TERMS STARTING WITH
rise at the appointed time. In other early writings,
risen ::: p. p. --> of Rise ::: --> p. p. & a. from Rise. ::: p. p. & a.
riser ::: n. --> One who rises; as, an early riser.
The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread.
Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like.
A shaft excavated from below upward.
A feed head. See under Feed, n.
rise: The difference in the coordinates of the independent variable between 2 points.
rise ::: v. --> To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.
To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.
To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
TERMS ANYWHERE
a- ::: --> A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-,
arise ::: 1. To get up from sleep or rest; to awaken; wake up. 2. To go up, come up, ascend on high, mount. Now only poet. **3. To come into being, action, or notice; originate; appear; spring up. 4. Of circumstances viewed as results: To spring, originate, or result from. 5. To rise from inaction, from the peaceful, quiet, or ordinary course of life. 6. To rise in violence or agitation, as the sea, the wind; to boil up as a fermenting fluid, the blood; so of the heart, wrath, etc. Now poet. 7. Of sounds: To come up aloud, or so as to be audible, to be heard aloud. arises, arising, arose, arisen. *(Sri Aurobindo also employs arisen as an adj.*)
arisen ::: p. p. --> of Arise
arisen ::: (Sri Aurobindo also employs arisen as an adj.)
arise ::: v. i. --> To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one&
absorbed ::: 1. Engrossed or entirely occupied; preoccupied. 2. Swallowed up, or comprised, so as no longer to exist apart.
accomplishment ::: n. --> The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.
That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.
accrue ::: n. --> To increase; to augment.
To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.
Something that accrues; advantage accruing.
achieve ::: 1. To bring to a successful end, to carry out successfully (an enterprise); to accomplish, perform. 2. To succeed in gaining, to acquire by effort, to obtain, win. achieves, achieved, achieving.
achieve ::: v. t. --> To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.
To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
To finish; to kill.
acronychal ::: a. --> Rising at sunset and setting at sunrise, as a star; -- opposed to cosmical.
action ::: n. --> A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.
An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.
The event or connected series of events, either real or
admiration ::: n. --> Wonder; astonishment.
Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.
Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy.
admires ::: 1. Regards with pleased surprise, or with wonder mingled with esteem, approbation, or affection; and in modern usage, gazed on with pleasure. admired, admiring. adj. 2. Regarded with admiration; wondered at; contemplated with wonder mingled with esteem, etc.
admire ::: v. t. --> To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. ::: v. i.
adventure ::: n. 1. Any novel or unexpected event in which one shares; an exciting or remarkable incident befalling any one. 2. The encountering of risks or participation in novel and exciting events; bold or daring activity, enterprise. adventure"s, world-adventure, world-adventure"s. *v. 3. To take the chance of; to commit to fortune; to undertake a thing of doubtful issue; to try, to chance, to venture into or upon. 4. To risk or hazard; stake. *adventuring.
adventure ::: n. --> That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
Risk; danger; peril.
The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one&
adventurer ::: n. --> One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.
adventurer ::: One who seeks adventures, or who engages in daring enterprises. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) adventurers, Adventurers.
adventurer ::: one who seeks adventures, or who engages in daring enterprises. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) adventurers, Adventurers.
adventurous ::: n. --> Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons.
Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.
advertise ::: v. t. --> To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss.
To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.
agrise ::: v. i. --> To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear. ::: v. t. --> To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe.
To terrify; to affright.
“Agni is the leader of the sacrifice and protects it in the great journey against the powers of darkness. The knowledge and purpose of this divine Puissance can be entirely trusted; he is the friend and lover of the soul and will not betray it to evil gods. Even for the man sitting far off in the night, enveloped by the darkness of the human ignorance, this flame[Agni] is a light which, when it is perfectly kindled and in proportion as it mounts higher and higher, enlarges itself into the vast light of the Truth. Flaming upward to heaven to meet the divine Dawn, it rises through the vital or nervous mid-world and through our mental skies and enters at last the Paradise of Light, its own supreme home above where joyous for ever in the eternal Truth that is the foundation of the sempiternal Bliss the shining Immortals sit in their celestial sessions and drink the wine of the infinite beatitude.” The Secret of the Veda
*[Agni]. Sri Aurobindo: "Agni is the leader of the sacrifice and protects it in the great journey against the powers of darkness. The knowledge and purpose of this divine Puissance can be entirely trusted; he is the friend and lover of the soul and will not betray it to evil gods. Even for the man sitting far off in the night, enveloped by the darkness of the human ignorance, this flame[Agni] is a light which, when it is perfectly kindled and in proportion as it mounts higher and higher, enlarges itself into the vast light of the Truth. Flaming upward to heaven to meet the divine Dawn, it rises through the vital or nervous mid-world and through our mental skies and enters at last the Paradise of Light, its own supreme home above where joyous for ever in the eternal Truth that is the foundation of the sempiternal Bliss the shining Immortals sit in their celestial sessions and drink the wine of the infinite beatitude.” *The Secret of the Veda
aha ::: interj. --> An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise. ::: n. --> A sunk fence. See Ha-ha.
ah ::: interj. --> An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.
alarm ::: n. --> A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
A sudden attack; disturbance; broil.
Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
“A life of gnostic beings carrying the evolution to a higher supramental status might fitly be characterised as a divine life; for it would be a life in the Divine, a life of the beginnings of a spiritual divine light and power and joy manifested in material Nature.” The Life Divine
"All depends on the meaning you attach to words used; it is a matter of nomenclature. Ordinarily, one says a man has intellect if he can think well; the nature and process and field of the thought do not matter. If you take intellect in that sense, then you can say that intellect has different strata, and Ford belongs to one stratum of intellect, Einstein to another — Ford has a practical and executive business intellect, Einstein a scientific discovering and theorising intellect. But Ford too in his own field theorises, invents, discovers. Yet would you call Ford an intellectual or a man of intellect? I would prefer to use for the general faculty of mind the word intelligence. Ford has a great and forceful practical intelligence, keen, quick, successful, dynamic. He has a brain that can deal with thoughts also, but even there his drive is towards practicality. He believes in rebirth (metempsychosis), for instance, not for any philosophic reason, but because it explains life as a school of experience in which one gathers more and more experience and develops by it. Einstein has, on the other hand, a great discovering scientific intellect, not, like Marconi, a powerful practical inventive intelligence for the application of scientific discovery. All men have, of course, an ‘intellect" of a kind; all, for instance, can discuss and debate (for which you say rightly intellect is needed); but it is only when one rises to the realm of ideas and moves freely in it that you say, ‘This man has an intellect".” Letters on Yoga
“All depends on the meaning you attach to words used; it is a matter of nomenclature. Ordinarily, one says a man has intellect if he can think well; the nature and process and field of the thought do not matter. If you take intellect in that sense, then you can say that intellect has different strata, and Ford belongs to one stratum of intellect, Einstein to another—Ford has a practical and executive business intellect, Einstein a scientific discovering and theorising intellect. But Ford too in his own field theorises, invents, discovers. Yet would you call Ford an intellectual or a man of intellect? I would prefer to use for the general faculty of mind the word intelligence. Ford has a great and forceful practical intelligence, keen, quick, successful, dynamic. He has a brain that can deal with thoughts also, but even there his drive is towards practicality. He believes in rebirth (metempsychosis), for instance, not for any philosophic reason, but because it explains life as a school of experience in which one gathers more and more experience and develops by it. Einstein has, on the other hand, a great discovering scientific intellect, not, like Marconi, a powerful practical inventive intelligence for the application of scientific discovery. All men have, of course, an ‘intellect’ of a kind; all, for instance, can discuss and debate (for which you say rightly intellect is needed); but it is only when one rises to the realm of ideas and moves freely in it that you say, ‘This man has an intellect’.” Letters on Yoga
All forces that want to cover the consciousness rise up to do it by environing and acting on the mind centres if they can — environing because otherwise the covering is not complete.
amazed ::: greatly surprised; astounded; suddenly filled with wonder; astonished. amazing, amazement.
amazedness ::: n. --> The state of being amazed, or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder.
amazement ::: n. --> The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration.
Frenzy; madness.
amaze ::: v. t. --> To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
To confound, as by fear, wonder, extreme surprise; to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly.
Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement. ::: v. i.
ambuscade ::: v. t. --> A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.
A place in which troops lie hid, to attack an enemy unexpectedly.
The body of troops lying in ambush.
To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush.
ambush ::: 1. An act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise. 2. The concealed position itself. ambushes.
ambushed ::: concealed so as suddenly to burst forth, come in view, or take by surprise.
ambush ::: v. t. --> A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare.
A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise.
The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait.
To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.
amniota ::: n. pl. --> That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals.
amount ::: n. --> To go up; to ascend.
To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.
To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.
The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is
amphibology ::: n. --> A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.
ANANDA. ::: Delight; essential principle of delight; bliss; spiritual ecstasy; the bliss of the Spirit which is the secret source· and support of all existence.
Ānanda is the secret delight from which all things are born, by which all is sustained in existence and to which all can rise in the spiritual culmination.
It is the Divine Bliss which comes from above. It is not joy or pleasure, but something self-existent, pure and quite beyond what any joy or pleasure can be.
Something greater than peace or joy, something that, like Truth and Light, is the very nature of the supramental Divine. It can come by frequent inrushes or descents, partially or for a time, but it cannot -remain in the system so long as the system has not been prepared for it.
It can come not only with its fullest intensity but with a more enduring persistence when the mind is at peace and the heart delivered from ordinary joy and sorrow. If the mind and heart are restless, changeful, unquiet, Ānanda of a kind may come, but it is mixed with vital excitement and cannot abide. One must get peace and calm fixed in the consciousness first, then there is a solid basis on which Ānanda can spread itself and in its turn become an enduring part of the consciousness and the nature.
Ānanda (ascension into) ::: It is quite impossible to ascend to the real Ānanda plane (except in a profound trance), until after the supramental consciousness has been entered, realised and possessed; but it is quite possible and normal to feel some form of Ānanda consciousness on any level. This consciousness, wherever it is felt, is a derivation from the Ānanda plane, but it is very much diminished in power and modified to suit the lesser power of receptivity of the inferior levels.
Ānanda (divine) in the physical ::: self-existent in its essence, its manifestation is dependent only on an inner union with the Divine.
Ānanda (of the Brahman) ::: there is an absoluteness of immutable ecstasy in it, a concentrated intensity of silent and inalienable rapture.
an artificially induced trance state resembling sleep, characterised by heightened susceptibility to suggestion.
and scnsaiion etc. which iahe‘ particular form In him and rise to the surface after they hai-e fot inside.
And still we can recognise at once in the Overmind the original cosmic Maya, not a Maya of Ignorance but a Maya of Knowledge, yet a Power which has made the Ignorance possible, even inevitable. For if each principle loosed into action must follow its independent line and carry out its complete consequences, the principle of separation must also be allowed its complete course and arrive at its absolute consequence; this is Overmind in its descent reaches a line which divides the cosmic Truth from the cosmic Ignorance; it is the line at which it becomes possible for Consciousness-Force, emphasising the separateness of each independent movement created by Overmind and hiding or darkening their unity, to divide Mind by an exclusive concentration from the overmental source. There has already been a similar separation of Overmind from its supramental source, but with a transparency in the veil which allows a conscious transmission and maintains a certain luminous kinship; but here the veil is opaque and the transmission of the Overmind motives to the Mind is occult and obscure. Mind separated acts as if it were an independent principle, and each mental being, each basic mental idea, power, force stands similarly on its separate self; if it communicates with or combines or contacts others, it is not with the catholic universality of the overmind movement, on a basis of underlying oneness, but as independent units joining to form a separate constructed whole. It is by this movement that we pass from the cosmic Truth into the cosmic Ignorance. The cosmic Mind on this level, no doubt, comprehends its own unity, but it is not aware of its own source and foundation in the Spirit or can only comprehend it by the intelligence, not in any enduring experience; it acts in itself as if by its own right and works out what it receives as material without direct communication with the source from which it receives it. Its units also act in ignorance of each other and of the cosmic whole except for the knowledge that they can get by contact and communication,—the basic sense of identity and the mutual penetration and understanding that comes from it are no longer there. All the actions of this Mind Energy proceed on the opposite basis of the Ignorance and its divisions and, although they are the results of a certain conscious knowledge, it is a partial knowledge, not a true and integral self-knowledge, nor a true and integral world-knowledge. This character persists in Life and in subtle Matter and reappears in the gross material universe which arises from the final lapse into the Inconscience. …
"A new humanity means for us the appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but not its natural possessor, open to the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead, it would be possessed already of what could be called a mind of Light, a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentality would be an instrument of the Light and no longer of the Ignorance. At its highest it would be capable of passing into the supermind and from the new race would be recruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the leaders of the evolution in earth-nature. Even, the highest manifestations of a mind of Light would be an instrumentality of the supermind, a part of it or a projection from it, a stepping beyond humanity into the superhumanity of the supramental principle. Above all, its possession would enable the human being to rise beyond the normalities of his present thinking, feeling and being into those highest powers of the mind in its self-exceedings which intervene between our mentality and supermind and can be regarded as steps leading towards the greater and more luminous principle. This advance like others in the evolution might not be reached and would naturally not be reached at one bound, but from the very beginning it would be inevitable: the pressure of the supermind creating from above out of itself the mind of Light would compel this certainty of the eventual outcome.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“A new humanity means for us the appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but not its natural possessor, open to the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead, it would be possessed already of what could be called a mind of Light, a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentality would be an instrument of the Light and no longer of the Ignorance. At its highest it would be capable of passing into the supermind and from the new race would be recruited the race of supramental beings who would appear as the leaders of the evolution in earth-nature. Even, the highest manifestations of a mind of Light would be an instrumentality of the supermind, a part of it or a projection from it, a stepping beyond humanity into the superhumanity of the supramental principle. Above all, its possession would enable the human being to rise beyond the normalities of his present thinking, feeling and being into those highest powers of the mind in its self-exceedings which intervene between our mentality and supermind and can be regarded as steps leading towards the greater and more luminous principle. This advance like others in the evolution might not be reached and would naturally not be reached at one bound, but from the very beginning it would be inevitable: the pressure of the supermind creating from above out of itself the mind of Light would compel this certainty of the eventual outcome.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
antinomy ::: n. --> Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule.
An opposing law or rule of any kind.
A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.
antrustion ::: n. --> A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises
apprised ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Apprise
apprise ::: v. t. --> To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done. ::: n. --> Notice; information.
appearance ::: n. --> The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.
A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky.
Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien.
Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression
appreciation ::: n. --> A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors.
A rise in value; -- opposed to depreciation.
apprising ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Apprise
Apsaras ::: Sri Aurobindo: “The Apsaras are the most beautiful and romantic conception on the lesser plane of Hindu mythology. From the moment that they arose out of the waters of the milky Ocean, robed in ethereal raiment and heavenly adornment, waking melody from a million lyres, the beauty and light of them has transformed the world. They crowd in the sunbeams, they flash and gleam over heaven in the lightnings, they make the azure beauty of the sky; they are the light of sunrise and sunset and the haunting voices of forest and field. They dwell too in the life of the soul; for they are the ideal pursued by the poet through his lines, by the artist shaping his soul on his canvas, by the sculptor seeking a form in the marble; for the joy of their embrace the hero flings his life into the rushing torrent of battle; the sage, musing upon God, sees the shining of their limbs and falls from his white ideal. The delight of life, the beauty of things, the attraction of sensuous beauty, this is what the mystic and romantic side of the Hindu temperament strove to express in the Apsara. The original meaning is everywhere felt as a shining background, but most in the older allegories, especially the strange and romantic legend of Pururavas as we first have it in the Brahmanas and the Vishnoupurana.
apsaras ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Apsaras are the most beautiful and romantic conception on the lesser plane of Hindu mythology. From the moment that they arose out of the waters of the milky Ocean, robed in ethereal raiment and heavenly adornment, waking melody from a million lyres, the beauty and light of them has transformed the world. They crowd in the sunbeams, they flash and gleam over heaven in the lightnings, they make the azure beauty of the sky; they are the light of sunrise and sunset and the haunting voices of forest and field. They dwell too in the life of the soul; for they are the ideal pursued by the poet through his lines, by the artist shaping his soul on his canvas, by the sculptor seeking a form in the marble; for the joy of their embrace the hero flings his life into the rushing torrent of battle; the sage, musing upon God, sees the shining of their limbs and falls from his white ideal. The delight of life, the beauty of things, the attraction of sensuous beauty, this is what the mystic and romantic side of the Hindu temperament strove to express in the Apsara. The original meaning is everywhere felt as a shining background, but most in the older allegories, especially the strange and romantic legend of Pururavas as we first have it in the Brahmanas and the Vishnoupurana.
Apsaras ::: “The Apsaras are the most beautiful and romantic conception on the lesser plane of Hindu mythology. From the moment that they arose out of the waters of the milky Ocean, robed in ethereal raiment and heavenly adornment, waking melody from a million lyres, the beauty and light of them has transformed the world. They crowd in the sunbeams, they flash and gleam over heaven in the lightnings, they make the azure beauty of the sky; they are the light of sunrise and sunset and the haunting voices of forest and field. They dwell too in the life of the soul; for they are the ideal pursued by the poet through his lines, by the artist shaping his soul on his canvas, by the sculptor seeking a form in the marble; for the joy of their embrace the hero flings his life into the rushing torrent of battle; the sage, musing upon God, sees the shining of their limbs and falls from his white ideal. The delight of life, the beauty of things, the attraction of sensuous beauty, this is what the mystic and romantic side of the Hindu temperament strove to express in the Apsara. The original meaning is everywhere felt as a shining background, but most in the older allegories, especially the strange and romantic legend of Pururavas as we first have it in the Brahmanas and the Vishnoupurana.
arduous ::: a. --> Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.
Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.
arising ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Arise
arist ::: --> 3d sing. pres. of Arise, for ariseth.
arose ::: imp. --> of Arise ::: --> The past or preterit tense of Arise.
arose ::: pt. of arise.
ascendant ::: n. --> Ascent; height; elevation.
The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one&
ascend ::: to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise. ascends, ascended, ascending.
ascend ::: v. i. --> To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.
To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.
ascension ::: n. --> The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.
Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.
An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation.
ascensive ::: a. --> Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
Augmentative; intensive.
ASCENT AND DESCENT. ::: The practice of this yoga is double ::: one side is of an ascent of the consciousness to the higher planes, the other is that of a descent of the power of the higher planes into the earth-consciousness so as to drive out the Power of darkness and ignorance and transform the nature.
All the consciousness in the human being who is the mental embodied in living matter has to rise so as to meet the higher consciousness; the higher consciousness has also to descend into mind, into life, into matter.
To ascend is easier than to bring down ; the higher consciousness gets entangled and impeded in the physical and the mind and vital.
ascent ::: --> The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.
The way or means by which one ascends.
An eminence, hill, or high place.
The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.
ascertain ::: v. t. --> To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
To make (a thing) certain to the mind; to free from obscurity, doubt, or change; to make sure of; to fix; to determine.
To find out or learn for a certainty, by trial, examination, or experiment; to get to know; as, to ascertain the weight of a commodity, or the purity of a metal.
ASPECTS OF THE DIVINE. ::: The Divine has three aspects for us :
1. It is the Cosmic Self and Spirit that is in and behind all things and beings, from which and in which all is manifested in the universe- although it is now a manifestation in the Ignorance.
2. It is the Spirit and Master of our own being within us whom we have to serve and learn to express his will in all our movements so that we may grow out of the Ignorance into the Light.
3. The Divine is transcendent Being and Spirit, all bliss and light and divine knowledge and power, and towards that highest divine existence and its Light we have to rise and bring down the reality of it more and more into our consciousness and life.
aspire ::: v. t. --> To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality.
To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to. ::: n.
assassinate ::: v. t. --> To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence.
To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly. ::: n. --> An assassination, murder, or murderous assault.
assassin ::: n. --> One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense. ::: v. t. --> To assassinate.
assiduity ::: n. --> Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.
Studied and persevering attention to a person; -- usually in the plural.
associate ::: v. t. --> To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.
To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.
To connect or place together in thought.
To accompany; to keep company with.
"As there is a cosmic Self and Spirit pervading and upholding the universe and its beings, so too there is a cosmic Force that moves all things, and on this original cosmic Force depend and act many cosmic Forces that are its powers or arise as forms of its universal action.” The Life Divine
“As there is a cosmic Self and Spirit pervading and upholding the universe and its beings, so too there is a cosmic Force that moves all things, and on this original cosmic Force depend and act many cosmic Forces that are its powers or arise as forms of its universal action.” The Life Divine
astonished ::: 1. Amazed, filled with sudden and overpowering surprise or wonder. 2. Filled with consternation; dismayed. astonishing.
astonishment ::: n. --> The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense.
Dismay; consternation.
The overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement.
The object causing such an emotion.
astonish ::: v. t. --> To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow.
To strike with sudden fear, terror, or wonder; to amaze; to surprise greatly, as with something unaccountable; to confound with some sudden emotion or passion.
Aswapati ::: Sri Aurobindo: “Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her [Savitri’s] human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; …” (Author’s Note at the beginning of Savitri.)
Aswapati ::: Sri Aurobindo: “Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her [Savitri’s] human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; …” (From a letter of Sri Aurobindo to a disciple, listed now as the Author’s Note at the beginning of Savitri.)
aswapati ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her [Savitri"s] human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; . . . .” (From a letter written by Sri Aurobindo) Aswapati"s.
AUM. ::: Same as Om (showing the three syllables separately ::: a - the spirit of the gross and external, Virāt; u - the spirit of the subtle and internal, Taijasa; m - the spirit of the secret superconscient Omnipotence, Prājna ; am - the Absolute, Turīya).
The three letters represent the Brahman or Supreme Self in its three degrees of status, the Waking Soul, the Dream Soul and the Sleep Soul and the whole potent sound rises towards that which is beyond status as beyond activity.
aura ::: “Yet all the time the universal forces are pouring into him without his knowing it. He is aware only of thoughts, feelings, etc., that rise to the surface and these he takes for his own. Really they come from outside in mind waves, vital waves, waves of feeling and sensation, etc., which take particular form in him and rise to the surface after they have got inside. But they do not get into his body at once. He carries about with him an environmental consciousness (called by the Theosophists the Aura) into which they first enter. If you can become conscious of this environmental self of yours, then you can catch the thought, passion, suggestion or force of illness and prevent it from entering into you. If things in you are thrown out, they often do not go altogether but take refuge in this environmental atmosphere and from there they try to get in again. Or they go to a distance outside but linger on the outskirts or even perhaps far off, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrance.” Letters on Yoga
aurora ::: n. --> The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.
The rise, dawn, or beginning.
The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.
A species of crowfoot.
The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or
authorises ::: gives permission for, formal approval to; sanctions or approves.
author ::: 1. An originator or creator, one who originates or gives existence to anything. 2. He who gives rise to or causes an action, event, circumstance, state, or condition of things. 3. The composer or writer of a treatise, play, poem, book, etc. authors.
autochthon ::: n. --> One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.
That which is original to a particular country, or which had there its origin.
autumn ::: n. --> The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.
The harvest or fruits of autumn.
The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third
auxiliary ::: a. --> Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. ::: n. --> A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war;
awake ::: v. 1. To arouse from sleep or inactivity. 2. Fig. To rise from a state resembling sleep, such as death, indifference, inaction; to become active or vigilant. 3. To come or bring to an awareness, to become cognizant, to be fully conscious, to appreciate fully (often followed by to). awakes, awoke, awaking. *adj.* 4. Not asleep; conscious; vigilant, alert. half-awake.
aware ::: a. --> Watchful; vigilant or on one&
backcast ::: n. --> Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse.
balloon ::: n. --> A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.
A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul&
baroscope ::: n. --> Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.
bascule ::: n. --> In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls.
beast—A god in the figure of the arisen beast
begin ::: v. i. --> To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start. ::: v. t.
begot ::: pt. of beget. 1. Caused to exist or occur; created. 2. Called into being, gave rise to; produced. begotten.
bellows ::: n. sing. & pl. --> An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind.
billow ::: n. --> A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
A great wave or flood of anything. ::: v. i. --> To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate.
bivouac ::: n. --> The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.
An encampment for the night without tents or covering. ::: v. i. --> To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.
To encamp for the night without tents or covering.
bleeder ::: n. --> One who, or that which, draws blood.
One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.
blowhole ::: n. --> A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.
A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.
A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe.
An air hole in a casting.
bockland ::: n. --> See Bookland.
Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.
bract ::: n. --> A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.
Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.
bridgeboard ::: n. --> A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.
A board or plank used as a bridge.
bronchia ::: n. pl. --> The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi.
bull ::: n. --> The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of
buoyant ::: v. t. & i. --> Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.
Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier.
Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits.
"But in the path of knowledge as it is practised in India concentration is used in a special and more limited sense. It means that removal of the thought from all distracting activities of the mind and that concentration of it on the idea of the One by which the soul rises out of the phenomenal into the one reality.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“But in the path of knowledge as it is practised in India concentration is used in a special and more limited sense. It means that removal of the thought from all distracting activities of the mind and that concentration of it on the idea of the One by which the soul rises out of the phenomenal into the one reality.” The Synthesis of Yoga
But once concentrated here one must open the silent mental consciousness upward to all that is above mind. After a time one feels the consciousness rising upward and in the end it rises beyond the lid which has so long kept it tied in the body and finds a centre above the head where it is liberated into the
calorificient ::: a. --> Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation.
camisado ::: n. --> A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack.
An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado.
capitibranchiata ::: n. pl. --> A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.
capture ::: n. --> The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.
The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
The thing taken by force, surprise, or stratagem; a prize; prey.
crises ::: pl. --> of Crisis
cerise ::: a. --> Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.
cheval-de-frise ::: n. --> A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc.
chevaux-de-frise ::: pl. --> of Cheval-de-frise
cheve ::: v. i. --> To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed; as, to cheve well in a enterprise.
circumflex ::: n. --> A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2. ::: v. t.
circumlocutory ::: a. --> Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic.
cissoid ::: n. --> A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a plane angle, and to construct two geometrical means between two given straight lines.
CITTA. ::: Tlw stuff of mixed mentaMital-phjsical conscious- ness out of which arise the movements of thought, emotion, sen-
climax ::: v. i. --> Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.
A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
The highest point; the greatest degree.
climb ::: v. i. --> To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. ::: v. t.
commencement ::: n. --> The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
comprised ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Comprise
comprise ::: v. t. --> To comprehend; to include.
compile ::: v. t. --> To put together; to construct; to build.
To contain or comprise.
To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents.
To write; to compose.
comprehend ::: v. t. --> To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.
To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply.
To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand.
comprehensible ::: a. --> Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.
Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind.
comprising ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Comprise
conchoid ::: n. --> A curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the Greek geometer, Nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube.
Conditions essfntitd for meditation ::: There are no essential external conditions, but solitude and seclusion at the time of meditation as as stillness of the body arc helpful, sometimes almost necessary to the beginner. Bui one should not bound b' external conditions. Once the habit of meditation is formed, it should be mads possible to do it in all circumstances, l.ving. sitting, walking, alone, in company, in silettce or in the midst of noise etc. The first imeroal condition necessary is concentration of the will against the obstacles to meditation. i.e. wandermg of the mind, forgetfulness, sfeep, phjsieal and nervous impatience and restlessness etc. The second is an increasing purity and calm of the inner consciousness (citia) out of which thought and emotion arise, i.e. a freedom frona all disturb i ng reactions, such as anger, grief, depression, anxiet>' about w-orldly happenings etc. Mental perfection and moral are always closely allied to each other.
confession ::: n. --> Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one&
conics ::: n. --> That branch of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise from its sections.
Conic sections.
constancy ::: n. --> The state or quality of being constant or steadfast; freedom from change; stability; fixedness; immutability; as, the constancy of God in his nature and attributes.
Fixedness or firmness of mind; persevering resolution; especially, firmness of mind under sufferings, steadiness in attachments, or perseverance in enterprise; stability; fidelity.
containable ::: a. --> Capable of being contained or comprised.
contain ::: v. t. --> To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.
To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.
To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds. ::: v. i.
cosmically ::: adv. --> With the sun at rising or setting; as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun.
Universally.
cream ::: n. --> The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.
The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.
A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.
A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.
creature ::: n. --> Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.
A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.
A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.
crepusculous ::: a. --> Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous.
Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects.
crusade ::: n. --> Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.
Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance.
A Portuguese coin. See Crusado. ::: v. i.
culture ("s) ::: the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
curious ::: a. --> Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise;
curling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Curl ::: n. --> The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.
A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron
dawn ::: n. **1. The first appearance of daylight in the morning. 2. The beginning or rise of anything; advent. dawn"s, dawns, dawn-sheen. v. 3. To begin to be perceived; appear; occur. dawns, dawned.
dawn ::: v. i. --> To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. ::: n. --> The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
daybreak ::: the time in the morning when light first appears; dawn; sunrise.
day ::: n. --> The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.
The period of the earth&
dazzle ::: v. t. --> To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light.
To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind. ::: v. i. --> To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite
decumbent ::: a. --> Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.
Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem.
delegate ::: a person authorised to act as representative for another. delegation.
delirium ::: 1. A more or less temporary disorder of the mental faculties, as in fevers, disturbances of consciousness, or intoxication, characterised by restlessness, excitement, delusions, hallucinations, etc. 2. A state of violent excitement or emotion.
delphinoidea ::: n. pl. --> The division of Cetacea which comprises the dolphins, porpoises, and related forms.
deprehend ::: v. t. --> To take unwares or by surprise; to seize, as a person commiting an unlawful act; to catch; to apprehend.
To detect; to discover; to find out.
DESIRE. ::: Desires come from outside, enter the subconscious vital and rise to the surface- It is only when they rise to the surface and the mind becomes aware of them, that we become conscious of the desire.
“… desires come from outside, enter the subconscious vital and rise to the surface. It is only when they rise to the surface and the mind becomes aware of them, that we become conscious of the desire. It seems to us to be our own because we feel it thus rising from the vital into the mind and do not know that it came from outside.” Letters on Yoga
"Destruction is always a simultaneous or alternate element which keeps pace with creation and it is by destroying and renewing that the Master of Life does his long work of preservation. More, destruction is the first condition of progress. Inwardly, the man who does not destroy his lower self-formations, cannot rise to a greater existence. Outwardly also, the nation or community or race which shrinks too long from destroying and replacing its past forms of life, is itself destroyed, rots and perishes and out of its debris other nations, communities and races are formed. By destruction of the old giant occupants man made himself a place upon earth. By destruction of the Titans the gods maintain the continuity of the divine Law in the cosmos. Whoever prematurely attempts to get rid of this law of battle and destruction, strives vainly against the greater will of the World-Spirit.” Essays on the Gita
“Destruction is always a simultaneous or alternate element which keeps pace with creation and it is by destroying and renewing that the Master of Life does his long work of preservation. More, destruction is the first condition of progress. Inwardly, the man who does not destroy his lower self-formations, cannot rise to a greater existence. Outwardly also, the nation or community or race which shrinks too long from destroying and replacing its past forms of life, is itself destroyed, rots and perishes and out of its debris other nations, communities and races are formed. By destruction of the old giant occupants man made himself a place upon earth. By destruction of the Titans the gods maintain the continuity of the divine Law in the cosmos. Whoever prematurely attempts to get rid of this law of battle and destruction, strives vainly against the greater will of the World-Spirit.” Essays on the Gita
devil ::: n. --> The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.
An evil spirit; a demon.
A very wicked person; hence, any great evil.
An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation.
A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
dictum ::: n. --> An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.
A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
An arbitrament or award.
DIFFICULTIES. ::: All who enter the spiritual path harc to face the difficulties and ordeals of the path, those which rise from their own nature and those which come in from outside.
difficulty ::: n. --> The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.
Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.
DISTURBANCES. ::: There are always two things that can rise up and assail the silence — vital suggestions, the physical mind’s mechanical recurrences. Calm rejection for both is the cure
Divine, he holds in himself the -world-existence and it is in his consciousness that it moves, so by entering into the Supreme one rises above subjection to Nature, but one docs not disappear from all consciousness of world-extstcncc.
divine life ::: Sri Aurobindo: "A life of gnostic beings carrying the evolution to a higher supramental status might fitly be characterised as a divine life; for it would be a life in the Divine, a life of the beginnings of a spiritual divine light and power and joy manifested in material Nature.” *The Life Divine ::: "The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man"s real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would be only an insect crawling among other ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.” The Life Divine
dotal ::: a. --> Pertaining to dower, or a woman&
DOUBLE MOVEMENT. ::: Our yoga is a double movement of ascent and descent ; one rises to higher and higher levels of consciousness, but at the same time one brings down their power not only into mind and life, but in the end even into the body.
dowitcher ::: n. --> The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.
duel ::: n. --> A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other. ::: v. i. & t. --> To fight in single combat.
duodecimal ::: a. --> Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale of twelves. ::: n. --> A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch.
A system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by
east ::: n. --> The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west.
The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China,
Ecstasy ::: “It has been held that ecstasy is a lower and transient passage, the peace of the Supreme is the supreme realisation, the consummate abiding experience. This may be true on the spiritual-mind plane: there the first ecstasy felt is indeed a spiritual rapture, but it can be and is very usually mingled with a supreme happiness of the vital parts taken up by the Spirit; there is an exaltation, exultation, excitement, a highest intensity of the joy of the heart and the pure inner soul-sensation that can be a splendid passage or an uplifting force but is not the ultimate permanent foundation. But in the highest ascents of the spiritual bliss there is not this vehement exaltation and excitement; there is instead an illimitable intensity of participation in an eternal ecstasy which is founded on the eternal Existence and therefore on a beatific tranquillity of eternal peace. Peace and ecstasy cease to be different and become one. The Supermind, reconciling and fusing all differences as well as all contradictions, brings out this unity; a wide calm and a deep delight of all-existence are among its first steps of self-realisation, but this calm and this delight rise together, as one state, into an increasing intensity and culminate in the eternal ecstasy, the bliss that is the Infinite.” The Life Divine
egad ::: interj. --> An exclamation expressing exultation or surprise, etc.
eh ::: interj. --> An expression of inquiry or slight surprise.
emanate ::: v. i. --> To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.
To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate. ::: a. --> Issuing forth; emanant.
emboss ::: v. t. --> To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.
To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.
To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.
To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
emerge ::: 1. To come forth into view or notice, as from concealment, or obscurity. 2. To rise or come forth from or as if from water or other liquid. 3. To come into existence; develop. 4. To rise, as from an inferior or unfortunate state or condition. emerges, emerged, emerging.
emerge ::: v. i. --> To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity.
emprise ::: n. --> An enterprise; endeavor; adventure.
The qualifies which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits. ::: v. t. --> To undertake.
emydea ::: n. pl. --> A group of chelonians which comprises many species of fresh-water tortoises and terrapins.
engagement ::: n. --> The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.
That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office.
engender ::: 1. To give rise to, produce, cause (a state of things, a disease, force, quality, feeling, etc.). 2. To beget; procreate. engenders, engendered, engendering.
engineer ::: n. --> A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.
One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager. ::: v. t.
enlist ::: v. t. --> To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.
To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise. ::: v. i.
enterocoele ::: n. --> A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo.
enterprise ::: n. --> That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise.
Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.
enterpriser ::: n. --> One who undertakes enterprises.
enterprising ::: a. --> Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm.
entrepreneur ::: n. --> One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed.
epigram ::: n. --> A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character.
An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.
The style of the epigram.
epoch ::: n. --> A fixed point of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event; a point of time marked by an event of great subsequent influence; as, the epoch of the creation; the birth of Christ was the epoch which gave rise to the Christian era.
A period of time, longer or shorter, remarkable for events of great subsequent influence; a memorable period; as, the epoch of maritime discovery, or of the Reformation.
A division of time characterized by the prevalence of
event ::: n. --> That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.
An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations, terminates. ::: v. t.
exalt ::: v. t. --> To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.
To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency.
To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify.
To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.
exclamation ::: n. --> A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.
A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also exclamation point.
exhalation ::: n. --> The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.
That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc.
A bright phenomenon; a meteor.
EXPANSION OF THE HEAD. ::: The seeming expansion of the head is due to the joining of the mind with the consciousness ol the Sell or Divine above. That consciousness is wide and illimitable and, when one rises into it, the individual conscious- ness also breaks its limits and feels wide and illimitable.
expediency ::: n. --> The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.
Expedition; haste; dispatch.
An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
expedition ::: n. --> The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a
faith ::: “Faith is a necessary means for arriving at realisation, because we are ignorant and do not yet know that which we are seeking to realise; faith is indeed knowledge giving the ignorance an intimation of itself previous to its own manifestation, it is the gleam sent before by the yet unrisen Sun. When the Sun shall rise, there will be no longer any need of the gleam.” Letters on Yoga
Faithfulness to the Light and the Call — to refuse to listen to any suggestions, impulses, lures and to oppose to them all the call of the Truth, the imperative beckoning of the Light. In all doubt and depression, to say, “ I belong to the Divine, I cannot fail ” ; to all suggestions of impurity and unfitness, to reply, “ I am a child of Immortality chosen by the Divine ; I have but to be true to myself and to Him — the victory is sure ; even if I fell, I would rise again " ; to all impulses to depart and serve some smaller ideal, to reply, "This is the greatest, this is the Truth that alone can satisfy the soul within me ;
Faith is a necessary means for arriving at realisation, because we arc ignorant and do not yet know that which we arc seeking to realise ; faith is indeed knowledge giving the ignorance an intimation of itself previous to its own manifestation, it is the gleam sent before by the yet unrisen Sun.
feathering ::: n. --> Same as Foliation.
The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t. ::: v. t. --> A covering of feathers.
figurehead ::: n. --> The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.
A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.
flood ::: n. **1. A large body of water; a great flow or stream of any fluid; any great overwhelming quantity, also poet. & fig. 2. The rise and flowing in of the tide. 3. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land. 4. Any great outpouring or stream. floods. v. 5. To flow or pour in or as if in a flood. flooded, flooding. ::: And heard the questioning of the unsatisfied flood **
flood ::: v. i. --> A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely
flop ::: v. t. --> To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. ::: v. i. --> To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim
fly ::: v. i. --> To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.
To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.
To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies.
To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee.
folly ::: n. --> The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.
Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.
The result of a foolish action or enterprise.
For the powers of our mind, life and body are bound to their own limitations and, however high they may rise or however widely expand, they cannot rise above their natural ultimate limits or expand beyond them. But still, mental man can open to what is beyond him and calf down a supramental Light, Truth and
fountain ::: 1. The source or origin of anything. 2. A jet or stream of water made by artificial means to spout or rise from an opening or structure, as to afford water for use, to cool the air, or to serve for ornament. fountain"s, fountains.
fountain ::: n. --> A spring of water issuing from the earth.
An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.
A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.
furnish ::: v. t. --> To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house.
To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish
gasometer ::: n. --> An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required.
gastrula ::: n. --> An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastraea.
griseous ::: a. --> Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly.
grise ::: pl. --> of Gree ::: n. --> See Grice, a pig.
A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
grisette ::: n. --> A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry.
gloppen ::: v. t. & i. --> To surprise or astonish; to be startled or astonished.
gonad ::: n. --> One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland.
good now ::: --> An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty.
grade ::: n. --> A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.
The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.
gramercy ::: interj. --> A word formerly used to express thankfulness, with surprise; many thanks.
grampus ::: n. --> A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.
A kind of tongs used in a bloomery.
grass tree ::: --> An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides.
A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis).
grivet ::: n. --> A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota.
grize ::: pl. --> of Gree ::: n. --> Same as 2d Grise.
guard ::: n. --> To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; to protect by attendance; to accompany for protection; to care for.
To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
To protect the edge of, esp. with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
hagiographa ::: n. pl. --> The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.
The lives of the saints.
ha ::: interj. --> An exclamation denoting surprise, joy, or grief. Both as uttered and as written, it expresses a great variety of emotions, determined by the tone or the context. When repeated, ha, ha, it is an expression of laughter, satisfaction, or triumph, sometimes of derisive laughter; or sometimes it is equivalent to "Well, it is so."
Hamsa ::: Synnbol of the being; it regains its original puritj' as it rises until it becomes luminous in the Highest Truth ; goose or ordinary hamsa usually refers to the manomaya piirufa.
heart ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The heart in Vedic psychology is not restricted to the seat of the emotions; it includes all that large tract of spontaneous mentality, nearest to the subconscient in us, out of which rise the sensations, emotions, instincts, impulses and all those intuitions and inspirations that travel through these agencies before they arrive at form in the intelligence.” *The Secret of the Veda
heart ::: “The heart in Vedic psychology is not restricted to the seat of the emotions; it includes all that large tract of spontaneous mentality, nearest to the subconscient in us, out of which rise the sensations, emotions, instincts, impulses and all those intuitions and inspirations that travel through these agencies before they arrive at form in the intelligence.” The Secret of the Veda
heave ::: n. 1. The act of lifting something with great effort. heavings. v. 2. To rise up or swell, as if pushed up; bulge. 3. An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling). heaves, heaved.
heigh-ho ::: interj. --> An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc.
height ::: n. --> The condition of being high; elevated position.
The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature.
Degree of latitude either north or south.
That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights.
herodian ::: n. --> One of a party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee. They joined with the Pharisees against Christ.
heroic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.
Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.
Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure.
hero ::: n. --> An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.
A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person.
The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the
hey ::: a. --> High. ::: interj. --> An exclamation of joy, surprise, or encouragement.
A cry to set dogs on.
high ::: v. i. --> To hie.
To rise; as, the sun higheth. ::: superl. --> Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree;
hoity-toity ::: a. --> Thoughtless; giddy; flighty; also, haughty; patronizing; as, to be in hoity-toity spirits, or to assume hoity-toity airs; used also as an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt.
homogenetic ::: a. --> Homogenous; -- applied to that class of homologies which arise from similarity of structure, and which are taken as evidences of common ancestry.
homogeny ::: n. --> Joint nature.
The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since
hove ::: --> of Heave
of Heave
imp. & p. p. of Heave. ::: v. i. & t. --> To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell.
hummock ::: n. --> A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.
A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field.
Timbered land. See Hammock.
humph ::: interj. --> An exclamation denoting surprise, or contempt, doubt, etc.
“I am here with thee in thy chariot of battle revealed as the Master of Existence within and without thee and I repeat the absolute assurance, the infallible promise that I will lead thee to myself through and beyond all sorrow and evil. Whatever difficulties and perplexities arise, be sure of this that I am leading thee to a complete divine life in the universal and an immortal existence in the transcendent Spirit.” Essays on the Gita
irised ::: a. --> Having colors like those of the rainbow; iridescent.
irised ::: having colours like those of the rainbow; iridescent.
irises ::: pl. --> of Iris
ichneumon ::: n. --> Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.
If (he object is to rise to supraphysical pJanes, (hen also there is no need of supramcntalisation. One can enter into some heasen above by devotion to the l.ord of that heaven.
illumined mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of the spiritual intelligence, its tranquil daylight, gives place or subordinates itself to an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination of the Spirit: a play of lightnings of spiritual truth and power breaks from above into the consciousness and adds to the calm and wide enlightenment and the vast descent of peace which characterise or accompany the action of the larger conceptual-spiritual principle, a fiery ardour of realisation and a rapturous ecstasy of knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"The Illumined Mind does not work primarily by thought, but by vision; . . . .” The Life Divine
"As the Higher Mind brings a greater consciousness into the being through the spiritual idea and its power of truth, so the Illumined Mind brings in a still greater consciousness through a Truth-sight and Truth-light and its seeing and seizing power.” The Life Divine*
implicit ::: a. --> Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved.
Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; implied; as, an implicit contract or agreement.
Resting on another; trusting in the word or authority of another, without doubt or reserve; unquestioning; complete; as, implicit confidence; implicit obedience.
impromptu ::: something that arises spontaneously or comes without previous preparation or premeditation. impromptus.
Inactivity is an atmosphere in which sex easily rises.
INCAPACITY. ::: There is a part in the physical and vital consciousness of every human being that has not the will for sadhana, docs not feel the capacity for it, distrusts any hope or promise of a spiritual future and is inert and indifferent to any such thing. At one period in the course of the sadhana this rises up and one feels identified with it.
incline ::: n. 1. A steep slope or rise. *v. 2. To bow, nod, or bend (the head, body, etc.). 3. To dispose (a person) in mind, habit, etc. (usually followed by to). 4. To listen, especially willingly or favourably. *inclined, inclining.
include ::: v. t. --> To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.
To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five.
indeed ::: adv. --> In reality; in truth; in fact; verily; truly; -- used in a variety of sense. Esp.: (a) Denoting emphasis; as, indeed it is so. (b) Denoting concession or admission; as, indeed, you are right. (c) Denoting surprise; as, indeed, is it you? Its meaning is not intrinsic or fixed, but depends largely on the form of expression which it accompanies.
• individual being is subjected to Nature which acts here as the lower Prakriti, a force of Ignorance, Avidya. The Purusha in itself is divine, but exteriorised in the ignorance of Nature it is the individual apparent being imperfect with her imperfection.
indulgent ::: characterised by benign leniency or permissiveness; forbearing, tolerant. indulgence.
ingenious ::: 1. Characterised by cleverness or originality of invention or construction. 2. Cleverly inventive or resourceful. ingeniously.
inquisition ::: an official investigation, esp. one of a political or religious nature, characterised by a lack of regard for individual rights, prejudice on the part of the examiners, and recklessly cruel punishments.
::: ". . . in such a view, the word consciousness changes its meaning. It is no longer synonymous with mentality but indicates a self-aware force of existence of which mentality is a middle term; below mentality it sinks into vital and material movements which are for us subconscient; above, it rises into the supramental which is for us the superconscient. But in all it is one and the same thing organising itself differently. This is, once more, the Indian conception of Chit which, as energy, creates the worlds.” *The Life Divine
“… in such a view, the word consciousness changes its meaning. It is no longer synonymous with mentality but indicates a self-aware force of existence of which mentality is a middle term; below mentality it sinks into vital and material movements which are for us subconscient; above, it rises into the supramental which is for us the superconscient. But in all it is one and the same thing organising itself differently. This is, once more, the Indian conception of Chit which, as energy, creates the worlds.” The Life Divine
insurgent ::: a. --> Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious. ::: n. --> A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.
INTEGRAL YOGA ::: This yoga accepts the value of cosmic existence and holds it to be a reality; its object is to enter into a higher Truth-Consciousness or Divine Supramental Consciousness in which action and creation are the expression not of ignorance and imperfection, but of the Truth, the Light, the Divine Ānanda. But for that, the surrender of the mortal mind, life and body to the Higher Consciousnessis indispensable, since it is too difficult for the mortal human being to pass by its own effort beyond mind to a Supramental Consciousness in which the dynamism is no longer mental but of quite another power. Only those who can accept the call to such a change should enter into this yoga.
Aim of the Integral Yoga ::: It is not merely to rise out of the ordinary ignorant world-consciousness into the divine consciousness, but to bring the supramental power of that divine consciousness down into the ignorance of mind, life and body, to transform them, to manifest the Divine here and create a divine life in Matter.
Conditions of the Integral Yoga ::: This yoga can only be done to the end by those who are in total earnest about it and ready to abolish their little human ego and its demands in order to find themselves in the Divine. It cannot be done in a spirit of levity or laxity; the work is too high and difficult, the adverse powers in the lower Nature too ready to take advantage of the least sanction or the smallest opening, the aspiration and tapasyā needed too constant and intense.
Method in the Integral Yoga ::: To concentrate, preferably in the heart and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up the being and by the workings of her force transform the consciousness. One can concentrate also in the head or between the eye-brows, but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspiration intense, then there is the beginning of experience. The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be. For the rest one must not depend on one’s own efforts only, but succeed in establishing a contact with the Divine and a receptivity to the Mother’s Power and Presence.
Integral method ::: The method we have to pursue is to put our whole conscious being into relation and contact with the Divine and to call Him in to transform Our entire being into His, so that in a sense God Himself, the real Person in us, becomes the sādhaka of the sādhana* as well as the Master of the Yoga by whom the lower personality is used as the centre of a divine transfiguration and the instrument of its own perfection. In effect, the pressure of the Tapas, the force of consciousness in us dwelling in the Idea of the divine Nature upon that which we are in our entirety, produces its own realisation. The divine and all-knowing and all-effecting descends upon the limited and obscure, progressively illumines and energises the whole lower nature and substitutes its own action for all the terms of the inferior human light and mortal activity.
In psychological fact this method translates itself into the progressive surrender of the ego with its whole field and all its apparatus to the Beyond-ego with its vast and incalculable but always inevitable workings. Certainly, this is no short cut or easy sādhana. It requires a colossal faith, an absolute courage and above all an unflinching patience. For it implies three stages of which only the last can be wholly blissful or rapid, - the attempt of the ego to enter into contact with the Divine, the wide, full and therefore laborious preparation of the whole lower Nature by the divine working to receive and become the higher Nature, and the eventual transformation. In fact, however, the divine strength, often unobserved and behind the veil, substitutes itself for the weakness and supports us through all our failings of faith, courage and patience. It” makes the blind to see and the lame to stride over the hills.” The intellect becomes aware of a Law that beneficently insists and a Succour that upholds; the heart speaks of a Master of all things and Friend of man or a universal Mother who upholds through all stumblings. Therefore this path is at once the most difficult imaginable and yet in comparison with the magnitude of its effort and object, the most easy and sure of all.
There are three outstanding features of this action of the higher when it works integrally on the lower nature. In the first place, it does not act according to a fixed system and succession as in the specialised methods of Yoga, but with a sort of free, scattered and yet gradually intensive and purposeful working determined by the temperament of the individual in whom it operates, the helpful materials which his nature offers and the obstacles which it presents to purification and perfection. In a sense, therefore, each man in this path has his own method of Yoga. Yet are there certain broad lines of working common to all which enable us to construct not indeed a routine system, but yet some kind of Shastra or scientific method of the synthetic Yoga.
Secondly, the process, being integral, accepts our nature such as it stands organised by our past evolution and without rejecting anything essential compels all to undergo a divine change. Everything in us is seized by the hands of a mighty Artificer and transformed into a clear image of that which it now seeks confusedly to present. In that ever-progressive experience we begin to perceive how this lower manifestation is constituted and that everything in it, however seemingly deformed or petty or vile, is the more or less distorted or imperfect figure of some elements or action in the harmony of the divine Nature. We begin to understand what the Vedic Rishis meant when they spoke of the human forefathers fashioning the gods as a smith forges the crude material in his smithy.
Thirdly, the divine Power in us uses all life as the means of this integral Yoga. Every experience and outer contact with our world-environment, however trifling or however disastrous, is used for the work, and every inner experience, even to the most repellent suffering or the most humiliating fall, becomes a step on the path to perfection. And we recognise in ourselves with opened eyes the method of God in the world, His purpose of light in the obscure, of might in the weak and fallen, of delight in what is grievous and miserable. We see the divine method to be the same in the lower and in the higher working; only in the one it is pursued tardily and obscurely through the subconscious in Nature, in the other it becomes swift and selfconscious and the instrument confesses the hand of the Master. All life is a Yoga of Nature seeking to manifest God within itself. Yoga marks the stage at which this effort becomes capable of self-awareness and therefore of right completion in the individual. It is a gathering up and concentration of the movements dispersed and loosely combined in the lower evolution.
Key-methods ::: The way to devotion and surrender. It is the psychic movement that brings the constant and pure devotion and the removal of the ego that makes it possible to surrender.
The way to knowledge. Meditation in the head by which there comes the opening above, the quietude or silence of the mind and the descent of peace etc. of the higher consciousness generally till it envelops the being and fills the body and begins to take up all the movements.
Yoga by works ::: Separation of the Purusha from the Prakriti, the inner silent being from the outer active one, so that one has two consciousnesses or a double consciousness, one behind watching and observing and finally controlling and changing the other which is active in front. The other way of beginning the yoga of works is by doing them for the Divine, for the Mother, and not for oneself, consecrating and dedicating them till one concretely feels the Divine Force taking up the activities and doing them for one.
Object of the Integral Yoga is to enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine’s sake alone, to be tuned in our nature into the nature of the Divine, and in our will and works and life to be the instrument of the Divine.
Principle of the Integral Yoga ::: The whole principle of Integral Yoga is to give oneself entirely to the Divine alone and to nobody else, and to bring down into ourselves by union with the Divine Mother all the transcendent light, power, wideness, peace, purity, truth-consciousness and Ānanda of the Supramental Divine.
Central purpose of the Integral Yoga ::: Transformation of our superficial, narrow and fragmentary human way of thinking, seeing, feeling and being into a deep and wide spiritual consciousness and an integrated inner and outer existence and of our ordinary human living into the divine way of life.
Fundamental realisations of the Integral Yoga ::: The psychic change so that a complete devotion can be the main motive of the heart and the ruler of thought, life and action in constant union with the Mother and in her Presence. The descent of the Peace, Power, Light etc. of the Higher Consciousness through the head and heart into the whole being, occupying the very cells of the body. The perception of the One and Divine infinitely everywhere, the Mother everywhere and living in that infinite consciousness.
Results ::: First, an integral realisation of Divine Being; not only a realisation of the One in its indistinguishable unity, but also in its multitude of aspects which are also necessary to the complete knowledge of it by the relative consciousness; not only realisation of unity in the Self, but of unity in the infinite diversity of activities, worlds and creatures.
Therefore, also, an integral liberation. Not only the freedom born of unbroken contact of the individual being in all its parts with the Divine, sāyujya mukti, by which it becomes free even in its separation, even in the duality; not only the sālokya mukti by which the whole conscious existence dwells in the same status of being as the Divine, in the state of Sachchidananda ; but also the acquisition of the divine nature by the transformation of this lower being into the human image of the divine, sādharmya mukti, and the complete and final release of all, the liberation of the consciousness from the transitory mould of the ego and its unification with the One Being, universal both in the world and the individual and transcendentally one both in the world and beyond all universe.
By this integral realisation and liberation, the perfect harmony of the results of Knowledge, Love and Works. For there is attained the complete release from ego and identification in being with the One in all and beyond all. But since the attaining consciousness is not limited by its attainment, we win also the unity in Beatitude and the harmonised diversity in Love, so that all relations of the play remain possible to us even while we retain on the heights of our being the eternal oneness with the Beloved. And by a similar wideness, being capable of a freedom in spirit that embraces life and does not depend upon withdrawal from life, we are able to become without egoism, bondage or reaction the channel in our mind and body for a divine action poured out freely upon the world.
The divine existence is of the nature not only of freedom, but of purity, beatitude and perfection. In integral purity which shall enable on the one hand the perfect reflection of the divine Being in ourselves and on the other the perfect outpouring of its Truth and Law in us in the terms of life and through the right functioning of the complex instrument we are in our outer parts, is the condition of an integral liberty. Its result is an integral beatitude, in which there becomes possible at once the Ānanda of all that is in the world seen as symbols of the Divine and the Ānanda of that which is not-world. And it prepares the integral perfection of our humanity as a type of the Divine in the conditions of the human manifestation, a perfection founded on a certain free universality of being, of love and joy, of play of knowledge and of play of will in power and will in unegoistic action. This integrality also can be attained by the integral Yoga.
Sādhanā of the Integral Yoga does not proceed through any set mental teaching or prescribed forms of meditation, mantras or others, but by aspiration, by a self-concentration inwards or upwards, by a self-opening to an Influence, to the Divine Power above us and its workings, to the Divine Presence in the heart and by the rejection of all that is foreign to these things. It is only by faith, aspiration and surrender that this self-opening can come.
The yoga does not proceed by upadeśa but by inner influence.
Integral Yoga and Gita ::: The Gita’s Yoga consists in the offering of one’s work as a sacrifice to the Divine, the conquest of desire, egoless and desireless action, bhakti for the Divine, an entering into the cosmic consciousness, the sense of unity with all creatures, oneness with the Divine. This yoga adds the bringing down of the supramental Light and Force (its ultimate aim) and the transformation of the nature.
Our yoga is not identical with the yoga of the Gita although it contains all that is essential in the Gita’s yoga. In our yoga we begin with the idea, the will, the aspiration of the complete surrender; but at the same time we have to reject the lower nature, deliver our consciousness from it, deliver the self involved in the lower nature by the self rising to freedom in the higher nature. If we do not do this double movement, we are in danger of making a tamasic and therefore unreal surrender, making no effort, no tapas and therefore no progress ; or else we make a rajasic surrender not to the Divine but to some self-made false idea or image of the Divine which masks our rajasic ego or something still worse.
Integral Yoga, Gita and Tantra ::: The Gita follows the Vedantic tradition which leans entirely on the Ishvara aspect of the Divine and speaks little of the Divine Mother because its object is to draw back from world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation beyond it.
The Tantric tradition leans on the Shakti or Ishvari aspect and makes all depend on the Divine Mother because its object is to possess and dominate the world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation through it.
This yoga insists on both the aspects; the surrender to the Divine Mother is essential, for without it there is no fulfilment of the object of the yoga.
Integral Yoga and Hatha-Raja Yogas ::: For an integral yoga the special methods of Rajayoga and Hathayoga may be useful at times in certain stages of the progress, but are not indispensable. Their principal aims must be included in the integrality of the yoga; but they can be brought about by other means. For the methods of the integral yoga must be mainly spiritual, and dependence on physical methods or fixed psychic or psychophysical processes on a large scale would be the substitution of a lower for a higher action. Integral Yoga and Kundalini Yoga: There is a feeling of waves surging up, mounting to the head, which brings an outer unconsciousness and an inner waking. It is the ascending of the lower consciousness in the ādhāra to meet the greater consciousness above. It is a movement analogous to that on which so much stress is laid in the Tantric process, the awakening of the Kundalini, the Energy coiled up and latent in the body and its mounting through the spinal cord and the centres (cakras) and the Brahmarandhra to meet the Divine above. In our yoga it is not a specialised process, but a spontaneous upnish of the whole lower consciousness sometimes in currents or waves, sometimes in a less concrete motion, and on the other side a descent of the Divine Consciousness and its Force into the body.
Integral Yoga and other Yogas ::: The old yogas reach Sachchidananda through the spiritualised mind and depart into the eternally static oneness of Sachchidananda or rather pure Sat (Existence), absolute and eternal or else a pure Non-exist- ence, absolute and eternal. Ours having realised Sachchidananda in the spiritualised mind plane proceeds to realise it in the Supramcntal plane.
The suprcfhe supra-cosmic Sachchidananda is above all. Supermind may be described as its power of self-awareness and W’orld- awareness, the world being known as within itself and not out- side. So to live consciously in the supreme Sachchidananda one must pass through the Supermind.
Distinction ::: The realisation of Self and of the Cosmic being (without which the realisation of the Self is incomplete) are essential steps in our yoga ; it is the end of other yogas, but it is, as it were, the beginning of outs, that is to say, the point where its own characteristic realisation can commence.
It is new as compared with the old yogas (1) Because it aims not at a departure out of world and life into Heaven and Nir- vana, but at a change of life and existence, not as something subordinate or incidental, but as a distinct and central object.
If there is a descent in other yogas, yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent — the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent. It is the descent of the new coosdousness attain- ed by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sadhana. Even the Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life ; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life.
(2) Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth-consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic acbievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing of a Power of consciousness (the Supramental) not yet organised or active directly in earth-nature, even in the spiritual life, but yet to be organised and made directly active.
(3) Because a method has been preconized for achieving this purpose which is as total and integral as the aim set before it, viz., the total and integral change of the consciousness and nature, taking up old methods, but only as a part action and present aid to others that are distinctive.
Integral Yoga and Patanjali Yoga ::: Cilia is the stuff of mixed mental-vital-physical consciousness out of which arise the movements of thought, emotion, sensation, impulse etc.
It is these that in the Patanjali system have to be stilled altogether so that the consciousness may be immobile and go into Samadhi.
Our yoga has a different function. The movements of the ordinary consciousness have to be quieted and into the quietude there has to be brought down a higher consciousness and its powers which will transform the nature.
internationalize ::: v. t. --> To make international; to cause to affect the mutual relations of two or more nations; as, to internationalize a principle of law, or a philanthropic enterprise.
internode ::: n. --> The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise.
A part between two joints; a segment; specifically, one of the phalanges.
In the individual evolution, one must develop in oneself a zone corresponding to the overmind and an overmind consciousness, before one can rise above it, to the Supermind, or open oneself to it.
In this yoga heart should be the main centre of concentration until the consciousness rises above.
intoxication ::: n. --> A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.
The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk.
A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness.
irisated ::: a. --> Exhibiting the prismatic colors; irised; iridescent.
"It is a reference to the beings met in the vital world, that seem like human beings but, if one looks closely, they are seen to be Hostiles; often assuming the appearance of a familiar face they try to tempt or attack by surprise, and betray the stamp of their origin — there is also a hint that on earth too they take up human bodies or possess them for their own purpose.” Letters on Savitri
“It is a reference to the beings met in the vital world, that seem like human beings but, if one looks closely, they are seen to be Hostiles; often assuming the appearance of a familiar face they try to tempt or attack by surprise, and betray the stamp of their origin—there is also a hint that on earth too they take up human bodies or possess them for their own purpose.” Letters on Savitri
It is usual for these resistances to rise up, for they have to manifest themselves in order that they may be dealt with and thrown out. It is best not to struggle with the resistances but to stand back from them, observe as witness, reject these move- ments and call on the Divine Power to remove them.
Jhumur: “Law is capital, it has to be! It is a very powerful dominating force, a force of resistance, a force of refusal, whatever in us denies the acceptance of light. If this law were not there then there would be an immediate rising into the light and there would be perhaps no play of the manifestation. For a long time there was a kind of a backward pull for each forward attempt so that you would have to work your way up from below and these lower levels have their very strong demands or pulls to resist. Slowly you have to take up all these movements and rise, otherwise the spirit would have risen really without any restriction and that would not have been what the divine intention was, to manifest here in the inconscient, the Divine.”
journalistic ::: a. --> Pertaining to journals or to journalists; contained in, or characteristic of, the public journals; as journalistic literature or enterprise.
karreo ::: n. --> One of the dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations.
katabolic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to katabolism; as, katabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.
KUNDALINI. ::: There is a Yoga-Shakti lying coiled or asleep in the inner body, not active. When one does yoga, this force uncoils itself and rises upward to meet the Divine Consciousness and Force that are waiting above us. When this happens, when
lackaday ::: interj. --> Alack the day; alas; -- an expression of sorrow, regret, dissatisfaction, or surprise.
la ::: n. --> A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization.
The tone A; -- so called among the French and Italians. ::: interj. --> Look; see; behold; -- sometimes followed by you.
An exclamation of surprise; -- commonly followed by me;
larypgismus ::: n. --> A spasmodic state of the glottis, giving rise to contraction or closure of the opening.
launch ::: v. i. --> To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.
To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.
To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.
To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the
levant ::: a. --> Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
Eastern. ::: n. --> The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
levitate ::: v. i. --> To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate. ::: v. t. --> To make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table.
