1. An image; a representation. 2. A sign or representation that stands for its object by virtue of a resemblance or analogy to it. icons.
1. Greatest in importance, degree, significance, character, or achievement. greatest; utmost; ultimate. 2. Highest in rank or authority; paramount; sovereign; chief. supremeness.
1. Having momentous significance or consequences; decisively important. 2. Fatal, deadly, or disastrous. 3. Controlled or determined by destiny; inexorable. 4. Prophetic; ominous.
1. Not yielding the desired outcome; fruitless; valueless; insignificant. 2. Worthless. 3. Empty; meaningless. 4. Excessively proud of one"s appearance, accomplishments, qualities; conceited. 5. in vain. To no avail; without success.
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-,
ab- ::: --> A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See A-(6).
ablegate ::: v. t. --> To send abroad. ::: n. --> A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.
abrogative ::: a. --> Tending or designed to abrogate; as, an abrogative law.
accident ::: n. --> Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one&
accomplish ::: v. t. --> To complete, as time or distance.
To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.
To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
To gain; to obtain.
achievement ::: n. --> The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object.
A great or heroic deed; something accomplished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat.
An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.
A child — especially a new-born child — usually signifies the birth (or awakening) of the soul or psychic being in the outward nature.
actively ::: adv. --> In an active manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one&
adamant ::: n. --> A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
Lodestone; magnet.
adsignification ::: n. --> Additional signification.
adsignify ::: v. t. --> To denote additionally.
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&
adversary ::: n. --> One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe. ::: a. --> Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic.
Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an
advisedly ::: adv. --> Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely.
With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design.
aemail ombrant ::: --> An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain.
aeroscope ::: n. --> An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air.
aetiological ::: a. --> Pertaining to aetiology; assigning a cause.
aetiology ::: n. --> The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things.
The assignment of a cause.
affidavit ::: n. --> A sworn statement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate.
affiliation ::: n. --> Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.
The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.
Connection in the way of descent.
aforethought ::: a. --> Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. ::: n. --> Premeditation.
aghast ::: v. t. --> To affright; to terrify.
See Agast, v. t. ::: a & p. p. --> Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
aging ::: the process of growing old or maturing; showing signs of advancing age.
agraphia ::: n. --> The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.
aldine ::: a. --> An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.
alepole ::: n. --> A pole set up as the sign of an alehouse.
alestake ::: n. --> A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush."
aleutic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.
alferes ::: n. --> An ensign; a standard bearer.
alla breve ::: --> With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by /.
All depends upon the order of thin gs which the colours indi- cate in a particular case. There is an order of significances in which they indicate various psycbolo^cal dynamisms, c.g. faith, love, protection, etc. There is another order of significances In which they indicate the aura or the activity of divine beings,
alleluiah ::: n. --> An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form.
allocate ::: v. t. --> To distribute or assign; to allot.
To localize.
allograph ::: n. --> A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.
allopathy ::: n. --> That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.
allotment ::: n. --> The act of allotting; assignment.
That which is allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed; that which is assigned by lot, or by the act of God; anything set apart for a special use or to a distinct party.
The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person.
allotted ::: 1. Divided or distributed by share or portion; apportioned. 2. Assigned as a portion, set apart, dedicated.
allot ::: v. t. --> To distribute by lot.
To distribute, or parcel out in parts or portions; or to distribute to each individual concerned; to assign as a share or lot; to set apart as one&
allowed ::: 1. Permitted the occurrence or existence of. 2. Allotted, assigned, bestowed. allows.
alphabet ::: n. --> The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.
The simplest rudiments; elements. ::: v. t. --> To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to
al segno ::: --> A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign /.
alternate ::: a. --> Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.
Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line.
Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of
alto ::: n. --> Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.
An alto singer.
Amal: “This is one of the perils awaiting one when one goes inward in search of one’s true self. The other perils are ‘the goblin Voice’ and ‘the enchantments of the demon Sign’. The opponent Snake’s ambush is the ultimate danger which can put an end to one’s inward search.”
ambiguity ::: n. --> The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression.
ambiguous ::: a. --> Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression.
amphi- ::: --> A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.
anagogical ::: a. --> Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication.
annunciator ::: n. --> One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.
An indicator (as in a hotel) which designates the room where attendance is wanted.
antedate ::: n. --> Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
Anticipation. ::: v. t. --> To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior
an ::: --> This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every. ::: conj.
antiphone ::: n. --> The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.
antiphony ::: n. --> A musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing.
An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively.
apennine ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy.
apo ::: --> A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous.
apophlegmatic ::: a. --> Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils. ::: n. --> An apophlegmatic medicine.
appanage ::: n. --> The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.
A dependency; a dependent territory.
That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment.
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
appellation ::: n. --> The act of appealing; appeal.
The act of calling by a name.
The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation.
appellatively ::: adv. --> After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.
applaud ::: v. t. --> To show approval of by clapping the hands, acclamation, or other significant sign.
To praise by words; to express approbation of; to commend; to approve. ::: v. i. --> To express approbation loudly or significantly.
appointed ::: 1. Predetermined; arranged; set. 2. Fixed by, through or as a result of authority; ordained; chosen; designated; selected.
appointment ::: n. --> The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.
The state of being appointed to som/ service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer.
Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made
appoint ::: v. t. --> To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
apportionment ::: n. --> The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.
apportion ::: v. t. --> To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.
appropriable ::: a. --> Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use.
appropriation ::: n. --> The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one&
aqua ::: n. --> Water; -- a word much used in pharmacy and the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed.
aquarelle ::: n. --> A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors.
aquarius ::: n. --> The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.
A constellation south of Pegasus.
arch- ::: --> A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend.
archi- ::: --> A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.
architect ::: n. --> A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.
A contriver, designer, or maker.
architectonical ::: a. --> Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive.
Relating to the systemizing of knowledge.
architecture ::: 1. The profession of designing buildings and other artificial constructions and environments, usually with some regard to aesthetic effect. 2. The character or style of building. 3. Construction or structure generally. architectures.
argufy ::: v. t. & i. --> To argue pertinaciously.
To signify.
aries ::: n. --> The Ram; the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March.
A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram.
A battering-ram.
armory ::: n. --> A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.
Armor; defensive and offensive arms.
A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords.
Ensigns armorial; armorial bearings.
That branch of heraldry which treats of coat armor.
arms ::: n. --> Instruments or weapons of offense or defense.
The deeds or exploits of war; military service or science.
Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon.
The ensigns armorial of a family, consisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction, and descending from father to son.
The legs of a hawk from the thigh to the foot.
aroph ::: n. --> A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies.
art ::: “The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the doors of the spirit.” The Human Cycle etc.
art union ::: --> An association for promoting art (esp. the arts of design), and giving encouragement to artists.
art ::: v. archaic** A second person singular present indicative of be, now only poet., not in modern usage. All other references are to art as the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. Also, the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria. art"s, arts, art-parades.
assignability ::: n. --> The quality of being assignable.
assignable ::: a. --> Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.
assignation ::: n. --> The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense.
A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
assignat ::: n. --> One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.
assigned ::: appointed, designated, deputed, allotted, announced as a task. assigner.
assigned ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Assign
assignee ::: v. --> A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor.
In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors.
assigner ::: n. --> One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.
assigning ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Assign
assignment ::: n. --> An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.
The writing by which an interest is transferred.
The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of
assignor ::: n. --> An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action.
assign ::: v. t. --> To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.
To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped,
"A SPIRITUAL evolution, an evolution of consciousness in Matter in a constant developing self-formation till the form can reveal the indwelling Spirit, is then the keynote, the central significant motive of the terrestrial existence. This significance is concealed at the outset by the involution of the Spirit, the Divine Reality, in a dense material Inconscience; a veil of Inconscience, a veil of insensibility of Matter hides the universal Consciousness-Force which works within it, so that the Energy, which is the first form the Force of creation assumes in the physical universe, appears to be itself inconscient and yet does the works of a vast occult Intelligence.” The Life Divine
“A SPIRITUAL evolution, an evolution of consciousness in Matter in a constant developing self-formation till the form can reveal the indwelling Spirit, is then the keynote, the central significant motive of the terrestrial existence. This significance is concealed at the outset by the involution of the Spirit, the Divine Reality, in a dense material Inconscience; a veil of Inconscience, a veil of insensibility of Matter hides the universal Consciousness-Force which works within it, so that the Energy, which is the first form the Force of creation assumes in the physical universe, appears to be itself inconscient and yet does the works of a vast occult Intelligence.” The Life Divine
assembly ::: n. --> A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.
A collection of inanimate objects.
A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
assident ::: a. --> Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms.
assurance ::: n. --> The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.
assure ::: v. t. --> To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.
To declare to, solemnly; to assert to (any one) with the design of inspiring belief or confidence.
To confirm; to make certain or secure.
To affiance; to betroth.
To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure.
“As there are Powers of Knowledge or Forces of the Light, so there are Powers of Ignorance and tenebrous Forces of the Darkness whose work is to prolong the reign of Ignorance and Inconscience. As there are Forces of Truth, so there are Forces that live by the Falsehood and support it and work for its victory; as there are powers whose life is intimately bound up with the existence, the idea and the impulse of Good, so there are Forces whose life is bound up with the existence and the idea and the impulse of Evil. It is this truth of the cosmic Invisible that was symbolised in the ancient belief of a struggle between the powers of Light and Darkness, Good and Evil for the possession of the world and the government of the life of man;—this was the significance of the contest between the Vedic Gods and their opponents, sons of Darkness and Division, figured in a later tradition as Titan and Giant and Demon, Asura, Rakshasa, Pisacha; the same tradition is found in the Zoroastrian Double Principle and the later Semitic opposition of God and his Angels on the one side and Satan and his hosts on the other,—invisible Personalities and Powers that draw man to the divine Light and Truth and Good or lure him into subjection to the undivine principle of Darkness and Falsehood and Evil.” The Life Divine
astrology ::: n. --> In its etymological signification, the science of the stars; among the ancients, synonymous with astronomy; subsequently, the art of judging of the influences of the stars upon human affairs, and of foretelling events by their position and aspects.
Aswapati ::: Purani: “Aswapathy, the father of Savitri, has been significantly called by the poet ‘the Lord of Life’. (book II, Canto XV). The name suggests an affinity to Vedic symbolism. In the Veda, Aswa, the horse, is the symbol of life-energy or vital power. Aswa + aty, Lord, would mean the ‘Lord of Life’. In the poem King Aswapathy is the symbol of the aspiring soul of man as manifested in life on earth.”Savitri”—An Approach and a Study
asymptote ::: n. --> A line which approaches nearer to some curve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it. Asymptotes may be straight lines or curves. A rectilinear asymptote may be conceived as a tangent to the curve at an infinite distance.
attach ::: v. t. --> To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.
To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or
attribute ::: v. t. --> To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). ::: n. --> That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or
attributive ::: a. --> Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute. ::: n. --> A word that denotes an attribute; esp. a modifying word joined to a noun; an adjective or adjective phrase.
auditorium ::: n. --> The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.
augural ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books.
augur ::: n. --> An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.
One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet. ::: v. i.
auscultation ::: n. --> The act of listening or hearkening to.
An examination by listening either directly with the ear (immediate auscultation) applied to parts of the body, as the abdomen; or with the stethoscope (mediate auscultation), in order to distinguish sounds recognized as a sign of health or of disease.
auspice ::: a. --> A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future.
Protection; patronage and care; guidance.
auspice-hour ::: an auspice is any divine or prophetic token; a favourable sign or propitious circumstance, esp. an indication of a happy future. Sri Aurobindo combines the word ‘hour" with auspice to emphasize a special moment.
autograph ::: n. --> That which is written with one&
autonomasy ::: n. --> The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, "He has gone to town," for, "He has gone to London."
avoidance ::: n. --> The act of annulling; annulment.
The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
The courts by which anything is carried off.
awarder ::: n. --> One who awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge.
award ::: v. t. --> To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
aware ::: a. --> Watchful; vigilant or on one&
background ::: n.** 1. The general scene or surface against which designs, patterns, or figures are represented or viewed. 2. Fig. The complex of physical, cultural, and psychological factors that serves as the environment of an event or experience; the set of conditions against which an occurrence is perceived. backgrounds. adj. 3.** Of, pertaining to, or serving as a background.
badge ::: n. --> A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.
Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one. ::: v. t.
balefire ::: n. --> A signal fire; an alarm fire.
baseball ::: n. --> A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.
The ball used in this game.
basilicas ::: public buildings in ancient Rome having a central nave with an apse at one or both ends and two side aisles formed by rows of columns, which was used as an assembly hall – also Christian churches with a similar design.
bawbling ::: a. --> Insignificant; contemptible.
beacon ::: 1. A source of guidance or inspiration. 2. A signalling or guiding device or warning signal as a light or signal fire.
beacon ::: n. --> A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
A high hill near the shore.
That which gives notice of danger. ::: v. t.
beauty ::: the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, colour, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else, (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest). Beauty, beauty"s, Beauty"s, beauty-drenched, earth-beauty"s.
beck ::: n. --> See Beak.
A small brook.
A vat. See Back.
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command. ::: v. i.
beckoning ::: signalling, summoning.
beckon ::: v. t. --> To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand. ::: n. --> A sign made without words; a beck.
beings ::: things or entities that exist, esp. things or entities that cannot be assigned to any category.
bemol ::: n. --> The sign /; the same as B flat.
betoken ::: v. t. --> To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.
To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.
betray ::: 1. To be false or disloyal to. 2. To lead astray; deceive. 3. To divulge, disclose in a breach of confidence, a secret. 4. To show signs of; reveal; indicate. betrays, betrayed, betraying, moon-betrayed.
binomial ::: n. --> An expression consisting of two terms connected by the sign plus (+) or minus (-); as, a + b, or 7 - 3. ::: a. --> Consisting of two terms; pertaining to binomials; as, a binomial root.
Having two names; -- used of the system by which every
black-jack ::: n. --> A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende.
Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.
A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
The Quercus nigra, or barren oak.
The ensign of a pirate.
blasphemy ::: n. --> An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.
Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification.
bless ::: v. t. --> To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate
To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.
To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.
To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.
To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one&
Blue ::: Fundamental colour of the Ananda ; Krishna’s special and significant colour, the colour of his aura when he manifests ;
bode ::: v. t. --> To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
A messenger; a herald. ::: v. i. --> To foreshow something; to augur.
"Body is the outward sign and lowest basis of the apparent division which Nature plunging into ignorance and self-nescience makes the starting-point for the recovery of unity by the individual soul, unity even in the midst of the most exaggerated forms of her multiple consciousness.” The Life Divine
“Body is the outward sign and lowest basis of the apparent division which Nature plunging into ignorance and self-nescience makes the starting-point for the recovery of unity by the individual soul, unity even in the midst of the most exaggerated forms of her multiple consciousness.” The Life Divine
bookmark ::: n. --> Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
bougie ::: n. --> A long, flexible instrument, that is
A long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.
brand ::: v. t. --> A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.
A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness.
A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately:
brick ::: n. --> A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.
Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).
A good fellow; a merry person; as, you &
brocade ::: a thick, rich fabric woven with a raised design, often using gold or silver threads. brocades.
broideries ::: embroidered needle-work designs in gold, silver, and other threads on cloth.
signal ::: n. 1. An indicator, such as a gesture or colored light, that serves as a means of communication. 2. Anything that acts as an incitement to action. Also fig. **signals. adj. 3. Used to give or act as a signal. signalling. 4. Serving as a warning, direction, command, or the like. signal fires, signal flares, signal light.**
signature ::: 1. The name of a person or a mark or sign representing his name, marked by himself or by an authorized deputy. 2. The act of signing one"s name. 3. Any unique, distinguishing aspect, feature, or mark of any kind. signatures.
signed ::: provided with a signature or signatures. Also fig.
significance ::: 1. A meaning that is expressed. 2. Meaning; suggestiveness. 3. Importance, consequence. significances.
significant ::: 1. Having or expressing a meaning; meaningful. 2. Having or expressing a covert meaning; suggestive; indicative.
sign ::: n. 1. An act or gesture used to convey an idea, a desire, information, or a command. 2. Any object, action, event, pattern, etc., that conveys a meaning. 3. A mark used to mean something; a symbol that sets something apart from others of its kind. 4. Something that indicates or acts as a token of a fact, condition, etc., that is not immediately or outwardly observable. 5. A signal. 6. A conventional figure or device that stands for a word, phrase, or operation; a symbol, as in mathematics or in musical notation. 7. A displayed structure such as a banner bearing lettering or symbols. 8. An act or significant event that is experienced as indication of divine intervention. 9. A portent of things to come. Sign, sign"s, signs, signless, sign-burdened, flame-signs. v. 10. To affix one"s signature to. 11. To indicate by or as if by a sign; betoken. signs, signed, signing.
signposts ::: posts bearing signs that show the way.
sign ::: The brief perpetual sign recurred above.
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
buntine ::: n. --> A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships&
burdened ::: 1. Weighed down; oppressed. 2. Bearing a heavy load of work, difficulties or responsibilities. 3. Laden with; charged with. pleasure-burdened, sign-burdened.
buried ::: v. 1. Deposited or hid under ground; covered up with earth or other material. Also fig. **2. Plunged or sunk deep in, so as to be covered from view; put out of sight. adj. 3. Put in the ground or in a tomb; interred. 4. Consigned to a position of obscurity, inaccessibility, or inaction. 5.* Fig.* Consigned to oblivion, put out of the way, abandoned and forgotten.
bush ::: n. --> A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners&
By its numerous asanas or fixed postures it first cures the body of that restlessness which is a sign of its inability to contain without working them off in action and movement the vital forces poured into it from the universal Life-Ocean, gives to ft an
cabal ::: n. --> Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala
A secret.
A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.
The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.
call ::: v. t. --> To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.
To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with
calumniate ::: v. t. --> To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel. ::: v. i. --> To propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime.
canal ::: n. --> An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.
A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.
cancer ::: n. --> A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.
The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun&
candlebomb ::: n. --> A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam.
A pasteboard shell used in signaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes.
canoe ::: n. --> A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder.
A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages.
A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast.
cantonment ::: n. --> A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters.
can we hope to be directly aware of the Divine in us and directly in touch with the Divine Light and the Divine Force. Otherwise we can feel the Divine only through external signs and external results and that is a diflicult and uncertain way and very occa- sional and inconstant, and it leads only to belief and not to knowledge, not to the direct consciousness and awareness of the constant presence.
capacious ::: a. --> Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor.
Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal.
cap ::: n. --> A covering for the head
One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys
One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants
One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal.
The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
A respectful uncovering of the head.
The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill
capricorn ::: n. --> The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic.
A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish.
carbolic ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and phenol). See Phenol.
care-worn ::: showing signs of care or worry; fatigued by trouble or anxiety; haggard.
carriage ::: n. --> That which is carried; burden; baggage.
The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.
The price or expense of carrying.
That which carries of conveys,
A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.
A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.
carronade ::: n. --> A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.
carte blanche ::: --> A blank paper, with a person&
cartoon ::: n. --> A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.
A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck."
carving ::: v. **1. Sculpting into a desired shape. Also fig.* *n. 2. A figure or design produced by carving stone or wood. carving"s.**
casual ::: a. --> Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.
Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses. ::: n. --> One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he
casually ::: adv. --> Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance; occasionally.
casualty ::: n. --> That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.
Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.
Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.
catachresis ::: n. --> A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, "To take arms against a sea of troubles". Shak. "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound." Young.
cata ::: --> The Latin and English form of a Greek preposition, used as a prefix to signify down, downward, under, against, contrary or opposed to, wholly, completely; as in cataclysm, catarrh. It sometimes drops the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as in cathartic, catholic.
cautionary ::: a. --> Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals.
Given as a pledge or as security.
Wary; cautious.
caveat ::: n. --> A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.
A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.
cede ::: v. t. --> To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.
cerography ::: n. --> The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.
A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.
Chakra (circular movement) ::: Always sign of energy in action, generally creative action.
challenge ::: n. --> An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
A claim or demand.
The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
chamade ::: n. --> A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.
chapelry ::: n. --> The territorial district legally assigned to a chapel.
charactery ::: n. --> The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark.
That which is charactered; the meaning.
charact ::: n. --> A distinctive mark; a character; a letter or sign. [Obs.] See Character.
charade ::: n. --> A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.
charge ::: 1. An assigned duty or task; a responsibility given to one. 2. Care; custody. 3. An order, an impetuous onset or attack, command, or injunction. 4. The quantity of anything that a receptacle is intended to hold. v. 5. *Fig. To load to capacity; fill. *charged.
charivari ::: n. --> A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult.
chaste ::: a. --> Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent.
Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.
Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art.
Unmarried.
chasteness ::: n. --> Chastity; purity.
Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaudy, or affected; as, chasteness of design.
chasuble ::: n. --> The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ&
checkstring ::: n. --> A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.
chemic ::: chemical. ::: cheque ::: a written order, usually on a standard printed form, directing a bank to pay money to a person or designated bearer. cheques.
chicane ::: n. --> The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.
child ::: n. --> A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.
A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom.
One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of God; a child
Child ::: .Usually signifies the psychic being — new-born in the sense that it at last comes to the surface.
chiltern hundreds ::: --> A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.
chirologist ::: n. --> One who communicates thoughts by signs made with the hands and fingers.
chit ::: n. --> The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.
A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
An excrescence on the body, as a wart.
A small tool used in cleaving laths. ::: v. i.
choregraphy ::: n. --> The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes.
christcross ::: n. --> The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o&
chronology ::: n. --> The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates.
chronopher ::: n. --> An instrument signaling the correct time to distant points by electricity.
\cil of sleep — very largely indeed these two elements get mixed up together. For in fact a large part of our consciousness in sleep docs not sink into this subconscious slate ; it passes beyond the veil into other planes of being which arc connected with our own inner planes, planes of supraphj'sical existence, w'orlds of a larger life, mind or psychic which arc there behind and whose influences come to us without our knowledge. Occasionally we get a dream from these planes, something more than a dream, — a dream experience which is a record direct or symbolic of what happens to us or around us there. As the inner consciousness grows by sadhana, these dream experiences increase In number, dearness, coherence, accuracy and after some growth of experi- ence and consciousness, we can, if we observe, come to under- stand them and their significance to our loner life. Even we can by training become so coosetous as to follow our own passage, usually veiled to our arvarencss and memory, through many realms and the process of the return to the waking state. At a certain pitch of this inner wakefulness this kind of sleep, a sleep experience, can replace the ordinary subconscious slumber.
circum- ::: --> A Latin preposition, used as a prefix in many English words, and signifying around or about.
cis- ::: --> A Latin preposition, sometimes used as a prefix in English words, and signifying on this side.
classed ::: arranged, grouped, or rated according to qualities or characteristics; assigned to a class; classified.
co- ::: --> A form of the prefix com-, signifying with, together, in conjunction, joint. It is used before vowels and some consonants. See Com-.
cobweb ::: n. --> The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.
A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary.
That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish.
The European spotted flycatcher.
cockbill ::: v. t. --> To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning.
code ::: n. --> A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.
codille ::: n. --> A term at omber, signifying that the game is won.
coindication ::: n. --> One of several signs or symptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
col- ::: --> A prefix signifying with, together. See Com-.
colloquy ::: n. --> Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation.
In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship.
COLOURS. ::: When the colours begin to lake definite shapes in the visions, it is a sign of some dynamic work of formation in the consciousness. The waves of colour mean a dynamic rush of forces.
columbiad ::: n. --> A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation.
com- ::: --> A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m, p, and sometimes f, and by assimilation becomes col- before l, cor- before r, and con- before any consonant except b, h, l, m, p, r, and w. Before a vowel com- becomes co-; also before h, w, and sometimes before other consonants.
commemoration ::: n. --> The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event.
Whatever serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial.
commitment ::: n. --> The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.
A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.
The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.
A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.
commit ::: v. t. --> To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one&
complot ::: n. --> A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy. ::: v. t. & i. --> To plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design.
compose ::: v. t. --> To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.
To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute.
To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture.
comprehensibly ::: adv. --> With great extent of signification; comprehensively.
Intelligibly; in a manner to be comprehended or understood.
con- ::: --> A prefix, fr. L. cum, signifying with, together, etc. See Com-.
consigned ::: handed over or given into the care or charge of another; entrusted.
conceited ::: a. --> Endowed with fancy or imagination.
Entertaining a flattering opinion of one&
conception ::: 1. Origin or beginning. 2. The act or power of forming notions, ideas, or concepts. 3. The act of conceiving; the state of being conceived; fertilization; inception of pregnancy. 4. Something conceived in the mind; a concept, plan, design, idea, or thought. conception"s.
concerted ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Concert ::: a. --> Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals.
concert ::: v. t. --> To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
To plan; to devise; to arrange.
Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
A musical entertainment in which several voices or
concurrence ::: n. --> The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination.
A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design or act; -- implying joint approbation.
Agreement or consent, implying aid or contribution of power or influence; cooperation.
A common right; coincidence of equal powers; as, a concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts.
confession ::: n. --> Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one&
confutative ::: a. --> Adapted or designed to confute.
::: ‘Consecration" generally has a more mystical sense but this is not absolute. A total consecration signifies a total giving of one"s self; hence it is the equivalent of the word ``surrender"", not of the word (soumission} which always gives the impression that one accepts'' passively. You feel a flame in the wordconsecration"", a flame even greater than in the word offering''. To consecrate oneself isto give oneself to an action""; hence, in the yogic sense, it is to give oneself to some divine work with the idea of accomplishing the divine work.” Questions and Answers, MCW Vol. 4*.
‘Consecration’ generally has a more mystical sense but this is not absolute. A total consecration signifies a total giving of one’s self; hence it is the equivalent of the word surrender’’, not of the word (soumission} which always gives the impression that oneaccepts’’ passively. You feel a flame in the word consecration’’, a flame even greater than in the wordoffering’’. To consecrate oneself is ``to give oneself to an action’’; hence, in the yogic sense, it is to give oneself to some divine work with the idea of accomplishing the divine work.” Questions and Answers, MCW Vol. 4.
Consecration in work ::: Tbe signs of the consecration of iJw vital in action are these among others :::
consequence ::: 1. Something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition. 2. Significance; importance.
contrivings ::: clever and ingenious designs, plans, schemes.
create ::: 1. To cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes. 2. To evolve from one"s own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention. 3. To cause to happen; to bring about; arrange, as by intention or design. creates, created, creating, all-creating, self-creating, world-creating, new-create.
Creen is the vital energy of work and action. Green light is a vital force, a dynamic force of the emotional vital which has the force to purify, harmonise or cure. Active energy of the divine Truth for work. It can signify various things according to the context ::: in the emotional vital. It is the colour of a cer- tain form of emotional generosity; in the vital proper, an activity with vital abundance or vital generosity behind it ; in the vital physical, it signifies a force of health.
CrOH7i ::: Sign of fulfilment.
cross ::: 1. A structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, upon which persons were formerly put to a cruel and ignominious death by being nailed or otherwise fastened to it by their extremities. 2. A representation or delineation of a cross on any surface, varying in elaborateness from two lines crossing each other to an ornamental design painted, embroidered, carved, etc.; used as a sacred mark, symbol, badge, or the like. 3. A trouble, vexation, annoyance; misfortune, adversity; sometimes anything that thwarts or crosses. v. 4. To go or extend across; pass from one side of to the other: pass over. 5. To extend or pass through or over; intersect. 6. To encounter in passing. crosses, crossed, crossing.
CROSS. ::: Sign of the Divine Descent barred and marred by the transversal line of a cosmic deformation which turns life into a state of sufFering and misfortune.
Cross ::: Sign of the triple being, transcendent, universal and individual.
cross ::: Sri Aurobindo: ". . . the cross is the sign of the Divine Descent barred and marred by the transversal line of a cosmic deformation which turns it into a stake of suffering and misfortune. Only by the ascent to the original Truth can the deformation be healed and all the works of love, as too all the works of knowledge and of life, be restored to a divine significance and become part of an integral spiritual existence.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
cross ::: “… the cross is the sign of the Divine Descent barred and marred by the transversal line of a cosmic deformation which turns it into a stake of suffering and misfortune. Only by the ascent to the original Truth can the deformation be healed and all the works of love, as too all the works of knowledge and of life, be restored to a divine significance and become part of an integral spiritual existence.” The Synthesis of Yoga
crown ::: n. **1. An ornament worn on the head by kings and those having sovereign power, often made of precious metal and ornamented with gems. 2. A wreath or garland for the head, awarded as a sign of victory, success, honour, etc. 3. The distinction that comes from a great achievement; reward, honour. 4. The top or summit of something, esp. of a rounded object. etc. 5. The highest or more nearly perfect state of anything. 6. An exalting or chief attribute. 7. The acme or supreme source of honour, excellence, beauty, etc. v. 8. To put a crown on the head of, symbolically vesting with royal title, powers, etc. 9. To place something on or over the head or top of. crowns, crowned.**
c ::: --> The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same.
C after the clef is the mark of common time, in which each measure is a semibreve (four fourths or crotchets); for alla breve time it is written /.
The "C clef," a modification of the letter C, placed on any line of the staff, shows that line to be middle C.
DARK PATH. ::: The dark path is there and there are many who make a Gospel of spiritual suffering; many hold it to be the unavoidable price of victory. It may be so under certain circumstances, as it has been in so many lives at the beginning. or one may choose to make it so. But then the price has to be paid with resignation, fortitude or a tenacious resilience. Borne that way, the attacks of the dark forces or the ordeals they impose have a meaning. After each victory gained over them, there is then a sensible advance; often they seem to show us the difficulties in ourselves which we have to overcome. But all the same it is a too dark and difficult way which nobody need follow on whom the necessity does not lie.
design ::: n. 1. Purpose, aim, intention, especially with reference to a Divine Creator. 2. Plan or scheme. 3. A combination of details or features; pattern or motif. design"s, designs. *v. 4. To work out the structure or form of (something). 5. To plan and make (something) artistically or skilfully. *designed, designing.
designs or pictures transferred from engraved plates, wood blocks, lithographic stones or other media. flower-prints.
delivery ::: the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc. to a designated recipient.
demand and the full dedication of all you possess and receive and all your power of acquisition to the Divine Shakti and her work are the signs of this freedom. Any perturbation of mind with regard to money and its use, any claim, any grudging is a sure index of some imperfection or bondage.
demon Sign
deputed ::: assigned or appointed as a representative or agent.
desolate ::: 1. Uninhabited, laid waste, deserted, without any sign of life, barren. 2. Devoid of inhabitants; deserted. 3. Bereft of friends or hope; sad and forlorn. 4. Wretched or forlorn. 5. Dreary, dismal, gloomy. desolately.
device ::: 1. Something devised or framed by art or inventive power; an invention, contrivance for some particular purpose. 2. A plan or scheme, especially a malign one. 3. Something elaborately or fancifully designed. devices.
devised ::: formed, planned, or arranged in the mind; designed or contrived.
drain ::: v. 1. To deplete (a person or a thing) gradually, especially to the point of complete exhaustion. n. 2. A gradual depletion of energy or resources. 3. Something (a ditch, trench, waterpipe etc.) designed to carry away water. drained.
draw ::: 1. To cause to move in a given direction or to a given position, as by leading. 2. To bring towards oneself or itself, as by inherent force or influence; attract. 3. To cause to come by attracting; attract. 4. To cause to move in a particular direction by or as by a pulling force; pull; drag. 5. To get, take or obtain as from a source; to derive. 6. To bring, take, or pull out, as from a receptacle or source. 7. To draw a (or the) line (fig.) to determine or define the limit between two things or groups; in modern colloquial use (esp. with at), to lay down a definite limit of action beyond which one refuses to go. 8. To make, sketch (a picture or representation of someone or something) in lines or words; to design, trace out, delineate; depict; also, to mould, model. 9. To mark or lay out; trace. 10. To compose or write out in legal format. 11. To write out (a bill of exchange or promissory note). 12. To disembowel. 13. To move or pull so as to cover or uncover something. 14. To suck or take in (air, for example); inhale. 15. To extend, lengthen, prolong, protract. 16. To cause to move after or toward one by applying continuous force; drag. draws, drew, drawn, drawing, wide-drawn.
emblem ::: a sign, design, or figure that identifies or represents someone or something.
encounters ::: meetings, face to face, esp. undesignedly or casually.
engineers ::: those who design, plan or mastermind. Also fig.
enrich ::: to improve in quality, colour, flavour, etc.; to add greater value or significance to; to enhance. enriched.
". . . equality is the sign of unity with the Brahman, of becoming Brahman, of growing into an undisturbed spiritual poise of being in the Infinite. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated; for it is the sign of our having passed beyond the egoistic determinations of our nature, of our having conquered our enslaved response to the dualities, of our having transcended the shifting turmoil of the gunas, of our having entered into the calm and peace of liberation. Equality is a term of consciousness which brings into the whole of our being and nature the eternal tranquillity of the Infinite.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“… equality is the sign of unity with the Brahman, of becoming Brahman, of growing into an undisturbed spiritual poise of being in the Infinite. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated; for it is the sign of our having passed beyond the egoistic determinations of our nature, of our having conquered our enslaved response to the dualities, of our having transcended the shifting turmoil of the gunas, of our having entered into the calm and peace of liberation. Equality is a term of consciousness which brings into the whole of our being and nature the eternal tranquillity of the Infinite.” The Synthesis of Yoga
essence ::: the basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing or its significant individual feature or features; its true substance.
eternity ::: “The timeless Spirit is not necessarily a blank; it may hold all in itself, but in essence, without reference to time or form or relation or circumstance, perhaps in an eternal unity. Eternity is the common term between Time and the Timeless Spirit. What is in the Timeless unmanifested, implied, essential, appears in Time in movement, or at least in design and relation, in result and circumstance. These two then are the same Eternity or the same Eternal in a double status; they are a twofold status of being and consciousness, one an eternity of immobile status, the other an eternity of motion in status.” The Life Divine
evidence ::: something that makes plain or clear; an indication or sign. self-evidence.
Experiences of sounds, lights etc . ::: The sounds of bells and the seeing of lights and colours are signs of the opening of the inner consciousness which brings with it an opening also to sights and sounds of other planes than the physical. Some of these things like the sound of bells, crickets, etc. seem even to help the opening.
express ::: 1. To represent by a sign or a symbol; indicate; symbolize. 2. To set forth in words; state; verbalise. 3. To represent symbolically. 4. To manifest, reveal or communicate, as by a gesture; show. expresses, expressed, expressing.
FASTING. ::: Prolonged fasting may lead to an excitation of the nervous being which often brings vivid imaginations and hallucinations that are taken for true experiences ; such fasting h freqiKndy suggestsd by the vital Entities, because it puts the consciousness into an unbalanced state which favours their designs.
figured ::: decorated or patterned with a design.
fixed ::: 1. Securely placed or fastened or set. 2. Set or intent upon something; steadily directed (as of a person"s eyes, mind, etc.). 3. Definitely and permanently placed. 4. Not fluctuating or varying; definite. 5. Coming each year on the same calendar date. 6. Assigned to a definite place, time, etc.
flame ::: n. 1. Burning gas or vapor, as from wood or coal, that is undergoing combustion; a portion of ignited gas or vapor. 2. Fig. A brilliant light; fiery glow. 3. Fig. Intense ardour, zeal, passion, vitality. 4. Spiritual fire. 5. Inner fire. 6. Bright colouring; a streak or patch of color. Flame, flames, flame-ascensions, flame-born, flame-bright, flame-child, flame-discovery, flame-edge, flame-eyed, flame-foot, flame-hills, flame-pure, flame-signs, flame-stabs, flame-throw, flame-white, flame-wrapped, moon-flame. v. 8. To burn with a flame or flames; burst into flames; blaze. 7. To burn or glow as if with fire; become red or fiery 8. To burn or burst forth with strong emotion. flames, flamed. ::: flames out. Bursts out in or as if in flames.
flare ::: 1. A flaring or swaying flame or light as of torches in the wind. 2. A sudden blaze or burst of flame or light, e.g. lightening. 3. A bright blaze of fire or light used as a signal, a means of illumination or guidance, etc. 4. A sudden burst, as of zeal or anger. flares, flared, flaring, sky-flare.
forego ::: to abstain from, go without, deny to oneself; to let go or pass, omit to take or use; to give up, part with, relinquish, renounce, resign. foregone.
foresight ::: 1. Perception of the significance and nature of events before they have occurred. 2. Knowledge or insight gained by or as by looking forward; a view of the future; foreknowledge.
forge ::: n. 1. A special fireplace, hearth, or furnace in which metal is heated before shaping. v. 2. To form (metal, for example) by heating in a forge and beating or hammering into shape. 3. To form or make, esp. by concentrated effort or energy; shape, fabricate, fashion, mould. 4. To imitate (handwriting, a signature, etc.) fraudulently; to counterfeit; to commit forgery. forged.
foundation ::: “The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms for ever in the Light above.” Letters on Yoga
fretted ::: ornamented with elaborate patterns or angular designs.
gesture ::: 1. A motion of the limbs or body made to express or help express thought or to emphasize speech. 2. The act of moving the limbs or body as an expression of thought or emphasis. 3. An act or a remark made as a formality or as a sign of intention or attitude. gesture"s, gestures.
gif: is not a freak or an abnormaiity ; it is a universal faculty present in all human beings, but latent in most, in some rarely or intermittently active, occurring as if by accident in others, frequent or normally active in a few. But just as anyone can, uith some training, learn science and do things which would have seemed miracles to his forefathers, so almost anyone, if he wants, can with a little concentration and training develop the faculty of supraphjsical vision. When one starts Yoga, this power is often, though not in\'ariably — for some find it difficult — one of the first to come out from its latent condition and manifest itself, most often without any efTori, Intention or previous know- ledge on the part of the sadhaka. It comes more easily with the eyes shut than with the eyes open, but it does come in both ways. Tlic first sign of its opening in the externalised way is very often that seeing of “sparkles’* or small luminous dots, shapes, etc. ; a second is, often enough, most easily, round lumi- nous objects like a star ; seeing of colours 1$ a third initial experi- cnee — but (hey do not alw'ay's come in that order.
gift is not a freak or an abnonnality ; it is a universal faculty present in all human beings, but latent In most, in some rarely or intermittently active, occurring as if by accident in others, frequent or normally active in a few. But just as aayoas can, with some training, learn sdence and do things which would have seemed miracles to his forefathers, so almost anyone, if he wants, can with a little concentration and training develop the faculty of supraphysical rision. When one starts Yoga, this power is often, though not invariably — for some find it diScult — one of the first to come out from its latent condition and manifest itself, most often without any effort, intention or previous know- ledge on the part of the sadbaka. It comes more easily with the eyes shut than with the eyes open, but it does come in both ways. The first sign of its opening in the externalised way is very often that seeing of “ sparkles ” or small luminous dots, shapes, etc. ; a second is, often enough, most easily, round lumi- nous objects like a star ; seeing of colours is a third initial experi- ence'— but they do not always come in that order.
ground ::: 1. Base; foundation. 2. Earth or soil. 3. Any material surface, lit. and fig. 4. Background. 5. An area of land designated for a particular purpose, lit. and fig. **6. The foundation for an argument, a belief, or an action; a basis. soul-ground.**
handle ::: n. 1. A part that is designed to be held or operated with the hand. v. 2. To deal with or have responsibility for; conduct.
happens ::: 1. Comes to pass. 2. Comes to pass by chance; occurs without apparent reason or design. happened.
hatred ::: “Hatred is the sign of a secret attraction that is eager to flee from itself and furious to deny its own existence. That too is God’s play in His creature.” Essays Divine and Human
hieroglyph ::: designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented. hieroglyphs.
If we would understand the difference of this global Overmind Consciousness from our separative and only imperfectly synthetic mental consciousness, we may come near to it if we compare the strictly mental with what would be an overmental view of activities in our material universe. To the Overmind, for example, all religions would be true as developments of the one eternal religion, all philosophies would be valid each in its own field as a statement of its own universe-view from its own angle, all political theories with their practice would be the legitimate working out of an Idea Force with its right to application and practical development in the play of the energies of Nature. In our separative consciousness, imperfectly visited by glimpses of catholicity and universality, these things exist as opposites; each claims to be the truth and taxes the others with error and falsehood, each feels impelled to refute or destroy the others in order that itself alone may be the Truth and live: at best, each must claim to be superior, admit all others only as inferior truth-expressions. An overmental Intelligence would refuse to entertain this conception or this drift to exclusiveness for a moment; it would allow all to live as necessary to the whole or put each in its place in the whole or assign to each its field of realisation or of endeavour. This is because in us consciousness has come down completely into the divisions of the Ignorance; Truth is no longer either an Infinite or a cosmic whole with many possible formulations, but a rigid affirmation holding any other affirmation to be false because different from itself and entrenched in other limits. Our mental consciousness can indeed arrive in its cognition at a considerable approach towards a total comprehensiveness and catholicity, but to organise that in action and life seems to be beyond its power. Evolutionary Mind, manifest in individuals or collectivities, throws up a multiplicity of divergent viewpoints, divergent lines of action and lets them work themselves out side by side or in collision or in a certain intermixture; it can make selective harmonies, but it cannot arrive at the harmonic control of a true totality. Cosmic Mind must have even in the evolutionary Ignorance, like all totalities, such a harmony, if only of arranged accords and discords; there is too in it an underlying dynamism of oneness: but it carries the completeness of these things in its depths, perhaps in a supermind-overmind substratum, but does not impart it to individual Mind in the evolution, does not bring it or has not yet brought it from the depths to the surface. An Overmind world would be a world of harmony; the world of Ignorance in which we live is a world of disharmony and struggle. …
imperfection ::: “… our imperfection is the sign of a transitional state, a growth not yet completed, an effort that is finding its way; …” The Life Divine
insignia ::: a badge or emblem of membership, office, rank or dignity; an official or distinguishing sign.
insignificant ::: 1. Too small to be important. 2. Unimportant, trifling, or petty; of no consequence, influence or distinction. 3. Without meaning. insignificance.
index ::: 1. An alphabetized list of names, places, and subjects treated in a printed work, giving the page or pages on which each item is mentioned. 2. A sequential arrangement. 3. Something that reveals or indicates; a sign.
indicator ::: one who or that which points to or towards the presence, existence, or reality of (something); is a sign or symptom of, betokens.
"Influence is more important than example. Influence is not the outward authority of the Teacher over his disciple, but the power of his contact, of his presence, of the nearness of his soul to the soul of another, infusing into it, even though in silence, that which he himself is and possesses. This is the supreme sign of the Master. For the greatest Master is much less a Teacher than a Presence pouring the divine consciousness and its constituting light and power and purity and bliss into all who are receptive around him.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“Influence is more important than example. Influence is not the outward authority of the Teacher over his disciple, but the power of his contact, of his presence, of the nearness of his soul to the soul of another, infusing into it, even though in silence, that which he himself is and possesses. This is the supreme sign of the Master. For the greatest Master is much less a Teacher than a Presence pouring the divine consciousness and its constituting light and power and purity and bliss into all who are receptive around him.” The Synthesis of Yoga
initials ::: marks or signs with an initial letter or letters of a person"s name and surname esp. as a token of preliminary or informal approval.
INNER SIGHT. ::: When one tries to meditate, the first obstacle in the beginning is sleep. When you get over this obstacle, there comes a condition in which, with the eyes closed, you begin to see things, people, scenes of all kinds. It is a good sign and means that you are making progress in yoga. There is, besides the outer physical sight which sees external objects, an inner .sight in us which can see things yet unseen and unknown, things at a distance, things belonging to another place or time or to other worlds.
Inner vision is vivid like actual sight, always precise and contains a truth in it. In mental vision the images are invented by the mind and are partly true, partly a play of possibilities. Or a mental vision like the vital may be only a suggestion,- that is a formation of some possibility on the mental or vital plane which presents itself to the sādhaka in the hope of being accepted and helped to realise itself.
intelligence ::: “Intelligence does not depend on the amount one has read, it is a quality of the mind. Study only gives it material for its work as life also does. There are people who do not know how to read and write who are more intelligent than many highly educated people and understand life and things better. On the other hand, a good intelligence can improve itself by reading because it gets more material to work on and grows by exercise and by having a wider range to move in. But book-knowledge by itself is not the real thing, it has to be used as a help to the intelligence but it is often only a help to stupidity or ignorance—ignorance because knowledge of facts is a poor thing if one cannot see their true significance.” Letters on Yoga
intended ::: purposed; designed; meant; intentional. high-intended.
intention ::: design; purpose, aim.
intent ::: n. 1. Something that is intended; purpose; design. v. 2. To be firmly or steadfastly fixed or directed, as the eyes or mind. 3. To be determined or resolved; having the mind or will fixed on some goal.
interpret ::: 1. To give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate. 2. To conceive the significance of; construe. interpreted, interpreting, interpreter, interpreters, interpretation, interpretation"s, world-interpreting.
intuition ::: direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process. intuition"s, intuitions, half-intuition.
Sri Aurobindo: "Intuition is a power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by identity; for it is always something that leaps out direct from a concealed identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even without any such meeting, looks into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again, when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of things and beings and has a contactual union with it, then the spark, the flash or the blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths. This close perception is more than sight, more than conception: it is the result of a penetrating and revealing touch which carries in it sight and conception as part of itself or as its natural consequence. A concealed or slumbering identity, not yet recovering itself, still remembers or conveys by the intuition its own contents and the intimacy of its self-feeling and self-vision of things, its light of truth, its overwhelming and automatic certitude.” *The Life Divine
"Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind-substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of ``stable lightnings"". When this original or native Intuition begins to descend into us in answer to an ascension of our consciousness to its level or as a result of our finding of a clear way of communication with it, it may continue to come as a play of lightning-flashes, isolated or in constant action; but at this stage the judgment of reason becomes quite inapplicable, it can only act as an observer or registrar understanding or recording the more luminous intimations, judgments and discriminations of the higher power. To complete or verify an isolated intuition or discriminate its nature, its application, its limitations, the receiving consciousness must rely on another completing intuition or be able to call down a massed intuition capable of putting all in place. For once the process of the change has begun, a complete transmutation of the stuff and activities of the mind into the substance, form and power of Intuition is imperative; until then, so long as the process of consciousness depends upon the lower intelligence serving or helping out or using the intuition, the result can only be a survival of the mixed Knowledge-Ignorance uplifted or relieved by a higher light and force acting in its parts of Knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"I use the word ‘intuition" for want of a better. In truth, it is a makeshift and inadequate to the connotation demanded of it. The same has to be said of the word ‘consciousness" and many others which our poverty compels us to extend illegitimately in their significance.” *The Life Divine - Sri Aurobindo"s footnote.
"For intuition is an edge of light thrust out by the secret Supermind. . . .” The Life Divine
". . . intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data.” The Life Divine
"Intuition is above illumined Mind which is simply higher Mind raised to a great luminosity and more open to modified forms of intuition and inspiration.” Letters on Yoga
"Intuition sees the truth of things by a direct inner contact, not like the ordinary mental intelligence by seeking and reaching out for indirect contacts through the senses etc. But the limitation of the Intuition as compared with the supermind is that it sees things by flashes, point by point, not as a whole. Also in coming into the mind it gets mixed with the mental movement and forms a kind of intuitive mind activity which is not the pure truth, but something in between the higher Truth and the mental seeking. It can lead the consciousness through a sort of transitional stage and that is practically its function.” Letters on Yoga
“… intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data.” The Life Divine
investiture ::: 1. The act of presenting with a title or with the robes and insignia of an office or rank. Chiefly fig. **2. The formal bestowal, confirmation, or presentation of rank, office, etc. investitured.**
is tio -picfoi cS an -oVdaiate Vneapawty \o arrive •, it is only a sign that there is something in oneself which has to be overcome, and if there is the will to reach the Divine, it can be overcome.
It is this which explains many of the phenomena of clair- voyance, clairaudience, etc. ; for these phenomena are only the exceptional admission of the waking mentality into a limited sensitiveness to what might be called the image memory of the subtle ether,' by which not only the signs of all things past and present, but even those of things future can be seized ; for things future are already accomplished to knowledge and vision on higher planes of mind and their images can be reflected upon mind in the present. But these things which are exceptional to the w’aking mentality, difficult and to be perceived only by the pos- session of a special power or else after assiduous training, are natural to the dream-state of trance consciousness in which the subliminal mind is free. And that mind can al^o take cognizance
“I use the word ‘intuition’ for want of a better. In truth, it is a makeshift and inadequate to the connotation demanded of it. The same has to be said of the word ‘consciousness’ and many others which our poverty compels us to extend illegitimately in their significance.” The Life Divine—Sri Aurobindo’s footnote.
JAPA. ::: Japa is usually successful only on one of two condi- tions ::: if it is repeated with a sense of its significance, a dwelling of something in the mind on the nature, power, beauty, attrac- tion of the Godhead it signifies and is to bring into the cons- ciousness, — - that is the mental way ; or if it comes up from the heart or rings in it with a certain sense or feeling of bhak'ti making it alive, — that is the emotional way. Either the mind or the vital has to give it support or sustenance. But if it makes the mind dry and the vital restless, it must be missing that sup- port and sustenance. There « of course a third way, the reliance on the power of the Mantra or name in itself ; but then one has to go on till that power has sufficiently impressed its vibra- tion on the inner being to make it at a given moment suddenly open to the Presence or the Touch. But Jf there is a struggling or insistence for the result, then this c/Tect which needs a quiet receptivity In the mind is impeded.
Jhumur: “Anarchs is a strange word here because to me it symbolises rulers, forces that dominate, and yet anarchy is a state where there is no rule. So, the rulers of chaos and disorder. But there is always this core of anarchy which is a form of absolute inconscience, the original inconscience. At a very early level all form of order is a sign of consciousness, organisation, and this is the opposite, the first expression of the Inconscience, the descent into Night which is ruled by all these forces of darkness, the forces that refuse harmony.”
Jhumur: “You have the same word in French, capte—like a receiver that catches signals. I believe Sri Aurobindo often uses French words with the French connotation. Particularly I have noticed that sometimes he uses the word amour instead of love. When I asked myself why did he have to use a French word here, perhaps because it was a different kind of love, not the usual, something other. Time’s amour-song he says, and not a love song. There is something different about that song. It is not just a love song. It suggests something other when he uses a word from another language. It is not love that we ordinarily understand, he has added a quality of something special or rare or unusual by utilizing the same word but in another language. It gives it another colour.”
kakemono ::: A kakemono of significant forms,
Krishna’s colours ::: Violet is the colour of Krishna's face. It is also the radiance of Krishna’s protection. Blue is bis special and significant colour, the colour of his aura when he manifests ; that is why he is called Nila Kr^na.
language ::: any system of formalized symbols, signs, sounds, gestures, or the like used or conceived as a means of communicating thought, emotion, etc. God-language.
