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reminded ::: caused (a person) to remember; caused (a person) to think (of someone or something). reminding.
reminder ::: a person or thing that serves to remind.
reminder ::: n. --> One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.
remindful ::: a. --> Tending or adapted to remind; careful to remind.
remind ::: v. t. --> To put (one) in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of (a person).
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17. Rabbi Jochanan (Talmud Hagiga 14a) reminds us that, far from having ceased being formed at Creation,
admonishing ::: 1. Reproving or scolding, especially in a mild or good-willed manner. 2. Urging to a duty; reminding.
Although the noun when capitalized refers to an officer of the British judiciary or one of several officials of the Exchequer, formally titled the Queen’s or the King’s Remembrancer, who has the responsibility of collecting debts that are owed to the Crown or an official representing the City of London, especially on various ceremonial occasions, or to represents the inters of Parliament, when defined in lower case the first definition given is person who reminds.
Amal: “I believe this phrase—like ‘The sun-eyed Guardians and the Golden Sphinx’—refers to the denizens of the Supermind just as do the lines mentioning ‘the belt of the unchanging Truth’ and ‘the presence of the Ineffable’. The earlier words—‘The gold ridge of the world-dream’—point to the overmind. In the same context the words ‘Between the slayer and the saviour fires’ remind us of the closing lines of the sonnet ‘Nirvana’ which ends with lines:
annoyware "software" {Shareware} that reminds you frequently that you are using an unregistered copy. (1998-04-29)
annoyware ::: (software) Shareware that reminds you frequently that you are using an unregistered copy. (1998-04-29)
A remembrancer is also a person who reminds others of something.
A Remembrancer—One who, or that which, serves to bring to, or keep in, mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder.
Asana(Sanskrit) ::: A word derived from the verbal root as, signifying "to sit quietly." Asana, therefore,technically signifies one of the peculiar postures adopted by Hindu ascetics, mostly of the hatha yogaschool. Five of these postures are usually enumerated, but nearly ninety have been noted by students ofthe subject. A great deal of quasi-magical and mystical literature may be found devoted to these variouspostures and collateral topics, and their supposed or actual psychological value when assumed bydevotees; but, as a matter of fact, a great deal of this writing is superficial and has very little indeed to dowith the actual occult and esoteric training of genuine occultists. One is instinctively reminded of otherquasi-mystical practices, as, for instance, certain genuflections or postures followed in the worship of theChristian Church, to which particular values are sometimes ascribed by fanatic devotees.Providing that the position of the body be comfortable so that the mind is least distracted, genuinemeditation and spiritual and actual introspection can be readily and successfully attained by any earneststudent without the slightest attention being paid to these various postures. A man sitting quietly in hisarmchair, or lying in his bed at night, or sitting or lying on the grass in a forest, can more readily enterthe inner worlds than by adopting and following any one or more of these various asanas, which at thebest are physiological aids of relatively small value. (See also Samadhi)
BAmiyAn. (C. Fanyanna; J. Bon'enna; K. Pomyonna 梵衍那) (The Chinese is probably a transcription of the Indian equivalency Bayana). A complex of several hundred Buddhist caves situated in the heart of the Hindu Kush mountains, some seventy miles northwest of the modern city of Kabul, Afghanistan; renowned for two massive standing buddhas carved into the cliff face, which were the largest in the world. The BAmiyAn Valley was a thriving Buddhist center of the LOKOTTARAVADA school from the second through roughly the ninth century CE, until Islam entered the region. Scholars tend to divide the valley into three sections: the western section contained a giant standing buddha (some 177 feet, or fifty-five meters high) and numerous painted caves; the eastern section contained a second large-scale buddha statue (some 124 feet, or thirty-eight meters high); and the central section is marked by a smaller buddha image. The seventh-century Chinese pilgrim XUANZANG described a giant reclining buddha at BAmiyAn, although no archaeological evidence of such a statue has been found. The series of caves excavated between the massive statues vary in size and layout and include both monastic residences (VIHARA) as well as cave basilicas perhaps used for worship by passing monks and traveling merchants. The diversity of artistic styles found at BAmiyAn, like those in the caves at DUNHUANG, is a reminder of its crucial position along the ancient SILK ROAD. In 1222 CE, the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan defaced some of the statues, and the Taliban of Afghanistan shelled the two large buddha statues and destroyed them in March 2001. In 2003, the archaeological remains of the BAmiyAn Valley were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
“Be seeing you”: Sarcastic reminder to remain loyal to the Technocracy… or else.
Bochim to remind the Israelites of the Lord’s
reminded ::: caused (a person) to remember; caused (a person) to think (of someone or something). reminding.
reminder ::: a person or thing that serves to remind.
reminder ::: n. --> One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.
remindful ::: a. --> Tending or adapted to remind; careful to remind.
remind ::: v. t. --> To put (one) in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of (a person).
Cartesianism: The philosophy of the French thinker, Rene Descartes (Cartesius) 1596-1650. After completing his formal education at the Jesuit College at La Fleche, he spent the years 1612-1621 in travel and military service. The reminder of his life was devoted to study and writing. He died in Sweden, where he had gone in 1649 to tutor Queen Christina. His principal works are: Discours de la methode, (preface to his Geometric, Meteores, Dieptrique) Meditationes de prima philosophia, Principia philosophiae, Passions de l'ame, Regulae ad directionem ingenii, Le monde. Descartes is justly regarded as one of the founders of modern epistemology. Dissatisfied with the lack of agreement among philosophers, he decided that philosophy needed a new method, that of mathematics. He began by resolving to doubt everything which could not pass the test of his criterion of truth, viz. the clearness and distinctness of ideas. Anything which could pass this test was to be readmitted as self-evident. From self-evident truths, he deduced other truths which logically follow from them. Three kinds of ideas were distinguished: innate, by which he seems to mean little more than the mental power to think things or thoughts; adventitious, which come to him from without; factitious, produced within his own mind. He found most difficulty with the second type of ideas. The first reality discovered through his method is the thinking self. Though he might doubt nearly all else, Descartes could not reasonably doubt that he, who was thinking, existed as a res cogitans. This is the intuition enunciated in the famous aphorism: I think, therefore I am, Cogito ergo sum. This is not offered by Descartes as a compressed syllogism, but as an immediate intuition of his own thinking mind. Another reality, whose existence was obvious to Descartes, was God, the Supreme Being. Though he offered several proofs of the Divine Existence, he was convinced that he knew this also by an innate idea, and so, clearly and distinctly. But he did not find any clear ideas of an extra-mental, bodily world. He suspected its existence, but logical demonstration was needed to establish this truth. His adventitious ideas carry the vague suggestion that they are caused by bodies in an external world. By arguing that God would be a deceiver, in allowing him to think that bodies exist if they do not, he eventually convinced himself of the reality of bodies, his own and others. There are, then, three kinds of substance according to Descartes: Created spirits, i.e. the finite soul-substance of each man: these are immaterial agencies capable of performing spiritual operations, loosely united with bodies, but not extended since thought is their very essence. Uncreated Spirit, i.e. God, confined neither to space nor time, All-Good and All-Powerful, though his Existence can be known clearly, his Nature cannot be known adequately by men on earth, He is the God of Christianity, Creator, Providence and Final Cause of the universe. Bodies, i.e. created, physical substances existing independently of human thought and having as their chief attribute, extension. Cartesian physics regards bodies as the result of the introduction of "vortices", i.e. whorls of motion, into extension. Divisibility, figurability and mobility, are the notes of extension, which appears to be little more thin what Descartes' Scholastic teachers called geometrical space. God is the First Cause of all motion in the physical universe, which is conceived as a mechanical system operated by its Maker. Even the bodies of animals are automata. Sensation is the critical problem in Cartesian psychology; it is viewed by Descartes as a function of the soul, but he was never able to find a satisfactory explanation of the apparent fact that the soul is moved by the body when sensation occurs. The theory of animal spirits provided Descartes with a sort of bridge between mind and matter, since these spirits are supposed to be very subtle matter, halfway, as it were, between thought and extension in their nature. However, this theory of sensation is the weakest link in the Cartesian explanation of cognition. Intellectual error is accounted for by Descartes in his theory of assent, which makes judgment an act of free will. Where the will over-reaches the intellect, judgment may be false. That the will is absolutely free in man, capable even of choosing what is presented by the intellect as the less desirable of two alternatives, is probably a vestige of Scotism retained from his college course in Scholasticism. Common-sense and moderation are the keynotes of Descartes' famous rules for the regulation of his own conduct during his nine years of methodic doubt, and this ethical attitude continued throughout his life. He believed that man is responsible ultimately to God for the courses of action that he may choose. He admitted that conflicts may occur between human passions and human reason. A virtuous life is made possible by the knowledge of what is right and the consequent control of the lower tendencies of human nature. Six primary passions are described by Descartes wonder, love, hatred, desire, joy and sorrow. These are passive states of consciousness, partly caused by the body, acting through the animal spirits, and partly caused by the soul. Under rational control, they enable the soul to will what is good for the body. Descartes' terminology suggests that there are psychological faculties, but he insists that these powers are not really distinct from the soul itself, which is man's sole psychic agency. Descartes was a practical Catholic all his life and he tried to develop proofs of the existence of God, an explanation of the Eucharist, of the nature of religious faith, and of the operation of Divine Providence, using his philosophy as the basis for a new theology. This attempted theology has not found favor with Catholic theologians in general.
catchword ::: n. --> Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.
The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.
A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as, the catchword of a political party, etc.
counsel, sincere advice, admonition, moral, precept, friendly reminder.
cue ::: n. --> The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
The last words of a play actor&
::: "Death is the question Nature puts continually to Life and her reminder to it that it has not yet found itself. If there were no siege of death, the creature would be bound for ever in the form of an imperfect living. Pursued by death he awakes to the idea of perfect life and seeks out its means and its possibility.” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Death is the question Nature puts continually to Life and her reminder to it that it has not yet found itself. If there were no siege of death, the creature would be bound for ever in the form of an imperfect living. Pursued by death he awakes to the idea of perfect life and seeks out its means and its possibility.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
executory ::: a. --> Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive.
Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract.
Fan or fu: The greatest of all the laws underlying phenomenal change, that if any one thing moves to an extreme direction, a change must bring about an opposite result, called "reversion" or "return". Reminds one of Hegel's antithesis. (Lao Tzu.) -- H.H.
Gautama Buddha: (Skr. Gautama, a patronymic, meaning of the tribe of Gotama; Buddha, the enlightened one) The founder of Buddhism. born about 563 B.C. into a royal house at Kapilavastu. As Prince Siddhartha (Siddhattha) he had all worldly goods and pleasures at his disposal, married, had a son, but was so stirred by sights of disease, old age, and death glimpsed on stolen drives through the city that he renounced all when but 29 years of age, became a mendicant, sought instruction in reaching an existence free from these evils and tortures, fruitlessly however, till at the end of seven years of search while sitting under the Bodhi-tree, he became the Buddha, the Awakened One, and attained the true insight. Much that is legendary and reminds one of the Christian mythos surrounds Buddha's life as retold in an extensive literature which also knows of his former and future existences. Mara, the Evil One, tempted Buddha to enter nirvana (s.v.) directly, withholding thus knowledge of the path of salvation from the world; but the Buddha was firm and taught the rightful path without venturing too far into metaphysics, setting all the while an example of a pure and holy life devoted to the alleviation of suffering. At the age of 80, having been offered and thus compelled to partake of pork, he fell ill and in dying attained nirvana. -- K.F.L.
Idol, Idolotry [from Greek eidolon image, idol] The use of images of divinities, which pertains to exotericism, as do visible symbols, ceremonies, and rituals in general. Attitudes vary among religions: Judaism, Islam, and Protestant Christianity absolutely forbid it; Orthodox Christianity permits icons, such as pictures of saints; Roman Catholicism, Hinduism, and Buddhism permit it altogether. Varying degrees of ignorance or enlightenment may regard an idol as in itself a species of imbodied divinity, as transmitting the influence of a divinity or, more spiritually, as a reminder of a divinity. In a real sense, idolatry is the attaching of undue importance to the form rather than to the spirit, and often becomes degraded into worshiping the images made in our imagination and imbodied in work of the hands. “Esoteric history teaches that idols and their worship dies out with the Fourth Race, until the survivors of the hybrid races of the latter (Chinamen, African Negroes, etc.) gradually brought the worship back. The Vedas countenance no idols; all the modern Hindu writings do” (SD 2:723).
In popular mythology the Tuat was separated from the world by a range of mountains and consisted of a great valley, shut in by mountains, through which ran a river (the counterpart of the Nile, reminding one of the Jordan of the Jews and Christians), the banks of which were the abode of evil spirits and monstrous beasts. As the sun passed through the Tuat great numbers of souls were described as making their way to the boat of the sun, and those that succeeded in clinging to the boat were able to come forth into new life as the sun rose from the eastern end of the valley to usher in another day. Tuat was also depicted as the region where the soul went during night, returning to join the living on earth during the day.
It reminds me sometimes of that experience Nolini da had near the Samadhi. He saw a figure. It was standing by the Samadhi. It was late at night, the Ashram was empty and he saw a figure that looked exactly like Sri Aurobindo. He was about to fall at his feet when he saw the feet were different. This was actually a force of darkness and it was actually so powerful it was standing near the Samadhi. He stopped. If he had fallen at its feet it would have dragged him down, even someone so conscious. He (Nolini) would not have fallen down because he was always vigilant and that is why he noticed, but someone less conscious, less vigilant might be trapped, thinking ‘I am following the light.’ It is why this happens very often when one thinks one is speaking for God or speaking for the Divine.
“Its followers have neither altars nor idols, and it is upon the authority of a Shaman priest that we state that their true rites, which they are bound to perform only once a year, on the shortest day of winter, cannot take place before any stranger to their faith. . . . Whenever they assemble to worship, it is always in an open space, or a high hill, or in the hidden depths of a forest — in this reminding us of the old Druidical rites. Their ceremonies upon the occasion of births, deaths, and marriages are but trifling parts of their worship” (IU 2:624).
japamālā. (T. bzlas brjod kyi 'phreng ba; C. shuzhu/nianzhu; J. juzu/nenju; K. suju/yomju 數珠/念珠). In Sanskrit and Pāli, lit. "garland for recitation," thus "prayer beads" or "rosary"; a string of beads held usually in the right hand and fingered by adherents to keep count of the number of recitations made in the course of a worship service, MANTRA recitation, or meditation session. The beads are often made from sandalwood or seeds of the BODHI TREE (Ficus religiosa), the tree under which the Buddha gained enlightenment, although rosaries made from a range of other materials are also common; in some tantric practices, a rosary with beads made from human bone is used. The number of beads on a rosary varies widely. The most common number is 108, the significance of which receives widely varying explanations. One common interpretation is that this number refers to a list of 108 afflictions (KLEsA); fingering all 108 beads in the course of a recitation would then be either a reminder to remain mindful of these afflictions or would constitute their symbolic purification. Alternatively, this 108 can refer to all of phenomenal existence, i.e., the eighteen elements (DHĀTU), viz., the six sense bases, six sense objects, and six sensory consciousnesses, in all of the six states of existence (GATI) (18 × 6 = 108). In Tibetan Buddhism, the number 111 is sometimes used, based on the assumption that for each ten mantras recited, one will be mistaken and need to be repeated, thus adding an additional ten beads for 110. An additional bead is then added to account for the mistaken recitation among the additional ten. Thus, although a mantra might be recited 111 times, only 100 are counted. The Chinese PURE LAND advocate DAOCHUO (562-645) is famous for having used small beans (xiaodou) to keep track of the number of times he had recited the buddha AMITĀBHA's name (see NIANFO); some believe his habit of using such counting beans is the origin of the East Asian japamālā. In many Buddhist traditions, carrying a rosary serves almost as a symbol of the faith. In East Asia, Buddhist monks and nuns, and even many lay adherents, will commonly wear the full-length rosary around their necks. Rosaries of abbreviated lengths, which are more typically worn around the wrist, are sometimes designated duanzhu (J. tanju; K. tanju), or "short rosary." These rosaries will be a maximum of fifty-four beads in length (half the usual length), which would require two repetitions to complete a full round of recitation, and a minimum of nine beads, which would take twelve repetitions. In Tibetan Buddhism, a short rosary is sometimes worn around the right hand while doing prostrations. The CHAN school often uses a short rosary with eighteen beads, requiring six repetitions. See also JAPA.
Jhumur: Here you have the beginnings of the mind opening onto other planes of experience. Because mindhas no experience. This is the kingdom of the greater mind where it opens on to another phase of vision or experience or feeling. The heaven-bird is the feeling of poise that hasn’t taken off. It reminds me that in a certain place, the goal of the mental search is where ultimately the mind abdicates in light and one enters into what Shelley calls ‘thought wildernesses’. Before that concrete abdication there must be some sensation, some feeling of something other that is waiting for us, that has come from elsewhere. The mind has not quite yet abdicated but begins to pursue intuition, perception, feeling.”
jog ::: v. t. --> To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to jostle; esp., to push or touch, in order to give notice, to excite one&
kapāla. (T. thod pa; C. dulou qi/jiebobei; J. dokuroki/kohahai; K. ch'ongnu ki/kopp'abae 髑髏器/劫波杯). In Sanskrit, "skull"; used in Buddhist TANTRA to refer to the skull cup that is often one of the accoutrements of MAHĀSIDDHAs and wrathful deities. The vessel, made from the cranium of a human skull, is often elaborately carved and inlaid with precious metals. The symbolism of the skull cup is variously explained; most generally, it is yet another antinomian aspect of Buddhist tantra, in which things that would be regarded as polluting in Indian culture (in this case the skull of a corpse) are put to use to overcome dualities. It is also said that the skull cup is a constant reminder of death. In tantric SĀDHANAs, the skull cup is often said to contain the elixir of immortality (AMṚTA). The skull cup figures prominently in tantric iconography (being held, for example, by PADMASAMBHAVA) and in tantric practice. For example, in GCOD practice, one visualizes the top of one's own head being cut off and transformed into a huge vessel, where one's own body is cooked and offered to VAJRAYOGINĪ.
Kausthila. (P. Kotthita; T. Gsus po che; C. Juchiluo; J. Kuchira; K. Kuch'ira 拘絺羅). One of the principal arhat disciples of the Buddha deemed foremost among his monk disciples in analytical knowledge (S. PRATISAMVID; P. patisambhidā), viz., of (1) true meaning, (2) the dharma, (3) language, and (4) ready wit. During the time of a previous buddha, Kausthila was said to have been a wealthy householder, who happened to overhear the Buddha praise one of his disciples as being foremost in analytical knowledge. It was then that he resolved to achieve the same preeminence during the dispensation of a future buddha. According to the Pāli account, Kausthila/Kotthita was the son of a wealthy brāhmana family from sRĀVASTĪ, who was learned in the Vedas and who converted while listening to the Buddha preach to his father. He entered the SAMGHA and, taking up a topic of meditation (KAMMAttHĀNA), soon attained arhatship. Kausthila is a frequent interlocutor in the NIKĀYAs and ĀGAMAs and often engages in doctrinal exchanges with sĀRIPUTRA, such as regarding what exists after NIRVĀnA or the relative quality of various types of liberation (VIMUKTI; P. vimutti). Other topics on which Kausthila discourses in the SuTRAs include discussions on action (KARMAN); the arising of phenomena, ignorance, and knowledge; the nature of the senses and sense objects; the fate of ARHATs after their deaths; things not revealed by the Buddha; and so on. On one occasion, during a discussion among the elders, a dispute erupted between Kausthila and a monk named Citta. Citta continually interrupted the discussion by insisting on his views, to the point that Kausthila had to remind him to let others speak. Citta's supporters objected that their favorite's views were eminently sound; but Kasthila replied that not only were Citta's views mistaken but he would soon reject the Buddha's teachings and leave the order. Kausthila's reputation was burnished when events unfolded exactly as he had foretold. sāriputra held Kausthila in such high regard that he praises him in three verses preserved in the Pāli THERAGĀTHĀ. His fame was such that he is often known within the tradition as Kausthila the Great (Mahākausthila; P. Mahākotthita).
Mahāparinibbānasuttanta. (S. MAHĀPARINIRVĀnASuTRA; C. Youxing jing/Da banniepan jing; J. Yugyokyo/Daihatsunehangyo; K. Yuhaeng kyong/Tae panyolban kyong 遊行經/大般涅槃經). In Pāli, the "Discourse on the Great Decease" or the "Great Discourse on the Final Nirvāna"; the sixteenth sutta of the Pāli DĪGHANIKĀYA and longest discourse in the Pāli canon. (There were also either Sanskrit or Middle Indic recensions of this mainstream Buddhist version of the scripture, which should be distinguished from the longer MAHĀYĀNA recension of the scripture that bears the same title; see MAHĀPARINIRVĀnASuTRA.) There are six different Chinese translations of this mainstream version of the text, including a DHARMAGUPTAKA recension in the Chinese translation of the DĪRGHĀGAMA and an independent translation in three rolls by FAXIAN. This scripture recounts in six chapters the last year of Buddha's life, his passage into PARINIRVĀnA, and his cremation. In the text, the Buddha and ĀNANDA travel from Rājagaha (S. RĀJAGṚHA) to Kusināra (S. KUsINAGARĪ) in fourteen stages, meeting with different audiences to whom the Buddha gives a variety of teachings. The narrative contains numerous sermons on such subjects as statecraft, the unity of the SAMGHA, morality, the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS, and the four great authorities (MAHĀPADEsA) for determining the authenticity of Buddhist doctrines following the Buddha's demise. The Buddha crosses a river using his magical powers and describes to the distraught where their deceased loved ones have been reborn. Becoming progressively more ill, the Buddha decides to spend his final rains retreat (P. vassa; S. VARsĀ) with Ānanda meditating in the forest near VEnUGRĀMAKA, using his powers of deep concentration to hold his disease in check. He is eighty years old and describes his body as being like an old cart held together by straps. When the Buddha expresses his wish to address the saMgha, Ānanda assumes that there is a teaching that the Buddha has not yet taught. The Buddha replies that he was not one who taught with a "teacher's fist" (P. ācariyamutthi) or "closed fist," holding back some secret teaching, but that he has in fact already revealed everything. The Buddha also says that he is not the head of the saMgha and that after his death each monk should "be an island unto himself" with the DHARMA as his island (P. dīpa; S. dvīpa) and his refuge. ¶ While meditating at the CĀPĀLACAITYA, the Buddha mentions to Ānanda three times that a TATHĀGATA has the power to live for an eon or until the end of an eon. (The Pāli commentaries take "eon" here to mean "his full allotted lifespan," not a cosmological period.) Ānanda, however, misses the hint and does not ask him to do so. MĀRA then appears to remind the Buddha of what he told him at the time of his enlightenment: that he would not enter nibbāna (NIRVĀnA) until he had trained monks and disciples who were able to teach the dhamma (S. DHARMA). Māra tells the Buddha that that task has now been accomplished, and the Buddha eventually agrees, "consciously and deliberately" renouncing his remaining lifespan and informing Māra that he will pass away in three months' time. The earth then quakes, causing the Buddha to explain to Ānanda the eight reasons for an earthquake, one of which is that a tathāgata has renounced his life force. It is only at that point that Ānanda implores the Buddha to remain until the end of the eon, but the Buddha tells him that the appropriate time for his request has passed, and recalls fifteen occasions on which he had told Ānanda of this remarkable power and how each time Ānanda had failed to ask him to exercise it. The Buddha then explains to a group of monks the four great authorities (MAHĀPADEsA), the means of determining the authenticity of a particular doctrine after the Buddha has died and is no longer available to arbitrate. He then receives his last meal from the smith CUNDA. The dish that the Buddha requests is called SuKARAMADDAVA, lit., "pig's delight." There has been a great deal of scholarly discussion on the meaning of this term, centering upon whether it is a pork dish, such as mincemeat, or something eaten by pigs, such as truffles or mushrooms. At the meal, the Buddha announces that he alone should be served the dish and what was left over should be buried, for none but a buddha could survive eating it. Shortly after finishing the dish, the Buddha is afflicted with the dysentery from which he would eventually die. The Buddha then converts a layman named Pukkusa, who offers him gold robes. Ānanda notices that the color of the robes pales next to the Buddha's skin, and the Buddha informs him that the skin of the Buddha is particularly bright on two occasions, the night when he achieves enlightenment and the night that he passes away. Proceeding to the outskirts of the town of Kusinagarī, the Buddha lies down on his right side between twin sāla (S. sĀLA) trees, which immediately bloom out of season. Shortly before dying, the Buddha instructs Ānanda to visit Cunda and reassure him that no blame has accrued to him; rather, he should rejoice at the great merit he has earned for having given the Buddha his last meal. Monks and divinities assemble to pay their last respects to the Buddha. When Ānanda asks how monks can pay respect to the Buddha after he has passed away, the Buddha explains that monks, nuns, and laypeople should visit four major places (MAHĀSTHĀNA) of pilgrimage: the site of his birth at LUMBINĪ, his enlightenment at BODHGAYĀ, his first teaching at ṚsIPATANA (SĀRNĀTH), and his PARINIRVĀnA at Kusinagarī. Anyone who dies while on pilgrimage to one of these four places, the Buddha says, will be reborn in the heavens. Scholars have taken these instructions as a sign of the relatively late date of this sutta (or at least this portion of it), arguing that this admonition by the Buddha is added to promote pilgrimage to four already well-established shrines. The Buddha instructs the monks to cremate his body in the fashion of a CAKRAVARTIN. He says that his remains (sARĪRA) should be enshrined in a STuPA to which the faithful should offer flowers and perfumes in order to gain happiness in the future. The Buddha then comforts Ānanda, telling him that all things must pass away and praising him for his devotion, predicting that he will soon become an ARHAT. When Ānanda laments the fact that the Buddha will pass away at such a "little mud-walled town, a backwoods town, a branch township," rather than a great city, the Buddha disabuses him of this notion, telling him that Kusinagarī had previously been the magnificent capital of an earlier cakravartin king named Sudarsana (P. Sudassana). The wanderer SUBHADRA (P. Subhadda) then becomes the last person to be ordained by the Buddha. When Ānanda laments that the monks will soon have no teacher, the Buddha explains that henceforth the dharma and the VINAYA will be their teacher. As his last disciplinary act before he dies, the Buddha orders that the penalty of brahmadanda (lit. the "holy rod") be passed on CHANDAKA (P. Channa), his former charioteer, which requires that he be completely shunned by his fellow monks. Then, asking three times whether any of the five hundred monks present has a final question, and hearing none, the Buddha speaks his last words, "All conditioned things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence." The Buddha's mind then passed into the first stage of meditative absorption (P. JHĀNA; S. DHYĀNA) and then in succession through the other three levels of the subtle-materiality realm (RuPADHĀTU) and then through the four levels of the immaterial realm (ĀRuPYADHĀTU). He then passed back down through the same eight levels to the first absorption, then back up to the fourth absorption, and then passed away, at which point the earth quaked. Seven days later, his body was prepared for cremation. However, the funeral pyre could not be ignited until the arrival of MAHĀKĀsYAPA (P. Mahākassapa), who had been away at the time of the Buddha's death. After he arrived and paid his respects, the funeral pyre ignited spontaneously. The relics (sARĪRA) of the Buddha remaining after the cremation were taken by the Mallas of Kusinagarī, but seven other groups of the Buddha's former patrons also came to claim the relics. The brāhmana DROnA (P. Dona) was called upon to decide the proper procedure for apportioning the relics. Drona divided the relics into eight parts that the disputing kings could carry back to their home kingdoms for veneration. Drona kept for himself the urn he used to apportion the relics; a ninth person was given the ashes from the funeral pyre. These ten (the eight portions of relics, the urn, and the ashes) were each then enshrined in stupas. At this point the scripture's narrative ends. A similar account, although with significant variations, appears in Sanskrit recensions of the Mahāparinirvānasutra.
mālā. (T. 'phreng ba; C. man; J. man; K. man 鬘). In Sanskrit and Pāli, lit. "garland" a "rosary," viz., a string of beads usually held in the right hand and used for counting the recitations of prayers or MANTRAs; also called a JAPAMĀLĀ. The number of beads on the rosary varies by tradition, with some rosaries in pure land traditions having twenty-seven beads, and rosaries in Tibetan Buddhism commonly having 108 or 111 beads. The rationale for 111 beads is as follows: it is assumed that in each set of ten repetitions, one repetition will be faulty and need to be redone. Thus ten beads are added for the first hundred beads and one bead is added for the additional ten beads. The significance of the more common number of 108 is less clear. One common interpretation is that this number refers to a list of 108 afflictions (KLEsA); fingering all 108 beads in the course of a recitation would then be either a reminder to remain mindful of these afflictions or would constitute their symbolic purification. Alternatively, this 108 can refer to all of phenomenal existence, i.e., the eighteen elements (DHĀTU), viz., the six sense bases, six sense objects, and six sensory consciousnesses, in all of the six realms of existence (GATI) (18 × 6 = 108). See also JAPAMĀLĀ.
Manicheism: A mystical religio-philosophical doctrine, instituted in Persia by Mani (Manes or Manichaeus), a Magian who, upon conversion to Christianity, sought to synthesize the latter with the dualism of Zoroastrianism, and became a martyr to his faith. The Manicheist creed teaches that to combat the powers of darkness, the mother of light created the first man. As Buddha and Zoroaster, he worked illumination among men; as Jesus, the Son of Man, he had to suffer, become transfigured and symbolize salvation by his apparent death at the cross; as spirit of the sun he attracts all connatural light particles to himself. But final salvation from the throes of evil demons is accomplished by ascetic living, reminding of the Hindu code of ethics, and belief in Mani as the prophesied paraclete.
Manicheism, a religio-philosophical doctrine which spread from Persia to the West and was influential during the 3rd and 7th century, was instituted by Mani (Grk. Manes, Latinized: Manichaeus), a Magian who, upon conversion to Christianity, sought to synthesize the latter with the dualism of Zoroastrianism (q.v.), not without becoming a martyr to his faith. To combat the powers of darkness, the mother of light created the first man. As Buddha (q.v.) and Zoroaster he worked illumination among men ; as Jesus, the Son of Man, he had to suffer, become transfigured and symbolize salvation by his apparent death at the cross; as spirit of the sun he attracts all connatural light particles to himself. But final salvation from the throes of evil demons is accomplished by ascetic living, reminding of the Hindu code of ethics (see Indian Ethics), and belief in Mani as the prophesied paraclete (John 14.16-17). Revived once more in the Occident during the crusades by the Cathari. -- K.F.L.
marana. (T. 'chi ba; C. si; J. shi; K. sa 死). In Sanskrit and Pāli, "death." In ordinary parlance, death refers to the cessation of a living being's vital signs, marking the end of a single lifetime. This fact was apparently unknown to Prince SIDDHĀRTHA, such that his observation of a dead body during an excursion outside his palace served as one of the four signs or sights (CATURNIMITTA) that led him to renounce the world and seek a state beyond death. Death is common theme throughout Buddhist literature. Birth, aging, sickness, and death are often listed as four faults of SAMSĀRA. The gods MĀRA and YAMA are closely associated with death. Throughout the Buddhist world, all manner of rituals are performed to forestall death, and there are numerous instructions on how to face death. Because death is certain to come, but its precise time is unknown, there are constant reminders to be prepared for death at any moment. Because the friends and possessions accumulated in this life cannot be taken to the next life, it is said that nothing is of benefit at the time of death except the dharma. The signs portending death in various levels of existence and the physical and psychological process of dying are described in detail in Buddhist literature. After death has occurred, rituals are typically performed to guide the consciousness of the deceased to rebirth in an auspicious realm. Together with "old age" or "senescence" (JARĀ), death constitutes the twelfth and final link in the cycle of dependent origination (PRATĪTYASAMUTPĀDA). From a philosophical perspective, death is also viewed as occurring constantly with the passage of each momentary combination of mind and matter (NĀMARuPA) or the five aggregates (SKANDHA). Viewed from this perspective, an individual dies (and is reborn) moment after moment (see KsAnIKAVĀDA), physical death being merely the final specific instance thereof. The passing away of an enlightened person is described as a special kind of death, insofar as the conditions for future existence have been eliminated in that individual and as a consequence there will be no more rebirth for that person.
Māra. (T. Bdud; C. Mo; J. Ma; K. Ma 魔). In Sanskrit and Pāli, lit., "Maker of Death"; the personification of evil in Buddhism and often referred to as the Buddhist "devil" or "demon"; he is in fact a powerful divinity of the sensuous realm (KĀMADHĀTU), devoted to preventing beings from achieving liberation from rebirth and thus conquering death. In the biographies of the Buddha, Māra figures as the Buddha's antagonist. According to the most elaborate accounts of the Buddha's enlightenment experience, when the BODHISATTVA SIDDHĀRTHA sat under the BODHI TREE, vowing not to rise until he attained liberation from SAMSĀRA, he was approached by Māra, who sought to dissuade him from his quest. When he refused, Māra sent his minions to destroy him, but their weapons were transformed into flower blossoms. When he sent his daughters-Ratī (Delight), Aratī (Discontent), and Tṛsnā (Craving)-to seduce him, the bodhisattva remained unmoved, in some versions transforming them into hags and then restoring their beauty once they repented. When Māra questioned the bodhisattva's right to occupy his seat beneath the Bodhi tree, the bodhisattva declared that he had earned that right by accumulating merit over countless eons. When asked who could vouch for these deeds, the bodhisattva extended his right hand and touched the earth, thereby calling the goddess of the earth, STHĀVARĀ, to bear witness to his virtue; this gesture, called the BHuMISPARsAMUDRĀ ("earth-touching gesture"), is one of the most common iconographic depictions of the Buddha. The goddess bore witness to the bodhisattva's virtue by causing the earth to quake. In a Southeast Asian version, the goddess is called THORANI, and she wrung out from her hair all the water that the bodhisattva had offered in oblations over many lives. This created a great torrent, which washed Māra away. In all accounts, Māra is finally vanquished and withdraws, with the entire episode being referred to as the "defeat of Māra" (Māravijaya). Māra reappears shortly after the Buddha's enlightenment, urging him to immediately pass into PARINIRVĀnA and not bother teaching others. His request is rejected, but he nevertheless extracts from the Buddha a promise to enter nirvāna when he has completed his teaching; near the end of the Buddha's life, Māra reappears at the CĀPĀLACAITYA to remind him of his promise. Māra also distracts the Buddha's attendant, ĀNANDA, preventing him from requesting that the Buddha live until the end of the eon, a power that the Buddha possesses but must be asked to exercise. Ānanda is chided by the Buddha and later rebuked by the SAMGHA for his oversight. Māra commonly appears in Buddhist literature when monks and nuns are about to achieve enlightenment, attempting to distract them. Māra would eventually figure in sectarian polemics as well. In the MAHĀYĀNA sutras, those who claim that the Mahāyāna sutras are not the authentic word of the Buddha are condemned as being possessed by Māra. In scholastic literature, Māra is expanded metaphorically into four forms. SKANDHAMĀRA, the māra of the aggregates (SKANDHA), is the mind and body of unenlightened beings, which serve as the site of death. Klesamāra, the māra of the afflictions (KLEsA), refers to such afflictions as greed, hatred, and delusion, which catalyze death and rebirth and which prevent liberation. MṚTYUMĀRA, the māra of death, is death itself, and DEVAPUTRAMĀRA, the deity Māra, is the divinity (DEVA) who attacked the Buddha and who seeks to prevent the defeat of the other three forms of Māra.
memento ::: n. --> A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory; that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.
Moksha (Sanskrit) Mokṣa [from mokṣ to release, set free probably from the verbal root much] Freedom; freedom from sentient life for the reminder of a manvantara. Equivalent to nirvana, the absolute, mukti [from the verbal root much], the Palace of Love of the Zohar, the Gnostic Pleroma of Eternal Light, the Chinese nippang, and the Burmese neibban. “When a spirit, a monad, or a spiritual radical, has so grown in manifestation that it has first become a man, and is set free interiorly, inwardly, and from a man has become a planetary spirit or dhyan-chohan or lord of meditation, and has gone still higher to become interiorly a brahman, and from a brahman the Parabrahman for its hierarchy, then it is absolutely perfected, free, released: perfected for that great period of time which to us seems almost an eternity, so long is it, virtually incomputable by the human intellect. This is the Absolute: limited in comparison with things still more immense, still more sublime; but so far as we can think of it, ‘released’ or ‘freed’ from the chains or bonds of material existence” (Fund 183).
moniment ::: n. --> Something to preserve memory; a reminder; a monument; hence, a mark; an image; a superscription; a record.
nagware "jargon" /nag'weir/ A term, originally from {Usenet}, for the variety of {shareware} that displays a message on start-up and/or termination reminding you to register, pay or donate (see {guiltware}). Sometimes user interaction is required to dismiss the nag in order to use the program, making it useless in {batch mode}. Nagware may also be {crippleware}, with a message nagging you pay to upgrade to the full or "pro" version. [{Jargon File}] (2015-01-17)
nagware ::: /nag'weir/ [Usenet] The variety of shareware that displays a large screen at the beginning or end reminding you to register, typically requiring some sort of keystroke to continue so that you can't use the software in batch mode. Compare crippleware.[Jargon File]
OM is the symbol of the triple Brahman, the outward-looking, the inward or subtle and the superconscient causal Purusha. Each letter A, U, M indicates one of these three in ascending order and the syllable as a whole brings out the fourth state, Turiya, which rises to the Absolute. OM is the initiating syllable pronounced at the outset as a benedictory prelude and sanction to all act of sacrifice, all act of giving and all act of askesis; it is a reminder that our work should be made an expression of the triple Divine in our inner being and turned towards him in the idea and motive.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 19, Page: 491
One is reminded of the Hebrew story in Genesis, where the ’elohim fear lest man, represented by Adam, should eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and become like unto them. The conception behind these jealousies of divinities is a warning in popular form that while the noblest human duty is to become like the gods — our spiritual parents — yet before we can, we must have brought forth from within ourselves the divinity latent there, lest we bring disharmony and the selfish interests of the human material world into the serene and law-abiding cosmic spheres of the divinities.
"Pain and grief are Nature"s reminder to the soul that the pleasure it enjoys is only a feeble hint of the real delight of existence. In each pain and torture of our being is the secret of a flame of rapture compared with which our greatest pleasures are only as dim flickerings.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga*
“Pain and grief are Nature’s reminder to the soul that the pleasure it enjoys is only a feeble hint of the real delight of existence. In each pain and torture of our being is the secret of a flame of rapture compared with which our greatest pleasures are only as dim flickerings.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
pastie /pay'stee/ An adhesive label designed to be attached to a key on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which can be accessed through that key. Pasties are likely to be used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated with a special character. A pastie on the R key, for example, might remind the user that it is used to generate the rho character. The term properly refers to nipple-concealing devices formerly worn by strippers in concession to indecent-exposure laws; compare {tits on a keyboard}. [{Jargon File}]
Hazrat Madanī reminded his murīd 'Ināyat: "There is only one virtue and one sin for a soul on this path; virtue when he is conscious of God, and sin when he is not."
postcardware {Shareware} that borders on {freeware}, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.) [{Jargon File}]
prompter ::: n. --> One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action.
One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in a theater.
prompter ("s) ::: 1. Theat. A person offstage who reminds the actors of forgotten lines or cues. 2. A person, thing, etc., that prompts. prompters, sprite-prompters.
promptings ::: things serving to suggest or remind.
Purani: “ The growth of the divine potentialities in man is spoken of in Veda as the growth of a Child. The Master takes the symbol straight and employs it thus: ‘where the God-child lies on the lap of Night and Dawn.’ The idea is that through the state of ignorance and through the state of awakening that is Dawn,—through the alterations of two—, the God-child in man attains its growth. Ignorance is not thus something anti-divine. It contributes to the growth of the Divine in man. This certainly reminds one of the hymn in the Veda which runs as follows: ‘Two are joined together, powers of truth, powers of May, they have built the child and given him birth and they nourish his growth’. (Rig Veda X, 5. 3). Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri: An Approach and a Study
Purani: “The ‘python coils’ reminds us of Ahi-Vritra of the Rig Veda where it is symbolic of the coils of Ignorance enveloping the human being restricting his freedom and knowledge.”
remembrancer ::: n. --> One who, or that which, serves to bring to, or keep in, mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder.
A term applied in England to several officers, having various functions, their duty originally being to bring certain matters to the attention of the proper persons at the proper time.
rememorative ::: a. --> Tending or serving to remind.
"Remind yourself always that the Divine Force is there, that you have felt it and that, even if you seem to lose consciousness of it for a time or it seems something distant, still it is there and is sure to prevail. For those whom the Force has touched and taken up, belong thenceforth to the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
“Remind yourself always that the Divine Force is there, that you have felt it and that, even if you seem to lose consciousness of it for a time or it seems something distant, still it is there and is sure to prevail. For those whom the Force has touched and taken up, belong thenceforth to the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
reminiscent ::: a. --> Recalling to mind, or capable of recalling to mind; having remembrance; reminding one of something. ::: n. --> One who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.
RYFM "abuse" 1. "Read Your Fucking Manual". Uncommon variant of {RTFM}. 2. "Read Your Fucking Mail". A gentle reminder to someone to check their corresponence and, who knows, maybe even respond. (2012-10-27)
soul of Moses, God is reminded that “the angels
souvenir ::: n. --> That which serves as a reminder; a remembrancer; a memento; a keepsake.
Sri Aurobindo: "What the "void" feels as a clutch is felt by the Mother only as a reminding finger laid on her cheek. It is one advantage of the expression ‘as if" that it leaves the field open for such variation. It is intended to suggest without saying it that behind the sombre void is the face of a mother. The two other ‘as if"s have the same motive and I do not find them jarring upon me. The second is at a sufficient distance from the first and it is not obtrusive enough to prejudice the third which more nearly follows. . . .” Letters on Savitri
Sufi, Sufi, Sufiism [from Arab suf wool; sufi he who wears woolen garments] A school of thought that emphasizes the superiority of the soul as opposed to the body. A Sufi wears harsh, raw woolen garments constantly irritating his skin to remind him that the body is the part which prevents the soul from attaining higher goals. The first public pronouncement of mysticism in Moslem lands is attributed to Rabi‘a, who lived in the 1st century of the Hejira (622 AD) and expounded the theory of divine love: God is love, and everything on earth must be sacrificed in order eventually to attain union with God. However even before the time of Mohammed there were two principal schools of Arabic thought: the Meshaiuns (the walkers), who later became the metaphysicians after the appearance of the Koran, and the Ishrachiuns (the contemplators) who became affiliated with the Sufis. The Sufis, in fact, put an esoteric interpretation on the Koran, as well as the collected saying of Mohammed, the Sufi movement representing an infiltration into the rigidity of Islamic doctrine of the pre-Islamic mystical or quasi-occult stream of thought, especially from Persia. Blavatsky states that the Sufis acquired their “proficient knowledge in astrology, medicine, and the esoteric doctrine of the ages” from the descendants of the Magi” (IU 2:306).
Tallis(t) ::: A large, four-cornered shawl with fringes and special knots at the extremities, worn during Jewish morning prayers. The fringes, according to the Bible (Numbers 15.38-39), remind the worshiper of God's commandments. It is traditional for the male to be buried in his tallit, but without its fringes.
Tattvas(Sanskrit) ::: A word the meaning of which is the elementary principles or elements of original substance, orrather the different principles or elements in universal, intelligent, conscious nature when consideredfrom the standpoint of occultism. The word tattva perhaps may be literally translated or rendered as"thatness," reminding one of the "quiddity" of the European Scholastics.The number of tattvas or nature's elemental principles varies according to different systems ofphilosophy. The Sankhya, for instance, enumerates twenty-five tattvas. The system of the Mahesvaras orworshipers of Siva with his consort Durga, reckons five principles, which are simply the five elements ofnature found in all ancient literatures. Occultism, of course, recognizes seven tattvas, and, indeed, tenfundamental element-principles or element-substances or tattvas in universal nature, and each one ofthese tattvas is represented in the human constitution and active therein. Otherwise, the humanconstitution could not cohere as an organic entity.
The_Pareto_Principle ::: named after economist Vilfredo Pareto, specifies that 80 percent of consequences come from 20 percent of the causes, or an unequal relationship between inputs and outputs. This principle serves as a general reminder that the relationship between inputs and outputs is not balanced. The Pareto Principle is also known as the Pareto Rule or the 80/20 Rule.
The Remembrancer was originally one of certain subordinate officers of the English Exchequer. The office itself is of great antiquity, the holder having been termed remembrancer, memorator, rememorator, registrar, keeper of the register, despatcher of business. The Remembrancer compiled memorandum rolls and thus”reminded” the barons of the Exchequer of business pending.
“There were Annedoti who came after him, five in number (our race being the fifth) — ‘all like Oannes in form and teaching the same’; but Musarus Oannes was the first to appear, and this he did during the reign of Ammenon, the third [fourth] of the ten antediluvian Kings whose dynasty ended with Xisuthrus, the Chaldean Noah. . . . This allegory of Oannes, the Annedotus, reminds us of the ‘Dragon’ and ‘Snake-Kings’; the Nagas who in Buddhist legends instruct people in wisdom on lakes and rivers, and end by becoming converts to the good Law and Arhats. The meaning is evident. The ‘fish’ is an old and very suggestive symbol in the Mystery-language, as is also ‘water.’ Ea or Hea was the god of the sea and Wisdom, and the sea serpent was one of his emblems, his priests being ‘serpents’ or Initiates. Thus one sees why Occultism places Oannes and the other Annedoti in the group of those ancient ‘adepts’ who were called ‘marine’ or ‘water dragons’ — Nagas. Water typified their human origin (as it is a symbol of earth and matter and also of purification), in distinction to the ‘fire Nagas’ or the immaterial, Spiritual Beings, whether celestial Bodhisattvas or Planetary Dhyanis, also regarded as the instructors of mankind. The hidden meaning becomes clear to the Occultist, once he is told that ‘this being (Oannes) was accustomed to pass the day among men, teaching; and when the Sun had set, he retired again into the sea, passing the night in the deep, ‘for he was amphibious,’ i.e., he belonged to two planes: the spiritual and the physical. For the Greek word amphibios means simply ‘life on two planes,’ . . . The word was often applied in antiquity to those men who, though still wearing a human form, had made themselves almost divine through knowledge, and lived as much in the spiritual supersensuous regions as on earth. Oannes is dimly reflected in Jonah, and even in John, the Precursor, both connected with Fish and Water” (TG 236-7).
T'ongdosa. (通度寺). In Korean, "Breakthrough Monastery" (lit. "Penetrating Crossing-Over Monastery"); the fifteenth district monastery (PONSA) in the contemporary CHOGYE CHONG of Korean Buddhism, located at the base of Yongch'uksan (S. GṚDHRAKutAPARVATA, or Vulture Peak) in Yangsan, South Kyongsang province. Along with HAEINSA and SONGGWANGSA, T'ongdosa is one of the "three-jewel monasteries" (SAMBO SACH'AL) that represent one of the three jewels (RATNATRAYA) of Buddhism; T'ONGDOSA is the buddha-jewel monastery (pulbo sach'al), because of its ordination platform and the relics (K. sari; S. sARĪRA) of the Buddha enshrined in back of its main shrine hall (TAEUNG CHoN). The oldest of the three-jewel monasteries, T'ongdosa has long been regarded as the center of Buddhist disciplinary studies (VINAYA) in Korea, and has been one of the major sites of ordination ceremonies since the Unified Silla period (668-935). Relics, reputed to be those of the Buddha himself, are enshrined at the monastery, and its taeung chon is famous for being one of four in Korea that does not enshrine an image of the Buddha; instead, a window at the back of the main hall, where the image ordinarily would be placed, looks out on the Diamond Ordination Platform (Kŭmgang kyedan), which includes a reliquary (STuPA) that enshrines the Buddha's relics. This focus on vinaya and the presence of these relics, both of which are reminders of the Buddha, have led the monastery to be designated the buddha-jewel monastery of Korea. T'ongdosa is said to have been established by the vinaya master CHAJANG (608-686) in 646 to enshrine a portion of the relics that he brought back with him from his sojourn into China. While on pilgrimage at WUTAISHAN, Chajang had an encounter with the bodhisattva MANJUsRĪ, who entrusted Chajang with a gold studded monk's robe (K. kasa; S. KAsĀYA) wrapped in purple silk gauze, one hundred pieces of relics of the Buddha's skull bone and his finger joint, beads, and sutras. One portion of the relics was enshrined together with the Buddha's robe in a bell-shaped stone stupa at the center of the Diamond Ordination Platform; another portion was enshrined in the nine-story pagoda at HWANGNYONGSA in the Silla capital of Kyongju. Under Chajang's leadership, the monastery grew into a major center of Silla Buddhism and the monastery continued to thrive throughout the Silla and Koryo dynasties, until the whole monastery except the taeung chon was destroyed by invading Japanese troops in the late sixteenth century. In 1641, the monk Uun (d.u.) rebuilt the monastery in its current configuration. The Diamond Ordination Platform was periodically damaged during the sporadic Japanese invasions that occurred during the Choson dynasty. In the fourth month of 1377, Japanese pirates invaded, seeking to plunder the sarīra; to keep them from falling into Japanese hands, the abbot went into hiding with the relics. Two years later, on the fifteenth day of the fifth month of 1379, the pirates came again, and the monks quickly whisked away the relics and hid them deep in the forest behind the monastery. The Japanese went in pursuit of the relics, but the abbot Wolsong (d.u.) took them to Seoul to keep them safe, returning with them once the danger had passed. During the Hideyoshi Invasions in the late sixteenth century, the relics were also removed in order to keep them safe. SAMYoNG YUJoNG, who was leading a monk's militia fighting the Japanese invaders, sent the relics to the Diamond Mountains (KŬMGANGSAN) in the north, where his teacher and the supreme commander, CH'oNGHo HYUJoNG, was staying. Hyujong decided that the relics were no safer there than back at their home monastery, so he returned them to T'ongdosa. Yujong covered the hiding place of the relics with weeds and thorn bushes and, once the Japanese threat was rebuffed, he restored the site to its former glory and the relics were reenshrined in 1603. The platform was repaired again in 1653 and on a grand scale in 1705. The Diamond Ordination Platform remains the site where BHIKsU and BHIKsUnĪ ordinations are held in Korea. In 1972, T'ongdosa was elevated to the status of an ecumenical monastery (CH'ONGNIM), and is one of the five such centers in the contemporary Chogye order, which are all expected to provide training in the full range of practices that exemplify the major strands of the Korean Buddhist tradition; the monastery is thus also known as the Yongch'uk Ch'ongnim.
topic drift "messaging" Term used on GEnie, {Usenet} and other electronic fora to describe the tendency of a {thread} to drift away from the original subject of discussion (and thus, from the Subject header of the originating message). Often used in gentle reminders that the discussion has strayed off any useful track. "I think we started with a question about Niven's last book, but we've ended up discussing the sexual habits of the common marmoset. Now *that's* topic drift!" [{Jargon File}] (1996-05-29)
topic drift ::: (messaging) Term used on GEnie, Usenet and other electronic fora to describe the tendency of a thread to drift away from the original subject of discussion (and thus, from the Subject header of the originating message), or the results of that tendency.Often used in gentle reminders that the discussion has strayed off any useful track. I think we started with a question about Niven's last book, but we've ended up discussing the sexual habits of the common marmoset. Now *that's* topic drift![Jargon File] (1996-05-29)
twit ::: v. t. --> To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood.
Uchchaih-sravas (Sanskrit) Uccaiḥ-śravas [from uccaiḥ aloft, high above + śravas ear] Long-eared, he who hears what is above, one having spiritual or inner hearing; the white horse of Indra, one of the 14 precious things that issued from the waters churned by the gods in Hindu legend, regarded as the prototype and king of horses. In this connection one is reminded of the many statues of the buddhas with pendant ears, symbolizing a spiritual power — he who hears the cries of all.
V.S. (volti subito): turn suddenly; i.e., turn the page quickly. While this indication is sometimes added by printers, it is more commonly indicated by orchestral members in pencil as a reminder to quickly turn to the next page.
weinuo. [alt. weina] (S. *karmadāna/*karmādāna; T. las su bsko ba; J. ina/ino; K. yuna 維那/唯那). In Chinese, "rector"; a term designating either the process of overseeing, or the specific supervisor of, such crucial monastic activities as apportioning dwellings, managing the refectory, arranging sleeping quarters, cleaning the monastery grounds, etc. According to various VINAYA codes and Chinese pilgrimage accounts such as YIJING's NANHAI JIGUI NEIFA ZHUAN, it was the rector's duty to strike instruments, such as gongs or chimes (GHAntA), to remind others of the monastic schedule. Assemblies, meals, and services were conducted with the help of the rector's announcements. Because of his formal role in maintaining the monastic schedule, the rector may have thus come to serve as the principal supervisor or manager of daily activities in the monastery. The Sanskrit term *karmadāna does not appear in the extant corpus of Indian Buddhist literature, although it is attested in the MAHĀVYUTPATTI Sanskrit-Tibetan lexicon, and the reconstruction is confirmed in Chinese transcriptions. In India, however, karmadāna may not necessarily have referred to a specific monastic office, but rather to the general act of "assigning" (lit. giving, DĀNA) "duties" (lit. action, viz., KARMAN) within the monastery. The Chinese term weinuo, however, clearly refers to a monastic office. The term is typically parsed as a combination of a lexical translation and phonetic transcription, and means something like "regulating (wei) the [dā]na," an interpretation related to the literal sense of the Sanskrit term as "assigning duties," and becomes used in East Asian Buddhism as the specific title of a monastic administrator who delegates responsibilities within the monastery-and thus a "rector." According to the Chinese monastic codes (QINGGUI), the rector was responsible for all matters regarding the SAMGHA and especially the saMgha hall (SENGTANG). The rector not only was in charge of the physical maintenance of the hall itself, but he also was called upon to settle issues, such as the determination of relative seniority or the appropriate punishment for transgressions committed by residents of the saMgha hall. The rector had the responsibility for appointing various low-ranking positions within the monastery, such as attendants, and conducted the tea ceremony. The weinuo also was in charge of leading the formal chanting at daily services, which involved much use of gongs and percussion instruments; weinuo is thus sometimes translated as functionally equivalent to the Western monastic office of "precentor," the leader of the monastic choir. In Korean monasteries, the yuna serves as a "rector" in that he has formal responsibility for enforcing discipline, making work assignments, and arranging the time for group work; in addition, however, he also serves as nominal head of the meditation compound in the monastery and spiritual advisor to the meditation monks.
Weituo tian. (J. Idaten; K. Wit'a ch'on 韋馱天). A Buddhist guardian deity, who is especially popular in East Asia, where he is often designated as a BODHISATTVA (pusa) or divinity (DEVA; C. tian). Weituo is connected to the god Kārtikeya, also known as Skanda, whom the Buddhist tradition appropriated from the Hindu pantheon. Kārtikeya, the six-headed son of siva, is a Hindu god of war who helps defend the gods; in Buddhism, he became one of the many guardian deities who protect the dispensation, its sacred objects, and its sacred spaces. Weituo is the spirit commander of the thirty-two divine generals subordinate to the four heavenly kings (CATURMAHĀRĀJA; see LOKAPĀLA), as well as one of the eight generals under VIRudHAKA, the heavenly king of the southern quarter of the world. He is also identified with KUMĀRABHuTA (C. Dongzhen). His East Asian name "Weituo" is apparently a mistaken Sinographic transcription from "Sijiantuo" or "Jiantuo tian," both Chinese transcriptions of Skanda. Weituo's role as a dharma protector (DHARMAPĀLA) is reflected in a story from the Daoxuan lüshi gantong lu ("Preceptor Daoxuan's Record of Miraculous Stories," c. seventh century), written by the Chinese VINAYA master DAOXUAN (596-667), which relates that Weituo was instructed by the dying Buddha to protect the dharma whenever it was disturbed by demonic forces (MĀRA). From the Tang dynasty onward in China, Weituo was considered the guardian of monasteries and Buddhist practitioners, as well as a symbol of fierce determination in spiritual training. One of Weituo's specific roles was to protect the STuPAS that enshrine the Buddha's relics (sARĪRA). In a popular story involving Weituo, a group of malevolent demons steals one of the Buddha's tooth relics immediately following his death and cremation. Weituo battles the demons, saves the relic, and thereby earns a reputation as a fierce protector of the dharma. Weituo is typically depicted as a young man in full armor, with the headgear of a Chinese general. He is also often shown leaning on his weapon, sometimes a sword, but usually a VAJRA. In many East Asian monasteries, Weituo's image is found to one side of, and facing, the Buddha image in the main shrine hall (TAEŬNG CHoN). Weituo is also seen in the company of, and sometimes back to back with, AVALOKITEsVARA and MAITREYA. His visage also frequently appears at the end of Chinese editions of the SuTRAs, as a reminder of his role in protecting the dharma.
“What the ’void’ feels as a clutch is felt by the Mother only as a reminding finger laid on her cheek. It is one advantage of the expression ‘as if’ that it leaves the field open for such variation. It is intended to suggest without saying it that behind the sombre void is the face of a mother. The two other ‘as if’s have the same motive and I do not find them jarring upon me. The second is at a sufficient distance from the first and it is not obtrusive enough to prejudice the third which more nearly follows….” Letters on Savitri
With the Jews, the tribal deity Jehovah represents the racial divinity or Saturn, and hence it is that the Jews considered Jehovah as their own god, for he is in fact the dominating planetary influence on their race. The mystical type-figure for Saturn in the lands of the Near East was the ass, that patient, faithful animal, as greatly beloved as a companion of man in the Near East even today as the dog is in many parts of the West. One is reminded of the conqueror of Jerusalem who, entering the Holy of Holies in the temple of Jerusalem, stated that all he saw was a golden ass — nor was there either irony or sarcasm intended, for the ancients recognized all these matters as being allegorical and mystical. One is likewise reminded of the statement made in the New Testament that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on an ass and the foal of an ass.
Yama. (T. Gshin rje; C. Yanmo wang; J. Enma o; K. Yomma wang 閻魔王). In the Buddhist pantheon, the lord of death and the king of hell. Among the six rebirth destinies (sAdGATI), Yama is considered a divinity (DEVA), even though his abode is variously placed in heaven (SVARGA), in the realm of the ghosts (PRETA), and in the hells (see NĀRAKA). Birth, old age, sickness, and punishment are said to be his messengers, sent among humans to remind them to avoid evil deeds and to live virtuously. Since KARMAN functions as a natural law, with suffering resulting from unvirtuous actions and happiness from virtuous actions, the process of moral cause and effect should proceed without the need for a judge to mete out rewards and punishments. However, in Indian sources, Yama is sometimes described as the judge of the dead, who interrogates them about their deeds and assigns the wicked to the appropriate hell. This role of Yama was expanded in China, where he oversaw a quintessentially Chinese infernal bureaucracy: Yama is said to have organized the complex array of indigenous "subterranean prisons" (C. diyu) into a streamlined system of ten infernal courts, each presided over by a different king who would judge the incoming denizens. These judges were known collectively as the ten kings of hell (C. SHIWANG) and are the subject of the eponymous Shiwang jing, a Chinese indigenous scripture (see APOCRYPHA). See also KsITIGARBHA.
zikr ::: lit., remembrance; reminder; the Sufi practice of repeating the Names of Allah
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9:Do not lose heart. Obstacles are stepping stones to success. They will develop your will. Do not allow yourself to be crushed by them. Defects remind you of perfection. Sin reminds you of virtue. Chose the positive path. ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #KEYS
10:A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving … ~ Albert Einstein, #KEYS
11:Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #KEYS
12:Remind yourself always that the Divine Force is there, that you have felt it and that, even if you seem to lose consciousness of it for a time or it seems something distant, still it is there and is sure to prevail For those whom the Force has touched and taken up, belong thenceforth to the Divine.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
13:To be miserable may remind you of the defects of your external nature, but I do not see how it is going to cure them. I am not asking you to be frivolously happy, but to be quiet and quietly confident, rejecting these old movements, but for the rest trusting not in a restless self-torturing personal effort but to the Divine Force to change the external nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV, Dealing with Depression and Despondency, #KEYS
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17:The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky. ~ Carl Sagan, #KEYS
18:The Supreme Discovery
IF WE want to progress integrally, we must build within our conscious being a strong and pure mental synthesis which can serve us as a protection against temptations from outside, as a landmark to prevent us from going astray, as a beacon to light our way across the moving ocean of life.
Each individual should build up this mental synthesis according to his own tendencies and affinities and aspirations. But if we want it to be truly living and luminous, it must be centred on the idea that is the intellectual representation symbolising That which is at the centre of our being, That which is our life and our light.
This idea, expressed in sublime words, has been taught in various forms by all the great Instructors in all lands and all ages.
The Self of each one and the great universal Self are one. Since all that is exists from all eternity in its essence and principle, why make a distinction between the being and its origin, between ourselves and what we place at the beginning?
The ancient traditions rightly said:
"Our origin and ourselves, our God and ourselves are one."
And this oneness should not be understood merely as a more or less close and intimate relationship of union, but as a true identity.
Thus, when a man who seeks the Divine attempts to reascend by degrees towards the inaccessible, he forgets that all his knowledge and all his intuition cannot take him one step forward in this infinite; neither does he know that what he wants to attain, what he believes to be so far from him, is within him.
For how could he know anything of the origin until he becomes conscious of this origin in himself?
It is by understanding himself, by learning to know himself, that he can make the supreme discovery and cry out in wonder like the patriarch in the Bible, "The house of God is here and I knew it not."
That is why we must express that sublime thought, creatrix of the material worlds, and make known to all the word that fills the heavens and the earth, "I am in all things and all beings."When all shall know this, the promised day of great transfigurations will be at hand. When in each atom of Matter men shall recognise the indwelling thought of God, when in each living creature they shall perceive some hint of a gesture of God, when each man can see God in his brother, then dawn will break, dispelling the darkness, the falsehood, the ignorance, the error and suffering that weigh upon all Nature. For, "all Nature suffers and laments as she awaits the revelation of the Sons of God."
This indeed is the central thought epitomising all others, the thought which should be ever present to our remembrance as the sun that illumines all life.
That is why I remind you of it today. For if we follow our path bearing this thought in our hearts like the rarest jewel, the most precious treasure, if we allow it to do its work of illumination and transfiguration within us, we shall know that it lives in the centre of all beings and all things, and in it we shall feel the marvellous oneness of the universe.
Then we shall understand the vanity and childishness of our meagre satisfactions, our foolish quarrels, our petty passions, our blind indignations. We shall see the dissolution of our little faults, the crumbling of the last entrenchments of our limited personality and our obtuse egoism. We shall feel ourselves being swept along by this sublime current of true spirituality which will deliver us from our narrow limits and bounds.
The individual Self and the universal Self are one; in every world, in every being, in every thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man's mission is to manifest it.
In order to do that, he must become conscious of this Divine Presence within him. Some individuals must undergo a real apprenticeship in order to achieve this: their egoistic being is too all-absorbing, too rigid, too conservative, and their struggles against it are long and painful. Others, on the contrary, who are more impersonal, more plastic, more spiritualised, come easily into contact with the inexhaustible divine source of their being.But let us not forget that they too should devote themselves daily, constantly, to a methodical effort of adaptation and transformation, so that nothing within them may ever again obscure the radiance of that pure light.
But how greatly the standpoint changes once we attain this deeper consciousness! How understanding widens, how compassion grows!
On this a sage has said:
"I would like each one of us to come to the point where he perceives the inner God who dwells even in the vilest of human beings; instead of condemning him we would say, 'Arise, O resplendent Being, thou who art ever pure, who knowest neither birth nor death; arise, Almighty One, and manifest thy nature.'"
Let us live by this beautiful utterance and we shall see everything around us transformed as if by miracle.
This is the attitude of true, conscious and discerning love, the love which knows how to see behind appearances, understand in spite of words, and which, amid all obstacles, is in constant communion with the depths.
What value have our impulses and our desires, our anguish and our violence, our sufferings and our struggles, all these inner vicissitudes unduly dramatised by our unruly imagination - what value do they have before this great, this sublime and divine love bending over us from the innermost depths of our being, bearing with our weaknesses, rectifying our errors, healing our wounds, bathing our whole being with its regenerating streams?
For the inner Godhead never imposes herself, she neither demands nor threatens; she offers and gives herself, conceals and forgets herself in the heart of all beings and things; she never accuses, she neither judges nor curses nor condemns, but works unceasingly to perfect without constraint, to mend without reproach, to encourage without impatience, to enrich each one with all the wealth he can receive; she is the mother whose love bears fruit and nourishes, guards and protects, counsels and consoles; because she understands everything, she can endure everything, excuse and pardon everything, hope and prepare for everything; bearing everything within herself, she owns nothing that does not belong to all, and because she reigns over all, she is the servant of all; that is why all, great and small, who want to be kings with her and gods in her, become, like her, not despots but servitors among their brethren.
How beautiful is this humble role of servant, the role of all who have been revealers and heralds of the God who is within all, of the Divine Love that animates all things....
And until we can follow their example and become true servants even as they, let us allow ourselves to be penetrated and transformed by this Divine Love; let us offer Him, without reserve, this marvellous instrument, our physical organism. He shall make it yield its utmost on every plane of activity.
To achieve this total self-consecration, all means are good, all methods have their value. The one thing needful is to persevere in our will to attain this goal. For then everything we study, every action we perform, every human being we meet, all come to bring us an indication, a help, a light to guide us on the path.
Before I close, I shall add a few pages for those who have already made apparently fruitless efforts, for those who have encountered the pitfalls on the way and seen the measure of their weakness, for those who are in danger of losing their self-confidence and courage. These pages, intended to rekindle hope in the hearts of those who suffer, were written by a spiritual worker at a time when ordeals of every kind were sweeping down on him like purifying flames.
