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pronounceable ::: a. --> Capable of being pronounced.

pronounced ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Pronounce ::: a. --> Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided. [A Gallicism]

pronouncement ::: n. --> The act of pronouncing; a declaration; a formal announcement.

pronounce ::: v. t. --> To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.
To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.
To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to

pronouncer ::: n. --> One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book.

pronouncing ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or indicating, pronunciation; as, a pronouncing dictionary.

pronounging ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Pronounce

pronoun ::: n. --> A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they.

pronounceable ::: a. --> Capable of being pronounced.

pronounced ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Pronounce ::: a. --> Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided. [A Gallicism]

pronouncement ::: n. --> The act of pronouncing; a declaration; a formal announcement.

pronounce ::: v. t. --> To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.
To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.
To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to

pronouncer ::: n. --> One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book.

pronouncing ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or indicating, pronunciation; as, a pronouncing dictionary.

pronounging ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Pronounce

pronoun ::: n. --> A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they.

pronounced “God will dry up the sea and the

pronounced by Moses on Pharaoh Necho, causing

pronoun: A linguistic term for a word which substitutes for a noun such as "you", "she", "it".

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   4 Friedrich Nietzsche
   3 Stephen King
   3 Simone Weil
   3 Seanan McGuire
   3 Rumi
   3 Mira Grant
   3 Kelley Armstrong
   3 Herbert Hoover
   3 Henry David Thoreau
   3 George Santayana
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1:Utter SILENCE must be observed in the room. Whoever pronounces a word in the presence of Sri Aurobindo will have to leave the place immediately. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I ,

2:The day I acquired the habit of consciously pronouncing the words thank you, I felt I had gained possession of a magic wand capable of transforming everything. ~ Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov,

3:Ordinary men pronounce a sackful of discourses on religion, but do not put a grain into practice, while the sage speaks little, but his whole life is religion put in to action ~ Sri Ramakrishna,

4:I do not suffer any experience, pleasant or unpleasant; it is only a 'you' or a 'me' who suffers an experience. This is a very important pronouncement and you should ponder over it deeply. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,

5:"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still. ~ Robert Anton Wilson,

6:Whoever has seen the universe, whoever has beheld the fiery designs of the universe, cannot think in terms of one man, of that man's trivial fortunes or misfortunes, though he be that very man. That man has been he and now matters no more to him. What is the life of that other to him, the nation of that other to him, if he, now, is no one? This is why I do not pronounce the formula, why, lying here in the darkness, I let the days obliterate me. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths Selected Stories and Other Writings,

7:No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race. ~ Richard P Feynman,

8:John von Neumann (/vɒn ˈnɔɪmən/; Hungarian: Neumann Janos Lajos, pronounced [ˈnɒjmɒn ˈjaːnoʃ ˈlɒjoʃ]; December 28, 1903 - February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, inventor, computer scientist, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, geometry, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics, and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear programming, self-replicating machines, stochastic computing), and statistics. ~ Wikipedia,

9:Likewise, looking deep within the mind, in the very most interior part of the self, when the mind becomes very, very quiet, and one listens very carefully, in that infinite silence, the soul begins to whisper, and its feather-soft voice takes one far beyond what the mind could ever imagine, beyond anything rationality could possibly tolerate, beyond anything logic can endure. In its gentle whisperings, there are the faintest hints of infinite love, glimmers of a life that time forgot, flashes of a bliss that must not be mentioned, an infinite intersection where the mysteries of eternity breathe life into mortal time, where suffering and pain have forgotten how to pronounce their own names, this secret quiet intersection of time and the very timeless, an intersection called the soul. ~ Ken Wilber, Integral Psychology p. 106.,

10:I have been accused of a habit of changing my opinions. I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions. What physicist who was already active in 1900 would dream of boasting that his opinions had not changed during the last half century? In science men change their opinions when new knowledge becomes available; but philosophy in the minds of many is assimilated rather to theology than to science. The kind of philosophy that I value and have endeavoured to pursue is scientific, in the sense that there is some definite knowledge to be obtained and that new discoveries can make the admission of former error inevitable to any candid mind. For what I have said, whether early or late, I do not claim the kind of truth which theologians claim for their creeds. I claim only, at best, that the opinion expressed was a sensible one to hold at the time when it was expressed. I should be much surprised if subsequent research did not show that it needed to be modified. I hope, therefore, that whoever uses this dictionary will not suppose the remarks which it quotes to be intended as pontifical pronouncements, but only as the best I could do at the time towards the promotion of clear and accurate thinking. Clarity, above all, has been my aim. ~ Bertrand Russell,

11:Sweet Mother, there's a flower you have named "The Creative Word".Yes.What does that mean?It is the word which creates.There are all kinds of old traditions, old Hindu traditions, old Chaldean traditions in which the Divine, in the form of the Creator, that is, in His aspect as Creator, pronounces a word which has the power to create. So it is this... And it is the origin of the mantra. The mantra is the spoken word which has a creative power. An invocation is made and there is an answer to the invocation; or one makes a prayer and the prayer is granted. This is the Word, the Word which, in its sound... it is not only the idea, it is in the sound that there's a power of creation. It is the origin, you see, of the mantra.In Indian mythology the creator God is Brahma, and I think that it was precisely his power which has been symbolised by this flower, "The Creative Word". And when one is in contact with it, the words spoken have a power of evocation or creation or formation or transformation; the words... sound always has a power; it has much more power than men think. It may be a good power and it may be a bad power. It creates vibrations which have an undeniable effect. It is not so much the idea as the sound; the idea too has its own power, but in its own domain - whereas the sound has a power in the material world.I think I have explained this to you once; I told you, for example, that words spoken casually, usually without any re- flection and without attaching any importance to them, can be used to do something very good. I think I spoke to you about "Bonjour", "Good Day", didn't I? When people meet and say "Bonjour", they do so mechanically and without thinking. But if you put a will into it, an aspiration to indeed wish someone a good day, well, there is a way of saying "Good Day" which is very effective, much more effective than if simply meeting someone you thought: "Ah! I hope he has a good day", without saying anything. If with this hope in your thought you say to him in a certain way, "Good Day", you make it more concrete and more effective.It's the same thing, by the way, with curses, or when one gets angry and says bad things to people. This can do them as much harm - more harm sometimes - than if you were to give them a slap. With very sensitive people it can put their stomach out of order or give them palpitation, because you put into it an evil force which has a power of destruction.It is not at all ineffective to speak. Naturally it depends a great deal on each one's inner power. People who have no strength and no consciousness can't do very much - unless they employ material means. But to the extent that you are strong, especially when you have a powerful vital, you must have a great control on what you say, otherwise you can do much harm. Without wanting to, without knowing it; through ignorance.Anything? No? Nothing?Another question?... Everything's over? ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955 347-349,

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1:CHAPTER V. PRONOUNCED INSANE ~ Nellie Bly,

2:IOI (pronounced eye-oh-eye) ~ Ernest Cline,

3:Way to pronoun," Saunders says. ~ Mary Robison,

4:Pretty as a pineapple,” pronounced ~ Gail Carriger,

5:Pronouns are the enemy of improv. ~ Craig Cackowski,

6:Vanderbilt,” Kenton pronounces, ~ Aurora Rose Reynolds,

7:No - simple to pronounce, hard to say. ~ Melody Beattie,

8:and a pronounced chin and deep-set gray ~ Kristin Hannah,

9:Words are memes that can be pronounced. ~ Daniel Dennett,

10:Words are memes that can be pronounced. ~ Daniel C Dennett,

11:One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment. ~ Ayn Rand,

12:Did he have Ruscha so he could pronounce “Ruscha”? ~ Amy Sohn,

13:I pronounced them with such frantic energy. ~ Charlotte Bront,

14:What is not pronounced tends to nonexistence. ~ Czes aw Mi osz,

15:It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun. ~ Robin Black,

16:The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns. ~ Martin Luther,

17:His use of the plural pronoun made me very suspicious. ~ Matthew Quick,

18:SQL is correctly pronounced “ess-cue-ell,” not “see-quell. ~ Anonymous,

19:Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar. ~ Benjamin Franklin,

20:Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage". ~ Herbert Spencer,

21:Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it ~ Christopher Morley,

22:Nobody pronounces capital letters like an Aeslin mouse. ~ Seanan McGuire,

23:I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements. ~ Penelope Lively,

24:In contrast to my husband, I can pronounce the word nuclear. ~ Laura Bush,

25:Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. ~ Christopher Morley,

26:She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news. ~ Aaron Sorkin,

27:I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now. ~ Ann Beattie,

28:If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it. ~ Amanda Seyfried,

29:The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented. ~ John Fowles,

30:uncultured youths who make random pronouncements on everything ~ Elena Ferrante,

31:Octokongs,” I pronounced grimly. “Why did it have to be octokongs? ~ Jim Butcher,

32:Pronounce your limitations vigorously enough and they're yours. ~ Robert Anthony,

33:I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession. ~ Monique Wittig,

34:Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men. ~ John Milton,

35:The Swendish queen— whose name I couldn’t pronounce to save my life. ~ Kiera Cass,

36:Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses. ~ Winston Churchill,

37:he—I do wish somebody would think up a new collective pronoun— ~ Charlotte MacLeod,

38:To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. ~ H L Mencken,

39:I pronounce us man and something-or-other. We’re married, big boy. ~ Gordon Merrick,

40:My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly. ~ Sierra DeMulder,

41:WYTIWYG” (pronounced “witty-wig”): What You Test Is What You Get. ~ Kelly Gallagher,

42:Mira Grant is actually my pseudonym. And Seanan is pronounced SHAWN-in. ~ Mira Grant,

43:Why is S-A-S pronounced S-A-W? It should be Ar-Kansas. Did Kansas object? ~ J D Robb,

44:I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly. ~ Joe Gold,

45:I did have a feminist side to me, just not in such a pronounced way. ~ Park Chan wook,

46:Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable. ~ Stephen Fry,

47:I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent. ~ Charlotte Bront,

48:the resulting disarray was particularly pronounced in the medical school. ~ Ay e Kulin,

49:We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity. ~ Aeschylus,

50:Habit-forming products alleviate users' pain by relieving a pronounced itch. ~ Nir Eyal,

51:Habit-forming products alleviate users’ pain by relieving a pronounced itch. ~ Nir Eyal,

52:I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent. ~ Charlotte Bronte,

53:Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist! ~ R Kent Hughes,

54:But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are. ~ Anthony Marra,

55:I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile. ~ Adriana Lima,

56:muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate ~ Mohsin Hamid,

57:For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide. ~ James Thurber,

58:I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. ~ Gillian Jacobs,

59:liars use more words than truth tellers and use far more third-person pronouns ~ Chris Voss,

60:Life's a pitch, as the old woman said. She couldn't pronounce her b’s. ~ Karl Ove Knausg rd,

61:Mrs. Penniman always, even in conversation, italicised her personal pronouns. ~ Henry James,

62:We all know gifs are pronounced "jifs," right? Their creator says so, damn it! ~ Bill Walsh,

63:Count Bezúkhov had a sixth stroke. The doctors pronounced recovery impossible. ~ Leo Tolstoy,

64:I have a feeling it makes my frowny, resting bitch face even more pronounced. ~ Karina Halle,

65:Life's a pitch, as the old woman said. She couldn't pronounce her 'b's. ~ Karl Ove Knausg rd,

66:Or recite this mantra: om mani padme hum (pronounced “om mani padmay hum”). ~ Dalai Lama XIV,

67:It seemed Abe Vigoda's career was done until he was pronounced dead in print. ~ Audie Cornish,

68:Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy. ~ Aeschylus,

69:I don’t know what’s wrong with you, Gondorf, but I bet it’s hard to pronounce, ~ Jason Matthews,

70:most people could not pronounce Nintendo and were not interested in learning how. ~ David Sheff,

71:The psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced six-cent-mihaly) has done ~ Daniel Kahneman,

72:error brought remorse, and you pronounced remorse the poison of existence ~ Charlotte Bront,

73:He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles. ~ Winston Graham,

74:If you encounter someone who pronounces the t in often, odds are they're a douchebag. ~ Dana Gould,

75:My name is Antoinette Beauchamp, pronounced BEECH-um, and I am my mother's daughter ~ Sean Stewart,

76:It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

77:Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it. ~ Giordano Bruno,

78:Do not hesitate to ask for an electric fan (“diànshàn,” pronounced “dee-en shahn”). ~ Larry Herzberg,

79:Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement ~ Herbert Hoover,

80:My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way. ~ Jeff Gannon,

81:The fire puffed up with pride its flaming head, But soon the wind pronounced that ‘it is dead’. ~ Rumi,

82:The zero in the telephone number he pronounced "naught." The number was: "2 B R 0 2 B. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,

83:A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced. ~ Aeschylus,

84:Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. ~ Herbert Hoover,

85:Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading. ~ Anonymous,

86:Never make fun of someone is they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading. ~ Anonymous,

87:Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay. ~ William Cowper,

88:Doctor, I can't pronounce my F's, T's and H's.” “Well you can't say fairer than that then ~ Tommy Cooper,

89:Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue. ~ William Shakespeare,

90:The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it. ~ Frank Muir,

91:Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson. ~ Mark Twain,

92:Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus? ~ Jessica Simpson,

93:Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me. ~ Leo Szilard,

94:Nature hates all botched and half-finished work, and will pronounce her curse upon it. ~ Orison Swett Marden,

95:A hard word follows us and later falls upon him who pronounced it, like a ray of vengeance. ~ Samael Aun Weor,

96:Pronouns no longer apply in the tavern’s mud-world of excited confusion and half-articulated wantings. ~ Rumi,

97:The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved. ~ Daniel Kahneman,

98:The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed. ~ Denis Diderot,

99:The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~ Annie Dillard,

100:You need to take language lessons from me, regularly and obediently, until I pronounce you cured. ~ Ana s Nin,

101:Hank was full of absolutes, pronouncements like “Art has no utility” and “Warhol is irrelevant. ~ Rob Spillman,

102:Never mind what my name is,” the man said. “No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir. ~ Daniel Handler,

103:The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating. ~ Rick Riordan,

104:He kissed her stopping her words at once. A pronounced number of gasps resonated across the room. ~ Terry Spear,

105:President Bush spent the day calling names he couldn't pronounce in countries he never knew existed. ~ Jay Leno,

106:Hamlet. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc’d it to you, trippingly on the tongue; ~ William Shakespeare,

107:Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced! ~ Maria Edgeworth,

108:The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'. ~ Winston Churchill,

109:when our lives have faded, history will pronounce its cool, detached, and shadowy verdict. ~ Winston S Churchill,

110:Yes, my name is Seamus — pronounced SHAY-mus — Rafael Goldberg. Try being five with that name. ~ Bill Konigsberg,

111:I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly. ~ Jimmy Carr,

112:I think they would like the songs better if I left out the names, or changed the pronouns. ~ David Levithan,

113:President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger. ~ David Letterman,

114:What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please. ~ Samuel Johnson,

115:My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly. ~ Karen Russell,

116:Whatever. Everyone mispronounces my name. And, like, David Bowie was big before I was born, right? ~ Avril Lavigne,

117:Adam pronounced love very carefully, as if it were an unfamiliar element on the periodic table. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,

118:Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

119:I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully. ~ China Machado,

120:They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. ~ Mark Twain,

121:They were pronounced husband and wife. He kissed his bride. My Betty. My honeybee. She kissed me goodbye. ~ M Mabie,

122:Your words may be wrong, your pronounciation funny, but the fact that you are trying, creates a bridge. ~ Anonymous,

123:Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth. ~ Lord Acton,

124:If you’re chopping and changing the team you don’t get that word I can’t pronounce beginning with ‘C’. ~ Paul Merson,

125:In the Old Peculiar language, the word ymbryne (pronounced imm-brinn) means “revolution” or “circuit. ~ Ransom Riggs,

126:It was easy to argue with Quagliagliarello, if you had patience, and if you could pronounce his name. ~ Mark Helprin,

127:The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating. ~ Rick Riordan,

128:The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. ~ Ayn Rand,

129:By the power vested in me thanks to Google, I know pronounce you husband and wife! You may kiss the bride! ~ J R Ward,

130:If you can't pronounce it, you probably shouldn't be putting it in your body or in your environment. ~ Sandra Bullock,

131:The Republican Party seems just as eager as the Democrats to pronounce their voters as extreme kooks. ~ Rush Limbaugh,

132:There's very little solid research on readership, yet people make pronouncements about it all the time. ~ Robert Hass,

133:Thinkest thou that thou canst write the name of God on Time? No more is it pronounced in Eternity. ~ Angelus Silesius,

134:That pronouncement went over about as well as an all-vegan buffet at a Cattlemen's Association dinner. ~ Dianne Duvall,

135:Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality. ~ Louisa May Alcott,

136:Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape. ~ Mary Ruefle,

137:Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar. ~ Marilyn vos Savant,

138:Companies with pronounceable names do better than others for the first week after the stock is issued, ~ Daniel Kahneman,

139:"I don't know exactly what's wrong with you, but I bet it's hard to pronounce when you're drunk." ~ Cherie Priest,

140:In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

141:Whatever pronouns a person chooses, if they choose any at all, are their right. Not a fucking preference, ~ Gabby Rivera,

142:If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases. ~ George Bernard Shaw,

143:If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility ~ Mark Twain,

144:I've been pronounced dead and I've read my own obituaries. And they were the best reviews I ever read. ~ Elizabeth Taylor,

145:Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself. ~ James Jeans,

146:Cwn Annwn,” I said. “I think I’m finally pronouncing that right. Welsh. So many letters. So few vowels. ~ Kelley Armstrong,

147:I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling. ~ Chris Marker,

148:Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name. ~ Vladimir Nabokov,

149:Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science. ~ Edward Abbey,

150:Like many Vatican pronouncements, the official version of events would bear little resemblance to the truth. ~ Daniel Silva,

151:The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing. ~ Jonathan Ames,

152:...religion which is nothing more of less than sun-worship of a pronounced and highly developed character. ~ H Rider Haggard,

153:there is an acronym for it, WFIO, which stands for “We’re Fucked, It’s Over” (it’s pronounced “whiff-ee-yo”). ~ Ben Horowitz,

154:[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow. ~ Margot Asquith,

155:You shouldn’t – – – – them, then,’ muttered one of his henchmen, effortlessly pronouncing a row of dashes. ~ Terry Pratchett,

156:But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat. ~ William Shakespeare,

157:Her name was Marroca, probably her maiden name, and she pronounced it as though it had fifteen r's in it. ~ Guy de Maupassant,

158:To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'. ~ Galileo Galilei,

159:wince unconsciously as he pronounces the word. I have to bite my lip to keep from correcting him: Scavengers. ~ Lauren Oliver,

160:Words affect the mind in a pronounced way. Whether they are spoken or written, they are powerful influences. ~ Robin S Sharma,

161:He reached a large stream, of the kind the locals called a creek and pronounced crick, and decided to follow it. ~ Neil Gaiman,