". . . liberation signifies an emergence into the true spiritual nature of being where all action is the automatic self-expression of that truth and there can be nothing else." *The Life Divine
“… liberation signifies an emergence into the true spiritual nature of being where all action is the automatic self-expression of that truth and there can be nothing else.” The Life Divine
Madhav: “A kakemono is a Japanese painting which is hung on the wall. It is a print in many colours, many designs. And this world picture is compared to a kakemono of significant forms. Each form is significant, each line is meaningful.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhav: Here it looks as if there is a reference to Christ, but it is not to him alone. Cross signifies suffering; whoever comes from on high and does something for the earth, the return is suffering inflicted upon him. So, not only Christ, but anybody like Christ who does something for humanity and the world , has to pay for it with pain and suffering. Sat-Sang Vol. VIII
Madhav: “Now here is a reference to the Vedic imagery where the Rishi speaks of the child being suckled by two mothers. He refers to two mothers, one dark and the other rosy—Night and Dawn or Day signifying movement of obscurity and movement of light. This divine soul, soul that is given to the Divine is nursed by both the mothers. He needs the succour of night and the nourishment of the day. To rest for a while he needs to be in the lap of Mother Night. To be active he is in the lap of Mother Dawn.” Sat-Sang Vol. IX
Madhav: “Rose, here, signifies Divine Love. It is deathless because it is immortal. They are realms of pure Love. Read Sri Aurobindo in his sonnet, Light: . . . in my heart where blooms deathless rose.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhav: Serpent signifies seething energy with a consciousness proper to its order. There is the serpent of the material zone, serpent of the vital and so on. And this consciousness is the Power of Evolution. This Power of Evolution combines with the force that has emerged from below. It lends to it its character of consciousness, step by step. The Force that was hitherto un-conscious, insensible is taken up and given a direction by Nature’s conscious, dynamic Power.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhav: “The brief perpetual sign refers to the Dawn. Now the dawn is always brief but why is it perpetual? Perpetual because it is constant, it comes again and again. …always at some point on earth there is the break of dawn. That is why it is a perpetual feature of this earth; the dawn recurs again and again.” Sat-Sang Vol. VIII
Madhav: “The brilliant courtyard is the realm of the subtle-physical Matter that Aswapathy is leaving behind in his upward climb. He sees that with all its brilliant glow, this region is limited on all sides and it is only a courtyard—not yet the entrance proper—of the Mansion of Light, where the Light of God is ever manifest. Day in the spiritual symbolism signifies the reign of Light. Aswapathy seeks to enter the Order (symbolised by House) where the Light shines uninterrupted.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhav: “the dragon bird, the vast enveloping bird of bliss; white to signify purity and fire to indicate the intensity of bliss.” Sat-Sang Vol. VIII
Madhav: “The earth is imaged to be travelling upon some wheel and it is a ‘jewelled wheel’, a perfectly designed, intricately constructed wheel. It is speeding and the earth is a prisoner of that speed.
Madhav: “There is an eternal light in every one of us. But it is as if guarded, protected from the profane, vulgar sight by a cave of darkness. Cave signifies a narrowing, dimming enclosure. This blanket of darkness guards that Light. Where there is such a concentration of thick darkness in yourself, you can be sure that deep inside there is the ‘Light Eternal’. This is the light of the Self of which the Rishi’s speak. It stands veiled by layers and layers of the darkness of Ignorance.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhav: “Zero does not stand for nothing. Zero does not signify emptiness, but has behind it the face of the immortal.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Man alive, your proposed emendations are an admirable exposition of the art of bringing a line down the steps till my poor "slow miraculous” above-mind line meant to give or begin the concrete portrayal of an act of some hidden Godhead finally becomes a mere metaphor thrown out from its more facile mint by a brilliantly imaginative poetic intelligence. First of all, you shift my "dimly” out of the way and transfer it to something to which it does not inwardly belongs make it an epithet of the gesture or an adverb qualifying its epithet instead of something that qualifies the atmosphere in which the act of the Godhead takes place. That is a preliminary havoc which destroys what is very important to the action, its atmosphere. I never intended the gesture to be dim, it is a luminous gesture, but forcing its way through the black quietude it comes dimly. Then again the bald phrase "a gesture came” without anything to psychicise it becomes simply something that "happened”, "came” being a poetic equivalent for "happened”, instead of the expression of the slow coming of the gesture. The words "slow” and "dimly” assure this sense of motion and this concreteness to the word"s sense here. Remove one or both whether entirely or elsewhere and you ruin the vision and change altogether its character. That is at least what happens wholly in your penultimate version and as for the last its "came” gets another meaning and one feels that somebody very slowly decided to let out the gesture from himself and it was quite a miracle that it came out at all! "Dimly miraculous” means what precisely or what "miraculously dim” — it was miraculous that it managed to be so dim or there was something vaguely miraculous about it after all? No doubt they try to mean something else — but these interpretations come in their way and trip them over. The only thing that can stand is the first version which is no doubt fine poetry, but the trouble is that it does not give the effect I wanted to give, the effect which is necessary for the dawn"s inner significance. Moreover, what becomes of the slow lingering rhythm of my line which is absolutely indispensable? Letters on Savitri
Man alive, your proposed emendations are an admirable exposition of the art of bringing a line down the steps till my poor”slow miraculous” above-mind line meant to give or begin the concrete portrayal of an act of some hidden Godhead finally becomes a mere metaphor thrown out from its more facile mint by a brilliantly imaginative poetic intelligence. First of all, you shift my”dimly” out of the way and transfer it to something to which it does not inwardly belongs make it an epithet of the gesture or an adverb qualifying its epithet instead of something that qualifies the atmosphere in which the act of the Godhead takes place. That is a preliminary havoc which destroys what is very important to the action, its atmosphere. I never intended the gesture to be dim, it is a luminous gesture, but forcing its way through the black quietude it comes dimly. Then again the bald phrase”a gesture came” without anything to psychicise it becomes simply something that”happened”,”came” being a poetic equivalent for”happened”, instead of the expression of the slow coming of the gesture. The words”slow” and”dimly” assure this sense of motion and this concreteness to the word’s sense here. Remove one or both whether entirely or elsewhere and you ruin the vision and change altogether its character. That is at least what happens wholly in your penultimate version and as for the last its”came” gets another meaning and one feels that somebody very slowly decided to let out the gesture from himself and it was quite a miracle that it came out at all!”Dimly miraculous” means what precisely or what”miraculously dim”—it was miraculous that it managed to be so dim or there was something vaguely miraculous about it after all? No doubt they try to mean something else—but these interpretations come in their way and trip them over. The only thing that can stand is the first version which is no doubt fine poetry, but the trouble is that it does not give the effect I wanted to give, the effect which is necessary for the dawn’s inner significance. Moreover, what becomes of the slow lingering rhythm of my line which is absolutely indispensable? Letters on Savitri
MANTRA. ::: Set words or sounds having a spiritual signifi- cance and power ; the expressive sound-symbol.
mantra ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The mantra as I have tried to describe it in The Future Poetry is a word of power and light that comes from the Overmind inspiration or from some very high plane of Intuition. Its characteristics are a language that conveys infinitely more than the mere surface sense of the words seems to indicate, a rhythm that means even more than the language and is born out of the Infinite and disappears into it, and the power to convey not merely the mental, vital or physical contents or indications or values of the thing uttered, but its significance and figure in some fundamental and original consciousness which is behind all these and greater.” *The Future Poetry
mantra ::: Sri Aurobindo: “The mantra as I have tried to describe it in The Future Poetry is a word of power and light that comes from the Overmind inspiration or from some very high plane of Intuition. Its characteristics are a language that conveys infinitely more than the mere surface sense of the words seems to indicate, a rhythm that means even more than the language and is born out of the Infinite and disappears into it, and the power to convey not merely the mental, vital or physical contents or indications or values of the thing uttered, but its significance and figure in some fundamental and original consciousness which is behind all these and greater.” The Future Poetry
mantra ::: : “The mantra as I have tried to describe it in The Future Poetry is a word of power and light that comes from the Overmind inspiration or from some very high plane of Intuition. Its characteristics are a language that conveys infinitely more than the mere surface sense of the words seems to indicate, a rhythm that means even more than the language and is born out of the Infinite and disappears into it, and the power to convey not merely the mental, vital or physical contents or indications or values of the thing uttered, but its significance and figure in some fundamental and original consciousness which is behind all these and greater.” The Future Poetry
mark ::: n. **1. A sign, symbol, action, event or other indication that distinguishes something. 2. A visible impression on something. 3. A distinctive trait or characteristic. 4. A fixed or recognized standard. caste-mark, hoof-mark, question-mark. v. 5. To make a visible trace or impression on, as with a spot, line, or dent. Also fig. 6. To record; to indicate in writing, note. 7. Fig. To designate as if by placing a mark upon; to indicate. 8. To take notice. marks, marked, marking.**
meaning ::: 1. The end, purpose, or significance of something. 2. What is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import. meanings.
meaningful ::: full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value.
meaningless ::: without meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeless; insignificant.
mean ::: to have as its sense or signification; signify. means, meant.
mission ::: n. **1. The business with which a person or a body of persons is charged. 2. An assigned or self-imposed duty or task. v. 3. To send forth to someone. missioned.**
moment ::: n. **1. An indefinitely short period of time; an instant. 2. Now, the present instant. 3. A particular period of importance, influence, or significance in a series of events or developments 4. A specific instant or point in time. moment"s, moments, moments", momentless, moment-beats, moment-ridden. v. moments. 5.** Brings significance to the moment.
MONEY. ::: Money is the visible sign of a universal force, and this force m its manifestation on earth woris an the vitaf and physical planes and Is indispensable to the fullness of the outer life. In its origin and true action it belongs lo the Divine. But like other powers of the Divine it is delegated here and in the ignorance of the lower Nature can be usurped for the uses of the ego or held by Asuric influences and perverted to their purpose.
mosaic ::: 1. A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface. 2. Something resembling such a picture or decoration in composition, esp. in being made up of diverse elements.
“My researches first convinced me that words, like plants, like animals, are in no sense artificial products, but growths,—living growths of sound with certain seed-sounds as their basis. Out of these seed-sounds develop a small number of primitive root-words with an immense progeny which have their successive generations and arrange themselves in tribes, clans, families, selective groups each having a common stock and a common psychological history. For the factor which presided over the development of language was the association, by the nervous mind of primitive man, of certain general significances or rather of certain general utilities and sense-values with articulate sounds. The process of this association was also in no sense artificial but natural, governed by simple and definite psychological laws.” The Secret of the Veda
mystic ::: n. **1. One who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension and who has had spiritual experiences. mystic"s. adj. 2. Of occult character, power, or significance. 3. Of the nature of or pertaining to mysteries known only to the initiated; esoteric. 4.** Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding.
Name ::: “Name in its deeper sense is not the word by which we describe the object, but the total of power, quality, character of the reality which a form of things embodies and which we try to sum up by a designating sound, a knowable name, Nomen. Nomen in this sense, we might say, is Numen; the secret Names of the Gods are their power, quality, character of being caught up by the consciousness and made conceivable. The Infinite is nameless, but in that namelessness all possible names, Numens of the gods, the names and forms of all realities, are already envisaged and prefigured, because they are there latent and inherent in the All-Existence.” The Life Divine
name ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Name in its deeper sense is not the word by which we describe the object, but the total of power, quality, character of the reality which a form of things embodies and which we try to sum up by a designating sound, a knowable name, Nomen. Nomen in this sense, we might say, is Numen; the secret Names of the Gods are their power, quality, character of being caught up by the consciousness and made conceivable. The Infinite is nameless, but in that namelessness all possible names, Numens of the gods, the names and forms of all realities, are already envisaged and prefigured, because they are there latent and inherent in the All-Existence.” The Life Divine
nay ::: 1. A term signifying denial or refusal. 2. No. 3. And not only so but; not only that but also; indeed.
"Nothing can be more remarkable and suggestive than the extent to which modern Science confirms in the domain of Matter the conceptions and even the very formulae of language which were arrived at, by a very different method, in the Vedanta, — the original Vedanta, not of the schools of metaphysical philosophy, but of the Upanishads. And these, on the other hand, often reveal their full significance, their richer contents only when they are viewed in the new light shed by the discoveries of modern Science, — for instance, that Vedantic expression which describes things in the Cosmos as one seed arranged by the universal Energy in multitudinous forms.(1) Significant, especially, is the drive of Science towards a Monism which is consistent with multiplicity, towards the Vedic idea of the one essence with its many becomings.” The Life Divine
“Nothing can be more remarkable and suggestive than the extent to which modern Science confirms in the domain of Matter the conceptions and even the very formulae of language which were arrived at, by a very different method, in the Vedanta,—the original Vedanta, not of the schools of metaphysical philosophy, but of the Upanishads. And these, on the other hand, often reveal their full significance, their richer contents only when they are viewed in the new light shed by the discoveries of modern Science,—for instance, that Vedantic expression which describes things in the Cosmos as one seed arranged by the universal Energy in multitudinous forms.(1) Significant, especially, is the drive of Science towards a Monism which is consistent with multiplicity, towards the Vedic idea of the one essence with its many becomings.” The Life Divine
nothingness ::: 1. The condition, state or quality of being nothing; nonexistence. 2. Lack of consequence; insignificance. emptiness or worthlessness. Nothingness, nothingness"s.
not meaning anything; devoid of intelligence, sense, or significance, as words or actions; pointless; empty.
“ Now, that a conscious Infinite is there in physical Nature, we are assured by every sign, though it is a consciousness not made or limited like ours. All her constructions and motions are those of an illimitable intuitive wisdom too great and spontaneous and mysteriously self-effective to be described as an intelligence, of a Power and Will working for Time in eternity with an inevitable and forecasting movement in each of its steps, even in those steps that in their outward or superficial impetus seem to us inconscient. And as there is in her this greater consciousness and greater power, so too there is an illimitable spirit of harmony and beauty in her constructions that never fails her, though its works are not limited by our aesthetic canons. An infinite hedonism too is there, an illimitable spirit of delight, of which we become aware when we enter into impersonal unity with her; and even as that in her which is terrible is a part of her beauty, that in her which is dangerous, cruel, destructive is a part of her delight, her universal Ananda. Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
null ::: 1. Amounting to nothing; absent or nonexistent. 2. Of no consequence, effect, or value; insignificant.
office ::: 1. A room where business is conducted. 2. A duty, service, or charge falling or assigned to one; a service or task to be performed. 3. A position of authority, duty, or trust given to a person, as in a government or corporation. offices.
opposite ::: adj. **1. Contrary or radically different in some respect common to both, as in nature, qualities, direction, result, or significance; opposed. 2. Situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing. n. 2. One that is opposite or contrary to another. opposites, Opposites.**
"Our ego is only a face of the universal being and has no separate existence; our apparent separative individuality is only a surface movement and behind it our real individuality stretches out to unity with all things and upward to oneness with the transcendent Divine Infinity. Thus our ego, which seems to be a limitation of existence, is really a power of infinity; the boundless multiplicity of beings in the world is a result and signal evidence, not of limitation or finiteness, but of that illimitable Infinity.” The Life Divine
“Our ego is only a face of the universal being and has no separate existence; our apparent separative individuality is only a surface movement and behind it our real individuality stretches out to unity with all things and upward to oneness with the transcendent Divine Infinity. Thus our ego, which seems to be a limitation of existence, is really a power of infinity; the boundless multiplicity of beings in the world is a result and signal evidence, not of limitation or finiteness, but of that illimitable Infinity.” The Life Divine
“Our first decisive step out of our human intelligence, our normal mentality, is an ascent into a higher Mind, a mind no longer of mingled light and obscurity or half-light, but a large clarity of the Spirit. Its basic substance is a unitarian sense of being with a powerful multiple dynamisation capable of the formation of a multitude of aspects of knowledge, ways of action, forms and significances of becoming, of all of which there is a spontaneous inherent knowledge. It is therefore a power that has proceeded from the Overmind,—but with the Supermind as its ulterior origin,—as all these greater powers have proceeded: but its special character, its activity of consciousness are dominated by Thought; it is a luminous thought-mind, a mind of Spirit-born conceptual knowledge. An all-awareness emerging from the original identity, carrying the truths the identity held in itself, conceiving swiftly, victoriously, multitudinously, formulating and by self-power of the Idea effectually realising its conceptions, is the character of this greater mind of knowledge.” The Life Divine
"Our thoughts are not really created within ourselves independently in the small narrow thinking machine we call our mind; in fact, they come to us from a vast mental space or ether either as mind-waves or waves of mind-force that carry a significance which takes shape in our personal mind or as thought-formations ready-made which we adopt and call ours. Our outer mind is blind to this process of Nature; but by the awakening of the inner mind we can become aware of it.” Letters on Yoga
“Our thoughts are not really created within ourselves independently in the small narrow thinking machine we call our mind; in fact, they come to us from a vast mental space or ether either as mind-waves or waves of mind-force that carry a significance which takes shape in our personal mind or as thought-formations ready-made which we adopt and call ours. Our outer mind is blind to this process of Nature; but by the awakening of the inner mind we can become aware of it.” Letters on Yoga
outweighs ::: is more significant than; exceeds in value or importance.
overshadow ::: 1. To cast a shadow or gloom; darken or obscure. 2. To make insignificant by comparison; dominate. 3. To make sad or hang heavily over; cast a pall on. overshadowed, overshadowing.
paltry ::: utterly worthless; petty, insignificant, trifling; contemptible, despicable; insultingly small.
parable ::: 1. A short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, spiritual principle, or moral lesson. 2. A statement or comment that conveys a meaning indirectly by the use of comparison, analogy, or the like, esp. concerning morality or ethics.
pattern ::: 1. A model or original used as an archetype. 2. A plan or diagram used as a guide in making something. 3. An artistic or decorative design. 4. A combination of qualities, acts, tendencies, etc., forming a consistent or characteristic arrangement; order or form discernible in things, actions, ideas, situations, etc. patterns, patterned, many-patterned.
phenomenon ::: 1. An unusual, significant, or unaccountable fact or occurrence; a marvel. 2. Phil. An object as it is perceived by the senses.
::: ". . . philosophy is only a way of formulating to ourselves intellectually in their essential significance the psychological and physical facts of existence and their relation to any ultimate reality that may exist,. . . .” Essays on the Gita
“… philosophy is only a way of formulating to ourselves intellectually in their essential significance the psychological and physical facts of existence and their relation to any ultimate reality that may exist,….” Essays on the Gita
pictured ::: represented graphically by sketch or design or lines.
post ::: 1. An assigned position or station, as of a guard or sentry. 2 . Fig. A place to which someone is assigned for duty. posts. 3. Specific positions taken at a military base. posts.
Power of vision is sometimes inborn and habitual even with- out any effort of development, sometimes it wakes up of itself and becomes abundant or needs only a little practice to deve- . lop ; it is not necessarily a sign of spiritual attainment, but usually when by practice of yoga one begins to go inside or live within, the power of subtle vision awakes to a greater or less extent ; but this does not alwa^ happen easily, especially if one has been habituated to live mnch in the intelfect or in art out- ward vital consciousness.
prayer ::: “Prayer is only a particular form given to that will, aspiration and faith. Its forms are very often crude and not only childlike, which is in itself no defect, but childish; but still it has a real power and significance. Its power and sense is to put the will, aspiration and faith of man into touch with the divine Will as that of a conscious Being with whom we can enter into conscious and living relations.” The Synthesis of Yoga
prayer ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Prayer is only a particular form given to that will, aspiration and faith. Its forms are very often crude and not only childlike, which is in itself no defect, but childish; but still it has a real power and significance. Its power and sense is to put the will, aspiration and faith of man into touch with the divine Will as that of a conscious Being with whom we can enter into conscious and living relations.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
PRAYER. ::: The life of man is a life of wants and needs and therefore of desires, not only in his physical and vital, but in his mental and spiritual being. When he becomes conscious of a greater Power governing the world, he approaches it through prayer for the fulfilment of his needs, for help in his rough journey, for protection and aid in his struggle. Whatever crudi- ties there may be in the ordinary religious approach to God by prayer, and there are many, especially that attitude which ima- gines the Divine as if capable of being propitiated, bribed, flat- tered into acquiescence or indulgence by praise, entreaty and gifts and has often little te^td to the spirit in which he is approached, still this way of turning to the Divine is an essen- tial movement of our religious being and reposes on a universal truth.
The efficacy of prayer is often doubted and prayer itself supposed to be a thing irrational and necessarily superfluous and ineffective. It is true that the universal will executes always its aim and cannot be deflected by egoistic propitiation and entreaty, it is true of the Transcendent who expresses himself in the universal order that, being omniscient, his larger knowledge must foresee the thing to be done and it does not need direction or stimulation by human thought and that the individual's desires are not and cannot be in any world-order the true determining factor. But neither is that order or the execution of the universal will altogether effected by mechanical Law, but by powers and forces of which for human life at least, human will, aspiration and faith are not among the least important. Prayer is only a particular form given to that will, aspiration and faith. Its forms are very often crude and not only childlike, which is in itself no defect, but childish; but still it has a real power and significance. Its power and sense is to put the will, aspiration and faith of man into touch with the divine Will as that of a conscious Being with whom we can enter into conscious and living relations. For our will and aspiration can act either by our own strength and endeavour, which can no doubt be made a thing great and effective whether for lower or higher purposes, -and there are plenty of disciplines which put it forward as the one force to be used, -- or it can act in dependence upon and with subordination to the divine or the universal Will. And this latter way, again, may either look upon that Will as responsive indeed to our aspiration, but almost mechanically, by a sort of law of energy, or at any rate quite impersonally, or else it may look upon it as responding consciously to the divine aspiration and faith of the human soul and consciously bringing to it the help, the guidance, the protection and fruition demanded, yogaksemam vahamyaham. ~ TSOY, SYN
Prayer helps to prepare this relation for us at first on the lower plane even while it is (here consistent with much that is mere egoism and self-delusion; but afterwards we can draw towards the spiritual truth which is behind it. It is not then the givinc of the thing asked for that matters, but the relation itself, the contact of man’s life with God, the conscious interchange.
In spiritual matters and in the seeking of spiritual gains, this conscious relation is a great power; it is a much greater power than our own entirely self-reliant struggle and effort and it brings a fuller spiritual growth and experience. Necessarily, in the end prayer either ceases in the greater thing for which it prepared us, -- in fact the form we call prayer is not itself essential so long as the faith, the will, the aspiration are there, -- or remains only for the joy of the relation. Also its objects, the artha or interest it seeks to realise, become higher and higher until we reach the highest motiveless devotion, which is that of divine love pure and simple without any other demand or longing.
Prayer for others ::: The fact of praying and the attitude it brings, especially unselfish prayer for others, itself opens you to the higher Power, even if there is no corresponding result in the person prayed for. 'Nothing can be positively said about that, for the result must necessarily depend on the persons, whe- ther they arc open or receptive or something in them can res- pond to any Force the prayer brings down.
Prayer must well up from the heart on a crest of emotion or aspiration.
Prayer {Ideal)'. Not prayer insisting on immediate fulfilment, but prayer that is itself a communion of the mind and heart with the Divine*and can have the joy and satisfaction of itself, trusting for fulfilment by the Divine in his own time.
pregnant ::: 1. Fraught, filled or abounding. 2. Teeming or fertile; rich. 3. Of great importance; momentous. 4. Full of meaning or significance.
Prema Nandakumar: “The title itself, at any rate to Hindu ears, is charged with untold significance. A very gem of a title, Savitri has a self-sufficing beauty of its own; trisyllabic, trinitarian, a union of light, strength and silence, three circles radiating from one centre, Love. Again, ‘Savitri’, being the other name of the holiest and hoariest of the Vedic mantras—the Gayatri—which for some thousands of years Hindus have chanted morning, noon and evening, at once starts psychic vibrations of incommensurable potency.” A Study of Savitri
presence ::: 1. The state or fact of being present; current existence or occurrence. 2. A divine, spiritual, or supernatural spirit or influence felt or conceived as present. 3. The immediate proximity of someone or something.
Sri Aurobindo: "It is intended by the word Presence to indicate the sense and perception of the Divine as a Being, felt as present in one"s existence and consciousness or in relation with it, without the necessity of any further qualification or description. Thus, of the ‘ineffable Presence" it can only be said that it is there and nothing more can or need be said about it, although at the same time one knows that all is there, personality and impersonality, Power and Light and Ananda and everything else, and that all these flow from that indescribable Presence. The word may be used sometimes in a less absolute sense, but that is always the fundamental significance, — the essential perception of the essential Presence supporting everything else.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” Essays Divine and Human
"But if we learn to live within, we infallibly awaken to this presence within us which is our more real self, a presence profound, calm, joyous and puissant of which the world is not the master — a presence which, if it is not the Lord Himself, is the radiation of the Lord within.” *The Life Divine
"The true soul secret in us, — subliminal, we have said, but the word is misleading, for this presence is not situated below the threshold of waking mind, but rather burns in the temple of the inmost heart behind the thick screen of an ignorant mind, life and body, not subliminal but behind the veil, — this veiled psychic entity is the flame of the Godhead always alight within us, inextinguishable even by that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature. It is a flame born out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine.” *The Life Divine
"If we need any personal and inner witness to this indivisible All-Consciousness behind the ignorance, — all Nature is its external proof, — we can get it with any completeness only in our deeper inner being or larger and higher spiritual state when we draw back behind the veil of our own surface ignorance and come into contact with the divine Idea and Will behind it. Then we see clearly enough that what we have done by ourselves in our ignorance was yet overseen and guided in its result by the invisible Omniscience; we discover a greater working behind our ignorant working and begin to glimpse its purpose in us: then only can we see and know what now we worship in faith, recognise wholly the pure and universal Presence, meet the Lord of all being and all Nature.” *The Life Divine
"The presence of the Spirit is there in every living being, on every level, in all things, and because it is there, the experience of Sachchidananda, of the pure spiritual existence and consciousness, of the delight of a divine presence, closeness, contact can be acquired through the mind or the heart or the life-sense or even through the physical consciousness; if the inner doors are flung sufficiently open, the light from the sanctuary can suffuse the nearest and the farthest chambers of the outer being.” *The Life Divine
"There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"For what Yoga searches after is not truth of thought alone or truth of mind alone, but the dynamic truth of a living and revealing spiritual experience. There must awake in us a constant indwelling and enveloping nearness, a vivid perception, a close feeling and communion, a concrete sense and contact of a true and infinite Presence always and everywhere. That Presence must remain with us as the living, pervading Reality in which we and all things exist and move and act, and we must feel it always and everywhere, concrete, visible, inhabiting all things; it must be patent to us as their true Self, tangible as their imperishable Essence, met by us closely as their inmost Spirit. To see, to feel, to sense, to contact in every way and not merely to conceive this Self and Spirit here in all existences and to feel with the same vividness all existences in this Self and Spirit, is the fundamental experience which must englobe all other knowledge.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"One must have faith in the Master of our life and works, even if for a long time He conceals Himself, and then in His own right time He will reveal His Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"They [the psychic being and the Divine Presence in the heart] are quite different things. The psychic being is one"s own individual soul-being. It is not the Divine, though it has come from the Divine and develops towards the Divine.” *Letters on Yoga
"For it is quietness and inwardness that enable one to feel the Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” *Essays Divine and Human
The Mother: "For, in human beings, here is a presence, the most marvellous Presence on earth, and except in a few very rare cases which I need not mention here, this presence lies asleep in the heart — not in the physical heart but the psychic centre — of all beings. And when this Splendour is manifested with enough purity, it will awaken in all beings the echo of his Presence.” Words of the Mother, MCW, Vol. 15.
presence ::: “It is intended by the word Presence to indicate the sense and perception of the Divine as a Being, felt as present in one›s existence and consciousness or in relation with it, without the necessity of any further qualification or description. Thus, of the ‘ineffable Presence’ it can only be said that it is there and nothing more can or need be said about it, although at the same time one knows that all is there, personality and impersonality, Power and Light and Ananda and everything else, and that all these flow from that indescribable Presence. The word may be used sometimes in a less absolute sense, but that is always the fundamental significance,—the essential perception of the essential Presence supporting everything else.” Letters on Yoga
Pressure, throbbing, electrical vibrations are all signs of the working of the Force.
::: "Pressure, throbbing, electrical vibrations are all signs of the working of the Force. The places indicate the field of action — the top of the head is the summit of the thinking mind where it communicates with the higher consciousness; the neck or throat is the seat of the physical, externalising or expressive mind; the ear is the place of communication with the inner mind-centre by which thoughts etc. enter into the personal being from the general Nature.” Letters on Yoga
“Pressure, throbbing, electrical vibrations are all signs of the working of the Force. The places indicate the field of action—the top of the head is the summit of the thinking mind where it communicates with the higher consciousness; the neck or throat is the seat of the physical, externalising or expressive mind; the ear is the place of communication with the inner mind-centre by which thoughts etc. enter into the personal being from the general Nature.”
profound ::: n. 1. That which is eminently deep, or the deepest part of something; a vast depth; an abyss. lit. and fig; chiefly poetical. adj. 2. Situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed. 3. Coming as if from the depths of one"s being. 4. Of deep meaning; of great and broadly inclusive significance. 5. Being or going far beneath what is superficial, external, or obvious. 6. Showing or requiring great knowledge or understanding. profounder.
::: "Progress is the very heart of the significance of human life, for it means our evolution into greater and richer being; . . . .” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
“Progress is the very heart of the significance of human life, for it means our evolution into greater and richer being; …” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
puny ::: of inferior size, strength, or significance; weak.
Purani: “Aswapathy, the father of Savitri, has been significantly called by the poet ‘the Lord of Life’. (book II, Canto XV). The name suggests an affinity to Vedic symbolism. In the Veda, Aswa, the horse, is the symbol of life-energy or vital power. Aswa + aty, Lord, would mean the ‘Lord of Life’. In the poem King Aswapathy is the symbol of the aspiring soul of man as manifested in life on earth.”Savitri”—An Approach and a Study
purposeful ::: 1. Having a purpose; intentional. 2. Full of meaning; significant.
question-mark ::: a punctuation used to signify a question. Also fig.
Rain ::: Symbol of the descent of Grace or of the higher cons- ciousness which is the cause of the riches, the spiritual plenty. i?oinhou> ; Sign of peace and deliverance.
resignation ::: an accepting, unresisting attitude, state, etc.; submission; acquiescence.
resigned ::: acquiescent; marked by resignation.
resigns ::: gives up; submits; relinquishes; surrenders.
"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
resonance ::: reverberating richness, sound or significance. resonances.
reverse ::: n. **1. The side of a coin or medal that does not carry the principal design. v. 2. To revoke or set aside (a judgment, decree, etc.); annul. 3. To change into something different or contrary; alter completely. 4. To turn and proceed in the opposite direction. reversed, reversing.**
rude ::: 1. Rough, harsh or ungentle. 2. Lacking the graces and refinement of civilized life; uncouth; primitive. 3. Roughly made or formed; imperfect in design or execution; of a crude construction. 4. Coarse, vulgar, rough; uncivilised; violent in action.
rule ::: n. 1. Action, procedure, arrangement, etc. 2. Governing power or its possession or use; authority. 3. A usual, customary, or generalized course of action or behaviour. 4. The customary or normal circumstance, occurrence, manner, practice, quality, etc. 5. A thin metal strip of various widths and designs, used to print borders or lines, as between columns. Chiefly fig. rules, rule-maker, self-rule. *v. 6. To control or direct; exercise dominating power, authority, or influence over; govern. *rules, ruled, ruling.
sacrament ::: 1. Something regarded as possessing a sacred or mysterious significance. 2. A rite believed to be a means of or visible form of grace. 3. A sign, token or symbol. 4. A pledge. sacraments.
sceptre ::: a ceremonial ornamental staff carried by a monarch on important occasions as a sign of power.
scheme ::: 1. A plan, design, or program of action to be followed. 2. A systematic plan of action to achieve a specific end. 3. A diagram, map, or the like. schemes, schemed, scheme-lines, world-scheme.
scribe ::: a general designation for any public official (whether of high or low rank) concerned with writing or the keeping of accounts; a secretary, clerk. Scribe, scribes.
sculpture ::: the art or practice of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief as by chiselling marble, modelling clay, or casting in metal.
seed-sounds ::: Sri Aurobindo: "My researches first convinced me that words, like plants, like animals, are in no sense artificial products, but growths, — living growths of sound with certain seed-sounds as their basis. Out of these seed-sounds develop a small number of primitive root-words with an immense progeny which have their successive generations and arrange themselves in tribes, clans, families, selective groups each having a common stock and a common psychological history. For the factor which presided over the development of language was the association, by the nervous mind of primitive man, of certain general significances or rather of certain general utilities and sense-values with articulate sounds. The process of this association was also in no sense artificial but natural, governed by simple and definite psychological laws.” *The Secret of the Veda
SELF-JUSTIFICATION. ::: Always a sign of ego and ignor- ance. ^Vhen one has a wider consciousness, one knows that each one has his o>vn way of looking at things and finds in that way his own justification so that both parties in a quarrel believe
sense ::: n. 1. Any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body. 2. Meaning, signification. 3. A more or less vague perception or impression. 4. Any special capacity or perception, estimation, appreciation, etc. 5. A mental or spiritual discernment, realization, or recognition of a dream, or of anything cryptic or symbolical. sense"s, senses, senses", sense-appeal, sense-formed, sense-life"s, sense-pangs, sense-pleasures, sense-railed, sense-shackled, soul-sense. v. 6. To apprehend, detect, or perceive, without or in advance of the evidence of the senses; to perceive instinctively. 7. To be inwardly aware; conscious of. sensed, sensing. *adj. *sensed.
SHAKING OF THE HEAD. ::: -When the pressure ol the Force works upon the consciousness, then in the plane on which it happens to be working, a great activity of different forces is set in play, e.g. if it is the mind, various mental forces, if it is the vital, various vital forces. It is not safe to take all these for true things, to be accepted without question. If the head shook for a long time, it is a sign that the mind or at best the mental physical was not able yet to receive all the force and assimilate it.
Shruti: “Occult signs which attract evil, such as the swastika tilted; attractive signs which hide a devilish intention.”
"Sincerity means more than mere honesty. It means that you mean what you say, feel what you profess, are earnest in your will.” The Mother - The Spiritual Significance of Flowers
“Sincerity means more than mere honesty. It means that you mean what you say, feel what you profess, are earnest in your will.” The Mother—The Spiritual Significance of Flowers
spells ::: 1. To decipher something; comprehend by studying. 2. To amount to; to signify, imply, or involve.
spirit of Delight ::: Sri Aurobindo: " Now, that a conscious Infinite is there in physical Nature, we are assured by every sign, though it is a consciousness not made or limited like ours. All her constructions and motions are those of an illimitable intuitive wisdom too great and spontaneous and mysteriously self-effective to be described as an intelligence, of a Power and Will working for Time in eternity with an inevitable and forecasting movement in each of its steps, even in those steps that in their outward or superficial impetus seem to us inconscient. And as there is in her this greater consciousness and greater power, so too there is an illimitable spirit of harmony and beauty in her constructions that never fails her, though its works are not limited by our aesthetic canons. An infinite hedonism too is there, an illimitable spirit of delight, of which we become aware when we enter into impersonal unity with her; and even as that in her which is terrible is a part of her beauty, that in her which is dangerous, cruel, destructive is a part of her delight, her universal Ananda. Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "As there are Powers of Knowledge or Forces of the Light, so there are Powers of Ignorance and tenebrous Forces of the Darkness whose work is to prolong the reign of Ignorance and Inconscience. As there are Forces of Truth, so there are Forces that live by the Falsehood and support it and work for its victory; as there are powers whose life is intimately bound up with the existence, the idea and the impulse of Good, so there are Forces whose life is bound up with the existence and the idea and the impulse of Evil. It is this truth of the cosmic Invisible that was symbolised in the ancient belief of a struggle between the powers of Light and Darkness, Good and Evil for the possession of the world and the government of the life of man; — this was the significance of the contest between the Vedic Gods and their opponents, sons of Darkness and Division, figured in a later tradition as Titan and Giant and Demon, Asura, Rakshasa, Pisacha; the same tradition is found in the Zoroastrian Double Principle and the later Semitic opposition of God and his Angels on the one side and Satan and his hosts on the other, — invisible Personalities and Powers that draw man to the divine Light and Truth and Good or lure him into subjection to the undivine principle of Darkness and Falsehood and Evil.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: A symbol, as I understand it, is the form on one plane that represents a truth of another. For instance, a flag is the symbol of a nation…. But generally all forms are symbols. This body of ours is a symbol of our real being and everything is a symbol of some higher reality. There are, however, different kinds of symbols: 1. Conventional symbols, such as the Vedic Rishis formed with objects taken from their surroundings. The cow stood for light because the same word `go ‘ meant both ray and cow, and because the cow was their most precious possession which maintained their life and was constantly in danger of being robbed and concealed. But once created, such a symbol becomes alive. The Rishis vitalised it and it became a part of their realisation. It appeared in their visions as an image of spiritual light. The horse also was one of their favourite symbols, and a more easily adaptable one, since its force and energy were quite evident. 2. What we might call Life-symbols, such as are not artificially chosen or mentally interpreted in a conscious deliberate way, but derive naturally from our day-to-day life and grow out of the surroundings which condition our normal path of living. To the ancients the mountain was a symbol of the path of yoga, level above level, peak upon peak. A journey, involving the crossing of rivers and the facing of lurking enemies, both animal and human, conveyed a similar idea. Nowadays I dare say we would liken yoga to a motor-ride or a railway-trip. 3. Symbols that have an inherent appositeness and power of their own. Akasha or etheric space is a symbol of the infinite all-pervading eternal Brahman. In any nationality it would convey the same meaning. Also, the Sun stands universally for the supramental Light, the divine Gnosis. 4.* Mental symbols, instances of which are numbers or alphabets. Once they are accepted, they too become active and may be useful. Thus geometrical figures have been variously interpreted. In my experience the square symbolises the supermind. I cannot say how it came to do so. Somebody or some force may have built it before it came to my mind. Of the triangle, too, there are different explanations. In one position it can symbolise the three lower planes, in another the symbol is of the three higher ones: so both can be combined together in a single sign. The ancients liked to indulge in similar speculations concerning numbers, but their systems were mostly mental. It is no doubt true that supramental realities exist which we translate into mental formulas such as Karma, Psychic evolution, etc. But they are, so to speak, infinite realities which cannot be limited by these symbolic forms, though they may be somewhat expressed by them; they might be expressed as well by other symbols, and the same symbol may also express many different ideas. Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Hatred is the sign of a secret attraction that is eager to flee from itself and furious to deny its own existence. That too is God"s play in His creature.” *Essays Divine and Human
Sri Aurobindo: "Intelligence does not depend on the amount one has read, it is a quality of the mind. Study only gives it material for its work as life also does. There are people who do not know how to read and write who are more intelligent than many highly educated people and understand life and things better. On the other hand, a good intelligence can improve itself by reading because it gets more material to work on and grows by exercise and by having a wider range to move in. But book-knowledge by itself is not the real thing, it has to be used as a help to the intelligence but it is often only a help to stupidity or ignorance — ignorance because knowledge of facts is a poor thing if one cannot see their true significance.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: ". . . our imperfection is the sign of a transitional state, a growth not yet completed, an effort that is finding its way; . . . .” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "The Absolute cannot indeed be bound in its nature to manifest a cosmos of relations, but neither can it be bound not to manifest any cosmos. It is not itself a sheer emptiness; for a vacant Absolute is no Absolute, — our conception of a Void or Zero is only a conceptual sign of our mental inability to know or grasp it: it bears in itself some ineffable essentiality of all that is and all that can be; and since it holds in itself this essentiality and this possibility, it must also hold in itself in some way of its absoluteness either the permanent truth or the inherent, even if latent, realisable actuality of all that is fundamental to our or the world"s existence.” *The Life Divine
*Sri Aurobindo: "The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the doors of the spirit.” The Human Cycle etc.*
*Sri Aurobindo: "The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms for ever in the Light above.” Letters on Yoga*
Sri Aurobindo: "The supernatural is that the nature of which we have not attained or do not yet know, or the means of which we have not yet conquered. The common taste for miracles is the sign that man"s ascent is not yet finished.” Essays Divine and Human
*Sri Aurobindo: "The timeless Spirit is not necessarily a blank; it may hold all in itself, but in essence, without reference to time or form or relation or circumstance, perhaps in an eternal unity. Eternity is the common term between Time and the Timeless Spirit. What is in the Timeless unmanifested, implied, essential, appears in Time in movement, or at least in design and relation, in result and circumstance. These two then are the same Eternity or the same Eternal in a double status; they are a twofold status of being and consciousness, one an eternity of immobile status, the other an eternity of motion in status.” The Life Divine ::: "The spiritual fullness of the being is eternity; . . . ” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "The Unseen with whom there can be no pragmatic relations, unseizable, featureless, unthinkable, undesignable by name, whose substance is the certitude of One Self, in whom world-existence is stilled, who is all peace and bliss — that is the Self, that is what must be known.” Mandukya Upanishad. The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "This idea of universality, of oneness not only with God or the eternal Self in me, but with all humanity and other beings, is growing to be the most prominent strain in our minds and it has to be taken more largely into account in any future idea or computation of the significance of rebirth and karma.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Stars ::: Signifies a creation or formation or the promise or power of a creation or formation. The star is always a promise of the Light to come ; the star changes into a sun when there is the descent of the Light. Stars indicate beginnings or pro- mises of Light.
station ::: 1. A place or position where a person or thing stands or is assigned to stand; a post. 2. Social position; rank stations.
stress ::: 1. Physical, mental or emotional strain or tension; a situation, occurrence, condition or factor causing strain. 2. Stimulus or pressure of the influence of an adverse force. 3. Special or exceptional emphasis or significance attached to something. stress-vision.
subtle vision ("s) ::: Sri Aurobindo: " This power of vision is sometimes inborn and habitual even without any effort of development, sometimes it wakes up of itself and becomes abundant or needs only a little practice to develop; it is not necessarily a sign of spiritual attainment, but usually when by practice of yoga one begins to go inside or live within, the power of subtle vision awakes to a greater or less extent; . . . .”*Letters on Yoga
"It is not necessary to have the mind quiet in order to see the lights — that depends only on the opening of the subtle vision in the centre which is in the forehead between the eyebrows. Many people get that as soon as they start sadhana. It can even be developed by effort and concentration without sadhana by some who have it to a small extent as an inborn faculty.” Letters on Yoga
"When the centres begin to open, inner experiences such as the seeing of light or images through the subtle vision in the forehead centre or psychic experiences and perceptions in the heart, become frequent — gradually one becomes aware of one"s inner being as separate from the outer, and what can be called a yogic consciousness with all its deeper movements develops in the place of the ordinary superficial mental and vital movements.” Letters on Yoga
summoned ::: 1. Called for the presence of, as by command, message, or signal; called. 2. Called into action; roused; called forth (often followed by up). summons, summoning.
summons ::: an authoritative command, message, or signal by which someone or something is called.
supernatural ::: “The supernatural is that the nature of which we have not attained or do not yet know, or the means of which we have not yet conquered. The common taste for miracles is the sign that man’s ascent is not yet finished.” Essays Divine and Human
surrender. ::: v. Fig. To give over or resign oneself to something such as an influence. surrendered.
symbol ::: A symbol, as I understand it, is the form on one plane that represents a truth of another. For instance, a flag is the symbol of a nation…. But generally all forms are symbols. This body of ours is a symbol of our real being and everything is a symbol of some higher reality. There are, however, different kinds of symbols: 1. Conventional symbols, such as the Vedic Rishis formed with objects taken from their surroundings. The cow stood for light because the same word `go ‘ meant both ray and cow, and because the cow was their most precious possession which maintained their life and was constantly in danger of being robbed and concealed. But once created, such a symbol becomes alive. The Rishis vitalised it and it became a part of their realisation. It appeared in their visions as an image of spiritual light. The horse also was one of their favourite symbols, and a more easily adaptable one, since its force and energy were quite evident. 2. What we might call Life-symbols, such as are not artificially chosen or mentally interpreted in a conscious deliberate way, but derive naturally from our day-to-day life and grow out of the surroundings which condition our normal path of living. To the ancients the mountain was a symbol of the path of yoga, level above level, peak upon peak. A journey, involving the crossing of rivers and the facing of lurking enemies, both animal and human, conveyed a similar idea. Nowadays I dare say we would liken yoga to a motor-ride or a railway-trip. 3. Symbols that have an inherent appositeness and power of their own. Akasha or etheric space is a symbol of the infinite all-pervading eternal Brahman. In any nationality it would convey the same meaning. Also, the Sun stands universally for the supramental Light, the divine Gnosis. 4. Mental symbols, instances of which are numbers or alphabets. Once they are accepted, they too become active and may be useful. Thus geometrical figures have been variously interpreted. In my experience the square symbolises the supermind. I cannot say how it came to do so. Somebody or some force may have built it before it came to my mind. Of the triangle, too, there are different explanations. In one position it can symbolise the three lower planes, in another the symbol is of the three higher ones: so both can be combined together in a single sign. The ancients liked to indulge in similar speculations concerning numbers, but their systems were mostly mental. It is no doubt true that supramental realities exist which we translate into mental formulas such as Karma, Psychic evolution, etc. But they are, so to speak, infinite realities which cannot be limited by these symbolic forms, though they may be somewhat expressed by them; they might be expressed as well by other symbols, and the same symbol may also express many different ideas. Letters on Yoga
Tapasya. Not only so, but in fact a double process of Tapasya and increasing surrender persists for a long time even when the surrender has fairly well begun. But a time comes when one feels the Presence and the force constantly and more and more feels ’that that is doing everylhmg — so that the worst difficul- ties cannot disturb this sense and personal effort is no longer necessary, hardly even possible. That is the sign of the full surrender of the nature into the bands of the Divine. There are some who take this position in faith even before there is this experience and if the Bhakti and the faith are strong it carries them through till the experience is there. But all cannot take this position from the beginning — and for some it would be dangerous since they might pul themselves into the hand of a wrong Force thinking it to be the Divine. For most it is neces- sary to grow through Tapasya into surrender.
tapestry ::: n. 1. A heavy cloth woven with rich, often varicolored designs or scenes, usually hung on walls for decoration. tapestries. v. 2. To hang or decorate with or as with tapestry.
task ::: 1. A piece of work assigned or done as part of one"s duties. 2. A matter of considerable labour or difficulty. task"s, tasks, World-task.
tenuous ::: 1. Diluted or rarefied in consistency or density. 2. Fig. Insignificant or flimsy.
"The child usually signifies the psychic being — new-born in the sense that it at last comes to the surface.” Letters on Yoga
“The child usually signifies the psychic being—new-born in the sense that it at last comes to the surface.” Letters on Yoga
the Infinite ::: **A designation of the Deity or the absolute Being; God. Infinite"s. ::: *
"The inner Divinity is the eternal Avatar in man; the human manifestation is its sign and development in the external world.” Essays on the Gita
“The inner Divinity is the eternal Avatar in man; the human manifestation is its sign and development in the external world.” Essays on the Gita
The Mother: "OM is the signature of the Lord.” *Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
The Mother: “OM is the signature of the Lord.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
::: The Mother: "Progress is the sign of the divine influence in creation.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
The Mother: “Progress is the sign of the divine influence in creation.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.**
"The Non-Manifestation is not a Non-Existence. Non-Existence is a term created by the mind and has no absolute significance; there is no such thing as an absolute Nihil or Zero. It is agreed even by the philosophies of the Nihil, Tao or Zero (Sunya) that the Non-Existence of which they speak is a Nought in which all is and from which all comes. Tao, Nihil or Zero is not different from the Absolute or the Supreme Brahman of Vedanta; it is only another way of describing or naming it. The Supreme is an Existence beyond what we know of our existence and therefore only it can seem to our mind as a Zero, a Nihil, a Non-Existence.” Essays Divine and Human*
“The Non-Manifestation is not a Non-Existence. Non-Existence is a term created by the mind and has no absolute significance; there is no such thing as an absolute Nihil or Zero. It is agreed even by the philosophies of the Nihil, Tao or Zero (Sunya) that the Non-Existence of which they speak is a Nought in which all is and from which all comes. Tao, Nihil or Zero is not different from the Absolute or the Supreme Brahman of Vedanta; it is only another way of describing or naming it. The Supreme is an Existence beyond what we know of our existence and therefore only it can seem to our mind as a Zero, a Nihil, a Non-Existence.” Essays Divine and Human
There are those that are sound as weD as those that are unsound ; those that are helpful, in the true line, sometimes sign- posts, sometimes stages on the way to realisation, sometimes stuff and material of realisation.
::: "There is an all-seeing purpose in the terrestrial creation; a divine plan is working itself out through its contradictions and perplexities which are a sign of the many-sided achievement towards which are being led the soul"s growth and the endeavour of Nature.” *The Life Divine
“There is an all-seeing purpose in the terrestrial creation; a divine plan is working itself out through its contradictions and perplexities which are a sign of the many-sided achievement towards which are being led the soul’s growth and the endeavour of Nature.” The Life Divine
The sounds of bells arc signs of the opening of the inner consciousness which brings with it an opening also to sights and sounds of other planes than the physical. Some of these things like the sound* of bells, crickets etc. seem even to help the opening.
thin ::: 1. Having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick. 2. Lean or slender in form, build, or stature. 3. Lacking radiance or intensity. 4. Not dense or concentrated; sparse. 5. Lacking substance or significance. 6. Scant; not abundant or plentiful. 7. (of sound) lacking resonance or volume. 8. Rarefied, as air.
This inward movement takes place in many difTercnt ways and there is sometimes a complex experience combining all the signs of the complete plunge. There is a sense of going in or deep down, a feeling of the movement towards inner depths ; there is often a stillness, a pleasant numbness, a stiffness of the hmhs.