You who are weary, downcast and bruised, you who fall, who think perhaps that you are defeated, hear the voice of a friend. He knows your sorrows, he has shared them, he has suffered like you from the ills of the earth; like you he has crossed many deserts under the burden of the day, he has known thirst and hunger, solitude and abandonment, and the cruellest of all wants, the destitution of the heart. Alas! he has known too the hours of doubt, the errors, the faults, the failings, every weakness.
But he tells you: Courage! Hearken to the lesson that the rising sun brings to the earth with its first rays each morning. It is a lesson of hope, a message of solace.
You who weep, who suffer and tremble, who dare not expect an end to your ills, an issue to your pangs, behold: there is no night without dawn and the day is about to break when darkness is thickest; there is no mist that the sun does not dispel, no cloud that it does not gild, no tear that it will not dry one day, no storm that is not followed by its shining triumphant bow; there is no snow that it does not melt, nor winter that it does not change into radiant spring.
And for you too, there is no affliction which does not bring its measure of glory, no distress which cannot be transformed into joy, nor defeat into victory, nor downfall into higher ascension, nor solitude into radiating centre of life, nor discord into harmony - sometimes it is a misunderstanding between two minds that compels two hearts to open to mutual communion; lastly, there is no infinite weakness that cannot be changed into strength. And it is even in supreme weakness that almightiness chooses to reveal itself!
Listen, my little child, you who today feel so broken, so fallen perhaps, who have nothing left, nothing to cover your misery and foster your pride: never before have you been so great! How close to the summits is he who awakens in the depths, for the deeper the abyss, the more the heights reveal themselves!
Do you not know this, that the most sublime forces of the vasts seek to array themselves in the most opaque veils of Matter? Oh, the sublime nuptials of sovereign love with the obscurest plasticities, of the shadow's yearning with the most royal light!
If ordeal or fault has cast you down, if you have sunk into the nether depths of suffering, do not grieve - for there indeed the divine love and the supreme blessing can reach you! Because you have passed through the crucible of purifying sorrows, the glorious ascents are yours.
You are in the wilderness: then listen to the voices of the silence. The clamour of flattering words and outer applause has gladdened your ears, but the voices of the silence will gladden your soul and awaken within you the echo of the depths, the chant of divine harmonies!
You are walking in the depths of night: then gather the priceless treasures of the night. In bright sunshine, the ways of intelligence are lit, but in the white luminosities of the night lie the hidden paths of perfection, the secret of spiritual riches.
You are being stripped of everything: that is the way towards plenitude. When you have nothing left, everything will be given to you. Because for those who are sincere and true, from the worst always comes the best.
Every grain that is sown in the earth produces a thousand. Every wing-beat of sorrow can be a soaring towards glory.
And when the adversary pursues man relentlessly, everything he does to destroy him only makes him greater.
Hear the story of the worlds, look: the great enemy seems to triumph. He casts the beings of light into the night, and the night is filled with stars. He rages against the cosmic working, he assails the integrity of the empire of the sphere, shatters its harmony, divides and subdivides it, scatters its dust to the four winds of infinity, and lo! the dust is changed into a golden seed, fertilising the infinite and peopling it with worlds which now gravitate around their eternal centre in the larger orbit of space - so that even division creates a richer and deeper unity, and by multiplying the surfaces of the material universe, enlarges the empire that it set out to destroy.
Beautiful indeed was the song of the primordial sphere cradled in the bosom of immensity, but how much more beautiful and triumphant is the symphony of the constellations, the music of the spheres, the immense choir that fills the heavens with an eternal hymn of victory!
Hear again: no state was ever more precarious than that of man when he was separated on earth from his divine origin. Above him stretched the hostile borders of the usurper, and at his horizon's gates watched jailers armed with flaming swords. Then, since he could climb no more to the source of life, the source arose within him; since he could no more receive the light from above, the light shone forth at the very centre of his being; since he could commune no more with the transcendent love, that love offered itself in a holocaust and chose each terrestrial being, each human self as its dwelling-place and sanctuary.
That is how, in this despised and desolate but fruitful and blessed Matter, each atom contains a divine thought, each being carries within him the Divine Inhabitant. And if no being in all the universe is as frail as man, neither is any as divine as he!
In truth, in truth, in humiliation lies the cradle of glory! 28 April 1912 ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, The Supreme Discovery,#KEYS
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Remind it that it is beautiful and free. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 9:The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 10:God Is Using Gianna Jessen To Remind The World, That Each Human Being Is Precious To Him. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 11:You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 12:If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 13:Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove 14:I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 15:Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 16:Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 17:The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 18:I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 19:Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 20:It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 21:We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 22:Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 23:Something should remind us once more that the great things in this universe are things that we never see. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 24:Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 25:Suffering is sent to remind you to turn your thoughts towards That which is real - to God who will give you solace. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove 26:We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 27:The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 28:Write this agreement on paper, and put it on your refrigerator to remind you all the time: Don’t take anything personally. ~ don-miguel-ruiz, @wisdomtrove 29:Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 30:If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 31:Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 32:When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 33:Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 34:The places in which we are seen and heard are holy places. They remind us of our value as human beings. They give us the strength to go on. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 35:Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 36:Remind yourself that you are supported, that you are not going it alone upon this Earth. Dwell in the company of your Non-Physical Teachers and Guides. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 37:Remind yourself that you're bound to get better. Don't get down on yourself. Don't beat yourself up. It's the next opportunity that matters, not the last one. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 38:Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 39:We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 40:A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 41:I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 42:At the start of each new day, remind yourself: I am talented. I am creative. I am greatly favored by God. I am equipped. I am well able. I will see my dreams come to pass. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 43:You deal with doubt all the time. You have to choose to believe God in every situation. I remind myself all the time, get out of fear. Get out of doubt. Get back in faith. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 44:Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 45:It would not occur to anyone to question the statement that we “need” iodine or vitamin C. I remind you that the evidence that we “need” love is of exactly the same type. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 46:How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with LOVE, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 47:I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 48:As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 49:Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 50:Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse - all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic. ~ bette-davis, @wisdomtrove 51:Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 52:In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 53:Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 54:Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 55:Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 56:I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 57:Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 58:It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 59:The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 60:Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 61:A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labor of other people, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 62:These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 63:The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 64:Use every incident of the day to remind you that without you as the witness there would be neither animal nor God. Understand that you are both, the essence and the substance of all there is. and remain firm in your understanding. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 65:Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 66:I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 67:Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts. ~ barack-obama, @wisdomtrove 68:A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 69:We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 70:A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 71:I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 72:We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 73:Remind yourself that you are here now, and that when you get there, you will be there. If you miss the here, you are likely also to miss the there. If your mind is not centered here, it is likely not to be centered just because you arrive somewhere else. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 74:Music is to be praised as second only to the Word of God because by her all the emotions are swayed. That is why there are so many songs and psalms. This precious gift has been bestowed on men alone to remind them that they are created to praise and magnify the Lord. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 75:We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class and racial warfare is not inevitable. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 76:If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of & 77:I had a bag of Fritos, they were Texas grilled Fritos. These Fritos had grill marks on them. They remind me of summer, when we used to fire up the barbeque and throw down some Fritos. I can still see my dad with the apron on. Better flip that Frito, dad, you know how I like it. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 78:Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated. ~ wayne-dyer, @wisdomtrove 79:During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 80:Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 81:Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 82:I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove 83:I would remind people that this day of your life will never come again. Do not use one day of your life carelessly. It will never come again. You'll never see the person you're sitting across from in that light or in that way. You will never see the sunset twice. This day will never come again. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 84:We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 85:The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 86:I would remind people that this day of your life will never come again. Do not use one day of your life carelessly. It will never come again. You'll never see the person you're sitting across from in that light or in that way. You will never see the sunset twice. This day will never come again. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 87:The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 88:Have you doubted your progress, regretted your choices, put yourself down? Remember that you are doing just fine. Remind yourself right now that no matter what it looks like, you are doing the best you can. And getting better. Encourage yourself, support yourself, and celebrate every little thing about yourself. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 89:I can’t say that there are ‚Äúthings‚Äù that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. Those are thoughts that take me beyond myself; that remind me that there’s a bigger game going on on this planet than simply my own existence; that love works miracles, and how much we need them now. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 90:Sometimes when I’m facing a horrendous week or am upset over a perceived slight, I remind myself that I won’t remember it (much less care about it) one month, six months, or a year from now. (The more extreme version of this strategy is to use the deathbed criterion: Will it matter when you’re on your deathbed?) ~ sonja-lyubomirsky, @wisdomtrove 91:Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you were honest with yourself, you were depressed before this happened. And if this were over you would be happy for a couple of weeks, a couple of months, and then something else would come along." ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 92:There will be times when standing alone feels too hard, too scary, and we’ll doubt our ability to make our way through the uncertainty. Someone, somewhere, will say, Don’t do it. You don’t have what it takes to survive the wilderness. This is when you reach deep into your wild heart and remind yourself, I am the wilderness. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 93:Some stories, she'd say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 94:But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 95:The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 96:The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 97:We are particularly thankful to you for your part in the movement to have the words under God added to our Pledge of Allegiance. These words will remind Americans that despite our great physical strength we must remain humble. They will help us keep constantly in our minds and hearts the spiritual and moral principles which alone give dignity to man. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 98:Even as you grow wiser and wiser with age you must remind yourself that an understanding is never absolutely final. What’s currently right could easily be wrong later. Thus, the most destructive illusion is a settled point of view. Since life is continuous growth and movement, choosing a fixed point of view is essentially a declaration of death. ~ marc-and-angel-chernoff, @wisdomtrove 99:Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 100:Death is not an anomaly or the most dreadful of all events as modern culture would have you believe, but the most natural thing in the world, inseparable from and just as natural as its polarity - Remind yourself of this when you sit with a dying person. It is a great privilege and a sacred act to be present at a person’s death as a witness and companion. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 101:Even as you grow wiser and wiser with age you must remind yourself that an understanding is never absolutely final. What’s currently right could easily be wrong later. Thus, the most destructive illusion is a settled point of view. Since life is continuous growth and movement, choosing a fixed point of view is essentially a declaration of death. ~ marc-and-angel-chernoff, @wisdomtrove 102:It helps to have a focus for your attention, an anchor line to tether you to the present moment and to guide you back when the mind wanders. The breath serves this purpose exceedingly well. It can be a true ally. Bringing awareness to our breathing, we remind ourselves that we are here now, so we might as well be fully awake for whatever is already happening. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 103:Today, we have knowledge of many, many things and the relations among human beings have multiplied ad infinitum. But we live in cities that are like deafening factories in awful Babels, with nothing to remind us of our inner world. Our communion with this inner world is not through contemplation but through books. We have passed from intuition into intellectualism. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 104:When you are tempted to get discouraged, remind yourself that according to God’s word, your future is getting brighter; you are on your way to a new level of glory. You may think you’ve got a long way to go, but you need to look back at how far you’ve already come. You may not be everything you want to be but atleast you can thank God that you’re not what you used to be. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 105:Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 106:Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 107:In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the & 108:The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove 109:Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile! ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 110:To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious zealots - it's biblically accurate and a prophecy fulfilled. The old smoke screen is one of Satan's favorite tricks. He conceals the authentic. He has a persistent strategy of targeting those who remind him of Christianity because he fears those who remind him of Christ. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 111:The books remind us that way down deep in our hearts, part of us knows that we are creatures of light and we cannot be touched or destroyed by anything made out of atoms or destroyed at all - that light is indestructible. And we may reflect that and express that in multiple trillions of discrete ways, but nevertheless, that indestructible sense of joyful capacity to express life and express love is always there. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 112:Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, & 113:Although I am a Protestant, I frequently, on weekday afternoons, drop into St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, and remind myself that I'll be dead in another thirty years, but that the great spiritual truths that all churches teach are eternal. I close my eyes and pray. I find that doing this calms my nerves, rests my body, clarifies my perspective, and helps me revalue my values. May I recommend this practice to you? ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 114:Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that "When we start thinking of government as & 115:The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. If the world is good we are revolutionaries, if the world is evil we must be conservatives. These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet ethically sincere, since they seek to remind men that things must be loved first and improved afterwards. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 116:People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other that they reveal the hidden but real Presence of God. They discover that there are people who heal each other's wounds, forgive each other's offenses, share their possessions, foster the spirit of community, celebrate the gifts they have received, and live in constant anticipation of the full manifestation of God's Glory. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 117:Perhaps, therefore, it is odd that if there is any one phrase that is guaranteed to set me off it's when someone says to me, & 118:In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; ... They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 119:It seems that every life form on this planet strives toward its maximum potential... except human beings. A tree does not grow to half its potential size and then say, "l guess that will do." A tree will drive its roots as deep as possible. It will soak up as much nourishment as it can, stretch as high and as wide as nature will allow, and then look down as if to remind us of how much each of us could become if we would only do all that we can. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 120:Difficulties with material things often come to remind us that our concentration should be on spiritual things instead of material things. Sometimes difficulties of the body come to show that the body is just a transient garment, and that the reality is the indestructible essence which activates the body. But when we can say, & 121:We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need ‚Äî but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need ‚Äî within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 122:Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love life means to love its vulnerability, asking for care, attention, guidance, and support. Life and death are connected by vulnerability. The newborn child and the dying elder both remind us of the preciousness of our lives. Let's not forget the preciousness and vulnerability of life during the times we are powerful, successful, and popular. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 123:I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is & 124:Now, slow down and enjoy every task. Whatever you’re doing, whether it’s a work task or taking a shower or brushing your teeth or cooking dinner or driving to work, slow down. Try to enjoy whatever you’re doing. Try to pay attention, instead of thinking about other things. Be in the moment. This isn’t easy, as you will often forget. But find a way to remind yourself. Unless the task involves actual pain, there isn’t anything that can’t be enjoyable if you give it the proper attention. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 125:Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 62 chapter 8 ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 126:One of the remarkable qualities of the story is that it creates space. We can dwell in a story, walk around, find our own place. The story confronts but does not oppress; the story inspires but does not manipulate. The story invites us to an encounter, a dialogue, a mutual sharing. As long as we have stories to tell to each other there is hope. As long as we can remind each other of the lives of men and women in whom the love of God becomes manifest, there is reason to move forward to new land in which new stories are hidden. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 127:You can only kill the body, you cannot stop the mental process, nor can you put an end to the person you think you are. Just remain unaffected. This complete aloofness, unconcern with mind and body is the best proof that at the core of your being you are neither mind nor body. What happens to the body and the mind may not be within your power to change, but you can always put an end to your imagining yourself to be body and mind. What-ever happens, remind yourself that only your body and mind are affected, not yourself. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 128:We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove 129:we can never go back. We can rise up from our failures, screwups, and falls, but we can never go back to where we stood before we were brave or before we fell. Courage transforms the emotional structure of our being. This change often brings a deep sense of loss. During the process of rising, we sometimes find ourselves homesick for a place that no longer exists. We want to go back to that moment before we walked into the arena, but there’s nowhere to go back to. What makes this more difficult is that now we have a new level of awareness about what it means to be brave. We can’t fake it anymore. We now know when we’re showing up and when we’re hiding out, when we are living our values and when we are not. Our new awareness can also be invigorating—it can reignite our sense of purpose and remind ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 130:You can give so much in this life, and that offers you many opportunities to release the self. For example, you can give time, helpfulness, donations, restraint, patience, noncontention, and forgiveness. Any path of service—including raising a family, caring for others, and many kinds of work—incorporates generosity. Envy—and its close cousin, jealousy—is a major impediment to generosity. So notice the suffering in envy, how it is an affliction upon you. Envy actually activates some of the same neural networks involved with physical pain (Takahashi et al. 2009). In a compassionate and kind way, remind yourself that you will be all right even if other people have fame, money, or a great partner—and you don’t. To free yourself from the clutches of envy, send compassion and loving-kindness to people you envy. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 131:So if you blame Facebook, Trump, or Putin for ushering in a new and frightening era of post-truth, remind yourself that centuries ago millions of Christians locked themselves inside a self-reinforcing mythological bubble, never daring to question the factual veracity of the Bible, while millions of Muslims put their unquestioning faith in the Quran. For millennia, much of what passed for news and facts in human social networks were stories about miracles, angels, demons, and witches, with bold reporters giving live coverage straight from the deepest pits of the underworld. We have zero scientific evidence that Eve was tempted by the serpent, that the souls of all infidels burn in hell after they die, or that the creator of the universe doesn’t like it when a Brahmin marries a Dalit—yet billions of people have believed in these stories for thousands of years. Some fake news lasts forever. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 132:Stage one—you’re caught in a second-dart reaction and don’t even realize it: your partner forgets to bring milk home and you complain angrily without seeing that your reaction is over the top. Stage two—you realize you’ve been hijacked by greed or hatred (in the broadest sense), but cannot help yourself: internally you’re squirming, but you can’t stop grumbling bitterly about the milk. Stage three—some aspect of the reaction arises, but you don’t act it out: you feel irritated but remind yourself that your partner does a lot for you already and getting cranky will just make things worse. Stage four—the reaction doesn’t even come up, and sometimes you forget you ever had the issue: you understand that there’s no milk, and you calmly figure out what to do now with your partner. In education, these are known succinctly as unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence. They’re useful ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:To remind me, pain is the best teacher ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
2:remind us where our strength comes ~ Charlotte Hubbard, #NFDB
3:Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game ~ Nas, #NFDB
4:Let the pain remind you that hearts can heal. ~ Paramore, #NFDB
5:If I do, if I do forget, will you remind me? ~ Lex Martin, #NFDB
6:You remind me of a smoked cigarette. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
7:You remind me of everything that followed. ~ Jhumpa Lahiri, #NFDB
8:Battle scars just remind us that we survived. ~ Shelly Crane, #NFDB
9:I wish someone would remind me how to breathe. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
10:I remind myself some girls deserve to be alone. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
11:Death shows up to remind us to live more fully. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
12:Erasers remind us there is no faultless human. ~ Javad Alizadeh, #NFDB
13:It is always the silly things that remind me ~ Alexandra Potter, #NFDB
14:Remind yourself that there are seasons of life. ~ Crystal Paine, #NFDB
15:Remind me to kill Grimalkin next time we see him. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
16:THE SEASONS REMIND ME THAT I MUST KEEP CHANGING. ~ Donald Miller, #NFDB
17:enough to remind me that at times, I am an idiot. ~ Michael Smith, #NFDB
18:Fuckity Squared, remind me to never piss you off. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
19:God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
20:My tattoos remind me of all that I have been through. ~ Riff Raff, #NFDB
21:Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
22:Remind yourself that how you feel is a choice you ~ Mike Cernovich, #NFDB
23:We must not remind them that giants walk the Earth. ~ Frank Miller, #NFDB
24:I like characters who remind me of someone I know. ~ Mia Wasikowska, #NFDB
25:My kids remind me every day how much I don't know. ~ Jo Dee Messina, #NFDB
26:I had to remind myself it was illegal to murder dragons. ~ T J Klune, #NFDB
27:Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself. ~ Jay Z, #NFDB
28:Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
29:Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
30:I love hecklers. They remind you that you are a comedian. ~ Dane Cook, #NFDB
31:Just remind yourself that it will be worth it in the end ~ Kim Chance, #NFDB
32:There ain't nothing like regret to remind you're alive. ~ Sheryl Crow, #NFDB
33:Whipped cream can remind you why it's good to be alive. ~ Deb Caletti, #NFDB
34:You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much ~ Ernest Hollings, #NFDB
35:All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
36:Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
37:The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
38:All you’ve done is remind me of what an asshole you are. ~ Morgan Parker, #NFDB
39:For Breezes remind me of kisses. And kisses can be eternal. ~ John Shors, #NFDB
40:You remind me of him. He was the best man I have ever known. ~ C S Pacat, #NFDB
41:But they weren’t aliens, I had to remind myself — we were. ~ Joe Haldeman, #NFDB
42:If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you. ~ Bernard Malamud, #NFDB
43:Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are. ~ Alicia Keys, #NFDB
44:We can be cruelest to those who remind us of ourselves. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
45:We can be cruelest to those who remind us or ourselves. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
46:Al: Now, remind me, who's walking who down the aisle again? ~ Lindsey Kelk, #NFDB
47:Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be. ~ Whitney Houston, #NFDB
48:Old friends are like old memories they always remind your past ~ Rida Noor, #NFDB
49:Remind me to never visit the Arctic Ocean during winter again, ~ S M Reine, #NFDB
50:Remind your self. Nobody constructed like you, you style your self. ~ Jay Z, #NFDB
51:Remind yourself: you are not your thoughts or feelings ~ Arianna Huffington, #NFDB
52:Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
53:Dad never ceased to remind my mother of his love for her. ~ John Carter Cash, #NFDB
54:Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
55:I remind myself it’s nothing I have to hold or be held to. ~ Courtney Summers, #NFDB
56:Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
57:Sometimes it is good to remind ourselves how bitterness tastes. ~ Rin Chupeco, #NFDB
58:The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already. ~ Mary Stewart, #NFDB
59:We can be cruelest to those who remind us of ourselves.” “Ty ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
60:Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am. ~ Garth Nix, #NFDB
61:You remind me
Define me
Incline me.
If you died
I'd. ~ Lemn Sissay,#NFDB
62:Healing is to remind us we are not the experiences of the world. ~ Robert Holden, #NFDB
63:I remind myself that my pain is not unique. Everybody suffers. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
64:Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now ~ Alison McGhee, #NFDB
65:Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless. ~ Haley Reinhart, #NFDB
66:No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice." ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
67:Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
68:the lion must roar, just to remind the horse of his fear. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
69:You make people think of you for a living. You remind them you exist. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
70:Last but not least’,” he read, “‘remind Mark I loved him best and most. ~ T A Webb, #NFDB
71:REMIND ME AGAIN, he said, HOW THE LITTLE HORSE-SHAPED ONES MOVE. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
72:Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. ~ Cormac McCarthy, #NFDB
73:The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body. ~ Richard Powers, #NFDB
74:to remind ourselves of our intention, which is to get higher and ~ David R Hawkins, #NFDB
75:Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
76:God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
77:He has big, square white teeth that remind me of bathroom tiles. The ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
78:I like big guns. They remind me of my giant cock,” Max announced. ~ Rachel Van Dyken, #NFDB
79:I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up. ~ Debra Winger, #NFDB
80:Remind yourself that your mental & emotional health are important. ~ Allan Lokos, #NFDB
81:Well, I thought I should come and remind you how nice it was knowing me. ~ E L James, #NFDB
82:Your pain and struggles only serve to remind you that you are alive. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
83:It will remind us of the debts that we owe to our former Clanmates,” he ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
84:Sometimes the lion must roar to remind the horse of his fear. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
85:The next time Satan reminds you of your past, remind him of his future. ~ R T Kendall, #NFDB
86:What? I'm not ashamed to admit that random things remind me of Harry Potter. ~ J Lynn, #NFDB
87:You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility. ~ Elia Kazan, #NFDB
88:Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
89:Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free. ~ Dan Fogelberg, #NFDB
90:I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat! ~ Emily Bront, #NFDB
91:Speak of love with others. Remind each other of your spiritual purpose ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
92:The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost. ~ Murray Kempton, #NFDB
93:You remind me of a little fuzzy kitten, all claws and no bite. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
94:You remind me people are more than the sum of the metadata one can dig up ~ Emma Holly, #NFDB
95:A lot of people I meet say, 'You remind me so much of Magic Johnson.' ~ Carmelo Anthony, #NFDB
96:I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat! ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
97:Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
98:You remind us that we’re selfish bastards. You’re not one of us, that way. ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
99:Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world. ~ Vincent Van Gogh, #NFDB
100:Rape humor is designed to remind women that they are still not quite equal. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
101:Sometimes pain can bring about clarity and remind us we’re still breathing. ~ Shane Kuhn, #NFDB
102:Weak men don't like string men, they remind them of what they failed to be. ~ Katy Evans, #NFDB
103:Weak men don't like strong men, they remind them of what they failed to be. ~ Katy Evans, #NFDB
104:But this is what friends do. We remind each other how awesome we are. ~ Elizabeth Eulberg, #NFDB
105:Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am. ~ Jeff Ament, #NFDB
106:He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else. ~ Tobias Wolff, #NFDB
107:I remind you that I have no faith. If I sought God, I find myself. ~ Henry de Montherlant, #NFDB
108:I touch my scar to remind myself that I am not a coward. I am a Quinn. ~ Delores Phillips, #NFDB
109:I will follow anyone... and remind everyone... that their fear is genuine. ~ Widad Akreyi, #NFDB
110:Seneca put it, life does not pause to remind you that it is running out. ~ Sarah Bakewell, #NFDB
111:The baby wasn't supposed to remind her of an internal mass of pooling waste. ~ Zoje Stage, #NFDB
112:There is nothing like a grocery list to remind us how human we are. ~ Susan Wittig Albert, #NFDB
113:without the stars there to remind us, whatever would we reach for?” Her ~ Elizabeth Boyle, #NFDB
114:Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
115:Do whatever it takes to remind myself that I’m still here and have a say. ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
116:I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. ~ Stephen Fry, #NFDB
117:When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
118:When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, #NFDB
119:When life gets overwhelming, I remind myself that the trick is balance. ~ Janette Rallison, #NFDB
120:If you ever forget how much you really mean to me, Every day I will remind you ~ Bruno Mars, #NFDB
121:It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory. ~ Scarlett Johansson, #NFDB
122:It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. ~ Clive James, #NFDB
123:It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is. ~ Rob Bell, #NFDB
124:Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes. ~ Andrea Gibson, #NFDB
125:Remind your council that the sins of the fathers aren’t that of the sons. ~ Amelia Hutchins, #NFDB
126:Sometimes, you have to remind yourself the perfect is the enemy of the good. ~ Barry Eisler, #NFDB
127:Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am. ~ Stanley Kunitz, #NFDB
128:Dude, if Kentucky is going to remind you of Paris, we're in a hell of a pickle. ~ John Green, #NFDB
129:I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization. ~ Edgar Bronfman Sr, #NFDB
130:I still have to remind myself to brush my hair and look socially acceptable. ~ Holland Roden, #NFDB
131:I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
132:Thanks a bunch, brother. Remind me to thank you with a fist in your fool face. ~ Sandra Hill, #NFDB
133:the power to remind us that there are times when destiny and love collide. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
134:I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays. ~ Amy Adams, #NFDB
135:I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
136:It is necessary to constantly remind ourselves that we are not an abomination. ~ Marlon Riggs, #NFDB
137:I want to remind everyone what we're fighting for and who we are fighting for. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
138:I will follow anyone... and remind everyone... of the pain of the Yazidi women ~ Widad Akreyi, #NFDB
139:I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE RAPE OF THE YAZIDI WOMEN ~ Widad Akreyi, #NFDB
140:Life is beautiful. Some people just remind you of that more than others. ~ Erica Bauermeister, #NFDB
141:Remind yourself of all the ways you are beautiful, stop the negative talk, ~ Brittany Gibbons, #NFDB
142:And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real. ~ Thomas Harris, #NFDB
143:As historians, we have to remind ourselves that yesterday was once tomorrow. ~ Roger Moorhouse, #NFDB
144:Dreams remind us of who we are and how we feel about the things around us. ~ Dhonielle Clayton, #NFDB
145:Nobody is as they seem, I remind myself. Rich talents hide in unlikely people. ~ Susan Gabriel, #NFDB
146:We just have to remind ourselves that the source of any happiness is mind itself. ~ Ole Nydahl, #NFDB
147:Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
148:The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. ~ Honor de Balzac, #NFDB
149:The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature. ~ Stephen Levine, #NFDB
150:To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach. ~ Demosthenes, #NFDB
151:You remind me of myself.” “Thank you, sir.” “I was a dick at that age too . . . ~ Larry Correia, #NFDB
152:Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
153:If a President must constantly remind the people that we're at war, then we're not. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
154:Scars remind us where we've been - they don't have to dictate where we are going. ~ Joe Mantegna, #NFDB
155:The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
156:When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love. ~ Demi Lovato, #NFDB
157:And I remind you of your mother now? I have got to look into a manlier cologne. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
158:For a second, I'm afraid he's dying. I have to remind myself that I don't care. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
159:I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. ~ Clement Attlee, #NFDB
160:People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
161:And you have to remind yourself that new opportunities exist, and will always exist. ~ Jessica Pan, #NFDB
162:...but you have to remind yourself that perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
163:I want that child around for the rest of its life to remind Tom what a fool he is. ~ Nancy Pickard, #NFDB
164:Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
165:God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time. ~ Bil Keane, #NFDB
166:I'll remind you one more time, I've treated a lot of vegans for heart disease. ~ Caldwell Esselstyn, #NFDB
167:I must remind you, my luck was not just shitty luck. It was super shitty luck. “It ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
168:I will never give up. Remind yourself of this, we can survive and we will survive. ~ Massimo Marino, #NFDB
169:Perhaps death is a metaphor to remind us of a secret of life we failed to notice. ~ Mahmoud Darwish, #NFDB
170:Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening. ~ Pauline Oliveros, #NFDB
171:Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain. ~ T Coraghessan Boyle, #NFDB
172:Remind people who they are instead of just complimenting them on what they've done. ~ Thomas Leonard, #NFDB
173:There's nothing like a clown with a boner to remind you that you're having a nightmare. ~ Dana Gould, #NFDB
174:Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult times. ~ Allen Klein, #NFDB
175:Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free. ~ Mooji, #NFDB
176:Everybody else needs mirrors to remind themselves who they are. You’re no different. ~ Jonathan Nolan, #NFDB
177:I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been. ~ Tom Hardy, #NFDB
178:I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget. ~ Arthur Miller, #NFDB
179:I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span. ~ Mark Kozelek, #NFDB
180:Mirrors at the gym only serve to remind me that I'm less of a man than I'd like to be. ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
181:Remind yourself daily that there is no way to happiness; rather, happiness is the way. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
182:Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
183:What kind of songs do you like? she asked.
"The ones that remind me of you," I said. ~ Faraaz Kazi,#NFDB
184:Witnessing a selfless act brings tears to remind us how we should be treating others. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
185:For all the things that you're alive to feel, just let the pain remind you hearts can heal. ~ Paramore, #NFDB
186:God put the moon in the sky to remind us that our darkest moments lead to our brightest. ~ Lynne Ewing, #NFDB
187:Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be. ~ Robert M Drake, #NFDB
188:I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE FATE OF NEGLECTED YAZIDI CHILDREN ~ Widad Akreyi, #NFDB
189:Our lack of perfection should remind us that no one has the right to judge other's worth. ~ Thia Megia, #NFDB
190:The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev. ~ Robin Williams, #NFDB
191:We need to remind politicians they don't work for the big banks - they work for us. ~ Elizabeth Warren, #NFDB
192:I have to remind myself that I've always known this: Evolution is not for everybody. ~ Daniel Pinkwater, #NFDB
193:in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
194:It's always something to remind you that everything ain't never gonna be alright! ~ J California Cooper, #NFDB
195:It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet. ~ Charles Kuralt, #NFDB
196:Let what is Soulfully shared this Christmas, remind you of all you have the power to achieve. ~ Eleesha, #NFDB
197:proper task of philosophy is to remind ourselves of what we already know to be true: ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
198:The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person. ~ Czeslaw Milosz, #NFDB
199:You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it. ~ Susan Orlean, #NFDB
200:I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily. ~ Grace Gealey, #NFDB
201:I listen to my voice messages like once a month,” I remind Henry. “You should’ve texted me. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
202:Remind me to choose you for my team if we ever play charades. I like a stacked team. ~ Danielle L Jensen, #NFDB
203:A good song can make you smile, or it can make you dance or laugh or remind you of a moment. ~ Charli XCX, #NFDB
204:All the things that disappoint you now are to remind you that this is not all there is ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
205:Christians should carry spiritual green cards to remind us that our citizenship is in heaven. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
206:Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you're good at and make sure you do that. ~ Jessie J, #NFDB
207:God Is Using Gianna Jessen To Remind The World, That Each Human Being Is Precious To Him. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
208:I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. ~ Max Beerbohm, #NFDB
209:my scars
these scars
remind me that I survived
everything meant to
destroy me ~ R H Sin,#NFDB
210:Remind children that their successes and failures are not representations of their worth. ~ Asa Don Brown, #NFDB
211:The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person... ~ Czes aw Mi osz, #NFDB
212:This too shall pass. This phrase will remind you that change is the only constant in life. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
213:We need to remember and remind ourselves where we come from, what we are, our nothingness. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
214:When I first got pregnant, I freaked out. Then I had to remind myself: I'm turning 30 ~ Melissa Joan Hart, #NFDB
215:You treat me like a dog and you expect me to smile? You remind me of a jackass. ~ Stone Cold Steve Austin, #NFDB
216:And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
217:As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself. ~ Alicia Vikander, #NFDB
218:if a man says he will do it, he will. There is no need to remind him every six months.’ It ~ Preeti Shenoy, #NFDB
219:People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart. ~ Brian McKnight, #NFDB
220:Sometimes I have to remind myself, that on my worst day I live like somebody on their greatest ~ Meek Mill, #NFDB
221:We should remind our American friends of their own motto: United we stand. Divided, we fall. ~ Donald Tusk, #NFDB
222:You need to find people who laugh gently at themselves, who remind you gently to lighten up. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
223:A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy. ~ Elisabeth Elliot, #NFDB
224:But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
225:Darling,
do you remember
the man you married?
Touch me,
remind me who I am. ~ Stanley Kunitz,#NFDB
226:Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
227:Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won’t rain forever. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
228:I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
229:If you don’t believe there’s a price for this sweet paradise
Remind me to show you the scars ~ Bob Dylan,#NFDB
230:I had to constantly remind myself not to reminisce in my head and to just be in the moment. ~ Renee Carlino, #NFDB
231:Oh, Christ, Richard,’ Lymond said. ‘You don’t need to remind me what country I belong to. ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
232:She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother. ~ Prince Andrew, #NFDB
233:Suffering is sent to remind us to turn our thoughts towards God, who will give us solace. ~ Radhanath Swami, #NFDB
234:We are all amazing and magical as we are. Just remember to remind me of that on rough days. ~ Alysia Reiner, #NFDB
235:I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people. ~ Patricia Cornwell, #NFDB
236:We must constantly remind ourselves that we are eternity, infinite, beyond birth and death. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
237:And the scratches you left on my back remind me just what it felt like to be deep inside you. ~ Adriane Leigh, #NFDB
238:Checklists are really helpful ways to remind people around how to manage complicated tasks. ~ Scott D Anthony, #NFDB
239:Every one of us sometimes needs a tour guide to remind us how big and deep life is meant to be. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
240:Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great. ~ Kathleen Parker, #NFDB
241:I always remind my kids, "I'm your parent, but I'm a human being, too, so I may not be perfect." ~ Kelly Ripa, #NFDB
242:I'm not saving you," I remind her. But something makes me wonder if she even wants me to. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
243:That's my girl." My heart jumps a little when he says that and I remind myself to get a grip. ~ Jasmine Warga, #NFDB
244:The most important daily habit we can possess is to remind ourselves of the gospel. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
245:There is nothing like the plumbing fixtures to remind you that you’re not in Kansas anymore. By ~ Scott Turow, #NFDB
246:Tomorrow… don’t remind me I said this. I won’t want to talk about it, but tonight… keep me safe. ~ Nyrae Dawn, #NFDB
247:When I teach and mentor leaders, I remind them that if they stop learning, they stop leading ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
248:You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
249:and I must remind myself that assassins should take no pleasure in their finery and frippery. ~ Robin LaFevers, #NFDB
250:A trip down memory lane would remind me I hadn't always been this old, this bitter, this fucked-up. ~ L J Shen, #NFDB
251:Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs. ~ Herbert Hoover, #NFDB
252:My goal is to create an image that would remind you of something that you haven't seen before. ~ Robert Legato, #NFDB
253:People notice only what you tell them to notice,” he said. “And then only if you remind them. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
254:Sometimes words are more powerful than magic, for they can remind us how strong we truly are. ~ Claire Legrand, #NFDB
255:Art exists to remind us that we have a soul, and all we need to be an artist is a soul. ~ Erwin Raphael McManus, #NFDB
256:Because I have this thing about birthdays--they always remind me of death and forced jollity. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
257:but there was nothing like a little chest-beating to remind a man where his true feelings lay. ~ Anna Godbersen, #NFDB
258:Cliches remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago. ~ Miguel Syjuco, #NFDB
259:Do epic," I remind him.
"Do epic," he repeats. Repetition is the key. Someday he'll believe it. ~ Kim Holden,#NFDB
260:I find that if I remind myself (frequently) that the purpose of life isn’t to get it all done ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
261:If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
262:If you ever see a man trying to drown his sorrows, kindly remind him that his sorrows can swim. ~ Pittacus Lore, #NFDB
263:Remind me never to piss you off ... Are you as good at being a friend as you are an enemy? ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
264:remind that boy your body is not his home he is a guest warn him to never outstep his welcome again ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
265:Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago. ~ Miguel Syjuco, #NFDB
266:I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
267:Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better. ~ Kathryn Schulz, #NFDB
268:What did Romeo and Juliet do?”
They died,” I remind her gently. “Some mix-up with the poison- ~ Gordon Korman,#NFDB
269:Every day when I wake up, I remind myself that the present is possibility, and the past is a lesson. ~ Kim Holden, #NFDB
270:His heart woke him up to remind him that in life there was never a limitless number of nights. The ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
271:I don’t know why it takes something monumentally destructive to remind you what you want to save. ~ Heather Cocks, #NFDB
272:I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
273:I had to remind myself that it’s good for journalists to feel demeaned. It means we’re onto a story. ~ Jon Ronson, #NFDB
274:I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way. ~ Robin Williams, #NFDB
275:The most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton is to remind voters of Hillary Clinton's behavior. ~ Carly Fiorina, #NFDB
276:We need to put love back into the world remind the world that love is important. We're all one. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
277:Every girl needs a bit of whimsy to remind her that life is a game and it's all about having fun. ~ Candace Havens, #NFDB
278:Everything will haunt you, all the storms will find you, everything will remind you she’s gone. ~ Jonathan Carroll, #NFDB
279:Funny when you have to remind yourself about things that, not long ago, consumed your every thought. ~ Xhenet Aliu, #NFDB
280:God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
281:I can feel how fucking wet you are, little one, but apparently I need to remind you who you belong to. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
282:If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects. ~ Philip Neri, #NFDB
283:I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be. ~ Jo Brand, #NFDB
284:I remind myself that Im always more satisfied by human interaction than by a digital connection. ~ Maulik Pancholy, #NFDB
285:I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that. ~ Grace Slick, #NFDB
286:Let the thunder of a hundred cannon remind you three times daily to resist the force of habit. ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
287:Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
288:May that sting remind you that though we do not enjoy doling out punishment on our females, we will ~ Addison Cain, #NFDB
289:So I guess I'm thankful that there'll always be jerky boys to remind us that we're worth more. ~ Elizabeth Eulberg, #NFDB
290:Sometimes it takes a guide from outside the place you know too well to remind you why you are here. ~ Laura Berman, #NFDB
291:Affirmations are more powerful than requests, for they remind you that you already have what you seek. ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB
292:Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
293:Firmin, might I remind you that we are the Paris Opera House. Drama is our bread and butter! ~ Paisley Swan Stewart, #NFDB
294:I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is. ~ Andy Warhol, #NFDB
295:I knew there was more--Mama loved to remind me of that--but Glory Road was what I knew and loved. ~ Lauren K Denton, #NFDB
296:I really have paid my dues! When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days I remind myself of that. ~ Rita Ora, #NFDB
297:I Will Follow Anyone
And Remind Everyone
Of The Targeted Civilians...
In Kurdistan Regions ~ Widad Akreyi,#NFDB
298:Our scars don't point us in the direction were headed, Cass, they simply remind us of where we've been ~ J Sterling, #NFDB
299:Saving people through identification and mediation—does that remind you of anyone? Jesus Christ, ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
300:Serious circumstances remind us that the difficulty of finding the truth is no excuse for not looking. ~ Paul Copan, #NFDB
301:That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones? ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
302:That's why we read fiction, isn’t it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we’re not the only ones? ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
303:That’s why we read fiction, isn’t it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we’re not the only ones? ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
304:The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
305:The next time you feel low, for whatever reason, remind yourself, “This too shall pass.” It will. ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
306:Your sensitivity is overwhelming,” Ethan said. “Someday remind me to explain to you what empathy is. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
307:A little nepotism never hurt nobody, honey. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it. ~ Lena Horne, #NFDB
308:Bodies wear out to remind us they are temporary, and force us to spend more thought on our spirits ~ Morgan Llywelyn, #NFDB
309:I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
310:It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed. ~ Irvine Welsh, #NFDB
311:My experiences remind me that it's those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful. ~ Kelly Clarkson, #NFDB
312:Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
313:The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth. ~ Timothy Radcliffe, #NFDB
314:Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission. ~ Russell Sherman, #NFDB
315:What if she could learn to love again? And what if I’m the one who can remind her what that feels like? ~ K A Tucker, #NFDB
316:When you go to sleep tonight, your mama will visit your dreams and remind you how much she loves you. ~ Lauren Royal, #NFDB
317:Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself. ~ Mika Brzezinski, #NFDB
318:If he’d forgotten that shy twelve-year-old whose heart he’d broken, well, she’d be happy to remind him. ~ B J Daniels, #NFDB
319:I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there. ~ Tyra Banks, #NFDB
320:it’s a mighty act of human love to remind somebody that they can accomplish things by themselves, ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
321:It’s when my body decides to remind me it can do more than I’ll ever want it to, it is so painful. ~ Courtney Summers, #NFDB
322:Memory is meaning, forgetting is death, and the job of the writer is not so much to teach as to remind. ~ Neel Burton, #NFDB
323:Our scars don’t point us in the direction we’re headed, Cass, they simply remind us of where we’ve been. ~ J Sterling, #NFDB
324:Remind yourself: “Jesus is here with me. In fact,
He is very present with me in this hard situation. ~ Sarah Young,#NFDB
325:We are afraid to venture into the unknown because to do so would remind us of how unsafe we once felt. ~ Mark Epstein, #NFDB
326:With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity. ~ Fred D Aguiar, #NFDB
327:You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can’t succeed without your help. ~ Richard L Hanna, #NFDB
328:At the end of the day, remind yourself that you did the best you could today, and that is good enough. ~ Lori Deschene, #NFDB
329:Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
330:It only takes for one person to remind you that you are special, and then your whole life is changed. ~ Kellee Stewart, #NFDB
331:I would remind people on the planet that this is the only one we have, and we need to take care of it. ~ Amanda Schull, #NFDB
332:She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
333:The Dean liked to remind us that those fences were there to keep the Ticks out as much as to keep us in. ~ Emily McKay, #NFDB
334:The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything. ~ Redd Foxx, #NFDB
335:The greatest gift you can give a person is to wake them up to remind them of who the really are. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
336:We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all. ~ George Takei, #NFDB
337:Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
338:Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
339:God, remind me that peace comes not from having my needs met, but by finding my hope in You. —Ashley Kappel ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
340:I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him ~ Hansie Cronje, #NFDB
341:I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves. ~ Drew Barrymore, #NFDB
342:I wanted to remind you that you do not allow me to deliver boats, as I have been known to crash them. ~ Jennifer Echols, #NFDB
343:I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE
AND REMIND EVERYONE
OF THE SUFFERING...
OF THE ENSLAVED...
YAZIDI WOMEN ~ Widad Akreyi,#NFDB
344:Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
345:Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet. ~ Woody Hayes, #NFDB
346:there’s nothing like a stupid, accidental death to remind you of the supreme futility of everything. ~ Jonathan Strahan, #NFDB
347:Actors have to remind people that they can do different things, not just the same style of one role. ~ Matthew Macfadyen, #NFDB
348:As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy. ~ Stephen Harper, #NFDB
349:Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made? ~ Henri Poincare, #NFDB
350:I fear / the place I have / in the memory of others. / They remind me of things / I myself have forgot. ~ Tove Ditlevsen, #NFDB
351:I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE...
AND REMIND EVERYONE...
OF THE FATE...
OF THE ENSLAVED...
YAZIDI WOMEN ~ Widad Akreyi,#NFDB
352:O Ocean, you remind me somewhat of the bluish marks one sees on the battered backs of cabin boys. ~ Comte de Lautr amont, #NFDB
353:Remind us again, brave friend. What countries may we sing into? What lines should we all be crossing? ~ Naomi Shihab Nye, #NFDB
354:... to remind them of what they so easily forgot: that people didn't have to be so serious all the time. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
355:Baby, you remind me of my big toe. Why? Because sooner or later I just know I'm ginna bang you on the table. ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
356:Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all. ~ Arthur Golden, #NFDB
357:Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. ~ Sarah Kay, #NFDB
358:Sun symbols are often a part of this celebration that remind of us of the sun’s growing strength ~ Llewellyn Publications, #NFDB
359:The great ones show you what you can get away with. The shitty ones remind you what never to bother with. ~ Patton Oswalt, #NFDB
360:Whenever they say it can’t be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn. ~ John Mayer, #NFDB
361:88% of what we call good songs aren’t really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
362:Children remind us to promise ourselves to the future. They remind us why the future is worth the promise. ~ M C A Hogarth, #NFDB
363:ＤＯＮ
…send the ambassador to Cuba, and firmly remind them that democracy is America's number one export. ~ Bob Odenkirk,#NFDB
364:Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
365:It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge. ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
366:Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're still here. ~ Sarah Winman, #NFDB
367:not the ones that remind me that the person I’d dreamed I’d be is not the person the mirror says I’ve become. ~ Lyla Payne, #NFDB
368:Now Josie knew she kept them to remind her that broken things can be mended, but there is always a scar. ~ Rebecca Forster, #NFDB
369:We can talk later. Do I need to bend you over and fuck you like an animal to remind you whose pussy this is? ~ T M Frazier, #NFDB
370:We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
371:You know, you remind me of my younger brother. I miss that kid, so much that I sometimes regret killing him. ~ J A Konrath, #NFDB
372:A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
373:Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
374:In fully accepting your creative power, you honor and respect your soul and remind others to do the same. ~ Sonia Choquette, #NFDB
375:What if she could learn to love again? And what if I’m the one who can remind her what that feels like? ~ K A Tucker, #NFDB
376:who didn't want the distraction of a willing body to remind you that you hadn't just been made for suffering ~ Mia Sheridan, #NFDB
377:You know what Confucius said?” “Remind me.” “ ‘Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.’ ~ Marisha Pessl, #NFDB
378:You know, you remind me of my younger brother. I miss that kid, so much that I sometimes regret killing him. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
379:You know, you remind me of my younger brother. I miss that kid, so much that I sometimes regret killing him. ~ Jack Kilborn, #NFDB
380:From time to time, in the moments when you need it most, God will speak to you to remind you of your beauty. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
381:Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it. ~ Chris Cleave, #NFDB
382:Inside of you is your love, not beside you. She is just there to remind you of where you placed her heart. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
383:I remind myself that loving my sister means I have to step back and give her the dignity of independence. ~ Bette Lee Crosby, #NFDB
384:Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
385:We have more than enough people to remind us of that, to give us dispassionate evaluations of our mediocrity. ~ Wendy Walker, #NFDB
386:Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books. ~ Philip Kotler, #NFDB
387:You know what Confucius said?"
"Remind me".
"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves ~ Marisha Pessl,#NFDB
388:You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
389:Films like Daddy-O are here to remind us that millennials have been around since long before the millennium. ~ Frank Conniff, #NFDB
390:her gaze to the copper-colored foal who sniffed his way up her arm. “Hmm… His coloring and thick body remind ~ Misty M Beller, #NFDB
391:I gave you my heart a long time ago, and I’m not sure I remind you enough that you still have it. All of it. ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
392:It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity. ~ Ariel Durant, #NFDB
393:I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday. ~ Stephen Chbosky, #NFDB
394:Literature can remind us that not all ife is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. ~ Colum McCann, #NFDB
395:On the whole it’s not wise to remind the devil that he’s the devil, especially when we were getting on so well. ~ Philip Kerr, #NFDB
396:There is an unease in you, too, which I sensed. You remind me of an anchor searching for a spot to latch on to. ~ Karen White, #NFDB
397:Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings. ~ Chris Gardner, #NFDB
398:We may be tainted with pragmatism, but it only needs a clash of personalities to remind us of our principles. ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB
399:You know, I'm really starting to hate the insect life around here. Next time, remind me to bring a can of Off! ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
400:Besides that, she's a fine young lady."
"I'll be sure to remind her of that next time she starts yelling at us. ~ Lia Habel,#NFDB
401:Had me this boy once. You kinda remind me . . .” She turned and surveyed the corridor. “Johnny, his name was. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
402:It’s because I remind them they’re not God,” I said. “And that if there is one, I’m closer to Him than they are. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
403:I wish I could put his words in my pocket just to touch them once in a while and remind myself that they exist. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
404:Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. ~ Colum McCann, #NFDB
405:Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
406:My biggest fear is the people I love not knowing how much I love them. I just want to remind people all the time. ~ Gigi Hadid, #NFDB
407:Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence. ~ Eric Micha el Leventhal, #NFDB
408:Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns. ~ Alfie Kohn, #NFDB
409:I tilt my face up and inhale, willing my surroundings to enter me somehow and to remind me how small I am. ~ Kaui Hart Hemmings, #NFDB
410:I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me and remind them of all the promise I see in them. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
411:Remind yourself that when things don't go right, everything will be OK. And if you think that, then everything will be. ~ Ciara, #NFDB
412:Scars remind us we can live life without fear because no matter what happens, we’ll heal. We’ll get better. ~ Lindsey Fairleigh, #NFDB
413:We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end. ~ Tom Petty, #NFDB
414:Whatever your trials, remind yourself that you are a spirit and are capable of changing your destiny. ~ Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov, #NFDB
415:Whatever your trials, remind yourself that you are a spirit and are capable of changing your destiny. ~ Omraam Mikha l A vanhov, #NFDB
416:An essential aspect of self-support is to remind yourself that success is not measurable, but a matter of feeling. ~ Eric Maisel, #NFDB
417:But you remind me so much of her."
"I-I do?"
"Yes." Addie gifted him with a smile."Because I love you both. ~ Jodi Picoult,#NFDB
418:end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things, ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
419:God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
420:Hey, some days you had to get out the broom, hat, and big black cat and remind everyone who they were dealing with. ~ Linda Kage, #NFDB
421:I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play. ~ Eric Bana, #NFDB
422:I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems. ~ Sharon Shinn, #NFDB
423:Our fatal flaw was to pick on ourselves. To tear ourselves apart by tearing others apart who remind you of you. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
424:Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency." ~ Tullian Tchividjian, #NFDB
425:Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me. ~ Bryn Greenwood, #NFDB
426:The stars remind us every night that we have the opportunity to create heaven on earth. from The Expected One ~ Kathleen McGowan, #NFDB
427:Tragedies remind us how badly we need to keep controlling ourselves by showing us what happens when people don ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
428:Whenever you feel lost or lacking direction, you can pull it out to remind yourself to discover what matters most. ~ Gary Keller, #NFDB
429:I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am. ~ Bruce Willis, #NFDB
430:Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
431:Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me. ~ Elisabeth Elliot, #NFDB
432:Something should remind us once more that the great things in this universe are things that we never see. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
433:Do I need to remind you of the fact I will take you out at the kneecaps if you fuck with her, man? Seriously. ~ A Meredith Walters, #NFDB
434:[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
435:I hated the mirror and avoided it as much as I could. A glimpse would only remind me: I'll never be normal again. ~ Lauren Scruggs, #NFDB
436:I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They're just not around at the moment. ~ Cynthia Hand, #NFDB
437:I’m so damned literary
and at the same time the waters rushing past remind
me of nothing
I’m so damn empty ~ Frank O Hara,#NFDB
438:I remind you that I belong with great ardor to everyone and for this reason I am suffering immensely for all. ~ Pio of Pietrelcina, #NFDB
439:Sometimes that’s all it takes. Just one person to turn everything on its head. Remind you of the person you were. ~ Samantha Towle, #NFDB
440:The Democratic Party likes to remind people that the Russian force around that was very strong, remarkably strong. ~ Rachel Maddow, #NFDB
441:The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
442:Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
443:I suddenly realized what you remind me of with that white top and the red bottom. You look like a giant tampon, Dante! ~ Alexa Land, #NFDB
444:It needs no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. ~ Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson (1911)., #NFDB
445:It's your own conscience
That is gonna remind you
That it's your heart and nobody else's
That is gonna judge. ~ Bob Marley,#NFDB
446:I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
447:life does not pause to remind you that it is running out. The only one who can keep you mindful of this is you: It ~ Sarah Bakewell, #NFDB
448:Suddenly I was cocooned in silent,blissful darkness,with only the whisper of distant waves to remind me where I was. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
449:Technically, it's a family restaurant, but it will only remind you of your family if your mom chain-smoked menthols. ~ Sarah Vowell, #NFDB
450:We remind ourselves that it's a hobby [The Esemblist]; nobody is setting these deadlines for us, except us. ~ Nikka Graff Lanzarone, #NFDB
451:You can’t change someone’s behaviour, all you can do is remind them, and hope that Allah will change their heart. ~ Nouman Ali Khan, #NFDB
452:Young’uns!” Mrs. P. interrupted. “No bad language, not at the table, please. And need I remind you, I am the table! ~ Kathryn Lasky, #NFDB
453:And he loved you and your mom, so much. I’ll always remind you of that, but I wish you could have met him.” -Brandon ~ Molly McAdams, #NFDB
454:But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit … will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you. John 14:26 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
455:Hugh, I remind you that you are still under the oath the last guy swore," Shawn said. "Is that real?" Ralston said. ~ William Rabkin, #NFDB
456:I’ve always liked boxing,
there’s nothing like
a punch in the face
to remind you
you don’t want to die. ~ Atticus Poetry,#NFDB
457:Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States. ~ Michael Mandelbaum, #NFDB
458:Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am. ~ John Lydon, #NFDB
459:Since great victories can lead to great pride, God allows us to be tested in order to remind us to depend on Him. ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB
460:the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things, ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
461:Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground. ~ Faraaz Kazi, #NFDB
462:It's like it doesn't even matter if I like my body, because there's always someone there to remind me I shouldn't. ~ Becky Albertalli, #NFDB
463:Let me remind you of what got me this far, picture me quitting, now draw a circle around it and put a line through it, sl#t! ~ Eminem, #NFDB
464:Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. ~ David E Kelley, #NFDB
465:was focused on not wasting any of the opportunities I now had, but sometimes I had to remind myself just to breathe. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
466:We would remind you that it is not the length of Caesar's life that is the issue, but rather, the briefness of his reign. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
467:You know that we all need one other person. One other person to remind us we are still human beings and not beasts. ~ Paullina Simons, #NFDB
468:America, is it?” I joked as she approached. “Yes, it is. And I know I’ve heard your name before, but could you remind me? ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
469:Sometimes I simply remind patients that sooner or later they will have to relinquish the goal of having a better past. ~ Irvin D Yalom, #NFDB
470:The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid. ~ Don Drysdale, #NFDB
471:We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
472:Embrace lousy days. I’ve learned to remind myself easy days are part of the deal, and a great day is just around the corner. ~ Dan John, #NFDB
473:...he broke in and wanted to know how I imagined this other life. So I shouted: 'A life that would remind me of this one ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
474:If a boy ever says, you remind me of someone—don’t fall in love with him. You will never be anything more than second best. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
475:I took in another mouthful of iron-tasting water and was so dazed I had to remind myself to spit it out, not swallow it. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
476:Most of us start from nothing, with plenty of rejection. I remind myself of that whenever I get to feeling too important. ~ Kate Alcott, #NFDB
477:Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness. ~ Luanne Rice, #NFDB
478:So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
479:the one who arrives after you will remind me love is supposed to be soft he will taste like the poetry i wish i could write ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
480:AB=1/4((A+B)^2-(A-B)^2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately, I have to remind my current students how to prove it. ~ Ronald Graham, #NFDB
481:Dude deserves to be castrated, if you ask me.'
Ry chokes a bit, a strangled laugh. "Remind me never to piss you off. ~ Kiersten White,#NFDB
482:Forget the past, it's gone, but glance back occasionally to remind yourself where you came from and where you are going. ~ Chloe Thurlow, #NFDB
483:I choose to remind myself that you have not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. I ~ Christine Caine, #NFDB
484:I do need to remind you
there is no point in being fair
to others
if you've forgotten to be fair
to yourself. ~ Holly Bodger,#NFDB
485:If a boy ever says, you remind me of someone--don't fall in love with him. You will never be anything more than second best. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
486:In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you. ~ Kim Basinger, #NFDB
487:Sometimes I remind myself of all the things that make me feel so blessed. And then I remind myself to remind myself more often. ~ Lights, #NFDB
488:Superpowerful?’”He stood up, a gold chain dangling from his fingers. “Let me remind you of two words, Mercer: Bad. Dog. ~ Rachel Hawkins, #NFDB
489:That’s why it is good to remind ourselves that in business and in life, the journey, not the destination, is the reward. ~ Verne Harnish, #NFDB
490:How very important and infuriating it is to have to remind a smart person not to be so stupid as to give up on themselves. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
491:I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
492:I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
493:In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
494:I wish I could put a pen in your hand and gently remind you how the world has given you poetry and now you must give it back. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
495:Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a special place ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
496:Maybe a little fishtail skid around the turn. Something to remind them that life was too short to be judgmental pricks. ~ Bracken MacLeod, #NFDB
497:The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
498:We are no longer awkward younglings. Our enemies may be fearsome, but so are we. It is time we remind them of that. ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
499:what purpose it serves?” “To bear the guilt of the people and remind us of the ongoing need of having Yahweh in our minds. ~ Brian Godawa, #NFDB
500:When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor. ~ Lyndon B Johnson, #NFDB
501:Your kindness, beauty, and simplicity remind me the stories about angels, and I was told they are just legends and myths. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
502:But I remind myself that I know you. I know your heart, and that will always stay the same, so I will always know you... ~ Suzanne LaFleur, #NFDB
503:Children put everything in perspective, they remind you of what's important, you see the world anew through there eyes. ~ Priscilla Gilman, #NFDB
504:That’s why we like fish in aquariums; they remind us of ourselves, well fed but incapable of moving beyond the glass walls. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
505:The spirit of mercy is found in all the world's great religions , and they remind us of our charge in caring for Creation. ~ Wayne Pacelle, #NFDB
506:I believe most Americans want their next President to remind them of the guy they work with, not the guy who laid them off. ~ Mike Huckabee, #NFDB
507:I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
508:our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
509:Remind me," he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, "to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja? ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
510:These are friendly people,” I said, bending to begin work on his ankles. “Remind me to hit them a lot if I get the chance. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
511:The symbology of the sphinx… is to remind mankind for eternity that he is nothing more than an animal with a brain. ~ Milton William Cooper, #NFDB
512:We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
513:What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
514:When you feel small and weak, remind yourself that you are a child of the universe who is connected to the infinite source. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
515:As Tibetan Buddhists remind us, “If we take care of the minutes and moments, the hours and days will take care of themselves. ~ Todd Kashdan, #NFDB
516:For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see. ~ Adrienne Rich, #NFDB
517:If you find yourself caring about something, just remind yourself that you don’t need to give a fuck. Caring is for nicegirls. ~ The Betches, #NFDB
518:I remind myself of the fundamental notion of what it means to be a writer. A writer is the one who controls the narrative. ~ Meena Kandasamy, #NFDB
519:No matter how much I remind myself that there aren't mating signs, my wolf doesn't care. He has claimed her and he wants her. ~ Quinn Loftis, #NFDB
520:Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life. ~ James Cromwell, #NFDB
521:Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born. ~ Eric Maisel, #NFDB
522:There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have. ~ Goldie Hawn, #NFDB
523:What do you do if you're in the car and your girlfriend touches your crotch then asks you to remind her to get kitchen scissors? ~ Bob Saget, #NFDB
524:First rule of fucked-up billionaires club is you don’t talk about fucked-up billionaires club. You don’t need to remind me. ~ Jackie Ashenden, #NFDB
525:Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty. ~ Jeff Cooper, #NFDB
526:Tatiana yields herself to remind him that her submission-the source of all his strength-is his privilege and not his right. ~ Paullina Simons, #NFDB
527:You do, sometimes, remind me of the kind of man who is tempted to put himself in prison in order to avoid being hit by a car. ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
528:You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing. ~ Stephen Root, #NFDB
529:As his fingers blazed along my skin, I wrestled with my demons, the ones that lived to remind me of what a dirty whore I was. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
530:If cancer was a gift, I wanted to return it. I didn’t need a fast-acting tumor to remind me about the fleeting nature of life: ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
531:In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
532:I’ve been split open. I’ve been spilled bare. I’ve allowed her spirit to seep inside of me—to remind me, remind me…why I love ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
533:Remember a person with Autism isn't a set of symptoms or statistics always remember and remind them that they're a person first. ~ Paul Isaacs, #NFDB
534:The storms are honest friends: They remind us of how dangerous this universe is and invite us to be vigilant and serious! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
535:This guy is a real pain. I want to remind him that we're the good guys. We're not up at 4 a.m. because we like the way it feels. ~ Jean Ferris, #NFDB
536:We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever. ~ Cat Power, #NFDB
537:When people hurt us, the best thing to do isn’t to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn’t our fault. ~ Michael Thomas Ford, #NFDB
538:You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
539:He had to remind himself that the work of a surgeon is poetry of a kind, in which blood is the meaning and flesh is the text. ~ Kathleen Winter, #NFDB
540:I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening. ~ Larry King, #NFDB
541:It helps sometimes to dwell on the good memories. They remind you that happiness does exist, though it may not seem that way now. ~ Yvonne Woon, #NFDB
542:It is the mark of a true saint that his sorrows remind him of his sins, and his sorrow for sin drives him to his God. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
543:Life is so full of rough edges - small tasks and expectations that scratch you bloody and remind you that you're naked and alone. ~ Alexis Hall, #NFDB
544:Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls ~ Amy Tan, #NFDB
545:The next time you’re feeling uncertain, remind yourself that you’re the creator of your life, not a manager of circumstances. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
546:Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions. ~ Evgeny Morozov, #NFDB
547:We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right. ~ Mahathir Mohamad, #NFDB
548:What?" I asked, swallowing a mouthful.
"You remind me of me."
"That can't be good." I took another mouthful. ~ Courtney Allison Moulton,#NFDB
549:Don’t be stupider than you need to be, I remind myself. Remember Calease? The last glowing girl you talked to tried to kill you. ~ Erica Cameron, #NFDB
550:Don’t cause distress, she said. Don’t remind people of a loss. “Do you understand, Cady? Silence is a protective coating over pain. ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
551:History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. ~ Margaret MacMillan, #NFDB
552:I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
553:It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing. ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB
554:People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby. ~ Bill Bruford, #NFDB
555:Some people believe that [when] we choose our friends, we choose the people we care about, because they remind us of ourselves ~ Elizabeth Flock, #NFDB
556:Sometimes when you’re struggling to see kindness in the world, you need to be the creator of it to remind yourself it does exist. ~ Truth Devour, #NFDB
557:Your brain is not your friend when you need to apologize. Your brain and your ego and your intellect all remind you of the "facts. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
558:But we were supposed to be exceptional." "Wakanda is exceptional, Baba. And now, more than ever, we need someone to remind us. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates, #NFDB
559:His work "The Pasture" features cast bronze cows in Toronto's financial district I wanted to remind stockbrokers what real stock is. ~ Joe Fafard, #NFDB
560:Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here. ~ Sarah Winman, #NFDB
561:Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day. ~ Mohamed ElBaradei, #NFDB
562:Take time to relax & renew yourself....remind ourselves 2relax & B peaceful smile, drink tea with a friend, enjoy being ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
563:This should remind us that violence is first of all authoritarian. It begins with this premise: I have the right to control you. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
564:Until we’re pushing up daisies, it might be good to remind ourselves daily that everything’s coming up roses — for me and for you. ~ Gina Barreca, #NFDB
565:We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
566:Every so often I contemplate suicide merely to remind myself of my complete lack of interest in it as a solution to anything at all. ~ Nora Ephron, #NFDB
567:I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
568:I like to add personal touches to my decorating style, including photographs and nostalgic items that remind me of family and home. ~ Karlie Kloss, #NFDB
569:I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy. ~ Laura Mvula, #NFDB
570:I remind myself how people with a low propensity for success whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success. ~ Keith Ferrazzi, #NFDB
571:It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder. ~ Ben Shahn, #NFDB
572:Just past hell lies paradise.
Sometimes we have to remind ourselves of that.