162:I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe. ~ Toni Morrison,

163:Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss. ~ Mira Grant,

164:What? Who? You can't throw around pronouns like that without their antecedents if you want people to follow you. ~ Kevin Hearne,

165:I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb signifies to be; to do; to suffer. I signify all three. ~ Richard Ford,

166:It is not too much to say that when the word blood is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart. ~ Doris Lessing,

167:Second, my dear husband, I pronounce you a certified lunatic. You might as well run naked through the streets! ~ Sholom Aleichem,

168:if they pronounce your name like a curse then you may as well teach their mouths how to taste a growing hell ~ Scherezade Siobhan,

169:It is not too much to say that when the word "blood" is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart. ~ Doris Lessing,

170:The Affect Heuristic The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved. ~ Daniel Kahneman,

171:If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!" (William Strunk) ... Why compound ignorance with inaudibility? ~ E B White,

172:Kate almost choked on her coffee. That pronouncement was a little like the Queen of England saying, "Call me Liz. ~ Juliette Harper,

173:Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss. ~ Seanan McGuire,

174:The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution. ~ Thomas B Macaulay,

175:Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes. ~ Douglas Adams,

176:He accepted it, walked over to the monster, and stabbed it a dozen times. “Dead,” he pronounced, and walked back over. ~ Andrew Rowe,

177:The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject. ~ Philip Kitcher,

178:He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the feeling was mutual. ~ Gillian Flynn,

179:She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades. ~ Edith Wharton,

180:What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed. ~ Douglas Huebler,

181:I think I can stand up, though!” He demonstrated the questionable optimism of this pronouncement by falling on his face. ~ Scott Lynch,

182:You don't look well," he pronounced. "Indigestion," I replied. "From what?" "Reality." "Join the queue. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n,

183:A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements. ~ Eric Hoffer,

184:Gutfreund (pronounced Good friend) liked to sneak up from behind and surprise you. This was fun for him but not for you. ~ Michael Lewis,

185:I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. ~ Bram Stoker,

186:Mood disorders , in addition to exhibiting seasonal patterns, frequently show pronounced diurnal rhythms as well. ~ Kay Redfield Jamison,

187:This is our privy. Don’t ever let Mrs. Byrne catch you using the one in the house.” She pronounces catch “kitch. ~ Christina Baker Kline,

188:To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so. ~ George Santayana,

189:The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton,

190:There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname. ~ Milla Jovovich,

191:a present has many faces to it, has it not? and one should consider all, before pronouncing an opinion as to its nature. ~ Charlotte Bront,

192:No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me. ~ Franz Grillparzer,

193:People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'. ~ Franz Kafka,

194:remember to call them by neutral pronouns like “they” unless they asked me to use a gender. That was the polite thing to do. ~ Andrew Rowe,

195:Girlfriend? That’s a funny way to pronounce Netflix” - Rachel Sinclair, Molly’s occasional (and always sarcastic) study partner. ~ Sara Ney,

196:God: 1. A deity who looks like Marx, was pronounced dead by Nietzsche, and envied by Freud. 2. The monster over our beds. ~ Eric Jarosinski,

197:Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce ~ Lorrie Moore,

198:The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud. ~ G K Chesterton,

199:Then I now pronounce us husbands and wife,” Dean said. Jack pulled off her T-shirt. “We’re now going to fuck the bride. ~ Jamie K Schmidt,

200:Definitely worth the wait,” Cinderella pronounced, a little breathlessly, when they were finished. “Yes, you are,” Friedrich said, ~ K M Shea,

201:When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten. ~ Joaquin Phoenix,

202:Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me." ~ Cary Fukunaga,

203:He was one of those guys who’d pronounce I’m a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the feeling was mutual. Marybeth ~ Gillian Flynn,

204:I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there. ~ Neil Patrick Harris,

205:A woman who is praying and a woman who is having fun, they both say " Oh My God", the only difference is how they pronounce it. ~ M F Moonzajer,

206:Half an hour later I pronounced us lost. Jesry accepted it with pleasure, as if this were more satisfactory than being found. ~ Neal Stephenson,

207:I prayed to St. Anthony all last night, but I still can’t find her.” She pronounced Anthony the old New Orleans way, “Ant–nee. ~ O Neil de Noux,

208:Mrs. Japan and Mrs. Romania had unpronounceable names, the former free-floating with vowels, the latter fortressed by consonants. ~ Monica Wood,

209:For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next. ~ Saint Augustine,

210:His name was Death. It was pronounced to rhyme with "teeth", but Bitterblue liked to mispronounce it by accident on occassion. ~ Kristin Cashore,

211:Limit yourself to wines with names you can’t pronounce that are made from grapes harvested during or before Full House season one. ~ The Betches,

212:Whoever was responsible for naming the fae races should really have put more thought into making them pronounceable when drunk. ~ Seanan McGuire,

213:Before leaving, I met them briefly. Thad and Ruben were among them. Then there was Annar, Orion, Stephan (pronounced Steh-fawn), ~ Kristen Ashley,

214:I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian. ~ Kunal Nayyar,

215:I like the way he says we and am amazed, as I often am by language as power, at the way a simple pronoun can upend a relationship. ~ Fiona Maazel,

216:Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress. ~ Henry David Thoreau,

217:The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right. ~ Mark Twain,

218:The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper. ~ Cornel West,

219:Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions. ~ Douglas J Feith,

220:She pronounced each word carefully, as though she was tasting fruit. The words of her poems were a most private and fragrant orchard. ~ Pat Conroy,

221:For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. ~ Thomas Carlyle,

222:found himself marveling at how many different names there are in this world. All individual, most pronounceable. Think of that. ~ Donald E Westlake,

223:honesty is just the flipside of a little thing called humility. (This word is pronounced ‘hyoo-míl-uh-tee.’ It’s a noun. Look it up.) ~ Lauren Rowe,

224:Celibacy.” Kingsley pronounced the word like a curse. It was a curse. “I thought you were a sadist. When did you become a masochist? ~ Tiffany Reisz,

225:[Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this. ~ Malcolm X,

226:I mean, who does that? Who touches someone’s hair and pronounces they have magic?” “Darth Sullivan.” “Darth goddamned Sullivan. ~ Chloe Neill,

227:Who the hell needs this many dogs anyway?” “What’s wrong with being a pet owner?” Cameron asked. “Yeah, you pronounced ‘hoarder’ wrong. ~ Abigail Roux,

228:I couldn't help but notice that he'd pronounced her name differently, like her name, and only her name, contained all the good letters. ~ Morgan Matson,

229:In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault. ~ C S Lewis,

230:I stared at her. “Is that another compliment? Because we’ve just been through that.” She walked to her desk. “You mispronounced thank you. ~ N R Walker,

231:I thought about Cassidy, and how she pronounced “vitamin” the British way and hated when people took too many napkins in restaurants. ~ Robyn Schneider,

232:Not like those Dungeons and Dragons games. The real thing. He bought some of those tarot cards.” She pronounced it like carrot. Amateurs. ~ Jim Butcher,

233:After a moment, she turned to Adam and pronounced him, “Hero. Because he’s yours, Grandpa, and you’re an American hero like my daddy. ~ Kallypso Masters,

234:But it takes more than a few unpronounceable names, moldy tomes, and tentacles to successfully write a story in the Lovecraftian mode. ~ Ross E Lockhart,

235:She reflected on how her caller had pronounced husband—almost husbun, as though Scott had been some exotic breakfast treat, now consumed. ~ Stephen King,

236:The light of his plural pronoun was sufficiently reflected in his companion's face as he again met it; and he completed his demonstration. ~ Henry James,

237:I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face. ~ Gillian Jacobs,

238:One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No. ~ Plutarch,

239:There isn't a man on earth who doesn't at times pronounce an opinion on good and evil, even if it be only to find fault with somebody else. ~ Simone Weil,

240:There's this tug in my chest. Because when Bram says Simon's name, he pronounces every part of it. Like it's worth being careful over. ~ Becky Albertalli,

241:A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. ~ Mark Twain,

242:Our vitality, and the vitality of each nation, rests on the sincerity and depth of the faith in the ideas which it announces, or pronounces. ~ Erich Fromm,

243:If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. ~ Shmuel Yosef Agnon,

244:My name is very specific to my family. I'm very proud of being Nigerian. I understand that most people can't pronounce it, but that's OK. ~ Toks Olagundoye,

245:Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels? ~ Henry David Thoreau,

246:Our judgements judge us; and nothing reveals us [or] exposes our weaknesses more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. ~ Paul Val ry,

247:Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream! ~ Homer,

248:RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. ~ William Shakespeare,

249:When he was a kid, Gibson had mispronounced George Abe’s name until his father corrected him: “Ah-bay. More Japanese, less Lincoln.” As ~ Matthew FitzSimmons,

250:Ahhh, God's balls! The Horrible Halt!" Adoulla pronounced the Dhamsawaati term for the complete standstill of traffic with a familiar disgust. ~ Saladin Ahmed,

251:In 1738 Pope Clement XII issued a papal bull condemning and excommunicating all Freemasons, whom he pronounced "enemies of the Roman Church. ~ Michael Baigent,

252:It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism. ~ Norman Tebbit,

253:there is a reproducible correlation between the time required to pronounce numbers in a given language and the memory span of its speakers. ~ Malcolm Gladwell,

254:Two weeks ago we couldn't pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we're sending you all these scripts. ~ Cillian Murphy,

255:All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues. ~ Tony Judt,

256:You're crazy," pronounced Becks. "And you're carrying eight guns," I replied. "Now that we've covered what everybody knows, can we move on? ~ Mira Grant,

257:I’m. Not. A. Victim!” I growled low and clearly pronounced each word. “No? Then what are you?” he asked, angered by my words. “I’m a survivor. ~ Amelia Hutchins,

258:I snatched the paper away from Dopey. "Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!" "Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said. ~ Meg Cabot,

259:It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex. ~ Charlotte Bront,

260:I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American. ~ Frances Trollope,

261:The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word. ~ Elie Wiesel,

262:Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine. ~ Marshall McLuhan,

263:What about me?” Wes snapped. “Don’t I get a vote?” Daniel shook his head. “She’s willing and you’re breathing. I pronounce you man and wife. ~ Jodi Thomas,

264:if half the cells inside of you are not you, doesn't that challenge the whole notion of me as a singular pronoun, let alone as the author of my fate? ~ John Green,

265:Sir U fell down from a speeding train, Which did some damage to his brain, And after that he did not know How to pronounce the letter O. ~ Edward Gorey,

266:All gotter be equal,’ he pronounced fiercely, ‘all gotter have lots of money. All ’uman beings. That’s sense, isn’t it? Is it sense or isn’t it? ~ Richmal Crompton,

267:Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea before its execution. ~ Ben Shahn,

268:[Doctor Cukrowicz in Suddenly, Last Summer is] is one of the most unpronounceable roles in the modern-day theater day canon, and one of the most boring! ~ Rob Lowe,

269:Just as careful listening is critical to understanding our verbal pronouncements, so careful observation is vital to comprehending our body language. ~ Joe Navarro,

270:The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three. ~ Ulysses S Grant,

271:Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male? ~ Carol P Christ,

272:By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You can kiss the groom. ~ Conan O Brien,

273:That this is the quest; but that it has never been attained; but that Science has acted, ruled, pronounced, and condemned as if it had been attained. ~ Charles Fort,

274:When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. ~ Wis awa Szymborska,

275:Who was that lad they used to try to make me read at Oxford? Ship- Shop- Schopenhauer. That's the name. A grouch of the most pronounced description. ~ P G Wodehouse,

276:You must ask yourself this: Will you decide when love's going to work and when it isn't? You have been pronouncing too much and feeling too little. ~ David Levithan,

277:Your jokes are terrible." Greg grinned, walking me backwards into my suite and wagging his eyebrows he corrected me, "It's pronounced tremendous. ~ Penny Reid,

278:Are you using 'he' generically, or because it seems probable that a man did this?" Hunt shrugs, indifferent to pronouns. Men can afford to be. ~ Laura Lippman,

279:I discovered that Native languages, Cherokee and others--like Bengali and other ancient languages--didn't have gendered pronouns like "he" and "she. ~ Gloria Steinem,

280:All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible ~ George Santayana,

281:I remember that I wanted to kill It,' Bill said, and for the first time (and ever after) he heard the pronoun gain proper-noun status in his own voice. ~ Stephen King,

282:I snatched the paper away from Dopey. "Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!" "Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said. ~ Meg Cabot,

283:RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. ~ William Shakespeare,

284:Despite his immediate attraction, Brian had a habit of mispronouncing Lillian Kagwa’s last name, and Lillian kept mistaking Brian for other white men. ~ Victor LaValle,

285:I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. ~ Morris Graves,

286:Mr. Benner was thrown, whereupon his neck was broken.” He pantomimed breaking a stick and made a cracking sound. “He was pronounced dead at the scene. ~ Stephanie Reed,

287:(The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.) There ~ Stephen Hawking,

288:All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. ~ George Santayana,

289:I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility). ~ Chelsea Manning,

290:This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

291:Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck. ~ Neil Patrick Harris,

292:Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips. ~ Georgette Heyer,

293:This crown of the laughter, the rosary crown: to you, my brothers, I throw this crown! I pronounced laughter holy: you higher men, learn — to laugh! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

294:We declare, say , define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff. ~ Pope Boniface VIII,

295:Furthermore, [Sigmund Freud] had a racial fixation on sex, a fixation sufficiently pronounced to cause it to infect contagiously all modern European stock. ~ L Ron Hubbard,

296:It was then given me to know that the power of revitalization of my body was mine, and I, who had been pronounced dead by man, lived strongly in the body. ~ Walter Russell,

297:My girlfriend at the time wasn’t keen on meeting Celestial; even she could tell from the way I pronounced her name that my feelings were more than friendly. ~ Tayari Jones,

298:The spell fior finding books,' she whispered, closing her eyes before pronouncing the incantation: 'Abracadabra, Alakazam, Angela Thirkell, and Omar Kayyam. ~ Alan Bradley,

299:Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, and the LORD will repent of the evil which he has pronounced against you. ~ Jeremiah,

300:Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken to their deathbeds. ~ Robert Payne,

301:The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel. ~ Charles Hodge,

302:112 In another message he wrote, “I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three. ~ Ron Chernow,

303:A private dance, without sitting down to supper, was pronounced an infamous fraud upon the rights of men and women; and Mrs. Weston must not speak of it again. ~ Jane Austen,

304:Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup ~ Michael Pollan,

305:The tone in which She pronounced these words was so touching, that in spite of my joy at receiving her promise to follow me, I could not help being affected. I ~ Matthew Lewis,

306:me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three. ~ Ambrose Bierce,

307:The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being. ~ Gloria Steinem,

308:Anthimus’s pronouncement on garum has echoed through Western cooking: “Nam liquamen ex omni parte prohibemus,” We ban the use of garum from every culinary role. ~ Mark Kurlansky,

309:AVOID FOOD PRODUCTS CONTAINING INGREDIENTS THAT ARE A) UNFAMILIAR, B) UNPRONOUNCEABLE, C) MORE THAN FIVE IN NUMBER, OR THAT INCLUDE D) HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP. ~ Michael Pollan,

310:I suffer from two phobias: 1) Phobia-Phobia, the fear that you're unable to get scared, and 2) Xylophataquieopiaphobia, the fear of not pronouncing words correctly. ~ Brad Stine,

311:I will venture to pronounce it one of the most ludicrous performances which has been exhibited to public view during all the present controversy-Alexander Hamilton ~ Ron Chernow,

312:She just wanted him to be healthy, and he would be making weird pronouncements like, ‘I’m a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight. ~ Anonymous,

313:The Fflict recognized five genders: male, female, zhial, yal, and neuter. Aul was zhial, and ze liked zis pronouns accurately stated. I would too, in zis position. ~ John Scalzi,

314:The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

315:Io. My name is Io." She pronounced the name "eye-oh" as if there perfectly ordinary. Which was ridiculous, because no one he knew bore a name with only vowels. ~ Katie MacAlister,

316:Our product is still totally DeepArcher?” “Which is…” “Like ‘departure’, only you pronounce it DeepArcher?” “Zen thing,” Maxine guesses. “Weed thing. ~ Thomas Pynchon,

317:Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. ~ Christopher Lasch,

318:The first "o" in "borogoves" is pronounced like the "o" in "borrow." I have heard people try to give it the sound of the "o" in "worry". Such is Human Perversity. ~ Lewis Carroll,

319:I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results. ~ George Bernard Shaw,

320:The message of grace,” he said, “. . . pronounces upon the death of people and nations its eternal: I have loved you from eternity; stay with me, and you will live. ~ Eric Metaxas,

321:The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

322:Words were so important. The wrong words pronounced over a person would destroy him. The right words spoken judiciously would lead a person to fulfil his destiny. ~ Easterine Kire,

323:Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I'll stop the whole production, "Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody." ~ Kevin Hart,

324:English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. ~ Vivien Leigh,

325:We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are. ~ Anthony Marra,

326:If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well? ~ Carol P Christ,

327:No one pronounced Jerusalems Lot dead on the morning of October 6; no one knew it was. Like the bodies of previous days it retained every semblace of life ~ Stephen King,

328:One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. ~ Robert A Heinlein,

329:That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken. ~ Jonathan Swift,

330:The aphorisms were judged more insightful when they rhymed than when they did not. Finally, if you quote a source, choose one with a name that is easy to pronounce. ~ Daniel Kahneman,

331:The more Wayne inhabited Edison, the more he wondered how a man cultivates a stubborn streak so pronounced that it transforms a daily barrage of failures into stimulants. ~ Jim Lynch,

332:Astronaut hopefuls have an acronym at NASA, just like everything else: ASHOs, pronounced “ass-hoes,” but as if an L had been conveniently placed between the O and the E. ~ Scott Kelly,

333:I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

334:People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem? ~ Jacob Zuma,

335:Blame Stalin, the pundits cry, echoing the argument made every time something bad happens in the former Soviet Union. Blame Stalin, because we can pronounce that name. ~ Sarah Kendzior,

336:It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

337:Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver." "Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it, and my cirrhosis would give you indigestion. ~ Roger Zelazny,

338:Surely doctors saw nothing but the eyes of their patient’s family: the staring, pleading eyes that waited to hear what sentence would be pronounced on their loved one. ~ Sharyn McCrumb,

339:Again, the first "o" in "borogoves" is pronounced like the "o" in "borrow." I have heard people try to give it the sound of the "o" in "worry". Such is Human Perversity. ~ Lewis Carroll,

340:Mr. Thwaites was, of course, a pronounced and leading Christmasist, being the instinctive leader of everything irritating and depressing, and the others followed him. ~ Patrick Hamilton,

341:The quiet of the reservation, the side-of-the-highway towns, rural communities, that kind of silence just makes the sound of your brain on fire that much more pronounced. ~ Tommy Orange,

342:The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

343:Well,----me,” he said. “A----ing wizard. I hate----ing wizards!” “You shouldn’t----them, then,” muttered one of his henchmen, effortlessly pronouncing a row of dashes. ~ Terry Pratchett,

