "Ah, there! it was like that." Above all, do not jump up, do not stir; you repeat the dream to yourself several times - once, twice - until it becomes clear in all its details. Once that dream is settled, you continue not to stir, you try to go further in, and suddenly you catch the tail of something else. It is more distant, more vague, but you can still seize it. And here also you hang on, get hold of it and pull, and you see that everything changes and you enter another world; all of a sudden you have an extraordinary adventure - it is another dream. You follow the same process. You repeat the dream to yourself once, twice, until you are sure of it. You remain very quiet all the time. Then you begin to penetrate still more deeply into yourself, as though you were going in very far, very far; and again suddenly you see a vague form, you have a feeling, a sensation... like a current of air, a slight breeze, a little breath; and you say, "Well, well...." It takes a form, it becomes clear - and the third category comes. You must have a lot of time, a lot of patience, you must be very quiet in your mind and body, very quiet, and you can tell the story of your whole night from the end right up to the beginning.
Even without doing this exercise which is very long and difficult, in order to recollect a dream, whether it be the last one or the one in the middle that has made a violent impression on your being, you must do what I have said when you wake up: take particular care not even to move your head on the pillow, remain absolutely still and let the dream return.
Some people do not have a passage between one state and another, there is a little gap and so they leap from one to the other; there is no highway passing through all the states of being with no break of the consciousness. A small dark hole, and you do not remember. It is like a precipice across which one has to extend the consciousness. To build a bridge takes a very long time; it takes much longer than building a physical bridge.... Very few people want to and know how to do it. They may have had magnificent activities, they do not remember them or sometimes only the last, the nearest, the most physical activity, with an uncoordinated movement - dreams having no sense.
But there are as many different kinds of nights and sleep as there are different days and activities. There are not many days that are alike, each day is different. The days are not the same, the nights are not the same. You and your friends are doing apparently the same thing, but for each one it is very different. And each one must have his own procedure.
Why are two dreams never alike?
Because all things are different. No two minutes are alike in the universe and it will be so till the end of the universe, no two minutes will ever be alike. And men obstinately want to make rules! One must do this and not that.... Well! we must let people please themselves.
You could have put to me a very interesting question: "Why am I fourteen years old today?" Intelligent people will say: "It is because it is the fourteenth year since you were born." That is the answer of someone who believes himself to be very intelligent. But there is another reason. I shall tell this to you alone.... I have drowned you all sufficiently well! Now you must begin to learn swimming!
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 36?,#KEYS
185:The Supermind [Supramental consciousness] is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which is the foundation of our present natural or evolutionary existence and from which nature in us is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and world-knowledge and a right consciousness and the right use of our existence in the universe. The Supermind, because it is a truth-consciousness, has this knowledge inherent in it and this power of true existence; its course is straight and can go direct to its aim, its field is wide and can even be made illimitable. This is because its very nature is knowledge: it has not to acquire knowledge but possesses it in its own right; its steps are not from nescience or ignorance into some imperfect light, but from truth to greater truth, from right perception to deeper perception, from intuition to intuition, from illumination to utter and boundless luminousness, from growing widenesses to the utter vasts and to very infinitude. On its summits it possesses the divine omniscience and omnipotence, but even in an evolutionary movement of its own graded self-manifestation by which it would eventually reveal its own highest heights, it must be in its very nature essentially free from ignorance and error: it starts from truth and light and moves always in truth and light. As its knowledge is always true, so too its will is always true; it does not fumble in its handling of things or stumble in its paces. In the Supermind feeling and emotion do not depart from their truth, make no slips or mistakes, do not swerve from the right and the real, cannot misuse beauty and delight or twist away from a divine rectitude. In the Supermind sense cannot mislead or deviate into the grossnesses which are here its natural imperfections and the cause of reproach, distrust and misuse by our ignorance. Even an incomplete statement made by the Supermind is a truth leading to a further truth, its incomplete action a step towards completeness. All the life and action and leading of the Supermind is guarded in its very nature from the falsehoods and uncertainties that are our lot; it moves in safety towards its perfection. Once the truth-consciousness was established here on its own sure foundation, the evolution of divine life would be a progress in felicity, a march through light to Ananda. Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and the divine Nature. In its own plane it already and always exists and possesses its own essential law of being; it has not to be created or to emerge or evolve into existence out of involution in Matter or out of non-existence, as it might seem to the view of mind which itself seems to its own view to have so emerged from life and Matter or to have evolved out of an involution in life and Matter. The nature of Supermind is always the same, a being of knowledge, proceeding from truth to truth, creating or rather manifesting what has to be manifested by the power of a pre-existent knowledge, not by hazard but by a self-existent destiny in the being itself, a necessity of the thing in itself and therefore inevitable. Its -manifestation of the divine life will also be inevitable; its own life on its own plane is divine and, if Supermind descends upon the earth, it will bring necessarily the divine life with it and establish it here. Supermind is the grade of existence beyond mind, life and Matter and, as mind, life and Matter have manifested on the earth, so too must Supermind in the inevitable course of things manifest in this world of Matter. In fact, a supermind is already here but it is involved, concealed behind this manifest mind, life and Matter and not yet acting overtly or in its own power: if it acts, it is through these inferior powers and modified by their characters and so not yet recognisable. It is only by the approach and arrival of the descending Supermind that it can be liberated upon earth and reveal itself in the action of our material, vital and mental parts so that these lower powers can become portions of a total divinised activity of our whole being: it is that that will bring to us a completely realised divinity or the divine life. It is indeed so that life and mind involved in Matter have realised themselves here; for only what is involved can evolve, otherwise there could be no emergence. The manifestation of a supramental truth-consciousness is therefore the capital reality that will make the divine life possible. It is when all the movements of thought, impulse and action are governed and directed by a self-existent and luminously automatic truth-consciousness and our whole nature comes to be constituted by it and made of its stuff that the life divine will be complete and absolute. Even as it is, in reality though not in the appearance of things, it is a secret self-existent knowledge and truth that is working to manifest itself in the creation here. The Divine is already there immanent within us, ourselves are that in our inmost reality and it is this reality that we have to manifest; it is that which constitutes the urge towards the divine living and makes necessary the creation of the life divine even in this material existence. A manifestation of the Supermind and its truth-consciousness is then inevitable; it must happen in this world sooner or lateR But it has two aspects, a descent from above, an ascent from below, a self-revelation of the Spirit, an evolution in Nature. The ascent is necessarily an effort, a working of Nature, an urge or nisus on her side to raise her lower parts by an evolutionary or revolutionary change, conversion or transformation into the divine reality and it may happen by a process and progress or by a rapid miracle. The descent or self-revelation of the Spirit is an act of the supreme Reality from above which makes the realisation possible and it can appear either as the divine aid which brings about the fulfilment of the progress and process or as the sanction of the miracle. Evolution, as we see it in this world, is a slow and difficult process and, indeed, needs usually ages to reach abiding results; but this is because it is in its nature an emergence from inconscient beginnings, a start from nescience and a working in the ignorance of natural beings by what seems to be an unconscious force. There can be, on the contrary, an evolution in the light and no longer in the darkness, in which the evolving being is a conscious participant and cooperator, and this is precisely what must take place here. Even in the effort and progress from the Ignorance to Knowledge this must be in part if not wholly the endeavour to be made on the heights of the nature, and it must be wholly that in the final movement towards the spiritual change, realisation, transformation. It must be still more so when there is a transition across the dividing line between the Ignorance and the Knowledge and the evolution is from knowledge to greater knowledge, from consciousness to greater consciousness, from being to greater being. There is then no longer any necessity for the slow pace of the ordinary evolution; there can be rapid conversion, quick transformation after transformation, what would seem to our normal present mind a succession of miracles. An evolution on the supramental levels could well be of that nature; it could be equally, if the being so chose, a more leisurely passage of one supramental state or condition of things to something beyond but still supramental, from level to divine level, a building up of divine gradations, a free growth to the supreme Supermind or beyond it to yet undreamed levels of being, consciousness and Ananda.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, 558,#KEYS
186:How to Meditate
Deep meditation is a mental procedure that utilizes the nature of the mind to systematically bring the mind to rest. If the mind is given the opportunity, it will go to rest with no effort. That is how the mind works.
Indeed, effort is opposed to the natural process of deep meditation. The mind always seeks the path of least resistance to express itself. Most of the time this is by making more and more thoughts. But it is also possible to create a situation in the mind that turns the path of least resistance into one leading to fewer and fewer thoughts. And, very soon, no thoughts at all. This is done by using a particular thought in a particular way. The thought is called a mantra.
For our practice of deep meditation, we will use the thought - I AM. This will be our mantra.
It is for the sound that we will use I AM, not for the meaning of it.
The meaning has an obvious significance in English, and I AM has a religious meaning in the English Bible as well. But we will not use I AM for the meaning - only for the sound. We can also spell it AYAM. No meaning there, is there? Only the sound. That is what we want. If your first language is not English, you may spell the sound phonetically in your own language if you wish. No matter how we spell it, it will be the same sound. The power of the sound ...I AM... is great when thought inside. But only if we use a particular procedure. Knowing this procedure is the key to successful meditation. It is very simple. So simple that we will devote many pages here to discussing how to keep it simple, because we all have a tendency to make things more complicated. Maintaining simplicity is the key to right meditation.
Here is the procedure of deep meditation: While sitting comfortably with eyes closed, we'll just relax. We will notice thoughts, streams of thoughts. That is fine. We just let them go by without minding them. After about a minute, we gently introduce the mantra, ...I AM...
We think the mantra in a repetition very easily inside. The speed of repetition may vary, and we do not mind it. We do not intone the mantra out loud. We do not deliberately locate the mantra in any particular part of the body. Whenever we realize we are not thinking the mantra inside anymore, we come back to it easily. This may happen many times in a sitting, or only once or twice. It doesn't matter. We follow this procedure of easily coming back to the mantra when we realize we are off it for the predetermined time of our meditation session. That's it.
Very simple.
Typically, the way we will find ourselves off the mantra will be in a stream of other thoughts. This is normal. The mind is a thought machine, remember? Making thoughts is what it does. But, if we are meditating, as soon as we realize we are off into a stream of thoughts, no matter how mundane or profound, we just easily go back to the mantra.
Like that. We don't make a struggle of it. The idea is not that we have to be on the mantra all the time. That is not the objective. The objective is to easily go back to it when we realize we are off it. We just favor the mantra with our attention when we notice we are not thinking it. If we are back into a stream of other thoughts five seconds later, we don't try and force the thoughts out. Thoughts are a normal part of the deep meditation process. We just ease back to the mantra again. We favor it.
Deep meditation is a going toward, not a pushing away from. We do that every single time with the mantra when we realize we are off it - just easily favoring it. It is a gentle persuasion. No struggle. No fuss. No iron willpower or mental heroics are necessary for this practice. All such efforts are away from the simplicity of deep meditation and will reduce its effectiveness.
As we do this simple process of deep meditation, we will at some point notice a change in the character of our inner experience. The mantra may become very refined and fuzzy. This is normal. It is perfectly all right to think the mantra in a very refined and fuzzy way if this is the easiest. It should always be easy - never a struggle. Other times, we may lose track of where we are for a while, having no mantra, or stream of thoughts either. This is fine too. When we realize we have been off somewhere, we just ease back to the mantra again. If we have been very settled with the mantra being barely recognizable, we can go back to that fuzzy level of it, if it is the easiest. As the mantra refines, we are riding it inward with our attention to progressively deeper levels of inner silence in the mind. So it is normal for the mantra to become very faint and fuzzy. We cannot force this to happen. It will happen naturally as our nervous system goes through its many cycles ofinner purification stimulated by deep meditation. When the mantra refines, we just go with it. And when the mantra does not refine, we just be with it at whatever level is easy. No struggle. There is no objective to attain, except to continue the simple procedure we are describing here.
When and Where to Meditate
How long and how often do we meditate? For most people, twenty minutes is the best duration for a meditation session. It is done twice per day, once before the morning meal and day's activity, and then again before the evening meal and evening's activity.
Try to avoid meditating right after eating or right before bed.
Before meal and activity is the ideal time. It will be most effective and refreshing then. Deep meditation is a preparation for activity, and our results over time will be best if we are active between our meditation sessions. Also, meditation is not a substitute for sleep. The ideal situation is a good balance between meditation, daily activity and normal sleep at night. If we do this, our inner experience will grow naturally over time, and our outer life will become enriched by our growing inner silence.
A word on how to sit in meditation: The first priority is comfort. It is not desirable to sit in a way that distracts us from the easy procedure of meditation. So sitting in a comfortable chair with back support is a good way to meditate. Later on, or if we are already familiar, there can be an advantage to sitting with legs crossed, also with back support. But always with comfort and least distraction being the priority. If, for whatever reason, crossed legs are not feasible for us, we will do just fine meditating in our comfortable chair. There will be no loss of the benefits.
Due to commitments we may have, the ideal routine of meditation sessions will not always be possible. That is okay. Do the best you can and do not stress over it. Due to circumstances beyond our control, sometimes the only time we will have to meditate will be right after a meal, or even later in the evening near bedtime. If meditating at these times causes a little disruption in our system, we will know it soon enough and make the necessary adjustments. The main thing is that we do our best to do two meditations every day, even if it is only a short session between our commitments. Later on, we will look at the options we have to make adjustments to address varying outer circumstances, as well as inner experiences that can come up.
Before we go on, you should try a meditation. Find a comfortable place to sit where you are not likely to be interrupted and do a short meditation, say ten minutes, and see how it goes. It is a toe in the water.
Make sure to take a couple of minutes at the end sitting easily without doing the procedure of meditation. Then open your eyes slowly. Then read on here.
As you will see, the simple procedure of deep meditation and it's resulting experiences will raise some questions. We will cover many of them here.
So, now we will move into the practical aspects of deep meditation - your own experiences and initial symptoms of the growth of your own inner silence. ~ Yogani, Deep Meditation,#KEYS
187:Intuition And The Value Of Concentration :::
Mother, how can the faculty of intuition be developed?
... There are different kinds of intuition, and we carry these capacities within us. They are always active to some extent but we don't notice them because we don't pay enough attention to what is going on in us. Behind the emotions, deep within the being, in a consciousness seated somewhere near the level of the solar plexus, there is a sort of prescience, a kind of capacity for foresight, but not in the form of ideas: rather in the form of feelings, almost a perception of sensations. For instance, when one is going to decide to do something, there is sometimes a kind of uneasiness or inner refusal, and usually, if one listens to this deeper indication, one realises that it was justified. In other cases there is something that urges, indicates, insists - I am not speaking of impulses, you understand, of all the movements which come from the vital and much lower still - indications which are behind the feelings, which come from the affective part of the being; there too one can receive a fairly sure indication of the thing to be done. These are forms of intuition or of a higher instinct which can be cultivated by observation and also by studying the results. Naturally, it must be done very sincerely, objectively, without prejudice. If one wants to see things in a particular way and at the same time practise this observation, it is all useless. One must do it as if one were looking at what is happening from outside oneself, in someone else. It is one form of intuition and perhaps the first one that usually manifests. There is also another form but that one is much more difficult to observe because for those who are accustomed to think, to act by reason - not by impulse but by reason - to reflect before doing anything, there is an extremely swift process from cause to effect in the half-conscious thought which prevents you from seeing the line, the whole line of reasoning and so you don't think that it is a chain of reasoning, and that is quite deceptive. You have the impression of an intuition but it is not an intuition, it is an extremely rapid subconscious reasoning, which takes up a problem and goes straight to the conclusions. This must not be mistaken for intuition. In the ordinary functioning of the brain, intuition is something which suddenly falls like a drop of light. If one has the faculty, the beginning of a faculty of mental vision, it gives the impression of something coming from outside or above, like a little impact of a drop of light in the brain, absolutely independent of all reasoning. This is perceived more easily when one is able to silence one's mind, hold it still and attentive, arresting its usual functioning, as if the mind were changed into a kind of mirror turned towards a higher faculty in a sustained and silent attention. That too one can learn to do. One must learn to do it, it is a necessary discipline.
When you have a question to solve, whatever it may be, usually you concentrate your attention here (pointing between the eyebrows), at the centre just above the eyes, the centre of the conscious will. But then if you do that, you cannot be in contact with intuition. You can be in contact with the source of the will, of effort, even of a certain kind of knowledge, but in the outer, almost material field; whereas, if you want to contact the intuition, you must keep this (Mother indicates the forehead) completely immobile. Active thought must be stopped as far as possible and the entire mental faculty must form - at the top of the head and a little further above if possible - a kind of mirror, very quiet, very still, turned upwards, in silent, very concentrated attention. If you succeed, you can - perhaps not immediately - but you can have the perception of the drops of light falling upon the mirror from a still unknown region and expressing themselves as a conscious thought which has no connection with all the rest of your thought since you have been able to keep it silent. That is the real beginning of the intellectual intuition.
It is a discipline to be followed. For a long time one may try and not succeed, but as soon as one succeeds in making a mirror, still and attentive, one always obtains a result, not necessarily with a precise form of thought but always with the sensations of a light coming from above. And then, if one can receive this light coming from above without entering immediately into a whirl of activity, receive it in calm and silence and let it penetrate deep into the being, then after a while it expresses itself either as a luminous thought or as a very precise indication here (Mother indicates the heart), in this other centre.
Naturally, first these two faculties must be developed; then, as soon as there is any result, one must observe the result, as I said, and see the connection with what is happening, the consequences: see, observe very attentively what has come in, what may have caused a distortion, what one has added by way of more or less conscious reasoning or the intervention of a lower will, also more or less conscious; and it is by a very deep study - indeed, almost of every moment, in any case daily and very frequent - that one succeeds in developing one's intuition. It takes a long time. It takes a long time and there are ambushes: one can deceive oneself, take for intuitions subconscious wills which try to manifest, indications given by impulses one has refused to receive openly, indeed all sorts of difficulties. One must be prepared for that. But if one persists, one is sure to succeed.
And there comes a time when one feels a kind of inner guidance, something which is leading one very perceptibly in all that one does. But then, for the guidance to have its maximum power, one must naturally add to it a conscious surrender: one must be sincerely determined to follow the indication given by the higher force. If one does that, then... one saves years of study, one can seize the result extremely rapidly. If one also does that, the result comes very rapidly. But for that, it must be done with sincerity and... a kind of inner spontaneity. If one wants to try without this surrender, one may succeed - as one can also succeed in developing one's personal will and making it into a very considerable power - but that takes a very long time and one meets many obstacles and the result is very precarious; one must be very persistent, obstinate, persevering, and one is sure to succeed, but only after a great labour.
Make your surrender with a sincere, complete self-giving, and you will go ahead at full speed, you will go much faster - but you must not do this calculatingly, for that spoils everything! (Silence) Moreover, whatever you may want to do in life, one thing is absolutely indispensable and at the basis of everything, the capacity of concentrating the attention. If you are able to gather together the rays of attention and consciousness on one point and can maintain this concentration with a persistent will, nothing can resist it - whatever it may be, from the most material physical development to the highest spiritual one. But this discipline must be followed in a constant and, it may be said, imperturbable way; not that you should always be concentrated on the same thing - that's not what I mean, I mean learning to concentrate.
And materially, for studies, sports, all physical or mental development, it is absolutely indispensable. And the value of an individual is proportionate to the value of his attention.
And from the spiritual point of view it is still more important.
There is no spiritual obstacle which can resist a penetrating power of concentration. For instance, the discovery of the psychic being, union with the inner Divine, opening to the higher spheres, all can be obtained by an intense and obstinate power of concentration - but one must learn how to do it. There is nothing in the human or even in the superhuman field, to which the power of concentration is not the key. You can be the best athlete, you can be the best student, you can be an artistic, literary or scientific genius, you can be the greatest saint with that faculty. And everyone has in himself a tiny little beginning of it - it is given to everybody, but people do not cultivate it.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958,#KEYS
188:
Can a Yogi attain to a state of consciousness in which he can know all things, answer all questions, relating even to abstruse scientific problems, such as, for example, the theory of relativity?
Theoretically and in principle it is not impossible for a Yogi to know everything; all depends upon the Yogi.
But there is knowledge and knowledge. The Yogi does not know in the way of the mind. He does not know everything in the sense that he has access to all possible information or because he contains all the facts of the universe in his mind or because his consciousness is a sort of miraculous encyclopaedia. He knows by his capacity for a containing or dynamic identity with things and persons and forces. Or he knows because he lives in a plane of consciousness or is in contact with a consciousness in which there is the truth and the knowledge.
If you are in the true consciousness, the knowledge you have will also be of the truth. Then, too, you can know directly, by being one with what you know. If a problem is put before you, if you are asked what is to be done in a particular matter, you can then, by looking with enough attention and concentration, receive spontaneously the required knowledge and the true answer. It is not by any careful application of theory that you reach the knowledge or by working it out through a mental process. The scientific mind needs these methods to come to its conclusions. But the Yogi's knowledge is direct and immediate; it is not deductive. If an engineer has to find out the exact position for the building of an arch, the line of its curve and the size of its opening, he does it by calculation, collating and deducing from his information and data. But a Yogi needs none of these things; he looks, has the vision of the thing, sees that it is to be done in this way and not in another, and this seeing is his knowledge.
Although it may be true in a general way and in a certain sense that a Yogi can know all things and can answer all questions from his own field of vision and consciousness, yet it does not follow that there are no questions whatever of any kind to which he would not or could not answer. A Yogi who has the direct knowledge, the knowledge of the true truth of things, would not care or perhaps would find it difficult to answer questions that belong entirely to the domain of human mental constructions. It may be, he could not or would not wish to solve problems and difficulties you might put to him which touch only the illusion of things and their appearances. The working of his knowledge is not in the mind. If you put him some silly mental query of that character, he probably would not answer. The very common conception that you can put any ignorant question to him as to some super-schoolmaster or demand from him any kind of information past, present or future and that he is bound to answer, is a foolish idea. It is as inept as the expectation from the spiritual man of feats and miracles that would satisfy the vulgar external mind and leave it gaping with wonder.
Moreover, the term "Yogi" is very vague and wide. There are many types of Yogis, many lines or ranges of spiritual or occult endeavour and different heights of achievement, there are some whose powers do not extend beyond the mental level; there are others who have gone beyond it. Everything depends on the field or nature of their effort, the height to which they have arrived, the consciousness with which they have contact or into which they enter.
Do not scientists go sometimes beyond the mental plane? It is said that Einstein found his theory of relativity not through any process of reasoning, but through some kind of sudden inspiration. Has that inspiration anything to do with the Supermind?
The scientist who gets an inspiration revealing to him a new truth, receives it from the intuitive mind. The knowledge comes as a direct perception in the higher mental plane illumined by some other light still farther above. But all that has nothing to do with the action of Supermind and this higher mental level is far removed from the supramental plane. Men are too easily inclined to believe that they have climbed into regions quite divine when they have only gone above the average level. There are many stages between the ordinary human mind and the Supermind, many grades and many intervening planes. If an ordinary man were to get into direct contact even with one of these intermediate planes, he would be dazzled and blinded, would be crushed under the weight of the sense of immensity or would lose his balance; and yet it is not the Supermind.
Behind the common idea that a Yogi can know all things and answer all questions is the actual fact that there is a plane in the mind where the memory of everything is stored and remains always in existence. All mental movements that belong to the life of the earth are memorised and registered in this plane. Those who are capable of going there and care to take the trouble, can read in it and learn anything they choose. But this region must not be mistaken for the supramental levels. And yet to reach even there you must be able to silence the movements of the material or physical mind; you must be able to leave aside all your sensations and put a stop to your ordinary mental movements, whatever they are; you must get out of the vital; you must become free from the slavery of the body. Then only you can enter into that region and see. But if you are sufficiently interested to make this effort, you can arrive there and read what is written in the earth's memory.
Thus, if you go deep into silence, you can reach a level of consciousness on which it is not impossible for you to receive answers to all your questions. And if there is one who is consciously open to the plenary truth of the supermind, in constant contact with it, he can certainly answer any question that is worth an answer from the supramental Light. The queries put must come from some sense of the truth and reality behind things. There are many questions and much debated problems that are cobwebs woven of mere mental abstractions or move on the illusory surface of things. These do not pertain to real knowledge; they are a deformation of knowledge, their very substance is of the ignorance. Certainly the supramental knowledge may give an answer, its own answer, to the problems set by the mind's ignorance; but it is likely that it would not be at all satisfactory or perhaps even intelligible to those who ask from the mental level. You must not expect the supramental to work in the way of the mind or demand that the knowledge in truth should be capable of being pieced together with the half-knowledge in ignorance. The scheme of the mind is one thing, but Supermind is quite another and it would no longer be supramental if it adapted itself to the exigencies of the mental scheme. The two are incommensurable and cannot be put together.
When the consciousness has attained to supramental joys, does it no longer take interest in the things of the mind?
The supramental does not take interest in mental things in the same way as the mind. It takes its own interest in all the movements of the universe, but it is from a different point of view and with a different vision. The world presents to it an entirely different appearance; there is a reversal of outlook and everything is seen from there as other than what it seems to the mind and often even the opposite. Things have another meaning; their aspect, their motion and process, everything about them, are watched with other eyes. Everything here is followed by the supermind; the mind movements and not less the vital, the material movements, all the play of the universe have for it a very deep interest, but of another kind. It is about the same difference as that between the interest taken in a puppet-play by one who holds the strings and knows what the puppets are to do and the will that moves them and that they can do only what it moves them to do, and the interest taken by another who observes the play but sees only what is happening from moment to moment and knows nothing else. The one who follows the play and is outside its secret has a stronger, an eager and passionate interest in what will happen and he gives an excited attention to its unforeseen or dramatic events; the other, who holds the strings and moves the show, is unmoved and tranquil. There is a certain intensity of interest which comes from ignorance and is bound up with illusion, and that must disappear when you are out of the ignorance. The interest that human beings take in things founds itself on the illusion; if that were removed, they would have no interest at all in the play; they would find it dry and dull. That is why all this ignorance, all this illusion has lasted so long; it is because men like it, because they cling to it and its peculiar kind of appeal that it endures.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931, 93?
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189:[The Gods and Their Worlds]
[...] According to traditions and occult schools, all these zones of realities, these planes of realities have got different names; they have been classified in a different way, but there is an essential analogy, and if you go back far enough into the traditions, you see only the words changing according to the country and the language. Even now, the experiences of Western occultists and those of Eastern occultists offer great similarities. All who set out on the discovery of these invisible worlds and make a report of what they saw, give a very similar description, whether they be from here or there; they use different words, but the experience is very similar and the handling of forces is the same.
This knowledge of the occult worlds is based on the existence of subtle bodies and of subtle worlds corresponding to those bodies. They are what the psychological method calls "states of consciousness", but these states of consciousness really correspond to worlds. The occult procedure consists then in being aware of these various inner states of being or subtle bodies and in becoming sufficiently a master of them so as to be able to go out of them successively, one after another. There is indeed a whole scale of subtleties, increasing or decreasing according to the direction in which you go, and the occult procedure consists in going out of a denser body into a subtler body and so on again, up to the most ethereal regions. You go, by successive exteriorisations, into bodies or worlds more and more subtle. It is somewhat as if every time you passed into another dimension. The fourth dimension of the physicists is nothing but the scientific transcription of an occult knowledge. To give another image, one can say that the physical body is at the centre - it is the most material, the densest and also the smallest - and the inner bodies, more subtle, overflow more and more the central physical body; they pass through it, extending themselves farther and farther, like water evaporating from a porous vase and forming a kind of steam all around. And the greater the subtlety, the more the extension tends to unite with that of the universe: one ends by universalising oneself. And it is altogether a concrete process which gives an objective experience of invisible worlds and even enables one to act in these worlds.
There are, then, only a very small number of people in the West who know that these gods are not merely subjective and imaginary - more or less wildly imaginary - but that they correspond to a universal truth.
All these regions, all these domains are filled with beings who exist, each in its own domain, and if you are awake and conscious on a particular plane - for instance, if on going out of a more material body you awake on some higher plane, you have the same relation with the things and people of that plane as you had with the things and people of the material world. That is to say, there exists an entirely objective relation that has nothing to do with the idea you may have of these things. Naturally, the resemblance is greater and greater as you approach the physical world, the material world, and there even comes a time when the one region has a direct action upon the other. In any case, in what Sri Aurobindo calls the overmental worlds, you will find a concrete reality absolutely independent of your personal experience; you go back there and again find the same things, with the differences that have occurred during your absence. And you have relations with those beings that are identical with the relations you have with physical beings, with this difference that the relation is more plastic, supple and direct - for example, there is the capacity to change the external form, the visible form, according to the inner state you are in. But you can make an appointment with someone and be at the appointed place and find the same being again, with certain differences that have come about during your absence; it is entirely concrete with results entirely concrete.
One must have at least a little of this experience in order to understand these things. Otherwise, those who are convinced that all this is mere human imagination and mental formation, who believe that these gods have such and such a form because men have thought them to be like that, and that they have certain defects and certain qualities because men have thought them to be like that - all those who say that God is made in the image of man and that he exists only in human thought, all these will not understand; to them this will appear absolutely ridiculous, madness. One must have lived a little, touched the subject a little, to know how very concrete the thing is.
Naturally, children know a good deal if they have not been spoilt. There are so many children who return every night to the same place and continue to live the life they have begun there. When these faculties are not spoilt with age, you can keep them with you. At a time when I was especially interested in dreams, I could return exactly to a place and continue a work that I had begun: supervise something, for example, set something in order, a work of organisation or of discovery, of exploration. You go until you reach a certain spot, as you would go in life, then you take a rest, then you return and begin again - you begin the work at the place where you left off and you continue it. And you perceive that there are things which are quite independent of you, in the sense that changes of which you are not at all the author, have taken place automatically during your absence.
But for this, you must live these experiences yourself, you must see them yourself, live them with sufficient sincerity and spontaneity in order to see that they are independent of any mental formation. For you can do the opposite also, and deepen the study of the action of mental formation upon events. This is very interesting, but it is another domain. And this study makes you very careful, very prudent, because you become aware of how far you can delude yourself. So you must study both, the dream and the occult reality, in order to see what is the essential difference between the two. The one depends upon us; the other exists in itself; entirely independent of the thought that we have of it.
When you have worked in that domain, you recognise in fact that once a subject has been studied and something has been learnt mentally, it gives a special colour to the experience; the experience may be quite spontaneous and sincere, but the simple fact that the subject was known and studied lends a particular quality. Whereas if you had learnt nothing about the question, if you knew nothing at all, the transcription would be completely spontaneous and sincere when the experience came; it would be more or less adequate, but it would not be the outcome of a previous mental formation.
Naturally, this occult knowledge or this experience is not very frequent in the world, because in those who do not have a developed inner life, there are veritable gaps between the external consciousness and the inmost consciousness; the linking states of being are missing and they have to be constructed. So when people enter there for the first time, they are bewildered, they have the impression they have fallen into the night, into nothingness, into non-being!
I had a Danish friend, a painter, who was like that. He wanted me to teach him how to go out of the body; he used to have interesting dreams and thought that it would be worth the trouble to go there consciously. So I made him "go out" - but it was a frightful thing! When he was dreaming, a part of his mind still remained conscious, active, and a kind of link existed between this active part and his external being; then he remembered some of his dreams, but it was a very partial phenomenon. And to go out of one's body means to pass gradually through all the states of being, if one does the thing systematically. Well, already in the subtle physical, one is almost de-individualised, and when one goes farther, there remains nothing, for nothing is formed or individualised.
Thus, when people are asked to meditate or told to go within, to enter into themselves, they are in agony - naturally! They have the impression that they are vanishing. And with reason: there is nothing, no consciousness!
These things that appear to us quite natural and evident, are, for people who know nothing, wild imagination. If, for example, you transplant these experiences or this knowledge to the West, well, unless you have been frequenting the circles of occultists, they stare at you with open eyes. And when you have turned your back, they hasten to say, "These people are cranks!" Now to come back to the gods and conclude. It must be said that all those beings who have never had an earthly existence - gods or demons, invisible beings and powers - do not possess what the Divine has put into man: the psychic being. And this psychic being gives to man true love, charity, compassion, a deep kindness, which compensate for all his external defects.
In the gods there is no fault because they live according to their own nature, spontaneously and without constraint: as gods, it is their manner of being. But if you take a higher point of view, if you have a higher vision, a vision of the whole, you see that they lack certain qualities that are exclusively human. By his capacity of love and self-giving, man can have as much power as the gods and even more, when he is not egoistic, when he has surmounted his egoism.
If he fulfils the required condition, man is nearer to the Supreme than the gods are. He can be nearer. He is not so automatically, but he has the power to be so, the potentiality.
If human love manifested itself without mixture, it would be all-powerful. Unfortunately, in human love there is as much love of oneself as of the one loved; it is not a love that makes you forget yourself. - 4 November 1958
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, 355
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190:The Science of Living
To know oneself and to control oneself
AN AIMLESS life is always a miserable life.
Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life.
Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others.
But whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realised unless you have realised perfection in yourself.
To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their respective activities. You must learn to distinguish these different parts one from another, so that you may become clearly aware of the origin of the movements that occur in you, the many impulses, reactions and conflicting wills that drive you to action. It is an assiduous study which demands much perseverance and sincerity. For man's nature, especially his mental nature, has a spontaneous tendency to give a favourable explanation for everything he thinks, feels, says and does. It is only by observing these movements with great care, by bringing them, as it were, before the tribunal of our highest ideal, with a sincere will to submit to its judgment, that we can hope to form in ourselves a discernment that never errs. For if we truly want to progress and acquire the capacity of knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, what we are truly created for, what we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is opposed to it. In this way, little by little, all the parts, all the elements of our being can be organised into a homogeneous whole around our psychic centre. This work of unification requires much time to be brought to some degree of perfection. Therefore, in order to accomplish it, we must arm ourselves with patience and endurance, with a determination to prolong our life as long as necessary for the success of our endeavour.
As you pursue this labour of purification and unification, you must at the same time take great care to perfect the external and instrumental part of your being. When the higher truth manifests, it must find in you a mind that is supple and rich enough to be able to give the idea that seeks to express itself a form of thought which preserves its force and clarity. This thought, again, when it seeks to clothe itself in words, must find in you a sufficient power of expression so that the words reveal the thought and do not deform it. And the formula in which you embody the truth should be manifested in all your feelings, all your acts of will, all your actions, in all the movements of your being. Finally, these movements themselves should, by constant effort, attain their highest perfection.
All this can be realised by means of a fourfold discipline, the general outline of which is given here. The four aspects of the discipline do not exclude each other, and can be followed at the same time; indeed, this is preferable. The starting-point is what can be called the psychic discipline. We give the name "psychic" to the psychological centre of our being, the seat within us of the highest truth of our existence, that which can know this truth and set it in movement. It is therefore of capital importance to become conscious of its presence in us, to concentrate on this presence until it becomes a living fact for us and we can identify ourselves with it.
In various times and places many methods have been prescribed for attaining this perception and ultimately achieving this identification. Some methods are psychological, some religious, some even mechanical. In reality, everyone has to find the one which suits him best, and if one has an ardent and steadfast aspiration, a persistent and dynamic will, one is sure to meet, in one way or another - outwardly through reading and study, inwardly through concentration, meditation, revelation and experience - the help one needs to reach the goal. Only one thing is absolutely indispensable: the will to discover and to realise. This discovery and realisation should be the primary preoccupation of our being, the pearl of great price which we must acquire at any cost. Whatever you do, whatever your occupations and activities, the will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must be always living and present behind all that you do, all that you feel, all that you think.
To complement this movement of inner discovery, it would be good not to neglect the development of the mind. For the mental instrument can equally be a great help or a great hindrance. In its natural state the human mind is always limited in its vision, narrow in its understanding, rigid in its conceptions, and a constant effort is therefore needed to widen it, to make it more supple and profound. So it is very necessary to consider everything from as many points of view as possible. Towards this end, there is an exercise which gives great suppleness and elevation to the thought. It is as follows: a clearly formulated thesis is set; against it is opposed its antithesis, formulated with the same precision. Then by careful reflection the problem must be widened or transcended until a synthesis is found which unites the two contraries in a larger, higher and more comprehensive idea.
Many other exercises of the same kind can be undertaken; some have a beneficial effect on the character and so possess a double advantage: that of educating the mind and that of establishing control over the feelings and their consequences. For example, you must never allow your mind to judge things and people, for the mind is not an instrument of knowledge; it is incapable of finding knowledge, but it must be moved by knowledge. Knowledge belongs to a much higher domain than that of the human mind, far above the region of pure ideas. The mind has to be silent and attentive to receive knowledge from above and manifest it. For it is an instrument of formation, of organisation and action, and it is in these functions that it attains its full value and real usefulness.
There is another practice which can be very helpful to the progress of the consciousness. Whenever there is a disagreement on any matter, such as a decision to be taken, or an action to be carried out, one must never remain closed up in one's own conception or point of view. On the contrary, one must make an effort to understand the other's point of view, to put oneself in his place and, instead of quarrelling or even fighting, find the solution which can reasonably satisfy both parties; there always is one for men of goodwill.
Here we must mention the discipline of the vital. The vital being in us is the seat of impulses and desires, of enthusiasm and violence, of dynamic energy and desperate depressions, of passions and revolts. It can set everything in motion, build and realise; but it can also destroy and mar everything. Thus it may be the most difficult part to discipline in the human being. It is a long and exacting labour requiring great patience and perfect sincerity, for without sincerity you will deceive yourself from the very outset, and all endeavour for progress will be in vain. With the collaboration of the vital no realisation seems impossible, no transformation impracticable. But the difficulty lies in securing this constant collaboration. The vital is a good worker, but most often it seeks its own satisfaction. If that is refused, totally or even partially, the vital gets vexed, sulks and goes on strike. Its energy disappears more or less completely and in its place leaves disgust for people and things, discouragement or revolt, depression and dissatisfaction. At such moments it is good to remain quiet and refuse to act; for these are the times when one does stupid things and in a few moments one can destroy or spoil the progress that has been made during months of regular effort. These crises are shorter and less dangerous for those who have established a contact with their psychic being which is sufficient to keep alive in them the flame of aspiration and the consciousness of the ideal to be realised. They can, with the help of this consciousness, deal with their vital as one deals with a rebellious child, with patience and perseverance, showing it the truth and light, endeavouring to convince it and awaken in it the goodwill which has been veiled for a time. By means of such patient intervention each crisis can be turned into a new progress, into one more step towards the goal. Progress may be slow, relapses may be frequent, but if a courageous will is maintained, one is sure to triumph one day and see all difficulties melt and vanish before the radiance of the truth-consciousness.
Lastly, by means of a rational and discerning physical education, we must make our body strong and supple enough to become a fit instrument in the material world for the truth-force which wants to manifest through us.
In fact, the body must not rule, it must obey. By its very nature it is a docile and faithful servant. Unfortunately, it rarely has the capacity of discernment it ought to have with regard to its masters, the mind and the vital. It obeys them blindly, at the cost of its own well-being. The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance of the body and create in it fatigue, exhaustion and disease. It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the psychic centre of the being. The body has a wonderful capacity of adaptation and endurance. It is able to do so many more things than one usually imagines. If, instead of the ignorant and despotic masters that now govern it, it is ruled by the central truth of the being, you will be amazed at what it is capable of doing. Calm and quiet, strong and poised, at every minute it will be able to put forth the effort that is demanded of it, for it will have learnt to find rest in action and to recuperate, through contact with the universal forces, the energies it expends consciously and usefully. In this sound and balanced life a new harmony will manifest in the body, reflecting the harmony of the higher regions, which will give it perfect proportions and ideal beauty of form. And this harmony will be progressive, for the truth of the being is never static; it is a perpetual unfolding of a growing perfection that is more and more total and comprehensive. As soon as the body has learnt to follow this movement of progressive harmony, it will be possible for it to escape, through a continuous process of transformation, from the necessity of disintegration and destruction. Thus the irrevocable law of death will no longer have any reason to exist.
When we reach this degree of perfection which is our goal, we shall perceive that the truth we seek is made up of four major aspects: Love, Knowledge, Power and Beauty. These four attributes of the Truth will express themselves spontaneously in our being. The psychic will be the vehicle of true and pure love, the mind will be the vehicle of infallible knowledge, the vital will manifest an invincible power and strength and the body will be the expression of a perfect beauty and harmony.
Bulletin, November 1950
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS
191:One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, was drawn by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone.
The descriptions, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend.
The Chapters, headed 'Fairy Sylvie' and 'Bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for 'Aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing.
It was in 1874, I believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story.
As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to me--who knows how?--with a transitory suddenness that left me no choice but either to record them then and there, or to abandon them to oblivion. Sometimes one could trace to their source these random flashes of thought--as being suggested by the book one was reading, or struck out from the 'flint' of one's own mind by the 'steel' of a friend's chance remark but they had also a way of their own, of occurring, a propos of nothing --specimens of that hopelessly illogical phenomenon, 'an effect without a cause.' Such, for example, was the last line of 'The Hunting of the Snark,' which came into my head (as I have already related in 'The Theatre' for April, 1887) quite suddenly, during a solitary walk: and such, again, have been passages which occurred in dreams, and which I cannot trace to any antecedent cause whatever. There are at least two instances of such dream-suggestions in this book--one, my Lady's remark, 'it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does', the other, Eric Lindon's badinage about having been in domestic service.
And thus it came to pass that I found myself at last in possession of a huge unwieldy mass of litterature--if the reader will kindly excuse the spelling --which only needed stringing together, upon the thread of a consecutive story, to constitute the book I hoped to write. Only! The task, at first, seemed absolutely hopeless, and gave me a far clearer idea, than I ever had before, of the meaning of the word 'chaos': and I think it must have been ten years, or more, before I had succeeded in classifying these odds-and-ends sufficiently to see what sort of a story they indicated: for the story had to grow out of the incidents, not the incidents out of the story I am telling all this, in no spirit of egoism, but because I really believe that some of my readers will be interested in these details of the 'genesis' of a book, which looks so simple and straight-forward a matter, when completed, that they might suppose it to have been written straight off, page by page, as one would write a letter, beginning at the beginning; and ending at the end.
It is, no doubt, possible to write a story in that way: and, if it be not vanity to say so, I believe that I could, myself,--if I were in the unfortunate position (for I do hold it to be a real misfortune) of being obliged to produce a given amount of fiction in a given time,--that I could 'fulfil my task,' and produce my 'tale of bricks,' as other slaves have done. One thing, at any rate, I could guarantee as to the story so produced--that it should be utterly commonplace, should contain no new ideas whatever, and should be very very weary reading!
This species of literature has received the very appropriate name of 'padding' which might fitly be defined as 'that which all can write and none can read.' That the present volume contains no such writing I dare not avow: sometimes, in order to bring a picture into its proper place, it has been necessary to eke out a page with two or three extra lines : but I can honestly say I have put in no more than I was absolutely compelled to do.
My readers may perhaps like to amuse themselves by trying to detect, in a given passage, the one piece of 'padding' it contains. While arranging the 'slips' into pages, I found that the passage was 3 lines too short. I supplied the deficiency, not by interpolating a word here and a word there, but by writing in 3 consecutive lines. Now can my readers guess which they are?
A harder puzzle if a harder be desired would be to determine, as to the Gardener's Song, in which cases (if any) the stanza was adapted to the surrounding text, and in which (if any) the text was adapted to the stanza.
Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature--at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it come's is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune. I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story--I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it--but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen storybooks have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'--is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
Hence it is that, in 'Sylvie and Bruno,' I have striven with I know not what success to strike out yet another new path: be it bad or good, it is the best I can do. It is written, not for money, and not for fame, but in the hope of supplying, for the children whom I love, some thoughts that may suit those hours of innocent merriment which are the very life of Childhood; and also in the hope of suggesting, to them and to others, some thoughts that may prove, I would fain hope, not wholly out of harmony with the graver cadences of Life.
If I have not already exhausted the patience of my readers, I would like to seize this opportunity perhaps the last I shall have of addressing so many friends at once of putting on record some ideas that have occurred to me, as to books desirable to be written--which I should much like to attempt, but may not ever have the time or power to carry through--in the hope that, if I should fail (and the years are gliding away very fast) to finish the task I have set myself, other hands may take it up.
First, a Child's Bible. The only real essentials of this would be, carefully selected passages, suitable for a child's reading, and pictures. One principle of selection, which I would adopt, would be that Religion should be put before a child as a revelation of love--no need to pain and puzzle the young mind with the history of crime and punishment. (On such a principle I should, for example, omit the history of the Flood.) The supplying of the pictures would involve no great difficulty: no new ones would be needed : hundreds of excellent pictures already exist, the copyright of which has long ago expired, and which simply need photo-zincography, or some similar process, for their successful reproduction. The book should be handy in size with a pretty attractive looking cover--in a clear legible type--and, above all, with abundance of pictures, pictures, pictures!
Secondly, a book of pieces selected from the Bible--not single texts, but passages of from 10 to 20 verses each--to be committed to memory. Such passages would be found useful, to repeat to one's self and to ponder over, on many occasions when reading is difficult, if not impossible: for instance, when lying awake at night--on a railway-journey --when taking a solitary walk-in old age, when eyesight is failing or wholly lost--and, best of all, when illness, while incapacitating us for reading or any other occupation, condemns us to lie awake through many weary silent hours: at such a time how keenly one may realise the truth of David's rapturous cry "O how sweet are thy words unto my throat: yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!"
I have said 'passages,' rather than single texts, because we have no means of recalling single texts: memory needs links, and here are none: one may have a hundred texts stored in the memory, and not be able to recall, at will, more than half-a-dozen--and those by mere chance: whereas, once get hold of any portion of a chapter that has been committed to memory, and the whole can be recovered: all hangs together.
Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages--enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.
These two books of sacred, and secular, passages for memory--will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts. Let me say this, in better words than my own, by copying a passage from that most interesting book, Robertson's Lectures on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Lecture XLIX. "If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps."
Fourthly, a "Shakespeare" for girls: that is, an edition in which everything, not suitable for the perusal of girls of (say) from 10 to 17, should be omitted. Few children under 10 would be likely to understand or enjoy the greatest of poets: and those, who have passed out of girlhood, may safely be left to read Shakespeare, in any edition, 'expurgated' or not, that they may prefer: but it seems a pity that so many children, in the intermediate stage, should be debarred from a great pleasure for want of an edition suitable to them. Neither Bowdler's, Chambers's, Brandram's, nor Cundell's 'Boudoir' Shakespeare, seems to me to meet the want: they are not sufficiently 'expurgated.' Bowdler's is the most extraordinary of all: looking through it, I am filled with a deep sense of wonder, considering what he has left in, that he should have cut anything out! Besides relentlessly erasing all that is unsuitable on the score of reverence or decency, I should be inclined to omit also all that seems too difficult, or not likely to interest young readers. The resulting book might be slightly fragmentary: but it would be a real treasure to all British maidens who have any taste for poetry.
If it be needful to apologize to any one for the new departure I have taken in this story--by introducing, along with what will, I hope, prove to be acceptable nonsense for children, some of the graver thoughts of human life--it must be to one who has learned the Art of keeping such thoughts wholly at a distance in hours of mirth and careless ease. To him such a mixture will seem, no doubt, ill-judged and repulsive. And that such an Art exists I do not dispute: with youth, good health, and sufficient money, it seems quite possible to lead, for years together, a life of unmixed gaiety--with the exception of one solemn fact, with which we are liable to be confronted at any moment, even in the midst of the most brilliant company or the most sparkling entertainment. A man may fix his own times for admitting serious thought, for attending public worship, for prayer, for reading the Bible: all such matters he can defer to that 'convenient season', which is so apt never to occur at all: but he cannot defer, for one single moment, the necessity of attending to a message, which may come before he has finished reading this page,' this night shalt thy soul be required of thee.'
The ever-present sense of this grim possibility has been, in all ages, 1 an incubus that men have striven to shake off. Few more interesting subjects of enquiry could be found, by a student of history, than the various weapons that have been used against this shadowy foe. Saddest of all must have been the thoughts of those who saw indeed an existence beyond the grave, but an existence far more terrible than annihilation--an existence as filmy, impalpable, all but invisible spectres, drifting about, through endless ages, in a world of shadows, with nothing to do, nothing to hope for, nothing to love! In the midst of the gay verses of that genial 'bon vivant' Horace, there stands one dreary word whose utter sadness goes to one's heart. It is the word 'exilium' in the well-known passage
Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium
Versatur urna serius ocius
Sors exitura et nos in aeternum
Exilium impositura cymbae.
Yes, to him this present life--spite of all its weariness and all its sorrow--was the only life worth having: all else was 'exile'! Does it not seem almost incredible that one, holding such a creed, should ever have smiled?
And many in this day, I fear, even though believing in an existence beyond the grave far more real than Horace ever dreamed of, yet regard it as a sort of 'exile' from all the joys of life, and so adopt Horace's theory, and say 'let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'
We go to entertainments, such as the theatre--I say 'we', for I also go to the play, whenever I get a chance of seeing a really good one and keep at arm's length, if possible, the thought that we may not return alive. Yet how do you know--dear friend, whose patience has carried you through this garrulous preface that it may not be your lot, when mirth is fastest and most furious, to feel the sharp pang, or the deadly faintness, which heralds the final crisis--to see, with vague wonder, anxious friends bending over you to hear their troubled whispers perhaps yourself to shape the question, with trembling lips, "Is it serious?", and to be told "Yes: the end is near" (and oh, how different all Life will look when those words are said!)--how do you know, I say, that all this may not happen to you, this night?
And dare you, knowing this, say to yourself "Well, perhaps it is an immoral play: perhaps the situations are a little too 'risky', the dialogue a little too strong, the 'business' a little too suggestive.
I don't say that conscience is quite easy: but the piece is so clever, I must see it this once! I'll begin a stricter life to-morrow." To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow!
"Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says,
'Sorrow for sin God's judgement stays!'
Against God's Spirit he lies; quite stops Mercy with insult; dares, and drops,
Like a scorch'd fly, that spins in vain
Upon the axis of its pain,
Then takes its doom, to limp and crawl,
Blind and forgot, from fall to fall."
Let me pause for a moment to say that I believe this thought, of the possibility of death--if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life--that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds'--but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man--and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
One other matter may perhaps seem to call for apology--that I should have treated with such entire want of sympathy the British passion for 'Sport', which no doubt has been in by-gone days, and is still, in some forms of it, an excellent school for hardihood and for coolness in moments of danger.
But I am not entirely without sympathy for genuine 'Sport': I can heartily admire the courage of the man who, with severe bodily toil, and at the risk of his life, hunts down some 'man-eating' tiger: and I can heartily sympathize with him when he exults in the glorious excitement of the chase and the hand-to-hand struggle with the monster brought to bay. But I can but look with deep wonder and sorrow on the hunter who, at his ease and in safety, can find pleasure in what involves, for some defenceless creature, wild terror and a death of agony: deeper, if the hunter be one who has pledged himself to preach to men the Religion of universal Love: deepest of all, if it be one of those 'tender and delicate' beings, whose very name serves as a symbol of Love--'thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women'--whose mission here is surely to help and comfort all that are in pain or sorrow!
'Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.' ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Growth is often a painful process. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 2:Enlightenment is a destructive process. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 3:Gratitude is what starts the receiving process. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 4:Creativity is not an impulse, but a process. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 5:Peace is a process, a way of solving problems ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 6:Patience is being at peace with the process of life ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 7:We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 8:So I've seen life as one long learning process. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 9:Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 10:Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 11:Truth is more in the process than in the result. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 12:Forgiveness rarely happens all at once; it is a process. ~ aimee-davies, @wisdomtrove 13:A piece of the miracle process has been reserved for each of us ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 14:Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 15:I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 16:The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 17:Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 18:so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 19:That's what makes great products. It's not process-it's content. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 20:The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 21:Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 22:The thought process can never be complete without articulation. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 23:Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 24:I am simply a human being who is fascinated by the life process. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 25:Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 26:Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 27:Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 28:A & 29:Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause? ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 30:We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 31:Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 32:So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 33:I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove 34:Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 35:Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 36:Every experience I have benefits me. I am in the process of positive change. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 37:Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 38:Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 39:Asking is the first step in the Creative Process, so make it a habit to ask. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 40:Feel exhilarated by this whole process. You want to be high, happy, in tune. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 41:Liberation is a natural process and in the long run, inevitable. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 42:Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 43:The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 44:Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-sr, @wisdomtrove 45:I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 46:Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 47:The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 48:the grief process, which is the necessary acknowledgment of pain and loss. ~ sonja-lyubomirsky, @wisdomtrove 49:It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 50:Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 51:A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 52:Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 53:Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 54:Christians aren't finished products. We're God's sons and daughters in process. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 55:Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 56:Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 57:The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 58:The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 59:The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process. It really is fundamental. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove 60:Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 61:Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress. ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove 62:The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It's a process, not an event. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 63:Indeed the inscrutable One is out of the reach of every rational process. ~ pseudo-dionysius-the-areopagite, @wisdomtrove 64:The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 65:Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 66:You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 67:Any process of lasting growth is always uncomfortable. That’s why we talk about growing pains. ~ aimee-davies, @wisdomtrove 68:I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 69:Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 70:I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 71:We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 72:Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 73:A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove 74:Education doesn't cease when you leave college or leave the university. Education is a lifetime process. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 75:Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 76:Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 77:Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 78:The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 79:I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 80:Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive. ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove 81:The process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove 82:The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 83:If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you'd see you are a totally determined being. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 84:Happiness is like coke ‚it’s something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 85:Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 86:Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 87:Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove 88:Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 89:Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998) ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 90:The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 91:Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 92:You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieveing it you become someone worth becoming. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 93:Wholehearted living is not a onetime choice. It is a process. In fact, I believe it's the journey of a lifetime. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 94:Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 95:I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 96:Process your e-mail and other in-boxes at regular and predetermined intervals. Do not multitask. Twice a day only. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 97:Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 98:I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 99:The ultimate importance is not what you do, it's how you do it—the state of consciousness brought to the process. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 100:Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non- ending process in all dimensions of richness. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 101:Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 102:The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 103:It doesn't make sense that the process of accumulating experience and wisdom during this lifetime is ultimately futile. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 104:The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 105:What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 106:For most people this is not a conscious process, it's an inner pull that takes place, that simply draws them there. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 107:Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 108:Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 109:The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 110:The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ? ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 111:We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 112:Everything you do counts forever. You are an expression of the whole process of creation; you are a cocreator. ~ barbara-marx-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 113:Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 114:The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 115:Matter begins evolving back to Spirit and, when it's reached, the whole process begins over again for the billionth time. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 116:The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 117:If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 118:Just the simple process of letting go of negative thoughts will allow your natural state of health to emerge within you. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 119:Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 120:The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove 121:Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 122:A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 123:Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 124:This process of self-discovery is scientific and the invariable rule of science has to be applied - experiment and observe. ~ barry-long, @wisdomtrove 125:Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 126:Magnetizing things to ourselves is a natural process, but what are we magnetizing towards ourselves, is what we're giving out. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 127:To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 128:God isn't a noun but a process... a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 129:Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 130:Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 131:We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 132:Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 133:He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 134:The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 135:The process of quitting smoking doesn't end with the last cigarette. It's not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 136:The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 137:A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 138:A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 139:Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 140:Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 141:More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 142:We struggle with the right words to describe the design process at Apple. But it is very much about designing and prototyping and making. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove 143:The physical is external reality. The mental is our thought process - an intermediate reality. And the vital is the reality behind both. ~ barry-long, @wisdomtrove 144:Partnership is not a posture but a process-a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to common tasks. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 145:Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 146:I think every part of our lives begins at an energetic level. Like creativity. You can't separate anything from that archetypal process. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 147:The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 148:Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 149:Even though he was here, she couldn't quite process it. She squeered her eyes shut before opening them again. Yep, still there. Amazing. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 150:I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 151:Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 152:Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 153:Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 154:Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 155:To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 156:No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 157:Perhaps, the good and the beautiful are the same, and must be investigated by one and the same process; and in like manner the base and the evil. ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove 158:pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence ~ frida-kahlo, @wisdomtrove 159:The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove 160:A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 161:If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 162:I think every part of our lives begins at an energetic level. Like creativity. You can't separate anything from that archetypal process. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 163:The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 164:It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive or at least a partial sense of it. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 165:Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 166:Self-discovery is a process of dissolution and creation. Dissolution means envelopment in eternity. Creation is bringing into focus new awareness ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 167:We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 168:You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 169:I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove 170:One of the greatest struggles of the healing process is to forgive both yourself and others and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 171:We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 172:The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 173:Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 174:We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture‚Äîand, in the process, we don' allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 175:What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 176:As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 177:In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 178:Mindfulness: a simple and direct practice of moment-to-moment observation of the mind-body process through calm and focused awareness without judgment. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 179:The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 180:A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 181:Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move. ~ robert-h-schuller, @wisdomtrove 182:Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 183:We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 184:One of the greatest struggles of the healing process is to forgive both yourself and others and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 185:When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 186:Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 187:Meditation is the process by which we go about deepening our attention and awareness, refining them, and putting them to greater practical use in our lives. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 188:Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 189:The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 190:Awareness cannot be at the end of a process because the very striving, and the process itself, is arising and appearing in the Awareness which is timelessly present. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 191:I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 192:We need to update our spiritual ideas so that we conceive of awakening as a perpetual process of evolution, rather than an end-driven dash for ultimate salvation. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 193:When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 194:Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 195:A great many of those who & 196:It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment. ~ sonja-lyubomirsky, @wisdomtrove 197:Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and the mind out of the mind. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 198:If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer science, law, medicine, or the arts. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 199:Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment... instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 200:But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 201:There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 202:Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 203:Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 204:In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. ~ eleanor-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 205:Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 206:Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 207:It's not that achievements prove our worth but rather that the process of achieving is the means by which we develop our effectiveness, our competence at living. ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove 208:The process of discovering who we are and what we are here to do . . . is dependent . . . on our ability to stay positive and to find a silver lining in all events. ~ james-redfield, @wisdomtrove 209:Life is a process. And by its nature, it is a struggle. But it is a beautiful and worthwhile struggle. And when you realise that, it’s no longer so much of a struggle. ~ aimee-davies, @wisdomtrove 210:Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 211:Are you willing to undertake whatever is necessary to break that habit? If you are, write down three things you will do to begin the process of breaking that habit. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 212:Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 213:Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove 214:Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 215:A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 216:I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 217:So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your soul rests safe and secure in the arms of God. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 218:No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 219:The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind there is a different aggregate of self to be explored. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 220:Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes. ~ henri-cartier-bresson, @wisdomtrove 221:Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 222:Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 223:Meditation is the process of transformation and beautification of soul from a leaf-eating caterpillar to a nectar-sipping butterfly. It grows with the wings of love and compassion. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 224:Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 225:The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 226:At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 227:By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 228:In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 229:When you encourage others, you, in the process, are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 230:I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove 231:As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome! ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 232:It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 233:Reincarnation is a cyclic process. There are endless levels of creation, different universes. In each one something similar is taking place, the evolution of spirit through matter. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 234:Self-discover is not as someone would have us think, a heavy, awesome, moral process where everyone sits around and frowns. As you progress towards enlightenment, you become funny. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 235:The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 236:Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 237:The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 238:Deep in the culture of Apple is this sense and understanding of design, developing, and making. Form and the material and process - they are beautifully intertwined - completely connected. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove 239:All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up& 240:Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 241:Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 242:... no way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 243:Collect things that command our attention; (2) process what they mean and what to do about them; and (3) organize the results, which we (4) review as options for what we choose to (5) do. ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove 244:Conscious awareness is the source of our healing... Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 245:Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it is to drive you someplace you want to go. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 246:We began this process, and fantastic things happened ‚Äî to the way we felt, to the way we made other people feel, and the interaction among us. All this simply by using positive words! ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 247:I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if the story is more linear, I write it from beginning to end. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 248:Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul... It is far better to become your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 249:You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 250:It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 251:In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 252:One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 253:The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to & 254:Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 255:Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 256:It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 257:Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul... It is far better to become your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 258:The film project has been twenty years of constipation, and he likens the Hollywood process to trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 259:The farmer has patience and trusts the process. He just has the faith and deep understanding that through his daily efforts, the harvest will come.And then one day, almost out of nowhere, it does. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 260:The evolution of one's own soul is a process. It's not a quick fix. It's not a five-day workshop. It's a lifetime process where we let go, discover and then allow for futures to come into existence. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 261:For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the rest of our lives trying to figure out how we can reverse the process. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove 262:Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 263:Start to give more thought to the world around you. Stop exposing yourself to situations that drain your energy. You will discover through a trial and error process that you will have more energy. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 264:I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 265:In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 266:The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone and face that immensity. And only after you've done that can you then turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 267:You are always in the process of creating. Every moment, every minute, every day. You are a big creation machine and you are turning out a new manifestation literally as fast as you can think. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 268:Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 269:This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. ~ alexander-hamilton, @wisdomtrove 270:Creation is always happening. Every time and individual has a thought, or a prolonged chronic way of thinking, they're in the creation process. Something is going to manifest out of those thoughts. ~ michael-beckwith, @wisdomtrove 271:Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 272:One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death. ~ barbara-marx-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 273:There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 274:The Weekly Review is the time to: Gather and process all your stuff. Review your system. Update your lists. Get clean, clear, current, and complete. You have to use your mind to get things off your mind. ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove 275:When you begin the process of unhooking from the outer world, you can find literally hundreds of places where you have given your power away and drained your life force while guaranteeing the status quo. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 276:Channeling is a practice that is very popular right now. It is very dangerous. It is a process in which you are opening yourself up to astral entities and inviting them to come into you. This is silly. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 277:Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 278:Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 279:Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 280:I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do have contact, physical contact with aliens, I think it will be benign. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 281:It is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 282:The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there's a kind of cumulative quality. ~ rupert-sheldrake, @wisdomtrove 283:I love people who make mistakes. That's why I'm in the teaching business. I love people who make mistakes because I enjoy watching them learn and helping them, assisting them. I find it a beautiful process. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 284:At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove 285:There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 286:Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 287:Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process-a way of solving problems. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 288:It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 289:The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that - it's an intuitive process. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 290:How do the stems connect to the roots?' & 291:There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 292:You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe... ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 293:Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power to become enlightened. Personal power is not the end of the process. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 294:The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 295:Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself. ~ walt-whitman, @wisdomtrove 296:We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 297:Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that‚Äôs the only reason for having anything. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 298:In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat. ~ pierre-auguste-renoir, @wisdomtrove 299:Perfectionism is a shield that we carry with a thought process that says this, & 300:Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art ~ salvador-dali, @wisdomtrove 301:A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 302:To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 303:All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts& 304:Give up the idea of being the body and face the question: Who am l? At once a process will be set in motion which will bring back reality, or, rather, will take the mind to reality. Only, you must not be afraid. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 305:What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 306:In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and performs a finite number of operations upon them. The human mind can duplicate the process ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 307:How does your heart respond to the thought that the Universe is alive and compassionate and that with it and with other souls of great power and Light you learn through the process of co-creating the reality that you experience? ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 308:The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 309:I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents... . The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul? ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 310:The helium which we handle must have been put together at some time and some place. We do not argue with the critic who urges that the stars are not hot enough for this process; we tell him to go and find a hotter place. ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove 311:The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 312:When I am in the process of conceiving a story, I make sure it can be told with words and pictures. The story has to be creative, original and interesting in both areas. Many stories get rejected because they feel derivative. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 313:At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 314:Each increment of knowledge imparted in this way is so satisfying-and one's ignorance at every stage so consequential-that the process of learning BJJ can become remarkably addictive. I have never experienced anything quite like it. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 315:Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released... often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 316:The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek not to find out who you are, seek to determine who you want to be. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 317:In the psychic process we are trying to eliminate everyone else from our minds, their effects, their energies, their influences: "To thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day, thou cans't be false to any man." ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 318:Finding a good script is really difficult and the scariest thing of all is when they say about a script that's not right, "we will fix it.." It's like before you get on the Titanic and you see a big hole. In process, it's too late. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 319:Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 320:Be aware of the dark side of others that seek to interfere with our evolution. Keep distant and closed to such beings, recognizing that they are part of the universal process too, but not a part that we need to be open to at this time. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 321:If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 322:All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 323:Process transforms any journey into a series of small steps, taken one by one, to reach any goal. Process transcends time, teaches patience, rests on a solid foundation of careful preparation, and embodies trust in our unfolding potential. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 324:A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe fruit at length falls into his lap. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove 325:We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government added Federal interference to Federal financial aid and eroded educational quality in the process. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 326:You are a great being who has been given a tremendous opportunity to explore beyond yourself. The whole process is very exciting, and you will have good times and bad times. All sorts of things will happen. That’s the fun of the journey. ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove 327:The Infinite Mind is Spirit— the Universal Mind Principle is "Mind-Stuff" of which all Finite Mind is a part. This Universal Mind Principle was the first conception of The Absolute, in the process of the creation of the Universe. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove 328:Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 329:One of the best pieces of advice that my dad has given me is this: & 330:Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 331:When we arrive at dilemmas in life and we are unable to decipher the right direction to go, if we hope to maintain our confidence in the process, we must (repeat must) allow the Lord to be our Guide, our Strength, our Wisdom - our all! ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 332:In order to explain why the ordinary Sadhus and Yogis take to tobacco and gƒÅnja [an intoxicant], I said that these cause stimulation of the physical brain. But these have reactions. And to stimulate the brain thus is not the proper process. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 333:If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 334:If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 335:If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 336:I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 337:In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 338:Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 339:The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 340:In the process of self-discovery you will learn to be kind when you could be harsh. You will learn to forgive, mostly yourself. You will learn to be patient because you may have to wait quite a while to become that which you will eventually be. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 341:We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 342:During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 343:Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The creative process is the emergence in action of a novel relational product, growing out of the uniqueness of the individual. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 344:Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change, or it can take place through a long, quiet process of transformation. But it always involves an inner experience of oneness. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 345:The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 346:It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham... . The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 347:Ask lots of questions. The greatest ‘adventure’ is the ability to inquire, to ask questions. Sometimes in the process of inquiry, the search is more significant than the answers. The simple act of asking the right questions is the answer. ~ marc-and-angel-chernoff, @wisdomtrove 348:The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 349:There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 350:We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they are incapable of doing things by themselves. To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in them. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 351:I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 352:I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 353:Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 354:Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 355:Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information? ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 356:I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform or perhaps distort yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 357:We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 358:The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 359:Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true." ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 360:Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 361:The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 362:My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 363:This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 364:The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise, or due process of law or the Australian ballot. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 365:As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself! ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 366:I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 367:A race or nation stands so much the higher, the more perfectly its members express the pure, ideal human type ... The evolution of man through the incarnations in ever higher national and racial forms is thus a process of liberation [leading to] an ideal future. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 368:Real life is doing something which you love to do with your whole being so that there is no inner contradiction, no war between what you are doing and what you think you should do. Life is then a completely integrated process in which there is tremendous joy. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 369:The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 370:Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build again. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 371:Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 372:Rejoice in the abundance of being able to awaken each morning and experience a new day. Be glad to be alive, to be healthy, to have friends, to be creative, to be a living example of the joy of living. Live to your highest awareness. Enjoy your transformationa l process. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 373:Visualization is the process of creating pictures in your mind of yourself enjoying what you want. When you visualize, you generate powerful thoughts and feelings of having it now. The law of attraction then returns that reality to you, just as you saw it in your mind. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 374:First, we need a robust sense of being a separate individual. When this is strong enough it can support a conscious awakening to our deeper being. When a strong separate self is absent, the natural process of awakening is transformed into the pathology of depersonalization. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 375:Trust allows you to give, Giving is abundant. Trust allows the experience of bliss. Bliss is awakefulness. Trust allows you to laugh. Laugh at the richness, the beauty and the playfulness of the universe. Apply consciousness to this process and all roads will lead to home. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 376:In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 377:Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 378:It's easy to think that craft can't change but important to remember that all craft process was at some point new, at some point challenged convention - not to be contrary, but enabled by some breakthrough, some newly discovered principle, or sometimes some wonderful accident. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove 379:People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 380:The trick is to ensure not so much that what you are doing is, for you, the right thing, all the time (how, ultimately, could you know that for sure?) but that you are firmly in the driver’s seat with a functioning process for discovering and engaging with your best choice. ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove 381:Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 382:In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 383:School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only dream big, but dream dreams that they can work on every day until they accomplish them-not because they were chosen by a black-box process, but because they worked hard enough to reach them. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 384:When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 385:Have a regular weekly planning session in which you plan ahead the activities of the coming week. This simple process will ensure the things which you consider to be most important are not lost in the daily hustle-bustle of accomplishing the activities which are urgent. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 386:It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 387:I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 388:All knowledge pursued merely for the enrichment of personal learning and the accumulation of personal treasure leads you away from the path; but all knowledge pursued for growth to ripeness within the process of human ennoblement and cosmic development brings you a step forward. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 389:Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 390:So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 391:So the first time you hear the concept of Halloween when you're a kid your brain can't even process the information. You're like: "What is this? What did you say?" "What did you say about giving out candy? Who's giving out candy?" "Everyone that we know is just giving out candy!" ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 392:I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 393:Mindfulness is a way of being which involves bringing awareness to the unfolding of present experience, moment-to- moment, with curiosity, openness and acceptance. It involves a process of becoming more aware and accepting towards all your experiences—including the unpleasant ones. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 394:Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality. ~ salvador-dali, @wisdomtrove 395:Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is being birthed in every experience of your life. Everything that happens to you has the potential to deepen you. It brings to birth within you new territories of the heart. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 396:Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 397:Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 398:So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 399:I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do not fear death. I may fear a little bit about the process, but not death itself, because I think the moment that my spirit leaves this body, I will be in the presence of the Lord. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 400:When people know they have a process in place to handle any situation, they are more relaxed. When they’re relaxed, everything improves. More gets done, with less effort, and a host of other wonderful side effects emerge that add to the outcomes of their efforts and the quality of their life. ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove 401:The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 402:A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each moment. I believe it would be evident that for the person who was fully open to his new experience, completely without defensiveness, each moment would be new. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 403:Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 404:The jnani& 405:Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 406:Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature. This is because Zen has come to the definite conclusion that the ordinary logical process of reasoning is powerless to give final satisfaction to our deepest spiritual needs. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove 407:Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 408:The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers... In winning our freedom, we will so appeal to you heart and conscience that we will win you in the process. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 409:The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 410:In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence, which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 411:When I begin to work on myself, sometimes things get worse before they get better. It is okay if this happens, because I know that it's the beginning of the process. It's untangling old threads. I just flow with it. It takes time and effort to learn what I need to learn. I don't demand instant change. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 412:Every creative genius has been a channel. Every masterwork has been created through the channeling process. Great works are not created by the personality alone. They arise from a deep inspiration on the universal level, and are then expressed and brought into form through the individual personality. ~ shakti-gawain, @wisdomtrove 413:If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 414:When life and death are seen as essential to each other, as two aspects of one being, that is immortality. To see the end in the beginning and beginning in the end is the intimation of eternity. Definitely, immortality is not continuity. Only the process of change continues. Nothing lasts. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 415:No matter who we are, life is going to put us through the changes we need to go through. The question is: Are we willing to use this force for our transformation? I saw that even very intense situations don’t have to leave psychological scars, if we are willing to process our changes at a deeper level. ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove 416:To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 417:Any day we wish we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 418:If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. To set down those lists of *what we're supposed to be* is brave. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 419:Just as people were never created, neither, according to the science of biology, is there a ‘Creator’ who ‘endows’ them with anything. There is only a blind evolutionary process, devoid of any purpose, leading to the birth of individuals. ‘Endowed by their creator’ should be translated simply into ‘born’. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 420:Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove 421:From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 422:The universe is a multi-dimension al creative process, constantly forming new facets of possibility for you and all living things. Expanding our awareness of the process, we allow ourselves to experience more of it. Every moment we can remember that ANYTHING is possible in a realm of endless possibility. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 423:We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never-ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 424:Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 425:If I'm lost in the story of Tim, I become fearful, selfish, and agitated. So I need to step out of the story and become conscious of my deeper identity, which is free, spacious, and at peace. But the process doesn't stop there. Now I'm ready to really engage with the story because I know that fundamentally all is well. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 426:I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 427:There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and people like Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev are throwing their weight behind it. In a world where there's a lot of cynicism and despair, this has a candle-lighting effect. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 428:The process of prayer becomes much easier when, rather than having to believe that God will always say “yes” to every request, one understands intuitively that the request itself is not necessary. Then the prayer is a prayer of thanksgiving. It is not a request at all, but a statement of gratitude of what is so. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 429:We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 430:Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 431:The Neo-Platonic philosophers describe God as the ‘mystery of being’, which is in the process of ‘becoming’ all that is. The mystery of being is arising as all individual beings. This profound idea brings us to the greatest teaching found at the heart of the spiritual traditions of the world: Atman is Brahman. The soul is God. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 432:It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 433:If any influential nation had the great spiritual strength to lay down its arms and appear with clean hands before the world, the world would be changed. I see no evidence that any influential nations has such great spiritual strength and courage. Therefore disarmament will be a slow process, motivated by the wish to survive. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 434:The process of life is ever unfolding, guiding you, pushing you, preparing you for the next part of the process. Difficult challenges, bad days, upset feelings, moments of confusion are part of life's process. Perhaps these things are there to keep us alert, to make us stronger, or to test our resolve to keep moving forward. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 435:We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, nonanalytical, noninterpretive mind. In other words, the silent witness. In the process of silent witnessing, we experience inner silence. In the purity of silence, we feel connected to our source and to everything else. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 436:Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 437:Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 438:Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 439:It's a very simple example to show that if you miss one step in a process in can cost you an enormous amount of time and money to fix. With a checklist, you can write it down and give it some someone else for them to do successfully. Checklists require discipline and organization, which is something internet marketers have to master. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 440:The second cognitive revolution, dreamed up by techno-humanists, might do the same to us, producing human cogs who communicate and process data far more effectively than ever before, but who can hardly pay attention, dream or doubt. For millions of years we were enhanced chimpanzees. In the future, we may become oversized ants. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 441:It's understandable that the music companies that are comprised of people that are successful by making good creative decisions - they have to decide which out of fifty artists is the next hot one, with no data to go from. It's an intuitive process, and that's what they do well when they're successful. They don't understand technology. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 442:A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 443:Managing the power of choice, with all its creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. All spiritual teachings are directed toward inspiring us to recognize that the power to make choices is the dynamic that converts our spirits into matter, our words into flesh. Choice is the process of creation itself. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 444:Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 445:Art is a window to The Infinite, and opening to the goddess, a portal through which you and I, with the help of the artist, may discover depths and heights of our soul undreamed of by the vulgar world. Art is the eye of the spirit, through which the sublime can reach down to us, and we up to it, and be transformed, transfigured in the process. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 446:Healing of the physical without the change in the mental and spiritual aspects brings little real help to the individual in the end. How true, because the mind and the body imprint and imitate each other. What we think, we become. What we become, we think. It's an insidious process that can predispose us to illness or it can lead us to health. ~ edgar-cayce, @wisdomtrove 447:The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct investment.The multinational corporation... puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 448:The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 449:Managing the power of choice, with all its creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. All spiritual teachings are directed toward inspiring us to recognize that the power to make choices is the dynamic that converts our spirits into matter, our words into flesh. Choice is the process of creation itself. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 450:This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 451:Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 452:I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't write stories just for the class but wrote them for the purpose of submitting them somewhere, and at some point in the process, I began writing them just to please myself and that's where you begin to see the real value of a life of writing. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 453:Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us rather than to tyrannize us. This process doesn’t magically happen by itself. It takes energy. We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment “practice” or “meditation practice." ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 454:Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 455:Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 456:Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 457:Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 458:As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 459:Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 460:I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made possible by each one having a direct route to truth, the consciousness of each being in a position to perceive mathematical truths directly, through the process of & 461:Our great tendency in this age is to increase our speed, to run faster, even in the Christian life. In the process our walk with God stays shallow, and our tank runs low on fumes. Intimacy offers a full tank of fuel that can only be found by pulling up closer to God, which requires taking necessary time and going to the effort to make that happen. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 462:Write down your barrier thoughts, and then consider ways to reinterpret the situation. In the process, ask yourself questions like... What else could this situation or experience mean? Can anything good come from it? Does it present any opportunities for me? What lessons can I learn and apply to the future? Did I develop any strengths as a result? ~ sonja-lyubomirsky, @wisdomtrove 463:Consciousness is like a wave that rises and falls. Sometimes we’re extremely energized and more conscious, other times we’re tired and less conscious. The process of awakening doesn’t lead to a permanently awake state, because it’s the nature of consciousness to come and go. The primal ground of being is always present, but our experience of it must change. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 464:The soul is that part of us that is immortal. It existed before the personality was born and it will exist after the personality is gone. The personality is an energy tool of the soul that is temporary. Through it we learn in this domain of the five senses. We learn through what we create and the impact that it has on us. This process is becoming conscious. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 465:If you know you have to wait anyway, why not make a decision to enjoy your life while you’re waiting? Why not be happy while God is in the process of changing things? After all, there’s nothing we can really do to make it happen any faster. We might as well relax and enjoy our lives, knowing that at the appointed time God is going to bring his plan to pass. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 466:Another way to look at meditation is to view the process of thinking itself as a waterfall, a continual cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantagepoint in a cave or depression in a rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 467:Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do when we're truly alive. An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it (all of it, the work, the process, the feedback from those we seek to connect with) personally. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 468:The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 469:This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 470:To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is not meditation, then what is? Surely, meditation is to understand every thought that comes into being, and not to dwell upon one particular thought; it is to invite all thoughts so that you understand the whole process of thinking. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 471:Consciousness is an ever-unfolding, deepening, and expanding process with no end point. We are infinite and complex beings, and our human journey involves not just a spiritual awakening, but the development of all levels of our being - spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical - and the integration of all these aspects into a healthy and balanced daily life. ~ shakti-gawain, @wisdomtrove 472:Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a good job, but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid? ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 473:Life is a creative process, not a journey of discovery or a school of learning. You're not discovering yourself, but recreating yourself. So don't try and figure out who you are, but establish who you want to be. You create your reality every minute, probably without realizing it. You can be, do, and have whatever you can imagine. Didn't I say you were gods? ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 474:All I'm saying is that to liberate the potential of your mind, body and soul, you must first expand your imagination. You see, things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality. I call this process & 475:Compromise" is so often used in a bad sense that it is difficult to remember that properly it merely describes the process of reaching an agreement. Naturally there are certain subjects on which no man can compromise. For instance, there must be no compromise under any circumstances with official corruption, and of course no man should hesitate to say as much. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 476:The process of Deliberate Creation is twofold: It involves the thought that you project, and the corresponding feeling that comes forth. You offer the thought from your conscious, physical perspective - and your Inner Being offers you a corresponding feeling. Therefore, you are literally co-creating: You, the physical you, and you, the inner, Non-physical you. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 477:To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to this is this or that is that. I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 478:Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast... Just getting rid of the nonsense - just figuring out that if people call you and say, & 479:But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 480:I had lots of hurt and lots of pain, lots of woundedness, bruises, broken heartedness in my life. I was abused sexually by my father, abused mentally, emotionally. My mom didn't know what to do about it, and she was being hurt in the process. So she just didn't deal with it. And I can guarantee you, just because you don't deal with something, that doesn't make it go away. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 481:In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 482:If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to being hopeless, though: only the spectacle is a profoundly strange one; and as the current answers don’t do, one has to grope for a new one, and the process of discarding the old, when one is by no means certain what to put in their place, is a sad one. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 483:But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 484:The process of evolution is the primal oneness of unconscious being arising as separate centres of conscious being, so it can finally come to know that all is one. The primal being is coming to self-knowledge by dreaming itself to be you and me on a journey of awakening to oneness. Life is a journey from unconscious oneness through conscious separateness to conscious oneness. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 485:Q: How can I deal with [my conditioning]? M: By watching their influence in you and on you. Be aware of them in operation, watch their expressions in your thoughts, words and deeds, and gradually their grip on you will lessen and the clear light of sattva will emerge. It is neither difficult, nor a protracted process; earnestness is the only condition of success. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 486:Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is the same as ordinary men. They all died and gradually faded away in the memory of man. But when we are still alive, we have to understand ourselves, discover ourselves and express ourselves. In this way, we can progress, but we may not be successful. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 487:He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 488:Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems ... Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen ... [W]hat makes a work of art & 489:One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things& 490:What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 491:The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 492:Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 493:Forgiveness does not mean that we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm. In some cases the best practice may be to end our connection, to never speak to or be with a harmful person again. Sometimes in the process of forgiveness a person who hurts or betrayed us may wish to make amends, but even this does not require us to put ourselves in the way of further harm. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 494:Work with yourself. Work. If you have a partner, so much the better. Speak. Use whatever process is appropriate. Know that this universe is compassionate, aware and alive. This is a universe of life. This is not a material enterprise. It is a spiritual enterprise and it is filled with loving assistance. This is a thought form that must be in place in order for you to receive assistance. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 495:Life is a constant process of limitless creation. It is about recreating Who You are, by remembering all you have always known, and choosing what you want to experience of your Self. Go therefore into this magnificent world of your creation and make your lifetime an extraordinary statement of and a breath-taking experience of the greatest idea that you have ever had of yourself. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 496:There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds ‚Äì not the truth (Lessing) ‚Äì, but some truth. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 497:I think energy medicine is a field that is probably for me the most authentic level of medicine that there is, because it takes into account what I would call & 498:Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realizing that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor-that is the only way out of a "hole." This process of surrender-this movement full speed astern-is repentance. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 499:Relationships are like Rome - difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the & 500:The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Trust the process. ~ Tony Gaskins, #NFDB
2:The process is the goal. ~ Geneen Roth, #NFDB
3:The end is no process ~ Thomas Bernhard, #NFDB
4:process of phonation. ~ Daniel L Everett, #NFDB
5:process. GRATITUDE Wow! ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
6:work in process’ or ‘inventory ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
7:Promise demands Process. ~ Michael Pfleger, #NFDB
8:there’s more to process. As a ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
9:Just relax and trust the process. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
10:Pain Is Part of the Process In ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
11:The process is the reality. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
12:Trust in the process of life. ~ Truth Devour, #NFDB
13:You need to embrace your process ~ Kim Chance, #NFDB
14:Growth is a painful process. ~ Wilma Mankiller, #NFDB
15:Acting is a mysterious process. ~ Bertie Carvel, #NFDB
16:The process of history is combustion. ~ Novalis, #NFDB
17:change is a process, not an event. ~ Susan David, #NFDB
18:Every process must by law decay. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
19:Any disaster is a learning process. ~ Julia Child, #NFDB
20:A rational process is a moral process. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
21:This life is a process of learning. ~ Lauryn Hill, #NFDB
22:A good process produces good results. ~ Nick Saban, #NFDB
23:As a human being, I'm work in process. ~ John Lydon, #NFDB
24:Change is a process not an event. ~ Barbara Johnson, #NFDB
25:Growth is often a painful process. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
26:Marriage is a very long process. ~ Elizabeth Goudge, #NFDB
27:Reform is a process, and not an event. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
28:Awareness cannot be at the end of a process ~ Mooji, #NFDB
29:Capital is process, and that is that. ~ David Harvey, #NFDB
30:Enlightenment is a destructive process. ~ Adyashanti, #NFDB
31:We are all in the process of becoming. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
32:Change is not an event, its a process. ~ Cheryl James, #NFDB
33:Craft is part of the creative process. ~ Gavin Bryars, #NFDB
34:Don't let your tools become your process. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
35:The dating process is not normal for me. ~ Jim Carrey, #NFDB
36:We are all in the process of becoming. ~ Harmony Dust, #NFDB
37:Don't make the process harder than it is. ~ Jack Welch, #NFDB
38:Life is a journey. Success is a process. ~ Corey Wayne, #NFDB
39:Now I'm in the process of fine turning. ~ Esther Hicks, #NFDB
40:Process is not a substitute for skill. ~ Jim Highsmith, #NFDB
41:The process is the most beautiful part. ~ Quincy Jones, #NFDB
42:...don't spoil my learning process! ~ Diana Wynne Jones, #NFDB
43:Enlightenment is a destructive process. It ~ Adyashanti, #NFDB
44:Freedom is an incremental process. ~ William Paul Young, #NFDB
45:Growth is an endlessly iterative process. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
46:The process of nature cannot be evil. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
47:Begin the process of trusting your heart. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
48:Interleaf is based on the formatting process. ~ Bill Joy, #NFDB
49:I try to make thinking an ongoing process. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
50:Purging was part of his grieving process— ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
51:The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, ~ Brad Stone, #NFDB
52:The process of giving is without limits. ~ Joanne Harris, #NFDB
53:A career in acting, it's a learning process. ~ Nick Nolte, #NFDB
54:creativity is a process, not a providence. ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
55:Don’t take away another person’s process. ~ Kathryn Alice, #NFDB
56:I love the process of being alone in a room. ~ James Frey, #NFDB
57:Life is a lively process of becoming. ~ Douglas MacArthur, #NFDB
58:Relationship is a process of self-revelation. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
59:transformation is a process, not an event ~ John P Kotter, #NFDB
60:Winning was the process, not the destination. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
61:You can't process me with a normal brain. ~ Charlie Sheen, #NFDB
62:Education isn't a result. It's a process. ~ Pierce Brosnan, #NFDB
63:Gratitude is what starts the receiving process. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
64:It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby. ~ Rachel Cusk, #NFDB
65:Life is a constant process of dying. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
66:Money corrupts the process of reasoning. ~ Lawrence Lessig, #NFDB
67:The planning process doesn’t produce strategy ~ W Chan Kim, #NFDB
68:The self is not a thing, but a process. ~ Thomas Metzinger, #NFDB
69:What matters is the effect, not the process. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB
70:Failure is not an option. Success is just a process. ~ Wale, #NFDB
71:Life is a continuous process of adjustment. ~ Indira Gandhi, #NFDB
72:... life is an ongoing process of learning. ~ Susan Jeffers, #NFDB
73:Searching for new ideas is an endless process. ~ R K Laxman, #NFDB
74:Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process. ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
75:the writing process behind The Tilted World. ~ Tom Franklin, #NFDB
76:Writing is an incessant process of discovery. ~ Robert Hass, #NFDB
77:And, yes, I love the process of building. ~ Daniel Libeskind, #NFDB
78:Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
79:Don’t judge. Teach. It’s a learning process. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
80:Don’t worry about the money. Love the process. ~ Joan Rivers, #NFDB
81:Failure is part of the process of success. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
82:I'm a process server, so I have to wear a suit. ~ Seth Rogen, #NFDB
83:I'm still amazed by the process of recording. ~ Graham Coxon, #NFDB
84:Revolution is not an event! It's a process ~ Professor Griff, #NFDB
85:The future is a process, not a destination. ~ Bruce Sterling, #NFDB
86:Forgiveness is both a decision and a process. ~ Mark Driscoll, #NFDB
87:Hope is not an emotion: It’s a cognitive process ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
88:I think that yoga, it really is a process. ~ Bethenny Frankel, #NFDB
89:Notes are absolutely essential to the process. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
90:Pivoting isn’t plan B; it’s part of the process. ~ Jeff Goins, #NFDB
91:process is commonly called the plaintext, and the ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
92:You need to have a collaborative hiring process. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
93:A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product. ~ Clay Shirky, #NFDB
94:Failure is part of the process of success. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
95:I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
96:Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
97:Life is an endless process of self-discovery. ~ John W Gardner, #NFDB
98:Love is the process of melting into the other ~ Shri Radhe Maa, #NFDB
99:Peace is a process, a way of solving problems ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
100:Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process ~ Mark Doty, #NFDB
101:Slavery was a long slow process of dulling. ~ Octavia E Butler, #NFDB
102:Transformation is always an inside-out process. ~ Heidi DuPree, #NFDB
103:(1) what process innovations had actually occurred? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
104:I don't know what a natural thought process is. ~ Lynne Tillman, #NFDB
105:I have no problem with the arbitration process. ~ Mark Teixeira, #NFDB
106:in India we all know the process is the punishment. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
107:It was an excellent aid in the forgetting process ~ C J Roberts, #NFDB
108:Music is an important part of my writing process. ~ Peter James, #NFDB
109:Professional trust is a process, not a state. ~ Andy Hargreaves, #NFDB
110:Skepticism is not a position; it's a process. ~ Michael Shermer, #NFDB
111:Compliments are not things I know how to process. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
112:Fear has a way of channeling our thought process. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
113:I really miss the rehearsal process of theater. ~ Kurtwood Smith, #NFDB
114:I think I am aging, but I'm enjoying the process. ~ Sharon Stone, #NFDB
115:I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. ~ St Lucia, #NFDB
116:Life is a process of one goneness after another. ~ Russell Hoban, #NFDB
117:Patience is being at peace with the process of life ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
118:Peace is a process - a way of solving problems. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
119:The process is not just the sum of its parts. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB
120:We must trust our process, look beyond “results. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
121:Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight ~ Sheridan Hay, #NFDB
122:A person is a process, one that leads to death. ~ Randall Jarrell, #NFDB
123:Honestly, I was offended by the whole process. ~ Chandler Parsons, #NFDB
124:I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process. ~ Caroline Kennedy, #NFDB
125:Innovation is not process-driven, it’s people-driven. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
126:More than a process, painting is being possessed. ~ Philip Guston, #NFDB
127:So I've seen life as one long learning process. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
128:This whole thing is a process, not an event. ~ William Paul Young, #NFDB
129:We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
130:All design is the process of making experiences. ~ Nathan Shedroff, #NFDB
131:Discerning the Core Values is a discovery process. ~ Verne Harnish, #NFDB
132:Getting an education is an awfully wearing process! ~ Jean Webster, #NFDB
133:I am much more interested in the process than results. ~ Ted Allen, #NFDB
134:Quality combines people power and process power. ~ Subir Chowdhury, #NFDB
135:Seeing is a vigorous, pattern-seeking process. ~ Francis D K Ching, #NFDB
136:The market is in the process of correcting itself. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
137:The price must be paid and the process followed. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
138:The world, the real is not an object. It is a process. ~ John Cage, #NFDB
139:true fulfillment comes from love of the process. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
140:What I believe is a process rather than a finality. ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB
141:Finding WHY is a process of discovery, not invention. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
142:I'd love to be part of the process of building cars. ~ Bubba Watson, #NFDB
143:I have a funny process : it’s called procrastination. ~ K K Barrett, #NFDB
144:I just love the process of working with other actors. ~ John Cusack, #NFDB
145:Making every record is a process full of tough times. ~ Ezra Koenig, #NFDB
146:old textile mill, which was in the process of being ~ Richard Russo, #NFDB
147:There is no greater learning process than to teach. ~ Robert Muller, #NFDB
148:Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking. ~ Watts Humphrey, #NFDB
149:Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance. ~ Ethan Zuckerman, #NFDB
150:Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
151:A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
152:chaos is the first step in the creative process. ~ Jill Bolte Taylor, #NFDB
153:Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
154:Focus on the process of what it takes to be successful. ~ Nick Saban, #NFDB
155:Give it up for the process that leads to childbirth! ~ Alex Gaskarth, #NFDB
156:Marketing is a necessary part of the creative process. ~ Paula Scher, #NFDB
157:One of the greatest struggles of the healing process ~ Caroline Myss, #NFDB
158:Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
159:The learning process continues until the day you die. ~ Kirk Douglas, #NFDB
160:The process of doing plays will make you an actor. ~ Stephen Collins, #NFDB
161:There's no better way to process pain than to write. ~ Rashida Jones, #NFDB
162:A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process. ~ Abel Ferrara, #NFDB
163:Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident. ~ Abdul Kalam, #NFDB
164:Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process. ~ Jonas Salk, #NFDB
165:Life is simply the reification of the process of living. ~ Ernst Mayr, #NFDB
166:The working process is ideally freeing my mind. ~ Robert Rauschenberg, #NFDB
167:Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that ~ Tom Izzo, #NFDB
168:Truth is more in the process than in the result. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
169:candor could not be more crucial to our creative process. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
170:Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time. ~ Jodie Foster, #NFDB
171:Creativity is a process more often than it is an event. ~ Ken Robinson, #NFDB
172:Education is the process of selling someone on books. ~ Douglas Wilson, #NFDB
173:It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process. ~ Dan Barber, #NFDB
174:Life is a continual process of arrival into who we are. ~ Maria Popova, #NFDB
175:out toward the end of the process: that is altogether rare ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
176:Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery. ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB
177:Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times ~ Todd Burpo, #NFDB
178:Success is the process of not accepting failure. ~ Georgette Mosbacher, #NFDB
179:The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me ~ Christina Ricci, #NFDB
180:This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan. ~ Paracelsus, #NFDB
181:You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort. ~ Terence McKenna, #NFDB
182:Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process. ~ Greg Bear, #NFDB
183:British government had already recognized the process as ~ Bill Browder, #NFDB
184:Cancer... the process of creation gone wild, I thought. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
185:Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process. ~ Adam Baldwin, #NFDB
186:Growth is the process of responding positively to change. ~ Paul Harvey, #NFDB
187:I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process. ~ Baz Luhrmann, #NFDB
188:I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good. ~ Colin Hay, #NFDB
189:I'm in a constant process of thinking about things. ~ Richard Brautigan, #NFDB
190:It’s a disgusting process, emptying our stomachs. ~ Catherine Ryan Hyde, #NFDB
191:The pathway to health is really a process of rebirth. ~ O Carl Simonton, #NFDB
192:The process of innovation is, of course, never ending. ~ Alan Greenspan, #NFDB
193:The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment. ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
194:The process of revision should be constant and endless ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
195:The unifying of opposites is the eternal process. ~ Mary Parker Follett, #NFDB
196:An individual is a process: complex, tightly integrated. ~ Carlo Rovelli, #NFDB
197:Chapter 2: Thought Waves and Their Process of Reproduction ~ James Allen, #NFDB
198:Course in Miracles is based on that precise process of ~ David R Hawkins, #NFDB
199:Everything is happening too fast for me to process it. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
200:I love the joy in the improvisational creative process. ~ Justin Roiland, #NFDB
201:I'm in a constant process of thinking about things. ~ Richard Brautigan, #NFDB
202:I'm the one who initiated the democratic process. ~ Jean Claude Duvalier, #NFDB
203:I personally just love movies about the creative process. ~ James Franco, #NFDB
204:Love the process and you’ll love what the process produces. ~ Jon Gordon, #NFDB
205:The process of transformation consists mostly of decay. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
206:This is a world of process, not a world of things. ~ Margaret J Wheatley, #NFDB
207:We will not engage in an endless process of negotiations. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
208:an inner process stands in need of outward criteria ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
209:Biological age is the key component of the aging process. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
210:I don't really go through a process, it goes through me. ~ John Malkovich, #NFDB
211:I still need to go through the process of proving myself. ~ Lindsay Lohan, #NFDB
212:The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
213:then. It would give me an opportunity to process. Or ~ Eva Lesko Natiello, #NFDB
214:the process of consciousness itself relies on images. ~ Ant nio R Dam sio, #NFDB
215:Thought is a process of work,
joy is an issue of work ~ Robert Creeley,#NFDB
216:Writing and learning and thinking are the same process. ~ William Zinsser, #NFDB
217:An inner process stands in need of outward criteria. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
218:A piece of the miracle process has been reserved for each of us ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
219:Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product. ~ James Taylor, #NFDB
220:I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process. ~ Ellar Coltrane, #NFDB
221:In England, life is a long process of composing oneself. ~ Shirley Hazzard, #NFDB
222:Learning is not a destination, it is a continuous process. ~ Kevin Horsley, #NFDB
223:Learning is not a destination; it is a continuous process. ~ Kevin Horsley, #NFDB
224:My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
225:Passions are about process. Goals are about outcomes. ~ Janet Bray Attwood, #NFDB
226:Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
227:Story plays a role in the budget process when building reels. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
228:The restful alertness response reverses the aging process. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
229:To be what one is, is to enter fully into being a process. ~ Carl R Rogers, #NFDB
230:Wholehearted living is not a onetime choice. It is a process. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
231:Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
232:A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt. ~ Robert Sheckley, #NFDB
233:As we live in the Spirit, we live in the process of God’s mind ~ T B Joshua, #NFDB
234:Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. ~ Rollo May, #NFDB
235:Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal. ~ Mary Parker Follett, #NFDB
236:In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
237:I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
238:Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process. ~ Brett Eldredge, #NFDB
239:Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB
240:Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories. ~ William T Vollmann, #NFDB
241:The auction process dragged on for several gruelling months. ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB
242:The creative process requires chaos before form emerges. ~ Marilyn Ferguson, #NFDB
243:the process of coming to clarity takes patience and candor. In ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
244:We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. ~ Eric Berne, #NFDB
245:Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur. ~ Ralph Fiennes, #NFDB
246:Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. ~ Alvin Toffler, #NFDB
247:Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job. ~ Michael Stuhlbarg, #NFDB
248:I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process. ~ Logan Lerman, #NFDB
249:I work steadily, and I always thank the process. Whether ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
250:Life is a constant process of change, for better or worse. ~ Shelley Winters, #NFDB
251:Life is not a long vacation, but a constant learning process. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
252:Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process. ~ Paula Vogel, #NFDB
253:The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that. ~ Baz Luhrmann, #NFDB
254:The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process. ~ Eric Holder, #NFDB
255:The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
256:The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man. ~ Heraclitus, #NFDB
257:Writing helps me process things that are happening to me. ~ Juliana Hatfield, #NFDB
258:You have to fall in love with the process of becoming great. ~ Blake Griffin, #NFDB
259:Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
260:How families deal with loss, everyone has their own process. ~ Dwayne Johnson, #NFDB
261:If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done. ~ Ihara Saikaku, #NFDB
262:If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done. ~ Saikaku Ihara, #NFDB
263:I get very deep into the writing and recording process. ~ Natasha Bedingfield, #NFDB
264:Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time. ~ William Faulkner, #NFDB
265:My brain tried to process it while my heart focused on beating. ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
266:Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
267:Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion. ~ Steven Novella, #NFDB
268:so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
269:That's what makes great products. It's not process-it's content. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
270:The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
271:Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ~ Harold Geneen, #NFDB
272:When you open up your process and invite people in, you learn. ~ Austin Kleon, #NFDB
273:Accept suffering as a part of God's tenderizing process. ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
274:Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people. ~ Toby Hemenway, #NFDB
275:An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
276:Do not worry about the results, but be concerned with the process.
