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Survival of the Fittest According to Darwin, the most important factor in organic evolution was natural selection, operating on small casual variations in the organisms whose peculiarities were best adapted to their environment would have the best chance of surviving and, their superiority being transmitted to their offspring, the net result would be a survival of the fittest and an elimination of the unfit.
Survival: The continued existence of the personality after the change or transition called death.
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Al-Razzaq ::: The One who provides all necessary nutrition for the survival of any unit of manifestation regardless of its plane of existence.
altruism (animal): an animal is considered to be engaging in altruistic behaviour when by so doing it increases the survival chances of another animal whilst decreasing its own.
Aufklärung: In general, this German word and its English equivalent Enlightenment denote the self-emancipation of man from mere authority, prejudice, convention and tradition, with an insistence on freer thinking about problems uncritically referred to these other agencies. According to Kant's famous definition "Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority, which is the incapacity of using one's understanding without the direction of another. This state of minority is caused when its source lies not in the lack of understanding, but in the lack of determination and courage to use it without the assistance of another" (Was ist Aufklärung? 1784). In its historical perspective, the Aufklärung refers to the cultural atmosphere and contrlbutions of the 18th century, especially in Germany, France and England [which affected also American thought with B. Franklin, T. Paine and the leaders of the Revolution]. It crystallized tendencies emphasized by the Renaissance, and quickened by modern scepticism and empiricism, and by the great scientific discoveries of the 17th century. This movement, which was represented by men of varying tendencies, gave an impetus to general learning, a more popular philosophy, empirical science, scriptural criticism, social and political thought. More especially, the word Aufklärung is applied to the German contributions to 18th century culture. In philosophy, its principal representatives are G. E. Lessing (1729-81) who believed in free speech and in a methodical criticism of religion, without being a free-thinker; H. S. Reimarus (1694-1768) who expounded a naturalistic philosophy and denied the supernatural origin of Christianity; Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) who endeavoured to mitigate prejudices and developed a popular common-sense philosophy; Chr. Wolff (1679-1754), J. A. Eberhard (1739-1809) who followed the Leibnizian rationalism and criticized unsuccessfully Kant and Fichte; and J. G. Herder (1744-1803) who was best as an interpreter of others, but whose intuitional suggestions have borne fruit in the organic correlation of the sciences, and in questions of language in relation to human nature and to national character. The works of Kant and Goethe mark the culmination of the German Enlightenment. Cf. J. G. Hibben, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, 1910. --T.G. Augustinianism: The thought of St. Augustine of Hippo, and of his followers. Born in 354 at Tagaste in N. Africa, A. studied rhetoric in Carthage, taught that subject there and in Rome and Milan. Attracted successively to Manicheanism, Scepticism, and Neo-Platontsm, A. eventually found intellectual and moral peace with his conversion to Christianity in his thirty-fourth year. Returning to Africa, he established numerous monasteries, became a priest in 391, Bishop of Hippo in 395. Augustine wrote much: On Free Choice, Confessions, Literal Commentary on Genesis, On the Trinity, and City of God, are his most noted works. He died in 430. St. Augustine's characteristic method, an inward empiricism which has little in common with later variants, starts from things without, proceeds within to the self, and moves upwards to God. These three poles of the Augustinian dialectic are polarized by his doctrine of moderate illuminism. An ontological illumination is required to explain the metaphysical structure of things. The truth of judgment demands a noetic illumination. A moral illumination is necessary in the order of willing; and so, too, an lllumination of art in the aesthetic order. Other illuminations which transcend the natural order do not come within the scope of philosophy; they provide the wisdoms of theology and mysticism. Every being is illuminated ontologically by number, form, unity and its derivatives, and order. A thing is what it is, in so far as it is more or less flooded by the light of these ontological constituents. Sensation is necessary in order to know material substances. There is certainly an action of the external object on the body and a corresponding passion of the body, but, as the soul is superior to the body and can suffer nothing from its inferior, sensation must be an action, not a passion, of the soul. Sensation takes place only when the observing soul, dynamically on guard throughout the body, is vitally attentive to the changes suffered by the body. However, an adequate basis for the knowledge of intellectual truth is not found in sensation alone. In order to know, for example, that a body is multiple, the idea of unity must be present already, otherwise its multiplicity could not be recognized. If numbers are not drawn in by the bodily senses which perceive only the contingent and passing, is the mind the source of the unchanging and necessary truth of numbers? The mind of man is also contingent and mutable, and cannot give what it does not possess. As ideas are not innate, nor remembered from a previous existence of the soul, they can be accounted for only by an immutable source higher than the soul. In so far as man is endowed with an intellect, he is a being naturally illuminated by God, Who may be compared to an intelligible sun. The human intellect does not create the laws of thought; it finds them and submits to them. The immediate intuition of these normative rules does not carry any content, thus any trace of ontologism is avoided. Things have forms because they have numbers, and they have being in so far as they possess form. The sufficient explanation of all formable, and hence changeable, things is an immutable and eternal form which is unrestricted in time and space. The forms or ideas of all things actually existing in the world are in the things themselves (as rationes seminales) and in the Divine Mind (as rationes aeternae). Nothing could exist without unity, for to be is no other than to be one. There is a unity proper to each level of being, a unity of the material individual and species, of the soul, and of that union of souls in the love of the same good, which union constitutes the city. Order, also, is ontologically imbibed by all beings. To tend to being is to tend to order; order secures being, disorder leads to non-being. Order is the distribution which allots things equal and unequal each to its own place and integrates an ensemble of parts in accordance with an end. Hence, peace is defined as the tranquillity of order. Just as things have their being from their forms, the order of parts, and their numerical relations, so too their beauty is not something superadded, but the shining out of all their intelligible co-ingredients. S. Aurelii Augustini, Opera Omnia, Migne, PL 32-47; (a critical edition of some works will be found in the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Vienna). Gilson, E., Introd. a l'etude de s. Augustin, (Paris, 1931) contains very good bibliography up to 1927, pp. 309-331. Pope, H., St. Augustine of Hippo, (London, 1937). Chapman, E., St. Augustine's Philos. of Beauty, (N. Y., 1939). Figgis, J. N., The Political Aspects of St. Augustine's "City of God", (London, 1921). --E.C. Authenticity: In a general sense, genuineness, truth according to its title. It involves sometimes a direct and personal characteristic (Whitehead speaks of "authentic feelings"). This word also refers to problems of fundamental criticism involving title, tradition, authorship and evidence. These problems are vital in theology, and basic in scholarship with regard to the interpretation of texts and doctrines. --T.G. Authoritarianism: That theory of knowledge which maintains that the truth of any proposition is determined by the fact of its having been asserted by a certain esteemed individual or group of individuals. Cf. H. Newman, Grammar of Assent; C. S. Peirce, "Fixation of Belief," in Chance, Love and Logic, ed. M. R. Cohen. --A.C.B. Autistic thinking: Absorption in fanciful or wishful thinking without proper control by objective or factual material; day dreaming; undisciplined imagination. --A.C.B. Automaton Theory: Theory that a living organism may be considered a mere machine. See Automatism. Automatism: (Gr. automatos, self-moving) (a) In metaphysics: Theory that animal and human organisms are automata, that is to say, are machines governed by the laws of physics and mechanics. Automatism, as propounded by Descartes, considered the lower animals to be pure automata (Letter to Henry More, 1649) and man a machine controlled by a rational soul (Treatise on Man). Pure automatism for man as well as animals is advocated by La Mettrie (Man, a Machine, 1748). During the Nineteenth century, automatism, combined with epiphenomenalism, was advanced by Hodgson, Huxley and Clifford. (Cf. W. James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, ch. V.) Behaviorism, of the extreme sort, is the most recent version of automatism (See Behaviorism). (b) In psychology: Psychological automatism is the performance of apparently purposeful actions, like automatic writing without the superintendence of the conscious mind. L. C. Rosenfield, From Beast Machine to Man Machine, N. Y., 1941. --L.W. Automatism, Conscious: The automatism of Hodgson, Huxley, and Clifford which considers man a machine to which mind or consciousness is superadded; the mind of man is, however, causally ineffectual. See Automatism; Epiphenomenalism. --L.W. Autonomy: (Gr. autonomia, independence) Freedom consisting in self-determination and independence of all external constraint. See Freedom. Kant defines autonomy of the will as subjection of the will to its own law, the categorical imperative, in contrast to heteronomy, its subjection to a law or end outside the rational will. (Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, § 2.) --L.W. Autonomy of ethics: A doctrine, usually propounded by intuitionists, that ethics is not a part of, and cannot be derived from, either metaphysics or any of the natural or social sciences. See Intuitionism, Metaphysical ethics, Naturalistic ethics. --W.K.F. Autonomy of the will: (in Kant's ethics) The freedom of the rational will to legislate to itself, which constitutes the basis for the autonomy of the moral law. --P.A.S. Autonymy: In the terminology introduced by Carnap, a word (phrase, symbol, expression) is autonymous if it is used as a name for itself --for the geometric shape, sound, etc. which it exemplifies, or for the word as a historical and grammatical unit. Autonymy is thus the same as the Scholastic suppositio matertalis (q. v.), although the viewpoint is different. --A.C. Autotelic: (from Gr. autos, self, and telos, end) Said of any absorbing activity engaged in for its own sake (cf. German Selbstzweck), such as higher mathematics, chess, etc. In aesthetics, applied to creative art and play which lack any conscious reference to the accomplishment of something useful. In the view of some, it may constitute something beneficent in itself of which the person following his art impulse (q.v.) or playing is unaware, thus approaching a heterotelic (q.v.) conception. --K.F.L. Avenarius, Richard: (1843-1896) German philosopher who expressed his thought in an elaborate and novel terminology in the hope of constructing a symbolic language for philosophy, like that of mathematics --the consequence of his Spinoza studies. As the most influential apostle of pure experience, the posltivistic motive reaches in him an extreme position. Insisting on the biologic and economic function of thought, he thought the true method of science is to cure speculative excesses by a return to pure experience devoid of all assumptions. Philosophy is the scientific effort to exclude from knowledge all ideas not included in the given. Its task is to expel all extraneous elements in the given. His uncritical use of the category of the given and the nominalistic view that logical relations are created rather than discovered by thought, leads him to banish not only animism but also all of the categories, substance, causality, etc., as inventions of the mind. Explaining the evolution and devolution of the problematization and deproblematization of numerous ideas, and aiming to give the natural history of problems, Avenarius sought to show physiologically, psychologically and historically under what conditions they emerge, are challenged and are solved. He hypothesized a System C, a bodily and central nervous system upon which consciousness depends. R-values are the stimuli received from the world of objects. E-values are the statements of experience. The brain changes that continually oscillate about an ideal point of balance are termed Vitalerhaltungsmaximum. The E-values are differentiated into elements, to which the sense-perceptions or the content of experience belong, and characters, to which belongs everything which psychology describes as feelings and attitudes. Avenarius describes in symbolic form a series of states from balance to balance, termed vital series, all describing a series of changes in System C. Inequalities in the vital balance give rise to vital differences. According to his theory there are two vital series. It assumes a series of brain changes because parallel series of conscious states can be observed. The independent vital series are physical, and the dependent vital series are psychological. The two together are practically covariants. In the case of a process as a dependent vital series three stages can be noted: first, the appearance of the problem, expressed as strain, restlessness, desire, fear, doubt, pain, repentance, delusion; the second, the continued effort and struggle to solve the problem; and finally, the appearance of the solution, characterized by abating anxiety, a feeling of triumph and enjoyment. Corresponding to these three stages of the dependent series are three stages of the independent series: the appearance of the vital difference and a departure from balance in the System C, the continuance with an approximate vital difference, and lastly, the reduction of the vital difference to zero, the return to stability. By making room for dependent and independent experiences, he showed that physics regards experience as independent of the experiencing indlvidual, and psychology views experience as dependent upon the individual. He greatly influenced Mach and James (q.v.). See Avenarius, Empirio-criticism, Experience, pure. Main works: Kritik der reinen Erfahrung; Der menschliche Weltbegriff. --H.H. Averroes: (Mohammed ibn Roshd) Known to the Scholastics as The Commentator, and mentioned as the author of il gran commento by Dante (Inf. IV. 68) he was born 1126 at Cordova (Spain), studied theology, law, medicine, mathematics, and philosophy, became after having been judge in Sevilla and Cordova, physician to the khalifah Jaqub Jusuf, and charged with writing a commentary on the works of Aristotle. Al-mansur, Jusuf's successor, deprived him of his place because of accusations of unorthodoxy. He died 1198 in Morocco. Averroes is not so much an original philosopher as the author of a minute commentary on the whole works of Aristotle. His procedure was imitated later by Aquinas. In his interpretation of Aristotelian metaphysics Averroes teaches the coeternity of a universe created ex nihilo. This doctrine formed together with the notion of a numerical unity of the active intellect became one of the controversial points in the discussions between the followers of Albert-Thomas and the Latin Averroists. Averroes assumed that man possesses only a disposition for receiving the intellect coming from without; he identifies this disposition with the possible intellect which thus is not truly intellectual by nature. The notion of one intellect common to all men does away with the doctrine of personal immortality. Another doctrine which probably was emphasized more by the Latin Averroists (and by the adversaries among Averroes' contemporaries) is the famous statement about "two-fold truth", viz. that a proposition may be theologically true and philosophically false and vice versa. Averroes taught that religion expresses the (higher) philosophical truth by means of religious imagery; the "two-truth notion" came apparently into the Latin text through a misinterpretation on the part of the translators. The works of Averroes were one of the main sources of medieval Aristotelianlsm, before and even after the original texts had been translated. The interpretation the Latin Averroists found in their texts of the "Commentator" spread in spite of opposition and condemnation. See Averroism, Latin. Averroes, Opera, Venetiis, 1553. M. Horten, Die Metaphysik des Averroes, 1912. P. Mandonnet, Siger de Brabant et l'Averroisme Latin, 2d ed., Louvain, 1911. --R.A. Averroism, Latin: The commentaries on Aristotle written by Averroes (Ibn Roshd) in the 12th century became known to the Western scholars in translations by Michael Scottus, Hermannus Alemannus, and others at the beginning of the 13th century. Many works of Aristotle were also known first by such translations from Arabian texts, though there existed translations from the Greek originals at the same time (Grabmann). The Averroistic interpretation of Aristotle was held to be the true one by many; but already Albert the Great pointed out several notions which he felt to be incompatible with the principles of Christian philosophy, although he relied for the rest on the "Commentator" and apparently hardly used any other text. Aquinas, basing his studies mostly on a translation from the Greek texts, procured for him by William of Moerbecke, criticized the Averroistic interpretation in many points. But the teachings of the Commentator became the foundation for a whole school of philosophers, represented first by the Faculty of Arts at Paris. The most prominent of these scholars was Siger of Brabant. The philosophy of these men was condemned on March 7th, 1277 by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris, after a first condemnation of Aristotelianism in 1210 had gradually come to be neglected. The 219 theses condemned in 1277, however, contain also some of Aquinas which later were generally recognized an orthodox. The Averroistic propositions which aroused the criticism of the ecclesiastic authorities and which had been opposed with great energy by Albert and Thomas refer mostly to the following points: The co-eternity of the created word; the numerical identity of the intellect in all men, the so-called two-fold-truth theory stating that a proposition may be philosophically true although theologically false. Regarding the first point Thomas argued that there is no philosophical proof, either for the co-eternity or against it; creation is an article of faith. The unity of intellect was rejected as incompatible with the true notion of person and with personal immortality. It is doubtful whether Averroes himself held the two-truths theory; it was, however, taught by the Latin Averroists who, notwithstanding the opposition of the Church and the Thomistic philosophers, gained a great influence and soon dominated many universities, especially in Italy. Thomas and his followers were convinced that they interpreted Aristotle correctly and that the Averroists were wrong; one has, however, to admit that certain passages in Aristotle allow for the Averroistic interpretation, especially in regard to the theory of intellect. Lit.: P. Mandonnet, Siger de Brabant et l'Averroisme Latin au XIIIe Siecle, 2d. ed. Louvain, 1911; M. Grabmann, Forschungen über die lateinischen Aristotelesübersetzungen des XIII. Jahrhunderts, Münster 1916 (Beitr. z. Gesch. Phil. d. MA. Vol. 17, H. 5-6). --R.A. Avesta: See Zendavesta. Avicehron: (or Avencebrol, Salomon ibn Gabirol) The first Jewish philosopher in Spain, born in Malaga 1020, died about 1070, poet, philosopher, and moralist. His main work, Fons vitae, became influential and was much quoted by the Scholastics. It has been preserved only in the Latin translation by Gundissalinus. His doctrine of a spiritual substance individualizing also the pure spirits or separate forms was opposed by Aquinas already in his first treatise De ente, but found favor with the medieval Augustinians also later in the 13th century. He also teaches the necessity of a mediator between God and the created world; such a mediator he finds in the Divine Will proceeding from God and creating, conserving, and moving the world. His cosmogony shows a definitely Neo-Platonic shade and assumes a series of emanations. Cl. Baeumker, Avencebrolis Fons vitae. Beitr. z. Gesch. d. Philos. d. MA. 1892-1895, Vol. I. Joh. Wittman, Die Stellung des hl. Thomas von Aquino zu Avencebrol, ibid. 1900. Vol. III. --R.A. Avicenna: (Abu Ali al Hosain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina) Born 980 in the country of Bocchara, began to write in young years, left more than 100 works, taught in Ispahan, was physician to several Persian princes, and died at Hamadan in 1037. His fame as physician survived his influence as philosopher in the Occident. His medical works were printed still in the 17th century. His philosophy is contained in 18 vols. of a comprehensive encyclopedia, following the tradition of Al Kindi and Al Farabi. Logic, Physics, Mathematics and Metaphysics form the parts of this work. His philosophy is Aristotelian with noticeable Neo-Platonic influences. His doctrine of the universal existing ante res in God, in rebus as the universal nature of the particulars, and post res in the human mind by way of abstraction became a fundamental thesis of medieval Aristotelianism. He sharply distinguished between the logical and the ontological universal, denying to the latter the true nature of form in the composite. The principle of individuation is matter, eternally existent. Latin translations attributed to Avicenna the notion that existence is an accident to essence (see e.g. Guilelmus Parisiensis, De Universo). The process adopted by Avicenna was one of paraphrasis of the Aristotelian texts with many original thoughts interspersed. His works were translated into Latin by Dominicus Gundissalinus (Gondisalvi) with the assistance of Avendeath ibn Daud. This translation started, when it became more generally known, the "revival of Aristotle" at the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century. Albert the Great and Aquinas professed, notwithstanding their critical attitude, a great admiration for Avicenna whom the Arabs used to call the "third Aristotle". But in the Orient, Avicenna's influence declined soon, overcome by the opposition of the orthodox theologians. Avicenna, Opera, Venetiis, 1495; l508; 1546. M. Horten, Das Buch der Genesung der Seele, eine philosophische Enzyklopaedie Avicenna's; XIII. Teil: Die Metaphysik. Halle a. S. 1907-1909. R. de Vaux, Notes et textes sur l'Avicennisme Latin, Bibl. Thomiste XX, Paris, 1934. --R.A. Avidya: (Skr.) Nescience; ignorance; the state of mind unaware of true reality; an equivalent of maya (q.v.); also a condition of pure awareness prior to the universal process of evolution through gradual differentiation into the elements and factors of knowledge. --K.F.L. Avyakta: (Skr.) "Unmanifest", descriptive of or standing for brahman (q.v.) in one of its or "his" aspects, symbolizing the superabundance of the creative principle, or designating the condition of the universe not yet become phenomenal (aja, unborn). --K.F.L. Awareness: Consciousness considered in its aspect of act; an act of attentive awareness such as the sensing of a color patch or the feeling of pain is distinguished from the content attended to, the sensed color patch, the felt pain. The psychologlcal theory of intentional act was advanced by F. Brentano (Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte) and received its epistemological development by Meinong, Husserl, Moore, Laird and Broad. See Intentionalism. --L.W. Axiological: (Ger. axiologisch) In Husserl: Of or pertaining to value or theory of value (the latter term understood as including disvalue and value-indifference). --D.C. Axiological ethics: Any ethics which makes the theory of obligation entirely dependent on the theory of value, by making the determination of the rightness of an action wholly dependent on a consideration of the value or goodness of something, e.g. the action itself, its motive, or its consequences, actual or probable. Opposed to deontological ethics. See also teleological ethics. --W.K.F. Axiologic Realism: In metaphysics, theory that value as well as logic, qualities as well as relations, have their being and exist external to the mind and independently of it. Applicable to the philosophy of many though not all realists in the history of philosophy, from Plato to G. E. Moore, A. N. Whitehead, and N, Hartmann. --J.K.F. Axiology: (Gr. axios, of like value, worthy, and logos, account, reason, theory). Modern term for theory of value (the desired, preferred, good), investigation of its nature, criteria, and metaphysical status. Had its rise in Plato's theory of Forms or Ideas (Idea of the Good); was developed in Aristotle's Organon, Ethics, Poetics, and Metaphysics (Book Lambda). Stoics and Epicureans investigated the summum bonum. Christian philosophy (St. Thomas) built on Aristotle's identification of highest value with final cause in God as "a living being, eternal, most good." In modern thought, apart from scholasticism and the system of Spinoza (Ethica, 1677), in which values are metaphysically grounded, the various values were investigated in separate sciences, until Kant's Critiques, in which the relations of knowledge to moral, aesthetic, and religious values were examined. In Hegel's idealism, morality, art, religion, and philosophy were made the capstone of his dialectic. R. H. Lotze "sought in that which should be the ground of that which is" (Metaphysik, 1879). Nineteenth century evolutionary theory, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and economics subjected value experience to empirical analysis, and stress was again laid on the diversity and relativity of value phenomena rather than on their unity and metaphysical nature. F. Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra (1883-1885) and Zur Genealogie der Moral (1887) aroused new interest in the nature of value. F. Brentano, Vom Ursprung sittlicher Erkenntnis (1889), identified value with love. In the twentieth century the term axiology was apparently first applied by Paul Lapie (Logique de la volonte, 1902) and E. von Hartmann (Grundriss der Axiologie, 1908). Stimulated by Ehrenfels (System der Werttheorie, 1897), Meinong (Psychologisch-ethische Untersuchungen zur Werttheorie, 1894-1899), and Simmel (Philosophie des Geldes, 1900). W. M. Urban wrote the first systematic treatment of axiology in English (Valuation, 1909), phenomenological in method under J. M. Baldwin's influence. Meanwhile H. Münsterberg wrote a neo-Fichtean system of values (The Eternal Values, 1909). Among important recent contributions are: B. Bosanquet, The Principle of Individuality and Value (1912), a free reinterpretation of Hegelianism; W. R. Sorley, Moral Values and the Idea of God (1918, 1921), defending a metaphysical theism; S. Alexander, Space, Time, and Deity (1920), realistic and naturalistic; N. Hartmann, Ethik (1926), detailed analysis of types and laws of value; R. B. Perry's magnum opus, General Theory of Value (1926), "its meaning and basic principles construed in terms of interest"; and J. Laird, The Idea of Value (1929), noteworthy for historical exposition. A naturalistic theory has been developed by J. Dewey (Theory of Valuation, 1939), for which "not only is science itself a value . . . but it is the supreme means of the valid determination of all valuations." A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic (1936) expounds the view of logical positivism that value is "nonsense." J. Hessen, Wertphilosophie (1937), provides an account of recent German axiology from a neo-scholastic standpoint. The problems of axiology fall into four main groups, namely, those concerning (1) the nature of value, (2) the types of value, (3) the criterion of value, and (4) the metaphysical status of value. (1) The nature of value experience. Is valuation fulfillment of desire (voluntarism: Spinoza, Ehrenfels), pleasure (hedonism: Epicurus, Bentham, Meinong), interest (Perry), preference (Martineau), pure rational will (formalism: Stoics, Kant, Royce), apprehension of tertiary qualities (Santayana), synoptic experience of the unity of personality (personalism: T. H. Green, Bowne), any experience that contributes to enhanced life (evolutionism: Nietzsche), or "the relation of things as means to the end or consequence actually reached" (pragmatism, instrumentalism: Dewey). (2) The types of value. Most axiologists distinguish between intrinsic (consummatory) values (ends), prized for their own sake, and instrumental (contributory) values (means), which are causes (whether as economic goods or as natural events) of intrinsic values. Most intrinsic values are also instrumental to further value experience; some instrumental values are neutral or even disvaluable intrinsically. Commonly recognized as intrinsic values are the (morally) good, the true, the beautiful, and the holy. Values of play, of work, of association, and of bodily well-being are also acknowledged. Some (with Montague) question whether the true is properly to be regarded as a value, since some truth is disvaluable, some neutral; but love of truth, regardless of consequences, seems to establish the value of truth. There is disagreement about whether the holy (religious value) is a unique type (Schleiermacher, Otto), or an attitude toward other values (Kant, Höffding), or a combination of the two (Hocking). There is also disagreement about whether the variety of values is irreducible (pluralism) or whether all values are rationally related in a hierarchy or system (Plato, Hegel, Sorley), in which values interpenetrate or coalesce into a total experience. (3) The criterion of value. The standard for testing values is influenced by both psychological and logical theory. Hedonists find the standard in the quantity of pleasure derived by the individual (Aristippus) or society (Bentham). Intuitionists appeal to an ultimate insight into preference (Martineau, Brentano). Some idealists recognize an objective system of rational norms or ideals as criterion (Plato, Windelband), while others lay more stress on rational wholeness and coherence (Hegel, Bosanquet, Paton) or inclusiveness (T. H. Green). Naturalists find biological survival or adjustment (Dewey) to be the standard. Despite differences, there is much in common in the results of the application of these criteria. (4) The metaphysical status of value. What is the relation of values to the facts investigated by natural science (Koehler), of Sein to Sollen (Lotze, Rickert), of human experience of value to reality independent of man (Hegel, Pringle-Pattlson, Spaulding)? There are three main answers: subjectivism (value is entirely dependent on and relative to human experience of it: so most hedonists, naturalists, positivists); logical objectivism (values are logical essences or subsistences, independent of their being known, yet with no existential status or action in reality); metaphysical objectivism (values --or norms or ideals --are integral, objective, and active constituents of the metaphysically real: so theists, absolutists, and certain realists and naturalists like S. Alexander and Wieman). --E.S.B. Axiom: See Mathematics. Axiomatic method: That method of constructing a deductive system consisting of deducing by specified rules all statements of the system save a given few from those given few, which are regarded as axioms or postulates of the system. See Mathematics. --C.A.B. Ayam atma brahma: (Skr.) "This self is brahman", famous quotation from Brhadaranyaka Upanishad 2.5.19, one of many alluding to the central theme of the Upanishads, i.e., the identity of the human and divine or cosmic. --K.F.L.
BioMeDical Package "language, library, statistics" (BMDP) A statistical language and library of over forty statistical routines developed in 1961 at {UCLA}, Health Sciences Computing Facility under Dr. Wilford Dixon. BMDP was first implemented in {Fortran} for the {IBM 7090}. Tapes of the original source were distributed for free all over the world. BMDP is the second iteration of the original {BIMED} programs. It was developed at {UCLA} Health Sciences Computing facility, with NIH funding. The "P" in BMDP originally stood for "parameter" but was later changed to "package". BMDP used keyword parameters to defined what was to be done rather than the fixed card format used by original BIMED programs. BMDP supports many statistical funtions: simple data description, {survival analysis}, {ANOVA}, {multivariate analyses}, {regression analysis}, and {time series} analysis. BMDP Professional combines the full suite of BMDP Classic (Dynamic) release 7.0 with the BMDP New System 2.0 {Windows} front-end. {BMDP from Statistical Solutions (http://statsol.ie/bmdp/bmdp.htm)}. (2004-01-14)
BioMeDical Package ::: (language, library, statistics) (BMDP) A statistical language and library of over forty statistical routines developed in 1961 at UCLA, Health Sciences Fortran for the IBM 7090. Tapes of the original source were distributed for free all over the world.BMDP is the second iteration of the original BIMED programs. It was developed at UCLA Health Sciences Computing facility, with NIH funding. The P in BMDP keyword parameters to defined what was to be done rather than the fixed card format used by original BIMED programs.BMDP supports many statistical funtions: simple data description, survival analysis, ANOVA, multivariate analyses, regression analysis, and time series analysis.BMDP Professional combines the full suite of BMDP Classic (Dynamic) release 7.0 with the BMDP New System 2.0 Windows front-end. .(2004-01-14)
Body: Here taken in the sense of the material organized substance of man contrasted with the mind, soul or spirit, thus leading to the problem of the relation between body and mind, one of the most persistent problems of philosophy. Of course, any theory which identifies body and mind, or does not adequately distinguish the psychical from the physical, regarding both as aspects of the same reality, eludes some of the difficulties presented by the problem. Both materialism and idealism may be considered as forms of psycho-physical monism. Materialism by denying the real existence of spiritual beings and reducing mind to a function of matter, and spiritualism, or that species called idealism, which regards bodies simply as contents of consciousness, really evade the main issue. All those, however, who frankly acknowledge the empirically given duality of mind and organism, are obliged to struggle with the problem of the relation between them. The two most noted rival theories attempting an answer are interactionism and parallelism. The first considers both body and mind as substantial beings, influencing each other, hence causally related. The second holds that physical processes and mental processes accompany each other without any interaction or interference whatsoever, consequently they cannot be causally related. The Scholastics advance the doctrine of the human composite consisting of body and soul united into one substance and nature, constituting the human person or self, to whom all actions of which man is capable must be ascribed. There can be no interaction, since there is but one agent, formed of two component elements. This theory, like interactionism, makes provision for survival, even immortality, while parallelism definitely precludes it. No known theory can meet all objections and prove entirely satisfactory; the problem still persists. See Descartes, Spinoza, Mind. -- J.J.R.
Survival of the Fittest According to Darwin, the most important factor in organic evolution was natural selection, operating on small casual variations in the organisms whose peculiarities were best adapted to their environment would have the best chance of surviving and, their superiority being transmitted to their offspring, the net result would be a survival of the fittest and an elimination of the unfit.
Survival: The continued existence of the personality after the change or transition called death.
Budding or Gemmation A form a asexual reproduction in which the new individual is developed from a protuberance on the body of the parent, the new individual either remaining attached, as in polyzoa and most corals, or separating, as in hydra. This process is used as an analogy to convey the method of reproduction followed by the humanity of the second root-race. The bodies were more ethereal and also differed in certain reproductive processes from what takes place in humans today, so that it is not now easy to give a complete picture of the process of budding as it then was. The development of the germ-cell and its extrusion of polar cells furnish additional clues, both to this process and the allied process of fission. Besides a survival of analogous methods of reproduction in some of the present lower forms of life, there are also similar instances in the power which some creatures have of reproducing lost limbs, and in the power of cicatrization of wounds in the higher mammalia.
client-server ::: (programming) A common form of distributed system in which software is split between server tasks and client tasks. A client sends requests to a server, according to some protocol, asking for information or action, and the server responds.This is analogous to a customer (client) who sends an order (request) on an order form to a supplier (server) who despatches the goods and an invoice (response). The order form and invoice are part of the protocol used to communicate in this case.There may be either one centralised server or several distributed ones. This model allows clients and servers to be placed independently on nodes in a network, possibly on different hardware and operating systems appropriate to their function, e.g. fast server/cheap client.Examples are the name-server/name-resolver relationship in DNS, the file-server/file-client relationship in NFS and the screen server/client application split in the X Window System.Usenet newsgroup: comp.client-server.[The Essential Client/Server Survival Guide, 2nd edition, 1996]. (1998-01-25)
client-server "programming" A common form of {distributed system} in which software is split between {server} tasks and {client} tasks. A client sends requests to a server, according to some {protocol}, asking for information or action, and the server responds. This is analogous to a customer (client) who sends an order (request) on an order form to a supplier (server) who despatches the goods and an invoice (response). The order form and invoice are part of the "protocol" used to communicate in this case. There may be either one centralised server or several distributed ones. This model allows clients and servers to be placed independently on {nodes} in a {network}, possibly on different {hardware} and {operating systems} appropriate to their function, e.g. fast server/cheap client. Examples are the name-server/name-resolver relationship in {DNS}, the file-server/file-client relationship in {NFS} and the screen server/client application split in the {X Window System}. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.client-server}. ["The Essential Client/Server Survival Guide", 2nd edition, 1996]. (1998-01-25)
collectivism ::: A theoretical or practical emphasis on the group, as opposed to (and seen by many of its opponents to be at the expense of) the individual. Some psychologists define collectivism as a syndrome of attitudes and behaviors based on the belief that the basic unit of survival lies within a group, not the individual. Collectivists typically hold that the "greater good" of the group, is more important than the good of any particular individual who is one part of that larger organization. Some collectivists argue that the individual incidentally serves his own interests by working for the benefit of the group.[4]
competition ::: The struggle among nerve cells, or nerve cell processes, for limited resources essential to survival or growth.
conditioned reinforcer: stimuli which act as reinforcers but are not based on biological survival, such as attention, praise or money.
Darwin (1809-1882): a hugely influential naturalist, who proposed that all species evolve through natural selection so that traits that enhance survival are passed on.
Darwinism The school of scientific thought arising out of Charles Darwin’s theory of the origin and propagation of species in the animal and plant kingdoms by natural selection, resulting in the survival of the fittest. It was popularized by Thomas Huxley and Ernst Haeckel in the 19th century, and in the 20th century Neo-Darwinism has incorporated knowledge of genetics and mutation into the Darwinian framework.
evolutionary algorithm ::: (EA) An algorithm which incorporates aspects of natural selection or survival of the fittest. An evolutionary algorithm maintains a population of structures selected for reproduction (retention or duplication), while recombination and mutation modify those individuals, yielding potentially superior ones.EAs are one kind of evolutionary computation and differ from genetic algorithms. A GA generates each individual from some encoded form known as a chromosome and it is these which are combined or mutated to breed new individuals.EAs are useful for optimisation when other techniques such as gradient descent or direct, analytical discovery are not possible. Combinatoric and real-valued rugged, possessing many locally optimal solutions, are well suited for evolutionary algorithms. (1995-02-03)
evolutionary algorithm (EA) An {algorithm} which incorporates aspects of natural selection or survival of the fittest. An evolutionary algorithm maintains a population of structures (usually randomly generated initially), that evolves according to rules of selection, recombination, mutation and survival, referred to as genetic operators. A shared "environment" determines the fitness or performance of each individual in the population. The fittest individuals are more likely to be selected for reproduction (retention or duplication), while recombination and mutation modify those individuals, yielding potentially superior ones. EAs are one kind of {evolutionary computation} and differ from {genetic algorithms}. A GA generates each individual from some encoded form known as a "chromosome" and it is these which are combined or mutated to breed new individuals. EAs are useful for optimisation when other techniques such as {gradient descent} or direct, analytical discovery are not possible. Combinatoric and real-valued function optimisation in which the optimisation surface or fitness landscape is "rugged", possessing many {locally optimal} solutions, are well suited for evolutionary algorithms. (1995-02-03)
First Tier ::: A phrase used to summarize the first six major levels of values development according to Clare Graves and Spiral Dynamics: Survival Sense, Kin Spirits, Power Gods, Truth Force, Strive Drive, and Human Bond. First-Tier stages are characterized by a belief that “my values are the only correct values.” This lies in contrast to Second-Tier levels of development, wherein individuals recognize the importance of all value systems. Integral Theory uses First Tier to refer to the first six degrees or levels of developmental altitude (Infrared, Magenta, Red, Amber, Orange, and Green).
Great change: Since all occult philosophies believe in survival after the death of the physical body, and hence according to them there is really no death, physical death is usually referred to as the great change or the transition.
Immortality ::: ...immortality in its fundamental sense does not mean merely some kind of personal survival of the bodily death; we are immortal by the eternity of our self-existence without beginning or end, beyond the whole succession of physical births and deaths through which we pass, beyond the alternations of our existence in this and other worlds: the spirit’s timeless existence is the true immortality.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 21-22, Page: 767 ::: Immortality does not mean survival of the self or the ego after dissolution of the body.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 17, Page: 58
::: ". . . immortality in its fundamental sense does not mean merely some kind of personal survival of the bodily death; we are immortal by the eternity of our self-existence without beginning or end, beyond the whole succession of physical births and deaths through which we pass, beyond the alternations of our existence in this and other worlds: the spirit"s timeless existence is the true immortality.” *The Life Divine
“… immortality in its fundamental sense does not mean merely some kind of personal survival of the bodily death; we are immortal by the eternity of our self-existence without beginning or end, beyond the whole succession of physical births and deaths through which we pass, beyond the alternations of our existence in this and other worlds: the spirit’s timeless existence is the true immortality.” The Life Divine
"Immortality is not the survival of the mental personality after death, though that also is true, but the waking possession of the unborn & deathless self of which body is only an instrument and a shadow.” Essays Divine and Human
“Immortality is not the survival of the mental personality after death, though that also is true, but the waking possession of the unborn & deathless self of which body is only an instrument and a shadow.” Essays Divine and Human
Immortality: (Lat. in + mortalis, mortal) The doctrine that the soul or personality of man survives the death of the body. The two principal conceptions of immortality are: temporal immortality, the indefinite continuation of the individual mind after death and eternity, ascension of the soul to a higher plane of timelessness. Immortality is properly speaking restricted to post-existence (survival after death) but is extended by the theory of transmigration of souls. (See Metempsychosis) to include pre-exisence (life before birth).
Immortality: The imperishability of individual existence; survival or reincarnation after the death of the body.
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 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
Lif and Lifthrasir (Icelandic) [from lif to live, live on, remain (when others are gone on); lifthrasir tough, hard to kill from thrasir sturdy one] Life, and survival; in the Norse Edda, the enduring life principles of the human race which live on after the end of the world, “concealed in the memory hoard of the sun (Hoddmimir’s holt): morning dew is their food, and from them will be born ages to come” — when the world is reborn.
mediaevalism ::: n. --> The method or spirit of the Middle Ages; devotion to the institutions and practices of the Middle Ages; a survival from the Middle Ages.
Modern biologists attach much less importance to this principle as a factor in evolution, cite facts which cannot be explained by it, and dispute whether acquired characteristics are transmitted. The general tendency is to attach more importance to hereditary influences than to environment. In any case, environment could produce no effect except in response to an urge arising within the organism itself: the phrase is descriptive of a process and does not stand for an agent. Again, the theory of the survival of the fittest by no means signifies the survival of the best or most evolved.
natural selection: a principle of Darwins theory of evolution that animals that have adapted better to their envir onment allows some members of a species to produce more offspring that others, as a result of possessing advantageous traits that improve survival chances and increase reproductive success.
nerve growth factor (NGF) ::: A neurotrophic protein required for survival and differentiation of sympathetic ganglion cells and certain sensory neurons. Preeminent member of the neurotrophin family of growth factors.
neurotrophic factors ::: A general term for molecules that promote the growth and survival of neurons.
neurotrophins ::: A family of trophic factor molecules that promote the growth and survival of several different classes of neurons.
pariskāra. (P. parikkhāra; T. yo byad; C. ziju/daoju; J. shigu/dogu; K. chagu/togu 資具/道具). In Sanskrit, "requisites," "personal belongings," "equipment"; the minimal possessions of food, shelter, and clothing that Buddhist monks and nuns were permitted to possess as "requisites" for their physical survival. A list of four such requisites is commonly found in the VINAYA literature: robes (CĪVARA; TRICĪVARA); alms bowl (PĀTRA); seat and bed (sayanāsana); and medicine to cure illness (glānapratyayabhaisajya). In the Pāli recension of the vinaya, there are eight requisites: (1) the three robes, consisting of the inner robe (ANTARAVĀSAKA), the upper robe (UTTARĀSAnGA), and a cloak or shawl (SAMGHĀtĪ); (2) a waist band or belt (kāyabandhana); (3) an alms bowl (P. patta; S. pātra); (4) a sitting mat (nisīdana); (5) a piece of cloth for filtering water to prevent the accidental death of insects (P. parissāvana; S. PARISRĀVAnA); (6) a jug for collecting water (dhammakaraka); (7) sewing needles kept in a small box (sucighara); and (8) a razor for shaving (vāsi). There is also a list of thirteen, one version of which includes the three robes, a mat, two undergarments, two garments for absorbing perspiration, a face towel, a towel for the body, a bandage, a cloth for catching hair when shaving, and a cloth bag for medicines. There are also lists of eighteen requisites. Perhaps reflecting the increasing needs of a large and mainly sedentary monastic community, longer lists also appear. The MAHĀVYUTPATTI lists one hundred requisites of a sRAMAnA, including various dining utensils and containers, shoes, mattresses, cushions, stools, brooms, a mosquito net, a hatchet, a hook for hanging things on the wall, and an iron chain. When not involving a specific list, pariskāra may also refer generically to anything that may appropriately be offered to a monk or nun. The term is also occasionally used in the sense of "spiritual requisites" or "equipment," as in a list of seven pariskāra, which refer to the first seven steps in the eightfold path (ĀRYĀstĀnGAMĀRGA) that culminate in right SAMĀDHI. The rationale behind the pariskāra is that they demonstrate that a monk shuns luxury and lives only on the bare essentials that are absolutely necessary for survival. Inevitably, however, the list more often represents an ideal rather than the actual state of monastic affairs. See also NIsRAYA.
Por immortality in its fundamental sense does not mean merely some'kind of penonal survival of the bodily death ; we are im- mortal by the eternity of our self-existence without beginning or end, beyond the whole succession of physical births and deaths through which we pass, beyond the alternations of our existence in this and other worlds ; the spirit’s timeless existence is the true immortality.
- .Primitive Survivals in Modern Thought. London:
Reconstructionist Judaism ::: Founded by Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1982), this represents a recent development in American Judaism, and attempts to focus on Judaism as a civilization and culture constantly adapting to insure survival in a natural social process. The central academic institution is the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in the Philadelphia suburbs. See also Reform and Conservative Judaism.
SILENT SELF. ::: The silent Self is there as a separate reality, not 'bound or involved in the activity of Nature, aloof, detached and self-existent. Even if thoughts come across this silence, they do not disturb it ; the Self is separate from the thinking mind also. In this connection the feeling ‘ I think ’ is a survival from the old consciousness ; in the full silence what one feels is
Spiral Dynamics ::: A theoretical model focusing on the development of value memes, or “vMemes,” from First Tier (Survival Sense, Kin Spirits, Power Gods, Truth Force, Strive Drive, and Human Bond) to Second Tier (Flex Flow and Global View). Conceived by Don Beck and Christopher Cowan, and based on research by Clare Graves.
Superstition: This word originally meant survivals of extinct, defeated religions. Today it is generally applied by opponents of occultism to all occult beliefs and in general to beliefs in the existence of superhuman or supernatural forces and beings. It is frequently applied also to religious beliefs of ancient peoples and contemporary primitive races.
The absurdity of warring nations praying to the same God for victory over each other is often commented on; and the practice of many people combining together to pray for the conversion of people of another sect, or even for worse objects, is equally open to reprobation. This kind of prayer is merely a survival of one of the lower magic arts, where religious practice consists mainly in the invocation of tribal and local deities.
The origin, nature, and the continued existence or immortality of the soul is widely discussed in Jewish philosophy. As to origin, Saadia believes that each individual soul is created by God -- considering, of course, creation a continuous process -- and that it is of a fine spiritual substance. As to its faculties, he accepts the Aristotelian-Platonic division of the soul into three parts, namely, the appetitive, emotional, and cognitive. Ibn Daud thinks that the soul exists prior to the body potentially, i.e., that the angels endow the body with form; he further considers it a substance but says that it undergoes a process of development. The more it thinks the more perfect it becomes, and the thoughts are called acquired reason, it is this acquired reason, or being perfected which remains immortal. Maimonides does not discuss the origin of the soul, but deals more with its parts. To the three of Saadia he adds the imaginative and the conative. Gersonides' view resembles somewhat that of Ibn Daud, except that he does not speak of its origin and limits himself to the intellect. The intellect, says he, is only a capacity residing in the lower soul, and that capacity is gradually developed by the help of the Active Intellect into an acquired and ultimately into an active reason. All thinkers insist on immortality, but with Saadia and ha-Levi it seems that the entire soul survives, while the Aristotelians assert that only the intellect is immortal. Maimonides is not explicit on the subject, yet we may surmise that even the more liberal thinkers did not subscribe to Averroes' theory of unitas intellectus, and they believed that the immortal intellect is endowed with consciousness of personality. To this trend of connecting immortality with rational reflection Crescas took exception, and asserts that it is not pure thought which leads to survival, but that the soul is immortal because it is a spiritual being, and it is perfected by its love for God and the doing of good.
There is after death a period In which one passes through the vital world and lives there for a time, it is only the first part of this transit that can be dangerous or painful ; in the rest one vsorks out, under certain surroundings, the remnant of the vital desires which one had in the body. As soon as one is tired of these and able to go beyond, the vital sheath is dropped and the soul, after a time needed to get rid of some mental survivals, passes into a state of rest in the psychic world and remains there till the next life on earth.
::: "This conception of the Person and Personality, if accepted, must modify at the same time our current ideas about the immortality of the soul; for, normally, when we insist on the soul"s undying existence, what is meant is the survival after death of a definite unchanging personality which was and will always remain the same throughout eternity. It is the very imperfect superficial I'' of the moment, evidently regarded by Nature as a temporary form and not worth preservation, for which we demand this stupendous right to survival and immortality. But the demand is extravagant and cannot be conceded; theI"" of the moment can only merit survival if it consents to change, to be no longer itself but something else, greater, better, more luminous in knowledge, more moulded in the image of the eternal inner beauty, more and more progressive towards the divinity of the secret Spirit. It is that secret Spirit or divinity of Self in us which is imperishable, because it is unborn and eternal. The psychic entity within, its representative, the spiritual individual in us, is the Person that we are; but the I'' of this moment, theI"" of this life is only a formation, a temporary personality of this inner Person: it is one step of the many steps of our evolutionary change, and it serves its true purpose only when we pass beyond it to a farther step leading nearer to a higher degree of consciousness and being. It is the inner Person that survives death, even as it pre-exists before birth; for this constant survival is a rendering of the eternity of our timeless Spirit into the terms of Time.” The Life Divine
“This conception of the Person and Personality, if accepted, must modify at the same time our current ideas about the immortality of the soul; for, normally, when we insist on the soul’s undying existence, what is meant is the survival after death of a definite unchanging personality which was and will always remain the same throughout eternity. It is the very imperfect superficial I’’ of the moment, evidently regarded by Nature as a temporary form and not worth preservation, for which we demand this stupendous right to survival and immortality. But the demand is extravagant and cannot be conceded; theI’’ of the moment can only merit survival if it consents to change, to be no longer itself but something else, greater, better, more luminous in knowledge, more moulded in the image of the eternal inner beauty, more and more progressive towards the divinity of the secret Spirit. It is that secret Spirit or divinity of Self in us which is imperishable, because it is unborn and eternal. The psychic entity within, its representative, the spiritual individual in us, is the Person that we are; but the I’’ of this moment, theI’’ of this life is only a formation, a temporary personality of this inner Person: it is one step of the many steps of our evolutionary change, and it serves its true purpose only when we pass beyond it to a farther step leading nearer to a higher degree of consciousness and being. It is the inner Person that survives death, even as it pre-exists before birth; for this constant survival is a rendering of the eternity of our timeless Spirit into the terms of Time.” The Life Divine
What are technically classified as obsessing ideas and feelings are evidence of the subjective reality of the astral plane and its disimbodied entities. Knowledge of man’s multifold nature, including the parts played by each of its principles both during life and after death, gives a key to many psychological problems in the postmortem survival of the kama-rupa. The differing aspects of obsession result from the varied types of the astral entities — ghosts or shades of the dead, elementaries of suicides and executed criminals, evil sorcerers, nature spirits, etc. The kama-rupic shells alone, being remnants of deceased personalities, differ as the latter had done in their imbodied desires and impulses. The variety of obsessing influences accounts for the medley of typical symptoms in conditions of inert melancholia, of sustained catalepsy, of violent mania and convulsions, of emotional egoism in hysteria, of childish grimaces and erratic muscular contractions in essential chorea, of subjective horrors in delirium tremens, and of the perverted brutality in purposeless, unhuman crimes. Though only a seer’s inner vision could reveal just what entity was active in each case, yet a student of human duality can recognize the unseemly and distorted play of the animal, lower nature, separated from the conscience and higher mind — the kama-rupic condition. Mild types of these disorders frequently are simply the uncontrolled play of the person’s own selfish nature; but these are in danger of drifting into the severer forms, because like attracts like. See also POSSESSION
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1:Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson, #KEYS
2:Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species." ~ Doug Dillon, American author, etc. See:, #KEYS
3:It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
~ R Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path, 1981, page xxv),#KEYS
4:A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology. ~ R Buckminster Fuller, Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure, #KEYS
5:It is the inner Person that survives death, even as it pre-exists before birth; for this constant survival is a rendering of the eternity of our timeless spirit into the terms of Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Rebirth and Other Worlds; Karma, the Soul and Immortality, #KEYS
6:Full Circle argues that scientific specialization has destroyed those concepts and values crucial to the survival and regeneration of Western democracy. These values are boldly restated as an assembly of the sciences - physical, biological, and psycho-social - within a single system, the periodic coordinate system of Unified Science, modelled on Leibniz's Universal Characteristic..... ~ Edward Haskell, Full Circle, #KEYS
7:The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky. ~ Carl Sagan, #KEYS
8:Of course we do." Dresden's voice was cutting. "But you're thinking too small. Building humanity's greatest empire is like building the world's largest anthill. Insignificant. There is a civilization out there that built the protomolecule and hurled it at us over two billion years ago. They were already gods at that point. What have they become since then? With another two billion years to advance?"
With a growing dread, Holden listened to Dresden speak. This speech had the air of something spoken before. Perhaps many times. And it had worked. It had convinced powerful people. It was why Protogen had stealth ships from the Earth shipyards and seemingly limitless behind-the-scenes support.
"We have a terrifying amount of catching up to do, gentlemen," Dresden was saying. "But fortunately we have the tool of our enemy to use in doing it."
"Catching up?" a soldier to Holden's left said. Dresden nodded at the man and smiled.
"The protomolecule can alter the host organism at the molecular level; it can create genetic change on the fly. Not just DNA, but any stable replicatoR But it is only a machine. It doesn't think. It follows instructions. If we learn how to alter that programming, then we become the architects of that change."
Holden interrupted. "If it was supposed to wipe out life on Earth and replace it with whatever the protomolecule's creators wanted, why turn it loose?"
"Excellent question," Dresden said, holding up one finger like a college professor about to deliver a lecture. "The protomolecule doesn't come with a user's manual. In fact, we've never before been able to actually watch it carry out its program. The molecule requires significant mass before it develops enough processing power to fulfill its directives. Whatever they are."
Dresden pointed at the screens covered with data around them.
"We are going to watch it at work. See what it intends to do. How it goes about doing it. And, hopefully, learn how to change that program in the process."
"You could do that with a vat of bacteria," Holden said.
"I'm not interested in remaking bacteria," Dresden said.
"You're fucking insane," Amos said, and took another step toward Dresden. Holden put a hand on the big mechanic's shoulder.
"So," Holden said. "You figure out how the bug works, and then what?"
"Then everything. Belters who can work outside a ship without wearing a suit. Humans capable of sleeping for hundreds of years at a time flying colony ships to the stars. No longer being bound to the millions of years of evolution inside one atmosphere of pressure at one g, slaves to oxygen and water. We decide what we want to be, and we reprogram ourselves to be that. That's what the protomolecule gives us."
Dresden had stood back up as he'd delivered this speech, his face shining with the zeal of a prophet.
"What we are doing is the best and only hope of humanity's survival. When we go out there, we will be facing gods."
"And if we don't go out?" Fred asked. He sounded thoughtful.
"They've already fired a doomsday weapon at us once," Dresden said.
The room was silent for a moment. Holden felt his certainty slip. He hated everything about Dresden's argument, but he couldn't quite see his way past it. He knew in his bones that something about it was dead wrong, but he couldn't find the words. Naomi's voice startled him.
"Did it convince them?" she asked.
"Excuse me?" Dresden said.
"The scientists. The technicians. Everyone you needed to make it happen. They actually had to do this. They had to watch the video of people dying all over Eros. They had to design those radioactive murder chambers. So unless you managed to round up every serial killer in the solar system and send them through a postgraduate program, how did you do this?"
"We modified our science team to remove ethical restraints."