344:What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that support and encourage self-affirmation. ~ Judith Butler,

345:But Dataran and the boy in the holograph both had pronounced cheekbones and slender frames that suggested a particular grace. And they had both made her fan sputter. What ~ Marissa Meyer,

346:I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. ~ Simone Weil,

347:The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff. ~ Callan McAuliffe,

348:Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench ~ John Milton,

349:The day I acquired the habit of consciously pronouncing the words "thank you", I felt I had gained possession of a magic wand capable of transforming everything. ~ Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov,

350:The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands. ~ Hector Elizondo,

351:The masculine pronouns are he, his and him But imagine the feminine she, shis and shim! So our English, I think you’ll all agree Is the trickiest language you ever did see. ~ Melvyn Bragg,

352:The rating agencies, who were paid fat fees by Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms for each deal they rated, pronounced 80 percent of the new tower of debt triple-A. ~ Michael Lewis,

353:You are a dickhead.” Cha’ril pronounced the insult with an Australian accent. “And a runt. No, a tunt. You are a tunt.” “I think you mean—” “Let that one go,” Aignar said. A ~ Richard Fox,

354:She was not sure how to pronounce his name, not even in her head would the sound make any sense. She had to look away to stop herself from making up more stories about him. ~ Helen Oyeyemi,

355:Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level. ~ Lizz Winstead,

356:A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service. ~ Henry David Thoreau,

357:It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live ~ Maximilien Robespierre,

358:Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down. ~ Taylor Branch,

359:Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift. ~ Abraham Verghese,

360:Another day in paradise” was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understood what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift. ~ Abraham Verghese,

361:Looking back, one can almost imagine them stalking through the wild with specimen bottles and outsize nets, in determined pursuit of the Ojibwa adverb or the Cherokee pronoun. ~ Margalit Fox,

362:Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away. ~ Jim Elliot,

363:In the meantime, Bob was jumping up and down and pronouncing it was all "good good good," so good that he couldn't stop giggling with self-satisfied glee like a demented toddler. ~ Meg Rosoff,

364:Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg,

365:My name is Kvothe, pronounced nearly the same as “Quothe.” Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I’ve had more names than anyone has a right to. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,

366:Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver." "Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it, and my cirrhosis would give you indigestion. ~ Roger Zelazny,

367:truth cannot "be reduced to aphorism or formulas. It is something alive and unpronounceable. Story creates an atmosphere in which [truth] becomes discernible as a pattern."3 ~ Parker J Palmer,

368:It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves. ~ James Madison,

369:The Enforcement Directorate declared he had overstayed in the USA and slapped several FERA cases on him. Swamy was pronounced a proclaimed offender and put on the Interpol list. ~ Coomi Kapoor,

370:What about the animals?” Ty asked. “Who the hell needs this many dogs anyway?” “What’s wrong with being a pet owner?” Cameron asked. “Yeah, you pronounced ‘hoarder’ wrong. ~ Abigail Roux,

371:For every new art form there's someone to come along and pronounce it dead, but rarely has an art form been born dead - as is the case with rock video, and its major outlet, MTV. ~ Greil Marcus,

372:meanwhile I was thinking that if half the cells in side of you are not you, doesn't that challenge the whole notion of me as a singular pronoun, let alone as the author of my fate? ~ John Green,

373:Ordinary men pronounce a sackful of discourses on religion, but do not put a grain into practice, while the sage speaks little, but his whole life is religion put in to action ~ Sri Ramakrishna,

374:At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees." ~ Anais Nin,

375:I need an extension on the monthly report. I think I’m getting a migraine. I can’t look at this screen any longer.” She’s one of those horrific people who pronounces it me-graine. ~ Sally Thorne,

376:[In the Flash my character] is not even CSI, it's forensic, talking about the stratum corneum...Yeah, I was referring to my Latin book often to make sure I pronounce things correct. ~ Tom Felton,

377:... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed. ~ Thomas Jefferson,

378:The main factor that makes leadership potentials to become abused often is ignorance. Many people can merely spell their names in alphabets, but cannot pronounce their brands! ~ Israelmore Ayivor,

379:With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. ~ Ronald C White Jr,

380:People make all kinds of assumptions when it comes to names, especially when a name isn’t from around here, when they don’t have a clue about how to pronounce it, let alone spell it. ~ Herman Koch,

381:Standard English usage is to use the male pronoun when talking about someone whose gender is not known,” Gwendolyn said. “When you avoid pronouns altogether, you really mean ‘she. ~ William Rabkin,

382:We instinctively knew that in order for Americans to find refugees like us acceptable, they first had to find our food digestible (not to mention affordable and pronounceable). ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen,

383:As the kundalini energy increases, as the energy of the psyche becomes more pronounced, which it does as thought becomes eclipsed by silence, all the variant mind states burn away. ~ Frederick Lenz,

384:But I’m still curious to know: can you move a mountain or not?’ ‘If God commands it, I will move it,’ Tikhon pronounced with quiet restraint, again beginning to lower his eyes. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

385:It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ~ Benjamin Franklin,

386:Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. ~ William Shakespeare,

387:What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that! ~ Thomas Carlyle,

388:Pronounce a lover 'perfect' can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us. ~ Alain de Botton,

389:He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind. ~ Francine Pascal,

390:I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounced my words to the actual delivery. ~ Kendrick Lamar,

391:It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious. ~ George Eliot,

392:Pronouncing a lover “perfect” can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us. ~ Alain de Botton,

393:Fraj-ile," I say, pronouncing it the way she does - as if it might be a popular tourist destination in the Pacific, beautiful Fraj Isle, with its white sandy beaches and shark-filled coves. ~ Dan Chaon,

394:On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn. ~ Emanuel Celler,

395:The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper. ~ Shannon Hale,

396:The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

397:So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of ~ Victor Hugo,

398:Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described as, "Some Americans say it tastes like chicken. ~ Erma Bombeck,

399:Dr Cohalan, the Bishop of Cork, who pronounced a decree of excommunication on 12 December 1920. In fact the Bishop was extremely even-handed and judicious in his condemnation of violence ~ Tim Pat Coogan,

400:Einstellung effect (pronounced EYE-nshtellung). In this phenomenon, an idea you already have in mind, or your simple initial thought, prevents a better idea or solution from being found. ~ Barbara Oakley,

401:horror!' "'His last word—to live with,' she murmured. 'Don't you understand I loved him—I loved him—I loved him!' "I pulled myself together and spoke slowly. "'The last word he pronounced ~ Joseph Conrad,

402:I brush my teeth and then my hair, pulling it into a ponytail that makes the bruise on my cheek more pronounced because they’ll tear me apart if they think I’m trying to hide anything. ~ Courtney Summers,

403:The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas. ~ Paul Fry,

404:But perhaps nothing speaks more clearly for the absurdities of English pronunciation than that the word for the study of pronunciation in English, orthoepy, can itself be pronounced two ways. ~ Bill Bryson,

405:You may ask, “Who wrote the Vedas?” They were not written. The words are the Vedas. A word is Veda, if I can pronounce it rightly. Then it will immediately produce the [desired] effect. ~ Swami Vivekananda,

406:Build a name. Personal branding is all about name building. I don’t just mean alphabetical name, but a name that can be spelt in the skills you have and pronounced with the things you do ~ Israelmore Ayivor,

407:Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons? ~ Socrates,

408:George Bernard Shaw’s famous spelling of “fish” as “ghoti”—the first two letters pronounced as the last two in “tough,” the middle letter as in “women,” and the last two as in “nation. ~ William J Bernstein,

409:The disciple lives as a reconciler of those that are divided, uniting more closely those that are friends, establishing peace, preparing peace, rich in peace, pronouncing always words of peace ~ Metta Sutta,

410:1 The Bohemian name Ántonia is strongly accented on the first syllable, like the English name Anthony, and the i is, of course, given the sound of long e. The name is pronounced An'-ton-ee-ah. ~ Willa Cather,

411:I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. ~ Henry James,

412:The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation. ~ Thomas Hobbes,

413:The universe swings again into orbit around us. Am I looking for you or you for me? The question is wrong. As long as I keep using two pronouns, I am this in-between, two-headed thing. ~ Rumi,

414:To disdain the moral pronouncements of hypocrites; to be true to my word; to always do what I promise, no more and no less. To hone my talent and wield it like a beacon in a darkening world. ~ Gardner Dozois,

415:His interest never flagged.  He would hear the same word twenty times with profound refreshment, mispronounce it in several different ways, and forget it again with magical celerity.  ~ Robert Louis Stevenson,

416:I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it. ~ Henry James,

417:I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea. ~ Bram Stoker,

418:I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along. ~ Nicholson Baker,

419:It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam. ~ David Letterman,

420:I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly. ~ Jeff Gannon,

421:Dogs should be called by names which are not very long, so that each may obey more quickly when he is called, but they should not have shorter names than those which are pronounced in two syllables. ~ Columella,

422:Don't be afraid to think too highly of yourself. If the Creator made you and is not ashamed of the job, certainly you should not be. He pronounced His work good, and you should respect it. ~ Orison Swett Marden,

423:He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement. ~ Kelley Armstrong,

424:No,” Kai said, still fixed on me. “Nope, Cherry never said they were a female. That’s why I started using neutral pronouns. Also, do you identify as male? We shouldn’t assume, Garrett.” Garrett ~ Megan Erickson,

425:Although there are occasions when it is more pronounced and awful and occasions when it is actually horrific, trauma does not just happen to a few unlucky people. It is the bedrock of our biology. ~ Mark Epstein,

426:Early in the twentieth century, the physicist Lord Rutherford, best known for his landmark discovery of the atomic nucleus, famously pronounced, “All science is either physics or stamp collecting. ~ Lisa Randall,

427:He never pronounced judgment on current events and people, despite some of my hints; and I forbore asking directly, lest I inadvertently say something about someone in his family--or worse, him. ~ Sherwood Smith,

428:Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. ~ Jeremy Bentham,

429:I am Rose Howard and my first name has a homonym. To be accurate, it has a homophone, which is a word that’s pronounced the same as another word, but spelled differently. My homophone name is Rows. ~ Ann M Martin,

430:I knew, as soon as I woke up, that the dream had come from God and it was about the reality of Jesus. The truth of Him. The He was a person whose pronouns you had to capitalize. That He was God. ~ Lauren F Winner,

431:He was trying to tell me something." Derek snorted. "Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement. ~ Kelley Armstrong,

432:I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even a little sheepish, about its ex cathedra pronouncements. ~ Paul Fry,

433:It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it. ~ Neil Armstrong,

434:The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well. ~ George R R Martin,

435:His eyes were more sunken than I remembered them, and his cheekbones more pronounced. This gave him a harsher, older look - until he smiled, of course, and the sagging cheeks gathered up like curtains. ~ Mitch Albom,

436:If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all. ~ Harriet Martineau,

437:...after I published a paper showing that suicidal poets used pronouns differently from non-suicidal poets, a slightly inebriated poet threatened me with a butter knife at a party in my own home. ~ James W Pennebaker,

438:Growth in productivity has diverged from growth in the share that working people can expect right across advanced economies, but this trend started earlier and has been more pronounced in the U.S. ~ Mariana Mazzucato,

439:Susan adored her and worshiped her style, / Loved her pronouncements of "perfect" and "vile," / Loved the sheer whim, the madcap willy-nillyness / And how deeply seriously Nonnie took her own silliness ~ David Rakoff,

440:The stars dehisce. By "stars" I mean, of course, tradition, and by "tradition" I mean nothing at all. A pronoun disembowels his antecedent. Stop me if you've heard this one before. ~ Ben Lerner,

441:When the vows were said and the rings were on, the officiant pronounced us husband and wife. I drew Sydney to me and kissed her, full of love and life and the happiness of what we had in store for us. ~ Richelle Mead,

442:With her words, the world could spin again. It took great restraint to not unfurl my wings and fly Abby around the mountain, pronouncing to anyone with ears that she loved me. Abigail Miller loved me. ~ Ashlan Thomas,

443:Thus by proclaiming blessed those who in the human order are thought hopeless, and by pronouncing woes over those human beings regarded as well off, Jesus opens the kingdom of the heavens to everyone. ~ Dallas Willard,

444:What the hell are you doing, trooper?” he managed to bark, his pronounced Adam's apple bobbing furiously. “Performing the ministry of the sacred Inquisition,” I told him, and shot him through the head. ~ Dan Abnett,

445:Can any serious scholar observe the Hoover administration’s massive economic intervention and, with a straight face, pronounce the inevitably deleterious effects as the fault of free markets? Franklin ~ Lawrence W Reed,

446:The Brazilians give all the Pirahãs Portuguese names because they can’t pronounce the Pirahã names.” He went on, “This is the same reason, I suppose, that the Pirahãs give all outsiders Pirahã names. ~ Daniel L Everett,

447:There are geologists who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pronouncement. ~ Christopher Alexander,

448:What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny? ~ Albert Camus,

449:What good is having a friend who's a cop if he won't give me inside information?" "So you can ask him to look at a piece of shit pistol after you've already bought it, and pronounce it a piece of shit. ~ Linda Howard,

450:And then the Empress’s eyes were on me. “Why, Shield Mallorough,” she drawled. “I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed such a pronounced expression on your face before.” What in the world did that mean? ~ Moira J Moore,

451:My name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman,” it said. “I’ll be the judge of that,” warned Granny, and added, “Don’t call me woman.” “Very well. My name is WxrtHltl-jwlpklz,” said the demon smugly. ~ Terry Pratchett,

452:Dear old Bicky, though a stout fellow and absolutely unrivaled as an imitator of bull-terriers and cats, was in many ways one of the most pronounced fatheads that ever pulled on a suit of gent's underwear. ~ P G Wodehouse,

453:His mouth seems to have two positions. One is a perfect oval, where his words seem less pronounced than ejected. The other is a straight line that cuts his face in two. No teeth, lips stretched. Self-satisfied. ~ Katy Tur,

454:I say "her," but the pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented; what came to Charles was not a pronoun, but eyes, looks, the line of the hair over a temple, a nimble step, a sleeping face. ~ John Fowles,

455:The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity. ~ Sophocles,

456:When we said we were going to do something "directly," which is pronounced "dreckly," we meant that we were going to get to it sooner or later, one of these days, maybe never, and please don't ask again. ~ Timothy B Tyson,

457:An Aryan [noble] mind has too much respect for other people, and its sense of its own dignity is too pronounced to allow it to impose its own ideas upon others, even when it knows that its ideas are correct. ~ Julius Evola,

458:And so their small, subtle verbs mince the universe into tenses, their pronouns and articles slice people into genders. They infect us with the finitude of their visions, their fatal powers. ~ Ramon C Sunico,

459:A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: 'they' does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays. ~ Karen Elizabeth Gordon,

460:A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays. ~ Karen Elizabeth Gordon,

461:Slingerland explains that Chinese philosophers like Confucius, Lao Tse, Zhuangzi, and a few others were concerned with accessing a state called Wu-Wei, pronounced “ooh-way.” This is a state of spontaneous flow. ~ Anonymous,

462:Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.' ~ Emmet Gowin,

463:Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. ~ Rene Daumal,

464:Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. ~ Herbert Hoover,

465:If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. ~ Simone Weil,

466:If there is one thing certain about English pronunciation it is that there is almost nothing certain about it. No other language in the world has more words spelled the same way and yet pronounced differently. ~ Bill Bryson,

467:They won’t be guilty until twelve honest citizens come back from the jury room and pronounce them so. In this country we’re still hanging on to the presumption of innocence, if only by the skin of our teeth. ~ John Mortimer,

468:... when your name is really and truly Percy Blakeney, pronounced 'Black-knee', and you still have bad acne in your twenties, you accept Pimple as a nickname and are grateful that it wasn't anything worse. ~ Terry Pratchett,

469:You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute of every hour of every day. ~ Bryant McGill,

470:According to Smith's testimony, that of Jesus, and that of the Bible itself, Joseph Smith was visited by Satan masquerading as God and pronouncing his curse upon the Christian church and the creeds of Christendom. ~ Ed Decker,

471:When this pattern becomes more pronounced, and this is very common, the present moment is regarded and treated as if it were an obstacle to be overcome. This is where impatience, frustration, and stress arise, ~ Eckhart Tolle,

472:You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute of every hour of every day. ~ Bryant H McGill,

473:My name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman,” it said. “I’ll be the judge of that,” warned Granny, and added, “Don’t call me woman.” “Very well. My name is WxrtHltl-jwlpklz,” said the demon smugly. ~ Terry Pratchett,

474:One interesting remark that showed up in President Trump’s speech on Jerusalem -which should not escape any Semite’s observation- is when he pronounced the name of the ‘United States‘ as the ‘United Diaspora. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim,

475:It may . . . be pronounced as an universal axiom in politics, That an hereditary prince, a nobility without vassals, and a people voting by their representatives, form the best monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. ~ David Hume,

476:What was it Saint Augustine said?” He began in a professorial tone, though his tongue was still too thick to pronounce some of the words. “‘If you suppress prostitution, capricious lusts will overthrow society. ~ Oliver P tzsch,

477:To be able to let you know who someone is in just a couple of words, I'd have to pick the most pronounced features of a character's personality. And I always feel like I'm leaving out so many important little ones. ~ Lisa Kudrow,

478:When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am I pronouncing it correctly? It sounds like I'm swallowing a turtle. ~ Kevin J Anderson,

479:But nothing I have seen in the world has supported your famous pronouncements that love is more powerful than my kind of magic, Dumbledore.” “Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places,” suggested Dumbledore. ~ J K Rowling,

480:"Croissant": However you choose to pronounce it at home, it is perhaps worth nothing that outside the United States, the closer you can come to saying "kwass-ohn," the sooner you can expect to be presented with one. ~ Bill Bryson,

481:I felt like I wasn't doing justice to either side of my life. It wasn't pronounced. Publicity is an awkward thing to do. It is awkward to call people up all the time and ask them for things on a very basic level. ~ Sloane Crosley,

482:I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the laws escaped me, that he pronounce concerning my health an indisputable oracle by consulting my entrails. ~ Marcel Proust,

483:Public sentiment is everything.13 With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. ~ Ronald C White Jr,

484:While Karl Marx made some perceptive pronouncements about the value of books, it was the wiser Marx, Groucho, who observed that “outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. ~ Anonymous,

485:Yesterday during a speech on national security, Jeb Bush mispronounced Boko Haram and got confused between Iran and Iraq. When reached for comment, his brother George W. said, 'He sure sounds presidentiary to me.' ~ Conan O Brien,

486:Isaiah 10Doom to those who pronounce wicked decrees, and keep writing harmful laws 2to deprive the needy of their rights and to rob the poor among my people of justice; to make widows their loot; to steal from orphans! ~ Anonymous,

487:I think about the apocalyptic mess I’ve created in the trolley. “Organization happens to be one of my fortes.” “Fort,” he says. “What?” I say. “Apparently it’s pronounced fort. Not fort-tay. One syllable, as in Knox. ~ Lee Nichols,

488:As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period. ~ Prince Charles,

489:How do you get up in the morning? Another wasted life it's so boring The system never failed you You failed yourself and all of your friends Now your heart is failing too A total system failure they pronounce you ~ Juliana Hatfield,

490:I fear that our clumsy pronouncements, our name-calling, our hysteria about important issues—in short, our lack of grace—may in the end prove so damaging that society no longer looks to us for the guidance it needs. ~ Philip Yancey,

491:I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay. ~ Sheri S Tepper,

492:Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books. ~ Timothy Snyder,

493:give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right. ~ Warsan Shire,

494:Gödel’s taste ran in another direction: his favorite movie was Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and when his wife put a pink flamingo in their front yard, he pronounced it furchtbar herzig—“awfully charming. ~ Jim Holt,

495:In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.' ~ Steven Pinker,

496:in our civilization there are fearful hours - such are those when the criminal law pronounces shipwreck upon a man. What a mournful moment is that in which society withdraws itself and gives up a thinking being forever. ~ Victor Hugo,

497:Hortense and Berthe nodded, as though profoundly impressed by the wisdom of their mother's pronouncements. She had long since convinced them of the absolute inferiority of men, whose sole function was to marry and to pay. ~ mile Zola,

498:In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. (They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.) ~ Mark Twain,

499:Ketchup derives its name from the Indonesian fish and soy sauce kecap ikan. The names of several other Indonesian sauces also include the word kecap, pronounced KETCHUP, which means a base of dark, thick soy sauce. Why ~ Mark Kurlansky,

500:President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary shook hands with the president and smiled warmly as he mispronounced their names. ~ Tina Fey,

--- IN CHAPTERS (in Dictionaries, in Quotes, in Chapters)

100

   7 Christianity
   6 Yoga
   6 Philosophy
   6 Occultism
   2 Integral Yoga
   1 Hinduism


   10 The Mother
   8 Sri Aurobindo
   6 Saint Augustine of Hippo
   6 Aleister Crowley
   4 Swami Vivekananda
   4 Aldous Huxley
   3 Sri Ramakrishna
   3 Friedrich Nietzsche
   2 Satprem
   2 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   2 Jorge Luis Borges
   2 Carl Jung


   10 The Mothers Agenda
   7 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
   6 The Secret Doctrine
   4 The Perennial Philosophy
   4 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
   3 Magick Without Tears
   3 Liber ABA
   3 Letters On Yoga II
   2 Words Of Long Ago
   2 Walden
   2 Twilight of the Idols
   2 The Synthesis Of Yoga
   2 The Life Divine
   2 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
   2 The Bible
   2 Talks With Sri Aurobindo
   2 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
   2 Kena and Other Upanishads
   2 Isha Upanishad
   2 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
   2 Bhakti-Yoga
   2 Aion
   2 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah

10.04_-_The_Dream_Twilight_of_the_Earthly_Real, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   A symbol of what can never be symbolised,   A language mispronounced, misspelt, yet true.

