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tenability ::: n. --> The quality or state of being tenable; tenableness.
tenable ::: a. --> Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.
tenableness ::: n. --> Same as Tenability.
tena ::: by that.
tenace ::: n. --> The holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the combination of best with third best card of a suit in any hand.
tenacies ::: pl. --> of Tenancy
tenacious ::: a. --> Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.
Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.
Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil.
Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive.
Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
tenacity ::: n. --> The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear
tenacity ::: the state or quality of being tenacious; firmness of purpose.
tenacula ::: pl. --> of Tenaculum
tenaculum ::: n. --> An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like.
tenaculums ::: pl. --> of Tenaculum
tenacy ::: n. --> Tenaciousness; obstinacy.
tenaille ::: n. --> An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.
tenaillon ::: n. --> A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.
ten'ai 天愛. See DEVĀNĀM PRIYAḤ
tenancy ::: n. --> A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.
A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another.
tenancy ::: possession or occupancy of lands, buildings, or other property by title, under a lease, or on payment of rent. Also fig.** space-tenancy.**
tenantable ::: a. --> Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant.
tenant ::: a dweller in a place; an occupant. Tenants.
tenanted ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Tenant
tenanting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Tenant
tenantless ::: a. --> Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion.
tenant ::: n. --> One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.
One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
tenantry ::: n. --> The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom.
Tenancy.
tenant saw ::: --> See Tenon saw, under Tenon.
tenant ::: “ . . . this tenant from the heights …”
ten ::: a. --> One more than nine; twice five. ::: n. --> The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects.
A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.
tena tyaktena bhunjithah ::: by that renounced thou shouldst enjoy. [Isa 1]
tenborin 轉法輪. See DHARMACAKRAPRAVARTANA
tench ::: n. --> A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life.
tenchuten 天中天. See DEVĀTIDEVA
tendance ::: n. --> The act of attending or waiting; attendance.
Persons in attendance; attendants.
tended ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Tend
tendence ::: n. --> Tendency.
tendencies ::: pl. --> of Tendency
tendency ::: n. --> Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.
tender ::: 1. Kind, loving, gentle, mild, affectionate. 2. Delicate or soft. tenderer.
tendered ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Tender
tenderfoot ::: n. --> A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life.
tender-hearted ::: a. --> Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive.
tender-hefted ::: a. --> Having great tenderness; easily moved.
tendering ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Tender
tenderling ::: n. --> One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling.
One of the first antlers of a deer.
tenderloin ::: n. --> A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.
tenderly ::: adv. --> In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly.
tenderly ::: with tenderness; in a tender manner; kindly.
tenderness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).
tenderness ::: warm compassionate feelings
tender ::: n. --> One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be
tender ::: one who attends to or takes charge of someone or something.
ten dharma activities. (S. dharmacarya; T. chos spyod; C. faxing 法行)
tending or likely to be erroneous; false, inaccurate.
tending ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Tend
tending “Why should a son of fire [i.e., an angel]
tendinitis {overuse strain injury}
tendinous ::: a. --> Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon.
Full of tendons; sinewy; as, nervous and tendinous parts of the body.
ten directions. (S. dasadis; T. phyogs bcu; C. shifang 十方)
ten directions. See DAsADIs.
ten directions
tendment ::: n. --> Attendance; care.
tendon ::: n. --> A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.
tendonous ::: a. --> Tendinous.
tendosynovitis ::: n. --> See Tenosynovitis.
tendo 顚倒. See VIPARYĀSA
tendrac ::: n. --> Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.
tendril ::: a. --> A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.
Clasping; climbing as a tendril.
tendril ::: A twisting, threadlike structure by which a twining plant grasps an object or a plant for support. (Sri Aurobindo employs the word as an adj.).
tendril ::: a twisting, threadlike structure by which a twining plant grasps an object or a plant for support. (Sri Aurobindo employs the word as an adj.).
tendriled ::: a. --> Alt. of Tendrilled
tendrilled ::: a. --> Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils.
tendron ::: n. --> A tendril.
tendry ::: n. --> A tender; an offer.
tend to: A sequence/function tends to a value L if L is the limit of the sequence/function.
tend ::: to go or move (in a particular direction; esp. towards something. tends, tending.
tend ::: to look after; watch over and care for; minister to or wait on with service. tending.
tend ::: v. t. --> To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks.
To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to. ::: v. i.
tenebrae ::: n. --> The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days.
tenebricose ::: a. --> Tenebrous; dark; gloomy.
tenebrific ::: a. --> Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy.
tenebrificous ::: a. --> Tenebrific.
tenebrious ::: a. --> Tenebrous.
tenebrose ::: a. --> Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.
tenebrosity ::: n. --> The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness.
tenebrous ::: a. --> Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious.
tenebrous ::: dark and gloomy.
tenemental ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants.
tenementary ::: a. --> Capable of being leased; held by tenants.
tenement ::: fig. A building for human habitation, often in reference to the soul in the body.
tenement ::: n. --> That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.
A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an
tene ::: n. & v. --> See 1st and 2d Teen.
ten endowments. (T. 'byor ba bcu)
tenent ::: n. --> A tenet.
teneral ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring.
teneramente: tenderly
tenerezza: tenderness
teneriffe ::: n. --> A white wine resembling Madeira in taste, but more tart, produced in Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands; -- called also Vidonia.
tenerity ::: a. --> Tenderness.
tenesmic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by tenesmus.
tenesmus ::: n. --> An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum.
tenet ::: n. --> Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.
ten'e 轉依. See ĀsRAYAPARĀVṚTTI
ten fetters. (S. saMyojana; T. kun tu sbyor ba; C. jie 結)
ten-finger interface ::: The interface between two networks that cannot be directly connected for security reasons; refers to the practice of placing two terminals side by side and having an operator read from one and type into the other.[Jargon File]
ten-finger interface The interface between two networks that cannot be directly connected for security reasons; refers to the practice of placing two terminals side by side and having an operator read from one and type into the other. [{Jargon File}]
tenfold ::: a. & adv. --> In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated.
ten fundamental afflictions. (S. mulaklesa; T. rtsa nyon; C. shi/huo/genben fannao 使/惑/根本煩惱)
tengai 天界. See DEVALOKA
tengen 點眼. See DIANYAN, NETRAPRATIstHĀPANA
tengerai 天下來. See DEVĀVATĀRA
tengesho 天下處. See DEVĀVATĀRA
tengyur. See BSTAN 'GYUR
tenia ::: n. --> See Taenia.
tenioid ::: a. --> See Taenoid.
tenjin 天神. See DEVATĀ
tenjo 天上. See DEVALOKA, SVARGA
tenma chunyi. See BRTAN MA BCU GNYIS
ten masteries. (S. vasitā; T. dbang; C. zizai 自在)
ten meanings [of unimpeded interpenetration in the Huayan school]. (C. Huayan shiyi 華嚴十義)
tennantite ::: n. --> A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper.
tenne ::: n. --> A tincture, rarely employed, which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines.
tennis elbow {overuse strain injury}
tennis ::: n. --> A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand. ::: v. t. --> To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.
tenni 天耳. See DIVYAsROTRA
tenno 天王. See DEVARĀJAN
tennu ::: n. --> The tapir. html{color:
tennyo 天女. See APSARAS
tenonian ::: a. --> Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist.
tenon ::: n. --> A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk. ::: v. t.
tenor: In linguistics, it refers to the participants in a text and their relationship to each other.
tenor ::: n. --> A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
Stamp; character; nature.
An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or
tenor: the second lowest of the standard four voice ranges (bass, tenor, alto, soprano)
tenosynovitis ::: n. --> Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.
tenotome ::: n. --> A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.
tenotomy ::: n. --> The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.
tenpenny ::: a. --> Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n.
Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny.
ten perfections. (S. pāramitā; T. pha rol tu phyin pa; C. du/ boluomi 度/波羅蜜)
tenpins ::: n. --> A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See Ninepins.
ten-pounder ::: n. --> A large oceanic fish (Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
ten powers of a bodhisattva. (S. bala; T. byang chub sems dpa'i stobs; C. pusa li 菩薩力)
ten powers of a tathāgata. (S. tathāgatabala; T. de bzhin gshegs pa'i stobs; C. rulai li 如來力)
ten precepts. [of novices] (*dasasīla/srāmanerasaMvara; T. dge tshul gyi sdom pa; C. [shami] shijie [沙彌]十戒)
ten realms of reality [dharmadhātu]. (C. shi fajie 十法界)
tenrec ::: n. --> A small insectivore (Centetes ecaudatus), native of Madagascar, but introduced also into the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius; -- called also tanrec. The name is applied to other allied genera. See Tendrac.
ten recollections. (S. anusmṛti; T. rjes su dran pa; C. nian/suinian 念/隨念)
tenrim. See BSTAN RIM
tenrin'o 轉輪王. See CAKRAVARTIN
tenryu hachibu 天龍八部. See AstĀSENA
tensa 展左. See PRATYĀLĪdHA
tense ::: 1. Tightly stretched; taut. 2. Characterized by nervous tension or suspense. tenser.
tense ::: any one of the inflected forms in the conjugation of a verb that indicates the time, such as past, present, or future, as well as the continuance or completion of the action or state.
tense: Grammatical tense is a temporal linguistic quality expressing the time at, during, or over which a state or action denoted by a verb occurs.
tensekai 天世界. See DEVALOKA
tense ::: n. --> One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time. ::: a. --> Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax;
tense Of programs, very clever and efficient. A tense piece of code often got that way because it was highly {bum}med, but sometimes it was just based on a great idea. A comment in a clever routine by Mike Kazar, once a grad-student hacker at CMU: "This routine is so tense it will bring tears to your eyes." A tense programmer is one who produces tense code. [{Jargon File}]
tense ::: Of programs, very clever and efficient. A tense piece of code often got that way because it was highly bummed, but sometimes it was just based on a great idea. A This routine is so tense it will bring tears to your eyes. A tense programmer is one who produces tense code.[Jargon File]
tensibility ::: n. --> The quality or state of being tensible; tensility.
tensible ::: a. --> Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensible.
tensile ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.
Capable of extension; ductile; tensible.
tensiled ::: a. --> Made tensile.
tensility ::: n. --> The quality or state of being tensile, or capable of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles.
tension ::: 1. The act or process of stretching something tight. 2. Mental, emotional, or nervous strain.
tension: A mood that transpires from any conflict within a text or play.
tension ::: a. --> The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.
Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort.
The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length; strain.
tensioned ::: a. --> Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension.
tension: The magnitude of a force applied by an object along its length towards the force applying object as a reaction to another force or in order to return to its natural shape.
tensity ::: n. --> The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.
tensive ::: a. --> Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction.
tensor ::: n. --> A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.
The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor.
tensor network theory ::: A theory of brain function (particularly that of the cerebellum) that provides a mathematical model of the transformation of sensory space-time coordinates into motor coordinates and vice versa by cerebellar neuronal networks. The theory was developed as a geometrization of brain function (especially of the central nervous system) using tensors.[306][307]
tensor product "mathematics" A function of two {vector spaces}, U and V, which returns the space of {linear maps} from V's {dual} to U. Tensor product has natural symmetry in interchange of U and V and it produces an {associative} "multiplication" on vector spaces. Wrinting * for tensor product, we can map UxV to U*V via: (u,v) maps to that linear map which takes any w in V's dual to u times w's action on v. We call this linear map u*v. One can then show that u * v + u * x = u * (v+x) u * v + t * v = (u+t) * v and hu * v = h(u * v) = u * hv ie, the mapping respects {linearity}: whence any {bilinear map} from UxV (to wherever) may be factorised via this mapping. This gives us the degree of natural symmetry in swapping U and V. By rolling it up to multilinear maps from products of several vector spaces, we can get to the natural associative "multiplication" on vector spaces. When all the vector spaces are the same, permutation of the factors doesn't change the space and so constitutes an automorphism. These permutation-induced iso-auto-morphisms form a {group} which is a {model} of the group of permutations. (1996-09-27)
tensor product ::: (mathematics) A function of two vector spaces, U and V, which returns the space of linear maps from V's dual to U.Tensor product has natural symmetry in interchange of U and V and it produces an associative multiplication on vector spaces.Wrinting * for tensor product, we can map UxV to U*V via: (u,v) maps to that linear map which takes any w in V's dual to u times w's action on v. We call this linear map u*v. One can then show that u * v + u * x = u * (v+x)u * v + t * v = (u+t) * v natural associative multiplication on vector spaces.When all the vector spaces are the same, permutation of the factors doesn't change the space and so constitutes an automorphism. These permutation-induced iso-auto-morphisms form a group which is a model of the group of permutations. (1996-09-27)
ten stages [of the bodhisattva path]. (S. dasabhumi; T. sa bcu; C. shidi 十地)
ten-strike ::: n. --> A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball.
Any quick, decisive stroke or act.
tensure ::: n. --> Tension.
tentacled ::: a. --> Having tentacles.
tentacle ::: n. --> A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion.
tentacula ::: pl. --> of Tentaculum
tentacular ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.
tentaculata ::: n. pl. --> A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles.
tentaculate ::: a. --> Alt. of Tentaculated
tentaculated ::: a. --> Having tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled.
tentaculifera ::: n. pl. --> Same as Suctoria, 1.
tentaculiferous ::: a. --> Producing or bearing tentacles.
tentaculiform ::: a. --> Shaped like a tentacle.
tentaculite ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods.
tentaculocyst ::: n. --> One of the auditory organs of certain medusae; -- called also auditory tentacle.
tentaculum ::: n. --> A tentacle.
One of the stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile hair.
tentage ::: n. --> A collection of tents; an encampment.
tent ::: a portable shelter, as of canvas, stretched over a supporting framework of poles with ropes and pegs. Also fig. **tents, tent-posts.**
tentation ::: n. --> Trial; temptation.
A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.
tentative ::: 1. Not fully worked out, concluded, or agreed on; provisional. 2. Unsure; uncertain; not definite or positive; hesitant.
tentative ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental. ::: n. --> An essay; a trial; an experiment.
tented ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Tent ::: a. --> Covered with tents.
tented ::: settled or lodged as in a tent; encamped.
tentered ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Tenter
tentering ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Tenter
tenter ::: n. --> One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
A kind of governor.
A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square. ::: v. i.
tentful ::: n. --> As much, or as many, as a tent will hold.
tentfuls ::: pl. --> of Tentful
tenth ::: a. --> Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided. ::: n. --> The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
tenthly ::: adv. --> In a tenth manner.
tenthmeter ::: n. --> Alt. of Tenthmetre
tenthmetre ::: n. --> A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010 of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter.
tenthredinides ::: n. pl. --> A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies.
tentif ::: a. --> Attentive.
tentifly ::: adv. --> Attentively.
tentiginous ::: a. --> Stiff; stretched; strained.
Lustful, or pertaining to lust.
tenting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Tent
tenting ::: something resembling such a portable shelter in construction or outline. (Said of Savitri"s eyelids.)
tentmaker ::: n. --> One whose occupation it is to make tents.
tent ::: n. --> A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.
Attention; regard, care.
Intention; design.
A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
A probe for searching a wound.
tentorium ::: n. --> A fold of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium.
tentory ::: n. --> The awning or covering of a tent.
tentwort ::: n. --> A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall.
tenuated ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Tenuate
tenuate ::: v. t. --> To make thin; to attenuate.
tenuating ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Tenuate
tenues ::: pl. --> of Tenuis
tenuifolious ::: a. --> Having thin or narrow leaves.
tenuious ::: a. --> Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense.
tenuiroster ::: n. --> One of the Tenuirostres.
tenuirosters ::: pl. --> of Tenuiroster
tenuirostral ::: a. --> Thin-billed; -- applied to birds with a slender bill, as the humming birds.
tenuirostres ::: n. pl. --> An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds.
tenuis ::: n. --> One of the three surd mutes /, /, /; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, /, /, /, and their aspirates, /, /, /. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.
tenuity ::: n. --> The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.
Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.
Poverty; indigence.