Serina Hartwell Author of The Hidden Saga ~ Serina Hartwell,#NFDB
573:MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
574:Of course, there will always be more you could do, but you have to remind yourself that perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
575:Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again. ~ Og Mandino, #NFDB
576:You have to leave your heart to get on with it. It's rather like breathing. We don't have to remind ourselves to breathe. ~ Alexander McCall Smith, #NFDB
577:Also, because it’s harder to be magnanimous when you’re in your twenties, I think, and so that’s why I’d like to remind you of it. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
578:Everything seemed so unreal—so supernatural—and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren’t human. We never were. (Jessica) ~ Shannon A Thompson, #NFDB
579:I just remind myself that the gifts I have, I've been given for a reason and that every day brings new opportunities to use them. ~ Bridgit Mendler, #NFDB
580:I needed no physical object to remind me of his love. I already carried it in my heart, and it would be enough to get through this. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
581:Nature must remind itself of city people otherwise the city people continue to drown in their virtual life, unaware of nature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
582:Something about majestic cable-stayed bridges across shallow seas remind Marxists that they have lost to capitalism and human nature. ~ Manu Joseph, #NFDB
583:There's a beautiful freedom that comes with trust, and I remind myself of that every time I started to entertain a seed of doubt. ~ Brooke St James, #NFDB
584:Upon awakening, let the words Thank You flow from your lips, for this will remind you to begin your day with gratitude and compassion. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
585:He’d told me those slashing marks were our story, to remind him never to trust me. I’d told him history didn’t have to repeat itself. ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
586:If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are. ~ Og Mandino, #NFDB
587:I guess,” he said, “that they remind me that you can find kindness and love in the strangest of places. Sometimes it’s the very last ~ Chance Carter, #NFDB
588:I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.' ~ Cameron Diaz, #NFDB
589:One of those stars is Daniel. I remind myself that stars are more than just poetic. If you need to, you can navigate your way by them. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
590:Sometimes you might forget who you are and where, but that’s okay because there’s always somebody around that’s happy to remind you. ~ Walter Mosley, #NFDB
591:The tattoo is there not because I believe there is something wrong with me. It's there to remind me that our flaws are our strengths ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
592:When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. ~ Peter Marshall, #NFDB
593:you remind me of my first concert. The one I told you about on New Year’s. You remind me of the feeling of wanting to make something. ~ Ava Dellaira, #NFDB
594:A lot of Christians like to remind me that heaven is my true home, which makes me want to ask them if they would like to go home first. ~ Kate Bowler, #NFDB
595:Every time I get nervous or scared, I remind myself that every good story needs twists and turns. Every heroine needs an adventure. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
596:I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes. ~ Sarah Palin, #NFDB
597:I believe most people are especially repelled by attributes in other people that remind them of things they loathe about themselves. ~ Scott Galloway, #NFDB
598:I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
599:I'd also remind people, if I were running for Presidency, that a long-term problem facing the budget is Social Security and Medicare. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
600:I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
601:I would like you to have it, Mr. Wells" he said, presenting him with the basket,"to remind you that everything is a question of wills ~ F lix J Palma, #NFDB
602:Remind me to show you something on “Decadence” from Havelock Ellis’ Introduction to [J. K. Huysmans’]Against the Grain. You will like it. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
603:You wouldn't believe the things that go missing in these labs. Remind me to tell you the story about the radioactive spider sometime. ~ Deborah Blake, #NFDB
604:Bullies say the things they say because they're unhappy. I also remind myself that what they are saying is not really about me. ~ Laura Michelle Kelly, #NFDB
605:How do we know the brilliance of Light if there is no Darkness to remind us? How do we thrive in the night without the sunrise to warm us? ~ Aja James, #NFDB
606:In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life ~ Barbara Brown Taylor, #NFDB
607:it may require ongoing and intensive support from teachers and other practitioners to remind you to keep applying these interventions. ~ Shinzen Young, #NFDB
608:It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing. ~ Pema Ch dr n, #NFDB
609:Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good. ~ Pythagoras, #NFDB
610:So it Goes’ from Slaughterhouse Five to remind myself not to dwell on anything I can’t control – bad shit happens; it’s part of life. ~ Suzanne Wright, #NFDB
611:A dream that returns so often is like to be a messenger, come to warn you of the future or to remind you of things untimely forgotten. ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB
612:Every culture has its own way of teaching the same lesson: Memento mori, the Romans would remind themselves. Remember you are mortal. It ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
613:"I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten." ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
614:If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
615:I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure. ~ Moby, #NFDB
616:In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor, #NFDB
617:Prayer for the Day Higher Power, remind me to pray to You often. Remind me to stop and listen to You. Remind me that You love me very much. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
618:There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from hinges where you've hung it so careful. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
619:...and I know -I just know- you can remind me what it feels like to have someone look at me and love me with wanting me to be something else. ~ Amy Reed, #NFDB
620:But flowers feed our soul in a different way. They remind us of a God who creates beautiful things and takes notice of the tiniest detail ~ Tricia Goyer, #NFDB
621:I’m standing up for myself. That’s all.”
“Mmhmm. Remind me, after Rosa Parks stuck it to that bus driver, did she bake him a soufflé? ~ R S Grey,#NFDB
622:The author deduces the best way James Baker serve Reagan as Chief of Staff was to continually remind him why he wanted to be president. ~ Chris Matthews, #NFDB
623:There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
624:We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us. ~ Kim Stanley, #NFDB
625:Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves. ~ Eric Sevareid, #NFDB
626:Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame. ~ Brandi L Bates, #NFDB
627:For those who are proud to be human beings, leave it to the mosquitoes to remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
628:It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible. ~ Rollo May, #NFDB
629:Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty. ~ George Singleton, #NFDB
630:69The righteous are not in any way held accountable for the wrongdoers; their only duty is to remind them, so that they may be mindful of God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
631:Admit to yourself that your bad mood is hanging a cloud over everything you see, and remind yourself that your moods are not permanent. ~ Travis Bradberry, #NFDB
632:Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done—peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
633:Everything that I have known
You'll write to me to remind
Me of, and likewise I shall do
The whole past I'll recount to you ~ Friedrich H lderlin,#NFDB
634:I like
the memories
because they remind me
I haven't always been
this girl,
constantly
mad or scared
or confused. ~ Lisa Schroeder,#NFDB
635:I remind myself that he's dead, that I'll never have the chance to write to him again- but it's difficult to drop an anchor in that reality. ~ Randy Ribay, #NFDB
636:I will thank you to stay out of my affairs. Or need I remind you that it is not Stanhope whom I'e had to be wary of on balconies recently? ~ Sarah MacLean, #NFDB
637:I would be his rock when his reason floated away. And he would be the person I needed to remind me that I was no longer alone in the world. ~ Belle Aurora, #NFDB
638:Let me remind you of something Einstein once said: "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?" ~ Robin Brande, #NFDB
639:Then he would remind us that there was a brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that not even time could break ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
640:You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it. ~ Caroline Kennedy, #NFDB
641:All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. ~ Harold Bloom, #NFDB
642:Corporate worship is designed to remind you of your identity in Christ so that you won’t waste your time looking for identity elsewhere. ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
643:Guys, I just want to remind you I have to be home by seven,” Daniela said. “I’m also not allowed to do any Satanic stuff.” Sebastian ~ Silvia Moreno Garcia, #NFDB
644:I remind myself everyday just how lucky I am to do what I love! I feel so fortunate and I'm just trying to take my life one day at a time. ~ Misty Copeland, #NFDB
645:I think the media has to continually remind itself, and I think we do but sometimes not well enough that we're not just an economic property. ~ Frank Bruni, #NFDB
646:Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind. ~ Plato, #NFDB
647:Perhaps it will be as well if you discourage his coming here so very often. At least, you should not remind your mother of inviting him." "As ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
648:Sometimes you say, “Demon, I promise you I will let you remind me of my ugliness, but right now I am having hot sex so I will check in later. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
649:The Chicago winter is harsh. But every now and then God blesses us with a thirty-or forty-degree day to remind us that misery comes and goes. ~ Mary Kubica, #NFDB
650:The purpose of prayer is not to influence God to grant you special favors, but rather to remind yourself that you are always connected to God. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
651:There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
652:There’s nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you’ve hung it so careful. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
653:You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do. ~ Martyn Lloyd Jones, #NFDB
654:A great work of art, if it accomplishes anything, serves to remind us, or let us say to set us dreaming, of all that is fluid and intangible. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
655:And if you've forgotten, let me remind you. How love never really ends. How your heart breaks the same way it beats, again and again, and again. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
656:Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
657:I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
658:I remind myself that the universe is 15 billion years old, and I'm only 46 years old, so my perspective is sort of limited and fear-based and skewed. ~ Moby, #NFDB
659:I think that there are few people in one's life that you never really feel that they're gone. I have to remind myself that she isn't around. ~ Blake Edwards, #NFDB
660:It's important that we remind the American people of what they already know about Obamacare - that the promises that were made were all broken. ~ Mike Pence, #NFDB
661:Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
662:Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!" ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
663:No matter how many times I've thought that the worst is behind us, something else always happens to remind me that the worst is yet to come. ~ Siobhan Davis, #NFDB
664:Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other. ~ Candace Bushnell, #NFDB
665:This is the reason I write, to remind people of honor and courage; to tell them that their cause isn’t lost, that their destiny is victory. ~ Charles M Blow, #NFDB
666:ADMIRE means, I really look up to you and the way you are with your cookies. You remind me of what is good and possible in this world. ~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal, #NFDB
667:... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
668:I do two things," she told me. "I remind myself that it's not all about me. And I focus on the good. There's always a way to find some good. ~ Julie Cantrell, #NFDB
669:I feel stupid.” “Good,” Michael said. “It’s good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
670:If you ever slip into thinking you have to be perfect to deserve love, remind yourself that no one is perfect, and everyone deserves love. ~ Lizzie Vel squez, #NFDB
671:I'll remind her of how fat her arms looked in that slutty dress she wore at senior prom. That always makes her cry. Like goddamned Niagara falls. ~ Meg Cabot, #NFDB
672:I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health. ~ Frankie Cosmos, #NFDB
673:It's good to have these stories in our holy books, to remind us that they were written by humans. Filthy-minded, morally ambiguous humans. ~ Suzanne Morrison, #NFDB
674:I've always liked the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be so it's easier to remember who I am. ~ Brian Andreas, #NFDB
675:Sometimes memories warm you, but more often they serve only to remind you of things lost. To live with the past, you need to have a future too. ~ Marc Turner, #NFDB
676:When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for. ~ Katherine Heigl, #NFDB
677:When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you. ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
678:You know, I’m really starting to hate the insect life around here,” he
muttered. “Next time, remind me to bring a can of Off!”
-Puck ~ Julie Kagawa,#NFDB
679:Civilised men fear wild creatures, especially wild creatures of their own kind who remind them of life in the primeval forests of past ages. ~ Georges Simenon, #NFDB
680:Detail exists not only to make us remember the things we don’t want to, but to remind us that there are some things we don’t deserve to forget. ~ Brock Clarke, #NFDB
681:I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
682:I have to be a little bit guarded, because I can be very open and I like to include people, but then again I have to remind myself to be careful. ~ Eva Mendes, #NFDB
683:I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they? ~ Sara Pennypacker, #NFDB
684:I will follow anyone...
And remind everyone...
Of enslaved Yazidi women...
Raped...
And forced...
To donate blood to ISIS men... ~ Widad Akreyi,#NFDB
685:No. Not you. But if you're bothered, remind me when I get back - we can talk about your initiation. I like the idea of you kneeling at my feet. ~ Ellen Connor, #NFDB
686:There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip through the hinges where you've hung it so careful. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
687:An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin, #NFDB
688:I got to tell you, you don’t look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
689:It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted. ~ Aberjhani, #NFDB
690:It turns you inside out. Occasionally, it hurts, but in the best way imaginable. To remind you of how powerful it is. To keep you feeling alive. ~ Tessa Bailey, #NFDB
691:Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
692:Looking at his face would just remind me of the worried boy he turned into when I asked him to tie me up and spank me. I want to forget that face. ~ Linnea May, #NFDB
693:The French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it. ~ John McCain, #NFDB
694:the one who arrives after you
will remind me love is
supposed to be soft
he will taste
like the poetry
I wish I could write ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
695:[This] story ...is the one I recount to remind myself that I survived and that the worth of my life can be paid back with my truth and my stories. ~ Amber Dawn, #NFDB
696:Why are you crying?"
"Because," she whispered, her voice shaking, "you remind me of what the world ought to be. What the world can be. ~ Sarah J Maas,#NFDB
697:And let our make and place, as men, remind us of our duty as Christians, which is always to keep heaven in our eye and the earth under our feet. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
698:Because while fate decided we came into each other’s lives, sometimes we have to fight to stay. And every day, you remind me we’re worth the fight. ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
699:Jacob had chronic hip pain to remind him of his “Come to Jesus” moment—and clearly the moment affected more than his hip. His heart was changed too: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
700:She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
701:The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop. That's who you are! ~ Angelina Jolie, #NFDB
702:When someone complains that his life has come to nothing, we need merely remind him that life itself is in an analogous situation, if not worse. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
703:You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are. ~ Richard Armitage, #NFDB
704:You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
705:Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there. ~ Babatunde Adebimpe, #NFDB
706:I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors. ~ John James Audubon, #NFDB
707:I know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us. ~ Beyonce Knowles, #NFDB
708:I nuzzled them both to remind them that there was really no need to grieve, since I was okay and really a much better pet than Smokey ever was. ~ W Bruce Cameron, #NFDB
709:My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
710:My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
711:We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB
712:You remind me of myself ” Bes continued “back when I was a young dwarf. You got a stubborn streak. When it comes to girl problems you’re clueless. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
713:And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago. ~ David Nicholls, #NFDB
714:But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
715:I know my limits. You don’t ever need to worry about me.” “Thanks, Scot. I’ll remind myself of that next time I see you looking like a flipped turtle. ~ Brad Thor, #NFDB
716:Memories remind us that every moment of our lives, even the most tragic, have contributed to our strength. We’ve gotten through. We’re still here. ~ Willie Nelson, #NFDB
717:No, it's the best time for jokes,' said Olivia. She forced a weak smile. 'Jokes remind us that we're alive. And that your sense of humor is terrible. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
718:There are no ghosts in this house, my father would say to me. What you hear are the echoes it has kept to remind us of all those who’ve been here. ~ Sof a Segovia, #NFDB
719:There was also closeness, for the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things. ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
720:Address me as Master. Every time you forget, I will be forced to remind you. So you can choose to obey or choose punishment. It’s entirely up to you. ~ C J Roberts, #NFDB
721:After all, as they would sometimes remind one another, the most important thing about a house was not how big it was, but how many stories it had. ~ Angelica Banks, #NFDB
722:On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be. ~ Brian Clough, #NFDB
723:She paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the restrictions it imposed. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
724:Whenever I visit my family in Canada, I remind myself that what many Americans would consider forthright, many Canadians would consider overbearing. ~ James Arthur, #NFDB
725:You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I. ~ Murasaki Shikibu, #NFDB
726:Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
727:Don't resurrect relationships with negative people off of good memories. You will only remind yourself why they became your past in the first place. ~ Keshia Chante, #NFDB
728:I am perfect. I need to remind myself of that more often."
I snort. "Right. Because you're not conceited enough."
"I'm confident," he corrects. ~ Elle Kennedy,#NFDB
729:I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment! ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
730:I don't need any trinkets or pictures to remind me of my faith—all I need to do is stare out the window at the woods, and see how beautiful they are. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
731:It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions. ~ William Stanley Jevons, #NFDB
732:Remind yourself once again that you are not pulled to high levels of success. Rather, you are lifted there by those working beside and below you. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB
733:Remind yourself that you are supported, that you are not going it alone upon this Earth. Dwell in the company of your Non-Physical Teachers and Guides. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
734:The definition of insanity, Fox, Wesley used to remind me, paraphrasing Einstein, is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different result. ~ A J Finn, #NFDB
735:Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons. ~ Elisabeth Kubler Ross, #NFDB
736:We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right. ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB
737:When I go on a date, the only things I remind myself to do are the arm-in-arm move, the fake palm read move, the single arm move, and the strawberry game. ~ Roosh V, #NFDB
738:And I thought that maybe this was what it means to get old: to have someone much younger remind you of how you weren't the same person you used to be. ~ Brock Clarke, #NFDB
739:A thought occurred to her. “I don’t have to remind you I’m with Gansey, right?”
“Naturally not. I’m Henrysexual, anyway. Can I take you home? ~ Maggie Stiefvater,#NFDB
740:I can watch a movie about a person that can make me feel depressed or remind me of something else, and then later on I'll get an idea for a song. ~ Christopher Owens, #NFDB
741:I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork. ~ Ellie Goulding, #NFDB
742:I make music because of the love and joy of it and I try to make music to take you to a feel-good place and remind you that maybe there's a brighter day. ~ Joe Jonas, #NFDB
743:I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
744:I tell the parents that those who passed away remind us that we will all die, and to remember this fact; they gave their lives to remind us to live! ~ Gretel Ehrlich, #NFDB
745:Kill them. Kill them all. Remind the world what it means to be Arya. Remind the world what it is to walk with the gods.
– Syoddhan Kauravya ~ Krishna Udayasankar,#NFDB
746:Kill them. Kill them all. Remind the world what it means to be Arya. Remind the world what it is to walk with the gods.
– Syoddhan Kauravyaw ~ Krishna Udayasankar,#NFDB
747:Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,#NFDB
748:nothing can remind you of your own fragile place in the universe so powerfully as someone your own age dying suddenly, here one minute, gone the next. ~ Cynthia Hand, #NFDB
749:We sometimes remind early-stage founders that, in many ways, they aren’t building a product. They’re building a tool to learn what product to build. ~ Alistair Croll, #NFDB
750:You remind me of myself ” Bes continued “back when I was a young dwarf. You got a stubborn
streak. When it comes to girl problems you’re clueless. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
751:If something boils up under stress later, I remind myself to breathe and focus back to how I decided my day was going to go. It's simple but it works. ~ Beth Riesgraf, #NFDB
752:I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen. ~ Terry Tempest Williams, #NFDB
753:Mmm, not sure I’d call Paige. Remember what you tried to do when you were possessed?” “That was not me. And don’t remind me. I’m still creeped out. ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
754:Putting black cloths on the hives is for us. I do it to remind us that life gives way into death, and then death turns around and gives way into life. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
755:Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. ~ Charles Wheelan, #NFDB
756:We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
757:Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die? ~ Frederick Buechner, #NFDB
758:You're all going to die. I hate to remind you, but it is on your schedule. It probably won't happen when you'd like; generally, it's an inconvenience. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
759:I found bossing other people about such a delightful novelty that I had to remind myself of Lord Acton's famous axiom about its tendency to corrupt. ~ Victoria Clayton, #NFDB
760:It’s not easy. It’s never easy. Love isn’t easy. But you carry the memory of those happy times with you and those moments remind you of the beauty of life. ~ T K Leigh, #NFDB
761:Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her. ~ King Edward VIII, #NFDB
762:Perhaps I did nothing to ease their lives at that point except exist and remind them that I loved them. Perhaps that’s all anyone can do at such a time. ~ Sharon Shinn, #NFDB
763:Sometimes people have to remind you to aim high. Most of us are afraid of aiming high for fear of failure and our biggest failure is that we aim too low. ~ Shai Agassi, #NFDB
764:When we feel that old spirit of complaining start to bubble up in our hearts, we need to remind ourselves to take time to thank God for His blessings. ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB
765:willow trees, willow trees they remind me of Desdemona
I'm so damned literary
and at the same time the waters rushing past remind
me of nothing ~ Frank O Hara,#NFDB
766:Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs. ~ Bernard Malamud, #NFDB
767:Bezos includes one more chair that remains empty. It’s there to remind those assembled who’s really the most important person in the room: the customer. ~ Daniel H Pink, #NFDB
768:Existence is never so miserable as when you have a taste of something beautiful,” Lucifer said. “It serves to remind you of everything you can never have. ~ Lauren Kate, #NFDB
769:I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity. ~ Thomas Huxley, #NFDB
770:Let this Christmas Day remind us that Christ came to invite us to offer love to ALL humankind and to open the door of God's Kingdom to Every soul. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
771:Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
772:One way to stay grounded in the entertainment industry is to surround yourself with very good people that will constantly remind you how uncool you are. ~ Lauren Conrad, #NFDB
773:That’s why Lizard cooked. And why her poems never got written down. Food disappeared—and then there was nothing around to remind her she was brilliant. ~ Debora Geary, #NFDB
774:Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person did, but because of a choice I've made. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg, #NFDB
775:We have no destiny assigned us:
Nothing is certain but the body; we plan
To better ourselves; the hospitals alone remind us
Of the equality of man. ~ W H Auden,#NFDB
776:When I say that I love you, I don't say it out of habit or to make conversation. I say it to remind you that you're the best thing that's ever happened to me. ~ Kaitlyn, #NFDB
777:Without inner tranquility and wisdom, we are devoured wherever we go. Beauty is everywhere, speaking to you and trying to remind you who you really are. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
778:You’re just using me for my body.” “You don’t have a body,” I’d remind him.
“Throw that in my face.”
“Technically, you don’t have a face either. ~ Darynda Jones,#NFDB
779:You remind me of a willow." She said easily. "Strong, deep-rooted, and hidden. You move easily when the storm comes, but never farther than you wish. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
780:You remind me of a willow.” She said easily. “Strong, deep-rooted, and hidden. You move easily when the storm comes, but never farther than you wish. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
781:A blind man can't forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of the one whose beauty surpasses hers? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
782:And that kind of love is more important than anything right now, Lexie. It's going to keep you sane. It's always gonna remind you of who you are. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
783:Before Miles was born, I read books. Every so often now I’ll pick up something by Virginia Woolf and read a few pages to remind myself of who I used to be— ~ Darcey Bell, #NFDB
784:He was pretty sure he didn't need a Post-It note to remind him a killer was coming. With a vengeance. With death on his mind. And he was laser-focused. ~ Jessica R Patch, #NFDB
785:Important moments like this are time to reflect. To remind us, sometimes, that it's not only important what you wear, but it's also important to be aware. ~ Kenneth Cole, #NFDB
786:I thought this was a game,” I remind him.
“Not anymore and you know it. Everything else in my life is all fucked up. This is the only thing that’s real. ~ Nyrae Dawn,#NFDB
787:Let disappointment do its deep work--remind you that your true desire is found, not in God's ways or God's will or God's blessings, but in God himself. ~ Emily P Freeman, #NFDB
788:Remind yourself that you're bound to get better. Don't get down on yourself. Don't beat yourself up. It's the next opportunity that matters, not the last one. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
789:Three rebellions ago, the air was fresher. The soft pasting noises of the rebel billposters remind us of Oklahoma, where everything is still the same. ~ Donald Barthelme, #NFDB
790:And as the sun sets, I place my hand upon my heart, feel that it is still beating, and remind myself 'Past performance is not a predictor of future results. ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
791:Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
792:Child: Why on this night do we eat Hot Fudge Sundaes? Adult: To remind us that being Jewish is like having your birthday every day!! Plus they're delicious! ~ Jon Stewart, #NFDB
793:Did the sudden dark remind you that all of the things we expect to be there for us, to protect us, shelter us, provide for us, are fleeting and finite? ~ Jonathan Maberry, #NFDB
794:I constantly remind myself that there are terrible movies out there. I try to watch them, some of them, to give myself an understanding of what not to do. ~ Taika Waititi, #NFDB
795:I define accountability as the willingness of team members to remind one another when they are not living up to the performance standards of the group. ~ Patrick Lencioni, #NFDB
796:I see the signs!” Jessica snapped. “My question was meant to remind you that you should not try to teach me those matters in which I instructed you.” Paul ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
797:I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale ~ Anne McCaffrey, #NFDB
798:I want to remind the viewers that people like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement which is actually full of anarchists. ~ Katie Pavlich, #NFDB
799:Keep working on you. Remind yourself that it’s your emotions and experiences and expectations that are causing your outbursts, not your little one’s behavior. ~ L R Knost, #NFDB
800:Let disappointment do its deep work - remind you that your true desire is found, not in God's ways or God's will or God's blessings, but in God himself. ~ Emily P Freeman, #NFDB
801:Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara ~ Aaron Allston, #NFDB
802:Our world is a constant, glorious understatement of miracles we did everything and nothing to earn. One evening every spring, I remind myself to notice them. ~ Guy Branum, #NFDB
803: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, #NFDB
804:What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgement of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been marginalized, the ways I have suffered. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
805:It was so important to him, and he made it important to me: poetry, and language, and how we use it to remind ourselves of how our lives should be lived . . . ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
806:My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run. ~ Allyson Felix, #NFDB
807:Remind yourself that the Holy Spirit was sent to convict you of your righteousness apart from works. The devil will use the law as a weapon to condemn you. ~ Joseph Prince, #NFDB
808:But no matter, because that’s about the time Jesus will remind us that thighs aren’t something we’ll ever think about in eternity. And all God’s girls say, ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
809:I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home. ~ A J McLean, #NFDB
810:I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
811:I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
812:Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty? ~ Jean Dubuffet, #NFDB
813:Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment. ~ Joshua Mohr, #NFDB
814:We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
815:We ought frequently to remind ourselves that we must love the things of this life as we would what is shortly to leave us, or indeed in the very act of leaving us. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
816:You remind me of my late sister, little one. As I once told her, the headstrong may win many battles... but only the strong of heart will survive the war. ~ Brian K Vaughan, #NFDB
817:Have you ever gotten so emotional over a book that you actually have to sit yourself down, remind yourself it’s only a story and that the characters aren’t real? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
818:I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh. ~ Jenna Elfman, #NFDB
819:I shall remind myself who I am so I can share that with them, instead of trying to explain why I am not who they think I should be. (Yalia Sagewhisper) ~ Michael A Stackpole, #NFDB
820:It’s just one day, I remind myself. My fight is one of decades and generations. One bad day won’t stop me from rising up. I won’t quit, not today, not ever. ~ Scott Reintgen, #NFDB
821:Now, whenever I'm faced with impossible situations, I remind myself that if I really want something badly enough, I have it within myself to make it happen. ~ Sophia Amoruso, #NFDB
822:Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic ~ Peyton Manning, #NFDB
823:There are never clear skies on Avon, no blue, no stars. But we don’t give up hope, and we use those words to remind ourselves. Clear skies will come, one day. ~ Amie Kaufman, #NFDB
824:They served to remind Cabal - should a reminder ever be necessary - why his social skills were so poor: people were loathsome and not worth the practise. ~ Jonathan L Howard, #NFDB
825:Today is a new day.....
A day of possibilities
A day to make new memories
A day to remind someone how much you love them
A day to be your best you... ~ Unknown,#NFDB
826:We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
827:You will remind yourself, she will remind you, you will remind each other, that this is for the best, that you are physically incapable of loving one another, ~ Neil Hilborn, #NFDB
828:A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
829:Do not let one moment go by that doesn’t remind you that your heart beats 900 times a day, and there are enough gallons of blood to make everyone of you oceans ~ Anis Mojgani, #NFDB
830:He knows that for all the undeserved bounty of his life, she will always be there, at the edge of his vision, to remind him of all the things he can never have. ~ Brady Udall, #NFDB
831:I don't think that I'm that easy to live with. I have to be reminded that I can have fun. I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up. ~ Debra Winger, #NFDB
832:I have a mantra of my own that has helped me through the most chaotic of times. I remind myself that: I am the best, I have the best, and I deserve the best. ~ Allison Holker, #NFDB
833:I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! ~ Barry M Goldwater, #NFDB
834:Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
835:Someone remind me why I didn’t want to be an accountant when I grew up,” Brock drawled.
Niko chuckled. “Because accountants don’t get to make things go boom. ~ Lara Adrian,#NFDB
836:Sometimes, when things get really bad, I just remind myself that life is a boot camp. We all start out soft, weak. And then we’re tested. Over and over. It’s ~ J T Geissinger, #NFDB
837:There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts. ~ Bayard Rustin, #NFDB
838:We all go through it. Kids exist to remind us that our priorities aren’t always the ones we think. Even if it’s hard sometimes, they put order in our lives. ~ Franck Thilliez, #NFDB
839:when you create a daily spiritual practice, you are basically taking the time to remind yourself that you deserve to be supported and you deserve miracles. Spirit ~ Kyle Gray, #NFDB
840:,',,[B]ut you remind me of things I can't think about no more. I'm in the last October of life looking for a few more Aprils. I don't want to remember no more. ~ James McBride, #NFDB
841:I try to remind myself that all of this could be over tomorrow, because I could wake up and magically be 35 feet tall and not be able to act in movies anymore. ~ Margot Robbie, #NFDB
842:Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
843:Thank God, I think no one is thinking of unleashing a large-scale conflict with Russia. I want to remind you that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
844:There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God. ~ Tullian Tchividjian, #NFDB
845:We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are. ~ Parker J Palmer, #NFDB
846:When you see people doing meaningless things, you must remind yourself that it is easier for people to do meaningless things than doing meaningful things! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
847:Because they remind me of seagull, and I didn't want them flapping around us all night. That would significantly raise our chances of getting pooped on, Dylan wrote. ~ K M Shea, #NFDB
848:Dear God, she thought, help me to accept as Christ accepted. Keep my mind on helping, not judging. And remind me to put in a five-mile run this evening. ~ Julia Spencer Fleming, #NFDB
849:Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, "God is with me, helping me." ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
850:I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet. The ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
851:I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth. ~ Steven Biko, #NFDB
852:Sneezeweed, Drew?"
He grinned. "Jealous?"
"Surprised."
"Remind me, and I'll have a talk with Gerald. Give him a few tips."
"Promise?"
"Absolutely. ~ Deeanne Gist,#NFDB
853:the next time you hear some CEO on a soapbox complaining about how the Simpson jurors couldn’t cut it, please remind him that you get the justice you pay for. At ~ Marcia Clark, #NFDB
854:The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
855:Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new. ~ Alberto Gonzales, #NFDB
856:What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
857:Whenever I don't feel so well, I always try remind myself of the Siamese twin whose brother is gay, whose boyfriend is coming over...and they share the same asshole. ~ Jay Mohr, #NFDB
858:Big, funny men sometimes forget that their smaller mates have access to their unconscious bodies when they go to sleep. Sometimes you have to remind them of that. ~ Alanea Alder, #NFDB
859:Every day, the people I meet inspire me... every day, they make me proud... every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
860:History was by definition one long chaotic, violent mess sometimes interrupted by magnificent eras of peace that remind everybody life occasionally wasn't awful. ~ Gene Doucette, #NFDB
861:I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of. ~ Julianna Baggott, #NFDB
862:I look up at the sky.
I see a cloud passing just under the sun.
The top is all electric white.
I remind myself.
Don't give up, I think. Not just yet. ~ Matthew Quick,#NFDB
863:It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing! ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
864:I would like to remind the black ministry, and indeed all black people, that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people’s problems on earth. ~ Steve Biko, #NFDB
865:Original discoveries, to remind you, are what count the most. Let me put that more strongly: they are all that counts. They are the silver and gold of science. ~ Edward O Wilson, #NFDB
866:Some days I felt invincible, though I had to constantly remind myself that my delusions of invincibility were driven primarily by anger and stupidity. Reluctantly, ~ Bobby Adair, #NFDB
867:That’s why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
868:the next time he points out the hair on your legs is growing back remind that boy your body is not his home he is a guest warn him to never outstep his welcome again ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
869:What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgement of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
870:You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience. ~ Billie Jean King, #NFDB
871:Anything that isn’t traditional for women apparently requires that we remind people what an anomaly it is, even when it becomes less and less of an anomaly. I ~ Carrie Brownstein, #NFDB
872:Arrogance,” I said. “I feel stupid.” “Good,” Michael said. “It’s good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
873:At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor, #NFDB
874:I kind of weirdly fell into being an action hero...I have no f- idea how that happened. You have to remind people that you want to act rather than just run around ~ Kit Harington, #NFDB
875:It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods. ~ Martin Scorsese, #NFDB
876:Original discoveries, to remind you, are what counts the most. Let me put that more strongly: they are all that counts. They are the silver and gold of science. ~ Edward O Wilson, #NFDB
877:Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means? ~ Scott Simon, #NFDB
878:Create different desktop patterns on them so that the visual cues help to remind you, and put you in the proper place-memory context, of each computer’s domain. ~ Daniel J Levitin, #NFDB
879:Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
880:He is a principled man, and compassionate, someone who will remind himself of your best qualities while struggling to forgive your worst. In short, he is a friend. ~ Tracy Guzeman, #NFDB
881:Holly had a cheerful pink face and big, twinkling blue eyes, and Bryony occasionally had to remind herself that her sister also had a mind like a handful of razors. ~ T Kingfisher, #NFDB
882:I think you need to have people around you who can remind you that, actually, what you just said makes no sense. Fortunately, I have my wife to do that continually. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
883:I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once. ~ Fergie, #NFDB
884:Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God. ~ Stevie Wonder, #NFDB
885:Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
886:...that is how marriages take place. If you left it up to men, they would never get there. Nobody would be married. You have to remind men to get married. ~ Alexander McCall Smith, #NFDB
887:There. There you are. You have dropped a marker pin on your body, to reclaim yourself, to remind you where you are: inside yourself. Somewhere. Somewhere in there. ~ Caitlin Moran, #NFDB
888:We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don't understand. ~ Massimiliano Gioni, #NFDB
889:When your child is looking up at you and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about. ~ Shane Filan, #NFDB
890:Keep on shining, keep on smiling, don't lose faith, and don't lose heart. When you're crying, just keep trying to remind yourself, you're a shining star, yes you are. ~ LeAnn Rimes, #NFDB
891:My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. I mock this skull. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
892:...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
893:We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas. ~ John Redwood, #NFDB
894:What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered. You ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
895:You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots. ~ Mike Colter, #NFDB
896:If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist. ~ Annie Leibovitz, #NFDB
897:It's not every day one has a first kiss,' I said.
'May I remind you that it wasn't your first kiss?'
'It felt like it was. It was the first one that mattered. ~ Mary E Pearson,#NFDB
898:Puppies bring us closer to our innocent, natural animal selves. They relieve our stress, improve our health, and remind us that true happiness exists only in the moment. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
899:He began to ask me questions, as though he had learned to remind himself to do so, and I wondered what or who had taught him that lesson, which many people never learn. ~ Rachel Cusk, #NFDB
900:If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat. ~ Lloyd Kaufman, #NFDB
901:I'm a vampire, idiot. I don't have x-ray vision." "Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now. ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
902:In a relationship the details are everything because they remind you - just when you need to be reminded the most - why you fell in love with someone in the first place. ~ Mike Gayle, #NFDB
903:In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street. ~ Charles Simic, #NFDB
904:I wouldn't say philosophy and theology are dead. Brain science doesn't invent new philosophies but it helps remind us which of our existing philosophies are more true. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
905:My role is to remind people that everyday people can make a difference. And if we get people out there doing things to make America a better place, we can bring change. ~ Nina Turner, #NFDB
906:We must remind our politicians that we expect them to speak honestly and to be concerned about real issues, and not simply with the obtaining or retaining of power. ~ Davis McCaughey, #NFDB
907:Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him. ~ Rumi#rumi #shamstabrizi #love #lovely #live #mewlana_jalaluddin_rumi, #NFDB
908:When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents. ~ Adam Sandler, #NFDB
909:When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands. ~ Gavin DeGraw, #NFDB
910:You have no reason to be scared. I would protect you with my soul." He cups my face. His hands are warm despite the cold. "You remind me of how precious life is. ~ Allison van Diepen, #NFDB
911:As for why we’re going over the plan again, let me remind you that one good screwup will make the fate of those poor bastards look sunny in comparison to what we’ll get. ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB
912:Her red eyes remind me of what Khalil said when we were little, that his momma had turned into a dragon. He claimed that one day he’d become a knight and turn her back. ~ Angie Thomas, #NFDB
913:I try not to read the negative comments, and when I do, I let it roll off my back. I remind myself that there will always be haters as long as you are in the public eye. ~ Ryan Lochte, #NFDB
914:It's weird how when you don't hang out with someone for a while and then you do again, you miss them. It's like you forget to miss them until they show up to remind you. ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB
915:I watch him die and remind myself that kings aren't innocent in war. When you put on the crown and order troops to kill, you invite the judgement of an enemy's sword. ~ Scott Reintgen, #NFDB
916:Next time you're overwhelmed, just remind yourself that this isn't completely foreign. This isn't square one. Things are different, but they're still a little the same. ~ Daniel Price, #NFDB
917:Next time you’re overwhelmed, just remind yourself that this isn’t completely foreign. This isn’t square one. Things are different, but they’re still a little the same. ~ Daniel Price, #NFDB
918:Our deep longings remind us we have lost something vital and precious. Such yearnings are the stirring of hope. Of returning.” “Returning where?” “To this garden. ~ William Paul Young, #NFDB
919:Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my “furry little problem” in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.’ He ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
920:Think they’ll be okay?” Jack asked me. “Probably better than we’ll be.” “Comforting. Remind me to make sure that, should we have kids, you leave the nurturing parts to me. ~ Gini Koch, #NFDB
921:Young people can remind us to take chances and be angry and stop our patterns. Old people can remind us to laugh more and get focused and make friends with our patterns. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
922:I’m coming back for you, Camryn Blue Gardner, so you’d better be waiting for me, or I’ll just have to come find you and remind you why you fell crazy in love with me. ~ Nicole Williams, #NFDB
923:In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace. ~ Chinua Achebe, #NFDB
924:I wanted it back there, where I can’t see it, to remind me that …” He sighed and rubbed his jaw. “Sometimes even though you can’t see someone, they’re always with you. ~ Brenda Rothert, #NFDB
925:May I remind you that you are speaking to someone capable of smiting you with a thunderbolt?"
"Is there any point to flirting with a girl who is not capable of that? ~ Sherry Thomas,#NFDB
926:Remember, hope is something you carry with you forever … Look inside when you need hope most, and it will guide you, and remind you of what was and what is to be.” When ~ Viola Shipman, #NFDB
927:There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
928:These ballot initiatives remind us that America is the land where people are free to dream whatever they want, so long as that dream doesn't make Midwesterners feel icky! ~ Lewis Black, #NFDB
929:Did that remind anybody else of something?"
"Yes," Eve said, tapping her lower lip with a bloodred fingernail. "How much I need to shave her head while she's sleeping. ~ Rachel Caine,#NFDB
930:Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you’re trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn’t remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories? ~ Charles T Munger, #NFDB
931:Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
932:Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them. ~ Orhan Pamuk, #NFDB
933:How long till you get her?"
"Not long," she says. "Not long at all."
He sighs again. "Good."
"But dad?"
"Yeah?"
"Can you remind me where I'm going? ~ Jennifer E Smith,#NFDB
934:I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years. ~ Robert Smith, #NFDB
935:I scarcely know how to describe that room. It became, in a way, every room I had ever been in and every room I find myself in hereafter will remind me of Giovanni’s room. ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
936:I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them. ~ Jeanne DuPrau, #NFDB
937:It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation. ~ Michelle Malkin, #NFDB
938:Lionblaze interrupted him as Dovepaw’s and Ivypaw’s eyes grew even wider. “This tree is breaking its vow of silence to remind you not to give the new apprentices nightmares ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
939:Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
940:Sometimes pain can be sweet if we let it. It can remind us of all the good things. Just because something bad happened, it shouldn’t erase the sweetness that came before it. ~ Lexi Blake, #NFDB
941:To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics:
I can write.
I have the opportunity to do so.
I love what I write.
Now smile and be thankful. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,#NFDB
942:According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
943:As a young basketball player, Bill Bradley would remind himself, “When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
944:Failure hurts pretty bad. But when you got good people around you they remind you that failure is actually just a lesson. It's how not to walk so you don't fall again. ~ Pharrell Williams, #NFDB
945:I go with what I like and I generally just cling to things that are pastel and remind me of being a little kid. It's just what it is right now, but I go through phases. ~ Melanie Martinez, #NFDB
946:I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."
She raised an eyebrow.
"Sharp as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point. ~ Brandon Sanderson,#NFDB
947:It requires a deliberate mental effort to turn biology the right way up again, and remind ourselves that the replicators come first, in importance as well as in history. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
948:This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us. ~ Marc Forne Molne, #NFDB
949:You know who you remind me of? The kid cop in Lethal Weapon 3. You know, the one who says, 'it's my twenty-first birthday today', and right away you know he's dead meat? ~ Jennifer Crusie, #NFDB
950:Books are supposed to remind you that life is hard for everyone. That other people have it even worse than you. I know you know, that because you love reading as much as I do. ~ Leah Konen, #NFDB
951:Cassel, she said, you want to know how to be the most charming guy anyone's ever met? Remind them of their favorite person. Everyone's favorite person is their own damn self. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
952:How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with LOVE, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
953:I'm very grateful and appreciative, and I remind myself every day that there are thousands and thousands of actors that have the same dreams and aspirations that I have. ~ Eric Stonestreet, #NFDB
954:I would like to make something that is real in itself that does not remind anyone of any other things, and that does not have to be explained like the letter A, for instance. ~ Arthur Dove, #NFDB
955:Remind me to never let you wear red unless it’s in our bedroom,” he smirked, taking my appearance in with a confident air. “Like the dress?” “I love the woman wearing the dress, ~ R S Grey, #NFDB
956:The books are to remind us what asses and fool we are. They're Caeser's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, "Remember, Caeser, thou art mortal. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
957:We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings. ~ Olivia Wilde, #NFDB
958:Why do I always have to remind you to look to where the danger waits, Warrior. Sheesh, what would you do without me?
“Uh, not be a murderous psycho?”
Very funny. ~ H D Gordon,#NFDB
959:You know what you remind me of? The telegram Harpo Marx sent his brothers: No message. Harpo.” That made him grin. Sarah said, “You would think it was funny.” “Well? Isn’t it? ~ Anne Tyler, #NFDB
960:Amongst the friends of Allah (Awliya), the Qur'an is considered as a love letter from Allah, which inevitably is read continuously to remind them of their Beloved. ~ Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri, #NFDB
961:I felt so grateful for the heat that came out of that cab's vents, though it reached me as just slender filaments that could only remind me that one day I might be warm again. ~ Rebecca Lee, #NFDB
962:I’m going to remind you that heroes frequently die, but the morally mediocre people almost always live to see another day. Don’t do anything that’s going to piss me off. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
963:I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
964:The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, `Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
965:The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
966:There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
967:...the way he spoke was magical, but after a while even his voice began to grate and he began to remind me of the colors of the walls in the hotel rooms in which he stayed... ~ Colum McCann, #NFDB
968:When there is a fight between your heart and your head, experience has taught me that the best thing you can do is pick up your Bible and remind yourself of what God says. ~ Christine Caine, #NFDB
969:When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes. ~ Robyn Davidson, #NFDB
970:I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing. ~ Donald Miller, #NFDB
971:The fact that I get to live a life of passion where I'm doing only things that I love in this world and help people along the way. Life's good. I always remind myself of that. ~ Urijah Faber, #NFDB
972:You bear a sword and shield, remind me
of her labor, her stoning gaze. What beast
will your blade free next? What call will you loose
from another woman's throat? ~ Donika Kelly,#NFDB
973:As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
974:Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth, or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
975:...explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have
evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. ~ Carl Sagan,#NFDB
976:I constantly remind myself that resting takes confidence. Anyone can train like a mad man but to embrace rest and to allow all the hard training to come out takes mental strength. ~ Ryan Hall, #NFDB
977:Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before. ~ Matt Groening, #NFDB
978:Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them). ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
979:George’s stories remind us that we are not victims of circumstance—we have the power to react. Our actions will always determine the outcome. That makes all the difference. ~ George Kohlrieser, #NFDB
980:Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important. ~ Elle Macpherson, #NFDB
981:In poems or in speeches I say the word or two that has got to be said, adhere to the body, step with the countless common footsteps, and remind every man and woman of something. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
982:Sometimes we just need someone. It does not matter who it is. Just someone, someone to remind us of what it is like to live in a moment and feel something before we walk away. ~ Robert M Drake, #NFDB
983:The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist ~ Carl Levin, #NFDB
984:What He said He would do He always did, and the things we already see fulfilled in His Word simply remind us that what He said about the future will take place just as surely. ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB
985:Everyone I hated was always with me, even when I was alone. They had to be, for I had to remember what and why I hated in order to remind myself to stay away from them. ~ The Arbinger Institute, #NFDB
986:I don't try to stop myself from becoming too personal. I just put it all out there. If anything, I try to remind myself to be as honest as possible all the time. Why hold back? ~ Teddy Thompson, #NFDB
987:Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
988:One of the most important things is to remind yourself of where you are from and be thankful. I don't for a second take anything for granted. That's a good way to start your day. ~ Colin Morgan, #NFDB
989:Perhaps she just needed to remind herself more often how that gold was still floating above her head, it's minuscule particles visible only when pierced by a certain light. ~ Francesca Marciano, #NFDB
990:Every woman is a priestess if she loves life and can work magic on herself and those who are sacred to her. It’s time for women to remind themselves of the powers they have inside. ~ Nina George, #NFDB
991:He leaned toward me and delicately grazed my lips with his. The tease left me breathless, burning for more.
“I keep having to remind myself that I can do that,” he smirked. ~ Rebecca Donovan,#NFDB
992:In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel, #NFDB
993:Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people. ~ Brenda Ueland, #NFDB
994:One day,” said Hermione, sounding thoroughly exasperated, “you’ll read Hogwarts: A History, and perhaps that will remind you that you can’t Apparate or Disapparate inside Hogwarts. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
995:We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could. ~ Gina Barreca, #NFDB
996:As an actor, you act in order to make a living. Then, when you can make a living, you start acting because you want to do what you love to do. I need to remind myself of that a lot. ~ Ty Simpkins, #NFDB
997:During the darkest periods in recent history, of course, the most subversive things you could do is think, read if you can get the material and remind yourself that love exists. ~ Hector Elizondo, #NFDB
998:I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through. ~ Owen Hart, #NFDB
999:May I remind you that the bombs that were dropped by the B-2 plane on the Chinese embassy or at least that is what we were told were GPS bombs. And the B-2 flew in from the US. ~ Paul Virilio, #NFDB
1000:Most people think this world we live in is mundane, but you remind us that it’s magical. You wrap reality in the wonder and joy of fiction, until it infuses us and becomes true. ~ Menna van Praag, #NFDB
1001:Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic. ~ Bette Davis, #NFDB
1002:Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
1003:He stood and went to read my pin as I approached. “America, is it?” he said, a smile playing on his lips. “Yes, it is. And I know I’ve heard your name before, but could you remind me? ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
1004:I don't make the laws, I just enforce them."
"Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking. ~ Michelle Sagara West,#NFDB
1005:In the photo, he and some old girlfriend smiled - greasy faces idiotic with hope that the picture would one day remind them that for three seconds they acted happy and thought it final. ~ Sam Pink, #NFDB
1006:Is he going to be a problem?” Hadrian asked, watching the ex-commander hop into the rain, grumbling.
“Parker? No. I just needed to remind him that he’s terrified of me. ~ Michael J Sullivan,#NFDB
1007:Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
1008:Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech. ~ Susan Wojcicki, #NFDB
1009:I can’t cure anyone. I can’t guarantee they will heal. I can only tell them my story, remind them that they are not alone in their journey and offer a glimmer of hope for healing. ~ Sharon E Rainey, #NFDB
1010:(If it’s any comfort, we should remind ourselves of the purpose of voting. We don’t vote to elect great persons to office. They’re not that great. We vote to throw the bastards out.) ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
1011:I remembered these lines from a poem by e. e. cummings that will forever remind me of you and Stella: “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart) i am never without it . . . ~ Christa Allan, #NFDB
1012:No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that? Why would I want to remind myself what an asshole I was? ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
1013:The only thing going on was a war, and no one seemed to notice but Yossarian and Dunbar. And when Yossarian tried to remind people, they drew away from him and thought he was crazy. ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB
1014:The pain. The wounds scab over and you don’t always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you’ll never be the same. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
1015:The president [Barack Obama] himself has said he thought part of his job was to remind the American people that being president and commander in chief is a serious responsibility. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
1016:Time’s up,” I muttered. “Let’s do this.” Alek raised an eyebrow at me. He didn’t get the Leroy Jenkins reference, but that was okay. It was mostly for me, to remind myself who I was. ~ Annie Bellet, #NFDB
1017:When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission. ~ Janet Echelman, #NFDB
1018:Faced with a divorce or separation, faced with the need to terminate a long-standing friendship, I must remind myself that sometimes the most loving involvement is a non-involvement. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
1019:How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1020:In between training sessions, I'll often watch DVDs of King Kong, Godzilla or Frankenstein, just to keep my mind on the task in hand and remind myself of the magnitude of the challenge. ~ David Haye, #NFDB
1021:In twenty-four hours, the girl next door had managed to remind him how miserable he was in his marriage, how much fun it was to flirt, and how much trouble she could cause in his life. ~ Jewel E Ann, #NFDB
1022:It was important, she said; it was kind; it was best. Don’t cause distress, she said. Don’t remind people of a loss. “Do you understand, Cady? Silence is a protective coating over pain. ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
1023:that season when we remind each other of the judicial murder of a Jewish revolutionary two thousand years ago by distributing chocolate eggs to the children of people we dislike. ~ Kyril Bonfiglioli, #NFDB
1024:And Smoke Girl. He who was mine said, One of them must have a name from where I come from. One must remind me of me. So he named Smoke Grl Khamseen, for the wind that blows fifty days. ~ Marlon James, #NFDB
1025:A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period. ~ Ashley Judd, #NFDB
1026:He slowly lifted his head, placing his other hand on mine. “Remind me,” he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, “to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja? ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
1027:He stood and went to read my pin as I approached. “America, is it?” he said, a smile playing on his lips.
“Yes, it is. And I know I’ve heard your name before, but could you remind me? ~ Kiera Cass,#NFDB
1028:If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago. ~ Mick Jagger, #NFDB
1029:Lionblaze interrupted him as Dovepaw’s and Ivypaw’s eyes grew even wider. “This tree is breaking its vow of silence to remind you not to give the new apprentices nightmares,” he warned. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1030:Most of us unknowingly surrender our lives to the messages that most perforate our beauty. We should remind ourselves of this more often. We would be kinder to each other if we did. ~ Ian Morgan Cron, #NFDB
1031:Now there are permanent gray smudges in Scotty's vision. He says he likes them--actually, what he says is: "I consider them a visual enhancement." We think they remind him of his mom. ~ Jennifer Egan, #NFDB
1032:The best thing about making films is the time spent making them. When I see works that I've made, I always think what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time. ~ Steve McQueen, #NFDB
1033:Throughout the day remind yourself that you are moving through eternity. Be focused. Be centered. Be in the now. Know what is going on in the world. Read a newspaper once in a while. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1034:And I'm so excited to remind people and even gain new fans who find out about Dharma - a new generation who could find out about Dharma and enjoy her and all the characters on the show. ~ Jenna Elfman, #NFDB
1035:Her smile was something I couldn't describe, except to say that it seemed to be queenly in the way that queens remind you of situations grander than your own puny life could conceive. ~ Joshua Gaylord, #NFDB
1036:I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm a photographer and that this is my job. ~ Eugene Richards, #NFDB
1037:Not using that handy maxim a man is what he makes his dough at and alas how much. Sometimes it is a gentle gesture to remind people of their big time possibilities. Makes them like you. ~ J P Donleavy, #NFDB
1038:On particularly rough days when I'm sure I can't possibly endure more, I remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days has been 100%. And that’s pretty good. Unknown ~ M Weidenbenner, #NFDB
1039:Space exploration is inherently dangerous. If my focus ever wavers in the classroom or during an eight-hour simulation, I remind myself of one simple fact: space flight might kill me. ~ Chris Hadfield, #NFDB
1040:These are the things we do sometimes, she thinks. We remind ourselves of why we're in love, so that we can stay that way. It's not a permanent state, remember that, she tells herself. ~ Jami Attenberg, #NFDB
1041:What does the fish remind you of?” “Other fish.” “And what do the other fish remind you of?” “Other fish.” Major Sanderson sat back disappointedly. “Do you like fish?” “Not especially. ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB
1042:When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I'm with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you. ~ LeBron James, #NFDB
1043:destruction. The work of the Church seeks not only to remind everyone of the duty to care for nature, but at the same time “she must above all protect mankind from self-destruction”.[47] ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1044:I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical. ~ Sonia Johnson, #NFDB
1045:I'm sad because you remind me of home. Because you are beautiful and bright and dynamic and whole lot of other things I haven't seen for a long time... and won't see again anytime soon. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
1046:I remind myself of what [Bishop's] father's done. What he is still doing. But Bishop's touch is gentle, his intentions good. No matter how hard I look, I cannot find the blood on his hands. ~ Amy Engel, #NFDB
1047:I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
1048:Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything. ~ Julia Louis Dreyfus, #NFDB
1049:One day," said Hermione, sounding thoroughly exasperated, "you'll read Hogwarts, A History, and perhaps that will remind you that you can't Apparate or Disapparate inside Hogwarts. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1050:Prayers are just words.” “But they’re words that remind us that there’s something out there greater than ourselves. And they’re words that lead us to be the best versions of ourselves. ~ Kristin Harmel, #NFDB
1051:And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
1052:Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the world to be as simple as they are. ~ Tim Kreider, #NFDB
1053:He must have a lover of his own, some man or woman or animal whose absence hurt like a presence, some person that he poured himself into like a mold to remind himself of what he was. ~ Alexandra Kleeman, #NFDB
1054:In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
1055:It is not likely that the insects were attracted by any beer in the bottle because, as the authors remind us, no Australian would ever throw away a bottle that still has beer in it. ~ Menno Schilthuizen, #NFDB
1056:Men touch their horses to calm them,” she said distantly. “They caress their falcons to remind them that they are bound. Touch smacks of ownership, and I am weary of being a possession. ~ Courtney Milan, #NFDB
1057:The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will. ~ Czeslaw Milosz, #NFDB
1058:You are constantly surprising me. I have to remind myself that whatever it is you are planning, it is going to be thought through more thoroughly than anything I have ever contemplated. ~ Courtney Milan, #NFDB
1059:everlasting bonds of the women of this family. It served to remind us of why we’d flocked back to this city. I always appreciated the time set aside to remember just how much we needed each ~ A L Jackson, #NFDB
1060:For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB
1061:I want to remind all Americans that the Senate has a very important responsibility to confirm only well- qualified individuals who will faithfully interpret the law and the Constitution. ~ Chuck Grassley, #NFDB
1062:I wish that we would not fight for landscapes that remind us of who we think we are. I wish we would fight, instead, for landscapes buzzing and glowing with life in all its variousness. ~ Helen Macdonald, #NFDB
1063:nothing is as precious to us as the magnificent gift of life. Let the moon and the stars always remind you of this—that though we are tiny creatures in this universe, we are filled with life. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1064:On a shelf over the experiment table there was the inevitable skull, which the wizard put their to remind him of death, though it usually reminded him that he needed to go to the dentist. ~ John Bellairs, #NFDB
1065:The secret to life, she had said, was to find the little things, the unimportant ones that would nonetheless always remind you of the precious things they accompanied—and hold onto them. ~ Karl Schroeder, #NFDB
1066:Universe likes seriousness in serious matters; if you are not serious in serious matters, universe will remind you in a very strong way why you have to be serious in serious matters! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1067:Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death. ~ Jane Smiley, #NFDB
1068:We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
1069:We live in a world that hardens people," I remind him. "We are like callused feet. If we walked through life with smooth skin, we'd tear apart our flesh. We need the hardness to survive. ~ Karpov Kinrade, #NFDB
1070:You might point to Gone With the Wind and ask me to remind you which of its colorful cast was a canine, and I could say only that Scarlett O’Hara, while not a dog, was something of a bitch. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1071:You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It's only us who lose our way. We have names because we must. - from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1072:Anthony to James about Jeremy : "Need I remind you this is a seventeen-year-old boy we're talking about?" "Need I remind you what you were like when you were seventeen?" James countered. ~ Johanna Lindsey, #NFDB
1073:If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I'm with you, and if I find the courage to speak my truth to you one day, remind me to light a candle in thanksgiving at every altar in Rome. ~ Andr Aciman, #NFDB
1074:Old things tell a story, Mr. Gilchrist, just as the lives of people do,' Miss Iverness's dark eyes were fixed intently on him. 'They preserve the past and remind us of how far we have come. ~ Sarah E Ladd, #NFDB
1075:Perhaps the most indispensable thing we can do as
human beings, every day of our lives, is remind ourselves and others
of our complexity, fragility, finiteness, and uniqueness. ~ Ant nio R Dam sio,#NFDB
1076:Remind yourself that you're far more likely to undercharge than overcharge, my dear, because you don't yet understand your own value and you've never been taught to demand your full worth. ~ Sherry Thomas, #NFDB
1077:the next time he
points out the
hair on your legs is
growing back remind
that boy your body
is not his home
he is a guest
warn him to
never outstep
his welcome again ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
1078:God, sometimes I am tempted to think I will never have peace or calm in my home or my heart. When life gets noisy and wild, remind me of the peaceful bliss that awaits us all in heaven. Act ~ Danielle Bean, #NFDB
1079:He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. ~ Demosthenes, #NFDB
1080:I don't even understand why I have 1.7 million Twitter followers. Every day, I want to remind them and say, "Do you realize I'm an astrophysicist? Do you know what you're doing here?" ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
1081:It is entirely possible to be alone in a crowded room. Your solitude only compounded by the faces around you. The presence of others serving only to remind you of how lonely you truly are. ~ Amie Kaufman, #NFDB
1082:It means that as parents we need to daily remind ourselves that we’re called to rescue our children again and again, and we should not resent those moments when that rescue is necessary. ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
1083:I want to remind you that I love you, and that love is unlike anything I’ve ever felt before. If you feel unworthy or unwanted in any way… know that every breath you take is precious to me. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
1084:There were moments from my childhood when I remembered realizing that I was too big. I carried them around as weapons to use against myself, to remind myself there was something wrong with me. ~ Lindy West, #NFDB
1085:Wow. This place looks classy. The smell of fertilizer and rot is really in this season. Remind me, what are we doing here?” she asked looking at him with a coy smile. “Did we come for bait? ~ Dennis Sharpe, #NFDB
1086:Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
1087:Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won’t rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
1088:I remind myself that if there was anything in the air that would react with my body, it would’ve reacted with the scanner. What I really want right now is a second scanner to scan this scanner. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
1089:Lupin burst out laughing. “Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my ‘furry little problem’ in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1090:Rape humor is designed to remind women that they are still not quite equal. Just as their bodies and reproductive freedom are open to legislation and public discourse, so are their other issues. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1091:Golf is a game of integrity. And golf is a game of forgiveness. I think the high standards of golf remind people of how lucky they are, or how fortunate they are, to be able to play the game. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
1092:I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. ~ Jascha Heifetz, #NFDB
1093:put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1094:She often had to remind herself that she couldn't do everything alone. She wasn't always the best person for the job. Sometimes she got tunnel vision and forgot about what other people needed. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1095:the next time he
points out the
hair on your legs is
growing back remind
that boy your body
is not his home
he is a guest
warn him to
never outstep
his welcome
again ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
1096:These are the dilemmas for cancer patients. Who and what to believe? A particular treatment is not foolproof, or as many medical experts remind us, is not math, with a fixed and certain outcome. ~ Tom Brokaw, #NFDB
1097:Again, my mind drifts to your street! But I remind myself that that is where my heart was lost. . What utterly abandoned land this is! The desert makes me think about my house. . ~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, #NFDB
1098:Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character. ~ Adriana Trigiani, #NFDB
1099:I, who was never quite sure
about being a girl, needed another
life, another image to remind me.
And this was my worst guilt; you could not cure
nor soothe it. I made you to find me. ~ Anne Sexton,#NFDB
1100:Nothing had been okay, not for a long time. And every moment that I thought I was getting close, like the one I’d had earlier, seemed to remind the universe that I didn’t deserve that, not yet. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
1101:Wherever the gaze rests, art will draw it also elsewhere, will remind that there is always more. Alice does not stop and face her own reflection in the looking-glass: she travels through it. ~ Jane Hirshfield, #NFDB
1102:But I smell the roses not just to remind myself of how lucky I am, but also to wonder how on earth it all happened. I smell the roses to try and figure out how I came to be in the garden at all. ~ Alan Cumming, #NFDB
1103:...but that's one of the questions I've learned not to ask, because I'll get that condescending look all parents reserve for non-parents, to remind you that you're not yet a complete person. ~ Jonathan Tropper, #NFDB
1104:Fear and a secret are two different things,” I remind him, pointing out the difference in the two phrases. “Often they come together. A secret that leads to fear in one way, shape, or form. ~ Lisa Renee Jones, #NFDB
1105:He puts himself between evil creatures and small children. He protects us. He is my monster, Commander. Should any rough men come here and try to take what is ours, he will remind them of that. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
1106:I’m really trying to remain stoic and unaffected. I remind myself that I don’t like poetic language. I don’t like poetry. I don’t even like people who like poetry. But I’m not dead inside either. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
1107:I remind myself: I am the best. I have the best. And I deserve the best. This is one of my personal mantras that I tell myself every morning before auditions, character work, and performances. ~ Allison Holker, #NFDB
1108:It's easy to question yourself and ask if you're doing a good job, but there are so many different factors to landing a role. I remind myself that a lot of it is completely out of my control. ~ Bridgit Mendler, #NFDB
1109:Myths are universal and timeless stories that reflect and shape our lives – they explore our desires, our fears, our longings, and provide narratives that remind us what it means to be human. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
1110:Remind yourself of that when feelings of loneliness and despair come over you. Remember, those are just feelings. They are not real, but God’s love is so real that He created you to prove it. It ~ Nick Vujicic, #NFDB
1111:The bodies of irrational animals are bent toward the ground, whereas man was made to walk erect with his eyes on heaven, as though to remind him to keep his thoughts on things above. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1112:The laws of the jungle remind me of the laws of the street. When I came abroad, I had to learn a different set of laws. Everywhere we go there is a different set of laws. Most of them unwritten. ~ Heidi Heilig, #NFDB
1113:You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1114:A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job. ~ Marty Nemko, #NFDB
1115:Cassie looked up at him, her fingers still intermeshed with his. "Sorry," she said unsteadily. "I was just scared."
"Remind me to get you scared frequently," Nick said. He looked slightly dazed. ~ L J Smith,#NFDB
1116:I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being. ~ Matthew Tobin Anderson, #NFDB
1117:I see so much beauty in people and in the world and when I see ugliness I try to either expose it or fight but also remind myself that it's mostly just people who can't spell who say mean things. ~ Rose McGowan, #NFDB
1118:It will always hurt to be laughed at, snubbed, ignored or attacked by others. But I would remind you that the human personality grows through adversity, provided it is not crushed in the process. ~ James Dobson, #NFDB
1119:Jäger' he says and I know I'll never be able to drink Jäger again. It will remind me of this moment, of her, of joking on my own grief in front of a boy whose name I knew before he knew mine. ~ Courtney Summers, #NFDB
1120:Most people don't get to laugh, be free, dance, be surrounded by this energy. It's important to remind people to take that home. I want the world to start shifting [to] a more positive energy. ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
1121:Sometimes, someone can enter your life and remind you just how much you’ve been missing out on. Bruno was mine once, and nothing in the world has ever compared to the thrill of belonging to him. ~ Alexis Abbott, #NFDB
1122:The aim of his narrative is to remind all not to judge people without knowing their story. Even the worst of villains has a story that perhaps explains their actions, without condoning them. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB
1123:The Portuguese remind me of those ancient olive trees you come across around the country - bent out of shape by bigger forces, flawed and suffering, but robustly surviving with an unusual beauty. ~ Barry Hatton, #NFDB
1124:…the unimaginable age of the mountains and the fine mesh of living things that lay across them would remind him that he was part of this order and insignificant within it, and he would be set free. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
1125:Too easy to lose the way.
Too hard to keep from unraveling when there’s nothing to remind you of who you
are and where you should be.
Another eternity passes in the flick of an eyelash. ~ Diana Rowland,#NFDB
1126:And yet, in certain ways, the Institute did remind them of other schools: Rote memorization of lessons was discouraged but required; class participation was encouraged but rarely permitted; ~ Trenton Lee Stewart, #NFDB
1127:A short story works to remind us that if we are not sometimes baffled and amazed and undone by the world around us, rendered speechless and stunned, perhaps we are not paying close enough attention. ~ Ben Marcus, #NFDB
1128:He grudgingly admitted what she had already guessed, that he disliked the presence of servants because, she thought, a constant human presence would remind him too bitterly of his otherness [...] ~ Angela Carter, #NFDB
1129:I finished the beer and sighed. “Arrogance,” I said. “I feel stupid.” “Good,” Michael said. “It’s good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1130:In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur...us to achieve great things. ~ Jerry Spinelli, #NFDB
1131:One of the things I always try to remind myself is that everyone has scars,” she says. “A lot of them even worse than mine. The only difference is that mine are visible and most people’s aren’t. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1132:One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, even if sometimes it still doesn't turn out the way we want it to. ~ Kelly Jones, #NFDB
1133:There is an important difference between openness and naïveté. Not everyone has good intentions nor means me well. I remind myself I do not need to change these people, only recognize who they are. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
1134:When one is in the presence of our particular defiled god, as I often am, it is meet and appropriate to remind the creature that it is, in fact, defiled, and a slave, and bound to obey my commands. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
1135:You’ll have a few bruises and they’ll remind you of what happened and that’s okay. But after a while the bruises fade, and they fade for a reason—because now it’s time to get up to some shit again. ~ Trevor Noah, #NFDB
1136:I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. ~ Morgan Freeman, #NFDB
1137:It is our single friends who keep us in our marriages. They remind us that being single is sad. Dating is sad. Online dating is sad. Attending holidays and weddings is sad. Marriage, too, is sad. ~ Melissa Broder, #NFDB
1138:My scars remind me that we all have an expiration date, a shelf life. It isn't stamped on us like it is on a carton of milk or a tub of cottage cheese, but we're all terminal. Nobody lives forever. ~ Regina Brett, #NFDB
1139:One of the things I always try to remind myself is that everyone has scars,” she says. “A lot of them even worse than mine. The only difference is that mine are visible and most people’s aren’t . ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1140:Remind me why we just said goodbye?
...
Because for the life of me, I can’t think of one damn good reason.
...
What would you say if I told you I wasn’t ready to let you go just yet? ~ Penelope Ward,#NFDB
1141:Remind yourself that what other people do is not what bothers you, it’s your reaction to it. Instead of saying “They shouldn’t do that,” say, “I wonder why I bother myself with what they are doing. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
1142:The purpose of poetry is to remind us
how difficult it is to remain just one person,
for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors,
and invisible guests come in and out at will. ~ Czes aw Mi osz,#NFDB
1143:This is what we need from our parents, more than the truth about how small we are. We will have more than enough people to remind us of that, to give us dispassionate evaluations of our mediocrity. ~ Wendy Walker, #NFDB
1144:You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that. ~ Nick Rhodes, #NFDB
1145:You needn't tell a bird it's a bird
Or remind a fish of its purpose
It's only us who lose our way
We have names because we must.
– from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter ~ Maggie Stiefvater,#NFDB
1146:He curled his claw into a fist. "I'd like to shove a stake up that bastard's ass."
Adam's lip curled. "Remind me not to piss you off."