::: "Liberty in one shape or another ranks among the most ancient and certainly among the most difficult aspirations of our race: it arises from a radical instinct of our being and is yet opposed to all our circumstances, it is our eternal good and our condition of perfection, but our temporal being has failed to find its key. That perhaps is because true freedom is only possible if we live in the infinite, live, as the Vedanta bids us, in and from our self-existent being; but our natural and temporal energies seek for it first not in ourselves, but in our external conditions. This great indefinable thing, liberty, is in its highest and ultimate sense a state of being; it is self living in itself and determining by its own energy what is shall be inwardly and, eventually, by the growth of a divine spiritual power within determining too what it shall make of its external circumstances and environment." War and Self-Determination
“Liberty in one shape or another ranks among the most ancient and certainly among the most difficult aspirations of our race: it arises from a radical instinct of our being and is yet opposed to all our circumstances, it is our eternal good and our condition of perfection, but our temporal being has failed to find its key. That perhaps is because true freedom is only possible if we live in the infinite, live, as the Vedanta bids us, in and from our self-existent being; but our natural and temporal energies seek for it first not in ourselves, but in our external conditions. This great indefinable thing, liberty, is in its highest and ultimate sense a state of being; it is self living in itself and determining by its own energy what is shall be inwardly and, eventually, by the growth of a divine spiritual power within determining too what it shall make of its external circumstances and environment.” War and Self-Determination
ll'oj'S' to remove jear ::: By bringing down strength and calm into the lower vital (region below the navel). Also by will and imposing calm on the system when the fear arises. It can be done in either way or both together.
lotus (as chakra) ::: Sri Aurobindo: "This arrangement of the psychic body is reproduced in the physical with the spinal column as a rod and the ganglionic centres as the chakras which rise up from the bottom of the column, where the lowest is attached, to the brain and find their summit in the brahmarandhra at the top of the skull. These chakras or lotuses, however, are in physical man closed or only partly open, with the consequence that only such powers and only so much of them are active in him as are sufficient for his ordinary physical life, and so much mind and soul only is at play as will accord with its need. This is the real reason, looked at from the mechanical point of view, why the embodied soul seems so dependent on the bodily and nervous life, — though the dependence is neither so complete nor so real as it seems. The whole energy of the soul is not at play in the physical body and life, the secret powers of mind are not awake in it, the bodily and nervous energies predominate. But all the while the supreme energy is there, asleep; it is said to be coiled up and slumbering like a snake, — therefore it is called the kundalinî sakti, — in the lowest of the chakras, in the mûlâdhâra.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"Love is the crown of all being and its way of fulfilment, that by which it rises to all intensity and all fullness and the ecstasy of utter self-finding.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“Love is the crown of all being and its way of fulfilment, that by which it rises to all intensity and all fullness and the ecstasy of utter self-finding.” The Synthesis of Yoga
Lower vital ::: Anger, fear, jealousy, touch the heart no doubt just as they touch the mind but they rise from the navel region and entrails (i.e., the lower or at highest the middle vital).
machinery ::: n. --> Machines, in general, or collectively.
The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.
The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected.
The means and appliances by which anything is kept in
Madhav: “The arisen beast is man who has emerged from the animal state and though Aswapathy wears that form, he is a god.” The Book of the Divine Mother
mainprised ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Mainprise
mainprise ::: n. --> A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner&
mainpernable ::: a. --> Capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised.
mainpernor ::: n. --> A surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner&
mainprising ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Mainprise
malaria ::: n. --> Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.
A morbid condition produced by exhalations from decaying vegetable matter in contact with moisture, giving rise to fever and ague and many other symptoms characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals.
"Man is God hiding himself from Nature so that he may possess her by struggle, insistence, violence and surprise. God is universal and transcendent Man hiding himself from his own individuality in the human being.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Man is God hiding himself from Nature so that he may possess her by struggle, insistence, violence and surprise. God is universal and transcendent Man hiding himself from his own individuality in the human being.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
marvel ::: n. --> That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.
Wonder. ::: v. i. --> To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to wonder.
marvelous ::: n. --> Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
Partaking of the character of miracle, or supernatural power; incredible.
master of Existence ::: Sri Aurobindo: "I am here with thee in thy chariot of battle revealed as the Master of Existence within and without thee and I repeat the absolute assurance, the infallible promise that I will lead thee to myself through and beyond all sorrow and evil. Whatever difficulties and perplexities arise, be sure of this that I am leading thee to a complete divine life in the universal and an immortal existence in the transcendent Spirit.” Essays on the Gita
Maya ::: “Maya in its original sense meant a comprehending and containing consciousness capable of embracing, measuring and limiting and therefore formative; it is that which outlines, measures out, moulds forms in the formless, psychologises and seems to make knowable the Unknowable, geometrises and seems to make measurable the limitless. Later the word came from its original sense of knowledge, skill, intelligence to acquire a pejorative sense of cunning, fraud or illusion, and it is in the figure of an enchantment or illusion that it is used by the philosophical systems.” The Life Divine
Maya ::: Sri Aurobindo: “Maya in its original sense meant a comprehending and containing consciousness capable of embracing, measuring and limiting and therefore formative; it is that which outlines, measures out, moulds forms in the formless, psychologises and seems to make knowable the Unknowable, geometrises and seems to make measurable the limitless. Later the word came from its original sense of knowledge, skill, intelligence to acquire a pejorative sense of cunning, fraud or illusion, and it is in the figure of an enchantment or illusion that it is used by the philosophical systems.” The Life Divine
maya ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Maya in its original sense meant a comprehending and containing consciousness capable of embracing, measuring and limiting and therefore formative; it is that which outlines, measures out, moulds forms in the formless, psychologises and seems to make knowable the Unknowable, geometrises and seems to make measurable the limitless. Later the word came from its original sense of knowledge, skill, intelligence to acquire a pejorative sense of cunning, fraud or illusion, and it is in the figure of an enchantment or illusion that it is used by the philosophical systems.” *The Life Divine
meditation ::: Sri Aurobindo: "There are two words used in English to express the Indian idea of dhyana , ‘meditation" and ‘contemplation". Meditation means properly the concentration of the mind on a single train of ideas which work out a single subject. Contemplation means regarding mentally a single object, image, idea so that the knowledge about the object, image or idea may arise naturally in the mind by force of the concentration. Both these things are forms of dhyana , for the principle of dhyana is mental concentration whether in thought, vision or knowledge. *Letters on Yoga
meditation ::: “There are two words used in English to express the Indian idea of dhyana , ‘meditation’ and ‘contemplation’. Meditation means properly the concentration of the mind on a single train of ideas which work out a single subject. Contemplation means regarding mentally a single object, image, idea so that the knowledge about the object, image or idea may arise naturally in the mind by force of the concentration. Both these things are forms of dhyana , for the principle of dhyana is mental concentration whether in thought, vision or knowledge. Letters on Yoga
memnon ::: n. --> A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.
mesenchyma ::: n. --> The part of the mesoblast which gives rise to the connective tissues and blood.
mesprise ::: n. --> Contempt; scorn.
Misadventure; ill-success.
metazoa ::: n. pl. --> Those animals in which the protoplasmic mass, constituting the egg, is converted into a multitude of cells, which are metamorphosed into the tissues of the body. A central cavity is commonly developed, and the cells around it are at first arranged in two layers, -- the ectoderm and endoderm. The group comprises nearly all animals except the Protozoa.
mind, illumined ::: Sri Aurobindo: "This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of the spiritual intelligence, its tranquil daylight, gives place or subordinates itself to an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination of the Spirit: a play of lightnings of spiritual truth and power breaks from above into the consciousness and adds to the calm and wide enlightenment and the vast descent of peace which characterise or accompany the action of the larger conceptual-spiritual principle, a fiery ardour of realisation and a rapturous ecstasy of knowledge.” *The Life Divine
misprise ::: v. t. --> See Misprize.
To mistake.
mongoos ::: n. --> A species of ichneumon (Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus).
moonrise ::: n. --> The rising of the moon above the horizon; also, the time of its rising.
morning star ::: a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky.
mount ::: v. **1. To climb or ascend. 2. To place oneself upon; get up on. 3. To go upward; rise; soar. mounts, mounted, mounting. adj. mounting. 4.** Soaring, ascending, rising to a higher point.
mounty ::: v. --> The rise of a hawk after prey.
mucigen ::: n. --> A substance which is formed in mucous epithelial cells, and gives rise to mucin.
murderous ::: characteristic of or giving rise to murder or bloodshed.
mythopoeic ::: a. --> Making or producing myths; giving rise to mythical narratives.
mytilotoxine ::: n. --> A poisonous base (leucomaine) found in the common mussel. It either causes paralysis of the muscles, or gives rise to convulsions, including death by an accumulation of carbonic acid in the blood.
nap-taking ::: n. --> A taking by surprise; an unexpected onset or attack.
neotropical ::: a. --> Belonging to, or designating, a region of the earth&
neuro-epidermal ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or giving rise to, the central nervous system and epiderms; as, the neuroepidermal, or epiblastic, layer of the blastoderm.
night ::: n. --> That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.
nilometer ::: n. --> An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.
noisette ::: n. --> A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth.
Nolini: “The image is that of the comoposition of an army or that of a mathematical series (e.g., arithmetical or geometrical progression). It is composed of regularised uits of different values (group of sums), but all measured and definite and precise—e.g.., in the case of an army—company, brigade, battalion, army—an ascending scale, the whole also forming one big unit, taken in at a single glance—that is the nature of overmind vision.
nosing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Nose ::: n. --> That part of the treadboard of a stair which projects over the riser; hence, any like projection, as the projecting edge of a molding.
notify ::: v. t. --> To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person.
To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the city hall; the bell notifies us of the time of meeting.
o ::: 1. Used before a name or noun in direct address, esp. in solemn or poetic language, to lend earnestness. 2. Used to express surprise or strong emotion.
obelisk ::: n. --> An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.
A mark of reference; -- called also dagger [/]. See Dagger, n., 2. ::: v. t.
obreption ::: n. --> The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise.
The obtaining gifts of escheat by fraud or surprise.
obreptitious ::: a. --> Done or obtained by surprise; with secrecy, or by concealment of the truth.
' OBSCURITY. ::: When one is working on the physical consci- ousness this sense of obscurity rises up. One has to react quickly against it and persistently bring dosvn the Light. When the physical and the subconscient are fully permeated it need come no more.
office ::: n. --> That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices.
A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office.
A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God
oh ::: interj. --> An exclamation expressing various emotions, according to the tone and manner, especially surprise, pain, sorrow, anxiety, or a wish. See the Note under O.
oho ::: interj. --> An exclamation of surprise, etc.
oh ::: used to express strong emotion, such as surprise, fear, anger, or pain.
oracle ::: n. --> The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle.
Hence: The deity who was supposed to give the answer; also, the place where it was given.
The communications, revelations, or messages delivered by God to the prophets; also, the entire sacred Scriptures -- usually in the plural.
Our notion of free will is apt to be tainted with the excessive individualism of the human ego and to assume the figure of an independent will acting on its own isolated account, in a complete liberty without any determination other than its own choice and single unrelated movement. This idea ignores the fact that our natural being is a part of cosmic Nature and our spiritual being exists only by the supreme Transcendence. Our total being can rise out of subjection to fact of present Nature only by an identification with a greater Truth and a greater Nature. The will of the individual, even when completely free, could not act in an isolated independence, because the individual being and nature are included in the universal Being and Nature and dependent on the all-overruling Transcendence. There could indeed be in the ascent a dual line. On one line the being could feel and behave as an independent self-existence uniting itself with its own impersonal Reality; it could, so self-conceived, act with a great force, but either this action would be still within an enlarged frame of its past and present self-formation of power of Nature or else it would be the cosmic or supreme Force that acted in it and there would be no personal initiation of action, no sense therefore of individual free will but only of an impersonal cosmic or supreme Will or Energy at its work. On the other line the being would feel itself a spiritual instrument and so act as a power of the Supreme Being, limited in its workings only by the potencies of the Supernature, which are without bounds or any restriction except its own Truth and self-law, and by the Will in her. But in either case there would be, as the condition of a freedom from the control of a mechanical action of Nature-forces, a submission to a greater conscious Power or an acquiescent unity of the individual being with its intention and movement in his own and in the world’s existence.” The Life Divine
overgrow ::: v. t. --> To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank.
To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to oppress. ::: v. i. --> To grow beyond the fit or natural size; as, a huge,
overlook ::: v. t. --> To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill.
Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter.
To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
overmind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The overmind is a sort of delegation from the supermind (this is a metaphor only) which supports the present evolutionary universe in which we live here in Matter. If supermind were to start here from the beginning as the direct creative Power, a world of the kind we see now would be impossible; it would have been full of the divine Light from the beginning, there would be no involution in the inconscience of Matter, consequently no gradual striving evolution of consciousness in Matter. A line is therefore drawn between the higher half of the universe of consciousness, parardha , and the lower half, aparardha. The higher half is constituted of Sat, Chit, Ananda, Mahas (the supramental) — the lower half of mind, life, Matter. This line is the intermediary overmind which, though luminous itself, keeps from us the full indivisible supramental Light, depends on it indeed, but in receiving it, divides, distributes, breaks it up into separated aspects, powers, multiplicities of all kinds, each of which it is possible by a further diminution of consciousness, such as we reach in Mind, to regard as the sole or the chief Truth and all the rest as subordinate or contradictory to it.” *Letters on Yoga
"The overmind is the highest of the planes below the supramental.” *Letters on Yoga
"In its nature and law the Overmind is a delegate of the Supermind Consciousness, its delegate to the Ignorance. Or we might speak of it as a protective double, a screen of dissimilar similarity through which Supermind can act indirectly on an Ignorance whose darkness could not bear or receive the direct impact of a supreme Light.” The Life Divine
"The Overmind is a principle of cosmic Truth and a vast and endless catholicity is its very spirit; its energy is an all-dynamism as well as a principle of separate dynamisms: it is a sort of inferior Supermind, — although it is concerned predominantly not with absolutes, but with what might be called the dynamic potentials or pragmatic truths of Reality, or with absolutes mainly for their power of generating pragmatic or creative values, although, too, its comprehension of things is more global than integral, since its totality is built up of global wholes or constituted by separate independent realities uniting or coalescing together, and although the essential unity is grasped by it and felt to be basic of things and pervasive in their manifestation, but no longer as in the Supermind their intimate and ever-present secret, their dominating continent, the overt constant builder of the harmonic whole of their activity and nature.” The Life Divine
"The overmind sees calmly, steadily, in great masses and large extensions of space and time and relation, globally; it creates and acts in the same way — it is the world of the great Gods, the divine Creators.” *Letters on Yoga
"The Overmind is essentially a spiritual power. Mind in it surpasses its ordinary self and rises and takes its stand on a spiritual foundation. It embraces beauty and sublimates it; it has an essential aesthesis which is not limited by rules and canons, it sees a universal and an eternal beauty while it takes up and transforms all that is limited and particular. It is besides concerned with things other than beauty or aesthetics. It is concerned especially with truth and knowledge or rather with a wisdom that exceeds what we call knowledge; its truth goes beyond truth of fact and truth of thought, even the higher thought which is the first spiritual range of the thinker. It has the truth of spiritual thought, spiritual feeling, spiritual sense and at its highest the truth that comes by the most intimate spiritual touch or by identity. Ultimately, truth and beauty come together and coincide, but in between there is a difference. Overmind in all its dealings puts truth first; it brings out the essential truth (and truths) in things and also its infinite possibilities; it brings out even the truth that lies behind falsehood and error; it brings out the truth of the Inconscient and the truth of the Superconscient and all that lies in between. When it speaks through poetry, this remains its first essential quality; a limited aesthetical artistic aim is not its purpose.” *Letters on Savitri
"In the overmind the Truth of supermind which is whole and harmonious enters into a separation into parts, many truths fronting each other and moved each to fulfil itself, to make a world of its own or else to prevail or take its share in worlds made of a combination of various separated Truths and Truth-forces.” Letters on Yoga
*Overmind"s.
overmount ::: v. t. --> To mount over; to go higher than; to rise above.
overpeer ::: v. t. --> To peer over; to rise above.
over ::: prep. --> Above, or higher than, in place or position, with the idea of covering; -- opposed to under; as, clouds are over our heads; the smoke rises over the city.
Across; from side to side of; -- implying a passing or moving, either above the substance or thing, or on the surface of it; as, a dog leaps over a stream or a table.
Upon the surface of, or the whole surface of; hither and thither upon; throughout the whole extent of; as, to wander over the
Oversoul ::: We might say then that there are three elements in the totality of our being: there is the submental and the subconscient which appears to us as if it were inconscient, comprising the material basis and a good part of our life and body; there is the subliminal, which comprises the inner being, taken in its entirety of inner mind, inner life, inner physical with the soul or psychic entity supporting them; there is this waking consciousness which the subliminal and the subconscient throw up on the surface, a wave of their secret surge. But even this is not an adequate account of what we are; for there is not only something deep within behind our normal self-awareness, but something also high above it: that too is ourselves, other than our surface mental personality, but not outside our true self; that too is a country of our spirit. For the subliminal proper is no more than the inner being on the level of the Knowledge-Ignorance, luminous, powerful and extended indeed beyond the poor conception of our waking mind, but still not the supreme or the whole sense of our being, not its ultimate mystery. We become aware, in a certain experience, of a range of being superconscient to all these three, aware too of something, a supreme highest Reality sustaining and exceeding them all, which humanity speaks of vaguely as Spirit, God, the Oversoul: from these superconscient ranges we have visitations and in our highest being we tend towards them and to that supreme Spirit. There is then in our total range of existence a superconscience as well as a subconscience and inconscience, overarching and perhaps enveloping our subliminal and our waking selves, but unknown to us, seemingly unattainable and incommunicable.
overswell ::: v. t. & i. --> To swell or rise above; to overflow.
overtake ::: 1. To catch up with and pass, as in a race; move by. 2. To come upon suddenly or unexpectedly; take by surprise. overtook, overtaken, overtaking.
overtake ::: v. t. --> To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.
To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.
Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.
overtop ::: v. t. --> To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above.
To go beyond; to transcend; to transgress.
To make of less importance, or throw into the background, by superior excellence; to dwarf; to obscure.
pan ::: n. --> A part; a portion.
The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
A leaf of gold or silver.
The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.
The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of
parvenu ::: n. --> An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.
perdue ::: a. --> Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close.
Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; hence, reckless; hopeless.
perseverance ::: n. --> The act of persevering; persistence in anything undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun.
Discrimination.
Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism.
persevere ::: v. i. --> To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken.
persistency ::: n. --> The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.
The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is removed
The persistence of motion.
Visual persistence, or persistence of the visual impression; auditory persistence, etc.
pharisean ::: a. --> Following the practice of Pharisees; Pharisaic.
phariseeism ::: n. --> See Pharisaism.
pharisee ::: n. --> One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews.
pharisaical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees.
Addicted to external forms and ceremonies; making a show of religion without the spirit of it; ceremonial; formal; hypocritical; self-righteous.
pharisaism ::: n. --> The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect.
Rigid observance of external forms of religion, without genuine piety; hypocrisy in religion; a censorious, self-righteous spirit in matters of morals or manners.
phenix ::: n. --> A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality.
A southern constellation.
A marvelous person or thing.
philanthropical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to philanthropy; characterized by philanthropy; loving or helping mankind; as, a philanthropic enterprise.
picket ::: n. --> A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
A pointed pale, used in marking fences.
A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.
By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other
pise ::: n. --> A species of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between molds which are carried up as the wall rises; -- called also pise work.
produced ::: 1. Caused to occur or exist; gave or given rise to. 2. Created, generated, brought forth, yielded. producing.
"Progress admittedly does not march on securely in a straight line like a man sure of his familiar way or an army covering an unimpeded terrain or well-mapped unoccupied spaces. Human progress is very much an adventure through the unknown, an unknown full of surprises and baffling obstacles; it stumbles often, it misses its way at many points, it cedes here in order to gain there, it retraces its steps frequently in order to get more widely forward.” *The Renaissance in India
“Progress admittedly does not march on securely in a straight line like a man sure of his familiar way or an army covering an unimpeded terrain or well-mapped unoccupied spaces. Human progress is very much an adventure through the unknown, an unknown full of surprises and baffling obstacles; it stumbles often, it misses its way at many points, it cedes here in order to gain there, it retraces its steps frequently in order to get more widely forward.” The Renaissance in India
prompted ::: 1. Moved to act; spurred; incited. 2. Gave or given rise to; inspired. prompts, prompting.
PStala is evidently here a name for the subconscient — the beings there have *' no heads ”, that is to say, there is there no mental consdousness ; men have all of them such a subconscient plane in (heir own being and from there rise all sorts of irrational and ignorant (headless) instincts, Impulsions, memories etc., which have an effect upon their acts and feelings without their detecting the real source. At night many incoherent dreams come from this world or plane.
PSYCHO-ANALYSIS AND YOGA. ::: There are many things in the ordinary man of which he is not conscious, because the vital hides them from the mind and gratifies them without the mind realising what is the force that is moving the action — thus things that are done under the plea of altruism, philanthropy, service etc. are largely moved by ego which hides itself behind these justifications ; in yoga the secret motive has to be pulled out from behind the veil, exposed and got rid of. Secondly, some things are suppressed in the ordinary life and remain lying in the nature, suppressed but not eliminated ; they may rise up any day or they may express themselves in various nervous forms or other disorders of the mind or vital or body without it being evident what is the real cause. This has l«cn recently dis- covered by European psychologists and much emphasised, even exaggerated in a new science called psycho-analysis. Here again, tti sadhana one has to become conscious of these suppressed impulses and eliminate them ; that does not mean that they have to be raised up into action but only raised up before the con- sciousness so as to be cleared out of the being.
RAJAYOGA. ::: It aims at the liberation and perfection of the mental being, the control of the emotional and sensational life, the mastery of the whole apparatus of thought and conscious- ness. It fixes its eyes on the citta, that stull of mental conscious- ness in which all these activities arise, and it seeks, even as
Rajayoga must cod. For its action is the stilling of the waves of consciousness, its manifold activities, cinovfUl, first, through a habitual replacing of the turbid rajaslc activities by the quiet and luminous sattwic, then, by the stilling of all activities, and its object is to enter into silent communion of soul and unity with the Divine. As a matter of fact we find that the system of Raja- yoga includes other objects, — such as the practice and use of occult powers, — some of which seem to be unconnected with and even inconsistent with its main purpose. These powers or siddhis arc indeed frequently condemned as dangers and dis- tractions wWch draw away the Yogin from his sole legitimate aim of divine union. On the way, therefore, it would naturally seem as if they ought to bfe* avoided; and once the goal is reached, it would seem that they are then frivolous and super- fluous. But Rajayoga is a psychic science and it includes the attainment of all the higher slates of consciousness and their powers by which the mental being rises towards the super- conscient as well as its ultimate and supreme possibility of union wnth the Highest. Moreover, the Yo^n, while in the body, is not always mentally inactive and sunk in Samadhi and an account of the powers and states which arc possible to him on the higher planes of his being is necessary to the completeness of the science.
"Religion in fact is not knowledge, but a faith and aspiration; it is justified indeed both by an imprecise intuitive knowledge of large spiritual truths and by the subjective experience of souls that have risen beyond the ordinary life, but in itself it only gives us the hope and faith by which we may be induced to aspire to the intimate possession of the hidden tracts and larger realities of the Spirit. That we turn always the few distinct truths and the symbols or the particular discipline of a religion into hard and fast dogmas, is a sign that as yet we are only infants in the spiritual knowledge and are yet far from the science of the Infinite.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“Religion in fact is not knowledge, but a faith and aspiration; it is justified indeed both by an imprecise intuitive knowledge of large spiritual truths and by the subjective experience of souls that have risen beyond the ordinary life, but in itself it only gives us the hope and faith by which we may be induced to aspire to the intimate possession of the hidden tracts and larger realities of the Spirit. That we turn always the few distinct truths and the symbols or the particular discipline of a religion into hard and fast dogmas, is a sign that as yet we are only infants in the spiritual knowledge and are yet far from the science of the Infinite.” The Synthesis of Yoga
rippled ::: v. 1. Flowed with a light rise and fall. 2. Of sound: undulated or rose and fell in tone, inflection, or magnitude. rippling. *adj. 3. Marked with small undulations, ruffles, or folds; formed of small waves as water agitated by a breeze. *wind-rippled, forward-rippling.
Rishi ::: The spiritual man who can guide human life towards its perfection is typified in the ancient Indian idea of the Rishi, one who has lived fully the life of man and found the word of the supra-intellectual, supramental, spiritual truth. He has risen above these lower limitations and can view all things from above, but also he is in sympathy with their effort and can view them from within; he has the complete inner knowledge and the higher surpassing knowledge. Therefore he can guide the world humanly as God guides it divinely, because like the Divine he is in the life of the world and yet above it.” The Human Cycle
Seeking for occulf powers is looked on with disfavour for the most part by spiritual teachers in India, because it belongs to the inferior planes and usually pushes the seeker on a path which may lead him very far from the Divine. Especially, a contact mth the forces and beings of the astral (or, as we term it, the vital) plane is attended with great dangers. The beings of this plane are often bosiQc to the true aim of spiritual life and establish contact with the seeker and offer him powers and occult experiences only in order that they may lead him away from the spiritual path or else that they may establish their own control over him or take possession of him for their owm pur- pose. Often, representing themselves as Divine powers they mis- lead, give erring suggestions and impulsions and pervert the inner life. Many are those who, attracted by these powers and beings of the vital plane, bave ended in a definitive spiritual fall or in mental and physical perversion and disorder. One comes ineritably into contact with the vital plane and enters into it in the expansion of consriousness which results from an inner opening, but one ought never to put oneself into the hands of these beings and forces or allow oneself to be led by their sug- gestions and impulsions. This is one of the chief dangers of the spiritual life and to be on one’s guard against it is a necessity for the seeTer if he wishes to arrive at his goal. It is true that many supraphysical or supernonnal powers come with the expansion of the consciousness in the yoga ; to rise out of the body consciousness, to act by subtle means on the supraphysical planes, etc. are natural activities for the yogi- But these powers are not sought after, they come naturally, and they have not the astral character. Also, Aey have to be used on purely spiritual
sentinel ::: 1. A tower used by the military to watch for the enemy and defend a camp, etc. 2. A person or thing that watches or stands as if watching. 3. A soldier stationed as a guard to challenge all comers and prevent a surprise attack; a sentry. (Sri Aurobindo often employs the word as an adjective.) sentinels.
Sex and the subconscient ::: The subconscient acts of itself on its own store of impressions or habitual past movements. When one drives sex from the mind and conscious vital and physical, it remains in the subconscient and rises from there in sleep.
Sex-tendency will be more easily overcome if instead of being upset by its presence you detach the inner being, rise up above it and view it as a weakness of the lower nature. If you can detach yourself from it with a complete indifference in the inner being, it will seem more and more something alien to yourself, put upon you by the outer forces of Nature. Then It will be easier to remove.
Shock in exterhrisation ::: A feeling like that of a shock and the stopping of the breath for a second and as if of falling down comes to many when the consciousness for a moment or a longer time exteriorises itself (goes out of the body) ; the shock comes from the going up of the consciousness or from the return into the bodj’. It is not anything physical.
soar ::: v. **1. To rise or fly upwards into the air. 2. Fig. To ascend suddenly above the normal or usual level. n. 3. The act of soaring. soars, soared.**
Some have benefited by putting a will on the body before going to sleep at night that the dreams should not happen • — though it may not succeed at the beginning, it tells in most cases after a time by fixing a certain inhibitory force on the subconscient from which these dreams arise.
“… some things are suppressed in the ordinary life and remain lying in the nature, suppressed but not eliminated; they may rise up any day or they may express themselves in various nervous forms or other disorders of the mind or vital or body without it being evident what is their real cause. This has been recently discovered by European psychologists and much emphasised, even exaggerated in a new science called psycho-analysis.” Letters on Yoga
source ::: anything or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin. Source.
Speech comes from the throat centre, but it is associated with whatever is the governing centre or level of the consciousness — wherever one thinks from. If one rises above the head, then thought takes place above the head and one can speak from there, that is to say, the direction of the speech is from there.
spring ::: n. 1. A small stream of water flowing naturally from the earth. 2. Fig. A source, origin, or beginning. 3. The season of the year, occurring between winter and summer, during which the weather becomes warmer and plants revive. 4. The act or an instance of jumping or leaping. 5. Fig. An actuating force or factor; a motive. Spring, springs, spring-bird"s, master-spring. v. 6. To rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position. 7. To proceed or originate from a specific source or cause. 8. To come into being by growth, as from a seed or germ, bulb, root, etc.; grow, as plants. springs.
sputtering ::: characterised by sporadic spitting or popping sounds.
Sri Aurobindo: "A life of gnostic beings carrying the evolution to a higher supramental status might fitly be characterised as a divine life; for it would be a life in the Divine, a life of the beginnings of a spiritual divine light and power and joy manifested in material Nature.” *The Life Divine
*Sri Aurobindo: ". . . desires come from outside, enter the subconscious vital and rise to the surface. It is only when they rise to the surface and the mind becomes aware of them, that we become conscious of the desire. It seems to us to be our own because we feel it thus rising from the vital into the mind and do not know that it came from outside.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Faith is a necessary means for arriving at realisation, because we are ignorant and do not yet know that which we are seeking to realise; faith is indeed knowledge giving the ignorance an intimation of itself previous to its own manifestation, it is the gleam sent before by the yet unrisen Sun. When the Sun shall rise, there will be no longer any need of the gleam.” *Letters on Yoga
"Sri Aurobindo: "It has been held that ecstasy is a lower and transient passage, the peace of the Supreme is the supreme realisation, the consummate abiding experience. This may be true on the spiritual-mind plane: there the first ecstasy felt is indeed a spiritual rapture, but it can be and is very usually mingled with a supreme happiness of the vital parts taken up by the Spirit; there is an exaltation, exultation, excitement, a highest intensity of the joy of the heart and the pure inner soul-sensation that can be a splendid passage or an uplifting force but is not the ultimate permanent foundation. But in the highest ascents of the spiritual bliss there is not this vehement exaltation and excitement; there is instead an illimitable intensity of participation in an eternal ecstasy which is founded on the eternal Existence and therefore on a beatific tranquillity of eternal peace. Peace and ecstasy cease to be different and become one. The Supermind, reconciling and fusing all differences as well as all contradictions, brings out this unity; a wide calm and a deep delight of all-existence are among its first steps of self-realisation, but this calm and this delight rise together, as one state, into an increasing intensity and culminate in the eternal ecstasy, the bliss that is the Infinite.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: ". . . some things are suppressed in the ordinary life and remain lying in the nature, suppressed but not eliminated; they may rise up any day or they may express themselves in various nervous forms or other disorders of the mind or vital or body without it being evident what is their real cause. This has been recently discovered by European psychologists and much emphasised, even exaggerated in a new science called psycho-analysis.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "There is an inner vision that opens when one does sadhana and all sorts of images rise before it or pass. Their coming does not depend upon your thought or will; it is real and automatic. Just as your physical eyes see things in the physical world, so the inner eyes see things and images that belong to the other worlds and subtle images of things of this physical world also.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Who is the superman? He who can rise above this matter-regarding broken mental human unit and possess himself universalised and deified in a divine force, a divine love and joy and a divine knowledge.” *The Hour of God
Sri Aurobindo: "Yet all the time the universal forces are pouring into him without his knowing it. He is aware only of thoughts, feelings, etc., that rise to the surface and these he takes for his own. Really they come from outside in mind waves, vital waves, waves of feeling and sensation, etc., which take particular form in him and rise to the surface after they have got inside. But they do not get into his body at once. He carries about with him an environmental consciousness (called by the Theosophists the Aura) into which they first enter. If you can become conscious of this environmental self of yours, then you can catch the thought, passion, suggestion or force of illness and prevent it from entering into you. If things in you are thrown out, they often do not go altogether but take refuge in this environmental atmosphere and from there they try to get in again. Or they go to a distance outside but linger on the outskirts or even perhaps far off, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrance.” *Letters on Yoga
startled ::: Frightened; surprised greatly; shocked. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.)
startled ::: frightened; surprised greatly; shocked. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.)
start ::: n. 1. A beginning of an action, journey, series of events, etc. 2. An initial but often transient display of energy at the onset of an activity. 3. A sudden involuntary jerking movement of the body. starts. v. 4. To begin or set out, as on a journey or activity. 5. To appear or come suddenly into action, life, view, etc.; rise or issue suddenly forth. starts, started, starting.
stratosphere ::: 1. The region of the Earth"s atmosphere extending from the tropopause to about 50 km (31 mi) above the Earth"s surface. The stratosphere is characterized by the presence of ozone gas (in the ozone layer) and by temperatures which rise slightly with altitude, due to the absorption of ultraviolet radiation. 2. An extremely high or the highest point or degree on a ranked scale.
stunned ::: filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
subconscient ::: Sri Aurobindo: "In our yoga we mean by the subconscient that quite submerged part of our being in which there is no wakingly conscious and coherent thought, will or feeling or organised reaction, but which yet receives obscurely the impressions of all things and stores them up in itself and from it too all sorts of stimuli, of persistent habitual movements, crudely repeated or disguised in strange forms can surge up into dream or into the waking nature. No, subliminal is a general term used for all parts of the being which are not on the waking surface. Subconscient is very often used in the same sense by European psychologists because they do not know the difference. But when I use the word, I mean always what is below the ordinary physical consciousness, not what is behind it. The inner mental, vital, physical, the psychic are not subconscious in this sense, but they can be spoken of as subliminal.” *The Synthesis of Yoga.
"The subconscient is a concealed and unexpressed inarticulate consciousness which works below all our conscious physical activities. Just as what we call the superconscient is really a higher consciousness above from which things descend into the being, so the subconscient is below the body-consciousness and things come up into the physical, the vital and the mind-nature from there.
Just as the higher consciousness is superconscient to us and supports all our spiritual possibilities and nature, so the subconscient is the basis of our material being and supports all that comes up in the physical nature.” Letters on Yoga
"That part of us which we can strictly call subconscient because it is below the level of mind and conscious life, inferior and obscure, covers the purely physical and vital elements of our constitution of bodily being, unmentalised, unobserved by the mind, uncontrolled by it in their action. It can be held to include the dumb occult consciousness, dynamic but not sensed by us, which operates in the cells and nerves and all the corporeal stuff and adjusts their life process and automatic responses. It covers also those lowest functionings of submerged sense-mind which are more operative in the animal and in plant life.” *The Life Divine
"The subconscient is a thing of habits and memories and repeats persistently or whenever it can old suppressed reactions, reflexes, mental, vital or physical responses. It must be trained by a still more persistent insistence of the higher parts of the being to give up its old responses and take on the new and true ones.” Letters on Yoga
"About the subconscient — it is the sub-mental base of the being and is made up of impressions, instincts, habitual movements that are stored there. Whatever movement is impressed in it, it keeps. If one impresses the right movement in it, it will keep and send up that. That is why it has to be cleared of old movements before there can be a permanent and total change in the nature. When the higher consciousness is once established in the waking parts, it goes down into the subconscient and changes that also, makes a bedrock of itself there also.” Letters on Yoga
"The sub-conscious is the evolutionary basis in us, it is not the whole of our hidden nature, nor is it the whole origin of what we are. But things can rise from the subconscient and take shape in the conscious parts and much of our smaller vital and physical instincts, movements, habits, character-forms has this source.” Letters on Yoga
"The subconscient is the support of habitual action — it can support good habits as well as bad.” Letters on Yoga
"For the subconscient is the Inconscient in the process of becoming conscious; it is a support and even a root of our inferior parts of being and their movements.” The Life Divine *subconscient"s.
subtle images ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Subtle images can be images of all things in all worlds.” *Letters on Yoga
"These are not mental images. There is an inner vision that opens when one does sadhana and all sorts of images rise before it or pass. Their coming does not depend upon your thought or will; it is real and automatic. Just as your physical eyes see things in the physical world, so the inner eyes see things and images that belong to the other worlds and subtle images of things of this physical world also.” Letters on Yoga
superman ::: “Who is the superman? He who can rise above this matter-regarding broken mental human unit and possess himself universalised and deified in a divine force, a divine love and joy and a divine knowledge.” The Hour of God
surge ::: n. 1. A strong, wavelike forward movement, rush, or sweep. 2. The swelling and rolling sea. surges, surgings. v. 3. To rise as if by a heaving or swelling force. 4. To rise, roll, move, or swell forward in or like waves. surges, surged, surging.
surprise ::: Tehmi: “From the Fr. surprende,—overtaken suddenly.”
surprise ::: to encounter suddenly or unexpectedly; take or catch unawares. To ‘take hold of" or affect suddenly or unexpectedly; a desire, emotion, etc.
Tamasie vairSgya arises from dissatisfaction, disappointment, a feeling of inability to succeed or face life, a crushing under the grips and pains of life.
the awakened Yop-Shakii arises, if is often fcU like a snake uncoiling and standing up straight and lifting itself more and more upwards. When it meets the Divine Consciousness above, then the force of the Divine Consciousness can more easily descend into the body and be fell working there to change the nature.
The difficulties in the nature alwas-s rise again and again till sou osetcome them ; they most be faced with both strength and patience.
"The Divine is transcendent Being and Spirit, all bliss and light and divine knowledge and power, and towards that highest divine existence and its Light we have to rise and bring down the reality of it more and more into our consciousness and life.” Letters on Yoga ::: *Divine"s.
“The Divine is transcendent Being and Spirit, all bliss and light and divine knowledge and power, and towards that highest divine existence and its Light we have to rise and bring down the reality of it more and more into our consciousness and life.” Letters on Yoga
"The elementary state of material Force is, in the view of the old Indian physicists, a condition of pure material extension in Space of which the peculiar property is vibration typified to us by the phenomenon of sound. But vibration in this state of ether is not sufficient to create forms. There must first be some obstruction in the flow of the Force ocean, some contraction and expansion, some interplay of vibrations, some impinging of force upon force so as to create a beginning of fixed relations and mutual effects. Material Force modifying its first ethereal status assumes a second, called in the old language the aerial, of which the special property is contact between force and force, contact that is the basis of all material relations. Still we have not as yet real forms but only varying forces. A sustaining principle is needed. This is provided by a third self-modification of the primitive Force of which the principle of light, electricity, fire and heat is for us the characteristic manifestation. Even then, we can have forms of force preserving their own character and peculiar action, but not stable forms of Matter. A fourth state characterised by diffusion and a first medium of permanent attractions and repulsions, termed picturesquely water or the liquid state, and a fifth of cohesion, termed earth or the solid state, complete the necessary elements.” The Life Divine*
“The elementary state of material Force is, in the view of the old Indian physicists, a condition of pure material extension in Space of which the peculiar property is vibration typified to us by the phenomenon of sound. But vibration in this state of ether is not sufficient to create forms. There must first be some obstruction in the flow of the Force ocean, some contraction and expansion, some interplay of vibrations, some impinging of force upon force so as to create a beginning of fixed relations and mutual effects. Material Force modifying its first ethereal status assumes a second, called in the old language the aerial, of which the special property is contact between force and force, contact that is the basis of all material relations. Still we have not as yet real forms but only varying forces. A sustaining principle is needed. This is provided by a third self-modification of the primitive Force of which the principle of light, electricity, fire and heat is for us the characteristic manifestation. Even then, we can have forms of force preserving their own character and peculiar action, but not stable forms of Matter. A fourth state characterised by diffusion and a first medium of permanent attractions and repulsions, termed picturesquely water or the liquid state, and a fifth of cohesion, termed earth or the solid state, complete the necessary elements.” The Life Divine
“The epithet ‘wide-winged’ then does not belong to the wind and is not transferred from it, but is proper to the voice of the wind which takes the form of a conscious hymn of aspiration and rises ascending from the bosom of the great priest, as might a great-winged bird released into the sky and sinks and rises again, aspires and fails and aspires again on the ‘altar hills’. Letters on Savitri
The mSidd/idra from which the Kundalin! rises is not in the physical body but in the subtle body ; so also are all the centres.
theorised ::: Formed or construct theories about. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.)
theorised ::: formed or construct theories about. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.)
“The Overmind is essentially a spiritual power. Mind in it surpasses its ordinary self and rises and takes its stand on a spiritual foundation. It embraces beauty and sublimates it; it has an essential aesthesis which is not limited by rules and canons, it sees a universal and an eternal beauty while it takes up and transforms all that is limited and particular. It is besides concerned with things other than beauty or aesthetics. It is concerned especially with truth and knowledge or rather with a wisdom that exceeds what we call knowledge; its truth goes beyond truth of fact and truth of thought, even the higher thought which is the first spiritual range of the thinker. It has the truth of spiritual thought, spiritual feeling, spiritual sense and at its highest the truth that comes by the most intimate spiritual touch or by identity. Ultimately, truth and beauty come together and coincide, but in between there is a difference. Overmind in all its dealings puts truth first; it brings out the essential truth (and truths) in things and also its infinite possibilities; it brings out even the truth that lies behind falsehood and error; it brings out the truth of the Inconscient and the truth of the Superconscient and all that lies in between. When it speaks through poetry, this remains its first essential quality; a limited aesthetical artistic aim is not its purpose.” Letters on Savitri
"The progress of Life involves the development and interlocking of an immense number of things that are in conflict with each other and seem often to be absolute oppositions and contraries. To find amid these oppositions some principle or standing-ground of unity, some workable lever of reconciliation which will make possible a larger and better development on a basis of harmony and not of conflict and struggle, must be increasingly the common aim of humanity in its active life-evolution, if it at all means to rise out of life"s more confused, painful and obscure movement, out of the compromises made by Nature with the ignorance of the Life-mind and the nescience of Matter. This can only be truly and satisfactorily done when the soul discovers itself in its highest and completest spiritual reality and effects a progressive upward transformation of its life-values into those of the spirit; for there they will all find their spiritual truth and in that truth their standing-ground of mutual recognition and reconciliation. The spiritual is the one truth of which all others are the veiled aspects, the brilliant disguises or the dark disfigurements, and in which they can find their own right form and true relation to each other.” *The Human Cycle, etc.
“The progress of Life involves the development and interlocking of an immense number of things that are in conflict with each other and seem often to be absolute oppositions and contraries. To find amid these oppositions some principle or standing-ground of unity, some workable lever of reconciliation which will make possible a larger and better development on a basis of harmony and not of conflict and struggle, must be increasingly the common aim of humanity in its active life-evolution, if it at all means to rise out of life’s more confused, painful and obscure movement, out of the compromises made by Nature with the ignorance of the Life-mind and the nescience of Matter. This can only be truly and satisfactorily done when the soul discovers itself in its highest and completest spiritual reality and effects a progressive upward transformation of its life-values into those of the spirit; for there they will all find their spiritual truth and in that truth their standing-ground of mutual recognition and reconciliation. The spiritual is the one truth of which all others are the veiled aspects, the brilliant disguises or the dark disfigurements, and in which they can find their own right form and true relation to each other.” The Human Cycle, etc.
". . . the proper function of the thought-mind is to observe, understand, judge with a dispassionate delight in knowledge and open itself to messages and illuminations playing upon all that it observes and upon all that is yet hidden from it but must progressively be revealed, messages and illuminations that secretly flash down to us from the divine Oracle concealed in light above our mentality whether they seem to descend through the intuitive mind or arise from the seeing heart.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“… the proper function of the thought-mind is to observe, understand, judge with a dispassionate delight in knowledge and open itself to messages and illuminations playing upon all that it observes and upon all that is yet hidden from it but must progressively be revealed, messages and illuminations that secretly flash down to us from the divine Oracle concealed in light above our mentality whether they seem to descend through the intuitive mind or arise from the seeing heart.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"The real source of knowledge is the Lord in the heart; ‘I am seated in the heart of every man and from me is knowledge," says the Gita; the Scripture is only a verbal form of that inner Veda, of that self-luminous Reality, it is sabdabrahma: the mantra, says the Veda, has risen from the heart, from the secret place where is the seat of the truth, sadanâd rtasya, guhâyâm. That origin is its sanction; but still the infinite Truth is greater than its word. Nor shall you say of any Scripture that it alone is all-sufficient and no other truth can be admitted, as the Vedavadins said of the Veda, nânyad astîti vâdinah. This is a saving and liberating word which must be applied to all the Scriptures of the world. Take all the Scriptures that are or have been, Bible and Koran and the books of the Chinese, Veda and Upanishads and Purana and Tantra and Shastra and the Gita itself and the sayings of thinkers and sages, prophets and Avatars, still you shall not say that there is nothing else or that the truth your intellect cannot find there is not true because you cannot find it there. That is the limited thought of the sectarian or the composite thought of the eclectic religionist, not the untrammelled truth-seeking of the free and illumined mind and God-experienced soul. Heard or unheard before, that always is the truth which is seen by the heart of man in its illumined depths or heard within from the Master of all knowledge, the knower of the eternal Veda.” Essays on the Gita*
“The real source of knowledge is the Lord in the heart; ‘I am seated in the heart of every man and from me is knowledge,’ says the Gita; the Scripture is only a verbal form of that inner Veda, of that self-luminous Reality, it is sabdabrahma: the mantra, says the Veda, has risen from the heart, from the secret place where is the seat of the truth, sadanâd rtasya, guhâyâm. That origin is its sanction; but still the infinite Truth is greater than its word. Nor shall you say of any Scripture that it alone is all-sufficient and no other truth can be admitted, as the Vedavadins said of the Veda, nânyad astîti vâdinah. This is a saving and liberating word which must be applied to all the Scriptures of the world. Take all the Scriptures that are or have been, Bible and Koran and the books of the Chinese, Veda and Upanishads and Purana and Tantra and Shastra and the Gita itself and the sayings of thinkers and sages, prophets and Avatars, still you shall not say that there is nothing else or that the truth your intellect cannot find there is not true because you cannot find it there. That is the limited thought of the sectarian or the composite thought of the eclectic religionist, not the untrammelled truth-seeking of the free and illumined mind and God-experienced soul. Heard or unheard before, that always is the truth which is seen by the heart of man in its illumined depths or heard within from the Master of all knowledge, the knower of the eternal Veda.” Essays on the Gita
“The real source of knowledge is the Lord in the heart; ‘I am seated in the heart of every man and from me is knowledge,’ says the Gita; the Scripture is only a verbal form of that inner Veda, of that self-luminous Reality, it is sabdabrahma: the mantra, says the Veda, has risen from the heart, from the secret place where is the seat of the truth, sadanâdrtasya, guhâyâm. That origin is its sanction; but still the infinite Truth is greater than its word. Nor shall you say of any Scripture that it alone is all-sufficient and no other truth can be admitted, as the Vedavadins said of the Veda, nânyadastîtivâdinah. This is a saving and liberating word which must be applied to all the Scriptures of the world. Take all the Scriptures that are or have been, Bible and Koran and the books of the Chinese, Veda and Upanishads and Purana and Tantra and Shastra and the Gita itself and the sayings of thinkers and sages, prophets and Avatars, still you shall not say that there is nothing else or that the truth your intellect cannot find there is not true because you cannot find it there. That is the limited thought of the sectarian or the composite thought of the eclectic religionist, not the untrammelled truth-seeking of the free and illumined mind and God-experienced soul. Heard or unheard before, that always is the truth which is seen by the heartof man in its illumined depths or heard within from the Master of all knowledge, the knower of the eternal Veda.” Essays on the Gita
There are two words used in English to express the Indian idea of dhyana, * meditation ’ and ‘ contemplation ’. Meditation means properly the concentration of the mind on a single train of ideas which work out a single subject. Contemplation means regarding mentally a single object, image, idea so that the know- ledge about the object, image or idea may arise naturally in the mind by force of the concentration. Both these things are forms of dhyana, for the principle of dh)ona is mental concentration whether in thought, vision or knowledge. There are other forms of dhyana. You stand back from your thoughts, let them occur in your mind as they will and simply observe them and see what they are. This may be called concentration in self-observation.
“There is an inner vision that opens when one does sadhana and all sorts of images rise before it or pass. Their coming does not depend upon your thought or will; it is real and automatic. Just as your physical eyes see things in the physical world, so the inner eyes see things and images that belong to the other worlds and subtle images of things of this physical world also.” Letters on Yoga
“These are not mental images. There is an inner vision that opens when one does sadhana and all sorts of images rise before it or pass. Their coming does not depend upon your thought or will; it is real and automatic. Just as your physical eyes see things in the physical world, so the inner eyes see things and images that belong to the other worlds and subtle images of things of this physical world also.” Letters on Yoga
The seeds of the old relations, their impressions, their memories remain suppressed in the subconscient and rise up whenever they can. It is only when these seeds arc pulled out and disappear
"The sense of free will, illusion or not, is a necessary machinery of the action of Nature, necessary for man during his progress, and it would be disastrous for him to lose it before he is ready for a higher truth. If it be said, as it has been said, that Nature deludes man to fulfil her behests and that the idea of a free individual will is the most powerful of these delusions, then it must also be said that the delusion is for his good and without it he could not rise to his full possibilities.” Essays on the Gita
“The sense of free will, illusion or not, is a necessary machinery of the action of Nature, necessary for man during his progress, and it would be disastrous for him to lose it before he is ready for a higher truth. If it be said, as it has been said, that Nature deludes man to fulfil her behests and that the idea of a free individual will is the most powerful of these delusions, then it must also be said that the delusion is for his good and without it he could not rise to his full possibilities.” Essays on the Gita
"The serpent is the symbol of energy — especially of the Kundalini Shakti which is the divine Force coiled up in the lowest (physical) centre, Muladhara, and when it rises it goes up through the spine and joins the higher consciousness above.” Letters on Yoga
“The serpent is the symbol of energy—especially of the Kundalini Shakti which is the divine Force coiled up in the lowest (physical) centre, Muladhara, and when it rises it goes up through the spine and joins the higher consciousness above.” Letters on Yoga
::: "The silent mind is a result of yoga; the ordinary mind is never silent. . . . The thinkers and philosophers do not have the silent mind. It is the active mind they have; only, of course, they concentrate, so the common incoherent mentalising stops and the thoughts that rise or enter and shape themselves are coherently restricted to the subject or activity in hand. But that is quite a different matter from the whole mind falling silent.” Letters on Yoga
“The silent mind is a result of yoga; the ordinary mind is never silent. . . . The thinkers and philosophers do not have the silent mind. It is the active mind they have; only, of course, they concentrate, so the common incoherent mentalising stops and the thoughts that rise or enter and shape themselves are coherently restricted to the subject or activity in hand. But that is quite a different matter from the whole mind falling silent.” Letters on Yoga
The spiritual man who can guide human life towards its perfection is typified in the ancient Indian idea of the Rishi, one who has lived fully the life of man and found the word of the supra-intellectual, supramental, spiritual truth. He has risen above these lower limitations and can view all things from above, but also he is in sympathy with their effort and can view them from within; he has the complete inner knowledge and the higher surpassing knowledge. Therefore he can guide the world humanly as God guides it divinely, because like the Divine he is in the life of the world and yet above it.” The Human Cycle*
The spiritual man who can guide human life towards its perfection is typified in the ancient Indian idea of the Rishi, one who has lived fully the life of man and found the word of the supra-intellectual, supramental, spiritual truth. He has risen above these lower limitations and can view all things from above, but also he is in sympathy with their effort and can view them from within; he has the complete inner knowledge and the higher surpassing knowledge. Therefore he can guide the world humanly as God guides it divinely, because like the Divine he is in the life of the world and yet above it.” The Human Cycle
“The sub-conscious is the evolutionary basis in us, it is not the whole of our hidden nature, nor is it the whole origin of what we are. But things can rise smaller vital and physical instincts, movements, habits, character-forms has this source.” Letters on Yoga
"The supramental is simply the Truth-Consciousness and what it brings in its descent is the full truth of life, the full truth of consciousness in Matter. One has indeed to rise to high summits to reach it, but the more one rises, the more one can bring down below.” Letters on Yoga
“The supramental is simply the Truth-Consciousness and what it brings in its descent is the full truth of life, the full truth of consciousness in Matter. One has indeed to rise to high summits to reach it, but the more one rises, the more one can bring down below.” Letters on Yoga
"The whole energy of the soul is not at play in the physical body and life, the secret powers of mind are not awake in it, the bodily and nervous energies predominate. But all the while the supreme energy is there, asleep; it is said to be coiled up and slumbering like a snake, — therefore it is called the kundalinî sakti, — in the lowest of the chakras, in the mûlâdhâra. When by Pranayama the division between the upper and lower prana currents in the body is dissolved, this Kundalini is struck and awakened, it uncoils itself and begins to rise upward like a fiery serpent breaking open each lotus as it ascends until the Shakti meets the Purusha in the brahmarandhra in a deep samadhi of union.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“The whole energy of the soul is not at play in the physical body and life, the secret powers of mind are not awake in it, the bodily and nervous energies predominate. But all the while the supreme energy is there, asleep; it is said to be coiled up and slumbering like a snake,—therefore it is called the kundalinî sakti,—in the lowest of the chakras, in the mûlâdhâra. When by Pranayama the division between the upper and lower prana currents in the body is dissolved, this Kundalini is struck and awakened, it uncoils itself and begins to rise upward like a fiery serpent breaking open each lotus as it ascends until the Shakti meets the Purusha in the brahmarandhra in a deep samadhi of union.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“This arrangement of the psychic body is reproduced in the physical with the spinal column as a rod and the ganglionic centres as the chakras which rise up from the bottom of the column, where the lowest is attached, to the brain and find their summit in the brahmarandhra at the top of the skull. These chakras or lotuses, however, are in physical man closed or only partly open, with the consequence that only such powers and only so much of them are active in him as are sufficient for his ordinary physical life, and so much mind and soul only is at play as will accord with its need. This is the real reason, looked at from the mechanical point of view, why the embodied soul seems so dependent on the bodily and nervous life,—though the dependence is neither so complete nor so real as it seems. The whole energy of the soul is not at play in the physical body and life, the secret powers of mind are not awake in it, the bodily and nervous energies predominate. But all the while the supreme energy is there, asleep; it is said to be coiled up and slumbering like a snake,—therefore it is called the kundalinî sakti,—in the lowest of the chakras, in the mûlâdhâra.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of the spiritual intelligence, its tranquil daylight, gives place or subordinates itself to an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination of the Spirit: a play of lightnings of spiritual truth and power breaks from above into the consciousness and adds to the calm and wide enlightenment and the vast descent of peace which characterise or accompany the action of the larger conceptual-spiritual principle, a fiery ardour of realisation and a rapturous ecstasy of knowledge.” The Life Divine
::: **"This sraddhâ — the English word faith is inadequate to express it — is in reality an influence from the supreme Spirit and its light a message from our supramental being which is calling the lower nature to rise out of its petty present to a great self-becoming and self-exceeding.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“This sraddhâ—the English word faith is inadequate to express it—is in reality an influence from the supreme Spirit and its light a message from our supramental being which is calling the lower nature to rise out of its petty present to a great self-becoming and self-exceeding.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"Though man is infinitely greater than the plant or the animal, he is not perfect in his own nature like the plant and the animal. This imperfection is not a thing to be at all deplored, but rather a privilege and a promise, for it opens out to us an immense vista of self-development and self-exceeding. Man at his highest is a half-god who has risen up out of the animal Nature and is splendidly abnormal in it, but the thing which he has started out to be, the whole god, is something so much greater than what he is that it seems to him as abnormal to himself as he is to the animal. This means a great and arduous labour of growth before him, but also a splendid crown of his race and his victory. A kingdom is offered to him beside which his present triumphs in the realms of mind or over external Nature will appear only as a rough hint and a poor beginning. The Human Cycle
“Though man is infinitely greater than the plant or the animal, he is not perfect in his own nature like the plant and the animal. This imperfection is not a thing to be at all deplored, but rather a privilege and a promise, for it opens out to us an immense vista of self-development and self-exceeding. Man at his highest is a half-god who has risen up out of the animal Nature and is splendidly abnormal in it, but the thing which he has started out to be, the whole god, is something so much greater than what he is that it seems to him as abnormal to himself as he is to the animal. This means a great and arduous labour of growth before him, but also a splendid crown of his race and his victory. A kingdom is offered to him beside which his present triumphs in the realms of mind or over external Nature will appear only as a rough hint and a poor beginning. The Human Cycle
To possess these is to become the superman; for he is to rise out of mind into the Supermind. Call it the divine mind of Knowledge or the Supermind; it is the power and light of the divine will and the divine consciousness.” The Hour of God
to support, sustain; also to raise, lift, cause to rise (up). upbuoyed.
tower ::: n. 1. A building or part of a building that is exceptionally high in proportion to its width and length. 2. Something or someone that conspicuously embodies strength, firmness, or another virtue, likened to a tower. Tower, towers, temple-tower. v. 3. To appear at or rise to a conspicuous height; loom. towered.
transformation ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Transformation means that the higher consciousness or nature is brought down into the mind, vital and body and takes the place of the lower. There is a higher consciousness of the true self, which is spiritual, but it is above; if one rises above into it, then one is free as long as one remains there, but if one comes down into or uses mind, vital or body — and if one keeps any connection with life, one has to do so, either to come down and act from the ordinary consciousness or else to be in the self but use mind, life and body, then the imperfections of these instruments have to be faced and mended — they can only be mended by transformation.” *Letters on Yoga
"‘Transformation" is a word that I have brought in myself (like ‘supermind") to express certain spiritual concepts and spiritual facts of the integral yoga. People are now taking them up and using them in senses which have nothing to do with the significance which I put into them. Purification of the nature by the ‘influence" of the Spirit is not what I mean by transformation; purification is only part of a psychic change or a psycho-spiritual change — the word besides has many senses and is very often given a moral or ethical meaning which is foreign to my purpose.” *Letters on Yoga
"It is indeed as a result of our evolution that we arrive at the possibility of this transformation. As Nature has evolved beyond Matter and manifested Life, beyond Life and manifested Mind, so she must evolve beyond Mind and manifest a consciousness and power of our existence free from the imperfection and limitation of our mental existence, a supramental or truth-consciousness and able to develop the power and perfection of the spirit. Here a slow and tardy change need no longer be the law or manner of our evolution; it will be only so to a greater or less extent so long as a mental ignorance clings and hampers our ascent; but once we have grown into the truth-consciousness its power of spiritual truth of being will determine all. Into that truth we shall be freed and it will transform mind and life and body. Light and bliss and beauty and a perfection of the spontaneous right action of all the being are there as native powers of the supramental truth-consciousness and these will in their very nature transform mind and life and body even here upon earth into a manifestation of the truth-conscious spirit. The obscurations of earth will not prevail against the supramental truth-consciousness, for even into the earth it can bring enough of the omniscient light and omnipotent force of the spirit conquer. All may not open to the fullness of its light and power, but whatever does open must that extent undergo the change. That will be the principle of transformation.” The Supramental Manifestation
The Mother: "Transformation. The change by which all the elements and all the movements of the being become ready to manifest the supramental Truth.”
"One thing you must know and never forget: in the work of transformation all that is true and sincere will always be kept; only what is false and insincere will disappear.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
transformation ::: “Transformation means that the higher consciousness or nature is brought down into the mind, vital and body and takes the place of the lower. There is a higher consciousness of the true self, which is spiritual, but it is above; if one rises above into it, then one is free as long as one remains there, but if one comes down into or uses mind, vital or body—and if one keeps any connection with life, one has to do so, either to come down and act from the ordinary consciousness or else to be in the self but use mind, life and body, then the imperfections of these instruments have to be faced and mended—they can only be mended by transformation.” Letters on Yoga
triune Infinite ::: Sri Aurobindo: "We do not seek to excise from our being all consciousness of the universe, but to realise God, Truth and Self in the universe as well as transcendent of it. We shall seek therefore not only the Ineffable, but also His manifestation as infinite being, consciousness and bliss embracing the universe and at play in it. For that triune infinity is His supreme manifestation and that we shall aspire to know, to share in and to become; and since we seek to realise this Trinity not only in itself but in its cosmic play, we shall aspire also to knowledge of and participation in the universal divine Truth, Knowledge, Will, Love which are His secondary manifestation, His divine becoming. With this too we shall aspire to identify ourselves, towards this too we shall strive to rise and, when the period of effort is passed, allow it by our renunciation of all egoism to draw us up into itself in our being and to descend into us and embrace us in all our becoming.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"True knowledge is to know with the inner being, and when the inner being is touched by the light, then it arises to embrace that which is seen, it yearns to possess, it struggles to shape that in itself and itself to it, it labours to become one with the glory of its vision. Knowledge in this sense is an awakening to identity and, since the inner being realises itself by consciousness and delight, by love, by possession and oneness with whatever of itself it has seen, knowledge awakened must bring an overmastering impulse towards this true and only perfect realisation.” Essays on the Gita
“True knowledge is to know with the inner being, and when the inner being is touched by the light, then it arises to embrace that which is seen, it yearns to possess, it struggles to shape that in itself and itself to it, it labours to become one with the glory of its vision. Knowledge in this sense is an awakening to identity and, since the inner being realises itself by consciousness and delight, by love, by possession and oneness with whatever of itself it has seen, knowledge awakened must bring an overmastering impulse towards this true and only perfect realisation.” Essays on the Gita
Two things render that culmination more facile than it would otherwise be. Overmind in the descent towards material creation has originated modifications of itself,—Intuition especially with its penetrative lightning flashes of truth lighting up local points and stretches of country in our consciousness,—which can bring the concealed truth of things nearer to our comprehension, and, by opening ourselves more widely first in the inner being and then as a result in the outer surface self also to the messages of these higher ranges of consciousness, by growing into them, we can become ourselves also intuitive and overmental beings, not limited by the intellect and sense, but capable of a more universal comprehension and a direct touch of truth in its very self and body. In fact flashes of enlightenment from these higher ranges already come to us, but this intervention is mostly fragmentary, casual or partial; we have still to begin to enlarge ourselves into their likeness and organise in us the greater Truth activities of which we are potentially capable. But, secondly, Overmind, Intuition, even Supermind not only must be, as we have seen, principles inherent and involved in the Inconscience from which we arise in the evolution and inevitably destined to evolve, but are secretly present, occult actively with flashes of intuitive emergence in the cosmic activity of Mind, Life and Matter. It is true that their action is concealed and, even when they emerge, it is modified by the medium, material, vital, mental in which they work and not easily recognisable. Supermind cannot manifest itself as the Creator Power in the universe from the beginning, for if it did, the Ignorance and Inconscience would be impossible or else the slow evolution necessary would change into a rapid transformation scene. Yet at every step of the material energy we can see the stamp of inevitability given by a supramental creator, in all the development of life and mind the play of the lines of possibility and their combination which is the stamp of Overmind intervention. As Life and Mind have been released in Matter, so too must in their time these greater powers of the concealed Godhead emerge from the involution and their supreme Light descend into us from above. …
uprise :::
\vbich merely expresses the vital stuff without subjecting it to any play of intelligence. It is through this mental vital that the vital passions, impulses, desires rise up and get into the Buddhi and either cloud or distort it.
vicegerent ::: invested with or characterised by delegated authority.
virtue, he does not rise above^truth and light'"
visa ("s) ::: an endorsement made by an authorised representative of one country upon a passport issued by another, permitting the passport holder entry into or transit through the country making the endorsement.
“We do not seek to excise from our being all consciousness of the universe, but to realise God, Truth and Self in the universe as well as transcendent of it. We shall seek therefore not only the Ineffable, but also His manifestation as infinite being, consciousness and bliss embracing the universe and at play in it. For that triune infinity is His supreme manifestation and that we shall aspire to know, to share in and to become; and since we seek to realise this Trinity not only in itself but in its cosmic play, we shall aspire also to knowledge of and participation in the universal divine Truth, Knowledge, Will, Love which are His secondary manifestation, His divine becoming. With this too we shall aspire to identify ourselves, towards this too we shall strive to rise and, when the period of effort is passed, allow it by our renunciation of all egoism to draw us up into itself in our being and to descend into us and embrace us in all our becoming.” The Synthesis of Yoga
welling ::: to rise or surge from an inner source. Also fig.
well ::: n. 1. A deep hole or shaft sunk into the earth to obtain water, oil, gas, etc. 2. A source, esp. one that provides a continuous supply. 3. An apparent reservoir or source of energy, etc. wells. *v. wells. 4. Rises, springs, or gushes as water, from the earth or some other source (often followed by up). *welled.