Half a dozen clues clicked into place in Holden's head. ~ James S A Corey, Leviathan Wakes,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 2:Survival is your strength not your shame. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 3:Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 4:Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 5:Survival is the ability to swim in strange water. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 6:Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 7:Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 8:Our pleasures were simple - they included survival. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 9:A nation without means of reform is without means of survival. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 10:It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 11:It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 12:The next step in man’s evolution will be the survival of the wisest. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 13:On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 14:The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 15:Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 16:Survival activates miracles when a person relies on the graces of hope and faith. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 17:If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 18:Survival activates miracles when a person relies on the graces of hope and faith. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 19:That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 20:The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success. ~ thomas-edison, @wisdomtrove 21:We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 22:The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 23:Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 24:Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 25:If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be? ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 26:In effect, the negativity bias is tilted toward immediate survival, but against quality of life. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 27:Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 28:There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 29:A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 30:Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 31:Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 32:The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 33:Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit. ~ quentin-crisp, @wisdomtrove 34:Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 35:A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 36:In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 37:Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 38:I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 39:The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 40:The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 41:The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 42:We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 43:Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 44:Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 45:Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival—to be affirmed, to be appreciated, and to be understood. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 46:Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 47:Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove 48:Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as cruelty. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 49:War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 50:In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 51:This is all the fault of evolution. For countless generations our adapted to increasing our chances of survival and reproduction, not our happiness. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 52:As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 53:Direct and easy communications ‚Äî freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense ‚Äî has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 54:Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 55:In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 56:It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature - the connection between his survival and his use of reason - that capitalism recognizes and protects. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 57:At such moments, you realise that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove 58:And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 59:Compassion is not religious business, it is human business. It is not luxury. It is essential for our own peace and mental stability. It is essential for human survival. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 60:... the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 61:Since reason is man & 62:If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 63:I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 64:What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 65:Your brain is built more for avoiding than for approaching. That’s because it’s the negative experiences, not the positive ones, that have generally had the most impact on survival. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 66:[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 67:The very word & 68:People Thinking Business Fun Inspirational Running Successful Differences Entrepreneur Believe Opportunity Adventure Ideas Years Giving Trying Survival Way Dream Mean ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 69:Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 70:With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 71:All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 72:Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 73:The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 74:Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 75:In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity. ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove 76:So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 77:The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 78:It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing & 79:Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 80:Women most certainly carry a more sympathetic heart in the traditional, classic sense the mother archetype. They have been given the role to carry the heart energy of the human community, whereas men carry the survival energy. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 81:There comes a time in the evolution of every soul when the chief concern is no longer the survival of the physical body, but the growth of the spirit; no longer the attainment of worldly success, but the realization of Self. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 82:To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 83:If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies - to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage - to make it the tool of our survival. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 84:Women most certainly carry a more sympathetic heart in the traditional, classic sense the mother archetype. They have been given the role to carry the heart energy of the human community, whereas men carry the survival energy. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 85:Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 86:During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 87:I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 88:Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 89:The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease. ~ oliver-sacks, @wisdomtrove 90:Compassion allows us to understand that, as citizens of the planet, we’re all in this together and that in order to ensure our survival we must hold and cultivate a new and larger vision of what’s possible for ourselves and for the human race as a whole. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 91:Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 92:The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 93:Intuition is like a radio station.. No, intuition is more like a radio receiver and it can receive different stations. This radio receiver serves different functions, it serves your spirituality which is the development of your soul. It serves your physical survival. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 94:One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to do with the quality of developing perceptions, feelings, the self. And the spirit level has to do with the pondering part of our lives. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 95:I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of their absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be the possibility of their survival. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 96:Fear is about survival. When you drop under that and experience the fear without trying to change it, just letting it be, then it becomes still. When you open your heart to fear, rather than trying to fight it or deny it or even overcome it, then you find it is just energy. ~ gangaji, @wisdomtrove 97:This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 98:One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to do with the quality of developing perceptions, feelings, the self. And the spirit level has to do with the pondering part of our lives. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 99:But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 100:Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 101:It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 102:Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 103:I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 104:Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here! ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 105:Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he & 106:There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 107:The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually-to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul-harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 108:It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 109:The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 110:It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 111:I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection. But the expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 112:I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 113:When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 114:Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream. There is even an air of conspiracy in the way that tumours use chemical signals to create cancer-friendly niches in remote organs. ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove 115:Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I'm convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest good. He who loves has somehow discovered the meaning of ultimate reality. He who hates does not know God; he who hates has no knowledge of God. Love is the supreme unifying principle of life. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 116:The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it& 117:Time is a very useful concept in terms of survival. It's extraordinary that we can delineate a day into segments so that we can actually look at those segments, examine them, and see what worked and what didn't' work. We get very attached to time because it's a power, this invention of time is very powerful, and we like power. ~ gangaji, @wisdomtrove 118:Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this & 119:Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 120:An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil... Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 121:People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 122:The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 123:Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 124:I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one's own family or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 125:One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed by the industrial revolution by people looking for work wherever they can find it. And a nuclear family, a man, a woman and kids and a dog and cat is no survival scheme at all. Horribly vulnerable. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 126:According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favours the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 127:I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man is about as useful to him as the huge bulk and muscles of the dinosaur. If he were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of his absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be a possibility of his survival. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 128:Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 129:A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchisin g them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 130:There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of public virtue first nourished. Through love and instruction, discipline, guidance and example, we learn from our mothers and fathers the values that will shape our private lives and our public citizenship. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 131:The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 132:Survival in that era required superb mental abilities from everyone. When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new ‘niches for imbeciles’ were opened up. You could survive and pass your unremarkable genes to the next generation by working as a water carrier or an assembly-line worker. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 133:We love Formula One and think Formula One's great. But we think Formula E is different. We would be making a big mistake if we tried to compete with Formula One and be similar to Formula One, we have to be radically different to Formula One to have a chance of survival. I don't mean survival by beating Formula One but co-existing complimentary to Formula One. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 134:Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as well as the less intelligent but more-fecund rat, which doesn't do as well as the still-less-intelligent but still-more-fecund cockroach, which doesn't do as well as the minimally-intelligent but maximally-fecund bacterium. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 135:When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life- form - - or a species - will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 136:The Tibetan religion has a past. And furthermore it has such an appeal. There again young people today are drawn to Buddhism and to Tibet. It's not only because of the Dalai Lama. It's because of what Tibet represents. There is a vast reservoir of knowledge, of mystical knowledge, which can be found in Tibet.The Chinese shouldn't be afraid of that really. They have other means of survival. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 137:What is sustained in a sustainable community is not economic growth, development, market share, or competitive advantage, but the entire web of life on which our long-term survival depends. In other words, a sustainable community is designed in such a way that its ways of life, businesses, economy, physical structures, and technologies do not interfere with nature’s inherent ability to sustain life. ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove 138:I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of & 139:The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 140:The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question & 141:One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 142:If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove 143:The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get. So, in the interest of survival they trained themselves to be agreeing machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking and then they thought it too. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 144:Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations and corporations. As time went by, the imagined reality became ever more powerful, so that today the very survival of rivers, trees and lions depends on the grace of imagined entities such as the United States and Google. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 145:There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear. Fear is a painful emotion that arises at the thought that we may be harmed or made to suffer. As long as we must trust for survival to our ability to out look or out maneuver the enemy, we have every good reason to be afraid. Fear is torment. To know that love is of God and to enter into the secret place leaning upon the arm of the Beloved, this and only this can cast out fear. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 146:At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature: from finding out how we can dominate and manipulate nature to how we can learn from her. In this brilliant and hopeful book, Jay Harman shows us how far the new field of Biomimicry has already progressed toward this goal. The Shark's Paintbrush makes for fascinating and joyful reading - much needed in these dark times. ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove 147:We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty... All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin... And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 148:Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic. It says, "Nobody cares and you have to look out for yourself and if you don't, you'll die." These two things work against each other. I think most kids are very frightened of their parents, and that's what all fairy tales reflect: Parents will fail you and you'll be left on your own. But, of course, everything comes out right in the end and the parents take you back. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 149:There is some evidence that the size of the average Sapiens brain has actually decreased since the age of foraging. Survival in that era required superb mental abilities from everyone. When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new ‘niches for imbeciles’ were opened up. You could survive and pass your unremarkable genes to the next generation by working as a water carrier or an assembly-line worker. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 150:In fact, one of the arguments for searching for intelligent life in space, elsewhere, is that we have no evidence that intelligence has any survival value. The most successful creatures on this planet are the cockroaches. They've been around, what is it, 100 million years or so and I suspect they'll still be there 100 million years in the future. Maybe intelligence is an evolutionary aberration which dooms its possessors in the way armor may have doomed some of the dinosaurs. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 151:I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, love is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. To return hate for hate does nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Someone must have sense enough and religion enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil, and this can only be done through love. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 152:While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 153:It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with words and weapons, a true offensive against the common problems that threaten human survival is not very likely. A world government that can channel human efforts in the direction of the great solutions seems desirable, even essential. Naturally, such a world government should be a federal one, with regional and local autonomy safeguarded and with cultural diversity promoted. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 154:If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an unwanted child or an oversize family is wrong - not ethically wrong, not against the rules, but morally wrong, all wrong, wrong like a thalidomide birth, wrong like taking a wrong step that will break your neck - if we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we'll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 155:Connect with People Who Support You Identify friends and family who care about you, and try to spend more time with them. When you’re apart, visualize being with them and take in the good feelings. Companionship, even if only imagined, activates the brain’s attachment and social group circuitry. Physical and emotional closeness to caregivers and other members of the band was a necessity for survival during our evolutionary history. Consequently, activating a felt sense of closeness will probably help you feel safer. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 156:Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand of its neighbors that they recognize those facts. I have personally followed and supported Israel's heroic struggle for survival, ever since the founding of the State of Israel 34 years ago. In the pre-1967 borders Israel was barely 10 miles wide at its narrowest point. The bulk of Israel's population lived within artillery range of hostile Arab armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 157:Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 158:I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that I can make friends with anybody. I can make friends with the dead. If there isn’t anyone else around to talk to, I could probably make friends with a four-foot-tall pile of sheetrock. That is why I’m not afraid to travel to the most remote places in the world, not if there are human beings there to meet. People asked me before I left, do you have friends [there]?’ and I would just shake my head no, thinking to myself, But I will. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 159:A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 160:The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 161:Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts, and after looking about for a few thousand years declares itself in possession of eternal truths. But in a world that is changing as fast as ours, this is a prescription for disaster. No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 162:My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We would be unappreciative of those gifts (as well as unable to take such a course of action) if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. On the other hand, if such a traditional god does not exist, our curiosity and our intelligence are the essential tools for managing our survival. In either case, the enterprise of knowledge is consistent with both science and religion, and is essential for the welfare of the human species. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 163:In fact, ecological turmoil might endanger the survival of Homo sapiens itself. Global warming, rising oceans and widespread pollution could make the earth less hospitable to our kind, and the future might consequently see a spiralling race between human power and human-induced natural disasters. As humans use their power to counter the forces of nature and subjugate the ecosystem to their needs and whims, they might cause more and more unanticipated and dangerous side effects. These are likely to be controllable only by even more drastic manipulations of the ecosystem, which would result in even worse chaos. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 164:Q: I talk. M: Do you? You hear yourself talking and you say: I talk. Q: Everybody says: & 165:I am not so foolish as to equate what happens under the influence of mescalin or of any other drug, prepared or in the future preparable, with the realization of the end and ultimate purpose of human life: Enlightenment, the Beatific Vision. All I am suggesting is that the mescalin experience is what Catholic theologians call "a gratuitous grace," not necessary to salvation but potentially helpful and to be accepted thankfully, if made available. To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large—this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 166:According to the science of biology, people were not ‘created’. They have evolved. And they certainly did not evolve to be ‘equal’. The idea of equality is inextricably intertwined with the idea of creation. The Americans got the idea of equality from Christianity, which argues that every person has a divinely created soul, and that all souls are equal before God. However, if we do not believe in the Christian myths about God, creation and souls, what does it mean that all people are ‘equal’? Evolution is based on difference, not on equality. Every person carries a somewhat different genetic code, and is exposed from birth to different environmental influences. This leads to the development of different qualities that carry with them different chances of survival. ‘Created equal’ should therefore be translated into ‘evolved differently’. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 167:Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic knowledge of what is good for him or evil, what values his life depends on, what course of action it requires. Are you prattling about an instinct of self-preservation? An instinct of self-preservation is precisely what man does not possess. An & 168:Following Homo sapiens, domesticated cattle, pigs and sheep are the second, third and fourth most widespread large mammals in the world. From a narrow evolutionary perspective, which measures success by the number of DNA copies, the Agricultural Revolution was a wonderful boon for chickens, cattle, pigs and sheep. Unfortunately, the evolutionary perspective is an incomplete measure of success. It judges everything by the criteria of survival and reproduction, with no regard for individual suffering and happiness. Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an evolutionary success story, but they are also among the most miserable creatures that ever lived. The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries. The natural lifespan of wild chickens is about seven to twelve years, and of cattle about twenty to twenty-five years. In the wild, most chickens and cattle died long before that, but they still had a fair chance of living for a respectable number of years. In contrast, the vast majority of domesticated chickens and cattle are slaughtered at the age of between a few weeks and a few months, because this has always been the optimal slaughtering age from an economic perspective. (Why keep feeding a cock for three years if it has already reached its maximum weight after three months?) Egg-laying hens, dairy cows and draught animals are sometimes allowed to live for many years. But the price is subjugation to a way of life completely alien to their urges and desires. It’s reasonable to assume, for example, that bulls prefer to spend their days wandering over open prairies in the company of other bulls and cows rather than pulling carts and ploughshares under the yoke of a whip-wielding ape. In order for humans to turn bulls, horses, donkeys and camels into obedient draught animals, their natural instincts and social ties had to be broken, their aggression and sexuality contained, and their freedom of movement curtailed. Farmers developed techniques such as locking animals inside pens and cages, bridling them in harnesses and leashes, training them with whips and cattle prods, and mutilating them. The process of taming almost always involves the castration of males. This restrains male aggression and enables humans selectively to control the herd’s procreation. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:I believe in survival. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
2:Art is a way of survival. ~ Yoko Ono, #NFDB
3:Survival is a genetic law. ~ Gaspar Noe, #NFDB
4:Survival is triumph enough. ~ Harry Crews, #NFDB
5:survival is triumph enough. ~ Harry Crews, #NFDB
6:Survival is truimph enough. ~ Harry Crews, #NFDB
7:Survival justifies any means. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
8:Survival of the generic. ~ Siobhan Vivian, #NFDB
9:Survival of the fittest. It’s ~ M R Forbes, #NFDB
10:Freedom is a subset of survival. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
11:It’s survival of the good-enough. ~ Bill Nye, #NFDB
12:Survival feels like cowardice. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB
13:Survival is a growth strategy. ~ Ian Hogarth, #NFDB
14:Survival has its own etiquette. ~ Janet Morris, #NFDB
15:Survival's the thing, isn't it? ~ Janet Morris, #NFDB
16:Survival is insufficient ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
17:The key to survival is adaptation, ~ M R Forbes, #NFDB
18:Survival is insufficient, ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
19:Survival is insufficient. ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
20:Survival requires guts and instinct. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
21:There are no rules in survival. ~ Mary E Pearson, #NFDB
22:Survival is a four letter word. ~ Alexis De Veaux, #NFDB
23:Moderation is the secret of survival. ~ Manly Hall, #NFDB
24:Love is the only engine of survival ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
25:Survival, I know, is to begin again. ~ Judy Collins, #NFDB
26:Survival is the greatest gift of love ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
27:Survival of the fittest, motherfucker. ~ H D Gordon, #NFDB
28:Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
29:Survival is not enough. Sardine ~ Eric Van Lustbader, #NFDB
30:The fight for survival is the fight ~ Rocky Graziano, #NFDB
31:Humor - I see it as a survival skill. ~ Jill McCorkle, #NFDB
32:Survival is your strength not your shame. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
33:Credibility is a basic survival tool. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
34:Because survival is insufficient ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
35:survival is not the same thing as living. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
36:Survival was not enough. One had to live. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
37:Because survival is insufficient, ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
38:Because survival is insufficient. ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
39:Evolution favors the survival of the wisest. ~ Jonas Salk, #NFDB
40:Without victory there is no survival! ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
41:Humor can be one of our best survival tools. ~ Allen Klein, #NFDB
42:Survival is nothing more than recovery. ~ Dianne Feinstein, #NFDB
43:... survival is the least of my desires. ~ Dorothy Allison, #NFDB
44:Love is the best survival mechanism there is, ~ Sue Johnson, #NFDB
45:Survival through denial. Works every time. ~ Carol Cassella, #NFDB
46:Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness. ~ Marian Keyes, #NFDB
47:First rule of survival: stay out of the dark. ~ Sam Sisavath, #NFDB
48:Survival often feels like an indignity. ~ Guillermo del Toro, #NFDB
49:I am her tribute. Survival is my gift to her. ~ Pittacus Lore, #NFDB
50:Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic. ~ Alan Grant, #NFDB
51:There are no rules when it comes to survival ~ Mary E Pearson, #NFDB
52:After all, it wasn’t food; it was survival. ~ Richard Flanagan, #NFDB
53:Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
54:knowledge is only part of the fight for survival. ~ Max Brooks, #NFDB
55:Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. ~ Peter Watts, #NFDB
56:Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
57:Our passion for learning is our tool for survival. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
58:Peace is the Only Way for the survival of Humanity ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
59:Survival is optional. No one has to change. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB
60:We are all wired into a survival trip, now. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
61:Freedom is a small price to pay for survival. ~ Catherine Fisher, #NFDB
62:Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion. ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
63:The art of survival is a story that never ends. ~ Christian Bale, #NFDB
64:Adaptability is the simple secret of survival. ~ Jessica Hagedorn, #NFDB
65:Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion. ~ John le Carre, #NFDB
66:Survival is the ability to swim in strange water. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
67:What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset? ~ Peter Watts, #NFDB
68:Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival. ~ Tobsha Learner, #NFDB
69:I no longer cared about survival...I merely loved. ~ Loren Eiseley, #NFDB
70:My fans are a huge superpower for me and my survival. ~ Jeff Hardy, #NFDB
71:Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival. ~ Martha Gellhorn, #NFDB
72:Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge ~ Patricia Cornwell, #NFDB
73:Survival required a certain degree of stubbornness. ~ Sarah M Eden, #NFDB
74:The secret of survival is a defective imagination. ~ John Banville, #NFDB
75:We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us. ~ B F Skinner, #NFDB
76:God, God, what do I do
after all this survival? ~ Traci Brimhall,#NFDB
77:I used humor as survival, as a weapon and as comfort. ~ Joel McHale, #NFDB
78:Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
79:Survival, it turned out, wasn't the same as living. ~ Rhoda Belleza, #NFDB
80:He must play the game of survival until the very end. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
81:Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi, #NFDB
82:I don't really know any survival skills of any kind. ~ Connor Jessup, #NFDB
83:Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival. ~ Alfred Bester, #NFDB
84:Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is ~ Joanne Harris, #NFDB
85:Survival is like a stone wall, and kindness is a door. ~ Karen White, #NFDB
86:Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man. ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
87:We really depend on viruses for our complete survival. ~ Carl Zimmer, #NFDB
88:Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB
89:Learning is not cumpulsory... neither is survival. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB
90:Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
91:Are we agreed that the goal here is survival, not a win? ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
92:Survival is staying alive one breath at a time. p. 251 ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
93:To close one's eyes can be an act of survival. ~ Karen Thompson Walker, #NFDB
94:I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
95:The creation myth is a Darwinian device for survival. ~ Edward O Wilson, #NFDB
96:we both know the other's survival means our own death ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
97:Civilization is the commercialization of survival. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
98:We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode. ~ Jeff Bezos, #NFDB
99:Our pleasures were simple - they included survival. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower, #NFDB
100:She is begging for survival, and he speaks of fantasy. ~ Paolo Bacigalupi, #NFDB
101:Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
102:Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation. ~ Conrad Black, #NFDB
103:When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. ~ Samuel Fuller, #NFDB
104:All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone. ~ Bryan Stevenson, #NFDB
105:Evolution taught us that adaptation is the key to survival. ~ Gemma Malley, #NFDB
106:Forming habits is imperative for the survival of many products. ~ Nir Eyal, #NFDB
107:Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct! ~ Theodore Sturgeon, #NFDB
108:Solving problems is at the foundation of our survival. ~ Michael McMillian, #NFDB
109:When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival. ~ Christopher McDougall, #NFDB
110:When it comes to mentors, you can’t beat survival; ~ Christopher McDougall, #NFDB
111:All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival? ~ Joan Baez, #NFDB
112:For many products, forming habits is an imperative for survival. ~ Nir Eyal, #NFDB
113:It is hard to struggle for success but harder for survival. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
114:Survival instincts are one of those things that never die. ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB
115:Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
116:Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine) ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
117:It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB
118:Survival in any meaningful sense is the key issue of our time ~ Thomas Berry, #NFDB
119:Survival in Egypt begins with a yes to God's call on your life. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
120:A nation without means of reform is without means of survival. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
121:humanity has no hope of survival unless religion is wiped out. ~ S L Bhyrappa, #NFDB
122:In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival. ~ Mary Caroline Richards, #NFDB
123:...it's survival of the fittest, not the strongest or the biggest. ~ Ali Shaw, #NFDB
124:cost reductions meant survival, but not profitability, ~ Clayton M Christensen, #NFDB
125:Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
126:... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry. ~ Adrienne Rich, #NFDB
127:Stories are powerful." They're life and death. They're survival. ~ Skye Warren, #NFDB
128:-We’re criminals, Farley. We believe in money-and survival. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
129:Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
130:Right and wrong matters little when survival matters most. ~ Kevin James Breaux, #NFDB
131:...survival is a dance between our needs and our consciences. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
132:...there's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all survival strategy ~ Peter Watts, #NFDB
133:The unknown must always be feared. Survival demands it. ~ Michaelbrent Collings, #NFDB
134:What oxygen is to the lungs, hope is to our survival in the world. ~ Levi Lusko, #NFDB
135:what ultimately matters in a survival situation: the will to live. ~ A G Riddle, #NFDB
136:Don’t ever settle for just survival, son. Survival isn’t life… ~ L E Modesitt Jr, #NFDB
137:If the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous. ~ William Eckhardt, #NFDB
138:I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
139:It's Survival of Them Who's Best at Nicking Things, girl! ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
140:There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic. ~ Barbara Demick, #NFDB
141:You showed me beauty in survival. I’ll show you strength in healing ~ Pam Godwin, #NFDB
142:Education is a precondition to survival in America today. ~ Marian Wright Edelman, #NFDB
143:I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky. ~ Bear Grylls, #NFDB
144:Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
145:The path to survival was to never give up on the small things. ~ Richard Flanagan, #NFDB
146:Vote like your nation's survival depends on it... because it does. ~ Randi Rhodes, #NFDB
147:Women carry the burden of the family’s survival on their backs. ~ Phyllis T Smith, #NFDB
148:Being able to escape to a dreamland was a survival instinct for me. ~ Mia Sheridan, #NFDB
149:Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
150:I realize that death and survival are both extremes of selfishness. ~ Andrew Smith, #NFDB
151:I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
152:Sales is survival, the best-prepared are most likely to survive. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer, #NFDB
153:Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
154:You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake. ~ Jon Lee Anderson, #NFDB
155:Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival. ~ Tariq Ramadan, #NFDB
156:It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
157:Laughter. An essential ingredient for survival. And we laughed a lot. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
158:The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
159:The survival of humankind depends on our ability to stop rushing. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
160:The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival ~ Richard Powers, #NFDB
161:When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival. ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
162:Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, by Laurence Gonzales. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
163:I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle. ~ Jennifer Lawrence, #NFDB
164:Not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country. ~ Nicolas Sarkozy, #NFDB
165:The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial. ~ Robert Henri, #NFDB
166:History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
167:I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival. ~ David Byrne, #NFDB
168:It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
169:It was up to daughters to figure out survival by any means possible. ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB
170:Psychopathy's no disorder in those shoes, eh? Just a survival strategy. ~ Peter Watts, #NFDB
171:This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
172:Randomness is not a great survival strategy, so it is rare in nature. ~ Tristan Gooley, #NFDB
173:The kid might be smart, but he has the survival skills of a potato bug. ~ Stuart Gibbs, #NFDB
174:All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
175:Capacity for survival may be the ability to be changed by environment. ~ Robyn Davidson, #NFDB
176:Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest. ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
177:Familiarity, not survival, is the strongest drive in human beings. ~ Jill Conner Browne, #NFDB
178:It never occurred to her their gaiety wasn’t contentment, but survival. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
179:Second, writing is survival. Any art, any good work, of course, is that. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
180:Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
181:The biggest failures come round and spring ultimate surprises of survival. ~ Jack White, #NFDB
182:All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
183:It’s also practical. Our survival depends on the goodwill we can generate. ~ Anne Bishop, #NFDB
184:It's okay. Everybody's survival looks a little bit like death sometimes. ~ Andrea Gibson, #NFDB
185:Necessity and survival were brutal tutors, and they only gave pass or fail. ~ D J Molles, #NFDB
186:Personal motivations to live are known to sometimes influence survival. ~ Jon Kabat Zinn, #NFDB
187:To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
188:Because I want you to know,” she says, “that there is life after survival. ~ Mackenzi Lee, #NFDB
189:Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both. ~ Jane Fonda, #NFDB
190:Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
191:I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy. ~ John Rawls, #NFDB
192:On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
193:Survival instincts screamed at her to run. White agony dropped her in place. ~ Dale Mayer, #NFDB
194:That was a basic rule for survival. Don’t lift a finger for a lost cause. ~ Stieg Larsson, #NFDB
195:Her abstinence from her recollections had been a matter of survival. ~ Robert James Waller, #NFDB
196:It's not ugly. It's a mark of courage. Of survival. I think you're beautiful. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
197:My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible. ~ Rachel Hartman, #NFDB
198:On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
199:Selfishness is not an option, even when it comes to a cell’s own survival. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
200:Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival. ~ Marilu Henner, #NFDB
201:Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival. ~ Colin Farrell, #NFDB
202:I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
203:It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
204:Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
205:On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
206:Surrendering is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival. ~ Leslie Feinberg, #NFDB
207:Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival. ~ Max Brooks, #NFDB
208:Survival wasn't nearly as hard as he'd thought once he left decency behind. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
209:To feeling no shame in fear, no doubt in survival, and no silence in anger. ~ Cristy C Road, #NFDB
210:I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way. ~ Eddie Izzard, #NFDB
211:Survival was a powerful driving force, stronger than hatred and love combined. ~ Susan Wiggs, #NFDB
212:The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena. ~ Bear Grylls, #NFDB
213:The truth is, you need your fear, for obvious reasons of basic survival. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
214:The vision fades, the soul sickens, and the routine of survival starts again. ~ Evelyn Waugh, #NFDB
215:We’re going back to high school where our survival instincts are at their finest. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
216:Art is what happens when we have time for something other than basic survival. ~ Jacob Nordby, #NFDB
217:A species's cognition is generally as good as what it needs for its survival. ~ Frans de Waal, #NFDB
218:I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent. ~ Susanna Kaysen, #NFDB
219:None of us are unique in our suffering. But we are unique in our survival. ~ Penelope Douglas, #NFDB
220:Sometimes survival seems like submitting. And that's really hard on the spirit. ~ Aldis Hodge, #NFDB
221:survival has never really been the province of the fittest. Merely the hungriest. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
222:Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
223:The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
224:We are not the survival of the fittest. We are the survival of the nurtured. ~ Louis Cozolino, #NFDB
225:Honor in safety, survival under threat. Better a living coward than a dead hero. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
226:Our survival depends on not just what we can get in life but also what we can give ~ Han Nolan, #NFDB
227:She lives for this-the fight, the battle for survival. She actually enjoys it. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
228:Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
229:Happiness is tied to survival. We feel as if we are failing if we aren’t happy, ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
230:It’s amazing how many times we have to go against our survival instincts to survive. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
231:It’s amazing how many times we need to go against our survival instincts to survive. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
232:Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about. ~ Rollo May, #NFDB
233:Success meant survival. Failure meant death. I wanted life. I wanted to survive. ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
234:That is the secret to survival. Teach fear to those who taught you to be afraid. ~ Scott Tracey, #NFDB
235:That makes it survival. That is what you do in war. You find a way to survive. ~ Susan Meissner, #NFDB
236:The difference between courage and stupidity is measured by success and survival. ~ Evan Currie, #NFDB
237:The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
238:We are living and consuming more than we need, and this impacts our survival. ~ Raheem Devaughn, #NFDB
239:For a human being, life doesn’t seem to end with survival; life begins with survival. ~ Sadhguru, #NFDB
240:Gangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it. ~ Nipsey Hussle, #NFDB
241:It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs. ~ Bill Nye, #NFDB
242:Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
243:On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
244:Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival. ~ Bob Gibson, #NFDB
245:The only rule of survival in a situation like this: Shut your mouth and keep moving. ~ Tami Hoag, #NFDB
246:This was wrong, dangerous, stupid...and necessary to the survival off her soul. ~ Grace Burrowes, #NFDB
247:This world is no longer survival of the fittest, but survival of the heartless. ~ Zachary Koukol, #NFDB
248:UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House) An Olympic runner’s story of survival ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
249:[A] healthy respect for tradition[;]...a kind of default survival behavior ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB
250:Cruelty comes in many shapes. Sometimes, survival itself is one of them. ~ Michaelbrent Collings, #NFDB
251:increased child survival is achieved through preventive measures outside hospitals ~ Hans Rosling, #NFDB
252:It’s amazing how many times we have to go against our survival instincts to survive. I ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
253:Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
254:logic is good for playing pyramid chess but often too slow for needs of survival. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
255:Survival activates miracles when a person relies on the graces of hope and faith. ~ Caroline Myss, #NFDB
256:Survival is the thing. The mind will twist to survive. Anything can become normal. ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
257:Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states. ~ Henry A Kissinger, #NFDB
258:Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
259:One survival technique is a lack of wastefulness; the African puts everything to use. ~ David Lamb, #NFDB
260:The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest. ~ Cyril Connolly, #NFDB
261:The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics. ~ Chris Hardwick, #NFDB
262:There is no fairness in life. Only survival. If you think otherwise, you are a fool, ~ Megg Jensen, #NFDB
263:What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order. ~ Denis Diderot, #NFDB
264:Amazing what humans could do to one another when their survival instinct kicked in. ~ Jason M Hough, #NFDB
265:At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe. ~ Michael Crichton, #NFDB
266:Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
267:Different groups in different areas developed different traits to assure their survival. ~ Jim Goad, #NFDB
268:Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival. ~ John M Perkins, #NFDB
269:I believed that I was alone in my struggle and that my battle was one of survival. By ~ Dave Pelzer, #NFDB
270:I have an interest in survival, Lord Arteloth. I recommend you nurture one, too. ~ Samantha Shannon, #NFDB
271:It is a cosmic joke. Preoccupation with survival has set the stage for extinction. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
272:Most businesses today realize that the key to growth, and even survival, is innovation. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
273:On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. Bob ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
274:survival of the fittest”—which was first coined by the economist Herbert Spencer ~ Douglas Brinkley, #NFDB
275:The survival rate of your passion depends on the kind of person that leads you! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
276:Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom. ~ Mal Fletcher, #NFDB
277:A few men’s fight for the survival is stronger than a nation’s fight for the wealth. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
278:A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass. ~ Richard Adams, #NFDB
279:Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man’s survival. —Carlos P. Romulo ~ Michael J Tougias, #NFDB
280:I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
281:The difference between courage and stupidity is measured only by success and survival, ~ Evan Currie, #NFDB
282:The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
283:The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission. ~ Brother Andrew, #NFDB
284:But most people are too busy working on survival to find the opportunity to create. ~ William Shatner, #NFDB
285:Friends were the casualty of my nomad existence, a necessary loss for my survival. But ~ Sejal Badani, #NFDB
286:Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten. ~ Rachel Zucker, #NFDB
287:It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present. ~ Jonathan Maberry, #NFDB
288:I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique. ~ Jennifer Estep, #NFDB
289:Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality ~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi, #NFDB
290:Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival. ~ Kevin Bacon, #NFDB
291:I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race. ~ Anousheh Ansari, #NFDB
292:If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
293:most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn’t work. ~ Gary Paulsen, #NFDB
294:My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival. ~ Sonia Rykiel, #NFDB
295:The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
296:...children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
297:Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation of success. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
298:Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all. ~ Walter Mosley, #NFDB
299:You don't pity a warrior for her scars, because scars are proof of survival and victory. ~ Chloe Jacobs, #NFDB
300:A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows. ~ Talib Kweli, #NFDB
301:Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
302:I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers. ~ Margaret J Wheatley, #NFDB
303:Ignoring the pain is more desirable than confronting it. And that’s survival one-oh-one. ~ Siobhan Davis, #NFDB
304:Music was a college attendee's survival essential; he'd need that to keep himself sane. ~ Kirsty Moseley, #NFDB
305:Naïveté may be the bedrock of reproduction, the lynchpin for the survival of the species. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
306:[on marriage equality] It literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run. ~ Trent Franks, #NFDB
307:Perhaps the war is never won,” Pierce said. “We must simply find satisfaction in survival. ~ Keith Baker, #NFDB
308:The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success. ~ Alvin Toffler, #NFDB
309:The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
310:Fear is the venom impact of predator sting,
causing prey not to be focus on the survival. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
311:Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
312:Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
313:If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
314:It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
315:Kids with roofs and hot food have better things to do than play survival of the thuggiest. ~ Ryan Graudin, #NFDB
316:Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks. ~ Barry N Malzberg, #NFDB
317:That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have. ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
318:The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
319:Wonder Woman and a gay dementor. It doesn’t bode well for the survival of the species. ~ Becky Albertalli, #NFDB
320:A husband, a wife and some kids is not a family. It's a terribly vulnerable survival unit. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
321:Charles Darwin found that survival is determined by the ability to adapt to circumstances. ~ Verne Harnish, #NFDB
322:Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival. ~ Elie Tahari, #NFDB
323:In an infinite Universe anything can happen," said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
324:In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. ~ Neil Armstrong, #NFDB
325:On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. (Narrator) ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
326:Stuff that really will improve my survival prospects when the tentacles hit the pentacle. ~ Charles Stross, #NFDB
327:The measure of a people is found in how it treats those who have sacrificed for its survival. ~ Luke Scull, #NFDB
328:the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn’t work. ~ Gary Paulsen, #NFDB
329:As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack. ~ James Forrestal, #NFDB
330:Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival. ~ Henry Fairlie, #NFDB
331:Is survival sometimes about death and rebirth? Egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly? ~ Lisa Wingate, #NFDB
332:It's important to have fun. Survival is more than making sure we have enough food and water. ~ Scott Cramer, #NFDB
333:We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
334:Women have been dependent upon men for their survival, for the survival of their children. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
335:Even when they desired education, the strains of daily survival made it near impossible. ~ Kenneth C Johnson, #NFDB
336:My only hope of survival, I realised, was to retreat – physically as well as psychically. ~ Alex Michaelides, #NFDB
337:Some are taxed on their success, true. Some are taxed on their survival, also true. ~ Benjamin Kane Ethridge, #NFDB
338:The exercise really had a lot less to do with water survival than with deliberate teamwork. ~ Chris Hadfield, #NFDB
339:Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
340:We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
341:If it's my day to die, then I will die... Death is quick and final. Survival is long and hard. ~ Linda Barnes, #NFDB
342:Survival to become more than what I was. To create a life where I could hide in plain sight. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
343:The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success. ~ Thomas A Edison, #NFDB
344:The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
345:We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. ~ William Glasser, #NFDB
346:Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
347:Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance. ~ Aaron Levie, #NFDB
348:Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes. ~ Imelda Marcos, #NFDB
349:If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be? ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
350:I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life. ~ Deidre Hall, #NFDB
351:Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
352:Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique. ~ Monica Raymund, #NFDB
353:Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race. ~ Bernard Marcus, #NFDB
354:Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life. ~ Samuel R Delany, #NFDB
355:Staying alive is not enough to guarantee survival. Development is the best way to ensure survival. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
356:Survival Skill #15 If alone, stay aware of your surroundings, even if they appear to be safe. ~ S R Johannes, #NFDB
357:There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
358:Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
359:Your brain is not designed to make you happy. Your brain has only one agenda in mind: survival. ~ Darren Hardy, #NFDB
360:As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
361:I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
362:It appeared that a great part of victory--or at least survival--was simply a dogged hanging on. ~ Ellen Airgood, #NFDB
363:Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival. ~ Sarah Silverman, #NFDB
364:Once upon a time when his chances of survival were greater than a mosquito in a bat cave. Dallas ~ Laura Bickle, #NFDB
365:Our chances of survival were entirely dependent on our ability and willingness to dominate others. ~ Elle Casey, #NFDB
366:we change the course of our actions according to what we learn is good for our survival. If ~ Tom Butler Bowdon, #NFDB
367:It is essential to exchange the invisible ring for all that we call survival, survive, survivor. ~ H l ne Cixous, #NFDB
368:My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival. ~ Cristela Alonzo, #NFDB
369:Now was a time not to anger, but for survival. I would survive. I knew that was all I could do. ~ Betsy Cornwell, #NFDB
370:Trading is a sport of survival, reinvention, and perseverance, even for the successful trader. ~ Mike Bellafiore, #NFDB
371:two critical aspects of the adaptive response to threat that is basic to human survival. ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
372:As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
373:but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival is insufficient. ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
374:Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
375:Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
376:Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
377:The brutalities of wolves are not for enjoyment and pleasure; they are all just for the survival. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
378:There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
379:This is stonelore: Honor in safety, survival under threat. Better a living coward than a dead hero. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
380:According to the mate, there were three main jobs that needed to be done to ensure their survival. ~ Gordon Korman, #NFDB
381:Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition. ~ Robert Holden, #NFDB
382:If you are really strange you are always in enemy territory, and your constant concern is survival. ~ Richard Hugo, #NFDB
383:I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival. ~ Karl Lagerfeld, #NFDB
384:It (friendship) has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which gives value to survival. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
385:Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death. ~ Peter Milligan, #NFDB
386:Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival. ~ Richard Louv, #NFDB
387:Survival lay in good sense, not in bravado. Yet it was easier to provoke bravado than thought. ~ Robert V S Redick, #NFDB
388:The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities. ~ Timothy Garton Ash, #NFDB
389:The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
390:They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival. ~ Russel Honore, #NFDB
391:True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it. ~ David Richo, #NFDB
392:Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival ~ Nora Gallagher, #NFDB
393:Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. ~ Peter Watts, #NFDB
394:Competition means no profits for anybody, no meaningful differentiation, and a struggle for survival. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
395:I knew then that I must survive for something more than survival's sake. I must survive for you. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates, #NFDB
396:Imagine for a minute yourself in the same shoes, the same sense of survival and the same nothing to lose. ~ Lil Kim, #NFDB
397:It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith, #NFDB
398:like a pack of wolves across the planet, and people were afraid for the survival of the human race. ~ Jeanne DuPrau, #NFDB
399:No one could understand how a species could change itself in a way that prevented its own survival. ~ Chris Dietzel, #NFDB
400:Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival. ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
401:The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival. ~ Helen Foster Snow, #NFDB
402:A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
403:Every fight for survival is really a fight to return to the inconsequential concerns of the mundane. ~ Andrea Cremer, #NFDB
404:Fuck me like I’m survival. Like your life depends on my shit. That’s some grateful dick, right there. ~ Kennedy Ryan, #NFDB
405:Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB
406:Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
407:Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
408:Animals, Mark, have no use for nostalgia, Aunt Kenna says. It is not a tool for survival, my darling. But ~ Ali Smith, #NFDB
409:Compassion, love, and forgiveness, however, are not luxuries. They are fundamental for our survival. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
410:Dick Levin’s Buy Low, Sell High, Collect Early, and Pay Late: The Manager’s Guide to Financial Survival, ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
411:Every fight for survival is really a fight to return to the inconsequential concerns of the mundane. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
412:For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
413:Most of us have just learned to exercise our survival muscle. It's time to build our victory muscle. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
414:The only thing that matters in the end is your own survival. It's what humans and cockroaches are best at. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
415:We have to stop viewing one another as enemies. At this point, unity is essential for our survival. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
416:Women carry the burden of the family’s survival on their backs. Do you understand what I am saying? ~ Phyllis T Smith, #NFDB
417:almost every species that has ever existed is extinct; extinction is the rule, survival is the exception. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
418:Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
419:I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival. ~ Iggy Pop, #NFDB
420:Survival is important, but even so, I’m still thinking about that almost-kiss as I head off to my room. ~ Brian Yansky, #NFDB
421:Survival, to my mind, implies a finite probability that without luck and cunning, you will perish. ~ Stuart Rojstaczer, #NFDB
422:Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels. ~ Shari Arison, #NFDB
423:The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment; end of torture is end of religion. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
424:The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide. ~ Andrea Dworkin, #NFDB
425:[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival. ~ Mildred H McAfee, #NFDB
426:Asking why isn’t about the survival of the fittest; it is about the soul’s craving for meaning. ~ Erwin Raphael McManus, #NFDB
427:I guess it's part of survival that we so easily adapt to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. ~ Karpov Kinrade, #NFDB
428:Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury. ~ Mark Z Danielewski, #NFDB
429:Thank the Gods Below for paranoia. I classified it as a survival skill rather than a neurotic condition. ~ Kevin Hearne, #NFDB
430:The white magician's motto is: "right is might" (survival of all). ~ Manly P Hall, Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics, #NFDB
431:To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
432:We use God to justify our actions when in fact it is our own instinct for survival that pushes us on. ~ Deborah Moggach, #NFDB
433:Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
434:Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive. ~ Theodore Sturgeon, #NFDB
435:I knew it to the bottom of my soul: You’re going to die. This wasn’t about survival. It was about payback. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
436:I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival. ~ John Bolton, #NFDB
437:It wasn't so much a "survival plan" as a plan for dying in a different place, but we grimly went to work. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
438:Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order. ~ Tahir Shah, #NFDB
439:Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying. ~ Bear Grylls, #NFDB
440:And when reality denies you the tools you need for survival you grab them from wherever you can. ~ Alexander Gordon Smith, #NFDB
441:Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death. ~ Jacques Derrida, #NFDB
442:There are a number of ways to establish someone’s approximate survival expectations without actually asking. ~ John Green, #NFDB
443:The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us. ~ Karl Popper, #NFDB
444:Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
445:All survival situations revolve around a host of variables...Always adapt, think positive, and move forward. ~ Cody Lundin, #NFDB
446:colossal rigidity, whether in dinosaurs or dictatorships, has a very poor record of evolutionary survival. ~ Carl R Rogers, #NFDB
447:Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
448:Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather. ~ Bear Grylls, #NFDB
449:We have to have more consideration for people who have lesser means than we do. It is a problem of survival. ~ Walter Munk, #NFDB
450:We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now. ~ Edward Norton, #NFDB
451:Your very own sister may take your husband away and your husband may be the ticket for economic survival. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
452:You silly little girl,
you think
you've survived so long
survival shouldn't hurt anymore. ~ Clementine von Radics,#NFDB
453:All we have in this world is survival. When you’re dead, you won’t give a fuck about what you left behind. ~ Amanda Carlson, #NFDB
454:Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
455:I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
456:Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival. ~ Wangari Maathai, #NFDB
457:The instinct for profit, thought Jela—personal profit. That instinct was maybe not a long-term survival trait. ~ Sharon Lee, #NFDB
458:The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
459:We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. ~ Virginia Satir, #NFDB
460:When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture. ~ Nursultan Nazarbayev, #NFDB
461:I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money. ~ Leonard Baskin, #NFDB
462:Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit. ~ Quentin Crisp, #NFDB
463:Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
464:She's captivating too, maybe more than she was before, with the tale of our survival written on her features. ~ Amie Kaufman, #NFDB
465:The only currency to satisfy the debt was their survival and to help others when circumstances permitted. ~ Colson Whitehead, #NFDB
466:The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
467:To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life. ~ Gregory Orr, #NFDB
468:Toni donates 15% of her royalties from EDGE OF SURVIVAL to diabetes research—to find out why, read the book! ~ Toni Anderson, #NFDB
469:We are all fighters. It is basic human nature. We strive to get somewhere in life or we fight for survival. ~ Sarah Castille, #NFDB
470:We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival. ~ Rusty Schweickart, #NFDB
471:When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
472:Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
473:You weren’t so likely to look out for others if you felt your own survival depended on looking out for yourself. ~ Vic James, #NFDB
474:Cognitive biases worked well when rapid pattern recognition and decision making was critical for survival, ~ Richard A Clarke, #NFDB
475:Customers, after all, are the one thing no business can do without. They are the key to every company’s survival. ~ Dave Gray, #NFDB
476:God’s grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold. ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
477:I am an ant in the battlefield of the gods. There's no room for pride or ego, and barely enough room for survival. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
478:I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands. ~ Tony Blair, #NFDB
479:Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
480:On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero." —Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club ~ Leslie Langtry, #NFDB
481:Violence and brutal domination exist in the animal world as a means for survival, not as sport or sick amusement. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
482:A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing. ~ Jason Momoa, #NFDB
483:Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all. ~ Philip Ridley, #NFDB
484:Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’ is really a special case of a more general law of survival of the stable. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
485:Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival. ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
486:His mind
It says survival of the fittest but
His soul
Revival of the idiots
So good riddance, dancing ~ Criss Jami,#NFDB
487:Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. ~ Aslan Maskhadov, #NFDB
488:In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival. ~ Stanislav Grof, #NFDB
489:It is a paradox of human dynamics, of how the progress of new ideas often rests on the survival of old ways. ~ Ziauddin Sardar, #NFDB
490:She's captivating too, maybe more than she was before, with the tale of our survival written on her features. ~ Meagan Spooner, #NFDB
491:There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
492:Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always. ~ Adriana Trigiani, #NFDB
493:Do you know why a heart lays claim? Survival. That heart lays its claim to ensure survival of its kind. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
494:Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
495:I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
496:Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
497:Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
498:Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel, #NFDB
499:Survival of the fittest is a scientific fact, but it is a cruel ethic; the way of beasts, not a civilized society. ~ A G Riddle, #NFDB
500:The black magician's motto is: "might is right" (survival of the fittest). ~ Manly P Hall, Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics, #NFDB
501:we’re the start of an amazing, dumbfounding history of survival that will only get better as the centuries pass. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
502:Beware ground on loose rock. Beware hale strangers. Beware sudden silence. —Tablet One, “On Survival,” verse three ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
503:Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity. ~ John Mearsheimer, #NFDB
504:The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss. ~ John Medina, #NFDB
505:Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
506:A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
507:As nice an offer as that was, I'm afraid I'm not interested."
"I see the job as your only chance for survival. ~ Robin Bielman,#NFDB
508:Dum walks backwards, talking to us. "We're going back to high school where our survival instincts are at their finest. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
509:Elsewhere, people are too preoccupied by their day-to-day survival to take the time to write their collective history. ~ Kim Th y, #NFDB
510:In June 1996 she published a book Out of the Shadows: Fred West’s Daughter Tells Her Harrowing Story of Survival. ~ Peter Vronsky, #NFDB
511:See, they say it’s ‘survival of the fittest’, but you and I really know that it’s ‘survival of the most heavily armed ~ Lia Habel, #NFDB
512:This is a story of survival.
It is your story,
even when you feel like that word
does not belong to you. ~ Ashe Vernon,#NFDB
513:We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
-Sir Winston Churchill ~ Aleatha Romig,#NFDB
514:As medical progress has extended our lives, the result has been what’s called the “rectangularization” of survival. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
515:Little Sisters' Survival Guide, rule number thirty-seven," Skylar said. "Scream before they hit you. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #NFDB
516:Our bodies are a commodity. Sex is our currency. Every day we fight for survival."
Jeri Estes Stilettos and Steel ~ Jeri Estes,#NFDB
517:They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease. ~ James Young, #NFDB
518:Those who shoot in competition seem to have a remarkably high hit potential and survival ratio in actual gunfights. ~ Massad Ayoob, #NFDB
519:War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival. ~ Shannon A Thompson, #NFDB
520:When cornered, desperate, or isolated, man reverts to those instincts that aim straight at survival. Quick and just. ~ Delia Owens, #NFDB
521:I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. ~ Desi Arnaz, #NFDB
522:... it is clear that our survival and the salvaging of our environment are dependent on more technology, not less. ~ Samuel Florman, #NFDB
523:I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
524:No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism. ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
525:Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution. ~ Rudolf Arnheim, #NFDB
526:Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership ~ Charles Lindbergh, #NFDB
527:Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival". ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
528:the data shows that half the increase in child survival in the world happens because the mothers can read and write. ~ Hans Rosling, #NFDB
529:There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. ~ Thornton Wilder, #NFDB
530:UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause? ~ Clay Aiken, #NFDB
531:Catalogs called it a “survival knife.” Survival, in combat, meant knowing how to kill people quickly and silently. ~ Chet Williamson, #NFDB
532:Creation demands destruction. Survival demands that something else fails to survive. No existence was truly benign. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
533:I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival. ~ Mark Edward, #NFDB
534:Once I wasn’t stressed to distraction about our survival, my patience returned and I rediscovered my love of teaching. ~ Hope Jahren, #NFDB
535:Pain tells us that we have put our survival onto something that is a violation of some principle of consciousness. ~ David R Hawkins, #NFDB
536:The First Law of Systems-Survival: A SYSTEM THAT IGNORES FEEDBACK HAS ALREADY BEGUN THE PROCESS OF TERMINAL INSTABILITY. ~ John Gall, #NFDB
537:We can no longer be deluded by the notion that the destruction of others’ lives is necessary for our own survival. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
538:Why do certain people try to go against the natural order of things, which is to fight for survival whatever happens? ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
539:a scientific theory that laughter and humor increase the odds of survival among patients with terminal illnesses? ~ Suzanne Brockmann, #NFDB
540:I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies. ~ Alistair Cockburn, #NFDB
541:Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity. ~ John Silber, #NFDB
542:The biggest threat against the survival of humanity is not brutality and unkindness, it is stupidity and selfishness. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
543:These women who perhaps even balk at the word survival and favor instead a far more fluctuant current: continuance. ~ Durga Chew Bose, #NFDB
544:They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
545:What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged. ~ Steve Lacy, #NFDB
546:Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.' ~ Declan Donnellan, #NFDB
547:In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. ~ Edward Everett Hale, #NFDB
548:I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
549:natural selection may be able to explain the survival of a species, but it cannot explain the arrival of a species. ~ Norman L Geisler, #NFDB
550:No animal will change when its conditions are good enough for present survival. And in this matter man is still an animal. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
551:Of course, that’s only a conceptual stone’s throw from the thought that her survival is a side effect of mediocrity. Which ~ M R Carey, #NFDB
552:One of the key rules to survival here on the scenic Western Slope was, to wit, When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
553:Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward-looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
554:Our thought process exactly matches our evolution: First, survival. Then, social relationships. Finally, problem solving. ~ Oren Klaff, #NFDB
555:Scars, whether physical or emotional, could be not just a representation of survival but also a story of hope. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
556:Someone once said that one measure of sentience was how much energy a sophont spent on matters other than survival. Fiben ~ David Brin, #NFDB
557:The dark side is about survival. It’s about unleashing your inner power. It glorifies the strength of the individual. ~ Drew Karpyshyn, #NFDB
558:There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
559:There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
560:While a ten-year survival rate for a trader is in the single digits, that of a risk manager is close to 100%). ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
561:You know... the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible price you have to pay for survival. ~ Joanne Greenberg, #NFDB
562:Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with. ~ Louis Schwartzberg, #NFDB
563:Dear Logan,
Someday I'm going to write a book: How to Not Die in Alaska -- A Girl's Guide to Fashionable Survival. ~ Ally Carter,#NFDB
564:[Still apparent in him, the tiny boy, mewling in cold and hunger. It’s less delicious, this badness bred from survival.] ~ Lauren Groff, #NFDB
565:Survival is the biggest dharma. The scriptures say, nothing is a sin during danger. It is called apat dharma. Think ~ Anand Neelakantan, #NFDB
566:The ability to move others to exchange what they have for what we have is crucial to our survival and our happiness. It ~ Daniel H Pink, #NFDB
567:The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes. ~ Lynne McTaggart, #NFDB
568:War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation. ~ Percival Lowell, #NFDB
569:We can trust no one. In a regime where words are watched, lies are rewarded, and silence is survival, there is no truth. ~ M T Anderson, #NFDB
570:What the Englishman said about survival was this: "If you stop taking pride in your appearance, you will very soon die. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
571:Winning is important, but survival is even more important. If you don't survive, you don't get to fight the next battle. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
572:Being a bitch could be a survival technique. They get respect. There was no honor in people thinking you were a slut. ~ Penelope Douglas, #NFDB
573:Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate. ~ Eugene Odum, #NFDB
574:Don't get bogged down with the have-to's. Otherwise, there's no point in being alive. Life becomes a matter of survival. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
575:Every moment, he felt his survival was threatened. He felt humbled. For the first time in ages, he felt merely human. He ~ David Simpson, #NFDB
576:Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. ~ Ken Burns, #NFDB
577:If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
578:once we’re above the survival level, the difference between prosperity and poverty lies simply in our degree of gratitude. ~ Vicki Robin, #NFDB
579:people who are more worried about the survival of their political careers than they are about the survival of the planet. ~ Stephen Moss, #NFDB
580:Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow. ~ Lewis Thomas, #NFDB
581:Survival is a strong instinct, surrender is not an option, and all combat is justifiable homicide. But you pay a price. ~ Nelson DeMille, #NFDB
582:Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
583:The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures...as a survival mechanism...the only Nazi country in the world is Israel. ~ David Duke, #NFDB
584:We tell ourselves that racism is about moral values, when instead it is about the survival strategy of systemic power. ~ Reni Eddo Lodge, #NFDB
585:Because you have no survival instinct, Grace, You're like a tank, you just meet up with a bigger tank..."