The demon raised his brow. "Trust that shit, mancy. ~ Jaye Wells,#NFDB
1147:He liked to remind us that just because there was a problem didn’t mean there was a solution. But as I liked to point out, the absence of a perfect solution didn’t mean there wasn’t a problem. ~ Timothy F Geithner, #NFDB
1148:I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
1149:I never go online on my iPhone. Sometimes I'm tempted but I remind myself and the kids - it's a tool. Use it as a tool. You're not the tool. My iPhone, 85% of the time I'm writing down ideas. ~ Matthew McConaughey, #NFDB
1150:I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to read all the books I want to read, I remind myself that the important ones find their way to me. ~ Rosanne Cash, #NFDB
1151:Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
1152:- You gave me a dead frog for my birthday!
- To remind you we all die and end up rotting underground eaten by maggots so we should enjoy our birthdays while we have them. I found it thoughtful. ~ Soman Chainani,#NFDB
1153:You'll always be beautiful to me, no matter how old you are, and you can remind me of that when you're ninety, because if I'm still around I know I'll still feel the same.'
-Forgotten, Susan Lewis ~ Susan Lewis,#NFDB
1154:Moments like that, I thought maybe there was a God, a fickle puppet-master who decided it was time to remind us that life isn't just an echo of the Big Bang - that we're here, with beating hearts. ~ Vikki Wakefield, #NFDB
1155:The world has plenty of noise, Julian, but not many voices. And because there are so few, each one matters. . . That's my argument. The simple fact that we need people who remind us of the darkness. ~ Thomas H Cook, #NFDB
1156:To be fair, I hate the N-word and avoid using it because the N-word has always been a pejorative, a word designed to remind black people of their place, a word to reinforce a perception of inferiority. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
1157:Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
1158:When we do things differently, and very often we do, I remind myself that it is rarely a matter of right and wrong. We are simply two adults who grew up in different houses far away from one another. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
1159:And here was the ghost of her childhood, diffused throughout the room, to remind her of the limited arc of existence. How quickly the story was over. Not massive and empty at all, but headlong. Ruthless. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1160:Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1161:I always try to remind myself that I am having an affair with my creativity, and I make an effort to present myself to inspiration like somebody you might actually want to have an affair with—not ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1162:In two days, we will march on the palace, and there will be no mercy for any of us. Remind yourself why you lead this army and steel your dark heart. There is more blood ahead than you could imagine. ~ Colleen Oakes, #NFDB
1163:I've left it unedited, which means you'll get to see the [brackets] I insert to remind myself to research things or fix things later. In this case, I fixed things by writing a different story. ~ Mary Robinette Kowal, #NFDB
1164:search it out. I also try to remind myself that while there is always a big-picture ambition or goal on the horizon, it’s important to savor the little moments—the ones that will never come my way again. ~ Wes Moore, #NFDB
1165:Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation. ~ Charlotte Bronte, #NFDB
1166:We've all been to those places. We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside u where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be. ~ Regina Brett, #NFDB
1167:Clear skies, cousin". Good luck, he means. There are never clear skies on Avon, no blue, no stars. But we don't give up hope, and we use those words to remind ourselves. Clear skies will come, one day. ~ Amie Kaufman, #NFDB
1168:Democracy wants to win by reason, not by arms or by any other material damage, because, look, I don't have to remind you that I am totally for peace. It is my greatest dream. It was and will remain so. ~ Shimon Peres, #NFDB
1169:He’d mistaken loneliness for independence, and had become so good at closing himself off from the world that it took an e-mail from Ellie to remind him what it was like to have a real conversation. ~ Jennifer E Smith, #NFDB
1170:Our response to cruelty, suffering, and sorrow is to remind the world of the face of beauty, which can best restore a man's tranquility, cleanse his hear of evil, and lead him to the path of truth ~ Anita Amirrezvani, #NFDB
1171:Stars also symbolize the cycle of life, solitude and gravity. They glow in the dark energy that’s the majority of space, and remind us that even in the pitch black, there’s always something that can shine. ~ L J Shen, #NFDB
1172:The next person who says “I’m sorry” is going to get punched in the nose. Because “I’m sorry” doesn’t do a damn thing except remind me that this can’t be fixed. This is my world now. And I don’t want it. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
1173:The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #NFDB
1174:This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1175:We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1176:When the stormtroopers parted, Hera saw Gord crawling back toward Moonglow’s gate. She blinked away a tear of anger. Yes, she needed to see these things, to remind her what she was fighting for. ~ John Jackson Miller, #NFDB
1177:After working so long on something like this, it's great to go out and meet people and see the reactions and remind yourself that, oh, yeah,, I wasn't just working in a cave by myself for no reason... ~ Don Hertzfeldt, #NFDB
1178:February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch, #NFDB
1179:I do not know what the future holds. I do not wish to sound negative, but I wish to remind you of the warnings of scripture and the teachings of the prophets which we have had constantly before us. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
1180:Keep something in front of you Studies tell us that we move toward what we consistently see. You should keep something in front of you, even if it’s symbolic, to remind you of what you are believing for. ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
1181:The feeling of joy came up in me again the way the lyric of a song might remind a man on the edge of insanity that soon he will be insane again and there is a world there more interesting than his own. ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
1182:Tobin turned to Angie. "I'm such an idiot. Why didn't you remind me?"
She smiled drowsily. "That you're an idiot? Okay: you're an idiot."
"Oh that's great, thanks," he said. She giggled. ~ Lauren Myracle,#NFDB
1183:To bring myself back to a perspective of all that I am in Christ—not according to the world. I need it to remind myself that the world doesn’t define me. I am defined by my relationship with Jesus Christ. ~ Tony Dungy, #NFDB
1184:A beautiful woman
taught me about
establishing boundaries.
Today, I hope I am that
beautiful woman to you.
I wish to remind you to set limitations you refuse for anyone to cross. ~ Sahndra Fon Dufe,#NFDB
1185:I’ll leave a note to the rector of the cathedral and remind him that a woman gave him birth. Something for him to think about the next time he gives one of his sermons. I’m writing all this down. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
1186:I’m sorry, you just remind me of someone. (Rose) Old boyfriend? (Gallagher) No, my great-grandfather. (Rose) That’s not particularly flattering. I thought I looked rather good for my age. (Gallagher) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1187:I've started a project called Planet Art. The purpose will be to remind people where I really believe we came from, which was a creative planet, and that everybody can be autonomous through their art. ~ Meredith Brooks, #NFDB
1188:Remember my words, Mileva, when you withdraw into the deadening cycle of home. You and I are not so different except in the choices we’ve made. And remind yourself that a new choice is always possible. ~ Marie Benedict, #NFDB
1189:What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ~ Gertrude Jekyll, #NFDB
1190:You look pretty, as always," he said.
Azalea grinned, deciding not to remind him that the last times he had seen her, she had been soaked, frozen, unconscious, and a torn mess of the undead. ~ Heather Dixon Wallwork,#NFDB
1191:And I’m going to make you fall in love with me all over again. Every morning and every night. In every city and at the edge of every ocean. I’ll remind you why you’re mine and why I’ve always been yours. ~ Meredith Wild, #NFDB
1192:Colt knew he didn’t have to remind Sully but he did it all the same. “He fucked his wife pretending he was me and pretending she was February.” “I could see that’d make you impatient for us to find him. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
1193:I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1194:I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into. ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
1195:The sheer animal force of temptation ought to remind us of something: the universe is demon haunted. It also ought to remind us there’s only one among us who has ever wrestled the demons and prevailed. ~ Russell D Moore, #NFDB
1196:Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we’re related, for better or worse…and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1197:His basic message is meant to put steel in their backbone and to encourage them to run the race and seek the prize of Heaven. He comes to remind them that they have an enemy who seeks to destroy them.
4. ~ John Bunyan,#NFDB
1198:His friend turned to him. “Hey, she’s the one who acted like we were at a formal party. Far be it from me to remind her there’s no need to stand on ceremony since we’re floating in the middle of the ocean. ~ Susan Stoker, #NFDB
1199:I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1200:Life is a spiritual dance and that our unseen partner has steps to teach us if we will allow ourselves to be led. The next time you are restless, remind yourself it is the universe asking 'Shall we dance? ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
1201:Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won't be. ~ Laura Dave, #NFDB
1202:Remember this? You gave it to me for ensuring your trigger finger got reattached to your hand. You said it would remind me of that spark of decency inside me. I'm trying to do something decent now, Captain. ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
1203:the good people weren’t put here to keep evil in check. Evil was put here to remind us that there’s a reason we fight. It’s to protect what we should value most: Life. Life itself is the greatest treasure. ~ Sarah Noffke, #NFDB
1204:The sands in the hourglass have fallen without mercy throughout my life, but I try to remind myself of the blessed years that we shared—especially now, when I am drowning in riptides of sorrow and loss. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1205:The sting of not having or not having enough bores a pain black hole that sucks all the other life's injuries into one stinging gap that you don't need a scientist to remind you may be bottomless ~ Stephanie Powell Watts, #NFDB
1206:Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment. ~ Madeleine M Kunin, #NFDB
1207:And i want to remind you that i love you, and that love is unlike anything i've ever felt before. If she makes you feel unworthy or unwanted in any way... know that every breath you take is precious to me. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
1208:His eyesight was possessed by the colours of trauma, cracking and bubbling like an old Super Eight film to remind him of his near-death drowning some two months ago in that very moment when he needed to act. ~ Luke Taylor, #NFDB
1209:If there was an epidemic, that definitely would make people accept vaccines. I wouldn't hope for that, of course, but if you wanted people to love vaccines, an epidemic would remind them how magical they are. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1210:I like old bookstores, the smell of coffee brewing, rainy day naps, farmhouse porches, and sunsets. I like the sweet, simple things that remind me that life doesn’t have to be complicated to be beautiful. ~ Brooke Hampton, #NFDB
1211:Long live diversity. We need outliers, free thinkers, freaks, non-conformists, mutations, and exceptions to constantly remind us that there are alternative ways of doing, living, and being in the world. ~ Daniel L Everett, #NFDB
1212:So you won't help me." She didn't bother to hide her anger. Anger felt a lot better than guilt or shame.
"I am helping you."
"Are you? Remind me to thank you later." She started toward the door. ~ Leah Cypess,#NFDB
1213:You know, before it used to remind me of this tiny bug-eyed Chihuahua, all shaky, fifty percent fear and fifty percent hatred. But now it's more like a well-fed lion. So what's gonna happen when it's hungry again? ~ D Rus, #NFDB
1214:I appreciate it everyday. I'm like, 'I can't believe this is happening to me.' I'm so thankful. I feel really lucky and really blessed. I remind myself all the time, because it can go as quickly as it came. ~ Avril Lavigne, #NFDB
1215:I'm of the opinion that it is always a kind and appropriate decision to get in touch with someone who's lost a loved one to remind them that you're thinking of them and have fond memories of the deceased. ~ Mallory Ortberg, #NFDB
1216:Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
1217:One is so apt nowadays to regard even one’s own motives and actions during the War with a contemptuous cynicism that it is as well to remind oneself of emotions which were profoundly and sincerely felt. ~ Compton Mackenzie, #NFDB
1218:Well-being is not the goal; it is the starting point. this is yet another realization that could change everything dramatically. it might be a concept you'd like to remind yourself of every now and then. ~ Frederick Dodson, #NFDB
1219:We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what we did badly, it reminds us what we know we could do better. ~ Kathryn Schulz, #NFDB
1220:Words in books can remind us of truth, and help awaken us to it. But in themselves, words are just paint and writers are just painters . . . Let us not overestimate the power of any form of literature. ~ David James Duncan, #NFDB
1221:You are here to remind people that it is OK to be whole. It is OK to shine your light. OK to be unapologetically you. In fact, it’s more than OK, it’s necessary in order to thrive. But you must go first. ~ Rebecca Campbell, #NFDB
1222:You touch everyone, Emily. You touch a father's heart. A stranger's loyalty, and the soul I never knew I
had. You touch it, and you remind us of all the innocence we've lost in the world."
- Kell Krieger ~ Lora Leigh,#NFDB
1223:I remember to breathe throughout the day. I remind myself that I can choose peace, no matter what is going on around me. Whenever I desire, I can retreat to that quiet place within simply by closing my eyes. ~ Doreen Virtue, #NFDB
1224:Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1225:Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live there...but what we really have to remind ourselves is that decision is the ultimate power. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
1226:People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody - running back, quarterback, wide receiver - make the plays that Vince Young made today. ~ Dan Fouts, #NFDB
1227:Sam said he doesn’t have time for a boyfriend, much less Knight Delicious Face.”
“Remind me why you call him that?” Pete asked.
“Uh, pretty simple, Pete,” I said. “He’s a knight. And his face is delicious. ~ T J Klune,#NFDB
1228:They have the idea that non-commutative algebra should remind one of commutative algebra, but the former is more sophisticated. I believe that non-commutative algebra is just as simple, but it is different. ~ Israel Gelfand, #NFDB
1229:This was never making love before..not before you.I knew how different it was going to be with you the first time we kissed."
"You knew that...just from a kiss?"
"I'll have to remind you about the kiss. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1230:We do not pray to tell God what he does not know, nor to remind him of things he has forgotten. He already cares for the things we pray about... He has simply been waiting for us to care about them with him. ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
1231:Andrew: Uh, do I need to remind you about the sexual epiphany you had last night?
Sadie: Is that what you're calling it?
Andrew: I figured that was better than an orgasmic oracle from the penis prophecy. ~ Meghan Quinn,#NFDB
1232:I lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn’t last forever. That there will be another day and after that, yet another day. One of those days, I’ll get up and eat breakfast and feel okay. ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
1233:I like the way corduroys feel. I like the sort of jean aspect of corduroys, but also the texture of them. They probably remind me of my childhood, too, I think. I wore cords, and my dad had a corduroy jacket. ~ Noah Baumbach, #NFDB
1234:Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
1235:My mother tells me I do not chew my food enough; she says I am making it harder for my body to get the essential nutrients it needs. If she were here, I would remind her that I am eating a blueberry Pop-Tart. ~ Joe Dunthorne, #NFDB
1236:The comic convention itself tends to come second to the giant announcements in Hall H and the movies and the TV. So I think it's always good to remind people that there is a wonderful comic convention going on. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1237:There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it? ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
1238:We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds,... for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
1239:after five minutes of getting a tongue lashing from her I had to cut Marisa off and remind her who was paying her salary and she was starting to hurt my feelings. “You don’t have any feelings,” Marisa said. ~ Armand Rosamilia, #NFDB
1240:Earth Day was created because we were doing a lot of drugs, more drugs than you could ever f@*! imagine. And so we came up with Earth Day, so we'd have one day that would remind us what planet we were living on. ~ Lewis Black, #NFDB
1241:Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1242:I only want to remind you what weak creatures human beings are. Even people who seem to have wills of steel have serious weaknesses! At those moments of weakness, will power breaks into a thousand pieces. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1243:It was not the privileged and the fortunate who took in the Jews in France. It was the marginal and the damaged, which should remind us that there are real limits to what evil and misfortune can accomplish. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1244:I want to remind you right quick what this country has been through, and the challenges this economy had faced over the last three years. First, we went through a recession. That means we were going backwards. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
1245:May God remind us daily—no matter what kind of obstacles we face—that we are loved and empowered by the One who brought the universe into existence with the mere sound of His voice. Nothing is impossible for Him. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1246:Artifacts are alive. Each has a voice. They remind us what it means to be human - that it is our nature to survive, to create works of beauty to be resourceful, to be attentive to the world we live in. ~ Terry Tempest Williams, #NFDB
1247:Because you’re youthful and fun, and yet level-headed and practical. You are an optimist. If anything, you remind me that I’m still young, that my life isn’t over. And I trust you. You feel like a beginning to me. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
1248:Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind. ~ Jonathan Carroll, #NFDB
1249:it is the very nature of the humanities, and in particular the study of literature, to help remind thoughtful people of the ambiguities and dangers of intemperate denunciations and the rhetoric of polarization. ~ Gregory Wolfe, #NFDB
1250:One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that. ~ Ira Glass, #NFDB
1251:Someone else has to be disseminating it. (Mark) Dis-a what? (Nick) Disseminating. It means distributing it. (Mark) Then why didn’t you say that? (Nick) Remind me to get him a word-of-the-day calendar. (Mark) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1252:We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story. ~ Shauna Niequist, #NFDB
1253:When it seems as if God is far away, remind yourself that He is near. Nearness is not a matter of geography. God is everywhere. Nearness is likeness. The more we become like the Lord, the nearer He is to us. ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB
1254:Artifacts are alive. Each has a voice. They remind us what it means to be human - that it is our nature to survive, to create works of beauty, to be resourceful, to be attentive to the world we live in. ~ Terry Tempest Williams, #NFDB
1255:Definition of bestie: person who loves nothing more than to watch you make a complete fool of yourself and then remind you of it at every opportunity for the rest of your life what a fool you made of yourself. ~ Kay Springsteen, #NFDB
1256:Do my words stir, if not your memory, then your heart? But, perhaps it doesn't matter what they say, because I know you're still in my heart, somewhere. I will find a way, my love. To remind you. To restore you. ~ Oliver Bowden, #NFDB
1257:I’m sorry, you just remind me of someone. (Rose)
Old boyfriend? (Gallagher)
No, my great-grandfather. (Rose)
That’s not particularly flattering. I thought I looked rather good for my age. (Gallagher) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1258:Marshall Shafter...kept pasted in his desk drawer a piece of paper he looked at from time to time to remind himself of something. It said, "A fool can put on his own clothes better than wise man can do it for him. ~ Jane Jacobs, #NFDB
1259:Now I don't know why he's denying them habeas corpus. I can only assume the guys they got detained over there did something really unforgivable. Like remind Obama he was once a professor of Constitutional Law. ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
1260:Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures. ~ Anthony Bourdain, #NFDB
1261:Sometimes I have to remind even him that three feet north of this vagina is a brain. Still, even an American man don't like when a woman's too smart, especially a Third World woman whom it is his duty to educate. ~ Marlon James, #NFDB
1262:Tom watches Isabel, waits for her to return his glance, longs for her to give him one of the old smiles that used to remind him of Janus Light - a fixed, reliable point in the world, which meant he was never lost. ~ M L Stedman, #NFDB
1263:A man in a green truck lays on his horn to my left, as if noise will magically part the congested freeway. I hold back the urge to roll down my window and remind him that he’s not Moses and magic does not exist. ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
1264:And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1265:But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world. ~ Sandra Cisneros, #NFDB
1266:I do keep him at the back of my mind for those times I get me hopes raised about something. So then I can slap myself into reality and remind myself of what happens when you let someone into your sacred space. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1267:I love the moments that absolutely dwarf you. That show you where you fit and how small you are. That remind you that we are all specks of dust caught up in a tornado and we never even know we are spinning. ~ Tyler Knott Gregson, #NFDB
1268:It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1269:It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1270:Sometimes you have to get close to the edge to remind yourself what life's about. It's not just about rules or what's on TV tonight. It's about taking a second to look up and admire the universe. - Katarina Kozlov ~ Dannika Dark, #NFDB
1271:Strong-willed, intelligent, sharp-tongued, doesn’t suffer fools gladly . . . remind you of anyone?”
“Yes. Gordon.”
“Interesting,” said the man. “Because those are the exact same words he used to describe you. ~ Derek Landy,#NFDB
1272:What I'll think is that you are clearly, maddeningly not me. It will remind me, again, that you won't be a clone of me; you can be wonderful, a daily delight, but you won't be someone I could have created by myself. ~ Ted Chiang, #NFDB
1273:Food is the thing that unites us all, that brings us back together. Food is the thing we can provide when there is nothing else we can do. That’s why we serve it at funerals. To remind us that Life always goes on. ~ Joanne Harris, #NFDB
1274:If we doubt that the foundation for inner work is compassion for self and self-honoring behavior, we need only remind ourselves that the opposite approach, feeling guilty or judging ourselves has never really worked. ~ John Earle, #NFDB
1275:I have to remind myself that when you exercise, there is a natural calm that comes from knowing that you did something with your body that day. Actually going and working out makes everything else easier and better. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
1276:I need abandon Force me to submit Hurt me Enough to remind me I'm still living Really, truly, living and not just breathing Take me And leave me bare Touch me where no one has before I'm a slave and I need a master ~ Kol Anderson, #NFDB
1277:I remind myself of this when I cannot get any work done: to live as if I am dying, because the truth is we are all terminal on this bus. To live as if we are dying gives us a chance to experience some real presence. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1278:I remind myself that not everything is a sign, that some things simply are what they appear to be and should not be analyzed, deconstructed, or forced to bear the burden of metaphor, symbol, omen, or portent. ~ Diane Schoemperlen, #NFDB
1279:Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. ~ Sarah Kay, #NFDB
1280:...then Bony Lizzie walked right past me, knelt by General Stanton, and cut off his thumb bones. I had to remind myself that his cries of pain were just the after-effects of his body since his soul was long gone. ~ Joseph Delaney, #NFDB
1281:you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it’s not a mistake to go on living. It’s better than any medicine. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1282:For those who challenge the great dangers fearlessly, let us remind this realistic probability: Fear can save your life and courage may kill you; thus sometimes fear is a reasonable path to continue your path! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1283:If ever there was a rose as beautiful as you, I’d plant it in my garden for when my days were blue. And I’d sit there and watch it, all the days through. Because that rose in my garden—well, it would remind me of you. ~ J S Cooper, #NFDB
1284:I remind myself that just about every adult human being back then had a brain weighing about three kilograms! There was no end to the evil schemes that a thought machine that oversized couldn’t imagine and execute. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1285:It doesn't get better," I said. "The pain. The wounds scab over and you don't always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you'll never be the same. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
1286:Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after we've had a fight. I'd have loved to rebut him sooner, but it takes awhile to look these things up. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
1287:There isn't one single thing that will end unwinding. It will take a hodgepodge of random events that come together in just the right way and at just the right time to remind society it's got a conscience. -Sonia ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
1288:The sting of not having or not having enough bores a pain black hole that sucks all the other of life’s injuries into one sharp stinging gap that you don’t need a scientist to remind you may be bottomless. ~ Stephanie Powell Watts, #NFDB
1289:Traditional Botswana men like ladies who are more traditionally shaped. You and I, Mma. We remind men of how things used to be in Botswana before these modern-shaped ladies started to get men all confused. ~ Alexander McCall Smith, #NFDB
1290:What I’ll think is that you are clearly, maddeningly not me. It will remind me, again, that you won’t be a clone of me; you can be wonderful, a daily delight, but you won’t be someone I could have created by myself. — ~ Ted Chiang, #NFDB
1291:Ernest Ransom: These are not the best if times...as your editorials remind us
A.A. Hayes : Why not get a Democrat back in there?
Ernest Ransom: These are not the worst of times eithers
Dingley Falls ~ Michael Malone,#NFDB
1292:He’s human,” I remind her. “He’s not perfect. No one is.” Her lips twitch. “Wise words from Loren Hale. You must have plagiarized a fortune cookie.” I let out a weak laugh, actually smiling at that one. She’s good. ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
1293:If I'm signing autographs and I see one hundred people in a line I've got to remind myself, "That person is one one-hundredth of my day, but to them I'm their day." You know what I mean? Unless they meet J.Lo later on. ~ Clay Aiken, #NFDB
1294:If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of your dereliction....Pound for pound, fantasy makes a tougher opponent for the creative person. ~ Richard Matheson, #NFDB
1295:I take picture because i like to look at the pictures I take.
It seems to me that when people take a picture of something, they instantly forget about it.
They can look at the picture and remind themselves. ~ Aleksandar Hemon,#NFDB
1296:"Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and ~ Dan Gillmor, #NFDB
1297:Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need. ~ Frances Moore Lappe, #NFDB
1298:Neighbors would pass, and when they honked I'd remember that I was in my Speedo. Then I'd wrap my towel like a skirt around my waist and remind my sisters that this was not girlish but Egyptian, thank you very much. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
1299:Should the urge to find a fixed single objective truth grip you, remind yourself: Within infinite myths lies an eternal truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred You and I, only two. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB
1300:We only see a little bit of our stories at a time, and the hard parts remind us too harshly that we’re fragile and flawed. But it isn’t all hard. Your story isn’t all hard parts. Some of it is incredibly beautiful. ~ Susan Meissner, #NFDB
1301:We ought to remind ourselves daily, repeat it like a litany, that in our being lies concealed the whole gamut of existence... Above all, we should cease postponing the act of becoming what in fact and essence we are. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1302:You eat donuts before you work out?” I queried. “Not every time, but do it occasionally to remind myself why I’m workin’ out,” he responded. This was absurd but I had to admit, it also made an absurd kind of sense. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
1303:Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
1304:Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor, #NFDB
1305:Now, there are things I like just fine about church, and I don’t just mean making money. The notion of getting together as a community to remind ourselves why we shouldn’t behave like animals is a fucking great idea. ~ Nick Offerman, #NFDB
1306:You had another tattoo done? What does it say?"
"Alex. It says, Alex. I guess I just needed something to remind me you were real, because after you left, there was nothing ... nothing to say you'd ever been here. ~ Samantha Towle,#NFDB
1307:a dream world, a world of magic and ritual, yet there are images there of the burning cars and radar systems, which remind you there is a price to be paid in order to gain this dream in the face of a world of violence. ~ Derek Jarman, #NFDB
1308:But really, all memories are like paintings: They can be incredibly vivid and lifelike. But in the end, they both just remind us that we only get to live any particular moment once, even if we remember it forever. ~ Gwendolyn Heasley, #NFDB
1309:Even though most people are good, they can be talked into doing bad things by one or two jerks like that Budget man (...) People sometimes need someone who can stand up and remind them that they are good people. ~ Christopher Scotton, #NFDB
1310:It’s for Carson. (Margery)
And I repeat what I said. Just what I need, a bunch of drunk fucks working on me. Remind me not to do anything stupid tonight. Oh wait, I’m here. Too late for that warning, huh? (Fury) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1311:Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
1312:May we all be human: beautiful, stupid, temporal, endless.
And as the sun sets, I place my hand upon my heart, feel that it is still beating, and remind myself: "Past performance is not a predictor of future results. ~ Joseph Fink,#NFDB
1313:I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later. ~ Esmeralda Santiago, #NFDB
1314:My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that I have the people around me that I do, and they remind me each day of who I am and what I stand for. ~ Alyson Stoner, #NFDB
1315:Practice being gentle, respectful and loving toward the life force in all things. Remind yourself that your efforts do make a difference, even if you think they are miniscule in comparison to the magnitude of the problem. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
1316:Remember always, he said, that nothing is as precious to us as the magnificent gift of life. Let the moon and the stars always remind you of this-that though we are tiny creatures in this universe, we are filled with life. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1317:The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable ~ Vince Lombardi, #NFDB
1318:To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1319:Wolf Winter,’ she said, her voice small. ‘I wanted to ask about it. You know, what it is.’
He was silent for a long time. ‘It's the kind of winter that will remind us we are mortal,’ he said. ‘Mortal and alone. ~ Cecilia Ekb ck,#NFDB
1320:You hardly know me. Why do you want me to come with you?"
"Who knows? Perhaps you remind me just a bit of—"
"Someone you used to know?" Alec interjected skeptically.
"Someone I used to be. ~ Lynn Flewelling,#NFDB
1321:Do not be afraid to experience your emotions; they are the path to your soul. Emotions erupt to remind us we are alive, that we are human. And to let us know we are growing. Trust yourself enough to feel what you feel. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
1322:Gifts need not be expensive; after all, "it's the thuoght that counts." But I remind you, it is not the thought left in your head that counts; it is the gift that came out of the thought that communicates emotional love. ~ Gary Chapman, #NFDB
1323:In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for the short time that your individual life joins the big stream of Life, cut some decent steps, for God’s sake. ~ Tom Piazza, #NFDB
1324:Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone. Ironically, ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1325:Nature is a big part of my weekend. Whenever possible, I take Friday and Monday off and spend four days outdoors. We should remind ourselves that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us. ~ Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa, #NFDB
1326:Sweet Jesus, help me to replace the fearful conversation I have inside my head with constant prayer. Whenever I fall into my old habit of worrying interiorly, nudge me. Remind me to put it all in your hands instead. Act ~ Danielle Bean, #NFDB
1327:That guy is a fucking monster.” Dutch smiled. “Have you met me?” Pressing their foreheads together, he brushed his lips over Patel’s. “Should I reintroduce myself? Shall I remind you just who you’re laying with at night? ~ Avril Ashton, #NFDB
1328:But really Legrandin had no need to remind people so often that he belonged to another planet when all his uncontrollable impulses of anger or affability were governed by the desire to occupy a good position on this one. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
1329:Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1330:If you are discouraged and have forgotten your purpose in life, breathe. It will remind you about how precious life is, and that each breath in this life is a gift you need to appreciate. Make the most of this gift. ~ Frank Ra Exstatica, #NFDB
1331:Remember always,” he said, “that nothing is as precious to us as the magnificent gift of life. Let the moon and the stars always remind you of this—that though we are tiny creatures in this universe, we are filled with life. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1332:Some guy.” He’s lying. It was definitely full of me. He tries to hook our fingers, but I pull back slightly, teasingly. He glares. “I’m just some guy,” I remind him. “No,” Maximoff says, firm and final. “You’re the guy. ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
1333:The only really frightening thing about Cinnamon Hill belongs in the realm of the living and serves to remind me that some of them-just a few of them, a tiny minority-are much more dangerous than all the dead put together. ~ Johnny Cash, #NFDB
1334:We all think that an exception is going to be made in our case and were going to live forever. Being a human is actually arriving at the understanding that thats not going to be. Story is there to remind us that its just OK. ~ Ken Burns, #NFDB
1335:He didn’t do any of those things any more. Experience had beaten all that right out of him. But he still thought about doing them, as if to remind himself how big a gap there was between where he was and where he ought to be. ~ M R Carey, #NFDB
1336:I actually don't feel the years passing, although the younger players make sure to remind me of my age. If there's a clip of Bobby Charlton playing or a game's in black and white they'll ask: Were you playing in that Giggsy? ~ Ryan Giggs, #NFDB
1337:If you were to look at an old 'Betty Boop' cartoon or an 'Out of the Ink Well' animation, there are many things about 'Adventure Time' that really remind you of that, even though it doesn't look like any of those cartoons. ~ Fred Seibert, #NFDB
1338:she gathered up a few thoughts of the lovelier parts of the afternoon and stowed them away in the back of her mind, where they might remind her at some future date that lovely afternoons do not survive the chill of dusk. ~ Helen Simonson, #NFDB
1339:Sometimes it’s necessary to shame the city’s business class, the columnist later remarked, to remind them that a city like San Francisco is more than just a real estate opportunity—it’s “a precious, special, fragile place. ~ David Talbot, #NFDB
1340:Spiritual seekers let their light shine so that others may see; not only to give service by example, but also to constantly remind themselves that spirituality is most gloriously embodied in our actions, our habits of being. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
1341:You are a spitfire of a woman, do you know that? You remind me of a horse that hasn't been broken yet. All skittish and full of wild energy."
"Are you for real?" Her jaw fell open. "Did you just compare me to a horse? ~ Sara Humphreys,#NFDB
1342:He did not remember when he began to regard the heap of books on his desk with boredom and dread, or when he grew angry at writers for writing them. He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else. ~ Tobias Wolff, #NFDB
1343:I like when he tells me that he likes the way I feel because it goes against what I've heard my entire life and I wish I could put his words in my pocket just to touch them once in a while and remind myself that they exist. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
1344:I wanted him to know that I saw him, a guy who, even with a tear-streaked face, seemed to have two tiny smiles framing his eyes like parentheses, a guy on the ground pantomiming his death to remind the world he was alive. ~ Jason Reynolds, #NFDB
1345:Perhaps I had better explain,” Mrs. Wiggins interrupted. “As Charles says, it’s those rats again, Simon and his gang.” And she quickly outlined the situation. “And now,” she said, “I want to remind you that once, several ~ Walter R Brooks, #NFDB
1346:Remind me to show you the latest e-mail from Courtney," he said now, kicking at a rock on the sidewalk. "You won't believe how many different incorrect ways she spelled hors d'oeuvres within the span of a single paragraph. ~ Aimee Agresti, #NFDB
1347:Someone else has to be disseminating it. (Mark)
Dis-a what? (Nick)
Disseminating. It means distributing it. (Mark)
Then why didn’t you say that? (Nick)
Remind me to get him a word-of-the-day calendar. (Mark) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1348:Tell me to stop and I will. Tell me you don't want me to pull your tights down and fuck you up against this wall. Remind me of what a terrible person I am. Tell me I'm a sick bastard and you want me out of your life forever. ~ C J Roberts, #NFDB
1349:The next time someone pesters you with unneeded advice, gently remind him of the fate of the monk whom Ivan the Terrible put to death for delivering uninvited (and moralizing) advice. It works as a short-term cure. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1350:There was no need to remind Roosevelt who controlled the senate. “I persistently refused to lose my temper,” he recalled. “I merely explained good-humoredly that I had made up my mind.” Though he steadfastly refused ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin, #NFDB
1351:We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects. ~ Philip Neri, #NFDB
1352:Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been…”
“Eight days,” Soren supplied. “Eight days since my last confession. Let’s see… where to start?”
“Pace yourself, Eleanor. If you forget something, I will remind you. ~ Tiffany Reisz,#NFDB
1353:But the tour did remind me that my life had been bigger than just that one moment. One girl. One set of words on paper. That I had gone through other things before-good and terrible, funny and awful-and I had survived. ~ Kimberly McCreight, #NFDB
1354:Hold him. Because if Jericho dies, I’m going to tear his heart out of his chest and feed it to him. (Delphine)
Given the ass-whipping you just gave him, I’m sure you will. Remind me to –never- upset that woman. (Zeth) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1355:I had come with truth and human kindness in my heart and that I was leaving it on his sheets now to remind him how he’d said no to a young man’s plea for fellowship. Say no to that and they should have you in hell feet first. ~ Andr Aciman, #NFDB
1356:I say, “Yes, Devil, sin is terrible—but I remind you that I got it from you! And I remind you, Devil, that everything good—forgiveness and cleansing and blessing—everything that is good I have freely received from Jesus Christ! ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1357:I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that is commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops to make sure that they're well paid, well trained, well equipped. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
1358:My hope is that the Pope Francis visit to Cuba will remind all the Cuban citizens that they possess dignity and fundamental rights that come from God and that the Castro regime has no claim on changing what is 100% God-given. ~ Marco Rubio, #NFDB
1359:Now when those dark times happen, I curl into a ball on my cot and make a cape with my blanket. I remind myself I am not dust, but I should be. I tell myself I am made of the same cells as life itself even if I am a mistake. ~ Rene Denfeld, #NFDB
1360:So the beloved children's book author took a deep breath, opened his own book to the very first page, and began reading, hoping with all his heart that the story would remind him where his sister went all those years ago.... ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
1361:Yantras are specific designs that have a great deal of power in them, as do mantras, which are words of power. Yantras are designs of power that tap into other levels of attention. They remind us of things in other worlds. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1362:Because America isn't perfect, it must be evil. Because Marxist regimes make claims of perfection, they must be good. ... Remind me again, was it John Ashcroft or Fidel Castro who put H.I.V. sufferers in concentration camps? ~ Ron Rosenbaum, #NFDB
1363:He would tell himself he had momentarily gone mad and forgotten why he existed. Do not forget again and you will never feel so lost again, he would remind himself, confident in his memory's ability to be permanently fixed. ~ Arthur Phillips, #NFDB
1364:Instead, I cut him. Not deep, but there was enough of a sting in the wound to remind him of what I'd done to the dwarven mobsters in the parking lot - and that I wasn't just some chick with a knife who looked good in black. ~ Jennifer Estep, #NFDB
1365:I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
1366:Just wanted to remind you that we're out of milk again. And hot sauce."
"Why are those two always out at the same time? Because those do not go together."
"I suspect Shane. He'd put hot sauce in anything," Michael said. ~ Rachel Caine,#NFDB
1367:Leukemia is cancer of the white blood cells—cancer in one of its most explosive, violent incarnations. As one nurse on the wards often liked to remind her patients, with this disease “even a paper cut is an emergency. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee, #NFDB
1368:Miss me?" he asks.
"It hasn't been that long," I remind him.
"I'm sure it's felt like a lifetime," he says, running his eyes down me. "Adelice, you are looking... malnourished."
"Cormac, you're looking overdressed. ~ Gennifer Albin,#NFDB
1369:The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror. ~ Mark Foley, #NFDB
1370:Whenever I fixate on techniques, or sink into guilt over my inadequate prayers, or turn away in disappointment when a prayer goes unanswered, I remind myself that prayer means keeping company with God who is already present. ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
1371:I'm trying to let a poem do what a poem does:
Make things simpler
We don't need poems to make things more complicated
We have each other for that
We need poems to remind ourselves of the things that really matter ~ Colleen Hoover,#NFDB
1372:I pulled word after word from my core, like silk for a spider’s web, spinning a make-believe life. That’s why we read fiction, isn’t it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we’re not the only ones?” - Minka (The Storyteller) ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1373:Never hurts to be prepared...."
"It just seems like overkill when you already have a sword and I have superpowerful magic at my disposal."
"'Superpowerful'? .... Let me remind you of two words, Mercer: Bad. Dog. ~ Rachel Hawkins,#NFDB
1374:One such emotion that conflicts with dread-risk fear is parental concern. The professor might remind his wife that by making them drive long distances she puts the lives of her children—not just that of her husband—at risk. ~ Gerd Gigerenzer, #NFDB
1375:Remind me again,” I whispered “why you’re a virgin?” “Never wanted anyone enough,” he panted. “And now?” I pressed, punctuating the question by sucking gently on his skin beneath Zach’s ear. “In my dreams we do it every night. ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
1376:The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally sheet for medical science must carry a column for debit as well as credit. ~ Deborah Butterfield, #NFDB
1377:They may signify wealth, but they can actually mean so much more-like committment, family, and love. And there's nothing like a perfect diamond to remind you that you'll never be perfect - the truth is, all you can do is try. ~ Nicole Richie, #NFDB
1378:A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received. —ALBERT EINSTEIN ~ Howard Schultz, #NFDB
1379:Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1380:Often people poopoo melody as if it's a cheap trick to make people like things, but in my experience it's the hardest part of the tune, to find something that doesn't immediately remind you of something that's happened before. ~ Jarvis Cocker, #NFDB
1381:Our giants keep taunting us, so we need to hold God at his word: that he is already victorious. We need to believe that our pain can be overcome. We need to remind ourselves that those giants don’t need to be giants any longer. ~ Louie Giglio, #NFDB
1382:The most we can ever do is our best," she said quietly. "If worry is interest paid on troubles we haven't had yet, guilt is pain wasted on what can't be changed."
"Please remind me of that regularly. I need to hear it. ~ Mary Jo Putney,#NFDB
1383:The problem with hating yourself when you’re all alone is that you have no one to remind you of any of your good qualities. Then you just hate yourself even more, until you sabotage anything good in your life and in yourself. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1384:When I lost my whole family, every single one, it was as if I had been born all over again,” Inatimi told Richard in his quiet way. “I was a new person because I no longer had family to remind me of what I had been. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB
1385:Brenna, Beth, Britt…and Blake. Did your parents stop watching Sesame Street after the letter B and didn’t realize there was more to the alphabet?” I snicker. “That’s a good one. Remind me to tell it to my ma next time I see her. ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
1386:I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things. ~ Claire McCaskill, #NFDB
1387:Levi had him flat on his back with a hand around his neck, his face right over Will’s. “If you finish or act on that threat I will politely remind you that there’s more to me than a feather boa and eyeliner. You got me, Slayer? ~ Mercy Celeste, #NFDB
1388:Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
1389:Hermes shrugged. “Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we’re related, for better or worse . . . and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1390:I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to read all the books I want to read, I remind myself that the important ones find their way to me" (Rosanne Cash (Musician/Write) ~ Rosanne Cash, #NFDB
1391:That's what I think is important to remember now and when you hear that slogan, "Make America great again." I think it's important that we remind everybody that America was never great in itself. It's been great in its aspirations. ~ Adam Pally, #NFDB
1392:This life will hit you--hard. In the face! It'll wait for you to get back up, just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you, is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. ~ Sarah Kay, #NFDB
1393:When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So we do have a new sense of proportion. Of course the volcanoes and the magma under us just remind us of that. ~ Werner Herzog, #NFDB
1394:Yet as time went by, his sounds began to remind me of home. As it turned out, home wasn’t a certain place; home was a feeling from the ones for whom you cared most, a feeling of peace that calmed the wildfires of your soul. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
1395:You’re all terrified of young people. We remind you of what it was like to have ideals, faith, freedom. We remind you of the losses you’ve taken as you’ve grown cynical, numb, disenchanted, compromising the life you imagined. ~ Stephanie Danler, #NFDB
1396:Even when you're talking to them face to face you have this feeling of not connecting, as if the words just pass through them. Sometimes they remind me of the Invisible Man, but I've never quite understood why they end up that way. ~ Ry Murakami, #NFDB
1397:God, I want to walk as close to You as I possibly can. Help me keep my mind on healthy, positive things. Remind me that I am loved—totally and completely loved—by You, and help me to go with Your flow. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1398:I knew I could now move markets any time I opened my mouth; I stashed a New York Times headline about minimalism in Japanese design in my office drawer when I was a young civil servant to remind myself never to say too much. ~ Timothy F Geithner, #NFDB
1399:I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants. Then if something happens to remind me that I'm an actress then I become a little different and things become a little heavy. ~ Catherine Deneuve, #NFDB
1400:I remind my American readers that biscuits in England and Australia are crispy flat things such as you call cookies, and the soft doughy things you call biscuits are what we call scones. And they say we speak the same language… ~ Kerry Greenwood, #NFDB
1401:It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that "Ethics" is but another word for "righteousness," that for which many men and women of every generation have hungered and thirsted, and without which life becomes meaningless. ~ Jane Addams, #NFDB
1402:It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that “Ethics” is but another word for “righteousness,” that for which many men and women of every generation have hungered and thirsted, and without which life becomes meaningless. ~ Jane Addams, #NFDB
1403:So I’m thinking this is the part of my movie where things appear as if nothing is going to work
out. I have to remind myself that all movie characters go through this sort of dark period before
they find their happy ending. ~ Matthew Quick,#NFDB
1404:There was America before King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and there was America after; King’s message would ever after remind all the citizens of the nation that the Negro dream and the American dream were one and the same. ~ Margot Lee Shetterly, #NFDB
1405:The sharp edge of grief might dull with time, but it never truly went away. The cruel blade was always in your heart, just waiting to be twisted in again at a moment’s notice and remind you of everything and everyone you’d lost. ~ Jennifer Estep, #NFDB
1406:F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude... It would have been a more generous gesture to show a retrospective of old Welles films rather than remind everyone of how low his ability as a filmmaker has plummeted. ~ Rex Reed, #NFDB
1407:Hang on. We're leaving grass for road," Breeze warned.
"Remind me to drive next time," Jinx grumbled. "Slow down!"
"Did you lose your yarn balls, kitten?" Breeze laughed. "This is fun!"
(Jinx is part panther) ~ Laurann Dohner,#NFDB
1408:However many sorrows you drag along with you, you’ll only have walked a few steps before bumping into someone who will remind you that there’s always another person with a far worse set of cards than yours in the game of life. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1409:if Westerners deem themselves too smart, too moral, or too soft to stop aggressors in this complex nuclear age, then—as Socrates and Aristotle alike remind us—they can indeed become real accomplices to evil through inaction. ~ Victor Davis Hanson, #NFDB
1410:Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time. ~ Joan Baez, #NFDB
1411:This is the painful part. Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won't be. ~ Laura Dave, #NFDB
1412:We all need a friend to help remind us from time to time. If no one else is there, the sound of the bell can be that friend, reminding us to recognize and smile at our old habit energies. In that way, we can become free of them. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1413:A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle. ~ Ramsey Clark, #NFDB
1414:Flowers remind us to put away fear, to stop our rushing and running and worrying about this and that, and for a moment have a piece of paradise right here on earth. God offers healing through flowers and brings us closer to Him. ~ Jane Kirkpatrick, #NFDB
1415:Great secrets that go unshared begin to fade a little. Their shapes shift beyond recognition, as the secrets themselves become indistinguishable from dreams. When we try to reawaken them, they only remind us of our solitude. ~ Timoth e de Fombelle, #NFDB
1416:He actually felt as if God had sent the retriever to intrigue him, to remind him that the world was full of surprises and that despair made no sense when one had no understanding of the purpose—and strange possibilities—of existence. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1417:How can he”—and he pointed at me with the same look and gesture as that with which once he pointed me out to his class, on, or rather after, a particular occasion which he never fails to remind me of—“know anything of a young ladies? ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
1418:If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots. ~ Angela Merkel, #NFDB
1419:I think everyone's afraid of public speaking. There have been times where I've come out of my own show and been like, 'Oh, God, what am I doing?' . . . You have to remind yourself that 'OK, I'm kind of a badass. I can handle it.' ~ Chelsea Handler, #NFDB
1420:It will help us to overcome our anger, says Seneca, if we remind ourselves that our behavior also angers other people: “We are bad men living among bad men, and only one thing can calm us—we must agree to go easy on one another. ~ William B Irvine, #NFDB
1421:But Band-Aids for my disease aren’t what I’m after. I want a surgeon to perform an operation that leaves a deep incision where something nasty used to be, followed by a scar to remind me every day that it’s over and I survived. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1422:Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
1423:For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness. She wanted to stay like that. She wanted to shut out everything that would remind her of beautiful things, that might set her off again long, desiring . . . ~ Elizabeth von Arnim, #NFDB
1424:In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to. ~ Dennis Miller, #NFDB
1425:It just seems like overkill when you already have a dagger and I have superpowerful magic at my disposal.”
“‘Superpowerful?’”He stood up, a gold chain dangling from his fingers. “Let me remind you of two words, Mercer: Bad. Dog. ~ Rachel Hawkins,#NFDB
1426:Must I remind you that it was the Romans who brought civilization to your country?"
Ralston's eyebrows rose. "You plan to be a challenge, do you?"
Juliana smiled angelically. "I agreed to remain, my lord. Not to remain silent. ~ Sarah MacLean,#NFDB
1427:Pretty people do ugly things.
It was one of those laws of nature that Gaia had understood for years. If she ever started to forget that ride for a second, there always seemed to be some good-looking asshole ready to remind her. ~ Francine Pascal,#NFDB
1428:Remind me why I took this job,’ Kai muttered. ‘People pointed guns at you. Right?’ ‘Yeah. Something like that.’ ‘And you like books.’ She glanced sidelong at him. He flashed a quick, genuine smile at her. ‘Yeah. That would be it. ~ Genevieve Cogman, #NFDB
1429:These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
1430:And maybe that was the reason God sent him up there-to take a good look at himself, at the raw, brutal facts, and remind him that whatever line he cut behind him, grace always lay before him. A pristine, white, unblemished future. ~ Susan May Warren, #NFDB
1431:I think it's great that they can come in and suck us dry. Remind me to leave my window unlatched tonight. Day. Night. Whatever. Cone steal my soul, you worthless bastards. I'm open like a twenty-four-hour blood diner donor." (Dev) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1432:The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1433:When just starting out on a new journey it's only natural to feel vulnerable. After all it may seem that you have much to lose. But may I remind you that never again at any other point in the same journey will you have so much to gain. ~ Mike Dooley, #NFDB
1434:You’re the world to me,” I whisper onto
her lips. “I hope you never forget that.”
“I’ll never forget,” she whispers back.. “But if I ever do, for
whatever reason, I hope you’ll always find a way to remind me.”
...“Always. ~ J A Redmerski,#NFDB
1435:A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1436:(Always bring a book, as protection against strangers. Magazines don’t last. Newspapers from home will make you homesick, and newspapers from elsewhere will remind you you don’t belong. You know how alien another paper’s typeface seems.) ~ Anne Tyler, #NFDB
1437:Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what. ~ J P Donleavy, #NFDB
1438:He lives by two simple words: Get to. They remind him to be grateful for everything. Instead of saying, "I have to go to work today," Frank tells himself, "I get to go to work." Instead of saying, "I have to get groceries," he gets to. ~ Regina Brett, #NFDB
1439:I think it's a might act of human love to remind somebody that they can accomplish things by themselves, and that the world does not automatically owe them any reward, and that they are not as weak and hobbled as they may believe. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1440:Let me quickly remind you that the allegation of being mentally incapable is a tried and tested method of silencing women dating back hundreds of years, a weapon to discredit us when we fought against abuses and stood up to authority. ~ Tom Rob Smith, #NFDB
1441:The need to do what’s right, and maybe find a little adventure along the way.” Poe shifted in his seat. “You remind me of my brother,” Leia said softly. “Fly like him, too, apparently.” Poe looked at her, surprised and flattered at once. ~ Greg Rucka, #NFDB
1442:All the great pillars of my life are crumbling. I must constantly remind myself that I am not the only grieving person in the world. And yet, the loss of Reba is a terrible cross to bear and I do not think I have the strength for it. ~ Douglas Preston, #NFDB
1443:Before Dwayne entered his inner office, he read one of many comical signs which Francine had put up on the wall in order to amuse people, to remind them of what they so easily forgot: that people didn’t have to be serious all the time. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1444:Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin, #NFDB
1445:In my dressing room, you'll definitely find some Starbursts and Skittles. I have a lot of candles that remind me of home, and a humidifier for my voice. I also have some digital Kodak albums where I have pictures of my friends and family. ~ Trey Songz, #NFDB
1446:In the foreseeable future, I will be a dead person. I want to remind you that dead people are people too. There are good dead people and bad dead people. Some of my best friends are dead people. Dead people have fought in every war.” Then ~ Al Franken, #NFDB
1447:I think it’s a mighty act of human love to remind somebody that they can accomplish things by themselves, and that the world does not automatically owe them any reward, and that they are not as weak and hobbled as they may believe. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1448:I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the level of the sentence, at the level of the paragraph. Sometimes you lose sight of that - I remind myself to go back and read. ~ Ann Goldstein, #NFDB
1449:Remind thyself that he whom thou lovest is mortal that what
thou lovest is not thine own; it is given thee for the present, not
irrevocably nor for ever, but even as a fig or a bunch of grapes at
the appointed season of the year ~ Epictetus,#NFDB
1450:The last time I cried? My godchildren went to see Taylor Swift in concert and got to meet her. They literally ran toward her and hugged her, and it was amazing. I got big bonus points for it. I'll remind them when they're teenagers. ~ Michelle Dockery, #NFDB
1451:The origin stories of Scripture remind us we belong to a very large and very old family that has been walking with God from the beginning. Even when we falter and fall, this God is in it for the long haul. We will not be abandoned. ~ Rachel Held Evans, #NFDB
1452:As the season of believing seems to wind down let me gently remind you that many dreams still wait in the wings. Many authentic sparks must be fanned before passion performs her perfect work in you. Throw another log on the fire. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
1453:holyshitit’sKultistandingrightthere. Poop. He poops. He poops. Right. That was all I needed to snap out of it. I pictured an image of him sitting on the porcelain throne to remind me he was just a normal man with needs like everyone. I ~ Mariana Zapata, #NFDB
1454:Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't. ~ Tom Hiddleston, #NFDB
1455:Heavenly Father, loosen my grip on the things of this world. Lead me in the dance of spontaneous, cheerful giving, and let that generosity remind me always of your grace toward me, which I in no way deserve. In your Son’s name I pray, amen. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1456:If you can't take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the calendar - even if it's a month or a year down the road. Then whenever you need a boost of happiness, remind yourself about it. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1457:(in regards to watches) They were such insidious little machines- always there to pressure you, to make you fixate on what was next instead of taking pleasure in what was now. To remind you that your time was slowly, inevitable running out. ~ Kyle Mills, #NFDB
1458:No. But why would I go back? I had found a home here, the way everyone has. That’s why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
1459:Brave peoples’ legs don’t shake. Brave people don’t feel like puking. Brave people sure don’t have to remind themselves how to breathe if they think about that night too hard. If bravery is a medical condition, everybody’s misdiagnosed me. ~ Angie Thomas, #NFDB
1460:I want to hear someone remind me that if I want to have loving feelings, I need to do loving things. I want someone to make me laugh about our shared humanity and cuckooness; I want someone to remind me that laughter is carbonated holiness. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1461:We had one gun, one werewolf, one poltergeist, one supercharged spell-caster, one not-so-supercharged spell-caster, and one perfectly useless necromancer, though Liz was quick to remind me that she needed me to relay her words. - Chloe ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
1462:You’re in pain and you’re not going to remind us of that.”
“It isn’t that bad. Really. I--”
“See? Gotta be a tough guy.” I lowered my voice so the others wouldn’t hear. “How’s your head?”
“I didn’t hit my head. Not yet anyway. ~ Kelley Armstrong,#NFDB
1463:And I remind myself all the time now that if I were to have been born mute, or had maintained an oath of silence my whole life long for safety, I would still have suffered, and I would still die. It is very good for establishing perspective. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
1464:He thinks my hair smells like spring rain. I'm really trying to remain stoic and unaffected. I remind myself that I don't like poetic language. I don't like poetry. I don't even like people who like poetry.
But I'm not dead inside either. ~ Nicola Yoon,#NFDB
1465:I remind myself that traveling through life as an artist requires one to distill things slowly. To be inquisitive, inventive, and patient - a lot of things get discarded along the way. It's a little like boiling sea water to get at the salt. ~ James Nares, #NFDB
1466:I think dogs were put in this world to remind humanity that love, loyalty, devotion, courage, patience, and good humor are the qualities that, with honesty, are the essence of admirable character and the very definition of a life well lived. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1467:Let's never stop asking questions. Questions give us a harbor to remember where we once lived mentally. They remind us of the possibilities that can be born out of thoughts and musings, and they link together pattern that define our lives. ~ Luci Swindoll, #NFDB
1468:The cold snows and the piercing winds all remind thee that He keeps His covenant with day and night, and tend to assure thee that He will also keep that glorious covenant which He has made with thee in the person of Christ Jesus. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1469:There is no greater purpose for art than to move you, to elevate your mood, to make you think, to remind you of places you have been or places you want to build. It does everything—nourishes the soul and lifts the spirits of the people. ~ Adriana Trigiani, #NFDB
1470:They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
1471:Three matches one by one struck in the night
The first to see your face in its entirety
The second to see your eyes
The last to see your mouth
And the darkness all around to remind me of all these
As I hold you in my arms. ~ Jacques Pr vert,#NFDB
1472:Use a great deal of love. And I would remind your readers that although it may seem burdensome to be the one who is ill or caring for the one who is ill, it is a stepping-stone to something else. It is a rung on the ladder of evolvement. ~ Robert Schwartz, #NFDB
1473:affirming reminders that you are strong, you’ve survived other crises and came out fine, and you will get through this valley, too. Remind yourself that like everything else you’ve been through, this situation is temporary, and it will pass. ~ Debbie Corso, #NFDB
1474:Beatriss looked away, fighting tears. She gripped their hands. “I’m forgetting what the truth is, friends,” she said. “We were here, Lady Beatriss. We saw it all, so when you forget what the truth is, you come to us and we’ll remind you. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1475:Cultivate your forgiveness with your friends, with your family, with strangers, and with yourself. Remind yourself that every person you encounter carries a sorrow and a struggle. Recognize that we all share a fundamental humanity. Model the ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
1476:Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
1477:While women had worn wedding rings for centuries, it wasn’t common for men to wear them until WWII when they’d taken to wearing the rings to remind them of home. A man wearing a wedding ring in the 1920s wasn’t unheard of, but it was rare. ~ Monique Martin, #NFDB
1478:All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1479:I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go. ~ Wendy Davis, #NFDB
1480:It was frantic, his hands on my hips, running up the curves of my waist, bringing me as close to him as possible. His kisses weren’t soft or delicate, but that wasn’t what I wanted anyway. I wanted passion and fire, to remind me I was alive. ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
1481:The heart also needs to breathe, and the breath of the heart is none other than the remembrance of God. Without it, the spiritual heart dies. The very purpose of revelation and of scripture is to remind us that our hearts need to be nourished. ~ Hamza Yusuf, #NFDB
1482:Whenever distress or displeasure arises in your mind, remind yourself, “This is only my interpretation, not reality itself.” Then ask whether it falls within or outside your sphere of power. And, if it is beyond your power to control, let it go. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
1483:Checklists seem to provide protection against such failures. They remind us of the minimum necessary steps and make them explicit. They not only offer the possibility of verification but also instill a kind of discipline of higher performance. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
1484:I remind myself that I'm no longer a damsel in distress. I can think this through. What I can't do? Base my decision on fear. Because, while I might be free to make my choice right now, I'll never be free from the consequences of that choice ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
1485:let me remind you of the particular characteristics of all of these behavior systems that I am trying to focus on. It is that people are impinging on other people and adapting to other people. What people do affects what other people do. ~ Thomas C Schelling, #NFDB
1486:She can't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture-that we keep them because we might want to read them again. And because they remind us of how we felt when we read them. ~ Paula Marantz Cohen, #NFDB
1487:Also, any older song, especially any World War II songs remind me of Mama. She goes around the house either whistling or singing all the time. It drives my sister Alice crazy when we're playing games and Mama does that while it's Alice's turn! ~ Reba McEntire, #NFDB
1488:And again and again I have to remind myself the whole art of life is to lean on people, to involve oneself with them quite fearlessly and yet — when the props are kicked away — remain leaning, as it were, on empty air. Like levitation. ~ Christopher Isherwood, #NFDB
1489:By deliberately withholding power, you generate more. By choosing to redirect it, you remember that the choice is yours. Such acts remind us how much dormant civic power we actually have—and how infrequently we ever activate that potential in full. ~ Eric Liu, #NFDB
1490:I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
1491:I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota. ~ Gail Collins, #NFDB
1492:In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools. ~ Prince Philip, #NFDB
1493:Pressing her breasts against my chest, she whispered in my ear, “I came here to be filled, taken, ridden. I came to find you again. I came to remind you of what we have. I came for so many reasons, Jethro, but most of all, I came to save you. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
1494:The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1495:Afternoon, Bill,” Pat replied as the older man sat down behind his desk. “Sorry about the delay, but Garrity made another smart remark about my age, so I had to remind him of how thoroughly I trounced him at racquetball over the weekend.” Pat ~ Suzie O Connell, #NFDB
1496:And I'll be around, Rose. I'll be there all the time. When you're working I'll ring you up from school and remind you to take your medication. I won't go away for weeks and months at a time. You'll know where I am and it will never be far away. ~ Linda Gillard, #NFDB
1497:And what exactly are we starting?” I ask.
“Don’t play games right now, Melissa. Babe, you know just as good as I do that me and you are happening. This isn’t some cheap thrill. You feel it, but if you need me to remind you, just let me know. ~ Harper Sloan,#NFDB
1498:Constantly remind yourself that every opportunity or activity is moving you either closer to the accomplishment of your goals or further away. The clock is always ticking. Nothing is neutral, and every single thing you do—or fail to do—counts! ~ Tommy Newberry, #NFDB
1499:I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life. ~ Eknath Easwaran, #NFDB
1500:In order to make them overlook our greed, or to make us seem less greedy than we are, we sometimes remind some people that, if and when we catch it, the wealth that we are relentlessly chasing would enable us to help a lot of poor people. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
123 Integral Yoga
59 Occultism
39 Islam
34 Poetry
31 Psychology
30 Fiction
27 Philosophy
26 Christianity
21 Yoga
3 Integral Theory
2 Sufism
2 Education
2 Baha i Faith
1 Theosophy
1 Thelema
1 Science
1 Philsophy
1 Mythology
1 Mysticism
1 Hinduism
1 Buddhism
1 Alchemy
52 The Mother
50 Sri Aurobindo
39 Muhammad
35 Nolini Kanta Gupta
33 Satprem
32 Carl Jung
28 H P Lovecraft
27 Aleister Crowley
18 Sri Ramakrishna
10 Saint Augustine of Hippo
10 Nirodbaran
8 Plotinus
8 Plato
8 James George Frazer
7 Saint John of Climacus
6 Walt Whitman
6 Saint Teresa of Avila
6 Jorge Luis Borges
6 George Van Vrekhem
5 Robert Browning
5 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
5 Friedrich Nietzsche
5 A B Purani
4 Sri Ramana Maharshi
4 Aldous Huxley
3 Thubten Chodron
3 Percy Bysshe Shelley
3 Henry David Thoreau
3 Anonymous
2 William Wordsworth
2 Swami Vivekananda
2 Rudolf Steiner
2 Rainer Maria Rilke
2 Lucretius
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Jordan Peterson
2 Baha u llah
39 Quran
28 Lovecraft - Poems
23 Magick Without Tears
17 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
14 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
12 Mysterium Coniunctionis
10 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
8 The Practice of Psycho therapy
8 The Golden Bough
8 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
8 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
8 City of God
7 The Synthesis Of Yoga
7 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
7 Talks
7 Labyrinths
7 Agenda Vol 03
6 Whitman - Poems
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 Preparing for the Miraculous
6 Agenda Vol 01
5 The Way of Perfection
5 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
5 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
5 Browning - Poems
4 Words Of Long Ago
4 The Perennial Philosophy
4 Some Answers From The Mother
4 Liber ABA
4 Letters On Yoga IV
4 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
4 Collected Poems
4 Aion
4 Agenda Vol 02
3 Walden
3 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
3 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
3 The Bible
3 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
3 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
3 Shelley - Poems
3 Savitri
3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
3 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
3 Essays On The Gita
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
3 Agenda Vol 08
3 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
2 Wordsworth - Poems
2 Twilight of the Idols
2 The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
2 The Phenomenon of Man
2 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
2 The Life Divine
2 Selected Fictions
2 Rilke - Poems
2 Questions And Answers 1956
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
2 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
2 Of The Nature Of Things
2 Maps of Meaning
2 Letters On Yoga III
2 Letters On Yoga II
2 Hymn of the Universe
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
2 Agenda Vol 07
2 Agenda Vol 06
2 Agenda Vol 04
2 5.1.01 - Ilion
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
When Ramkumar reprimanded Gadadhar for neglecting a "bread-winning education", the inner voice of the boy reminded him that the legacy of his ancestors — the legacy of Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Sankara, Ramanuja, Chaitanya — was not worldly security but the Knowledge of God. And these noble sages were the true representatives of Hindu society. Each of them was seated, as it were, on the crest of the wave that followed each successive trough in the tumultuous course of Indian national life. All demonstrated that the life current of India is spirituality. This truth was revealed to Gadadhar through that inner vision which scans past and future in one sweep, unobstructed by the barriers of time and space. But he was unaware of the history of the profound change that had taken place in the land of his birth during the previous one hundred years.
Hindu society during the eighteenth century had been passing through a period of decadence. It was the twilight of the Mussalman rule. There were anarchy and confusion in all spheres. Superstitious practices dominated the religious life of the people. Rites and rituals passed for the essence of spirituality. Greedy priests became the custodians of heaven. True philosophy was supplanted by dogmatic opinions. The pundits took delight in vain polemics.
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The worship in the temple intensified Sri Ramakrishna's yearning for a living vision of the Mother of the Universe. He began to spend in meditation the time not actually employed in the temple service; and for this purpose he selected an extremely solitary place. A deep jungle, thick with underbrush and prickly plants, lay to the north of the temples. Used at one time as a burial ground, it was shunned by people even during the day-time for fear of ghosts. There Sri Ramakrishna began to spend the whole night in meditation, returning to his room only in the morning with eyes swollen as though from much weeping. While meditating, he would lay aside his cloth and his brahminical thread. Explaining this strange conduct, he once said to Hriday: "Don't you know that when one thinks of God one should be freed from all ties? From our very birth we have the eight fetters of hatred, shame, lineage, pride of good conduct, fear, secretiveness, caste, and grief. The sacred thread reminds me that I am a brahmin and therefore superior to all. When calling on the Mother one has to set aside all such ideas." Hriday thought his uncle was becoming insane.
As his love for God deepened, he began either to forget or to drop the formalities of worship. Sitting before the image, he would spend hours singing the devotional songs of great devotees of the Mother, such as Kamalakanta and Ramprasad. Those rhapsodical songs, describing the direct vision of God, only intensified Sri Ramakrishna's longing. He felt the pangs of a child separated from its mother. Sometimes, in agony, he would rub his face against the ground and weep so bitterly that people, thinking he had lost his earthly mother, would sympathize with him in his grief. Sometimes, in moments of scepticism, he would cry: "Art Thou true, Mother, or is it all fiction — mere poetry without any reality? If Thou dost exist, why do I not see Thee? Is religion a mere fantasy and art Thou only a figment of man's imagination?" Sometimes he would sit on the prayer carpet for two hours like an inert object. He began to behave in an abnormal manner
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A garbled report of Sri Ramakrishna's failing health, indifference to worldly life, and various abnormal activities reached Kamarpukur and filled the heart of his poor mother with anguish. At her repeated request he returned to his village for a change of air. But his boyhood friends did not interest him any more. A divine fever was consuming him. He spent a great part of the day and night in one of the cremation grounds, in meditation. The place reminded him of the impermanence of the human body, of human hopes and achievements. It also reminded him of Kali, the Goddess of destruction.
--- MARRIAGE AND AFTER
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Contact with the Brahmos increased Sri Ramakrishna's longing to encounter aspirants who would be able to follow his teachings in their purest form. "There was no limit", he once declared, "to the longing I felt at that time. During the day-time I somehow managed to control it. The secular talk of the worldly-minded was galling to me, and I would look wistfully to the day when my own beloved companions would come. I hoped to find solace in conversing with them and relating to them my own realizations. Every little incident would remind me of them, and thoughts of them wholly engrossed me. I was already arranging in my mind what I should say to one and give to another, and so on. But when the day would come to a close I would not be able to curb my feelings. The thought that another day had gone by, and they had not come, oppressed me. When, during the evening service, the temples rang with the sound of bells and conch-shells, I would climb to the roof of the kuthi in the garden and, writhing in anguish of heart, cry at the top of my voice: 'Come, my children! Oh, where are you? I cannot bear to live without you.' A mother never longed so intensely for the sight of her child, nor a friend for his companions, nor a lover for his sweetheart, as I longed for them. Oh, it was indescribable! Shortly after this period of yearning the devotees1 began to come."