Refinement; delicacy.
ten unwholesome courses of action. (S. akusala-karmapatha; T. mi dge ba; C. e yedao 惡業道)
tenuous ::: 1. Diluted or rarefied in consistency or density. 2. Fig. Insignificant or flimsy.
tenuous ::: a. --> Thin; slender; small; minute.
Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.
tenured graduate student "job" One who has been in graduate school for 10 years (the usual maximum is 5 or 6): a "ten-yeared" student (get it?). Actually, this term may be used of any grad student beginning in his seventh year. Students don't really get tenure, of course, the way professors do, but a tenth-year graduate student has probably been around the university longer than any untenured professor. [{Jargon File}] (1996-09-27)
tenured graduate student ::: (job) One who has been in graduate school for 10 years (the usual maximum is 5 or 6): a ten-yeared student (get it?). Actually, this term may be used of tenure, of course, the way professors do, but a tenth-year graduate student has probably been around the university longer than any untenured professor.[Jargon File] (1996-09-27)
tenure ::: n. --> The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.
The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior.
The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.
Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure.
tenure ::: the act, fact, or condition of holding something in one"s possession, as real estate, an office or anything immaterial.
tenuto: held; i.e., touch on a note slightly longer than usual, but without generally altering the note's value
ten visualization devices. (S. *kṛtsnāyatana; P. kasina; T. zad par gyi skye mched; C. bianchu 遍處)
ten wholesome courses of action. (S. kusala-karmapatha; T. dge ba bcu; C. shanyedao 善業道) Abstention from the TEN UNWHOLESOME COURSES OF ACTION (s.v.).
tenzo 典座. See DIANZUO
ten 天. See DEVA
Ten15 ::: (language) A universal intermediate language, a predecessor to TDF. .[Ten15: An Overview, P. Core et al, Royal Signals Radar Establishment TR 3977, Sept 1986].[Polymorphic?](2003-05-13)
Ten15 "language" A universal {intermediate language}, a predecessor to {TDF}. {Ten15 Home (http://mca-ltd.com/martin/Ten15)}. ["Ten15: An Overview", P. Core et al, Royal Signals Radar Establishment TR 3977, Sept 1986]. [Polymorphic?] (2003-05-13)
Tenaciel —a Friday angel of the 3rd hour invoked from the east. [Rf. de Abano, The Heptameron\ Barrett, The Magus', Mathers, The Greater Key of Solomon.]
Tenboringyo 轉法輪經. See DHAMMACAKKAPPAVATTANASUTTA
Tenborin'in 轉法輪印. See DHARMACAKRAMUDRĀ
Ten-brel chug-nyi is the Tibetan expression of the causal relations inherent in and affecting peregrinating monads, which bring about manifestation in successive imbodiments; this Buddhist teaching shows a somewhat more elaborate philosophical development in the Tibetan doctrine than elsewhere. Freedom from the entangling relations affecting consciousness is to be found by an earnest and strict following of the Four Noble Truths leading into the Noble Eightfold Path; yet the essence of the religion of the buddhas is in the words of Gautama Buddha: “To cease from all evil or wrong doing; to become enamored of virtue; to cleanse one’s own heart or nature — here is the religion of the Buddhas.” See also NIDANA
Ten-brel Chug-nyi (Tibetan) rTen-hBrel hchu-gnis. In philosophy, the twelve interdependent contributories to the origination of all phenomena, equivalent to the Sanskrit nidanas. As each one of these twelve originants or causes is dependent upon its predecessor, from which it is emanated, owing to a process of reaction the predecessor is karmically also dependent for its manifestation on its successor, and thus the twelve are not simultaneous in origination but occur in a certain regular sequence; because of this inseparable interdependence they also of necessity coordinate in action. They are rendered in the Pratitya-samutpada as: 1) ma-rig-pa (Sanskrit avidya) nonwisdom; 2) hDu-bYed (Sanskrit samskara) aggregative forces; 3) rNam-Ches (Sanskrit vijnana) will, consciousness; 4) rMin-gZugs (Sanskrit nama-rupa) name-form; 5) Skye-mched (Sanskrit shadayatana) the six sense organs; 6) sparsa (Sanskrit sparsa) contact (for mind or senses); 7) tShor-ba (Sanskrit vedana) feeling; 8) sRed-pa (Sanskrit trishna) desire, thirst; 9) len-pa (Sanskrit upadana) sensual enthrallment; 10) sird-pa (Sanskrit bhava) being; 11) che-ba (Sanskrit jati) birth; and 12) rGa (Sanskrit jaramarana) old age and death.
Tendac —an_angel invoked in the exorcism of the Bat. [Rf. Mathers, The Greater Key of Solomon.]
Tendai Chigi 天台智顗. See TIANTAI ZHIYI
Tendai goji 天台五時. See TIANTAI WUSHI
Tendai hakkyo 天台八教. See TIANTAI BAJIAO
Tendai shikyogi 天台四教儀. See CH'oNT'AE SAGYO ŬI
Tendaishu
Tendaishu. (天台宗). In Japanese, "Platform of Heaven School," the Japanese counterpart of the Chinese TIANTAI ZONG, the name of the Chinese tradition from which Tendai derives. The pilgrim-monk SAICHo (767-822) is presumed to have laid the doctrinal and institutional foundations on which the Tendai tradition in Japan was eventually constructed. Like its Chinese counterpart, the Japanese Tendai tradition took the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA ("Lotus Sutra") and the commentaries on this sutra by TIANTAI ZHIYI as its central scriptures. The Tendai tradition also came to espouse the doctrine of original or inherent enlightenment (HONGAKU). An important step in the development of an autonomous Japanese Tendai tradition was the establishment of a MAHĀYĀNA precepts platform (daijo kaidan). Saicho made numerous petitions to the court to have an independent Mahāyāna precepts platform established on HIEIZAN (see ENRYAKUJI), which would provide him with institutional autonomy from the powerful monasteries of the well-established Buddhist sects in Nara. Saicho's petition was finally granted after his death in 823. The following year, his disciple GISHIN (781-833) was appointed head (zasu) of the Tendai tradition, and several years later, a precepts platform was constructed at the monastery of Enryakuji on Mt. Hiei. The Tendai tradition prospered under the leadership of ENNIN (794-864) and ENCHIN (814-891). A controversy in 993 between the lineages of Enchin and Ennin over the issue of succession led to a schism between Ennin's Sanmon branch at Mt. Hiei and Enchin's Jimon branch at Onjoji (see MIIDERA). The Tendai tradition also produced important figures in the history of the PURE LAND movement in Japan, such as GENSHIN, RYoNIN, HoNEN, and SHINRAN. DoGEN KIGEN, founder of the SoToSHu of ZEN, began his career in the Tendai tradition, practicing as a monk at Mt. Hiei, as did NICHIREN. From the medieval period up through the Tokugawa era (1600-1868), Tendai was a dominant force in Japanese Buddhism. By extension, it had considerable political influence at the court in Kyoto and later with the Tokugawa Bakufu. In order to weaken the powerful Mt. Hiei institution, at the start of the Tokugawa era, the shogunate constructed To Eizan in the capital of Edo ("to" means eastern, thus setting up a juxtaposition with the western Mt. Hiei), which received more funding and prestige than its western counterpart. A major factor in the success of the Tendai institution in Japan was its incorporation of esoteric Buddhism, or MIKKYo, beginning with a limited number of tantric practices that Saicho brought back with him from China. The extensive training that KuKAI (774-835), the founder of the SHINGONSHu, received in esoteric Buddhism in China ultimately rivaled that of Saicho, a challenge that would eventually threaten Tendai's political sway at court. However, after Saicho's disciples Ennin, Enchin, and ANNEN (841-889?) returned from China with the latest esoteric practices, Tendai's preeminence was secured. This Tendai form of mikkyo, which Ennin called TAIMITSU, was considered equal to the teachings of the Saddharmapundarīkasutra. Tendai also heavily influenced the esoteric practices of SHUGENDo centers around the country. During the Tokugawa era, many of these mountain practice sites became formally institutionalized under Tendai Shugendo (referred to as Honzan), and were administered by the monastery of Shogoin in Kyoto. In addition, Tendai monks were among those who made major efforts to incorporate local native spirits (KAMI) into Tendai practice, by acknowledging them as manifestations of the Buddha (see HONJI SUIJAKU).
Tendai: The Japanese “Pure Land” sect of Buddhism, which regards Amitabha the greatest of all Buddhas and centers its doctrine around him.
Tender offer - A time limited offer to buy some or all of the outstanding common stock of a corporation from its stockholders at a specified price per share in an attempt to gain control of the corporation. Also called takeover bid.
Tendo Nyojo 天童如浄. See TIANTONG RUJING
TenDRA ::: (language) .[Summary?](2003-05-13)
TenDRA "language" {TenDRA home (http://tendra.org/)}. [Summary?] (2003-05-13)
Tenet Plan ::: Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire proposed by CIA director George Tenet. The cease-fire took effect on June 13, 2001, but was quickly broken by the Palestinians, and the plan was never fully implemented.
Tengus: Evil tree spirits (Japan), human in form but hatched from eggs.
Tenjiku 天竺. See DIANYAN, NETRAPRATIstHĀPANA
Tenkei Denson
Tenkei Denson. (天桂傳尊) (1648-1735). Japanese ZEN master and scholar in the SoToSHu. Tenkei was born in Kii (present-day Wakayama prefecture). He left home at an early age and served under various teachers during his youth. In 1677, he became the dharma heir of Goho Kaion (d.u.) at the temple of Jokoji in Suruga (present-day Shizuoka prefecture). He served as abbot of various other temples throughout his career. Tenkei is often remembered as the opponent of fellow Soto adept MANZAN DoHAKU and his efforts to reform the practice of IN'IN EKISHI, or "changing teachers according to temple," whereby a monk would take the dharma lineage of the monastery where he was appointed abbot. Tenkei rejected Manzan's call for direct, face-to-face transmission (menju shiho) from a single master to a disciple (isshi insho) and supported the in'in ekishi custom. The military bakufu favored Manzan's reforms and Tenkei's efforts were ultimately to no avail. Tenkei is also remembered for his extensive commentary to DoGEN KIGEN's magnum opus SHoBoGENZo, entitled the Shobogenzo benchu.
Tennyson, Alfred Lord: Nineteenth Century English poet.
Ten One of the most sacred fundamental numbers in occultism, for ten — or more accurately perhaps twelve, as Plato pointed out — is the key of the numerical structure upon which the universe is laid and built. Where seven represents the manifested universe or brahmanda, ten or twelve includes the unmanifested aspects as well. Ten is the foundation of the decimal system and because of this is universal in its relations. With the Pythagoreans ten was the most sacred number, the mystical dekad involving and expressing the mysteries of the entire kosmos, “the absolute All manifesting itself in the Word or generative Power of Creation” (SD 2:553); and among certain other schools, as in the Orient, ten was symbolically synthesized by the vertical line traversing the circle.
Ten Oxherding Pictures. See OXHERDING PICTURES, TEN.
Ten Oxherding Pictures
Tenrinjoo shugyokyo 轉輪聖王修行經. See CAKKAVATTISĪHANĀDASUTTA
Tenshoko Daijin or Ten Sho Dai Jiu (Japanese) The Shinto sun goddess, the first of the five generations of so-called earthly deities — two of which generations are yet to be evolved forth — these seven in their turn following the seven earlier generations of heavenly deities.
Tension: Since normal mental life oscillates between two extremes: a plane of action in which sensori-motor functions occur, and a plane of dream, in which we live our imaginative life, of which memory is a major part, there are as many corresponding intermediate planes as there are degrees of 'attention to life', adaptation to reality. The mind has a power sui generis to produce contractions and expansions of itself. Calling attention to the need of distinguishing various heights of tension or 'tones' in psychic life, Bergson interprets the life of the universe and the life of human personality in terms of tension. -- H.H.
Tensokusai 天息災. See TIANXIZAI
Tensongyo 典尊經. See MAHĀGOVINDASUTTA
TensorFlow ::: A free and open-source software library for dataflow and differentiable programming across a range of tasks. It is a symbolic math library, and is also used for machine learning applications such as neural networks.[308]
TENS
Tenth Sphere, the: Theoretical unifying principle behind the nine Spheres; heavily debated but not yet conclusively discovered.
Ten Virgins, Convivia, Discourse on the Resurrection.
TERMS ANYWHERE
1. Consistently reliable. 2. Steady in allegiance; loyal; constant. 3. Having faith; remaining true, constant, or loyal. 4. Accurate in detail.
1. Large and impressive in size, scope, or extent; magnificent. 2. Most important; chief. 3. Eminent; great in position; stately; majestic. 4. Impressive in size, appearance or general effect. 5. Magnificent or splendid. grander.
1. Power; source of power; intensity or vitality of action or expression; force. **Energy, energy"s, Energies, energies", world-energy, World-Energy, world-energies.
1. Spirited and original; daring; bold. 2. Fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold; defiant; insolent; brazen; unrestrained by convention or propriety.
1. The active opposition or mutual hostility of two opposing forces, physical or mental. 2. An opposing force, principle, or tendency.
1. To hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc. 2. To move unsteadily; stumble. 3. To speak hesitatingly or brokenly. 4. To move unsteadily as a faltering breeze. falters, faltered, faltering, faltering-limbed.
1. To or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage. 2. More distant in especially space, degree or time.
1. Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence. 2. The place where something begins, where it springs into being.
"A basis can be created for a subjective illusion-consciousness which is yet part of Being, if we accept in the sense of an illusory subjective world-awareness the account of sleep and dream creation given to us in the Upanishads. For the affirmation there is that Brahman as Self is fourfold; the Self is Brahman and all that is is the Brahman, but all that is is the Self seen by the Self in four states of its being. In the pure self-status neither consciousness nor unconsciousness as we conceive it can be affirmed about Brahman; it is a state of superconscience absorbed in its self-existence, in a self-silence or a self-ecstasy, or else it is the status of a free Superconscient containing or basing everything but involved in nothing. But there is also a luminous status of sleep-self, a massed consciousness which is the origin of cosmic existence; this state of deep sleep in which yet there is the presence of an omnipotent Intelligence is the seed state or causal condition from which emerges the cosmos; — this and the dream-self which is the continent of all subtle, subjective or supraphysical experience, and the self of waking which is the support of all physical experience, can be taken as the whole field of Maya.” The Life Divine
abide ::: 1. To wait, stay, remain. 2. To remain in residence; to sojourn, reside, dwell. 3. To remain with; to stand firm by, to hold to, remain true to. 4. To continue in existence, endure, stand firm or sure. abides, abode, abiding.
absolute ::: adj. 1. Free from all imperfection or deficiency; complete, finished; perfect, consummate. 2. Of degree: Complete, entire; in the fullest sense. 3. Having ultimate power, governing totally; unlimited by a constitution or the concurrent authority of a parliament; arbitrary, despotic. 4. Existing without relation to any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing. 5. Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned. 6. Considered independently of its being subjective or objective. n. 7. Something that is not dependent upon external conditions for existence or for its specific nature, size, etc. (opposed to relative). Absolute, Absolute"s, absolutes, absoluteness.
abstract ::: adj. 1. Withdrawn or separated from matter, from material embodiment, from practice, or from particular examples; theoretical. 2. In the fine arts, characterized by lack of or freedom from representational qualities. n. 3. Something that concentrates in itself the essential qualities of anything more extensive or more general, or of several things; essence.
abstractions ::: things which have no independent existence, which exist only in idea; visionary and unrealistic.
abyss ::: 1. The great deep, the primal chaos; the ‘bowels of the earth", the supposed cavity of the lower world; the ‘infernal pit". 2. A bottomless gulf; any unfathomable or apparently unfathomable cavity or void space; a profound gulf, chasm, or void extending beneath. Abyss, abyss"s, abysses.
accomplice ::: an associate in guilt, a partner in crime, often as a subordinate. accomplices.
accurate ::: 1. Exact, precise, correct, as the result of care. 2. Free from error or defect; consistent with a standard, rule, or model; precise, exact.
acknowledged ::: recognized the existence, truth or fact of; admitted as true, valid, or authoritative.
acolyte ::: an attendant or junior assistant in any ceremony or operation; a novice; follower. acolytes.
