--- DICTIONARIES (in Dictionaries, in Quotes, in Chapters)

riddle ::: a person or thing that puzzles, perplexes, or confuses; enigma. riddles.

riddled ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Riddle

riddle ::: n. --> A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.

riddler ::: n. --> One who riddles (grain, sand, etc.).
One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles.

riddled ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Riddle

riddle ::: n. --> A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.

riddler ::: n. --> One who riddles (grain, sand, etc.).
One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles.

riddle: A word puzzle where something is described and then a question is asked. An audience would then have to decipher and guess what the speaker is referring to. The answer to the question is usually an object, person or idea. Riddles have been popular in all cultures, during all ages.

riddle ::: a person or thing that puzzles, perplexes, or confuses; enigma. riddles.

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   3 Sri Aurobindo
   1 The Mother
   1 Sheng yen
   1 R W Emerson
   1 Owen Barfield
   1 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   1 Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger
   1 Jorge Luis Borges
   1 G K Chesterton
   1 George R R Martin
   1 Aleister Crowley

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  216 A G Riddle
   6 J K Rowling
   5 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
   5 Anonymous
   4 Winston S Churchill
   4 Ralph Waldo Emerson
   4 Janet Morris
   4 G K Chesterton
   3 Winston Churchill
   3 Steve Martin
   3 Stephen King
   3 Peter S Beagle
   3 Ludwig Wittgenstein
   2 Steve McHugh
   2 Sascha Arango
   2 Roshani Chokshi
   2 Robin Hobb
   2 Roberto Bola o
   2 Mikhail Naimy
   2 Mason Cooley
   2 Lewis Carroll
   2 Jennifer McMahon
   2 Jan Philipp Sendker
   2 Immanuel Kant
   2 Gregory Bateson
   2 Gilbert K Chesterton
   2 Gabriela Mistral
   2 Friedrich Nietzsche
   2 Frederick Lenz
   2 Emily Dickinson
   2 Boris Pasternak
   2 Alexander Pope
   2 A A Milne

1:All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle. ~ R W Emerson,

2:The sphinx was the riddle, not the riddler. - Maester Aemon ~ George R R Martin,

3:The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. ~ G K Chesterton, In Defense of Sanity ,

4:In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word? ~ Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden Of Forking Paths ,

5:The Riddle of the WorldIf you can solve it, you will be immortal, but if you fail you will perish. ~ The Mother, On Education ,

6:Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles. ~ Aleister Crowley,

7:In the realms of the immortal SupermindTruth who hides here her head in mystery,Her riddle deemed by reason impossibleIn the stark structure of material form,Unenigmaed lives, unmasked her face and thereIs Nature and the common law of thing ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,

8:Priding oneself on the strengths or accomplishments of one's practice as well as lamenting one's inability to measure up to the practice are both egotistical attitudes. They are riddled with self-centeredness. The proper way to practice Buddha-mindfulness is to try to nourish the spiritual qualities that the Buddha represents. ~ Sheng yen,

9:Across a luminous dream of spirit-space She builds creation like a rainbow bridge Between the original Silence and the Void. A net is made of the mobile universe; She weaves a snare for the conscious Infinite. A knowledge is with her that conceals its steps And seems a mute omnipotent Ignorance. A might is with her that makes wonders true; The incredible is her stuff of common fact. Her purposes, her workings riddles prove; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,

10:"Savitri", the poem, the word of Sri Aurobindo is the cosmic Answer to the cosmic Question. And Savitri, the person, the Godhead, the Divine Woman is the Divine's response to the human aspiration.The world is a great question mark. It is a riddle, eternal and ever-recurring. Man has faced the riddle and sought to arrive at a solution since he was given a mind to seek and interrogate.What is this universe? From where has it come? Whither is it going? What is the purpose of it all? Why is man here? What is the object of his existence? ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, Savitri ,

11:"She" How shall I welcome not this light Or, wakened by it, greet with doubt This beam as palpable to sight As visible to touch? How not, Old as I am and (some say) wise, Revive beneath her summer eyes? How not have all my nights and days, My spirit ranging far and wide, By recollections of her grace Enlightened and preoccupied? Preoccupied: the Morning Star How near the Sun and yet how far! Enlightened: true, but more than true, Or why must I discover there The meaning in this taintless dew, The dancing wave, this blessed air Enchanting in its morning dress And calm as everlastingness? The flame that in the heart resides Is parcel of that central Fire Whose energy is winds and tides- Is rooted deep in the Desire That smilingly unseals its power Each summer in each springing flower. Oh Lady Nature-Proserpine, Mistress of Gender, star-crowned Queen! Ah Rose of Sharon-Mistress mine, My teacher ere I turned fourteen, When first I hallowed from afar Your Beautyship in avatar! I sense the hidden thing you say, Your subtle whisper how the Word From Alpha on to Omega Made all things-you confide my Lord Himself-all, all this potent Frame, All save the riddle of your name. Wisdom! I heard a voice that said: "What riddle? What is that to you? How! By my follower betrayed! Look up-for shame! Now tell me true: Where meet you light, with love and grace? Still unacquainted with my face?" Dear God, the erring heart must live- Through strength and weakness, calm and glow- That answer Wisdom scorns to give. Much have I learned. One problem, though, I never shall unlock: Who then, Who made Sophia feminine? ~ Owen Barfield, 1978 ,

12:64 Arts 1. Geet vidya: art of singing. 2. Vadya vidya: art of playing on musical instruments. 3. Nritya vidya: art of dancing. 4. Natya vidya: art of theatricals. 5. Alekhya vidya: art of painting. 6. Viseshakacchedya vidya: art of painting the face and body with color 7. Tandula­kusuma­bali­vikara: art of preparing offerings from rice and flowers. 8. Pushpastarana: art of making a covering of flowers for a bed. 9. Dasana­vasananga­raga: art of applying preparations for cleansing the teeth, cloths and painting the body. 10. Mani­bhumika­karma: art of making the groundwork of jewels. 11. Aayya­racana: art of covering the bed. 12. Udaka­vadya: art of playing on music in water. 13. Udaka­ghata: art of splashing with water. 14. Citra­yoga: art of practically applying an admixture of colors. 15. Malya­grathana­vikalpa: art of designing a preparation of wreaths. 16. Sekharapida­yojana: art of practically setting the coronet on the head. 17. Nepathya­yoga: art of practically dressing in the tiring room. 18. Karnapatra­bhanga: art of decorating the tragus of the ear. 19. Sugandha­yukti: art of practical application of aromatics. 20. Bhushana­yojana: art of applying or setting ornaments. 21. Aindra­jala: art of juggling. 22. Kaucumara: a kind of art. 23. Hasta­laghava: art of sleight of hand. 24. Citra­sakapupa­bhakshya­vikara­kriya: art of preparing varieties of delicious food. 25. Panaka­rasa­ragasava­yojana: art of practically preparing palatable drinks and tinging draughts with red color. 26. Suci­vaya­karma: art of needleworks and weaving. 27. Sutra­krida: art of playing with thread. 28. Vina­damuraka­vadya: art of playing on lute and small drum. 29. Prahelika: art of making and solving riddles. 30. Durvacaka­yoga: art of practicing language difficult to be answered by others. 31. Pustaka­vacana: art of reciting books. 32. Natikakhyayika­darsana: art of enacting short plays and anecdotes. 33. Kavya­samasya­purana: art of solving enigmatic verses. 34. Pattika­vetra­bana­vikalpa: art of designing preparation of shield, cane and arrows. 35. Tarku­karma: art of spinning by spindle. 36. Takshana: art of carpentry. 37. Vastu­vidya: art of engineering. 38. Raupya­ratna­pariksha: art of testing silver and jewels. 39. Dhatu­vada: art of metallurgy. 40. Mani­raga jnana: art of tinging jewels. 41. Akara jnana: art of mineralogy. 42. Vrikshayur­veda­yoga: art of practicing medicine or medical treatment, by herbs. 43. Mesha­kukkuta­lavaka­yuddha­vidhi: art of knowing the mode of fighting of lambs, cocks and birds. 44. Suka­sarika­pralapana: art of maintaining or knowing conversation between male and female cockatoos. 45. Utsadana: art of healing or cleaning a person with perfumes. 46. Kesa­marjana­kausala: art of combing hair. 47. Akshara­mushtika­kathana: art of talking with fingers. 48. Dharana­matrika: art of the use of amulets. 49. Desa­bhasha­jnana: art of knowing provincial dialects. 50. Nirmiti­jnana: art of knowing prediction by heavenly voice. 51. Yantra­matrika: art of mechanics. 52. Mlecchita­kutarka­vikalpa: art of fabricating barbarous or foreign sophistry. 53. Samvacya: art of conversation. 54. Manasi kavya­kriya: art of composing verse 55. Kriya­vikalpa: art of designing a literary work or a medical remedy. 56. Chalitaka­yoga: art of practicing as a builder of shrines called after him. 57. Abhidhana­kosha­cchando­jnana: art of the use of lexicography and meters. 58. Vastra­gopana: art of concealment of cloths. 59. Dyuta­visesha: art of knowing specific gambling. 60. Akarsha­krida: art of playing with dice or magnet. 61. Balaka­kridanaka: art of using children's toys. 62. Vainayiki vidya: art of enforcing discipline. 63. Vaijayiki vidya: art of gaining victory. 64. Vaitaliki vidya: art of awakening master with music at dawn. ~ Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger, Sexual Secrets ,

13:A God's LabourI have gathered my dreams in a silver air Between the gold and the blueAnd wrapped them softly and left them there, My jewelled dreams of you.I had hoped to build a rainbow bridge Marrying the soil to the skyAnd sow in this dancing planet midge The moods of infinity.But too bright were our heavens, too far away, Too frail their ethereal stuff;Too splendid and sudden our light could not stay; The roots were not deep enough.He who would bring the heavens here Must descend himself into clayAnd the burden of earthly nature bear And tread the dolorous way.Coercing my godhead I have come down Here on the sordid earth,Ignorant, labouring, human grown Twixt the gates of death and birth.I have been digging deep and long Mid a horror of filth and mireA bed for the golden river's song, A home for the deathless fire.I have laboured and suffered in Matter's night To bring the fire to man;But the hate of hell and human spite Are my meed since the world began.For man's mind is the dupe of his animal self; Hoping its lusts to win,He harbours within him a grisly Elf Enamoured of sorrow and sin.The grey Elf shudders from heaven's flame And from all things glad and pure;Only by pleasure and passion and pain His drama can endure.All around is darkness and strife; For the lamps that men call sunsAre but halfway gleams on this stumbling life Cast by the Undying Ones.Man lights his little torches of hope That lead to a failing edge;A fragment of Truth is his widest scope, An inn his pilgrimage.The Truth of truths men fear and deny, The Light of lights they refuse;To ignorant gods they lift their cry Or a demon altar choose.All that was found must again be sought, Each enemy slain revives,Each battle for ever is fought and refought Through vistas of fruitless lives.My gaping wounds are a thousand and one And the Titan kings assail,But I dare not rest till my task is done And wrought the eternal will.How they mock and sneer, both devils and men! "Thy hope is Chimera's headPainting the sky with its fiery stain; Thou shalt fall and thy work lie dead."Who art thou that babblest of heavenly ease And joy and golden roomTo us who are waifs on inconscient seas And bound to life's iron doom?"This earth is ours, a field of Night For our petty flickering fires.How shall it brook the sacred Light Or suffer a god's desires?"Come, let us slay him and end his course! Then shall our hearts have releaseFrom the burden and call of his glory and force And the curb of his wide white peace."But the god is there in my mortal breast Who wrestles with error and fateAnd tramples a road through mire and waste For the nameless Immaculate.A voice cried, "Go where none have gone! Dig deeper, deeper yetTill thou reach the grim foundation stone And knock at the keyless gate."I saw that a falsehood was planted deep At the very root of thingsWhere the grey Sphinx guards God's riddle sleep On the Dragon's outspread wings.I left the surface gauds of mind And life's unsatisfied seasAnd plunged through the body's alleys blind To the nether mysteries.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.Above me the dragon murmurs moan And the goblin voices flit;I have pierced the Void where Thought was born, I have walked in the bottomless pit.On a desperate stair my feet have trod Armoured with boundless peace,Bringing the fires of the splendour of God Into the human abyss.He who I am was with me still; All veils are breaking now.I have heard His voice and borne His will On my vast untroubled brow.The gulf twixt the depths and the heights is bridged And the golden waters pourDown the sapphire mountain rainbow-ridged And glimmer from shore to shore.Heaven's fire is lit in the breast of the earth And the undying suns here burn;Through a wonder cleft in the bounds of birth The incarnate spirits yearnLike flames to the kingdoms of Truth and Bliss: Down a gold-red stairway wendThe radiant children of Paradise Clarioning darkness' end.A little more and the new life's doors Shall be carved in silver lightWith its aureate roof and mosaic floors In a great world bare and bright.I shall leave my dreams in their argent air, For in a raiment of gold and blueThere shall move on the earth embodied and fair The living truth of you. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems A God's Labour,

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1:Riddle me this: ~ Laura Thalassa,

2:I’m in,” Steve said. ~ A G Riddle,

3:It’s hard to choose. ~ A G Riddle,

4:What? Are you crazy— ~ A G Riddle,

5:remains of one of the ~ A G Riddle,

6:We need to get below, ~ A G Riddle,

7:My clone stands there, ~ A G Riddle,

8:bridge is straight ahead. ~ A G Riddle,

9:Kate couldn’t believe it. ~ A G Riddle,

10:Beauty is a riddle ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

11:It will decrease the yield. ~ A G Riddle,

12:Dreamers die foolish deaths. ~ A G Riddle,

13:I think we reap what we sow. ~ A G Riddle,

14:watched Yuri’s plan unfolded ~ A G Riddle,

15:The world is not as it seems, ~ A G Riddle,

16:I'm the riddle you have yet to solve ~ Poppet,

17:You overestimate my comfort zone. ~ A G Riddle,

18:emptiness inside of him felt filled ~ A G Riddle,

19:the second revolution: agriculture. ~ A G Riddle,

20:enough vodka to kill a Russian army. ~ A G Riddle,

21:True knowledge is earned, not given. ~ A G Riddle,

22:giants whose shoulders we stand upon. ~ A G Riddle,

23:her wrist. He grabbed her other wrist ~ A G Riddle,

24:Reality is an AIDS-riddled whore. ~ Roberto Bola o,

25:Empower them to run their own reports. ~ A G Riddle,

26:I was a story riddled with plot holes. ~ John Green,

27:riddled. Bodine fired through ~ William W Johnstone,

28:Clinging to a life that is gone forever ~ A G Riddle,

29:struck him as vaguely familiar: “Do you ~ A G Riddle,

30:Betrayal is a riddle we want to solve ~ Sascha Arango,

31:Forgiveness is what makes families work. ~ A G Riddle,

32:Copy, Watch Shop. Trader, Broker, report. ~ A G Riddle,

33:History is riddled with blood and sin. ~ John Eldredge,

34:technology to gather the site’s content—a ~ A G Riddle,

35:Today’s decisions are tomorrow’s reality. ~ A G Riddle,

36:Ballet is a riddle of means and ends. ~ Gelsey Kirkland,

37:Aye, a tip. But only if you solve a riddle. ~ Hugh Howey,

38:Definitely made in Europe, possibly Canada. ~ A G Riddle,

39:operations for Clocktower Jakarta, massaged ~ A G Riddle,

40:All good plans eventually involve duct tape. ~ A G Riddle,

41:Most people have a very limited imagination. ~ A G Riddle,

42:I am a man of few words, but many riddles. ~ Frank Gorshin,

43:ORS were strewn across the floor. The buzzing ~ A G Riddle,

44:She stood up in her cube as called after him. ~ A G Riddle,

45:Voldemort,’ said Riddle softly, ‘is my past, ~ J K Rowling,

46:I must not worry over things I cannot control. ~ A G Riddle,

47:Life to you, Riddler, and everlasting glory. ~ Janet Morris,

48:The Sphinx must solve her own riddle. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

49:Thou lov'st to speak in riddles and dark words. ~ Sophocles,

50:Because love is a riddle, as is life itself. ~ Corban Addison,

51:It turns out a lack of gravity is my kryptonite. ~ A G Riddle,

52:London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. ~ G K Chesterton,

53:meant to give whoever was inside more time. Josh ~ A G Riddle,

54:The taps mimicked the theme song to The X-Files. ~ A G Riddle,

55:Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice. ~ Eileen Chang,

56:effect change on a global scale, change that would ~ A G Riddle,

57:every person deserved the freedom to be different. ~ A G Riddle,

58:For her, thinking was the greatest enemy of sleep. ~ A G Riddle,

59:He is the sphinx whose riddle still eludes us. ~ Ernle Bradford,

60:Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. ~ A G Riddle,

61:You must see the darkness to appreciate the light. ~ A G Riddle,

62:All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies. ~ Steve Martin,

63:Isn't reality an insatiable AIDS-riddled whore? ~ Roberto Bola o,

64:Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle. ~ Lewis Carroll,

65:How long?” The scientist exhaled. “A day, maybe two. ~ A G Riddle,

66:spraying shards of glass and metal into the station. ~ A G Riddle,

67:What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was. ~ Walter de La Mare,