-Shiver- ~ Maggie Stiefvater,#NFDB
586:For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival. ~ Mo Yan, #NFDB
587:Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate ~ Patricia Hill Collins, #NFDB
588:Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do. ~ Louise Erdrich, #NFDB
589:There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all
animals with only survival instincts. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
590:We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest ~ Thabo Mbeki, #NFDB
591:If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. —CARL SAGAN ~ Michio Kaku, #NFDB
592:I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind. ~ Jon Gordon, #NFDB
593:Like other animals, we play at those things that are important to our survival, and social play promotes social cohesion. ~ Bernd Heinrich, #NFDB
594:Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. ~ Richard Matheson, #NFDB
595:Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
596:Survival, to judge from the racks of guns, knives, gougers, stabbers and garrotters on display, tends to involve homicide. ~ Ben Macintyre, #NFDB
597:Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death. ~ Taylor Caldwell, #NFDB
598:When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change. ~ Cameron Sinclair, #NFDB
599:American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country. ~ Benjamin Netanyahu, #NFDB
600:And entrepreneurship is a risky and heroic activity, necessary for growth or even the mere survival of the economy. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
601:Be clear about the purpose of money. Money is like health. It is necessary for survival but it is not what you live for. ~ Ernie J Zelinski, #NFDB
602:felt as though my body had been switched into some kind of perverted survival mode, where it wanted to fuck itself unconscious. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
603:Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. I would give everything to ensure the novel's survival. ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
604:I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival. ~ Tilda Swinton, #NFDB
605:In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
606:My patients are people who live on the edge of survival and beyond,” he writes in his excellent book Surviving the Extremes. ~ Ben Sherwood, #NFDB
607:Nothing is forever, so prioritize what matters today and worry about tomorrow tomorrow. It’s not selfish, it’s survival. ~ Bethenny Frankel, #NFDB
608:Survival’s enough for now, Reagan. And when it isn’t, you’ll learn to love again. I know that, I believe that about you. ~ Rachel Higginson, #NFDB
609:I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother. ~ Naomi Watts, #NFDB
610:...it is our animal nature to judge the wake more harshly, owing to how survival depends upon weeding these creatures out. ~ Suzanne Rindell, #NFDB
611:...it is our animal nature to judge the weak more harshly, owing to how survival depends upon weeding these creatures out. ~ Suzanne Rindell, #NFDB
612:Survival might be insufficient, she’d told Dieter in late-night arguments, but on the other hand, so was Shakespeare. ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
613:The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less. We ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
614:The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
615:This world ye speak of, Akira, is built upon survival. The strong conquer and live, while the weak crumble and die. ~ Jennifer Hudson Taylor, #NFDB
616:After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival. ~ Janine M Benyus, #NFDB
617:Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. ~ Jack Herer, #NFDB
618:If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. ~ Sherman Alexie, #NFDB
619:I told her once I wasn't good at anything. She ran her thumb over my lips raw from kissing her and said survival was a talent. ~ Tawni O Dell, #NFDB
620:Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
621:Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter! ~ Robert Charles Wilson, #NFDB
622:There are two miracles in Canadian history. The first is the survival of French Canada, and the second is the survival of Canada. ~ F R Scott, #NFDB
623:Behind the flattery, the edge of mockery was plain to anyone who must, as a matter of survival, learn to detect it. page no. 15 ~ Shani Mootoo, #NFDB
624:Being a bitch could be a survival technique. They get respect. There was no honor in people thinking you were a slut. Jared ~ Penelope Douglas, #NFDB
625:I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival. ~ August Wilson, #NFDB
626:Life is not safe. Hiding means survival for them. And that’s the business of all living things, isn’t it? Surviving, I mean. ~ Joanna Chambers, #NFDB
627:More and more people back then, and not just Andrew MacIntosh, had found ensuring the survival of the human race a total bore. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
628:People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that. ~ Wes Craven, #NFDB
629:The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself. ~ Joan Rivers, #NFDB
630:The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival. ~ Shirley Hufstedler, #NFDB
631:The training program wasn’t a survival course, but sometimes a person came through who put the horrors of 41 into perspective. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
632:What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts. ~ Michael Moore, #NFDB
633:Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
634:I'm very grateful to be where I'm at and be able to play. That's really the bottom line for me. Survival and being able to play. ~ Terry Bozzio, #NFDB
635:It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships. ~ E O Wilson, #NFDB
636:I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
637:Life is ever reaching for strength, vitality, survival and the fulfillment of perpetuating its inherent message of continuance. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
638:Life is usually loved more than our most sacred love. In that knowledge lies the beginning of our cruelty and of our survival. ~ Josephine Hart, #NFDB
639:Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived. ~ Simon Wiesenthal, #NFDB
640:The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Survival is perhaps the strangest fantasy of them all. ~ Eudora Welty, #NFDB
641:Those who are ill-prepared to endure the battle for survival should perhaps never have attempted living in the first place. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
642:We're in this together, and if we united and we inter-culturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival. ~ Jeremy Gilley, #NFDB
643:When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink. ~ Daniel Suarez, #NFDB
644:...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons) ~ Sharon Kay Penman, #NFDB
645:In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival. ~ Andrew Young, #NFDB
646:It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity. ~ Barbara Lee, #NFDB
647:Living is not merely a matter of staying alive, is it? It is what you do with your life and the fact of your survival that counts. ~ Mary Balogh, #NFDB
648:Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved. ~ Redd Foxx, #NFDB
649:That is yet another marvel and mystery of the dog: it is the only animal that will place our safety and survival above its own. ~ Bronwen Dickey, #NFDB
650:those who held on to a vision of the future were the ones throughout this ordeal who seemed to have a better chance for survival. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
651:Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity. ~ Thomas Berry, #NFDB
652:Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
653:After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to our survival. ~ Janine M Benyus, #NFDB
654:As Bill Plotkin, a wise guide, puts it, many of us learn to do our “survival dance,” but we never get to our actual “sacred dance. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
655:Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries. ~ Hu Jintao, #NFDB
656:...he was dimly aware that if you wish to remain a human being under Fascism, there is an easier option than survival -- death. ~ Vasily Grossman, #NFDB
657:No matter what the practice or teaching, ego loves to wait in ambush to appropriate spirituality for its own survival and gain. ~ Ch gyam Trungpa, #NFDB
658:Or maybe it means we’ve forgotten ourselves. And we keep forgetting ourselves. And that’s the big grown-up secret to survival. ~ Stephanie Danler, #NFDB
659:Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else. ~ Richard Adams, #NFDB
660:The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint. ~ Henry Kissinger, #NFDB
661:The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission. Her work is making disciples of all nations. ~ Brother Andrew, #NFDB
662:Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death. ~ Dan Aykroyd, #NFDB
663:But her so-called self-indulgence, her cutting everyone out of her life, had been an act of survival, not the act of a victim. ~ Loreth Anne White, #NFDB
664:Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
665:Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. ~ Hans Selye, #NFDB
666:...oh boo hoo, everyone’s life was hard, and if you’d survived the hardship, why write about it? Survival itself was enough. ~ Meg Wolitzer, #NFDB
667:Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies and impudence? ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB
668:It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival. ~ Cameron Sinclair, #NFDB
669:The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
670:There are lies in life we accept. Whether it’s for the sake of ignorance, bliss or, in my case, survival, we all make our choices. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
671:We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival. ~ Bruno Latour, #NFDB
672:By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
673:In the face of a threat to the survival of the species, all these planetside trivialities are put aside until the crisis passes. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
674:Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB
675:Operational effectiveness can be the single most important factor in the success, or indeed in the survival, of any business. ~ Bruce C N Greenwald, #NFDB
676:Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally. ~ Lena Headey, #NFDB
677:Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. However, it is also adaptive for the initial caution ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
678:The church bag had to be big enough to fit her Sunday service survival kit. Her Bible, some candy, and all the sins of our family. ~ Jason Reynolds, #NFDB
679:the great challenge is finding ways to reset their physiology, so that their survival mechanisms stop working against them. ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
680:The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
681:The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
682:There are lies in life we accept. Whether it's for the sake of ignorance, bliss, or, in my case, survival, we all make our choices. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
683:We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
684:We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can in art? ~ Chris Kraus, #NFDB
685:Becoming unremarkable, invisible, compliant--these were useful tricks for a black man in a white neighborhood. Survival techniques. ~ Victor LaValle, #NFDB
686:Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to survive. ~ Maurice Sendak, #NFDB
687:emotions caused the individual and society to be weak spiritually and did not help with survival in the harsh environment of this world. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
688:Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware. ~ George Monbiot, #NFDB
689:It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result. ~ Hideki Tojo, #NFDB
690:Or maybe it means we’ve forgotten ourselves. And we keep forgetting ourselves. And that’s the big grown-up secret to survival.” I ~ Stephanie Danler, #NFDB
691:The alien girl—she called herself Dorothy—was by virtue of her survival elevated to living sainthood. The dog was merely annoying. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
692:The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world. ~ Bianca Jagger, #NFDB
693:Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival. ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
694:Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
695:It’s easy to be a hero when your own survival is aligned with someone else’s, when your victory is a victory for your entire clan. ~ Delilah S Dawson, #NFDB
696:I’ve developed a pretty good survival system involving nothing more than mental alertness exercises, positive thinking and amphetamines. ~ David Wong, #NFDB
697:Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive. ~ Jamais Cascio, #NFDB
698:Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more. ~ George Monbiot, #NFDB
699:We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest. ~ Maureen Dowd, #NFDB
700:Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival. ~ Michael Shermer, #NFDB
701:Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger...these are the concerns that fill her days. ~ David Maine, #NFDB
702:If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival. ~ Werner Herzog, #NFDB
703:Impulsivity is commonly misdiagnosed as AD/HD, but it is actually an exaggerated response to stress that serves as a survival mechanism: ~ Eric Jensen, #NFDB
704:I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones. ~ Helen Mirren, #NFDB
705:Maybe this is what she meant. Our survival is going to come under threat, and we need to . . . to grow and spread like the Blazing Star. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
706:People are motivated to break their moral compasses for a variety of primal reasons: survival, hate, love, envy, passion. And money. ~ Greer Hendricks, #NFDB
707:Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it. ~ Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, #NFDB
708:The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves. ~ Jerry Seinfeld, #NFDB
709:The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system. ~ Ed Seykota, #NFDB
710:The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
711:The wise man strives for awareness. What will happen will happen, and worry will not serve, but anticipation might provide survival. ~ Raymond E Feist, #NFDB
712:War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly. ~ Aminatta Forna, #NFDB
713:[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that. ~ Van Morrison, #NFDB
714:And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival. ~ Kirkpatrick Sale, #NFDB
715:Destruction, in other words, is an effort to differentiate. In childhood, if things go well, destruction results simply in survival; ~ Jessica Benjamin, #NFDB
716:God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
717:In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert. ~ Terry Tempest Williams, #NFDB
718:It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose. ~ Joy Bryant, #NFDB
719:She couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think. Her primal instincts eliminated all extraneous functions not related to her immediate survival. ~ Michael McBride, #NFDB
720:The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
721:Up until the moment of death, there was a 100% survival rate. Really. I wouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off. ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
722:We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
723:Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction. ~ Scott McCloud, #NFDB
724:But even with our maturity, we must see our constraints in order to break free from them. Meridel Le Sueur wrote, “Survival is resistance. ~ Mary Pipher, #NFDB
725:It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival. ~ Joy Bryant, #NFDB
726:I’ve discovered fulfillment comes from striving to succeed—survival by wits and strength. Such things make each of us who we are, I suppose. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
727:Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.” —Hunter S. Thompson ~ Nicholas Sansbury Smith, #NFDB
728:Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge. ~ Heinz Pagels, #NFDB
729:The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth. ~ Virginia Satir, #NFDB
730:The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in. ~ Hayley Atwell, #NFDB
731:This isn’t just a news of the week event. This is it—the big summer blockbuster, end of the world, fight for survival type of gig. You ~ Iain Rob Wright, #NFDB
732:Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto You. Kill or Be Killed. Either Shit or Get Out of the Kitchen. Survival of the Fittest. Make My Day. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
733:He was one of those guys who can talk to anyone--and talk his way out of trouble, which in Corey’s case is a necessary survival skill. ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
734:Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter ! ~ Bruce H Lipton, #NFDB
735:I don't think there are any true heroes. Just people who ignore their survival instincts long enough to do something incredibly foolhardy. ~ Lauren James, #NFDB
736:Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature. ~ Camille Paglia, #NFDB
737:Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
738:There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
739:This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival. ~ Roland Barthes, #NFDB
740:This is all-out, give-no-mercy warfare. The survival of civilization is at stake. What do we do now?” All eyes turned toward Meina Gladstone. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
741:We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation. ~ Barry Commoner, #NFDB
742:And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
743:In a game of survival, there are no rules,” my mother had always said. “Play to your God-given strengths, Wild, and don’t feel bad for it. ~ Shannon Mayer, #NFDB
744:Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
745:Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
746:There is nothing more dangerous, nothing more powerful, nothing more necessary and essential for survival than the lies we tell ourselves. ~ Megan Miranda, #NFDB
747:The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy. ~ James Alan Gardner, #NFDB
748:Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival. ~ Michael D O Brien, #NFDB
749:Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival. ~ Terry Tempest Williams, #NFDB
750:Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee, #NFDB
751:Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
752:I concluded that no place in the world was entirely safe for an African, and that for many of us, survival depended on perpetual migration. ~ Lawrence Hill, #NFDB
753:The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying. ~ George Ball, #NFDB
754:There is no skill so specialized that it cannot be adapted to the business of survival. When all else fails, look to yourself for answers. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
755:The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information. ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
756:When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation. ~ Aleksandar Hemon, #NFDB
757:Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success. It’s Not How Hard You Work; It’s How Smart You Work ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
758:Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
759:I think I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation. Perhaps this is what Veronica called cowardice and I called being peaceable. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
760:It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service. ~ Ken Blanchard, #NFDB
761:Love. The only indestructible thing. The only wealth and the only reality. The only survival. At the end of it all there was nothing else ~ Elizabeth Goudge, #NFDB
762:Their yellow eyes seemed to hold ancient knowledge, as if their memories of want and drought and survival were so much more than Maria’s. ~ Paolo Bacigalupi, #NFDB
763:There is nothing more dangerous, nothing more powerful, nothing more necessary and essential for survival than the lies we tell ourselves. I ~ Megan Miranda, #NFDB
764:The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
765:Though our survival system doesn’t always work to our advantage, it is a mistake to think we should conquer the primitive self completely. ~ Kelly McGonigal, #NFDB
766:When we are in groups, when we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival and progress goes up. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
767:As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me. ~ Bebe Moore Campbell, #NFDB
768:Complacency is the drug I swallowed the night Leo went to prison. Complacency is the price I have paid for the illusion of my own survival. ~ Lili St Germain, #NFDB
769:Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
770:He is older, crueler, more experienced, perhaps stronger, but survival has never really been the province of the fittest. Merely the hungriest. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
771:Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
772:If there is some divine plan that requires my survival and the deaths of all those children in day care, I respectfully decline to participate. ~ Tim Kreider, #NFDB
773:It’s a brilliant song! C’mon…’Every day is like survival. You’re my lover, not my rival.’ What could be more meaningful than that? (Jesse) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
774:Love is just a short-term hormone-driven infatuation, evolved to reinforce the pair bond so that children have the best chance of survival. ~ Josephine Myles, #NFDB
775:Love. The only indestructible thing. The only wealth and the only reality. The only survival. At the end of it all there was nothing else. ~ Elizabeth Goudge, #NFDB
776:Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction. ~ Robert Nozick, #NFDB
777:We managed to make a good night of it, in the desperate way people do when the choice is between dogged survival or sliding under the morass. ~ Lindsey Davis, #NFDB
778:We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
779:Wisdom isn't everything. Survival requires an element of trickery, Chaos, subterfuge. All qualities I possess (if I may say so) in abundance. ~ Joanne Harris, #NFDB
780:You're familiar with the theory of evolution?" asked Cabal.
"Sir?"
"They're about to find out why intelligence is a survival trait. ~ Jonathan L Howard,#NFDB
781:Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
782:All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did. ~ Josephine Hart, #NFDB
783:and I never knew survival was like that. If you live, you look back and beg for it again, the hazardous bliss before you know what you would miss. ~ Ada Limon, #NFDB
784:But it is clear to me that our survival—both yours and mine—will be dictated by how well you and I can work together.”
“So we’re screwed? ~ Devon Monk,#NFDB
785:Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings. ~ Danielle Steel, #NFDB
786:It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it. ~ Lily Cole, #NFDB
787:Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win. ~ Bear Grylls, #NFDB
788:The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. ~ M H Abrams, #NFDB
789:He didn’t know if his capacity to love had been stunted, buried beneath the need for survival for so long it had forgotten how to breathe.... ~ Brooke McKinley, #NFDB
790:Her whole system was wired to monitor his survival. She needed him to live. He'd nearly died, and everything inside her was short-circuiting. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
791:I’d learned quickly, as a matter of survival, that I needed to take opportunities as they came—if they came—and to look forward to the future. ~ Saroo Brierley, #NFDB
792:I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches. ~ Andre Leon Talley, #NFDB
793:In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, privation should not come with the job description, and survival should not be an aspiration. ~ Sarah Kendzior, #NFDB
794:Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive. ~ Rachel Dolezal, #NFDB
795:Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate . To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
796:Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
797:The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival. ~ Margaret Haddix, #NFDB
798:We’re simply trying to survive—and the first principle of survival is not to worry about the impossible and concentrate on what’s possible. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
799:You have a naïve understanding of evolutionary processes. There's no such thing as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. ~ Peter Watts, #NFDB
800:Your survival is imperative. With your death would come great loss. The supernatural world would be unable to recover itself for a millennium. ~ Amanda Carlson, #NFDB
801:Concern for the good life, which also includes life as a member of the community, is yielding more and more to the simple concern for survival. ~ Byung Chul Han, #NFDB
802:His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army. ~ Joseph J Ellis, #NFDB
803:I make sure to always have some spinach between my teeth so people are disinclined to bother me.
Survival strategies for the 21st century. ~ Graham Parke,#NFDB
804:Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill. ~ Sarah Silverman, #NFDB
805:My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species. ~ Louise Leakey, #NFDB
806:That was my grandfather's one survival tip if I ever found myself trapped in a fairy tale. Keep your promises. Bad things happen if you don't. ~ Julia Heaberlin, #NFDB
807:Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…It has no survival value, rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. ~ Lindsey Fairleigh, #NFDB
808:In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival. ~ Cary Fowler, #NFDB
809:Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. ~ Stephen Jay Gould, #NFDB
810:love thy neighbour’ is less a pious injunction than a rule for survival. If you meet one in trouble, you stop — another time he may stop for you. ~ Beryl Markham, #NFDB
811:Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Meditation is essential for our survival. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
812:Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths. ~ Josephine Hart, #NFDB
813:Power is just so much part of the human being because power is survival. But I wonder if that is the best way to survive, by killing someone else. ~ Laura Huxley, #NFDB
814:Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
815:The opposite of love, I thought, was not hatred, but indifference, and for my own survival, I’d made my heart indifferent to Alexander Hamilton. ~ Stephanie Dray, #NFDB
816:To assume that our existence to date is an indication of our future survival is a serious flaw in reasoning. Probably the most serious of all. See ~ Rolf Dobelli, #NFDB
817:Was humanity, or even life itself, that significant in the grand scheme of things? Wasn’t humanity's survival directly related to nature's decline? ~ M R Mathias, #NFDB
818:We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio, #NFDB
819:Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. ~ Stanislav Grof, #NFDB
820:Because the leader of the gnomes, their sole chance for survival, their only hope for help in all these Woods, just happened to be . . . Her cat. ~ Soman Chainani, #NFDB
821:Contrary to nature’s rule of “survival of the fittest,” we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering. ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
822:From an evolutionary perspective, exercise tricks the brain into trying to maintain itself for survival despite the hormonal cues that it is aging. ~ John J Ratey, #NFDB
823:(God) seemed to know everything that was in her heart and to understand that nothing dwelt there that wasn’t absolutely necessary to her survival. ~ Richard Russo, #NFDB
824:He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest. ~ George Washington Carver, #NFDB
825:If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest. ~ George Soros, #NFDB
826:It is remarkable how little concern men seem to have for logic, statistics, and even, indeed, survival: we live by emotion, prejudice, and pride.”24 ~ Evan Thomas, #NFDB
827:Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves. ~ Duke Ellington, #NFDB
828:Survival machines that can simulate the future are one jump ahead of survival machines who can only learn on the basis of overt trial and error. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
829:A law of survival, Ragle had said. Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish . . . version of a timeless rule. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
830:Never have I experienced in a people and in myself so powerful a surge of life as at that period when our very existence and survival were at stake. ~ Stefan Zweig, #NFDB
831:Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival. ~ Tad Williams, #NFDB
832:Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic. ~ Peaches Geldof, #NFDB
833:Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg, #NFDB
834:The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project. ~ Hugo Chavez, #NFDB
835:The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival. ~ Elizabeth Taylor, #NFDB
836:Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
837:Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
838:Watching him getting ready to leave, Judge Arcadio thought that life is nothing but a continuous succession of opportunities for survival. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
839:When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
840:...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
841:An itinerant selfish gene/ Said 'bodies a- plenty I've seen./ You think you're so clever/ But I'll live for ever./ You're just a survival machine. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
842:Ash liked his characters at or over the edge of madness, constructing systems of belief and survival from the fragments of experience available to them. ~ A S Byatt, #NFDB
843:But life wasn’t a gift that was given to you. Survival was a prize we all fought for together, not a guarantee bought at the cost of an innocent life. ~ Rachel Bach, #NFDB
844:But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
845:Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that? ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
846:Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture. ~ Richard Leakey, #NFDB
847:..if she were forced to choose between her soul and her survival, her soul and her peace of mind, her soul and her vengeance-she'd damn her useless soul. ~ M V Kasi, #NFDB
848:In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
849:Survival is the biggest dharma. The scriptures say, nothing is a sin during danger. It is called apat dharma. Think and you will find a way out. ~ Anand Neelakantan, #NFDB
850:...with nothing left to relish or discover, he just might die of boredom.
Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest. ~ Jonathan Franzen,#NFDB
851:I agree with you, Captain,” he whispered. “The human race has to live with its conscience. Whatever the Hermians argue, survival is not everything. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
852:Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
853:Those who are ill-prepared to endure the battle for survival should perhaps never have attempted living in the first place. The only unforgivable ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
854:True poetry (inspired by the Muse and her prime symbol, the moon) even today is a survival, or intuitive re-creation, of the ancient Goddess-worship. ~ Robert Graves, #NFDB
855:A Russian fashion consultant once told me that fashion stops at the Siberian border, where instead of showing off, the prerogative is survival. The ~ Martin Lindstrom, #NFDB
856:But you know we’re always going to have to rely on the goodwill of those of you who are straight for our survival. And that’s the damned truth. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
857:I am not a Zionist, nor am I am a practicing Jew, but I have a great deal of sympathy for my fellow Jews and a deep concern for the survival of Israel. ~ George Soros, #NFDB
858:It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
859:Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
860:When you do not have the basic requirements for survival and safety and belongingness and where there are huge inequities then fear turns into hatred. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
861:Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet. ~ David Helvarg, #NFDB
862:Come on! We've had too many dead heroes. Being a coward increases your odds of survival-that's my motto. I'm counting on bieng faster than them. ~ Cinda Williams Chima, #NFDB
863:On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level. ~ Edward Albert, #NFDB
864:Personally, I concluded that no place in the world was entirely safe for an African, and that for many of us, survival depended on perpetual migration. ~ Lawrence Hill, #NFDB
865:She's grabbed onto old traditions-outdated traditions- in the same way I latch onto them now: as a means of survival, as a way to hang on to ghost memories. ~ Lisa See, #NFDB
866:Those who fear public speaking actually fear the loss of identity that attaches to performing badly, and that is firmly rooted in our survival needs. ~ Gavin de Becker, #NFDB
867:War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
868:We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory. ~ J D Hayworth, #NFDB
869:Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
870:Artistic flourishes like this may have seemed like a waste of energy, but they were central to the survival of the city and the pride of its inhabitants. ~ M T Anderson, #NFDB
871:Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
872:In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
873:It feels like we’re the last survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Wonder Woman and a gay dementor. It doesn’t bode well for the survival of the species. ~ Becky Albertalli, #NFDB
874:Reason has survival value, but when overused at the expense of our intuition, feeling, and spirit, reason cuts us off from discovering our full potential. ~ Dan Millman, #NFDB
875:The crucial first step to survival in all organisms is habitat selection. If you get to the right place, everything else is likely to be easier. ~ Elisabeth Tova Bailey, #NFDB
876:The first casualty of the conflict must be our own sentimentality” was the closing statement for his proposal, “for its survival will mean our destruction. ~ Max Brooks, #NFDB
877:The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival. ~ Margaret Peterson Haddix, #NFDB
878:Then he kicked the man full force in the throat. As Master Dan had told him once, fair play mattered only when survival had been assured. Until then, cheat. ~ P S Power, #NFDB
879:They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival. ~ Jeremy Rifkin, #NFDB
880:We may be undermined by our survival instincts, honed over eons to help us deny, defy, or ignore catastrophic portents lest they paralyze us with fright. ~ Alan Weisman, #NFDB
881:Being with her is my survival; loving her is effortless. She is the shining center of my universe and her love is the moon that pulls the tide of my heart. ~ Jewel E Ann, #NFDB
882:I cannot judge what motivates people. We are all moved by one of four things or a combination of these four things: money, romance, recognition or survival. ~ Jack White, #NFDB
883:If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
884:Islam might not be a challenge for our survival, but when it comes from the Saudis, it really is a concerning problem for the world peace and prosperity. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
885:I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
886:It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
887:Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. —Albert Einstein ~ Alicia Silverstone, #NFDB
888:The answer is thoughtful, plural institutions: an unending labor of differentiated creation. This is a matter of imagination, maturity, and survival. We ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
889:This is about your survival. Survival means you continue no matter the cost, no matter the sacrifice. So stop wasting breath, get back on your feet, and move. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
890:Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
891:Every day, I walked. It was not a meditation, but survival, one foot in the front of the other, with my eyes focused down, trying to stay steady. ~ Terry Tempest Williams, #NFDB
892:I don’t think you’re going to start a riot, but until you prove you have more survival instincts than a seriously stressed out lemming, you’ll stay at the bar. ~ Kim Dare, #NFDB
893:In different places, survival requires different things, based on the environment. Capacity for survival may be the ability to be changed by environment. ~ Robyn Davidson, #NFDB
894:In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them. ~ Stewart Brand, #NFDB
895:Lynching is an absolute evil; it represents the survival of an obsolete civilization, the perpetuation of a struggle of races which has to disappear; ~ Simone de Beauvoir, #NFDB
896:Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary. ~ Wallace Stegner, #NFDB
897:That’s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends. ~ Carolyn Chute, #NFDB
898:Trying to change old habits is like fighting a war in your head—a draining and exhausting skirmish that makes you wonder at your chance of survival. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
899:What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself. ~ Daniel Quinn, #NFDB
900:When survival is touted as an aspiration, sacrifice becomes a virtue. But a hero is not a person who suffers. A suffering person is a person who suffers. ~ Sarah Kendzior, #NFDB
901:All great stories are about survival—either physical, emotional, relational, or spiritual. A story about anything else won’t work to captivate an audience. ~ Donald Miller, #NFDB
902:Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
903:Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends. ~ Wei Jingsheng, #NFDB
904:Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive almost anything short of a global catastrophe. ~ Daniel Quinn, #NFDB
905:For most of us, creative motivation requires a crisis—either externally, like a threat to our physical survival, or an internal crisis of intense suffering. ~ Amit Goswami, #NFDB
906:In a truly global world, the renunciation of violent reprisal is bound to become, in a more and more obvious way, the indispensable condition of our survival. ~ Ren Girard, #NFDB
907:It felt to me as if we were all involved in some kind of twisted, South-of-the-Border, Darwinian, "Survival of The Fittest" experiment. And I wanted to win. ~ Jos N Harris, #NFDB
908:My stomach rumbled. Like certain other portions of my anatomy, it had a tendency to become easily sidetracked, and to hell with little details like survival. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
909:The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
910:History has proven that a well-trained individual, with nothing but a rock, has a better chance of survival than a novice with the latest technological marvel. ~ Max Brooks, #NFDB
911:I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad. ~ John Edward, #NFDB
912:It's not just the real, but the perspective of real that counts. If people perceive you as weak, then you are weak, even if it's a survival strategy. ~ Cinda Williams Chima, #NFDB
913:We have reached a point as a culture, where the predominant view of romantic partnership is no longer about survival or wealth or creating progeny. ~ Catherine Lacey, #NFDB
914:Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat. ~ Alva Myrdal, #NFDB
915:The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival, strictly gene survival, but for many purposes individual survival is a reasonable approximation. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
916:The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. ~ Rutherford B Hayes, #NFDB
917:We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us. ~ Nick Nolte, #NFDB
918:What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among them. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
919:When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture. ~ George Lucas, #NFDB
920:As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
921:HAPPY SURVIVAL MOTIVES Dopamine: seek rewards Endorphin: ignore physical pain Oxytocin: build social alliances Serotonin: get respect from others ~ Loretta Graziano Breuning, #NFDB
922:I decided that my initial survival strategy would involve declaring my complete ignorance of what was going on. This would not,naturally, be terribly hard to do. ~ Lia Habel, #NFDB
923:Like animals that seek food for their survival, humans yearn for meaning for their sanity: what is our value, our purpose and our identity in this world? ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB
924:Okay. You’re stranded in a deserted train station during the zombie apocalypse. Quick, which book do you have with you?” “Hopefully The Zombie Survival Guide. ~ Aly Martinez, #NFDB
925:That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live. ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB
926:That’s what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live. ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB
927:The survival response of popular culture is cynicism—“just lower your expectations of life to the point that you aren’t disappointed by anyone or anything. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
928:Yet evolutionary science has come to see cooperation, and its core emotions of empathy, compassion, and generosity, as fundamental to our species’ survival. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
929:You are like a hunter: your knowledge of every detail of the forest and of the ecosystem as a whole will give you many more options for survival and success. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
930:As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
931:Children from violent households made great lie detectors because their ability to read people and situations wasn’t just a hobby—it was a survival skill. The ~ Laura Griffin, #NFDB
932:For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival. ~ Warren Farrell, #NFDB
933:Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. ~ Ogden Nash, #NFDB
934:Love...is also a form of poison, for to fall in love is to want and to need everything necessary for survival from one all-powerful and barely differentiated Other. ~ Colette, #NFDB
935:Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…It has no survival value, rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” -C. S. Lewis ~ Lindsey Fairleigh, #NFDB
936:He reaches over and touches my necklace. "You still have it. That gives me faith."
"Faith in what?"
"God, I suppose. No, I don't know. Survival. ~ Christina Baker Kline,#NFDB
937:If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival. ~ Roger Zelazny, #NFDB
938:If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
939:If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival. ~ Flannery O Connor, #NFDB
940:Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand. ~ Dan Fogelberg, #NFDB
941:the act of listening had become one of the rituals of survival. The silence should be filled with familiar sounds, and the total absence of them could mean trouble. ~ A R Shaw, #NFDB
942:The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is. ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB
943:There was no degree of competence that would assure anyone of survival, and no scale that would tell a commander which man would live and which man would die. ~ Larry McMurtry, #NFDB
944:When you become an animal, a vulture, in the ghetto, as I had become, you enter a world of animals and vultures. It becomes truly the survival of only the fittest. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
945:funny how easily we forget the good times while the nightmares haunt us. Guess that’s a survival mechanism. We’re not here to be happy; we’re just here to be here. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
946:In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
947:It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
948:Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
949:Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. ~ Norman Borlaug, #NFDB
950:Maybe magic ends with me and it will never cross your path, but I want you to remember that survival is an art. The world is falsehood so you rely on your smarts. ~ Nikita Gill, #NFDB
951:People readily demonstrate a willingness to sacrifice their safety and survival for the sake of something beyond themselves, such as family, country, or justice. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
952:She was one of those girls who wasn't entirely convinced that food was necessary for survival - anything more robust than a strawberry yoghurt made her anxious. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
953:Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be. ~ Bear Grylls, #NFDB
954:Survival of the world depends on our sharing what we have, and working together. If we don't the whole world will die. First the planet, and next the people. ~ Frank Fools Crow, #NFDB
955:The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival. ~ Lyndon B Johnson, #NFDB
956:The fact that you survived is a condition that may weaken your interpretation of the properties of the survival, including the shallow notion of “cause. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
957:An old horse, an old bird, an old man, an old tree, they all represent a great survival in the jungle of cosmos; they deserve to be applauded and respected! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
958:A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival. ~ Henry A Kissinger, #NFDB
959:But recuperation means different things to unalike people. It means survival to some. It means healing to others. And to others still it just means alive . ~ Nikita Gill, #NFDB
960:But the world's made like that; it's all survival. Some people are made to get on...and some people are made to stick quiet.... You can't help your temperament. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
961:Fear was a wonderful propellant, and such a strong exponent of survival, even at the cost of others. Civility, it seemed, was the first to perish in a disaster. ~ Andrew Barrett, #NFDB
962:He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival. ~ Gemma Malley, #NFDB
963:Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment ~ David Attenborough, #NFDB
964:In vacuum one has no need for new things, nor of excitement, nor of foreign stimuli. One has only to maintain a bare survival, to vegetate, like a fetus in a jar. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
965:I was not sure if, having been told such lies as children, they could not differentiate between truth and lies, or whether it was a survival method they had mastered. ~ Suki Kim, #NFDB
966:only thing cover model about Dallas was his resting bitch face that was too aggressive to be on the cover of anything other than a survival guide magazine. That ~ Mariana Zapata, #NFDB
967:Shotwell saw it, the commercial space race was coming down to SpaceX and China and that’s it. And in the bigger picture, the race was on to ensure man’s survival. ~ Ashlee Vance, #NFDB
968:Another werewolf thing. Like most animals, we spent a large part of our lives engaged in the three Fs of basic survival. Feeding, fighting and... reproduction. ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
969:Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted. ~ Ocean Vuong, #NFDB
970:But her so-called self-indulgence, her cutting everyone out of her life, had been an act of survival, not the act of a victim. It took courage. Not cowardice. ~ Loreth Anne White, #NFDB
971:For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else. ~ Thomas Ligotti, #NFDB
972:funny how easily we forget the good times while the nightmares haunt us. Guess that’s a survival mechanism. We’re not here to be happy; we’re just here to be here. I ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
973:My grandparents forgave each other with the pragmatism of lovers in a plummeting airplane. There would be ample time for reproach in the event of their survival. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
974:Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent. ~ Klaus Topfer, #NFDB
975:The greatest opportunity for humanity’s survival in the twenty-first century lies not in widening our external horizons, but in deepening our internal ones. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
976:The more often you act in these unhealthy ways, the more you teach your brain that what is simply a habit (a learned behavior) is essential to your survival. ~ Jeffrey M Schwartz, #NFDB
977:We are actually programmed to get satisfaction and pleasure from discovery and creativity, he says, because its results lead to our survival as a species. New ~ Tom Butler Bowdon, #NFDB
978:Without a flexible, immediately available, highly regulated stress response, we would die. Remember, the brain is the world’s most sophisticated survival organ. All ~ John Medina, #NFDB
979:2 HISTORICAL an ancient test of guilt or innocence by subjection of the accused to severe pain, survival of which was taken as divine proof of innocence. ~ Oxford University Press, #NFDB
980:Condoms instantly shot to the number-one position on my mental list of must-find survival supplies, far ahead of food, water, and a way across the Mississippi River. ~ Mike Mullin, #NFDB
981:Emotion is actually nature’s exquisitely efficient information-processing and signaling system, designed to rapidly reorganize behavior in the interests of survival. ~ Sue Johnson, #NFDB
982:Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the parabolic orbits of flying rocks ~ Max Tegmark, #NFDB
983:his struggle there to love and to be loved in return, and his drag-footed walk along the shoreline of his Fate are the fragments of his shipwreck survival. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
984:Nature is the sum of all selfishness, forcing each and every species to viciously claw its way to survival by snuffing others in the suffocating mire of history. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
985:Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy and relationships. As individuals. As communities. As a country. As a culture. Perhaps even as a species. ~ Dean Ornish, #NFDB
986:should I respect the work of the creator, of the gardener, or should I accept the survival instinct with which nature endowed this plant, which I now call a ‘weed’? ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
987:Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
988:We’re lost. All of humanity is. After what we’ve done to each other, we’re no longer human. Our humanity is lost. The animals have bested us in behavior and survival. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
989:All had had close calls. They lived in what combat correspondent Dale Dye would later call “the high weirdness of survival when the odds say you should be stone dead. ~ Mark Bowden, #NFDB
990:But I’d worked in IT long enough to know: Hope is a terrible survival trait. My methods were data collection, comparisons of probabilities, and collections of “what if. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
991:Certainly survival is important- very important- but at some point surviving wasn't enough. I felt ready to complete my surviving journey and start thriving and just living. ~ Sark, #NFDB
992:Don’t you understand? The universe doesn’t really care about fairness. It responds to actions. Your survival depends on you, your understanding, and your actions. ~ L E Modesitt Jr, #NFDB
993:I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women's groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
994:If the spell can't be broken, if you are with a Spellbound person who will not change, your spiritual, if not your physical survival may depend upon your escaping. ~ Patricia Evans, #NFDB
995:It is actually a good survival strategy to manipulate twist, and reorganize the truth in a way that is more consistent with what we can psychologically tolerate. ~ Cortney S Warren, #NFDB
996:Like most people on the planet I have experienced moments when a friend’s, or just a stranger’s, warm cheering up was like a gulp of oxygen essential for survival. ~ Sahara Sanders, #NFDB
997:Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats. ~ Selma Fraiberg, #NFDB
998:The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
999:There is now a great deal of evidence that religions do in fact help groups to cohere, solve free rider problems, and win the competition for group-level survival. ~ Jonathan Haidt, #NFDB
1000:We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
1001:You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was optimum efficiency, no matter how much time and effort it took. ~ Philip Jos Farmer, #NFDB
1002:I feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting for survival against bad conditions. ~ Bradford Cox, #NFDB
1003:If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at the cost of their own? ~ Peter Singer, #NFDB
1004:I have come to believe that forgiveness is the key to survival. It does no good to see everything as a struggle between opposing factions. Few things are that simple. ~ Elliott Holt, #NFDB
1005:I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics. ~ Vic Morrow, #NFDB
1006:Nature is the sum of all selfishness, forcing each and every species to viciously claw its way to survival by snuffing others in the suffocating mire of history. I ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
1007:The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival. ~ Norbert Wiener, #NFDB
1008:There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you - in places where winning means survival and defeat means death - and that man is John McCain ~ Sarah Palin, #NFDB
1009:This isn’t about auctions,’ said Meg Whitman, the chief executive of eBay, ‘in fact it’s not about economic warfare. It’s the opposite.’ It was survival of the nicest. ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
1010:We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it. ~ Lewis Gordon, #NFDB
1011:At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
1012:Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival. ~ David Perlmutter, #NFDB
1013:Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1014:Donaldson believes that we owe it to our companions to respect their boundaries and to remember that some level of aggression is essential for any animal’s survival. ~ Bronwen Dickey, #NFDB
1015:Hey, Choo? Wanna take odds on our survival tonight? We are in Vegas, after all. I think we should up the ante and have a huge payout for whoever calls in.” – Sasha ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1016:I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism. ~ Andy Dick, #NFDB
1017:Inequality of survival is the worst sort of inequality, and the people and countries left behind will never just sit and wait for death while others have a way out. There ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
1018:learned to keep my distance at an early age. A survival mechanism, you might say. I’m working on it, though. Another thirty years and I should about have it mastered. ~ Barbara Davis, #NFDB
1019:Lift up the weak; inspire the ignorant... Rescue the failures; encourage the deprived! Live to give... Don't only hustle for survival. Go, and settle for revival! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1020:Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.' ~ Grace Jones, #NFDB
1021:The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights. ~ Jean Chretien, #NFDB
1022:The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival. ~ Imelda Marcos, #NFDB
1023:The rule of survival, he thought. Keep eye peeled regarding situation around you. Learn its demands. And- meet them. Be there at the right time doing the right thing. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
1024:The spectacle is a permanent opium war which aims to make people identify goods with commodities and satisfaction with survival that increases according to its own laws. ~ Guy Debord, #NFDB
1025:You are a survivor, and as that unwelcome designation implies, your survival – your emotional survival – will depend on how well you learn to cope with your tragedy. ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
1026:Dr. Phil never talked about Smyrna and left the room if anyone did. He never mentioned his murdered sons and daughters. Maybe this was the reason for his survival. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
1027:He considered going for his hammer, which lay just out of reach, or maybe diving for Ganelon instead, since waking the warrior was probably his best hope of survival. ~ Nicholas Eames, #NFDB
1028:I'm missing something, aren't I?"
"Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours."
"Tell him I'm dead. ~ Michelle Sagara West,#NFDB
1029:Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. This quest for enlightenment must begin now. ~ Richard Matheson, #NFDB
1030:The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1031:And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. ~ Andrew Carnegie, #NFDB
1032:Evil is a word used by the ignorant and the weak. The Dark Side is about survival. It's about unleashing your inner power. It glorifies the strength of the individual. ~ Drew Karpyshyn, #NFDB
1033:Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism. ~ Amy Pietz, #NFDB
1034:He loved his family. But he was not proud of them. Their principal achievement was survival. It would take him a lifetime to appreciate what an achievement that was. ~ Richard Flanagan, #NFDB
1035:I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives. ~ Paul Engle, #NFDB
1036:I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty. ~ Mike Colter, #NFDB
1037:Pity is an emotion that should have never been created. Pity was strong and could break the backs of people fighting for survival and respect. I couldn't stand pity. ~ Elizabeth Isaacs, #NFDB
1038:...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
1039:The Selfish Gene—he set off decades of debate by declaring: “We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. ~ James Gleick, #NFDB
1040:We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
1041:We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy body for its own sake. ~ Karl Marlantes, #NFDB
1042:And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. ~ Andrew Carnegie, #NFDB
1043:Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic? ~ Anna Lee, #NFDB
1044:Certainly survival is important - very important - but at some point surviving wasn't enough. I felt ready to complete my surviving journey and start thriving and just living. ~ S A R K, #NFDB
1045:Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival. ~ Jacque Fresco, #NFDB
1046:Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…It has no survival value, rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” -C. S. Lewis March ~ Lindsey Fairleigh, #NFDB
1047:I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
1048:In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes. ~ Sue Kaufman, #NFDB
1049:It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't implode from anxiety. ~ Kathryn Hahn, #NFDB
1050:Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature. ~ Lord Kelvin, #NFDB
1051:Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they are to have no direct share. ~ Walter Pater, #NFDB
1052:And even if you carry a survival kit around with you at all times, it won't guarantee you'll survive. No kit in the world can protect you from all the possible bad things. ~ Susan Patron, #NFDB
1053:Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1054:For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and the sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma. ~ Rajendra K Pachauri, #NFDB
1055:Love is the most powerful healing force of all. But past
demons have a way of ripping open old wounds, and
threatening the survival of even the strongest friendship… ~ Cherrie Lynn,#NFDB
1056:Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race. ~ Pam Grier, #NFDB
1057:The “I” is a grammatical fiction (Nietzsche). There are bundles of impressions but no underlying self (Hume). There is no survival because there is no person (Buddha, Parfit). ~ Max More, #NFDB
1058:Third, the relentless cycle of mutation, selection, and survival creates a cancer cell that has acquired several additional properties besides uncontrolled growth. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee, #NFDB
1059:You look at the world, assess your odds of survival in light of current circumstances, and choose the course that offers the best chance for whatever it is you want. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1060:As Spengler observed, all urbanized societies seem to develop a subconscious death wish, making individuals indifferent to the survival of their families and their race. ~ Revilo P Oliver, #NFDB
1061:If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
1062:I was interviewed by the Moscow Times and they said how's it feel to know that every Russian school child has to read your Teenage Survival Guide? I said slightly terrifying. ~ Dee Snider, #NFDB
1063:Scars are proof of survival, they shouldn’t be hidden—it’s a story someone may need to see in order to believe that beyond their pain and suffering, there is healing. ~ Bernice L McFadden, #NFDB
1064:The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable. ~ B R Ambedkar, #NFDB
1065:The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought. ~ Lewis H Lapham, #NFDB
1066:To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind. ~ Leon Uris, #NFDB
1067:We want to do what is good for Cardiff and for the long-term survival, and hopefully Cardiff can be around for a long time and, God willing, be around in the Premier League. ~ Vincent Tan, #NFDB
1068:FEW CAN IGNORE A BABY'S CRIES,
EVEN IF THE RESPONSE IS IRRITATION.
THIS IS ONE OF THE BUILT IN SAFEGUARDS
THAT IS SUPPOSED TO GUARANTEE
THE SURVIVAL OF THE RACE. ~ Jenny Holzer,#NFDB
1069:I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
1070:The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts. ~ Daniel Levitin, #NFDB
1071:The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
1072:Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world. ~ Aga Khan IV, #NFDB
1073:concerned. Forget the cold and the loneliness. He was a Jew and if there was one place he was destined to exist, it was a basement or any other such hidden venue of survival. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1074:Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife. ~ Dan Aykroyd, #NFDB
1075:I leaned in closer, like a fool, like someone who had not had months of survival training or ever studied biology. Someone tricked into thinking that words should be read. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
1076:The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
1077:Clearly we could devastate the world... as far as we know, the Earth is the only place in the universe where there is life. Its continued survival now rests in our hands ~ David Attenborough, #NFDB
1078:Human minds being human minds, some grim fatalist tendency that really should have focused on survival still took the time to note: you can always trust Gods for shit timing. ~ Max Gladstone, #NFDB
1079:If they’re told, “The drug has a 95 percent survival rate,” people, including doctors, are more likely to approve it than when told, “The drug has a 5 percent death rate. ~ Robert M Sapolsky, #NFDB
1080:I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On the other hand, survival means you are doing fine. ~ Howe Gelb, #NFDB
1081:Reading for me, was like breathing. It was probably akin to masturbation for my brain. Getting off on the fantasy within the pages of a good novel felt necessary to my survival. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
1082:While persisting poverty has been the most important failure in India’s post-independence development, the survival of the democratic structure has been its grandest success. ~ Bipan Chandra, #NFDB
1083:Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1084:Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic? ~ Annalee Newitz, #NFDB
1085:A riveting and realistic portrayal of space travel gone wrong, and of a crew who must fight for their survival. Bones Burnt Black is exciting, and expertly told. A must-listen. ~ J C Hutchins, #NFDB
1086:Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation. ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
1087:...explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have
evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. ~ Carl Sagan,#NFDB
1088:Survival is a two-way street. Once we settle ourselves off-world, we can blow up this planet from outer space. It’s the only way to be sure its stench will not follow us. Let ~ Thomas Ligotti, #NFDB
1089:The most basic change necessary to our collective survival is underway: the last redefinition of humanity - gradually extending from family to tribe to nation to the human race. ~ Gwynne Dyer, #NFDB
1090:A HUMAN BEING survives only with hope, and hope by definition implies the thought of something better. As I see it, our very survival depends on some idea of future happiness. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1091:China spends a lot of resources and effort on gaining soft power over culture. The hope is that it can be the last lifeline for the Party's survival. Obviously, the idea will fail. ~ Ai Weiwei, #NFDB
1092:Don’t you have a religion?” Dorolow asked Horza. “Yes,” he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. “My survival. ~ Iain M Banks, #NFDB
1093:Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution. ~ Michael Badnarik, #NFDB
1094:It was the resilience in human beings that represented their best chance of survival, their ability to look the unimaginable, the unconscionable, the unprecedented in the eye. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
1095:I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism, and also part of my curiosity as a person. ~ Assata Shakur, #NFDB
1096:Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go. ~ May Sarton, #NFDB
1097:The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value. ~ Denis Dutton, #NFDB
1098:The spectacle is a permanent opium war designed to force people to equate goods with commodities and to equate satisfaction with a survival that expands according to its own laws. ~ Guy Debord, #NFDB
1099:Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause. ~ Steig Larsson, #NFDB
1100:Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause. ~ Stieg Larsson, #NFDB
1101:Morality involves how we think and act toward other moral agents in terms of whether our thoughts and actions are right or wrong with regard to their survival and flourishing. ~ Michael Shermer, #NFDB
1102:Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites. ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
1103:The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. ~ Arnold J Toynbee, #NFDB
1104:Their laughter would ring out abruptly, a sound Mother welcomed. “Our slaves are happy,” she would boast. It never occurred to her their gaiety wasn’t contentment, but survival. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
1105:This is not what you call courage?” “The difference between courage and stupidity is measured only by success and survival,” he answered. “So ask me again when we’re back topside. ~ Evan Currie, #NFDB
1106:What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
1107:As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it. ~ Linda Vester, #NFDB
1108:End of the day, anything that made you discount objective reality and assign a premium to some kind of internal mental state was going to be both pro-survival and pro–status-quo. ~ Cory Doctorow, #NFDB
1109:I’d wanted to think of her as impoverished, as pitifully indigent, yet her spirit wouldn’t allow this. It insisted that I see her, that I honor her, that I recognize her survival. ~ Daniel Black, #NFDB
1110:I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story. ~ Mary Ellen Mark, #NFDB
1111:Jack knew most kids brought up in foster homes were like feral cats. Social graces were far down on the list of skills kids learned in broken homes—survival was at the top. ~ Christopher Greyson, #NFDB
1112:Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
1113:Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival—to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated. —Stephen Covey ~ Vanessa Van Edwards, #NFDB
1114:Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. ~ Germaine Greer, #NFDB
1115:Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that. ~ Bear Grylls, #NFDB
1116:The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival. ~ Albert Claude, #NFDB
1117:The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect. ~ Oliver Lodge, #NFDB
1118:The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain. ~ Colin Wilson, #NFDB
1119:The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. ~ Bill Frist, #NFDB
1120:UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future - a future in which the basic needs for a child's survival: food, clean water and simple health care - are guaranteed. ~ Jane Curtin, #NFDB
1121:You cannot have a strong society if you pander to the unintelligent, the willing weak, and the unfortunates. The universe does not reward compassion, only survival and success. ~ L E Modesitt Jr, #NFDB
1122:a man can be human only under human conditions.” The purpose of the state is to preserve these conditions, so that its citizens need not see personal survival as their only goal. ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
1123:A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there is no simple notion of its being "for" some function. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1124:Armageddon reigns, and survival on this planet gets down to brass tacks, the last three left standing will be cockroaches, viruses and probate attorneys. Fade to black, check please. ~ Tim Dorsey, #NFDB
1125:It is true that the sky was always beautiful but I don't remember marvelling at sunset or gazing at the dawn of a new day. Survival does not allow time for poetic reflection. ~ Izzeldin Abuelaish, #NFDB
1126:Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
1127:The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy. ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
1128:To cling to the past is guaranteed suicide. To remain apathetic is assured enslavement. To learn the truth and then act on it is the only means of survival at this moment. ~ Milton William Cooper, #NFDB
1129:We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years. ~ John Shelby Spong, #NFDB
1130:Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. ~ Lewis Mumford, #NFDB
1131:Having the possibility to make decisions about what to do with one’s life is a great privilege. As far as most people on this planet are concerned, life is simply about survival. ~ Henning Mankell, #NFDB
1132:If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose. ~ Oriana Fallaci, #NFDB
1133:In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference. ~ Rachel Carson, #NFDB
1134:I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America. ~ Bonnie Jo Campbell, #NFDB
1135:It was the not knowing that burrowed like a mole through my mind, bringing dark tunnels of recklessness. Bravery no longer had anything to do with it. It was a matter of survival. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
1136:Squanto engineered the survival of the Pilgrim Fathers and it was because of his help that an English-speaking society eventually prevailed there. Their own language had saved them. ~ Melvyn Bragg, #NFDB
1137:But denial . . . well, you know what they say about denial.” Ben nodded, seeing where this was going now, not wanting to show what he really thought of it. “It has no survival value. ~ Barry Eisler, #NFDB
1138:Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to remember that survival is a gift. ~ Harriet McBryde Johnson, #NFDB
1139:Human beings are hardwired by however many millions or billions of years to orient toward their own survival. That's why we're tribal people. That's why we're prejudiced people. ~ John Shelby Spong, #NFDB
1140:If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he’s fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.. ~ Oriana Fallaci, #NFDB
1141:Killing a cop just because he's a cop, that'll happen. And that should happen. And there's nothing inhuman about it at all. It's survival. It's the most human thing in the world. ~ Bernardine Dohrn, #NFDB
1142:One of the great dreams of humanity has been to visit other worlds. It’s starting to look as though this might be a very good idea – not just for fun and profit, but for survival. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1143:Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme. ~ Amanda Ripley, #NFDB
1144:Advertising is an expression of an irrational economy that has depended for survival on a fantastically high standard of living incorporated into the American mind as a moral imperative. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1145:Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species. ~ Lewis Thomas, #NFDB
1146:awe at the dedication to survival that enabled my patients to endure their abuse and then to endure the dark nights of the soul that inevitably occur on the road to recovery. ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
1147:But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement. ~ Ibrahim Babangida, #NFDB
1148:[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower, #NFDB
1149:Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival. ~ Alan Cooper, #NFDB
1150:I began to wait. My thoughts swung wildly. I was either fixed on practical details of immediate survival or transfixed by pain, weeping silently, my mouth open and my hands on my head. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1151:Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself...the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
1152:Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured. ~ Edward R Murrow, #NFDB
1153:Sometimes people didn’t fight at all. They shut down and waited for it to be over. It was probably the strongest survival instinct when faced with someone stronger, and more violent. ~ Toni Anderson, #NFDB
1154:The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life's subtleties and the means of survival require its pretense of both these qualities. ~ Rick Stein, #NFDB
1155:The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves. ~ Arnold Joseph Toynbee, #NFDB
1156:The man who declares that survival at all costs is the end of existence is morally dead, because he’s prepared to sacrifice all other values which give life its meaning. —SIDNEY HOOK ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB
1157:The warrior in your heart says stand your ground. Feel the survival of a thousand years of ancestors in your muscles and your blood. You have all the support you need in your bones. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
1158:To cling to the past is guaranteed suicide. To remain apathetic is assured enslavement. To learn the truth and then act on it is the only means of survival at this moment. To ~ Milton William Cooper, #NFDB
1159:Wake up ! This ain't war between good and evil anymore.
This is war between good people for their respective survival.
Whoever lose in this war, will be remembered as the evil one. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
1160:Acceptance. That, he had learned in Russia many years ago, was the secret of survival. ... Accept it. Wait. Let the system exhaust itself. Protest will only raise your blood pressure. ~ Robert Harris, #NFDB
1161:Being able to say no is the most power you can ever have. It is either a luxury when you can afford to leave, or it is necessary for survival when the cost to stay is waaaaay too high. ~ W Kamau Bell, #NFDB
1162:Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing. Kids get heavy. Quite literally. They're heavy to lift up when they're throwing tantrums. ~ J B Smoove, #NFDB
1163:Bio-survival anxiety will only permanently disappear when world-wide wealth has reached a level, and a distribution, where, without totalitarianism, everyone has enough tickets. ~ Robert Anton Wilson, #NFDB
1164:In the face of that fear, maybe the mind couldn’t help but scrape together feelings toward the only person we had a connection to. That was all it was. A consequence
of survival? ~ Roshani Chokshi,#NFDB
1165:It was all shades of grey: moral justification for immoral ends. A good man pushed into the role of a villain - not just for the sake of his own survival, but for that of his men. ~ Danielle L Jensen, #NFDB
1166:Shaul is sure that Israel’s test of survival, daily undergone, is the secret of Israeli enterprise. “When you’re concerned about your survival, every day, you think outside of the box ~ George Gilder, #NFDB
1167:The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world. ~ Learned Hand, #NFDB
1168:The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to be threatened, and with it the survival of humanity. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1169:Those are my bougainvillea—I got Victoria to plant them today, but I don;t know if they will survive. But Right now they have the appearance of survival, which is almost the same thing. ~ Zadie Smith, #NFDB
1170:What could she know about the waves of time that simply come at a person, one after the other? What could she know about life as the temporary, always partial, survival of that process? ~ Zadie Smith, #NFDB
1171:Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify. ~ David Byrne, #NFDB
1172:breach between the old society of survival and the consumer society; getting into debt, always regarded as a burden and possibly a disgrace, was suddenly perfectly normal, even encouraged. ~ Geert Mak, #NFDB
1173:even this early in his career, Lincoln recognized slavery as the crucial question the founders had failed to resolve and the greatest threat to the survival of the republic. Condemnations ~ Eric Foner, #NFDB
1174:Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced ~ Seamus Heaney, #NFDB
1175:Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was. ~ Robin Green, #NFDB
1176:It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum. ~ A J Liebling, #NFDB
1177:Romance. That seemed silly.... Now-so cheap, mass market-, high-discount. It was temporary insanity caused by the brain. It was a biological trick to ensure the survival of the species. ~ Shannon Hale, #NFDB
1178:Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for. ~ Marilyn French, #NFDB
1179:the ability to build relationships is the key to our survival as a race and to thriving as idea-makers. The number one way to build relationships is, of course, by helping each other. ~ Jocelyn K Glei, #NFDB
1180:The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in ~ L Ron Hubbard, #NFDB
1181:There are some great values in Christianity, but I think the values are located more deeply in our humanity than they are in our religion. There are certainly some survival values. ~ John Shelby Spong, #NFDB
1182:There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness. ~ Chang Rae Lee, #NFDB
1183:We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival. ~ Joan Halifax, #NFDB
1184:Animals spent their entire lives focused on survival. Humans could look beyond survival, seek meaning in life, harm others to save themselves, help others by sacrificing themselves. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB
1185:Memories of a pleasurable event are stored in the cerebral cortex so we won’t forget them. It may sound strange, but in a way, you could say the brain creates addictions for our survival. ~ Meik Wiking, #NFDB
1186:My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s important to me. ~ Roy DeCarava, #NFDB
1187:That Europe is coming to an end after thousands of years of a proud history is not due to the strength of the invaders, but rather to our unwillingness to fight for our own survival. ~ Markus Willinger, #NFDB
1188:the ghetto existed on a foundation of those anonymous, unthankable deeds; insignificant and almost trivial in themselves, but collectively essential to the survival of the slum. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
1189:The way he’s watching me makes me feel needed like no one’s ever been able to make me feel. In a way, he makes me feel necessary. Like my existence alone is necessary for his survival. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1190:What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1191:...fine tailoring couldn't cloak the primitive danger of the desert. The desert was about life. Death. Survival.
And she saw the desert in his eyes, dark gold like the Saharan sand. ~ Jane Porter,#NFDB
1192:Our media outlets pay attention to the rise and fall of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, but not to species extinction rates. In this country money is well organized, but survival is not. ~ Mary Pipher, #NFDB
1193:This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
1194:For interests that are vital to the U.S. - that is, essential for our survival and wellbeing - the U.S. should be prepared to use military force - including unilaterally, if necessary. ~ Graham T Allison, #NFDB
1195:If I’m super lucky, I might be able to fight him off and maybe even the warrior after him, but it’s not a long-term survival strategy. By long-term, I mean the next ten minutes. We’re screwed. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
1196:In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent people of the world cannot be over estimated. ~ Duane Elgin, #NFDB
1197:In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate. ~ Tanith Lee, #NFDB
1198:My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
1199:Over the years I’ve learned that investing in other people’s success doesn’t just make them more likely to enjoy working with me. It also improves my own chances of survival and success. ~ Chris Hadfield, #NFDB
1200:People need stories. Stories of love, hope, survival, wisdom and sometimes pain. Maybe you don’t tell them the full truth; maybe you tell them lies. But what is this world? A lie in itself. ~ Savi Sharma, #NFDB
1201:tattooed on Kirsten’s arm, “Survival is insufficient,” is from Star Trek: Voyager, episode 122, which aired for the first time in September 1999 and was written by Ronald D. Moore. ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
1202:There’s really only one question: would you rather have died?” That’s an easy one for me. I’d never rather that. Not under any circumstances. I’ll take survival at any price. Always. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1203:They are merely partaking of the evolutionary miracle found most obviously in man, but not necessarily any more useful to his survival than a raven’s, or a cat’s, or a chimp’s is to its. ~ William H Gass, #NFDB
1204:We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1205:William has learned in his bones that survival takes the form of other people. They must know you, and for that to happen you must know them. Speak with them, charm them, and remember them. ~ Geoff Ryman, #NFDB
1206:Animals that live in large peaceful societies seem to violate the laws of evolution (such as competition and survival of the fittest), but only until you learn a bit more about evolution. ~ Jonathan Haidt, #NFDB
1207:But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
1208:In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events. ~ Nadine Gordimer, #NFDB
1209:The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the forefront during a stressful emergency. ~ Cody Lundin, #NFDB
1210:There’s no such thing as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn’t matter whether a solution’s optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternatives. ~ Peter Watts, #NFDB
1211:There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative. ~ Peter Watts, #NFDB
1212:Every system of control depends for its survival on the tangible and intangible benefits that are provided to those who are responsible for the system’s maintenance and administration. ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
1213:Everything is impermanent—every pleasure, every pain, every body. But the survival instincts crave permanence and control. The body wants pleasure to stay forever and pain to go away forever. ~ Noah Levine, #NFDB
1214:Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them. ~ Dwight Henry, #NFDB
1215:In a regime where words are watched, lies are rewarded, and silence is survival, there is no truth.
- Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad ~ M T Anderson,#NFDB
1216:I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African diaspora, people of this region, and throughout the south. ~ Jesmyn Ward, #NFDB
1217:Never underestimate the healing power of love. It is just as important for our survival as the food we eat, yet it’s free and available in unlimited supply. Love is the strongest medicine. ~ Timber Hawkeye, #NFDB
1218:central function of the amygdala, which I call the brain’s smoke detector, is to identify whether incoming input is relevant for our survival.11 It does so quickly and automatically, ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
1219:It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble:
To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human.
And being human, he had to overcome his humanity. ~ Rick Yancey,#NFDB
1220:I've been wondering lately whether fear is necessary for survival, whether it sharpens the senses during storms of uncertainity. Or is it, as I suspect, merely another variant of weakness? ~ Cristina Garc a, #NFDB
1221:Love as beautiful and brutal as ours didn't come twice in a lifetime. A human might be able to survive its loss once, but our survival instinct would never allow us to be that vulnerable again. ~ Geneva Lee, #NFDB
1222:Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior. ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
1223:North Korea is not irrational, and nothing shows this better than its continuing survival against all odds. North Korea is essentially a political living fossil, a relic of an era long gone. ~ Andrei Lankov, #NFDB
1224:Survival, security, personal relationships, prestige, self-development—in my experience, those are exactly the values that a mythically inspired person doesn’t live for. ~ Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss, #NFDB
1225:The problem of political theory is how to combine that degree of individual initiative which is necessary for progress, with the degree of social cohesion which is necessary for survival. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1226:Asking her and not Will was a sign he knew any chance he had of survival lay with her, the woman. She almost respected him for such a blatant, tactical move. Maybe he wasn’t so dumb after all. ~ Sam Sisavath, #NFDB
1227:Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn’t a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
1228:The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society. ~ L Ron Hubbard, #NFDB
1229:The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social animals like dolphins, wolves or, for that matter, primates. ~ Frans de Waal, #NFDB
1230:The only way I know to pluck from the hearts of enemies their desire to destroy us is to remove from their lives the sense that, for their own physical and spiritual survival, they must. ~ David James Duncan, #NFDB
1231:The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death. ~ Stanislav Grof, #NFDB
1232:As she voiced all this out loud for the first time, she found a long-buried inner strength, and with it a conviction that her sanity and indeed her very survival depended on her walking away. ~ Kathryn Hughes, #NFDB
1233:Humor, mankind’s survival strategy, brought absurd images before my mind here, mobs in blasted wastelands, raising impossibly honest banners: “Financial stability! Self-determination! Xenophobia! ~ Ada Palmer, #NFDB
1234:I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human. ~ Natsuki Takaya, #NFDB
1235:I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don't think we can carry our cultures through the keyhole of the stretch of the next millennium ~ Terence McKenna, #NFDB
1236:It is an old complaint about the practice of medicine that it inures you to the idea of death. But when medicine inures you to the idea of life, to survival, then it has failed utterly. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee, #NFDB
1237:little cottage in a far-flung spot on the coast of Ireland is an international incident that leaves the family stranded and dependent on themselves for their survival. Facing starvation, ~ Susan Kiernan Lewis, #NFDB
1238:Now you know the goal of this game: to use our intellect and understanding to analyze all phenomena until we can know the pattern of the sun’s movement. The survival of civilization depends on it. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
1239:One of the most primal survival instincts the brain has is finding pattern and assigning meaning. When there is a breakdown, it will scramble to find those patterns again as quickly as possible. ~ Eileen Cook, #NFDB
1240:Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do confers no survival benefit in terms presumably salient from the Pleistocene point of view. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
1241:With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
1242:Be real. I'm going up against three of the world's most vicious ubervillains. I have a very, very slim chance of survival. I have a better chance of winning the lottery, and I don't even play. ~ Jennifer Estep, #NFDB
1243:But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
1244:If life is really as purposeless, unfair, and uncontrollable...,then life is simply too terrifying to be managed. So we search for a redemptive narrative... That search is a survival mechanism. ~ Amanda Ripley, #NFDB
1245:It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
1246:Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive. ~ Jonas Salk, #NFDB
1247:No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques. ~ E O Wilson, #NFDB
1248:Statesmen can strive for the universal values of justice, fairness, and tolerance, but only so far as they do not interfere with the quest for power, which to him is synonymous with survival. ~ Robert D Kaplan, #NFDB
1249:The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years. ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau, #NFDB
1250:To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent "Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze "The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1251:While crude survival from one day to the next might be every human's ultimate animal goal, for generations the Mandible family had managed to dress up the project as considerably more exalted. ~ Lionel Shriver, #NFDB
1252:Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love - you'll stick your finger in anything. ~ Robert Altman, #NFDB
1253:A huge percentage of all doctor visits today are a direct consequence of lifestyle choices that are misaligned with the environmental and survival conditions that shaped our primal genetic makeup. ~ Mark Sisson, #NFDB
1254:Fourth, lucky people have a special ability to turn bad luck into good fortune. Of all four defining factors involved in luck, Wiseman believes this one plays the most important role in survival. ~ Ben Sherwood, #NFDB
1255:If I’m super lucky, I might be able to fight him off and maybe even the warrior after him, but it’s not a long-term survival strategy. By long-term, I mean the next ten minutes.
We’re screwed. ~ Susan Ee,#NFDB
1256:Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be called upon to play their part in the survival of the fittest human group. ~ Marcus Garvey, #NFDB
1257:My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things. ~ John Marsden, #NFDB
1258:Not many organisms totally depend on humans for their continued existence, but a large part of living plants and terrestrial animals depend partly or entirely on insects for their survival. ~ Scott Richard Shaw, #NFDB
1259:Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival. ~ Eliot Porter, #NFDB
1260:The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep. ~ Barbara Kingsolver, #NFDB
1261:The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
1262:This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay. ~ Paul Begala, #NFDB
1263:To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
1264:Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. ~ George Reisman, #NFDB
1265:All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1266:I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. ~ Harlan Ellison, #NFDB
1267:It's alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day by day if you have a clear vision and an unwillingness to give up. ~ John O Callaghan, #NFDB
1268:It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
1269:Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go. ~ May Sarton, #NFDB
1270:Maybe this is a natural consequence of living in a world where being careful is a necessary survival trait, where logic wears away the potential for something bigger and better than the obvious. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
1271:People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
1272:She was set on enduring, no matter what.she'd harden into whatever shape survival required.from that second forward, she had to figure what-all she'd have to lose for that survival, what-all and who. ~ Mary Karr, #NFDB
1273:The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems apart from all other creatures. How to Know God. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1274:The fear he’d dared not voice until now—when it was all but too late—because when stacked alongside the survival of humanity his fears mustn’t matter. “Will you be the same person when you wake up? ~ G S Jennsen, #NFDB
1275:Their pledge, in fact, came close to later communal farming ideas. The communal farm was not born of social or political idealism. It was based on the necessities of survival; there was no other way. ~ Leon Uris, #NFDB
1276:They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind. ~ Lawrence Anthony, #NFDB
1277:When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. ~ Ty Cobb, #NFDB
1278:A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design. ~ Ralph Caplan, #NFDB
1279:Erasing awareness and cultivating denial are often essential to survival, but the price is that you lose track of who you are, of what you are feeling, and of what and whom you can trust.5 ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
1280:In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool. ~ Katherine Dunn, #NFDB
1281:It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of. ~ Garrison Keillor, #NFDB
1282:poor practices resulted in mistakes, mistakes resulted in poor morale, and poor morale resulted in avoiding initiative and going into a survival mode of doing only what was absolutely necessary. ~ L David Marquet, #NFDB
1283:the universe was not created for or about human beings, that we are not special, and there was no Golden Age of tranquillity and plenty in the distant past, but only a primitive battle for survival. ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
1284:We're all just animals fighting for survival. Struggling for our place in the world. And when we find that perfect place, we'll bit and scratch and hiss and spit to keep it from being taken away. ~ Shalini Boland, #NFDB
1285:Whereas babies are essentially helpless creatures for many months, puppies come into this world as little survival machines, revealing their true animal natures almost immediately after they are born. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1286:Being able to say no is the most power you can ever have. It is either a luxury when you can afford to leave, or it is necessary for survival when the cost to stay is waaay too high. - W. Kamau Bell ~ W Kamau Bell, #NFDB
1287:Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion. ~ Eudora Welty, #NFDB
1288:He had the wild, true heart of a child, in the body of a jaded man. Intensely guarded, unless he chose to give it, yet once given, it was given completely. Without thought to his own survival. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1289:I felt that our survival was owed to our slightness, that we danced through ruinous currents as dry leaves do, and were not capsized because the ruin we rode upon was meant for greater things. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
1290:I had recently read that making it through mothering alive required putting on your own oxygen mask before assisting others. Alas—I had failed to make the connection between survival and sunscreen. ~ Camille Pag n, #NFDB
1291:In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. Yous see an elderly person you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1292:In the ghettoes the white man has built for us, he has forced us not to aspire to greater things, but to view everyday living as survival-and in that kind of a community, survival is what is respected. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB
1293:It is about realising that in every human being is a frightened beast, seeking survival and significance, and knowing very well that humans can outgrow this beast as they empathise with others. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB
1294:Survival isn't wrong. You can sell your honor in small ways, so long as you guard yourself. you can pour a glass of wine like it's meant to be poured, and watch a man drink, and plot your revenge. ~ Marie Rutkoski, #NFDB
1295:This was a mental game as much as a physical challenge, designed to reinforce the fact that staying focused and motivated is absolutely critical to mission success and basic survival in war. ~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, #NFDB
1296:We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth that still fills me with astonishment. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
1297:We’re all just animals fighting for survival. Struggling for our place in the world. And when we find that perfect place, we’ll bite and scratch and hiss and spit to keep it from being taken away. ~ Shalini Boland, #NFDB
1298:A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival. ~ Michel Aflaq, #NFDB
1299:A talent for oblivion is a talent for survival. I laid my head down and merciful pain-killing sleep covered me fathoms deep. Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
1300:At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope. ~ Stanislav Grof, #NFDB
1301:Children, Landon said, are good at getting lost, because "the key in survival is knowing you're lost": they don't stray far, they curl up in some sheltered place at night, they know they need help. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
1302:Each of the tastes has been selected by evolution for its survival value. Either it guides us toward nutrients we need to survive, or it steers us away from ingesting things that might endanger us. ~ Michael Pollan, #NFDB
1303:I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously? ~ P D James, #NFDB
1304:Immigration is an organized replacement of our population. This threatens our very survival. We don't have the means to integrate those who are already here. The result is endless cultural conflict. ~ Marine Le Pen, #NFDB
1305:In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, #NFDB
1306:Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion. ~ Harold Bloom, #NFDB
1307:We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species. ~ Desmond Morris, #NFDB
1308:Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
1309:Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change..." —Audre Lorde, born #otd ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
1310:We live our lives by the water and if you don't know how to swim in Australia, it's like not knowing how to cross a road. It's an incredible survival thing that you really must learn when you're a child. ~ Eric Bana, #NFDB
1311:We need science, more and better science, not for its technology, not for leisure, not even for health or longevity, but for the hope of wisdom which our kind of culture must acquire for its survival. ~ Lewis Thomas, #NFDB
1312:CREATIVE MONOPOLY means new products that benefit everybody and sustainable profits for the creator. Competition means no profits for anybody, no meaningful differentiation, and a struggle for survival. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1313:I got along as well with the cool kids as I did with the nerds. That spirit of forced tourism, along with my quickly learned survival mechanisms, eventually also made it easy to jump from job to job. ~ Sophia Amoruso, #NFDB
1314:I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government. ~ Alfonso Cuaron, #NFDB
1315:In a moment of crisis, of which there are all too many, Russian military planners may conclude that lacking a deterrent, the only hope of survival is a first strike - which means the end for all of us. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1316:Indeed, it is the nature of intelligent life to climb mountains, to strive to stand on ever higher ground to gaze farther into the distance. It is a drive completely divorced from the demands of survival. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
1317:Is survival sometimes about death and rebirth? Egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly? Is this, this ending of our family as I know it, not the death season but the birth of the butterfly season? ~ Lisa Wingate, #NFDB
1318:Once one has survived something then survival itself interferes with understanding, and you don't even know which lives came before and which is your life of today, you even mix up your own lives. ~ Ingeborg Bachmann, #NFDB
1319:Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. ~ Adrienne Rich, #NFDB
1320:Survival is not possible if one approaches his environment, the social drama, with a fixed, unchangeable point of view—the witless repetitive response to the unperceived. ~ Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage, #NFDB
1321:For what was civilization but the intellect’s ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? ~ Amor Towles, #NFDB
1322:It seems to me you should be able to look at the people in your life and say "I owe you my survival" and "You owe me your survival," and if you can't say that, then what the hell are you doing with them? ~ Steve Toltz, #NFDB
1323:Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit. ~ William Ralph Inge, #NFDB
1324:The move to render the presence of lesbians and gay men invisible in the intricate fabric of Black existence and survival is a move which contributes to fragmentation and weakness in the Black community. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
1325:Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows how scientists and governments can better protect the world's oceans. ~ Mohamed Nasheed, #NFDB
1326:Human aggression is instinctual. Humans have not evolved any ritualised aggression-inhibiting mechanisms to ensure the survival of the species. For this reason man is considered a very dangerous animal. ~ Konrad Lorenz, #NFDB
1327:I believe in the basic goodness of my species, because that appears to be a positive tactic and quality that leads to better chances of survival- and in spite of our foolishness, we seem to have survived. ~ James Randi, #NFDB
1328:It’s hard for the most primal, powerful regions of the mind to abandon habits that were once crucial to the organism’s survival, even when the higher mind recognizes those habits are no longer warranted. ~ Barry Eisler, #NFDB
1329:Some people in the world only saw in black and white. They were driven by fear. They had learned how to survive in their little corner of the world and they saw any change as a threat to their survival. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
1330:We're not going to die. You're with me kiddo and it just happens I know a few survival skills."
"Oh yeah right. Like carrying your Visa Gold in case the restaurant doesn't accept American Express. ~ Janet Evanovich,#NFDB
1331:Wolves are disciplined not only when they hunt but also when they travel, when they play, and when they eat. Nature doesn't view discipline as a negative thing. Discipline is DNA. Discipline is survival. ~ Cesar Millan, #NFDB
1332:you fear death and crave survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this ‘mind’ or ‘spirit’ or ‘soul,’ you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. ~ Dan Millman, #NFDB
1333:Adam laughed. “Son, in time you’ll understand that every man has to have a girly conversation with his woman whether he wants to or not. His survival depends on his willingness to accept it with good grace. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
1334:As gang members, as young dudes in the streets, especially in L.A., we're the effect of a situation. We didn't wake up and create our own mindstate and our environment; we adapted our survival instincts. ~ Nipsey Hussle, #NFDB
1335:Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment. ~ Matthew Fox, #NFDB
1336:For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. ~ Jimmy Carter, #NFDB
1337:if the Net is so crucial, what happens if the Net goes down? It may have to go down a few times before we learn how to defend it properly, before we catch on that civilization depends on it for survival. ~ Stewart Brand, #NFDB
1338:I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it. but there is nothing in the world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants. ~ Joseph Boyden, #NFDB
1339:It didn’t occur to him to attempt to make a fire with the sparks. But then he was not alone in a valley living on the bare edge of survival, he was usually around people who nearly always had a fire going. ~ Jean M Auel, #NFDB
1340:It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women. ~ Kristina Schroder, #NFDB
1341:Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security. ~ William F Buckley Jr, #NFDB
1342:Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other peoples' freedom and security. ~ William F Buckley Jr, #NFDB
1343:Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it. ~ Anderson Cooper, #NFDB
1344:Our fight or flight strategies are effective for survival, not for reasoning or connection. And the pain of shame is enough to trigger that survival part of our brain that runs, hides, or comes out swinging. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1345:The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of it was: 'The season of pain is never over until the sky begins to cry. ~ Rick Bragg, #NFDB
1346:The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognise the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending we're on top of some pyramid of domination over other beings. ~ Rod Coronado, #NFDB
1347:The sessions taught me a survival lesson. I had to be discreet, be cautious about what I said and did, and be very wary of others. Already I was acquiring the mask that the adults wore from long practice. ~ Hyeonseo Lee, #NFDB
1348:We have counseled many couples that started their journey in parenting with high hopes and the best intentions to love and nurture their newborns, only to see their dreams reduced to a nightmare of survival. ~ Gary Ezzo, #NFDB
1349:We simply weren’t constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
1350:And if you’re listening, you scaled-covered, pain-in-my-ass, poor relation to a fuckin’ Gecko, your only chance of survival lies in your ability to get me outta this Gods forsaken frozen Elf’s hairy armpit. ~ Julia Mills, #NFDB
1351:Even the Thanksgiving when her parents had just divorced, Hoosier Pie made the cut. ...They also, incidentally, made a pumpkin pie, but it fell on the floor, a classic example of survival of the fittest ~ Molly Wizenberg, #NFDB
1352:everyone has a story. It might or might not be a love story. It could be a story of dreams, friendship, hope, survival or even death. And every story is worth telling. But more than that, it’s worth living. ~ Savi Sharma, #NFDB
1353:…for no one alive is innocent. Everyone is involved in accumulating points and surviving. Thus, every act of survival is an act of destruction. Every breath destroys universes. We are all murderers. ~ Christopher S Hyatt, #NFDB
1354:In fact, most to-do lists are actually just survival lists—getting you through your day and your life, but not making each day a stepping-stone for the next so that you sequentially build a successful life. ~ Gary Keller, #NFDB
1355:I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it...But there is nothing in the world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants. ~ Joseph Boyden, #NFDB
1356:So, despite the fact that my survival instinct was hollering like a drunk town crier, I started to accept that if I wanted to find out more about my father, I would have to go out and hobnob with the zombies. ~ Lia Habel, #NFDB
1357:Traditional religious beliefs have been eroded, not so much by humiliating disproofs of their mythologies as by the growing awareness that beliefs are really enabling mechanisms for survival. Religions, ~ Edward O Wilson, #NFDB
1358:You better make yourself acquainted to what the requirements are, what the value of money is all about and how you create a long-term survival, and in many cases it has to do with how you handle finances. ~ Werner Herzog, #NFDB
1359:Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
1360:I believe the minorities need to have a strategy of survival because needless aggression when you cannot change the situation does not help. Wisdom is more important than saving some cultural symbol. ~ Asghar Ali Engineer, #NFDB
1361:in your dream, you are jealous of tragedies.
and the truth is, we all want our own tragedy,
because life is pale without it.
we want the teeth, the screaming.
the survival
that comes with it. ~ Salma Deera,#NFDB
1362:People need people - for initial and continued survival, for socialization, for the pursuit of satisfaction. No one - not the dying, not the outcast, not the mighty - transcends the need for human contact. ~ Irvin D Yalom, #NFDB
1363:That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force. ~ Danny Boyle, #NFDB
1364:The fact that my house was Not Right metastasized into the notion that I myself was somehow Not Right, or that my survival in the world depended on my constant vigilance against various forms of Not-Rightness. ~ Mary Karr, #NFDB
1365:The universe is indifferent to our fates. This was the crushing burden that the character took with him as he struggled through the surf toward survival or extinction. The universe just does not give a shit. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
1366:When we fail to express our needs, we remain islands unto ourselves—detached, alone, arrogant, and proud. But when we expose our needs, we are able to receive the supplies and nurture necessary for survival. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
1367:For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition. ~ Warren Farrell, #NFDB
1368:My parents passed away when I was a teenager, so I had to learn different survival techniques, I think, in comedy. You know, using comedy as a pressure release, as a release valve in life really kept my sanity. ~ Jeff Ross, #NFDB
1369:The purpose of my survival was to bear witness, to carry the tale. The thrill of spreading terror, of lurking in the night as bogeymen of legend, titillates them. They are beasts, horrid undreamt of marvels. ~ Laird Barron, #NFDB
1370:The world gets comfort from their odds. Not Christians. Some count their chariots (percentages of survival) and some count their horses (side effects of treatment), but we trust in the name of the LORD our God ~ John Piper, #NFDB
1371:This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1372:This is the emotional thing, you see — you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1373:What hope is there?” I asked. “If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?” “There isn’t,” he said. “We’re on our own. And we have to make the choices we think are best for our own survival. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
1374:When bad things happen, part of us might go away. It's a survival technique. You can't stand to be around when there's so much grief or pain in your life so part of you goes away. Shamans call this soul loss. ~ Robert Moss, #NFDB
1375:Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival. ~ Jhonen V squez, #NFDB
1376:A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn’t. ~ Georges St Pierre, #NFDB
1377:As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world. ~ Steven Spielberg, #NFDB
1378:As for the alien guys…I'm not convinced those red twins weren't dropped on their heads as youngsters, because they don't seem to know shit about survival. But I can't judge. Oh wait, yes I can. That's who I am. ~ Ruby Dixon, #NFDB
1379:But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival. ~ Stanley Milgram, #NFDB
1380:If God needs to condemn anything to hell, it ought to be the idea of social death. Every day we commit an act of revolution, an act of treason, against a system that was never meant to guarantee our survival. ~ Kiese Laymon, #NFDB
1381:I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it ... But there is nothing in this world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants. ~ Joseph Boyden, #NFDB
1382:It is now widely believed (and, I think, correctly believed) that the survival of a nation under modern competitive conditions depends on broadening the electorate’s competency in numerate matters. Numeracy ~ Garrett Hardin, #NFDB
1383:Negative emotions often make things even more memorable than positive ones because recalling things that are threatening—and avoiding those situations in the future if possible—is often critical to survival. ~ Bruce D Perry, #NFDB
1384:Once you're a mom, all of your personal desires come secondary as the survival of the child becomes your life's priority, which leads you to worry each day and every night the little one turn out right. ~ Kimberly Guilfoyle, #NFDB
1385:She pushed him back to the desk, poking his chest.
“I may punch you, bite you, crush your nuts between my thighs. It’s going to be the best hate sex I’ve ever had. And your survival is not my first concern. ~ Kate Meader,#NFDB
1386:To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent
"Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze
"The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest. ~ Deepak Chopra,#NFDB
1387:We simply weren’t constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
1388:You are a rose bush left out in the wild, scraping for survival. You have fought for everything you have, and you thrive on the struggle. You’re called to it. The harder things are, the better you get. ~ Denise Grover Swank, #NFDB
1389:You love fear. The ending of fear is death, and you don't want that to happen. I am not talking of wiping out the phobias of the body. They are necessary for survival. The death of fear is the only death. ~ U G Krishnamurti, #NFDB
1390:Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results. ~ Oliver Lodge, #NFDB
1391:For, yes, absence did make the heart grow fonder, but then, after a while, that shield of self-preservation grew thicker, and the heart forsook fondness for survival and all-consuming love for getting by. ~ Jolina Petersheim, #NFDB
1392:Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
1393:Still, as I tend to repeat, I have some instinct for survival, for self-preservation. And believing you have such an instinct is almost as good as actually having it, because it means you act in the same way. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
1394:Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!" ~ Bear Grylls, #NFDB
1395:The moment people move off land which has directly supported them, the necessities of life are removed from individual control. The things people could formerly produce for their survival must now be paid for. ~ Jerry Mander, #NFDB
1396:This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
1397:We are fortunate: we are alive; we are powerful; the welfare of our civilization and our species is in our hands. If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be? ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
1398:I had developed a survival skill of using my wit to score for myself. If a scene was dying, I'd lob in these little bombshell lines that would get me some attention and a laugh without really helping the scene. ~ Harold Ramis, #NFDB
1399:I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization of his parents was essential for his survival. ~ Alice Miller, #NFDB
1400:I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for me. If I have a carapace of academic presentability, it is thanks to the wonderful teachers I had. ~ James Alison, #NFDB
1401:Indeed, it is the nature of intelligent life to climb mountains. They all want to stand on ever higher ground to gaze ever farther into the distance. It is a drive completely divorced from the demands of survival. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
1402:She linked arms with me as we walked down the hall, and every wildlife researcher will tell you that when it comes to survival in a hostile environment, a pack of two is infinitely safer than a pack of one. One ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1403:The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1404:True confession: My dad wouldn’t leave for Haiti until I proved to him that I could change a tire. According to him, that’s like the one life skill you must know for human survival. That, and how to fry bacon. ~ Deborah Raney, #NFDB
1405:Competition means no profit for everybody , no meaningful differentiation, and a struggle for survival so why do people believe that competition is healthy ? .......
....The more we compete the less we gain . ~ Peter Thiel,#NFDB
1406:Compulsion was a key element in Leningrad’s survival, as in that of Stalin’s nation. If the city’s inhabitants had been offered an exchange of surrender for food in February 1942, they assuredly would have given ~ Max Hastings, #NFDB
1407:For all that sentients have achieved with weapons and machines, life remains an ongoing battle for survival, with the strong or the smart at the top of the heap, and the rest kept in check by firepower and laws. ~ James Luceno, #NFDB
1408:This is life...Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak--the ones too small or too foolish to fight back--die in agony and blood. ~ Dan Wells, #NFDB
1409:No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need; It is a form of stupidity that penetrates our minds and will eventually destroy us. ~ Frank Iero, #NFDB
1410:Our genes made us. We animals exist for their preservation and are nothing more than their throwaway survival machines. The world of the selfish gene is one of savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1411:Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative quest for survival, is surely a malady that pervades the human soul. ~ Lawrence Anthony, #NFDB
1412:The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means. ~ Francis Maitland Balfour, #NFDB
1413:The sessions taught me a survival lesson. I had to be discreet, be cautious about what I said and did, and be very wary of others. Already I was acquiring the mask that the adults wore from long practice. Often, ~ Hyeonseo Lee, #NFDB
1414:T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
1415:It is regarded as axiomatic that parents have more power then children. This is an inescapable biological fact; young children are completely dependent on their parents or other caring adults for survival. ~ Judith Lewis Herman, #NFDB
1416:Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB
1417:People will help each other because there is a sense of camaraderie that springs up, which is a survival tactic. You help them because you know you might need their help later. And that is incredibly reassuring. ~ Amanda Ripley, #NFDB
1418:The one thing I'd thought of is that we spend most of our lives in survival time. There's a sense of hanging off the ledge, trying to tread water, trying to keep ahead of the deadlines or the business of the city. ~ Kyo Maclear, #NFDB
1419:The sophisticated allocation of attention has been honed by a long evolutionary history. Orienting and responding quickly to the gravest threats or most promising opportunities improved the chance of survival, ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1420:We spoke of religion, and how much of it is just a custom preserving practical codes of health, morality and justice that are no longer necessary for group survival (like not eating animals with cloven hooves). ~ Marilyn Manson, #NFDB
1421:Without sounding too grandiose, the survival of the planet itself is at stake, you have rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans, immigration sparked by climate change, droughts that are much more severe. ~ Laurent Fabius, #NFDB
1422:Because courage, survival, love—all these things didn’t live in one man. They lived in them all or they died and every man with them; they had come to believe that to abandon one man was to abandon themselves. ~ Richard Flanagan, #NFDB
1423:I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to save the female half of the world from violence directed at us specifically because we are female. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB
1424:It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics. ~ R Buckminster Fuller, #NFDB
1425:Lying is the work of people who are told their truths have no value.
The labour of survival is laden with myth and misunderstanding.
Silence is the work of people who can't comprehend that change is possible. ~ Amber Dawn,#NFDB
1426:Our brains were not designed for us to sit around contemplating what we already have. They were not designed to trigger excitement for no reason. They were designed for us to keep finding new ways to promote survival ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1427:The facts come eventually, one of her professors had told their class. but before that, there is instinct. it's not mumbo-jumbo -- we are animals, after all, and instinct is just a tool in our species survival kit. ~ Alyssa Cole, #NFDB
1428:The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided . . . democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured; they may well be essential to survival. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1429:A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk. ~ U G Krishnamurti, #NFDB
1430:A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology. ~ R Buckminster Fuller, #NFDB
1431:A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty. ~ Walter Cronkite, #NFDB
1432:I reminded myself that I did not come from a place where mind games were a prerequisite for survival to such an extreme degree, a place where the slightest act of rebellion could have unimaginable consequences. Slowly, ~ Suki Kim, #NFDB
1433:Rule #17: To rescue a princess from magical imprisonment, a handsome prince must first slay the dragon. If one is not available, a large iguana will do in a pinch.”
—Definitive Fairy-Tale Survival Guide, Volume 1 ~ Betsy Schow,#NFDB
1434:What hope is there?” I asked. “If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?”
“There isn’t,” he said. “We’re on our own. And we have to make the choices we think are best for our own survival. ~ Richelle Mead,#NFDB
1435:Evolution works through this principle: the survival of the fittest. One of the essential elements of Christian discipleship demands that we work for this principle: the survival of the weakest and the gentlest. ~ Ronald Rolheiser, #NFDB
1436:Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point is it's a fight for survival, so I think it would be a terrifying place to live. ~ John C Reilly, #NFDB
1437:How can the public choose sides, when one side has nothing left to surrender? Not until the right is prepared to lose on principles will we ever hope to win this culture war on which the survival of our nation depends. ~ Don Feder, #NFDB
1438:It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh? ~ John Green, #NFDB
1439:John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich. ~ Matt Taibbi, #NFDB
1440:She looked around at the four crew members. “So, are you nervous?” “It would be stupid not to be,” Wilson said. “The fear factor is a significant part of our racial survival mechanism. Evolution doesn’t like arrogance. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1441:Society is the form in which the fact of mutual dependence for the sake of life and nothing else assumes public significance and where the activities connected with sheer survival are permitted to appear in public. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
1442:The creation myth is a Darwinian device for survival. Tribal conflict, where believers on the inside were pitted against infidels on the outside, was a principal driving force that shaped biological human nature. ~ Edward O Wilson, #NFDB
1443:These principles surface time and time again, and the degree to which people in a society recognize and live in harmony with them moves them toward either survival and stability or disintegration and destruction. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
1444:We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order. ~ Mario Cuomo, #NFDB
1445:You can't look at the Noah story and not see some kind of environmental connection. The Creator wants to start over. He wants creation to be given a shot at survival, and the true enemy is the wickedness of men. ~ Darren Aronofsky, #NFDB
1446:you’ve spent so much of your life in emotional survival mode. Of course you have a hole. Anyone would. We all live with holes of some kind or another, and we spend our lives trying to fill them—so quit fighting it. ~ Camron Wright, #NFDB
1447:Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable. ~ Nayef Al Rodhan, #NFDB
1448:It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear. ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB
1449:Our species will either evolve to a more heart-centered consciousness, choosing a greater reverence for planet and people, or we will go extinct due to collective behavior that is maladaptive for our survival. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
1450:Survival of the fittest," which Sax had always considered a useless tautology. But if social Darwinists were taking over, then maybe the concept gained importance, as a religious dogma of the ruling order.... ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB
1451:The survival of their political system justified anything. The promise of a golden age where none of this brutality would exist, where everything would be in plenty and poverty would be a memory, justified anything. ~ Tom Rob Smith, #NFDB
1452:Very senior librarians, however, once they have proved themselves worthy by performing some valiant act of librarianship, are accepted into a secret order and are taught the raw arts of survival beyond the Shelves ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1453:You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in. ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
1454:In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity. ~ Fritjof Capra, #NFDB
1455:People from all walks of life share an innate drive for meaning, direction, and purpose. This drive to understand our life purpose seems as important to our psychological growth as eating is to our biological survival. ~ Dan Millman, #NFDB
1456:Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it. ~ Laurence Gonzales, #NFDB
1457:So many are alive who don’t seem to care. Casual, easy, they move in the world as though untouched. But you take pleasure in the faces of those who know they thirst. You cherish those who grip you for survival. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
1458:Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope. ~ Norman O Brown, #NFDB
1459:We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1460:When you enter the water, something, like a metamorphosis happens. Leaving behind the land, you go through the looking glass surface and enter a new world in which survival, not ambition or desire, is the dominant aim. ~ Roger Deakin, #NFDB
1461:You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
1462:You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in... ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
1463:A young man needs to know where he stands in the world, not just as a matter of basic human dignity but as determinants in the ways and means of survival, and what you might hope to gain by application of honest effort— ~ Ben Fountain, #NFDB
1464:Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival. ~ Ted Allen, #NFDB
1465:Every system of control depends for its survival on the tangible and intangible benefits that are provided to those who are responsible for the system’s maintenance and administration. This system is no exception. ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
1466:High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. ~ Camille Paglia, #NFDB
1467:In a survival situation you can last three weeks without food, three days without water, three hours without shelter in extreme conditions, and three minutes without air. But you can’t make it three seconds without hope.4 ~ Levi Lusko, #NFDB
1468:It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
1469:Since I didn't grow up going to school dances, etc., I didn't have the normal . . . I grew up in a very different way so a lot of the childish concerns or teenage concerns weren't my concerns. My concerns were survival. ~ Rose McGowan, #NFDB
1470:...after hearing my mom's survival dream I think maybe this is my survival dream and it's not a nightmare. It's the beginning of my own cure. Because to survive something we first need to know what it is we're surviving. ~ Miriam Toews, #NFDB
1471:All three caravans of the Traveling Symphony are labeled as such, THE TRAVELING SYMPHONY lettered in white on both sides, but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival is insufficient. ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
1472:Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1473:His only realistic hope of survival was to order his own artillery to fire on his positions to stall the German attack. Some of his own men might be killed, but “pulling the chain,” as it was called, was his only option. ~ Alex Kershaw, #NFDB
1474:Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a useless dreamer. And that was the great difference between these two who loved each other so well. ~ Betty Smith, #NFDB
1475:Musk has decided that man’s survival depends on setting up another colony on another planet and that he should dedicate his life to making this happen. Musk unveiled the Hyperloop in 2013. He proposed it as a new mode of ~ Ashlee Vance, #NFDB
1476:So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1477:The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world. ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
1478:This chaos serves, however, to emphasize the fact that the nature of man’s needs has to be discovered. Needs are not self-evident. Alleged needs must be proven by relating them to the requirements of man’s survival. ~ Nathaniel Branden, #NFDB
1479:First and most obvious, bring out the three old warhorses of competition - cost, quality, and service - and drive them to new levels, making every person in the organization see them for what they are, a matter of survival. ~ Jack Welch, #NFDB
1480:How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care. ~ Janet Fitch, #NFDB
1481:Knowledge is ever greater and more powerful than man. To walk the path of knowledge is to fight for survival; therefore if you come to this path to learn, then you must be prepared to fight as if your life depends upon it. ~ Th un Mares, #NFDB
1482:The historian Arnold Toynbee says of it, “The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves. ~ Joan D Chittister, #NFDB
1483:The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
1484:The struggle for existence never gets easier. However well a species may adapt to its environment, it can never relax, because its competitors and its enemies are also adapting to their niches. Survival is a zero-sum game. ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
1485:We have to practice defensive investing, since many of the outcomes are likely to go against us. It’s more important to ensure survival under negative outcomes than it is to guarantee maximum returns under favorable ones. ~ Howard Marks, #NFDB
1486:Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I. ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
1487:Environmentali sm is really about seeing our place in world in a way that humans have always known up until very recently - that we are part of nature-utterly dependent on the natural world for our well being and survival. ~ David Suzuki, #NFDB
1488:Humans have always wondered about the meaning of life... life has no higher purpose than to perpetuate the survival of DNA... life has no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
1489:Once handed the money, Paulson abandoned his promised strategy and instead essentially began giving away billions of dollars to Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and a few others unnaturally selected for survival. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
1490:Survival 101: if you get lost, remain at ground zero until rescuers find you. Statistically, the heroes who wander off to search for help are more likely to get caught out by the climate or geography and die from exposure. ~ Jeremy Bates, #NFDB
1491:The ferocious virtues that had been necessary for survival on the American frontier were theirs: they were men who lived freely, wastefully, independently, and they lived by killing--animals as a rule, men if necessary. ~ Wallace Stegner, #NFDB
1492:the record for inflated raft survival appears to have been set in 1942, when three navy plane crash victims survived for thirty-four days on the Pacific before reaching an island, where they were sheltered by natives. ~ Laura Hillenbrand, #NFDB
1493:We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
1494:Woman knowing this was not right but not knowing what else to do, developed the only means to fight for their survival that they had, since their survival was dependent upon men, and that was to use sexuality to survive. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1495:According to the American Heart Association, for every minute that goes by without someone attempting CPR or defibrillation, the odds of survival decrease by 7 to 10 percent. 8 If ten minutes go by, survival is a long shot. ~ Sanjay Gupta, #NFDB
1496:All three caravans of the Travelling Symphony are labelled as such, THE TRAVELLING SYMPHONY lettered in white on both sides, but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival is insufficient. ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
1497:Beirut's "hopelessness relies upon its resilience. There are those who praise the courage of its people, their valour amid despair, but it is this very capacity for survival, for eternal renewal, that is Beirut's tragedy. ~ Steven Salaita, #NFDB
1498:Growing up in a cathedral precinct, what did I know of the absurdities of communism, of how brave man and women in bleak and remote penal colonies were reduced to thinking day by day of nothing else beyond their own survival? ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
1499:It is analogous to hooking someone up to life-support systems when he has no quality of life and no chance for survival. Though some may believe this extends the process of life, it actually extends the process of death. ~ Gavin de Becker, #NFDB
1500:There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long. Whenever there is asymmetry in outcomes, the average survival has nothing to do with the median survival. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
80 Integral Yoga
19 Christianity
14 Fiction
12 Philosophy
11 Science
9 Occultism
8 Integral Theory
5 Psychology
2 Yoga
2 Poetry
2 Cybernetics
1 Hinduism
1 Alchemy
91 Sri Aurobindo
18 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
14 H P Lovecraft
7 Satprem
6 Nolini Kanta Gupta
6 Aldous Huxley
4 The Mother
4 Jordan Peterson
4 James George Frazer
4 Aleister Crowley
3 R Buckminster Fuller
2 Plato
2 Norbert Wiener
2 George Van Vrekhem
2 Friedrich Nietzsche
40 Record of Yoga
14 Lovecraft - Poems
12 The Life Divine
10 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
9 The Future of Man
7 The Phenomenon of Man
6 The Perennial Philosophy
6 Letters On Yoga IV
5 The Synthesis Of Yoga
4 The Human Cycle
4 The Golden Bough
4 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
4 Maps of Meaning
3 The Secret Doctrine
3 Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
3 Magick Without Tears
3 Essays Divine And Human
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
2 Vedic and Philological Studies
2 Twilight of the Idols
2 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
2 Preparing for the Miraculous
2 Letters On Yoga II
2 Let Me Explain
2 Isha Upanishad
2 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
2 Cybernetics
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
000 - Humans in Universe, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
to Survival of only the fittest species (and individuals within species). Though he
denied there was any economic significance in his theory of evolution, the
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fittest to survive." Thus Survival of the physically fittest became the basis for
national departments of defense with their priority of access to the most advanced
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000.110 Mutually assumed Survival-only-of-the-fittest is the reason why the
United States and the USSR have for the past 30 years appropriated 200 billion
0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
Children freed of the ignorantly founded educational traditions and exposed only to their spontaneously summoned, computer-stored and -distributed outflow of reliable-opinion-purged, experimentally verified data, shall indeed lead society to its happy egress from all misinformedly conceived, fearfully and legally imposed, and physically enforced customs of yesterday. They can lead all humanity into omnisuccessful Survival as well as entrance into an utterly new era of human experience in an as-yet and ever-will-be fundamentally mysterious Universe.
And whence will come the wealth with which we may undertake to lead world man into his new and validly hopeful life? From the wealth of the minds of world man-whence comes all wealth. Only mind can discover how to do so much with so little as forever to be able to sustain and physically satisfy all humanity.
01.02 - Natures Own Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the Supermind things exist in their perfect spiritual reality; each is consciously the divine reality in its transcendent essence, its cosmic extension, its, spiritual individuality; the diversity of a manifested existence is there, but the mutually exclusive separativeness has not yet arisen. The ego, the knot of separativity, appears at a later and lower stage of involution; what is here is indivisible nexus of individualising centres of the one eternal truth of being. Where Supermind and Overmind meet, one can see the multiple godheads, each distinct in his own truth and beauty and power and yet all together forming the one supreme consciousness infinitely composite and inalienably integral. But stepping back into Supermind one sees something moreOneness gathering into itself all diversity, not destroying it, but annulling and forbidding the separative consciousness that is the beginning of Ignorance. The first shadow of the Illusory Consciousness, the initial possibility of the movement of Ignorance comes in when the supramental light enters the penumbra of the mental sphere. The movement of Supermind is the movement of light without obscurity, straight, unwavering, unswerving, absolute. The Force here contains and holds in their oneness of Reality the manifold but not separated lines of essential and unalloyed truth: its march is the inevitable progression of each one assured truth entering into and upholding every other and therefore its creation, play or action admits of no trial or stumble or groping or deviation; for each truth rests on all others and on that which harmonises them all and does not act as a Power diverging from and even competing with other Powers of being. In the Overmind commences the play of divergent possibilities the simple, direct, united and absolute certainties of the supramental consciousness retire, as it were, a step behind and begin to work themselves out through the interaction first of separately individualised and then of contrary and contradictory forces. In the Overmind there is a conscious underlying Unity but yet each Power, Truth, Aspect of that Unity is encouraged to work out its possibilities as if it were sufficient to itself and the others are used by it for its own enhancement until in the denser and darker reaches below Overmind this turns out a thing of blind conflict and battle and, as it would appear, of chance Survival. Creation or manifestation originally means the concretisation or devolution of the powers of Conscious Being into a play of united diversity; but on the line which ends in Matter it enters into more and more obscure forms and forces and finally the virtual eclipse of the supreme light of the Divine Consciousness. Creation as it descends' towards the Ignorance becomes an involution of the Spirit through Mind and Life into Matter; evolution is a movement backward, a return journey from Matter towards the Spirit: it is the unravelling, the gradual disclosure and deliverance of the Spirit, the ascension and revelation of the involved consciousness through a series of awakeningsMatter awakening into Life, Life awakening into Mind and Mind now seeking to awaken into something beyond the Mind, into a power of conscious Spirit.
The apparent or actual result of the movement of Nescienceof Involutionhas been an increasing negation of the Spirit, but its hidden purpose is ultimately to embody the Spirit in Matter, to express here below in cosmic Time-Space the splendours of the timeless Reality. The material body came into existence bringing with it inevitably, as it seemed, mortality; it appeared even to be fashioned out of mortality, in order that in this very frame and field of mortality, Immortality, the eternal Spirit Consciousness which is the secret truth and reality in Time itself as well as behind it, might be established and that the Divine might be possessed, or rather, possess itself not in one unvarying mode of the static consciousness, as it does even now behind the cosmic play, but in the play itself and in the multiple mode of the terrestrial existence.
0 1967-01-28, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its nothing but the Survival of a natural process which was useful in the beginning of evolution.
Quite so.
0 1969-12-17, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Certainly, when the Supramental does touch earth with a sufficient force to dig itself in into the earth consciousness, there will be no more chance of any success or Survival for the Asuric Maya.
(On Himself, 26.472)
0 1970-06-17, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Certainly, when the Supramental does touch earth with a sufficient force to dig itself into the earth consciousness, there will be no more chance of any success or Survival for the Asuric Maya.
18 October 1934
03.02 - Aspects of Modernism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Science indeed gave a very decided turn to the slowly advancing humanity. It brought with it something that meant in the march of evolution a saltum, a leap wide and clear; it landed man all of a sudden into a new world, a new state of consciousness. It is this state of consciousness, the fundamental way of being, inculcated by the scientific spirit that is of capital importance and possesses a Survival value. It is not the content of Science, but its intent, not its riches, but its secret inspiration, its motive power, that will give us a right understanding of the change it has effected. The material aspect of the event has lost much of its value; the mechanical inventions and discoveries, bringing in their train a revolution in the external organization of life, have become a matter of course, and almost a matter of the past. But the reactions set up in the consciousness itself, the variations brought about in the very stuff and constitution of life still maintain a potency for the future and are to be counted.
The scientific spirit, in one word, is rationalisationrationalisation of Mind as well as of Life. With regard to Mind, rationalisation means to get knowledge exclusively on the data of the senses; it is the formulation, in laws and principles, of facts observed by the physical organs, these laws and principles being the categories of the arranging, classifying, generalising faculty, called reason; its methodology also demands that the laws are to be as few as possible embracing as many facts as possible. Rationalisation of life means the government of life in accordance with these laws, so that the wastage in natural life due to the diversity and disparity off acts may be eliminated, at least minimised, and all movements of life ordered and organised in view of a single and constant purpose (which is perhaps the enhancement of the value of life). This rationalisation means further, in effect, mechanisation or efficiency, as its protagonists would prefer to call it. However, mechanistic efficiency, whether in the matter of knowledge or of lifeof mind or of morals was the motto of the early period of the gospel of science, the age of Huxley and Haeckel, of Bentham and the Mills. The formula no longer holds good either in the field of pure knowledge or in its application to life; it does not embody the aspiration and outlook of the contemporary mind, in spite of such inveterate rationalists as Russell and Wells or even Shaw (in Back to Methuselah, for example), who seem to be already becoming an anachronism in the present age.
03.05 - The Spiritual Genius of India, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The whole world, in fact, was more or less religious in the early stages of its evolution; for it is characteristic of the primitive nature of man to be god-fearing and addicted to religious rite and ceremony. And Europe too, when she entered on a new cycle of life and began to reconstruct herself after the ruin of the Grco-Latin culture, started with the religion of the Christ and experimented with it during a long period of time. But that is what wasTroja fuit. Europe has outgrown her nonage and for a century and a half, since the mighty upheaval of the French Revolution, she has been rapidly shaking off the last vestiges of her mediaevalism. Today she stands clean shorn of all superstition, which she only euphemistically calls religion or spirituality. Not Theology but Science, not Revelation but Reason, not Magic but Logic, not Fiction but Fact, governs her thoughts and guides her activities. Only India, in part under the stress of her own conservative nature, in part under compelling circumstances, still clings to her things of the past, darknesses that have been discarded by the modern illumination. Indian spirituality is nothing but consolidated mediaevalism; it has its companion shibboleth in the cry, "Back to the village" or "Back to the bullock-cart"! One of the main reasons, if not the one reason why India has today no place in the comity of nations, why she is not in the vanguard of civilisation, is precisely this obstinate atavism, this persistent Survival of a spirit subversive of all that is modern and progressive.
It is not my purpose here to take up the cause of spirituality and defend it against materialism. Taking it for granted that real spirituality embodies a truth and power by far higher and mightier than anything materialism can offer, and that man's supreme ideal lies there, let us throw a comparing glance on the two types of spirituality,the one that India knows and the other that Europe knew in the Middle Ages.
04.05 - The Immortal Nation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A nation, however, that has achieved something, created something, made a strong formation in the mental or in the vital world may die physically, but the formation, the creation, the achievement remains and continues to be alive in the terrestrial atmosphere, in the general consciousness of man. Ancient Greece is dead, Augustan Rome is gone, but the mind of light that Greece brought into play, the cast of social character that Rome established are among the permanent acquisitions of human culture and civilisation. They have gone into the making of the warp and woof of the standard human life today. Apart, however, from this general Survival, could there be a reappearance of the very soul of a nation in another nation, in the same way as an individual soul reincarnates itself in another individual body? That question is asked, as sometimes it has been suggested, from certain significant and striking similarities, that ancient Greece incarnated in modern France and that there is a Roman stamp in the British nation. The possibility may not be altogether ruled out of court. But still it must be understood that the two phenomena are not quite identical, there is a difference in nature and kind. Rebirth in the sense of reincarnation is especially an individual phenomenon, the individual forming a divine centre, a focus of consciousness which the group is not; the group is more a field and a frame for the individual in spite of a conscious existence of its own.
In any case, the revival or renaissance of a nationa collective consciousness and beingis quite possible, and the normal curve of lifebirth and growth and deathis not even for it the ineluctable destiny. For like the individual, the group too has that in it or the possibility of that in it which is akin, toan isotope of the soul or self, the immortal conscious being.
100.00 - Synergy, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
185.00 This frustratedly insecure or panicked animal Survival drive is not a
primary human behavior; it is only a secondary, subordinate, "fail-safe" behavior
1.008 - The Principle of Self-Affirmation, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
The determinate perceptions or the directly involved factors in our life are: love and hatred, self-assertion, and fear of death, including of course, or equivalent to, love of life. We are terribly fond of our own personal life, and we dread death. The physical individuality is to be protected at any cost by hook or by crook, by the struggle for existence, or as our biologists say, by the application of the law of the Survival of the fittest. By struggle, by competition, by any method, we wish to survive. If it is a question of one's Survival, one would not mind even the destruction of others, because it is a question of 'my life'.
This is the argument of the central principle of individuality called the ego, or the asmita or ahamkara. The protection of this ego is the main function of our psychophysical individuality. Its existence and its operation have two sides or aspects of emphasis a like for certain things, and a dislike for certain other things. We may be wondering why it is that we like certain things and dislike certain things. Is there any reason behind it? The reason is not easily available, though it is available if we go a little deeper. A like, a want, a love or an affection is that pattern of the movement of our consciousness towards an external object, whose characteristics are observed by the mind for the time being to be the counterpart, the correlative of the present condition of one's individuality so much so that when the condition of our personality changes, our like or love will also change. We cannot go on loving the same thing for eternity, nor can we hate a thing for eternity.
1.01 - Foreward, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
That was the general aspect of the ancient worship in Greece, Rome, India and among other ancient peoples. But in all these countries these gods began to assume a higher, a psychological function; Pallas Athene who may have been originally a Dawn-Goddess springing in flames from the head of Zeus, the Sky-God, Dyaus of the Veda, has in classical Greece a higher function and was identified by the Romans with their Minerva, the Goddess of learning and wisdom; similarly, Saraswati, a river Goddess, becomes in India the goddess of wisdom, learning and the arts and crafts: all the Greek deities have undergone a change in this direction - Apollo, the Sun-God, has become a god of poetry and prophecy, Hephaestus the Fire-God a divine smith, god of labour. In India the process was arrested half-way, and the Vedic Gods developed their psychological functions but retained more fixedly their external character and for higher purposes gave place to a new pantheon. They had to give precedence to Puranic deities who developed out of the early company but assumed larger cosmic functions, Vishnu, Rudra, Brahma - developing from the Vedic Brihaspati, or Brahmanaspati, - Shiva, Lakshmi, Durga. Thus in India the change in the gods was less complete, the earlier deities became the inferior divinities of the Puranic pantheon and this was largely due to the Survival of the Rig Veda in which their psychological and their external functions co-existed and are both given a powerful emphasis; there was no such early literary record to maintain the original features of the Gods of Greece and Rome.
This change was evidently due to a cultural development in these early peoples who became progressively more mentalised and less engrossed in the physical life as they advanced in civilisation and needed to read into their religion and their deities finer and subtler aspects which would support their more highly mentalised concepts and interests and find for them a true spiritual being or some celestial figure as their support and sanction.
1.01 - Fundamental Considerations, #The Ever-Present Origin, #Jean Gebser, #Integral
We shall therefore beginwith the evidence and not with idealistic constructions; in the face of present-day weapons of annihilation, such constructions have less chance of Survival than ever before. But as we shall see, weapons and nuclear fission are not the only realities to be dealt with; spiritual reality in its intensified form is also becoming effectual and real. This new spiritual reality is without question our only security that the threat of material destruction can be averted. Its realization alone seems able to guarantee mans continuing existence in the face of the powers of technology, rationality, and chaotic emotion. If our consciousness, that is, the individual persons awareness, vigilance, and clarity of vision, cannot master the new reality and make possible its realization, then the prophets of doom will have been correct. Other alternatives are an illusion; consequently, great demands are placed on us, and each one of us have been given a grave responsibility, not merely to survey but to actually traverse the path opening before us.
There are surely enough historical instances of the catastrophic downfall of entire peoples and cultures. Such declines were triggered by the collision of deficient and exhausted attitudes that were insufficient for continuance with those more recent, more intense and, in some respects, superior. One such occurrence vividly exemplifies the decisive nature of such crises: the collision of the magical, mythical, and unperspectival culture of the Central American Aztecs with the rational-technological, perspectival attitude of the sixteenthcentury Spanish conquistadors. A description of this event can be found in the Aztec chronicle of Frey Bernardino de Sahagun, written eight years after Cortez conquest of Mexico on the basis of Aztec accounts. The following excerpt forms the beginning of the thirteenth chapter of the chronicle which describes the conquest of Mexico City:
1.01 - Newtonian and Bergsonian Time, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
crawling on its ribs may have a better chance for Survival if it
has clean lines and is freed from the impeding projections of
1.01 - To Watanabe Sukefusa, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
Sukehiko, eldest son of the wealthy Watanabe family of Hara, for unspecified unfilial acts. Citing cautionary stories, Hakuin warns his friend of the dire karmic consequences lying in store if he doesn't mend his ways. The letter owes its Survival to its inclusion in Hakuin's publication The Cloth
Drum Refitted, subtitled A Letter to an Unfilial Son, which first appeared in his fifties.
1.02.3.2 - Knowledge and Ignorance, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
Immortality does not mean Survival of the self or the ego after dissolution of the body. The Self always survives the dissolution of the body, because it always pre-existed before the birth of the body. The Self is unborn and undying. The Survival of the ego is only the first condition by which the individual soul is able to continue and link together its experiences in Avidya so as to pursue with an increasing self-possession and mastery that process of self-enlargement which culminates in Vidya.
By immortality is meant the consciousness which is beyond birth and death, beyond the chain of cause and effect, beyond all bondage and limitation, free, blissful, self-existent in consciousbeing, the consciousness of the Lord, of the supreme Purusha, of Sachchidananda.
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
our capacity to play. As the process of abstraction continues and information vital for Survival is
represented evermore simply and efficiently what is represented transforms from the particulars of any
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continued Survival. Desire to represent the unknown, to capture its essence, is in consequence potent:
potent enough to drive the construction of culture, the net that constrains the unknowable source of all
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She demands reconciliation, without offering the certainty of Survival. She embodies the potential for
salvation, and the central problem of life; impels the individual, involuntarily, towards further expansion of
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intrapsychically or interpersonally emerges in consequence of a quasi-Darwinian struggle for Survival.