"A cosmos or universe is always a harmony, otherwise it could not exist, it would fly to pieces. But as there are musical harmonies which are built out of discords partly or even predominantly, so this universe (the material) is disharmonious in its separate elements — the individual elements are at discord with each other to a large extent; it is only owing to the sustaining Divine Will behind that the whole is still a harmony to those who look at it with the cosmic vision. But it is a harmony in evolution in progress — that is, all is combined to strive towards a goal which is not yet reached, and the object of our yoga is to hasten the arrival to this goal. When it is reached, there will be a harmony of harmonies substituted for the present harmony built up on discords. This is the explanation of the present appearance of things.” Letters on Yoga
acres ::: extensive lands.
actual ::: in action or existence at the time; present, current, real. Actual"s.
acute ::: penetrating, keen, sharp-witted, shrewd, clever, intense.
"A divine Force is at work and will choose at each moment what has to be done or has not to be done, what has to be momentarily or permanently taken up, momentarily or permanently abandoned. For provided we do not substitute for that our desire or our ego, and to that end the soul must be always awake, always on guard, alive to the divine guidance, resistant to the undivine misleading from within or without us, that Force is sufficient and alone competent and she will lead us to the fulfilment along ways and by means too large, too inward, too complex for the mind to follow, much less to dictate. It is an arduous and difficult and dangerous way, but there is none other.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"A divine life must be first and foremost an inner life; for since the outward must be the expression of what is within, there can be no divinity in the outer existence if there is not the divinisation of the inner being.” The Life Divine*
adoration ::: 1. The act of paying honour, as to a divine being; worship. 2. Reverent homage. 3. Fervent and devoted love. **adoration"s.*Sri Aurobindo: "Especially in love for the Divine or for one whom one feels to be divine, the Bhakta feels an intense reverence for the Loved, a sense of something of immense greatness, beauty or value and for himself a strong impression of his own comparative unworthiness and a passionate desire to grow into likeness with that which one adores.” Letters on Yoga*
"Aesthesis therefore is of the very essence of poetry, as it is of all art. But it is not the sole element and aesthesis too is not confined to a reception of poetry and art; it extends to everything in the world: there is nothing we can sense, think or in any way experience to which there cannot be an aesthetic reaction of our conscious being. Ordinarily, we suppose that aesthesis is concerned with beauty, and that indeed is its most prominent concern: but it is concerned with many other things also. It is the universal Ananda that is the parent of aesthesis and the universal Ananda takes three major and original forms, beauty, love and delight, the delight of all existence, the delight in things, in all things.” Letters on Savitri
affixed ::: fastened, fixed, joined, or attached , put or added on; appended to.
afflatus ::: the miraculous communication of supernatural knowledge; hence also, the imparting of an over-mastering impulse, poetic or otherwise; inspiration. A creative inspiration, as that of a poet; a divine imparting of knowledge, thus it is often called divine afflatus.
agree ::: 1. To be in harmony or unison in opinions, feelings, conduct, etc.; to be in sympathy; to live or act together harmoniously; to have no causes of variance. 2. To give consent; assent (often followed by to). agreed.
aim ::: n. Fig. 1. A thing intended or desired to be effected; an object, purpose. Aim, aims. *v. 2. To point or direct a gun, arrow, etc. toward. *aimed.
alarm ::: n. 1. A warning sound of any kind to give notice of danger, or to arouse or attract attention; esp. a loud and hurried peal rung out by a tocsin or alarm bell. v. 2. To arouse to a sense of danger, to excite the attention or suspicion of, to put on the alert; warn. 3. To strike with fear or apprehension of danger; to agitate or excite with sudden fear. alarmed, alarming.
alert ::: fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; vigilant, watchful.
". . . a limited consciousness growing out of nescience is the source of error, a personal attachment to the limitation and the error born of it the source of falsity, a wrong consciousness governed by the life-ego the source of evil. But it is evident that their relative existence is only a phenomenon thrown up by the cosmic Force in its drive towards evolutionary self-expression.” The Life Divine
"All disease is a means towards some new joy of health, all evil & pain a tuning of Nature for some more intense bliss & good, all death an opening on widest immortality. Why and how this should be so, is God"s secret which only the soul purified of egoism can penetrate.” Essays Divine and Human
". . . all division is intended to enrich by an experience of various sweetness of unification the joy of realised unity.” The Life Divine
"All ethics is a construction of good in a Nature which has been smitten with evil by the powers of darkness born of the Ignorance, . . . .” The Life Divine
"All evolution is in essence a heightening of the force of consciousness in the manifest being so that it may be raised into the greater intensity of what is still unmanifest, from matter into life, from life into mind, from the mind into the spirit.” The Life Divine
"All existence, – as the mind and sense know existence – is manifestation of an Eternal and Infinite which is to the mind and sense unknowable but not unknowable to its own self-awareness.” The Hour of God
::: "All existence is a manifestation of God because He is the only existence . . . .” Essays on the Gita
allowed ::: 1. Permitted the occurrence or existence of. 2. Allotted, assigned, bestowed. allows.
"All phenomenal existence resolves itself into Force, into a movement of energy that assumes more or less material, more or less gross or subtle forms for self-presentation to its own experience.” The Life Divine
all- ::: prefix: Wholly, altogether, infinitely. Since 1600, the number of these [combinations] has been enormously extended, all-** having become a possible prefix, in poetry at least, to almost any adjective of quality. all-affirming, All-Beautiful, All-Beautiful"s, All-Bliss, All-Blissful, All-causing, all-concealing, all-conquering, All-Conscient, All-Conscious, all-containing, All-containing, all-creating, all-defeating, All-Delight, all-discovering, all-embracing, all-fulfilling, all-harbouring, all-inhabiting, all-knowing, All-knowing, All-Knowledge, all-levelling, All-Life, All-love, All-Love, all-negating, all-powerful, all-revealing, All-ruler, all-ruling, all-seeing, All-seeing, all-seeking, all-shaping, all-supporting, all-sustaining, all-swallowing, All-Truth, All-vision, All-Wisdom, all-wise, All-Wise, all-witnessing, All-Wonderful, All-Wonderful"s.**
almighty ::: 1. *Orig. and in the strict sense used as an attribute of the Deity, and joined to God or other title. 2. Absol. The Almighty; a title of God. 3. All-powerful (in a general sense); omnipotent. Almighty"s, Almightiness, almightiness.
ambiguities ::: uncertainties of meaning or intentions.
A mental formation stamped by the thoughts and feelings of a departed human being on the atmosphere of a place or locality, wandering about there or repeating itself, till that formation either exhausts itself or is dissolved by one means or another. This is the explanation of such phenomena as the haunted house in which the scenes attending or surrounding or preceding a murder are repeated over and over again and many other similar phenomena.
amidst ::: in the middle of; surrounded by; among; amidst is often used of things scattered about, or in the midst of others.
ample ::: fully sufficient or more than adequate for the purpose or need; plentiful; of adequate or more than adequate extent, size, or amount; large; spacious. ampler.
amusements ::: pleasurable pastimes of the mind or attention; mental diversions and enjoyments in lieu of more serious matters.
amuse ::: to hold the attention of (someone) pleasantly; entertain or divert in an enjoyable or cheerful manner. amused, amusing.
anchored ::: fixed or fasten firmly so as to be at rest.
::: "And this bliss is not a supreme pleasure of the heart and sensations with the experience of pain and sorrow as its background, but a delight also self-existent and independent of objects and particular experiences, a self-delight which is the very nature, the very stuff, as it were, of a transcendent and infinite existence.” The Synthesis of Yoga
angel ::: 1. One of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of the Deity; a divine messenger of an order of spiritual beings superior to man in power. 2. A fallen or rebellious spirit once a spiritual attendant of the Divine. angel, Angels, **angels.
**Angel of the Way *Sri Aurobindo: "Love fulfilled does not exclude knowledge, but itself brings knowledge; and the completer the knowledge, the richer the possibility of love. ‘By Bhakti" says the Lord in the Gita ‘shall a man know Me in all my extent and greatness and as I am in the principles of my being, and when he has known Me in the principles of my being, then he enters into Me." Love without knowledge is a passionate and intense, but blind, crude, often dangerous thing, a great power, but also a stumbling-block; love, limited in knowledge, condemns itself in its fervour and often by its very fervour to narrowness; but love leading to perfect knowledge brings the infinite and absolute union. Such love is not inconsistent with, but rather throws itself with joy into divine works; for it loves God and is one with him in all his being, and therefore in all beings, and to work for the world is then to feel and fulfil multitudinously one"s love for God. This is the trinity of our powers, [work, knowledge, love] the union of all three in God to which we arrive when we start on our journey by the path of devotion with Love for the Angel of the Way to find in the ecstasy of the divine delight of the All-Lover"s being the fulfilment of ours, its secure home and blissful abiding-place and the centre of its universal radiation.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
an intensely interesting, attractive quality or trait.
annihilate ::: to reduce to utter ruin or non-existence, destroy utterly. annihilation, annihilation"s.
annul ::: 1. To reduce to nothing; obliterate; annihilate. To put out of existence, extinguish. 2. To put an end or stop to (an action or state of things); to abolish, cancel, do away with. 3. To make void or null; abolish; cancel; invalidate; declare invalid. annuls, annulled, annulling, annulment.
anomalous ::: deviating from or inconsistent with the common order, form, or rule; irregular; abnormal.
"A philosophy of change?(1) But what is change? In ordinary parlance change means passage from one condition to another and that would seem to imply passage from one status to another status. The shoot changes into a tree, passes from the status of shoot to the status of tree and there it stops; man passes from the status of young man to the status of old man and the only farther change possible to him is death or dissolution of his status. So it would seem that change is not something isolated which is the sole original and eternal reality, but it is something dependent on status, and if status were non-existent, change also could not exist. For we have to ask, when you speak of change as alone real, change of what, from what, to what? Without this ‘what" change could not be. ::: —Change is evidently the change of some form or state of existence from one condition to another condition.” Essays Divine and Human
appear ::: 1. To come into sight; become visible; come into view, as from a place or state of concealment, or from a distance; esp. of angels, spirits, visions. 2. To come into existence; be created. 3. To be clear to the understanding. 4. To seem or look to be. appears, appeared, appearing.
appease ::: 1. To bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe. 2. To satisfy, allay, or relieve.
approach ::: v. 1. To come near or nearer to; draw near. 2. To come near to a person: i.e. into personal relations; into his presence or audience; or fig. within the range of his notice or attention. 3. To come near in quality, character, time, or condition; to be nearly equal. approaches, approached, approaching.* *n. 4. Any means of access or way of passage, avenue. 5. The act of drawing near. approaches.**
apse ::: a usually semicircular or polygonal, often vaulted recess, especially the termination of the sanctuary end of a church.
apt ::: 1. Having a natural tendency; inclined; disposed. 2. Unusually intelligent; able to learn quickly and easily. 3. Exactly suitable; appropriate.
arc-lamps ::: general term for a class of lamps in which light is produced by a voltaic arc, a luminous arc between two electrodes typically made of tungsten or carbon and barely separated.
ardent ::: 1. Having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; glowing with passion, animated by keen desire; intensely eager, zealous, fervent, fervid. 2. Burning, fiery, or hot. ardent-hued.
a religious official among the Romans, whose duty it was to predict future events and advise upon the course of public business, in accordance with omens derived from the flight, singing, and feeding of birds. Hence extended to: A soothsayer, diviner, or prophet, generally; one that foresees and foretells the future. (Sri Aurobindo employs the word as an adjective.) augured.
array ::: an orderly, often imposing arrangement or series of things displayed; an imposing series.
"Art is a living harmony and beauty that must be expressed in all the movements of existence. This manifestation of beauty and harmony is part of the Divine realisation upon earth, perhaps even its greatest part.” Questions and Answers, MCW Vol. 3.
artist ::: 1. One who practises the creative arts; one who seeks to express the beautiful in visible form. 2. A follower of a manual art; an artificer, mechanic, craftsman, artisan. artists. (Sri Aurobindo often employs the word as an adj.)
"A SPIRITUAL evolution, an evolution of consciousness in Matter in a constant developing self-formation till the form can reveal the indwelling Spirit, is then the keynote, the central significant motive of the terrestrial existence. This significance is concealed at the outset by the involution of the Spirit, the Divine Reality, in a dense material Inconscience; a veil of Inconscience, a veil of insensibility of Matter hides the universal Consciousness-Force which works within it, so that the Energy, which is the first form the Force of creation assumes in the physical universe, appears to be itself inconscient and yet does the works of a vast occult Intelligence.” The Life Divine
"A spiritual knowledge, moved to arrive at the true Self in us, must reject, as the traditional way of knowledge rejects, all misleading appearances. It must discover that the body is not our self, our foundation of existence; it is a sensible form of the Infinite.” The Synthesis of Yoga
assail ::: 1. To attack vigorously or violently; assault. 2. To impinge upon; make an impact on; beset. 3. To take upon oneself a difficult challenge with the intention of mastering it. assailed, assailing.
assessed ::: evaluated (a person or thing); estimated (the quality, value, or extent of), gauged or judged.
astuce ::: astuteness, i.e. of keen penetration or discernment, sagacious.
aswapati ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her [Savitri"s] human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; . . . .” (From a letter written by Sri Aurobindo) Aswapati"s.
attendants
attending
attend ::: to listen to, pay attention to, give heed to; direct one"s energies toward.
attentive
atheist ::: adj. Disbelieving or denying the existence of a supreme God.
"A third step is to find out that there is something in him other than his instrumental mind, life and body, not only an immortal ever-developing individual soul that supports his nature but an eternal immutable self and spirit, and to learn what are the categories of his spiritual being, until he discovers that all in him is an expression of the spirit and distinguishes the link between his lower and his higher existence; thus he sets out to remove his constitutional self-ignorance. Discovering self and spirit he discovers God; he finds out that there is a Self beyond the temporal: he comes to the vision of that Self in the cosmic consciousness as the divine Reality behind Nature and this world of beings; his mind opens to the thought or the sense of the Absolute of whom self and the individual and the cosmos are so many faces; the cosmic, the egoistic, the original ignorance begin to lose the rigidness of their hold upon him.” The Life Divine
attached firmly or securely in place; fixed or bolted together. breath-fastened.
attain ::: 1. To gain as an objective; achieve; reach, arrive at; accomplish. 2. To arrive at, as by virtue of persistence or the passage of time; To reach in the course of development. attained.
author ::: 1. An originator or creator, one who originates or gives existence to anything. 2. He who gives rise to or causes an action, event, circumstance, state, or condition of things. 3. The composer or writer of a treatise, play, poem, book, etc. authors.
avenues ::: lines or means of approach or access; paths of entrance or exit; often fig.
awake ::: v. 1. To arouse from sleep or inactivity. 2. Fig. To rise from a state resembling sleep, such as death, indifference, inaction; to become active or vigilant. 3. To come or bring to an awareness, to become cognizant, to be fully conscious, to appreciate fully (often followed by to). awakes, awoke, awaking. *adj.* 4. Not asleep; conscious; vigilant, alert. half-awake.