This is the sign of the consciousness retiring from the body inwards under the pressure of a force from above, — that pres- sure stabilising the body into an immobile support of the inner
“ This power of vision is sometimes inborn and habitual even without any effort of development, sometimes it wakes up of itself and becomes abundant or needs only a little practice to develop; it is not necessarily a sign of spiritual attainment, but usually when by practice of yoga one begins to go inside or live within, the power of subtle vision awakes to a greater or less extent; …”Letters on Yoga
"This universal aesthesis of beauty and delight does not ignore or fail to understand the differences and oppositions, the gradations, the harmony and disharmony obvious to the ordinary consciousness; but, first of all, it draws a Rasa from them and with that comes the enjoyment, Bhoga. and the touch or the mass of the Ananda. It sees that all things have their meaning, their value, their deeper or total significance which the mind does not see, for the mind is only concerned with a surface vision, surface contacts and its own surface reactions. When something expresses perfectly what it was meant to express, the completeness brings with it a sense of harmony, a sense of artistic perfection; it gives even to what is discordant a place in a system of cosmic concordances and the discords become part of a vast harmony, and wherever there is harmony, there is a sense of beauty. ” Letters on Savitri*
“This universal aesthesis of beauty and delight does not ignore or fail to understand the differences and oppositions, the gradations, the harmony and disharmony obvious to the ordinary consciousness; but, first of all, it draws a Rasa from them and with that comes the enjoyment, Bhoga. and the touch or the mass of the Ananda. It sees that all things have their meaning, their value, their deeper or total significance which the mind does not see, for the mind is only concerned with a surface vision, surface contacts and its own surface reactions. When something expresses perfectly what it was meant to express, the completeness brings with it a sense of harmony, a sense of artistic perfection; it gives even to what is discordant a place in a system of cosmic concordances and the discords become part of a vast harmony, and wherever there is harmony, there is a sense of beauty.” Letters on Savitri
thought-Mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Our first decisive step out of our human intelligence, our normal mentality, is an ascent into a higher Mind, a mind no longer of mingled light and obscurity or half-light, but a large clarity of the Spirit. Its basic substance is a unitarian sense of being with a powerful multiple dynamisation capable of the formation of a multitude of aspects of knowledge, ways of action, forms and significances of becoming, of all of which there is a spontaneous inherent knowledge. It is therefore a power that has proceeded from the Overmind, — but with the Supermind as its ulterior origin, — as all these greater powers have proceeded: but its special character, its activity of consciousness are dominated by Thought; it is a luminous thought-mind, a mind of Spirit-born conceptual knowledge. An all-awareness emerging from the original identity, carrying the truths the identity held in itself, conceiving swiftly, victoriously, multitudinously, formulating and by self-power of the Idea effectually realising its conceptions, is the character of this greater mind of knowledge. " *The Life Divine
thought ::: n. 1. The act or process of thinking; cogitation. 2. The faculty of thinking or reasoning. 3. Intention, design, or purpose. Thought, thought"s, Thought"s, thoughts, thought-blinded, thought-born, thought-conscious, thought-created, thought-driven, thought-food, thought-forms, thought-free, thought-hue, thought-racked, thought-screened, thought-shrouded, thought-sounds, thought-stare, thought-streams, million-thoughted. *v. 5. Pt. and pp. of think.
tokens ::: things that serve as indications, proofs, or expressions of something else; symbols; signs.
trace ::: n. 1. A surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige. 2. Evidence or an indication of the former presence or existence of something non-material; a vestige. 3. A barely discernable indication or evidence of some quality, quality, characteristic, expression, etc. v. 4. To make one"s way over, through, or along (something). Also fig. 5. To follow a course, trail, etc.; make one"s way. 6. To follow, make out, or determine the course or line of, especially by going backward from the latest evidence, nearest existence, etc. 7. To locate or discover by searching or researching evidence; follow the history of. 8. To draw an outline of something. Also fig. 9. To decorate with tracery. 10. To copy (a design, map, etc.) by drawing over the lines visible through a superimposed sheet of transparent paper or other material. 11. To draw or delineate a plan or diagram of. traced, tracing.
“‘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
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.
Triangle ::: In one position it can symbolise the three lo\ser planes, in another the symbol is of the three higher ones ::: so both can be combined together ia a single sign.
trivial ::: 1. Of very little importance or value; insignificant. 2. Ordinary; commonplace.
universality ::: “This idea of universality, of oneness not only with God or the eternal Self in me, but with all humanity and other beings, is growing to be the most prominent strain in our minds and it has to be taken more largely into account in any future idea or computation of the significance of rebirth and karma.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
unseen ::: “The Unseen with whom there can be no pragmatic relations, unseizable, featureless, unthinkable, undesignable by name, whose substance is the certitude of One Self, in whom world-existence is stilled, who is all peace and bliss—that is the Self, that is what must be known.” Mandukya Upanishad. The Life Divine
Visions — colours: When i!»c colours begin lo take definite shapes in the >jslons, it is a sign of some dynamic work of formation in the consciousness ::: a square, for instance, means that some kind of creation is in process in some field of the being ; the square indicates that the creation is to be complete in itself ; while the rectangle indicates somcihws partial and preliminary.
void ::: “The Absolute cannot indeed be bound in its nature to manifest a cosmos of relations, but neither can it be bound not to manifest any cosmos. It is not itself a sheer emptiness; for a vacant Absolute is no Absolute,—our conception of a Void or Zero is only a conceptual sign of our mental inability to know or grasp it: it bears in itself some ineffable essentiality of all that is and all that can be; and since it holds in itself this essentiality and this possibility, it must also hold in itself in some way of its absoluteness either the permanent truth or the inherent, even if latent, realisable actuality of all that is fundamental to our or the world’s existence.” The Life Divine
watch-fires ::: fires maintained during the night as signals and for providing light and warmth to sentinels.
wheel ::: n. 1. A solid disk or a rigid circular ring connected by spokes to a hub, designed to turn around an axle passed through the centre. 2. Something resembling such a disk or ring in appearance or movement or having a wheel as its principal part or characteristic. 3. Moving, propelling, or animating agencies. 4. Fig. Signifying the eternal recurrence of all things. Wheel, Wheel"s, wheels, the wheels of Circumstance, the wheels of Doom, the wheel of God, the wheels of life, the wheel of works. v. 5. To turn or cause to turn on or as if on an axis. wheels, wheeled.
Wheel ::: Sign of an action of Force. Djiiamic action.
When the physical consciousness prevails, often one does not feel any signs or effect even if the experiences are there.
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1:Suffering is not a sign of failure
~ The Mother?,#KEYS
2:Courage is a sign of soul's nobility.
~ The Mother?,#KEYS
3:Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt. ~ Carl Jung, #KEYS
4:The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.
~ Albert Camus,#KEYS
5:The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness." ~ Michel de Montaigne, #KEYS
6:With words, music, dance, and every sign. ~ Czeslaw Milosz, "Either-Or", #KEYS
7:The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
~ Michel de Montaigne,#KEYS
8:The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness." ~ Proverb, #KEYS
9:A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
~ Franz Kafka,#KEYS
10:Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. ~ Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man #KEYS
11:Most sensitiveness is the result or sign of ego. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (CWSA 31:211), #KEYS
12:If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? ~ Albert Einstein, #KEYS
13:The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
~ Aristotle,#KEYS
14:Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. ~ Tecumseh, #KEYS
15:Progress: is the sign of the divine influence in creation.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III,#KEYS
16:Peace is a sign of mukti—Ananda moves towards siddhi. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Peace, #KEYS
17:Equality is the very sign of liberation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Perfection of Equality, #KEYS
18:It must be realized that the true sign of spiritual endeavor and the price of success in it is suffering. ~ Philokalia, Theophan the Recluse, #KEYS
19:All pain and suffering are a sign of imperfection, of incompleteness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life, #KEYS
20:There is a zero sign of the Supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
21:The union of husband and wife gives a sign of the union of Christ and the Church ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 4.78)., #KEYS
22:A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. ~ Revelation 12:1, #KEYS
23:Delight, God's sweetest sign and Beauty's twin. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
24:The aspiration is always the sign of the possibility and perseverance leads to the certitude of the realisation.
~ The Mother,#KEYS
25:A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." ~ Revelation 12:1, #KEYS
26:hunter moon
clear autumn night
everywhere a new sign
~ Ogawa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
27:Tranquillity is a sign of increasing self-mastery and purity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Higher and the Lower Knowledge, #KEYS
28:Love the sign
Of one outblaze of godhead that two share. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Life Heavens,#KEYS
29:Christ was literally born during the night as a sign that He came to the shadows of our weakness ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 3.83.2ad2)., #KEYS
30:Each language is the sign and power of the soul of the people which naturally speaks it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, Diversity in Oneness, #KEYS
31:It is always the same question: have you really read all those books? My answer is always the same: a library is a sign of desire, not of accomplishment. ~ Jeffrey J Kripal, #KEYS
32:Self-justification is always a sign of ego and ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV: Problems in Human Relations
Self-Justification#KEYS
33:Sign-symbol
It is out of this Silence that the Word which creates the worlds for ever proceeds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Reality Omnipresent,#KEYS
34:If we have not equality, it is a sign that we are still pursued by the Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Equality and the Annihilation of Ego, #KEYS
35:We have faith for a defense, if we are not smitten with distrust, in immediately making the sign of the cross and commanding and smearing the heel with the beast. ~ Tertullian of Carthage, #KEYS
36:Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
37:Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.
~ William Strunk,#KEYS
38:Earth's winged chimaeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven,
The impossible God's sign of things to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
39:Conduct for the Indian mind is only one means of expression and sign of a soul-state. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Renaissance in India, A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture - IV, #KEYS
40:Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you. ~ Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, #KEYS
41:Do nothing at all without the beginning of prayer. Seal all your doings, my child, with the sign of the living cross. Do not go out the door of your house till you have signed the cross. ~ Saint Ephrem of Syria, #KEYS
42:If there is any sign of God to be seen, it is in the God-conscious one, and it is the fullness of God-consciousness that makes a prophetic soul. ~ Inayat Khan, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
43:Since an unlooked-for salvation was to be provided for men through the help of God, so also was the unlooked-for birth from a virgin accomplished; God giving this sign, but man not working it out. ~ Saint Irenaeus, #KEYS
44:When many Christians will be lovers of heresies, and wicked men will persecute the clergy and will hate justice, this should be the sign that Antichrist shall come without delay." ~ Saint Bridget of Sweden, (1303-1373), #KEYS
45:Have courage and do not fear the assaults of the Devil. Remember this forever; it is a healthy sign if the devil shouts and roars around your conscience, since this shows that he is not inside your will. ~ Saint Padre Pio, #KEYS
46:Hence, when many Christians will be lovers of heresies, and wicked men will persecute the clergy and will hate justice, this should be the sign that Antichrist shall come without delay." ~ Saint Bridget of Sweden, (1303-1373), #KEYS
47:The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be The Rosary and The Sign Left by My Son. Each day recite the Prayers of the Rosary." ~ Our Lady of Akita, #KEYS
48:As those who have lived long made one in love
Need word nor sign for heart's reply to heart,
He met and communed without bar of speech ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#KEYS
49:Language is the sign of the cultural life of a people, the index of its soul in thought and mind that stands behind and enriches its soul in action. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, Diversity in Oneness, #KEYS
50:A real index of intelligence is humour, you know? It requires great affection for people and the world and the act of being, a forgivingness and a bemusement. The sure sign of the fanatic is an absence of humour.
~ Terence McKenna,#KEYS
51:A vacant Absolute is no Absolute,—our conception of a Void or Zero is only a conceptual sign of our mental inability to know or grasp it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Reality and the Integral Knowledge, #KEYS
52:Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, adorned with the sun, standing on the moon, and with the twelve stars on her head for a crown. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth. ~ Revelation 12:1-2, #KEYS
53:Abnormality in Nature is no objection, no necessary sign of imperfection, but may well be an effort at a much greater perfection. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Necessity of the Spiritual Transformation, #KEYS
54:Length of time is no proof of an ultimate incapacity to arrive—it is only a sign that there is something in oneself which has to be overcome. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, The Divine Grace and Guidance, #KEYS
55:The fact that we experience anxiety and annoyance is the certain sign that, in the unconscious, there is an emotional program for happiness that has just been frustrated. ~ Thomas Keating, The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation, #KEYS
56:The emergence of an ideal in human thought is always the sign of an intention in Nature, but not always of an intention to accomplish. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle: The Turn towards Unity, Its Necessity and Dangers, #KEYS
57:Our souls accept what our blind thoughts refuse.
Earth's winged chimaeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven,
The impossible God's sign of things to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
58:By far the greatest thing is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learned from others. It is a sign of genius, for a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of similarity among dissimilars.
~ Aristotle,#KEYS
59:Without analogy, the world is absurd, that is to say without repetition of a logos. If the symbol is a sign of recognition, …the knowledge of analogy is the recognition of the sign. [la connaissance de l'analogie est la reconnaissance du signe]. ~ Jean Borella, #KEYS
60:Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
61:Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry. ~ Terry Pratchett, Thief Of Time, #KEYS
62:This sign of the cross will be in the heavens when the Lord comes to judge. Then all the servants of the cross, who during life made themselves one with the Crucified, will draw near with great trust to Christ, the judge. ~ Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, #KEYS
63:Half-seen in clouds appeared a sombre face;
Night's dusk tiara was his matted hair,
The ashes of the pyre his forehead's sign. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
64:The love of solitude is a sign of the disposition towards knowledge; but knowledge itself is only achieved when we have a settled perception of solitude in the crowd, in the battle and in the mart.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human,#KEYS
65:All undelight, all pain and suffering are a sign of imperfection, of incompleteness; they arise from a division of being, an incompleteness of consciousness of being, an incompleteness of the force of being.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,#KEYS
66:There is in human nature as such, because it is spiritual, a desire, a natural appetite, a sign of ontological ordination ... which could be satisfied in no way but through the very vision of God, face to face. ~ Henri de Lubac, 'Dsappearance of the Sense of the Sacred', #KEYS
67:Because of our wisdom, we will travel far for love. All movement is a sign of thirst. Most speaking really says "I am hungry to know you." Every desire of your body is holy. Dear one, why wait until you are dying to discover that divine Truth? ~ Hafiz, #KEYS
68:There every thought and feeling is an act,
And every act a symbol and a sign,
And every symbol hides a living power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
69:The creatures of the sense world signify the invisible attributes of God, partly because God is the origin, exemplar, and end of every creature, and every effect is the sign of its cause, the exemplification of its exemplar, and the path to the end, to which leads… ~ Bonaventure, #KEYS
70:Marriage has yet another ultimate end, among believers, namely the sign of Christ and of the Church. And such a good of marriage is called, "sacrament" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Commentary on Lombard's Sentences 4.33.1.1). https://t.co/Ap3x2cEYS6, #KEYS
71:Our lighted candles are a sign of the divine splendor of one who expels the dark shadows of evil and makes the whole universe radiant with the brilliance of His eternal light. Our candles also show how bright our souls should be when we go to meet Christ. ~ Sophronius of Jerusalem, #KEYS
72:It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature. ~ Ibn Arabi, #KEYS
73:DAWN
I have returned to my native village after twenty years;
No sign of old friends or relatives-they have all died or gone away.
My dreams are shattered by the sound of the temple bell struck at sunrise.
An empty floor, no shadows; the light has long been extinguished. ~ Taigu Ryokan,#KEYS
74:Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, 'Be more silent.' Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence." ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
75:In vague tremendous passages of Doom
He heard the goblin Voice that guides to slay,
And faced the enchantments of the demon Sign,
And traversed the ambush of the opponent Snake. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
76:Thus we draw near to the All-Wonderful
Following his rapture in things as sign and guide;
Beauty is his footprint showing us where he has passed,
Love is his heart-beats' rhythm in mortal breasts,
Happiness the smile on his adorable face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
77:a sign of progress :::
We may even come to feel that the body is in a certain sense non-existent except as a sort of partial expression of our vital force and of our mentality. These experiences are signs that the mind is coming to a right poise regarding the body...
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Renunciation, 345,#KEYS
78:God said to David, "Be not too intimate with men; for two kinds of persons are excluded from My presence: those who are earnest in seeking reward and slack when they obtain it, and those who prefer their own thoughts to the remembrance of Me. The sign of My displeasure is that I leave such to themselves. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, #KEYS
79:Have confidence in the Mother and be sure that the liberation from these things will surely come. What the soul feels is the sign of the spiritual destiny as of the spiritual need. What opposes is a remnant of the nature of the human ignorance. Our help will be there with you fully to overcome it. 27 February 1935
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother,#KEYS
80:Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us...No longer is the quest for disarmament a sign of weakness, (nor) the destruction of arms a dream - it is a practical matter of life or death. The risks inherent in disarmament pale in comparison to the risks inherent in an unlimited arms race. ~ John F Kennedy, #KEYS
81:D.: Meditation is with mind and how can it kill the mind in order to reveal the Self?
M.: Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness. By constant meditation it gains strength, i.e., to say, its weakness of fugitive thought gives place to the enduring background free from thoughts. This expanse devoid of thought is the Self. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks, 293,#KEYS
82:What is the sign of a man settled in the fixity of his soul and his understanding? When he casts from him all desires that come to the mind, satisfied in himself and with himself, when his mind is undisturbed in pain and without desire in pleasure, when liking and fear and wrath have passed away from him, then a man is fixed in his understanding. He who is unaffected in all things by good or by evil happening, neither rejoices in them nor hates, in him wisdom is established. ~ Bhagavad Gita, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
83:And it shall also be a sign of the teacher of the integral Yoga that he does not arrogate to himself Guruhood in a humanly vain and self-exalting spirit. His work, if he has one, is a trust from above, he himself a channel, a vessel or a representative. He is a man helping his brothers, a child leading children, a Light kindling other lights, an awakened Soul awakening souls, at highest a Power or Presence of the Divine calling to him other powers of the Divine.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids, 67,#KEYS
84:First, once and for all, you should know that luck, good or bad, does not exist. What to our ignorance looks like luck is simply the result of causes we know nothing about. It is certain that for someone who has desires, when his desires are not satisfied, it is a sign that the Divine Grace is with him and wants, through experience, to make him progress rapidly, by teaching him that a willing and spontaneous surrender to the Divine Will is a much surer way to be happy in peace and light than the satisfaction of any desire.
~ Sri Aurobindo,#KEYS
85:All was found there the Unique has dreamed and made
Tinging with ceaseless rapture and surprise
And an opulent beauty of passionate difference
The recurring beat that moments God in Time.
Only was missing the sole timeless Word
That carries eternity in its lonely sound,
The Idea self-luminous key to all ideas,
The integer of the Spirit's perfect sum
That equates the unequal All to the equal One,
The single sign interpreting every sign,
The absolute index to the Absolute.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
86:But you must remember one thing. One cannot see God sporting as man unless one has had the vision of Him. Do you know the sign of one who has God-vision? Such a man acquires the nature of a child. Why a child? Because God is like a child. So he who sees God becomes like a child.
God-vision is necessary. Now the question is, how can one get it? Intense renunciation is the means. A man should have such intense yearning for God that he can say, 'O Father of the universe, am I outside Your universe? Won't You be kind to me, You wretch? ~ Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
87:conditions of the psychic opening :::
For the opening of the psychic being, concentration on the Mother and self-offering to her are the direct way. The growth of Bhakti which you feel is the first sign of the psychic development. A sense of the Mother's presence or force or the remembrance of her supporting and strengthening you is the next sign. Eventually, the soul within begins to be active in aspiration and psychic perception guiding the mind to the right thoughts, the vital to the right movements and feelings, showing and rejecting all that has to be put away and turning the whole being in all its movements to the Divine alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - III,#KEYS
88:None is travelling :::
None is travelling
Here along this way but I,
This autumn evening.
The first day of the year:
thoughts come - and there is loneliness;
the autumn dusk is here.
An old pond
A frog jumps in -
Splash!
Lightening -
Heron's cry
Stabs the darkness
Clouds come from time to time -
and bring to men a chance to rest
from looking at the moon.
In the cicada's cry
There's no sign that can foretell
How soon it must die.
Poverty's child -
he starts to grind the rice,
and gazes at the moon.
Won't you come and see
loneliness? Just one leaf
from the kiri tree.
Temple bells die out.
The fragrant blossoms remain.
A perfect evening! ~ Matsuo Basho,#KEYS
89:All true Truth of love and of the works of love the psychic being accepts in their place: but its flame mounts always upward and it is eager to push the ascent from lesser to higher degrees of Truth, since it knows that only by the ascent to a highest Truth and the descent of that highest Truth can Love be delivered from the cross and placed upon the throne; for the cross is the sign of the Divine Descent barred and marred by the transversal line of a cosmic deformation which turns it into a stake of suffering and misfortune. Only by the ascent to the original Truth can the deformation be healed and all the works of love, as too all the works of knowledge and of life, be restored to a divine significance and become part of an integral spiritual existence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 1,#KEYS
90:So it is that when Dante had taken the last step in his spiritual adventure, and came before the ultimate symbolic vision of the Triune God in the Celestial Rose, he had still one more illumination to experience, even beyond the forms of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. "Bernard," he writes, "made a sign to me, and smiled, that I should look upward; but I was already, of myself, such as he wished; for my sight, becoming pure, was entering more and more, through the radiance of the lofty Light which in Itself is true. Thenceforward my vision was greater than our speech, which yields to such a sight, and the memory yields to such excess. [167]
[167] "Paradiso," XXXIII, 49-57 (translation by Norton, op. cit., Vol. Ill, pp. 253-254, by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers). ~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Ultimate Boon,#KEYS
91:He told me that in 1886 he had invented an original system of numbering and that in a very few days he had gone beyond the twenty-four-thousand mark. He had not written it down, since anything he thought of once would never be lost to him. His first stimulus was, I think, his discomfort at the fact that the famous thirty-three gauchos of Uruguayan history should require two signs and two words, in place of a single word and a single sign. He then applied this absurd principle to the other numbers. In place of seven thousand thirteen he would say (for example) Maximo Pérez; in place of seven thousand fourteen, The Railroad; other numbers were Luis Melian Lafinur, Olimar, sulphur, the reins, the whale, the gas, the caldron, Napoleon, Agustin de Vedia. In place of five hundred, he would say nine. Each word had a particular sign, a kind of mark; the last in the series were very complicated...~ Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths, Selected Stories and Other Writings, #KEYS
92:Influence is more important than example. Influence is not the outward authority of the Teacher over his disciple, but the power of his contact, of his presence, of the nearness of his soul to the soul of another, infusing into it, even though in silence, that which he himself is and possesses. This is the supreme sign of the Master. For the greatest Master is much less a Teacher than a Presence pouring the divine consciousness and its constituting light and power and purity and bliss into all who are receptive around him.
And it shall also be a sign of the teacher of the integral Yoga that he does not arrogate to himself Guruhood in a humanly vain and self-exalting spirit. His work, if he has one, is a trust from above, he himself a channel, a vessel or a representative. He is a man helping his brothers, a child leading children, a Light kindling other lights, an awakened Soul awakening souls, at highest a Power or Presence of the Divine calling to him other ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
93:The magic in a word remains magic even if it is not understood, and loses none of its power. Poems may be understandable or they may not, but they must be good, and they must be real.
From the examples of the algebraic signs on the walls of Kovalevskaia's nursery that had such a decisive influence on the child's fate, and from the example of spells, it is clear we cannot demand of all language: "be easy to understand, like the sign in the street." The speech of higher intelligence, even when it is not understandable, falls like seed into the fertile soil of the soul and only much later, in mysterious ways, does it bring forth its shoots. Does the earth understand the writing of the seeds a farmer scatters on its surface? No. But the grain still ripens in autumn, in response to those seeds. In any case, I certainly do not maintain that every incomprehensible piece of writing is beautiful. I mean only that we must not reject a piece of writing simply because it is incomprehensible to a particular group of readers. ~ Velimir Khlebnikov,#KEYS
94:The lessening of evil breeds abstinence from evil; and
abstinence from evil is the beginning of repentance; and
the beginning of repentance is the beginning of salvation; and
the beginning of salvation is a good resolve; and
a good resolve is the mother of labors. And
the beginning of labors is the virtues; and
the beginning of the virtues is a flowering, and
the flowering of virtue is the beginning of activity. And
the offspring of virtue is perseverance; and
the fruit and offspring of persevering practice is habit, and
the child of habit is character. And
good character is the mother of fear; and
fear gives birth to the keeping of commandments in which I include both Heavenly and earthly. And
the keeping of the commandments is a sign of love; and
the beginning of love is an abundance of humility; and
an abundance of humility is the daughter of dispassion; and
the acquisition of the latter is the fullness of love, that is to say, the perfect indwelling of God in those who through dispassion are pure in heart, for they shall see God.
And to Him the glory for all eternity. Amen" ~ Saint John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent,#KEYS
95:It's a strange world. It seems that about fifteen billion years ago there was, precisely, absolute nothingness, and then within less than a nanosecond the material universe blew into existence.
Stranger still, the physical matter so produced was not merely a random and chaotic mess, but seemed to organize itself into ever more and complex and intricate forms. So complex were these forms that, many billions of years later, some of them found ways to reproduce themselves, and thus out of matter arose life.
Even stranger, these life forms were apparently not content to merely reproduce themselves, but instead began a long evolution that would eventually allow them to represent themselves, to produce sign and symbols and concepts, and thus out of life arose mind.
Whatever this process of evolution was, it seems to have been incredibly driven from matter to life to mind.
But stranger still, a mere few hundred years ago, on a small and indifferent planet around an insignificant star, evolution became conscious of itself.
And at precisely the same time, the very mechanisms that allowed evolution to become conscious of itself were simultaneously working to engineer its own extinction.
And that was the strangest of all. ~ Ken Wilber, Sex Ecology Spirituality, p. 3,#KEYS
96:The second condition of consciousness is potential only to the human being and gained by an inner enlightening and transformation of the mind of ignorance; it is that in which the mind seeks for its source of knowledge rather within than without and becomes to its own feeling and self-experience, by whatever means, a mind, not of original ignorance, but of self-forgetful knowledge. This mind is conscious that the knowledge of all things is hidden within it or at least somewhere in the being, but as if veiled and forgotten, and the knowledge comes to it not as a thing acquired from outside, but always secretly there and now remembered and known at once to be true, - each thing in its own place, degree, manner and measure. This is its attitude to knowledge even when the occasion of knowing is some external experience, sign or indication, because that is to it only the occasion and its reliance for the truth of the knowledge is not on the external indication or evidence but on the inner confirming witness. The true mind is the universal within us and the individual is only a projection on the surface, and therefore this second state of consciousness we have either when the individual mind goes more and more inward and is always consciously or subconsciously near and sensitive to the touches of the universal mentality in which all is contained, received, capable of being made manifest, or, still more powerfully, when we live in the consciousness of universal mind with the personal mentality only as a projection, a marking board or a communicating switch on the surface. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Towards the Supramental Time Vision, 887, #KEYS
97:The sign of the immersion of the embodied soul in Prakriti is the limitation of consciousness to the ego. The vivid stamp of this limited consciousness can be seen in a constant inequality of the mind and heart and a confused conflict and disharmony in their varied reactions to the touches of experience. The human reactions sway perpetually between the dualities created by the soul's subjection to Nature and by its often intense but narrow struggle for mastery and enjoyment, a struggle for the most part ineffective. The soul circles in an unending round of Nature's alluring and distressing opposites, success and failure, good fortune and ill fortune, good and evil, sin and virtue, joy and grief, pain and pleasure. It is only when, awaking from its immersion in Prakriti, it perceives its oneness with the One and its oneness with all existences that it can become free from these things and found its right relation to this executive world-Nature. Then it becomes indifferent to her inferior modes, equal-minded to her dualities, capable of mastery and freedom; it is seated above her as the high-throned knower and witness filled with the calm intense unalloyed delight of his own eternal existence. The embodied spirit continues to express its powers in action, but it is no longer involved in ignorance, no longer bound by its works; its actions have no longer a consequence within it, but only a consequence outside in Prakriti. The whole movement of Nature becomes to its experience a rising and falling of waves on the surface that make no difference to its own unfathomable peace, its wide delight, its vast universal equality or its boundless God-existence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
98:Now I have taught you about Immortal Man and have loosed the bonds of the robbers from him. I have broken the gates of the pitiless ones in their presence. I have humiliated their malicious intent, and they all have been shamed and have risen from their ignorance. Because of this, then, I came here, that they might be joined with that Spirit and Breath, [III continues:] and might from two become one, just as from the first, that you might yield much fruit and go up to Him Who Is from the Beginning, in ineffable joy and glory and honor and grace of the Father of the Universe.
"Whoever, then, knows the Father in pure knowledge will depart to the Father and repose in Unbegotten Father. But whoever knows him defectively will depart to the defect and the rest of the Eighth. Now whoever knows Immortal Spirit of Light in silence, through reflecting and consent in the truth, let him bring me signs of the Invisible One, and he will become a light in the Spirit of Silence. Whoever knows Son of Man in knowledge and love, let him bring me a sign of Son of Man, that he might depart to the dwelling-places with those in the Eighth.
"Behold, I have revealed to you the name of the Perfect One, the whole will of the Mother of the Holy Angels, that the masculine multitude may be completed here, that there might appear in the aeons, the infinities and those that came to be in the untraceable wealth of the Great Invisible Spirit, that they all might take from his goodness, even the wealth of their rest that has no kingdom over it. I came from First Who Was Sent, that I might reveal to you Him Who Is from the Beginning, because of the arrogance of Arch-Begetter and his angels, since they say about themselves that they are gods. And I came to remove them from their blindness, that I might tell everyone about the God who is above the universe. Therefore, tread upon their graves, humiliate their malicious intent, and break their yoke and arouse my own. I have given you authority over all things as Sons of Light, that you might tread upon their power with your feet."
These are the things the blessed Savior said, and he disappeared from them. Then all the disciples were in great, ineffable joy in the spirit from that day on. And his disciples began to preach the Gospel of God, the eternal, imperishable spirit. Amen.
~ The Sophia of Jesus, (excerpt), The Nag Hamadi Library,#KEYS
99:Vijnana, true ideation, called ritam, truth or vedas, knowledge in the Vedas, acts in human mind by four separate functions; revelation, termed drishti, sight; inspiration termed sruti,hearing; and the two faculties of discernment, smriti, memory,which are intuition, termed ketu, and discrimination, termed daksha, division, or viveka, separation. By drishti we see ourselves the truth face to face, in its own form, nature or self-existence; by sruti we hear the name, sound or word by which the truth is expressed & immediately suggested to the knowledge; by ketu we distinguish a truth presented to us behind a veil whether of result or process, as Newton discovered the law of gravitation hidden behind the fall of the apple; by viveka we distinguish between various truths and are able to put them in their right place, order and relation to each other, or, if presented with mingled truth & error, separate the truth from the falsehood. Agni Jatavedas is termed in the Veda vivichi, he who has the viveka, who separates truth from falsehood; but this is only a special action of the fourth ideal faculty & in its wider scope, it is daksha, that which divides & rightly distributes truth in its multiform aspects. The ensemble of the four faculties is Vedas or divine knowledge. When man is rising out of the limited & error-besieged mental principle, the faculty most useful to him, most indispensable is daksha or viveka. Drishti of Vijnana transmuted into terms of mind has become observation, sruti appears as imagination, intuition as intelligent perception, viveka as reasoning & intellectual judgment and all of these are liable to the constant touch of error. Human buddhi, intellect, is a distorted shadow of the true ideative faculties. As we return from these shadows to their ideal substance viveka or daksha must be our constant companion; for viveka alone can get rid of the habit of mental error, prevent observation being replaced by false illumination, imagination by false inspiration, intelligence by false intuition, judgment & reason by false discernment. The first sign of human advance out of the anritam of mind to the ritam of the ideal faculty is the growing action of a luminous right discernment which fixes instantly on the truth, feels instantly the presence of error. The fullness, the manhana of this viveka is the foundation & safeguard of Ritam or Vedas. The first great movement of Agni Jatavedas is to transform by the divine will in mental activity his lower smoke-covered activity into the bright clearness & fullness of the ideal discernment. Agne adbhuta kratw a dakshasya manhana.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns To The Mystic Fire, 717,#KEYS
100:10000 :::
The Only Way Out:
... Once you have no more desires, no more attachments, once you have given up all necessity of receiving a reward from human beings, whoever they are - knowing that the only reward that is worth getting is the one that comes from the Supreme and that never fails - once you give up attachment to all exterior beings and things, you at once feel in your heart this Presence, this Force, this Grace that is always with you. And there is no other remedy. It's the only remedy, for everybody without exception. To all those who suffer, for the same thing that has to be said: all suffering is the sign that the surrender is not total. Then, when you feel in you a 'bang' like that, instead of saying, 'Oh, this is bad' or 'This circumstance is difficult,' you say, 'My surrender is not perfect.' Then it's all right. And then you feel the Grace that helps you and leads you, and you go on. And one day you emerge into that peace that nothing can trouble.
You answer to all the contrary forces, the contrary movements, the attacks, the misunderstandings, the bad wills, with the same smile that comes from full confidence in the Divine Grace. And that is the only way out, there is no other.
But where to get such a strength?
Within you. The Divine Presence is in you. It is in you. You look for it outside; look inside. It is in you. The Presence is there. You want the appreciation of others to get strength - you will never get it. The strength is in you. If you want, you can aspire for what seems to you the supreme goal, supreme light, supreme knowledge, supreme love. But it is in you - otherwise you would never be able to contact it. If you go deep enough inside you, you will find it there, like a flame that is always burning straight up. And don't believe that it is difficult to do. It is because the look is always turned outside that you don't feel the Presence. But if, instead of looking outside for support, you concentrate and you pray - inside, to the supreme knowledge - to know at each moment what is to be done, the way to do it, and if you give all you are, all you do in order to acquire perfection, you will feel that the support is always there, always guiding, showing the way. And if there is a difficulty, then instead of wanting to fight, you hand it over, hand it over to the supreme wisdom to deal with it - to deal with all the bad wills, all the misunderstandings, all the bad reactions. If you surrender completely, it is no more your concern: it's the concern of the Supreme who takes it up and knows better than anybody else what is to be done. That is the only way out, only way out. There, my child
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, [T1],#KEYS
101:The Teacher of the integral Yoga will follow as far as he may the method of the Teacher within us. He will lead the disciple through the nature of the disciple. Teaching, example, influence, - these are the three instruments of the Guru. But the wise Teacher will not seek to impose himself or his opinions on the passive acceptance of the receptive mind; he will throw in only what is productive and sure as a seed which will grow under the divine fostering within. He will seek to awaken much more than to instruct; he will aim at the growth of the faculties and the experiences by a natural process and free expansion. He will give a method as an aid, as a utilisable device, not as an imperative formula or a fixed routine. And he will be on his guard against any turning of the means into a limitation, against the mechanising of process. His whole business is to awaken the divine light and set working the divine force of which he himself is only a means and an aid, a body or a channel.
The example is more powerful than the instruction; but it is not the example of the outward acts nor that of the personal character which is of most importance. These have their place and their utility; but what will most stimulate aspiration in others is the central fact of the divine realisation within him governing his whole life and inner state and all his activities. This is the universal and essential element; the rest belongs to individual person and circumstance. It is this dynamic realisation that the sadhaka must feel and reproduce in himself according to his own nature; he need not strive after an imitation from outside which may well be sterilising rather than productive of right and natural fruits.
Influence is more important than example. Influence is not the outward authority of the Teacher over his disciple, but the power of his contact, of his presence, of the nearness of his soul to the soul of another, infusing into it, even though in silence, that which he himself is and possesses. This is the supreme sign of the Master. For the greatest Master is much less a Teacher than a Presence pouring the divine consciousness and its constituting light and power and purity and bliss into all who are receptive around him.
And it shall also be a sign of the teacher of the integral Yoga that he does not arrogate to himself Guruhood in a humanly vain and self-exalting spirit. His work, if he has one, is a trust from above, he himself a channel, a vessel or a representative. He is a man helping his brothers, a child leading children, a Light kindling other lights, an awakened Soul awakening souls, at highest a Power or Presence of the Divine calling to him other powers of the Divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga,#KEYS
102:One can learn how to identify oneself. One must learn. It is indispensable if one wants to get out of one's ego. For so long as one is shut up in one's ego, one can't make any progress.
How can it be done?
There are many ways. I'll tell you one.
When I was in Paris, I used to go to many places where there were gatherings of all kinds, people making all sorts of researches, spiritual (so-called spiritual), occult researches, etc. And once I was invited to meet a young lady (I believe she was Swedish) who had found a method of knowledge, exactly a method for learning. And so she explained it to us. We were three or four (her French was not very good but she was quite sure about what she was saying!); she said: "It's like this, you take an object or make a sign on a blackboard or take a drawing - that is not important - take whatever is most convenient for you. Suppose, for instance, that I draw for you... (she had a blackboard) I draw a design." She drew a kind of half-geometric design. "Now, you sit in front of the design and concentrate all your attention upon it - upon that design which is there. You concentrate, concentrate without letting anything else enter your consciousness - except that. Your eyes are fixed on the drawing and don't move at all. You are as it were hypnotised by the drawing. You look (and so she sat there, looking), you look, look, look.... I don't know, it takes more or less time, but still for one who is used to it, it goes pretty fast. You look, look, look, you become that drawing you are looking at. Nothing else exists in the world any longer except the drawing, and then, suddenly, you pass to the other side; and when you pass to the other side you enter a new consciousness, and you know."
We had a good laugh, for it was amusing. But it is quite true, it is an excellent method to practise. Naturally, instead of taking a drawing or any object, you may take, for instance, an idea, a few words. You have a problem preoccupying you, you don't know the solution of the problem; well, you objectify your problem in your mind, put it in the most precise, exact, succinct terms possible, and then concentrate, make an effort; you concentrate only on the words, and if possible on the idea they represent, that is, upon your problem - you concentrate, concentrate, concentrate until nothing else exists but that. And it is true that, all of a sudden, you have the feeling of something opening, and one is on the other side. The other side of what?... It means that you have opened a door of your consciousness, and instantaneously you have the solution of your problem. It is an excellent method of learning "how" to identify oneself.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 217 [T1],#KEYS
103:It is then by a transformation of life in its very principle, not by an external manipulation of its phenomena, that the integral Yoga proposes to change it from a troubled and ignorant into a luminous and harmonious movement of Nature. There are three conditions which are indispensable for the achievement of this central inner revolution and new formation; none of them is altogether sufficient in itself, but by their united threefold power the uplifting can be done, the conversion made and completely made. For, first, life as it is is a movement of desire and it has built in us as its centre a desire-soul which refers to itself all the motions of life and puts in them its own troubled hue and pain of an ignorant, half-lit, baffled endeavour: for a divine living, desire must be abolished and replaced by a purer and firmer motive-power, the tormented soul of desire dissolved and in its stead there must emerge the calm, strength, happiness of a true vital being now concealed within us. Next, life as it is is driven or led partly by the impulse of the life-force, partly by a mind which is mostly a servant and abettor of the ignorant life-impulse, but in part also its uneasy and not too luminous or competent guide and mentor; for a divine life the mind and the life-impulse must cease to be anything but instruments and the inmost psychic being must take their place as the leader on the path and the indicator of a divine guidance. Last, life as it is is turned towards the satisfaction of the separative ego; ego must disappear and be replaced by the true spiritual person, the central being, and life itself must be turned towards the fulfilment of the Divine in terrestrial existence; it must feel a Divine Force awaking within it and become an obedient instrumentation of its purpose.
There is nothing that is not ancient and familiar in the first of these three transforming inner movements; for it has always been one of the principal objects of spiritual discipline. It has been best formulated in the already expressed doctrine of the Gita by which a complete renouncement of desire for the fruits as the motive of action, a complete annulment of desire itself, the complete achievement of a perfect equality are put forward as the normal status of a spiritual being. A perfect spiritual equality is the one true and infallible sign of the cessation of desire, - to be equal-souled to all things, unmoved by joy and sorrow, the pleasant and the unpleasant, success or failure, to look with an equal eye on high and low, friend and enemy, the virtuous and the sinner, to see in all beings the manifold manifestation of the One and in all things the multitudinous play or the slow masked evolution of the embodied Spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 176,#KEYS
104:
Sweet Mother, how can one feel the divine Presence constantly?
Why not?
But how can one do it?
But I am asking why one should not feel it. Instead of asking the question how to feel it, I ask the question: "What do you do that you don't feel it?" There is no reason not to feel the divine Presence. Once you have felt it, even once, you should be capable of feeling it always, for it is there. It is a fact. It is only our ignorance which makes us unaware of it. But if we become conscious, why should we not always be conscious? Why forget something one has learnt? When one has had the experience, why forget it? It is simply a bad habit, that's all.
You see, there is something which is a fact, that's to say, it is. But we are unaware of it and do not know it. But after we become conscious and know it, why should we still forget it? Does it make sense? It's quite simply because we are not convinced that once one has met the Divine one can't forget Him any more. We are, on the contrary, full of stupid ideas which say, "Oh! Yes, it's very well once like that, but the rest of the time it will be as usual." So there is no reason why it may not begin again.
But if we know that... we did not know something, we were ignorant, then the moment we have the knowledge... I am sincerely asking how one can manage to forget. One might not know something, that is a fact; there are countless things one doesn't know. But the moment one knows them, the minute one has the experience, how can one manage to forget? Within yourself you have the divine Presence, you know nothing about it - for all kinds of reasons, but still the chief reason is that you are in a state of ignorance. Yet suddenly, by a clicking of circumstances, you become conscious of this divine Presence, that is, you are before a fact - it is not imagination, it is a fact, it's something which exists. Then how do you manage to forget it once you have known it?
...
It is because something in us, through cowardice or defeatism, accepts this. If one did not accept it, it wouldn't happen.
Even when everything seems to be suddenly darkened, the flame and the Light are always there. And if one doesn't forget them, one has only to put in front of them the part which is dark; there will perhaps be a battle, there will perhaps be a little difficulty, but it will be something quite transitory; never will you lose your footing. That is why it is said - and it is something true - that to sin through ignorance may have fatal consequences, because when one makes mistakes, well, these mistakes have results, that's obvious, and usually external and material results; but that's no great harm, I have already told you this several times. But when one knows what is true, when one has seen and had the experience of the Truth, to accept the sin again, that is, fall back again into ignorance and obscurity - this is indeed an infinitely more serious mistake. It begins to belong to the domain of ill-will. In any case, it is a sign of slackness and weakness. It means that the will is weak.
So your question is put the other way round. Instead of asking yourself how to keep it, you must ask yourself: how does one not keep it? Not having it, is a state which everybody is in before the moment of knowing; not knowing - one is in that state before knowing. But once one knows one cannot forget. And if one forgets, it means that there is something which consents to the forgetting, it means there is an assent somewhere; otherwise one would not forget.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955, 403,405,406,#KEYS
105:In the process of this change there must be by the very necessity of the effort two stages of its working. First, there will be the personal endeavour of the human being, as soon as he becomes aware by his soul, mind, heart of this divine possibility and turns towards it as the true object of life, to prepare himself for it and to get rid of all in him that belongs to a lower working, of all that stands in the way of his opening to the spiritual truth and its power, so as to possess by this liberation his spiritual being and turn all his natural movements into free means of its self-expression. It is by this turn that the self-conscious Yoga aware of its aim begins: there is a new awakening and an upward change of the life motive. So long as there is only an intellectual, ethical and other self-training for the now normal purposes of life which does not travel beyond the ordinary circle of working of mind, life and body, we are still only in the obscure and yet unillumined preparatory Yoga of Nature; we are still in pursuit of only an ordinary human perfection. A spiritual desire of the Divine and of the divine perfection, of a unity with him in all our being and a spiritual perfection in all our nature, is the effective sign of this change, the precursory power of a great integral conversion of our being and living. By personal effort a precursory change, a preliminary conversion can be effected; it amounts to a greater or less spiritualising of our mental motives, our character and temperament, and a mastery, stilling or changed action of the vital and physical life. This converted subjectivity can be made the base of some communion or unity of the soul in mind with the Divine and some partial reflection of the divine nature in the mentality of the human being. That is as far as man can go by his unaided or indirectly aided effort, because that is an effort of mind and mind cannot climb beyond itself permanently: at most it arises to a spiritualised and idealised mentality. If it shoots up beyond that border, it loses hold of itself, loses hold of life, and arrives either at a trance of absorption or a passivity. A greater perfection can only be arrived at by a higher power entering in and taking up the whole action of the being. The second stage of this Yoga will therefore be a persistent giving up of all the action of the nature into the hands of this greater Power, a substitution of its influence, possession and working for the personal effort, until the Divine to whom we aspire becomes the direct master of the Yoga and effects the entire spiritual and ideal conversion of the being. Two rules there are that will diminish the difficulty and obviate the danger. One must reject all that comes from the ego, from vital desire, from the mere mind and its presumptuous reasoning incompetence, all that ministers to these agents of the Ignorance. One must learn to hear and follow the voice of the inmost soul, the direction of the Guru, the command of the Master, the working of the Divine Mother. Whoever clings to the desires and weaknesses of the flesh, the cravings and passions of the vital in its turbulent ignorance, the dictates of his personal mind unsilenced and unillumined by a greater knowledge, cannot find the true inner law and is heaping obstacles in the way of the divine fulfilment. Whoever is able to detect and renounce those obscuring agencies and to discern and follow the true Guide within and without will discover the spiritual law and reach the goal of the Yoga. A radical and total change of consciousness is not only the whole meaning but, in an increasing force and by progressive stages, the whole method of the integral Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Self-Perfection, The Integral Perfection [618],#KEYS
106:The perfect supramental action will not follow any single principle or limited rule.It is not likely to satisfy the standard either of the individual egoist or of any organised group-mind. It will conform to the demand neither of the positive practical man of the world nor of the formal moralist nor of the patriot nor of the sentimental philanthropist nor of the idealising philosopher. It will proceed by a spontaneous outflowing from the summits in the totality of an illumined and uplifted being, will and knowledge and not by the selected, calculated and standardised action which is all that the intellectual reason or ethical will can achieve. Its sole aim will be the expression of the divine in us and the keeping together of the world and its progress towards the Manifestation that is to be. This even will not be so much an aim and purpose as a spontaneous law of the being and an intuitive determination of the action by the Light of the divine Truth and its automatic influence. It will proceed like the action of Nature from a total will and knowledge behind her, but a will and knowledge enlightened in a conscious supreme Nature and no longer obscure in this ignorant Prakriti. It will be an action not bound by the dualities but full and large in the spirit's impartial joy of existence. The happy and inspired movement of a divine Power and Wisdom guiding and impelling us will replace the perplexities and stumblings of the suffering and ignorant ego.
If by some miracle of divine intervention all mankind at once could be raised to this level, we should have something on earth like the Golden Age of the traditions, Satya Yuga, the Age of Truth or true existence. For the sign of the Satya Yuga is that the Law is spontaneous and conscious in each creature and does its own works in a perfect harmony and freedom. Unity and universality, not separative division, would be the foundation of the consciousness of the race; love would be absolute; equality would be consistent with hierarchy and perfect in difference; absolute justice would be secured by the spontaneous action of the being in harmony with the truth of things and the truth of himself and others and therefore sure of true and right result; right reason, no longer mental but supramental, would be satisfied not by the observation of artificial standards but by the free automatic perception of right relations and their inevitable execution in the act. The quarrel between the individual and society or disastrous struggle between one community and another could not exist: the cosmic consciousness imbedded in embodied beings would assure a harmonious diversity in oneness.
In the actual state of humanity, it is the individual who must climb to this height as a pioneer and precursor. His isolation will necessarily give a determination and a form to his outward activities that must be quite other than those of a consciously divine collective action. The inner state, the root of his acts, will be the same; but the acts themselves may well be very different from what they would be on an earth liberated from ignorance. Nevertheless his consciousness and the divine mechanism of his conduct, if such a word can be used of so free a thing, would be such as has been described, free from that subjection to vital impurity and desire and wrong impulse which we call sin, unbound by that rule of prescribed moral formulas which we call virtue, spontaneously sure and pure and perfect in a greater consciousness than the mind's, governed in all its steps by the light and truth of the Spirit. But if a collectivity or group could be formed of those who had reached the supramental perfection, there indeed some divine creation could take shape; a new earth could descend that would be a new heaven, a world of supramental light could be created here amidst the receding darkness of this terrestrial ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom, 206,#KEYS
107:The recurring beat that moments God in Time.
Only was missing the sole timeless Word
That carries eternity in its lonely sound,
The Idea self-luminous key to all ideas,
The integer of the Spirit's perfect sum
That equates the unequal All to the equal One,
The single sign interpreting every sign,
The absolute index to the Absolute.
There walled apart by its own innerness
In a mystical barrage of dynamic light
He saw a lone immense high-curved world-pile
Erect like a mountain-chariot of the Gods
Motionless under an inscrutable sky.
As if from Matter's plinth and viewless base
To a top as viewless, a carved sea of worlds
Climbing with foam-maned waves to the Supreme
Ascended towards breadths immeasurable;
It hoped to soar into the Ineffable's reign:
A hundred levels raised it to the Unknown.
So it towered up to heights intangible
And disappeared in the hushed conscious Vast
As climbs a storeyed temple-tower to heaven
Built by the aspiring soul of man to live
Near to his dream of the Invisible.
Infinity calls to it as it dreams and climbs;
Its spire touches the apex of the world;
Mounting into great voiceless stillnesses
It marries the earth to screened eternities.
Amid the many systems of the One
Made by an interpreting creative joy
Alone it points us to our journey back
Out of our long self-loss in Nature's deeps;
Planted on earth it holds in it all realms:
It is a brief compendium of the Vast.
This was the single stair to being's goal.
A summary of the stages of the spirit,
Its copy of the cosmic hierarchies
Refashioned in our secret air of self
A subtle pattern of the universe.
It is within, below, without, above.
Acting upon this visible Nature's scheme
It wakens our earth-matter's heavy doze
To think and feel and to react to joy;
It models in us our diviner parts,
Lifts mortal mind into a greater air,
Makes yearn this life of flesh to intangible aims,
Links the body's death with immortality's call:
Out of the swoon of the Inconscience
It labours towards a superconscient Light.
If earth were all and this were not in her,
Thought could not be nor life-delight's response:
Only material forms could then be her guests
Driven by an inanimate world-force.
Earth by this golden superfluity
Bore thinking man and more than man shall bear;
This higher scheme of being is our cause
And holds the key to our ascending fate;
It calls out of our dense mortality
The conscious spirit nursed in Matter's house.
The living symbol of these conscious planes,
Its influences and godheads of the unseen,
Its unthought logic of Reality's acts
Arisen from the unspoken truth in things,
Have fixed our inner life's slow-scaled degrees.
Its steps are paces of the soul's return
From the deep adventure of material birth,
A ladder of delivering ascent
And rungs that Nature climbs to deity.
Once in the vigil of a deathless gaze
These grades had marked her giant downward plunge,
The wide and prone leap of a godhead's fall.
Our life is a holocaust of the Supreme.
The great World-Mother by her sacrifice
Has made her soul the body of our state;
Accepting sorrow and unconsciousness
Divinity's lapse from its own splendours wove
The many-patterned ground of all we are.
An idol of self is our mortality.
Our earth is a fragment and a residue;
Her power is packed with the stuff of greater worlds
And steeped in their colour-lustres dimmed by her drowse;
An atavism of higher births is hers,
Her sleep is stirred by their buried memories
Recalling the lost spheres from which they fell.
Unsatisfied forces in her bosom move;
They are partners of her greater growing fate
And her return to immortality;
They consent to share her doom of birth and death;
They kindle partial gleams of the All and drive
Her blind laborious spirit to compose
A meagre image of the mighty Whole.
The calm and luminous Intimacy within
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
108:CHAPTER XIII
OF THE BANISHINGS: AND OF THE PURIFICATIONS.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one. The wand is not a wand if it has something sticking to it which is not an essential part of itself. If you wish to invoke Venus, you do not succeed if there are traces of Saturn mixed up with it.
That is a mere logical commonplace: in magick one must go much farther than this. One finds one's analogy in electricity. If insulation is imperfect, the whole current goes back to earth. It is useless to plead that in all those miles of wire there is only one-hundredth of an inch unprotected. It is no good building a ship if the water can enter, through however small a hole.
That first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.