In the year 1879 occasional writings about Sri Ramakrishna by the Brahmos, in the Brahmo magazines, began to attract his future disciples from the educated middle-class Bengalis, and they continued to come till 1884. But others, too, came, feeling the subtle power of his attraction. They were an ever shifting crowd of people of all castes and creeds: Hindus and Brahmos, Vaishnavas and Saktas, the educated with university degrees and the illiterate, old and young, maharajas and beggars, journalists and artists, pundits and devotees, philosophers and the worldly-minded, jnanis and yogis, men of action and men of faith, virtuous women and prostitutes, office-holders and vagabonds, philanthropists and self-seekers, dramatists and drunkards, builders-up and pullers-down. He gave to them all, without stint, from his illimitable store of realization. No one went away empty-handed. He taught them the lofty .knowledge of the Vedanta and the soul
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
reminds the student that the universe is not to be
contemplated as a phenomenon in time.
0.01 - Letters from the Mother to Her Son, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I want to take advantage of this opportunity to remind you of
it. The Ashram with all its real estate and moveable property
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
not reminding you about it before the work began. I have an
unfortunate tendency to believe that the consciousness of those
0.03 - The Threefold Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In India, for the last thousand years and more, the spiritual life and the material have existed side by side to the exclusion of the progressive mind. Spirituality has made terms for itself with Matter by renouncing the attempt at general progress. It has obtained from society the right of free spiritual development for all who assume some distinctive symbol, such as the garb of the Sannyasin, the recognition of that life as man's goal and those who live it as worthy of an absolute reverence, and the casting of society itself into such a religious mould that its most customary acts should be accompanied by a formal reminder of the spiritual symbolism of life and its ultimate destination. On the other hand, there was conceded to society the right of inertia and immobile self-conservation. The concession destroyed much of the value of the terms. The religious mould being fixed, the formal reminder tended to become a routine and to lose its living sense. The constant attempts to change the mould by new sects and religions ended only in a new routine or a modification of the old; for the saving element of the free and active mind had been exiled. The material life, handed over to the Ignorance, the purposeless and endless duality, became a leaden and dolorous yoke from which flight was the only escape.
The schools of Indian Yoga lent themselves to the compromise. Individual perfection or liberation was made the aim, seclusion of some kind from the ordinary activities the condition, the renunciation of life the culmination. The teacher gave his knowledge only to a small circle of disciples. Or if a wider movement was attempted, it was still the release of the individual soul that remained the aim. The pact with an immobile society was, for the most part, observed.
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
now and then it is good that I remind you that you are free and
that it is for you to make the decision; that's all.
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
wanted only to remind you that you are not alone in the Ashram
and that I have to divide my time among all those who have need
01.02 - Sri Aurobindo - Ahana and Other Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
You unforgotten remind. For his flute with its sweetness ensnaring
Sounds in our ears in the night and our souls of their teguments baring
01.05 - Rabindranath Tagore: A Great Poet, a Great Man, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Tagore the poet reminds one often and anon of Kalidasa. He was so much in love, had such kinship with the great old master that many of his poems, many passages and lines are reminiscences, echoes, modulations or a paraphrase of the original classic. Tagore himself refers in his memoirs to one Kalidasian line that haunted his juvenile brain because of its exquisite music and enchanting imagery:
Mandki nirjharikarm vodh muhuh-kamPita-deva-druh
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Both the poets were worshippers, idolaters, of beauty, especially of natural physical beauty, of beauty heaped on beauty, of beauty gathered, like honey from all places and stored and ranged and stalled with the utmost decorative skill. Yet the difference between the two is not less pronounced. A philosopher is reminded of Bergson, the great exponent of movement as reality, in connection with certain aspects of Tagore. Indeed, Beauty in Tagore is something moving, flowing, dancing, rippling; it is especially the beauty which music embodies and expresses. A Kalidasian beauty, on the contrary, is statuesque and plastic, it is to be appreciated in situ. This is, however, by the way.
Sri Aurobindo: "Ahana", Collected Poems & Plays, Vol. 2
0 1958-10-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
To know life utterly Oh, there is a very interesting thing in this regard! And its strange, but this particular knowledge reminds me of one of my Sutras1 (which I read out, but no one understood or understood only vaguely, like that):
It is the Supreme Lord who has ineluctably decreed the place you occupy in the universal concert, but whatever be this place, you have equally the same right as all others to ascend the supreme summits right to the supramental realization.
0 1958-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Last night, my effort to understand what was missing in order to help you completely and truly come out of the difficulty reminded me of what I said the other day about Power, the transforming power, the true realizing power, the supramental power. When you enter that, when you suddenly surge into that Thing, then you seeyou see that it is truly almighty in comparison to what we are here. So once again, I touched it, I experienced both states simultaneously.
But as long as this is not an accomplished fact, it will still be a progressiona progression, an ascension; you gain a little, you gain some ground, you rise higher and higher. But as long as the new reversal has not taken place, its as if everything had still to be done. It is a repetition of the experience below, reproduced above.
0 1959-05-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
If it is to make me feel all my wrongs that you remind me of my solemn promise, then I am ready to acknowledge all these wrongs. I am guilty, without any extenuating circumstances, and I expect no indulgence.
I can easily understand that your task on this earth is not particularly encouraging and you must find our human matter stupid and rebellious. I do not wish to throw upon you more bad things than you already receive, but I wish you could also understand certain things. I am not made for this withered life, not made for putting sentences together all day long, not made for living alone in my holefriendless, loveless, with nothing but mantras, and waiting for a better that never comes. For three years I have wanted to leave and each time I yielded out of scruples that you needed me, though also because I am attached to you. But after the [book on] Sri Aurobindo, there will be something else, there will always be something else that will make my departure look like a betrayal. I am fed up with living in my head, always in my head, with paper and ink. It was not of this that I dreamed when I was ten years old and ran with the wind over the untamed heaths. I am suffocating. You ask too much of me; or rather, I am not worth your expectation.
0 1960-07-12 - Mothers Vision - the Voice, the ashram a tiny part of myself, the Mothers Force, sparkling white light compressed - enormous formation of negative vibrations - light in evil, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
It reminded me of tantric things. I have seen tantric formations and how forces are systematically separated by themeach vibration, each color. Its very interesting. They are all one, and yet each is distinct. That is, they are separated in order to be distinguished and for each one to be used individually. Each one represents a particular action for obtaining something in particular. This is the special knowledge the tantrics have, I believe. Or its the reflection of their knowledge. And my impression is that when they do their pujas or say their mantras, what they are trying to do is recombine all that into the white light. Im not sure. I know they use each one separately for a separate purpose, but when they speak of their puja succeeding, it may mean that they have been able to recombine the light. But I say this very guardedly. For I would have to see X do his puja one day to really knowfrom afar Im not so sure. Its merely an impression.
This is what I am constantly seeing now, but along with this Divine Force or this Divine Consciousness that Sri Aurobindo speaks of when he says, Mothers Force is with you. When it comes, it is sparkling white, perfectly white and perfectly luminous. And as it accumulates inside, it makes living vibrations of every color. And it goes on and on and on. Sometimes it lasts half an hour, three-quarters of an hour, an hournothing goes out. And it keeps constantly entering. And it piles up. Its as if it is all being accumulated or compressed together.
0 1960-11-05, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have so totally forgotten a whole world of incidents and events that when someone reminds me of something (the people around me have lived with me, so theyve seen things and remember them), I get the feeling that they are speaking of someone or something elseit no longer has any connection with me at all. And its the same with everything, whether near or far, which has brought to my consciousness whatever it had to bring, lost its utility anddisappeared. Only, these memories probably still have some utility for the others, so they remain. But for me its completely erased, absolutely, as if it had never been.
Its the only way to forget.
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Its an approach which is not at all mental nor intellectual nor (God knows!) moral in the leastno notion of Good or Evil nor any of those things, absolutely none of that. Theres a moment in life when you begin thinking a little and you see all this from an overall or universal point of view in which all moral notions completely disappearFOR ANOTHER REASON. This experience with Z reminded me of a certain way of approaching Beauty that enables you even to find it in what appears dirty and ugly to the common vision. It is She trying to express herself in this something which to the common vision is ugly, dirty, hypocritical. But of course, if you yourself have striven assiduously and have greatly held yourself in, then you look at it reprovingly.
From my earliest childhood, instinctively, I have never felt the slightest contempt or how should I say (well, well! I was thinking in English) shrinking or disapproval, severe criticism or disgust for the things people call vice.
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Something from that experiencean effect, a vibratory effect, so to speakhas not left. But the totality of the experience is not here the whole time, its not established. I had a reminder of it one night, but not for very long; all at once, for a brief moment, this same vibration came, and my entire body was nothing other than this Vibration.
It didnt last longer than a quarter of an hour and it wasnt as total.
0 1961-02-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All our aspirations, all our seekings, all our ascents always remind me of that flower I gave you the other day16: its something like that (Mother makes a vague, ethereal gesture), vibrating, vibrating, vibrating, very luminous, very delicate, essentially very lovely (silence) but it is not THAT (Mother again turns her hand over to indicate an abrupt reversal). It is not That.
(silence)
0 1961-03-14, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And within oh! Its like waves, constantly, the equivalent of those nuances of color I was speaking about, waves of this joy of life, the joy of life rippling past, touching; but instead of being. At times, you see, the body is in a sort of equilibrium (what we, in our ordinary outer consciousness, call equilibrium that is, good health), and then this joy is constant, like swells on the sea (Mother shapes great waves): it seems to flow on behind everything; it comes and shows its face for a moment, then vanishes. In the very tiny things of lifeyes, physical life the joy of these things, the joy life contains, this luminous, special kind of vibration, rises up as if to remind us that its here; it is here, it mustnt be forgotten, its here but its kept down by this tension.
Then, from time to time, everything seems to be on the edge of a precipice; the body doesnt fall simply because it keeps its balance but without this higher state of perfect faith, one would surely fall!
0 1961-06-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday, when I was in that immobility, suddenly I felt something obliging me to turn my head. I didnt turn my head, but the consciousness turned (gesture to the left), and then I saw myself standing there in the corridor (that kind of corridor separating the hall and Sri Aurobindos room) in my usual outdoor dress [Indian shirt and light trousers]. I was standing up very straight and holding a globe of light above my head and such a light! It was shining brighter than those strong electric bulbsdazzling. My own clothing seemed to be made of golden-pink light. I was standing very straight and carrying this globe (gesture above the head). When I saw that I said to myself, Now why on earth is he making me see this? And that was all. Nothing else happened except that. But near me there was a figure I didnt know, and it reminded me of Xs great guru,1 whom I had already seen once. There he was by my side, a tall figure, and he seemed to be the one who had tugged at me to make me see that vision.
It was a large globe. Although no distinct rays could be seen, it appeared to be projecting innumerable rays like flashes of lightning. It was sparkling all over.
0 1962-01-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All in all, in these last few aphorisms Sri Aurobindo is clearly trying to show us that we must go beyond the sense of sin and virtue. It reminds me of a passage from one of your experiences which struck me very much at the time. In that experience you went to the supramental world: you saw a ship landing on the shore of the supramental world and people being put through certain testssome people were rejected, others were kept. Theres a striking passage in your description, and it bears a relation to these aphorisms. May I read you what you said?14
Yes I dont remember it any more.
0 1962-02-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In fact, without knowing anything, Satprem had sensed a kind of warrior, very luminous and white, reminding him of the god Kartik, son of the Universal Mother, armed with a spear. Later, Mother said that her vital being was a "diamond-warrior."
Japa: the continuous repetition of a mantra.
0 1962-05-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then a Voice was explaining everything to me (not exactly a Voice, but something that was Sri Aurobindos origin, like the most recent gust from the Origin). As the experience unfolded, this Voice explained each gust to me, each span of the universe; and then it explained how it all became like this (Mother makes a gesture of reversal): the distortion of the universe. And I was wondering how it was possible, with that Consciousness, that supreme Consciousness, to relate to the present, distorted universe. How to make the connection without losing that Consciousness? A relationship between the two seemed impossible. And thats when that sort of Voice reminded me of my promise, that I had promised to do the Work on earth and it would be done. I promised to do the Work and it will be done.
Then began the process of descent,1 and the Voice was explaining it to me I lived through it all in detail, and it wasnt pleasant. It took an hour and a half to change from that true Consciousness to the individual consciousness. Because throughout the experience this present individuality no longer existed, this body no longer existed, there were no more limits, I was no longer herewhat was here was THE PERSON. An hour and a half was needed to return to the body-consciousness (not the physical consciousness but the body-consciousness), to the individual body-consciousness.
0 1962-05-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I didnt receive a promise, but a reminder of the promise I had made.
And was that what allowed you to say, The thing is done?
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And actually, apart from the fact of suffering (you know, an ache here, an ache there, a pain here, a pain there, giving the sense of bodily individuality), apart from that, that great undulating movement of life is my normal consciousness. Meaning that I what I call Me (gesture high above), my consciousness, is completely outside the body. Thats what the consciousness of the body is (what Ive just been describing), with only points of pain as reminders of what a body usually is: an ache here, an ache there, another ache here. Thats what its like. And this pain has a small and extremely limited life; its not general, its not a body that suffers: it is suffering that suffers. Its a point, a point of paina scratch here, a sore there, things like that. Thats what is individual and suffersits not the body that has a sore, you understand.
It is difficult to express.
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A movement of waves without beginning or end, with a condensation like this (gesture from above down), with a condensation like that (horizontal gesture). We cannot fail to be reminded of the electromagnetic field with its two perpendicular components, the electric and magnetic fields, which are propagated along an infinite sinusoidal wave. And then again: A movement of expansion a sort of contraction, concentration, and then expansion, diffusion. Unmistakably, this is an exact description of the propagation in space of a sinusoidal wave.
Striking though the parallel may be, there is still a fundamental difference between these mathematical concepts and Mothers experience. In the first case, we are dealing with conceptual instruments used by the human mind to better explain and master the world: no one has actually seen electromagnetic wavesnot to speak of gravitational ones! They are images, convenient models, invisible and nonexistent in themselves. They exist only through their effects: a beam of sunlight, which is an electromagnetic wave, strikes our retina and enables us to distinguish a flower; by means of gravitational waves, Newtons apple falls from the tree but no one has lived the reality of those waves. The way Mother grasps reality, on the contrary, is first and foremost through lived experience. She is the movement, she is the wave: I walk around the room, and that is what is walking. Here we touch upon a stupendous mystery and a formidable question: How is it possible for a material and cellular body to be the wave that at once constitutes and carries the worlds along in its infinite undulating movement and governs the existence of atoms and galaxies? How is it possible to be an infinite and ubiquitous electromagnetic wave while remaining within the narrow confines of a human body?
0 1962-08-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother's cheek is swollen from an abscessed tooth.... Note that Satprem had assumed that "I never thought this would have any consequences" referred to the visit from the old formation. Mother corrected: "It is subtler than that! I didn't think THAT EXPERIENCE would have any consequences, because the old formation is meaningless nowit was connected with Sri Aurobindo (I didn't want to say it, but it was connected with Sri Aurobindo's physical presence), so now it has no more meaning, it cannot be realized. He did what was necessary to make its realization utterly impossible. But this experience is like a remindER of what was. I didn't think it would have any consequences, but it did!"
Mother touches her cheek.
0 1962-08-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday I told Pavitra that all those realizations, all those yes, these powers, gifts, constructions, manifestations, it all reminded me of the life of a traveling juggler.
He was shocked.
0 1962-10-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One sometimes even goes to a great deal of trouble to explain things to Him: Its this way, You see, thats how it is. And when youre finished, you realize. Oh, that reminds me of an experience I had one night two years ago. It was the first time the Supermind entered the cells of my body, and it had risen up to the brain. So the brain found itself in the presence of something (laughing) considerably more powerful than it was used to receiving! And, like the idiot it is, it got worried. As for me (gesture above or beyond), I saw it all, I saw that the brain was getting worried, so I tried to tell it what a nitwit it was and to just keep still. It did keep still, but you know, it was really seething away in there, as if it were about to explode. So I said, All right now, lets go see Sri Aurobindo and ask him what to do. Immediately everything became utterly calm and I woke up in Sri Aurobindos house in the subtle physicala very material sensation, with everything quite concrete. So I arrived, or rather not I but the body-consciousness arrived2 and started explaining to Sri Aurobindo what had happenedit was very excited, talking and talking. The response was a sort of inscrutable smile and then nothing. He simply looked. An inscrutable smilenot a word. All the excitement died away. A face out of eternity. The excitement died away. Then it was time for Sri Aurobindos lunch (people eat therein another way). So as not to disturb him, I went into the next room. He came in after some time and stood before me (Imy physical being, that is, my physical consciousness had had time to calm down). I knelt down and took his hand (a MUCH clearer sensation than anything physical, mon petit!); I kissed his hand. He simply said, Oh! This is better. (Mother laughs.)
I am skipping all the details (it was a long thing, lasting an hour), but suddenly he went out of the room, leaving me alone (after expressing what he wanted to tell me with a gesture, which I understood). And then I simply seemed to take a step (gesture of crossing a threshold), and I found myself lying in my bed again. And at that moment I said to myself, Really! We make all kinds of complications, and its so simple: you just have to go like this (same gesture) and there you are; then you go like that (same gesture in the opposite direction) and youre back here.
0 1963-03-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
With a sort of incomprehensible comprehension, we are reminded of the words of the Vedic Rishis: "He uncovered the two worlds, eternal and in ONE nest."
Rig-Veda, I.62.7
0 1963-08-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is a state in which you dont feel anythinga state and a positive one, because its a state of peace; a kind of very tranquil and very happy peace; a peace which makes you feel like staying that way forever: Oh, if I could be that way forever! Or else theres a chaos in which everything clashes and denies and quarrelsas though everything were in an uproar. It reminds me of the very first experience I had when I was I really lived that Pulsation of Love and when it was decided I was to take my body again, to reenter my body; well, I had contact with my body, I knew I was in contact with my body, only through a pain. Contact with the body meant suffering.
I said that, in fact.
0 1964-04-08, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are momentsmomentsof illumination. Then it has the certitude of the Triumph. But almost immediately, something comes to contradict it violently, like a reminder: Dont get carried away! Youre not yet there, you know. Voil. But then that state How much time must the body last? I dont know.
No, youre not in an inferior position thats not it, it seems to be a necessity for the work.1 But why? I dont understand.
0 1965-09-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It reminds me of 1939, Chamberlain coming back from Munich: Peace in our time!
Yes, exactly.
0 1965-11-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then, the Flame When the Flame lights up, everything becomes different. But this Flame is something totally different; its totally different from religious feeling, religious aspiration, religious worship (all that is very fine, its the summit of what man can do and its very fine, its excellent for humanity), but this Flame, the Flame of transformation, is something else. Oh, I remember now that Sri Aurobindo reminded me of something I had written in Japan (which is printed in Prayers and Meditations), and I had never understood what I had written. I always tried to understand and asked myself, What the devil did I mean? I have no idea. It had come like that and I had written it directly. It was about a child and it read, Do not come too near him because you will get burnt. (I dont remember the words at all.) And I always wondered, Whats this child I am referring to? And why should one take care not to come too near him??5 And suddenly, only yesterday or the day before, I understood; suddenly he showed me, he told me, Its this: the child is the beginning of the new creation, it is still in its infancy, so dont touch it if you dont want to be burntbecause it burns.
(silence)
0 1966-03-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It reminds me of the words of the Lord of Nations, the great Asura, when he told me, I know that my power is drawing to its close, but you may be sure that before disappearing I will destroy everything I can.
Thats it, thats exactly it.
0 1966-03-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It may be good to remind you that we are here for a special work, a work not done anywhere else: we want to come into contact with the supreme consciousness, the universal consciousness, we want to receive it and manifest it. For that, we need a very solid base, and our base is our physical being, our body. We therefore need to prepare a solid, healthy, enduring body, skillful, agile and strong, so it may be ready for anything. There is no better way to prepare the body than physical exercises: sports, athletics, gymnastics and all other games are the best means to develop and streng then the body.
Therefore I invite you to participate in the competitions beginning today wholeheartedly, with all your energy and will.
0 1967-05-06, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It reminded me of Thon who said that the world had been put forth and reabsorbed six times; in other words, that there had been six creations and six pralayas.2 And that now we were in the seventh creation, the last. The world would find a new, higher equilibrium, not static but progressive, which means there would be unending progress in equilibrium and harmony, without pralaya.
(April 24, 1967)
0 1967-06-21, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At present the working is going on with direct Supramental Force. Its immediate action on the world of selfishness, strife and disharmony is not encouraging. We see everywhere clashes; the world is going on in the old way as usual, perhaps worse. One is reminded of the old legend that the first thing that arose from the churning of the Ocean of Life was poison. Nectar came last. The action now looks to be similar. India is going on in the same old way, placating Pakistan and the Musulmans and Russians.
One sentence in the Mothers reply in connection with the Israeli-Arab war seems to me to be very ominous: This is not the conflict that will decide the future of our civilisation. Does it mean that there will be another bigger conflict in which the present civilisation will be destroyed though the world will be saved? Or does it mean that there may not be any war at all and the fate of our civilisation may be decided by natural evolution of consciousness? But the last one seems very unlikely except that the complete transformation of the Mothers physical will produce such tremendous effect everywhere that disharmony will become impossible.
0 1967-11-29, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It reminds me of a painter, I dont know why.
One doesnt quite know whether its a woman or a man, one isnt sure.
0 1969-07-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, that reminds me of something: you know that long-haired S.B.? Dr. S. has just gone to see himhe came back with a ring. I always thought it was some conjuring trick or other, but the Doctor seems to say he says, He made a gesture (like a sleight of hand), and he put this in my hand.
It may be a materialization.
0 1970-09-05, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Soon afterwards, Sujata reminded Satprem of these lines from Sri Aurobindo's poem, "A God's Labour":
I have delved through the dumb Earth's dreadful heart And heard her black mass' bell. I have seen the source whence her agonies part And the inner reason of hell....
0 1971-05-26, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(M.:) I didnt read it with a very critical mind, Mother, but one reaction I did have, I can say frankly: I felt that what Satprem says is natural and it should be kept simple. It reminded me of a similar analogy as when I do a mathematical problem that I find extremely difficult, but once Ive found the solution, I always think, But it was so simple! All you had to do was draw this line and everything comes out! I found the book a little like that.
(Mother nods her head)
02.01 - A Vedic Story, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But this Fire is not normally available. It is lost, imbedded in the thick petrified folds of unconsciousness and inconscience. Man's soul is not an apparent reality. It has to be found out, called forth, brought to the front. Even so, in the normal consciousness, the soul, the divine fire is a flickering, twinkling, hesitating spark; it is not sure of itself, not certain of its destiny. Yet when the time is ripe and the call comes, the gods, the luminous forces from above descend with all their insistence and meet the hidden godhead: Agni is reminded of his work and destiny which nothing can frustrate or cancel. He has to consent and undertake his sacrificial labour.
Agni feared and tried to escape from the burden of his responsibility. He wrapped himself in a thick and vast cloak and hid in the depths of far waters. That is the parable way of describing the difficulty, the apparent impossibility of the undertaking Agni has to shoulder. Curiously however he has taken shelter just in the spot which seemed safest to him, from where begins his work, whose nature and substance he has to transform, that is to say, the nether regions of inconscience which is to be raised and transfigured into the solar region of the supra-consciousness.
02.02 - Lines of the Descent of Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
At the very outset when and where the Many has come out into manifestation in the Onehere also it must be remembered that we are using a temporal figure in respect of an extra-temporal factthere and then is formed a characteristic range of reality which is a perfect equation of the one and the many: that is to say, the one in becoming many still remains the same immaculate one in and through the many, and likewise the many in spite of its manifoldnessand because of the special quality of the manifoldnessstill continues to be the one in the uttermost degree. It is the world of fundamental realities. Sri Aurobindo names it the Supermind or Gnosis. It is something higher than but distantly akin to Plato's world of Ideas or Noumena (ideai, nooumena) or to what Plotinus calls the first divine emanation (nous). These archetypal realities are realities of the Spirit, Idea-forces, truth-energies, the root consciousness-forms, ta cit, in Vedic terminology. They are seed-truths, the original mother-truths in the Divine Consciousness. They comprise the fundamental essential many aspects and formulations of an infinite Infinity. At this stage these do not come into clash or conflict, for here each contains all and the All contains each one in absolute unity and essential identity. Each individual formation is united with and partakes of the nature of the one supreme Reality. Although difference is born here, separation is not yet come. Variety is there, but not discord, individuality is there, not egoism. This is the first step of Descent, the earliest one-not, we must remind ourselves again, historically but psychologically and logically the descent of the Transcendent into the Cosmic as the vast and varied Supermindcitra praketo ajania vibhw of the Absolute into the relational manifestation as Vidysakti (Gnosis).
The next steps, farther down or away, arrive when the drive towards differentiation and multiplication gathers momentum becomes accentuated, and separation and isolation increase in degree and emphasis. The lines of individuation fall more and more apart from each other, tending to form closed circles, each confining more and more exclusively to itself, stressing its own particular and special value and function, in contradistinction to or even against other lines. Thus the descent or fall from the Supermind leads, in the first instance, to the creation or appearance of the Overmind. It is the level of consciousness where the perfect balance of the One and the Many is disturbed and the emphasis begins to be laid on the many. The source of incompatibility between the two just starts here as if Many is notOne and One is not Many. It is the beginning of Ignorance, Avidya, Maya. Still in the higher hemisphere of the Overmind, the sense of unity is yet maintained, although there is no longer the sense of absolute identity of the two; they are experienced as complementaries, both form a harmony, a harmony as of different and distinct but conjoint notes. The Many has come forward, yet the unity is also there supporting it-the unity is an immanent godhead, controlling the patent reality of the Many. It is in the lower hemisphere of the Overmind that unity is thrown into the background half-submerged, flickering, and the principle of multiplicity comes forward with all insistence. Division and rivalry are the characteristic marks of its organisation. Yet the unity does not disappear altogether, only it remains very much inactive, like a sleeping partner. It is not directly perceived and envisaged, not immediately felt but is evoked as reminiscence. The Supermind, then, is the first crystallisation of the Infinite into individual centres, in the Overmind these centres at the outset become more exclusively individualised and then jealously self-centred.
02.02 - Rishi Dirghatama, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Needless to say these are signs and symbols and figures of a language seeking to express truths and realities of an invisible world, spiritual and occult. We are reminded of the "twilight" language of the poet-saints (Siddhacharyas) of Bengal of much later days.
There is no end to the problems that face Dirghatama with his almost tormented mind. Listen once more to this riddle:
02.05 - Robert Graves, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Here in this connection one is naturally reminded of Sri Aurobindo's The Other Earths. The poem reveals other earths like this earth of ours as reflections or projections or prototypes: like the concretely visible earth here, they too are equally beautiful, with million colours and shades. We are blind and cannot see them. But when we learn to see with the eye of our eye there appear clear before us
Calm faces of the Gods on background vast
02.06 - Boris Pasternak, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The portrait of the late poet (for he is more of a poet than a novelist, as has been pointed out) on the cover of the British edition of his novel Dr. Zhivago seems to be the very image of the tragic hero. Indeed he reminds one of Hamlet as he stood on the ramparts of the castle of Elsinore. Curiously, the very first poem in the collection at the end of that book is entitled "Hamlet" and the significant cry rings out of it:
Abba, Father, if it be possible
02.06 - Vansittartism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This is the very core of the matter. Germany stands for a philosophy of life, for a definite mode of human values. That philosophy was slowly developed, elaborated by the German mind, in various degrees and in various ways through various thinkers and theorists and moralists and statesmen, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously. The conception of the State as propounded even by her great philosophers as something self-existent, sacrosanct and almost divineaugust and grim, one has to addis profoundly significant of the type of the subconscient dynamic in the nation: it strangely reminds one of the state organised by the bee, the ant or the termite. Hitler has only precipitated the idea, given it a concrete, physical and dynamic form. That philosophy in its outlook has been culturally anti-Latin, religiously anti-Christian. Germany cherishes always in her heart the memory of the day when her hero Arminius routed the Roman legions of Varus. Germany stands for a mode of human consciousness that is not in line with the major current of its evolutionary growth: she harks back to something primeval, infra-rational, infra-human.
Such is the position taken up by Lord Vansittart who has given his name to the new ideology of anti-Germanism. Vansittartism (at least in its extreme variety) has very little hope for the mending of Germany, it practically asks for its ending.
02.07 - George Seftris, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We are reminded of Jeanne d'Arc, the little maid who melted with great pity (grande piti) at the sight of the misery all around, ravaging her sweet France like a pest and which drove her in the end to a more than classical tragic end: Seferis too in the same manner wails
Great pain had fallen on Greece.3
02.14 - The World-Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The solemn reminder of a temple gong,
A bee-croon honey-drunk in summer isles
03.02 - The Philosopher as an Artist and Philosophy as an Art, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Take, for example, the philosophical system of Kant or of Hegel or of our own Shankara. What a beautiful edifice of thought each one has reared! How cogent and compact, organised and poised and finely modelled! Shankara's reminds me of a tower, strong and slender, mounting straight and tapering into a vanishing point among the clouds; it has the characteristic linear movement of Indian melody. On the otherhand, the march of the Kantian Critiques or of the Hegelian Dialectic has a broader base and involves a composite strain, a balancing of contraries, a blending of diverse notes: thereis something here of the amplitude and comprehensiveness of harmonic architecture (without perhaps a corresponding degree of altitude).
All these systems, commonly called philosophical, appear to me supremely artistic. The logical intellect has worked here exactly like a chisel or a brush in the hands of the artist. It did not care for truth per se, its prime preoccupation was arrangement, disposition; the problem it set before itself was how best to present a consistent and unified, that is to say, a beautiful whole.
03.10 - Hamlet: A Crisis of the Evolving Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The crisis in Hamlet reminds us of another somewhat similar one, that is the basis and starting-point of the great episode in the Mahabharata the Gita. Arjuna, the ideal hero and man of action, in absolute self-confidence and certitude, with no doubt or hesitation about anything in the world, advances into the very thick of the bloody strife and lo! all is changed as with a magic wand! What was to him a moment before a clear duty, an evident act of righteousness, the noblest of deeds, now appears nothing less than an inglorious slaughter. The bow of victory slips from the hand of the mighty warrior and, all nerve and tremor, he sinks down in gloom and dejection and complete confusion.
Arjuna tided over the crisis as he could avail himself of the knowledge of the way out and the necessary help that was given by the Divine Guide. Hamlet bears the full crash of doom upon his head and makes others also share its consequences with him. At one point, however, he seemed to make just a move towards the right solution of the difficulty. He finds that the avoidance of the Evil by self-destructionwhich is a common and natural temptation in like situationsis no solution: it may lead you into a still greater evil. One has to face the evil, stand and fight it. Once this is decided, the right course for the hero (the Aryan fighter, as the Gitawould say) would be to live
04.02 - Human Progress, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We propose, however, to reopen the question and enquire if there has not been some kind of radical change or progress in the make-up of human nature and civilisation even within the span of historical times. This reminds us of the remarkable conclusion or discovery made by the much maligned and much adulated Psycho-analysts.
Jung speaks of two kinds or grades of thinking: (1) the directed thinking and (2) the wishful thinking; one conscious and objective, the other automatic and subjective. The first is the modern or scientific thinking, the second the old-world mythopoeic thinking. These two lines of mental movement mark off two definite stages in the cultural history of man. Down to the Middle Ages man's mental life was moved and coloured by his libidodesire soul; it is with the Renascence that he began to free his mind from, the libido and transfer and transform the libido into non-egoistic and realistic thinking. In simpler psychological terms we can say that man's mentality was coloured and modulated by his biological make-up out of which it had emerged; the age of modernism and scientism began with the development of a rigorous rationalism which means a severance and transcendence of the biological antecedent.
04.04 - The Quest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But morn broke in reminding her of her quest
And from low rustic couch or mat she rose
05.06 - Physics or philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Einstein's was, perhaps, the most radical and revolutionary solution ever proposed. Indeed, it meant the reversal of the whole scientific outlook, but something of the kind was an imperative need in order to save Science from inconsistencies that seemed to be inherent in it. The scientific outlook was vitiated, Einstein said, because we started from wrong premises; two assumptions mainly were responsible for the bank-ruptcy which befell latter-day Science. First, it was assumed that a push and pulla force (a gravitational or, more generally, a causal force) existed and that acted upon isolated and independent particles strewn about; and secondly, they were strewn about in an independently existing time and an independently existing space. Einstein has demonstrated, it seems, successfully that there is no Time and no Space actually, but times and spaces (this reminds one of a parallel conception in Sankhya and Patanjali) , that time is not independent of space (nor space of time) but that time is another co-ordinate or dimension necessary for all observation in addition to the three usual co-ordinates (or dimensions). This was the explanation he found of the famous Michelson-Morley experiment which failed to detect any difference in the velocity of light whether it moved with or against a moving object, which is an inconsistency according to the mechanistic view. 1 The absolute dependence of time and space upon each other was further demonstrated by the fact that it was absolutely impossible to synchronise two distant clocks (moving with different speeds and thus forming different systems) with perfect accuracy, or determine exactly whether two events happened simultaneously or not. In the final account of things, this relative element that varies according to varying particulars had to be eliminated, sublated. In order to make a law applicable to all fieldsfrom the astronomical through the normal down to the microscopic or sub-atomicin an equally valid manner, the law had to divest itself of all local colour. Thus, a scientific law became a sheer 'mathematical formula; it was no longer an objective law that governed the behaviour of things, but merely a mental rule or mnemonics to string together as many diverse things as possible in order to be able to memorise them easily.
Again, the generalised law of relativity (that is to say, laws governing all motions, even accelerated motion and hot merely uniform motion) that sought to replace the laws of gravitation did away also with the concepts of force and causality: it stated that things moved not because they were pulled or pushed but because they followed the natural curve of space (they describe geodesics, i.e., move in the line of least distance). Space is not a plain surface, smooth and uniform, but full of dimples and hollows, these occurring in the vicinity of masses of matter, the sun, for instance, (although one does not see how or why a mass of matter should roll down the inclined plane of a curved surface without some kind of push and pull the problem is not solved but merely shifted and put off). All this means to say that the pattern of the universe is absolutely geometrical and science in the end resolves itself into geometry: the laws of Nature are nothing but theorems or corollaries deduced and deducible from a few initial postulates. Once again, on this line, of enquiry also the universe is dissolved into abstract and psychological factors.
08.03 - Death in the Forest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Book of Death was taken from Canto Three of an early version of Savitri which had only six cantos and an epilogue. It was slightly revised at a late stage and a number of new lines were added, but it was never fully worked into the final version of the poem. Its original designation, "Canto Three", has been retained as a reminder of this.
"One year that I have lived with Satyavan
1.002 - The Heifer, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
262. Those who spend their wealth in the way of God, and then do not follow up what they spent with reminders of their generosity or with insults, will have their reward with their Lord—they have nothing to fear, nor shall they grieve.
263. Kind words and forgiveness are better than charity followed by insults. God is Rich and Clement.
264. O you who believe! Do not nullify your charitable deeds with reminders and hurtful words, like him who spends his wealth to be seen by the people, and does not believe in God and the Last Day. His likeness is that of a smooth rock covered with soil: a downpour strikes it, and leaves it bare—they gain nothing from their efforts. God does not guide the disbelieving people.
265. And the parable of those who spend their wealth seeking God’s approval, and to strengthen their souls, is that of a garden on a hillside. If heavy rain falls on it, its produce is doubled; and if no heavy rain falls, then dew is enough. God is seeing of everything you do.
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282. O you who believe! When you incur debt among yourselves for a certain period of time, write it down. And have a scribe write in your presence, in all fairness. And let no scribe refuse to write, as God has taught him. So let him write, and let the debtor dictate. And let him fear God, his Lord, and diminish nothing from it. But if the debtor is mentally deficient, or weak, or unable to dictate, then let his guardian dictate with honesty. And call to witness two men from among you. If two men are not available, then one man and two women whose testimony is acceptable to all—if one of them fails to remember, the other would remind her. Witnesses must not refuse when called upon. And do not think it too trivial to write down, whether small or large, including the time of repayment. That is more equitable with God, and stronger as evidence, and more likely to prevent doubt—except in the case of a spot transaction between you—then there is no blame on you if you do not write it down. And let there be witnesses whenever you conclude a contract, and let no harm be done to either scribe or witness. If you do that, it is corruption on your part. And fear God. God teaches you. God is aware of everything.
283. If you are on a journey, and cannot find a scribe, then a security deposit should be handed over. But if you trust one another, let the trustee fulfill his trust, and let him fear God, his Lord. And do not conceal testimony. Whoever conceals it is sinner at heart. God is aware of what you do.
1.003 - Family of Imran, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
58. This is what We recite to you of the Verses and the Wise reminder.
59. The likeness of Jesus in God’s sight is that of Adam: He created him from dust, then said to him, “Be,” and he was.
1.005 - The Table, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
13. Because of their breaking their pledge, We cursed them, and made their hearts hard. They twist the words out of their context, and they disregarded some of what they were reminded of. You will always witness deceit from them, except for a few of them. But pardon them, and overlook. God loves the doers of good.
14. And from those who say, “We are Christians,” We received their pledge, but they neglected some of what they were reminded of. So We provoked enmity and hatred among them until the Day of Resurrection; God will then inform them of what they used to craft.
15. O People of the Book! Our Messenger has come to you, clarifying for you much of what you kept hidden of the Book, and overlooking much. A light from God has come to you, and a clear Book.
1.006 - Livestock, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
44. Then, when they disregarded what they were reminded of, We opened for them the gates of all things. Until, when they delighted in what they were given, We seized them suddenly; and at once, they were in despair.
45. Thus the last remnant of the people who did wrong was cut off. And praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds.
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69. The righteous are in no way accountable for them; it is only a reminder, that they may be careful.
70. So leave alone those who take their religion for play and pastime, and whom the worldly life has deceived. But remind with it, lest a soul becomes damned on account of what it has earned. It has no helper or intercessor besides God. Even if it offers every equivalent, none will be accepted from it. These are the ones who are delivered to perdition by their actions. They will have a drink of scalding water, and a painful punishment, because they used to disbelieve.
71. Say, “Shall we invoke besides God something that can neither benefit us nor harm us, and turn back on our heels after God has guided us; like someone seduced by the devils and confused on earth, who has friends calling him to guidance: 'Come to us'?” Say, “The guidance of God is the guidance, and we are commanded to surrender to the Lord of the Universe.”
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90. Those are they whom God has guided, so follow their guidance. Say, “I ask of you no compensation for it; it is just a reminder for all mankind.”
91. They do not value God as He should be valued, when they say, “God did not reveal anything to any human being.” Say, “Who revealed the Scripture which Moses brought—a light and guidance for humanity?” You put it on scrolls, displaying them, yet concealing much. And you were taught what you did not know—neither you, nor your ancestors. Say, “God;” then leave them toying away in their speculation.
1.007 - The Elevations, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
2. A Scripture was revealed to you, so let there be no anxiety in your heart because of it. You are to warn with it—and a reminder for the believers.
3. Follow what is revealed to you from your Lord, and do not follow other masters beside Him. Little you recollect.
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63. “Do you wonder that a reminder has come to you from your Lord, through a man from among you, to warn you, and to lead you to righteousness, so that you may attain mercy?”
64. But they called him a liar. So We saved him and those with him in the Ark, and We drowned those who rejected Our revelations. They were blind people.
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69. “Are you surprised that a reminder has come to you from your Lord, through a man from among you, to warn you? Remember how He made you successors after the people of Noah, and increased you greatly in stature. And remember God’s blessings, so that you may prosper.”
70. They said, “Did you come to us to make us worship God alone, and abandon what our ancestors used to worship? Then bring us what you threaten us with, if you are truthful.”
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165. Then, when they neglected what they were reminded of, We saved those who prohibited evil, and We seized those who did wrong with a terrible punishment, because of their sinfulness.
166. Then, when they rebelled against the commands to refrain, We said to them, “Be despicable apes.”
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201. Those who are righteous—when an impulse from Satan strikes them, they remind themselves, and immediately see clearly.
202. But their brethren lead them relentlessly into error, and they never stop short.
1.00a - Introduction, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
P.S. or rather, I did not want to dictate this bit Your ideas about the O.T.O. remind me of some women's idea of shopping. You want to maul about the stock and then walk out with a proud glad smile: NO. Do you really think that I should muster all the most distinguished people alive for your inspection and approval?
The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors; and then probably thrown out on to the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contri bute?
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If, however, you work at the Qabalah in the same way as I did myself, in season and out of season, you ought to get a very fair grasp of it in six months. I will now tell you what this method is: as I walked about, I made a point of attri buting everything I saw to its appropriate idea. I would walk out of the door of my house and reflect that door is Daleth, and house Beth; now the word "dob" is Hebrew for bear, and has the number 6, which refers to the Sun. Then you come to the fence of your property and that is Cheth number 8, number of Tarot Trump 7, which is the Chariot: so you begin to look about for your car. Then you come to the street and the first house you see is number 86, and that is Elohim, and it is built of red brick which reminds you of Mars and the Blasted Tower, and so on. As soon as this sort of work, which can be done in a quite lighthearted spirit, becomes habitual, you will find your mind running naturally in this direction, and will be surprised at your progress. Never let your mind wander from the fact that your Qabalah is not my Qabalah; a good many of the things which I have noted may be useful to you, but you must construct your own system so that it is a living weapon in your hand.
I think I am fair if I say that the first step on the Qabalah which may be called success, is when you make an actual discovery which throws light on some problem which has been troubling you. A quarter of a century ago I was in New Orleans, and was very puzzled about my immediate course of action; in fact I may say I was very much distressed. There seemed literally nothing that I could do, so I bethought myself that I had better invoke Mercury. As soon as I got into the appropriate frame of mind, it naturally occurred to me, with a sort of joy, "But I am Mercury." I put it into Latin Mercurius sum, and suddenly something struck me, a sort of nameless reaction which said: "That's not quite right." Like a flash it came to me to put it into Greek, which gave me "' " and adding that up rapidly, I got the number 418, with all the marvellous correspondences which had been so abundantly useful to me in the past (See Equinox of the Gods, p. 138). My troubles disappeared like a flash of lightning.
1.00c - DIVISION C - THE ETHERIC BODY AND PRANA, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
We might now narrow the subject down to the consideration of the etheric body of the human being and not touch upon correspondences to things systemic or cosmic at all, though it may be necessary to remind ourselves that for the wise student the line along which wisdom [88] comes is the interpretative one; he who knows himself (in objective manifestation, essential quality, and comprehensive development) knows likewise the Lord of his Ray, and the Logos of his system. It is only then a matter of application, conscious expansion, and intelligent interpretation, coupled to a wise abstention from dogmatic assertion, and a recognition that the correspondence lies in quality and method more than in detailed adherence to a specified action at any given time in evolution.
All that it is possible to give here is material which, if rightly pondered on, may result in more intelligent practical living in the occult sense of the term "living"; which, if studied scientifically, religiously and philosophically, may lead to the furthering of the aims of the evolutionary process in the immediately coming lesser cycle. Our aim, therefore, is to make the secondary body of man more real, and to show some of its functions and how it can eventually be brought consciously into the range of mental comprehension.
1.00 - Introduction to Alchemy of Happiness, #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
In form, the book contains a treatise on practical piety, but as is the case with a large proportion of Mohammedan works, the author, whatever may be his subject, finds a place for observations reaching far wide of his apparent aim, so our author is led to make many observations which develop his notions in anatomy, physiology, natural philosophy and natural religion. The partisans of all sorts of opinions will be interested in finding that a Mohammedan author writing so long since in the centre of Asia, had occasion to approve or condemn so many truths, speculations or fancies which are now current among us with the reputation of novelty. Many of the same paradoxes and problems that startle or fascinate in the nineteenth century are here discussed. He came in contact, among his contemporaries, with persons who made the same general objections to natural and revealed religion, as understood by Mohammedans, as are in our days made to Christianity, or who perverted and abused the religion which they professed for their own ends, in the same manner as Christianity is abused among us. And he engaged with earnestness now truthfully, and now erroneously, in refuting these men. His usual stand-point in discussion is equally removed from the most extravagant mysticism, and literal and formal orthodoxy. He attempts a dignified blending of reason [10] and faith, requiring of his fellow men unfeigned piety in the temper and tone of an evangelical Christian. He reminds his readers, in these discourses, that they are not Mussulmans if they are satisfied with merely a nominal faith, and treats with scorn those who are spiritualists only in language and dress.
It is too narrow a view to adopt, in regard to a man of the sublime character of Ghazzali, that he obtained his ideas from any one school of thinkers, or that being in fellowship with the Soofies, that he was merely a Soofi. He was living in the centre of Aryan peoples and religions. He may have had his doctrine of the future life shaped by Zoroaster, and have been influenced by the missionaries of the Buddhists.
1.010 - Jonah, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
71. And relate to them the story of Noah, when he said to his people, “O my people, if my presence among you and my reminding you of God’s signs is too much for you, then in God I have put my trust. So come to a decision, you and your partners, and do not let the matter perplex you; then carry out your decision on me, and do not hold back.”
72. “But if you turn away, I have not asked you for any wage. My wage falls only on God, and I was commanded to be of those who submit.”
1.011 - Hud, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
114. Perform the prayer at the borders of the day, and during the approaches of the night. The good deeds take away the bad deeds. This is a reminder for those who remember.
115. And be patient. God will not waste the reward of the virtuous.
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120. Everything We narrate to you of the history of the messengers is to strengthen your heart therewith. The truth has come to you in this, and a lesson, and a reminder for the believers.
121. And say to those who do not believe, “Act according to your ability; and so will we.”
1.012 - Joseph, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
104. You ask them no wage for it. It is only a reminder for all mankind.
105. How many a sign in the heavens and the earth do they pass by, paying no attention to them?
1.014 - Abraham, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
5. We sent Moses with Our signs: “Bring your people out of darkness into light, and remind them of the Days of God.” In that are signs for every patient and thankful person.”
6. Moses said to his people, “Remember God’s blessings upon you, as He delivered you from the people of Pharaoh, who inflicted on you terrible suffering, slaughtering your sons while sparing your daughters. In that was a serious trial from your Lord.”
1.016 - The Bee, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
44. With the clarifications and the scriptures. And We revealed to you the reminder, that you may clarify to the people what was revealed to them, and that they may reflect.
45. Do those who scheme evils feel secure that God will not cause the earth to cave in with them, or that the punishment will not come upon them from where they do not perceive?
1.018 - The Cave, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
57. Who does greater wrong than he, who, when reminded of his Lord’s revelations, turns away from them, and forgets what his hands have put forward? We have placed coverings over their hearts, lest they understand it, and heaviness in their ears. And if you call them to guidance, they will not be guided, ever.
58. Your Lord is the Forgiver, Possessor of Mercy. Were He to call them to account for what they have earned, He would have hastened the punishment for them. But they have an appointment from which they will find no escape.
1.01 - Adam Kadmon and the Evolution, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
by a redeemer who reminds them of their origin. In the
Bible, Satan (originally the Angel of Light) revolts against
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we are reminded of the Vedic Fire which is hymned as the
upbuilder of the worlds, the secret Immortal in men and
things, the periphery of the gods. ... We are reminded of the
Vedic thunderbolt, that electric Fire, of the Sun who is the
1.01 - Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
father reminds him what his duty is. He then sets out for the
water and plunges into the dark depths of the well, where he
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man, but reminds him at the same time of his helplessness and
ineffectuality. Strong natures or should one rather call them
weak? do not like to be reminded of this, but prefer to think of
themselves as heroes who are beyond good and evil, and to
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come very close to this standpoint. I need only remind you of
the parable of the unjust steward.
1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
No doubt they can ride at last who shall have earned their fare, that is, if they survive so long, but they will probably have lost their elasticity and desire to travel by that time. This spending of the best part of ones life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the
Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once. What! exclaim a million Irishmen starting up from all the shanties in the land, is not this railroad which we have built a good thing? Yes, I answer, _comparatively_ good, that is, you might have done worse; but I wish, as you are brothers of mine, that you could have spent your time better than digging in this dirt.
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For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labor of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living. The whole of my winters, as well as most of my summers, I had free and clear for study. I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income, for I was obliged to dress and train, not to say think and believe, accordingly, and I lost my time into the bargain. As I did not teach for the good of my fellow-men, but simply for a livelihood, this was a failure. I have tried trade; but I found that it would take ten years to get under way in that, and that then I should probably be on my way to the devil. I was actually afraid that I might by that time be doing what is called a good business. When formerly I was looking about to see what I could do for a living, some sad experience in conforming to the wishes of friends being fresh in my mind to tax my ingenuity, I thought often and seriously of picking huckleberries; that surely I could do, and its small profits might suffice,for my greatest skill has been to want but little,so little capital it required, so little distraction from my wonted moods, I foolishly thought. While my acquaintances went unhesitatingly into trade or the professions, I contemplated this occupation as most like theirs; ranging the hills all summer to pick the berries which came in my way, and thereafter carelessly dispose of them; so, to keep the flocks of Admetus. I also dreamed that I might gather the wild herbs, or carry evergreens to such villagers as loved to be reminded of the woods, even to the city, by hay-cart loads. But I have since learned that trade curses everything it handles; and though you trade in messages from heaven, the whole curse of trade attaches to the business.
As I preferred some things to others, and especially valued my freedom, as I could fare hard and yet succeed well, I did not wish to spend my time in earning rich carpets or other fine furniture, or delicate cookery, or a house in the Grecian or the Gothic style just yet. If there are any to whom it is no interruption to acquire these things, and who know how to use them when acquired, I relinquish to them the pursuit. Some are industrious, and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to such I have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers. For myself I found that the occupation of a day-laborer was the most independent of any, especially as it required only thirty or forty days in a year to support one. The laborers day ends with the going down of the sun, and he is then free to devote himself to his chosen pursuit, independent of his labor; but his employer, who speculates from month to month, has no respite from one end of the year to the other.
1.01 - How is Knowledge Of The Higher Worlds Attained?, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
and in quite a different situation. In this way something begins to live within him which ranges above the purely personal. His gaze is directed to worlds higher than those with which every-day life connects him. And thus he begins to feel and realize, as an inner experience, that he belongs to those higher worlds. These are worlds concerning which his senses and his daily occupation can tell him nothing. Thus he now shifts the central point of his being to the inner part of his nature. He listens to the voices within him which speak to him in his moments of tranquility; he cultivates an intercourse with the spiritual world. He is removed from the every-day world. Its noise is silenced. All around him there is silence. He puts away everything that reminds him of such impressions from without. Calm inward contemplation and converse with the purely spiritual world fill his soul.-Such tranquil contemplation must become a natural necessity in the life of the student. He is now plunged in a world of thought. He must develop a living feeling for this silent thought-activity. He must learn to love what the spirit pours into him. He will soon cease to feel that this thought-world is
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1.01 - Meeting the Master - Authors first meeting, December 1918, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Sri Aurobindo was sitting in a wooden chair behind a small table covered with an indigo-blue cloth in the verandah upstairs when I went up to meet him. I felt a spiritual light surrounding his face. His look was penetrating. He had known me by my correspondence. I reminded him about my brother having met him at Baroda; he had not forgotten him. Then I informed him that our group was now ready to start revolutionary activity. It had taken us about eleven years to get organised.
Sri Aurobindo remained silent for some time. Then he put me questions about my sadhana. I described my efforts and added: "Sadhana is all right, but it is difficult to concentrate on it so long as India is not free."
1.01 - Necessity for knowledge of the whole human being for a genuine education., #The Essentials of Education, #unset, #Zen
These issues remind us that all education and all teaching must spring from the fountain of real knowledge of human nature. In the Waldorf schools, we are attempting to create such an art of education, solidly based on true understanding of the human being, and this educational conference is about the educational methods of Waldorf education.
Knowledge of human nature! I can hear people saying how far we have come in our knowledge of human nature in our time! I must reply that, although we have made extraordinary advances in our knowledge of the human physical body, human beings are really body, soul, and spirit. The worldview at the foundation of Waldorf education that is, anthroposophical spiritual science consists equally of knowledge of the human body, the human soul, and the human spirit, being careful to avoid any imbalance.
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In our adult interactions, we use our knowledge of other people so unconsciously that we are unaware of it, but we nevertheless act according to it. In our capacity as teachers, however, the relationship between our human soul as teacher and the childs human soul must be much more conscious, so that we have a formative effect on the child. But we also must become aware of our own teachers soul so that we experience whats necessary to establish the right mood, the right teaching artistry, and the right empathy with the childs soul. All of these things are necessary to perform our educa- tional and teaching task adequately. Were immediately reminded that the most important aspect in education and teaching is what occurs between the teachers soul and the childs soul.
Lets start with this knowledge of human nature; its knowl- edge with soft edges. It lacks sharp contours to the extent that its not related to any one person. Rather, over the course of the educational relationship it hovers, as it were, weaving here and there between what happens in the teachers soul and in the childs soul. In certain ways, its difficult to be sure of whats happening, since its all very subtle. When we teach, something is present that flows like a stream, constantly changing. Its necessary to develop an eye, an inner faculty that can grasp the fleeting, subtle influ- ences that pass from soul to soul. Only then, perhaps; only when we have the ability to comprehend the intimate, spiritual inter- play between two human beings, are we able to understand each individual.
1.01 - Principles of Practical Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
diametrically opposed views. I would remind you of the Libeault-
Bernheim French method of suggestion therapy, rducation de la
1.01 - Tara the Divine, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
always remind ourselves of the two levels of reality:
- Ultimate truth, beyond notions of subject and object,
1.01 - The Unexpected, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
There was another unexpected visitor. Dr. Savoor, Principal of a College in the South, and an amateur homeopath. I do not know how he gained entry into the sanctuary. Since homeopathy claimed to have some good remedies for hastening bony union, he was perhaps given a chance with the Mother's consent. But there was no way of ascertaining the effect of the treatment. It did no harm, I suppose. Satyendra reminded me that at Dr. Savoor's suggestion, a homeopathic drug Nux Vomica X had been tried for Sri Aurobindo's constipation at the beginning. That having failed a higher potency 200 of the same drug was given and it produced a good effect.
Dr. Manilal wanted me to keep him informed of Sri Aurobindo's condition and, as if to be quite assured, got even the Mother's seal upon it. The seal however could not affect my habitual indolence, and this was further encouraged, because everything was proceeding in a I smooth manner. The Mother inquired once, perhaps on Dr. Manilal's complaint about my silence, then she referred my dilatoriness to Sri Aurobindo and I had to write without delay.
1.01 - What is Magick?, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
(Illustration: A man may use a razor to make himself vigilant over his speech, by using it to cut himself whenever he unguardedly utters a chosen word. He may serve the same purpose by resolving that every incident of his life shall remind him of a particular thing, Making every impression the starting point of a connected series of thoughts ending in that thing. He might also devote his whole energies to some particular object, by resolving to do nothing at variance therewith, and to make every act turn to the advantage of that object.)
18. He may attract to himself any force of the Universe by making himself a fit receptacle for it, establishing a connection with it, and arranging conditions so that its nature compels it to flow toward him.
1.01 - Who is Tara, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
Tara is ever mindful of the teachings she has received from him. This reminds
us to do the same.
1.020 - Ta-Ha, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
3. But only as a reminder for him who fears.
4. A revelation from He who created the earth and the high heavens.
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124. But whoever turns away from My reminder, for him is a confined life. And We will raise him on the Day of Resurrection blind.”
125. He will say, “My Lord, why did You raise me blind, though I was seeing?”
1.021 - The Prophets, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
2. No fresh reminder comes to them from their Lord, but they listen to it playfully.
3. Their hearts distracted, the wrongdoers confer secretly, “Is this anything but a mortal like you? Will you take to sorcery, with open-eyes?”
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48. We gave Moses and Aaron the Criterion, and illumination, and a reminder for the righteous.
49. Those who fear their Lord in private, and are apprehensive of the Hour.
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84. So We answered him, lifted his suffering, and restored his family to him, and their like with them—a mercy from Us, and a reminder for the worshipers.
85. And Ishmael, and Enoch, and Ezekiel; each was one of the steadfast.
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105. We have written in the Psalms, after the reminder, that the earth will be inherited by My righteous servants.
106. Indeed, in this is a message for people who worship.
10.24 - Savitri, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We are reminded here of a parallelism in Goethes conception of the role of Satan (the Negative Principle) in human affairs. Satan is not merely a destroying devil, he is a constructive angel. For it is he
"Since the man refused the meal I had prepared with so much love and care, I invoked the God to take it.
1.025 - The Criterion, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
73. And those who, when reminded of the revelations of their Lord, do not fall before them deaf and blind.
74. And those who say, “Our Lord, grant us delight in our spouses and our children, and make us a good example for the righteous.”
1.026 - The Poets, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
5. No fresh reminder comes to them from the Most Merciful, but they turn their backs at it.
6. They have denied the truth, but soon will come to them the news of what they ridiculed.
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209. As a reminder—We are never unjust.
210. It was not the devils that revealed it.
1.028 - Bringing About Whole-Souled Dedication, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
I am reminded of a small child who was very eager to plant a mango tree. He brought a small mango plant and planted it in the ground, and every day he wanted to know how much it had grown. So he would pull it up to see how much it had grown, and then he would replant it. The following day he would again remove it to see how far down the roots had gone, and then replant it. We know that if every day we pull the plant up to see how far down the roots have gone, it will wither away and there will be no mango. This is a very foolish child's attitude which does not know what is to be done. While the intention is to have a mango from the tree, and it is a very good intention indeed, what is the use of the intention when the technique is not known? The child pulls out the plant every day to see how far down the roots have gone.
Similarly, the minds of 99.9% of the people in the world are made in such a way that while it looks as if there is a good and pious intention on one side, there is also a stultifying effect immediately following from it, due to a lack of understanding. While we are doing some good things, we are also doing correspondingly counteracting actions every day, so that the good things do not bring any result. We then complain, "I am doing so much good, but nothing comes of it." How can anything come? We are pulling up the plant every day to see the depth of the root.
1.029 - The Spider, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
51. Does it not suffice them that We revealed to you the Scripture, which is recited to them? In that is mercy and a reminder for people who believe.
52. Say, “God suffices as witness between you and me. He knows everything in the heavens and the Earth. Those who believe in vanity and reject God—it is they who are the losers.”
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
has left a memory in all the temples. With her sons, the saviors, she left songs and dances as a reminder.
Thus the priests, the fathers, and the older brothers have reported.288
1.02 - On detachment, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
10. After our renunciation, when the demons inflame our hearts by reminding us of our parents and brethren, then let us arm ourselves against them with prayer, and let us inflame ourselves with the remembrance of the eternal fire, so that by reminding ourselves of this, we may quench the untimely fire of our heart.
11. If anyone thinks he is without attachment to some object, but is grieved at its loss, then he is completely deceiving himself.
1.02 - SADHANA PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
here again I will remind you of the cosmology of the Sankhya
philosophy. According to the Sankhyas, nature is both the
1.02 - Self-Consecration, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
7:The first necessity is to dissolve that central faith and vision in the mind which concentrate it on its development and satisfaction and interests in the old externalised order of things. It is imperative to exchange this surface orientation for the deeper faith and vision which see only the Divine and seek only after the Divine. The next need is to compel all our lower being to pay homage to this new faith and greater vision. All our nature must make an integral surrender; it must offer itself in every part and every movement to that which seems to the unregenerated sensemind so much less real than the material world and its objects. Our whole being-soul, mind, sense, heart, will, life, body must consecrate all its energies so entirely and in such a way that it shall become a fit vehicle for the Divine. This is no easy task; for everything in the world follows the fixed habit which is to it a law and resists a radical change. And no change can be more radical than the revolution attempted in the integral Yoga. Everything in us has constantly to be called back to the central faith and will and vision. Every thought and impulse has to be reminded in the language of the Upanishad that "That is the divine Brahman and not this which men here adore." Every vital fibre has to be persuaded to accept an entire renunciation of all that hitherto represented to it its own existence. Mind has to cease to be mind and become brilliant with something beyond it. Life has to change into a thing vast and calm and intense and powerful that can no longer recognise its old blind eager narrow self or petty impulse and desire. Even the body has to submit to a mutation and be no longer the clamorous animal or the impeding clod it now is, but become instead a conscious servant and radiant instrument and living form of the spirit.
8:The difficulty of the task has led naturally to the pursuit of easy and trenchant solutions; it has generated and fixed deeply' the tendency of religions and of schools of Yoga to separate the life of the world from the inner life. The powers of this world and their actual activities, it is felt, either do not belong to God at all or are for some obscure and puzzling cause, Maya or another, a dark contradiction of the divine Truth. And on their own opposite side the powers of the Truth and their ideal activities are seen to belong to quite another plane of consciousness than that, obscure, ignorant and perverse in its impulses and forces, on which the life of the earth is founded. There appears at once the antinomy of a bright and pure kingdom of God and a dark and impure kingdom of the devil; we feel the opposition of our crawling earthly birth and life to an exalted spiritual God-consciousness; we become readily convinced of the incompatibility of life's subjection to Maya with the soul's concentration in pure Brahman existence. The easiest way is to turn away from all that belongs to the one and to retreat by a naked and precipitous ascent into the other. Thus arises the attraction and, it would seem, the necessity of the principle of exclusive concentration which plays so prominent a part in the specialised schools of Yoga; for by that concentration we can arrive through an uncompromising renunciation of the world at an entire self-consecration to the One on whom we concentrate. It is no longer incumbent on us to compel all the lower activities to the difficult recognition of a new and higher spiritualised life and train them to be its agents or executive powers. It is enough to kill or quiet them and keep at most the few energies necessary, on one side, for the maintenance of the body and, on the other, for communion with the Divine.
1.02 - The 7 Habits An Overview, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
If you have P and PC in balance, she cleans the room cheerfully, without being reminded, because she is committed and has the discipline to stay with the commitment. She is a valuable asset, a goose that can produce golden eggs.
But if your paradigm is focused on Production, on getting the room clean, you might find yourself nagging her to do it. You might even escalate your efforts to threatening or yelling, and in your desire to get the golden egg, you undermine the health and welfare of the goose.
1.02 - The Development of Sri Aurobindos Thought, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
may be reminded once more that these are reported words.
10 Kireet Joshi: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, pp. 89-90.t h e de v e l opme nt of Sr i Aur ob indos thought
1.02 - The Divine Teacher, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
HE PECULIARITY of the Gita among the great religious books of the world is that it does not stand apart as a work by itself, the fruit of the spiritual life of a creative personality like Christ, Mahomed or Buddha or of an epoch of pure spiritual searching like the Veda and Upanishads, but is given as an episode in an epic history of nations and their wars and men and their deeds and arises out of a critical moment in the soul of one of its leading personages face to face with the crowning action of his life, a work terrible, violent and sanguinary, at the point when he must either recoil from it altogether or carry it through to its inexorable completion. It matters little whether or no, as modern criticism supposes, the Gita is a later composition inserted into the mass of the Mahabharata by its author in order to invest its teaching with the authority and popularity of the great national epic. There seem to me to be strong grounds against this supposition for which, besides, the evidence, extrinsic or internal, is in the last degree scanty and insufficient. But even if it be sound, there remains the fact that the author has not only taken pains to interweave his work inextricably into the vast web of the larger poem, but is careful again and again to remind us of the situation from which the teaching has arisen; he returns to it prominently, not only at the end, but in the middle of his profoundest philosophical disquisitions. We must accept the insistence of the author and give its full importance to this recurrent preoccupation of the Teacher and the disciple.
The teaching of the Gita must therefore be regarded not merely in the light of a general spiritual philosophy or ethical doctrine, but as bearing upon a practical crisis in the application of ethics and spirituality to human life. For what that crisis stands, what is the significance of the battle of Kurukshetra and its effect on
1.02 - The Necessity of Magick for All, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Here we are, then, caught in a net of circumstances; if we are to do anything at all beyond automatic vegetative living, we must consciously apply ourselves to Magick, "the Science and Art" (let me remind you!) "of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will." Observe that the least slackness or error means that things happen which do not thus conform; when this is so despite our efforts, we are (temporarily) baffled; when it is our own ignorance of what we ought to will, or lack of skill in adapting our means to the right end, then we set up a conflict in our own Nature: our act is suicidal. Such interior struggle is at the base of nearly all neuroses, as Freud recently "discovered" as if this had not been taught, and taught without his massed errors, by the great teachers of the past! The Taoist doctrine, in particular, is most precise and most emphatic on this point; indeed, it may seem to some of us to overshoot the mark; for nothing is permissible in that scheme but frictionless adjustment and adaptation to circumstance. "Benevolence and righteousness" are actually deprecated! That any such ideas should ever have existed (says Lao-tse) is merely evidence of the universal disorder.
Taoist sectaries appear to assume that Perfection consists in the absence of any disturbance of the Stream of Nescience; and this is very much like the Buddhist idea of Nibbana.
1.02 - THE QUATERNIO AND THE MEDIATING ROLE OF MERCURIUS, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
This refers to the synthesis of the planets or metals with the sun, to form a crown which will be within Hermes. The crown signifies the kingly totality; it stands for unity and is not subject to Heimarmene. This reminds us of the seven- or twelve-rayed crown of light which the Agathodaimon serpent wears on Gnostic gems,31 and also of the crown of Wisdom in the Aurora Consurgens.32
[7] In the Consilium coniugii there is a similar quaternio with the four qualities arranged as combinations of two contraries, cold and moist, which are not friendly to heat and dryness.33 Other quaternions are: The stone is first an old man, in the end a youth, because the albedo comes at the beginning and the rubedo at the end.34 Similarly the elements are arranged as two manifesta (water and earth), and two occulta (air and fire).35 A further quaternio is suggested by the saying of Bernardus Trevisanus: The upper has the nature of the lower, and the ascending has the nature of the descending.36 The following combination is from the Tractatus Micreris: In it [the Indian Ocean]37 are images of heaven and earth, of summer, autumn, winter, and spring, male and female. If thou callest this spiritual, what thou doest is probable; if corporeal, thou sayest the truth; if heavenly, thou liest not; if earthly, thou hast well spoken.38 Here we are dealing with a double quaternio having the structure shown in the diagram on page 10.