~ Nemoto,#NFDB
277:I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process ~ William Hurt, #NFDB
278:Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
279:Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media. ~ John von Neumann, #NFDB
280:Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
281:Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him. ~ Johannes Kepler, #NFDB
282:The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables... ~ Brad Furman, #NFDB
283:The thought process can never be complete without articulation. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
284:A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules. ~ Rudy Rucker, #NFDB
285:All our normal tendencies are lost in the process of domestication. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
286:A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
287:Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process. ~ Ken Danby, #NFDB
288:Deprivation quickly drives us into a process of appreciation. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
289:Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
290:Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion. ~ Stephen Jay Gould, #NFDB
291:Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops. ~ William Shawn, #NFDB
292:Getting older is not an intellectually demanding process. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
293:Leadership is developed, not discovered. It’s a process. Three ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
294:The law of process says — leaders develop daily, not in a day. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
295:The process of writing a book is the process of outgrowing it. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
296:there is changeability in process, but invariance in outcome. ~ Paul Watzlawick, #NFDB
297:Third, for evaluation, adopt some kind of calibration process. We ~ Laszlo Bock, #NFDB
298:When you divide the process, you harmonize the product ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
299:All artists give birth. It's alchemy and it's really an amazing process. ~ Jewel, #NFDB
300:Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
301:Healing is active involvement in your process, ongoing. ~ S Kelley Harrell M Div, #NFDB
302:I mean, we do believe in due process in America. I thought we did. ~ Hooman Majd, #NFDB
303:Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
304:No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
305:No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process. ~ Ian Mcewan, #NFDB
306:The rehearsal process in general is about trusting one another. ~ George Clooney, #NFDB
307:The video game story-development process is incredibly broken. ~ Austin Grossman, #NFDB
308:Celebrity’ is increasingly the only role the media can process, ~ Charlie Brooker, #NFDB
309:Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value ~ Ken Robinson, #NFDB
310:I am simply a human being who is fascinated by the life process. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
311:Innovation is an ongoing process that you build into your culture. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
312:Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
313:Like genius itself, creativity is a process, not a providence. The ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
314:Speed made things happen faster than her brain could process them. ~ Debora Geary, #NFDB
315:The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process ~ Jacques Maritain, #NFDB
316:The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
317:The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it. ~ Hortense Calisher, #NFDB
318:you can learn anything—if you’re willing to commit to the process. In ~ S J Scott, #NFDB
319:Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death. ~ Wasif Ali Wasif, #NFDB
320:Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
321:Healing is the process of accepting all, then choosing best. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
322:I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama ~ Malcolm Muggeridge, #NFDB
323:I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process. ~ Jane Fonda, #NFDB
324:I know I'm part of the changing process of the way we look at things. ~ Duncan Roy, #NFDB
325:I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process. ~ Thomas A Edison, #NFDB
326:Old enough to know what I'm losing in the process of being found. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
327:Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process. ~ Brett Dennen, #NFDB
328:Philosophy is the process of deliberate dumbing down of Science. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim, #NFDB
329:Subhan’Allah. It is in the process of ‘losing’ that we are given. ~ Yasmin Mogahed, #NFDB
330:The learner should be actively involved in the learning process. ~ Malcolm Knowles, #NFDB
331:The night was in the process of turning into foggy morning gloom. ~ Sahara Sanders, #NFDB
332:The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process. ~ Park Chan wook, #NFDB
333:you do not just wake up and become the butterfly - growth is a process ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
334:You have to focus on the process. You cannot be glued to the results. ~ Ivan Lendl, #NFDB
335:Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process. ~ Chris Matthews, #NFDB
336:Finding one’s voice is a process of finding one’s passion. ~ Terry Tempest Williams, #NFDB
337:Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
338:hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
339:I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals ~ Robert Downey Jr, #NFDB
340:I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams. ~ William H Macy, #NFDB
341:Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation. ~ Angela Carter, #NFDB
342:Maybe work is just one long process of hiding one’s deficiencies, ~ Liza Klaussmann, #NFDB
343:Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care. ~ Jerry Cantrell, #NFDB
344:That was not a good sign. I began the treatment process by panicking. ~ Andrew Rowe, #NFDB
345:The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism. ~ Joseph A Schumpeter, #NFDB
346:The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me. ~ Norman McLaren, #NFDB
347:The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error. ~ Geoff Dyer, #NFDB
348:The result of the educative process is capacity for further education. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
349:Things just happen, it will pass, it's your learning process. ~ Rajashree Choudhury, #NFDB
350:To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process. ~ Edward Hoagland, #NFDB
351:We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB
352:A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life... ~ Asa Don Brown, #NFDB
353:By fair process we mean engaging all the affected people in the process ~ W Chan Kim, #NFDB
354:Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process. ~ Jeff Bezos, #NFDB
355:Even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living. ~ Chuck Klosterman, #NFDB
356:Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days. ~ Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom, #NFDB
357:Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
358:In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product. ~ Jerome Bruner, #NFDB
359:I think God is a pretty fair guy, so tithing is a pretty fair process. ~ Neil Cavuto, #NFDB
360:Life is a process. We are a process. The Universe is a process. ~ Anne Wilson Schaef, #NFDB
361:Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process. ~ Aubrey McClendon, #NFDB
362:Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding. ~ Brian Greene, #NFDB
363:So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
364:Spirituality means to put your evolutionary process on fast-forward. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB
365:The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process. ~ Alan Dershowitz, #NFDB
366:The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful ~ Monica Ali, #NFDB
367:we don’t sit enough with our grief and let our bodies process it. ~ Sandra Tsing Loh, #NFDB
368:Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.... ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
369:I derive just as much happiness from the process as from the results. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
370:...If the world gets saved in the process, don’t blame me. It happens. ~ Tracy A Ball, #NFDB
371:I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die. ~ Sherwin B Nuland, #NFDB
372:I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian. ~ Rachel Zucker, #NFDB
373:In my experience, the really great writers enjoy the editorial process. ~ Mary Norris, #NFDB
374:In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man. ~ Jack Abramoff, #NFDB
375:Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause? ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
376:Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort. ~ Myrtle Reed, #NFDB
377:My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. ~ Tadao Ando, #NFDB
378:Philosophy is a state of fermentation a process without final outcome. ~ Esa Saarinen, #NFDB
379:Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower, #NFDB
380:The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process. ~ William Devane, #NFDB
381:The process is called estimation, not exactimation. —Phillip Armour ~ Steve McConnell, #NFDB
382:We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. ~ Plato, #NFDB
383:Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience. ~ Jennifer Pharr Davis, #NFDB
384:you do not just wake up and become the butterfly
- growth is a process ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
385:A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best. ~ Mark McKinnon, #NFDB
386:As of yet there has been no theory or process for true strategy creation. ~ W Chan Kim, #NFDB
387:But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected. ~ Talib Kweli, #NFDB
388:Communications must destroy localness, by a slow, inevitable process. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
389:Creatively, editing was the most painful part of the process for me. ~ Desiree Akhavan, #NFDB
390:Death becomes merely a noun, something we neither process nor heal from. ~ K L Grayson, #NFDB
391:Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process. ~ Edgar Hilsenrath, #NFDB
392:Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak. ~ Shane Carruth, #NFDB
393:I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful. ~ David Hockney, #NFDB
394:I want the recording process to be a time in my life that I will remember. ~ Neko Case, #NFDB
395:many people process from unbelief to faith through “mini-decisions. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
396:Practice creates habits, and habits create mastery of any process or skill. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
397:Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding... ~ Brian Greene, #NFDB
398:The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions. ~ Emanuel Lasker, #NFDB
399:The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes. ~ Imran Khan, #NFDB
400:The stillness of the mind is prepared by the process of concentration. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
401:though a concentrated mind could pierce a stone, it was a long process. ~ Marc Cameron, #NFDB
402:"We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
403:Adaptation for film is, by definition, a process of editorializing. ~ Anthony Minghella, #NFDB
404:Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. ~ Reid Hoffman, #NFDB
405:Everything takes time. You have to love the journey and the process. ~ Benson Henderson, #NFDB
406:Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
407:He held you captive and managed to fall in love with you in the process. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
408:I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
409:It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts. ~ Sean Durkin, #NFDB
410:Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life. ~ Liam Neeson, #NFDB
411:Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. ~ Suanne Laqueur, #NFDB
412:Practice creates habits, and habits create mastery of any process or skill. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
413:Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process. ~ Alexandra Stoddard, #NFDB
414:So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
415:The process of consumption is the final act in the economic drama. ~ Kenneth E Boulding, #NFDB
416:The process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
417:The real difficulties, in short, come from the transition process. It ~ William Bridges, #NFDB
418:Those who pursue the process of living are those who create the history ~ Peter Ackroyd, #NFDB
419:Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it. ~ Earl Sweatshirt, #NFDB
420:You do not just wake up and become the butterfly"
-Growth is a process. ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
421:Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
422:Bernie Sanders brought millions of people into the political process. ~ Elizabeth Warren, #NFDB
423:Drawings are not just end products: they are part of the thought process ~ Nicholas Carr, #NFDB
424:Fear is part of the process. If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble. ~ Bruce Jenner, #NFDB
425:Frankly, I've never felt voting to be all that essential to the process. ~ Gerald R Ford, #NFDB
426:It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series. ~ Carlton Cuse, #NFDB
427:Lean Startup: the application of lean thinking to the process of innovation. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
428:Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset, #NFDB
429:Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
430:Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
431:So the whole process of spirituality is just about enhancing your perception. ~ Sadhguru, #NFDB
432:Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process. ~ R Buckminster Fuller, #NFDB
433:The Folklore process is like playing a centuries-long game of "telephone. ~ Dana M Baird, #NFDB
434:The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember. ~ Phoebe Stone, #NFDB
435:The process of devolution would sweep this away like it had everything else. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
436:Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see. ~ Henry Adams, #NFDB
437:We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process. ~ Patrick McHenry, #NFDB
438:We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
~ Plato,#NFDB
439:We mine our greatest value through the process of proactive thinking ~ Julian Pencilliah, #NFDB
440:What we perceive as reality is a process that involves our consciousness. ~ Robert Lanza, #NFDB
441:You do not just wake up and become the butterfly.
- Growth is a process. ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
442:An injury is not just a process of recovery it's a process of discovery. ~ Conor McGregor, #NFDB
443:Concentration is a process of distraction from less important matters. It ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
444:Death has no reality except as a process of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Life, #NFDB
445:Every experience I have benefits me. I am in the process of positive change. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
446:I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
447:I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long. ~ Kiri Te Kanawa, #NFDB
448:I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process. ~ Karisma Kapoor, #NFDB
449:I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else. ~ Josephine Jacobsen, #NFDB
450:I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process. ~ Joan Armatrading, #NFDB
451:Is it truly worth saving your life if you lose your soul in the process? ~ Aprilynne Pike, #NFDB
452:Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
453:Naming an emotion begins the process of regulating it and reflecting on it. ~ Sue Johnson, #NFDB
454:People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness. ~ Christopher Alexander, #NFDB
455:People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment. ~ David Frum, #NFDB
456:Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process. ~ Arthur M Schlesinger Jr, #NFDB
457:The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning. ~ Tariq Ramadan, #NFDB
458:This life stage requires a constant process of adjustment and accommodation ~ Mary Pipher, #NFDB
459:Visualize yourself effortlessly enjoying the process of achieving your goals. ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
460:you do not just wake up and become the butterfly
- growth is a process ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
461:And the process, the ritual, quieted the hum of his mind so he could write. ~ James Renner, #NFDB
462:Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
463:Branding is the process of connecting good strategy with good creativity. ~ Marty Neumeier, #NFDB
464:Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process... ~ Tavi Gevinson, #NFDB
465:I am healthy. I wish all my colleagues to the peace process to be healthy. ~ Yitzhak Rabin, #NFDB
466:I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process. ~ Matthew McConaughey, #NFDB
467:I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one. ~ Mike Nichols, #NFDB
468:I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process. ~ George Saunders, #NFDB
469:I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own. ~ Loretta Devine, #NFDB
470:I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein, #NFDB
471:It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors. ~ Doug Liman, #NFDB
472:Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed. ~ Carl Rogers, #NFDB
473:Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception. ~ Dick Gephardt, #NFDB
474:Love is a process in which ego is lost and infinity is experienced. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi, #NFDB
475:My disability makes this rather a slow process, so I had plenty of time. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
476:Process is only the foundation upon which a great company culture can develop. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
477:Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being. ~ Lolly Daskal, #NFDB
478:The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. ~ Marya Mannes, #NFDB
479:The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process. ~ Laurent Fabius, #NFDB
480:Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process. ~ Barry Goldwater, #NFDB
481:We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection. ~ Plato, #NFDB
482:Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
483:You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process. ~ Lucinda Williams, #NFDB
484:All tamed things are made a bit ridiculous in the process, you know. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
485:All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. ~ Chuck Close, #NFDB
486:Asking is the first step in the Creative Process, so make it a habit to ask. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
487:Deduction is a classic logical process where you draw conclusions from premises. ~ Blinkist, #NFDB
488:Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
489:every leader who strived for power somehow ended up corrupted in the process. ~ Morgan Rice, #NFDB
490:Feel exhilarated by this whole process. You want to be high, happy, in tune. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
491:I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well. ~ Steve Hackett, #NFDB
492:Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process. ~ Kurt Lewin, #NFDB
493:Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do. ~ Warren Farrell, #NFDB
494:Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
495:Sanctification is the process of learning increasing dependence, not autonomy. ~ Jen Wilkin, #NFDB
496:Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach. ~ Adel al Jubeir, #NFDB
497:There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
498:We do need to make sure that we have an orderly, lawful immigration process. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
499:Yes, we are small. We are also a piece of this great universe and a process. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
500:A process of genocide is being carried out before the eyes of the world. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
501:As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process. ~ Kate Bush, #NFDB
502:But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films. ~ Taylor Hackford, #NFDB
503:Can’t stand war. Gets in the way of order and process and all the good things ~ Shannon Hale, #NFDB
504:Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life. ~ David Gerrold, #NFDB
505:Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value ~ John Kao, #NFDB
506:Evolution is a design process; it’s just not an intelligent design process. ~ Jonathan Haidt, #NFDB
507:Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness. ~ Richard Brautigan, #NFDB
508:if every baby was a perfect miracle, life was basically a process of degeneration. ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
509:If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process. ~ Aimee Mann, #NFDB
510:It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel. ~ James Allen, #NFDB
511:It is the process of mis-education that inhibits the full potential of a nation. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
512:It's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
513:Life is a constant process of change with which views and values must keep up. ~ Yusuf Idris, #NFDB
514:life is a process not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ~ Edward M Hallowell, #NFDB
515:Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
~ Jos Ortega y Gasset,#NFDB
516:Night a process of the eternal light ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #NFDB
517:One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange. ~ Dizzy Gillespie, #NFDB
518:process check”) and asked the members to reflect upon their own interaction. ~ Irvin D Yalom, #NFDB
519:Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
520:She’d loved him too much and given too much of herself away in the process. ~ Monica McCarty, #NFDB
521:Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity. ~ Erving Goffman, #NFDB
522:Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
523:Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution ~ Steven Pinker, #NFDB
524:We need to fall in love with the process, not just the end product of our work. ~ Todd Henry, #NFDB
525:You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job. ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
526:Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process. ~ Bonnie Blair, #NFDB
527:A recursive definition does not necessarily lead to a recursive process. ~ Gerald Jay Sussman, #NFDB
528:Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible. ~ Andy Grove, #NFDB
529:Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. ~ R Buckminster Fuller, #NFDB
530:Getting in touch with unmet needs is important to the healing process. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg, #NFDB
531:I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process. ~ Curtis Hanson, #NFDB
532:If absence makes the heart grow stronger, it also wounds in the process. ~ Claudette Melanson, #NFDB
533:I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process. ~ Demi Moore, #NFDB
534:I know I must walk through God’s process before I see His fulfilled promise. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
535:I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
536:My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
537:The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
538:There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
539:The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful ~ Monica Denise Brown, #NFDB
540:When something good becomes a god, the pleasure it brings dies in the process. ~ Kyle Idleman, #NFDB
541:You're always kind of shifting and changing and it's a really exciting process. ~ Chuck Ragan, #NFDB
542:You want to continue to be run by great products, not process for it's own sake. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
543:Above all, be patient. Transforming yourself and your life is a gradual process. ~ Roger Walsh, #NFDB
544:Acknowledging pain, disappointment and suffering is part of the healing process. ~ Cathy Glass, #NFDB
545:A film is a process of thinking that is not opposed to an emotional process. ~ Lucrecia Martel, #NFDB
546:But what good is the popular opinion, if the lot of us just process like minions? ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
547:chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being. ~ James Gleick, #NFDB
548:Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, #NFDB
549:Death may be a one-time event, but living with terminal illness is a process. ~ Paul Kalanithi, #NFDB
550:each type of sensory information takes a different amount of time to process. ~ David Eagleman, #NFDB
551:Everything is in the process of becoming something else. It’s the law of change. ~ C J Roberts, #NFDB
552:I don't really have a process. I just start working and keep going until it's done. ~ Rob Crow, #NFDB
553:in the process. “No problem. Want me to take a look?” “Not now. I do not ~ Matthew FitzSimmons, #NFDB
554:Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around. ~ Julia Louis Dreyfus, #NFDB
555:[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively. ~ Kenneth E Boulding, #NFDB
556:SEO is all about catching buyers when they are already in the purchase process, ~ John Jantsch, #NFDB
557:Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
558:The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
559:The first step in this process of mindfulness is radical self-acceptance . ~ Stephen Batchelor, #NFDB
560:The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
561:True growth is a process which one allows to happen rather than causes to happen. ~ Gerald May, #NFDB
562:Why not do as much as you can, and learn as much as you can about each process? ~ Cam Gigandet, #NFDB
563:Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
564:After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
565:All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time. ~ Friedrich Engels, #NFDB
566:A proper bond between two people is severely damaged if the process is rushed. ~ James C Dobson, #NFDB
567:Death may be a one time event but living with a terminal illness is a process. ~ Paul Kalanithi, #NFDB
568:Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
569:Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation. ~ Scott D Anthony, #NFDB
570:Flirting is the first step in a long process of finding the right man or woman. ~ Julie Garwood, #NFDB
571:For Mary Jackson, life was a long process of raising one's expectations. ~ Margot Lee Shetterly, #NFDB
572:I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work. ~ Christian Slater, #NFDB
573:I’m still trying to process the fact that I have two girls in my bed right now. ~ Kandi Steiner, #NFDB
574:Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of less worth? ~ Bernd Heinrich, #NFDB
575:I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: ~ John B S Haldane, #NFDB
576:It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
577:Life is mad all the time. Our task is to not let it make us mad in the process. ~ Sarah MacLean, #NFDB
578:Numerous studies show that an excess of proteins accelerates the aging process. ~ Kris Verburgh, #NFDB
579:One cannot do such harm to another and not wound one’s own soul in the process. ~ Sophie Hannah, #NFDB
580:The mind is very powerful. It knows what we can’t handle, what we can’t process. ~ Sejal Badani, #NFDB
581:There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. ~ Joy Williams, #NFDB
582:[the writer] must copy, with his finite mind, the process of the infinite 'I AM. ~ John Gardner, #NFDB
583:they’re destroying their environment. In the process, they’re becoming not-men! ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
584:They showed considerable anxiety because they were in the process of loving beauty. ~ Rollo May, #NFDB
585:To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me. ~ Stephen Hopkins, #NFDB
586:What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it. ~ Michael Koryta, #NFDB
587:What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn? ~ Peter Ustinov, #NFDB
588:With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind. ~ Theodore White, #NFDB
589:A human is not a being; he is a becoming. He is an ongoing process, nothing is fixed. ~ Sadhguru, #NFDB
590:Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves. ~ Destiny Allison, #NFDB
591:Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
592:Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience. ~ Siva Vaidhyanathan, #NFDB
593:Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process. ~ Lawrence M Miller, #NFDB
594:Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process. ~ Glen Duncan, #NFDB
595:I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist. ~ Mark Lynas, #NFDB
596:I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process. ~ Elton John, #NFDB
597:I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
598:I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process. ~ Vincent van Gogh, #NFDB
599:It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something that is in process. ~ Denise Levertov, #NFDB
600:I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers. ~ Dean Ornish, #NFDB
601:I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process. ~ Rowan Williams, #NFDB
602:Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
603:No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process. ~ Louis L Amour, #NFDB
604:Over-thinking in your brain is anathema to the process of thinking on your feet. ~ Conan O Brien, #NFDB
605:people in the front line care as much about the proper process as those at the top. ~ W Chan Kim, #NFDB
606:Sometimes I think my life is nothing but one long process of bodily betrayal. ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
607:Stop thinking about drawing as an artistic process. Drawing is a thinking process. If ~ Dan Roam, #NFDB
608:The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process. ~ Donald Woods Winnicott, #NFDB
609:The entropy of a closed system never decreases. Every process must by law decay. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
610:The process of letting go is like taking a journey to the center of your being. ~ Darren Johnson, #NFDB
611:True horror is not in our stories, it's in our lives. Stories help us process it. ~ Ksenia Anske, #NFDB
612:We need to define gentrification as separate from the process of displacement. ~ Justin Davidson, #NFDB
613:We're all cracked vessels, and we're always in process, I think, every one of us. ~ Tavis Smiley, #NFDB
614:Becoming invincible is the process of immunising yourself against the monoculture. ~ Gordon White, #NFDB
615:Death may be a one-time event, but living with terminal illness is a process. It ~ Paul Kalanithi, #NFDB
616:During labor the most important thing is to get primal and surrender to the process. ~ Ricki Lake, #NFDB
617:Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process. ~ Sydney Pollack, #NFDB
618:I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process. ~ Ted Shackelford, #NFDB
619:If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry. ~ Carly Fiorina, #NFDB
620:I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
~ Albert Einstein,#NFDB
621:I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. ~ Vincent Van Gogh, #NFDB
622:It is up to India to take this opportunity to start ... a process of dialogue. ~ Pervez Musharraf, #NFDB
623:It's a never-ending process to try to make yourself the best person you possibly can. ~ Frank Mir, #NFDB
624:Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together. ~ Nikki Giovanni, #NFDB
625:Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process. ~ Stendhal, #NFDB
626:My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest. ~ Jeff Koons, #NFDB
627:Sanctification is the process in which we become more aware of how sinful we are. ~ R C Sproul Jr, #NFDB
628:solutions are beyond the reach of the electoral process and legislative process. ~ Charles Murray, #NFDB
629:The easiest part of the writing process is whichever part I’m not currently doing. ~ Scott Tracey, #NFDB
630:The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts. ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
631:The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
632:The pursuit of excellence is a continuous process through life. Enjoy the pursuit. ~ Elaine Chao, #NFDB
633:The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB
634:We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story. ~ Christina Baldwin, #NFDB
635:we learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without. ~ Brenda Shoshanna, #NFDB
636:A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
637:Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
638:CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior. ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
639:Don't try to stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom. ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
640:Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
641:For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
642:God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction. ~ Meister Eckhart, #NFDB
643:Going mad is the beginning of a process, it's not meant to be the end result. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
644:I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person. ~ Chelsea Clinton, #NFDB
645:I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control. ~ Maya Lin, #NFDB
646:I can't read Mason & Dixon, since my mind's so shitty, I can't process it! ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
647:Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown. ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB
648:In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice. ~ Billy Collins, #NFDB
649:I think at this point, safety isn't a feeling, it's a process. Starting with trust. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
650:I trust the process of life. Only right and good action is taking place in my life. ~ Louise L Hay, #NFDB
651:I try to only vent when I really need to process something, and let the rest go. ~ Michelle Gielan, #NFDB
652:No one can "get" an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process. ~ Louis L Amour, #NFDB
653:Perspective is the most powerful element in the process of reality creation. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
654:Politics is the process by which a society chooses the rules that will govern it. ~ Daron Acemo lu, #NFDB
655:Process improvement is most valuable in raising the floor of a community's practice. ~ Fred Brooks, #NFDB
656:Sometimes you have to forgive the process, knowing that the outcome is for the best. ~ Beth Ciotta, #NFDB
657:The immunological paradigm proves incompatible with the process of globalization. ~ Byung Chul Han, #NFDB
658:the process of creating an identity is and should be spirited and full of imagination. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
659:There are two parts to the process: taking the picture and finding ways of using it. ~ Martin Parr, #NFDB
660:The truth can set us free, but only if we're always in the process of discovering it. ~ Irwin Kula, #NFDB
661:We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image. ~ Barnett Newman, #NFDB
662:When you change the way you process the world, the world you’re processing changes. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
663:By handling each sentimental item and deciding what to discard, you process your past. ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
664:day a product development process starts, it is behind schedule and above budget. ~ Donald A Norman, #NFDB
665:Frustration is not an interruption of your process; frustration is the process. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
666:Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
667:It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads. ~ Gerry Adams, #NFDB
668:it's not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process, ~ Jon Gordon, #NFDB
669:...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing. ~ Joao Magueijo, #NFDB
670:I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something ~ George Saunders, #NFDB
671:Law of economy: nothing is waste. Even the unreal. What a sublimity in the process. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
672:Life is a process of storms and rebuilding, of fires and regrowth, of loss and gain. ~ Lisa Wingate, #NFDB
673:Play is the state of mind that we can use in our creative process to our advantage. ~ Jessica Walsh, #NFDB
674:Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming. ~ Paulo Freire, #NFDB
675:The danger is never in loving someone — but losing your identity in the process. ~ Rachel Van Dyken, #NFDB
676:The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi, #NFDB
677:The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person. ~ Asa Don Brown, #NFDB
678:The process of neoliberalization has, however, entailed much ‘creative destruction’, ~ David Harvey, #NFDB
679:The ultimate solutions to problems are rational; the process of finding them is not. ~ J P Guilford, #NFDB
680:We invent ourselves out of ingredients we didn't choose, by a process we can't control. ~ Lew Welch, #NFDB
681:Who knows what harm may be done to a man by hurrying a spiritual process in him? ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
682:Writing helps me process things, but these emotions are too much, too foreign. And ~ Katherine Reay, #NFDB
683:Because falling in love doesn't have to mean dropping your best friend in the process. ~ Holly Smale, #NFDB
684:Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
685:Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
686:I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era. ~ Michael Jordan, #NFDB
687:I could give a flying crap about the political process. We're an entertainment company. ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
688:I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking. ~ Tasha Smith, #NFDB
689:Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form. ~ Watts Humphrey, #NFDB
690:In other words, the process of observation determines the final state of the electron. ~ Michio Kaku, #NFDB
691:In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds, ~ Jon Meacham, #NFDB
692:In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion. ~ Alexander Schmemann, #NFDB
693:It is so cool to have a fanbase that has been so involved since the casting process. ~ Jade Hassoune, #NFDB
694:It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book. ~ Seth Grahame Smith, #NFDB
695:One summer I worked at Estée Lauder, and I really enjoyed the whole creative process. ~ Aerin Lauder, #NFDB
696:The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. ~ Carl Rogers, #NFDB
697:The international community will not accept such threats to the political process. ~ Bernardino Leon, #NFDB
698:The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
699:the process turned into a competition among coproducers angling for songwriting credits, ~ Joe Perry, #NFDB
700:There are probably times where the creative process is not helped by collaboration. ~ Philippa Perry, #NFDB
701:There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand. ~ Philip Guston, #NFDB
702:The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive. ~ Ridley Scott, #NFDB
703:...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing. ~ Pat Metheny, #NFDB
704:We have to learn to interrogate our data collection process, not just our algorithms. ~ Cathy O Neil, #NFDB
705:Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law. ~ Andy Griffith, #NFDB
706:Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information. ~ Robert Creeley, #NFDB
707:Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress. ~ Vera Farmiga, #NFDB
708:I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions. ~ Mark Kozelek, #NFDB
709:INNOVATION IS NEVER A LINEAR PROCESS. IT’S ALWAYS MESSY AND OFTEN HAPPENS IN RANDOM WAYS. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
710:It is the silence-breaking cry that begins the process that turns pain into joy. ~ Walter Brueggemann, #NFDB
711:Just as code benefits from a test-first approach, so does the entire development process. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
712:lean manufacturing, a process that originated in Japan with the Toyota Production System, ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
713:Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB
714:Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself. ~ Germaine Greer, #NFDB
715:The ego urges you to accomplish, while the soul merely asks you to enjoy the process. ~ Doreen Virtue, #NFDB
716:The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
717:"There is a constant influx of the unconscious into the conscious psychological process." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
718:There was never a really serious, thought-out process for delivering arms appropriately. ~ Guy Lawson, #NFDB
719:We are aspects of Divinity, in the process of knowing ourselves experientially. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
720:With each project, whether it's an album or a mixtape, I try to learn more in the process. ~ Yo Gotti, #NFDB
721:You can build your whole life on ‘what if’s’ and grow old with regret in the process. ~ Sophie Barnes, #NFDB
722:At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
723:Buddhism is the process of getting to that part of us that is always eternally happy. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
724:Civilization is perhaps nothing but a process of finding out what you cannot have. ~ Sherwood Anderson, #NFDB
725:Clarity is the ability of the process to be communicated and understood by the people. ~ Thom S Rainer, #NFDB
726:Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill. ~ Jim Highsmith, #NFDB
727:Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
728:I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore. ~ Joaquin Phoenix, #NFDB
729:Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time. ~ Marc Jacobs, #NFDB
730:In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
731:In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects. ~ Wilhelm Dilthey, #NFDB
732:It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process. ~ David Souter, #NFDB
733:It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions. ~ David Holmgren, #NFDB
734:I would say it's like a meditative process, to have everything done for you every morning. ~ Joan Chen, #NFDB
735:Language. The process of sharing with words seemed such a futile exercise sometimes. ~ Guy Gavriel Kay, #NFDB
736:Life is a process--just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again. ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
737:Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling. ~ River Phoenix, #NFDB
738:My process of preparing for any type of psychic work is to meditate and pray the rosary. ~ John Edward, #NFDB
739:Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz. ~ Wynton Marsalis, #NFDB
740:Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same ~ Edward Hirsch, #NFDB
741:Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
742:Power can be taken but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
743:Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
744:She wondered how trees became petrified, if the same process worked with a human heart. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
745:Something had broken between us. But, in the process, something had also been repaired. ~ Aly Martinez, #NFDB
746:The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. ~ Carl R Rogers, #NFDB
747:The process by which money is created is so simple that the mind is repelled. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith, #NFDB
748:This love, it has been worth it—even if I'm losing a piece of my heart in the process. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
749:What am I? The data? The process that generates it? The relationships between the numbers? ~ Greg Egan, #NFDB
750:When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
751:A bad process wastes your brain cycles. A good process leverages them to maximum advantage. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
752:Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
753:A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively. ~ Mario Bellini, #NFDB
754:...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain. ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
755:Change: nothing inherently bad in the process, nothing inherently good in the result. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
756:I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process. ~ Tim Kaine, #NFDB
757:I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me. ~ Charles Krauthammer, #NFDB
758:I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life. ~ Vik Sahay, #NFDB
759:I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do. ~ Pattiann Rogers, #NFDB
760:In this way, the process of building habits is actually the process of becoming yourself. ~ James Clear, #NFDB
761:It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process. ~ Stephen Gardiner, #NFDB
762:It’s really a simple process: You ask a great question, then you seek out a great answer. ~ Gary Keller, #NFDB
763:It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent. ~ Penelope Cruz, #NFDB
764:I've got to see the Brexit process through. We've won the war but we must win the peace. ~ Nigel Farage, #NFDB
765:Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes. ~ Marilyn vos Savant, #NFDB
766:Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
767:Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in. ~ Richard Saul Wurman, #NFDB
768:life began on Mars and later seeded life on Earth, a process known as panspermia. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
769:Losing someone is hard enough. But death without the process of dying is an abomination. ~ Julia Whelan, #NFDB
770:Meditation alone cannot heal the world, but it can and does speed up the healing process. ~ Darren Main, #NFDB
771:Nothing at all can prevent the universal process of birth, growth, decay, and death. ~ Joseph Goldstein, #NFDB
772:People who take on complicated creative projects become lost at some point in the process. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
773:Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
774:Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. ~ Jean Piaget, #NFDB
775:Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion? ~ Oliver Heaviside, #NFDB
776:Simple should apply to the outcome of a solid, thoughtful, complicated & messy process. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
777:The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted. ~ Rita Levi Montalcini, #NFDB
778:The purpose of process standards is to act as a baseline for continuous improvement. ~ Mary Poppendieck, #NFDB
779:There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB
780:The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious ~ Edward F Edinger, #NFDB
781:You are always in the process of creating. Every moment. Every minute. Every day. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
782:Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role. ~ George C Scott, #NFDB
783:A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing. ~ Nicole Brossard, #NFDB
784:Daytime thinking is a building process, whereas nighttime thinking is a sorting process. ~ Caroline Leaf, #NFDB
785:...Discipleship...a process of unleashing the creative potential in each person. ~ Erwin Raphael McManus, #NFDB
786:Don’t break my heart Charlie.”
“If I break yours mine will shatter within the process. ~ Meghan March,#NFDB
787:Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process. ~ Lynn Collins, #NFDB
788:Healing is a delicate process. It can't be interrupted or influenced by erratic emotions. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
789:Hoarding isn't about how much stuff someone has, it's about how they process those things. ~ Matt Paxton, #NFDB
790:If you have a vision, no matter how difficult things are, everything just becomes a process. ~ Cher Wang, #NFDB
791:If you want to be a “sending” church, you have to develop a process for producing leaders.4 ~ J D Greear, #NFDB
792:In order to make something, Ms. Lane, you must first unmake what is in the process. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
793:I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one. ~ Farley Mowat, #NFDB
794:Maybe it doesn’t matter how much gets done. Maybe the value is in the process—in ~ Christina Baker Kline, #NFDB
795:People who become important activists, they also struggle with the process of discovery. ~ Vijay Prashad, #NFDB
796:Pride and self-hate belong inseparably together; they are two expressions of one process. ~ Karen Horney, #NFDB
797:Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
798:Research needs to be integrated into process and workflow or it will get shoved in a corner. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
799:The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. ~ Carol Grace, #NFDB
800:The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
801:The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process. ~ Masanobu Fukuoka, #NFDB
802:The new universality consists in feeling that the ground is in the process of giving way. ~ Bruno Latour, #NFDB
803:The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith, #NFDB
804:There is nearly always uh, a process of wanting contingency plans made in the military. ~ McGeorge Bundy, #NFDB
805:There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process. ~ Richard Masur, #NFDB
806:while God does want to reach our hearts, He does not bypass our minds in the process. ~ Norman L Geisler, #NFDB
807:Wouldn’t you rather treat yourself well in the process of changing into a better person? ~ Stephen Guise, #NFDB
808:AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
809:Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress. ~ Nathaniel Branden, #NFDB
810:Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping. ~ Julia Margaret Cameron, #NFDB
811:Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. ~ Andr Breton, #NFDB
812:Hurry Who knows what harm may be done to a man by hurrying a spiritual process in him? ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
813:I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country. ~ Rand Paul, #NFDB
814:I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process. ~ Joseph Brodsky, #NFDB
815:If he goes down, he is to get up, and continue to fight, until I finish the process. ~ Wladimir Klitschko, #NFDB
816:If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director. ~ Maggie Smith, #NFDB
817:India's growth rate will be accelerated, but in the process, America would also benefit. ~ Manmohan Singh, #NFDB
818:In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process. ~ Emma Watson, #NFDB
819:In the mere observation of yourself, you begin the process of healing and transformation. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
820:Leaders are creators. They bring their visions to fruitition through the creative process. ~ Phil Pringle, #NFDB
821:Process can not be inferred from product any more than a pig can be inferred from a sausage. ~ Don Murray, #NFDB
822:That fire was a part of the process for anyone desiring a strong relationship with God. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
823:The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
824:We face danger whenever information growth outpaces our understanding of how to process it. ~ Nate Silver, #NFDB
825:What good is the legal process if people can decide their motives are bigger than the law? ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
826:You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation. ~ Stanley Crouch, #NFDB
827:Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been. ~ David Bowie, #NFDB
828:All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines. ~ Amar Bose, #NFDB
829:Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally. ~ Joseph Barbera, #NFDB
830:Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process. ~ Rem Koolhaas, #NFDB
831:Education is the process by which one mind forms another mind, and one heart, another heart. ~ Jules Simon, #NFDB
832:Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. ~ Andre Breton, #NFDB
833:I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. ~ Jennifer Egan, #NFDB
834:I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. ~ Jennifer Egan, #NFDB
835:I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction. ~ Sefi Atta, #NFDB
836:I kept telling myself this word, process. Focus on my process, don't care about the result. ~ Rory McIlroy, #NFDB
837:Innocence isn't a set of house keys. You don't just up and lose it one day. It's a process. ~ Jael McHenry, #NFDB
838:In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart. ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
839:Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process. ~ Alfred Hitchcock, #NFDB
840:Slowly she began to process her thoughts. As always, some were painful, others whimsical. ~ Brian Rathbone, #NFDB
841:Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been. ~ Martin Heidegger, #NFDB
842:The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography. ~ Jerry Uelsmann, #NFDB
843:The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
844:They don't understand the process I went through and how much I had to believe in myself. ~ Curtis Jackson, #NFDB
845:We said that pledges made in the peace process need to be fulfilled as soon as possible. ~ Ahmet Davutoglu, #NFDB
846:Who ever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. ~ James O Barr, #NFDB
847:Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. ~ Sophie Jordan, #NFDB
848:A family is created throughout the process, and it's always difficult when you lose someone. ~ Daniela Ruah, #NFDB
849:A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB
850:But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized. ~ Shane Koyczan, #NFDB
851:Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients. ~ Henry Dreyfuss, #NFDB
852:Each person is unique; each situation is unique. Try to tap into your own healing process. ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB
853:Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
854:Going through the legislative process is always better, in part because it's harder to undo. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
855:Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective. ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
856:If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you are doing ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB
857:If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB
858:I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process. ~ Alexa Chung, #NFDB
859:I hate rushing the creative process, but there could definitely be a lot worse lots in life. ~ Carson Ellis, #NFDB
860:I put my heart and soul into my work, and have half lost my mind in the process.' Van Gogh ~ Ingo F Walther, #NFDB
861:It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about it. ~ Ella T Grasso, #NFDB
862:I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town. ~ Taryn Manning, #NFDB
863:I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it. ~ Lucinda Williams, #NFDB
864:Mindfulness can encourage creativity when the focus is on the process and not the product. ~ Ellen J Langer, #NFDB
865:My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time. ~ Hayao Miyazaki, #NFDB
866:No one owes you a great career, it argues; you need to earn it—and the process won’t be easy. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
867:One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?' ~ John Zorn, #NFDB
868:Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
869:People process death and tragedy differently. In my experience, there’s no right or wrong way. ~ Mark Pryor, #NFDB
870:The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
871:The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process. ~ Barbara Coloroso, #NFDB
872:The Boston Red Sox were obsessed with outcomes; he with process. That’s what kept him sane. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
873:The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort. ~ Terence McKenna, #NFDB
874:The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process. It really is fundamental. ~ Jonathan Ive, #NFDB
875:To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB
876:To even get feedback from our integration process would require twenty-four to thirty-six hours. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
877:Using the ‘military decision-making process’ is extremely valuable when making policy decisions. ~ Joe Heck, #NFDB
878:you could not love what you fully understood. Love, she maintained, was a process; not a state. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
879:Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
880:Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. ~ Robert Anton Wilson, #NFDB
881:Design isn’t always about the final result. It’s also about the process, who created it and why. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
882:Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
883:First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures. ~ George J Mitchell, #NFDB
884:... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless. ~ David Malouf, #NFDB
885:I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something. ~ Amy Lee, #NFDB
886:I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me. ~ Nicola Formichetti, #NFDB
887:It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college. ~ Margaret Spellings, #NFDB
888:I've crashed into another bad wall of karma and in the process lost my lightness of being. ~ Sarah Macdonald, #NFDB
889:Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience ~ David A Kolb, #NFDB
890:[Of] particular importance is the relationship between education and the political process. ~ Jonathan Kozol, #NFDB
891:Our behaviour towards others is based on what we see and how we process our observation. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB
892:Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
893:Sometimes it felt like life was more a process of elimination than a series of choices. ~ Anthony Ray Hinton, #NFDB
894:The aging process is more traumatic for those who think they can control the passage of time. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
895:The longer we lived with it the more we wanted something less about process and more about life. ~ Sam Abell, #NFDB
896:The process involved a good deal of pain, but without such pain nothing would be resolved. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
897:The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. ~ Joanne Harris, #NFDB
898:The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear. ~ Lynn Collins, #NFDB
899:Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
900:We can make America a clean-energy super-power and create good-paying jobs in the process. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
901:What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing. ~ Alan Rickman, #NFDB
902:Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. ~ Gavin de Becker, #NFDB
903:Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
904:You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
905:Attunement requires presence but is a process of focused attention and clear perception. We ~ Daniel J Siegel, #NFDB
906:Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. ~ Robert Anton Wilson, #NFDB
907:Do not even think of putting your things away until you have finished the process of discarding. ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
908:Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic. ~ Edward Albee, #NFDB
909:Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with. ~ Bruce Vento, #NFDB
910:I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
911:I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting. ~ John Landgraf, #NFDB
912:I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy. ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB
913:It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical. ~ John Cusack, #NFDB
914:It's easy to say you're more mature because all of a sudden you have a child, but it's a process. ~ Tony Romo, #NFDB
915:I was so lucky that I didn't have to audition. It's just such a grueling process, in itself. ~ Moon Bloodgood, #NFDB
916:I would say that working with Ridley Scott makes the process of directing much more terrifying. ~ Jon Spaihts, #NFDB
917:Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life. ~ Diane Wakoski, #NFDB
918:Man is in the process of changing to forms of light that are not of this world.