If one littlest thought intrude upon the mind of the Mystic, his concentration is absolutely destroyed; and his consciousness remains on exactly the same level as the Stockbroker's. Even the smallest baby is incompatible with the virginity of its mother. If you leave even a single spirit within the circle, the effect of the conjuration will be entirely absorbed by it.> {101}
The Magician must therefore take the utmost care in the matter of purification, "firstly", of himself, "secondly", of his instruments, "thirdly", of the place of working. Ancient Magicians recommended a preliminary purification of from three days to many months. During this period of training they took the utmost pains with diet. They avoided animal food, lest the elemental spirit of the animal should get into their atmosphere. They practised sexual abstinence, lest they should be influenced in any way by the spirit of the wife. Even in regard to the excrements of the body they were equally careful; in trimming the hair and nails, they ceremonially destroyed> the severed portion. They fasted, so that the body itself might destroy anything extraneous to the bare necessity of its existence. They purified the mind by special prayers and conservations. They avoided the contamination of social intercourse, especially the conjugal kind; and their servitors were disciples specially chosen and consecrated for the work.
In modern times our superior understanding of the essentials of this process enables us to dispense to some extent with its external rigours; but the internal purification must be even more carefully performed. We may eat meat, provided that in doing so we affirm that we eat it in order to strengthen us for the special purpose of our proposed invocation.> {102}
By thus avoiding those actions which might excite the comment of our neighbours we avoid the graver dangers of falling into spiritual pride.
We have understood the saying: "To the pure all things are pure", and we have learnt how to act up to it. We can analyse the mind far more acutely than could the ancients, and we can therefore distinguish the real and right feeling from its imitations. A man may eat meat from self-indulgence, or in order to avoid the dangers of asceticism. We must constantly examine ourselves, and assure ourselves that every action is really subservient to the One Purpose.
It is ceremonially desirable to seal and affirm this mental purity by Ritual, and accordingly the first operation in any actual ceremony is bathing and robing, with appropriate words. The bath signifies the removal of all things extraneous to antagonistic to the one thought. The putting on of the robe is the positive side of the same operation. It is the assumption of the fame of mind suitable to that one thought.
A similar operation takes place in the preparation of every instrument, as has been seen in the Chapter devoted to that subject. In the preparation of theplace of working, the same considerations apply. We first remove from that place all objects; and we then put into it those objects, and only those {103} objects, which are necessary. During many days we occupy ourselves in this process of cleansing and consecration; and this again is confirmed in the actual ceremony.
The cleansed and consecrated Magician takes his cleansed and consecrated instruments into that cleansed and consecrated place, and there proceeds to repeat that double ceremony in the ceremony itself, which has these same two main parts. The first part of every ceremony is the banishing; the second, the invoking. The same formula is repeated even in the ceremony of banishing itself, for in the banishing ritual of the pentagram we not only command the demons to depart, but invoke the Archangels and their hosts to act as guardians of the Circle during our pre-occupation with the ceremony proper.
In more elaborate ceremonies it is usual to banish everything by name. Each element, each planet, and each sign, perhaps even the Sephiroth themselves; all are removed, including the very one which we wished to invoke, for that force ... ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,#KEYS
109: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
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove 2:Motion is the sign of life. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 3:The sign of death is weakness. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 4:The Truth never flaunted a sign. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 5:Civility is not a sign of weakness. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 6:The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 7:Never sign a valentine with your own name. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 8:The sign of life is strength and growth. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 9:To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 10:Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 11:A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 12:The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 13:Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove 14:A well marked Bible is the sign of a well-fed soul. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 15:Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 16:A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 17:Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 18:Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 19:Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 20:I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 21:Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 22:The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 23:Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 24:Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 25:A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 26:If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 27:The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 28:The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 29:The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 30:Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 31:We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 32:It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 33:The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 34:Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain. ~ kin-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 35:I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 36:My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 37:The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 38:It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 39:The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 40:Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 41:Your way is the best for you, but that is no sign it is the best for another. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 42:I find letters from God dropt in the street, and everyone is sign'd by God's name…. ~ walt-whitman, @wisdomtrove 43:Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 44:God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 45:Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 46:Everyone wears an invisible sign that reads "Notice me. Make me feel important." ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 47:This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 48:Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 49:Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 50:There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 51:When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 52:If the sign on your heart says "WELCOME", the love will come pouring in from everywhere. ~ susan-jeffers, @wisdomtrove 53:I saw a sign: "Rest Area 25 Miles". That's pretty big. Some people must be really tired. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 54:The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 55:A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 56:Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 57:Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 58:Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 59:If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 60:If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?" ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 61:If the sign on your heart says & 62:A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 63:It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 64:When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 65:A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove 66:When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 67:I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 68: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 69:To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 70:Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 71:Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 72:Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 73:The sign on the bar said: & 74:Everyone always noticed Ashley. She was like a flashing neon sign for anyone with an ounce of testosterone. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 75:The grace of your Inner Reality is timelessly with you. Your very asking for grace is a sign of it. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 76:You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 77:She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes; that is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 78:Dear God... I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 79:Noise, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove 80:Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong. ~ norman-cousins, @wisdomtrove 81:When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 82:As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 83:We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 84:The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 85:Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 86:A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 87:Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 88:Be to the world a sign that while we as Christians do not have all the answers, we do know and care about the questions. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 89:I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 90:Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 91:To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 92:If you don't do what Fear says... you'll go ahead and speak up, you'll sign up, you'll buy, you'll sell, you'll jump. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 93:I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: & 94:What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 95:When things gets difficult, and it seems like the intensity has been turned up, that’s a sign you are close to your victory. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 96:Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature. ~ epictetus, @wisdomtrove 97:It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior. ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove 98:The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 99:The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 100:Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 101:Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking. ~ quentin-crisp, @wisdomtrove 102:Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 103:Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 104:Signs are taken for wonders. / & 105:So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 106:So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 107:On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 108:If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 109:Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 110:End of Construction. Thank you & 111:I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. ~ bette-davis, @wisdomtrove 112:I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove 113:What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove 114:Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 115:Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 116:People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 117:I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 118:I was in a grocery store. I saw a sign that said & 119:The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 120:One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read" ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 121:I have a "Do Not Disturb" sign on my hotel door. It's time to go to "Don't Disturb". It's been "Do Not" for too long. We should embrace the contraction. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 122:It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people. ~ bette-davis, @wisdomtrove 123:But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 124:When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of great love. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 125:Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 126:Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 127:A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 128:I like to wear a "Do Not Disturb" sign around my neck so that little kids can't tell me knock-knock jokes. "Hey, how ya doin'? Knock-knock." "Read the sign, punk!" ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 129:Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny& 130:To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius. ~ arthur-schopenhauer, @wisdomtrove 131:It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 132:Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 133:Procrastination is a sign of a bigger issue. Stop trying to fix your procrastination as a problem and start thinking about why you are procrastinating in the first place. ~ celestine-chua, @wisdomtrove 134:The fact that we experience anxiety and annoyance is the certain sign that, in the unconscious, there is an emotional program for happiness that has just been frustrated. ~ thomas-keating, @wisdomtrove 135:I love this simply because it's cute, and I guess it's a sign of the times in many respect. It's pretty much saying you complete me, only in the sweetest way possible. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 136:Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 137:when the old fears, hates, and worries that have haunted you for so long try to edge back in, they will in effect find a sign on the door of your mind reading occupied. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 138:One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 139:It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 140:He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 141:In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases theyre not. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 142:Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 143:When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow, said Buddha. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 144:An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 145:The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 146:The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 147:I used to have a sign over my computer that read OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS, but lately I sometimes ask myself how many more new tricks I want to learn. Wouldnt it be easier just to be outdated? ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 148:If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius. ~ salvador-dali, @wisdomtrove 149:Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 150:The Universe wants to grow, expand and experience itself through you. Anything you do that makes you feel contracted, constricted or drained is a clear sign that your soul is struggling to breathe. ~ aimee-davies, @wisdomtrove 151:I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, & 152:In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign. ~ francis-crick, @wisdomtrove 153:Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button? Ford Prefect: I wouldn't- Arthur Dent: Oh. Ford Prefect: What happened? Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying & 154:Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 155:I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 156:You're quite right there, he said. I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself once more beneath the sign of Aquarius, a dark and humid constellation. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 157:In order to find Jesus, every one of us needs direction. God gives it. The story of the wise men shows us how. The star sign was enough to lead the magi to Jerusalem. But it took Scripture to lead them to Jesus. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 158:Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy& 159:The & 160:The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 161:We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 162:Fear of success is one of the new fears I've heard about lately. And I think its definitely a sign that we're running out of fears. A person suffering from fear of success is scraping the bottom of the fear barrel. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 163:That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 164:The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 165:You catch a fairly young field-vole and flay it... We take the skin, when Venus stands in the sign of the scorpion, and combust the skin... Now take the ash, which you got this way, and pepper it out on the fields. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 166:For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 167:He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 168:I like escalators, because an escalator can never break; it can only become stairs. There would never be an "Escalator Temporarily Out of Order" sign. Only an "Escalator Temporarily Stairs... Sorry for the Convenience. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 169:I saw a sign at a gas station. It said & 170:Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 171:A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 172:It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond requires a degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 173:There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove 174:Sign your work... If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 175:He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead& 176:One day I met a lady who was dying of cancer in a most terrible condition. And I told her, I say, "You know, this terrible pain is only the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Jesus on the cross that he can kiss you." ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 177:I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 178:The serious problems in life... are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 179:The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 180:Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 181:What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 182:What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 183:Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 184:There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war. It's to be prepared for peace. There's a sign over the entrance to the Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state, and that sign says it all: & 185:Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 186:If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 187:We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and that it is the sign of an unskilled naturalist to have recourse to a different quality in order to explain every different operation. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove 188:And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 189:We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class and racial warfare is not inevitable. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 190:And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: & 191:If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 192:It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 193:I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: & 194:It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 195:It is selfishness, due to a self-identification with the body, that is the main problem and the cause of all other problems. And selfishness cannot be removed by effort, only by clear insight into its causes and effects. Effort is a sign of conflict between incompatible desires. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 196:Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 197:Q: What arouses interest? M: Earnestness, the sign of maturity. Q: And how does maturity come about? M: By keeping your mind clear and clean, by living your life in full awareness of every moment as it happens, by examining and dissolving one's desires and fears as soon as they arise. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 198:In the 38th chapter of Ezekiel, it says that the land of Israel will come under attack by the armies of the ungodly nations, and it says that Libya will be among them. Do you understand the significance of that? Libya has now gone Communist, and that's a sign that the day of Armageddon isn't far off. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 199:You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 200:One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status ... What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 201:Business isn't some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine - a sign that the customer honors the value of what we do. But "enterprise" ( a lovely word ) is about heart. About beauty. It's about art. About people throwing themselves on the line. It's about passion and the selfless pursuit of an ideal. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 202:So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 203:All you have to do is to understand that you love the self and the self loves you and that the sense & 204:I am in the utmost perplexity, and have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 205:I walked by a dry cleaner at 3 am, and there was a sign: "Sorry, we're closed" You don't have to be sorry, it's 3 am, and you're a dry cleaner! It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open! I'm not gonna walk in at 10 am and say "I walked by here at 3 and you were closed - somebody owes me an apology!" ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 206:I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove 207:True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 208:Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. Everyone must work out his own salvation. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 209:In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ... I am not concerned with who wrote the works of Shakespeare ... but I can hardly think it was the Stratford boy. Whoever wrote them had an aristocratic attitude. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 210:The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on despite all opposition, until they attain their goal. There may be no heroic connotation to the word ‘persistence,’ but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove 211:Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 212:Before you bow out, why not enjoy the show . . . because it's a thrilling roller coaster of a ride . . . and when you stop worrying about falling off, you can just throw your hands up in the air and yell & 213:Eliminating all distractions for a set time while you work is one of the most effective ways to get things done. So, lock your door, put a sign up, turn off your phone, close your email application, disconnect your internet connection, etc. You can’t remain in hiding forever, but you can be twice as productive while you are. ~ marc-and-angel-chernoff, @wisdomtrove 214:To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved by his own sufferings. To know the Cross is to know that we are saved by the sufferings of Christ; more, it is to know the love of Christ Who underwent suffering and death in order to save us. It is, then, to know Christ. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 215:I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 216:In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 217:Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on signs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 218:Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by which it tries to find its inward force. Its expansive movement comes in the thought which it throws out on life, the ideals which open up new horizons and which the intellect accepts and life labours to assimilate. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 219:If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 220:Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 221:When you are still young and not yet adult, you want to hold everything in your own hands, but if you have your hands open toward prayer, you are able to stretch out your arms and let yourself be led without knowing where. You know only the freedom which God's breath has brought you will lead to new life, even if the cross is the only sign of it you can see. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 222:If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about other people's opinions. Be humble and you will never be disturbed. Remember St. Aloysius, who said he would continue to play billiards even if he knew he was going to die. Do you play well? Sleep well? Eat well? These are duties. Nothing is small for God. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 223:and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in a labyrinthine town of dark and damp, criss-crossing streets, ambiguous characters of uncertain authority having no idea of why I was there nor what I had to do, and where the first sign of the beginning of understanding was the wish to die. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 224:The great lesson from the true mystics, from the Zen monks, and now also from the Humanistic and Transpersonal psychologists – that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbours, friends, and family, in one's back yard ... To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is sacred. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 225:When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God, not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth, however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I. What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove 226:When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no fruit to offer, remains erect. But when the tree is laden with fruit, it bends down. If you are all pride and ego, then nobody will be able to get anything worthwhile from you. When you have genuine humility, it is a sign that you have something to offer to mankind. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 227:In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source‚ if not the cause, of all our misfortune. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 228:When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God , not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth , however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I ... what you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue ; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove 229:Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 230:Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 231:Every woman deserves a man that can make her heart forget that it was ever broken. Even if these have been broken to pieces to me,this represents a person who gave me a complete,flawless heart. I don't need someone who makes my heart whole. Instead, I need someone who will never let me feel broken. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 232:Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 233:If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then America can become a sign of peace for the world. From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak - the unborn child - must go out to the world. If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for. God bless you! ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 234:This above all — ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this earnest question with a strong and simple “I must,” then build your life according to this necessity; your life even into its most indifferent and slightest hour must be a sign of this urge and a testimony to it. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 235:Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us... No longer is the quest for disarmament a sign of weakness, (nor) the destruction of arms a dream - it is a practical matter of life or death. The risks inherent in disarmament pale in comparison to the risks inherent in an unlimited arms race. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 236:... Nothing resembles reality less than the photograph. Nothing resembles substance less than its shadow. To convey the meaning of something substantial you have to use not a shadow but a sign, not the limitation but the image. The image is a new and different reality, and of course it does not convey an impression of some object, but the mind of the subject; and that is something else again. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 237:The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion. Misery is caused by sin, and by no other cause. What business have you with clouded faces? It is terrible. If you have a clouded face, do not go out that day, shut yourself up in your room. What right have you to carry this disease out into the world? ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 238:When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 239:Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 240:Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 241:But the plans were on display‚¶ On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them. That’s the display department. With a flashlight. Ah, well, the lights had probably gone. So had the stairs. But look, you found the notice, didn’t you? Yes, said Arthur, yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying‚ Beware of the Leopard. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 242:I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time. Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 243:This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, & 244:Therefore, is thy brother a sinner? Then cover his sin and pray for him. Dost thou publish his sins, then truly thou art not a child of your merciful Father; for otherwise thou wouldst be also as he, merciful. It is certainly true that we cannot show as great mercy to our neighbor, as God has to us; but it is the true work of the devil that we do the very opposite of mercy, which is a sure sign that there is not a grain of mercy in us. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 245:The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people generally not come to acknowledge this law? The answer is that the moral progress of humanity is always slow; but that the sign of true, not casual Progress, is in uninterruptedness and its continual acceleration. And one cannot doubt that vegetarianism has been progressing in this manner ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 246:LOVE is essentially self-communicative: those who do not have it catch it from those who have it... . No amount of rites, rituals, ceremonies, worship, meditation, penance and remembrance can produce love in themselves. None of these is necessarily a sign of love. On the contrary, those who sigh loudly and weep and wail have yet to experience love. Love sets on fire the one who finds it. At the same time it seals his lips so that no smoke comes out ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 247:He was talking about the sign that said & 248:Why is commitment such a big problem for a man? I think that for some reason when a man is driving down that freeway of love, the woman he's with is like an exit, but he doesn't want to get off there. He wants to keep driving. And the woman is like, "Look, gas, food, lodging, that's our exit, that's everything we need to be happy... Get off here, now!" But the man is focusing on the sign underneath that says, "Next exit 27 miles," and he thinks, "I can make it." ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 249:You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most dangerous aspect is that one is unaware of its coming. That is why you have to be careful. As soon as you notice the slightest sign of indifference, the moment you become aware of the loss of a certain seriousness, of longing, of enthusiasm and zest, take it as a warning. You should realize your soul suffers if you live superficially. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 250:Why is McDonalds still counting? How insecure is this company? 40 million, 80 billion million jillion killion tillion... who cares? Is anyone really impressed by that any more? Ooh, 89 billion sold? All right, I'll have one! I'm satisfied! I'd like to tell the CEO of McDonalds, "Look. We all get it, okay? You've sold a lot of hamburgers. Whatever the number is, just put up a sign, & 251:It is this idea & 252:That truth which you swallow from others will not be yours... you have to realize truth and work it our for yourself according to your own nature... All must struggle to be individuals-strong, standing on your own feet, thinking your own thoughts, realizing you own Self. No use swallowing doctrines others pass on-standing up together like soldiers in jail, sitting down together, all eating the same food, all nodding their heads at the same time. Variation is the sign of life. Sameness is the sign of death. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 253:Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve - and I believe this can be done - a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 254:Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let all that happen? "And Joy," she says, "and Serenity, and Happiness, and Contentment." She says all the wings of the Columbia Memorial Mausoleum. "You don't have to control everything," she says. "You can't control everything." But you can be ready for disaster. A sign goes by saying, Buckle Up. "If you worry about disaster all of the time, that's what you are going to get," Fertility says. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 255:On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel... Very tall they were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 256:The hidden so-called scholars of old did not hide themselves and refuse to be seen. They did not close the door on their words and refuse to let them out. They did not shut away their wisdom and refuse to share it. But those times were all haywire. If it had been possible for them to act, they could have done great things, bringing all to Oneness without any sign of doing so. However, the times were not favorable and it was not possible, so they put down deep roots, remained still and waited. this was the Tao by which they survived. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 257:They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." "It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 258:Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that & 259:Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there's falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering. ~ anthony-de-mello, @wisdomtrove 260:Action that is inspired from aligned thought is joyful action. Action that is offered from a place of contradicted thought is hard work that is not satisfying and does not yield good results. When you really feel like jumping into action, that is a clear sign that your vibration is pure and you are not offering contradicting thoughts to your own desire. When you are having a hard time making yourself do something, or when the action you offer does not produce the results you are seeking, it is always because you are offering thoughts in opposition to your desire. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 261:It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous. . . . The great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 262:Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign and make hardly any distinction between the crafts of poet and embroiderer. Universal men are not called poets or mathematicians, etc. But they are all these things and judges of them too. No one could guess what they are, and they will talk about whatever was being talked about when they came in. One quality is not more noticeable in them than another, unless it becomes necessary to put it into practice, and then we remember it. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 263:In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship‚he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century has now passed, many members of the Guide staff still retain the romantic notion that he has simply popped out for a sandwich and will yet return to put in a solid afternoon's work. Strictly speaking, all editors since Lig Lury Jr., have therefore been designated acting editors, and Lig's desk is still preserved the way he left it, with the addition of a small sign that says LIG LURY, JR., EDITOR, MISSING, PRESUMED FED. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 264:Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 265:Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
2:Hunger is a sign ~ Rujuta Diwekar, #NFDB
3:DeanKoontz.com Sign up ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
4:THE SIGN OF FOUR ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
5:Money is a sign of poverty. ~ Iain M Banks, #NFDB
6:watching him cut for sign. ~ Charles Portis, #NFDB
7:I was born with the wrong sign ~ Martin Gore, #NFDB
8:Sign this... and I'll show you ~ A J Hartley, #NFDB
9:Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
10:Sign at the orgy: BODIES ONLY. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
11:Success is not a stop sign. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
12:I can only sign over everything, ~ Anne Sexton, #NFDB
13:I'm a sign painter with no boss. ~ Wayne White, #NFDB
14:Anger is not a sign of intelligence. ~ Samarpan, #NFDB
15:Beauty is a sign of intelligence. ~ Andy Warhol, #NFDB
16:Being alive is sign of strength! ~ Hiro Mashima, #NFDB
17:Early sign of getting lost is fear. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
18:Motion is the sign of life. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
19:ubiquitous green-and-white sign. ~ Daniel Silva, #NFDB
20:The sign brings customers. ~ Jean de La Fontaine, #NFDB
21:Cynicism is a sure sign of youth. ~ Ellen Glasgow, #NFDB
22:Have you seen The Yellow Sign? ~ Robert W Chambers, #NFDB
23:read the sign. But the streusel ~ Karen MacInerney, #NFDB
24:The sign of death is weakness. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
25:The Truth never flaunted a sign. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
26:Forgiveness is a sign of strength. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
27:Good manners are a sign of strength. ~ Dick Francis, #NFDB
28:Maybe the absence of signs is a sign. ~ John Cusack, #NFDB
29:Suffering is not a sign of failure
~ The Mother?,#NFDB
30:Because our lies matched. It was a sign. ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
31:Certainty is usually a sign of pathology. ~ B W Powe, #NFDB
32:Civility is not a sign of weakness. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
33:Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude? ~ Julia Child, #NFDB
34:Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind. ~ Glen Cook, #NFDB
35:Lack of manners is the sign of a hero. ~ Jean Cocteau, #NFDB
36:My divine sign indicates the future to me. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
37:The surest sign of age is loneliness. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
38:Courage is a sign of soul's nobility.
~ The Mother?,#NFDB
39:Every sign secretly contains its opposite ~ Liz Greene, #NFDB
40:Ridge Lawson, will you sign my boobs? ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
41:busyness is usually a sign of brokenness. ~ Doug Fields, #NFDB
42:The peace sign is with two fingers not one. ~ Meg Cabot, #NFDB
43:With the “SWAB JOB” school prank sign ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
44:A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered mind. ~ C E Murphy, #NFDB
45:Humility is the surest sign of strength. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
46:An old man in a house is a good sign. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
47:Criticism is the best sign you're onto something. ~ Rands, #NFDB
48:The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
49:Violence is the sign of temporary weakness. ~ Jean Jaures, #NFDB
50:Yeah, I mean I'm a water sign. I'm a Pisces. ~ Jhene Aiko, #NFDB
51:Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
52:Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
53:Factions are a sign of illness in a party. ~ Ernest Mandel, #NFDB
54:He’s thinking, which is always a good sign. ~ Portia Moore, #NFDB
55:scrutiny, he gave no sign of it. He watched ~ Daniel Silva, #NFDB
56:All finery is a sign of littleness. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater, #NFDB
57:An honest answer is the sign of true friendship. ~ E W Howe, #NFDB
58:Aside from myself, there was no sign of me. ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
59:I'll sign anything except bad legislation. ~ Kinky Friedman, #NFDB
60:Politeness is the chief sign of culture. ~ Baltasar Gracian, #NFDB
61:Underestimate is the sign of getting fucked up. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
62:Anger is sign that something needs to change. ~ Mark Epstein, #NFDB
63:Discomfort is the sign, you are on right track. ~ Jeff Goins, #NFDB
64:Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
65:Her mask gave no sign of how this affected her. ~ Donna Leon, #NFDB
66:Never sign a valentine with your own name. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
67:obelus, the mathematical sign for division, ~ Robert Masello, #NFDB
68:Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
69:Rob looked innocent, a sure sign of guilt. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
70:The sign of life is strength and growth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
71:Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence ~ Oliver Jeffers, #NFDB
72:Fear is a sign to prepare yourself, not to stop. ~ Eric Valli, #NFDB
73:Fences and borders are a sign of weakness. ~ Yanis Varoufakis, #NFDB
74:He took a road past a sign that said Folly Beach. ~ C L Stone, #NFDB
75:I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on. ~ Adepero Oduye, #NFDB
76:I think funniness is a sign of intelligence. ~ Chelsea Martin, #NFDB
77:I think the universe might be sending us a sign. ~ Laura Kaye, #NFDB
78:I would never sign up to film my personal life. ~ Charlyne Yi, #NFDB
79:Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty. ~ Celia Green, #NFDB
80:My cat speaks sign language with her tail. ~ Robert A M Stern, #NFDB
81:One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness. ~ Edward Dahlberg, #NFDB
82:Patient endurance is a sign of progress. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, #NFDB
83:What's your sign? Because I think we should fuck. ~ T Torrest, #NFDB
84:First sign of madness, talking to your own head. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
85:Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. —AESOP ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
86:I'm going to the lobby to sign babies and kiss CDs. ~ Tom Rush, #NFDB
87:Legible penmanship is a sign of a boring mind. ~ Larry Correia, #NFDB
88:Life is like Twitter: nobody wants to sign off. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
89:Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness. ~ John Wayne, #NFDB
90:Obama shows no sign of easing up on negativity. ~ Ron Fournier, #NFDB
91:Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
92:To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
93:A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
94:A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
95:Being able to say goodbye is a sign of growth. ~ Gustavo Cerati, #NFDB
96:Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater, #NFDB
97:Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path ~ Sivananda, #NFDB
98:Vlad the Impaler–style on an old speed-limit sign, ~ M D Massey, #NFDB
99:Women's freedom is the sign of social freedom. ~ Rosa Luxemburg, #NFDB
100:Bless you for your jealousy; it is a sign of empathy. ~ Yoko Ono, #NFDB
101:parked and placed the POLICE sign on the dashboard. ~ Ian Rankin, #NFDB
102:Sometimes sluttiness is a sign of intense longing. ~ Rachel Vail, #NFDB
103:The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
104:The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get. ~ G E M Anscombe, #NFDB
105:The sign read MOUSE PASS GAS Frank: "That's wrong ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
106:The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy. ~ Robert Barron, #NFDB
107:Tomorrow is a lease I have to sign every morning. ~ Neil Hilborn, #NFDB
108:A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
109:Broken wings are a sign of struggle. And strength. ~ Najwa Zebian, #NFDB
110:I’m a Virgo; it’s in my sign to be hard on myself. ~ Keanu Reeves, #NFDB
111:I think I'm nervous to sign on to any job. ~ Jamie Campbell Bower, #NFDB
112:Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength. ~ Rafael Yglesias, #NFDB
113:Procrastination is a sign of a perfectionist. ~ Patrick J Kennedy, #NFDB
114:Spotting the sign proudly announcing the prison, ~ Christie Craig, #NFDB
115:The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
116:the surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness. ~ Amor Towles, #NFDB
117:A beep on the nose is a sign of great affection ~ Charles M Schulz, #NFDB
118:Acceptance of the inevitable, a sign of a wise man. ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
119:Advise the police that you will sign the complaint. ~ Massad Ayoob, #NFDB
120:Every sign of gratitude is a sign of hope ~ Jeffrey Burton Russell, #NFDB
121:Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
122:No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal. ~ John Banville, #NFDB
123:ROUTINE, IN AN INTELLIGENT MAN, IS A SIGN OF AMBITION. ~ W H Auden, #NFDB
124:Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition. ~ W H Auden, #NFDB
125:Saint Claire, the patron saint of the kick-me sign. ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
126:Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
127:An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign. ~ Hippocrates, #NFDB
128:Are you referring to the sign of the Deathly Hallows? ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
129:At a certain stage every single thing can be a sign. ~ Colum McCann, #NFDB
130:I meet people, I like to ask: which sign are you? ~ Roberto Cavalli, #NFDB
131:It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
132:Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength. ~ Adolf Loos, #NFDB
133:Make sure she doesn’t have a Trump sign on her lawn? ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
134:Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
135:The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.
~ Albert Camus,#NFDB
136:The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
137:The sign read MOUSE PASS GAS
Frank: "That's wrong ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
138:Well, maybe I can't draw, but I CAN sign my name ~ Peter H Reynolds, #NFDB
139:Yep. They’re real. You really can sign on as a mystery ~ Julia Kent, #NFDB
140:Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign. ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
141:Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
142:Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
143:Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence. ~ J G Ballard, #NFDB
144:I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language. ~ Sean Berdy, #NFDB
145:I saw a sign that said 'Drink Canada Dry'. So I did. ~ Brendan Behan, #NFDB
146:Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
147:Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery. ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
148:...the first sign of civilization is always trash. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
149:Breaks are not a sign of sloth but a sign of strength ~ Daniel H Pink, #NFDB
150:Don't look back, because that's the sign of failure. ~ James Hetfield, #NFDB
151:In man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
152:Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only. ~ Barbara Jordan, #NFDB
153:shop-bought cakes are a sign of sluttish housewifery. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
154:Someone reading a book is a sign of order in the world. ~ Mary Ruefle, #NFDB
155:Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
156:The line you tow is a sign that all will be fine! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
157:They grow them like that nowadays? Sign me up to be a cougar. ~ Tijan, #NFDB
158:When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness ~ Geraldo Rivera, #NFDB
159:A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off. ~ Adam Rich, #NFDB
160:A well marked Bible is the sign of a well-fed soul. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
161:Constipation is a sign of good health in pomeranians. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
162:Everyone wears a sign that says "Make me feel important ~ Mary Kay Ash, #NFDB
163:Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
164:I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth. ~ Julie Schumacher, #NFDB
165:It was never a good sign to find foam padding on walls. ~ Hadena James, #NFDB
166:loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
167:Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign. ~ Jeane Kirkpatrick, #NFDB
168:Progress is the sign of the divine influence in creation. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
169:Sign up for my newsletter for information on new releases! ~ J H Croix, #NFDB
170:The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
171:The sign of a good society is where talent is respected. ~ Irrfan Khan, #NFDB
172:A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. ~ Steven Wright, #NFDB
173:Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time. ~ William Carlos Williams, #NFDB
174:I'm going to get him to sign my boobs. With his tongue. ~ Rowan Coleman, #NFDB
175:I see fear as a sign of intelligence, of preservation. ~ Rickson Gracie, #NFDB
176:I will sign the complaint” is neutral and universal.) 3. ~ Massad Ayoob, #NFDB
177:Knowledge isn't a sign of divine favour. Prosperity is. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
178:Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
179:Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself. ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
180:Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility. ~ Italo Svevo, #NFDB
181:Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu ~ Greg Mortenson, #NFDB
182:We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. ~ Alfred Adler, #NFDB
183:We want you to sign a petition,” said Mrs. Jellicoe. ~ Clifford D Simak, #NFDB
184:Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me? ~ Mickey Mantle, #NFDB
185:Chastening is a mark of affection, not a sign of rejection. ~ Max Anders, #NFDB
186:Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery. ~ Amy Chua, #NFDB
187:Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. ~ Clive Bell, #NFDB
188:I am very happy and excited to re-sign with the Yankees. ~ Hiroki Kuroda, #NFDB
189:It don't mean nothing til you sign it on the dotted line. ~ Richard Marx, #NFDB
190:jealousy is a sign of a shallow mind and weak character. ~ Maureen Smith, #NFDB
191:Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility. ~ Italo Svevo, #NFDB
192:Never a good sign, he thought, when the crows showed up. ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
193:Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
194:Sign outside a country shop: We buy junk and sell antiques. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
195:The sign read, roughly translated, “Dr. Odd-Affection, ~ L E Modesitt Jr, #NFDB
196:When a sign says don’t walk on the grass, one hops.’ He ~ Natasha Pulley, #NFDB
197:A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater, #NFDB
198:Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
199:I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
200:If you’re doing a written blog, sign up for Ping.fm. 8. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk, #NFDB
201:I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven, #NFDB
202:I Need to Learn Many, Many More Cusswords in Sign Language ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
203:Is jealousy an expression of love or a sign of insecurity? ~ Esther Perel, #NFDB
204:Pain is a sign you are working your body to its limits, ~ Rachel E Carter, #NFDB
205:Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
206:The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
~ Michel de Montaigne,#NFDB
207:Then Its A Coincidence " Better Than a Sign From God - Eve ~ Lisa Jackson, #NFDB
208:The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners. ~ Sai Baba, #NFDB
209:To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth. ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
210:To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
211:To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
212:Doubt about your wisdom can be the clearest sign of wisdom ~ Jack Campbell, #NFDB
213:Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
214:Fear of aesthetics is the first sign of powerlessness ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
215:Finding beauty in the common is the sign of a gifted mind. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
216:Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
217:Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
218:God works in mysterious ways, he thought with a sign. ~ Mary Higgins Clark, #NFDB
219:Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved. ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
220:I did love her in a way, but it was under the sign of doom. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
221:I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
222:Joy is a sure sign of the presence of God in your life. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
223:Safety doesn’t happen by accident. —FLORIDA HIGHWAY SIGN ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
224:should always be dreaming. Dreaming is a sign you have hope. ~ Dave Ramsey, #NFDB
225:The visible sign of utter love is an undying smile. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
226:A Clear Conscience Is Usually the Sign of a Bad Memory. And ~ Mario Acevedo, #NFDB
227:cats used to be the sign of a terminally single woman, but ~ Kristin Newman, #NFDB
228:Fighting isn’t a good sign, Lara Jean. It means you still care. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
229:her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
230:Inappropriate laughter is the universal first sign of madness. ~ David Wong, #NFDB
231:I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
232:No one should sign up for more than one or two cards at a time. ~ Mike Cohn, #NFDB
233:No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
234:...that's what students of life do—they sign up to learn ~ Danielle LaPorte, #NFDB
235:The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul. ~ Jean Cocteau, #NFDB
236:A sign read: YOUR STAY HERE IS TOUCH AND GO—TOUCH AND YOU GO. ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
237:Everything in this creation is a sign of celebration. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
238:If they think I'm going to stop at that stop sign, they're mistaken! ~ Homer, #NFDB
239:It is a sure sign of troubled minds, the habit of quotation. ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB
240:It's not really a good sign when your audience applauds Satan. ~ Jon Stewart, #NFDB
241:the fear of conflict is almost always a sign of problems. ~ Patrick Lencioni, #NFDB
242:The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play. ~ Dizzy Gillespie, #NFDB
243:We both hear a voice in our head. That's never a good sign ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
244:A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity. ~ Sandy Woodward, #NFDB
245:Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature. ~ Solanus Casey, #NFDB
246:I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil. ~ Vladimir Zhirinovsky, #NFDB
247:I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery. ~ Max Beckmann, #NFDB
248:If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs. ~ Kurt Cobain, #NFDB
249:It seems that worrying about growing old is a sign you are young. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
250:Managing our stress and our rest is a sign of living wisely. ~ Sally Clarkson, #NFDB
251:Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
252:Only sign we have now to know which way we’re going, is ducks. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
253:Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
254:The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat. - Old Jack ~ Jeffrey Archer, #NFDB
255:To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive. ~ William Zinsser, #NFDB
256:Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind. ~ Laurie R King, #NFDB
257:Yes, I think so. A sign of the zodiac. I think Gemini. ~ William Peter Blatty, #NFDB
258:I am taking the applause sign home, putting it in the bedroom. ~ Johnny Carson, #NFDB
259:I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
260:Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
261:Self absorption is anti-seductive; it is a sign of insecurity. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
262:There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
263:Ana. Hell – what do you need? A neon sign flashing on his forehead? ~ E L James, #NFDB
264:Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
265:Grammar, he felt, was a sign of competence, not of excellence. ~ Kiran Nagarkar, #NFDB
266:I'll throw ya gang-sign up, and then I'll spit on my hand. ~ Immortal Technique, #NFDB
267:In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note. ~ George Shearing, #NFDB
268:It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately. ~ Luc de Clapiers, #NFDB
269:It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
270:Joy is an outward sign of inward faith in the promises of God. ~ Tommy Newberry, #NFDB
271:Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #NFDB
272:The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
273:Trepidation is either the sign of great weakness or great wisdom. ~ Lou Aronica, #NFDB
274:A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
275:A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
276:A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson, #NFDB
277:Being able to draw Batman was 100% of my decision to sign with DC. ~ David Finch, #NFDB
278:I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
279:If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
280:Is all this depression simply a sign of an evolutionary mismatch? ~ Kelly Brogan, #NFDB
281:It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity. ~ Flannery O Connor, #NFDB
282:... it's a bad sign when someone drinks a lot and doesn't laugh. ~ Andr s Neuman, #NFDB
283:Laughter isn't a sign of insanity but a shield against it. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
284:Most sensitiveness is the result or sign of ego. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (CWSA 31:211), #NFDB
285:There was a faded ege sign and a No Trespassing warning on the fence ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
286:The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
287:You must understand something. Money is not a sign of achievement. ~ Jude Watson, #NFDB
288:a sign doesn’t mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. ~ Arthur Golden, #NFDB
289:A sign of a great team leader is the proper placement of people. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
290:Everything tells me you care for me. And yet never a sign from you. ~ Andr Aciman, #NFDB
291:grief is good—that it is a sign of how well we have loved. And ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
292:Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness. ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB
293:Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
294:The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow. ~ Sidney Jourard, #NFDB
295:The most evident sign of having found the Truth is the inner peace. ~ Amado Nervo, #NFDB
296:The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les. ~ Steven Wright, #NFDB
297:The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
298:When you feel Jealousy is a sign that Love should have each other ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
299:Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
300:He made the sign of the cross, clumsily, with a Catholic accent ~ Boris Strugatsky, #NFDB
301:If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
302:It is a sure sign of troubled minds, the habit of quotation. “Whom ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB
303:Like most artist-craftsmen of his era, he did not sign his work. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
304:Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
305:Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. ~ Lynne Truss, #NFDB
306:Sign, I was now convinced, was a fundamental language of the brain. ~ Oliver Sacks, #NFDB
307:Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood. ~ Budd Schulberg, #NFDB
308:... taking my faltering as a sign of imminent emotional breakdown. ~ Andrea Cremer, #NFDB
309:The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
310:There is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing. ~ Anthony Powell, #NFDB
311:The unavoidable sign of not being God is the absence of foreknowledge! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
312:Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign—the starry eye. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
313:A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
~ Franz Kafka,#NFDB
314:Anastasia, you should always read anything you sign,” he admonishes me. ~ E L James, #NFDB
315:He made the sign of the cross, clumsily, with a Catholic accent ~ Arkady Strugatsky, #NFDB
316:I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, #NFDB
317:It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
318:It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
319:Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
320:Ministry to the poor is a crucial sign that we believe the gospel. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
321:She has a sign in her office: TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS REQUIRED. ~ Joan Bauer, #NFDB
322:That was not a good sign. I began the treatment process by panicking. ~ Andrew Rowe, #NFDB
323:The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts. ~ Diana Palmer, #NFDB
324:What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do. ~ Sanaya Roman, #NFDB
325:When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
326:When no one understands, that’s usually a good sign that you’re wrong. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
327:Absence was a sign that when it might be a question of gratifying him. ~ Henry James, #NFDB
328:A mendacious umbrella is a sign of great moral degradation. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
329:Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind. ~ Peter Atkins, #NFDB
330:A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli, #NFDB
331:C-3PO thought they were overdoing protocol? That was a very bad sign. ~ Claudia Gray, #NFDB
332:Don Ho can sign autographs 3.4 times faster than Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
333:Heard once that in dire times when you need a sign, that's when they appear. ~ Drake, #NFDB
334:If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success! ~ Jim Rogers, #NFDB
335:If it's not a contract I want then I won't sign it. That's not a threat. ~ Roy Keane, #NFDB
336:I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history. ~ Anselm Kiefer, #NFDB
337:(Is it a sign of self-respect to regret nearly everything you do?) ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
338:It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
339:I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing. ~ Otis Rush, #NFDB
340:Michael Jackson asked me to sign a Playboy. I was more than happy to. ~ Jessica Hahn, #NFDB
341:Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity. ~ Saul Bellow, #NFDB
342:The ability to laugh at yourself is a sign of higher intelligence. ~ Valerie Frankel, #NFDB
343:[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing. ~ Anthony Powell, #NFDB
344:Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign—the starry eye. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
345:We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
346:Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. ~ Anatole France, #NFDB
347:Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization. ~ Nicholas D Kristof, #NFDB
348:first tip of fearlessness, and the first sign of real warriorship. ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
349:It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
350:I would rather have Sign of the Unicorn than all the boys in the valleys. ~ Jo Walton, #NFDB
351:Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
352:no one’s going to come shopping if the ‘for sale’ sign isn’t on the door. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
353:People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous! ~ Pablo Picasso, #NFDB
354:Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.” —W.H. Auden ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
355:The first sign of madness is a howl that, once uncorked, cannot stop. ~ Sana Krasikov, #NFDB
356:The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
357:The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
~ Aristotle,#NFDB
358:...don't be afraid of troubles, Silver. They're a sign of life. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
359:Gold soared to an all-time high, a classic sign of market phobia. ~ Timothy F Geithner, #NFDB
360:His freedom was, in a small way, a sign of hope in a hopeless place. ~ Bryan Stevenson, #NFDB
361:His 'spidey sense' was tingly all over, and that was never a good sign. ~ Robin Caroll, #NFDB
362:I'm able to sign my name to the paintings. That is really a blessing. ~ Margaret Keane, #NFDB
363:I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out. ~ Paul Keating, #NFDB
364:It is a sign of great spiritual strength to keep someone else’s secret. ~ Haemin Sunim, #NFDB
365:I will sign every contract Arsenal put in front of me without reading it. ~ Tony Adams, #NFDB
366:Let your Medicine be somthing of the Nature of the Sign ascending. ~ Nicholas Culpeper, #NFDB
367:Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair. ~ Tariq Ali, #NFDB
368:The sign of the people of bid’ah is that they do not follow the salaf. ~ Ibn Taymiyyah, #NFDB
369:The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
370:Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. ~ Bertolt Brecht, #NFDB
371:A sign in the window advertised the
long extinct Miller Genuine Draft. ~ Tom Merritt,#NFDB
372:I jog up to the Hollywood sign every weekend. It's fun and what a view! ~ Ariana Grande, #NFDB
373:it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry …’ Seamus ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
374:normally hirsute Kshatriya men who took body hair to be a sign of machismo. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
375:So, still not a fan of the beard?” Sign me up and call me a convert. ~ Kristen Callihan, #NFDB
376:sudden, spontaneous eye contact is a sign that two people should talk. ~ James Redfield, #NFDB
377:The first sign of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom cloud. ~ Judith Miller, #NFDB
378:The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. ~ Mark Skousen, #NFDB
379:Try to expand. Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
380:When opponents keep harping on one point, it is a sure sign of success! ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
381:When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB
382:you have a vision. You put a frame around it. You sign your name anyway. ~ Maria Semple, #NFDB
383:(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
384:A basic sign of revival is that the wind is allowed to blow where it will. ~ Jim Cymbala, #NFDB
385:bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
386:Books were considered a sign of idleness at best and dangerous at worst. ~ James Rebanks, #NFDB
387:Contemporary poetry ... tries to transform the sign back into meaning: ~ Roland Barthes, #NFDB
388:Eating seeds is at times a sign of shortsightedness or impatience. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
389:Fast growth in a start-up is a sign that customers like what you're doing. ~ Peter Cohan, #NFDB
390:I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer. ~ Alan Moore, #NFDB
391:It’s a good sign when a student goes chasing the wind and catches it, ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
392:Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
393:Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, #NFDB
394:Me? I slept like the dead, which I hoped wasn’t a sign of things to come. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
395:Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign. ~ Mark Z Danielewski, #NFDB
396:red lipstick: an external sign of internal fire.-we tried to warn you. ~ Amanda Lovelace, #NFDB
397:Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition,” W.H. Auden observed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
398:Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
399:That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go." ~ Hank Azaria, #NFDB
400:The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others. ~ Omar Suleiman, #NFDB
401:A FOR SALE BY OWNER sign is way better than a FOR SALE BY THIEF sign. ~ Michael Showalter, #NFDB
402:Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
403:Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
404:Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity. ~ Dave Ramsey, #NFDB
405:Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign. ~ Th ophile Gautier, #NFDB
406:Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name. ~ Anatole France, #NFDB
407:Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
408:Eagerly wanted to prove something
is one sign of lack of self-dependence. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
409:I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding. ~ William Congreve, #NFDB
410:I flipped him a gesture that he wouldn't need sign language to understand. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
411:I mean when someone says I forbid it, that's a good sign it's worth doing. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
412:It’s never a good sign when a country’s people are thin and its police fat. ~ Eric Weiner, #NFDB
413:I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film. ~ Matthew Vaughn, #NFDB
414:One more sign of how perfect Damen is—he keeps a pair of trunks in his car. ~ Alyson Noel, #NFDB
415:Saint Simeon once said that tears are a sign of the Holy Spirit’s presence. ~ Heidi Baker, #NFDB
416:Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. ~ Mahlon Hoagland, #NFDB
417:That could be a good sign, right?” “Sure,” I said. It was a terrible sign. ~ Martha Wells, #NFDB
418:That woman." Vee hissed, "I'm making the sign of the cross right now. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
419:The sign that something does matter to us is that we lose our steadiness. ~ Adam Phillips, #NFDB
420:To be wrong as fast as you can is to sign up for aggressive, rapid learning. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
421:When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
422:A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
423:dressing well was also a sign of respect, for yourself and for others. ~ Mireille Guiliano, #NFDB
424:For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write. ~ Marya Hornbacher, #NFDB
425:I'll do anything for kids but I don't sign anything for grownups anymore. ~ Clinton Portis, #NFDB
426:Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring. ~ Johann Ludwig Tieck, #NFDB
427:Never be put off by your target's anger; it is a sure sign of enslavement. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
428:Piety is a sign that a person will do anything to be important in the world, ~ Nina George, #NFDB
429:Right. Because there’s no bigger sign of commitment than a Halloween dance ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
430:The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election. ~ Flannery O Connor, #NFDB
431:The sign seemed like her fortune, her horoscope, her Magic 8 Ball answer. ~ Melissa Senate, #NFDB
432:What else?"
Nothing," Dogger said. "Just sign it. "Kings prefer brevity. ~ Alan Bradley,#NFDB
433:When a contestant actually loses consciousness, I think that's a good sign. ~ Tom Bergeron, #NFDB
434:When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
435:And knowing my luck … that’ll be the Engineer sign for “Your mom’s a skank. ~ Karen Traviss, #NFDB
436:A neon BUDWEISER sign hangs in the narrow window to scare the hip away. ~ Barbara A Shapiro, #NFDB
437:A red neon sign flickered dimly, buzzed like a dying insect, as they passed. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
438:Being honest, no matter how bad the situation is, is a sign of professionalism. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
439:But it still feels like there’s a popularity contest here I didn’t sign up for. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
440:Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness. ~ Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, #NFDB
441:He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
442:If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
443:I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff. ~ Maisie Williams, #NFDB
444:It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
445:It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
446:It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man. ~ Democritus, #NFDB
447:Just a dead kid in the park, one more sign that the world had lost its mind. ~ Tom Perrotta, #NFDB
448:loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself you are in the habit ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
449:My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble. ~ Natasha Lyonne, #NFDB
450:One of Barron’s maxims is “The sure sign that God is alive in you is joy. ~ Robert E Barron, #NFDB
451:The gospel of Christ must always be an open door with a welcome sign for all. ~ Johnny Cash, #NFDB
452:Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay. ~ Ann Coulter, #NFDB
453:A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, #NFDB
454:But it still feels like there’s a popularity contest here I didn’t sign up for. ~ Katy Evans, #NFDB
455:By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
456:Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it. ~ B W Powe, #NFDB
457:Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity. ~ Christopher Fowler, #NFDB
458:Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness. ~ Jim Gaffigan, #NFDB
459:Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. ~ Willard Van Orman Quine, #NFDB
460:Everyone loves my cooking. Even the smoke alarm cheers me on. -Kitchen sign ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
461:headaches, in retrospect, were the first sign of oxygen deprivation). ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee, #NFDB
462:If you don’t sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent. ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky, #NFDB
463:I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around. ~ Dan Quayle, #NFDB
464:My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud. ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
465:Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. ~ Arthur Golden, #NFDB
466:One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
467:The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence ~ Holly Goldberg Sloan, #NFDB
468:The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
469:The porpoise has always been a sign of renewal and of the charged magical life. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
470:Thus, the Lingam is the simplest sign or symbol of Emergence and Mergence. ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB
471:When these long telephone silences come, it is a sure sign that love is over. ~ Walker Percy, #NFDB
472:Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
473:He didn't like to be seen needing it - as if hunger were a sign of weakness. ~ Lionel Shriver, #NFDB
474:His eyes weren’t darting…good sign. His body wasn’t jittery…another good sign. ~ Shannyn Leah, #NFDB
475:In those days I coerced
Oracular assurance
In my favour out of every sign. ~ Ted Hughes,#NFDB
476:One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB
477:The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
478:The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems. ~ Israel Meir Kagan, #NFDB
479:A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services ~ Daniel J Boorstin, #NFDB
480:Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet. ~ Billy Connolly, #NFDB
481:Frustration is a sign that somewhere you took things too seriously. Unfairness ~ Chetan Bhagat, #NFDB
482:Maybe brave people are stupid, because smart people don’t sign up for pain twice. ~ Jamie Beck, #NFDB
483:My sense of the past is vivid and slow. I hear every sign and see every shadow. ~ Barry Hannah, #NFDB
484:Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention. ~ Maureen Dowd, #NFDB
485:Quick understanding is only a sign of the banality of what is understood. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
486:The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign ~ Heraclitus, #NFDB
487:There's an Elvis movie on the marquee sign, we've all seen at least three times. ~ Hal Ketchum, #NFDB
488:The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance. ~ Phil Jackson, #NFDB
489:They’re dazed because you don’t have your ‘back the fuck off’ sign on today. ~ Jane Washington, #NFDB
490:Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them. ~ Natasha Henstridge, #NFDB
491:When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness. ~ Herman Koch, #NFDB
492:anyone can be a good winner. The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat. ~ Jeffrey Archer, #NFDB
493:He’d peed on that tree so many times, he should have a reserved sign on it. ~ Adrienne Giordano, #NFDB
494:He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician. ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
495:If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up. ~ Tom Hanks, #NFDB
496:one sign of a well-led life is that you have great stories to tell when it’s over. ~ Brad Parks, #NFDB
497:One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism. ~ John Avlon, #NFDB
498:The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
499:The larger the project, the more dead code you’ll have. It’s not a sign of failure. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
500:We started seeing motion as a sign of success and transition as a sign of progress. ~ Jon Acuff, #NFDB
501:What I always look for in just about any band or artists I sign is their songs. ~ Seymour Stein, #NFDB
502:Whenever I’m tempted to hug a dwarf, that’s usually a sign I need to move along. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
503:When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
504:Why did I sign up for this?'
'Because we grow by challenging ourselves. ~ Beth Fantaskey,#NFDB
505:A Bad Omen is a warning. A sign to stop and reconsider. Proceed with caution. ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
506:A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
507:Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.