"We might say then that there are three elements in the totality of our being: there is the submental and the subconscient which appears to us as if it were inconscient, comprising the material basis and a good part of our life and body; there is the subliminal, which comprises the inner being, taken in its entirety of inner mind, inner life, inner physical with the soul or psychic entity supporting them; there is this waking consciousness which the subliminal and the subconscient throw up on the surface, a wave of their secret surge. But even this is not an adequate account of what we are; for there is not only something deep within behind our normal self-awareness, but something also high above it: that too is ourselves, other than our surface mental personality, but not outside our true self; that too is a country of our spirit. For the subliminal proper is no more than the inner being on the level of the Knowledge-Ignorance luminous, powerful and extended indeed beyond the poor conception of our waking mind, but still not the supreme or the whole sense of our being, not its ultimate mystery.” The Life Divine
“We might say then that there are three elements in the totality of our being: there is the submental and the subconscient which appears to us as if it were inconscient, comprising the material basis and a good part of our life and body; there is the subliminal, which comprises the inner being, taken in its entirety of inner mind, inner life, inner physical with the soul or psychic entity supporting them; there is this waking consciousness which the subliminal and the subconscient throw up on the surface, a wave of their secret surge. But even this is not an adequate account of what we are; for there is not only something deep within behind our normal self-awareness, but something also high above it: that too is ourselves, other than our surface mental personality, but not outside our true self; that too is a country of our spirit. For the subliminal proper is no more than the inner being on the level of the Knowledge-Ignorance luminous, powerful and extended indeed beyond the poor conception of our waking mind, but still not the supreme or the whole sense of our being, not its ultimate mystery.” The Life Divine
wide-winged ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The epithet ‘wide-winged" then does not belong to the wind and is not transferred from it, but is proper to the voice of the wind which takes the form of a conscious hymn of aspiration and rises ascending from the bosom of the great priest, as might a great-winged bird released into the sky and sinks and rises again, aspires and fails and aspires again on the ‘altar hills". Letters on Savitri
will, free ::: Sri Aurobindo: Our notion of free will is apt to be tainted with the excessive individualism of the human ego and to assume the figure of an independent will acting on its own isolated account, in a complete liberty without any determination other than its own choice and single unrelated movement. This idea ignores the fact that our natural being is a part of cosmic Nature and our spiritual being exists only by the supreme Transcendence. Our total being can rise out of subjection to fact of present Nature only by an identification with a greater Truth and a greater Nature. The will of the individual, even when completely free, could not act in an isolated independence, because the individual being and nature are included in the universal Being and Nature and dependent on the all-overruling Transcendence. There could indeed be in the ascent a dual line. On one line the being could feel and behave as an independent self-existence uniting itself with its own impersonal Reality; it could, so self-conceived, act with a great force, but either this action would be still within an enlarged frame of its past and present self-formation of power of Nature or else it would be the cosmic or supreme Force that acted in it and there would be no personal initiation of action, no sense therefore of individual free will but only of an impersonal cosmic or supreme Will or Energy at its work. On the other line the being would feel itself a spiritual instrument and so act as a power of the Supreme Being, limited in its workings only by the potencies of the Supernature, which are without bounds or any restriction except its own Truth and self-law, and by the Will in her. But in either case there would be, as the condition of a freedom from the control of a mechanical action of Nature-forces, a submission to a greater conscious Power or an acquiescent unity of the individual being with its intention and movement in his own and in the world"s existence.” *The Life Divine
wonder ::: n. 1. An event inexplicable by the laws of nature; a miracle; something strange and surprising brought about by a supernatural force. 2. A miraculous deed or event; remarkable phenomenon. 3. The emotion excited by what is strange and surprising; a feeling of surprised or puzzled interest, sometimes tinged with admiration. 4. Something strange, unexpected, or extraordinary. Wonder, wonder"s, Wonder"s, wonders, wonder-book, wonder-couch, wonder-dance, wonder-flecks, wonder-flowers, wonder-hues, wonder-plastics, wonder-rounds, wonder-rush, wonder-tree, wonder-web, wonder-weft, Wonder-worker, Wonder-worker"s, wonder-works, wonder-world, wonder-worlds. *adj. 5. Arousing awe or admiration; wonderful. v. 6. To be filled with admiration, amazement or awe; marvel (often followed by at); to think or speculate curiously (at or about); be curious to know. *wonders, wondered, wondering.
wordy ::: characterised by or given to the use of many, or too many, words; verbose.
Yet all the time the universal forces are pouring info him without his knowing it. He is aware only of thoughts, feelings, etc. that rise to the surface and the^ he takes for his own.
You will see that in only one of these cases, the first, can a soul be posited and there no difficulty arises.” Letters on Yoga
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1:True love gives rise to the eyes of clarity. ~ Tenzin Deva, #KEYS
2:It is time now for us to rise from sleep. ~ Saint Benedict of Nursia, #KEYS
3:Truth makes you rise to new heights, no matter where you are." ~ Kamal Ravikant, #KEYS
4:A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. ~ John F. Kennedy, #KEYS
5:Strive for the truth so that out from your soul a sun may rise. ~ Hafiz, #KEYS
6:Be thy own torch; rise up and become wise. ~ id, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
7:We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training. ~ Archilochus, #KEYS
8:All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up." ~ John Steinbeck, #KEYS
9:If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
10:A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind." ~ John Neal, #KEYS
11:The light must be dim in order to enable the ego to rise up. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
12:Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation. ~ Meher Baba, #KEYS
13:you must rise
above the clouds
to see the sun
~ Taigu Ryokan, @BashoSociety#KEYS
14:You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; How could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #KEYS
15:Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
16:We can rise only through humility. Obedience to the Guru elevates the disciple to a more expansive, higher plane. ~ MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI, #KEYS
17:Maya gives rise to the seed of "I" and "mine" and serves to keep beings chained to the world. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
18:If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
19:The wearing of the orange garb of the Sannyasin causes sacred thoughts naturally to rise in the mind. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
20:Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Micah, 7:8, #KEYS
21:After visiting a holy spot or place, you must take hold of the holy thoughts that rise in the mind there. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
22:Rise with the world in thy bosom,
O Word gathered into the heart of the Ineffable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, Ascent,#KEYS
23:Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall, and the Self watches their return. ~ Lao Tzu, #KEYS
24:From exchange we can rise to the highest possible idea of interchange. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, Heraclitus - VII, #KEYS
25:Yes, all kinds of thoughts arise in meditation. It is but right. Unless they rise up how can they be destroyed? ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
26:Why do you say you are troubled and so on? You could as well remain quiet. Why do you rise out of your composure? ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
27:Thoughts rise up spontaneously, as it were, but only to be extinguished in due course, thus strengthening the mind. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
28:Thoughts must cease and reason disappear for 'I-I' to rise up and be felt. Feeling is the prime factor and not reason. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
29:I am only the dust
on My Lover's Path
And
from dust
I will rise
and turn into a flower ! ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path#KEYS
30:Every morning may our thoughts rise fervently towards Thee, asking Thee how we can manifest and serve Thee best.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#KEYS
31:When one is able to effect mental concentration in any environment, the mind will always rise above the environment and rest in God. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
32:Siddhas or miraculous powers are to be avoided like filth. He who sets his mind on the Siddhis, remains stuck and cannot rise higher. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
33:I will rise now and go about the city in the streets and the broadways, I will seek him whom my soul loveth. ~ Songs of Songs III.2, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
34:... The fighters will rise up to the heavens to take the stars and throw them on the cities, to set ablaze the buildings and to cause immense devastations." ~ Saint Odile, (660-720 AD), #KEYS
35:This is the Nemesis of men who rise
Too suddenly by fraud or violence
That they suspect all hearts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act I,#KEYS
36:Of luxury, the Sattvic devotee has none, either in food or dress, no show in his house of furniture and never seeking to rise in this world ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
37:After dusk the glow worms make their appearance and think: "We are giving light to the world." But when the stars rise, their pride is gone. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
38:Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
39:The higher the life, the less the sleep. The body must be strong. Rise early; meditate a little, for the mind then is naturally calm. Do every bit of work with a purpose. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
40:Let me be rapt in love. Let me rise above self in great fervor and wonder. Let me sing the hymn of love, and let me follow You, my Love, to the heights. ~ Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, #KEYS
41:The sense of personal doership gives rise to a feeling of guilt or pride and effectively blocks the spiritual understanding that everything happens according to the will of God. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
42:The difficulties of the character persist so long as one yields to them in action when they rise. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Steps towards Overcoming Difficulties, #KEYS
43:What earth is this
so in want of you
they rise up on high
to seek you in heaven?
Look at them staring
at you
right before their eyes,
unseeing, unseeing, blind. ~ Mansur al-Hallaj,#KEYS
44:Fortunate is the man who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, but goes straight to the Source from which they all rise. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Guru Ramana, #KEYS
45:There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside." ~ Saint Basil the Great, #KEYS
46:The wise are tranquil; silent the great hills
Rise ceaselessly towards their unreached sky, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
47:To eternal light and knowledge meant to rise,
Up from man's bare beginning is our climb; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
48:This too the supreme Diplomat can use,
He makes our fall a means for greater rise. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
49:Inwardly, the man who does not destroy his lower self-formations, cannot rise to a greater existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, The Vision of the World-Spirit - Time the Destroyer, #KEYS
50:You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. ~ Maya Angelou, #KEYS
51:When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself." ~ Tecumseh, #KEYS
52:Silent the great hills
Rise ceaselessly towards their unreached sky,
Seated on their unchanging base ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
53:Ethical action is only a means of purification by which we can rise towards the divine nature, but that nature itself is lifted beyond the dualities. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, The Two Natures, #KEYS
54:The Son is that day to whom the day, which is the Father, communicates the mystery of his divinity. He is the day who says through the mouth of Solomon: "I have caused an unfailing light to rise in heaven." ~ Saint Maximus of Turin, #KEYS
55:The righteous will suffer greatly. Their prayers, their penances and their tears will rise up to Heaven and all of God's people will beg for forgiveness and mercy and will plead for my help and intercession." ~ Our Lady of La Salette , #KEYS
56:Since nothing can be expected to rise again, unless it has first been prostrated. It is only the man who is ignorant of the fact that the flesh falls by death, that can fail to discover that it stands erect by means of life. ~ Tertullian, #KEYS
57:There is war everywhere. Individuals and nations rise against each other. Wars! Wars! Civil wars, foreign wars! ... Everything is dead or in mourning; and famine stalks the earth. "The general revolution has followed." ~ The Monk of Premol, #KEYS
58:Awake, mankind! For your sake God has become man. Awake, you who sleep, rise up from the dead, and Christ will enlighten you. I tell you again: for your sake, God became man. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
59:We are given a chance for improvement. And the lesson we learn from expansion is to give up, not externally, but internally, the narrow selfish ideas, and thus rise from worldly ideas to the life of peace and bliss. ~ SWAMI TRIGUNATITANANDA., #KEYS
60:...there will be no peace. Thrice will the sun rise over the heads of the combatants, without having been seen by them. But afterwards there will be peace, and all who have broken peace will have lost their lives." ~ Saint Odile, (660-720 AD), #KEYS
61:It is necessary that some kind of knowledge be permitted to every lover seeking to rise up unknowingly to union with the Beloved. What is totally unknown can neither be loved, nor found; even if it is found, it is not apprehended as found. ~ Nicholas of Cusa, #KEYS
62:To think that this world is the aim and end of life is brutal and degenerating. Any man who starts in life with that idea degenerates himself He will never rise higher, he will always be a slave to the senses. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
63:If you want to be great, give up hatred. Then God's grace will descend on you. No one can become great unless God makes one great. A hateful man can never make progress. If you want to rise high up, renounce hatred. Perform good works alone. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
64:Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds. ~ Viktor Frankl, #KEYS
65:There are higher levels of the mind than any we now conceive and to these we must one day reach and rise beyond them to the heights of a greater, a spiritual existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, Perfection of the Body, #KEYS
66:A thunder rolling mid the hills of God,
Tireless, severe is their tremendous Voice:
Exceeding us, to exceed ourselves they call
And bid us rise incessantly above. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
67:Facing wine, I missed night coming on and falling blossoms filling my robe. Drunk, I rise and wade the midstream moon, birds soon gone, and people scarcer still." ~ Li Bai, (aka Li Po, 701-762), Chinese poet, acclaimed from his own day to the present as a genius, Wikipedia., #KEYS
68:Sacred Scripture does not present divine things to us under sensible images so that our intellect may stop with them, but that it may rise from them to immaterial things ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (On Boethius' De Trinitate, q. 6, a. 2 ad 1)., #KEYS
69:All kinds of thoughts arise in meditation. That is only right; for what lies hidden in you is brought out. Unless it rises up, how can it be destroyed? Thoughts rise up spontaneously but only to be extinguished in due course, thus strengthening the mind. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
70:A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, #KEYS
71:Let the strong wind of dispassion rise in your minds, that the trees of desire be uprooted. Then, even as birds fly from the shelter of trees before a strong wind, will the ignorance of selfishness, jealousy, hatred, and egoism take flight from your hearts. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
72:Man is given faith in himself, his ideas and his powers that he may work and create and rise to greater things and in the end bring his strength as a worthy offering to the altar of the Spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Faith and Shakti, #KEYS
73:All the angels pray. Every creature prays. Cattle and wild beasts pray and bend the knee. As they come from their barns and caves they look out to heaven and call out, lifting up their spirit in their own fashion. The birds too rise and lift themselves up to heaven... ~ Tertullian, #KEYS
74:Little man, rise up! Flee your preoccupations for a little while. Hide yourself for a time from your turbulent thoughts. Cast aside, now, your heavy responsibilities and put off your burdensome business. Make a little space free for God; and rest for a little time in him. ~ Anselm, #KEYS
75:How to account for the fact that these men, who in Christ's lifetime did not stand up to the attacks by the Jews, set forth to do battle with the whole world once Christ was dead-if, as you claim, Christ did not rise and speak to them and rouse their courage? ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
76:When you get up or rise again, speak of Christ, so as to fulfil what you are commanded. Listen and learn how Christ is to awaken you from sleep. Your soul says: I hear my brother knocking at the door. Then Christ says to you: Open the door to me, my sister, my spouse. ~ Saint Ambrose, #KEYS
77:In the passage of the lotus of the throat
Where speech must rise and the expressing mind
And the heart's impulse run towards word and act,
A glad uplift and a new working came. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
78:The purpose and law of the birth-series is for the soul in the body to rise from plane to plane and substitute always the rule of the higher for the rule of the lower play even down to the material field. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Gnosis and Ananda, #KEYS
79:What Nature herself attends from us is that the whole of what we are should rise into the spiritual consciousness and become a manifest and manifold power of the spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Out of the Sevenfold Ignorance towards the Sevenfold Knowledge, #KEYS
80:I know, O God, the day shall dawn at last
When man shall rise from playing with the mud
And taking in his hands the sun and stars
Remould appearance, law and process old. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Meditations of Mandavya,#KEYS
81:The mind and intellect must develop to their fullness so that the spirituality of the race may rise securely upward upon a broad basis of the developed lower nature in man, the intelligent mental being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Infrarational Age of the Cycle, #KEYS
82:Pride is not for our clay; the earth, not heaven was our mother
And we are even as the ant in our toil and the beast in our dying;
Only who cling to the hands of the gods can rise up from the earth-mire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,#KEYS
83:Has put the stars out ere the light,
And from their dewy cushions rise
Sweet flowers half-opening their eyes.
O pleasant then to feel as if new-born
The sweet, unripe and virgin air, the air of morn. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Songs to Myrtilla,#KEYS
84:Every suffering is a buddha-seed, because suffering impels mortals to seek wisdom. But you can only say that suffering gives rise to buddhahood. You can't say that suffering is buddhahood. Your body and mind are the field. Suffering is the seed, wisdom the sprout, and buddhahood the grain. ~ Bodhidharma, #KEYS
85:The more we rise towards the summit, towards the identity, both through the form and in the essence, and the more we turn away from particular things towards the whole, the more do we find the unity that abides for ever, and behold it as supreme, dominant, comprehensive of diversity and multiplicity. ~ Iamblichus, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
86:Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald Reagan might've been the beginning of my giving up on my species. Because it was absurd. To this day it remains absurd. More than absurd, it was frightening: it represented the rise to supremacy of darkness, the ascendancy of ignorance. ~ George Carlin, #KEYS
87:The best way to understand is always to rise high enough in the consciousness to be able to unite all contradictory ideas in a harmonious synthesis.
And for the correct attitude, to know how to pass flexibly from one position to another without ever losing sight even for a moment of the one goal of self-consecration to the Divine and identification with Him.
29 April 1964
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS
88:And Thou, O Lord, who art all this made one and much more, O sovereign Master, extreme limit of our thought, who standest for us at the threshold of the Unknown, make rise from that Unthinkable some new splendour, some possibility of a loftier and more integral realisation, that Thy work may be accomplished and the universe take one step farther towards the sublime Identity, the supreme Manifestation.
And now my pen falls mute and I adore Thee in silence.*
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, 270,#KEYS
89:What is history? What is its significance for humanity? Dr. J. H. Robinson gives us a precise answer: "Man's abject dependence on the past gives rise to the continuity of history. Our convictions, opinions, prejudices, intellectual tastes; our knowledge, our methods of learning and of applying for information we owe, with slight exceptions, to the past-often to the remote past. History is an expansion of memory, and like memory it alone can explain the present and in this lies its most unmistakable value. ~ Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity, #KEYS
90:the Divine Personalities :::
But behind all these and in them he has felt a Divinity who is all these things, a Bringer of Light, a Guide and All-Knower, a Master of Force, A Giver of Bliss, Friend, Helper, Father, Mother, Playmate in the world-game, an absolute Master of his being, his souls Beloved and Lover. All relations known to human personality are there in the souls contact with the Divine; but they rise towards superhuman levels and compel him towards a divine nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
91:It's easy to imagine that, in the future, telepathy and telekinesis will be the norm; we will interact with machines by sheer thought. Our mind will be able to turn on the lights, activate the internet, dictate letters, play video games, communicate with friends, call for a car, purchase merchandise, conjure any movie-all just by thinking. Astronauts of the future may use the power of their minds to pilot their spaceships or explore distant planets. Cities may rise from the desert of Mars, all due to master builders who mentally control the work of robots. ~ Michio Kaku, #KEYS
92:... Krishna, the great Lord of Yoga,
revealed to Arjuna his majestic,
transcendent, limitless form.
With innumerable mouths and eyes,
faces too marvelous to stare at,
dazzling ornaments, innumerable
weapons uplifted, flaming-
crowned with fire, wrapped
in pure light, with celestial fragrance,
he stood forth as the infinite
God, composed of all wonders.
If a thousand suns were to rise
and stand in the noon sky, blazing,
such brilliance would be like the fierce
brilliance of that mighty Self. ~ Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa,#KEYS
93:So, first of all, it is most important to turn inwards and change your motivation.
If you can correct your attitude, skilful means will permeate your positive actions, and you will have set out on the path of great beings.
If you cannot, you might think that you are studying and practising the Dharma but it will be no more than a semblance of the real thing.
Therefore, whenever you listen to the teachings and whenever you practise, be it meditating on a deity, doing prostrations and circumambulations, or reciting a mantra-even a single mani it is always essential to give rise to bodhicitta. ~ Patrul Rinpoche,#KEYS
94:When the disciple considering an idea sees rise in him bad or unhealthy thoughts, thoughts of covetousness, hatred or error, he should either turn his mind away from that idea or concentrate it upon a healthy thought, or else examine the fatal nature of the idea, or analyse it and decompose it into its different elements, or, making appeal to all his strength and applying the greatest energy, suppress it from his mind; thus are removed and disappear these bad and unhealthy ideas and the mind becomes firm, calm, unified, full of vigour. ~ Mahayana; the Book of the Faith, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
95:Essentially, Yoga is a generic name for the processes and the result of processes by which we transcend or shred off our present modes of being and rise to a new, a higher, a wider mode of consciousness which is not that of the ordinary animal and intellectual man. Yoga is the exchange of an egoistic for a universal or cosmic consciousness lifted towards or informed by the supra-cosmic, transcendent Unnameable who is the source and support of all things. Yoga is the passage of the human thinking animal towards the God-consciousness from which he has descended. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, #KEYS
96:Magic never in its wildest dreams thought that it would be trumped by mythic. And the mythic gods and goddesses never imagined that reason could and would destroy them. And here we sit, in our rational worldview, all smug and confident that nothing higher will sweep out of the heavens and completely explode our solid perceptions, undoing our very foundations. And yet surely, the transrational lies in wait. It is just around the corner, this new dawn. Every stage transcends and includes, and thus inescapably, unavoidably it seems, the sun will rise on a world tomorrow that in many ways transcends reason. ~ Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything, #KEYS
97:It is the same thing for the ego, the self. In order to pass on to a higher plane, one must first exist; and to exist one must become a conscious, separate individual, and to become a conscious separate individual, the ego is indispensable, otherwise one remains mingled with all that lies around us. But once the individuality is formed, if one wants to rise to a higher level and live a spiritual life, if one wants even to become simply a higher type of man, the limitations of the ego are the worst obstacles, and the ego must be surpassed in order to enter the true consciousness. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1956, 367, #KEYS
98:As gnostic knowledge, will and ananda are a direct instrumentation of spirit and can only be won by growing into the spirit, into divine being, this growth has to be the first aim of our Yoga. The mental being has to enlarge itself into the oneness of the Divine before the Divine will perfect in the soul of the individual its gnostic outflowering. That is the reason why the triple way of knowledge, works and love becomes the key-note of the whole Yoga, for that is the direct means for the soul in mind to rise to its highest intensities where it passes upward into the divine oneness.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
99:In all doubt and depression, to say 'I belong to the Divine, I cannot fail'; to all suggestions of impurity and unfitness, to reply 'I am a child of Immortality chosen by the Divine; I have but to be true to myself and to Him-the victory is sure; even if I fell, I would be sure to rise again'; to all impulses to depart and serve some smaller ideal, to reply 'This is the greatest, this is the Truth that alone can satisfy the soul within me; I will endure through all tests and tribulations to the very end of the divine journey.' This is what I mean by faithfulness to the Light and the Call.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
100:The fact that we question the Tarot as to whether it be a method or a doctrine shows the limitation of our 'three dimensional mind', which is unable to rise above the world of form and contra-positions or to free itself from thesis and antithesis! Yes, the Tarot contains and expresses any doctrine to be found in our consciousness, and in this sense it has definiteness. It represents Nature in all the richness of its infinite possibilities, and there is in it as in Nature, not one but all potential meanings. And these meanings are fluent and ever-changing, so the Tarot cannot be specifically this or that, for it ever moves and yet is ever the same. ~ P D Ouspensky, #KEYS
101:Love Is Not All
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay,#KEYS
102:The vital can rise to the head in two ways - one to cloud the mind with the vital impulses, the other to aspire and join with the higher Consciousness. If you noticed the aspiration, it was evidently the latter movement. It is true that for the external vital an outer discipline is necessary for the purification, otherwise it remains restless and fanciful and at the mercy of its own impulses - so that no basis can be built there for a quiet and abiding higher consciousness to remain firmly. The attitude you have taken for the work is of course the best one and, applying it steadily, the progress you feel was bound to come and is sure to increase.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV, The Vital Being and Sadhana,#KEYS
103:It is not a question of making a few changes in individual lines, that is a very minor problem; the real finality only comes when all is felt as a perfect whole, no line jarring with or falling away from the level of the whole though some may rise above it and also all the parts in their proper place making the right harmony. It is an inner feeling that has to decide that and my inner feeling is not as satisfied in that respect with parts of the third section as it is with the first two. Unfortunately the mind can't arrange these things, one has to wait till the absolutely right thing comes in a sort of receptive self-opening and calling-down condition. Hence the months. 20 November 1936 ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Poetry And Art, #KEYS
104:It depends on what is meant by the higher buddhi - whether you use the word to mean the higher part of the intellect or the higher Mind. The higher Mind in itself on its own level knows, but when it is involved in the ordinary human intelligence and works under limitations, it often does not know - or it has the idea merely that it must be so but has not the consciousness of its separate existence. The intellect can rise above its ordinary movements and feel itself as a separate power no longer working under the limitations of the vital and physical mind and the senses. It then begins to reflect something of the action of the higher mind but without the full freedom and greater light and truth of the higher mind.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - I,#KEYS
105:For primitive man the world is full of demons and mysterious powers which he fears; the whole of Nature is animated by these forces, which are nothing but man's own inner powers projected into the outside world. Christianity and modern science have de-demonized Nature, which means that the European has consistently taken back the demonic powers out of the world into himself, and has steadily loaded his unconscious with them. Out of man himself the demonic powers rise up in revolt against the supposed spiritual constraints of Christianity. The demons begin to break out in Baroque art: the columns writhe, the furniture sprouts satyr's feet. Man is slowly transformed into a uroboros, the "tail-eater" who devours himself, from ancient times a symbol of the demon-ridden man. ~ Carl Jung, #KEYS
106:Systematic study of chemical and physical phenomena has been carried on for many generations and these two sciences now include: (1) knowledge of an enormous number of facts; (2) a large body of natural laws; (3) many fertile working hypotheses respecting the causes and regularities of natural phenomena; and finally (4) many helpful theories held subject to correction by further testing of the hypotheses giving rise to them. When a subject is spoken of as a science, it is understood to include all of the above mentioned parts. Facts alone do not constitute a science any more than a pile of stones constitutes a house, not even do facts and laws alone; there must be facts, hypotheses, theories and laws before the subject is entitled to the rank of a science. ~ Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity, #KEYS
107:18. Of the devotees, who is the greatest?
He who gives himself up to the Self that is God is the most excellent devotee. Giving one's self up to God means remaining constantly in the Self without giving room for the rise of any thoughts other than that of the Self. Whatever burdens are thrown on God, He bears them. Since the supreme power of God makes all things move, why should we, without submitting ourselves to it, constantly worry ourselves with thoughts as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not? We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease? ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Who am I,#KEYS
108:You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing. Permit yourself to flow and overflow, allow for the rise in temperature, all the expansions and intensifications. Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. If it seems to you that I move in a world of certitudes, you, par contre, must benefit from the great privilege of youth, which is that you move in a world of mysteries. But both must be ruled by faith. ~ Anais Nin, #KEYS
109:Overmind is the highest source of the cosmic consciousness available to the embodied being in the Ignorance. It is part of the cosmic consciousness-but the human individual when he opens into the cosmic usually remains in the cosmic Mind-Life-Matter receiving only inspirations and influences from the higher planes of Intuition and Overmind. He receives through the spiritualised higher and illumined mind the fundamental experiences on which spiritual knowledge is based; he can become even full of intuitive mind movements, illuminations, various kinds of powers and illumined light, liberation, Ananda. But to rise fully into the Intuition is rare, to reach the Overmind still rarer- although influences and experiences can come down from there.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - I, 152,#KEYS
110:
Sweet Mother,
Why has the Divine made His path so difficult? He can make it easier if He wants, can't He?
First of all, one should know that the intellect, the mind, can understand nothing of the Divine, neither what He does nor how He does it and still less why He does it. To know something of the Divine, one has to rise above thought and enter into the psychic consciousness, the consciousness of the soul, or into the spiritual consciousness.
Those who have had the experience have always said that the difficulties and sufferings of the path are not real, but a creation of human ignorance, and that as soon as one gets out of this ignorance one also gets out of the difficulties, to say nothing of the inalienable state of bliss in which one dwells as soon as one is in conscious contact with the Divine. So according to them, the question has no real basis and cannot be posed. ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother, 21 September 1959,#KEYS
111:When man's thoughts rise upon the wings of aspiration, when he pushes back the darkness with the strength of reason and logic, then indeed the builder is liberated from his dungeon and the light pours in, bathing him with life and power. This light enables us to seek more clearly the mystery of creation and to find with greater certainty our place in the Great Plan, for as man unfolds his bodies he gains talents with which he can explore the mysteries of Nature and search for the hidden workings of the Divine. Through these powers the Builder is liberated and his consciousness goes forth conquering and to conquer. These higher ideals, these spiritual concepts, these altruistic, philanthropic, educative applications of thought power glorify the Builder; for they give the power of expression and those who can express themselves are free. When man can mold his thoughts, his emotions, and his actions into faithful expressions of his highest ideals then liberty is his, for ignorance is the darkness of Chaos and knowledge is the light of Cosmos.
~ Manly P Hall,#KEYS
112:Attain The Way ::: If students of the way are mistaken about their own real Mind they will indulge in various achievements and practices, expecting to attain realization by such gradual practices. However, even after aeons of diligent searching they will not be able to attain the Way. These methods cannot be compared to the sudden elimination of conceptual thought in this moment; the certain knowledge that there is nothing at all which has absolute existence, nothing on which to lay hold, nothing on which to rely, nothing in which to abide, nothing subjective or objective. It is by preventing the rise of conceptual thought that you will realize Bodhi. When you do, you will just be realizing the Buddha who has always existed in your own Mind.
If students of the Way wish to become Buddhas, they don't need to study any doctrines. They need only learn how to avoid seeking for and attaching themselves to anything. Relinquishment of everything is the Dharma and they who understand this are Buddhas. Only know that the relinquishment of ALL delusions leaves no Dharma on which to lay hold. ~ Huang Po, Attain the Way,#KEYS
113:The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.
~ David Foster Wallace,#KEYS
114:Yet not for tyrant wrong nor to serve as a sword for our passions
Zeus created our strength, but that earth might have help from her children.
Not of our moulding its gifts to our soul nor were formed by our labour!
When did we make them, where were ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Ilion
Mother-Earth
So when the Eye supreme perceives that we rise up too swiftly,
Drawn towards height but fullness contemning, called by the azure,
Life when we fail in, poor in our base and forgetting our mother,
Back we are hurled to our roots; we recover our sap f ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Ilion
Mother-Earth
Man, repelled by the gulfs within him and shrinking from vastness,
Form of the earth accepts and is glad of the lap of his mother. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Ilion
Mother-Earth
Man does not act, even most primitively, from fear alone, but from twin motives, fear and desire, fear of things unpleasant and maleficent and desire of things pleasant and beneficent. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Motives of Devotion,#KEYS
115:0 Order - All developmental theories consider the infant to be "undifferentiated," the essence of which is the absence of any self-other boundary (interpersonally) or any subject-object boundary (intrapsychically), hence, stage 0 rather than stage 1. The infant is believed to consider all of the phenomena it experiences as extensions of itself. The infant is "all self" or "all subject" and "no object or other." Whether one speaks of infantile narcissism," "orality," being under the sway completely of "the pleasure principle" with no countervailing "reality principle," or being "all assimilative" with no countervailing "accommodation," all descriptions amount to the same picture of an objectless, incorporative embeddedness. Such an underlying psychologic gives rise not only to a specific kind of cognition (prerepresentational) but to a specific kind of emotion in which the emotional world lacks any distinction between inner and outer sources of pleasure and discomfort. To describe a state of complete undifferentiation, psychologists have had to rely on metaphors: Our language itself depends on the transcendence of this prerepresentational stage. The objects, symbols, signs, and referents of language organize the experienced world and presuppose the very categories that are not yet articulated at stage 0. Thus, Freud has described this period as the "oceanic stage," the self undifferentiated from the swelling sea. Jung suggested "uroboros," the snake that swallows its tail. ~ Robert Kegan, #KEYS
116:On a thousand bridges and paths they shall throng to the future, and ever more war and inequality shall divide them: thus does my great love make me speak.
In their hostilities they shall become inventors of images and ghosts, and with their images and ghosts they shall yet fight the highest fight against one another. Good and evil, and rich and poor, and high and low, and all the names of values-arms shall they be and clattering signs that life must overcome itself again and again.
Life wants to build itself up into the heights with pillars and steps; it wants to look into vast distances and out toward stirring beauties: therefore it requires height. And because it requires height, it requires steps and contradiction among the steps and the climbers.
Life wants to climb and to overcome itself climbing.
And behold, my friends: here where the tarantula has its hole, the ruins of an ancient temple rise; behold it with enlightened eyes Verily, the man who once piled his thoughts to the sky in these stones-he, like the wisest, knew the secret of all life. That struggle and inequality are present even in beauty, and also war for power and more power: that is what he teaches us here in the plainest parable. How divinely vault and arches break through each other in a wrestling match; how they strive against each other with light and shade, the godlike strivers-with such assurance and beauty let us be enemies too, my friends Let us strive against one another like gods. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Fred Kaufmann,#KEYS
117:So too we can rise to a consciousness above and observe the various parts of our being, inner and outer, mental, vital and physical and the subconscient below all, and act upon one or other or the whole from that higher status. It is possible also to go down from that height or from any height into any of these lower states and take its limited light or its obscurity as our place of working while the rest that we are is either temporarily put away or put behind or else kept as a field of reference from which we can get support, sanction or light and influence or as a status into which we can ascend or recede and from it observe the inferior movements. Or we can plunge into trance, get within ourselves and be conscious there while all outward things are excluded; or we can go beyond even this inner awareness and lose ourselves in some deeper other consciousness or some high superconscience. There is also a pervading equal consciousness into which we can enter and see all ourselves with one enveloping glance or omnipresent awareness one and indivisible. All this which looks strange and abnormal or may seem fantastic to the surface reason acquainted only with our normal status of limited ignorance and its movements divided from our inner higher and total reality, becomes easily intelligible and admissible in the light of the larger reason and logic of the Infinite or by the admission of the greater illimitable powers of the Self, the Spirit in us which is of one essence with the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 1.2.02 #KEYS
118:Thought's long far-circling journey touched its close
And ineffective paused the actor Will.
The symbol modes of being helped no more,
The structures Nescience builds collapsing failed,
All glory of outline, sweetness of harmony,
Rejected like a grace of trivial notes,
Expunged from Being's silence nude, austere,
Died into a fine and blissful Nothingness.
The Demiurges lost their names and forms,
The great schemed worlds that they had planned and wrought
Passed, taken and abolished one by one.
The universe removed its coloured veil,
And at the unimaginable end
Of the huge riddle of created things
Appeared the far-seen Godhead of the whole,
His feet firm-based on Life's stupendous wings,
Omnipotent, a lonely seer of Time,
Inward, inscrutable, with diamond gaze.
Attracted by the unfathomable regard
The unsolved slow cycles to their fount returned
To rise again from that invisible sea.
All from his puissance born was now undone;
Nothing remained the cosmic Mind conceives.
Eternity prepared to fade and seemed
A hue and imposition on the Void,
Space was the fluttering of a dream that sank
Before its ending into Nothing's deeps.
The spirit that dies not and the Godhead's self
Seemed myths projected from the Unknowable;
From It all sprang, in It is called to cease.
But what That was, no thought nor sight could tell.
Only a formless Form of self was left,
A tenuous ghost of something that had been,
The last experience of a lapsing wave ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 3:1,#KEYS
119:In the Judeo-Christian tradition, it is called 'the resurrection body ' and 'the glorified body.' The prophet Isaiah said, 'The dead shall live, their bodies shall rise' (Isa. 26:19). St. Paul called it 'the celestial body' or 'spiritual body ' (soma pneumatikon) (I Corinthians 15:40). In Sufism it is called 'the most sacred body ' (wujud al-aqdas) and 'supracelestial body ' (jism asli haqiqi). In Taoism, it is called 'the diamond body,' and those who have attained it are called 'the immortals' and 'the cloudwalkers.' In Tibetan Buddhism it is called 'the light body.' In Tantrism and some schools of yoga, it is called 'the vajra body,' 'the adamantine body,' and 'the divine body.' In Kriya yoga it is called 'the body of bliss.' In Vedanta it is called 'the superconductive body.' In Gnosticism and Neoplatonism, it is called 'the radiant body.' In the alchemical tradition, the Emerald Tablet calls it 'the Glory of the Whole Universe' and 'the golden body.' The alchemist Paracelsus called it 'the astral body.' In the Hermetic Corpus, it is called 'the immortal body ' (soma athanaton). In some mystery schools, it is called 'the solar body.' In Rosicrucianism, it is called 'the diamond body of the temple of God.' In ancient Egypt it was called 'the luminous body or being' (akh). In Old Persia it was called 'the indwelling divine potential' (fravashi or fravarti). In the Mithraic liturgy it was called 'the perfect body ' (soma teilion). In the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, it is called 'the divine body,' composed of supramental substance. In the philosophy of Teilhard de Chardin, it is called 'the ultrahuman'.
~ ?, http://herebedragons.weebly.com/homo-lumen.html,#KEYS
120:You say that you feel you have returned to your old life and that you have fallen from that state of spiritual consciousness in which you remained for some time. And you ask whether it comes from the fact that Sri Aurobindo and myself have withdrawn our protection and our help because you had been unable to fulfil your promise.
It is a mistake to think that anything at all has been withdrawn by us. Our help and our protection are with you as always, but it would be more correct to say that both your inability to feel our help and your inability to keep your promise are the simultaneous effects of the same cause.
Remember what I wrote to you when you went to Calcutta to fetch your family: do not let any influence come in between you and the Divine. You did not pay sufficient attention to this warning: you have allowed an influence to interfere strongly between you and your spiritual life; your devotion and your faith have been seriously shaken by this. As a consequence, you became afraid and you did not find the same joy in your offering to the Divine Cause; and also, quite naturally, you fell back into your ordinary consciousness and your old life.
You are quite right, nevertheless, not to let yourself be discouraged. Whatever the fall, it is always possible not only to get up again but also to rise higher and to reach the goal. Only a strong aspiration and a constant will are needed.
You have to take a firm resolution to let nothing interfere with your ascent towards the Divine Realisation. And then the success is certain.
Be assured of our unfailing help and protection. 3 February 1931 ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother - I,#KEYS
121:What is "the heavenly archetype of the lotus"?
It means the primal idea of the lotus.
Each thing that is expressed physically was conceived somewhere before being realised materially.
There is an entire world which is the world of the fashioners, where all conceptions are made. And this world is very high, much higher than all the worlds of the mind; and from there these formations, these creations, these types which have been conceived by the fashioners come down and are expressed in physical realisations. And there is always a great distance between the perfection of the idea and what is materialised. Very often the materialised things are like caricatures in comparison with the primal idea. This is what he calls the archetype. This takes place in worlds... not always the same ones, it depends on the things; but for many things in the physical, the primal ideas, these archetypes, were in what Sri Aurobindo calls the Overmind.
But there is a still higher domain than this where the origins are still purer, and if one reaches this, attains this, one finds the absolutely pure types of what is manifested upon earth. And then it is very interesting to compare, to see to what an extent earthly creation is a frightful distortion. And moreover, it is only when one can reach these regions and see the reality of things in their essence that one can work with knowledge to transform them here; otherwise on what can we take our stand to conceive a better world, more perfect, more beautiful than the existing one? It can't be on our imagination which is itself something very poor and very material. But if one can enter that consciousness, rise right up to these higher worlds of creation, then with this in one's consciousness one can work at making material things take their real form. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955, 121,#KEYS
122:19 - When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellent, but I could no longer find them. - Sri Aurobindo
Is there really nothing ugly and repellent in the world? Is it our reason alone that sees things in that way?
To understand truly what Sri Aurobindo means here, you must yourself have had the experience of transcending reason and establishing your consciousness in a world higher than the mental intelligence. For from up there you can see, firstly, that everything that exists in the universe is an expression of Sachchidananda (Being-Consciousness-Bliss) and therefore behind any appearance whatever, if you go deeply enough, you can perceive Sachchidananda, which is the principle of Supreme Beauty.
Secondly, you see that everything in the manifested universe is relative, so much so that there is no beauty which may not appear ugly in comparison with a greater beauty, no ugliness which may not appear beautiful in comparison with a yet uglier ugliness.
When you can see and feel in this way, you immediately become aware of the extreme relativity of these impressions and their unreality from the absolute point of view. However, so long as we dwell in the rational consciousness, it is, in a way, natural that everything that offends our aspiration for perfection, our will for progress, everything we seek to transcend and surmount, should seem ugly and repellent to us, since we are in search of a greater ideal and we want to rise higher.
And yet it is still only a half-wisdom which is very far from the true wisdom, a wisdom that appears wise only in the midst of ignorance and unconsciousness.
In the Truth everything is different, and the Divine shines in all things. 17 February 1960 ~ The Mother, On Thoughts And Aphorisms,#KEYS
123:One can concentrate in any of the three centres which is easiest to the sadhak or gives most result. The power of the concentration in the heart-centre is to open that centre and by the power of aspiration, love, bhakti, surrender remove the veil which covers and conceals the soul and bring forward the soul or psychic being to govern the mind, life and body and turn and open them all-fully-to the Divine, removing all that is opposed to that turning and opening.
This is what is called in this Yoga the psychic transformation. The power of concentration above the head is to bring peace, silence, liberation from the body sense, the identification with mind and life and open the way for the lower (mental vital-physical) consciousness to rise up to meet the higher Consciousness above and for the powers of the higher (spiritual or divine) Consciousness to descend into mind, life and body. This is what is called in this Yoga the spiritual transformation. If one begins with this movement, then the Power from above has in its descent to open all the centres (including the lowest centre) and to bring out the psychic being; for until that is done there is likely to be much difficulty and struggle of the lower consciousness obstructing, mixing with or even refusing the Divine Action from above. If the psychic being is once active this struggle and these difficulties can be greatly minimised. The power of concentration in the eyebrows is to open the centre there, liberate the inner mind and vision and the inner or Yogic consciousness and its experiences and powers. From here also one can open upwards and act also in the lower centres; but the danger of this process is that one may get shut up in one's mental spiritual formations and not come out of them into the free and integral spiritual experience and knowledge and integral change of the being and nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, [where to concentrate?],#KEYS
124:For centuries and centuries humanity has waited for this time. It is come. But it is difficult.
I don't simply tell you we are here upon earth to rest and enjoy ourselves, now is not the time for that. We are here..... to prepare the way for the new creation.
The body has some difficulty, so I can't be active, alas. It is not because I am old, I am not old, I am younger than most of you. If I am here inactive, it is because the body has given itself definitely to prepare the transformation. But the consciousness is clear and we are here to work - rest and enjoyment will come afterwards. Let us do our work here.
So I have called you to tell you that. Take what you can, do what you can, my help will be with you. All sincere effort will be helped to the maximum.
It is the hour to be the heroic. Heroism is not what it is said to be; it is to become wholly unified - and the Divine help will always be with those who have resolved to be heroic in full sincerity.
There!
You are here at this moment that is to say upon earth, because you chose it at one time - you do not remember it any more, but I know it - that is why you are here. Well, you must rise to the height of the task. You must strive, you must conquer all weakness and limitations; above all you must tell your ego: "Your hour is gone." We want a race that has no ego, that has in place of the ego the Divine Consciousness. It is that which we want: the Divine Consciousness which will allow the race to develop itself and the Supramental being to take birth.
If you believe that I am here because I am bound - it is not true. I am not bound, I am here because my body has been given for the first attempt at transformation. Sri Aurobindo told me so. Well, I am doing it. I do not wish anyone to do it for me because.... Because it is not very pleasant, but I do it willingly because of the result; everybody will be able to benefit from it. I ask only one thing: do not listen to the ego.
If there is in your hearts a sincere Yes, you will satisfy me completely. I do not need words, I need the sincere adhesion of your hearts. That's all. ~ The Mother, (This talk was given by the Mother on April 2,1972,#KEYS
125:separating from the heart and mind and the benefits of doing so :::
Therefore the mental Purusha has to separate himself from association and self-identification with this desire-mind. He has to say I am not this thing that struggles and suffers, grieves and rejoices, loves and hates, hopes and is baffled, is angry and afraid and cheerful and depressed, a thing of vital moods and emotional passions. All these are merely workings and habits of Prakriti in the sensational and emotional mind. The mind then draws back from its emotions and becomes with these, as with the bodily movements and experiences, the observer or witness. There is again an inner cleavage. There is this emotional mind in which these moods and passions continue to occur according to the habit of the modes of Nature and there is the observing mind which sees them, studies and understands but is detached from them. It observes them as if in a sort of action and play on a mental stage of personages other than itself, at first with interest and a habit of relapse into identification, then with entire calm and detachment, and, finally, attaining not only to calm but to the pure delight of its own silent existence, with a smile at thier unreality as at the imaginary joys and sorrows of a child who is playing and loses himself in the play. Secondly, it becomes aware of itself as master of the sanction who by his withdrawl of sanction can make this play to cease. When the sanction is withdrawn, another significant phenomenon takes place; the emotional mind becomes normally calm and pure and free from these reactions, and even when they come, they no longer rise from within but seem to fall on it as impression from outside to which its fibers are still able to respond; but this habit of reponse dies away and the emotional mind is in time entirely liberated from the passions which it has renounced. Hope and fear, joy and grief, liking and disliking, attraction and repulsion, content and discontent, gladness and depression, horror and wrath and fear and disgust and shame and the passions of love and hatred fall away from the liberated psychic being.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Release from the Heart and the Mind, 352,#KEYS
126:There I waited day and night for the voice of God within me, to know what He had to say to me, to learn what I had to do. In this seclusion the earliest realisation, the first lesson came to me. I remembered then that a month or more before my arrest, a call had come to me to put aside all activity, to go in seclusion and to look into myself, so that I might enter into closer communion with Him. I was weak and could not accept the call. My work was very dear to me and in the pride of my heart I thought that unless I was there, it would suffer or even fail and cease; therefore I would not leave it. It seemed to me that He spoke to me again and said, The bonds you had not the strength to break, I have broken for you, because it is not my will nor was it ever my intention that that should continue. I have had another thing for you to do and it is for that I have brought you here, to teach you what you could not learn for yourself and to train you for my work. Then He placed the Gita in my hands. His strength entered into me and I was able to do the sadhana of the Gita. I was not only to understand intellectually but to realise what Sri Krishna demanded of Arjuna and what He demands of those who aspire to do His work, to be free from repulsion and desire, to do work for Him without the demand for fruit, to renounce self-will and become a passive and faithful instrument in His hands, to have an equal heart for high and low, friend and opponent, success andfailure, yet not to do His work negligently. I realised what the Hindu religion meant. We speak often of the Hindureligion, of the Sanatan Dharma, but few of us really know what that religion is. Other religions are preponderatingly religions of faith and profession, but the Sanatan Dharma is life itself; it is a thing that has not so much to be believed as lived. This is the Dharma that for the salvation of humanity was cherished in the seclusion of this peninsula from of old. It is to give this religion that India is rising. She does not rise as other countries do, for self or when she is strong, to trample on the weak. She is rising to shed the eternal light entrusted to her over the world. India has always existed for humanity and not for herself and it is for humanity and not for herself that she must be great.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin,#KEYS
127:This is the real sense and drive of what we see as evolution: the multiplication and variation of forms is only the means of its process. Each gradation contains the possibility and the certainty of the grades beyond it: the emergence of more and more developed forms and powers points to more perfected forms and greater powers beyond them, and each emergence of consciousness and the conscious beings proper to it enables the rise to a greater consciousness beyond and the greater order of beings up to the ultimate godheads of which Nature is striving and is destined to show herself capable. Matter developed its organised forms until it became capable of embodying living organisms; then life rose from the subconscience of the plant into conscious animal formations and through them to the thinking life of man. Mind founded in life developed intellect, developed its types of knowledge and ignorance, truth and error till it reached the spiritual perception and illumination and now can see as in a glass dimly the possibility of supermind and a truthconscious existence. In this inevitable ascent the mind of Light is a gradation, an inevitable stage. As an evolving principle it will mark a stage in the human ascent and evolve a new type of human being; this development must carry in it an ascending gradation of its own powers and types of an ascending humanity which will embody more and more the turn towards spirituality, capacity for Light, a climb towards a divinised manhood and the divine life.
In the birth of the mind of Light and its ascension into its own recognisable self and its true status and right province there must be, in the very nature of things as they are and very nature of the evolutionary process as it is at present, two stages. In the first, we can see the mind of Light gathering itself out of the Ignorance, assembling its constituent elements, building up its shapes and types, however imperfect at first, and pushing them towards perfection till it can cross the border of the Ignorance and appear in the Light, in its own Light. In the second stage we can see it developing itself in that greater natural light, taking its higher shapes and forms till it joins the supermind and lives as its subordinate portion or its delegate.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, Mind of Light, 587,#KEYS
128:But even before that highest approach to identity is achieved, something of the supreme Will can manifest in us as an imperative impulsion, a God-driven action; we then act by a spontaneous self-determining Force but a fuller knowledge of meaning and aim arises only afterwards. Or the impulse to action may come as an inspiration or intuition, but rather in the heart and body than in the mind; here an effective sight enters in but the complete and exact knowledge is still deferred and comes, if at all, lateR But the divine Will may descend too as a luminous single command or a total perception or a continuous current of perception of what is to be done into the will or into the thought or as a direction from above spontaneously fulfilled by the lower members. When the Yoga is imperfect, only some actions can be done in this way, or else a general action may so proceed but only during periods of exaltation and illumination. When the Yoga is perfect, all action becomes of this character. We may indeed distinguish three stages of a growing progress by which, first, the personal will is occasionally or frequently enlightened or moved by a supreme Will or conscious Force beyond it, then constantly replaced and, last, identified and merged in that divine Power-action. The first is the stage when we are still governed by the intellect, heart and senses; these have to seek or wait for the divine inspiration and guidance and do not always find or receive it. The second is the stage when human intelligence is more and more replaced by a high illumined or intuitive spiritualised mind, the external human heart by the inner psychic heart, the senses by a purified and selfless vital force. The third is the stage when we rise even above spiritualised mind to the supramental levels. In all three stages the fundamental character of the liberated action is the same, a spontaneous working of Prakriti no longer through or for the ego but at the will and for the enjoyment of the supreme Purusha. At a higher level this becomes the Truth of the absolute and universal Supreme expressed through the individual soul and worked out consciously through the nature, - no longer through a half-perception and a diminished or distorted effectuation by the stumbling, ignorant and all-deforming energy of lower nature in us but by the all-wise transcendent and universal Mother. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 218, #KEYS
129:Countless books on divination, astrology, medicine and other subjects
Describe ways to read signs. They do add to your learning,
But they generate new thoughts and your stable attention breaks up.
Cut down on this kind of knowledge - that's my sincere advice.
You stop arranging your usual living space,
But make everything just right for your retreat.
This makes little sense and just wastes time.
Forget all this - that's my sincere advice.
You make an effort at practice and become a good and knowledgeable person.
You may even master some particular capabilities.
But whatever you attach to will tie you up.
Be unbiased and know how to let things be - that's my sincere advice.
You may think awakened activity means to subdue skeptics
By using sorcery, directing or warding off hail or lightning, for example.
But to burn the minds of others will lead you to lower states.
Keep a low profile - that's my sincere advice.
Maybe you collect a lot of important writings,
Major texts, personal instructions, private notes, whatever.
If you haven't practiced, books won't help you when you die.
Look at the mind - that's my sincere advice.
When you focus on practice, to compare understandings and experience,
Write books or poetry, to compose songs about your experience
Are all expressions of your creativity. But they just give rise to thinking.
Keep yourself free from intellectualization - that's my sincere advice.
In these difficult times you may feel that it is helpful
To be sharp and critical with aggressive people around you.
This approach will just be a source of distress and confusion for you.
Speak calmly - that's my sincere advice.
Intending to be helpful and without personal investment,
You tell your friends what is really wrong with them.
You may have been honest but your words gnaw at their heart.
Speak pleasantly - that's my sincere advice.
You engage in discussions, defending your views and refuting others'
Thinking that you are clarifying the teachings.
But this just gives rise to emotional posturing.
Keep quiet - that's my sincere advice.
You feel that you are being loyal
By being partial to your teacher, lineage or philosophical tradition.
Boosting yourself and putting down others just causes hard feelings.
Have nothing to do with all this - that's my sincere advice.
~ Longchenpa, excerpts from 30 Pieces of Sincere Advice
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130:
When one is bored, Mother, does that mean one does not progress?
At that time, yes, certainly without a doubt; not only does one not progress, but one misses an opportunity for progressing. There was a concurrence of circumstances which seemed to you dull, boring, stupid and you were in their midst; well, if you get bored, it means that you yourself are as boring as the circumstances! And that is a clear proof that you are simply not in a state of progress. There is nothing more contrary to the very reason of existence than this passing wave of boredom. If you make a little effort within yourself at that time, if you tell yourself: "Wait a bit, what is it that I should learn? What does all that bring to me so that I may learn something? What progress should I make in overcoming myself? What is the weakness that I must overcome? What is the inertia that I must conquer?" If you say that to yourself, you will see the next minute you are no longer bored. You will immediately get interested and you will make progress! This is a commonplace of consciousness.
And then, you know, most people when they get bored, instead of trying to rise a step higher, descend a step lower, they become still worse than what they were, and they do all the stupid things that others do, go in for all the vulgarities, all the meannesses, everything, in order to amuse themselves. They get intoxicated, take poison, ruin their health, ruin their brain, they utter crudities. They do all that because they are bored. Well, if instead of going down, one had risen up, one would have profited by the circumstances. Instead of profiting, one falls a little lower yet than where one was. When people get a big blow in their life, some misfortune (what men call "misfortune", there are people who do have misfortunes), the first thing they try to do is to forget it - as though one did not forget quickly enough! And to forget, they do anything whatsoever. When there is something painful, they want to distract themselves - what they call distraction, that is, doing stupid things, that is to say, going down in their consciousness, going down a little instead of rising up.... Has something extremely painful happened to you, something very grievous? Do not become stupefied, do not seek forgetfulness, do not go down into the inconscience; you must go to the end and find the light that is behind, the truth, the force and the joy; and for that you must be strong and refuse to slide down. But that we shall see a little later, my children, when you will be a little older. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 50,#KEYS
131:An integral Yoga includes as a vital and indispensable element in its total and ultimate aim the conversion of the whole being into a higher spiritual consciousness and a larger divine existence. Our parts of will and action, our parts of knowledge, our thinking being, our emotional being, our being of life, all our self and nature must seek the Divine, enter into the Infinite, unite with the Eternal. But mans present nature is limited, divided, unequal, -- it is easiest for him to concentrate in the strongest part of his being and follow a definite line of progress proper to his nature: only rare individuals have the strength to take a large immediate plunge straight into the sea of the Divine Infinity. Some therefore must choose as a starting-point a concentration in thought or contemplation or the minds one-pointedness to find the eternal reality of the Self in them; others can more easily withdraw into the heart to meet there the Divine, the Eternal: yet others are predominantly dynamic and active; for these it is best to centre themselves in the will and enlarge their being through works. United with the Self and source of all by their surrender of their will into its infinity, guided in their works by the secret Divinity within or surrendered to the Lord of the cosmic action as the master and mover of all their energies of thought, feeling, act, becoming by this enlargement of being selfless and universal, they can reach by works some first fullness of a spiritual status. But the path, whatever its point of starting, must debouch into a vaster dominion; it must proceed in the end through a totality of integrated knowledge, emotion, will of dynamic action, perfection of the being and the entire nature. In the supramental consciousness, on the level of the supramental existence this integration becomes consummate; there knowledge, will, emotion, the perfection of the self and the dynamic nature rise each to its absolute of itself and all to their perfect harmony and fusion with each other, to a divine integrality, a divine perfection. For the supermind is a Truth-Consciousness in which the Divine Reality, fully manifested, no longer works with the instrumentation of the Ignorance; a truth of status of being which is absolute becomes dynamic in a truth of energy and activity of the being which is self-existent and perfect. Every movement there is a movement of the self-aware truth of Divine Being and every part is in entire harmony with the whole. Even the most limited and finite action is in the Truth-Consciousness a movement of the Eternal and Infinite and partakes of the inherent absoluteness and perfection of the Eternal and Infinite. An ascent into the supramental Truth not only raises our spiritual and essential consciousness to that height but brings about a descent of this Light and Truth into all our being and all our parts of nature. All then becomes part of the Divine Truth, an element and means of the supreme union and oneness; this ascent and descent must be therefore an ultimate aim of this Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Supermind and the Yoga of Works [279-280],#KEYS
132:It is thus by an integralisation of our divided being that the Divine Shakti in the Yoga will proceed to its object; for liberation, perfection, mastery are dependent on this integralisation, since the little wave on the surface cannot control its own movement, much less have any true control over the vast life around it. The Shakti, the power of the Infinite and the Eternal descends within us, works, breaks up our present psychological formations, shatters every wall, widens, liberates, presents us with always newer and greater powers of vision, ideation, perception and newer and greater life-motives, enlarges and newmodels increasingly the soul and its instruments, confronts us with every imperfection in order to convict and destroy it, opens to a greater perfection, does in a brief period the work of many lives or ages so that new births and new vistas open constantly within us. Expansive in her action, she frees the consciousness from confinement in the body; it can go out in trance or sleep or even waking and enter into worlds or other regions of this world and act there or carry back its experience. It spreads out, feeling the body only as a small part of itself, and begins to contain what before contained it; it achieves the cosmic consciousness and extends itself to be commensurate with the universe. It begins to know inwardly and directly and not merely by external observation and contact the forces at play in the world, feels their movement, distinguishes their functioning and can operate immediately upon them as the scientist operates upon physical forces, accept their action and results in our mind, life, body or reject them or modify, change, reshape, create immense new powers and movements in place of the old small functionings of the nature. We begin to perceive the working of the forces of universal Mind and to know how our thoughts are created by that working, separate from within the truth and falsehood of our perceptions, enlarge their field, extend and illumine their significance, become master of our own minds and active to shape the movements of Mind in the world around us. We begin to perceive the flow and surge of the universal life-forces, detect the origin and law of our feelings, emotions, sensations, passions, are free to accept, reject, new-create, open to wider, rise to higher planes of Life-Power. We begin to perceive too the key to the enigma of Matter, follow the interplay of Mind and Life and Consciousness upon it, discover more and more its instrumental and resultant function and detect ultimately the last secret of Matter as a form not merely of Energy but of involved and arrested or unstably fixed and restricted consciousness and begin to see too the possibility of its liberation and plasticity of response to higher Powers, its possibilities for the conscious and no longer the more than half-inconscient incarnation and self-expression of the Spirit. All this and more becomes more and more possible as the working of the Divine Shakti increases in us and, against much resistance or labour to respond of our obscure consciousness, through much struggle and movement of progress and regression and renewed progress necessitated by the work of intensive transformation of a half-inconscient into a conscious substance, moves to a greater purity, truth, height, range. All depends on the psychic awakening in us, the completeness of our response to her and our growing surrender. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 183, #KEYS
133:Sometimes one cannot distinguish adverse forces from other forces.
That happens when one is quite unconscious. There are only two cases when this is possible: you are either very unconscious of the movements of your being - you have not studied, you have not observed, you do not know what is happening within you - or you are absolutely insincere, that is, you play the ostrich in order not to see the reality of things: you hide your head, you hide your observation, your knowledge and you say, "It is not there." But indeed the latter I hope is not in question here. Hence it is simply because one has not the habit of observing oneself that one is so unconscious of what is happening within.
Have you ever practised distinguishing what comes from your mind, what comes from your vital, what comes from your physical?... For it is mixed up; it is mixed up in the outward appearance. If you do not take care to distinguish, it makes a kind of soup, all that together. So it is indistinct and difficult to discoveR But if you observe yourself, after some time you see certain things, you feel them to be there, like that, as though they were in your skin; for some other things you feel you would have to go within yourself to find out from where they come; for other things, you have to go still further inside, or otherwise you have to rise up a little: it comes from unconsciousness. And there are others; then you must go very deep, very deep to find out from where they come. This is just a beginning.
Simply observe. You are in a certain condition, a certain undefinable condition. Then look: "What! how is it I am like that?" You try to see first if you have fever or some other illness; but it is all right, everything is all right, there's neither headache nor fever, the stomach is not protesting, the heart is functioning as it should, indeed, all's well, you are normal. "Why then am I feeling so uneasy?"... So you go a little further within. It depends on cases. Sometimes you find out immediately: yes, there was a little incident which wasn't pleasant, someone said a word that was not happy or one had failed in his task or perhaps did not know one's lesson very well, the teacher had made a remark. At the time, one did not pay attention properly, but later on, it begins to work, leaves a painful impression. That is the second stage. Afterwards, if nothing happened: "All's well, everything is normal, everything usual, I have nothing to note down, nothing has happened: why then do I feel like that?" Now it begins to be interesting, because one must enter much more deeply within oneself. And then it can be all sorts of things: it may be precisely the expression of an attack that is preparing; it may be a little inner anxiety seeking the progress that has to be made; it may be a premonition that there is somewhere in contact with oneself something not altogether harmonious which one has to change: something one must see, discover, change, on which light is to be put, something that is still there, deep down, and which should no longer be there. Then if you look at yourself very carefully, you find out: "There! I am still like that; in that little corner, there is still something of that kind, not clear: a little selfishness, a little ill-will, something refusing to change." So you see it, you take it by the tip of its nose or by the ear and hold it up in full light: "So, you were hiding! you are hiding? But I don't want you any longer." And then it has to go away.
This is a great progress.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 102-104, [T4],#KEYS
134:DHARANA
NOW that we have learnt to observe the mind, so that we know how it works to some extent, and have begun to understand the elements of control, we may try the result of gathering together all the powers of the mind, and attempting to focus them on a single point.
We know that it is fairly easy for the ordinary educated mind to think without much distraction on a subject in which it is much interested. We have the popular phrase, "revolving a thing in the mind"; and as long as the subject is sufficiently complex, as long as thoughts pass freely, there is no great difficulty. So long as a gyroscope is in motion, it remains motionless relatively to its support, and even resists attempts to distract it; when it stops it falls from that position. If the earth ceased to spin round the sun, it would at once fall into the sun. The moment then that the student takes a simple subject - or rather a simple object - and imagines it or visualizes it, he will find that it is not so much his creature as he supposed. Other thoughts will invade the mind, so that the object is altogether forgotten, perhaps for whole minutes at a time; and at other times the object itself will begin to play all sorts of tricks.
Suppose you have chosen a white cross. It will move its bar up and down, elongate the bar, turn the bar oblique, get its arms unequal, turn upside down, grow branches, get a crack around it or a figure upon it, change its shape altogether like an Amoeba, change its size and distance as a whole, change the degree of its illumination, and at the same time change its colour. It will get splotchy and blotchy, grow patterns, rise, fall, twist and turn; clouds will pass over its face. There is no conceivable change of which it is incapable. Not to mention its total disappearance, and replacement by something altogether different!
Any one to whom this experience does not occur need not imagine that he is meditating. It shows merely that he is incapable of concentrating his mind in the very smallest degree. Perhaps a student may go for several days before discovering that he is not meditating. When he does, the obstinacy of the object will infuriate him; and it is only now that his real troubles will begin, only now that Will comes really into play, only now that his manhood is tested. If it were not for the Will-development which he got in the conquest of Asana, he would probably give up. As it is, the mere physical agony which he underwent is the veriest trifle compared with the horrible tedium of Dharana.
For the first week it may seem rather amusing, and you may even imagine you are progressing; but as the practice teaches you what you are doing, you will apparently get worse and worse. Please understand that in doing this practice you are supposed to be seated in Asana, and to have note-book and pencil by your side, and a watch in front of you. You are not to practise at first for more than ten minutes at a time, so as to avoid risk of overtiring the brain. In fact you will probably find that the whole of your willpower is not equal to keeping to a subject at all for so long as three minutes, or even apparently concentrating on it for so long as three seconds, or three-fifths of one second. By "keeping to it at all" is meant the mere attempt to keep to it. The mind becomes so fatigued, and the object so incredibly loathsome, that it is useless to continue for the time being. In Frater P.'s record we find that after daily practice for six months, meditations of four minutes and less are still being recorded.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,#KEYS
135:
Sometimes while reading a text one has ideas, then Sweet Mother, how can one distinguish between the other person's idea and one's own?
Oh! This, this doesn't exist, the other person's idea and one's own idea.
Nobody has ideas of his own: it is an immensity from which one draws according to his personal affinity; ideas are a collective possession, a collective wealth.
Only, there are different stages. So there is the most common level, the one where all our brains bathe; this indeed swarms here, it is the level of "Mr. Everybody". And then there is a level that's slightly higher for people who are called thinkers. And then there are higher levels still - many - some of them are beyond words but they are still domains of ideas. And then there are those capable of shooting right up, catching something which is like a light and making it come down with all its stock of ideas, all its stock of thoughts. An idea from a higher domain if pulled down organises itself and is crystallised in a large number of thoughts which can express that idea differently; and then if you are a writer or a poet or an artist, when you make it come lower down still, you can have all kinds of expressions, extremely varied and choice around a single little idea but one coming from very high above. And when you know how to do this, it teaches you to distinguish between the pure idea and the way of expressing it.
Some people cannot do it in their own head because they have no imagination or faculty for writing, but they can do it through study by reading what others have written. There are, you know, lots of poets, for instance, who have expressed the same idea - the same idea but with such different forms that when one reads many of them it becomes quite interesting to see (for people who love to read and read much). Ah, this idea, that one has said it like this, that other has expressed it like that, another has formulated it in this way, and so on. And so you have a whole stock of expressions which are expressions by different poets of the same single idea up there, above, high above. And you notice that there is an almost essential difference between the pure idea, the typal idea and its formulation in the mental world, even the speculative or artistic mental world. This is a very good thing to do when one loves gymnastics. It is mental gymnastics.