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Accordingly Mercurius, in the crude form of the prima materia, is in very truth the Original Man disseminated through the physical world, and in his sublimated form he is that reconstituted totality.62 Altogether, he is very like the redeemer of the Basilidians, who mounts upward through the planetary spheres, conquering them or robbing them of their power. The remark that he contains the powers of Sol reminds us of the above-mentioned passage in Abul-Qasim, where Hermes says that he unites the sun and the planets and causes them to be within him as a crown. This may be the origin of the designation of the lapis as the crown of victory.63 The power of Above and Below refers to that ancient authority the Tabula smaragdina, which is of Alexandrian origin.64 Besides this, our text contains allusions to the Song of Songs: through the streets and houses of the planets recalls Song of Songs 3 : 2: I will . . . go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth.65 The white and red of Mercurius refers to 5 : 10: My beloved is white and ruddy. He is likened to the matrimonium or coniunctio; that is to say he is this marriage on account of his androgynous form.
1.02 - The Recovery, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
When Dr. Manilal arrived, I breathed a sigh of relief! He was not very happy to see the new development, but hoped that everything would be all right. He was confronted with three problems: the swelling, educating the patient to walk and the bending of the knee, all of which he dealt with in his characteristic efficient manner. The swelling according to him would subside in due course. Gentle massage and hot and cold compress continued, followed later by hot douche. We used to note its diminution week by week. But it took some months to disappear completely. The bending of the knee would also take some time in view of the adhesion of the patella to the underlying tissues, in spite of passive movements. The re-education in walking seemed to be rather a straightforward job, though it was the most awkward and difficult one, for Sri Aurobindo had to walk with crutches! All that was needed was a patient and persistent effort. For Sri Aurobindo's nature, unaccustomed to physical or mechanical contrivances, and the narrow space in the room made the venture somewhat risky. The first day he got up to use the crutches was a memorable one for us. In the presence of the Mother we made him stand up, handed him the crutches and showed him how to use them. He fumbled and remarked, "Yes, it is easy to say." Two or three different pairs were tried out, but as he could not handle them properly, the Mother proposed that he had better walk leaning on two persons one on either side; It was certainly a bright suggestion, for Sri Aurobindo walking on crutches would have reminded us of his own phrase about Hephaestus' "lame omnipotent motion", an insult to his shining majestic figure. Purani and Satyendra were selected by Dr. Manilal as his human supports, much less incongruous than the ungainly wooden instruments! That was how the re-education started. The paradox of the Divine seeking frail human aid gave food to my sense of humour. However, both men proved unequal in stature; the Mother made Champaklal replace Satyendra on the left side. Now the arrangement was just and perfect and Champaklal had his aspiration fulfilled. His was the last support Sri Aurobindo was to give up. For, as his steps gained in strength and firmness, he used a stick in the right hand, and Champaklal on the left. Finally he too was dropped. As soon as it came to be known that the Master was using a walking stick, several were presented to him and there was one even of tea-wood from Assam! Thus everyday after the noon and night meals the Mother would come to his room and present the stick, and he would walk about for half an hour in her presence.
While waiting for the Mother's arrival, he would practise various bending exercises for the knee which had been improvised by Dr. Manilal. He did them sitting on the edge of the bed. He actively obeyed whatever was demanded of him. One of the exercises was hanging of the leg which later became a common joke amongst us.
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The Darshan day at last! In the morning, the Mother arrived in his room with a flower, probably a red lotus, knelt before the Lord, placed the lotus on his bed and bowed down to receive his blessings and his sweet smile. This was the second time I saw her doing pranam to him. The first time was on her birthday, February 21. It was a revelation to me, for I did not expect her to bow down in the Indian way. On every Darshan day since then I enjoyed the sight. On other days she used to take his hand and lightly kiss it. With her customary drive, she chalked out the Darshan programme, the time for Sri Aurobindo's lunch and of her coming for the Darshan. We had to be ready and keep the Master ready too. From the early morning time began to move fast, the Mother was seen rushing about, she had so many things to attend to! Everything finished, clad in a lovely sari, a crown adorning her shapely head, looking like a veritable Goddess, she entered Sri Aurobindo's room with brisk steps, earlier than the appointed time, as was her wont. She gave a quick glance at us. We were all attention. The entire group was present, it being the first Darshan after the accident. She was pleased to find us ready. Sri Aurobindo was dressed in an immaculate white dhoti, its border daintily creased, as is the custom in Bengal; a silk chaddar across his chest and his long shining hair flowing down a picture that reminded us of Shiva and Shakti going out to give darshan to their bhaktas; Sri Aurobindo was in front and the Mother behind. They sat together as on other Darshan days, she on his right, a glorious view, and the ceremony began.
It was, however, a simple Darshan. One by one the sadhaks stood for a brief moment before the One-in-Two, and passed on quietly thrilled and exalted by their silent look and gracious smile. The feelings of the sadhaks can be imagined when they saw their beloved Master restored to his normal health! The Darshan was over within an hour, and when Sri Aurobindo was back in his room Dr. Rao remarked in his childlike manner, "Sir, you looked grand at the Darshan!" Sri Aurobindo smiled and we retorted, just to tease him, "At other times he doesn't?" Rao, nonplussed, replied, "No, no, I did not mean that." Truly, Rao had expressed the sentiments of hundreds of devotees who had a glimpse of him during the Darshan. What a grandeur and majesty in his simple silent pose! What a power, as if he held the whole world in the palm of his hand! If ever a human being could attain the stature of a god, he was there for all to see and be blessed by. Many have had a deep change after just one touch of his God-like magnificence. "A touch can alter the fixed front of Fate." Many had visions and boons they had long been seeking for, and for the sadhaks each Darshan was a step to a further milestone towards the Eternal. Sri Aurobindo had said: "Darshans are periods of great descents!" It was not for nothing that Hitler chose the 15th of August for his royal ascension in Buckingham Palace and got the first heavy blow. Nor was it for nothing that India gained her independence on that immortal day.
1.02 - The Three European Worlds, #The Ever-Present Origin, #Jean Gebser, #Integral
Once more, he is terrified, only this time less by his encounter with space than by the encounter with his soul of which he is reminded by the chance discovery of Augustine's words. "I admit I was overcome with wonderment," he continues; "I begged my Brother who also desired to read the Passage not to disturb me, and closed the book. I was irritated for having turned my thoughts to mundane matters at such a moment, for even the Pagan philosophers should have long since taught me that there is nothing more wondrous than the soul [nihilpraeteranimumessemirabile], and that compared to its greatness nothing is great."
Pausing for a new Paragraph, he continues with these surprising words: "My gaze, fully satisfied by contemplating the mountain [i.e., only after a conscious and exhaustive survey of the Panorama], my eyes turned inward [in me ipsuminterioresoculosreflexi]; and then we fell silent . . " Although obscured by psychological reservations and the memory of his physical exertion, the concluding lines of his letter suggest an ultimate affirmation of his ascent and the attendant experience: "So much perspiration and effort just to bring the body a little closer to heaven; the soul, when approaching God. must be similarly terrified.
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While plumbing the hidden depths of the word roots, we will have to be constantly mindful of connections forgotten by contemporary man. Any attempt to probe this region is likely to unleash a negative reaction in present-day man, since such insights into the shadowy depth are unsettling; they remind him too much of the dark depths which he does not yet dare to acknowledge in himself. Yet it is perfectly permissible today, and to some degree indispensible, to think symbolical while describing symbolic processes. If we insist an such symbolic thinking, however, one precept must be observed: as far as possible we must possess an insight into the particular symbol; that is, we must be certain and aware of the symbolism involved. If we are not, we lose our self-assurance and become victims of the symbol, captive to an unknown power that controls us according to its will. We would expressly warn here of such psychic violation by the symbol, as well as of the psychic bondage that results from an inadequate awareness and knowledge of symbolic thinking.
Let us, however, return to the question of perspectivity. We have noted that perspective is the pre-eminent expression of the emergent consciousness of fifteenth-century European man, the palpable expression of his objectivation of spatial awareness. Besides illuminating space, perspective brings it to man's awareness and lends man his own visibility of himself. We have also noted that in the paintings of Giotto and Masaccio this evident perception of man comes to light for the first time. Yet this very same perspective whose study and gradual acquisition were a major preoccupation for Renaissance man not only extends his image of the world achieving spatialization but also narrows his vision - a consequence that still afflicts us today.
1.02 - Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
Day, or the Fourth of July, 1845, my house was not finished for winter, but was merely a defence against the rain, without plastering or chimney, the walls being of rough, weather-stained boards, with wide chinks, which made it cool at night. The upright white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window casings gave it a clean and airy look, especially in the morning, when its timbers were saturated with dew, so that I fancied that by noon some sweet gum would exude from them. To my imagination it retained throughout the day more or less of this auroral character, reminding me of a certain house on a mountain which I had visited the year before. This was an airy and unplastered cabin, fit to entertain a travelling god, and where a goddess might trail her garments. The winds which passed over my dwelling were such as sweep over the ridges of mountains, bearing the broken strains, or celestial parts only, of terrestrial music. The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it.
Olympus is but the outside of the earth every where.
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I distinguished elevated perhaps by a mirage in their seething valley, like a coin in a basin, all the earth beyond the pond appeared like a thin crust insulated and floated even by this small sheet of interverting water, and I was reminded that this on which I dwelt was but _dry land_.
Though the view from my door was still more contracted, I did not feel crowded or confined in the least. There was pasture enough for my imagination. The low shrub-oak plateau to which the opposite shore arose, stretched away toward the prairies of the West and the steppes of Tartary, affording ample room for all the roving families of men.
1.032 - Prostration, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
15. They believe in Our communications, those who, when reminded of them, fall down prostrate, and glorify their Lord with praise, and are not proud.
16. Their sides shun their beds, as they pray to their Lord, out of reverence and hope; and from Our provisions to them, they give.
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22. Who is more wrong than he, who, when reminded of his Lord’s revelations, turns away from them? We will certainly wreak vengeance upon the criminals.
23. We gave Moses the Book; so do not be in doubt regarding His encounter; and We made it a guidance for the Children of Israel.
10.35 - The Moral and the Spiritual, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A strange fascination for the forbidden fruit has gripped the modern mentality and the most significant part of the thing is that the forbidding comes from within oneself, not from any authority outside It is self-forbidden. We are reminded here of the Kantian moral absolute the categorical imperative. This is a gospel based upon the Christian and Semitic tradition, polished by the Greek (that is, Socratic) touch, quickened and sharpened by the intellectual and social stress of European Culture. India admitted no such moral absolute or mental categorical imperative. The urge of her spiritual consciousness was always to go beyond, beyond the dualities, beyond the trinities (the three gunas)all mental or scriptural rules and regulations. For her there is only one absolute the transcendent, the Supreme Divine himself the Brahman, nothing else, netaram.
The Indian spiritual consciousness considers the secular distinction of good and evil as otiose: both are maya, there must neither be attachment to the Good, nor repulsion from Evil, the two, dwandwas, belong to the same category of relativity, that is, unreality.
1.036 - Ya-Seen, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
19. They said, “Your evil omen is upon you. Is it because you were reminded? But you are an extravagant people.”
20. Then a man came running from the remotest part of the city. He said, “O my people, follow the messengers.
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69. We did not teach him poetry, nor is it proper for him. It is only a reminder, and a Clear Quran.
70. That he may warn whoever is alive, and prove the Word against the faithless.
1.037 - The Aligners, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
3. And the reciters of the reminder.
4. Your God is indeed One.
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13. And when reminded, they pay no attention.
14. And when they see a sign, they ridicule.
1.038 - Saad, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
49. This is a reminder. The devout will have a good place of return.
50. The Gardens of Eden, with their doors wide-open for them.
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87. It is but a reminder to mankind.
88. And you will know its message after a while.”
1.039 - Throngs, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
21. Have you not considered how God sends down water from the sky, then He makes it flow into underground wells, then He produces with it plants of various colors, then they wither and you see them yellowing, then He turns them into debris? Surely in this is a reminder for those with understanding.
22. What about someone whose heart God has opened to Islam, so that he follows a light from His Lord? Woe to those whose hearts are hardened against the mention of God. Those are in manifest error.
1.03 - A Sapphire Tale, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
"My son, I have ruled this country for more than a hundred and seventy years and although, to this day, all men of goodwill have seemed content with my guidance, I fear that my great age will soon no longer allow me to bear so lightly the heavy responsibility of maintaining order and watching over the well-being of all. My son, you are my hope and my joy. Nature has been very generous to you; she has showered you with her gifts and by a wise and model education you have developed them most satisfactorily. The whole nation, from the humblest peasant to our great philosophers, has a complete and affectionate trust in you; you have been able to win their affection by your kindness and their respect by your justice. It is therefore quite natural that their choice should fall on you when I ask for leave to enjoy a well-earned repose. But as you know, according to age-old custom, no one may ascend the throne who is not biune, that is, unless he is united by the bonds of integral affinity with the one who can bring him the peace of equilibrium by a perfect match of tastes and abilities. It was to remind you of this custom that I called you here, and to ask you whether you have met the young woman who is both worthy and willing to unite her life with yours, according to our wish."
"It would be a joy to me, my father, to be able to tell you, `I have found the one whom my whole being awaits', but, alas, this is yet to be. The most refined maidens in the kingdom are all known to me, and for several of them I feel a sincere liking and a genuine admiration, but not one of them has awakened in me the love which can be the only rightful bond, and I think I can say without being mistaken that in return none of them has conceived a love for me. Since you are so kind as to value my judgment, I will tell you what is in my mind. It seems to me that I should be better fitted to rule our little nation if I were acquainted with the laws and customs of other countries; I wish therefore to travel the world for a year, to observe and to learn. I ask you, my father, to allow me to make this journey, and who knows? - I may return with my life's companion, the one for whom I can be all happiness and all protection."
1.03 - Preparing for the Miraculous, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
als, and therefore a reminder to them of his and the Moth-
ers Work, suddenly took another turn: for the first time Sri
1.03 - Supernatural Aid, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
The man looked old, and he had white sideburns. He reminded me of a certain
chief forester who was a good friend of my father." (Wilhelm Stekel, Die
1.03 - The House Of The Lord, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
This is the overall picture of Sri Aurobindo's outer life as we saw it and lived it together through his last twelve years. The programme remained, on the whole, constant till the end except for some minor variations due to exigencies of circumstances. I have said nothing about his inner life, for I was not given a vision or perception of that vast secret field; nor had I Arjuna's unique privilege of seeing his Vivarpa, except some glimpses of his God-like stature. Sri Aurobindo had reminded me again and again in his letters that my physical crust was too thick. All the same, the joy, peace, light and energy that constantly sustained us could come from his silent Presence alone. People used to remark that we seemed to be beings of another world. Unfortunately, that brightness and felicity gave place to a grave seriousness with the rolling of years and a shadow of gloom was over us all, though we could not account for it at the time. Besides, the dark underside of our human nature, I am talking particularly of myself also began to show its grisly face. "Mortality bears ill the Eternal's touch." Of course, Sri Aurobindo remained samam brahman. Our frailties and shortcomings he had already seen from above, and was prepared for them when he accepted us for his service; he had never shown any annoyance. On the contrary, he forgave us all. Though he was impersonal by nature, hardly looked at us while talking, rarely spoke our name while asking for something, there was an ineffable sweetness in his Presence. And during our pranam on our birthdays or Darshan days, he used to make up for all his want of expression by melting into fatherly or friendly love and affection. He would pat us on the head, press it long with his warm velvety hands and look into our eyes with the tenderness of his sweet personality. Satyendra told me that when on his birthday he used to rub some attar on Sri Aurobindo's hand, he would then put forward the other one. His constant silent love and compassion shine ever bright in the depths of our hearts.
[1] A kind of pepper water with tamarind juice.
1.03 - The Sephiros, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Shechinah, the spiritual Presence of Ain Soph as a heritage to mankind and an ever-present reminder of spiritual verities. That is why there is written " Keser is in Malkus, and Malkus is in Keser, though after another manner
The Zohar would imply that the real Shechinah, the real
1.03 - To Layman Ishii, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
Although remarks of a personal nature are scattered throughout this letter, reminding the reader that it is indeed a letter, it is for the most part a series of discourses that Hakuin apparently composed to express his gratitude to Ishii for having taken care of one of his monks, an attendant named Boku, who had fallen ill. Hakuin presents these as a word-for-word account of the instructions he gave Boku upon the attendant's return from Ishii's residence, although the message they contain seems intended
primarily for the recipient of the letter, Layman Ishii himself.
1.040 - Forgiver, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
54. A guide and a reminder for those endowed with reason.
55. So be patient. The promise of God is true. And ask forgiveness for your sin, and proclaim the praise of your Lord evening and morning.
1.041 - Detailed, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
41. Those who reject the reminder when it has come to them—it is an invincible Book.
42. Falsehood cannot approach it, from before it or behind it. It is a revelation from One Wise and Praiseworthy.
1.043 - Decorations, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
5. Shall We hold back the reminder from you, since you are a transgressing people?
6. How many a prophet did We send to the ancients?
1.044 - Smoke, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
13. But how can they be reminded? An enlightening messenger has already come to them.
14. But they turned away from him, and said, “Educated, but crazy!”
1.047 - Muhammad, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
18. Are they just waiting until the Hour comes to them suddenly? Its tokens have already come. But how will they be reminded when it has come to them?
19. Know that there is no god but God, and ask forgiveness for your sin, and for the believing men and believing women. God knows your movements, and your resting-place.
1.04 - GOD IN THE WORLD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
These phrases about the unmoving first mover remind one of Aristotle. But between Aristotle and the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy within the great religious traditions there is this vast difference: Aristotle is primarily concerned with cosmology, the Perennial Philosophers are primarily concerned with liberation and enlightenment: Aristotle is content to know about the unmoving mover, from the outside and theoretically; the aim of the Perennial Philosophers is to become directly aware of it, to know it unitively, so that they and others may actually become the unmoving One. This unitive knowledge can be knowledge in the heights, or knowledge in the fulness, or knowledge simultaneously in the heights and the fulness. Spiritual knowledge exclusively in the heights of the soul was rejected by Mahayana Buddhism as inadequate. The similar rejection of quietism within the Christian tradition will be touched upon in the section, Contemplation and Action. Meanwhile it is interesting to find that the problem which aroused such acrimonious debate throughout seventeenth-century Europe had arisen for the Buddhists at a considerably earlier epoch. But whereas in Catholic Europe the outcome of the battle over Molinos, Mme. Guyon and Fnelon was to all intents and purposes the extinction of mysticism for the best part of two centuries, in Asia the two parties were tolerant enough to agree to differ. Hinayana spirituality continued to explore the heights within, while the Mahayanist masters held up the ideal not of the Arhat, but of the Bodhisattva, and pointed the way to spiritual knowledge in its fulness as well as in its heights. What follows is a poetical account, by a Zen saint of the eighteenth century, of the state of those who have realized the Zen ideal.
Abiding with the non-particular which is in particulars,
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The Greeks believed that hubris was always followed by nemesis, that if you went too far you would get a knock on the head to remind you that the gods will not tolerate insolence on the part of mortal men. In the sphere of human relations, the modern mind understands the doctrine of hubris and regards it as mainly true. We wish pride to have a fall, and we see that very often it does fall.
To have too much power over ones fellows, to be too rich, too violent, too ambitiousall this invites punishment, and in the long run, we notice, punishment of one sort or another duly comes. But the Greeks did not stop there. Because they regarded Nature as in some way divine, they felt that it had to be respected and they were convinced that a hubristic lack of respect for Nature would be punished by avenging nemesis. In The Persians, Aeschylus gives the reasons the ultimate, metaphysical reasons for the barbarians defeat. Xerxes was punished for two offencesoverweening imperialism directed against the Athenians, and overweening imperialism directed against Nature. He tried to enslave his fellow men, and he tried to enslave the sea, by building a bridge across the Hellespont.
1.04 - On blessed and ever-memorable obedience, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
I saw among these holy fathers things that were truly profitable and admirable. I saw a brotherhood gathered and united in the Lord, with a wonderful active and contemplative life. For they were so occupied with divine thoughts and they exercised themselves so much in good deeds that there was scarcely any need for the superior to remind them of anything, but of their own good will they aroused one another to divine vigilance. For they had certain holy and divine exercises that were defined, studied and fixed. If in the absence of the superior one of them began to use abusive language or criticize people or simply talk idly, some other brother by a secret nod reminded him of this, and quietly put a stop to it. But if, by chance, the brother did not notice, then the one who reminded him would make a prostration and retire. And the incessant and ceaseless topic of their conversation (when it was necessary to say anything) was the remembrance of death and the thought of eternal judgment.
I must not omit to tell you about the extraordinary achievement of the baker of that community. Seeing that he had attained to constant recollection2 and tears during his service, I asked him to tell me how he came to be granted such a grace. And when I pressed him, he replied: I have never thought that I was serving men but God. And having judged myself unworthy of all rest,3 by this visible fire4 I am unceasingly reminded of the future flame.
Let us hear about another surprising attainment of theirs. For not even in the refectory did they stop mental activity,5 but according to a certain custom, these blessed men reminded one another of interior prayer by secret signs and gestures. And they did this not only in the refectory, but at every encounter and gathering.
1 Psalm xxxi, 5.
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I disputed the matter with that true director, and reminded him of the infirmity of our race, and that the undeserved, or perhaps not undeserved, punishment may make many break away from the flock. Again that temple of wisdom said: A soul attached to the shepherd with love and faith for Christs sake will not leave him even if it were at the price of his blood, and especially if he has received through him the healing of his wounds, for he remembers him who says: Neither angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor any other creature can separate us from the love of Christ.2 But if the soul is not attached, bound and devoted to the shepherd in this way, then I wonder if such a man is not living in this place in vain, for he is united to the shepherd by a hypocritical and false obedience. And truly this great man is not deceived, but he has directed, led to perfection and offered to Christ unblemished sacrifices.
1 2 Timothy iv, 2.
1.04 - Sounds, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
I did not read books the first summer; I hoed beans. Nay, I often did better than this. There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sing around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some travellers wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time. I grew in those seasons like corn in the night, and they were far better than any work of the hands would have been. They were not time subtracted from my life, but so much over and above my usual allowance.
I realized what the Orientals mean by contemplation and the forsaking of works. For the most part, I minded not how the hours went. The day advanced as if to light some work of mine; it was morning, and lo, now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished. Instead of singing like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
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Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success. I am refreshed and expanded when the freight train rattles past me, and I smell the stores which go dispensing their odors all the way from Long Wharf to Lake Champlain, reminding me of foreign parts, of coral reefs, and Indian oceans, and tropical climes, and the extent of the globe. I feel more like a citizen of the world at the sight of the palm-leaf which will cover so many flaxen New England heads the next summer, the Manilla hemp and cocoa-nut husks, the old junk, gunny bags, scrap iron, and rusty nails. This car-load of torn sails is more legible and interesting now than if they should be wrought into paper and printed books. Who can write so graphically the history of the storms they have weathered as these rents have done?
They are proof-sheets which need no correction. Here goes lumber from the Maine woods, which did not go out to sea in the last freshet, risen four dollars on the thousand because of what did go out or was split up; pine, spruce, cedar,first, second, third, and fourth qualities, so lately all of one quality, to wave over the bear, and moose, and caribou. Next rolls Thomaston lime, a prime lot, which will get far among the hills before it gets slacked. These rags in bales, of all hues and qualities, the lowest condition to which cotton and linen descend, the final result of dress,of patterns which are now no longer cried up, unless it be in Milwaukie, as those splendid articles,
English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, &c., gathered from all quarters both of fashion and poverty, going to become paper of one color or a few shades only, on which forsooth will be written tales of real life, high and low, and founded on fact! This closed car smells of salt fish, the strong New England and commercial scent, reminding me of the Grand Banks and the fisheries. Who has not seen a salt fish, thoroughly cured for this world, so that nothing can spoil it, and putting the perseverance of the saints to the blush? with which you may sweep or pave the streets, and split your kindlings, and the teamster shelter himself and his lading against sun wind and rain behind it,and the trader, as a Concord trader once did, hang it up by his door for a sign when he commences business, until at last his oldest customer cannot tell surely whether it be animal, vegetable, or mineral, and yet it shall be as pure as a snowflake, and if it be put into a pot and boiled, will come out an excellent dun fish for a Saturdays dinner.
Next Spanish hides, with the tails still preserving their twist and the angle of elevation they had when the oxen that wore them were careering over the pampas of the Spanish main,a type of all obstinacy, and evincing how almost hopeless and incurable are all constitutional vices. I confess, that practically speaking, when I have learned a mans real disposition, I have no hopes of changing it for the better or worse in this state of existence. As the Orientals say, A curs tail may be warmed, and pressed, and bound round with ligatures, and after a twelve years labor bestowed upon it, still it will retain its natural form. The only effectual cure for such inveteracies as these tails exhibit is to make glue of them, which I believe is what is usually done with them, and then they will stay put and stick. Here is a hogshead of molasses or of brandy directed to John Smith,
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Jonsonian. Wise midnight hags! It is no honest and blunt tu-whit tu-who of the poets, but, without jesting, a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual consolations of suicide lovers remembering the pangs and the delights of supernal love in the infernal groves. Yet I love to hear their wailing, their doleful responses, trilled along the wood-side; reminding me sometimes of music and singing birds; as if it were the dark and tearful side of music, the regrets and sighs that would fain be sung. They are the spirits, the low spirits and melancholy forebodings, of fallen souls that once in human shape night-walked the earth and did the deeds of darkness, now expiating their sins with their wailing hymns or threnodies in the scenery of their transgressions. They give me a new sense of the variety and capacity of that nature which is our common dwelling. _Oh-o-o-o-o that I never had been bor-r-r-r-n!_ sighs one on this side of the pond, and circles with the restlessness of despair to some new perch on the gray oaks.
Then_that I never had been bor-r-r-r-n!_ echoes another on the farther side with tremulous sincerity, and_bor-r-r-r-n!_ comes faintly from far in the Lincoln woods.
I was also serenaded by a hooting owl. Near at hand you could fancy it the most melancholy sound in Nature, as if she meant by this to stereotype and make permanent in her choir the dying moans of a human being,some poor weak relic of mortality who has left hope behind, and howls like an animal, yet with human sobs, on entering the dark valley, made more awful by a certain gurgling melodiousness,I find myself beginning with the letters gl when I try to imitate it,expressive of a mind which has reached the gelatinous mildewy stage in the mortification of all healthy and courageous thought. It reminded me of ghouls and idiots and insane howlings. But now one answers from far woods in a strain made really melodious by distance,_Hoo hoo hoo, hoorer hoo_; and indeed for the most part it suggested only pleasing associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter.
I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognized. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the sun has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung with usnea lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath; but now a more dismal and fitting day dawns, and a different race of creatures awakes to express the meaning of Nature there.
1.04 - The Aims of Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
other circumstances, in other minds, and in other forms. I should call it amanifestation of the collective psyche. Let me remind you here of the
works of Havelock Ellis and August Forel and the contri butors to
1.04 - The Divine Mother - This Is She, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
It was a new experience indeed, for till then our approach to her was individual and restricted mostly to practical guidance; there was no intellectual communication and the Mother would always discourage intellectual questions. This was the first time she became collectively expansive and was ready to respond to intellectual seekings, but mainly on spiritual matters. These talks naturally reminded me of Sri Aurobindo's talks for their vivid contrast and I could not but make a mental comparison between them; they sharply bring out the characteristics of two different personalities though their consciousness is one. Here the Mother's personality dominated the whole atmosphere; her tone, mood and manner were stamped with a seriousness, energy and force that demanded close attention. Humour did not play a conspicuous role, but there were flashes of wit. Her eyes were on everybody, her answers, though meant for the questioner, were directed towards all so that there was no room for being inattentive or indifferent. When a play by the Mother was staged by our students, she strictly enjoined on the young children to keep complete silence. The striking difference with Sri Aurobindo, as I have pointed out, was his impersonality. He asked questions or answered them without looking at the questioner. He spoke slowly in a subdued voice with no stress in it. There was no constraint upon you, you were having a talk with a friend, and in friendship, levity, gravity, all were in order. Still, Sri Aurobindo remained Sri Aurobindo to us; there was no loss of reverence. Some of us had hotly discussed topics even to the point of losing our temper before his Witness-Purusha consciousness. That would be very unusual before the Mother. To put a homely simile, they were like a father and mother, both loving but one indulgent, liberal, large, the other a firm though not inconsiderate disciplinarian. Both are aspects of the one Divine Impersonal and Personal, Purusha and Prakriti and both have their ineffable charm. Though all were free to ask her questions, it was not always easy to ask them, as the answers instead of having a direct bearing on the questions were sometimes directed against the consciousness of the person involved; for to her, it was that which was more important, and our consciousness was an open book to her inner sight. These talks continued for quite a long time; the hall used to be packed. Unfortunately no regular record has been kept, first because they flowed very fast and secondly, there were only a few who understood French well. In later days, some talks were held in English out of a special consideration for a few people. I shall quote one or two of them from my scanty records.
Q: What is the origin of anger and how to get rid of it?
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The Mother now began to identify herself more and more with this new generation. In the evening when Sri Aurobindo was enjoying his solitude, the Mother, after her tennis, busied herself in the Playground meeting the children, watching their games and exercises, taking classes, etc. and through all these means, establishing an intimate contact with them. The exercises were done in cumbersome pyjamas which consequently checked free movement. One evening when I went to visit the Playground, I found the gate closed. The gate-keeper told me that the Mother did not want anyone except the group-members to enter the Playground. When it was thrown open we found, to our surprise, that the girls were doing exercises in shorts! How did this revolutionary change come about? Here, in brief, is the story from one who played an active part in it. One day, one of the girls, doing her exercises in pyjamas in the Playground, fell down and got hurt owing to the impractical dress. When the Mother was told about it, she listened quietly. After a couple of days, she called Bratati, one of the sadhikas of her intimate circle (she had such small intimate groups of young boys, girls and adults) and said, "I have solved the problem of the uniform. The girls will put on white shorts, a white shirt and a kitty-cap on the head for their hair. Prepare them and try them on yourself. Pyjamas are unwieldy. When you are ready, let me know about it." When everything was ready, she informed the Mother and a day was fixed for the rehearsal in strict privacy. The Mother was pleased with the design. Calling the girls together she gave a short impressive talk on the new experiment and the necessity for trying it. They at once fell in with the proposal and adopted the new uniform. But what was the reaction to this drastic step? Some, particularly old people, were shocked to see their daughters scantily dressed and doing exercises jointly with boys; a few conservative guardians were planning to take their wards away from such a modernised Ashram. I, personally, admired, on the one hand, the revolutionary step taken by the Mother far in advance of the time in Eastern countries, in anticipation of the modern movement in dress; on the other hand, my cautious mind, or as Sri Aurobindo would say, my coward-mind, could not but feel the risk involved in this forward venture. At the same time I knew that the Mother's very nature is to face danger, if necessary. And whenever we had tried to argue with her that we were doing things which were not done outside, she replied sharply, "Why should we follow the others? They have no ideas, we have ideas. I have come to break down old conventions and superstitions." Besides, whatever measures she adopts are not done for the sake of novelty or from mental reasons. "Mother is guided by her intuition," Sri Aurobindo reminded us very often. Also, I believe, she prepares the ground in the occult planes and manipulates the forces to her advantage before she takes any hazardous step. That is why we hear her say, "Wait, wait!" for the opportune moment, I suppose. We can realise now the wisdom of her vision in taking that revolutionary step. Further, I think it was one of the most effective means to eliminate sex-consciousness between the male and the female. We are in this respect much better than before now that shorts have become almost our normal dress.
To cut short the story, thanks to her long and sustained labour, these two institutions have gained today their well-deserved recognition abroad; particularly the physical culture. On the occasion of the April Darshan in 1949, the members of this organisation called J.S.A.S.A.[^7] were given the privilege of a march past in their group uniforms before the Master and the Mother. Sri Aurobindo seemed to have been much impressed by the smartness of the young boys' group.
1.04 - The Paths, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Its sacred creature is the Dolphin, its colour Buff, and its jewel the Pearl. The Pearl is referred to Pisces be- cause of its cloudy brilliance as contrasted with the trans- parency of other jewels, thus reminding one somewhat of the astral plane with its cloudy forms and semi-opaque visions as opposed to the flashes of formless light apper- taining to purely spiritual planes.
XVIII. - The Moon, is its Tarot card, describing a mid- night landscape on which the moon is shining. Standing between two towers a jackal and a wolf, with muzzles
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The implication of this Path is that of the Holy Spirit descending in tongues of fire - reminding one of the
Apostles of Christ at Pentecost - and all its attri butions are fiery. Agni is the Hindu God of Tejas, the tattva or element of fire. Hades is the Greek god of the fiery nether regions, as also are Vulcan and Pluto. Its Egyptian gods denote fiery elemental divinities, Thoum-sesh-neith, Kabeshunt, and Tarpesheth.
1.04 - The Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
and when does anything take place to remind us even remotely
of phenomena like angels, miraculous feedings, beatitudes,
1.04 - What Arjuna Saw - the Dark Side of the Force, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
following passages from Essays on the Gita may remind us
of the true contents of his teaching.
1.050 - Qaf, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
8. A lesson and a reminder for every penitent worshiper.
9. And We brought down from the sky blessed water, and produced with it gardens and grain to harvest.
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37. In that is a reminder for whoever possesses a heart, or cares to listen and witness.
38. We created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six days, and no fatigue touched Us.
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45. We are fully aware of what they say, and you are not a dictator over them. So remind by the Quran whoever fears My warning.
1.051 - The Spreaders, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
55. And remind, for the reminder benefits the believers.
56. I did not create the jinn and the humans except to worship Me.
1.052 - The Mount, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
29. So remind. By the grace of your Lord, you are neither a soothsayer, nor a madman.
30. Or do they say, “A poet—we await for him a calamity of time”?
1.056 - The Inevitable, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
73. We have made it a reminder, and a comfort for the users.
74. So glorify the Name of your Great Lord.
1.05 - On painstaking and true repentance which constitute the life of the holy convicts; and about the prison., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
The sorrowful humility of penitents is one thing; the condemnation of the conscience of those who are still living in sin is another; and the blessed wealth of humility which the perfect attain by the action of God is yet another. Let us not be in a hurry to find words to describe this third kind of humility, for our effort will be in vain. But a sign of the second is the perfect bearing of indignity. Previous habit often tyrannizes even over him who deplores it. And no wonder! The account of the judgments of God and our falls is shrouded in darkness, and it is impossible to know which are the falls that come from carelessness, and which from providential abandonment, and which from Gods turning away from us. But someone told me that in the case of falls which come to us by Divine Providence we acquire a swift revulsion from them, because He who delivers us does not allow us to be held for long. And let us who fall wrestle above all with the demon of grief. For he stands by us at the time of our prayer, and by reminding us of our former favour with God, he tries to divert our attention from prayer.
Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly the angel who guards you will honour your patience. While a wound is still fresh and warm it is easy to heal, but old, neglected and festering ones are hard to cure, and require for their care much treatment, cutting, plastering and cauterization. Many from long neglect become incurable. But with God all things are possible.3
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
As I wrote that last paragraph I was suddenly reminded of your idea that the devil as he is represented
in Miltons Paradise Lost is a metaphor for the rational intellect, placed in the position of the highest
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forcibly-induced shift of context removes, by design, all concrete reminders of group identity, all hallmarks
of social hierarchy, destroys all previous ideals, undermines all goal-directed activity exposes essential
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every reminder of previous identity, his predictable environment, his conditional hope left bereft even of
his clothes and hair. He is treated with utmost contempt and derision, regardless of in spite of his
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mind. The first was a woman, about thirty-five years old. She looked fifty. She reminded me of a medieval
peasant of my conception of a medieval peasant. She was dirty, clothes, hair, teeth; dirty with the kind of
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ascending equally far above. The staircase was made of old, worn dark wood, and reminded me of the
church pews in the church I attended with my mother as a child, and where I was married. The figure
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It is the task of the Paraclete, the spirit of truth, to dwell and work in individual human beings, so as to remind
them of Christs teachings and lead them into the light. A good example of this activity is Paul, who knew not the
1.05 - The Magical Control of the Weather, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
through a sieve seems plainly an imitation of a shower, and reminds
us of the manner in which Strepsiades in Aristophanes imagined that
1.05 - The Universe The 0 = 2 Equation, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
You should, however, remember most constantly that the equation of the Universe, however complex it may seem, inevitably reels out to Zero; for to accomplish this is the formula of your Work as a Mystic. To remind you, and to amplify certain points of the above, let me quote from Magick pp. 152-3 footnote 2.
All elements must at one time have been separate that would be the case with great heat. Now when atoms get to the sun, we get that immense extreme heat, and all the elements are themselves again. Imagine that each atom of each element possesses the memory of all his adventures in combination. By the way, that atom (fortified with that memory) would not be the same atom; yet it is, because it has gained nothing from anywhere except this memory. Therefore, by the lapse of time, and by virtue of memory, a thing could become something more than itself; thus a real development is possible. One can then see a reason for any element deciding to go through this series of incarnations, because so, and only so, can he go; and he suffers the lapse of memory which he has during these incarnations, because he knows he will come through un- changed.
1.05 - War And Politics, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
We may remind ourselves of Talthybius's mission to Troy in Sri Aurobindo's epic poem Ilion: Achilles made an offer by which Troy would be saved and the honour of the Greeks would be preserved, a harmonising offer, but it was rejected. Similarly, Duraiswamy went with India's soul in his "frail" hands and brought it back, downhearted, rewarded with ungracious remarks for the gratuitous advice. Sri Aurobindo even sent a telegram to Rajagopalachari and Dr. Munje urging them to accept the Proposals. Dr. Indra Sen writes, "We met the members individually and the sense of the reactions were more or less to this effect: Sri Aurobindo has created difficulties for us by his message to Cripps. He doesn't know the actual situation, we are in it, we know' better... and so on." Cripps flew back a disappointed man but with the consolation and gratified recognition that at least one great man had welcomed the idea. When the rejection was announced, Sri Aurobindo said in a quiet tone, "I knew it would fail." We at once pounced on it and asked him, "Why did you then send Duraiswamy at all?" "For a bit of niskama karma,"[3]was his calm reply, without any bitterness or resentment. The full spirit of the kind of "disinterested work" he meant comes out in an early letter of his (December 1933), which refers to his spiritual work: "I am sure of the results of my work. But even if I still saw the chance that it might come to nothing (which is impossible), I would go on unperturbed, because I would still have done to the best of my power the work that I had to do, and what is so done always counts in the economy of the universe."
After the War, the Labour Government of U.K. sent a Cabinet Mission to India in 1946 for fresh talks. Asked to give his views on the mission by Amrita Bazar Patrika, a leading daily in the country, Sri Aurobindo said:
1.065 - Divorce, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
10. God has prepared for them a severe retribution. So beware of God, O you who possess intellect and have faith. God has sent down to you a reminder.
11. A messenger who recites to you God’s Verses, clear and distinct, that he may bring those who believe and work righteousness from darkness into light. Whoever believes in God and acts with integrity, He will admit him into gardens beneath which rivers flow, therein to abide forever. God has given him an excellent provision.
1.068 - The Pen, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
52. But it is no less than a reminder to all the Worlds.
1.06 - Being Human and the Copernican Principle, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
entism vividly remembers and keeps reminding humanity
of. For what it calls the Copernican Principle means that,
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are reminded of the Mothers saying that materialism is the
gospel of death.) The Earth, the Sun, our galaxy, the billions
1.06 - The Four Powers of the Mother, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
12:MAHASARASWATI is the Mother s Power of Work and her spirit of perfection and order. The youngest of the Four, she is the most skilful in executive faculty and the nearest to physical Nature. Maheshwari lays down the large lines of the worldforces, Mahakali drives their energy and impetus, Mahalakshmi discovers their rhythms and measures, but Mahasaraswati presides over their detail of organisation and execution, relation of parts and effective combination of forces and unfailing exactitude of result and fulfilment. The science and craft and technique of things are Mahasaraswati's province. Always she holds in her nature and can give to those whom she has chosen the intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker. This Power is the strong, the tireless, the careful and efficient builder, organiser, administrator, technician, artisan and classifier of the worlds. When she takes up the transformation and new-building of the nature, her action is laborious and minute and often seems to our impatience slow and interminable, but it is persistent, integral and flawless. For the will in her works is scrupulous, unsleeping, indefatigable; leaning over us she notes and touches every little detail, finds out every minute defect, gap, twist or incompleteness, considers and weighs accurately all that has been done and all that remains still to be done hereafter. Nothing is too small or apparently trivial for her attention; nothing however impalpable or disguised or latent can escape her. Moulding and remoulding she labours each part till it has attained its true form, is put in its exact place in the whole and fulfils its precise purpose. In her constant and diligent arrangement and rearrangement of things her eye is on all needs at once and the way to meet them and her intuition knows what is to be chosen and what rejected and successfully determines the right instrument, the right time, the right conditions and the right process. Carelessness and negligence and indolence she abhors; all scamped and hasty and shuffling work, all clumsiness and a peu pres and misfire, all false adaptation and misuse of instruments and faculties and leaving of things undone or half done is offensive and foreign to her temper. When her work is finished, nothing has been forgotten, no part has been misplaced or omitted or left in a faulty condition; all is solid, accurate, complete, admirable. Nothing short of a perfect perfection satisfies her and she is ready to face an eternity of toil if that is needed for the fullness of her creation. Therefore of all the Mother s powers she is the most long-suffering with man and his thousand imperfections. Kind, smiling, close and helpful, not easily turned away or discouraged, insistent even after repeated failure, her hand sustains our every step on condition that we are single in our will and straightforward and sincere; for a double mind she will not tolerate and her revealing irony is merciless to drama and histrionics and self-deceit and pretence. A mother to our wants, a friend in our difficulties, a persistent and tranquil counsellor and mentor, chasing away with her radiant smile the clouds of gloom and fretfulness and depression, reminding always of the ever-present help, pointing to the eternal sunshine, she is firm, quiet and persevering in the deep and continuous urge that drives us towards the integrality of the higher nature. All the work of the other Powers leans on her for its completeness; for she assures the material foundation, elaborates the stuff of detail and erects and rivets the armour of the structure.
13:There are other great Personalities of the Divine Mother but they were more difficult to bring down and have not stood out in front with so much prominence in the evolution of the earth-spirit. There are among them Presences indispensable for the supramental realisation, - most of all one who is her Personality of that mysterious and powerful ecstasy and Ananda which flows from a supreme divine Love, the Ananda that alone can heal the gulf between the highest heights of the supramental spirit and the lowest abysses of Matter, the Ananda that holds the key of a wonderful divinest Life and even now supports from its secrecies the work of all the other Powers of the universe. But human nature bounded, egoistic and obscure is inapt to receive these great Presences or to support their mighty action. Only when the Four have founded their harmony and freedom of movement in the transformed mind and life and body, can those other rarer Powers manifest in the earth movement and the supramental action become possible. For when her Personalities are all gathered in her and manifested and their separate working has been turned into a harmonious unity and they rise in her to their supramental godheads, then is the Mother revealed as the supramental Mahashakti and brings pouring down her luminous transcendences from their ineffable ether. Then can human nature change into dynamic divine nature because all the elemental lines of the supramental Truth-consciousness and Truth-force are strung together and the harp of life is fitted for the rhythms of the Eternal.
1.073 - The Enwrapped, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
19. This is a reminder. So whoever wills, let him take a path to his Lord.
20. Your Lord knows that you stay up nearly two-thirds of the night, or half of it, or one-third of it, along with a group of those with you. God designed the night and the day. He knows that you are unable to sustain it, so He has pardoned you. So read of the Quran what is possible for you. He knows that some of you may be ill; and others travelling through the land, seeking God’s bounty; and others fighting in God’s cause. So read of it what is possible for you, and observe the prayers, and give regular charity, and lend God a generous loan. Whatever good you advance for yourselves, you will find it with God, better and generously rewarded. And seek God’s forgiveness, for God is Forgiving and Merciful.
1.074 - The Enrobed, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
31. We have appointed only angels to be wardens of the Fire, and caused their number to be a stumbling block for those who disbelieve; so that those given the Scripture may attain certainty; and those who believe may increase in faith; and those given the Scripture and the believers may not doubt; and those in whose hearts is sickness and the unbelievers may say, “What did God intend by this parable?” Thus God leads astray whom He wills, and guides whom He wills. None knows the soldiers of your Lord except He. This is nothing but a reminder for the mortals.
32. Nay! By the moon.
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49. Why are they turning away from the reminder?
50. As though they were panicked donkeys.
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54. Nevertheless, it is a reminder.
55. So whoever wills, shall remember it.
1.076 - Man, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
29. This is a reminder; so whoever wills, let him take a path to his Lord.
30. Yet you cannot will, unless God wills. God is Knowing and Wise.
1.07 - A Song of Longing for Tara, the Infallible, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
we must remind ourselves to bring our attention back to what were reading,
to pay attention to the words were saying, and to feel their meaning.
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love and compassion reminds us of the traits we admire in her so that we will
direct our energy into developing these qualities in our own mind.
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Reecting upon this each morning reminds us that theres no reason to
be attached to the people and events we encounter in our lives. Since they are
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it reminds us that we can become like them. There are different ways of seeing them, and when we see them as beings with a conventional self, its
important to remember that this is an appearance and that they lack inherent existence. They are not external, independent, omnipotent gods who
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rst week, many people didnt do it. They needed to be reminded and given
another chance. By the following week some people had moved the
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Theres my dish. Theres my quilt. I had to remind myself, No theyre not
mine anymore. That label doesnt belong on them now. They belong to somebody else. It was interesting for me to see that even after giving them away,
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of me, my only mother. Tara already does this, but saying it reminds us that
she does.
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easily. Everything in the environment reminds us of the Dharma, so we will
be able to stay focused and are less likely to be distracted from our spiritual
1.07 - Bridge across the Afterlife, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
Doomsday? It must suffice here to remind that the Mother
said in the 1950s: From the occult and spiritual point of
1.07 - Jnana Yoga, #Amrita Gita, #Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #Hinduism
30. Watch the breath. It sings Soham, So during inhalation and Ham, during exhalation. It reminds you I am He. Meditate on Soham and attain Self-realisation.
31. I am body. I act. I enjoy. She is my wife. He is my son. This is mine.This is bondage. I am Immortal Soul. I am non-actor, non-enjoyer. She is my soul. Nothing is mine.This is freedom.
1.07 - On mourning which causes joy., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
Let your reclining in bed be for you an image of your declining into your grave and you will sleep less. Let your refreshment at table be for you a reminder of the grim table of those wormsand you will be less luxurious. And in drinking water, do not forget the thirst of that flame and you will certainly refuse your nature all it wants.
When we suffer from the Superior honourable dishonour, scolding or punishment, let us remember the fearful sentence of the Judge, and we shall kill with meekness and patience, as with a two-edged sword, the irrational sorrow and bitterness which will certainly be sown in us.
1.07 - Savitri, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
The next step was to make a fair copy of the entire revised work. I don't know why it was not given straightaway for typing. There was a talk between the Mother and Sri Aurobindo about it; Sri Aurobindo might have said that because of copious additions, typing by another person would not be possible. He himself could not make a fair copy. Then the Mother suggested my name and brought a thick blue ledgerlike book for the purpose. I needed two or three reminders from the Mother before I took up the work in right earnest. Every morning I used to sit on the floor behind the head of the bed, and leaning against the wall, start copying like a student of our old Sanskrit tols. Sri Aurobindo's footstool would serve as my table. The Mother would not fail to cast a glance at my good studentship. Though much of the poetry passed over my head, quite often the solar plexus would thrill at the sheer beauty of the images and expressions. The very first line made me gape with wonder. I don't remember if the copying and revision with Sri Aurobindo proceeded at the same time, or revision followed the entire copying. The Mother would make inquiries from time to time either, I thought, to make me abandon my jog-trot manner or because the newly started Press was clamouring for some publication from Sri Aurobindo. Especially now that people had come to know that after The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo was busy with Savitri, they were eagerly waiting for it. But they had to wait quite a long time, for after the revision, when the whole book was handed to the Mother, it was passed on to Nolini for being typed out. Then another revision of the typescript before it was ready for the Press! Again, I cannot swear if the typing was completed first before its revision or both went on at the same time. At any rate, the whole process went very slowly, since Sri Aurobindo would not be satisfied with Savitri done less than perfectly. Neither could we give much time to it, not, I think, more than an hour a day, sometimes even less. The Press began to bring it out in fascicules by Cantos from 1946. At all stages of revision, even on Press proofs, alterations, additions never stopped. It may be mentioned that the very first appearance of anything from Savitri in public was in the form of passages quoted in the essay "Sri Aurobindo: A New Age of Mystical Poetry" by Amal, published in the Bombay Circle and later included as Part III in Amal's book: The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo.
So far the account of the procedure which was followed for working on the three Books seems approximately correct. We have been considerably helped by some dates mentioned before in the account. But in what follows about the rest of the epic, I am afraid that the report cannot claim as much exactness owing to my lapse of memory. I can sum up the position obtained at this stage by quoting Sri Aurobindo's letter to Amal in 1946. After investigating all the documents available, we have come to the following conclusions about the rest of the Books. Book IV, The Book of Birth and Quest, is fairly revised by Sri Aurobindo. Several versions before the end of 1938 have been worked upon these versions are expansions of much older drafts, one of them possibly dating back to Baroda. The revised version was later corrected and amplified with my help as scribe and has been divided into four Cantos. In re-doing Book V, The Book of Love, Sri Aurobindo took up, at a certain point, an earlier version than that of 1936. There are quite a number of versions with various titles before 1936. Here too, originally there were no different Cantos. There are three old versions of The Book of Fate of equal length. They were called Canto II, and fairly short. One of these versions was expanded into enormous length and developed into two Cantos, the very last touches given almost during the final month of Sri Aurobindo's life. An instance of the expansion is the passage "O singer of the ultimate ecstasy... will is Fate." There was no Book of Yoga in the original scheme of the poem. One old version called Book III, Death, has been changed into The Book of Yoga. It was enormously expanded and named Canto I. All the rest of the six Cantos were totally new and dictated. They were all at first divided into Cantos with different titles. Apparently all these Cantos except the first one are entirely new. I could get no trace of any old versions from which they could have been developed. I am now amazed to see that so many lines could have been dictated day after day, like The Book of Everlasting Day. The Book of Death contains three old versions all called Canto III; the final version is constructed from one of these and from another version some lines are taken to be inserted into The Book of Eternal Night, Canto IV, Night, of the early version served as the basis of The Book of Eternal Night. It was revised, lines were added and split into two Cantos. Then in the typescript further revisions took place. Canto I, first called The Passage into the Void of Night, was changed into Towards the Black Void. Book X, The Book of the Double Twilight, called only Twilight, Canto V in the earlier versions of which there are four or five, had no division into Cantos. From these early versions a fair number of lines have been taken and woven into a larger version. The old lines are now not always in their original form. Book XI had three old drafts. One which was larger than the other two has been used for the final version and was enormously expanded; even whole passages running into hundreds of lines have been added, as I have mentioned before. About The Epilogue, except for a few additions, it almost reproduces the single old version.
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My initiation by him into English poetry rendered the scribe's work congenial as well as convenient. If I missed some words, I would ask again, but sometimes I put down what I thought I heard correct. Later on, after his passing away, experts found the meaning of some words to be dubious, ambiguous, or even wrong. There was faulty punctuation in abundance. Sometimes Sri Aurobindo did not dictate the punctuation and I didn't ask. One couldn't always remind the poet while he was dictating, of the necessity of punctuation, and thus put a curb on his flow. People asked whether I used shorthand for transcribing. There was no need for it at all, for the dictation was very slow and at times halted, waiting for inspiration, I suppose. I don't know what the nature was of Milton's dictation, but one thing was certain: Sri Aurobindo had not Milton's temper, and I didn't suffer his daughter's fate!
The tempo of the work was subsequently speeded up and it proceeded smoothly without break till the seal of incomplete completion was put about two weeks before the November Darshan of 1950. Very probably he had taken the decision to withdraw from this world of the sad music of humanity and leave in compensation his divine music of Savitri. A curious incident has stuck in my memory. One day he continued working even beyond 1.30 p.m. a rare occurrence and that was the day I was invited for lunch at a friend's place. I thought I would certainly be free by 2 p.m. but no, he seemed to be unusually inspired! I believe I was showing some signs of restlessness at which he remarked, "What's the matter?" I don't remember whether I kept quiet or told him the truth. He, however, shut shop soon after. This incident reminds me strongly of Champaklal's valuable admonition that those who want to serve the Divine must have no personal ties or strings.
During this period a long communication that had passed between Amal and a critical friend of his on Savitri as well as on some shorter mystical poems of Sri Aurobindo, was sent to Sri Aurobindo for his opinion or reaction. Amal had also put some questions on beauty and greatness in poetry and whether spiritual poetry could be considered greater than any other. His long illuminating commentary on his own poetry and the detailed answers on the various other topics raised, which were dictated at this time, consumed much of our time, but we could see from the replies how Sri Aurobindo welcomed such discussion from Amal whom he had prepared in the art of poetry. No one except Amal, or perhaps Arjava had he been alive, could have discussed with Sri Aurobindo almost as equals on English poetry and drawn out many intricate expositions on rhythm, overhead poetry, etc., which are now a permanent treasure in English literature.
Sri Aurobindo's quotations from memory from Homer, Shakespeare, Milton and others which he said should be verified were, in most cases, correct. When I read Homer's lines trying to imitate Sri Aurobindo's intonation, but forgetting the quantitative length, he corrected me. That reminds me also of how he encouraged me indirectly to learn the Sanskrit alphabet. I didn't know it, as I learnt Pali in my school. So whenever I met with a Sanskrit word while reading correspondences to Sri Aurobindo, I had either to show it to him or get somebody's help. I thought this wouldn't do, I must learn at least the alphabet. I put my mind to it and, getting some smattering of it, began to show my learning before him. He Started taking interest. When I tried to articulate a word in part, he helped me with the rest as one does with a child. Fortunately I managed, after getting the Mother's approval, to learn French also during the break from my work. She said it would be very useful, and so it was, for when some French communications came, I could read them to him.
This is roughly the story of the grand epic Savitri traced from the earliest conception to its final consummation. Undoubtedly the first three Books were of a much higher level of inspiration and nearer perfection than the rest, for with ample leisure, and working by himself he could devote more time and care to that end, which unfortunately could not be said about the rest of the Books. Apart from the different versions I have mentioned, there is a huge mass of manuscripts which we have left unclassified since they are in fragments[4] all of which testifies to the immense labour of a god that has gone into the building of the magnificent epic. For a future research scholar, when Savitri earns as wide a recognition as, for instance, Dante's or Homer's epic, if not more, a very interesting work remains to be done; going into the minutest detail, he would show where new lines or passages have been added, or where one line slightly changed becomes an overhead line, or how another line after various changes comes back to its original version, etc., etc. I was chosen as a scribe probably because I didn't have all these gifts, so that I could, like a passive instrument, jot down faithfully whatever was dictated while Amal would have raised doubts, argued with him or been lost in sheer admiration of the beauty and the grandeur! Dilip would have started quoting line after line in rapturous ecstasy before the poem had come out! I submit no apology, nor am I conscience-stricken for my failures, for he knew what was the worth of his instrument. I am only grateful to him for being able to serve him with the very faculty which he had evolved and developed in me.
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I desist from giving my own impression of the incomparable epic. I have no such competence and though I have been made a poet by the Master I leave it to more efficient authorities. One fact alone makes me dumb with a reverent awe and exalted admiration: the colossal labour Sri Aurobindo put forth to build this unique structure. It reminds me of one of those majestic ancient temples like Konarak or of a Gothic cathedral like Notre Dame before which you stand and stare in speechless ecstasy, your soul takes a flight beyond time and space. Before I knew much about Sri Aurobindo, I asked him in my foolish way, why, himself being the master of inspiration and having all higher planes at his command, sending inspiration to others, should he still have to work so hard? With his consciousness entirely silent, he had only to hitch to the right source and words, images, ideas would tumble down in a Brahmaputra of inspiration! To which he answered in his habitual indulgent tone, perhaps a bit piqued by my facile observation: "The highest planes are not so accommodating as all that. If they were so, why should it be so difficult to bring down and organise the supermind in the physical consciousness? What happy-go-lucky fancy-web-spinning ignoramuses you all are. You speak of silence, consciousness, overmental, supramental, etc. as if they were so many electric buttons you have only to press and there you are. It may be one day, but meanwhile I have to discover everything about the working of all possible modes of electricity, all the laws, possibilities, perils, etc., construct roads of connection and communication, make the whole far-wiring system, try to find out how it can be made foolproof and all that in the course of a single lifetime. And I have to do it while my blessed disciples are firing off their gay or gloomy a priori reasonings at me from a position of entire irresponsibility and expecting me to divulge everything to them not in hints but at length. Lord God in omnibus!"
Then, with regard to hard labour on Savitri, he wrote: "That is very simple. I used Savitri as a means of ascension. I began with it on a certain mental level, each time I could reach a higher level I rewrote from that level. Moreover I was particular if part seemed to me to come from any lower levels I was not satisfied to leave it because it was good poetry. All had to be as far as possible of the same mint. In fact, Savitri has not been regarded by me as a poem to be written and finished; but as a field of experimentation to see how far poetry could be written from one's own Yogic consciousness and how that could be made creative. I did not rewrite Rose of God or the sonnets except for two or three verbal alterations made at the moment."
1.07 - The Magic Wand, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
The charge of a magic wand with an electric, magnetic, or electromagnetic fluid is always the same, with the only exception that the transfer of the magician's consciousness may be omitted. If only one wand is to be charged, the procedure is a little more complicated. For the wand to be charged with one fluid only, be it electric or magnetic, that fluid has to be drawn from the 50 universe with the help of the imagination und must be impelled into the rod, to which end the magician has to concentrate on the wish that whenever he desires something, the fluid inside the rod will realize at once what he wishes, even though it be directed to the furthest possible sphere or the Akasha-principle. If you terminate the accumulation so that the fluid accumulated in the rod will intensify itself automatically from the universe, that it will, in other words, work by itself bioelectrically and biomagnetically, the rod will grow into an enormously strong battery. The magician is recommended to accumulate in his own body, prior to every use, the revelant fluid in order to be strong enough for the work with the accumulated fluid of the wand. If he is not willing to do this, he should at least insulate himself before he starts work by putting on a pair of pure silk-gloves, preferably manufactured by himself. Not before he has thus insulated himself should he take the wand into his hands. Since the magician usually works with both fluids, he should take the wand charged with the electrical fluid into his right hand, and the wand charged with the magnetic fluid into his left. It is always better to charge two rods; one with the electric the other with the magnetic fluid, especially if simple twigs or wooden wands, which are not impregnated with a fluid condenser, are used. This is not absolutely necessary, but it will make work easier. The magician who has a wand filled with a fluid condenser, without the wand being parted in the middle, will find it more advantagious to have the wand filled with only one fluid, as this also will make the work easier for him. If the rod is to be charged electromagnetically, that is if both fluids should be prevalent in the wand, the magician must use a rod which has no hole in its middle. Either end of the rod has to be pierced instead, and each half of it has to be provided with a fluid condenser. The magician must, however, put a mark on either end to remind him where the electrical and where the magnetic fluid is. To give the magician a better view, the half provided for the electrical fluid is usually painted red, the half provided for the magnetic fluid is usually painted blue. The rod must then be charged in such a manner that the largest intensity of the fluids rest at the ends of the rod and that the middle, insulated with silk, remains neutral. Charging of either half has to be carried out separately, that means that you may draw from the universe first the electric fluid, accumulating it in the one end of the rod until that end is sufficiently loaded, and immediately after that the magnetic fluid, or vice versa. The magician should never try to accumulate the electric fluid several times and then the magnetic fluid several times; for the equilibrium of the fluids inside the wand must be maintained. The magician must therefore accumulate the electrical fluid on one day and the magnetic fluid the next day. When charging the wand again, he has to go about in the other way.
The magician will charge a rod with the electrical or the magnetic, or both fluids, if he wants to make his influence work by the help of these fluids on objects nearby or far away, regardless of their being subject to the Akasha or existent in either the mental, astral or physical world. Special variations of operations, for instance such as volting or treating sick people, or bearing of certain imaginations, will not be dealt with here, for the person having carefully studied up to this point will now be able to work out for himself his individual working methods.
1.07 - The Prophecies of Nostradamus, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
the climax of a long-standing persecution of the Church. One is reminded of
Voltaire's "crasez l'infame!"
1.07 - The Psychic Center, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
traveled consciously instead of ignorantly, in an ever wider consciousness, for the more the psychic being grows and participates in our worldly activities, the more clear, precise and continuous from life to life its mental, vital and physical memories become, and the more concerted, self-willed, and effective its births become; we then really begin to understand what immortality means. We are free; we are forever awake. Death is no longer a grimacing mask reminding us that we have not found ourselves, but a calm transition from one mode of experience to another. Once and for all we have seized the thread of consciousness, and we move here or there as one crosses a border between two countries, and back again to the old earth, until the day when, as Sri Aurobindo announced it, we may have developed enough, not only to ensure the continuity of our mental and vital existence, but also to infuse enough consciousness into the body so that it, too, participates in the psychic immortality. For, with respect to our mental, vital, and physical life, as well as our sleep, our death, and our immortality, everything is always a matter of consciousness.
Consciousness is the means, consciousness is the key, and consciousness is the goal.
1.080 - He Frowned, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
4. Or be reminded, and the message would benefit him.
5. But as for him who was indifferent.
1.081 - The Rolling, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
27. It is only a reminder to all mankind.
28. To whoever of you wills to go straight.
1.087 - The Most High, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
9. So remind, if reminding helps.
10. The reverent will remember.
1.088 - The Overwhelming, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
21. So remind. You are only a reminder.
22. You have no control over them.
1.08a - The Ladder, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
By each act, word, and thought, the one object of the ceremony - the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel- is being constantly indicated. Every fumigation, invocation, banishing and circumambulation is simply a reminder of the single purpose until - after symbol upon symbol, emotion after emotion having been added - the supreme moment arrives, and every nerve of the body, every force-channel of the Nephesch and Ruach is strained in one overwhelming orgasm, one ecstatic rush of the Will and Soul in the pre- determined direction.
Everything in the operation is so arranged that it will remind the Magician of his one Aim, his one True Object.
He resolves that every weapon and instrument employed in his ceremony shall serve to remind him of his chosen end, making every impression (by means of the Qabalistic alpha- bet of association of ideas) the starting-point of a connected series of thoughts ending in that thing. His whole energy is resolved that every act shall turn to the advantage of his invocations.
In a Temple which typifies the universe as he is aware of it, he draws a circle to announce the nature of his operation.
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So, by making each instrument a symbol reminding him of his one purpose, he finally attains in his working to
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The degree numbers, such as 3 =8, imply an operation in which the equilibration of Saturn and Mercury is con- cerned. It is also to remind one that if despondent, for example, three main limbs of the great Tree of Life have been climbed ; if egotistical and proud, that eight more rungs of tantamount importance have yet to be ascended, and that most of the difficulties lie unconquered. All in all, the number harmonizes the conception of work already done with advantages yet to be gained.
Let us now look at this system and see wherein our description of the Paths of Magick and Meditation connects with the Tree of Life, keeping in the back of our minds all the time the attri butions and the meaning given to each
1.08 - On freedom from anger and on meekness., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
5. Anger is a reminder of hidden hatred, that is to say, remembrance of wrongs. Anger is a desire for the injury of the one who has provoked you. Irascibility is the untimely blazing up of the heart. Bitterness is a movement of displeasure seated in the soul. Peevishness is a changeable movement of ones disposition and disorder of soul.
6. As with the appearance of light, darkness retreats, so at the fragrance of humility all anger and bitterness vanishes.
1.08 - The Gods of the Veda - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Moreover, even their moralised gods were only the superficial & exterior aspect of the Greek religion. Its deeper life fed itself on the mystic rites of Orpheus, Bacchus, the Eleusinian mysteries which were deeply symbolic and remind us in some of their ideas & circumstances of certain aspects of Indian Yoga. The mysticism & symbolism were not an entirely modern development. Orpheus, Bacchus & Demeter are the centre of an antique and prehistoric, even preliterary mind-movement. The element may have been native to Greek religious sentiment; it may have been imported from the East through the Aryan races or cultures of Asia Minor; but it may also have been common to the ancient systems of Greece & India. An original community or a general diffusion is at least possible. The double aspect of exoteric practice and esoteric symbolism may have already been a fundamental characteristic of the Vedic religion. Is it entirely without significance that to the Vedic mind men were essentially manu, thinkers, the original father of the race was the first Thinker, and the Vedic poets in the idea of their contemporaries not merely priests or sacred singers or wise bards but much more characteristically manishis & rishis, thinkers & sages?We can conceive with difficulty such ideas as belonging to that undeveloped psychological condition of the semi-savage to which sacrifices of propitiation & Nature-Gods helpful only for material life, safety & comfort were all-sufficient. Certainly, also, the earliest Indian writings subsequent to Vedic times bear out these indications. To the writers of the Brahmanas the sacrificial ritual enshrined an elaborate symbolism. The seers of the Upanishad worshipped Surya & Agni as great spiritual & moral forces and believed the Vedic hymns to be effective only because they contained a deep knowledge & a potent spirituality. They may have been in errormay have been misled by a later tradition or themselves have read mystic refinements into a naturalistic text. But also & equally, they may have had access to an unbroken line of knowledge or they may have been in direct touch or in closer touch than the moderns with the mentality of the Vedic singers.