**"Aware of his occult omnipotent source,Allured by the omniscient Ecstasy,He felt the invasion and the nameless joy.”
awed ::: 1. inspired or influenced by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; 2. Inspired with reverential wonder combined with an element of latent fear.
babel ::: "The reference is to the mythological story of the construction of the Tower of Babel, which appears to be an attempt to explain the diversity of human languages. According to Genesis, the Babylonians wanted to make a name for themselves by building a mighty city and tower ‘with its top in the heavens". God disrupted the work by so confusing the language of the workers that they could no longer understand one another. The tower was never completed and the people were dispersed over the face of the earth.” (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works Sri Aurobindo: "The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the race; but whatever its disadvantages, and they tend more and more to be minimised by the growth of civilisation and increasing intercourse, it has been rather a blessing than a curse, a gift to mankind rather than a disability laid upon it. The purposeless exaggeration of anything is always an evil, and an excessive pullulation of varying tongues that serve no purpose in the expression of a real diversity of spirit and culture is certainly a stumbling-block rather than a help: but this excess, though it existed in the past, is hardly a possibility of the future. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction. In former times diversity of language helped to create a barrier to knowledge and sympathy, was often made the pretext even of an actual antipathy and tended to a too rigid division. The lack of sufficient interpenetration kept up both a passive want of understanding and a fruitful crop of active misunderstandings. But this was an inevitable evil of a particular stage of growth, an exaggeration of the necessity that then existed for the vigorous development of strongly individualised group-souls in the human race. These disadvantages have not yet been abolished, but with closer intercourse and the growing desire of men and nations for the knowledge of each other"s thought and spirit and personality, they have diminished and tend to diminish more and more and there is no reason why in the end they should not become inoperative.” The Human Cycle
bales ::: large bundles of hay or goods (often compressed) bound by ropes or wires for storage or transportation.
battened ::: thrived and prospered, especially at another"s expense; grew fat. battening
battlefield ::: 1. The field or ground on which a battle is fought. 2. An area of contention, conflict, or hostile opposition. battlefields.
battle ::: n. 1. An encounter between opposing forces; armed fighting; combat. v. 3. To fight against. Also fig. 4. To contend, struggle against. 5. To work very hard or struggle; strive. battled.
beaten
bear ::: 1. To carry. Also fig. 2. To hold up, support. Also fig. 3. To have a tolerance for; endure something with tolerance and patience. 5. To possess, as a quality or characteristic; have in or on. 6. To tend in a course or direction; move; go. 7. To render; afford; give. 8. To produce by natural growth. bears, bore, borne bearing.
beat ::: n. 1. A stroke or blow. 2. A regular sound or stroke. 3. The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart. 4. A pulsating sound. 5. A forceful flapping of wings. beats, nerve-beat, hammer-beats, heart-beats, heart-beats", moment-beats, rhyme-beats. v. 6. To strike or pound with repeated blows. 7. To shape or break by repeated blows, as metal. 8. To sound in pulsations. 9. To throb rhythmically; pulsate, as the heart. 10. To flap, especially wings. 11. To strike with or as if with a series of violent blows, dash or pound repeatedly against, as waves, wind, etc. beats, beaten, beating. *adj. *sun-beat.
beauty ::: the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, colour, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else, (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest). Beauty, beauty"s, Beauty"s, beauty-drenched, earth-beauty"s.
begot ::: pt. of beget. 1. Caused to exist or occur; created. 2. Called into being, gave rise to; produced. begotten.
::: ". . . behind visible events in the world there is always a mass of invisible forces at work unknown to the outward minds of men, and by yoga, (by going inward and establishing a conscious connection with the Cosmic Self and Force and forces,) one can become conscious of these forces, intervene consciously in the play, and to some extent at least determine things in the result of the play.” Letters on Yoga
being ::: 1. The state or quality of having existence. 2. The totality of all things that exist. 3. One"s basic or essential nature; self. 4. All the qualities constituting one that exists; the essence. 5. A person; human being. 6. The Divine, the Supreme; God. Being, being"s, Being"s, beings, Beings, beings", earth-being"s, earth-beings, fragment-being, non-being, non-being"s, Non-Being, Non-Being"s, world-being"s.
Sri Aurobindo: "Pure Being is the affirmation by the Unknowable of Itself as the free base of all cosmic existence.” *The Life Divine :::
"The Absolute manifests itself in two terms, a Being and a Becoming. The Being is the fundamental reality; the Becoming is an effectual reality: it is a dynamic power and result, a creative energy and working out of the Being, a constantly persistent yet mutable form, process, outcome of its immutable formless essence.” *The Life Divine
"What is original and eternal for ever in the Divine is the Being, what is developed in consciousness, conditions, forces, forms, etc., by the Divine Power is the Becoming. The eternal Divine is the Being; the universe in Time and all that is apparent in it is a Becoming.” Letters on Yoga
"Being and Becoming, One and Many are both true and are both the same thing: Being is one, Becomings are many; but this simply means that all Becomings are one Being who places Himself variously in the phenomenal movement of His consciousness.” The Upanishads :::
"Our whole apparent life has only a symbolic value & is good & necessary as a becoming; but all becoming has being for its goal & fulfilment & God is the only being.” *Essays Divine and Human
"Our being is a roughly constituted chaos into which we have to introduce the principle of a divine order.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
being, Master of ::: Sri Aurobindo: " Vamadeva goes on to say, "Let us give expression to this secret name of the clarity, — that is to say, let us bring out this Soma wine, this hidden delight of existence; let us hold it in this world-sacrifice by our surrenderings or submissions to Agni, the divine Will or Conscious-Power which is the Master of being.” The Secret of the Veda
belief ::: 1. Confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof. 2. Trust or confidence, faith. 3. Something believed; an opinion or conviction. beliefs.
Question: "Sweet Mother, l don"t understand very clearly the difference between faith, belief and confidence.”
Mother: "But Sri Aurobindo has given the full explanation here. If you don"t understand, then. . . He has written ‘Faith is a feeling in the whole being." The whole being, yes. Faith, that"s the whole being at once. He says that belief is something that occurs in the head, that is purely mental; and confidence is quite different. Confidence, one can have confidence in life, trust in the Divine, trust in others, trust in one"s own destiny, that is, one has the feeling that everything is going to help him, to do what he wants to do. Faith is a certitude without any proof. Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 6.
believed in ::: was persuaded of the truth or existence of; had faith in the reliability, honesty, benevolence, etc. of.
bent ::: personal inclination, propensity, tendency or aptitude.
bid ::: 1. To invite to attend; summon. 2. To issue a command to; direct. bids.
bind ::: 1. To restrain or confine with or as if with ties. 2. To place (someone) under obligation; oblige. 3. To fasten together. Also fig. **binds, bound, binding.**
biography ::: an account of a person"s life written, composed, or produced by another.
birth ::: 1. The act or fact of being born. 2. Fig. The coming into existence of something; origin. Birth, birth"s, births.
"Birth is an assumption of a body by the spirit, death is the casting off [of] the body; there is nothing original in this birth, nothing final in this death. Before birth we were; after death we shall be. Nor are our birth and death a single episode without continuous meaning or sequel; it is one episode out of many, scenes of our drama of existence with its denouement far away in time.” Essays Divine and Human*
bivouac ("s) ::: a temporary camp with shelters such as tents, as used by soldiers or mountaineers, often unprotected from an enemy.
blank ::: n. 1. Fig. Any void space. blanks. adj. 2. Empty, without contents, void, bare. 3. Devoid of activity, interest, or distinctive character; empty. 4. Mere, bare, simple. 5. Lacking expression; expressionless, showing no interest or emotion, vacant. 6. Absolute; complete. blankness.
blaze ::: n. 1. A brilliant burst of fire, a bright glowing flame. 2. A brilliant, striking display; a brilliant light; resplendent with bright colour. 3. A steady, clear light. 4. Fig. An intense outburst of passion, etc. ::: sun-blaze. v. 5. blazed.
blazing ::: 1. Burning with tremendous heat, etc. 2. Shining intensely.
blazoned ::: proclaimed loudly or displayed ostentatiously or conspicuously.
blind ::: adj. 1. Unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless. Also fig. 2. Unwilling or unable to perceive or understand. 3. Lacking all consciousness or awareness. 4. Not having or based on reason or intelligence; absolute and unquestioning. 5. Not characterized or determined by reason or control. 6. Purposeless; fortuitous, random. 7. Undiscriminating; heedless; reckless. 8. Enveloped in darkness; dark, dim, obscure. 9. Dense enough to form a screen. 10. Covered or concealed from sight; hidden from immediate view. 11. Having no openings or passages for light; (a window or door) walled up. blindest, half-blind. v. 12. To deprive of sight permanently or temporarily. 13. To make sightless momentarily; dazzle. blinded.* n. 14. A blind person, esp. as pl., those who are blind. 15. Fig.* Any thing or action intended to conceal one"s real intention; a pretence, a pretext; subterfuge.
blink ::: n. **1. A glance, often with half-shut eyes; a wink. v. 2. To close and open one or both of the eyes rapidly; shut the eyelids momentarily and involuntarily; to wink for an instant. 3. To shut the eyes to; to evade, shirk, pass by, ignore. blinks, blinked.**
blunt ::: made less intense, lessened the strength of; weakened.
body-slave ::: a servant reserved for personal attendance or use.
bond ::: 1. Something, such as a fetter, cord, or band, that binds, ties, or fastens things together. Also fig. 2. A duty, promise, or other obligation by which one is bound. 3. Something that binds one to a certain circumstance or line of behaviour. 4. A uniting force or tie; a link. 5. A binding agreement; a covenant. bonds.
bound ::: going or intending to go towards; on the way to. heaven-bound.
bow-twang (‘s) ::: the resonant sound produced when a tense string is sharply plucked or suddenly released.
"Brahma is the Eternal"s Personality of Existence; from him all is created, by his presence, by his power, by his impulse.” Essays Human and Divine
breath ::: 1. The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration. Also fig. 2. A momentary stirring of air, a slight gust. 3. Spirit or vitality; life. 4. The vapour, heat, or odour of exhaled air. Also fig. **5. A slight suggestion; hint; whisper. Breath,* *breath-fastened.**
bright ::: 1. Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; shining; radiant. 2. Magnificent; glorious. 3. Favourable or auspicious. 4. Fig. Characterized by happiness or gladness; full of promise and hope. 5. Distinct and clear to the mind, etc. 6. Intensely clear and vibrant in tone or quality. 7. Polished; glistening as with brilliant color. brighter, brightest, bright-hued, bright-pinioned, flame-bright, moon-bright, pearl-bright, sun-bright.
broad ::: 1. Wide in extent from side to side; of great breadth. 2. Of vast extent; spacious. 3. Broad in scope; extensive. 4. Clear and open; full; (said of daylight, etc.). broad-based, broad-flung.
broadened ::: v. 1. Became broad or broader; widened. adj. 2. Extended; expanded; in scope or range.
brocade ::: a thick, rich fabric woven with a raised design, often using gold or silver threads. brocades.
brow ::: 1. The part of the face from the eyes to the hairline. forehead. 2. The expression of the face; countenance. 3. The eyebrow. pl. **brows.**
bruised ::: hurt, especially psychologically, beaten; pounded; crushed.
tending or likely to be erroneous; false, inaccurate.
buffer state ::: a nation lying between potentially hostile larger nations.
built ::: pt. and pp. of build. dream-built, high-built, low-built, mind-built, new-built. *adj. *built in. Constructed or included as an integral part of. adj. built-up. Built by the fastening together of several parts or enlarged by the addition of layers.
bureau ::: 1. A chest of drawers, especially a dresser for holding clothes, often with a desk top. 2. An office, usually of large organization, that is responsible for a specific duty such as administration, public business, etc.
buried ::: v. 1. Deposited or hid under ground; covered up with earth or other material. Also fig. **2. Plunged or sunk deep in, so as to be covered from view; put out of sight. adj. 3. Put in the ground or in a tomb; interred. 4. Consigned to a position of obscurity, inaccessibility, or inaction. 5.* Fig.* Consigned to oblivion, put out of the way, abandoned and forgotten.
burn ::: 1. To be very eager; aflame with activity, as to be on fire. 2. To emit heat or light by as if by combustion; to flame.. 3. To give off light or to glow brightly. 4. To light; a candle; incense, etc.) as an offering. 5. To suffer punishment or death by or as if by fire; put to death by fire. 6. To injure, endanger, or damage with or as if with fire. 7. Fig. To be consumed with strong emotions; be aflame with desire; anger; etc. 8. To shine intensely; to seem to glow as if on fire. burns, burned, burnt, burning.
burning ::: adj. 1. Aflame; on fire. Also fig. 2. Very bright; glowing; luminous. 3. Characterized by intense emotion; passionate. 4. Urgent or crucial. 5. Extremely hot; scorching. 6. Very hot. ever-burning.* *n. 7. The state, process, sensation, or effect of being on fire, burned, or subjected to intense heat. altar-burnings.**
"But in a higher than our present mental consciousness we find that this duality is only a phenomenal appearance. The highest and real truth of existence is the one Spirit, the supreme Soul, Purushottama, and it is the power of being of this Spirit which manifests itself in all that we experience as universe. This universal Nature is not a lifeless, inert or unconscious mechanism, but informed in all its movements by the universal Spirit. The mechanism of its process is only an outward appearance and the reality is the Spirit creating or manifesting its own being by its own power of being in all that is in Nature. Soul and Nature in us too are only a dual appearance of the one existence.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
callings ::: 1. (i.e. an animal or bird) that calls. 2. Things or voices that announce or address in a clear and often authoritative voice.
call ::: Sri Aurobindo: "All Yoga is in its nature a new birth; it is a birth out of the ordinary, the mentalised material life of man into a higher spiritual consciousness and a greater and diviner being. No Yoga can be successfully undertaken and followed unless there is a strong awakening to the necessity of that larger spiritual existence. The soul that is called to this deep and vast inward change, may arrive in different ways to the initial departure. It may come to it by its own natural development which has been leading it unconsciously towards the awakening; it may reach it through the influence of a religion or the attraction of a philosophy; it may approach it by a slow illumination or leap to it by a sudden touch or shock; it may be pushed or led to it by the pressure of outward circumstances or by an inward necessity, by a single word that breaks the seals of the mind or by long reflection, by the distant example of one who has trod the path or by contact and daily influence. According to the nature and the circumstances the call will come.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
camp ::: n. 1. A place where tents, huts, or other temporary shelters are set up, as by soldiers, nomads, or travelers. 2. The people using such shelters. 3. Temporary living quarters for soldiers or prisoners. v. 4. To make or set up a camp. or to live temporarily in or as if in a camp or outdoors. 5. To settle down securely and comfortably; become ensconced. camps, camped.
cape ::: a sleeveless outer garment fastened at the throat and worn hanging over the shoulders.
careful ::: 1. Attentive to potential danger, error, or harm; cautious. 2. Exercising caution or showing care or attention to; circumspect.
careless ::: 1. Unconcerned or indifferent; heedless. 2. Taking insufficient care; negligent; inattentive.
carelessly ::: without attention, caution or prudence.
care ::: n. **1. A burdened state of mind, as that arising from heavy responsibilities; worry. 2. An object of or cause for concern. 3. Watchful oversight; charge or supervision. 4. An object or source of worry, attention, or solicitude. care, cares. v. 5. To be concerned or interested, have concern for. cares, cared.**
caress ::: n. 1. A gentle touch or gesture of fondness, tenderness, or love. v. 2. To touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner. caressed, caressing.
casket ::: a small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables.
casual ::: 1. Occurring by chance; accidental. 2. Occurring offhand; not premeditated. 3. Occurring at irregular or infrequent intervals; occasional. 4. Without definite or serious intention; careless or offhand; passing.
cautious ::: showing or practicing caution; careful, prudent, guarded, tentative or restrained.
chalice ::: a cup or goblet often of gold or silver used esp. in religious services.
chance ::: n. 1. The absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency. 2. The happening of events; the way in which things happen; fortune. 3. An opportune or favourable time; opportunity. 4. Fortune; luck; fate. Chance, chances. *adj.* 5. Not planned or expected; accidental. v. 6. To happen by chance; be the case by chance.** chanced.
changeful ::: often changing; inconstant; variable.
changelessness ::: the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged.
change ::: v. 1. To make the form, nature, content, future course, etc. of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone. 2. To become different or undergo alteration. changes, changed, changing, ever-changing.* n. 3. The act or fact of changing; transformation or modification of anything. Change, changes, soul-change.
chaos ::: 1. The infinity of space or formless matter supposed to have preceded the existence of the ordered universe. 2. A condition, place, or state of great disorder or confusion. 3. A disorderly mass; a jumble. Chaos.