68:We so often seek what we’re deprived of in childhood. ~ A G Riddle,

69:I meditated upon it and found myself to be a riddle ~ Hermann Hesse,

70:London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton,

71:Sonja!” David called around the hall. “Switch with me. ~ A G Riddle,

72:There have been three pivotal events in human history. ~ A G Riddle,

73:Have you ever solved a riddle you weren’t asked? ~ Maggie Stiefvater,

74:I don’t think a person has to be religious to be moral. ~ A G Riddle,

75:Kate,” a man whispered, testing to see if she was awake. ~ A G Riddle,

76:The human race is the biggest mass murderer of all time. ~ A G Riddle,

77:the Kingdom of Heaven is the domain of those who repent, ~ A G Riddle,

78:This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren’t. ~ A G Riddle,

79:We are far too uncivilized to possess the weapons we do. ~ A G Riddle,

80:Great leaders are forged from the fire of hard decisions, ~ A G Riddle,

81:I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs. ~ Mason Cooley,

82:we’re all capable of evil, under the right circumstances. ~ A G Riddle,

83:here, there, and everywhere"-an opinionated riddle. ~ Mary Downing Hahn,

84:Life is a mystery, not a riddle. It has to be lived, not solved. ~ Osho,

85:A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. ~ Karl Kraus,

86:Good news, Doc: all my internal injuries are psychological. ~ A G Riddle,

87:madman, trying to solve a riddle that didn’t exist. I had ~ J B Cantwell,

88:She copied and pasted the results into an Excel spreadsheet. ~ A G Riddle,

89:She is a woman, Your Highness, and that’s riddle enough. ~ Peter S Beagle,

90:a lie repeated becomes perception, and perception is reality. ~ A G Riddle,

91:higher ground.” Mary grabbed her laptop bag. “Leave it, Mary. ~ A G Riddle,

92:It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma ~ Winston S Churchill,

93:Part of history is tracing artifacts and looking at patterns. ~ A G Riddle,

94:Stop talking. You’re making everyone who can hear you dumber. ~ A G Riddle,

95:The war is always the same, only the names and places change. ~ A G Riddle,

96:What’s the riddle? Me talking so much And saying so little ~ Carrie Fisher,

97:Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up. ~ W S Gilbert,

98:throwing stones through the windows of the Riddle House. They ~ J K Rowling,

99:And through a Riddle, at the last-- Sagacity, must go-- ~ Emily Dickinson,

100:riddles of God are more satisfying than the answers of man, ~ G K Chesterton,

101:The riddle of the age has for each a private solution. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

102:A mind that dwells in the past builds a prison it cannot escape. ~ A G Riddle,

103:At the back of Karl’s mind, a new thought emerged: reward money. ~ A G Riddle,

104:every person who has ever flown on a plane has traveled in time. ~ A G Riddle,

105:Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. ~ Winston Churchill,

106:There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head ~ Damon Knight,

107:I guess we’re all capable of evil, under the right circumstances. ~ A G Riddle,

108:The real is not given to us, but put to us by way of a riddle. ~ Immanuel Kant,

109:The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. ~ D H Lawrence,

110:Why is it that we only appreciate things we’re at risk of losing? ~ A G Riddle,

111:Losers don’t write history. They’re burned, buried, and forgotten. ~ A G Riddle,

112:Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. ~ Lisa Shearin,

113:Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat? ~ Jim Carrey,

114:stationer, that Riddlesden, the attorney, was a very knave. ~ Benjamin Franklin,

115:The Riddler says you make the world better one battle at a time. ~ Janet Morris,

116:what ultimately matters in a survival situation: the will to live. ~ A G Riddle,

117:Why don't we play a game of riddles?" ... Gupta beamed. ~ Roshani Chokshi,

118:What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind? ~ Miguel de Cervantes,

119:Is that a riddle? Or a serious question?’ ‘Yes.’ The Fool was grave. ~ Robin Hobb,

120:There are demons upon this earth. They live in our hearts and minds. ~ A G Riddle,

121:Disasters are an opportunity for the worst of humanity. And the best. ~ A G Riddle,

122:Grace Town is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. ~ Krystal Sutherland,

123:I think Hamlet is a very funny play - Hamlet is riddled with wit. ~ Chukwudi Iwuji,

124:Let’s agree to disagree, Martin. And let’s focus on the task at hand. ~ A G Riddle,

125:The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. ~ G K Chesterton,

126:A healthy person has a hundred wishes, but a sick person has only one. ~ A G Riddle,

127:All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

128:History is riddled with deaths. We’re all here because of ghosts. ~ Katherine Locke,

129:Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve. ~ Henry David Thoreau,

130:Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories. ~ Mason Cooley,

131:He's looking at her like she's the answer to some sort of riddle. ~ Jennifer E Smith,

132:These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit. ~ Ben Goldacre,

133:The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world. ~ Daniel Handler,

134:This is what you’ve been reading? World War One–era Gone With the Wind? ~ A G Riddle,

135:When others are fearful, be greedy; when others are greedy, be fearful, ~ A G Riddle,

136:Any change that takes power from those who have it will face opposition. ~ A G Riddle,

137:Dreams were important, unconscious riddles that mirrored the heart. ~ John Katzenbach,

138:The first email was sent at 2:38 a.m, the second email four hours later. ~ A G Riddle,

139:You are rather too fond of talking in riddles,’ complained Jeserac. ~ Arthur C Clarke,

140:chair to face Dr. Chang, who sat in the corner, staring at the conference ~ A G Riddle,

141:Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away. ~ Alice Hoffman,

142:My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle ~ J K Rowling,

143:What we have here is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. ~ Douglas Preston,

144:When you figure out that you're fighting some other man's war, walk away. ~ A G Riddle,

145:A healthy person has a hundred wishes, but a sick person has only one. The ~ A G Riddle,

146:Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior. ~ Joyce Carol Oates,

147:Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle. ~ Max Black,

148:Women are riddles—I only argued upon the common sense of the thing. ~ Frederick Marryat,

149:You will walk a long and lonely road. But you will have all that you need. ~ A G Riddle,

150:All gifts are riddles, all lives/are in the middle of mother-lives. ~ Brenda Shaughnessy,

151:All human philosophy is riddled with the nightmare of searching in vain. ~ Wilhelm Reich,

152:Another truth: parents desire for their children the things they never had. ~ A G Riddle,

153:I believe that a good book leaves its readers better than they were before. ~ A G Riddle,

154:In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word? ~ Jorge Luis Borges,

155:Life is hard—for everyone—but it’s hell on earth if you’re foolish or weak. ~ A G Riddle,

156:The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton,

157:What Profiteth It A Kingdom If The Oxen Be Deflated?' - Riddles II, v3 ~ Terry Pratchett,

158:I’m the scientist that gave us the Atlantis Gene. I’m one of the Atlanteans. ~ A G Riddle,

159:Ma’am, your husband was killed in an unfortunate Cadbury Creme Egg incident. ~ A G Riddle,

160:Science lacks something very important that religion provides: a moral code. ~ A G Riddle,

161:What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind? ~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,

162:believe that a good book leaves its readers better than they were before. And ~ A G Riddle,

163:He studied her lips like they were a riddle he desperately needed to solve. ~ Amber Argyle,

164:Who wants to try and fail, when you can drink and laugh with no consequences? ~ A G Riddle,

165:All things can be repaired, Peyton. Some simply require more time than others. ~ A G Riddle,

166:genes might control the possibilities, but epigenetics determines our destiny. ~ A G Riddle,

167:The night itself is riddled with her, wide with her, and alive with her. ~ Gabriela Mistral,

168:It's difficult to judge beauty; I am not ready yet. Beauty is a riddle. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

169:Life is uncertain; in the end we control only a single thing: our own thoughts. ~ A G Riddle,

170:proverb: A healthy person has a hundred wishes, but a sick person has only one. ~ A G Riddle,

171:We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle ~ Terence McKenna,

172:Hello, Harry Potter. My name is Tom Riddle. How did you come by my diary?’ These ~ J K Rowling,

173:To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart. ~ Publilius Syrus,

174:What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle? ~ George Eliot,

175:Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. ~ Karl Marx,

176:For the essence of a riddle is to express true facts under impossible combinations. ~ Aristotle,

177:I’m an enigma wrapped inside a riddle, all bundled in something quite wonderful. ~ Steve McHugh,

178:Life is uncertain; in the end we control only a single thing: our own thoughts. He ~ A G Riddle,

179:Naomi leaned against a wall, clearly bored. She looked so strange with clothes on. ~ A G Riddle,

180:Our genes might control the possibilities, but epigenetics determines our destiny. ~ A G Riddle,

181:Story-telling is pivotal to our well-being, as are nonethnic jokes and riddles. ~ David Sedaris,

182:The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning. ~ Stephen Jay Gould,

183:That's good. Life is full of riddles that only the dead can answer," was Dad's reply. ~ Ben Okri,

184:The Priddles were Irish twins, the second born ten months after the first, and ~ Michael Crummey,

185:The threat of public humiliation—most people’s greatest fear—seems to do the trick. ~ A G Riddle,

186:We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying. ~ Diane Keaton,

187:We’re not testing it on primates. I want a human cohort of 50 ready to test.” Chang ~ A G Riddle,

188:He glanced back at Cole. “But you don’t want to be a Cadbury Creme Egg, do you Cole? ~ A G Riddle,

189:I developed my very first game after reading "Riddle Master" by Patricia McKillip. ~ Klaus Teuber,

190:pound of brain tissue uses twenty times the amount of energy a pound of muscle does. ~ A G Riddle,

191:You, that’s it Blake. There’s no riddle to decipher, no code to break. I want you. ~ Kaylea Cross,

192:It hung there, just waiting to explode, like a glass piñata. He was the prize inside. ~ A G Riddle,

193:An army of intellectual men cannot solve the riddle created by an indecisive woman. ~ Chetan Bhagat,

194:major city to Mount Toba. I think it’s a reference to where the attack will start.” “A ~ A G Riddle,

195:————— 30,88. 81,86. 03-12-2013 10:45:00 #44 33-23-15 Cut the power. Save my kids. ————— ~ A G Riddle,

196:Common sense. Mothers are the last riddle, the worst horror, the only consolation. ~ Kiana Davenport,

197:We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures. ~ James E Burke,

198:Dream big, work hard, live forever—that’s the promise we held out to the world that day. ~ A G Riddle,

199:Everything is an emergency. If you don’t like emergencies, this isn’t the place for you. ~ A G Riddle,

200:I'll ask you a riddle. What do you have the more of, the more of it you give away? ~ Madeleine L Engle,

201:I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania. ~ Bam Margera,

202:Memory is a riddled thing. I would caution you from making promises you cannot keep. ~ Roshani Chokshi,

203:His long blond hair falls around his face, hiding me from his view, and I’m glad for that. ~ A G Riddle,

204:The strongest friendships and the strongest relationships are forged in the hottest fires. ~ A G Riddle,

205:Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies. ~ Tommy Chong,

206:Some nights we watch movies and TV, usually old ones. Sometimes The X-Files. And Star Trek. ~ A G Riddle,

207:The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled. ~ Sue Monk Kidd,

208:The speed of light. It’s the universal constant. It never changes, no matter where you are. ~ A G Riddle,

209:Two lavish marble, glass, and steel staircases shaped like DNA helixes flank the open space ~ A G Riddle,

210:Phrases of neatness, cosiness, and comfort can never be an answer to the sphinx's riddle. ~ William James,

211:All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle. ~ Alec Baldwin,

212:She craves genuine things, real people. We so often seek what we’re deprived of in childhood. ~ A G Riddle,

213:Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! ~ Alexander Pope,

214:Spain was the second most mountainous country in Europe. Only Switzerland had more mountains. ~ A G Riddle,

215:There are, that resting, rise. Can I expound the skies? How still the riddle lies! ~ Emily Dickinson,

216:He had also said something about time healing all wounds. But now she was running out of time. ~ A G Riddle,

217:Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win. ~ Laurell K Hamilton,

218:I think we read about things we don’t have. Things we wonder about, want to see in the world. I ~ A G Riddle,

219:Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle. ~ Albert Einstein,

220:Finn was an enigma wrapped in a riddle coated in misdirection. He was a burrito of dishonesty. ~ Molly Harper,

221:In the world we live in, the best people carry the weight for others—and they get crushed first. ~ A G Riddle,

222:Life is a test we take every day. You must focus. You must be there for them when they need you. ~ A G Riddle,

223:Mysteries are not riddles. Mysteries are places to go with your mind. You go into mysteries. ~ Frederick Lenz,

224:Nico hesitated. He wasn’t used to getting a direct answer, without games or riddles or quests. ~ Rick Riordan,

225:To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love. ~ Anne Sexton,

226:A riddle wrapped up in an enigma, wrapped up in a giant pain in the ass. Well done, Kami. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan,

227:Confidence is the universal attractor, and nothing says confidence like not having a pickup line. ~ A G Riddle,

228:I bet he wants to solve Ryan’s riddle,” Mary said. “And then he probably wants to riddle his Ryan. ~ T J Klune,

229:Patrick: America is at war with an Afghan tribe...[?] David: Yeah, it's a, uh, long story. ~ A G Riddle,

230:Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below? ~ Charles Lamb,

231:The rate at which time passes changes throughout the universe, depending on gravity and velocity. ~ A G Riddle,

232:The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. ~ Roberto Unger,

233:All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had. ~ Maya Angelou,

234:The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein,

235:Great marketing can sell an inferior product for a short time. Only a strong product can sell itself ~ A G Riddle,

236:I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper and a note-riddled score than I do a real person. ~ Anonymous,

237:Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. ~ Aldous Huxley,

238:Their conversations hung like riddles, so obvious to the tellers yet so utterly befuddling to me. ~ Bryan Reardon,

239:...in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily ~ Big Pun,

240:it’s like Tennyson once said, ‘ ’Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all. ~ A G Riddle,

241:Passion, rage—no matter how much we evolve, man can’t escape these instincts: our heritage as beasts. ~ A G Riddle,

242:Control your mind, or it will control you, and you will never break through the walls it builds.” Milo ~ A G Riddle,

243:every human alive today is directly descended from a man who lived in Africa sixty thousand years ago. ~ A G Riddle,

244:if you want to build a better world, you must first have the courage to destroy the world that exists. ~ A G Riddle,

245:Mental work is like a vitamin a person needs every day. A muscle that otherwise atrophies with disuse. ~ A G Riddle,

246:events in the past—events that are key to finding a cure for the plague.” “Interesting,” Kate murmured. ~ A G Riddle,

247:If Dorian had betrayed them, set this up, it was partly her fault. She had done the research he needed. ~ A G Riddle,

248:Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles ~ Mark Twain,

249:Q: Bury deep, Pile on stones, Yet I will Dig up the bones. What am I? A: Memories — A FOLK RIDDLE ~ Jennifer McMahon,

250:Sometimes there’s nothing left to do but enjoy the time you have left. There’s nothing wrong with that. ~ A G Riddle,

251:A.G. Riddle spent ten years starting and running internet companies before retiring to focus on his true ~ A G Riddle,

252:Because I’m old enough to know that life is nothing but one big riddle with a question for an answer. ~ Ryan Winfield,

253:Metamorphoses" he said, "are our way of showing, in riddles, that we know we are part of the animal world ~ A S Byatt,

254:Milo stepped back, grinned like the Cheshire Cat, and pointed at her. “Ahhh, I get you good, Dr. Warner! ~ A G Riddle,

255:The attacks did two things really well: ensured there was a war, a big one—and crashed the stock market. ~ A G Riddle,

256:There wasn't a single meaning. There were many meanings. It was a riddle expanding out and out and out. ~ Donna Tartt,

257:except for a thin ring of yellow and orange fire peeking around its edges like a solar eclipse. The great ~ A G Riddle,

258:Have faith and patience, Dr. Thomas. Time works miracles. We must have the courage to wait for them.” They ~ A G Riddle,

259:Kate wondered what part of the male brain prioritized movie scene storage above all other details in life. ~ A G Riddle,

260:Because when you’re young, life is about pursuing dreams. I have the rest of my life to take the safe road. ~ A G Riddle,

261:I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well. ~ Rob Brezsny,

262:My mother can’t have been magic, or she wouldn’t have died,’ said Riddle, more to himself than Dumbledore. ~ J K Rowling,

263:Q: Bury deep, Pile on stones, Yet I will Dig up the bones. What am I? A: Memories — A FOLK RIDDLE ~ Jennifer McMahon,

264:Rather I receive your bullet riddled body with honor that us of your cowardliness on the battlefield. ~ Malala Yousafzai,

265:As David walked down the stone hallway, he wondered whether he was now deeper in the trap or on his way out. ~ A G Riddle,

266:It was a long road, and less than 1% of drugs that worked in the lab ever made it to pharmacy shelves. There ~ A G Riddle,

267:Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved. ~ Heinrich Heine,

268:For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. ~ Paul Watzlawick,

269:I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. ~ Winston S Churchill,

270:I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle. ~ Craig Thompson,

271:That’s what life is about: finding something you can do that no one else can, and working your hardest at it. ~ A G Riddle,

272:Yes, it’s a lie, but the media repeated it, and a lie repeated becomes perception, and perception is reality. ~ A G Riddle,

273:You talk to me in riddles, I will answer you in rhyme. I loved you for a little— I will love you for all time. ~ Lang Leav,

274:Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton,

275:Her éducation sexuelle (it was easier to think of it as something French) was woefully riddled with lacunae. ~ Kate Atkinson,

276:Oh why is she going away just when I want so much to be with her! She is the answer to the riddle of my life. ~ Iris Murdoch,

277:Fight hard and don’t fear death. There are far worse things in life—one being living a life you aren’t proud of. ~ A G Riddle,

278:Jakarta is the perfect place to start an attack—the population density is high and there are tons of expatriates ~ A G Riddle,

279:Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

280:It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. ~ Gregory Bateson,

281:I learned how to use a handgun as a kid. Kidnapping is a constant risk for every child who grows up the way I did. ~ A G Riddle,

282:Said he little prince "But why do you always speak in riddles?" "I solve them all" said the snake ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,

283:Survival of the fittest is a scientific fact, but it is a cruel ethic; the way of beasts, not a civilized society. ~ A G Riddle,

284:So you don’t want to believe?” “With science, what I want is irrelevant. Proof of a hypothesis is all that matters. ~ A G Riddle,

285:The journey is the destination. Finding the answers for yourself, achieving understanding, is part of your journey. ~ A G Riddle,