Well, if you want to be truly intelligent, you must know how to do mental gymnastics; as, you see, if you want really to have a fairly strong body you must know how to do physical gymnastics. It is the same thing. People who have never done mental gymnastics have a poor little brain, quite over-simple, and all their life they think like children. One must know how to do this - not take it seriously, in the sense that one shouldn't have convictions, saying, "This idea is true and that is false; this formulation is correct and that one is not and this religion is the true one and that religion is false", and so on and so forth... this, if you enter into it, you become absolutely stupid.
But if you can see all that and, for example, take all the religions, one after another and see how they have expressed the same aspiration of the human being for some Absolute, it becomes very interesting; and then you begin... yes, you begin to be able to juggle with all that. And then when you have mastered it all, you can rise above it and look at all the eternal human discussions with a smile. So there you are master of the thought and can no longer fly into a rage because someone else does not think as you, something that's unfortunately a very common malady here.
Now, there we are. Nobody has any questions, no?
That's enough? Finished! ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955,#KEYS
136:To arrive then at this settled divine status must be the object of our concentration. The first step in concentration must be always to accustom the discursive mind to a settled unwavering pursuit of a single course of connected thought on a single subject and this it must do undistracted by all lures and alien calls on its attention. Such concentration is common enough in our ordinary life, but it becomes more difficult when we have to do it inwardly without any outward object or action on which to keep the mind; yet this inward concentration is what the seeker of knowledge must effect. Nor must it be merely the consecutive thought of the intellectual thinker, whose only object is to conceive and intellectually link together his conceptions. It is not, except perhaps at first, a process of reasoning that is wanted so much as a dwelling so far as possible on the fruitful essence of the idea which by the insistence of the soul's will upon it must yield up all the facets of its truth. Thus if it be the divine Love that is the subject of concentration, it is on the essence of the idea of God as Love that the mind should concentrate in such a way that the various manifestation of the divine Love should arise luminously, not only to the thought, but in the heart and being and vision of the Sadhaka. The thought may come first and the experience afterwards, but equally the experience may come first and the knowledge arise out of the experience. Afterwards the thing attained has to be dwelt on and more and more held till it becomes a constant experience and finally the Dharma or law of the being.
This is the process of concentrated meditation; but a more strenuous method is the fixing of the whole mind in concentration on the essence of the idea only, so as to reach not the thought-knowledge or the psychological experience of the subject, but the very essence of the thing behind the idea. In this process thought ceases and passes into the absorbed or ecstatic contemplation of the object or by a merging into it m an inner Samadhi. If this be the process followed, then subsequently the state into which we rise must still be called down to take possession of the lower being, to shed its light, power and bliss on our ordinary consciousness. For otherwise we may possess it, as many do, in the elevated condition or in the inward Samadhi, but we shall lose our hold of it when we awake or descend into the contacts of the world; and this truncated possession is not the aim of an integral Yoga.
A third process is neither at first to concentrate in a strenuous meditation on the one subject nor in a strenuous contemplation of the one object of thought-vision, but first to still the mind altogether. This may be done by various ways; one is to stand back from the mental action altogether not participating in but simply watching it until, tired of its unsanctioned leaping and running, it falls into an increasing and finally an absolute quiet. Another is to reject the thought-suggestions, to cast them away from the mind whenever they come and firmly hold to the peace of the being which really and always exists behind the trouble and riot of the mind. When this secret peace is unveiled, a great calm settles on the being and there comes usually with it the perception and experience of the all-pervading silent Brahman, everything else at first seeming to be mere form and eidolon. On the basis of this calm everything else may be built up in the knowledge and experience no longer of the external phenomena of things but of the deeper truth of the divine manifestation.
Ordinarily, once this state is obtained, strenuous concentration will be found no longer necessary. A free concentration of will using thought merely for suggestion and the giving of light to the lower members will take its place. This Will will then insist on the physical being, the vital existence, the heart and the mind remoulding themselves in the forms of the Divine which reveal themselves out of the silent Brahman. By swifter or slower degrees according to the previous preparation and purification of the members, they will be obliged with more or less struggle to obey the law of the will and its thought-suggestion, so that eventually the knowledge of the Divine takes possession of our consciousness on all its planes and the image of the Divine is formed in our human existence even as it was done by the old Vedic Sadhakas. For the integral Yoga this is the most direct and powerful discipline.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Integral Knowledge, Concentration,#KEYS
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In the lower planes can't one say what will happen at a particular moment?
That depends. On certain planes there are consciousnesses that form, that make formations and try to send them down to earth and manifest them. These are planes where the great forces are at play, forces struggling with each other to organise things in one way or another. On these planes all the possibilities are there, all the possibilities that present themselves but have not yet come to a decision as to which will come down.... Suppose a plane full of the imaginations of people who want certain things to be realised upon earth - they invent a novel, narrate stories, produce all kinds of phenomena; it amuses them very much. It is a plane of form-makers and they are there imagining all kinds of circumstances and events; they play with the forces; they are like the authors of a drama and they prepare everything there and see what is going to happen. All these formations are facing each other; and it is those which are the strongest, the most successful or the most persistent or those that have the advantage of a favourable set of circumstances which dominate. They meet and out of the conflict yet another thing results: you lose one thing and take up another, you make a new combination; and then all of a sudden, you find, pluff! it is coming down. Now, if it comes down with a sufficient force, it sets moving the earth atmosphere and things combine; as for instance, when with your fist you thump the saw-dust, you know surely what happens, don't you? You lift your hand, give a formidable blow: all the dust gets organised around your fist. Well, it is like that. These formations come down into matter with that force, and everything organises itself automatically, mechanically as around the striking fist. And there's your wished object about to be realised, sometimes with small deformations because of the resistance, but it will be realised finally, even as the person narrating the story up above wanted it more or less to be realised. If then you are for some reason or other in the secret of the person who has constructed the story and if you follow the way in which he creates his path to reach down to the earth and if you see how a blow with the fist acts on earthly matter, then you are able to tell what is going to happen, because you have seen it in the world above, and as it takes some time to make the whole journey, you see in advance. And the higher you rise, the more you foresee in advance what is going to happen. And if you pass far beyond, go still farther, then everything is possible.
It is an unfolding that follows a wide road which is for you unknowable; for all will be unfolded in the universe, but in what order and in what way? There are decisions that are taken up there which escape our ordinary consciousness, and so it is very difficult to foresee. But there also, if you enter consciously and if you can be present up there... How shall I explain that to you? All is there, absolute, static, eternal: but all that will be unfolded in the material world, naturally more or less one thing after another; for in the static existence all can be there, but in the becoming all becomes in time, that is, one thing after another. Well, what path will the unfolding follow? Up there is the domain of absolute freedom.... Who says that a sufficiently sincere aspiration, a sufficiently intense prayer is not capable of changing the path of the unfolding?
This means that all is possible.
Now, one must have a sufficient aspiration and a prayer that's sufficiently intense. But that has been given to human nature. It is one of the marvellous gifts of grace given to human nature; only, one does not know how to make use of it. This comes to saying that in spite of the most absolute determinisms in the horizontal line, if one knows how to cross all these horizontal lines and reach the highest Point of consciousness, one is able to make things change, things apparently absolutely determined. So you may call it by any name you like, but it is a kind of combination of an absolute determinism with an absolute freedom. You may pull yourself out of it in any way you like, but it is like that.
I forgot to say in that book (perhaps I did not forget but just felt that it was useless to say it) that all these theories are only theories, that is, mental conceptions which are merely more or less imaged representations of the reality; but it is not the reality at all. When you say "determinism" and when you say "freedom", you say only words and all that is only a very incomplete, very approximate and very weak description of what is in reality within you, around you and everywhere; and to be able to begin to understand what the universe is, you must come out of your mental formulas, otherwise you will never understand anything.
To tell the truth, if you live only a moment, just a tiny moment, of this absolutely sincere aspiration or this sufficiently intense prayer, you will know more things than by meditating for hours.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953,#KEYS
138:Depression, unless one has a strong will, suggests, "This is not worth while, one may have to wait a lifetime." As for enthusiasm, it expects to see the vital transformed overnight: "I am not going to have any difficulty henceforth, I am going to advance rapidly on the path of yoga, I am going to gain the divine consciousness without any difficulty." There are some other difficulties.... One needs a little time, much perseverance. So the vital, after a few hours - perhaps a few days, perhaps a few months - says to itself: "We haven't gone very far with our enthusiasm, has anything been really done? Doesn't this movement leave us just where we were, perhaps worse than we were, a little troubled, a little disturbed? Things are no longer what they were, they are not yet what they ought to be. It is very tiresome, what I am doing." And then, if one pushes a little more, here's this gentleman saying, "Ah, no! I have had enough of it, leave me alone. I don't want to move, I shall stay in my corner, I won't trouble you, but don't bother me!" And so one has not gone very much farther than before.
This is one of the big obstacles which must be carefully avoided. As soon as there is the least sign of discontentment, of annoyance, the vital must be spoken to in this way, "My friend, you are going to keep calm, you are going to do what you are asked to do, otherwise you will have to deal with me." And to the other, the enthusiast who says, "Everything must be done now, immediately", your reply is, "Calm yourself a little, your energy is excellent, but it must not be spent in five minutes. We shall need it for a long time, keep it carefully and, as it is wanted, I shall call upon your goodwill. You will show that you are full of goodwill, you will obey, you won't grumble, you will not protest, you will not revolt, you will say 'yes, yes', you will make a little sacrifice when asked, you will say 'yes' wholeheartedly."
So we get started on the path. But the road is very long. Many things happen on the way. Suddenly one thinks one has overcome an obstacle; I say "thinks", because though one has overcome it, it is not totally overcome. I am going to take a very obvious instance, of a very simple observation. Someone has found that his vital is uncontrollable and uncontrolled, that it gets furious for nothing and about nothing. He starts working to teach it not to get carried away, not to flare up, to remain calm and bear the shocks of life without reacting violently. If one does this cheerfully, it goes quite quickly. (Note this well, it is very important: when you have to deal with your vital take care to remain cheerful, otherwise you will get into trouble.) One remains cheerful, that is, when one sees the fury rise, one begins to laugh. Instead of being depressed and saying, "Ah! In spite of all my effort it is beginning all over again", one begins to laugh and says, "Well, well! One hasn't yet seen the end of it. Look now, aren't you ridiculous, you know quite well that you are being ridiculous! Is it worthwhile getting angry?" One gives it this lesson cheerfully. And really, after a while it doesn't get angry again, it is quiet - and one relaxes one's attention. One thinks the difficulty has been overcome, one thinks a result has at last been reached: "My vital does not trouble me any longer, it does not get angry now, everything is going fine." And the next day, one loses one's temper. It is then one must be careful, it is then one must not say, "Here we are, it's no use, I shall never achieve anything, all my efforts are futile; all this is an illusion, it is impossible." On the contrary, one must say, "I wasn't vigilant enough." One must wait long, very long, before one can say, "Ah! It is done and finished." Sometimes one must wait for years, many years....
I am not saying this to discourage you, but to give you patience and perseverance - for there is a moment when you do arrive. And note that the vital is a small part of your being - a very important part, we have said that it is the dynamism, the realising energy, it is very important; but it is only a small part. And the mind!... which goes wandering, which must be pulled back by all the strings to be kept quiet! You think this can be done overnight? And your body?... You have a weakness, a difficulty, sometimes a small chronic illness, nothing much, but still it is a nuisance, isn't it? You want to get rid of it. You make efforts, you concentrate; you work upon it, establish harmony, and you think it is finished, and then.... Take, for instance, people who have the habit of coughing; they can't control themselves or almost can't. It is not serious but it is bothersome, and there seems to be no reason why it should ever stop. Well, one tells oneself, "I am going to control this." One makes an effort - a yogic effort, not a material one - one brings down consciousness, force, and stops the cough. And one thinks, "The body has forgotten how to cough." And it is a great thing when the body has forgotten, truly one can say, "I am cured." But unfortunately it is not always true, for this goes down into the subconscient and, one day, when the balance of forces is not so well established, when the strength is not the same, it begins again. And one laments, "I believed that it was over! I had succeeded and told myself, 'It is true that spiritual power has an action upon the body, it is true that something can be done', and there! it is not true. And yet it was a small thing, and I who want to conquer immortality! How will I succeed?... For years I have been free from this small thing and here it is beginning anew!" It is then that you must be careful. You must arm yourself with an endless patience and endurance. You do a thing once, ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times if necessary, but you do it till it gets done. And not done only here and there, but everywhere and everywhere at the same time. This is the great problem one sets oneself. That is why, to those who come to tell me very light-heartedly, "I want to do yoga", I reply, "Think it over, one may do the yoga for a number of years without noticing the least result. But if you want to do it, you must persist and persist with such a will that you should be ready to do it for ten lifetimes, a hundred lifetimes if necessary, in order to succeed." I do not say it will be like that, but the attitude must be like that. Nothing must discourage you; for there are all the difficulties of ignorance of the different states of being, to which are added the endless malice and the unbounded cunning of the hostile forces in the world.... They are there, do you know why? They have been.... ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1950-1951,#KEYS
139:It does not matter if you do not understand it - Savitri, read it always. You will see that every time you read it, something new will be revealed to you. Each time you will get a new glimpse, each time a new experience; things which were not there, things you did not understand arise and suddenly become clear. Always an unexpected vision comes up through the words and lines. Every time you try to read and understand, you will see that something is added, something which was hidden behind is revealed clearly and vividly. I tell you the very verses you have read once before, will appear to you in a different light each time you re-read them. This is what happens invariably. Always your experience is enriched, it is a revelation at each step.
But you must not read it as you read other books or newspapers. You must read with an empty head, a blank and vacant mind, without there being any other thought; you must concentrate much, remain empty, calm and open; then the words, rhythms, vibrations will penetrate directly to this white page, will put their stamp upon the brain, will explain themselves without your making any effort.
Savitri alone is sufficient to make you climb to the highest peaks. If truly one knows how to meditate on Savitri, one will receive all the help one needs. For him who wishes to follow this path, it is a concrete help as though the Lord himself were taking you by the hand and leading you to the destined goal. And then, every question, however personal it may be, has its answer here, every difficulty finds its solution herein; indeed there is everything that is necessary for doing the Yoga.
*He has crammed the whole universe in a single book.* It is a marvellous work, magnificent and of an incomparable perfection.
You know, before writing Savitri Sri Aurobindo said to me, *I am impelled to launch on a new adventure; I was hesitant in the beginning, but now I am decided. Still, I do not know how far I shall succeed. I pray for help.* And you know what it was? It was - before beginning, I warn you in advance - it was His way of speaking, so full of divine humility and modesty. He never... *asserted Himself*. And the day He actually began it, He told me: *I have launched myself in a rudderless boat upon the vastness of the Infinite.* And once having started, He wrote page after page without intermission, as though it were a thing already complete up there and He had only to transcribe it in ink down here on these pages.
In truth, the entire form of Savitri has descended "en masse" from the highest region and Sri Aurobindo with His genius only arranged the lines - in a superb and magnificent style. Sometimes entire lines were revealed and He has left them intact; He worked hard, untiringly, so that the inspiration could come from the highest possible summit. And what a work He has created! Yes, it is a true creation in itself. It is an unequalled work. Everything is there, and it is put in such a simple, such a clear form; verses perfectly harmonious, limpid and eternally true. My child, I have read so many things, but I have never come across anything which could be compared with Savitri. I have studied the best works in Greek, Latin, English and of course French literature, also in German and all the great creations of the West and the East, including the great epics; but I repeat it, I have not found anywhere anything comparable with Savitri. All these literary works seems to me empty, flat, hollow, without any deep reality - apart from a few rare exceptions, and these too represent only a small fraction of what Savitri is. What grandeur, what amplitude, what reality: it is something immortal and eternal He has created. I tell you once again there is nothing like in it the whole world. Even if one puts aside the vision of the reality, that is, the essential substance which is the heart of the inspiration, and considers only the lines in themselves, one will find them unique, of the highest classical kind. What He has created is something man cannot imagine. For, everything is there, everything.
It may then be said that Savitri is a revelation, it is a meditation, it is a quest of the Infinite, the Eternal. If it is read with this aspiration for Immortality, the reading itself will serve as a guide to Immortality. To read Savitri is indeed to practice Yoga, spiritual concentration; one can find there all that is needed to realise the Divine. Each step of Yoga is noted here, including the secret of all other Yogas. Surely, if one sincerely follows what is revealed here in each line one will reach finally the transformation of the Supramental Yoga. It is truly the infallible guide who never abandons you; its support is always there for him who wants to follow the path. Each verse of Savitri is like a revealed Mantra which surpasses all that man possessed by way of knowledge, and I repeat this, the words are expressed and arranged in such a way that the sonority of the rhythm leads you to the origin of sound, which is OM.
My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny - all is there. You can find all the answers to all your questions there. Everything is explained, even the future of man and of the evolution, all that nobody yet knows. He has described it all in beautiful and clear words so that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But this mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophesies, all that is going to come is presented with the precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Consciousness, to solve the problem of what the universe is. He has also indicated how to open the door of the Inconscience so that the light may penetrate there and transform it. He has shown the path, the way to liberate oneself from the ignorance and climb up to the superconscience; each stage, each plane of consciousness, how they can be scaled, how one can cross even the barrier of death and attain immortality. You will find the whole journey in detail, and as you go forward you can discover things altogether unknown to man. That is Savitri and much more yet. It is a real experience - reading Savitri. All the secrets that man possessed, He has revealed, - as well as all that awaits him in the future; all this is found in the depth of Savitri. But one must have the knowledge to discover it all, the experience of the planes of consciousness, the experience of the Supermind, even the experience of the conquest of Death. He has noted all the stages, marked each step in order to advance integrally in the integral Yoga.
All this is His own experience, and what is most surprising is that it is my own experience also. It is my sadhana which He has worked out. Each object, each event, each realisation, all the descriptions, even the colours are exactly what I saw and the words, phrases are also exactly what I heard. And all this before having read the book. I read Savitri many times afterwards, but earlier, when He was writing He used to read it to me. Every morning I used to hear Him read Savitri. During the night He would write and in the morning read it to me. And I observed something curious, that day after day the experiences He read out to me in the morning were those I had had the previous night, word by word. Yes, all the descriptions, the colours, the pictures I had seen, the words I had heard, all, all, I heard it all, put by Him into poetry, into miraculous poetry. Yes, they were exactly my experiences of the previous night which He read out to me the following morning. And it was not just one day by chance, but for days and days together. And every time I used to compare what He said with my previous experiences and they were always the same. I repeat, it was not that I had told Him my experiences and that He had noted them down afterwards, no, He knew already what I had seen. It is my experiences He has presented at length and they were His experiences also. It is, moreover, the picture of Our joint adventure into the unknown or rather into the Supermind.
These are experiences lived by Him, realities, supracosmic truths. He experienced all these as one experiences joy or sorrow, physically. He walked in the darkness of inconscience, even in the neighborhood of death, endured the sufferings of perdition, and emerged from the mud, the world-misery to breathe the sovereign plenitude and enter the supreme Ananda. He crossed all these realms, went through the consequences, suffered and endured physically what one cannot imagine. Nobody till today has suffered like Him. He accepted suffering to transform suffering into the joy of union with the Supreme. It is something unique and incomparable in the history of the world. It is something that has never happened before, He is the first to have traced the path in the Unknown, so that we may be able to walk with certitude towards the Supermind. He has made the work easy for us. Savitri is His whole Yoga of transformation, and this Yoga appears now for the first time in the earth-consciousness.
And I think that man is not yet ready to receive it. It is too high and too vast for him. He cannot understand it, grasp it, for it is not by the mind that one can understand Savitri. One needs spiritual experiences in order to understand and assimilate it. The farther one advances on the path of Yoga, the more does one assimilate and the better. No, it is something which will be appreciated only in the future, it is the poetry of tomorrow of which He has spoken in The Future Poetry. It is too subtle, too refined, - it is not in the mind or through the mind, it is in meditation that Savitri is revealed.
And men have the audacity to compare it with the work of Virgil or Homer and to find it inferior. They do not understand, they cannot understand. What do they know? Nothing at all. And it is useless to try to make them understand. Men will know what it is, but in a distant future. It is only the new race with a new consciousness which will be able to understand. I assure you there is nothing under the blue sky to compare with Savitri. It is the mystery of mysteries. It is a *super-epic,* it is super-literature, super-poetry, super-vision, it is a super-work even if one considers the number of lines He has written. No, these human words are not adequate to describe Savitri. Yes, one needs superlatives, hyperboles to describe it. It is a hyper-epic. No, words express nothing of what Savitri is, at least I do not find them. It is of immense value - spiritual value and all other values; it is eternal in its subject, and infinite in its appeal, miraculous in its mode and power of execution; it is a unique thing, the more you come into contact with it, the higher will you be uplifted. Ah, truly it is something! It is the most beautiful thing He has left for man, the highest possible. What is it? When will man know it? When is he going to lead a life of truth? When is he going to accept this in his life? This yet remains to be seen.
My child, every day you are going to read Savitri; read properly, with the right attitude, concentrating a little before opening the pages and trying to keep the mind as empty as possible, absolutely without a thought. The direct road is through the heart. I tell you, if you try to really concentrate with this aspiration you can light the flame, the psychic flame, the flame of purification in a very short time, perhaps in a few days. What you cannot do normally, you can do with the help of Savitri. Try and you will see how very different it is, how new, if you read with this attitude, with this something at the back of your consciousness; as though it were an offering to Sri Aurobindo. You know it is charged, fully charged with consciousness; as if Savitri were a being, a real guide. I tell you, whoever, wanting to practice Yoga, tries sincerely and feels the necessity for it, will be able to climb with the help of Savitri to the highest rung of the ladder of Yoga, will be able to find the secret that Savitri represents. And this without the help of a Guru. And he will be able to practice it anywhere. For him Savitri alone will be the guide, for all that he needs he will find Savitri. If he remains very quiet when before a difficulty, or when he does not know where to turn to go forward and how to overcome obstacles, for all these hesitations and incertitudes which overwhelm us at every moment, he will have the necessary indications, and the necessary concrete help. If he remains very calm, open, if he aspires sincerely, always he will be as if lead by the hand. If he has faith, the will to give himself and essential sincerity he will reach the final goal.
Indeed, Savitri is something concrete, living, it is all replete, packed with consciousness, it is the supreme knowledge above all human philosophies and religions. It is the spiritual path, it is Yoga, Tapasya, Sadhana, in its single body. Savitri has an extraordinary power, it gives out vibrations for him who can receive them, the true vibrations of each stage of consciousness. It is incomparable, it is truth in its plenitude, the Truth Sri Aurobindo brought down on the earth. My child, one must try to find the secret that Savitri represents, the prophetic message Sri Aurobindo reveals there for us. This is the work before you, it is hard but it is worth the trouble. - 5 November 1967
~ The Mother, Sweet Mother, The Mother to Mona Sarkar, [T0],#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Familiarity gives rise to contempt. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove 2:Rise and take your stance once again ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 3:In these silences something may rise ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 4:Do you wish to rise? 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Expect the BEST! ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 35:I forgot and left the lighthouse on all night. 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Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 55:No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 56:To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 57:Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 58:The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 59:Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 60:Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 61:It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 62:You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 63:No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 64:Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, Live to fight another day ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 65:Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove 66:I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 67:Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 68:You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove 69:Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 70:A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 71:F-E-A-R has two meanings: & 72:It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 73:Take the limits off of yourself. You will never rise higher than your thinking. Create a great vision for your life. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 74:The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 75:Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 76:Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 77:Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 78:Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 79:Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 80:I'm a little wounded but I'm not slain; I will lay me down for to bleed awhile, Then I'll rise and fight with you again ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 81:We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 82:Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 83:In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 84:My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 85:You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 86:To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 87:There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. ~ alexander-hamilton, @wisdomtrove 88:I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 89:[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey’d dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning... ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 90:There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 91:The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 92:Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 93:If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove 94:Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 95:He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 96:The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove 97:Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 98:The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 99:You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 100:Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 101:The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 102:Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun. ~ thomas-edison, @wisdomtrove 103:Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 104:Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove 105:Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 106:Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove 107:A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 108:I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 109:Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 110:May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs? ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 111:You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 112:This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 113:I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 114:Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 115:That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove 116:For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 117:Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 118:An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 119:Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 120:The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 121:Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him? ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 122:Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 123:If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 124:An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 125:Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by commerce and policy. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove 126:Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 127:How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 128:Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 129:Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to & 130:Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove 131:I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 132:Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 133:Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 134:There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 135:The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 136:We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 137:Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 138:We don’t have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 139:I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 140:It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 141:No one is an overachiever. How can you rise above your level of competency? Everyone is an underachiever to different degrees. The harder you work, the more luck you will have. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 142:As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 143:I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 144:People residing within the cult of average don’t like to see others rise. It threatens their security, and spotlights their low self-worth. Go for great, no matter what they say. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 145:You don't have to fight every battle. You don't have to respond to every critic. You don't have to be offended because of what others say. You can rise above these things and soar. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 146:Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 147:Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 148:But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 149:One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems... wars, nations, destructions... to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 150:Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, & 151:Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 152:They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 153:In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 154:Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend’s girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 155:It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 156:I would like to be going all over the kingdom... and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause! ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 157:The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 158:When I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven't remained a recluse. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 159:It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 160:It's amazing what people will do when you see the best in them, when you honor them, when you respect them. It not only strengthens the relationship, but it will help that other person rise higher. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 161:In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 162:We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise! ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 163:If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 164:It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 165:Though the challenges are unprecedented, and though the disagreements are intense, humankind can rise to the occasion if we keep our fears under control and be a bit more humble about our views. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 166:By fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 167:I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove 168:What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 169:Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants? ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 170:And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 171:Dinners are defined as & 172:Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 173:Let us help the phoenix to rise from the ashes; let us help lay the foundation for a new renaissance; let us help to accelerate the spiritual awakening until it lifts us into the golden age which would come. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 174:Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 175:Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 176:One would appear ridiculous who would say, that it is only probable the sun will rise to-morrow, or that all men must die; thoughit is plain we have no further assurance of these facts than what experience affords us. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove 177:To rise in consciousness from one dimension to another, you need help. The help may not always be in the shape of a human person, it may be a subtle presence, or a spark of intuition, but help must come. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 178:It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or sinking into darkness. But true love stays fastened to the axle and doesn't move. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 179:In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 180:The important point there is that when people talk about a mean temperature rise of say two, three or four degrees that's a sort of global average which really is a signature of large scale change in climatic patterns. ~ martin-rees, @wisdomtrove 181:Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by as much as nine degrees Fahrenheit sometime after the year 2000. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 182:Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories& 183:If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 184:That person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you'll be free. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 185:Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 186:We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. It's only when necessity faces us that we rise to the occasion and actually do the things that hitherto have seemed impossible. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 187:As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 188:Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 189:When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 190:One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart-intelligence and goodness-shall man rise to a fulfillment of his true nature. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 191:A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 192:Every aspect of life is pre-programmed to rise to its highest creative possibility. We don't have to make that happen, but we have to allow it to happen. And that itself is the struggle of life: resisting the resistant mind. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 193:The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 194:I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 195:I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing... .It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 196:If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the peril to freedom will continue to rise. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 197:Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 198:And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came across the room, to make the moon, which he detested, rise at Bourton on the terrace in the summer sky. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 199:And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight, our national honor must unite with our interests to prevent injury to the one, or insult to the other. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 200:But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 201:The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 202:One of the computer models for a four degree temperature rise would give rise to a 10 degree temperature rise in Africa. And bear in mind also that in the depth of an ice age the mean temperature drop compared to the present was five degrees. ~ martin-rees, @wisdomtrove 203:When we rise in the morning... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 204:Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges - battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 205:When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 206:But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 207:I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 208:Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 209:Let all the & 210:We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 211:Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence. ~ meister-eckhart, @wisdomtrove 212:... you're on this earth with a divine purpose: to rise to the level of your highest creative possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, and physically in order to make the universe a more beautiful place. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 213:Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 214:Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove 215:You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, òI don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 216:I believe that very much of current Arminianism is simply ignorance of gospel doctrine; and if people began to study their Bibles, and to take the Word of God as they find it, they must inevitably, if believers, rise up to rejoice in the doctrines of grace. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 217:You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 218:I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 219:The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 220:I have been wounded but not yet slain. I shall lie here and bleed awile. Then I shall rise and fight again. The title of champion may from time to time fall to others more than ourselves. But the heart, the spirit, and the soul of champions remains in Green Bay. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 221:Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 222:Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 223:Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 224:The whole of ancient astrology owed its origin to conversation with the cosmic intelligences. But by the time of the first centuries after the rise of Christianity, ancient astrology - that is to say, conversation with cosmic intelligences - was a thing of the past. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 225:Nothing engages someone like having trust placed in them. They want to prove the trust is justified and rise to the occasion. Trust motivates and inspires. Trust is the most compelling form of human motivation, and delegation is a practice that demonstrates trust. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 226:What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust. ~ salvador-dali, @wisdomtrove 227:I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 228:I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail. Both deny those God-given liberties that are the inalienable right of each person on this planet, indeed, they deny the existence of God. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 229:If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 230:Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 231:Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. Learn to become wise. Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. The real spiritual progress of the meditator is measured by the extent to which they achieve inner tranquility and freedom from desire. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 232:Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 233:The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 234:Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you. You're never given a challenge beyond your ability to meet and master. You'll rise above every circumstance because you're greater than any circumstance. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 235:I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 236:If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 237:To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another - it is a private affair which is best done collectively. We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separated and self-hypnotized, but individual and related. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 238:We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it. ~ roger-penrose, @wisdomtrove 239:Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 240:In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack.. the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 241:The truth is always an abyss. One must ‚Äî as in a swimming pool ‚Äî dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again ‚Äî laughing and fighting for breath ‚Äî to the now doubly illuminated surface of things. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 242:Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 243:Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 244:The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 245:Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements in the head itself. But all these are inside the body; man is, as it were, shut up in a box, his entire consciousness is confined within the organism. This imprisonment has to be undone. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 246:[A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 247:But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 248:In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 249:I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years haunted the dreams of children everywhere. During that time my generation defeated totalitarianism. As a result, your world is poised for better tomorrows. What will you do on your journey? ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 250:Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 251:In the pathway of the sun, In the footsteps of the breeze, Where the world and sky are one, He shall ride the silver seas, He shall cut the glittering wave. I shall sit at home, and rock; Rise, to heed a neighbor's knock; Brew my tea, and snip my thread; Bleach the linen for my bed. They will call him brave. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 252:Just as an age was ready to receive the Copernican theory of the universe, so is our own age ready for the ideas of reincarnation and karma to be brought into the general consciousness of humanity. And what is destined to happen in the course of evolution will happen no matter what powers rise up against it. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 253:Every Hindu knows that astrologers try to fix the caste of every boy or girl as soon as he or she is born. That is the real caste - the individuality, and Jyotisha (astrology) recognises that. And we can only rise by giving it full sway again. This variety does not mean inequality, nor any special privilege. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 254:At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 255:When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 256:What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 257:Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is. This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate & 258:When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 259:I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 260:Can we be in touch with our own life unfolding? Can we rise to the occasion of our own humanity? Can we take on the challenges we meet, even seeking them out to test ourselves, to grow, to act in a principled way, to be true to ourselves, to find our own way, and ultimately not only have it but, more importantly, live it? ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 261:My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded the sinfulness of humanity when I suffered to reveal your godliness and to overcome your guilt by demonstrating that you can totally rise above the death of the body. ~ barbara-marx-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 262:At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 263:But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet -! ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 264:For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 265:As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 266:Men, learn to speak blessings over your wife and you will see that woman rise to a new level. She will respond to your praise and encouragement. Your words don't have to be poetic, fancy, or profound. Tell her simply but sincerely, "You're a great mother to our children. And you are a great wife to me. I'm so glad I can always count on you." ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 267:Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life. ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove 268:The sun with loving light makes bright for me each day, the soul with spirit power gives strength unto my limbs. In sunlight shining clear I revere, Oh God, the strength of humankind, which thou has planted in my soul, that I may with all my might, may love to work and learn. From thee stream light and strength to thee rise love and thanks. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 269:& 270:To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of the planet earth to other planets; to be able to contemplate the billions of factors in precise and beautiful combination that make human existence possible; to be able to dwell on an encounter of the human brain and spirit with the universe ~ norman-cousins, @wisdomtrove 271:Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 272:There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.There are not more than five primary colors, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 273:I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 274:Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 275:Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 276:The navel region is the centre of the vital. It is from here that the movements of the vital rise upward. Above the navel and behind the chest is the centre of the play of emotions and below this takes place the play of the physical. MulƒÅdhƒÅra is the base of the physical. In between the MulƒÅdhƒÅra and the navel, there is another centre of the vital. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 277:Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the qu icksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 278:In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 279:Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 280:It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 281:No matter what is going on in your life today, remember, it is only preparation. People come and go; situations rise and fall; it's all preparation for better things. You must stretch, reach, grow into your goodness. Without the preparation we receive through adversity, disappointment, confusion, or pain, we could not appreciate the goodness when it arrives. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 282:So it is a good idea to start simple, I think, and be very careful. There is a spiritual opening in the Kosmos. Let us be careful of how we fill it. The simplest is: Spirit or Emptiness is unqualifiable, but it is not inert and unyielding, for it gives rise to manifestation itself: new forms emerge, and that creativity is ultimate. Emptiness, creativity, holons. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 283:There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 284:To live without love, compassion, or any other spiritual value creates a state of such severe imbalance that every cell yearns to correct it. Ultimately, that is what lies behind the onset of disease; the body is sending a message that something lacking in the present—an imbalance existing somewhere—has given rise to highly visible, unarguable, physical symptoms. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 285:What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart. ~ wayne-dyer, @wisdomtrove 286:The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 287:If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody to grope towards, no devil to lay our blame upon, no Personal God to carry our burdens, when we are alone responsible, then we shall rise to our highest and best. I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 288:When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life- form - - or a species - will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 289:To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future; the freedom to get beyond ourselves... in states of mind that allow us to rise above our immediate surroundings and see the beauty and value of the world we live in. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 290:Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 291:Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 292:Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 293:I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 294:We have often asserted, and we affirm it yet again, that no fact in history is better attested than the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It must not be denied, by any who are willing to pay the slightest respect to the testimony of their fellow-men, that Jesus, who died upon the cross, and was buried in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, did literally rise again from the dead. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 295:It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove 296:What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow. During the past decade that belief has proved correct. Beyond that, the rising price has on its own generated additional buying enthusiasm, attracting purchasers who see the rise as validating an investment thesis. As & 297:I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth... I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 298:Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 299:Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 300:No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Length without breadth is like a self-contained tributary having no outward flow to the ocean. Stagnant, still and stale, it lacks both life and freshness. In order to live creatively and meaningfully, our self-concern must be wedded to other concerns. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 301:An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 302:Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning it was not a Word, but a chirrup. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 303:What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed? ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 304:Don't wait until you die to learn the warrior's way. Do it now, each night, just before you drift off to sleep. As you review your day, consider these two questions of courage and love. Learn from each day, so that each day you can show a little more courage and a little more love. Then, as incidents occur, you may rise to the occasion and look back at the end of your life and feel good about the way you lived. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 305:Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just too difficult and want to give up, we must choose to resist negative thoughts and be determined to rise above our problems. We must decide that we're not going to quit. When we're bombarded with doubts and fears, we must take a stand and say: "I'll never give up! God's on my side. He loves me, and He's helping me! I'm going to make it!" ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 306:There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 307:The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is... not to be taught a priori... That which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may rise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning. The reverse also happens; and very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 308:As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 309:For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or however widely expand, they cannot rise beyond them. But still, mental man can open to what is beyond him and call down a Supramental Light, Truth, and Power to work in him and do what the mind cannot do. If mind cannot by effort become what is beyond mind, Supermind can descend and transform mind into its own substance. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 310:Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 311:Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 312:Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 313:You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 314:We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall - which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 315:Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this means that we find the psychological facts as it were in the constellations. This originally gave rise to the idea that these factors derive from the stars, whereas they are merely in a relation of synchronicity with them. I admit that this is a very curious fact which throws a peculiar light on the structure of the human mind. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 316:The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches. The solitary traveler, haunter of lanes, disturber of ferns, and devastator of hemlock plants, looking up, suddenly sees the giant figure at the end of the ride. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 317:I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 318:Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it is the natural and honest consequence of all affectionate attachments, and the want of it is a vice. But the dejection lasts only for a moment; they soon rise out of it with additional vigor; the glow of hope, courage and fortitude, will, in a little time, supply the place of every inferior passion, and kindle the whole heart into heroism. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 319:The opposite of recognizing that we’re feeling something is denying our emotions. The opposite of being curious is disengaging. When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don’t go away; instead, they own us, they define us. Our job is not to deny the story, but to defy the ending—to rise strong, recognize our story, and rumble with the truth until we get to a place where we think, Yes. This is what happened. This is my truth. And I will choose how this story ends. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 320:The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice. Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 321:Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom in all its aspects. "Free" is the most vital part of Freemasonry. It means freedom of thought and expression, freedom of spiritual and religious ideals, freedom from oppression, freedom from ignorance, superstition, vice and bigotry, freedom to acquire and possess property, to go and come at pleasure, and to rise or fall according to will of ability. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 322:If you expect to be a net saver during the next 5 years, should you hope for a higher or lower stock market during that period? Many investors get this one wrong. Even though they are going to be net buyers of stocks for many years to come, they are elated when stock prices rise and depressed when they fall. This reaction makes no sense. Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 323:I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate& 324:I cannot make myself believe that God wanted me to hate. I'm tired of violence, I've seen too much of it. I've seen such hate on the faces of too many sheriffs in the South. And I'm not going to let my oppressor dictate to me what method I must use. Our oppressors have used violence. Our oppressors have used hatred. Our oppressors have used rifles and guns. I'm not going to stoop down to their level. I want to rise to a higher level. We have a power that can't be found in Molotov cocktails. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 325:It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 326:Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing. Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night, And swaying branches bear The Elven-stars as jewels white Amid their branching hair. Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.J. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 327:The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or, for that matter, the transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth, or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 328:Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? ~ francis-bacon, @wisdomtrove 329:The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take measure of myself: one iota pondering heaven. Thus we sit, I thinking how grateful I am for the moon’s perfect beauty and also, oh! How rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As though I were his perfect moon. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 330:Many of us may have watched the waves at sea. They rise, then fall, then rise again, then fall again... and this cycle continues endlessly. It is the same with our experience of the world and its objects and relationships. We may find happiness, but this happiness will soon turn to sorrow. The sorrow that we feel will subsequently turn back to happiness but this oscillation continues endlessly. In order to maintain inner balance, we need to find peace within instead of depending on the external world. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 331:Universal Mind, cannot be conceived of as having sense organs or nerves whereby it might receive impressions of external objects or perceive changes in the condition of its body. There are no external objects to be sensed, no sense organs or nerves to sense them if they did exist, and no body to give rise to sensation of its change of condition. Therefore Spirit, or Universal Mind, cannot be thought of as manifesting or experiencing Sensation. This plane of mental activity belongs solely to the phenomenal world. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove 332:When we start helping the weak and the poor to rise everyone will begin to change. Those who have power and riches will start to become more humble, and those who are rising up will leave behind their need to be victims, their need to be angry or depressed... .This is the spirituality of life, that helps people to rise up and take their place. It is not a spirituality of death. Jesus wants those who have been crushed to rise up and those who have power to discover that there is another road, a road of sharing and compassion. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 333:To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places more emphasis on the Holy Scriptures which never change, while his opposite number (as the newspapers say) tends to judge his spiritual condition by the state of his feelings, which change constantly. This may be the reason that so many Calvinistic churches remain orthodox for centuries, at least in doctrine, while many churches of the Arminian persuasion often go liberal in one generation. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 334:And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will dash themselves against the cliffs. One sails alone. That is my ship. It sails into icy caverns where the sea-bear barks and stalactites swing green chairs. The waves rise, their crests curl; look at the lights on the mastheads. They have scattered, they have foundered, all except my ship which mounts the wave and sweeps before the gale and reaches the islands where the parrots chatter and then the creepers. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 335:It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the Vedanta declares that one and the same conscious Self is present in all beings. You always criticize the women, but say what have you done for their uplift? Writing down Smritis etc., and binding them by hard rules, the men have turned the women into manufacturing machines! If you do not raise the women, who are living embodiment of the Divine Mother, don‚Äôt think that you have any other way to rise. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 336:There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. They are like gigantic trees that we sometimes see on the banks of a stream; which, by their vast and deep roots, penetrating through the mere surface, and laying hold on the very foundations of the earth, preserve the soil around them from being swept away by the ever-flowing current, and hold up many a neighboring plant, and perhaps worthless weed, to perpetuity. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 337:The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope and life and says: & 338:I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as when he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping. And like he would be kind of proud of whatever come up to make the moving or the setting still look hard. He set there on the wagon hunched up, blinking, listening to us tell about how quick the bridge went and how high the water was, and I be durn if he didn't act like he was proud of it, like he had made the river rise himself. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 339:You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is simply marvellous! Whatever it be, the book is the centre round which human allegiance gathers. Not one religion is living today but has a book. With all its rationalism and tall talk, humanity still clings to the books. In your country every attempt to start a religion without a book has failed. In India sects rise with great success, but within a few years they die down, because there is no book behind them. So in every other country. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 340:God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 341:As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements are investigated, and that it makes no difference whether it be in numbers, figures, stars, sounds or any other object that the question of measurement arises. I saw consequently that there must be some general science to explain that element as a whole which gives rise to problems about order and measurement, restricted as these are to no special subject matter. This, I perceived was called & 342:But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels drew level with her, she threw away the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the car, and with a light movement, as though she would rise immediately, dropped on her knees. And at the instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing. & 343:Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 344:Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. In each of these parts, however, the philosophical Idea is found in a particular specificality or medium. The single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle. The whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. The Idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole Idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove 345:In that Great Ocean of Universal or Cosmic Mind, bodies of Substance are but as floating specks of dust— or even bubbles formed of the substance of that Ocean itself— on the surface of that Ocean, there may arise waves, currents, ripples, eddies, whirlpools,— storms, hurricanes, tempests,— from its bosom may rise vapor, that after stages of clouds, rain-drops, flowing in streams, rivers, bays, at last again reach the source of its origin. These disturbances and changes we call Energy, Force, Motion— but they are but surface manifestations, and the Great Ocean is serene in its depths, and, in reality, is unchanged and undisturbed. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove 346:TRANSCENDING Escher got it right. Men step down and yet rise up, the hand is drawn by the hand it draws, and a woman is poised on her very own shoulders. Without you and me this universe is simple, run with the regularity of a prison. Galaxies spin along stipulated arcs, stars collapse at the specified hour, crows u-turn south and monkeys rut on schedule. But we, whom the cosmos shaped for a billion years to fit this place, we know it failed. For we can reshape, reach an arm through the bars and, Escher-like, pull ourselves out. And while whales feeding on mackerel are confined forever in the sea, we climb the waves, look down from clouds. —From Look Down from Clouds (Marvin Levine, 1997) ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 347:Thus the divine Bartholomew says that Theology is both much and very little, and that the Gospel is great and ample, and yet short. His sublime meaning is, I think, that the beneficent cause of all things says much, and says little, and is altogether silent, as having neither (human) speech nor (human) understanding, since He is essentially above all created things, and manifests Himself unveiled, and as He truly is to those only who pass beyond all that is either pure or impure, who rise above the highest height of holy things, who abandon all divine light and sound and heavenly speech, and are absorbed into that darkness where, as the Scripture says, He truly is, who is beyond all things. ~ pseudo-dionysius-the-areopagite, @wisdomtrove 348:You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing. Permit yourself to flow and overflow, allow for the rise in temperature, all the expansions and intensifications. Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. If it seems to you that I move in a world of certitudes, you, par contre, must benefit from the great privilege of youth, which is that you move in a world of mysteries. But both must be ruled by faith. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove 349:we can never go back. We can rise up from our failures, screwups, and falls, but we can never go back to where we stood before we were brave or before we fell. Courage transforms the emotional structure of our being. This change often brings a deep sense of loss. During the process of rising, we sometimes find ourselves homesick for a place that no longer exists. We want to go back to that moment before we walked into the arena, but there’s nowhere to go back to. What makes this more difficult is that now we have a new level of awareness about what it means to be brave. We can’t fake it anymore. We now know when we’re showing up and when we’re hiding out, when we are living our values and when we are not. Our new awareness can also be invigorating—it can reignite our sense of purpose and remind ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 350:MANIFESTO OF THE BRAVE AND BROKENHEARTED There is no greater threat to the critics and cynics and fearmongers Than those of us who are willing to fall Because we have learned how to rise With skinned knees and bruised hearts; We choose owning our stories of struggle, Over hiding, over hustling, over pretending. When we deny our stories, they define us. When we run from struggle, we are never free. So we turn toward truth and look it in the eye. We will not be characters in our stories. Not villains, not victims, not even heroes. We are the authors of our lives. We write our own daring endings. We craft love from heartbreak, Compassion from shame, Grace from disappointment, Courage from failure. Showing up is our power. Story is our way home. Truth is our song. We are the brave and brokenhearted. We are rising strong. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 351:Divinity above all knowledge, whose goodness passes understanding . . . direct our way to the summit of thy mystical oracles, most incomprehensible, most lucid and most exalted, where the simple and pure and unchangeable mysteries of theology are revealed in the darkness, clearer than light, of that silence in which secret things are hidden; a darkness that shines brighter than light, that invisibly and intangibly illuminates with splendours of inconceivable beauty the soul that sees not. Let this be my prayer; but do thou, diligently giving thyself to mystical contemplation, leave the senses, and the operations of the intellect, and all things sensible and intelligible, and things that are and things that are not, that thou mayest rise as may be lawful for thee, by ways above knowledge to union with Him who is above all knowledge and all being; that in freedom and abandonment of all, thou mayest be borne, through pure, entire and absolute abstraction of thyself from all things, into the supernatural radiance of the divine darkness. ~ pseudo-dionysius-the-areopagite, @wisdomtrove 352:“Divinity above all knowledge, whose goodness passes understanding . . . direct our way to the summit of thy mystical oracles, most incomprehensible, most lucid and most exalted, where the simple and pure and unchangeable mysteries of theology are revealed in the darkness, clearer than light, of that silence in which secret things are hidden; a darkness that shines brighter than light, that invisibly and intangibly illuminates with splendours of inconceivable beauty the soul that sees not. Let this be my prayer; but do thou, diligently giving thyself to mystical contemplation, leave the senses, and the operations of the intellect, and all things sensible and intelligible, and things that are and things that are not, that thou mayest rise as may be lawful for thee, by ways above knowledge to union with Him who is above all knowledge and all being; that in freedom and abandonment of all, thou mayest be borne, through pure, entire and absolute abstraction of thyself from all things, into the supernatural radiance of the divine darkness. ~ pseudo-dionysius-the-areopagite, @wisdomtrove 353:After a heated dispute, we each undertook an assignment for the next class: to engage in one pleasurable activity and one philanthropic activity, and write about both. The results were life-changing. The afterglow of the pleasurable activity (hanging out with friends, or watching a movie, or eating a hot fudge sundae) paled in comparison with the effects of the kind action. When our philanthropic acts were spontaneous and called upon personal strengths, the whole day went better. One junior told about her nephew phoning for help with his third-grade arithmetic. After an hour of tutoring him, she was astonished to discover that for the rest of the day, I could listen better, I was mellower, and people liked me much more than usual. The exercise of kindness is a gratification, in contrast to a pleasure. As a gratification, it calls on your strengths to rise to an occasion and meet a challenge. Kindness is not accompanied by a separable stream of positive emotion like joy; rather, it consists in total engagement and in the loss of self-consciousness. Time stops. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 354:Because in proportion as we ascend higher our speech is contracted to the limits of our view of the purely intelligible; and so now, when we enter that darkness which is above understanding, we pass not merely into brevity of speech, but even into absolute silence, and the negation of thought. Thus in the other treatises our subject took us from the highest to the lowest, and in the measure of this descent our treatment of it extended itself; whereas now we rise from beneath to that which is the highest, and accordingly our speech is restrained in proportion to the height of our ascent; but when our ascent is accomplished, speech will cease altogether, and be absorbed into the ineffable. But why, you will ask, do we add in the first and begin to abstract in the last? The reason is that we affirmed that which is above all affirmation by comparison with that which is most nearly related to it, and were therefore compelled to make a hypothetical affirmation; but when we abstract that which is above all abstraction, we must distinguish it also from those things which are most remote from it. Is not God more nearly life and goodness than air or a stone; must we not deny more fully that He is drunken or enraged, than that He can be spoken of or understood? ~ pseudo-dionysius-the-areopagite, @wisdomtrove 355:Let us, therefore, re-ascend to the good itself, which every soul desires; and in which it can alone find perfect repose. For if anyone shall become acquainted with this source of beauty he will then know what I say, and after what manner he is beautiful. Indeed, whatever is desirable is a kind of good, since to this desire tends. But they alone pursue true good, who rise to intelligible beauty, and so far only tend to good itself; as far as they lay aside the deformed vestments of matter, with which they become connected in their descent. Just as those who penetrate into the holy retreats of sacred mysteries, are first purified and then divest themselves of their garments, until someone by such a process, having dismissed everything foreign from the God, by himself alone, beholds the solitary principle of the universe, sincere, simple and pure, from which all things depend, and to whose transcendent perfections the eyes of all intelligent natures are directed, as the proper cause of being, life and intelligence. With what ardent love, with what strong desire will he who enjoys this transporting vision be inflamed while vehemently affecting to become one with this supreme beauty! For this it is ordained, that he who does not yet perceive him, yet desires him as good, but he who enjoys the vision is enraptured with his beauty, and is equally filled with admiration and delight. Hence, such a one is agitated with a salutary astonishment; is affected with the highest and truest love; derides vehement affections and inferior loves, and despises the beauty which he once approved. Such, too, is the condition of those who, on perceiving the forms of gods or daemons, no longer esteem the fairest of corporeal forms. What, then, must be the condition of that being, who beholds the beautiful itself? ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
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5:Sun, don't rise! ~ Gail Carson Levine, #NFDB
6:How do they rise up? ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
7:engine, go into a high-rise ~ Tom Hanks, #NFDB
8:Organize before they rise! ~ Max Brooks, #NFDB
9:Atlantis will rise again. ~ Charles Olson, #NFDB
10:Rise, red as the dawn. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
11:I’ll rise up as a poem… ~ Marina Tsvetaeva, #NFDB
12:Too soon, the sun will rise. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
13:Beliefs give rise to truth. ~ Max Gladstone, #NFDB
14:Familiarity gives rise to contempt. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
15:Foul deeds will rise, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
16:Rise, Shine and Eat Protein New ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
17:To rise. And rise alone. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
18:I'll rise but I refuse to shine. ~ Gabrielle, #NFDB
19:My sun sets to rise again. ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
20:When women and girls rise, ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
21:But still, like air, I'll rise ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
22:Lives in eternity's sun rise. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
23:Rise and shine, porcupines! ~ Maureen Johnson, #NFDB
24:To rise at six, to dine at ten, ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
25:There's a bad moon on the rise. ~ John Fogerty, #NFDB
26:Be thy own torch; rise up and become wise. ~ id, #NFDB
27:We rise by lifting others. ~ Robert G Ingersoll, #NFDB
28:Compassionate the mountains rise ~ DuBose Heyward, #NFDB
29:Hail the day that sees Him rise, ~ Charles Wesley, #NFDB
30:If you would rise, do so alone. ~ Mercedes Lackey, #NFDB
31:Rise and take your stance once again ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
32:RISE UP.
Hmm?
BE MY LIGHT. ~ Nadine Brandes,#NFDB
33:sometimes we rise above ourselves. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
34:As the suns rise, the goat chews. A ~ Peter Newman, #NFDB
35:A thousand suns rise from my chest. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
36:Fall if you will, but rise you must. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
37:Life is an occasion...rise to it. ~ Dustin Hoffman, #NFDB
38:People don't rise from nothing. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
39:In these silences something may rise ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
40:Phall if you but will, rise you must. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
41:Pissing in a river, watching it rise. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
42:rise beyond your circumstances, to ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
43:The way to rise is to obey and please. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
44:They rise highest who lift as they go. ~ Kevin Hall, #NFDB
45:Unequal lives give rise to unequal dreams. ~ Yu Hua, #NFDB
46:watch the sun rise every few days, ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
47:We rise by lifting others. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
48:We will rise up red as the dawn. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
49:When a bee flies, a soul will rise, ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
50:And the Lord said you got to rise Up! ~ Stuart Scott, #NFDB
51:China's influence is bound to rise. ~ Manmohan Singh, #NFDB
52:I'll rise like an ember in your name. ~ Jeff Buckley, #NFDB
53:IN THESE SILENCES SOMETHING MAY RISE. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
54:Rise above oneself and grasp the world. ~ Archimedes, #NFDB
55:We rise in glory as we sink in pride. ~ Andrew Young, #NFDB
56:We will rise up, Red as the dawn. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
57:Your life is an occasion. Rise to it. ~ Suzanne Weyn, #NFDB
58:Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey! ~ Rumi, #NFDB
59:Run and hide or rise and shine ... ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
60:Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas. ~ Sarah Kane, #NFDB
61:To buried merit rise the tardy bust. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
62:Ut onimous sergimous. As one, we rise. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
63:Your life is an occasion - rise to it. ~ Suzanne Weyn, #NFDB
64:Rise up and gather the brightest stars ~ Elisa S Amore, #NFDB
65:watched smoke rise from a campfire near the ~ K M Shea, #NFDB
66:Words, they are our rise and our fall. ~ Vaddey Ratner, #NFDB
67:An oppressed people will always rise. ~ Henning Mankell, #NFDB
68:God willing and the creek don't rise ~ Benjamin Hawkins, #NFDB
69:Hospital Discharges Rise at Lucrative Times ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
70:In the morning when I rise give me Jesus. ~ Jeremy Camp, #NFDB
71:… it was a thing that has to fall to rise … ~ Ali Smith, #NFDB
72:My sun sets to rise again. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
73:Pain is what gives rise to meditation ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
74:All live to die, and rise to fall. ~ Christopher Marlowe, #NFDB
75:And we will rise up, Red as the dawn. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
76:Don't Fall in love, Rise in Love! ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
77:Rise and shine, you horny little humpers! ~ Harper Sloan, #NFDB
78:I see the sunRISE; you too can rise! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
79:Out of the huts of history's shame I rise. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
80:Rise above principal and do what's right. ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB
81:Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I. ~ Dionne Warwick, #NFDB
82:I am ready for the rest of my life to rise. ~ Jean Houston, #NFDB
83:Rise above principle and do what is right. ~ Walter Heller, #NFDB
84:Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen ~ Robert Herrick, #NFDB
85:The dangers gather as the treasures rise. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
86:The worthy will rise into the stars . . . ~ Meagan Spooner, #NFDB
87:We rise and fall as one people, one nation. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
88:Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
89:Do not fall in love, but rise in love ~ Swami Parthasarathy, #NFDB
90:Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
91:Rise to the occasion. Roar like a lion. ~ Alastair Reynolds, #NFDB
92:Rise to the occassion which is life! ~ Virginia Euwer Wolff, #NFDB
93:Seriously. Dados bounce." Bobby in Raven Rise ~ D J MacHale, #NFDB
94:There can be no rise in the value of labour ~ David Ricardo, #NFDB
95:True love gives rise to the eyes of clarity. ~ Tenzin Deva, #NFDB
96:Anyone can rise if they have enough yeast. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
97:Out of these ashes beauty will rise. ~ Steven Curtis Chapman, #NFDB
98:The luck will alter and the star will rise. ~ John Masefield, #NFDB
99:The storm will pass and the sun will rise again. ~ Juan Mata, #NFDB
100:We fight[,] get beat[,] rise and fight again. ~ John Ferling, #NFDB
101:Your life is your own. Rise up and live it. ~ Terry Goodkind, #NFDB
102:In spite of everything, I shall rise again ~ Vincent Van Gogh, #NFDB
103:I think books can give rise to empowerment. ~ Ilyasah Shabazz, #NFDB
104:New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State ~ Kenichi Ohmae, #NFDB
105:Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
106:Water, we go to you dirty and rise from you clean. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
107:We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. ~ Nathanael Greene, #NFDB
108:Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, ~ Albert Goldbarth, #NFDB
109:Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
110:Here let dead poetry rise once more to life. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
111:Instead, she stares at me like I made the sun rise ~ Ker Dukey, #NFDB
112:Mark my words, my rap career [is] on the rise. ~ Nicole Richie, #NFDB
113:[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
114:The only way to rise above is to rise above. The ~ Nafisa Haji, #NFDB
115:You can't make souffle rise twice. ~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth, #NFDB
116:Certain things have to be, the sun has to rise. ~ Arthur Miller, #NFDB
117:China’s rise was built on export-led manufacturing. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
118:Geochemistry gives rise seamlessly to biochemistry. ~ Nick Lane, #NFDB
119:If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else. ~ Ben Harper, #NFDB
120:I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
121:Some falls the means are happier to rise. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
122:Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops. ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
123:Truth crushed to earth will rise again. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
124:Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB
125:Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise? ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
126:Allow the fire to rebirth you; rise from your ashes. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
127:A stream cannot rise higher than its source. ~ Anna Julia Cooper, #NFDB
128:A whole nation cannot rise above itself. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, #NFDB
129:In our country, learned ignorance is on the rise. ~ Paul Krugman, #NFDB
130:rise
said the moon
and the new day came ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
131:I rise up above myself / like a fish flying... ~ Lucille Clifton, #NFDB
132:music; the wave tops form notes and rise up and ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
133:No matter how bad it gets, I can always rise up. ~ Carlos Condit, #NFDB
134:Occasionally, a man must rise above principles. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
135:Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
136:The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea ~ Arthur Rimbaud, #NFDB
137:To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
138:Truth crushed to earth shall rise again. ~ William Cullen Bryant, #NFDB
139:You can't make a souffle rise twice. ~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth, #NFDB
140:You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself. ~ Hafez, #NFDB
141:America will rise again. And hope will rise again. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
142:He who lies down with dogs shall rise with fleas ~ Christina Dodd, #NFDB
143:Many things have fallen only to rise higher. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
144:Master Custard, you must rise and be hanged ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
145:Rise to the occasion of your one and only heart. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
146:Some rise by sin, and some by virtues fall. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
147:The highest condition takes rise in the lowest. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
148:A man could not rise beyond the destiny of his chi ~ Chinua Achebe, #NFDB
149:Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
150:Hurts are just alerts, to rise above through love. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
151:Ideas rise with new mornings but never die. ~ Frank Marshall Davis, #NFDB
152:All rise! The Honorable John Bestover White presiding. ~ Robyn Carr, #NFDB
153:his face. Panic started to rise, but she pressed it ~ Laila Ibrahim, #NFDB
154:I'm holding up, Lord willing and the creek don't rise. ~ Sara Evans, #NFDB
155:Love is an uphill task: you have to rise toward the heights. ~ Osho, #NFDB
156:Sun must set so that we can long for its rise! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
157:Drowning is not so pitiful as the attempt to rise. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
158:Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
159:Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
160:In fall, God is remembered; in rise, forgotten. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
161:In love of home, the love of country has its rise. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
162:I pull her to me. A thousand suns rise from my chest. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
163:It is time now for us to rise from sleep. ~ Saint Benedict of Nursia, #NFDB
164:Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together ~ Evelyn Underhill, #NFDB
165:May your crust be crisp and your bread always rise! ~ Peter Reinhart, #NFDB
166:rise from the dead ~ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, #NFDB
167:to rise with the sun and to start the day off well. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
168:We mourn what has been lost, and tomorrow, we rise. ~ Jessica Khoury, #NFDB
169:A rise in anti-vaccine sentiment has put everyone at risk ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
170:Dear God,” I breathe. From the earth, the dead rise. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
171:even the darkest nights will end and the sun will rise. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
172:R. H. Tawney Religion and the Rise of Capitalism ~ Ernst F Schumacher, #NFDB
173:Rise with the hour for which you were made. ~ Georgia Douglas Johnson, #NFDB
174:There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise ~ W E B Du Bois, #NFDB
175:We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
176:Arrange your clothes so that they rise to the right. Take ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
177:Good people always rise to your level of expectation. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
178:How doth all that seeks to rise burn itself to nothing. ~ M T Anderson, #NFDB
179:Im going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me. ~ T I, #NFDB
180:Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
181:Only through the harshest tests can God’s chosen rise. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
182:Those on the decline always criticize those on the rise. ~ Karen Essex, #NFDB
183:We wait, and we rise; we move, and the earth trembles. ~ Max Gladstone, #NFDB
184:You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
185:2 It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
186:Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity. ~ Allan Lokos, #NFDB
187:And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness. ~ Mahmoud Darwish, #NFDB
188:Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
189:Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
190:The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. ~ David Hume, #NFDB
191:The higher you rise, the greater your need for advice. ~ Patrick W Carr, #NFDB
192:What could they fear? We will rise, Red as the dawn. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
193:You can never rise above the light you look up to. ~ Matthew Ashimolowo, #NFDB
194:Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
195:Early to bed, early to rise,” Ziggy said. “Early or late, ~ Brandon Mull, #NFDB
196:I rise at the break of day, your smile sets me on my way. ~ Billy Squier, #NFDB
197:Rise and find the grace, for it is all around you. ~ Tyler Knott Gregson, #NFDB
198:The future is a blank canvas. - Rise Up and Salute the Sun ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB
199:You cannot expect your team to rise above your example. ~ Orrin Woodward, #NFDB
200:And I say to myself: a moon will rise from my darkness. ~ Mahmoud Darwish, #NFDB
201:A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
202:Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. ~ Philip Massinger, #NFDB
203:He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
204:...Rise up and play
Those liquid notes that steal men's hearts away. ~,#NFDB
205:Rise up, you suckers, and go out and do the work of Jesus! ~ Tony Campolo, #NFDB
206:The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William Shirer. ~ Michael Finkel, #NFDB
207:Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
208:Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it. ~ Terry Goodkind, #NFDB
209:Bless my eyes this morning, Jah sun is on the rise once again ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
210:I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
211:If the sun refuses to rise we will make it rise ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB
212:No young believer should ever rise quickly in the ministry. ~ Gene Edwards, #NFDB
213:Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
214:Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world ~ Frank McCourt, #NFDB
215:There’s an old Japanese saying: Fall seven, rise eight. ~ Angela Duckworth, #NFDB
216:The Sun will not rise or set without my notice and thanks. ~ Winslow Homer, #NFDB
217:We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves. ~ Orison Swett Marden, #NFDB
218:what defines a person is how well they rise after falling down. ~ K Larsen, #NFDB
219:He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
220:Mark Nathan Cohen, whose Health and the Rise of Civilization ~ Angus Deaton, #NFDB
221:And the wind gonna rise up, baby
and blow my blues away... ~ Stephen King,#NFDB
222:Do you come from Heaven or rise from the abyss, Beauty? ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
223:Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
224:ASHES.
He had reduced me to ashes.