Or insanity. ~ Richard Kadrey,#NFDB
508:Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times. ~ Rashida Jones, #NFDB
509:How many of you would put in front of your house a sign that says gun-free zone? ~ Ken Blanchard, #NFDB
510:If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
511:If you keep pettin’ me, I’m likely to take it as a sign yer up for another round. ~ Mandy M Roth, #NFDB
512:It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
513:It was a sure sign of guilt: giving too much information about my cover story was ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
514:Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted. ~ Alec Baldwin, #NFDB
515:Struggle means you’re persevering even if it’s tough. That’s a sign of strength. ~ Penelope Ward, #NFDB
516:Technological progression can lead to or be a sign of cultural regression. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
517:The man waxed his mustache. In Sebastian's book, that was never a good sign. ~ Stephen Gallagher, #NFDB
518:There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
519:Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already! ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
520:When you sign yourself up for what you're doing, you have to take care of yourself. ~ Heidi Klum, #NFDB
521:William made his own children sign a checkout slip if they wanted to carry a book ~ Jason Fagone, #NFDB
522:A sign of intelligence is to see the One in many and find the many in One. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
523:But failure is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign that you are alive and growing. ~ Buzz Aldrin, #NFDB
524:… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
525:Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard. ~ Paul McCartney, #NFDB
526:Either way, emotions aren't a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength and passion. ~ Demi Lovato, #NFDB
527:Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
528:He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone. ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB
529:one sign of a writer’s potential is his especially sharp ear—and eye—for language. ~ John Gardner, #NFDB
530:Refinement is the sign of deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
531:She talks about being a Christian as if it’s a gym membership you can sign up for. ~ Michel Faber, #NFDB
532:Sign at a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
533:Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
534:That is the first tip of fearlessness, and the first sign of real warriorship. ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
535:The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
536:There is no clear sign that the economy is turning the corner in a meaningful way. ~ Charlie Dent, #NFDB
537:The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
538:Twinkle tiny star.
Oh, how great you truly are!
God's sign from afar. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,#NFDB
539:When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign. ~ Irvin D Yalom, #NFDB
540:Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. ~ Homer, #NFDB
541:Your way is the best for you, but that is no sign it is the best for another. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
542:Daffodils, first sign of spring. It’s how you know everything is about to change. ~ Katherine Howe, #NFDB
543:His voice deepened. "Sign them. We´re in the bedroom and i´m giving you an order. ~ Laurann Dohner, #NFDB
544:If God’s kingdom had a “No Oddballs Allowed” sign posted, none of us could get in. ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
545:I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
546:If people are saying you’re wrong that’s probably a good sign that you’re a genius. ~ Steve Stoute, #NFDB
547:If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
548:If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver. ~ Dan Poynter, #NFDB
549:I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips ~ Muhammad Iqbal, #NFDB
550:It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
551:Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light. ~ Philip Guston, #NFDB
552:Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times. ~ Michael Helm, #NFDB
553:That thing I liked to call a brain had already flipped around the Out to Lunch sign. ~ Maris Black, #NFDB
554:There is a zero sign of the Supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #NFDB
555:A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. ~ Norton Juster, #NFDB
556:Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present. ~ George Washington, #NFDB
557:God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
558:If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure. ~ Cesc Fabregas, #NFDB
559:If they ask you to sign a contract up front or for money, that's usually a bad sign. ~ Dia Frampton, #NFDB
560:If you think safety is expensive, try pricing an accident, as the sign says. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
561:I just want my sign and I want to throw it. I think it keeps everybody on their toes. ~ Eli Manning, #NFDB
562:I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
563:It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign. ~ Thor Heyerdahl, #NFDB
564:I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse. ~ Karen Chance, #NFDB
565:Peace is a sign of mukti—Ananda moves towards siddhi. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Peace, #NFDB
566:People want me to do the strangest things. They want me to sign their arms or chests. ~ Tia Carrere, #NFDB
567:Progress: is the sign of the divine influence in creation.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III,#NFDB
568:Showing it off—and not caring who cared—was a sign of strength. So now she trembles. ~ Chuck Wendig, #NFDB
569:The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
570:The link between the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Cancer Zodiac Sign is eminent. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim, #NFDB
571:The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly ~ Irving Chernev, #NFDB
572:to see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as lack of experience and skill. Your ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
573:Any defensiveness is a sign of failure. You can't move forward if you are defensive. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
574:Having regrets is the only sign that you’ve done anything interesting with your life. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
575:If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful. ~ Kevin Hart, #NFDB
576:I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success. ~ James Rothman, #NFDB
577:Illness is often a sign that you need to make an adjustment in your life path. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
578:Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
579:My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign. ~ Jonathan Lethem, #NFDB
580:No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety. ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB
581:Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
582:The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves. ~ Wally Lamb, #NFDB
583:The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it. ~ W H Auden, #NFDB
584:They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying. ~ Cool Papa Bell, #NFDB
585:wasn’t smart enough to understand that an apology is a sign of strength, not weakness, ~ Terry Hayes, #NFDB
586:Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
587:Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear. ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB
588:Bringing a pot plant to the office, I believe, is a sign of quite serious commitment. ~ Danielle Wood, #NFDB
589:I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.... ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
590:If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's. ~ Peter Senge, #NFDB
591:I’m lookin in the mirror & I see a dollar sign, I had a cat scan & I had money on my mind ~ Lil Wayne, #NFDB
592:It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day. ~ Roddy Doyle, #NFDB
593:I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
594:the first sign of habit formation is decreased resistance, which makes perfect sense. ~ Stephen Guise, #NFDB
595:This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
596:Thomas Mann writes somewhere that hatred is simply love with a minus sign placed before it. ~ Amos Oz, #NFDB
597:we don’t notice a single sign or display we pass until that mission is accomplished. ~ Paco Underhill, #NFDB
598:You can imagine the sign outside Tory central office. Shop closed - out to lunch. ~ Michael Heseltine, #NFDB
599:A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation. ~ Ross Perot, #NFDB
600:Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign ~ John Gardner, #NFDB
601:Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness. ~ William Ralph Inge, #NFDB
602:Clutter is a visual sign of…procrastination, and carries with it just as much anxiety, ~ Joshua Becker, #NFDB
603:Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
604:Excessive rewards are a sign of desperation. Excessive punishments are a sign of exhaustion. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
605:I wasn’t smart enough to understand that an apology is a sign of strength, not weakness, ~ Terry Hayes, #NFDB
606:Ladies and gentlemen, if you ask someone to marry you and the person pukes, that's a sign. ~ Adam Ross, #NFDB
607:My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact. ~ Roseanne Barr, #NFDB
608:Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
609:Sometimes I wonder, if somebody taught her sign language, maybe she’d still be alive. ~ Rebecca Skloot, #NFDB
610:There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track. ~ Jerry Seinfeld, #NFDB
611:The steering wheel is turned by the driver, not the indicator, or the road sign. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
612:The sure sign of an amateur is he has a million plans and they all start tomorrow. ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
613:To have displeased evil and ignorant men is the sure sign of genius and virtue... ~ Francesco Petrarca, #NFDB
614:Too much respect for people who are not respectful to you is a sure sign of insecurity. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
615:What does a sign on an out-of-business brothel say?” He beamed. “Beat it, we’re closed. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
616:Women equate men with mascara. Both run at the first sign of emotion. Prove them wrong. ~ Nicola Marsh, #NFDB
617:A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
618:A man who’s courtin’ a woman shouldn’t disappear at the first sign of a little trouble. ~ Debra Holland, #NFDB
619:A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy. ~ Walter Gropius, #NFDB
620:at me again, and then the pen. “If you want that money,” he said, “you had better sign. ~ Louis L Amour, #NFDB
621:Delight, God’s sweetest sign and Beauty’s twin. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #NFDB
622:Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
623:I don't think much of Tito Ortiz. He needs to grow balls and sign to fight Chuck Liddell. ~ Tank Abbott, #NFDB
624:If you feel deserve to judge the arrogant,
it's a sign that you're so far of humbleness. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
625:Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church. ~ Christopher West, #NFDB
626:One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it? ~ Tom Baker, #NFDB
627:The first sign that something is wrong is Andrew’s wife running to us, shaking and crying. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
628:The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent. ~ Roman Jakobson, #NFDB
629:The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
630:When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
631:A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure. ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
632:and no member is so hard to control. Therefore, a certain sign of Christian maturity is ~ Andrew M Davis, #NFDB
633:A sign by the front door read FOUR BODY PIERCE MINIMUM TO ENTER (EARS DON’T COUNT). Myron ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
634:Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day's divinity! First thing you see!! ~ Jim Morrison, #NFDB
635:Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real. ~ C Wright Mills, #NFDB
636:For those of you who are, “waiting for a sign”… If you woke up today, THAT’S YOUR SIGN! ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
637:I don’t think giving up is a sign of weakness. Sometimes it’s about self-preservation. ~ Reni Eddo Lodge, #NFDB
638:If the sign on your heart says "WELCOME", the love will come pouring in from everywhere. ~ Susan Jeffers, #NFDB
639:If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
640:It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for. ~ William F Buckley Jr, #NFDB
641:May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
642:Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand. ~ Tom Duff, #NFDB
643:Their hunger dimmed, an ominous sign. They had reached the last stage of starvation. ~ Laura Hillenbrand, #NFDB
644:The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
645:The very fact that we long for the change we do is a sign that we are meant to have it. ~ Stasi Eldredge, #NFDB
646:We pass Tinsley's Fried Chicken with the big sign that reads, TRY OUR BIG, JUICY BREASTS. ~ Donna Cooner, #NFDB
647:We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign. ~ Loretta Lynn, #NFDB
648:Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
649:When you sign up to run a marathon, you don’t want a taxi to take you to the finish line. ~ Derek Sivers, #NFDB
650:A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
651:Can’t you just go peek over the wall? Make sure she doesn’t have a Trump sign on her lawn? ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
652:CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new. ~ Jason Kilar, #NFDB
653:Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS). ~ John Green, #NFDB
654:I don't like you, I love you. You're a portent for me, a sign. I've always lived by signs. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
655:If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do. ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
656:It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you. ~ Matthew Hale, #NFDB
657:It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican. ~ Joe Queenan, #NFDB
658:I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you,
To which I sign my name. ~ Walt Whitman,#NFDB
659:Male beauty is a sign of transcendence, that of woman has the passivity of immanence ~ Simone de Beauvoir, #NFDB
660:Now I saw this categorizing of my freezer food as a sign of the true chaos in my head. ~ Abraham Verghese, #NFDB
661:Sensitivity is a sign of strength. It's not about toughening up, it's about smartening up. ~ Marie Forleo, #NFDB
662:She demanded to know if anyone ever tried to teach her sister sign language. No one had. ~ Rebecca Skloot, #NFDB
663:So if you're paralyzed with fear, it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do. ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
664:Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. ~ Jos N Harris, #NFDB
665:The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
666:Whether the apple is deemed a good sign or bad sign depends on what that person believes ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
667:Any sign that the newbie regarded his or her time as of any value whatsoever was a bad omen, ~ Hope Jahren, #NFDB
668:Conflicts are not a sign you've married the wrong person. They simply affirm you are human. ~ Gary Chapman, #NFDB
669:Conversation became strained as they each waited for a sign that they would not be rebuffed. ~ Robin Baker, #NFDB
670:He’d chanced upon his favorite hour: A premonition of dawn without any visible sign of it. ~ Jennifer Egan, #NFDB
671:If something offends you, look inward. . . . That’s a sign that there’s something there. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
672:If you are not failing now and again, its a sign you are not doing anything very innovative ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
673:I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me. ~ Gerald R Ford, #NFDB
674:Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
675:I think you will agree the sign of a civilised society is a regular dining schedule. ~ Philippa Ballantine, #NFDB
676:I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone. ~ John Mahoney, #NFDB
677:Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
678:Needing approval is a female cultural disease, and often a sign of doing the wrong thing. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
679:Street sign: Ho Hum Road & Easy Street In retirement, I look for days off from my days off. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
680:Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. ~ Walter Raleigh, #NFDB
681:...the second was Montaigne's maxim that the surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness. ~ Amor Towles, #NFDB
682:To show affection was a sign of weakness; the only thing worth demonstrating was strength. ~ Chinua Achebe, #NFDB
683:Whenever I sign a garment with my name, I consider myself as the creator of the masterpiece. ~ Paul Poiret, #NFDB
684:Delete anything that has to do with love, respect, or joy and I'll sign in the dotted line. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
685:Finally, Jace suspects it's a bad sign that he is referring to himself in the third person. ~ Swati Avasthi, #NFDB
686:For a scientist, altering your doctrines when the facts change is not a sign of weakness. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
687:he couldn’t even write his name. When he was Emperor, he had to sign documents with a stencil. ~ K J Parker, #NFDB
688:I feel lighter, like my shadow just quit his day job, walked off, and threw up a peace sign. ~ Adam Silvera, #NFDB
689:If you feel that everything's too damn okay,
then it is just a sign that something is wrong. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
690:It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity. ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
691:Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
692:Only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
693:Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
694:Putting a family member in jail is a good sign there is something seriously wrong in the home. ~ Ricki Lake, #NFDB
695:Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead. ~ Elizabeth Wurtzel, #NFDB
696:Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
697:The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
698:The store had a hand-painted sign the read: MOOSE PASS GAS. "That's just wrong," Frank said. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
699:Today, it's shameful being poor and unathletic-it's a sign that you're not making it. ~ Svetlana Alexievich, #NFDB
700:When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
701:When you ask me to sign your NDA, you're basically saying, in writing, that you don't trust me. ~ Anil Dash, #NFDB
702:You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph. ~ Lena Horne, #NFDB
703:A faithless and perverse generation asketh for a sign, and no sign shall be given unto them. ~ Marie Corelli, #NFDB
704:Beside them, a sign read NO DOGS, but a man who worked the ferry patted Abby on ~ Miranda Beverly Whittemore, #NFDB
705:Delete anything that has to do with love, respect, or joy, and I’ll sign on the dotted line. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
706:Equality is the very sign of liberation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Perfection of Equality, #NFDB
707:Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
708:Fruit does not make a tree good. Fruit does not give life. Fruit is a sign of life and reality. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
709:He resolved never again, by look or by sign, to interrupt the steady flow of this man's life. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
710:If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
711:If you are discouraged, it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
712:I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.' ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
713:Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line. ~ Evelyn Waugh, #NFDB
714:It is a sign of wisdom to recognize those things we cannot change about ourselves and our fate ~ Juliet Gael, #NFDB
715:It made her sad to admit it, but those certificates had just become more paper for her to sign. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
716:I will never sign anything over to you, ever, you dog-breath, rotting corpse of a king. ~ Jennifer A Nielsen, #NFDB
717:Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
718:The store had a hand-painted sign that read: MOOSE PASS GAS. “That’s just wrong,” Frank said. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
719:To be distracted against one’s will is the surest sign that one is not in control. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB
720:To this day we still sign our letters “sincerely” as a promise that we have written “without wax ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
721:A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell. ~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, #NFDB
722:A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
723:As soon as you think you know what’s going on, that’s the first sign that you haven’t a clue. ~ Nathan Lowell, #NFDB
724:Chapter 13 Everyone loves my cooking. Even the smoke alarm cheers me on. -Kitchen sign Blake ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
725:Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB
726:Don't put off until tomorrow what can be done today. Procrastination is a sign of weak character. ~ Carol Cox, #NFDB
727:Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
728:If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? ~ Laurence J Peter, #NFDB
729:If outrage were a sign of godliness, then the devil would be the godliest soul in Creation. ~ Russell D Moore, #NFDB
730:I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all. ~ Tom Rush, #NFDB
731:It would be better not to know how to write. Then one would not have to sign death sentences.”16 ~ Buddy Levy, #NFDB
732:Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #NFDB
733:My temper began to rise -- always a bad sign. I would probably end up doing something stupid. ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
734:Pouting is another nonverbal sign of displeasure. Kids use it to beg their parents to talk to them. ~ Jim Fay, #NFDB
735:Sign Language: Young Kids Know More Than They Can Say When you think about it, it’s not so easy ~ Harvey Karp, #NFDB
736:There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration. ~ Gretel Ehrlich, #NFDB
737:Yep. They’re real. You really can sign on as a mystery shopper with various marketing companies, ~ Julia Kent, #NFDB
738:A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
739:Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer. ~ Sydney J Harris, #NFDB
740:Get out. You’ve had the warning sign, he votes Tory. Now get out before you get too involved. ~ Helen Fielding, #NFDB
741:It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
742:Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign. ~ Harvey Mackay, #NFDB
743:Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants. ~ Karl Lagerfeld, #NFDB
744:The store had a hand-painted sign the read: MOOSE PASS GAS.
"That's just wrong," Frank said. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
745:To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit. ~ Philip Neri, #NFDB
746:Tottenham tried to sign me but I held off and came to Arsenal because Arsene Wenger was here. ~ Emmanuel Petit, #NFDB
747:You doona want to kill me, which is a good sign. Maybe this is your way of flirting?” (Garreth) ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
748:You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship. ~ Julia Spencer Fleming, #NFDB
749:Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist. ~ Rogers Hornsby, #NFDB
750:Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it. ~ Astro Teller, #NFDB
751:A red eight-sided sign always means:
A) Stop.
B) Go.
C) Danger! Red octogons ahead! ~ Cuthbert Soup,#NFDB
752:Byzantine bureaucracies requiring multiple sign-offs aren’t the right tools for storm chasing. ~ Jeremy Heimans, #NFDB
753:Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession. ~ Roman Jakobson, #NFDB
754:Every state and national capitol should have a sign on the door: Stop me before I legislate again. ~ David Boaz, #NFDB
755:Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness. ~ Art Alexakis, #NFDB
756:I did not sign up for this. She tried to fist me… and it was someplace I don’t even have any holes! ~ Rhys Ford, #NFDB
757:If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
758:Love the sign
Of one outblaze of godhead that two share. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Life Heavens,#NFDB
759:Neither woman had a sister, so they'd decided to take on the label as a sign of mutual affection. ~ Megg Jensen, #NFDB
760:Perhaps wishful thinking was the first sign of madness, and I was in a Wonderland trajectory. ~ Heather W Petty, #NFDB
761:She keeps looking up, not meeting his eyes - the sign of a serious crush, by the way. ~ Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, #NFDB
762:The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me. ~ DJ Qualls, #NFDB
763:The store had a hand-painted sign that read: MOOSE PASS GAS. “That’s just wrong,” Frank said. By ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
764:To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly. ~ Philip Neri, #NFDB
765:When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home. ~ Nancy Mitford, #NFDB
766:When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
767:A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
768:black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the WHITES ONLY sign in view ~ Margot Lee Shetterly, #NFDB
769:If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
770:If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
771:I’m trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that’s never a good sign. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
772:read somewhere that self-harm was a cry for help. A sure sign an individual needed counselling. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
773:sign off conclude a letter, broadcast, or other message: he signed off with a few words of advice. ~ Erin McKean, #NFDB
774:The market makers are selling out at this level! It is the first sign of a move by the insiders. ~ Anna Coulling, #NFDB
775:[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.] ~ Ludwig Feuerbach, #NFDB
776:The worst thing about losing this job: I’m no longer covered by NBC. I have to sign up for ObamaCare. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
777:Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn. ~ Charlie Sheen, #NFDB
778:Well, you must be doing something right. Someone wants to kill you. That’s always a good sign. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
779:When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
780:Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation. ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB
781:Got it. Look for a room with a sign with a big arrow that says, ‘Kidnapped Mancies Here,’ ” he said. ~ Jaye Wells, #NFDB
782:himself, then according to the sign he should be one of those he does not shave. On the other hand, ~ Mario Livio, #NFDB
783:It amuses me to think how angry I used to get when people wouldn’t sign my peace petitions. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
784:It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering. ~ Chevy Chase, #NFDB
785:I was like, oh, I want to sign up for "Catwoman," and then Anne Hathaway had already signed up for it. ~ Tina Fey, #NFDB
786:Like your zodic sign?'Percy asked.'I'm a Leo.'
'No, stupid,'Leo said.'I'm a Leo.You're a Percy. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
787:Many people want to serve God,’ said the sign outside the church, ‘but only in an advisory capacity. ~ Tom Wright, #NFDB
788:...Mitch McConnell's prescription that "this president will sign whatever is put in front of him. ~ Michael Wolff, #NFDB
789:Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
790:...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them.... ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
791:see the sun and moon is no sign of sharp sight; to hear the noise of thunder is no sign of a quick ear. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
792:Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
793:So what is your star sign?' Said Mary Ellen 'Cunnilingus' Katz answered looking profoundly unhappy. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
794:Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man. ~ Fareed Zakaria, #NFDB
795:The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell. ~ Emile M Cioran, #NFDB
796:Too much thought is bad for the soul, for art, and for crime. It is also a sign of middle age. ~ Patrick Hamilton, #NFDB
797:What's up?" Need a kidney? Two of them? Where do I sign? I grab my pen again, just in case. ~ Sarah Ockler, #NFDB
798:Casillas saying he wouldn't sign Messi for Madrid? Messi has a place in every team in the world. ~ Carlo Ancelotti, #NFDB
799:complicated code is a sign that you don't understand your program well enough to make it simple. ~ Steve McConnell, #NFDB
800:Don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign they have nothing valuable to say about your health. ~ Michael Pollan, #NFDB
801:Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign "thank you, God." ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
802:Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
803:his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer. ~ Peter F Hamilton, #NFDB
804:How deep inside your own heartbreak do you have to fall before there's no outward sign of life? ~ Jonathan Maberry, #NFDB
805:If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint. ~ Ignatius of Loyola, #NFDB
806:It was like having your soul X-rayed every day, scanned and rescanned for any sign of fallibility ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
807:Just let me sleep," she grumbled. "Let me sleep, and I'll sign a paper that you're a fucking angel. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
808:Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
809:Mima. No despair. She was dying, and there was not one sign of despair in her dancing eyes. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
810:She’s sitting at the museum’s front desk, where a small sign says FREE ADMISSION WITH YARN DONATION. ~ Robin Sloan, #NFDB
811:We live in an era where it ain't about dope rhymes. When beef is online, and how big is your co-sign. ~ Jon Connor, #NFDB
812:You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
813:You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label. ~ Sean Parker, #NFDB
814:A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers. ~ Joe Haldeman, #NFDB
815:Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you don’t make a u-turn. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
816:Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
817:GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary ~ Chet Williamson, #NFDB
818:If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
819:If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life. ~ Dominic West, #NFDB
820:I hear they had our flag on their dressing room floor. I wonder if they'd like us to sign it? ~ Hayley Wickenheiser, #NFDB
821:I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction. ~ April Greiman, #NFDB
822:I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story. ~ Rachel Griffiths, #NFDB
823:It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. ~ Greil Marcus, #NFDB
824:It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made. ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
825:"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind." ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
826:Snarl had infiltrated my subconscious. The dream was obviously a sign: he was too enticing to resist. ~ Rachel Cohn, #NFDB
827:The increase in accidents is disappointing. But the decrease in total fatalities is a hopeful sign. ~ Mark Rosenker, #NFDB
828:Wanting to quit is a sign of success because it means you have something to quit; but don't quit. ~ Matthew Barnett, #NFDB
829:He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for. ~ Obert Skye, #NFDB
830:I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres. ~ Cillian Murphy, #NFDB
831:I began to feel like I was wearing a sign on my forehead that said FUCKED UP in big neon letters. ~ Marya Hornbacher, #NFDB
832:I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
833:It is a sign of a medium's immaturity when one of the main topics of discussion is the medium itself. ~ Tom Standage, #NFDB
834:Like your zodiac sign? Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.
'No, stupid,' Leo said. I'm a Leo. You're a Percy. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
835:Like your zodiac sign?” Percy asked. “I’m a Leo.” “No, stupid,” Leo said. “I’m a Leo. You’re a Percy. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
836:One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other. ~ Camryn Manheim, #NFDB
837:So many people are missing their way in life because they are afraid to sign the lease on their gift. ~ Steve Harvey, #NFDB
838:The greatest sign of God's displeasure against any person or people is his taking his law from them. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
839:Firing someone is not necessarily a sign of accountability, but is often the last act of cowardice ~ Patrick Lencioni, #NFDB
840:He had seen her painted sign by the road: Skin Illustration! Illustration instead of tattoo! Artistic! ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
841:I don’t work that way.” Bleak eyes met his. “I need a map. A sign that says where the beginning is. ~ Debora Geary, #NFDB
842:I'm trying to sign up and do movies that I'll be proud of it. That's kind of how I think about it. ~ Robert Pattinson, #NFDB
843:In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
844:It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
845:I waited for years for a sign that you loved me, and there it was. Go big or go home, right, English? ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
846:Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings. ~ William Ralph Inge, #NFDB
847:Maybe being wrong is not the same as being bad, I thought, not a sign that your insides were rotten. ~ Kelly Corrigan, #NFDB
848:The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. ~ Georges Bernanos, #NFDB
849:There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
850:There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul. ~ Alison Croggon, #NFDB
851:Your brother says he will sever all ties with us unless we do as he asks and sign Rusheen over to him. ~ Edna O Brien, #NFDB
852:A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint. God favors those who toil while others play. ~ Sarah Price, #NFDB
853:But don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health. ~ Michael Pollan, #NFDB
854:Despite a frenzy of East-West diplomacy and negotiations, there was little sign that tensions were easing. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
855:Like the zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.'
'No, stupid,' Leo said, 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
856:Maybe being wwrong is not the same as being bad, I thought, not a sign that your insides were rotten. ~ Kelly Corrigan, #NFDB
857:Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass". ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
858:Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the power to accept anything and move on. ~ Robin Wasserman, #NFDB
859:the origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver. ~ Walker Percy, #NFDB
860:There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli, #NFDB
861:There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change. ~ David Korten, #NFDB
862:The sign on the bar said: 'girls- topless, bottomless', I went inside and there was nobody there! ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
863:Yes, it hurts to fall—
ache, tenderness
—but each scar is a sign your system is working. ~ Kelli Russell Agodon,#NFDB
864:A sign warned her to keep a lookout for river otters, osprey—what the heck were osprey?—and bald eagles. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
865:Dead people rot on the streets of New Orleans for a week and a half so the feds can sign a private contract. ~ Dan Baum, #NFDB
866:I have learned to imagine an invisible sign around each person's neck that says 'Make me feel important. ~ Mary Kay Ash, #NFDB
867:I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand. ~ Ace Frehley, #NFDB
868:I was the last girl in Larchmont, NY to get married. My mother had a sign up: "Last Girl Before Freeway." ~ Joan Rivers, #NFDB
869:Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out. ~ Paul Kagame, #NFDB
870:Like your zodiac sign?" Percy asked. "I'm a Leo."
"No, stupid." Leo said. "I'm a Leo. You're a Percy. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
871:Like your zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.'
'No, stupid,' Leo said. 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
872:Like your zodiac sign?’ Percy asked. ‘I’m a Leo.’
‘No, stupid,’ Leo said. ‘I’m a Leo. You’re a Percy. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
873:Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. ~ Lionel Trilling, #NFDB
874:The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain. ~ Robert F Kennedy Jr, #NFDB
875:The Lord is knocking at the door of our hearts. Have we put a sign on the door saying: 'Do not disturb'? ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
876:To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
877:When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
878:Additionally, you can paint a neon sign over our heads that says, 'Easy meal, follow the flashing lights. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
879:All pain and suffering are a sign of imperfection, of incompleteness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life, #NFDB
880:Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign. ~ Tommy Davidson, #NFDB
881:Chance is perhaps the pseudonym used by God
when he does not wish to sign his work. – Anatole France ~ Julie Klassen,#NFDB
882:Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
883:Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live. ~ Paul Celan, #NFDB
884:For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials. ~ Bah u ll h, #NFDB
885:he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign. ~ John Green, #NFDB
886:I admire that in a person. The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence. ~ Holly Goldberg Sloan, #NFDB
887:If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst. ~ Tom Perrotta, #NFDB
888:If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint. ~ Saint Ignatius of Loyola, #NFDB
889:I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath. ~ Jack Steinberger, #NFDB
890:Now I don't have anything against Mexican people, but for God's sakes, sign the gust book on the way in. ~ Dennis Miller, #NFDB
891:Now I know that anytime you see a “no trespassing” sign, it means you’ve got to go in and take a look. ~ Kyung Sook Shin, #NFDB
892:… see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as a lack of experience and skill.
(Seth Abrams) ~ Carol S Dweck,#NFDB
893:[sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer. ~ Peter F Hamilton, #NFDB
894:...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought. ~ Paul Tournier, #NFDB
895:The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
896:there’s folks as thinks a woman’s fool enough to stan’ by an’ look on while the men sign her soul away, I ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
897:The snake jabbed its tail at a little sign next to the glass. Harry peered at it. Boa Constrictor, Brazil. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
898:Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
899:Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
900:When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
901:Any true ecstast is a sign you are going in the right direction...don't let any prude tell you otherwise ~ Teresa of vila, #NFDB
902:A sign by the highway said DON’T LITTER, KEEP ALABAMA THE BEAUTIFUL. ‘OK, I the will,’ I replied cheerfully ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
903:Consumers deserve to know exactly what they're getting for their money when they sign-up for a 4G data plan. ~ Anna Eshoo, #NFDB
904:Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. ~ Charlotte Bronte, #NFDB
905:Experience without cynicism was a sure sign your brain had dry-rotted and you hadn’t bothered to notice. ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB
906:I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
907:If a living place can be likened to a city, the art on the wall, or the lack of art, is the first sign ~ Martin Lindstrom, #NFDB
908:If a relationship is on-and-off within the first year, that’s an immediate sign you are wasting your time. ~ Sherry Argov, #NFDB
909:I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls. ~ Robert Murray M Cheyne, #NFDB
910:in the face of severe injustice, a refusal to dissent is the sign of a character flaw or moral failure. ~ Glenn Greenwald, #NFDB
911:It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. ~ Seneca the Elder, #NFDB
912:It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know? ~ Moby, #NFDB
913:I’ve never begged a man to take me. That I’m doing it now is a sure sign that I’m losing my morals in Montana. ~ J C Reed, #NFDB
914:Oh, no, I love going into a pen of lions wearing a sign that says Edible Lamb.”
-- Manfred ~ Charlaine Harris,#NFDB
915:The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason. ~ Marya Mannes, #NFDB
916:To Him who has sense, a sign is enough
For the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough. ~ Idries Shah,#NFDB
917:To listen to criticism and act on it if it is valid and ignore it if it is not is a sign of intelligence. ~ Chloe Thurlow, #NFDB
918:A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
919:A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Vermischte Schriften, #NFDB
920:Believing you’re the only person with their head on straight is usually not a sign of good mental health. ~ Sylvain Neuvel, #NFDB
921:Do Story Weavers sign a contract or make a blood oath to be difficult and stubborn and a pain in the ass? ~ Maria V Snyder, #NFDB
922:Father, everybody has mugs these days. It's not a sign of debauchery and disrepute to drink tea from a mug. ~ Val McDermid, #NFDB
923:He didn't think it possible to sign sewage-sucking-excuse-of-a-baseborn-bilge-rat but somehow Gurn managed. ~ Grace Draven, #NFDB
924:I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s. ~ Taylor Lautner, #NFDB
925:in the heavy rock scene there were never any girls – it was a girl-free zone – and that’s never a good sign. ~ Johnny Marr, #NFDB
926:I run my operation like a family business. I sign every check, every receipt, I'm not tough, but I'm strong. ~ Ivana Trump, #NFDB
927:I think aggression is a sign of weakness. I'm always more impressed when people can end something with words. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
928: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
929:I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult. ~ Derek Jeter, #NFDB
930:Kai snorted. “Delete anything that has to do with love, respect, or joy, and I’ll sign on the dotted line. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
931:The fans have been great to me. I don't think it's asking too much to have me sign something for them. ~ Justin Timberlake, #NFDB
932:The sign over the gate read: First Church of the Unleaded God & Ace High Refinery WELCOME KEEP OUT ~ John Joseph Adams, #NFDB
933:Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
934:Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. ~ Tecumseh, #NFDB
935:And then without any signal or obvious sign of tansformation, the beach was suddenly alight with fiery stones. ~ Meg Rosoff, #NFDB
936:A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
937:But we will trust you nonetheless. You are bitter, and bitterness is a sign of concern. I trust that. ~ Stephen R Donaldson, #NFDB
938:If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear. ~ Billy Corgan, #NFDB
939:I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder. ~ Hugh Jackman, #NFDB
940:I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
941:Like your zodiac sign?” Percy asked. “I’m a Leo.” “No, stupid,” Leo said. “I’m a Leo. You’re a Percy.” “Will ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
942:PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same! ~ Arthur Miller, #NFDB
943:The aspiration is always the sign of the possibility and perseverance leads to the certitude of realisation. ~ ~ The Mother, #NFDB
944:The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books. ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
945:The symbologist made a cryptic sign. "That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar bowl. ~ Jack Vance, #NFDB
946:To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue. ~ William F Buckley Jr, #NFDB
947:Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. ~ Tecumseh, #NFDB
948:Doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results is at times a sign of sanity. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
949:Donata Santori looked down at the dead body lying at her feet and thought, ‘Damn, that can’t be a good sign. ~ Deborah Blake, #NFDB
950:Don’t apologize. It’s a sign of weakness."
Captain Nathan Brittles,
"She Wore a Yellow Ribbon "(1949) ~ Zane Grey,#NFDB
951:Failure isn't the end of the world, nor is it a sign that you won't be capable of going on to do other things. ~ Kevin Leman, #NFDB
952:He is both the source of my happiness and the one I want to share it with. I have to believe that's a sign. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
953:I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here. ~ Alessandro Nivola, #NFDB
954:Is it a bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend makes you say things like, Satan is a myth... I guess. ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
955:It was now reading the sign that said Privet Drive —no, looking at the sign; cats couldn’t read maps or signs. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
956:It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
957:I've grown to think that keeping your desk clean is actually probably a sign that you're not being effective. ~ Joel Spolsky, #NFDB
958:Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn't the slightest sign of it in sight. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn, #NFDB
959:My decision leaving the Nuggets was based on the organization not saying they had the cap room to sign me. ~ Dikembe Mutombo, #NFDB
960:My son, Simon Lewis, wants to sign up for a life where you have to do a hundred push-ups before breakfast? ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
961:People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age. ~ John Doerr, #NFDB
962:That what one person sees as a difference of opinion can be, to the other person, a sign of great disrespect. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
963:The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound. ~ Jacques Derrida, #NFDB
964:The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel. ~ Hal Lindsey, #NFDB
965:The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd. ~ Melissa Etheridge, #NFDB
966:The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness. ~ Stuart Sutherland, #NFDB
967:Whenever we get defensive or go emotionally up and down, this is a sign that we are attached to a self-image. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
968:Why would I make you if I meant
to limit myself
to the ascendant sign,
the star, the fire, the fury? ~ Louise Gl ck,#NFDB
969:(...) an instance when Fate had conspired with Nature to give them a sign that theirs was no ordinary journey. ~ Amitav Ghosh, #NFDB
970:Another bad sign—someone or something had turned vodka into water. This was not my preferred kind of miracle. ~ Gail Honeyman, #NFDB
971:Are you a witch? A vulture, a hieroglyph, the sign or the name of a goddess? What sort of goddess is this? Who are you? ~ H D, #NFDB
972:Being on the side of the majority is often a sign that you are wrong, or the most unlikely to be right. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
973:But you have a vision. You put a frame around it. You sign your name anyway. That's the risk. That's the leap. ~ Maria Semple, #NFDB
974:Don't see haters as a reason to give up; instead see them as a sign that you are starting to become successful. ~ Mastin Kipp, #NFDB
975:emptiness is a good sign; that it presages openness to a new level of awareness, new insights, new experiences. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
976:Everyone always noticed Ashley. She was like a flashing neon sign for anyone with an ounce of testosterone. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
977:Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality. ~ Arlo Guthrie, #NFDB
978:I hate album covers where people are just smiling so big. It's like a neon sign that says PLEASE COME BUY ME. ~ Kenny Chesney, #NFDB
979:I heard weapons drawn around the room and the floor creaking behind me, a sign that Bear was moving into position. ~ L T Ryan, #NFDB
980:I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
981:Men who want to get married
propose. You don’t need to read the signs. They propose and that’s the sign. ~ Sophie Kinsella,#NFDB
982:Okay, so maybe he didn't sign it with a heart or an XOXO, but the man was going for coffee. Gotta love that. ~ Gemma Halliday, #NFDB
983:Peace. That's what I want all around the world, everywhere I go I always do the peace sign with my fingers. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
984:Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished? ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
985:Struggle or stress is a sign that the ego has returned, as are negative reactions when we encounter obstacles ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
986:The two most important positions in any natal chart, after the Sun sign, are the ascendant and the Moon sign. ~ Linda Goodman, #NFDB
987:You might be a redneck if you see a sign that says Say No To Crack and it reminds you to pull your jeans up. ~ Jeff Foxworthy, #NFDB
988:A sign in a pottery store in England announced, “Please let us know if you break any item, so we can forgive you. ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB
989:couching familiar ideas in pretentious language is taken as a sign of poor intelligence and low credibility. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
990:Her reflection had hidden something from her.
This, Valkyrie thought to herself, is probably not a good sign. ~ Derek Landy,#NFDB
991:If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably. ~ Rachel Maddow, #NFDB
992:I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'. ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB
993:Refraining from violence is not a sign of weakness in one's faith but a sign that one's faith is unshakeable ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
994:Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
995:The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul. ~ Donald Woods Winnicott, #NFDB
996:The paradox is one of our most valuable spiritual possessions. Uniformity of meaning is a sign of weakness. ~ Carl Jung, CW 10, #NFDB
997:Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood. ~ Walter Brueggemann, #NFDB
998:When you dig a well, there is no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
999:Who cares what the fact was, when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1000:A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am. ~ Edmond Rostand, #NFDB
1001:Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1002:Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
1003:I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
1004:It is always a bad sign when the lower classes laugh: their taste in humour is both poor and sinister; ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
1005:It’s a sign of the times, man. It’ll probably be on some Alpha’s Facebook wall within the hour.” Alphas ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
1006:It was a sign of decaying culture, of course, that dams had been built against the further development of ideas. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
1007:I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though. ~ Cheryl Hines, #NFDB
1008:Never sure, Lisbeth,” said Styx, backing away to consider her work. “Certainty is a sign of inferior intellect. ~ Joel Shepherd, #NFDB
1009:Religion was all about getting dumbasses to line up and sign up, making people pay today for heaven tomorrow. ~ Robert Ferrigno, #NFDB
1010:She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1011:The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
1012:When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. ~ David E Kelley, #NFDB
1013:Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. ~ Marlon Brando, #NFDB
1014:hasn’t shown a single sign of wanting to stone me for my misdeeds and poor choice of friends, so what’s a little ~ Jenny B Jones, #NFDB
1015:He was having a seizure of projectile vomiting. This was not considered a sign of good health in medical circles. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1016:If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.” -Woody Allen ~ Angela Roquet, #NFDB
1017:If you can make up excuses or reasons for why you might not get it, that’s a sign that you don’t want it bad enough. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1018:I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign. ~ Daniel Radcliffe, #NFDB
1019:Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for. ~ Derrick Williams, #NFDB
1020:It is not too much to say that when the word blood is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
1021:Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong. ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
1022:sign off on INFORMAL assent or give one's approval to: it was hard to get celebrities to sign off on those issues. ~ Erin McKean, #NFDB
1023:The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life. ~ Paul Morphy, #NFDB
1024:The aspiration is always the sign of the possibility and perseverance leads to the certitude of the realisation.
~ The Mother,#NFDB
1025:Then I decided to sign up for a marathon. I ran my first one the next year in three hours and forty-five minutes. ~ Duff McKagan, #NFDB
1026:Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1027:Weakly, I raised my free hand. I flipped him a gesture that he wouldn’t need to know sign language to understand. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1028:Well, I have to sign off now. But in case I haven’t said it enough, I love you, in this world and the next one. ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB
1029:willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
1030:You won’t be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don’t worry! It’s a good sign! ~ Nellie Melba, #NFDB
1031:And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1032:God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot. ~ Dwight L Moody, #NFDB
1033:I don’t trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It’s a sure sign that they don’t really know anyone. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1034:If you feel irritated or threatened by others' beliefs,
it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
1035:If you let someone talk you out of the word “no,” you might as well wear a sign that reads, “You are in charge. ~ Gavin de Becker, #NFDB
1036:If you write to us," Luka had said with tears in his eyes, "don't ever sign your name or send an address. ~ Courtney Angela Brkic, #NFDB
1037:I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign. ~ Adam Shankman, #NFDB
1038:I'm very sensitive. Emotionally, I bruise very easily. I'm a Leo, and this is very characteristic of our sign. ~ Evangeline Lilly, #NFDB
1039:It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts. ~ Fanny Mendelssohn, #NFDB
1040:Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work. ~ Henri Poincare, #NFDB
1041:Of course, Bronx is also useful as a kind of living personality test. If Bronx likes you, it's a [darn] good sign. ~ Greg Weisman, #NFDB
1042:The Attolians liked to point out with a snicker that there was no sign anywhere of the king's hand at work. ~ Megan Whalen Turner, #NFDB
1043:The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. ~ Bill Watterson, #NFDB
1044:When an idea is not robust enough to stand expression in simple terms, it is a sign that it should be rejected. ~ Luc de Clapiers, #NFDB
1045:When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
1046:When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
1047:You act without concern for the outcome of your actions. That is the primary sign of the immaturity of your species. ~ M R Forbes, #NFDB
1048:All service done sincerely to the Divine is sadhana.And all increase in the urge to serve is a sure sign of progress. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
1049:Boredom is a sign that you're detached from your own bodily experience and aren't living in the present moment. ~ Georg Feuerstein, #NFDB
1050:For someone who did a lot of yoga and had a peace sign tramp stamp on her lower back, she sure could be a bitch. ~ Alison Umminger, #NFDB
1051:For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1052:I always have difficulty with people who are not openly warm, expressive. I need a certain sign, a certain invitation. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
1053:If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922. ~ Pablo Picasso, #NFDB
1054:In other words, more violent tornadoes would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling', not 'global warming'. ~ Lawrence Solomon, #NFDB
1055:I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.' ~ Erma Bombeck, #NFDB
1056:I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice. ~ Wynton Marsalis, #NFDB
1057:It is not too much to say that when the word "blood" is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
1058:Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
1059:Never eat at a place called 'Moms', but if the only other place in town has a sign that says 'Eats', go back to Moms. ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
1060:So think before you complain, especially about things that require some sacrifice. Complaining is the sign of a loser. ~ Lou Holtz, #NFDB
1061:The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music. ~ Danny Brown, #NFDB
1062:The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it. ~ James Hansen, #NFDB
1063:To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money. ~ Ben Gibbard, #NFDB
1064:And it was a really bad sign of how much fun you weren't having when you actually missed shoveling horse poo. ~ Claudia Gray, #NFDB
1065:Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, #NFDB
1066:I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it. ~ Dean Karnazes, #NFDB
1067:If you can recognize competition as a destructive force instead of a sign of value, you’re already more sane than most. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1068:My first meal in America is one that I make for myself and eat by myself. I wonder if this is a sign of things to come. ~ Ibi Zoboi, #NFDB
1069:That the regime was willing to hit itts chief political constituency in the pocket was a clear sign of desperation. ~ Peter Heather, #NFDB
1070:The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to the class-master, he said to him in a low voice— ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
1071:The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
1072:They headed out the front door. Myron kept his eyes on the For Sale sign as though it might suddenly brandish a gun. ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
1073:to know about all my new releases and have the opportunity to get free books, make sure you sign up for our Cozy ~ Stacey Alabaster, #NFDB
1074:Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn ~ Nick Flynn, #NFDB
1075:When men have hearts of stone and foreheads of brass—it is a sign that the devil has taken full possession of them. ~ Thomas Watson, #NFDB
1076:You cannot imagine the power you possess over me. With a look, a sign, a smile, you reduce me to nothing but hunger. ~ Julia London, #NFDB
1077:As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
1078:Caring about people, especially people who've hurt you, isn't a flaw. It's a sign that you understand God's grace. ~ Janice Thompson, #NFDB
1079:Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
1080:Feeling essentially superior to other people is as sure a sign of poor self-esteem as feeling essentially inferior. ~ Harriet Lerner, #NFDB
1081:For many years I had a sign next to my desk that said "Don't question authority. They don't have the answers either. ~ James Montier, #NFDB
1082:God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings. ~ Nikki Giovanni, #NFDB
1083:Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine. ~ Jennifer Stone, #NFDB
1084:I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1085:I don't give a damn what you do with your money. Just sign here that you received it and you can get drunk in peace. ~ Stieg Larsson, #NFDB
1086:in the face of severe injustice, a refusal to dissent is the sign of a character flaw or moral failure. Philosophy ~ Glenn Greenwald, #NFDB
1087:Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought. ~ Marshall McLuhan, #NFDB
1088:Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1089:ROSE FELT LIKE she had a neon sign flashing over her head—looking for a one night stand, only sex gods need apply. ~ Mary J Williams, #NFDB
1090:"Some ask if lowering one's pride is conceding defeat. I think not. Humility is a sign of inner strength and wisdom." ~ Haemin Sunim, #NFDB
1091:The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power. ~ Bob Barr, #NFDB
1092:The clue to one's next step toward the door of initiation may be revealed at the Full Moon during the sign of Taurus. ~ Alice Bailey, #NFDB
1093:The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
1094:The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared. ~ Gary Shteyngart, #NFDB
1095:The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never
tried to contact us. ~ Bill Watterson,#NFDB
1096:Wanting to repent is the sign God hasn’t abandoned you. It is God, after all, who puts in us the desire to come to Him. ~ J D Greear, #NFDB
1097:we always knew
that good times came
with termination contracts
even if we weren't quite ready
to sign it. ~ Sanober Khan,#NFDB
1098:You know, style isn’t frivolous. In my day it was a sign of your integrity, a sign that you knew who you were.” I ~ Stephanie Danler, #NFDB
1099:A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1100:But there is a sign!” objected Primrose in semi-shock. “A sign indicating pets aren’t permitted. Really, some people. ~ Gail Carriger, #NFDB
1101:Do you always ask so many questions?”
“My guidance counselor says it’s the sign of an intellectually curious mind. ~ Joe Schreiber,#NFDB
1102:I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen. ~ Mario Andretti, #NFDB
1103:If you can recognize competition as a destructive force instead of a sign of value, you’re already more sane than most. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1104:In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us. ~ Jon Landau, #NFDB
1105:irritability in men is regarded as a sign of status. But when women lose their temper they’re seen as less competent. ~ Valerie Young, #NFDB
1106:Is a lukewarm attitude to one’s work a sign of mental health? Is a merely professional attitude the only sane approach? ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1107:I sold my soul to the devil in L.A. He said 'sign your name here on the dotted line and your songs they all will play.' ~ Aaron Lewis, #NFDB
1108:Love, hope, fear, faith—these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character —Robert Browning, Paracelsus ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1109:Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
1110:Staunch and faithful lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love that one ever gives them. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
1111:There's a reason you never see anyone's house with a Beware of Cat sign. Because they're not even worth mentioning. ~ Chelsea Handler, #NFDB
1112:What they do no' understand, they fear, and they hate what makes them afraid, for they think it is a sign o' weakness. ~ Kate Forsyth, #NFDB
1113:Above the lot, the great pink hoop of the Ed’s Doughnut House sign broadcasts its frigid synthetic light into the night, ~ Paul Murray, #NFDB
1114:A feeling of beauty is a sign that we have come upon a material articulation of certain of our ideas of a good life. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
1115:A sign that a person could do something different . . . that they could be hooked by a drug more wild than alcohol. ~ Lucy Christopher, #NFDB
1116:From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail. ~ Ezra Pound, #NFDB
1117:If we have lost faith in our vernaculars, it is a sign of want of faith in ourselves; it is the surest sign of decay. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1118:I had changed, and the sign of it was only that my own death seemed to me by far the least important thing in my life. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
1119:I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc. ~ Katrina Kaif, #NFDB
1120:It occurred to me that if I could find the cyborg that fits this foot, it must be a sign we were meant to be together. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
1121:Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know. ~ Christa Wolf, #NFDB
1122:Stress happens when something you care about is at stake. It's not a sign to run away - it's a sign to step forward. ~ Kelly McGonigal, #NFDB
1123:The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1124:The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves. ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB
1125:The first and foremost sign of new birth in anyone is that he knows God intuitively, for his spirit has been quickened. ~ Watchman Nee, #NFDB
1126:The palm of his hand was a dull red. Not a good sign.
I jerk off left-handed, he thought, at least that’s something. ~ Stephen King,#NFDB
1127:There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1128:The sign on the outside of the office door said: LADISLAV PELC, D.M.PHIL, PREHUMOUS PROFESSOR OF MORBID BIBLIOMANCY. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1129:The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? ~ Hugo Ball, #NFDB
1130:All that was missing was a neon sign that read EVIL AND CONFLICTED ABOUT IT with a flashing arrow pointing at his head. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
1131:Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly. ~ Jan Zwicky, #NFDB
1132:A sign on the door reads: no admittance to un-authorised personnel. Sergeant stops there, presses a buzzer and waits. After ~ M R Carey, #NFDB
1133:Be to the world a sign that while we as Christians do not have all the answers, we do know and care about the questions. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
1134:Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy. ~ Dick Cheney, #NFDB
1135:Cos a cop asking a guy for a discount on his crack, that's screwed up.