Over the course of centuries, the actions of ancestral heroes, imitated directly and then represented in
1.03 - APPRENTICESHIP AND ENCULTURATION - ADOPTION OF A SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
patterns and, secondarily, their concomitant descriptions that enables Survival in youth. These patterns
of behavior and hierarchies of value which children mimic and then learn expressly give secure
1.03 - PERSONALITY, SANCTITY, DIVINE INCARNATION, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
The will is free and we are at liberty to identify our being either exclusively with our selfness and its interests, regarded as independent of indwelling Spirit and transcendent Godhead (in which case we shall be passively damned or actively fiendish), or exclusively with the divine within us and without (in which case we shall be saints), or finally with self at one moment or in one context and with spiritual not-self at other moments and in other contexts (in which case we shall be average citizens, too theocentric to be wholly lost, and too egocentric to achieve enlightenment and a total deliverance). Since human craving can never be satisfied except by the unitive knowledge of God and since the mind-body is capable of an enormous variety of experiences, we are free to identify ourselves with an almost infinite number of possible objectswith the pleasures of gluttony, for example, or intemperance, or sensuality; with money, power or fame; with our family, regarded as a possession or actually an extension and projection of our own selfness; with our goods and chattels, our hobbies, our collections; with our artistic or scientific talents; with some favourite branch of knowledge, some fascinating special subject; with our professions, our political parties, our churches; with our pains and illnesses; with our memories of success or misfortune, our hopes, fears and schemes for the future; and finally with the eternal Reality within which and by which all the rest has its being. And we are free, of course, to identify ourselves with more than one of these things simultaneously or in succession. Hence the quite astonishingly improbable combination of traits making up a complex personality. Thus a man can be at once the craftiest of politicians and the dupe of his own verbiage, can have a passion for brandy and money, and an equal passion for the poetry of George Meredith and under-age girls and his mother, for horse-racing and detective stories and the good of his country the whole accompanied by a sneaking fear of hell-fire, a hatred of Spinoza and an unblemished record for Sunday church-going. A person born with one kind of psycho-physical constitution will be tempted to identify himself with one set of interests and passions, while a person with another kind of temperament will be tempted to make very different identifications. But these temptations (though extremely powerful, if the constitutional bias is strongly marked) do not have to be succumbed to; people can and do resist them, can and do refuse to identify themselves with what it would be all too easy and natural for them to be; can and do become better and quite other than their own selves. In this context the following brief article on How Men Behave in Crisis (published in a recent issue of Harpers Magazine) is highly significant. A young psychiatrist, who went as a medical observer on five combat missions of the Eighth Air Force in England says that in times of great stress and danger men are likely to react quite uniformly, even though under normal circumstances, they differ widely in personality. He went on one mission, during which the B-17 plane and crew were so severely damaged that Survival seemed impossible. He had already studied the on the ground personalities of the crew and had found that they represented a great diversity of human types. Of their behaviour in crisis he reported:
Their reactions were remarkably alike. During the violent combat and in the acute emergencies that arose during it, they were all quietly precise on the interphone and decisive in action. The tail gunner, right waist gunner and navigator were severely wounded early in the fight, but all three kept at their duties efficiently and without cessation. The burden of emergency work fell on the pilot, engineer and ball turret gunner, and all functioned with rapidity, skilful effectiveness and no lost motion. The burden of the decisions, during, but particularly after the combat, rested essentially on the pilot and, in secondary details, on the co-pilot and bombar ther. The decisions, arrived at with care and speed, were unquestioned once they were made, and proved excellent. In the period when disaster was momentarily expected, the alternative plans of action were made clearly and with no thought other than the safety of the entire crew. All at this point were quiet, unobtrusively cheerful and ready for anything. There was at no time paralysis, panic, unclear thinking, faulty or confused judgment, or self-seeking in any one of them.
1.03 - Tara, Liberator from the Eight Dangers, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
Lama says, it is not Survival of the ttest, but Survival of those who cooperate the most, that makes a species prosper. None of us exists independently;
how to free your mind
1.03 - The End of the Intellect, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
When he went ashore on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, he was overtaken by a spontaneous spiritual experience, a vast calm; but he had more immediate concerns of food and Survival. Sri Aurobindo was twenty. He found a position with the Maharaja of Baroda, as 20
Thoughts and Aphorisms, 17:88
1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
and be reborn to ensure constant update of the techniques of Survival. The second, more fundamental, is
that the hero the active agent of adaptation must eternally upset the protective structure of tradition and
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knowledge hard-won in the physical battle for Survival, and consequent capacity for immmediate
communication of that knowledge, in the absence of direct demonstration. Furthermore, it means potential
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caul; Survival of lightning strike), or by intrapsychic idiosyncrasy (epileptic susceptibility, visionary
proclivity).426 His unique personality or experiential history, in combination with presently extant social
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and Survival of the group, substantial social change is inevitable. This process of change will throw those
completely identified with the group into the realm of chaos, against their will. Such an involuntary
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can take steps to insure his healthy Survival, however (even though he must in consequence worry for the
future). The world of the child is circumscribed, incompletely realized, but nonetheless vulnerable. The
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we not hide? Survival has become terror, and endless toil necessitating discipline, compelled by
burdensome wisdom, rife with intrapsychic conflict, motivated by anxiety instead of spontaneous natural
1.05 - 2010 and 1956 - Doomsday?, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
to the environment that lessen the Survival of its progeny
is doomed to extinction. By massively taking land to feed
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ence, if its long history and continuous Survival is not the
accident of a fortuitously self-organizing Chance, which it
1.05 - Computing Machines and the Nervous System, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
been a Survival of the scholastic emphasis on substances, in a
world in which the noun was hypostasized and the verb carriedComputing Machines and the Nervous System
1.05 - MORALITY AS THE ENEMY OF NATURE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
advantage in the Survival of the Church. Even in political life,
hostility has now become more spiritual,--much more cautious, much
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
information precisely sufficient to insure our happy Survival. This means that every task left undone
every emergent territory left unexplored comprises latent information from which competent
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The concentration camp has spawned its own literature; remembrance of Survival under conditions as
harsh as imagination can construct human imagination, capable of positing the existence and describing
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I came to believe that Survival itself, and more, depended upon a solution to the problem of war. This
made me consider that perhaps everything I believed was wrong. This consideration was not particularly
1.05 - True and False Subjectivism, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Of these two truths mankind has had some vague vision in the principle with regard to the individual, though it has made only a very poor and fragmentary attempt to regard them in practice and in nine-tenths of its life has been busy departing from themeven where it outwardly professed something of the law. But they apply not only to the individual but to the nation. Here was the first error of the German subjectivism. Reasoning of the Absolute and the individual and the universal, it looked into itself and saw that in fact, as a matter of life, That seemed to express itself as the ego and, reasoning from the conclusions of modern Science, it saw the individual merely as a cell of the collective ego. This collective ego was, then, the greatest actual organised expression of life and to that all ought to be subservient, for so could Nature and its evolution best be assisted and affirmed. The greater human collectivity exists, but it is an inchoate and unorganised existence, and its growth can best be developed by the better development of the most efficient organised collective life already existing; practically, then, by the growth, perfection and domination of the most advanced nations, or possibly of the one most advanced nation, the collective ego which has best realised the purpose of Nature and whose victory and rule is therefore the will of God. For all organised lives, all self-conscious egos are in a state of war, sometimes overt, sometimes covert, sometimes complete, sometimes partial, and by the Survival of the best is secured the highest advance of the race. And where was the best, which was the most advanced, self-realising, efficient, highest-cultured nation, if not, by common admission as well as in Germanys own self-vision, Germany itself? To fulfil then the collective German ego and secure its growth and domination was at once the right law of reason, the supreme good of humanity and the mission of the great and supreme Teutonic race.4
From this egoistic self-vision flowed a number of logical consequences, each in itself a separate subjective error. First, since the individual is only a cell of the collectivity, his life must be entirely subservient to the efficient life of the nation. He must be made efficient indeed,the nation should see to his education, proper living, disciplined life, carefully trained and subordinated activity,but as a part of the machine or a disciplined instrument of the national Life. Initiative must be the collectivitys, execution the individuals. But where was that vague thing, the collectivity, and how could it express itself not only as a self-conscious, but an organised and efficient collective will and self-directing energy? The State, there was the secret. Let the State be perfect, dominant, all-pervading, all-seeing, all-effecting; so only could the collective ego be concentrated, find itself, and its life be brought to the highest pitch of strength, organisation and efficiency. Thus Germany founded and established the growing modern error of the cult of the State and the growing subordination driving in the end towards the effacement of the individual. We can see what it gained, an immense collective power and a certain kind of perfection and scientific adjustment of means to end and a high general level of economic, intellectual and social efficiency,apart from the tremendous momentary force which the luminous fulfilment of a great idea gives to man or nation. What it had begun to lose is as yet only slightly apparent,all that deeper life, vision, intuitive power, force of personality, psychical sweetness and largeness which the free individual brings as his gift to the race.
Secondly, since the State is supreme, the representative of the Divine or the highest realised functioning of human existence, and has a divine right to the obedience, the unquestioning service and the whole activity of the individual, the service of State and community is the only absolute rule of morality. Within the State this may include and sanction all other moral rules because there no rebel egoism can be allowed, for the individual ego must be lost in that of the State or become part of it and all condition of covert or overt war must be abrogated in obedience to the collective good as determined by the collective will. But in relation to other States, to other collective egos the general condition, the effective law is still that of war, of strife between sharply divided egoisms each seeking to fulfil itself, each hampered and restricted in its field by the others. War then is the whole business of the State in its relation to other States, a war of arms, a war of commerce, a war of ideas and cultures, a war of collective personalities each seeking to possess the world or at least to dominate and be first in the world. Here there can enter no morality except that of success, though the pretence of morality may be a useful stratagem of war. To serve the State, the German collectivity which is his greater and real self is the business of the German individual whether at home or abroad, and to that end everything which succeeds is justifiable. Inefficiency, incompetence, failure are the only immorality. In war every method is justified which leads to the military success of the State, in peace every method which prepares it; for peace between nations is only a covert state of war. And as war is the means of physical Survival and domination, so commerce is the means of economic Survival and domination; it is in fact only another kind of war, another department of the struggle to live, one physical, the other vital. And the life and the body are, so Science has assured us, the whole of existence.
Thirdly, since the Survival of the best is the highest good of mankind and the Survival of the best is secured by the elimination of the unfit and the assimilation of the less fit, the conquest of the world by German culture is the straight path of human progress. But culture is not, in this view, merely a state of knowledge or a system or cast of ideas and moral and aesthetic tendencies; culture is life governed by ideas, but by ideas based on the truths of life and so organised as to bring it to its highest efficiency. Therefore all life not capable of this culture and this efficiency must be eliminated or trodden down, all life capable of it but not actually reaching to it must be taken up and assimilated. But capacity is always a matter of genus and species and in humanity a matter of race. Logically, then, the Teutonic5 race is alone entirely capable, and therefore all Teutonic races must be taken into Germany and become part of the German collectivity; races less capable but not wholly unfit must be Germanised; others, hopelessly decadent like the Latins of Europe and America or naturally inferior like the vast majority of the Africans and Asiatics, must be replaced where possible, like the Hereros, or, where not possible, dominated, exploited and treated according to their inferiority. So evolution would advance, so the human race grow towards its perfection.6
We need not suppose that all Germany thought in this strenuous fashion, as it was too long represented, or that the majority thought thus consciously; but it is sufficient that an energetic minority of thinkers and strong personalities should seize upon the national life and impress certain tendencies upon it for these to prevail practically or at the least to give a general trend subconsciously even where the thought itself is not actually proposed in the conscious mind. And the actual events of the present hour seem to show that it was this gospel that partly consciously, partly subconsciously or half articulately had taken possession of the collective German mind. It is easy to deride the rigidity of this terrible logic or riddle it with the ideas and truths it has ignored, and it is still easier to abhor, fear, hate and spew at it while practically following its principles in our own action with less openness, thoroughness and courage. But it is more profitable to begin by seeing that behind it there was and is a tremendous sincerity which is the secret of its force, and a sort of perverse honesty in its errors; the sincerity which tries to look straight at ones own conduct and the facts of life and the honesty to proclaim the real principles of that conduct and notexcept as an occasional diplomacyprofess others with the lips while disregarding them in the practice. And if this ideal is to be defeated not merely for a time in the battle-field and in the collective person of the nation or nations professing it, as happened abortively in the War, but in the mind of man and in the life of the human race, an equal sincerity and a less perverse honesty has to be practised by those who have arrived at a better law.
1.05 - Yoga and Hypnotism, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The difference between Yoga and hypnotism is that what hypnotism does for a man through the agency of another and in the sleeping state, Yoga does for him by his own agency and in the waking state. The hypnotic sleep is necessary in order to prevent the activity of the subjects mind full of old ideas and associations from interfering with the operator. In the waking state he would naturally refuse to experience sweetness in vinegar or sourness in sugar or to believe that he can change from disease to health, cowardice to heroism by a mere act of faith; his established associations would rebel violently and successfully against such contradictions of universal experience. The force which transcends matter would be hampered by the obstruction of ignorance and attachment to universal error. The hypnotic sleep does not make the mind a tabula rasa but it renders it passive to everything but the touch of the operator. Yoga similarly teaches passivity of the mind so that the will may act unhampered by the saskras or old associations. It is these saskras, the habits formed by experience in the body, heart or mind, that form the laws of our psychology. The associations of the mind are the stuff of which our life is made. They are more persistent in the body than in the mind and therefore harder to alter. They are more persistent in the race than in the individual; the conquest of the body and mind by the individual is comparatively easy and can be done in the space of a single life, but the same conquest by the race involves the development of ages. It is conceivable, however, that the practice of Yoga by a great number of men and persistence in the practice by their descendants might bring about profound changes in human psychology and, by stamping these changes into body and brain through heredity, evolve a superior race which would endure and by the law of the Survival of the fittest eliminate the weaker kinds of humanity. Just as the rudimentary mind of the animal has been evolved into the fine instrument of the human being so the rudiments of higher force and faculty in the present race might evolve into the perfect buddhi of the Yogin.
Yo yacchraddha sa eva sa. According as is a mans fixed and complete belief, that he is,not immediately always but sooner or later, by the law that makes the psychical tend inevitably to express itself in the material. The will is the agent by which all these changes are made and old saskras replaced by new, and the will cannot act without faith. The question then arises whether mind is the ultimate force or there is another which communicates with the outside world through the mind. Is the mind the agent or simply the instrument? If the mind be all, then it is only animals that can have the power to evolve; but this does not accord with the laws of the world as we know them. The tree evolves, the clod evolves, everything evolves Even in animals it is evident that mind is not all in the sense of being the ultimate expression of existence or the ultimate force in Nature. It seems to be all only because that which is all expresses itself in the mind and passes everything through it for the sake of manifestation. That which we call mind is a medium which pervades the world. Otherwise we could not have that instantaneous and electrical action of mind upon mind of which human experience is full and of which the new phenomena of hypnotism, telepathy etc. are only fresh proofs. There must be contact, there must be interpenetration if we are to account for these phenomena on any reasonable theory. Mind therefore is held by the Hindus to be a species of subtle matter in which ideas are waves or ripples, and it is not limited by the physical body which it uses as an instrument. There is an ulterior force which works through this subtle medium called mind. An animal species develops, according to the modern theory, under the subtle influence of the environment. The environment supplies a need and those who satisfy the need develop a new species which survives because it is more fit. This is not the result of any intellectual perception of the need nor of a resolve to develop the necessary changes, but of a desire, often though not always a mute, inarticulate and unthought desire. That desire attracts a force which satisfies it What is that force? The tendency of the psychical desire to manifest in the material change is one term in the equation; the force which develops the change in response to the desire is another. We have a will beyond mind which dictates the change, we have a force beyond mind which effects it. According to Hindu philosophy the will is the Jiva, the Purusha, the self in the nandakoa acting through vijna, universal or transcendental mind; this is what we call spirit. The force is Prakriti or Shakti, the female principle in Nature which is at the root of all action. Behind both is the single Self of the universe which contains both Jiva and Prakriti, spirit and material energy. Yoga puts these ultimate existences within us in touch with each other and by stilling the activity of the saskras or associations in mind and body enables them to act swiftly, victoriously, and as the world calls it, miraculously. In reality there is no such thing as a miracle; there are only laws and processes which are not yet understood.
1.06 - Being Human and the Copernican Principle, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
... We are all Survival machines for the same kind of repli
cator molecules called DNA.
1.06 - Man in the Universe, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
14:Perhaps they are unfathomable, perhaps they also are really unknowable in their essence? Or, it may be, they have no essential reality, - are an illusion, Asat, non-being. The superior Negation appears to us sometimes as a Nihil, a Non-Existence; this inferior negation may also be, in its essence, a Nihil, a nonexistence. But as we have already put away from us this evasion of the difficulty with regard to that higher, so also we discard it for this inferior Asat. To deny entirely its reality or to seek an escape from it as a mere disastrous illusion is to put away from us the problem and to shun our work. For Life, these things that seem to deny God, to be the opposites of Sachchidananda, are real, even if they turn out to be temporary. They and their opposites, good, knowledge, joy, pleasure, life, Survival, strength, power, increase, are the very material of her workings.
15:It is probable indeed that they are the result or rather the inseparable accompaniments, not of an illusion, but of a wrong relation, wrong because it is founded on a false view of what the individual is in the universe and therefore a false attitude both towards God and Nature, towards self and environment. Because that which he has become is out of harmony both with what the world of his habitation is and what he himself should be and is to be, therefore man is subject to these contradictions of the secret Truth of things. In that case they are not the punishment of a fall, but the conditions of a progress. They are the first elements of the work he has to fulfil, the price he has to pay for the crown which he hopes to win, the narrow way by which Nature escapes out of Matter into consciousness; they are at once her ransom and her stock.
1.07 - Incarnate Human Gods, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
adulation; it was merely a Survival and extension of the old savage
apotheosis of living kings. Thus, for example, as children of the
1.07 - Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
20:No individual rises to these heights except in intense moments, no society yet created satisfies this ideal. And in the present state of morality and of human development none perhaps can or ought to satisfy it. Nature will not allow it, Nature knows that it should not be. The first reason is that our moral ideals are themselves for the most part ill-evolved, ignorant and arbitrary, mental constructions rather than transcriptions of the eternal truths of the spirit. Authoritative and dogmatic, they assert certain absolute standards in theory, but in practice every existing system of ethics proves either in application unworkable or is in fact a constant coming short of the absolute standard to which the ideal pretends. If our ethical system is a compromise or a makeshift, it gives at once a principle of justification to the further sterilising compromises which society and the individual hasten to make with it. And if it insists on absolute love, justice, right with an uncompromising insistence, it soars above the head of human possibility and is professed with lip homage but ignored in practice. Even it is found that it ignores other elements in humanity which equally insist on Survival but refuse to come within the moral formula. For just as the individual law of desire contains within it invaluable elements of the infinite whole which have to be protected against the tyranny of the absorbing social idea, the innate impulses too both of individual and of collective man contain in them invaluable elements which escape the limits of any ethical formula yet discovered and are yet necessary to the fullness and harmony of an eventual divine perfection.
21:Moreover, absolute love, absolute justice, absolute right reason in their present application by a bewildered and imperfect humanity come easily to be conflicting principles. Justice often demands what love abhors. Right reason dispassionately considering the facts of nature and human relations in search of a satisfying norm or rule is unable to admit without modification either any reign of absolute justice or any reign of absolute love. And in fact man's absolute justice easily turns out to be in practice a sovereign injustice; for his mind, one-sided and rigid in its constructions, puts forward a one-sided partial and rigorous scheme or figure and claims for it totality and absoluteness and an application that ignores the subtler truth of things and the plasticity of life. All our standards turned into action either waver on a flux of compromises or err by this partiality and unelastic structure. Humanity sways from one orientation to another; the race moves upon a zigzag path led by conflicting claims and, on the whole, works out instinctively what Nature intends, but with much waste and suffering, rather than either what it desires or what it holds to be right or what the highest light from above demands from the embodied spirit.
1.08 - Independence from the Physical, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Independence from the Senses Matter is the starting point of our evolution. It is confined in Matter that consciousness has gradually evolved; therefore the more consciousness emerges, the more it will recover its sovereignty and assert its independence. This is the first step (not the last, as we will see). We are, however, almost totally subservient to the needs of the body for our Survival, and to the bodily organs for perceiving the world; we are very proud, and rightly so, of our machines, but when our machine gets a little headache everything becomes a blur, and when we are denied our array of telegraphs, telephones, televisions,
etc., we become incapable of knowing what is happening next door or of seeing beyond the end of our noses. We are hypercivilized beings who have not physically gone beyond the condition of the savage.
1.08 - Stead and the Spirits, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is not, however, Lord Curzon but Mr. Stead and the spirits with whom we have to deal. We know Mr. Stead as a pushing and original journalist, not always over-refined or delicate either in his actions or expressions, skilful in the advertisement of his views, excitable, earnest, declamatory, loud and even hysterical, if you will, in some of his methods, but certainly neither a liar nor a swindler. He does and says what he believes and nothing else. It is impossible to dismiss his Bureau as an imposture or mere journalistic rclame. It is impossible to dismiss the phenomena of spirit communications, even with all the imposture that unscrupulous money-makers have imported into them, as unreal or a deception. All that can reasonably be said is that their true nature has not yet been established beyond dispute. There are two conceivable explanations, one that of actual spirit communication, the other that of vigorously dramatised imaginary conversations jointly composed with wonderful skill and consistency by the subconscious minds, whatever that may be, of the persons present, the medium being the chief dramaturge of this subconscious literary Committee. This theory is so wildly improbable and so obviously opposed to the nature of the phenomena themselves, that only an obstinate unwillingness to admit new facts and ideas can explain its Survival, although it was natural and justifiable in the first stages of investigation. There remains the explanation of actual spirit communication. But even when we have decided on this hypothesis as the base of our investigation, we have to be on our guard against a multitude of errors; for the communications are vitiated first by the errors and self-deceptions of the medium and the sitters, then by the errors and self-deceptions of the communicant spirits, and, worst of all, by deliberate deceit, lies and jugglery on the part of the visitants from the other world. The element of deceit and jugglery on the part of the medium and his helpers is not always small, but can easily be got rid of. Cheap scepticism and cheaper ridicule in such matters is only useful for comforting small brains and weak imaginations with a sense of superiority to the larger minds who do not refuse to enquire into phenomena which are at least widespread and of a consistently regular character. The true attitude is to examine carefully the nature of the phenomena, the conditions that now detract from their value and the possibility of removing them and providing perfect experimental conditions which would enable us to arrive at a satisfactory scientific result. Until the value of the communications is scientifically established, any attempt to use them for utilitarian, theatrical or yet lighter purposes is to be deprecated, as such misuse may end in shutting a wide door to potential knowledge upon humanity.
From this point of view Mr. Steads bizarre experiments are to be deprecated. The one redeeming feature about them is that, as conducted, they seem to remove the first elementary difficulty in the way of investigation, the possibility of human deceit and imposture. We presume that he has got rid of professional mediums and allows only earnest-minded and honourable investigators to be present. But the other elements of error and confusion are encouraged rather than obviated by the spirit and methods of Mr. Steads Bureau. First, there is the error and self-deception of the sitters. The spirit does not express himself directly but has to give his thoughts at third hand; they come first to the intermediary spirit, Julia or another, by her they are conveyed to the human medium and through him conveyed by automatic or conscious speech or writing to the listeners. It is obvious how largely the mind of the medium and, to a smaller but still great extent, the thought-impressions of the other sitters must interfere, and this without the least intention on their part, rather in spite of a strong wish in the opposite direction. Few men really understand how the human mind works or are fitted to watch the processes of their own conscious and half-conscious thought even when the mind is disinterested, still less when it is active and interested in the subject of communication. The sitters interfere, first, by putting in their own thoughts and expressions suggested by the beginnings of the communication, so that what began as a spirit conversation ends in a tangle of the mediums or sitters ideas with the little of his own that the spirit can get in now and then. They interfere not only by suggesting what they themselves think or would say on the subject, but by suggesting what they think the spirit ought dramatically to think or say, so that Mr. Gladstone is made to talk in interminable cloudy and circumambient periods which were certainly his oratorical style but can hardly have been the staple of his conversation, and Lord Beaconsfield is obliged to be cynical and immoral in the tone of his observations. They interfere again by eagerness, which sometimes produces replies according to the sitters wishes and sometimes others which are unpleasant or alarming, but in neither case reliable. This is especially the case in answers to questions about the future, which ought never to be asked. It is true that many astonishing predictions occur which are perfectly accurate, but these are far outweighed by the mass of false and random prediction. These difficulties can only be avoided by rigidly excluding every question accompanied by or likely to raise eagerness or expectation and by cultivating entire mental passivity. The last however is impossible to the medium unless he is a practised Yogin, or in a trance, or a medium who has attained the habit of passivity by an unconscious development due to long practice. In the sitters we do not see how it is to be induced. Still, without unemotional indifference to the nature of the answer and mental passivity the conditions for so difficult and delicate a process of communication cannot be perfect.
1.08 - The Gods of the Veda - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But why, it might be asked, should each subjective order or stratum of consciousness necessarily involve the co-existence of a corresponding order of beings & objective world-stratum? For the modern mind, speculative & introspective like the Vedic, is yet speculative within the limits of sensational experience and therefore unable to believe in, even if it can conceive of existence, least of all of an objective existence under conditions different from those [with] which we are familiar and of which our senses assure us. We may therefore admit the profundity & subtlety of the subjective distinction, but we shall be apt to regard the belief in objective worlds & beings unseen by our senses as either an early poetic fancy or a crude superstition of savages. But the Vedic mentality, although perfectly rational, stood at the opposite pole of ideas from the modern and its subjective consciousness admitted a class of experiences which we reject and cut short the moment they begin to present themselves by condemning them as hallucinations. The idea of modern men that the ancients evolved their gods by a process of poetic imagination, is an error due to inability to understand an alien mentality & unwillingness to investigate from within those Survivals of it which still subsist though with difficulty under modern conditions. Encouraging this order of phenomena, fostering & developing carefully the states of mind in which they were possible and the movements of mind & sense by which they were effected, the Vedic Rishis saw and communed with the gods and threw themselves into the worlds of which they had the conception. They believed in them for the same reason that Joan of Arc believed in her saints & her voices, Socrates in his daemon or Swedenborg in his spirits, because they had constant experience of them and of the validity both of the experiences and of the instruments of mind & sense by which they were maintained in operation. They would have answered a modern objector that they had as good a proof of them as the scientist has of the worlds & the different orders of life revealed to his optical nerve by microscope & telescope. Some of them might even question whether these scientific discoveries were not optical illusions due to the excitation of the nerve by the instruments utilised! We may, similarly, get rid of the Vedic experiences, disbelieve and discount them, saying that they missed one essential instrument of truth, the sceptical distrust of their instruments,but we cannot argue from them in the minds that received them a childish irrationality or a savage superstition. They trusted, like us, their experience, believed their mind & senses and argued logically from their premisses.
It is true that apart from these experiences the existence of various worlds & different orders of beings was a logical necessity of the Vedic conception of existence. Existence being a life, a soul expressing itself in forms, every distinct order of consciousness, every stratum or sea of conscious-being (samudra, sindhu, apah as the Vedic thinkers preferred to call them) demanded its own order of objective experiences (lokas, worlds), tended inevitably to throw itself into forms of individualised being (vishah, ganah, prajah). Moreover, in a world so conceived, nothing could happen in this world without relation to some force or being in the worlds behind; nor could there be any material, vital or mental movement except as the expression of a life & a soul behind it. Everything here must be supported from the worlds of mind or it could not maintain its existence. From this idea to the peopling of the world with innumerable mental & vital existences,existences essentially vital like the Naiads, Dryads, Nereids, Genii, Lares & Penates of the Greeks and Romans, the wood-gods, river-gods, house-gods, tree-deities, snake-deities of the Indians, or mental like the intermediate gods of our old Pantheon, would be a natural and inevitable step. This Animism is a remarkably universal feature in the religious culture of the ancient world. I cannot accept the modern view that its Survival in a crude form among the savages, those waifs & strays of human progress, is a proof of their low & savage originany more than the peculiarly crude ideas of Christianity that exist in uneducated negro minds [and] would survive in a still more degraded form if they were long isolated from civilised life, would be a proof to future research that Christianity originated from a cannibal tribe on the African continent. The idea is essentially a civilised conception proceeding from keen susceptibility & only possible after a meditative dwelling upon Naturenot different indeed in rank & order from Wordsworths experience of Nature which no one, I suppose, would consider an atavistic recrudescence of old savage mentality, and impossible to the animal man. The dog & crow who reason from their senses, do not stand in awe of inanimate objects, or of dawn & rain & shine or expect from them favours.
But the great gods of the Veda belong to a higher order than these beings who attach themselves to the individual object and the particular movement. They are great world-powers; they support the wide laws & universal functions of the world. Their dwelling-place is in Swar, the world of pure mind, and they only enter into and are not native to or bound by life & matter.
1.09 - Equality and the Annihilation of Ego, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
4:The renunciation of attachment to the work and its fruit is the beginning of a wide movement towards an absolute equality in the mind and soul which must become all-enveloping if we are to be perfect in the spirit. For the worship of the Master of works demands a clear recognition and glad acknowledgment of him in ourselves, in all things and in all happenings. Equality is the sign of this adoration; it is the soul's ground on which true sacrifice and worship can be done. The Lord is there equally in all beings, we have to make no essential distinctions between ourselves and others, the wise and the ignorant, friend and enemy, man and animal, the saint and the sinner. We must hate none, despise none, be repelled by none; for in all we have to see the One disguised or manifested at his pleasure. He is a little revealed in one or more revealed in another or concealed and wholly distorted in others according to his will and his knowledge of what is best for that which he intends to become in form in them and to do in works in their nature. All is ourself, one self that has taken many shapes. Hatred and disliking and scorn and repulsion, clinging and attachment and preference are natural, necessary, inevitable at a certain stage: they attend upon or they help to make and maintain Nature's choice in us. But to the Karmayogin they are a Survival, a stumbling-block, a process of the Ignorance and, as he progresses, they fall away from his nature. The child-soul needs them for its growth; but they drop from an adult in the divine culture. In the God-nature to which we have to rise there can be an adamantine, even a destructive severity but not hatred, a divine irony but not scorn, a calm, clear-seeing and forceful rejection but not repulsion and dislike. Even what we have to destroy, we must not abhor or fail to recognise as a disguised and temporary movement of the Eternal.
5:And since all things are the one Self in its manifestation, we shall have equality of soul towards the ugly and the beautiful, the maimed and the perfect, the noble and the vulgar, the pleasant and the unpleasant, the good and the evil. Here also there will be no hatred, scorn and repulsion, but instead the equal eye that sees all things in their real character and their appointed place. For we shall know that all things express or disguise, develop or distort, as best they can or with whatever defect they must, under the circumstances intended for them, in the way possible to the immediate status or function or evolution of their nature, some truth or fact, some energy or potential of the Divine necessary by its presence in the progressive manifestation both to the whole of the present sum of things and for the perfection of the ultimate result. That truth is what we must seek and discover behind the transitory expression; undeterred by appearances, by the deficiencies or the disfigurements of the expression, we can then worship the Divine for ever unsullied, pure, beautiful and perfect behind his masks. All indeed has to be changed, not ugliness accepted but divine beauty, not imperfection taken as our resting-place but perfection striven after, the supreme good made the universal aim and not evil. But what we do has to be done with a spiritual understanding and knowledge, and it is a divine good, beauty, perfection, pleasure that has to be followed after, not the human standards of these things. If we have not equality, it is a sign that we are still pursued by the Ignorance, we shall truly understand nothing and it is more than likely that we shall destroy the old imperfection only to create another: for we are substituting the appreciations of our human mind and desire-soul for the divine values.
1.09 - FAITH IN PEACE, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
plant one another in order to survive. But why should their Survival
depend upon their supplanting one another, except for the reason
1.11 - FAITH IN MAN, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
merely Survival, let us be clear, but some form of
higher life or superlife.
1.1.2 - Commentary, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In the ancient system which admitted the soul's Survival
of the body, Mind was the man, in a very profound and radical
1.12 - Independence, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
Today the evolution theory of the ancient Yogis will be better understood in the light of modern research. And yet the theory of the Yogis is a better explanation. The two causes of evolution advanced by the moderns, viz sexual selection and Survival of the fittest, are inadequate. Suppose human knowledge to have advanced so much as to eliminate competition, both from the function of acquiring physical sustenance and of acquiring a mate. Then, according to the moderns, human progress will stop and the race will die. The result of this theory is to furnish every oppressor with an argument to calm the qualms of conscience. Men are not lacking, who, posing as philosophers, want to kill out all wicked and incompetent persons (they are, of course, the only judges of competency) and thus preserve the human race! But the great ancient evolutionist, Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been barred and the infinite tide behind is struggling to express itself. These struggles and competitions are but the results of our ignorance, because we do not know the proper way to unlock the gate and let the water in. This infinite tide behind must express itself; it is the cause of all manifestation. Competitions for life or sex-gratification are only momentary, unnecessary, extraneous effects, caused by ignorance. Even when all competition has ceased, this perfect nature behind will make us go forward until everyone has become perfect. Therefore there is no reason to believe that competition is necessary to progress. In the animal the man was suppressed, but as soon as the door was opened, out rushed man. So in man there is the potential god, kept in by the locks and bars of ignorance. When knowledge breaks these bars, the god becomes manifest.
4. From egoism alone proceed the created minds.
1.13 - Reason and Religion, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The unaided intellectual reason faced with the phenomena of the religious life is naturally apt to adopt one of two attitudes, both of them shallow in the extreme, hastily presumptuous and erroneous. Either it views the whole thing as a mass of superstition, a mystical nonsense, a farrago of ignorant barbaric Survivals,that was the extreme spirit of the rationalist now happily, though not dead, yet much weakened and almost moribund,or it patronises religion, tries to explain its origins, to get rid of it by the process of explaining it away; or it labours gently or forcefully to reject or correct its superstitions, crudities, absurdities, to purify it into an abstract nothingness or persuade it to purify itself in the light of the reasoning intelligence; or it allows it a role, leaves it perhaps for the edification of the ignorant, admits its value as a moralising influence or its utility to the State for keeping the lower classes in order, even perhaps tries to invent that strange chimera, a rational religion.
The former attitude has on its positive side played a powerful part in the history of human thought, has even been of a considerable utility in its own waywe shall have to note briefly hereafter how and whyto human progress and in the end even to religion; but its intolerant negations are an arrogant falsity, as the human mind has now sufficiently begun to perceive. Its mistake is like that of a foreigner who thinks everything in an alien country absurd and inferior because these things are not his own ways of acting and thinking and cannot be cut out by his own measures or suited to his own standards. So the thoroughgoing rationalist asks the religious spirit, if it is to stand, to satisfy the material reason and even to give physical proof of its truths, while the very essence of religion is the discovery of the immaterial Spirit and the play of a supraphysical consciousness. So too he tries to judge religion by his idea of its externalities, just as an ignorant and obstreperous foreigner might try to judge a civilisation by the dress, outward colour of life and some of the most external peculiarities in the social manners of the inhabitants. That in this he errs in company with certain of the so-called religious themselves, may be his excuse, but cannot be the justification of his ignorance. The more moderate attitude of the rational mind has also played its part in the history of human thought. Its attempts to explain religion have resulted in the compilation of an immense mass of amazingly ingenious perversions, such as certain pseudo-scientific attempts to form a comparative Science of Religion. It has built up in the approved modern style immense facades of theory with stray bricks of misunderstood facts for their material. Its mild condonations of religion have led to superficial phases of thought which have passed quickly away and left no trace behind them. Its efforts at the creation of a rational religion, perfectly well-intentioned, but helpless and unconvincing, have had no appreciable effect and have failed like a dispersing cloud, chinnbhram iva nayati.
1.13 - SALVATION, DELIVERANCE, ENLIGHTENMENT, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
In the theologies of the various religions, salvation is also regarded as a deliverance out of folly, evil and misery into happiness, goodness and wisdom. But political and economic means are held to be subsidiary to the cultivation of personal holiness, to the acquiring of personal merit and to the maintenance of personal faith in some divine principle or person having power, in one way or another, to forgive and sanctify the individual soul. Moreover the end to be achieved is not regarded as existing in some Utopian future period, beginning, say, in the twenty-second century or perhaps even a little earlier, if our favourite politicians remain in power and make the right laws; the end exists in heaven. This last phrase has two very different meanings. For what is probably the majority of those who profess the great historical religions, it signifies and has always signified a happy posthumous condition of indefinite personal Survival, conceived of as a reward for good behaviour and correct belief and a compensation for the miseries inseparable from life in a body. But for those who, within the various religious traditions, have accepted the Perennial Philosophy as a theory and have done their best to live it out in practice, heaven is something else. They aspire to be delivered out of separate selfhood in time and into eternity as realized in the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground. Since the Ground can and ought to be unitively known in the present life (whose ultimate end and purpose is nothing but this knowledge), heaven is not an exclusively posthumous condition. He only is completely saved who is delivered here and now. As to the means to salvation, these are simultaneously ethical, intellectual and spiritual and have been summed up with admirable clarity and economy in the Buddhas Eightfold Path. Complete deliverance is conditional on the following: first, Right Belief in the all too obvious truth that the cause of pain and evil is craving for separative, ego-centred existence, with its corollary that there can be no deliverance from evil, whether personal or collective, except by getting rid of such craving and the obsession of I, me, mine"; second, Right Will, the will to deliver oneself and others; third, Right Speech, directed by compassion and charity towards all sentient beings; fourth, Right Action, with the aim of creating and maintaining peace and good will; fifth, Right Means of Livelihood, or the choice only of such professions as are not harmful, in their exercise, to any human being or, if possible, any living creature; sixth, Right Effort towards Self-control; seventh, Right Attention or Recollectedness, to be practised in all the circumstances of life, so that we may never do evil by mere thoughtlessness, because we know not what we do"; and, eighth, Right Contemplation, the unitive knowledge of the Ground, to which recollectedness and the ethical self-naughting prescribed in the first six branches of the Path give access. Such then are the means which it is within the power of the human being to employ in order to achieve mans final end and be saved. Of the means which are employed by the divine Ground for helping human beings to reach their goal, the Buddha of the Pali scriptures (a teacher whose dislike of footless questions is no less intense than that of the severest experimental physicist of the twentieth century) declines to speak. All he is prepared to talk about is sorrow and the ending of sorrow the huge brute fact of pain and evil and the other, no less empirical fact that there is a method, by which the individual can free himself from evil and do something to diminish the sum of evil in the world around him. It is only in Mahayana Buddhism that the mysteries of grace are discussed with anything like the fulness of treatment accorded to the subject in the speculations of Hindu and especially Christian theology. The primitive, Hinayana teaching on deliverance is simply an elaboration of the Buddhas last recorded words: Decay is inherent in all component things. Work out your own salvation with diligence. As in the well-known passage quoted below, all the stress is upon personal effort.
Therefore, Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the Truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, shall not look for refuge to anyone beside themselves it is they who shall reach the very topmost Height. But they must be anxious to learn.
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The illusory salvations, against which we are warned in the other extracts, are of a different kind. The emphasis here is upon idolatry and superstitionabove all the idolatrous worship of the analytical reason and its notions, and the superstitious belief in rites, dogmas and confessions of faith as being somehow magically efficacious in themselves. Many Christians, as Law implies, have been guilty of these idolatries and superstitions. For them, complete deliverance into union with the divine Ground is impossible, either in this world or posthumously. The best they can hope for is a meritorious but still egocentric life in the body and some sort of happy posthumous longevity, as the Chinese call it, some form of Survival, paradisal perhaps, but still involved in time, separateness and multiplicity.
The beatitude into which the enlightened soul is delivered is something quite different from pleasure. What, then, is its nature? The quotations which follow provide at least a partial answer. Blessedness depends on non-attachment and selflessness, therefore can be enjoyed without satiety and without revulsion; is a participation in eternity, and therefore remains itself without diminution or fluctuation.
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next chapter: 1.14 - IMMORTALITY AND Survival
1.13 - THE HUMAN REBOUND OF EVOLUTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
but literally to be a condition of Survival for the human race. In
other words Evolution in rebounding reflectively upon itself, acquires
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reflectively upon itself. The Darwinian era of Survival by Natural Se-
lection (the vital thrust) is thus succeeded by a Lamarckian era of
1.14 - IMMORTALITY AND SURVIVAL, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
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Immortality and Survival
IMMORTALITY is participation in the eternal now of the divine Ground; Survival is persistence in one of the forms of time. Immortality is the result of total deliverance. Survival is the lot of those who are partially delivered into some heaven, or who are not delivered at all, but find themselves, by the law of their own untranscended nature, compelled to choose some purgatorial or embodied servitude even more painful than the one they have just left.
Goodness and virtue make men know and love, believe and delight in their immortality. When the soul is purged and enlightened by true sanctity, it is more capable of those divine irradiations, whereby it feels itself in conjunction with God. It knows that almighty Love, by which it lives, is stronger than death. It knows that God will never forsake His own life, which He has quickened in the soul. Those breathings and gaspings after an eternal participation of Him are but the energy of His own breath within us.
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There is a general agreement, East and West, that life in a body provides uniquely good opportunities for achieving salvation or deliverance. Catholic and Mahayana Buddhist doctrine is alike in insisting that the soul in its disembodied state after death cannot acquire merit, but merely suffers in purgatory the consequences of its past acts. But whereas Catholic orthodoxy declares that there is no possibility of progress in the next world, and that the degree of the souls beatitude is determined solely by what it has done and thought in its earthly life, the eschatologists of the Orient affirm that there are certain posthumous conditions in which meritorious souls are capable of advancing from a heaven of happy personal Survival to genuine immortality in union with the timeless, eternal Godhead. And, of course, there is also the possibility (indeed, for. most individuals, the necessity) of returning to some form of embodied life, in which the advance towards complete beatification, or deliverance through enlightenment, can be continued. Meanwhile, the fact that one has been born in a human body is one of the things for which, says Shankara, one should daily give thanks to God.
The spiritual creature which we are has need of a body, without which it could nowise attain that knowledge which it obtains as the only approach to those things, by knowledge of which it is made blessed.
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More precisely, good men spiritualize their mind-bodies; bad men incarnate and mentalize their spirits. The completely spiritualized mind-body is a Tathagata, who doesnt go anywhere when he dies, for the good reason that he is already, actually and consciously, where everyone has always potentially been without knowing. The person who has not, in this life, gone into Thusness, into the eternal principle of all states of being, goes at death into some particular state, either purgatorial or paradisal. In the Hindu scriptures and their commentaries several different kinds of posthumous salvation are distinguished. The thus-gone soul is completely delivered into complete union with the divine Ground; but it is also possible to achieve other kinds of mukti, or liberation, even while retaining a form of purified I-consciousness. The nature of any individuals deliverance after death depends upon three factors: the degree of holiness achieved by him while in the body, the particular aspect of the divine Reality to which he gave his primary allegiance, and the particular path he chose to follow. Similarly, in the Divine Comedy, Paradise has its various circles; but whereas in the oriental eschatologies the saved soul can go out of even sublimated individuality, out of Survival even in some kind of celestial time, to a complete deliverance into the eternal, Dantes souls remain for ever where (after passing through the unmeritorious sufferings of purgatory) they find themselves as the result of their single incarnation in a body. Orthodox Christian doctrine does not admit the possibility, either in the posthumous state or in some other embodiment, of any further growth towards the ultimate perfection of a total union with the Godhead. But in the Hindu and Buddhist versions of the Perennial Philosophy the divine mercy is matched by the divine patience: both are infinite. For oriental theologians there is no eternal damnation; there are only purgatories and then an indefinite series of second chances to go forward towards not only mans, but the whole creations final endtotal reunion with the Ground of all being.
Preoccupation with posthumous deliverance is not one of the means to such deliverance, and may easily, indeed, become an obstacle in the way of advance towards it. There is not the slightest reason to suppose that ardent spiritualists are more likely to be saved than those who have never attended a sance or familiarized themselves with the literature, speculative or evidential. My intention here is not to add to that literature, but rather to give the baldest summary of what has been written about the subject of Survival within the various religious traditions.
In oriental discussions of the subject, that which survives death is not the personality. Buddhism accepts the doctrine of reincarnation; but it is not a soul that passes on (Buddhism denies the existence of a soul); it is the character. What we choose to make of our mental and physical constitution in the course of our life on earth affects the psychic medium within which individual minds lead a part at least of their amphibious existence, and this modification of the medium results, after the bodys death, in the initiation of a new existence either in a heaven, or a purgatory, or another body.
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Either one of these conceptions of Survival is logically selfconsistent and can be made to save the appearances"in other words, to fit the odd and obscure facts of psychical research. The only personalities with which we have any direct acquaintance are incarnate beings, compounds of a body and some unknown x. But if x plus a body equals a personality, then, obviously, it is impossible for x minus a body to equal the same thing. The apparently personal entities which psychical research sometimes seems to discover can only be regarded as temporary pseudo-personalities compounded of x and the mediums body.
These two conceptions are not mutually exclusive, and Survival may be the joint product of a persistent consciousness and a modification of the psychic medium. If this is so, it is possible for a given human being to survive in more than one posthumous form. His soul the non-personal ground and principle of past and future personalitiesmay go marching on in one mode of being, while the traces left by his thoughts and volitions in the psychic medium may become the origin of new individualized existences, having quite other modes of being.
next chapter: 1.15 - SILENCE
1.14 - TURMOIL OR GENESIS?, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
expressing the condition of Survival for the human race? And
more especially how can we do other than feel that it is about the
1.15 - THE DIRECTIONS AND CONDITIONS OF THE FUTURE, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
the most profound. First conditions of Survival, then conditions of
health, and finally, above all, conditions of synthesis.
a First Conditions of Survival. I am not thinking particularly of
the possibility of a cosmic catastrophe which might render the earth
1.16 - Man, A Transitional Being, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
illumined mind, higher mind, then vital, and subtle physical. It becomes more and more ensnared and mired in its force, scattered into microscopic instincts or Survival-oriented tropisms, until its final dispersion in Matter, in which everything becomes fragmented. "In the 317
The Hour of God, 17:149
1.17 - DOES MANKIND MOVE BIOLOGICALLY UPON ITSELF?, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
ture, compelled for its own Survival to attach itself materially and
spiritually to others of its kind, and to an increasing extent as it
1.17 - The Transformation, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
anxious, or eager. This is the legacy of several millions of years of animal nature; our substance has retained the memory of all our struggles for Survival, and its immediate response is to tense up. This tension is one of the causes of death, as well as a major obstacle to establishing the true vibration. When we become tense because of a blow, we concentrate all our vital force in one point, as a defense; an enormous current abruptly passes through a tiny opening, which turns red and hurts. If we could learn to expand our physical consciousness and to absorb the blow instead of rejecting it, we would not suffer; all suffering, at any level whatsoever, is a narrowness of consciousness.
Similarly, if the warm, gold supramental dust were suddenly to fill our cells and the body reacted with its usual contraction, everything would explode. In other words, our cellular consciousness, like our mental and vital consciousness, must learn to expand and to universalize itself. Cosmic consciousness must be introduced there also. In mental silence, the mental consciousness universalizes itself; in vital peace,
1.18 - FAITH, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
The core and spiritual heart of all the higher religions is the Perennial Philosophy; and the Perennial Philosophy can be assented to and acted upon without resort to the kind of faith, about which Luther was writing in the foregoing passages. There must, of course, be faith as trust for confidence in ones fellows is the beginning of charity towards men, and confidence not only in the material, but also the moral and spiritual reliability of the universe, is the beginning of charity or love-knowledge in relation to God. There must also be faith in authority the authority of those whose selflessness has qualified them to know the spiritual Ground of all being by direct acquaintance as well as by report. And finally there must be faith in such propositions about Reality as are enunciated by philosophers in the light of genuine revelationpropositions which the believer knows that he can, if he is prepared to fulfil the necessary conditions, verify for himself. But, so long as the Perennial Philosophy is accepted in its essential simplicity, there is no need of willed assent to propositions known in advance to be unverifiable. Here it is necessary to add that such unverifiable propositions may become verifiable to the extent that intense faith affects the psychic substratum and so creates an existence, whose derived objectivity can actually be discovered out there. Let us, however, remember that an existence which derives its objectivity from the mental activity of those who intensely believe in it cannot possibly be the spiritual Ground of the world, and that a mind busily engaged in the voluntary and intellectual activity, which is religious faith cannot possibly be in the state of selflessness and alert passivity which is the necessary condition of the unitive knowledge of the Ground. That is why the Buddhists affirm that loving faith leads to heaven; but obedience to the Dharma leads to Nirvana. Faith in the existence and power of any supernatural entity which is less than ultimate spiritual Reality, and in any form of worship that falls short of self-naughting, will certainly, if the object of faith is intrinsically good, result in improvement of character, and probably in posthumous Survival of the improved personality under heavenly conditions. But this personal Survival within what is still the temporal order is not the eternal life of timeless union with the Spirit. This eternal life stands in the knowledge of the Godhead, not in faith in anything less than the Godhead.
The immortality attained through the acquisition of any objective condition (e.g., the conditionmerited through good works, which have been inspired by love of, and faith in, something less than the supreme Godheadof being united in act to what is worshipped) is liable to end; for it is distinctly stated in the Scriptures that karma is never the cause of emancipation.
1.19 - ON THE PROBABLE EXISTENCE AHEAD OF US OF AN ULTRA-HUMAN, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
ply a means of Survival, became gradually elevated to the function
and dignity of a "reason for living," it was inevitable that, with the
1.19 - The Curve of the Rational Age, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The individualistic democratic ideal brings us at first in actual practice to the more and more precarious rule of a dominant class in the name of democracy over the ignorant, numerous and less fortunate mass. Secondly, since the ideal of freedom and equality is abroad and cannot any longer be stifled, it must lead to the increasing effort of the exploited masses to assert their down-trodden right and to turn, if they can, this pseudodemocratic falsehood into the real democratic truth; therefore, to a war of classes. Thirdly, it develops inevitably as part of its process a perpetual strife of parties, at first few and simple in composition, but afterwards as at the present time an impotent and sterilising chaos of names, labels, programmes, war-cries. All lift the banner of conflicting ideas or ideals, but all are really fighting out under that flag a battle of conflicting interests. Finally, individualistic democratic freedom results fatally in an increasing stress of competition which replaces the ordered tyrannies of the infrarational periods of humanity by a sort of ordered conflict. And this conflict ends in the Survival not of the spiritually, rationally or physically fittest, but of the most fortunate and vitally successful. It is evident enough that, whatever else it may be, this is not a rational order of society; it is not at all the perfection which the individualistic reason of man had contemplated as its ideal or set out to accomplish.
The natural remedy for the first defects of the individualistic theory in practice would seem to be education; for if man is not by nature, we may hope at least that he can be made by education and training something like a rational being. Universal education, therefore, is the inevitable second step of the democratic movement in its attempt to rationalise human society. But a rational education means necessarily three things, first, to teach men how to observe and know rightly the facts on which they have to form a judgment; secondly, to train them to think fruitfully and soundly; thirdly, to fit them to use their knowledge and their thought effectively for their own and the common good. Capacity of observation and knowledge, capacity of intelligence and judgment, capacity of action and high character are required for the citizenship of a rational order of society; a general deficiency in any of these difficult requisites is a sure source of failure. Unfortunately,even if we suppose that any training made available to the millions can ever be of this rare character,the actual education given in the most advanced countries has not had the least relation to these necessities. And just as the first defects and failures of democracy have given occasion to the enemy to blaspheme and to vaunt the superiority or even the quite imaginary perfection of the ideal past, so also the first defects of its great remedy, education, have led many superior minds to deny the efficacy of education and its power to transform the human mind and driven them to condemn the democratic ideal as an exploded fiction.
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But if both equality and liberty disappear from the human scene, there is left only one member of the democratic trinity, brotherhood or, as it is now called, comradeship, that has some chance of Survival as part of the social basis. This is because it seems to square better with the spirit of collectivism; we see accordingly the idea of it if not the fact still insisted on in the new social systems, even those in which both liberty and equality are discarded as noxious democratic chimeras. But comradeship without liberty and equality can be nothing more than the like association of allindividuals, functional classes, guilds, syndicates, soviets or any other unitsin common service to the life of the nation under the absolute control of the collectivist State. The only liberty left at the end would be the freedom to serve the community under the rigorous direction of the State authority; the only equality would be an association of all alike in a Spartan or Roman spirit of civic service with perhaps a like status, theoretically equal at least for all functions; the only brotherhood would be the sense of comradeship in devoted dedication to the organised social Self, the State. In fact the democratic trinity, stripped of its godhead, would fade out of existence; the collectivist ideal can very well do without them, for none of them belong to its grain and very substance.
This is indeed already the spirit, the social reasonor rather the social gospelof the totalitarianism whose swelling tide threatens to engulf all Europe and more than Europe. Totalitarianism of some kind seems indeed to be the natural, almost inevitable destiny, at any rate the extreme and fullest outcome of Socialism or, more generally, of the collectivist idea and impulse. For the essence of Socialism, its justifying ideal, is the governance and strict organisation of the total life of the society as a whole and in detail by its own conscious reason and will for the best good and common interest of all, eliminating exploitation by individual or class, removing internal competition, haphazard confusion and waste, enforcing and perfecting coordination, assuring the best functioning and a sufficient life for all. If a democratic polity and machinery best assure such a working, as was thought at first, it is this that will be chosen and the result will be Social Democracy. That ideal still holds sway in northern Europe and it may there yet have a chance of proving that a successful collectivist rationalisation of society is quite possible. But if a non-democratic polity and machinery are found to serve the purpose better, then there is nothing inherently sacrosanct for the collectivist mind in the democratic ideal; it can be thrown on the rubbish-heap where so many other exploded sanctities have gone. Russian communism so discarded with contempt democratic liberty and attempted for a time to substitute for the democratic machine a new sovietic structure, but it has preserved the ideal of a proletarian equality for all in a classless society. Still its spirit is a rigorous totalitarianism on the basis of the dictatorship of the proletariate, which amounts in fact to the dictatorship of the Communist party in the name or on behalf of the proletariate. Non-proletarian totalitarianism goes farther and discards democratic equality no less than democratic liberty; it preserves classes for a time only, it may be,but as a means of social functioning, not as a scale of superiority or a hierarchic order. Rationalisation is no longer the turn; its place is taken by a revolutionary mysticism which seems to be the present drive of the Time Spirit.
1.2.01 - The Call and the Capacity, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
- first, because he has his psychic much more directly open to the Transcendent Divine. Leaving out the adjective, (for it is not many who are by nature drawn to the Transcendent, most seek more readily the Personal, the Divine immanent here, especially if they can find it in a human body), there is there no doubt an advantage. It arises simply from the strong Survival in India of an atmosphere of spiritual seeking, and a long tradition of practice and experience, while in Europe the atmosphere has been lost, the tradition interrupted and both have to be rebuilt. There is an absence too of the essential doubt which so much afflicts
The Call and the Capacity
1.20 - Death, Desire and Incapacity, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
9:This then is the necessity and justification of Death, not as a denial of Life, but as a process of Life; death is necessary because eternal change of form is the sole immortality to which the finite living substance can aspire and eternal change of experience the sole infinity to which the finite mind involved in living body can attain. This change of form cannot be allowed to remain merely a constant renewal of the same form-type such as constitutes our bodily life between birth and death; for unless the formtype is changed and the experiencing mind is thrown into new forms in new circumstances of time, place and environment, the necessary variation of experience which the very nature of existence in Time and Space demands, cannot be effectuated. And it is only the process of Death by dissolution and by the devouring of life by Life, it is only the absence of freedom, the compulsion, the struggle, the pain, the subjection to something that appears to be Not-Self which makes this necessary and salutary change appear terrible and undesirable to our mortal mentality. It is the sense of being devoured, broken up, destroyed or forced away which is the sting of Death and which even the belief in personal Survival of death cannot wholly abrogate.