And now I would rise. ~ Holly Cupala,#NFDB
225:Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top. ~ Irene Rosenfeld, #NFDB
226:Each new friend gives rise to the possibility of anything! ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
227:I can tell women's confidence levels rise when they wear heels. ~ Eric Mabius, #NFDB
228:One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, #NFDB
229:Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
230:Students will rise to the level of a teacher’s expectations. ~ Donalyn Miller, #NFDB
231:The moon was just starting to rise above the Tetons, shining ~ RaeAnne Thayne, #NFDB
232:Do not descend, but rise above so ill-mannered a person. ~ Mary Lydon Simonsen, #NFDB
233:If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level ~ Tony Goldwyn, #NFDB
234:If you want to rise higher then see yourself as a winner... ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
235:I have always been able to rise above the expectations. ~ Kay Bailey Hutchison, #NFDB
236:I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
237:I want to rise so high that when I shit I won’t miss anybody. ~ William H Gass, #NFDB
238:Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche, #NFDB
239:The best thing about waking up early is seeing the sun rise. ~ Bridgit Mendler, #NFDB
240:The only way to rise to the beauty of love is to rise and serve. ~ Ann Voskamp, #NFDB
241:The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
242:Those who rise first are morally superior. It's a universal law. ~ O R Melling, #NFDB
243:tomorrow the sun would rise on the first day of a new desert. ~ Alwyn Hamilton, #NFDB
244:Trans folks are going to rise up for their moments and their money! ~ Hari Nef, #NFDB
245:When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven. ~ Jung Chang, #NFDB
246:When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks. ~ Eugene V Debs, #NFDB
247:Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
248:You've got to rise from the floor alone or fall back alone. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
249:An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it. ~ Irving Stone, #NFDB
250:early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise'. ~ Chris Fox, #NFDB
251:Gratitude for being alive is the best way to rise and shine. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru, #NFDB
252:If all the ice sheets melted, sea levels would rise by 60 metres. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
253:Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
254:Peggy snorted. "Zombies rise and we're still doing paperwork. ~ Rhiannon Frater, #NFDB
255:Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
256:The truth is that your spirits don't rise until you get way down. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
257:They will rise, and raise with them their mother's side ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, #NFDB
258:To rise from the ashes only to have them rain on you from above. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
259:We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB
260:We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
261:You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above. ~ Bruce Springsteen, #NFDB
262:6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage. ~ Russ Carnahan, #NFDB
263:A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
264:Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. ~ John Ciardi, #NFDB
265:I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise. ~ Nate Berkus, #NFDB
266:It’s watching the sun rise in your smile and set in your tears. ~ Natasha Anders, #NFDB
267:Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again. ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
268:The thirst that from the soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
269:The world is a wheel. When we rise or fall, we do it together. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
270:Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall. ~ Davy Crockett, #NFDB
271:Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise ~ Thomas Dekker,#NFDB
272:How could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
273:I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today. ~ Ken Wilber, #NFDB
274:I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work. ~ Kehinde Wiley, #NFDB
275:It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. ~ Juvenal, #NFDB
276:Let me lie down, Lord, like a stone; let me rise up like new bread. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
277:Men rise on steppin'-stones of their dead selves to higher things!... ~ Zane Grey, #NFDB
278:Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we were put in this world to rise above. ~ James Agee, #NFDB
279:Your harvest is not in view until your prayers rise up to heaven. ~ David Oyedepo, #NFDB
280:All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
281:Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I'm going to make it. ~ Stephen Curry, #NFDB
282:Fall forward, in your failing, and rise up with a soul on fire! ~ Michael Beckwith, #NFDB
283:Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J.Paul Getty ~ Alison Wong, #NFDB
284:If your ideas are good they rise, and if they're a bit crap they sink. ~ James May, #NFDB
285:In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn. ~ Octavia E Butler, #NFDB
286:Never leave an enemy behind, or it will rise again to fly at your throat ! ~ Shaka, #NFDB
287:Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism. ~ Dominique de Villepin, #NFDB
288:No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
289:The light must be dim in order to enable the ego to rise up. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
290:The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates. ~ Robert C Solomon, #NFDB
291:A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
292:A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. ~ James Allen, #NFDB
293:Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
294:[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races. ~ Arthur Kemp, #NFDB
295:Hitler's brothers are on the rise, they're wearing everyday disguises. ~ Paula Cole, #NFDB
296:I feel I rise to the occasion when the pressure's on my shoulders. ~ Donovan McNabb, #NFDB
297:Life went on, no matter how much you dared the sun not to rise again. ~ Karen White, #NFDB
298:My name is Georgia Mason, and I am begging you. Rise up while you can. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
299:The living dead are born out of the ground, but they rise in smoke. ~ Daryl Gregory, #NFDB
300:The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast. ~ George Osborne, #NFDB
301:They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. ~ Juvenal, #NFDB
302:To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise. ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
303:We all go back to the mud. Until we rise again in ribbons of light. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
304:We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174 ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
305:When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.” But ~ Jung Chang, #NFDB
306:Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
307:It's eternal, the rise and fall of the sun. It's forever. Just like us. ~ Jay McLean, #NFDB
308:man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He ~ James Allen, #NFDB
309:the sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents. ~ Lady Caroline Lamb, #NFDB
310:The ten thousand things rise and fall while the self watches their return. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
311:Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves. ~ Neil Peart, #NFDB
312:To rise from the ashes only to have them rain on you from above. It’s ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
313:Awaken from your sleep. Rise from the dust. Open the gateway to death. ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
314:Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead, ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
315:Every moment is a new moment to rise up and move forward into the victory. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
316:Music does not express any idea, but it gives rise to thousands. ~ Alessandro Manzoni, #NFDB
317:My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will see i was right. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
318:Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above. ~ Gordon Lightfoot, #NFDB
319:The sun will rise tomorrow, even if you get knocked out in 30 seconds. ~ Greg Jackson, #NFDB
320:We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
321:You were none, and now you're all; your worth will rise, the more I fall. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
322:Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
323:… all that matters is how to rise, for you are half out of your mind. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
324:Be my comfort, come away with me. Rise up and come away, my beloved. ~ Paullina Simons, #NFDB
325:Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. ~ Andre Gide, #NFDB
326:Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling. ~ Andr Gide, #NFDB
327:God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash ~ Ani DiFranco, #NFDB
328:If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them. ~ Joan Robinson, #NFDB
329:If you are not rising with ethics, you will sink with every rise! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
330:it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB
331:My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise. ~ Karl Shapiro, #NFDB
332:People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions. ~ John Henrik Clarke, #NFDB
333:Rise of capitalism was responsible for the subordination of Woman ~ Lewis Henry Morgan, #NFDB
334:Were they ready? Did the sun rise in the east and set in the fucking west? ~ L A Banks, #NFDB
335:When hopes of reform are dashed, people will rise up and seek revolution. ~ Xu Zhiyong, #NFDB
336:woman who can rise above what is and see the future of what can be. ~ Bette Lee Crosby, #NFDB
337:Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy, and dead. ~ James Thurber, #NFDB
338:Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise ~ Michael Jordan, #NFDB
339:He is not drunk, who from the floor, can rise and stand and shout for more ~ Ogden Nash, #NFDB
340:If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #NFDB
341:It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination. ~ Akira Kurosawa, #NFDB
342:most of ’em goes to church so they’ll be sure to rise in Judgment. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
343:My waters rise, and like a river bursting free of its banks, I overflow. ~ Kennedy Ryan, #NFDB
344:O Mary, you give assistance to everyone endeavoring to rise to God! ~ Bridget of Sweden, #NFDB
345:On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you'll see who you are. ~ Alan Jay Lerner, #NFDB
346:the only Cuba I could ever imagine. That is, until the dead began to rise. ~ Max Brooks, #NFDB
347:The way we think about ourselves will give rise to the world we live in. ~ Gregg Braden, #NFDB
348:Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
349:Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
350:Woe to him who is alone, since, if he falls, he has no help to rise. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB
351:You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans. ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
352:A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
353:Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
354:Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
355:Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
356:I felt a lump rise in my throat and looked away. Damn my feminine emotions. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
357:It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
358:Of course she's not afraid. She knows that the sun will rise again tomorrow. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
359:Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice. ~ Lakhdar Brahimi, #NFDB
360:The confused murmur of his nights began to rise, expected but not familiar ~ Paul Val ry, #NFDB
361:The goal is to rise spiritually, not simply to avoid sin. ~ Elder Paisios of Mount Athos, #NFDB
362:To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
363:Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again. ~ Jefferson Davis, #NFDB
364:we do endure, and that out of the wreckage something surprising will rise. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
365:When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
366:Woman is as common as a loaf of bread, and like a loaf of bread, will rise. ~ Judy Grahn, #NFDB
367:Divine spirit flows through heart
that willing to rise after the falling. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
368:Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
369:Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord. ~ Paul Klee, #NFDB
370:It is in our darkest cultures that the greatest saints rise, stand, and lead. ~ Mark Hart, #NFDB
371:Life gave you problems. It was your responsibility to rise above them. ~ Janette Rallison, #NFDB
372:There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox, #NFDB
373:The rise to power of a right-wing lunatic in a free election in Germany. ~ Bernie Sanders, #NFDB
374:the sun would rise and shine regardless of what was going on in my life. ~ Mariana Zapata, #NFDB
375:Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
376:Why according to tomorrow's paper the proletariat will not rise yesterday. ~ E E Cummings, #NFDB
377:you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal. ~ James Allen, #NFDB
378:Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
379:Fall forward, in your failing, and rise up with a soul on fire! ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith, #NFDB
380:Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
381:How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top? ~ Jack McDevitt, #NFDB
382:If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one. ~ William Penn, #NFDB
383:Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
384:The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise ~ Pierre Joseph Proudhon, #NFDB
385:There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
386:The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
387:The sun is a pretty stubborn guy, and he'll rise each day just to spite you. ~ Karen White, #NFDB
388:#5) YOU ARE BETTER THAN THOSE WHO WOULD UNWIND YOU. RISE TO THE OCCASION. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
389:Because it's eternal, the rise and fall of the sun. It's forever. Just like us ~ Jay McLean, #NFDB
390:In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence ~ Laurence J Peter, #NFDB
391:It's true that when anyone dies, the other dead rise up abd die all over again. ~ Lee Smith, #NFDB
392:Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.” —Sir Winston Churchill ~ Hourly History, #NFDB
393:She will rise. With a spine of steel and a roar like thunder, she will rise. ~ Nicole Lyons, #NFDB
394:Stairs are wonderful friends; they rise with us and they fall with us! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
395:Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
396:The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise! ~ Pierre Joseph Proudhon, #NFDB
397:The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
398:To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it. ~ Michael Korda, #NFDB
399:We're getting old,' said Daisy. 'If we were young we'd rise and dance. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
400:Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations. ~ Jack Levin, #NFDB
401:Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise. ~ William Congreve, #NFDB
402:Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it. ~ Pearl Bailey, #NFDB
403:Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised. ~ Ernie J Zelinski, #NFDB
404:Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
405:Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil. —J. Paul Getty H ~ Gregory Zuckerman, #NFDB
406:I do for one full hour non-stop of 2,000 sit ups and then 6 sets of leg rise. ~ Serge Nubret, #NFDB
407:Man's sins may be the relics of his rise rather than the stigmata of his fall. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
408:People who
rise to the top seldom
get there alone.
They seek help. ~ Henry Cloud,#NFDB
409:Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty. ~ Juvenal, #NFDB
410:Rise and grind... the money ain't gonna wait for you while you sleep son. ~ Donnell Rawlings, #NFDB
411:The energy that can rise in real connection is the stuff of revolution. ~ Carol Lee Flinders, #NFDB
412:The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation. ~ Chiang Kai shek, #NFDB
413:We can bear the sun not to set, but we cannot bear the sun not to rise! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
414:While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant. ~ Ed Pastor, #NFDB
415:And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
416:And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you. ~ Ian Mcewan, #NFDB
417:But time past is a time forgotten.
We expect the rise of a new constellation. ~ T S Eliot,#NFDB
418:Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing. ~ Wes Nisker, #NFDB
419:From that cracked-open-heart place, a God-breathed strength will rise. Rise. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
420:I am becoming in coming undone. I unbind. I rise like the morning: revolution. ~ Sarah Gerard, #NFDB
421:In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. ~ Laurence J Peter, #NFDB
422:It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
423:Now I have beaten a song back into you, rise and walk away like a panther. ~ Yusef Komunyakaa, #NFDB
424:Rise up, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand; do not forget the oppressed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
425:Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
426:The Rebel Prince will rise again.
He will bring a new dawn. A new desert. ~ Alwyn Hamilton,#NFDB
427:The Samurai always has to rise and move on, because new challenges will come. ~ Lyoto Machida, #NFDB
428:The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise. ~ Kenny G, #NFDB
429:This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
430:This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon, #NFDB
431:Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, #NFDB
432:With love, we rise; with hate, we sink! Always remember this golden law! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
433:And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise. ~ Franklin Raines, #NFDB
434:Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way. ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #NFDB
435:Heartbreak taught me that you can rise from the ashes and get over anything. ~ Beverly Johnson, #NFDB
436:if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
437:It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you. ~ Rob Bell, #NFDB
438:It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
439:The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
440:The hunger that gives rise to art must be greater than what art can satisfy. ~ Christian Wiman, #NFDB
441:The rise of the ecologist almost exactly parallels the decline of the naturalist. ~ Paul Sears, #NFDB
442:We don't rise to the level of our abilities, we fall to the level of our excuses ~ Peter James, #NFDB
443:You’re no stranger to storms. The waves may rage, but you can rise above them. ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
444:Each of has a natural instinct to rise like a flame. Lets nurture that instinct ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
445:For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how you can rise. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
446:If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger. ~ Lauren Myracle, #NFDB
447:It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others. ~ Julia Ward Howe, #NFDB
448:Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. ~ Ross Macdonald, #NFDB
449:Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
450:Sara Jane Grayson, the girl, will wither. Sara Jane Kingwood, the woman, will rise. ~ S L Scott, #NFDB
451:Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
452:The rise of Trump is a repudiation of 30 years of bipartisan treason and failure. ~ Roger Stone, #NFDB
453:We don’t rise to the level of our abilities, we fall to the level of our excuses. ~ Peter James, #NFDB
454:Women’s voices always rise two octaves when they talk to cleaning women or cats. ~ Lucia Berlin, #NFDB
455:But what would that be like
feeling the tide rise
out of the numbness inside ~ David Whyte,#NFDB
456:Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them. ~ Alister E McGrath, #NFDB
457:In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn. ~ Octavia E Butler,#NFDB
458:Make it whole, and it will rise whole. That’s your first lesson of the day. ~ Charlie N Holmberg, #NFDB
459:Rise, Luthiel, in the name of love you came and in the name of love I crown you! ~ Robert Fanney, #NFDB
460:That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay rise ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
461:We will move forward as one, and in time, rise like sparks beyond the night. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
462:What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end? ~ Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve, #NFDB
463:You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. ~ James Clear, #NFDB
464:Alchemist is like getting up at dawn and seeing the sun rise when other are asleep ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
465:For men rise or fall based entirely on what the women in their lives demand of them. ~ Kim Wright, #NFDB
466:If we don't let our weirdness rise to the surface, we don’t let our work stand out. ~ Paul Jarvis, #NFDB
467:Individualism in the United States was correlated with the rise of white-collar jobs. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
468:I stumble and fall.
I weep and struggle to rise.
My mom feels it all. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,#NFDB
469:I think any time you get beaten down and rise back up again, you become stronger. ~ Chris Weidman, #NFDB
470:Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
471:Red Queen. The lightning girl. She lives. Rise, Red as dawn. Rise. Rise. Rise. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
472:Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
473:The information bomb gives rise to the integral and globally constituted accident. ~ Paul Virilio, #NFDB
474:The world is a wheel,” he said. “When we rise or fall, we do it together.” Will ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
475:We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
476:We too can rise up,
We too can float like lanterns
To a better place. ~ Tyler Knott Gregson,#NFDB
477:Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
478:A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers. - Rise Up and Salute the Sun ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB
479:A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him. ~ Akbar, #NFDB
480:An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. ~ Henry Clay, #NFDB
481:Attend to your own fate, Mare Barrow.” “And that is?” “To rise. And rise alone. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
482:Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
483:Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~Ulquiorra ~ Tite Kubo, #NFDB
484:For once you have fallen low. Let us see in the future how high you can rise. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
485:I am more powerful than I am damaged and I will rise from any abyss you drown me in. ~ Nikita Gill, #NFDB
486:It takes many steppingstones, you know, for a man to rise. None can do it unaided ~ Joseph Bonanno, #NFDB
487:... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot. ~ George Sand, #NFDB
488:That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay rise … ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
489:The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #NFDB
490:The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk. ~ Tom Vilsack, #NFDB
491:The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
492:To see the smoke from his loved palace rise, While the dear isle in distant prospect lies, ~ Homer, #NFDB
493:You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.23 ~ James Clear, #NFDB
494:You got seeds of greatness in you. Sow them and reap greatness. You will rise. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
495:All our hopes and joys take their rise from him who is the author of our salvation. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
496:And I waited for the sun to rise - as it always had, like a song from the night. ~ Samantha Shannon, #NFDB
497:As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside. ~ Lou Reed, #NFDB
498:Change means traveling in uncharted waters and this causes our securities to rise. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
499:Destiny is a gift, something to rise to. Fate is something to make for yourself. ~ Tera Lynn Childs, #NFDB
500:Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it. ~ Kate Bornstein, #NFDB
501:Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
502:Growing within card 22/6/2014To love truly the Divine we must rise above attachments . ~ The Mother, #NFDB
503:I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me. ~ Carrie Fisher, #NFDB
504:If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
505:If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, #NFDB
506:Integrity is a high rock above which the stormy ocean of worldly troubles cannot rise. ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB
507:Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces (Balko, Radley) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
508:Rise up, Sir Peter Wolf's-Bane. And, whatever happens, never forget to wipe your sword. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
509:There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
510:We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them. ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
511:We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. ~ Archilochos, #NFDB
512:We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. ~ Archilochus, #NFDB
513:We now know 600 different genes involved in cancer - giving rise to new drug targets. ~ Eric Lander, #NFDB
514:You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. 23 ~ James Clear, #NFDB
515:And did you rise to what the occasion demanded ?
I rose so high, I left my body. ~ Marion Coutts,#NFDB
516:At the same time sorting is on the rise, so is loneliness. According to Bishop, in 1976 ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
517:Determined, I rise
and face the dawn with resolve.
This time I will win. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,#NFDB
518:For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how high you can rise. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
519:I HAD GOTTEN to see the sun rise as I drove home that morning. I hate sunrises. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
520:It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so. ~ Georges Bernanos, #NFDB
521:Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
522:There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
523:To rise at six, dine at ten, Sup at five, to bed at ten, Makes man live ten times ten. ~ Noah Gordon, #NFDB
524:With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
525:You don't see us, and so we are everywhere. And we will rise up, Red as the dawn. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
526:All we do is to rise and to fall; and in between these two activities, we sleep! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
527:Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul ~ Rumi, #NFDB
528:Good music is a king or a queen; when it visits a place, all rise to their feet! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
529:Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury ~ Elvis Costello, #NFDB
530:The rise of “teamwork” has made it difficult to trace individual responsibility, ~ Matthew B Crawford, #NFDB
531:The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property. ~ Lewis Henry Morgan, #NFDB
532:they were “very clever in inventing reasons” for a sudden rise or fall in stock prices, ~ John Brooks, #NFDB
533:We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness. ~ Booker T Washington, #NFDB
534:We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training. ~ Archilochus, #NFDB
535:When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. ~ Tecumseh, #NFDB
536:Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
537:Why should we rise because 'tis light?
Did we lie down because t'was night? ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
538:Above the youth's inspired and flashing eyes/I see the motley, mocking fool's-cap rise. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
539:A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
540:from any struggle or rest I will rise up as strong and beautiful as a young horse. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
541:healing comes in waves, and I'm allowed to feel every rise and every fall of my tide. ~ Alexandra Elle, #NFDB
542:Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
543:I live. I write. I watch old movies. I read. I watch the sunset. I watch the moon rise. ~ W P Kinsella, #NFDB
544:I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I. ~ Grant Morrison, #NFDB
545:Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ~ Washington Irving, #NFDB
546:Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
547:Politicians rise in the east and set in the west and nothing you can change about them. ~ Marlon James, #NFDB
548:Raise your expectations. If he thinks you’re worth it he’ll rise to the occasion. ~ Jenna Bayley Burke, #NFDB
549:Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success. ~ Arthur Miller, #NFDB
550:Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
551:Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
552:What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling ~ Bob Hoskins, #NFDB
553:You don't see us,
and so we are everywhere.
And we will rise Red as the Dawn! ~ Victoria Aveyard,#NFDB
554:[Alcohol] cures everything, except for stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
555:And no matter how eager you are for it, you cannot make the moon set nor rise any faster. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
556:For as long as we continue to reproduce, we will give rise to doubters and challengers. ~ Oliver Bowden, #NFDB
557:If the world watched how you worked today, would the world rise to its feet and applaud? ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
558:if you were born with
the weakness to fall
you were born with
the strength to rise ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
559:In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery ~ Marvin Harris, #NFDB
560:Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
561:Only when we admit to our failures and recognize our weaknesses can we rise above them. ~ R A Salvatore, #NFDB
562:Our betrayals, our jealousies, our fears, they rise no higher than the tops of our heads. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
563:The choice to lead is nurtured by the willingness to rise above challenges of life. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
564:The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower, #NFDB
565:The Wise are Superb Observers of Nature and Rise Superior to the Blows of Fortune ~ Philo of Alexandria, #NFDB
566:Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene. ~ Paul Gauguin, #NFDB
567:Who cares? Kingdoms rise and fall. Just don't burn the paintings in the Louvre, that's all. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
568:Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step. ~ Deng Xiaoping, #NFDB
569:28. When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
570:Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
571:Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes. [ ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
572:If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, ‘I awake to do the work of a man. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
573:I’m not saying I won’t fall again, but I won’t stay down. I’ll always rise up to you. ~ Jennifer Van Wyk, #NFDB
574:I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything. ~ Sammy Hagar, #NFDB
575:It may be that the U.S. stock market starts to rise if people think it's gone far enough. ~ David Wessel, #NFDB
576:Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
577:Never forget that when thirteen dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die! ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
578:Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men...For cannot he that falls rise again? ~ Ignatius of Antioch, #NFDB
579:Rise up; this matter is in your hands. We will support you, so take courage and do it! ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
580:The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious. ~ Jon Stewart, #NFDB
581:A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise. ~ Chris Baty, #NFDB
582:As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars. ~ Eavan Boland, #NFDB
583:China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise. ~ Manmohan Singh, #NFDB
584:Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space. ~ Georges Braque, #NFDB
585:Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy and wise if it don't make him wealthy. ~ Dick King Smith, #NFDB
586:Good pain is pain that forces you to rise beyond it — then you are stronger than suffering. ~ Sharon Maas, #NFDB
587:If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. ~ Jacques Barzun, #NFDB
588:If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.' ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
589:If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,#NFDB
590:In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
591:Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise. ~ Jean de la Bruyere, #NFDB
592:not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
593:Pain is what gives rise to meditation. It has nothing to do with age, let alone beards. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
594:Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. ~ George Washington, #NFDB
595:Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety. ~ David Eddings, #NFDB
596:That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
597:The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
598:The more dangerous the situation I put myself into, the more I rise, the better I become. ~ Eddie Alvarez, #NFDB
599:The sun is setting on the New Republic,” Leia said. “It's time for the Resistance to rise. ~ Claudia Gray, #NFDB
600:The sun is setting on the New Republic,” Leia said. “It’s time for the Resistance to rise. ~ Claudia Gray, #NFDB
601:To be free, to rise and leave everything, without a glance back, behind. To say "yes". ~ Dag Hammarskj ld, #NFDB
602:We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
603:Yet the LORD longsc to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion.d ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
604:A call for women... To rise up what it really takes for the reward of financial freedom. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
605:Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee.”1 ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
606:Its not the size of the rise that satisfies, it’s the throb of the knob that does the job. ~ Brindle Chase, #NFDB
607:Man does not attain the one-winged birds of our childhood’s tale, they must rise together. ~ Eileen Goudge, #NFDB
608:Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the brains of the living. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
609:The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
610:Then the town will rise to his hand," I whispered. "One for the sea, and one for the land. ~ Jordan L Hawk, #NFDB
611:There are, that resting, rise.
Can I expound the skies?
How still the riddle lies! ~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
612:the worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of battle. ~ Jeffrey Archer, #NFDB
613:This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
614:Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
615:Wars must vary with the nature of their motives and of the situation which gives rise to them. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
616:9 As a cloud fades away and vanishes, so the one who goes down to •Sheol will never rise again. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
617:Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom. ~ Wojciech Kurtyka, #NFDB
618:Good evening charlie, yes I know you rise, two lean grey spiders drifting through your eyes. ~ James Wright, #NFDB
619:He kisses her, and she by her good will / Will never rise, so he will kiss her still. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
620:He knew all the constellations. He had seen them rise in darkness over heartbreaking coasts. ~ James Salter, #NFDB
621:May we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!" ~ Danny Baker, #NFDB
622:New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
623:not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
624:Sometimes God gives us a moment of destiny, and we have to hear the call and rise to it. ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
625:Cambrian period, some 550 million years ago, soon after a big global rise in atmospheric oxygen. ~ Nick Lane, #NFDB
626:Early to bed, early to rise," Ziggy said.
"Early or late, sleep is sleep," Victor grunted ~ Brandon Mull,#NFDB
627:If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
628:I've been talking about things like reversing the rise of inequality and strengthening social ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
629:I will rise from the ashes of the old ways to become Phenïx, the goddess of . . . accessions. ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
630:Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion. ~ Van Morrison, #NFDB
631:Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
632:No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah, #NFDB
633:One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’. ~ John Burroughs, #NFDB
634:Sometimes a gentle perambulation causes a new idea to rise to the surface of one’s thoughts. ~ Sophie Hannah, #NFDB
635:The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself. ~ Michael Gungor, #NFDB
636:There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. ~ Joseph Joubert, #NFDB
637:We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past. ~ Pope Paul VI, #NFDB
638:You are your own anchor. Do you want to keep burning or are you going to let yourself rise? ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
639:You said you have grown used to watching the sun set? Come with me, and watch the sun rise! ~ Edoardo Albert, #NFDB
640:Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
641:Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
642:Early to bed and early to rise,” Mazer intoned, “makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
643:Every time I had seen men rise up, they had not prevailed and innocent people had died. Daddy ~ Lawrence Hill, #NFDB
644:however peaceful you may wish to be, we all have the responsibility to rise up against evil. ~ Michelle Moran, #NFDB
645:If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds. ~ Jesse Jackson, #NFDB
646:I'm asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
647:It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
648:I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture. ~ Joseph L Mankiewicz, #NFDB
649:I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star.
Illuminated woman am I. ~ Grant Morrison,#NFDB
650:My temper began to rise -- always a bad sign. I would probably end up doing something stupid. ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
651:Rise from the mud, let the sunshine clense your eyes, and thrust your shoulders into the stars! ~ Jack London, #NFDB
652:The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle ~ Jeffrey Archer, #NFDB
653:To rise above the conflicting desires of others, there must be no conflict about your own. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
654:A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied. ~ Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, #NFDB
655:His voice didn't rise. If anything it lowered, sliding seductively over her nerve endings. ~ Melissa Schroeder, #NFDB
656:I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins. ~ Joan Baez, #NFDB
657:I summoned all my will. I managed to rise, but it was like holding the weight of the sky again. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
658:Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
659:Love on the decline is hard to tell from love on the rise.” [From 'The Lady from Lucknow'] ~ Bharati Mukherjee, #NFDB
660:Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
661:Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without belief in a devil. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
662:Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
663:Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
664:The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB
665:The dawn broke, but the Sun did not rise that morning. It was a morning of ‘mourning’. (Page 24) ~ Neena Verma, #NFDB
666:The dead have no rights, or so my lawyers tell me, and rarely rise to defend themselves. ~ Matthew FitzSimmons, #NFDB
667:There ain't no troubles that we can't rise above, with a handful of faith and a heartful of love. ~ Tim McGraw, #NFDB
668:Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam. ~ Rand Paul, #NFDB
669:True love is like bread. It needs the right ingredients, a little heat, and some magic to rise. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
670:What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
671:At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
672:Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind? ~ Myron Uhlberg, #NFDB
673:each of us should be allowed to rise as far as our talent and hard work can take us. The ~ Margot Lee Shetterly, #NFDB
674:Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~ Tite KuboUlquiorra ~ Tite Kubo, #NFDB
675:Genealogy belongs to the rich in human history. The poor rise and fall without leaving a footprint. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
676:It is out of the question for our people to rise by treading down any of their own number. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
677:rise up fallen fighters
unfetter the stars
dance with the universe
& make it ours ~ Ntozake Shange,#NFDB
678:The gunslinger's stomach seemed to rise painfully against his heart, but his face didn't change. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
679:The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it. ~ David Ricardo, #NFDB
680:There are some bad people on the rise;
they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives. ~ Morrissey,#NFDB
681:There was nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. ~ Ross Macdonald, #NFDB
682:The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall. ~ Len Goodman, #NFDB
683:The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high. ~ William Penn, #NFDB
684:A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense. ~ Jean de la Bruyere, #NFDB
685:A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. ~ Lewis Mumford, #NFDB
686:Anytime where you're challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways. ~ Josh Peck, #NFDB
687:Dawn broke over Savannah, scraping the night sky bloody before letting the sun rise over the horizon. ~ J D Horn, #NFDB
688:Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime. ~ Kamala Harris, #NFDB
689:Going down is not that bad if you have the power to rise again from the bottom of anywhere! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
690:It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
691:Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers. ~ Bel Kaufman, #NFDB
692:Nick felt a tear rise to his eye at the thought of the child's utter innocence of hangovers. ~ Alan Hollinghurst, #NFDB
693:Not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone who is at the bottom wishes to rise. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
694:Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's. ~ Brock Yates, #NFDB
695:The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
696:The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise. ~ Joseph Goebbels, #NFDB
697:There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise. ~ Mireille Mathieu, #NFDB
698:To this day, I can’t hear “Fight Song,” “Roar,” or “Rise Up” without getting emotional. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton, #NFDB
699:We don’t ask questions about anything, we don’t rise up. We only know this life. And we accept it. ~ Tillie Cole, #NFDB
700:You must rise so high in your consciousness that it dominates the opposition. This is the solution. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
701:But sometimes hell forges the way for heaven, and the angels are only called upon when demons rise. ~ David Estes, #NFDB
702:but unless Western populations can rise to the level of Egyptians they’re going to remain victims. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
703:Don’t just wish; be passionate about what you wish to see happen. Rise up and make it happen. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
704:Everything was united by the steady rise and fall of nature’s breath. Everything except for me. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
705:How, in the first place, did a peripheral island rise from primitive squalor to world domination? ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
706:If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city. ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
707:If we expect students to be winners and expect them to do well, they will rise to the occasion. ~ Jaime Escalante, #NFDB
708:Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
709:Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
710:No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
711:One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
712:some poems froth
and foam and rise...
out of my morning cup of
mist-sweetened coffee. ~ Sanober Khan,#NFDB
713:The biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon. ~ Eric Schmidt, #NFDB
714:The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
715:The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. ~ Havelock Ellis, #NFDB
716:the striver in him knew that his first aim must be to rise in the system he dreamed of liberating. ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
717:to know he could be discovered at any time. The thought of it made gooseflesh rise on his arms. ~ Jennifer Jaynes, #NFDB
718:A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
719:Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species. ~ Kirk Cameron, #NFDB
720:Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
721:Find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again. ~ Carmine Gallo, #NFDB
722:I wonder if Stephen King ever uses dreams in his writing. You know, as yeast to make the plot rise. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
723:Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
724:Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
725:No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
726:Not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone who is at the bottom wishes to rise. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
727:Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB
728:The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals. ~ Guru Nanak, #NFDB
729:There is a tremendous rise now in feminine awareness and wishing for equality, equal opportunities. ~ Tenzin Palmo, #NFDB
730:The rise of a British iron and steel industry was intertwined with the development of coal mining. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
731:The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
732:Wages will rise, jobs will return, and factories will come rushing, rushing back in to our country. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
733:You can do anything if you accept the challenge, rise to the occasion, try harder, and drive it home! ~ Tyler Ward, #NFDB
734:Always one of the trials of a new wound: old wounds like to rise up and start hurting again, too. ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
735:Gender and the complications it gives rise to simply aren't relevant to the lives appliances lead. ~ Thomas M Disch, #NFDB
736:Here I saw a city rise and say to the peoples round world: Listen, I am strong, I know what I want. ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB
737:If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
738:No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.Ӡ ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
739:One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
740:Rise not alone, rise with others! If you rise alone to the top, you shall be alone at the top! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
741:Secrets are like flowers buried under snow. Eventually they rise up and push through into the light. ~ Dacre Stoker, #NFDB
742:Speramus meliora; resurgret cineribus. "We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes, ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
743:Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
744:There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. ~ William Halsey, #NFDB
745:We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so. ~ Corey Taylor, #NFDB
746:West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
747:Whatever position we may rise to, be it of MP, CM or PM, nothing can teach us the way villages can. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
748:When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative. ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB
749:When the pressure is on, you don't rise to the occasion. You fall to the highest level of preparation. ~ Chris Voss, #NFDB
750:When the pressure is on, you don’t rise to the occasion—you fall to your highest level of preparation. ~ Chris Voss, #NFDB
751:A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
752:and the Rapture are the number one and two end-time events. They are followed by the rise of Antichrist ~ Tim LaHaye, #NFDB
753:Energy and fuel prices continue to rise, triggering fuel consumption concerns in the United States. ~ Dieter Zetsche, #NFDB
754:Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
755:Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
756:How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. ~ Paul Bowles, #NFDB
757:It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. ~ Pablo Picasso, #NFDB
758:I’ve become a monster. I was burned to ashes, along with my soul, but I will rise and make them pay. ~ Clarissa Wild, #NFDB
759:My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
760:Stop complaining and do something... Shut up! Rise up! Grow up! And show up! See you at the top! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
761:Tell me you’re not broken,” he said. “I know it must feel that way, but you can rise from this. ~ Jennifer A Nielsen, #NFDB
762:The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive. ~ Claude Bernard, #NFDB
763:To the brave and brokenhearted who have taught us how to rise after a fall. Your courage is contagious. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
764:What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things,... ~ Alexander Pope,#NFDB
765:2But for you v who fear my name, w the sun x of righteousness shall rise y with healing in its wings. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
766:Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers. ~ David Steindl Rast, #NFDB
767:I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. ~ Vernor Vinge, #NFDB
768:Miu let age naturally rise to the surface, accepted it for what it was, and made her peace with it. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
769:Once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme. ~ Sophocles,#NFDB
770:Sometimes we’re brought to our knees. Literally. But, oh how we rise when we stand up.” — Vicki Reece ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
771:The insistence on low-rise, sadly, has done nothing to make modern Japanese construction more attractive. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
772:Who doesn’t want to rise above the obstacles in his pathway? Who wouldn’t want to go down in flames? ~ John Darnielle, #NFDB
773:A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another ~ Rumi, #NFDB
774:An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging. ~ Stanley Wolpert, #NFDB
775:But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
776:Comparing is empoverishing our own experience. There is meaning to our suffering, if we rise above it. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
777:F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours. ~ Zig Ziglar, #NFDB
778:Gluten is found in wheat barley, rye, spelt, oats, and kamut and holds bread together and makes it rise. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
779:In the glass burrow beneath their feet, the flames began to rise. First the flames, and then the screams ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB
780:I trust the sun to rise and the sun to set, though I know one day it will do these things without me. ~ Joe R Lansdale, #NFDB
781:It’s from the Tang poet Qian Xu’s poem “Furled Plantains”: Green waxen candles from which no flames rise. ~ Cao Xueqin, #NFDB
782:It's gonna be okay, no matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back. ~ Demi Lovato, #NFDB
783:Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created. ~ Bah u ll h, #NFDB
784:Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow. ~ Joan Baez, #NFDB
785:Sometimes I rise above my level, sometimes I fall below it, but always I fall short of the things I dream. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
786:That’s when it occurs to me that maybe the rocks are weighing him down so he doesn’t rise into the air. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
787:The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
788:The people should never rise, without doing something to be remembered—something notable and striking. ~ Susan Cheever, #NFDB
789:There are times, I think, where we’re each called. Where we can choose to rise up or not to rise up. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
790:The rise of human cultures should be credited to both conscious feeling and creative intelligence. ~ Ant nio R Dam sio, #NFDB
791:They had nothing left to throw at Earth now, not unless the Forerunners decided to rise from the dead. ~ Karen Traviss, #NFDB
792:We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training.” —Archilochus ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
793:Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
794:And if so, this flesh must have laid down to rot and to crumble to its mother earth, to rise no more. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
795:I rise back up to the surface with a kind of solemn quiet peace that comes when you know it’s all over. ~ Vera Nazarian, #NFDB
796:Is this to be my life? To rise up only to be brought back down to my knees, shattered into shards? We’d ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
797:I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism. ~ Tom Stoppard, #NFDB
798:The sun has set," said Horne Fisher, in the same terrible tones, "and he will never see it rise again. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
799:The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it’s here is up to us. ~ Alexandra Elle, #NFDB
800:Tough times inspire you to rise up and become the heroine instead of cowering down and playing the victim. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
801:Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion. ~ J J Abrams, #NFDB
802:When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
803:When the pressure is on, you don’t rise to the occasion—you fall to your highest level of preparation. One ~ Chris Voss, #NFDB
804:When two workmen run after one master, wages fall; they rise when two masters run after one workman. ~ Fr d ric Bastiat, #NFDB
805:Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery? ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
806:You were
sunrise to me
rise and warm and streaming.' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew ~ Charlotte Mew,#NFDB
807:And we have cause. We have the Red dawn at our backs, begging to rise.
“We have the advantage. ~ Victoria Aveyard,#NFDB
808:But “the rise of Islamic fundamentalism” is only a problem because the fundamentals of Islam are a problem. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
809:Do not give way to lowness while you are young. Rise up on the strength of God and resolve to conquer. ~ Catherine Booth, #NFDB
810:Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day. ~ Herodotus, #NFDB
811:From thee all human actions take their springs, The rise of empires, and the fall of kings. ~ Samuel Boyse, The Deity, #NFDB
812:He who knows how to fall without hurting himself will also know how to rise without any difficulty! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
813:If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
814:If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once. ~ Walter Scott, #NFDB
815:In looking for the keys of paradise, a pope may stoop a little; having found them, he should rise again. ~ Pope Sixtus V, #NFDB
816:In the day you rise in your strength, toothless and clawless, you will be as harmless as an army of clams. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
817:Lotus flowers blossom while rooted in mud, a reminder that beauty and grace can rise above something ugly. ~ Lisa Genova, #NFDB
818:No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
819:the smell of him and the touch of his skin, I feel my desire for him rise again and we move together. ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
820:They rise in the morning, and they sleep in the dark. And even though nobody's looking, she's falling apart. ~ Lisa Loeb, #NFDB
821:When I miss things or let them pass they gather in a heap then rise up and take a life. So, I try not to. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
822:when they're bathed in blood everyday you can't expect them to rise from it stainless the next morning. ~ Robert Masello, #NFDB
823:You know when there's someone new on the rise and there's too much hype? I didn't want that to be me. ~ Shannyn Sossamon, #NFDB
824:A star wants to see himself rise to the top.
A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top. ~ Simon Sinek,#NFDB
825:Big trees grow from sprouts, tall buildings rise from mounds of earth; the loftiest heights start at your feet. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
826:(B)rains give rise to our ability to form relationships and make life meaningful. Sometimes, they break. ~ Paul Kalanithi, #NFDB
827:Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it. ~ Ron Suskind, #NFDB
828:Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government. ~ Hans Hermann Hoppe, #NFDB
829:Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America. ~ John Kasich, #NFDB
830:Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom. ~ Walter E Williams, #NFDB
831:It is only a matter of time before this gives rise to an increasingly explicit white racial consciousness. ~ Jared Taylor, #NFDB
832:The air is fresher here. Rock walls rise on either side of me. They must be the bowl of the volcano. ~ Gail Carson Levine, #NFDB
833:The men and women who rise to greatness are the risk takers, the gamblers. Those who take all or nothing. ~ Taran Matharu, #NFDB
834:To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
835:Warish Shah I call out to you, Rise from your grave, speak out and turn, Another page of the Book of Love ~ Amrita Pritam, #NFDB
836:What we need is new leadership that takes conservative principles and applies them so that people can rise up. ~ Jeb Bush, #NFDB
837:Who’d have thought it? That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay rise … ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
838:You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. ~ Henry Ford, #NFDB
839:But one always awoke from a dream, just like the sun—which, though it would rise again, brought no fresh hope. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
840:It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
841:Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop. ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
842:No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
843:Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
844:Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, Live to fight another day ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
845:rise to a higher level of freedom. We are not being called to run away from danger but toward safety. ~ Gerald G Jampolsky, #NFDB
846:The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India. ~ Klaus Schwab, #NFDB
847:The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work. ~ Gregor Strasser, #NFDB
848:Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
849:We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
850:What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
851:When you rise quickly like a swallow, you must keep in mind that you may also fall fast like a stone! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
852:Yes, female farmers rock Massachusetts The state has the most in New England, and their ranks are on the rise. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
853:BALDOCK: To die, sweet Spenser, therefore live we all;
Spenser, all live to die, and rise to fall. ~ Christopher Marlowe,#NFDB
854:Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
855:Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day. ~ Attila the Hun, #NFDB
856:Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above! ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
857:God's love is here to stay and thats what gives the God girl the strength to rise above the mess and smile ~ Hayley DiMarco, #NFDB
858:How high you will rise in your life will be determined not by how hard you work but by how well you think. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
859:I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people. ~ Marc Maron, #NFDB
860:If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
861:If you were called to gallop like the horse, never end up hopping like the frog. Rise up for greatness. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
862:I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
863:In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power. ~ Hermann Goring, #NFDB
864:In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color ~ Edvard Munch, #NFDB
865:It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
866:I will lay me down for to bleed awhile, the ballad went on in my head. Then I’ll rise and fight with you again. ~ Lily King, #NFDB
867:Never lower yourself to others. Make them rise to you. Whether they can or not is their burden, not yours. ~ Scott Wilbanks, #NFDB
868:Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
869:You have a choice. To wallow in the unfairness of it all or rise above it. Fix it. Let other people in. ~ Martha Hall Kelly, #NFDB
870:Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
871:Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself. ~ Susan Sontag, #NFDB
872:Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet ~ John Edward Douglas, #NFDB
873:Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to. ~ Joe Lieberman, #NFDB
874:If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again. ~ Sean Covey, #NFDB
875:I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
876:Ironically, the rise of the Tea Party increased the interventions of the Fed that the movement denounced. ~ Yanis Varoufakis, #NFDB
877:It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible. ~ Georges Braque, #NFDB
878:I want to fight the wussification of the State of Texas. I want to rise and shine and bring back the glory. ~ Kinky Friedman, #NFDB
879:Let the beginning of the next line catch the rise of the rhythm wave, unless you want a definite longish pause. ~ Ezra Pound, #NFDB
880:Never lower yourself for others. Make them rise to you. Whether they can or not is their burden, not yours. ~ Scott Wilbanks, #NFDB
881:our notion that it is the best and the brightest who effortlessly rise to the top is much too simplistic. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
882:That's now what you said last night," he banters.
Connor's lip rise."Shh, that's between us love. ~ Krista Ritchie,#NFDB
883:To b e a l o n e It is of a color That cannot be named: This mountain where cedars rise Into the autumn dusk. 54 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
884:We do not hold that doctrine gives rise to awakening but rather that the individual awakenings come first. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
885:Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
886:But the men and women who rise to greatness are the risk takers, the gamblers. Those who take all or nothing. ~ Taran Matharu, #NFDB
887:Certainly we shall rise, certainly we shall see and gladly, joyfully tell one another all that has been. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
888:Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world. ~ Rick Levin, #NFDB
889:“Not until the darkest hour of night
does the sun begin to rise.”
-THE BOOK OF THE ETERNAL ROSE ~ Fiona Paul,#NFDB
890:In the state of mind in which we "observe" we are a long way below the level to which we rise when we create. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
891:in the state of mind in which we “observe” we are a long way below the level to which we rise when we create. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
892:It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. ~ Anne Baxter, #NFDB
893:Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom .... These are the beginnings of sorrows. ~ Cynthia Harrod Eagles, #NFDB
894:Power makes good people uneasy rather than joyful or boastful. That’s why good people so rarely rise to power. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
895:Seventy-plus years in the Marxist-Leninist laboratory gave rise to a new man: Homo sovieticus. Some see ~ Svetlana Alexievich, #NFDB
896:Sometimes, our greatest obstacles are breathtakingly
beautiful challenges. Rise to the challenge! ~ Russell Anthony Gibbs,#NFDB
897:Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
898:The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo. ~ Dan Quayle, #NFDB
899:We can grow economically and restore America's leadership in the world, so that everybody has a chance to rise up. ~ Jeb Bush, #NFDB
900:Birth, death, and frailty in between. Rise and fall- this was the doctor's business, and it was literature's too. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
901:Even a slave may rise from the dust, and whet his gaze into a knife, and tell his master, "You will never own me. ~ Greg Keyes, #NFDB
902:For everyone knew Fiachnae would rise again, it’s what the Irish did, and mac Báetáin was cannier than most. ~ Nicola Griffith, #NFDB
903:Have you ever seen a seed fallen to earth not rise with a new life why should you doubt the rise of a seed named human. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
904:Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned. ~ Empedocles, #NFDB
905:I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation. ~ Vijay Prashad, #NFDB
906:I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador. ~ Oscar Romero, #NFDB
907:I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
908:In every person, there is a doer and a devil. With every passing days, the doer dies and a devil has to rise. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB
909:Just like I'd expected,kissing him did nothing,I could have been kissing my arm and gotten more of a rise out it. ~ J J McAvoy, #NFDB
910:Love ends when you stop thinking about each other, not when you’re still trying to get a rise from one another. ~ Tracy Brogan, #NFDB
911:People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
912:The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, #NFDB
913:You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves. ~ D T Suzuki, #NFDB
914:After Hitler’s rise in 1933, he pursued domestic policy for more than six years before he began his first war. ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
915:And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light. ~ Chris Cornell, #NFDB
916:Blake’s not a nightmare. I love him, Dad. I love him. Let’s keep that straight.” Livia felt her hackles rise. ~ Debra Anastasia, #NFDB
917:Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but dont rise to the level of nuclear. ~ Nelson DeMille, #NFDB
918:Chinais a world class if not the world class property bubble, primarily high-rise buildings, offices and condos. ~ James Chanos, #NFDB
919:If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong. ~ Wolfgang Pauli, #NFDB
920:It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, #NFDB
921:Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live. ~ Darren Shan, #NFDB
922:Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
923:More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise. ~ Nicolaus Copernicus, #NFDB
924:No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB
925:Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
926:She’d fall asleep with her head resting on his chest, the rise and fall of his breathing the perfect lullaby. ~ Christine Nolfi, #NFDB
927:To become a better you, look nowhere else for another alarm to blow before you wake up. Get up and rise up. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
928:We’re sprinting at the speed of light when the ground gives way and we rise into the air as if racing up stairs. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
929:When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
930:Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again. ~ Shan Sa, #NFDB
931:Your decisions determine where you will or will not be in later days to come. Rise up and direct them well! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
932:A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
933:Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow. ~ Victor J Banis, #NFDB
934:Do any humans really possess the strength to rise above their mediocrity? To become monstrous? To become more? ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
935:Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
936:I can only say that friendship should rise above man-made laws, which tend to be capricious by their very nature. ~ Tendai Huchu, #NFDB
937:If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top. ~ Ava DuVernay, #NFDB
938:Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible. ~ Michael Hudson, #NFDB
939:It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not. ~ Ryan Holmes, #NFDB
940:O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills… ~ Walt Whitman,#NFDB
941:Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings. Leave and don’t look away from the sun as you go. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
942:Strong-willed heart, always makes me feel so touched.
It reminds me about some 'fall and rise again' in my life. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
943:We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk! ~ Wangari Maathai, #NFDB
944:Desire to rise up in defiance of a sibling’s low expectations? That was a feeling Cara could well understand. ~ Jennifer Delamere, #NFDB
945:Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them. ~ Peter Beinart, #NFDB
946:Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations. ~ Charles Fillmore, #NFDB
947:invites us to live out our dreams, to embrace the uncertainty of life, and to rise to meet our own unique destiny. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
948:I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea…and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
949:Never forget that when thirteen dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die!” “We’ll risk it, Sybill, ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
950:one of the main features of human existence is the capacity to rise above such conditions, to grow beyond them. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
951:reading The Alchemist was like getting up at dawn and seeing the sun rise while the rest of the world still slept. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
952:Rise with the world in thy bosom,
O Word gathered into the heart of the Ineffable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, Ascent,#NFDB
953:Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company? ~ Robert Murray M Cheyne, #NFDB
954:The CEO is, by far, the most important decision for a company... The company is going to rise and fall with the CEO. ~ Carl Icahn, #NFDB
955:The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related. ~ Kimberly Williams Paisley, #NFDB
956:The success of a leader will rise or fall on the decisions that he or she makes about the people around him or her. ~ Tim Stevens, #NFDB
957:To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target. ~ Janet Yellen, #NFDB
958:We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.
We rise; one wand’ring thought pollutes the day. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,#NFDB
959:We will rise above the lies, the smears, the ludicrous slanders from ludicrous and very, very dishonest reporters. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
960:A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
961:A setback has often cleared the way for greater prosperity. Many things have fallen only to rise to more exalted heights. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
962:Even though she knew it wasn't biologically possible for her heart to rise into her throat, she swallowed it anyway. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
963:I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. ~ Martin Scorsese, #NFDB
964:I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them. ~ Barbara Kingsolver, #NFDB
965:It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached. ~ Mike Huckabee, #NFDB
966:Leaders believe that falling is not failing, but refusal to rise up after falling is the real form of failure! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
967:Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them. ~ Ziad K Abdelnour, #NFDB
968:No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
969:People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds. ~ Anthony de Mello, #NFDB
970:Rise," he murmers, pointing to the valley thousands of feet below. Then he points to my chest. "And rise alone. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
971:The Compound Effect will help you beat the competition, rise above your challenges, and create the life you deserve! ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
972:The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
973:There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again. ~ Wayne Knight, #NFDB
974:There is no shame in falling,” Pernicar said, standing up. “There is only shame if you refuse to rise once again. ~ Drew Karpyshyn, #NFDB
975:Wise man is a wing; stupid man is a hole! You meet a wise man, you rise, you meet a stupid man, and you fall! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
976:Would your fear be any less and would you see that you had been chosen to help the sun rise?
-Sabine to Matthew ~ Nick Bantock,#NFDB
977:A rising tide raises all boats, but you need a boat to rise with the tide. What does he who does not have a boat do? ~ Rahul Gandhi, #NFDB
978:Art should be a place of hope, not doubt. And your doubts rise from inexperience, which is not a dishonorable thing. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
979:As affluence and urbanization rise in a society, rates of depression and suicide tend to go up rather than down. ~ Sebastian Junger, #NFDB
980:A whisper loud enough to rise above the world's roar. That is my God. Working through us flawed, impulsive humans. ~ Nadine Brandes, #NFDB
981:By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you. ~ Ralph Nader, #NFDB
982:Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
983:Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
984:Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest! ~ Megan McCafferty, #NFDB
985:feel like a freak. Unless le freak, c’est chic?” She shrugged. “To be fair, they only rise up whenever immortals do. ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
986:Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
987:I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man. ~ Doris Day, #NFDB
988:I believe in the power that not only allows the sun to rise but turns seeds into flowers and dreams into realities. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
989:In the military we always say we don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training, ~ David Goggins, #NFDB
990:It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires. ~ Jefferson Davis, #NFDB
991:It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
992:It is the hard journey that leads to a greater destiny. You can never rise if you never have anything to rise above. ~ Dannika Dark, #NFDB
993:I want to make sure that the American worker has an opportunity to see their wages rise and their incomes increase. ~ Rick Santorum, #NFDB
994:I will rise now and go about the city in the streets and the broadways, I will seek him whom my soul loveth. ~ Songs of Songs III.2, #NFDB
995:I yearn for that livin' large, but mama I ain't done yet/Sit back and watch your son rise, kick back and know your son set ~ J Cole, #NFDB
996:Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
997:makes his sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and sends rain to the righteous and to the unrighteous ~ Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, #NFDB
998:Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
999:Poetry
...
... a place for the genuine,
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise ~ Marianne Moore,#NFDB
1000:Raising money is what helps an ambitious member of the House rise in the ranks far more than ideas or competence. ~ Peter Schweizer, #NFDB
1001:Society always tries to enslave, imprison, and execute its greatest men, those who dare to stand apart and rise above. ~ Sam Torode, #NFDB
1002:The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it? ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
1003:The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development. ~ Alexander Kotov, #NFDB
1004:We are now living through the third great power shift of the modern era. It could be called “the rise of the rest. ~ Fareed Zakaria, #NFDB
1005:What I saw appalled me. I felt my hair rise like bristles on the back of my neck, and my heart seemed to stand still. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
1006:Although the wicked rise up against us with violence, let us be of a bronze countenance, as Ezekiel says (3:8 f.). Let ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
1007:As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1008:Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1009:I like to get a rise out of my mom with what I wear - I always go for the tallest heels or something super trendy. ~ Christa B Allen, #NFDB
1010:I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing. ~ Moby, #NFDB
1011:I want to see with my own eyes the hind lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1012:Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
1013:Probably every vice was once a virtue … Man’s sins may be the relics of his rise rather than the stigmata of his fall. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
1014:She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
1015:The blazing wings of dawn spirited me away, Dragon-swift above the suns-rise, Flying to my destiny beyond the clouds. ~ Marc Secchia, #NFDB
1016:The foreign resident among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower. Deuteronomy 28:43 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1017:Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page. ~ Howard Schwartz, #NFDB
1018:The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it. ~ John Avlon, #NFDB
1019:They's a time for sitting still and praying the wind blow over you, and they's a time to rise up and face the storm. ~ Lalita Tademy, #NFDB
1020:All those commodities are going to have to rise in value as we are in short supply and we are printing too much money. ~ Peter Schiff, #NFDB
1021:America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will. ~ Christie Brinkley, #NFDB
1022:Avail yourself of your home-life to rise your spiritual condition before you take to the austerities of asceticism. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
1023:For in the nature of things everything that is faith must rise, and everything that rises must converge. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #NFDB
1024:If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in. ~ Betsey Johnson, #NFDB
1025:Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
1026:In the twilight of the morning, all life silently waits for the sunrise. Sun must rise for the darkness to sink! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1027:I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling rise. ~ Jay Mohr, #NFDB
1028:My People: Prepared and never scared, fueled by faith in a sea of despair - we rise and we shine, 'cause it's like that'! ~ T F Hodge, #NFDB
1029:Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you." ~ Benjamin Wittes, #NFDB
1030:The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. ~ Whittaker Chambers, #NFDB
1031:This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
1032:We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
1033:We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother spirit is invoked. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
1034:Yes, all kinds of thoughts arise in meditation. It is but right. Unless they rise up how can they be destroyed? ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1035:You might be a redneck if you are still holding on to Confederate money because you think the South will rise again. ~ Jeff Foxworthy, #NFDB
1036:You're better than the life you've settled for. RISE to the challenge of your dreams! Don't just dream it - LIVE it! ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
1037:A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon. ~ Kehinde Wiley, #NFDB
1038:Being on the losing side is never a reason to stop fighting. It’s a reason to get stronger, to rise above and push back ~ J A Cipriano, #NFDB
1039:Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams ~ W H Auden, #NFDB
1040:Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation. ~ Meher Baba, #NFDB
1041:If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
1042:If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB
1043:I have always said, in my own rise in the leadership, please don't ever ask anybody to vote for me because I'm a woman. ~ Nancy Pelosi, #NFDB
1044:I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
1045:Nïx paused dramatically. “I will rise from the ashes of the old ways to become Phenïx, the goddess of . . . accessions. ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
1046:Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1047:Rather than a great tragedy, the fall of Rome was the single most beneficial event in the rise of Western civilization. ~ Rodney Stark, #NFDB
1048:The heart is so easily mocked, believing that the sun can rise twice or that roses bloom because we want them to. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
1049:The more women succeed and rise up into positions of power, the more remote they become from actual masculine energy. ~ Camille Paglia, #NFDB
1050:Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus' Name, Amen. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1051:.. 'The rise of christianity as the result of impact of iranian religion on judaism', I don't think is entirely false. ~ Bernard Lewis, #NFDB
1052:Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually we don't like it very much. ~ Jack McDevitt, #NFDB
1053:A Black Madonna: the blackness of death, but also the blackness of good soil, dark with decay, which gives rise to life. ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
1054:As the flow of patients and cash had continued to rise, Ethan was spending up to six hours each night counting the money. ~ John Temple, #NFDB
1055:Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1056:Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1057:He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again. ~ Tacitus, #NFDB
1058:I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1059:In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1060:It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it doesn't. ~ Steven Conrad, #NFDB
1061:It was necessary that spirituality sink to its lowest ebb that it should rise to the highest pinnacle in another direction. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1062:Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic hosts proclaim "Christ is born in Bethlehem! ~ Charles Wesley, #NFDB
1063:[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
1064:Lie still, it said. If you do not rise, do not move, nothing can hurt you. Simply do nothing, say nothing, be nowhere. ~ Ashley Gardner, #NFDB
1065:My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
1066:No one who can rise before dawn 360 days a year fails to make his family rich" ~ Malcolm Gladwell Chinese proverb ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1067:Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1068:one might almost say that works of literature are like artesian wells, the deeper the suffering, the higher they rise.) ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
1069:Only through the hottest fires can be purification achieved. Only through the harshest test's can the God's chosen rise ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
1070:the crows grew fat on the remains of both our armies. Empires rise and fall, and the only true victors are the birds. ~ Chet Williamson, #NFDB
1071:The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day. ~ William Kent Krueger, #NFDB
1072:There's one possibility we're neglecting...the drone itself. It's rise of the machines. Skynet." -- From "Human Factor ~ Richard Castle, #NFDB
1073:There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the suns themselves begin to die. ~ Kevin J Anderson, #NFDB
1074:The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. Journey wisely. ~ Alexandra Elle, #NFDB
1075:To rise by using the power of others is nothing but a great fall! Rise with your own power, with your own efforts! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1076:Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much. ~ Jack McDevitt, #NFDB
1077:Why do you say you are troubled and so on? You could as well remain quiet. Why do you rise out of your composure? ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1078:you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1079:You're fire.Fire rises.It creates the ashes.It rises above them.Promise me you'll rise with whatever is thrown your way. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
1080:A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
1081:And afterward, when the leaves turned and the snow came, every now and then I would rise in everyone's minds like a tide. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1082:Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that’s the hard part.” —Jay Taylor, The Rise Of Majick ~ Derek Murphy, #NFDB
1083:As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow... may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes." ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
1084:Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has. ~ Stanislaw Ulam, #NFDB
1085:Every natural love will rise again and live forever [89] in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1086:From exchange we can rise to the highest possible idea of interchange. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, Heraclitus - VII, #NFDB
1087:If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. ~ Christian Morgenstern, #NFDB
1088:If you don’t despise the world under the clouds when you rise above the clouds, then it means you deserved to rise! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1089:If you let yourself tell those smaller anecdotes or stories, the overarching capital-S Story will eventually rise into view. ~ Mary Karr, #NFDB
1090:In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1091:Since then my loneliness does not pain me, because I know my redeemer lives and he will finally rise above the dust. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
1092:Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1093:There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others. ~ Jean de la Bruyere, #NFDB
1094:There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism ~ Alexander Hamilton, #NFDB
1095:There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die. ~ Kevin J Anderson, #NFDB
1096:To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise. ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
1097:We hardly dare trust that this is a process of transformation – that out of the ashes will rise the phoenix of humanity. ~ Lucy H Pearce, #NFDB
1098:We just feel like we don't have the means, To rise above and beat it. So we keep waiting, Waiting on the world to change... ~ John Mayer, #NFDB
1099:What separates those who go under and those who rise above adversity is the strength of their will and their hunger for power. ~ 50 Cent, #NFDB
1100:When I rise up
let me rise up joyful
like a bird.
When I fall
let me fall without regret
like a leaf. ~ Wendell Berry,#NFDB
1101:You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; How could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1102:Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel. ~ Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, #NFDB
1103:An important sign of the collapse of the rule of law is the rise of a paramilitary and its merger with government power. ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
1104:Every time we do something # GOOD . We # RISE a little bit in our OWN eyes and the # REVERSE is just as # TRUE . ~ Shiv Khera, #NFDB
1105:Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers. ~ Luis Bunuel, #NFDB
1106:Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1107:He had compared the taxation to a form of slavery and had encouraged his fellow Jews to rise up against their oppressors. ~ Bill O Reilly, #NFDB
1108:I like the idea of songs sung by those without big voices. You know, small birdsongs that rise above the noise of the city. ~ Kyo Maclear, #NFDB
1109:I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny. ~ Lucretia Mott, #NFDB
1110:I remember being amazed that death could so easily rise up from the nothing of a boyish afternoon, billow up like fog. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates, #NFDB
1111:some manner of cause-and-effect relationship existed between the rise of scientific knowledge and the decline of magic. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
1112:The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again. ~ Camille Paglia, #NFDB
1113:There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. ~ Alexander Hamilton, #NFDB
1114:There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God. ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
1115:There was a sort of grey dripping figure that kept trying to rise up in my mind and which I ruthlessly violently banished. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
1116:They both knew that jealousy could rise like a tide, erasing events that had been scratched into the shore of your memory. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1117:Thoughts rise up spontaneously, as it were, but only to be extinguished in due course, thus strengthening the mind. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1118:Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1119:When I look at my books I feel like Alice in the closing pages of Wonderland, when the cards all rise up and overwhelm her. ~ Linda Grant, #NFDB
1120:Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise? ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne, #NFDB
1121:A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
1122:As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
1123:A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. ~ Charles Horton Cooley, #NFDB
1124:At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture. ~ Bill McKibben, #NFDB
1125:Before you ask for the people to rise up and take what's theirs, meet the people, because they're really, really, bafoons. ~ Doug Stanhope, #NFDB
1126:Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
1127:Educate the children in your country well, and then sit and watch the rise of your country like a Sun on the horizon! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1128:Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits. ~ Michael M Honda, #NFDB
1129:Fear is the greatest form of oppression.
The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to
its fullest! ~ Megan McCafferty,#NFDB
1130:Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards). ~ James Hansen, #NFDB
1131:I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB
1132:I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring? ~ Tom Hanks, #NFDB
1133:Let us rise to the call. It is a call to call. An ability to respond to, and a needful duty to solemnly hold high ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
1134:My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland. ~ Lorna Luft, #NFDB
1135:One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable. ~ Jeremy Irons, #NFDB
1136:Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. ~ David Hare, #NFDB
1137:There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combination of these five give rise to more melodies that can ever be heard. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
1138:The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1139:The sun will rise again. The only uncertainty is whether or not we will rise to greet it.