Sign of the goddamn apocalypse is what it is. ~ Warren Ellis,#NFDB
1136:Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery. Those are people who crossed an ocean to come to this country. ~ Amy Chua, #NFDB
1137:Erotic attention often serves as the catalyst for an intimate connection between two people, but it is not a sign of love. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
1138:If a man has to say trust me it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you do without words. ~ Juliet Marillier, #NFDB
1139:If you feel afraid of your own guidance, that’s a sign you don’t have a very good connection to who you really are ~ Catherine Carrigan, #NFDB
1140:I'm not a slave, man. I just gotta sign out, say where I'm going, what time I'll be back and then I gotta sign back in. ~ Ben H Winters, #NFDB
1141:It also doesn’t help that there are ten guys for every cute girl. In other words, don’t sign up for a gym just for the girls. ~ Roosh V, #NFDB
1142:I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1143:Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
1144:May his prayer still help your Church to be an equally faithful guardian of your mysteries and a sign of Christ to mankind. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1145:My mom's response after seeing a sign that read 'Love God, People and Life': 'Well a lot of people don't like people.' ~ Sasheer Zamata, #NFDB
1146:Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more. ~ Joseph Hall, #NFDB
1147:Pish-posh, just doing my lot for the future of the world, you know. I'll sign off by saying, you know where to find me... ~ Tony Abbott, #NFDB
1148:She has been excessively cheery. In a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, that is always a sign of a fairly severe depression. ~ Susan Isaacs, #NFDB
1149:Sheriff, it’s legal to shoot a man for trespassing if a sign is clearly posted, right?” “Yep. And Grandma doesn’t miss. ~ Tamra Baumann, #NFDB
1150:The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
1151:To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share. ~ Jean Vanier, #NFDB
1152:To turn God’s wrath away, everyone would go without food for a particular period of time as a national sign of repentance. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
1153:You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself. ~ Dwayne Johnson, #NFDB
1154:You may be a redneck if . . . you think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign in the front yard. ~ Jeff Foxworthy, #NFDB
1155:A disorderly spirituality that makes the practitioner dreamy, eccentric, or uncontrolled is a very bad sign indeed. In ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
1156:An actual wizard. With a staff. He's got a shop there and everything, with a brass sign on the door. It says 'Wizard'. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1157:Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering. ~ James Gleick, #NFDB
1158:he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.
i have to believe that’s a sign. ~ John Green,#NFDB
1159:If I told my wife I was going to become a manager she'd say 'sign this then. Don't worry it's only a divorce. Au revoir'. ~ David Ginola, #NFDB
1160:Impatience is a sign of hurrying; hurrying is a sign of worrying; worrying is a sign someone forgot time is on their side. ~ Mike Dooley, #NFDB
1161:It’d be even better if murderers, psychopaths, and villains simply held a sign up for inquiring minds to spot easily. ~ Kerri Maniscalco, #NFDB
1162:It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly. ~ Theodor Billroth, #NFDB
1163:It's too scary in television. It's scary to sign a six-year contract for something that you don't necessarily know about. ~ Lizzy Caplan, #NFDB
1164:I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others. ~ Nicole Kidman, #NFDB
1165:Love, hope, fear, faith—these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character —Robert Browning, Paracelsus In ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1166:Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free. ~ Remy de Gourmont, #NFDB
1167:one couldn’t simply rouse the apocalypse like a sleeping snake, prod it with a stick at the first sign of synchronicity. ~ Douglas Wynne, #NFDB
1168:Powerful men need a woman as a sign of their power. Strong women do not need a man, she either wants him or she doesn't. ~ Chloe Thurlow, #NFDB
1169:The blood that ran down from the cross in redemption for all sins and penance for all sorrows—that was the visible sign. ~ Sigrid Undset, #NFDB
1170:The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
1171:we can make a reasonable argument that engaging (well) in difficult conversations is a sign of health in a relationship. ~ Douglas Stone, #NFDB
1172: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
1173:As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser. ~ Michael Moore, #NFDB
1174:I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays. ~ Walter Benjamin, #NFDB
1175:If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. ~ Woody Allen, Without Feathers (1975), #NFDB
1176:It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1177:It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work. ~ Bjork, #NFDB
1178:I want to look back. To look over my shoulder and see the Stop sign with huge reflective letters, pleading with Hannah. Stop! ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
1179:People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more! ~ Al Green, #NFDB
1180:Tranquillity is a sign of increasing self-mastery and purity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Higher and the Lower Knowledge, #NFDB
1181:What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1182:Whenever I do the sign of the cross, it always brings comfort in situations when you are faced with adversity and stress. ~ Troy Polamalu, #NFDB
1183:You bear the mark of the ouroboros, the sign of eternal life. And what is that circle, but the shadow of the sun itself. ~ Karen Maitland, #NFDB
1184:You might not have charged me a fee, but kissing you is too big of a price for me. I didn’t sign up for this. Now let me go. ~ Linda Kage, #NFDB
1185:Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
1186:Every smile was just mechanics. Every laugh was manufactured. Every public sign of affection was just that: for the public. ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
1187:He’s right,” Cole chimes in. “If you want to stop the dogs from peeing on your lawn, you need to put up a fence. Not a sign. ~ Ashley Jade, #NFDB
1188:He thought of a joke he had seen on a sign in front of an auto shop in Dallas: Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery. ~ Tim Kizer, #NFDB
1189:His chest heaved, and he coughed.
"You have coughed before," his mother said. "It is a sign of weakness. Control it. ~ Dorothy Dunnett,#NFDB
1190:I always think it’s a good sign when a man likes cats. It shows he doesn’t feel the need to be in constant control of things. ~ Anne Tyler, #NFDB
1191:Let the red dawn surmise What we shall do, When this blue starlight dies And all is through.”
(The Yellow Sign) ~ Robert W Chambers,#NFDB
1192:Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign. ~ Christina Rossetti, #NFDB
1193:Me wanting to talk about my feelings is a sign of the apocalypse. Or the reality I’m falling in love with my best friend. ~ Daisy Prescott, #NFDB
1194:There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical. ~ Giacomo Leopardi, #NFDB
1195:they’d even met, he recommended him to his own editor at Scribner, Max Perkins, suggesting Max sign up this promising young ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
1196:We watched Alex walking away.
"What just happened?" I asked him.
There are no words for it in sign language, he said. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
1197:When you’re not patient, you start complaining. And the fact that you’re complaining is a sign that you’re not grateful. ~ Nouman Ali Khan, #NFDB
1198:Actually, offense is a sign of fear. If you’re offended, it’s because you’re afraid that person can harm you in some way. ~ Gloria Copeland, #NFDB
1199:All these distinctions made between the 'I' and 'you', Master and disciple etc. are merely a sign of one's ignorance. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
1200:And I thought -- when you're a half-hour late, and your friends think you're in jail, it's probably a sign you steal too much. ~ CrimethInc, #NFDB
1201:Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics. ~ Peter Singer, #NFDB
1202:A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely. ~ Helen Cresswell, #NFDB
1203:College students don't go to bed until at least three. It's a college requirement. You sign a contract when you're accepted. ~ Jessica Park, #NFDB
1204:I said. I was silently horrified. What was wrong with these people? Peter had started sporting a beret—another bad sign. ~ William Finnegan, #NFDB
1205:I think actually in any party it's a sign of general health to have different views, and especially on the subject of trade. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
1206:It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place. ~ Kurt Cobain, #NFDB
1207:Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life. ~ Bear Grylls, #NFDB
1208:Maybe when one door shuts, another one doesn’t really open. Maybe, instead, it’s just a sign that you are locked in forever. ~ Sejal Badani, #NFDB
1209:Nope. It was a big fat minus sign. Which means negative. Not pregnant. No baby. Infertile. Nothing’s growing in this soil. ~ Laurelin Paige, #NFDB
1210:Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both. ~ Brian Celio, #NFDB
1211:The cross is the sign that stands in judgment on all the false security in our lives and restores faith in God alone. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
1212:The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1213:The urge to point out someone else’s failure to tidy is usually a sign that you are neglecting to take care of your own space. ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
1214:what were you hoping to find?" he snapped "A little tree house with a sign reading serial killers hangout, please come in?. ~ Shiloh Walker, #NFDB
1215:When I saw a sign on the freeway that said, "Los Angeles 445 miles," I said to myself, "I've got to get out of this lane." ~ Franklyn Ajaye, #NFDB
1216:Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance. ~ Aubrey de Grey, #NFDB
1217:Yet he'd never laughed at the jokes I laughed at. I should have taken that as a sign that he wasn't for me, at the very least. ~ C J Archer, #NFDB
1218:And isn’t silence, in its way, a good sign? That everything is well, that the ship is still steaming safely away from shore? ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
1219:Cleveland-area fans of French children's literature were disappointed by the Prince's decision to sign with the Miami Heat. ~ Randall Munroe, #NFDB
1220:Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
1221:God made all the creatures and them our love and out fear,
To give sign, we and they are his children, one family here. ~ Robert Browning,#NFDB
1222:If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it. ~ Saint Vincent de Paul, #NFDB
1223:If a homeless person has a funny sign, he hasn't been homeless for that long. A real homeless person is too hungry to be funny. ~ Chris Rock, #NFDB
1224:If you live in a global world and you want to champion liberty in it, then you have you got to sign up to that global world. ~ Mary Robinson, #NFDB
1225:It is perhaps a sign of the strength of our republic that so few people feel the need to participate. That must be the reason. ~ Jon Stewart, #NFDB
1226:It's hard to look at [Donald] Trump as a hopeful sign because, in his own way, he is offering false solutions to many problems. ~ Jane Mayer, #NFDB
1227:It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior. ~ Nathaniel Branden, #NFDB
1228:No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
1229:People say that [i'm a celebrity], but I've only had to sign autographs for "civ-libs" types. And I autograph court orders. ~ Edward Snowden, #NFDB
1230:The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
1231:There was a big sign on the door. At first I thought it said CLOSED FOR PIRATE EVENT. Then I realized PIRATE must be PRIVATE. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1232:The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
1233:The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey. ~ Annie Besant, #NFDB
1234:Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument. ~ Harriet Martineau, #NFDB
1235:Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago. ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
1236:And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
1237:Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1238:Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon, #NFDB
1239:Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest. ~ Lucy Prebble, #NFDB
1240:I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young. ~ Ronaldo, #NFDB
1241:If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1242:It means that we should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over. ~ Jacqueline Kelly, #NFDB
1243:Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking. ~ Quentin Crisp, #NFDB
1244:Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
1245:So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz? ~ Frank Skinner, #NFDB
1246:The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared. ~ Gary Shteyngart, #NFDB
1247:The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up. ~ Robert Metcalfe, #NFDB
1248:Usually a song being hard to write is a sign that the song isn't good enough. It should be like a good kiss. Effortless and smooth. ~ Oh Land, #NFDB
1249:Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
1250:You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
1251:You don’t understand,” gasped Eli. “No one understands.” “When no one understands, that’s usually a good sign that you’re wrong. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
1252:A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. ~ Georges Clemenceau, #NFDB
1253:Do not run hither and thither and distract yourself by changing your abode; for such restlessness is the sign of a disordered spirit. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
1254:Doug appeared, clad in an Affliction waffle-knit tee and True Religion jeans. It was 2006, so this was a sign of great success. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
1255:Here at its extremities the terrified transients gathered, gazing out at the vast refulgent ocean for some sign of security. We ~ William Boyd, #NFDB
1256:I don't really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven. ~ Bethany Hamilton, #NFDB
1257:I'm very busy."
"The sign on the door said closed."
Finbar shook his head. "Never trust a door; they'll always lie to you. ~ Derek Landy,#NFDB
1258:I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying. ~ Linda Ellerbee, #NFDB
1259:Maybe I should stand outside the Adam & Eve store holding a sign reading "Single Mom, Anything Helps" and a cup for change. ~ Joanna Wylde, #NFDB
1260:Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court. ~ Christopher Buckley, #NFDB
1261:Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #NFDB
1262:That's a real sign of the times - can you imagine Nick Cave wearing a hoodie? He may not wear one, but he definitely sells them. ~ Ian Astbury, #NFDB
1263:The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther. ~ Michele Bachmann, #NFDB
1264:The last time she’d had sex had been so long ago her vagina probably had a vacancy sign with full blown neon lights down there. ~ Milly Taiden, #NFDB
1265:The sign that the kundalini is releasing is not the development of miraculous powers, but that your mind is becoming quieter. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1266:When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent. ~ Lorna Luft, #NFDB
1267:when we are living in the middle of difficulty, we are tempted to view it as a sign of God’s unfaithfulness or inattention. ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
1268:While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness. ~ Kate Cann, #NFDB
1269:Abby's eyes fell on a wooden sign hanging near the foot of his bed:"I'm only passing through . . . this world is not my home. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
1270:All the excuses in the world won't change one simple fact: that fear is a sign to do whatever it is you fear—and do it quickly. ~ Grant Cardone, #NFDB
1271:Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature. ~ Brandon Sanderson, #NFDB
1272:Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes. ~ Philip Jose Farmer, #NFDB
1273:Don't sign your name
between worlds,
surmount
the manifold of meanings,
trust the tearstain,
learn to live. ~ Paul Celan,#NFDB
1274:End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
1275:Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha) ~ Patrick Stump, #NFDB
1276:If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone. ~ Dante Hall, #NFDB
1277:If you can't read a simple goddam sign and follow one simple goddam instruction then get your fat butt the hell out of here. ~ Garrison Keillor, #NFDB
1278:I saw a sign that said, 'Watch for children.' I was like, 'That sounds like a fair trade - especially if they're crappy kids.' ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
1279:I should buy you a fucking sign that says ‘I don’t know’ to save you time. The best you can do is make an educated guess, son. ~ Justin Halpern, #NFDB
1280:Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1281:Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork. ~ D Arcy Wentworth Thompson, #NFDB
1282:The appearance of antisemitism in a culture is the first symptom of a disease, the early warning sign of collective breakdown. ~ Jonathan Sacks, #NFDB
1283:The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1284:The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
1285:Too evident sorrow does not inspire pity but repugnance, it is the sign of mental instability or of bad manners: it is morbid. ~ Philippe Ari s, #NFDB
1286:But there was more. Did she know I had noticed? I had made no outward sign. But I had noticed. Today Miss Winter had said I. ~ Diane Setterfield, #NFDB
1287:D. It must not conflict with any other indicator specified by the FCC rules or with any call sign prefix assigned to another country ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1288:Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
1289:Each language is the sign and power of the soul of the people which naturally speaks it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, Diversity in Oneness, #NFDB
1290:His tavern sign bore witness to his feats of arms. He had painted it himself, being a Jack-of-all-trades who did everything badly. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1291:Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
1292:If Muhammad weren't standing lonely vigil on the mountain, you might say that there was no sign of anything unusual about him. ~ Lesley Hazleton, #NFDB
1293:Is it so arrogant to want something that doesn’t change with the wind? That doesn’t crumble at the first sign of adversity?” “You ~ Ren e Ahdieh, #NFDB
1294:It is hard for me to imagine what it means to be a complete foreigner, a person to whom no one shows any sign of recognition. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
1295:Jubal threw his sign down in disgust and stalked away from the group. Sosi ran after him, the clipboard with the soggy petition ~ Anne McCaffrey, #NFDB
1296:One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you know what I mean. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
1297:Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. ~ Stephen Vincent Benet, #NFDB
1298:The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud? ~ Karl Shapiro, #NFDB
1299:Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel. ~ Isaiah, #NFDB
1300:The sign says that the Scald Mt. Rod & Gun Club has adopted the highway, but the Minotaur knows an orphan when he sees it. ~ Steven Sherrill, #NFDB
1301:You don't understand," gasped Eli. "No one understands."
"When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong. ~ V E Schwab,#NFDB
1302:A recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game. ~ Tina Fey, #NFDB
1303:Donny recovered herself. “Dude, that was the seventh sign of the apocalypse. I’m so not going to class on the last day of the world. ~ Gwen Hayes, #NFDB
1304:Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth." ========== The Sign of the Four (Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1305:If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace. ~ Robert Cailliau, #NFDB
1306:If your moon sign is in Leo, you have a lot of empathy for Leos. You empathize with their approach and their aims and their aura. ~ Ian Svenonius, #NFDB
1307:I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that? ~ Michael Ealy, #NFDB
1308:Nay, it is the coming storm. The first sign is fear. The second is always fire. Your people are afraid, and now the fires burn. ~ Katherine Arden, #NFDB
1309:Roilant caught himself, with exasperation, slipping into vacuous philosophy, a sure sign his opinion of life was at its very lowest. ~ Tanith Lee, #NFDB
1310:The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards. ~ Elia Kazan, #NFDB
1311:The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign. ~ Iimani David, #NFDB
1312:We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1313:Can you sign something?” Nicole demanded. “This paper? This napkin? My chest? My inner thighs or my wildest dreams? Whatever you want. ~ T J Klune, #NFDB
1314:Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary... ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
1315:Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh. ~ Mel Ott, #NFDB
1316:Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world. ~ Joan D Chittister, #NFDB
1317:Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is. ~ Ernie J Zelinski, #NFDB
1318:I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do. ~ Loretta Lynn, #NFDB
1319:I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it. ~ Andr Gide, #NFDB
1320:If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
1321:If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
1322:I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1323:I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble. ~ Kenneth Lonergan, #NFDB
1324:Nah. But on the first day of class, when I saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I knew these people weren’t fooling around.’ ” Lank ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1325:She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1326:To be pressed for time has become a sign of prosperity, an indicator of social status, and one that most people are inclined to claim. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1327:To the Yogi everything is bliss, every human face that he sees brings cheerfulness to him. That is the sign of a virtuous man. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1328:We’d put a big sign over our territory saying, Nothing here is worth dying over, but if you insist, we will fucking kill you. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
1329:Xas reappeared and showed every sign of winding himself around Sobran permanently, like -Sobran complained - some parasitic vine. ~ Elizabeth Knox, #NFDB
1330:You don’t understand,” gasped Eli. “No one understands.” “When no one understands, that’s usually a good sign that you’re wrong.” Eli ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
1331:A certain skill at billiards is the mark of a gentleman, but to play too well is the sign of a misspent youth.
Lucien Fairchild ~ Mary Jo Putney,#NFDB
1332:Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone. ~ Vernon Howard, #NFDB
1333:Being single doesn't necessarily mean you're available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says "Do Not Disturb" on your heart. ~ Wiz Khalifa, #NFDB
1334:I love that sign," I say.
"I love you," Robin says.
I feel my cheeks
turn the color of the sky.
"I love you, too," I say. ~ Sonya Sones,#NFDB
1335:Jason was ogling the men’s sportswear. Boys interested in shopping for clothes? A definite sign they were under an evil spell. Piper ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1336:Killian settled back into his seat and made the universal sign for “after you”. I gave him the universal sign for “up yours, buddy”. ~ Kate Danley, #NFDB
1337:Please keep your children at your side. Unattended children will be given a shot of espresso and a puppy."
(petting zoo sign) ~ Katie MacAlister,#NFDB
1338:Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God and love of all things in God - this is the sign that you are on this right path. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1339:Saw a lost dog sign with a pic of the dog and a little boy hugging it. I'm assuming the kids safe and we're just focusing on the pooch. ~ Dane Cook, #NFDB
1340:She sat at the table with a cup of tea, looking plump and angelic as always, no sign of having lost any sleep the night before. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1341:Silent tears are the worst. It's the sign of a broken spirit. No sound, no residual emotions... just tears. Silent, unstoppable tears. ~ N R Walker, #NFDB
1342:So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
1343:So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1344:To this it must be added that a sincere love of the law of God is a sure sign of our adoption because it is a work of the Spirit. . . ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
1345:Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands. ~ Vincent Massey, #NFDB
1346:Watch for the ace of spades, which is the sign of death, and the ace of clubs, which designates the official of the night. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
1347:...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
1348:36 He also ordered the Galata Tower to be reduced in height by seven and a half metres to make it less visible a sign of alien presence. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1349:All those tattoos. A woman could get any tattoo she liked, but they all said the same thing. They were a sign reading AVAILABLE FOR RENT. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
1350:As an addict I take everything as a sign from God. It was pouring on about eight million people but I was the only one getting wet. ~ Jackson Galaxy, #NFDB
1351:But when the teaching of the Bible is plain, then continuing to maintain an open mind is a sign not of maturity, but of immaturity. ~ John R W Stott, #NFDB
1352:Earth’s winged chimaeras are Truth’s steeds in Heaven,
The impossible God’s sign of things to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
1353:Geek e-mail sign-off: No trees were killed to send this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
1354:I bet you think things through, right? Accept candy
from strangers and get into vans with a sign that reads free Kittens? ~ Jennifer L Armentrout,#NFDB
1355:I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team. ~ Billie Jean King, #NFDB
1356:I know that I myself have felt that prickling of the scalp that Emily Dickinson tells us is the sign of recognition before a true poem. ~ May Sarton, #NFDB
1357:I'm sure there has been something ridiculous [to sign], but nothing springs to mind. You have the usual things like breasts and such. ~ George Wendt, #NFDB
1358:Is it a bad sign when someone asks you about the person your dating and a tear falls from your eye as you leap into oncoming traffic? ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
1359:Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1360:One’s missing.” Kazan was livid. He searched the dead faces and saw no sign of Anastasia Romanov. “The conniving little witch is gone. ~ Glenn Meade, #NFDB
1361:Schemes within schemes. The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident. ~ Robert Jordan, #NFDB
1362:Shukhov had figured it all out. If he didn't sign he'd be shot. If he signed he'd still get a chance to live. So he signed. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, #NFDB
1363:When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone's mouth was 'Mister,' a sign of respect. ~ Mr T, #NFDB
1364:Why did the blonde miss her flight? Because when she read the sign on the road that said, "Airport Left," she turned around and went home. ~ Various, #NFDB
1365:Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so. ~ Georg C Lichtenberg, #NFDB
1366:If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
1367:I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1368:It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1369:Only emotionally phobic, emotionally immature people believe that wanting empathy and understanding is a sign of weakness. Forging ~ Lindsay C Gibson, #NFDB
1370:On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
1371:Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
1372:The clearest sign of coming catastrophe is when all the bad shit in your life suddenly stops. You’re entering the eye of the shitstorm. ~ Leah Raeder, #NFDB
1373:A sacrament gives a dramatic sign that points beyond itself to some truth of redemption that is crucial to the life of the people of God. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
1374:But dream not helm and harness
The sign of valor true;
Peace hath higher tests of manhood
Than battle ever knew. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier,#NFDB
1375:Firms that draw commitment from customers and staff give them a way to sign up for something that can allow them to be their best self. ~ John Jantsch, #NFDB
1376:In societies where most politicians are corrupt, singling one out for punishment is often not a sign of reform but of a power grab. ~ Francis Fukuyama, #NFDB
1377:It’s the Dark Mark, Harry!” Hermione moaned, pulling him as hard as she could. “You-Know-Who’s sign!” “Voldemort’s — ?” “Harry, come on! ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1378:Lindworms are a sign of a healthy ecosystem,” I said, straightening. “Now let’s get out of here before the healthy ecosystem eats us. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
1379:Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign. ~ Christina Rossetti,#NFDB
1380:lowered thyroid level is actually a sign of “improved efficiency of metabolic functioning and is literally a desirable longevity marker. ~ Jimmy Moore, #NFDB
1381:So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1382:So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a
sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof ~ John F Kennedy,#NFDB
1383:Why did the blonde miss her flight? Because when she read the sign on the road that said, "Airport Left," she turned around and went home. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1384:You’ll pick up on things, notice coincidences. A coincidence is often a sign that something in the Fae world is interacting on this plane. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1385:Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1386:Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature. ~ Jerome Isaac Friedman, #NFDB
1387:Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity. ~ John Kennedy Toole, #NFDB
1388:I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits. ~ Kate Thornton, #NFDB
1389:If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss. ~ Lorraine Bracco, #NFDB
1390:I generally think debates within a party should not be treated as a scandal. They should be treated as a sign of strength, to be honest. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
1391:It's always for show, Citizen. It is entirely possible to grieve with no outward sign. These things are meant to let others know about it. ~ Ann Leckie, #NFDB
1392:I was in a grocery store. I saw a sign that said 'pet supplies.' So I did. Then I went outside and saw a sign that said, 'Compact cars. ~ Steven Wright, #NFDB
1393:Lucille Ball hates the color of her hair, too, and says `I should wear a sign on my chest saying I hate it, but Technicolor demands it.' ~ Hedda Hopper, #NFDB
1394:Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant. ~ Tsukahara Bokuden, #NFDB
1395:My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in. ~ Phil Jackson, #NFDB
1396:Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us. ~ Charles Frazier, #NFDB
1397:The first sign that Karma was now in cahoots with the Devil Incarnate to ruin her existance should've been before sunrise and pre-coffee. ~ Kelly Moran, #NFDB
1398:There is nothing that is more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1399:There’s a story that during the filming of Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola had a sign on his trailer: “Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two. ~ Maria Semple, #NFDB
1400:Tlacey bought us passage on a public shuttle,” Rami told me. “That could be a good sign, right?” “Sure,” I said. It was a terrible sign. ~ Martha Wells, #NFDB
1401:You grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1402:And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1403:As a reminder to himself and anyone who visited his office in the shanty, Burnham posted a sign over his desk bearing a single word: RUSH. ~ Erik Larson, #NFDB
1404:Being attacked is a sign that you are important enough to be a target. You should relish the attention and the chance to prove yourself. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
1405:But every sign I saw just had the same stupid warning about endangered dolphin breeding habitats so I figured I still had a ways to go. ~ Conor Lastowka, #NFDB
1406:Comedy Central was really impressed by how quickly we got everyone to sign the releases for the CD. They've never seen anything that quick. ~ B J Porter, #NFDB
1407:Depression is a sign of strength – because it means no matter how weak your mind might be to you, your heart is still strong enough to feel. ~ Emma Hart, #NFDB
1408:Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life? ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
1409:I don't let nobody sign for my money. Me and my wife write our own checks. So, if there's some money missing, we know how it got missing. ~ Steve Harvey, #NFDB
1410:If a man wants any shot at making his fortune then he’ll never sign his name to any piece of paper that he didn’t write himself.” P 553 ~ Eleanor Catton, #NFDB
1411:If you are afraid to write it,
that's a good sign.
I suppose you know when you're
writing the
truth when you're terrified. ~ Yrsa Daley Ward,#NFDB
1412:If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording. ~ Brian Eno, #NFDB
1413:I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?' ~ Mickey Mantle, #NFDB
1414:I mean, how strange is that we bring plant sex organs to people we’re attracted to? What’s up with that? It’s a weird sign of affection. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
1415:I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write. ~ Kay Redfield Jamison, #NFDB
1416:It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
1417:One fan asked me to sign their sock. That was crazy. They just took off their shoe and handed me their sock and asked if I'd sign it. ~ Miranda Cosgrove, #NFDB
1418:Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love. ~ Oliver Sacks, #NFDB
1419:Thanks for putting that in terms I can easily grasp,’ said Malcolm, without showing the patronizing bitch the slightest sign of irony. ~ Edward St Aubyn, #NFDB
1420:The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1421:then the two FSB assassins put a mini-nuclear poison in Litvinenko’s teapot. It was an audacious operation, and a sign of things to come. ~ Luke Harding, #NFDB
1422:There is no surer sign of a society in decline than one that builds prisons faster than schools, as happens in many American states. In ~ Ethan Nichtern, #NFDB
1423:There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal one. ~ Anthony Powell, #NFDB
1424:The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
1425:When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
1426:Why did the blonde miss her flight? Because when she read the sign on the road that said, "Airport Left," she turned around and went home. *** ~ Various, #NFDB
1427:Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that. ~ Gary Kildall, #NFDB
1428:A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. ~ Norton Juster, #NFDB
1429:Bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend sends you reeling in a search for new adjectives to describe stupidity and thoughtlessness? ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
1430:Everything became a metaphor, a talisman, a sign that I was still actually connected to people—that I wasn’t so completely on my own. ~ Susan Jane Gilman, #NFDB
1431:He searched out a sign and found one near the street that read: “Willowstone Mall.” “Is this really the time to go shopping?” Blaine said. ~ Sam Sisavath, #NFDB
1432:If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words. ~ Juliet Marillier, #NFDB
1433:Like a vicious circle. Like an infinity sign. No beginning, no end. Just me chasing, me catching, and me pleasing. As long as it takes. ~ Charmaine Pauls, #NFDB
1434:Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness. ~ Christopher Pike, #NFDB
1435:Ouroboros, Alex thought. The infinite cycle of creation and destruction, each eternally leading to the other. Not necessarily a bad sign. ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
1436:Sign-symbol
It is out of this Silence that the Word which creates the worlds for ever proceeds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Reality Omnipresent,#NFDB
1437:This time the senators met in the temple of the goddess Concord, or Harmony, a sure sign that affairs of state were anything but harmonious. ~ Mary Beard, #NFDB
1438:And if you hear a frog jump into the pond with a flounce like a stone thrown in, be sure you run and tell me, because it is a sign of rain. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
1439:and tell him to paint me a sign, with-"no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;" might as well kill both birds at once. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1440:Graham was waiting for a sign. If he told Audra he was going to be out late and she objected, that would be a sign that he shouldn’t go. ~ Katherine Heiny, #NFDB
1441:I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. ~ Bette Davis, #NFDB
1442:I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract. ~ Katharine Hepburn, #NFDB
1443:If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased to be self-evident. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
1444:I got into the car and began cruising up and down the streets looking for a For Rent sign. It didn’t seem to be an unusual thing to do. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1445:I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree. ~ Henri Matisse, #NFDB
1446:I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us are waiting to be proven wrong. ~ Jillian Lauren, #NFDB
1447:It is the wonderful theme of the Bible, so frightening for many people, that the only visible sign of God in the world is the cross. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
1448:It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign. ~ Josh Smith, #NFDB
1449:Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
1450:No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.
My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead. ~ Gail Carson Levine,#NFDB
1451:Say YES to life. Participate. Move. Act. Write. Read. Sign up. Take a stand. Or do whatever it takes for you. Get involved in the process. ~ Susan Jeffers, #NFDB
1452:The fact that Trump had become the ultimate avatar of Fox’s angry common man was another sign that we were living in an upside-down world. ~ Michael Wolff, #NFDB
1453:The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1454:The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life. ~ Sadhguru, #NFDB
1455:The snow that began at midafternoon had faded the sign’s virulent yellow to a kinder pastel shade as the light ran out of the January dusk. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1456:To sleep with someone was the sign of ultimate trust. To be defenceless in the presence of another? No. It wasn’t an option with my past. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
1457:What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own. ~ Giordano Bruno, #NFDB
1458:When Allah grants us the sense to ask Him for forgiveness, then He has granted us a huge favor. It's a sign that He wants to forgive us. ~ Nouman Ali Khan, #NFDB
1459:When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life." I am really moved by that. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
1460:Yes, I was determined to have a happy Christmas' 'Did you?' 'I think so. I don't remember it much, and that's always a good sign, isn't it? ~ Evelyn Waugh, #NFDB
1461:Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. ~ G Stanley Hall, #NFDB
1462:At the hospital, I was asked for my autograph; I'm right-handed and couldn't sign. So I was asked for photos. While hooked up to IV lines. ~ Michael Phelps, #NFDB
1463:A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then. ~ Will Self, #NFDB
1464:Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
1465:Enthusiasm! this is the sign that the creative fountain is in you. “Enthusiasm is the All in All,” said Blake. I must tell you this often.] ~ Brenda Ueland, #NFDB
1466:Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people. ~ Mary Kay Ash, #NFDB
1467:I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, #NFDB
1468:If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart. ~ Ninon de L Enclos, #NFDB
1469:Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1470:Is it a bad sign when you see the person you're dating and get the same feeling as if you just saw police lights in you're rear view mirror? ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
1471:Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home. ~ Dennis Miller, #NFDB
1472:The modern city. Myron passed a storefront with a sign: TATTOOS WHILE U WAIT. He reread the sign and frowned. Like how else would you do it? ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
1473:...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" (The Sign of the Four, page 111) ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
1474:and green, a sign that whatever message Daisy was about to deliver was not a catastrophe. If a water main had burst or the air-conditioning ~ Patrick Carman, #NFDB
1475:As masks are the sign that there are faces, words are the sign that there are things. And these things are the sign of the incomprehensible. ~ Marcel Schwob, #NFDB
1476:Because knowledge workers have few metrics for output, the time people spend at their desks is often seen as a sign of productivity and loyalty. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1477:Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
1478:Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls! ~ Gaston Bachelard, #NFDB
1479:I felt like I should be wearing a sign that said “damaged” or “failure” or, at least, “injured.” But some wounds only scar on the inside. Ryder ~ Devon Monk, #NFDB
1480:I’m His girl. You don’t mess with God’s girl. I got a sign on my forehead that says: You better be nice to me, for my Father owns the world. ~ Gianna Jessen, #NFDB
1481:In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'. ~ Paul Johnson, #NFDB
1482:I wish I could print up a sign and tape it on my forehead. I OFFICIALLY DO NOT WANT TO KISS ETHAN WATE. NOW PLEASE LET ME BE FRIENDS WITH HIM. ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
1483:Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1484:Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
1485:O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
1486:The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any blood. Perhaps he was in shock. ~ Anthony Horowitz, #NFDB
1487:The perceived meaninglessness of work is often part of depression. It usually, however, is a sign of depression rather than a cause. Death. ~ Edward T Welch, #NFDB
1488:When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year. ~ Michael Stipe, #NFDB
1489:When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth." ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
1490:You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do ~ Chris Hemsworth, #NFDB
1491:65It is God who sends water down from the sky and with it revives the earth when it is dead. There truly is a sign in this for people who listen. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1492:Aunt Nell used to say it was not decent to have violet eyes, that they were a telltale sign of bad nature, like ginger hair or a hunchback. ~ Deanna Raybourn, #NFDB
1493:I could see the appeal of drugs. If this stomach-sinking, dizzy, falling-through-space feeling was anything like taking heroine? Sign me up. ~ Dani Alexander, #NFDB
1494:I had to learn American sign language. And I did stuff in it, stuff that was just for me and was fun, that I don't think anyone would ever notice. ~ Rob Lowe, #NFDB
1495:In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
1496:Never feeling guilt is not a state of ecstasy, as Las Vegas advertisements would have us believe, but is actually a sign of numbness unto death. ~ Kent Annan, #NFDB
1497:that there is no drug as powerful as hope, that the slightest sign of pessimism in the face or words of a doctor can cost his patient his life. ~ Axel Munthe, #NFDB
1498:The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress. ~ Peter Matthiessen, #NFDB
1499:The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest is just a fucking lunatic. ~ Stephen Fry, #NFDB
1500:We shouldn’t call a critic a murderer just because it is his duty to sign death certificates. —MARCEL REICH-RANICKI, DIE ANWALTE DER LITERATUR, ~ Clive James, #NFDB
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171 Nolini Kanta Gupta
82 Carl Jung
67 H P Lovecraft
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104 Record of Yoga
81 The Synthesis Of Yoga
78 Agenda Vol 01
67 Lovecraft - Poems
43 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
42 Savitri
39 The Golden Bough
36 Mysterium Coniunctionis
36 Magick Without Tears
35 Letters On Yoga IV
35 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
34 Wordsworth - Poems
34 Whitman - Poems
34 The Life Divine
31 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
31 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
29 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
29 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
26 Browning - Poems
25 Liber ABA
25 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
24 Essays On The Gita
23 Agenda Vol 06
23 Agenda Vol 04
23 Agenda Vol 03
22 City of God
22 Agenda Vol 08
22 Agenda Vol 02
21 The Perennial Philosophy
21 The Future of Man
21 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
20 The Practice of Psycho therapy
20 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
20 Letters On Yoga II
20 Agenda Vol 05
19 Shelley - Poems
19 Questions And Answers 1953
19 Agenda Vol 13
18 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
18 Agenda Vol 11
17 The Human Cycle
17 Agenda Vol 12
16 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
16 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
16 Keats - Poems
15 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
15 Letters On Yoga I
14 The Secret Of The Veda
14 The Bible
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14 Questions And Answers 1955
14 Agenda Vol 10
13 Questions And Answers 1956
13 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
13 Metamorphoses
13 Let Me Explain
13 Labyrinths
13 Agenda Vol 07
12 Vedic and Philological Studies
12 The Study and Practice of Yoga
12 The Phenomenon of Man
12 Talks
12 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
12 Of The Nature Of Things
12 Letters On Yoga III
12 Essays Divine And Human
12 Aion
11 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
11 The Divine Comedy
11 Some Answers From The Mother
11 Emerson - Poems
11 Collected Poems
10 Twilight of the Idols
10 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
9 Theosophy
9 Schiller - Poems
9 Questions And Answers 1954
9 Preparing for the Miraculous
9 Prayers And Meditations
9 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
8 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
8 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
8 Letters On Poetry And Art
8 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
8 Agenda Vol 09
7 Words Of Long Ago
7 The Way of Perfection
7 On the Way to Supermanhood
7 On Education
7 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
7 Isha Upanishad
7 Cybernetics
7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
6 Walden
6 Vishnu Purana
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
6 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
6 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
6 Maps of Meaning
6 General Principles of Kabbalah
5 The Practice of Magical Evocation
5 Raja-Yoga
5 Initiation Into Hermetics
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
4 Yeats - Poems
4 Words Of The Mother III
4 The Problems of Philosophy
4 The Alchemy of Happiness
4 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
4 Tara - The Feminine Divine
4 Faust
4 Crowley - Poems
4 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
3 The Lotus Sutra
3 The Book of Certitude
3 Tagore - Poems
3 Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
3 Sex Ecology Spirituality
3 Rilke - Poems
3 Poetics
3 Poe - Poems
3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
3 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
3 Liber Null
3 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
3 Goethe - Poems
3 Dark Night of the Soul
3 Bhakti-Yoga
3 5.1.01 - Ilion
2 Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit
2 Words Of The Mother II
2 The Red Book Liber Novus
2 The Ever-Present Origin
2 The Essentials of Education
2 The Castle of Crossed Destinies
2 Selected Fictions
2 Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation In Theory and Practice
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
2 Kena and Other Upanishads
2 Hymn of the Universe
2 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
00.01 - The Approach to Mysticism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A scientist once thought that he had clinched the issue and cut the Gordian knot when he declared triumphantly with reference to spirit sances: "Very significant is the fact that spirits appear only in closed chambers, in half obscurity, to somnolent minds; they are nowhere in the open air, in broad daylight to the wide awake and vigilant intellect!" Well, if the fact is as it is stated, what does it prove? Night alone reveals the stars, during the day they vanish, but that is no proof that stars are not existent. Rather the true scientific spirit should seek to know why (or how) it is so, if it is so, and such a fact would exactly serve as a pointer, a significant starting ground. The attitude of the jesting Pilate is not helpful even to scientific inquiry. This matter of the Spirits we have taken only as an illustration and it must not be understood that this is a domain of high mysticism; rather the contrary. The spiritualists' approach to Mysticism is not the right one and is fraught with not only errors but dangers. For the spiritualists approach their subject with the entire scientific apparatus the only difference being that the scientist does not believe while the spiritualist believes.
Mystic realities cannot be reached by the scientific consciousness, because they are far more subtle than the subtlest object that science can contemplate. The neutrons and positrons are for science today the finest and profoundest object-forces; they belong, it is said, almost to a borderl and where physics ends. Nor for that reason is a mystic reality something like a mathematical abstraction, -n for example. The mystic reality is subtler than the subtlest of physical things and yet, paradoxical to say, more concrete than the most concrete thing that the senses apprehend.
00.02 - Mystic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But those who do speak, how do they choose their figures and symbols? What is their methodology? For it might be said, since the unseen and the seen differ out and out, it does not matter what forms or signs are taken from the latter; for any meaning and significance could be put into anything. But in reality, it does not so happen. For, although there is a great divergence between figures and symbols on the one hand and the things figured and symbolised on the other, still there is also some link, some common measure. And that is why we see not unoften the same or similar figures and symbols representing an identical experience in ages and countries far apart from each other.
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.
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Thus there is a great diversity of symbols. At the one end is the mere metaphor or simile or allegory ('figure', as we have called it) and at the other end is the symbol identical with the thing symbolized. And upon this inner character of the symbol depends also to a large extent its range and scope. There are symbols which are universal and intimately ingrained in the human consciousness itself. Mankind has used them in all ages and climes almost in the same sense and significance. There are others that are limited to peoples and ages. They are made out of forms that are of local and temporal interest and importance. Their significances vary according to time and place. Finally, there are symbols which are true of the individual consciousness only; they depend on personal peculiarities and idiosyncrasies, on one's environment and upbringing and education.
Man being an embodied soul, his external consciousness (what the Upanishad calls jgrat) is the milieu in which his soul-experiences naturally manifest and find their play. It is the forms and movements of that consciousness which clo the and give a concrete habitation and name to perceptions on the subtler ranges of the inner existence. If the experiences on these planes are to be presented to the conscious memory and to the brain-mind and made communicable to others through speech, this is the inevitable and natural process. Symbols are a translation in mental and sensual (and vocal) terms of experiences that are beyond the mind and the sense and the speech and yet throw a kind of echoing vibrations upon these lesser levels.
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now, before any explanation is attempted it is important to bear in mind that the Upanishads speak of things experiencednot merely thought, reasoned or argued and that these experiences belong to a world and consciousness other than that of the mind and the senses. One should naturally expect here a different language and mode of expression than that which is appropriate to mental and physical things. For example, the world of dreams was once supposed to be a sheer chaos, a mass of meaningless confusion; but now it is held to be quite otherwise. Psychological scientists have discovered a methodeven a very well-defined and strict methodin the madness of that domain. It is an ordered, organised, significant world; but its terminology has to be understood, its code deciphered. It is not a jargon, but a foreign language that must be learnt and mastered.
In the same way, the world of spiritual experiences is also something methodical, well-organized, significant. It may not be and is not the rational world of the mind and the sense; but it need not, for that reason, be devoid of meaning, mere fancifulness or a child's imagination running riot. Here also the right key has to be found, the grammar and vocabulary of that language mastered. And as the best way to have complete mastery of a language is to live among the people who speak it, so, in the matter of spiritual language, the best and the only way to learn it is to go and live in its native country.
Now, as regards the interpretation of the story cited, should not a suspicion arise naturally at the very outset that the dog of the story is not a dog but represents something else? First, a significant epithet is given to itwhite; secondly, although it asks for food, it says that Om is its food and Om is its drink. In the Vedas we have some references to dogs. Yama has twin dogs that "guard the path and have powerful vision." They are his messengers, "they move widely and delight in power and possess the vast strength." The Vedic Rishis pray to them for Power and Bliss and for the vision of the Sun1. There is also the Hound of Heaven, Sarama, who comes down and discovers the luminous cows stolen and hidden by the Panis in their dark caves; she is the path-finder for Indra, the deliverer.
My suggestion is that the dog is a symbol of the keen sight of Intuition, the unfailing perception of direct knowledge. With this clue the Upanishadic story becomes quite sensible and clear and not mere abracadabra. To the aspirant for Knowledge came first a purified power of direct understanding, an Intuition of fundamental value, and this brought others of the same species in its train. They were all linked together organically that is the significance of the circle, and formed a rhythmic utterance and expression of the supreme truth (Om). It is also to be noted that they came and met at dawn to chant, the Truth. Dawn is the opening and awakening of the consciousness to truths that come from above and beyond.
It may be asked why the dog has been chosen as the symbol of Intuition. In the Vedas, the cow and the horse also play a large part; even the donkey and the frog have their own as signed roles. These objects are taken from the environment of ordinary life, and are those that are most familiar to the external consciousness, through which the inner experiences have to express themselves, if they are to be expressed at all. These material objects represent various kinds of forces and movements and subtle and occult and spiritual dynamisms. Strictly speaking, however, symbols are not chosen in a subtle or spiritual experience, that is to say, they are not arbitrarily selected and constructed by the conscious intelligence. They form part of a dramatization (to use a term of the Freudian psychology of dreams), a psychological alchemy, whose method and process and rationale are very obscure, which can be penetrated only by the vision of a third eye.
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In Yajnavalkya's enumeration, however, it is to be noted, first of all, that he stresses on the number three. The principle of triplicity is of very wide application: it permeates all fields of consciousness and is evidently based upon a fundamental fact of reality. It seems to embody a truth of synthesis and comprehension, points to the order and harmony that reigns in the cosmos, the spheric music. The metaphysical, that is to say, the original principles that constitute existence are the well-known triplets: (i) the superior: Sat, Chit, Ananda; and (ii) the inferior: Body, Life and Mindthis being a reflection or translation or concretisation of the former. We can see also here how the dual principle comes in, the twin godhead or the two gods to which Yajnavalkya refers. The same principle is found in the conception of Ardhanarishwara, Male and Female, Purusha-Prakriti. The Upanishad says 14 yet again that the One original Purusha was not pleased at being alone, so for a companion he created out of himself the original Female. The dual principle signifies creation, the manifesting activity of the Reality. But what is this one and a half to which Yajnavalkya refers? It simply means that the other created out of the one is not a wholly separate, independent entity: it is not an integer by itself, as in the Manichean system, but that it is a portion, a fraction of the One. And in the end, in the ultimate analysis, or rather synthesis, there is but one single undivided and indivisible unity. The thousands and hundreds, very often mentioned also in the Rig Veda, are not simply multiplications of the One, a graphic description of its many-sidedness; it indicates also the absolute fullness, the complete completeness (prasya pram) of the Reality. It includes and comprehends all and is a rounded totality, a full circle. The hundred-gated and the thousand-pillared cities of which the ancient Rishis chanted are formations and embodiments of consciousness human and divine, are realities whole and entire englobing all the layers and grades of consciousness.
Besides this metaphysics there is also an occult aspect in numerology of which Pythagoras was a well-known adept and in which the Vedic Rishis too seem to take special delight. The multiplication of numbers represents in a general way the principle of emanation. The One has divided and subdivided itself, but not in a haphazard way: it is not like the chaotic pulverisation of a piece of stone by hammer-blows. The process of division and subdivision follows a pattern almost as neat and methodical as a genealogical tree. That is to say, the emanations form a hierarchy. At the top, the apex of the pyramid, stands the one supreme Godhead. That Godhead is biune in respect of manifestation the Divine and his creative Power. This two-in-one reality may be considered, according to one view of creation, as dividing into three forms or aspects the well-known Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra of Hindu mythology. These may be termed the first or primary emanations.
00.04 - The Beautiful in the Upanishads, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And what else is the true character, the soul of beauty than light and delight? "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever." And a thing of joy is a thing of light. Joy is the radiance rippling over a thing of beauty. Beauty is always radiant: the charm, the loveliness of an object is but the glow of light that it emanates. And it would not be a very incorrect mensuration to measure the degree of beauty by the degree of light radiated. The diamond is not only a thing of value, but a thing of beauty also, because of the concentrated and undimmed light that it enshrines within itself. A dark, dull and dismal thing, devoid of interest and attraction becomes aesthetically precious and significant as soon as the artist presents it in terms of the values of light. The entire art of painting is nothing but the expression of beauty, in and through the modalities of light.
And where there is light, there is cheer and joy. Rasamaya and jyotirmayaare thus the two conjoint characteristics fundamental to the nature of the ultimate reality. Sometimes these two are named as the 'solar and the lunar aspect. The solar aspect refers obviously to the Light, that is to say, to the Truth; the lunar aspect refers to the rasa (Soma), to Immortality, to Beauty proper,
0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
For example, Keser is called "The Admirable or the Hidden Intelligence; it is the Primal Glory, for no created being can attain to its essence." This seems perfectly all right; the meaning at first sight seems to fit the significance of Keser as the first emanation from Ain Soph. But there are half a dozen other similar attri butions that would have served equally well. For instance, it could have been called the "Occult Intelligence" usually attri buted to the seventh Path or Sephirah, for surely Keser is secret in a way to be said of no other Sephirah. And what about the "Absolute or Perfect Intelligence." That would have been even more explicit and appropriate, being applicable to Keser far more than to any other of the Paths. Similarly, there is one attri buted to the 16th Path and called "The Eternal or Triumphant Intelligence," so-called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous." Any of these several would have done equally well. Much is true of so many of the other attri butions in this particular area-that is the so-called Intelligences of the Sepher Yetzirah. I do not think that their use or current arbitrary usage stands up to serious examination or criticism.
A good many attri butions in other symbolic areas, I feel are subject to the same criticism. The Egyptian Gods have been used with a good deal of carelessness, and without sufficient explanation of motives in as signing them as I did. In a recent edition of Crowley's masterpiece Liber 777 (which au fond is less a reflection of Crowley's mind as a recent critic claimed than a tabulation of some of the material given piecemeal in the Golden Dawn knowledge lectures), he gives for the first time brief explanations of the motives for his attri butions. I too should have been far more explicit in the explanations I used in the case of some of the Gods whose names were used many times, most inadequately, where several paths were concerned. While it is true that the religious coloring of the Egyptian Gods differed from time to time during Egypt's turbulent history, nonetheless a word or two about just that one single point could have served a useful purpose.
000 - Humans in Universe, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
denied there was any economic significance in his theory of evolution, the
economists insisted that superior physical fitness obviously governed economic
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Hindu priests are thoroughly acquainted with the rites of worship, but few of them are aware of their underlying significance. They move their hands and limbs mechanically, in obedience to the letter of the scriptures, and repeat the holy mantras like parrots. But from the very beginning the inner meaning of these rites was revealed to Sri Ramakrishna. As he sat facing the image, a strange transformation came over his mind. While going through the prescribed ceremonies, he would actually find himself encircled by a wall of fire protecting him and the place of worship from unspiritual vibrations, or he would feel the rising of the mystic Kundalini through the different centres of the body. The glow on his face, his deep absorption, and the intense atmosphere of the temple impressed everyone who saw him worship the Deity.
Ramkumar wanted Sri Ramakrishna to learn the intricate rituals of the worship of Kali. To become a priest of Kali one must undergo a special form of initiation from a qualified guru, and for Sri Ramakrishna a suitable brahmin was found. But no sooner did the brahmin speak the holy word in his ear than Sri Ramakrishna, overwhelmed with emotion, uttered a loud cry and plunged into deep concentration.
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Two famous pundits of the time were invited: Vaishnavcharan, the leader of the Vaishnava society, and Gauri. The first to arrive was Vaishnavcharan, with a distinguished company of scholars and devotees. The Brahmani, like a proud mother, proclaimed her view before him and supported it with quotations from the scriptures. As the pundits discussed the deep theological question, Sri Ramakrishna, perfectly indifferent to everything happening around him, sat in their midst like a child, immersed in his own thoughts, sometimes smiling, sometimes chewing a pinch of spices from a pouch, or again saying to Vaishnavcharan with a nudge: "Look here. Sometimes I feel like this, too." Presently Vaishnavcharan arose to declare himself in total agreement with the view of the Brahmani. He declared that Sri Ramakrishna had undoubtedly experienced mahabhava and that this was the certain sign of the rare manifestation of God in a man. The people assembled
there, especially the officers of the temple garden, were struck dumb. Sri Rama- krishna said to Mathur, like a boy: "Just fancy, he too says so! Well, I am glad to learn that after all it is not a disease."
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While practising the discipline of the madhur bhava, the male devotee often regards himself as a woman, in order to develop the most intense form of love for Sri Krishna, the only purusha, or man, in the universe. This assumption of the attitude of the opposite sex has a deep psychological significance. It is a matter of common experience that an idea may be cultivated to such an intense degree that every idea alien to it is driven from the mind. This peculiarity of the mind may be utilized for the subjugation of the lower desires and the development of the spiritual nature. Now, the idea which is the basis of all desires and passions in a man is the conviction of his indissoluble association with a male body. If he can inoculate himself thoroughly with the idea that he is a woman, he can get rid of the desires peculiar to his male body. Again, the idea that he is a woman may in turn be made to give way to another higher idea, namely, that he is neither man nor woman, but the Impersonal Spirit. The Impersonal Spirit alone can enjoy real communion with the Impersonal God. Hence the highest est realization of the Vaishnava draws close to the transcendental experience of the Vedantist.
A beautiful expression of the Vaishnava worship of God through love is to be found in the Vrindavan episode of the Bhagavata. The gopis, or milk-maids, of Vrindavan regarded the six-year-old Krishna as their Beloved. They sought no personal gain or happiness from this love. They surrendered to Krishna their bodies, minds, and souls. Of all the gopis, Radhika, or Radha, because of her intense love for Him, was the closest to Krishna. She manifested mahabhava and was united with her Beloved. This union represents, through sensuous language, a supersensuous experience.
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From Sri Ramakrishna Totapuri had to learn the significance of Kali, the Great Fact of the relative world, and of maya, Her indescribable Power.
One day, when guru and disciple were engaged in an animated discussion about Vedanta, a servant of the temple garden came there and took a coal from the sacred fire that had been lighted by the great ascetic. He wanted it to light his tobacco. Totapuri flew into a rage and was about to beat the man. Sri Ramakrishna rocked with laughter. "What a shame!" he cried. "You are explaining to me the reality of Brahman and the illusoriness of the world; yet now you have so far forgotten yourself as to be about to beat a man in a fit of passion. The power of maya is indeed inscrutable!" Totapuri was embarrassed.