286:Too many riddles weigh men down on earth. We must solve as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

287:Don't let my soul be riddled / by deceit: kill it or, / like fog, it will seep through / a heap of white chaff. ~ Boris Pasternak,

288:Fight hard and don’t fear death. There are far worse things in life—one being living a life you aren’t proud of.” He ~ A G Riddle,

289:the president of the United States and the governors of all fifty states collapsed. Autopsies revealed the same cause ~ A G Riddle,

290:But in dying so suddenly her mother had become a riddle at the gate instead of the road you walked to get there. ~ Stephanie Kallos,

291:Told myself that every moment wallowing in my guilt was one moment stolen from making it right, from redeeming myself. ~ A G Riddle,

292:A landing from space has been described as a train wreck, followed by a car accident, followed by falling off your bike. ~ A G Riddle,

293:People act like riddles are hard, but real life is harder. In real life, there are always more than two doors" -Sherm ~ Rebecca Stead,

294:Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism. ~ Winston Churchill,

295:The only thing worse than a voice inside your head is a voice inside your head that only speaks in riddles. ~ Pierdomenico Baccalario,

296:everybody’s scared of failure and being seen as a disappointment. The longer the shadow is, the farther you have to walk. ~ A G Riddle,

297:Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love? ~ George Carlin,

298:He held it up to the light, glancing at the technology he and his partner had embedded almost seventy thousand years ago. ~ A G Riddle,

299:It was history repeating itself. The same players, playing out a different game, with the same end, on a different stage. ~ A G Riddle,

300:Mother was like this sometimes. Conversations became riddles with traps in them, and your answers had consequences. ~ Frances Hardinge,

301:Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life. ~ Comte de Lautr amont,

302:The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge,

303:If I gave Bee to Riddle and Nettle, I could undertake the Fool’s vengeance. That traitorous thought made me want to vomit. ~ Robin Hobb,

304:Riddler: You want to tell me who you killed and why? Catwoman: We didn’t kill anyone Poisson Ivy: Well, not yesterday ~ Paul Dini,

305:That night was like the first computer program he ever wrote: a series of run-time errors followed by a quick compilation. ~ A G Riddle,

306:The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it ‘the Riddle House’, even though it had been many years since the Riddle ~ J K Rowling,

307:I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank. ~ James Brolin,

308:The more you open up, the more you get hurt. So basically, I’m just riddled with scars and I just don’t want any more. ~ Freddie Mercury,

309:You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive. ~ Sarah McLachlan,

310:There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. ~ Diane Arbus,

311:All is a riddle to the man who trails a shadow. For that man walks in borrowed light, therefore he stumbles on his shadow. ~ Mikhail Naimy,

312:think it must be throwing off a lot of viral escape vectors. It’s pretty tough. The good news is that out of the almost three ~ A G Riddle,

313:We so often seek what we’re deprived of in childhood. Sheltered children become reckless. Starving children become ambitious. ~ A G Riddle,

314:When the plague went global, everyone wanted someone to blame. You were the first story and for many reasons, the best story. ~ A G Riddle,

315:You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies. ~ Steve Martin,

316:Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed. ~ Brian Rathbone,

317:And was he judging all men by himself? No. He was a member of the tribe, that was all. It was women who were the real riddles. ~ Stephen King,

318:because the laws of the universe support it by random chance, or the alternative: the universe was created to foster human life. ~ A G Riddle,

319:I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. ~ Washington Irving,

320:I wish she’d said what is the most important thing in her life. But like so many conversations between us, it’s left unfinished. ~ A G Riddle,

321:Rather I receive your bullet-riddled body with honour Than news of your cowardice on the battlefield (Traditional Pashto couplet) ~ Anonymous,

322:Don't forget, Riddler, how I love thee. Or all we shared together. Or that this sea and all other seas can lead you back to me. ~ Janet Morris,

323:Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. ~ Boris Pasternak,

324:The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, is solving the riddle of a woman's heart. ~ Steve Hamilton,

325:Central Bank stimulus: easy money, a false cure that never solves the root causes, only suppresses symptoms, prolonging the agony. ~ A G Riddle,

326:I can fly anything,” David said. Landing had sometimes been an issue, but he didn’t mention that. There was no need to worry them. ~ A G Riddle,

327:Just because students failed to solve a riddle, you made them hide their faces in shame and become servants? That was beyond cruel. ~ J A White,

328:People will fight to the death to save their own lives, but they’ll wage war to preserve their way of life for future generations. ~ A G Riddle,

329:Sidgwick’ concluded: ‘We can no more solve the riddle of death by dying than we can solve the problem of living by being born.’17 ~ John N Gray,

330:The war is always the same, only the names and places change. There are demons upon this earth. They live in our hearts and minds. ~ A G Riddle,

331:All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles. ~ Patricia A McKillip,

332:They had truly sacrificed for each other, laid it all on the line when the stakes were highest. That was the definition of love. At ~ A G Riddle,

333:Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it. ~ Theodor Adorno,

334:I’ve never been one to go to church, but I’ve al was ways believed in a creative intelligence behind the ongoing riddle of the world. ~ Bill Clegg,

335:Oster blender. I poured that concoction into a griddle of sizzling butter, then sprinkled diced strawberries on the wet side. Three ~ Walter Mosley,

336:our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness ~ Samuel Johnson,

337:the best stories are the ones that leave the reader better than they were. And the best of those nurture both our minds and our souls. ~ A G Riddle,

338:The woodcutter brushed the dust from his beard and reflected on how sphinxes would live much longer if they asked a different riddle. ~ Kate Danley,

339:who had jolted Sophie out of her everyday existence and suddenly brought her face to face with the great riddles of the universe? ~ Jostein Gaarder,

340:Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles. ~ Aleister Crowley,

341:As often happens in science, technology has opened up a field to new ways of solving old riddles – often providing startling answers. ~ Spencer Wells,

342:Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art. ~ Lynn Coady,

343:People who flew too high—who lived beyond their means and ability—were bound for failure. As were those who never took a chance. Despite ~ A G Riddle,

344:And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. ~ Mainak Dhar,

345:Everyone wants to know where evil comes from and why the world is riddled with it. Why doesn't anyone ask where goodness comes from? ~ Sylvain Reynard,

346:I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. But perhaps there is a key. ~ Winston S Churchill,

347:Look at the earth and you think it's solid," he said. "But look deeper and you'll see it's riddled with tunnels. A warren. A labyrinth. ~ David Almond,

348:If there’s one thing I’ve learned in business, it’s that giving a tyrant what he wants doesn’t solve your problem. It only makes it worse. ~ A G Riddle,

349:I think that says a lot about a person: how they handle being second best. Do they work on themselves? Or attack the person ahead of them? ~ A G Riddle,

350:It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth. ~ Charles Kettering,

351:On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? ~ Victor Francis Hess,

352:What the hell is a ‘Barnaby Prendergast Report’?” The 30-something man looked confused. “It’s the report from Barnaby Prendergast.” Dorian ~ A G Riddle,

353:And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. ~ Khalil Gibran,

354:Sacrifice. The hardest part isn’t giving your life for the cause, it’s knowing what your sacrifice and decisions will do to those you love. ~ A G Riddle,

355:Here’s a tip. The good guys ask you to get in the truck. The bad guys put a black bag over your head and throw you in the truck. I’m asking. ~ A G Riddle,

356:... Lithuanian nation must be saved, as it is the key to all the riddles - not only philology, but also in history - to solve the puzzle. ~ Immanuel Kant,

357:Religion was a riddle to her. Believe this, and only this, because we say so. If you don’t you’re buying a one-way ticket to everlasting Hell. ~ J D Robb,

358:See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle. ~ Stephen King,

359:the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it. ~ Ama Ata Aidoo,

360:A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes. ~ China Mieville,

361:Every actor is riddled with insecurity, of course. But weirdly, I don't really find that I'd be daunted with taking on roles or anything. ~ Martin Freeman,

362:It’s always the same war. Only the names of the dead change. It’s always about one thing: which group of rich men get to divvy up the spoils. ~ A G Riddle,

363:Life was like the ice on an early-winter pond: more fragile than it appeared to be, riddled by hidden fractures, with a cold darkness below. ~ Dean Koontz,

364:Fintan Herald was a mystery. A sexy mystery wrapped in a dark riddle. Delicious as chocolate and just as addicting, and very bad for my health. ~ Anonymous,

365:How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,

366:To the scientist’s surprise, the bodies were intact. “Extraordinary. No signs of cannibalism. These survivors knew each other. They could have ~ A G Riddle,

367:Unless your open position demands that your candidate will solve puzzles or riddles, do not use puzzles or riddles, instead of auditions. ~ Johanna Rothman,

368:You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies." Steve Martin ~ Steve Martin,

369:Except that I have no marketable skills other than swinging around a sword and making up riddles, neither of which probably pay all that well. ~ Holly Black,

370:Life is not a riddle to be solved. The things that matter most cannot be won, cannot be tricked. They won't be studied, never fully understood. ~ Julia Fine,

371:Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions. ~ W Somerset Maugham,

372:Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers. ~ Lewis Carroll,

373:I pull my sidearm and fire at them from point-blank range, killing the first two men, who must have either thought I was dead or couldn’t see me ~ A G Riddle,

374:The West Virginia Children’s Home. It’s in Elkins. See that they get the balance of the account. And that they know that it came from my father. ~ A G Riddle,

375:Andrej thought about it - the notion that the world was riddled with holes where certain people and animals were meant to be, but weren’t. ~ Sonya Hartnett,

376:Looks like Kelsey wins the award for early riser. And doesn’t she look purtier than a pat of butter meltin’ all over a stack of griddle cakes? ~ Colleen Houck,

377:We’ve heard reports of road surfaces bubbling and catching fire, sand turning to glass, and steaks in a deep freezer turning up cooked well done… ~ A G Riddle,

378:Where are there towns but no houses, roads but no cars, forests but no trees? Answer on a map (Riddle on children's breakfast TV) ~ Au ur Ava lafsd ttir,

379:Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them. ~ Alexander Pope,

380:Olivia forced a smile. “You really are not what I’d expected.” “I’m an enigma wrapped inside a riddle, all bundled in something quite wonderful. ~ Steve McHugh,

381:The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle. ~ G K Chesterton,

382:Then his expression softened, as if he had solved a troublesome riddle. He smiled. "You do it," he said. Then he stepped over the edge. ~ Robert Charles Wilson,

383:Leave it to a kid to sum up the state of my career so accurately in two words. And leave it to an adult to rationalize it in three: “It’s a living. ~ A G Riddle,

384:Robert calmly, like an Oriental sage himself, treated the situation as if it were a koan, a riddle to be entered until its very assumptions shifted. ~ Mark Nepo,

385:...the monk beat me to break my spirit, incensed I knew Acquinas - angry, I knew his riddle - beauty is what is pleasing to the eye - he wasn't... ~ John Geddes,

386:When the war was over and the British returned in 1945, there were less than 600,000. A million people dead or gone. Nearly two out of every three. ~ A G Riddle,

387:I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something. ~ Ice T,

388:I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle. ~ John Denver,

389:See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle. ~ Stephen King,

390:Yes, it’s a lie, but the media repeated it, and a lie repeated becomes perception, and perception is reality. Perception is also very hard to change. ~ A G Riddle,

391:Passion, rage—no matter how much we evolve, man can’t escape these instincts: our heritage as beasts. We can only hope to control the beast inside us. ~ A G Riddle,

392:Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes. ~ Rodger Kamenetz,

393:Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, A fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly. Ask me a riddle and I reply: “Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.” That ~ A A Milne,

394:relationships were complicated, volatile things. They were riddled with lies, with hidden secrets, ones you only found out about when it was too late. ~ Ania Ahlborn,

395:The word starve is a mistake. The crowd picks it up, and it echoes from person to person in panicky counterpoint until it sounds like the Starve Chorus. ~ A G Riddle,

396:The problem is quite simple. I do not have the manpower to program reports to satisfy their every whim and curiosity—in the outrageous time frames given. ~ A G Riddle,

397:Answers? Ha, he would say that. More like riddles, mazes, labyrinths. If there's some power trying to show me the way, it should give better directions. ~ Megan Chance,

398:For the past five months, I have watched the world die. Glaciers have advanced across Canada, Russia, and Scandinavia, trampling everything in their path. ~ A G Riddle,

399:The journey is the destination. Finding the answers for yourself, achieving understanding, is part of your journey. There are no shortcuts along the path. ~ A G Riddle,

400:They ate griddle cakes and mulled cider at the Black Holly tea shop across the plaza, and Isyllt explained about Forsythia's murder and the haematurge. ~ Amanda Downum,

401:To take care of the world seemed, finally, a privilege rather than a burden. The Riddler had led them to life's greatest victory. They had found a home. ~ Janet Morris,

402:Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. Ask me a riddle and I reply: "Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie. ~ A A Milne,

403:The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?] ~ Carl Sagan,

404:The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors. ~ Christopher Paolini,

405:WHEN A RESTLESS spirit is commissioned, under influence, to solve a riddle for another man, his energies are, at first, readily and faithfully applied. ~ Eleanor Catton,

406:Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed for God sets us nothing but riddles. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

407:Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public. ~ Malachy McCourt,

408:Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion. ~ Thomas Harris,

409:Humans should grow up a little hungry, struggle a little, be made to strive for something. That’s what builds character. Struggle reveals who we really are. ~ A G Riddle,

410:What’s wrong?” Kate asked. “Nothing… that’s just my soul collapsing like a neutron star,” Mary said. Kate thought the comparison was a little dramatic. “Why ~ A G Riddle,

411:A brush with death changes a person. For good people, it changes them for the better, makes them more thankful—and dedicated to the things that matter. “Your ~ A G Riddle,

412:No idea how you figured out the riddle, but you scooped the first prize. Congratulations. You've just won a vacation to a big, relaxing place called a grave. ~ Jayde Scott,

413:The night itself is riddled with her, wide with her, and alive with her. It seems that it has no word or other traveler, no other secret sign. ~ Gabriela Mistral,

414:My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course. ~ Jodi Picoult,

415:A mind that dwells in the past builds a prison it cannot escape. Control your mind, or it will control you, and you will never break through the walls it builds. ~ A G Riddle,

416:As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle? ~ Anthony A Williams,

417:Telling someone to “follow their passion” is not just an act of innocent optimism, but potentially the foundation for a career riddled with confusion and angst. ~ Cal Newport,

418:he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to the riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? ~ Joseph Heller,

419:You putt around this tiny planet in painted aluminum cans that burn the liquefied remains of ancient reptiles. Do you honestly think you could beat us in a fight? ~ A G Riddle,

420:If this went on much longer, Mary Augustin told herself, her brain would be riddled with question marks, hundreds of little hooks set so deep they’d never let go. ~ Sara Donati,

421:It’s no simple matter to hold on to your mind in total blackness. Your thoughts become a tree of riddles whose branches trail off into the dark. (A metaphor.) ~ Haruki Murakami,

422:Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick,

423:Hamlet, Kierkegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates. ~ Harold Bloom,

424:This is the language of school reform. It is a language so riddled with unintelligible, meaningless talk as to be all but indecipherable to speakers of plain English. ~ Anonymous,

425:Every natural language has redundancy built in; this is why people can understand text riddled with errors and why they can understand conversation in a noisy room. ~ James Gleick,

426:The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love. ~ John Donne,

427:A mind that dwells in the past builds a prison it cannot escape. Control your mind, or it will control you, and you will never break through the walls it builds.” Milo ~ A G Riddle,

428:There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. ~ Anne Rice,

429:A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms. ~ Gregory Bateson,

430:An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle? ~ George R R Martin,

431:attended UNC-Chapel Hill, where he founded his first company with one of his childhood friends. He currently lives in Parkland, Florida and would love to hear from you… ~ A G Riddle,

432:In our pursuit for the ultimate knowledge, the technologies we created eventually enslaved us, taking the last of our humanity before we even knew it was slipping away. ~ A G Riddle,

433:This is a different war—” “It’s always the same war. Only the names of the dead change. It’s always about one thing: which group of rich men get to divvy up the spoils. ~ A G Riddle,

434:Anyone who discovers he or she has been systematically cheated on wants to know why and for how long and with whom. It’s normal. Betrayal is a riddle we want to solve. ~ Sascha Arango,

435:A war that operates in every human mind below the subconscious level, like a computer program, constantly running in the background, guiding us to some eventuality.” Kate ~ A G Riddle,

436:Life is a gift full of riddles in which suffering and happiness are inextricably intertwined. Any attempt to have one without the other was simply bound to fail. ~ Jan Philipp Sendker,

437:Our theory was that we exist, because mathematically we must exist in some universe, given that there are infinite possible universes and we are a finite possible outcome. ~ A G Riddle,

438:there are infinite possible universes, and we are a finite possible outcome. We exist in this universe because it is the only one our brains are capable of being aware of. ~ A G Riddle,

439:Fine, but answer me this.” – Andy ‘Dang, when had the kid turned into the Riddler? He should have curtailed all those Batman reruns when Andy was a boy.’ – Sundown ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,

440:In our pursuit for the ultimate knowledge, the technologies we created eventually enslaved us, taking the last of our humanity before we even knew it was slipping away. Our ~ A G Riddle,

441:Pierce names her Katherine Warner. The others take new names: Patrick Pierce becomes Tom Warner, Mallory Craig becomes Howard Keegan, and Dieter Kane becomes Dorian Sloane. ~ A G Riddle,

442:The logical flaws and inconsistencies that riddled the tale, far from making him doubt its veracity finally convinced him that it might indeed be true; for life is like that. ~ Tom Holt,

443:We know that every human being on the planet is directly descended from one man who lived in Africa around 60,000 years ago—a person we geneticists call Y-Chromosomal Adam. ~ A G Riddle,