10:But this process is a necessity of that mutual devouring which we see to be the initial law of Life in Matter. Life, says the Upanishad, is Hunger which is Death, and by this Hunger which is Death, asanaya mr.tyuh., the material world has been created. For Life here assumes as its mould material substance, and material substance is Being infinitely divided and seeking infinitely to aggregate itself; between these two impulses of infinite division and infinite aggregation the material existence of the universe is constituted. The attempt of the individual, the living atom, to maintain and aggrandise itself is the whole sense of Desire; a physical, vital, moral, mental increase by a more and more all-embracing experience, a more and more all-embracing possession, absorption, assimilation, enjoyment is the inevitable, fundamental, ineradicable impulse of Existence, once divided and individualised, yet ever secretly conscious of its all-embracing, all-possessing infinity. The impulse to realise that secret consciousness is the spur of the cosmic Divine, the lust of the embodied Self within every individual creature; and it is inevitable, just, salutary that it should seek to realise it first in the terms of life by an increasing growth and expansion. In the physical world this can only be done by feeding on the environment, by aggrandising oneself through the absorption of others or of what is possessed by others; and this necessity is the universal justification of Hunger in all its forms. Still what devours must also be devoured; for the law of interchange, of action and reaction, of limited capacity and therefore of a final exhaustion and succumbing governs all life in the physical world.
1.21 - FROM THE PRE-HUMAN TO THE ULTRA-HUMAN, THE PHASES OF A LIVING PLANET, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
not inwardly intent upon "superliving," or at least upon Survival.
No evolutionary mechanism can have any power over a cosmic
1.21 - IDOLATRY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
How different is the case with the developed and more modern forms of idolatry! These have achieved not merely Survival, but the highest degree of respectability. They are recommended by men of science as an up-to-date substitute for genuine religion and by many professional religious teachers are equated with the worship of God. All this may be deplorable; but it is not in the least surprising. Our education disparages the more primitive forms of idolatry; but at the same time it disparages, or at the best it ignores, the Perennial Philosophy and the practice of spirituality. In place of mumbo-jumbo at the bottom and of the immanent and transcendent Godhead at the top, it sets up, as objects of admiration, faith and worship, a pantheon of strictly human ideas and ideals. In academic circles and among those who have been subjected to higher education, there are few fetishists and few devout contemplatives; but the enthusiastic devotees of some form of political or social idolatry are as common as blackberries. Significantly enough, I have observed, when making use of university libraries, that books on spiritual religion were taken out much less frequently than was the case in public libraries, patronized in the main by men and women who had not enjoyed the advantages, or suffered under the handicaps, of prolonged academic instruction.
The many varieties of higher idolatry may be classed under three main heads: technological, political and moral. Technological idolatry is the most ingenuous and primitive of the three; for its devotees, like those of the lower idolatry, believe that their redemption and liberation depend upon material objectsin this case gadgets. Technological idolatry is the religion whose doctrines are promulgated, explicitly or by implication, in the advertisement pages of our newspapers and magazines the source, we may add parenthetically, from which millions of men, women and children in the capitalistic countries derive their working philosophy of life. In Soviet Russia too, technological idolatry was strenuously preached, becoming, during the years of that countrys industrialization, a kind of state religion. So whole-hearted is the modern faith in technological idols that (despite all the lessons of mechanized warfare) it is impossible to discover in the popular thinking of our time any trace of the ancient and profoundly realistic doctrine of hubris and inevitable nemesis. There is a very general belief that, where gadgets are concerned, we can get something for nothingcan enjoy all the advantages of an elaborate, top-heavy and constantly advancing technology without having to pay for them by any compensating disadvantages.
1.21 - The Ascent of Life, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
1:WE HAVE seen that as the divided mortal Mind, parent of limitation and ignorance and the dualities, is only a dark figure of the supermind, of the self-luminous divine Consciousness in its first dealings with the apparent negation of itself from which our cosmos commences, so also Life as it emerges in our material universe, an energy of the dividing Mind subconscious, submerged, imprisoned in Matter, Life as the parent of death, hunger and incapacity, is only a dark figure of the divine superconscient Force whose highest terms are immortality, satisfied delight and omnipotence. This relation fixes the nature of that great cosmic processus of which we are a part; it determines the first, the middle and the ultimate terms of our evolution. The first terms of Life are division, a forcedriven subconscient will, apparent not as will but as dumb urge of physical energy, and the impotence of an inert subjection to the mechanical forces that govern the interchange between the form and its environment. This inconscience and this blind but potent action of Energy are the type of the material universe as the physical scientist sees it and this his view of things extends and turns into the whole of basic existence; it is the consciousness of Matter and the accomplished type of material living. But there comes a new equipoise, there intervenes a new set of terms which increase in proportion as Life delivers itself out of this form and begins to evolve towards conscious Mind; for the middle terms of Life are death and mutual devouring, hunger and conscious desire, the sense of a limited room and capacity and the struggle to increase, to expand, to conquer and to possess. These three terms are the basis of that status of evolution which the Darwinian theory first made plain to human knowledge. For the phenomenon of death involves in itself a struggle to survive, since death is only the negative term in which Life hides from itself and tempts its own positive being to seek for immortality. The phenomenon of hunger and desire involves a struggle towards a status of satisfaction and security, since desire is only the stimulus by which Life tempts its own positive being to rise out of the negation of unfulfilled hunger towards the full possession of the delight of existence. The phenomenon of limited capacity involves a struggle towards expansion, mastery and possession, the possession of the self and the conquest of the environment, since limitation and defect are only the negation by which Life tempts its own positive being to seek for the perfection of which it is eternally capable. The struggle for life is not only a struggle to survive, it is also a struggle for possession and perfection, since only by taking hold of the environment whether more or less, whether by self-adaptation to it or by adapting it to oneself either by accepting and conciliating it or by conquering and changing it, can Survival be secured, and equally is it true that only a greater and greater perfection can assure a continuous permanence, a lasting Survival. It is this truth that Darwinism sought to express in the formula of the Survival of the fittest.
2:But as the scientific mind sought to extend to Life the mechanical principle proper to the existence and concealed mechanical consciousness in Matter, not seeing that a new principle has entered whose very reason of being is to subject to itself the mechanical, so the Darwinian formula was used to extend too largely the aggressive principle of Life, the vital selfishness of the individual, the instinct and process of self-preservation, selfassertion and aggressive living. For these two first states of Life contain in themselves the seeds of a new principle and another state which must increase in proportion as Mind evolves out of matter through the vital formula into its own law. And still more must all things change when as Life evolves upward towards Mind, so Mind evolves upward towards Supermind and Spirit. Precisely because the struggle for Survival, the impulse towards permanence is contradicted by the law of death, the individual life is compelled, and used, to secure permanence rather for its species than for itself; but this it cannot do without the co-operation of others; and the principle of co-operation and mutual help, the desire of others, the desire of the wife, the child, the friend and helper, the associated group, the practice of association, of conscious joining and interchange are the seeds out of which flowers the principle of love. Let us grant that at first love may only be an extended selfishness and that this aspect of extended selfishness may persist and dominate, as it does still persist and dominate, in higher stages of the evolution: still as mind evolves and more and more finds itself, it comes by the experience of life and love and mutual help to perceive that the natural individual is a minor term of being and exists by the universal. Once this is discovered, as it is inevitably discovered by man the mental being, his destiny is determined; for he has reached the point at which Mind can begin to open to the truth that there is something beyond itself; from that moment his evolution, however obscure and slow, towards that superior something, towards Spirit, towards supermind, towards supermanhood is inevitably predetermined.
3:Therefore Life is predestined by its own nature to a third status, a third set of terms of its self-expression. If we examine this ascent of Life we shall see that the last terms of its actual evolution, the terms of that which we have called its third status, must necessarily be in appearance the very contradiction and opposite but in fact the very fulfilment and transfiguration of its first conditions. Life starts with the extreme divisions and rigid forms of Matter, and of this rigid division the atom, which is the basis of all material form, is the very type. The atom stands apart from all others even in its union with them, rejects death and dissolution under any ordinary force and is the physical type of the separate ego defining its existence against the principle of fusion in Nature. But unity is as strong a principle in Nature as division; it is indeed the master principle of which division is only a subordinate term, and to the principle of unity every divided form must therefore subordinate itself in one fashion or another by mechanical necessity, by compulsion, by assent or inducement. Therefore, if Nature for her own ends, in order principally to have a firm basis for her combinations and a fixed seed of forms, allows the atom ordinarily to resist the process of fusion by dissolution, she compels it to subserve the process of fusion by aggregation; the atom, as it is the first aggregate, is also the first basis of aggregate unities.
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5:We have then two principles in Life, the necessity or the will of the separate ego to survive in its distinctness and guard its identity and the compulsion imposed upon it by Nature to fuse itself with others. In the physical world she lays much stress on the former impulse; for she needs to create stable separate forms, since it is her first and really her most difficult problem to create and maintain any such thing as a separative Survival of individuality and a stable form for it in the incessant flux and motion of Energy and in the unity of the infinite. In the atomic life therefore the individual form persists as the basis and secures by its aggregation with others the more or less prolonged existence of aggregate forms which shall be the basis of vital and mental individualisations. But as soon as Nature has secured a sufficient firmness in this respect for the safe conduct of her ulterior operations, she reverses the process; the individual form perishes and the aggregate life profits by the elements of the form that is thus dissolved. This, however, cannot be the last stage; that can only be reached when the two principles are harmonised, when the individual is able to persist in the consciousness of his individuality and yet fuse himself with others without disturbance of preservative equilibrium and interruption of Survival.
6:The terms of the problem presuppose the full emergence of Mind; for in vitality without conscious mind there can be no equation, but only a temporary unstable equilibrium ending in the death of the body, the dissolution of the individual and the dispersal of its elements into the universality. The nature of physical Life forbids the idea of an individual form possessing the same inherent power of persistence and therefore of continued individual existence as the atoms of which it is composed. Only a mental being, supported by the psychic nodus within which expresses or begins to express the secret soul, can hope to persist by his power of linking on the past to the future in a stream of continuity which the breaking of the form may break in the physical memory but need not destroy in the mental being itself and which may even by an eventual development bridge over the gap of physical memory created by death and birth of the body. Even as it is, even in the present imperfect development of embodied mind, the mental being is conscious in the mass of a past and a future extending beyond the life of the body; he becomes aware of an individual past, of individual lives that have created his and of which he is a development and modified reproduction and of future individual lives which his is creating out of itself; he is conscious also of an aggregate life past and future through which his own continuity runs as one of its fibres. This which is evident to physical Science in the terms of heredity, becomes otherwise evident to the developing soul behind the mental being in the terms of persistent personality. The mental being expressive of this soul-consciousness is therefore the nodus of the persistent individual and the persistent aggregate life; in him their union and harmony become possible.
7:Association with love as its secret principle and its emergent summit is the type, the power of this new relation and therefore the governing principle of the development into the third status of life. The conscious preservation of individuality along with the consciously accepted necessity and desire of interchange, self-giving and fusion with other individuals, is necessary for the working of the principle of love; for if either is abolished, the working of love ceases, whatever may take its place. Fulfilment of love by entire self-immolation, even with an illusion of selfannihilation, is indeed an idea and an impulse in the mental being, but it points to a development beyond this third status of Life. This third status is a condition in which we rise progressively beyond the struggle for life by mutual devouring and the Survival of the fittest by that struggle; for there is more and more a Survival by mutual help and a self-perfectioning by mutual adaptation, interchange and fusion. Life is a self-affirmation of being, even a development and Survival of ego, but of a being that has need of other beings, an ego that seeks to meet and include other egos and to be included in their life. The individuals and the aggregates who develop most the law of association and the law of love, of common help, kindliness, affection, comradeship, unity, who harmonise most successfully Survival and mutual selfgiving, the aggregate increasing the individual and the individual the aggregate, as well as individual increasing individual and aggregate aggregate by mutual interchange, will be the fittest for Survival in this tertiary status of the evolution.
8:This development is significant of the increasing predominance of Mind5 which progressively imposes its own law more and more upon the material existence. For Mind by its greater subtlety does not need to devour in order to assimilate, possess and grow; rather the more it gives, the more it receives and grows; and the more it fuses itself into others, the more it fuses others into itself and increases the scope of its being. Physical life exhausts itself by too much giving and ruins itself by too much devouring; but though Mind in proportion as it leans on the law of Matter suffers the same limitation, yet, on the other hand, in proportion as it grows into its own law it tends to overcome this limitation, and in proportion as it overcomes the material limitation giving and receiving become one. For in its upward ascent it grows towards the rule of conscious unity in differentiation which is the divine law of the manifest Sachchidananda.
1.21 - The Spiritual Aim and Life, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It may be suggested on the contrary and with some chance of knocking at the right door that the radical defect of all our systems is their deficient development of just that which society has most neglected, the spiritual element, the soul in man which is his true being. Even to have a healthy body, a strong vitality and an active and clarified mind and a field for their action and enjoyment, carries man no more than a certain distance; afterwards he flags and tires for want of a real self-finding, a satisfying aim for his action and progress. These three things do not make the sum of a complete manhood; they are means to an ulterior end and cannot be made for ever an aim in themselves. Add a rich emotional life governed by a well-ordered ethical standard, and still there is the savour of something left out, some supreme good which these things mean, but do not in themselves arrive at, do not discover till they go beyond themselves. Add a religious system and a widespread spirit of belief and piety, and still you have not found the means of social salvation. All these things human society has developed, but none of them has saved it from disillusionment, weariness and decay. The ancient intellectual cultures of Europe ended in disruptive doubt and sceptical impotence, the pieties of Asia in stagnation and decline. Modern society has discovered a new principle of Survival, progress, but the aim of that progress it has never discovered,unless the aim is always more knowledge, more equipment, convenience and comfort, more enjoyment, a greater and still greater complexity of the social economy, a more and more cumbrously opulent life. But these things must lead in the end where the old led, for they are only the same thing on a larger scale; they lead in a circle, that is to say, nowhere: they do not escape from the cycle of birth, growth, decay and death, they do not really find the secret of self-prolongation by constant self-renewal which is the principle of immortality, but only seem for a moment to find it by the illusion of a series of experiments each of which ends in disappointment. That so far has been the nature of modern progress. Only in its new turn inwards, towards a greater subjectivity now only beginning, is there a better hope; for by that turning it may discover that the real truth of man is to be found in his soul. It is not indeed certain that a subjective age will lead us there, but it gives us the possibility, can turn in that direction, if used rightly, the more inward movement.
It will be said that this is an old discovery and that it governed the old societies under the name of religion. But that was only an appearance. The discovery was there, but it was made for the life of the individual only, and even for him it looked beyond the earth for its fulfilment and at earth only as the place of his preparation for a solitary salvation or release from the burden of life. Human society itself never seized on the discovery of the soul as a means for the discovery of the law of its own being or on a knowledge of the souls true nature and need and its fulfilment as the right way of terrestrial perfection. If we look at the old religions in their social as apart from their individual aspect, we see that the use society made of them was only of their most unspiritual or at any rate of their less spiritual parts. It made use of them to give an august, awful and would-be eternal sanction to its mass of customs and institutions; it made of them a veil of mystery against human questioning and a shield of darkness against the innovator. So far as it saw in religion a means of human salvation and perfection, it laid hands upon it at once to mechanise it, to catch the human soul and bind it on the wheels of a socio-religious machinery, to impose on it in the place of spiritual freedom an imperious yoke and an iron prison. It saddled upon the religious life of man a Church, a priesthood and a mass of ceremonies and set over it a pack of watchdogs under the name of creeds and dogmas, dogmas which one had to accept and obey under pain of condemnation to eternal hell by an eternal judge beyond, just as one had to accept and to obey the laws of society on pain of condemnation to temporal imprisonment or death by a mortal judge below. This false socialisation of religion has been always the chief cause of its failure to regenerate mankind.
1.22 - THE END OF THE SPECIES, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
not all hopes permitted to us in the matter of Survival and irre-
versibility?
1.27 - CONTEMPLATION, ACTION AND SOCIAL UTILITY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
A question now, quite naturally, presents itself: Who is called to that highest form of prayer which is contemplation? The answer is unequivocally plain. All are called to contemplation, because all are called to achieve deliverance, which is nothing else but the knowledge that unites the knower with what is known, namely the eternal Ground or Godhead. The oriental exponents of the Perennial Philosophy would probably deny that everyone is called here and now; in this particular life, they would say, it may be to all intents and purposes impossible for a given individual to achieve more than a partial deliverance, such as personal Survival in some kind of heaven, from which there may be either an advance towards total liberation or else a return to those material conditions which, as all the masters of the spiritual life agree, are so uniquely propitious for taking the cosmic intelligence test that results in enlightenment. In orthodox Christianity it is denied that the individual soul can have more than one incarnation, or that it can make any progress in its posthumous existence. If it goes to hell, it stays there. If it goes to purgatory, it merely expiates past evil doing, so as to become capable of the beatific vision. And when it gets to heaven, it has just so much of the beatific vision as its conduct during its one brief life on earth made it capable of, and everlastingly no more. Granted these postulates, it follows that, if all are called to contemplation, they are called to it from that particular position in the hierarchy of being, to which nature, nurture, free will and grace have conspired to assign them. In the words of an eminent contemporary theologian, Father Garigou-Lagrange, all souls receive a general remote call to the mystical life, and if all were faithful in avoiding, as they should, not only mortal but venial sins, if they were, each according to his condition, generally docile to the Holy Ghost, and if they lived long enough, a day would come when they would receive the proximate and efficacious vocation to a high perfection and to the mystical life properly so called. This view that the life of mystical contemplation is the proper and normal development of the interior life of recollectedness and devotion to Godis then justified by the following considerations. First, the principle of the two lives is the same. Second, it is only in the life of mystical contemplation that the interior life finds its consummation. Third, their end, which is eternal life, is the same; moreover only the life of mystical contemplation prepares imme thately and perfectly for that end.
There are few contemplatives, because few souls are perfectly humble.
1.28 - Need to Define God, Self, etc., #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
As "higher" gave the idea of aggression, of conquest, "within" usually implies safety. Always we get back to that stage of history when the social unit, based on the family, was little less than condition No. 1 of Survival. The house, the castle, the fortified camp, the city wall; the "gens," the clan, the tribe, the "patrie," to be outside means danger from cold, hunger and thirst, raiding parties, highway robbers, bears, wolves, and tigers. To go out was to take a risk; and, your labour and courage being assets to your kinsmen, you were also a bad man; in fact, a "bounder" or "outsider." "Debauch" is simply "to go out of doors!" St. John says: "without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and adulterers and idolaters and..." so on.[52]
We of Thelema challenge all this briskly. "The word of Sin is Restriction." (AL I, 41). Our formula, roughly speaking, is to go out and grab what we want. We do this so thoroughly that we grow thereby, extending our conception of "I" by including each new accretion instead of remaining a closely delineated self, proud of possessing other things, as do the Black Brothers.
14.04 - More of Yajnavalkya, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I have said that Yajnavalkya had two wives. You did not ask me why: for to us moderns such a thing is not only immoral but inconvenient; it is however another story, a long story. In those days, those far-off early days of mankind, thousands and thousands, millions perhaps, of years ago, it was the law, die social custom and it became a duty, to have more than one wife and the relation too between man and woman was much freer and more loose. That was because, as you know, man started his earthly life at a certain stage of creation; before that stage there was no man, there were only animals. The earth was filled with animals, only animals, wild animals, ferocious animals, insects, worms, all kinds of ugly and dangerous creatures. Man came long, long after; he is almost a recent appearance. It was a mysterious, indeed a miraculous happening, how all of a sudden, out of or in the midst of animals there appeared a new creature, quite a different type of animal. Still in whatever way it happened, they were not many in number. The first creation of man must have been a very limited operation, limited in space, limited in number. Perhaps they sprouted up like mushrooms here and there, a hundred here, another hundred there, or perhaps a few thousands few and far between. So man led a dangerous and precarious life. All around him these animals, some too big, some too small to be tackled withstood against him, and Nature also was as wild and as much against him. So for self-preservation and Survival they needed to be numerous, to increase in number as much as possible. It is exactly what is needed in war; the larger the number of troops, the greater the chance of winning the war. So the impulse in man, in the social aggregate was to have more men, increase the number, to streng then the extent and volume of the force to be able to fight successfully against the enemy. So a necessity became a religious duty to multiply, to procreate and redouble the race. In later days, even when the necessity was not so imperative, even then the habit and custom continued. To beget children was a praiseworthy thing, the more the number the greater the merit. Women who had numerous children were considered favourites of the gods. King Dasharatha had, it appears, a thousand wives, King Dhritarashtra had more than a hundred, Vashishtha had a hundred sons and King Sagar a thousand. Draupadi had five husbands and she was considered the ideal chaste woman.
In the modern age we have gone to the other extreme, we have tided over the danger of under-population. At the present day it is over-population that threatens the existence of mankind. Now we are anxious, we are racking our brains, trying to find out all kinds of means and ways to restrict and control any increase in population.
1.46 - The Corn-Mother in Many Lands, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
meaningless Survivals. The reader may, however, remember that
according to Mannhardt, whose theory I am expounding, the spirit of
1.64 - The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
regard it as a mitigated Survival of an older custom of actually
burning them. Thus in Aachen, as we saw, the man clad in peas-straw
1.68 - The Golden Bough, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
would be gone. This may be a Survival of the old superstition that
the plant in which the life of the sacred tree was concentrated
1.75 - The AA and the Planet, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
This by the way: the essence this letter is to show that "They", not one person but a number acting in concert, not only foresaw a planet-wide catastrophe, but were agreed on measures calculated to assure the Survival of the Wisdom worth saving until the time, perhaps three hundred or six hundred years later, when a new current should revive the shattered thought of mankind.
The Equinox, in a word, was to be a sort of Rosetta Stone.
1.80 - Life a Gamble, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Risks, we have agreed, are always unavoidable; but we can calculate them. The best and wisest man I ever knew, the late Oscar Eckenstein, was once offered a job which gave him a fifty percent chance of Survival. He calmly sat down, worked out his "expectation of life," his "expectation of income," and the Lord alone knows what other factors. It came out that the pay offered was a thousand pounds or so less than he might expect normally, so he turned down the offer. Not a trace of sentiment of any kind!
Now let us consider an "A.B. case." John Jeremiah Jenkins sees a short cut to his performance of the Great work. To seize this opportunity, he must give up a steady job with good prospects and as near safety as is possible in the nature of things, for a slim chance of a career in the most insecure of all the professions.
1958 11 28, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
11Immortality is not the Survival of the mental personality after death, though that also is true, but the waking possession of the unborn and deathless Self of which body is only an instrument and a shadow.
There are three statements here which have raised questions. First, What is the mental personality?
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But there is some misunderstanding about this word Immortality and this is not something new; it is a misunderstanding which has recurred very frequently. When one speaks of immortality most people understand it as the indefinite Survival of the body.
The body can survive indefinitely only if, in the first place, it becomes fully conscious of this immortal Self and unites with it, identifies with it to the extent of having the same capacity, the same faculty of constant transformation which would enable it to follow the universal movement. This is an absolutely indispensable condition if the body is to endure. Because the body is rigid, because it does not follow the movement, because it cannot transform itself rapidly enough to constantly identify itself with the universal evolution, it decomposes and dies. Its fixity, its rigidity, its incapacity to transform itself, make its destruction necessary, so that its substance may return to the general realm of physical substance and so that the body may be remoulded into new forms in order to become capable of further progress. But usually, when one speaks of immortality, people think of physical immortalityit goes without saying that this has not yet been realised.
1.anon - The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet XI The Story of the Flood, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen
by which a man can attain his Survival(!).
I will bring it to Uruk-Haven,
1f.lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
northern edge are the only Survivals, is a matter of common
information; and we hoped to expand that information in variety,
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stone Survival had projected its image across the mountains according
to the simple laws of reflection. Of course the phantom had been
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this monstrous Survival from aeons we had thought pre-human, I can only
wonder that we preserved the semblance of equilibrium which we did. Of
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Survival from nightmare antiquity. The speculations worked on his
imagination, too; for in one placewhere a debris-littered alley turned
1f.lovecraft - Ibid, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
^1 Rome and Byzantium: A Study in Survival (Waukesha, 1869), Vol. XX,
p. 598.
1f.lovecraft - The Call of Cthulhu, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Survival . . . a Survival of a hugely remote period when . . .
consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long
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hinted at strange Survivals in terms which would freeze the blood if
not masked by a bland optimism. But it is not from them that there came
1f.lovecraft - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Survival into the eighteenth century, and became quickly certain that
the document was genuine. The text itself was relatively trivial, and
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his travels and who plainly claimed to be Survivals or avatars of
Curwens old Salem colleagues; that he was regarding himself as the
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once the light failed, his only hope of rescue and Survival would lie
in whatever relief party Mr. Ward might send after missing him for a
1f.lovecraft - The Diary of Alonzo Typer, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Survivals of things older and more potent than man; things that have
blasphemously straggled down through the aeons to ages never meant for
1f.lovecraft - The Dreams in the Witch House, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
and its Survival of the second stage would depend upon what alien part
of three-dimensional space it might select for its re-entry. Denizens
1f.lovecraft - The Haunter of the Dark, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
long-planned novelbased on a supposed Survival of the witch-cult in
Mainebut was strangely unable to make progress with it. More and more
1f.lovecraft - The Horror in the Museum, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
certain remote places where strange Survivals are hidden Survivals of
aeons and life-cycles earlier than mankind, and in some cases connected
1f.lovecraft - The Shadow out of Time, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
unprepared for anything like a tangible Survival from a lost world
remote beyond all imagination. Most devastating of all were the
1f.lovecraft - The Shadow over Innsmouth, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
unaltered Survival from the past.
But I was not to reach my destination without one very strong
1f.lovecraft - The Thing on the Doorstep, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
him, and in so doing purged the earth of a horror whose Survival might
have loosed untold terrors on all mankind. There are black zones of
1f.lovecraft - The Very Old Folk, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
encyclopdias tell of the Survival of Pompelo to this day, under the
modern Spanish name of Pompelona. . . .
1f.lovecraft - The Whisperer in Darkness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
touched. There would be odd Survivals of that continuous native life
whose deep roots make it the one authentic outgrowth of the
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at obscure secrets and immemorial Survivals which might or might not be
hostile to mankind. For a time our course followed a broad, shallow
1f.lovecraft - Winged Death, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
when Moore diedbut after all, the Survival and return of some of the
things is not impossible. It is perfectly plausible that the blue
1.jlb - Inscription on any Tomb, #Borges - Poems, #Jorge Luis Borges, #Poetry
when its Survival is assured by the lives of others,
when you yourself are the embodied continuance
2.01 - The Attributes of Omega Point - a Transcendent God, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
The personality of God (together with the Survival of the
'soul') calls out the greatest opposition and antipathy from
2.02 - Habit 2 Begin with the End in Mind, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
Effectiveness -- often even Survival -- does not depend solely on how much effort we expend, but on whether or not the effort we expend is in the right jungle. And the metamorphosis taking place in most every industry and profession demands leadership first and management second.
In business, the market is changing so rapidly that many products and services that successfully met consumer tastes and needs a few years ago are obsolete today. Proactive powerful leadership must constantly monitor environmental change, particularly customer buying habits and motives, and provide the force necessary to organize resources in the right direction.
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Money Centeredness. Another logical and extremely common center to people's lives is making money. Economic security is basic to one's opportunity to do much in any other dimension. In a hierarchy or continuum of needs, physical Survival and financial security comes first. Other needs are not even activated until that basic need is satisfied, at least minimally.
Most of us face economic worries. Many forces in the wider culture can and do act upon our economic situation, causing or threatening such disruption that we often experience concern and worry that may not always rise to the conscious surface.
2.02 - THE EXPANSION OF LIFE, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
accident or means of Survival, is promptly transformed and used
as an instrument of progress and conquest. Life at fust seems to
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strength and resources. ' Survival of the fittest by natural selec-
tion ' is not a meaningless expression, provided it is not taken to
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mishap. It increases its chances of Survival and at the same time
multiplies its chances of progress.
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accidental Survival of a few permanently fixed lines, its story has
come to an end unless by a process of self-fertilisation it starts
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Were it not for the accidental Survival of the strange Amphioxus,
we should have no idea of the multiple stages that the Chotdate
2.03 - DEMETER, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
the struggle for Survival, natural selection and so on. From this
point of view, the animate world could never advance if it
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case simply as the Survival of the fittest, or as a mechanical
adaptation to environment and us. So what follows ?
2.03 - Karmayogin A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
Those communities have a better chance of Survival which
linger in the rajaso-tamasic stage. For that is a social period when
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the Survival of a barbarous and senselessly cruel system of punishment, are striking evidences of prevalent tamas. The rajasic
element is weaker but evident enough in the religious, intellectual
2.05 - Habit 3 Put First Things First, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
The store owners were struggling for Survival, let alone prosperity. They had employment problems, cost problems, inventory problems, and a host of other problems. Most of them had no training in management at all. Some were fairly good merchandisers, but they needed help. The tenants didn't even want to see the shopping center owners; they were just one more problem to contend with.
So the owners decided to be proactive. They determined their purpose, their values, their priorities.
2.08 - Memory, Self-Consciousness and the Ignorance, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
These questions our surface mind by itself has no means of solving; it can only speculate upon them endlessly and arrive at more or less well-reasoned opinions. The belief in our immortality is only a faith, the belief in our mortality is only a faith. It is impossible for the materialist to prove that our consciousness ends with the death of the body; for he may indeed show that there is as yet no convincing proof that anything in us consciously survives, but equally there is and there can be in the nature of things no proof that our conscious self does not outlast the physical dissolution. Survival of the body by the human personality may hereafter be proved even to the satisfaction of the sceptic; but even then what will be established will only be a greater continuity and not the eternity of the conscious being.
In fact, if we look at the mind's concept of this eternity, we see that it comes only to a continuous succession of moments of being in an eternal Time. Therefore it is Time that is eternal and not the continuously momentary conscious being. But, on the other hand, there is nothing in mind-evidence to show that eternal Time really exists or that Time itself is anything more than the conscious being's way of looking at some uninterrupted continuity or, it may be, eternity of existence as an indivisible flow which it conceptually measures by the successions and simultaneities of the experiences through which alone that existence is represented to it. If there is an eternal Existence which is a conscious being, it must be beyond Time which it contains, timeless as we say; it must be the Eternal of the Vedanta who, we may then conjecture, uses Time only as a conceptual perspective for His view of His self-manifestation. But the timeless selfknowledge of this Eternal is beyond mind; it is a supramental
2.0 - THE ANTICHRIST, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
"waters"; it was that people's _last_ chance of Survival wrested from
the world at enormous pains, the _residuum_ of its political autonomy:
2.1.03 - Man and Superman, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
death of the body. Consciousness then is a circumstance of body and incapable of Survival of the body. There is no such thing per se as consciousness. A consciousness not dependent on the body, expressing itself in it as its instrument, a soul or spirit, is therefore a myth, an imagination; if it existed, it would be an unwarrantable intrusion into the nature of things as seen in this material universe; or, since everything in this universe is dependent on Matter, arose from Matter, is a circumstance or result of Matter and returns to Matter, soul too would be a circumstance or result of Matter, would act by it and in it only, would return finally to Matter. Consciousness itself is a phenomenon of Matter, is nothing but Matter in action, a combination of phenomenal action of chemical or other physical entities and operations and can be nothing else. It is unproven and unprovable, - though it may be that it is also not disproved and not disprovable. Either it must be left in a barren light or no light of agnosticism or is at most a matter of faith and not of knowledge.
But all this only means that Science has not any adequate means to deal precisely with the supraphysical nor can it collect and handle all the necessary data; it can deal only with the physical and with the physical side of the supraphysical; and that is not enough. Faith and knowledge are themselves supraphysical things with which Science cannot deal; for psychology at present is not a science; it is only a dispute between different bundles of inferences and guesses.
2.1.3 - Wrong Movements of the Vital, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It would make it easier if you could get rid of certain fixed ideas and of the habitual reaction of depression or despair when these recurrences come. For instance, you ought to throw away once for all this idea of Xs malediction; it is a thing of the past and it is only the physical minds memory of it that gives it some appearance of Survival. The difficulties we are now meeting have nothing to do with X; they are part only of the necessity of conquest over the habits of the physical consciousness and he has nothing to do there and no influence of any kind whatever. Also dismiss any question about the possibility of conversion of your vital being; you should see rather that it is certain and not merely possible. This idea of identification with the dark Shakti is also another old notion which you ought to root out without cherishing any least trace of it. It has no meaning on the plane of the physical and vital physical consciousness where the whole work is now going on and to nourish any such ideas can only hamper your progress. Finally, when there are these recurrences, do not allow yourself to be depressed by them, but simply observe and stand back and call in the higher force with the full confidence that these are mechanical recurrences and in substance nothing morehowever strong they may seem in appearance. The principle of mechanical repetition is very strong in the material nature, so strong that it makes one easily think that it is incurable. That however is only a trick of the forces of this material inconscience; it is by creating this impression that they try to endure. If, on the contrary, you remain firm, refuse to be depressed or discouraged and, even in the moment of attack, affirm the certainty of eventual victory, the victory itself will come much more easily and sooner.
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2.14 - On Movements, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
A question regarding Survival after death and projection of the being to another place came in.
Disciple: It seems that Sister Nivedita used to feel the presence of Vivekananda in the place where she lived.
2.14 - The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Whatever is formulated in the universe has a Force or Forces that support it, seek to fulfil or further it, find their foundation in its functioning, their account of success in its success and growth and domination, their self-fulfilment or their prolongation of being in its victory or Survival. 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
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The individual animal being in its first conscious selfaffirmation has to rely on two sources of knowledge. As it is nescient and helpless, a small modicum of uninformed surface consciousness in a world unknown to it, the secret ConsciousForce sends up to this surface the minimum of intuition necessary for it to maintain its existence and go through the operations indispensable to life and Survival. This intuition is not possessed by the animal, but possesses and moves it; it is something that manifests of itself in the grain of the vital and physical substance of consciousness under pressure of a need and for the needed occasion: but at the same time a surface result of this intuition accumulates and takes the form of an automatic instinct which works whenever the occasion for it recurs; this instinct belongs to the race and is imparted at birth to its individual members. The intuition, when it occurs or recurs, is unerring; the instinct is automatically correct as a rule, but can err, for it fails or blunders when the surface consciousness or an ill-developed intelligence interferes or if the instinct continues to act mechanically when, owing to changed circumstances, the need or the necessary circumstances are no longer there. The second source of knowledge is surface contact with the world outside the natural individual being; it is this contact which is the cause first of a conscious sensation and sense-perception and then of intelligence. If there were not an underlying consciousness, the contact would not create any
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Here the second of the primary conditions of the evolution, the law of a separate life-being affirming itself in a world which is not-self to it, comes into prominence and assumes an immense importance. It is here that the surface vital personality or life-self asserts its dominance, and this dominance of the ignorant vital being is a principal active source of discord and disharmony, a cause of inner and outer perturbations of the life, a mainspring of wrong-doing and evil. The natural vital element in us, in so far as it is unchecked or untrained or retains its primitive character, is not concerned with truth or right consciousness or right action; it is concerned with self-affirmation, with life-growth, with possession, with satisfaction of impulse, with all satisfactions of desire. This main need and demand of the life-self seems allimportant to it; it would readily carry it out without any regard to truth or right or good or any other consideration: but because mind is there and has these conceptions, because the soul is there and has these soul-perceptions, it tries to dominate mind and get from it by dictation a sanction and order of execution for its own will of self-affirmation, a verdict of truth and right and good for its own vital assertions, impulses, desires; it is concerned with self-justification in order that it may have room for full selfaffirmation. But if it can get the assent of mind, it is quite ready to ignore all these standards and set up only one standard, the satisfaction, growth, strength, greatness of the vital ego. The life-individual needs place, expansion, possession of its world, dominance and control of things and beings; it needs life-room, a space in the sun, self-assertion, Survival. It needs these things for itself and for those with whom it associates itself, for its own
The Origin of Falsehood and Evil
2.14 - The Unpacking of God, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
Further, as a particular wholeness, each holon possesses intrinsic value, depth value, which is valuable precisely because it internally embraces aspects of the Kosmos as part of its own being (and the more aspects it embraces, then the greater its depth and the greater its intrinsic value, the greater its significance). And finally, as a part, each holon possesses extrinsic or instrumental value, because other holons external to it nonetheless depend upon it in various ways for their own existence and Survival (and the more networks and wholes of which the holon is a part, then the greater its extrinsic value, the greater its fundamentalness: its existence is instrumental to the existence of so many other holons).13
My point in mentioning this example now is simply that this type of multidimensional environmental ethics is subverted by the flatl and holism so prevalent in the Gaia-centric approaches. The fact that all holons have equal Ground-value is often confused with the notion that they must therefore all have equal intrinsic value ("bioequality"), and this paralyzes any sort of pragmatic action at all.
2.19 - Out of the Sevenfold Ignorance towards the Sevenfold Knowledge, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
For immortality in its fundamental sense does not mean merely some kind of personal Survival of the bodily death; we are immortal by the eternity of our self-existence without beginning or end, beyond the whole succession of physical births and deaths through which we pass, beyond the alternations of our existence in this and other worlds: the spirit's timeless existence is the true immortality. There is, no doubt, a secondary meaning of the word which has its truth; for, corollary to this true immortality, there exists a perpetual continuity of our temporal existence and experience from life to life, from world to world after the dissolution of the physical body: but this is a natural consequence of our timelessness which expresses itself here as a perpetuity in eternal Time. The realisation of timeless immortality comes by the knowledge of self in the Non-birth and Non-becoming and of the changeless spirit within us: the realisation of time-immortality comes by the knowledge of self in the Birth and Becoming and is translated into a sense of the persistent identity of the soul through all changes of mind and life and body; this too is not a mere Survival, it is timelessness translated into the Time manifestation. By the first realisation we become free from obscuring subjection to the chain of birth and death, that supreme object of so many Indian disciplines; by the second realisation added to the first we are able to possess freely, with right knowledge, without ignorance, without bondage by the chain of our actions, the experiences of the spirit in its successions of time-eternity. A realisation of timeless existence by itself might not include the truth of that experience of persistent self in eternal Time; a realisation of Survival of death by itself might still give room for a beginning or end to our existence. But, in either realisation truly envisaged as side and other side of one truth, to exist consciously in eternity and not in the bondage of the hour and the succession of the moments is the substance of the change: so to exist is a first condition of the divine consciousness and the divine life. To possess and govern from that inner eternity of being the course and process of the becoming is the second, the dynamic condition with, as its practical outcome, a spiritual self-possession and self-mastery. These changes are possible only by a withdrawal from our absorbing material preoccupation, - that does not necessitate a rejection or neglect of the life in the body, - and a constant living on the inner and higher planes of the mind and the spirit. For the heightening of our consciousness into its spiritual principle is effectuated by an ascent and a stepping back inward - both these movements are essential - out of our transient life from moment to moment into the eternal life of our immortal consciousness; but with it there comes also a widening of our range of consciousness and field of action in time and a taking up and a higher use of our mental, our vital, our corporeal existence. There arises a knowledge of our being, no longer as a consciousness dependent on the body, but as an eternal spirit which uses all the worlds and all lives for various self-experience; we see it to be a spiritual entity possessed of a continuous soul-life perpetually developing its activities through successive physical existences, a being determining its own becoming. In that knowledge, not ideative but felt in our very substance, it becomes possible to live, not as slaves of a blind Karmic impulsion, but as masters - subject only to the Divine within us - of our being and nature.
At the same time we get rid of the egoistic ignorance; for so long as we are at any point bound by that, the divine life must either be unattainable or imperfect in its self-expression. For the ego is a falsification of our true individuality by a limiting selfidentification of it with this life, this mind, this body: it is a separation from other souls which shuts us up in our own individual experience and prevents us from living as the universal individual: it is a separation from God, our highest Self, who is the one Self in all existences and the divine Inhabitant within us. As our consciousness changes into the height and depth and wideness of the spirit, the ego can no longer survive there: it is too small and feeble to subsist in that vastness and dissolves into it; for it exists by its limits and perishes by the loss of its limits. The being breaks out of its imprisonment in a separated individuality, becomes universal, assumes a cosmic consciousness in which it identifies itself with the self and spirit, the life, the mind, the body of all beings. Or it breaks out upward into a supreme pinnacle and infinity and eternity of self-existence independent of its cosmic or its individual existence. The ego collapses, losing its wall of separation, into the cosmic immensity; or it falls into nothingness, unable to brea the in the heights of the spiritual ether. If something of its movements remains by habit of Nature, yet these also fall away and are replaced by a new impersonalpersonal seeing, feeling, action. This disappearance of the ego does not bring with it the destruction of our true individuality, our spiritual existence, for that was always universal and one with the Transcendence; but there is a transformation which replaces the separative ego by the Purusha, a conscious face and figure of the universal being and a self and power of the transcendent Divine in cosmic Nature.
2.2.02 - Consciousness and the Inconscient, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Each has an equal value for itself which arrives after all only to the passion Nature has put in each species for Survival, for exploitation of its life; for each other their only significance is to come annoyingly and destructively in each other's way; for the universe - at least the universe as Science has described it
- both have an equal non-value, for to it neither can matter, since they will disappear and the world go on interminably as it did without them. Vanity of vanities, Science teaches us even as did the world's Scriptures; out of nothingness we came and into nothingness we shall sink hereafter. All that we are and think and create [and] do, however wonderful to our own eyes, or even if really wonderful in the mind's values, is but a bubble, a vibration, a plasmic pullulation on the surface of Matter.
2.20 - The Philosophy of Rebirth, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The first question is whether the before and the after are purely physical and vital or in some way, and more predominantly, mental and spiritual. If Matter were the principle of the universe, as the materialist alleges, if the truth of things were to be found in the first formula arrived at by Bhrigu, son of Varuna, when he meditated upon the eternal Brahman, "Matter is the Eternal, for from Matter all beings are born and by Matter all beings exist and to Matter all beings depart and return," then no farther questioning would be possible. The before of our bodies would be a gathering of their constituents out of various physical elements through the instrumentality of the seed and food and under the influence perhaps of occult but always material energies, and the before of our conscious being a preparation by heredity or by some other physically vital or physically mental operation in universal Matter specialising its action and building the individual through the bodies of our parents, through seed and gene and chromosome. The after of the body would be a dissolution into the material elements and the after of the conscious being a relapse into Matter with some Survival of the effects of its activity in the general mind and life of humanity: this last quite illusory Survival would be our only chance of immortality. But since the universality of Matter can no longer be held as giving any sufficient explanation of the existence of Mind, - and indeed Matter itself can no longer be explained by Matter alone, for it does not appear to be self-existent, - we are thrown back from this easy and obvious solution to other hypotheses.
One of these is the old religious myth and dogmatic mystery of a God who creates constantly immortal souls out of his own being or else by his "breath" or life-power entering, it is to be presumed, into material Nature or rather into the bodies he creates in it and vivifying them internally with a spiritual principle. As a mystery of faith this can hold and need not be examined, for the mysteries of faith are intended to be beyond question and scrutiny; but for reason and philosophy it lacks convincingness and does not fit into the known order of things.
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What was before birth is the material energy with its seed of life, or at best an energy of life-force, which persists in the seed transmitted by the parents and gives, by its mysterious infusion of past developments into that trifling vehicle, a particular mental and physical stamp to the new individual mind and body thus strangely created. What remains after death is the same material energy or life-force persisting in the seed transmitted to the children and active for the farther development of the mental and physical life carried with it. Nothing is left of us except what we so transmit to others or what the Energy which shaped the individual by its pre-existent and its surrounding action, by birth and by environment, may take as the result of his life and works into its subsequent action; whatever may help by chance or by physical law to build the mental and vital constituents Karma is the link of an apparently continuing consciousness, - for the consciousness changes from moment to moment: there is this apparent continuity of consciousness, but there is no real immortal soul taking birth and passing through the death of the body to be reborn in another body. and environment of other individuals, that alone can have any Survival. Behind both the mental and the physical phenomena there is perhaps a universal Life of which we are individualised, evolutionary and phenomenal becomings. This universal Life creates a real world and real beings, but the conscious personality in these beings is not, or at least it need not be, the sign or the shape of consciousness of an eternal nor even of a persistent soul or supraphysical Person: there is nothing in this formula of existence compelling us to believe in a psychic entity that outlasts the death of the body. There is here no reason and little room for the admission of rebirth as a part of the scheme of things.
But what if it were found with the increase of our knowledge, as certain researches and discoveries seem to presage, that the dependence of the mental being or the psychic entity in us on the body is not so complete as we at first naturally conclude it to be from the study of the data of physical existence and the physical universe alone? What if it were found that the human personality survives the death of the body and moves between other planes and this material universe? The prevalent modern idea of a temporary conscious existence would then have to broaden itself and admit a Life that has a wider range than the physical universe and admit too a personal individuality not dependent on the material body. It might have practically to readopt the ancient idea of a subtle form or body inhabited by a psychic entity. A psychic or soul entity, carrying with it the mental consciousness, or, if there be no such original soul, then the evolved and persistent mental individual would continue after death in this subtle persistent form, which must have been either created for it before this birth or by the birth itself or during the life. For either a psychic entity pre-exists in other worlds in a subtle form and comes from there with it to its brief earthly sojourn, or the soul develops here in the material world itself, and with it a psychic body is developed in the course of Nature and persists after death in other worlds or by reincarnation here.
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Or the evolving Life may be able to build a personality capable of Survival, but only in the human form when that is created.
This would happen by the force of a sudden growth of mental consciousness, and at the same time a sheath of subtle mindsubstance might develop and help to individualise this mental consciousness and would then function as an inner body, just as the gross physical form by its organisation at once individualises and houses the animal mind and life. On the former supposition, we must admit that the animal too survives the dissolution of the physical body and has some kind of soul formation which after death occupies other animal forms on earth and finally a human body. For there is little likelihood that the animal soul passes beyond earth and enters other planes of life than the physical and constantly returns here until it is ready for the human incarnation; the animal's conscious individualisation does not seem sufficient to bear such a transfer or to adapt itself to an other-worldly existence. On the second supposition, the power thus to survive the death of the physical body in other states of existence would only arrive with the human stage of the evolution. If, indeed, the soul is not such a constructed personality evolved by Life, but a persistent unevolving reality with a terrestrial life and body as its necessary field, the theory of rebirth in the sense of Pythagorean transmigration would have to be admitted. But if it is a persistent evolving entity capable of passing beyond the terrestrial stage, then the Indian idea of a passage to other worlds and a return to terrestrial birth would become possible and highly probable. But it would not be inevitable; for it might be supposed that the human personality, once capable of attaining to other planes, need not return from them: it would naturally, in the absence of some greater compelling reason, pursue its existence upon the higher plane to which it had arisen; it would have finished with the terrestrial life-evolution. Only if faced with actual evidence of a return to earth, would a larger supposition be compulsory and the admission of a repeated rebirth in human forms become inevitable.
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Individual would follow individual as wave follows wave, the sea remaining always the same;6each formation of conscious being would surge up from the universal, roll for its allotted time and then sink back into the Silence. The necessity for this purpose of an individualised consciousness persistently continuous, assuming name after name and form after form and moving between different planes backward and forward, is not apparent and, even as a possibility, does not strongly impose itself; still less is there any room for an evolutionary progress inevitably the Upanishadic teachings and rebirth was a later invention. But there are numerous important passages in almost all the Upanishads positively affirming rebirth and, in any case, the Upanishads admit the Survival of the personality after death and its passage into other worlds which is incompatible with this interpretation. If there is Survival in other worlds and also a final destiny of liberation into the Brahman for souls embodied here, rebirth imposes itself, and there is no reason to suppose that it was a later theory.
The writer has evidently been moved by the associations of Western philosophy to read a merely pantheistic sense into the more subtle and complex thought of the ancient Vedanta. pursued from form to higher form such as must be supposed by a theory of rebirth that affirms the involution and evolution of the Spirit in Matter as the significant formula of our terrestrial existence.
2.22 - Rebirth and Other Worlds; Karma, the Soul and Immortality, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
For the soul personality, as it develops, must get sufficient power over its own nature-formation and a sufficient selfexpressive mental and vital individuality to persist without the support of the material body, as well as to overcome any excessive detaining attachment to the physical plane and the physical life: it would be sufficiently evolved to subsist in the subtle body which we know to be the characteristic case or sheath and the proper subtle-physical support of the inner being. It is the soul-person, the psychic being, that survives and carries mind and life with it on its journey, and it is in the subtle body that it passes out of its material lodging; both then must be sufficiently developed for the transit. But a transference to planes of mind existence or life existence implies also a mind and life sufficiently formed and developed to pass without disintegration and exist for a time on these higher levels. If these conditions were satisfied, a sufficiently developed psychic personality and subtle body and a sufficiently developed mental and vital personality, Survival of the soul-person without an immediate new-birth would be secured and the pull of the other worlds would become operative. But this by itself would mean a return to earth with the same mental and vital personality and there would be no free evolution in the new birth. There must be an individuation of the psychic person itself sufficient for it not to depend on its past mind and life formations any more than on its past body, but to shed them too in time and proceed to a new formation for new experience. For this discarding of the old and preparation of new forms the soul must dwell for some time between two births somewhere else than on the entirely material plane in which we now move; for here there would be no abiding place for a disembodied spirit. A brief stay might indeed be possible if there are subtle envelopes of the earth-existence which belong to earth but are of a vital or mental character: but even then there would be no reason for the soul to linger there for a long period, unless it is still burdened with an overpowering attachment to the earth-life.
A Survival of the material body by the personality implies a supraphysical existence, and this can only be in some plane of being proper to the evolutionary stage of the consciousness or, if there is no evolution, in a temporary second home of the spirit which would be its natural place of sojourn between life and life, - unless indeed it is its original world from which it does not return into material Nature.
Where then would the temporary dwelling in the supraphysical take place? what would be the soul's other habitat? It might seem that it ought to be on a mental plane, in mental worlds, both because on man the mental being the attraction of that plane, already active in life, must prevail when there is not the obstacle of the attachment to the body, and because the mental plane should be, evidently, the native and proper habitat of a mental being. But this does not automatically follow, because of the complexity of man's being; he has a vital as well as a mental existence, - his vital part often more powerful and prominent than the mental, - and behind the mental being is a soul of which it is the representative. There are, besides, many planes or levels of world-existence and the soul has to pass through them to reach its natural home. In the physical plane itself or close to it there are believed to be layers of greater and greater subtlety which may be regarded as sub-planes of the physical with a vital and a mental character; these are at once surrounding and penetrating strata through which the interchange between the higher worlds and the physical world takes place. It might then be possible for the mental being, so long as its mentality is not sufficiently developed, so long as it is restricted mainly to the more physical forms of mind and life activity, to be caught and delayed in these media. It might even be obliged to rest there entirely between birth and birth; but this is not probable and could only happen if and in so far as its attachment to the earth-forms of its activity was so great as to preclude or hamper the completion of the natural upward movement. For the postmortal state of the soul must correspond in some way to the development of the being on earth, since this after-life is not a free upward return from a temporary downward deviation into mortality, but a normal recurrent circumstance which intervenes to help out the process of a difficult spiritual evolution in the physical existence. There is a relation which the human being in his evolution on earth develops with higher planes of existence, and that must have a predominant effect on his internatal dwelling in these planes; it must determine his direction after death and determine too the place, period and character of his self-experience there.
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This conception of the Person and Personality, if accepted, must modify at the same time our current ideas about the immortality of the soul; for, normally, when we insist on the soul's undying existence, what is meant is the Survival after death of a definite unchanging personality which was and will always remain the same throughout eternity. It is the very imperfect superficial "I" of the moment, evidently regarded by Nature as a temporary form and not worth preservation, for which we demand this stupendous right to Survival and immortality. But the demand is extravagant and cannot be conceded; the "I" of the moment can only merit Survival if it consents to change, to be no longer itself but something else, greater, better, more luminous in knowledge, more moulded in the image of the eternal inner beauty, more and more progressive towards the divinity of the secret Spirit. It is that secret spirit or divinity of Self in us which is imperishable, because it is unborn and eternal. The psychic entity within, its representative, the spiritual individual in us, is the Person that we are; but the "I" of this moment, the "I" of this life is only a formation, a temporary personality of this inner Person: it is one step of the many steps of our evolutionary change, and it serves its true purpose only when we pass beyond it to a farther step leading nearer to a higher degree of consciousness and being. It is the inner Person that survives death, even as it pre-exists before birth; for this constant Survival is a rendering of the eternity of our timeless spirit into the terms of Time.
What our normal demand of Survival asks for is a similar Survival for our mind, our life, even our body; the dogma of the resurrection of the body attests to this last demand, - even as it has been the root of the age-long effort of man to discover the elixir of immortality or any means magical, alchemic or scientific to conquer physically the death of the body. But this aspiration could only succeed if the mind, life or body could put on something of the immortality and divinity of the indwelling spirit. There are certain circumstances in which the Survival of the outer mental personality representative of the inner mental Purusha could be possible. It could happen if our mental being came to be so powerfully individualised on the surface and so much one with the inner mind and inner mental Purusha and at the same time so open plastically to the progressive action of the Infinite that the soul no longer needed to dissolve the old form of mind and create a new one in order to progress. A similar individualisation, integration and openness of the vital being on the surface would alone make possible a similar Survival of the life-part in us, the outer vital personality representative of the inner life-being, the vital Purusha. What would really happen then is that the wall between the inner self and the outer man would have broken down and the permanent mental and vital being from within, the mental and vital representatives of the immortal psychic entity, would govern the life. Our mind nature and our life nature could then be a continuous progressive expression of the soul and not a nexus of successive formations preserved only in their essence. Our mental personality and life personality would then subsist without dissolution from birth to birth; they would be in this sense immortal, persistently surviving, continuous in their sense of identity. This would be evidently an immense victory of soul and mind and life over the Inconscience and the limitations of material Nature.
But such a Survival could only persist in the subtle body; the being would still have to discard its physical form, pass to other worlds and in its return put on a new body. The awakened mental Purusha and vital Purusha, preserving the mind sheath and the life sheath of the subtle body which are usually discarded, would return with them into a new birth and keep a vivid and sustained sense of a permanent being of mind and life constituted by the past and continuing into the present and future; but the basis of physical existence, the material body, could not be preserved even by this change. The physical being could only endure, if by some means its physical causes of decay and disruption could be overcome7 and at the same time it could be made so plastic and progressive in its structure and its functioning that it would answer to each change demanded of it by the progress of the inner Person; it must be able to keep pace with the soul in its formation of self-expressive personality, conditions or means for an indefinite Survival of the body, still, if the body could not adapt itself so as to become a fit instrument of expression for the inner growth, the soul would find some way to abandon it and pass on to a new incarnation. The material or physical causes of death are not its sole or its true cause; its true inmost reason is the spiritual necessity for the evolution of a new being. its long unfolding of a secret spiritual divinity and the slow transformation of the mental into the divine mental or spiritual existence. This consummation of a triple immortality, - immortality of the nature completing the essential immortality of the spirit and the psychic Survival of death, - might be the crown of rebirth and a momentous indication of the conquest of the material Inconscience and Ignorance even in the very foundation of the reign of Matter. But the true immortality would still be the eternity of the spirit; the physical Survival could only be relative, terminable at will, a temporal sign of the spirit's victory here over Death and Matter.