charge ::: 1. An assigned duty or task; a responsibility given to one. 2. Care; custody. 3. An order, an impetuous onset or attack, command, or injunction. 4. The quantity of anything that a receptacle is intended to hold. v. 5. *Fig. To load to capacity; fill. *charged.
charlatan ::: one who makes elaborate, fraudulent, and often voluble claims to skill or knowledge; a quack or fraud; a flamboyant deceiver.
chastened ::: 1. Restrained, subdued. 2. Made pure or refined in style; simplified; rid of excess.
chase ::: v. **1. To follow rapidly in order to catch or overtake; pursue. 2. To follow or devote one"s attention to with the hope of attracting, winning, gaining, etc. 3. To put to flight; drive out. ::: —chases, chased.* *n. 3. The act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture thunder-chase.**
chastisement ::: verbal (often physical) punishment; discipline.
chemic ::: chemical. ::: cheque ::: a written order, usually on a standard printed form, directing a bank to pay money to a person or designated bearer. cheques.
cherished ::: treated with affection and tenderness; held dear.
childhood ::: 1. The time or state of being a child. 2. The early stage in the existence or development of something. childhood"s.
chill ::: adj. 1. Cold, often unpleasantly so; numbing. 2. Discouraging; dispiriting. 3. Unduly formal; unfriendly; unfeeling. v. 4. To lower in temperature; cool; make cold. 5. Fig. To depress (enthusiasm, etc.); discourage. chilled, chilling.
chose ::: past tense of choose.
ciphered ::: written in a secret code.
circumstance ::: 1. A condition, fact or detail attending an event and having some bearing on it; a determining or modifying factor. 2. A particular incident or occurrence. Circumstance.
clamorous ::: 1. Full of, marked by, or of the nature of clamour; shouting; noisy, loud. 2. Insistently demanding attention; importunate.
clamour ::: 1. A loud uproar, as from a crowd of people. 2. A vehement expression of collective feeling or outrage. 3. A loud and persistent noise. clamours. clamouring.
clamped ::: 1. Fastened with or fixed in a clamp (a device for binding, holding, compressing or fastening objects together); hence, fig. Restricted, repressed, tightened down, restrained. 2. Established by authority; imposed clamps. (Sri Aurobindo also employs clamped as an adj.)
clangour ::: 1. A loud resonant, often harsh sound. 2. A loud resonant often-repeated noise.
clash ::: n. 1. A loud, harsh noise, such as that made by two metal objects in collision. 2. An encounter between hostile forces; a battle or skirmish. 3. A conflict, as between opposing or irreconcilable ideas. v. 4. To engage in a physical conflict or contest, as in a game or a battle (often followed by with). 5. To come into conflict; be in opposition. clashes, clashed, clashing.
climax ::: the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination.
cling ::: 1. To come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation 2. To hold fast or adhere to as if by embracing. 3. To be emotionally or intellectually attached or remain close to. 4. To hold on tightly or tenaciously to. 5. To remain attached as to an idea, hope, memory, etc. clings, clung, clinging.
cloven hoof ::: 1. A divided or cleft hoof, as in deer or cattle. 2. Evil or Satan, often depicted as a figure with cleft hooves.
cloying ::: causing or tending to cause disgust or aversion through excess.
coilas ::: (Most often spelled Kailas.) "One of the highest and most rugged mountains of the Himalayan range, located in the southwestern part of China. It is an important holy site both to the Hindus, who identify it with the paradise of Shiva and also regard it as the abode of Kubera, and to the Tibetan Buddhists, who identify it with Mount Sumeru, cosmic centre of the universe.” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
coma ::: a state of deep, often prolonged unconsciousness, usually the result of injury, disease, or poison, in which an individual is incapable of sensing or responding to external stimuli and internal needs.
comforts ::: a condition or feeling of pleasurable ease, well-being, and contentment.
common estimation or opinion generally held of a person or thing; reputation. (when capitalized often [quasi-] personified). Fame.
commune ::: 1. To communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity. 2. To be in intimate communication or rapport. communes, communed, communing.
competence ::: the state or quality of being adequately or well qualified; ability.
compendium ::: 1. A brief treatment or account of a subject, esp. an extensive subject; concise treatise. 2. A short, complete summary; an abstract.
complaint ::: an expression of pain, dissatisfaction, discontent or resentment.
complete ::: adj. 1. Having all necessary or normal parts, components, or steps; entire. 2. Thorough; consummate; fully realised. n. completeness. *v. *3. To bring to a finish or an end.
contending ::: striving in opposition or against difficulties; struggling.
contents ::: things contained or held, as in a receptacle. Often used in the plural.
content ::: the state of being satisfied with what one is or has; not wanting more or anything else. contents, contented.
conceive ::: 1. To form or hold an idea. 2. To begin, originate, or found (something) in a particular way (usually used in the passive). 3. To apprehend mentally; understand. 4. To be created or formed in the womb; to be engendered; begotten. conceives, conceived, self-conceived.
concentration ("s) ::: exclusive attention to one object; close mental application.
conch-shells :: 1. The spiral shell of a gastropod, often used as a horn. 2. The fabled shell trumpet of the Tritons.
condemned ::: 1. Pronounced judgment against; sentenced. 2. Forced into a specific state or activity. condemning.
conscious ::: 1. Having an awareness of one"s environment and one"s own existence, sensations, and thoughts. 2. Conscious implies being awake or awakened to an inner realization of a fact, a truth, a condition. half-conscious, half-consciously.
*consciousforce. ::: Sri Aurobindo: "In actual fact Mind measures Time by event and Space by Matter; but it is possible in pure mentality to disregard the movement of event and the disposition of substance and realise the pure movement of Conscious-Force which constitutes Space and Time; these two are then merely two aspects of the universal force of Consciousness which in their intertwined interaction comprehend the warp and woof of its action upon itself. And to a consciousness higher than Mind which should regard our past, present and future in one view, containing and not contained in them, not situated at a particular moment of Time for its point of prospection, Time might well offer itself as an eternal present. And to the same consciousness not situated at any particular point of Space, but containing all points and regions in itself, Space also might well offer itself as a subjective and indivisible extension, — no less subjective than Time.” The Life Divine
consistency ::: agreement or harmony between parts of something complex; compatibility.
constant ::: 1. Unchanging in nature, value, or extent; invariable. 2. Continuing without pause or letup; unceasing. 3. Steadfast; firm in mind or purpose; resolute.
continent ::: 1. Mainland as opposed to islands. 2. A continuous extent of land. Also fig. continents.
continuous ::: uninterrupted in time, sequence, substance, or extent.
contract ::: an agreement between two or more parties, especially one that is written and enforceable by law.
contradiction ::: 1. The act of going against; opposition; denial. 2. Inconsistency; discrepancy. contradictions.
contrariety ::: an instance of such opposition; discordance; inconsistency; discrepancy.
cope ::: to contend or strive with difficulties and act to overcome them.
corrupt ::: 1. To destroy or subvert the honesty or integrity of. 2. To ruin morally; pervert. 3. To cause to become rotten; spoil. 4. To taint; contaminate. corrupted, corrupting.
cosmic mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Nevertheless, the fact of this intervention from above, the fact that behind all our original thinking or authentic perception of things there is a veiled, a half-veiled or a swift unveiled intuitive element is enough to establish a connection between mind and what is above it; it opens a passage of communication and of entry into the superior spirit-ranges. There is also the reaching out of mind to exceed the personal ego limitation, to see things in a certain impersonality and universality. Impersonality is the first character of cosmic self; universality, non-limitation by the single or limiting point of view, is the character of cosmic perception and knowledge: this tendency is therefore a widening, however rudimentary, of these restricted mind areas towards cosmicity, towards a quality which is the very character of the higher mental planes, — towards that superconscient cosmic Mind which, we have suggested, must in the nature of things be the original mind-action of which ours is only a derivative and inferior process.” *The Life Divine
"If we accept the Vedic image of the Sun of Truth, . . . we may compare the action of the Higher Mind to a composed and steady sunshine, the energy of the Illumined Mind beyond it to an outpouring of massive lightnings of flaming sun-stuff. Still beyond can be met a yet greater power of the Truth-Force, an intimate and exact Truth-vision, Truth-thought, Truth-sense, Truth-feeling, Truth-action, to which we can give in a special sense the name of Intuition; . . . At the source of this Intuition we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies, — not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative Oversoul this whole lower hemisphere of Knowledge-Ignorance, links it with that greater Truth-Consciousness while yet at the same time with its brilliant golden Lid it veils the face of the greater Truth from our sight, intervening with its flood of infinite possibilities as at once an obstacle and a passage in our seeking of the spiritual law of our existence, its highest aim, its secret Reality.” The Life Divine
"There is one cosmic Mind, one cosmic Life, one cosmic Body. All the attempt of man to arrive at universal sympathy, universal love and the understanding and knowledge of the inner soul of other existences is an attempt to beat thin, breach and eventually break down by the power of the enlarging mind and heart the walls of the ego and arrive nearer to a cosmic oneness.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"[The results of the opening to the cosmic Mind:] One is aware of the cosmic Mind and the mental forces that move there and how they work on one"s mind and that of others and one is able to deal with one"s own mind with a greater knowledge and effective power. There are many other results, but this is the fundamental one.” Letters on Yoga
"The cosmic consciousness has many levels — the cosmic physical, the cosmic vital, the cosmic Mind, and above the higher planes of cosmic Mind there is the Intuition and above that the overmind and still above that the supermind where the Transcendental begins. In order to live in the Intuition plane (not merely to receive intuitions), one has to live in the cosmic consciousness because there the cosmic and individual run into each other as it were, and the mental separation between them is already broken down, so nobody can reach there who is still in the separative ego.” Letters on Yoga*
cosmic Self ::: Sri Aurobindo: "When one has the cosmic consciousness, one can feel the cosmic Self as one"s own self, one can feel one with other beings in the cosmos, one can feel all the forces of Nature as moving in oneself, all selves as one"s own self. There is no why except that it is so, since all is the One.” Letters on Yoga (See also Cosmic Spirit)
"Impersonality is the first character of cosmic self; . . . .” *The Life Divine
"An eternal infinite self-existence is the supreme reality, but the supreme transcendent eternal Being, Self and Spirit, — an infinite Person, we may say, because his being is the essence and source of all personality, — is the reality and meaning of self-existence: so too the cosmic Self, Spirit, Being, Person is the reality and meaning of cosmic existence; the same Self, Spirit, Being or Person manifesting its multiplicity is the reality and meaning of individual existence.” The Life Divine
"But this cosmic self is spiritual in essence and in experience; it must not be confused with the collective existence, with any group soul or the life and body of a human society or even of all mankind.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"It is the Cosmic Self and Spirit that is in and behind all things and beings, from which and in which all is manifested in the universe — although it is now a manifestation in the Ignorance.” Letters on Yoga*
couched ::: arranged or framed (words, a sentence, etc.); put into words; expressed.
counterfeits ::: imitations intended to be passed off fraudulently or deceptively as genuine; forgeries.
court ::: 1. An extent of open ground partially or completely enclosed by walls or buildings; a courtyard. 2. The place of residence of a sovereign or dignitary; a royal mansion or palace. courts, courtyard, courtyard"s.
courtier ::: a person who is often in attendance at the court of a king or other royal personage.
covered ::: 1. Served as a cover for; extended over. 2. Put all over the surface of.
cowed ::: frightened with threats, violence, etc.; intimidated; overawed.
cradle ::: n. 1. A small low bed for an infant, often furnished with rockers. 2. Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence. cradles v. 2.* *To hold gently and carefully as in a cradle. 3. To hold gently or protectively. cradles, cradled.**
crave ::: 1. To have an intense desire for. 2. To need urgently; require. 3. To beg earnestly for; implore. craves, craved, craving.
create ::: 1. To cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes. 2. To evolve from one"s own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention. 3. To cause to happen; to bring about; arrange, as by intention or design. creates, created, creating, all-creating, self-creating, world-creating, new-create.
creation ::: 1. The act or process of creating, esp. the universe as thus brought into being by God. 2. Something that has been brought into existence or created, esp. a product of human intelligence or imagination, as a work of art, music, etc. creation"s, creations, half-creations, **self-creation.
credentials ::: evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges or the like, usually in written form.
crescendo ::: music. A gradual increase, especially in the volume or intensity of sound in a passage.
cricket ::: any of several jumping insects with long antennae, known for their squeaking and chirping sounds. crickets".
cross ::: 1. A structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, upon which persons were formerly put to a cruel and ignominious death by being nailed or otherwise fastened to it by their extremities. 2. A representation or delineation of a cross on any surface, varying in elaborateness from two lines crossing each other to an ornamental design painted, embroidered, carved, etc.; used as a sacred mark, symbol, badge, or the like. 3. A trouble, vexation, annoyance; misfortune, adversity; sometimes anything that thwarts or crosses. v. 4. To go or extend across; pass from one side of to the other: pass over. 5. To extend or pass through or over; intersect. 6. To encounter in passing. crosses, crossed, crossing.
cross ::: Sri Aurobindo: ". . . the cross is the sign of the Divine Descent barred and marred by the transversal line of a cosmic deformation which turns it into a stake of suffering and misfortune. Only by the ascent to the original Truth can the deformation be healed and all the works of love, as too all the works of knowledge and of life, be restored to a divine significance and become part of an integral spiritual existence.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
crown ::: n. **1. An ornament worn on the head by kings and those having sovereign power, often made of precious metal and ornamented with gems. 2. A wreath or garland for the head, awarded as a sign of victory, success, honour, etc. 3. The distinction that comes from a great achievement; reward, honour. 4. The top or summit of something, esp. of a rounded object. etc. 5. The highest or more nearly perfect state of anything. 6. An exalting or chief attribute. 7. The acme or supreme source of honour, excellence, beauty, etc. v. 8. To put a crown on the head of, symbolically vesting with royal title, powers, etc. 9. To place something on or over the head or top of. crowns, crowned.**
crucified ::: 1. Afflicted with severe pain or distress; tormented. 2. In reference to being put to death by nailing or otherwise fastening to a cross.
crystal ::: 1. A mineral, especially a transparent form of quartz, having a crystalline structure, often characterized by external planar faces. 2. Resembling crystal; transparent as water or a liquid. 3. Fig. Sometimes used to describe the eyes.
cunning ::: 1. Skill or adeptness in execution or performance; dexterity. 2. Artfully subtle or shrewd. 3. Cunning implies a shrewd, often instinctive skill in concealing or disguising the real purposes of one"s actions. cunningly.
curse ::: n. 1. The expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc. 2. A formula or charm intended to cause such misfortune to another. 3. An evil brought or inflicted upon one. 4. The cause of evil, misfortune, or trouble. 5. A profane or obscene expression or oath. curses. v. 6. To wish harm upon; invoke evil upon. 7. To invoke supernatural powers to bring harm to (someone or something). cursed.
cycle ::: 1. An interval of time during which a characteristic, often regularly repeated event or sequence of events occurs. 2. A periodically repeated sequence of events. 3. A long period of time; an age. cycles.
cynic ::: 1. A person who believes all people are motivated by selfishness and whose outlook is scornfully and often habitually negative. 2. *adj. *Bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic.
dally ::: 1. To waste time idly; linger; dawdle. 2. To talk or behave amorously, or behave in a careless manner without serious intentions; toy with. dallies, dallying, dalliance.
dank ::: unpleasantly moist or humid; damp and often chilly.
darkling ::: 1. Dark; obscure. 2. Vaguely threatening or menacing.
darkness ::: 1. Absence of light or illumination. 2. Fig. Absence of moral or spiritual values. 3. Obscurity; lack of knowledge or enlightenment; an unenlightened state. 4. A condition of secrecy, mystery, characterized by things hidden. 5. Wickedness or evil. Darkness, darkness", darknesses.
dazzled ::: 1. Overpowered or dimmed the vision of (someone) by intense light. 2. Impressed deeply; awed, overwhelmed. 3. Overpowered by light.
dazzling ::: 1. Shining intensely, so bright as to blind someone temporarily. 2. Fig. Extremely clever, attractive, or impressive; brilliant; amazing.
deadly ::: causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal.
deaf ::: 1. Partially or wholly lacking, or deprived of the sense of hearing. 2. Refusing to listen, heed, or be persuaded.