~ Emerald Tablets of Thoth,#NFDB
919:Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind ~ George Gaylord Simpson, #NFDB
920:No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting ~ Patrick Lencioni, #NFDB
921:Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one ~ William James, #NFDB
922:Recognize that getting a Hedgehog Concept is an inherently iterative process, not an event. ~ James C Collins, #NFDB
923:Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process. ~ Orrin Woodward, #NFDB
924:The most effectual process is that of improving the condition of man by means of his interest. ~ Thomas Paine, #NFDB
925:We have been in the process of reprogramming men and the way they are raised for a long time. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
926:What kind of material process is directly associated with consciousness? ~ Erwin Schrödinger, Mind and Matter, #NFDB
927:What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process. ~ Barney Frank, #NFDB
928:Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself. ~ Edward Hirsch, #NFDB
929:A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself. ~ Jacques Monod, #NFDB
930:Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
931:Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
932:Forgiveness isn't simply an option or a good idea; it is mandatory for our restorative process. ~ Grace Gealey, #NFDB
933:Here we believe that God has already done His part; now it is up to us to continue the process. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
934:In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting. ~ Kenneth E Boulding, #NFDB
935:Instead of command and control, managing the creative process is about facilitating and permitting. ~ John Kao, #NFDB
936:Leaders have to balance two often competing demands on the business — People and Process. This ~ Verne Harnish, #NFDB
937:Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process. ~ Eyvind Kang, #NFDB
938:Memory,' wrote the Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, is a process of organizing what to forget. ~ Ben Ehrenreich, #NFDB
939:No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting. ~ Patrick Lencioni, #NFDB
940:One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't. ~ Martin Fowler, #NFDB
941:People digest and process music differently, and I'm sure that was the case even when I was a kid. ~ Ed Droste, #NFDB
942:Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated. ~ Martha Whitmore Hickman, #NFDB
943:The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process. ~ Peter Bart, #NFDB
944:The process of sanctifying life could thus almost take on the character of a business enterprise. ~ Max Weber, #NFDB
945:To feel human and not useless, she had a need to process and discover and think and speculate. ~ Kendra Elliot, #NFDB
946:We’re in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
947:When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas. ~ Catherine Hardwicke, #NFDB
948:Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
949:All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
950:A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
951:A value is a direction we desire to keep moving in, an ongoing process that never reaches an end. ~ Russ Harris, #NFDB
952:By asking people for their input early in the process, you help them feel invested in the outcome. ~ Jake Knapp, #NFDB
953:Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you. ~ Charles Ghigna, #NFDB
954:Forgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another. ~ Asa Don Brown, #NFDB
955:Forgiveness took time, I decided. It was a process. Better to start slowly than not at all. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
956:Give me down. And give me the Polaroids of the fifty geese that had to die in the process. ~ Augusten Burroughs, #NFDB
957:I am not working to earn a living, but I am living movies. I am finding me enjoying the process. ~ Katrina Kaif, #NFDB
958:If i have to make her hate me in order to save her, I Will , Even if it destroys me in the process ~ M S Willis, #NFDB
959:In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private ~ Monica Bellucci, #NFDB
960:Is it any wonder somebody like Donald Trump is racing through the presidential primary process? ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
961:It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music. ~ Nancy Kerrigan, #NFDB
962:It’s a continual process of opening and surrender, like taking off layer after layer of clothes, ~ Pema Ch dr n, #NFDB
963:I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way. ~ Emilie Autumn, #NFDB
964:Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
965:much more than a design process: “It was an incredible catalyst for internal and external change. ~ David Airey, #NFDB
966:outcomes are what matter—not the process, not controls, or, for that matter, what work you complete. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
967:The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set. ~ Atom Egoyan, #NFDB
968:the process of evolution does not necessarily mean elevation, enhancement, strengthening. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
969:The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. ~ Diane Johnson, #NFDB
970:We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
971:When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process. ~ Jim Hodges, #NFDB
972:When this synthesis has once been made, no matter by what process, it repeats itself automatically. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
973:Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
974:Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point. ~ Wes Anderson, #NFDB
975:A novel in progress doesn't have a clear, forward process. It’s messy, like a beloved, balky child. ~ Kay Kenyon, #NFDB
976:As an individual, you are entitled to your time of grief, process of grief, and right to grieve. ~ Asa Don Brown, #NFDB
977:Childhood is a process of slowly recomposing oneself out of the borrowed materials of the world. ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
978:Falling in love makes the unknown
known. Falling out of love
reverses the process. ~ Glen Duncan,#NFDB
979:Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
980:I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again. ~ Marc Forster, #NFDB
981:I believe that anyone who wants to wear a thong should have to go through an application process. ~ Bill Engvall, #NFDB
982:If the entire boarding process was faster to begin with, many people might not pay extra to skip it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
983:I think that the process of making a film is an underrated factor in how that film turns out. ~ Daniel Radcliffe, #NFDB
984:Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
985:Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
986:Once you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier. ~ Jared Spool, #NFDB
987:People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before dying. The process is called "Living ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
988:sometimes the glory was in rebuilding the broken thing, not the result but the process of trying. ~ Brit Bennett, #NFDB
989:There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries. ~ Judy Woodruff, #NFDB
990:Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what you are in the process of becoming ~ Esther Hicks, #NFDB
991:What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing. ~ Jonathan Tucker, #NFDB
992:Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
993:You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work. ~ Pell James, #NFDB
994:Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries. ~ Peter Thomas Bauer, #NFDB
995:arguing over process has become a way to endlessly defer making concrete plans for a better future. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
996:But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure. ~ Thomas Haden Church, #NFDB
997:Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. ~ Theobald Smith, #NFDB
998:Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team. ~ Jocko Willink, #NFDB
999:For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process. ~ Jim Jarmusch, #NFDB
1000:For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing. ~ Dan Chaon, #NFDB
1001:...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process. ~ Barbara Jordan, #NFDB
1002:If you spent your whole life trying to get rich, you only ended up wasting life in the process. ~ Iain Rob Wright, #NFDB
1003:In Norman’s mind, there were no enemies in war. Just victims. Victims of historical process. Heavy ~ Joe Haldeman, #NFDB
1004:In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1005:I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution. ~ Jonas Salk, #NFDB
1006:I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me. ~ Ang Lee, #NFDB
1007:Keep the process easy but effective by structuring your goal in this format: “I’m going to . ~ Roosh V, #NFDB
1008:Mary tossed her head back, a curly lock of blonde hair moved away from her eyes in the process. ~ Catherine Bybee, #NFDB
1009:Our democracy flourishes when people stand up for themselves and engage in the political process. ~ Maggie Hassan, #NFDB
1010:Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process. ~ Arthur Erickson, #NFDB
1011:Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey. ~ Jay Samit, #NFDB
1012:Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function. ~ Maynard James Keenan, #NFDB
1013:Still, history is the long process of outsourcing human ability in order to leverage more of it. ~ Richard Powers, #NFDB
1014:The dream is to be regarded, says Binz, "as a physical process always useless, frequently morbid. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB
1015:The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States. ~ Brendan Fraser, #NFDB
1016:The whole creative process...is putting opposites together into something that wasn't there before. ~ Doris Betts, #NFDB
1017:To be successful one must make change an ongoing process. Quality is a race with no finish line. ~ David T Kearns, #NFDB
1018:Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis. ~ Mike Johanns, #NFDB
1019:To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being. ~ James Gleick, #NFDB
1020:Usually the thought process for a seventeen-year-old boy went girl touching me > omg > boner. ~ Leah Raeder, #NFDB
1021:We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process... ~ Anthony Lane, #NFDB
1022:With a business, we take most failures less personally and understand they’re part of the process. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1023:Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1024:A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1025:Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it. ~ Joseph Kosinski, #NFDB
1026:Her face could have been an error, but some other process was at work. It was better than beauty. The ~ Emma Cline, #NFDB
1027:I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story. ~ Tom Clancy, #NFDB
1028:I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story. ~ Tom Clancy, #NFDB
1029:I just need to figure out how I can be a Slayer without losing what makes me Nina in the process. ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB
1030:I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors. ~ Judd Apatow, #NFDB
1031:It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics. ~ William Monahan, #NFDB
1032:Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
1033:Learning is a process of refining errors to the point where they no longer prevent our desired goal. ~ Dan Millman, #NFDB
1034:Meditation is the process of quieting one's mind, and letting go of the worries and stress of life. ~ Tim McCarthy, #NFDB
1035:My process is learn, decide, and do. I've never seen a problem that couldn't be solved this way. ~ Sebastian Thrun, #NFDB
1036:No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process ~ Fela Durotoye, #NFDB
1037:Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1038:sometimes the only solution when the data is very noisy—is to focus more on process than on results. ~ Nate Silver, #NFDB
1039:Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing. ~ James Taylor, #NFDB
1040:The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
1041:When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process. ~ Cate Blanchett, #NFDB
1042:Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ~ Chuck Klosterman, #NFDB
1043:As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1044:A tragedy is still a tragedy; pain is still pain, even if some insight is gained in the process. We ~ Kelly M Kapic, #NFDB
1045:Being in permanent campaign mode allows you to never stop the process of destroying your opponents. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
1046:But of course it was precisely this destruction process of my beloved Steinway that I had wanted. ~ Thomas Bernhard, #NFDB
1047:But the psychological process underlying radicalization is remarkably universal, terrorism experts say. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1048:Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change. ~ William Bridges, #NFDB
1049:Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error. ~ Benjamin Cardozo, #NFDB
1050:Education doesn't cease when you leave college or leave the university. Education is a lifetime process. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
1051:Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way. ~ Cass R Sunstein, #NFDB
1052:Error is the price we pay for progress. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929), #NFDB
1053:Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process. ~ E B White, #NFDB
1054:Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey. ~ Brad Feld, #NFDB
1055:For me, choreography is a process of physical thinking. It's very much in mind as well as in body. ~ Wayne McGregor, #NFDB
1056:Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else. ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
1057:Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process. ~ Leonard Maltin, #NFDB
1058:I am grateful for hands to tickle with. Not so grateful for that process in reverse, however. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
1059:I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best. ~ Townes Van Zandt, #NFDB
1060:I'll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process. ~ Bill Belichick, #NFDB
1061:Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average. ~ Fred Brooks, #NFDB
1062:I would ask [protesters] to please respect - I'd ask them to please respect the democratic process. ~ Rudy Giuliani, #NFDB
1063:Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
1064:Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
1065:Life is known to be a process of combustion; intellect is the light produced by this process. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
1066:Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
1067:Seduction is the process by which a man induces a woman to become as invested in him as he is in her. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
1068:...sometimes the glory was in rebuilding the broken thing, not the result but the process of trying. ~ Brit Bennett, #NFDB
1069:The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process. ~ Gianfranco Ferre, #NFDB
1070:The kind of information we seem most likely to process is stories: information that sounds dramatic. ~ Hans Rosling, #NFDB
1071:The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process. ~ Rosa Luxemburg, #NFDB
1072:The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic. ~ Kevin Spacey, #NFDB
1073:There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way. ~ Mike Love, #NFDB
1074:The sheer volume of bad news had gotten beyond anybody’s ability to process into a narrative. ~ Charlie Jane Anders, #NFDB
1075:The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB
1076:To be truly biblical, as well as truly effective, the growth process must include the Body of Christ. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
1077:To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies. ~ Mary Robinson, #NFDB
1078:To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult ~ Madonna Ciccone, #NFDB
1079:To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
1080:When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own. ~ Andre Naffis Sahely, #NFDB
1081:Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process. ~ Ursula Burns, #NFDB
1082:A book is a really long continuous process, which ideally, should be interrupted only by sleep. ~ Patricia Highsmith, #NFDB
1083:Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient. ~ Robin Cousins, #NFDB
1084:Any point in a process looks like the process was leading up to it if that's as far as you've gotten. ~ Steven Brust, #NFDB
1085:A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest. ~ Martin Heidegger, #NFDB
1086:autobiography is concerned with the consciousness of its creator in the process of creating himself. ~ David Shields, #NFDB
1087:Capital, therefore, announces from its first appearance a new epoch in the process of social production. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
1088:Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize. ~ Bill Walsh, #NFDB
1089:Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
1090:Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
1091:I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
1092:If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects. ~ Jim Highsmith, #NFDB
1093:I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills. ~ Kabir Bedi, #NFDB
1094:I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process. ~ Eddie Vedder, #NFDB
1095:Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process. ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
1096:I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance. ~ Richard Dreyfuss, #NFDB
1097:I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico. ~ Vicente Fox, #NFDB
1098:It’s a cruel process, aging. Take my advice, dear, maintain your independence as long as possible. ~ Jonathan Evison, #NFDB
1099:Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
1100:Life is a process of creation, and you keep living it as if it were a process of re-enactment! ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
1101:Meditation is not a process of getting rid of something, but one of opening and understanding. When ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
1102:My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest. ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
1103:Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
1104:Part of your process of becoming an adult is admitting to yourself that The Doors were a shitty band. ~ Moshe Kasher, #NFDB
1105:People's whole lives do pass in front of their eyes before they die. The process is called 'living ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1106:Self-awareness is the process of getting to know yourself from the inside out and the outside in. ~ Travis Bradberry, #NFDB
1107:Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. ~ Jane Addams, #NFDB
1108:The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity ~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, #NFDB
1109:The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are. ~ Henepola Gunaratana, #NFDB
1110:the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself. ~ Susan Sontag, #NFDB
1111:The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form. ~ Muriel Rukeyser, #NFDB
1112:There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution. ~ Julian Huxley, #NFDB
1113:… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element… ~ Derek Walcott, #NFDB
1114:The truth really does set you free — but what they don’t tell you is the process hurts like hell. ~ Rachel Van Dyken, #NFDB
1115:Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don’t know, not a weakness to avoid. ~ John Brockman, #NFDB
1116:We're making more and more decisions every day. I think a lot of us feel overloaded by the process. ~ Daniel Levitin, #NFDB
1117:What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
1118:When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting. ~ Ben Kingsley, #NFDB
1119:A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process. ~ A E Housman, #NFDB
1120:Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult. ~ Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, #NFDB
1121:A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
1122:Because I'm such a studio guy, I really trust my process. I really believe in myself in the studio. ~ Balthazar Getty, #NFDB
1123:Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert. ~ Paula Cole, #NFDB
1124:destruction. Turning to God can save your life, but, in the process, it can annihilate your soul. ~ Zia Haider Rahman, #NFDB
1125:Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading. ~ Robyn Hitchcock, #NFDB
1126:For Marx, capital is not a thing, but a process—a process, specifically, of the circulation of values. ~ David Harvey, #NFDB
1127:For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working. ~ Daniel Clowes, #NFDB
1128:If the actor has a problem, I can just go in and fix it right away. I think it speeds up the process. ~ Tommy Wirkola, #NFDB
1129:If you want to minimize the risk of catastrophe, you focus on the process much more than the outcome. ~ Megan McArdle, #NFDB
1130:I had to be happy with the process of writing.Each step you take is more rewarding than the one before. ~ Drew Magary, #NFDB
1131:I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me. ~ Mohamed ElBaradei, #NFDB
1132:In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process. ~ Matthea Harvey, #NFDB
1133:I think, for me, I'm always more interested in the process of making the movie than the movie itself ~ Gemma Arterton, #NFDB
1134:I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress. ~ George H W Bush, #NFDB
1135:Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for. ~ Janny Wurts, #NFDB
1136:People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living". ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1137:Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. ~ Arthur Eddington, #NFDB
1138:Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
1139:Struggle is actually something that is important to the process of understanding what true happiness is. ~ Ryan Allis, #NFDB
1140:Success is the process of having a wonderful experience going for, getting, and having what you want. ~ Michael Neill, #NFDB
1141:That’s what history is, really,” Bianca says, “the process for turning idiots into visionaries. ~ Charlie Jane Anders, #NFDB
1142:The process is not simply of constructing a new tonal from scratch, but reordering the one you have. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1143:Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1144:To make an idea become a reality is a process that fascinates me; otherwise it stays just an idea. ~ Delphine Arnault, #NFDB
1145:Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process. ~ Gyorgy Konrad, #NFDB
1146:Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product is meaningless. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1147:A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end. ~ Jonathan Ive, #NFDB
1148:Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves. ~ Sheena Iyengar, #NFDB
1149:Cleave believed the concentration of carbohydrates in the refining process did its damage in three ways. ~ Gary Taubes, #NFDB
1150:Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves. ~ Princess Diana, #NFDB
1151:Feeling something was never simply a state of submission but always, also, a process of construction. ~ Leslie Jamison, #NFDB
1152:First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers. ~ Henry Thomas Buckle, #NFDB
1153:I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960. ~ Nicole Richie, #NFDB
1154:I'm a body builder, but I don't use weights. I use snacks. It's kind of a different building process. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
1155:I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working. ~ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson, #NFDB
1156:I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director. ~ Melanie Griffith, #NFDB
1157:It is by a process of simplification carried constantly further and further that happiness is won. ~ John Cowper Powys, #NFDB
1158:It is the result of thinking, not the process if thinking, that occurs spontaneously in consciousness. ~ David McRaney, #NFDB
1159:I was able to bring my process of doing improv with actors into the animation world, which was fun. ~ Nicholas Stoller, #NFDB
1160:I would much rather take someone being blunt and hurting my feelings in the process, than let me down ~ Mariana Zapata, #NFDB
1161:Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1162:People’s Whole Lives Do Pass In Front Of Their Eyes Before They Die. The Process Is Called "Living". ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1163:people who have no hold over their process of thinking ara likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. ~ Muhammad Iqbal, #NFDB
1164:Sex is sex. Love is love. The first is a raw biological process, the latter is something more. ~ Christopher Buecheler, #NFDB
1165:The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads. ~ Sheldon Richman, #NFDB
1166:The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings. ~ Buffy Sainte Marie, #NFDB
1167:The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process. ~ Allison Janney, #NFDB
1168:The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
1169:The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it. ~ C P Snow, #NFDB
1170:As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery. ~ John McGahern, #NFDB
1171:Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
1172:Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one. ~ Bel Kaufman, #NFDB
1173:For the kingdom of heaven is with us today. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929), #NFDB
1174:I believe in process. I believe that having a really difficult process is more valuable than a good outcome. ~ Tina Fey, #NFDB
1175:If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you'd see you are a totally determined being. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
1176:If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone. ~ Jaume Collet Serra, #NFDB
1177:I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others. ~ Bernard Ebbers, #NFDB
1178:In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated. ~ Michael Behe, #NFDB
1179:Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me. ~ Colleen Atwood, #NFDB
1180:I wanted to enjoy the process. I wanted to enjoy just being on stage and giving back and the feedback. ~ John Leguizamo, #NFDB
1181:I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done. ~ David Naughton, #NFDB
1182:let’s instead define life very broadly, simply as a process that can retain its complexity and replicate. ~ Max Tegmark, #NFDB
1183:Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past. ~ Walter Lippmann, #NFDB
1184:"Owning our story & loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do." ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
1185:Progressive’ means that success is a journey, not a destination. It’s an ongoing process. We never arrive. ~ Shiv Khera, #NFDB
1186:Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence. ~ Vince Lombardi, #NFDB
1187:Shitty values involve tangible external goals outside of our control. Better values are process-oriented. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
1188:The end of psychoanalysis – an interminable process, Freud warned – is the acceptance of a personal fate. ~ John N Gray, #NFDB
1189:The German funk band Vulfpeck recently decided to hack the music streaming process to fund their upcoming ~ Paul Jarvis, #NFDB
1190:The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago. ~ Steven Spielberg, #NFDB
1191:There is really no bad software development process. There is only how you are doing it today and better. ~ Gary Gruver, #NFDB
1192:The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process. ~ Wallace Stegner, #NFDB
1193:To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. ~ Michel de Certeau, #NFDB
1194:Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid. ~ Neil Gershenfeld, #NFDB
1195:We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet. ~ Dolores Huerta, #NFDB
1196:We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
1197:western man’s attitude to nature, but since the whole world is now in a process of westernisation, ~ Ernst F Schumacher, #NFDB
1198:What we are waiting for is not as important as what happens to us while we are waiting. Trust the process. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
1199:Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely. ~ Josef Albers, #NFDB
1200:A political system devoted to decline instinctively does much to speed up that process. —Jean-Paul Sartre ~ Norman Ohler, #NFDB
1201:climate-change scenarios are already playing a large and increasing role in the military planning process. ~ Gwynne Dyer, #NFDB
1202:First Principle of Biocentrism: What we perceive as reality is a process that involves our consciousness. ~ Robert Lanza, #NFDB
1203:Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1204:I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet. ~ Anne Robinson, #NFDB
1205:Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process. ~ Blanche Lincoln, #NFDB
1206:I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error. ~ David Arquette, #NFDB
1207:In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second. ~ Daniel Levitin, #NFDB
1208:I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own. ~ Danny Lyon, #NFDB
1209:learning that what’s important is not so much what I do to make a living as who I become in the process. ~ Joan Anderson, #NFDB
1210:Let’s face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process. ~ Sue Grafton, #NFDB
1211:My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies. ~ Stephen Glass, #NFDB
1212:Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB
1213:Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
1214:Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking. ~ Mike Hulme, #NFDB
1215:So through no rational process whatsoever I was the leader, And I had no idea what I was going to say. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
1216:Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life. ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB
1217:The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear. ~ John Kao, #NFDB
1218:The human mind is a relational and embodied process that regulates the flow of energy and information. ~ Daniel J Siegel, #NFDB
1219:There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them. ~ Patti Davis, #NFDB
1220:There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1221:The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends. ~ Ronald Fisher, #NFDB
1222:The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. ~ Sean Penn, #NFDB
1223:This process of cutting a potential wife from the herd was proving far more difficult than he'd thought. ~ Debra Holland, #NFDB
1224:True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else. ~ Robert Holden, #NFDB
1225:When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB
1226:You will be reborn. You will come from the inner to the outer again. This process goes on indefinitely. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1227:Cultivating this self-awareness is a lifelong process, but it starts by simply checking in with yourself. ~ Ryder Carroll, #NFDB
1228:Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. ~ Eric Holder, #NFDB
1229:Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so. ~ Terence Tao, #NFDB
1230:Focus on the process (the way you spend your time) instead of the product (what you want to accomplish). ~ Barbara Oakley, #NFDB
1231:. . . for a woman to feel right about herself, life is best realized by a process of awakening. P. 130 ~ Carl Gustav Jung, #NFDB
1232:Happiness is nothing more than a state of mind that you create by the way that you process and interpret ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
1233:I believe that when we write things down, we being the process of activating the fundamentals in our lives. ~ Jim Tressel, #NFDB
1234:I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be. ~ Minnie Driver, #NFDB
1235:I lost everything I had, but in the process I found myself.” - Rumi, 13th-century Persian poet and mystic. ~ Rahul Deokar, #NFDB
1236:I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process. ~ Colin Hanks, #NFDB
1237:In industrial age organizations, purpose slowly erodes into process. Procedure takes precedence over product. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1238:...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1239:Kissing's a very organic and mechanical process. It's like a slap. You slap your co-star once and it's done. ~ Alia Bhatt, #NFDB
1240:Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1241:Life is simply a process of stimulus and response; and stimulus and response are one unitary movement. ~ U G Krishnamurti, #NFDB
1242:Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us. ~ Margaret J Wheatley, #NFDB
1243:Marion Woodman. The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation. Inner City: Toronto, 1997, ~ Stephen Cope, #NFDB
1244:Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
1245:Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols. ~ Vilem Flusser, #NFDB
1246:Remember, outcomes are what matter—not the process, not controls, or, for that matter, what work you complete. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
1247:Soulfire itself, and the process of weaving it from vital aura, gave Lords powers that no Gold could access. ~ Will Wight, #NFDB
1248:Spiritual awakening is the process of recognizing our essential goodness, our natural wisdom and compassion. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1249:The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as "a paperwork pregnancy". ~ David Platt, #NFDB
1250:The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work. ~ Mordecai Richler, #NFDB
1251:Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself. ~ Edward H Levi, #NFDB
1252:Animals eat one another without qualm; civilized men consume one another by due process of law. Co-operation ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
1253:Any process can be improved. Defects that are invisible to the knowledgeable may be obvious to newcomers. The ~ Brad Stone, #NFDB
1254:As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB
1255:but how to establish a process by which a sales team of modest size can move the product to a wide audience. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1256:Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
1257:Dr. Kat Domingo proclaims, “Enlightenment is not a process of learning, it is a process of unlearning. ~ Jill Bolte Taylor, #NFDB
1258:Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
1259:Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1260:Growth is a slow process and so is change in behaviour. The therapist must be patient with the process. ~ Garry L Landreth, #NFDB
1261:Humans are better equipped for sight than for smell. We process visual input ten times faster than olfactory. ~ Mary Roach, #NFDB
1262:If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts. ~ Leon Kass, #NFDB
1263:I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much. ~ Chris Cornell, #NFDB
1264:I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money. ~ Roger Corman, #NFDB
1265:I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see. ~ Ryan Reynolds, #NFDB
1266:In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second. ~ Daniel J Levitin, #NFDB
1267:In true open source development, theres lots of visibility all the way through the development process. ~ Brian Behlendorf, #NFDB
1268:It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process. ~ William James, #NFDB
1269:It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty ~ Shashi Deshpande, #NFDB
1270:I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
1271:Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone. ~ Janet Morris, #NFDB
1272:People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. ~ Richard Russo, #NFDB
1273:Process is only a second-order effect. The unique people, their feelings and qualities, are more influential ~ Gary Gruver, #NFDB
1274:Shh, listen, don’t be discouraged if you don’t win. It’s a learning process. You’ll get better with each try. ~ E L Montes, #NFDB
1275:Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
1276:The best performers set goals that are not about the outcome but about the process of reaching the outcome. ~ Geoff Colvin, #NFDB
1277:The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life. ~ Terry Bozzio, #NFDB
1278:The goal is partly the enjoyment; it doesn't come later, but within the very process of the struggle. ~ David Steindl Rast, #NFDB
1279:The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe. ~ Sting, #NFDB
1280:The Master Algorithm is for induction, the process of learning, what the Turing machine is for deduction. ~ Pedro Domingos, #NFDB
1281:The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again. ~ John Gray, #NFDB
1282:The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along. ~ John Darnielle, #NFDB
1283:The universe is a self-creative process of a supreme Reality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Philosophy of Rebirth, #NFDB
1284:Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better. ~ Jennifer Hudson Taylor, #NFDB
1285:Writing in longhand helps you process your thoughts and can often lead to a creative solution to your problem. ~ S J Scott, #NFDB
1286:Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes. ~ Charles de Lint, #NFDB
1287:Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal. ~ Denise Levertov, #NFDB
1288:All romantic novels end the same way, but it's the process of getting there that provides all the enjoyment. ~ Candice Hern, #NFDB
1289:Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
1290:Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process. ~ Marilyn vos Savant, #NFDB
1291:Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process. ~ Anatoly Chubais, #NFDB
1292:Digital held no romance for me at all. I hated it. I miss my big cameras. The working process, I miss it. ~ Gregory Heisler, #NFDB
1293:Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time. ~ Joel Edgerton, #NFDB
1294:Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process. ~ Yingluck Shinawatra, #NFDB
1295:French braids. Are they cute? Yeah. Is it a process? Unfortunately. They’re so tight I can feel my thoughts. ~ Angie Thomas, #NFDB
1296:I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association. ~ Hank Azaria, #NFDB
1297:I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls. ~ Meles Zenawi, #NFDB
1298:It's strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it. ~ Adam Rapp, #NFDB
1299:I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director. ~ Alden Ehrenreich, #NFDB
1300:part of the parenting process is helping children understand that they are not the center of the universe. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1301:Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
1302:People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success. ~ Randy Gage, #NFDB
1303:Philosophy is a process of inquiry only. It doesn't attempt to find specific answers to specific questions. ~ Harold Pinter, #NFDB
1304:Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary. ~ Andrew Bird, #NFDB
1305:Success is not something you achieve, conquer, climb, or complete. Success is a process; it's a way of life. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
1306:The chief error in philosophy is overstatement. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929), #NFDB
1307:The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them. ~ Christian Marclay, #NFDB
1308:The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
1309:We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art. ~ Donald Knuth, #NFDB
1310:what they had written was not absolute but was the result of a biased process of conversation and revision, ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1311:whenever I do a signing or a talk, people are really curious about the business and the whole creative process. ~ Wendy Wax, #NFDB
1312:Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today ~ Barbara Johnson, #NFDB
1313:After a while, there had been too much incredible beauty for him to process, and it had become invisible ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1314:As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential. ~ William Goldman, #NFDB
1315:Bleed out your story. It's a painful process, but in the end you will feel lighter and we will feel enriched. ~ Ksenia Anske, #NFDB
1316:But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got. ~ Bruce Springsteen, #NFDB
1317:Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer. ~ Dieter Rams, #NFDB
1318:Exploring the thought process through visual journaling is essential in a world that is in continuous change. ~ Michael Bell, #NFDB
1319:Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
1320:Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness. ~ Lee Strobel, #NFDB
1321:I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too. ~ Madonna, #NFDB
1322:I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting. ~ Bill Nighy, #NFDB
1323:If I step out too much while in the process and don't allow myself to get into it, the piece may not get made. ~ Kalup Linzy, #NFDB
1324:I’m learning that what’s important is not so much what I do to make a living as who I become in the process. ~ Joan Anderson, #NFDB
1325:Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world. ~ Ronald Fisher, #NFDB
1326:It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail. ~ Caterina Fake, #NFDB
1327:I would like to own a dog in the future. I think it would be a big step for me in the rehabilitation process. ~ Michael Vick, #NFDB
1328:nonjudgmental awareness—the process of being aware of the present, without attaching emotional reactivity to it. ~ Alex Korb, #NFDB
1329:One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice. ~ Phil Hine, #NFDB
1330:One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters. ~ Natalie Goldberg, #NFDB
1331:Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included. ~ Tom Daschle, #NFDB
1332:Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought. ~ E A Bucchianeri, #NFDB
1333:The animal prepares human intelligence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Evolutionary Process - Ascent and Integration, #NFDB
1334:The last thing I expected to happen was for him to jump over the cliff, carrying me with him in the process. ~ Brenda Pandos, #NFDB
1335:The most beautiful, amazing and inevitable fact about life-
Everything has a natural healing
process. ~ Sanober Khan,#NFDB
1336:The nature of things is resistance to change, while the nature of process is resistance to stasis, ~ William Least Heat Moon, #NFDB
1337:The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome. ~ Erwin McManus, #NFDB
1338:The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process. ~ Kal Penn, #NFDB
1339:Thousands of years from now they will use my fossil remains as an example of a mistake in the evolutionary process ~ Tao Lin, #NFDB
1340:Toby thought. It was a painful process, since he was not in the habit of thinking very much about anything. ~ Marion Chesney, #NFDB
1341:When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time. ~ George Boas, #NFDB
1342:You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieveing it you become someone worth becoming. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
1343:American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review. ~ Cornel West, #NFDB
1344:Breaking through the cyclical laws of physical nature is the basis of the spiritual process that Adiyogi explored. ~ Sadhguru, #NFDB
1345:Consultants, being the intelligent people we are, have formalized the guessing process; we call it a proposal. ~ Mahan Khalsa, #NFDB
1346:Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it is. ~ Bill Ayers, #NFDB
1347:Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998) ~ Leo F Buscaglia, #NFDB
1348:Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. ~ John Dewey, My Pedagogic Creed (1897), #NFDB
1349:Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. ~ Osho, #NFDB
1350:Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
1351:Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession. ~ Ben Harper, #NFDB
1352:Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan. ~ Greg Koukl, #NFDB
1353:God has provided principles and laws in his Word that outline the process of developing maturity in his people. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
1354:Growth. Money. Quality. Creativity. Those are four pretty valid reasons why you should be thinking about process. ~ Rick Webb, #NFDB
1355:Having a set of writing tools helps when you get lost in your writing process. And we all get lost sometimes. ~ Leigh Shulman, #NFDB
1356:Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
~ Jim Wallis,#NFDB
1357:How is it that we have sodomy protected under that due process but prostitution unprotected? It's schizophrenic. ~ Tom Coburn, #NFDB
1358:If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
1359:I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling. ~ Emma Watson, #NFDB
1360:In the seed model, Leadership is the process of creating an environment in which people become empowered. ~ Gerald M Weinberg, #NFDB
1361:I realize that once I stopped fighting the technical process of how to move my body, I made it choreography. ~ Sandra Bullock, #NFDB
1362:It's in the nature of the landscape to change, and it's in the nature of people to help the process along... ~ John Darnielle, #NFDB
1363:I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
1364:Life, like getting an erection, is a spontaneous process which collapses when one tries to force it to happen. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
1365:marketers have turned advertising into an interactive process. Using relationships and frequency and permission, ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
1366:No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
1367:Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions. ~ Judith M Bardwick, #NFDB
1368:Our species is committing suicide- that is a choice -and in the process, we are causing others pain. ~ Terry Tempest Williams, #NFDB
1369:Science is a process. But it is, with each passing confirmation and refinement, increasingly objective. ~ Shawn Lawrence Otto, #NFDB
1370:So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world. ~ John Polkinghorne, #NFDB
1371:The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. ~ Shoshana Zuboff, #NFDB
1372:The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character. ~ Adam Garcia, #NFDB
1373:This pattern-finding process is easier when the data is labeled with that desired outcome—“cat” versus “no cat”; ~ Kai Fu Lee, #NFDB
1374:vanity as humans that we tend to think of evolution as a process that, in effect, was programmed to produce us. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
1375:A precise language awaits a completed metaphysics. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929), #NFDB
1376:Because human nature will not deny its weaknesses, even where it is seemingly in the process of overcoming them. ~ Joseph Roth, #NFDB
1377:Donald Trump is actually doing what Bernie Sanders was billed as doing. He's doing new voters into the process. ~ Joy Ann Reid, #NFDB
1378:Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains. ~ Peter Diamandis, #NFDB
1379:I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again. ~ Kevin Costner, #NFDB
1380:I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people. ~ Criss Angel, #NFDB
1381:I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like. ~ Chiwetel Ejiofor, #NFDB
1382:Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data. ~ Nick Bostrom, #NFDB
1383:Let’s look for ways to encourage and help someone else today, knowing we may just help ourselves in the process. ~ Renee Swope, #NFDB
1384:Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country. ~ Pat Buchanan, #NFDB
1385:My process differs... my process for a Richard Linklater film is very different than a process for Training Day. ~ Ethan Hawke, #NFDB
1386:No matter how awakened you are, the conditioning roots are deep; very deep. Reclamation is a constant process. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1387:No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy. ~ Ai Weiwei, #NFDB
1388:No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
1389:Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process. ~ Chris Blackwell, #NFDB
1390:Selecting and discarding one’s possessions is a continuous process of making decisions based on one’s own values. ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
1391:Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment. ~ Walther Bothe, #NFDB
1392:Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one; that is to say it is an internal process, and not external. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1393:success is not measured so much by our accomplishments in life but by what we had to overcome in the process. ~ Tommy Newberry, #NFDB
1394:The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion . ~ Terry Bradshaw, #NFDB
1395:The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB
1396:There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time. ~ Ernest Mandel, #NFDB
1397:there is nothing more uncertain than the creative process, and there is absolutely no innovation without failure. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1398:There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in. ~ Lance Armstrong, #NFDB
1399:The Tao is the cosmic process in which all things are involved; the world is seen as a continuous flow and change. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1400:The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process. ~ Carrie Anne Moss, #NFDB
1401:Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process. ~ Sai Baba, #NFDB
1402:We are either in the process of resisting God’s truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by His truth. ~ Mary C Neal, #NFDB
1403:We are not passive recipients but active participants in our own process of perception" (Nancy Kanwisher) ~ Jeffrey M Schwartz, #NFDB
1404:we wrestle with and learn how to manage our gifts and flaws over a lifetime. It’s an endless growth process. ~ Brent Schlender, #NFDB
1405:When it comes to immigration, I think Americans expect that our immigration process is orderly and it is legal. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1406:A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process. ~ Patricia McConnell, #NFDB
1407:Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process. ~ Agnes Repplier, #NFDB
1408:Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves. ~ Diana Princess of Wales, #NFDB
1409:Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
1410:I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done. ~ Hilary Liftin, #NFDB
1411:In fact, sharing your process might actually be most valuable if the products of your work aren’t easily shared, ~ Austin Kleon, #NFDB
1412:In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we’re going to whine or do the work. ~ Blaine Hogan, #NFDB
1413:I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process. ~ Freddie Hubbard, #NFDB
1414:I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people. ~ Stephanie Tubbs Jones, #NFDB
1415:It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment. ~ Stephen Crane, #NFDB
1416:Large corporations have resources to influence media and overwhelm the political process, and do so accordingly. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1417:Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses. ~ Bel Kaufman, #NFDB
1418:No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
1419:People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
1420:Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1421:The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it. ~ Danny Strong, #NFDB
1422:The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest. ~ Edward Bernays, #NFDB
1423:The neural networks responsible for sensory gating begin to process data as soon as the child is born . ~ Stephen Harrod Buhner, #NFDB
1424:The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB
1425:the wait sometimes is essential to appreciate the gifts that follow, no matter how much we may resent the process. ~ Jeff Goins, #NFDB
1426:The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo ~ Victoria Chang, #NFDB
1427:The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB
1428:Thoughts are as simple as the process…a message from the soul; conveyed through the heart; received in the mind ~ Jeremy Aldana, #NFDB
1429:We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1430:When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. ~ Alanis Morissette, #NFDB
1431:When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. ~ David E Kelley, #NFDB
1432:Yoga is an inner process, which makes it a solitary venture, yet it works better when you have external support. ~ Nirmalananda, #NFDB
1433:A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along. ~ Keith Waterhouse, #NFDB
1434:A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is. ~ Alan Parker, #NFDB
1435:Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together. ~ Olivia Thirlby, #NFDB
1436:Anyone
who fights with monsters should take care that he
does not in the process become a monster. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#NFDB
1437:A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself. ~ Ezra Pound, #NFDB
1438:a process is required to tease out what is knowledge from what, to quote Locke, is “but faith, or opinion. ~ Shawn Lawrence Otto, #NFDB
1439:But one thing is certain: the process of freedom is one of subtraction—we are left more empty than when we began. ~ Gerald G May, #NFDB
1440:dismantling process in secret, behind the backs of the president and the government. Anyway, he didn’t know how ~ Jonas Jonasson, #NFDB
1441:Employment is becoming a dehumanizing process, as if humans existed to serve work, rather than work to serve humans. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
1442:Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in the process of learning. ~ Michael Oakeshott, #NFDB
1443:Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. ~ Anthony Powell, #NFDB
1444:God invites us to join him in the process whereby he heals our inner world so he can transform our outer world. ~ Stasi Eldredge, #NFDB
1445:"Great art . . . has always derived its fruitfulness from the myth, from the unconscious process of symbolization." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1446:Grieving must be done in its own time. To deny the human reality that pain hurts only delays the process. ~ Roger Delano Hinkins, #NFDB
1447:I had to sink or swim. So I swam, and became an icon in the process. And that’s pissed them off no end, ever since. ~ Karen Swan, #NFDB
1448:In one level, Om is the self-organizing power of the universe and self-awareness is the process to access that power. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
1449:I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1450:In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1451:I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are trying. ~ Esa Pekka Salonen, #NFDB
1452:I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1453:Killing is the easy part. Getting to that point without getting yourself killed in the process is the hard part. ~ J A Redmerski, #NFDB
1454:Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. ~ Thurgood Marshall, #NFDB
1455:Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1456:Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change. ~ Robert Lanza, #NFDB
1457:The democratic process will always favor small, well-organized groups at the expense of large, diffuse groups. ~ Charles Wheelan, #NFDB
1458:The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it. ~ Kenya Hara, #NFDB
1459:the fundamental process of Nature lies outside space-time but generates events that can be located in space-time. ~ Amit Goswami, #NFDB
1460:The law is like a big rusty ship. You can’t change its course without nearly destroying the ship in the process. ~ Victor Methos, #NFDB
1461:We need to love people with our deeds AND our words because sharing the Good News is a process, not just an event. ~ Chip Ingram, #NFDB
1462:When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go. ~ Krishna Das, #NFDB
1463:All the values we try to formulate are relative to the living process in us and should be measured against it. ~ Eugene T Gendlin, #NFDB
1464:Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process. ~ Adel al Jubeir, #NFDB
1465:But I think the main reason tidying has this effect is because through this process people come to know contentment. ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
1466:Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
1467:Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. ~ Arthur Koestler, #NFDB
1468:dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But nobody relishes the process. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1469:Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1470:For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers. ~ Damon Lindelof, #NFDB
1471:Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end. ~ Joan D Chittister, #NFDB
1472:If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. ~ Edsger Dijkstra, #NFDB
1473:I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere. ~ Nicolas Winding Refn, #NFDB
1474:I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off. ~ Gina McCarthy, #NFDB
1475:I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy. ~ Ruskin Bond, #NFDB
1476:In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process. ~ Gerald R Ford, #NFDB
1477:I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
1478:I really enjoy talking to actors or filmmakers that enjoy that process of creating and how they go about doing it. ~ Jim Caviezel, #NFDB
1479:I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general. ~ Ronald Perelman, #NFDB
1480:Learning is a process of modifying or completely changing our mental models based on new experiences or evidence. ~ Edward D Hess, #NFDB
1481:Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. ~ Daniel Webster, #NFDB
1482:Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden. ~ Homer, #NFDB
1483:Politics is a process which should slowly bring to public all the private worries and hopes of the individual. ~ Theodore H White, #NFDB
1484:Screening is an invaluable part of the process, obviously, having test screening and you definitely learn something. ~ Bryan Burk, #NFDB
1485:Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery -- it recharges by running. ~ Bill Watterson, #NFDB
1486:So March: Book One was the first book I ever wrote. And it was the most terrifying process I've ever been through. ~ Andrew Aydin, #NFDB
1487:Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation. ~ Coretta Scott King, #NFDB
1488:Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. ~ A Bartlett Giamatti, #NFDB
1489:The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves. ~ Rollo May, #NFDB
1490:The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process ~ Joseph A Schumpeter, #NFDB
1491:The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us. ~ Henry B Eyring, #NFDB
1492:The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1493:the realization that the process of enlightenment consists merely in becoming what we already are from the beginning. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1494:There is an intelligent healing process inside of you that knows how to absorb pain and transform it into wisdom. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1495:The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. ~ Edward de Bono, #NFDB
1496:three essential components: single-task neural networks, multi-task neural networks, and Gaussian process regression. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1497:We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development. ~ Ali Abdullah Saleh, #NFDB
1498:When we engage in dehumanizing rhetoric or promote dehumanizing images, we diminish our own humanity in the process. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1499:Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom. ~ Geeta Iyengar, #NFDB
1500:You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
687 Integral Yoga
145 Occultism
97 Christianity
75 Psychology
75 Poetry
71 Philosophy
66 Yoga
36 Science
36 Fiction
14 Integral Theory
12 Theosophy
9 Kabbalah
8 Hinduism
8 Cybernetics
7 Mythology
7 Education
4 Buddhism
1 Thelema
1 Philsophy
1 Mysticism
1 Alchemy
517 Sri Aurobindo
255 The Mother
168 Satprem
167 Nolini Kanta Gupta
77 Carl Jung
59 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
42 Aleister Crowley
38 James George Frazer
33 H P Lovecraft
30 Swami Krishnananda
29 Plotinus
27 Walt Whitman
26 Sri Ramakrishna
18 Rudolf Steiner
16 A B Purani
13 William Wordsworth
13 Aldous Huxley
11 Plato
10 Friedrich Nietzsche
9 Swami Vivekananda
9 Rabbi Moses Luzzatto
9 George Van Vrekhem
8 Norbert Wiener
7 Saint Augustine of Hippo
7 Robert Browning
7 Jordan Peterson
6 Peter J Carroll
6 Nirodbaran
5 Thubten Chodron
5 Sri Ramana Maharshi
5 Paul Richard
5 Ovid
5 Jorge Luis Borges
5 Alice Bailey
4 Bokar Rinpoche
3 Percy Bysshe Shelley
3 Lucretius
3 Ken Wilber
3 Franz Bardon
2 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
2 R Buckminster Fuller
2 Patanjali
2 Mahendranath Gupta
2 Joseph Campbell
2 Jean Gebser
2 Henry David Thoreau
2 Genpo Roshi
2 Friedrich Schiller
2 Edgar Allan Poe
2 Aristotle
120 Record of Yoga
101 The Synthesis Of Yoga
43 The Life Divine
39 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
38 The Golden Bough
35 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
33 Lovecraft - Poems
33 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
31 Mysterium Coniunctionis
31 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
30 The Study and Practice of Yoga
28 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
27 Whitman - Poems
27 Letters On Yoga IV
25 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
23 Letters On Yoga II
22 The Practice of Psycho therapy
22 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
21 Magick Without Tears
20 The Future of Man
20 Savitri
20 Liber ABA
20 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
19 Agenda Vol 03
17 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
17 Essays Divine And Human
16 Let Me Explain
16 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
15 The Human Cycle
14 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
14 Letters On Yoga I
14 Agenda Vol 13
14 Agenda Vol 04
13 Wordsworth - Poems
13 The Perennial Philosophy
13 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
13 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
13 Agenda Vol 08
13 Agenda Vol 01
12 The Phenomenon of Man
12 Questions And Answers 1956
12 Essays On The Gita
12 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
12 Agenda Vol 09
12 Agenda Vol 05
11 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
11 Letters On Yoga III
11 Hymn of the Universe
11 Aion
11 Agenda Vol 10
11 Agenda Vol 02
9 Vedic and Philological Studies
9 Talks
9 Preparing for the Miraculous
9 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
9 General Principles of Kabbalah
9 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
9 Agenda Vol 11
8 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
8 Questions And Answers 1953
8 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
8 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
8 On the Way to Supermanhood
8 Isha Upanishad
8 Cybernetics
8 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
7 Twilight of the Idols
7 Theosophy
7 Raja-Yoga
7 Questions And Answers 1955
7 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
7 Maps of Meaning
7 City of God
7 Browning - Poems
7 Agenda Vol 06
6 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
6 Liber Null
6 Agenda Vol 12
5 On Education
5 Metamorphoses
5 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
5 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
5 Agenda Vol 07
4 Words Of The Mother II
4 The Problems of Philosophy
4 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
4 Tara - The Feminine Divine
4 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
3 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
3 The Secret Of The Veda
3 The Red Book Liber Novus
3 The Integral Yoga
3 Some Answers From The Mother
3 Shelley - Poems
3 Sex Ecology Spirituality
3 Questions And Answers 1954
3 Of The Nature Of Things
3 Labyrinths
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
3 Collected Poems
2 Words Of The Mother III
2 Words Of Long Ago
2 Walden
2 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
2 The Ever-Present Origin
2 The Essentials of Education
2 The Blue Cliff Records
2 The Bible
2 Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
2 Symposium
2 Schiller - Poems
2 Poetics
2 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
2 Letters On Poetry And Art
2 Initiation Into Hermetics
2 Dark Night of the Soul
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
00.02 - Mystic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Man being an embodied soul, his external consciousness (what the Upanishad calls jgrat) is the milieu in which his soul-experiences naturally manifest and find their play. It is the forms and movements of that consciousness which clo the and give a concrete habitation and name to perceptions on the subtler ranges of the inner existence. If the experiences on these planes are to be presented to the conscious memory and to the brain-mind and made communicable to others through speech, this is the inevitable and natural process. Symbols are a translation in mental and sensual (and vocal) terms of experiences that are beyond the mind and the sense and the speech and yet throw a kind of echoing vibrations upon these lesser levels.
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00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It may be asked why the dog has been chosen as the symbol of Intuition. In the Vedas, the cow and the horse also play a large part; even the donkey and the frog have their own assigned roles. These objects are taken from the environment of ordinary life, and are those that are most familiar to the external consciousness, through which the inner experiences have to express themselves, if they are to be expressed at all. These material objects represent various kinds of forces and movements and subtle and occult and spiritual dynamisms. Strictly speaking, however, symbols are not chosen in a subtle or spiritual experience, that is to say, they are not arbitrarily selected and constructed by the conscious intelligence. They form part of a dramatization (to use a term of the Freudian psychology of dreams), a psychological alchemy, whose method and process and rationale are very obscure, which can be penetrated only by the vision of a third eye.
I. The Several Lights
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The Science of the Five Agnis (Fires), as propounded by Pravahan, explains and illustrates the process of the birth of the body, the passage of the soul into earth existence. It describes the advent of the child, the building of the physical form of the human being. The process is conceived of as a sacrifice, the usual symbol with the Vedic Rishis for the expression of their vision and perception of universal processes of Nature, physical and psychological. Here, the child IS said to be the final fruit of the sacrifice, the different stages in the process being: (i) Soma, (ii) Rain, (iii) Food, (iv) Semen, (v) Child. Soma means Rasaphysically the principle of water, psychologically the 'principle of delightand symbolises and constitutes the very soul and substance of life. Now it is said that these five principles the fundamental and constituent elementsare born out of the sacrifice, through the oblation or offering to the five Agnis. The first Agni is Heaven or the Sky-God, and by offering to it one's faith and one's ardent desire, one calls into manifestation Soma or Rasa or Water, the basic principle of life. This water is next offered to the second Agni, the Rain-God, who sends down Rain. Rain, again, is offered to the third Agni, the Earth, who brings forth Food. Food is, in its turn, offered to the fourth Agni, the Father or Male, who elaborates in himself the generating fluid.
Finally, this fluid is offered to the fifth Agni, the Mother or the Female, who delivers the Child.
The biological process, described in what may seem to be crude and mediaeval terms, really reflects or echoes a more subtle and psychological process. The images used form perhaps part of the current popular notion about the matter, but the esoteric sense goes beyond the outer symbols. The sky seems to be the far and tenuous region where the soul rests and awaits its next birthit is the region of Soma, the own Home of Bliss and Immortality. Now when the time or call comes, the soul stirs and journeys down that is the Rain. Next, it enters the earth atmosphere and clothes itself with the earth consciousness. Then it waits and calls for the formation of the material body, first by the contri bution of the father and then by that of the mother; when these two unite and the material body is formed, the soul incarnates.
Apart from the question whether the biological phenomenon described is really a symbol and a cloak for another order of reality, and even taking it at its face value, what is to be noted here is the idea of a cosmic cycle, and a cosmic cycle that proceeds through the principle of sacrifice. If it is asked what there is wonderful or particularly spiritual in this rather naf description of a very commonplace happening that gives it an honoured place in the Upanishads, the answer is that it is wonderful to see how the Upanishadic Rishi takes from an event its local, temporal and personal colour and incorporates it in a global movement, a cosmic cycle, as a limb of the Universal Brahman. The Upanishads contain passages which a puritanical mentality may perhaps describe as 'pornographic'; these have in fact been put by some on the Index expurgatorius. But the ancients saw these matters with other eyes and through another consciousness.
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The central secret of the transfigured consciousness lies, as we have already indicated, in the mystic rite or law of Sacrifice. It is the one basic, fundamental, universal Law that upholds and explains the cosmic movement, conformity to which brings to the thrice-bound human being release and freedom. Sacrifice consists essentially of two elements or processes: (i) The offering or self giving of the lower reality to the higher, and, as a consequence, an answering movement of (ii) the descent of the higher into the lower. The lower offered to the higher means the lower sublimated and integrated into the higher; and the descent of the higher into the lower means the incarnation of the former and the fulfilment of the latter. The Gita elaborates the same idea when it says that by Sacrifice men increase the gods and the gods increase men and by so increasing each other they attain the supreme Good. Nothing is, nothing is done, for its own sake, for an egocentric satisfaction; all, even movements relating to food and to sex should be dedicated to the Cosmic BeingVisva Purusha and that alone received which comes from Him.
VII. The Cosmic and the Transcendental
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Besides this metaphysics there is also an occult aspect in numerology of which Pythagoras was a well-known adept and in which the Vedic Rishis too seem to take special delight. The multiplication of numbers represents in a general way the principle of emanation. The One has divided and subdivided itself, but not in a haphazard way: it is not like the chaotic pulverisation of a piece of stone by hammer-blows. The process of division and subdivision follows a pattern almost as neat and methodical as a genealogical tree. That is to say, the emanations form a hierarchy. At the top, the apex of the pyramid, stands the one supreme Godhead. That Godhead is biune in respect of manifestation the Divine and his creative Power. This two-in-one reality may be considered, according to one view of creation, as dividing into three forms or aspects the well-known Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra of Hindu mythology. These may be termed the first or primary emanations.
Now, each one of them in its turn has its own emanations the eleven Rudriyas are familiar. These are secondary and there are tertiary and other graded emanations the last ones touch the earth and embody physico-vital forces. The lowest formations or beings can trace their origin to one or other of the primaries and their nature and function partake of or are an echo of their first ancestor.
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The first boon regards the individual, that is to say, the individual identity and integrity. It asks for the maintenance of that individuality so that it may be saved from the dissolution that Death brings about. Death, of course, means the dissolution of the body, but it represents also dissolution pure and simple. Indeed death is a process which does not stop with the physical phenomenon, but continues even after; for with the body gone, the other elements of the individual organism, the vital and the mental too gradually fall off, fade and dissolve. Nachiketas wishes to secure from Death the safety and preservation of the earthly personality, the particular organisation of mind and vital based upon a recognisable physical frame. That is the first necessity for the aspiring mortalfor, it is said, the body is the first instrument for the working out of one's life ideal. But man's true personality, the real individuality lies beyond, beyond the body, beyond the life, beyond the mind, beyond the triple region that Death lords it over. That is the divine world, the Heaven of the immortals, beyond death and beyond sorrow and grief. It is the hearth secreted in the inner heart where burns the Divine Fire, the God of Life Everlasting. And this is the nodus that binds together the threefold status of the manifested existence, the body, the life and the mind. This triplicity is the structure of name and form built out of the bricks of experience, the kiln, as it were, within which burns the Divine Agni, man's true soul. This soul can be reached only when one exceeds the bounds and limitations of the triple cord and experiences one's communion and identity with all souls and all existence. Agni is the secret divinity within, within the individual and within the world; he is the Immanent Divine, the cosmic godhead that holds together and marshals all the elements and components, all the principles that make up the manifest universe. He it is that has entered into the world and created facets of his own reality in multiple forms: and it is he that lies secret in the human being as the immortal soul through all its adventure of life and death in the series of incarnations in terrestrial evolution. The adoration and realisation of this Immanent Divinity, the worship of Agni taught by Yama in the second boon, consists in the triple sacrifice, the triple work, the triple union in the triple status of the physical, the vital and the mental consciousness, the mastery of which leads one to the other shore, the abode of perennial existence where the human soul enjoys its eternity and unending continuity in cosmic life. Therefore, Agni, the master of the psychic being, is called jtaveds, he who knows the births, all the transmigrations from life to life.
The third boon is the secret of secrets, for it is the knowledge and realisation of Transcendence that is sought here. Beyond the individual lies the universal; is there anything beyond the universal? The release of the individual into the cosmic existence gives him the griefless life eternal: can the cosmos be rolled up and flung into something beyond? What would be the nature of that thing? What is there outside creation, outside manifestation, outside Maya, to use a latter day term? Is there existence or non-existence (utter dissolution or extinctionDeath in his supreme and absolute status)? King Yama did not choose to answer immediately and even endeavoured to dissuade Nachiketas from pursuing the question over which people were confounded, as he said. Evidently it was a much discussed problem in those days. Buddha was asked the same question and he evaded it, saying that the pragmatic man should attend to practical and immediate realities and not, waste time and energy in discussing things ultimate and beyond that have hardly any relation to the present and the actual.
But Yama did answer and unveil the mystery and impart the supreme secret knowledge the knowledge of the Transcendent Brahman: it is out of the transcendent reality that the immanent deity takes his birth. Hence the Divine Fire, the Lord of creation and the Inner Mastersarvabhtntartm, antarymis called brahmajam, born of the Brahman. Yama teaches the process of transcendence. Apart from the knowledge and experience first of the individual and then of the cosmic Brahman, there is a definite line along which the human consciousness (or unconsciousness, as it is at present) is to ascend and evolve. The first step is to learn to distinguish between the Good and the Pleasurable (reya and preya). The line of pleasure leads to the external, the superficial, the false: while the other path leads towards the inner and the higher truth. So the second step is the gradual withdrawal of the consciousness from the physical and the sensual and even the mental preoccupation and focussing it upon what is certain and permanent. In the midst of the death-ridden consciousness in the heart of all that is unstable and fleetingone has to look for Agni, the eternal godhead, the Immortal in mortality, the Timeless in time through whom lies the passage to Immortality beyond Time.
Man has two souls corresponding to his double status. In the inferior, the soul looks downward and is involved in the current of Impermanence and Ignorance, it tastes of grief and sorrow and suffers death and dissolution: in the higher it looks upward and communes and joins with the Eternal (the cosmic) and then with the Absolute (the transcendent). The lower is a reflection of the higher, the higher comes down in a diminished and hence tarnished light. The message is that of deliverance, the deliverance and reintegration of the lower soul out of its bondage of worldly ignorant life into the freedom and immortality first of its higher and then of its highest status. It is true, however, that the Upanishad does not make a trenchant distinction between the cosmic and the transcendent and often it speaks of both in the same breath, as it were. For in fact they are realities involved in each other and interwoven. Indeed the triple status, including the Individual, forms one single totality and the three do not exclude or cancel each other; on the contrary, they combine and may be said to enhance each other's reality. The Transcendence expresses or deploys itself in the cosmoshe goes abroad,sa paryagt: and the cosmic individualises, concretises itself in the particular and the personal. The one single spiritual reality holds itself, aspects itself in a threefold manner.
0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Much knowledge obtained by the ancients through the use of the Qabalah has been supported by discoveries of modern scientists- anthropologists, astronomers, psychiatrists, et al. Learned Qabalists for hundreds of years have been aware of what the psychiatrist has only discovered in the last few decades-that man's concept of himself, his deities and the Universe is a constantly evolving process, changing as man himself evolves on a higher spiral. But the roots of his concepts are buried in a race-consciousness that antedated Neanderthal man by uncounted aeons of time.
What Jung calls archetypal images constantly rise to the surface of man's awareness from the vast unconscious that is the common heritage of all mankind.
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
The Christian missionaries gave the finishing touch to the process of transformation. They ridiculed as relics of a barbarous age the images and rituals of the Hindu religion. They tried to persuade India that the teachings of her saints and seers were the cause of her downfall, that her Vedas, Puranas, and other scriptures were filled with superstition. Christianity, they maintained, had given the white races position and power in this world and assurance of happiness in the next; therefore Christianity was the best of all religions. Many intelligent young Hindus became converted. The man in the street was confused. The majority of the educated grew materialistic in their mental outlook. Everyone living near Calcutta or the other strong-holds of Western culture, even those who attempted to cling to the orthodox traditions of Hindu society, became infected by the new uncertainties and the new beliefs.
But the soul of India was to be resuscitated through a spiritual awakening. We hear the first call of this renascence in the spirited retort of the young Gadadhar: "Brother, what shall I do with a mere bread-winning education?"
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Dr. Sarkar arrived the following noon and pronounced that life had departed not more than half an hour before. At five o'clock the Masters body was brought downstairs, laid on a cot, dressed in ochre clothes, and decorated with sandal-paste and flowers. A procession was formed. The passers-by wept as the body was taken to the cremation ground at the Baranagore Ghat on the Ganges.
While the devotees were returning to the garden house, carrying the urn with the sacred ashes, a calm resignation came to their souls and they cried, "Victory unto the Guru!"
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
process of death and begetting, which are the laws of
the universe.
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spiritual importance of this physical procession in
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but breeds a masterpiece from it. This process is
exhibited as one aspect of the Great Work. The last
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is totally unconscious of this process, or, it might be
better to say, he recognises it as Nothing, in that positive
0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
As Korzybski, the founder of general semantics, pointed out, the consequence of its single-tagging is that the rose becomes reflexively considered by man only as a red, white, or pink device for paying tribute to a beautiful girl, a thoughtful hostess, or last night's deceased acquaintance. The tagging of the complex biological process under the single title rose tends to detour human curiosity from further differentiation of its integral organic operations as well as from consideration of its interecological functionings aboard our planet. We don't know what a rose is, nor what may be its essential and unique cosmic function. Thus for long have we inadvertently deferred potential discovery of the essential roles in Universe that are performed complementarily by many, if not most, of the phenomena we experience.
But, goaded by youth, we older ones are now taking second looks at almost everything. And that promises many ultimately favorable surprises. The oldsters do have vast experience banks not available to the youth. Their memory banks, integrated and reviewed, may readily disclose generalized principles of eminent importance.
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Only a comprehensive switch from the narrowing specialization and toward an evermore inclusive and refining comprehension by all humanity-regarding all the factors governing omnicontinuing life aboard our spaceship Earth-can bring about reorientation from the self-extinction-bound human trending, and do so within the critical time remaining before we have passed the point of chemical process irretrievability.
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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While it takes but meager search to discover that many well-known concepts are false, it takes considerable search and even more careful examination of one's own personal experiences and inadvertently spontaneous reflexing to discover that there are many popularly and even professionally unknown, yet nonetheless fundamental, concepts to hold true in all cases and that already have been discovered by other as yet obscure individuals. That is to say that many scientific generalizations have been discovered but have not come to the attention of what we call the educated world at large, thereafter to be incorporated tardily within the formal education processes, and even more tardily, in the ongoing political-economic affairs of everyday life. Knowledge of the existence and comprehensive significance of these as yet popularly unrecognized natural laws often is requisite to the solution of many of the as yet unsolved problems now confronting society. Lack of knowledge of the solution's existence often leaves humanity confounded when it need not be.
Intellectually advantaged with no more than the child's facile, lucid eagerness to understand constructively and usefully the major transformational events of our own times, it probably is synergetically advantageous to review swiftly the most comprehensive inventory of the most powerful human environment transforming events of our totally known and reasonably extended history. This is especially useful in winnowing out and understanding the most significant of the metaphysical revolutions now recognized as swiftly tending to reconstitute history. By such a comprehensively schematic review, we might identify also the unprecedented and possibly heretofore overlooked pivotal revolutionary events not only of today but also of those trending to be central to tomorrow's most cataclysmic changes.
0.01 - I - Sri Aurobindos personality, his outer retirement - outside contacts after 1910 - spiritual personalities- Vibhutis and Avatars - transformtion of human personality, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Integral Yoga
The Gita in its chapters on the Vibhuti and the Avatar takes in general the same position. It shows that the present formula of our nature, and therefore the mental personality of man, is not final. A Vibhuti embodies in a human manifestation a certain divine quality and thus demonstrates the possibility of overcoming the limits of ordinary human personality. The Vibhuti the embodiment of a divine quality or power, and the Avatar the divine incarnation, are not to be looked upon as supraphysical miracles thrown at humanity without regard to the process of evolution; they are, in fact, indications of human possibility, a sign that points to the goal of evolution.
In his Essays on the Gita, Sri Aurobindo says about the Avatar: "He may, on the other hand, descend as an incarnation of divine life, the divine personality and power in its characteristic action, for a mission ostensibly social, ethical and political, as is represented in the story of Rama or Krishna; but always then this descent becomes in the soul of the race a permanent power for the inner living and the spiritual rebirth."[5]
0.01 - Life and Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
the profoundest reason of its being in that general truth and that unceasing aim of Nature which it represents, and find by virtue of this new self-knowledge and self-appreciation its own recovered and larger synthesis. Reorganising itself, it will enter more easily and powerfully into the reorganised life of the race which its processes claim to lead within into the most secret penetralia and upward to the highest altitudes of existence and personality.
In the right view both of life and of Yoga all life is either consciously or subconsciously a Yoga. For we mean by this term a methodised effort towards self-perfection by the expression of the secret potentialities latent in the being and - highest condition of victory in that effort - a union of the human individual with the universal and transcendent Existence we see partially expressed in man and in the Cosmos. But all life, when we look behind its appearances, is a vast Yoga of Nature who attempts in the conscious and the subconscious to realise her perfection in an ever-increasing expression of her yet unrealised potentialities and to unite herself with her own divine reality. In man, her thinker, she for the first time upon this Earth devises selfconscious means and willed arrangements of activity by which this great purpose may be more swiftly and puissantly attained.
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Mother in her vast upward labour. It is this view of Yoga that can alone form the basis for a sound and rational synthesis of Yogic methods. For then Yoga ceases to appear something mystic and abnormal which has no relation to the ordinary processes of the World-Energy or the purpose she keeps in view in her two great movements of subjective and objective selffulfilment; it reveals itself rather as an intense and exceptional use of powers that she has already manifested or is progressively
Life and Yoga
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Rajayoga, for instance, depends on this perception and experience that our inner elements, combinations, functions, forces, can be separated or dissolved, can be new-combined and set to novel and formerly impossible workings or can be transformed and resolved into a new general synthesis by fixed internal processes. Hathayoga similarly depends on this perception and experience that the vital forces and functions to which our life is normally subjected and whose ordinary operations seem set and indispensable, can be mastered and the operations changed or suspended with results that would otherwise be impossible and that seem miraculous to those who have not seized the rationale of their process. And if in some other of its forms this character of Yoga is less apparent, because they are more intuitive and less mechanical, nearer, like the Yoga of Devotion, to a supernal ecstasy or, like the Yoga of Knowledge, to a supernal infinity of consciousness and being, yet they too start from the use of some principal faculty in us by ways and for ends not contemplated in its everyday spontaneous workings. All methods grouped under the common name of Yoga are special psychological processes founded on a fixed truth of Nature and developing, out of normal functions, powers and results which were always latent but which her ordinary movements do not easily or do not often manifest.
But as in physical knowledge the multiplication of scientific processes has its disadvantages, as that tends, for instance, to develop a victorious artificiality which overwhelms our natural human life under a load of machinery and to purchase certain forms of freedom and mastery at the price of an increased servitude, so the preoccupation with Yogic processes and their exceptional results may have its disadvantages and losses. The
The Conditions of the Synthesis
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
enough to conceal any irregularities. The process was supposed
to be simple, rapid and fully satisfactory. I put forth all the
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method easier and more certain than the mental process
of reasoning which is based on acquired experience?
0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Wisdom, prajna prasr.ta puran. of the Upanishad, Wisdom that went forth from the Eternal since the beginning. For the particular utilities we must cast a penetrative eye on the different methods of Yoga and distinguish among the mass of their details the governing idea which they serve and the radical force which gives birth and energy to their processes of effectuation.
Afterwards we may more easily find the one common principle and the one common power from which all derive their being and tendency, towards which all subconsciously move and in which, therefore, it is possible for all consciously to unite.
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Nor are the disturbances created by her process as great as is often represented. Some of them are the crude beginnings of new manifestations; others are an easily corrected movement of disintegration, often fruitful of fresh activities and always a small price to pay for the far-reaching results that she has in view.
We may perhaps, if we consider all the circumstances, come
0.04 - The Systems of Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
For if, leaving aside the complexities of their particular processes, we fix our regard on the central principle of the chief schools of Yoga still prevalent in India, we find that they arrange themselves in an ascending order which starts from the lowest rung of the ladder, the body, and ascends to the direct contact between the individual soul and the transcendent and universal
Self. Hathayoga selects the body and the vital functionings as its instruments of perfection and realisation; its concern is with the gross body. Rajayoga selects the mental being in its different parts as its lever-power; it concentrates on the subtle body. The triple Path of Works, of Love and of Knowledge uses some part of the mental being, will, heart or intellect as a starting-point and seeks by its conversion to arrive at the liberating Truth,
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The chief processes of Hathayoga are asana and pran.ayama.
By its numerous asanas or fixed postures it first cures the body of that restlessness which is a sign of its inability to contain without working them off in action and movement the vital forces poured into it from the universal Life-Ocean, gives to it an extraordinary health, force and suppleness and seeks to liberate it from the habits by which it is subjected to ordinary physical
Nature and kept within the narrow bounds of her normal operations. In the ancient tradition of Hathayoga it has always been supposed that this conquest could be pushed so far even as to conquer to a great extent the force of gravitation. By various subsidiary but elaborate processes the Hathayogin next contrives to keep the body free from all impurities and the nervous system unclogged for those exercises of respiration which are his most important instruments. These are called pran.ayama, the control of the breath or vital power; for breathing is the chief physical functioning of the vital forces. Pranayama, for the Hathayogin, serves a double purpose. First, it completes the perfection of the body. The vitality is liberated from many of the ordinary necessities of physical Nature; robust health, prolonged youth, often an extraordinary longevity are attained.
On the other hand, Pranayama awakens the coiled-up serpent of the Pranic dynamism in the vital sheath and opens to the Yogin fields of consciousness, ranges of experience, abnormal faculties denied to the ordinary human life while it puissantly intensifies such normal powers and faculties as he already possesses.
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These advantages can be farther secured and emphasised by other subsidiary processes open to the Hathayogin.
The results of Hathayoga are thus striking to the eye and impose easily on the vulgar or physical mind. And yet at the end we may ask what we have gained at the end of all this stupendous labour. The object of physical Nature, the preservation of the mere physical life, its highest perfection, even in a certain sense the capacity of a greater enjoyment of physical living have been carried out on an abnormal scale. But the weakness of Hathayoga is that its laborious and difficult processes make so great a demand on the time and energy and impose so complete a severance from the ordinary life of men that the utilisation of its results for the life of the world becomes either impracticable or is extraordinarily restricted. If in return for this loss we gain another life in another world within, the mental, the dynamic, these results could have been acquired through other systems, through Rajayoga, through Tantra, by much less laborious methods and held on much less exacting terms. On the other hand the physical results, increased vitality, prolonged youth, health, longevity are of small avail if they must be held by us as misers of ourselves, apart from the common life, for their own sake, not utilised, not thrown into the common sum of the world's activities. Hathayoga attains large results, but at an exorbitant price and to very little purpose.
Rajayoga takes a higher flight. It aims at the liberation and perfection not of the bodily, but of the mental being, the control of the emotional and sensational life, the mastery of the whole apparatus of thought and consciousness. It fixes its eyes on the citta, that stuff of mental consciousness in which all these activities arise, and it seeks, even as Hathayoga with its physical material, first to purify and to tranquillise. The normal state of man is a condition of trouble and disorder, a kingdom either at war with itself or badly governed; for the lord, the Purusha, is subjected to his ministers, the faculties, subjected even to his subjects, the instruments of sensation, emotion, action, enjoyment. Swarajya, self-rule, must be substituted for this subjection.
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But Rajayoga does not forget that the disabilities of the ordinary mind proceed largely from its subjection to the reactions of the nervous system and the body. It adopts therefore from the Hathayogic system its devices of asana and pran.ayama, but reduces their multiple and elaborate forms in each case to one simplest and most directly effective process sufficient for its own immediate object. Thus it gets rid of the Hathayogic complexity and cumbrousness while it utilises the swift and powerful efficacy of its methods for the control of the body and the vital functions and for the awakening of that internal dynamism, full of a latent supernormal faculty, typified in Yogic terminology by the kun.d.alin, the coiled and sleeping serpent of Energy within. This done, the system proceeds to the perfect quieting of the restless mind and its elevation to a higher plane through concentration of mental force by the successive stages which lead to the utmost inner concentration or ingathered state of the consciousness which is called Samadhi.
By Samadhi, in which the mind acquires the capacity of withdrawing from its limited waking activities into freer and higher states of consciousness, Rajayoga serves a double purpose. It compasses a pure mental action liberated from the confusions of the outer consciousness and passes thence to the higher supra-mental planes on which the individual soul enters into its true spiritual existence. But also it acquires the capacity of that free and concentrated energising of consciousness on
0.05 - The Synthesis of the Systems, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
An undiscriminating combination in block would not be a synthesis, but a confusion. Nor would a successive practice of each of them in turn be easy in the short span of our human life and with our limited energies, to say nothing of the waste of labour implied in so cumbrous a process. Sometimes, indeed,
Hathayoga and Rajayoga are thus successively practised. And in a recent unique example, in the life of Ramakrishna Paramhansa, we see a colossal spiritual capacity first driving straight to the divine realisation, taking, as it were, the kingdom of heaven by violence, and then seizing upon one Yogic method after another and extracting the substance out of it with an incredible rapidity, always to return to the heart of the whole matter, the realisation and possession of God by the power of love, by the extension of inborn spirituality into various experience and by the spontaneous play of an intuitive knowledge. Such an example cannot be generalised. Its object also was special and temporal, to exemplify in the great and decisive experience of a master-soul the truth, now most necessary to humanity, towards which a world long divided into jarring sects and schools is with difficulty labouring, that all sects are forms and fragments of a single integral truth and all disciplines labour in their different ways towards one supreme experience. To know, be and possess
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Secondly, the process, being integral, accepts our nature such as it stands organised by our past evolution and without rejecting anything essential compels all to undergo a divine change.
Everything in us is seized by the hands of a mighty Artificer and transformed into a clear image of that which it now seeks confusedly to present. In that ever-progressive experience we begin to perceive how this lower manifestation is constituted and that everything in it, however seemingly deformed or petty or vile, is the more or less distorted or imperfect figure of some element or action in the harmony of the divine Nature. We begin to understand what the Vedic Rishis meant when they spoke of the human forefa thers fashioning the gods as a smith forges the crude material in his smithy.
0.06 - INTRODUCTION, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
which it removes by the process of purgation. Such travellers are still untried
proficients, who have not yet acquired mature habits of spirituality and who
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This process of development goes on tirelessly through innumerable lives, and if one is not conscious of it, it is because
one is not conscious of one's psychic being - for that is the
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identification. It is this latter process that we adopt when we
listen to music with an intense and concentrated attention, to
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When this process is no longer mysterious to you, I shall
explain what is meant by thinking with experiences.
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parts spread gradually into the rest of the being by a process of
assimilation, and during this period of assimilation the progress
01.01 - A Yoga of the Art of Life, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Another question that troubles and perplexes the ordinary human mind is as to the time when the thing will be done. Is it now or a millennium hence or at some astronomical distance in future, like the cooling of the sun, as someone has suggested for an analogy. In view of the magnitude of the work one might with reason say that the whole eternity is there before us, and a century or even a millennium should not be grudged to such a labour for it is nothing less than an undoing of untold millenniums in the past and the building of a far-flung futurity. However, as we have said, since it is the Divine's own work and since Yoga means a concentrated and involved process of action, effectuating in a minute what would perhaps take years to accomplish in the natural course, one can expect the work to be done sooner rather than later. Indeed, the ideal is one of here and nowhere upon this earth of material existence and now in this life, in this very bodynot hereafter or elsewhere. How long exactly that will mean, depends on many factors, but a few decades on this side or the other do not matter very much.
As to the extent of realisation, we say again that that is not a matter of primary consideration. It is not the quantity but the substance that counts. Even if it were a small nucleus it would be sufficient, at least for the beginning, provided it is the real, the genuine thing
01.01 - The New Humanity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This mastery will be effected not merely in will, but in mind and heart also. For the New Man will know not by the intellect which is egocentric and therefore limited, not by ratiocination which is an indirect and doubtful process, but by direct vision, an inner communion, a soul revelation. The new knowledge will be vast and profound and creative, based as it will be upon the reality of things and not upon their shadows. Truth will shine through every experience and every utterance"a truth shall have its seat on our speech and mind and hearing", so have the Vedas said. The mind and intellect will not be active and constructive agents but the luminous channel of a self-luminous knowledge. And the heart too which is now the field of passion and egoism will be cleared of its noise and obscurity; a serener sky will shed its pure warmth and translucent glow. The knot will be rent asunderbhidyate hridaya granthih and the vast and mighty streams of another ocean will flow through. We will love not merely those to whom we are akin but God's creatures, one and all; we will love not with the yearning and hunger of a mortal but with the wide and intense Rasa that lies in the divine identity of souls.
And the new society will be based not upon competition, nor even upon co-operation. It will not be an open conflict, neither will it be a convenient compromise of rival individual interests. It will be the organic expression of the collective soul of humanity, working and achieving through each and every individual soul its most wide-winging freedom, manifesting the godhead that is, proper to each and every one. It will be an organisation, most delicate and subtle and supple, the members of which will have no need to live upon one another but in and through one another. It will be, if you like, a henotheistic hierarchy in which everyone will be the greatest, since everyone is all and all everyone simultaneously.
01.01 - The One Thing Needful, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This is a slow and difficult process; the road is long and it is hard to establish even the necessary basis. The old existing nature resists and obstructs and difficulties rise one after another and repeatedly till they are overcome. It is therefore necessary to be sure that this is the path to which one is called before one finally decides to tread it.
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And the tardy process of mortality
And longed to reach its end in vacant Nought.
01.02 - Natures Own Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This process of a developing consciousness in Nature is precisely what is known as Evolution. It is the bringing out and fixing of a higher and higher principle of consciousness, hitherto involved and concealed behind the veil, in the earth consciousness as a dynamic factor in Nature's manifest working. Thus, the first stage of evolution is the status of inconscient Matter, of the lifeless physical elements; the second stage is that of the semi-conscious life in the plant, the third that of the conscious life in the animal, and finally the fourth stage, where we stand at present, is that of the embodied self-conscious life in man.
The course of evolution has not come to a stop with man and the next stage, Sri Aurobindo says, which Nature envisages and is labouring to bring out and establish is the life now superconscious to us, embodied in a still higher type of created being, that of the superman or god-man. The principle of consciousness which will determine the nature and build of this new, being is a spiritual principle beyond the mental principle which man now incarnates: it may be called the Supermind or Gnosis.
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But the initial illusory consciousness of the Overmind need not at all lead to the static Brahmic consciousness or Sunyam alone. As a matter of fact, there is in this particular processes of consciousness a hiatus between the two, between Maya and Brahman, as though one has to leap from the one into the other somehow. This hiatus is filled up in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga by the principle of Supermind, not synthetic-analytic2 in knowledge like Overmind and the highest mental intelligence, but inescapably unitarian even in the utmost diversity. Supermind is the Truth-consciousness at once static and dynamic, self-existent and creative: in Supermind the Brahmic consciousness Sachchidanandais ever self-aware and ever manifested and embodied in fundamental truth-powers and truth-forms for the play of creation; it is the plane where the One breaks out into the Many and the Many still remain one, being and knowing themselves to be but various self-expressions of the One; it develops the spiritual archetypes, the divine names and forms of all individualisations of an evolving existence.
SRI AUROBINDO
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The secret of evolution, I have said, is an urge towards the release and unfoldment of consciousness out of an apparent unconsciousness. In the early stages the movement is very slow and gradual; there it is Nature's original unconscious process. In man it acquires the possibility of a conscious and therefore swifter and concentrated process. And this is in fact the function of Yoga proper, viz, to bring about the evolution of consciousness by hastening the process of Nature through the self-conscious will of man.
An organ in the human being has been especially developed to become the effective instrument of this accelerated Yogic process the self-consciousness which I referred to as being the distinctive characteristic of man is a function of this organ. It is his soul, his psychic being; originally it is the spark of the Divine Consciousness which came down and became involved in Matter and has been endeavouring ever since to release itself through the upward march of evolution. It is this which presses on continually as the stimulus to the evolutionary movement; and in man it has attained sufficient growth and power and has come so far to the front from behind the veil that it can now lead and mould his external consciousness. It is also the channel through which the Divine Consciousness can flow down into the inferior levels of human nature. It is the being no bigger than the thumb ever seated within the heart, spoken of in the Upanishads. It is likewise the basis of true individuality and personal identity. It is again the reflection or expression in evolutionary Nature of one's essential selfjivtman that is above, an eternal portion of the Divine, one with the Divine and yet not dissolved and lost in it. The psychic being is thus on the one hand in direct contact with the Divine and the higher consciousness, and on the other it is the secret upholder and controller' (bhart, antarymin) of the inferior consciousness, the hidden nucleus round which the body and the life and the mind of the individual are built up and organised.
The first decisive step in Yoga is taken when one becomes conscious of the psychic being, or, looked at from the other side, when the psychic being comes forward and takes possession of the external being, begins to initiate and influence the movements of the mind and life and body and gradually free them from the ordinary round of ignorant nature. The awakening of the psychic being means, as I have said, not only a deepening and heightening of the consciousness and its release from the obscurity and limitation of the inferior Prakriti, confined to the lower threefold status, into what is behind and beyond; it means also a return of the deeper and higher consciousness upon the lower hemisphere and a consequent purification and illumination and regeneration of the latter. Finally, when the psychic being is in full self-possession and power, it can be the vehicle of the direct supramental consciousness which will then be able to act freely and absolutely for the entire transformation of the external nature, its transfiguration into a perfect body of the Truth-consciousness in a word, its divinisation.
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It is not easy, however, nor is it necessary for the moment to envisage in detail what this divinised man would be like, externallyhis mode of outward being and living, kimsita vrajeta kim, as Arjuna queriedor how the collective life of the new humanity would function or what would be the composition of its social fabric. For what is happening is a living process, an organic growth; it is being elaborated through the actions and reactions of multitudinous forces and conditions, known and unknown; the precise configuration of the final outcome cannot be predicted with exactitude. But the Power that is at work is omniscient; it is selecting, rejecting, correcting, fashioning, creating, co-ordinating elements in accordance with and by the drive of the inviolable law of Truth and Harmony that reigns in Light's own homeswe dame the Supermind.
It is also to be noted that as mind is not the last limit of the march of evolution, even so the progress of evolution will not stop with the manifestation and embodiment of the Supermind. There are other still higher principles beyond and they too presumably await manifestation and embodiment on earth. Creation has no beginning in time (andi) nor has it an end (ananta). It is an eternal process of the unravelling of the mysteries of the Infinite. Only, it may be said that with the Supermind the creation here enters into a different order of existence. Before it there was the domain of Ignorance, after it will come the reign of Light and Knowledge. Mortality has been the governing principle of life on earth till now; it will be replaced by the consciousness of immortality. Evolution has proceeded through struggle and pain; hereafter it will be a spontaneous, harmonious and happy flowering.
Now, with regard to the time that the present stage of evolution is likely to take for its fulfilment, one can presume that since or if the specific urge and stress has manifested and come up to the front, this very fact would show that the problem has become a problem of actuality, and even that it can be dealt with as if it had to be solved now or never. We have said that in man, with man's self-consciousness or the consciousness of the psychic being as the instrument, evolution has attained the capacity of a swift and concentrated process, which is the process of Yoga; the process will become swifter and more concentrated, the more that instrument grows and gathers power and is infused with the divine afflatus. In fact, evolution has been such a process of gradual acceleration in tempo from the very beginning. The earliest stage, for example, the stage of dead Matter, of the play of the mere chemical forces was a very, very long one; it took millions and millions of years to come to the point when the manifestation of life became possible. But the period of elementary life, as manifested in the plant world that followed, although it too lasted a good many millions of years, was much briefer than the preceding periodit ended with the advent of the first animal form. The age of animal life, again, has been very much shorter than that of the plant life before man came upon earth. And man is already more than a million or two years oldit is fully time that a higher order of being should be created out of him.
The Dhammapada, I. 1
01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The earliest preoccupation of man was religious; even when he concerned himself with the world and worldly things, he referred all that to the other world, thought of gods and goddesses, of after-death and other where. That also will be his last and ultimate preoccupation though in a somewhat different way, when he has passed through a process of purification and growth, a "sea-change". For although religion is an aspiration towards the truth and reality beyond or behind the world, it is married too much to man's actual worldly nature and carries always with it the shadow of profanity.
The religious poet seeks to tone down or cover up the mundane taint, since he does not know how to transcend it totally, in two ways: (1) by a strong thought-element, the metaphysical way, as it may be called and (2) by a strong symbolism, the occult way. Donne takes to the first course, Blake the second. And it is the alchemy brought to bear in either of these processes that transforms the merely religious into the mystic poet. The truly spiritual, as I have said, is still a higher grade of consciousness: what I call Spirit's own poetry has its own matter and mannerswabhava and swadharma. A nearest approach to it is echoed in those famous lines of Blake:
To see a World in a grain of Sand,
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Poetry, actually however, has been, by and large, a profane and mundane affair: for it expresses the normal man's perceptions and feelings and experiences, human loves and hates and desires and ambitions. True. And yet there has also always been an attempt, a tendency to deal with them in such a way as can bring calm and puritykatharsisnot trouble and confusion. That has been the purpose of all Art from the ancient days. Besides, there has been a growth and development in the historic process of this katharsis. As by the sublimation of his bodily and vital instincts and impulses., man is gradually growing into the mental, moral and finally spiritual consciousness, even so the artistic expression of his creative activity has followed a similar line of transformation. The first and original transformation happened with religious poetry. The religious, one may say, is the profane inside out; that is to say, the religious man has almost the same tone and temper, the same urges and passions, only turned Godward. Religious poetry too marks a new turn and development of human speech, in taking the name of God human tongue acquires a new plasticity and flavour that transform or give a new modulation even to things profane and mundane it speaks of. Religious means at bottom the colouring of mental and moral idealism. A parallel process of katharsis is found in another class of poetic creation, viz., the allegory. Allegory or parable is the stage when the higher and inner realities are expressed wholly in the modes and manner, in the form and character of the normal and external, when moral, religious or spiritual truths are expressed in the terms and figures of the profane life. The higher or the inner ideal is like a loose clothing upon the ordinary consciousness, it does not fit closely or fuse. In the religious, however, the first step is taken for a mingling and fusion. The mystic is the beginning of a real fusion and a considerable ascension of the lower into the higher. The philosopher poet follows another line for the same katharsisinstead of uplifting emotions and sensibility, he proceeds by thought-power, by the ideas and principles that lie behind all movements and give a pattern to all things existing. The mystic can be of either type, the religious mystic or the philosopher mystic, although often the two are welded together and cannot be very well separated. Let us illustrate a little:
The spacious firmament on high,
01.03 - Rationalism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It may be answered that Reason is a faculty which gives us progressive knowledge of the reality, but as a knowing instrument it is perfect, at least it is the only instrument at our disposal; even if it gives a false, incomplete or blurred image of the reality, it has the means and capacity of correcting and completing itself. It offers theories, no doubt; but what are theories? They are simply the gradually increasing adaptation of the knowing subject to the object to be known, the evolving revelation of reality to our perception of it. Reason is the power which carries on that process of adaptation and revelation; we can safely rely upon Reason and trust It to carry on its work with increasing success.
But in knowledge it is precisely finality that we seek for and no mere progressive, asymptotic, rapprochement ad infinitum. No less than the Practical Reason, the Theoretical Reason also demands a categorical imperative, a clean affirmation or denial. If Reason cannot do that, it must be regarded as inefficient. It is poor consolation to man that Reason is gradually finding out the truth or that it is trying to grapple with the problems of God, Soul and Immortality and will one day pronounce its verdict. Whether we have or have not any other instrument of knowledge is a different question altogether. But in the meanwhile Reason stands condemned by the evidence of its own limitation.
It may be retorted that if Reason is condemned, it is condemned by itself and by no other authority. All argumentation against Reason is a function of Reason itself. The deficiencies of Reason we find out by the rational faculty alone. If Reason was to die, it is because it consents to commit suicide; there is no other power that kills it. But to this our answer is that Reason has this miraculous power of self-destruction; or, to put it philosophically, Reason is, at best, an organ of self-criticism and perhaps the organ par excellence for that purpose. But criticism is one thing and creation another. And whether we know or act, it is fundamentally a process of creation; at least, without this element of creation there can be no knowledge, no act. In knowledge there is a luminous creativity, Revelation or Categorical Imperative which Reason does not and cannot supply but vaguely strains to seize. For that element we have to search elsewhere, not in Reason.