1.007_-_Initial_Steps_in_Yoga_Practice, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      Whenever there is repeated persistence in one given direction with reference to any chosen point of attention, we will see that some sort of success results. If a laboratory scientist is to analyse the structure of an atom, he will analyse a particular atom repeatedly by bombarding it with various kinds of light rays, but he will not go on changing the atoms today this atom, tomorrow that atom, today a hydrogen atom, tomorrow some other thing. That will not lead to success. A particular object will be taken up for consideration, observation and analysis, and a repeated attempt will be made to go deep into its structure until its mystery is revealed. So for this, great leisure is necessary, persistence is necessary, energy and willpower are necessary, and there is no need to mention that we must be free from all other outward distractions. When one takes to the practice of yoga, there should be no distraction of any pronounced nature. Minor distractions may be there, but serious distractions which will divert our attention markedly from the point of attention should not be there.

1.00a_-_Introduction, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy      Much thought has gone into the construction of your Motto. "I will become" can be turned neatly enough as "Let there be;" by avoiding the First pronoun one gets the idea of "the absorption of the Self in the Beloved," which is exactly what you want.      --      One Gnostic secret way of spelling and pronouncing Jehovah is and this has the value 811. So has "Let there be," Fiat, transliterating into Greek.

1.00_-_Gospel, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism      Dr. Sarkr arrived the following noon and pronounced that life had departed not more than half an hour before. At five o'clock the Master's body was brought downstairs, laid on a cot, dressed in ochre clothes, and decorated with sandal-past and flowers. A procession was formed. The passers-by wept as the body was taken to the cremation ground at the Brnagore Ght on the Ganges.

1.01_-_Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy      I am far from supposing that my case is a peculiar one; no doubt many of my readers would make a similar defence. At doing something,I will not engage that my neighbors shall pronounce it good,I do not hesitate to say that I should be a capital fellow to hire; but what that is, it is for my employer to find out. What _good_ I do, in the common sense of that word, must be aside from my main path, and for the most part wholly unintended. Men say, practically, Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought go about doing good. If I were to preach at all in this strain, I should say rather, Set about being good. As if the sun should stop when he had kindled his fires up to the splendor of a moon or a star of the sixth magnitude, and go about like a Robin   Goodfellow, peeping in at every cottage window, inspiring lunatics, and tainting meats, and making darkness visible, instead of steadily increasing his genial heat and beneficence till he is of such brightness that no mortal can look him in the face, and then, and in the mean while too, going about the world in his own orbit, doing it good, or rather, as a truer philosophy has discovered, the world going about him getting good. When Phaeton, wishing to prove his heavenly birth by his beneficence, had the suns chariot but one day, and drove out of the beaten track, he burned several blocks of houses in the lower streets of heaven, and scorched the surface of the earth, and dried up every spring, and made the great desert of Sahara, till at length Jupiter hurled him headlong to the earth with a thunderbolt, and the sun, through grief at his death, did not shine for a year.

1.01_-_SAMADHI_PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism   be a natural connection between the symbol and the thing   signified; then, when that symbol is pronounced, it recalled   the thing signified. The commentator says the manifesting   --   ( Aum ) is such a sound, the basis of all sounds. The first letter,   A, is the root sound, the key, pronounced without touching      --   pulsation coming over it. You have that calm lake in you, and   I pronounce a word, cow. As soon as it enters through

1.01_-_THAT_ARE_THOU, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy      Disease is not cured by pronouncing the name of medicine, but by taking medicine. Deliverance is not achieved by repeating the word Brahman, but by directly experiencing Brahman.      --      I live, yet not I, but Christ in me. Or perhaps it might be more accurate to use the verb transitively and say, I live, yet not I; for it is the Logos who lives melives me as an actor lives his part. In such a case, of course, the actor is always infinitely superior to the rle. Where real life is concerned, there are no Shakespearean characters, there are only Addisonian Catos or, more often, grotesque Monsieur Perrichons and Charlies Aunts mistaking themselves for Julius Caesar or the Prince of Denmark. But by a merciful dispensation it is always in the power of every dramatis persona to get his low, stupid lines pronounced and supernaturally transfigured by the divine equivalent of a Garrick.

1.02_-_The_Two_Negations_1_-_The_Materialist_Denial, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   8:From the difference in the relations of Spirit and Matter to the Unknowable which they both represent, there arises also a difference of effectiveness in the material and the spiritual negations. The denial of the materialist although more insistent and immediately successful, more facile in its appeal to the generality of mankind, is yet less enduring, less effective finally than the absorbing and perilous refusal of the ascetic. For it carries within itself its own cure. Its most powerful element is the Agnosticism which, admitting the Unknowable behind all manifestation, extends the limits of the unknowable until it comprehends all that is merely unknown. Its premiss is that the physical senses are our sole means of Knowledge and that Reason, therefore, even in its most extended and vigorous flights, cannot escape beyond their domain; it must deal always and solely with the facts which they provide or suggest; and the suggestions themselves must always be kept tied to their origins; we cannot go beyond, we cannot use them as a bridge leading us into a domain where more powerful and less limited faculties come into play and another kind of inquiry has to be instituted.   9:A premiss so arbitrary pronounces on itself its own sentence of insufficiency. It can only be maintained by ignoring or explaining away all that vast field of evidence and experience which contradicts it, denying or disparaging noble and useful faculties, active consciously or obscurely or at worst latent in all human beings, and refusing to investigate supraphysical phenomena except as manifested in relation to matter and its movements and conceived as a subordinate activity of material forces. As soon as we begin to investigate the operations of mind and of supermind, in themselves and without the prejudgment that is determined from the beginning to see in them only a subordinate term of Matter, we come into contact with a mass of phenomena which escape entirely from the rigid hold, the limiting dogmatism of the materialist formula. And the moment we recognise, as our enlarging experience compels us to recognise, that there are in the universe knowable realities beyond the range of the senses and in man powers and faculties which determine rather than are determined by the material organs through which they hold themselves in touch with the world of the senses, - that outer shell of our true and complete existence, - the premiss of materialistic Agnosticism disappears. We are ready for a large statement and an ever-developing inquiry.   10:But, first, it is well that we should recognise the enormous, the indispensable utility of the very brief period of rationalistic Materialism through which humanity has been passing. For that vast field of evidence and experience which now begins to reopen its gates to us, can only be safely entered when the intellect has been severely trained to a clear austerity; seized on by unripe minds, it lends itself to the most perilous distortions and misleading imaginations and actually in the past encrusted a real nucleus of truth with such an accretion of perverting superstitions and irrationalising dogmas that all advance in true knowledge was rendered impossible. It became necessary for a time to make a clean sweep at once of the truth and its disguise in order that the road might be clear for a new departure and a surer advance. The rationalistic tendency of Materialism has done mankind this great service.

1.03_-_Japa_Yoga, #Amrita Gita, #Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #Hinduism      21. pronounce the Mantra distinctly and without mistakes. Do not repeat it too fast or too slow.

1.03_-_Questions_and_Answers, #Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i      ANSWER: This practice hath been pronounced unlawful by the Source of Authority, and it is unlawful to announce a marriage earlier than ninety-five days before the wedding.

1.04_-_The_Paths, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism   Some claim to find a satisfactory explanation of the origin of this letter in that it represents an ox-yoke, or the head of an Ox, the horns forming the top part of the letter.   This is highly significant, for the letter when pronounced as   Aleph and spelt in full rjbs Anph, means an Ox or Bull, an admirable symbol to denote the generative power of   --      Now a Gimel is the letter given to this Path, and when pronounced boa Gimel, means a Camel. The Camel is the conventional " ship of the desert      --      This letter is pronounced Caph- meaning a spoon or the hollow of one's hand - receptive symbols, and therefore feminine. It is attributed to 2). Jupiter, and as it connects   Chesed (the sphere of 2f) to Netsach, which latter is the sphere of 2 Venus, the Path of Caph partakes both of the magnanimous and generous expansive character of 2J. and the love nature of $ . It repeats on a considerably lower plane the attributions of Jupiter, Zeus, Brahma, and Indra, already commented upon. Pluto is also attributed, since he is the blind giver of wealth, symbolical of the infinite and abundant prodigality of Nature. In the Northern Sagas we   --      pronounced Noon, and means a " Fish ".      --      pronounced Ayin (with a slight nasal twang) and means an " Eye " - referring to the Eye of Shiva, said to be atrophied into the pineal gland. Astrologically, it is H   Capricornus, the mountain goat leaping forwards and up- wards, boldly without fear, yet remaining close to the hill- tops.   --      The Sepher Yetsirah denominates " Resh," a " double letter ", but I have been unable to discover any sound other than " R " for this letter ; nor is any other so recognized by modern Hebrew grammarians. Perhaps the French form of " R " - pronounced with a decided roll - is the sound in question.    fr-SII   --   90 A GARDEN OF POMEGRANATES    latter is on the left side, viz., b (Sin), it is pronounced as an " S      --      This letter means a T-shaped Cross. When without a dogish is pronounced as an " S ".

1.04_-_The_Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   purely intellectual it could be achieved without much difficulty,   for the world-wide pronouncements about the God within us   and above us, about Christ and the corpus mysticum, the per-   --   than its name, despite the age-old prejudice that the name mag-   ically represents the thing, and that it is sufficient to pronounce   the name in order to posit the thing's existence. In the course

1.05_-_Qualifications_of_the_Aspirant_and_the_Teacher, #Bhakti-Yoga, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism      Bhagavn Ramakrishna used to tell a story of some men who went into a mango orchard and busied themselves in counting the leaves, the twigs, and the branches, examining their colour, comparing their size, and noting down everything most carefully, and then got up a learned discussion on each of these topics, which were undoubtedly highly interesting to them. But one of them, more sensible than the others, did not care for all these things. and instead thereof, began to eat the mango fruit. And was he not wise? So leave this counting of leaves and twigs and note-taking to others. This kind of work has its proper place, but not here in the spiritual domain. You never see a strong spiritual man among these "leaf counters". Religion, the highest aim, the highest glory of man, does not require so much labour. If you want to be a Bhakta, it is not at all necessary for you to know whether Krishna was born in Mathur or in Vraja, what he was doing, or just the exact date on which he pronounced the teachings of the Git. You only require to feel the craving for the beautiful lessons of duty and love in the Gita. All the other particulars about it and its author are for the enjoyment of the learned. Let them have what they desire. Say "Shntih, Shntih" to their learned controversies, and let us "eat the mangoes".

1.05_-_Some_Results_of_Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Occultism    p. 145    further news which does not tally with the previous information. I am thereby obliged to reverse my previous judgment. The result is an unfavorable influence upon my sixteen-petalled lotus. Quite the contrary would have been the case had I, in the first place, suspended judgment, and remained silent both inwardly in thought and outwardly in word concerning the whole affair, until I had acquired reliable grounds for forming my judgment. Caution in the formation and pronouncement of judgments becomes, by degrees, the special characteristic of the student. On the other hand his receptivity for impressions and experiences increases; he lets them pass over him silently, so as to collect and have the largest possible number of facts at his disposal when the time comes to form his opinions. Bluish-red and reddish-pink shades color the lotus flower as the result of such circumspection, whereas in the opposite case dark red and orange shades appear. (Students will recognize in the conditions attached to the development of the sixteen-petalled lotus the instructions given by the Buddha to his disciples for the Path. Yet there is no question here of teaching Buddhism,    p. 146

1.06_-_The_Literal_Qabalah, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism      One Qabalist of tremendous knowledge was endeavouring to transliterate into Hebrew the name of a preterhuman intelligence by the name of Aiwass. This is, of course neither the time nor the place to go into the reason for his desire to obtain this name in Hebrew, and yet have the numerical value of 418. Had this Qabalist, whom the writer greatly esteems, known of the remark made with regard to the letter of the thirty-second Path, n Tav, he would have been saved several years of effort. For that letter, when without a dSgish, is pronounced as an " S ". Aiwass should have been spelt :    n 400 +n 1 + ) 6 +' 10 +N 1 =418.

1.06_-_The_Sign_of_the_Fishes, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology   and Saturn in Pisces. He was not the first to express such expec-   tations. Four hundred years earlier we find similar pronounce-   ments; for instance, Rabbi Abraham ben Hiyya, who died about

1.07_-_A_Song_of_Longing_for_Tara,_the_Infallible, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset   and tantric vehicles, but externally we look and act like everyone else.   In recent years, His Holiness has been very pronounced about ostentatious dress and behavior. He speaks unfavorably about those in pre-1959   Tibet who wore fancy costumes and rode ornamented horses. In the West,

1.07_-_The_Mantra_-_OM_-_Word_and_Wisdom, #Bhakti-Yoga, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism      Now, as every word-symbol, intended to express the inexpressible Sphota, will so particularise it that it will no longer be the Sphota, that symbol which particularises it the least and at the same time most approximately expresses its nature, will be the truest symbol thereof; and this is the Om, and the (A.U.M.), pronounced in combination as Om, may well be Om only; because these three letters the generalised symbol of all possible sounds. The letter A is the least differentiated of all sounds, therefore Krishna says in the Gita "I am A among the letters". Again, all articulate sounds are produced in the space within the mouth beginning with the root of the tongue and ending in the lips the throat sound is A, and M is the last lip sound, and the U exactly represents the rolling forward of the impulse which begins at the root of the tongue till it ends in the lips. If properly pronounced, this Om will represent the whole phenomenon of sound-production, and no other word can do this; and this, therefore, is the fittest symbol of the Sphota, which is the real meaning of the Om.

1.07_-_The_Psychic_Center, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga      marvelously fresh and crystalline purity, as it exists irresistibly outside all the traps we set for it, outside all our ideas, feelings, and pronouncements, we must create a transparency within ourselves.   Beethoven, the sea, or our churches were only instruments for achieving that transparency. Because it is always the same: the moment we are clear. Truth, vision, joy emerge spontaneously; it is all there without the least effort, because Truth is the most natural thing in the world; it's the rest that clouds everything the mind and vital with their unruly vibrations and erudite complications. All spiritual disciplines worthy of the name, all tapasya, must ultimately tend toward that completely natural point where no effort is necessary; for effort is yet another clouding, another layer of complication. So the seeker will not attempt to enter the muddle of the moral mind, or try the impossible task of sorting out good from evil in order to bring the psychic to light, for, actually, the purpose of good and evil is intimately linked to their mutual harmfulness. (My lover took away my robe of sin and I let it fall, rejoicing; then he plucked at my robe of virtue, but I was ashamed and alarmed and prevented him. It was not till he wrested it from me by force that I saw how my soul had been hidden from me79 .) He will simply try to let everything settle in the silence, for silence is clean in itself; it is lustral water. "Do not try to wash off one by one the stains on the robe," a very ancient Chaldean tradition exhorts, "change it altogether." This is what Sri Aurobindo calls a change of consciousness. In that transparency, the old habits of the being will indeed quietly lose their hold, and we will feel a new poise of consciousness within ourselves not an intellectual poise, but a new center of gravity. At heart level, but deeper than the vital center of the heart (which covers and imitates the psychic), we will feel a region of concentration more intense than the others, as if they had all converged there; this is the psychic center. We had already felt the onset of a current of consciousness-force within us, taking on a life of its own, moving in the body, and becoming increasingly intense as it gradually freed itself from its mental and vital activities. Now,

1.07_-_TRUTH, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy      The word intellect is used by Eckhart in the scholastic sense of immediate intuition. Intellect and reason, says Aquinas, are not two powers, but distinct as the perfect from the imperfect. The intellect means, an intimate penetration of truth; the reason, enquiry and discourse. It is by following, and then abandoning, the rational and emotional path of word and discrimination that one is enabled to enter upon the intellectual or intuitive path of realization. And yet, in spite of the warnings pronounced by those who, through selflessness, have passed from letter to spirit and from theory to immediate knowledge, the organized Christian churches have persisted in the fatal habit of mistaking means for ends. The verbal statements of theologys more or less adequate rationalizations of experience have been taken too seriously and treated with the reverence that is due only to the Fact they are intended to describe. It has been fancied that souls are saved if assent is given to what is locally regarded as the correct formula, lost if it is withheld. The two words, filioque, may not have been the sole cause of the schism between the Eastern and Western churches; but they were unquestionably the pretext and casus belli.      --      In connection with the Mahayanist view that words play an important and even creative part in the evolution of unregenerate human nature, we may mention Humes arguments against the reality of causation. These arguments start from the postulate that all events are loose and separate from one another and proceed with faultless logic to a conclusion that makes complete nonsense of all organized thought or purposive action. The fallacy, as Professor Stout has pointed out, lies in the preliminary postulate. And when we ask ourselves what it was that induced Hume to make this odd and quite unrealistic assumption that events are loose and separate, we see that his only reason for flying in the face of immediate experience was the fact that things and happenings are symbolically represented in our thought by nouns, verbs and adjectives, and that these words are, in effect, loose and separate from one another in a way which the events and things they stand for quite obviously are not. Taking words as the measure of things, instead of using things as the measure of words, Hume imposed the discrete and, so to say, pointilliste pattern of language upon the continuum of actual experiencewith the impossibly paradoxical results with which we are all familiar. Most human beings are not philosophers and care not at all for consistency in thought or action. Thus, in some circumstances they take it for granted that events are not loose and separate, but co-exist or follow one another within the organized and organizing field of a cosmic whole. But on other occasions, where the opposite view is more nearly in accord with their passions or interests, they adopt, all unconsciously, the Humian position and treat events as though they were as independent of one another and the rest of the world as the words by which they are symbolized. This is generally true of all occurrences involving I, me, mine. Reifying the loose and separate names, we regard the things as also loose and separatenot subject to law, not involved in the network of relationships, by which in fact they are so obviously bound up with their physical, social and spiritual environment. We regard as absurd the idea that there is no causal process in nature and no organic connection between events and things in the lives of other people; but at the same time we accept as axiomatic the notion that our own sacred ego is loose and separate from the universe, a law unto itself above the moral dharma and even, in many respects, above the natural law of causality. Both in Buddhism and Catholicism, monks and nuns were encouraged to avoid the personal pronoun and to speak of themselves in terms of circumlocutions that clearly indicated their real relationship with the cosmic reality and their fellow creatures. The precaution was a wise one. Our responses to familiar words are conditioned reflexes. By changing the stimulus, we can do something to change the response. No Pavlov bell, no salivation; no harping on words like me and mine, no purely automatic and unreflecting egotism. When a monk speaks of himself, not as I, but as this sinner or this unprofitable servant, he tends to stop taking his loose and separate selfhood for granted, and makes himself aware of his real, organic relationship with God and his neighbours.      --      This truth is to be lived, it is not to be merely pronounced with the mouth.