Alan Christensen's diary ~ Richard Paul Evans,#NFDB
1140:They didn’t realize that peasants start every revolution, and when the peasants rise up, royal heads are the first to roll. ~ Lisa Maxwell, #NFDB
1141:To rise above the modifications of your mind, when you cease your mind, when you cease to be a part of your mind, that is yoga. ~ Sadhguru, #NFDB
1142:you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#NFDB
1143:According to a brand new report, alcohol abuse in Ireland is on the rise. Mainly because the guy who didn't drink now does. ~ Conan O Brien, #NFDB
1144:A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney, #NFDB
1145:As the saying goes, when the tide comes in, all boats rise, no matter their size—something that holds true for day game, as well. ~ Roosh V, #NFDB
1146:Energy follows thought; no matter how hard we work or how much we know, we tend to rise to our assumed limits, and no higher. ~ Dan Millman, #NFDB
1147:Groups, like individuals, will rise to strange heights in answer to a challenge, and vegetate in the absence of a challenge. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
1148:I do love you.” Tears rise in my eyes. “I love you so much, and I’m so sorry this is happening to you. I’m so fucking sorry. ~ Lili Valente, #NFDB
1149:If you will get free from what everyone else thinks and start being who you were created to be, you will rise to a new level. ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
1150:In blaming another, we give away our power. Understanding enables us to rise above the issue and take control of our future. ~ Louise L Hay, #NFDB
1151:Lust and hatred give rise to the other counterproductive emotions and thereby create a whole lot of trouble in this world. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1152:My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness! ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1153:There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
1154:There is a massive call for more lightworkers, and now is our time to rise up and bring more positivity to the world. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein, #NFDB
1155:To ascend you must rise above, and I believe in the idea of keeping your “feet in the clouds and your head in the stars”. ~ Jennifer Sodini, #NFDB
1156:Understanding our fall and rise, owning our story, taking responsibility for our emotions—this is where the revolution starts. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1157:We shall rise insensibly, and reach the tops of the everlasting hills, where the winds are cool and the sight is glorious. ~ Paul Kalanithi, #NFDB
1158:...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
1159:Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise. ~ Guy Finley, #NFDB
1160:Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
1161:Home was a condominium on the fifteenth floor of a high-rise, a sort of filing cabinet for widows and young professionals. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1162:I know that isn't always easy and that there is self-harm in the world. Sometimes it's hard for people to rise above things. ~ Andy Biersack, #NFDB
1163:More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1164:PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that. ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
1165:thanks to the implausible rarity of the symbiosis necessary to give rise to complex life, it is probably rare in the cosmos. But ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1166:The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow. ~ Paul R Ehrlich, #NFDB
1167:The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1168:Thoughts must cease and reason disappear for 'I-I' to rise up and be felt. Feeling is the prime factor and not reason. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1169:You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand. ~ Alphonso Jackson, #NFDB
1170:You rise from your bed every day on two strong legs and can think only to complain that someone once spoke harshly to you. ~ Deanna Raybourn, #NFDB
1171:Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1172:Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise, ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
1173:Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly. Let the morning sun forget to rise in the east, Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly. ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
1174:If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions. ~ David Hume, #NFDB
1175:If you are lucky, you will feel the touch of something or someone to help you rise. If not, you stay kneeling, left all alone. ~ Sejal Badani, #NFDB
1176:kisses will blossom on the pillows,
and sheets will rise over bodies
entangled like vines
nocturnal and perfumed. ~ Miguel Hern ndez,#NFDB
1177:Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
1178:of her spine and rise, giddily, up her body. So this was what it was like: the present moment. She felt it like a revelation. ~ Sharon Guskin, #NFDB
1179:Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. —Antonio Porchia ~ David James Duncan, #NFDB
1180:The only way to rise is by doing the duty next to us, and thus gathering strength go on until we reach the highest state. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1181:Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1182:UTTISHAT! -- Rise! Awake! Seek the great Teachers, and attend! The road Is narrow as a knife-edge! Hard to tread! ~ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, #NFDB
1183:We have teeth and we have tails
We have tails we have eyes
We were here before you fell
We will be here when you rise. ~ Neil Gaiman,#NFDB
1184:When I first was offered the role on Rise [of the Planet of the Apes], I always played Caesar as a human being within ape skin. ~ Andy Serkis, #NFDB
1185:You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. You are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can't help showing it. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1186:You must rise above them, for what other people think of you matters very little. It’s what you think of yourself that matters. ~ M R Mathias, #NFDB
1187:God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding. ~ Van Jones, #NFDB
1188:Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good. ~ Margaret Haddix, #NFDB
1189:Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it. ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
1190:If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge. ~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, #NFDB
1191:In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
1192:It’s crucial to be able to gather enough inner strength to rise up from the ashes like the Phoenix Bird, when it’s necessary. ~ Sahara Sanders, #NFDB
1193:Just like moons and like suns,With the certainty of tides,Just like hopes springing high,Still, I'll rise. ~ Maya Angelou#poetry #poetrylovers, #NFDB
1194:Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB
1195:Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
1196:The love that moves the sun and all the other star,
the kind of love that can burn down the world or rise it up in glory. ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
1197:The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day. “Jesus ~ William Kent Krueger, #NFDB
1198:You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances. ~ Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje, #NFDB
1199:But to tell you the truth, it is the same for me. I am as envious of her as she is of me. But I have seen her rise and rise. ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
1200:Concerning the blindness and bigotry of people, the pleasures of hatred rise superior even to the instinct of self-preservation. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
1201:Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
1202:For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath. ~ Alice Miller, #NFDB
1203:He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
1204:Look around you at the people you spend the most time with and realize that your life can’t rise any higher than your friendships. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
1205:Man attains not by himself, nor woman by herself, but like the one-winged birds of the ancient legend, they must rise together. ~ Eileen Goudge, #NFDB
1206:Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli, #NFDB
1207:Modern empires rise and fall not on armies, ideology, or violence, but on the instantaneous flow of capital. —Boris Karpov ~ Eric Van Lustbader, #NFDB
1208:Not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, although many do, and many manage it. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
1209:Pride cannot live beneath the cross. Let us sit there and learn our lesson, and then rise and carry it into practice. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1210:Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit. ~ Al Franken, #NFDB
1211:...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, #NFDB
1212:...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Est s, #NFDB
1213:That’s what he is—a snake, a dangerous predator—and here I am, a mouse…waiting to be devoured.
Luna Ketz, Rise Above Twilight ~ Kayla Krantz,#NFDB
1214:There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained. ~ W E B Du Bois, #NFDB
1215:There was something about seeing a woman rise up out of the depths that could thaw the skepticism of even the most hardened heart. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
1216:The sun won’t rise and fall forever on this one decision. It will rise again tomorrow, just like it always does, regardless. ~ Julianne MacLean, #NFDB
1217:The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
1218:Whatever you value, it becomes your sun! If you value a calm night, your own sun will rise with the sunset on the horizon! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1219:With the right reasons, at the right moment, even the most beaten and broken of people could rise up and reclaim themselves. ~ Samantha Shannon, #NFDB
1220:You won't often find me in a pair of killer heels: my heel height doesn't rise above two and a half inches, as I would just fall over! ~ Twiggy, #NFDB
1221:And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
1222:Clear, unscalable, ahead
Rise the Mountains of Instead,
From whose cold, cascading streams
None may drink except in dreams. ~ W H Auden,#NFDB
1223:It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious y toil; for he gives to his z beloved a sleep. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1224:Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1225:People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise. ~ Arthur M Schlesinger Jr, #NFDB
1226:Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
1227:The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. ~ Robert Heilbroner, #NFDB
1228:The moon was undone now, free to move and rise and fall and drip on the boy’s face, making him nice and murky, like his thoughts. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1229:The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
1230:Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. ~ Thomas Browne, #NFDB
1231:you rise at dawn in May you can savour the world before the pandemonium din of the Industrial Revolution and 24/7 shopping. ~ John Lewis Stempel, #NFDB
1232:Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are. ~ David Lynch, #NFDB
1233:every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
1234:Faith gives me the ability to rise above anything, because what is true in the spiritual realm is forever true. It cannot be denied. ~ Gary Busey, #NFDB
1235:Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds. ~ Mary Roach, #NFDB
1236:He'd watched the world change around him, civilizations rise and fall, and although he could have anything, anyone, he wanted her. ~ Lisa Kessler, #NFDB
1237:I dream Caleb will rise out of the bayou some day and eat me whole, and next time I won’t be able to pry his jaws open and escape. ~ Kennedy Ryan, #NFDB
1238:I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
1239:In his excellent book Irresistible, Adam Alter writes about the rise of behavioral addictions in contemporary society. ~ Seth Stephens Davidowitz, #NFDB
1240:I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind. ~ Siegfried Lenz, #NFDB
1241:I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying? ~ Vera Nazarian, #NFDB
1242:Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness. ~ William Kristol, #NFDB
1243:Not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, although many do, and many manage it. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
1244:Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life. ~ Stefan Zweig, #NFDB
1245:President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family. ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
1246:The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
1247:There are not more than five musical notes, yet the
combinations of these five give rise to more melodies
than can ever be heard. ~ Sun Tzu,#NFDB
1248:the rise of Chrislam, in which some people saw no difference between Christianity and Islam, so had no problem mixing their worship. ~ Cliff Ball, #NFDB
1249:Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood.
It hurt, though not as much as everything else. ~ Jodi Picoult,#NFDB
1250:Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional. ~ Clifford D Simak, #NFDB
1251:You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1252:A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts. ~ Thomas B Macaulay, #NFDB
1253:Both cream and scum can rise to the top, unfortunately. This lower-quality stuff that's going higher isn't doing it on fundamentals. ~ John Manley, #NFDB
1254:Everyone says they want to hire excellent people, but in truth we don’t really know, at first, who will rise up to make a difference. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
1255:Good times can be just as damaging to peace here in the United States. When the economy goes up, murders do not go down, they rise. ~ Howard Bloom, #NFDB
1256:However desperate your life may seem, there is hope. And no matter how dire your circumstances may appear, you can rise above them. ~ Nick Vujicic, #NFDB
1257:[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it. ~ Ulrike Meinhof, #NFDB
1258:It was quarter past four, that deadly time of morning when it’s too late to go back to sleep and still too early to rise and shine. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1259:Let us all try to stand a little taller, rise a little higher, be a little better. Make the extra effort. You will be happier. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
1260:Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB
1261:Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man. ~ Margaret Fuller, #NFDB
1262:Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1263:Stars burn clear
all night till dawn.
Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
1264:The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
1265:The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow. ~ Adrian Bejan, #NFDB
1266:The roe is reputed to sleep for a thousand years and then suddenly rise in flames, particularly if it was smoking when it dozed off. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
1267:The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again. ~ Ram Charan, #NFDB
1268:We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its fountainhead; ~ Orison Swett Marden, #NFDB
1269:Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
1270:Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
1271:Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1272:If you’re finding life to be the one thing that’s trying to kill you, I want you to stay alive to rise with the sun and fight back. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
1273:It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities. ~ Rebecca Latimer Felton, #NFDB
1274:Life happens whether we are ready or not—the only choice or control we have is whether or not we will rise to meet its challenges. ~ Robyn Peterman, #NFDB
1275:My heart is with Him on His throne, And ill can brook delay; Each moment listening for the voice, 'Rise up and come away. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1276:Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform. ~ Chanakya, #NFDB
1277:The picture of God that I embraced could get me to feel shame for my sinful deeds, but it could not empower me to rise above them. ~ Gregory A Boyd, #NFDB
1278:think of those flowers you plant in the garden each year they will teach you that people too must wilt fall root rise in order to bloom ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
1279:You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1280:Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight. ~ Janny Wurts, #NFDB
1281:dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1282:He'd seen a phoenix waiting to rise from the ashes, and he still did. every time he looked into Zane, he saw something extraordinary. ~ Abigail Roux, #NFDB
1283:I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
1284:I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah, #NFDB
1285:In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
1286:It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
1287:Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number
Shake your chains to earth like dew
We are many, they are few ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley,#NFDB
1288:They made you hate everyone, even the ones who were like you. That is what they do, so the prisoners will not rise up against them. ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB
1289:Until the moon stops shining above you and the sun ceases to rise from beneath, and even then, in all that darkness…I’ll still love you. ~ Ker Dukey, #NFDB
1290:Yes, I'm paranoid and xenophobic. That's how I got this job. Cultivate those virtues and you too, might rise to my lofty station. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
1291:31He said to him, ‘If they do not hear q Moses and the Prophets, t neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1292:Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1293:Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. ~ Washington Irving, #NFDB
1294:Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes. ~ Bethany McLean, #NFDB
1295:If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro, #NFDB
1296:It follows that some people need open enemies if they are to rise to the level of their own virtue, virility, and cheerfulness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1297:I vividly recall the first two life-changing books I came across: F. A. Harper’s Why Wages Rise and Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action. ~ Charles G Koch, #NFDB
1298:Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, #NFDB
1299:The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental. ~ Wassily Kandinsky, #NFDB
1300:The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins. ~ George Clooney, #NFDB
1301:The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise ~ Assata Shakur, #NFDB
1302:We have eyes and we have nerveses
We have tails we have teeth
You'll all get what you deserveses
When we rise from underneath. ~ Neil Gaiman,#NFDB
1303:Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
1304:Your greatest moment in life soon joins a series of other moments and is often forgotten. As you rise, so shall you eventually fall. ~ Twinkle Khanna, #NFDB
1305:By my current count, this girl is at least three kinds of crazy, but I suspect that number will rise into the double digits soon enough. ~ David Estes, #NFDB
1306:Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little. ~ Kenneth Minogue, #NFDB
1307:Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this. ~ Taylor Dane, #NFDB
1308:If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field. ~ Ben Carson, #NFDB
1309:If you become involved in a crisis situation,
you will not rise to the occasion but, rather,
default to your level of training. ~ Jos N Harris,#NFDB
1310:In God’s economy, the way up the ladder is down it. The rise to celebrity starts on your knees with a basin, a towel, and a humble heart. ~ Tony Evans, #NFDB
1311:I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life. ~ Yayoi Kusama, #NFDB
1312:It is necessary that I should die for my people; but my spirit will rise from the grave and the whole world will know that I was right. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
1313:I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely rise from coffins. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1314:Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun. ~ Thomas A Edison, #NFDB
1315:Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle. ~ Daisaku Ikeda, #NFDB
1316:You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise! ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1317:Bank accounts for each household is a national priority for us. We need to rise to the occasion & successfully overcome this challenge. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1318:Drum sounds rise on the air, and with them, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, I know you are tired, but come. This is the way. ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
1319:For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
1320:Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good. ~ Margaret Peterson Haddix, #NFDB
1321:Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed. ~ David Hume, #NFDB
1322:He never tried anything other than to kiss her, hold her hand; often, in his company, she felt boredom rise in her like a stifled yawn. ~ Laura Barnett, #NFDB
1323:Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. ~ Margaret Laurence, #NFDB
1324:Opal is stone solid, but there is troubled water that lives in her, that sometimes threatens to flood, to drown her—rise up to her eyes. ~ Tommy Orange, #NFDB
1325:Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people. ~ James Salter, #NFDB
1326:The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
1327:The expression working like a dog dates back to a time in America when men would rise early, then lie around all day and lick their balls. ~ Dana Gould, #NFDB
1328:The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ. ~ Niall Ferguson, #NFDB
1329:...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
1330:When economies grow and incomes rise, everyone’s time becomes more valuable. And the more valuable something becomes, the scarcer it seems. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1331:A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
1332:blowing up three hundred Parliament members and the king of England wasn't restoration. It was death with no phoenix to rise out of it. ~ Nadine Brandes, #NFDB
1333:Creating peace is our responsibility. To pray for peace while still engaging in the causes that give rise to violence is contradictory. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1334:Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1335:Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan on erecting a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
1336:Every day solitude for a particular time period is a good way to refresh physically and is a great opportunity to rise spiritually! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1337:Fire wants to burn
Water wants to flow
Air wants to rise
Earth wants to bind
Chaos wants to devour
Cal wants to live ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
1338:For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
1339:Galen cupped her cheek with his uninjured hand, his thumb caressing the rise of satin-covered bone. She trembled, but didn’t pull away. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
1340:He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise. ~ William Blake,#NFDB
1341:I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar! ~ Margarita Engle, #NFDB
1342:In failure, may we find dignity. In loss, may we find wisdom. In pain, may we find growth. May our souls rise. Ever rise. May our weakness ~ Phil Tucker, #NFDB
1343:I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes. ~ Arthur Miller, #NFDB
1344:[It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
1345:Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB
1346:Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
1347:Only through the hottest fires, whispers the radio, can purification be achieved. Only through the harshest tests can God’s chosen rise. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
1348:Rather than help us rise above being human, teachings in any true tradition help us become more human: more connected, not less attached. ~ Megan Devine, #NFDB
1349:She seemed to see a flash of bright sunlight on dark green water, fragmented into brilliant shards by the splashing rise and fall of oars. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1350:(…) symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality… ~ Simone de Beauvoir, #NFDB
1351:The immortal gods, the deities will rise, they will fall but none will live beyond the wall. Prometheus, knows love & saves them all. ~ Truth Devour, #NFDB
1352:The last ship home has sailed. From now on, launch vehicles will rise up into orbit, but they will not go back for ten thousand years. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
1353:The water is everywhere I turn. The spit of land I've sentenced myself to is shrinking, and soon the tide will rise up and wash me away. ~ Trinity Doyle, #NFDB
1354:This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1355:To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
1356:War breaks us down to nothing more than our most selfish will to survive—but when we rise above that instinct, miracles can still happen. ~ Kelly Rimmer, #NFDB
1357:We breathe,” Lily defends our relationship. My brows rise. Let’s not kid ourselves. We struggle with our codependency on a daily basis. ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
1358:Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
1359:According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat. ~ Harry Enfield, #NFDB
1360:Don't let the negatives of life control you. Rise above them. Use them as your stepping stones to go higher than you ever dreamed possible ~ Mary Kay Ash, #NFDB
1361:Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1362:Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
1363:Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. We rise again in the gross. In the flowers. In songs. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
1364:Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, #NFDB
1365:Every morning may our thoughts rise fervently towards Thee, asking Thee how we can manifest and serve Thee best.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#NFDB
1366:Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1367:Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
1368:If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947. ~ Pranab Mukherjee, #NFDB
1369:I think everyone has the capacity to do great things, to rise above their everyday lives; they just need a little push now and then. ~ Michael J Sullivan, #NFDB
1370:Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now. ~ Drew Carey, #NFDB
1371:Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
1372:Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. ~ Sai Baba, #NFDB
1373:Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
1374:Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world. ~ Paul Cezanne, #NFDB
1375:Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1376:Rise above... cultivate the light you have within you, and it will shine through as a radiant expression that will be seen by others. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
1377:Strange is the night where black stars rise,
and strange moons circle through the skies,
but stranger still is
lost Carcosa. ~ Robert W Chambers,#NFDB
1378:...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much. ~ Robert Ludlum, #NFDB
1379:The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre ~ Denis Diderot, #NFDB
1380:... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph. ~ Harold Russell, #NFDB
1381:There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
1382:The things that his death gave rise to are still there, bright and clear, inside me, some of them even clearer than when they were new. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1383:Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly. ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
1384:Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does. ~ David Chalmers, #NFDB
1385:You look even better than you did before," he added in a quiet voice. "I'm the one returning to the party with his rhubarb at full rise. ~ Jillian Hunter, #NFDB
1386:Accenture, the management consultancy, forecasts the wearable technology market, currently worth $1bn-$3bn a year, will rise to $18bn by 2018. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1387:...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
1388:But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper. ~ Michael Shermer, #NFDB
1389:Even the tiniest manifestation of mindfulness in any moment might give rise to an intuition or insight that could be hugely transforming. ~ Jon Kabat Zinn, #NFDB
1390:Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done—peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
1391:I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
1392:...I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
1393:No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve ~ Daisaku Ikeda, #NFDB
1394:Oh, he is really trying my salvation right now, because I feel a cussing demon getting ready to rise up and attach itself to my spirit! ~ Tiffany L Warren, #NFDB
1395:Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. ~ Muhammad Iqbal, #NFDB
1396:Rise, prophet, rise, and hear, and see, And let my words be seen and heard By all who turn aside from me. And burn them with my fiery word. ~ Joseph Frank, #NFDB
1397:So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
1398:System 1 is radically insensitive to both the quality and the quantity of the information that gives rise to impressions and intuitions. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1399:the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle classes, that occurred in France during the Third Republic and the fin de siècle ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
1400:There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1401:To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, #NFDB
1402:UFC, they can make a big star but the second that person loses, they lose credibility, and how do you continue to make that star rise? ~ Stephanie McMahon, #NFDB
1403:We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies— —Emily Dickinson ~ Laura McBride, #NFDB
1404:We rise in popwer and make a difference in the world due to what is best about human nature, but we fall from power due to what is worst. ~ Dacher Keltner, #NFDB
1405:Work without ceasing. If you remember in the night as you go to sleep, “I have not done what I ought to have done,” rise up at once and do it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1406:Anxiety has now surpassed depression as the most common mental health diagnosis among college students, though depression, too, is on the rise. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1407:A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way ~ Carl Sagan,#NFDB
1408:If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how the nation would respond? ~ Joseph J Romm, #NFDB
1409:If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field. ~ Benjamin Carson, #NFDB
1410:It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, #NFDB
1411:It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. (Psalm 127:2) ~ Tim Challies, #NFDB
1412:Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1413:May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs? ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1414:Roots, he wrote, symbolize more than underground strong-arms. Roots are also origins, the tendrils of a sprouting seed that give rise to life. ~ Rivera Sun, #NFDB
1415:Take chance standout. You can only have your head above waters if you stick your neck out a bit. It's time to take off... Dare to rise! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1416:The great irony in the Christian life, you see, is that the way up is the way down. The lower we sink in ourselves, the higher we rise in him. ~ J D Greear, #NFDB
1417:The questions are the danger.
Leave them alone and they sleep.
Ask them, awake them, and more than you
know will begin to rise. ~ Jonathan Carroll,#NFDB
1418:The simultaneous rise of both the working poor and non-working rich offers further evidence that earnings no longer correlate with effort. ~ Robert B Reich, #NFDB
1419:the value of working hours among the under-educated is fairly low by most measures, and the rise in “leisure” time may not be anything to envy. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1420:This is the time for a young man to stop saying, “Why is life so hard?” He takes the hardness as the call to fight, to rise up, take it on. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
1421:You are anxious about whether you will rise from the dead or not, but you rose from the dead when you were born and you didn't notice it. ~ Boris Pasternak, #NFDB
1422:You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind.” -Hera, goddess of marriage ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1423:Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China. ~ Manmohan Singh, #NFDB
1424:Every morning I rise when it is pitch black outside (and you know it’s not natural to be up if the sun couldn’t even be bothered to get up), ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
1425:It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
1426:It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet. ~ Jaron Lanier, #NFDB
1427:I write very simple and very naked. That's why it wounds. I'm a grey and blue landscape. I rise in a dry fountain and in the cold light. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
1428:My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1429:Rise above your circumstances, change the world one person at a time starting with you, and be the inspiration you’ve been searching for. ~ Lindsey Stirling, #NFDB
1430:Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person. ~ Gerard Way, #NFDB
1431:That’s the difficulty in these times: ideals, dreams, and cherished hopes rise within us, only to meet the horrible truth and be shattered. ~ Francine Prose, #NFDB
1432:The democratization of the Internet is integrally related to the democratization of the political economy. They rise and fall together. ~ Robert W McChesney, #NFDB
1433:When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
1434:You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
1435:You taste so fucking amazing.” He brought his head up and Laurel could see the violent rise and fall of his chest. “Sit on my face,” he said. ~ Cara McKenna, #NFDB
1436:Above the Fray, You Have No Fear Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war rise up against me, yet I will be confident. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
1437:...and I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore? ~ Miriam Toews, #NFDB
1438:Belief in the virtues of work and of simple living did accompany the rise of capitalism, but this was centuries before Martin Luther was born. ~ Rodney Stark, #NFDB
1439:Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me. ~ Anne Sexton, #NFDB
1440:Drum sounds rise on the air, and with them, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, I know you are tired, but come. This is the way. —RUMI ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
1441:Every once in a while, life threw you an opportunity to redefine yourself. You could either rise up to the challenge or live with the regret. ~ Ruth Cardello, #NFDB
1442:I call on your pride. Remember what you've done, what you dream of doing, and rise up. Great Heavens, consider yourself with more respect! ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
1443:I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall. ~ Isaac Deutscher, #NFDB
1444:If rise of sun from east and fall in the west is the indicator of God’s existence; my standing dick every morning might also prove something. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
1445:I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad. ~ Sam Elliott, #NFDB
1446:in the state of mind in which we “observe” we are a long way below the level to which we rise when we create. There was, then, embedded in my ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
1447:May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
1448:Never let a good crisis go to waste. It’s the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1449:Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars. ~ Rodney Stark, #NFDB
1450:Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.' ~ A E Waite, #NFDB
1451:Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior. ~ Dee Hock, #NFDB
1452:The moments when you feel the most pain are the ones where you doubt yourself the most—when all your failures in the past rise to the surface. ~ Dannika Dark, #NFDB
1453:The only way to rise above is to rise above. The only way to respond to wrong is with right. The only way to deal with injustice is to be just. ~ Nafisa Haji, #NFDB
1454:The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it’s here is up to us. Bold Fear isn’t allowed to run things ~ Alexandra Elle, #NFDB
1455:The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise. ~ James P Cannon, #NFDB
1456:This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1457:When you leave good people afraid to speak on behalf of justice, however awkwardly or insensitively, those unafraid to speak will rise to power. ~ C E Morgan, #NFDB
1458:While freedom gives rise to growth and enlightenment, permission allows evil to flourish in a light of day that would otherwise destroy it. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
1459:"Your true self is not your emotion such as anger, frustration or hate. It is the inner witness that knows the rise and fall of your emotion." ~ Haemin Sunim, #NFDB
1460:Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
1461:Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. — Saint Augustine ~ Dave Gibbons, #NFDB
1462:[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow. ~ Saint Vincent de Paul, #NFDB
1463:From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
1464:He let Julius go. There was beginning to rise in him a feeling of profound disgust--a kind of hatred almost, of himself, of Julius, of everything. ~ Andr Gide, #NFDB
1465:I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
1466:I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion. ~ Tony Scott, #NFDB
1467:In times of war prices of the necessaries of life are generally very much increased, but the prices of labor of the poor do not usually rise. ~ Mark Kurlansky, #NFDB
1468:Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet ~ Terence McKenna, #NFDB
1469:Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars. ~ Rodney Stark, #NFDB
1470:Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch, #NFDB
1471:the law of cumulative growth,” which holds that a low annual growth rate over a very long period of time gives rise to considerable progress. ~ Thomas Piketty, #NFDB
1472:The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set. ~ Jacob Grimm, #NFDB
1473:This is the Nemesis of men who rise
Too suddenly by fraud or violence
That they suspect all hearts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act I,#NFDB
1474:This is the story of the end of the world, the rise and fall of human civilization, the creation of the Partials and the death of everything else. ~ Dan Wells, #NFDB
1475:Very few things made her happier than getting a rise out of despicable old men who wanted everyone around them to cower in their presence. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
1476:7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1477:Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself...do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. ~ Francis de Sales, #NFDB
1478:...but maybe life is like that - you never know when something that's been hidden is going to rise up and bite you, or glow with a golden hue. ~ Charles Martin, #NFDB
1479:Each wave of immigrants that have come in have been able to assimilate, integrate and then rise up and become part of this great American Dream. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1480:Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise. ~ Karen DeCrow, #NFDB
1481:Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any notion that a way of life had ended. Our way of life. ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
1482:I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world. ~ Lech Walesa, #NFDB
1483:I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows. ~ Joy Bryant, #NFDB
1484:Learning from failure boosts a leader's chance of staying ahead of his standards. Leaders who rise quickly after falling are always stable. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1485:There is in this world
No such force as the force of
A person determined to rise.
The human soul
Cannot be permanently chained. ~ W E B Du Bois,#NFDB
1486:You have tried the power of the sword. Now try throwing it away... (rise) to a privileged place where everyday acts took on a mythical meaning. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1487:"As gratitude grows, it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune, and that of others. Joy gladdens the heart." ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
1488:Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are! ~ Tennessee Williams, #NFDB
1489:Flow wherever you go. You can’t be limited. Dare to rise above all limitations and become better than you were. Strive to arrive at the top. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1490:I have always been a night person. When the sun goes down, my spirits rise. I'm more alert, quicker, more in tune with the rhythms of the world. ~ Jerri Nielsen, #NFDB
1491:In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.
Earthseed: The Books of the Living
Lauren Oya Olamina ~ Octavia E Butler,#NFDB
1492:Jesus is the antioxidant that terminates all the free radicals (sin) in our lives. Consume more of Jesus and watch your overall health rise! ~ Alisa Hope Wagner, #NFDB
1493:Just when it seems as if trouble is set to destroy your hope, future, or family, God's resurrection power can help you rise above it all. ~ Linda Evans Shepherd, #NFDB
1494:That’s all any of us can do, my dear. We wake up, bolster our resolve, and rise to face the new day. Or else lie in bed and waste our lives. ~ Mary Alice Monroe, #NFDB
1495:The door closed; almost imperceptably, the lift began to rise.
'Going up,' the skull said. 'Next floor: cutlery, condiments and underpants. ~ Jonathan Stroud,#NFDB
1496:The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. Miguel de Cervantes ~ Cecilia London, #NFDB
1497:Theres a kind of dream that movies sell to people: You can start as the lowliest person and rise to the top. Hit Me doesnt sell this fantasy. ~ Steven Shainberg, #NFDB
1498:The sun will rise tomorrow morning; I know that perfectly well. But figuring out how I could know it is, as Hume pointed out, a bit of a puzzle. ~ Jerry A Fodor, #NFDB
1499:The wise are tranquil; silent the great hills
Rise ceaselessly towards their unreached sky, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1500:as they begin to rise again
Chrysanthemums faintly smell
after the flooding rain
~ Matsuo Basho, as they begin to rise again
,#NFDB
672 Integral Yoga
392 Poetry
128 Christianity
100 Philosophy
96 Occultism
87 Fiction
71 Yoga
53 Psychology
35 Mysticism
30 Science
16 Mythology
12 Integral Theory
12 Hinduism
10 Education
7 Theosophy
6 Kabbalah
6 Baha i Faith
5 Sufism
5 Philsophy
4 Cybernetics
2 Zen
2 Buddhism
1 Thelema
1 Alchemy
466 Sri Aurobindo
299 The Mother
188 Nolini Kanta Gupta
142 Satprem
63 H P Lovecraft
54 Carl Jung
53 William Wordsworth
48 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
47 Walt Whitman
39 Percy Bysshe Shelley
38 James George Frazer
36 Plotinus
30 Sri Ramakrishna
28 Saint Augustine of Hippo
24 Robert Browning
22 Swami Krishnananda
19 Aleister Crowley
18 William Butler Yeats
17 Rudolf Steiner
16 Lucretius
16 Friedrich Schiller
15 Swami Vivekananda
15 Rabindranath Tagore
15 A B Purani
14 Li Bai
13 Ovid
13 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
13 Friedrich Nietzsche
12 Anonymous
10 Saint Teresa of Avila
10 Saint John of Climacus
10 Plato
8 Sri Ramana Maharshi
8 Aldous Huxley
7 John Keats
7 Jalaluddin Rumi
6 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
6 Rabbi Moses Luzzatto
6 Nirodbaran
6 Jordan Peterson
6 George Van Vrekhem
6 Baha u llah
5 Vyasa
5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
5 Edgar Allan Poe
4 Norbert Wiener
4 Henry David Thoreau
4 Hafiz
4 Franz Bardon
3 Thomas Merton
3 Rainer Maria Rilke
3 Paul Richard
3 Patanjali
3 Ken Wilber
3 Kabir
3 Joseph Campbell
3 Al-Ghazali
2 William Blake
2 Solomon ibn Gabirol
2 Saint John of the Cross
2 Saint Hildegard von Bingen
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Jacopone da Todi
2 Hakim Sanai
2 Genpo Roshi
2 Alexander Pope
92 The Synthesis Of Yoga
63 Lovecraft - Poems
53 Wordsworth - Poems
45 Whitman - Poems
42 Record of Yoga
39 Shelley - Poems
38 The Golden Bough
38 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
37 Prayers And Meditations
33 The Life Divine
33 Letters On Yoga IV
32 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
31 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
30 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
29 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
28 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
24 Browning - Poems
22 The Study and Practice of Yoga
22 Savitri
22 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
22 Letters On Yoga III
22 Letters On Yoga II
22 Essays On The Gita
21 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
20 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
20 Mysterium Coniunctionis
19 Questions And Answers 1956
18 Yeats - Poems
18 The Future of Man
18 Collected Poems
18 City of God
17 Agenda Vol 08
16 Schiller - Poems
16 Of The Nature Of Things
16 Letters On Yoga I
15 The Human Cycle
15 The Bible
15 Tagore - Poems
15 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
15 Agenda Vol 04
14 The Practice of Psycho therapy
14 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
14 Questions And Answers 1953
14 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
14 Li Bai - Poems
14 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
14 Agenda Vol 03
14 Agenda Vol 02
13 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
13 Metamorphoses
13 Essays Divine And Human
13 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
13 Agenda Vol 01
12 Liber ABA
12 Let Me Explain
11 Talks
10 The Phenomenon of Man
10 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
10 The Divine Comedy
10 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
10 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
10 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
10 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
10 On Education
10 Aion
9 Words Of Long Ago
9 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
9 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
9 Agenda Vol 09
8 The Secret Of The Veda
8 The Perennial Philosophy
8 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
8 Questions And Answers 1955
8 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
8 Hymn of the Universe
8 Faust
7 Theosophy
7 Some Answers From The Mother
7 Raja-Yoga
7 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
7 Magick Without Tears
7 Kena and Other Upanishads
7 Keats - Poems
7 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
7 Agenda Vol 13
7 Agenda Vol 11
7 5.1.01 - Ilion
6 Vedic and Philological Studies
6 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 Questions And Answers 1954
6 Preparing for the Miraculous
6 Maps of Meaning
6 Letters On Poetry And Art
6 General Principles of Kabbalah
6 Agenda Vol 12
6 Agenda Vol 10
6 Agenda Vol 07
6 Agenda Vol 06
5 Words Of The Mother II
5 Vishnu Purana
5 The Way of Perfection
5 The Red Book Liber Novus
5 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
5 The Integral Yoga
5 Rumi - Poems
5 Goethe - Poems
5 Emerson - Poems
5 Bhakti-Yoga
5 Agenda Vol 05
4 Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit
4 Walden
4 Twilight of the Idols
4 Poe - Poems
4 Isha Upanishad
4 Cybernetics
4 Anonymous - Poems
4 Amrita Gita
3 Words Of The Mother III
3 The Problems of Philosophy
3 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
3 The Book of Certitude
3 The Alchemy of Happiness
3 Sex Ecology Spirituality
3 Rilke - Poems
3 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
3 On the Way to Supermanhood
3 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
2 The Practice of Magical Evocation
2 The Essentials of Education
2 The Blue Cliff Records
2 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
2 Songs of Kabir
2 Initiation Into Hermetics
2 Hafiz - Poems
2 God Exists
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
00.00 - Publishers Note B, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Like a perfume that rises straight upward without wavering,
My love goes to Thee..]
00.01 - The Approach to Mysticism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
For it must be understood that the heart, the mystic heart, is not the external thing which is the seat of emotion or passion; it is the secret heart that is behind, the inner heartantarhdaya of the Upanishadwhich is the centre of the individual consciousness, where all the divergent lines of that consciousness meet and from where they take their rise. That is what the Upanishad means when it says that the heart has a hundred channels which feed the human vehicle. That is the source, the fount and origin, the very substance of the true personality. Mystic knowledge the true mystic knowledge which saves and fulfilsbegins with the awakening or the entrance into this real being. This being is pure and luminous and blissful and sovereignly real, because it is a portion, a spark of the Divine Consciousness and Nature: a contact and communion with it brings automatically into play the light and the truth that are its substance. At the same time it is an uprising flame that reaches out naturally to higher domains of consciousness and manifests them through its translucid dynamism.
The knowledge that is obtained without the heart's instrumentation or co-operation is liable to be what the Gita describes as Asuric. First of all, from the point of view of knowledge itself, it would be, as I have already said, egocentric, a product and agent of one's limited and isolated self, easily put at the service of desire and passion. This knowledge, whether rationalistic or occult, is, as it were, hard and dry in its constitution, and oftener than not, negative and destructivewi thering and blasting in its career like the desert simoom.
00.01 - The Mother on Savitri, #Sweet Mother - Harmonies of Light, #unset, #Zen
My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny - all is there. You can find all the answers to all your questions there. Everything is explained, even the future of man and of the evolution, all that nobody yet knows. He has described it all in beautiful and clear words so that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But this mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophesies, all that is going to come is presented with the precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Consciousness, to solve the problem of what the universe is. He has also indicated how to open the door of the Inconscience so that the light may penetrate there and transform it. He has shown the path, the way to liberate oneself from the ignorance and climb up to the superconscience; each stage, each plane of consciousness, how they can be scaled, how one can cross even the barrier of death and attain immortality. You will find the whole journey in detail, and as you go forward you can discover things altogether unknown to man. That is Savitri and much more yet. It is a real experience - reading Savitri. All the secrets that man possessed, He has revealed, - as well as all that awaits him in the future; all this is found in the depth of Savitri. But one must have the knowledge to discover it all, the experience of the planes of consciousness, the experience of the Supermind, even the experience of the conquest of Death. He has noted all the stages, marked each step in order to advance integrally in the integral Yoga.
All this is His own experience, and what is most surprising is that it is my own experience also. It is my sadhana which He has worked out. Each object, each event, each realisation, all the descriptions, even the colours are exactly what I saw and the words, phrases are also exactly what I heard. And all this before having read the book. I read Savitri many times afterwards, but earlier, when He was writing He used to read it to me. Every morning I used to hear Him read Savitri. During the night He would write and in the morning read it to me. And I observed something curious, that day after day the experiences He read out to me in the morning were those I had had the previous night, word by word. Yes, all the descriptions, the colours, the pictures I had seen, the words I had heard, all, all, I heard it all, put by Him into poetry, into miraculous poetry. Yes, they were exactly my experiences of the previous night which He read out to me the following morning. And it was not just one day by chance, but for days and days together. And every time I used to compare what He said with my previous experiences and they were always the same. I repeat, it was not that I had told Him my experiences and that He had noted them down afterwards, no, He knew already what I had seen. It is my experiences He has presented at length and they were His experiences also. It is, moreover, the picture of Our joint adventure into the unknown or rather into the Supermind.
00.02 - Mystic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We can make a distinction here between two types of expression which we have put together indiscriminately, figures and symbols. Figures, we may say, are those that are constructed by the rational mind, the intellect; they are mere metaphors and similes and are not organically related to the thing experienced, but put round it as a robe that can be dropped or changed without affecting the experience itself. Thus, for example, when the Upanishad says, tmnam rathinam viddhi (Know that the soul is the master of the chariot who sits within it) or indriyi haynhu (The senses, they say, are the horses), we have here only a comparison or analogy that is common and natural to the poetic manner. The particular figure or simile used is not inevitable to the idea or experience that it seeks to express, its part and parcel. On the other hand, take this Upanishadic perception: hirayamayena patrea satyasyphitam mukham (The face of the Truth lies hidden under the golden orb). Here the symbol is not mere analogy or comparison, a figure; it is one with the very substance of the experience the two cannot be separated. Or when the Vedas speak of the kindling of the Fire, the rushing of the waters or the rise of the Dawn, the images though taken from the material world, are not used for the sake of mere comparison, but they are the embodiments, the living forms of truths experienced in another world.
When a Mystic refers to the Solar Light or to the Fire the light, for example, that struck down Saul and transformed him into Saint Paul or the burning bush that visited Moses, it is not the physical or material object that he means and yet it is that in a way. It is the materialization of something that is fundamentally not material: some movement in an inner consciousness precipitates itself into the region of the senses and takes from out of the material the form commensurable with its nature that it finds there.
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
First of all, he has the Sun; it is the primary light by which he lives and moves. When the Sun sets, the Moon rises to replace it. When both the Sun and the Moon set, he has recourse to the Fire. And when the Fire, too, is extinguished, there comes the Word. In the end, when the Fire is quieted and the Word silenced, man is lighted by the Light of the Atman. This Atman is All-Knowledge; it is secreted within the life, within the heart: it is selfluminous Vijnamaya preu rdyantar jyoti..
The progression indicated by the order of succession points to a gradual withdrawal from the outer to the inner light, from the surface to the deep, from the obvious to the secret, from the actual and derivative to the real and original. We begin by the senses and move towards the Spirit.
The Sun is the first and the most immediate source of light that man has and needs. He is the presiding deity of our waking consciousness and has his seat in the eyecakusa ditya, ditya caku bhtvakii prviat. The eye is the representative of the senses; it is the sense par excellence. In truth, sense-perception is the initial light with which we have to guide us, it is the light with which we start on the way. A developed stage comes when the Sun sets for us, that is to say, when we retire from the senses and rise into the mind, whose divinity is the Moon. It is the mental knowledge, the light of reason and intelligence, of reflection and imagination that govern our consciousness. We have to proceed farther and get beyond the mind, exceed the derivative light of the Moon. So when the Moon sets, the Fire is kindled. It is the light of the ardent and aspiring heart, the glow of an inner urge, the instincts and inspirations of our secret life-will. Here we come into touch with a source of knowledge and realization, a guidance more direct than the mind and much deeper than the sense-perception. Still this light partakes more of heat than of pure luminosity; it is, one may say, incandescent feeling, but not vision. We must probe deeper, mount higherreach heights and profundities that are serene and transparent. The Fire is to be quieted and silenced, says the Upanishad. Then we come nearer, to the immediate vicinity of the Truth: an inner hearing opens, the direct voice of Truth the Wordreaches us to lead and guide. Even so, however, we have not come to the end of our journey; the Word of revelation is not the ultimate Light. The Word too is clothing, though a luminous clothinghiramayam ptram When this last veil dissolves and disappears, when utter silence, absolute calm and quietude reign in the entire consciousness, when no other lights trouble or distract our attention, there appears the Atman in its own body; we stand face to face with the source of all lights, the self of the Light, the light of the Self. We are that Light and we become that Light.
II. The Four Oblations
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The one, however, is not completely divorced from the other. The apparent, the inferior nature is only a preparation for the real, the superior nature. The Path of the Fathers concerns itself with man as a mental being and seeks so to ordain and accomplish its duties and ideals as to lead him on to the Path of the Gods; the mind, the life, and the body consciousness should be so disciplined, educated, purified, they should develop along such a line and gradually rise to such a stage as to make them fit to receive the light which belongs to the higher level, so allowing the human soul imbedded in them to extricate itself and pass on to the Immortal Life.
And they who are thus lifted up into the Higher Orbit are freed from the bondage to the cycle of rebirth. They enjoy the supreme Liberation that is of the Spirit; and even when they descend into the Inferior Path, it is to work out as free agents, as vehicles of the Divine, a special purpose, to bring down something of the substance and nature of the Solar reality into the lower world, enlighten and elevate the lower, as far as it is allowed, into the higher.
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TheChhandyogya12 gives a whole typal scheme of this universal reality and explains how to realise it and what are the results of the experience. The Universal Brahman means the cosmic movement, the cyclic march of things and events taken in its global aspect. The typical movement that symbolises and epitomises the phenomenon, embodies the truth, is that of the sun. The movement consists of five stages which are called the fivefold sma Sma means the equal Brahman that is ever present in all, the Upanishad itself says deriving the word from sama It is Sma also because it is a rhythmic movement, a cadencea music of the spheres. And a rhythmic movement, in virtue of its being a wave, consists of these five stages: (i) the start, (ii) the rise, (iii) the peak, (iv) the decline and (v) the fall. Now the sun follows this curve and marks out the familiar divisions of the day: dawn, forenoon, noon, afternoon and sunset. Sometimes two other stages are added, one at each end, one of preparation and another of final lapse the twilights with regard to the sun and then ,we have seven instead of five smas Like the Sun, the Fire that is to say, the sacrificial Firecan also be seen in its fivefold cyclic movement: (i) the lighting, (ii) the smoke, (iii) the flame, (iv) smouldering and finally (v) extinction the fuel as it is rubbed to produce the fire and the ashes may be added as the two supernumerary stages. Or again, we may take the cycle of five seasons or of the five worlds or of the deities that control these worlds. The living wealth of this earth is also symbolised in a quintetgoat and sheep and cattle and horse and finally man. Coming to the microcosm, we have in man the cycle of his five senses, basis of all knowledge and activity. For the macrocosm, to I bring out its vast extra-human complexity, the Upanishad refers to a quintet, each term of which is again a trinity: (i) the threefold Veda, the Divine Word that is the origin of creation, (ii) the three worlds or fieldsearth, air-belt or atmosphere and space, (iii) the three principles or deities ruling respectively these worldsFire, Air and Sun, (iv) their expressions, emanations or embodimentsstars and birds and light-rays, and finally, (v) the original inhabitants of these worldsto earth belong the reptiles, to the mid-region the Gandharvas and to heaven the ancient Fathers.
Now, this is the All, the Universal. One has to realise it and possess in one's consciousness. And that can be done only in one way: one has to identify oneself with it, be one with it, become it. Thus by losing one's individuality one lives the life universal; the small lean separate life is enlarged and moulded in the rhythm of the Rich and the Vast. It is thus that man shares in the consciousness and energy that inspire and move and sustain the cosmos. The Upanishad most emphatically enjoins that one must not decry this cosmic godhead or deny any of its elements, not even such as are a taboo to the puritan mind. It is in and through an unimpaired global consciousness that one attains the All-Life and lives uninterruptedly and perennially: Sarvamanveti jyok jvati.
Still the Upanishad says this is not the final end. There is yet a higher status of reality and consciousness to which one has to rise. For beyond the Cosmos lies the Transcendent. The Upanishad expresses this truth and experience in various symbols. The cosmic reality, we have seen, is often conceived as a septenary, a unity of seven elements, principles and worlds. Further to give it its full complex value, it is considered not as a simple septet, but a threefold heptad the whole gamut, as it were, consisting of 21 notes or syllables. The Upanishad says, this number does not exhaust the entire range; I for there is yet a 22nd place. This is the world beyond the Sun, griefless and deathless, the supreme Selfhood. The Veda I also sometimes speaks of the integral reality as being represented by the number 100 which is 99 + I; in other words, 99 represents the cosmic or universal, the unity being the reality beyond, the Transcendent.
Elsewhere the Upanishad describes more graphically this truth and the experience of it. It is said there that the sun has fivewe note the familiar fivemovements of rising and setting: (i) from East to West, (ii) from South to North, (iii) from West to East, (iv) from North to South and (v) from abovefrom the Zenithdownward. These are the five normal and apparent movements. But there is a sixth one; rather it is not a movement, but a status, where the sun neither rises nor sets, but is always visible fixed in the same position.
Some Western and Westernised scholars have tried to show that the phenomenon described here is an exclusively natural phenomenon, actually visible in the polar region where the sun never sets for six months and moves in a circle whose plane is parallel to the plane of the horizon on the summer solstice and is gradually inclined as the sun regresses towards the equinox (on which day just half the solar disc is visible above the horizon). The sun may be said there to move in the direction East-South-West-North and again East. Indeed the Upanishad mentions the positions of the sun in that order and gives a character to each successive station. The Ray from the East is red, symbolising the Rik, the Southern Ray is white, symbolising the Yajur, the Western Ray is black symbolising the Atharva. The natural phenomenon, however, might have been or might not have been before the mind's eye of the Rishi, but the symbolism, the esotericism of it is clear enough in the way the Rishi speaks of it. Also, apart from the first four movements (which it is already sufficiently difficult to identify completely with what is visible), the fifth movement, as a separate descending movement from above appears to be a foreign element in the context. And although, with regard to the sixth movement or status, the sun is visible as such exactly from the point of the North Pole for a while, the ring of the Rishi's utterance is unmistakably spiritual, it cannot but refer to a fact of inner consciousness that is at least what the physical fact conveys to the Rishi and what he seeks to convey and express primarily.
00.05 - A Vedic Conception of the Poet, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indeed delight is the third and the supremely intimate element of the poetic personality. Dear and delightful is the poet, dear and delightful his works, priya, priyi His hand is dripping with sweetness,kavir hi madhuhastya.24 The Poet-God shines in his pristine beauty and is showering delight.25 He is filled with utter ecstasy so that he may rise to the very source of the luminous Energy.26? Pure is the Divine Joy and it enters and purifies all forms as it moves to the seat of the Immortals.27Indeed this sparkling Delight is the Poet-Seer and it is that that brings forth the creative word, the utterance of Indra.28
The solar vision of the Poet encompasses in its might the wide Earth and Heaven, fuses them in supreme Delight in the womb of the Truth.29 The Earth is lifted up and given in marriage to Heaven in the home of Truth, for the creation and expression of the Truth in its varied beauty,cru citram.
0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
What Jung calls archetypal images constantly rise to the surface of man's awareness from the vast unconscious that is the common heritage of all mankind.
The tragedy of civilized man is that he is cut off from awareness of his own instincts. The Qabalah can help him achieve the necessary understanding to effect a reunion with them, so that rather than being driven by forces he does not understand, he can harness for his conscious use the same power that guides the homing pigeon, teaches the beaver to build a dam and keeps the planets revolving in their appointed orbits about the sun.
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
rises to a glimmer of the universal consciousness, while,
in the orgasm, the mind is blotted out.
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rise to the appearance of evil.
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The lesson of the chapter is thus always to rise
hungry from a meal, always to violate on's own nature.
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early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise:
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When Astacus sees Crab and Lobster rise.
Man that has spine, and hopes of heaven-to-be,
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and that my natural forces fail, therefore do I rise
up i my throne and call upon THE END.
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Sri Ramakrishna was a teacher for both the Orders of mankind, Sannysins and householders. His own life offered an ideal example for both, and he left behind disciples who followed the highest traditions he had set in respect of both these ways of life. M., along with Nag Mahashay, exemplified how a householder can rise to the highest level of sagehood. M. was married to Nikunja Devi, a distant relative of Keshab Chander Sen, even when he was reading at College, and he had four children, two sons and two daughters. The responsibility of the family, no doubt, made him dependent on his professional income, but the great devotee that he was, he never compromised with ideals and principles for this reason. Once when he was working as the headmaster in a school managed by the great Vidysgar, the results of the school at the public examination happened to be rather poor, and Vidysgar attri buted it to M's preoccupation with the Master and his consequent failure to attend adequately to the school work. M. at once resigned his post without any thought of the morrow. Within a fortnight the family was in poverty, and M. was one day pacing up and down the verandah of his house, musing how he would feed his children the next day. Just then a man came with a letter addressed to 'Mahendra Babu', and on opening it, M. found that it was a letter from his friend Sri Surendra Nath Banerjee, asking whether he would like to take up a professorship in the Ripon College. In this way three or four times he gave up the job that gave him the wherewithal to support the family, either for upholding principles or for practising spiritual Sadhanas in holy places, without any consideration of the possible dire worldly consequences; but he was always able to get over these difficulties somehow, and the interests of his family never suffered. In spite of his disregard for worldly goods, he was, towards the latter part of his life, in a fairly flourishing condition as the proprietor of the Morton School which he developed into a noted educational institution in the city. The Lord has said in the Bhagavad Git that in the case of those who think of nothing except Him, He Himself would take up all their material and spiritual responsibilities. M. was an example of the truth of the Lord's promise.
Though his children received proper attention from him, his real family, both during the Master's lifetime and after, consisted of saints, devotees, Sannysins and spiritual aspirants. His life exemplifies the Master's teaching that an ideal householder must be like a good maidservant of a family, loving and caring properly for the children of the house, but knowing always that her real home and children are elsewhere. During the Master's lifetime he spent all his Sundays and other holidays with him and his devotees, and besides listening to the holy talks and devotional music, practised meditation both on the Personal and the Impersonal aspects of God under the direct guidance of the Master. In the pages of the Gospel the reader gets a picture of M.'s spiritual relationship with the Master how from a hazy belief in the Impersonal God of the Brahmos, he was step by step brought to accept both Personality and Impersonality as the two aspects of the same Non-dual Being, how he was convinced of the manifestation of that Being as Gods, Goddesses and as Incarnations, and how he was established in a life that was both of a Jnni and of a Bhakta. This Jnni-Bhakta outlook and way of living became so dominant a feature of his life that Swami Raghavananda, who was very closely associated with him during his last six years, remarks: "Among those who lived with M. in latter days, some felt that he always lived in this constant and conscious union with God even with open eyes (i.e., even in waking consciousness)." (Swami Raghavananda's article on M. in Prabuddha Bharata vol. XXXVII. P. 442.)
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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.)
About twenty-seven years of his life he spent in this way in the heart of the great city of Calcutta, radiating the Master's thoughts and ideals to countless devotees who flocked to him, and to still larger numbers who read his Kathmrita (English Edition : The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna), the last part of which he had completed before June 1932 and given to the press. And miraculously, as it were, his end also came immediately after he had completed his life's mission. About three months earlier he had come to stay at his home at 13/2 Gurdasprasad Chaudhuary Lane at Thakur Bari, where the Holy Mother had herself installed the Master and where His regular worship was being conducted for the previous 40 years. The night of 3rd June being the Phalahrini Kli Pooja day, M.
0.01 - I - Sri Aurobindos personality, his outer retirement - outside contacts after 1910 - spiritual personalities- Vibhutis and Avatars - transformtion of human personality, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Greatness is magnetic and in a sense contagious. Wherever manifested, greatness is claimed by humanity as something that reveals the possibility of the race. The highest utility of greatness is not merely to attract us but to inspire us to follow it and rise to our own highest spiritual stature. To the majority of men Truth remains abstract, impersonal and far unless it is seen and felt concretely in a human personality. A man never knows a truth actively except through a person and by embodying it in his own personality. Some glimpse of the Truth-Consciousness which Sri Aurobindo embodied may be caught in these Evening Talks.
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0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It simply means to rise (soar into the air) above the ordinary
consciousness, into a higher consciousness from which one can
0.05 - The Synthesis of the Systems, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But in either case it is always through something in the lower that we must rise into the higher existence, and the schools of
Yoga each select their own point of departure or their own gate of escape. They specialise certain activities of the lower
0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
in a synthesis if you rise high enough in the intuitive mind and
yours is not at all irreducible. I am sure that one day you will
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and how may I rise or jump into it? And again you have
said, "Let divine love be your goal. Let pure love be your
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the more can aspiration rise up from the depths of the heart in
the fullness of its ardour.
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the Divine, one has to rise above thought and enter into the
psychic consciousness, the consciousness of the soul, or into the
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a zone corresponding to the overmind and an overmind consciousness, before one can rise above it, to the Supermind, or
open oneself to it.
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
other words, to rise above ordinary humanity, free oneself from
all egoism and become a conscious instrument of the Divine
01.01 - Sri Aurobindo - The Age of Sri Aurobindo, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The ideal or perhaps one should say the policy of Real-politick is the thing needed in this world. To achieve something actually in the physical and material field, even a lesser something, is worth much more than speculating on high flaunting chimeras and indulging in day-dreams. Yes, but what is this something that has to be achieved in the material world? It is always an ideal. Even procuring food for each and every person, clothing and housing all is not less an ideal for all its concern about actuality. Only there are ideals and ideals; some are nearer to the earth, some seem to be in the background. But the mystery is that it is not always the ideal nearest to the earth which is the easiest to achieve or the first thing to be done first. Do we not see before our very eye show some very simple innocent social and economic changes are difficult to carry outthey bring in their train quite disproportionately gestures and movements of violence and revolution? That is because we seek to cure the symptoms and not touch the root of the disease. For even the most innocent-looking social, economic or political abuse has at its base far-reaching attitudes and life-urgeseven a spiritual outlook that have to be sought out and tackled first, if the attempt at reform is to be permanently and wholly successful. Even in mundane matters we do not dig deep enough, or rise high enough.
Indeed, looking from a standpoint that views the working of the forces that act and achieve and not the external facts and events and arrangements aloneone finds that things that are achieved on the material plane are first developed and matured and made ready behind the veil and at a given moment burst out and manifest themselves often unexpectedly and suddenly like a chick out of the shell or the young butterfly out of the cocoon. The Gita points to that truth of Nature when it says: "These beings have already been killed by Me." It is not that a long or strenuous physical planning and preparation alone or in the largest measure brings about a physical realisation. The deeper we go within, the farther we are away from the surface, the nearer we come to the roots and sources of things even most superficial. The spiritual view sees and declares that it is the Brahmic consciousness that holds, inspires, builds up Matter, the physical body and form of Brahman.
01.01 - The One Thing Needful, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This is a slow and difficult process; the road is long and it is hard to establish even the necessary basis. The old existing nature resists and obstructs and difficulties rise one after another and repeatedly till they are overcome. It is therefore necessary to be sure that this is the path to which one is called before one finally decides to tread it.
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A few have caught flame and risen to greater life.
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01.02 - The Creative Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In one's own soul lies the very height and profundity of a god-head. Each soul by bringing out the note that is his, makes for the most wondrous symphony. Once a man knows what he is and holds fast to it, refusing to be drawn away by any necessity or temptation, he begins to uncover himself, to do what his inmost nature demands and takes joy in, that is to say, begins to create. Indeed there may be much difference in the forms that different souls take. But because each is itself, therefore each is grounded upon the fundamental equality of things. All our valuations are in reference to some standard or other set up with a particular end in view, but that is a question of the practical world which in no way takes away from the intrinsic value of the greatness of the soul. So long as the thing is there, the how of it does not matter. Infinite are the ways of manifestation and all of them the very highest and the most sublime, provided they are a manifestation of the soul itself, provided they rise and flow from the same level. Whether it is Agni or Indra, Varuna, Mitra or the Aswins, it is the same supreme and divine inflatus.
The cosmic soul is true. But that truth is borne out, effectuated only by the truth of the individual soul. When the individual soul becomes itself fully and integrally, by that very fact it becomes also the cosmic soul. The individuals are the channels through which flows the Universal and the Infinite in its multiple emphasis. Each is a particular figure, aspectBhava, a particular angle of vision of All. The vision is entire and the figure perfect if it is not refracted by the lower and denser parts of our being. And for that the individual must first come to itself and shine in its opal clarity and translucency.
01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The philosophical trend in poetry has an interesting history with a significant role: it has acted as a force of purification, of sublimation, of katharsis. As man has risen from his exclusively or predominantly vital nature into an increasing mental poise, in the same way his creative activities too have taken this new turn and status. In the earlier stages of evolution the mental life is secondary, subordinate to the physico-vital life; it is only subsequently that the mental finds an independent and self-sufficient reality. A similar movement is reflected in poetic and artistic creation too: the thinker, the philosopher remains in the background at the outset, he looks out; peers through chinks and holes from time to time; later he comes to the forefront, assumes a major role in man's creative activity.
Man's consciousness is further to rise from the mental to over-mental regions. Accordingly, his life and activities and along with that his artistic creations too will take on a new tone and rhythm, a new mould and constitution even. For this transition, the higher mentalwhich is normally the field of philosophical and idealistic activitiesserves as the Paraclete, the Intercessor; it takes up the lower functionings of the consciousness, which are intense in their own way, but narrow and turbid, and gives, by purifying and enlarging, a wider frame, a more luminous pattern, a more subtly articulated , form for the higher, vaster and deeper realities, truths and harmonies to express and manifest. In the old-world spiritual and mystic poets, this intervening medium was overlooked for evident reasons, for human reason or even intelligence is a double-edged instrument, it can make as well as mar, it has a light that most often and naturally shuts off other higher lights beyond it. So it was bypassed, some kind of direct and immediate contact was sought to be established between the normal and the transcendental. The result was, as I have pointed out, a pure spiritual poetry, on the one hand, as in the Upanishads, or, on the other, religious poetry of various grades and denominations that spoke of the spiritual but in the terms and in the manner of the mundane, at least very much coloured and dominated by the latter. Vyasa was the great legendary figure in India who, as is shown in his Mahabharata, seems to have been one of the pioneers, if not the pioneer, to forge and build the missing link of Thought Power. The exemplar of the manner is the Gita. Valmiki's represented a more ancient and primary inspiration, of a vast vital sensibility, something of the kind that was at the basis of Homer's genius. In Greece it was Socrates who initiated the movement of speculative philosophy and the emphasis of intellectual power slowly began to find expression in the later poets, Sophocles and Euripides. But all these were very simple beginnings. The moderns go in for something more radical and totalitarian. The rationalising element instead of being an additional or subordinate or contri buting factor, must itself give its norm and form, its own substance and manner to the creative activity. Such is the present-day demand.
The earliest preoccupation of man was religious; even when he concerned himself with the world and worldly things, he referred all that to the other world, thought of gods and goddesses, of after-death and other where. That also will be his last and ultimate preoccupation though in a somewhat different way, when he has passed through a process of purification and growth, a "sea-change". For although religion is an aspiration towards the truth and reality beyond or behind the world, it is married too much to man's actual worldly nature and carries always with it the shadow of profanity.
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I may rise up from death, before ram dead.22
The allegorical element too finds here cleverly woven into the mystically religious texture. Here is another example of the mystically religious temper from Donne:
01.03 - Sri Aurobindo and his School, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
European science is conquering Nature in a way. It has attained to a certain kind and measure, in some fields a great measure, of control and conquest; but however great or striking it may be in its own province, it does not touch man in his more intimate reality and does not bring about any true change in his destiny or his being. For the most vital part of nature is the region of the life-forces, the powers of disease and age and death, of strife and greed and lustall the instincts of the brute in man, all the dark aboriginal forces, the forces of ignorance that form the very groundwork of man's nature and his society. And then, as we rise next to the world of the mind, we find a twilight region where falsehood masquerades as truth, where prejudices move as realities, where notions rule as ideals.
This is the present nature of man, with its threefold nexus of mind and life and body, that stands there to be fought and conquered. This is the inferior nature, of which the ancients spoke, that holds man down inexorably to a lower dharma, imperfect mode of life the life that is and has been the human order till today. No amount of ceaseless action, however selflessly done, can move this wheel of Nature even by a hair's breadth away from the path that it has carved out from of old. Human nature and human society have been built up and are run by the forces of this inferior nature, and whatever shuffling and reshuffling we may make in its apparent factors and elements, the general scheme and fundamental form of life will never change. To displace earth (and to conquer nature means nothing less than that) and give it another orbit, one must find a fulcrum outside earth.
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
He makes our fall a means for greater rise.
For into ignorant Nature's gusty field,
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Even his godlike strength to rise must fall:
His greater consciousness withdrew behind;
01.03 - Yoga and the Ordinary Life, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In the Yoga practised here the aim is to rise to a higher consciousness and to live out of the higher consciousness alone, not with the ordinary motives. This means a change of life as well as a change of consciousness. But all are not so circumstanced that they can cut loose from the ordinary life; they accept it therefore as a field of experience and self-training in the earlier stages of the sadhana. But they must take care to look at it as a field of experience only and to get free from the ordinary desires, attachments and ideas which usually go with it; otherwise it becomes a drag and hindrance on their sadhana. When one is not compelled by circumstances there is no necessity to continue the ordinary life.
It is not helpful to abandon the ordinary life before the being is ready for the full spiritual life. To do so means to precipitate a struggle between the different elements and exasperate it to a point of intensity which the nature is not ready to bear. The vital elements in you have partly to be met by the discipline and experience of life, while keeping the spiritual aim in view and trying to govern life by it progressively in the spirit of Karmayoga.
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
That is what is wanted at present in the artistic world the true inspiration, the breath from higher altitudes. And here comes the role of the mystic, the Yogi. The sense of evolution, the march of human consciousness demands and prophesies that the future poet has to be a mysticin him will be fulfilled the travail of man's conscious working. The self-conscious craftsman, the tireless experimenter with his adventurous analytic mind has sharpened his instrument, made it supple and elastic, tempered, refined and enriched it; that is comparable to what we call the aspiration or call from below. Now the Grace must descend and fulfil. And when one rises into this higher consciousness beyond the brain and mind, when one lives there habitually, one knows the why and the how of things, one becomes a perfectly conscious operator and still retains all spontaneity and freshness and wonder and magic that are usually associated with inconscience and irreflection. As there is a spontaneity of instinct, there is likewise also a spontaneity of vision: a child is spontaneous in its movements, even so a seer. Not only so, the higher spontaneity is more spontaneous, for the higher consciousness means not only awareness but the free and untrammelled activity and expression of the truth and reality it is.
Genius had to be generally more or less unconscious in the past, because the instrument was not ready, was clogged as it were with its own lower grade movements; the higher inspiration had very often to bypass it, or rob it of its serviceable materials without its knowledge, in an almost clandestine way. Wherever it was awake and vigilant, we have seen it causing a diminution in the poetic potential. And yet even so, it was being prepared for a greater role, a higher destiny it is to fulfil in the future. A conscious and full participation of a refined and transparent and enriched instrument in the delivery of superconscious truth and beauty will surely mean not only a new but the very acme of aesthetic creation. We thus foresee the age of spiritual art in which the sense of creative beauty in man will find its culmination. Such an art was only an exception, something secondary or even tertiary, kept in the background, suggested here and there as a novel strain, called "mystic" to express its unfamiliar nature-unless, of course, it was openly and obviously scriptural and religious.
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Out of her mindless depths she strives to rise,
A perilous life her gain, a struggling joy;
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That hardly rise into material day:
They are born from the spirit's sun of hidden powers
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That to his divine measure we might rise;
Then in a figure of divinity
01.05 - Rabindranath Tagore: A Great Poet, a Great Man, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Tagore is in direct line with those bards who have sung of the Spirit, who always soared high above the falsehoods and uglinesses of a merely mundane life and lived in the undecaying delights and beauties of a diviner consciousness. Spiritual reality was the central theme of his poetic creation: only and naturally he viewed it in a special way and endowed it with a special grace. We know of another God-intoxicated man, the Jewish philosopher Spinoza, who saw things sub specie aeternitatis, under the figure or mode of eternity. Well, Tagore can be said to see things, in their essential spiritual reality, under the figure or mode of beauty. Keats indeed spoke of truth being beauty and beauty truth. But there is a great difference in the outlook and inner experience. A worshipper of beauty, unless he rises to the Upanishadic norm, is prone to become sensuous and pagan. Keats was that, Kalidasa was that, even Shelley was not far different. The spiritual vein in all these poets remains secondary. In the old Indian master, it is part of his intellectual equipment, no doubt, but nothing much more than that. In the other two it comes in as strange flashes from an unknown country, as a sort of irruption or on the peak of the poetic afflatus or enthousiasmos.