444:Christ crucified is not a riddle for sages, but a plain truth for plain people; true, it is meat for men, but it is also milk for babes. (Come ye children, p50) ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,

445:I'd once heard a spiritual "riddle" that went like this: "What's the only thingin heaven that's the same as it was on earth?"The answer: the wounds in Jesus' hands and feet. ~ Todd Burpo,

446:That's your evidence? Flimsy. Maybe he secretly fights crime and he's texting infuriating riddles to his nemesis," suggested Karou. "Yes, I'm sure that's it. Thank you. ~ Laini Taylor,

447:Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! ~ Pope Francis,

448:I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. ~ Winston Churchill,

449:It seems I’m involved in a conspiracy that spans space and time and a conflict whose outcome will determine humanity’s fate in two separate universes. I’m never flying again. ~ A G Riddle,

450:Laws can only take us so far, and they must be based upon something—a shared moral code that rises from something. As that moral foundation recedes, so will society’s values. ~ A G Riddle,

451:Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring. ~ Carl Sandburg,

452:The central riddle I’ve set out to solve concerns the self’s continuity in change: how can we remain the same people over time, even as we change, sometimes considerably? ~ Julian Baggini,

453:This was the dark side of the human reality: with no conflict, no challenge, the fire within winks out and without the flame, society stagnates, slipping into a slow decline. ~ A G Riddle,

454:Harvey manipulated the joystick and the robotic arm. The young man was surprisingly good at it. Maybe video games, and youth in general, are good for something, Nigel thought. ~ A G Riddle,

455:If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze. ~ Mikhail Naimy,

456:It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma,” but few go on to complete the sentence, which ends “but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. ~ Tim Marshall,

457:For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein,

458:Repair our lives as best we can—knowing that things will never be the same. Clinging to a life that is gone forever isn’t healthy. Time and action are the only cures for grief. ~ A G Riddle,

459:The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle. ~ Abraham Lincoln,

460:Trouble in paradise. As far as I can tell, there are only two unhappy inhabitants of First Class, Pop. 10. I call this pocket of unrest the Aisle of Brooding and Snide Remarks. ~ A G Riddle,

461:Growing up with tragedy changes a person, trains them to expect still more tragedy around every corner. It’s the mind’s way of protecting you; and it is a very powerful defense. ~ A G Riddle,

462:Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle. ~ Frederick Lenz,

463:I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. ~ Winston S Churchill,

464:Maybe a man can’t escape his fate. No matter what you do, you can’t change what you really are, what’s deep down inside you, supposedly dead and buried but driving you all along. ~ A G Riddle,

465:A.G. Riddle spent ten years starting and running internet companies before retiring to focus on his true passion: writing fiction. He grew up in a small town in North Carolina and ~ A G Riddle,

466:Riddles, I hate fucking riddles,” Ristan growled and shook his dark head. “Why couldn’t she have sent a minotaur, or maybe David Bowie and a bunch of Muppets to mess with us? ~ Amelia Hutchins,

467:you can imagine committing a vile act, something completely against your moral code, but only when you physically hold the means to take that action does the decision become real. ~ A G Riddle,

468:In our world riddled with male violence, the problem isn’t that testosterone can increase levels of aggression. The problem is the frequency with which we reward aggression. ~ Robert M Sapolsky,

469:No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true. ~ George MacDonald,

470:A shroud—to keep anyone from seeing your development and to keep you from seeing any other human worlds. What you call the Fermi Paradox—the fact that human worlds must be abundant, ~ A G Riddle,

471:I'm not talking about killing Cobblepot and Scarecrow or Clayface. Not Riddler or Dent... I'm talking about him. Just him. And doing it because... because he took me away from you. ~ Judd Winick,

472:THE GREATEST MYSTERY OF ALL TIME… THE HISTORY OF HUMAN ORIGINS… WILL BE REVEALED. 70,000 years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how. Until now. ~ A G Riddle,

473:Tis but a day we sojourn here below, And all the gain we get is grief and woe, Then, leaving our life's riddles all unsolved, And burdened with regrets, we have to go. ~ Omar Khayy m,

474:My dear fellow, my house is simply a hell just now, a sort of sphinx has taken up its abode there. We live in an atmosphere of riddles; I can't make head or tail of anything. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

475: A Riddle Legs I have got, yet seldom do I walk; I backbite many, yet I never talk: In secret places most I seek to hide me, For he who feeds me never can abide me. ~ Anonymous,

476:SUNLIGHT SEEPED THROUGH the thickly-bunched leaves of the towering kirstal trees, the clearing beneath them riddled with chaotic patches of brilliant light and gray shadow. ~ Mickey Zucker Reichert,

477:a sign of insecurity—forgoing aging signifies clinging to an unfinished youth, as if you’re not ready to move on. Forgoing death implies a life unfinished, a life one is not happy with. ~ A G Riddle,

478:The complete document—“ Letter from Farside”—is explosive, incoherent, and riddled with factual inaccuracies and highly questionable readings of history. It’s also 3,600 pages long. ~ Anthony O Neill,

479:Life, U May told her, is a gift full of riddles in which suffering and happiness are inextricably intertwined. Any attempt to have one without the other was simply bound to fail. ~ Jan Philipp Sendker,

480:The chief bent down and looked the woman over. She was skinny, but not too skinny. He liked that. He felt for a pulse, then turned her head side to side to see if she had any head trauma. ~ A G Riddle,

481:Any woman can weep without tears," she answered over her shoulder, "and most can heal with their hands. It depends on the wound. She is a woman, Your Highness, and that's riddle enough ~ Peter S Beagle,

482:It’s always the same war. Only the names of the dead change. It’s always about one thing: which group of rich men get to divvy up the spoils. They call it ‘The Great War’—clever marketing. ~ A G Riddle,

483:Schopenhauer sagely remarks in his paper on The Will in Nature, “we are sunk in the sea of riddles and inscrutables, knowing and understanding neither what is around us nor ourselves. ~ Joseph Campbell,

484:There are only two possibilities: either human life emerged because the laws of the universe support it by random chance, or the alternative: the universe was created to foster human life. ~ A G Riddle,

485:What I know is that Immari Corporation is somehow involved in 9/11, maybe in other terrorist plots before and after, and that they’re working on something much, much bigger: Toba Protocol. ~ A G Riddle,

486:Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

487:Any woman can weep without tears,” she answered over her shoulder, “and most can heal with their hands. It depends on the wound. She is a woman, Your Highness, and that’s riddle enough. ~ Peter S Beagle,

488:Condemned by your people. Opened the second. Condemned by yourself. Opened the third. To see who you were. Opened the fourth. To see who you could become. Is that the riddle, Slava? ~ Charlie N Holmberg,

489:Heaven reveal some way in pity, Though I doubt it has the power; When in such confused abysses, Heaven is all one fearful presage, And the world itself a riddle. ~ Pedro Calder n de la Barca,

490:Here is a riddle that offers redemption: Often when we lie we inadvertently speak the truth. What we think consciously we don't mean is exactly what is true on the unconscious level. ~ Robert A. Johnson,

491:She can be a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, inside a conundrum, rolled in a frito burrito. In other words, a total freaking mystery to anyone who isn't gifted with mind-reading abilities. ~ Michael Makai,

492:'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years. ~ Andy Serkis,

493:For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein,

494:The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and the potential for making that which is discovered vanish before your eyes, like a mirage. ~ Geoff Dyer,

495:to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon,

496:As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so ~ Freeman Dyson,

497:Human existence, or one's manifestation of it, is the greatest riddle of all. Many people will pursue this curiosity through insurmountable tragedies to get to the unanswerable other side. ~ Barbara Boyer,

498:The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. ~ David Hume,

499:You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it? ~ Soren Kierkegaard,

500:You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it? ~ S ren Kierkegaard,

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

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   10 Occultism
   7 Integral Yoga
   3 Philosophy
   2 Christianity
   1 Yoga


   12 Sri Aurobindo
   10 Aleister Crowley
   8 The Mother
   7 Satprem
   3 Jorge Luis Borges
   2 Sri Ramana Maharshi
   2 Saint Augustine of Hippo
   2 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   2 Jorge Luis Borges
   2 Friedrich Nietzsche


   13 Savitri
   7 The Mothers Agenda
   7 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
   7 Magick Without Tears
   6 The Secret Doctrine
   6 Essays Divine And Human
   5 The Life Divine
   4 Talks
   4 Essays On The Gita
   4 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
   3 The Synthesis Of Yoga
   3 Liber ABA
   2 The Integral Yoga
   2 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
   2 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
   2 The Blue Cliff Records
   2 Selected Fictions
   2 Letters On Yoga I
   2 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
   2 Kena and Other Upanishads
   2 Collected Poems

01.02_-_The_Issue, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga     To wrestle with the Shadow she had come     And must confront the riddle of man's birth     And life's brief struggle in dumb Matter's night.

01.04_-_The_Secret_Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   God's sanction to the paradox of life   And the riddle of the Immortal's birth in Time.   Along a path of aeons serpentine   --   In the mystery of her cosmic ignorance,   In the insoluble riddle of her play,   A creature made of perishable stuff,

01.05_-_The_Yoga_of_the_King_The_Yoga_of_the_Spirits_Freedom_and_Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga     He read from within the text of the without:     The riddle grew plain and lost its catch obscure.     A larger lustre lit the mighty page.

02.04_-_The_Kingdoms_of_the_Little_Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Watched the weak birth of a tremendous Force,   Pursued the riddle of Godhead's tentative pace,   Heard the faint rhythms of a great unborn Muse.

02.05_-_The_Godheads_of_the_Little_Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   His erring sense and his instruments' artifice.   Thus must he work life's tangible riddle out   In a doubtful light, by error seize on Truth

02.06_-_The_Integral_Yoga_and_Other_Yogas, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      I have never said that my Yoga was something brand new in all its elements. I have called it the integral Yoga and that means that it takes up the essence and many processes of the old Yogas - its newness is in its aim, standpoint and the totality of its method. In the earlier stages which is all I deal with in books like the riddle or the Lights1 there is nothing in it that distinguishes it from the old Yogas except the aim underlying its comprehensiveness, the spirit in its movements and the ultimate significance it keeps before it - also the scheme of its psychology and its working, but as that was not and could not be developed systematically or schematically in these letters, it has not been grasped by those who are not already acquainted with it by mental familiarity or some amount of practice. The detail or method of the later stages of the Yoga which go into little known or untrodden regions, I have not made public and I do not at present intend to do so.

02.06_-_The_Kingdoms_and_Godheads_of_the_Greater_Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The incredible is her stuff of common fact.   Her purposes, her workings riddles prove;   Examined, they grow other than they were,   --   By mysteries they explained a Mystery,   A riddling answer met the riddle of things.   As he moved in this ether of ambiguous life,   Himself was soon a riddle to himself;   As symbols he saw all and sought their sense.

03.01_-_The_Evolution_of_Consciousness, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The ascent of the human soul to the supreme Spirit is that soul's highest aim and necessity, for that is the supreme reality; but there can be too the descent of the Spirit and its powers into the world and that would justify the existence of the material world also, give a meaning, a divine purpose to the creation and solve its riddle. East and West could be reconciled in the pursuit of the highest and largest ideal, Spirit embrace Matter and Matter find its own true reality and the hidden Reality in all things in the Spirit.

03.01_-_The_Pursuit_of_the_Unknowable, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   And at the unimaginable end   Of the huge riddle of created things   Appeared the far-seen Godhead of the whole,

03.02_-_The_Adoration_of_the_Divine_Mother, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Leaving unbroken the last chapter's seal,   Unsolved the riddle of the unfinished Play;   The cosmic Player laughs within his mask,

03.03_-_The_House_of_the_Spirit_and_the_New_Creation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The mystery of her inconscient plan   And the riddle of a being born from Night   By a marriage of Necessity with Chance.

03.04_-_The_Vision_and_the_Boon, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   A strange antinomy is his nature's rule.   A riddle of opposites is made his field:   Freedom he asks but needs to live in bonds,

06.01_-_The_Word_of_Fate, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   And only for a little strength he asks   To meet the riddle of his shrouded fate.

10.01_-_The_Dream_Twilight_of_the_Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   And a last judgment on man's futile works,   Other is the riddle of its ambiguous face:   Death is a stair, a door, a stumbling stride

10.04_-_The_Dream_Twilight_of_the_Earthly_Real, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Truth who hides here her head in mystery,   Her riddle deemed by reason impossible   In the stark structure of material form,

1.00_-_Foreword, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy        "One genius, inspired of the gods, suggested recently that the riddle might be solved somewhat on the old and well-tried lines of 'Dr. Brewer's Guide to Science'; i.e., by having aspirants write to the Master asking questions, the kind of problem that naturally comes into the mind of any sensible enquirer, and getting his answer in the form of a letter. 'What is it?' 'Why should I bother my head about it?' 'What are its principles?' 'What use is it?' 'How do I begin?', and the like.

1.00_-_Gospel, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism      But a series of reverses shocked him and he became eager to solve the riddle of life. He had heard people say that in spiritual life the help of a guru was imperative and that the guru was to be regarded as God Himself. But Girish was too well acquainted with human nature to see perfection in a man. His first meeting with Sri Ramakrishna did not impress him at all. He returned home feeling as if he had seen a freak at a circus; for the Master, in a semi-conscious mood, had inquired whether it was evening, though the lamps were burning in the room. But their paths often crossed, and Girish could not avoid further encounters. The Master attended a performance in Girish's Star Theatre. On this occasion, too, Girish found nothing impressive about him. One day, however, Girish happened to see the Master dancing and singing with the devotees. He felt the contagion and wanted to join them, but restrained himself for fear of ridicule. Another day Sri Ramakrishna was about to give him spiritual instruction, when Girish said: "I don't want to listen to instructions. I have myself written many instructions. They are of no use to me. Please help me in a more tangible way if you can." This pleased the Master and he asked Girish to cultivate faith.

1.00_-_Gospel_Preface, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism      As time went on and the number of devotees increased, the staircase room and terrace of the 3rd floor of the Morton Institution became a veritable Naimisaranya of modern times, resounding during all hours of the day, and sometimes of night, too, with the word of God coming from the Rishi-like face of M. addressed to the eager God-seekers sitting around. To the devotees who helped him in preparing the text of the Gospel, he would dictate the conversations of the Master in a meditative mood, referring now and then to his diary. At times in the stillness of midnight he would awaken a nearby devotee and tell him: "Let us listen to the words of the Master in the depths of the night as he explains the truth of the Pranava." ( Vednta Kesari XIX P. 142.) Swami Raghavananda, an intimate devotee of M., writes as follows about these devotional sittings: "In the sweet and warm months of April and May, sitting under the canopy of heaven on the roof-garden of 50 Amherst Street, surrounded by shrubs and plants, himself sitting in their midst like a Rishi of old, the stars and planets in their courses beckoning us to things infinite and sublime, he would speak to us of the mysteries of God and His love and of the yearning that would rise in the human heart to solve the Eternal riddle, as exemplified in the life of his Master. The mind, melting under the influence of his soft sweet words of light, would almost transcend the frontiers of limited existence and dare to peep into the infinite. He himself would take the influence of the setting and say,'What a blessed privilege it is to sit in such a setting (pointing to the starry heavens), in the company of the devotees discoursing on God and His love!' These unforgettable scenes will long remain imprinted on the minds of his hearers." (Prabuddha Bharata Vol XXXVII P 497.)

1.01_-_How_is_Knowledge_Of_The_Higher_Worlds_Attained?, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Occultism      The power obtained through devotion can be rendered still more effective when the life of feeling is enriched by yet another quality. This consists in giving oneself up less and less to impressions of the outer world, and to develop instead a vivid inner life. A person who darts from one impression of the outer world to another, who constantly seeks distraction, cannot find the way to higher knowledge. The student must not blunt himself to the outer world, but while lending himself to its impressions, he should be directed by his rich inner life. When passing through a beautiful mountain district, the traveler with depth of soul and wealth of feeling has different experiences from one who is poor in feeling. Only what we experience within ourselves unlocks for us the beauties of the outer world. One person sails across the ocean, and only a few inward experiences pass through his soul; another will hear the eternal language of the cosmic spirit; for him are unveiled the mysterious riddles of existence. We must learn to remain in    p. 15

1.036_-_The_Rise_of_Obstacles_in_Yoga_Practice, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga      What is this veil? It is nothing but the space-time complex, which is the reason for the appearance of the individuality of things and the diversity of objects. This space-time-cause complex is the veil that covers the truth of things; and this veil covers even the perceiver himself. The individual cogniser, the perceiver, the experiencer, is a part of this involvement in the space-time-cause complex. So there is an entire relativity of perception and knowledge throughout the world, and there is no such thing as real insight into the nature of things. And so the whole universe is samsara world riddled over with error and sorrow. The veil of samsara gets lifted; it is penetrated into, and what is behind the veil is seen when there is pratyakcetana adhigamah. There is no relational knowledge at that time; it is a direct perception, aparoksha anubhava. We do not require the instrumentality of mind and senses at that time.

1.03_-_Self-Surrender_in_Works_-_The_Way_of_The_Gita, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   93    able to fulfil the Divine in life; life for them will be a meaningless undivine inconsequence. Not for them the true victory that shall be the key to the riddle of our terrestrial existence; their love will not be the absolute love triumphant over self, their knowledge will not be the total consciousness and the all-embracing knowledge. It is possible, indeed, to begin with knowledge or   Godward emotion solely or with both together and to leave works for the final movement of the Yoga. But there is then this disadvantage that we may tend to live too exclusively within, subtilised in subjective experience, shut off in our isolated inner parts; there we may get incrusted in our spiritual seclusion and find it difficult later on to pour ourselves triumphantly outwards and apply to life our gains in the higher Nature. When we turn to add this external kingdom also to our inner conquests, we shall find ourselves too much accustomed to an activity purely subjective and ineffective on the material plane. There will be an immense difficulty in transforming the outer life and the body.