1.08_-_The_Depths_of_the_Divine, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy   This dissociation of "natural" and "supernatural," and a praying, a begging, for the latter to miraculously intervene in the former, Emerson calls "meanness and theft," a vicious craving for commodities:   In what prayers do men allow themselves! Prayer looks abroad and asks for some foreign addition to come through some foreign virtue, and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity is vicious. [True] Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not a unity in nature and consciousness.39 God's "supernatural" intervention in "nature": this bears no relation to the contemplative view of the psychic and subtle stages. God or Spirit is not set apart from nature, but rather is the Ground of nature, and indeed of all manifestation-as Teresa puts it, "God is in all things by presence and power and essence." "Supernatural," in this usage, simply means that the natural union of Spirit with all things becomes a conscious realization in some, and that conscious realization is called supernatural, not because the union is present only in them and not in nature, but because they are directly realizing it. Teresa's spiritual friend and collaborator, the extraordinary John of the Cross, explains it thus:   This union between God and creatures always exists. By it He conserves their being so that if the union would end they would cease to exist [Spirit as Ground of Being]. Consequently, in discussing union with God, we are not discussing the substantial union which is always existing, but the union and transformation of the soul in God. This transformation is supernatural, the other natural.40

1.09_-_Concentration_-_Its_Spiritual_Uses, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset      Every idea that you have in the mind has a counterpart in a word; the word and the thought are inseparable. The external part of one and the same thing is what we call word, and the internal part is what we call thought. No man can, by analysis, separate thought from word. The idea that language was created by men certain men sitting together and deciding upon words, has been proved to be wrong. So long as man has existed there have been words and language. What is the connection between an idea and a word? Although we see that there must always be a word with a thought, it is not necessary that the same thought requires the same word. The thought may be the same in twenty different countries, yet the language is different. We must have a word to express each thought, but these words need not necessarily have the same sound. Sounds will vary in different nations. Our commentator says, "Although the relation between thought and word is perfectly natural, yet it does not mean a rigid connection between one sound and one idea." These sounds vary, yet the relation between the sounds and the thoughts is a natural one. The connection between thoughts and sounds is good only if there be a real connection between the thing signified and the symbol; until then that symbol will never come into general use. A symbol is the manifester of the thing signified, and if the thing signified has already an existence, and if, by experience, we know that the symbol has expressed that thing many times, then we are sure that there is a real relation between them. Even if the things are not present, there will be thousands who will know them by their symbols. There must be a natural connection between the symbol and the thing signified; then, when that symbol is pronounced, it recalls the thing signified. The commentator says the manifesting word of God is Om. Why does he emphasise this word? There are hundreds of words for God. One thought is connected with a thousand words; the idea "God" is connected with hundreds of words, and each one stands as a symbol for God. Very good. But there must be a generalization among all time words, some substratum, some common ground of all these symbols, and that which is the common symbol will be the best, and will really represent them all. In making a sound we use the larynx and the palate as a sounding board. Is there any material sound of which all other sounds must be manifestations, one which is the most natural sound? Om (Aum) is such a sound, the basis of all sounds. The first letter, A, is the root sound, the key, pronounced without touching any part of the tongue or palate; M represents the last sound in the series, being produced by the closed lips, and the U rolls from the very root to the end of the sounding board of the mouth. Thus, Om represents the whole phenomena of sound-producing. As such, it must be the natural symbol, the matrix of all the various sounds. It denotes the whole range and possibility of all the words that can be made. Apart from these speculations, we see that around this word Om are centred all the different religious ideas in India; all the various religious ideas of the Vedas have gathered themselves round this word Om. What has that to do with America and England, or any other country? Simply this, that the word has been retained at every stage of religious growth in India, and it has been manipulated to mean all the various ideas about God. Monists, dualists, mono-dualists, separatists, and even atheists took up this Om. Om has become the one symbol for the religious aspiration of the vast majority of human beings. Take, for instance, the English word God. It covers only a limited function, and if you go beyond it, you have to add adjectives, to make it Personal, or Impersonal, or Absolute God. So with the words for God in every other language; their signification is very small. This word Om, however, has around it all the various significances. As such it should be accepted by everyone.      --      It is by the practice of meditation of these three that we come to the state where these three do not mix. We can get rid of them. We will first try to understand what these three are. Here is the Chitta; you will always remember the simile of the mind-stuff to a lake, and the vibration, the word, the sound, like a pulsation coming over it. You have that calm lake in you, and I pronounce a word, "Cow". As soon as it enters through your ears there is a wave produced in your Chitta along with it. So that wave represents the idea of the cow, the form or the meaning as we call it. The apparent cow that you know is really the wave in the mind-stuff that comes as a reaction to the internal and external sound vibrations. With the sound, the wave dies away; it can never exist without a word. You may ask how it is, when we only think of the cow, and do not hear a sound. You make that sound yourself. You are saying "cow" faintly in your mind, and with that comes a wave. There cannot be any wave without this impulse of sound; and when it is not from outside, it is from inside, and when the sound dies, the wave dies. What remains? The result of the reaction, and that is knowledge. These three are so closely combined in our mind that we cannot separate them. When the sound comes, the senses vibrate, and the wave rises in reaction; they follow so closely upon one another that there is no discerning one from the other. When this meditation has been practiced for a long time, memory, the receptacle of all impressions, becomes purified, and we are able clearly to distinguish them from one another. This is called Nirvitarka, concentration without question.

1.1.01_-_Seeking_the_Divine, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   *   First, it is a great exaggeration to deduce from your difficulties any idea of unfitness or of going away or being sent away or giving up the Yoga. I am certainly not going to pronounce you unfit because you want the Ananda; on such grounds I would have to pronounce myself unfit, because I have myself wanted it and many other things besides. And if I were to send you away because you are not entirely disinterested in the approach to the Divine, I should have, to be consistent, to send practically the whole Asram packing. I do not know why you are allowing yourself to indulge in such black and despondent thoughts - there is no ground for them at all, and I do not think I gave any grounds for them in my letter. Whatever your difficulties, the Mother and I have every intention of seeing you through them, and I think that you too, whatever suggestions your vital depression may make to you at the moment, have every intention of going through to the end of the Path. I imagine you have gone too far on it to go back and, if you wanted to, your psychic being which has persistently pushed you towards it, would not allow such a retreat.

1.10_-_THINGS_I_OWE_TO_THE_ANCIENTS, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy   the loftiest and most solemn feelings. In the doctrine of mysteries,   _pain_ was pronounced holy: the "pains of childbirth" sanctify pain in   general,--all becoming and all growth, everything that guarantees the   --   future of life and life eternal, is understood religiously,--the road   to life itself, procreation, is pronounced _holy,_ ... It was only   Christianity which, with its fundamental resentment against life, made

1.12_-_Brute_Neighbors, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy      Nevertheless the most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants. Once, when berrying, I met with a cat with young kittens in the woods, quite wild, and they all, like their mother, had their backs up and were fiercely spitting at me. A few years before I lived in the woods there was what was called a winged cat in one of the farm-houses in Lincoln nearest the pond, Mr. Gilian Bakers. When I called to see her in June, 1842, she was gone a-hunting in the woods, as was her wont, (I am not sure whether it was a male or female, and so use the more common pronoun,) but her mistress told me that she came into the neighborhood a little more than a year before, in April, and was finally taken into their house; that she was of a dark brownish-gray color, with a white spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming stripes ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and under her chin like a muff, the upper side loose, the under matted like felt, and in the spring these appendages dropped off. They gave me a pair of her wings, which I keep still. There is no appearance of a membrane about them. Some thought it was part flying-squirrel or some other wild animal, which is not impossible, for, according to naturalists, prolific hybrids have been produced by the union of the marten and domestic cat. This would have been the right kind of cat for me to keep, if I had kept any; for why should not a poets cat be winged as well as his horse?

1.12_-_The_Superconscient, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga      There exists in India a secret knowledge based upon sounds and the differences of vibratory modes found on different planes of consciousness. If we pronounce the sound OM, for example, we clearly feel its vibrations enveloping the head centers, while the sound RAM affects the navel center. And since each of our centers of consciousness is in direct contact with a plane, we can, by the repetition of certain sounds (japa), come into contact with the corresponding plane of consciousness.200 This is the basis of an entire spiritual discipline, called "tantric" because it originates from sacred texts known as Tantra. The basic or essential sounds that have the power to establish the contact are called mantras. The mantras, usually secret and given to the disciple by his Guru,201 are of all kinds (there are many levels within each plane of consciousness), and may serve the most contradictory purposes. By combining certain sounds, one can at the lower levels of consciousness generally at the vital level come in contact with the corresponding forces and acquire many strange powers: some mantras can cause death (in five minutes, with violent vomiting), some mantras can strike with precision a particular part or organ of the body, some mantras can cure, some mantras can start a fire, protect, or cast spells. This type of magic, or chemistry of vibrations, derives simply from a conscious handling of the lower vibrations. But there is a higher magic, which also derives from handling vibrations, on higher planes of consciousness. This is poetry, music, the spiritual mantras of the Upanishads and the Veda, the mantras given by a Guru to his disciple to help him come consciously into direct contact with a special plane of consciousness, a force or a divine being. In this case, the sound holds in itself the power of experience and realization it is a sound that makes one see.      --      Mantras, great poetry, great music, or the sacred Word, all come from the overmind plane. It is the source of all creative or spiritual activity (the two cannot be separated: the categorical divisions of the intellect vanish in this clear space where everything is sacred, even the profane). We might now attempt to describe the particular vibration or rhythm of the overmind. First, as anyone knows who has the capacity to enter more or less consciously in contact with the higher planes a poet, a writer, or an artist it is no longer ideas one perceives and tries to translate when one goes beyond a certain level of consciousness: one hears. Vibrations, or waves, or rhythms, literally impose themselves and take possession of the seeker, and subsequently garb themselves with words and ideas, or music, or colors, during the descent. But the word or idea, the music or color is merely a result, a byproduct: it only gives a body to that first, highly compelling vibration. If the poet, the true one, next corrects and recorrects his draft, it is not to improve the form, as it were, or to find a more adequate expression, but to capture the vibrating life behind more accurately; if the true vibration is absent, all the magic disintegrates, as a Vedic priest mispronouncing the mantra of the sacrifice. When the consciousness is transparent, the sound can be heard distinctly, and it is a seeing sound, as it were, a sound-image or a sound-idea, which inseparably links hearing to vision and thought within the same luminous essence. All is there, self-contained, within a single vibration. On all the intermediate planes higher mind, illumined or intuitive mind the vibrations are generally broken up as flashes, pulsations, or eruptions, while in the overmind they are great notes.

1.12_-_TIME_AND_ETERNITY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy      Passing now from theory to historical fact, we find that the religions, whose theology has been least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently the least violent and the most humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all of them obsessed with time), Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism, which has gone hand in hand with the political and economic oppression c the coloured peoples. For four hundred years, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, most of the Christian nations of Europe have spent a good part of their time and energy in attacking, conquering and exploiting their non-Christian neighbours in other continents. In the course of these centuries many individual churchmen did their best to mitigate the consequences of such iniquities; but none of the major Christian churches officially condemned them. The first collective protest against the slave system, introduced by the English and the Spaniards into the New World, was made in 1688 by the Quaker Meeting of Germantown. This fact is highly significant. Of all Christian sects in the seventeenth century, the Quakers were the least obsessed with history, the least addicted to the idolatry of things in time. They believed that the inner light was in all human beings and that salvation came to those who lived in conformity with that light and was not dependent on the profession of belief in historical or pseudo-historical events, nor on the performance of certain rites, nor on the support of a particular ecclesiastical organization. Moreover their eternity-philosophy preserved them from the materialistic apocalypticism of that progress-worship which in recent times has justified every kind of iniquity from war and revolution to sweated labour, slavery and the exploitation of savages and childrenhas justified them on the ground that the supreme good is in future time and that any temporal means, however intrinsically horrible, may be used to achieve that good. Because Quaker theology was a form of eternity-philosophy, Quaker political theory rejected war and persecution as means to ideal ends, denounced slavery and proclaimed racial equality. Members of other denominations had done good work for the African victims of the white mans rapacity. One thinks, for example, of St. Peter Claver at Cartagena. But this heroically charitable slave of the slaves never raised his voice against the institution of slavery or the criminal trade by which it was sustained; nor, so far as the extant documents reveal, did he ever, like John Woolman, attempt to persuade the slave-owners to free their human chattels. The reason, presumably, was that Claver was a Jesuit, vowed to perfect obedience and constrained by his theology to regard a certain political and ecclesiastical organization as being the mystical body of Christ. The heads of this organization had not pronounced against slavery or the slave trade. Who was he, Pedro Claver, to express a thought not officially approved by his superiors?

1.14_-_Noise, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy      We are really trying to discuss something totally different; something practical in daily life. Very well, then; you remark that Goetia actually means "howling", that we use officially the Bell, the Tom-Tom, the Incantations, the Mantras and so on. All quite true, about Magick; but none of it applies to Yoga, for even with the Mantra the practice is to go faster and more quietly as one proceeds, until it becomes "Mental Muttering." M is the letter that is pronounced with the lips firmly closed; and Silence is the meaning of the MU root of Mystery.

1.15_-_The_Value_of_Philosophy, #The Problems of Philosophy, #Bertrand Russell, #Philosophy      Many philosophers, it is true, have held that philosophy could establish the truth of certain answers to such fundamental questions. They have supposed that what is of most importance in religious beliefs could be proved by strict demonstration to be true. In order to judge of such attempts, it is necessary to take a survey of human knowledge, and to form an opinion as to its methods and its limitations. On such a subject it would be unwise to pronounce dogmatically; but if the investigations of our previous chapters have not led us astray, we shall be compelled to renounce the hope of finding philosophical proofs of religious beliefs. We cannot, therefore, include as part of the value of philosophy any definite set of answers to such questions. Hence, once more, the value of philosophy must not depend upon any supposed body of definitely ascertainable knowledge to be acquired by those who study it.

1.25_-_SPIRITUAL_EXERCISES, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy      For twelve years I was the smith of my soul. I put it in the furnace of austerity and burned it in the fire of combat, I laid it on the anvil of reproach and smote it with the hammer of blame until I made of my soul a mirror. Five years I was the mirror of myself and was ever polishing that mirror with divers acts of worship and piety. Then for a year I gazed in contemplation. On my waist I saw a girdle of pride and vanity and self-conceit and reliance on devotion and approbation of my works. I laboured for five years more until that girdle became worn out and I professed Islam anew. I looked and saw that all created things were dead. I pronounced four akbirs over them and returned from the funeral of them all, and without intrusion of creatures, through Gods help alone, I attained unto God.      --      In India the repetition of the divine name or the mantram (a short devotional or doctrinal affirmation) is called japam and is a favourite spiritual exercise among all the sects of Hinduism and Buddhism. The shortest mantram is OMa spoken sym bol that concentrates within itself the whole Vedanta philosophy. To this and other mantrams Hindus attribute a kind of magical power. The repetition of them is a sacramental act, conferring grace ex opere operato. A similar efficacity was and indeed still is attributed to sacred words and formulas by Buddhists, Moslems, Jews and Christians. And, of course, just as traditional religious rites seem to possess the power to evoke the real presence of existents projected into psychic objectivity by the faith and devotion of generations of worshippers, so too long-hallowed words and phrases may become channels for conveying powers other and greater than those belonging to the individual who happens at the moment to be pronouncing them. And meanwhile the constant repetition of this word GOD or this word LOVE may, in favourable circumstances, have a profound effect upon the subconscious mind, inducing that selfless one-pointedness of will and thought and feeling, without which the unitive knowledge of God is impossible. Furthermore, it may happen that, if the word is simply repeated all whole, and not broken up or undone by discursive analysis, the Fact for which the word stands will end by presenting itself to the soul in the form of an integral intuition. When this happens, the doors of the letters of this word are opened (to use the language of the Sufis) and the soul passes through into Reality. But though all this may happen, it need not necessarily happen. For there is no spiritual patent medicine, no pleasant and infallible panacea for souls suffering from separateness and the deprivation of God. No, there is no guaranteed cure; and, if used improperly, the medicine of spiritual exercises may start a new disease or aggravate the old. For example, a mere mechanical repetition of the divine name can result in a kind of numbed stupefaction that is as much below analytical thought as intellectual vision is above it. And because the sacred word constitutes a kind of prejudgment of the experience induced by its repetition, this stupefaction, or some other abnormal state, is taken to be the immethate awareness of Reality and is idolatrously cultivated and hunted after, with a turning of the will towards what is supposed to be God before there has been a turning of it away from the self.