Does this mean that real knowledge is irrational or against Reason? Not so necessarily. There is a super-rational power for knowledge and Reason may either be a channel or an obstacle. If we take our stand upon Reason and then proceed to know, if we take the forms and categories of Reason as the inviolable schemata of knowledge, then indeed Reason becomes an obstacle to that super-rational power. If, on the other hand, Reason does not offer any set-form from beforehand, does not insist upon its own conditions, is passive and simply receives and reflects what is given to it, then it becomes a luminous and sure channel for that higher and real knowledge.
01.03 - Sri Aurobindo and his School, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And, properly speaking, it is not at all a school, least of all a mere school of thought, that is growing round Sri Aurobindo. It is rather the nucleus of a new life that is to come. Quite naturally it has almost insignificant proportions at present to the outward eye, for the work is still of the nature of experiment and trial in very restricted limits, something in the nature of what is done in a laboratory when a new power has been discovered, but has still to be perfectly formulated in its process. And it is quite a mistake to suppose that there is a vigorous propaganda carried on in its behalf or that there is a large demand for recruits. Only the few, who possess the call within and are impelled by the spirit of the future, have a chance of serving this high attempt and great realisation and standing among its first instruments and pioneer workers.
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01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Of which all Nature's process is the art,
The cosmic Worker set his secret hand
01.04 - The Intuition of the Age, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Reason is insufficient and unsatisfactory because, as Bergson explains, it does not and cannot embrace life as a whole, seize man and the world in an integral realisation. The greater part of the vast mystery of existence escapes its envergure. Reason is that faculty which is for analysing, defining, classifying and fixing things. It is a power that has grown in man in order that he may best manipulate the things of the world. It is utilitarian, practical in its nature and outlook. And as practical dealing requires that things should be stable and separate entities, therefore Reason cannot but see things in solid and in the fragments of a solid. It cuts up existence into distinct parts and diverse elements; and these again it seeks to relate and aggregate, in accordance with what it calls "laws". Such a process has been necessary for man in conducting life and action successfully. Originally a bye-product of active life, Reason gradually separated itself and came finally to have an independent status and function, became or sought to become the instrument of knowledge, of Truth.
But although Reason has been and is useful for the practical, we may say almost, the manual aspect of life, life itself it leaves unexplained and uncomprehended. For life is mobility, a continuous flow that has nowhere any gap or stop and things have in reality no isolated or separate existence, they merge and mingle into one another and form an indissoluble whole. Therefore the forms and categories that Reason imposes upon existence are more or less arbitrary; they are shackles that seek to bind up and limit life, but are often rent asunder in the very effort. So the civilisation that has its origin in Reason and progresses with discoveries and inventionsdevices for artfully manipulating naturehas been essentially and pre-eminently mechanical in its structure and outlook. It has become more and more efficient perhaps, but less and less soul-inspired, less and less-endowed with the free-flowing sap of organic growth and vitality.
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As a matter of fact, the superman is not, as Nietzsche thinks him to be, the highest embodiment of the biological force of Nature, not even as modified and refined by the aesthetic and aristocratic virtues of which the higher reaches of humanity seem capable. For that is after all humanity only accentuated in certain other fundamentally human modes of existence. It does not carry far enough the process of surmounting. In reality it is not a surmounting but a new channelling. Instead of the ethical and intellectual man, we get the vital and aesthetic man. It may be a change but not a transfiguration.
And the faculty of Intuition said to be the characteristic of the New Man does not mean all that it should, if we confine ourselves to Bergson's definition of it. Bergson says that Intuition is a sort of sympathy, a community of feeling or sensibility with the urge of the life-reality. The difference between the sympathy of Instinct and the sympathy of Intuition being that while the former is an unconscious or semi-conscious power, the latter is illumined and self-conscious. Now this view emphasises only the feeling-tone of Intuition, the vital sensibility that attends the direct communion with the life movement. But Intuition is not only purified feeling and sensibility, it is also purified vision and knowledge. It unites us not only with the movement of life, but also opens out to our sight the Truths, the fundamental realities behind that movement. Bergson does not, of course, point to any existence behind the continuous flux of life-power the elan vital. He seems to deny any static truth or truths to be seen and seized in any scheme of knowledge. To him the dynamic flow the Heraclitian panta reei is the ultimate reality. It is precisely to this view of things that Bergson owes his conception of Intuition. Since existence is a continuum of Mind-Energy, the only way to know it is to be in harmony or unison with it, to move along its current. The conception of knowledge as a fixing and delimiting of things is necessarily an anomaly in this scheme. But the question is, is matter the only static and separative reality? Is the flux of vital Mind-Energy the ultimate truth?
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I said that the supreme artist is superconscious: his consciousness withdraws from the normal mental consciousness and becomes awake and alive in another order of consciousness. To that superior consciousness the artist's mentalityhis ideas and dispositions, his judgments and valuations and acquisitions, in other words, his normal psychological make-upserves as a channel, an instrument, a medium for transcription. Now, there are two stages, or rather two lines of activity in the processus, for they may be overlapping and practically simultaneous. First, there is the withdrawal and the in-gathering of consciousness and then its reappearance into expression. The consciousness retires into a secret or subtle worldWords-worth's "recollected in tranquillity"and comes back with the riches gathered or transmuted there. But the purity of the gold thus garnered and stalled in the artistry of words and sounds or lines and colours depends altogether upon the purity of the channel through which it has to pass. The mental vehicle receives and records and it can do so to perfection if it is perfectly in tune with what it has to receive and record; otherwise the transcription becomes mixed and blurred, a faint or confused echo, a poor show. The supreme creators are precisely those in whom the receptacle, the instrumental faculties offer the least resistance and record with absolute fidelity the experiences of the over or inner consciousness. In Shakespeare, in Homer, in Valmiki the inflatus of the secret consciousness, the inspiration, as it is usually termed, bears down, sweeps away all obscurity or contrariety in the recording mentality, suffuses it with its own glow and puissance, indeed resolves it into its own substance, as it were. And the difference between the two, the secret norm and the recording form, determines the scale of the artist's creative value. It happens often that the obstruction of a too critically observant and self-conscious brain-mind successfully blocks up the flow of something supremely beautiful that wanted to come down and waited for an opportunity.
Artists themselves, almost invariably, speak of their inspiration: they look upon themselves more or less as mere instruments of something or some Power that is beyond them, beyond their normal consciousness attached to the brain-mind, that controls them and which they cannot control. This perception has been given shape in myths and legends. Goddess Saraswati or the Muses are, however, for them not a mere metaphor but concrete realities. To what extent a poet may feel himself to be a mere passive, almost inanimate, instrumentnothing more than a mirror or a sensitive photographic plateis illustrated in the famous case of Coleridge. His Kubla Khan, as is well known, he heard in sleep and it was a long poem very distinctly recited to him, but when he woke up and wanted to write it down he could remember only the opening lines, the rest having gone completely out of his memory; in other words, the poem was ready-composed somewhere else, but the transmitting or recording instrument was faulty and failed him. Indeed, it is a common experience to hear in sleep verses or musical tunes and what seem then to be very beautiful things, but which leave no trace on the brain and are not recalled in memory.
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But the Yogi is a wholly conscious being; a perfect Yogi is he who possesses a conscious and willed control over his instruments, he silences them, as and when he likes, and makes them convey and express with as little deviation as possible truths and realities from the Beyond. Now the question is, is it possible for the poet also to do something like that, to consciously create and not to be a mere unconscious or helpless channel? Conscious artistry, as we have said, means to be conscious on two levels of consciousness at the same time, to be at home in both equally and simultaneously. The general experience, however, is that of "one at a time": if the artist dwells more in the one, the other retires into the background to the same measure. If he is in the over-consciousness, he is only half-conscious in his brain consciousness, or even not conscious at allhe does not know how he has created, the sources or process of his creative activity, he is quite oblivious of them" gone through them all as if per saltum. Such seems to have been the case with the primitives, as they are called, the elemental poetsShakespeare and Homer and Valmiki. In some others, who come very near to them in poetic genius, yet not quite on a par, the instrumental intelligence is strong and active, it helps in its own way but in helping circumscribes and limits the original impulsion. The art here becomes consciously artistic, but loses something of the initial freshness and spontaneity: it gains in correctness, polish and elegance and has now a style in lieu of Nature's own naturalness. I am thinking of Virgil and Milton and Kalidasa. Dante's place is perhaps somewhere in between. Lower in the rung where the mental medium occupies a still more preponderant place we have intellectual poetry, poetry of the later classical age whose representatives are Pope and Dryden. We can go farther down and land in the domain of versificationalthough here, too, there can be a good amount of beauty in shape of ingenuity, cleverness and conceit: Voltaire and Delille are of this order in French poetry.
The three or four major orders I speak of in reference to conscious artistry are exampled characteristically in the history of the evolution of Greek poetry. It must be remembered, however, at the very outset that the Greeks as a race were nothing if not rational and intellectual. It was an element of strong self-consciousness that they brought into human culture that was their special gift. Leaving out of account Homer who was, as I said, a primitive, their classical age began with Aeschylus who was the first and the most spontaneous and intuitive of the Great Three. Sophocles, who comes next, is more balanced and self-controlled and pregnant with a reasoned thought-content clothed in polished phrasing. We feel here that the artist knew what he was about and was exercising a conscious control over his instruments and materials, unlike his predecessor who seemed to be completely carried away by the onrush of the poetic enthousiasmos. Sophocles, in spite of his artistic perfection or perhaps because of it, appears to be just a little, one remove, away from the purity of the central inspiration there is a veil, although a thin transparent veil, yet a veil between which intervenes. With the third of the Brotherhood, Euripides, we slide lower downwe arrive at a predominantly mental transcription of an experience or inner conception; but something of the major breath continues, an aura, a rhythm that maintains the inner contact and thus saves the poetry. In a subsequent age, in Theocritus, for example, poetry became truly very much 'sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought', so much of virtuosity and precocity entered into it; in other words, the poet then was an excessively self-conscious artist. That seems to be the general trend of all literature.
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In the unfolding process of the Self
Sometimes the inexpressible Mystery
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In the sure deliberate process of world-force
And the long march of all-revealing Time.
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The mighty process of the cosmic Will
Communicates its image to our sight,
01.05 - Rabindranath Tagore: A Great Poet, a Great Man, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Tagore is no inventor or innovator when he posits Spirit as Beauty, the spiritual consciousness as the ardent rhythm of ecstasy. This experience is the very core of Vaishnavism and for which Tagore is sometimes called a Neo-Vaishnava. The Vaishnava sees the world pulsating in glamorous beauty as the Lila (Play) of the Lord, and the Lord, God himself, is nothing but Love and Beauty. Still Tagore is not all Vaishnava or merely a Vaishnava; he is in addition a modern (the carping voice will say, there comes the dilution and adulteration)in the sense that problems exist for himsocial, political, economic, national, humanitarianwhich have to be faced and solved: these are not merely mundane, but woven into the texture of the fundamental problem of human destiny, of Soul and Spirit and God. A Vaishnava was, in spite of his acceptance of the world, an introvert, to use a modern psychological phrase, not necessarily in the pejorative sense, but in the neutral scientific sense. He looks upon the universe' and human life as the play of the Lord, as an actuality and not mere illusion indeed; but he does not participate or even take interest in the dynamic working out of the world process, he does not care to know, has no need of knowing that there is a terrestrial purpose and a diviner fulfilment of the mortal life upon earth. The Vaishnava dwells more or less absorbed in the Vaikuntha of his inner consciousness; the outer world, although real, is only a symbolic shadowplay to which he can but be a witness-real, is only a nothing more.
A modern idealist of the type of a reformer would not be satisfied with that role. If he is merely a moralist reformer, he will revolt against the "witness business", calling it a laissez-faire mentality of bygone days. A spiritual reformer would ask for morea dynamic union with the Divine Will and Consciousness, not merely a passive enjoyment in the Bliss, so that he may be a luminous power or agent for the expression of divine values in things mundane.
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
His infallible rules, his covered processes,
Achieve unerringly an inexplicable
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She carries their magician processes
And the formulas of their stupendous speech,
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Vast aim and process and unfettered norms,
A larger Nature's great familiar roads.
01.06 - On Communism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A commune, further, is not only a product or final achievement; it is also a process, an instrument to bring about the desired end. A group of individuals come to have a common self and a common life-intuition in and through the commune; and in and through the commune does each individual progress to the realisation of his deepest self and the awakening of his inmost life-intuition.
The individual must find himself and establish his secret god-head, and then only, when such free and integral individualities meet and reciprocate and coalesce, can the community they form have a living reality and a permanent potency. On the other hand, unless individuals come together and through the interchange of each other's soul and substance' enhance the communal Godhead, the separate individual godheads also will not manifest in their supreme and sovereign powers.
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As a matter of fact, the individual is not and cannot be such an isolated thing as our egoistic sense would like to have it. The sharp angularities of the individual are being, at every moment, chastened by the very primary conditions of life; and to fail to recognise this is the blindest form of ignorance. It is no easy task to draw exactly the line of distinction between our individual being and our social or communal being. In actual life they are so blended together that in trying to extricate them from each other, we but tear and lacerate them both. The highest wisdom is to take the two together as they are, and by a gradual purifying processboth internal and external, internal in thought and knowledge and will, external in life and actionrestore them to their respective truth and lawSatyam and Ritam.
The individual who leads a severely individual life from the very beginning, whose outlook of the world has been fashioned by that conception, can hardly, if at all, enter at the end the communal life. He must perforce be either a vagabond or a recluse: But the recluse is not an integral man, nor the vagabond an ideal personality. The individual need not be too chaste and shy to associate with others and to give and take as freely and fully as he can. Individuality is not necessarily curtailed or mutilated in this process, but there is this other greater possibility of its getting enlarged and enhanced. Rather it is when you shut yourself up in your own self, that you stick to only one line of your personality, to a single phase of your self and thus limit and diminish yourself; the breadth and height and depth of your self, the cubic completeness of your personality you can attain only through a multiple and variegated stress by which you come in contact with the world and things.
So first the individual and then the commune is not the natural nor the ideal principle. On the other hand, first the commune and then the individual would appear to be an equally defective principle. For first a commune means an organisation, its laws and rules and regulations, its injunctions and prohibitions; all which signifies or comes to signify that every individual is not free to enter its fold and that whoever enters must know how to dovetail himself therein and thus crush down the very life-power whose enhancement and efflorescence is sought. First a commune means necessarily a creed, a dogma, a set form of being and living indelibly marked out from beforehand. The individual has there no choice of finding and developing the particular creed or dogma or mode of being and living, from out of his own self, along his particular line of natural growth; all that is imposed upon him and he has to accept and make it his own by trial and effort and self-torture. Even if the commune be a contractual association, the members having joined together in a common cause to a common end, by voluntarily sacrificing a portion of their personal choice and freedom, even then it is not the ideal thing; the collective soul will be diminished in exact proportion as each individual soul has had to be diminished, be that voluntary or otherwise. That commune is plenary and entire which ensures plenitude and entirety to each of its individuals.
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"The zeal for the Lord hath eaten me up." Such has indeed been the case with Pascal, almost literally. The fire that burned in him was too ardent and vehement for the vehicle, the material instrument, which was very soon used up and reduced to ashes. At twenty-four he was already a broken man, being struck with paralysis and neuras thenia; he died at the comparatively early age of 39, emulating, as it were, the life career of his Lord the Christ who died at 33. The Fire martyrised the body, but kindled and brought forth experiences and realisations that save and truths that abide. It was the Divine Fire whose vision and experience he had on the famous night of 23 November 1654 which brought about his final and definitive conversion. It was the same fire that had blazed up in his brain, while yet a boy, and made him a precocious genius, a marvel of intellectual power in the exact sciences. At 12 this prodigy discovered by himself the 32nd proposition of Euclid, Book I. At sixteen he wrote a treatise on conic sections. At nineteen he invented a calculating machine which, without the help of any mathematical rule or process, gave absolutely accurate results. At twenty-three he published his experiments with vacuum. At twenty-five he conducted the well-known experiment from the tower of St. Jacques, proving the existence of atmospheric pressure. His studies in infinitesimal calculus were remarkably creative and original. And it might be said he was a pioneer in quite a new branch of mathematics, viz., the mathematical theory of probability. We shall see presently how his preoccupation with the mathematics of chance and probability coloured and reinforced his metaphysics and theology.
But the pressure upon his dynamic and heated brain the fiery zeal in his mindwas already proving too much and he was advised medically to take complete rest. Thereupon followed what was known as Pascal's mundane lifea period of distraction and dissipation; but this did not last long nor was it of a serious nature. The inner fire could brook no delay, it was eager and impatient to englobe other fields and domains. Indeed, it turned to its own field the heart. Pascal became initiated into the mystery of Faith and Grace. Still he had to pass through a terrible period of dejection and despair: the life of the world had given him no rest or relaxation, it served only to fill his cup of misery to the brim. But the hour of final relief was not long postponed: the Grace came to him, even as it came to Moses or St. Paul as a sudden flare of fire which burnt up the Dark Night and opened out the portals of Morning Glory.
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The process of conversion of the doubting mind, of the dry intellectual reason as propounded and perhaps practised by Pascal is also a characteristic mark of his nature and genius. It is explained in his famous letter on "bet" or "game of chance" (Le Pari). Here is how he puts the issue to the doubting mind (I am giving the substance, not his words): let us say then that in the world we are playing a game of chance. How do the chances stand? What are the gains and losses if God does not exist? What 'are the gains and losses if God does exist? If God exists, by accepting and reaching him what do we gain? All that man cares forhappiness, felicity. And what do we lose? We lose the world of misery. If, on the other 'hand, God does not exist, by believing him to exist, we lose nothing, we are not more miserable than what we are. If, however, God exists and we do not believe him, we gain this world of misery but we lose all that is worth having. Thus Pascal concludes that even from the standpoint of mere gain and loss, belief in God is more advantageous than unbelief. This is how he applied to metaphysics the mathematics of probability.
One is not sure if such reasoning is convincing to the intellect; but perhaps it is a necessary stage in conversion. At least we can conclude that Pascal had to pass through such a stage; and it indicates the difficulty his brain had to undergo, the tension or even the torture he made it pass through. It is true, from Reason Pascal went over to Faith, even while giving Reason its due. Still it seems the two were not perfectly synthetised or fused in him. There was a gap between that was not thoroughly bridged. Pascal did not possess the higher, intuitive, luminous mind that mediates successfully between the physical discursive ratiocinative brain-mind and the vision of faith: it is because deep in his consciousness there lay this chasm. Indeed,Pascal's abyss (l' abme de Pascal) is a well-known legend. Pascal, it appears, used to have very often the vision of an abyss about to open before him and he shuddered at the prospect of falling into it. It seems to us to be an experience of the Infinity the Infinity to which he was so much attracted and of which he wrote so beautifully (L'infiniment grand et l'infiniment petit)but into which he could not evidently jump overboard unreservedly. This produced a dichotomy, a lack of integration of personality, Jung would say. Pascal's brain was cold, firm, almost rigid; his heart was volcanic, the faith he had was a fire: it lacked something of the pure light and burned with a lurid glare.
01.08 - A Theory of Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Yoga is another form of a normal function in man, it is the consciously regulated and heightened process of a habitual activity of the mind.
The recent science of Psycho-analysis has brought to light certain hidden springs and undercurrents of the mind; it has familiarised us with a mode of viewing the entire psychical life of man which will be fruitful for our present enquiry. Mind, it has been found, is a house divided, against itself, that is to say it is an arena where different and divergent forces continually battle against one another. There must be, however, at the same time, some sort of a resolution of these forces, some equation that holds them in balance, otherwise the mind the human being itselfwould cease to exist as an entity. What is the mechanism of this balance of power in the human mind? In order to ascertain that we must first of all know the fundamental nature of the struggle and also the character of the more elemental forces that are engaged in it.
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It would have been an easy matter if these vital urges could flow on unhindered in their way. There would have been no problem at all, if they met satisfaction easily and smoothly, without having to look to other factors and forces. As a matter of fact, man does not and cannot gratify his instincts whenever and wherever he chooses and in an open and direct manner. Even in his most primitive and barbarous condition, he has often to check himself and throw a veil, in so many ways, over his sheer animality. In the civilised society the check is manifold and is frankly recognised. We do not go straight as our sexual impulsion leads, but seek to hide and camouflage it under the institution of marriage; we do not pounce upon the food directly we happen to meet it and snatch and appropriate whatever portion we get but we secure it through an elaborate process, which is known as the economic system. The machinery of the state, the cult of the kshatriya are roundabout ways to meet our fighting instincts.
What is the reason of this elaboration, this check and constraint upon the natural and direct outflow of the animal instincts in man? It has been said that the social life of man, the fact that he has to live and move as member of a group or aggregate has imposed upon him these restrictions. The free and unbridled indulgence of one's bare aboriginal impulses may be possible to creatures that live a separate, solitary and individual life but is disruptive of all bonds necessary for a corporate and group life. It is even a biological necessity again which has evolved in man a third and collateral primary instinct that of the herd. And it is this herd-instinct which naturally and spontaneously restrains, diverts and even metamorphoses the other instincts of the mere animal life. However, leaving aside for the moment the question whether man's ethical and spiritual ideals are a mere dissimulation of his animal instincts or whether they correspond to certain actual realities apart from and co-existent with these latter, we will recognise the simple fact of control and try to have a glimpse into its mechanism.
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The human mind naturally, without any effort on its part, takes to one or more of these devices to control and conceal the aboriginal impulses. But this spontaneous process can be organised and consciously regulated and made to serve better the purpose and urge of Nature. And this is the beginning of yoga the conscious fulfilment of Nature. The Psycho-analysts have given us the first and elementary stage of this process of yoga. It is, we may say, the fourth line of control. With this man enters a new level of being, develops a new mode of life. It is when the automatism of Nature is replaced by the power of Conscious Control. Man is not here, a blind instrument of forces, his activities (both indulging and controlling) are not guided according to an ignorant submission to the laws of almost subconscious impulsions. Conscious control means that the mind does not fight shy of or seek to elude the aboriginal insistences, but allows them to come up freely, meets them squarely, recognises them and establishes an easy mastery over them.
The method of unconscious or subconscious nature is fundamentally that of repression. Apart from Defence Reaction which is a thing of pure coercion, even in Substitution and Sublimation there always remains in the background a large amount of repressed complexes in all their primitive strength. The system is never entirely purified but remains secretly pregnant with those urges; a part only is deflected and camouflaged, the surface only assumes a transformed appearance. And there is always the danger of the superstructure coming down helplessly by a sudden upheaval of the nether forces. The whole system feels, although not in a conscious manner, the tension of the repression and suffers from something that is unhealthy and ill-balanced. Dante's spiritualised passion is a supreme instance of control by Sublimation, but the Divina Comedia hardly bears the impress of a serene and tranquil soul, sovereignly above the turmoils of the tragedy of life and absolutely at peace with itself.
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Yet even here the process of control and transformation does not end. And we now come to the Fifth Line, the real and intimate path of yoga. Conscious control gives us a natural mastery over the instinctive impulses which are relieved of their dark tamas and attain a purified rhythm. We do not seek to hide or repress or combat them, but surpass them and play with them as the artist does with his material. Something of this katharsis, this aestheticism of the primitive impulses was achieved by the ancient Greeks. Even then the primitive impulses remain primitive all the same; they fulfil, no doubt, a real and healthy function in the scheme of life, but still in their fundamental nature they continue the animal in man. And even when Conscious Control means the utter elimination and annihilation of the primal instinctswhich, however, does not seem to be a probable eventualityeven then, we say, the basic problem remains unsolved; for the urge of nature towards the release and a transformation of the instincts does not find satisfaction, the question is merely put aside.
Yoga, then, comes at this stage and offers the solution in its power of what we may call Transubstantiation. That is to say, here the mere form is not changed, nor the functions restrained, regulated and purified, but the very substance of the instincts is transmuted. The power of conscious control is a power of the human will, i.e. of an individual personal will and therefore necessarily limited both in intent and extent. It is a power complementary to the power of Nature, it may guide and fashion the latter according to a new pattern, but cannot change the basic substance, the stuff of Nature. To that end yoga seeks a power that transcends the human will, brings into play the supernal puissance of a Divine Will.
01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indeed, it would be interesting to compare and contrast the Eastern and Western approach to Divine Love, the Christian and the Vaishnava, for example. Indian spirituality, whatever its outer form or credal formulation, has always a background of utter unity. This unity, again, is threefold or triune and is expressed in those great Upanishadic phrases,mahvkyas,(1) the transcendental unity: the One alone exists, there is nothing else than theOneekamevdvityam; (2) the cosmic unity: all existence is one, whatever exists is that One, thereare no separate existences:sarvam khalvidam brahma neha nnsti kincaa; (3) That One is I, you too are that One:so' ham, tattvamasi; this may be called the individual unity. As I have said, all spiritual experiences in India, of whatever school or line, take for granted or are fundamentally based upon this sense of absolute unity or identity. Schools of dualism or pluralism, who do not apparently admit in their tenets this extreme monism, are still permeated in many ways with that sense and in some form or other take cognizance of the truth of it. The Christian doctrine too says indeed, 'I and my Father in Heaven are one', but this is not identity, but union; besides, the human soul is not admitted into this identity, nor the world soul. The world, we have seen, according to the Christian discipline has to be altogether abandoned, negatived, as we go inward and upward towards our spiritual status reflecting the divine image in the divine company. It is a complete rejection, a cutting off and casting away of world and life. One extreme Vedantic path seems to follow a similar line, but there it is not really rejection, but a resolution, not the rejection of what is totally foreign and extraneous, but a resolution of the external into its inner and inmost substance, of the effect into its original cause. Brahman is in the world, Brahman is the world: the world has unrolled itself out of the Brahmansi, pravttiit has to be rolled back into its, cause and substance if it is to regain its pure nature (that is the process of nivitti). Likewise, the individual being in the world, "I", is the transcendent being itself and when it withdraws, it withdraws itself and the whole world with it and merges into the Absolute. Even the Maya of the Mayavadin, although it is viewed as something not inherent in Brahman but superimposed upon Brahman, still, has been accepted as a peculiar power of Brahman itself. The Christian doctrine keeps the individual being separate practically, as an associate or at the most as an image of God. The love for one's neighbour, charity, which the Christian discipline enjoins is one's love for one's kind, because of affinity of nature and quality: it does not dissolve the two into an integral unity and absolute identity, where we love because we are one, because we are the One. The highest culmination of love, the very basis of love, according to the Indian conception, is a transcendence of love, love trans-muted into Bliss. The Upanishad says, where one has become the utter unity, who loves whom? To explain further our point, we take two examples referred to in the book we are considering. The true Christian, it is said, loves the sinner too, he is permitted to dislike sin, for he has to reject it, but he must separate from sin the sinner and love him. Why? Because the sinner too can change and become his brother in spirit, one loves the sinner because there is the possibility of his changing and becoming a true Christian. It is why the orthodox Christian, even such an enlightened and holy person as this mediaeval Canon, considers the non-Christian, the non-baptised as impure and potentially and fundamentally sinners. That is also why the Church, the physical organisation, is worshipped as Christ's very body and outside the Church lies the pagan world which has neither religion nor true spirituality nor salvation. Of course, all this may be symbolic and it is symbolic in a sense. If Christianity is taken to mean true spirituality, and the Church is equated with the collective embodiment of that spirituality, all that is claimed on their behalf stands justified. But that is an ideal, a hypothetical standpoint and can hardly be borne out by facts. However, to come back to our subject, let us ow take the second example. Of Christ himself, it is said, he not only did not dislike or had any aversion for Judas, but that he positively loved the traitor with a true and sincere love. He knew that the man would betray him and even when he was betraying and had betrayed, the Son of Man continued to love him. It was no make-believe or sham or pretence. It was genuine, as genuine as anything can be. Now, why did he love his enemy? Because, it is said, the enemy is suffered by God to do the misdeed: he has been allowed to test the faith of the faithful, he too has his utility, he too is God's servant. And who knows even a Judas would not change in the end? Many who come to scoff do remain to pray. But it can be asked, 'Does God love Satan too in the same way?' The Indian conception which is basically Vedantic is different. There is only one reality, one truth which is viewed differently. Whether a thing is considered good or evil or neutral, essentially and truly, it is that One and nothing else. God's own self is everywhere and the sage makes no difference between the Brahmin and the cow and the elephant. It is his own self he finds in every person and every objectsarvabhtsthitam yo mm bhajati ekatvamsthitah"he has taken his stand upon oneness and loves Me in all beings."2
This will elucidate another point of difference between the Christian's and the Vaishnava's love of God, for both are characterised by an extreme intensity and sweetness and exquisiteness of that divine feeling. This Christian's, however, is the union of the soul in its absolute purity and simplicity and "privacy" with her lord and master; the soul is shred here of all earthly vesture and goes innocent and naked into the embrace of her Beloved. The Vaishnava feeling is richer and seems to possess more amplitude; it is more concrete and less ethereal. The Vaishnava in his passionate yearning seeks to carry as it were the whole world with him to his Lord: for he sees and feels Him not only in the inmost chamber of his soul, but meets Him also in and I through his senses and in and through the world and its objects around. In psychological terms one can say that the Christian realisation, at its very source, is that of the inmost soul, what we call the "psychic being" pure and simple, referred to in the book we are considering; as: "His sweet privy voice... stirreth thine heart full stilly." Whereas the Vaishnava reaches out to his Lord with his outer heart too aflame with passion; not only his inmost being but his vital being also seeks the Divine. This bears upon the occult story of man's spiritual evolution upon earth. The Divine Grace descends from the highest into the deepest and from the deepest to the outer ranges of human nature, so that the whole of it may be illumined and transformed and one day man can embody in his earthly life the integral manifestation of God, the perfect Epiphany. Each religion, each line of spiritual discipline takes up one limb of manone level or mode of his being and consciousness purifies it and suffuses it with the spiritual and divine consciousness, so that in the end the whole of man, in his integral living, is recast and remoulded: each discipline is in charge of one thread as it were, all together weave the warp and woof in the evolution of the perfect pattern of a spiritualised and divinised humanity.
The conception of original sin is a cardinal factor in Christian discipline. The conception, of sinfulness is the very motive-power that drives the aspirant. "Seek tensely," it is said, "sorrow and sigh deep, mourn still, and stoop low till thine eye water for anguish and for pain." Remorse and grief are necessary attendants; the way of the cross is naturally the calvary strewn with pain and sorrow. It is the very opposite of what is termed the "sunlit path" in spiritual ascension. Christian mystics have made a glorious spectacle of the process of "dying to the world." Evidently, all do not go the whole length. There are less gloomy and happier temperaments, like the present one, for example, who show an unusual balance, a sturdy common sense even in the midst of their darkest nights, who have chalked out as much of the sunlit path as is possible in this line. Thus this old-world mystic says: it is true one must see and admit one's sinfulness, the grosser and apparent and more violent ones as well as all the subtle varieties of it that are in you or rise up in you or come from the Enemy. They pursue you till the very end of your journey. Still you need not feel overwhelmed or completely desperate. Once you recognise the sin in you, even the bare fact of recognition means for you half the victory. The mystic says, "It is no sin as thou feelest them." The day Jesus gave himself away on the Cross, since that very day you are free, potentially free from the bondage of sin. Once you give your adherence to Him, the Enemies are rendered powerless. "They tease the soul, but they harm not the soul". Or again, as the mystic graphically phrases it: "This soul is not borne in this image of sin as a sick man, though he feel it; but he beareth it." The best way of dealing with one's enemies is not to struggle and "strive with them." The aspirant, the lover of Jesus, must remember: "He is through grace reformed to the likeness of God ('in the privy substance of his soul within') though he neither feel it nor see it."
If you are told you are still full of sins and you are not worthy to follow the path, that you must go and work out your sins first, here is your answer: "Go shrive thee better: trow not this saying, for it is false, for thou art shriven. Trust securely that thou art on the way, and thee needeth no ransacking of shrift for that that is passed, hold forth thy way and think on Jerusalem." That is to say, do not be too busy with the difficulties of the moment, but look ahead, as far as possible, fix your attention upon the goal, the intermediate steps will become easy. Jerusalem is another name of the Love of Jesus or the Bliss in Heaven. Grow in this love, your sins will fade away of themselves. "Though thou be thrust in an house with thy body, nevertheless in thine heart, where the stead of love is, thou shouldst be able to have part of that love... " What exquisite utterance, what a deep truth!
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The ultimate truth is that God is the sole doer and the best we can do is to let him do freely without let or hindrance. "He that through Grace may see Jhesu, how that He doth all and himself doth right nought but suffereth Jhesu work in him what him liketh, he is meek." And yet one does not arrive at that condition from the beginning or all at once. "The work is not of the hour nor of a day, but of many days and years." And for a long time one has to take up one's burden and work, co-operate with the Divine working. In the process there is this double movement necessary for the full achievement. "Neither Grace only without full working of a soul that in it is nor working done without grace bringeth a soul to reforming but that one joined to that other." Mysticism is not all eccentricity and irrationality: on the contrary, sanity seems to be the very character of the higher mysticism. And it is this sanity, and even a happy sense of humour accompanying it, that makes the genuine mystic teacher say: "It is no mastery to me for to say it, but for to do it there is mastery." Amen.
Ascendimus ascensiones in corde et cantamus canticum graduum." Confessions of St. Augustine XIII. 9.
01.09 - William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But the process, Monsieur Thibon rightly asserts, must begin with the individual and within the individual. Man must "turn within, feel alive within himself", re-establish his living contact with God, the source and origin from which he has cut himself off. Man must learn to subordinate having to being. Each individual must be himself, a free and spontaneous expression. Upon such individual , upon individuals grouped naturally in smaller collectivities and not upon unformed or ill-formed wholesale masses can a perfect human society be raised and will be raised. Monsieur Thibon insistsand very rightlyupon the variety and diversity of individual and local growths in a unified humanity and not a dead uniformity of regimented oneness. He declares, as the reviewer of the London Times succinctly puts it: "Let us abolish our insensate worship of number. Let us repeal the law of majorities. Let us work for the unity that draws together instead of idolizing the multiplicity that disintegrates. Let us understand that it is not enough for each to have a place; what matters is that each should be in his right place. For the atomized society let us substitute an organic society, one in which every man will be free to do what he alone is qualified and able to do."
So far so good. For it is not far enough. The being or becoming that is demanded in fulfilment of the divine advent in humanity must go to the very roots of life and nature, must seize God in his highest and sovereign status. No prejudice of the past, no notion of our mental habits must seek to impose its law. Thus, for example, in the matter of redeeming the senses by the influx of the higher light, our author seems to consider that the senses will remain more or less as they are, only they will be controlled, guided, used by the higher light. And he seems to think that even the sex relation (even the institution of marriage) may continue to remain, but sublimated, submitted to the laws of the Higher Order. This, according to us, is a dangerous compromise and is simply the imposition of the lower law upon the higher. Our view of the total transformation and divinisation of the Lower is altogether different. The Highest must come down wholly and inhabit in the Lowest, the Lowest must give up altogether its own norms and lift itself into the substance and form too of the Highest.
Viewed in this light, Blake's memorable mantra attains a deeper and more momentous significance. For it is not merely Earth the senses and life and Matter that are to be uplifted and affianced to Heaven, but all that remains hidden within the bowels of the Earth, the subterranean regions of man's consciousness, the slimy viscous undergrowths, the darkest horrors and monstrosities that man and nature hide in their subconscient and inconscient dungeons of material existence, all these have to be laid bare to the solar gaze of Heaven, burnt or transmuted as demanded by the law of that Supreme Will. That is the Hell that has to be recognised, not rejected and thrown away, but taken up purified and transubstantiated into the body of Heaven itself. The hand of the Highest Heaven must extend and touch the Lowest of the lowest elements, transmute it and set it in its rightful place of honour. A mortal body reconstituted into an immemorial fossil, a lump of coal revivified into a flashing carat of diamond-that shows something of the process underlying the nuptials of which we are speaking.
The Life Divine
01.11 - Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"To its heights we can always come. For those of us who are still splashing about in the lower ooze, the phrase has a rather ironical ring. Nevertheless, in the light of even the most distant acquaintance with the heights and the fullness, it is possible to understand what its author means. To discover the Kingdom of God exclusively within oneself is easier than to discover it, not only there, but also in the outer worlds of minds and things and living creatures. It is easier because the heights within reveal themselves to those who are ready to exclude from their purview all that lies without. And though this exclusion may be a painful and mortificatory process, the fact remains that it is less arduous than the process of inclusion, by which we come to know the fullness as well as the heights of spiritual life. Where there is exclusive concentration on the heights within, temptations and distractions are avoided and there is a general denial and suppression. But when the hope is to know God inclusivelyto realise the divine Ground in the world as well as in the soul, temptations and distractions must not be avoided, but submitted to and used as opportunities for advance; there must be no suppression of outward-turning activities, but a transformation of them so that they become sacramental."
The neatness of the commentary cannot be improved upon. Only with regard to the "ironical ring" of which Huxley speaks, it has just to be pointed out, as he himself seems to understand, that the "we" referred to in the phrase does not mean humanity in general that 'splashes about in the lower ooze' but those who have a sufficiently developed inner spiritual life.
01.11 - The Basis of Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Only this process of integration was not done in a day, it took some centuries and had to pass through some unpleasant intermediary stages.
And still this was not the lastit could not be the lastanti thesis that had to be synthetized. The dialectical movement led to a more serious and fiercer contradiction. The Buddhistic schism was after all a division brought about from within: it could be said that the two terms of the antinomy belonged to the same genus and were commensurable. The idea or experience of Asat and Maya was not unknown to the Upanishads, only it had not there the exclusive stress which the later developments gave it. Hence quite a different, an altogether foreign body was imported into what was or had come to be a homogeneous entity, and in a considerable mass.
Unlike the previous irruptions that merged and were lost in the general life and consciousness, Islam entered as a leaven that maintained its integrity and revolutionized Indian life and culture by infusing into its tone a Semitic accent. After the Islamic impact India could not be what she was beforea change became inevitable even in the major note. It was a psychological cataclysm almost on a par with the geological one that formed her body; but the spirit behind which created the body was working automatically, inexorably towards the greater and more difficult synthesis demanded by the situation. Only the thing is to be done now consciously, not through an unconscious process of laissez-faire as on the inferior stages of evolution in the past. And that is the true genesis of the present conflict.
History abounds in instances of racial and cultural immixture. Indeed, all major human groupings of today are invariably composite formations. Excepting, perhaps, some primitiveaboriginal tribes there are no pure races existent. The Briton, the Dane, the Anglo-Saxon, and the Norman have combined to form the British; a Frenchman has a Gaul, a Roman, a Frank in him; and a Spaniard's blood would show an Iberian, a Latin, a Gothic, a Moorish element in it. And much more than a people, a culture in modern times has been a veritable cockpit of multifarious and even incongruous elements. There are instances also in which a perfect fusion could not be accomplished, and one element had to be rejected or crushed out. The complete disappearance of the Aztecs and Mayas in South America, the decadence of the Red Indians in North America, of the Negroes in Africa as a result of a fierce clash with European peoples and European culture illustrate the point.
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Islam comes with a full-fledged spiritual soul and a mental and vital formation commensurable with that inner being and consciousness. It comes with a dynamic spirit, a warrior mood, that aims at conquering the physical world for the Lord, a temperament which Indian spirituality had not, or had lost long before, if she had anything of it. This was, perhaps, what Vivekananda meant when he spoke graphically of a Hindu soul with a Muslim body. The Islamic dispensation, however, brings with it not only something complementary, but also something contradictory, if not for anything else, at least for the strong individuality which does not easily yield to assimilation. Still, in spite of great odds, the process of assimilation was going on slowly and surely. But of late it appears to have come to a dead halt; difficulties have been presented which seem insuperable.
If religious toleration were enough, if that made up man's highest and largest achievement, then Nature need not have attempted to go beyond cultural fusion; a liberal culture is the surest basis for a catholic religious spirit. But such a spirit of toleration and catholicity, although it bespeaks a widened consciousness, does not always enshrine a profundity of being. Nobody is more tolerant and catholic than a dilettante, but an ardent spiritual soul is different.
01.12 - Goethe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Goe the carries the process of convergence and even harmony of the two powers a little further and shows that although they are contrary apparently, they are not contradictory principles in essence. For, Satan is, after all, God's servant, even a very obedient servant; he is an instrument in the hand of the Almighty to work out His purpose. The purpose is to help and lead man, although in a devious way, towards a greater understanding, a nearer approach to Himself.
The Challenge and the Pact
0 1955-04-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
In all sincerity, I must say that when I was at Brewsters place in Almora, I felt very near to that state in which the Light must surge forth. I quite understand the imperfection of this process, which involves fleeing from difficulties, but this would only be a stage, a strategic retreat, as it were.
Mother, this is not a vital desire seeking to divert me from the sadhana, for my life has no other meaning than to seek the divine, but it seems to be the only solution that could bring about some progress and get me out of this lukewarm slump in which I have been living day after day. I cannot be satisfied living merely one hour a day, when I see you.
0 1956-05-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Onlyyes, there is an only, I dont want to be so cruel: NOW MAN CAN COLLABORATE. That is, he can lend himself to the process, with good will, with aspiration, and help to his utmost. Which is why I said it will go faster. I hope it will go MUCH faster.
But even if it does go much faster, it will still take some time!
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Individually, each ones goal was to make himself ready, to enter into a more or less intimate individual relationship with this Force, so as to help the process; or else, if he could not help, at least be ready to recognize and be open to the Force when it would manifest. Then instead of being an alien element in a world in which your OWN inner capacity remains unmanifest, you suddenly become THAT, you enter directly, fully, into the very atmosphere: the Force is there, all around you, permeating you.
If you had had a little inner contact, you would have recognized it immediately, dont you think so?
0 1957-10-17, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Naturally, all this is a gradual process, but I am hopeful that little by little this new consciousness will grow, gain ground and victoriously resist the old forces of destruction and annihilation, and this Fatality we believed to be so inexorable.
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0 1958-10-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
In the universe there is an inexhaustible source of energy that asks only to be replenished; if you know how to go about it, it is replenished. Instead of draining life and the energies of our earth and making of it something parched and inert, we must know the practical exercise for replenishing the energy constantly. And these are not just words; I know how its to be done, and science is in the process of thoroughly finding outit has found out most admirably. But instead of using it to satisfy human passions, instead of using what science has found so that men may destroy each other more effectively than they are presently doing, it must be used to enrich the earth: to enrich the earth, to make the earth richer and richer, more active, generous, productive and to make all life grow towards its maximum efficiency. This is the true use of money. And if its not used like that, its a vicea short circuit and a vice.
But how many people know how to use it in this way? Very few, which is why they have to be taught. What I call teach is to show, to give the example. We want to be the example of true living in the world. Its a challenge I am placing before the whole financial world: I am telling them that they are in the process of withering and ruining the earth with their idiotic system; and with even less than they are now spending for useless thingsmerely for inflating something that has no inherent life, that should be only an instrument at the service of life, that has no reality in itself, that is only a means and not an end (they make an end of something that is only a means)well then, instead of making of it an end, they should make it the means. With what they have at their disposal they could oh, transform the earth so quickly! Transform it, put it into contact, truly into contact, with the supramental forces that would make life bountiful and, indeed, constantly renewedinstead of becoming withered, stagnant, shrivelled up: a future moon. A dead moon.
We are told that in a few millions or billions of years, the earth will become some kind of moon. The movement should be the opposite: the earth should become more and more a resplendent sun, but a sun of life. Not a sun that burns, but a sun that illuminesa radiant glory.
0 1958-11-04 - Myths are True and Gods exist - mental formation and occult faculties - exteriorization - work in dreams, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
There are subtle bodies and subtle worlds that correspond to these bodies; it is what the psychological method calls states of consciousness, but these states of consciousness really correspond to worlds. The occult process consists in becoming aware of these various inner states of being, or subtle bodies, and of mastering them sufficiently to be able to make one come out of the other, successively. For there is a whole hierarchy of increasing subtletiesor decreasing, depending upon the direction and the occult process consists in making a more subtle body come out from a denser body, and so forth, right to the most ethereal regions. You go out through successive exteriorizations into more and more subtle bodies or worlds. Each time it is rather like passing into another dimension. In fact, the fourth dimension of the physicists is only the scientific transcription of an occult knowledge.
To give another comparison, it could be said that the physical body is at the centerit is the most material and the most condensed, as well as the smallestand the more subtle inner bodies increasingly overlap the limits of this central physical body; they pass through it and extend further and further out, like water evaporating from a porous vase which creates a kind of steam all around it. And the more subtle it is, the more its extension tends to fuse with that of the universe: you finally become universal. It is an entirely concrete process that makes the invisible worlds an objective experience and even allows you to act in those worlds.
In Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's terminology, 'psychic' or 'psychic being' means the soul or the portion of the Supreme in man which evolves from life to life until it becomes a fully self-conscious being. The soul is a special capacity or grace of human beings on earth.
0 1958-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
The link between the two worlds has not yet been built, but it is in the process of being built; this was the meaning of the experience of February 3 1958, 1: to build a link between the two worlds. For both worlds are indeed therenot one above the other, but within each other, in two different dimensions. Only, there is no communication between them; they overlap, as it were, without being connected. In the experience of February 3, I saw certain people from here (and from elsewhere) who already belong to the supramental world in a part of their being, but there is no connection, no link. But now the hour has come in universal history for this link to be built.
What is the relationship between this experience of February 3 and that of November 7 (the almighty spring)? Is what you found in the depths of the Inconscient this same Supramental?
0 1958-11-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
And I saw that with the new Power, the supramental power That is something absolutely new It used to be thought that nothing had the power to eliminate the consequences of karma and that only by exhausting it through a series of actions could its consequences be transformed exhausted, eliminated. But I KNOW that with the supramental power it can be done without following all the steps of the process.
In any event, one point is clear: it is something that happened in India, and the origin of the karma and the remedy of the karma go together. And it has to do with this initiation you received in Rameswaram.2
0 1958-11-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
As soon as you had left, and since I was following you, I saw that nothing of the kind was going to happen, but rather something very superficial which would not be of much use. And when I received your letters and saw that you were in difficulty, I did something. There are places that are favorable for occult experiences. Benares is one of these places, the atmosphere there is filled with vibrations of occult forces, and if one has the slightest capacity, it spontaneously develops there, in the same way that a spiritual aspiration develops very strongly and spontaneously as soon as one lands in India. These are Graces. Graces, because it is the destiny of the country, it has been so throughout its history, and because India has always been turned much more towards the heights and the inner depths than towards the outer world. Now, it is in the process of losing all that and wallowing in the mud, but thats another story it was like that and it is still like that. And in fact, when you returned from Rameswaram with your robes, I saw with much satisfaction that there was still a GREAT dignity and a GREAT sincerity in this endeavor of the Sannyasis towards the higher life and in the self-giving of a certain number of people to realize this higher life. When you returned, it had become a very concrete and a very real thing that immediately commanded respect. Before, I had seen only a copy, an imitation, an hypocrisy, a pretentionnothing that was really lived. But then, I saw that it was true, that it was lived, that it was real and that it was still Indias great heritage. I dont believe it is very prevalent now, but in any case, it is still there, and as I told you, it commands respect. And then, as I felt you in difficulty and as the outer conditions were not only veiling but spoiling the inner, well, on that day I wrote you a short note I no longer recall when it was exactly, but I wrote you just a word or two, which I put in an envelope and sent you I concentrated very strongly upon those few words and sent you something. I didnt note the date, I dont remember when it was, but its likely that it happened as I wished when you were in Benares; and then you had this experience.
But when you returned the second time, from the Himalayas, you didnt have the same flame as when you returned the first time. And I understood that this kind of difficult karma still clung to you, that it had not been dissolved. I had hoped that your contact with the mountains but in a true solitude (I dont mean that your body had to be all alone, but there should not have been all kinds of outer, superficial things) Anyway, it didnt happen. So it means that the time had not come.
0 1958-11-27 - Intermediaries and Immediacy, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
I am used to seeing the process or the working of things more from a spiritual point of view, something more universal, whereas this needs to be seen from a detailed, occult point of view.
For example, one thing had always appeared unimportant to me in actionintermediaries between the spiritualized individual being, the conscious soul, and the Supreme. According to my personal experience, it had always seemed to me that if one is exclusively turned towards the Supreme in all ones actions and expresses Him directly, whatever is to be done is done automatically. For example, if you are always open and if at each second you consciously want to express only what the Supreme Lord wants to be expressed, it is done automatically. But with all that I have learned about pujas, about certain scriptures and certain rituals as well, the necessity for a process has become very clear to me. Its the same as in physical life; in physical life, everything needs a process, as we know, and it is the knowledge of processes that constitutes physical science. Similarly, in a more occult working, the knowledge and especially the RESPECT for the process seem to be much more important than I had first thought.
And when I studied this, when I looked at this science of processes, of intermediaries, suddenly I clearly understood the working of karma, which I had not understood before. I had worked and intervened quite often to change someones karma, but sometimes I had to wait, without exactly knowing why the result was not immediate. I simply used to wait without worrying about the reasons for this slowness or delay. Thats how it was. And generally it ended, as I said, with the exact vision of the karmas source, its initial cause; and scarcely would I have this vision when the Power would come, and the thing would be dissolved. But I didnt bother about finding out why it was like that.
One day I had mentioned this to X1 when he was showing me or describing to me the different movements of the pujas, the procedure, the process of the puja. I said to him, Oh, I see! For the action to be immediate, for the result to be immediate, one must acknowledge, for example, the role or the participation of certain spirits or certain forces and enter into a friendly relationship or collaboration with these forces in order to obtain an immediate result, is it not so? Then he told me, Yes, otherwise it leaves an indefinite time to the play of the forces, and you dont know when you will get the result of your puja.
That interested me very much. Because one of the obstacles I had felt was that although the Force was acting well, there was a time lag that appeared inevitable, a time element in the work which seemed unavoidablea play left to the forces of Nature. But with their knowledge of the processes, the tantrics can dispense with all that. So I understood why those who have studied, who are initiated and follow the prescribed methods are apparently more powerfulmore powerful even than those who are conscious in the highest consciousness.
What interested me is that in their case (those who follow tantric or other initiations), what is doubtful is whether or not they can succeed in receiving the response of the true Power, the divine power, the supreme power; they do everything they can, but this question still remains. Whereas for me, it is the opposite situation: the Power is there, I have it, but how can I make it act here in matter? The process for making it act immediately was missingthough not totally; I know from the psychological standpoint, but there is something other than the psychological power, there is the whole play of conscious, individualized forces that are everywhere in Nature and that have the right to exist. Since it was created this way, it must express something of the supreme Will, otherwise He wouldnt have made use of intermediaries but in His plan, it is obvious that the intermediary has a legitimate place.
It is like the story X told me of his guru2 who could comm and the coming of Kali (something which seems quite natural to me when one is sufficiently developed); well, not only could he commend the coming of Kali, but Kali with I dont know how many crores of her warriors! For me, Kali was Kali, after all, and she did her work; but in the universal organization, her action, the innumerable multiplicity of her action, is expressed by an innumerable multitude of conscious entities at work. It is this individualization, as it were, that gives to these forces a consciousness and a certain play of freedom, and this is what makes all the difference in action. It is in this respect that the occult system is an absolutely indispensable complement to spiritual action.
0 1959-01-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
I will therefore give you initiation this Friday or Saturday, on the day of the full moon or the day before. This first stage will last three months during which you will have to repeat 1 lakh2 times the mantra that I will give you. At the end of three months, I will come to see you in Pondicherryor you will come here for a fortnight, and as soon as I have received the message from my guru, I will give you the second stage that will last three months as well. At the end of these three months, you will receive the full initiation. X warned me that the first stage I am to receive provokes attacks and tests but that all this disappears with the second stage. Forewarned is forearmed. For what reason I do not know, but X told me that the particular nature of my initiation should remain secret and that he will say nothing about it to Swami, and he added (in speaking of the speed of the process), But you will not be less than the Swami. (!!) There, I wanted you to knowbesides, you were present in Xs vision. All this happened at a time when I was in the most desperate crisis I have ever known. Sweet Mother, there is no end to expressing my gratitude to you, and yet with the least trial, I am reduced to nothing. Why have you so much grace for me?
I would like very much to return to Pondicherry for the February Darshan and once again begin working for you. Today I am sending a second lot to Pavitra and tomorrow I will start on the Aphorisms, for I do not want to make you wait any longer. I will send a third and final lot to Pavitra by the end of the month, in time for printing. I am very touched, sweet Mother, by your attention and the money you are sending me.
0 1959-04-13, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
It is a rough sketch, and in the actual process of writing, the proposed sequence may change according to the inner necessity, but these are the themes to be developed. So now T would like to know what you feel and if you see anything to be changed, added or deleted.
Your child, with love.
0 1959-05-19 - Ascending and Descending paths, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
The path is difficult. And yet this body is full of good will; it is filled with the psychic in every one of its cells. Its like a child. The other day, it cried out quite spontaneously, O my Sweet Lord, give me the time to realize You! It did not ask to hasten the process, it did not ask to lighten its work; it only asked for enough TIME to do the work. Give me the time!
I could have begun this work on the body thirty years ago, but I was constantly caught up in this harassing ashram life. It took this illness2 to enable me truly to begin doing the sadhana of the body. It does not mean that thirty years were wasted, for it is likely that had I been able to start this work thirty years ago, it would have been premature. The consciousness of the others also had to develop the two are linked, the individual progress and the collective progress, and one cannot advance if the other does not advance.
0 1960-05-28 - death of K - the death process- the subtle physical, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
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0 1961-01-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Japa: the continuous repetition of a mantra. Mother's mantra is a song of the cells, the sole material or physical process used by her for awakening the cells and stabilizing the Supramental Force in her body.
Later, Mother specified: 'These are elements in the material substance entirely possessed by adverse forces and opposed to the transformation.'
0 1961-01-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is now a kind of VERY PRECISE knowledge of the whole inner mechanism for all thingsand what has to be done materially. This is developing, as a flower blossoms: you see one petal open and then another and then another; it is proceeding like that, slowly, taking its time. Its the same process for the Power.
To illustrate this, an interesting thing came upyesterday, I think. (All these experiences come to show me the difference, as if to give proof of the change.) Someone had had a dream about me whispered to him by the adverse forces for specific reasons (I wont go into the details). He was much affected by it, so he wrote down the dream and gave it to me. I was carrying his letter along with all the others, as I usually do, but suddenly I knew I had to read it right away: I read it. Then I saw the whole thing with such clarity, precision, accuracy: how it had come about, how the dream had been produced, its effect the whole functioning of all the forces. As I read along and it went on unfolding, I did what was necessary for him (he was present at the time) in order to undo what the adverse forces had done. Then at the end, when I had finished, said everything, explained what it was all about and what had to be done, something SO CATEGORICAL came into me (I cannot verbalize this kind of experience, it is what I call the difference in power: something categorical). I took the letter, uttered a few words (which I wont repeat) and said, You see, its like this: so much for that, and I ripped the letter a first time. Then, thats for that, I tore it a second time and so on. I ripped it up five times and the fifth time I saw that their power was destroyed.
0 1961-02-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You might as well say, Why are you in a hurry? Wait for Nature to do it. But Nature would take a few million years and in the process squander away a host of people and things. A few million years are unimportant to hera passing breeze.
(silence)
0 1961-03-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So this episode with X is probably part of the same process. What has been affected is a certain confidence in the REALITY of the Power, the REALITY of spiritual action; there seems to be no communication between here (above) and there (below).
Does that mean youre breaking all contacts with the earth?
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Its a process of tempering, you knowwe get tempered.
And theres no point in giving up, because it would just have to be started all over again next time. What I always say is: Heres the opportunitygo right to the end. Its no use saying, Ah, I cant, because next time it will be even more difficult.
0 1961-04-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And its The Supremes Will FOR THE EARTHwhich is quite a special thing. I am in a universal consciousness at the moment and the earth seems to me to be a very tiny thing, like this (Mother sketches a tiny ball in the air) in the process of being transformed. But this is from the standpoint of the Work, its another matter.
But for those who are here, we can say, It is what the Supreme Lord is preparing for the earth. He sent Sri Aurobindo to prepare it; Sri Aurobindo called it the supramental realization, and to facilitate communication we can use the same words. Well, this movement (gesture of a rising flame) towards That must be constantconstant, total. All the rest is none of our business, and the less we meddle with it mentally, the better. But THAT, that Flame, is indispensable. And when it goes out, light it again; when it falters, rekindle itall the time, all the time, ALL THE TIMEwhen sleeping, walking, reading, moving around, speaking all the time.
0 1961-06-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
These things are very interesting. They must form part of the work I have come on earth to do. Because even before encountering Theon, before knowing anything, I had experiences at night, certain types of activities looking after people who were leaving their bodiesand with a knowledge of the process; I didnt know what I was doing nor did I seek to know, yet I knew exactly what had to be done and I did it. I was around twenty.
As soon as I came upon Theons teaching (even before meeting him personally), and read and understood all kinds of things which I hadnt known before, I began to work quite systematically. Every night, at the same hour, I was working to constructbetween the purely terrestrial atmosphere and the psychic atmospherea path of protection across the vital, so that people wouldnt have to pass through it (for those who are conscious but without knowledge its a very difficult passageinfernal.) I was preparing this path, doing this work (it must have been around 1903 or 1904, I dont remember exactly) for months and months and months. All sorts of extraordinary things happened during that timeextraordinary. I could tell long stories.
0 1961-07-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What would it be like, for instance, to have a small supramental creation as a nucleus of action and influence radiating upon earth (to limit it to the earth)? Is it possible? Its easy to conceive of a superhuman nucleusa creation of supermen, that is, of men who by virtue of evolution and transformation (in the true sense of the word) have succeeded in manifesting the supramental forces; yet since their origin is human, there is inevitably a contact; even if everything is transformed, even if their organs are transformed into centers of force, a sort of human coloration still remains. These are the beings who, according to tradition, will discover the secret of direct, supramental creation, bypassing the process of ordinary Nature. Then through them the true supramental beings will be born, who will necessarily have to live in a supramental world. But how would contact be made between these beings and the ordinary world? How to conceive of a transformation of nature sufficient to enable this supramental creation to take place on earth? I dont know.
Of course, we know that such a thing will require a considerable amount of time to be done, and it will probably go by stages, by degrees, with faculties appearing that at the moment we cant know or imagine, and which will change the conditions of the earththis is looking ahead a few thousand years.
0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It wasnt so much a question of the why as of the process.
The process? I am giving you an historical process that I know through experience.
Both are needed.
0 1961-08-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Evolution begins with the Inconscient, complete Inconscience; and from this Inconscient a Subconscient gradually emerges that is, a half or quarter-consciousness. There are two different things here. Consider life on earth (because the process is slightly different in the universe); earth-life begins with total Inconscience and little by little what was involved within it works out and changes this Inconscience into semi-consciousness or subconsciousness. At the same time, there is an individual working that awakens the INDIVIDUAL inconscient to an individual semiconsciousness, and here, of course, the individual has controlalthough its not actually individualized because individualization begins with consciousness. The subconscient of plants or animals, for example, isnt individualized; what we call an animals behavior doesnt arise from individualization but from the genius of the species. Consequently, the individual subconscient is something already evolved out of the general Subconscient. But when one descends to accomplish a work of transformationto bring Light into the different layers of life, for instanceone descends into a cosmic, terrestrial Subconscient, not an individual Subconscient. And the work of transformation is done within the wholenot through individualization, but through the opposite movement, through a sort of universalization.
No, what I mean is that as we progress, we automatically become universalized.
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Years ago, when Sri Aurobindo and I descended together from plane to plane (or from mode of life to mode of life) and reached the Subconscient, we saw that it was no longer individual: it was terrestrial. The rest the mind, the vital and of course the bodyis individualized; but when you descend below this level, thats no longer the case. There is indeed something between the conscious life of the body and this subconscious terrestrial lifeelements are thrown out1 as a result of the action of individual consciousness upon the subconscious substance; this creates a kind of semiconsciousness, and that stays. For example, when people are told, You have pushed your difficulty down into the subconscient and it will resurface, this does not refer to the general Subconscient, but to something individualized out of the Subconscient through the action of individual consciousness and remaining down there until it resurfaces. The process is, so to speak, interminable, even the personal part of it.
Every night, you know, I continue to see more and more astounding things emerging from the Subconscient to be transformed. Its a kind of mixturenot clearly individualizedof all the things that have been more or less closely associated in life. For example, some people are intermingled there. One relives things almost as in a dream (although these are not dreams), one relives it all in a certain setting, within a certain set of symbolic, or at any rate expressive, circumstances. Just two days ago I had to deal with someone (I am actively at work there and I had to do something with him), and upon seeing this person, I asked myself, is he this one or that one? As I became less involved in the action and looked with a more objective consciousness, the witness-consciousness, I saw that it was simply a mixture of both personseverything is mixed in the Subconscient. Already when I lived in Japan there were four people I could never distinguish during my nighttime activitiesall four of them (and god knows they werent even acquainted!) were always intermingled because their subconscious reactions were identical.
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But individualization is a slow and difficult process. Thats why you have an ego, otherwise you would never become individualized, but always be (Mother laughs) a kind of public place!
In the end, individualization and the consequent necessity for the egoexists for the return to Divine Consciousness to be conscious and willed, with full, conscious participation.
0 1961-11-06, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I would like to understand the process.
With all my love,
0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You are asking about the process, arent you?
Yes.
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I think I made this experiment in 1904, so when I arrived here it was all a work accomplished and a well-known domain; and when the question of finding the Supermind came up, I had only to resume an experience I was used to I had learned to repeat it at will, through successive exteriorizations. It was a voluntary process.
When I returned from Japan and we began to work together, Sri Aurobindo had already brought the supramental light into the mental world and was trying to transform the Mind. Its strange, he said to me, its an endless work! Nothing seems to get doneeverything is done and then constantly has to be done all over again. Then I gave him my personal impression, which went back to the old days with Theon: It will be like that until we touch bottom. So instead of continuing to work in the Mind, both of us (I was the one who went through the experience how to put it? practically, objectively; he experienced it only in his consciousness, not in the body but my body has always participated), both of us descended almost immediately (it was done in a day or two) from the Mind into the Vital, and so on quite rapidly, leaving the Mind as it was, fully in the light but not permanently transformed.
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But I cant say that my process is to descend there first, as you write. Rather, this can be the process only when you are ALREADY conscious and identified; then YOU DRAW DOWN the Force (as Sri Aurobindo says, one makes it descend) in order to transform. Then, with this action of transformation, one pushes [the Force into the depths, like a drill]. The Rishis description of what happens next is absolutely true: a formidable battle at each step. And it would seem impossible to wage that battle without having first experienced the junction above.
That is MY experience I dont say there cant be others. I dont know.
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I am telling you this because, as soon as I got your letter, I replied with what Ill read to you now; then I was immediately faced with something I couldnt formulate, the kind of thing that gives you the feeling of the unknown (all I knew was my own experience). So I did the usual thingbecame blank, turned towards the Truth; and I questioned Sri Aurobindo and beyondasking, if there were something to be known, that it be told to me. Then I dropped it, I paid no more attention. And only as I was coming here today was I told I cant really use the word told, but anyway, what was communicated to me concerning your question was that the difference between the two processes [the Rishis and the present one] is purely subjective, depending upon the way the experience is registered. I dont know if I can make myself clear. There is something which is the experience and which will be the Realization; and what appears to be a different, if not opposite, process is simply a subjective mental notation of one SINGLE experience. Do you follow?
Thats what I was told.
0 1962-01-12 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother later clarified the meaning of this sentence: "I saw that to follow the Supreme in the Becoming one has to be able to expand, because the universe expands in the Becoming the amount of expansion in the universe is not matched by an equal amount of dissolution. So it is really necessary to be able to grow, as a child grows, to expand; but at the same time, for things to progress, this process of expansion demands a constant inner reorganization. As the quantity is increased (if we can speak of quantity here), so must the quality be simultaneously maintained by an ongoing internal reorganization of intercellular relationships."
In December 1958.
0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The system of getting rid of things by anubhava [experience] can also be a dangerous one; for on this way one can easily become more entangled instead of arriving at freedom. This method has behind it two well-known psychological motives. One, the motive of purposeful exhaustion, is valid only in some cases, especially when some natural tendency has too strong a hold or too strong a drive in it to be got rid of by vicra [intellectual reflection] or by the process of rejection and the substitution of the true movement in its place; when that happens in excess, the sadhak has sometimes even to go back to the ordinary action of the ordinary life, get the true experience of it with a new mind and will behind and then return to the spiritual life with the obstacle eliminated or else ready for elimination. But this method of purposive indulgence is always dangerous, though sometimes inevitable. It succeeds only when there is a very strong will in the being towards realisation; for then indulgence brings a strong dissatisfaction and reaction, vairagya, and the will towards perfection can be carried down into the recalcitrant part of the nature.
The other motive for anubhava is of a more general applicability; for in order to reject anything from the being one has first to become conscious of it, to have the clear inner experience of its action and to discover its actual place in the workings of the nature. One can then work upon it to eliminate it, if it is an entirely wrong movement, or to transform it if it is only the degradation of a higher and true movement. It is this or something like it that is attempted crudely and improperly with a rudimentary and insufficient knowledge in the system of psycho-analysis. The process of raising up the lower movements into the full light of consciousness in order to know and deal with them is inevitable; for there can be no complete change without it. But it can truly succeed only when a higher light and force are sufficiently at work to overcome, sooner or later, the force of the tendency that is held up for change. Many, under the pretext of anubhava, not only raise up the adverse movement, but support it with their consent instead of rejecting it, find justifications for continuing or repeating it and so go on playing with it, indulging its return, eternising it; afterwards when they want to get rid of it, it has got such a hold that they find themselves helpless in its clutch and only a terrible struggle or an intervention of divine grace can liberate them.Some do this out of a vital twist or perversity, others out of sheer ignorance; but in yoga, as in life, ignorance is not accepted by Nature as a justifying excuse. This danger is there in all improper dealings with the ignorant parts of the nature; but none is more ignorant, more perilous, more unreasoning and obstinate in recurrence than the lower vital subconscious and its movements. To raise it up prematurely or improperly for anubhava is to risk suffusing the conscious parts also with its dark and dirty stuff and thus poisoning the whole vital and even the mental nature. Always therefore one should begin by a positive, not a negative experience, by bringing down something of the divine nature, calm, light, equanimity, purity, divine strength into the parts of the conscious being that have to be changed; only when that has been sufficiently done and there is a firm positive basis, is it safe to raise up the concealed subconscious adverse elements in order to destroy and eliminate them by the strength of the divine calm, light, force and knowledge. Even so, there will be enough of the lower stuff rising up of itself to give you as much of the anubhava as you will need for getting rid of the obstacles; but then they can be dealt with with much less danger and under a higher internal guidance.
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0 1962-02-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If you discover the line of a former life on your own, thats different; its part of an inner, psychic awakening, and its very good. But I dont think its helpful when someone sees something and comes and tells you, You know, you have been this, you have done that. I feel it makes things worse instead of betterit puts you back in touch with things you were in the process of eliminating.
(silence)
0 1962-02-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, its like trying to alter the functioning of the organs. What is the process? Already the two are beginning to exist simultaneously. What does it take for one to disappear and the other to remain on its own, changed? Changed, because as it is now it wouldnt be enough to make the body function; the body wouldnt perform all the things it must perform, it would stay in a blissful state, delighting in its condition, but not for longit still has a lot of needs! Thats the trouble. It will be very easy for those who come in one or two hundred years; they will only have to choose: not to belong to the old system any more or else to belong to the new.2 But now. A stomach has got to digest, after all! Well, that will mean a new way of adapting to the forces of Nature, a new functioning.
But for that to happen, some beings would have to prepare this new functioning.
0 1962-02-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This explanation is clear; and the healing was the result of tapasya. Its self-explanatory. Something was even saying to my body, to the bodys SUBSTANCE, O unbelieving substance, now you wont be able to say there are no miracles. Throughout all the work that was being done on the 20th, something was saying (I dont know who, because it doesnt come like something foreign to me any more, its like a Wisdom, it seems like a Wisdom, something that knows: not someone in particular, but that which knows, whatever its form), something that knows was insisting to the body, by showing it certain things, vibrations, movements, From now on, O unbelieving substance, you cant say there are no miracles. Because the substance itself is used to each thing having its effect, to illnesses following a particular course and certain things even being necessary for it to be cured. This process is very subtle, and it doesnt come from the intellect, which can have a totally different interpretation of it; its rather a kind of consciousness ingrained in physical substance, and thats what was being addressed and being shown certain movements, certain vibrations and so forth: You see, from now on you cant say there are no miracles. In other words, a direct intervention of the Lord, who doesnt follow the beaten path, but does things in His own way.
There was also that attack (it was rather serious and threw the doctor into a fit of anxiety) which took place, I think, the day before sari distribution.6 The next morning, throughout the distribution, someone else seemed to have taken possession of my body and to be doing what had to be done, taking care of all the difficulties; I was comfortable, serene, simply like a carefree spectator. I had nothing to worry about, someone was. (What someone? Someone, something, I dont know, theres no more difference, its not delineated like that any more; but anyway, it was a being, a force, a consciousness perhaps a part of myself, I dont know; none of this is clear-cut; its quite precise, but not divided, very smoothMo ther makes a rounded gestureno breaks.) Something, then, a will or a force or a consciousness plainly a powerhad taken possession of the body and was doing all the work, looking after everything. I was witnessing everything, smiling. But its gone now. It came specifically for that work (I was in pretty bad shape); when the work was over, it dissolvedit didnt leave abruptly but it became inactive. Afterwards, I felt rather confident. Well in any case, I thought, something similar could happen on the 21st, since it just happened now.
0 1962-02-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It depends. Each thing has its method. But the primary method is to want it, to make a decision. Then you are given a description of all these senses and how they function thats a lengthy process. You choose one sense (or several), perhaps the one for which you have the greatest initial aptitude, and you decide. Then you follow the discipline. Its similar to doing exercises for developing muscles. You can even manage to create willpower in yourself.
For the subtler senses, the method is to create an exact image of what you want, make contact with the corresponding vibration and then concentrate and practice. For instance, you practice seeing through an object, or hearing through a sound2 or seeing at a distance. As an example, I was once bedridden for several months, which I found quite boring I wanted to see. I was staying in one room and beyond that room was another little room and after that a sort of bridge; in the middle of the garden the bridge changed into a stairway going down into a very spacious and beautiful studio built in the middle of the garden.3 I wanted to go see what was happening in the studio I was bored stiff in my room! So I stayed very still, shut my eyes and gradually, gradually sent out my consciousness. I did the exercise regularly, day after day, at a set hour. You begin with your imagination, and then it becomes a fact. After a while, I distinctly sensed my vision physically moving: I followed it and saw things going on downstairs I knew absolutely nothing about. I would verify it in the evening, asking, Did it happen like this? Was that how it was?
0 1962-05-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then began the process of descent,1 and the Voice was explaining it to me I lived through it all in detail, and it wasnt pleasant. It took an hour and a half to change from that true Consciousness to the individual consciousness. Because throughout the experience this present individuality no longer existed, this body no longer existed, there were no more limits, I was no longer herewhat was here was THE PERSON. An hour and a half was needed to return to the body-consciousness (not the physical consciousness but the body-consciousness), to the individual body-consciousness.
The first sign of the return to individuality was a prick of pain, a tiny point (Mother holds between her fingers a minuscule point in the space of her being). Yes, because I have a sore, a sore in a rather awkward place, and it hurts2 (Mother laughs). So I felt the pain: it was the sign of individuality coming back. Other than that, there was nothing any moreno body, no individual, no limits. But its strange, I have made a strange discovery3: I used to think it was the individual (Mother touches her body) who experienced pain and disabilities and all the misfortunes of human life; well, I perceived that what experiences misfortunes is not the individual not my body, but that each misfortune, each pain, each disability has its own individuality as it were, and each one represents a battle.
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I would prefer a word other than descent, because there was no sensation or notion of descentnone at all. It could be called the process of materialization or individualizationtransformation of consciousness would be more exact. It is the process of changing from the true Consciousness to the distorted consciousness thats it exactly.
You say it yourself: the transition from the true Consciousness to ordinary consciousness.
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If you like, we could put the process of return.
Of return to the body-consciousness.
0 1962-05-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I didnt receive a promisethis Voice made me remember a promise I had made. I was saying to myself, How to connect this true Consciousness to the other oneits impossible! And just then I seemed to hear not Sri Aurobindo exactly, because then you immediately think of a particular body, but that sort of Voice saying to me, Your promise. You said you would do the Work. So thats when I said, Yes, I shall do the Work. And from that moment on the process of materialization began, the entire transition from the true Consciousness to the ordinary consciousness.
I didnt receive a promise, but a reminder of the promise I had made.
0 1962-05-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I have the definite impression that that so-called illness was the external and ILLUSORY form of an indispensable process of transformation; without that so-called illness there could be no transformationit is not an illness, I KNOW it: when people speak of illness, something in me laughs and says, What a bunch of geese!
It is not an illness.
0 1962-05-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(After a silence) Among those who have gone beyond the stage of needing successive reincarnations to develop their psychic beings, among those whose souls are conscious, fully developed, there are some who (what shall I say?) who are chosen or destined to participate in a certain terrestrial action. And in the process of reincarnation, there is always always some degree of confusion and disarray, you see. I can speak of my own case, if you like; despite every precaution, certain kinds of confusion couldnt be avoided and of course this complicated the work. It was the same for Sri Aurobindo. And all this confusion sometimes greatly disrupts the work.
But there are a certain number of beingsnot manywho have come back on earth ONLY to take part in a particular work, in a particular way. And outer things, personal and individual things, are virtually sacrificed to that. Certain faculties, for instance, whose source is the higher entity, faculties that in an ordinary life would result in a measure of power or fame or success or realization, are placed under conditions where their outer effect is subordinated to the needs of a particular work.
Let me put it to you more clearly: your physical body, for example, should have been either stronger or more supple or endowed with certain very strong vital compensations, so that you wouldnt suffer from your working conditions. Of course, for someone following a yogic ascent, whose soul is in the process of formation, the external conditions of life are normally what is best for inner development, whatever that may beeven if, on the surface, those conditions arent good. So the only advice you can give such a person is, Well, either renounce the spiritual life or else putup with it. But thats not your case. There is a Mission, a work, and a kind of gap between a certain physical formation and that Mission. So if you ask me plainly what I see, I can tell you plainly, instead of saying as I would to certain sadhaks or anyone sincerely wanting to do yoga, Take it or leave it; you must learn to transform yourself inwardly to the point where you can master the body and its needs. I cant tell you that, because thats not how it is for you.
I mean it may beit may be that even an inner transformation (a complete conversion of the vital being, for instance) wouldnt necessarily bring an improvement in your health. It is here where. Its not something I see imperatively. And to go back to ordinary life would be the end of everythingof your physical life and your inner life too.
0 1962-06-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Two nights ago, I had an experience I hadnt had for perhaps more than a year. A sort of concentration and accumulation of divine Energy in the cells of the body. During a certain period (I dont remember when), every night I had a kind of recharging of batteries through contact with universal forces; I had it again two nights ago, spontaneously. Then last night, when I wanted to look, to study, to understand how it worked, I was given a lavish demonstration of the inadequacy and utter uselessness of all processes of consciousness working through the mind. They are useless, they simply spoil the experience.
Previously, when I had an experience, I took great care to keep everything quiet and still so that it wouldnt be interrupted; but afterwards it was always made use of by the mind in its typical way (not exactly typical, but typical to the mind), and this appeared to be inevitable. But now it doesnt work in the same way: its limited to a few inevitable interventions; I mean people speak to me or I to them (I keep as silent as I can, but they still chatter away about every possible subject and I am obliged to answer), and its limited to that. But as it is, even that as soon as I am a bit concentrated, even that seems so not wrong or distorted, not that, but INADEQUATE. It expresses absolutely nothing, thats all I can say.