2.23 - Man and the Evolution, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A theory of spiritual evolution is not identical with a scientific theory of form-evolution and physical life-evolution; it must stand on its own inherent justification: it may accept the scientific account of physical evolution as a support or an element, but the support is not indispensable. The scientific theory is concerned only with the outward and visible machinery and process, with the detail of Nature's execution, with the physical development of things in Matter and the law of development of life and mind in Matter; its account of the process may have to be considerably changed or may be dropped altogether in the light of new discovery, but that will not affect the self-evident fact of a spiritual evolution, an evolution of Consciousness, a progression of the soul's manifestation in material existence. In its outward aspects this is what the theory of evolution comes to, - there is in the scale of terrestrial existence a development of forms, of bodies, a progressively complex and competent organisation of matter, of life in matter, of consciousness in living matter; in this scale, the better organised the form, the more it is capable of housing a better organised, a more complex and capable, a more developed or evolved life and consciousness. Once the evolutionary hypothesis is put forward and the facts supporting it are marshalled, this aspect of the terrestrial existence becomes so striking as to appear indisputable. The precise machinery by which this is done or the exact genealogy or chronological succession of types of being is a secondary, though in itself an interesting and important question; the development of one form of life out of a precedent less evolved form, natural selection, the struggle for life, the Survival of acquired characteristics may or may not be accepted, but the fact of a successive creation with a developing plan in it is the one conclusion which is of primary consequence. Another self-evident conclusion is that there is a graduated necessary succession in the evolution, first the evolution of Matter, next the evolution of Life in Matter, then the evolution of Mind in living Matter, and in this last stage an animal evolution followed by a human evolution.
The first three terms of the succession are too evident to be disputable. It may be debated whether there was a succession of man to animal or a simultaneous initial development, man outstripping the animal in mind evolution; a theory has even been put forward that man was not the last, but the first and eldest of the animal species. This priority of man is an ancient conception, but it was not universal; it is born of the sense of the clear supremacy of man among earthly creatures, the dignity of this supremacy seeming to demand a priority of birth: but in evolutionary fact the superior is not prior but posterior in appearance, the less developed precedes the more developed and prepares it.
2.23 - The Core of the Gita.s Meaning, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The material and vital law is a rule of Survival, of struggle, of desire and possession, of self-assertion and the satisfaction of the body, the life and the ego. All the intellectual reasoning in the world, all the ethical idealism and spiritual absolutism of which the higher faculties of man are capable cannot abolish the reality and claim of our vital and material base or prevent the race from following under the imperative compulsion of Nature its aims and the satisfaction of its necessities or from making its important problems a great and legitimate part of human destiny and human interest and endeavour. And the intelligence of man even, failing to find any sustenance in spiritual or ideal solutions that solve everything else but the pressing problems of our actual human life, often turns away from them to an exclusive acceptance of the vital and material existence and the reasoned or instinctive pursuit of its utmost possible efficiency, well-being and organised satisfaction. A gospel of the will to live or the will to power or of a rationalised vital and material perfection becomes the recognised dharma of the human race and all else is considered either a pretentious falsity or a quite subsidiary thing, a side issue of a minor and dependent consequence.
Matter and life however in spite of their insistence and great importance are not all that man is, nor can he wholly accept mind as nothing but a servant of the life and body admitted to certain pure enjoyments of its own as a sort of reward for its service or regard it as no more than an extension and flower of the vital urge, an ideal luxury contingent upon the satisfaction of the material life. The mind much more intimately than the body and the life is the man, and the mind as it develops insists more and more on making the body and the life an instrument - an indispensable instrument and yet a considerable obstacle, otherwise there would be no problem - for its own characteristic
2.24 - The Evolution of the Spiritual Man, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A complete denial of religion, occultism and all that is supraphysical is the last outcome of this stage, a hard dry paroxysm of the superficial intellect hacking away the sheltering structures that are refuges for the deeper parts of our nature. But still evolutionary Nature keeps alive her ulterior intentions in the minds of a few and uses man's greater mental evolution to raise them to a higher plane and deeper issues. In the present time itself, after an age of triumphant intellectuality and materialism, we can see evidences of this natural process, - a return towards inner self-discovery, an inner seeking and thinking, a new attempt at mystic experience, a groping after the inner self, a reawakening to some sense of the truth and power of the spirit begins to manifest itself; man's search after his self and soul and a deeper truth of things tends to revive and resume its lost force and to give a fresh life to the old creeds, erect new faiths or develop independently of sectarian religions. The intellect itself, having reached near to the natural limits of the capacity of physical discovery, having touched its bedrock and found that it explains nothing more than the outer process of Nature, has begun, still tentatively and hesitatingly, to direct an eye of research on the deeper secrets of the mind and the life force and on the domain of the occult which it had rejected a priori, in order to know what there may be in it that is true. Religion itself has shown its power of Survival and is undergoing an evolution the final sense of which is still obscure. In this new phase of the mind that we see beginning, however crudely and hesitatingly, there can be detected the possibility of a pressure towards some decisive turn and advance of the spiritual evolution in Nature. Religion, rich but with a certain obscurity in her first infrarational stage, had tended under the overweight of the intellect to pass into a clear but bare rational interspace; but it must in the end follow the upward curve of the human mind and rise more fully at its summits towards its true or greatest field in the sphere of a suprarational consciousness and knowledge.
If we look at the past, we can still see the evidences of this line of natural evolution, although most of its earlier stages are hidden from us in the unwritten pages of prehistory. It has been contended that religion in its beginnings was nothing but a mass of animism, fetishism, magic, totemism, taboo, myth, superstitious symbol, with the medicine-man as priest, a mental fungus of primitive human ignorance, - later on at its best a form of Nature-worship. It could well have been so in the primitive mind, though we have to add the proviso that behind much of its beliefs and practices there may have been a truth of an inferior but very effective kind that we have lost with our superior development. Primitive man lives much in a low and small province of his life-being, and this corresponds on the occult plane to an invisible Nature which is of a like character and whose occult powers can be called into activity by a knowledge and methods to which the lower vital intuitions and instincts may open a door of access. This might be formulated in a first stage of religious belief and practice which would be occult after a crude inchoate fashion in its character and interests, not yet spiritual; its main element would be a calling in of small lifepowers and elemental beings to the aid of small life-desires and a rude physical welfare.
2.26 - The Ascent towards Supermind, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
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.
Intuition has a fourfold power. A power of revelatory truth- seeing, a power of inspiration or truth-hearing, a power of truth-touch or immediate seizing of significance, which is akin to the ordinary nature of its intervention in our mental intelligence, a power of true and automatic discrimination of the orderly and exact relation of truth to truth, - these are the fourfold potencies of Intuition. Intuition can therefore perform all the action of reason - including the function of logical intelligence, which is to work out the right relation of things and the right relation of idea with idea, - but by its own superior process and with steps that do not fail or falter. It takes up also and transforms into its own substance not only the mind of thought, but the heart and life and the sense and physical consciousness: already all these have their own peculiar powers of intuition derivative from the hidden Light; the pure power descending from above can assume them all into itself and impart to these deeper heartperceptions and life-perceptions and the divinations of the body a greater integrality and perfection. It can thus change the whole consciousness into the stuff of intuition; for it brings its own greater radiant movement into the will, into the feelings and emotions, the life-impulses, the action of sense and sensation, the very workings of the body consciousness; it recasts them in the light and power of truth and illumines their knowledge and their ignorance. A certain integration can thus take place, but whether it is a total integration must depend on the extent to which the new light is able to take up the subconscient and penetrate the fundamental Inconscience. Here the intuitive light and power may be hampered in its task because it is the edge of a delegated and modified supermind, but does not bring in the whole mass or body of the identity knowledge. The basis of Inconscience in our nature is too vast, deep and solid to be altogether penetrated, turned into light, transformed by an inferior power of the Truth-nature.
2.28 - The Divine Life, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
93: All life for the achieved spiritual or gnostic consciousness must be the manifestation of the realised truth of spirit; only what can transform itself and find its own spiritual self in that greater Truth and fuse itself into its harmony can be accorded a life-acceptance. What will so survive the mind cannot determine, for the supramental gnosis will itself bring down its own truth and that truth will take up whatever of itself has been put forth in our ideals and realisations of mind and life and body. The forms it has taken there may not survive, for they are not likely to be suitable without change or replacement in the new existence; but what is real and abiding in them or even in their forms will undergo the transformation necessary for Survival. Much that is normal to human life would disappear. In the light of gnosis the many mental idols, constructed principles and systems, conflicting ideals which man has created in all domains of his mind and life, could comm and no acceptance or reverence; only the truth, if any, which these specious images conceal, could have a chance of entry as elements of a harmony founded on a much wider basis. It is evident that in a life governed by the gnostic consciousness war with its spirit of antagonism and enmity, its brutality, destruction and ignorant violence, political strife with its perpetual conflict, frequent oppression, dishonesties, turpitudes, selfish interests, its ignorance, ineptitude and muddle could have no ground for existence. The arts and the crafts would exist, not for any inferior mental or vital amusement, entertainment of leisure and relieving excitement or pleasure, but as expressions and means of the truth of the spirit and the beauty and delight of existence. Life and the body would be no longer tyrannous masters demanding nine tenths of existence for their satisfaction, but means and powers for the expression of the spirit. At the same time, since matter and the body are accepted, the control and the right use of physical things would be a part of the realised life of the spirit in the manifestation in earth-nature.
94: It is almost universally supposed that spiritual life must necessarily be a life of ascetic spareness, a pushing away of all that is not absolutely needed for the bare maintenance of the body; and this is valid for a spiritual life which is in its nature and intention a life of withdrawal from life. Even apart from that ideal, it might be thought that the spiritual turn must always make for an extreme simplicity, because all else would be a life of vital desire and physical self-indulgence. But from a wider standpoint this is a mental standard based on the law of the Ignorance of which desire is the motive; to overcome the Ignorance, to delete the ego, a total rejection not only of desire but of all the things that can satisfy desire may intervene as a valid principle. But this standard or any mental standard cannot be absolute nor can it be binding as a law on the consciousness that has arisen above desire; a complete purity and self-mastery would be in the very grain of its nature and that would remain the same in poverty or in riches: for if it could be shaken or sullied by either, it would not be real or would not be complete. The one rule of the gnostic life would be the self-expression of the Spirit, the will of the Divine Being; that will, that self-expression could manifest through extreme simplicity or through extreme complexity and opulence or in their natural balance, - for beauty and plenitude, a hidden sweetness and laughter in things, a sunshine and gladness of life are also powers and expressions of the Spirit. In all directions the Spirit within determining the law of the nature would determine the frame of the life and its detail and circumstance. In all there would be the same plastic principle; a rigid standardisation, however necessary for the mind's arrangement of things, could not be the law of the spiritual life. A great diversity and liberty of self-expression based on an underlying unity might well become manifest; but everywhere there would be harmony and truth of order.
2.3.1 - Ego and Its Forms, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The feeling of jealousy and abhiman was of course a Survival from the past movements of the nature. It is so that these things go out if they are rejected; they lose their force, can stay less and less, can affect less and less the consciousness,finally, they are able to touch no longer and so come no longer.
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3.01 - THE BIRTH OF THOUGHT, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
reproduction ; the inclination to struggle for Survival, with the
competitions it involves; the need for nourishment, with the
3.01 - The Principles of Ritual, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
saying that the Survival of the fittest is their upshot.
MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
3.03 - THE MODERN EARTH, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
form or another, at least collective, not only Survival but also
super-life.
3.11 - Spells, #Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E, #unset, #Zen
All damage suffered by the priest's allies during the previous turn is undone. This includes energy drains, poison, and all special attack forms unless these resulted in instantaneous death. Death from cumulative physical damage is undone, however. Any creature brought back to life by the reversion spell is not required to make a resurrection Survival roll.
Any spells cast by the priest's allies during the previous turn are restored and may be used again. This does not apply to magical or spell-like effects from magical items or scrolls. Material components consumed in spellcasting during this time are also restored.
3.1.3 - Difficulties of the Physical Being, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In the purification of the physical nature, more even than in the rest, it is not safe to assume that there will be no more attacks of old forces or habits of the naturetill the thing is actually and unmistakably done. One must remain vigilant till there is the full siddhi. For in the physical, habit, memory, mechanical response have an immense power of Survival therefore a return of old vibrations or formations is always possible. Only when there is the full purification and transformation is there the perfect security
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3.2.04 - The Conservative Mind and Eastern Progress, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The arrival of a new radical idea in the minds of men is the sign of a great coming change in human life and society; it may be combated, the reaction of the old idea may triumph for a time, but the struggle never leaves either the thoughts and sentiments or the habits and institutions of the society as they were when it commenced. Whether it knows it or not, it has gone forward and the change is irretrievable. Either new forms replace the old institutions or the old while preserving the aspect of continuity have profoundly changed within, or else these have secured for themselves a period of greater rigidity, increasing corruption, progressive deterioration of spirit and waning of real force which only assures them in the future a more complete catastrophe and absolute disappearance. The past can arrive at the most at a partial Survival or an euthanasia, provided it knows how to compromise liberally with the future.
The conservative mind is unwilling to recognise this law though it is observable throughout human history and we can easily cull examples with full hands from all ages and all climes; and it is protected in its refusal to see by the comparative rarity of rapid revolutions and great cataclysmal changes; it is blinded by the disguise which Nature so often throws over her processes of mutation. If we look casually at European history in this light the attention is only seized by a few conspicuous landmarks, the evolution and end of Athenian democracy, the transition from the Roman republic to the empire, the emergence of feudal Europe out of the ruins of Rome, the Christianisation of Europe, the Reformation and Renascence together preparing a new society, the French Revolution, the present rapid movement towards a socialistic State and the replacing of competition by organised cooperation. Because our view of European history is chiefly political, we do not see the constant mutation of society and of thought in the same relief; but we can recognise two great cycles of change, one of the ancient races leading from the primitive ages to the cultured society of the Graeco-Roman world, the other from the semi-barbarism of feudal Christendom to the intellectual, materialistic and civilised society of modern times.
32.06 - The Novel Alchemy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
These words of Sri Aurobindo seem to lend support to the view of the Western thinker. Both echo an almost identical feeling. But what Sri Aurobindo says here is only a fraction of all he has to say on the subject, it is not his final word, whereas in the view of the Western sage, sorrow and suffering, misery and pain appear as ultimate truths at least for the individual, and for the ordinary life of the common multitude; this manner of complete self-immolation of the individual serves a collective end, like the self-sacrifice of an army or a multitude of soldiers in a war. But in Sri Aurobindo's view, even for the individual, for any individual, this consummation in self-sacrifice is not the final end; for the individual too this is merely an episode in one or more of his lives. Through this self-sacrifice, every individual goes on developing himself along with the development of the collectivity, and this is done not by losing or abolishing oneself. No one is rejected or lost, like the dried-up leaves or flowers. For the individual too there are levels of progression. There is not merely one class of fortunate people who pass into the highest realisation as suggested by the Christian thinker and have won a seat alongside of God in a heavenly consciousness. All are coming up gradually in their footsteps and will participate in an identical realisation. It cannot be regarded as ordained of God that the upward movement .and supreme attainment of one small section should be founded involuntarily or however willingly on the self-immolation of another bigger group. If evolution has to proceed through the rejection and sacrifice of the many, then does it not imply in the end the Survival of the few? Whatever the size or the integrality of those few, it still remains only a portion of the whole.
It is true that sorrow and suffering, old age and death are facts of an earlier part, that is to say, the first stage of the evolutionary process. When in the beginning of things darkness was enveloped in darkness, tamo asit
3.2.10 - Christianity and Theosophy, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Love of God and union in separateness through that love and a transformation of the nature by realising certain mental, ethical, emotional, perhaps even physical possibilities (for the Vaishnavas speak of a new cinmaya body) is the principle of Vaishnava Yoga. So there is nothing here that was not already present in that line of Asiatic mysticism which looks to a Personal Deity and insists on the eternal pre-existence and Survival of the individual being. A spiritual raising of the nature to its highest possibilities is a part of the Tantric disciplineso that too is not absent from Indian Yoga. The writer seems like most European writers to know only Illusionism and Buddhism and to accept them as the whole wisdom of Asia (sagesse asiatique); but even there he misinterprets their idea and their experience. Adwaita even in its extreme form does not aim at the extinction of existence, the adoption of nothingness, the end of the being and destruction of the essence. Only a certain kind of Nihilistic Buddhism aims at that and even so that Nothingness, Sunya, is described on another side of it as the Permanent. What these disciplines aim at is a passing from Time to Eternity, a putting off of the finite and putting on of the Infinite, a casting off of the bonds of ego and its results, desire, suffering, a falsified existence, in order to live in the true Self. These descriptions of the Christian writer betray an entire ignorance of the realisation which he decries, its infinity, freedom, surpassing peace, the ecstasy of the Brahmananda. It is an extinction of the limited individual personality but a liberation into cosmic and then into transcendental consciousnessan extinction of thought and life but a liberation into an unlimited consciousness and knowledge and being. The personality is extinguished but in something greater than itself, not in something less nor in mere Nant. If it be said that that negates earthly life, so does the Christian ideal, for the Christian ideal aims at the attainment of a celestial existence beyond the earth existence (beyond this single earth life, for reincarnation is not admitted), which is only a vale of sorrows and a passing ordeal. It insists on the preservation of the spiritual personality, but so do Vaishnavism and Shaivism and other Asiatic ideals. The writers ignorance of the many-sidedness of Asiatic wisdom deprives his depreciation of it of all value.
The phrases which struck you as resembling superficially at least our ideal of transformation are of a general character and could be adopted without hesitation by almost any spiritual discipline, even Illusionism would be willing to include it as a stage or experience on the way. All depends on the content you put into the words, what actual change in the consciousness and life they are intended to cover. If the transformation be from sin to sainthood by the union of the soul with God in an intellectual light full of lovewhich is the most definite description of it in these extracts,then it is not at all identical, but rather very far from what I mean by transformation. For the transformation I aim at is not from sin to sainthood but from the lower nature of the Ignorance to the Divine Nature of Light, Peace, Truth, Divine Power and Bliss beyond the Ignorance. It journeys towards a supreme self-existent good and leaves behind it the limited struggling human conception of sin and virtue; it is not an intellectual light that is the sun of its aspiration but a spiritual supra-intellectual supramental light; it is not sainthood that is its culmination but divine consciousnessor if you like, soul-hood, spirit-hood, conscious self-hood, divine-hood. There is therefore between these two kinds or two degrees of transformation an immense difference.
3.2.4 - Sex, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
If you can exclude sex from the waking thought and consciousness, the Survival in sleep will not be so important. It will mean that the sex has sunk down from the conscious mind, vital, physical being into the subconscious; from there it comes up in sleep. But if it has no support from the conscious being, it may be active for a time but its activity will afterwards diminish, become more and more rare till it is eliminated. This may take time, shorter or longer, but in the end the elimination is bound to come.
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3.3.1 - Illness and Health, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is a pity that X could not write all this time. Formerly when she wrote often she used to get better after writing. It is also a pity that she has been told by the doctors that she is not going to live; even if it is true, such a thing should not be told unless in case of necessity (which does not exist in her case) for it takes away much of the power of resistance and diminishes what chances of cure and Survival there were. Xs physical destiny has always been against her but this is a thing that can be cancelled if one can have sufficient faith and inner strength and openness and receive the spiritual force.
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3.4.01 - Evolution, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The general idea of evolution was the filiation of each successive form or state of things to that which preceded it, its appearance by a process of outbringing or deploying of some possibility prepared and even necessitated by previous states and previous tendencies. Not only does a form contain the seed of the form that reproduces it, but also the seed of the possible new form that varies from it. By successive progression a world-system evolves out of the nebula, a habitable planet appears in an uninhabitable system, protoplasmic life emerges by some yet unknown process out of Matter, the more developed grows out of the less developed organism. The fish and the creeping thing are the descendants of the plasm, the biped and quadruped trace back to the fish and reptile, man is a quadruped of the genus Ape who has learned to walk erect on two legs and has divested himself of characteristics unsuited to his new mode of life and progression. Force in Matter is the unconscious Goddess who has worked these miracles by her inherent principle of natural adaptation and in the organism by the additional machinery of heredity; by natural selection those species which reproduce new characteristics developed by adaptation to the environment and favourable to Survival, tend to propagate themselves and remain; others fall back in the race of life and disappear.
Such were once the salient ideas; but some of them and not the least important are now questioned. The idea of the struggle for life tends to be modified and even denied; it is asserted that, at least as popularly understood, it formed no real part of Darwinism. This modification is a concession to reviving moralistic and idealistic tendencies which seek for a principle of love as well as a principle of egoism in the roots of life. Equally important are the conclusion arrived at by some investigators into the phenomena of heredity that acquired characteristics are not handed down to the posterity and the theory that it is chiefly predispositions that are inherited; for by these modifications the process of evolution begins to wear a less material and mechanical aspect; its source and the seat of its motive power are shifted to that which is least material, most psychical in Matter. Finally, the first idea of a slow and gradual evolution is being challenged by a new theory of evolution through sudden and rapid outbursts; and again we pass from the sense of an obvious superficial machinery and all-sufficient material necessity to profundities whose mystery is yet to be fathomed.
3.4.02 - The Inconscient, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Where then lies the hope that mind will repair its errors and guide itself according to the truth of things? The hope lies in Science, in the intelligent observation, utilising, initiation of the forces and workings of the Inconscient. To take only one instance,the Inconscient operates by the law of heredity and, left to itself, works faultlessly to ensure the Survival of good and healthy types. Man misuses heredity in the false conditions of his social life to transmit and perpetuate degeneracy. We must study the law of heredity, develop a science of Eugenics and use it wisely and remorselesslywith the remorseless wisdom of Natureso as to ensure by intelligence the result that the Inconscient assures by instinctive adaptation. We can see where this idea and this spirit will lead us,to the replacement of the emotional and spiritual idealism which the human mind has developed by a cold sane materialistic idealism and to an amelioration of mankind attempted by the rigorous mechanism of the scientific expert, no longer by the profound inspiration of genius and the supple aspiration of puissant character and personality. And yet what if this were only another error of the conscient mind? What if the mistaking and the disease, the revolt and departure from Nature were itself a part, a necessary part of the wise and unerring plan of the profound Inconscient Self and all the much falsehood a means of arriving at a greater truth and a more exalted capacity? The fact that genius itself, the highest result of our developing consciousness, flowers so frequently on a diseased branch is a phenomenon full of troubling suggestions. The clear way of ascertained science need not always be the best way; it may stand often in the path of development of a yet greater and deeper Knowledge.
The other line of psychological investigation is still frowned upon by orthodox science, but it thrives and yields its results in spite of the anathema of the doctors. It leads us into bypaths of psychical research, hypnotism, mesmerism, occultism and all sorts of strange psychological gropings. Certainly, there is nothing here of the assured clearness and firmly-grounded positivism of the physical method. Yet facts emerge and with the facts a momentous conclusion,the conclusion, that there is a subliminal self behind our superficial waking mind not inconscient but conscient, greater than the waking mind, endowed with surprising faculties and capable of a much surer action and experience, conscient of the superficial mind though of it the superficial mind is inconscient. And then a question rises. What if there were really no Inconscient at all, but a hidden Consciousness everywhere perfect in power and wisdom, of which our mind is the first slow, hesitating and imperfect disclosure and into the image of which the human mentality is destined progressively to grow? It would at least be no less valid a generalisation and it would explain all the facts that we now know considerably better than the blind and purposeless determinism of the materialistic theory.
3-5 Full Circle, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
By confining each of our millions of students to one or two of these artifically segregated, meaningless disciplines, with its special vocabulary and background theory, the multiversity produces on one hand what Jere Clark calls the ignorance explosion, and on the other elimination of morality and wisdom. As Lodge puts it, "Paternalism won't work [any more] because there is no father and there are no children."52 This implies the collapse of leadership; the catastrophic derangements of both democratic and dictatorial forms of government, and the visible danger to the Survival of Man on Earth.
The New University. Stafford Beer affirms that "The fresh design of a meta-system, exerting meta-controls, is the only solution to our problem. The problem is for cybernetics to discover, and to make abundantly clear to the world, what meta-systems truly are. . ." In fact, he says, "We should create a meta-system to handle the meta-threat."53,54
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Today, Aurelio Peccei, president of the scientific Club of Rome, is calling for "A Copernican change of attitude".19 For the modern industrial world, this change of attitude is presented in the book you hold before you now: it is an alternative to our malfunctioning congeries of specialized one-field scientific and humanistic theories. We present this alternative to you on the basis of observations and measurements, such as Arthur Jensen's, and on the grounds of logical simplicity. And, far beyond these grounds, we present it because this Copernican change of attitude is necessary to the Survival of the Empire of Man and of its otherwise doomed participants--human, animal, vegetable, and mineral.
The universal pattern displayed in Unified Science has existed right along. Why, then, has it not been obvious ever since the modern sciences emerged, four centuries ago? For the same reason that it was not obvious, until Copernicus, that the Earth revolves around its axis and the sun.
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Selectee (n.) The entity selected. An organism selected for Survival by its habitat (q.v.). Equally, a habitat selected by an organism. See Selector.
Selector (n.) The selecting entity. A habitat which selects an organism for Survival. Equally, an organism which selects a habitat (q.v.).
Signal (n.) A physical carrier o information. A communications input into a system which changes its behavior or prevents change which would otherwise occur. Signals vary from level to level of the System-hierarchy (q.v.): Below the level of sentient beings (q.v.), power signals and communication signals are identical. Above the lowest level of sentient beings (which include higher animals) the ratio or signal input to control output increases in quantum jumps form level to level of abstraction. (See Abstraction, levels of).
3.7.1.02 - The Reincarnating Soul, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In the ordinary, the vulgar conception there is no birth of a soul at all, but only the birth of a new body into the world occupied by an old personality unchanged from that which once left some now discarded physical frame. It is John Robinson who has gone out of the form of flesh he once occupied; it is John Robinson who tomorrow or some centuries hence will reincarnate in another form of flesh and resume the course of his terrestrial experiences with another name and in another environment. Achilles, let us say, is reborn as Alexander, the son of Philip, a Macedonian, conqueror not of Hector but of Darius, with a wider scope, with larger destinies; but it is still Achilles, it is the same personality that is reborn, only the bodily circumstances are different. It is this Survival of the identical personality that attracts the European mind today in the theory of reincarnation. For it is the extinction or dissolution of the personality, of this mental, nervous and physical composite which I call myself that is hard to bear for the man enamoured of life, and it is the promise of its Survival and physical reappearance that is the great lure. The one objection that really stands in the way of its acceptance is the obvious non- Survival of memory. Memory is the man, says the modern psychologist, and what is the use of the Survival of my personality, if I do not remember my past, if I am not aware of being the same person still and always? What is the utility? Where is the enjoyment?
The old Indian thinkers,I am not speaking of the popular belief which was crude enough and thought not at all about the matter,the old Buddhistic and Vedantist thinkers surveyed the whole field from a very different standpoint. They were not attached to the Survival of the personality; they did not give to that Survival the high name of immortality; they saw that personality being what it is, a constantly changing composite, the Survival of an identical personality was a non-sense, a contradiction in terms. They perceived indeed that there is a continuity and they sought to discover what determines this continuity and whether the sense of identity which enters into it is an illusion or the representation of a fact, of a real truth, and, if the latter, then what that truth may be. The Buddhist denied any real identity. There is, he said, no self, no person; there is simply a continuous stream of energy in action like the continuous flowing of a river or the continuous burning of a flame. It is this continuity which creates in the mind the false sense of identity. I am not now the same person that I was a year ago, not even the same person that I was a moment ago, any more than the water flowing past yonder ghaut is the same water that flowed past it a few seconds ago; it is the persistence of the flow in the same channel that preserves the false appearance of identity. Obviously, then, there is no soul that reincarnates, but only Karma that persists in flowing continuously down an apparently uninterrupted channel. It is Karma that incarnates; Karma creates the form of a constantly changing mentality and physical bodies that are, we may presume, the result of that changing composite of ideas and sensations which I call myself. The identical I is not, never was, never will be Practically, so long as the error of personality persists, this does not make much difference and I can say in the language of ignorance that I am reborn in a new body; practically, I have to proceed on the basis of that error. But there is this important point gained that it is all an error and an error which can cease; the composite can be broken up for good without any fresh formation, the flame can be extinguished, the channel which called itself a river destroyed. And then there is non-being, there is cessation, there is the release of the error from itself.
The Vedantist comes to a different conclusion; he admits an identical, a self, a persistent immutable reality,but other than my personality, other than this composite which I call myself. In the Katha Upanishad the question is raised in a very instructive fashion quite apposite to the subject we have in hand. Nachiketas, sent by his father to the world of Death, thus questions Yama, the lord of that world: Of the man who has gone forward, who has passed away from us, some say that he is and others this he is not; which then is right? what is the truth of the great passage? Such is the form of the question and at first sight it seems simply to raise the problem of immortality in the European sense of the word, the Survival of the identical personality. But that is not what Nachiketas asks. He has already taken as the second of three boons offered to him by Yama the knowledge of the sacred Flame by which man crosses over hunger and thirst, leaves sorrow and fear far behind him and dwells in heaven securely rejoicing. Immortality in that sense he takes for granted as, already standing in that farther world, he must surely do. The knowledge he asks for involves the deeper, finer problem, of which Yama affirms that even the gods debated this of old and it is not easy to know, for subtle is the law of it; something survives that appears to be the same person, that descends into hell, that ascends into heaven, that returns upon the earth with a new body, but is it really the same person that thus survives? Can we really say of the man He still is, or must we not rather say This he no longer is? Yama too in his answer speaks not at all of the Survival of death, and he only gives a verse or two to a bare description of that constant rebirth which all serious thinkers admitted as a universally acknowledged truth. What he speaks of is the Self, the real Man, the Lord of all these changing appearances; without the knowledge of that Self the Survival of the personality is not immortal life but a constant passing from death to death; he only who goes beyond personality to the real Person becomes the Immortal. Till then a man seems indeed to be born again and again by the force of his knowledge and works, name succeeds to name, form gives place to form, but there is no immortality.
Such then is the real question put and answered so divergently by the Buddhist and the Vedantin. There is a constant reforming of personality in new bodies, but this personality is a mutable creation of force at its work streaming forward in Time and never for a moment the same, and the ego-sense that makes us cling to the life of the body and believe readily that it is the same idea and form, that it is John Robinson who is reborn as Sidi Hossain, is a creation of the mentality. Achilles was not reborn as Alexander, but the stream of force in its works which created the momentarily changing mind and body of Achilles flowed on and created the momentarily changing mind and body of Alexander. Still, said the ancient Vedanta, there is yet something beyond this force in action, Master of it, one who makes it create for him new names and forms, and that is the Self, the Purusha, the Man, the Real Person. The ego-sense is only its distorted image reflected in the flowing stream of embodied mentality.
3.7.1.04 - Rebirth and Soul Evolution, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The ideas that men currently form about life and things are for the most part pragmatic constructions. They are forms of a reason which is concerned with giving only such a serviceable account to itself of its surroundings as shall make a sufficient clue to our immediate business of the growth, action, satisfaction of the personality, something feasible, livable, effective for our journeying in Time, something viable in the twofold French sense of the word. Whether it corresponds to or is directly in touch with any real reality of things seems to be very much a matter of accident. It seems to be sufficient if we can persuade our facile and complaisant reason of its truth and find it serviceable and fruitful in consequences for thought, action and life-experience. It is true that there is another unpragmatic reason in us which labours to get rid of this demand of the intellectual and vital personality; it wants to look at the real truth of things without veils and without any object, to mirror the very image of Truth in the still waters of a dispassionate, clear and pure mentality. But the workings of this calmer greater reason are hampered by two tremendous difficulties. First, it seems next to impossible to disengage it entirely from the rest of ourselves, from the normal intellectuality, from the will to believe, from that instinct of the intelligence which helps the Survival, by a sort of subtle principle of preference and selection, of the way of thinking that suits our personal bent or the accomplished frame of our nature. And again, what is the Truth that our reason mirrors? It is after all some indirect image of Truth, not her very self and body seen face to face; it is an image moulded from such data, symbol, process of Reality,if any real Reality there is,as we can gather from the very limited experience of self and existing things open to human mind. So that unless there be some means by which knowledge can burst through all veils to the experience of the very Reality itself, or unless there be some universal Logos, divine Mind or Supermind, which knows itself and all things and our consciousness can reflect or get into touch with that, a pursuing insufficiency and uncertainty must always keep its baffling grasp upon even the highest power and largest walk of our reason and beset all the labour of human knowledge.
Nowhere are these disabilities more embarrassing than in those fundamental questions of the nature of the world and of our own existence which yet most passionately interest thinking humanity because this is in the end the thing of utmost importance to us, since everything else, except some rough immediate practicality of the moment, depends on its solution. And even that, until this great question is settled, is only a stumbling forward upon a journey of which we know not the goal or the purpose, the meaning or the necessity. The religions profess to solve these grand problems with an inspired or revealed certainty; but the enormity of their differences shows that in them too there is a selection of ideas, separate aspects of the Truth,the sceptic would say, shows of imagination and falsehood, and a construction from a limited spiritual experience. In them too there is an element of chosen and willed believing and some high pragmatic aim and utility, whether that be the souls escape from the sorrow or unreality of existence or celestial bliss or a religio-ethical sanction and guidance. The philosophical systems are very obviously only feasible selective constructions of great reflective ideas. More often these are possibilities of the reason much rather than assured certainties or, if founded on spiritual experience, they are still selective constructions, a sort of great architectural approach to some gate into unknowable Divine or ineffable Infinite. The modern scientific mind professed to rid us of all mere intellectual constructions and put us face to face with truth and with assured truth only; it claimed the right to rid man of the fantastic encumbrance of religion and the nebulous futilities of metaphysical philosophy. But religion and philosophy have now turned upon science and convicted her, on her own statement of facts, of an equal liability to the two universal difficulties of human reason. The system of science seems to be itself only another feasible and fruitful construction of the reason giving a serviceable account to itself of the physical world and our relations to it, and it seems to be nothing more. And its knowledge is fatally bound by the limitation of its data and its outlook. Science too creates only a partial image of Truth stamped with a character of much uncertainty and still more clearly imprinted with the perverse hallmark of insufficiency.
3.7.1.05 - The Significance of Rebirth, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The bare idea of repeated births as the process of our soul existence does not carry us much farther than the simple material reality of this single life in the body, that first fact of our conscious sensation and memory which is the occasion of all our speculations. Behind our present starting-point and preceding this one lappet of our race in the fields of being rebirth reminds us indeed of a past, of pregnant anterior courses, a soul-existence in many previous bodies which have immediately created what we now are. But to what use or advantage if there is no progressive significance in our pre-existence and our persevering continuity? In front of us it rolls far back from our vision the obstruction of the near blank wall of death; our journeying upon earth becomes less of a long or brief unretraceable road ending abruptly and perplexingly in a cul-de-sac; our physical dissolution is robbed of the cruellest poison of its sting. For the burden of death to man the thinking, willing, feeling creature is not the loss of this poor case or chariot of body, but it is the blind psychical finality death suggests, the stupid material end of our will and thought and aspiration and endeavour, the brute breaking off of the hearts kind and sweet relations and affections, the futile convicting discontinuity of that marvellous and all-supporting soul-sense which gives us our radiant glimpses of the glory and delight of existence,that is the discord and harsh inconsequence against which the thinking living creature revolts as incredible and inadmissible. The fiery straining to immortality of our life, mind, psyche, which can assent to cessation only by turning in enmity upon their own flame of nature, and the denial of it which the dull acquiescence of a body consenting inertly to death as to life brings in on us, is the whole painful irreconcilable contradiction of our double nature. Rebirth takes the difficulty and solves it in the sense of a soul continuity with a beat of physical repetition. Like other non-materialistic solutions it gives the right to the souls suggestion as against the bodys and sanctions the demand for Survival, but unlike some others it justifies the bodily life by its utility to the souls continued self-experience; our too swift act in the body ceases to be an isolated accident or an abrupt interlude, it gets the justification of a fulfilling future as well as a creating past for its otherwise haphazard actions and relations. But simple persistence, mechanical continuity is not enough; that is not all our psychical being signifies, not the whole luminous meaning of Survival and continuity; without ascension, without expansion, without some growing up straight into light in the strength of our spirit our higher members toil here uncompleted, our birth in matter is not justified by any adequate meaning. We are very little better off than if death remained our ending; for our life in the end becomes then an indefinitely continued and renewed and temporarily consequent in place of an inconsequent, abruptly ended and soon convicted futility.
By rebirth, too, this world around us, our environment, its suggestions, its opportunities are no longer left as the field of an ephemeral physical flowering or as a Life which cares very little for and means very little to the individual, though it may offer much perhaps during its uncertain longer time to the species. The world grows to us a field of soul-experience, a system of soul-recurrences, a means of self-effectuation, perhaps a crystallising of the conscious beings effective self-reflections. But to what end if our recurrence is only a repetition or a hesitating fluctuation within a few set types with a very limited, always uncompleted circle of accomplishment? For that is what it comes to, if there is no upward outlet, no infinite progression or no escape or enlarging into the souls infinities. Rebirth tells us that what we are is a soul performing constantly the miracle of self-embodiment; but why this embodiment, what this soul has to do here with itself and what use it is to make of this world which is given to it for its grandiose scene, its difficult, plastic material and its besieging battery of multiform stimulus and suggestions, is hardly at all clearer than before. But the perception of rebirth as an occasion and means for a spiritual evolution fills in every hiatus. It makes life a significant ascension and not a mechanical recurrence; it opens to us the divine vistas of a growing soul; it makes the worlds a nexus of spiritual self-expansion; it sets us seeking, and with a sure promise to all of a great finding now or hereafter, for the self-knowledge of our spirit and the self-fulfilment of a wise and divine intention in our existence.
3.7.2.02 - The Terrestial Law, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Mans relation with vital Nature is, again, first to be one with it by observance and obedience to its rule, then to know and direct it by conscious intelligence and will and to transcend by that direction the first law of life, its rule and habit, formula, initial significance. At first he is compelled to obey its instincts and has to act even as the animal, but in the enlarged terms of a mentalised impulsion and an increasingly clear consciousness and responsible will in what he does. He too has first to strive to exist, to make a place for himself and his kind, to grow and possess and enjoy, to prolong, to enlarge and assure the first vital lines of his life movement. He too does it even as the others, by battle and slaughter, by devouring, by encroachment, by laying his yoke on earth and her products and on her brute children and on his fellow-men. His virtue, his dharma of the vital nature, virtus, aret, is at first an obligation to strength and swiftness and courage and all things that make for Survival, mastery and success. Most even of the things in him that evolve an ethical significance have at root not a truly ethical but a dynamic character,such as self-control, tapasy, discipline. They are vital-dynamic, not ethical energies; they are a rightly massed and concentrated, rightly ordered putting forth of mentalised life forces and the return they seek and get are of the vital and dynamic kind, power, success, mastery, increased capacities of vital possession and expansion or the result of these things, vital-hedonistic, the satisfaction of his desires, vital happiness, enjoyment and pleasure.
Mans first business is to bring his conscious intelligence and will to enlarge the lines of life of the individual and the race. Here again it is to these two powers primarily and only secondarily and partially to any moral force that the life energy gives its returns. The battle in lifes primitive values is to the strong and the race to the swift, and the weak and the torpid cannot claim the goal and the crown on the strength of their greater virtue; and there is in this a justice, while the moral principle of reward would be here an injustice, for it would be a denial of the principle of the right returns of energy which is fundamental to any possible law of Karma. Raise the action by the powers of the mind and still the greater successes, the glory and the victory, fall to the men of great intelligence and the men of great will and not necessarily to the more ethical intelligence or to the more moralised will. Morality counts in this dynamic aspect of life only as a prudential check or a concentrating tapasya. Life helps those who most wisely and faithfully follow her impulses while observing her limits and restraints or those who most powerfully aid her greater impulses of expansion. It is those that get the most prudential profit out of her and these the most of her power and movement and joy.
3 - Commentaries and Annotated Translations, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The root nm^ means originally go or bring to an end or conclusion. To lead, guide, control, dispose, distribute, mark off, arrange, shape, bend, are its more common later meanings. The Greek nmoc, law, nmw, to distribute, give, arrange, regulate, occupy or to pasture, graze; nmoc, an apportioned ground or enclosure, so grove or pasturage; nmesic (O.A. nmEt,) the goddess who arranges, controls, rewards, punishes, avenges; noma, designation, name, (S. nAm), Lat. nemus, are Survivals of these significations. In later Sanscrit only the intransitive sense of submission, being governed, ruled, subject, to bend, submit, bow, salute has left traces except in the sense, "to give", attached to nm^, in the particle nAm, "granted", "allowed", "certainly", and the substantive nAm, name. nmo means submission, self-surrender, nEt,; the later sense of salutation, obeisance does not apply to this passage.
Brt,.
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wealth, - in Bengali, success, attainment, probably a Survival
of its original sense; in yEvS youngest, from a lost yv,, not lost
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it is an old Survival & therefore keeps more easily than other
verbs the old tendency to have the same characteristic consonant
4.01 - THE COLLECTIVE ISSUE, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
BOOK FOUR - Survival
CHAPTER ONE
4.02 - BEYOND THE COLLECTIVE - THE HYPER-PERSONAL, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
two positive reasons, one of love, the other of Survival.
First of all the reason of Love. Expressed in terms of internal
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In addition, the reason of Survival. To ward off the threat of
disappearance, incompatible with the mechanism of reflective
4.03 - Prayer to the Ever-greater Christ, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
Book Four: Survival
L The Collective Issue
4.1 - Jnana, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
12. Immortality is not the Survival of the mental personality after death, though that also is true, but the waking possession of the unborn & deathless self of which body is only an instrument and a shadow.
13. They proved to me by convincing reasons that God did not exist, and I believed them. Afterwards I saw God, for He came and embraced me. And now which am I to believe, the reasonings of others or my own experience?
4.21 - The Gradations of the supermind, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The intuitive mind is an immediate translation of truth into mental terms half transformed by a radiant supramental substance, a translation of some infinite self-knowledge that acts above mind in the superconscient spirit. That spirit becomes conscient to us as a greater self at once above and in and around us of which our present self, our mental, vital and physical personality and nature, is an imperfect portion or a partial derivation or an inferior and inadequate symbol, and as the intuitive mind grows in us, as our whole being grows more moulded to an intuitive substance, we feel a sort of half transformation of our members into the nature of this greater self and spirit. All our thought, will, impulse, feeling, even in the end our more outward vital and physical sensations become more and more direct transmissions from the spirit and are of another and a more and more pure, untroubled, powerful and luminous nature. This is one side of the change : the other is that whatever belongs still to the lower being, whatever still seems to us to come from outside or as a Survival of the action of our old inferior personality, feels the pressure of the change and increasingly tends to modify and transform itself to the new substance and nature. The higher comes down and largely takes the place of the lower, but also the lower changes, transforms itself into material of the action and becomes part of the substance of the higher being.
The greater spirit above the mind appears at first as a presence, a light, a power, a source, an infinite, but all that is knowable to us in it is at first an infinite identity of being, consciousness, power of consciousness, Ananda. The rest comes from it, but takes no determinate shape of thought, will or feeling above us, but only in the intuitive mind and on its level. Or we feel and are manifoldly aware of a great and infinite Purusha who is the eternally living truth of that being and presence, a great and infinite knowledge which is the potency of that light and consciousness, a great and infinite will which is the potency of that power of consciousness, a great and infinite love which is the potency of that Ananda. But all these potencies are only known to us in any definite manner, apart from the strong reality and effect of their essential presence, in so far as they are translated to our intuitive mental being and on its level and within its limits. As however we progress or as we grow into a more luminous and dynamic union with that spirit or Purusha, a greater action of knowledge and will and spiritual feeling manifests and seems to organise itself above the mind and this we recognise as the true supermind and the real native play of the infinite knowledge, will and Ananda. The intuitive mentality then becomes a secondary and inferior movement waiting upon this higher power, responding and assenting to all its illuminations and dictates, transmitting them to the lower members, and, when they do not arrive or are not in immediate evidence, often attempting to supply its place, imitate its action and do as best it can the works of the supramental nature. It takes in fact the same place and relation with regard to it as was taken with regard to itself by the ordinary intelligence at an earlier stage of the Yoga.
This double action on the two planes of our being at first streng thens the intuitive mentality as a secondary operation and assists it to expel or transform more completely the Survivals or invasions or accretions of the ignorance. And more and more it intensifies the intuitive mentality itself in its light of knowledge and eventually transforms it into the image of the supermind itself, but at first, ordinarily, in the more limited action of the gnosis when it takes the form of what we might call a luminous supramental or divine reason. It is as this divine reason that the supermind itself at the beginning may manifest its action and then, when it has changed the mind into its own image, it descends and takes the place of the ordinary intelligence and reason. Meanwhile a higher supramental power of a much greater character has been revealing itself above which takes the supreme lead of the divine action in the being. The divine reason is of a more limited character because, although not of the mental stamp and although an operation of the direct truth and knowledge, it is a delegated power for a range of purposes greater in light, but still to a certain extent analogous to those of the ordinary human will and reason; it is in the yet greater supermind that there comes the direct, altogether revealed and immediate action of the Ishwara in the human being. These distinctions between the intuitive mind, the divine reason and the greater supermind, and others within these gradations themselves, have to be made because eventually they become of great importance. At first the mind takes all that comes from beyond it without distinction as the sufficient spiritual illumination and accepts even initial states and first enlightenments as a finality, but afterwards it finds that to rest here would be to rest in a partial realisation and that one has to go on heightening and enlarging till at least there is reached a certain completeness of divine breadth and stature.
It is difficult for the intellect to grasp at all what is meant by these supramental distinctions: the mental terms in which they can be rendered are lacking or inadequate and they can only be understood after a certain sight or certain approximations in experience. A number of indications are all that at present it can be useful to give. And first it will be enough to take certain clues from the thinking mind; for it is there that some of the nearest keys to the supramental action are discoverable. The thought of the intuitive mind proceeds wholly by four powers that shape the form of the truth, an intuition that suggests its idea, an intuition that discriminates, an inspiration that brings in its word and something of its greater substance and a revelation that shapes to the sight its very face and body of reality. These things are not the same as certain movements of the ordinary mental intelligence that look analogous and are easily mistaken for the true intuition in our first inexperience. The suggestive intuition is not the same thing as the intellectual insight of a quick intelligence or the intuitive discrimination as the rapid judgment of the reasoning intellect; the intuitive inspiration is not the same as the inspired action of the imaginative intelligence, nor the intuitive revelation as the strong light of a purely mental close seizing and experience.
4.2.4 - Time and CHange of the Nature, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
My words about the great secret of sadhana1 simply pointed out that that was the most effective way if one could get the things done by the Power behind, did not rule out mental effort so long as one could not do that. Ramakrishnas way of putting it was the image of the baby monkey and baby cat; I have only said the same thing in other words; both are permissible methods, only one is more easily effective. Any method sincerely and persistently followed can end by bringing the opening. You yourself chose the method of prayer and japa because you believed in that, and I acquiesced because it does prepare something in the consciousness and, if done with persistent faith and bhakti, it can open all the doors. Another method is concentration and aspiration in the heart which opens the inner emotional being. Another is the concentration in the head of which I spoke which opens the inner mind or opens the passage through the Brahmarandhra to the higher consciousness. These things are no fantastic invention of mine which one can dismiss as a new-fangled and untested absurdity; they are recognised methods which have succeeded in thousands of cases and here also there are plenty who have found their effect. But whatever method is used will not bring its effect at once; it must be done persistently, simply, directly till it succeeds. If it is done with a mind of doubt or watching it as an experiment to see if it succeeds or if it is continually crossed by a spirit of hasty despondency saying constantly, You see it is all useless, then it ought to be obvious that the opening will be very difficult, because there is that clogging it every time there is a pressure or a push to open. That is why I wanted you to get rid of these two things and have harped on that so much, because I know by my own experience and that of others how strongly they can stand in the way of what you seek. For you are not the only one who have been troubled by these two obstacles; most have had to struggle against them. If one can get rid of them in their central action, the Survival of their activity in the circumference does not so much matter; for then the opening becomes possible, both to make and to keep and the rest can follow.
The six years of which you speak have been spent by you mainly in struggling with sex and doubt and vital difficultiesmany take more than that time about it. What I have been wanting you to do now is to get the right positive attitude within at the centre free from these things. Its basis must be what I have said, I want the Divine and the Divine only; since I want and need, I shall surely arrive, however long it takes, and till I do, I shall persist and endure with patience and courage. I do not mean by that that you should have no activity but prayer and concentration; few can do that; but whatever is done should be done in that spirit.
4.4.4.04 - The Descent of Silence, #Letters On Yoga III, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
a Survival from the old consciousness; in the full silence what
one feels is "thought occurs in me" - the identification with
5.01 - EPILOGUE, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
for foreseeing the future) of a demand for ' unlimited Survival '.
That is to say, the passage, for life, from a state of relative irre-
5.01 - Message, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But of a higher import than the foundation, however necessary, of health, strength and fitness of the body is the development of discipline and morale and sound and strong character towards which these activities can help. There are many sports which are of the utmost value towards this end, because they help to form and even necessitate the qualities of courage, hardihood, energetic action and initiative or call for skill, steadiness of will or rapid decision and action, the perception of what is to be done in an emergency and dexterity in doing it. One development of the utmost value is the awakening of the essential and instinctive body consciousness which can see and do what is necessary without any indication from mental thought and which is equivalent in the body to swift insight in the mind and spontaneous and rapid decision in the will. One may add the formation of a capacity for harmonious and right movements of the body, especially in a combined action, economical of physical effort and discouraging waste of energy, which result from such exercises as marches or drill and which displace the loose and straggling, the inharmonious or disorderly or wasteful movements common to the untrained individual body. Another invaluable result of these activities is the growth of what has been called the sporting spirit. That includes good humour and tolerance and consideration for all, a right attitude and friendliness to competitors and rivals, self-control and scrupulous observance of the laws of the game, fair play and avoidance of the use of foul means, an equal acceptance of victory or defeat without bad humour, resentment or ill-will towards successful competitors, loyal acceptance of the decisions of the appointed judge, umpire or referee. These qualities have their value for life in general and not only for sport, but the help that sport can give to their development is direct and invaluable. If they could be made more common not only in the life of the individual but in the national life and in the international where at the present day the opposite tendencies have become too rampant, existence in this troubled world of ours would be smoother and might open to a greater chance of concord and amity of which it stands very much in need. More important still is the custom of discipline, obedience, order, habit of team-work, which certain games necessitate. For without them success is uncertain or impossible. Innumerable are the activities in life, especially in national life, in which leadership and obedience to leadership in combined action are necessary for success, victory in combat or fulfilment of a purpose. The role of the leader, the captain, the power and skill of his leadership, his ability to comm and the confidence and ready obedience of his followers is of the utmost importance in all kinds of combined action or enterprise; but few can develop these things without having learned themselves to obey and to act as one mind or as one body with others. This strictness of training, this habit of discipline and obedience is not inconsistent with individual freedom; it is often the necessary condition for its right use, just as order is not inconsistent with liberty but rather the condition for the right use of liberty and even for its preservation and Survival. In all kinds of concerted action this rule is indispensable: orchestration becomes necessary and there could be no success for an orchestra in which individual musicians played according to their own fancy and refused to follow the indications of the conductor. In spiritual things also the same rule holds; a sadhak who disregarded the guidance of the Guru and preferred the untrained inspirations of the novice could hardly escape the stumbles or even the disasters which so often lie thick around the path to spiritual realisation.
I need not enumerate the other benefits which can be drawn from the training that sports can give or dwell on their use in the national life; what I have said is sufficient. At any rate, in schools like ours and in universities sports have now a recognised and indispensable place; for even a highest and completest education of the mind is not enough without the education of the body. Where the qualities I have enumerated are absent or insufficiently present, a strong individual will or a national will may build them up, but the aid given by sports to their development is direct and in no way negligible. This would be a sufficient reason for the attention given to them in our Ashram, though there are others which I need not mention here. I am concerned here with their importance and the necessity of the qualities they create or stimulate for our national life. The nation which possesses them in the highest degree is likely to be the strongest for victory, success and greatness, but also for the contri bution it can make towards the bringing about of unity and a more harmonious world order towards which we look as our hope for humanitys future.
5.2.02 - Aryan Origins - The Elementary Roots of Language, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The elementary vowel roots which concern us, are the roots a (), i (), u () & (), the semivowel roots the V & Y families. The modified vowels e and o are in the Aryan languages secondary sounds conjunct of a and i, a and u. The diphthongsn ai and au with their Greek variations ei and ou are tertiary modifications of e & o. Another conjunct vowel l is a Survival of a more ancient order of things in which l and r no less than v and y were considered as semivowels or rather as either vowel or consonant according to usage. R as a vowel has survived in the vowel , l as a separate vowel has perished, but its semivowel value survives in the metrical peculiarity of the Latin tongue of which a faint trace survives in Sanskrit, by which l & r in a conjunct consonant may or may not, at will, affect the quantity of the preceding syllable.
I shall consider first the vowel roots. They are four in number, a, i, u and , and all four of them indicate primarily the idea of being, existence in some elementary aspect or modification suggested by the innate quality or guna of the sound denoting it. A in its short form indicates being in its simplicity without any farther idea of modification or quality, mere or initial being creative of space, i an intense state of existence, being narrowed, forceful and insistent, tending to a goal, seeking to occupy space, u a wide, extended but not diffused state of existence, being medial and firmly occupant of space, a vibrant state of existence, pulsing in space, being active about a point, within a limit. The leng thened forms of these vowels add only a greater intensity to the meaning of the original forms, but the leng thening of the a modifies more profoundly. It brings in the sense of space already created & occupied by the diffusion of the simple state of beinga diffused or pervasive state of existence. These significances are, I suggest, eternally native to these sounds and consciously or unconsciously determined the use of them in language by Aryan speakers. To follow these developments and modifications it is necessary to take these roots one by one in themselves and in their derivatives.
5 - The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
that have the best chance of Survival, as we know from experi-
ence that nothing is corrected in the unconscious. Lastly,
Appendix 4 - Priest Spells, #Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E, #unset, #Zen
Thus, a charmed creature would not obey a suicide command, but might believe the caster if assured that the only chance to save the caster's life is for the creature to hold back an onrushing red dragon for "just a minute or two" and if the charmed creature's view of the situation suggests that this course of action still allows a reasonable chance of Survival.
The subject's attitudes and priorities are changed with respect to the caster, but basic personality and alignment are not. A request that a victim make itself defenseless, give up a valued item, or even use a charge from a valued item (especially against former associates or allies) might allow an immediate saving throw to see if the charm is thrown off. Likewise, a charmed creature does not necessarily reveal everything it knows or draw maps of entire areas. Any request may be refused, if such refusal is in character and does not directly harm the caster. The victim's regard for the caster does not necessarily extend to the caster's friends or allies. The victim does not react well to the charmer's allies making suggestions such as, "Ask him this question. . .," nor does the charmed creature put up with verbal or physical abuse from the charmer's associates, if this is out of character.
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Note that the body of the person must be whole, or otherwise missing parts are still missing when the person is brought back to life. Likewise, other ills, such as poison and disease, are not negated. The raised person must roll a successful resurrection Survival check to survive the ordeal (see Table 3: Constitution) and loses 1 point of Constitution.
Further, the raised person is weak and helpless, needing a minimum of one full day of rest in bed for each day or fraction he was dead. The person has 1 hit point when raised and must regain the rest by natural healing or curative magic.
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With this spell, the priest can bring back a dead person in another body, if death occurred no more than one week before the casting of the spell. Reincarnation does not require any saving throw, system shock, or resurrection Survival roll. The corpse is touched, and a new incarnation of the person appears in the area in 1d6 turns. The person reincarnated recalls the majority of his former life and form, but the character class, if any, of the new incarnation might be very different indeed. The new incarnation is determined on the following table or by DM choice. If a player character race is indicated, the character must be created. At the DM's option, certain special (expensive) incenses can be used that may increase the chance for a character to return as a specific race or species. A wish spell can restore a reincarnated character to its original form and status.