1.4.02_-_The_Divine_Force, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   185    worth a cent, that is for others to pronounce). That is sufficient to blow the rest of your Jeremiad into smithereens; it proves that the force was and is there and at work and it is only your sweating Herculean labour that prevents you feeling it. Also it is the trickle that gives assurance of the possibility of the downpour. One has only to go on and by one's patience deserve the downpour or else, without deserving, stick on till one gets it. In Yoga itself the experience that is a promise and foretaste but gets shut off till the nature is ready for the fulfilment is a phenomenon familiar to every Yogin when he looks back on his past experience. Such were the brief visitations of Ananda you had some time before. It does not matter if you have not a leechlike tenacity - leeches are not the only type of Yogins.

1.4.03_-_The_Guru, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      But as to what lay behind Ramakrishna's saying and whether he himself meant it to be a general and absolute statement - I do not pronounce.

1.68_-_The_God-Letters, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy      Maybe it was Devanagri that began it! This "sacred" character, used rightly for Sanskrit alone, is supposed (so Allan Bennett told me) to be constructed on can one call them ideographic? principles. The upright line is the soft palate; the horizontal the hard; and the line between them shows the position of the tongue when one pronounces the letter. He demonstrated this most elegantly for the letter T (); but I was never able to follow this up with most of the other fifty- five (isn't it?) letters.      --      I put to myself this question: when I pronounce the letter so-and-so, what thought or class of thought tends to arise in my mind? (If you practise this in public, people may wonder!)      --      You will note that either Jupiter or Luna occurs in every case; in two, doubly. Guttur, moreover, is the Latin word for throat. Both planets emphasize the soft open expansive aspects of Nature; they both refer accordingly to the feminine throat, the tube either of present or of future Life. (Jupiter, when in Sagittarius, has an aggressive, masterful, male side; but his letter when there is Samekh.) Now pronounce these letters; observe the motions of opening and expulsion of the breath. Well, then, you will no longer wonder at that list we had in another letter of the words Cwm, coombe, quean, queen, and so on; also (?) quill, queer, quaintest, curious, (?) quick, (?) quince: especially with the U vowel, which sounds prehensile, ready to suck. Kupris (or Ctytto) the Greek or Syrian Aphrodite-Venus, is the outstanding example in Theogony.      --      But that comes later: meanwhile, practise pronouncing these names, as also English words such as Do, Deed, Dare, Drive, Doubt, Dig, Dog, Dive, Duck, Dub while exploring the Abyss of your mind, and see whether you do not soon associate the D-sound with a swift, hard, definite, fertile and completed act. For a fair test, take only the oldest and simplest words, words which might naturally be wanted in the Stone Age.      --      Before cursing my way to dinner oh! how I hate the need of food unless I am practising the "Ninth Art" and disguise myself as a gourmet I must mention the letter M. This is the only letter that can be pronounced with the lips firmly closed; it is the beginning of speech, and so the Mother of the Alphabet. (Distinguish from N, the letter of the Female). Look up Magick again; Chapter VII (pp. 45-49) gives a good account of M in discussing AUM. Note, too, the root MU "to be silent," form which we have the words Mystic, Mystery and others. As the letter of the Mother it appears to this day in nature everywhere, the first call of the child to "Mamma." In nearly every language, moreover, the word for Mother is based on M. Madar, Mere, Mutter, Umm, AMA or AIMA and the rest.

2.02_-_Meeting_With_the_Goddess, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology   whether in man or in the general scheme of things. It seems very probable that a   good many of the more pronouncedly idealistic tendencies in philosophy may owe   much of their attractiveness in many minds to a sublimation of this reaction

2.02_-_The_Ishavasyopanishad_with_a_commentary_in_English, #Isha Upanishad, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   THE GURU   The Upanishad sets forth by pronouncing as the indispensable basis of its revelations the universal nature of God. This   universal nature of Brahman the Eternal is the beginning and   --   called the Lord. Therefore it now uses the neuter form of the   pronoun, speaking of Him as That and This; because Brahman   is above sex & distinction. He is One, yet he is at once unmoving   --   nay, have I not already paid the purchase-money? O my judge,   thou who sittest pronouncing that I be hanged by the neck till I   be dead, because I have broken thy laws perchance to give bread

2.03_-_Karmayogin_A_Commentary_on_the_Isha_Upanishad, #Isha Upanishad, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   slowly and laboriously develops; as the power of reacting on   external objects becomes more pronounced and varied, organic   life-growth begins its marvellous career; and the two, helping   --   by the medium in which it is working. There are three such   characteristics which appear rudimentarily the moment consciousness itself appears and seem more and more pronounced as   liberated Spirit develops to its highest self-expression. The first   --   religion, who declares God to be omnipresent and yet in the   next breath pronounces the objects in which He is present to be   void of anything that can command religious reverence. There   --   the community which a more prosperous and stable life brings   with it, involve an increasing complexity of the social organization. Specialization of function becomes pronounced, for the   larger needs of the community demand an increasing division of

2.04_-_ADVICE_TO_HOUSEHOLDERS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism      "You may say that there are many errors and superstitions in another religion. I should reply: Suppose there are. Every religion has errors. Everyone thinks that his watch alone gives the correct time. It is enough to have yearning for God. It is enough to love Him and feel attracted to Him: Don't you know that God is the Inner Guide? He sees the longing of our heart and the yearning of our soul. Suppose a man has several sons. The older boys address him distinctly as 'Baba' or 'Papa', but the babies can at best call him 'Ba' or 'Pa'. Now, will the father be angry with those who address him in this indistinct way? The father knows that they too are calling him, only they cannot pronounce his name well. All children are the same to the father. Likewise, the devotees call on God alone, though by different names. They call on one Person only. God is one, but His names are many."

2.05_-_Apotheosis, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology   pea"; whereas in the second, the Father is found to be an   tecedent to the division of sex: the pronoun "He" was a manner   of speech, the myth of Sonship a guiding line to be erased. And

2.0_-_THE_ANTICHRIST, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy   partial paralysis of Christianity--and of reason.... One needs only to   pronounce the words "Tbingen Seminary," in order to understand what   German philosophy really is at bottom, theology _in disguise_.... The   --   the gospel; the fact that, in the idea "Church," precisely that is   pronounced holy which the "messenger of glad tidings" regarded as   _beneath_ him, as _behind_ him--one might seek in vain for a more   --   about me: not a word of what was formerly known as "truth" has remained   standing; we can no longer endure to hear a priest even pronounce the   word "truth." Even he who makes but the most modest claims upon truth,   --   "highest" states which Christianity holds up to mankind as the value   of values, are epileptic in character,--the Church has pronounced only   madmen _or_ great swindlers _in majorem dei honorem_ holy. Once I   --      --With this I will now conclude and pronounce my judgment. I _condemn_   Christianity and confront it with the most terrible accusation that

2.1.03_-_Man_and_Superman, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      But this is not the case; only by the fixed relative combination can it be done. This formula then is of the nature of a magic formula. Only by pronouncing a fixed combination of words or syllables or sounds can the [ . . . ] magic result follow and not otherwise. Any variation voids the effect and leaves the incantation barren.

2.12_-_THE_FESTIVAL_AT_PNIHTI, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism      After regaining partial consciousness he uttered only the sound 'Ka! Ka! Ka!' He could not fully pronounce 'Kli'."

2.20_-_2.29_-_RULES_FOR_HOUSEHOLDERS_AND_MONKS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism      "The grace of God falls alike on all His children, learned and illiteratewhoever longs for Him. The father has the same love for all his children. Suppose a father has five children. One calls him 'Baba', some 'Ba', and some 'Pa'. These last cannot pronounce the whole word. Does the father love those who address him as 'Baba' more than those who call him 'Pa'? The father knows that these last are simply too young to say 'Baba'

2.2.4_-_Taittiriya_Upanishad, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   OM they sing the hymns of the Sama; with OM SHOM they   pronounce the Shastra. With OM the priest officiating at the   sacrifice sayeth the response. With OM Brahma beginneth creation (or With OM the chief priest giveth sanction). With OM

2.24_-_The_Evolution_of_the_Spiritual_Man, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Evolutionary Nature in her first awakening of man to a rudimentary spiritual consciousness must begin with a vague sense of the Infinite and the Invisible surrounding the physical being, a sense of the limitation and impotence of human mind and will and of something greater than himself concealed in the world, of Potencies beneficent or maleficent which determine the results of his action, a Power that is behind the physical world he lives in and has perhaps created it and him, or Powers that inform and rule her movements while they themselves perhaps are ruled by the greater Unknown that is beyond them. He had to determine what they are and find means of communication so that he might propitiate them or call them to his aid; he sought also for means by which he could find out and control the springs of the hidden movements of Nature. This he could not do at once by his reason because his reason could at first deal only with physical facts, but this was the domain of the Invisible and needed a supraphysical vision and knowledge; he had to do it by an extension of the faculty of intuition and instinct which was already there in the animal. This faculty, prolonged in the thinking being and mentalised, must have been more sensitive and active in early man, though still mostly on a lower scale, for he had to rely on it largely for all his first necessary discoveries: he had to rely also on the aid of subliminal experience; for the subliminal too must have been more active, more ready to upsurge in him, more capable of formulating its phenomena on the surface, before he learned to depend completely on his intellect and senses. The intuitions that he thus received by contact with Nature, his mind systematised and so created the early forms of religion. This active and ready power of intuition also gave him the sense of supraphysical forces behind the physical, and his instinct and a certain subliminal or supernormal experience of supraphysical beings with whom he could somehow communicate turned him towards the discovery of effective and canalising means for a dynamic utilisation of this knowledge; so were created magic and the other early forms of occultism. At some time it must have dawned on him that he had something in him which was not physical, a soul that survived the body; certain supernormal experiences which became active because of the pressure to know the invisible, must have helped to formulate his first crude ideas of this entity within him. It would only be later that he began to realise that what he perceived in the action of the universe was also there in some form within him and that in him also were elements that responded to invisible powers and forces for good or for evil; so would begin his religio-ethical formations and his possibilities of spiritual experience. An amalgam of primitive intuitions, occult ritual, religio-social ethics, mystical knowledge or experiences symbolised in myth but with their sense preserved by a secret initiation and discipline is the early, at first very superficial and external stage of human religion. In the beginning these elements were, no doubt, crude and poor and defective, but they acquired depth and range and increased in some cultures to a great amplitude and significance.   But as the mental and life development increased, - for that is Nature's first preoccupation in man and she does not hesitate to push it forward at the cost of other elements that will need to be taken up fully hereafter, - there is a tendency towards intellectualisation, and the first necessary intuitive, instinctive and subliminal formations are overlaid with the structures erected by a growing force of reason and mental intelligence. As man discovers the secrets and processes of physical Nature, he moves more and more away from his early recourse to occultism and magic; the presence and felt influence of gods and invisible powers recedes as more and more is explained by natural workings, the mechanical procedure of Nature: but he still feels the need of a spiritual element and spiritual factors in his life and therefore keeps for a time the two activities running together. But the occult elements of religion, though still held as beliefs or preserved but also buried in rites and myths, lose their significance and diminish and the intellectual element increases; finally, where and when the intellectualising tendency becomes too strong, there is a movement to cut out everything but creed, institution, formal practice and ethics. Even the element of spiritual experience dwindles and it is considered sufficient to rely only on faith, emotional fervour and moral conduct; the first amalgam of religion, occultism and mystic experience is disrupted, and there is a tendency, not by any means universal or complete but still pronounced or visible, for each of these powers to follow its own way to its own goal in its own separate and free character.   A complete denial of religion, occultism and all that is supraphysical is the last outcome of this stage, a hard dry paroxysm of the superficial intellect hacking away the sheltering structures that are refuges for the deeper parts of our nature. But still evolutionary Nature keeps alive her ulterior intentions in the minds of a few and uses man's greater mental evolution to raise them to a higher plane and deeper issues. In the present time itself, after an age of triumphant intellectuality and materialism, we can see evidences of this natural process, - a return towards inner self-discovery, an inner seeking and thinking, a new attempt at mystic experience, a groping after the inner self, a reawakening to some sense of the truth and power of the spirit begins to manifest itself; man's search after his self and soul and a deeper truth of things tends to revive and resume its lost force and to give a fresh life to the old creeds, erect new faiths or develop independently of sectarian religions. The intellect itself, having reached near to the natural limits of the capacity of physical discovery, having touched its bedrock and found that it explains nothing more than the outer process of Nature, has begun, still tentatively and hesitatingly, to direct an eye of research on the deeper secrets of the mind and the life force and on the domain of the occult which it had rejected a priori, in order to know what there may be in it that is true. Religion itself has shown its power of survival and is undergoing an evolution the final sense of which is still obscure. In this new phase of the mind that we see beginning, however crudely and hesitatingly, there can be detected the possibility of a pressure towards some decisive turn and advance of the spiritual evolution in Nature. Religion, rich but with a certain obscurity in her first infrarational stage, had tended under the overweight of the intellect to pass into a clear but bare rational interspace; but it must in the end follow the upward curve of the human mind and rise more fully at its summits towards its true or greatest field in the sphere of a suprarational consciousness and knowledge.

2.3.02_-_The_Supermind_or_Supramental, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   145    becomes more and more pronounced, so as to admit of positive error, falsehood, ignorance, finally, inconscience like that of   Matter. This world here has come out of the Inconscience and developed the Mind which is an instrument of Ignorance trying to reach out to the Truth through much limitation, conflict, confusion and error. To get back to Overmind, if one can do it completely, which is not easy for physical beings, is to stand on the borders of the supramental Truth with the hope of entry there.

2.3.2_-_Chhandogya_Upanishad, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   9. By OM the triple knowledge proceedeth; with OM the priest   reciteth the Rik, with OM he pronounceth the Yajur, with   OM he chanteth the Sama. And all this is for the heaping

2_-_Other_Hymns_to_Agni, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   union, one mind common to all, they are together in one   knowledge; I pronounce for you a common Mantra, I do   sacrifice for you with a common offering.

3.05_-_The_Central_Thought, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga      This has been expressed very forcefully by Pythagoras, in the eloquent words recently pronounced here by Mr. Han Byner.

3.06_-_Thought-Forms_and_the_Human_Aura, #Theosophy, #Rudolf Steiner, #Occultism      Blue tones of color appear in natures full of devotion. The more a man places his Self in the service of a thing the more pronounced become the blue shades. In this class, also, one finds two quite different kinds of people. There are natures with a mediocre power of thought, passive souls who, as it were, have nothing to throw into the stream of events in the world but their "good nature." Their aura    p. 184

3.11_-_Of_Our_Lady_Babalon, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   utmost recesses of the heavens, or conduct vigorous combats with   the most unpronounceable demons of the pit, it may be impossible   for him to do as much as knock a vase from a mantelpiece. His

3.16.2_-_Of_the_Charge_of_the_Spirit, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   Such a discovery will not necessarily impede the ceremony. A   general curse may be pronounced again the forces hindering the   operation (for ex hypotheosi no divine force can be interfering) and   --   may send the spirit, full of hypocritical submission, to destroy you.   Such a spirit will probably pronounce the oath amiss, or seek in   some way to seek to avoid his obligations.

3.18_-_Of_Clairvoyance_and_the_Body_of_Light, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   your present circumstances. It would not involve guarantee against   subsequent disaster, or pronounce a philosophical dictum as to   wisdom in the abstract sense. One must not assume that the oracle

3_-_Commentaries_and_Annotated_Translations, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   a, i, formed aEt, iEt, uEt, at, it, ut. From these words a   number of pronouns, adverbs, suffixes, affixes, conjunctions and   prepositions are descended in the Aryan languages.   --   The static root s, signifying existence in rest, used as a   pronoun, expresses a fixed object resting before the eyes. It is   the original of the Greek article, , , t, the Greek relative   --   The pronominal and adverbial particle v (still used for the   second personal pronoun plural as n is used for the first) meant   originally "a substantial object, a thing before the eyes". It came   --   That. The demonstrative yt^ like s was originally used either   as a demonstrative pronoun or a relative and in the neuter as a   conjunction; the transition from the relative to the conjunctional   --   referring to the idea of the sentence Bd\ kEryEs and not a relative   pronoun qualifying Bdm^.      --   y; cf (vm^, y$ym^ (see under (vm^ in the sixth sloka). v was used   for the plural of the pronoun both in the first and the second   persons with a distinguishing prefix which was afterwards lost   --   When y$ym^ replaced the second form, vym^ came to be restricted   to the first pronoun.   nmo.   --   ut .. id^. 1 In the old Aryan language a, i, u were evidently   used as demonstrative pronouns, i being this here near me, a   this a little farther off, u that. We have precisely this use in   Tamil; ;p, p,   p, the demonstrative pronouns where   p is euphonic & ; honorific; so too ;<, <. The three   are liberally used to define other pronouns and adverbs, eg   ;HHa<, HHa<, etc. We have similarly in Sanscrit aym^,   --   ille and olle, to say nothing of the suggestions in aliquis etc;   we have is, ea, id, for the ordinary demonstrative pronoun. a,,   i,, u, appear to have been the masculine forms, at^, it^, ut^ or

4.13_-_The_Action_of_Equality, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The calm established in the whole being must remain the same whatever happens, in health and disease, in pleasure and in pain, even in the strongest physical pain, in good fortune and misfortune, our own or that of those we love, in success and failure, honour and insult, praise and blame, justice done to us or injustice, everything that ordinarily affects the mind. If we see unity everywhere, if we recognise that all comes by the divine will, see God in all, in our enemies or rather our opponents in the game of life as well as our friends, in the powers that oppose and resist us as well as the powers that favour and assist, in all energies and forces and happenings, and if besides we can feel that all is undivided from our self, all the world one with us within our universal being, then this attitude becomes much easier to the heart and mind. But even before we can attain or are firmly seated in that universal vision, we have by all the means in our power to insist on this receptive and active equality and calm. Even something of it, svalpam api asya dharmasya, is a great step towards perfection; a first firmness in it is the beginning of liberated perfection; its completeness is the perfect assurance of a rapid progress in all the other members of perfection. For without it we can have no solid basis; and by the pronounced lack of it we shall be constantly falling back to the lower status of desire, ego, duality, ignorance.

4.21_-_The_Gradations_of_the_supermind, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The intuitive knowledge on the contrary, however limited it may be in its field or application, is within that scope sure with an immediate, a durable and especially a self-existent certitude. It may take for starting-point or rather for a thing to light up and disclose in its true sense the data of mind and sense or else fire a train of past thought and knowledge to new meanings and issues, but it is dependent on nothing but itself and may leap out of its own field of lustres, independent of previous suggestion or data, and this kind of action becomes progressively more common and adds itself to the other to initiate new depths and ranges of knowledge. In either case there is always an element of self-existent truth and a sense of absoluteness of origination suggestive of its proceeding from the spirit's knowledge by identity. It is the disclosing of a knowledge that is secret but already existent in the being: it is not an acquisition, but something that was always there and revealable. It sees the truth from within and illumines with that inner vision the outsides and it harmonises, too, readily -- provided we keep intuitively awake -- with whatever fresh truth has yet to arrive. These characteristics become more pronounced and intense in the higher, the proper supramental ranges: in the intuitive mind they may not be always recognisable in their purity and completeness because of the mixture of mental stuff and its accretion, but in the divine reason and greater supramental action they become free and absolute.