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Everything that happened prior to the experience of April 13 has disappeared, as it were, and the usual functioning of the consciousness has been totally annulled; it is trying little by little to create a new mode of operationnot merely trying: it is in the process of doing so on a truer foundation; a truer foundation, or truer relations, or vibrations, or functionings (I dont know the right word for it: all these things at once). That presence the other day [the tall white Being] was nothing essentially newit had already intervened a good many times; and yet it was new, because the whole functioning was new. Its like my experience two nights ago [the recharging of batteries], I had it for months on end; well, it was new because it was based on a new functioning. And each time (is it out of habit, or to make me understand, to make me see the difference?), each time the old functioning starts up, first of all I really feel I am losing the true contact, that the TRUE thing is escaping, and then I wonder how anybody can function like that without going insane! Thats what strikes me nowthis feeling of going insane! I mean it grates, it scrapes, it makes no senseit misses the point. It is not the TRUE thing, its beside the point. It tries to imitate something inimitable. And so I ask myself, What is this? Am I going crazy? Am I losing my faculties? And then I realize its not that at all! Above theres a state of immutable and UNSHAKABLE concentration, constant and almighty, and with but a drop of That, a spark of That, all problems are solved. Then I see clearly that its only a demonstration to make me see the inadequacy of the old, habitual functioningto really and truly convince me that its inadequate. Its rather hard to bear, actually. Last night I had it, I have seen it again in recent days: it lasts a few secondsjust enough for a satisfactory lesson! It may also happen to make me understand, but afterwards I wonder, Well, if everybody is in this state they dont know it, but its just terrible! And I realize that the LEAST thing, the slightest circumstance, is COMPLETELY distorted, instantly distorted by the way people work it out, the way they cause events to develop.
Thats an ever-present experience.
0 1962-07-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Once again it made me realize that this last experience [of April 13] may in reality have come to free me from ALL past knowledge, and that to live the Truth none of it is needed. I need neither all this terminology nor Sri Aurobindos terminology nor, of course, anyone elses; I dont need all these classifications, I dont need all sorts of experiences I need ONE experience, the one I have. And I have it in all things and in all circumstances: the experience of eternal, infinite, absolute Oneness manifesting in the finite, the relative and the temporal. And the process of change I am pursuing seems less and less of a problem; after looking like the ultimate problem, it doesnt seem to be one any more, because but that that cant be utteredit pleases Him to be that way, so He is that way.
And the secret is simply to be in this It pleases Him.
0 1962-07-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its plain to see that, left to itself in its full power of transformation and progress, this flame of aspiration, this flame of Agni would have scant consideration for the result of the process the result of the process is that fire burns. And there could be mishaps in the functioning of the organs. All the organs must undergo a transformation, but were it too rapid and too sudden, well, everything would go out of whack. The machine would simply explode. But this Wisdom doesnt come from the universal consciousness (which I dont really think is so wise!), its infinitely higher: the Supreme Wisdom. Something so wonderful! It foresees things the universal forces in their universal play would overlooka wonder!
(silence)
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the Shakti. He said, you know (I am still translating it), that the shakti drawn up from below (this is what happens in the individual process) is already what could be called a veiled shakti (it has power, but it is veiled). While the Shakti drawn down from above is a PURE Shakti; and if it can be brought down carefully and slowly enough so that it isnt (how shall I put it?) polluted or, in any case, obscured as it enters matter, then the result is immediately much better. As he has explained, if you start out with this feeling of a great power in yourself (because its always a great power no matter where it awakens), theres inevitably a danger of the ego meddling in. But if it comes pure and you are very careful to keep it pure, not to rush the movement but let it purify as it descends, then half the work is done.
Its a problem. When you contact the Supraconscient and the Shakti emerges at the crown of the head, its something rising from below, isnt it? Is it then another movement, an ascending movement?
0 1962-08-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Formerly (I mean before last April 13), the process was different; now it has totally changed. This body is nothing but a field of experience, its no longer an individualitynot at all, at all, at all. But its a very willing field of experience. And the experience is going on in a particular realm by day and in another by nightits beginning to clarify the whole subconscient. From this angle, there is a very rapid progress.
So theres a countless series of experiences coming one after the other, one after the other, like that; but theres no coordination between them, no unified whole. I dont even know if that is possible5at any rate, it will be for much later on.
0 1962-08-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That seems to be the process, or at least one of the most important processes.
And its growing more and more prominent. I spend almost every night in that realm; and even during the day, as soon as the body is motionless, theres this perception of the two vibrations, and of the physical vibration almost becoming porous.
It seems to be the process, or certainly one important process, for the physical transformation.
(silence)
0 1962-09-05, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, and it will help people understand the process.
Yes, its really funny.
0 1962-09-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a strange sensation, a bizarre perception of both the true functioning and the functioning distorted by the sense of being an individual body. Theyre not even you cant even say theyre superimposed, theyre almost simultaneous, and thats why it is so hard to explain. A number of things are malfunctioning in the body; I dont know if they can be called illnesses (maybe the doctors would call them illnesses), but in any case, theyre malfunctionings in the bodys organs: the heart, the stomach, the intestines, the lungs and so on. And at the same time theres (it cant be called a functioning) the true state. And thus certain disorders appear only when the consciousness as if the consciousness were pulled or pushed or poised in a certain way, and then, those malfunctionings INSTANTLY appearnot as a consequence: I mean the consciousness becomes aware of their existence. And if the consciousness stays in that position long enough, there are what we conventionally call consequences: the malfunctioning has its consequences (tiny things, such as physical discomforts, for instance). And if through (is it yogic discipline, is it the Lords intervention? Call it what you will) but if the consciousness regains its true position, the consequences cease IMMEDIATELY. Sometimes, though, its like this (Mother makes a gesture of an overlapping or interpenetration by interlacing the fingers of her two hands), in other words, this way, then that, this way, then that (Mother slips the fingers of her right hand back and forth through the fingers of her left to show the consciousness alternating between two states), this position, then that position, this one, then that one. This movement takes only a few seconds, so I can almost perceive the two functionings simultaneously. Thats what gave me the knowledge of the process, otherwise I wouldnt understand; I would simply think I am falling from one state into another. Thats not it, its just. The substance, the vibrations, everything is probably following its normal course, you see, and all that is really changing is the way consciousness perceives things.
So pushing this knowledge to its limit that is, applying it generallylife (what we usually call life, the physical life of the body) and death are THE SAME THING, simultaneous its just that the consciousness moves back and forth, back and forth (same gesture). I dont know if I am making myself clear. But its fantastic.
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There was an extremely violent attack (it was yesterday, I believe; no, the day before) and this time, a formidable combative power came to me. The attack consisted of this: the Originif there is oneis to be blamed for all ill will, and any process that seems dangerous has to be furthered and helped! But then that consciousness came (almost like an entity with a warlike power), and it stayed until the body recovered its peace, its usual peace.
I could see something almost like the fire of battlean interesting spectacle! The body was very conscious of the Help it was getting, and that gave it a lot of confidence: it came out of the battle with a kind of increased certainty that it was being led just as it had to be in order to do the thing something nobody knows how to do externally, nobody! Nobody can knownei ther the process nor anything. Its entirely new.
Of course, the supreme Consciousness knows what Its doing and whats going to happen, in that It knows what It wants; but it isnt something that operates from cause to effect, and from events or circumstances to consequences, the way ordinary consciousness operates; its not like that at all, and thats why were unable to express it outwardly for the moment. Maybe later we will be able to spell something out, but it will never be more than (how can I put it?) just a story, right? Not THE thing itself.
0 1962-10-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Actually, well be able to speak of what transforms Matter only when Matter is at least a bit transformed, when there is a beginning of transformation. Then we can talk about the process. But for the moment.
(silence)
0 1963-01-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So I will go on. If there are corrections, they can only come through the same process, because at this point to correct anyhow would spoil it all. There is also the mixing (for the logical mind) of future and present tenses but that too is deliberate. It all seems to come in another way. And well, I cant say, I havent read any French for ages, I have no knowledge of modern literatureto me everything is in the rhythm of the sound. I dont know what rhythm they use now, nor have I read what Sri Aurobindo wrote in The Future Poetry. They tell me that Savitris verse follows a certain rule he explained on the number of stresses in each line (and for this you should pronounce in the pure English way, which somewhat puts me off), and perhaps some rule of this kind will emerge in French? We cant say. I dont know. Unless languages grow more fluid as the body and mind grow more plastic? Possible. Language too, maybe: instead of creating a new language, there may be transitional languages, as, for instance (not a particularly fortunate departure, but still), the way American is emerging from English. Maybe a new language will emerge in a similar way?
In my case it was from the age of twenty to thirty that I was concerned with French (before twenty I was more involved in vision: painting; and sound: music), but as regards language, literature, language sounds (written or spoken), it was approximately from twenty to thirty. The Prayers and Meditations were written spontaneously with that rhythm. If I stayed in an ordinary consciousness I would get the knack of that rhythm but now it doesnt work that way, it wont do!
0 1963-03-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Regarding an old Playground Talk of December 4, 1957, in which Mother asked: "Will there be a gradual transition from what we are now to what our inner spirit aspires to become, or will there be a break, will we have to leave our present human form behind until a new form emergesan emergence whose process we cannot foresee, of a new form without any connection to what we are today? Can we expect this body, our means of manifestation on earth until now, to be transformed progressively into something capable of expressing higher life, or will we have to abandon this form altogether in order to take on another one not yet born on earth?" Mother adds:)
Why not both?
0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That was when he brought the supramental Force into the mental consciousness. He would bring into the mental consciousness (the mental consciousness that governs all material movements1) a supramental formation, or power, or force, that instantly altered the organization. With immediate results that appear illogical because the process doesnt follow the course set by mental logic.
He said it himself: it happened when he was in possession or in conscious comm and of the supramental Force and Power and when he put it on a particular spot for a particular purpose. It was irrevocable, inevitable: the effect was absolute.
0 1963-03-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its so dull! So dull, so lackluster, so unchanging, souninteresting, really dull that the slightest light shines like a bright star! The smallest, slightest, tiniest progress seems like an extraordinary thing. Like, for example, the attitude in certain cells towards a physical disorder which, naturally, like all physical disorders, tends to recur. The attitude in the cells changesnot the disorder (!), the disorder changes only because of the cells reaction, thats what makes it change; but it recurs with clockwork regularity thats its job. It is the way its received by the cells, their reaction to it, that brings about the change. And there is now a difference in the cells reaction. The result of my observation (an impersonal, general observation) is that there are two types of change (I cant call it progress), two types of change in the reaction: a change that goes on improving, in the sense that the reaction grows less sharp, the cells are less affected and become not only more conscious but more IN COMMAND of the reaction (something people are not generally conscious of, but which is what brings about the cure). And, on the other hand, deterioration: under the unrelenting attack, the cells panic, become more and more affected and afraid, and it eventually results in a terrible mess and a catastrophe. Well, the whole thing is observed, studied, experienced; but (laughing) in ordinary medicine its explained away in two words! You see, what I see now is the process they dont know the process, only the result. And, well, I notice that as the consciousness grows, the cells panic less and less and a sort of mastery develops. Of course, its a pleasing observation, if I may say so, but it doesnt even make me happy! It seems rather obvious. Also the proportion is such that to get a really telling result, it would take years and years and years! Oh, how many years! How slow things are.
So I dont feel impelled to talk about it. Id rather concern myself with something else I do the work, but thats all.
0 1963-07-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But then, as I had worked hard for the elimination, the battle was quite formidablewhen it exceeds a certain measure, the heart has trouble, and then I need to rest. Thats how it happened. But it was so clear, so obvious! And the entire process was SEEN from the beginning, every single step of it, its a marvel! A marvel of consciousness, of measure, of dosage, to allow the purification and transformation to take place without disrupting the balance, so that dissolution does not occur. Its based on the capacity to endure and withstand (naturally, if the body were unable to endure, that work couldnt be done).
And now the body KNOWS (in the beginning it didnt, it thought it was attacks from the outside, adverse forces; and it can always be explained like that, it was true in a certain way, but it wasnt the true truth, the deepest truth), now the body KNOWS where it all comes from, and its so marvelous! A marvel of wisdom. It puts everything in its place, it makes you REALIZE that all that play of the adverse forces is a way of seeing things (a necessary way at a given time, maybeby necessary, I mean practical), but its still an illusion; illnesses are a necessary way of seeing things to enable you to resist properly, to fight properly, but its still an illusion. And now, the BODY itself knows all thisas long as it was only the mind that knew it, it was a remote notion in the realm of ideas, but now the body itself knows it. And it is full not only of goodwill but also of an infinite gratitudeit always wonders (thats its first movement), Do I have the capacity? And it always gets the same answer, It isnt YOUR capacity. Will I have the strength?It isnt YOUR strength. Even that sense of infirmity disappears in the joy of infinite gratitude the thing is done with such goodness, such insight, such thoughtfulness, such care to maintain, as far as possible, a progressive balance.
It came with a certitude, an OBVIOUSNESS: this is the process of transformation.
But this time, there was a voluntary collaboration, so maybe it will go faster.
0 1963-08-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The last experience (which Ive had these last few days), in which apparently there was a hitch (it wasnt really one) was a sort of demonstration. I told you what it was, you remember: its like a purge of all the vibrations that are false vibrations, that arent the pure and simple response to the supreme Influence (all that in the cells still responds to the vibrations of falsehood, either from habit or from the people around or the food takenfifty thousand things). Then, with an aspiration or a decision, almost a prayer for purification coming from the body, something happens which, naturally, upsets the balance; the imbalance in turn brings about a general discomfort. The form discomfort takes is habitually the same: first, pains and all kinds of sensations I need not describe; if that state goes on developing, if it is allowed to assume its full proportions, it results in the past it resulted in a faint. But this time, I followed the process for about two hours from the moment I got up: the struggle between the new balance, the new Influence that was getting established, and the resistance of all the existing elements forced to go away. That created a sort of conflict. The consciousness remained very clear the consciousness of the BODY remained very clear, very quiet, perfectly trusting. So for two hours I was able to follow the process (while going on with all my usual activities, without changing anything), until I felt, or rather was told sufficiently clearly that the Lord wanted my body to be completely immobile for a while so that He might complete His work. But I am not all alone: there are other people here to help me and watch over everything (but I dont say or explain anything to them, those are things I dont talk about I dont say what goes on, I dont say anything), so I sat there wondering, Is it really and truly indispensable? (Mother laughs) Then I felt the Lord exert a little more pressure, which heightened the intensity of the conflict, so that I had all the signs of fainting I understood (!) I stood up, let my body moan a little to make it plain it didnt feel too well (!) and I stretched out. Then I was immobile, and in that immobility, I saw the work that was being donea work that cannot be done if you go on moving about. I saw the work. It took nearly half an hour; in half an hour it was over. Which means there is really there is a fact I cannot doubt, even if all the surrounding thoughts and forces contradict it: I cannot doubt that the consciousness is increasing more and more the consciousness in the body. It is growing more and more precise, luminous, exactQUIETvery peaceful. Yet very conscious of a TREMENDOUS battle against millennial habits. Do you follow?
When it was over, I saw that even physically, bodily, there is a strength: the result is an increased strength. A very clearly increased strength.
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I asked myself if for everybody the supramental process will always automatically involve a lot of physical suffering.
No.
0 1963-08-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I told you that the only process Ive known, and which recurred several times in my life, is to renounce an error. Something you believe to be truewhich probably was true for a timeon which you partly base your action, but which, in actuality, was only one opinion. You thought it was a truthful finding with all its logical consequences, and your action (part of your action) was based on it, so that everything proceeded from it automatically. Till suddenly an experience, a circumstance or an intuition warns you that your finding isnt so true as it appeared to be (!) Then there is a whole period of observation and study (sometimes too it comes as a revelation, a massive proof), and then its not just your idea or false knowledge that needs to be changed, but also all its consequences, perhaps an entire way of acting on a particular point. At that moment, you get a sort of sensation, something that feels like a sensation of renunciation; that is to say, you have to undo a whole collection of things you had built. Sometimes its quite considerable, sometimes a very small thing, but the experience is the same: the movement of a force, a dissolving power, and the resistance of all that must be dissolved, all the past habit. It is the contact of the movement of dissolution with the corresponding resistance that probably translates in the ordinary human consciousness as the sense of renunciation.
I saw that very recently; its something insignificant, the circumstances are completely unimportant in themselves (its only the study of the whole that makes it interesting). Its the only phenomenon that has recurred several times in my life and which for that reason I know well. And as the being progresses, the power of dissolution increases, becomes more and more immediate, and the resistance lessens. But I remember the time when the resistances were at their highest (more than half a century ago), and it never worked in any other way: it was always something outside menot outside my consciousness but outside my will something that resists the will. I never had the feeling I had to renounce things but I felt as if I had to exert a pressure on them to dissolve them. Whereas now, the farther I go, the more imperceptible the pressure becomes, its immediate: as soon as the Force that comes to dissolve a collection of things manifests, theres no resistance, everything gets dissolved; on the contrary, theres hardly any sense of liberation theres something that is amused every time and says, Ah, again! How many times you limit yourself. How many times you think youre constantly moving on, smoothly, without stopping, and how many times you set a little limit to your action (it isnt a big limit because its a very little thing within an immense whole, but its a limit nonetheless). And then when the Force acts to dissolve the limit, at first you feel liberated, you feel a joy; but now its not even like that any more: there is a smile. Because its not a sense of liberationyou very simply remove a stone that stands in your way.
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That idea of renunciation can occur only in an egocentric consciousness. Naturally, people (those whom I call quite unevolved) are attached to thingswhen they have something, they dont want to let go of it! That seems so childish to me! For them, if they are obliged to give it up, it hurts! Because they identify with the things they hold on to. But thats childish. The real process behind is the amount of resistance in the things that developed on a certain basis of knowledgea knowledge at a given time, no longer a knowledge at another timea partial knowledge, not fleeting but impermanent. There is a whole collection of things built on that knowledge, and they resist the Force that says, No! Its not true, (laughing) your basis is no longer true, away with it! But then, Oh, it hurts!thats what people feel as renunciation.
The difficult thing is perhaps not so much to renounce as to accept [Mother smiles] when you see life as it is now. But then if you accept, how can you live in the midst of all that while having that untroubled rapture the untroubled rapture not up there but here?1
0 1963-08-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had already told you about my misgivings.1 As to the motives for the decision, it always boils down to the same point: a sincere (though ambiguous) will of ecumenism, a broad rather than deep intellectual curiosity, permit mentalities such as those that give our firm its orientation and public image to pay some attention to academic essays regarded (wrongly so in the present instance) as dealing with the famous Eastern spirituality. But as soon as the essays are lived from within, the goodwill withdraws into its shell. The reaction is even worse if the author is a renegade, a Westerner who has gone over to the enemy side. (I can vouch for that!2) I must emphasize that this whole process is not only unintentional but, more than that, unconscious (which is not an excuse but an aggravating circumstance). The opposition put up against your first manuscript3 rather hardened with the second, a much more personal book, I mean less detached, still less objective than the firstand more ample. Through the medium of literature, you were able to convey whatever you liked. Through a direct essay, you will reach and so much the worse, or so much the betteronly those who seek. Our firm and its public do not belong, for that matter, to the category of those who seek.
Hes conscious!
0 1963-08-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It takes time simply because of the resistance of the old habits. If we could always let ourselves be carried along, things would go much fastermuch faster. All the time, a hundred times a day (more than that!), I tell myself, Why are you thinking of this? Why are you thinking of that? For example, if I have to answer someone (not always in writing, it can be an [occult] work, to organize something), the Force acts quite naturally, smoothly, without any resistance; then suddenly thought comes into the picture and tries to interfere (I catch it every time and I stop it every time; but its too often!), and all the old habit returns. That need to translate things into thoughts, to give them clear expression And then you hinder the entire process.
Oh, to let oneself live simply, simply, without complications.
0 1963-09-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I remember that for a few days I was occupied with that memory, as part of a vast work on certain physical vibrations, in all the physical domains with which I deal. And it came (strangely, its always LOCATED, located somewhere), and the perception I have is very acute, absolutely like the perception of something that happened to me personally (but all that comes to me now comes in this way). Only, there was the knowledge that it was your own body that had gone through that experience. And then yes, I remember, there was a certain quality of vibration (Mother looks silently), and it was connected with a study on the experience the cells gain in the process of death. I remember, I was studying the cellular experiences (which the cells have more often than not semiconsciously and often unconsciously), those semiconscious experiences that stay in the subconscient and help to make some cells more and more receptive and prepared for the new Force. And as I was studying that, your experience of the camps came, and I saw in fact that a certain number of your cells, a rather considerable number (cells that are partly in the brain, partly in the throat center and partly here [gesture to the upper part of the chest]) have had the preliminary experience of death.
And that gives them a very special capacity of consciousness.
0 1963-09-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And now, with that new process, the papers will go on multiplying! Because it comes the way I told you [in successive bits]. But it has an advantage: the mind stays absolutely silent the mind need not do anything, its as if someone came to look for the words in a storehouse and made all the arrangements. And that someone is impersonal: an impersonal consciousness. Almost the consciousness of what wants to be expressed, the consciousness of a revelation or an instruction, or the consciousness of a will, but not of a person. That someone collects the words and puts them together, then there is a dance like a dance of electrons!
(silence)
The other day, the process was less complete, but it was something similar, a first hint: K. had sent me an article he wanted to publish somewhere with quotations from Sri Aurobindo and myself, and he wanted to make sure it was correct and he hadnt muddled it (!) In one place, I saw a comment by him (you know how people delight in wordplays when they are fully in the mind: the mind loves to play with words and contrast one sentence with another), it was in English, I am not quoting word for word, but he said that the age of religions was the age of the gods; and, naturally, as our Mr. Mind loves to play with words, it made him say that, now, the age of the gods is over and it is the age of Godwhich means he was deplorably falling back into the Christian religion without noticing it! And just as I saw his written sentence, I saw that tendency of the mind which loves it and finds it very oh, charming, such a nice turn of phrase (!) I didnt say anything, I went on to the end of his article. Then where that sentence was I saw a little light shining: it was like a little spark (I saw that with my eyes open). I looked at my spark, and in the place of God, there was The One. So I took my pen and made the correction.
But my first translation was The All-Containing One, because it was an experience, not a thought. What I saw was The One containing all. And innocently, I wrote it down on a paper (Mother shows a little scrap of paper): The All-Containing One. But just then, I saw what looked like someone giving me a slap and telling me, Not that: you should put The One, thats all. So I wrote The One.
0 1963-11-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But all the experiences nowadays, one after the otherall the PHYSICAL experiences, of the bodypoint to the same conclusion: everything depends on the proportion between the elements that respond exclusively to the Supremes Influence, the half-and-half elements, on the road to transformation, and the elements that still follow Matters old vibratory process. The latter appear to be decreasing in number, to a great extent, but there are still enough of them to bring about unpleasant effects or unpleasant reactionsthings that are untransformed, that still belong to ordinary life. But all problems, whether psychological or purely material or chemical, all problems boil down to this: they are nothing but questions of vibrations. And there is the perception of that totality of vibrations and of what we could call (in a very rough and approximative way) the difference between the constructive and the destructive vibrations. We can say (to put it very simply) that all the vibrations that come from the One and express Oneness are constructive, while all the complications of the ordinary, separative consciousness lead to destruction.
(long silence)
0 1963-11-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The entire process of development, at least on the earth (I dont know how it is on other planets) is that way. And perhaps (I dont know very much about the history of astronomy) universes toodo they know if universes perish physically, if the physical history of the end of a universe has been recorded? Traditions tell us that a universe is created, then withdrawn into pralaya, and then a new one comes; and according to them, ours is the seventh universe, and being the seventh universe, it is the one that will not return to pralaya but will go on progressing, without retreat. This is why, in fact, there is in the human being that need for permanence and for an uninterrupted progressits because the time has come.
(Mother remains in contemplation)
0 1963-12-14, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The way the world is now physically organized, with the difference and specialization in the forms, in sexes, encourages a kind of opposition between the two poles, the union of which results in creation. So, naturally, each pole has enormous difficulty understanding the other (although it thinks and believes it does), especially understanding the pole I place underneath (gesture signifying the basis of the world), which is the effectively creative pole, that is to say, what is expressed by woman. She feels very well that without this (gesture above) the full understanding isnt there; but this, which is above, doesnt AT ALL understand the creative power of that which is belowit knows it in principle, but doesnt understand it. And there is a lack of adaptation, a sort of conflict, which shouldnt exist. It never existedneverbetween Sri Aurobindo and me, but I could see it didnt exist because he had adopted the attitude of complete surrender to the eternal Mother (the stage, in the creation, of complete surrender). I would see it, and it embarrassed me! It embarrassed me, I thought, But why does he think he has to do that (laughing), as if I couldnt understand! On the contrary, I thirst for the other attitude for identifying myself this way instead of that way (Mother presses her fist upward against her hand above): for identifying myself from below upward instead of from above downward. It was an aspiration, which has been there almost for eternities for the universal creative Force to identify itself with the Creator. And to identify itself not through the descent of the Creator, but through the ascent of the Force the conscious ascent. But Sri Aurobindo willed it that way, so it was that way and then I was very busy with my work. For the thirty years we lived together, it went on that way, perfectly smoothly; and I kept my aspiration quiet because I knew that it was his will. But since he left and I was obliged to do his work, so to speak, things have changed. But I didnt in the least want the Creator, because of my taking up the work, to be obliged to adapt himself to the creative Force (that wont do at all!), and my whole aspiration has been for the creative Force to consciously BECOME the Creator. Its becoming increasingly that way. And at the last meeting [with Sri Aurobindo], for a time (not the whole time, but some time), it was that way. Then I understood; it made me understand the play of all the forces in the two elements the two polesand how they could be joined, through what process that opposition could disappear so that the total Being might exist.
Were on the way. And its growing clearer and clearer. It will be tremendously interesting. But thats for later on.
0 1964-02-05, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They come more and more often, those things that I scribble on a slip of paper, and they always follow the same process: first, always a sort of explosionlike the explosion of a power of truth; it makes great dazzling white fireworks (Mother smiles), much more than fireworks! Then it rolls and rolls (gesture above the head), it works and works; and then comes the impression of an idea (but the idea is lower down, its like clothing), and the idea contains its sensation, it brings the sensation along with it the sensation was there before, but without any idea, so you couldnt define it. There is only one thing: its always the explosion of a luminous Power. Then, afterwards, if you look at it while remaining very still, while above all the head keeps quieteverything keeps quiet (gesture of a stillness turned upward)then, all of a sudden, somebody speaks in your head (!), somebody speaks. Its the explosion that speaks. Then I take a pencil and my paper, and I write. But between what speaks and what writes, there is still a difficult little passage, with the result that when I have written, something above isnt satisfied. So I again keep still: Ah, no, not that wordthis one sometimes it takes two days for the thing to be really definitive. But those who are satisfied with the power of the experience skimp it all and send you off into the world of sensational revelations, which are distortions of the Truth.
One must be very level-headed, very still, very criticalespecially very still, silent, silent, silent, without trying to grab at the experience: Ah, is it this? Ah, is it that? Then one spoils it all. But one must looklook at it very attentively. And in the words, there is a remnant, something left of the original vibration (so little), something remains, something which makes you smile, which is pleasant, it bubbles like a sparkling wine, and then here (Mother shows a word or a passage in an imaginary note), its lackluster; so you look at it with your knowledge of the language or sense of the rhythm of the words, and you notice: Here, a pebble the pebble must be removed; so then you wait, until suddenly it comesplop!it falls into place: the true word. If you are patient, after a day or two it becomes quite exact.
0 1964-03-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This morning I noted the experience through the same process I told you I was using for revelation. I wanted to note exactly how the experience could be defined (Mother reads out a note):
The penetration and permeation into material substance of the Ananda of the power of progress in Life.
0 1964-03-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is a growing feeling that the True is the only way to change the world; that all the other processes of slow transformation are always at a tangent (you draw nearer and nearer but you never arrive), and that the last step must be this the substitution of the true Vibration.
There are partial proofs. But as they are partial, they arent conclusive. Because, to the ordinary vision and understanding, you can always find explanations: you can say it was foreseen and predestined that the accident would miscarry, for example, and that consequently that intervention isnt at all what made it miscarryit was Determinism that had decided it. And how do you prove anything? How do you even prove to yourself that it is otherwise? Its not possible.
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To come back to that very easily understood example of the aborted accident, we may very well conceive that the intervention of the Truth-Consciousness had been decided from all eternity and that there isnt any new element; but that does nothing to alter the fact that this intervention is what stopped the accident (which gives an exact image of the power of this true consciousness over the other one). If we project our way of being onto the Supreme, we may conceive that He enjoys carrying out many experiments to see how it all plays (this is something else, it doesnt follow that there isnt an All-Consciousness that knows all things from all eternityall this with utterly inadequate words), but that does nothing to alter the fact that, when we look at the process, this intervention is what was able to make the accident miscarry: the substitution of a true consciousness for a false consciousness stopped the process of the false consciousness.
And it seems to me it occurs often enoughmuch more often than people think. For example every time an illness is cured, every time an accident is avoided, every time a catastrophe, even a global one, is avoided, all that is always the intervention of the Vibration of Harmony into the vibration of Disorder, allowing Disorder to cease.
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So that would be the process of transformation of the world?
Yes.
0 1964-08-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are ups and downs, moments when its more present and moments where its less so; to be exact: moments when its active and moments when it isnt. And whenever there is a period during which it isnt active, when it starts again it does so on a higher rung, that is, more intensely and clearly. The whole thing is obviously following a process of development. Its a sort of the word awareness might be the nearest; it isnt a perception, which still belongs to the mind, its a sort of phenomenon of vision. And it has an absolute character. For instance, from time to time, when I hear people speak of something or other and say, It will be like this and like that, instantly there comes a sort of tactile vision how can I explain this? It resembles touch and sight (yet its neither touch nor sight, but both together): its the thing as it is, thats IT; and they may say what they like, thats IT and it is irrefutable. And so far, there has never been any contradiction.
Its a consciousness in which the mental element is absent. It comes just on its own, and its so clear! Its like an immediate contact with the thing as it is.
0 1964-09-16, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That was the idea, I think, of all the apostles of renunciation: eliminate all that comes from outside or from below, so that if something from above manifests, you will be in a fit state to receive it. But from the collective point of view, its a process that may take thousands of years! From the individual point of view, its possible; but then the aspiration to receive the true impulse should be kept intactnot the aspiration to total liberation, but the aspiration to the ACTIVE identification with the Supreme, in other words, to want only what He wants, to do only what He wants, to exist only through Him, in Him.
So the method of renunciation may be tried, but its a method for someone who wants to cut himself off from others. And can there be an integrality in that case? It doesnt seem possible to me.
0 1964-09-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother often said that she was in search throughout the world of people with a perfect basis of material knowledge (industrialists, financiers, writers ...), but who would agree to do their work in another way, opening themselves up to another forcethis is the field of experiment of tomorrow's world. Through their consent and call, if they tune in, Mother could bring into play another operating process.
Mother is led to carry out all kinds of experiments in her body for the work of Transformation. One of them consists in receiving or taking upon oneself every possible disorder for several hours, several days or several minutes, in one's body, in order to act on them, and, consequently, to act on disorders of the same nature in the worldor on THE Disorder. Mother is thus constantly led to work on the meeting point between the subtle forces behind and the bodily or material mechanisms. In her body it is an uncommon chemistry that takes place, the subtle elements of which she knows better than the gross ones.
0 1964-10-10, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For instance, I saw recently a sort of exhibition or procession of all the possible theories of humanity explaining the creation (the world, life, existence). All those conceptions came before me one after another, from the seemingly most primitive and most ignorant to the most scientific and they were all (smiling) on the same plane of incomprehension but ALL had the same RIGHT to express the true aspiration that was behind. And it was miraculous! Even the faith of the savage, even the most primitive religions and most ignorant convictions had behind them the same right to express that aspiration. It was wonderful. And then the sense of the superiority of intelligence fell away completely, instantly.
It is the same thing for those oppositions, those contradictions that are called violent and vulgar between the intellectual (and especially scientific) progress of the human species and, by contrast, the apparently foolish stupidity of those who react against conventions1; well, that feeling of inferiority or superiority that you find among so-called reasonable beings, all of that disappeared instantly in a perception of THE WHOLE, in which EVERYTHINGeverythingwas the result of the same Pressure (downward gesture) towards progress. Its like a pressure exerted on Matter (same gesture) to draw the response out of it. And whatever form that response may take, its part of the general Action.
0 1964-10-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This seems to me to be the process under way.
It is a rather obscure labor thats going on at the moment. I remember the day when Sri Aurobindo told me (we were still in the other house), he told me, Yes, you are doing an overmental work, a creation of the Overmind, you will work heaps of miracles and the whole world will admire you! But that is not the Truth we want. I told you the story. Well, this memory very often comes to my aid. I said, Thats right, we dont care for the fanfare of popular victory!
0 1964-10-30, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It tried to come back and then went away, tried to come back and went away. The process lasted the whole night.
But it was extraordinarily obvious! The physical conditions were absolutely the same, and one minute earlier, there was an almost intolerable pain, which went away like that, in the Lords Peace.
0 1964-11-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its always the same thing, you know: I strongly feel that the explanation, or even the physical phenomenon, is the translation of something going on elsewhere. But I dont know what it is. It is a new process.
But once, you had a similar experience with all the symptoms of fainting: when the center of your physical consciousness left you.
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But the mind (if we can call that mind), the physical stupidity cannot understand the process: whats happening, whats going on, it doesnt understand. The body only has, as soon as it is at peace, the feeling of bathing in the Lord. Thats all. But in the body (not in its attri butes, I mean when neither force nor energy nor power or any of that is there), in it there is, not something powerful, but a very gentle tranquillity. But not even the feeling of a certainty, nothing. Its negative, rather: the sensation of an absence of limits, something very vast, very vast, very tranquil, very tranquilvery vast, very tranquil. A sort ofyes, like a gentle trust, but not the certainty of transformation, for instance, nothing of that kind.
Its strange, it isnt a passivity; it isnt passive, but its so tranquil, so tranquil, with a sort ofyesgentleness.
0 1964-11-12, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I also noted something down, an experience I had this morning. It lasted half an hour, and during that half-hour (Mother looks for her notes among a series of little scraps of paper) You know that with people who have a revelation, their state of consciousness changes all at once, and at that moment they have the feeling that everything is changed; then, the next moment, or after a certain time, they realize that all the work (how should I put it?) of working out the experience remains to be done; that it was only like a flash lasting a certain length of time and that they have to work it out through a process of transformation. This is the usual idea.
And all of a sudden, I saw thats not it at all! When they have the experience, at the time of the experience, it is the thing ITSELF, the perfection ITSELF that has been reached, and they are in a state of perfection; and it is because they COME OUT of it that they feel they have to slowly prepare themselves for the result. I dont know if I am expressing myself clearly, but my notation was like this: perfection is there, always, coexisting with imperfectionperfection and imperfection are coexistent, always, and not only simultaneous, but in the SAME PLACE (Mother presses her two hands together), I dont know how to put itcoexistent. Which means that at any second and in any conditions, you can attain perfection: it isnt something that has to be gained little by little, through successive progress; perfection is THERE, and YOU change states, from the state of imperfection to the state of perfection; and it is the capacity to remain in that state of perfection that grows for some reason or other and gives you the feeling that you must prepare yourself or transform yourself.
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Which means that their way of saying or thinking or understanding that all that is has existed from all eternity isnt it isnt all that is as they see it and conceive of it, it isnt even the principle of all that is, it is it is the ONE Truth thats eternal, and the unfolding Its difficult to say. The unfolding follows a law and a process that are quite different from what we conceive or from what we perceive.
Its the same thing again: Truth is there, Falsehood is there (Mother presses her two hands together); perfection is there, imperfection is there (same gesture); theyre perfectly coexistent, in the same place the minute you perceive perfection, imperfection disappears, the Illusion disappears.
0 1964-11-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know if it is an answer to this question, but there came today a sort of film show: a long procession of all the stories telling how men destroy whats higher than they, cannot tolerate whats higher than they: the martyrs, the killings, the tragic ends of all those who represented a power or truth higher than mankind. As though that were the explanation the symbolic explanationof the reason for the almost infinite time it took for Matter to awakenawaken to the imperious need for the Truth.
It was as if I were told, You see, there was a time when they burned you at the stake, tortured you, memories from past lives. And those memories were associated with the recent story of a Protestant missionary who said, though not in so many words, We worship Christ only because he DIED for men, because he was crucified for men.
0 1965-04-17, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the transition which is really hard to perceive is the transition from the animal creation (which is perpetuated, of course) to the supramental formation; that transition hasnt taken place yet. The passage from that creation to the supramental creation of a body thats what we dont know. It is the passage from one to the other: how? It still is a somewhat more difficult problem than the passage from animal to man, you understand, because the process of human creation is refined, but it is the same Oh!
(The conversation is cut short by the doctors entry)
0 1965-04-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats how we began, and it began that way because there was a descent of the higher human mental consciousness into the form that existed. The phenomenon may recur in the same way, with the difference that it can be more conscious and willed there may be the intervention of a conscious will. It would, or it could happen through an occult processwell, I dont know, there are all sorts of possibilities, one of which could be the conscious passage of a being who has used the old human body for his development and his yoga, and who would leave that form once it became unnecessary in order to enter a form capable of adapting to the new growth.
Here, the two possibilities meet.
0 1965-07-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I saw that very clearly, it was part of the sadhana of this material mind. Then I offered it all to the Lord and stopped thinking about it. And when I received your letter, I thought, Its the same thing! The same thing, its a sort of unhealthy need this physical mind has to seek the violent shock of emotions and catastrophes to awaken its tamas. Only, in the case of A. breaking his head, I waited two days, thinking, Let us see if it happens to be true. But nothing happened, he didnt break his head! In your case, too, I thought, I am not budging till we get news, because it may be true (one case in a million), so I keep silent. But this morning I looked again and saw it was exactly the same thing: its the process of development to make us conscious of the wonderful working of this mind.
Oh, indeed, as soon as there is a little scratch, something in the being immediately sees terrible illnessesimmediately.
0 1965-08-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It followed a long curve. It began with a deep disgust for its [the material minds] habitual activity; I started catching (not now: its been going on for weeks), catching all its routine and almost automatic activities I have said it several times: this material mind is defeatist, always pessimistic, meddlesome, grumbling, disgruntled, lacking in faith, lacking in trust. Even when it tends to be joyful and content, something comes and says, Ah, stop it, because youll get another knock. That sort of thing. It went on for weeks, and a continuous, constant work. It always ended in the offering. There was a beginning of progress when No, first I should tell all that happened before. To begin with, the japa, the mantra, for instance, was taken as a discipline; then from the state of discipline it changed into a state of satisfaction (but still with the sense of a duty to be done); then from that it changed into a sort of state of constant satisfaction, with the desire (not desire, but a will or an aspiration) for it to be more frequent, more constant, more exclusive. Then there was a sort of repugnance to and rejection of all that comes and disturbs, mixed with a sense of duty towards work, people and so on, and all that made a muddle and a great confusion. And it always ended in the transfer to the Supreme along with the aspiration for things to change. A long process of development.
Recently there was a sort of will for equality towards activities that had been tolerated or accepted only as an effect of the consecration and in obedience to the supreme Will. And then, all of a sudden they became something very positive, with a sense of freedom and a spontaneity of state, and a beginning of understanding of the attitude with which the action must be done. All this came very, very progressively. And then this morning, there was the experience.
0 1965-08-31, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But there is increasingly a sort of certitude in the cells that everything that happens is with a view to this transformation and this transfer of the directing power. And at the very moment when things are materially painful (not even physically: materially painful), the cells keep that certitude. And so they withstand, they endure the suffering without being depressed or affected in the least, with that certitude that it is to prepare for the transformation, that it is even the process of transformation and of the transfer of the directing power. As I said, its in the nerves that the experience is the most painful (naturally, since they are the most sensitive cells, those with the sharpest sensation). But they have a very great receptivity, and very spontaneous, a spontaneously strong receptivity and effortlessto the harmonious physical vibration (which is very rare, but still it exists in some individuals), and that physical vibration what we could call a physical FORCE, a harmonious physical vibration (spontaneously harmonious, of course, without the need for mental interventionlike the vibrations of a flower, for instance; there are physical vibrations that are like that, that carry in themselves a harmonious force), and the nerves are extremely sensitive and receptive to that vibration, which immediately puts them right again.
Its very interesting, it explains many, many things. A day will come when all this will be explained and put in its proper place. Now isnt the time to reveal it yet, but its very interesting.
0 1965-09-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This fever that everybody has [several hundred cases in the Ashram for the past few months] is the same thing, except that its diluted in an unconsciousness. But its the same thing: its a cellular affair (Ive had the experience of this because I have been able to stop it abruptly in a few through a process of isolation from the general movement).
(silence)
0 1965-09-29, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For instance, India is free and her freedom was necessary if the divine work was to be done. The difficulties that surround her now and may increase for a time, especially with regard to the Pakistan imbroglio, were also things that had to come and to be cleared out. Here too there is sure to be a full clearance, though unfortunately, a considerable amount of human suffering in the process is inevitable. Afterwards the work for the Divine will become more possible and it may well be that the dream, if it is a dream, of leading the world towards the spiritual light, may even become a reality. So I am not disposed even now, in these dark conditions to consider my will to help the world as condemned to failure.
Sri Aurobindo
0 1966-02-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But to me, the problem is to find You know, I am after the process that will lead to the power to undo what was done.
When people asked Thon, How did things come to happen that way? (he used to say that the first Emanation and the next three separated themselves), Why did they separate themselves?, he would reply very simply (laughing), Why is the world as it is, in this state of disorder? Why is it like that? Thats not the interesting point: the interesting point is to make it what it must be. But after all those years, there is something in me that would like to have the power or the key: the process. And is it not necessary to feel or live or see (but see, I mean, see actively) how it went this way (Mother bends her wrist in one direction) in order to be able to go that way (she bends it in the opposite direction)? Thats the question.
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Whats interesting is that now that this mind of the cells has been organized, it appears to be going with dizzying speed through the process of human mental development all over again, in order to reach the key, precisely. There is of course the sense that the state we are in is a false unreality, but there is a sort of need or aspiration to find, not a mental or moral why, nothing of the sort, but a HOWhow it got twisted this way (Mother bends her wrist in one direction), in order to straighten it out (gesture in the opposite direction).
The pure sensation has the experience of the two vibrations [the false and the true, the twisted and the straight vibrations], but the transition from one to the other is still a mystery. Its a mystery, because it cannot be explained: neither when it goes this way (gesture to the false direction) nor when it goes that way (gesture to the true direction).
0 1966-03-04, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We are forced to use words, but the thing eludes us. What for us is translated as the eternal Principle, the Supreme, God, has neither beginning nor end: we are forced to say, It is, but its not like that, because its beyond the Nonmanifestation and the Manifestation; it is something that we, in the Manifestation, are incapable of understanding and perceiving and That is what has neither beginning nor end. But constantly and eternally, That manifests as something that begins and ends. Only, there are two ways to end, one that is seen as a destruction, an annihilation, and the other that is a transformation; and it would seem that as the Manifestation grows more perfect, the necessity of destruction decreases, to the point when it will disappear and will be replaced by the process of progressive transformation.
But thats quite a human and external way of putting it.
0 1966-09-30, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, in all my experiences, I understand quite well the possibility of not having to eat anymore, of that whole process being done away with (changing the method of absorption, for instance, is possible), but how do you change the structure?
It doesnt seem impossible to me.
0 1966-10-29, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Not last night but the night before, I spent a long time, almost two hours of our time here, with Sri Aurobindo. I have told you he has something that translates as an abode (its magnificent, magnificent!) in the subtle physical. Its always immense, so clear, well-defined, yet fully open. And I get a sense of (Mother takes a deep breath) phew! open, luminousalways, in every case. He is there maybe not quite as he was here (but it makes no difference to me because the change has been very progressive: I have followed Sri Aurobindo almost from day to day, step by step), and he is perhaps rather taller, with perhaps a form that has greater perfection, I dont know, but to me, his expression (Mother smiles with her eyes closed) his expression is inexpressible. I spent a very, very long time with him. In those huge rooms (they are limitless, you know, you feel you could go indefinitely from one room to another, from one place to another), he was directing It was in a part of the place with a certain number of rooms (four, five or six, I dont know), large rooms where he was directing a pottery, just imagine! But it wasnt like here. There were objects made of clay. There wasnt any process of firing, painting or any like that (it wasnt like here), but there were shapes which looked like pottery shapes, and they had a power (Mother gestures downward) to manifest. And then, there was everything: animals, plants, people, things, everything, with all possible colors. I went from one to another, looking, explaining. I had spent a long time with him, and I knew exactly why and how it was done, and afterwards I went and studied the work and observed. Then the rooms were arranged, the things were put in their place: that was as if to show the result. And things charming in their simplicity, yet they contained an extraordinary power of manifestation! But they had a deep meaning. I took an object made of a very dark reddish brown earth, and it was badly put together, that is, the shape wasnt right and I showed it to the pottery foreman (there was a pottery foreman in each room, looking after the work). I showed it to him, and told him (it was fairly big at the bottom, with a small piece at the top [Mother draws a sort of vase with a neck], anyway it wasnt well done), I explained it to him, saying, You understand, its not properly balanced. And while I was holding it in my fingersit broke. Then he said to me, Oh, I am going to mend it. I answered, If you like, but its not as it should be. Of course, we say it with our words, but there, it had a very precise MEANING. Then, there were kinds of big openings between one room and another (they werent rooms, they were huge halls), and one went on to the place where they made fish! But the fish werent fish (!), they had another meaning. And there were fish this big, made of clay, colored and gleaming, magnificent: one was blue-green, another yellowish white, but pretty, so pretty! And they were kept on the floor as if it were water: the fish were kept on the floor, right in the way. So I thought, Thats not very convenient! (Mother laughs) And said like this, it all looks like childishness, but there it had a very deep meaning, very deep.
It was very interesting.
0 1966-11-03, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is the soul. There is the soul, which is quite simply an emanation of we can call it the supreme Consciousness, supreme Reality, supreme Truth, anything, whatever they like, its all the same to meany words they like. But anyway, the soul is an emanation of That, a direct emanation. In the body, That becomes clothed in the psychic being. The psychic being is a being which is progressively formed throughout all the existences. So are you talking about the soul, are you talking about the psychic being (which is first an embryo and eventually becomes a conscious, perfectly independent being), or are you simply talking of the life of an individual consciousness after death? Because thats yet another thing. There are proofs of that; but in that case, its a quite vital consciousness of an inferior order, and it may happen to immediately come back into another body through some combination of circumstances (it was into the same family that the father had come back), and to come back with the memory. Otherwise, according to the experiences of those who have studied the question, its only the psychic being in the process of being formed that retains the memory of its former existences. But it retains the memory of the material, purely physical existence ONLY FOR THOSE MOMENTS WHEN IT PARTICIPATED. So, instead of all those stories that are told (and are made up), you only have memories like that (Mother draws a series of points in space with her fingertips), which may be more or less detailed, more or less complete, but which are only fragmentary memories of the MOMENT when the psychic physically manifested. Lots of people do have this sort of memory, but they dont know what it is. Most of the time they regard it as dreams or imaginings. Those who know (that is to say, who are conscious of what goes on in their physical consciousness) can see that its memories.
The number of memories of this kind Ive had is almost incalculable. But it doesnt have the same character as the memories of the higher consciousness (then its not a memory: its a sort of vision the higher beings2 have of life; but thats something else). The memories I speak of are memories of the psychic being, they have a different character: a rather personal character, I mean there is the sense of a PERSON remembering something. While the others, the visions from above, are memories of an acting consciousness. But the memories of the psychic being arent mentalized, that is, if for instance at the time of the recollection you werent paying attention to the way you were dressed or the surroundings, you dont remember them. You only remember what took place and especially what took place from the point of view of the consciousness and the feelings and the inner movements.
0 1967-01-28, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its nothing but the survival of a natural process which was useful in the beginning of evolution.
Quite so.
0 1967-02-08, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have some interesting things to tell you. Its about this cold. An extraordinary healing power All the phases in their most acute form, with the study of the process, and each phase gone through in a few hours, or a few minutes (depending on what it was). Usually, when you have a cold, you go through one phase, then another (you know how it is), then it goes lower down, then you cough, then All that was gone through quickly, and in two days it was over. And with the whole process, but not the mentalized process, not at all: the vibratory process, showing how the Force comes, acts, and at once Oh, it was very, very interesting, because there was the part played by the inconscient, the part played by conscious reactions, the part played by the will (tremendous, an enormous part), the part played by mental suggestion (tremendous too), and the action of the supreme Vibration. The whole thing in detail, day and night, constantly; to such a point that at moments I stood still, like that, to follow the course. And it lasted (I saw you on Saturday) for Sunday, Monday, Tuesday: those three days.
Its my fault it started; as I told you, I had complained about these sinuses which were a constant nuisance, and there was also that constant inflammation of the mouth and the throat. So it had its effect. I cant say its fully over because there still remains a lot, quite a lot of the old habit, but it came with the intention of changing things.
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Its a detailed process for each case. That was one of the manifestations of a cold.
I mean, it could act on other illnesses too, couldnt it?
0 1967-03-04, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Regarding Sri Aurobindo's Aphorism 126: "The most binding law of Nature is only a fixed process which the Lord of Nature has framed and uses constantly; the Spirit made it and the Spirit can exceed it, but we must first open the doors of our prison-house and learn to live less in Nature than in the Spirit.")
That was precisely the subject of (can we call it meditation?) of this mornings work. It came so clearly. But the experiences arent literary, they cant be expressed.1
0 1967-03-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But all this would only be interesting with all the facts (which cant be given). So Id like to have a more complete and impersonal experience, you might say, I mean not illustrated by facts but an overall vision of the process. Then I will be able to talk about it.
It will come.
0 1967-04-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This is the description (retranslated from the French) of the "cellular level" by Dr. Timothy Leary, psychologist and professor at Harvard University: "Huge aggregates of cells are animated and the consciousness whirls about in strange landscapes for which there exist neither words nor concepts. L.S.D. reveals cellular dialogues imperceptible to the normal state of consciousness, for which we have no appropriate symbolic terms. You become aware of processes you never sensed before. You feel yourself sinking into the soft swamps of your own body's tissues, slowly drifting below dark red aqueducts, floating through endless capillary systems, gently propelled through endless systems of cells, grandfa ther clocks of fibres tirelessly jingling, clinking, tinkling, pumping. This experience is striking when you have it for the first time; it can also be a dreadful, frightening and at the same time marvellous experience..." Then his description of the "pre-cellular level": "Your nervous cells become aware, as Einstein did, that all matter, all structure is nothing but pulsating energy. Your body and the world around you dissolve into a sparkling lattice of white waves. You have penetrated matter's intimate structure and vibrate in harmony with its primeval and cosmic pulse."
Mother is referring to U Thant, secretary-general of the United Nations. U.N.O., April 10, 1967: "That a fraction of the amounts that are going to be spent in 1967 on arms could finance economic, social, national and world programs to an extent so far unimaginable is a notion within the grasp of the man in the street. Men, if they unite, are now capable of foreseeing and, to a certain point, determining the future of human development. This, however, is possible only if we stop fearing and harassing one another and if together we accept, welcome and prepare the changes that must inevitably take place. If this means a change in human nature, well, it is high time we worked for it; what must surely change is certain political attitudes and habits man has."
0 1967-07-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But in physics you are in the very domain of the mechanical law where process is everything and the driving consciousness has chosen to conceal itself with the greatest thoroughnessso that, scientifically speaking, it does not exist there. One can discover it there by occultism and yoga, but the methods of occult science and of yoga are not measurable or followable by the means of physical scienceso the gulf remains in existence. It may be bridged one day, but the physicist is not likely to be the bridge-builder, so it is no use asking him to try what is beyond his province.
November 5, 1934
0 1967-10-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its precisely because there are too many people like this that the earth is in difficulty! Too many, too many people are in the mind: mental difficulties mental difficulties. You cant get through (impenetrable gesture) it doesnt go through, it doesnt touch. Its an endless process. And thats what makes those bang! those battles, wars, conflicts necessary.
You know, an ardent faith, a psychic aspiration, a fervour, a self-giving, instead of being forever turned in on oneself, turned in on oneself. A self-giving, thats what is needed to save the world!
0 1967-10-21, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And individualization is part of the process, its a necessity of the process, because it permits a more minute and direct action.
And when Matter will be supple enough to be transformed under the action of the consciousnessa CONSTANT transformation then this need to abandon there something that has become useless, or is in impossible conditions, will no longer exist. That is how it may happen, at least for the requirements of the transformation, to have at will a continuity, of existence for a form which was transitional.
0 1967-10-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That is to say that in my view, the process of expression is more important than the outer result. There is an inner result (which isnt expressed in words), which is far more important than the outer result. The last time, when you wrote the book on Sri Aurobindo, it was perfectly clear; with the last book too (the first version of the Sannyasin), but even more so: there was that sort of inner transmutation which was far more important than what you were writingin my view.
Its a process of inner fashioning of your consciousness.
And what happened at the end ()of the first version of the Sannyasin, which the disciple rejected) was simply because the time of the final transmutation (I dont know how to explain or transformationmore than transformation), of the final transmutation hadnt yet come. It was near, but still at a tangent. Thats why. It was like that (gesture showing two lines coming closer), drawing nearer.
0 1967-11-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If the process is to be natural, well, it will take an eternity.
No! Its not a question of natural. Nature has organized things progressively for the manifestation of consciousness, which means that the whole work has been to prepare the Inconscient in such a way that it may become conscious. Now, of course, the consciousness is there at least to a great extent; so things are moving much faster, that is, the greater part of the work is done. But still, as I said, when you see to what extent we are bound to Unconsciousness, to a semi-vague consciousness, and how those who dont know still feel fatality, fate, what they call Nature and all that dominates and governs them, well, for the final change to take place, all that must become fully conscious, and not merely in the mental way thats not enough but in the divine way! So, much remains to be done.
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What I dont see is the process to break out of this inertia or unconsciousness.
process, what process? The process of transformation?
Yes, it is said that the consciousness must act to awaken all this
0 1967-11-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Only, when man emerged from the animal, there was no way to recordto note and record the process; now its quite different, so it will be more interesting.
(silence)
0 1967-12-27, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the process is endless.
The power of progressive transformation is what must be infused into Matter.
0 1967-12-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then you see: as the process grows more and more perfectperfect means integral, total, leaving nothing behindit NECESSARILY, inevitably means victory over death. Not that this dissolution of the cells which death represents stops existing, but it would exist only when necessary: not as an absolute law, but as ONE of the processes, when necessary.
Its mainly that: all that the Mind has brought in terms of rigidity and absoluteness and near invincibility thats what is going to disappear. And simply by handing the supreme power over to the Supreme Consciousness.
0 1968-01-12, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We may begin by looking at the problem in the wide sense, that of evolution. Species have evolved from the mineral to the plant, to the animal, and on to man. Everything points to the fact that the progress of evolution is not a progress in forms but a progress of consciousness. Forms are only an increasingly fit support for the progress of consciousness. We have reached the human stage, but there is no reason to assume that it is final or supreme (otherwise there would be no evolution), no more than an objective observer one hundred million years ago would have been right to assume that the chameleon or the baboon was the highest term of evolution. We have simply reached the decisive evolutionary stage when we can consciously intervene to accelerate the natural process, which might otherwise require a few more millions of years, with much wastage. Yoga and all spiritual disciplines are ultimately nothing but processes of conscious acceleration of evolution in the true sense.
There may be here some debate on this true sense: some, along with the religions we know, will tell you that the true sense isnt here, but in goodness knows what heaven beyond. Its a point of view, but if this material evolution does not hold its own sense within itself, it means we are in the presence of a sinister farce invented by goodness knows what divine masochist. If God exists, he must be a little less foolish than that, and we are entitled to think that this material evolution has a divine sense and that it is the field of a divine manifestation in Matter. Our spiritual discipline must therefore aim at gaining this divine man or perhaps that other, still unknown being who will emerge from us just as we emerged from hominid infancy. What is the place of the sexual function in this evolution? Until now, the progress of consciousness has made use of the progress of species, which means that sexual reproduction has been the key to the proliferation of species so as to reach the form most fit for the manifestation of consciousness. Since the appearance of man two or three million years ago, Nature hasnt produced new species, as if she had found in man the fittest mode of expression. But evolution cannot remain stagnant, or else it no longer is evolution. So it means that the key of evolution no longer lies in the proliferation of species by means of sexual reproduction, but directly in the very power of consciousness. Before man, consciousness was still too buried in its material support; with man, it has disengaged itself sufficiently to assume its true mastery over material Nature and work out its own mutations by itself. From the standpoint of evolutionary biology, this is the end of sexuality. We have reached the stage at which we can switch from natural evolution through sexual power to spiritual evolution through the power of consciousness. Nature generally does not let organs linger that no longer serve her evolutionary design, so we can foresee that the sexual function will atrophy in those who will be able to channel their energy no longer for reproduction but to develop their consciousness. Quite obviously, not all of us have reached that stage, and for a long time Nature will still need sexual power to pursue her evolution in the midst of the human species, that is to say, to lead the rather brute man we still are to a more conscious man, more capable of grasping the true sense of his evolution, and finally wholly capable of switching from natural to spiritual evolution. The inequality of development in individuals is the obvious reason why we cannot make general rules or hand out infallible prescriptions. To each stage its law. But after however long a time, it is equally obvious that, from the point of view of evolutionary biology, the sexual function comes to its end when it has fulfilled its purpose, that is, when it has succeeded in giving birth to a sufficiently conscious man. So we cannot reasonably base a spiritual discipline of accelerated evolution on a principle that runs counter to evolution. Moreover, anyone who has even barely crossed the difficult line, the point X of the transition from natural to spiritual evolution, cannot but realize that all the pseudo-mystic attempts to prettify the sexual relations between man and woman are shams. I have nothing against sexual relations (God knows!), but trying to coat them with a yogic or mystic phraseology is a deceitful illusion, a self-deception. Therefore, in that sense, there is no key to be recoveredit does not exist.
0 1968-03-09, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now all experiences, all of them, come as if to let life grow clear (its quite interesting), to put things in their place. And all preferences, all opinions, all attractions, all distastes, all that is going away in a kind of smile, in factnot in indifference, but in a smile, the smile of the extraordinary relativity of the manifestation. And there begins to come the perception of what a true manifestation would bein a sort of very supple harmony, smooth, and very vast. Its in process of formation. Very interesting.
And these things (showing the Playground Talk) are still too cut-and-dried. But I quite understand that if now I were to tell experiences like the one I had this morning, it would be almost incomprehensibletoo far from [peoples] consciousness.
0 1968-05-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Divine life in the process of evolution, the divine Consciousness at work in Matterhere is, so to speak, what this existence represents.
And at the same time, there was the clear vision, the very clear consciousness of the whole thing from the point of view of the earths evolution: whats being worked out in the earths evolution.
0 1968-05-18, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The material substance is in process of transformation to become an increasingly perfect and durable multiform mode of expression for that consciousness.
I am going to send it to them. But I appreciated their notes.
0 1968-05-22, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
[Satprem reads:] It is feast day in the Vatican. St. Peters Square is jammed with people. The Popes procession begins; I have witnessed it many times, very near the Pope, next to the cardinals. But instead of the sedia gestatoria [the chair in which the Pope is carried], there is a huge elephant carrying someone. Who is this someone? Sweet Mother? No, its Pavitra. Not at all, its Satprem! No, its the Schools director. The more I try to fix my attention on him, the more his face changes, as in a kaleidoscope. In reality, I have difficulty fixing my attention, because I strain under the weight of the elephant, which is now entering St. Peters Basilica. In fact, I am in a very uncomfortable posture, for I am not the elephant: I am in his legs, in his nails, and his weight is very, very great, which is why I cant see who is sitting on him. Meanwhile, the elephant has reached Berninis Baldaquin, inside St. Peters Basilica, and finally comes up to the Popes throne, in which he sits down.
(Mother laughs)
0 1968-07-27, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The scientific, rationalistic, industrial, pseudo-democratic civilisation of the West is now in process of dissolution and it would be a lunatic absurdity for us at this moment to build blindly on that sinking foundation. When the most advanced minds of the occident are beginning to turn in this red evening of the West for the hope of a new and more spiritual civilisation to the genius of Asia, it would be strange if we could think of nothing better than to cast away our own self and potentialities and put our trust in the dissolving and moribund past of Europe.2
I didnt know he had said that.
0 1968-09-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You said, Decomposition of the cells often starts before death. How to control or check the process of disintegration?
(Mother laughs) By keeping good health! By taking care to preserve the physical equilibrium.
0 1968-10-11, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This process of transformation, one does feel it must take place in the body, but might it not rather be after all a sort of condensation of power progressively building up around you or behind you, which would one day materialize into a being?
Its possibleits possible, the thought occurred to me too.
0 1968-10-19, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We could say that causes and consequences (But its not something thought, thats what is difficult.) Its certainly something I am now discovering, so I dont know if its the cause or the process of deformation between what is and whats perceived (whats lived, perceived).
(Mother remains absorbed for a long time)
0 1968-10-30, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres a constant demonstration, through all kinds of little facts, that the process we conceive of, or understand, or have accepted, is false, not in conformity with reality, and one wants to make us find, discover but discover WHILE LIVING ITthe true process of the Manifestation: the why and the how. The why: theres an impression like that. The how (Mother shakes her head as if the thing were eluding her).
So there. And thats the state of consciousness I am in all the time. I am there as if pushing and pushing (groping gesture, then the thing escapes).
0 1968-11-13, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it doesnt have (how should I put it?) a clear vision of the path or the process, so It only understands one thing: never forget, never at any time, not even for a second, what it calls the Divine and wants to reach. Thats all.
And then, from time to time, there are flashes, like flashes from the Grace, absolutely wonderful. But they last for one second.
0 1968-12-21, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The process isnt to be recommended! Every time I have an opportunity, I say so: people mustnt imagine they should try to do that (they couldnt, but that doesnt matter), its not recommended. One should take the time needed. But that was because of the number of years to make things go faster.
(silence)
--
The experience is repeated in every detail, every field, like a demonstration through fact. And its not a long process of transformation: its like something turning around all at once (Mother turns over two fingers), and instead of seeing ugliness, falsehood, horror, suffering and all that, the body suddenly lives in bliss. And all things have remained the same, nothing has changed, except the consciousness.
So there remains the question (this is something ahead, its probably coming): how is the experience to express itself materially? For the body itself, its perfectly obvious: for, say, an hour, or two, or three, it suffered a lot, very miserable (not a moral suffering: a wholly physical suffering), then all of a sudden, brrff! all gone. The body has apparently remained the same (Mother looks at her hands), in its appearance, but instead of an inner disorder that makes it suffer, everything is fine, and theres a great peace, a great tranquillityeverything is fine. But thats for ONE bodyhow does that act on others? Its beginning to perceive the possibility in other consciousnesses. On the moral level (that is to say, the level of attitudes, character, reactions), its very visible; even sometimes on the physical level: something suddenly disappearsas we had the experience when Sri Aurobindo would remove a pain (Mother shows a hand of the subtle physical coming and taking away the pain), we would wonder Ah! Gone, vanished, like that. But its not constant, not general, its only to show it can be like that through the fact that it happens in one case or anotherto show that things CAN be like that.
0 1969-02-01, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The first question: What should we do in our daily life to halt the process of death?
Well, as Sri Aurobindo has just said, the process is, rather than remain wholly attached to the body, to attach ourselves to the Spirit, and to bring the Spirit down into the bodys cells.
The process is to detach ones consciousness from the body and to concentrate it on the deeper life so as to bring this deeper consciousness into the body.
Second question: If the sense of I-ness has identified more with the mind in life, is it the same sense of I-ness that has all the experiences after death, that is to say, which retains at the same time the memories of its life? I ask the question with regard to the mind, since after death it remains formed a little longer than the other parts do.
0 1969-02-15, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The cells themselves were saying their effort to be transformed, and there was a Calm. (How can I explain this?) The body was saying its aspiration and will to prepare itself, and, not asking but striving to be what it should be; all that always with this question (its not the body that asks it, its the environment, those around the world, as if the world were asking the question): Will it continue, or will it have to dissolve? The body is like this (gesture of abandon, hands open upward), it says, What You will, Lord. But then, it knows the question is decided, and One doesnt want to tell itit accepts. It doesnt lose patience, it accepts, it says, Very well, it will be as You will. But That which knows and That which doesnt answer is something that cant be expressed. It is yes, I think the only word that can describe the sensation it gives is an Absolutean Absolute. Absolute. Thats the sensation: of being in the presence of the Absolute. The Absolute: absolute Knowledge, absolute Will, absolute Power Nothing, nothing can resist. And then this Absolute (theres this sensation, concrete) is so merciful! But if we compare it with all that we regard as goodness, mercy ugh! thats nothing at all. Its THE Mercy with the absolute power and its not Wisdom, not Knowledge, its It has nothing to do with our process. And That is everywhere, its everywhere. Its the bodys experience. And to That it has given itself entirely, totally, without asking anythinganything. A single aspiration (same gesture, hands open upward), To be capable of being That, what That wills, of serving Thatnot even serving, of BEING That.
But that state, which lasted for several hours never had this body, in the ninety-one years its been on earth, felt such happiness: freedom, absolute power, and no limits (gesture here and there and everywhere), no limits, no impossibilities, nothing. It was all other bodies were itself. There was no difference, it was only a play of the consciousness (gesture like a great Rhythm) moving about.
0 1969-04-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This Consciousness is at present showing this body, making it not understand, but feel (Mother feels the air) its neither feel nor understand, its becoming conscious of the vibrations that belong (how could I put it?) to destruction, I might say, the vibrations that belong to the process of destruction in the world, and the vibrations that belong to the process of progress without destruction.
Those experiences last for several hours every day, and they make you feel the two sides like that, with a clear distinction, very clear, in what people do, in what they say, in the relationship with events, and also the different states of consciousness (everything takes place in the consciousness, of course, its not at all a thought, its not formulated, I dont know how to explain). And this Consciousness also teaches action in silenceat a distance as well as in the presence. All kinds of things, its constantly, constantly teaching one thing or another. And not formulated: there are no formulas, its not thoughts, but states of consciousness. And the relationship between the various states of consciousness: how they dovetail with one another, how they mix with one another, how they can be separated, how It cant be explained: it can be lived (the body is being taught how to live), but it cant be explained. For everythingeverything, all activities.
0 1969-04-16, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I understood. I understood to what extent it was a gracetruly a wonderful graceto have taken away my mind and vital. Naturally, it could be done only because the psychic was in full possession of the body, otherwise (Mother laughs, showing that otherwise she would have disconnected from her body). Which means the process isnt to be recommended: it was quite radical. But it was wonderful. And I found something in Savitri something in the fifth Canto (I translated it yesterday and kept it to show you). Here:
(Mother takes a roll of sheets and reads:)
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No, I dont think it should be done. I think whats necessary is this absolute tranquillity so That may go through without being distorted. The abolition [in Mother] was done because the body wanted to attempt the process of transformation of the cells, and it was already quite old, you see, so things had to go fast. It was for the movement to be swift. But of course, I can see its risky
This experience [of the column of light] came so spontaneously, effortlessly, without concentration or anything; and to the very body it was visible like this (gesture, eyes wide open). I couldnt see the window anymore, that table there I couldnt see anymore; I couldnt see: it was here, like this, here (gesture between Mother and the window). As if it were PHYSICALLY here, you understand.
0 1969-05-17, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know that I used to see Pavitra every day, in the evening. He was in a poor state. But I had been forewarned (long ago) that his inner being was waiting for A.1 to return before it would leave. I dont know whether he was aware of something in his outward consciousness, but at any rate he had never said anything. But I knew The day A. arrived, that very day [May 13], just before coming here, Pavitra fell down. He came here with quite a few scratches. I thought it would stop there, but the day after A.s arrival (I dont remember, I never keep a clear memory of dates), at any rate between the 15th and 16th, at night, after 9 (I didnt look at the time, so I dont know precisely, but I was on my bed), Pavitras whole individualized consciousness (but not in a form), his conscious, fully awakened consciousness, down to all that can come out of the cells, began to come and enter into me according to the ancient, the very old yogic practice of merging into the Supremein that way, that practice. It came while I was lying on my bed; it began, and it was so material that there was a very strong friction in all the cells, everywhere. It went on for three hours. After three hours, it became not exactly still, but no longer active. Then, the next morning, I saw A. (it was on the 16th), I saw A. at about 8:30 (naturally, Pavitra had been in bed since the day before, they had put him to bed), and in the morning, A. told me that just as he was about to come here, Pavitra opened his eyes and looked at him So I told him, I dont know, but with a yogic knowledge of the process, quite an extraordinary knowledge (he had never boasted of having it), his conscious being melted last night and entered my body, this body2 I told him, Well see. But half an hour later, they told me that just as I was talking with A., the doctor declared he had left.
Have you seen him? I am told he looks very good.
--
But I wasnt expecting it, I didnt think about it, didnt even know that he knew how to go out like thatit must have been something deep down in him that knew. I didnt even know he knew how to do it. Because the evening before Pavitra left, A. told me what had happened at lunch time, and I told him, Generally, I dont see Pavitra [at night], its very rare, very rare, it happens quite accidentally, and its more symbolic visions than I said to him, I dont see him, I dont know, but this night (of the 15th, that is) Ill inquire to see what it is, in what state he is, and see if he goes out of his body or comes to me. There was nothing in a form, nothing. And some time after Id lain down, it started coming, but then with an extraordinary SCIENCE of the process! And for THREE hours without stop, continuously, in the most steady manner, like that: an action. After three hours, it was as it is now; I felt as if he said, Now its over. Only, you never know, of course: there might be some consciousness lingering in the body I thought it was better to wait till this afternoon, not to shut him up with something in his body.
It has brought to the body consciousness a sort of sense of satisfaction: the appeasement that satisfaction gives. Thats there quite concretely.
Did he know it from a previous life, or? I dont know. Or else, he just didnt talk about it. Because the way he spoke, he didnt seem to know the secrets of yogic processes.5 It was done with a rare perfection. Three hours without stop, without flaggingthree hourscontinuous, continuous. Naturally, I was lying on my bed.
(silence)
--
Yes, thats the process.
Its the process that has been used for evolution.
Yes, thats what I call individuality.
Thats agreed. Its the processit has been the process of the creation.
And its because it was the process of the creation that men have confused it with
Separation.
0 1969-05-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the process to change this back into That is what I dont know The process is abdication (what word should we use?), self-giving (thats not it). But the body felt everything, everything to be so horrible. There was a very, very difficult day.2 And curiously, I knew at that time that it was the exact repetition of the experience Buddha Siddhartha had, and that it was IN this experience that he said, There is only one way out: Nirvana. And at the SAME TIME, I had the true state of consciousness: his solution and the true one. That was really interesting. How the Buddhistic solution is only ONE step taken on the pathone step. And BEYOND that (not on another path, but BEYOND that) is where the true solution lies. It was a decisive experience.
(long silence)
0 1969-06-25, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For a very small number: to hasten the process of transformation.
(Mother turns towards Satprem)
--
Working at a hastened pace. The body doesnt complain. It doesnt complain because There are two things at the same time. It has increasingly and in an increasingly precise way the full perception of its to use the exact word, its nothingness (that goes without saying, and without even a shadow of regret, because theres the full awareness that it cant be otherwise; in the present state of matter, it cant be otherwise). Theres an interesting process of development through which the body sees IN DETAILin detail, in every detailhow the Force of Consciousness acts, and what to put things simply, what we turn it into. Its very interesting. For everything, you know, the details of every minute: how the Force of Consciousness acts, and what we turn it into. With, from time to time, a marvelous key for certain problems, and a chance given to apply the key to see how it worksit works admirably!
But all that you understand, its like a few drops in an ocean of work. Thats how it is. The work is terrestrial, of coursemore and more terrestrial, even the body has a connection with the whole and therefore rather tremendous. But the sense of limitlessness in regard to the Force (not only the Consciousness, but the Force), the sense of limitlessness is becoming more and more permanent. The scale of the work in proportion with the form [Mothers body] is very perceptible, and perceptible in a very keen way, but there is the sense of the inanity of this formnot even its relative character: almost its inexistence, something like the sense of a continuing illusion. And then, quite concretely, the wonderful allpowerfulness of the Consciousness-Force; that comes with the impression that so-called miracles are nothing at all, a natural working. But you understand, the work has the proportion of the Consciousness, and it has to be done on (laughing) on the scale of the body. So that gives a sort of perception of an immensity that has to worked out on one point. I cant express it, its something inexpressible with words. But I need to have some peace.