"Death has no reality except as a process of life. Disintegration of substance and renewal of substance, maintenance of form and change of form are the constant process of life; death is merely a rapid disintegration subservient to life"s necessity of change and variation of formal experience. Even in the death of the body there is no cessation of Life, only the material of one form of life is broken up to serve as material for other forms of life.” The Life Divine
deception ::: something that deceives or is intended to deceive; fraud; artifice.
decimal ::: pertaining to tenths or to the number ten; proceeding by tens. decimals.
deck ::: a floorlike surface extending from side to side of a ship or part of a ship.
deed ::: 1. Something that is done, performed, or accomplished; an act. 2. An exploit or achievement; feat. 3. Often plural as an act or gesture, esp. as illustrative of intentions, one"s character, or the like. deeds.
deeply ::: adv. 1. At or to a considerable extent downward; well within or beneath a surface. 2. With deep feeling or emotion; greatly, thoroughly, intensely, acutely.
deep ::: n. 1. A vast extent, as of space or time; an abyss. 2. Fig. Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; as an unfathomable thought, idea, esp. poetic. Deep, deep"s, deeps. adj. 3. Extending far downward below a surface. 4. Having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination. 5. Coming from or penetrating to a great depth. 6. Situated far down, in, or back. 7. Lying below the surface; not superficial; profound. 8. Of great intensity; as extreme deep happiness, deep trouble. 9. Absorbing; engrossing. 10. Grave or serious. 11. Profoundly or intensely. 12. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to penetrate or understand. 13. Low in pitch or tone. 14. Profoundly cunning, crafty or artful. 15. The central and most intense or profound part; "in the deep of night”; "in the deep of winter”. deeper, deepest, deep-browed, deep-caved, deep-concealed, deep-etched, deep-fraught, deep-guarded, deep-hid, deep-honied, deep-pooled, deep-thoughted. *adv. *16. to a great depth psychologically or profoundly.
degree ::: 1. Fig. One of a series of steps in a process, course, or progression; a stage. 2. Relative intensity or amount, as of a quality or attribute. degrees.
deliberate ::: 1. Carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional. 2. Leisurely and steady in movement or action; slow and even; unhurried.
::: "Delight is the soul of existence, beauty the intense expression, the concentrated form of delight.” The Future Poetry*
delved ::: carried an intensive and thorough research for data, information, or the like; investigated. delves.
demotic ::: 1. Of or relating to the common people; popular. 2. Of, relating to, or written in the simplified form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
dense ::: 1. Having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact. 2. Relatively opaque; transmitting little light. 3. Intense; extreme. 4. Impenetrable. denser, dense-maned. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as a n.)
depth ::: 1. The quality of a state of consciousness. 2. Beyond one"s knowledge or capability. 3. Emotional intensity, profundity. 4. The quality of being deep; deepness. 5. Complexity or profundity. 6. The extent, measurement, or distance downwards, backwards, or inwards. depths, depths", spirit-depths, wave-depths.
descending ::: 1. Moving downwards, coming down. 2. Directed or extending downwards.
design ::: n. 1. Purpose, aim, intention, especially with reference to a Divine Creator. 2. Plan or scheme. 3. A combination of details or features; pattern or motif. design"s, designs. *v. 4. To work out the structure or form of (something). 5. To plan and make (something) artistically or skilfully. *designed, designing.
"Desire is at once the motive of our actions, our lever of accomplishment and the bane of our existence.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"Destruction is always a simultaneous or alternate element which keeps pace with creation and it is by destroying and renewing that the Master of Life does his long work of preservation. More, destruction is the first condition of progress. Inwardly, the man who does not destroy his lower self-formations, cannot rise to a greater existence. Outwardly also, the nation or community or race which shrinks too long from destroying and replacing its past forms of life, is itself destroyed, rots and perishes and out of its debris other nations, communities and races are formed. By destruction of the old giant occupants man made himself a place upon earth. By destruction of the Titans the gods maintain the continuity of the divine Law in the cosmos. Whoever prematurely attempts to get rid of this law of battle and destruction, strives vainly against the greater will of the World-Spirit.” Essays on the Gita
detect ::: to discover or ascertain the existence, presence, or fact of. detected.
determination (‘s) ::: fixed direction or tendency towards some object or end.
diagram ::: a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts. diagrams.
dimension ::: 1. A property of space; extension in a given direction; extension in time. 2. Measurement in length, width and thickness; scope, importance. dimensions.
direction ::: 1. A line of thought or action or a tendency or inclination. 2. A purpose or orientation toward a goal that serves to guide or motivate; focus. directions.
disappear ::: 1. To pass out of sight; vanish. 2. To cease to exist. 3. Become less intense and fade away gradually. disappears, disappeared, disappearing.
discernment ::: **The act or process of exhibiting keen insight and keen perception; acuteness of judgement, discrimination and understanding. discernment"s.**
discolouring ::: changing or causing to change in colour; fading or staining, often in an undesired manner.
discontent ::: 1. A restless desire or craving for something one does not have. 2. Lack of content; dissatisfaction.
discontented ::: not content or satisfied; restlessly unhappy.
discouraged ::: 1. Deprived of courage, hope, or confidence; disheartened; dispirited. 2. Obstructed by opposition or difficulty; hindered. discouraging.
discover ::: 1. To determine the existence, presence, or fact of. 2. To be the first to find or find out or about something. 3. To reveal or make known. discovers, discovered, discovering, all-discovering, new-discovering,
disguise ::: n. 1. A mask, costume, or manner that conceals the identity of. 2. Something that serves or is intended for concealment of identity, character, or quality; a deceptive covering, condition, manner, etc. 3. The state of being disguised; masquerade. disguises, self-disguise. v. 4. To hide under a false appearance. disguised.
dissatisfied ::: 1. Not satisfied or pleased; discontented. 2. Feeling or exhibiting a lack of contentment or satisfaction.
distance ::: 1. The extent of space between two objects or the fact or condition of being apart in space; remoteness. 2. The interval between two points of time; an extent of time. 3. Separation or remoteness in relationship; disparity. distances.
divine life ::: Sri Aurobindo: "A life of gnostic beings carrying the evolution to a higher supramental status might fitly be characterised as a divine life; for it would be a life in the Divine, a life of the beginnings of a spiritual divine light and power and joy manifested in material Nature.” *The Life Divine ::: "The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man"s real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would be only an insect crawling among other ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.” The Life Divine
divine love ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Divine Love, in my view of it, is again not something ethereal, cold and far, but a love absolutely intense, intimate and full of unity, closeness and rapture using all the nature for its expression.” *Letters on Yoga
".. . Divine Love which is at the heart of all creation and the most powerful of all redeeming and creative forces has yet been the least frontally present in earthly life, the least successfully redemptive, the least creative. Human nature has been unable to bear it in its purity for the very reason that it is the most powerful, pure, rare and intense of all the divine energies; . . . . ” The Synthesis of Yoga
divine Mother ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Supreme and far above all she creates.” *The Mother
divine Reality ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Divine Reality is infinite in its being; in this infinite being, we find limited being everywhere, — that is the apparent fact from which our existence here seems to start and to which our own narrow ego and its ego-centric activities bear constant witness. But, in reality, when we come to an integral self-knowledge, we find that we are not limited, for we also are infinite.” *The Life Divine
docketed ::: labelled, tagged, ticketed as with a list of contents and statement of particulars.
dogged ::: followed or tracked like a dog, especially with hostile intent; hounded. dogs, dogging.
dole ::: n. **1. A portion or allotment of money, food, etc., esp. as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance. v. 2. To give out sparingly or in small quantities (usually followed by out). doled, doles.**
doom ::: 1. Fate, especially a tragic or ruinous one. 2. Inevitable destruction or ruin. 3. A judgement, decision, or sentence, esp. an unfavourable one. doom"s, doomed, doom-crack.
doubt ::: n. 1. Lack of belief in or conviction about something. v. 2. To be undecided or skeptical about: tend to disbelieve or distrust. doubts, doubting, doubtful, doubtfully, doubtfulness.
dove ::: 1. Any bird of the family Columbid, esp. the smaller species with pointed tails. 2. A pure white member of this species, used as a symbol of innocence, gentleness, tenderness, and peace. dove"s, doves.
downward ::: adj. 1. Descending from a source or beginning. 2. Moving or tending to a lower place or condition. 3. Toward a lower amount, degree, or rank. adv. 4. Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position.
dragon of the dark foundation ::: Sri Aurobindo: "All this action and struggle and ascension is supported by Heaven our Father and Earth our Mother, Parents of the Gods, who sustain respectively the purely mental and psychic and the physical consciousness. Their large and free scope is the condition of our achievement. Vayu, Master of life, links them together by the mid-air, the region of vital force. And there are other deities, — Parjanya, giver of the rain of heaven; Dadhikravan, the divine war-horse, a power of Agni; the mystic Dragon of the Foundations; Trita Aptya who on the third plane of existence consummates our triple being; and more besides.” The Secret of the Veda
drama ::: 1. A composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character, esp. one intended to be acted on the stage; a play. 2. Any situation or series of events having vivid, emotional or conflicting interest or results. drama"s, dramas.
draw ::: 1. To cause to move in a given direction or to a given position, as by leading. 2. To bring towards oneself or itself, as by inherent force or influence; attract. 3. To cause to come by attracting; attract. 4. To cause to move in a particular direction by or as by a pulling force; pull; drag. 5. To get, take or obtain as from a source; to derive. 6. To bring, take, or pull out, as from a receptacle or source. 7. To draw a (or the) line (fig.) to determine or define the limit between two things or groups; in modern colloquial use (esp. with at), to lay down a definite limit of action beyond which one refuses to go. 8. To make, sketch (a picture or representation of someone or something) in lines or words; to design, trace out, delineate; depict; also, to mould, model. 9. To mark or lay out; trace. 10. To compose or write out in legal format. 11. To write out (a bill of exchange or promissory note). 12. To disembowel. 13. To move or pull so as to cover or uncover something. 14. To suck or take in (air, for example); inhale. 15. To extend, lengthen, prolong, protract. 16. To cause to move after or toward one by applying continuous force; drag. draws, drew, drawn, drawing, wide-drawn.
drift ::: n. 1. A driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure. 2. A gradual deviation from an original course, model, method, or intention. 3. Tendency, trend, meaning, or purport. 4. A bank or pile, as of sand or snow, heaped up by currents of air or water. 5. Something moving along in a current of air or water. 6. Any group of stars having a random distribution of velocities; usually applied to a group of stars with an apparent systematic motion towards some point in the sky. v. 7. To be carried along by or as if by currents of air or water. 8. To move leisurely or sporadically from place to place, especially without purpose. drifts, drifted, drifting, sleet-drift, slow-drifting.
duel (‘s) ::: a struggle for domination between two contending persons, groups, or ideas.
dumbness ::: the condition of lacking the power of speech; being dumb; muteness.
dungeon ::: a dark, often underground chamber or cell used to confine prisoners. (Sri Aurobindo employs the word as an adjective.)
durga ::: "In Hindu religion, the goddess who is the Energy of Shiva and the conquering and protecting aspect of the Universal Mother. She is the slayer of many demons including Mahisasura. Durga is usually depicted in painting and sculpture riding a lion, having eight or ten arms, each holding the special weapon of one or another of the gods who gave them to her for her battles with demons. (A; Enc. Br.)” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works.
dwarf ::: n. 1. (In folklore) a being in the form of a small, often misshapen and ugly man, usually having magic powers. dwarf"s. adj. 2. Of unusually small stature or size; diminutive.
dwelling-house ::: a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
dwindled ::: grew or caused to grow less in size, intensity, or number; diminished or shrunk gradually. dwindling.
eager ::: 1. Having or showing keen interest, intense desire, or impatient expectancy. 2. Impatiently desirous (of); anxious or avid for.
earth ::: 1. The realm of mortal existence; the temporal world. 2. The softer, friable part of land; soil, especially productive soil. **Earth, earth"s, earth-beauty"s, earth-being"s, earth-beings, earth-bounds, earth-bride, earth-fact, earth-force, Earth-Goddess, earth-hearts, earth-habit"s, earth-heart, earth-instruments, earth-kind, earth-life, earth-light, earth-made, earth-matter"s, earth-mind, earth-mind"s, earth-myth, earth-nature, earth-nature"s, Earth-Nature"s, earth-nursed, earth-pain, Earth-plasm, earth-poise, earth-scene, earth-scene"s, earth-seat, earth-shapes, earth-stage, earth-stuff, earth-time, earth-time"s, earth-use, earth-vision, earth-ways, summer-earth.
earthly life ::: Sri Aurobindo: "This earthly life need not be necessarily and for ever a wheel of half-joyous half-anguished effort; attainment may also be intended and the glory and joy of God made manifest upon earth.” The Life Divine
ecstasy ::: 1. Intense joy or delight. 2. A state of exalted emotion so intense that one is carried beyond thought. 3. Used by mystical writers as the technical name for the state of rapture in which the body was supposed to become incapable of sensation, while the soul was engaged in the contemplation of divine things. 4. The trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation. Ecstasy, ecstasy"s, ecstasies, ecstasied, self-ecstasy, strange-ecstasied.
edged ::: 1. Having or provided with an edge or border. ::: 2. Having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified (often used in combination). 3. keen-edged. Sharpness with reference to the mind.
"Ego is a very curious thing and in nothing more than in its way of hiding itself and pretending it is not the ego.” Letters on Yoga*
elaborate ::: 1. Worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness. 2. Marked by intricate and often excessive detail; complicated.
elements ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The first ripple or vibration in causal matter creates a new and exceedingly fine and pervasive condition of matter called Akasha or Ether; more complex motion evolves out of Ether a somewhat intenser condition which is called Vayu, Air; and so by ever more complex motion with increasing intensity of condition for result, yet three other matter-states are successively developed, Agni or Fire, Apah or Water and Prithvi or Earth.” *Supplement to the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library
emerge ::: 1. To come forth into view or notice, as from concealment, or obscurity. 2. To rise or come forth from or as if from water or other liquid. 3. To come into existence; develop. 4. To rise, as from an inferior or unfortunate state or condition. emerges, emerged, emerging.
"Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very usually a necessary transition from one state to another. When mind and vital fall quiet and their restless movements, thoughts and desires cease, then one feels empty. This is at first often a neutral emptiness with nothing in it, nothing in it either good or bad, happy or unhappy, no impulse or movement. This neutral state is often or even usually followed by the opening to inner experience. There is also an emptiness made of peace and silence, when the peace and silence come out from the psychic within or descend from the higher consciousness above. This is not neutral, for in it there is the sense of peace, often also of wideness and freedom. There is also a happy emptiness with the sense of something close or drawing near which is not yet there, e.g. the closeness of the Mother or some other preparing experience.” Letters on Yoga*
enchanter ::: something that delights, often as with sorcery or a spell.
enemy ::: n. 1. A hostile person, power, force or nation. 2. One who feels hatred toward, intends injury to, or opposes the interests of another; a foe. enemy"s *adj. *3. Of, relating to, or being a hostile power or force.
engross ::: 1. To devote (oneself) fully to; consume all of one"s attention or time. 2. To acquire the entire use of, take altogether to itself; to occupy entirely, monopolise. engrossed, engrossing.
enhanced ::: made greater, increased or intensified, as in value, beauty, or effectiveness; augmented.
enlighten ::: to give intellectual or spiritual light to; instruct; impart knowledge to. enlightened, enlightening, enlightenment.
ennui ::: a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom.
enormous ::: greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.; huge; immense.
entity ::: something having real or distinct existence. **Entity, entities.
envy ::: a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another"s advantages, success, possessions, etc.; longing to possess something awarded to or achieved by another.
epic ::: adj. 1. An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a legendary or traditional hero. 2. Resembling or suggesting such poetry. 3. Heroic; majestic; impressively great. 4. Of unusually great size or extent. n. 5. An epic poem. 6. Any composition resembling an epic. epics.
equal ::: adj. 1. As great as; the same as (often followed by to or with). 2. Having the same quantity, value, or measure as another. 3. Evenly proportioned or balanced. 4. Tranquil; equable; undisturbed. 5. Impartial; just; equitable. n. 6. One who is equal to another in any specified quality. v. **7. To become equal or level with. equalled.**
"Equality is the chief support of the true spiritual consciousness and it is this from which a sadhak deviates when he allows a vital movement to carry him away in feeling or speech or action. Equality is not the same thing as forbearance, — though undoubtedly a settled equality immensely extends, even illimitably, a man"s power of endurance and forbearance. Letters on Yoga
erase ::: 1. To remove (something written, for example) by rubbing, wiping, or scraping. 2. To eliminate completely; to efface, expunge, obliterate. 3. Fig. To remove from memory or existence. erased, erasing.
erect ::: v. 1. To set up; build; establish. 2. To raise and to set in an upright or vertical position. 3. To bring about; cause to come into existence. erects, erected. *adj. *4. Upright in posture or position 5. Raised or directed upward.
error ::: 1. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; a deviation from accuracy or correctness. 2. The act or an instance of deviating from an accepted code of behaviour. **error"s, errors, errorless.
evanescent ::: 1. Vanishing; fading away; fleeting. 2. Tending to become imperceptible; scarcely perceptible.
exaltation ::: a feeling of intense well-being or exhilaration; elation; rapture.
extended ::: 1. Spread out or elongated in breadth or length. 2. Fully extended or stretched forth. 3. Widespread or extensive; having extension or spatial magnitude.
extended far or over a great distance.
extend ::: to enlarge the area, scope, or range of.
extension ::: an extended portion.
extent ::: the range, magnitude, or distance over which a thing extends.
::: existence, master of
existence ::: the fact or state of continued being; life. Existence, Existence", existences.
existing ::: adj. Having existence or being or actuality.
exorbitant ::: exceeding the bounds of custom, propriety, or reason, esp. in amount or extent; highly excessive.
expand ::: 1. To increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc. 2. To unfold, open out, widen. expands, expanding.
expanding ::: adj. 1. That opens up or out; unfolds. 2. That unfolds or develops; spreads out. 3. That increases in bulk, extent, volume, etc.
expanse ::: a wide and open extent, as of surface, land, or sky. expanses.
expansion ::: 1. The action of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope. 2. The degree, extent, or amount by which something expands.
experiment ::: n. **1. A test, trial, or tentative procedure; an act or operation for the purpose of discovering something unknown or of testing a principle, supposition, etc. v. 2.* To try something new, especially in order to gain experience. experiments. adj.* experimenting.
expert ::: adj. 1. Skilled through training or practice. n. 2. A person who has extensive skill or knowledge in a particular field. experts.
exquisite ::: 1. Extraordinarily fine or admirable; consummate. 2. Intense, acute, or keen, as pleasure or pain.
extinct ::: no longer in existence; that has ended or died out.
extreme ::: n. 1. The greatest or utmost degree or point. 2. Either of the two things situated at opposite ends of a range; extremes. adj. 3. Being in or attaining the greatest or highest degree; very intense.
extremity ::: 1. The farthest or outermost region, point or section. 2. The greatest or most intense degree. extremities.
**"Faith in the heart is the obscure & often distorted reflection of a hidden knowledge.” Essays Divine and Human
::: **"Faith is a certitude in the soul which does not depend on reasoning, on this or that mental idea, on circumstances, on this or that passing condition of the mind or the vital or the body. It may be hidden, eclipsed, may even seem to be quenched, but it reappears again after the storm or the eclipse; it is seen burning still in the soul when one has thought that it was extinguished for ever. The mind may be a shifting sea of doubts and yet that faith may be there within and, if so, it will keep even the doubt-racked mind in the way so that it goes on in spite of itself towards its destined goal. Faith is a spiritual certitude of the spiritual, the divine, the soul"s ideal, something that clings to that even when it is not fulfilled in life, even when the immediate facts or the persistent circumstances seem to deny it.” Letters on Yoga
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fearful ::: causing or apt to cause fear; frightening.
feast ::: 1. A large, elaborately prepared meal, usually for many persons and often accompanied by entertainment; a banquet. 2. Something giving great pleasure or satisfaction.
feign ::: 1. To make up; invent; fabricate. 2. To represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of. 3. To imitate deceptively. 4. To make believe, pretend. feigns, feigned, feigning.
fell ::: of an inhumanly cruel nature; fierce; destructive. (All other references to the word are as the past tense of fall.)
fervour ::: great intensity of feeling or belief; ardour; zeal.
fiction ::: an imaginative creation or a pretence that does not represent actuality but has been invented; made-up. fictions.
fierce ::: 1. Menacingly wild, savage, or hostile. 2. Violent in force, intensity, etc. 3. Extremely intense or ardent. fiercest.
fighting ::: the action or instance of contending, striving for victory, struggling, engaging in conflict.
fight ::: n. 1. Fig. A confrontation between opposing groups in which each attempts to harm or gain power over the other, as with bodily force or weapons. fights. v. 2. To contend with physically or in battle; attempt to defend oneself against or to subdue, defeat, or destroy an adversary. fighting, fought.
figure ::: n. 1. The form or shape of anything; appearance, aspect. 2. The human form, esp. as regards size or shape. 3. A representation or likeness of the human form.4. An emblem, type, symbol. 5. An amount or value expressed in numbers. 6. A written symbol other than a letter. v. 7. To compute or calculate. 8. To represent by a pictorial or sculptured figure, a diagram, or the like; picture or depict. 9. To shape to; symbolize; represent. figures, figured, figuring, figure-selves.**
finite ::: 1. Having bounds; limited. 2. Subject to limitations or conditions, as of space, time, circumstances, or the laws of nature. finite"s, finiteness.
"First, we affirm an Absolute as the origin and support and secret Reality of all things. The Absolute Reality is indefinable and ineffable by mental thought and mental language; it is self-existent and self-evident to itself, as all absolutes are self-evident, but our mental affirmatives and negatives, whether taken separatively or together, cannot limit or define it.” The Life Divine
fit ::: v. 1. To adjust in order to render appropriate. 2. To be adapted to or suitable for (a purpose, object, occasion, etc.). fits. adj. 3. To be appropriate or suitable for. 4. Having the right qualifications; qualifying; competent.
fix ::: 1. To set or place firmly or definitely; establish. 2. Also refl. To direct one"s efforts or attention; concentrate. 3.* *To give a permanent or final form to. 4. To settle definitely; decide. fixes, fixed, fixing.**
fixed ::: 1. Securely placed or fastened or set. 2. Set or intent upon something; steadily directed (as of a person"s eyes, mind, etc.). 3. Definitely and permanently placed. 4. Not fluctuating or varying; definite. 5. Coming each year on the same calendar date. 6. Assigned to a definite place, time, etc.
flame ::: n. 1. Burning gas or vapor, as from wood or coal, that is undergoing combustion; a portion of ignited gas or vapor. 2. Fig. A brilliant light; fiery glow. 3. Fig. Intense ardour, zeal, passion, vitality. 4. Spiritual fire. 5. Inner fire. 6. Bright colouring; a streak or patch of color. Flame, flames, flame-ascensions, flame-born, flame-bright, flame-child, flame-discovery, flame-edge, flame-eyed, flame-foot, flame-hills, flame-pure, flame-signs, flame-stabs, flame-throw, flame-white, flame-wrapped, moon-flame. v. 8. To burn with a flame or flames; burst into flames; blaze. 7. To burn or glow as if with fire; become red or fiery 8. To burn or burst forth with strong emotion. flames, flamed. ::: flames out. Bursts out in or as if in flames.
flaming ::: adj. 1. Emitting flames; blazing; burning; fiery. 2. Glowing brightly; brilliant. 3. Intensely ardent or passionate. 4. Resembling a flame in brilliance, color, or form. 5. Like a flame in brilliance, heat or shape. 6. Very intense, ardent; fiery, as a disposition. flaming-silent.* n. 7. The action of burning or being on fire. Also fig. *flamings.
flare ::: 1. A flaring or swaying flame or light as of torches in the wind. 2. A sudden blaze or burst of flame or light, e.g. lightening. 3. A bright blaze of fire or light used as a signal, a means of illumination or guidance, etc. 4. A sudden burst, as of zeal or anger. flares, flared, flaring, sky-flare.
flashing ::: emitting or reflecting light with sudden or intermittent brilliance.
flash ::: n.** 1. A brief, sudden burst of bright light. 2. A sudden thought, insight, inspiration, or vision. 3. A momentary brightness. 4. A very brief moment; instant. flashes, lightening-flash. v. 5. To move or proceed rapidly. 6. To communicate or reveal through flashes. 7. To appear or occur suddenly; come into perception. 8. To cause to flash, as powder by ignition or a sword by waving. flashes, flashed, flashing.**
flatter ::: 1. To compliment excessively and often insincerely, especially in order to win favour. 2. To try to please by complimentary remarks or attention. 3. To show to advantage. 4. To please the eye or ear; beguile. flatters, flattered, flattering.
follow ::: 1. To come or go after; proceed behind. 2. Lit. and fig. To move along the course of; take a path. 3. Fig. To come after in order, time, or position. 4. To occur or be evident as a consequence; result. 5. Fig. To accompany; attend. 6. To take (a person) as a guide, leader, or master; to accept the authority or example of, obey the dictates or guidance of; to adhere to, espouse the opinions, side, or cause of. 7. Fig. To go after in or as if in pursuit. 8. To accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of. 9. To watch or trace the movements, progress, or course of. follows, followed, following. ::: following out. Proceeding; following; pursuing something to an end or conclusion.
fond ::: excessively tender; over-affectionate, doting.
". . . Force is inherent in Existence. Shiva and Kali, Brahman and Shakti are one and not two who are separable. Force inherent in existence may be at rest or it may be in motion, but when it is at rest, it exists none the less and is not abolished, diminished or in any way essentially altered.” The Life Divine
force ::: n. 1. Strength; energy; power; intensity. 2. Fig. An agency, influence, or source of power likened to a physical force. Force, force"s, forces, Force-compelled, Conscious-Force, earth-force, God-Force, lion-forces, Mother-Force, Nature-force, Nature-Force, serpent-force, soul-force, Soul-Forces, world-force, World-Force, world-forces. *v. 3. To compel or cause (a person, group, etc.) to do something through effort, superior strength, etc.; coerce. 4. To propel or drive despite resistance. 5. To break open (a gate, door, etc.) *forces, forced, forcing.
force, universal ::: Sri Aurobindo: "This force that we feel is the universal Force of the Divine, which, veiled or unveiled, acting directly or permitting the use of its powers by beings in the cosmos, is the one Energy that alone exists and alone makes universal or individual action possible. For this force is the Divine itself in the body of its power; all is that, power of act, power of thought and knowledge, power of mastery and enjoyment, power of love. Conscious always and in everything, in ourselves and in others, of the Master of Works possessing, inhabiting, enjoying through this Force that is himself, becoming through it all existences and all happenings, we shall have arrived at the divine union through works and achieved by that fulfilment in works all that others have gained through absolute devotion or through pure knowledge.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
". . . for doubt is the mind"s persistent assailant.” Letters on Yoga ::: "The enemy of faith is doubt, and yet doubt too is a utility and necessity, because man in his ignorance and in his progressive labour towards knowledge needs to be visited by doubt, otherwise he would remain obstinate in an ignorant belief and limited knowledge and unable to escape from his errors.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
foreboding ("s) ::: n. **1. A strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.; presentiment. adj. 2.** Foretelling or predicting; indicating beforehand; portending.
foreknowledge ::: knowledge or awareness of something before its existence or occurrence; prescience.
"For existence itself is and must always be the stuff of its own becoming; it must be shaped into the substance with which Force has to deal. Force again must be the power which works out that substance and works with it to whatever ends; Force is that which we ordinarily call Nature.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"For if evolution is the progressive manifestation by Nature of that which slept or worked in her, involved, it is also the overt realisation of that which she secretly is. We cannot, then, bid her the right to condemn with the religionist as perverse and presumptuous or with the rationalist as a disease or hallucination any intention she may evince or effort she may make to go beyond. If it be true that Spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation of the divine in himself and the realisation of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aim possible to man upon earth.” The Life Divine
formula ::: 1. A prescribed form; a rule or model; any fixed or conventional method for doing something. 2. An established form of words or symbols for use in a ceremony or procedure. 3. Math. A general relationship, principle, or rule stated, often as an equation, in the form of symbols. 4. A representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements. formulas.
fortress ::: 1. A large fortified place; a fort or a group of forts, often including a town; citadel. 2. Any place of exceptional security; stronghold.
forward ::: adv. 1. Toward or tending to the front; facing frontward. 2. Fig. Directed or moving ahead. 3. Of continuous motion: Towards what is in front; (moving) onwards, on. forward-rippling, forward-striving. *adj. 4. At or near or directed towards a point ahead.* ::: to look forward. Expect or hope for something positive in the future.
found ::: 1. To set up or establish on a firm basis or for enduring existence; to originate, create, initiate. 2. To establish or set up, especially with provision for continuing existence. Also fig. (All other references are to the word as the pp. or pt. of find. **half-found*.*) founds, founded.**
fraught ::: filled or charged; attended. deep-fraught, marvel-fraught, pain-fraught.
fretful ::: regretful; discontented; vexed; worried; tormented.
front ::: n. 1. That part or side that is forward, prominent, or most often seen or used. 2. Outward aspect or bearing as when dealing with a situation. 3. Demeanour or bearing, especially in the presence of danger or difficulty. 4. At a position before, in advance of, facing, or confronting; at the head of. 5. The most forward line of a combat force. 6. A position of leadership in a particular endeavour or field. front"s, fronts. v. 7. To look out on; face. 8. To meet face to face; in opposition; confront. fronts, fronted, fronting.
fruit ::: 1. The part of a plant that produces the seed, especially when eaten as food. 2. The result or consequence of an action or effort. 3. Result; outcome. fruits.
fulfil ::: 1. To fill or meet a want or need. 2. To develop the full potential of. 3. To bring about the completion or achievement of (a desire, prophecy, promise, etc.). 4. To carry out or execute (a request, etc.). fulfils, fulfilled, fulfilling, all-fulfilling, self-fulfilling.
fullness ::: completeness or entirety.
gaol ::: a prison, esp. one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offences. (A variant spelling of jail. In British official use the form with G is still current; in literary and journalistic use both the G and the J form is now admitted as correct; in the U.S. the J form is standard.) gaoled.
garden-house ::: a house built in a garden, often a smaller summer-house.
gaze ::: n. 1. The act of looking steadily, intently and with fixed attention. v. 2. To look long and fixedly, esp. in wonder or admiration, poet. **gazes, gazed, gazing, sun-gaze, Truth-gaze, star-gazer, outward-gazing, sun-gazing.**
genii ::: 1. A rendering of Arab., jinn, the collective name of a class of spirits (some good, some evil) supposed to interfere powerfully in human affairs. 2. Spirits, often appearing in human form, that when summoned carry out the wishes of the summoner.
gesture ::: 1. A motion of the limbs or body made to express or help express thought or to emphasize speech. 2. The act of moving the limbs or body as an expression of thought or emphasis. 3. An act or a remark made as a formality or as a sign of intention or attitude. gesture"s, gestures.
giant ::: n. 1. Any creature of exceptional size or strength. giant"s, giants. adj. **2.** Of extraordinary size, extent, or force; gigantic, huge, monstrous.
gigantic ::: so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant.
glad ::: 1. Accompanied by or causing joy or pleasure. 2. Feeling joy or pleasure; delighted; pleased. 3. Experiencing or exhibiting joy and pleasure. 4. Filled with happiness pleased; contented. gladness, self-glad.
glamour ::: 1. Charm and allure; fascination. 2. The often false or superficial beauty or charm which attracts. glamorous.
glare ::: an intense, blinding light.