5.1.01_-_Ilion, #Collected Poems, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      But if for war you pronounce, if a noble death you have chosen,   That I approve. What fitter end for this warlike nation,

7.13_-_The_Conquest_of_Knowledge, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga      What shall we learn? What shall we teach? Shall we try to learn everything that has happened throughout the ages? Shall we attempt to learn every word that man can pronounce?   In the poem of the Mahabharata, the following words are used to describe the various kinds of arrows shot by the Pandava brothers and other warriors: sara, ishu, sayaka, patri, kanda, vishikha, naracha, vishatha, prushatka, bhalla, tomara, ishika, silimukha, anjalika. We certainly do not need to learn all these

Aeneid, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   that stress.   The diaeresis is used for two purposes: 1) to indicate that a terminal e preceded by a consonant or consonants forms part of a syllable to be pronounced separately (Andro'mache, Cymo'doce); 2)   to separate vowels that cluster together but are to be pronounced as,   or in, separate syllables when the vowels are not already separated   --   Vowel clusters may involve:   1. Two vowels that are to be pronounced as, or in, separate syllables. As already indicated, they will either be separated by an accent (Aene'as, Alphe'us, I'o) or, if they are not separated by an   accent, the second vowel will be marked by a diaeresis (A'nio,   --   au of Menela'us, the oe of Be'roe, the second eu of Eune'us, are   not diphthongs. The diphthongs may be pronounced in a variety of   ways:

Agenda_Vol_10, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga      There is a very pronounced change in those who were touched on the 1st of January: there is   especially... as I said, a precision and a certainty that have entered their way of thinking.

Agenda_Vol_11, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   myself, But the psychic being is the one that will materialize and become the supramental being!   I saw it, it was like that. There were distinctive features, but not very pronounced, and it was clearly   a being that was neither male nor female, that had features of both combined. And it was taller than her,   --   A symbol of what can never be symbolised,   A language mispronounced, misspelt, yet true....   Savitri, X.IV.647-648   --   Yes, that must be him.   Ill give you one example: he was with Z and asked Z how the syllable OM should be pronounced   (he didnt know). Z told him. Then he repeated just that word, and he says that it suddenly became

Agenda_Vol_12, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   right conditions precipitate themselves into the vital and material field, and I have been careful   not to make any public pronouncement as that might prejudice my possibilities of future action.   What that will be will depend on developments. The present trend of politics may end in   --   What is left is just the things that resist you feel (I told you this) that its as if every minute (and   its getting more and more pronounced), every minute: do you want life, do you want death; do you   want life, do you want death?... Thats how it is. And life is union with the Supreme. And

Agenda_Vol_2, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   now). It's like things dissolving - dissolving, dissolving, dissolving. And it's more and more   pronounced. During these last days, things have been becoming increasingly difficult - difficulties   have been coming one after another, one after another. Formerly, I had the power to get a grip on them   --   to come down!), and the inner resistances; and this creates the Contradiction, which becomes more and   more pronounced.   It speeds up the work, but at the same time it makes it a bit... taxing.

Agenda_Vol_3, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   To cherish in secret the sense of sin.... No, I can't say I've had that experience, in the sense that I   have never had a very pronounced love of virtue.   That's another thing I have noticed: even in my childhood I was already conscious of what Sri   --   symbolised,   A language mispronounced, misspelt, yet true.185   (X.IV.647)   --   was up and I had to come out of it did I start wondering, "What happened? What does it mean?" It   wasn't even that pronounced. It's simply an old habit, what we call "understanding."   A bad habit.

Agenda_Vol_4, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   Aurobindo wrote in The Future Poetry. They tell me that Savitri's 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   --   The thing that resists the most on the terrestrial level (perhaps even on the universal level) is that zone   (which is more pronounced in the earth's atmosphere), the emotive zone. I had the clear perception that   it CLINGS to its emotions, it ENJOYS its emotions. This counteracts the effort towards perfection,

Agenda_Vol_5, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   a new flying race, emerald, which plays among the northern fir trees on the shores of Lake Rokakitutu   (pronounced "fiddledeedee" in penguin language).   S.   --   it's better simply to say, "No, this isn't Love," that's all. And keep the word for the True Thing.... The   word amour [love] in French has a certain evocative power because, whenever I pronounce it, it makes   contact; that's why I'd rather keep it. As for all the rest: no, don't talk of love, it isn't love.

Agenda_Vol_6, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   possible for the unfolding of the whole. The logic of it is absolute. And I think that all the   contradictions can only stem from a more or less pronounced tendency for this or that position, that   other position; all the minds that accept the intrusion of a "fault" or an "error" and the resulting conflict   --   as you once taught me to do. That was all. Nothing more complicated than that. You were   there, strategically positioned and I pronounced your Name three times. But there was a great   current of Force that went through that telephone hook-up, so to speak, a great Power that

Agenda_Vol_7, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   Is it a weakness?   It was very pronounced, very pronounced. And there was in you an intensity (gesture of clenched fists),   a need for things to change.   --   aspiration, even: a total, complete surrender. So then, things of that sort come to me; yesterday, all day   long, it was: "A dead person living on earth." With the perception (not a very pronounced perception   yet, but clear enough) of a vast difference between the way of life [of this body] and that of other   --   But during the day, there are perpetual lessons, all the time, all the time, for everything, all the time.   The lesson is least pronounced when I have to write something or see people; but there, too, the exact   quality of people's vibration (not their permanent vibration but the vibration in them at that minute),   --   No, I was referring to humans, to the whole earth.   Oh, humans, yes, certainly - certainly, without any doubt, a very pronounced answer, strangely   pronounced, from everywhere, just everywhere. A need for something, a dissatisfaction with what is,   and the need for something higher. It's very, very pronounced, everywhere. I can't say the number is   very large, I don't think it is, but it's everywhere.   --   photograph catches it.   Yes, it's very striking on this one; it's less pronounced on the others.   And it's someone I know, but I can't put a name to him. I look like an old scientist there, no? It's

Agenda_Vol_8, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   has lost the sense of its all-powerfulness.   This distortion has been still more pronounced since the advent of the mind, which in its working   has so much taken the place of consciousness that it has so to speak substituted itself for consciousness,   --   study carefully, even in the physical world no two people see things in exactly the same way. There, it   may be more pronounced, but it seems to be a similar phenomenon....   The explanation becomes very simple and very easy when you enter the consciousness in which it's

Book_1_-_The_Council_of_the_Gods, #The Odyssey, #Homer, #Mythology     Telemachus! the Gods, methinks, themselves     Teach thee sublimity, and to pronounce     Thy matter fearless. Ah forbid it, Jove!

BOOK_II._--_PART_I._ANTHROPOGENESIS., #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   knowledge and wisdom) from which the mystic and mysterious Caresma is taken. But the occult name   of the bright God was never pronounced outside the temple.   Samael or Satan, the seducing Serpent of Genesis, and one of the primeval angels who rebelled, is the   --   On the authority, then, of these few lines, which, like any other allegorical sentence, may be twisted   into almost any meaning; namely, on the words pronounced by Prometheus and addressed to Io, the   daughter of Inachos, persecuted by Zeus -- a whole prophecy is constructed by some Catholic writers.

BOOK_II._--_PART_III._ADDENDA._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   author, when, following his train of thought on the unscientific euhemerization of the powers of   Nature in ancient creeds, he pronounces a condemnatory verdict upon them in the following terms: -"Science, however, makes sad havoc with this impression of sexual generation being the original and   only mode of reproduction,* and the microscope and dissecting knife of the naturalist introduce us to   --   running, with two horse's heads sketched close to him -- a work of the Reindeer period, i.e., at least   50,000 years ago -- are pronounced by Mr. Laing not only exceedingly well done, but, especially the   reindeer feeding, as one that "would do credit to any modern animal painter"   --   major"; and add that the soil called diluvial in geology "was formed partially at least after man's   apparition on earth" -- Littre pronounced himself finally. He then showed the necessity, before "the   resurrection of so many old witnesses," of rehandling all the origins, all the durations, and added that   --   GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH," or Roman   Catholics glare at the Protestants, the Occultists pronounce, in their impartiality, that these words have   applied from the first to all and every exoteric Churchianity, that which was the "ceremonial magic" of

BOOK_II._--_PART_II._THE_ARCHAIC_SYMBOLISM_OF_THE_WORLD-RELIGIONS, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   "No other deity affords such a variety of etymologies as Jaho, nor is there any name   which can be so variously pronounced. It is only by associating it with the Masoretic   points that the later Rabbins succeeded in making Jehovah read 'Adonai' -- or Lord, as   Philo Byblus spells it in Greek letters [[IEUO]] -- IEVO. Theodoret says that the   Samaritans pronounced it Jahe (yahra), and the Jews Yaho; which would make it as we   have shown, I -- Ah -- O. Diodorus states that 'among the Jews they relate that Moses   --   Lacking the Old Testament symbology, ignorant of the real connotation of the name of Jehovah -- the   rabbinical secret substitute for the ineffable and unpronounceable name -- the Church mistook the   cunningly fabricated shadow for the reality, the anthropomorphized generative symbol for the one   --   entranced body being placed on its wooden tau so as to receive the rays). Then appeared the   Hierophants-Initiators, and the sacramental words were pronounced, ostensibly, to the Sun-Osiris,   addressed in reality to the Spirit Sun within, enlightening the newly-born man. Let the reader meditate   --   of Hiranyaksha, "whose number was 77 crores (or 770 millions) of men." (See Padma Purana.) All   such narratives are pronounced meaningless fictions and absurdities. But -- Truth is the daughter of   Time, verily; and time will show.

BOOK_I._--_PART_I._COSMIC_EVOLUTION, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   correct the mistake. (See Theosophist, June, 1883.) To avoid this deplorable misnomer was easy; the   spelling of the word had only to be altered, and by common consent both pronounced and written   "Budhism," instead of "Buddhism." Nor is the latter term correctly spelt and pronounced, as it ought to   be called, in English, Buddhaism, and its votaries "Buddhaists."   --   granted to the fathers of the human race, finds but few supporters at present," -- the holy and learned   man laughed. His answer was suggestive. "If Mr. Moksh Mooller, as he pronounced the name, were a   Brahmin, and came with me, I might take him to a gupta cave (a secret crypt) near Okhee Math, in the   --   REFUSES -- TWO OBEY.   THE CURSE IS pronounCED; THEY WILL BE BORN ON THE FOURTH, SUFFER AND   CAUSE SUFFERING; THIS IS THE FIRST WAR.   --   the septenary root from which all proceeds. All depends upon the accent given to these seven vowels,   which may be pronounced as one, three, or even seven syllables by adding an e after the letter "o."   This mystic name is given out, because without a thorough mastery of the triple pronunciation it   --   , Hoa, Atah, Ani; He, Thou, I; are used   learned Kabalist: "The three pronouns   to symbolize the ideas of Macroprosopus and Microprosopus in the Hebrew Qabalah. Hoa, "He," is   --   "The sign expresses the thing: the thing is the (hidden or occult) virtue of the sign.   "To pronounce a word is to evoke a thought, and make it present: the magnetic potency   of the human speech is the commencement of every manifestation in the Occult World.   --   that the light of the nearest of them which has just reached our modern Chaldees, had left its luminary   long before the day on which the words "Let there be Light" were pronounced; but these are no worlds   on the Devaloka plane, but in our Kosmos.   --   arrived for the explanation of some matters in this direction. Mistakes have now to be checked by the   original teachings and corrected. If one of the said works has too pronounced a bias toward   materialistic science, the other is decidedly too idealistic, and is, at times, fantastic.   --   Rounders, while Buddha and Sankaracharya are termed Sixth Rounders, allegorically. Thence again   the concealed wisdom of the remark, pronounced at the time "evasive" -- that a few drops of rain do   not make the Monsoon, though they presage it."   --   ------STANZA VI. -- Continued.   6. THE CURSE IS pronounCED (a): THEY WILL BE BORN IN THE FOURTH (Race),   SUFFER AND CAUSE SUFFERING (b). THIS IS THE FIRST WAR (c).   --   the plane on which our Universe is accomplishing its cycle.   (b) "The curse is pronounced" does not mean, in this instance, that any personal Being, god, or   superior Spirit, pronounced it, but simply that the cause which could but create bad results had been   generated, and that the effects of a Karmic cause could lead the "Beings" that counteracted the laws of

BOOK_I._--_PART_III._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   law of gravitation has no right to be referred to as an universal law. "These adjustments," we are told,   "Newton, in his general Scholium, pronounces to be 'the work of an intelligent and all-powerful   Being.' " Intelligent that "Being" may be; as to "all-powerful" there would be every reason to doubt the   --   THE THEORIES OF ROTATION IN SCIENCE.   CONSIDERING that "final cause is pronounced a chimera, and the first Great Cause is remanded to   the Sphere of the Unknown," as a reverend gentleman justly complains, the number of hypotheses put   --   confessions of the most eminent physicists and biologists, with Faraday at their head. Not only, he   said, could he never presume to pronounce whether Force was a property or function of Matter, but he   actually did not know what was meant by the word matter.   --   confess so often -- "we do not know" . . . . "it is not known to us" . . . . etc., etc. Nor would he have   ever pronounced the following sentence, recanting the best portions of his independent rediscovery, in   which he says (p. 384): -http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-3-08.htm (4 von 12) [06.05.2003 03:33:29]   --   element which is defined on our earth by current science, as the ultimate undecomposable constituent   of some kind of matter, would be pronounced in the world of a higher spiritual perception as   something very complex indeed. Our purest water would be found to yield, instead of its two declared   --   And what Occultists understand by a "laya centre."   The above is pronounced "unscientific" by many. But so is everything that is not sanctioned and kept   on strictly orthodox lines by physical science. Unless the explanation given by the inventor himself is   --   myself to the sixth sub-division where this luminiferous ether is developed in its crude   form as far as my researches prove.** I think this idea will be pronounced by the   physicists of the present day, a wild freak of the imagination. Possibly, in time, a light   --   occult meaning sought in these words and admonitions, however mistranslated, since they are   pronounced by one who threatened with hell-fire anyone who says simply raca (fool) to his brother   (Matthew v., 22). And evidently, again, the planets are not merely spheres, twinkling in Space, and   --   work written by Egyptians (vide "Book of the Dead") would speak of the one universal God of the   Monotheistic systems -- the one Absolute cause of all, was as unnameable and unpronounceable in the   mind of the ancient philosopher of Egypt, as it is for ever Unknowable in the conception of Mr.   --   observed that the word Nouter, nouti, "god" had never ceased being a generic name with the   Egyptians, nor has it ever become a personal pronoun. Every God was the "one living and unique   God" with them. Their "monotheism was purely geographical. If the Egyptian of Memphis proclaimed

BOOK_I._--_PART_II._THE_EVOLUTION_OF_SYMBOLISM_IN_ITS_APPROXIMATE_ORDER, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy      * Pranava, like Om, is a mystic term pronounced by the Yogis during meditation; of the terms called,   according to exoteric Commentators, Vyahritis, or "Om, Bhur, Bhuva, Swar" (Om, earth, sky, heaven) - Pranava is the most sacred, perhaps. They are pronounced with breath suppressed. See Manu II. 7681, and Mitakshara commenting on the Yajnavahkya-Suriti, i. 23. But the esoteric explanation goes a   great deal further.   --   sixth -- that of Bel or Jupiter -- was governed by the DOMINIONS; the seventh -- the world of Saturn -by the THRONES. These are the worlds of form. Above come the four higher ones, making seven   again, since the three highest are "unmentionable and unpronounceable." The eighth, composed of   1,122 stars, is the domain of the Cherubs; the ninth, belonging to the walking and numberless stars on   --   invented for no other purpose than to mislead the profane and to symbolize life and generation.* The   real secret and unpronounceable name -- "the word that is no word" -- has to be sought in the seven   names of the first seven emanations, or the "Sons of the Fire,"   --   than anything else, speaks of a revelation to him of the seven heavens sounding each one vowel as   they pronounced the seven names of the seven (angelic) hierarchies.   When spirit has permeated every minutest atom of the seven principles of Kosmos, then the secondary   --   of "Yogini," which, we are told by Mr. Hargrave Jennings, "is a Sanskrit word, in the dialects   pronounced Yogi or Zogee (!), and is equivalent to Sena, and exactly the same as Duti or Duti-Ca' -i.e., a sacred prostitute of the temple, worshipped as Yoni or Sakti" (p. 60). "The books of morality,"   in India, "direct a faithful wife to shun the society of Yogini or females who have been adored as Sakti

Book_of_Genesis, #The Bible, #Anonymous, #Various      Genesis 3:15 has been given a messianic interpretation, and has become known as the "First Gospel," or the Protoevangelium - the first announcement of the Messiah and Redeemer, of a battle between the serpent and the Woman, and of the final victory of a descendant of hers. The presence of the ancient Hebrew epicene personal pronoun that begins the second sentence of Genesis 3:15 explains the Latin Vulgate and Douay-Rheims female interpretation of the word ("she" - referring to the Woman), and the Revised Standard Version and NIV male interpretation of the word ("he" - referring to the seed or offspring of the Woman).

BS_1_-_Introduction_to_the_Idea_of_God, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The Jahwist version uses the name YHWH , which, apparently, people didnt say, but we believe was pronounced something like Yahwa. It has a strongly anthropomorphic God, that takes human form. It begins with Genesis 2:4. This is the account of the heavens and the earth, and it contains the story of Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel, and Noah, and the Tower of Babel, and Exodus, and Numbers, along with the Priestly version. It also contains the law in the formjust the formof the Ten Commandments, which is like a truncated form of the law.

class, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      4 Psychotherapy      4 pronoun      4 programming language

COSA_-_BOOK_I, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   Not one whit more easily are the words learnt for all this vileness; but by their means the vileness is committed with less shame. Not that   I blame the words, being, as it were, choice and precious vessels; but that wine of error which is drunk to us in them by intoxicated teachers; and if we, too, drink not, we are beaten, and have no sober judge to whom we may appeal. Yet, O my God (in whose presence I now without hurt may remember this), all this unhappily I learnt willingly with great delight, and for this was pronounced a hopeful boy.