--- Overview of noun process
The noun process has 6 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (63) procedure, process ::: (a particular course of action intended to achieve a result; "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error")
2. (3) process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation ::: ((psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering")
3. summons, process ::: (a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant)
4. process, unconscious process ::: (a mental process that you are not directly aware of; "the process of denial")
5. process, outgrowth, appendage ::: (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process")
6. process, physical process ::: (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls")
--- Overview of verb process
The verb process has 7 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (2) process, treat ::: (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill")
2. (1) process ::: (deal with in a routine way; "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants")
3. (1) process ::: (perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information; "The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech")
4. action, sue, litigate, process ::: (institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination")
5. march, process ::: (march in a procession; "They processed into the dining room")
6. work, work on, process ::: (shape, form, or improve a material; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal")
7. serve, process, swear out ::: (deliver a warrant or summons to someone; "He was processed by the sheriff")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun process
6 senses of process
Sense 1
procedure, process
=> activity
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
summons, process
=> writ, judicial writ
=> legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument
=> document, written document, papers
=> writing, written material, piece of writing
=> written communication, written language, black and white
=> communication
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
process, unconscious process
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
process, outgrowth, appendage
=> body part
=> part, piece
=> thing
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 6
process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun process
6 senses of process
Sense 1
procedure, process
=> Bertillon system
=> fingerprinting
=> genetic profiling, genetic fingerprinting
=> diagnostic procedure, diagnostic technique
=> emergency procedure
=> experimental procedure
=> calculation, computation, computing
=> medical procedure
=> mapping, chromosome mapping
=> operating procedure
=> stiffening
=> indirection
=> rigmarole, rigamarole
=> routine, modus operandi
=> condition, experimental condition
=> rule, formula
Sense 2
process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
=> basic cognitive process
=> higher cognitive process
Sense 3
summons, process
=> citation
=> monition, process of monition
=> ticket
Sense 4
process, unconscious process
=> sleep talking, somniloquy, somniloquism
=> condensation
=> defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence
Sense 5
process, outgrowth, appendage
=> horn
=> horn
=> crest
=> pseudopod, pseudopodium
=> flagellum
=> hair
=> cirrus
=> spine
=> aculea
=> style
=> villus
=> tail
=> fetlock
=> tentacle
=> arista
=> acromion, acromial process
=> ala
=> alveolar arch
=> alveolar ridge, gum ridge, alveolar process
=> acrosome
=> caruncle, caruncula
=> condyle
=> coronoid process, processus coronoideus
=> epicondyle
=> fimbria
=> apophysis
=> spicule, spiculum
=> osteophyte
=> papilla
=> papilla
=> appendix, vermiform appendix, vermiform process, cecal appendage
=> mastoid, mastoid process, mastoid bone, mastoidal
=> styloid process
=> pterygoid process
=> tuberosity, tubercle, eminence
=> zygomatic process
=> trochanter
=> transverse process
=> odontoid process
=> metaphysis
=> olecranon, olecranon process
=> ridge
=> excrescence
=> papilla
=> plant process, enation
Sense 6
process, physical process
=> phenomenon
=> chelation
=> dealignment
=> decrease, decrement
=> degeneration, devolution
=> development, evolution
=> economic process
=> encapsulation
=> execution, instruction execution
=> human process
=> increase, increment, growth
=> industrial process
=> irreversible process
=> iteration, looping
=> iteration, loop
=> natural process, natural action, action, activity
=> operation, functioning, performance
=> organic process, biological process
=> photography
=> processing
=> reversible process
=> sensitization, sensitisation
=> shaping, defining
=> variation
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun process
6 senses of process
Sense 1
procedure, process
=> activity
Sense 2
process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
Sense 3
summons, process
=> writ, judicial writ
Sense 4
process, unconscious process
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
Sense 5
process, outgrowth, appendage
=> body part
Sense 6
process, physical process
=> physical entity
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun process
6 senses of process
Sense 1
procedure, process
-> activity
=> variation, variance
=> space walk
=> domesticity
=> operation
=> operation
=> practice, pattern
=> diversion, recreation
=> cup of tea, bag, dish
=> follow-up, followup
=> game
=> turn, play
=> music
=> acting, playing, playacting, performing
=> liveliness, animation
=> burst, fit
=> work
=> works, deeds
=> service
=> occupation, business, job, line of work, line
=> occupation
=> writing, committal to writing
=> role
=> wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus
=> waste, wastefulness, dissipation
=> attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
=> control
=> protection
=> sensory activity
=> education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity
=> training, preparation, grooming
=> representation
=> creation, creative activity
=> dismantling, dismantlement, disassembly
=> puncture
=> search, hunt, hunting
=> use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise
=> operation, military operation
=> measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration
=> calibration, standardization, standardisation
=> organization, organisation
=> grouping
=> support, supporting
=> continuance, continuation
=> procedure, process
=> ceremony
=> ceremony
=> worship
=> energizing, activating, activation
=> concealment, concealing, hiding
=> placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement
=> provision, supply, supplying
=> demand
=> pleasure
=> enjoyment, delectation
=> lamentation, mourning
=> laughter
=> market, marketplace, market place
=> politics
=> preparation, readying
=> aid, assist, assistance, help
=> support
=> behavior, behaviour, conduct, doings
=> behavior, behaviour
=> leadership, leading
=> precession, precedence, precedency
=> solo
=> buzz
=> fun
=> sin, hell
=> release, outlet, vent
=> last
=> mystification, obfuscation
=> negotiation
=> verbalization, verbalisation
=> perturbation, disturbance
=> timekeeping
Sense 2
process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
-> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> mind, head, brain, psyche, nous
=> place
=> public knowledge, general knowledge
=> episteme
=> ability, power
=> inability
=> lexis
=> vocabulary, lexicon, mental lexicon
=> practice
=> cognitive factor
=> equivalent
=> process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
=> process, unconscious process
=> perception
=> structure
=> content, cognitive content, mental object
=> information
=> history
=> attitude, mental attitude
Sense 3
summons, process
-> writ, judicial writ
=> court order
=> warrant
=> assize
=> certiorari, writ of certiorari
=> habeas corpus, writ of habeas corpus
=> venire facias
=> mandamus, writ of mandamus
=> attachment
=> fieri facias
=> scire facias
=> sequestration
=> writ of detinue
=> writ of election
=> writ of error
=> writ of prohibition
=> writ of right
=> summons, process
=> subpoena, subpoena ad testificandum
=> subpoena duces tecum
Sense 4
process, unconscious process
-> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> mind, head, brain, psyche, nous
=> place
=> public knowledge, general knowledge
=> episteme
=> ability, power
=> inability
=> lexis
=> vocabulary, lexicon, mental lexicon
=> practice
=> cognitive factor
=> equivalent
=> process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
=> process, unconscious process
=> perception
=> structure
=> content, cognitive content, mental object
=> information
=> history
=> attitude, mental attitude
Sense 5
process, outgrowth, appendage
-> body part
=> saddle
=> underpart
=> horseback
=> dock
=> ambulacrum
=> withers
=> cannon, shank
=> loin, lumbus
=> hindquarters, croup, croupe, rump
=> gaskin
=> flank
=> thorax
=> apparatus
=> adnexa, annexa
=> area, region
=> dilator
=> groove, vallecula
=> partition
=> external body part
=> structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
=> fornix
=> system
=> ampulla
=> tissue
=> mentum
=> organ
=> venter
=> energid, protoplast
=> process, outgrowth, appendage
=> lobe
=> rectum
=> shoulder
=> torso, trunk, body
=> thorax, chest, pectus
=> thorax
=> hip
=> haunch
=> abdomen, venter, stomach, belly
=> dorsum
=> back, dorsum
=> small
=> buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass
=> buttock, cheek
=> stump
=> shank
=> shin
=> toe
=> joint, articulation, articulatio
=> loins
=> feature, lineament
=> rudiment
Sense 6
process, physical process
-> physical entity
=> thing
=> object, physical object
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> matter
=> process, physical process
=> substance
--- Grep of noun process
acheson process
acromial process
adiabatic process
alveolar process
basic cognitive process
benday process
bessemer process
biological process
bodily process
body process
carbon process
chemical process
cognitive process
compulsory process
condylar process
condyloid process
coronoid process
coronoid process of the mandible
cyanide process
decoction process
dry plate process
due process
due process of law
economic process
fractional process
geologic process
geological process
haber-bosch process
haber process
higher cognitive process
human process
industrial process
irreversible process
linguistic process
markoff process
markov process
mastoid process
mathematical process
mental process
metabolic process
natural process
odontoid process
olecranon process
open-hearth process
organic process
pathologic process
pathological process
peace process
photogelatin process
physical process
plant process
printing process
process
process-server
process cheese
process of monition
process printing
processed cheese
processing
processing time
procession
processional
processional march
processor
processus coronoideus
psychoanalytic process
pterygoid process
pyrochemical process
representational process
reversible process
right to due process
service of process
social process
solvay process
stationary stochastic process
stochastic process
styloid process
surgical process
thought process
transverse process
unconscious process
vermiform process
xiphoid process
zygomatic process
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Wikipedia - Cascades (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Casting (performing arts) -- Pre-production process for selecting actors, dancers, singers, or extras for roles or parts
Wikipedia - Casting -- Manufacturing process in which a liquid is poured into a mold to solidify
Wikipedia - Catalysis -- chemical process
Wikipedia - Categorization -- A process in which ideas and objects are grouped according to their characteristics and the relationships between them
Wikipedia - Category:Alchemical processes
Wikipedia - Category:Business process management
Wikipedia - Category:Central processing unit
Wikipedia - Category:Data processing
Wikipedia - Category:DEC microprocessors
Wikipedia - Category:Digital signal processing
Wikipedia - Category:Geometry processing
Wikipedia - Category:Graphics processing units
Wikipedia - Category:Group processes
Wikipedia - Category:Image processing software
Wikipedia - Category:Image processing
Wikipedia - Category:Industrial processes
Wikipedia - Category:Instruction processing
Wikipedia - Category:Intel x86 microprocessors
Wikipedia - Category:International Federation for Information Processing
Wikipedia - Category:Markov processes
Wikipedia - Category:Memory processes
Wikipedia - Category:Mental processes
Wikipedia - Category:Natural language processing researchers
Wikipedia - Category:Natural language processing software
Wikipedia - Category:Natural language processing
Wikipedia - Category:Process calculi
Wikipedia - Category:Process (computing)
Wikipedia - Category:Process mining
Wikipedia - Category:Process philosophy
Wikipedia - Category:Process theologians
Wikipedia - Category:Process theory
Wikipedia - Category:Reading (process)
Wikipedia - Category:Signal processing
Wikipedia - Category:Social information processing
Wikipedia - Category:Software development process
Wikipedia - Category:Speech processing researchers
Wikipedia - Category:Stochastic processes
Wikipedia - Category:Superscalar microprocessors
Wikipedia - Category:Tasks of natural language processing
Wikipedia - Category:Transaction processing
Wikipedia - Category:Unix text processing utilities
Wikipedia - Cationization of cotton -- Chemical process treatment for surface modification.
Wikipedia - Cayley's M-NM-) process -- Mathematical process
Wikipedia - Cedarview (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Cell culture -- Process by which cells are grown under controlled conditions
Wikipedia - Cell (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Cementation (geology) -- Process of chemical precipitation bonding sedimentary grains
Wikipedia - Center for Process Studies
Wikipedia - Central governor -- A process in the brain that regulates exercise in regard to a neurally calculated safe exertion by the body
Wikipedia - Central Iron Ore Enrichment Works -- Processing and production of raw materials for the steel industry
Wikipedia - Central processing units
Wikipedia - Central Processing Unit
Wikipedia - Central processing unit -- Central component of any computer system which executes input/output, arithmetical, and logical operations
Wikipedia - Ceramic art -- Decorative objects made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery
Wikipedia - Ceremonial ship launching -- Ceremonial process of transferring a newly built vessel to the water
Wikipedia - Certiorari -- Court process to seek judicial review of a decision of a lower court
Wikipedia - Cert pool -- Process used by the United States Supreme Court to screen petitions
Wikipedia - Chaptalization -- Process in wine production
Wikipedia - Character creation -- Process of defining a game character
Wikipedia - Cheez Whiz -- Trademarked processed cheese
Wikipedia - Chemical coloring of metals -- Process of changing the color of metal surfaces with different chemical solutions
Wikipedia - Chemical process
Wikipedia - Chemical reaction model -- Mathematical modeling of chemical processes
Wikipedia - Chemical reaction -- Process that results in the interconversion of chemical species
Wikipedia - Chemosynthesis -- Biological process building organic matter using inorganic compounds as the energy source
Wikipedia - Chemotropism -- Biological process
Wikipedia - Chick culling -- Process of killing newly hatched chicks for which the industry has no use
Wikipedia - Child process
Wikipedia - Choice of law -- Legal process to determine whose law applies
Wikipedia - Chondrogenesis -- Process by which cartilage is developed
Wikipedia - Chorleywood bread process -- Process for commercial bread production
Wikipedia - Christianisation of Scotland -- Historical process bringing Christianity to Scotland
Wikipedia - Christianization of Bulgaria -- Process by which 9th-century medieval Bulgaria converted to Christianity
Wikipedia - Christianization -- Process by which Christianity spreads in a society or culture
Wikipedia - Christian perfection -- Various teachings within Christianity that describe the process of achieving spiritual maturity or perfection
Wikipedia - Christmas Eve Procession -- Component of Christmas celebrations in Malta
Wikipedia - Chromosomal crossover -- Cellular process
Wikipedia - Chronic pain -- Acute pain extending beyond the usual healing process; >3-12+ months
Wikipedia - Cine 160 -- 35 mm film projection process
Wikipedia - Circadian rhythm -- natural internal process that regulates the sleep-wake cycle
Wikipedia - Citrullination -- Biological process
Wikipedia - Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination -- Nomination process of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court in 1991
Wikipedia - Clarkdale (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Clarksfield (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Clean process oven -- Type of industrial batch oven that is ideal for high-temperature applications
Wikipedia - Clinker (waste) -- General name given to waste from industrial processes
Wikipedia - Cliodynamics -- Mathematical modeling of historical processes
Wikipedia - Clone (B-cell) -- Part of process of immunological B-cell maturation
Wikipedia - Cloning -- Process of producing genetically identical individuals of an organism
Wikipedia - Closed captioning -- Process of displaying interpretive texts to screens
Wikipedia - Cloud computing -- Form of Internet-based computing that provides shared computer processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand
Wikipedia - Cloud physics -- Study of the physical processes in atmospheric clouds
Wikipedia - Clovertown (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - CNG Processing A/S
Wikipedia - Coagulation -- Process by which blood changes from a liquid to a gel, forming a blood clot
Wikipedia - Coal mining -- Process of getting coal out of the ground
Wikipedia - Coastal morphodynamics -- The study of the interaction of seafloor topography and fluid hydrodynamic processes involving the motion of sediment
Wikipedia - C Object Processor
Wikipedia - Cocoa Processing Company -- Ghanaian cocoa processing company
Wikipedia - Code generation (compiler) -- Process by which a compiler's code generator converts some intermediate representation of source code into a form that can be readily executed by a machine
Wikipedia - Codification (law) -- Process of collecting and restating certain area of law forming a legal code
Wikipedia - COFCO Group -- Chinese state-owned food processing holding company
Wikipedia - Coffee Lake -- eighth-generation Intel Core microprocessor family
Wikipedia - Coffee wastewater -- A byproduct of coffee processing
Wikipedia - Cognition -- Act or process of knowing
Wikipedia - Cognitive apprenticeship -- Theory that emphasizes the importance of the process
Wikipedia - Cognitive liberty -- Freedom of an individual to control their own mental processes
Wikipedia - Cognitive processes
Wikipedia - Cognitive processing speed
Wikipedia - Cognitive processing therapy
Wikipedia - Cognitive process
Wikipedia - Cognitive science -- Interdisciplinary scientific study of the mind and its processes
Wikipedia - Cold welding -- Solid-state welding process
Wikipedia - Collections management (museum) -- Process of overseeing a collection, including acquisition, curation, and deaccessioning
Wikipedia - Color analysis (art) -- Process of determining the colors that best suit an individual's natural coloring
Wikipedia - Colors of noise -- Power spectrum of a noise signal (a signal produced by a stochastic process)
Wikipedia - Combat operations process -- Undertaken by armed forces
Wikipedia - Comb filter -- Signal processing filter
Wikipedia - Comet Lake (microprocessor) -- Intel processor microarchitecture
Wikipedia - Coming out -- Process of revealing one's sexual orientation or other attributes
Wikipedia - Command processor
Wikipedia - Commercial diver training -- Processes by which people develop the skills and knowledge to dive safely for industrial applications
Wikipedia - Commercial Processing Workload
Wikipedia - Commission of rebellion -- Process of contempt on the nonappearance of a defendant
Wikipedia - Communicating Sequential Processes
Wikipedia - Communicating sequential processes
Wikipedia - Commutation (telemetry) -- processes of combining telemetry streams for transmission
Wikipedia - Compact Disc manufacturing -- Mass replication process for CDs
Wikipedia - Companys, proces a Catalunya -- 1979 film
Wikipedia - Comparison of 3dfx graphics processing units
Wikipedia - Comparison of AMD graphics processing units
Wikipedia - Comparison of Gaussian process software -- Comparison of statistical analysis software that allows doing inference with Gaussian processes
Wikipedia - Comparison of Intel graphics processing units
Wikipedia - Comparison of Nvidia graphics processing units
Wikipedia - Complex event processing
Wikipedia - Complex instruction set computer -- a processor executing one instruction in multiple clock cycles
Wikipedia - Composting toilet -- A type of toilet that treats human excreta by a biological process called composting
Wikipedia - Compound term processing
Wikipedia - Compound-term processing
Wikipedia - Compressed sensing -- Signal processing technique
Wikipedia - Computational RAM -- Random-access memory with processing elements integrated on the same chip
Wikipedia - Computational resource -- Something a computer needs needed to solve a problem, such as processing steps or memory
Wikipedia - Computational semantics -- The study of how to automate the process of constructing and reasoning with meaning representations of natural language
Wikipedia - Computer multitasking -- Concurrent execution of multiple processes
Wikipedia - Computer processing of body language
Wikipedia - Computer processor
Wikipedia - Computer process
Wikipedia - Computer programming -- Process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable computer programs
Wikipedia - Computer simulation -- Process of mathematical modelling, performed on a computer
Wikipedia - Concentration of media ownership -- A process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media
Wikipedia - Conciliation -- Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process
Wikipedia - Concurrent process
Wikipedia - Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Wikipedia - Conflict (process)
Wikipedia - Congregation for the Causes of Saints -- Catholic Church dicastery overseeing the process of canonization of saints
Wikipedia - Conroe (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Conservation and restoration of archaeological sites -- Process in archaeology
Wikipedia - Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage -- Process of protecting tangible cultural heritage
Wikipedia - Conservation and restoration of feathers -- Process of protecting feathers
Wikipedia - Consolidation of the Iranian Revolution -- Turbulent process of Islamic Republic stabilization
Wikipedia - Constant (mathematics) -- Function or value which does not change during a process
Wikipedia - Constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Legal process in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Wikipedia - Construction and Analysis of Distributed Processes
Wikipedia - Construction -- Process of the building or assembling of a building or infrastructure
Wikipedia - Content similarity detection -- The process of detecting plagiarism and/or copyright infringement
Wikipedia - Context switch -- Switch between processes or tasks on a computer
Wikipedia - Continual improvement process
Wikipedia - Continuous improvement process
Wikipedia - Control register -- A processor register which changes or controls the general behavior of a CPU
Wikipedia - Convenience food -- Processed food designed for ease of consumption
Wikipedia - Convergent extension -- The morphogenetic process in which an epithelium narrows along one axis and lengthens in a perpendicular axis.
Wikipedia - Conversion to Christianity -- Process of religious conversion in which a previously non-Christian person converts to Christianity
Wikipedia - Convolution reverb -- Process used for digitally simulating the reverberation of a physical or virtual space
Wikipedia - Cool'n'Quiet -- Power saving mode of modern processors by Advanced Micro Devices
Wikipedia - Cooperating sequential processes
Wikipedia - Co-operation (evolution) -- Evolutionary process where groups of organisms work or act together for common or mutual benefits
Wikipedia - Cophasing -- segmented mirror/telescope-related individual segment-controlling process in astronomy
Wikipedia - Coppermine (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Coppermine T (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Coprocessor
Wikipedia - Coprocess
Wikipedia - Copy number analysis -- Process of analyzing data produced by a test for DNA copy number variation
Wikipedia - Coracoid process -- A small hook-like structure on the lateral edge of the superior anterior portion of the scapula
Wikipedia - Corporate governance -- Mechanisms, processes and relations by which corporations are controlled and operated
Wikipedia - Corporation -- Separate legal entity that has been incorporated through a legislative or registration process
Wikipedia - CO stripping -- electrochemical process
Wikipedia - Counterurbanization -- Process whereby people move from urban areas to rural areas
Wikipedia - Coupled substitution -- Geological process by which two elements simultaneously substitute into a crystal
Wikipedia - Coupling Facility -- Hardware that allows multiple processors to access the same data on IBM mainframes
Wikipedia - Covert channel -- Computer security attack that creates a capability to transfer information between processes that are not supposed to be allowed to communicate
Wikipedia - Covington (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - C preprocessor
Wikipedia - Creative process
Wikipedia - Criminal investigation -- Process that attempts to determine the facts of a crime and circumstances
Wikipedia - Criminal procedure -- Adjudication process in criminal law
Wikipedia - Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining
Wikipedia - Cross-industry standard process for data mining
Wikipedia - Cross section (physics) -- Probability of a given process occurring in a particle collision
Wikipedia - Crude oil stabilisation -- Distillation process
Wikipedia - Crustal recycling -- Tectonic process by which surface material from the lithosphere is recycled into the mantle by subduction erosion or delamination
Wikipedia - Cryopreservation -- Process where biological matter is preserved by cooling to very low temperatures
Wikipedia - Crystallization -- Process by which a solid with a highly organised atomic or molecular structure forms
Wikipedia - Cube mold technology -- A type of plastics manufacturing process
Wikipedia - Cultural assimilation -- Process in which a group or culture comes to resemble another group
Wikipedia - Curing (food preservation) -- Food preservation and flavoring processes based on drawing moisture out of the food by osmosis
Wikipedia - Curve-shortening flow -- A process that shrinks a smooth curve in the Euclidean plane based on its curvature
Wikipedia - Custody evaluation -- Legal process of evaluation of custody matters by an appointed professional
Wikipedia - Cyanotype -- Photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print
Wikipedia - Cybernetics -- the study of computer of how governing automatic processes and communications
Wikipedia - Cyrix 6x86 -- Microprocessor
Wikipedia - Cyrix -- American microprocessor developer
Wikipedia - Daguerreotype -- First commercially successful photographic process
Wikipedia - Dairylea (cheese) -- Processed cheese brand available in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Wikipedia - Dancing procession of Echternach
Wikipedia - Data analysis -- a process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming and modeling data
Wikipedia - DataCash -- Payment processing company
Wikipedia - Data compression -- Process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation
Wikipedia - Data deduplication -- Data processing technique to eliminate duplicate copies of repeating data
Wikipedia - Data pre-processing
Wikipedia - Data processing (disambiguation)
Wikipedia - Data Processing Management Association
Wikipedia - Data processing system
Wikipedia - Data processing unit -- Programmable electronic component
Wikipedia - Data processing
Wikipedia - Data Protection Directive -- European Union directive which regulates the processing of personal data
Wikipedia - Data recovery -- Process of salvaging inaccessible data from corrupted or damaged secondary storage
Wikipedia - Dating -- Process of interacting and meeting other people on the prospect of establishing a romantic relationship
Wikipedia - Dead reckoning -- Process of calculating one's current position by using a previously determined position
Wikipedia - Death midwife -- person who assists in the dying process
Wikipedia - Debugging -- Process of finding and resolving defects or problems within a computer program
Wikipedia - DEC Alpha -- 64-bit RISC microprocessor
Wikipedia - Decentralized wastewater system -- Processes to convey, treat and dispose or reuse wastewater from small communities and alike
Wikipedia - Deception: Betraying the Peace Process -- Book by Itamar Marcus
Wikipedia - Decimalisation -- Process of converting a currency from a non-decimal denominations to a decimal system
Wikipedia - Decision making process
Wikipedia - Decision-making -- Cognitive process resulting in choosing a course of action
Wikipedia - Decolonization of knowledge -- Process of undoing colonial legacies in knowledge
Wikipedia - Decolonization of the Americas -- Process by which the countries in the Americas gained their independence from European rule
Wikipedia - Decolonization -- Process of leaving colonial rule, mostly occurring during the 20th century
Wikipedia - Decommunization -- Process of dismantling the legacies of the communist state establishments, culture, and psychology
Wikipedia - Decomposition -- The process in which organic substances are broken down into simpler organic matter
Wikipedia - Decorrelation -- Process of reducing correlation within one or more signals
Wikipedia - Dedifferentiation -- Cellular process of loss of specialization
Wikipedia - Deep learning processor -- A specially designed circuitry
Wikipedia - Deep linguistic processing
Wikipedia - Deep packet inspection -- Type of data processing
Wikipedia - De-extinction -- Process of re-creating an extinct species
Wikipedia - Dehumanization -- Behavior or process that undermines individuality of and in others
Wikipedia - Deindustrialization -- Process of reduction of industrial activity
Wikipedia - Delamination (geology) -- Process occurring when lower continental crust and mantle lithosphere break away from the upper continental crust
Wikipedia - Delivery (commerce) -- Process of transporting goods from a source location to a predefined destination
Wikipedia - Demodulation -- Process of extracting the original information-bearing signal from a carrier wave
Wikipedia - Denazification -- Process carried out after World War II
Wikipedia - Department of Defense Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process -- Computer security process
Wikipedia - Depositional environment -- The combination of physical, chemical and biological processes associated with the deposition of a particular type of sediment
Wikipedia - Deposition (geology) -- Geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or landmass
Wikipedia - Desacralization of knowledge -- Process of separation of knowledge from its divine source
Wikipedia - Deschutes (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Desegregation in the United States -- Process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races
Wikipedia - Desertification -- Process by which fertile areas of land become increasingly arid
Wikipedia - Design thinking -- Processes by which design concepts are developed
Wikipedia - Design -- Drafting of a plan or convention for the construction of an object or of a system; process of creation; act of creativity and innovation
Wikipedia - Destruction of Syria's chemical weapons -- Part of the Syrian peace process
Wikipedia - Detention (imprisonment) -- Process whereby a state or private citizen lawfully holds a person, removing their freedom
Wikipedia - Developmental biology -- The study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop
Wikipedia - Developmental process
Wikipedia - Development environment (software development process)
Wikipedia - Development of the human body -- Processes of growth from a zygote to an adult human
Wikipedia - Development of the nervous system -- The process whose specific outcome is the progression of nervous tissue over time, from its formation to its mature state.
Wikipedia - Devolution to the North of England -- British political process and ideology
Wikipedia - Dialysis (biochemistry) -- Process of separating molecules
Wikipedia - Diamondville (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Dichotomy -- Splitting of a whole into exactly two non-overlapping parts; dyadic relations and processes
Wikipedia - Die casting -- Metal casting process that is characterized by forcing molten metal under high pressure into a mould cavity
Wikipedia - Differentiation of trigonometric functions -- Mathematical process of finding the derivative of a trigonometric function
Wikipedia - Diffusion process
Wikipedia - Digestion -- Biological process of breaking down food
Wikipedia - Digital artifact -- Undesired or unintended alteration in data introduced in a digital process by an involved technique and/or technology
Wikipedia - Digital distribution of video games -- Process of delivering video game content as digital information, without the exchange or purchase of new physical media
Wikipedia - Digital image processing -- Algorithmic processing of digitally-represented images
Wikipedia - Digital Light Processing
Wikipedia - Digital light processing
Wikipedia - Digital Signal Processing (journal)
Wikipedia - Digital signal processing -- Mathematical signal manipulation by computers
Wikipedia - Digital Signal Processor
Wikipedia - Digital signal processor -- Specialized microprocessor optimized for digital signal processing
Wikipedia - Digital signal (signal processing) -- A signal with discrete values in time and amplitude
Wikipedia - Digital switchover dates in the United Kingdom -- Process of replacing analogue terrestrial with digital terrestrial television in the UK
Wikipedia - Digital synthesizer -- Synthesizer that uses digital signal processing to make sounds
Wikipedia - Digital television -- Transmission of audio and video by digitally processed and multiplexed signal
Wikipedia - Dimensionality reduction -- Process of reducing the number of random variables under consideration
Wikipedia - Directive (programming) -- Language construct that specifies how a compiler should process its input
Wikipedia - Discretization -- Process of transferring continuous functions into discrete counterparts
Wikipedia - Disparate system -- Data processing system without interaction with other computer data processing systems
Wikipedia - Dissolution of Czechoslovakia -- 1993 process that split Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Wikipedia - Distraction -- Process of diverting the attention of an individual or group
Wikipedia - Distributed processing
Wikipedia - Distribution-free control chart -- Statistical process monitoring tool
Wikipedia - Dive planning -- The process of planning an underwater diving operation
Wikipedia - Diversification (finance) -- The process of allocating capital in a way that reduces the exposure to any one particular asset or risk
Wikipedia - Diver training -- Processes by which people develop the skills and knowledge to dive safely underwater
Wikipedia - Dixon (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - DNA methylation -- Biological process
Wikipedia - DNA replication -- Biological process
Wikipedia - DNA sequencing -- Process of determining the order of nucleotides in DNA molecules
Wikipedia - Document composition -- Process of creating documents
Wikipedia - Dolby Pro Logic -- Surround sound processing technology developed by Dolby Labs
Wikipedia - Dolomitization -- Geological process producing Dolomite
Wikipedia - Domain parking -- Process of reserving a domain for prevent cybersquatting or for simple future use, including reselling
Wikipedia - Dothan (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Downcutting -- Process of deepening a stream channel by erosion of the bottom material
Wikipedia - Downhill folding -- Protein folding process
Wikipedia - Downsampling (signal processing)
Wikipedia - Downwelling -- The process of accumulation and sinking of higher density material beneath lower density material
Wikipedia - Draft:Advanced Matrix Extensions -- Extensions to the x86 instruction set architecture for microprocessors from Intel and AMD
Wikipedia - Draft:InCloudCounsel -- Online platform for high-volume legal processes
Wikipedia - Draft (sports) -- Process used to allocate certain players to sports teams
Wikipedia - Drake (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Drama annotation -- Process of annotating the metadata of a drama
Wikipedia - Drawing (manufacturing) -- Metalworking process
Wikipedia - Drug liberalization -- Process of eliminating or reducing drug prohibition laws
Wikipedia - Drug rehabilitation -- Processes of treatment for drug dependency
Wikipedia - DSEEP -- Distributed Simulation Engineering and Execution Process
Wikipedia - Dual-phase evolution -- A process that drives self-organization within complex adaptive systems
Wikipedia - Dual process theory (moral psychology)
Wikipedia - Dual process theory -- Psychological theory of how thought can arise in two different ways
Wikipedia - Due Process Clause -- Clauses in the 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
Wikipedia - Due Process (video game) -- Online multiplayer video game
Wikipedia - Due process
Wikipedia - Dune -- A hill of loose sand built by aeolian processes or the flow of water
Wikipedia - Dunnington (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Dutch process chocolate -- Cocoa that has been treated with an alkalizing agent
Wikipedia - Dyeing -- Process of adding color to textile products like fibers, yarns, and fabrics
Wikipedia - Dynagroove -- Recording process
Wikipedia - Dynamic range compression -- Audio signal processing operation that reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds, thus reducing or compressing an audio signal's dynamic range
Wikipedia - Early Muslim conquests -- Historical process in 7th-8th centuries CE
Wikipedia - Earth sciences graphics software -- Plotting and image processing software used in Earth sciences
Wikipedia - Easter parade -- Festive strolling procession on Easter Sunday
Wikipedia - Eastmancolor -- Trade name and color process for film
Wikipedia - E-Clear -- British payment processing company
Wikipedia - Eclogitization -- The tectonic process in which the dense, high-pressure, metamorphic rock, eclogite, is formed
Wikipedia - Ecological design -- Design that minimizes environmentally destructive impacts by integrating itself with living processes
Wikipedia - Ecological succession -- The process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over time
Wikipedia - Economic development -- Process and policies to improve economic well-being
Wikipedia - E-democracy -- Use of information and communication technology in political and governance processes
Wikipedia - Editing -- Process of selecting and preparing media to convey information
Wikipedia - EDRAM -- Dynamic random-access memory included in a processor chip or package
Wikipedia - Educational accreditation -- Type of quality assurance process under which services and operations of educational institutions or programs are evaluated and verified by an external body
Wikipedia - Educational assessment -- Systematic process of documenting and using empirical data on the knowledge, skill, attitudes, and beliefs to refine programs and improve student learning
Wikipedia - Education for justice -- The process of promoting a culture of lawfulness through educational activities at all levels
Wikipedia - Efficiency -- Degree to which a process minimizes waste of resources
Wikipedia - Electoral reform in Puerto Rico -- Efforts to reform the process and regulation of voting
Wikipedia - Electric heating -- Process in which electrical energy is converted to heat
Wikipedia - Electric resistance welding -- Welding processes that use heat produced by electric current through the work pieces
Wikipedia - Electron capture -- Process in which a proton-rich nuclide absorbs an inner atomic electron
Wikipedia - Electronic data processing
Wikipedia - Electron transport chain -- A process in which a series of electron carriers operate together to transfer electrons from donors to any of several different terminal electron acceptors to generate a transmembrane electrochemical gradient.
Wikipedia - Elemental analysis -- Process of analytical chemistry
Wikipedia - ELIZA -- Early natural language processing computer program
Wikipedia - Embedded processor
Wikipedia - Emergency sanitation -- Management and technical processes required to provide sanitation in emergency situations
Wikipedia - Enclosure -- Legal process in England of consolidating (enclosing) small landholdings into larger farms
Wikipedia - Encryption -- Process of converting plaintext to ciphertext
Wikipedia - Endocytosis -- Cellular process
Wikipedia - Endothermic process -- Chemical reaction that takes up heat (or electrical energy) from surroundings
Wikipedia - Energetically modified cement -- Class of cements, mechanically processed to transform reactivity
Wikipedia - Engineering design process
Wikipedia - Enlargement of the European Union -- accession process of new countries to the European Union
Wikipedia - Enterocoely -- Development process of some animals
Wikipedia - Enterprise Architecture Process
Wikipedia - Enterprise Modelling Methodology/Open Distributed Processing
Wikipedia - Enterprise Unified Process
Wikipedia - Entrepreneurship -- Process of designing, launching and running a new business
Wikipedia - Environment variable -- User-definable variable associated with each running process in many operating systems
Wikipedia - E-participation -- ICT-supported participation in processes involving government and citizens
Wikipedia - Epenthesis -- Phonological process involving the addition of one or more sounds to a word
Wikipedia - Epigenesis (biology) -- Process of development
Wikipedia - Equimolar counterdiffusion -- Type of physical process
Wikipedia - Erhua -- Phonological process in spoken Mandarin Chinese that adds r-coloring to syllables
Wikipedia - Erosion -- Processes which remove soil and rock from one place on the Earth's crust, then transport it to another location where it is deposited
Wikipedia - Essential Unified Process
Wikipedia - European Processor Initiative
Wikipedia - Event-driven Process Chains
Wikipedia - Event-driven process chain
Wikipedia - Event Processing Technical Society
Wikipedia - Event processing
Wikipedia - Event stream processing
Wikipedia - Everyday life -- Routine processes in humans daily and weekly cycle
Wikipedia - Evolutionary biology -- The study of the processes that produced the diversity of life
Wikipedia - Evolutionary developmental biology -- Field of research that compares the developmental processes of different organisms to infer the ancestral relationships
Wikipedia - Evolutionary landscape -- A metaphor used to visualize the processes of evolution
Wikipedia - Evolution of ageing -- Study of the evolutionary development of ageing processes
Wikipedia - Evolution of Hawaiian volcanoes -- Processes of growth and erosion of the volcanoes of the Hawaiian islands
Wikipedia - Evolution of photosynthesis -- The origin and subsequent evolution of the process by which light energy is used to synthesize sugars
Wikipedia - Exhibit design -- Process of developing an exhibit
Wikipedia - Exhumation (geology) -- Process by which a parcel of rock approaches Earth's surface; explicitly measured relative to the surface of the Earth
Wikipedia - Exothermic process -- Thermodynamic reaction
Wikipedia - Exsanguination -- Process of blood loss, to a degree sufficient to cause death
Wikipedia - Extensional tectonics -- Study of the structures formed by, and the processes associated with, the stretching of a planetary body's crust
Wikipedia - External cause -- Associating a specific object or acute process that was caused by something outside the body
Wikipedia - External cephalic version -- Process by which a breech baby can sometimes be turned from buttocks or foot first to head first
Wikipedia - Extrusion -- Process used to create objects of a fixed cross-sectional profile
Wikipedia - Ex vivo -- Process of testing biological interventions on extracted fragments of organisms
Wikipedia - Exynos -- Family of system-on-a-chip models with ARM processor cores
Wikipedia - Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing -- Form of psychotherapy
Wikipedia - Facilitated diffusion -- Biological process
Wikipedia - Fact-checking -- Process of verifying information in non-fictional text
Wikipedia - Factors of production -- ResourcesM-BM- used in the production process
Wikipedia - Fact table -- Data warehousing principle, a table consisting of the measurements, metrics or facts of a business process
Wikipedia - Family Process (journal)
Wikipedia - Family Process
Wikipedia - FASM -- Open source assembler for x86 processors
Wikipedia - FastEcho -- Message processing package for FTN
Wikipedia - Fatah-Hamas reconciliation process -- Political initiative in Palestine
Wikipedia - Fatty acid metabolism -- Set of biological processes
Wikipedia - Fatty liver disease -- Lipid storage disease characterized by the accumulation of large vacuoles of triglyceride fat in liver cells via the process of steatosis
Wikipedia - Fear processing in the brain
Wikipedia - Feature-driven development -- Software development process
Wikipedia - Fecal microbiota transplant -- Process of transplantation of fecal bacteria from a healthy individual into a recipient
Wikipedia - Federal Information Processing Standard
Wikipedia - Federation of Australia -- Process by which six separate British self-governing colonies became the country of Australia
Wikipedia - Fermentation in food processing -- Converting carbohydrates to alcohol or acids using anaerobic microorganisms
Wikipedia - Fermented bean curd -- A Chinese condiment consisting of a form of processed, preserved tofu used in East Asian cuisine
Wikipedia - Fertilisation -- Union of gametes of opposite sexes during the process of sexual reproduction to form a zygote
Wikipedia - Fibrosis -- Formation of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ or tissue in a reparative or reactive process
Wikipedia - Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution -- Article of amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as part of the Bill of Rights, enumerating rights related to trials and due process thereof.
Wikipedia - Fill and finish -- Manufacturing process
Wikipedia - Film editing -- Creative and technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking
Wikipedia - Filmmaking -- Process of making a motion picture
Wikipedia - Film producer -- Person who supervises the overall process, creative and financial, of making a film
Wikipedia - Filter (signal processing)
Wikipedia - Financial signal processing
Wikipedia - Finishing (textiles) -- Any process performed after dyeing the yarn or fabric to improve the look, performance, or "hand" (feel) of the finished textile or clothing
Wikipedia - Finite impulse response -- type of filter in signal processing
Wikipedia - FIPS 10-4 -- Withdrawn Federal Information Processing Standard
Wikipedia - Fire making -- Process of starting a fire artificially
Wikipedia - Fischer-Tropsch process -- Chemical reactions that convert carbon monoxide and hydrogen into liquid hydrocarbons
Wikipedia - Fishing industry -- The economic sector concerned with taking, culturing, processing, preserving, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish or fish products
Wikipedia - Flat sawing -- Woodworking process
Wikipedia - Flexography -- Form of printing process
Wikipedia - Flight -- Process by which an object moves, through an atmosphere or beyond it
Wikipedia - Floating production storage and offloading -- Floating vessel used by offshore oil/gas industry for hydrocarbon production/processing/storage
Wikipedia - Flocculation -- Process by which colloidal particles come out of suspension to precipitate as floc or flake
Wikipedia - Flowchart -- Diagram that represents a workflow or process
Wikipedia - Flow process chart -- industrial engineering graphical representation
Wikipedia - Fluvial processes -- Processes associated with rivers and streams
Wikipedia - Flux melting -- The process by which the melting point is reduced by the admixture of a material known as a flux
Wikipedia - Folk process
Wikipedia - Food processing -- Transformation of raw ingredients into food, or of food into other forms
Wikipedia - Food processor -- Type of home appliance
Wikipedia - Foreign trade of Argentina -- Argentine foreign trade processes
Wikipedia - Forensic facial reconstruction -- Process of recreating the face of an individual from their skeletal remains through an amalgamation of artistry, anthropology, osteology, and anatomy
Wikipedia - Foreshadow -- Hardware vulnerability for Intel processors
Wikipedia - Forgery -- Process of making, adapting, or imitating objects to deceive
Wikipedia - Formative assessment -- Range of formal and informal assessment procedures conducted by teachers during the learning process
Wikipedia - Fossil fuel -- Fuel formed by natural processes
Wikipedia - Foxing -- Age-related process of deterioration occurring on paper products
Wikipedia - FPS AP-120B -- Pipeline-oriented array processor
Wikipedia - Fractional crystallization (geology) -- One of the main processes of magmatic differentiation
Wikipedia - Frame synchronization (video) -- Process of synchronizing display pixel scanning to a synchronization source
Wikipedia - Frasch process -- Industrial method of sulfur extraction
Wikipedia - Freeze-drying -- Low temperature dehydration process
Wikipedia - Freight transport -- Physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo
Wikipedia - Fretting -- Wear process that occurs at the contact area between two materials under load and subject to minute relative motion
Wikipedia - Frobenius reciprocity -- A duality between the process of restricting and inducting in representation theory
Wikipedia - Front-end processor
Wikipedia - Froth treatment (Athabasca oil sands) -- Bitumen froth treatment is one part of an integrated bitumen recovery process in oil sands operations.
Wikipedia - Frugal innovation -- process of reducing the complexity and cost of a good and its production
Wikipedia - FR-V (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Fulling -- Pre-industrial process in making wool fabric
Wikipedia - FullWrite Professional -- Word processor application for the Apple Macintosh
Wikipedia - Fundraising -- Process of gathering voluntary contributions of money or other resources
Wikipedia - Funeral procession
Wikipedia - Furnace anneal -- Process used to alter the electrical properties of semiconductors
Wikipedia - Fused filament fabrication -- 3D printing process
Wikipedia - GAIL -- Indian natural gas processing and distribution company
Wikipedia - Galaxy formation and evolution -- Processes that formed a heterogeneous universe from a homogeneous beginning, the formation of the first galaxies, the way galaxies change over time
Wikipedia - Galton-Watson process -- Probability model, originally to model the extinction of family names
Wikipedia - Galvanic corrosion -- Electrochemical process in which one metal corrodes preferentially when it is in electrical contact with another
Wikipedia - Galvanization -- process of coating steel or iron with zinc to prevent rusting
Wikipedia - Game design -- Game development process of designing the content and rules of a game
Wikipedia - Gametogenesis -- Biological process
Wikipedia - Gandour -- Food processing company
Wikipedia - Gas-assisted injection molding -- A type of plastics manufacturing process
Wikipedia - Gas exchange -- The process by which gases diffuse through a biological membrane
Wikipedia - Gasification -- Process that converts organic or fossil fuel based carbonaceous materials into carbon monoxide, hydrogen and carbon dioxide
Wikipedia - Gas metal arc welding -- Welding process
Wikipedia - Gas tungsten arc welding -- Welding process
Wikipedia - Gaussian process regression
Wikipedia - Gaussian process -- Statistical model where every point in a continuous input space is associated with a normally distributed random variable
Wikipedia - GBK Dairy Products Limited -- Dairy processing company in Uganda
Wikipedia - Gelatin silver process -- Photographic process
Wikipedia - General Data Protection Regulation -- European Union regulation on the processing of personal data
Wikipedia - Generalized functional linear model -- Mathematical model for stochastic processes
Wikipedia - Generalized Wiener process
Wikipedia - General Personal Data Protection Law -- Brazilian regulation on the processing of personal data
Wikipedia - General-purpose computing on graphics processing units
Wikipedia - General Purpose Macro Processor
Wikipedia - General Purpose Macroprocessor
Wikipedia - General-purpose macro processor -- Macro processor that is not tied to or integrated with a particular language or piece of software.
Wikipedia - Genome evolution -- The process by which a genome changes in structure or size over time
Wikipedia - Genotyping -- Laboratory process
Wikipedia - Gentrification in the United States -- A process where a poor urban area is altered by wealthier people displacing existing residents
Wikipedia - Geology -- Study of the composition, structure, physical properties, and history of Earth's components and processes
Wikipedia - Geomatics -- Discipline concerned with the collection, distribution, storage, analysis, processing, presentation of geographic data or geographic information
Wikipedia - Geometry processing
Wikipedia - Geomorphology -- The scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape them
Wikipedia - German reunification -- Process in 1990 in which East and West Germany once again became one country
Wikipedia - Germination -- Process by which an organism grows from a spore or seed
Wikipedia - Girsanov theorem -- Theorem on stochastic processes
Wikipedia - Glass casting -- Process in which glass objects are cast by directing molten glass into a mould where it solidifies
Wikipedia - Gleichschaltung -- Process of Nazification
Wikipedia - Globalization -- Process of international integration arising of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture
Wikipedia - Goldbeater's skin -- Processed outer membrane of the intestine of an animal
Wikipedia - Gold mining -- Process of extracting gold from the ground
Wikipedia - Google Checkout -- 2006-2013 online payment processing service by Google
Wikipedia - Google Docs -- Cloud-based word processing software
Wikipedia - Governance -- All of the processes of governing, whether undertaken by a govnt, market or network, whether over a family, tribe, formal or informal organization or territory and whether through the laws, norms, power or language of an organized society
Wikipedia - Gram-Schmidt process -- Method for orthonormalizing a set of vectors
Wikipedia - Grant writing -- Practice of completing an application process for a financial grant provided by an institution
Wikipedia - Graphic design -- Process of visual communication
Wikipedia - Graphics processing units
Wikipedia - Graphics processing unit -- Specialized electronic circuit; graphics accelerator
Wikipedia - Greening -- Process of incorporating more environmentally friendly behaviors or systems into one's home, workplace, or lifestyle
Wikipedia - Group process
Wikipedia - Haber process -- Main process of ammonia production
Wikipedia - Hadronization -- Process by which hadrons are formed
Wikipedia - Haemophilia -- Human genetic disease that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop bleeding
Wikipedia - Halizah -- Process by which a childless widow and a brother of her deceased husband may avoid the duty to marry
Wikipedia - Harpertown (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Harvest -- Process of gathering mature crops from the fields
Wikipedia - Haswell (microarchitecture) -- Intel processor microarchitecture
Wikipedia - Hazard substitution -- Replacing a material or process with a lower risk alternative
Wikipedia - Head-in-pillow defect -- Failure of the soldering process on printed circuit boards
Wikipedia - Healing -- Process of the restoration of health
Wikipedia - Health action process approach -- Theory of health behavior change
Wikipedia - Health informatics -- Applications of information processing concepts and machinery in medicine
Wikipedia - Health promotion -- Process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health
Wikipedia - Health psychology -- The study of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare
Wikipedia - Heat treating -- Process of heating something to alter it
Wikipedia - Heckling (flax) -- Combing process used to clean and straighten scutched flax or other bast fibers
Wikipedia - Hectograph -- Printing process that involves transfer of an original
Wikipedia - Heinz -- American food processing company
Wikipedia - Heterodyne -- Signal processing technique
Wikipedia - Heterogeneous Element Processor
Wikipedia - Het proces Begeer -- 1918 film
Wikipedia - Heuristics in judgment and decision-making -- Simple strategies or mental processes involved in making quick decisions
Wikipedia - Hierarchical Decision Process
Wikipedia - Hierarchical modulation -- Signal processing technique for multiplexing/modulating multiple data streams into one stream, where base- and enhancement-layer symbols are synchronously overplayed before transmission; used in digital TV broadcast for graceful degradation
Wikipedia - High Bandwidth Memory -- Type of memory used on processors that require high speed memory
Wikipedia - Historical process of beatification and canonization
Wikipedia - History of life -- The processes by which organisms evolved on Earth
Wikipedia - History of natural language processing
Wikipedia - History of the flags of the United States -- The evolutionary process of the flag of the United States of America
Wikipedia - Holy Week procession
Wikipedia - Hominization -- Academic term for the process of becoming human
Wikipedia - Homologation (motorsport) -- Type approval process for a vehicle, race track, or standardised part
Wikipedia - Homosocialization -- Process by which an LGBT person meets and relates to others of the same community
Wikipedia - Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Facility
Wikipedia - Honor system -- Process of governing without enforcement
Wikipedia - Horizontal blanking interval -- Part of the process of displaying images on a raster scan monitor
Wikipedia - Hot-dip galvanization -- Process of coating iron or steel with molten zinc
Wikipedia - HP Saturn -- Family of 4-bit datapath microprocessors
Wikipedia - Human decontamination -- Is the process of cleansing the human body to remove contamination by hazardous materials including chemicals, radioactive substances, and infectious material.
Wikipedia - Human evolutionary developmental biology -- Evolution of developmental processes in humans
Wikipedia - Human evolution -- Evolutionary process leading to anatomically modern humans
Wikipedia - Human processor model
Wikipedia - Human reproduction -- Procreative biological processes of humanity
Wikipedia - Human resource management system -- Software for managing human resources, [[business process]]es and data
Wikipedia - IA-64 -- Instruction set architecture of the Itanium family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors
Wikipedia - IBM 2365 Processor Storage
Wikipedia - IBM POWER microprocessors -- Series of microprocessors from IBM
Wikipedia - IBM z13 (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Ice Lake (microprocessor) -- Intel processor microarchitecture
Wikipedia - Ideation (creative process) -- Creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas
Wikipedia - IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
Wikipedia - IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award
Wikipedia - IEEE Signal Processing Society
Wikipedia - IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
Wikipedia - IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Wikipedia - IGMP snooping -- The process of listening to IGMP network traffic to control delivery of IP multicasts
Wikipedia - Igneous differentiation -- Processes by which magmas undergo bulk chemical change during the partial melting process, cooling, emplacement, or eruption
Wikipedia - Image analysis -- Extraction of information from images via digital image processing techniques
Wikipedia - Image destriping -- Image processing task
Wikipedia - Image editing -- Processes of altering images, digital or traditional photos and add/paste/and cut words
Wikipedia - Image processing
Wikipedia - Image processor -- Specialized digital signal processor used for image processing
Wikipedia - Imaginal Processes Inventory
Wikipedia - Immunization -- Process by which an individual's immune system becomes fortified against an agent
Wikipedia - Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff -- Impeachment process of then-Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
Wikipedia - Impeachment process against Richard Nixon -- 1970s preliminary process to remove the President of the United States
Wikipedia - Improvement -- Process of a thing moving from one state to a state considered to be better
Wikipedia - Improvisation -- Process of devising a solution to a requirement in an ad hoc fashion
Wikipedia - Imputation (statistics) -- Process of replacing missing data with substituted values
Wikipedia - Incorporation (business) -- Legal process to create a new corporation
Wikipedia - Independence of Paraguay -- Independence process of Paraguay (1811-1814)
Wikipedia - Indian buffet process
Wikipedia - Induction sealing -- The process of bonding thermoplastic materials by induction heating
Wikipedia - Industrial computed tomography -- Computer-aided tomographic process
Wikipedia - Industrial engineering -- Branch of engineering which deals with the optimization of complex processes or systems
Wikipedia - Industrial processes
Wikipedia - Industrial process
Wikipedia - Industrial Revolution -- Transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the United States, in the 18th-19th centuries
Wikipedia - Industrial wastewater treatment -- Processes used for treating wastewater that is produced by industries as an undesirable by-product
Wikipedia - Industrial waste -- Waste produced by industrial activity or manufacturing processes
Wikipedia - Inertia negation -- Process in theoretical physics
Wikipedia - Inference -- Act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true
Wikipedia - Information Processing Language
Wikipedia - Information Processing Letters
Wikipedia - Information Processing Society of Japan
Wikipedia - Information processing system
Wikipedia - Information Processing Techniques Office -- United States government office
Wikipedia - Information processing technology and aging
Wikipedia - Information Processing Technology Office
Wikipedia - Information processing theory
Wikipedia - Information processing -- Process in which input information is analysed or transformed in order to produce information as output
Wikipedia - Information processor
Wikipedia - Informed consent -- Process for obtaining subject approval prior to treatment or research
Wikipedia - Infusion -- Process of extracting chemical compounds or flavors from plant material in a solvent
Wikipedia - Inkle weaving -- Process of weaving narrow bands or ribbons using a handloom
Wikipedia - In-memory processing
Wikipedia - Innovation (signal processing)
Wikipedia - Input/output -- Communication between an information processing system and the outside world
Wikipedia - Input Processing theory -- Theory of language acquisition
Wikipedia - Institutionalisation -- Process of embedding some conception in an organization
Wikipedia - Instructional design -- Process for design and development of learning resources
Wikipedia - Instructional scaffolding -- Support given to a student by an instructor throughout the learning process
Wikipedia - Instruction set architecture -- Set of abstract symbols which describe a computer program's operations to a processor
Wikipedia - Intel 4004 -- 4-bit central processing unit
Wikipedia - Intel 5-level paging -- Processor extension for the x86-64 line of processors
Wikipedia - Intel 80286 -- Microprocessor model
Wikipedia - Intel 8231/8232 -- Early floating-point math coprocessor
Wikipedia - Intel Core (microarchitecture) -- Intel processor microarchitecture
Wikipedia - Intel Core -- Brand name that Intel uses for various mid-range to high-end consumer and business microprocessors
Wikipedia - Intellectual property -- Notion of ownership of ideas and processes
Wikipedia - Inter-Allied Women's Conference -- 1919 conference convened to introduce women's issues to the peace process at the end of the First World War
Wikipedia - Interest (emotion) -- Feeling that causes attention to focus on an object, event or process
Wikipedia - Interface Message Processor
Wikipedia - International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
Wikipedia - International Conference on Business Process Management
Wikipedia - International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
Wikipedia - International Federation for Information Processing
Wikipedia - International Federation of Information Processing
Wikipedia - Internationalization and localization -- Process of making software accessible to people in different areas of the world
Wikipedia - Internationalization of the Danube River -- Diplomatic process in 19th-century Europe
Wikipedia - Internationalization -- In economics, process that seeks horizontal integration, globally of countries and companies
Wikipedia - Interprocess Communication
Wikipedia - Inter-process communication
Wikipedia - Interprocess communication
Wikipedia - Inter-processor interrupt
Wikipedia - Interrupt request (PC architecture) -- Hardware signal sent to a processor to interrupt a running program and handle input
Wikipedia - Intravital microscopy -- Form of microscopy that allows observing biological processes in live animals (in vivo) at a high resolution that makes distinguishing between individual cells of a tissue possible
Wikipedia - Invention -- A novel device, material, or technical process
Wikipedia - Inventory of Church Property -- Process executed on change of custodian
Wikipedia - Investment casting -- industrial process based on lost-wax casting
Wikipedia - In vivo -- Process of testing biological interventions on whole, living organisms
Wikipedia - Involuntary commitment -- Legal process through which an individual who is deemed to have symptoms of severe mental disorder is involuntarily hospitalized
Wikipedia - Ion implantation -- Material and chemical process used to change the properties of a target
Wikipedia - Iotacism -- Process of vowel shift in Greek texts
Wikipedia - IP routing -- Process used to determine which path a packet or datagram can be sent
Wikipedia - Ironic process theory
Wikipedia - IRQL (Windows) -- Means by which Windows prioritizes interrupts that come from the system's processors
Wikipedia - Irreversible process
Wikipedia - Isobaric process
Wikipedia - ISO/IEC 12207 -- ISO, IEC and IEEE standard for software lifecycle processes
Wikipedia - Isothermal process -- Thermodynamic process in which temperature remains constant
Wikipedia - Israeli-Palestinian peace process -- Efforts to make peace between Israeli and Palestinian leadership
Wikipedia - Itanium -- Family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors
Wikipedia - Iteration -- Repetition of a process
Wikipedia - James Beaumont Neilson -- Scottish inventor of the hot-blast process for smelting iron (1792-1865)
Wikipedia - Java Community Process
Wikipedia - Jesa Farm Dairy Limited -- Dairy processing company in Uganda
Wikipedia - Job shop -- Small manufacturing systems that handle custom manufacturing processes
Wikipedia - Job stream -- Definition of unit of work in a batch processing environment
Wikipedia - Joining of the Archdiocese of Russian Orthodox churches in Western Europe to the Moscow Patriarchate -- Process of the Archdiocese of Russian Orthodox churches in Western Europe (AROCWE), formerly part of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, entering the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate.
Wikipedia - Jointing (sharpening) -- Pre-sharpening process of filing/grinding the teeth or cutting tool knives
Wikipedia - Joule heating -- Process by which the passage of an electric current through a conductor produces heat
Wikipedia - Jugging -- Cooking process
Wikipedia - Kahn process networks
Wikipedia - Kalai (process) -- Metalworking process
Wikipedia - Karbala stampede -- Accident during Ashura processions in Karbala, Iraq.
Wikipedia - Katmai (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Kentsfield (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Kernel (image processing)
Wikipedia - Key generation -- Process of generating keys in cryptography
Wikipedia - Khartoum process -- Inter-regional forum on migration
Wikipedia - Kinemacolor -- Color motion picture process
Wikipedia - Kinescope -- Early recording process for live television
Wikipedia - Klamath (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Knowledge management -- Process of creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organization
Wikipedia - Knowledge processing for robots -- Knowledge representation framework
Wikipedia - Knowledge process outsourcing
Wikipedia - Koa Coffee Plantation -- Former coffee grower and processor of Kona coffee
Wikipedia - Kolmogorov extension theorem -- A consistent set of finite-dimensional distributions will define a stochastic process
Wikipedia - Kyagalanyi Coffee Limited -- Coffee processing company in Uganda
Wikipedia - Kyckr -- Global business register to help with know your customer (KYC) processes for anti-money laundering regulations
Wikipedia - Laboratory quality control -- Set of measures to detect, reduce, and correct deficiencies in a laboratory's internal analytical process prior to the release of patient results, in order to improve the quality of the results reported by the laboratory
Wikipedia - Labrador Sea Water -- water mass formed by convective processes in the Labrador Sea
Wikipedia - Lactalis Canada -- Canadian dairy processing company
Wikipedia - Lakeside Dairy Limited -- Dairy processing company in Uganda
Wikipedia - Lamella clarifier -- Water treatment process equipment
Wikipedia - Laminar-turbulent transition -- Process of fluid flow becoming turbulent
Wikipedia - Landfill gas monitoring -- Process of monitoring gas from landfills.
Wikipedia - Landfill mining -- Excavating and processing solid wastes from landfills
Wikipedia - Landscape ecology -- The science of relationships between ecological processes in the environment and particular ecosystems
Wikipedia - Landscape limnology -- The spatially explicit study of lakes, streams, and wetlands as they interact with freshwater, terrestrial, and human landscapes to determine the effects of pattern on ecosystem processes across temporal and spatial scales
Wikipedia - Language acquisition -- Process in which a first language is being acquired
Wikipedia - Language center -- speech processing in the brain
Wikipedia - Language death -- Process in which a language eventually loses its last native speaker
Wikipedia - Language education -- Process and practice of acquiring a language
Wikipedia - Language processing in the brain
Wikipedia - Language processing
Wikipedia - Laser printing -- Electrostatic digital printing process
Wikipedia - Latency oriented processor architecture
Wikipedia - Launchd -- Unified operating system service management framework, starts, stops and manages daemons, applications, processes, and scripts in macOS
Wikipedia - Lava cave -- Cave formed in volcanic rock, especially one formed via volcanic processes
Wikipedia - Law in Star Trek -- Legal processes in Star Trek fiction
Wikipedia - Lazy FP state restore -- Intel processor security vulnerability
Wikipedia - Leapfrogging (urban development) -- Urbanization process
Wikipedia - Learning management system -- Software system that serves the delivery of learning content and the organisation of learning processes
Wikipedia - Learning -- Any process in an organism in which a relatively long-lasting adaptive behavioral change occurs as the result of experience
Wikipedia - Leblanc process -- Former industrial process for producing sodium carbonate from salt
Wikipedia - Legal research in the United States -- The process of identifying and retrieving information to support legal arguments and decisions
Wikipedia - Leptogenesis -- Hypothetical processes that could produce the observed asymmetry favoring leptons over antileptons
Wikipedia - Leptogenys processionalis -- Species of ant
Wikipedia - Lesson study -- A teaching improvement process
Wikipedia - Levels-of-processing effect
Wikipedia - Lexical preprocessor
Wikipedia - LGA 1366 -- CPU socket for Intel processors
Wikipedia - Libyan peace process
Wikipedia - Life -- Characteristic that distinguishes physical entities having biological processes
Wikipedia - Light-weight process -- A means of achieving computer multitasking
Wikipedia - Liming (leather processing)
Wikipedia - Lincroft (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Linear predictive coding -- Audio signal processing method
Wikipedia - Link quality analysis -- Overall process in adaptive high-frequency (HF) radio
Wikipedia - Linux startup process
Wikipedia - Liquefaction -- Process that generates a liquid from a solid or a gas
Wikipedia - List of aging processes
Wikipedia - List of AMD accelerated processing units -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of AMD Athlon 64 microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of AMD Athlon microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of AMD Athlon X2 microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of AMD Duron microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of AMD FX microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of AMD graphics processing units -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of AMD K5 microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of AMD K6 microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of AMD microprocessors
Wikipedia - List of AMD mobile microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of AMD Opteron microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of AMD Phenom microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of AMD processors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of AMD Ryzen processors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of AMD Sempron microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of AMD Turion microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of ARM microprocessor cores
Wikipedia - List of chemical process simulators -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of creative thought processes
Wikipedia - List of decision-making processes
Wikipedia - List of defunct network processor companies -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of duplicating processes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of former IA-32 compatible processor manufacturers -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Atom microprocessors
Wikipedia - List of Intel Broadwell-based Xeon microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Cascade Lake-based Xeon microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Celeron microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Coffee Lake-based Xeon microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Comet Lake-based Xeon microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Core 2 microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Core-based Xeon microprocessors -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Core i3 microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Core i5 microprocessors
Wikipedia - List of Intel Core i5 processors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Core i7 microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Core i9 microprocessors
Wikipedia - List of Intel Core i9 processors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Core microprocessors
Wikipedia - List of Intel Core M microprocessors
Wikipedia - List of Intel Core M processors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Core processors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel graphics processing units (2013 or earlier)
Wikipedia - List of Intel graphics processing units -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Haswell-based Xeon microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Itanium microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Ivy Bridge-based Xeon microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Kaby Lake-based Xeon microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel microprocessors
Wikipedia - List of Intel Nehalem-based Xeon microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel NetBurst-based Xeon microprocessors -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel P6-based Xeon microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Pentium 4 microprocessors
Wikipedia - List of Intel Pentium 4 processors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Pentium D microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Pentium III microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Pentium II microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Pentium microprocessors
Wikipedia - List of Intel Pentium M microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Pentium M (Yonah)-based Xeon microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Pentium processors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Pentium Pro microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel processors -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Sandy Bridge-based Xeon microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Skylake-based Xeon microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Intel Xeon microprocessors
Wikipedia - List of Intel Xeon processors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of MediaTek processors -- List of MediaTek chips
Wikipedia - List of microprocessors
Wikipedia - List of milk processing companies in Uganda -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of MIPS architecture processors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Nvidia graphics processing units -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of organizational thought processes
Wikipedia - List of participants in the coronation procession of Elizabeth II -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of participants in the coronation processions of George VI
Wikipedia - List of peace processes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of PowerPC processors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Qualcomm Snapdragon processors -- List of Qualcomm Snapdragon chips
Wikipedia - List of quantum processors
Wikipedia - List of Republican Party presidential primaries -- Nomination process for a U.S. presidential candidate
Wikipedia - List of Russian microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Soviet microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of stochastic processes topics -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of thought processes
Wikipedia - List of VIA C3 microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of VIA C7 microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of VIA Eden microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of VIA microprocessor cores -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of VIA Nano microprocessors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of welding processes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of word processors -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - Litany -- Form of prayer used in services and processions
Wikipedia - Lithification -- Geologic process
Wikipedia - Livestock dehorning -- The process of removing the horns of livestock
Wikipedia - LM-CM-)vy process -- A stochastic process in probability theory
Wikipedia - Load value injection -- Microprocessor security vulnerability
Wikipedia - Location scouting -- Filmmaking and commercial photography production process
Wikipedia - Location search optimization -- Process of improving website visibility.
Wikipedia - Log file -- Chronological record of computer data processing operations
Wikipedia - Login -- process by which individual access to a computer system is controlled by identifying and authenticating the user through the credentials presented by the user
Wikipedia - Long-term memory -- Process that deals with the storage, retrieval and modification of information a long time
Wikipedia - Loschmidt's paradox -- the objection that it should not be possible to deduce an irreversible process from time-symmetric dynamics
Wikipedia - Lost-foam casting -- Type of evaporative-pattern casting process
Wikipedia - Lost-wax casting -- Process by which a duplicate metal sculpture is cast from an original sculpture
Wikipedia - Lotus Manuscript -- Word processor
Wikipedia - Lumber -- Wood that has been processed into beams and planks
Wikipedia - Lynnfield (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Lytic cycle -- Process of viral reproduction
Wikipedia - Machine code -- Set of instructions executed directly by a computer's central processing unit (CPU)
Wikipedia - Machining -- Material-removal process; Manufacturing process
Wikipedia - Macro processor
Wikipedia - Macroscopic quantum phenomena -- Processes showing quantum behavior at the macroscopic scale, rather than at the atomic scale where quantum effects are prevalent; macroscopic scale quantum coherence leads to macroscopic quantum phenomena
Wikipedia - Mac transition to Apple Silicon -- Transition of the Apple Macintosh platform from Intel x86 to ARM processors
Wikipedia - Mac transition to Intel processors -- 2005-2006 transition of Apple Inc.'s Mac computers from PowerPC to Intel x86 processors
Wikipedia - MacWrite -- 1984 word processor released with Macintosh
Wikipedia - Magnetic separation -- Process of separating components of mixtures by using magnets
Wikipedia - Maintenance of an organism -- Collection of processes to stay alive, excluding production processes
Wikipedia - Mali (GPU) -- series of graphics processing units produced by ARM Holdings
Wikipedia - Mammography -- Process of using low-energy X-rays to examine the human breast for diagnosis and screening
Wikipedia - Mangal Shobhajatra -- Mass procession that takes place at dawn on the first day of the Bengali New Year in Bangladesh
Wikipedia - Manufacture of cheddar cheese -- The process of cheddaring, which makes this cheese unique.
Wikipedia - Manufacturing processes
Wikipedia - Manufacturing process management
Wikipedia - Manufacturing process
Wikipedia - Manus Regional Processing Centre
Wikipedia - Manycore processor -- Multi-core processor with a large number of cores
Wikipedia - Mapping of Venus -- Process and results of human description of the geological features of the planet Venus
Wikipedia - Marfrig -- Brazilian food processing company
Wikipedia - Marine regression -- A geological process of areas of submerged seafloor being exposed above the sea level.
Wikipedia - Marine salvage -- The process of recovering a ship or cargo after a shipwreck or other maritime casualty.
Wikipedia - Marine spatial planning -- A multiple user process to make informed and coordinated decisions about sustainable use of marine resources
Wikipedia - Market (economics) -- Mechanisms whereby supply and demand confront each other and deals are made, involving places, processes and institutions in which exchanges occur.
Wikipedia - Marketing -- Study and process of soliciting customers
Wikipedia - Markov decision process
Wikipedia - Markovian arrival process
Wikipedia - Markov process
Wikipedia - Markov renewal process -- generalization of Markov jump processes
Wikipedia - Markup (legislation) -- Process for amending and rewriting proposed legislation in the United States
Wikipedia - Martinian and Processus
Wikipedia - Massive parallel processing
Wikipedia - Mass segregation (astronomy) -- The process by which heavier members of a gravitationally bound system tend to move toward the center, while lighter members tend to move away from the center
Wikipedia - Mass wasting -- Geomorphic process by which soil, sand, regolith, and rock move downslope
Wikipedia - Master-checker -- Fault tolerance method for multiprocessor systems
Wikipedia - Master/slave (technology) -- Mode of communication where one device or process has unidirectional control over one or more other devices
Wikipedia - Matchmaking -- Process of matching two or more people together, usually for the purpose of marriage
Wikipedia - Math co-processor
Wikipedia - Mating of yeast -- Biological process
Wikipedia - Measurement -- Process of assigning numbers to objects or events
Wikipedia - Mechanical filter -- Type of signal processing filter
Wikipedia - Media development -- Process of building capacity for media
Wikipedia - Media processor -- Microprocessor-based system-on-a-chip which is designed to deal with digital streaming data such as images and video in real-time
Wikipedia - Media Process Outsourcing -- Outsourcing related to media and entertainment companies
Wikipedia - Medical diagnosis -- Process to determine or identify a disease or disorder, which would account for a person's symptoms and signs
Wikipedia - Medical imaging -- Technique and process of creating visual representations of the interior of a body
Wikipedia - Medical test -- Medical procedure performed to detect, diagnose, or monitor diseases, disease processes, susceptibility, or to determine a course of treatment
Wikipedia - Meltdown (security vulnerability) -- Microprocessor security vulnerability
Wikipedia - Membrane bioreactor -- Combination of a membrane process with a biological wastewater treatment process
Wikipedia - Mendocino (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Mental model -- Explanation of someone's thought process about how something works in the real world
Wikipedia - Mental processes
Wikipedia - Mental process
Wikipedia - Merom (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Metabolomics -- Scientific study of chemical processes involving metabolites
Wikipedia - Metal swarf -- Filing debris or waste resulting from metal manufacturing processes
Wikipedia - Metalworking -- Process of making items from metal
Wikipedia - Meteor Lake (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Microcomputer -- A small computer, with a processor made of one or a few integrated circuits
Wikipedia - Micrograph -- Process for producing pictures with a microscope
Wikipedia - Micro injection molding -- A type of plastics manufacturing process
Wikipedia - Microprocessor chronology
Wikipedia - Microprocessor Report
Wikipedia - Microprocessors
Wikipedia - Microprocessor -- Computer processor contained on an integrated-circuit chip
Wikipedia - Microsoft Word -- Word processor developed by Microsoft
Wikipedia - Microsoft Write -- Basic word processor formerly included with Microsoft Windows
Wikipedia - Microwriter -- Hand-held portable word-processor with a chording keyboard
Wikipedia - Mind uploading -- Hypothetical process of digitally emulating a brain
Wikipedia - Mineral -- Element or chemical compound that is normally crystalline, formed as a result of geological processes
Wikipedia - Mining engineering -- Engineering discipline that involves the practice, the theory, the science, the technology, and applicatIon of extracting and processing minerals from a naturally occurring environment
Wikipedia - Mitochondrial biogenesis -- Process by which cells build mitochondrial mass
Wikipedia - Mixed pickle -- Pickles made from a variety of vegetables mixed in the same pickling process
Wikipedia - M-NM- -calculus -- Process calculus
Wikipedia - Mobile app development -- process to build apps for various mobile operating systems
Wikipedia - Mobile Industry Processor Interface
Wikipedia - Mobile processor
Wikipedia - Models of communication -- Conceptual model used to explain the human communication process
Wikipedia - Modernization theory -- Explanation for the process of modernization within societies
Wikipedia - Modified discrete cosine transform -- Mathematical transform using in signal processing
Wikipedia - Modulation -- Process of varying one or more properties of a periodic waveform
Wikipedia - Molding (process) -- Shaping a liquid or plastic material by making it conform to a more rigid mold
Wikipedia - Molecular evolution -- process of change in the sequence composition of cellular molecules across generations
Wikipedia - Money laundering -- Process of transforming profits of crime and corruption into ostensibly legitimate assets
Wikipedia - More Product, Less Process
Wikipedia - Morphological derivation -- In linguistics, the process of forming a new word on the basis of an existing one
Wikipedia - Morphological image processing
Wikipedia - Morse Micro -- Australian WiFi HaLow microprocessor company
Wikipedia - MOS Technology 6507 -- 8-bit microprocessor
Wikipedia - Motion capture -- Process of recording the movement of objects or people
Wikipedia - Motion detection -- Process of detecting a change in the position of an object relative to its surroundings or a change in the surroundings relative to an object
Wikipedia - Motorcade -- Procession of official vehicles, often VIP limousines
Wikipedia - Motorola 68000 processor
Wikipedia - Motorola 68000 series -- Series of 32 bit CISC microprocessors
Wikipedia - Motorola 6809 -- 8-bit microprocessor
Wikipedia - Moulting -- Process by which an animal routinely casts off a part of its body
Wikipedia - Mountain formation -- The geological processes that underlie the formation of mountains
Wikipedia - Muda (Japanese term) -- Japanese term that is a concept in lean process thinking
Wikipedia - Multicolor -- Natural color motion picture process
Wikipedia - Multi-core processor
Wikipedia - Multidistrict litigation -- Special federal legal procedure designed to speed the process of handling complex cases
Wikipedia - Multi-messenger astronomy -- Coordinated observation and interpretation of disparate "messenger" signals, created by different astrophysical processes
Wikipedia - Multiplicative noise -- Signal processing phenomenon
Wikipedia - Multiprocessing
Wikipedia - Multiprocessor system architecture
Wikipedia - Multiprocessor system on a chip
Wikipedia - Multi-processor
Wikipedia - Multiprocessor
Wikipedia - Municipal disinvestment -- urban planning process in which a municipal entity decides to abandon or neglect an area
Wikipedia - Music engraving -- Process of drawing music notation at high quality for reproduction
Wikipedia - Muster (military) -- Process of accounting for members of a military unit
Wikipedia - Mycoremediation -- Process of using fungi to degrade or sequester contaminants in the environment
Wikipedia - Namarupa -- Used in Buddhism to refer to constituent processes of the human being
Wikipedia - Nanofiber seeding -- Chemical process
Wikipedia - Nanoparticle deposition -- Process of attaching nanoparticles to solid surfaces
Wikipedia - Narcissistic defences -- Mental processes which preserve the self
Wikipedia - NASSCOM -- Indian trade association of Information Technology (IT) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies
Wikipedia - National delimitation in the Soviet Union -- Process of creating national territorial units from the ethnic diversity of USSR
Wikipedia - National Reorganization Process
Wikipedia - National Unity Process -- 2018 political initiative in Bangladesh
Wikipedia - Natural disaster -- Major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth
Wikipedia - Naturalisation (biology) -- Ecological processes
Wikipedia - Natural Language Processing
Wikipedia - Natural-language processing
Wikipedia - Natural language processing -- Field of computer science and linguistics
Wikipedia - Natural-language understanding -- Subtopic of natural language processing in artificial intelligence
Wikipedia - Nauru Regional Processing Centre -- former offshore Australian immigration detention facility
Wikipedia - Navigation -- Process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another
Wikipedia - Neptunism -- Obsolete theory that rocks formed from the crystallisation of minerals in the early EarthM-bM-^@M-^Ys oceans, through processes such as great floods
Wikipedia - NetBurst (microarchitecture) -- Intel processor microarchitecture
Wikipedia - Network processor
Wikipedia - Neural basis of self -- The biological processes that underlie human's perception of self-understanding
Wikipedia - Neural Information Processing Systems
Wikipedia - Neuropsychology -- Study of the brain related to specific psychological processes and behaviors
Wikipedia - Neurulation -- Embryological process forming the neural tube
Wikipedia - New product development -- Complete process of bringing a new product to market
Wikipedia - New production -- Marine biological processes using nutrients from outside the euphotic zone
Wikipedia - Niche construction -- Process by which an organism shapes its environment
Wikipedia - Nicotine withdrawal -- Process of withdrawing from nicotine addiction
Wikipedia - Nisus Writer -- Word processing program for Apple Macintosh
Wikipedia - Nivation -- A geomorphic processes associated with snow patches
Wikipedia - Nmrpipe -- Data processing software for nuclear magnetic resonance
Wikipedia - NOBM -- NASA Ocean Biogeochemical Model is a three-dimensional representation of coupled circulation/biogeochemical/radiative processes in the global oceans
Wikipedia - Noil -- Short textile fiber removed during the combing process in the production of worsted wool, combed cotton, or spun silk
Wikipedia - Noise gate -- Audio processing device
Wikipedia - Noise (signal processing) -- In signal processing, unwanted modifications to a signal
Wikipedia - Non-breaking space -- In computer text processing, a space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position
Wikipedia - Noritsu -- Japanese photo processing machine manufacturer
Wikipedia - Normalization of deviance -- Process in which deviance from normal behavior becomes normalized
Wikipedia - Normalization process theory
Wikipedia - Northern Ireland peace process -- 1990s events that ended most of the violence of the Troubles
Wikipedia - Notebook processor
Wikipedia - Nuclear fusion -- Process naturally occurring in stars where atomic nucleons combine
Wikipedia - Nuclear program of Iran -- Nuclear research sites and processing facilities of Iran
Wikipedia - Nuclear reaction -- Process in which two nuclei collide to produce one or more nuclides
Wikipedia - Nucleic acid structure determination -- experimental process
Wikipedia - Nucleosynthesis -- Process that creates new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons, primarily protons and neutrons
Wikipedia - Nuisance wildlife management -- Process of selective removal of problem individuals or populations of specific species of wildlife
Wikipedia - Nursing process
Wikipedia - Nutrient cycle -- Set of processes exchanging nutrients between parts of a system
Wikipedia - Oak processionary -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Occupational exposure banding -- Process to assign chemicals into categories corresponding to permissible exposure concentrations
Wikipedia - Ocean general circulation model -- Model to describe physical and thermodynamical processes in oceans
Wikipedia - Oceanic carbon cycle -- Processes that exchange carbon between various pools within the ocean and the atmosphere, Earth interior, and the seafloor.