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Sri Ramakrishna later described the significance of Totapuri's lessons:
"When I think of the Supreme Being as inactive — neither creating nor preserving nor destroying —, I call Him Brahman or Purusha, the Impersonal God. When I think of Him as active — creating, preserving, and destroying —, I call Him Sakti or Maya or Prakriti, the Personal God. But the distinction between them does not mean a difference. The Personal and the Impersonal are the same thing, like milk and its whiteness, the diamond and its lustre, the snake and its wriggling motion. It is impossible to conceive of the one without the other. The Divine Mother and Brahman are one."
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The party entered holy Benares by boat along the Ganges. When Sri Ramakrishna's eyes fell on this city of Siva, where had accumulated for ages the devotion and piety of countless worshippers, he saw it to be made of gold, as the scriptures declare. He was visibly moved. During his stay in the city he treated every particle of its earth with utmost respect. At the Manikarnika Ghat, the great cremation ground of the city, he actually saw Siva, with ash-covered body and tawny matted hair, serenely approaching each funeral pyre and breathing into the ears of the corpses the mantra of liberation; and then the Divine Mother removing from the dead their bonds. Thus he realized the significance of the scriptural statement that anyone dying in Benares attains salvation through the grace of Siva. He paid a visit to Trailanga Swami, the celebrated monk, whom he later declared to be a real paramahamsa, a veritable image of Siva.
Sri Ramakrishna visited Allahabad, at the confluence of the Ganges and the Jamuna, and then proceeded to Vrindavan and Mathura, hallowed by the legends, songs, and dramas about Krishna and the gopis. Here he had numerous visions and his heart overflowed with divine emotion. He wept and said: "O Krishna! Everything here is as it was in the olden days. You alone are absent." He visited the great woman saint, Gangamayi, regarded by Vaishnava devotees as the reincarnation of an intimate attendant of Radha. She was sixty years old and had frequent trances. She spoke of Sri Ramakrishna as an incarnation of Radha. With great difficulty he was persuaded to leave her.
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Totapuri, coming to know of the Master's marriage, had once remarked: "What does it matter? He alone is firmly established in the Knowledge of Brahman who can adhere to his spirit of discrimination and renunciation even while living with his wife. He alone has attained the supreme illumination who can look on man and woman alike as Brahman. A man with the idea of sex may be a good aspirant, but he is still far from the goal." Sri Ramakrishna and his wife lived together at Dakshineswar, but their minds always soared above the worldly plane. A few months after Sarada Devi's arrival Sri Ramakrishna arranged, on an auspicious day, a special worship of Kali, the Divine Mother. Instead of an image of the Deity, he placed on the seat the living image, Sarada Devi herself. The worshipper and the worshipped went into deep samadhi and in the transcendental plane their souls were united. After several hours Sri Ramakrishna came down again to the relative plane, sang a hymn to the Great Goddess, and surrendered, at the feet of the living image, himself, his rosary, and the fruit of his life-long sadhana. This is known in Tantra as the Shorasi Puja, the "Adoration of Woman". Sri Ramakrishna realized the significance of the great statement of the Upanishad: "O Lord, Thou art the woman. Thou art the man; Thou art the boy. Thou art the girl; Thou art the old, tottering on their crutches. Thou pervadest the universe in its multiple forms."
By his marriage Sri Ramakrishna admitted the great value of marriage in man's spiritual evolution, and by adhering to his monastic vows he demonstrated the imperative necessity of self-control, purity, and continence, in the realization of God. By this unique spiritual relationship with his wife he proved that husband and wife can live together as spiritual companions. Thus his life is a synthesis of the ways of life of the householder and the monk.
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The Europeanized Kristodas Pal did not approve of the Master's emphasis on renunciation and said; "Sir, this cant of renunciation has almost ruined the country. It is for this reason that the Indians are a subject nation today. Doing good to others, bringing education to the door of the ignorant, and above all, improving the material conditions of the country — these should be our duty now. The cry of religion and renunciation would, on the contrary, only weaken us. You should advise the young men of Bengal to resort only to such acts as will uplift the country." Sri Ramakrishna gave him a searching look and found no divine light within, "You man of poor understanding!" Sri Ramakrishna said sharply. "You dare to slight in these terms renunciation and piety, which our scriptures describe as the greatest of all virtues! After reading two pages of English you think you have come to know the world! You appear to think you are omniscient. Well, have you seen those tiny crabs that are born in the Ganges just when the rains set in? In this big universe you are even less significant than one of those small creatures. How dare you talk of helping the world? The Lord will look to that. You haven't the power in you to do it." After a pause the Master continued: "Can you explain to me how you can work for others? I know what you mean by helping them. To feed a number of persons, to treat them when they are sick, to construct a road or dig a well — isn't that all? These, are good deeds, no doubt, but how trifling in comparison with the vastness of the universe! How far can a man advance in this line? How many people can you save from famine? Malaria has ruined a whole province; what could you do to stop its onslaught? God alone looks after the world. Let a man first realize Him. Let a man get the authority from God and be endowed with His power; then, and then alone, may he think of doing good to others. A man should first be purged of all egotism. Then alone will the Blissful Mother ask him to work for the world." Sri Ramakrishna mistrusted philanthropy that presumed to pose as charity. He warned people against it. He saw in most acts of philanthropy nothing but egotism, vanity, a desire for glory, a barren excitement to kill the boredom of life, or an attempt to soothe a guilty conscience. True charity, he taught, is the result of love of God — service to man in a spirit of worship.
--- MONASTIC DISCIPLES
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This was a very rich and significant experience for Narendra. It taught him that Sakti, the Divine Power, cannot be ignored in the world and that in the relative plane the need of worshipping a Personal God is imperative. Sri Ramakrishna was overjoyed with the conversion. The next day, sitting almost on Narendra's lap, he said to a devotee, pointing first to himself, then to Narendra: "I see I am this, and again that. Really I feel no difference. A stick floating in the Ganges seems to divide the water; But in reality the water is one. Do you see my point? Well, whatever is, is the Mother — isn't that so?" In later years Narendra would say: "Sri Ramakrishna was the only person who, from the time he met me, believed in me uniformly throughout. Even my mother and brothers did not. It was his unwavering trust and love for me that bound me to him for ever. He alone knew how to love. Worldly people, only make a show of love for selfish ends.
--- TARAK
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One day, in January 1884, the Master was going toward the pine-grove when he went into a trance. He was alone. There was no one to support him or guide his footsteps. He fell to the ground and dislocated a bone in his left arm. This accident had a significant influence on his mind, the natural inclination of which was to soar above the consciousness of the body. The acute pain in the arm forced his mind to dwell on the body and on the world outside. But he saw even in this a divine purpose; for, with his mind compelled to dwell on the physical plane, he realized more than ever that he was an instrument in the hand of the Divine Mother, who had a mission to fulfil through his human body and mind. He also distinctly found that in the phenomenal world God manifests Himself, in an inscrutable way, through diverse human beings, both good and evil. Thus he would speak of God in the guise of the wicked, God in the guise of the pious. God in the guise of the hypocrite, God in the guise of the lewd. He began to take a special delight in watching the divine play in the relative world. Sometimes the sweet human relationship with God would appear to him more appealing than the all-effacing Knowledge of Brahman. Many a time he would pray: "Mother, don't make me unconscious through the Knowledge of Brahman. Don't give me Brahmajnana, Mother. Am I not Your child, and naturally timid? I must have my Mother. A million salutations to the Knowledge of Brahman! Give it to those who want it." Again he prayed: "O Mother let me remain in contact with men! Don't make me a dried-up ascetic. I want to enjoy Your sport in the world." He was able to taste this very rich divine experience and enjoy the love of God and the company of His devotees because his mind, on account of the injury to his arm, was forced to come down to the consciousness of the body. Again, he would make fun of people who proclaimed him as a Divine Incarnation, by pointing to his broken arm. He would say, "Have you ever heard of God breaking His arm?" It took the arm about five months to heal.
--- BEGINNING OF HIS ILLNESS
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When Sri Ramakrishna's illness showed signs of aggravation, the devotees, following the advice of Dr. Sarkar, rented a spacious garden house at Cossipore, in the northern suburbs of Calcutta. The Master was removed to this place on December 11, 1885.
It was at Cossipore that the curtain fell on the varied activities of the Master's life on the physical plane. His soul lingered in the body eight months more. It was the period of his great Passion, a constant crucifixion of the body and the triumphant revelation of the Soul. Here one sees the humanity and divinity of the Master passing and repassing across a thin border line. Every minute of those eight months was suffused with touching tenderness of heart and breath-taking elevation of spirit. Every word he uttered was full of pathos and sublimity.
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
or Cross is the sign of the Phallus. For a fuller com-
mentary on Nox, see Liber VII, Chapter I.
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He is the letter of Aries, a Martial sign; while the
title suggests war. The ants are chosen as small busy
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(13) T, manhood, the sign of the cross or phallus.
UT, the Holy Guardian Angel; UT, the first syllable
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eyes, fling it forth, making the sign of Horus, and
roar {Chi-Alpha-Omicron-C?}. Retire thine hand in the sign of Hoor
pa kraat.
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words {Iota-Omicron Pi-Alpha-Nu} with the signs of N.O.X.
Extend the arms in the form of a Tau, and say low
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In the centre, let him give the L.V.X. signs; or if
he know them, if he will and dare do them, and
can keep silent about them, the signs of N.O.X.
being the signs of Puer, Vir, Puella, Mulier. Omit
the sign I.R.
Then let him advance to the East, and make the
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In this the signs shall be those of Set Triumphant
and of Baphomet. Also shall Set appear in the
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Let him then repeat the signs of L.V.X. but not the
signs of N.O.X.; for it is not he that shall arise in
the sign of Isis Rejoicing.
COMMENTARY ({Lambda-Sigma})
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There may be some significance in the chapter
number, which is that of Jechidah the highest unity of
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of the Cakes of Light. In the sign of the Enterer he
reaches West across the Altar, and cries:
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He gives the sign of Silence, and takes the Bell, and
Fire, in his hands.
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makes upon his breast the proper sign.
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Gashed with the sacramental sign!
He puts the second Cake to the wound.
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which is highly significant; the word "lives" excluding the
mineral kingdom, the word "moves" the vegetable kingdom,
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The numbers in paragraphs 1 to 3 are significant;
each Master-Mason is attended by 5 Fellow-Crafts,
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manual signs in each of these degrees.
The moral of the chapter is apparently that the
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The word "see-saw" is significant, almost a comment
upon this chapter. To the Master of the Temple
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the sign of the GREAT WORK, for the GREAT
WORK is accomplished in Silence. And behold is
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that of Horus, a sign specially revealed by him per-
sonally, at the Equinox of the Gods. (It is the flame
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vanity pleases the mind; the idee fixe is a sign of
insanity. See paragraphs 4 and 5.
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
It looks as if M. was brought to the world by the Great Master to record his words and transmit them to posterity. Swami Sivananda, a direct disciple of the Master and the second President of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, says on this topic: "Whenever there was an interesting talk, the Master would call Master Mahashay if he was not in the room, and then draw his attention to the holy words spoken. We did not know then why the Master did so. Now we can realise that this action of the Master had an important significance, for it was reserved for Master Mahashay to give to the world at large the sayings of the Master." ( Vednta Kesari Vol. XIX P 141.) Thanks to M., we get, unlike in the case of the great teachers of the past, a faithful record with date, time, exact report of conversations, description of concerned men and places, references to contemporary events and personalities and a hundred other details for the last four years of the Master's life (1882-'86), so that no one can doubt the historicity of the Master and his teachings at any time in the future.
M. was, in every respect, a true missionary of Sri Ramakrishna right from his first acquaintance with him in 1882. As a school teacher, it was a practice with him to direct to the Master such of his students as had a true spiritual disposition. Though himself prohibited by the Master to take to monastic life, he encouraged all spiritually inclined young men he came across in his later life to join the monastic Order. Swami Vijnanananda, a direct Sannysin disciple of the Master and a President of the Ramakrishna Order, once remarked to M.: "By enquiry, I have come to the conclusion that eighty percent and more of the Sannysins have embraced the monastic life after reading the Kathmrita (Bengali name of the book) and coming in contact with you." ( M
0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity. With this objective, we set out on our review of the spectrum of significant experiences and seek therein for the greatest meanings as well as for the family of generalized principles governing the realization of their optimum significance to humanity aboard our Sun circling planet Earth.
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Mind is the weightless and uniquely human faculty that surveys the ever larger inventory of special-case experiences stored in the brain bank and, seeking to identify their intercomplementary significance, from time to time discovers one of the rare scientifically generalizable principles running consistently through all the relevant experience set. The thoughts that discover these principles are weightless and tentative and may also be eternal. They suggest eternity but do not prove it, even though there have been no experiences thus far that imply exceptions to their persistence. It seems also to follow that the more experiences we have, the more chances there are that the mind may discover, on the one hand, additional generalized principles or, on the other hand, exceptions that disqualify one or another of the already catalogued principles that, having heretofore held "true" without contradiction for a long time, had been tentatively conceded to be demonstrating eternal persistence of behavior. Mind's relentless reviewing of the comprehensive brain bank's storage of all our special-case experiences tends both to progressive enlargement and definitive refinement of the catalogue of generalized principles that interaccommodatively govern all transactions of Universe.
It follows that the more specialized society becomes, the less attention does it pay to the discoveries of the mind, which are intuitively beamed toward the brain, there to be received only if the switches are "on." Specialization tends to shut off the wide-band tuning searches and thus to preclude further discovery of the all-powerful generalized principles. Again we see how society's perverse fixation on specialization leads to its extinction. We are so specialized that one man discovers empirically how to release the energy of the atom, while another, unbeknownst to him, is ordered by his political factotum to make an atomic bomb by use of the secretly and anonymously published data. That gives much expedient employment, which solves the politician's momentary problem, but requires that the politicians keep on preparing for further warring with other political states to keep their respective peoples employed. It is also mistakenly assumed that employment is the only means by which humans can earn the right to live, for politicians have yet to discover how much wealth is available for distribution. All this is rationalized on the now scientifically discredited premise that there can never be enough life support for all. Thus humanity's specialization leads only toward warring and such devastating tools, both, visible and invisible, as ultimately to destroy all Earthians.
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While it takes but meager search to discover that many well-known concepts are false, it takes considerable search and even more careful examination of one's own personal experiences and inadvertently spontaneous reflexing to discover that there are many popularly and even professionally unknown, yet nonetheless fundamental, concepts to hold true in all cases and that already have been discovered by other as yet obscure individuals. That is to say that many scientific generalizations have been discovered but have not come to the attention of what we call the educated world at large, thereafter to be incorporated tardily within the formal education processes, and even more tardily, in the ongoing political-economic affairs of everyday life. Knowledge of the existence and comprehensive significance of these as yet popularly unrecognized natural laws often is requisite to the solution of many of the as yet unsolved problems now confronting society. Lack of knowledge of the solution's existence often leaves humanity confounded when it need not be.
Intellectually advantaged with no more than the child's facile, lucid eagerness to understand constructively and usefully the major transformational events of our own times, it probably is synergetically advantageous to review swiftly the most comprehensive inventory of the most powerful human environment transforming events of our totally known and reasonably extended history. This is especially useful in winnowing out and understanding the most significant of the metaphysical revolutions now recognized as swiftly tending to reconstitute history. By such a comprehensively schematic review, we might identify also the unprecedented and possibly heretofore overlooked pivotal revolutionary events not only of today but also of those trending to be central to tomorrow's most cataclysmic changes.
It is synergetically reasonable to assume that relativistic evaluation of any of the separate drives of art, science, education, economics, and ideology, and their complexedly interacting trends within our own times, may be had only through the most comprehensive historical sweep of which we are capable.
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Furthermore, today's hyperspecialization in socioeconomic functioning has come to preclude important popular philosophic considerations of the synergetic significance of, for instance, such historically important events as the discovery within the general region of experimental inquiry known as virology that the as-yet popularly assumed validity of the concepts of animate and inanimate phenomena have been experimentally invalidated. Atoms and crystal complexes of atoms were held to be obviously inanimate; the protoplasmic cells of biological phenomena were held to be obviously animate. It was deemed to be common sense that warm- blooded, moist, and soft-skinned humans were clearly not to be confused with hard, cold granite or steel objects. A clear-cut threshold between animate and inanimate was therefore assumed to exist as a fundamental dichotomy of all physical phenomena. This seemingly placed life exclusively within the bounds of the physical.
The supposed location of the threshold between animate and inanimate was methodically narrowed down by experimental science until it was confined specifically within the domain of virology. Virologists have been too busy, for instance, with their DNA-RNA genetic code isolatings, to find time to see the synergetic significance to society of the fact that they have found that no physical threshold does in fact exist between animate and inanimate. The possibility of its existence vanished because the supposedly unique physical qualities of both animate and inanimate have persisted right across yesterday's supposed threshold in both directions to permeate one another's-previously perceived to be exclusive- domains. Subsequently, what was animate has become foggier and foggier, and what is inanimate clearer and clearer. All organisms consist physically and in entirety of inherently inanimate atoms. The inanimate alone is not only omnipresent but is alone experimentally demonstrable. Belated news of the elimination of this threshold must be interpreted to mean that whatever life may be, it has not been isolated and thereby identified as residual in the biological cell, as had been supposed by the false assumption that there was a separate physical phenomenoncalled animate within which life existed. No life per se has been isolated. The threshold between animate and inanimate has vanished. Those chemists who are preoccupied in synthesizing the particular atomically structured molecules identified as the prime constituents of humanly employed organisms will, even if they are chemically successful, be as remote from creating life as are automobile manufacturers from creating the human drivers of their automobiles. Only the physical connections and development complexes of distinctly "nonlife" atoms into molecules, into cells, into animals, has been and will be discovered. The genetic coding of the de sign controls of organic systems offers no more explanation of life than did the specifications of the de signs of the telephone system's apparatus and operation explain the nature of the life that communicates weightlessly to life over the only physically ponderable telephone system. Whatever else life may be, we know it is weightless. At the moment of death, no weight is lost. All the chemicals, including the chemist's life ingredients, are present, but life has vanished. The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic.
It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
The overconcentration on details of hyperspecialization has also been responsible for the lack of recognition by science of its inherently mandatory responsibility to reorient all our educational curricula because of the synergetically disclosed, but popularly uncomprehended, significance of the 1956 Nobel Prize-winning discovery in physics of the experimental invalidation of the concept of "parity" by which science previously had misassumed that positive-negative complementations consisted exclusively of mirror-imaged behaviors of physical phenomena.
Science's self-assumed responsibility has been self-limited to disclosure to society only of the separate, supposedly physical (because separately weighable) atomic component isolations data. Synergetic integrity would require the scientists to announce that in reality what had been identified heretofore as physical is entirely metaphysical-because synergetically weightless. Metaphysical has been science's de signation for all weightless phenomena such as thought. But science has made no experimental finding of any phenomena that can be described as a solid, or as continuous, or as a straight surface plane, or as a straight line, or as infinite anything. We are now synergetically forced to conclude that all phenomena are metaphysical; wherefore, as many have long suspected-like it or not-life is but a dream.Science has found no up or down directions of Universe, yet scientists are personally so ill-coordinated that they all still personally and sensorially see "solids" going up or down-as, for instance, they see the Sun "going down." Sensorially disconnected from their theoretically evolved information, scientists discern no need on their part to suggest any educational reforms to correct the misconceiving that science has tolerated for half a millennium.
0.01f - FOREWARD, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
view of his own significance in the physical world. There is no
need to be surprised at this slow awakening. It often happens
0.01 - I - Sri Aurobindos personality, his outer retirement - outside contacts after 1910 - spiritual personalities- Vibhutis and Avatars - transformtion of human personality, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Integral Yoga
The question which Arjuna asks Sri Krishna in the Gita (second chapter) occurs pertinently to many about all spiritual personalities: "What is the language of one whose understanding is poised? How does he speak, how sit, how walk?" Men want to know the outer signs of the inner attainment, the way in which a spiritual person differs outwardly from other men. But all the tests which the Gita enumerates are inner and therefore invisible to the outer view. It is true also that the inner or the spiritual is the essential and the outer derives its value and form from the inner. But the transformation about which Sri Aurobindo writes in his books has to take place in nature, because according to him the divine Reality has to manifest itself in nature. So, all the parts of nature including the physical and the external are to be transformed. In his own case the very physical became the transparent mould of the Spirit as a result of his intense Sadhana. This is borne out by the impression created on the minds of sensitive outsiders like Sj. K. M. Munshi who was deeply impressed by his radiating presence when he met him after nearly forty years.
The Evening Talks collected here may afford to the outside world a glimpse of his external personality and give the seeker some idea of its richness, its many-sidedness, its uniqueness. One can also form some notion of Sri Aurobindo's personality from the books in which the height, the universal sweep and clear vision of his integral ideal and thought can be seen. His writings are, in a sense, the best representative of his mental personality. The versatile nature of his genius, the penetrating power of his intellect, his extraordinary power of expression, his intense sincerity, his utter singleness of purpose all these can be easily felt by any earnest student of his works. He may discover even in the realm of mind that Sri Aurobindo brings the unlimited into the limited. Another side of his dynamic personality is represented by the Ashram as an institution. But the outer, if one may use the phrase, the human side of his personality, is unknown to the outside world because from 1910 to 1950 a span of forty years he led a life of outer retirement. No doubt, many knew about his staying at Pondicherry and practising some kind of very special Yoga to the mystery of which they had no access. To some, perhaps, he was living a life of enviable solitude enjoying the luxury of a spiritual endeavour. Many regretted his retirement as a great loss to the world because they could not see any external activity on his part which could be regarded as 'public', 'altruistic' or 'beneficial'. Even some of his admirers thought that he was after some kind of personal salvation which would have very little significance for mankind in general. His outward non-participation in public life was construed by many as lack of love for humanity.
But those who knew him during the days of the national awakening from 1900 to 1910 could not have these doubts. And even these initial misunderstandings and false notions of others began to evaporate with the growth of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram from 1927 onwards. The large number of books published by the Ashram also tended to remove the idea of the other-worldliness of his Yoga and the absence of any good by it to mankind.
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The Gita in its chapters on the Vibhuti and the Avatar takes in general the same position. It shows that the present formula of our nature, and therefore the mental personality of man, is not final. A Vibhuti embodies in a human manifestation a certain divine quality and thus demonstrates the possibility of overcoming the limits of ordinary human personality. The Vibhuti the embodiment of a divine quality or power, and the Avatar the divine incarnation, are not to be looked upon as supraphysical miracles thrown at humanity without regard to the process of evolution; they are, in fact, indications of human possibility, a sign that points to the goal of evolution.
In his Essays on the Gita, Sri Aurobindo says about the Avatar: "He may, on the other hand, descend as an incarnation of divine life, the divine personality and power in its characteristic action, for a mission ostensibly social, ethical and political, as is represented in the story of Rama or Krishna; but always then this descent becomes in the soul of the race a permanent power for the inner living and the spiritual rebirth."[5]
0.01 - Letters from the Mother to Her Son, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the inconscience which is the sign of ordinary sleep. But I do
give my body the rest it needs, that is, two or three hours of
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of convenience for the papers and signatures, since it is I who
"manage" everything, but not because I really own them. You
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The sign of the times seems to be a complete lack of common
sense. But perhaps we see it this way simply because nearness
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
unless a chit signed by me could be produced.
"To turn towards Thee, unite with Thee, live in Thee and
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Why do you want an outward sign of my love? Are you not
satisfied with knowing it is there?
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as a sure sign of victory - but how can this be done
without getting a headache, Sweet Mother?
0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Certainly, the mental life is not a finished evolution of Nature; it is not yet firmly founded in the human animal. The sign is that the fine and full equilibrium of vitality and matter, the sane, robust, long-lived human body is ordinarily found only in races or classes of men who reject the effort of thought, its disturbances, its tensions, or think only with the material mind.
Civilised man has yet to establish an equilibrium between the fully active mind and the body; he does not normally possess it.
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towards ideal social and economic conditions, by the labour of Science towards an improved health, longevity and sound physique in civilised humanity, the sense and drift of this vast movement translates itself in easily intelligible signs. The right or at least the ultimate means may not always be employed, but their aim is the right preliminary aim, - a sound individual and social body and the satisfaction of the legitimate needs and demands of the material mind, sufficient ease, leisure, equal opportunity, so that the whole of mankind and no longer only the favoured race, class or individual may be free to develop the emotional and intellectual being to its full capacity. At present the material and economic aim may predominate, but always, behind, there works or there waits in reserve the higher and major impulse.
And when the preliminary conditions are satisfied, when the great endeavour has found its base, what will be the nature of that farther possibility which the activities of the intellectual life must serve? If Mind is indeed Nature's highest term, then the entire development of the rational and imaginative intellect and the harmonious satisfaction of the emotions and sensibilities must be to themselves sufficient. But if, on the contrary, man is more than a reasoning and emotional animal, if beyond that which is being evolved, there is something that has to be evolved, then it may well be that the fullness of the mental life, the suppleness, flexibility and wide capacity of the intellect, the ordered richness of emotion and sensibility may be only a passage towards the development of a higher life and of more powerful faculties which are yet to manifest and to take possession of the lower instrument, just as mind itself has so taken possession of the body that the physical being no longer lives only for its own satisfaction but provides the foundation and the materials for a superior activity.
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The immanence itself would have no credible reason for being if it did not end in such a transfiguration. But if human mind can become capable of the glories of the divine Light, human emotion and sensibility can be transformed into the mould and assume the measure and movement of the supreme Bliss, human action not only represent but feel itself to be the motion of a divine and non-egoistic Force and the physical substance of our being sufficiently partake of the purity of the supernal essence, sufficiently unify plasticity and durable constancy to support and prolong these highest experiences and agencies, then all the long labour of Nature will end in a crowning justification and her evolutions reveal their profound significance.
So dazzling is even a glimpse of this supreme existence and so absorbing its attraction that, once seen, we feel readily justified in neglecting all else for its pursuit. Even, by an opposite exaggeration to that which sees all things in Mind and the mental life as an exclusive ideal, Mind comes to be regarded as an unworthy deformation and a supreme obstacle, the source of an illusory universe, a negation of the Truth and itself to be denied and all its works and results annulled if we desire the final liberation. But this is a half-truth which errs by regarding only the actual limitations of Mind and ignores its divine intention.
0.03 - III - The Evening Sittings, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Integral Yoga
When Sri Aurobindo and the Mother moved to No. 9 Rue de la Marine in 1922 the same routine of informal evening sittings after meditation continued. I came to Pondicherry for Sadhana in the beginning of 1923. I kept notes of the important talks I had with the four or five disciples who were already there. Besides, I used to take detailed notes of the Evening Talks which we all had with the Master. They were not intended by him to be noted down. I took them down because of the importance I felt about everything connected with him, no matter how in significant to the outer view. I also felt that everything he did would acquire for those who would come to know his mission a very great significance.
As years passed the evening sittings went on changing their time and often those disciples who came from outside for a temporary stay for Sadhana were allowed to join them. And, as the number of sadhaks practising the Yoga increased, the evening sittings also became more full, and the small verandah upstairs in the main building was found insufficient. Members of the household would gather every day at the fixed time with some sense of expectancy and start chatting in low tones. Sri Aurobindo used to come last and it was after his coming that the session would really commence.
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This morning You gave me a flower which signifies "Consciousness turned towards the supramental
Light".4 What does this mean? I don't understand.
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do they signify?
"Aristocracy of beauty". It is a noble flower which stands upright on its stalk. Its form has been stylised in the fleur-de-lis,
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I took your laughter for a sign of conversion!
Beware of false pride - it leads only to ruin. And do not
0.04 - The Systems of Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
By its numerous asanas or fixed postures it first cures the body of that restlessness which is a sign of its inability to contain without working them off in action and movement the vital forces poured into it from the universal Life-Ocean, gives to it an extraordinary health, force and suppleness and seeks to liberate it from the habits by which it is subjected to ordinary physical
Nature and kept within the narrow bounds of her normal operations. In the ancient tradition of Hathayoga it has always been supposed that this conquest could be pushed so far even as to conquer to a great extent the force of gravitation. By various subsidiary but elaborate processes the Hathayogin next contrives to keep the body free from all impurities and the nervous system unclogged for those exercises of respiration which are his most important instruments. These are called pran.ayama, the control of the breath or vital power; for breathing is the chief physical functioning of the vital forces. Pranayama, for the Hathayogin, serves a double purpose. First, it completes the perfection of the body. The vitality is liberated from many of the ordinary necessities of physical Nature; robust health, prolonged youth, often an extraordinary longevity are attained.
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
contrary, I see in you the signs of a vocation. And since you have
resolved to be patient, the difficulties will surely be overcome.
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
receive Your Grace from afar; and that it is a sign of
weakness on the part of those who see You from time to
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else except that red rose which signifies "Human passions changed into love for the Divine". I want to know
precisely what the human passions are.
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think much. The most obvious sign of the action of an
adverse force - it is this that I want to learn to see in
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1st sign: One feels far away from Sri Aurobindo and me.
2nd: One loses confidence, begins to criticise, is not satisfied.
0.07 - DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
2. And this going forth it says here that it was able to accomplish in the strength and ardour which love for its Spouse gave to it for that purpose in the dark contemplation aforementioned. Herein it extols the great happiness which it found in journeying to God through this night with such signal success that none of the three enemies, which are world, devil and flesh (who are they that ever impede this road), could hinder it; inasmuch as the aforementioned night of purgative20 contemplation lulled to sleep and mortified, in the house of its sensuality, all the passions and desires with respect to their mischievous desires and motions. The line, then, says:
On a dark night
0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
any real significance, Mother?
Many things have been said on the subject but, as far as my own
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
is a sure sign that one should take up Yoga. The spiritual call is
heard only when the time has come, and then the soul responds
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The brief perpetual sign recurred above.
1.26
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It wrote the lines of a significant myth
Telling of a greatness of spiritual dawns,
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Of which our thoughts and hopes are signal flares;
A lonely splendour from the invisible goal
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Her own calamity its private sign,
Of her pangs she made a mystic poignant sword.
01.02 - Sri Aurobindo - Ahana and Other Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We do not say that poets have never sung of God and Soul and things transcendent. Poets have always done that. But what I say is this that presentation of spiritual truths, as they are in their own home, in other words, treated philosophically and yet in a supreme poetic manner, has always been a rarity. We have, indeed, in India the Gita and the Upanishads, great philosophical poems, if there were any. But for one thing they are on dizzy heights out of the reach of common man and for another they are idolised more as philosophy than as poetry. Doubtless, our Vaishnava poets sang of God and Love Divine; and Rabindranath, in one sense, a typical modern Vaishnava, did the same. And their songs are masterpieces. But are they not all human, too human, as the mad prophet would say? In them it is the human significance, the human manner that touches and moves us the spiritual significance remains esoteric, is suggested, is a matter of deduction. Sri Aurobindo has dealt with spiritual experiences in a different way. He has not clothed them in human symbols and allegories, in images and figures of the mere earthly and secular life: he presents them in their nakedness, just as they are seen and realised. He has not sought to tone down the rigour of truth with contrivances that easily charm and captivate the common human mind and heart. Nor has he indulged like so many poet philosophers in vague generalisations and colourless or too colourful truisms that do not embody a clear thought or rounded idea, a radiant judgment. Sri Aurobindo has given us in his poetry thoughts that are clear-cut, ideas beautifully chiselledhe is always luminously forceful.
Take these Vedantic lines that in their limpidity and harmonious flow beat anything found in the fine French poet Lamartine:
01.02 - The Issue, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Or set a signature of weak assent
To the brute balance of the world's exchange.
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Or the figure of the world reveals the signs
Of a tied Chance repeating her old steps
01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is not merely by addressing the beloved as your goddess that you can attain this mysticism; the Elizabethan did that in merry abundance,ad nauseam.A finer temper, a more delicate touch, a more subtle sensitiveness and a kind of artistic wizardry are necessary to tune the body into a rhythm of the spirit. The other line of mysticism is common enough, viz., to express the spirit in terms and rhythms of the flesh. Tagore did that liberally, the Vaishnava poets did nothing but that, the Song of Solomon is an exquisite example of that procedure. There is here, however, a difference in degrees which is an interesting feature worth noting. Thus in Tagore the reference to the spirit is evident, that is the major or central chord; the earthly and the sensuous are meant as the name and form, as the body to render concrete, living and vibrant, near and intimate what otherwise would perhaps be vague and abstract, afar, aloof. But this mundane or human appearance has a value in so far as it is a support, a pointer or symbol of the spiritual import. And the mysticism lies precisely in the play of the two, a hide-and-seek between them. On the other hand, as I said, the greater portion of Vaishnava poetry, like a precious and beautiful casket, no doubt, hides the spiritual import: not the pure significance but the sign and symbol are luxuriously elaborated, they are placed in the foreground in all magnificence: as if it was their very purpose to conceal the real meaning. When the Vaishnava poet says,
O love, what more shall I, shall Radha speak,
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The growth of a philosophical thought-content in poetry has been inevitable. For man's consciousness in its evolutionary march is driving towards a consummation which includes and presupposes a development along that line. The mot d'ordre in old-world poetry was "fancy", imaginationremember the famous lines of Shakespeare characterising a poet; in modern times it is Thought, even or perhaps particularly abstract metaphysical thought. Perceptions, experiences, realisationsof whatever order or world they may beexpressed in sensitive and aesthetic terms and figures, that is poetry known and appreciated familiarly. But a new turn has been coming on with an increasing insistencea definite time has been given to that, since the Renaissance, it is said: it is the growing importance of Thought or brain-power as a medium or atmosphere in which poetic experiences find a sober and clear articulation, a definite and strong formulation. Rationalisation of all experiences and realisations is the keynote of the modern mentality. Even when it is said that reason and rationality are not ultimate or final or significant realities, that the irrational or the submental plays a greater role in our consciousness and that art and poetry likewise should be the expression of such a mentality, even then, all this is said and done in and through a strong rational and intellectual stress and frame the like of which cannot be found in the old-world frankly non-intellectual creations.
The religious, the mystic or the spiritual man was, in the past, more or Jess methodically and absolutely non-intellectual and anti-intellectual: but the modern age, the age of scientific culture, is tending to make him as strongly intellectual: he has to explain, not only present the object but show up its mechanism alsoexplain to himself so that he may have a total understanding and a firmer grasp of the thing which he presents and explains to others as well who demand a similar approach. He feels the necessity of explaining, giving the rationality the rationale the science, of his art; for without that, it appears to him, a solid ground is not given to the structure of his experience: analytic power, preoccupation with methodology seems inherent in the modern creative consciousness.
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.
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This, I say, is something different from the religious and even from the mystic. It is away from the merely religious, because it is naked of the vesture of humanity (in spite of a human face that masks it at times) ; it is something more than the merely mystic, for it does not stop being a signpost or an indication to the Beyond, but is itself the presence and embodiment of the Beyond. The mystic gives us, we can say, the magic of the Infinite; what I term the spiritual, the spiritual proper, gives in addition the logic of the Infinite. At least this is what distinguishes modern spiritual consciousness from the ancient, that is, Upanishadic spiritual consciousness. The Upanishad gives expression to the spiritual consciousness in its original and pristine purity and perfection, in its essential simplicity. It did not buttress itself with any logic. It is the record of fundamental experiences and there was no question of any logical exposition. But, as I have said, the modern mind requires and demands a logical element in its perceptions and presentations. Also it must needs be a different kind of logic that can satisfy and satisfy wholly the deeper and subtler movements of a modern consciousness. For the philosophical poet of an earlier age, when he had recourse to logic, it was the logic of the finite that always gave him the frame, unless he threw the whole thing overboard and leaped straight into the occult, the illogical and the a logical, like Blake, for instance. Let me illustrate and compare a little. When the older poet explains indriyani hayan ahuh, it is an allegory he resorts to, it is the logic of the finite he marshals to point to the infinite and the beyond. The stress of reason is apparent and effective too, but the pattern is what we are normally familiar with the movement, we can say, is almost Aristotelian in its rigour. Now let us turn to the following:
Our life is a holocaust of the Supreme. ||26.15||
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
His birth held up a symbol and a sign;
His human self like a translucent cloak
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Out of this world of signs suddenly he came
Into a silent self where world was not
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Into a signless region he could soar
Packed with the deep contents of formlessness
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And forms appeared, dumbly significant,
A seeing thought, a self-revealing voice.
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Covered by the forged signatures of the gods,
Detect the magic bride in her disguise
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And life's incessant signals of event,
Transmuted chance recurrences into laws,
A chaos of signs into a universe.
Out of the rich wonders and the intricate whorls
01.04 - The Intuition of the Age, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
That is to say, the change has been in the soul of man himself, the being has veered round and taken a new orientation. It is this which one must envisage, recognise and consciously possess, in order that one may best fulfil the call of the age. But what we are doing instead is to observe the mere external signs and symbols and symptoms, to fix upon the distant quiverings, the echoes on the outermost rim, which are not always faithful representations, but very often distorted images of the truth and life at the centre and source and matrix. We must know that if there has been going on a redistribution and new-marshalling of forces, it is because the fiat has come from the Etat Major.
Now, in order to understand the new orientation of the spirit of the present age, we may profitably ask what was the inspiration of the past age, the characteristic note which has failed to satisfy us and which we are endeavouring to transform. We know that that age was the Scientific age or the age of Reason. Its great prophets were Voltaire and the Encyclopaedists or if you mount further up in time, we may begin from Bacon and the humanists. Its motto was first, "The proper study of mankind is man" and secondly, Reason is the supreme organon of knowledge, the highest deity in manla Desse Raison. And it is precisely against these two basic principles that the new age has entered its protest. In face of Humanism, Nietzsche has posited the Superman and in face of Reason Bergson has posited Intuition.
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So instead of the rational principle, the new age wants the principle of Nature or Life. Even as regards knowledge Reason is not the only, nor the best instrument. For animals have properly no reason; the nature-principle of knowledge in the animal is Instinct the faculty that acts so faultlessly, so marvellously where Reason can only pause and be perplexed. This is not to say that man is to or can go back to this primitive and animal function; but certainly he can replace it by something akin which is as natural and yet purified and self-consciousillumined instinct, we may say or Intuition, as Bergson terms it. And Nietzsche's definition of the Superman has also a similar orientation and significance; for, according to him, the Superman is man who has outgrown his Reason, who is not bound by the standards and the conventions determined by Reason for a special purpose. The Superman is one who has gone beyond "good and evil," who has shaken off from his nature and character elements that are "human, all too human"who is the embodiment of life-force in its absolute purity and strength and freedom.
This then is the mantra of the new ageLife with Intuition as its guide and not Reason and mechanical efficiency, not Man but Superman. The right mantra has been found, the principle itself is irreproachable. But the interpretation, the application, does not seem to have been always happy. For, Nietzsche's conception of the Superman is full of obvious lacunae. If we have so long been adoring the intellectual man, Nietzsche asks us, on the other hand, to deify the vital man. According to him the superman is he who has (1) the supreme sense of the ego, (2) the sovereign will to power and (3) who lives dangerously. All this means an Asura, that is to say, one who has, it may be, dominion over his animal and vital impulsions in order, of course, that he may best gratify them but who has not purified them. Purification does not necessarily mean, annihilation but it does mean sublimation and transformation. So if you have to transcend man, you have to transcend egoism also. For a conscious egoism is the very characteristic of man and by increasing your sense of egoism you do not supersede man but simply aggrandise your humanity, fashion it on a larger, a titanic scale. And then the will to power is not the only will that requires fulfilment, there is also the will to knowledge and the will to love. In man these three fundamental constitutive elements coexist, although they do it, more often than not, at the expense of each other and in a state of continual disharmony. The superman, if he is to be the man "who has surmounted himself", must embody a poise of being in which all the three find a fusion and harmonya perfect synthesis. Again, to live dangerously may be heroic, but it is not divine. To live dangerously means to have eternal opponents, that is to say, to live ever on the same level with the forces you want to dominate. To have the sense that one has to fight and control means that one is not as yet the sovereign lord, for one has to strive and strain and attain. The supreme lord is he who is perfectly equanimous with himself and with the world. He has not to batter things into a shape in order to create. He creates means, he manifests. He wills and he achieves"God said 'let there be light' and there was light."
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Whether the original and true source of the poet's inspiration lies deep within or high above, all depends upon the mediating instrument the mind (in its most general sense) and speech for a successful transcription. Man's ever-growing consciousness demanded also a conscious development and remoulding of these two factors. A growth, a heightening and deepening of the consciousness meant inevitably a movement towards the spiritual element in things. And that means, we have said, a twofold change in the future poet's make-up. First as regards the substance. The revolutionary shift that we notice in modern poets towards a completely new domain of subject-matter is a signpost that more is meant than what is expressed. The superficialities and futilities that are dealt with do not in their outward form give the real trend of things. In and through all these major and constant preoccupation of our poets is "the pain of the present and the passion for the future": they are, as already stated, more prophets than poets, but prophets for the moment crying in the wildernessalthough some have chosen the path of denial and revolt. They are all looking ahead or beyond or deep down, always yearning for another truth and reality which will explain, justify and transmute the present calvary of human living. Such an acute tension of consciousness has necessitated an overhauling of the vehicle of expression too, the creation of a mode of expressing the inexpressible. For that is indeed what human consciousness and craft are aiming at in the present stage of man's evolution. For everything, almost everything that can be normally expressed has been expressed and in a variety of ways as much as is possible: that is the history of man's aesthetic creativity. Now the eye probes into the unexpressed world; for the artist too the Upanishadic problem has cropped up:
By whom impelled does the mind fall to its target, what is the agent that is behind the eye and sees through the eyes, what is the hearing and what the speech that their respective sense organs do not and cannot convey and record adequately or at all?
Like the modern scientist the artist or craftsman too of today has become a philosopher, even a mystic philosopher. The subtler and higher ranges of consciousness are now the object of inquiry and investigation and expression and revelation for the scientist as well as for the artist. The external sense-objects, the phenomenal movements are symbols and signposts, graphs and pointer-readings of facts and realities that lie hidden, behind or beyond. The artist and the scientist are occult alchemists. What to make of this, for example:
Beyond the shapes of empire, the capes of Carbonek, over
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The signals of eternity appear.
The truth mind could not know unveils its face,
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These signs are native to a larger self
That lives within us by ourselves unseen;
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The dark Inconscient's signless mysteries
Stand up unsolved behind Fate's starting-line.
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Herself and all of which she is the sign.
An inarticulate whisper drives her steps
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The impossible God's sign of things to be.
But few can look beyond the present state
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Voices of an unplumbed significance,
Mutterings that brood in the core of Matter's sleep.
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While without sanction turns the middle sign
Carrying an enigmatic universe,
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Its signs stare at us like an unknown script,
As if appeared screened by a foreign tongue
Or code of splendour signs without a key
A portion of a parable sublime.
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In the wide signless ether of the Self,
In the unchanging Silence white and nude,
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A phenomenon stands out significant
Against dim backgrounds of eternity;
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His silence is his signature to her deeds;
In the execution of her drama's scheme,
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And in her living and inanimate signs
And in her complex tracery of events
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 a great poet: he will be remembered as one of the I greatest world-poets. But humanity owes him anotherperhaps a greaterdebt of gratitude: his name has a higher value, a more significant potency for the future.
In an age when Reason was considered as the highest light given to man, Tagore pointed to the Vision of the mystics as always the still greater light; when man was elated with undreamt-of worldly success, puffed up with incomparable material possessions and powers, Tagore's voice rang clear and emphatic in tune with the cry of the ancients: "What shall I do with all this mass of things, if I am not made immortal by that?" When men, in their individual as well as collective egoism, were scrambling for earthly gains and hoards, he held before them vaster and cleaner horizons, higher and deeper ways of being and living, maintained the sacred sense of human solidarity, the living consciousness of the Divine, one and indivisible. When the Gospel of Power had all but hypnotised men's minds, and Superman or God-man came to be equated with the Titan, Tagore saw through the falsehood and placed in front and above all the old-world eternal verities of love and self-giving, harmony and mutuality, sweetness and light. When pessimism, cynicism, agnosticism struck the major chord of human temperament, and grief and frustration and death and decay were taken as a matter of course to be the inevitable order of earthlylifebhasmantam idam shariramhe continued to sing the song of the Rishis that Ananda and Immortality are the breath of things, the birth right of human beings. When Modernism declared with a certitude never tobe contested that Matter is Brahman, Tagore said with the voice of one who knows that Spirit is Brahman.
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Its strange symbol letters, scattered abstruse signs,
Resolve its oracle and its paradox,
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And saw the signature and fiery seal
Of Wisdom on the dim Power's hooded work
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Interpreting the universe by soul signs
He read from within the text of the without:
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And the sure power-pattern of her cryptic signs,
Her diagrams of geometric force,
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Its bodies signalling the Bodiless,
Its foreheads glowing with the Oversoul,
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A map of subtle signs surpassing thought
Was hung upon a wall of inmost mind.
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Into significant symbols by its gloss,
It offered to the intuitive exegete
01.06 - On Communism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
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.
Now, a spiritual communism embraces individualism and collectivism, fuses them in a higher truth, establishes them in an intimate and absolute harmony. The individual is the centre, the group is the circumference and the two form one whore circle. The individual by fulfilling the truth of his real individuality fulfils also the truth of a commonality. There are no different laws for the two. The individuals do not stand apart from and against one another, the dharma of one does not clash with the dharma of the other. The ripples in the bosom of the sea, however distinct and discrete in appearance, form but a single mass, all follow the same law of hydrodynamics that the mother sea incarnates. Stars and planets and nebulae, each separate heavenly body has its characteristic form and nature and function and yet all fulfil the same law of gravitation and beat the measure of the silent symphony of spaces. Individualities are the freedoms of the collective being and collectivity the concentration of individual beings. The same soul looking inward appears as the individual being and looking outward appears as the collective being.
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So first the individual and then the commune is not the natural nor the ideal principle. On the other hand, first the commune and then the individual would appear to be an equally defective principle. For first a commune means an organisation, its laws and rules and regulations, its injunctions and prohibitions; all which signifies or comes to signify that every individual is not free to enter its fold and that whoever enters must know how to dovetail himself therein and thus crush down the very life-power whose enhancement and efflorescence is sought. First a commune means necessarily a creed, a dogma, a set form of being and living indelibly marked out from beforehand. The individual has there no choice of finding and developing the particular creed or dogma or mode of being and living, from out of his own self, along his particular line of natural growth; all that is imposed upon him and he has to accept and make it his own by trial and effort and self-torture. Even if the commune be a contractual association, the members having joined together in a common cause to a common end, by voluntarily sacrificing a portion of their personal choice and freedom, even then it is not the ideal thing; the collective soul will be diminished in exact proportion as each individual soul has had to be diminished, be that voluntary or otherwise. That commune is plenary and entire which ensures plenitude and entirety to each of its individuals.
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.
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Pascal's place in the evolution of European culture and consciousness is of considerable significance and importance. He came at a critical time, on the mounting tide of rationalism and scepticism, in an age when the tone and temper of human mentality were influenced and fashioned by Montaigne and Rochefoucauld, by Bacon and Hobbes. Pascal himself, born in such an atmosphere of doubt and disbelief and disillusionment, had sucked in a full dose of that poison; yet he survived and found the Rock of Ages, became the clarion of Faith against Denial. What a spectacle it was! This is what one wrote just a quarter of a century after the death of Pascal:
"They can no longer tell us that it is only small minds that have piety. They are shown how it has grown best in one of the the greatest geometricians, one of the subtlest metaphysicians, one of the most penetrating minds that ever existed on earth. The piety of such a philosopher should make the unbeliever and the libertine declare what a certain Diocles said one day on seeing Epicurus in a temple: 'What a feast, what a spectacle for me to see Epicurus in a temple! All my doubts vainsh, piety takes its place again. I never saw Jupiter's greatness so well as now when I behold Epicurus kneeling down!"1
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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01.09 - The Parting of the Way, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To be divine or to remain humanthis is the one choice that is now before Nature in her upward march of evolution. What is the exact significance of this choice?
To remain human means to continue the fundamental nature of man. In what consists the humanity of man? We can ascertain it by distinguishing what forms the animality of the animal, since that will give us the differentia that nature has evolved to raise man over the animal. The animal, again, has a characteristic differentiating it from the vegetable world, which latter, in its turn, has something to mark it off from the inorganic world. The inorganic, the vegetable, the animal and finally manthese are the four great steps of Nature's evolutionary course.
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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 characterise 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.
01.09 - William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Viewed in this light, Blake's memorable mantra attains a deeper and more momentous significance. For it is not merely Earth the senses and life and Matter that are to be uplifted and affianced to Heaven, but all that remains hidden within the bowels of the Earth, the subterranean regions of man's consciousness, the slimy viscous undergrowths, the darkest horrors and monstrosities that man and nature hide in their subconscient and inconscient dungeons of material existence, all these have to be laid bare to the solar gaze of Heaven, burnt or transmuted as demanded by the law of that Supreme Will. That is the Hell that has to be recognised, not rejected and thrown away, but taken up purified and transubstantiated into the body of Heaven itself. The hand of the Highest Heaven must extend and touch the Lowest of the lowest elements, transmute it and set it in its rightful place of honour. A mortal body reconstituted into an immemorial fossil, a lump of coal revivified into a flashing carat of diamond-that shows something of the process underlying the nuptials of which we are speaking.
The Life Divine
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The dream is indeed very interesting. Snakes usually signify bad
thoughts or bad will from people around you - or an adverse
--
What is the true significance of marriage?
It has hardly any true significance - it is a social custom for the
perpetuation of the species.
--
Our teacher Y gave us a talk in a grave and significant tone: "Be prepared to go through hard tests, we are
on the eve of something very difficult and dangerous."
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this sensitivity is the sign of a strong ego, how can one
eliminate the ego?
Why do you say that sensitivity is the sign of a strong ego? It
does not seem to be evident at all. Moreover, there are many
--
Sri Aurobindo's yoga? What is the sure sign of it?
It is impossible to say, because for each person it is different.
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a revolution, is it the sign of a descent of the Truth?
Not necessarily. Human folly takes advantage of the slightest
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the mind responds to the influence of the vital and also reacts violently. Any expression of anger is the sign of a lack of
self-control.
--
That you saw and heard me is a sign of progress, and with this I
am pleased. But it is true that I find you mentally a bit lazy and
--
Why this chaotic condition in our present government? Is it the sign of a change for the better, for the
reign of Truth?
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of all this, I have not quite understood its significance.
Is it necessary that it should have a significance?