The world being nothing but Spirit made visible is, according to Tagore, fundamentally a thing of beauty. The scars and spots that are on the surface have to be removed and mankind has to repossess and clo the itself with that mantle of beauty. The world is beautiful, because it is the image of the Beautiful, because it harbours, expresses and embodies the Divine who is Beauty supreme. Now by a strange alchemy, a wonderful effect of polarisation, the very spiritual element in Tagore has made him almost a pagan and even a profane. For what are these glories of Nature and the still more exquisite glories that the human body has captured? They are but vibrations and modulations of beauty the delightful names and forms of the supreme Lover and Beloved.
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
That rises from material Nature's sleep
To clo the the Everlasting in new shapes.
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Amid whose falls wonders like flowers rise,
Are surer than reason, defter than device
01.06 - On Communism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now, what such an uncompromising individualism fails to recognise is that individuality and ego are not the same thing, that the individual may have his individuality intact and entire and yet sacrifice his ego, that the soul of man is a much greater thing than his vital being. It is simply ignoring the fact and denying the truth to say that man is only a fighting animal and not a loving god, that the self within the individual realises itself only through competition and not co-operation. It is an error to conceive of society as a mere parallelogram of forces, to suppose that it has risen simply out of the struggle of individual interests and continues to remain by that struggle. Struggle is only one aspect of the thing, a particular form at a particular stage, a temporary manifestation due to a particular system and a particular habit and training. It would be nearer the truth to say that society came into being with the demand of the individual soul to unite with the individual soul, with the stress of an Over-soul to express itself in a multitude of forms, diverse yet linked together and organised in perfect harmony. Only, the stress for union manifested itself first on the material plane as struggle: but this is meant to be corrected and transcended and is being continually corrected and transcended by a secret harmony, a real commonality and brotherhood and unity. The individual is not so self-centred as the individualists make him to be, his individuality has a much vaster orbit and fulfils itself only by fulfilling others. The scientists have begun to discover other instincts in man than those of struggle and competition; they now place at the origin of social grouping an instinct which they name the herd-instinct: but this is only a formulation in lower terms, a translation on the vital plane of a higher truth and reality the fundamental oneness and accord of individuals and their spiritual impulsion to unite.
However, individualism has given us a truth and a formula which collectivism ignored. Self-determination is a thing which has come to stay. Each and every individual is free, absolutely free and shall freely follow his own line of growth and development and fulfilment. No extraneous power shall choose and fix what is good or evil for him, nor coerce and exploit him for its own benefit. But that does not necessarily mean that collectivism has no truth in it; collectivism also, as much as individualism, has a lesson for us and we should see whether we can harmonise the two. Collectivism signifies that the individual should not look to himself alone, should not be shut up in his freedom but expand himself and envelop others in a wider freedom, see other creatures in himself and himself in other creatures, as the Gita says. Collectivism demands that the individual need not and should not exhaust himself entirely in securing and enjoying his personal freedom, but that he can and should work for the salvation of others; the truth it upholds is this that the individual is from a certain point of view only a part of the group and by ignoring the latter it ignores itself in the end.
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Now how to escape the dilemma? Only if we take the commune and the individual togetheren bloc, as has already been suggested. This means that the commune should be at the beginning a subtle and supple thing, without form and even without name, it should be no more than the circumambient aura the sukshma deha that plays around a group of individuals who meet and unite and move together by a secret affinity, along a common path towards a common goal. As each individual develops and defines himself, the commune also takes a more and more concrete shape; and when at the last stage the individual rises to the full height of his godhead, takes possession of his integral divinity, the commune also establishes its solid empire, vivid and vibrant in form and name.
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01.08 - A Theory of Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Thus then we may distinguish three types of control on three levels. First, the natural control, secondly the conscious, i.e. to say the mental the ethical and religious control, and thirdly the spiritual or divine control. Now the spirit is the ultimate truth and reality, behind the forces that act in the mind and in the body, so that the natural control and the ethical control are mere attempts to establish and realise the spiritual control. The animal impulses feel the hidden stress of the divine urges that are their real essence and thus there rises first an unconscious conflict in the natural life and then a conscious conflict in the higher ethical life. But when both of these are transcended and the conflict is carried on to a still higher level, then do we find their real significance and arrive at the consummation to which they move. Yoga is the ultimate transvaluation of physical (and of moral) values, it is the trans-substantiation of life-power into its spiritual substance.
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01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This spiritual march or progress can also be described as a growing into the likeness of the Lord. His true self, his own image is implanted within us; he is there in the profoundest depth of our being as Jesus, our beloved and our soul rests in him in utmost bliss. We are aware neither of Jesus nor of his spouse, our soul, because of the obsession of the flesh, the turmoil raised by the senses, the blindness of pride and egoism. All that constitutes the first or old Adam, the image of Nought, the body of death which means at bottom the "false misruled love in to thyself." This self-love is the mother of sin, is sin itself. What it has to be replaced by is charity that is the true meaning of Christian charity, forgetfulness of self. "What is sin but a wanting and a forbearing of God." And the whole task, the discipline consists in "the shaping of Christ in you, the casting of sin through Christ." Who then is Christ, what is he? This knowledge you get as you advance from your sense-bound perception towards the inner and inmost seeing. As your outer nature gets purified, you approach gradually your soul, the scales fall off from your eyes too and you have the knowledge and "ghostly vision." Here too there are three degrees; first, you start with faith the senses can do nothing better than have faith; next, you rise to imagination which gives a sort of indirect touch or inkling of the truth; finally, you have the "understanding", the direct vision. "If he first trow it, he shall afterwards through grace feel it, and finally understand it."
It is never possible for man, weak and bound as he is, to reject the thraldom of his flesh, he can never purify himself wholly by his own unaided strength. God in his infinite mercy sent his own son, an emanation created out of his substancehis embodied loveas a human being to suffer along with men and take upon himself the burden of their sins. God the Son lived upon earth as man and died as man. Sin therefore has no longer its final or definitive hold upon mankind. Man has been made potentially free, pure and worthy of salvation. This is the mystery of Christ, of God the Son. But there is a further mystery. Christ not only lived for all men for all time, whether they know him, recognise him or not; but he still lives, he still chooses his beloved and his beloved chooses him, there is a conscious acceptance on either side. This is the function of the Holy Ghost, the redeeming power of Love active in him who accepts it and who is accepted by it, the dynamic Christ-Consciousness in the true Christian.
Indeed, the kernel of the mystic discipline and its whole bearingconsists in one and only one principle: to love Jhesu. All roads lead to Rome: all preparations, all trials lead to one realisation, love of God, God as a living person close to us, our friend and lover and master. The Christian mystic speaks almost in the terms of the Gita: rise above your senses, give up your ego-hood, be meek and humble, it is Jesus within you, who embraces your soul: it is he who does everything for you and in you, give yourself up wholly into his hands. He will deliver you.
The characteristic then of the path is a one-pointed concentration. Great stress is laid upon "oneliness", "onedness":that is to say, a perfect and complete withdrawal from the outside and the world; an unmixed solitude is required for the true experience and realisation to come. "A full forsaking in will of the soul for the love of Him, and a living of the heart to Him. This asks He, for this gave He." The rigorous exclusion, the uncompromising asceticism, the voluntary self-torture, the cruel dark night and the arid desert are necessary conditions that lead to the "onlyness of soul", what another prophet (Isaiah, XXIV, 16) describes as "My privity to me". In that secreted solitude, the "onlistead"the graphic language of the author calls itis found "that dignity and that ghostly fairness which a soul had by kind and shall have by grace." The utter beauty of the soul and its absolute love for her deity within her (which has the fair name of Jhesu), the exclusive concentration of the whole of the being upon one point, the divine core, the manifest Grace of God, justifies the annihilation of the world and life's manifold existence. Indeed, the image of the Beloved is always within, from the beginning to the end. It is that that keeps one up in the terrible struggle with one's nature and the world. The image depends upon the consciousness which we have at the moment, that is to say, upon the stage or the degree we have ascended to. At the outset, when we can only look through the senses, when the flesh is our master, we give the image a crude form and character; but even that helps. Gradually, as we rise, with the clearing of our nature, the image too slowly regains its original and true shape. Finally, in the inmost soul we find Jesus as he truly is: "an unchangeable being, a sovereign might, a sovereign soothfastness, sovereign goodness, a blessed life and endless bliss." Does not the Gita too say: "As one approaches Me, so do I appear to him."Ye yath mm prapadyante.
Indeed, it would be interesting to compare and contrast the Eastern and Western approach to Divine Love, the Christian and the Vaishnava, for example. Indian spirituality, whatever its outer form or credal formulation, has always a background of utter unity. This unity, again, is threefold or triune and is expressed in those great Upanishadic phrases,mahvkyas,(1) the transcendental unity: the One alone exists, there is nothing else than theOneekamevdvityam; (2) the cosmic unity: all existence is one, whatever exists is that One, thereare no separate existences:sarvam khalvidam brahma neha nnsti kincaa; (3) That One is I, you too are that One:so' ham, tattvamasi; this may be called the individual unity. As I have said, all spiritual experiences in India, of whatever school or line, take for granted or are fundamentally based upon this sense of absolute unity or identity. Schools of dualism or pluralism, who do not apparently admit in their tenets this extreme monism, are still permeated in many ways with that sense and in some form or other take cognizance of the truth of it. The Christian doctrine too says indeed, 'I and my Father in Heaven are one', but this is not identity, but union; besides, the human soul is not admitted into this identity, nor the world soul. The world, we have seen, according to the Christian discipline has to be altogether abandoned, negatived, as we go inward and upward towards our spiritual status reflecting the divine image in the divine company. It is a complete rejection, a cutting off and casting away of world and life. One extreme Vedantic path seems to follow a similar line, but there it is not really rejection, but a resolution, not the rejection of what is totally foreign and extraneous, but a resolution of the external into its inner and inmost substance, of the effect into its original cause. Brahman is in the world, Brahman is the world: the world has unrolled itself out of the Brahmansi, pravttiit has to be rolled back into its, cause and substance if it is to regain its pure nature (that is the process of nivitti). Likewise, the individual being in the world, "I", is the transcendent being itself and when it withdraws, it withdraws itself and the whole world with it and merges into the Absolute. Even the Maya of the Mayavadin, although it is viewed as something not inherent in Brahman but superimposed upon Brahman, still, has been accepted as a peculiar power of Brahman itself. The Christian doctrine keeps the individual being separate practically, as an associate or at the most as an image of God. The love for one's neighbour, charity, which the Christian discipline enjoins is one's love for one's kind, because of affinity of nature and quality: it does not dissolve the two into an integral unity and absolute identity, where we love because we are one, because we are the One. The highest culmination of love, the very basis of love, according to the Indian conception, is a transcendence of love, love trans-muted into Bliss. The Upanishad says, where one has become the utter unity, who loves whom? To explain further our point, we take two examples referred to in the book we are considering. The true Christian, it is said, loves the sinner too, he is permitted to dislike sin, for he has to reject it, but he must separate from sin the sinner and love him. Why? Because the sinner too can change and become his brother in spirit, one loves the sinner because there is the possibility of his changing and becoming a true Christian. It is why the orthodox Christian, even such an enlightened and holy person as this mediaeval Canon, considers the non-Christian, the non-baptised as impure and potentially and fundamentally sinners. That is also why the Church, the physical organisation, is worshipped as Christ's very body and outside the Church lies the pagan world which has neither religion nor true spirituality nor salvation. Of course, all this may be symbolic and it is symbolic in a sense. If Christianity is taken to mean true spirituality, and the Church is equated with the collective embodiment of that spirituality, all that is claimed on their behalf stands justified. But that is an ideal, a hypothetical standpoint and can hardly be borne out by facts. However, to come back to our subject, let us ow take the second example. Of Christ himself, it is said, he not only did not dislike or had any aversion for Judas, but that he positively loved the traitor with a true and sincere love. He knew that the man would betray him and even when he was betraying and had betrayed, the Son of Man continued to love him. It was no make-believe or sham or pretence. It was genuine, as genuine as anything can be. Now, why did he love his enemy? Because, it is said, the enemy is suffered by God to do the misdeed: he has been allowed to test the faith of the faithful, he too has his utility, he too is God's servant. And who knows even a Judas would not change in the end? Many who come to scoff do remain to pray. But it can be asked, 'Does God love Satan too in the same way?' The Indian conception which is basically Vedantic is different. There is only one reality, one truth which is viewed differently. Whether a thing is considered good or evil or neutral, essentially and truly, it is that One and nothing else. God's own self is everywhere and the sage makes no difference between the Brahmin and the cow and the elephant. It is his own self he finds in every person and every objectsarvabhtsthitam yo mm bhajati ekatvamsthitah"he has taken his stand upon oneness and loves Me in all beings."2
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The conception of original sin is a cardinal factor in Christian discipline. The conception, of sinfulness is the very motive-power that drives the aspirant. "Seek tensely," it is said, "sorrow and sigh deep, mourn still, and stoop low till thine eye water for anguish and for pain." Remorse and grief are necessary attendants; the way of the cross is naturally the calvary strewn with pain and sorrow. It is the very opposite of what is termed the "sunlit path" in spiritual ascension. Christian mystics have made a glorious spectacle of the process of "dying to the world." Evidently, all do not go the whole length. There are less gloomy and happier temperaments, like the present one, for example, who show an unusual balance, a sturdy common sense even in the midst of their darkest nights, who have chalked out as much of the sunlit path as is possible in this line. Thus this old-world mystic says: it is true one must see and admit one's sinfulness, the grosser and apparent and more violent ones as well as all the subtle varieties of it that are in you or rise up in you or come from the Enemy. They pursue you till the very end of your journey. Still you need not feel overwhelmed or completely desperate. Once you recognise the sin in you, even the bare fact of recognition means for you half the victory. The mystic says, "It is no sin as thou feelest them." The day Jesus gave himself away on the Cross, since that very day you are free, potentially free from the bondage of sin. Once you give your adherence to Him, the Enemies are rendered powerless. "They tease the soul, but they harm not the soul". Or again, as the mystic graphically phrases it: "This soul is not borne in this image of sin as a sick man, though he feel it; but he beareth it." The best way of dealing with one's enemies is not to struggle and "strive with them." The aspirant, the lover of Jesus, must remember: "He is through grace reformed to the likeness of God ('in the privy substance of his soul within') though he neither feel it nor see it."
If you are told you are still full of sins and you are not worthy to follow the path, that you must go and work out your sins first, here is your answer: "Go shrive thee better: trow not this saying, for it is false, for thou art shriven. Trust securely that thou art on the way, and thee needeth no ransacking of shrift for that that is passed, hold forth thy way and think on Jerusalem." That is to say, do not be too busy with the difficulties of the moment, but look ahead, as far as possible, fix your attention upon the goal, the intermediate steps will become easy. Jerusalem is another name of the Love of Jesus or the Bliss in Heaven. Grow in this love, your sins will fade away of themselves. "Though thou be thrust in an house with thy body, nevertheless in thine heart, where the stead of love is, thou shouldst be able to have part of that love... " What exquisite utterance, what a deep truth!
01.09 - The Parting of the Way, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
So the humanity of man consists in his consciousness of the self or ego. Is there no other higher mode of consciousness? Or is self-consciousness the acme, the utmost limit to which consciousness can raise itself? If it is so, then we are bound to conclude that humanity will remain eternally human in its fundamental nature; the only progress, if progress at all we choose to call it, will consist perhaps in accentuating this consciousness of the self and in expressing it through a greater variety of stresses, through a richer combination of its colour and light and shade and rhythm. But also, this may not be sothere may be the possibility of a further step, a transcending of the consciousness of the self. It seems unnatural and improbable that having risen from un-consciousness to self-consciousness through a series of continuous marches, Nature should suddenly stop and consider what she had achieved to be her final end. Has Nature become bankrupt of her creative genius, exhausted of her upward drive? Has she to remain content with only a clever manipulation, a mere shuffling and re-arranging of the materials already produced?
As a matter of fact it is not so. The glimpses of a higher form of consciousness we can see even now present in self-consciousness. We have spoken of the different stages of evolution as if they were separate and distinct and incommensurate entities. They may be described as such for the purpose of a logical understanding, but in reality they form a single progressive continuum in which one level gradually fuses into another. And as the higher level takes up the law of the lower and evolves out of it a characteristic function, even so the law of the higher level with its characteristic function is already involved and envisaged in the law of the lower level and its characteristic function. It cannot be asserted positively that because man's special virtue is self-consciousness, animals cannot have that quality on any account. We do see, if we care to observe closely and dispassionately, that animals of the higher order, as they approach the level of humanity, show more and more evident signs of something which is very much akin to, if not identical with the human characteristic of self-consciousness.
So, in man also, especially of that order which forms the crown of humanityin poets and artists and seers and great men of actioncan be observed a certain characteristic form of consciousness, which is something other than, greater than the consciousness of the mere self. It is difficult as yet to characte rise definitely what that thing is. It is the awakening of the self to something which is beyond itselfit is the cosmic self, the oversoul, the universal being; it is God, it is Turiya, it is sachchidanandain so many ways the thing has been sought to be envisaged and expressed. The consciousness of that level has also a great variety of names given to it Intuition, Revelation, cosmic consciousness, God-consciousness. It is to be noted here, however, that the thing we are referring to, is not the Absolute, the Infinite, the One without a second. It is not, that is to say, the supreme Reality the Brahmanin its static being, in its undivided and indivisible unity; it is the dynamic Brahman, that status of the supreme Reality where creation, the diversity of Becoming takes rise, it is the Truth-worldRitam the domain of typal realities. The distinction is necessary, as there does seem to be such a level of consciousness intermediary, again, between man and the Absolute, between self-consciousness and the supreme consciousness. The simplest thing would be to give that intermediate level of consciousness a negative namesince being as yet human we cannot foresee exactly its composition and function the super-consciousness.
The inflatus of something vast and transcendent, something which escapes all our familiar schemes of cognisance and yet is insistent with a translucent reality of its own, we do feel sometimes within us invading and enveloping our individuality, lifting up our sense of self and transmuting our personality into a reality which can hardly be called merely human. All this life of ego-bound rationality then melts away and opens out the passage for a life of vision and power. Thus it is the poet has felt when he says, "there is this incalculable element in human life influencing us from the mystery which envelops our being, and when reason is satisfied, there is something deeper than Reason which makes us still uncertain of truth. Above the human reason there is a transcendental sphere to which the spirit of men sometimes rises, and the will may be forged there at a lordly smithy and made the unbreakable pivot."(A.E.)
This passage from the self-conscient to the super-conscient does not imply merely a shifting of the focus of consciousness. The transmutation of consciousness involves a purer illumination, a surer power and a wider compass; it involves also a fundamental change in the very mode of being and living. It gives quite a different life-intuition and a different life-power. The change in the motif brings about a new form altogether, a re-casting and re-shaping and re-energising of the external materials as well. As the lift from mere consciousness to self-consciousness meant all the difference between an animal and a man, so the lift again from self-consciousness to super-consciousness will mean the difference of a whole world between man and the divine creature that is to be.
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Nature has marched from the unconscious to the sub-conscious, from the sub-conscious to the conscious and from the conscious to the self-conscious; she has to rise yet again from the self-conscious to the super-conscious. The mineral gave place to the plant, the plant gave place to the animal and the animal gave place to man; let man give place to and bring out the divine.
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0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
that is roused by the wind and rises upwards, but falls
back dead or dying as soon as the wind drops. Vigilant,
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But if one rises above the individual mentality and enters
into the consciousness of Unity, then one can understand.
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Aspiration is the only remedy - an aspiration that rises
constantly like a clear flame burning up all the impurities of
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to rise to the intellectual level on which all opposite ideas can be
set face to face and assembled in a comprehensive synthesis.
01.10 - Principle and Personality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is asked of us why do we preach a man and not purely and solely a principle. Our ideal being avowedly the establishment and reign of a new principle of world-order and not gathering recruits for the camp of a sectarian teacher, it seems all the more inconsistent, if not thoroughly ruinous for our cause, that we should lay stress upon a particular individual and incur the danger of overshadowing the universal truths upon which we seek to build human society. Now, it is not that we are unconscious or oblivious of the many evils attendant upon the system of preaching a man the history of the rise and decay of many sects and societies is there to give us sufficient warning; and yet if we cannot entirely give the go-by to personalities and stick to mere and bare principles, it is because we have clear reasons for it, because we are not unconscious or oblivious either of the evils that beset the system of preaching the principle alone.
Religious bodies that are formed through the bhakti and puja for one man, social reconstructions forced by the will and power of a single individual, have already in the inception this grain of incapacity and disease and death that they are not an integrally self-conscious creation, they are not, as a whole, intelligent and wide awake and therefore constantly responsive to the truths and ideals and realities for which they exist, for which at least, their founder intended them to exist. The light at the apex is the only light and the entire structure is but the shadow of that light; the whole thing has the aspect of a dark mass galvanised into red-hot activity by the passing touch of a dynamo. Immediately however the solitary light fails and the dynamo stops, there is nothing but the original darkness and inertiatoma asit tamasa gudham agre.
01.11 - Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We fear Mr. Huxley has completely missed the point of the cryptic sentence. He seems to take it as meaning that human kindness and morality are a means to the recovery of the Lost Way-although codes of ethics and deliberate choices are not sufficient in themselves, they are only a second best, yet they mark the rise of self-consciousness and have to be utilised to pass on into the unitive knowledge that is Tao. This explanation or amplification seems to us somewhat confused and irrelevant to the idea expressed in the apophthegm. What is stated here is much simpler and transparent. It is this that when the Divine is absent and the divine Knowledge, then comes in man with his human mental knowledge: it is man's humanity that clouds the Divine and to reach the' Divine one must reject the human values, all the moralities, sarva dharmn, seek only the Divine. The lesser way lies through the dualities, good and evil, the Great Way is beyond them and cannot be limited or measured by the relative standards. Especially in the modern age we see the decline and almost the disappearance of the Greater Light and instead a thousand smaller lights are lighted which vainly strive to dispel the gathering darkness. These do not help, they are false lights and men are apt to cling to them, shutting their eyes to the true one which is not that that one worships here and now, nedam yadidam upsate.
There is a beautiful quotation from the Chinese sage, Wu Ch'ng-n, regarding the doubtful utility of written Scriptures:
01.11 - The Basis of Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The rise of this spirit in modern times and conditions is a phenomenon that has to be explained and faced: it is a ghost that has come out of the past and has got to be laid and laid for good. First of all, it is a reaction from modernism; it is a reaction from the modernist denial of certain fundamental and eternal truths, of God, soul, and immortality: it is a reaction from the modernist affirmation of the mere economic man. And it is also a defensive gesture of a particular complex of consciousness that has grown and lives powerfully and now apprehends expurgation and elimination.
In Europe such a contingency did not a rise, because the religious spirit, rampant in the days of Inquisitions and St. Bartholomews, died away: it died, and (or, because) it was replaced by a spirit that was felt as being equally, if not more, au thentic and, which for the moment, suffused the whole consciousness with a large and high afflatus, commensurate with the amplitude of man's aspiration. I refer, of course, to the spirit of the Renaissance. It was a spirit profane and secular, no doubt, but on that level it brought a catholicity of temper and a richness in varied interesta humanistic culture, as it is calledwhich constituted a living and unifying ideal for Europe. That spirit culminated in the great French Revolution which was the final coup de grace to all that still remained of mediaevalism, even in its outer structure, political and economical.
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However, coming to historical times, we see wave after wave of the most heterogeneous and disparate elementsSakas and Huns and Greeks, each bringing its quota of exotic materialenter into the oceanic Indian life and culture, lose their separate foreign identity and become part and parcel of the common whole. Even so,a single unitary body was formed out of such varied and shifting materialsnot in the political, but in a socio-religious sense. For a catholic religious spirit, not being solely doctrinal and personal, admitted and embraced in its supple and wide texture almost an infinite variety of approaches to the Divine, of forms and norms of apprehending the Beyond. It has been called Hinduism: it is a vast synthesis of multiple affiliations. It expresses the characteristic genius of India and hence Hinduism and Indianism came to be looked upon as synonymous terms. And the same could be defined also as Vedic religion and culture, for its invariable basis the bed-rock on which it stood firm and erectwas the Vedas, the Knowledge seen by the sages. But there had already risen a voice of dissidence and discord that of Buddha, not so much, perhaps, of Buddha as of Buddhism. The Buddhistic enlightenment and discipline did not admit the supreme authority of the Vedas; it sought other bases of truth and reality. It was a great denial; and it meant and worked for a vital schism. The denial of the Vedas by itself, perhaps, would not be serious, but it became so, as it was symptomatic of a deeper divergence. Denying the Vedas, the Buddhistic spirit denied life. It was quite a new thing in the Indian consciousness and spiritual discipline. And it left such a stamp there that even today it stands as the dominant character of the Indian outlook. However, India's synthetic genius rose to the occasion and knew how to bridge the chasm, close up the fissure, and present again a body whole and entire. Buddha became one of the Avataras: the discipline of Nirvana and Maya was reserved as the last duty to be performed at the end of life, as the culmination of a full-length span of action and achievement; the way to Moksha lay through Dharma and Artha and Kama, Sannyasa had to be built upon Brahmacharya and Garhasthya. The integral ideal was epitomized by Kalidasa in his famous lines about the character of the Raghus:
They devoted themselves to study in their boyhood, in youth they pursued the objects of life; when old they took to spiritual austerities, and in the end they died united with the higher consciousness.
01.12 - Three Degrees of Social Organisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But Right is not the only term on which an ideal or even a decent society can be based. There is another term which can serve equally well, if not better. I am obviously referring to the conception of duty. I tis an old world conception; it isa conception particularly familiar to the East. The Indian term for Right is also the term for dutyadhikara means both. In Europe too, in more recent times, when after the frustration of the dream of a new world envisaged by the French Revolution, man was called upon again to rise and hope, it was Mazzini who brought forward the new or discarded principle as a mantra replacing the other more dangerous one. A hierarchy of duties was given by him as the pattern of a fulfilled ideal life. In India, in our days the distinction between the two attitudes was very strongly insisted upon by the great Vivekananda.
Vivekananda said that if human society is to be remodelled, one must first of all learn not to think and act in terms of claims and rights but in terms of duties and obligations. Fulfil your duties conscientiously, the rights will take care of themselves; it is such an attitude that can give man the right poise, the right impetus, the right outlook with regard to a collective living. If instead of each one demanding what one considers as one's dues and consequently scrambling and battling for them, and most often not getting them or getting at a ruinous pricewhat made Arjuna cry, "What shall I do with all this kingdom if in regaining it I lose all my kith and kin dear to me?"if, indeed, instead of claiming one's right, one were content to know one's duty and do it as it should be done, then not only there would be peace and amity upon earth, but also each one far from losing anything would find miraculously all that one most needs and must have,the necessary, the right rights and all.
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We may perhaps view the three terms Right, Duty and Dharma as degrees of an ascending consciousness. Consciousness at Its origin and in its primitive formulation is dominated by the principle of inertia (tamas); in that state things have mostly an undifferentiated collective existence, they helplessly move about acted upon by forces outside them. A rise in growth and evolution brings about differentiation, specialisation, organisation. And this means consciousness of oneself of the distinct and separate existence of each and everyone, in other words, self-assertion, the claim, the right of each individual unit to be itself, to become itself first and foremost. It is a necessary development; for it signifies the growth of self consciousness in the units out of a mass unconsciousness or semi-consciousness. It is the expression of rajas, the mode of dynamism, of strife and struggle, it is the corrective of tamas.
In the earliest and primitive society men lived totally in a mass consciousness. Their life was a blind obedienceobedience to the chief the patriarch or pater familiasobedience to the laws and customs of the collectivity to which one belonged. It was called duty; it was called even dharma, but evidently on a lower level, in an inferior formulation. In reality it was more of the nature of the mechanical functioning of an automaton than the exercise of conscious will and deliberate choice, which is the very soul of the conception of duty.
01.14 - Nicholas Roerich, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Is it not strange that one should look to the East for the light? There is a light indeed that dwells in the setting suns, but that is the inferior light, the light that moves level with the earth, pins us down to the normal and ordinary life and consciousness: it" leads into the Night, into Nihil, pralaya. It is the light of the morning sun that man looks up to in his forward march, the sun that rises in the East whom the Vedic Rishi invoked in these magnificent lines:
Lo, the supreme light of all lights is come, a vast and varied consciousness is born in us. . . .
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
physical consciousness and making it rise gradually towards the
Divine. Whereas Sri Aurobindo has said that to do his yoga,
0.12 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When the sun rises, a vigorous energy descends on earth and
this energy is helpful for work.
0 1956-04-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother, two months ago I had a clear mental perception of what was asked of me: to spend the rest of my life here. This is the source of my difficulties and of the inner hell I have been living through ever since. Each time I try to emerge, there is this image that rises up in me: your-whole-life and this casts me into a violent conflict. When I came here, I thought of staying for two or three years; for me the Ashram was a means of realization, not an end.
I understand now that as long as my whole being has not ACCEPTED that it must finish its life here, there is no way out nor any recovery possible. Through my mental force alone, this acceptance is impossible; I have been turning infernally in circles these past two months, and the mind is in league with the vital. Therefore, a force greater than mine must help me accept that my way is here. I need you, Mother, for without you I am lost. I need you to tell me that the Truth of my being is indeed here and that I am truly ready to follow this path. Mother, I beseech you, help me to see the truth of my being, give me some sign that my way is here and not elsewhere. I beg of you, Mother, help me to know.
0 1956-08-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
My Lord, through me thou hast challenged the world and all the adverse forces have risen in protest.1
But Thy Grace is winning the victory.
0 1957-10-17, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
We live perennially with a burden on our shoulders, something that bows our heads down, and we feel pulled, led by all kinds of external forces, we dont know by whom or what, nor where tothis is what men call Fate, Destiny. When you do yoga, one of the first experiences the experience of the kundalini, as it is called here in Indiais precisely one in which the consciousness rises, breaks through this hard lid, here, at the crown of the head, and at last you emerge into the Light. Then you see, you know, you decide and you realizedifficulties may still remain, but truly speaking one is above them. Well, as a result of the supramental manifestation, it is THIS experience that came into the body. The body straightened its head up and felt its freedom, its independence.
During the flu epidemic, for example, I spent every day in the midst of people who were germ carriers. And one day, I clearly felt that the body had decided not to catch this flu. It asserted its autonomy. You see, it was not a question of the higher Will deciding, no. It didnt take place in the highest consciousness: the body itself decided. When you are way above in your consciousness, you see things, you know things; but in actual fact, once you descend again into matter, it is like water running through sand. In this respect, things have changed, the body has a DIRECT power, independent of any outer intervention. Even though it is barely visible, I consider this to be a very important result.
0 1957-12-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This experience showed me once more the necessity to be perfectly humble before the Lord. It is not enough merely to rise to the heights, to the ethereal planes of consciousness: these planes have also to descend into matter and illuminate it. Otherwise, nothing is really done. One must have the patience to establish the communication between the high and the low. I am like a tempest, a hurricaneif I listened to myself, I would tear into the future, and everything would go flying! But then, there would no longer be any communication with the rest.
One must have the patience to wait.
0 1958-06-06 - Supramental Ship, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This consciousness here is true in relation to this world as it is, but the other is something else entirely. An adjustment is needed for the two to touch, otherwise one jumps from one to the other. And that serves no purpose. A progressive passage has to be built between the two. This means that a whole number of rungs of consciousness are missing. This consciousness here must consciously connect with that consciousness there, which means a multitude of stairs passing from one to the other. Then we will be able to rise up progressively, and the whole will a rise.
Its action will be somewhat similar to what is described in the Last Judgment, which is an entirely symbolic expression of something that makes us discern between what belongs to the world of falsehood which is destined to disappear and what belongs to this same world of ignorance and inertia but is transformable. One will go to one side and the other to the other side. All that is transformable will be permeated more and more with this new substance and this new consciousness to such an extent that it will rise towards it and serve as a link between the two but all that belongs incorrigibly to falsehood and ignorance will disappear. This was also prophesied in the Gita: among what we call the hostile or anti-divine forces, those capable of being transformed will be uplifted and go off towards the new consciousness, whereas all that is irrevocably in darkness or belongs to an evil will shall be destroyed and vanish from the Universe. And a whole part of humanity that has responded to these forces rather too zealously will certainly vanish with them. And this is what was expressed in this concept of the Last Judgment.
May 1, 1958.
0 1958-09-16 - OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Each time this music is played, it produces exactly the same effect upon the body. It is strange, as if all the cells were dilating, with a feeling that the body is growing larger It becomes all dilated, as if swollen with lightwith force, a lot of force. And this music seems to form spirals, like luminous ribbons of incense smoke, white (not transparent, literally white) and they rise up and up. I always see the same thing; it begins in the form of a vase, then swells like an amphora and converges higher up to blossom forth like a flower.
So for these mantras, everything depends upon what you want to do with them. I am in favor of a short mantra, especially if you want to make both numerous and spontaneous repetitionsone or two words, three at most. Because you must be able to use them in all cases, when an accident is about to happen, for example. It has to spring up without thinking, without calling: it should issue forth from the being spontaneously, like a reflex, exactly like a reflex. Then the mantra has its full force.
0 1958-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But as long as this is not an accomplished fact, it will still be a progressiona progression, an ascension; you gain a little, you gain some ground, you rise higher and higher. But as long as the new reversal has not taken place, its as if everything had still to be done. It is a repetition of the experience below, reproduced above.
(silence)
0 1959-03-10 - vital dagger, vital mass, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
When you see them, oh! its suffocating. When youre in contact with that Really, you wonder how anyone can brea the in such an atmosphere. And yet people CONSTANTLY live in that atmosphere! They live in it. Only when they rise above are they NOT in it. Or else there are those who are entirely below; but those are the toys of these things, and their reactions are sometimes not only unexpected but absolutely dreadfulbecause they are puppets in the hands of these things.
Those who rise above, who enter into a slightly intellectual region, can see all this from above; they can look down at it all, keep their heads above and breathe; but those who live in this realm
Sri Aurobindo calls this realm the intermediate zone, a zone in which, he says, you can have all the experiences you wish if you enter into it. But it isnt (laughing) very advisable!and I understand why! I had that experience because I had just read what Sri Aurobindo says on this subject in a letter in this latest book, On Yoga; I wanted to see for myself what it was. Ah, I understood!
0 1960-07-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Although it is still in a region of the physical mind, it is a mind striving towards a luminous organization and clearly aspiring to rise towards the higher realms.
And last night especially I had a very positive impression (a sort of feeling) that I can count on you.
0 1960-07-23 - The Flood and the race - turning back to guide and save amongst the torrents - sadhana vs tamas and destruction - power of giving and offering - Japa, 7 lakhs, 140000 per day, 1 crore takes 20 years, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And once on the other side, without even a rise in ground level (I dont know why), it was immediately safe. And the current went on and on, waves upon waves, on and on, as far as the eye could see, but it was canalized here at the Great Turning; and as soon as it went past this point, the inundation was total, it spread out over something over the earth. And the current turnedit turned but I was already on the other side. And down below, everything was finished, the water rushed down everywhere. Only, as soon as I was on the other side, it could not touch me the water could not get across, it was stopped by something invisible, and it turned away.
Moreover, it seemed that everything had already been prepared, as if the way had been made to divert the water.
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Its more and more a universal yoga the whole earth and it is like that day and night, when I walk and when I speak and when I eat. Its constantly like that. As if the whole earth were its like kneading dough to make it rise.
But when I read his Yoga of Self-Perfection and see simply what we are phew! What yeast we would need to make all that rise!
But this is not true: HE alone is doing it, its always He.
0 1960-10-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I told this to Xor rather had someone tell himto see his reaction. And I realized that he did not understand in the least! Once Amrita asked him how he himself SAW and KNEW things. So he tried to explain; he told Amrita that he had to pull his consciousness upwards by a gradual effort, to go beyond the heart, beyond the throat center to pull it right up here (the top of the head), and once there, youre divine, you know! All of a sudden, I understood that when I said it was there, above the head, it must have seemed absolutely impossible to him! For him, its the crown of the head1 (what they call the thousand-petalled lotus), just at the top of the head, whereas in my experience it opens, it rises and you go above, and then you settle there For a number of years it even changed my [physical] visionit was as if I were looking at things from above. It returns from time to time, too, as if suddenly I were seeing from above instead of from here, at eye level.
But the faculty of forming thoughts is now there, up above; its no longer here (Mother points to her forehead). And thats contrary to their teachings.
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
How strange it is! You have the feeling of ascending, of a progress in consciousness, and everything, all the events and circumstances of life follow one another with an unquestioning logic. You see the Divine Will unfolding with a wonderful logic. Then, from time to time, there appears a little set of circumstances (either isolated or repeated), which are like snags on the way; you cant explain them, so you put them aside for later on. Some such accidents have been quite significant, but they dont seem to follow this ascending line of the present individuality. Theyre scattered along the way, sometimes repeated, sometimes only once, and then they vanish. And when you go through such an experience, you sense that they are things put aside for later on. And then, all of a sudden (especially during these last two years when I have again descended to take all that up), all of a sudden, one after another, all these snags return. And they dont follow the same curve; rather, its as if suddenly you reach a certain state and a certain impersonal breadth that far surpasses the individual, and this new state enters into contact with one of those old accidents that had remained in the deepest part of the subconscientand that makes it rise up again, the two meet in an explosion of light. Everything is explained, everything is understood, everything is clear! No explanation is needed: it has become OBVIOUS.
This is entirely another way of understandingits not an ascent, not even a descent nor an inspiration it must be what Sri Aurobindo calls a revelation. Its the meeting of this subconscious notationthis something which has remained buried within, held down so as not to manifest, but which suddenly surges forth to meet the light streaming down from above, this very vast state of consciousness that excludes nothing and from it springs forth a lightoh, a resplendence of light!like a new explanation of the world, or of that part of the world not yet explained.
0 1960-12-13, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Its fairly easy to manage and control this in the realm of thought, but when it comes to those reactions that rise up from the very bottom theyre so petty that you can barely express them to yourself. For example, if someone mentions that so-and-so ate such-and-such a thing, immediately something somewhere starts stealing in: Ah, hes going to get a stomach-ache! Or you hear that someone is going somewhereOh, hes going to have an accident! And it applies to everything; its swarming down below. Nothing to do with thought as such!
Its quite a nasty habit, for it keeps the most material state in a condition of disharmony, disorder, ugliness and difficulty.
0 1961-01-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But actually, there are really two quite different forms of self-deception. One can be very shocked by certain things, not for personal reasons but precisely because of ones goodwill and ardor to serve the Divine, when one sees people misconducting themselves, being egoistical, unfaithful, treacherous. There comes a stage when one has mastered these things and doesnt permit them to manifest IN ONESELF; but to the extent that one is in contact with ordinary consciousness, ordinary viewpoints, ordinary life and thought, their possibility is still there, latent, because they are the inverse of the qualities one is striving for. And this opposition always exists until one has risen above and no longer has either the quality or the defect. As long as one has virtue, one always has its latent opposite. The opposition disappears only when one is beyond virtue and sin.
But until then, there is this kind of indignation stemming from the fact that one is not entirely above: its a period when one totally disapproves of certain things and would be incapable of doing them. And up to this point, there is nothing to say, unless one gives an external, violent expression to his indignation. If anger interferes, it indicates an entire contradiction between the feeling one wants to have and this reaction towards others. Because anger is a deformation of vital power originating from an obscure and thoroughly unregenerate vital,1 a vital still subject to all the ordinary actions and reactions. When an ignorant, egoistic individual will exploits this vital power and encounters opposition from other individual wills around it, then under the pressure of opposition this power changes into anger and tries to obtain through violence what could not be achieved by the pressure of the Force alone.
0 1961-01-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At midnight I was lying in bed. (And I remained there from midnight until I oclock fully awake. I dont know if my eyes were open or closed, but I was wide awake, NOT IN TRANCEI could hear all the noises, the clocks, and so forth.) Then, lying flat, my entire body (but a slightly enlarged body, exceeding the purely physical form) became ONE vibration, extremely rapid and intense but immobile. I dont know how to explain this, because it did not move in space but was a vibration (that is, it wasnt motionless); yet it was motionless in space. And the exact form of my body was absolutely the most brilliant white Light of the supreme Consciousness, the consciousness OF the Supreme. It was IN the body and it was as though in EACH cell there was a vibration, and it was all part of a single BLOCK of vibration. It extended this much beyond the body (gesture indicating about six centimeters). I was absolutely immobile in my bed. Then, WITHOUT MOVING, without shifting, it began consciously to rise upwithout moving, you understand: I remained like this (Mother holds her two joined and motionless hands at the level of her forehead, as if her entire body were mounting in prayer)consciously like an ascension of this consciousness6 towards the supreme Consciousness.
The body was stretched out flat.
0 1961-03-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Listen, mon petit, you dont need to ask, I will tell you right away. Sri Aurobindo has written somewhere that the movement of world transformation is double: first, the individual who does sadhana6 and establishes contact with higher things; but at the same time, the world is a base and it must rise up a little and prepare itself for the realization to be achieved (this is putting it simply). Some people live merely on the surface they come alive only when they stir about restlessly. Whatever happens inside them (if anything does!) is immediately thrown out into movement. Such people always need an outer activity; take J. for example: he fastened onto Sri Aurobindos phrase, World Union, and came to tell me he wanted.
He has been like that since the beginning (gesture expressing agitation), and he had a go at a considerable number of things but none ever succeeded! He has no method, no sense of order and he doesnt know how to organize work. So World Union is simply to let him have his way, like letting a horse gallop.
0 1961-03-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When was it? Not last night, but the night before, I was with you; and while I was with you I heard the clock strike. I didnt count, but I told myself, Its 4 oclock! and got out of bed. One hour later I saw that it was 4 a.m.: I had risen at 3, and by then we had been together for quite a long time. I had gone where? I dont know. I was living some place (certainly somewhere in the Mind) and we were together, we had been working together, doing all sorts of things and spending a lot of time together I dont know for how long because time there isnt the same.
Then I had to return here that is, to my home in India, to Sri Aurobindos home: I had to return to Sri Aurobindos home. Pavitra was also working there and he didnt want to let me leave; when he saw me going he came and tried to stop me. You, on the contrary, were helping. Shall I take anything with me or not? I asked myself Oh, I dont need anything, Ill go all alone. That worried you a little because of the journey ahead, and you said, There will be many complications. It doesnt matter! I replied (laughing). But if you only knew how living and concrete it was! The impressions were so there was the feeling of making a long voyageit was a LONG voyage, as if I were crossing the sea (but not physically), a long voyage. I remember setting off (I was with you, you were there) and telling myself, At last hes here! At last I have found a reasonable being who doesnt try to stop me from doing what I must do! I had (laughing mischievously) a very high opinion of you, thats why I am telling you this!
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But if you can witness a discussion as an impartial spectator (I mean even if you are involved in the discussion), you can always gain a lot from it by considering a question or a problem from several points of view; and by trying to reconcile opposing opinions, you can broaden your ideas and rise to a more comprehensive synthesis.
What is the best way to make others understand what you feel to be true?
0 1961-03-14, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And within oh! Its like waves, constantly, the equivalent of those nuances of color I was speaking about, waves of this joy of life, the joy of life rippling past, touching; but instead of being. At times, you see, the body is in a sort of equilibrium (what we, in our ordinary outer consciousness, call equilibrium that is, good health), and then this joy is constant, like swells on the sea (Mother shapes great waves): it seems to flow on behind everything; it comes and shows its face for a moment, then vanishes. In the very tiny things of lifeyes, physical life the joy of these things, the joy life contains, this luminous, special kind of vibration, rises up as if to remind us that its here; it is here, it mustnt be forgotten, its here but its kept down by this tension.
Then, from time to time, everything seems to be on the edge of a precipice; the body doesnt fall simply because it keeps its balance but without this higher state of perfect faith, one would surely fall!
0 1961-03-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A sort of power over circumstances does come to me, however, as if I could rise above it all and give the subconscient a bit of a work-over. Naturally this has some results: entire areas are brought under control. Thats the most important thing. Individuals get the repercussions later because they are very very coagulated, a bit hard! A lack of plasticity.
Take the case of this man Im not naming Ive been training him, working with him, for more than thirty years and I still havent managed to get him to do things spontaneously, according to the needs of the moment, without all his preconceived ideas. Thats the point where he resists: when things have to be done quickly he follows his usual rule and it takes forever! This was illustrated strikingly that night. I told him, Just look: its there its THEREhurry up and warm it a little and Ill go. Ah! He didnt protest, didnt say anything, but he did things exactly according to his own preconceptions.
0 1961-04-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Each time X comes here, all the difficulties rise up to their maximum, they seem to become absolute. And I understand why: his power acts in a domain full of human pettiness. What a domain! Oh, awful! And were not out of it yet: quarrels, divisions, misunderstandings, bad will. I fully understand that it all has to come up in order to be healed. But it gives me a tremendous amount of work!
Anyway.
0 1961-04-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Only just towards the end of the night, after 2 a.m., does all this subconscient rise up to be relived. And with such a new and unexpected perception, oh! Its incredible! It changes all values and relationships and reactions (Mother shapes great movements of shifting forces); its like a chessboard absolutely unexpected!
And I see a very steady, insistent and regular action to eliminate moral values. How I have been plagued all my life by these moral values! Everything is immediately placed on a scale of moral values (not ordinary moralityfar from it! But a sense of what has to be encouraged or discouraged, what helps me towards progress or what hampers it); instantly everything was seen from the angle of this will to progresseverything, all circumstances, reactions, movements, absolutely everything was translated by that. Now, the subconscient is mounting upwards and, knee-deep in it, you see it as a lesson to tell you: so much for all your notions of progress! They are all based on illusionsa general lie. Things are not at all what they seem, they dont have the effects they appear to have, nor the results that are perceivedall, all, all, oh Lord!
0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother rises)
Ah, I have something for you, but I forgot to bring it! (Mother laughs)4
0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Has the sleeper sensed my presence? For now he awakens and rises in all his grace and beauty. He turns towards me and his eyes meet mine, mauve and luminous eyes with a gentle, an infinitely tender expression. Wordlessly he bids me a sublime welcome and my whole being joyously responds. Taking my hand, he leads me to the couch he has just left. I stretch out on this downy whiteness, and his harmonious visage bends over me; a sweet current of force enters wholly into me, invigorating, revitalizing each cell.
Then, wreathed by the splendid colors of the rainbow, enveloped by lulling melodies and exquisite perfumes, beneath his gaze so powerful, so tender, I drift into a beatific repose. And during my sleep I learn many beautiful and useful things.
0 1961-08-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, no, no. Most of the time in sleep, with very few exceptions, one is in contact with all that rises up from the subconscient: a cerebral subconscient, an emotive subconscient, a material subconscient; this is what produces ninety-nine percent of the dreams people have. Sometimesusually the mind goes wandering, but ninety-nine and a half percent of the time, one remembers nothing when it returns, because the link is not properly established.
The purpose of sleep is to re-establish contact with the consciousness of Sachchidananda. But I dont think one person in a hundred does so! They enter into unconsciousness far more than into Sachchidananda.
0 1961-10-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is not surprising, therefore, that exegetes have seen the Vedas primarily as a collection of propitiatory rites centered around sacrificial fires and obscure incantations to Nature divinities (water, fire, dawn, the moon, the sun, etc.), for bringing rain and rich harvests to the tribes, male progeny, blessings upon their journeys or protection against the thieves of the sunas though these shepherds were barbarous enough to fear that one inauspicious day their sun might no longer rise, stolen away once and for all. Only here and there, in a few of the more modern hymns, was there the apparently inadvertent intrusion of a few luminous passages that might have justifiedjust barely the respect which the Upanishads, at the beginning of recorded history, accorded to the Veda. In Indian tradition, the Upanishads had become the real Veda, the Book of Knowledge, while the Veda, product of a still stammering humanity, was a Book of Worksacclaimed by everyone, to be sure, as the venerable Authority, but no longer listened to. With Sri Aurobindo we might ask why the Upanishads, whose depth of wisdom the whole world has acknowledged, could claim to take inspiration from the Veda if the latter contained no more than a tapestry of primitive rites; or how it happened that humanity could pass so abruptly from these so-called stammerings to the manifold richness of the Upanishadic Age; or how we in the West were able to evolve from the simplicity of Arcadian shepherds to the wisdom of Greek philosophers. We cannot assume that there was nothing between the early savage and Plato or the Upanishads.5
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But we have not yet reached the heart of the Vedic secret. The birth of Agni, the soul (and so many men are still unborn) is merely the start of the voyage. This inner flame seeks, it is the seeker within us, for it is a spark of the great primordial Fire and will never be satisfied until it has recovered its solar totality, the lost sun of which the Veda incessantly speaks. Yet even when we have risen from plane to plane and the Flame has taken successive births in the triple world of our lower existence (the physical, vital and mental world), it will still remain unsatisfiedit wants to ascend, ascend further. And soon we reach a mental frontier where there seems to be nothing to grasp any longer, nor even to see, and nothing remains but to abolish everything and leap into the ecstasy of a great Light. At this point, we feel almost painfully the imprisoning carapace of matter all around us, preventing that apotheosis of the Flame; then we understand the cry, My kingdom is not of this world, and the insistence of Indias Vedantic sagesand perhaps the sages of all worlds and all religions that we must abandon this body to embrace the Eternal. Will our flame thus forever be truncated here below and our quest always end in disappointment? Shall we always have to choose one or the other, to renounce earth to gain heaven?
Yet beyond the lower triple world, the Rishis had discovered a certain fourth, touryam svid; they found the vast dwelling place, the solar world, Swar: I have a risen from earth to the mid-world [life], I have a risen from the mid-world to heaven [mind], from the level of the firmament of heaven I have gone to the Sun-world, the Light (Yajur-veda 17.67). And it is said, Mortals, they achieved immortality (Rig-veda I.110.4). What then was their secret? How did they pass from a heaven of mind to the great heaven without leaving the body, without, as it were, going off into ecstasies?
0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We aren't sure, but this may refer to the experience of July 12, 1960, or to that of November 5, 1958, 'the almighty spring' (in fact, they are probably one and the same experience) which gave rise to the 1959 New Year Message: 'At the very bottom of the Inconscient, most hard and rigid and narrow and stifling, I struck upon an almighty spring that cast me up forthwith into a formless, limitless Vast, vibrating with the seeds of a new world.'
Seconds that could last for half an hour!
0 1961-12-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But something else could be done. Its a great pity you never met him. Perhaps its best. Its very difficult to rise above appearances.3
Here, just to give you an example: when I first began to work (not with Theon personally but with an acquaintance of his in France, a boy4 who was a friend of my brother), well, I had a series of visions (I knew nothing about India, mind you, nothing, just as most Europeans know nothing about it: a country full of people with certain customs and religions, a confused and hazy history, where a lot of extraordinary things are said to have happened. I knew nothing.) Well, in several of these visions I saw Sri Aurobindo just as he looked physically, but glorified; that is, the same man I would see on my first visit, almost thin, with that golden-bronze hue and rather sharp profile, an unruly beard and long hair, dressed in a dhoti with one end of it thrown over his shoulder, arms and chest bare, and bare feet. At the time I thought it was vision attire! I mean I really knew nothing about India; I had never seen Indians dressed in the Indian way.
0 1962-01-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And only in the last few days have all those memories been allowed to rise up again from the subconscient where they were being kept; and with that, the state I lived in for thirty years has resurfacedwith this tremendous difference.
And suddenly I said to myself, How could it be? During all the time he was here, the time we were together (after I came back from Japan, when we were together), life, life on earth, lived such a wondrous divine possibility, so really so unique, something it had never lived to such an extent and in such a way, for thirty years, and it didnt even notice!
0 1962-05-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And a rather illusory appearance, besides. As soon as you rise to a certain height (I saw it quite clearly during that progressive reconcretization5), this appearance quickly loses its reality. Our external appearance is very, very illusory. Our particular form (this ones form, that ones form), the form we see with our physical eyes is very superficial, you know. From the vital world onwards, its completely different.
Well. I think thats all I can say for today.
0 1962-05-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Interestingly enough, physicists also say that the wave movement does not displace matter. For example, the concentric ripples caused on the surface of a pond by the fall of a pebble do not carry the water molecules along with them: a cork floating on the water rises and falls with the undulatory rhythm without traveling on the pond.
Mother is not speaking here of only her mantra but of all mantras. As she later added: "No mantra has any effect unless it is ACCEPTED by the Power being addressed. When (like the Tantrics, for example) you do a mantra for a certain deity, if this deity accepts the mantra, that gives it power; but if the deity doesn't accept your mantra, it has no power at all. This isn't something I got out of a book, I know it from my own experience but I believe it has been explained in Tantric texts."
0 1962-06-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Almost all my memories of past lives came like that; the particular being reincarnated in me rises to the surface and begins acting as if it were all on its own! Once in Italy, when I was fifteen, it happened in an extraordinary way. But that time I did some research. I was in Venice with my mother and I researched in museums and archives, and I discovered my name, and the names of the other people involved. I had relived a scene in the Ducal Palace, but relived it in such a such an absolutely intense way (laughinga scene where I was being strangled and thrown into a canal!) that my mother had to hurry me out of there as fast as she could! But that experience I wrote down, so the exact memory has been kept (I didnt write down the other experiences, so the details have all faded away, but this one was noted, although I didnt include any names). The next morning I did some research and uncovered the whole story. I told it all to Thon and Madame Thon, and he also had the memory of a past life there, during the same period. And as a matter of fact, I had seen a portrait there that was the spitting image of Thon! The portrait of one of the doges. It was absolutely (it was a Titian) absolutely Thon! HIS portrait, you know, as if it had just been done.5
All those kinds of things came to me just like that, without my looking for them, wanting them, or understanding them, without doing any sort of discipline, nothingit was absolutely spontaneous. And they just kept on coming and coming and coming.
0 1962-07-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This experience I am describing is exactly what happened yesterday (it happens every day, but yesterday it was especially clear). And its still here I am seeing it as I saw it, its still here. Actually, it is always herealways herethough its more striking when the body is stretched out, motionless in the Yoga. The experience is slightly different when walking because that involves action. When the body walks, it acts on behalf of everything thats related to it, hence the action is vaster and more powerful. But when it is stretched out and asks the Lord to take possession of it, it really asks with all its aspiration. And the very intensity of the aspiration brings in the possibility of a slight emotional vibration. But it is immediately drowned in the immobile immensity of matter, which senses the Divine Descent like a leaven that makes dough rise thats it exactly, the terrestrial immensity of matter and the leavening action of the Divine Descent. The intensity of these vibrations is above and beyond anything we are used to feeling the vital seems dull and flat in comparison. And what a Wisdom! It knows how to make use of time that is, it actually changes itself into timeso as to minimize the possibilities of damage.
Its plain to see that, left to itself in its full power of transformation and progress, this flame of aspiration, this flame of Agni would have scant consideration for the result of the process the result of the process is that fire burns. And there could be mishaps in the functioning of the organs. All the organs must undergo a transformation, but were it too rapid and too sudden, well, everything would go out of whack. The machine would simply explode. But this Wisdom doesnt come from the universal consciousness (which I dont really think is so wise!), its infinitely higher: the Supreme Wisdom. Something so wonderful! It foresees things the universal forces in their universal play would overlooka wonder!
0 1962-07-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The old way of yoga failed to bring about the harmony or unity of Spirit and life: it instead dismissed the world as Maya [Illusion] or a transient Play. The result has been loss of life-power and the degeneration of India. As was said in the Gita, These peoples would perish if I did not do worksthese peoples of India have truly gone down to ruin. A few sannyasins and bairagis [renunciants] to be saintly and perfect and liberated, a few bhaktas [lovers of God] to dance in a mad ecstasy of love and sweet emotion and Ananda [Bliss], and a whole race to become lifeless, void of intelligence, sunk in deep tamas [inertia]is this the effect of true spirituality? No, we must first attain all the partial experiences possible on the mental level and flood the mind with spiritual delight and illumine it with spiritual light, but afterwards we must rise above. If we cannot rise above, to the supramental level, that is, it is hardly possible to know the worlds final secret and the problem it raises remains unsolved. There, the ignorance which creates a duality of opposition between the Spirit and Matter, between truth of spirit and truth of life, disappears. There one need no longer call the world Maya. The world is the eternal Play of God, the eternal manifestation of the Self. Then it becomes possible to fully know and fully realize Godto do what is said in the Gita, To know Me integrally. The physical body, the life, the mind and understanding, the supermind and the Ananda these are the spirits five levels. The higher man rises on this ascent the nearer he comes to the state of that highest perfection open to his spiritual evolution. Rising to the Supermind, it becomes easy to rise to the Ananda. One attains a firm foundation in the condition of the indivisible and infinite Ananda, not only in the timeless Parabrahman [Absolute] but in the body, in life, in the world. The integral being, the integral consciousness, the integral Ananda blossoms out and takes form in life. This is the central clue of my yoga, its fundamental principle.
This is no easy change to make. After these fifteen years I am only now rising into the lowest of the three levels of the Supermind and trying to draw up into it all the lower activities. But when this siddhi will be complete, then I am absolutely certain that through me God will give to others the siddhi of the Supermind with less effort. Then my real work will begin. I am not impatient for success in the work. What is to happen will happen in Gods appointed time. I have no hasty or disorderly impulse to rush into the field of work in the strength of the little ego. Even if I did not succeed in my work I would not be shaken. This work is not mine but Gods. I will listen to no other call; when God moves me then I will move.
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Why have I left politics? Because the politics of the country is not a genuine thing belonging to India. It is an importation from Europe and an imitation. At one time there was a need of it. We also have done politics of the European kind. If we had not done it, the country would not have risen and we too would not have gained experience and attained full development. There is still some need of it, not so much in Bengal as in the other provinces of India. But the time has come to stop the shadow from extending and to seize on the reality. We must get to the true soul of India and in its image fashion all works.
People now talk of spiritualizing politics. Its result will be, if there be any permanent result, some kind of Indianized Bolshevism. Even to that kind of work I have no objection. Let each man do according to his inspiration. But that is not the real thing. If one pours the spiritual power into all these impure forms the water of the Causal ocean into raw vesselsei ther the raw vessels will break and the water will be spilt and lost or the spiritual power will evaporate and only the impure form remain. In all fields it is the same. I can give the spiritual power but that power will be expended in making the image of an ape and setting it up in the temple of Shiva. If the ape is endowed with life and made powerful, he may play the part of the devotee Hanuman and do much work for Rama,2 so long as that life and that power remain. But what we want in the Temple of India is not Hanuman, but the god, the avatar, Rama himself.
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But then what is this consciousness we feel like a force inside us? For instance, sometimes in meditation it rises, then descends; its not fixed anywhere. What is this consciousness?
The Shakti!
Some receive it from above; for others, it rises from below (gesture to the base of the spine). As I once told you, the old system always proceeds from below upwards, while Sri Aurobindo pulls from above downwards. This becomes very clear in meditation (well, in yoga, in yogic experience): for those who follow the old system, its invariably the kundalini at the base [of the spine] rising from center to center, center to center, until the lotus (in an ironic tone) bursts open here gesture at the crown of the head). With Sri Aurobindo, it comes like this (gesture of descending Force) and then settles here (above the head); it enters, and from there it comes down, down, down, everywhere, to the very bottom, and even below the feet the subconscientand lower still, the inconscient.
Its the Shakti. He said, you know (I am still translating it), that the shakti drawn up from below (this is what happens in the individual process) is already what could be called a veiled shakti (it has power, but it is veiled). While the Shakti drawn down from above is a PURE Shakti; and if it can be brought down carefully and slowly enough so that it isnt (how shall I put it?) polluted or, in any case, obscured as it enters matter, then the result is immediately much better. As he has explained, if you start out with this feeling of a great power in yourself (because its always a great power no matter where it awakens), theres inevitably a danger of the ego meddling in. But if it comes pure and you are very careful to keep it pure, not to rush the movement but let it purify as it descends, then half the work is done.
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Mother is referring to a letter of Sri Aurobindo's which Satprem had quoted in his manuscript: "... in the calm mind, it is the substance of the mental being that is still, so still that nothing disturbs it. If thoughts or activities come, they do not rise at all out of the mind, but they come from outside and cross the mind as a flight of birds crosses the sky in a windless air. It passes, disturbs nothing, leaving no trace. Even if a thousand images or the most violent events pass across it, the calm stillness remains as if the very texture of the mind were a substance of eternal and indestructible peace. A mind that has achieved this calmness can begin to act, even intensely and powerfully, but it will keep its fundamental stillnessoriginating nothing from itself but receiving from Above and giving it a mental form without adding anything of its own, calmly, dispassionately, though with the joy of the Truth and the happy power and light of its passage."
Cent. Ed., XXIII. 637.
0 1962-09-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There may be a very dim and subdued lightnot bright, I mean but its self-luminous. And so the higher you rise, the more brilliant and uniform light becomes.
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0 1962-09-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its powers have come from the eternal heights And plunged into the inconscient dim Abyss And risen from it to do their marvelous work.
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0 1962-09-26, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But this overmental region, this region of the gods with the power to govern the universe and, PARTIALLY, the earth, does have its own reality. You can come into contact with it and use it; the Vedic forefa thers used it, occultists use it, even Tantrics use it. But theres another path which, distrusting the gods, bypasses them through a kind of intellectual asceticism, as it were, wary of forms, of images, and differing expressions, which rises straight as an arrow, proud and pure, towards the supramental Light. That is a living experience.
Sri Aurobindo preached the integral yoga which includes everything, so one can have all the experiences. Indeed, the universe was clearly created as a field of experience. Some people prefer the short, straight and narrow paths thats their business. Others like to dawdle along the wayand thats their business! And some are drawn to have all the experiences, and thus they often wander for a long time through the overmental world. And of course, the vast majority of those who have RELIGIOUS aspirations are thus put in touch with various deities, where they stopits enough for them.
0 1962-10-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One sometimes even goes to a great deal of trouble to explain things to Him: Its this way, You see, thats how it is. And when youre finished, you realize. Oh, that reminds me of an experience I had one night two years ago. It was the first time the Supermind entered the cells of my body, and it had risen up to the brain. So the brain found itself in the presence of something (laughing) considerably more powerful than it was used to receiving! And, like the idiot it is, it got worried. As for me (gesture above or beyond), I saw it all, I saw that the brain was getting worried, so I tried to tell it what a nitwit it was and to just keep still. It did keep still, but you know, it was really seething away in there, as if it were about to explode. So I said, All right now, lets go see Sri Aurobindo and ask him what to do. Immediately everything became utterly calm and I woke up in Sri Aurobindos house in the subtle physicala very material sensation, with everything quite concrete. So I arrived, or rather not I but the body-consciousness arrived2 and started explaining to Sri Aurobindo what had happenedit was very excited, talking and talking. The response was a sort of inscrutable smile and then nothing. He simply looked. An inscrutable smilenot a word. All the excitement died away. A face out of eternity. The excitement died away. Then it was time for Sri Aurobindos lunch (people eat therein another way). So as not to disturb him, I went into the next room. He came in after some time and stood before me (Imy physical being, that is, my physical consciousness had had time to calm down). I knelt down and took his hand (a MUCH clearer sensation than anything physical, mon petit!); I kissed his hand. He simply said, Oh! This is better. (Mother laughs.)
I am skipping all the details (it was a long thing, lasting an hour), but suddenly he went out of the room, leaving me alone (after expressing what he wanted to tell me with a gesture, which I understood). And then I simply seemed to take a step (gesture of crossing a threshold), and I found myself lying in my bed again. And at that moment I said to myself, Really! We make all kinds of complications, and its so simple: you just have to go like this (same gesture) and there you are; then you go like that (same gesture in the opposite direction) and youre back here.
0 1962-10-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In short, when one rises to that Origin, one finds a single vibration, which can be expressed as music or thought or architectural or pictorial formsis that right?
Yes, but it goes through specific transformations en route. It passes through one zone or another, where it undergoes transformations to adapt itself to the particular mode of expression. The waves of music are one particular mode of expression of those colored wavesthey should really be called luminous waves, for they are self-luminous. Waves of colored light. Great waves of colored light.