Wikipedia - Oceanic physical-biological process -- Hydrodynamic and hydrostatic effects on marine organisms
Wikipedia - Odlums Group -- Irish food processing and marketing company
Wikipedia - Offline editing -- Post production film process
Wikipedia - Offshore drilling -- Mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed
Wikipedia - Oiling (leather processing)
Wikipedia - Oil painting -- Process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil
Wikipedia - Omni Processor -- A group of physical, biological or chemical treatments to process fecal sludge
Wikipedia - One-for-one checking -- Control process
Wikipedia - Online analytical processing
Wikipedia - Online food ordering -- Process of ordering food via a website or other application
Wikipedia - Online transaction processing
Wikipedia - Ontology alignment -- process of determining correspondences between concepts in ontologies
Wikipedia - Open Distributed Processing
Wikipedia - OpenRISC 1200 -- Open source microprocessor
Wikipedia - Operant conditioning -- Type of associative learning process
Wikipedia - Opponent-process theory
Wikipedia - Opponent process -- Theory regarding color vision in humans
Wikipedia - Opteron -- Server and workstation processor line by Advanced Micro Devices
Wikipedia - Optical contact bonding -- Process whereby two closely conformal surfaces are held together by intermolecular forces.
Wikipedia - Organic fertilizer -- Fertilizer developed from natural processes
Wikipedia - Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Wikipedia - Organogenesis -- Process by which the ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm develop into the internal organs of the organism
Wikipedia - Oslo II Accord -- Agreement in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process
Wikipedia - Osukuru Industrial Complex -- Industry processing phosphate, iron and rare minerals in Uganda
Wikipedia - Otsu's method -- In computer vision and image processing
Wikipedia - Our Lady of Trapani procession (Tunis) -- Procession in Tunisia
Wikipedia - Outline of natural language processing
Wikipedia - Outsourcing -- Contracting out of an internal business process to a third-party organization
Wikipedia - Outwelling -- Hypothetical process by which coastal salt marshes and mangroves produce an excess amount of carbon which moves to surrounding areas
Wikipedia - OXO-biodegradation -- Degradation process
Wikipedia - P54C (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - P54CS (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - P55C (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - P5 (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Pages (word processor)
Wikipedia - Palmitate mediated localization -- Biological process
Wikipedia - Paper embossing -- Process of creating either raised or recessed relief images and designs in paper and other materials
Wikipedia - Parade -- Procession of people that are usually celebrating an important day or event
Wikipedia - Parallel computing -- Programming paradigm in which many processes are executed simultaneously
Wikipedia - Parallel Constraint Satisfaction Processes
Wikipedia - Parallel constraint satisfaction processes
Wikipedia - Parallel construction -- Law enforcement process that hides details of investigation
Wikipedia - Parallel Distributed Processing
Wikipedia - Parallel distributed processing
Wikipedia - Parallel processing (psychology)
Wikipedia - Paramount Dairies Limited -- Dairy processing company in Uganda
Wikipedia - Parenting -- Process of raising a child
Wikipedia - Parent process
Wikipedia - Partially observable Markov decision process -- Generalization of a Markov decision process
Wikipedia - Passage of Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- Political process behind the American holiday
Wikipedia - Pasta processing -- Process in which wheat semolina or flour is mixed with water and the dough is extruded to a specific shape, dried and packaged
Wikipedia - Pasteur effect -- Inhibiting effect of oxygen on the fermentation process
Wikipedia - Pasteurization -- process of preserving foods with heat
Wikipedia - Patriation -- Political process that led to full Canadian sovereignty from the UK
Wikipedia - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard -- Set of security requirements for credit card processors
Wikipedia - Payment processor -- type of financial service provider facilitating payment transactions
Wikipedia - Peaceful Revolution -- 1989-1990 process disestablishing East Germany
Wikipedia - Pearl Dairy Farms Limited -- Dairy processing company in Uganda
Wikipedia - Pedant -- Personality type; person obsessed with detail or process, often negatively perceived
Wikipedia - Pedogenesis -- Process of soil formation
Wikipedia - Pedosphere -- The outermost layer of the Earth that is composed of soil and subject to soil formation processes
Wikipedia - Peening -- Process of working a metal's surface to improve material properties
Wikipedia - Penrose process -- Hypothetical mechanism for extracting energy from rotating black holes
Wikipedia - Penryn (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Pentimento -- Alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist has changed their mind as to the composition during the process of painting
Wikipedia - Pentium III -- Line of desktop and mobile microprocessors produced by Intel
Wikipedia - Pentose phosphate pathway -- Metabolic process
Wikipedia - Percussion cap -- A gunlock mechanism that uses a small metallic cap or cup, usually of copper or brass, containing a shock-sensitive explosive compound that is struck by a hammer to initiate the ignition process of a caplock firearm
Wikipedia - Perdue Farms -- American meat processing company
Wikipedia - Permanent mold casting -- A metal casting process that employs reusable molds
Wikipedia - Persianism -- Process of transforming something to have Persian attributes
Wikipedia - Persianization -- Sociological process of cultural change and cultural assimilation in which something non-Persian becomes "Persianate"
Wikipedia - Personal Software Process
Wikipedia - Personal software process
Wikipedia - Petrifaction -- The process by which organic material becomes a fossil through the replacement of the original material and the filling of the original pore spaces with mineral
Wikipedia - Petrogenesis -- Processes that form rock
Wikipedia - Phagocytosis -- Process by which a cell uses its plasma membrane to engulf a large particle
Wikipedia - Phaser (effect) -- Audio signal processing technique
Wikipedia - Phase transition -- Physical process of transition between basic states of matter
Wikipedia - Philippine adobo -- Filipino cooking process
Wikipedia - Philippine asado -- Filipino cooking process
Wikipedia - Philips 68070 -- Philips Semiconductors-branded, Motorola 68000-based 16/32-bit processor produced under license
Wikipedia - Phosphorylation -- Chemical process of introducing a phosphate
Wikipedia - Photochrom -- Process for producing colorized images from black-and-white photographies
Wikipedia - Photoengraving -- Type of engraving process
Wikipedia - Photolithography -- Process used in microfabrication to etch fine patterns
Wikipedia - Photosynthesis -- Biological process to convert light into chemical energy
Wikipedia - Phylogeography -- The study of the historical processes that may be responsible for the contemporary geographic distributions of individuals
Wikipedia - Physical examination -- Process by which a medical professional investigates the body of a patient for signs of disease
Wikipedia - Physical geography -- The study of processes and patterns in the natural environment
Wikipedia - Physical oceanography -- The study of physical conditions and physical processes within the ocean
Wikipedia - Physics processing unit
Wikipedia - Pillsbury Company -- American food processing company
Wikipedia - Pine processionary -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Pineview (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - PipeWire -- Free software for low-latency Multimedia processing and sharing
Wikipedia - Piping and instrumentation diagram -- Detailed diagram in the process industry
Wikipedia - Planar process
Wikipedia - Plant propagation -- Process in growing new plants from a variety of sources
Wikipedia - Plasma recombination -- Process by which positive ions of a plasma capture a free (energetic) electron and combine with electrons or negative ions to form new neutral atoms (gas); exothermic reaction, meaning heat releasing
Wikipedia - Plasmolysis -- Process in which cells lose water in a hypertonic solution
Wikipedia - Plate reconstruction -- The process of reconstructing the positions of tectonic plates in the geological past
Wikipedia - Playtest -- Process of testing in game design
Wikipedia - Point feature matching -- Image processing method
Wikipedia - Point process
Wikipedia - Poisson point process
Wikipedia - Poisson process
Wikipedia - Police lineup -- Criminal justice identification process
Wikipedia - Polishing (metalworking) -- Abrasive process for creating smooth finished surfaces
Wikipedia - Polishing -- Process of creating a smooth and shiny surface by rubbing it or by applying a chemical treatment
Wikipedia - Political geography -- The study of the spatial outcomes of political processes
Wikipedia - Pollination -- Biological processes occurring in plants
Wikipedia - Positio -- Document or collection of documents used in the process by which a person is declared Venerable
Wikipedia - Positive feedback -- Destabilising process that occurs in a feedback loop
Wikipedia - Post-excavation analysis -- Processes for studying archaeological materials after an excavation
Wikipedia - Posthumanization -- Those processes by which a society comes to include members other than 'natural' biological human beings
Wikipedia - Postorbital process -- A projection on the frontal bone near the rear upper edge of the eye socket
Wikipedia - Post-processual archaeology -- Movement in archaeological theory
Wikipedia - Post-production -- Part of filmmaking, video production and photography process
Wikipedia - Postsynaptic potential -- Any process that modulates the potential difference across a post-synaptic membrane
Wikipedia - Post-translational modification -- Biological processes
Wikipedia - POWER9 -- 2017 family of symmetric multiprocessors by IBM
Wikipedia - Power Macintosh 6100 -- First computer from Apple to use the PowerPC processor
Wikipedia - Poynting-Robertson effect -- process in which solar radiation causes a dust grain orbiting a star to lose angular momentum
Wikipedia - Pragma once -- Preprocessor directive in C and C++
Wikipedia - Praj -- Indian process and engineering company
Wikipedia - Praxis (process)
Wikipedia - Precipitation (chemistry) -- Chemical process
Wikipedia - Pre-flight (printing) -- Process of reviewing digital files before publication
Wikipedia - Prenatal development -- Process in which an embryo and later fetus develops during gestation
Wikipedia - Pre-processor
Wikipedia - Preprocessor -- Program which processes the input for another program
Wikipedia - Preprocess
Wikipedia - Presentation -- Process of presenting a topic to an audience setting the Scene on the Agenda
Wikipedia - Prevention through design -- Reduction of occupational hazards by early planning in the design process
Wikipedia - Pricing -- Process of determining what a company will receive in exchange for its products
Wikipedia - Primary sector of the economy -- Industry of raw materials and unprocessed food
Wikipedia - Printing -- Process for reproducing text and images using a master form or template
Wikipedia - Printmaking -- The process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper
Wikipedia - Privatization of public toilets -- Ongoing process in the United States and other countries
Wikipedia - Prizma -- Color motion picture process
Wikipedia - Problematization -- Process in critical thinking
Wikipedia - Procesa del Carmen Sarmiento -- Argentine painter
Wikipedia - Process algebra
Wikipedia - Process analysis
Wikipedia - Process analytical technology
Wikipedia - Process and Reality
Wikipedia - Process architecture -- Structural design of general process systems
Wikipedia - Process art -- Art movement
Wikipedia - Process-based management
Wikipedia - Process calculi
Wikipedia - Process calculus -- Family of approaches for modelling concurrent systems
Wikipedia - Process capability
Wikipedia - Process-centered design
Wikipedia - Process (computing) -- Particular execution of a computer program
Wikipedia - Process control block -- Data structure in the operating system kernel containing the information needed to manage a particular process
Wikipedia - Process control system
Wikipedia - Process Control
Wikipedia - Process control
Wikipedia - Process design (chemical engineering)
Wikipedia - Process design
Wikipedia - Process Development Execution System
Wikipedia - Process duct work
Wikipedia - Process engineering
Wikipedia - Process (engineering) -- Set of interrelated tasks that transform inputs into outputs
Wikipedia - Process (EP) -- 2017 EP by LSD
Wikipedia - Process graph -- Type of graph used in workflow modeling
Wikipedia - Process group
Wikipedia - Process.h
Wikipedia - Processidae -- Family of crustaceans
Wikipedia - Process identifier
Wikipedia - Process image
Wikipedia - Processing and Packaging Machinery Association -- UK Trade Association
Wikipedia - Processing delay
Wikipedia - Processing fluency theory of aesthetic pleasure
Wikipedia - Processing fluency
Wikipedia - Processing modes
Wikipedia - Processing power
Wikipedia - Processing (programming language)
Wikipedia - Processing
Wikipedia - Processional cross
Wikipedia - Processional hymn
Wikipedia - Procession of the Holy Blood
Wikipedia - Procession
Wikipedia - Process management (computing)
Wikipedia - Process management
Wikipedia - Process manufacturing -- Branch of manufacturing that is associated with formulas and manufacturing recipes
Wikipedia - Process mining -- Data mining technique
Wikipedia - Process modeling
Wikipedia - Process model
Wikipedia - Process molecular gene concept -- Alternative gene definition
Wikipedia - Process Monitor
Wikipedia - Process music
Wikipedia - Process of concept formation
Wikipedia - Process ontology
Wikipedia - Process optimization
Wikipedia - Processor (computing) -- Class of electronic units for electronic data processings
Wikipedia - Processor core
Wikipedia - Processor design
Wikipedia - Processor flag
Wikipedia - Process-oriented programming
Wikipedia - Process Oriented Psychology
Wikipedia - Process oriented psychology
Wikipedia - Process-oriented psychology
Wikipedia - Processor-in-memory
Wikipedia - Processor register -- Immediately accessible working storage available as part of a digital processor
Wikipedia - Processor sharing
Wikipedia - Processors
Wikipedia - Processor Technology -- Personal computer company, founded 1975
Wikipedia - Process Philosophy
Wikipedia - Process philosophy
Wikipedia - Process Psychology
Wikipedia - Process psychology
Wikipedia - Process safety management
Wikipedia - Process scheduling
Wikipedia - Process (science)
Wikipedia - Process Shot -- American Thoroughbred racehorse
Wikipedia - Process simulation
Wikipedia - Process Specification Language
Wikipedia - Process state
Wikipedia - Process substitution
Wikipedia - Process synchronization
Wikipedia - Process theology
Wikipedia - Process theory
Wikipedia - Process tracing
Wikipedia - Processual archaeology -- Archaeological theory
Wikipedia - Process variable
Wikipedia - Process
Wikipedia - ProcessWire -- Software content management system
Wikipedia - Product design -- Process that leads to new products
Wikipedia - Production of Sense8 -- Processes involved in the making of Sense8.
Wikipedia - Production set -- Represents the inputs and outputs to a process
Wikipedia - Programmed Data Processor -- Name used for several lines of minicomputers
Wikipedia - Program process monitoring -- Assessment of the process of a program or intervention
Wikipedia - Promalactis bifurciprocessa -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Promotion and relegation -- Process where teams are transferred between divisions
Wikipedia - Proofreading -- Process by which errors in a written or printed material are detected and removed
Wikipedia - Proton decay -- Hypothetical decay process of a nucleon (proton or neutron) into non-nucleons (anything else)
Wikipedia - Protostar -- Early stage in the process of star formation
Wikipedia - Prototype -- Early sample or model built to test a concept or process
Wikipedia - Provel cheese -- White processed cheese product
Wikipedia - Pstree -- Unix command that shows the running processes as a tree
Wikipedia - Psychologist -- Professional who evaluates, diagnoses, treats, and studies behavior and mental processes
Wikipedia - Pterygospinous ligament -- Ligament from the upper part of the posterior border of the lateral pterygoid plate to the spinous process of the sphenoid
Wikipedia - PTS-DOS -- Computer operating system for x86 processors
Wikipedia - Publishing -- Process of production and dissemination of literature, music, or information
Wikipedia - Puddling (civil engineering) -- The material and process of lining a water body with a watertight clay layer
Wikipedia - Pulse (signal processing)
Wikipedia - Purging (manufacturing) -- Cleaning process of plastics manufacturing
Wikipedia - Pyramid (image processing)
Wikipedia - Quality control -- Project management process making sure produced products are good
Wikipedia - Quality management -- Process to provide consistent fitness for use of product or service
Wikipedia - Quantization (image processing)
Wikipedia - Quantization (signal processing) -- Process of mapping a continuous set to a countable set
Wikipedia - Quantum error correction -- Process in quantum computing
Wikipedia - Quantum image processing
Wikipedia - Quantum information processing
Wikipedia - Quarter sawing -- Woodworking process
Wikipedia - Quasistatic process -- Thermodynamic process in which equilibrium is maintained throughout the process's duration
Wikipedia - Quasi-stationary distribution -- Type of random process
Wikipedia - Questioning (sexuality and gender) -- Process of self-exploration
Wikipedia - Quilting -- Process of sewing layers of fabric together to make a padded material
Wikipedia - R10000 -- MIPS microprocessor
Wikipedia - R2000 (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Racial integration -- Process of ending racial segregation
Wikipedia - Racing thoughts -- Mental process
Wikipedia - Radiation hardening -- Processes and techniques used for making electronic devices resistant to ionizing radiation
Wikipedia - Radiosynthesis (metabolism) -- Biological process
Wikipedia - Radon mitigation -- Any process used to reduce radon gas concentrations in the breathing zones of occupied buildings, or radon from water supplies
Wikipedia - Rajputisation -- Process of coalescing diverse communities into the Rajput community
Wikipedia - Random graph -- Graph generated by a random process
Wikipedia - Random process
Wikipedia - Rangefinder -- Device for determining the distance to an object; device that measures distance from the observer to a target, in a process called ranging
Wikipedia - Rapid thermal processing -- Quickly heats semiconductor wafers to high temperatures
Wikipedia - Ratification -- Process of putting into effect a documentation in international law
Wikipedia - Rational arrival process
Wikipedia - Rational Unified Process -- Process by which software is developed
Wikipedia - Raw foodism -- Practice of consuming uncooked, unprocessed, and often organic foods as a large percentage of the diet
Wikipedia - RawTherapee -- Photograph processing software
Wikipedia - Raycol -- Film color process
Wikipedia - Reading (process)
Wikipedia - Reality Coprocessor
Wikipedia - Rebasing -- Process of modifying data based on one reference to another
Wikipedia - Reboot -- Process by which a computer system is restarted
Wikipedia - Reciprocal inhibition -- A process of muscles on one side of a joint relaxing to accommodate contraction on the other side of that joint
Wikipedia - Recognition of prior learning -- A process for evaluating skills and knowledge acquired outside formal education environment to recognize competence against a set of standards
Wikipedia - Recreational diver training -- Processes by which people develop the skills and knowledge to dive safely for recreational purposes
Wikipedia - Recrystallization (chemistry) -- Separation and purification process of crystalline solids
Wikipedia - Recursion -- Process of repeating items in a self-similar way
Wikipedia - Recycling -- Process using materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials
Wikipedia - Redaction -- Text editing process involving the combining and altering of source texts into a single document
Wikipedia - Reduced instruction set computer -- Processor executing one instruction in minimal clock cycles
Wikipedia - Refining (metallurgy) -- Process of purifying metals
Wikipedia - Reflective practice -- Ability to reflect on one's actions so as to engage in a process of continuous learning
Wikipedia - Regeneration (biology) -- Biological process of renewal, restoration, and tissue growth
Wikipedia - Rehabilitation (penology) -- Process to make a person again a functional part of society
Wikipedia - Reinforcement (speciation) -- Process of increasing reproductive isolation
Wikipedia - Reionization -- Process that caused matter to reionize early in the history of the Universe
Wikipedia - Rejuvenation -- Medical discipline focused on the practical reversal of the aging process
Wikipedia - Relativistic heat conduction -- The modelling of heat conduction and similar diffusion processes in a way compatible with special relativity.
Wikipedia - Release management -- Process of software building
Wikipedia - Rendering (computer graphics) -- Process of generating an image from a model
Wikipedia - Reorder tone -- an audible signal to the caller indicating that the call cannot be processed through the network
Wikipedia - Reproduction -- Biological process by which new organisms are generated from one or more parent organisms
Wikipedia - Researcher degrees of freedom -- Concept of flexibility in process of conducting a research study
Wikipedia - Retort -- Any of various heated vessels used in chemistry or industry with a common theme of aiding distillation, cooking, or other processing
Wikipedia - Retraining -- The process of learning a new or upgrading an old skill set or trade
Wikipedia - Reverse engineering -- Process of extracting design information from anything man-made
Wikipedia - Reverse osmosis -- Water purification process
Wikipedia - Reversible process (thermodynamics)
Wikipedia - Ribosome biogenesis -- Cellular process
Wikipedia - Ricoh 5A22 -- Microprocessor made by Ricoh for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Wikipedia - Rigel (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - RIPAC (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Rise Technology -- Microprocessor manufacturer
Wikipedia - Risk control -- Process in which identified risks are reduced or mitigated
Wikipedia - RNA-directed DNA methylation -- RNA-based gene silencing proces
Wikipedia - RNA interference -- Biological process of gene regulation
Wikipedia - Robot calibration -- Process used to improve the accuracy of robots
Wikipedia - Robotic Process Automation
Wikipedia - Robotic process automation -- Form of business process automation technology
Wikipedia - Rocket Lake -- Intel processor microarchitecture
Wikipedia - Rock (processor)
Wikipedia - Rolling (metalworking) -- Metal forming process
Wikipedia - Rollup -- Investment process where small companies are acquired and merged
Wikipedia - Roman ruins of Creiro -- Roman Empire fish-processing factory near Setubal, Portugal
Wikipedia - Roman ruins of Troia -- Roman Empire fish-processing factory near Setubal, Portugal
Wikipedia - Rotogravure -- Printing process
Wikipedia - Routing in the PSTN -- Process used to route telephone calls across the public switched telephone network
Wikipedia - Rp-process -- Process of nucleosynthesis
Wikipedia - RSVP -- Process by which people are asked to respond to an invitation
Wikipedia - Runahead -- Microprocessing technique
Wikipedia - Rural electrification -- Process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas
Wikipedia - Ryzen -- AMD brand for microprocessors
Wikipedia - Sabatier reaction -- Methanation process of carbon dioxide with hydrogen
Wikipedia - Salt fingering -- A mixing process that occurs when relatively warm, salty water overlies relatively colder, fresher water
Wikipedia - Sampling (signal processing)
Wikipedia - Sanctification -- Act or process of acquiring sanctity
Wikipedia - Sand casting -- Metal casting process using sand as the mold material
Wikipedia - Sandy Bridge-E -- Intel processor family
Wikipedia - Sandy Bridge -- Intel processor microarchitecture
Wikipedia - Sausage making -- Sausage production processes
Wikipedia - Scabbling -- A process to remove a thin layer of stone or concrete by rapid impacts with a small hard tool tip
Wikipedia - Scalar processor
Wikipedia - Scheduling (production processes)
Wikipedia - Schizocoely -- Development process of some animals
Wikipedia - Scholarly peer review -- Process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, or research to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field
Wikipedia - Scientific WorkPlace -- Software package for scientific word processing on Microsoft Windows and OS X
Wikipedia - Scoring (industrial process) -- The process of cutting a groove in a rigid material
Wikipedia - Scotford Upgrader -- Bitumen processing facility
Wikipedia - Scrivener (software) -- Word processor and outliner
Wikipedia - Scutching -- Process of separating and cleaning vegetable fiber before spinning
Wikipedia - Seabed gouging by ice -- A process that occurs when floating ice features drift into shallower areas and their bottom comes into contact with and drags along a softer seabed
Wikipedia - Seasoning (cookware) -- Process of treating the surface of cooking vessels with oil
Wikipedia - Seattle FilmWorks -- American film processing company
Wikipedia - Secondary treatment -- A treatment process for wastewater or sewage
Wikipedia - Second Process -- 2017 EP by LSD
Wikipedia - Secure cryptoprocessor -- Device used for encryption
Wikipedia - Sedimentation (water treatment) -- Water treatment process using gravity to remove suspended solids from water
Wikipedia - Sedimentology -- The study of natural sediments and of the processes by which they are formed
Wikipedia - Sega Virtua Processor
Wikipedia - Selective breeding -- Process by which humans use animal and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits
Wikipedia - Self-organization -- Process of creating order by local interactions
Wikipedia - Sellafield -- Nuclear reprocessing site in Cumbria, England
Wikipedia - Semantic loan -- Linguistic process
Wikipedia - Semiconductor device fabrication -- Manufacturing process used to create integrated circuits
Wikipedia - Semiconductor manufacturing process
Wikipedia - Semiotics -- The study of signs and sign processes
Wikipedia - Sensemaking -- Process by which people give meaning to their collective experiences
Wikipedia - Sensitization -- non-associative learning process
Wikipedia - Sensor network query processor
Wikipedia - Sensory nervous system -- Part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information
Wikipedia - Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation -- Organization in Colorado, United States
Wikipedia - Sensory processing disorder -- Neurodevelopmental condition involving heightened and/or muted responses to sensory input
Wikipedia - Sensory processing
Wikipedia - Sensory processor
Wikipedia - Sentence processing
Wikipedia - Separating eggs -- Process, generally used in cooking, in which the egg yolk is removed from the egg white
Wikipedia - Separation process
Wikipedia - Sequence alignment -- Process in bioinformatics that identifies equivalent sites within molecular sequences
Wikipedia - Sequencing batch reactor -- A type of activated sludge process for the treatment of wastewater
Wikipedia - Serialization -- Conversion process for computer data
Wikipedia - Serial memory processing
Wikipedia - Service of process -- Official process of notifying someone of legal proceedings
Wikipedia - Servico Federal de Processamento de Dados -- Brazilian IT services public company
Wikipedia - Settlement of Nandi -- The process by which the Nandi people settled in Nandi County, Kenya
Wikipedia - Settling -- The process by which particulates settle to the bottom of a liquid and form a sediment
Wikipedia - Sewage sludge treatment -- Processes used to manage and dispose of sewage sludge produced during sewage treatment
Wikipedia - Sewage treatment -- Process of removing contaminants from municipal wastewater
Wikipedia - Sexual differentiation in humans -- The process of development of sex differences in humans
Wikipedia - Sexual reproduction -- Reproduction process that creates a new organism by combining the genetic material of two organisms
Wikipedia - Shader -- Type of program in a graphical processing unit (GPU)
Wikipedia - Shadow biosphere -- A hypothetical microbial biosphere of Earth that would use radically different biochemical and molecular processes from that of currently known life
Wikipedia - SHAKTI - Microprocessor & Microcontroller -- Technology project funded by the Government of India
Wikipedia - Shale oil extraction -- Process for extracting oil from oil shale
Wikipedia - Shared memory (interprocess communication)
Wikipedia - Shearing (manufacturing) -- Manufacturing process used in metalworking and with paper and plastics
Wikipedia - Sherardising -- Process of galvanization of ferrous metal surfaces
Wikipedia - Shielded metal arc welding -- Manual arc welding process
Wikipedia - Shives -- Wooden refuse removed during processing flax, hemp, or jute, as opposed to the fibres
Wikipedia - Sholom Rubashkin -- Former executive officer of Agriprocessors
Wikipedia - Shortest remaining processing time
Wikipedia - Short-term memory -- Process that deals with the storage, retrieval and modification of information received a short time ago
Wikipedia - Shot logging -- Process of capturing metadata in a film or video shoot
Wikipedia - Showscan -- An improved film process, invented in the 1980s but not widely adopted.
Wikipedia - Signal (IPC) -- Form of inter-process communication in computer systems
Wikipedia - Signal Processing
Wikipedia - Signal processing -- Academic subfield of electrical engineering
Wikipedia - Sign process
Wikipedia - Silanization of silicon and mica -- Process
Wikipedia - Silverthorne (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Single-cell analysis -- Testbg biochemical processes and reactions in an individual cell
Wikipedia - Sintering -- Process of forming and bonding material by heat or pressure
Wikipedia - Siping (rubber) -- Process to improve rubber's traction
Wikipedia - Sitara ARM Processor
Wikipedia - Sleep -- Any process in which an organism enters and maintains a periodic, readily reversible state of reduced awareness and metabolic activity
Wikipedia - Smallworld -- Main component of geospatial processing programs suite
Wikipedia - SmartFresh -- Gas inhibiting the ethylene ripening process for prolonging fruits conservation
Wikipedia - Smithfield Foods -- Chinese-owned American meat processing company
Wikipedia - Smoking cessation -- Process of discontinuing tobacco smoking
Wikipedia - Snap freezing -- Process of rapid cooling of a substance for the purpose of preservation
Wikipedia - SNOMED CT -- Systematically organized computer processable collection of medical terms providing codes, terms, synonyms and definitions used in clinical documentation and reporting
Wikipedia - Social development theory -- Development is a process of social change
Wikipedia - Social information processing (theory)
Wikipedia - Social information processing
Wikipedia - Socialization -- Lifelong process of inheriting and disseminating norms, customs and ideologies
Wikipedia - Social media analytics -- Process of gathering and analyzing data from social media networks
Wikipedia - Social peer-to-peer processes
Wikipedia - Social profiling -- Process of constructing a user's profile using his or her social data
Wikipedia - Socioeconomics -- Social science that studies how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes
Wikipedia - Socket AM4 -- CPU socket for AMD processors with Zen and Excavator architectures
Wikipedia - Soft microprocessor
Wikipedia - Software Development Process
Wikipedia - Software development process -- Process by which software is developed
Wikipedia - Software effect processor
Wikipedia - Software engineering process
Wikipedia - Software Guard Extensions -- Security-related instruction code processor extension
Wikipedia - Software quality assurance -- Means of monitoring the software engineering process
Wikipedia - Soil chemistry -- Discipline embracing all chemical and mineralogical compounds and reactions occurring in soils and soil-forming processes
Wikipedia - Soil compaction -- Process in geotechnical engineering to increase soil density
Wikipedia - Solar dynamo -- Physical process that generates a star's magnetic field
Wikipedia - Soldering -- Process of joining metal pieces with heated filler metal
Wikipedia - Solera -- Process for aging liquids such as wine, beer, vinegar, and brandy
Wikipedia - Solid ground curing -- 3D printing process
Wikipedia - Solifluction -- Freeze-thaw mass wasting slope processes
Wikipedia - Solubility pump -- A physico-chemical process that transports dissolved inorganic carbon from the ocean's surface to its interior
Wikipedia - Somatic marker hypothesis -- Hypothesis that emotional processes guide or bias decision-making
Wikipedia - Sony Handheld Engine -- PDA processor
Wikipedia - Sony Toshiba IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Processor
Wikipedia - Soroti Fruit Processing Factory -- Agricultural processing company in Uganda
Wikipedia - SOS response -- Biological process
Wikipedia - Sossaman (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Sound change -- Process of language change affecting pronunciation or sound system structure
Wikipedia - Sound (nautical) -- The process of determining depth of water beneath a ship or in a tank
Wikipedia - Sound-on-film -- Class of sound film processes
Wikipedia - Sound processing
Wikipedia - Source criticism -- Process of evaluating an information source
Wikipedia - Space Shuttle design process -- Development program of the NASA Space Shuttle
Wikipedia - SPARC processor architecture
Wikipedia - Spark NLP -- Text processing programming library
Wikipedia - Spawn (biology) -- Process of aquatic animals releasing sperm and eggs into water
Wikipedia - Speciation -- Evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species
Wikipedia - SPECint -- Computer benchmark specification for CPU integer processing power
Wikipedia - Spectre (security vulnerability) -- processor security vulnerability
Wikipedia - Speculative Store Bypass -- processor security vulnerability
Wikipedia - Speech processing
Wikipedia - Speedup -- Process for increasing the performance between two systems solving the same problem
Wikipedia - Spike-timing-dependent plasticity -- Biological process that adjusts the strength of connections between neurons in the brain
Wikipedia - Spot welding -- A process in which contacting metal surfaces are joined by heat from resistance to electric current
Wikipedia - Spring procession of Ljelje/Kraljice -- Yearly spring ritual performed in the village of Gorjani located in the Slavonia region of Croatia
Wikipedia - Stabilization (medicine) -- In medicine, process to prevent shock in sick or injured people
Wikipedia - Stamp program -- entire process of postage stamp issuance and distribution by the organization
Wikipedia - Star formation -- Process by which dense regions of molecular clouds in interstellar space collapse to form stars
Wikipedia - Stationary process
Wikipedia - Statistical process control
Wikipedia - Statistical signal processing
Wikipedia - Status register -- Register containing flags giving additional information concerning a result in a processor
Wikipedia - Stealey (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Steelmaking -- Process for producing steel from iron ore and scrap
Wikipedia - Steerable filter -- Convolution kernel used in image processing
Wikipedia - Stellar nucleosynthesis -- Process by which the natural abundances of the chemical elements within stars change due to nuclear fusion reactions
Wikipedia - Stellarton (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Sterilization (microbiology) -- Process that eliminates or kills all biological agents on an object or in a volume
Wikipedia - Stewardship -- Planning and management of resources and processes
Wikipedia - Stochastic processes
Wikipedia - Stochastic process -- A collection of random variables
Wikipedia - Stochastic -- Randomly determined process
Wikipedia - Strategic human resource planning -- Process that identifies current and future human resources needs
Wikipedia - Stream processing
Wikipedia - Striation (geology) -- A groove, created by a geological process, on the surface of a rock or a mineral
Wikipedia - Strike-slip tectonics -- Structure and processes associated with zones of lateral displacement in the Earth's crust
Wikipedia - StrongARM -- Family of computer microprocessors
Wikipedia - Student Information Processing Board
Wikipedia - Sturgeon Refinery -- Bitumen processing facility
Wikipedia - Subduction -- A geological process at convergent tectonic plate boundaries where one plate moves under the other
Wikipedia - Substantive due process -- Legal principle
Wikipedia - Substitution model -- Description of the process by which states in sequences change into each other and back
Wikipedia - Sugarcane mill -- Factory that processes sugar cane to produce raw or white sugar
Wikipedia - Suggestion -- Psychological process by which one person guides the thoughts, feelings, or behavior of another person
Wikipedia - Sulfoglycolysis -- Catabolic process in wide variety of organisms
Wikipedia - Sum-frequency generation -- Nonlinear optical process
Wikipedia - Sunway (processor)
Wikipedia - Superheterodyne receiver -- Common type of radio receiver that shifts the received signal to an easily-processed intermediate frequency
Wikipedia - Superscalar processor -- CPU that implements instruction-level parallelism within a single processor
Wikipedia - Superslow process -- Volgograd State University (Russia)
Wikipedia - Sustainability -- Process of maintaining change in a balanced fashion
Wikipedia - Swallowing -- Process used to transport food and saliva from the mouth to the stomach
Wikipedia - Swarf -- Filing debris or waste resulting from manufacturing processes
Wikipedia - Sycamore processor -- Supercomputer from Google
Wikipedia - Symbolic processing
Wikipedia - Symbol -- Something that represents an idea, a process, or a physical entity
Wikipedia - Symmetric multiprocessing
Wikipedia - Symmetric multiprocessor system
Wikipedia - Sympatric speciation -- A process through which new species evolve from a single ancestral species while inhabiting the same geographic region
Wikipedia - Synaptic pruning -- Process of synapse elimination that occurs between early childhood and the onset of puberty
Wikipedia - Synchronization (computer science) -- Concept in computer science, referring to processes, or data
Wikipedia - Synchronous Backplane Interconnect -- Internal processor-memory bus used by early VAX computers manufactured by the Digital Equipment Corporation
Wikipedia - Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine -- Systematic, computer-processable collection of medical terms, in human and veterinary medicine
Wikipedia - Systemic bias -- Inherent tendency of a process to support particular outcomes
Wikipedia - System Idle Process
Wikipedia - Tamper-evident technology -- A device or process that makes unauthorized access to the protected object easily detected
Wikipedia - Tanner (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Tapio SaramM-CM-$ki -- Finnish pioneer in digital signal processing
Wikipedia - Targeting (warfare) -- Process of selecting objects or installations to be attacked, taken, or destroyed in warfare
Wikipedia - Task Force on Process Mining
Wikipedia - Tax efficiency -- Taxed at a lower rate than an alternative financial process that achieves the same end
Wikipedia - Tazkiah -- Process of transforming the nafs (carnal self or desires) from its deplorable state of self-centrality through various spiritual stages towards the level of purity and submission to the Will of Allah
Wikipedia - Team Software Process
Wikipedia - Team software process
Wikipedia - Technical illustration -- Process of visually communicating technical concepts or subjects
Wikipedia - Technicolor -- Color motion picture process
Wikipedia - Technological change -- Process of invention, innovation and diffusion of technology or processes
Wikipedia - Tectonics -- The processes that control the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time
Wikipedia - Telecine -- Process for broadcasting content stored on film stock
Wikipedia - Telecommunications engineering -- Engineering science that deals with the recording, transmission, processing and storage of messages
Wikipedia - Telegraph process -- Memoryless continuous-time stochastic process that shows two distinct values
Wikipedia - Teleonomy -- Apparent purposefulness brought about by natural processes
Wikipedia - Television standards conversion -- Process of changing one type of television system to another
Wikipedia - Tempering (metallurgy) -- Process of heat treating used to increase toughness of iron-based alloys
Wikipedia - Template processor -- Software designed to combine templates with a data model to produce result documents
Wikipedia - Template talk:DEC microprocessors
Wikipedia - Template talk:Digital signal processing
Wikipedia - Template talk:Graphics Processing Unit
Wikipedia - Template talk:Intel processors
Wikipedia - Template talk:Mental processes
Wikipedia - Template talk:Natural language processing
Wikipedia - Template talk:Processor technologies
Wikipedia - Template talk:Semiconductor manufacturing processes
Wikipedia - Template talk:Software development process
Wikipedia - Tensor Processing Unit
Wikipedia - Tensor processing unit
Wikipedia - TeraScale (microarchitecture) -- Codename for a family of graphics processing unit microarchitectures
Wikipedia - Terraforming -- Hypothetical planetary engineering process
Wikipedia - Territorial evolution of France -- Process by which the territorial extent of metropolitan France came to be
Wikipedia - Test Environment Management -- Function in the software delivery process
Wikipedia - TextEdit -- Open-source word processor and text editor
Wikipedia - Textile -- Material produced by twining, weaving, felting, knotting, or otherwise processing natural or synthetic fibers
Wikipedia - Text mining -- Process of analysing text to extract information from it
Wikipedia - Text processing -- Creating or manipulating electronic text
Wikipedia - The Entropy Law and the Economic Process
Wikipedia - The First XLEnt Word Processor -- 1986 word processor for the Atari 8-bit family
Wikipedia - The Laughing Cow -- Brand of processed cheese products made by Fromageries Bel since 1865
Wikipedia - The Procession (film) -- 2019 Canadian short film
Wikipedia - The Procession of the Magi (Strozzi) -- painting by Zanobi Strozzi
Wikipedia - The Procession to Calvary (Bruegel) -- 1564 painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Wikipedia - The Process (novel)
Wikipedia - The Process of Education
Wikipedia - Thermal oxidation -- process creating a thin layer of (usually) silicon dioxide
Wikipedia - Thermal spraying -- Coating process for applying heated materials to a surface
Wikipedia - Thermodynamic process -- Energetic development of a thermodynamic system proceeding from an initial state to a final state
Wikipedia - The Three-Process View
Wikipedia - Thinking Processes (Theory of Constraints)
Wikipedia - Thought process
Wikipedia - Thrashing (computer science) -- Computer constantly exchanging data between memory and storage leaving little capacity for productive processing
Wikipedia - Threshing -- Process of loosening the edible part of cereal grain from the scaly, inedible chaff that surrounds it
Wikipedia - Thresholding (image processing) -- Image segmentation algorithm
Wikipedia - Throttling process (computing)
Wikipedia - Thrust tectonics -- Study of the structures formed by, and the tectonic processes associated with, the shortening and thickening of the crust
Wikipedia - Tigerton (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Tigrayan peace process
Wikipedia - Tile processor
Wikipedia - Tillamook (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Timber recycling -- Recycling process
Wikipedia - Timeline of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and random processes
Wikipedia - Time management -- the process of planning and exercising conscious control of time spent on specific activities
Wikipedia - Time reversibility -- Type of physical or mathematical process
Wikipedia - Tire manufacturing -- Process of tire fabrication
Wikipedia - TLBleed -- cryptographic side-channel attack on processors using simultaneous multithreading
Wikipedia - Tobacco -- Agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in genus nicotiana
Wikipedia - Tone mapping -- Image processing technique
Wikipedia - Tonga (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Tonotopy -- Arrangement of sound frequency processing in the brain
Wikipedia - Tooth whitening -- Process to lighten the colour of teeth
Wikipedia - Toponym resolution -- Relationship process between a toponym and an unambiguous spatial footprint of the same place
Wikipedia - Tornadogenesis -- Process by which a tornado forms
Wikipedia - Tow (fibre) -- Coarse, broken fibers, removed during processing of bast fibers, used as padding, ropemaking, or to make short-staple yarns
Wikipedia - Toxication -- Biological process of increasing toxicity
Wikipedia - Traction (engineering) -- Physical process in which a tangential force is transmitted across an interface between two bodies through dry friction or an intervening fluid film resulting in motion, stoppage or the transmission of power
Wikipedia - Traffic analysis -- Process of intercepting and examining messages
Wikipedia - Tranquilandia -- Columbian cocaine processing laboratory
Wikipedia - Transaction Processing Facility
Wikipedia - Transaction Processing Management System -- online transaction processing superstructure software
Wikipedia - Transaction Processing Performance Council
Wikipedia - Transaction processing systems
Wikipedia - Transaction processing system
Wikipedia - Transaction processing
Wikipedia - Transcreation -- Process of creatively adapting a message from one language to another
Wikipedia - Transcription (biology) -- Process of copying a segment of DNA into RNA
Wikipedia - Transfection -- Process of introducing nucleic acids into eukaryotic cells
Wikipedia - Transformer (machine learning model) -- Machine learning algorithm used for natural language processing
Wikipedia - Translation (biology) -- Cellular process of protein synthesis
Wikipedia - Translation process
Wikipedia - Transpiration cooling -- thermodynamic process
Wikipedia - Treaty of Waitangi claims and settlements -- Legal process by which Maori seek redress for breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi
Wikipedia - Triage -- The process of determining the priority of patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition
Wikipedia - Tri-Ergon -- Process to unite film and sound
Wikipedia - Troubleshooting -- Form of problem solving, often applied to repair failed products or processes
Wikipedia - Trub (brewing) -- Sediment in beer during the brewing process
Wikipedia - Tualatin (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Tunnel Creek (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Two-streams hypothesis -- Model of the neural processing of vision and hearing
Wikipedia - Typographical error -- Mistake made in the typing process (such as a spelling mistake) of printed material
Wikipedia - Ultra-high-temperature processing -- food sterilization process
Wikipedia - Ultra-low-voltage processor
Wikipedia - Underwater diver training -- Processes by which people develop the skills and knowledge to dive safely underwater
Wikipedia - Unified Process -- Object oriented software development process framework
Wikipedia - Uniformitarianism -- Assumption that the natural laws and processes of the universe are constant through time and space
Wikipedia - Uniprocessor
Wikipedia - Unix domain socket -- Socket for exchanging data between processes executing on the same OS; similar to an Internet socket, but all communication occurs within the same OS
Wikipedia - Upgrade -- Process of replacing a product with a newer version of the same product
Wikipedia - Urban agriculture -- The practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in or around urban areas
Wikipedia - Urbanization -- Process of population movement to cities
Wikipedia - Urca process -- Phenomenon in astroparticle physics
Wikipedia - URI normalization -- Process by which URIs are standardized
Wikipedia - User research -- The process of understanding the impact of design on an audience
Wikipedia - Utah-Idaho Sugar Company -- Sugar and beet processor owned by the LDS Church
Wikipedia - UV mapping -- The process of projecting a 2D image to a 3D model's surface for texture mapping
Wikipedia - Vacuum cementing -- Natural process of contact bonding between objects in a hard vacuum
Wikipedia - Valuation using multiples -- Process in Economics
Wikipedia - V(D)J recombination -- The process in which immune receptor V, D, and J, or V and J gene segments, depending on the specific receptor, are recombined within a single locus utilizing the conserved heptamer and nonomer recombination signal sequences (RSS).
Wikipedia - Vectored interrupt -- Processing technique in computer science
Wikipedia - Vector processing
Wikipedia - Vector processor
Wikipedia - Vegetable oil recycling -- The process of turning used vegetable oil into fuel
Wikipedia - Velvet Revolution -- Democratization process in Czechoslovakia in 1989
Wikipedia - Venipuncture -- Process of obtaining intravenous access
Wikipedia - Venus Engine -- Image processing engine for digital cameras
Wikipedia - Verification (audit) -- Auditing process
Wikipedia - Vermicompost -- Product of the composting process using various species of worms
Wikipedia - Very Large Scale Integration -- Process of creating an integrated circuit by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip
Wikipedia - Vetting -- Process of performing a background check on someone
Wikipedia - VIA C3 -- Family of x86 central processing units for personal computers
Wikipedia - Victimisation -- Process of being or subjected to a victim
Wikipedia - Video game development -- Process of developing a video game
Wikipedia - Video post-processing
Wikipedia - Video processing unit
Wikipedia - Video processing
Wikipedia - Video production -- Process of producing video content
Wikipedia - Vision processing unit
Wikipedia - Visual cortex -- Region of the brain that processes visual information
Wikipedia - Visual processing
Wikipedia - Vital Tomosi Dairy Limited -- Dairy processing company in Uganda
Wikipedia - V-mail -- Hybrid mail process of the US in WWII
Wikipedia - Voice-tracking -- Process of prerecording radio announcer segments in a disc jockey shift
Wikipedia - Volition (psychology) -- Cognitive process by which an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action
Wikipedia - Vomocytosis -- Cellular process
Wikipedia - Vulnerabilities Equities Process
Wikipedia - Wackersdorf reprocessing plant -- Unfinished nuclear reprocessing plant in Germany
Wikipedia - Wait (command) -- Command which pauses until execution of a background process has ended
Wikipedia - Wallerian degeneration -- Biological process of axonal degeneration
Wikipedia - Washington School Information Processing Cooperative -- Public non-profit cooperative
Wikipedia - Waste compaction -- Process of reducing waste size
Wikipedia - Waste management in Japan -- Waste management history and processes
Wikipedia - Water heating -- Thermodynamic process that uses energy sources to heat water
Wikipedia - Water metering -- Process of measuring water use
Wikipedia - Waterproofing -- Process of making an object or structure waterproof or water-resistant
Wikipedia - Water purification -- Process of removing undesirable chemicals, biological contaminants, suspended solids from water
Wikipedia - Water treatment -- Process that improves the quality of water
Wikipedia - Wayne Farms -- American poultry producer and processor
Wikipedia - WDC 65C02 -- CMOS microprocessor in the 6502 family
Wikipedia - Weaning -- The process of abandoning maternal nourishment in mammals
Wikipedia - Web archiving -- Process of data preservation done by collecting and saving web content
Wikipedia - Web mapping -- Process of using the maps delivered by geographic information systems (GIS) in World Wide Web
Wikipedia - Welding -- Fabrication or sculptural process for joining materials
Wikipedia - Whiskey Lake (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Wiener process
Wikipedia - Wigner quasiprobability distribution -- The Wigner distribution function in physics as opposed to in signal processing
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:Arbitration/Active sanctions -- Active sanctions imposed through the arbitration process
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:Article creation -- Process of creating a new article
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:Articles for creation -- Wikipedia process to assist editors who cannot directly create new articles in mainspace
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Header -- Wikipedia process page for approving bots
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:Requests for comment -- Information page on the process of requests for comment on Wikipedia
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:Requests for deletion -- Obsolete page for requesting deletion (which is replaced by new process)
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:Tutorial (historical)/Editing -- Tutorial on the editing process on Wikipedia
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting -- Wikimedia process collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange -- Wikimedia editing process collaboration
Wikipedia - Wikipedia:WikiProject User warnings -- Wikimedia process collaboration
Wikipedia - Winding machine -- A machine for winding the yarn in various steps in textile manufacturing process such as in preparation to weaving where the yarn is wound onto a bobbin and then used in a shuttle.
Wikipedia - Windows NT startup process
Wikipedia - Windows startup process
Wikipedia - Windows Vista startup process
Wikipedia - Wind turbine design -- Process of defining the form of wind turbine systems
Wikipedia - Wind-wave dissipation -- The process by which waves generated by a weather system lose their mechanical energy
Wikipedia - Wine and food pairing -- Process of pairing food dishes with wine to enhance the dining experience
Wikipedia - Wintel -- Partnership of Microsoft Windows and Intel producing personal computers using Intel x86-compatible processors running Microsoft Windows
Wikipedia - Withdrawal from NATO -- Legal process of Article 13 of the North Atlantic Treaty
Wikipedia - Withdrawal from the Council of Europe -- Legal process of Article 7 of the Statute of the Council of Europe
Wikipedia - Withdrawal from the European Union -- Legal process of Article 50 of the Treaty of European Union
Wikipedia - Witness impeachment -- Process of calling into question the credibility of an individual testifying in a trial
Wikipedia - Wohlwill process
Wikipedia - Wolfdale-DP (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Wolfdale (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Wolfgang Peukert -- German process engineer
Wikipedia - Woman Suffrage Procession -- 1913 suffragist parade in Washington, D.C., United States
Wikipedia - Women's Coronation Procession
Wikipedia - Woodblock printing on textiles -- Process of printing patterns on textiles
Wikipedia - Woodcrest (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Wood preservation -- Treatment or process aimed at extending the service life of wood structures
Wikipedia - Wood processing
Wikipedia - Woodworking -- Process of making objects from wood
Wikipedia - WordMARC -- Word processing software
Wikipedia - WordPad -- Basic word processor included with Microsoft Windows
Wikipedia - WordPerfect -- Word processing application
Wikipedia - Word processing
Wikipedia - Word processor program -- Computer program that provides word processing functions
Wikipedia - Word processors
Wikipedia - Word processor -- Device or computer program used for writing and editing documents
Wikipedia - WordStar -- Word processor application
Wikipedia - Working directory -- the currently used hierarchical file system directory associated with a running process in an operating system
Wikipedia - Work in process
Wikipedia - Worldbuilding -- The process of constructing an imaginary world
Wikipedia - World cafM-CM-) (conversation) -- Conversational process
Wikipedia - Worldpay, Inc. -- US payment processing company
Wikipedia - Worm bagging -- Process where nematode eggs hatch within the parent and the larvae proceed to consume and emerge from the parent
Wikipedia - X86 instruction listings -- List of x86 microprocessor instructions
Wikipedia - Xenon (processor)
Wikipedia - Yakutat Block -- Terrane in the process of accreting to the North American continent along the south central coast of Alaska
Wikipedia - Yonah (microprocessor)
Wikipedia - Yukon Land Claims -- process of negotiating and settling Indigenous land claim agreements in Yukon, Canada
Wikipedia - Zen 2 -- 2019 AMD 7-nanometre processor microarchitecture
Wikipedia - Zen 3 -- 2020 AMD 7-nanometre processor microarchitecture
Wikipedia - Zen (first generation microarchitecture) -- 2017 AMD 14-nanometre processor microarchitecture
Wikipedia - Zen+ -- 2018 AMD 12-nanometre processor microarchitecture
Wikipedia - Zilog Z80 -- 8-bit microprocessor
Wikipedia - Zombie process -- Process that is not running, but is in the process table
Wikipedia - Zone melting -- Purification process by moving a molten zone along a metal bar
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https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Christianization#Process_of_Christianization
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Consecrated_life_(Catholic_Church)#Process_of_foundation_and_approbation_of_Religious_Institutes
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Core_process_psychotherapy
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https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Historical_process_of_beatification_and_canonization
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Idolatry#Idolatry_as_a_negative_stereotyping_process
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Mysticism#Process
https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Procession
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https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Talk:Core_process_psychotherapy
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Kheper - process -- 25
Kheper - Theory_of_Process -- 28
Kheper - ArthurMYoung -- 33
Kheper - Theory_of_Process index -- 27
Kheper - Reflexive -- 39
auromere - modalities-of-the-initiation-process-diksha
Integral World - The Processes of Human Development, Hugh & Amalia Kaye Martin
Integral World - The Human Odyssey, Our Journey of Life from Infancy to Eternity, #4 Participants in the Growth Process, Hugh & Kaye Martin
Integral World - The Human Odyssey, Our Journey of Life from Infancy to Eternity, #5A: The General Processes of Growth, Hugh & Kaye Martin
Integral World - The Human Odyssey, Our Journey of Life from Infancy to Eternity, #5B: The Specific Processes of Growth, Hugh & Kaye Martin
Integral World - Tadpoles in Trouble, Ken Wilber on the Process of Regeneration, Frank Visser
The 3-2-1 Shadow Process: Face It, Talk to It, Be It
selforum - universe evolutionary process
selforum - process of creation involution and
selforum - this is process proclaimed by savitri
selforum - mothers power of occult process
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selforum - process of last decisive physical
selforum - leibniz understood process and is
dedroidify.blogspot - unconscious-mind-does-not-process
dedroidify.blogspot - process-of-healing-mindfulness-style
https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2011/05/evolution-is-process-of-transmutation.html
wiki.auroville - Auroville_Appeal_Process
Psychology Wiki - Buyer_decision_processes
Psychology Wiki - Category:Cognitive_processes
Psychology Wiki - Category:Ecological_processes
Psychology Wiki - Category:Group_processes
Psychology Wiki - Category:Social_processes
Psychology Wiki - Cognitive_processes
Psychology Wiki - Group_process
Psychology Wiki - Mental_process
Psychology Wiki - Organizational_Behavior_and_Human_Decision_Processes
Psychology Wiki - Social_process
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - process-philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - process-theism
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fr/ProcessusDeProduction
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PostProcessingVideoEffects
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/VernianProcess
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https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mental_processing
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Katie and Orbie (1994 - 1994) - A young girl, Katie, discovers an alien, Orbie, in her backyard and her family adopts him. They have adventures and learn valuable life lessons in the process. Leslie Neilson provided the narration.
Psycho-Pass (2012 - 2013) - The series takes place in the near future, when it is possible to instantaneously measure and quantify a person's state of mind and personality. This information is recorded and processed, and the term "Psycho-Pass" in the anime's title refers to a standard used to measure an individual's being. The...
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team (2006 - Current) - The American reality television series follows the auditioning process and the making of the annual Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Squad
One Punch Man (2015 - 2019) - The seemingly ordinary and unimpressive Saitama has a rather unique hobby: being a hero. In order to pursue his childhood dream, he trained relentlessly for three yearsand lost all of his hair in the process. Now, Saitama is incredibly powerful, so much so that no enemy is able to defeat him in bat...
Back To The Future Part II(1989) - In the second installment of the Back To The Future Trilogy, Marty winds up with his girfriend Jennifer travelling to the future with Doc to right their kid's troubles. In the process, Biff, Marty's nemesis... ends up stealing the time machine without anybody knowing travelling back in time to a ver...
Alien(1979) - An ore processing barge called the Nostromo recieves an unknown alien message, and the onboard computer wakes the crew to investigate. The crew investigates, finding an abandoned alient spacecraft filled with strange eggs. One of the eggs hatches, attaching a parasite to a crewmember, who is taken...
Three O'Clock High(1987) - Preppy high school reporter Jerry Mitchell is asked to write a story on a tough new kid named Buddy Revell, a boy rumored to have a violent past. Jerry tries to call off the story, but in the process he infuriates Buddy, who challenges him to a parking lot brawl immediately after school that same da...
Sliver(1993) - Phillip Noyce directed Joe Eszterhas's adaptation of Ira Levin's novel about voyeurism, starring Sharon Stone as Carly Norris, a book editor on the rebound from an emotionless seven-year marriage. Carly decides that a change of location will help her in the healing process, so she moves into a sleek...
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Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III(1990) - The film begins with Leatherface (R.A. Mihailoff) bludgeoning a young woman, Gina, to death with a sledgehammer before beginning the process of cutting off her face in order to make it into a mask. Gina's sister, Sara (Toni Hudson) watches from a nearby window. Leatherface hears Sara outside, and af...
An Early Frost(1985) - One of the first movies to deal with AIDS, this made-for-TV drama is about a young man named Michael Pierson (Aidan Quinn) and the emotional process of dealing with his AIDS diagnosis.
Zaat(1975) - Dr. Kurt Leopold is a former Mad Nazi Scientist transforms himself into mutant walking catfish. He attempts to attack those who wronged him in past along with creating a new dominate race of creatures by using the same process o
Clean and Sober(1988) - Daryl Pointer (Michael Keaton) is already dealing with alcohol and cocaine issues, but now he has a dead woman in his bed and an accusation of thievery from his employers. He decides to hide out at a rehab facility, but the process helps him change his life.
Casual Sex?(1988) - In the early years of the AIDS crisis, two best friends with different sexual histories named Stacy (Lea Thompson) and Melissa (Victoria Jackson) try finding love at a singles resort. Nothing is easy, though, and the two will learn a lot about themselves in the process.
Race(1998) - Tom Musca directed this social satire on the United States electoral system. The comedy-drama explores how class and race divisions impact on the process when a Chicano housepainter in East Los Angeles decides to run for the city council. Pressured by his wife (Annette Murphy), Gustavo Alvarez (Paul...
After Hours(1985) - Aaah, New York City in the 80s. Sleaze, crime, depravity...It was wonderful, wasn't it? A young man named Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) is about to be plunged into the maelstrom of the city in 1985. A computer processor with a dull life, Hackett visits a coffee shop one night and meets a young woman...
Eddie And The Cruisers II:Eddie Lives(1989) - Eddie Wilson,believed dead,is leading a quiet life in Montreal,as a construction worker.Unable to fight his passion for music,he starts a new band.In the process,he is forced to confront the demons of his past.Starring Michael Pare,and Marina Orsini.
Embryo(1976) - A doctor(Rock Hudson)develops a process to grow an embryo in an artificial uterus.He uses the process to grow a woman(Barbara Carrera)not knowing the deadly consequences of his creation.
Astro Boy(2009) - In futuristic Metro City, a brilliant scientist named Tenma builds Astro Boy (Freddie Highmore), a robotic child with superstrength, X-ray vision and the ability to fly. Astro Boy sets out to explore the world and find acceptance, learning what being human is all about in the process. Finding that h...
Cops And Robbers(1973) - Two disillusioned New York City policemen plan a $10 million robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to run into one debacle after another in the process.
Stagecoach(1939) - A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
The Black Godfather(1974) - J.J., a rising star in the black crime scene, is in the process of consolidating his power over the neighborhood. One of the only remaining obstacles is the white heroin cartel that is understandably reluctant to abandon such a lucrative market. Tensions rise between the two rivals, and people on bo...
The Beast Within(1982) - In the beginning of the movie you see a woman getting raped by a man-creature of some sort. The movie takes place years later when the child that was a result of that rape is on the rampage looking for a girl to rape to start the process all over again.
The Creature Walks Among Us(1956) - In this third Gill-Man feature, the Creature is captured and turned into an air-breather by a rich mad scientist. This makes the Creature very unhappy, and he escapes, killing people and setting fires in the process.
King Corn(2007) - King Corn is a 2007 documentary film released in October 2007 following college friends Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis (directed by Aaron Woolf) as they move from Boston to Greene, Iowa to grow and farm an acre of corn. In the process, Cheney and Ellis examine the role that the increasing production of...
Breakin' All The Rules(2004) - Inspired by his fiance (who dumped him), a man publishes a break-up handbook for men, becoming a bestselling author in the process.
The Business of Being Born(2008) - Inspired by their own unique birthing experiences, executive producer Ricki Lake and director Abby Epstein team up for this documentary that provides a nation of mothers-to-be with insight into the process of childbirth and the various options available when preparing for the miraculous event of lif...
The Tie That Binds(1995) - John Netherwood and his wife Leann are fugitives who are both wanted for murder. They have a young daughter named Janie. John and Leann are in the process of robbing a house when the two residents of the house show up. John kills the two residents and heads back to the car with Leann - only to disco...
Late Bloomers(1996) - High School basketball coach, Dinah Groshardt, falls for the school secretary, Carly Lumpkin, and upsets the entire school in the process.
Meet Joe Black(1998) - A media mogul acts as a guide to Death, who takes the form of a young man to learn about life on Earth and in the process, fall in love with his guide's daughter.
Pineapple Express(2008) - A process server and his marijuana dealer wind up on the run from hitmen and a corrupt police officer after he witnesses his dealer's boss murder a competitor while trying to serve papers on him.
Miracles(1986) - Roger and Jean learn the hard way that when you are meant to be together, nothing can keep you apart. The newly divorced couple keep running into one another (literally), and in the process, rediscover their love for one another.
Fantastic Voyage(1966) - Set during the Cold War, the US and Soviet Union have discovered the technique of shrinking however the process only lasts for an hour. Scientist Dr. Jan Benes ends up in a coma after a attempted assassination when heading back to the US (working under the Soviet Union). Dr. Benes knows how to exten...
The Prince Of Tides(1991) - A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
The Robe(1953) - The Robe is a 1953 American Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman military tribune who commands the unit that is responsible for the Crucifixion of Jesus. The film was released by 20th Century Fox and was the first film released in the widescreen process CinemaScope. Like other early Ci...
It(2017) - It, retroactively known as It Chapter One, is a 2017 supernatural horror film based on Stephen King's 1986 novel of the same name. The film tells the story of seven children in Derry, Maine, who are terrorized by the eponymous being, only to face their own personal demons in the process.
Talking Walls(1987) - A sociology student films sexual encounters in a motel for his thesis, and falls in love with a French girl in the process.
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!(2017) - A sequel to the 2004 film Super Size Me, it explores the ways in which the fast food industry has rebranded itself as healthier since his original film through the process of Spurlock working to open his own fast-food restaurant, thus exposing some of the ways in which rebranding is more perception...