D100
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The priest is able to restore life and complete strength to any living creature, including elves, by bestowing the resurrection spell. The creature can have been dead up to 10 years per level of the priest casting the spell. Thus, a 19th-level priest can resurrect the bones of a creature dead up to 190 years. The creature, upon surviving a resurrection Survival check, is immediately restored to full hit points and can perform strenuous activity. The spell cannot bring back a creature that has reached its allotted life span (i.e., died of natural causes). Casting this spell makes it impossible for the priest to cast further spells or engage in combat until he has had one day of bed rest for each experience level or Hit Die of the creature brought back to life. The caster ages three years upon casting this spell.
The reverse, destruction, causes the victim of the spell to be instantly dead and turned to dust. A wish spell or equivalent is required for recovery. Destruction requires a touch, either in combat or otherwise, and does not age the caster. In addition, the victim is allowed a saving throw (with a -4 penalty). If the save is successful, the victim receives
Big Mind (non-dual), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
I am truly essential for the Survival of the species, and of course I have all kinds of desires. Without desires how would I seek food when I'm hungry? How would I seek shelter when I need it? How would I even seek procreation of the species if I didn't have sexual desires? These are all essential, and it would be ridiculous to think otherwise. In fact it would be so totally nuts and deluded I think it would be a very, very sad person who didn't base their life in me, in dualistic thinking, in Dualistic
Mind. You know, I see people who somehow think they're non-dual or they've transcended something, and I mean, they're dangerous. I don't want anything to do with them.
Blazing P1 - Preconventional consciousness, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Main focus: No research available, but focus is likely on Survival25
Description: The self is undifferentiated, meaning that it cannot take a perspective on itself
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race Survival problems of existence. Necessary information for Survival of individual and
species is sensed, processed, and reacted to through the automatic system and stored through
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Survival of the species. Man can continue the Survival of the species through the purely
physiological aspect of the process of procreation existence. He can live what is for him, at the
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life. The accumulating problems from living in this way produce expressive and Survival
problems for those whose capacities enable them to perceive the threats to the existence of
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shame. These Survival problems activate awareness of self as a possibly powerful being
separate and distinct from others; therefore, man no longer seeks merely for tensional relief
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own individual Survival a need which cannot dominate him until he becomes conscious of
himself (as happens at this level). He now seeks a form of existence which he can control for
his personal Survival. He proceeds to explore his world and begins to manipulate it
intentionally rather than merely passively accept it. This activates the risk-taking,
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threatening physical universe. In the CP state man must solve the problem of Survival as an
individual. So, he sets out in heroic fashion, through his newly emergent operant
conditioning learning system, to build a way of being that will foster his Survival and to hell
with the other man.
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not terribly pleasant human beings; but it is a very necessary stage of Survival.
Coexistent in this person is the tendency to revel in hedonistic, pleasure-seeking pursuits to
Blazing P3 - Explore the Stages of Postconventional Consciousness, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
The AN system is triggered by the second set of human Survival problems the A problems
of existence. These are the problems of the threat to organismic life and rape of the world
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say that this system is triggered by the second set of human Survival problems the A
problems of existence. Second-order Survival problems trigger into operation the systemic
thinking process in the brain along with a marked activation of previously uncommitted
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the Survival of life, my life, their lives, and all life, but not compulsively; and what is best for
me or thee does not have to be best for she or them. My way does not have to be yours, nor
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sustain our individual and corporate Survival, security and significance. Many persons in this
stage die at the hands of those whom they hope to change. Universalizers are often more
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our parochial perceptions of justice. In their penetration through the obsession with Survival,
security, and significance they threaten our measured standards of righteousness and
BOOK II. -- PART III. ADDENDA. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
convenient phrase for describing the mode in which the Survival of the fit and the elimination of the
unfit among organisms is brought about in the struggle for existence. Every group of organisms tends
BOOK II. -- PART II. THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
represents the Survival of life, and the supremacy of spirit over matter, through the conflict of the
opposing powers of nature. In the Astro-Theosophic chart of the Western Rite, the Ark corresponds
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imagine that everything is due to blind force and chance, and to the Survival of the strongest, even
more often than of the fittest. But the Occultists, who regard physical nature as a bundle of most varied
BOOK I. -- PART I. COSMIC EVOLUTION, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
political cataclysms to tell the story; and every Survival shows evidence that the now Secret Wisdom
was once the
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living in their progeny as a Survival of themselves.
Without attempting the very difficult task of giving out the whole process in all its cosmic details,
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in the natural selection of species, the Survival of the fittest,
[[Vol. 1, Page]] 203 THE BIRTH OF THE WORLDS.
ENNEAD 06.05 - The One and Identical Being is Everywhere Present In Its Entirety.345, #Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04, #Plotinus, #Christianity
Let us compare with this historical evidence, that which supports the universally admitted dependence of Plotinos on his teacher Ammonius. We have only two witnesses: Hierocles and Nemesius; and the latter attri butes the argument for the immateriality of the soul to Ammonius and Numenius jointly. No doubt, Ammonius may have taught Plotinos in his youth; but so no doubt did other teachers; and of Ammonius the only Survivals are a few pages preserved by Nemesius. The testimony for Plotinos's dependence on Numenius is therefore much more historical, as well as significant, in view of Numenius having left written records that were widely quoted. The title of "Father of Neo-platonism," therefore, if it must at all be awarded, should go to Numenius, who had written a "History of the Platonic Succession," wherein he attempts to restore "original" Platonism. This fits the title "Neo-platonism," whereas the philosophy of Ammonius, would be better described as an eclectic synthesis of Platonism and Aristotelianism.
3. CONTRAST BETWEEN THEM.
Liber 111 - The Book of Wisdom - LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
unconsciously, prove their Virtue and his Wisdom by their Survival when
his Persecutors perish in their Folly. But we, being secure against all
Phaedo, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Cebes said: I will tell you. My feeling is that the argument is where it was, and open to the same objections which were urged before; for I am ready to admit that the existence of the soul before entering into the bodily form has been very ingeniously, and, if I may say so, quite sufficiently proven; but the existence of the soul after death is still, in my judgment, unproven. Now my objection is not the same as that of Simmias; for I am not disposed to deny that the soul is stronger and more lasting than the body, being of opinion that in all such respects the soul very far excels the body. Well, then, says the argument to me, why do you remain unconvinced?When you see that the weaker continues in existence after the man is dead, will you not admit that the more lasting must also survive during the same period of time? Now I will ask you to consider whether the objection, which, like Simmias, I will express in a figure, is of any weight. The analogy which I will adduce is that of an old weaver, who dies, and after his death somebody says:He is not dead, he must be alive;see, there is the coat which he himself wove and wore, and which remains whole and undecayed. And then he proceeds to ask of some one who is incredulous, whether a man lasts longer, or the coat which is in use and wear; and when he is answered that a man lasts far longer, thinks that he has thus certainly demonstrated the Survival of the man, who is the more lasting, because the less lasting remains. But that, Simmias, as I would beg you to remark, is a mistake; any one can see that he who talks thus is talking nonsense. For the truth is, that the weaver aforesaid, having woven and worn many such coats, outlived several of them, and was outlived by the last; but a man is not therefore proved to be slighter and weaker than a coat. Now the relation of the body to the soul may be expressed in a similar figure; and any one may very fairly say in like manner that the soul is lasting, and the body weak and shortlived in comparison. He may argue in like manner that every soul wears out many bodies, especially if a man live many years. While he is alive the body deliquesces and decays, and the soul always weaves another garment and repairs the waste. But of course, whenever the soul perishes, she must have on her last garment, and this will survive her; and then at length, when the soul is dead, the body will show its native weakness, and quickly decompose and pass away. I would therefore rather not rely on the argument from superior strength to prove the continued existence of the soul after death. For granting even more than you affirm to be possible, and acknowledging not only that the soul existed before birth, but also that the souls of some exist, and will continue to exist after death, and will be born and die again and again, and that there is a natural strength in the soul which will hold out and be born many timesnevertheless, we may be still inclined to think that she will weary in the labours of successive births, and may at last succumb in one of her deaths and utterly perish; and this death and dissolution of the body which brings destruction to the soul may be unknown to any of us, for no one of us can have had any experience of it: and if so, then I maintain that he who is confident about death has but a foolish confidence, unless he is able to prove that the soul is altogether immortal and imperishable. But if he cannot prove the soul's immortality, he who is about to die will always have reason to fear that when the body is disunited, the soul also may utterly perish.
All of us, as we afterwards remarked to one another, had an unpleasant feeling at hearing what they said. When we had been so firmly convinced before, now to have our faith shaken seemed to introduce a confusion and uncertainty, not only into the previous argument, but into any future one; either we were incapable of forming a judgment, or there were no grounds of belief.
r1912 07 04, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Physical bhukti of the indriyas is well established except for the occasional failure of chakshush ananda in the movement above described and a failure in certain tastes of the palate,the latter exceptional. Sparshananda is still confined mainly to the low state of the rati, though well capable of the higher states, and is hampered by the persistence of discomfort by prolonged exposure to excessive heat, exposure to cold above a certain degree in the state of sleep or after sleep when the nervous vitality is lowered, the intenser touches of pain or poisonous irritation. Thirst is being once more expelled, but hunger is again active. The five physical anandas occur occasionally sahaituka, but the ahaituka activities have for the time being been suspended along with progress in the other physical siddhis. Sleep is strong, also adhogati of weariness, denial of anima, refusal of the saundaryam, persistence of the stray Survivals of the phantasm of illness-symptoms. These seem, however, to be losing all hold except on the stomach & central functions, where they are attempting to resist final eviction (fullness, tejasic unease, touches of nausea) or to prevent fixity of siddhi. Visrishti is stronger than it has been for a long time past. Utthapana of neck maintained for about 10 or 15 minutes, finally overcome by pressure of adhogati.
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r1912 10 18, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Hunger & thirst are now only Survivals, not imperative; they can be removed by the use of the will instead of by eating.
Fulfilled except the prediction marked *
r1912 11 13, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The dasyam and internal ahaituka ananda being now permanently assured, the tejas has to be made equally firm and continuous. For this purpose the sraddha has to be perfectly restored and this must first be done in the trikaldrishti, aishwarya & ishita. These must be made infallible. At present the perception of possibilities interferes with the perception of actualities which would otherwise be perfect. The aishwaryaprayoga is now free of false tejas & the only obstacle is the sluggishness of the Akasha. From today both trikaldrishti & shakti will become infallible, although there will be returns & Survivals for a time of error & failure.
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r1912 12 19, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This was effected later in the day. The Master through the vani from above & by sukshma speech from outside began to manifest himself everywhere in a well-established stability with the character of youth & strength and as he manifests, the aspect of Love & Good Auspice manifests also . The first result has been a great increase in the satyam. The thought perception & trikaldrishti, as well as vani, became perfectly & minutely accurate for a time & continue to be so except, (1) in the more hasty perceptions, (2) in those which are still afflicted with doubt, (3) in the omission of important circumstances & their exact arrangement. When these are made perfectly effectual (and their Survival in imperfection is a mere inert habit), the vijnana in its knowledge-side will be accomplishedonly the range will remain to be widened. The haste must make no difference to the truth, doubt must make no difference, omission of circumstance must not lead to incorrect conclusion, arrangement must be exact so far as it goes. It is now evident also that the knowledge was still acting on the levels of potentiality, where the thing arranged can be disturbed, because it is the arrangement of the Manishi, not the Kavi. It was, however, one of the higher levels on which the Manishi is strong in will, clearsighted in perception, but not able to embrace enough in his view (mahan, urushansa). The knowledge is now rising to the levels of the vijnana proper,becoming of the nature of vijnana and not only enlightened, helped or led by the vijnana. Power is working in the field of the Yogic karma, moulding the thoughts & feelings of others precisely in the immediate vicinity, but is not yet dominant in that province. It is reasserting its hold on immediately surrounding trifles.
Physical activity, 4 hours in the morning, 1 hours in the afternoon & from 5 to 11.30 with half an hours interval in the evening & night, 12 hours in all. The violent insistence of defect of anima became ineffective in the last period, but is still present in a modified form on the morning of the 20th. Sleep 6 hours.
r1912 12 25, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The siddhi is in a depressed condition and unable to advance with rapidity, owing to the necessity of a farther transition of considerable magnitude consisting (1) in satyam, the cessation of all intellectual (manomaya) activity & its replacement by the karana, (2) the cessation of the relics of self-action & replacement by the divine action (dasya), (3) the cessation of the use of means in the yogasiddhi and its replacement by the self-fulfilment of the Para shakti working upon the lower. The public news (eg the attack on the Viceroy, the ill-success of the Turkish naval sortie) show that the Power is still ineffective to prevent adverse occurrences.([Written] Dec 26.) During the rest of the day there was a struggle between the new system and the dregs of the old. The lipi became permanently active, but the old difficulty of manifestation or emergence in the sthula akasha is not yet overcome. At the same time interpreting power attending the lipi became swift and decisive and has so remained. Trikaldrishti in all its parts resumed its activity. The most important result is the final completion of the dasya & the disappearance of all questioning, revolts or self-action; for, whenever these try to manifest, they find no support in the Jiva. Even with regard to error, there is no revolt nor now any return to a tamasic udasinata. The siddhi now fulfils itself entirely by the divine action arranging the conflicting forces & the Jiva does not try to interfere or insist on a consistent method. By this the invading intellectual activity has become wholly discouraged and no longer insists on its own action. There is, however, a Survival of manomaya suggestions representing themselves as vani & seeking to lay down the action, but as these are always falsified & the Jiva does not insist on them, they have no force of persistence.Health is undergoing a very serious assault. The sore-throat was flung off, but after a long struggle cough materialised for a very short time at night, & strenuous efforts are made to bring back cold. Tejasic disturbance in the stomach has returned & recurs, though it does not persist against the Will, & there was in the morning a copious visrishti quite of the old type. This is the result of copious eating & drinking without regard to satiety, which has been insisted on in order that [ ]1 the arogya may be established under more arduous conditions. Assimilation is powerful, but not enough to prevent a struggle & irregular workings of the asiddhi. There was no primary utthapana in the afternoon, so todays period amounted only to 10 hours but there was 5 hours continuously from 4.30 to 9.35 without fatigue or subsequent reaction. Sleep 7 hours.
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r1912 12 28, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
St. [Sortilege] La guerre en Orient, meaning that the real struggle now is over the successful use of the will in equipment & Indian affairs. Aishwarya invariably successful this morning in small details; trikaldrishti seriously hampered, an intellectual movement being violently forced in when the vijnana tries to act. A period is about to ensue in which these Survivals have to be eliminated both in the vijnana & the physical siddhi, as well as in the samata, dasya & tejas, and the sahitya, bhasha & nirukta have to be consolidated; the trikaldrishti of exact time & arrangement of circumstance & the ritam in karma have to be well-established, and the obstacles in the saundarya, religious karma, Krishnanritya and public affairs finally broken. This movement, which is being prepared, must definitely begin today & will cover the greater part of January.
Physical activity. 6.10 to 7.15 .. 8.20 to 10.40 .. 11.20 to 12.40 .. 1.40 to 2.10 .. 4.50 to 8.30 .. 8.55 to 11.0.
r1913 01 01, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
3) The health, still much afflicted, tends slowly to reassert itself. There are still no movements of roga outside the Survivals of phlegm, occasional neuralgic touches, imperfect digestive assimilation, eruption, headache and defect of the chakra. All the symptoms are slight and fragmentary, but in some of them there is a strong persistence.
4) In the primary utthapana there is still the persistence of a vague defect of anima which sometimes grows in force for a while, but cannot hold the body, although it encourages the adhogati. Secondary utthapana is emerging.
r1913 01 12, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Today the tertiary dasya will become decisive and prepare to pass into the fourth degree or supreme dasya; rupadrishti & samadhi farther progress on yesterdays lines; trikaldrishti become at once great (mahat) and striking. Health will farther extrude the relics of the old symptomatic Survivals, subject to some farther struggle; secondary utthapana declare itself more clearly; kamananda overcome the obstacles still presented to it; the general bodily power greatly increase. Aishwarya after making itself felt in the rest of the physical siddhi, will throw itself on the saundarya and the karma, which will begin to develop larger proportions. But the chief movement will be the final emergence and justification of the Mahakali element in its shuddha Asuric bhava.
Afternoon
r1913 01 16, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
1) Trikaldrishti has now to replace entirely the action of the intelligence; that is, nothing has to be done by judgment, logical reason, speculative imagination, sanskara born of memory; but even the most trifling and unimportant things have to be known by vijnana agencies. Where vijnana does not give light, there has to be no judgment, conclusion or even speculation. Aishwarya has to be utilised only where there is perception of the Divine Will behind; it has no longer to reflect in any way the movements of the manomaya Purusha or the manomaya Shakti. Lipi has to get rid of the obstacle in the Akasha which prevents it from manifesting with a successful and easy vividness. Rupa & Samadhi have to continue their struggle and progressively prevail. 2) Kamananda has now to move towards continuity of the more intense form and entire continuity of the less intense. Arogya has to expel the symptomatic Survivals in the assimilation and kamachakra. Secondary utthapana, established in its generalised activity, has to increase the force of pure mahima and of anima. Saundarya must still struggle with its obstacle without as yet prevailing and the Aishwarya with the obstacle to the equipment.
Letter from Biren showing an improved mental state and a vague dawning of vyapti & speculative trikaldrishti. An instance of success in subjective-objective in its subtler or more subjective parts. The power of the aishwarya-vyapti in the subjective-objective field is now considerable and daily successful, but its compulsion on the objective action is still meagre. Today, as was foreseen, there is a fresh instance of train collision in England and the perception that the Viceroys health would not be seriously affected, is justified.
r1913 01 18, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Today has been a day of attack by the enemy and difficult Survival of the gains of the siddhi, lipi maintaining itself, but manifesting with difficulty in the akash, trikaldrishti chequered by false suggestion and aishwarya successfully resisted and almost entirely overcome. Rupadrishti & samadhi have made no advance. The cause of the difficulty & the opportunity of the attack has been the necessity of finally establishing the harmony of pravritti with nivritti, tapas & tejas with shanti & dasya. The habit of the Nature acquired by long practice in the sadhana has been to insist on shanti, udasinata, & passivity as the condition of progress. It is now necessary to overlay & fill the shanti, udasinata, & passivity, the Maheshwari basis, with an active & even violent & rapid tapas of Mahakali-Mahasaraswati; but the habitual reaction of failure caused by the irruption of false tejas & false tapas has first to be eliminated before the harmonisation can be managed.
Since the above was written, prediction in the script has been justified; Successful struggle in vijnana during the rest of the day, triumph in the evening. Rupa develops brihat with difficult[y], not yet perfection except in single figures. The struggle in the afternoon was successful in maintaining the minimum gains of the siddhi; in the evening the siddhi has triumphed, restored the akashalipi to its fullness, although it is still laboured, brought aishwarya forward, without as yet being able to get rid of ineffective aishwarya, developed a fair abundance of rupas (chitra, sthapatya, akasha) but with perfection & stability in the akasha only for some crude forms & some crude dense & crude developed, these, however, are entirely perfect, and began to justify tejas & tapas in their results. It is now increasingly evident that the condition of success in the future is the broad and general activity of the vijnana including in itself all the members of the third chatusthaya and not any longer the separate development of each member by itself. Nothing fresh in the evening and night; activity of vijnana, rupadrishti, samadhi, but no definite progress.
r1913 01 22, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In the morning a strong harmonised movement of the vijnana began & although attacked by the old asiddhi, it is not diminished, only hampered & momentarily deprived of its full movement. The improvement in the swapna-samadhi maintains itself. The atmosphere of kamananda has been constant, under strong ordeals, throughout the day, except for slight interruptions. This siddhi is in future sure of its natural development. The stress of the ishita has passed on to the arogyasiddhi especially and in a less degree to the saundarya and karmasiddhi. Arogya, during the day, was greatly streng thened, but dull symptomatic Survivals still remain to hamper it. Coherent dream-record with only a slight admixture of present ego, present association and consequent confusion seems to be now well established. Sometimes present ego is entirely absent, sometimes present association, sometimes the resulting confusion; at times one or other of these defects gains in stress. In rare instances all are absent and the only defects of the record are those of omission of details necessary for perfect understanding.
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r1913 01 26, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
After a temporary obscuration and struggle between prakasha and confusion lasting till teatime in the afternoon, the siddhi was finally cleared of the relics of the old tapas and of physical pressure. The aishwarya henceforth to be used is the spontaneous chinmay aishwarya free from all element of struggle, in which force and pressure will only be present to stress the energy of the fulfilment & not for overcoming resistance. Judgment in the intellect, a great obstacle to the range and freedom of the trikaldrishti, is also finally dismissed and the higher perception is allowed untrammelled play with the viveka for its assistant, not its judge. This movement was already in progress, but was prevented from universalising itself by the insistence of the old volitional tapas which demanded Survival and justification.
Kamananda, absent on rising, continuous but slight during the morning, recovered intensity in the afternoon. This intensity is persistently recurrent, rather than continuous, but its recurrence is spontaneous and forcible, no longer dependent on the attention, but commanding the attention. It persists even in swapna-samadhi and is found continuously persistent on waking from sleep. Only bodily activity curbs its intensity. Otherwise it yields to nothing except the bodily habit of intermittence. Rupa & lipi are struggling with the physical obstruction in the akasha for a larger fulfilment. In answer to the aishwarya forms of animals & objects are manifesting in the perfection of the chitra & sthapatya, formerly the human figure & landscape were almost the only subjects. In akasharupa, on the contrary, animals & objects predominate.
r1913 01 27, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Trikaldrishti made a final stride forward to its ultimate perfection by getting rid of the habit of tamasic denial which used to fasten on the least sign of amangala and asiddhi and hasten to accept adverse probability or even possibility as adverse certainty. In the place of this denial there is left a strong uncertainty chiefly with regard to those parts of the siddhi in which the sraddha has not yet been established by events, ie the saundarya and karmasiddhi. Aishwarya attained to perfection of detail and is now beginning to act automatically and without effort in its various fields, but is still resisted firmly in the karma in which there is a general attack on the siddhi which has been developing for some time past, as the opposition shifted more and more from the Yogasiddhi to the karmasiddhi, and is now at its height. The aishwarya has got rid of the remnants of tapasic stress and struggle which marred its perfection of method and has only to get rid of a remnant of tamasic anxiety & asraddha about its results. Vani, script etc are being more & more justified and whenever the trikaldrishti acts, it is justified and false trikaldrishti, ie misinterpretation of material, is being put in its proper place and turned into satyam. Therefore, the asraddha is being forced to its final collapse. Lipi is now free, vivid and spontaneous, but not always legible. Rupa has attained to activity in all kinds, but not yet free activity, & to more frequent stability in all but the developed perfect form; its force is daily increasing, but the progress is marked by the old gradual slowness & has not yet come into line with the new rapidity. Drishti of Samadhi & visvagati developed yesterday in force & stability, but has still an imperfect hold on the akasha. Kamananda has overcome all its difficulties, eg noncontinuity of intense ananda while walking etc, except the mere habit of intermission; this habit grew stronger yesterday, & there was much & frequent intermission. On the other hand the ananda pervades the system more perfectly & has not lost either in intensity or in ease of recurrence. It is growing more powerful in the raudra form. Arogya is increasing; strongly attacked yesterday, it overcame all difficulties except the weakness of the second chakra. There has been no parthiva visrishti, except nominal & infinitesimal relief, for these seven days, and it is now clear that this visrishti is no longer a physical necessity, but a habit kept in Survival by the imperfect speed and still faulty method of the assimilation which, instead of drawing the food at once into the akash by the power of the mukhyaprana, recurs partially to the old panchabhauta absorption & therefore leaves a deposit which has to be dematerialised, or else produces symptoms of tejasic & jalamaya irregularity before it completes its process. For this reason, jalavisrishti is still overfrequent and the demand of the Apana still continues. Secondary utthapana is progressing in strength of laghima and mahima and has begun to expel defect of anima into the outworks of the physical system, but this process is still in its initial stages. Only saundarya is slow to manifest; it does not yet succeed in getting rid of its positive contradictions, the signs of old age etc. The saundarya once in motion and the equipment to hand, the whole siddhi will be in simultaneous successful movement.
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r1913 01 31, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
(2) Mukti is complete except for the same fragmentary Survivals.
(3) Bhukti is complete except for some disturbing touches in the body and for the same fragmentary Survivals.
(4) Siddhi is in its last stage of struggle with the opposing forces.
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The movement of the siddhi in the immediate future must be in the totality of the seven chatusthayas. Not that all its members are equally developed, or that a separate stress on some of them is not still needed, but by the end of February this stress must have ceased and the whole must be united for the activities of life which are to replace the activities of the sadhana. Such siddhi as remains will grow by life and action and not by abhyasa in the ways of Yogic practice. The stress that is still necessary is due to the Survival of the old elemental opposition which stands in the way of the siddhi being effectively expressed in life. This opposition is now a tamasic obstruction and will rapidly lose the little that it still keeps of the faculty of aggressive assault. Above all, the basis of samata is now perfect and once the medium of tejas is perfected, the instrument, vijnana, will equally liberate itself from the obstruction and no farther opposition can then prevail against the ananda and the karmasiddhi, the apas and the lila.
January has been a period of strong increase and rooted establishment; February must be a period of perfect completion and faultless organisation, for in March, a new year begins.
r1913 02 02, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The united action of tapas & trikaldrishti (formerly detrimental to each other) is now established in its harmony, although Survivals of the past discord persist. The lipi, a little hampered recently, has recovered its profuse action and easy self-revelation of significance. In the kamananda a double sanyama is developing &, indeed, already active by which a part of the manas activity has detached itself to attend to the sensation of the ananda while the main energy is otherwise concerned. By this movement, which has yet to be perfected, the ananda has been enabled not only to possess, but to become sovereign of the body in both the states of physical activity and of mental abstraction; once this sovereignty is well established and emphasised, only the states of sleep and samadhi remain to be mastered. The state of samadhi is already open to the ananda, but its entrance there is still exceptional.
(Feb 3)
r1913 09 16, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The other principal movements were in lipi and samadhi. In lipi the various stages through which the etheric script has wavered backwards & forwards, indistinctness or paleness of script, illegibility, partial legibility, vividness of single words, vividness of short phrases, unspontaneity, partial spontaneity, incoherent richness, illegible vividness, legible vividness, etc have been passed through rapidly in a final movement and lipi is now fixed in the akasha as an abundant phenomenon both in the single word & the short phrase, spontaneous, vivid, legible, simultaneous, authoritative, and is now extending to long phrases. The interpretation of lipi is still occasionally hesitating owing to the uncertainties of the trikaldrishti, but this hesitation has disappeared from the thought scripts. The full authority of the thought is necessary to the full authority of the lipi. Rupa has developed a final richness, variety, frequency & perfect grouping in all the chitra & sthapatya forms including the vision in transparent substances; it has developed occasional perfection in single crude forms of all kinds & even in ghana, but is vague & indistinct in grouped images, & vivid but momentary in the lifelike developed or dense images. These are old difficulties. Samadhi last night attained again & more powerfully on the whole to richness, variety, grouping, vividness, continued action, shabda; but the continuity has to be swift and is limited to a very few successive movements owing to want of firm hold on the jagrat-swapna & jagrat-sushupta conditions. Only in dream is there long continuity; & dream is now, so far as remembered, usually connected & coherent, with only slight Survivals of the old defects. Its images are more vivid & nearer to the forms of samadhi, but are still dream images. As yet they are not dreams of actuality, but scenes from past lives, sukshma experiences etc. The dreaminess has not departed out of them.
All the subjective anandas, especially prema & next to it shuddha have been finally fixed in the system; none of them are yet new in form, experience or intensity, but a tendency to greater generality of intense experience is visible. The perception of ugliness & ungainliness contradictory of beauty which had reemerged & long persisted is now sinking back into the shuddha & chidghana anandas. Kamananda was occasional & ceased to preserve continuity; it now stands that the ananda can no longer be successfully excluded for a single day, but it is not yet continuously permanent because it still visits the body and does not yet hold it as its natural dharma. Arogya improved, but is still struggling against difficulties. Utthapana increases in force slowly & with difficulty. The weakness of the body & its capacity for exhaustion struggle powerfully to keep their hold.
r1913 12 29, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The chief activity of the siddhi is now to prepare the thirteenth siddhi in the adhara subjectively and physically; all that is deficient subjectively is the Survival of certain old sanskaras of unalterable cause & effect, physical possibility & impossibility. These removed the physical siddhi will be facilitated. The other main activity is the manifestation of the personal Shaktis of the Alipur sadhana in the anandatattwa of the mind, the explanation & justification of many dubious features and abandoned assertions of that sadhana, the justification of the mental tejas against the mental inertia, the extension of the dasya by submission to those chosen & allowed by the Ishwara, the removal of the fragments of straining, desire, nirananda, doubt of siddhi etc in the jada prakriti.
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r1913 12 31, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Tapas now fulfils itself with great frequency in a perfect manner, instantaneously or almost instantaneously, sometimes without use of force in the will or pressure on the object, sometimes with slight force or a little pressure. The old ineffectuality, however, remains in all its outward types & recurs sufficiently often; this ineffectuality is especially strong where an impetus has already been given to another action or there is a powerful adverse bent in the object or when the attention of the Asiddhi has been called to it by a success of the will. These, however, are only the Survival of a habit in the physical parts of the swabhava in the Bhumayi Prakriti.
Yesterday utthapana was resumedutthapana of the neck for half an hour without effort or difficulty and with only an ineffective & moderate an-anima. Today there came utthapana of both legs in the medial position for quarter of an hour, with difficulty because of defect of mahima which finally induced abandonment, although there were signs that the asiddhi would diminish if the attempt were prolonged. Afterwards the left leg was supported in the horizontal position (reclining on the side) for an hour by a perfectly sufficient laghima & mahima & at the end could have been maintained for an indefinitely longer period. The pain of the sinews peculiar to this position was recurrent, but had no longer its old force; nevertheless it prevented the maintenance in a single position straight or crooked, change of position giving relief. Except when the mahima is withheld, the utthapana now can always be maintained owing to the great accomplished force of laghima in the body. An-anima is now the only substantial opponent. It is noticeable that physical tapasya has been greatly diminished & seems on the point of abandonment in favour of pure Tapas of willpower. The utthapana of the back & loins has, however, still to be tried; hitherto it has only once succeeded. The time for the horizontal position of the legs has not before been equalled, but the alteration of the method & the disappearance of true opposition is now the real siddhi, time only a test of its completeness or a circumstance. Vepathu remains, but it is now seen as the sign of a helpful agent which increases mahima & diminishes both muscular stress & muscular pain and strain; it is the sign of the pranashakti at work improving an unfit adhara.
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The principal work of the [year] 1913 has been the reduction of asiddhi to a Survival in the external environmental swabhava, the purification of that swabhava from the contradictions of the first & second chatusthayas, the sure foundation of the siddhi in the third, fourth & sixth & its preparation in the fifth. The finality of the first chatusthaya is perfect in itself, though not yet entirely absolute, touches still surviving as an occasional insistence from the outer nature. Fierce trouble & distress is obsolete, distress itself & even impatience only an occasional & momentary memorial return, but temporary discouragement & distrust with a tendency to indifference & weariness are still able to make a superficial impression. This insecurity of the sraddha & tejas & their incomplete hold in regard to the karmasiddhi & the necessary rapidity of Yogasiddhi prevents a complete & forcible finality of the shakti, retains the excess of the Mahasaraswati-Maheswari combination in the Mahakali Mahasaraswati temperament and hampers the expression & activity of the Mahakali tapas. The third chatusthaya is founded in all its parts, but insecure in the jnana, unfinished in the trikaldrishti, wide & secure but still uncertain & variable in vyaptiprakamya, both imperfect & uncertain in the parts of Tapas and ill-developed in samadhi; nevertheless it is now powerfully & inevitably progressive. The fourth chatusthaya is somewhat advanced but insecure in physical ananda, growing persistently in arogya but obstinately haunted by the old mechanical recurrence of fragmentary defects, growing in secondary utthapana, merely initial & without force of progression in saundarya. The fifth is still in a state of preparation, seed-sowing & crude initial consistencies. The sixth is well advanced, but unable to hold its own without smarana except in the sarvam Brahma. The seventh is well advanced except in certain parts of the siddhi, especially in ritam.
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r1914 01 01, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The day was chiefly occupied with the struggle of the manasaketu to survive as an active factor in the consciousness instead of a passive unreacting recipient. At first, all the justifications that could still be advanced for its Survival had to be allowed to rise in order that they might be refuted & destroyed. Subsequently, the manasa element in the tapas had to be rejected. As a result the action of the Mahakali tapas has been cleared of its besetting difficulty and a coordination of vijnanamaya knowledge and vijnanamaya tapas is being prepared. The manasaketu remains as an otiose but habitually recurring Survival which cannot yet be entirely expelled.
Kamananda again became active; ahaituka tivrananda showed in its recurrence a considerable increase of generality and of force. The pure unaccompanied or unaided ahaituka vishaya is slowly emerging, but still usually stifled by the other anandas. Stability is growing firmer in the rupas of the swapna samadhi.
r1914 01 05, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The struggle over the ritam and the finality of the vijnana and ananda continues. The manas tattwa struggles, successfully so far, for Survival and seizes hold of its own errors to discredit the vijnana & justify its own Survival as a means for judging the vijnana. Health is once more strongly attacked, even cold and fever being threatened. The combination of dasatya & tapas continues to progress with the growth of the bhagavati sraddha.
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r1914 03 24, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In the trikaldrishti a qualified authority is now enjoyed by the lipi, the written script, the articulate thought, & from today by the Vani & the unwritten Script; the perceptive thought is struggling towards this authority, but still hampered by inert & by tapasic suggestions which overstress a perception or which overshoot their mark. Today a more powerful movement of the perceptive thought, more readily, widely & accurately perceptive of the complex truth of forces & their results. If this tendency prevails, the lipi Tuesday & its interpretation will be amply justified. In any case, the claim of the tapasic devatas to be rendered effective before the knowledge is effective as knowledge, is from today rejected. As yet knowledge & force cannot become identical. Another attempt is also being made to cast out the relics of self from the environmental will. It is now evident that the whole difficulty which refuses to be still evicted, is the persistent Survival of [Bhuvarmaya]1 Tapas and its attempt to profit by the vijnana instead of allowing the Swarvati Shakti to illumine itself in a pure desirelessness from the Mahas. Lipsa has been the excuse for this persistence & its distinction from Kama. But the lipsa must be a samalipsa ready entirely to take defeat as well as success and not choosing its will but leaving that to a higher Shakti than the Bhuvarmayi or manomayi. The whole trikaldrishti is still regulated by the idea of success & failure & therefore cannot free itself from overstress. The reason is that man is at present the Asura Rakshasa & seeks from the buddhi the satisfaction of the heart & senses. Therefore this particular nodus is so hard to unloose; because it is always this Asura Rakshasa who has to be liberated & fulfilled & the difficulty cannot be solved by casting him out & rising entirely into a higher principle. The Devasura variety of the Asura Rakshasa has to be established, not the pure Deva or even the pure Devasura. The crux is here, in the right solution of this complexity. There is a pull which would carry too high, there is a pull which would keep too low. Both have to be avoided.
Sortilege (1) (2) (3) . That is, the Ten Kumaras = the ten Purushas from Pashu to Siddhadeva. The present that is drawing to an end is the Rakshasa, whose typeis that of not . It is the species, long necked = eager, purified in body, mahat in the prana element, therefore with a mind that listens in the ananta dasha dishah for the sruti from the vijnana. The other that is coming is Anandamaya, born of the full enjoyment of the Prakriti, ie the Devasura. Balaka also means in the sortilege the young unfulfilled Prakriti. The Anandamaya Devasura has been prepared in the Rakshasa by the Gandharva type of Rakshasa who is also , born not of Prakritis full act of enjoyment, but of her full mood of enjoyment (the Gandharvi bhava in Mahasaraswati).
r1914 04 12, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Brahmadarshan fluctuates between the Krishna, Krishna Narayana, Narayana, Nara Narayana, Nara in Saguna Brahman & mere Saguna bhavas. The two former predominate in children, the young & the beautiful, the Narayana & Nara Narayana in others; the Nara & mere Saguna are Survivals from former states of perception. The Nara comes whenever the mind concentrates on the ego in the object of perception.
Sortilege
r1914 11 26, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Arogya is also in the same uncertain condition. Its force increases and its pressure. But it is not in possession and is unable to expel the recurrent habitualities of Roga. The latter rely on tamasic dhriti of habit for their long persistence, though they are no longer sure of ultimate Survival.
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r1914 12 05, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Preference in Tapas is still accompanied by vague reactions in the outward nervous consciousness of the physical body, but these are merely a Survival of the old habit. There is a great mass of true samata behind in which titiksha, udasinata & nati are fused into a complete harmony of shanti.
The perfect Ananda still depends on faith in details founded on vijnana & faith in kriti founded on habit of effective Tapas-siddhi.
r1914 12 13, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In Tapas the forces of resistance that prevent full Aishwarya & the establishment of the 60 degrees power, maintaining constantly the Survival of the 30, 40 & 50, with the 60 as an occasional movement, still hold the field, though with greater effort than before.
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r1915 01 24, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The defect of last years siddhi was the Survival of a Tapas & Tapatya which responded too eagerly to sakama suggestions from outside. For this reason it was necessary to obscure the siddhi in order to assure entire titiksha, udasinata and nati of all favourable or adverse results, pleasant or unpleasant experiences. Especially, the Ananda of success & failure, truth & falsehood has been secured against the constant denial opposed to them by this recoil.
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r1915 06 13, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The first assertion is now to a great degree fulfilled.1 All the parts and instruments of the Vijnana are in constant action and more or less organised. Constant is not continual. There are periods of disorganisation and broken action, even of quiescence or mere mental action,although the latter Survival is decreasing in force and frequency.
Thought and script are frequent and normally vijnanamaya, but too often possessed by ganas who try to veil the Iswara. Perceptive thought is more often pulled down into the mentality, but still it rises again into the luminous action. Trikaldrishti is constant; though often disorganised. Aishwarya-traya is constant, though often broken and even confined to isolated effects.
r1917 02 11, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Prolonged intensity of pain (internal, ahaituka and sahaituka) no longer overpowers the ananda; it increases it, merges into it or turns into it. Also pain is now seldom separate from the ananda; it does not come and cause it whether at the moment of the touch or after the touch has seized it, but is amalgamated with it. It is either anandamaya pain or pain-ananda or pure raudra ananda. Even in strong pain from outside touches, eg burning, this tends to be the rule. The old separation is only an occasional Survival. Discomfort is following the same rule, but has not gone so far towards absorption.
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r1917 02 25, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The idealisation of the telepathies is finally confirmed. The intellectual are now only a mechanical Survival and when they occur make no attempt to know, but passively record suggestions as suggestions. It is only when will is applied, that they recur to their old nature of seeking to anticipate fulfilment or non-fulfilment.
Renewed activity of the samadhi. Preparation for conscious vijnana-samadhi. Continuity of action and stability of scene are now firmly established.
r1917 03 14, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Lipi has now accomplished fluency in perfect legible stability. The result has only to be thoroughly confirmed, deepened and released from minor defects, the Survivals of the older imperfection. The stability is essential, it does not as yet remain long fixed in the akasha; but there is no tendency to vanish as soon as it is manifested or, as before, even in the act of manifestation. The tendency is to remain as long as is necessary.
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r1917 09 08, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Ishwara control is now firmly universalised in vani, script and vangmaya, with whatever Survival of gana participation; it is not yet universalised in perceptive thought, still less in T. That is being prepared.
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r1918 06 14, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In the later morning A III; vertical position of both arms, walking, for between half an hour and an hour. Here too mahima laghima is in possession, but the defect of utthapana shakti is greater, due to the Survival of the defect of anima shown by a reaction in the muscles after cessation, which was absent from the asanas of the early morning. The asana could not have been continued longer without some strain and difficulty. No evident reaction from the walking in this position.
The movement is now to replace finally in trikaldrishti the action through the intellect by the action through the intuitive mind. In trikaldrishti the Survival of the inferior action is strong and will take some time to eliminate. It prevents decisive trikaldrishti and perpetuates error of stress and error of interpretation of the will-messages and knowledge-messages from the ideality.
Kamananda has gone back for the time being. Smarana is no longer always sufficient to recall it. Arogya also is thrown back in chronic rogas 1 and 2; but in the latter only under great stress lasting for the whole fortnight and here the siddhi tendency is evident even in failure.
r1919 08 15, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Hermetic logistic ideality took preliminary possession of the T. This action at once brought to bear effective gnostic tapas on the body. But the lower action still insists, has yet to undergo transformation. The Survival of the tamoguna in the body is the chief obstacle; it brings not the absolute, but a relative aprakasha, apravritti, pramada, moha.
The day was taken up with the development of this action which marks a decisive turning-point in the gnosis. From the afternoon came, as often before in such crises, a lapse (for adjustment) into idealised mentality, no longer tinged with any dark tamas, but rather a vivid haze of light, a confusion of luminous incertitude. So long as this conversion of the gnosis is not provided with its full base, the other siddhis attend their moment for renewed progression.
r1919 08 26, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
T has emerged from the confusion and is now exiling all inferior suggestions. The telepathy of the seer logistis is still subject to a Survival of mental incertitude and stress prematurely trying to set right the incertitude, but the tendency to automatic justness of appreciation is gaining ground in spite of lapses.
Samadhi has recovered full force of logistic ideality in the seer logistis. For the last day or two there has been a movement towards abundance and coherence of other experience than the dream vision. Abundance and continuity were secured initially in monologue, converse, scene-narrative with speech, lipi in the lighter samadhi; there was also light and stable scene and continuity in happening; but the mass lipi in deeper samadhi was subject to great incoherence and though there was an immense abundance of experience in the logistic samadhi, most of it was of a fragmentary character. At night there was some relapse to present suggestion.
r1920 02 19, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The insistence on the physical siddhi has been increasingly relaxed for the last few days. There is now scanty K.A. It is being transformed into the revelatory ideal K.A, but the transformation is much opposed by the Survival of old idealised intuitive Ananda. The other Anandas are sharing the change.
The second half of the day possession by the intuitive mind from outside. Progress under difficulties.
r1920 02 25, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
T, the representative vijnana is taking up detail, but not all the detail. The confused action of the rest continues, but is becoming clearer by restriction. The Shakti now tends to allow provisionally all ideal T, but to accept only the forms of the highest ideality with a total acceptance, partially accept the revelatory forms of the lower (inspirational and intuitional) stages, observe only in order to reject or transform the Survivals of mental suggestion. The rest occurs, but is partially sanctioned only when there is some revelatory force or interpretative in it or at the back.
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r1920 03 03, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Ananda (sharira) has now a fluctuating continuity; the persistence of the mental forms forms the present chief obstacle. The falling of the intensity brings them into prominence. Nevertheless the ideal form is growing in power. Thought and writing no longer interfere necessarily with the bodys smarana, but only when there is a total absorption in the writing etc or when a cloud of mental stuff comes in to interpose an element of the old formless abstraction of mind which attended absorption in a single subject or occupation. This is no longer a necessity, but a Survival of habitude. The continuity has begun to prevail in this matter. The pervasiveness of the Ananda is also being prepared on a firmer foundation. And now even the cloud of mental abstraction no longer necessarily interrupts the ananda. It is only the exclusive absorption that is the ordinary obstacle. There is also the mechanical letting down of the Shakti (eg at meal times and in the evening[)], that may interfere. Sleep and to a less extent samadhi remain a strong interruption. Fatigue is a power for diminution.
Tapas is greatly increasing in force and in ideal substance. T is now passing through a stage in which the higher ideality is sometimes active, sometimes gives place to lower idealities. These are not proper any longer to the systems, but suggestions from outside.
r1920 03 07, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The T is proceeding with the development of the drishti. The movement goes much over old ground and confirms the stable hold of the drishti in the lesser ideal action. First, the lower form has been successfully converted; this gives near future and present potentialities valued in the terms and powers of the immediate actuality and frequently fulfilled according to the exact balance seen of the immediate present and future actuality, but barren of absolute future certitudes. Now the mediary form has been converted. This takes up the immediate potentialities, includes distant ones, and deals more largely with near and far potential, relative, temporary and isolated certitudes. But the near is more strongly and frequently dealt with than the farther, the farther more than the very distant; the last is still very rare. The chief difficulty is the Survival of uncertain or self-regardingly positive stress, and this though less ignorant and vehement than in the mentality, less positive than in the lower idealities, is still sufficient to hamper the action of the highest drishti. The defect can only be cured by full and complete unification of knowledge and Tapas
There is movement again in the rupa, in the tendency of drishti idealisation, but as yet this is still embarrassed by the persistence of inspired and intuitive mental forms.
r1920 03 14, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The crude lipi is idealised and even in the process of uncertain formation there is only a momentary Survival of the mental matter which is now become a suggestion rather than a real element.
The mental state is being at times brought back in the laxity in order to be overpowered by the drishti.
r1920 06 09, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Ananda of the interpretative fashion acclimatised in the body. Physical Ananda is now of three moulds, interpretative, revelatory and as a Survival the inspirational and (rarely, almost never) other lower kind[s] of vijnana.
For the first time developed or rather perfect rupa of the secondary-tertiary stability. As yet the longer stabilities except in the crude rupa are still isolated or else a rather frequent exception. The initial predominates when there is rapidity and frequency of the crude and developed rupa.
Talks 076-099, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Absolute Being (God), (cf. I and my Father are one) and this glorious Survival is called Resurrection.
--- Talk 87.
The Act of Creation text, #The Act of Creation, #Arthur Koestler, #Psychology
eminently practical arrangements in the service of Survival. But what
is the Survival value of the involuntary, simultaneous contraction of
fifteen facial muscles associated with certain noises which are often
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less universe governed by the laws of thermodynamics and the Survival
of the fittest.
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of Survival, and thus be naturally selected (Darwin's italics). Thus
, favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable
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remark that selection through Survival of the fittest was a 'self-acting
process' anticipated the concept of negative feed-back. His conviction
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random mutations retained because of their Survival value.
Among those prepared to accept the positive role of the unconscious,
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biological evolution with the struggle for Survival.
On the question how the new synthesis comes into being, the evi-
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Survival-value. There is a constant struggle for Survival between
competing theories in every branch of the history of thought. When we
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wastefulness, sudden mutations, the struggle for Survival between
competing theories.
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the Survival of the fittest, the acquisitive and competitive aspects of
social behaviour. The ambiance of this 'Darwinistic psychology* is
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blood; a socially valuable Survival of it are the rites of conviviality
from the symbolic sharing of bread and salt, to the ceremonial ban-
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safety device in the service of Survival, which enters into action when
the limits of dynamic equilibrium are exceeded as the shock-absorbers
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in spite of its negative Survival value for the mutant? The same question
could be asked concerning the phylogenetic origin of the ritualized
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this would indeed be sufficient to ensure the gosling's Survival, since
the first sizeable moving creature seen would be the mother-goose.
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But that of the Survival of the fittest.
Till, in the twilight of the gods,
The Dwellings of the Philosophers, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
essential to the Survival of this rescued core. Consequently, in spite of its apparent
universality, in spite of the terrifying and long intermixing of the raging elements, we are
The Logomachy of Zos, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
necessary for our Survival.
When the denial of a proposition is incapable of being conceived, then
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Morality is a reciprocal discipline necessary to Survival, and to protect
the inexperienced from consequences unnecessary or unequal to
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most it has become a Survival, a foregoing and forgetting- at best, a
narrow selecting... There are more who would escape life than retain it.
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destroy all that leads away from the Ideal, for your purpose and Survival
There is virtue in understatement and elimination as against emphasis
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believe that it is not essential to Survival to have such madness.
The self and the blade of grass are still potentialities in vague eternities.
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the assured Survival of his weakness.
What stupidities benight the assertion that anything was created
The Shadow Out Of Time, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
dreams, I was none the less unprepared for anything like a tangible Survival from a lost
world remote beyond all imagination. Most devastating of all were the photographs - for
Timaeus, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
He replied:In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which the river Nile divides, there is a certain district which is called the district of Sais, and the great city of the district is also called Sais, and is the city from which King Amasis came. The citizens have a deity for their foundress; she is called in the Egyptian tongue Neith, and is asserted by them to be the same whom the Hellenes call Athene; they are great lovers of the Athenians, and say that they are in some way related to them. To this city came Solon, and was received there with great honour; he asked the priests who were most skilful in such matters, about antiquity, and made the discovery that neither he nor any other Hellene knew anything worth mentioning about the times of old. On one occasion, wishing to draw them on to speak of antiquity, he began to tell about the most ancient things in our part of the worldabout Phoroneus, who is called 'the first man,' and about Niobe; and after the Deluge, of the Survival of Deucalion and Pyrrha; and he traced the genealogy of their descendants, and reckoning up the dates, tried to compute how many years ago the events of which he was speaking happened. Thereupon one of the priests, who was of a very great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you. Solon in return asked him what he meant. I mean to say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age. And I will tell you why. There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes. There is a story, which even you have preserved, that once upon a time Paethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father's chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth, which recurs after long intervals; at such times those who live upon the mountains and in dry and lofty places are more liable to destruction than those who dwell by rivers or on the seashore. And from this calamity the Nile, who is our never-failing saviour, delivers and preserves us. When, on the other hand, the gods purge the earth with a deluge of water, the survivors in your country are herdsmen and shepherds who dwell on the mountains, but those who, like you, live in cities are carried by the rivers into the sea. Whereas in this land, neither then nor at any other time, does the water come down from above on the fields, having always a tendency to come up from below; for which reason the traditions preserved here are the most ancient. The fact is, that wherever the extremity of winter frost or of summer sun does not prevent, mankind exist, sometimes in greater, sometimes in lesser numbers. And whatever happened either in your country or in ours, or in any other region of which we are informedif there were any actions noble or great or in any other way remarkable, they have all been written down by us of old, and are preserved in our temples. Whereas just when you and other nations are beginning to be provided with letters and the other requisites of civilized life, after the usual interval, the stream from heaven, like a pestilence, comes pouring down, and leaves only those of you who are destitute of letters and education; and so you have to begin all over again like children, and know nothing of what happened in ancient times, either among us or among yourselves. As for those genealogies of yours which you just now recounted to us, Solon, they are no better than the tales of children. In the first place you remember a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones; in the next place, you do not know that there formerly dwelt in your land the fairest and noblest race of men which ever lived, and that you and your whole city are descended from a small seed or remnant of them which survived. And this was unknown to you, because, for many generations, the survivors of that destruction died, leaving no written word. For there was a time, Solon, before the great deluge of all, when the city which now is Athens was first in war and in every way the best governed of all cities, is said to have performed the noblest deeds and to have had the fairest constitution of any of which tradition tells, under the face of heaven. Solon marvelled at his words, and earnestly requested the priests to inform him exactly and in order about these former citizens. You are welcome to hear about them, Solon, said the priest, both for your own sake and for that of your city, and above all, for the sake of the goddess who is the common patron and parent and educator of both our cities. She founded your city a thousand years before ours (Observe that Plato gives the same date (9000 years ago) for the foundation of Athens and for the repulse of the invasion from Atlantis (Crit.).), receiving from the Earth and Hephaestus the seed of your race, and afterwards she founded ours, of which the constitution is recorded in our sacred registers to be 8000 years old. As touching your citizens of 9000 years ago, I will briefly inform you of their laws and of their most famous action; the exact particulars of the whole we will hereafter go through at our leisure in the sacred registers themselves. If you compare these very laws with ours you will find that many of ours are the counterpart of yours as they were in the olden time. In the first place, there is the caste of priests, which is separated from all the others; next, there are the artificers, who ply their several crafts by themselves and do not intermix; and also there is the class of shepherds and of hunters, as well as that of husbandmen; and you will observe, too, that the warriors in Egypt are distinct from all the other classes, and are commanded by the law to devote themselves solely to military pursuits; moreover, the weapons which they carry are shields and spears, a style of equipment which the goddess taught of Asiatics first to us, as in your part of the world first to you. Then as to wisdom, do you observe how our law from the very first made a study of the whole order of things, extending even to prophecy and medicine which gives health, out of these divine elements deriving what was needful for human life, and adding every sort of knowledge which was akin to them. All this order and arrangement the goddess first imparted to you when establishing your city; and she chose the spot of earth in which you were born, because she saw that the happy temperament of the seasons in that land would produce the wisest of men. Wherefore the goddess, who was a lover both of war and of wisdom, selected and first of all settled that spot which was the most likely to produce men likest herself. And there you dwelt, having such laws as these and still better ones, and excelled all mankind in all virtue, as became the children and disciples of the gods.
Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your state in our histories. But one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. For these histories tell of a mighty power which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end. This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbour, having a narrow entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent. Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia. This vast power, gathered into one, endeavoured to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits; and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind. She was pre-eminent in courage and military skill, and was the leader of the Hellenes. And when the rest fell off from her, being compelled to stand alone, after having undergone the very extremity of danger, she defeated and triumphed over the invaders, and preserved from slavery those who were not yet subjugated, and generously liberated all the rest of us who dwell within the pillars. But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea. For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.
--- Overview of noun survival
The noun survival has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (10) survival, endurance ::: (a state of surviving; remaining alive)
2. survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection ::: (a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment)
3. survival ::: (something that survives)
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun survival
3 senses of survival
Sense 1
survival, endurance
=> animation, life, living, aliveness
=> being, beingness, existence
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection
=> natural process, natural action, action, activity
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
survival
=> continuance, continuation
=> activity
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun survival
2 of 3 senses of survival
Sense 1
survival, endurance
=> subsistence
Sense 3
survival
=> custom, usage, usance
=> hangover, holdover
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun survival
3 senses of survival
Sense 1
survival, endurance
=> animation, life, living, aliveness
Sense 2
survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection
=> natural process, natural action, action, activity
Sense 3
survival
=> continuance, continuation
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun survival
3 senses of survival
Sense 1
survival, endurance
-> animation, life, living, aliveness
=> eternal life, life eternal
=> skin
=> survival, endurance
Sense 2
survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection
-> natural process, natural action, action, activity
=> radiation
=> absorption
=> acidification
=> adiabatic process
=> aeration
=> antiredeposition
=> capture
=> capture
=> centrifugation
=> chemical process, chemical change, chemical action
=> chromatography
=> concretion
=> condensation
=> convection
=> curdling, clotting, coagulation
=> decay
=> demagnetization, demagnetisation
=> desorption
=> diffusion
=> dissolution, disintegration
=> distillation, distillment
=> drift
=> effervescence
=> electrophoresis, cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, ionophoresis
=> establishment, ecesis
=> extinction
=> extraction
=> feedback
=> filtration
=> flocculation
=> flow
=> formation
=> fossilization, fossilisation
=> geological process, geologic process
=> hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing
=> inactivation
=> ion exchange
=> ionization, ionisation
=> leach, leaching
=> magnetization, magnetisation, magnetic induction
=> materialization, materialisation
=> nuclear reaction
=> opacification
=> oscillation
=> oxygenation
=> pair production, pair creation, pair formation
=> phase change, phase transition, state change, physical change
=> precession of the equinoxes
=> release
=> saltation
=> scattering
=> sericulture
=> sink
=> soak, soakage, soaking
=> softening
=> sorption
=> source
=> stiffening, rigidifying, rigidification
=> stimulation
=> succession, ecological succession
=> survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection
=> synergy, synergism
=> temperature change
=> transduction
=> transpiration
=> vitrification
Sense 3
survival
-> continuance, continuation
=> prolongation, protraction, perpetuation, lengthening
=> repetition, repeating
=> perseverance, persistence, perseveration
=> abidance
=> pursuance, prosecution
=> survival
--- Grep of noun survival
survival
survival of the fittest
survivalist