COSA_-_BOOK_VI, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   imaginations. For so rash and impious had I been, that what I ought by   enquiring to have learned, I had pronounced on, condemning. For Thou,   Most High, and most near; most secret, and most present; Who hast not

COSA_-_BOOK_VII, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   by human observation, or be at all expressed in those figures which the   astrologer is to inspect, that he may pronounce truly. Yet they cannot   be true: for looking into the same figures, he must have predicted the   --   it was that I admired the beauty of bodies celestial or terrestrial;   and what aided me in judging soundly on things mutable, and pronouncing,   "This ought to be thus, this not"; examining, I say, whence it was that

COSA_-_BOOK_VIII, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   it was not salvation that he taught in rhetoric, and yet that he had   publicly professed: how much less then ought he, when pronouncing Thy   word, to dread Thy meek flock, who, when delivering his own words,   --   Victorinus! Victorinus! Sudden was the burst of rapture, that they saw   him; suddenly were they hushed that they might hear him. He pronounced   the true faith with an excellent boldness, and all wished to draw him

COSA_-_BOOK_X, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   of this institution. Thus I fluctuate between peril of pleasure and   approved wholesomeness; inclined the rather (though not as pronouncing   an irrevocable opinion) to approve of the usage of singing in the

COSA_-_BOOK_XI, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   when it ends, I cannot measure, save perchance from the time I began,   until I cease to see. And if I look long, I can only pronounce it to be   a long time, but not how long; because when we say "how long," we do   --   short one. But neither do we this way obtain any certain measure of   time; because it may be, that a shorter verse, pronounced more fully,   may take up more time than a longer, pronounced hurriedly. And so for a   verse, a foot, a syllable. Whence it seemed to me, that time is nothing   --   fourth, sixth, and eighth. Every one of these to every one of those,   hath a double time: I pronounce them, report on them, and find it so,   as one's plain sense perceives. By plain sense then, I measure a long   --   report as to the spaces of times, how much this is in respect of that,   no otherwise than if vocally we did pronounce them. If a man would utter   a lengthened sound, and had settled in thought how long it should be, he

COSA_-_BOOK_XIII, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   by the abundant greatness of its Unity,--who can readily conceive this?   who could any ways express it? who would, any way, pronounce thereon   rashly?   --   expounding, discoursing disputing, consecrating, or praying unto Thee,   so that the people may answer, Amen. The vocal pronouncing of all which   words, is occasioned by the deep of this world, and the blindness of the   --   waters increase and multiply. Observe again, whosoever readest this;   behold, what Scripture delivers, and the voice pronounces one only way,   In the Beginning God created heaven and earth; is it not understood   --   not, except in signs corporeally expressed, and in things mentally   conceived. By signs corporeally pronounced we understand the generations   of the waters, necessarily occasioned by the depth of the flesh;

Evening_Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo, #Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      Twice he found it necessary to go out of his way to make public pronouncements on important world-issues, which shows distinctly that renunciation of life is not a part of his yoga. The first was in relation to the second world-war. At the beginning he did not actively concern himself with it, but when it appeared as if Hitler would crush all the forces opposed to him and Nazism dominate the world, he began to {{0}}intervene.[[Sri Aurobindo and his Ashram]]      --      What was talked in the small group informally was not intended by Sri Aurobindo to be the independent expression of his views on the subjects, events or the persons discussed. Very often what he said was in answer to the spiritual need of the individual or of the collective atmosphere. It was like a spiritual remedy meant to produce certain spiritual results, not a philosophical or metaphysical pronouncement on questions, events or movements. The net result of some talks very often was to point out to the disciple the inherent incapacity of the human intellect and its secondary place in the search for the ultimate Reality.      But there were occasions when he did give his independently personal views on some problems, on events and other subjects. Even then it was never an authoritarian pronouncement. Most often it appeared to be a logically worked out and almost inevitable conclusion expressed quite impersonally though with firm and sincere conviction. This impersonality was such a prominent trait of his personality! Even in such matters as dispatching a letter or a telegram it would not be a command from him to a disciple to carry out the task. Most often during his usual passage to the dining room he would stop on the way, drop in on the company of four or five disciples and, holding out the letter or the telegram, would say in the most amiable and yet the most impersonal way: I suppose this has to be sent. And it would be for some one in the group instantly to volunteer and take it. The expression very often he used was It was done, It happened not I did.      --      Such a message at present would amount to a public announcement and I do not like to make any pronouncement at present. It must be done at the proper time, because it would set in motion forces in opposition. Besides, there are other papers that have demanded similar messages and I would not know how to refuse them if I make up my mind to send you one.      --      Sri Aurobindo: (smiling) I dont know. It is for X to pronounce.      --      Sri Aurobindo: Yes, I {{0}}remember.[[Sri Aurobindo was pressed by Mrs. Besant to give his opinion on the Montague Chelmsford Reforms. For a long time he avoided making any pronouncement. At last, when pressed again, he wrote an article in the New India on condition that his name should not be published. So the article appeared under the name of an Indian Nationalist.{{1}}In that article he said in effect: the Reforms are like a Chinese puzzle. Even a Chinese puzzle can be solved but this one cannot be solved. Everything given by the Government till now was a mere shadow and the Reforms are a huge shadow.]]      --      Disciple: There is a pronouncement today about the elegibility to the A.I.C.G. All India Congress Committee.      --      There was Mahatmajis pronouncement about Hindu- Muslim Unity, a long one.      --      Suren Banerji had a personal magnetism and he was sweet-spoken, he could get round anybody. His idea was to become the undisputed leader of Bengal by using the nationalists for the sword and the moderates for the public face. In private he would go up to and accept the revolutionary movement. He even wanted to set up a provincial board of control of the revolutionaries! Barin once took a bomb to him and he was full of enthusiasm. He even had a letter from Suren Banerji, when he was arrested at Manik Tola. But in the court they hushed up the matter as soon as Norton pronounced S. N. Banerji.

For_a_Breath_I_Tarry, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The initial design had called for a machine to be situated on the surface of the planet Earth, to function as a relay station and coordinating agent for activities in the notrhern hemisphere. Solcom tested the machine to this end, and all of its responses were perfect.      Yet there was somethig different about Frost, something which led Solcom to dignify him with a name and a personal pronoun. This, in itself, was an almost unheard of occurrence. The molecular circuits had already been sealed, though, and could not be aalyzed without being destroyed in the process. Frost represented too great an investment of Solcom's time, energy, and materials to be dismantled because of an intangible, especially when he functioned perfectly.      Theefore, Solcom's strangest creation was given dominion over half the Earth, ad they called him, unimaginatively, Frost.

Liber_46_-_The_Key_of_the_Mysteries, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    Christ?" We declared immediately, that it was equally impossible for us    to pronounce in favour of such a blasphemy; and yet, as we demonstrated    in our articles in the "Estafette," the signs printed in bleeding   --    single spark of fixed light promises a universe to space.    All magic is in a word, and that word pronounced qabalistically is    stronger than all the powers of Heaven, Earth and Hell. With the name   --    name of Adonai, and the occult forces which compose the empire of    Hermes are one and all obedient to him who knows how to pronounce duly    the incommunicable name of Agla.    In order to pronounce duly the great words of the Qabalah, {241} one    must pronounce them with a complete intelligence, with a will that    nothing checks, an activity that nothing daunts. In magic, to have said

Maps_of_Meaning_text, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology   competence176; allows the ability of each to become the capability of all. Precise duplicative facility,   however, still retains pronounced limitations. Specific behaviors retain their adaptive significance only   within particular, restricted environments (only within bounded frames of reference). If environmental   --   for him to be struck down by bodyguards on the spot. But the fact that he was speaking for an   authority not his own was so transparent that the king accepted Elijahs pronouncement as just.   The same striking sequence recurred in the incident of David and Bathsheba. From the top of his roof   --   happen tomorrow? Well, I do not know who You really are, nor do I want to know whether You are   really He or just a likeness of Him, but no later than tomorrow I shall pronounce You the wickedest of   all heretics and sentence You to be burned at the stake, and the very people who today were kissing

Sayings_of_Sri_Ramakrishna_(text), #Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   166. Utter the word Gita, in quick succession, a number of times-Gi-ta-gi-ta-gi-tagi. It is then virtually   pronounced as 'Tagi', 'Tagi', which means one who has renounced the world for the sake of God. Thus,   in one word, the Gita teaches, "Renounce, ye world-bound men! Renounce everything, and fix the mind   --      pronounce the name of God and thus make yourself pure?" The man did so and fetched some water for   him; and he, an orthodox Brahmana, drank the water! How great was the power of his faith!   --   becomes immortal by the mere immersion. Whoever utters the 'name' of God, and utters, it whether   voluntarily or involuntarily and pronounces it howsoever, attains immortality in the end.   356. To a religious teacher who said that His 'name' alone is sufficient for Divine realization, the Master   --   all His children who yearn to know Him, be they learned or ignorant. Suppose a father has five children.   Some of them can call him 'Papa'; others can perhaps say only 'Ba' or 'Pa' and cannot pronounce the   whole word. But will the father love the latter less than the former? He knows that they are mere   --   devotee of mine is living there. Cultivate his acquaintance; for he is truly devoted to me." Narada went   there and found an agriculturist who rose early in the morning, pronounced the name of Hari (God) only   once, and taking his plough, went out and tilled the ground all day long. At night, he went to bed after   pronouncing the name of Hari once more. Narada said to himself, "How can this rustic be a lover of   God? I see him busily engaged in worldly duties and he has no signs of a pious man about him." Then   --   1097. A man who was out of employment was constantly pressed by his wife to seek some job. One day   when his son was dangerously ill and the doctors pronounced the case to be hopeless, he went out in   search of employment. In the meantime the son died and a search was made for the father, but he

Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_1, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   that was often the general trend of the talks. In a group like ours and in the   milieu in which we worked, a methodical discussion of a subject was not always possible nor even very worthwhile. But the pronouncements of one   day would often be completed on an other when new aspects were brought   --   anything. Not that things are not known beforehand or possibilities not seen.   There are things about which I have definitely pronounced in advance. But   where it is a question of possibilities, I don't tie myself down to any; for if I   --   name of Surendranath Banerji was found in the bomb case. But as soon as   Norton pronounced the name there was a "Hush, hush" and he shut up.   Barin was preparing bombs at my place at Baroda, but I didn't know it.   --   SRI AUROBINDO (smiling): I don't know. (Looking at Purani) It is for Purani to   pronounce.   NIRODBARAN: He also thinks your "Shiva" has it.   --   Bholanath. Lalji himself has seen it perform. It can even pick out a man   whose name has been pronounced to it. If a photograph is hidden in somebody's pocket and the bull is asked to detect the man, it can.   SRI AUROBINDO: By name also?   --   28 JANUARY 1940   PURANI: I have read The Secret of the Veda. There is no pronouncement   against Sayana. I don't know if Nolini's introduction to his own madhhuchanda has any reference to him. (Sri Aurobindo read the introduction.)

Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_2, #Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   SRI AUROBINDO (laughing): But I didn't fix a date - whether it will be tomorrow or not.   [1] What is perhaps meant - as we suspect from other pronouncements of Sri Aurobindo   and from the Mother's statementsis that bodily Sri Aurobindo had not yet become the   --   of Nazis.   SATYENDRA: This is your first public pronouncement since your retirement.   SRI AUROBINDO; Yes, though indirect and not given as a pronouncement.   SATYENDRA: No, but it was meant to be.

The_Act_of_Creation_text, #The Act of Creation, #Arthur Koestler, #Psychology   mosdy perhaps unconscious, at having to sit still and listen 'with   studious attention* to that Russian with the unpronouncable name; a   repressed emotion, tending to beget fidgety motions, until the tension   --      A mispronounced word in rhetoric class      --   to prevail in the methods and techniques of artistic creation. It is   summed up by two opposite pronouncements: Bernard Shaw's 'Ninety   per cent perspiration, ten per cent inspiration, on the one hand,   --   mental states; privileged, in that it is included in the normal daily cycle   in spite of or because of its pronounced hallucinatory, 'abnormal*   character. Dreaming is distinguished from other delusionary states by   --      This is the kind of pronouncement where it is advisable to hold one's   breath and count to ten before expressing indignant protest or smug   --   commensality, with its archetypal echoes, invests them with a more   or less pronounced participatory character.      --   'The sense of beauty as a "drive'* for discovery in our mathematical   field, seems to be almost the only one/ And the laconic pronouncement   of Dirac, addressed to his fellow-physicists, bears repeating: 'It is more   --   The counterpart to A Mathematician's Apology, which puts beauty   before rational method, is Seurat's pronouncement (in a letter to a   friend): 'They see poetry in what I have done. No, I apply my method,   --   phical comment seems to imply, oddly enough, that the remainder of   the sentence was pronounced with understanding.

The_Aleph, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Beatriz had been tall, frail, slightly stooped; in her walk there was (if the oxymoron may be allowed) a kind of uncertain grace, a hint of expectancy. Carlos Argentino was pink-faced, overweight, gray-haired, fine-featured. He held a minor position in an unreadable library out on the edge of the Southside of Buenos Aires. He was authoritarian but also unimpressive. Until only recently, he took advantage of his nights and holidays to stay at home. At a remove of two generations, the Italian "S" and demonstrative Italian gestures still survived in him. His mental activity was continuous, deeply felt, far-ranging, and -- all in all -- meaningless. He dealt in pointless analogies and in trivial scruples. He had (as did Beatriz) large, beautiful, finely shaped hands. For several months he seemed to be obsessed with Paul Fort -- less with his ballads than with the idea of a towering reputation. "He is the Prince of poets," Daneri would repeat fatuously. "You will belittle him in vain -- but no, not even the most venomous of your shafts will graze him."   On the thirtieth of April, 1941, along with the sugared cake I allowed myself to add a bottle of Argentine cognac. Carlos Argentino tasted it, pronounced it "interesting," and, after a few drinks, launched into a glorification of modern man.   "I view him," he said with a certain unaccountable excitement, "in his inner sanctum, as though in his castle tower, supplied with telephones, telegraphs, phonographs, wireless sets, motion-picture screens, slide projectors, glossaries, timetables, handbooks, bulletins..."

The_Anapanasati_Sutta_A_Practical_Guide_to_Mindfullness_of_Breathing_and_Tranquil_Wisdom_Meditation, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   which occurs during life. Seeing things purely as they are.   To do this in life, you don't have to stop using the pronouns   in your language! And you don't have to try to disappear.

The_Circular_Ruins, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   After nine or ten nights he understood with a certain bitterness that he could expect nothing from those pupils who accepted his doctrine passively, but that he could expect something from those who occasionally dared to oppose him. The former group, although worthy of love and affection, could not ascend to the level of individuals; the latter pre-existed to a slightly greater degree. One afternoon (now afternoons were also given over to sleep, now he was only awake for a couple hours at daybreak) he dismissed the vast illusory student body for good and kept only one pupil. He was a taciturn, sallow boy, at times intractable, and whose sharp features resembled of those of his dreamer. The brusque elimination of his fellow students did not disconcert him for long; after a few private lessons, his progress was enough to astound the teacher. Nevertheless, a catastrophe took place. One day, the man emerged from his sleep as if from a viscous desert, looked at the useless afternoon light which he immediately confused with the dawn, and understood that he had not dreamed. All that night and all day long, the intolerable lucidity of insomnia fell upon him. He tried exploring the forest, to lose his strength; among the hemlock he barely succeeded in experiencing several short snatchs of sleep, veined with fleeting, rudimentary visions that were useless. He tried to assemble the student body but scarcely had he articulated a few brief words of exhortation when it became deformed and was then erased. In his almost perpetual vigil, tears of anger burned his old eyes.   He understood that modeling the incoherent and vertiginous matter of which dreams are composed was the most difficult task that a man could undertake, even though he should penetrate all the enigmas of a superior and inferior order; much more difficult than weaving a rope out of sand or coining the faceless wind. He swore he would forget the enormous hallucination which had thrown him off at first, and he sought another method of work. Before putting it into execution, he spent a month recovering his strength, which had been squandered by his delirium. He abandoned all premeditation of dreaming and almost immediately succeeded in sleeping a reasonable part of each day. The few times that he had dreams during this period, he paid no attention to them. Before resuming his task, he waited until the moon's disk was perfect. Then, in the afternoon, he purified himself in the waters of the river, worshiped the planetary gods, pronounced the prescribed syllables of a mighty name, and went to sleep. He dreamed almost immediately, with his heart throbbing.   He dreamed that it was warm, secret, about the size of a clenched fist, and of a garnet color within the penumbra of a human body as yet without face or sex; during fourteen lucid nights he dreampt of it with meticulous love. Every night he perceived it more clearly. He did not touch it; he only permitted himself to witness it, to observe it, and occasionally to rectify it with a glance. He perceived it and lived it from all angles and distances. On the fourteenth night he lightly touched the pulmonary artery with his index finger, then the whole heart, outside and inside. He was satisfied with the examination. He deliberately did not dream for a night; he took up the heart again, invoked the name of a planet, and undertook the vision of another of the principle organs. Within a year he had come to the skeleton and the eyelids. The innumerable hair was perhaps the most difficult task. He dreamed an entire man--a young man, but who did not sit up or talk, who was unable to open his eyes. Night after night, the man dreamt him asleep.

The_Coming_Race_Contents, #The Coming Race, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga   of God, Soul and Immortality and will one   day pronounce its verdict. Whether we      --   he will be liberal if he finds his name attached to the work y   announced and pronounced, if there is fame for him in   it. But ask him a dole for something genuine, compara-

The_Dream_of_a_Ridiculous_Man, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   And so, as I was looking at the sky, this girl suddenly seized me by the elbow.   The street was empty, and almost no one was about. Far off a coachman was sleeping in his droshky. The girl was about eight years old, in a kerchief and just a little dress, all wet, but I especially remembered her wet, torn shoes, and remember them now. They especially flashed before my eyes. She suddenly started pulling me by the elbow and calling out. She didn't cry, but somehow abruptly shouted some words, which she was unable to pronounce properly because she was chilled and shivering all over. She was terrified by something and shouted desperately: "Mama!   Mama!" I turned my face to her, but did not say a word and went on walking, but she was running and pulling at me, and in her voice there was the sound which in very frightened children indicates despair. I know that sound. Though she did not speak all the words out, I understood that her mother was dying somewhere, or something had happened with them there, and she had run out to call someone, to find something so as to help her mother. But I did not go with her and, on the contrary suddenly had the idea of chasing her away. First I told her to go and find a policeman. But she suddenly pressed her hands together and, sobbing, choking, kept running beside me and wouldn't leave me. It was then that I stamped my feet at her and shouted. She only cried out: "Mister! Mister!. . . " but suddenly she dropped me and ran headlong across the street: some other passerby appeared there, and she apparently rushed from me to him.

the_Eternal_Wisdom, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      32) Thinkest thou that thou canst write the name of God on Time? No more is it pronounced in Eternity. ~ Angelus Silesius      --      21) Ordinary men pronounce a sackful of discourses on religion, but do not put a grain into practice, while the sage speaks little, but his whole life is religion put in to action ~ Ramakrishna      --      24) He who puts away from him all passion, hatred, pride and hypocrisy, who pronounces words instructive and benevolent, who does not make his own what has not been given to him, who without desire, covetousness, impatience knows the depths of the Permanent, he is indeed a.man of religion. ~ Buddhist Text      --      4) The disciple lives as a reconciler of those that are divided, uniting more closely those that are friends, establishing peace, preparing peace, rich in peace, pronouncing always words of peace ~ Metta Sutta

The_Garden_of_Forking_Paths_2, #Selected Fictions, #Jorge Luis Borges , #unset      "In every one," I pronounced, not without a tremble to my voice, "I am grateful to you and revere you for your re-creation of the garden of Ts'ui Pen."