1.03_-_The_Human_Disciple, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Arjuna, casting down the divine bow and inexhaustible quiver given to him by the gods for that tremendous hour, "it is more for my welfare that the sons of Dhritarashtra armed should slay me unarmed and unresisting. I will not fight."   The character of this inner crisis is therefore not the questioning of the thinker; it is not a recoil from the appearances of life and a turning of the eye inward in search of the truth of things, the real meaning of existence and a solution or an escape from the dark riddle of the world. It is the sensational, emotional and moral revolt of the man hitherto satisfied with action and its current standards who finds himself cast by them into a hideous chaos where they are in violent conflict with each other and with themselves and there is no moral standing-ground left, nothing to lay hold of and walk by, no dharma.1 That for the soul of action in the mental being is the worst possible crisis, failure and overthrow. The revolt itself is the most elemental and simple possible; sensationally, the elemental feeling of horror, pity and disgust; vitally, the loss of attraction and faith in the recognised and familiar objects of action and aims of life; emotionally, the recoil of the ordinary feelings of social man, affection, reverence, desire of a common happiness and satisfaction, from a stern duty outraging them all; morally, the elementary sense of sin and   1

1.04_-_Descent_into_Future_Hell, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Philosophy   You see in these days what the spirit of the depths bore. You did not believe it, but you would have known it if you had taken counsel with your fear. 91   Blood shone at me from the red light of the crystal, and when I picked it up to discover its mystery; there lay the horror uncovered before me: in the depths of what is to come lay murder. The blond hero lay slain. The black beetle is the death that is necessary for renewal; and so thereafter, a new sun glowed, the sun of the depths, full of riddles, a sun of the night. And as the rising sun of spring      --      97. The Draft continues: My friends, I know that I speak in riddles. But the spirit of the depths has granted me a view of many things in order to help my weak comprehension. I want to tell you more about my visions so that you better understand which things the spirit of the depths would like you to see. May those be well who can see these things! Those who cannot must live them as blind fate, in images (p. 61).

1.04_-_Te_Shan_Carrying_His_Bundle, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen   posed." Here he makes an effort and sees through the Ancients'   ultimate riddle; only thus could he be so extraordinary. Hsueh   Tou added "Completely exposed" twice, making a three part

1.04_-_The_Sacrifice_the_Triune_Path_and_the_Lord_of_the_Sacrifice, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      Here, on each line of approach that he can take, he is confronted with a constant Duality, a separation between two terms of existence that seem to be opposites and their opposition to be the very root of the riddle of the universe. Later, he may and does discover that these are the two poles of One Being, connected by two simultaneous currents of energy negative and positive in relation to each other, their interaction the very condition for the manifestation of what is within the Being, their reunion the appointed means for the reconciliation of life's discords and for the discovery of the integral truth of which he is the seeker.      --      For it is behind the mystery of the presence of personality in an apparently impersonal universe - as in that of consciousness manifesting out of the Inconscient, life out of the inanimate, soul out of brute Matter - that is hidden the solution of the riddle of existence. Here again is another dynamic Duality more pervading than appears at first view and deeply necessary to the play of the slowly self-revealing Power. It is possible for the seeker in his spiritual experience, standing at one pole of the   Duality, to follow Mind in seeing a fundamental Impersonality everywhere. The evolving soul in the material world begins from a vast impersonal Inconscience in which our inner sight yet perceives the presence of a veiled infinite Spirit; it proceeds with the emergence of a precarious consciousness and personality that even at their fullest have the look of an episode, but an episode that repeats itself in a constant series; it arises through experience

1.05_-_Consciousness, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   which seems to have neither beginning nor end nor reason, and seems to be everywhere, in all things and beings, as their secret foundation and secret need to grow. No one wants to give up life because this joy is there everywhere. It needs nothing to exist; it is, irrefutably, like a bedrock throughout time and space, like a smile behind everything.   There lies the entire riddle of the universe. That's all there is. An imperceptible smile a mere nothing that is everything. All is Joy because all is the Spirit which is Joy, Sat-Chit-Ananda. ExistenceConsciousness-Joy the eternal trinity that is the universe, and which we are, the secret we must discover and live through the long evolutionary journey. "From Delight all these beings are born, by 55

1.05_-_The_Universe_The_0_=_2_Equation, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy      Yes, I admit everything! It is all my fault. Looking over my past writings, I do see that my only one-opointed attempt to set forth a sound ontology was my early fumbling letter brochure Berashith. Since then, I seem to have kept assuming that everybody knew all about it; referring to it, quoting it, but never sitting down seriously to demonstrate the thesis, or even to state it in set terms. Chapter 0 of Magick in Theory and Practice skates gently over it; the "Naples Arrangement" in The Book of Thoth dodges it with really diabolical ingenuity. I ask myself why. It is exceedingly strange, because every time I think of the Equation, I am thrilled with a keen glow of satisfaction that this sempiternal riddle of the Sphinx should have been answered at last.      --      This, briefly, is the "riddle of the Universe," which has been always the first preoccupation of all serious philosophers since men began to think at all.      --      It seems to me that this doctrine is based upon a sorites of doubtful validity. To tell you the hideously shameful truth, I hate this doctrine so rabidly that I can hardly trust myself to present it fairly! But I will try. Meanwhile, you can study it in the Upanishads, in the Bhagavad-Gita, in Ernst Haeckel's The riddle of the Universe, and dozens of other classics. The dogma appears to excite its dupes to dithyrambs. I have to admit the "poetry" of the idea; but there is something in me which vehemently rejects it with excruciating and vindictive violence. Possibly, this is because part of our own system runs parallel with the first equations of theirs.      --      When you have assimilated these two sets of Equations, when you have understood how 0 = 2 is the unique, the simple, and the necessary solution of the riddle of the Universe, there will be, in a sense, little more for you to learn about the Theory of Magick.

1.06_-_Quieting_the_Vital, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga      The riddle of this World, 79   Thoughts and Aphorisms, 17:146

1.07_-_A_MAD_TEA-PARTY, #Alice in Wonderland, #Lewis Carroll, #Fiction   The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this, but all he said was "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"   "I'm glad they've begun asking riddles--I believe I can guess that," she added aloud.   "Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare.   --   "It _is_ the same thing with you," said the Hatter, and he poured a little hot tea upon its nose. The Dormouse shook its head impatiently and said, without opening its eyes, "Of course, of course; just what I was going to remark myself."   "Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.   "No, I give it up," Alice replied. "What's the answer?"   --   "Nor I," said the March Hare.   Alice gave a weary sigh. "I think you might do something better with the time," she said, "than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers."   "Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.

1.07_-_Hui_Ch'ao_Asks_about_Buddha, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen   and hard to chew, hard to penetrate and hard to see, an im   penetrable riddle, he produces it in verse to let people see. He is   indeed extraordinary. Hsueh Tou knew Fa Yen's key device,

1.07_-_The_Continuity_of_Consciousness, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Occultism    p. 203    first, dreams are only regarded as a particular manifestation of sleep-life, and thus only two states are generally spoken of, namely, sleeping and waking. For spiritual science, however, dreams have an independent significance apart from the other two conditions. In the foregoing chapter a description was given of the alteration ensuing in the dream-life of the person undertaking the ascent to higher knowledge. His dreams lose their meaningless, irregular and disconnected character and form themselves more and more into a world of law and order. With continued development, not only does this new world born out of the dream world come to be in no way inferior to outer physical reality as regards its inner truth, but facts reveal themselves in it representing a higher reality in the fullest sense of the word. Secrets and riddles lie concealed everywhere in the physical world. In the latter, the effects are seen of certain higher facts, but no one can penetrate to the causes whose perception is confined merely to his senses. These causes are partly revealed to the student in the condition described above and developed out of dream life, a condition, however, in which he by no means remains    p. 204   --    p. 209    in these things around him but cannot understand with the ordinary intellect, these are the things concerning which the experiences during sleep give him information. During every-day life man reflects on his environment; his mind tries to conceive and understand the connection existing between things; he seeks to grasp in thought and idea what his senses perceive. It is to these ideas and concepts that the experiences during sleep refer. Obscure, shadowy concepts become sonorous and living in a way comparable only to the tones and the words of the physical world. It seems to the student ever more and more as though the solution of the riddles over which he ponders is whispered to him in tones and words out of a higher world. And he is able to connect with ordinary life whatever comes to him from a higher world. What was formerly only accessible to his thought now becomes actual experience, just as living and substantial as an experience in this physical world can be. The things and beings of this physical world are by no means only what they appear to be for physical perception. They are the expression and effluence of a spiritual world.

1.07_-_The_Psychic_Center, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   as if we had moved from life in a cave to life in high altitudes;   everything comes together and dovetails, as if the old riddle were dissolved in a breath of light. Death is no more; only the ignorant can die. How could there be death for that which is conscious? Whether I   live or die, I am always. 82 "Old and outworn, he grows young again and again," says the Rig Veda (II.4.5). "It is not born nor dies," says the Bhagavad Gita, "nor is it that having been it will not be again. It is unborn, ancient, everlasting; it is not slain with the slaying of the body. As a man casts from him his worn-out garments and takes others that are new, so the embodied being casts off its bodies and joins itself to others that are new. Certain is the death of that which is born and certain is the birth of that which dies."83

1.07_-_TRUTH, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy      In all faces is shown the Face of faces, veiled and in a riddle. Howbeit, unveiled it is not seen, until, above all faces, a man enter into a certain secret and mystic silence, where there is no knowing or concept of a face. This mist, cloud, darkness or ignorance, into which he that seeketh thy Face entereth, when he goeth beyond all knowledge or concept, is the state below which thy Face cannot be found, except veiled; but that very darkness revealeth thy Face to be there beyond all veils. Hence I observe how needful it is for me to enter into the darkness and to admit the coincidence of opposites, beyond all the grasp of reason, and there to seek the Truth, where impossibility meeteth us.

1.11_-_Oneness, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   (Taittiriya Upanishad II.6) "This whole world is filled with beings who are His members," says the Swetaswatara Upanishad (IV.10). All to the eye that sees is One, to a divine experience all is one block of the Divine.135   We may think that this is an altogether mystical vision of the universe, with very little in common with our daily reality; at every step we encounter ugliness and evil; this world is riddled with pain,   saturated with strangled cries. Where is the Divine in all this? Is the Divine that barbarism ever ready to open its torture camps? Or that 132

1.11_-_Woolly_Pomposities_of_the_Pious_.Teacher., #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy      Rat-riddled T.

1.1.2_-_Commentary, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   which it was waiting. For there is evidently something vital that   has escaped it, a profound word of the riddle of existence from   which it has turned its eyes or which it was unable or thought it   --   must insistently call back that earlier missing note, we must   seek elsewhere a solution for the word of the riddle that has   been ignored. The Upanishad alone of extant scriptures gives us

1.12_-_The_Left-Hand_Path_.The_Black_Brothers., #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy        And he says: I tell thee not. Thou tellest thyself, for thou hast pondered thereupon for many days, and hast not found light. And now that thou art called NEMO, the answer to every riddle that thou hast not found shall spring up in thy mind, unsought. Who can tell upon what day a flower shall bloom?

1.12_-_The_Superconscient, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga      A second, even more important observation commands our attention. To return to the rocket analogy: the rocket can break through the earth's atmosphere at any point, taking off either from New York or from the equator, and still reach the sun. There is no need to climb Mt. Everest to set up the launching pad! Similarly, the yogi can realize cosmic consciousness in any point, or at any level, of his being in his mind, in his heart, and even in his body because the cosmic Spirit is everywhere, in every point of the universe. The experience can begin anywhere, at any level, by concentrating on a rock or a sparrow, an idea, a prayer, a feeling, or what people scornfully call an idol. Cosmic consciousness is not the highest point of human consciousness; we do not go above the individual to reach it, but outside. It is hardly necessary to ascend in consciousness, or to become Plotinus, in order to attain the universal Spirit. On the contrary, the less mental one is, the easier it is to experience it; a shepherd beneath the stars or a fisherman of Galilee has a better chance at it than all the philosophers of the world put together. What, then, is the use of all this development of consciousness if folk-like mysticism works better? We must admit that either we are all on the wrong track, or else those mystical escapades do not represent the whole meaning of evolution. On the other hand, if we accept that the proper evolutionary course is that of the peak figures of earthly consciousness Leonardo da Vinci, Beethoven, Alexander the Great, Dante we are still forced to acknowledge that none of these great men has been able to transform life. Thus, the summits of the mind or the heart do not give us, any more than the cosmic summits, the key to the riddle and the power to change the world: another principle of consciousness is required. But it must be another principle without any break in continuity with the others, because if the line is broken or if the individual is lost, we fall back into cosmic or mystical dispersion, thereby losing our link with the earth. To be conscious of Oneness and of the Transcendent is certainly an indispensable basis for any realization (without which we might as well try to build a house without foundations), but it must be done in ways that respect evolutionary continuity; it must be an evolution, not a revolution. In other words, we must get out without getting out. Instead of a rocket that ends up crashing on the sun, we need a rocket that harpoons the Sun of the supreme consciousness and is able to bring it down to all points of our earthly consciousness: The ultimate knowledge is that which perceives and accepts God in the universe as well as beyond the universe and the integral Yoga is that which, having found the Transcendent, can return upon the universe and possess it, retaining the power freely to descend as well as ascend the great stair of existence.171 This double movement of ascent and descent of the individual consciousness is the basic principle of the supramental discovery. But in the process Sri Aurobindo was to touch an unknown spring which would change everything.

1.13_-_The_Divine_Maya, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   5:It is so that the ancient and eternal truth of Vedanta receives into itself and illumines, justifies and shows us all the meaning of the modern and phenomenal truth of evolution in the universe. And it is so only that this modern truth of evolution which is the old truth of the Universal developing itself successively in Time, seen opaquely through the study of Force and Matter, can find its own full sense and justification, - by illuminating itself with the Light of the ancient and eternal truth still preserved for us in the Vedantic Scriptures. To this mutual self-discovery and self-illumination by the fusion of the old Eastern and the new Western knowledge the thought of the world is already turning.   6:Still, when we have found that all things are Sachchidananda, all has not yet been explained. We know the Reality of the universe, we do not yet know the process by which that Reality has turned itself into this phenomenon. We have the key of the riddle, we have still to find the lock in which it will turn. For this Existence, Conscious-Force, Delight does not work directly or with a sovereign irresponsibility like a magician building up worlds and universes by the mere fiat of its word. We perceive a process, we are aware of a Law.   7:It is true that this Law when we analyse it, seems to resolve itself into an equilibrium of the play of forces and a determination of that play into fixed lines of working by the accident of development and the habit of past realised energy. But this apparent and secondary truth is final to us only so long as we conceive of Force solely. When we perceive that Force is a selfexpression of Existence, we are bound to perceive also that this line which Force has taken, corresponds to some self-truth of that Existence which governs and determines its constant curve and destination. And since consciousness is the nature of the original Existence and the essence of its Force, this truth must be a self-perception in Conscious-Being and this determination of the line taken by Force must result from a power of selfdirective knowledge inherent in Consciousness which enables it to guide its own Force inevitably along the logical line of the original self-perception. It is then a self-determining power in universal consciousness, a capacity in self-awareness of infinite existence to perceive a certain Truth in itself and direct its force of creation along the line of that Truth, which has presided over the cosmic manifestation.

1.14_-_The_Secret, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga      Such is the price for transforming life, otherwise we merely poeticize and spiritualize on the peaks, while below the old life keeps bumping along. In practice, the downward movement is never created by an arbitrary mental decision; the less the mind interferes in this, the better. Besides, one wonders how the Mind could ever "descend," comfortably seated, as it is, behind its little desk. It is the awakened and individualized consciousness-force in us that does all the work, automatically. The moment we have attained a certain intensity of consciousness and light, it automatically exerts a pressure on the rest of our nature, which results in corresponding reactions of obscurity or resistance. It is as if an overdose of oxygen were abruptly pumped into the ocean's underworld: the deep-sea creatures would struggle frantically, or even explode. This reversal of consciousness is strange indeed, as if going from a well-lighted room to the same room filled with darkness, or from a joyous room to the same room riddled with pain: everything is the same, and yet everything is changed. As if it were the same force, the same vibratory intensity perhaps even the same vibration but with a minus sign in front of it instead of a plus sign. One can then observe, almost step by step, how love changes into hate, for example, or how the pure becomes impure; everything is the same, only reversed. Yet, as long as our psychological states are merely the reverse of one another, and our good the back side (perhaps we should say the front side?) of evil, life will never change.