The decision of these questions will determine our whole view of Vedic religions and decide the claim of the Veda to be a living Scripture of Hinduism. It is of primary importance to know what in their nature and functions were the gods of the Veda. I have therefore made this fundamental question form the sole subject matter of the present volume. I make no attempt here to present a complete or even a sufficient justification of the conclusions which I have been led to. Nor do I present my readers with a complete enquiry into the nature & functions of the Vedic pantheon. Such a justification, such an enquiry can only be effected by a careful philological analysis & rendering of the Vedic hymns and an exhaustive study of the origins of the Sanscrit language. That is a labour of very serious proportions & burdened with numerous difficulties which I have begun and hope one day to complete myself or to leave to others ready for completion. But in the present volume I can only attempt to establish a prima facie [case] for a reconsideration of the whole question. I offer the suggestion that the Vedic creed & thought were not a simple, but a complex, not a barbarous but a subtle & advanced, not a naturalistic but a mystic & Vedantic system.
1.08 - THE MASTERS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Now and then he went into samdhi, standing still as a statue. While he was in one of these states of divine unconsciousness, the devotees put thick garlands of jasmine around his neck. The enchanting form of the Master reminded the devotees of Chaitanya, another Incarnation of God. The Master passed alternately through three moods of divine consciousness: the inmost, when he completely lost all knowledge of the outer world; the semi-conscious, when he danced with the devotees in an ecstasy of love; and the conscious, when he joined them in loud singing. It was indeed a sight for the gods, to see the Master standing motionless in samdhi, with fragrant garlands hanging from his neck, his countenance beaming with love, and the devotees singing and dancing around him.
When it was time for his noon meal, Sri Ramakrishna put on a new yellow cloth and sat on the small couch. His golden complexion, blending with his yellow cloth, enchanted the eyes of the devotees.
1.08 - The Supreme Discovery, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That is why I remind you of it today. For if we follow our path bearing this thought in our hearts like the rarest jewel, the most precious treasure, if we allow it to do its work of illumination and transfiguration within us, we shall know that it lives in the centre of all beings and all things, and in it we shall feel the marvellous oneness of the universe.
Then we shall understand the vanity and childishness of our meagre satisfactions, our foolish quarrels, our petty passions, our blind indignations. We shall see the dissolution of our little faults, the crumbling of the last entrenchments of our limited personality and our obtuse egoism. We shall feel ourselves being swept along by this sublime current of true spirituality which will deliver us from our narrow limits and bounds.
1.08 - The Three Schools of Magick 3, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
The White School has thus been paralysed. We are reminded of the spider described by Fabre, who injects her victims with a poison which paralyzes them without killing them, so that her own young may find fresh meat. And this is what is going to happen in Europe and America unless some- thing is done about it, and done in very short order.
The Yellow School could not remain impassive spectators of the abominations. Madame Blavatsky was a mere forerunner. They, in conjunction with the Secret Chiefs of the White School in Europe, Chiefs who had been compelled to suspend all attempts at exoteric enlightenment by the general moral debility which had overtaken the races from which they drew their adepts, have prepared a guide for mankind. This man, of an extreme moral force and elevation, combined with a profound sense of worldly realities, has stood forth in an attempt to save the White School, to rehabilitate its formula, and to fling back from the bastions of moral freedom the howling savages of pessimism. Unless his appeal is heard, unless there comes a truly virile reaction against the creeping atrophy which is poisoning them, unless they enlist to the last man under his standard, a great decisive battle will have been lost.
1.09 - SKIRMISHES IN A WAY WITH THE AGE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
everything ugly weakens and depresses man. It reminds him of decay,
danger, impotence; he literally loses strength in its presence. The
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symptom of degeneration: that which reminds us however remotely of
degeneracy, impels us to the judgment "ugly." Every sign of exhaustion,
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Plato, I would remind you that all the higher culture and literature of
classical France, as well, grew up on the soil of sexual interests. In
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unit. Let me remind you of the statistical fact that in those years in
which cholera rages, the total number of deaths does not exceed that of
1.09 - Talks, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Those who have read Talks with Sri Aurobindo or Evening Talks must have realised that Sri Aurobindo was not a world-averse Yogi lost in rapturous silence of the Brahman like the Maharshi, nor talked, when he did, mostly of spiritual matters as did Ramakrishna. In fact our talks covered a vast range of subjects, they had almost a global dimension. We wondered at his enormous knowledge in so many fields. Considering the shortness of the period during which he lived in strenuous contact with the external world, one would be tempted to ask how much of this knowledge was the outcome of his practical worldly experience and how much a result of Yoga? In a letter to me he had said, "Don't try to throw allopathic dust in my eyes, sir! I have lived a fairly long time and seen something of the world before my retirement and much more after it." So Yoga must have opened to his vision "thoughts that wander through eternity" and made him the possessor of infinite knowledge, secular as well as spiritual: "World after world bursts on the awakened sight", he says in one of his sonnets. He has attributed all that he had become to the effect of Yoga. In one of our talks we were staggered to hear him profess that even if he had written ten times more than he had done, his knowledge would have remained unexhausted. And when we murmured in a sad protest that such a vast amount of knowledge would be lost to us, he replied, "Practise first what I have written." On another occasion when he was asked by a sadhak how he could manage to write on seven subjects at a time in the Arya,he replied that he could write seven issues of the Arya every month for 70 years and still the knowledge that came from above would hardly be exhausted. The Mother also said that he wrote the Arya from a completely silent mind; everything came right down on the typewriter. Otherwise it would not have been possible to write 64 pages every month. Strictly speaking, it was only in the last week of the month that he would get down to writing. Amrita had been asked to remind him about the Arya, a week before its time for the Press. When he gave the signal, Sri Aurobindo would start the "Herculean labour" and finish it with utmost ease. Those words from a sonnet of his "I have drunk the Infinite like a giant's wine", are a testimony to this bewildering fact.
Now at this fountainhead of wisdom and yogic illumination we had the rare opportunity to drink day arid night for a number of years. If we could not get more it was not because he had closed the channel, but rather that our small vessels could not contain more. One can then understand that next to his; silent human-divine Presence, his talks were the most coveted feature of our close association with him.
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After the first day, regular talks continued at the same time in the evening. All of us sat huddled together near his bed, Purani sometimes stood at a distance, and the talks rolled on under the dim light. The listening hush was quite often broken by our outbursts of hilarious laughter. We had ample leisure, since all medical duties were over and what remained before us was only his light supper. In the middle of the talks the Mother would sometimes glide in and ask Sri Aurobindo with a smile, "They are making you talk?" The Mother feared that too much talk would put him under an undue strain. At times we got so absorbed in the talks that Sri Aurobindo had to remind us of the Mother's coming and we then quickly regrouped ourselves ready to receive her. She would then insist saying, Don't move, don't move." Dr. Manilal's reply was, "No, Mother, we shall now meditate!"
"But if I want to talk?"
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Throughout our talks extending over many years and to many subjects, I don't remember a single occasion when Sri Aurobindo lost his patience with us. He never refused to answer any question but on the contrary would explain at great length and repeatedly if some points did not enter my head. "Do you understand?" he would ask softly. The tone was always affable. Even when one of us complained that he could not accept his Yoga, he looked into his difficulties and met his objections in a kind, dispassionate manner. Much of this must have been due to the Guru's innate nature and the rest due to Yoga. We have had hot debates among ourselves before him; he listened quietly to our childish vanity and showed our mistakes only when we approached him for his views. If we have not profited as much as we should have by his talks, at least his patient tolerance and indulgence, wideness of outlook and leaven of humour have cast a radiant influence on our souls. As we look back on those days, we hear a sigh in the breeze murmuring, "Those delightful days that are no more!" The nostalgic memory revives at moments when we meet and start talking of those bygone years. Satyendra recalled an incident I had completely forgotten. Once the Mother came to inform Sri Aurobindo that Bhishmadev, a former disciple and an eminent singer of Bengal, was going to sing on the radio, and he very much wanted Sri Aurobindo to hear him. So the radio was brought near and the sponge-bath and the music went on simultaneously. When at the end of Bhishmadev's programme we asked him how he had liked the music, he answered, "Oh, I completely forgot!" We had a good laugh. A similar instance happened in Dilip's case. He had sent the timing of his radio programme from Calcutta and beseeched Sri Aurobindo to hear him. Sri Aurobindo asked Champaklal to remind him of it. Champaklal, probably, did not. When the music was over, he asked Champaklal, "Where is Dilip's music?" He laughed and said that it was already finished!
Lastly, those who have read Talks with Sri Aurobindo and his Correspondence with me cannot but notice a striking difference between the two in their tone and manner. Though both of them have an air of intimacy and informality, still the correspondence is certainly more free. There he has let himself go, to quote his phrase, whereas in the talks there is a sense of restraint. Is it because of a different set of circumstances and a different milieu? I believe there is something more. Even if I had met him all alone, I don't think he would have been as free in his speech as with his pen. For, his shy and reserved nature would have put some curb on total abandon. Of course, the correspondence was restricted to one person with his own particular interests; the talks covered a larger and more diverse sphere, and there they have an advantage of their own.
1.09 - Taras Ultimate Nature, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
the body but was also the boss of the body and mind. This reminds me of the
scene from The Wizard of Oz in which the wizard puts on a ery display, a big
1.09 - The Secret Chiefs, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
You justly remind me that one of my earliest slogans was "Mystery is the enemy of Truth;" how then is it what I acquiesce in the policy of concealment in a matter so cardinal?
Perhaps the best plan is for me to set down the facts of the case, so far as is possible, from them it may appear that no alternative policy is feasible.
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P.P.S. A visitor's story has just reminded me of the possibility that I am a Secret Chief myself without knowing it: for I have sometimes been recognized by other people as having acted as such, though I was not aware of the fact at the time.
Footnotes:
1.09 - To the Students, Young and Old, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The first example takes place in Paris. You have to go out into this immense city; here all is noise, apparent confusion, bewildering activity. Suddenly you see a woman walking in front of you; she is like most other women, her dress has nothing striking about it, but her gait is remarkable, supple, rhythmic, elegant, harmonious. It catches your attention and you are full of wonder. Then, this body moving along so gracefully reminds you of all the splendours of ancient Greece and the unparalleled lesson in beauty which its culture gave to the whole world, and you live an unforgettable momentall that just because of a woman who knows how to walk!
The second example is from the other end of the world, from Japan. You have just arrived in this beautiful country for a long stay and very soon you find out that unless you have at least a minimum knowledge of the language, it will be very difficult for you to get along. So you begin to study Japanese and in order to become familiar with the language you do not miss a single opportunity to hear people talking, you listen to them carefully, you try to understand what they are saying; and then, beside you, in a tram where you have just taken your seat, there is a small child of four or five years with his mother. The child begins to talk in a clear and pure voice and listening to him you have the remarkable experience that he knows spontaneously what you have to learn with so much effort, and that as far as Japanese is concerned he could be your teacher in spite of his youth.
1.10 - Concentration - Its Practice, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
The system of Yoga is built entirely on the philosophy of the Snkhyas, as I told you before, and here again I shall remind you of the cosmology of the Sankhya philosophy. According to the Sankhyas, nature is both the material and the efficient cause of the universe. In nature there are three sorts of materials, the Sattva, the Rajas, and the Tamas. The Tamas material is all that is dark, all that is ignorant and heavy. The Rajas is activity. The Sattva is calmness, light. Nature, before creation, is called by them Avyakta, undefined, or indiscrete; that is, in which there is no distinction of form or name, a state in which these three materials are held in perfect balance. Then the balance is disturbed, the three materials begin to mingle in various fashions, and the result is the universe. In every man, also, these three materials exist. When the Sattva material prevails, knowledge comes; when Rajas, activity; and when Tamas, darkness, lassitude, idleness, and ignorance. According to the Sankhya theory, the highest manifestation of nature, consisting of the three materials, is what they call Mahat or intelligence, universal intelligence, of which each human intellect is a part. In the Sankhya psychology there is a sharp distinction between Manas, the mind function, and the function of the Buddhi, intellect. The mind function is simply to collect and carry impressions and present them to the Buddhi, the individual Mahat, which determines upon it. Out of Mahat comes egoism, out of which again come the fine materials. The fine materials combine and become the gross materials outside the external universe. The claim of the Sankhya philosophy is that beginning with the intellect down to a block of stone, all is the product of one substance, different only as finer to grosser states of existence. The finer is the cause, and the grosser is the effect. According to the Sankhya philosophy, beyond the whole of nature is the Purusha, which is not material at all. Purusha is not at all similar to anything else, either Buddhi, or mind, or the Tanmatras, or the gross materials. It is not akin to any one of these, it is entirely separate, entirely different in its nature, and from this they argue that the Purusha must be immortal, because it is not the result of combination. That which is not the result of combination cannot die. The Purushas or souls are infinite in number.
Now we shall understand the aphorism that the states of the qualities are defined, undefined, indicated only, and signess. By the "defined" are meant the gross elements, which we can sense. By the "undefined" are meant the very fine materials, the Tanmatras, which cannot be sensed by ordinary men. If you practise Yoga, however, says Patanjali, after a while your perceptions will become so fine that you will actually see the Tanmatras. For instance, you have heard how every man has a certain light about him; every living being emits a certain light, and this, he says, can be seen by the Yogi. We do not all see it, but we all throw out these Tanmatras, just as a flower continuously sends out fine particles which enable us to smell it. Every day of our lives we throw out a mass of good or evil, and everywhere we go the atmosphere is full of these materials. That is how there came to the human mind, unconsciously, the idea of building temples and churches. Why should man build churches in which to worship God? Why not worship Him anywhere? Even if he did not know the reason, man found that the place where people worshipped God became full of good Tanmatras. Every day people go there, and the more they go the holier they get, and the holier that place becomes. If any man who has not much Sattva in him goes there, the place will influence him and arouse his Sattva quality. Here, therefore, is the significance of all temples and holy places, but you must remember that their holiness depends on holy people congregating there. The difficulty with man is that he forgets the original meaning, and puts the cart before the horse. It was men who made these places holy, and then the effect became the cause and made men holy. If the wicked only were to go there, it would become as bad as any other place. It is not the building, but the people that make a church, and that is what we always forget. That is why sages and holy persons, who have much of this Sattva quality, can send it out and exert a tremendous influence day and night on their surroundings. A man may become so pure that his purity will become tangible. Whosoever comes in contact with him becomes pure.
1.10 - Laughter Of The Gods, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Addressing Dr. Manilal with whom he was very free during the talks, Sri Aurobindo said, "Your mention of bribe and small amount makes me think of X. He said that people simply thrust the money on him and he couldn't but accept it. 'After all, it is a small bribe,' he argued. I was then reminded of the maidservant's story. She got an illegitimate child. The mistress of the house was very angry and rebuked her severely for the fault. She replied, 'But, oh madam, it is such a small one!'"
A sadhak, while meditating, saw a beautiful woman looking at him with plaintive eyes. He asked Sri Aurobindo about the meaning of the vision. Sri Aurobindo wrote back, "This is your weakness presenting itself to you in a concrete form and plaintively asking, 'Will you, won't you, will you?' When it comes, you have to say, 'Get thee behind me, plaintive Satan.'"
1.11 - Correspondence and Interviews, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
All the communications were, however, mostly made orally and did not interfere with Sri Aurobindo's personal work. But gradually correspondence of another sort began to demand his attention. I mean writings on various aspects of his work, either by sadhaks, visitors or outsiders, were sent to him for approval, comment or suggestion, such as Prof. Sisir Maitra's series of articles, Prof. Haridas Chowdhury's thesis on his philosophy, Prof. Sisir Mitra's book on history, books by Prof. Langley, Morwenna Donnelly, Prof. Monod-Herzen, Dr. Srinivas Iyengar, and Lizelle Raymond on Sister Nivedita, to mention a few. In the last three books Sri Aurobindo made extensive additions and changes. Even casual articles from young students were read and received encouragement from him. Arabinda Basu was one of these writers. Poems written by sadhaks, for instance, Dilip, Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna), Nishikanto, Pujalal and Tehmi, or a Goan poet, Prof. Menezies, were also read out. Then came the journals, The Advent and Mother India, the latter particularly, being a semi-political fortnightly, needed his sanction before the matter could be published. Most of the editorial articles of Mother India written by Amal Kiran were found impeccable. But on a few occasions small but significant changes were telegraphically made. Sri Aurobindo's famous message on Korea with its prediction of Stalinist communism's designs on South East Asia and India through Tibet, was originally sent in private to Amal Kiran for his guidance. One of the editorials was based on it. Sri Aurobindo declared privately that Mother India was his paper. When the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education was launched, the Mother wanted to initiate it with an article from Sri Aurobindo. Some days passed. She asked him if he had started writing it. He answered with a smile, "No." After a few days, she reminded him of the urgency. Then he began dictating on the value of sports and physical gymnastics. Quite a series commenced and the most memorable of the lot was the article "The Divine Body". It was a long piece and took more than a week, since we daily had just about an hour to spare. As he was dictating, I marvelled at so much knowledge of Ancient Greece and Ancient India stored up somewhere in his superconscious memory and now pouring down at his command in a smooth flow. No notes were consulted, no books were needed, yet after a lapse of so many decades everything was fresh, spontaneous and recalled in vivid detail! This article, like his others, was then read out to the Mother in front of Sri Aurobindo. She exclaimed, "Magnificent!" Sri Aurobindo simply smiled. All of them have appeared in book-form called The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth.
About some of the articles by others which were being read out to him, he asked, "Have you not read them before?" "No!" I replied. He repeated, "Are you sure?" "How could I? I received them only yesterday," I answered. "Very strange!" he added, "They seem so familiar, as if I had heard them already." He appeared much intrigued by this phenomenon and I wonder if he found an explanation of the mystery. Some articles by a former sadhak were filled with so many quotations from Sri Aurobindo's writings that I muttered my protest, "There is hardly anything here except quotations." He smiled and answered, "It doesn't matter." Once he asked me about a long abstruse article, "Probability in Micro-Physics", written by Amal. It was read out to Sri Aurobindo shortly before he passed away. He asked me, "Do you understand anything of it?" I said, "No!" He smiled and said, "Neither do I." Readings and dictated correspondence, as I have stated before, began to swell in volume and absorbed much of his limited time. Consequently the revision of Savitri suffered and had to be, shelved again and again till one day he declared, "My main work is being neglected."
1.12 - Delight of Existence - The Solution, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
12:In regard to physical pleasure and pain, it is more difficult to apply the universal truth; for this is the very domain of the nerves and the body, the centre and seat of that in us whose nature is to be dominated by external contact and external pressure. Even here, however, we have glimpses of the truth. We see it in the fact that according to the habit the same physical contact can be either pleasurable or painful, not only to different individuals, but to the same individual under different conditions or at different stages of his development. We see it in the fact that men in periods of great excitement or high exaltation remain physically indifferent to pain or unconscious of pain under contacts which ordinarily would inflict severe torture or suffering. In many cases it is only when the nerves are able to reassert themselves and remind the mentality of its habitual obligation to suffer that the sense of suffering returns. But this return to the habitual obligation is not inevitable; it is only habitual. We see that in the phenomena of hypnosis not only can the hypnotised subject be successfully forbidden to feel the pain of a wound or puncture when in the abnormal state, but can be prevented with equal success from returning to his habitual reaction of suffering when he is awakened. The reason of this phenomenon is perfectly simple; it is because the hypnotiser suspends the habitual waking consciousness which is the slave of nervous habits and is able to appeal to the subliminal mental being in the depths, the inner mental being who is master, if he wills, of the nerves and the body. But this freedom which is effected by hypnosis abnormally, rapidly, without true possession, by an alien will, may equally be won normally, gradually, with true possession, by one's own will so as to effect partially or completely a victory of the mental being over the habitual nervous reactions of the body.
13:Pain of mind and body is a device of Nature, that is to say, of Force in her works, meant to subserve a definite transitional end in her upward evolution. The world is from the point of view of the individual a play and complex shock of multitudinous forces. In the midst of this complex play the individual stands as a limited constructed being with a limited amount of force exposed to numberless shocks which may wound, maim, break up or disintegrate the construction which he calls himself. Pain is in the nature of a nervous and physical recoil from a dangerous or harmful contact; it is a part of what the Upanishad calls jugupsa, the shrinking of the limited being from that which is not himself and not sympathetic or in harmony with himself, its impulse of self-defence against "others". It is, from this point of view, an indication by Nature of that which has to be avoided or, if not successfully avoided, has to be remedied. It does not come into being in the purely physical world so long as life does not enter into it; for till then mechanical methods are sufficient. Its office begins when life with its frailty and imperfect possession of Matter enters on the scene; it grows with the growth of Mind in life. Its office continues so long as Mind is bound in the life and body which it is using, dependent upon them for its knowledge and means of action, subjected to their limitations and to the egoistic impulses and aims which are born of those limitations. But if and when Mind in man becomes capable of being free, unegoistic, in harmony with all other beings and with the play of the universal forces, the use and office of suffering diminishes, its raison d'etre must finally cease to be and it can only continue as an atavism of Nature, a habit that has survived its use, a persistence of the lower in the as yet imperfect organisation of the higher. Its eventual elimination must be an essential point in the destined conquest of the soul over subjection to Matter and egoistic limitation in Mind.
1.12 - God Departs, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Even after the Mother's broad hint before she left the room and despite clear signs of impending tragedy, I could not really believe that he was going to leave us. We hoped against hope and expected a miracle, knowing very well that such spectacular miracles were not in accordance with the process of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. If he wanted to save himself, he would not have allowed the disease to run its course and then dramatically reverse the fatal decree. But one fondly clings to one's delusions. That is why we did not inform anyone of the imminent danger. About ten minutes before the grand end, he called me by my name from his indrawn state, inquired about the time and said, "Nirod, give me a drink." This was his deliberate last gesture. The quantity he drank was very small and there was no apparent need of calling me by name. Those last words still ring in my ears and remain inscribed on my soul. Apparently they express nothing more than a physical need. But to us who look upon the Mother and Sri Aurobindo as the incarnations of the Divine, one word, one look, one touch are rare gifts added to the treasures of the soul. And to me, especially, these few words carried an assurance that he had not forgotten me even in his last moment. They were a reminder of the pledge he had given before that he would never forsake me.
After this utterance, followed the final plunge. At 1.26 a.m., leaving his physical sheath, "the Colonist from Immortality" departed from the earthly habitation, in the presence of the Mother who stood near his feet with an intense penetrating gaze, an incarnation of divine strength, poise and calm. Champaklal broke down completely and began to sob. He could not accept the hard fact. The Mother made him quiet with a stern look. After half an hour, she left us alone.
1.12 - The Left-Hand Path - The Black Brothers, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
The about-to-be-Black Brother constantly restricts himself; he is satisfied with a very limited ideal; he is afraid of losing his individuality reminds one of the "Nordic" twaddle about "race-pollution."
Have you seen the sand-roses of the Sahara? Such is the violence of the Khamsin that it whips grains of sand together, presses them, finally builds them into great blocks, big enough and solid enough to be used for walls in the oasis. And beautiful! Whew! For all that, they are not real rocks. Leave hem in peace, with no possible interference what happens? (I brought some home, and put them "in safety" as curiosities, and as useful psychometrical tests.) Alas! Time is enough. Go to the drawer which held them; nothing remains but little piles of dust.
1.13 - Dawn and the Truth, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This close connection of bhadra and r.ta reminds us of the same connection of ideas in Madhuchchhandas' Hymn to Agni.
In our psychological interpretation of the Veda we are met at every turn by the ancient conception of the Truth as the path to the Bliss. Usha, the dawn of the illumination of the Truth, must necessarily bring also the joy and the beatitude. This idea of the
1.13 - Gnostic Symbols of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
way. 19 And in the same passage in the Acts, Paul reminds the
Athenians that they were "God's offspring," 20 and that God,
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whole vision reminds one very much of the related alchemical
symbolisms. Its drastic naturalism, unpleasantly obtrusive in
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outside, from top to bottom, with obscene sculptures, in order to remind ordi-
nary people of their sexuality. The spirit, he said, was a great danger, because
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tures were meant to remind them of their dharma (law), which bids them fulfil
their ordinary lives. Only when they have fulfilled their dharma can they tread
1.13 - On despondency., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
7. She reminds those standing at prayer of necessary duties. And, brutish as she is, she leaves no stone unturned to find some plausible pretext to drag us from prayer as with a kind of halter.
8. At the third hour the demon of despondency produces shivering, headache, and even colic. At the ninth hour the sick man gathers his strength. And when the table is laid he jumps out of bed. But the hour of prayer has come; again the body is weighed down. He had begun to pray, but it steeps him in sleep, and tears his response to shreds with untimely yawns.5
1.13 - Under the Auspices of the Gods, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
periodically overrun by our own inner barbarity, or some insidious cancers, as were those islands called Athens and Thebes. This is why they die and die again, as if the Lord of Evolution were rubbing our noses in the earth each time to remind us that we have not found all the light when we have found it exclusively above. Life does not die because of exhaustion, but because it has not found itself. For centuries we have trod the upward path, conquered island after island,
but we have found only half of the Secret, and we have been ruined each time; yet this may not be because history is hopeless, to punish us for our "sins," or to expiate some improbable Fault, but in order for us to find here, in Matter, the other half of the Secret. Pursued by Death and Unconsciousness, harassed by suffering and evil, the only solution left to us is not to escape but to find in the depths of Death and Unconsciousness, in the very heart of Evil, the key to divine life.
1.14 - INSTRUCTION TO VAISHNAVS AND BRHMOS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"One must not be proud of one's money. If you say that you are rich, then one can remind you that there are richer men than you, and others richer still, and so on. At dusk the glowworm comes out and thinks that it lights the world. But its pride is crushed when the stars appear in the sky. The stars feel that they give light to the earth. But when the moon rises the stars fade in shame. The moon feels that the world smiles at its light and that it lights the earth. Then the eastern horizon becomes red, and the sun rises. The moon fades and after a while is no longer seen.
"If wealthy people would think that way, they would get rid of their pride in their wealth."
1.14 - The Structure and Dynamics of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
34 8 One cannot help being reminded, in reading this text, of the
Indian idea of the Self as brahman and atman, for instance in
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serpent of Mercurius, that crafty and deceitful god, reminded
them of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, and therefore of the
1.15 - The Possibility and Purpose of Avatarhood, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Avatarhood are given summarily and remind ourselves also of other passages or references which bear upon it. "Many are my lives that are past, and thine also, O Arjuna; all of them I know, but thou knowest not, O scourge of the foe. Though I am the unborn, though I am imperishable in my self-existence, though
I am the Lord of all existences, yet I stand upon my own Nature and I come into birth by my self-Maya. For whensoever there is the fading of the Dharma and the uprising of unrighteousness, then I loose myself forth into birth. For the deliverance of the good, for the destruction of the evil-doers, for the enthroning of the Right I am born from age to age. He who knoweth thus in its right principles my divine birth and my divine work, when he abandons his body, comes not to rebirth, he comes to Me,
1.16 - Man, A Transitional Being, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Day after day, quietly, Sri Aurobindo filled his pages. Anyone else would have been exhausted, but he did not "think" about what he was writing. I have made no endeavour in writing, he explains to a disciple, I have simply left the higher Power to work and when it did not work, I made no effort at all. It was in the old intellectual days that I had sometimes tried to force things and not after I started development of poetry and prose by Yoga. Let me remind you also that when I was writing the Arya and also whenever I write these letters or replies, I never think. . . . It is out of a silent mind that I
write whatever comes ready-shaped from above.303 Often, those among his disciples who were writers or poets would ask him to explain the yogic process of literary creation. He would explain it at great length, knowing that creative activities are a powerful means of pushing back the superconscious boundary and precipitating into Matter the luminous possibilities of the future. His letters are quite instructive: The best relief for the brain, he writes in one of them, is when the thinking takes place outside the body and above the head (or in space or at other levels but still outside the body). At any rate it was so in my case; for as soon as that happened there was an immense relief; I have felt body strain since then but never any kind of brain fatigue.304 Let us stress that "thinking outside the body" is not at all a supramental phenomenon, but a very simple experience accessible with the onset of mental silence. The true method,
1.18 - The Importance of our Conventional Greetings, etc., #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Need I remind you how urgent the wish to escape will assuredly become, how fantastic are the mind's devices and excuses, amounting often to deliberate revolt? In Kandy I broke away in a fury, and dashed down to Colombo with the intention of painting the very air as red as the betel- spittle on the pavements! But after three days of futile search for satisfying debauchery I came back to my horses, and, sure enough, it was merely that I had gone stale; the relaxation soothed and steadied me; I resumed the discipline with redoubled energy, and Dhyana dawned before a week had elapsed.
I mention this because it is the normal habit of the mind to organize these counter-attacks that makes their task so easy. What you need is a mind that will help rather than hinder your Work by its normal function.
1.20 - TANTUM RELIGIO POTUIT SUADERE MALORUM, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Anyone who sacrifices anything but his own person or his own interests is on exactly the same level as Chuang Tzus pigs. The pigs seek their own advantage inasmuch as they prefer life and bran to honour and the shambles; the sacrificers seek their own advantage inasmuch as they prefer the magical, God-constraining death of pigs to the death of their own passions and self-will. And what applies to sacrifice, applies equally to incantations, rituals and vain repetitions, when these are used (as they all too frequently are, even in the higher religions) as a form of compulsive magic. Rites and vain repetitions have a legitimate place in religion as aids to recollectedness, reminders of truth momentarily forgotten in the turmoil of worldly distractions. When spoken or performed as a kind of magic, their use is either completely pointless; or else (and this is worse) it may have ego-enhancing results, which do not in any way contri bute to the attainment of mans final end.
The vestments of Isis are variegated to represent the cosmos; that of Osiris is white, symbolizing the Intelligible Light beyond the cosmos.
1.21 - My Theory of Astrology, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Modern astrologers multiply their charts until their desks remind me of a Bargain Basement in the rush hour! They compare and contrast until they are in bat-eyed bewilderment bemused; and when the answer turns out absolutely false, exclaim, what a shout: "By Ptolemy, I forgot to look at the last Luniation for Buda-Pesth!" But then they can always find something or other which will explain how they came to go wrong: naturally, when you have several hundred factors, helplessly bound and gagged, it would be just too bad if you couldn't pick out one to serve your turn after the event! No, dear girl, it should be obvious to an unweaned brat: (a) they can't see the wood for the trees, (b) they are using Ruach on a proposition which demands Neschamah. Intellect is quite inadequate; the problem requires mother-wit, intuition, understanding.
Here is my system in a Number 000 Ampoule.
1.22 - ADVICE TO AN ACTOR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER: "It is true that one's spiritual feelings are awakened by looking at the picture of a sdhu. It is like being reminded of the custard-apple by looking at an imitation one, or like stimulating the desire for enjoyment by looking at a young woman. Therefore I tell you that you should constantly live in the company of holy men.
(To Bannerji) "You know very well the suffering of the world. You suffer whenever you accept enjoyment. As long as the kite kept the fish in its beak, it was tormented by the flock of crows.
1.22 - THE END OF THE SPECIES, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
We need to remind ourselves yet again, so as to offset this truly
pagan materialism and naturalism, that although the laws of bio-
1.23 - FESTIVAL AT SURENDRAS HOUSE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
The preacher of the day was a pundit named Samadhyayi. And can you imagine what he said? He said in the course of his sermon: 'God is dry. We must make Him sweet and fresh with our love and devotion.' I was stunned to hear these words. Then I was reminded of a story. A boy once said: 'At my uncle's house there are many horses. Oh, yes! His whole cowshed is full of them.' Now if it was really a cowshed, then horses could not be kept there. Possibly he had only cows. What did people think on hearing such an incoherent statement? They believed that there were surely no such animals as horses in the shed." (Laughter.)
A DEVOTEE: "True, sir, there were not only no horses, but possibly there were also no cows!"
1.240 - 1.300 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
A woman, with her necklace round her neck, imagines that it has been lost and goes about searching for it, until she is reminded of it by a friend; she has created her own sense of loss, her own anxiety of search and then her own pleasure of recovery. Similarly the Self is all along there, whether you search for it or not. Again just as the woman feels as if the lost necklace has been regained, so also the removal of ignorance and the cessation of false identification reveal the Self which is always present - here and now. This is called realisation. It is not new. It amounts to elimination of ignorance and nothing more.
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1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
A woman, with her necklace round her neck, imagines that it has been lost and goes about searching for it, until she is reminded of it by a friend; she has created her own sense of loss, her own anxiety of search and then her own pleasure of recovery. Similarly the Self is all along there, whether you search for it or not. Again just as the woman feels as if the lost necklace has been regained, so also the removal of ignorance and the cessation of false identification reveal the Self which is always present - here and now. This is called realisation. It is not new. It amounts to elimination of ignorance and nothing more.
Blankness is the evil result of searching the mind. The mind must be cut off, root and branch. See who the thinker is, who the seeker is. Abide as the thinker, the seeker. All thoughts will disappear.
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Work leaves no time for separate meditation. Is the constant reminder
I am, trying to feel it while actually at work, enough?
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Pratyabhijna = Prati + abhijna. abhijna is direct perception; prati is to be reminded of what was already known.
This is an elephant direct perception
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Siva said that Allama was one who would not be affected by Her blandishments. Parvati wanted to try it and so sent Her tamasic quality to incarnate as a kings daughter on the Earth in order that she might entice Allama. She grew up as a highly accomplished girl. She used to sing in the temple. Allama used to go there and play on the drum. She lost herself in the play of the drum. She fell in love with him. They met in her bedroom. When she embraced him he became intangible. She grew lovesick. But a celestial damsel was sent to remind her of her purpose on the Earth. She resolved to overthrow Allama but did not succeed. Finally she went up to Kailas. Then Parvati sent Her satvic quality who was born as a Brahman sanyasini. When she surrendered to Allama she realised his true greatness.
Sri Bhagavan spoke very appreciatively of Nayana, i.e., Kavyakantha
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At the sight of him who in his heart has fixed the Lords Feet, Death is reminded of his bygone disastrous encounter with Markandeya and flees away.
All other gods worship only Siva, placing their crowned heads at
1.24 - Necromancy and Spiritism, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Why? Let me remind you of the sublimity of the man's genius, and the extent of his attainment. Apollonius must certainly have made the closest links between his Ruach and his Supernal Triad, and this would have gone seeking a new incarnation elsewhere. All the available Ruach left floating around in the Akasha must have been comparatively worthless odds and ends, true Qlippoth or "Shells of the Dead" just those parts of him, in a word, which Apollonius would have deliberately discarded at his death.
So what use would they be to Lvi? Even if there were among them a few such elements as would serve his purpose, they would have been devitalized and frittered away by the mere lapse of the centuries, since they had lost connection with the reality of the Sage. Alternatively, they might have been caught up and adopted by some wandering Entity, quite probably some malignant demon.
1.24 - RITUAL, SYMBOL, SACRAMENT, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
IN OTHER words, rites, sacraments, and ceremonials are valuable to the extent that they remind those who take part in them of the true Nature of Things, remind them of what ought to be and (if only they would be docile to the immanent and transcendent Spirit) of what actually might be their own relation to the world and its divine Ground. Theoretically any ritual or sacrament is as good as any other ritual or sacrament, provided always that the object symbolized be in fact some aspect of divine Reality and that the relation between symbol and fact be clearly defined and constant. In the same way, one language is theoretically as good as another. Human experience can be thought about as effectively in Chinese as in English or French. But in practice Chinese is the best language for those brought up in China, English for those brought up in England and French for those brought up in France. It is, of course, much easier to learn the order of a rite and to understand its doctrinal significance than to master the intricacies of a foreign language. Nevertheless what has been said of language is true, in large measure, of religious ritual. For persons who have been brought up to think of God by means of one set of symbols, it is very hard to think of Him in terms of other and, in their eyes, unhallowed sets of words, ceremonies and images.
The Lord Buddha then warned Subhuti, saying, Subhuti, do not think that the Tathagata ever considers in his own mind: I ought to enunciate a system of teaching for the elucidation of the Dharma. You should never cherish such a thought. And why? Because if any disciple harboured such a thought he would not only be misunderstanding the Tathagatas teaching, but he would be slandering him as well. Moreover, the expression a system of teaching has no meaning; for Truth (in the sense of Reality) cannot be cut up into pieces and arranged into a system. The words can only be used as a figure of speech.
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We see then that intense faith and devotion, coupled with perseverance by many persons in the same forms of worship or spiritual exercise, have a tendency to objectify the idea or memory which is their content and so to create, in some sort, a numinous real presence, which worshippers actually find out there no less, and in quite another way, than in here. Insofar as this is the case, the ritualist is perfectly correct in attri buting to his hallowed acts and words a power which, in another context, would be called magical. The mantram works, the sacrifice really does something, the sacrament confers grace ex opere operato: these are, or rather may be, matters of direct experience, facts which anyone who chooses to fulfill the necessary conditions can verify empirically for himself. But the grace conferred ex opere operato is not always spiritual grace and the hallowed acts and formulas have a power which is not necessarily from God. Worshippers can, and very often do, get grace and power from one another and from the faith and devotion of their predecessors, projected into independent psychic existences that are hauntingly associated with certain places, words and acts. A great deal of ritualistic religion is not spirituality, but occultism, a refined and well-meaning kind of white magic. Now, just as there is no harm in art, say, or science, but a great deal of good, provided always that these activities are not regarded as ends, but simply as means to the final end of all life, so too there is no harm in white magic, but the possibilities of much good, so long as it is treated, not as true religion, but as one of the roads to true religionan effective way of reminding people with a certain kind of psycho-physical make-up that there is a God, in knowledge of whom standeth their eternal life. If ritualistic white magic is regarded as being in itself true religion; if the real presences it evokes are taken to be God in Himself and not the projections of human thoughts and feelings about God or even about something less than God; and if the sacramental rites are performed and attended for the sake of the spiritual sweetness experienced and the powers and advantages conferred then there is idolatry. This idolatry is, at its best, a very lofty and, in many ways, beneficent kind of religion. But the consequences of worshipping God as anything but Spirit and in any way except in spirit and in truth are necessarily undesirable in this sense that they lead only to a partial salvation and delay the souls ultimate reunion with the eternal Ground.
That very large numbers of men and women have an ineradicable desire for rites and ceremonies is clearly demonstrated by the history of religion. Almost all the Hebrew prophets were opposed to ritualism. Rend your hearts and not your garments. I desire mercy and not sacrifice. I hate, I despise your feasts; I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. And yet, in spite of the fact that what the prophets wrote was regarded as divinely inspired, the Temple at Jerusalem continued to be, for hundreds of years after their time, the centre of a religion of rites, ceremonials and blood sacrifice. (It may be remarked in passing that the shedding of blood, ones own or that of animals or other human beings, seems to be a peculiarly efficacious way of constraining the occult or psychic world to answer petitions and confer supernormal powers. If this is a fact, as from the anthropological and antiquarian evidence it appears to be, it would supply yet another cogent reason for avoiding animal sacrifices, savage bodily austerities and even, since thought is a form of action, that imaginative gloating over spilled blood, which is so common in certain Christian circles.) What the Jews did in spite of their prophets, Christians have done in spite of Christ. The Christ of the Gospels is a preacher and not a dispenser of sacraments or performer of rites; he speaks against vain repetitions; he insists on the supreme importance of private worship; he has no use for sacrifices and not much use for the Temple. But this did not prevent historic Christianity from going its own, all too human, way. A precisely similar development took place in Buddhism. For the Buddha of the Pali scriptures, ritual was one of the fetters holding back the soul from enlightenment and liberation. Nevertheless, the religion he founded has made full use of ceremonies, vain repetitions and sacramental rites.
There would seem to be two main reasons for the observed developments of the historical religions. First, most people do not want spirituality or deliverance, but rather a religion that gives them emotional satisfactions, answers to prayer, supernormal powers and partial salvation in some sort of posthumous heaven. Second, some of those few who do desire spirituality and deliverance find that, for them, the most effective means to those ends are ceremonies, vain repetitions and sacramental rites. It is by participating in these acts and uttering these formulas that they are most powerfully reminded of the eternal Ground of all being; it is by immersing themselves in the symbols that they can most easily come through to that which is symbolized. Every thing, event or thought is a point of intersection between creature and Creator, between a more or less distant manifestation of God and a ray, so to speak, of the unmanifest Godhead; every thing, event or thought can therefore be made the doorway through which a soul may pass out of time into eternity. That is why ritualistic and sacramental religion can lead to deliverance. But at the same time every human being loves power and self-enhancement, and every hallowed ceremony, form of words or sacramental rite is a channel through which power can flow out of the fascinating psychic universe into the universe of embodied selves. That is why ritualistic and sacramental religion can also lead away from deliverance.
There is another disadvantage inherent in any system of organized sacramentalism, and that is that it gives to the priestly caste a power which it is all too natural for them to abuse. In a society which has been taught that salvation is exclusively or mainly through certain sacraments, and that these sacraments can be administered effectively only by a professional priesthood, that professional priesthood will possess an enormous coercive power. The possession of such power is a standing temptation to use it for individual satisfaction and corporate aggrandizement. To a temptation of this kind, if repeated often enough, most human beings who are not saints almost inevitably succumb. That is why Christ taught his disciples to pray that they should not be led into temptation. This is, or should be, the guiding principle of all social reformto organize the economic, political and social relationships between human beings in such a way that there shall be, for any given individual or group within the society, a minimum of temptations to covetousness, pride, cruelty and lust for power. Men and women being what they are, it is only by reducing the number and intensity of temptations that human societies can be, in some measure at least, delivered from evil. Now, the sort of temptations, to which a priestly caste is exposed in a society that accepts a predominantly sacramental religion, are such that none but the most saintly persons can be expected consistently to resist them. What happens when ministers of religion are led into these temptations is clearly illustrated by the history of the Roman church. Because Catholic Christianity taught a version of the Perennial Philosophy, it produced a succession of great saints. But because the Perennial Philosophy was overlaid with an excessive amount of sacramentalism and with an idolatrous preoccupation with things in time, the less saintly members of its hierarchy were exposed to enormous and quite unnecessary temptations and, duly succumbing to them, launched out into persecution, simony, power politics, secret diplomacy, high finance and collaboration with despots.
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We have seen that, when they are promoted to be the central core of organized religious worship, ritualism and sacramentalism are by no means unmixed blessings. But that the whole of a mans workaday life should be transformed by him into a kind of continuous ritual, that every object in the world around him should be regarded as a symbol of the worlds eternal Ground, that all his actions should be performed sacramentallythis would seem to be wholly desirable. All the masters of the spiritual life, from the authors of the Upanishads to Socrates, from Buddha to St. Bernard are agreed that, without self-knowledge there cannot be adequate knowledge of God, that without a constant recollectedness there can be no complete deliverance. The man who has learnt to regard things as symbols, persons as temples of the Holy Spirit and actions as sacraments, is a man who has learned constantly to remind himself who he is, where he stands in relation to the universe and its Ground, how he should behave towards his fellows and what he must do to come to his final end.
Because of this indwelling of the Logos, writes Mr. Kenneth Saunders in his valuable study of the Fourth Gospel, the Gita and the Lotus Sutra, all things have a reality. They are sacraments, not illusions like the phenomenal word of the Vedanta. That the Logos is in things, lives and conscious minds, and they in the Logos, was taught much more emphatically and explicitly by the Vedantists than by the author of the Fourth Gospel; and the same idea is, of course, basic in the theology of Taoism. But though all things in fact exist at the intersection between a divine manifestation and a ray of the unmanifest Godhead, it by no means follows that everyone always knows that this is so. On the contrary, the vast majority of human beings believe that their own selfness and the objects around them possess a reality in themselves, wholly independent of the Logos. This belief leads them to identify their being with their sensations, cravings and private notions and in its turn this self-identification with what they are not effectively walls them off from divine influence and the very possibility of deliverance. To most of us on most occasions things are not symbols and actions are not sacramental; and we have to teach ourselves, consciously and deliberately, to remember that they are.
1.24 - The Killing of the Divine King, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
to the people, recalling the past history of the tribe, reminding
them how he has ruled and advised them, and instructing them how
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occasion never forgot to remind us of his anxiety respecting it;
more especially on our departure on the mission his injunctions were
1.25 - ADVICE TO PUNDIT SHASHADHAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Unless a man practises discrimination, he cannot utter the right words. One time, after expounding religion at great length, Pundit Samadhyayi said, 'God is dry.' He reminded me of the man who once said, 'My uncle's cowshed is full of horses.' Now, does anyone keep horses in a cowshed? (With a smile) You have become like a chnbar fried in butter. Now it will be good for you and for others as well, if you are soaked in syrup a few days. Just a few days."
PUNDIT (smiling): "The sweetmeat is over-fried. It has become charred."
1.25 - SPIRITUAL EXERCISES, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
RITES, sacraments, ceremonies, liturgiesall these belong to public worship. They are devices, by means of which the individual members of a congregation are reminded of the true Nature of Things and of their proper relations to one another, the universe and God. What ritual is to public worship, spiritual exercises are to private devotion. They are devices to be used by the solitary individual when he enters into his closet, shuts the door and prays to his Father which is in secret. Like all other devices, from psalm singing to Swedish exercises and from logic to internal combustion engines, spiritual exercises can be used either well or badly. Some of those who use spiritual exercises make progress in the life of the spirit; others, using the same exercises, make no progress. To believe that their use either constitutes enlightenment, or guarantees it, is mere idolatry and superstition. To neglect them altogether, to refuse to find out whether and in what way they can help in the achievement of our final end, is nothing but self-opinionatedness and stubborn obscurantism.
St Franois de Sales used to say, I hear of nothing but perfection on every side, so far as talk goes; but I see very few people who really practice it. Everybody has his own notion of perfection. One man thinks it lies in the cut of his clothes, another in fasting, a third in almsgiving, or in frequenting the Sacraments, in meditation, in some special gift of contemplation, or in extraordinary gifts or graces but they are all mistaken, as it seems to me, because they confuse the means, or the results, with the end and cause.
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We come now to what may be called the spiritual exercises of daily life. The problem, here, is simple enoughhow to keep oneself reminded, during the hours of work and recreation, that there is a good deal more to the universe than that which meets the eye of one absorbed in business or pleasure? There is no single solution to this problem. Some kinds of work and recreation are so simple and unexactive that they permit of continuous repetition of sacred name or phrase, unbroken thought about divine Reality, or, what is still better, uninterrupted mental silence and alert passivity. Such occupations as were the daily task of Brother Lawrence (whose practice of the presence of God has enjoyed a kind of celebrity in circles otherwise completely uninterested in mental prayer or spiritual exercises) were almost all of this simple and unexacting kind. But there are other tasks too complex to admit of this constant recollectedness. Thus, to quote Eckhart, a celebrant of the mass who is over-intent on recollection is liable to make mistakes. The best way is to try to concentrate the mind before and afterwards, but, when saying it, to do so quite straightforwardly. This advice applies to any occupation demanding undivided attention. But undivided attention is seldom demanded and is with difficulty sustained for long periods at a stretch. There are always intervals of relaxation. Everyone is free to choose whether these intervals shall be filled with day-dreaming or with something better.
Whoever has God in mind, simply and solely God, in all things, such a man carries God with him into all his works and into all places, and God alone does all his works. He seeks nothing but God, nothing seems good to him but God. He becomes one with God in every thought. Just as no multiplicity can dissipate God, so nothing can dissipate this man or make him multiple.
1.26 - On discernment of thoughts, passions and virtues, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
The law, being imperfect, says: Attend to yourself.1 But the Lord, being entirely perfect, enjoined upon us the correction of our brother, saying: If thy brother sin against thee,2 and so on. If your reprimand, or rather your reminder, is pure and humble, you should not refuse to carry out the Lords behest, and especially in the case of those who accept correction. But if you have not yet got as far as this, then at least practise the precept laid down by the law.
Do not be surprised when you see that those whom you love turn against you on account of your rebukes. Frivolous people are the tools of the demons, and especially against the demons foes.
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The demon of avarice strives fiercely against those who possess nothing, and when it cannot vanquish them it reminds them of the state of the poor and persuades those who are spiritual to become material again.
In times of despondency never fail to bear in mind the Lords commandment to Peter to forgive a person who sins seventy times seven.4 For He who gave this comm and to another will Himself do far more. But when we are exalted let us again remember the saying: He who shall keep the whole spiritual law, and yet stumble in one passion, that is, fall into pride, has become guilty of all.5
1.27 - AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Kishori had several children. His salary was too small to support his family. Sri Ramakrishna said to M.: "Naran said he would get a job for Kishori. Please remind him of it."
The Master walked away in the direction of the pine-grove. Returning to the Panchavati, he said to M.: "Please ask someone to spread a mat outside my room. I shall lie down a few minutes. I am coming presently."
1.28 - Describes the nature of the Prayer of Recollection and sets down some of the means by which we can make it a habit., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
Him. This is certain, and, as it is of such importance, I often remind you of it. Nor does He work
within the soul as He does when it is wholly His and keeps nothing back. I do not see how He can
1.29 - What is Certainty?, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
I wouldn't start to argue with the Chinese, if I were you; they might remind you that you exude the stench peculiar to corpses.
Again, that other "Hymn to St. Thomas", as I ought perhaps to have called it:[55]
1.300 - 1.400 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Work leaves no time for separate meditation. Is the constant reminder
"I am", trying to feel it while actually at work, enough?
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Pratyabhijna = Prati + abhijna. abhijna is direct perception; prati is to be reminded of what was already known.
"This is an elephant" direct perception
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Siva said that Allama was one who would not be affected by Her blandishments. Parvati wanted to try it and so sent Her tamasic quality to incarnate as a king's daughter on the Earth in order that she might entice Allama. She grew up as a highly accomplished girl. She used to sing in the temple. Allama used to go there and play on the drum. She lost herself in the play of the drum. She fell in love with him. They met in her bedroom. When she embraced him he became intangible. She grew lovesick. But a celestial damsel was sent to remind her of her purpose on the Earth. She resolved to overthrow Allama but did not succeed. Finally she went up to Kailas. Then Parvati sent Her satvic quality who was born as a Brahman sanyasini. When she surrendered to Allama she realised his true greatness.
Sri Bhagavan spoke very appreciatively of Nayana, i.e., Kavyakantha
1.33 - The Gardens of Adonis, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
same purpose, perhaps by reminding the tree-spirit of his duty
towards the crops, and stimulating his activity by this visible
1.33 - Treats of our great need that the Lord should give us what we ask in these words of the Paternoster Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
nature which is His, and being Lord of His own will, He reminds His Father that, as our nature is
His, He is able to give it to us, and thus He says "our bread". He makes no difference between
1.34 - Continues the same subject. This is very suitable for reading after the reception of the Most Holy Sacrament., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
to think that the Lord is always being reminded of it nor would I have you remember it yourselves.
Keep on the level of the highest contemplation, for anyone who dwells there no more remembers
1.37 - Describes the excellence of this prayer called the Paternoster, and the many ways in which we shall find consolation in it., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
importance of this. The Lord, then, saw it was necessary to awaken such souls and to remind them
that they have enemies, and how much greater danger they are in if they are unprepared, and, since
1.38 - The Myth of Osiris, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
them alone she entrusted the burial of the body, and reminding them
of the benefits they had received she exhorted them to bury the body
1.400 - 1.450 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
At the sight of him who in his heart has fixed the Lord's Feet, Death is reminded of his bygone disastrous encounter with Markandeya and flees away.
All other gods worship only Siva, placing their crowned heads at
14.04 - More of Yajnavalkya, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In this connection I am reminded of what Sri Aurobindo said when he was taking leave of his students at Calcutta in his farewell address before starting his public political activity: he said, "When I come back I wish to see some of you becoming rich, rich not for yourselves but that you may enrich the Mother with your riches. I wish to see some of you becoming great, great not for your own sakes, not that you may satisfy your own vanity, but great for her, to make India great. . ."1: that is the ideal ideal, not individual satisfaction, exclusively personal accomplishment or achievement; one must work in view of the welfare of all, a global well-being. The goal is not one's own little self, but the Great Self in all. This is of course, in the secular way in the secular field. But here also the appeal, it must be observed, is not to the social life as a mere machine of which individuals are dead helpless parts and units meant to serve as obedient instruments in the production of useful goods. The appeal on the contrary is to the soul, the free inner individual, choosing its destiny but with a view to collaborating and uniting with others in the realisation of a global truth.
In the spiritual sphere also Sri Aurobindo gives us the same ideal and outlook. In the early days spiritual realisation was sought for personal salvation, a complete renunciation of the world, absolute freedom from this transient unhappy world anityam asukham lokam imam. The individual person leaves his individual existence upon earth and retires and merges into the Infinite Brahman. But here in Sri Aurobindo's Revelation we are taught that the individual realisation and spiritual attainment is not to dissolve oneself into the nameless formless Beyond but to maintain it, preserve it in a pure divine form, for the sake of the sorrowful ignorant world. The knowledge, the power, the delight that the individual gains-not as something merely individual but as the result of one's identity with the universal are at the service of earth and humanity so that these may be transformed and share in the same realisation. One becomes spiritually free and complete and enters into all so that all may be transformed into a new divine reality.
14.06 - Liberty, Self-Control and Friendship, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I may remind you here of what Sri Krishna did in this line, something very similar. Sri Krishna, the Divine, became a very ordinary playmate of cowherd-boys and village maids and was one of them and with them, almost with no apparent difference. The Divine not merely as the Master, the Guru, the leader or the captain but as a loving playmate and comrade is a very extraordinary Indian conception of the Divine. Arjuna in his loving tenderness for his friend Krishna almost forgot to respect him and honour him, he could only embrace him. But one day revelation came to him as to who his intimate friend and comrade really was: he was dumbfounded and full of contrition and repentance for his past lapses. I may tell you Arjuna's state of mind in his own wordsas stated in the Gita:
For whatsoever I have spoken to Thee in rash vehemence, thinking of Thee only as my human friend and companion, 'O Krishna, O Yadava, O Comrade,' not knowing this Thy greatness, in negligent error or in love, and for whatsoever disrespect was shown by me to Thee in jest, at play, on the couch and the seat and in the banquet, alone or in Thy presence, O faultless One, I pray forgiveness from Thee, the Immeasurable.3
14.07 - A Review of Our Ashram Life, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In its early days, quite at the beginning, we may now say, long long ago, for it is now almost half a century ago, the Ashram from its very start and quite spontaneously and inevitably grew into a community life. That is to say, the individuals ceased to have any personal possessions. Whatever they had belonged not to themselves but to the group, rather to the Master of the group, the Guru, to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. Whatever they had, they considered as having received from the Mother for use only. They are not proprietors or possessors of anything: whatever they needed or they thought they needed, they had to ask for it and the Mother decided what they should have or not. It was a joyous surrender of possessions and a grateful acceptance of gifts. One may yet remember the beautiful movement that impelled each one of those who were fortunate to be there at that time. One is reminded of a parallel movement, although on a different field, described by Tagore in his well-known lines:
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1.40 - Coincidence, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
The most famous novel of Fielding is called Tom Jones. It happened that FRATER PERDURABO was staying in a hotel in London. He telephoned a friend named Fielding at the latter's house, and was answered by Mr. Fielding's secretary, who said that his employer had left the house a few minutes previously, and could only be reached by telephoning a certain office in the City at between 11 o'clock and a quarter past. FRATER PERDURABO had an appointment at 11 o'clock with a music-hall star, the place being the entrance to a theatre. In order to remind himself, he made a mental note that, as soon as he saw the lady, he would raise his hand and say, before greeting her: ' remind me that I must telephone at once to Fielding,' when he met her. He did this, and she advance toward Him with the same gesture, and said in the same breath, ' remind me that I have to telephone to Tom Jones' the name of a music-hall agent employed by her.
Here comes another, this time completely crazy! Nothing "Literary" about it; no sense anywhere; a pure freak.
1.41 - Speaks of the fear of God and of how we must keep ourselves from venial sins., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
Lit.: "to an inn for ever, ever, for eternity." The repetition of "ever" (siempre) reminds one of the famous reminiscence of St.
Teresa's childhood, to be found in her Life, Chap. I.
1.439, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Presence among us. We appreciate that your Wisdom is founded upon pure Truth and the basic principle of Life and Eternity. We are happy that you remind us to Be still and Know THAT.
What do you consider the future of this Earth?
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M.: Every time you attempt satisfaction of a desire the knowledge comes that it is better to desist. Repeated reminders of this kind
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi will in due course weaken the desires. What is your true nature?
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In this connection I am often reminded of a funny incident which
took place when I was living in the West Chitrai Street in Madura. A
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difficult the journey was. He finally asked for something to remind
him of Maharshi, meaning some instruction.
1.450 - 1.500 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Presence among us. We appreciate that your Wisdom is founded upon pure Truth and the basic principle of Life and Eternity. We are happy that you remind us to "Be still and Know THAT".
What do you consider the future of this Earth?
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M.: Every time you attempt satisfaction of a desire the knowledge comes that it is better to desist. Repeated reminders of this kind
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1.46 - The Corn-Mother in Many Lands, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
a proof, I may remind the reader, is germane to the theme of this
book; for the more instances we discover of human beings
15.06 - Words, Words, Words..., #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is there, you have to be, conscious of it and realise the full benefit out of it. You are to be the living, not merely echoes and imprints but embodiments of the Word of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. You are now only an embryo, a rudimentary particle of the new life but it is thereyou have in you the thing needed essentially I only remind you to make you conscious of it. Even as you have budding gymnasts and an athlete among you, the playground makes you conscious of it, offers you the opportunity to cultivate and develop and bring it to fruition.
Now in a general way children all over the world are a privileged class. They possess what old age, even mature age does not possess or has lost. I mention two essential qualities pre-eminently belonging to the green age or to the "salad days": Happinessa child is ever happyin spite of its occasional weepings and wailingsand happiness means a radiant smile. To the old people I have often said, "Always smile. Mother has taught us how to smile in all circumstances." Well, that is the natural gift of the young A smile makes your life's journey smooth. In no other way can you remove so successfully the obstacles that beset you. And also that is the lever to lift up your consciousness it has a mysterious power that automatically relieves you of much of the burden of life, lightens you and leads you into a higher sphere. For smile is a divine quality. Next to Happiness, the natural virtue of a child-consciousness is Freedom. It does not find any barrier anywhere, it can do anything.
1.52 - Family - Public Enemy No. 1, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Only one reminder: it is worse than useless to take these Oaths with any such ambition. One of the most precious privileges thus gained is the clean sweep that is made of all pretence.
This too is painful beyond words at first. Until the process starts, you have not the faintest idea of how you have wrapped yourself in layers of lies.
1.52 - Killing the Divine Animal, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
remark would cause a flood of tears, and he would be reminded that
it had only 'changed houses and gone to live for ever in the home of
--
to the beast, reminding him how they have taken care of him, and fed
him well, and bathed him in the river, and made him warm and
1.54 - On Meanness, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
"Handy," though Boniface, "that will just square my brewer." That reminded the brewer to pay his cornchandler, who had been worrying him to settle. He wasn't nasty about it; he really needed the money for his farmer, a worthy man who wanted to build some new outhouses, and the builder couldn't give any credit because he was being pressed by the man who supplied his materials, a man in great trouble on account of his wife's long illness, and the necessity of an immediate and very expensive operation.
So the doctor went round, very lordly, to the local estate agent, and made the first payment on the new house he had wanted for so long. "Hullo! Hullo!" laughed the agent; "here we are again. It's curious, but I paid out that note only ten days ago!"
1.56 - Marriage - Property - War - Politics, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
There are any number of other passages, equally warlike; but see II, 24. It is a warning against internecine conflict between the masters; see also III 58,59. Hitler might well quote these two reminders that the real danger is the revolt of the slave classes. They cannot rule or build; no sooner do they find themselves in a crisis than mephitic rubbish about democracy is swept into the dustbin by a Napoleon or a Stalin.
There is just one exception to the general idea of ruthlessness; some shadowy vision of a chivalrous type of warfare is granted to us in AL III, 59: Significant, perhaps, that this and a restatement of Thelema came immediately before "There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra's seat, lightening the girders of the soul." (AL III, 61) And this is "As brothers fight ye!" Perhaps the Aeon may give birth to some type of warfare "under Queensbery rules" so to say. A baptism of those who assert their right to belong to the Master class. Something, in short, not wholly dissimilar from the jousts of Feudal times. But on such points I should not care to adventure any very positive opinion.
1.57 - Beings I have Seen with my Physical Eye, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Then, to my amazement, I saw of the slopes below me, two little fellows hopping playfully about on the scree. (A moment while I remind you that all my romance was Celtic; I had never ever read Teutonic myths and fables.) But these little men were exactly the traditional gnome of German fold-tales; the Heinzelmnner that one sees sometimes on German beer-mugs (I have never drunk beer in my life) and in friezes on the walls of a Conditorei.
I hailed them cheerfully at first I thought they were some of the local nobility and gentry of a type I had not yet encountered; but they took no notice, just went on playing about. They were still at it when I reached my cousin, sheltering behind some boulders at the foot of the slope; and I saw no more of them.
1.60 - Knack, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
It reminds me of the story of the Psychologist who wanted to judge the difference in temperament between an Englishman, as Scotsman and an Irishman, in judging the amount of Whisky in a bottle in the next room. They had to go in, report, and come back, and tell him what they thought about it. He filled it 50% with great accuracy.
The Irishman came back fairly cheerful; he rubbed his hands; "Well, there's half a bottle left, your honour."
1.63 - Fear, a Bad Astral Vision, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Stage 4. "Neither indifference nor not-indifference." One hardly knows what to make of this translation of the technical Buddhist term: probably no meaning is really illuminating to one who has not experienced that state of mind. To me it seems a kind of non-awareness which is somehow different from mere ignorance. Rather like one's feeling about the automatic functions of physiology, perhaps: and acceptance so complete that, although the mind contains the idea, it is not stirred thereby into consciousness. These speculations are, perhaps, idle, and so distracting, for you in your present path. Was it worth while to make this analogy? I think so, vague and unscientific as it must have seemed to you, as reminding you of the way in which unlike ideas acquire close kinship as one advance on the path.
Enough of all this! I could not bear to hear you exclaim:
1.64 - Magical Power, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Nevertheless, "even the evil germs of Matter may alike become useful and good" as Zoroaster reminds us.[124] For one thing, their possession is indubitably a sheet-anchor, at the mercy of the hurricane of Doubt doubt as to whether the whole business is not Tommy-rot!
Such moments are frequent, even when one has advanced to a stage when Doubt would seem impossible; until you get there, you can have no idea how bad it is!
1.64 - The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
enclosed their victims remind us of the leafy framework in which the
human representative of the tree-spirit is still so often encased.
1.67 - Faith, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
To prop faith is to destroy it: I am reminded of Mr. Harry Price's young lady of Brocken fame, who was so timorously careful of her virginity that she never felt it safe unless she had a man in bed with her.
What is the other kind of faith? Like its hostile twin, it must have no truck with reason, at least no conscious truck, or it ceases to possess a moral meaning. It is that confidence*[AC50] in oneself which assures one that the long shot at the tiger will fly true to the mark, that the tricky putt will go down, that the man one never beat before will go down this time; also its horrid contrary, the moral certainty that something will go wrong, even with the easiest problems, with one hundred to one in one's favour.
1.69 - Farewell to Nemi, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
readers of this work will hardly need to be reminded that the order
presupposed by magic differs widely from that which forms the basis
1.72 - Education, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
P.P.S. One more effort: the above reminds me that I have said no word about the other side of the medal. There are many children who cannot be educated at all in any sense of the word. It is an abonin- able waste of both of them and of the teacher to push against brick walls.
Yet one last point. I am as near seventy as makes no matter, and I am still learning with all my might. All my life I have been taught: governesses, private tutors, schools, private and public, the best of the Universities: how little I know! I have traveled all over the world in all conditions, from "grand seigneur," to "holy man;" how little I know!
1.74 - Obstacles on the Path, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
A century ago, very nearly, there lived in Bristol and "Open Brother" names Muller, who was a wizard at this; Grace before breakfast, the usual palaver about the Lord and His blessings and His bounty et cetera, da capo; to conclude "and, Blessed Lord, we would humbly venture to remind Thee that this morning Thou art 3 4s. 6 1/2d. short in the accounts; trusting that Thou wilt give this small matter Thine immediate attention, for Jesus' Christ's sake, Amen." Sure enough, when he came to open his post, there would be just enough, sometimes exactly enough, to cover that amount.
This story was told me by an enemy, who thought quite seriously that he would go to Hell for being "Open." ("Open" Brethren were lax about the Lord's Supper, let people partake who were not sound upon the Ramsgate Question; and other Theological Atrocities!) It meant that the facts were so undeniable that the "advertisement for Answer to Prayer" outweighed the "miracle by a heretic."
1.78 - Sore Spots, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Three in one and one in three it's the Athanasian Creed in the Black Mass eh! What's that you say? Oh, quite right, quite, quite right of you to remind me. "Definition first!"
A "sore spot" is one which reacts abnormally and violently, however gently you touch it; more, all the other bits of you give a painful jerk, however disconnected they may seem. Still more, the entire System undergoes a spasm of apprehension; and the total result is that the mental as well as the physical system is quite unable to grasp the situation with any accuracy, and the whole man is temporarily engulphed in what is naturally not far from a condition of insanity.
--
Softly repeating to myself passages from The Revenge by the late Alfred Lord Tennyson, of which the scene most powerfully reminded me. "Rat after rat, for half an hour, flung back as fast as it came." Their courage wilted; the hunted became the huntress; I thought of Artemis as I sang softly to myself, "When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces."[157] But she pursued; snapped the last spine, and flung it into the gallery with a yell of triumph.