Sri Aurobindo announced that from that date onwards
01.12 - Goethe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Thus, as sanctioned by God, there is a competition, a wager between man and Satan. The pact between the parties is this that, on the one hand, Satan will serve man here in life upon earth, and on the other hand, in return, man will have to serve Satan there, on the other side of life. That is to say, Satan will give the whole world to man to enjoy, man will have to give Satan only his soul. Man in his ignorance says he does not care for his soul, does not know of a there or elsewhere: he will be satisfied if he gets what he wants upon earth. That, evidently, is the demand of what is familiarly known as life-force (lan vital): the utmost fulfilment of the life-force is what man stands for, although the full significance of the movement may not be clear to him or even to Satan at the moment. For life-force does not necessarily drag man down, as its grand finale as it were, into hellhowever much Satan might wish it to be so. In what way, we shall see presently. Now Satan promises man all that he would desire and even more: he would give him his fill so' that he will ask for no more. Man takes up the challenge and declares that his hunger is insatiable, whatever Satan can bring to it, it will take in and press on: satisfaction and satiety will never come in his way. Satan thinks he knows better, for he is armed with a master weapon to lay man low and make him cry halt!
Love Human and Love Divine
01.12 - Three Degrees of Social Organisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
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.
01.13 - T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now, a modern poet is modern, because he is doubly attracted and attached to things of this world and this mundane life, in spite of all his need and urge to go beyond for the larger truth and the higher reality. Apart from the natural link with which we are born, there is this other fascination which the poor miserable things, all the little superficialities, trivialities especially have for the modern mind in view of their possible sense and significance and right of existence. These too have a magic of their own, not merely a black magic:
..... our losses, the torn seine,
01.14 - Nicholas Roerich, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The stress of the inner urge to the heights and depths of spiritual values and realities found special and significant expression in his paintings. It is a difficult problem, a problem which artists and poets are tackling today with all their skill and talent. Man's consciousness is no longer satisfied with the customary and the ordinary actions and reactions of life (or thought), with the old-world and time-worn modes and manners. It is no more turned to the apparent and the obvious, to the surface forms and movements of things. It yearns to look behind and beyond, for the secret mechanism, the hidden agency that really drives things. Poets and artists are the vanguards of the age to come, prophets and pioneers preparing the way for the Lord.
Roerich discovered and elaborated his own technique to reveal that which is secret, express that which is not expressed or expressible. First of all, he is symbolical and allegorical: secondly, the choice of his symbols and allegories is hieratic, that is to say, the subject-matter refers to objects and events connected with saints and legends, shrines and enchanted places, hidden treasures, spirits and angels, etc. etc.; thirdly, the manner or style of execution is what we may term pantomimic, in other words, concrete, graphic, dramatic, even melodramatic. He has a special predilection for geometrical patterns the artistic effect of whichbalance, regularity, fixity, soliditywas greatly utilised by the French painter Czanne and poet Mallarm who seem to have influenced Roerich to a considerable degree. But this Northerner had not the reticence, the suavity, the tonic unity of the classicist, nor the normality and clarity of the Latin temperament. The prophet, the priest in him was the stronger element and made use of the artist as the rites andceremoniesmudras and chakrasof his vocation demanded. Indeed, he stands as the hierophant of a new cultural religion and his paintings and utterances are, as it were, gestures that accompany a holy ceremonial.
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Speed is not necessarily a sign of superiority.
These "instantaneous" conversions are most often the result
0.12 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Love of Nature is usually the sign of a pure and healthy being uncorrupted by modern civilisation. It is in the silence of a
peaceful mind that one can best commune with Nature.
--
At times I talk in my sleep. It is a sign that the mind
lacks control, isn't it? So what should I do to keep it
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Feeling alone in the midst of human beings is the sign that you
are beginning to feel the need to find in your own being contact
0 1954-08-25 - what is this personality? and when will she come?, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Well, I am only telling you all this because I thought someone might ask me about it, but otherwise I dont have that kind of relationship with Her. You see, if you consider this body, this poor body, it is very innocent: it in no way tries to draw attention to itself nor to attract forces nor to do anything at all except its workas best it can. And thats how it stands: its importance is proportionate to its usefulness and to the significance the world attri butes to itsince its action is for the world.
But in and of itself, it is only one body among countless others. Thats all.
0 1955-03-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Bernard2
Mahakali: the eternal Mother in her warrior aspect, She who severs the heads of the demons.
0 1955-04-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Mother, for more than a year now I have been near you and nothing, no really significant inner experience, no sign has come that allows me to feel I have progressed or merely to show me that I am on the right path. I cannot even say I am happy.
I am not so absurdly pretentious as to blame the divine, nor yourself and I remain quite convinced that all this is my own fault. Undoubtedly I have not known how to surrender totally in some part of myself, or I do not aspire enough or know how to open myself as needed. Also, I should rely entirely upon the divine to take care of my progress and not be concerned about the absence of experiences. I have therefore asked myself why I am so far away from the true attitude, the genuine opening, and I see two main reasons: on the one hand, the difficulties inherent in my own nature, and on the other, the outer conditions of this sadhana. These conditions do not seem to be conducive to helping me overcome the difficulties in my own nature.
--
signed: Bernard
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--
signed: Mother
For a long time, Satprem took care of the correspondence with the outside, along with Pavitra, not to mention editing the Ashram Bulletin as well as Mother's writings and talks, translating Sri Aurobindo's works into French, and conducting classes at the Ashram's 'International Centre of Education.'
0 1955-06-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Bernard
Mother, this letter is a prayer.
--
signed: Mother
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0 1955-09-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Bernard
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0 1955-09-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Bernard
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0 1956-04-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
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.
I also had a very clear sensation that you were abandoning me, that you had no further interest in me and I could just as well do as I pleased. Perhaps you cannot forgive some of my inner rebellions which have been so very violent? Am I totally guilty? Is it true that you are abandoning me?
--
signed: Bernard
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--
signed: Mother
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0 1956-04-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Bernard
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--
signed: Mother
A friend of Satprem's who died insane in a Japanese hospital in India
0 1956-09-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
This text was noted down by a disciple from memory. On the original manuscript submitted for her approval, Mother wrote, 'This account is quite correct,' and She signed the text. Words added or corrected by Mother are in italics.
(During the Wednesday class)
0 1956-09-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
These questions of money do not interest me. In fact, nothing interests me except this something I feel within me. The only question for me is to know whether I am truly ready for the Yoga, or if my failings are not the sign of some immaturity. Mother, you alone can tell me what is right.
I feel a bit lost, cut off from you. The idea of going to the Himalayas is absurd and I am abandoning it. My friends tell me that I may remain with them as long as I wish, but this is hardly a solution; I dont even feel like writing a book any longernothing seems to appeal to me except the trees in this garden and the music that fills a large part of my days. There is no solution other than the Ashram or Brazil. You alone can tell me what to do.
--
signed: Bernard
***
--
signed: Mother
A former disciple who left the Ashram, and subsequently committed suicide.
0 1956-10-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Bernard
P.S. If you see that I should remain here, put in me the necessary strength and aspiration. I shall obey you. I want to obey you.
--
signed: Mother
***
0 1956-11-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Bernard
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0 1956-12-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
I dont see a thing, nothing. Oh Mother, I turn towards you in this void that is stifling me. Hear my prayer. Tell me what I must do. Give me a sign. Mother, you are my sole recourse, for who else would show me the path to be taken, who else but you would love me? Or is my fate to go off into the night?
Forgive me, Mother, for loving you so poorly, for giving myself so badly. Mother, you are my only hope, all the rest in me is utter despair.
--
signed: Bernard
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0 1956-12-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Bernard
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0 1957-01-18, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Bernard
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0 1957-03-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Mother
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0 1957-04-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Bernard
P.S. And yet, even if I leave, I know that I shall have to come back here Everything is a paradox, and I CANNOT get out of this paradox.
--
signed: Mother
***
0 1957-04-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
L'Orpailleur.
0 1957-07-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Naturally, when I awoke, I immediately knew what could resolve this problem which appeared so absolutely insoluble. The vanishing of the manageress and her key was an obvious sign that she was altogether incapable of leading what could be called the creative consciousness of the new world to its true place.
I knew this, but I did not have a vision of the solution, which means it has yet to manifest; this thing had not yet manifested in the building, this fantastic construction, although it is the very mode of consciousness which could transform this incoherent creation into something real, truly conceived, willed and materialized, with a center in its proper place, a recognized place, and with a REAL effective power.
0 1957-07-18, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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0 1957-10-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
***
--
signed: Mother
Of Mother's French translation of these two books by Sri Aurobindo.
0 1957-10-18, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
This unique method was to be the mantra, as Mother herself would discover.
0 1957-12-13, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed. Satprem
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0 1958-02-03a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
A Sannyasi, or wandering monk, whom Satprem would join a few weeks later in Ceylon, on February 27, and who would initiate him as a Sannyasi. Unfortunately, almost all the correspondence from this period has been lost.
0 1958-03-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
***
--
signed: Mother
Puja: Hindu temple ceremony.
0 1958-04-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
P.S. My system is not in perfect condition due to this absurdly spiced food, and the river water that is used for everything.
--
signed: Mother
***
0 1958-08-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Mother
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0 1958-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Later, after I returned (to the Ashram), I wondered, What was that? What does it signify? Then I understood.
Thats all.
0 1958-11-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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--
signed: Mother
Due to the orange robes of the sannyasi.
0 1958-11-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Mother
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0 1958-12-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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--
signed: Mother
***
0 1958-12-15 - tantric mantra - 125,000, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
Mother, may I not be swept away by one of these waves. Protect me. Love me! But EVERYTHING has to be faced NOW. I want to fight. I do not ask you to spare me, therefore, but to help me withstand the blow.
--
signed: Mother
Do not be troubled about my body it is well on the way to recovery.
--
signed: Mother
***
0 1958-12-24, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
Have you recovered?
--
signed: Mother
***
0 1958-12-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
It seems to me that everything has changed since I have understood that it is not a personal battle, and that I can serve. Your grace is everywhere, everywhere.
--
signed: Mother
P.S. I shall propose to Swami to enter into contact with them at 8:45 p.m., if this time suits them.
0 1959-01-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
***
--
signed: Mother
The Bulletin of Physical Education, which appeared quarterly.
0 1959-01-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
***
--
signed: Mother
Original English.
0 1959-01-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
Sweet Mother, do not waste time writing to me; you have so many things to do and I feel a little awkward disturbing you so often.
--
signed: Mother
X's deceased guru.
0 1959-01-27, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
***
--
signed: Mother
The tantric work.
0 1959-01-31, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
P.S. All the old Questions and Answers will also have to be revised with you, perhaps not in their entirety, but certain problems need clarification. What a grace to be able to work with you!
--
signed: Mother
***
0 1959-04-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
P.S. Perhaps it would be good to tell you of the two supports that this force found in me during the most recent attack:
--
signed: Satprem
***
--
signed: Mother
Sri Aurobindo's tomb in the Ashram courtyard.
0 1959-04-13, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
A French publishing house that had asked for a book on Sri Aurobindo to be included in their collection, 'Spiritual Masters.'
0 1959-04-23, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Mother
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0 1959-05-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Mother
(Satprems reply)
--
signed: Satprem
The aphorisms will be ready tomorrow.
--
signed: Mother
The disciple's tantric guru.
0 1959-05-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
***
--
signed: Mother
I will see you tomorrow morning at ten oclock and I hope that a few small misunderstandings may be clarified.
0 1959-06-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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--
As for the emptiness you feel (which perhaps is already better): to those who complained of this sensation of inner emptiness, Sri Aurobindo always said that it is a very good thing; it is the sign that they are going to be filled with something better and truer.
I have carefully noted Xs predictions.
--
signed: Mother
Yama: the god of Death in the Hindu pantheon.
0 1959-06-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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--
signed: Mother
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0 1959-06-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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0 1959-06-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
P.S. X asked me questions about my family. I was prompted to speak to him of my mother (seeing her photo, you had said that you knew her very well, if you recall). He immediately said, You MUST go and see your mother. You will go in August and quickly come back by plane beginning September! Of course, I told him that all this seems like the highest fantasy to me, and that to begin with I had no money and would surely not ask you anything for that. He said, I shall ask my Mother. She will arrange everything.
--
signed: Mother
***
0 1959-06-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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--
signed: Mother
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0 1959-06-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
P.S. X is also to give me certain details for you about the forthcoming war.
0 1959-06-13a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
Lele: the tantric guru whom Sri Aurobindo met in 1908 and who gave him mental silence and Nirvana.
0 1959-06-13b, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Mother
***
0 1959-06-17, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
P.S. Yes, I too am sure that the great secret is to give oneself, but perhaps this can be too easily misunderstood, and I do not believe that to give oneself means to mutilate oneself. As for the rest, well, my life obviously belongs to That and is meaningless except for That.
0 1959-06-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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0 1959-07-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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0 1959-07-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
Shortly afterwards, Satprem left on a journey and returned only two months later.
0 1959-08-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Mother
The color worn by sannyasis.
0 1959-10-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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0 1960-03-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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--
signed: M.C.
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0 1960-04-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
Things are better physically. But its always a terrible physical shock for me to take the train.
--
signed: Mother
As regards LOrpailleur, its good. I keep feeling that everything is going to turn out well.
0 1960-04-13, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
***
--
signed: Mother
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0 1960-04-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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--
signed: Pavitra
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0 1960-04-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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0 1960-04-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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0 1960-05-24 - supramental flood, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
These experiences are always absolute, as long as they last; then, through certain signs that I know (I am accustomed to it), I notice that the body consciousness begins closing up again. Or rather, somethingevidently a Supreme Wisdomdecides its sufficient for this time and that the body has had enough. It ought not to break, which is why certain precautions are taken. So this comes in several little stages that I know quite well. The final one is always a bit unpleasant because my body gets into rather peculiar positions as a result of the work. As its only a sort of machine, towards the end I have some difficulty straightening my knees, for example, or opening my fingers I think they even make a noise, like something forced into one position whose life has become purely spontaneous and mechanical. There are plenty of people like that, plenty, who enter into trance and then can no longer get out by themselves; they get themselves into a certain position and someone has to free them. This has never happened to me; I have always managed to extricate myself. But yesterday evening, the experience lasted a very long time. There was even a little cracking at the end, as when people have rheumatism.
And during all this time, approximately three hours, the consciousness was completely, completely different. It was here, however; it was not outside the earth, it was on earth, but it was completely differenteven the body consciousness was different. And what remained was very mechanical; it was a body, but it could just as well have been anything. All this power of consciousness that for more than seventy years Ive gradually pushed into each of the bodys cells so that each cell could become conscious (and it goes on constantly, constantly), all this seemed to have withdrawn there only remained one almost lifeless thing. However, I could raise myself up from my bed and even drink a glass of water, but it was all so bizarre. And when I went back to bed, it took nearly forty-five minutes for the body to regain its normal state. Only after I had entered into another type of samadhi2 and again come out of it did my consciousness fully return. It is the first time I have had an experience of this kind.
0 1960-05-28 - death of K - the death process- the subtle physical, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
So you see, the outer signs Its not the first time Ive noticed this the doctors observe all the outer signs, then they declare you dead, but youre still in your body!
In other words, he was still in his body.
0 1960-06-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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--
signed: Mother
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0 1960-06-Undated, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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0 1960-07-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Mother
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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, #Integral Yoga
I remember wandering about one night some time ago. Its no longer very clear, but one thing has remained I had gone out of India, and then when I returned to India, I found huge elephants installed EVERYWHEREenormous elephants. At that time I was not at all aware that the Communists in India had adopted the elephant as their symbol; I only learned that later. What does this mean, I said to myself. Does it signify the Indian army? But they did not resemble war elephants. These elephants were like immense mammoths, and they looked like they were settling down with all the power of a tremendous inertia. That was the impression something heavy in an inert and very tamasic way, forever immovable. I did not like this occupation. When I came back, I had a rather painful feeling, and for several days I wondered if it did not mean war. Then by chance, in a conversation, I learned that the Communists had selected the elephant as their symbol whereas the Congress had chosen the bullock In my vision, I was moving (as I always do), I was moving among them, and nothing moved. And if I needed room, some of them even tried to stir a little.
But when human beings are involved, I believe that visions take on a special formits a special image. Not an inundation like this. That was very, very impersonal. They were forces. A feeling of floodgates bursting open, of something being held back, retained or prevented, then suddenly
0 1960-08-16, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Mother
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0 1960-09-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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0 1960-10-02a, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Mother
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From a documentary standpoint, my nights are getting quite interesting. In the Yoga of Self-Perfection, Sri Aurobindo describes precisely this state you reach in which all things assume meaning and a quality of inner significance, clarification of various points, and help. From this point of view, my nights have become extraordinary. I see infinitely more things than I saw before. Before, it was very limited to a personal contact with people. Now In my nights, each thing and each person has the appearance, the gesture, the word or the action that describes EXACTLY his condition. Its becoming quite interesting.
Of course, I much prefer being in my great currents of forcefrom a personal standpoint, such immensity of action is much more interesting. But these documentary things are also valuable. It is so tremendously different from the dreams and even the vi. signs you have when you enter certain representative realms of the mind (which is what I used to do). It is so different, it has another content, another life altogether: it carries its light, its understanding, its explanation within itselfyou look, and everything is explained.
It always gives me the feeling that I am shrinking a little, but its interesting. And its useful, for I am constantly moving about and doing things with people; it indicates to me what I have to say and do with each one. Its useful. But all the same, I miss the fullness and joy of the more impersonal Movement of forces.
0 1960-10-02b, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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signed: Mother
'This wonderful world of delight, at our gates, waiting for our call to come down upon earth.'
0 1960-10-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
He woke up in a railway station somewhere between Bombay and Poona, and he began telling them that he was hungry (he was with those same two persons). They punched him in the stomach and put a handkerchief over his nosehe again passed out! At Poona, he woke up again (hed lost his appetite by then!), and again they put the handkerchief over his nose. And it went on like thatthey kept on punching him a lot. When he woke up in the country on the outskirts of Poona, four men were around him arguing in a language he didnt know (his language is Gujarati). They were probably speaking in some other language, I dont know which oneit seems they were very dark. He didnt understand, but from various signs they made he could see that they were arguing about whether to kill him or not. Finally, they told him (probably in a language he could understand), Either you join our gang, or well kill you. He grunted in reply so as not to commit himself. The others decided to wait for their chief (thus the chief wasnt there): Well decide after he comes. Then just to make sure, they punched him a few more times in the belly and put the handkerchief over his noseout!
Sometime later (he doesnt know how long, for until he returned he had no sense of time), he woke up in a rather dark, low-roofed house way out in the country; there were five persons now, not four. They were busy eating, so he was careful not to budge. Mainly they were drinking (they have prohibition there). Four of them were already dead drunk. So he got up to have a look. The fifth one, whom he hadnt seen before (he must have been the chief), was not yet totally drunk; when he saw the boy stirring, he let out a fearful growlso the poor boy threw himself flat in the corner and lay stillhe waited. After awhile, the fifth one (after downing another bottle) was also dead drunk. So now that he saw them all fast asleep, he got up very cautiously and he said he ran for an hour and a half! A boy pummelled as he had been, who hadnt eaten for four days! I think thats a miracle.
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
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 1960-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
And then things dont happen at all as they do in ordinary life for three or four minutes, sometimes five or ten minutes, Im a-bo-minably sick, with every sign that its all over.
(silence)
0 1960-12-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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0 1961-01-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Anger, moreover, like all forms of violence, is always a sign of weakness, impotence and incapacity. Here the deception comes from the approval one gives it or the flattering adjective one covers it with; for rage can be no more than blind, ignorant and asuricopposed to the light.
But this is still the best of cases.
0 1961-01-31, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At the moment of my coming out of the trance, I had a very concrete, positive perception (not a mental understanding, it didnt come from the beings intellectual part, the part that understands and explains everything and Is symbolized, I think, by Indra; it wasnt in any way conveyed through that higher intelligence, it wasnt mental). A kind of perception (not really a sensation, it was more than a sensation) of the almost total unimportance of the external, material expression of the bodys condition: the consciousness OF THE BODY was absolutely indifferent to external, physical signs, whether they were like this or like that (the BODYS consciousness was what had experienced the identity). And this body-consciousness had the perception of the EXTREME RELATIVITY of the most material expression.
I am translating it to make myself understoodit wasnt like that at the time of the experience. Suppose, for example, that there was a disorder here or there in the body, not actually an illness (because illness implies some important inner factor such as an attack or the necessity for some transformation, many different things), but the outer expression of a disorder, such as swollen legs or a malfunctioning liver not an illness, a disorder, a functional disorder. Well, it was all utterly unimportant: IT IN NO WAY CHANGES THE BODYS TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS. Although we are in the habit of thinking that the body is very disturbed when its ill, when something is going wrong, its not so. It isnt disturbed in the way we understand it.
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In the equations of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, quantities as 'immutable' as the mass of a body, the frequency of a vibration, or the time separating two events, are linked to the speed of the system where the physical event takes place. Recent experiments in outer space have allowed the validity of Einstein's equations to be verified. Thus a clock on a satellite in constant rotation around the Earth will measure sixty seconds between two audio signals, while an identical clock on Earth measures sixty-one seconds between the same two signals: time 'slows down' as speed increases. It is like the story of the space traveler returning to Earth less aged than his twin: you pass into another 'frame of reference.'
It is striking that Mother's body-experiences very often parallel recent theories of modern physics, as if mathematical equations were the means of formulating in human language certain complex phenomena, remote from our day to day reality, which Mother was living spontaneously in her bodyperhaps 'at the speed of light.'
0 1961-02-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its largely the fragrances that have made me give flowers their significance. I find these studies quite interesting; it corresponds to something really TRUE in Nature.
Once, without telling me anything, someone brought me a sprig of tulsi.3 I smelled it and said, Oh, Devotion! It was absolutely a a vibration of devotion. Afterwards, I was told its the plant of devotion to Krishna, consecrated to Krishna.
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But truly speaking, the minute one completely emerges from the ordinary mind, NO EXTERIOR sign IS A PROOF, absolutely none. There is absolutely no standard to go byneither splendid good health nor good equilibrium, nor an almost general disorganizationnone of these. All depends exclusivelyexclusivelyon what the Lord has decided. Exclusively. Consequently, if one remains very quiet, one is sure to know what He has decided.
When I am perfectly tranquil, I immediately live in a beatific joy where questions dont arisethere are no questions! One asks for nothingone LIVES! One lives happily, and thats all. Theres no, Will it be like this? Will it be like that?how childish! There are no questions, questions dont arise. One is a beatitude manifesting, that is all.
0 1961-02-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Theres an American living in Madras, a rather important man, it seems, and an intimate friend of Kennedy, the new President. He has read and reread all of Sri Aurobindos books and is extremely interested. He wrote to Kennedy that he would like him to come here so he can bring him to the Ashram. This man has posed a very interesting question, drawing an analogy. Deep in a forest, a deer goes to quench its thirst; no one is aware of it, yet someone who has made a special study of deer hunting would know by the tracks that the deer had passed bynot only what particular type of deer, but its age, size, sex, etc. Similarly, there must be people with a spiritual knowledge analogous to that of hunters, who can detect, perceive, that a person is in touch with the Supermind, while ordinary people know nothing about it and wouldnt notice. So he asks, I would like to know by what signs such a person can be recognized?
It is a very intelligent question.
I replied very briefly in English. I havent brought my answer with me, but I can tell you right away that there are two signstwo certain, infallible signs. I know them through personal experience, for they are two things that can ONLY come with the supramental consciousness; without it, one cannot possess themno yogic effort, no discipline, no tapasya can give them to you, while they come almost automatically with the supramental consciousness.
The first sign is perfect equality as Sri Aurobindo has described it (you must know it, theres a whole chapter on equality, samat, in The Synthesis of Yoga)exactly as he described it with such wonderful precision! But this equality (which is not equanimity) is a particular STATE where one relates to all things, outer and inner, and to each individual thing, in the same way. That is truly perfect equality: vibrations from things, from people, from contacts have no power to alter that state.
In my reply I mentioned this first, though I didnt give him all these explanations. I put it in a few words as a kind of test of his intelligence, and in a somewhat cryptic form to see if he would understand.
The second sign is a sense of ABSOLUTENESS in knowledge. As I have already told you, I had this with my experience of January 24. This state CANNOT be obtained through any region of the mind, even the most illumined and exalted. Its not a certainty, its (Mother lowers both hands like an irresistible block descending), a kind of absoluteness, without even any possibility of hesitation (theres no question of doubt), or anything like that. Without (how to say it ?). All mental knowledge, even the highest, is a conclusive knowledge, as it were: it comes as a conclusion of something elsean intuition, for instance (an intuition gives you a particular knowledge, and this knowledge is like the conclusion of the intuition). Even revelations are conclusions. Theyre all conclusions the word conclusion comes to me, but I dont know how to express it. This isnt the case, however, with the supramental experiencea kind of absolute. The feeling it gives is altogether uniquefar beyond certainty, it is (Mother again makes the same irresistible gesture) it is a FACT, things are FACTS. It is very, very difficult to explain. But with that one naturally has a complete power the two things always go together. (In my reply to this man I didnt speak of power because the power is almost a consequence and I didnt want to speak of consequences.) But the fact remains: a kind of absoluteness in knowledge springing from identityone is the thing one knows and experiences: one is it. One knows it because one is it.
When these two signs are present (both are necessary, one is incomplete without the other), when a person possesses both, then you can be sure he has been in contact with the Supermind. So people who speak about receiving the Light well, (laughing) its a lot of hot air! But when both signs are present, you can be sure of your perception.12
(silence)
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Two irrefutable signs prove that one is in relation with the Supermind:
1) A perfect and constant equality
0 1961-03-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The opposition is clearly becoming stronger and stronger, a very good signit means we are advancing. But circumstances are growing more and more difficult: the least thing becomes an opportunity to demonstrate bad will and spiteon the part of the government, on the part of people here and so on. Seen from a superficial viewpoint, we are more than ever in the soup. But this makes my heart rejoice! I take it as a sign that we are getting nearer.
Dont let it trouble you, you must always smile. Smile, be absolutely above it allabsolutely.
0 1961-03-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its clearly the sign of a rudimentary intellectual stage.
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.
0 1961-03-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the occult sense, a 'formation' signifies a concentration of power or force directed towards a particular goal. it is like a bullet of force going inexorably to its target. In fact, all beings are constantly making 'formations' with their thoughts and desires, but these formations have scarcely any power other than that of clinging to the one who has made them or returning upon him like a boomerang.
The following undated note (which could date from this or any number of other times!) was found among Mother's scattered papers: Now the situation has become very critical, all the reserves have been swallowed up, there are debts, many important works remain unfinished and the daily life has become a problem. It is the subsistence of more than 1,200 people which is in question.
0 1961-04-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Once this cat was stung by a scorpion. A foolhardy youngster, he used to play with scorpions. I had to rescue him one day; I came onto the verandah just when he was playing with a big scorpion. I caught the cat, put him on my shoulder and killed the scorpion. But another time I wasnt there, and he was stung. He came inside, done for. I clearly saw the signs that he had been poisoned by a scorpion. I put him on a table and went to call Sri Aurobindo. Kiki has been stung by a scorpion, I said. (He was dying, almost in a coma.) Sri Aurobindo pulled up a chair, sat down facing the table and began to gaze at Kiki. This lasted about twenty or twenty-five minutes. Then suddenly the cat relaxed completely and fell asleep. When he woke up, he was entirely cured.
Sri Aurobindo didnt touch him, he didnt do anything; he simply gazed at him.
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have seen other things but I have rarely seen anything favorable in churches. Here, I remember going to M I was taken inside and received there in quite an unusual waya highly respected person introduced me as a great saint! They led me up to the main altar where people are not usually allowed to go, and what did I see there! An asura (oh, not a very high-ranking one, more like a rakshasa4), but such a monster! Hideous. So I went wham! (gesture of giving a blow) I thought something was going to happen. But this being left the altar and came over to try to intimidate me; of course, he saw it was useless, so he offered to make an alliance: If you just keep quiet and dont do anything, I will share all I get with you. Well, I sent him packing! The head of this Math5. It was a Math with a monastery and temple, which means a substantial fortune; the head of the Math has it all at his disposal for as long as he holds the position and he is appointed for life. But he has to name his successor and as a rule, his own life is considerably shortened by the successorthis is how it works. Everyone knew that the present head had considerably shortened the life of his predecessor. And what a creature! As asuric as the god he worshipped! I saw some poor fellows throw themselves at his feet (he must have been squeezing them pitilessly), to beg forgiveness and mercyan absolutely ruthless man. But he received meyou should have seen it! I said nothing, not a word about their god; I gave no sign that I knew anything. But I thought to myself, So thats how it is!
Another thing happened to me in a fishing village near A., on the seashore, where there is a temple dedicated to Kalia terrible Kali. I dont know what happened to her, but she had been buried with only her head sticking out! A fantastic story I knew nothing about it at all. I was going by car from A. to this temple and halfway there a black form, in great agitation, came rushing towards me, asking for my help: Ill give you everything I haveall my power, all the peoples worshipif you help me to become omnipotent! Of course, I answered her as she deserved! I later asked who this was, and they told me that some sort of misfortune had befallen her and she had been buried with only her head above ground. And every year this fishing village has a festival and slaughters thousands of chickensshe likes chicken! Thousands of chickens. They pluck them on the spot (the whole place gets covered with feathers), and then, after offering the blood and making the sacrifice, the people, naturally, eat them all up. The day I came this had taken place that very morningfea thers littered everywhere! It was disgusting. And she was asking for my help!
0 1961-06-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Not long ago M.s sister died (psychologically, she was in a terrible stateshe had no faith). Well, on that day,5 just when I came to know that she was passing away, I remember being upstairs in the bathroom communicating with Sri Aurobindo, having a sort of conversation with him (it happens very often), and I asked him, What happens to such people when they die here at the Ashram? Look, he replied, and I saw her passing away; and on her forehead, I saw Sri Aurobindos symbol in a SOLID golden light (not very luminous, but very concrete). There it was. And with the presence of this sign the psychological state no longer matterednothing touched her. And she departed tranquilly, tranquilly. Then Sri Aurobindo told me, All who have lived at the Ashram and who die there have automatically the same protection, whatever their inner state.
I cant say I was surprised, but I admired the mighty power by which the simple fact of having been here and died here was sufficient to help you to the utmost in that transition.
0 1961-06-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have had an oft repeated experience of reliving the past1 (its a phenomenon of consciousness, possible because everything is preserved and continues to exist somewhere), with a kind of willwhich would be the sign of a powerto change it. I dont know, but at the moment of reliving it, instead of reliving the past just as it had been preserved, a power to make it different was introduced. I am not speaking of the power to change the consequences of the past (that is obvious and functions all the time)it wasnt that; it was the power to change the circumstances themselves (circumstances not quite material but of the subtle physical, with a predominantly psychological content). And since the will was there, from the standpoint of consciousness it actually happened that is, instead of circumstances developing in one direction, they developed in another. So it must correspond to something real, otherwise I would not have had the experience. It wasnt a product of the imagination; it wasnt something one thinks of and would really like to be differentit wasnt that; it was a phenomenon of consciousness: my consciousness was reliving certain circumstances (which are still quite living and obviously continue to exist within their own domain), but reliving them with the power and the knowledge acquired between that past moment and the present, and with a power to change the past moment. A new power entered the scene and turned the circumstance being relived in a new direction. I have had this experience many times and it has always surprised meits not a phenomenon of mental imagination, which is something else entirely.
It opens the door to everything.
0 1961-07-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
64God often fails in His workings; it is the sign of His illimitable godhead.
65Because God is invincibly great, He can afford to be weak; because He is immutably pure, He can indulge with impunity in sin; He knows eternally all delight, therefore He tastes also the delight of pain; He is inalienably wise, therefore He has not debarred Himself from folly.
0 1961-07-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This eye [hemorrhage], for instance, resulted from such a disorder, a very dark force that someone allowed to enter, not deliberately, not knowingly, but through weakness and ignorance, always mingled, of course, with desire and ego and all the rest. (Without desire and ego, such things would find no access but desire and ego are very widespread.) At any rate, that was plainly the cause and I sensed it immediately. Sometimes when it comes, it creeps up like this (Mother brings her hand to her throat), a black shadow strangling you. Yet inwardly nothing is affected at all, to such an extent that if I didnt pay attention to the purely external reaction, I wouldnt know anything had happened (its the great Play); but externally the indication is immediate: half an hour later I had this eye hemorrhage. I was struggling against a wholly undesirable intrusion, and I knew italthough from an outer point of view, the cause was in significant. Its not always the events we consider serious or important that produce the most harmful effectsfar from it. Sometimes its an altogether IN signIFICANT intrusion of falsehood, for some quite in significant reasonwhat is commonly labeled a stupidity. This stems from the fact that the adverse forces are always lying in wait, ready to rush in at the least sign of weakness.
The incomprehension generated by doubt (the kind of doubt that always results from an egoistic movement) is very dangerous. Very dangerous. Its not even necessary to be in a psychic consciousness even for an enlightened vital consciousness, it produces no effect; but HERE, in this material swarm.
0 1961-08-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(A little later Mother begins to sign some 300 books. She remarks:)
I have a convenient signature.
Image 1
Your signature takes wing!
Oh, yesits a bird!
0 1961-09-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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signed: Mother
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0 1961-09-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This is the complete negation of bluff. I find it very beautiful. When I saw this flower, it struck me as something very profound, very calmabsolutely sure, immobile. I dont know why, but the longer I looked at it, the more it gave that impression and when I was asked its significance, I said, Unostentatious Certitude. Its what one might call a superlative good-taste in the realm of spiritual experience: something with greater content than it expresses.
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0 1961-11-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Once there (this would also make a great novel), Richard continued writing and sending his manuscripts to Sri Aurobindo. Finally, when the Peace Treaty was signed and it was possible to travel, the English said that if we tried to return to India they would throw us in jail! But it all worked out miraculously, almost becoming a diplomatic incident: the Japanese government decided that if we were put in prison they would protest to the British government! (What a story I could write novels!) In short, Richard returned here with me. And thats when the tragi-comedy began.
I will tell you about it one dayfantastic!
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But the ifs. There is a domain where no more ifs exist, and when I am there, I still dont find any signs of inevitability. The place X looks from is all mixed up. I have had a certain number of visions, but not THE vision of inevitable war.
Not that they arent trying!
0 1961-11-06, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It depends upon the level of development, thats what Theon used to say: One goes into trance only when certain links are missing. He saw people as made up of innumerable small bridges, with intermediary zones. If you have an intermediary zone that is undeveloped, he said, a zone where you are not conscious because its not individualized, then you will be in trance when you cross it. Trance is the sign of non-individualization the consciousness is not awake and so your body goes into trance. But if your consciousness is wide awake you can sit, keeping full contact with things, and have the total experience. I could go out of my body with no need of trance, except when Theon wanted me to do a particular work. That was a different business the vital force (not the consciousness, the vital force) had to go out for that work, so the body had to go into trance. But even then. For instance, very often when I am called and go to do something in response, my body does become still, but its not in trance; I can be sitting and, even in the middle of a gesture, suddenly become immobile for a few seconds.7 But I was doing another type of work with Theondangerous work, at thatand it would last for an hour. Then all the bodys vital energy would go out, all of it, as it does when you die (in fact, thats how I came to experience death).
But it isnt necessary to have all those experiences, not at allSri Aurobindo never did. (Theon didnt have experiences, either; he had only the knowledgehe made use of Madame Theons experiences.) Sri Aurobindo told me he had never really entered the unconsciousness of samadhi for him, these domains were conscious; he would sit on his bed or in his armchair and have all the experiences.
0 1961-11-16b, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
signed: Mother
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0 1961-12-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
signed: Satprem
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0 1962-01-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But following that, and because of the overwork, an old thing I thought I had cured has come back. It was originally brought on by overwork when I was going to the Playground and resting only two hours out of twenty-four, which wasnt enougha sort of ulcer formed between my nose and throat. Its an old complaint, dating from the removal of adenoids in my childhood; the operation left a kind of small cavity, which was nothing in itself, except that occasionally it would give me a cold. But as a result of overwork it came back in the form of an ulcer, and gave me artificial colds; it was so sour and corrosive, a terrible irritation in the throat and nose. It got much worse when I was giving classes at the Playground, and once I showed it to the doctor. Why, you have an ulcer! he said. A big fuss. He offered to treat me. No thanks! I said. Dont worry, it will pass. And I began my own yogic treatment. It was over in a week and for three years there was no further sign of it. Recently (the last two or three months) I had felt it trying to come back, for exactly the same reason of overwork. And with that little adventure the other day, it did come backit gave me one of those stupid colds: sneezing, coughing. Its not quite over yet. But its nothing, it just gives me an excuse (laughing) to tell people I am still not quite well!
I am resting.
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And the feeling was so strong that even during his illness (which lasted for months, you know), I had a sense of perfect security; so much so that the idea of his life being really affected in the least by this illness couldnt even occur to me! I didnt want to believe it when the doctor said, Its over. I didnt want to believe it. And as long as I stayed in the room with me in the room he couldnt leave his body. And so there was a terrible tension in himon the one hand the inner will to depart, and then this thing holding him there in his body: the fact that I knew he was alive and could only be alive. He had to signal me to go to my room, supposedly to rest (I didnt rest); and no sooner had I left his room than he was gone.
They immediately called me back. Thats how it was. Then when he came to me, when I really saw what had happened, when he went out of his body and entered into mine (the most material part of him, the part involved with external things) and I understood that I had the entire responsibility for all the work AND for the sadhana7well, then I locked a part of me away, a deep psychic8 part that was living, beyond all responsibility, in the ECSTASY of the realization: the Supreme. I took it and locked it away, I sealed it off and said, Youre not moving until until all the rest is ready.
0 1962-01-12 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
"How can the Supermind be detected, in the way a huntsman would detect a deer in the forest? By which signs can it be recognized?"
See Agenda II, February 25, 1961, p. 96 ff
0 1962-01-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And EXACTLY five years later, it happened. Later I met people coming from China who told me it had all been the work of a secret society. They told me about it because that society used a certain sign, and instinctively, unknowingly, I had made that sign while one of them was talking to me (Mother puts one fist on top of the other). And the person said, Ah, so youre one of us! I didnt reply. Then he told me everything.
But its really interesting because the exact date was given. The revolution will take place in exactly five years, he told me. He knew it before he left. And that, he continued, will be the beginning, the first terrestrial movement heralding the transformation of. (Theon didnt use the word supramental; he used to talk about the new world on earth.)2
0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I find it difficult to take these psycho-analysts at all seriously when they try to scrutinise spiritual experience by the flicker of their torch-lights,yet perhaps one ought to, for half-knowledge is a powerful thing and can be a great obstacle to the coming in front of the true Truth. This new psychology looks to me very much like children learning some summary and not very adequate alphabet, exulting in putting their a-b-c-d of the subconscient and the mysterious underground super-ego together and imagining that their first book of obscure beginnings (c-a-t cat, t-r-e-e tree) is the very heart of the real knowledge. They look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not below, upari budhna esam. The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms for ever in the Light above. The self-chosen field of these psychologists is besides poor, dark and limited; you must know the whole before you can know the part and the highest before you can truly understand the lowest. That is the promise of the greater psychology awaiting its hour before which these poor gropings will disappear and come to nothing.4
Questioned about the meaning of these words, Mother said, "The state I was in was like a memory."
--- Overview of noun sign
The noun sign has 11 senses (first 9 from tagged texts)
1. (18) sign, mark ::: (a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened); "he showed signs of strain"; "they welcomed the signs of spring")
2. (5) sign ::: (a public display of a message; "he posted signs in all the shop windows")
3. (4) signal, signaling, sign ::: (any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message; "signals from the boat suddenly stopped")
4. (3) signboard, sign ::: (structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted; "the highway was lined with signboards")
5. (2) sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house ::: ((astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided)
6. (1) sign ::: ((medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease; "there were no signs of asphyxiation")
7. (1) polarity, sign ::: (having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges); "he got the polarity of the battery reversed"; "charges of opposite sign")
8. (1) augury, sign, foretoken, preindication ::: (an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God")
9. (1) sign ::: (a gesture that is part of a sign language)
10. sign ::: (a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified; "The bond between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary"--de Saussure)
11. sign ::: (a character indicating a relation between quantities; "don't forget the minus sign")
--- Overview of verb sign
The verb sign has 8 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (16) sign, subscribe ::: (mark with one's signature; write one's name (on); "She signed the letter and sent it off"; "Please sign here")
2. (13) sign, ratify ::: (approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation; "All parties ratified the peace treaty"; "Have you signed your contract yet?")
3. (8) sign ::: (be engaged by a written agreement; "He signed to play the casino on Dec. 18"; "The soprano signed to sing the new opera")
4. (2) sign, contract, sign on, sign up ::: (engage by written agreement; "They signed two new pitchers for the next season")
5. (1) sign, signal, signalize, signalise ::: (communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs; "He signed his disapproval with a dismissive hand gesture"; "The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu")
6. sign ::: (place signs, as along a road; "sign an intersection"; "This road has been signed")
7. sign ::: (communicate in sign language; "I don't know how to sign, so I could not communicate with my deaf cousin")
8. bless, sign ::: (make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate)
--- Overview of adj sign
The adj sign has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. gestural, sign, signed, sign-language ::: (used of the language of the deaf)
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sign
11 senses of sign
Sense 1
sign, mark
=> clue, clew, cue
=> evidence
=> indication, indicant
=> communication
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
sign
=> communication
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
signal, signaling, sign
=> communication
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
signboard, sign
=> structure, construction
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 5
sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house
=> region, part
=> location
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 6
sign
=> evidence, grounds
=> information
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 7
polarity, sign
=> opposition, oppositeness
=> relation
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 8
augury, sign, foretoken, preindication
=> experience
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 9
sign
=> gesture, motion
=> visual communication
=> communication
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 10
sign
=> language unit, linguistic unit
=> part, portion, component part, component, constituent
=> relation
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 11
sign
=> mathematical notation
=> notation, notational system
=> writing
=> written communication, written language, black and white
=> communication
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun sign
9 of 11 senses of sign
Sense 1
sign, mark
=> token
Sense 2
sign
=> poster, posting, placard, notice, bill, card
=> street sign
=> signpost, guidepost
Sense 3
signal, signaling, sign
=> recording
=> phone number, telephone number, number
=> starting signal, start
=> storm signal
=> radio beam, beam
=> ticktack
=> time signal
=> dog-ear
=> animal communication
=> alarm, alert, warning signal, alarum
=> distress signal, distress call
=> all clear
=> bugle call
=> curfew
=> retreat
=> drumbeat
=> telegraphic signal, radiotelegraphic signal
=> whistle, whistling
=> high sign
=> symbol
=> visual signal
=> indicator
=> electronic signal
=> radio beacon
=> input signal, input
=> output signal, output
Sense 4
signboard, sign
=> billboard, hoarding
=> sandwich board
=> scoreboard
=> shingle
Sense 5
sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house
HAS INSTANCE=> Aries, Aries the Ram, Ram
HAS INSTANCE=> Taurus, Taurus the Bull, Bull
HAS INSTANCE=> Gemini, Gemini the Twins, Twins
HAS INSTANCE=> Cancer, Cancer the Crab, Crab
HAS INSTANCE=> Leo, Leo the Lion, Lion
HAS INSTANCE=> Virgo, Virgo the Virgin, Virgin
HAS INSTANCE=> Libra, Libra the Balance, Balance, Libra the Scales
HAS INSTANCE=> Scorpio, Scorpio the Scorpion, Scorpion
HAS INSTANCE=> Sagittarius, Sagittarius the Archer, Archer
HAS INSTANCE=> Capricorn, Capricorn the Goat, Goat
HAS INSTANCE=> Aquarius, Aquarius the Water Bearer, Water Bearer
HAS INSTANCE=> Pisces, Pisces the Fishes, Fish
Sense 6
sign
=> vital sign
Sense 7
polarity, sign
=> positivity, positiveness
=> negativity, negativeness
Sense 8
augury, sign, foretoken, preindication
=> war cloud
=> omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy
Sense 11
sign
=> equal sign
=> plus sign
=> minus sign
=> radical sign
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sign
11 senses of sign
Sense 1
sign, mark
=> clue, clew, cue
Sense 2
sign
=> communication
Sense 3
signal, signaling, sign
=> communication
Sense 4
signboard, sign
=> structure, construction
Sense 5
sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house
=> region, part
Sense 6
sign
=> evidence, grounds
Sense 7
polarity, sign
=> opposition, oppositeness
Sense 8
augury, sign, foretoken, preindication
=> experience
Sense 9
sign
=> gesture, motion
Sense 10
sign
=> language unit, linguistic unit
Sense 11
sign
=> mathematical notation
--- Similarity of adj sign
1 sense of sign
Sense 1
gestural, sign(prenominal), signed, sign-language(prenominal)
=> communicative (vs. uncommunicative), communicatory
--- Antonyms of adj sign
1 sense of sign
Sense 1
gestural, sign(prenominal), signed, sign-language(prenominal)
INDIRECT (VIA communicative) -> uncommunicative, incommunicative
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun sign
11 senses of sign
Sense 1
sign, mark
-> clue, clew, cue
=> sign, mark
Sense 2
sign
-> communication
=> publication
=> message
=> contagion, infection
=> language, linguistic communication
=> written communication, written language, black and white
=> message, content, subject matter, substance
=> didacticism
=> signal, signaling, sign
=> sign
=> indication, indicant
=> visual communication
=> display
=> expressive style, style
=> paralanguage, paralinguistic communication
=> auditory communication
=> voice, vocalization, vocalisation, vocalism, phonation, vox
=> psychic communication, psychical communication, anomalous communication
=> voice
=> document
Sense 3
signal, signaling, sign
-> communication
=> publication
=> message
=> contagion, infection
=> language, linguistic communication
=> written communication, written language, black and white
=> message, content, subject matter, substance
=> didacticism
=> signal, signaling, sign
=> sign
=> indication, indicant
=> visual communication
=> display
=> expressive style, style
=> paralanguage, paralinguistic communication
=> auditory communication
=> voice, vocalization, vocalisation, vocalism, phonation, vox
=> psychic communication, psychical communication, anomalous communication
=> voice
=> document
Sense 4
signboard, sign
-> structure, construction
=> airdock, hangar, repair shed
=> altar
=> arcade, colonnade
=> arch
=> area
=> balcony
=> balcony
=> bascule
=> boarding
=> body
=> bridge, span
=> building, edifice
=> building complex, complex
=> catchment
=> coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix
=> colonnade
=> column, pillar
=> corner, quoin
=> cross
=> deathtrap
=> defensive structure, defense, defence
=> door
=> entablature
=> erection
=> establishment
=> false bottom
=> floor, level, storey, story
=> fountain
=> guide
=> house of cards, cardhouse, card-house, cardcastle
=> housing, lodging, living accommodations
=> hull
=> jungle gym
=> lamination
=> landing, landing place
=> lookout, observation tower, lookout station, observatory
=> masonry
=> memorial, monument
=> mound, hill
=> obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impediment, impedimenta
=> partition, divider
=> platform, weapons platform
=> porch
=> post and lintel
=> prefab
=> projection
=> public works
=> sail
=> set-back, setoff, offset
=> shelter
=> shoebox
=> signboard, sign
=> stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium
=> superstructure
=> supporting structure
=> tower
=> transept
=> trestlework
=> vaulting
=> ways, shipway, slipway
=> wellhead
=> wind tunnel
=> honeycomb
=> balance, equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance
Sense 5
sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house
-> region, part
=> atmosphere, air
=> biosphere
=> depth
=> interplanetary space
=> interstellar space
=> heliosphere
=> intergalactic space
=> deep space
=> aerospace
=> zone
=> belt
=> bottom
=> county
=> distance
=> Eden, paradise, nirvana, heaven, promised land, Shangri-la
=> extremity
HAS INSTANCE=> D-layer, D region
HAS INSTANCE=> Appleton layer, F layer, F region
HAS INSTANCE=> Heaviside layer, Kennelly-Heaviside layer, E layer, E region
=> hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, inferno
=> inside, interior
=> ionosphere
=> layer
=> outside, exterior
=> radius
=> side
=> air
=> vacuum, vacuity
=> top
=> zodiac
=> sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house
HAS INSTANCE=> Achaea
HAS INSTANCE=> Doris
HAS INSTANCE=> Cynoscephalae
HAS INSTANCE=> Transylvania
=> Papua
=> Sind
HAS INSTANCE=> Witwatersrand, Rand, Reef
=> black hole
=> Kuiper belt, Edgeworth-Kuiper belt
=> mare, maria
Sense 6
sign
-> evidence, grounds
=> probable cause
=> proof, cogent evidence
=> disproof, falsification, refutation
=> lead, track, trail
=> symptom
=> sign
Sense 7
polarity, sign
-> opposition, oppositeness
=> antipode
=> antithesis
=> conflict
=> contrast, direct contrast
=> flip side
=> mutual opposition, polarity
=> gradable opposition
=> polarity, sign
=> ungradable opposition
=> contradictoriness
=> contradiction
=> contrary
=> contrariety
=> tertium quid
=> reverse, contrary, opposite
=> inverse, opposite
=> antagonism
Sense 8
augury, sign, foretoken, preindication
-> experience
=> appalling
=> augury, sign, foretoken, preindication
=> flash, flashing
=> good time, blast
=> loss
=> near-death experience
=> ordeal
=> out-of-body experience
=> taste
=> time
=> trip, head trip
=> vision
Sense 9
sign
-> gesture, motion
=> sign
=> gesticulation
=> beck
=> facial expression, facial gesture
=> flourish
=> high-five
=> previous question
=> shrug
=> wave, waving, wafture
=> V sign
=> nod
=> bow, bowing, obeisance
=> sign of the cross
=> curtsy, curtsey
Sense 10
sign
-> language unit, linguistic unit
=> discourse
=> word
=> syllable
=> lexeme
=> morpheme
=> formative
=> name
=> collocation
=> phone, speech sound, sound
=> sign
Sense 11
sign
-> mathematical notation
=> numeration system, number system, number representation system, system of numeration
=> binary notation
=> decimal notation
=> octal notation
=> duodecimal notation
=> hexadecimal notation, sexadecimal notation
=> sign
=> decimal point, percentage point, point
=> exponent, power, index
=> fixed-point notation, fixed-point representation system
=> floating-point notation, floating-point representation system
=> infix notation
=> parenthesis-free notation
--- Pertainyms of adj sign
1 sense of sign
Sense 1
gestural, sign(prenominal), signed, sign-language(prenominal)
--- Derived Forms of adj sign
--- Grep of noun sign
american sign language
babinski sign
computer-aided design
countersign
design
dollar sign
ensign
equal sign
graphic design
high sign
interior design
jacquemier's sign
kernig's sign
minus sign
percent sign
percentage sign
plus sign
pound sign
radical sign
raynaud's sign
sign
sign industry
sign language
sign manual
sign of the cross
sign of the zodiac
sign painter
signage
signal
signal-to-noise
signal-to-noise ratio
signal/noise
signal/noise ratio
signal box
signal caller
signal detection
signal fire
signal flag
signal level
signal light
signal tower
signaler
signaling
signaling device
signalisation
signalization
signaller
signalman
signals intelligence
signatory
signature
signature recognition
signature tune
signboard
signer
signet
signet ring
significance
significant digit
significant figure
significant other
signification
signified
signifier
signing
signior
signor
signora
signore
signorina
signory
signpost
star sign
street sign
v sign
vital sign