1.17_-_The_Transformation, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga   This clearing-up of the intermediary levels is the whole story of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The difficulties of accustoming the body to the supramental Agni may, ultimately, have a reason and a purpose.   It may not be so much a material difficulty as a strategic one, as it were. Indeed, during that second phase, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother would realize that transformation is not just an individual problem but one involving the earth and that no individual transformation is possible (or at least complete) without some degree of collective transformation. Once collective evolution reaches a satisfactory state of progress, the present material difficulties of transformation, which seem insurmountable, will likely vanish at once. There is never any impossibility, just the question of whether the right time has come. All obstacles, whatever their nature, always ultimately prove themselves to be helpful auxiliaries of a Truth whose meaning and purpose we do not yet know. To our outer, superficial vision, the transformation seems to be exclusively a physical problem, because we always put the cart before the horse, but all difficulties are actually inner and psychological; the visible and dramatic difficulties of the body's growing accustomed to the boiling Agni may be, as we shall see, less a practical or material problem than one involving the whole terrestrial consciousness. But we are speaking in riddles; the problem Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were soon to confront will be better understood with this simple remark Sri Aurobindo once made to a disciple: I have been dredging, dredging, dredging the mire of the subconscious. . . . It [the supramental light] was coming down before November [1934], but afterwards all the mud arose and it stopped. 374   373   --   Sri Aurobindo: On Yoga II, Tome 2 (1958)   Sri Aurobindo: The riddle of the World (1951)   Sri Aurobindo: Letters, 3rd series (1949)   --   Letters, 2 volumes (On Yoga I & II) 1st ed. 1958   The riddle of this World 1st ed. 1933   Bases of Yoga 1st ed. 1936

1.22_-_(Poetic_Diction_continued.)_How_Poetry_combines_elevation_of_language_with_perspicuity., #Poetics, #Aristotle, #Christianity      The perfection of style is to be clear without being mean. The clearest style is that which uses only current or proper words; at the same time it is mean:--witness the poetry of Cleophon and of Sthenelus. That diction, on the other hand, is lofty and raised above the commonplace which employs unusual words. By unusual, I mean strange (or rare) words, metaphorical, lengthened,--anything, in short, that differs from the normal idiom. Yet a style wholly composed of such words is either a riddle or a jargon; a riddle, if it consists of metaphors; a jargon, if it consists of strange (or rare) words. For the essence of a riddle is to express true facts under impossible combinations. Now this cannot be done by any arrangement of ordinary words, but by the use of metaphor it can. Such is the riddle:--'A man I saw who on another man had glued the bronze by aid of fire,' and others of the same kind. A diction that is made up of strange (or rare) terms is a jargon. A certain infusion, therefore, of these elements is necessary to style; for the strange (or rare) word, the metaphorical, the ornamental, and the other kinds above mentioned, will raise it above the commonplace and mean, while the use of proper words will make it perspicuous. But nothing contributes more to produce a clearness of diction that is remote from commonness than the lengthening, contraction, and alteration of words. For by deviating in exceptional cases from the normal idiom, the language will gain distinction; while, at the same time, the partial conformity with usage will give perspicuity. The critics, therefore, are in error who censure these licenses of speech, and hold the author up to ridicule. Thus   Eucleides, the elder, declared that it would be an easy matter to be a poet if you might lengthen syllables at will. He caricatured the practice in the very form of his diction, as in the verse: '{Epsilon pi iota chi alpha rho eta nu / epsilon iota delta omicron nu / Mu alpha rho alpha theta omega nu alpha delta epsilon / Beta alpha delta iota zeta omicron nu tau alpha}, or, {omicron upsilon kappa / alpha nu / gamma / epsilon rho alpha mu epsilon nu omicron sigma / tau omicron nu / epsilon kappa epsilon iota nu omicron upsilon /epsilon lambda lambda epsilon beta omicron rho omicron nu}. To employ such license at all obtrusively is, no doubt, grotesque; but in any mode of poetic diction there must be moderation. Even metaphors, strange (or rare) words, or any similar forms of speech, would produce the like effect if used without propriety and with the express purpose of being ludicrous. How great a difference is made by the appropriate use of lengthening, may be seen in Epic poetry by the insertion of ordinary forms in the verse. So, again, if we take a strange (or rare) word, a metaphor, or any similar mode of expression, and replace it by the current or proper term, the truth of our observation will be manifest. For example Aeschylus and Euripides each composed the same iambic line. But the alteration of a single word by Euripides, who employed the rarer term instead of the ordinary one, makes one verse appear beautiful and the other trivial. Aeschylus in his

1.240_-_1.300_Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism      M.: Then let God come and find the solution for these riddles. If one were to die in sleep, one will be afraid of sleep, just as one fears death. On the other hand one courts sleep. Why should sleep be courted unless there is pleasure in it?   269

1.240_-_Talks_2, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   D.: Maybe. God alone knows.   M.: Then let God come and find the solution for these riddles. If one were to die in sleep, one will be afraid of sleep, just as one fears death. On the other hand one courts sleep. Why should sleep be courted unless there is pleasure in it?      --   M.: The sastras are not for the Jnani. He has no doubts to be cleared.   The riddles are for ajnanis only. The sastras are for them alone.   D.: Sleep is the state of nescience and so it is said of samadhi also.

1.25_-_On_Religion, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      And if you would know God be not therefore a solver of riddles.

1.3.5.03_-_The_Involved_and_Evolving_Godhead, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The involution of a superconscient Spirit in inconscient Matter is the secret cause of this visible and apparent world. The keyword of the earth's riddle is the gradual evolution of a hidden illimitable consciousness and power out of the seemingly inert yet furiously driven force of insensible Nature. Earth-life is one self-chosen habitation of a great Divinity and his aeonic will is to change it from a blind prison into his splendid mansion and high heaven-reaching temple.

1.39_-_Prophecy, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   6. The prophecy itself must possess the complement of this precision.   It must be so perfectly unintelligible at the time that the elucidation of the answer makes it certain that the prophet knew precisely the whole riddle.      --      It was one glorious night in Cefal, too utterly superb to waste in sleep; I got up; I adored the Stars and the Moon; I revelled in the Universe. Yet there was something pulling at me. It pulled eftsoons my body into my chair, and I found myself at this old riddle of 718. Half-a dozen comic failures. But I felt that there was something on the way. Idly, I put down Stl in the Greek, 52,[74] and said, "Perhaps we can make a 'name' out of the difference between that and 718."

1.400_-_1.450_Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism      The riddles are for ajnanis only. The sastras are for them alone.

1.439, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism   Talk 455.   Mrs. Dhar: I form part of the creation and so remain dependent. I cannot solve the riddle until I become independent. Yet I ask Sri   Bhagavan, should He not answer the question for me?   M.: Yes. It is Bhagavan that says, Become independent and solve the riddle yourself. It is for you to do it. Again: where are you now that you ask this question? Are you in the world, or is the world within      Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi you? You must admit that the world is not perceived in your sleep although you cannot deny your existence then. The world appears when you wake up. So where is it? Clearly the world is your thought.   Thoughts are your projections. The I is first created and then the world. The world is created by the I which in its turn rises up from the Self. The riddle of the creation of the world is thus solved if you solve the creation of the I. So I say, find your Self.   Again, does the world come and ask you Why do I exist? How was I created? It is you who ask the question. The questioner must establish the relationship between the world and himself. He must admit that the world is his own imagination. Who imagines it? Let him again find the I and then the Self.

1.450_-_1.500_Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism      Mrs. Dhar: I form part of the creation and so remain dependent. I cannot solve the riddle until I become independent. Yet I ask Sri   Bhagavan, should He not answer the question for me?   M.: Yes. It is Bhagavan that says, "Become independent and solve the riddle yourself. It is for you to do it." Again: where are you now that you ask this question? Are you in the world, or is the world within   447   --      Thoughts are your projections. The 'I' is first created and then the world. The world is created by the 'I' which in its turn rises up from the Self. The riddle of the creation of the world is thus solved if you solve the creation of the 'I'. So I say, find your Self.

1.45_-_Unserious_Conduct_of_a_Pupil, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy      1. The Cloud on the Sanctuary. On reading this book, Mr. X.,[86] who was desperate from the conviction that no success in life was worth a tinker's dam, decided: "This is the answer to my problem; the members of the Secret Fraternity which this book describes have solved the riddle of life. I must discover them, and seek to be received amongst them."

1.4_-_Readings_in_the_Taittiriya_Upanishad, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   makes existence a problem, our own self a mystery, the universe   a riddle. If we were only what we seem to be to our normal selfawareness, there would be no mystery; if the world were only   what it can be made out to be by the perceptions of the senses   and their strict analysis in the reason, there would be no riddle;   and if to take our life as it is now and the world as it has so   --      there would be but a shallow mystery, an easily solved riddle,   the problem only of a child's puzzle. But there is more, and that   --   the secret never opened to us, then our mystery would for ever   remain a mystery, our riddle insoluble, our problem intangible.   Its existence, even while it determines all we are, know and do,   --   fructuation of knowledge would bring the annihilation of all that   we now are, not its completion or fulfilment. The mystery, riddle,   problem would not be so much solved as abolished, for it would

1.62_-_The_Elastic_Mind, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy      It is hard to define; but let me give you an example of the bad kind: an old riddle. "Why is a story like a ghost?" Because

2.01_-_Indeterminates,_Cosmic_Determinations_and_the_Indeterminable, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      We give to the Energy which produces them the name of Nature, but the word conveys no meaning unless it is that the nature of things is what it is by virtue of a Force which arranges them according to an inherent Truth in them; but the nature of that Truth itself, the reason why these determinates are what they are is nowhere visible. It has been possible indeed for human Science to detect the process or many processes of material things, but this knowledge does not throw any light on the major question; we do not know even the rationale of the original cosmic processes, for the results do not present themselves as their necessary but only their pragmatic and actual consequence. In the end we do not know how these determinates came into or out of the original Indeterminate or Indeterminable on which they stand forth as on a blank and flat background in the riddle of their ordered occurrence. At the origin of things we are faced with an Infinite containing a mass of unexplained finites, an Indivisible full of endless divisions, an Immutable teeming with mutations and differentiae. A cosmic paradox is the beginning of all things, a paradox without any key to its significance.      --      And yet the universe exists. What then is it that creates this contradiction, is able to effect the impossible, bring this insoluble riddle of self-division into existence? A Power of some kind it must be, and since the Absolute is the sole reality, the one origin of all things, this Power must proceed from it, must have some relation with it, a connection, a dependence. For if it is quite other than the supreme Reality, a cosmic Imagination imposing its determinations on the eternal blank of the Indeterminable, then the sole existence of an absolute Parabrahman is no longer admissible; there is then a dualism at the source of things not substantially different from the Sankhya dualism of Soul and Nature. If it is a Power, the sole Power indeed, of the Absolute, we have this logical impossibility that the existence of the Supreme Being and the Power of his existence are entirely opposite to each other, two supreme contradictories; for Brahman is free from all possibility of relations and determinations, but Maya is a creative Imagination imposing these very things upon It, an originator of relations and determinations of which Brahman must necessarily be the supporter and witness, - to the logical reason an inadmissible formula. If it is accepted, it can only be as a suprarational mystery, something neither real nor unreal, inexplicable in its nature, anirvacanya. But the difficulties are so great that it can be accepted only if it imposes itself irresistibly as the inevitable ultimate, the end and summit of metaphysical inquiry and spiritual experience. For even if all things are illusory creations, they must have at least a subjective existence and they can exist nowhere except in the consciousness of the Sole Existence; they are then subjective determinations of the Indeterminable. If, on the contrary, the determinations of this Power are real creations, out of what are they determined, what is their substance? It is not possible that they are made out of a Nothing, a Non-Existence other than the Absolute; for that will erect a new dualism, a great positive Zero over against the greater indeterminable x we have supposed to be the one Reality. It is evident therefore that the Reality cannot be a rigid Indeterminable. Whatever is created must be of it and in it, and what is of the substance of the utterly Real must itself be real: a vast baseless negation of reality purporting to be real cannot be the sole outcome of the eternal Truth, the Infinite Existence. It is perfectly understandable that the Absolute is and must be indeterminable in the sense that it cannot be limited by any determination or any sum of possible determinations, but not in the sense that it is incapable of self-determination.

2.01_-_Isha_Upanishad_All_that_is_world_in_the_Universe, #Isha Upanishad, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   finite selves & the Infinite are for ever different & the whole   riddle of the world lies in their difference & in their attraction   to each other. To become one with the Eternal is here also the

2.04_-_The_Divine_and_the_Undivine, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    seen already, creations of the Divine Consciousness projecting mind away from its all-knowledge so as to realise these opposite or contrary values of its all-power, all-knowledge, all-delight, all-being and unity. Obviously, this action and these fruits of the   Divine Consciousness can be called by us unreal in the sense of not being the eternal and fundamental truth of being or can be taxed with falsehood because they contradict what is originally and eventually the truth of being; but, all the same, they have their persistent reality and importance in our present phase of the manifestation, nor can they be a mere mistake of the Divine Consciousness without any meaning in the divine wisdom, without any purpose of the divine joy, power and knowledge to justify their existence. Justification there must be even if it reposes for us upon a mystery which may confront us, so long as we live in a surface experience, as an insoluble riddle.   But if, accepting this side of Nature, we say that all things are fixed in their statutory and stationary law of being, and man too must be fixed in his imperfections, his ignorance and sin and weakness and vileness and suffering, our life loses its true significance. Man's perpetual attempt to arise out of the darkness and insufficiency of his nature can then have no issue in the world itself, in life itself; its one issue, if there is any, must be by an escape out of life, out of the world, out of his human existence and therefore out of its eternally unsatisfactory law of imperfect being, either into a heaven of the gods or of God or into the pure ineffability of the Absolute. If so, man can never really deliver out of the ignorance and falsehood the truth and knowledge, out of the evil and ugliness the good and beauty, out of the weakness and vileness the power and glory, out of the grief and suffering the joy and delight which are contained in the Spirit behind them and of which these contradictions are the first adverse and contrary conditions of emergence. All he can do is to cut the imperfections away from him and overpass too their balancing opposites, imperfect also, - leave with the ignorance the human knowledge, with the evil the human good, with the weakness the human strength and power, with the strife and suffering the human love and joy; for these are

2.04_-_The_Secret_of_Secrets, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   303    works of knowledge. He may act here as the higher thinker, the knower, the Yogin, the seeker of freedom first and afterwards the liberated spirit. To perceive that great possibility and to keep his will and intelligence fixed on the knowledge and self-vision which will realise and make it effectual, is the path of escape from his sorrow and bewilderment, the way out of the human riddle.      --   307    since his works are that Being's, he has to give up all his actions to the Godhead in him and the world by whom they are done in the divine mystery of Nature. This is the double condition of the divine birth of the soul, of its release from the mortality of the ego and the body into the spiritual and eternal, - knowledge first of one's timeless immutable self and union through it with the timeless Godhead, but knowledge too of that which lives behind the riddle of cosmos, the Godhead in all existences and their workings. Thus only can we aspire through the offering of all our nature and being to a living union with the One who has become in Time and Space all that is. Here is the place of bhakti in the scheme of the Yoga of an integral self-liberation.

2.06_-_Reality_and_the_Cosmic_Illusion, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The Life Divine    the world is made out of the supreme Existence, is a becoming, an outcome or product of the eternal Being. Brahman is not the material cause of the universe: our nature - as opposed to our self - is not made of its spiritual substance; it is constructed out of the unreal reality of Maya. But, on the contrary, our spiritual being is of that substance, is indeed the Brahman; Brahman is above Maya, but he is also the percipient of his creations both from above and from within Maya. This dual consciousness offers itself as the sole plausible explanation of the riddle of a real eternal Percipient, an unreal Percept, and a Perception that is a half-real creator of unreal percepts.   If there is not this dual consciousness, if Maya is the sole conscious power of Brahman, then one of two things must be true: either the reality of Maya as a power is that it is a subjective action of Brahman-consciousness emerging out of its silence and superconscient immobility and passing through experiences that are real because they are part of the consciousness of Brahman but unreal because they are not part of Its being, or else Maya is Brahman's power of cosmic Imagination inherent in his eternal being creating out of nothing names, forms and happenings that are not in any way real. In that case Maya would be real, but her works entirely fictitious, pure imaginations: but can we affirm Imagination as the sole dynamic or creative power of the   --   Will or Power to create or manifest is undoubtedly there: but, if it is a will or power of the Brahman, it can only be for a creation of realities of the Real or a manifestation of the timeless process of its being in Time-eternity; for it seems incredible that the sole power of the Reality should be to manifest something contrary to itself or to create non-existent things in an illusory universe.   There is so far no satisfying answer to the riddle: but it may be that we err in attributing any kind of reality, however illusory at bottom, to Maya or her works: the true solution lies in facing courageously the mystery of its and their utter unreality. This absolute unreality seems to be envisaged by certain formulations of Illusionism or by certain arguments put forward in its favour.   This side then of the problem has to pass under consideration before we can examine with confidence the solutions that rest on a relative or partial reality of the universe. There is indeed a line of reasoning which gets rid of the problem by excluding it; it affirms that the question how the Illusion generated, how the universe manages to be there in the pure existence of Brahman, is illegitimate: the problem does not exist, because the universe is non-existent, Maya is unreal, Brahman is the sole truth, alone and self-existent for ever. Brahman is not affected by any illusory consciousness, no universe has come into existence within its timeless reality. But this evasion of the difficulty is either a sophism which means nothing, an acrobacy of verbal logic, the logical reason hiding its head in the play of words and ideas and refusing to see or to solve a real and baffling difficulty, or else it means too much, since in effect it gets rid of all relation of Maya to Brahman by affirming her as an independent absolute nonreality along with the universe created by her. If a real universe does not exist, a cosmic Illusion exists and we are bound to inquire how it came into being or how it manages to exist, what is its relation or non-relation to the Reality, what is meant by our own existence in Maya, by our subjugation to her cycles, by our liberation from her. For in this view we have to suppose that Brahman is not the percipient of Maya or her works, Maya herself is not a power of Brahman-consciousness: Brahman is

2.06_-_The_Synthesis_of_the_Disciplines_of_Knowledge, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The central aim of Knowledge is the recovery of the Self, of our true self-existence, and this aim presupposes the admission that our present mode of being is not our true self-existence. No doubt, we have rejected the trenchant solutions which cut the knot of the riddle of the universe; we recognise it neither as a fiction of material appearance created by Force, nor as an unreality set up by the Mind, nor as a bundle of sensations, ideas and results of idea and sensation with a great Void or a great blissful Zero behind it to strive towards as our true truth of eternal non-existence. We accept the Self as a reality and the universe as a reality of the Self, a reality of its consciousness and not of mere material force and formation, but none the less or rather all the more for that reason a reality. Still, though the universe is a fact and not a fiction, a fact of the divine and universal and not a fiction of the individual self, our state of existence here is a state of ignorance, not the true truth of our being. We conceive of ourselves falsely, we see ourselves as we are not; we live in a false relation with our environment, because we know neither the universe nor ourselves for what they really are but with an imperfect view founded on a temporary fiction which the Soul and Nature have established between themselves for the convenience of the evolving ego. And this falsity is the root of a general perversion, confusion and suffering which besiege at every step both our internal life and our relations with our environment. Our personal life and our communal life, our commerce with ourselves and our commerce with our fellows are founded on a falsity and are therefore false in their recognised principles and methods, although through all this error a growing truth continually seeks to express itself. Hence the supreme importance to man of Knowledge, not what is called the practical knowledge of life, but of the profoundest knowledge of the Self and Nature321 on which alone a true practice of life can be founded.