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All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) ::: 6.8/10 -- G | 1h 24min | Animation, Comedy, Drama | 17 November 1989 (USA) -- A canine angel, Charlie, sneaks back to earth from heaven but ends up befriending an orphan girl who can speak to animals. In the process, Charlie learns that friendship is the most heavenly gift of all. Directors: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman (co-director) | 1 more credit Writers: Don Bluth (story by), Ken Cromar (story by) | 9 more credits Stars:
Alps (2011) ::: 6.4/10 -- Alpeis (original title) -- Alps Poster -- A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process. Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Writers:
American Crime ::: TV-14 | 43min | Crime, Drama | TV Series (20152017) -- Seasonal anthology series. Season 1: The lives of the participants in a trial with significant racial motives are forever changed during the legal process. Creator:
Band Baaja Baaraat (2010) ::: 7.2/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 19min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 10 December 2010 -- Band Baaja Baaraat Poster -- Shruti and Bittoo become partners in their very own "Wedding planning ka bijness" in Delhi and in the process discover friendship, love and one another. Director: Maneesh Sharma Writers:
Borgman (2013) ::: 6.7/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 53min | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 29 August 2013 -- Borgman Poster -- A vagrant enters the lives of an arrogant upper-class family, turning their lives into a psychological nightmare in the process. Director: Alex van Warmerdam Writer:
Girlboss ::: TV-MA | 26min | Comedy | TV Series (2017) -- Sophia, a misfit, discovers a passion for fashion, becoming an unlikely businesswoman in the process. As her business grows, however, she has to learn to cope with life as her own boss. This show is loosely based on the true story of Nasty Gal Founder, Sophia Amoruso. Creator:
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) ::: 6.9/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 20 November 1953 (USA) -- Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process. Director: Jean Negulesco Writers: Nunnally Johnson (screen play), Zoe Akins (plays) | 2 more credits
I Am Sam (2001) ::: 7.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 12min | Drama | 25 January 2002 (USA) -- A mentally handicapped man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family. Director: Jessie Nelson Writers:
Magnificent Obsession (1954) ::: 7.1/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 48min | Drama, Romance | 7 August 1954 (USA) -- A rich playboy whose recklessness inadvertently causes the death of a prominent doctor tries to make amends to his widow, and falls for her in the process. Director: Douglas Sirk Writers:
Meet Joe Black (1998) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 58min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 13 November 1998 (USA) -- Death, who takes the form of a young man, asks a media mogul to act as a guide to teach him about life on Earth, and in the process, he falls in love with his guide's daughter. Director: Martin Brest Writers: Ron Osborn (screenplay), Jeff Reno (screenplay) | 6 more credits Stars:
Midnight Cowboy (1969) ::: 7.8/10 -- R | 1h 53min | Drama | 25 May 1969 (USA) -- A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process. Director: John Schlesinger Writers: Waldo Salt (screenplay), James Leo Herlihy (based on the novel by)
Mulan (1998) ::: 7.6/10 -- G | 1h 28min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 19 June 1998 (USA) -- To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process. Directors: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook Writers:
Natural City (2003) ::: 5.7/10 -- Naechureol siti (original title) -- Natural City Poster In the year 2080, the world is connected by a massive computer network. Combiners have developed a process that allows them to merge the souls of human and machine/cyborg, wreaking havoc in... S Director: Byung-chun Min Writers: Jae-rim Han (screenplay adaptation), Byung-chun Min
Pineapple Express (2008) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 51min | Action, Comedy, Crime | 6 August 2008 (USA) -- A process server and his marijuana dealer wind up on the run from hitmen and a corrupt police officer after he witnesses his dealer's boss murder a competitor while trying to serve papers on him. Director: David Gordon Green Writers:
Restoration (1995) ::: 6.6/10 -- R | 1h 57min | Biography, Drama, History | 2 February 1996 (USA) -- The exiled royal physician to King Charles II devotes himself to helping Londoners suffering from the plague, and in the process falls in love with an equally poor woman. Director: Michael Hoffman Writers:
Roma (1972) ::: 7.4/10 -- R | 2h | Comedy, Drama | 15 October 1972 (USA) -- A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini's life. Director: Federico Fellini Writers: Federico Fellini (story), Bernardino Zapponi (story) | 2 more credits Stars:
Silkwood (1983) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 2h 11min | Biography, Drama, History | 27 January 1984 (USA) -- A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant. Director: Mike Nichols Writers:
Stagecoach (1939) ::: 7.8/10 -- Passed | 1h 36min | Adventure, Drama, Western | 3 March 1939 (USA) -- A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process. Director: John Ford Writers:
Swades (2004) ::: 8.2/10 -- Swades: We, the People (original title) -- Swades Poster -- A successful Indian scientist returns to an Indian village to take his nanny to America with him and in the process rediscovers his roots. Director: Ashutosh Gowariker Writers:
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 31min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 7 June 1970 (USA) -- Three distinguished English gentlemen accidentally resurrect Count Dracula, killing a disciple of his in process. The Count seeks to avenge his dead servant, by making the trio die in the hands of their own children. Director: Peter Sasdy Writers:
The Last Wave (1977) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 1h 46min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | January 1979 (USA) -- A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions. Director: Peter Weir Writers: Peter Weir (screenplay), Tony Morphett (screenplay) | 1 more credit Stars:
The Prince of Tides (1991) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 2h 12min | Drama, Romance | 25 December 1991 (USA) -- A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process. Director: Barbra Streisand Writers: Pat Conroy (novel), Pat Conroy (screenplay) | 1 more credit
The Razor's Edge (1946) ::: 7.4/10 -- Approved | 2h 25min | Drama, Romance | 25 December 1946 (USA) -- An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiance in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married. Director: Edmund Goulding Writers: Lamar Trotti (screen play), W. Somerset Maugham (from the novel by)
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) ::: 6.8/10 -- Unrated | 1h 30min | Horror, Sci-Fi | 5 September 1958 (West Germany) -- Having escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the effectiveness of the process and the secret of his identity soon begin to unravel. Director: Terence Fisher Writers:
The Spanish Prisoner (1997) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 50min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 15 May 1998 (USA) -- An employee of a corporation with a lucrative secret process is tempted to betray it. But there's more to it than that. Director: David Mamet Writer: David Mamet
The TV Set (2006) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 28min | Comedy, Drama | 28 April 2006 (USA) -- The story of a TV pilot as it goes through the Network TV process of casting, production and finally airing. Director: Jake Kasdan Writer: Jake Kasdan
The Vicious Kind (2009) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 32min | Comedy, Drama | 17 January 2009 (USA) -- A man tries to warn his brother away from the new girlfriend he brings home during Thanksgiving, but ends up becoming infatuated with her in the process. Director: Lee Toland Krieger Writer:
Unfinished Song (2012) ::: 7.0/10 -- Song for Marion (original title) -- Unfinished Song Poster -- Grumpy pensioner Arthur honors his recently deceased wife's passion for performing by joining the unconventional local choir to which she used to belong, a process that helps him build bridges with his estranged son, James. Director: Paul Andrew Williams
Who Killed Captain Alex? (2010) ::: 8.2/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 4min | Action, Comedy, Crime | 1 March 2015 (USA) -- Uganda's president gives Captain Alex the mission to defeat the Tiger Maffia, but Alex gets killed in the process. Upon hearing the tragic news, his brother investigates to avenge Alex. Director: Nabwana I.G.G. Writer: Nabwana I.G.G. Stars:
Young Frankenstein (1974) ::: 8.0/10 -- PG | 1h 46min | Comedy | 15 December 1974 (USA) -- An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body. Director: Mel Brooks Writers:
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3x3 Eyes -- -- Toei Animation -- 4 eps -- Manga -- Action Demons Fantasy Horror Romance -- 3x3 Eyes 3x3 Eyes -- 3X3 Eyes is the story of a young man named Yakumo Fuuji, who through a strange series of events becomes the immortal slave of the last of a race of 3 Eyed demons. The demon absorbs his soul to save his life, making him immortal in the process. Now, he begins a journey with the female demon in an attempt to find a way of becoming human. Of course, there are many complications along the way, not the least of which being that the demon is a female with a split personality, one achingly cute and the other being no-nonsense destructive power, and the romances that develop between. -- -- Licensor: -- Geneon Entertainment USA -- OVA - Jul 25, 1991 -- 23,239 6.76
Argento Soma -- -- Sunrise -- 25 eps -- Original -- Action Adventure Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi -- Argento Soma Argento Soma -- In the year 2059, the earth has been plagued by aliens for several years. In an effort to learn more about these aliens, Dr. Noguchi and his assistants Maki Agata and Takuto Kaneshiro try to revive the professor's experiment, a large Bio-Mechanical alien named Frank. During this process the alien comes to 'life' and the lab is subsequently destroyed leaving Takuto the only survivor and the alien disappearing into the wilderness. While Frank roams the wilderness he meets Hattie, an emotionally distressed young girl whose parents are killed in the first 'close encounter' war. Oddly enough she is able to communicate with Frank and soon after they are taken into custody by a secret agency known only as 'Funeral'. Meanwhile, Takuto wakes up in a hospital bed with his life in shambles, and his face disfigured. Motivated by vengeance and heart break, Takuto accepts an offer from the mysterious 'Mr. X' and receives a new identity as a ranking Funeral officer named Ryu Soma. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Sentai Filmworks -- 22,382 6.79
Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou 2nd Season -- -- Asread -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Harem Fantasy -- Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou 2nd Season Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou 2nd Season -- Second season of Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou. -- TV - Jan ??, 2022 -- 93,600 N/A -- -- Kyou kara Maou! -- -- Studio Deen -- 78 eps -- Light novel -- Adventure Comedy Demons Fantasy Shoujo -- Kyou kara Maou! Kyou kara Maou! -- Kyou kara Maou! revolves around Yuri Shibuya, your average Japanese teenager. One day, Yuri sees a classmate being harassed by bullies. Thanks to this intervention, his friend is able to escape, but unfortunately Yuri becomes the new target of the bullies in the process and gets his head shoved into a toilet. But instead of water, the toilet contains a swirling portal that sucks him into another world, largely resembling medieval Europe. There, he is told that he will become the next Demon King due to his black hair and black eyes, traits only possessed by the demon's royal lineage. -- -- Yuri's arrival is met with some skepticism by some of the demons, who view him as unworthy to be their king. However, after Yuri wins a duel by utilizing his magical powers, the demons slowly begin to acknowledge him as their monarch. Yuri must now learn what it takes be a true Demon King, as he tries to keep the peace between demons and humans in this strange new realm. -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- TV - Apr 3, 2004 -- 93,555 7.69
Black Jack -- -- Tezuka Productions -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Drama Mystery Psychological Thriller -- Black Jack Black Jack -- Kuroo Hazama, also known as "Black Jack," is a legend in the medical world. Famous for being one of the best, as well as not having a license, Hazama and his assistant Pinoko save countless lives that other doctors cannot... for a price; an exorbitant price, in fact, which causes many to view the genius as greedy and heartless. Despite these claims, however, none can deny his skill and the lengths that he will go to treat his patients. This dark medical drama tells the story of the ominous and mysterious world of underground medicine as Black Jack risks his life to cure some of the most bizarre diseases imaginable, even if it means breaking every law in the process. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Central Park Media -- OVA - Dec 21, 1993 -- 31,096 7.73
Bleach Movie 2: The DiamondDust Rebellion - Mou Hitotsu no Hyourinmaru -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Super Power Supernatural Shounen -- Bleach Movie 2: The DiamondDust Rebellion - Mou Hitotsu no Hyourinmaru Bleach Movie 2: The DiamondDust Rebellion - Mou Hitotsu no Hyourinmaru -- Assigned to protect a royal procession transporting a powerful artifact called the "Ouin," Squad 10 gathers in the human world as Captain Toushirou Hitsugaya and Lieutenant Rangiku Matsumoto observe the area cautiously. However, the caravan is suddenly struck by a group of assailants who wreak havoc on the procession, stealing the Ouin in the process. After a brief clash with one of the attackers, the distraught Hitsugaya pursues the escaping thieves, leaving behind Matsumoto and the disoriented squad. Following the incident, the Seireitei brands Hitsugaya a traitor for abandoning his post and puts Squad 10 on indefinite lockdown. -- -- In the human world, Ichigo Kurosaki is investigating a spiritual abnormality when he stumbles across the injured Captain, but is caught off guard when Hitsugaya suddenly flees. Soon learning of the situation, Ichigo, Rukia Kuchiki, Renji Abarai, and Matsumoto set off to prove Hitsugaya's innocence and uncover the truth behind the theft of the Ouin. Meanwhile, a ghost from Hitsugaya's past haunts his thoughts as he chases down the true culprit. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- Movie - Dec 22, 2007 -- 200,917 7.45
Bleach Movie 2: The DiamondDust Rebellion - Mou Hitotsu no Hyourinmaru -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Super Power Supernatural Shounen -- Bleach Movie 2: The DiamondDust Rebellion - Mou Hitotsu no Hyourinmaru Bleach Movie 2: The DiamondDust Rebellion - Mou Hitotsu no Hyourinmaru -- Assigned to protect a royal procession transporting a powerful artifact called the "Ouin," Squad 10 gathers in the human world as Captain Toushirou Hitsugaya and Lieutenant Rangiku Matsumoto observe the area cautiously. However, the caravan is suddenly struck by a group of assailants who wreak havoc on the procession, stealing the Ouin in the process. After a brief clash with one of the attackers, the distraught Hitsugaya pursues the escaping thieves, leaving behind Matsumoto and the disoriented squad. Following the incident, the Seireitei brands Hitsugaya a traitor for abandoning his post and puts Squad 10 on indefinite lockdown. -- -- In the human world, Ichigo Kurosaki is investigating a spiritual abnormality when he stumbles across the injured Captain, but is caught off guard when Hitsugaya suddenly flees. Soon learning of the situation, Ichigo, Rukia Kuchiki, Renji Abarai, and Matsumoto set off to prove Hitsugaya's innocence and uncover the truth behind the theft of the Ouin. Meanwhile, a ghost from Hitsugaya's past haunts his thoughts as he chases down the true culprit. -- -- Movie - Dec 22, 2007 -- 200,917 7.45
Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: Fuuin Sareta Card -- -- Madhouse -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Fantasy Magic Romance Shoujo -- Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: Fuuin Sareta Card Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: Fuuin Sareta Card -- For this year's Nadeshiko Festival, Sakura Kinomoto's elementary school class is presenting a play. She will portray a princess who struggles to respond to the love confession of the neighboring country's prince. Sakura empathizes with her character all too well, since she herself still owes an answer to the boy who confessed his love for her four months ago. -- -- When cousins Shaoran and Meiling Li return from Hong Kong to pay a surprise visit to their friends in Japan, Sakura receives further encouragement to finally declare her feelings. However, she is repeatedly distracted by a presence reminiscent of a Clow Card as well as unexplained disappearances around town. -- -- Eventually, Sakura learns of another of Clow Reed's creations—the "Nothing"—which was formerly sealed away beneath the magician's old house. It has power equal to all 52 cards Sakura possesses, and furthermore, it wants to take those cards away from her! Objects, space, and people disappear from Tomoeda with each card that is stolen. Sakura sets out to capture the Nothing so everything will return to normal, but what must she sacrifice in the process? -- -- Movie - Jul 15, 2000 -- 97,928 8.22
Chainsaw Maid -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Comedy Horror Supernatural Thriller -- Chainsaw Maid Chainsaw Maid -- A family and their maid are going about their daily lives when, unexpectedly, a woman bursts into their home shouting, "They're coming!" She then vomits out her organs, turns into a zombie, and attacks the master of the house. The maid saves her employer, but he and his daughter are stunned and have difficulty processing the events. As more and more zombies invade the residence, the maid decides it is her duty to defend the house from unwanted guests—using a chainsaw! -- -- ONA - Dec 8, 2007 -- 5,173 4.97
Crusher Joe -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Space -- Crusher Joe Crusher Joe -- Crushers: intergalactic Jacks-of-All-Trades who will take on any assignment for the right price. Crusher Joe heads a small team of these outer space troubleshooters that includes the cyborg Talos, the beautiful Alfin, and the obligatory kid sidekick Ricky. A routine assignment escorting a cryogenically frozen heiress to a medical facility goes awry when the girl goes missing and Joe and his team are left holding the bag. It seems space pirates are trying to play the Crushers for patsies, but Joe doesn’t take kindly to the setup and tracks the pirates to their home world. The four heroes not only have to rescue their human cargo but take down the pirates in the process, which involves a heck of a lot of space dogfights, explosions, and good old-fashioned hand-to-hand combat. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- -- Licensor: -- AnimEigo, Discotek Media -- Movie - Mar 12, 1983 -- 5,899 6.81
Cybersix -- -- Telecom Animation Film -- 13 eps -- Other -- Action Adventure Romance Sci-Fi -- Cybersix Cybersix -- Anime based upon the original Argentine graphic novel series of the same name. -- -- The story follows the titular character who is a genetically engineered super-soldier; one of the creations of Dr. Von Reichter's diabolic experiments. (The fictional) Von Reichter is actually a former Nazi who conducted horrendous experiments during the second world war. He flees to South America where he continues his experiments which culminate in the creation of the "Cybers," one of which happens to be Cybersix. However, since the Cybers exhibit free will at an young age (an undesired trait), Von Reichter destroys all the Cybers to prevent a rebellion. -- -- In the present day, Cybersix is one of the Cybers who managed to escape and is living a quiet life under the alias of "Adrian Seidelman"; however, she finds out that her survival is dependent on a special substance that Von Reichter created and thus she is forced to hunt down the "Technos," a newer generation of super-soldiers created by him, in order to survive. Unintentionally, in the process, Cybersix becomes a superhero protecting the world from Dr. Von Reichter's creations and his evil plans. -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- 7,462 7.23
Devil Survivor 2 The Animation -- -- Bridge -- 13 eps -- Game -- Action Demons Supernatural -- Devil Survivor 2 The Animation Devil Survivor 2 The Animation -- The countdown to extinction begins on Sunday with the arrival of the Septentriones, otherworldly invaders set on the eradication of mankind. Caught in the crossfire, Hibiki Kuze and his friends join in the war for humanity's survival by signing contracts with demons to become "Devil Summoners." Soon, their abilities attract the attention of JP's, an underground agency led by Yamato Houtsuin. Once recruited into JP's, Hibiki and his friends fight and bond alongside other ordinary citizens who are Devil Summoners. -- -- However, with each new day, another Septentrione appears to wreak havoc upon Japan. Even if many lives are lost in the process, before that night ends, the young summoners must defeat the invaders at all costs. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Apr 5, 2013 -- 150,992 6.88
Devil Survivor 2 The Animation -- -- Bridge -- 13 eps -- Game -- Action Demons Supernatural -- Devil Survivor 2 The Animation Devil Survivor 2 The Animation -- The countdown to extinction begins on Sunday with the arrival of the Septentriones, otherworldly invaders set on the eradication of mankind. Caught in the crossfire, Hibiki Kuze and his friends join in the war for humanity's survival by signing contracts with demons to become "Devil Summoners." Soon, their abilities attract the attention of JP's, an underground agency led by Yamato Houtsuin. Once recruited into JP's, Hibiki and his friends fight and bond alongside other ordinary citizens who are Devil Summoners. -- -- However, with each new day, another Septentrione appears to wreak havoc upon Japan. Even if many lives are lost in the process, before that night ends, the young summoners must defeat the invaders at all costs. -- -- TV - Apr 5, 2013 -- 150,992 6.88
Digimon X-Evolution -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-Fi -- Digimon X-Evolution Digimon X-Evolution -- A virtual world was created by the present-day network called the "Digital World." The "Digital Monster," which is a digital life object, was born, and the host computer Yggdrasil managed the different Digital World areas. However, it developed the X Program of fear to eliminate all Digimon in the old world and develop a new Digital World for only certain Digimon... Now, the greatest crisis ever approaches the Digital World. -- -- The X-Digimon, a new type of Digital Monster, is hunted by the Royal Knights who protect the Digital Worlds. Their master, the network overseer Yggdrasil, seeks to set in motion Project Ark to renew the Digital Worlds and create new Digimon, but at the cost of all other digital life. This new X-Digimon will seek out the answers to its own existence as it tries to protect the life of all Digimon, and in the process it will change the Digital Worlds forever. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Movie - Jan 3, 2005 -- 18,291 7.10
Domestic na Kanojo -- -- Diomedéa -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Drama Romance School Shounen -- Domestic na Kanojo Domestic na Kanojo -- In their teenage years, few things can hurt people more than the heartaches that come with unrequited love. Such is the case for Natsuo Fujii, who has found himself entranced by his school's ever-cheerful teacher Hina. Deflated by this unreachable desire, Natsuo humors his friends and attends a mixer. There he meets Rui, a girl whose lack of excitement rivals that of himself. After bonding over their mutual awkwardness, Rui takes Natsuo to her house and asks him to have sex with her, hoping that the experience will stop her friends from treating her like a clueless child. With his hopeless feelings towards Hina still on his mind, Natsuo hesitantly agrees. -- -- Equally unfulfilled by their "first times," the two decide to part ways as strangers. However, before he even has a chance to process this experience, Natsuo's father drops a major bombshell: he is getting remarried, and his new wife Tsukiko Tachibana is coming over now to meet Natsuo. As if that was not enough of a shock, her daughters—and, in turn, Natsuo's new sisters—are Hina and Rui Tachibana, the woman he's in love with and the girl with whom he shared his first night. Now, Natsuo must come to terms with the feelings he has for his step-siblings as his eyes open to a darker side of love. -- -- 451,362 6.75
Domestic na Kanojo -- -- Diomedéa -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Drama Romance School Shounen -- Domestic na Kanojo Domestic na Kanojo -- In their teenage years, few things can hurt people more than the heartaches that come with unrequited love. Such is the case for Natsuo Fujii, who has found himself entranced by his school's ever-cheerful teacher Hina. Deflated by this unreachable desire, Natsuo humors his friends and attends a mixer. There he meets Rui, a girl whose lack of excitement rivals that of himself. After bonding over their mutual awkwardness, Rui takes Natsuo to her house and asks him to have sex with her, hoping that the experience will stop her friends from treating her like a clueless child. With his hopeless feelings towards Hina still on his mind, Natsuo hesitantly agrees. -- -- Equally unfulfilled by their "first times," the two decide to part ways as strangers. However, before he even has a chance to process this experience, Natsuo's father drops a major bombshell: he is getting remarried, and his new wife Tsukiko Tachibana is coming over now to meet Natsuo. As if that was not enough of a shock, her daughters—and, in turn, Natsuo's new sisters—are Hina and Rui Tachibana, the woman he's in love with and the girl with whom he shared his first night. Now, Natsuo must come to terms with the feelings he has for his step-siblings as his eyes open to a darker side of love. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 451,362 6.75
Dragon Ball Z Movie 01: Ora no Gohan wo Kaese!! -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Comedy Fantasy Shounen -- Dragon Ball Z Movie 01: Ora no Gohan wo Kaese!! Dragon Ball Z Movie 01: Ora no Gohan wo Kaese!! -- Piccolo is training at a barren cliff when a handful of mysterious enemies attacks and defeats him. These same enemies then go to Mount Paozu to steal Gohan Son's "Dragon Ball." Upon arrival, not only do they defeat Gokuu Son's spouse and father-in-law—Chi-Chi and Gyumao, respectively—but they also kidnap Gohan in the process. -- -- Feeling something isn't right, Gokuu rushes home, only to find Chi-Chi lying on the ground as she explains the situation. He then goes to Kame House and borrows the Dragon Radar in order to locate the Dragon Balls and, with them, the enemies and Gohan. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Jul 15, 1989 -- 98,733 6.68
Dragon Ball Z Movie 01: Ora no Gohan wo Kaese!! -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Comedy Fantasy Shounen -- Dragon Ball Z Movie 01: Ora no Gohan wo Kaese!! Dragon Ball Z Movie 01: Ora no Gohan wo Kaese!! -- Piccolo is training at a barren cliff when a handful of mysterious enemies attacks and defeats him. These same enemies then go to Mount Paozu to steal Gohan Son's "Dragon Ball." Upon arrival, not only do they defeat Gokuu Son's spouse and father-in-law—Chi-Chi and Gyumao, respectively—but they also kidnap Gohan in the process. -- -- Feeling something isn't right, Gokuu rushes home, only to find Chi-Chi lying on the ground as she explains the situation. He then goes to Kame House and borrows the Dragon Radar in order to locate the Dragon Balls and, with them, the enemies and Gohan. -- -- Movie - Jul 15, 1989 -- 98,733 6.68
Dragon Ball Z Movie 03: Chikyuu Marugoto Choukessen -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Comedy Fantasy Shounen -- Dragon Ball Z Movie 03: Chikyuu Marugoto Choukessen Dragon Ball Z Movie 03: Chikyuu Marugoto Choukessen -- A mysterious device crashes on planet Earth, causing a wildfire near where Gohan Son, Kuririn, Bulma, and Oolong are camping. Unable to fully save the forest, they decide to use the Dragon Balls to restore it to its previous condition. A few days later, a group of unknown warriors plant a seed where the mysterious device had crashed, sprouting a colossal tree that destroys the forest and neighboring cities in the process. -- -- North Kaio contacts Gokuu Son and tells him that this tree is the "Shinseiju"—a tree that absorbs all the nutrients in the planet and leaves it a barren wasteland, all the while growing a mighty fruit capable of providing incredible power to anyone who eats it. After learning of this, Gokuu and his friends try destroying the tree before it is too late, but that may prove to be more difficult than they had previously imagined. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Jul 7, 1990 -- 106,422 6.72
Dragon Ball Z Movie 03: Chikyuu Marugoto Choukessen -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Comedy Fantasy Shounen -- Dragon Ball Z Movie 03: Chikyuu Marugoto Choukessen Dragon Ball Z Movie 03: Chikyuu Marugoto Choukessen -- A mysterious device crashes on planet Earth, causing a wildfire near where Gohan Son, Kuririn, Bulma, and Oolong are camping. Unable to fully save the forest, they decide to use the Dragon Balls to restore it to its previous condition. A few days later, a group of unknown warriors plant a seed where the mysterious device had crashed, sprouting a colossal tree that destroys the forest and neighboring cities in the process. -- -- North Kaio contacts Gokuu Son and tells him that this tree is the "Shinseiju"—a tree that absorbs all the nutrients in the planet and leaves it a barren wasteland, all the while growing a mighty fruit capable of providing incredible power to anyone who eats it. After learning of this, Gokuu and his friends try destroying the tree before it is too late, but that may prove to be more difficult than they had previously imagined. -- -- Movie - Jul 7, 1990 -- 106,422 6.72
Emiya-san Chi no Kyou no Gohan -- -- ufotable -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy -- Emiya-san Chi no Kyou no Gohan Emiya-san Chi no Kyou no Gohan -- With the threat of the Holy Grail War no longer looming over Fuyuki City, its inhabitants can finally enjoy a time of peace. Now that all of the Masters and Servants have adjusted to their new mundane lives, Shirou has taken it upon himself to cook for his household and show Saber the wonders of modern cuisine. Every day, he ventures into the marketplace to see what kind of different meals he can cook up with unique ingredients and a limited budget. However, his legendary skills often attract uninvited guests from all over the city, so there is never a dull moment at dinner with the Emiya family. -- -- As his guests entertain themselves in the living room, Shirou walks through the step-by-step process of creating some of his favorite meals. With delicacies such as his savory New Year soba with shrimp tempura, steamy foil-baked salmon, and cheesy bamboo shoot gratin, everything is up for grabs on his menu. Itadakimasu! -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- ONA - Jan 25, 2018 -- 89,555 7.81
Emiya-san Chi no Kyou no Gohan -- -- ufotable -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy -- Emiya-san Chi no Kyou no Gohan Emiya-san Chi no Kyou no Gohan -- With the threat of the Holy Grail War no longer looming over Fuyuki City, its inhabitants can finally enjoy a time of peace. Now that all of the Masters and Servants have adjusted to their new mundane lives, Shirou has taken it upon himself to cook for his household and show Saber the wonders of modern cuisine. Every day, he ventures into the marketplace to see what kind of different meals he can cook up with unique ingredients and a limited budget. However, his legendary skills often attract uninvited guests from all over the city, so there is never a dull moment at dinner with the Emiya family. -- -- As his guests entertain themselves in the living room, Shirou walks through the step-by-step process of creating some of his favorite meals. With delicacies such as his savory New Year soba with shrimp tempura, steamy foil-baked salmon, and cheesy bamboo shoot gratin, everything is up for grabs on his menu. Itadakimasu! -- -- ONA - Jan 25, 2018 -- 89,555 7.81
Escha & Logy no Atelier: Tasogare no Sora no Renkinjutsushi -- -- Studio Gokumi -- 12 eps -- Game -- Fantasy -- Escha & Logy no Atelier: Tasogare no Sora no Renkinjutsushi Escha & Logy no Atelier: Tasogare no Sora no Renkinjutsushi -- This world has gone through many Dusks, and is slowly nearing its end. Within this world, in the western reaches of the "Land of Dusk," there was a nation that prospered thanks to its use of alchemy. -- -- There, in order to survive the eventual arrival of the "Dusk End," the people devoted their efforts to rediscover and recreate lost alchemic technologies. Rediscovered technology from the past era was gathered in the alchemy research city known as "Central," where research was conducted on how to halt the advance of the twilight. -- -- One of the heroes is a young man who researched alchemy in Central, the other a girl living in a small town on the frontier. This girl's name is Escha. In the process of using her knowledge of ancient alchemy to help others, she was assigned to the Development Department. The young man's name is Logy. Having learned the newest alchemic techniques in Central, he requested a transfer to this understaffed town to make use of his abilities, and meets Escha when he is assigned to the Development Department as well. The two make a promise to use their alchemy together, and bring success to the Development Department. -- -- (Source: Tecmo Koei Europe) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Apr 10, 2014 -- 55,103 6.44
Flag -- -- The Answer Studio -- 13 eps -- Original -- Mecha Military -- Flag Flag -- In 20xx, a civil war broke out in a small country in Asia in spite of the dispatch of UN forces. But a picture taken by accident in the battlefield accelerates the peace process: a photograph of a flag, which became the symbol of peace. However, just before the peace agreement is finalized, the flag is stolen by an armed extremist group in order to obstruct the truce. To rescue the flag, the UN sends the Special Development Command (SDC, which is armed with the High Agility Versatile Weapon Carrier (HAVWC)), along with an embedded photojournalist to record their activities. That photojournalist is Saeko Shirasu—the young camerawoman who took the picture of the flag. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- ONA - Jun 16, 2006 -- 17,237 7.20
Gantz:O -- -- Digital Frontier -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Horror Psychological Supernatural Drama Ecchi Seinen -- Gantz:O Gantz:O -- Death does not have to be the end; one can live again, but only through beating the game posed by the black ball called Gantz. -- -- On his way home to celebrate his younger brother's birthday, brave and kind-hearted student named Masaru Katou is stabbed to death. He awakes in a small room with a cityscape view in the heart of Tokyo—and he is not alone. To his surprise, it is not the afterlife, but the waiting room for a high stakes game with their lives on the line. Before he has the chance to process the situation, Masaru is handed a gun and teleported into the center of Osaka to carry out one simple task: eliminate any alien on sight. -- -- Accompanied by the aged Yoshikazu Suzuki, the stunning idol Reika Shimohira, and the cold but experienced Jouichirou Nishi, Masaru must overcome his fears in order to survive the game and return home to his waiting brother. -- -- Movie - Oct 14, 2016 -- 74,402 7.44
Gift: Eternal Rainbow - Ki no Saka Ryokan Kiki Ippatsu!! -- -- OLM -- 1 ep -- Visual novel -- Harem Comedy Magic Romance Ecchi -- Gift: Eternal Rainbow - Ki no Saka Ryokan Kiki Ippatsu!! Gift: Eternal Rainbow - Ki no Saka Ryokan Kiki Ippatsu!! -- Haruhiko, Riko, Yukari, Chisa and Rinka are trying to help Kirino save her family's inn from bankruptcy due to their newest rival, Hotel Moonstone. As a result, they decided that creating high-class cuisine was the best method in order to help the Konosaka Inn attract customers. However, in the process of creating this high-class cuisine Yukari, Chisa and Rinka mysteriously and instantaneously develop overpowering feelings towards Haruhiko and end up vigorously competing for him. Unfortunately, for Haruhiko this harem contains mixes of both heaven and hell. -- Special - Jun 22, 2007 -- 6,846 6.73
Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi -- -- Sunrise -- 24 eps -- Original -- Action Adventure Comedy Historical Demons Supernatural Magic Fantasy -- Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi -- Half-demon twins Towa and Setsuna were always together, living happily in Feudal Japan. But their joyous days come to an end when a forest fire separates them and Towa is thrown through a portal to modern-day Japan. There, she is found by Souta Higurashi, who raises her as his daughter after Towa finds herself unable to return to her time. -- -- Ten years later, 14-year-old Towa is a relatively well-adjusted student, despite the fact that she often gets into fights. However, unexpected trouble arrives on her doorstep in the form of three visitors from Feudal Japan; Moroha, a bounty hunter; Setsuna, a demon slayer and Towa's long-lost twin sister; and Mistress Three-Eyes, a demon seeking a mystical object. Working together, the girls defeat their foe, but in the process, Towa discovers to her horror that Setsuna has no memory of her at all. Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi follows the three girls as they endeavor to remedy Setsuna's memory loss, as well as discover the truth about their linked destinies. -- -- 85,116 6.73
Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi -- -- Sunrise -- 24 eps -- Original -- Action Adventure Comedy Historical Demons Supernatural Magic Fantasy -- Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi -- Half-demon twins Towa and Setsuna were always together, living happily in Feudal Japan. But their joyous days come to an end when a forest fire separates them and Towa is thrown through a portal to modern-day Japan. There, she is found by Souta Higurashi, who raises her as his daughter after Towa finds herself unable to return to her time. -- -- Ten years later, 14-year-old Towa is a relatively well-adjusted student, despite the fact that she often gets into fights. However, unexpected trouble arrives on her doorstep in the form of three visitors from Feudal Japan; Moroha, a bounty hunter; Setsuna, a demon slayer and Towa's long-lost twin sister; and Mistress Three-Eyes, a demon seeking a mystical object. Working together, the girls defeat their foe, but in the process, Towa discovers to her horror that Setsuna has no memory of her at all. Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi follows the three girls as they endeavor to remedy Setsuna's memory loss, as well as discover the truth about their linked destinies. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- 85,116 6.73
Hataraku Maou-sama! 2nd Season -- -- - -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Demons Supernatural Romance Fantasy -- Hataraku Maou-sama! 2nd Season Hataraku Maou-sama! 2nd Season -- Second season of Hataraku Maou-sama! -- TV - ??? ??, ???? -- 98,137 N/A -- -- Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: Fuuin Sareta Card -- -- Madhouse -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Fantasy Magic Romance Shoujo -- Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: Fuuin Sareta Card Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: Fuuin Sareta Card -- For this year's Nadeshiko Festival, Sakura Kinomoto's elementary school class is presenting a play. She will portray a princess who struggles to respond to the love confession of the neighboring country's prince. Sakura empathizes with her character all too well, since she herself still owes an answer to the boy who confessed his love for her four months ago. -- -- When cousins Shaoran and Meiling Li return from Hong Kong to pay a surprise visit to their friends in Japan, Sakura receives further encouragement to finally declare her feelings. However, she is repeatedly distracted by a presence reminiscent of a Clow Card as well as unexplained disappearances around town. -- -- Eventually, Sakura learns of another of Clow Reed's creations—the "Nothing"—which was formerly sealed away beneath the magician's old house. It has power equal to all 52 cards Sakura possesses, and furthermore, it wants to take those cards away from her! Objects, space, and people disappear from Tomoeda with each card that is stolen. Sakura sets out to capture the Nothing so everything will return to normal, but what must she sacrifice in the process? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media, Geneon Entertainment USA, Nelvana -- Movie - Jul 15, 2000 -- 97,928 8.22
Heroman -- -- Bones -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Shounen -- Heroman Heroman -- In California's Center City, shy but kindhearted Joseph Carter "Joey" Jones lives with his grandmother, working in a coffee shop. Though his family is financially burdened and he is bullied at school, he remains cheerful. A robotics enthusiast, he wants a top-of-the-line toy robot called a Heybo more than anything. -- -- One day Joey and his friend Simon "Psy" Kaina come across a destroyed Heybo discarded by a group of rich kids. He takes it home and repairs it himself, excitedly naming it Heroman. However, one night Heroman is struck by lightning and comes to life, growing several times its size in the process. -- -- That same night Center City is attacked by aliens called Skrugg whose attention was brought to Earth after Joey's acquaintance Professor Matthew Denton made attempts to contact them. Along with Joey, Heroman quickly heads to the scene of the attack, where he finds people in trouble, including his friend Lina Davis and her father. Using an arm-mounted controller, Joey is able to command Heroman to use superpowers to fight off the Skrugg and rescue civilians. As the aliens continue their invasion of Earth, the duo are the only ones separating humanity and destruction. -- -- 34,788 6.83
Hidan no Aria AA -- -- Doga Kobo -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action School Shoujo Ai -- Hidan no Aria AA Hidan no Aria AA -- Akari Mamiya, a first-year student from Tokyo Butei High, idolizes the S-rank Butei Aria Holmes Kanzaki and wishes to follow in her footsteps. Despite only being an inept E-rank Butei, Akari's resolve to improve remains strong. After the idea of having an Amica contract (a senior-student mentorship program) with Aria is brought up, Akari submits a request form attempting to establish said contract. Her classmates and friends do not expect Aria to accept Akari's request, mainly because of the girl's strict selection process, but to everyone's surprise, Aria gives Akari a chance through a test, which Akari miraculously passes! However, Aria will not officially make Akari her Amica until Akari meets her standards. -- -- Training under Aria will be no easy feat, as she has to concurrently manage her relationships with her friends. Will Akari have what it takes to walk down the same path as her idol? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 83,790 6.23
Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu -- -- C2C -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Comedy School Shounen Slice of Life -- Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu -- Many of us know what it is like to transition to a new school with few to no friends in a new environment, going through the arduous process of getting to know people again. Bocchi Hitori knows this struggle all too well, having just graduated from elementary school and thrown into middle school. Unfortunately, she suffers from extreme social anxiety: she faints when overwhelmed, vomits when nervous, and draws up ridiculously convoluted plans to avoid social contact. It does not help that her only friend from elementary school, Kai Yawara, will not be attending the same middle school as Bocchi. However, wanting to help her, Kai severs ties with Bocchi and promises to reconcile with her when she befriends all of her classmates in her new middle school class. -- -- Even though Bocchi has no faith in herself, she is determined to be friends with Kai again. Summoning all of her courage, Bocchi takes on the daunting challenge of making friends with her entire class, starting with the delinquent-looking girl sitting in front of her... -- -- 152,537 7.50
Jitsu wa Watashi wa -- -- 3xCube, TMS Entertainment -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Supernatural Romance Vampire Fantasy School Shounen -- Jitsu wa Watashi wa Jitsu wa Watashi wa -- One day after school, Asahi Kuromine stumbles upon the truth that Youko Shiragami, the girl he has a crush on, is actually a vampire. According to her father's rules, Youko must now quit school in order to keep her family safe. However, Asahi does not want her to go and promises that he will keep her true nature secret. Unfortunately, this turns out to be easier said than done, as Asahi is a man who is easy to read and is unable to keep any secrets to himself. -- -- And this is the only the beginning of his troubles—more supernatural beings enter his life, and he is forced to protect all of their identities or face the consequences. Jitsu wa Watashi wa follows Asahi as he deals with his new friends and the unique challenges they bring, struggles to keep his mouth shut, and desperately tries to win Youko's heart in the process. -- -- 202,388 6.90
Jitsu wa Watashi wa -- -- 3xCube, TMS Entertainment -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Supernatural Romance Vampire Fantasy School Shounen -- Jitsu wa Watashi wa Jitsu wa Watashi wa -- One day after school, Asahi Kuromine stumbles upon the truth that Youko Shiragami, the girl he has a crush on, is actually a vampire. According to her father's rules, Youko must now quit school in order to keep her family safe. However, Asahi does not want her to go and promises that he will keep her true nature secret. Unfortunately, this turns out to be easier said than done, as Asahi is a man who is easy to read and is unable to keep any secrets to himself. -- -- And this is the only the beginning of his troubles—more supernatural beings enter his life, and he is forced to protect all of their identities or face the consequences. Jitsu wa Watashi wa follows Asahi as he deals with his new friends and the unique challenges they bring, struggles to keep his mouth shut, and desperately tries to win Youko's heart in the process. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- 202,388 6.90
Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: 4-nin to Idol -- -- Manglobe -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy Music Shounen Supernatural -- Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: 4-nin to Idol Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: 4-nin to Idol -- Eli, Chihiro, and Miyako try to form a band but end up looking to Katsuragi for help. In the process they meet Kanon and become friends/ rivals. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- OVA - Sep 16, 2011 -- 92,493 7.32
Kanojo mo Kanojo -- -- Tezuka Productions -- ? eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Romance School Shounen -- Kanojo mo Kanojo Kanojo mo Kanojo -- After harboring an unrequited love for years, Naoya Mukai finally gets to date his childhood friend, Saki Saki. However, just as he tries to commit himself to this relationship, he receives an abrupt confession from Nagisa Minase. -- -- At first, Naoya tries to reject her but is soon overcome by feelings of not wanting to hurt Nagisa. Trying to avoid betraying his girlfriend's trust in him, Naoya thinks up a "solution" to make both girls happy—two-timing. Naturally, Saki rebuffs this idea, but through Naoya's and Nagisa's persistence, she reluctantly submits. -- -- With this, a three-way affair begins between Naoya, his girlfriend, and his "other" girlfriend, as they develop a relationship that deviates from the social norm. -- -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 14,817 N/A -- -- Rockman.EXE Axess -- -- Xebec -- 51 eps -- Game -- Action Adventure Comedy Game Mecha Sci-Fi Shounen -- Rockman.EXE Axess Rockman.EXE Axess -- Netto's father Yuuichirou Hikari has made a scientific breakthrough by introducing the "synchro chips". If an operator and his or her navi are in a special enviroment known as a "dimensional area", they can fuse together in the real world via a technique called "cross fusion"! Yuuichirou's first test subject, Misaki Gorou, attempts the process and sadly fails. Netto offers to try with Rockman, but his father forbids it. Cross Fusion puts enormous strain on the operator's health, and battling in the real world could mean death. -- -- (Source: Official Site) -- TV - Oct 4, 2003 -- 14,733 7.13
Kyokujitsu no Kantai -- -- J.C.Staff -- 15 eps -- - -- Action Drama Historical Military -- Kyokujitsu no Kantai Kyokujitsu no Kantai -- In Kyokujitsu no Kantai, Japan builds up on its success in the earlier series by expanding its blue-water capabilities to reach the Atlantic Ocean, challenging the Kriegsmarine in the process. Nazi Germany also launches a surgical strike on the White House and the Japanese fleet repels a German invasion of Britain. -- -- Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konpeki_no_Kantai -- OVA - Feb 21, 1997 -- 1,167 6.35
Kyou kara Maou! -- -- Studio Deen -- 78 eps -- Light novel -- Adventure Comedy Demons Fantasy Shoujo -- Kyou kara Maou! Kyou kara Maou! -- Kyou kara Maou! revolves around Yuri Shibuya, your average Japanese teenager. One day, Yuri sees a classmate being harassed by bullies. Thanks to this intervention, his friend is able to escape, but unfortunately Yuri becomes the new target of the bullies in the process and gets his head shoved into a toilet. But instead of water, the toilet contains a swirling portal that sucks him into another world, largely resembling medieval Europe. There, he is told that he will become the next Demon King due to his black hair and black eyes, traits only possessed by the demon's royal lineage. -- -- Yuri's arrival is met with some skepticism by some of the demons, who view him as unworthy to be their king. However, after Yuri wins a duel by utilizing his magical powers, the demons slowly begin to acknowledge him as their monarch. Yuri must now learn what it takes be a true Demon King, as he tries to keep the peace between demons and humans in this strange new realm. -- TV - Apr 3, 2004 -- 93,555 7.69
Lily C.A.T. -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 1 ep -- Original -- Sci-Fi Space Horror -- Lily C.A.T. Lily C.A.T. -- The Deep Sleep Capsules, technology that has allowed man to reach out to the stars. These chambers slow the aging process by 95%. A 20-year trip passes, and the traveler has only aged 1 year. It definitely has its advantages, but after you've been on a few trips, it sure gets very lonely. -- -- Right now, however, that's not the big issue. The year is 2264. The Syncam Corporation has sent the Saldes and its crew of 13 (and 1 cat) out into deep space to explore the potential of a newfound planet 20 years away. Soon after they awaken from their stasis, however, things are happening one after another. First, the crew learns that two of the crew are not who they claim to be. Then, one by one, crewmembers die suddenly. Then, the ship begins to turn against them. And as if it couldn't get any worse, they find another mess on their hands and it is ugly. -- -- What was supposed to be a simple exploratory mission has become a struggle for survival in the depths of space. 20 years from home, they're all alone and no one can hear them scream. -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- OVA - Sep 1, 1987 -- 5,679 5.90
Maetel Legend -- -- Vega Entertainment -- 2 eps -- - -- Space Drama Sci-Fi -- Maetel Legend Maetel Legend -- The artificial sun that lights the frozen planet La Metalle is dying, threatening to extinguish what little life is left there. Queen La Andromeda Prometheum decides that the only way for her people to survive is for them to submit to Hardgear's transformation process, which will turn everyone's body into machines. The Queen's daughters, Emeraldas and Maetel, refuse to submit to this process, and fight to stay human. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Central Park Media -- OVA - Dec 13, 2000 -- 3,562 6.41
Mayoi Neko Overrun! -- -- AIC -- 13 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Harem Romance -- Mayoi Neko Overrun! Mayoi Neko Overrun! -- Takumi Tsuzuki is a high school student who attends the Umenomori Private Academy, free of charge, alongside Fumino Serizawa, a childhood friend of his whom always says the opposite of what she feels. He spends most of his time at school fending off Chise Umenomori, the granddaughter of the board chairman and a pampered princess, who is constantly roping him into her eccentric hobbies. After school, he goes to work at the "Stray Cats" confectionery, a cake shop run by his adoptive older sister, Otome Tsuzuki, until it's time to go to bed. This is the average routine in the day and the life of Takumi. -- -- Mayoi Neko Overrun follows another seemingly average day in the life of Takumi. With his sister away from the shop, having gone to save someone else in need of help, Fumino takes it upon herself to wake him up so that he won't be late for their usual walk to school together, giving him a glimpse of her blue and white striped panties in the process. What a nice way to start the day. -- -- When Otome returns home, she brings with her a girl named Nozomi Kiriya, whose hair and mannerisms resemble that of a large cat. It turns out that she is a runaway that Otome can't help but take in. Takumi's ordinary days are transformed into splendid chaos as he tries to unravel who this mysterious beauty is and what she's running away from... -- TV - Apr 6, 2010 -- 119,729 6.70
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season -- -- Sunrise -- 25 eps -- Original -- Action Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi Space -- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season -- In the year 2311 AD, a world that once saw itself full of inter-continental conflict now stands unified, led by the Earth Sphere Federation (ESF). The ESF established a preventative military task force known as the A-Laws, tasking them with shutting down violent terrorist organizations. As they gain more and more legal authority, the A-Laws begin to twist the law to fit their own agenda, ruling the citizens of Earth with a heavy hand. -- -- In response to the fascistic behavior of the A-Laws, the anti-terrorist group Celestial Being reappears. Led by state-of-the-art mobile suits known as Gundam, the pilots of Celestial Being wage a new war with the A-Laws, aiming to stop their tyrannical abuse of power. -- -- Setsuna F. Seiei, pilot of the Gundam Exia, helps to lead the charge along with his fellow Gundam Meisters Lockon Stratos, Allelujah Haptism, and Tieria Erde. But in the process, Setsuna stumbles upon a conspiratorial plot spearheaded by a new faction, the Innovators, and must contend with his own old wounds and ghosts of the past in order to save a world that despises him. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- TV - Oct 5, 2008 -- 129,108 8.10
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season -- -- Sunrise -- 25 eps -- Original -- Action Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi Space -- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season -- In the year 2311 AD, a world that once saw itself full of inter-continental conflict now stands unified, led by the Earth Sphere Federation (ESF). The ESF established a preventative military task force known as the A-Laws, tasking them with shutting down violent terrorist organizations. As they gain more and more legal authority, the A-Laws begin to twist the law to fit their own agenda, ruling the citizens of Earth with a heavy hand. -- -- In response to the fascistic behavior of the A-Laws, the anti-terrorist group Celestial Being reappears. Led by state-of-the-art mobile suits known as Gundam, the pilots of Celestial Being wage a new war with the A-Laws, aiming to stop their tyrannical abuse of power. -- -- Setsuna F. Seiei, pilot of the Gundam Exia, helps to lead the charge along with his fellow Gundam Meisters Lockon Stratos, Allelujah Haptism, and Tieria Erde. But in the process, Setsuna stumbles upon a conspiratorial plot spearheaded by a new faction, the Innovators, and must contend with his own old wounds and ghosts of the past in order to save a world that despises him. -- -- TV - Oct 5, 2008 -- 129,108 8.10
Moyashimon Returns -- -- Shirogumi, Telecom Animation Film -- 11 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Supernatural School Seinen -- Moyashimon Returns Moyashimon Returns -- In the second season the story continues exactly where it left off previously. Professor Itsuki's Fermentation Cellar and laboratory is ready for operation and with Sawaki Tadayasu's unique gift to see and communicate with microbes to help, Itsuki's motley group of students begin to process different fermented products like soy sauce and sake. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- 22,523 7.22
Natsume Yuujinchou Movie: Utsusemi ni Musubu -- -- Shuka -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Demons Drama Shoujo Slice of Life Supernatural -- Natsume Yuujinchou Movie: Utsusemi ni Musubu Natsume Yuujinchou Movie: Utsusemi ni Musubu -- Takashi Natsume and his spirit companion Madara, nicknamed "Nyanko," continue returning the names of spirits from the Book of Friends given by his late grandmother Reiko Natsume. -- -- On his way back from school one day, Takashi encounters a lurking spirit named Monmonbou, who recalls memories of Takashi's grandmother after hearing his name. Takashi's natural curiosity leads him to explore a mysterious town where his grandmother used to live. Befriending her old acquaintance Yorie Tsumura and Yorie's son Mukuo, Takashi unveils more of his grandmother's past. -- -- In the meantime, Nyanko detours for food and stumbles upon a suspicious "Spirit Seed," which miraculously sprouts into a fruit tree overnight. Giving in to temptation, Nyanko consumes the fruit, splitting him into three. Seeking a solution to Nyanko's predicament, Takashi and his friends lend a hand, unexpectedly uncovering more secrets the town holds in the process. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- Movie - Sep 29, 2018 -- 47,486 8.41
Natsume Yuujinchou Movie: Utsusemi ni Musubu -- -- Shuka -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Demons Drama Shoujo Slice of Life Supernatural -- Natsume Yuujinchou Movie: Utsusemi ni Musubu Natsume Yuujinchou Movie: Utsusemi ni Musubu -- Takashi Natsume and his spirit companion Madara, nicknamed "Nyanko," continue returning the names of spirits from the Book of Friends given by his late grandmother Reiko Natsume. -- -- On his way back from school one day, Takashi encounters a lurking spirit named Monmonbou, who recalls memories of Takashi's grandmother after hearing his name. Takashi's natural curiosity leads him to explore a mysterious town where his grandmother used to live. Befriending her old acquaintance Yorie Tsumura and Yorie's son Mukuo, Takashi unveils more of his grandmother's past. -- -- In the meantime, Nyanko detours for food and stumbles upon a suspicious "Spirit Seed," which miraculously sprouts into a fruit tree overnight. Giving in to temptation, Nyanko consumes the fruit, splitting him into three. Seeking a solution to Nyanko's predicament, Takashi and his friends lend a hand, unexpectedly uncovering more secrets the town holds in the process. -- -- Movie - Sep 29, 2018 -- 47,486 8.41
New Game! -- -- Doga Kobo -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Game Slice of Life Comedy -- New Game! New Game! -- Since childhood, Aoba Suzukaze has loved the Fairies Story game series, particularly the character designs. So when she graduates from high school, it is no surprise that she applies to work at Eagle Jump, the company responsible for making her favorite video game. On her first day, she is excited to learn that she will be working on a new installment to the series: Fairies Story 3—and even more so under Kou Yagami, the lead character designer. -- -- In their department are people who share the same passion for games. There is Yun Iijima, whose specialty is designing monsters; the shy Hifumi Takimoto, who prefers to communicate through instant messaging; Hajime Shinoda, an animation team member with an impressive figurine collection; Rin Tooyama, the orderly art director; Shizuku Hazuki, the game director who brings her cat to work; and Umiko Ahagon, the short-tempered head programmer. -- -- New Game! follows Aoba and the others on their adventure through the ups and downs of game making, from making the perfect character design to fixing all the errors that will inevitably accumulate in the process. -- -- 346,352 7.60
New Game! -- -- Doga Kobo -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Game Slice of Life Comedy -- New Game! New Game! -- Since childhood, Aoba Suzukaze has loved the Fairies Story game series, particularly the character designs. So when she graduates from high school, it is no surprise that she applies to work at Eagle Jump, the company responsible for making her favorite video game. On her first day, she is excited to learn that she will be working on a new installment to the series: Fairies Story 3—and even more so under Kou Yagami, the lead character designer. -- -- In their department are people who share the same passion for games. There is Yun Iijima, whose specialty is designing monsters; the shy Hifumi Takimoto, who prefers to communicate through instant messaging; Hajime Shinoda, an animation team member with an impressive figurine collection; Rin Tooyama, the orderly art director; Shizuku Hazuki, the game director who brings her cat to work; and Umiko Ahagon, the short-tempered head programmer. -- -- New Game! follows Aoba and the others on their adventure through the ups and downs of game making, from making the perfect character design to fixing all the errors that will inevitably accumulate in the process. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll, Funimation -- 346,352 7.60
Nozoki Ana -- -- Studio Fantasia -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Ecchi -- Nozoki Ana Nozoki Ana -- After moving into his new apartment, art school student Tatsuhiko Kido discovers a crack in his wall. When he peeks inside, he makes eye contact with his neighbor, Emiru Ikuno, as she masturbates. He rushes next door to clear the misunderstanding and inform her of the crack, but accidentally trips and falls over her in the process. To make matters even worse, Emiru now has photographic evidence that would plainly depict Kido as a sexual offender. Kido then learns that Emiru has a voyeurism fetish, and is blackmailed into leaving the crack as is. -- -- Unfortunately for Kido, it doesn't stop here! Emiru is also attending the same art school that he is, and he will be seeing her far more than he would like to. Emiru and Kido are set to embark on a unique friendship with wildly erotic potential. -- -- OVA - Feb 28, 2013 -- 42,454 6.50
One Piece 3D2Y: Ace no shi wo Koete! Luffy Nakama Tono Chikai -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Adventure Comedy Fantasy Shounen -- One Piece 3D2Y: Ace no shi wo Koete! Luffy Nakama Tono Chikai One Piece 3D2Y: Ace no shi wo Koete! Luffy Nakama Tono Chikai -- After suffering great personal loss during the battle of Marineford, Monkey D. Luffy finds himself stranded on Rusukaina, a treacherous island crawling with huge and dangerous creatures. There, he has committed himself to a two-year stretch of training to learn "Haki," the energy that combatants can use to grant themselves a variety of abilities in battle. -- -- Luffy is jerked away from his otherwise peaceful training by the abduction of Sandersonia and Marigold, sisters of his friend and ally Boa Hancock. With Boa's aid, Luffy seeks to track down the infamous pirate responsible for the kidnapping, a man whose recent prison break is the result of Luffy's own reckless actions. Luffy must use his developing grasp of Haki to defeat this new foe while coming to terms with his overbearing grief in the process. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Special - Aug 30, 2014 -- 66,266 7.91
One Piece 3D2Y: Ace no shi wo Koete! Luffy Nakama Tono Chikai -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Adventure Comedy Fantasy Shounen -- One Piece 3D2Y: Ace no shi wo Koete! Luffy Nakama Tono Chikai One Piece 3D2Y: Ace no shi wo Koete! Luffy Nakama Tono Chikai -- After suffering great personal loss during the battle of Marineford, Monkey D. Luffy finds himself stranded on Rusukaina, a treacherous island crawling with huge and dangerous creatures. There, he has committed himself to a two-year stretch of training to learn "Haki," the energy that combatants can use to grant themselves a variety of abilities in battle. -- -- Luffy is jerked away from his otherwise peaceful training by the abduction of Sandersonia and Marigold, sisters of his friend and ally Boa Hancock. With Boa's aid, Luffy seeks to track down the infamous pirate responsible for the kidnapping, a man whose recent prison break is the result of Luffy's own reckless actions. Luffy must use his developing grasp of Haki to defeat this new foe while coming to terms with his overbearing grief in the process. -- -- Special - Aug 30, 2014 -- 66,266 7.91
One Piece: Umi no Heso no Daibouken-hen -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Shounen Super Power -- One Piece: Umi no Heso no Daibouken-hen One Piece: Umi no Heso no Daibouken-hen -- The Straw Hats encounter a city in the middle of a whirlpool, called the Ocean's Navel, that is being destroyed by giant monsters. These monsters supposedly protect a treasure capable of granting wishes, but in the process of defeating these guardians, the crew ends up releasing another evil. (aired after Episode 53) -- -- (Source: Wikipedia) -- Special - Dec 20, 2000 -- 28,730 7.27
One Punch Man -- -- Madhouse -- 12 eps -- Web manga -- Action Sci-Fi Comedy Parody Super Power Supernatural -- One Punch Man One Punch Man -- The seemingly ordinary and unimpressive Saitama has a rather unique hobby: being a hero. In order to pursue his childhood dream, he trained relentlessly for three years—and lost all of his hair in the process. Now, Saitama is incredibly powerful, so much so that no enemy is able to defeat him in battle. In fact, all it takes to defeat evildoers with just one punch has led to an unexpected problem—he is no longer able to enjoy the thrill of battling and has become quite bored. -- -- This all changes with the arrival of Genos, a 19-year-old cyborg, who wishes to be Saitama's disciple after seeing what he is capable of. Genos proposes that the two join the Hero Association in order to become certified heroes that will be recognized for their positive contributions to society, and Saitama, shocked that no one knows who he is, quickly agrees. And thus begins the story of One Punch Man, an action-comedy that follows an eccentric individual who longs to fight strong enemies that can hopefully give him the excitement he once felt and just maybe, he'll become popular in the process. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- 2,266,752 8.55
One Punch Man: Road to Hero -- -- Madhouse -- 1 ep -- Web manga -- Action Sci-Fi Comedy Parody Super Power Supernatural -- One Punch Man: Road to Hero One Punch Man: Road to Hero -- Before Saitama became the man he is today, he trained and fought endlessly to become a hero. While every scuffle leaves his tracksuit uniform in tatters, he always has it mended for free thanks to his local tailor. One day, however, the tailor informs him that he must close up shop due to pressure from a local gang. Saitama decides to help him out—and gains something irreplaceable in the process. -- -- OVA - Dec 4, 2015 -- 248,632 7.73
Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai. -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 13 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Romance Slice of Life -- Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai. Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai. -- The diehard otaku Kirino Kousaka has returned and settled back into life in Japan with her friends and family. Despite what her older brother Kyousuke has previously done for her, Kirino continues to give him the cold shoulder, much to his frustration. He is worried that his persuasion for Kirino to drop her track and field training in America and return home may have severely strained his relationship with her. On top of that, Kyousuke now also has to decode a bold and cryptic message from Ruri "Kuroneko" Gokou, his junior at school as well as Kirino's friend. -- -- As the ties between the two siblings and their friends deepen, Kirino and Kyousuke will soon have to figure out how they want to deal with these relationships, helping each other realize their own feelings in the process. In spite of that, Kirino still manages to find time to satisfy her otaku needs with the company of her brother. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- TV - Apr 7, 2013 -- 367,951 7.03
Radiant -- -- Lerche -- 21 eps -- Other -- Action Adventure Fantasy Magic -- Radiant Radiant -- Nemeses—powerful and mysterious demonic entities that fall from the sky and vaporize anything they touch. The only ones who can combat these creatures are Sorcerers, those who have survived an encounter with a Nemesis but were infected in the process. -- -- Seth, a Sorcerer from Pompo Hills, sets out on an adventure to exterminate all these Nemeses. Accompanying him are Doc and Mélie, fellow Sorcerers who share his ideal. Their main objective is to bring about a world where Sorcerers are no longer persecuted for being infected, and to that end, desire to destroy the source of the Nemeses themselves: the mythical Radiant. -- -- 151,188 6.86
Radiant -- -- Lerche -- 21 eps -- Other -- Action Adventure Fantasy Magic -- Radiant Radiant -- Nemeses—powerful and mysterious demonic entities that fall from the sky and vaporize anything they touch. The only ones who can combat these creatures are Sorcerers, those who have survived an encounter with a Nemesis but were infected in the process. -- -- Seth, a Sorcerer from Pompo Hills, sets out on an adventure to exterminate all these Nemeses. Accompanying him are Doc and Mélie, fellow Sorcerers who share his ideal. Their main objective is to bring about a world where Sorcerers are no longer persecuted for being infected, and to that end, desire to destroy the source of the Nemeses themselves: the mythical Radiant. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 151,188 6.86
RahXephon -- -- Bones -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Drama Mecha Music Mystery Psychological Romance Sci-Fi -- RahXephon RahXephon -- The ordinary life of high school student Ayato Kamina is turned upside down when Tokyo is suddenly invaded by futuristic fighter jets. Amidst the chaos, he encounters a woman called Haruka Shitow who claims to be from a government organization called TERRA. She reveals that he has been living in a time bubble named "Tokyo Jupiter" that was put in place by the Mulians—humanoids from another dimension—in an attempt to isolate and take over Tokyo. TERRA has been trying to break through the barrier surrounding the city ever since. -- -- Unable to process the revelation, Ayato panics and flees. He runs into his classmate Reika Mishima who leads him to a place called "The Shrine of Xephon" where a large egg slumbers. She starts to sing and an unknown power awakens within Ayato, connecting him to a being called RahXephon that breaks out of the egg. Shortly after, Haruka finds him again and tries to make him join her cause of fighting against the Mulians. -- -- Caught between the crosshairs of the Mulians and TERRA, Ayato begins to question his purpose, navigating altered memories and ultimately his very identity in this chaotic new world. -- -- 101,947 7.42
RahXephon -- -- Bones -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Drama Mecha Music Mystery Psychological Romance Sci-Fi -- RahXephon RahXephon -- The ordinary life of high school student Ayato Kamina is turned upside down when Tokyo is suddenly invaded by futuristic fighter jets. Amidst the chaos, he encounters a woman called Haruka Shitow who claims to be from a government organization called TERRA. She reveals that he has been living in a time bubble named "Tokyo Jupiter" that was put in place by the Mulians—humanoids from another dimension—in an attempt to isolate and take over Tokyo. TERRA has been trying to break through the barrier surrounding the city ever since. -- -- Unable to process the revelation, Ayato panics and flees. He runs into his classmate Reika Mishima who leads him to a place called "The Shrine of Xephon" where a large egg slumbers. She starts to sing and an unknown power awakens within Ayato, connecting him to a being called RahXephon that breaks out of the egg. Shortly after, Haruka finds him again and tries to make him join her cause of fighting against the Mulians. -- -- Caught between the crosshairs of the Mulians and TERRA, Ayato begins to question his purpose, navigating altered memories and ultimately his very identity in this chaotic new world. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films -- 101,947 7.42
Rockman.EXE Axess -- -- Xebec -- 51 eps -- Game -- Action Adventure Comedy Game Mecha Sci-Fi Shounen -- Rockman.EXE Axess Rockman.EXE Axess -- Netto's father Yuuichirou Hikari has made a scientific breakthrough by introducing the "synchro chips". If an operator and his or her navi are in a special enviroment known as a "dimensional area", they can fuse together in the real world via a technique called "cross fusion"! Yuuichirou's first test subject, Misaki Gorou, attempts the process and sadly fails. Netto offers to try with Rockman, but his father forbids it. Cross Fusion puts enormous strain on the operator's health, and battling in the real world could mean death. -- -- (Source: Official Site) -- TV - Oct 4, 2003 -- 14,733 7.13
Speed Grapher -- -- Gonzo -- 24 eps -- Original -- Action Mystery Super Power -- Speed Grapher Speed Grapher -- Ten years after the Bubble War, the dichotomy between the rich and the poor in the world becomes more prominent and Japan is no exception. The rich seek to satisfy their desires and derive pleasure for themselves, and Tokyo has materialized into such a city as a result. Saiga, once a war photographer, works for Hibara Ginza in the capitalist state of Tokyo. He infiltrates the Roppongi Club, a secretive base located in the red light district of the city, to collect information about them. However, he was caught in the process and brought forward to a girl called Kagura who was in the midst of a ritual. His contact with Kagura awakens his special ability: the power to make things explode when photographed. In order to unravel the mystery behind the Roppongi Club and Kagura, Saiga begins his solitary battle. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Apr 8, 2005 -- 97,142 7.35
Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins -- -- Wit Studio -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action Sci-Fi Space -- Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins -- Andross, an ape exiled from the Lylat Planetary System by General Pepper seeks revenge by attacking the planet Corneria and its innocence, kidnapping Pepper in the process. Meanwhile, it's another usual day for Team Star Fox, a gang of space mercenaries: Lazing around, getting angry at video games, and being lectured by their mentors. But all of that changes once they receive a distress call from a familiar face. -- -- Meet Fox McCloud, son of the deceased James McCloud, as he and his top-notch crew—Slippy Toad, Falco Lombardi and Peppy Hare—fight back against Andross's robotic army in style, and attempt to save Corneria from the skies. -- ONA - Apr 20, 2016 -- 3,467 6.20
Ten Count -- -- - -- ? eps -- Manga -- Drama Romance Shounen Ai -- Ten Count Ten Count -- Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. One day he meets Kurose, a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion. As the two go through each of the ten steps, Shirotani 's attraction to his counselor grows. -- -- (Source: SuBLime) -- TV - ??? ??, ???? -- 22,458 N/AKimi wa Kanata -- -- Digital Network Animation -- 1 ep -- Original -- Drama Fantasy -- Kimi wa Kanata Kimi wa Kanata -- Mio has feelings for her childhood friend Arata, but can't convey her feelings. One day, as they continue their delicate relationship, the two fight over something trivial. After letting tensions settle, Mio goes to make up with him in the pouring rain. While on her way, she gets into a traffic accident. When she regains consciousness, a mysterious and unfamiliar world appears before her eyes. -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- Movie - Nov 27, 2020 -- 22,390 N/AArgento Soma -- -- Sunrise -- 25 eps -- Original -- Action Adventure Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi -- Argento Soma Argento Soma -- In the year 2059, the earth has been plagued by aliens for several years. In an effort to learn more about these aliens, Dr. Noguchi and his assistants Maki Agata and Takuto Kaneshiro try to revive the professor's experiment, a large Bio-Mechanical alien named Frank. During this process the alien comes to 'life' and the lab is subsequently destroyed leaving Takuto the only survivor and the alien disappearing into the wilderness. While Frank roams the wilderness he meets Hattie, an emotionally distressed young girl whose parents are killed in the first 'close encounter' war. Oddly enough she is able to communicate with Frank and soon after they are taken into custody by a secret agency known only as 'Funeral'. Meanwhile, Takuto wakes up in a hospital bed with his life in shambles, and his face disfigured. Motivated by vengeance and heart break, Takuto accepts an offer from the mysterious 'Mr. X' and receives a new identity as a ranking Funeral officer named Ryu Soma. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Sentai Filmworks -- 22,382 6.79
The Big O -- -- Sunrise -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Mystery Psychological Mecha -- The Big O The Big O -- Paradigm City, a city of amnesia and a place of belonging. It remains populated by forgotten pasts and the ruins of their labors due to a calamity 40 years ago. Shrouded in a fog-like mystery, it is up to people like Roger Smith to shine a light through the mist. Acting as a professional negotiator and suave agent, Roger is a self-tailored ladies man whose only love is for funeral black. However, as he gets deeply involved with his clients, what often starts as a simple negotiation evolves into Roger saving Paradigm from crime and peril. -- -- In the process, Roger stumbles even deeper into the untold folds of the city. As a rule, things are hardly ever as they appear. Serving as gray knight in a gray world, Roger is not without allies. By his side are Norman, a loyal and widely skilled butler, and Dorothy, a human-like android with deadpan snark. Together with the relic Big O, a jet-black mecha of gargantuan size and weight, they help Roger serve iron justice to Paradigm's lurking villains as he discovers the truth about 40 years ago. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Oct 13, 1999 -- 77,182 7.53
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S -- -- J.C.Staff -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Super Power -- Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S -- Mikoto Misaka and her friends are back, investigating rumors across Academy City. Soon, Mikoto discovers something terrifying: horrific experiments are taking place throughout the city, involving the murder of thousands of espers. Moreover, these espers are far from just ordinary people: they are clones of Mikoto herself. Feeling responsible for their treatment, she sets off to put an end to the experiments; however, the forces opposing her are much more dangerous than she anticipated, and Mikoto finds herself up against some of the most powerful espers imaginable. -- -- Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S continues the story of the Railgun as she desperately fights to put an end to the inhuman experiments that she believes she helped cause, her life dragged deep into despair in the process. There's never a dull moment in Academy City, but no one ever said all of them would be pleasant. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 307,479 8.05
Toradora! -- -- J.C.Staff -- 25 eps -- Light novel -- Slice of Life Comedy Romance School -- Toradora! Toradora! -- Ryuuji Takasu is a gentle high school student with a love for housework; but in contrast to his kind nature, he has an intimidating face that often gets him labeled as a delinquent. On the other hand is Taiga Aisaka, a small, doll-like student, who is anything but a cute and fragile girl. Equipped with a wooden katana and feisty personality, Taiga is known throughout the school as the "Palmtop Tiger." -- -- One day, an embarrassing mistake causes the two students to cross paths. Ryuuji discovers that Taiga actually has a sweet side: she has a crush on the popular vice president, Yuusaku Kitamura, who happens to be his best friend. But things only get crazier when Ryuuji reveals that he has a crush on Minori Kushieda—Taiga's best friend! -- -- Toradora! is a romantic comedy that follows this odd duo as they embark on a quest to help each other with their respective crushes, forming an unlikely alliance in the process. -- -- -- Licensor: -- NIS America, Inc. -- 1,655,221 8.21
Triage X -- -- Xebec -- 10 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Ecchi Shounen -- Triage X Triage X -- In a deadly terrorist attack, Arashi Mikami narrowly escapes death but loses everything in the process, including his family and best friend. However, the surgeon that rescues him is far from just an ordinary doctor—he commands a strike team known as Black Label whose task is to exterminate deadly criminals who have fallen too far. Filled with a new determination, Arashi joins the ranks of the vigilante organization. -- -- Black Label's targets are aplenty, as evil scum lurks everywhere—dangerous arms dealers, corrupt politicians, and shady gangsters all find themselves hunted by the extermination team. Although haunted by their dark and sinister past, all of the hunters are highly skilled at slaying their targets. In spite of the perilous lives the members live, Arashi and the gorgeous ladies surrounding him still manage to get caught up in a variety of sultry moments and racy hijinks. Though they face strong opposition, nothing can stop Black Label's objective of cleansing the world of ghastly evil. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 124,772 6.33
Xue Se Cang Qiong -- -- CG Year -- 26 eps -- Web manga -- Action Adventure Mystery Horror Thriller Fantasy -- Xue Se Cang Qiong Xue Se Cang Qiong -- Li Mingyang was originally an ordinary office worker. Because of a strange QR code, he was trapped in a killing city. Here everyone is forced to participate in a survival game that is going to kill or be killed. In the process of finding a way out of the city, the mastermind behind the whole incident surfaced step by step. -- ONA - Aug 18, 2017 -- 1,955 6.32
Yuyushiki -- -- Kinema Citrus -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Slice of Life Comedy School -- Yuyushiki Yuyushiki -- The story follows the school life of the three girls, Yuzuko, Yukari, and Yui, who join their high school's Data Processing Club. The odd friendship between the three make for wacky humor in even the most mundane of events. -- 90,418 7.38
Yuyushiki -- -- Kinema Citrus -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Slice of Life Comedy School -- Yuyushiki Yuyushiki -- The story follows the school life of the three girls, Yuzuko, Yukari, and Yui, who join their high school's Data Processing Club. The odd friendship between the three make for wacky humor in even the most mundane of events. -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 90,418 7.38
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600 nm process
65 nm process
6 m process
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Advanced Encryption Standard process
Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute
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Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System
Adversarial process
Aeolian processes
Afghan peace process
Agriprocessors
Aircraft design process
Aitken's delta-squared process
Alberta Taciuk process
Alder Lake (microprocessor)
Alexandria Process
Algebra of communicating processes
Alpha process
Alveolar process
Amber (processor core)
AMD Accelerated Processing Unit
AMD Platform Security Processor
American Federation of Information Processing Societies
Ames process
AMULET microprocessor
Anaerobic contact process
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
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Analytic hierarchy process
Analytic hierarchy process car example
Analytic hierarchy process leader example
Analytic network process
Andrussow process
Animation photo transfer process
Another Day (The Hurt Process EP)
Anterior clinoid process
Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor)
Apple-designed processors
Apple II processor cards
Apple motion coprocessors
Application-specific instruction set processor
Archival processing
ARC (processor)
Arcsine laws (Wiener process)
Array processing
Article processing charge
Articular processes
Artifact-centric business process model
Aseptic processing
Ashura processions in Kashmir
Astronomical Image Processing System
Asymmetric multiprocessing
Asymmetric simple exclusion process
Asynchronous array of simple processors
Atlantic Data Base for Exchange Processes at the Deep Sea Floor
Atlantis Word Processor
Atmel ARM-based processors
Audio processing
Audio signal processing
Auditory processing disorder
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Automated Processes, Inc.
Automatic and controlled processes
Automotive suspension design process
Background process
Bamboo processing machine
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Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority
Bangsamoro peace process
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Baxter Immigration Reception and Processing Centre
Beatification and canonization process prior to 1983
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California Milk Processor Board
Canadian Information Processing Society
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Cayley's process
Cayley process
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Certificate in Data Processing
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Citizens' Group on Electoral Process
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Cocoa Processing Company
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Cognitive processing therapy
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Colombo South Waste Processing Facility
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Department of Defense Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process
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Dutch process chocolate
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Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
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Economics of plastics processing
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Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts
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Ethmoidal process of inferior nasal concha
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EURO Journal on Decision Processes
European Association for Signal Processing
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Exxon donor solvent process
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Federal Information Processing Standards
Federal Procession of 1788
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First impeachment process against Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
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GramSchmidt process
Graphics processing unit
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Halex process
HallHroult process
Hamlet chicken processing plant fire
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Hangul (word processor)
Headroom (audio signal processing)
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Heaton process
Het proces Begeer
Heuristic-systematic model of information processing
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HIsarna ironmaking process
History of natural language processing
Hogel processing unit
Holt-Dern process
Holy Week procession
Holy Week processions in Guatemala
Hoopes process
Horticultural Producers' Cooperative Marketing and Processing Society
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Host signal processing
How's Your Process? (Play)
How's Your Process? (Work)
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Humvee replacement process
Hunt process
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Hytort process
IBM 2365 Processor Storage
IBM AN/FSQ-31 SAC Data Processing System
IBM Check Processing Control System
IBM High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing
IBM POWER microprocessors
IBM WebSphere Process Server
Ice Lake (microprocessor)
Ichitaro (word processor)
ICL Distributed Array Processor
Ideation (creative process)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Ignite (microprocessor)
Illuminated procession
Il processo di Biscardi
Image processor
Impeachment process against Richard Nixon
Imprecise Dirichlet process
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Indian buffet process
Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology
Industrial processes
Infinitesimal generator (stochastic processes)
Information processing
Information Processing and Management
Information Processing Centre
Information Processing in Medical Imaging
Information Processing Language
Information Processing Letters
Information Processing Society of Japan
Information Processing Techniques Office
Information processing technology and aging
Information processing theory
Information processor
Information search process
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
Inline process refractometer
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In-situ processing
Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications
Institute for Chemical-Physical Processes
Institute for Language and Speech Processing
Institute for Micro Process Engineering
Integrated Process Automation
Interactive accommodation process
Interface Message Processor
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
International Conference on Business Process Management
International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
International Federation for Information Processing
International Journal of Computer Processing of Languages
International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Inter-process communication
Inter-processor interrupt
Interrupts in 65xx processors
Interspinous process decompression
Intrajugular process of occipital bone
Invoice processing
IPL Information Processing Limited
Ironic process theory
Irreversible process
Isenthalpic process
Isentropic process
Isobaric process
Isochoric process
Isothermal process
IsraeliPalestinian peace process
Israeli views on the peace process
Java API for XML Processing
Java Community Process
Java Optimized Processor
Jeopardy! audition process
Journal of Food Process Engineering
Journal of Food Processing and Preservation
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process
Jugular process
Jump process
Kahn process networks
Kalai (process)
Kentsfield (microprocessor)
Khartoum process
Killed process
Kimberley Process Certification Scheme
Kiviter process
Knowledge-based processor
Knowledge processing for robots
Knowledge process outsourcing
Kolmogorov equations (Markov jump process)
Krber Process Solutions
Kraft process
Kroll process
Kvrner process
Labor process theory
Ladder height process
Lamfalussy process
Laminar Excursion Monthly No. 8 (Procession at Night)
Language processing in the brain
Lanxide process
La Procesin
Latency oriented processor architecture
Lead chamber process
Leather production processes
Leblanc process
Legal process
Legal process (jurisprudence)
Leisure Process
Leptogenys processionalis
Levels of Processing model
Lvy process
Libyan peace process
Life-process model of addiction
Light-weight process
Liming (leather processing)
LindeFrankCaro process
Linux startup process
List of AMD accelerated processing units
List of AMD Athlon 64 microprocessors
List of AMD Athlon microprocessors
List of AMD Athlon X2 microprocessors
List of AMD Athlon XP microprocessors
List of AMD Duron microprocessors
List of AMD FX microprocessors
List of AMD graphics processing units
List of AMD K5 microprocessors
List of AMD K6 microprocessors
List of AMD K7 microprocessors
List of AMD mobile microprocessors
List of AMD Opteron microprocessors
List of AMD Phenom microprocessors
List of AMD processors
List of AMD Ryzen processors
List of AMD Sempron microprocessors
List of AMD Turion microprocessors
List of chemical process simulators
List of defunct network processor companies
List of duplicating processes
List of former IA-32 compatible processor manufacturers
List of Intel Atom microprocessors
List of Intel Cascade Lake-based Xeon microprocessors
List of Intel Celeron microprocessors
List of Intel Core 2 microprocessors
List of Intel Core-based Xeon microprocessors
List of Intel Core i3 microprocessors
List of Intel Core i5 processors
List of Intel Core i7 microprocessors
List of Intel Core i9 processors
List of Intel Core M processors
List of Intel Core processors
List of Intel graphics processing units
List of Intel Nehalem-based Xeon microprocessors
List of Intel P6-based Xeon microprocessors
List of Intel Pentium 4 processors
List of Intel Pentium III microprocessors
List of Intel Pentium II microprocessors
List of Intel Pentium processors
List of Intel processors
List of Intel Skylake-based Xeon microprocessors
List of Intel Xeon processors
List of manufacturing processes
List of MediaTek processors
List of MIPS architecture processors
List of Nvidia graphics processing units
List of participants in the coronation procession of Elizabeth II
List of participants in the coronation processions of George VI
List of photographic processes
List of PowerPC processors
List of Qualcomm Snapdragon processors
List of quantum processors
List of stochastic processes topics
List of VIA microprocessor cores
List of welding processes
List of word processors
LLNL HRS process
LLNL RISE process
Local Inter-Process Communication
LurgiRuhrgas process
Lynnfield (microprocessor)
Macintosh Processor Upgrade Card
Mac transition to Intel processors
Madoka (business process automation)
Madras Export Processing Zone
ManhsDavid process
Mannheim process
Manufacturing process management
Manus Regional Processing Centre
Manycore processor
Marengo process
Markov decision process
Markovian arrival process
Markov renewal process
Martinian and Processus
Massively parallel processor array
Matthew 18 process
Maxillary process
Maxillary process of inferior nasal concha
McKeanVlasov process
Media-embedded processor
Media processor
MerrillCrowe process
Meta-process modeling
Meyn Food Processing Technology
Micro process engineering
Microprocessor
Microprocessor chronology
Microprocessor complex subunit DGCR8
Microprocessor development board
Microprocessor Report
Microwave analog signal processing
Middle clinoid process
Military and Processional music
Military Decision Making Process
Mineral processing
Ministry of Food Processing Industries
Ministry of Timber, Paper and Wood Processing Industry
MIPS architecture processors
Mitochondrial processing peptidase
Mixing (process engineering)
Mobile processor
Molding (process)
Molecular processor
Mond process
Monsanto process
Montral Process
Moran process
More Product, Less Process
Mozart the music processor
Mukai Cold Process Fruit Barrelling Plant
Multi-core processor
Multi-cycle processor
Multidimensional signal processing
Multi-Payload Processing Facility
Multiprocessing
Multiprocessor scheduling
Multiprocessor system architecture
Multiprocessor system on a chip
Multispecies coalescent process
Muscular process of arytenoid cartilage
Myanmar peace process
NASU Institute of Pulse Processes and Technologies
National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Program
National Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process
National Office of Electoral Processes
National Reorganization Process
National Unity Process
Natural-gas processing
Natural language processing
Natural process variation
Nauru Regional Processing Centre
Neon-burning process
Network Processing Forum
Network processor
Neural network Gaussian process
NewberyVautin chlorination process
New Process Steel, L.P. v. NLRB
Nios embedded processor
Nitrophosphate process
Non-linear multi-dimensional signal processing
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Non-printing character in word processors
Normalization (image processing)
Normalization process model
Normalization process theory
North East of England Process Industry Cluster
Northern Ireland peace process
Nota Bene (word processor)
Notebook processor
NRS process
Nuclear reprocessing
Nursing process
Oak processionary
Object Process Methodology
Obscurior lateraprocessa
Occam process
Odontoblast process
Oiling (leather processing)
Oil print process
Olin Raschig process
OMEGA process
Omni Processor
Omnishale process
Online analytical processing
Online complex processing
Online transaction processing
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OppenheimerPhillips process
Opponent process
Opponent-process theory
O Processo dos Tvoras
Oracle BPEL Process Manager
Orbital process of palatine bone
Orbiter Processing Facility
Order processing
Organic Process Research & Development
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
OrnsteinUhlenbeck process
Osmond process
Ostwald process
Our Lady of Trapani procession (Tunis)
Outline of natural language processing
Outward Processing Arrangement
Oxy-fuel combustion process
Oxygen-burning process
Package development process
Packet processing
Pages (word processor)
Paget process
Palatine process of maxilla
Palestinian views on the peace process
Paraho process
Parallel constraint satisfaction processes
Parallel Element Processing Ensemble
Parallel multidimensional digital signal processing
Parallel processing
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Parallel Processing Letters
Partially observable Markov decision process
Parts of the Process (The Very Best of Morcheeba)
Party participation in the mediation process
Party Processions Act
Pasta processing
Patio process
Pattison's Process
Payment processor
Peace process
Peer jury process
Penrose process
Penryn (microprocessor)
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
Peroxide process
Personal software process
Petrosal process
Phallic processions
Phase-gate process
Philippine Refugee Processing Center
Photoelectrochemical process
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Physics processing unit
Phytoextraction process
Pidgeon process
Piecewise-deterministic Markov process
Pine processionary
PitmanYor process
Point process
Poisson point process
Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency, 19301970
Polyring forming processes
Polytropic process
Posterior clinoid processes
Postorbital process
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Post processor
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Power Processing Element
P-process
Prague Process
Prague Process (ArmenianAzerbaijani negotiations)
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Premium Processing Service
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Probability distribution of extreme points of a Wiener stochastic process
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Proceso
Proceso 8000
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Process Church of the Final Judgment
Process Combustion Ltd.
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Processed cheese
Processed meat
Processed World
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Processing and Packaging Machinery Association
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Processing Magazine
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Processional Arts Workshop
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Processo Revolucionrio Em Curso
Processo Revolucionrio Em Curso governing bodies
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Process Systems Design and Control Laboratory
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ProcessWire
Production part approval process
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Pterygoid processes of the sphenoid
Pterygospinous process
Puerto Rico government transition process
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Purchasing process
Push processing
Pyramidal process of palatine bone
Pyramid (image processing)
Q-Gaussian process
QText (word processor)
Quad digital audio processor
Quantization (image processing)
Quantization (signal processing)
Quantum signal processing
Quasi-birthdeath process
Quasistatic process
R2000 (microprocessor)
RA-4 process
Radial styloid process
Radiative process
RAID processing unit
Rapid thermal processing
RaschigHooker process
Raster image processor
Rational arrival process
Rational Unified Process
Reflection principle (Wiener process)
Religious Procession in Kursk Governorate
Reprocessed uranium
Reprocessing
Resource-dependent branching process
Reversible process (thermodynamics)
Revival Process
Rigel (microprocessor)
Robotic process automation
Rock (processor)
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
Roll-to-roll processing
Rome process
Royal Barge Procession
Rp-process
R-process
Rule based analysis of extrusion process
Sales decision process
Sales process engineering
Salt Waste Processing Facility
Sample-continuous process
Sampling (signal processing)
SAP NetWeaver Process Integration
Scalar processor
Scheduling (production processes)
Schfftan process
Scoring (industrial process)
Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process
Secure cryptoprocessor
Semantic decomposition (natural language processing)
Semantic processing
Semiconductor process simulation
Sensor network query processor
Sensory processing
Sensory processing disorder
Sensory processing sensitivity
Sentence processing
Separation process
Serial memory processing
Service of process
Servio Federal de Processamento de Dados
Shaping processes in crystal growth
Shell higher olefin process
Shell in situ conversion process
ShellPaques process
Shell Spher process
Siemens Milltronics Process Instruments
Signal processing
Silicon-burning process
Single use medical device reprocessing
Sitara ARM Processor
Smoothing problem (stochastic processes)
SNOX process
Social business process management
Social information processing
Social information processing (cognition)
Social information processing (theory)
Social peer-to-peer processes
Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering
Sderkping Process
Sodium vapor process
Soft microprocessor
Software development process
Software Engineering Process Group
Solgel process
Solvay process
Solvay Process Company
Somatic genome processing
Sony Toshiba IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Processor
South-East European Cooperation Process
Space Shuttle design process
Space-time adaptive processing
Spectrum Signal Processing by Vecima
Speech processing
Speech Processing Solutions
Sphenoidal process of palatine bone
Spirit Boat Procession
Spontaneous process
Sprint (word processor)
S-process
Stabilisation and Association Process
Staggered extension process
Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement
Standard components (food processing)
Statistical process control
Stealey (microprocessor)
Stieda process
Stber process
Stochastic process
Stochastic processes and boundary value problems
Stochastic Processes and Their Applications
Stochastic process rare event sampling
Straight-through processing
Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate
Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act
Stream processing
Stream processor
Stream processors
Structureorganizationprocess
Student Information Processing Board
Studies in Natural Language Processing
Styloid process
Subject-oriented business process management
Sudanese peace process
Sulfite process
Summary process
Sunway (processor)
Superior multimineral process
Superprocess
Superscalar processor
Superslow process
Supracondylar process of the humerus
Sycamore processor
Symmetric multiprocessing
Syrian peace process
Systematic hierarchical approach for resilient process screening
System Idle Process
Table of AMD processors
TaKeTiNa Rhythm Process
Talalay process
Talk:Barcelona Process
Tea processing
Telecommunication transaction processing systems
Telegraph process
Teleprocessing monitor
Template processor
Temporal styloid process
Tensor Processing Unit
The Association for Work Process Improvement
The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum
The Black Heart Procession
The Boston process approach
The Civilizing Process
The Dementia Process
The Jos Forum Inter-communal Dialogue Process
The Lightning Process
The Nature of the Judicial Process
The Process
The Process (band)
The Procession (film)
The Procession to Calvary (Bruegel)
The Process (Jon Batiste, Chad Smith and Bill Laswell album)
The Process of Belief
The Process of Weeding Out
The Process (Play-N-Skillz album)
Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant
Thermodynamic process
Thermomechanical processing
The Unprocessed Child
Thinking processes (theory of constraints)
Third metacarpal styloid process
Three-process view
Three (The Black Heart Procession album)
Thresholding (image processing)
Throttling process (computing)
Tiger Lake (microprocessor)
Time reversal signal processing
Titan (microprocessor)
Tomes's process
TOSCO II process
Trango Virtual Processors
Transaction processing
Transaction Processing Facility
Transaction Processing Management System
Transaction Processing over XML
Transaction processing system
Transparent Inter-process Communication
Transporter associated with antigen processing
TriMedia (mediaprocessor)
Triple-alpha process
Triumphal Procession
Tukwila (processor)
Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab
Ulnar styloid process
Ultrafast molecular process
Ultra-high-temperature processing
Ultra-low-voltage processor
Ultra-processed food
Uncinate process
Uncinate processes of ribs
Uncinate process of ethmoid bone
Uncinate process of pancreas
Unified Process
Union process
Uniprocessor system
United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
Unit process
Urca process
Uttara Export Processing Zone
Vaginal process
Value process management
Variance gamma process
Vector processor
Vernian Process
Vibratory shear-enhanced process
Video post-processing
Video processing
Virtual Processor
Vision processing unit
Visual processing abnormalities in schizophrenia
Vocal process
Volumetric Imaging and Processing of Integrated Radar
Vulnerabilities Equities Process
Wacker process
Wackersdorf reprocessing plant
Walker Process Equipment, Inc. v. Food Machinery & Chemical Corp.
Watershed (image processing)
WegenerBergeronFindeisen process
WellmanLord process
Wet process engineering
Wet sulfuric acid process
Whiskey Lake (microprocessor)
Wiener process
Williams process
Windows NT 6 startup process
Windows NT processor scheduling
Windows NT startup process
Windows startup process
Whler process
Woman Suffrage Procession
Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre
Word processor
Word processor (electronic device)
Word Processor of the Gods
Work in process
Writing process
Xenon (processor)
Xiphoid process
Yemeni peace process
Yonah (microprocessor)
Z Application Assist Processor
Zarnegar (word processor)
Zero-order process (statistics)
Zeta Instrument Processor Interface
Ziegler process
Zombie process
Zorba (XQuery processor)
Zygomatic process
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