It was not so easy a victory as I have perhaps described it, once she slipped in the slime and came down with a thud; and at the end blood spurted from innumerable bites.
The whole scene was too much for most of the men; they literally howled liked famished wolves, and shook the balustrade until it creaked and groaned. Presently one slipped over, let himself lightly to the floor and charged. Others followed. All had their heart's desire. I was reminded of Swinburn's Laus Veneris,
"I let mine eyes have all their will of thee
1916 12 04p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thou remindest me through these brief moments of ecstatic identification that Thou hast granted me the power of consciously uniting with Thee. And the divine musical harmony captures the entire being.
But the sounds gather in the head as behind a veil and not a word flows from the pen today.
1951-03-05 - Disasters- the forces of Nature - Story of the charity Bazar - Liberation and law - Dealing with the mind and vital- methods, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This reminds me of what happened in Paris when I was seventeen or eighteen. There was a charity bazaar. This charity bazaar was a place where men from all over the world came to buy and sell all kinds of things, and the proceeds of the sale went to works of charity (it was meant more for amusement than for doing good, but still, charitable works profited by it). All the elegance, all the refinement of high society was gathered there. Now, the bazaar was very beautiful but not solidly built, because it was to last only for three or four days. The roof was of painted tarpaulin which had been suspended. Everything was lighted by electricity; the work was more or less decently done, but naturally with the idea that it was only for a few days. There was a short-circuit, everything began to blaze up; the roof caught fire and suddenly collapsed upon the people. As I said, all the lite of society were there for them, from the human point of view, it was a frightful catastrophe. There were people near the entrance who tried to escape; others, all ablaze, also tried to reach the door and run away. It was a veritable scuffle! All these elegant, refined people, who usually were so well-mannered, began to fight like street rowdies. There was even a Count of something or other, a very well-known man, a poet, a man of perfect elegance, who carried a silver-knobbed stick, and he was surprised in the act of hitting women on the head with his stick, and trying to push forward! Indeed, it was a fine sight, something most elegant! Afterwards, lamentations in society, big funerals and many stories. Now, a Dominican, a well-known orator, was asked to give a speech over the tombs of the unfortunate who had perished in the fire. He said something to this effect: It serves you right. You did not live according to the law of God and He has punished you by burning you.
And every time there was a disaster this story was repeated. Naturally many people protested and said, Heres a God whom we wont have! But these ideas are quite typical of ordinary humanity.
1953-04-29, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, quite the contrary! For if you begin to study well, your consciousness awakens, and you can become more aware of what you still lack. This reminds me of the lady who, having gradually become conscious, told me: Before I heard you, I had trust in men, everybody was very kind, I was happy. Now that I have begun to see clearly and become conscious, I have lost all my serenity! It is awful to become conscious!
What is to be done?Become still more conscious. It is very bad to learn just a little. One must learn more until one comes to the point where one sees that one knows nothing. I spoke to you about the novice who wants to pass on to others what he has learntuntil the day he sees he has not much to pass on. Usually all religious teaching is based on that. A very little knowledge, with precise formulas which are well written (often quite well written) and crystallise in the brain, and assert: That is indeed the truth. You have only to study what is there in the book. How easy it is! In every religion there is a bookwhe ther it be the Catechism, the Hindu texts, the Koran, in short, all the sacred booksyou learn it by heart. You are told that this-is-the-truth, and you are sure it is the truth and remain comfortable. It is very convenient, you dont need to try to understand. Those who dont know the same thing as you, are in the falsehood, and you even pray for those who are outside the Truth! This is a common fact in all religions. But in all religions there are people who know better and dont believe in these things. I had met one of these particularly, one belonging to the Catholic faith. He was a big man. I spoke to him about what I knew and asked him: Why do you use this method? Why do you perpetuate ignorance? He answered: It is a policy of peace of mind. If we didnt do that, people wouldnt listen to us. This, indeed, is the secret of religions. He told me: There are in our religion, as in the ancient initiations, people who know. There are schools where the old tradition is taught. But we are forbidden to speak about it. All these religious images are symbols representing something other than what is taught. But that is not taught outside.
1954-09-22 - The supramental creation - Rajasic eagerness - Silence from above - Aspiration and rejection - Effort, individuality and ego - Aspiration and desire, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Here I dont let you go to sleep. I remind you from time to time of the true thing. But you are all very young, you see, and a certain number of years are needed, years of intensive inner formation, to become a being who thinks for himself, is conscious of his own will, and conscious of his own nature, his purpose of existence, independent of the human mass. A certain time is necessary. Some children begin when very small. If one begins very early, when one is twenty he can be quite formed. But you must begin when very small, and consciously, very consciously; you must begin with a see of observation of all the movements in yourself, of their relation with others, ofprecisely, of your degree of independence, real individuality, of knowing where impulses come from, where other movements come from: whether it is contagion from outside or something that arises from within yourself. A very profound study of all the movements in oneself is necessary in order to succeed simply in crystallising a being who is a little conscious, a little conscious. But when you live fluidly, so to say, when you dont even know what goes on inside you, have some sort of vague impressions, if you questions yourself, at least ninety-nine times out of a hundred, if you ask yourself, Why did I think like that? Why did I feel like that?, even Why did I do that?, then the reply is almost always the same: I dont know. It came like that, thats all. That is to say, one is not at all conscious.
Are you able to know, when you are with others, what comes from you and what from the others? To what extent their way of being, their particular vibrations act upon you? You are not aware of this at all. You live in a kind of approximate consciousness, half-awake, half-asleep, in something very vague, where you have to grope like this in order to catch things. But do you have a precise, clear, exact notion of what goes on in you, why it goes on in you? And then, this: the vibrations, which come to you from outside and those which come from within you? And then, again, what can come from others, changing all this, giving another orientation? You live in a kind of hazy fluidity, certain small things suddenly crystallise in your consciousness, you have just caught them for a moment; and it is just clear enough like that, as though there was a projector, just something passing on the screen and becoming clear for a second: the next minute everything has become vague, imprecise, but you are not aware of this because you have not even asked yourself the questions, because you live in this way. It stops here, begins here, ends here. Thats all. You do from day to day, minute to minute, things which you do, like that it happen to be like that.
1955-03-23 - Procedure for rejection and transformation - Learning by heart, true understanding - Vibrations, movements of the species - A cat and a Russian peasant woman - A cat doing yoga, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You have only to watch animals: they lie down curled up, dont they? Almost all. It is with man that this way of lying on ones back, stretched out, begins, I think; I dont at all think that monkeys sleep like that, I think they sleep doubled up, that it is man who has started habits of this kind. And this reminds me
I had a catin those days I used to sleep on the floorwhich always came and slipped under the mosquito-net and slept beside me. Well, this cat slept quite straight, it did not sleep as cats do; it put its head here and then lay down like this (gesture), alongside my legs with its two forepaws like this, and its two little hind legs quite straight. And there was something very, very curious about it which I saw one night, like that. I used to ask myself why it was like this, and one night I saw a little Russian woman of the people with a fur bonnet and three little children, and this woman had a kind of adoration for her children and always wanted to look for a shelter for them; I dont know, I dont know the story, but I saw that she had her three little children, very small ones, with her one like this, one like that, one like that (Mother shows the difference in height), and she was dragging them along with her and looking for a corner to put them in safety. Something must have happened to her, she must have died suddenly with a kind of very animal maternal instinct of a certain kind, but all full of fearfear, anguish and worry and this something must have come from there and in some way or other had reincarnated. It was a movementit was not a person, you know, it was a movement which belonged to this person and must have come up in the cat. It was there for some reason or other, you see, I dont know how it happened, I know nothing about it, but this cat was completely human in its ways. And very soon afterwards it had three kittens, like that; and it was extraordinary, it didnt want to leave them, it refused to leave them, it was entirely it did not eat, did not go to satisfy its needs, it was always with its young. When one day it had an ideanobody had said anything, of courseit took one kitten, as they take them, by the skin of the neck, and came and put it between my feet; I did not stir; it returned, took the second, put it there; it took the third, it put it there, and when all three were there, it looked at me, mewed and was gone. And this was the first time it went out after having had them; it went to the garden, went to satisfy its needs and to eat, because it was at peace, they were there between my feet. And when it had its young, it wanted to carry them on its back like a woman. And when it slept beside me, it slept on the back. It was never like a cat.
1956-05-23 - Yoga and religion - Story of two clergymen on a boat - The Buddha and the Supramental - Hieroglyphs and phonetic alphabets - A vision of ancient Egypt - Memory for sounds, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That reminds me of something: (turning to a teacher) have they found the sounds with which hieroglyphs are to be read?
Egyptian?
1956-08-22 - The heaven of the liberated mind - Trance or samadhi - Occult discipline for leaving consecutive bodies - To be greater than ones experience - Total self-giving to the Grace - The truth of the being - Unique relation with the Supreme, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Whatever may be the nature, the strength and wonder of an experience, you must not be dominated by it to such an extent that it governs your entire being and you lose your balance and your contact with a reasonable and calm attitude. That is to say, when you enter in some way into contact with a force or consciousness which surpasses yours, instead of being entirely dominated by this consciousness or force, you must always be able to remind yourself that it is only one experience among thousands and thousands of others, and that, consequently, its nature is not absolute, it is relative. No matter how beautiful it may be, you can and ought to have better ones: however exceptional it may be, there are others still more marvellous; and however high it may be, you can always rise still higher in future. So, instead of losing ones head one places the experience in the chain of development and keeps a healthy physical balance so as not to lose the sense of relativity with ordinary life. In this way, there is no risk.
The means? One who knows how to do this will always find it very easy, but for one who doesnt know it is perhaps a little a little troublesome.
1957-02-06 - Death, need of progress - Changing Natures methods, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Death is the question Nature puts continually to Life and her reminder to it that it has not yet found itself. If there were no siege of death, the creature would be bound forever in the form of an imperfect living. Pursued by death he awakes to the idea of perfect life and seeks out its means and its possibility.
Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 386
1957-02-13 - Suffering, pain and pleasure - Illness and its cure, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Pain and grief are Natures reminder to the soul that the pleasure it enjoys is only a feeble hint of the real delight of existence. In each pain and torture of our being is the secret of a flame of rapture compared with which our greatest pleasures are only as dim flickerings. It is this secret which forms the attraction for the soul of the great ordeals, sufferings and fierce experiences of life which the nervous mind in us shuns and abhors.
Thoughts and Glimpses, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 386
1957-03-13 - Our best friend, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Anyway, I wrote this with something in mind which one usually forgets: one asks ones friends and those around one to be not what they are but what one would like them to beone can form an ideal for oneself and want to apply it to everybody, but This reminds me of Tolstoys son whom I met in Japan and who was going round the world in the hope of bringing about unity among men. His intentions were excellent, but his way of doing it seemed less happy! He said with an imperturbable seriousness that if everybody spoke the same language, if everybody dressed in the same way, ate in the same way and behaved in the same way, that would inevitably bring about unity! And when asked how he planned to realise this he said it would be enough to go from land to land preaching a new but universal language, a new but universal dress, and new but universal habits. That was all. And that was what he intended to do!
(Laughing) Well, everyone in his own little field is like that. He has an ideal, a conception of what is true and beautiful and noble, and even divine, and this conception of his he wants to impose on others. There are also many people who have a conception of the Divine and who try with all their might to impose their conception on the Divine and usually dont lose heart until they have lost their life!
1957-06-12 - Fasting and spiritual progress, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There comes a moment when, free from everything, one needs practically nothing, and one can use anything, do anything without this having any real influence on the state of consciousness one is in. This is what really matters. To try through outer gestures or arbitrary decisions which come from a mental consciousness aspiring for a higher life can be a means, not a very effective one but still a sort of reminder to the being that it ought to be something other than what it is in its animality but its not that, its not that at all! A person who could be entirely absorbed in his inner aspiration, to the point of not giving any thought or care to these external things, who would take what comes and not think about it when it doesnt, would be infinitely farther on the path than someone who undertakes ascetic practices with the idea that this will lead him to realisation.
The only thing that is truly effective is the change of consciousness; it is the inner liberation through an intimate, constant union, absolute and inevitable, with the vibration of the supramental forces. The preoccupation of every second, the will of all the elements of the being, the aspiration of the entire being, including all the cells of the body, is this union with the supramental forces, the divine forces. And there is no longer any need at all to be preoccupied with what the consequences will be. What has to be in the play of the universal forces and their manifestation will be, quite naturally, spontaneously, automatically, there is no need to be preoccupied with it. The only thing that matters is the constant, total, complete contactconstant, yes, constantwith the Force, the Light, the Truth, the Power, and that ineffable delight of the supramental consciousness.
1958-06-04 - New birth, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And since we are speaking of that, I shall remind you of what Sri Aurobindo has said, repeated, written, affirmed and said over and over again, that his yoga, the integral yoga, can begin only after that experience, not before.
So, one must not cherish any illusions and fancy that one can begin to know what the supermind is and form any idea of it or assess it in any way, however minimal, before having had that experience.
1969 09 01 - 142, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
These are the qualities needed for the growth of the being until its divinisation; it is also a reminder that no transformation can be complete without the ascent of humanity.
1 September 1969
1970 06 07, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
539Atheism is the shadow or dark side of the highest perception of God. Every formula we frame about God, though always true as a symbol, becomes false when we accept it as a sufficient formula. The Atheist and Agnostic come to remind us of our error.
540Gods negations are as useful to us as His affirmations. It is He who as the Atheist denies His own existence for the better perfecting of human knowledge. It is not enough to see God in Christ and Ramakrishna and hear His words, we must see Him and hear Him also in Huxley and Haeckel.
1.A - ANTHROPOLOGY, THE SOUL, #Philosophy of Mind, #unset, #Zen
legitimated as religious, moral, true, just, etc., and an appeal to heart and feeling either means nothing or means something bad. This should hardly need enforcing. Can any experience be more trite than that feelings and hearts are also bad, evil, godless, mean, etc.? That the heart is the source only of such feelings is stated in the words: 'From the heart proceed evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, blasphemy, etc.' In such times when 'scientific' theology and philosophy make the heart and feeling the criterion of what is good, moral, and religious, it is necessary to remind them of these trite experiences; just as it is nowadays necessary to repeat that thinking is the characteristic property by which man is distinguished from the beasts, and that he has feeling in common with them.
401 What the sentient soul finds within it is, on one hand, the naturally immediate, as 'ideally' in it and made its own. On the other hand and conversely, what originally belongs to the central individuality (which as further deepened and enlarged is the conscious ego and free mind) gets the features of the natural corporeity, and is so felt. In this way we have two spheres of feeling. One, where what at first is a corporeal affection (e.g. of the eye or of any bodily part whatever) is made feeling
1.anon - The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet III, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen
may Aja, the Bride, without fear remind you,
and command also the Watchmen of the Night,
1f.lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
disquieting and even dimly terrible. Something about the scene reminded
me of the strange and disturbing Asian paintings of Nicholas Roerich,
--
Arrangement reminds one of certain monsters of primal myth,
especially fabled Elder Things in Necronomicon. These wings seem to
--
reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and
aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.
--
Their size reminded us of some of the archaic penguins depicted in the
Old Ones sculptures, and it did not take us long to conclude that they
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recognise as the Old Ones art; and I was persistently reminded of such
hybrid things as the ungainly Palmyrene sculptures fashioned in the
--
the east, again reminding us of those strange Asian paintings of
Nicholas Roerich; and when we thought of the damnable honeycombs inside
1f.lovecraft - Celephais, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
were not many to speak to him and remind him who he had been. His money
and lands were gone, and he did not care for the ways of people about
1f.lovecraft - Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
no denying what followed. I was reminded of moments when I have felt
the ground tremble beneath my feet at the bursting of giant shells;
1f.lovecraft - Herbert West-Reanimator, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
thing was really dead. This assurance he gave readily enough; reminding
me that the reanimating solution was never used without careful tests
1f.lovecraft - Medusas Coil, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
reminded him of something frightful, and the tightening of his hand on
the machete boded no good. I knew he was desperate, and sprang to
1f.lovecraft - Sweet Ermengarde, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
made him thirsty by reminding him of ethyl alcohol, C[2]H[5]OH. His own
products contained mostly methyl or wood alcohol, CH[3]OH. Ermengarde
1f.lovecraft - The Alchemist, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Thus time and the want of a reminder dulled the memory of the curse in
the minds of the late Comtes family, so that when Godfrey, innocent
1f.lovecraft - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Weeden exceedingly; reminding him of one of the puppets in a show he
had seen in the autumn of 1764 in Hackers Hall, when a man from
--
odour reminded Mr. Ward of what he had smelt on his son that day he was
taken to the hospital. The doctors flashlight was missing, but his
--
on the telephonewas it not of this that Mr. Ward was reminded when his
son barked forth those pitiable tones to which he now claimed to be
1f.lovecraft - The Colour out of Space, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
familiarity, and decided that they reminded one of the brittle globule
in the meteor. Nahum ploughed and sowed the ten-acre pasture and the
1f.lovecraft - The Diary of Alonzo Typer, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
horrible than that which is non-human. I wish they reminded me less of
other facesfaces I have known in the past. They were an accursed line,
--
a vague sibilant sortand reminded me of the strange piping chant I had
heard from afar. After sunset there came a curious flash of premature
1f.lovecraft - The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
by insistent pleas. They reminded him, too, that not only had no man
ever been to unknown Kadath, but no man had ever suspected in what part
--
orchards and neat little stone farmhouses, and he was much reminded of
those fertile fields that flank the Skai. By evening he was near the
1f.lovecraft - The Electric Executioner, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
carelessly into his left-hand coat pocket, I reminded him of my
influential Sacramento friends who would be so much interested in his
--
beside the open valise, I reminded him that I had not made the needed
sketch; and asked him to hold the headpiece so that I could draw it
1f.lovecraft - The Festival, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
There was no onein waking hourswho could remind me of it; but my
dreams are filled with terror, because of phrases I dare not quote. I
1f.lovecraft - The Ghost-Eater, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
left; and I was half reminded for a moment of the jungle, and the
circles of eyes that sometimes glow just beyond the radius of the
1f.lovecraft - The Green Meadow, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
associations; and I was reminded of some vaguely disquieting lines I
had once translated out of an Egyptian book, which in turn were taken
1f.lovecraft - The Horror at Martins Beach, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Many did not notice this ripple until reminded by later events; but it
seems to have been very marked, differing in height and motion from the
1f.lovecraft - The Last Test, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
general subjects. Little by little, amidst many reminders of their old
youthful days, Dalton worked toward his point; till at last he came out
--
charred skull, oddly enough, was very human, and reminded people of
Surama; but the rest of the bones were beyond conjecture. Only well-cut
1f.lovecraft - The Lurking Fear, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
fulgurite-pitted earth reminded me of snakes and dead mens skulls
swelled to gigantic proportions.
--
The stormy vigil reminded me shudderingly of my ghastly night on
Tempest Mountain. My mind turned to that odd question which had kept
1f.lovecraft - The Mound, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
frightfree from wrinkles. But it did remind Grandma Compton most
uncannily of the captain as he had looked back in 89. Its feet were
--
have died out but for certain ghostly reminders of their presence now
and then. It seemed that the infinite ancientness of these creatures
--
blocked-up lateral passageway, would remind Zamacona that this was in
truth the aeon-forgotten high-road to a primal and unbelievable world
1f.lovecraft - The Night Ocean, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
old fairy-tale. Suddenly reminded of this lost image, I half expected
to see, in the fine-spun dirty foam and among the waves which were now
1f.lovecraft - The Shadow over Innsmouth, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
evilly reminded of something utterly fantastic which I could not quite
place. Undoubtedly the alien strain in the Innsmouth folk was stronger
--
had so fearsomely reminded me. Their number was past guessing. It
seemed to me that there were limitless swarms of themand certainly my
1f.lovecraft - The Shunned House, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
into the night, till my uncles growing drowsiness made me remind him
to lie down for his two-hour sleep.
1f.lovecraft - The Silver Key, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
first lamps of evening served only to remind him of dreams he had once
known, and to make him homesick for ethereal lands he no longer knew
--
Then one night his grandfather reminded him of a key. The grey old
scholar, as vivid as in life, spoke long and earnestly of their ancient
1f.lovecraft - The Trap, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
glass, and, wondering what so greatly interested him, was reminded of
my own experience earlier that morning. As time passed he continued to
1f.lovecraft - The Unnamable, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
unnatural monster had really existed, but reminded me that even the
most morbid perversion of Nature need not be unnamable or
1f.lovecraft - The Whisperer in Darkness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
normality of the sound. It reminded me, though, of another thing about
the region which disturbed methe total absence of animal life. There
1f.lovecraft - Under the Pyramids, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
offered by America and Europe. Egypt, he reminded me, is very old; and
full of inner mysteries and antique powers not even conceivable to the
--
lapses whose succession reminded me at the time of nothing more than
the crude cinema melodramas of that period. Of course, it is possible
1.hs - The Essence of Grace, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Thomas Rain Crowe Original Language Persian/Farsi Now that I have raised the glass of pure wine to my lips, The nightingale starts to sing! Go to the librarian and ask for the book of this bird's songs, and Then go out into the desert. Do you really need college to read this book? Break all your ties with people who profess to teach, and learn from the Pure Bird. From Pole to Pole the news of those sitting in quiet solitude is spreading. On the front page of the newspaper, the alcoholic Chancellor of the University Said: "Wine is illegal. It's even worse than living off charity." It's not important whether we drink Gallo or Mouton Cadet: drink up! And be happy, for whatever our Winebringer brings is the essence of grace. The stories of the greed and fantasies of all the so-called "wise ones" remind me of the mat-weavers who tell tourists that each strand is a yarn of gold. Hafiz says: The town's forger of false coins is also president of the city bank. So keep quiet, and hoard life's subtleties. A good wine is kept for drinking, never sold. [1512.jpg] -- from Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved: 100 Poems of Hafiz, by Thomas Rain Crowe <
1.jr - I Have Fallen Into Unconsciousness, #Rumi - Poems, #Jalaluddin Rumi, #Poetry
When you cast aside the veil the dead become alive; the light of your face reminded me of the Covenant of Alast.
When I became lost, O soul, through love of the king of the peris, hidden from self and creatures, I am as if peri-born myself.
1.kbr - The Swan flies away, #Songs of Kabir, #Kabir, #Sufism
Kabir reminds us that we are much like a leaf if when severed from the universal spirit (the tree) is liable to be blown away by the gust of unfulfilled desires. In such a state it is difficult to predict where the leaf (spirit) will finally land on getting dismembered from the tree of universal oneness.
All through our physical life we are listening to either orders of others or are ordered by our own desires. When death comes nobody is really with us and we finally realize that the obeying and following others is not as meaningful as following our inner voice. "Kala" (Yama) or time, is relentless even in the wake of our last-minute realizations and feeling unfulfilled.
1.lovecraft - The Bride Of The Sea, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Dim are the pathways and rocks that remind me
Sadly of years in the lost Nevermore.
1.pbs - Chorus from Hellas, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
will remind the reader 'magno nec proximus intervallo' of Isaiah and
Virgil, whose ardent spirits overleaping the actual reign of evil which we
1.pbs - Oedipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot The Tyrant, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Humbly remind your Majesty that the care
Of your high office, as Man-milliner
--
Allow me to remind you, grass is green
All flesh is grass;no bacon but is flesh
1.pbs - The Devils Walk. A Ballad, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
It reminded him most marvellously
Of the story of Cain and Abel.
1.rb - Paracelsus - Part III - Paracelsus, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Therefore, once more reminding him how well
He prophesied, I note the single flaw
--
And that reminds me, I heard something
About your waywardness: you burned their books,
1.rb - Paracelsus - Part I - Paracelsus Aspires, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Shall be reminded to predict to me
Some great success! Ah see, the sun sinks broad
1.rb - Pippa Passes - Part IV - Night, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Strike me? Ah, so might a father chastise! I shall sleep soundly to-night at least, though the gallows await me to-morrow; for what a life did I lead! Carlo of Cesena reminds me of his connivance, every time I pay his annuity; which happens commonly thrice a year. If I remonstrate, he will confess all to the good bishopyou!
Monsignor
1.rb - Sordello - Book the First, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Each, as a worn-out queen's face some remind
Of her extreme youth's love-tales. "Eglamor
1.rb - The Flight Of The Duchess, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
And I ventured to remind her,
I suppose with a voice of less steadiness
1.rmr - Childhood, #Rilke - Poems, #Rainer Maria Rilke, #Poetry
We're still reminded: sometimes by a rain,
but we can no longer say what it means;
1.rmr - Venetian Morning, #Rilke - Poems, #Rainer Maria Rilke, #Poetry
and remind her of the other times:
only then does she concede and settle in
1.rwe - From the Persian of Hafiz I, #Emerson - Poems, #Ralph Waldo Emerson, #Philosophy
Let the trumpets thee remind
How the crown of Kobad vanished.
1.whitman - Carol Of Occupations, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the
instruments;
1.whitman - Hours Continuing Long, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Does some stray reminder, or the casual mention of a name, bring the
fit back upon him, taciturn and deprest?
1.whitman - I Saw In Louisiana A Live Oak Growing, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
(For I believe lately I think of little else than of them
1.whitman - Song of Myself, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Less the reminders of properties told my words,
And more the reminders they of life untold, and of freedom and extrication,
And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipt,
1.whitman - Song Of Myself- XXIII, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Less the reminders of properties told my words,
And more the reminders they of life untold, and of freedom and extrication,
And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipt,
1.whitman - Who Learns My Lesson Complete?, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
And that I can remind you, and you think them, and know them to be
true, is just as wonderful.
1.ww - Address To My Infant Daughter, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Address To My Infant Daughter, Dora On Being reminded That She Was A Month Old That Day, September 1
HAST thou then survived
1.ww - The Excursion- VII- Book Sixth- The Churchyard Among the Mountains, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
I failed not to remind them that they erred;
For holy Nature might not thus be crossed,
2.01 - AT THE STAR THEATRE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER (to the devotees): "I shall look upon them as the Blissful Mother Herself. What if one of them acts the part of Chaitanya? An imitation custard-apple reminds one of the real fruit. Once, while going along a road, a devotee of Krishna noticed some babla-trees. Instantly his mind was thrown into ecstasy. He remembered that the wood of babla-trees was used for the handles of the spades that the garden of the temple of Syamasundar was dug with. The trees instantly reminded him of Krishna. I was once taken to the Maidan in Calcutta to see a balloon go up. There I noticed a young English boy leaning against a tree, with his body bent in three places. It at once brought before me the vision of Krishna and I went into samdhi.
"Once Chaitanyadeva was passing through a village. Someone told him that the body of the drum used in the kirtan was made from the earth of that village, and at once he went into ecstasy.
2.01 - Habit 1 Be Proactive, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
How could you respond proactively? Take several moments and create the experience vividly in your mind, picturing yourself responding in a proactive manner. remind yourself of the gap between stimulus and response. Make a commitment to yourself to exercise your freedom to choose.
3. Select a problem from your work or personal life that is frustrating to you. Determine whether it is a direct, indirect, or no control problem. Identify the first step you can take in your Circle of
2.01 - On Books, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Disciple: The phenomenon of eyeless sight reminds me of the case of a man who emitted blue light. The scientists were puzzled and thought that they were hypnotised to see the light. Then they exposed photographic plates and found that the light was being emitted.
Sri Aurobindo (smiling) : All these phenomena eyeless sight, light-emission or miraculous cures are psychic and it is absurd to try to explain them away and more absurd to doubt them.
--
Disciple: I am reminded of the controversy about the date of Kalidas's works. Bankim took part in it. The question was whether Raghuvamsha was written first or Kumra Sambhava.
Bankim decided that Raghuvamsha must have been a later composition. In support of his contention he referred to two slokas: One in "Rati Vilap" in Kumra Sambhava and the other in "Aja Vilap" in Raghuvamsha. He argued that in the former the expression of grief was that of a young man, while the latter shows a more mature temperament.
2.01 - THE ADVENT OF LIFE, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
A moment ago I reminded the reader that many terrestrial
transformations which we could have sworn had stopped, and
2.01 - War., #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
7.: Here, however, the understanding being more vigilant and the powers more on the alert, we cannot avoid hearing the fighting and cannonading around us. For now the devils set on us the reptiles, that is to say, thoughts about the world and its joys which they picture as unending; they remind us of the high esteem men held us in, of our friends and relations; they tell us how the penances which souls in this mansion always begin to wish to perform would injure our health: in fine, the evil spirits place a thousand impediments in the way.
8.: O Jesus! What turmoil the devils cause in the poor soul! How unhappy it feels, not knowing whether to go forward or to return to the first mansion! On the other hand, reason shows it the delusion of overrating worldly things, while faith teaches what alone can satisfy its cravings. Memory reminds the soul how all earthly joys end, recalling the death of those who lived at ease; how some died suddenly and were soon forgotten, how others, once so prosperous, are now buried beneath the ground and men pass by the graves where they lie, the prey of worms,2' while the mind recalls many other such incidents.
9.: The will inclines to love Our Lord and longs to make some return to Him Who is so amiable, and Who has given so many proofs of His love, especially by His constant presence 2 'How many, thinking to live long, have been deceived and unexpectedly have been snatched away! How often hast thou heard that such a one was slain by the sword; another drowned; another, falling from on high, broke his neck; this man died at the table; that other came to his death while he was at play. . . . Thus death is the end of all; and man's life passeth suddenly like a shadow' (Imitation, bk. 1. ch. xxiii. 7). The edition of the Imitation known to St. Teresa under the title of Contemptus Mundi was translated by Luis de Granada, printed at Seville in 1536, at Lisbon in 1542, and at Alcala in 1548. See Life, ch. xxxix. 21, note. with the soul, which this faithful Lover never quits, ever accompanying it and giving it life and being. The understanding aids by showing that however many years life might last, no one could ever wish for a better friend than God; that the world is full of falsehood, and that the worldly pleasures pictured by the devil to the mind were but troubles and cares and annoyances in disguise.
2.02 - Habit 2 Begin with the End in Mind, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
In seeking to give verbal expression to that uniqueness, we are again reminded of the fundamental importance of proactivity and of working within our Circle of Influence. To seek some abstract meaning to our lives out in our Circle of Concern is to abdicate our proactive responsibility, to place our own first creation in the hands of circumstance and other people.
Our meaning comes from within. Again, in the words of Frankl, "Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."
--
The mission statement becomes the framework for thinking, for governing the family. When the problems and crises come, the constitution is there to remind family members of the things that matter most and to provide direction for problem solving and decision making based on correct principles.
In our home, we put our mission statement up on a wall in the family room so that we can look at it and monitor ourselves daily. When we read the phrases about the sounds of love in our home, order, responsible independence, cooperation, helpfulness, meeting needs, developing talents, showing interest in each other's talents, and giving service to others it gives us some criteria to know how we're doing in the things that matter most to us as a family.
2.02 - On Letters, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
K had written a letter to S containing an account of his Sadhana after receiving Sri Aurobindo's last letter and sent some questions to be answered by Sri Aurobindo to which no reply was sent for many days. Whenever Sri Aurobindo was reminded he said, "I am not inclined to lecture on the psychic being."
Today he inquired whether there were any important letters unanswered. He was told about K's letter.
2.02 - THE DURGA PUJA FESTIVAL, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER (to Bhavanath): "The truth is that ordinary men cannot easily have faith. But an Isvarakoti's faith is spontaneous. Prahlada burst into tears while writing the letter 'ka'. It reminded him of Krishna. It is the nature of jivas to doubt. They say yes, no doubt, but-Oneness of akti and Brahman "Hazra can never be persuaded to believe that Brahman and akti, that akti and the Being endowed with akti, are one and the same. When the Reality appears as Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer, we call It akti; when It is inactive, we call It Brahman. But really It is one and the same thing-indivisible. Fire naturally brings to mind its power to burn; and the idea of burning naturally brings to mind the idea of fire. It is impossible to think of the one without the other.
"So I prayed to the Divine Mother: 'O Mother! Hazra is trying to upset the views of this place. Either give him right understanding or take him from here.' The next day he carne to me and said, 'Yes, I agree with you.' He said that God exists everywhere as All-pervading Consciousness."
2.02 - The Mother Archetype, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
which shows Prakrti dancing before Purusha in order to remind
him of "discriminating knowledge," does not belong to the
2.03 - DEMETER, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
diameter than the spinal chord in the lumbar region, reminding
us of the state of affairs still lower, in the amphibians and the
--
sense of ' temperament '. At first sight the explanation reminds
one of the ' virtues ' of the Schoolmen. As wc go deeper, it
--
sentative, the tarsier of Malaya, reminds us bizarrely of a little
man. On the side of the Catarrhines we are all familiar with
2.03 - THE MASTER IN VARIOUS MOODS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"At dusk put aside all duties and pray to God. One is reminded of Him by darkness. At the approach of darkness one thinks: 'I could see everything a moment ago. Who has brought about this change?' The Mussalmans put aside all activities and say their prayers at the appointed times."
Practice of japa
--
M: "It reminds me of an episode in Krishna's life at Vrindvan. Krishna transformed Himself into the cowherd boys and the calves, whereupon the cows began to feel more strongly attracted to the cowherd boys, the gopis, and the calves."
MASTER: "That is the attraction of God. The truth is, the Divine Mother creates the spell and it is that which attracts people.
2.03 - The Mother-Complex, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
Everything which reminds her of motherhood, responsibility,
personal relationships, and erotic demands arouses feelings of
--- Overview of verb remind
The verb remind has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (22) remind ::: (put in the mind of someone; "Remind me to call Mother")
2. (13) prompt, remind, cue ::: (assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned)
--- Grep of noun remind
reminder
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Arthur (1996 - Current) - Developed from Marc Brown's beloved books, Arthur reminds us all of how it feels to be 8 years old. Just like your average kid, Arthur overcomes the dreaded obstacles of third-grade life, such as his tough teacher Mr. Ratburn, bullies, and mountains of homework. At home, Arthur must face the pint-si...
Phred on Your Head Show (1999 - 2002) - Phred on Your Head Show was the first Noggin original series, predating better-known Noggin productions like "Oobi" (which premiered one year later, in 2000). It stars a green character named Phred who looks similar to a pickle (but often reminds others that he is not a pickle).
Rapid Fire(1992) - When college student Jake Lo (Brandon Lee) witnesses a murder by the Chicago mob, Jake is stuck between two fuding Drug Lords, one who wants him dead. After being betrayed by the FBI, he teams up with a local single-minded Chicago cop (Powers Boothe) who reminds him of his deceased father. It's up t...
The Verdict(1982) - Frank Galvin (Paul Newman) is a lawyer who has lost his way. He's losing cases and losing himself inside glasses of alcohol. When his associate Mickey Morrissey (Jack Warden) reminds him of his duties in a medical malpractice case, Galvin, with the support of his girlfriend Laura Fischer (Charlotte...
Paternity(1981) - Meet Buddy Evans. He's a confirmed bachelor, the event's manager at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and loves his life as well as children. But the more he finds himself around kids, along with the fact he just turned 44, he finds himself wanting a son of his own...someone to remind the wo...
The Ref(1994) - A professional thief finds himself in an unlikely situation after his partner ditches him, he's on the run, and to make matters worse he kidnaps a quarlleing couple that remind him of his own parents. He finds himself having to take on the task of being their marital "ref" if he is going to make it...
Disney's A Christmas Carol(2009) - Jim Carrey plays Ebeneezer Scrooge in Robert Zemeckis' motion-capture adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic. Ebeneezer Scrooge is a grumpy old man that holds the spirit of Christmas in contempt. In a dream, her gets a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past, who reminds him of how he got to be su...
Stealing Harvard(2002) - John (Jason Lee) is a hard-working guy who only wants to marry his longtime girlfriend Elaine (Leslie Mann). Elaine and John have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. Things are fine until John's sister calls to remind him of his promise to pay his niece's tuition, which cost...
I Can Only Imagine (2018) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 50min | Biography, Drama, Family | 16 March 2018 (USA) -- The inspiring and unknown true story behind MercyMe's beloved, chart topping song that brings ultimate hope to so many is a gripping reminder of the power of true forgiveness. Directors: Andrew Erwin (as The Erwin Brothers), Jon Erwin (as The Erwin Brothers) Writers:
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Air Movie -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Visual novel -- Drama Romance Supernatural -- Air Movie Air Movie -- Centuries ago, Kanna, a princess and the last of a winged race, was held prisoner in a castle as she was feared by the rest of the world. However, when she met a soldier named Ryuuya, she fell in love with him and told him of her wishes to see the outside world and to find her mother. Ryuuya attempted to fulfill these wishes. However, his efforts were in vain as Kanna was sealed in the sky through magic and cursed to be in pain for all eternity. -- -- Hundreds of years later, Yukito, a decendant of Ryuuya, comes to a quiet town one week before their annual festival with hopes that he can make some money. However, when he meets an unusual girl called Misuzu, he is reminded of what his mother once told him—"When you go out on your journey, if you find the winged girl's re-incarnation, you must use your power to set her free." -- -- Yukito and Misuzu's fates soon become intertwined with each other, with each developing feelings for the other. However when Yukito realizes Misuzu's connection to the past, he must decide on whether to leave, or to attempt to break the curse that has bound Kanna in centuries of pain. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Funimation -- Movie - Feb 5, 2005 -- 55,485 7.26
Air Movie -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Visual novel -- Drama Romance Supernatural -- Air Movie Air Movie -- Centuries ago, Kanna, a princess and the last of a winged race, was held prisoner in a castle as she was feared by the rest of the world. However, when she met a soldier named Ryuuya, she fell in love with him and told him of her wishes to see the outside world and to find her mother. Ryuuya attempted to fulfill these wishes. However, his efforts were in vain as Kanna was sealed in the sky through magic and cursed to be in pain for all eternity. -- -- Hundreds of years later, Yukito, a decendant of Ryuuya, comes to a quiet town one week before their annual festival with hopes that he can make some money. However, when he meets an unusual girl called Misuzu, he is reminded of what his mother once told him—"When you go out on your journey, if you find the winged girl's re-incarnation, you must use your power to set her free." -- -- Yukito and Misuzu's fates soon become intertwined with each other, with each developing feelings for the other. However when Yukito realizes Misuzu's connection to the past, he must decide on whether to leave, or to attempt to break the curse that has bound Kanna in centuries of pain. -- -- Movie - Feb 5, 2005 -- 55,485 7.26
Ai Yori Aoshi -- -- J.C.Staff -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Harem Slice of Life Comedy Drama Romance Seinen -- Ai Yori Aoshi Ai Yori Aoshi -- Kaoru Hanabishi, a college student who lives alone, met a beautiful but bewildered girl dressed in a kimono at a train station. He volunteered to guide her way to the address she was looking for, which happened to be in his neighborhood, but turned out to be an empty lot. Not knowing what to do next, Kaoru invited the devastated girl to his apartment and asked for any additional clues to her destination. She supplied him with a photo of two children whom Kauru immediately identified as himself and Aoi Sakuraba, his childhood friend. It turned out that the girl in front of him is Aoi Sakuraba herself, his betrothed fiancee who came all the way to Tokyo to marry him. Her revelation was not only surprising but also reminded the deepest part of Kaoru's memory for why he left the Hanabishi family in the first place. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- TV - Apr 11, 2002 -- 96,319 7.13
Ai Yori Aoshi -- -- J.C.Staff -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Harem Slice of Life Comedy Drama Romance Seinen -- Ai Yori Aoshi Ai Yori Aoshi -- Kaoru Hanabishi, a college student who lives alone, met a beautiful but bewildered girl dressed in a kimono at a train station. He volunteered to guide her way to the address she was looking for, which happened to be in his neighborhood, but turned out to be an empty lot. Not knowing what to do next, Kaoru invited the devastated girl to his apartment and asked for any additional clues to her destination. She supplied him with a photo of two children whom Kauru immediately identified as himself and Aoi Sakuraba, his childhood friend. It turned out that the girl in front of him is Aoi Sakuraba herself, his betrothed fiancee who came all the way to Tokyo to marry him. Her revelation was not only surprising but also reminded the deepest part of Kaoru's memory for why he left the Hanabishi family in the first place. -- TV - Apr 11, 2002 -- 96,319 7.13
Ansatsu Kyoushitsu: 365-nichi no Jikan -- -- Lerche -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Comedy School Shounen -- Ansatsu Kyoushitsu: 365-nichi no Jikan Ansatsu Kyoushitsu: 365-nichi no Jikan -- A year can change a person's life forever. The 365 days Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High spent with their eccentric teacher, Koro-sensei, certainly did. Carrying the memories of that year close to their hearts, alumni Nagisa Shiota and Karma Akabane return to their former classroom to recall the events of that momentous time of their lives. -- -- Nagisa and Karma are reminded by the familiar rooms, desks, chalkboard, and the class album of the events that shaped them into "assassins" and prepared them for the real world. That is the legacy of their octopus-like teacher—who had introduced himself by threatening to destroy the world if they didn't kill him by the end of the school year—and the time spent in the bizarre yet exceptional "Assassination Classroom." -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Nov 19, 2016 -- 71,344 7.35
Ansatsu Kyoushitsu: 365-nichi no Jikan -- -- Lerche -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Comedy School Shounen -- Ansatsu Kyoushitsu: 365-nichi no Jikan Ansatsu Kyoushitsu: 365-nichi no Jikan -- A year can change a person's life forever. The 365 days Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High spent with their eccentric teacher, Koro-sensei, certainly did. Carrying the memories of that year close to their hearts, alumni Nagisa Shiota and Karma Akabane return to their former classroom to recall the events of that momentous time of their lives. -- -- Nagisa and Karma are reminded by the familiar rooms, desks, chalkboard, and the class album of the events that shaped them into "assassins" and prepared them for the real world. That is the legacy of their octopus-like teacher—who had introduced himself by threatening to destroy the world if they didn't kill him by the end of the school year—and the time spent in the bizarre yet exceptional "Assassination Classroom." -- -- Movie - Nov 19, 2016 -- 71,344 7.35
Ansatsu Kyoushitsu: 365-nichi no Jikan -- -- Lerche -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Comedy School Shounen -- Ansatsu Kyoushitsu: 365-nichi no Jikan Ansatsu Kyoushitsu: 365-nichi no Jikan -- A year can change a person's life forever. The 365 days Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High spent with their eccentric teacher, Koro-sensei, certainly did. Carrying the memories of that year close to their hearts, alumni Nagisa Shiota and Karma Akabane return to their former classroom to recall the events of that momentous time of their lives. -- -- Nagisa and Karma are reminded by the familiar rooms, desks, chalkboard, and the class album of the events that shaped them into "assassins" and prepared them for the real world. That is the legacy of their octopus-like teacher—who had introduced himself by threatening to destroy the world if they didn't kill him by the end of the school year—and the time spent in the bizarre yet exceptional "Assassination Classroom." -- -- Movie - Nov 19, 2016 -- 72,040 7.34
Aura: Maryuuin Kouga Saigo no Tatakai -- -- AIC ASTA -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Supernatural Drama Romance School -- Aura: Maryuuin Kouga Saigo no Tatakai Aura: Maryuuin Kouga Saigo no Tatakai -- Ichirou Satou is an ordinary high school student who pretended that he was a hero by the name of "Maryuuin Kouga" back in middle school, which led to others frequently bullying him. Now that he has left this embarrassing phase behind, he does his best to avoid standing out and live a peaceful life, although he feels the world has become quite dull. But when he makes his way back to school one night to grab a textbook he left in class, he runs into a strange girl wearing a costume. -- -- This girl, Ryouko Satou, happens to be his classmate and is affected by the exact same condition that he once had, holding on to a delusion that she is someone else and dressing up to reflect this. The very next day, Ichirou is asked by his teacher to become friends with Ryouko, to which he adamantly refuses, unwilling to be reminded of his own history. When he sees that she is being bullied just as he once was, however, the boy makes it his responsibility to take care of her and break her free from that which what once plagued him—the perfect job for Maryuuin Kouga. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Movie - Apr 13, 2013 -- 47,395 7.48
Aura: Maryuuin Kouga Saigo no Tatakai -- -- AIC ASTA -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Supernatural Drama Romance School -- Aura: Maryuuin Kouga Saigo no Tatakai Aura: Maryuuin Kouga Saigo no Tatakai -- Ichirou Satou is an ordinary high school student who pretended that he was a hero by the name of "Maryuuin Kouga" back in middle school, which led to others frequently bullying him. Now that he has left this embarrassing phase behind, he does his best to avoid standing out and live a peaceful life, although he feels the world has become quite dull. But when he makes his way back to school one night to grab a textbook he left in class, he runs into a strange girl wearing a costume. -- -- This girl, Ryouko Satou, happens to be his classmate and is affected by the exact same condition that he once had, holding on to a delusion that she is someone else and dressing up to reflect this. The very next day, Ichirou is asked by his teacher to become friends with Ryouko, to which he adamantly refuses, unwilling to be reminded of his own history. When he sees that she is being bullied just as he once was, however, the boy makes it his responsibility to take care of her and break her free from that which what once plagued him—the perfect job for Maryuuin Kouga. -- -- Movie - Apr 13, 2013 -- 47,395 7.48
Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black - Kimi no Na wo Yobu -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Super Power Supernatural Shounen -- Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black - Kimi no Na wo Yobu Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black - Kimi no Na wo Yobu -- After a mysterious pair attack Rukia Kuchiki and erase her memories while she is in Seireitei, Ichigo Kurosaki, a substitute Soul Reaper, briefly forgets Rukia, until he is reminded of her by Kon, an Underpod Mod-Soul. Confused, he seeks his town's candy-shop owner, Kisuke Urahara, who opens the pathway to Seireitei for them. Ichigo is then shocked to find that his allies in Seireitei, the Shinigami of the Soul Society, have forgotten him. -- -- Filled with action, Kimi no Na wo Yobu follows Ichigo and Kon as they fight against their former comrades while searching for the missing Rukia and discovering her assailants before they strike again. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- Movie - Dec 13, 2008 -- 189,102 7.51
Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black - Kimi no Na wo Yobu -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Super Power Supernatural Shounen -- Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black - Kimi no Na wo Yobu Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black - Kimi no Na wo Yobu -- After a mysterious pair attack Rukia Kuchiki and erase her memories while she is in Seireitei, Ichigo Kurosaki, a substitute Soul Reaper, briefly forgets Rukia, until he is reminded of her by Kon, an Underpod Mod-Soul. Confused, he seeks his town's candy-shop owner, Kisuke Urahara, who opens the pathway to Seireitei for them. Ichigo is then shocked to find that his allies in Seireitei, the Shinigami of the Soul Society, have forgotten him. -- -- Filled with action, Kimi no Na wo Yobu follows Ichigo and Kon as they fight against their former comrades while searching for the missing Rukia and discovering her assailants before they strike again. -- -- Movie - Dec 13, 2008 -- 189,102 7.51
Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2 -- -- Sunrise -- 25 eps -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Super Power Drama Mecha -- Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2 Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2 -- One year has passed since the Black Rebellion, a failed uprising against the Holy Britannian Empire led by the masked vigilante Zero, who is now missing. At a loss without their revolutionary leader, Area 11's resistance group—the Black Knights—find themselves too powerless to combat the brutality inflicted upon the Elevens by Britannia, which has increased significantly in order to crush any hope of a future revolt. -- -- Lelouch Lamperouge, having lost all memory of his double life, is living peacefully alongside his friends as a high school student at Ashford Academy. His former partner C.C., unable to accept this turn of events, takes it upon herself to remind him of his past purpose, hoping that the mastermind Zero will rise once again to finish what he started, in this thrilling conclusion to the series. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Funimation -- 1,328,109 8.91
Digimon Adventure 02 -- -- Toei Animation -- 50 eps -- Original -- Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Kids -- Digimon Adventure 02 Digimon Adventure 02 -- Taichi Yagami and his friends have moved on to junior high, but by that time, they have lost contact with their Digimon partners. Taichi is therefore surprised to suddenly receive a distress call summoning him to the Digital World. Once there, he learns that Digimon are living in fear of the mysterious Digimon Emperor, who is somehow suppressing their ability to Digivolve! -- -- In the real world, Hikari Yagami and Takeru Takaishi reunite in the same fifth grade class. They share three schoolmates: Daisuke Motomiya, who reminds them both of Taichi; Miyako Inoue, a technical wizard; and Iori Hida, Miyako's neighbor. When these three children receive "D-3" Digivices, they—along with Hikari and Takeru, who still possess their own original Digivices—comprise the new generation of "Chosen Children" who must save the world once again. With the power of the Armored Digi-Eggs, they must thwart the Digimon Emperor's plans to spread his influence over the entire Digital World. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Flatiron Film Company, Saban Entertainment -- 192,995 7.24
Gungrave -- -- Madhouse -- 26 eps -- Game -- Action Drama Sci-Fi Seinen Super Power -- Gungrave Gungrave -- Brandon Heat and Harry MacDowel, two friends so close they could be called brothers, receive an abrupt and violent reminder one fateful day of how appallingly merciless the world around them can be. Their whole lives before then were simple and easygoing, consisting largely of local brawls, seducing women, and committing petty theft to make a living and pass the time. What they failed to realize is that in this cruel world, happiness is fleeting, and change is inevitable. -- -- Enter Millennion, the largest and most infamous mafia syndicate in the area, which accepts Brandon and Harry into their ranks and starts them at the bottom of the food chain. Harry has ambitions to ascend the ranks and one day replace Big Daddy as the supreme leader of Millennion, while Brandon only wishes to support his friend and appease Big Daddy who has taken custody of the woman Brandon loves. -- -- Based off the third-person shooter video game under the same name, Gungrave is an epic story of friendship, betrayal, and avarice that spans the course of several years, ultimately tying back to the gripping and foreboding first episode, all the while building up to the story's thrilling conclusion. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- TV - Oct 7, 2003 -- 157,169 7.86
Hand Shakers -- -- GoHands -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action -- Hand Shakers Hand Shakers -- Those who receive the Revelation of Babel must overcome many battles and trials. By grasping the hand of their special partner, these "Hand Shakers" transport themselves to the realm of Ziggurat, an alternate dimension where time no longer exists. Each pair of Hand Shakers must battle it out for the right to meet with God, who will reward them by granting them a single wish. -- -- Tazuna Takatsuki, a high school student with a penchant for fixing things, is one of these Hand Shakers. After receiving a request for repairs from Professor Makihara of a nearby university, Tazuna stumbles upon Koyori Akutagawa, a bedridden girl that reminds him of his deceased sister Musubu. Remembering her dying wish to never let go of her hand, Tazuna grasps Koyori's hand and awakens his power as a Hand Shaker. However, Koyori's life is directly tied to her status as a Hand Shaker, meaning if Tazuna was to ever let go of her hand she would die. With meeting God being their only hope for saving her, the duo must find a way to make their unique powers mesh together, overcome the opposing Hand Shakers, and make their wish come true. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll, Funimation -- 89,580 5.32
Himekishi Lilia -- -- - -- 6 eps -- Visual novel -- Hentai Horror Demons Supernatural Magic Fantasy -- Himekishi Lilia Himekishi Lilia -- The princess knight Lilia Evelvine is set to succeed her father as the ruler of the Leuven kingdom, but her jealous brother, Dirk, will do anything to halt her ascension to the throne. With the aid of Kiriko, his court enchantress, and Sand, the servant of the King of Demons, the dastardly prince enacts a coup to gain control of the castle and become the next king. He succeeds, but not before being reminded of his agreement with Sand: to extract the holy energy within Lilia as a tribute to the King of Demons. Dirk then proceeds to corrupt his mother and Lilia with all sorts of perversions, hoping to fulfill his task on time while turning the two into his loyal slaves. -- -- OVA - Jun 2, 2006 -- 9,845 6.80
Initial D First Stage -- -- Gallop, Studio Comet -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Action Cars Drama Seinen Sports -- Initial D First Stage Initial D First Stage -- Unlike his friends, Takumi Fujiwara is not particularly interested in cars, with little to no knowledge about the world of car enthusiasts and street racers. The son of a tofu shop owner, he is tasked to deliver tofu every morning without fail, driving along the mountain of Akina. Thus, conversations regarding cars or driving in general would only remind Takumi of the tiring daily routine forced upon him. -- -- One night, the Akagi Red Suns, an infamous team of street racers, visit the town of Akina to challenge the local mountain pass. Led by their two aces, Ryousuke and Keisuke Takahashi, the Red Suns plan to conquer every racing course in Kanto, establishing themselves as the fastest crew in the region. However, much to their disbelief, one of their aces is overtaken by an old Toyota AE86 during a drive back home from Akina. After the incident, the Takahashi brothers are cautious of a mysterious driver geared with remarkable technique and experience in the local roads—the AE86 of Mount Akina. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Tokyopop -- 242,578 8.28
Island -- -- feel. -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Drama Sci-Fi -- Island Island -- On a remote island far from the mainland named Urashima, a man washes ashore, with no recollection of his name or homeland. What he does recall, however, is that he is a time traveler with a mission: to save a certain girl from harm. As nightfall arrives, he meets Rinne Ohara, a girl who sings a tune that reminds him of a specific name—Setsuna—and decides to use it as his own. -- -- Knowing another "Setsuna" herself, Rinne takes him to her household as a servant, hoping that he is the same one she remembers. On the other hand, Setsuna continues to learn more about Urashima, desiring to identify his lost past. He comes to know about the island's folklore, its three great families, and the endemic disease that prevents anyone afflicted from stepping out into the daylight. -- -- As the mysteries of his missing memories and Urashima itself unfold, Setsuna must remember his purpose and fulfill his mission as soon as possible. But, as he witnesses the myriad of troubles plaguing the island, Setsuna begins to question—is his temporal displacement merely an effort to change a single girl's fate? -- -- 106,760 6.33
Island -- -- feel. -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Drama Sci-Fi -- Island Island -- On a remote island far from the mainland named Urashima, a man washes ashore, with no recollection of his name or homeland. What he does recall, however, is that he is a time traveler with a mission: to save a certain girl from harm. As nightfall arrives, he meets Rinne Ohara, a girl who sings a tune that reminds him of a specific name—Setsuna—and decides to use it as his own. -- -- Knowing another "Setsuna" herself, Rinne takes him to her household as a servant, hoping that he is the same one she remembers. On the other hand, Setsuna continues to learn more about Urashima, desiring to identify his lost past. He comes to know about the island's folklore, its three great families, and the endemic disease that prevents anyone afflicted from stepping out into the daylight. -- -- As the mysteries of his missing memories and Urashima itself unfold, Setsuna must remember his purpose and fulfill his mission as soon as possible. But, as he witnesses the myriad of troubles plaguing the island, Setsuna begins to question—is his temporal displacement merely an effort to change a single girl's fate? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 106,760 6.33
Kara no Kyoukai: Mirai Fukuin - Extra Chorus -- -- ufotable -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Drama Mystery Seinen Supernatural -- Kara no Kyoukai: Mirai Fukuin - Extra Chorus Kara no Kyoukai: Mirai Fukuin - Extra Chorus -- Mikiya Kokutou gives Shiki Ryougi a cat to watch, as he will be away for a little while. Though Shiki protests, he leaves the cat anyway, and Shiki is stuck trying to understand her new feline companion. But as luck would have it, the cat seems to have taken a liking to Mikiya and misses him. -- -- Later in another part of the city, Ririsu Miyazuki visits the place where her dear friend committed suicide. She intends to end her life as well, but she meets Fujino Asagami, a blind classmate with a traumatic past. Though the two girls don't have much in common, Asagami reminds Miyazuki of her lost friend and helps her understand her pain. -- -- Two months later, Mikiya elects to celebrate New Year's with Shiki instead of his family, which makes his sister Azaka very upset, leading to her spending the holiday with her school friends. As the snow begins to fall, Mikiya reflects on what he wishes for most of all: that Shiki's life be filled with happiness. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- Special - Sep 28, 2013 -- 36,067 7.49
Kenkou Zenrakei Suieibu Umishou -- -- Artland -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Sports Ecchi School Shounen -- Kenkou Zenrakei Suieibu Umishou Kenkou Zenrakei Suieibu Umishou -- Kaname Okiura, a student of Prefectoral Umineko Shougyou High ("Umishou" for short), joined the school's swimming club in order to learn how to swim, but the club is filled with weirdos, let alone who can teach him swimming. Then, a sunny, happy-go-lucky girl named Amuro Ninagawa who transferred from Okinawa joined the club. Her extraordinary underwater speed and unorthodox swimming style (plus her personal habit of nude swimming—a powerful magnet to teenage boys) surprised every club member, especially Okiura, because she reminds him of a mermaid-like creature he saw only once in his early childhood. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- TV - Jul 4, 2007 -- 34,608 7.15
Major S2 -- -- Studio Hibari -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Shounen Sports -- Major S2 Major S2 -- Gorou Honda has finally returned to Mifune East Junior High School, surprising his friends upon arrival. Now, Gorou is once again surrounded by those he holds closest, and he strives to continue playing and enjoying the game he loves most. -- -- However, things do not go as planned, as Gorou is reminded of the harsh realities of baseball as he copes with an injury he sustained while playing baseball at Hitaka Little. Between new rivals, old friends, and mending broken relationships, Gorou must overcome challenges he has never faced before. -- -- His goal of attending elite baseball high school Kaido may not be far from his reach, but complicated circumstances may stop him in his tracks once again. How will he deal with the immense pressures of the game? And will he ever be able to find the type of baseball he loves most? -- -- TV - Dec 10, 2005 -- 59,966 8.24
Memory (ONA) -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Drama Military Sci-Fi Slice of Life -- Memory (ONA) Memory (ONA) -- Set in a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by nuclear war, it tells the story of a damaged robot found by futuristic soldiers investigating a devastated area. -- -- The humanoid appeared to be household robot, reminiscent of Asimov, and when the soldiers booted it up, they were able to see what was left of videos recorded inside its memory as seen by the robot throughout the years. -- -- In just under seven minutes and with no dialogue, the film poignantly reminds us that all our experiences, the things that we hold dear in our lives, are in constant threat. -- -- (Source: Bouncing Red Ball.com) -- ONA - Apr ??, 2009 -- 2,278 6.21
Nasu: Andalusia no Natsu -- -- Madhouse, Telecom Animation Film -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sports Seinen -- Nasu: Andalusia no Natsu Nasu: Andalusia no Natsu -- Pepe is a Spanish cyclist competing in an multi-stage Iberian cycling race similar to the Tour de France. He is a support rider for one of the teams competing in the race, and his role is to assist the team's top rider in winning the overall race. As the story unfolds, the racers are set to ride through Pepe's home town in Andalusia on the same day as the wedding of his elder brother Angel to his former girlfriend Carmen. Their relationship was a factor in his decision to leave the town to pursue professional cycling, and the wedding is a frustrating reminder that his career hasn't turned out as he would have liked. Now, with the sponsor planning to drop him from the team and his family and friends cheering him on, Pepe abandons his assigned role and strives for glory. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Movie - Jul 26, 2003 -- 7,742 7.02
ReLIFE: Kanketsu-hen -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 4 eps -- Web manga -- Romance School Slice of Life -- ReLIFE: Kanketsu-hen ReLIFE: Kanketsu-hen -- After reliving the life of a high school student through the ReLIFE experiment, 27-year-old Arata Kaizaki cannot believe how quickly it has changed him. He has begun to see the world through a different perspective that he had completely forgotten as an adult. He has made friends and formed deep relationships with each one of them. However his support, Ryou Yoake, reminds him that the experiment is all an illusion; after his experiment ends, he will be forgotten by all of them. -- -- The experiment of another ReLIFE subject is also coming to an end. After spending two years with ReLIFE, Chizuru Hishiro has developed into a more open, more thoughtful person than she could have ever imagined. She has met people who have changed her life, her perspective, and ultimately her. However, now that their ReLIFE is coming to an end, will they be able to let go of the memories they have made? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Special - Mar 21, 2018 -- 257,052 8.22
Tamayura: Hitotose -- -- TYO Animations -- 12 eps -- Original -- Slice of Life Comedy Drama -- Tamayura: Hitotose Tamayura: Hitotose -- As a little girl, Fuu Sawatari’s father taught her to love photography. They took pictures everywhere they went. But after he passed away, seeing those photographs only served as a reminder of her loss, so she locked them away to be forgotten. Years later, her brother Kou finds their father’s picture album, and as he flips through its pages, the pictures remind Fuu of all the happy memories of her father that she will carry with her forever. -- -- Now, as the shy Fuu enters her first year of high school, she once again takes up her father’s old camera, determined to take wonderful pictures that will bring joy and happiness to others. -- -- (Source: Nozomi Entertainment) -- -- Licensor: -- Nozomi Entertainment -- 39,207 7.31
Tokyo Ghoul:re -- -- Pierrot Plus, Studio Pierrot -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Psychological Supernatural Mystery Drama Horror Seinen -- Tokyo Ghoul:re Tokyo Ghoul:re -- Two years have passed since the CCG's raid on Anteiku. Although the atmosphere in Tokyo has changed drastically due to the increased influence of the CCG, ghouls continue to pose a problem as they have begun taking caution, especially the terrorist organization Aogiri Tree, who acknowledge the CCG's growing threat to their existence. -- -- The creation of a special team, known as the Quinx Squad, may provide the CCG with the push they need to exterminate Tokyo's unwanted residents. As humans who have undergone surgery in order to make use of the special abilities of ghouls, they participate in operations to eradicate the dangerous creatures. The leader of this group, Haise Sasaki, is a half-ghoul, half-human who has been trained by famed special class investigator, Kishou Arima. However, there's more to this young man than meets the eye, as unknown memories claw at his mind, slowly reminding him of the person he used to be. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 764,007 6.47
Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari -- -- LIDENFILMS -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Fantasy Seinen -- Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari -- Taking a break from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo, Souta Tawara returns to his hometown in Kagawa. Though his parents are no longer around, his former home and family-owned udon restaurant reminds him of the times his family was still together. Reminiscing about his childhood, Souta enters the udon restaurant and discovers a grimy young boy sleeping. -- -- At first, Souta thinks nothing of the chance encounter and provides the boy with food and clothing. However, to his surprise, the boy suddenly sprouts a furry pair of ears and a tail! Souta soon learns that the nameless boy is actually the rumored shapeshifting tanuki that has been inhabiting Kagawa for many years. Thinking that the boy has been living a lonely life, he decides to take him in and name him Poko. -- -- Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari follows the heartwarming relationship between Souta and Poko, and through the time they spend together, Souta recalls his own past, the place he left behind for the city, and the relationship he had with his father. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- 102,239 7.75
Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto -- -- Zexcs -- 12 eps -- Game -- Supernatural Drama Magic Romance Fantasy -- Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto -- Marin and her younger sister Urin are seafolk who happen upon something quite strange: a beautiful silver ring lost beneath the waves. The kind-hearted Marin, intent on returning it to its owner, drags a reluctant Urin along with her to the sky world despite reminders of a turtle elder who left for the surface and never returned. After locating the ring's owner, Kanon Miyamori, they learn that Kanon had tossed it into the sea after her boyfriend dumped her earlier that day. -- -- Though Marin insists that such a lovely item should not be thrown away, Kanon discards it once again. As they search for the ring, Urin becomes separated from the other two and accidently breaks the seal on a stone coffin, releasing an evil being known as Sedna. Sensing Sedna's release, the formerly missing turtle elder, Matsumoto, reveals himself to Kanon and her companions, naming Marin as the Priestess of the Sea. Together with the Priestess of the Sky, she has the power to seal Sedna away again. And as luck would have it, during an encounter with one of Sedna's minions, Kanon discovers that she is the Priestess of the Sky. Though Kanon is hesitant, she and Marin decide to work together to save the world from the evil that threatens it. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Nozomi Entertainment -- TV - Jun 25, 2009 -- 23,914 6.63
Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto -- -- Zexcs -- 12 eps -- Game -- Supernatural Drama Magic Romance Fantasy -- Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto -- Marin and her younger sister Urin are seafolk who happen upon something quite strange: a beautiful silver ring lost beneath the waves. The kind-hearted Marin, intent on returning it to its owner, drags a reluctant Urin along with her to the sky world despite reminders of a turtle elder who left for the surface and never returned. After locating the ring's owner, Kanon Miyamori, they learn that Kanon had tossed it into the sea after her boyfriend dumped her earlier that day. -- -- Though Marin insists that such a lovely item should not be thrown away, Kanon discards it once again. As they search for the ring, Urin becomes separated from the other two and accidently breaks the seal on a stone coffin, releasing an evil being known as Sedna. Sensing Sedna's release, the formerly missing turtle elder, Matsumoto, reveals himself to Kanon and her companions, naming Marin as the Priestess of the Sea. Together with the Priestess of the Sky, she has the power to seal Sedna away again. And as luck would have it, during an encounter with one of Sedna's minions, Kanon discovers that she is the Priestess of the Sky. Though Kanon is hesitant, she and Marin decide to work together to save the world from the evil that threatens it. -- -- TV - Jun 25, 2009 -- 23,914 6.63
Yosuga no Sora: In Solitude, Where We Are Least Alone. -- -- feel. -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Drama Ecchi Harem Romance -- Yosuga no Sora: In Solitude, Where We Are Least Alone. Yosuga no Sora: In Solitude, Where We Are Least Alone. -- Haruka and Sora Kasugano are coming home, to a place filled with memories. -- -- Having lost their parents in a tragic car accident, the twins resolve to return to the countryside and start life anew at their grandfather's house, the haunt a constant reminder of moments from their past. Greeting them are childhood friends Nao Yorihime and Akira Amatsume, and newcomer Kazuha Migiwa. It is a warm welcome, symbolic of the days that should come. -- -- Their peace is merely ephemeral, however, as suppressed emotions, born from vows both newfound and forgotten, start exerting their influence on the twins' new lives. And deep down, a dark secret, only known to them, begins to unshackle. -- -- Based on the visual novel by Sphere, Yosuga no Sora not only explores the power of lost memories and true love when the bonds of many become intertwined, but also raises the questions of morality and social acceptance. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters -- 373,767 6.22
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And That Reminds Me
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These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
The Whole World Reminds Me of You
What Now? Remind Me
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