2.0_-_THE_ANTICHRIST, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy   simply for the _canaille,_--only this appalling paradox which   confronted the disciples with the actual riddle: _Who was that? what   was that?_--The state produced by the excited and profoundly wounded

2.1.02_-_Nature_The_World-Manifestation, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      How is this possible? There lies the riddle, for it is a direct selfcontradiction. To escape from it, he alleges that the phenomenon has no reality at all, but is an illusion.

2.1.03_-_Man_and_Superman, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      These are the significant and illumining terms of the riddle.      --      This is our way of emergence from the now dark riddle of the earth and unsolved problem of human life. If there were not this secret sense in all we are and do, there would be no significance in the material world and no justification for our earth-existence.      --      Human consciousness is a half term in earth nature's climb from the electron and atom, gas and metal through the vegetable and animal and human formulas to the god and Titan and through the god to the Divine. It is not in the light of the realised alone that we should read the earth-riddle; it is in the light of the unrealised that we shall understand the realised and know why all was and to what all was moving in Nature.

2.17_-_The_Progress_to_Knowledge_-_God,_Man_and_Nature, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Our I is not that spiritual being which can look on the Divine Existence and say, "That am I"; our mentality is not that spiritual consciousness; our will is not that force of consciousness; our pain and pleasure, even our highest joys and ecstasies are not that delight of being. On the surface we are still an ego figuring self, an ignorance turning into knowledge, a will labouring towards true force, a desire seeking for the delight of existence.   To become ourselves by exceeding ourselves, - so we may turn the inspired phrases of a half-blind seer who knew not the self of which he spoke, - is the difficult and dangerous necessity, the cross surmounted by an invisible crown which is imposed on us, the riddle of the true nature of his being proposed to man by the dark Sphinx of the Inconscience below and from within and above by the luminous veiled Sphinx of the infinite Consciousness and eternal Wisdom confronting him as an inscrutable divine Maya. To exceed ego and be our true self, to be aware of our real being, to possess it, to possess a real delight of being, is therefore the ultimate meaning of our life here; it is the concealed sense of our individual and terrestrial existence.   Intellectual knowledge and practical action are devices of Nature by which we are able to express so much of our being, consciousness, energy, power of enjoyment as we have been able to actualise in our apparent nature and by which we attempt to know more, express and actualise more, grow always more into the much that we have yet to actualise. But our intellect and mental knowledge and will of action are not our only means, not all the instruments of our consciousness and energy: our nature, the name which we give to the Force of being in us in its actual and potential play and power, is complex in its ordering of consciousness, complex in its instrumentation of force. Every discovered or discoverable term and circumstance of that complexity which we can get into working order, we need to actualise in the highest and finest values possible to us and to use in its widest and richest powers for the one object.

2.2.01_-_The_Problem_of_Consciousness, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      We begin with a riddle, we end with a mystery.      Existence itself is the first riddle. What it is we do not know, we are ignorant how it came to be at all, we cannot say whether it is an eternal fact or a temporary phenomenon. It may be only an appearance or it may be real, not in itself but as a manifestation of some hidden Reality; but then of what is it the manifestation and how came it into being or why had it to be?   Consciousness of existence is a second insoluble miracle. It seems not to have been and now is and it may be that some day it will not be; yet it is a premier fact and without it being would not know of its own existence. Things might exist, but only as a useless encumbrance of a meaningless space, - consciousness makes being self-aware, gives it a significance. But what then is consciousness? Is it something in the very grain of being or an unstable result or fortuitous accident? To whom does it belong? to the world as a whole? or is it peculiar to individual being? Or has it come from elsewhere into this inanimate and inconscient universe? To what end this entry?   --      The problem of consciousness is the central problem; for it links the other two together and creates their riddle. It is consciousness that raises the problem it has to solve; without it there would be no riddle and no solution. Being and its energy would then fulfil themselves in form and motion and in cessation of form and motion without any self-awareness and without any enjoyment or fruition of their form and motion.      --      Consciousness then is the centre of the riddle. If we know what is Consciousness, where its action begins and ends - if it has a beginning and an ending, what is its process and the significance of its temporal appearance and action, we shall then be able to look deeply into being and its energy and understand and solve all their enigma.      --      Then only can both ends of the riddle be firmly seized and connected together, the whole of existence seen in one gaze and life compelled to unmask its fathomless significance[.]   *   --   Spirit?   Two lines of enquiry seem to give, though imperfectly and in opposition, a positive base for a reply to the question and the riddle, - the experiments of the scientist and the experience of the mystic.

2.2.02_-_Consciousness_and_the_Inconscient, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   If the first view is right, the view so long pressed on us by physical Science, then this very universe itself is but a queer paradoxical movement of mindless eyeless Force or of a brute substance emanating purposeless energy, which yet works as if it had a purpose; for it produces by some inconscient compulsion on itself a steady succession of evolutionary forms that carry themselves as if they had an aim and a meaning, although in the nature of things they can really have none. The whole is a mechanism which automatically turns out what it must with a certain inevitability but has no comprehending Intelligence, no intuitive Power behind it to determine its use. Universal Nature is a Chance that works as if it were a Necessity or else perhaps a   Necessity that works like a self-regulating Chance. What seems to be consciousness has come out of this machine just like everything else in this singular freak-universe, constituted somehow, miraculously, impossibly, as the plant and the flower came out of the seed, somehow constituted, or as different chemical atoms are mysteriously constituted out of variant numbers of identical electrons, or as water leaps inexplicably into birth by a combination in exact measure of two gases. We have discovered that by just this process it came, - consciousness, the flower, the atom, water, - but how it could come into being by such a process is an unsolved riddle and how it took this form out of such a mother or could be the result of such ingredients and what each of these things in itself is remains unknowable. It is or has so become (or perhaps is not, but only so seems to our senses) - but that is all, for more than this science limited by its methods cannot tell and speculative philosophy itself with all its range and licence can hardly conjecture. And it does not much matter; for after all this consciousness which emerged obscurely in Time will in a later

2.21_-_Towards_the_Supreme_Secret, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      And first the Gita restates the body of its message. It summarises the whole outline and essence in the short space of fifteen verses, lines of a brief and concentrated expression and significance that miss nothing of the kernel of the matter, couched in phrases of the most lucid precision and clearness. And they must therefore be scanned with care, must be read deeply in the light of all that has gone before, because here it is evidently intended to extract what the Gita itself considers to be the central sense of its own teaching. The statement sets out from the original starting-point of the thought in the book, the enigma of human action, the apparently insuperable difficulty of living in the highest self and spirit while yet we continue to do the works of the world. The easiest way is to give up the problem as insoluble, life and action as an illusion or an inferior movement of existence to be abandoned as soon as we can rise out of the snare of the world into the truth of spiritual being. That is the ascetic solution, if it can be called a solution; at any rate it is a decisive and effective way out of the enigma, a way to which ancient Indian thought of the highest and most meditative kind, as soon as it commenced to turn at a sharp incline from its first large and free synthesis, had moved with an always increasing preponderance. The Gita like the Tantra and on certain sides the later religions attempts to preserve the ancient balance: it maintains the substance and foundation of the original synthesis, but the form has been changed and renovated in the light of a developing spiritual experience. This teaching does not evade the difficult problem of reconciling the full active life of man with the inner life in the highest self and spirit; it advances what it holds to be the real solution. It does not at all deny the efficacy of the ascetic renunciation of life for its own purpose, but it sees that that cuts instead of loosening the knot of the riddle and therefore it accounts it an inferior method and holds its own for the better way. The two paths both lead us out of the lower ignorant normal nature of man to the pure spiritual consciousness and so far both must be held to be valid and even one in essence: but where one stops short and turns back, the other advances with a firm subtlety and high courage, opens a gate on unexplored vistas, completes man in God and unites and reconciles in the spirit soul and Nature.      And therefore in the first five of these verses the Gita so phrases its statement that it shall be applicable to both the way of the inner and the way of the outer renunciation and yet in such a manner that one has only to assign to some of their common expressions a deeper and more inward meaning in order to get the sense and thought of the method favoured by the Gita. The difficulty of human action is that the soul and nature of man seem fatally subjected to many kinds of bondage, the prison of the ignorance, the meshes of the ego, the chain of the passions, the hammering insistence of the life of the moment, an obscure and limited circle without an issue. The soul shut up in this circle of action has no freedom, no leisure or light of self-knowledge to make the discovery of its self and the true value of life and meaning of existence. It has indeed such hints of its being as it can get from its active personality and dynamic nature, but the standards of perfection it can erect there are much too temporal, restricted and relative to be a satisfactory key to its own riddle.

2.23_-_The_Core_of_the_Gita.s_Meaning, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      The Supreme, the all-conscious Self, the Godhead, the Infinite is not solely a spiritual existence remote and ineffable; he is here in the universe at once hidden and expressed through man and the gods and through all beings and in all that is. And it is by finding him not only in some immutable silence but in the world and its beings and in all self and in all Nature, it is by raising to an integral as well as to a highest union with him all the activities of the intelligence, the heart, the will, the life that man can solve at once his inner riddle of self and God and the outer problem of his active human existence. Made   Godlike, God-becoming, he can enjoy the infinite breadth of a supreme spiritual consciousness that is reached through works no less than through love and knowledge. Immortal and free, he can continue his human action from that highest level and transmute it into a supreme and all-embracing divine activity,

2.3.02_-_The_Supermind_or_Supramental, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   *   The Supermind is the One Truth deploying and determining the manifestation of its Powers - all these Powers working as a multiple Oneness, in harmony, without opposition or collision, according to the One Will inherent in all. The Overmind takes these Truths and Powers and sets each working as a force in itself with its necessary consequences - there can be harmony in their action, but the Overmind's harmonies are synthetic and partial rather than inherent, total and inevitable and, as one descends from the highest Overmind, separation, collision and conflict of forces increase, separability dominates, ignorance grows, existence becomes a clash of possibilities, a mixture of conflicting half-truths, an unsolved and apparently unsolvable riddle and puzzle.

3.02_-_The_Great_Secret, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga     All of you have had a similar experience, although your activities are so different in their nature and scope. All six of you have come to a similar conclusion in spite of the success that has crowned your efforts. For you have been living in the surface consciousness, seeing only the appearance of things and unaware of the true reality of the universe.     You represent the 'elite of mankind, each one of you has achieved in his own sphere the utmost of what man is capable of; you are therefore at the summit of the human race. But from this summit you look down into an abyss and you can go no further. None of you are satisfied but at the same time none of you know what to do. None of you know the solution to the twofold problem presented by life and your own goodwill. I say a twofold problem, for in fact it has two aspects, one individual and the other collective: how can one fully realise one's own good and the good of others? None of you have found the solution, for this riddle of life cannot be solved by mental man, however superior he may be. For that, one must be born into a new and higher consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness. For behind these fleeting appearances there is an eternal reality, behind this unconscious and warring multitude there is a single, serene Consciousness, behind these endless and innumerable falsehoods there is a pure, radiant Truth, behind this obscure and obdurate ignorance there is a sovereign knowledge.     And this Reality is here, very near, at the centre of your being as it is at the centre of the universe. You have only to find it and live it and you will be able to solve all your problems, overcome all your difficulties.

3.07_-_The_Formula_of_the_Holy_Grail, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to   ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.   As our record extends into the past, the evidence of its truth is

3.1.01_-_The_Problem_of_Suffering_and_Evil, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The Problem of Suffering and Evil   The riddle of This World   It is not to be denied, no spiritual experience will deny that this is an unideal and unsatisfactory world, strongly marked with the stamp of inadequacy, suffering, evil. Indeed this perception is in a way almost the starting-point of the spiritual urge - except for the few to whom the greater experience comes spontaneously without being forced to seek it by the strong or overwhelming, the afflicting and detaching sense of the Shadow overhanging the whole range of this manifested existence. But still the question remains whether this is indeed, as is contended, the essential character of all manifestation or so long at least as there is a physical world it must be of this nature, so that the desire of birth, the will to manifest or create has to be regarded as the original sin and withdrawal from birth or manifestation as the sole possible way of salvation. For those who perceive it so or with some kindred look - and these have been the majority - there are well-known ways of issue, a straight-cut to spiritual deliverance. But equally it may not be so but only seem so to our ignorance or to a partial knowledge - the imperfection, the evil, the suffering may be a besetting circumstance or a dolorous passage, but not the very condition of manifestation, not the very essence of birth in Nature. And if so, the highest wisdom will lie not in escape, but in the urge towards a victory here, in a consenting association with the Will behind the world, in a discovery of the spiritual gate to perfection which will be at the same time an opening for the entire descent of the Divine Light,   --    apparent Inconscience each potentiality is revealed in its turn, first organised Matter concealing the indwelling Spirit, then Life emerging in the plant and associated in the animal with a growing Mind, then Mind itself evolved and organised in Man. This evolution, this spiritual progression - does it stop short here in the imperfect mental being called Man? Or is the secret of it simply a succession of rebirths whose only purpose or issue is to labour towards the point at which it can learn its own futility, renounce itself and take its leap into some original unborn Existence or Non-Existence? There is at least the possibility, there comes at a certain point the certitude that there is a far greater consciousness than what we call Mind, and that by ascending the ladder still farther we can find a point at which the hold of the material Inconscience, the vital and mental Ignorance ceases; a principle of consciousness becomes capable of manifestation which liberates not partially, not imperfectly, but radically and wholly this imprisoned Divine. In this vision each stage of evolution appears as due to the descent of a higher and higher   Power of consciousness, raising the terrestrial level, creating a new stratum, but the highest yet remain to descend and it is by their descent that the riddle of terrestrial existence will receive its solution and not only the soul but Nature herself find her deliverance. This is the Truth which has been seen in flashes, in more and more entirety of its terms by the line of seers whom the Tantra would call the hero-seekers and the divine seekers and which may now be nearing the point of readiness for its full revelation and experience. Then whatever be the heavy weight of strife and suffering and darkness in the world, yet if there is this as its high result awaiting us, all that has gone before may not be counted too great a price by the strong and adventurous for the glory that is to come. At any rate the shadow lifts; there is a Divine Light that leans over the world and is not only a far-off incommunicable Lustre.      --   259    consciousness and wisdom and absolute Delight which is behind all creation and non-creation and the affirmation and negation are both seen with the eyes of the ineffable Reality that delivers and reconciles them. But that knowledge is not expressible to the human mind; its language of light is too undecipherable, the light itself too bright for a consciousness accustomed to the stress and obscurity of the cosmic riddle and too entangled in it to follow the clue or to grasp the secret. In any case, it is only when we rise in the spirit beyond the zone of the darkness and the struggle that we enter into the full significance of it and there is a deliverance of the soul from its enigma. To rise to that height of liberation is the true way out and the only means of the indubitable knowledge.      --      At last the line will be crossed that will make possible the entire reversion and the manifestation in the terms of ensouled Matter of That which is above. As long as the outward personality we call ourselves is centred in the lower powers of consciousness, the riddle of its own existence, its purpose, its necessity is to it an insoluble enigma; if something of the truth is at all conveyed to this outward mental man, he but imperfectly grasps it and perhaps misinterprets and misuses and mislives it. His true staff of walking is made more of a fire of faith than any ascertained and indubitable light of knowledge. It is only by rising toward a higher consciousness beyond the line and therefore superconscient now to him that he can emerge from his inability and his ignorance. His full liberation and enlightenment will come when he crosses the line into the light of a new superconscient existence. That is the transcendence which was the object of aspiration of the mystics and the spiritual seekers.      --   *   I suppose you have not read my "riddle of This World",1 but it is a similar solution I put there. X's way of putting it is a trifle too "Vedantic-Theistic" - in my view it is a transaction between the One and the Many. In the beginning it was you (not the human you who is now complaining but the central being) which accepted or even invited the adventure of the Ignorance; sorrow and struggle are a necessary consequence of the plunge into the Inconscience and the evolutionary emergence out of it.      --   If you want a solution which will be agreeable to the human mind and feelings, I am afraid there is none. No doubt if human beings had made the universe, they would have done much better; but they were not there to be consulted when they were made. Only your central being was there and that was much nearer in its temerarious foolhardiness to Vivekananda's or X's than to the repining prudence of your murmuring and trembling human mentality of the present moment - otherwise it would never have come down into the adventure. Or perhaps it did not realise what it was in for? It is the same with the wallowers   1 The preceding letter was published under the heading "The riddle of This World" in a book of the same name in 1933. - Ed.

3.11_-_Spells, #Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E, #unset, #Philosophy     DM for advice. In this case, the spell is the equivalent of asking the gods, "Okay, how do we get out of this one?"     Like the genius spell, the DM must be careful in adjudicating this spell. The answer to the question is always relevant and correct, although not necessarily complete. The answer can also be cryptic, in the form of a riddle or rhyme, depending on the DM's assessment of the situation and how potentially unbalancing the answer might be. In general, the answer will be a short phrase of no more than eight to ten words.     The material component is a gem of at least 500 gp value. This spell can be cast only once in any 24-hour period.   --     Speculation about the future, such as "What's on the other side of the door?" is not permitted.     As with idea, the DM must be careful in adjudicating this spell. The answer to the question should always be relevant and correct, although not necessarily complete, and should not be unbalancing to the situation. The answer can also be cryptic, in the form of a riddle or rhyme, depending on the DM's assessment of the situation. In general, the answer will be a single word or a short phrase of no more than five words.     The material component is a gem of at least 50 gp value. This spell can be cast only once in any 12-hour period. Subsequent attempts to cast the spell result in no answer.