0 1962-11-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because my impression was that the higher I rise, the more I notice things below. I wasnt making a doctrine or theory of it, of course I got rid of that habit a long time ago. But I was looking at it, merely taking note of the fact, without telling myself it was for this or that reason (as you explain here in your book). I observed the phenomenon and was able to say: the more I feel this constant, luminous Presence, the more I see those things. So it has become very clear to me that it is impossible to manifest THAT integrally without everything below being offered up to the Light.
My method is essentially very simple: for each thing that comes, I say, Here, Lord, its for You; change it, transform it. A work of offering and dedication (gesture of presenting something to the Light). And this morning there was a sort of replynot exactly to a question, but as though I were wondering How do I do it? (because the Lord tells me I am here for His work), How do I do His work? Whats the new way of doing the Work? We know all the old ways, but whats the new way? And the reply came, very concrete, without words: By bringing the two extremes together. Everything you see, everything that comes to you or that you discover is automatically put in the presence of the Most High, of the Supreme. You join the two extremes. Your whole work is to make the junction.
0 1962-11-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In Xs case, his personal contact rises to the heights, but its purely personal. While his overall vision (I am not saying universal: overall) stops at the vital-physical plane, with a touch of the mental, and THATS ALL. Theres a contradiction between his personal possibility, which reaches very high (although on quite a tenuous peak), and his overall vision. When his attention turns outward, it is very limited; it may be terrestrial, but its its crusted over, so to speak.
So thats the explanation I gave. But the truth.
0 1963-02-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday evening (was it yesterday? No, the day before), when I went out on the balcony-terrace,3 the difference in perception between the consciousness I have now and the one I had before felt enormous! Before, as I have always said, I would stay there, call the Lord, be in His presence, and only when He withdrew would I come in again thats how it was. And I had a certain relationship with people, things, the outside world (outside, well, not outsideanyway, the world). The day before yesterday, when I went to the balcony, I wasnt thinking of anything or observing anything, I simply went I didnt want to know what was going on, it didnt interest me, I wasnt observing. The other experience [of the previous balcony, one year ago] seemed to go back centuries! It was so much OTHER! And so spontaneous, so natural, and so immense too! The earth was tiny. Yet it was very much here: I wasnt over there, the BODY itself was feeling that way. And at the same time (I was two floors above people), every time I looked, I recognized scores and scores of people, they seemed to leap to my eyesa crystal clear vision, much sharper (the vision I had before was always a bit hazy because what I saw wasnt entirely physical: I saw the movement of forces), and yesterday, it was as if as if I had risen above the very possibility of haziness! It was far less physicalFAR MORE accurate.4
Formerly too, I used to sense the Force, the Consciousness, the Power concentrated in a particular point and then spreading out. While here, there was an IMMENSITY of Power, of Light, of Consciousness, of perception, concentrated in a tiny point: the people gathered there.
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The balcony is quite interesting. Because it suddenly made me notice a change I was unaware of. Like a rapid rise I had been completely unaware of. My only awareness is that at EVERY moment, if I stop talking or listening or working, at every moment, its like great beatific wings, as vast as the world, beating slowly, like that.
A feeling of immense wingsnot two: all around and stretching out everywhere.
0 1963-04-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, mon petit, theyre excellent, dont speak ill of your meditations, theyre perfect! I have rarely seen such peace. Because I have seen many meditations with some peace, but generally a very tamasic, heavy peace. But this kind of peace that rises and turns into a white bliss, thats very rare. Very rare. And its the same every time: regular, automatic, effortless; its your natural state. I dont know if you had it before coming here, I cant say.
No, with you it becomes very concrete. When Im alone, the perception is more vague; with you, I almost seem to see.
0 1963-05-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The effect on others is increasing considerably, though it too isnt the result of an attempt in that direction, not at all: those things are automatic. Yet, as I said, at certain seconds, there rises something that wills. Wills, but not in the ordinary way: something that its between knowing, seeing and willing. A little something that has something of all three and is as hard as diamond (oh, how can I explain it? I dont know, there are no words for it), it has something of the emotive vibration, but thats not it; it has nothing to do with anything intellectual, nothing at all; its neither intellectual vision nor supramental knowledge, thats not it, its something else. It is a diamondlike, live forcelive, living. And thats all-powerful. But extremely fleetingit immediately gets covered over by a heap of things, like visions, supramental vision, understanding, discernmentall this has become a constant mass, you understand.
From the standpoint of sensitivity or sensation (I dont know what to call it), when the body rests and enters the static state of pure Existence Before, it was (or gave) a sense of total immobilitynot something motionless: a non-movement, I dont know; not the opposition between something motionless and something in motion, not that the absence of any possibility of movement. But now, as it happens, the body has the sense not only of a terrestrial movement, but of a universal movement so fantastically rapid that it is imperceptible, beyond perception. As if beyond Being and Non-Being, there were a something thats both I mean, that doesnt move WITHIN a space but is both beyond immobility and beyond movement, in the sense that its so rapid as to be absolutely imperceptible to ALL the senses (I dont mean merely the physical senses), all the senses in all the worlds.
0 1963-05-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The drawing starts here (Mother draws the first half of the 8): its the Supreme leaning forward. Then, Nature in its base, Nature in sleep (the base of the 8). And here (the top of the 8), I put two little drawings (as if to symbolize an eye, a nose and a mouth) to evoke the summit of consciousness. So the Supreme is leaning forward like this and Nature rises like this (Mother draws the second half of the 8). All this (the top of the 8) is golden, then it becomes prismatic (the middle of the 8), and deep blue here (the base of the 8), in the most material part of the creation, and the blue becomes lighter and lighter (going upward again), and finally golden. Perpetually.
Eight is the symbol of infinity for mathematicians ().
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Mother later clarified: "'Glory to You, O Lord' isn't MY mantra, it's something I ADDED to itmy mantra is something else altogether, that's not it. When I say that my mantra has the power of immortality, I mean the other, the one I don't speak of! I have never given the words.... You see, at the end of my walk, a kind of enthusiasm rises, and with that enthusiasm, the 'Glory to You' came to me, but it's part of the prayer I had written in Prayers and Meditations: 'Glory to You, O Lord, all-triumphant Supreme' etc. (it's a long prayer). It came back suddenly, and as it came back spontaneously, I kept it. Moreover, when Sri Aurobindo read this prayer in Prayers and Meditations, he told me it was very strong. So I added this phrase as a kind of tail to my japa. But 'Glory to You, O Lord' isn't my spontaneous mantrait came spontaneously, but it was something written very long ago. The two things are different."
Such is the case, for example, of Anandamayi-M, who was said to be hysterical because of the strange gestures she made during her meditations, until it turned out that they were ritual asanas and mudras which she performed spontaneously.
0 1963-07-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What seems bizarre to those who have gone beyond the petty, purely terrestrial limitshuman terrestrial limitsis that belief in a SINGLE divine manifestation on the earth; all the religions are based on that, everyone says, Christ was the only one, or Buddha was the only one, or elsewhere Mohammed was the only one, and so forth. Well, that only one is something IMPOSSIBLE as soon as you rise a little above the ordinary earth atmosphere it appears childish. You can understand the thing and accept it only as a sort of recurrent movement of the divine Consciousness on the earth.
Of course, officially there is only Christ; maybe for this man [Paul VI], he is still the greatest, but I would be surp rised if he thought Christ was the only one. Only, Christ has to be the only oneyoud cut out your own tongue rather than say hes not!
0 1963-07-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ill give you the example of what Pavitra told me yesterday: he always used to go out of his body in his aspiration and to rise very high I told him a hundred times that he shouldnt do it, it wasnt good (for HIM; to another I would have said to do it). He never understood, and every time he meditated, brrt! he would go out of his body. Then the other day he told me, Ah, now Ive understood! I was always seeking Mother up above, till suddenly I couldnt find anything any more. So I concentrated here [in the body], and I found Mother immediately. And he added, Its because now Mother is here! (Mother laughs) I didnt explain anything, but that was exactly the point!
I didnt tell him anything, but I smiled as though he had made a discovery!
0 1963-07-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I must now bring myself to write to you. With regret and sadness, I confess, since it is to inform you that we do not think it possible to publish your book Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness. I confess that what prevented me from writing to you earlier is not so much the fear of causing you pain, for you are able to rise above the shock such news cannot but cause, as the fact that I knew it would be impossible to explain our reasons to you. Frankly, we cannot really understand this book. And how to explain the reasons for not understanding something? As for me, I often had the feeling of passing from one plane to another, from the level of fact to that of conjecture, from the level of logic (with defined terms as a starting point) to that of presupposition (within a coherence unconnected with the knowledge you offer). I know that all this is disputable. I also know or guess that behind those pages lies an entire lived experience, but one doesnt feel the reader can participate in it. For what reason? Once again, I cannot say. The readers blindness, quite possibly. The minds limitation, too. But a book must build a bridge, pierce the screen, and there are doubtless cases in which doing so no longer depends on the author. I must therefore return this manuscript to you.
(signed: P.A.L.)
0 1963-07-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The importance of the body is obvious; it is because he has developed or been given a body and brain capable of receiving and serving a progressive mental illumination that man has risen above the animal. Equally, it can only be by developing a body or at least a functioning of the physical instrument capable of receiving and serving a still higher illumination that he will rise above himself and realise, not merely in thought and in his internal being but in life, a perfectly divine manhood. Otherwise either the promise of Life is cancelled, its meaning annulled and earthly being can only realise Sachchidananda by abolishing itself, by shedding from it mind, life and body and returning to the pure Infinite, or else man is not the divine instrument, there is a destined limit to the consciously progressive power which distinguishes him from all other terrestrial existences and as he has replaced them in the front of things, so another must eventually replace him and assume his heritage.
(The Life Divine, XVIII.231)
0 1963-08-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it seems to be reflected in circumstances: everyone seems to be, if not at the peak of his difficulties, at least a good way up (!) Disharmony, conflict, chaos appear to have reached their highest (I hope they wont rise any higher, because as it is its hardly bearable). From morning till night, without letup, quarrels, discontent, demands oh, dissatisfaction, grumblings, all the time, all the time, with a sort of simmeringa simmering of disorder and dissatisfaction. (Mother points to a stack of letters): see all thatwhich I am supposed to answer, naturally.
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0 1963-08-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At times For the body its a constant worka constant laborvery tiny, of every instant, an unceasing effort, with, so to say, an imperceptible result (externally at any rate, quite nonexistent), so for someone who doesnt have my consciousness, its perfectly obvious that the body appears to wear out and age, to be slowly heading for decomposition: thats in everyones atmosphere and consciousness (Mother laughs), its the kind of appreciation and vibration thats being thrown all the time on this poor body, which besides is quite conscious of its infirmityit doesnt entertain any illusions! But that quiet, peaceful, but UNCEASING endurance in the effort of transformation makes it sometimes yearn for a little ecstasynot as an abolition or annihilation, not at all, but it seems to be saying, Oh, Lord, I beg you, let me be You in all tranquillity. In fact, thats its prayer every evening when people are supposed to leave it in peace (unfortunately they leave it in peace physically, but mentally they dont). But that I could cut off, I learned to cut off long, long ago, I could cut off, but something, I mean somewhere, someone doesnt approve! (Mother laughs) Obviously what the Someone the great Someonewants to see realized is perfect peace, perfect rest, and joy, a passive joy (not too active; a passive joy is enough), a passive, constant joy, WITHOUT forsaking the work. In other words, the individual experience isnt regarded as all-importantvery far from it: the help given to the whole, the leaven which makes the whole rise, is AT LEAST equally important. Ultimately, thats probably the major reason for persisting in this body.
Nothing inside asks any questions, there are no problems there; all the problems I am talking about are posed by the body, for the body; otherwise, inside, everything is perfect, everything is exactly as it should be. And totally so: what people call good, what they call evil, the beautiful, the ugly, the all that is a small immensity (not a big immensity), a small immensity that is moving more and more towards a progressive realization thats the correct phrasewithin an integral Consciousness which integrally (how should I put it?) enjoys, or I could say, feels the plenitude of what He doesdoes, is and so forth (its all the same thing). But this poor body
0 1963-09-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last time, I told you there were those Tantric lights; this time, there was a pale gold, very luminous, very tranquil, and the shape [of the square] was like a somewhat more golden vibration, a little darker (but not dark), and it stayed still a very long time, till suddenly I felt in your consciousness as if something were opening out, relaxing and opening out, like a sort of well-being in your consciousness. And no sooner did that happen than the square began to rise and rise and rise above your head, and there
Is it the symbol of your meditation or the symbol of your consciousness?The symbol of your consciousness.
0 1963-10-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its still there; even in those who have developed their higher mind, who are able to emerge from that darkness and ignorance, its still there its still there in a sort of mental or vital subconscient. And its so dark! Thoroughly stupid, you know: it can be given hundreds and thousands of proofs, it remains unaffecteda kind of incapacity to understand. And then it constantly rises to the surface, and I am constantly obliged (gesture of offering to the Heights) to present it: This is still there, that is still there, that And I see very well that the distinction between what goes on in this body and its atmosphere, and what goes on in all other bodies is I dont know if the distinction still exists, but its imperceptible. And the consciousness is aware of all those movements as if they were personal to the physical person. But the physical person (Mother touches her body) isnt just this body I am not yet sure whether the physical person isnt the whole earth (for certain things, it is the whole earth), or whether the physical person is the entirety of all the bodies of the people I am in contact with. During the last hours of the night, that is, between 2 and 4, I see precise forms; but those precise forms are themselves representative, meaning there are TYPES and those types take on the image of someone I am in contact with or was in personal contact with. But to me they are types: Oh, its such and such a type but that can be thousands of people. And the action (its always for an action), the action on the person-type has repercussions on all that he represents.
And thats a labor which seems infiniteendless, at any rate.
0 1963-10-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You understand, I dont feel any haste I love stones, flowers, plants, animals so much, theyre all so wonderful! It begins to be less pleasant beyond the most unpleasant is human perversionperversion of cruelty, of wickedness, of hardness. You have to rise higher to be able to accept it, to be unaffected by it.
But that thing I saw yesterday, that bubbly formation of joie de vivre, I saw clearly that its one of the greatest obstaclesone of the greatest obstacles: a vital joy that knows only itself, that knows nothing other than its own vital joy and is PERFECTLY content. I saw it was a great obstacle, because it already contained a sort of reflection of the True Thing. And then, you can only laugh, but there are stern people who say, Youll see when you get sick, youll see when you get old. (All that came because there was a whole work, which represents a whole great drama on the earths scale, there was this and that and that.) What for? Why be stern? Let them be happy, they represent why, its like foam on fresh beer!
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Everyone is born with (what can I call it?) some special twist (laughing)I know my own twist, I know it quite well! (I dont talk about it because it isnt enjoyable.) But thats what remains last of all. With our idiotic human logic, we think, Thats what should go first, but its not true: its what goes last! Even when it all becomes clear, clear (gesture above), even when you have all the experiences, the habit stays on and it keeps coming back. So you push it back: it rises again from the subconscient; you chase it away: it comes back from outside. So if for one minute you arent on your guard, it shows up againoh, what a nuisance! But Sri Aurobindo wrote about this somewhere, I dont remember the words; I read it very recently, and when I read it, I thought, Ah, there it is! He knew it was that way. So it comforted me, and I thought, All right, then. He said that he who has purified his mind and so on and so forth, who is ready to work towards Perfection (its in the Synthesis, The Yoga of Self-Perfection), He is ready and patient for lapses and the recurrence of old errors, and he works quietly, waiting patiently till the time comes for them to leave. I thought, Very well, thats how it is now. I am patiently waiting for the time when (though I dont miss any opportunity to catch them by the tip of their nose, or the tip of their ear, and to say, Ha, youre still here!).
The first thing is to detach your consciousness, thats most important. And to say: I-AM-NOT-THIS, its something that has been ADDED, placed to enable me to touch Matter but it isnt me. And then if you say, That is me (gesture upward), youll see that you will be happy, because it is lovelylovely, luminous, sparkling. Its really fine, it has an exceptional quality. And thats you. But you have to say, That is me, and be convinced that its you. Naturally, the old habits come to deny it, but you must know that theyre old habits, nothing else, they dont matter that is you.
0 1963-12-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then I received a letter from M., the captain, saying that they had felt it was a test, the lila2 of the Lord (he called it the lila of the universal Mother) and asking me if it was true. I was happy and answered him that it was true and that I was happy. And everyone told me, They were wonderful. As if doing that performance in the rain had given rise to a kind of will in them, and they were remarkable: everybody was enthusiastic. So instead of saying to the Lord, Thats not nice, I thanked Him heartily! And I laughed, I thought, There you have it! Its always that way.
And all the experiences come in that way (Mother makes a round, global gesture). It cant be expressed with words; there are a hundred things that come together like that, and which (gesture of round movements within that round totality), and then there is the sense of a light (which might be like a will, but not a will formulated with words), a light that moves within it all and arranges it all, then produces a resultwhich isnt one small thing, one point or one thing: its a mass of things; and its always moving, always in motion, always in a kind of progression towards a more perfect reorganization. And the sense of individual action, of individual participation, of individual will, seems so IDIOTIC that its absolutely impossible to have it. Even if one tried, one couldnt. Once one LIVES that the whole sense of individual importance in all that seems so STUPID, you know, that its absolutely impossible to think that way or feel that way.
--
I had another interesting example, with a visitor: a German industrial magnate, it seems. I had seen his photo and found there was something in him I had him come. He entered the room and came in front of me: he didnt know what to do (no one had told him anything). So I looked at him and put some force (Mother slowly lowers her hand), a little, progressively. And all at once (at first he was quite official, it was MISTER So-and-so who was there), all at once his left hand began to rise, like this (gesture of a hand clenched as in trance), all the rest was absolutely still. When I saw that, I smiled and withdrew the force, then let him go. It seems he went downstairs, went into Sri Aurobindos room and started weeping. Afterwards, the next day, he wrote to me and told me in German English that I had been too human: Why have you been too human? He wanted his being to be DESTROYED in order to be born again to the true life.
That interested me. I thought, Oh, he felt it, he was conscious both of the force and of my withdrawing it. I answered him, True, I spared you, but because it was your first visit! Prepare yourself, I will see you again.
0 1964-02-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Like this, a pounding: you know, those machines that rise and fall and rise and fall. And there were scores and scores and scores of them it was endless.
But then (laughing), this poor body was lying underneath! I even heard (although I was in trance), I heard my body letting out little cries, Ah! ah! Just a little ah!
0 1964-09-16, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In this connection, there has been a whole period of study of this subject, on the purely physical level. To rise above all possibility of error, you tend to eliminate the opportunities for error; for instance, if you dont want to utter unnecessary words, you stop speaking. People who make a vow of silence imagine it gives a control over speech thats not true! It only eliminates the opportunities to speak, and therefore of saying unnecessary things. For food, its the same problem: how to eat only just what is needed? In the transitional state we find ourselves in, we no longer want to live that wholly animal life based on material exchanges and food, but it would be folly to think we have reached the state in which the body can live on without any food at all (still, there is already a big difference, since they are trying to find the nutritional essence in foods in order to reduce their volume); but the natural tendency is fastingwhich is a mistake!
For fear of acting wrongly, we stop doing anything; for fear of speaking wrongly, we stop saying anything; for fear of eating for the pleasure of eating, we stop eating anything thats not freedom, its simply reducing the manifestation to its minimum. And the natural outcome is Nirvana. But if the Lord wanted only Nirvana, there would be only Nirvana! He obviously conceives the coexistence of all opposites and that, to Him, must be the beginning of a totality. So, of course, you may, if you feel that you are meant for that, choose only one of His manifestations, that is to say, the absence of manifestation. But thats still a limitation. And its not the only way of finding Him, far from it!
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Announcing publicly what you intend to do helps considerably. It may give rise to objections, contempt, conflicts, but thats largely made up for by the public expectation, if we may say so: by what others expect from you. That was certainly the reason for those robes: to let people know. Obviously, you may incur the contempt and ill will of some people, but there are all those who feel, I mustnt touch this, I mustnt have anything to do with it, its not my concern.
I dont know why, it has always seemed to me to be showing offit may not be that, and in certain cases it isnt, but still its a way of telling people, Ah! Here is what I am. And as I said, it may help, but there are drawbacks.
0 1964-09-23, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its very subtle there is something to be found; and its something that, obviously, I havent found because it keeps coming back again and again. At times, I even say, Oh, for Peace, Peace, Peace but then I feel it is a weakness. I say, To let myself go, not thinking of anything, not trying to know anything, but then something instantly rises there, somewhere, and says, Tamas.2
(silence)
0 1964-11-12, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is something interesting (not the faintings!). You know that Z has started a yoga in the body (I didnt ask her to do anything, she did it spontaneously); she wrote to me her first experiences, and there were observations quite similar to those I had made and with an accuracy that interested me I have encouraged her. She is going on. I dont have the time to read her letters: theyre piling up there. But what I found very interesting is that yesterday I was read a letter from an English writer (a lady): she has a little group there, they meditate together, and they had a sort of Indian guru (I dont know who) who was teaching them meditation. Then they came across Sri Aurobindos writings, and they began to study and follow his indications and try to understand. As it happened (about a year ago now), during their meditation, instead of their making an effort of ascent to awaken the Kundalini and rise towards the heights, all of a sudden the Force the Power, the Shaktibegan to descend from above downward. They informed their guru, who told them, Very bad! Very dangerous, stop it, terrible things are going to happen to you! That was about a year ago. They werent quite sure that the gentleman was right and they went on, with very good results. Then, yesterday, that lady wrote, giving a detailed notation of their experiencesalmost the SAME WORDS as Z! Now thats beginning to be interesting. Because it represents an impersonalization of the Action, in other words it doesnt express itself subjectively according to each individual: it has a WAY of acting.
I was very happy, I wrote her a note to congratulate her.
0 1964-12-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But thats how it will be: first the salute, Salute to You, O Light. You understand, the Light is there, like this: it announces itself. And we salute it. Then the whole aspiration rises in conquest of this Light through successive ascents; that is, one sound rises, climbs, and establishes itself; then another climbs and establishes itself. And then, when we have come before the Light, it makes a sort of explosion, like a bomb exploding, an explosion of light. And afterwards, it falls back onto the worldwith sparkles.
And then, I would like at the end the great calm of the Truth.
0 1965-05-08, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I speak like this, its very simple and it seems very easy, but EVERY MINUTE you are hanging between three possibilities (generally three) for the body: the fainting or the acute suffering, the indifferent, mechanical movement, or the glorious Mastery. And I am talking about washing your eyes, rinsing your mouth, doing any of those absolutely indifferent little things (in big things it always goes well because nature is in the habit of thinking that one should bear oneself properly to rise to the occasionall that is ridiculous), but in little things, thats how it is. So the head whirls, and hup! And you can seeyou can see with extreme precision the three possibilities, and if you arent constantly attentive (gesture of a closed fist, of authority and control), the physical nature, with such repulsive spinelessness, you know, absolutely disgusting, lets itself go.
This repeats itself hundreds upon hundreds of times a day. So if this isnt called sadhana, I dont know what a sadhana is! You see, eating is a sadhana, sleeping is a sadhana, washing is a sadhana, everything is a sadhana. Whats a sadhana least of all is, for instance, receiving someone, because the body immediately keeps quite stillit calls the Lord and says, Now be here, and then everything is fine (because it keeps still). The visitor comes, the body smiles, everything is fine the Lord is there, so of course everything goes very smoothly. But when were dealing with what we call material things, the things of daily life, its hell, because of that idiot.
0 1965-07-17, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Satprem rises to leave:
We must bear up. Besides, thats the only thing we can dowhat else can we do? (Laughing) Keep still.
0 1965-07-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Satprem rises to leave:
So, you mustnt be in a bad mood. (Laughing) Youll tell me I mustnt be ill! Very well, very well.
0 1965-08-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last time I said how close the thing was, and then (gesture like a ground swell) immediately the exact opposite rises: everyone goes awry, some are sick, others are nasty, yet others are furious oh! And everything grates and cries and Every time that something draws near, Ah, here it is, we have caught the thing, immediately, vrrrm!
Very well.
0 1965-09-08, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I didnt remember this passage. But I told you, my experience2 is that the last thing as one rises the last thing beyond light, beyond consciousness, beyond the last thing one reaches is love. One, this one is its the II dont know. According to the experience, its the last thing to manifest now in its purity, and it is the one that has the transforming power.
Thats what he appears to be saying here: the victory of Love seems to be the final victory.
0 1965-09-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Id like to ask you a question, and its linked to what you said just now, when you had that fever while lying on your bed, and above, you said, there was a wonderful, immutable Peacewhats the power of that Peace? Whats the power of that Silence? When one rises above, one enters a sort of vast silence, frozen, all-pervading, but whats the power of that silence? Does it do anything?
Thats what people in the past used to seek when they wanted to get out of life: they would go into a trance, leave their bodies still, and then they would enter that, and they would be perfectly happy. And for the Sannyasins who got themselves buried alive, it was the same thing; they said, Now my work is over (they would make beautiful sentences), it is over, and I am going into samadhi. And they would have themselves buried alive; they would enter a room or whatever, then it would be closed, and it was all over. And thats what happened: they would go into a trance, and naturally after a time their bodies would dissolve, while they were in Peace.
0 1966-01-31, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At any rate, whats quite certain is that this book can serve you as a rung to rise above the past and overcome certain difficulties in your nature. And then of course, from that point of view I immediately approve.
So theres no problem left at all, it only has to get done.
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But there is one thing Even as a writer (you in your present form and as a writer) you can, AS A WRITER, give many different expressions to that thing which you want to attract upon earth and express: you can express it in many different forms. We are now concerned with one particular form that you had conceived; well, what makes this form useful is that, to me (what I am going to tell you may be a bit commonplace), it can be used as a pickaxe, you understand, to root out the things you want to reject from your consciousness: a certain way of being of your consciousness thats receding into the past. And then, afterwards, you will rise to expressions of a higher order.
And, mind you, if we look at the problem from the terrestrial and human standpoint, its fully part of the things that can be very useful to mankind; if you were humanitarian, I would tell you: Without a shadow of doubt, it can be very useful.
0 1966-02-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now, to tell you the truth, we are on the upward curve again. I think we have really reached the bottom of incoherence, absurdity and ugliness the taste for the ugly and the unsightly, the dirty, the offensive. We have, I think, reached rock bottom. If its taken in the right way (and I think there are people who have taken it in the right way), it can lead you straight to the Yoga, straight. That is, you feel a sort of very deep detachment from all the things of this world, a very intense need to find something else, an imperious need to find something truly beautiful, truly fresh, truly good so, quite naturally, it leads you to a spiritual aspiration. And those horrors seem to have divided people: a minority who were ready have risen very high; a majority who werent ready have gone down very low. Those are now wallowing in mud, and thats why we cant get out of it for the moment; and if it goes on, we will be moving towards a new war, and this time it will really be the end of this civilization I am not saying the end of the world, because nothing can be the end of the world, but the end of this civilization, which means we will have to build another. You may tell me that it will be very good, for this civilization is on the decline, its rotting away; but still, there were in it some beautiful things that deserved to be preserved, and it would be a great pity if all that disappeared. But if there is a new war, I can tell you that it will all disappear. For men are very clever creatures, and they have found the way to destroy everything. And they will use it, because whats the use of spending billions to make certain bombs if they arent to be used? Whats the use of discovering that a city can be destroyed in a few minutes if not to destroy it! One wants to see the fruit of ones efforts! If there is a war, thats what will happen.
Quite appropriate. Well publish it in the next Bulletin.
0 1966-05-18, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But anyway, it has given me one more proof. I saw pictures in Life (there were photos): you feel youve stepped into an insane asylum. But he had the experience, which proves that his vital Of course, its the images recorded in the subconscient (images of thoughts, images of sensations, images of feelings recorded in the subconscient), which become objective: they rise to the surface and become objective. So it gives the exact picture of whats inside you!
If, for instance, you have a sensation or thought that someone is nasty or ridiculous or doesnt love you, anyway, opinions of that sort, it generally surfaces in dreams; but there [with drugs], you arent asleep, yet you have the dream! They come and play the game of what you thought of them: what you thought of them comes upon you in their form. So its an indication: for those who see smiling, pleasant, beautiful things, it means that the inner, vital condition is good enough, but with those who see terrifying or malicious things, or things like that, it means the vital isnt pretty.
0 1966-06-02, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Have you heard of dolphins speech? Havent you seen those articles? They have discovered that dolphins speak an articulate speech, but with a much more extensive range than ours: it rises much higher and goes much lower. And its far more varied. And they frequently talk (it seems it can be recorded), they talk but people dont understand what they say. And then, they were given our speech to listen tothey imitate it and make fun of it! They laugh! (Mother looks very amused)
I saw some photos, they look nice, but the photos arent enough. They have, as porpoises do, rows of small teeth (it seems they arent ferocious at all, they never fly into a fury). They talk and talk! And they know how to listen. And then, they imitate and laugh, as if they found us extremely ridiculous.
0 1966-08-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And from everywhere, but everywhere, the opposition, the resistance is rising up; and the more it rises up, the more imperative That is.
But at such times one feels how precarious the equilibrium of material life is. Oh, its very, very interesting. When I am able to say all this, it will be worthwhile.
0 1966-09-14, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
for it is a creation of Time and with time it loses its effect and value. rise thou above opinion and seek wisdom everlasting.
124use opinion for life, but let her not bind thy soul in her fetters.
0 1967-04-12, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There has been for some time a deliberate will not to leave the body. In the mornings, when I emerged from my nocturnal activities, I would often notice that there was a whole work of readjustment to be done in the body, as though the concentration of forces had been disturbed and even undone in the night and everything had to be started up again. It was a sheer waste of time, a waste. Previously, in the evening when I would lay down on my bed, I would go limp, a complete relaxation (one should always do that), that is, surrender, and the consciousness would rise above. There was a concentration of forces, but it wouldnt last: after two or three hours, everything was taken up by the nights activities. But now, instead of that, there is a will to keep the whole consciousness in the body, to concentrate and to keep all the energies so that the work in the cells may go on undisturbed. And I see the effect lasts much longer; even when I wake up (or rather when I get into external activity), I can see it goes on, it doesnt cease, and it resumes as soon as I am outwardly awake. A sort of concentration of energy, of consciousness, force, light, which starts working in the cells at night. And then theres nothing, no activity, theres a contemplative silence.
I had only one instance of activity these last four days, one morning between two and four, that I spent absolutely conscious and active with Sri Aurobindo, who had made changes in his activities and his organization of the subtle physical; he had made changes and wanted to show them to me, to let me know about them. And he showed it all to me for two hours. But that was the only thing, and as for the resteverything, going to see people, going here or there, doing this or that I have stopped it all. And things are better.
0 1967-04-24, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For after all it is the will in the being that gives to circumstances their value, and often an unexpected value; the hue of apparent actuality is a misleading indicator. If the will in a race or civilisation is towards death, if it clings to the lassitude of decay and the laissez-faire of the moribund or even in strength insists blindly upon the propensities that lead to destruction or if it cherishes only the powers of dead Time and puts away from it the powers of the future, if it prefers life that was to life that will be, nothing, not even abundant strength and resources and intelligence, not even many calls to live and constantly offered opportunities will save it from an inevitable disintegration or collapse. But if there comes to it a strong faith in itself and a robust will to live, if it is open to the things that shall come, willing to seize on the future and what it offers and strong to compel it where it seems adverse, it can draw from adversity and defeat a force of invincible victory and rise from apparent helplessness and decay in a mighty flame of renovation to the light of a more splendid life. This is what Indian civilisation is now rearising to do as it has always done in the eternal strength of its spirit.1
Sri Aurobindo
0 1967-05-10, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I wondered what gave rise to your questions.
Thats what, the awareness that I dont have the memory of sounds. Some people have the memory of sounds, but I dont. So Id be interested to know how it was. Otherwise I was always able (when I found something from the past doubtful or interesting or incomplete), I always found a way to recall it into the consciousness. But the sounds dont come. They come as a state of consciousness thats translated mentally, and its translated mentally into words I know. So thats quite uninteresting.
0 1967-06-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It may be said generally that to be overanxious to pull people, especially very young people, into the sadhana is not wise. The sadhak who comes to this Yoga must have a real call, and even with the real call the way is often difficult enough. But when one pulls people in in a spirit of enthusiastic propagandism, the danger is of lighting an imitative and unreal fire, not the true Agni, or else a short-lived fire which cannot last and is submerged by the uprush of the vital waves. This is especially so with young people who are plastic and easily caught hold of by ideas and communicated feelings not their ownafterwards the vital rises with its unsatisfied demands and they are swung between two contrary forces or rapidly yield to the strong pull of the ordinary life and action and satisfaction of desire which is the natural bent of adolescence. Or else the unfit adhar [vessel] tends to suffer under the stress of a call for which it was not ready, or at least not yet ready. When one has the real thing in oneself, one goes through and finally takes the full way of sadhana, but it is only a minority that does so. It is better to receive only people who come of themselves and of these only those in whom the call is genuinely their own and persistent.
Sri Aurobindo
0 1967-06-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In order to understand and follow Sri Aurobindos teaching, one must learn to rise above all possibility of contradiction.
That is, to reach the region where contradictions no longer exist. Thats true. You understand, if you take quotations from Sri Aurobindo on a particular subject, you can put side by side things that are just the opposite of each other: he says one thing, then its opposite, then again something else. So, to understand him and not keep saying to yourself, But why does he constantly say the contrary of what he has said! you must learn to rise up aboveup above, its quite fine(!) There, its very interesting. Once you are above, its very interesting.
And from the practical point of view, the remarkable thing is that in that region, which is beyond all possible contradictions, there lies the source of the true Power.
0 1967-06-24, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The importance of the body is obvious; it is because he has developed or been given a body and brain capable of receiving and serving a progressive mental illumination that man has risen above the animal. Equally, it can only be by developing a body or at least a functioning of the physical instrument capable of receiving and serving a still higher illumination that he will rise above himself and realise, not merely in thought and in his internal being but in life, a perfectly divine manhood. Otherwise either the promise of Life is cancelled, its meaning annulled and earthly being can only realise Sachchidananda by abolishing itself, by shedding from it mind, life and body and returning to the pure Infinite, or else man is not the divine instrument, there is a destined limit to the consciously progressive power which distinguishes him from all other terrestrial existences and as he has replaced them in the front of things, so another must eventually replace him and assume his heritage.
(The Life Divine, XVIII.231)
0 1967-07-26, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then, what goings-on The goings-on at the School, oh, those are priceless stories! But yesterday evening, I suddenly became indignant about a boy, the boy who had been accused of copying. He asserted he hadnt copied, and I saw he hadnt (but what I saw was almost worse!), and I said, No more examsa dreadful row everywhere! Then K., who is really a good boy, wrote to me, Should I not rather tell the boy that you decided he hadnt copied, because he must be worrying? I thought, Poor K.! But anyway, it was a nice gesture, so I said yes. Then he called the boy, told him what he had to, also that exams were abolished and the whole matter was over and done with. As soon as the boy left him, he went and told his friends a world of lies: that I had asked K. to apologize, to express regret and reinstate the boy, and a lot of fibs a series of terrible lies (and lies about me). You understand, I had had a movement of sympathy for K. for what he had done; it shows a sort of nobleness of soul in him: he was so convinced, but he accepted what I said and made that gesture because he thought the boy must have been worrying. Then the boys thoroughly disgusting reaction I had to restrain myself (inwardly): I was displeased. I had hoped, on the contrary, that that goodwill would give rise to a somewhat noble response, but all that is a sort of degradation. Yesterday, I was on the point of giving the child an inner slap I stopped myself from doing so, but he has clearly put himself in a bad spot.
Now they write to ask me, How can we know whether the children follow if we dont have exams? I had to explain the difference between a type of individual control based on observation, on a remark, on an unexpected question, etc., which allows the teacher to situate the child, and the other method in which you are forewarned, You will have an exam in eight days and the subject will be on what you have learnedso everyone starts revising what he has learned and preparing himself, and thats that: the one with a good memory is the one who passes. I have explained all that.1
0 1967-07-29, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes. Then a Christian sent me a picture of Christ on the cross, and just above, the risen Christ in his ascent heavenward thats how they take it!
It all happens on the heights.
0 1967-08-02, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats how it is. Day after day, almost hour after hour, as the Power comes back You remember, I once said it had gone completely,1 and that was true, it had gone completely in order to leave the body absolutely to itself, for its conversion, we could say; but once there had been in this body consciousness the same aspiration and the same ardour of consciousness (with a far greater steadiness than in any other part of the being; there are no fluctuations as there are in the vital and mind, its very steady), once that was established (through kinds of pulsations, not distant from one another, first on one detail, then spreading out and becoming generalized), since then the Power has been I can say it has been coming back. But at each stage of that return, all the old difficulties appear to be waking up again,2 they seem to spring up again (they had completely fallen asleep, you understand), and each time, this body consciousness feels a sort of surp rise, at once astonished and distressed that the presence of the divine Power, the divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness, should give rise to all those difficulties, which are essentially difficulties of ignorance and inertia the incapacity to receive. And it comes back as memories, like that (gesture from below), like a snake rearing its head. And every time, everything in the physical consciousness has the same call, Why? How can these things be when You are there! Thats the astonishing thing: Since You are there, how can these things be?
Till now, in the majority of cases, this has signalled a conversion, a transformation, an illumination (depending on the case), but this case we were just talking about (the Tantric apprentice) came precisely as a result of that return of the Power (I knew it; he told me yesterday, but I knew it when he had his revolt). And all that came was just all the old revolts, all the old movements, which were previously so strong, so widespread, so ESTABLISHED, and had been as though halted in their expression by the withdrawal of the Power. So everyone was slumbering in his condition. Then, as soon as the Force started coming back and working again, it all woke up.
0 1967-09-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Here are some brief samplings from the said letter: "... Someone said, Freedom is to be carried not like a standard but like a Cross.... In your book, there is no love for the Crosswhy? From all eternity the Cross has been the form that gathers up and rises. The form that will not rise alone; the form that, plunged into a mass, rises up again only with the entire mass the form that sticks to all the cardinal points and bleeds on all the cardinal points.... When I go to the lepers' workshop immediately after seeing you, I go and draw the Force not only to help them through financial means, a skill or friendship, but perhaps even to envisage being like them and going to the bottom of their real misery ..."
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0 1967-09-09, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As soon as you want to do something, everything contrary rises up in a mass to a degree of stupidity beyond all measure. You want to create Harmony: everyone quarrels! Intelligent people seem to become foolish, they do foolish thingssince morning I have been spending my time writing to stop people from doing foolish things Strange. They are intelligent, responsible people, people who have worked for a long time but nonsense.
Oh, as soon as there is a little power the power of light, power of truth, power of love (the aspect of power in things)as soon as that manifests (gesture of uprising), it creates a terrible confusion: everyone feels full of energy, and with that energy does foolish things! Then, if you withdraw the Power (gesture of flattening) flat outno one does anything anymore!
0 1967-09-13, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But you understand, the idea is, Christ is the Supermind. Christ is already risen from the dead, he already has a glorified body, he is already transformed
(After a silence) No, he went back, he didnt stay. He doesnt have a glorified body, he left. He went back to the higher regions, he doesnt have a glorified body. He may be glorified up there, thats his business (laughing), but here He went back. Of course, Sri Aurobindo himself said Christ was an Avatar. An avatar in the line of Krishna, the line that represented yes, goodness, charity, love, harmony. He belongs to that line.
0 1967-10-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its very much like when you want to clean a pond and you stir its depths: it becomes disgusting, it all rises up. Every day there come two or three things Anyway.
It was not Tagore's sister but a relative of his, Sarala Devi Choudhurani, a revolutionary whom Sri Aurobindo had known in Bengal.
0 1967-10-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, I dont know very well, I read the Gospel long ago, but I dont remember, I didnt know a great battle was announced in it. I know they announced the Last Judgment when all the people who were buried will rise and appear before the Lord God seated in his armchair (Mother laughs), who will tell them whether they are (Laughing) He will put some on one side and others on the other side! I am not exaggerating, thats how its written.
(Then Mother gives flowers) This is my delight. My delight in life.
0 1967-10-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And as the formation descends in order to manifest, all oppositions rise up, contradictions rise up, complications come, and within you can clearly see that they dont understand. So I spend my time telling them, Dont try to organize, dont try, you are going to fossilize the whole thing before its begun.
For my part, I wanted it to grow like that, spontaneously, with the full play of the unexpected. But then, you are confronted with all the rules and regulations: we are in a country [India]we should do it on a desert island! But that no longer exists on earth, there isnt an island left that doesnt belong to a nationwe are caught, bogged down.
0 1967-11-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now that by the effect of the Grace we are slowly emerging out of inconscience and waking up to a conscious life, an ardent prayer rises in us for more light, more consciousness:
O Supreme Lord of the Universe,
0 1967-11-Prayers of the Consciousness of the Cells, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now that by the effect of the Grace we are slowly emerging out of inconscience and waking up to a conscious life, an ardent prayer rises in us for more light, more consciousness:
O Supreme Lord of the Universe,
0 1968-01-12, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is a key in the relationship between man and woman, but not in their sexual relations. The so-called left-hand Tantrics (of the Vama Marga) are to true Tantrism what Boccaccios tales are to Christianity, or what the sodden Roman Bacchus is to Dionysos of the Greek mysteries. I know Tantrism, to say the least. As for the Cathars, whom I hold in the highest esteem, it would be doing them little honor to believe that they followed a sort of yoga of sexuality. Through my own experience I have often had the feeling of reliving the Cathars experience, and I see plainly that if some of them attempted to mix sexual relations into the true relationship between man and woman, they soon realized their error. It is a dead-end road, or rather its only end is to show you that it leads you nowhere forward. The Cathars were too sincere and conscious men to persist in a burdening experience. For ultimately, and that is the crux of the matter, the sexual experience in its very nature (whether or not there is backward flow or whatever its mode) automatically fastens you again to the old animal vibrations there is nothing you can do about it: however much love you may put into it, the very function is tied to millennia of animality. It is as if you wanted to plunge into a swamp without stirring up any mudit cannot be done, the milieu is like that. And when one knows how much transparency, clarification and inner stillness it takes to slowly rise to a higher consciousness, or to allow a higher light to enter our waters without being instantly darkened, one fails to see how sexual activity can help you attain that still limpidity in which things can start happening??? The union, the oneness of two beings, the true and complete meeting of two beings does not take place at that level or through those means. That is all I can say. But I have seen that in the silent tranquillity of two beings who have the same aspiration, who have overcome the difficult transition, something quite unique slowly takes place, of which one can have no inkling as long as one is still stuck in the struggles of the flesh, to use a preachers language! I think the Cathars experience begins after that transition. After it, the man-woman couple assumes its true meaning, its effectiveness, if I may say so. Sex is only a first mode of meeting, the first device invented by Nature to break the shell of individual egosafterwards, one grows and discovers something else, not through inhibition or repression, but because something different and infinitely richer takes over. Those who are so eager to preserve sex and to mystify it in order to move on to the second stage of evolution are very much like children clinging to their scootersit isnt more serious than that. There is nothing in it to do a yoga with, nothing also to be indignant about or raise ones eyebrows at. So I have nothing to criticize, I am merely observing and putting things in their place. All depends on the stage one has reached. As for those who want to use sex for such and such a sublime or not-so-sublime reason, well, let them have their experience. As Mother told me on the very same subject no later than yesterday, To tell the truth, the Lord makes use of everything. One is always on the way towards something. One is always on the way, through any means, but what is necessary is, as much as possible, to keep ones lucidity and not to deceive oneself.
I will try to find one or two passages from Sri Aurobindo to give you his point of view.
0 1968-02-03, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In my life, I have been given so many, so many experiences, as proof that EVERYTHING is possible. For instance, when I was twenty-two, one night, after an experience I had in the night (I forget the details of it) at the time women wore dresses that exactly touched the ground, just touched it without resting on it (gesture of skimming the ground), and in my experience at night, I had grown tallin the morning, there was one inch between the dress and the ground! Which means that the body had grown one inch WITH THE NIGHTS EXPERIENCE. You see, in the nights experience I had grown tall (I dont remember the details), and in the morning And Ive been given that material verification for many such experiences, so as to be sure, so the body may be convinced without having to repeat the experiences over and over again. So it KNOWS, it knows there is nothing impossible, it knows impossible doesnt mean anything. But it doesnt depend on an individual will, you understand. The Consciousness which rules things is a marvel of wisdom, patience, compassion, endurance. When there is destruction or disorder, it means its absolutely unavoidable, absolutelybecause matters resistance in the individual or in things is so strong that it quite naturally brings about disorder or destruction. But that doesnt form part of the Action, the supreme Action, which is a marvel. The body has understood that; it has understood, it is patient. Only, from time to time (how can I put it?) There are people whom I prevent from dyingseveral people. I dont yet have the consciousness, the conscious power to cure them, but the possibility is there and I maintain it above them. That is to say, its not all-powerful in the sense that a certain receptivity, a certain response, a certain attitude are necessary which arent always there (human natures are very fluctuating, there are ups and downs and more ups and downs, and that makes the work very difficult), but at times, during a down spell, when a being suffers or sags, there is something in the consciousness [of Mother], a compassion (how can I explain that?) Affliction and all those movements are movements of weakness, but that is something at once very strong and very sweet, almost like sorrow, and the whole, entire consciousness in the body rises like a prayer and an aspirationa pure prayer: Why are things still in this pitiful state, why? Why? And it instantly has an effect [in the sick person]. Unfortunately, the effect doesnt last; it doesnt last because certain conditions in others are still necessary. But its wonderful, you know! Its something so wonderful. And it makes one understand the necessity of a presence on this side, a presence capable of feeling, understanding still IN THE OTHER WAY, so the suffering of others may be a reality. And that also is taken into account, that also means time is needed, patience is needed. Now the body knows ittheres no longer any impatience; there is only, now and then, that sort of sorrow, especially when beings are full of aspiration, goodwill, faith, and in spite of it this suffering is still there, clinging. That on one side, and on the other, one thing: there is still a sort of horror and reprobation of acts of cruelty, of THE cruelty; thats And then, there is this awesome Poweryou feel, you can feel that a mere nothing, a simple little movement would, oh, bring about a catastrophe. So you have to keep that still, still, still so what happens may always be the best.
Now stupidity, imbecility, ignorance, all those things are looked at with a patience which waits for them to grow. But bad will and crueltyespecially viciousness, cruelty, what LOVES to cause suffering thats still difficult, one still has to keep a hold on oneself. In figurative language (not language, but a way of being), its Kali that wants to strike, and I have to tell her, Keep still, keep still. But thats a human transcription. All those gods, all those beings are real, they exist, but its a transcription. True truth is beyond all that.
0 1968-03-02, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, the aspiration of flowers blossoms out; with Nature, it rises and widens as much as it can to receive. This (Mother points to the review = I) is like a knife. Its quite symbolic.
Ive never said anything.
0 1968-06-15, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In our yoga we mean by the subconscient that quite submerged part of our being in which there is no wakingly conscious and coherent thought, will or feeling or organized reaction, but which yet receives obscurely the impressions of all things and stores them up in itself and from it too all sorts of stimuli, of persistent habitual movements, crudely repeated or disguised in strange forms can surge up into dream or into the waking nature. For if these impressions rise up most in dream in an incoherent and disorganized manner, they can also and do rise up into our waking consciousness as a mechanical repetition of old thoughts, old mental, vital and physical habits or an obscure stimulus to sensations, actions, emotions which do not originate in or from our conscious thought or will and are even often opposed to its perceptions, choice or dictates. In the subconscient there is an obscure mind full of obstinate Sanskaras [imprints or habits], impressions, associations, fixed notions, habitual reactions formed by our past, an obscure vital full of the seeds of habitual desires, sensations and nervous reactions, a most obscure material which governs much that has to do with the condition of the body. It is largely responsible for our illnesses; chronic or repeated illnesses are indeed mainly due to the subconscient and its obstinate memory and habit of repetition of whatever has impressed itself upon the body-consciousness. But this subconscient must be clearly distinguished from the subliminal parts of our being such as the inner or subtle physical consciousness, the inner vital or inner mental; for these are not at all obscure or incoherent or ill-organized, but only veiled from our surface consciousness. Our surface constantly receives something, inner touches, communications or influences, from these sources but does not know for the most part whence they come.
As for asserting ones will in sleep it is simply a matter of accustoming the subconscient to obey the will laid upon it by the waking mind before sleeping. It very often happens for instance that if you fix upon the subconscient your will to wake up at a particular hour in the morning, the subconscient will obey and you wake up automatically at that hour. This can be extended to other matters. Many have found that by putting a will against sexual dreams or emission on the subconscient before sleeping, there comes after a time (it does not always succeed at the beginning) an automatic action causing one to awake before the dream concludes or before it begins or in some way preventing the thing forbidden from happening. Also one can develop a more conscious sleep in which there is a sort of inner consciousness which can intervene.1
0 1968-07-03, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I also put (and this is from me), the essential unity of the creation and the divine origin of life. That whole formula, I know, was an attempt to express the thing without using the word God, because There was in my life a period of at least twenty years during which those words used to make me bristle, so I understand very well the feeling it evokes in people. Later, it was Sri Aurobindo who made me rise above all that; but its because he pulled me very high up that I rose above all that, otherwise, on an intellectual level, it didnt do at all. It evokes the narrowest religiosity, and it wont do. So I dont want that the country is now fully in it, here in India. I dont want to raise that first obstacle. Thats why I made this long sentence.
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0 1968-07-20, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In another, more complex part, there is the everyday life and the ordinary personality. There, things are completely different. The central pole of that part has so far been love, but love as I understand it here, that is, not something subtle that rises but something concrete which is lived and exchanged, and which in order to exist needs the presence of the physical being, the living with, otherwise it has no raison dtre, having no base or concrete form. That is probably why you told me I loved love and not individuals. Its very true, because to me, individuals are only an occasion to live love, or what I call love.
Now there is no longer any human person in my life, nothing anymore; this void may be what gave rise to the recent crisis. I vaguely feel something unclear, which I cannot define but do not like, as if a part of me were trying to live with You what it can no longer live with human beings. My present difficulty comes from the impossibility to reconcile the two parts of my being, inner and outer, and from the ensuing divorce as far as you are concerned. Could you please enlighten me on the following points:
Ah, here are her questions.
0 1968-09-11, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You will see that your whole conception and notion [of heaven and hell] is based on one thing, an entity you call God, and a world you call his creation, which, to your mind, are two different thingsone having made the other, the latter being subjected to the former and the expression of what the former made. Well, thats the initial error. But if you could feel deep down that there is no division between that something you call God and that something you call the creation; if you thought, Its exactly the same thing, if you could FEEL that what you call God (which is perhaps a mere word), what you call God suffers when you suffer, is ignorant when you are ignorant, and it is through this whole creation that he finds himself again little by little, step by step, unites with himself, realizes himself, expresses himself, and its not at all something he willed arbitrarily and made autocratically, but it is the growing, increasingly developing expression of a consciousness that objectifies itself to itself Then, instead of being like a little child who kneels down, folds his hands and says, God, I implore You, make me a good boy, let me not cause my mother any sorrow (thats very easy and, well, I cant say its bad!), instead of lighting a candle and kneeling before it with folded hands, light a flame in your heart and have a great aspiration for something more beautiful, truer, nobler, better than anything I know; I ask that tomorrow I begin knowing all those things and begin doing all that I cannot doand every day a little more. Then, if you objectify a little, if for some reason you have been put in presence of a lot of misery in the world, if you have unhappy friends or suffering parents or difficultiesanything then you ask that the entire consciousness may rise TOGETHER towards that perfection which must manifest, that all this ignorance which has made the world so unhappy may be changed into enlightened knowledge, that all that bad will may be illumined and transformed into benevolence. And how lovely those prayers would be!
I remember that during those classes, on certain days I knew it was the psychic that spoke, and on other days it was only the mind. And that day, I remember, the psychic presence was very strong.
0 1968-10-30, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its precisely the experience Ive had these last few days (yesterday, I think), just before writing the card. We always set an end to things but there isnt any. There isnt any. The truth is, one rises like this (Mother draws a curve that reaches a point in space), but its in order to go like this (gesture of a new curve rising higher from that point on), and again like this for ever and ever.
It may be an individual consciousness, not necessarily an impersonal one; for the individual consciousness, too, its like this: a great curve (Mother draws a trajectory up to a point), and like a springboard to go farther. So it was a vision like that, of something developingdeveloping while it expands and grows illumined.
0 1968-11-02, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its quite extraordinary. And this Msgr. Z will also be in it. P.L.s letter goes on: You may remember that I had been told about a promotion at the Vatican; that promotion, announced while I was in Pondicherry, gave rise to the basest intrigues, so that the nomination was stopped. And paradoxically, I have been given its duties without the title. They have decided to test me, and to do so for a period of at least four years. The struggle for power in this milieu is frightening. But I see all that from such a distance! I have the sensation that its all about someone else, not me, and that embarrasses those around me, for I do not react to injustice. (And what injustice!If they knew how indifferent I am to this little world.) There is the sad panorama. You will now realize why the Samadhis peace and sweetness are so dear to me and intimate to my soul. At times I feel like a feather blown here or there by the wind, and my whole effort is anchored in the light Sweet Mother has put into my psyche. Right from the first moment of the day my tenderness rises towards her, and then I see that what I do is not important, but the MANNER is.
(long silence)
0 1969-04-02, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And when I speak with them, very strangely, theres a sort of warrior in me, and some people give rise to reactions: I feel like striking. Sometimes its quite brutal, I dont know why. It comes and strikes. With others, on the contrary, I am very tranquil. Some tell Me, Youre hard!
Has it always been like that? Its not since this new consciousness came? Since the beginning of this year?
0 1969-10-25, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All that is conscious in this [the body] has only one only one movement: let there be no difference anymore. Thats all. And no impression at all to pull from here or there, or to rise up aboveits not that: no difference anymore.
And the difference is becoming increasingly painfulmuch more painful than an illness (its not the same sort of thing: its a sort of inner anguish).
0 1969-11-22, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As unbelievable as it may appear, Mother did not dare to ask her own disciples, knowing the storms that would give rise to. Thus Satprem could never recover the notes written by Mother. Even the words changed by Mother herself were later reintroduced.
The manuscript has been in Paris for a year.
0 1969-12-03, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its beginning to rise. The effect of this new Consciousness (its taken a year) is that things are beginning to rise.
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0 1969-12-10, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
enabling one to rise towards higher knowledge.
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0 1969-12-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
and rise and purify themselves. Well, what should be built in Auroville is an axis, a center, a symbolic temple of the new world we want to create, and all the consciousnesses should unite in the construction of this pyramid of the new world, or this temple of the new worldwhich will at the same time help to bring down what must express itself there.
Its very good, that was the first idea: there was the center, and the city was organized around it. Now theyre doing the opposite! They want to build the city and put the center afterwards .
0 1970-03-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Things have become very acute, I mean over great things, over small things (all that, that sense of the important and the unimportant, has faded a lot). And for the physical, the work has become very acute, but then things have been made worse here by the fact that the pressure of the Consciousness arouses in people a whole quarreling spirit. So everyone is now quarreling! And I very clearly see that its the pressure of this Consciousness what resists in them rises up. And what disorder here.
I am looking, Ill see what will happen.
0 1970-03-14, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All the experiences others had had of making contact with the higher worlds, used to leave the physical here as it is. (How should I put it?) From the very beginning of existence up to Sri Aurobindos departure, I lived in the awareness that one may rise, one may know, one may have all experiences (and one did have them), but when one came back into this body it was those for-mid-able old laws of the mind that ruled everything. So then, all these years have been years spent preparing and preparingfreeing oneself and preparing and these last few days, it was ah! the body PHYSICALLY noting that things had changed.
It has to be worked out, as they say, realized in every detail, but the change IS DONEthe change is done.
0 1970-04-15, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, its like a Pressure (gesture of implacable descent), so everything rises.
(Mothers voice is husky)
0 1970-06-03, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The idea is this: We come to Auroville to escape social and moral rules that are artificially practiced everywhere, but it is not to live in the licentiousness of the satisfaction of every desire: it is to rise above desires in a truer consciousness. Something like that. It appears they quite need this! (Mother laughs) So we should add it.
We could draw up a whole program, that would be interesting enough.
0 1970-07-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
in order that the human being may rise to the Divine. It is a simple truth
(Mother laughs)
0 1970-09-19, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Working on the physical is like digging the ground; the physical is absolutely inert, dead like stone. When the work began there, all former energies disappeared, experiences stopped; if they came they didnt last. The progress is exceedingly slow. One rises, falls; rises again and falls again, constantly meeting with the suggestions of the Vedic Asuras, You cant do anything, you are bound to fail.
You have to go on working and working year after year, point after point, till you come to a central point in the subconscient which has to be conquered and it is the crux of the whole problem, hence exceedingly difficult. This point in the subconscient is the seed and it goes on sprouting and sprouting till you have cut out the seed.
--- Overview of noun rise
The noun rise has 10 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)
1. (8) rise ::: (a growth in strength or number or importance)
2. (3) rise, ascent, ascension, ascending ::: (the act of changing location in an upward direction)
3. (1) ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade ::: (an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise")
4. (1) rise, rising, ascent, ascension ::: (a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon")
5. (1) raise, rise, wage hike, hike, wage increase, salary increase ::: (the amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise"; "he got a wage hike")
6. (1) upgrade, rise, rising slope ::: (the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises)
7. lift, rise ::: (a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground)
8. emanation, rise, procession ::: ((theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost; "the emanation of the Holy Spirit"; "the rising of the Holy Ghost"; "the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son")
9. rise, boost, hike, cost increase ::: (an increase in cost; "they asked for a 10% rise in rates")
10. advance, rise ::: (increase in price or value; "the news caused a general advance on the stock market")
--- Overview of verb rise
The verb rise has 17 senses (first 16 from tagged texts)
1. (26) rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise ::: (move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows")
2. (23) rise, go up, climb ::: (increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year")
3. (20) arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand up ::: (rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded")
4. (8) rise, lift, rear ::: (rise up; "The building rose before them")
5. (5) surface, come up, rise up, rise ::: (come to the surface)
6. (4) originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow ::: (come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose")
7. (4) ascend, move up, rise ::: (move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great)
8. (4) wax, mount, climb, rise ::: (go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered")
9. (4) heighten, rise ::: (become more extreme; "The tension heightened")
10. (4) get up, turn out, arise, uprise, rise ::: (get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night")
11. (3) rise, jump, climb up ::: (rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list")
12. (2) rise ::: (become heartened or elated; "Her spirits rose when she heard the good news")
13. (2) rise ::: (exert oneself to meet a challenge; "rise to a challenge"; "rise to the occasion")
14. (1) rebel, arise, rise, rise up ::: (take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance)
15. (1) rise, prove ::: (increase in volume; "the dough rose slowly in the warm room")
16. (1) rise, come up, uprise, ascend ::: (come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends")
17. resurrect, rise, uprise ::: (return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rise
10 senses of rise
Sense 1
rise
=> emergence, outgrowth, growth
=> beginning
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
rise, ascent, ascension, ascending
=> motion, movement, move
=> change
=> action
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade
=> slope, incline, side
=> geological formation, formation
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
rise, rising, ascent, ascension
=> change of location, travel
=> movement, motion
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
raise, rise, wage hike, hike, wage increase, salary increase
=> increase, increment
=> amount
=> magnitude
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 6
upgrade, rise, rising slope
=> grade
=> gradient, slope
=> position, spatial relation
=> relation
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 7
lift, rise
=> wave, moving ridge
=> movement, motion
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 8
emanation, rise, procession
=> origin, origination, inception
=> beginning
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 9
rise, boost, hike, cost increase
=> increase, increment
=> amount
=> magnitude
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 10
advance, rise
=> increase, step-up
=> change of magnitude
=> change
=> action
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun rise
4 of 10 senses of rise
Sense 1
rise
=> crime wave
=> wave
=> spike
Sense 2
rise, ascent, ascension, ascending
=> levitation
=> heave, heaving
=> climb, mount
=> soar, zoom
Sense 3
ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade
=> uphill
Sense 4
rise, rising, ascent, ascension
=> climb, climbing, mounting
=> elevation, lift, raising
=> heave, heaving
=> liftoff
=> rapid climb, rapid growth, zoom
=> takeoff
=> upheaval, uplift, upthrow, upthrust
=> uplifting
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rise
10 senses of rise
Sense 1
rise
=> emergence, outgrowth, growth
Sense 2
rise, ascent, ascension, ascending
=> motion, movement, move
Sense 3
ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade
=> slope, incline, side
Sense 4
rise, rising, ascent, ascension
=> change of location, travel
Sense 5
raise, rise, wage hike, hike, wage increase, salary increase
=> increase, increment
Sense 6
upgrade, rise, rising slope
=> grade
Sense 7
lift, rise
=> wave, moving ridge
Sense 8
emanation, rise, procession
=> origin, origination, inception
Sense 9
rise, boost, hike, cost increase
=> increase, increment
Sense 10
advance, rise
=> increase, step-up
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun rise
10 senses of rise
Sense 1
rise
-> emergence, outgrowth, growth
=> rise
Sense 2
rise, ascent, ascension, ascending
-> motion, movement, move
=> approach, approaching, coming
=> progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion
=> locomotion, travel
=> lurch, lunge
=> travel, traveling, travelling
=> pursuit, chase, pursual, following
=> rise, ascent, ascension, ascending
=> descent
=> swing, swinging, vacillation
=> return
=> slide, glide, coast
=> slippage
=> flow, stream
=> crawl
=> speed, speeding, hurrying
=> translation, displacement
=> shift, shifting
=> haste, hurry, rush, rushing
=> maneuver, manoeuvre, play
=> migration
Sense 3
ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade
-> slope, incline, side
=> ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade
=> bank
=> bank, cant, camber
=> canyonside
=> coast
=> descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope
=> escarpment, scarp
=> hillside
=> mountainside, versant
=> piedmont
=> ski slope
Sense 4
rise, rising, ascent, ascension
-> change of location, travel
=> ascension
=> circulation
=> creep
=> gravitation
=> levitation
=> descent
=> entrance, entering
=> fall
=> flow, flowing
=> progress, progression, advance
=> rise, rising, ascent, ascension
=> spread, spreading
=> stampede
=> translation
Sense 5
raise, rise, wage hike, hike, wage increase, salary increase
-> increase, increment
=> amplification, gain
=> fare increase
=> price increase
=> raise, rise, wage hike, hike, wage increase, salary increase
=> rise, boost, hike, cost increase
=> supplement, supplementation
=> tax-increase, tax boost, tax hike
=> up-tick
Sense 6
upgrade, rise, rising slope
-> grade
=> upgrade, rise, rising slope
=> downgrade
Sense 7
lift, rise
-> wave, moving ridge
=> surf, breaker, breakers
=> wake, backwash
=> swash
=> ripple, rippling, riffle, wavelet
=> swell, crestless wave
=> lift, rise
=> billow, surge
=> tidal wave
=> tidal wave
=> tsunami
=> roller, roll, rolling wave
=> comber
=> whitecap, white horse
Sense 8
emanation, rise, procession
-> origin, origination, inception
=> germination
=> cause
=> preliminary, overture, prelude
=> emanation, rise, procession
Sense 9
rise, boost, hike, cost increase
-> increase, increment
=> amplification, gain
=> fare increase
=> price increase
=> raise, rise, wage hike, hike, wage increase, salary increase
=> rise, boost, hike, cost increase
=> supplement, supplementation
=> tax-increase, tax boost, tax hike
=> up-tick
Sense 10
advance, rise
-> increase, step-up
=> addition
=> advance, rise
=> appreciation
=> surge, upsurge
=> augmentation
=> amplification
=> expansion, enlargement
=> escalation
=> maximization, maximisation, maximation
=> exaggeration
=> expansion, expanding upon
=> accumulation, accrual, accruement
=> inclusion
=> aggrandizement, aggrandisement, elevation
=> strengthening
=> intensification
=> intensification
=> split, stock split, split up
--- Grep of noun rise
business enterprise
cerise
cheval-de-frise
chevaux-de-frise
commercial enterprise
eminence grise
employee-owned enterprise
enterprise
free enterprise
high-rise
illegitimate enterprise
industrial enterprise
private enterprise
rise
rise to power
riser
riser main
riser pipe
riser pipeline
sunrise
surprise