3.20_-_Of_the_Eucharist, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy   Metzareph of the Hebrews to the Chariot of Antimony are deliberately   couched in hieratic riddles. Ecclesiastical persecution, and the   profanation of the secrets of power, were equally dreaded. Worse

3.3.01_-_The_Superman, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   The Superman    a squire or even a groom of Force. Or we cultivate Knowledge with a severe aloofness and austerity to find at last the lotus of the heart dulled and fading - happy if its more divine faculties are not already atrophied - and ourselves standing impotent with our science while the thunders of Rudra crash through and devastate the world we have organised so well by our victorious and clear-minded efficiency. Or we run after a vague and mechanical zero we call unity and when we have sterilised our secret roots and dried up the wells of Life within us, discover, unwise unifiers, that we have achieved death and not a greater existence. And all this happens because we will not recognise the complexity of the riddle we are set here to solve. It is a great and divine riddle; but it is no knot of Gordius, nor is its allwise Author a dead king that he should suffer us to mock his intention and cut through to our will with the fierce impatience of the hasty mortal conqueror.

3.6.01_-_Heraclitus, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   the mystics, enigmatic in the manner of their thought which   sought to express the riddle of existence in the very language of   the riddle. What for instance is the "ever-living Fire" in which   he finds the primary and imperishable substance of the universe   --   it readily becomes obscure, meaningless or even misleading   to those who have not the secret and to posterity a riddle.   Mr. Ranade tells us that it is impossible to make out what   --   and then again goes back to oneness. But Heraclitus will not so   cut the knot of the riddle. "No," he says in effect, "I hold to my   idea of the eternal oneness of all things; never do they cease to

3.7.2.01_-_The_Foundation, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      It may therefore serve a partial purpose but can be of little eventual advantage to try to cut the knot of the riddle by reducing to the law of one form of energy alone all the apparent tangle of the cosmic action. The universe is not solely an ethical proposition, a problem of the antinomy of the good and the evil; the Spirit of the universe can in no way be imagined as a rigid moralist concerned only with making all things obey the law of moral good, or a stream of tendency towards righteousness attempting, hitherto with only a very poor success, to prevail and rule, or a stern Justicer rewarding and punishing creatures in a world that he has made or has suffered to be full of wickedness and suffering and evil. The universal Will has evidently many other and more supple modes than that, an infinity of interests, many other elements of its being to manifest, many lines to follow, many laws and purposes to pursue. The law of the world is not this alone that our good brings good to us and our evil brings evil, nor is its sufficient key the ethical-hedonistic rule that our moral good brings to us happiness and success and our moral evil brings to us sorrow and misfortune. There is a rule

4.2_-_Karma, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      405. Medical Science to the human body is like a great Power which enfeebles a smaller State by its protection or like a benevolent robber who knocks his victim flat and riddles him with wounds in order that he may devote his life to healing & serving the shattered body.

5.06_-_Supermind_in_the_Evolution, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga      In this vision of things the universe will reveal itself in its unity and totality as a manifestation of a single Being, Nature as its power of manifestation, evolution as its process of gradual self-revelation here in Matter. We would see the divine series of the worlds as a ladder of ascent from Matter to supreme Spirit; there would reveal itself the possibility, the prospect of a supreme manifestation by the conscious and no longer a veiled and enigmatic descent of the Spirit and its powers in their fullness even into this lowest world of Matter. The riddle of the universe need be no longer a riddle; the dubious mystery of things would put off its enigma, its constant ambiguity, the tangled writings would become legible and intelligible. In this revelation, supermind would take its natural place and no longer be a matter of doubt or questioning to an intelligence bewildered by the complexity of the world; it would appear as the inevitable consequence of the nature of mind, life and Matter, the fulfilment of their meaning, their inherent principle and tendencies, the necessary perfection of their imperfection, the summit to which all are climbing, the consummation of divine existence, consciousness and bliss to which it is leading, the last result of the birth of things and supreme goal of this progressive manifestation which we see here in life.

5.1.01_-_Ilion, #Collected Poems, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   And, at a distance followed by the golden herds of the sungod,   Carried the burden of Light and its riddle and danger to Hellas.      --   Making herself as an engine of God without bowels or vision, -   Yet in that engine are only heart-beats, yet is her riddle   Only Love that is veiled and pity that suffers and slaughters, -

6.1.04_-_A_Gods_Labour, #Collected Poems, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    At the very root of things   Where the grey Sphinx guards God's riddle sleep    On the Dragon's outspread wings.

Agenda_Vol_10, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   Ah, what text?   It was a very "Ordinary" text (I've brought it with me), in "The riddle of this World."   Ah!   --      139"The riddle of this World" (July 1933) in Letters on Yoga, 22.31.

Agenda_Vol_2, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   nor anything at all. I don't know what should be done, I don't know what should not be done - nothing.   It's truly a blind march (gesture of groping along), in a desert riddled with all possible traps and   difficulties and obstacles - all this heaped together. Eyes blindfolded, knowing nothing (same gesture

Agenda_Vol_3, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   satisfied with surface things but wants to go behind. But there is still this difference: there is a fatal   limitation in the strength and thought of Europe. When it comes into the spiritual field, its thoughtpower can no longer move ahead. There Europe sees everything as riddle - nebulous metaphysics,   yogic hallucination. They rub their eyes as in smoke and can see nothing clear. Still, some effort is   --   know until... until it's over.   I am speaking in riddles, but what else can I do!...   I mean that the why and the how of it won't be known until... until the curve is completed.

Agenda_Vol_4, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   translated like this: Now, the nourishment (it wasn't nourishment but food) comes from the whole of   Nature at once. (Mother utters those words like a riddle or an open sesame that has not yet opened the   door) And he told me to bring it to him (that too was a translation): Yes, you will bring it (the it was

Agenda_Vol_5, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   then they store it under certain conditions. But what if the earth and the continents move!... And   anyway, who will be able to read? Even the Assyrian inscriptions, which aren't old, are still a riddle.   They don't really know: they imagine they know. The names we were taught when we were small and

Agenda_Vol_6, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   had the following vision, which may be related with Mother's: he saw the Ashram as if from above, and the whole Ashram   ground was scraped clean, as it were, and riddled with innumerable holes and tunnels; rats were going and coming in and   out, up and down in a constant hurry-scurry - there was nothing left, everything had been scraped clean by the rats.

Agenda_Vol_8, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga   It's not French, of course. You clearly feel that the thought isn't ordinary.... I found that very   interesting. But for a French class, it would be riddled with errors.

BOOK_II._--_PART_I._ANTHROPOGENESIS., #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   past Cycles. They will recognise, then, the cause which produces in history and chronology certain   riddles of the ages; the reason why, for instance, it is impossible for them to assign any reliable date to   Zoroaster, who is found multiplied by twelve and fourteen in the Dabistan; why the Rishis and Manus   --   with its mysterious three Virgos between the Lion and Libra, has found its OEdipus, who understood   the riddle of these signs, and justified the truthfulness of those priests who told Herodotus that: -- (a)   The poles of the Earth and the Ecliptic had formerly coincided; and (b) That even since their first   --   (angels) and in this case could not be called b'ne-aleim, the "sons of God." (Praelectiones theol. ch. ii.)   This Biblical riddle -- "the real sense of which no author has ever understood," as candidly confessed   by Fourmont** -- can only be explained by the Occult doctrine, through the Zohar to the Western, and   --   the seventh stage of the world, answering to the seventh zone of the Buddhists, or the White Island."   Now here the Orientalists have been, and are still, facing the Sphinx's riddle, the wrong solution of   which will ever destroy their authority, if not their persons, in the eyes of every Hindu scholar, even   --   If we reflect upon the serial development of the allegory, and the character of the heroes, the mystery   may be unriddled. KRONOS is of course "time" in its cyclic course. He swallows his children -- the   [[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------------------------

BOOK_II._--_PART_III._ADDENDA._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   found in that "Circle of Sciences," the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which shows the mean accepted in   the geological and anthropological riddles. In that work the cream of the most authoritative opinions is   skimmed off; nevertheless, we find in it the refusal to assign any definite chronological date, even to   --   the disfigured laws of Manu) is found too far-fetched, then turn to Revelation. Whatever interpretation   profane mystics may give to the famous Chapter xvii., with its riddle of the woman in purple and   scarlet; whether Protestants nod at the Roman Catholics, when reading "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE   --   primeval science -- but an explanation. Primitive men had no profound science to perpetuate by means   of allegory [How does Mr. Fiske know?], nor were they such sorry pedants as to talk in riddles when   plain language would serve their purpose." We venture to say the language of the Initiated few was far

BOOK_II._--_PART_II._THE_ARCHAIC_SYMBOLISM_OF_THE_WORLD-RELIGIONS, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   Jve or Jave, or Jupiter, and by change of   Juno, the base of the Chinese riddle, the key measuring numbers of Sni (Sinai) and   Jehovah coming down on that mount, which numbers (1,065) are but the use of our ratio   --   and the last; and those who read St. John's Apocalypse may find its shadow lurking under the seventh   seal. . . . It can be represented only in its apparent, objective form, like the eternal riddle of the Sphinx.   If the latter threw herself into the sea and perished, it is not because OEdipus had unriddled the secret   of the ages, but because, by anthropomorphizing the ever-spiritual and the subjective, he had   --   This still affords us no more than the external meaning of the symbols and the allegory. It is now   supposed that the name of Prometheus has been unriddled, and the modern mythologists and   Orientalists see in it no longer what their fathers saw on the authority of the whole of classical   --   and two meanings out of seven. The other five would astonish the Christians still more.   The series of OEdipuses who have endeavoured to interpret the riddle of the Sphinx, is long indeed.   For many ages she has been devouring the brightest and the noblest intellects of Christendom; but now   --   having a perfect circular value, or a factor of circular value" (p. 22).   Such calculations can lead one no further than to unriddle the mysteries of the third stage of Evolution,   or the "third creation of Brahma." The initiated Hindus know how to "square the circle" far better than   --   earth from the fire, the subtile from the gross . . . . Ascend from the earth to heaven and then descend   again to earth" was traced on it. The riddle of the cross is contained in these words, and its double   mystery is solved -- to the Occultist.   --   So it is, but the spirit of it has been ever misunderstood. "To crucify before (not against) the sun" is a   phrase used of initiation. It comes from Egypt, and primarily from India. The enigma can be unriddled   only by searching for its key in the Mysteries of Initiation. The initiated adept, who had successfully   --   gnostic iconography" (Gnostics, p. 218).   The mysteries of the seven gnostic vowels, uttered by the thunders of St. John, can be unriddled only   by the primeval and original Occultism of Aryavarta, brought into India by the primeval Brahmins,

BOOK_I._--_PART_I._COSMIC_EVOLUTION, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   disappearance of the vast sacred and occult literature of Babylon; the loss of those keys which alone   could solve the thousand riddles of the Egyptian hieroglyphic records; the tradition in India that the   real secret commentaries which alone make the Veda intelligible, though no longer visible to profane   --   cause of the first ignition of matter or the world-stuff, the paradox of the heat produced by the   refrigerative contraction and other such Cosmic riddles. For it points unmistakeably to a knowledge by   the ancients of such phenomena. "There is heat internal and heat external in every atom," say the   --   Buddhism," notwithstanding the rather sanguine statement made therein on p. 113 (5th edition) that   "there is not much mystery left now in the riddle of the eighth sphere." These are topics, indeed, "on   which the adepts are very reserved in their communications to uninitiated pupils," and since they   --   we are not in the Fifth Round, but Fifth Round men have been coming in for the last few thousand   years." This was worse than the riddle of the Sphinx! Students of Occultism subjected their brains to   the wildest work of speculation. For a considerable time they tried to outvie OEdipus and reconcile   --   5. These dwellings are: the plane of the mortals: the Superior Eden; and the Inferior Eden.   6. The image (man) is a sphinx that offers the riddle of birth.   7. The fatal image (the astral) endows Nephesch with its aptitudes; but Ruach is able to substitute for   --   the god in the Vedas, "So himself was indeed (his own) son," one being the progeny of the other and   yet itself. This may be a difficult riddle to the profane, but very easy to understand for any Hindu -though not even a mystic.   * National Reformer, January 9th, 1887. Article "Phreno-Kosmo-Biology," by Dr. Lewins.

BOOK_I._--_PART_III._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy   to closer bonds; and even fluorine, that   [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------* Says Mr. Crookes in the same address: "The first riddle which we encounter in chemistry is: 'What   are the elements?' Of the attempts hitherto made to define or explain an element, none satisfy the   --   his absorption into the source from which he started.   But it is not physical Science that we can ever ask to read man for us, as the riddle of the Past, or that   of the Future; since no philosopher is able to tell us even what man is, as he is known both to   --   complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our   own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of   devouring us. But verily there is not an accident in our lives,   --   philosophical research into the mysteries of being, will always prevent some, while trying to   comprehend that which has hitherto remained to them a riddle, from creating additional causes in a   world already so full of woe and evil. Knowledge of Karma gives the conviction that if -". . . . virtue in distress, and vice in triumph   --   making a sum total of 432,000 years -- they do not thus appear peremptory. But the pious professor of   Munich undertook to explain them in the correct way. He claims to have solved the riddle by showing   that "the saros being composed according to Pliny of 222 synodial months, to wit, 18 years 6/10," the   --   calling them "Kalpic Masks."   Fohat is the key in Occultism which opens and unriddles the multiform symbols and respective   allegories in the so-called mythology of every nation; demonstrating the wonderful philosophy and

BOOK_I._--_PART_II._THE_EVOLUTION_OF_SYMBOLISM_IN_ITS_APPROXIMATE_ORDER, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy      The whole riddle of the solar and lunar worship, as now traced in the churches, hangs indeed on this   world-old mystery of lunar phenomena. The correlative forces in the "Queen of Night," that lie latent   --   boundless circle, a sphere, of which human intellect, with the utmost stretch, could only perceive the   vault. In the words of one who has unriddled much in the Kabalistical system, in one of its meanings   thoroughly, in its numerical and geometrical esotericism: -- "Close your eyes, and from your own   --   these "Seven Sons" and their numberless emanations, centres of energy personified, are an absolute   necessity. Make away with them, and the mystery of Being and Mankind will never be unriddled, not   even closely approached.   --   totally changed, the world consists." -- (Diogenes Laertius in Vit. Pythag.)   And this may also, if it does not unriddle the mystery altogether, at any rate lift a corner of the veil off   those wondrous allegories that have been thrown upon Vach, the most mysterious of all the   --      higher than Ildabaoth? The Gnostic records alone can solve this riddle. In Pistis Sophia the fourvowelled name IEOV is in each case accompanied by the epithet of "the Primal, or First man." This   shows again that the gnosis was but an echo of our archaic doctrine. The names answering to

Book_of_Imaginary_Beings_(text), #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   spell went unheeded. The sphinx, also, threw herself from   a precipice when her riddle was solved.   In the sixth century, a Siren was caught and baptized in   --   wings of a bird, and the body and feet of a lion. Some give it   the body of a dog and a snakes tail. It is told that it depopulated the Theban countryside asking riddles (for it had   a human voice) and making a meal of any man who could   --   on all fours, when he grows up walks on two legs, and in old   age leans on a staff. The riddle solved, the Sphinx threw   herself from a precipice.   De Quincey, around , suggested a second interpretation, which complements the traditional one. The subject   of the riddle according to him is not so much man in general   as it is Oedipus in particular, orphaned and helpless at birth,

Book_of_Proverbs, #The Bible, #Anonymous, #Various   6 for understanding proverbs and parables,   the sayings and riddles of the wise.

COSA_-_BOOK_IV, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   nor could they now tell me, "he is coming," as when he was alive and   absent. I became a great riddle to myself, and I asked my soul, why she   was so sad, and why she disquieted me sorely: but she knew not what to

COSA_-_BOOK_IX, #The Confessions of Saint Augustine, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity   through any tongue of flesh, nor Angel's voice, nor sound of thunder,   nor in the dark riddle of a similitude, but might hear Whom in these   things we love, might hear His Very Self without these (as we two now

Liber_111_-_The_Book_of_Wisdom_-_LIBER_ALEPH_VEL_CXI, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    8. ALTERA DE VIA NATURAE. (More on the Way of Nature)    Sayest thou (methinks) that here is a great riddle, since by Reason of    much Repression thou hast lost the Knowledge of thine original Nature?   --    Appearance symbolic, like a Writing in Cipher, or like a Fable, or like    a riddle in Pictures. But alway does he triumph and fulfil himself    therein, for the Dream is a natural Compensation in the inner World for   --    this Strait are many Wrecks of Magick Ships. Knowest thou not that    riddle of old, whether it be lawful to pay Tribute to Caesar or no?    Give therefore to the Body the Things of the Body, and to the Mind the   --    whose Numeration is Six Hundred and Three Score and Six. But therein is    my riddle of riddles. For the Root thereof is SF, which signifieth the    Incarnation of the Spirit; and of Kin are not only the Sun, Our Father,

Liber_46_-_The_Key_of_the_Mysteries, #unset, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga    is made up of all the rags of ancient theogonies. He is the sphinx    without a secret, the riddle without an answer, the mystery without    truth, the absolute without reality and without light.

Maps_of_Meaning_text, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology   months later: Heisenbergs type of mechanics has again given me hope and joy in life. To be sure it   does not supply the solution to the riddle, but I believe it is again possible to march forward.402403   Now, Kuhn drew a qualitative distinction between the normal and revolutionary modes of operation. No   --   When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?   It is by-gone How shall this riddle run?   As good as if things never had begun,