glimmer ::: n. 1. A dim or intermittent flicker or flash of light. 2. A slight suggestion or vague understanding. v. 3. To shine faintly; twinkle, shimmer, or flicker. glimmers, glimmered, glimmering, glimmerings, glimmer-realms, many-glimmered.
glistening ::: reflecting a sparkling light or a faint intermittent glow; shining lustrously.
gloom ::: total or partial darkness; dimness often used to describe depression or melancholy. gloom"s, glooms, gloomy.
glow ::: n. 1. A light emitted by or as if by a substance heated to luminosity; incandescence. 2. Brilliance or warmth of colour. 3. Intensity of emotion; ardour. joy-glow, petal-glow. v. 4. To shine intensely, as if from great heat. 5. To show a strong bright colour. glows, glowed, glowing.
glue ::: n. 1. Any substance used as a strong adhesive for fastening or joining substances. v. 2. To stick or fasten with or as if with glue. glued, blood-glued.
god ::: a being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions. gods, gods", God"s, Gods, God-bliss, God-born, god-chant, God-child, god-children, God-ecstasy, God-face, God-frame, God-Force, God-given, god-haunts, God-instinct"s, God-joy, God-Light, god-kind, God-knowledge, God-language, God-light, god-mind, god-phase, God-spark, god-speech, God-state, god-touch, God-vision"s, god-wings, child-god, dream-god"s, half-god, Sun-god"s.
godhead ::: Sri Aurobindo: ". . . the Godhead is all that is universe and all that is in the universe and all that is more than the universe. The Gita lays stress first on his supracosmic existence. For otherwise the mind would miss its highest goal and remain turned towards the cosmic only or else attached to some partial experience of the Divine in the cosmos. It lays stress next on his universal existence in which all moves and acts. For that is the justification of the cosmic effort and that is the vast spiritual self-awareness in which the Godhead self-seen as the Time-Spirit does his universal works. Next it insists with a certain austere emphasis on the acceptance of the Godhead as the divine inhabitant in the human body. For he is the Immanent in all existences, and if the indwelling divinity is not recognised, not only will the divine meaning of individual existence be missed, the urge to our supreme spiritual possibilities deprived of its greatest force, but the relations of soul with soul in humanity will be left petty, limited and egoistic. Finally, it insists at great length on the divine manifestation in all things in the universe and affirms the derivation of all that is from the nature, power and light of the one Godhead.” *Essays on the Gita
"God is the All and that which exceeds, transcends the All; there is nothing in existence which is not God but God is not anything in that existence, except symbolically, in image to His own consciousness.” The Life Divine
"God is the one stable and eternal Reality. He is One because there is nothing else, since all existence and non-existence are He. He is stable or unmoving, because motion implies change in Space and change in Time, and He, being beyond Time and Space, is immutable. He possesses eternally in Himself all that is, has been or ever can be, and He therefore does not increase or diminish. He is beyond causality and relativity and therefore there is no change of relations in His being.” The Upanishads
gold-leaf ::: gold beaten into extremely thin sheets used especially for gilding.
grace ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Grace is something spontaneous which wells out from the Divine Consciousness as a free flow of its being. ::: It is a power that is superior to any rule, even to the Cosmic Law — for all spiritual seers have distinguished between the Law and Grace. Yet it is not indiscriminate — only it has a discrimination of its own which sees things and persons and the right times and seasons with another vision than that of the Mind or any other normal Power. A state of Grace is prepared in the individual often behind thick veils by means not calculable by the mind and when the state of Grace comes, then the Grace itself acts. ” *Letters on Yoga
gracious ::: 1. Characterized by kindness and warm courtesy. 2. Pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous; charming and elegant. 3. Tender, mild, gentle. 4. Of a merciful or compassionate nature.
grain ::: fig. Quality, nature, temper; inclination, tendency. 2. The smallest possible amount or size of anything. 3. Small hard seeds, esp. the seeds of food plants such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet; the plants themselves whether reaped or standing. grains.
grammar ::: the study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences.
"Here we live in an organisation of mortal consciousness which takes the form of a transient world; there we are liberated into the harmonies of an infinite self-seeing which knows all world in the light of the eternal and immortal. The Beyond is our reality; that is our plenitude; that is the absolute satisfaction of our self-existence. It is immortality and it is ‘That Delight".” The Upanishads *beyond
**"I certainly won"t have ‘attracted" [in place of ‘allured"] — there is an enormous difference between the force of the two words and merely ‘attracted by the Ecstasy" would take away all my ecstasy in the line — nothing so tepid can be admitted. Neither do I want ‘thrill" [in place of ‘joy"] which gives a false colour — precisely it would mean that the ecstasy was already touching him with its intensity which is far from my intention.Your statement that ‘joy" is just another word for ‘ecstasy" is surprising. ‘Comfort", ‘pleasure", ‘joy", ‘bliss", ‘rapture", ‘ecstasy" would then be all equal and exactly synonymous terms and all distinction of shades and colours of words would disappear from literature. As well say that ‘flashlight" is just another word for ‘lightning" — or that glow, gleam, glitter, sheen, blaze are all equivalents which can be employed indifferently in the same place. One can feel allured to the supreme omniscient Ecstasy and feel a nameless joy touching one without that Joy becoming itself the supreme Ecstasy. I see no loss of expressiveness by the joy coming in as a vague nameless hint of the immeasurable superior Ecstasy.” Letters on Savitri*
::: "Identity is the first truth of existence; division is the second truth; all division is a division in oneness. There is one Existence which looks at itself from many self-divided unities observing other similar and dissimilar self-divided unities by the device of division. Being is one; division is a device or a secondary condition of consciousness; but the primary truth of consciousness also is a truth of oneness and identity.” Essays Divine and Human
"If discipline of all the members of our being by purification and concentration may be described as the right arm of the body of Yoga, renunciation is its left arm. By discipline or positive practice we confirm in ourselves the truth of things, truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of love, truth of works and replace with these the falsehoods that have overgrown and perverted our nature; by renunciation we seize upon the falsehoods, pluck up their roots and cast them out of our way so that they shall no longer hamper by their persistence, their resistance or their recurrence the happy and harmonious growth of our divine living.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
"If you go deep enough, into a sufficiently complete silence from all outer things, you will find within you that flame about which I often speak, and in this flame you will see your destiny.} You will see the aspiration of centuries which has been concentrated gradually, to lead you through countless births to the great day of realisation — that preparation which has been made through thousands of years, and is reaching its culmination.” Questions and Answers MCW Vol. 6*.
"I have started writing about doubt, but even in doing so I am afflicted by the ‘doubt" whether any amount of writing or of anything else can ever persuade the eternal doubt in man which is the penalty of his native ignorance. In the first place, to write adequately would mean anything from 60 to 600 pages, but not even 6000 convincing pages would convince doubt. For doubt exists for its own sake; its very function is to doubt always and, even when convinced, to go on doubting still; it is only to persuade its entertainer to give it board and lodging that it pretends to be an honest truth-seeker. This is a lesson I have learnt from the experience both of my own mind and of the minds of others; the only way to get rid of doubt is to take discrimination as one"s detector of truth and falsehood and under its guard to open the door freely and courageously to experience.” Letters on Yoga
"In every particle, atom, molecule, cell of Matter there lives hidden and works unknown all the omniscience of the Eternal and all the omnipotence of the Infinite.” Essays Divine and Human*
::: ". . . in such a view, the word consciousness changes its meaning. It is no longer synonymous with mentality but indicates a self-aware force of existence of which mentality is a middle term; below mentality it sinks into vital and material movements which are for us subconscient; above, it rises into the supramental which is for us the superconscient. But in all it is one and the same thing organising itself differently. This is, once more, the Indian conception of Chit which, as energy, creates the worlds.” *The Life Divine
"It [death] has no separate existence by itself, it is only a result of the principle of decay in the body and that principle is there already — it is part of the physical nature. At the same time it is not inevitable; if one could have the necessary consciousness and force, decay and death is not inevitable. But to bring that consciousness and force into the whole of the material nature is the most difficult thing of all — at any rate, in such a way as to annul the decay principle.” Letters on Yoga
marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
"Moreover we see that this cosmic action or any cosmic action is impossible without the play of an infinite Force of Existence which produces and regulates all these forms and movements; and that Force equally presupposes or is the action of an infinite Consciousness, because it is in its nature a cosmic Will determining all relations and apprehending them by its own mode of awareness, and it could not so determine and apprehend them if there were no comprehensive Consciousness behind that mode of cosmic awareness to originate as well as to hold, fix and reflect through it the relations of Being in the developing formation or becoming of itself which we call a universe.” The Life Divine
n. 1. The body or outward appearance of a person or an animal considered separately from the face or head; figure. 2. An object, person, or part of the human body or the appearance of any of these, esp. as seen in nature. 3. The mode in which a thing exists, acts, or manifests itself; kind. 4. The structure, pattern, organization or essential nature of anything. Form, form"s, forms, Forms, form-bound, form-discoveries, form-maker, form-smitten, thought-forms. v. 5. To give form to; shape. 6.* *To take or assume form; to be formed or produced. forms, formed, many-formed, sense-formed. ::: re-form.** To form a second time, form over again.
n. 1. The point, axis, or pivot about which a body rotates. 2. A point, area, or part that is approximately in the middle of a larger area or volume. 3. A person or thing that is a focus of interest or attention. 4. A point of origin. centre"s, centres. v. 5. To focus or bring together. 6. To move towards, mark, put, or be concentrated at or as at a centre. 7. centred. Brought together to a centre, concentrated.
"Of course, that is the real fact — death is only a shedding of the body, not a cessation of the personal existence. A man is not dead because he goes into another country and changes his clothes to suit that climate.” Letters on Yoga
"Ordinarily we mean by it [consciousness] our first obvious idea of a mental waking consciousness such as is possessed by the human being during the major part of his bodily existence, when he is not asleep, stunned or otherwise deprived of his physical and superficial methods of sensation. In this sense it is plain enough that consciousness is the exception and not the rule in the order of the material universe. We ourselves do not always possess it. But this vulgar and shallow idea of the nature of consciousness, though it still colours our ordinary thought and associations, must now definitely disappear out of philosophical thinking. For we know that there is something in us which is conscious when we sleep, when we are stunned or drugged or in a swoon, in all apparently unconscious states of our physical being. Not only so, but we may now be sure that the old thinkers were right when they declared that even in our waking state what we call then our consciousness is only a small selection from our entire conscious being. It is a superficies, it is not even the whole of our mentality. Behind it, much vaster than it, there is a subliminal or subconscient mind which is the greater part of ourselves and contains heights and profundities which no man has yet measured or fathomed.” Letters on Yoga
"Our ego is only a face of the universal being and has no separate existence; our apparent separative individuality is only a surface movement and behind it our real individuality stretches out to unity with all things and upward to oneness with the transcendent Divine Infinity. Thus our ego, which seems to be a limitation of existence, is really a power of infinity; the boundless multiplicity of beings in the world is a result and signal evidence, not of limitation or finiteness, but of that illimitable Infinity.” The Life Divine
"Our nature is not only mistaken in will and ignorant in knowledge but weak in power; but the Divine Force is there and will lead us if we trust in it and it will use our deficiencies and our powers for the divine purpose. If we fail in our immediate aim, it is because he has intended the failure; often our failure or ill-result is the right road to a truer issue than an immediate and complete success would have put in our reach. If we suffer, it is because something in us has to be prepared for a rarer possibility of delight. If we stumble, it is to learn in the end the secret of a more perfect walking.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"Perishable and transitory delight is always the symbol of the eternal Ananda, revealed and rapidly concealed, which seeks by increasing recurrence to attach itself to some typal form of experience in material consciousness. When the particular form has been perfected to express God in the type, its delight will no longer be perishable but an eternally recurrent possession of mental beings in matter manifest in their periods & often in their moments of felicity.” Essays Divine and Human*
"Pulling comes usually from a desire to get things for oneself — in aspiration there is a self-giving for the higher consciousness to descend and take possession — the more intense the call the greater the self-giving.” Letters on Yoga
::: **"See God everywhere and be not frightened by masks. Believe that all falsehood is truth in the making or truth in the breaking, all failure an effectuality concealed, all weakness strength hiding itself from its own vision, all pain a secret & violent ecstasy.” Essays Divine and Human
see: Master of Existence.
something caused or dictated by fate; esp. misfortune often resulting in death.
Sri Aurobindo: "As there are Powers of Knowledge or Forces of the Light, so there are Powers of Ignorance and tenebrous Forces of the Darkness whose work is to prolong the reign of Ignorance and Inconscience. As there are Forces of Truth, so there are Forces that live by the Falsehood and support it and work for its victory; as there are powers whose life is intimately bound up with the existence, the idea and the impulse of Good, so there are Forces whose life is bound up with the existence and the idea and the impulse of Evil. It is this truth of the cosmic Invisible that was symbolised in the ancient belief of a struggle between the powers of Light and Darkness, Good and Evil for the possession of the world and the government of the life of man; — this was the significance of the contest between the Vedic Gods and their opponents, sons of Darkness and Division, figured in a later tradition as Titan and Giant and Demon, Asura, Rakshasa, Pisacha; the same tradition is found in the Zoroastrian Double Principle and the later Semitic opposition of God and his Angels on the one side and Satan and his hosts on the other, — invisible Personalities and Powers that draw man to the divine Light and Truth and Good or lure him into subjection to the undivine principle of Darkness and Falsehood and Evil.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "Birth is the first spiritual mystery of the physical universe, death is the second which gives its double point of perplexity to the mystery of birth; for life, which would otherwise be a self-evident fact of existence, becomes itself a mystery by virtue of these two which seem to be its beginning and its end and yet in a thousand ways betray themselves as neither of these things, but rather intermediate stages in an occult processus of life.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "But if the individual is a persistent reality, an eternal portion or power of the Eternal, if his growth of consciousness is the means by which the Spirit in things discloses its being, the cosmos reveals itself as a conditioned manifestation of the play of the eternal One in the being of Sachchidananda with the eternal Many.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "But when I speak of the Divine Will, I mean something different, — something that has descended here into an evolutionary world of Ignorance, standing at the back of things, pressing on the Darkness with its Light, leading things presently towards the best possible in the conditions of a world of Ignorance and leading it eventually towards a descent of a greater power of the Divine, which will be not an omnipotence held back and conditioned by the law of the world as it is, but in full action and therefore bringing the reign of light, peace, harmony, joy, love, beauty and Ananda, for these are the Divine Nature.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "By aesthesis is meant a reaction of the consciousness, mental and vital and even bodily, which receives a certain element in things, something that can be called their taste, Rasa, which, passing through the mind or sense or both, awakes a vital enjoyment of the taste, Bhoga, and this can again awaken us, awaken even the soul in us to something yet deeper and more fundamental than mere pleasure and enjoyment, to some form of the spirit"s delight of existence, Ananda.” *Letters on Savitri
Sri Aurobindo: "Consciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence — it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is in it — not only the macrocosm but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself.” *Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "Creation is not a making of something out of nothing or of one thing out of another, but a self-projection of Brahman into the conditions of Space and Time. Creation is not a making, but a becoming in terms and forms of conscious existence.” The Upanishads*
Sri Aurobindo: " . . . Divine Love which is at the heart of all creation and the most powerful of all redeeming and creative forces has yet been the least frontally present in earthly life, the least successfully redemptive, the least creative. Human nature has been unable to bear it in its purity for the very reason that it is the most powerful, pure, rare and intense of all the divine energies; what little could be seized has been corrupted at once into a vital pietistic ardour, a defenceless religious or ethical sentimentalism, a sensuous or even sensual erotic mysticism of the roseate coloured mind or passionately turbid life-impulse and with these simulations compensated its inability to house the Mystic Flame that could rebuild the world with its tongues of sacrifice. The Synthesis of Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: ". . . every weakness and failure is a first sounding of gulfs of power and potentiality. . . .” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "Existence is an infinite and therefore indefinable and illimitable Reality which figures itself out in multiple values of life.” *Social and Political Thought
*Sri Aurobindo: "For from the divine Bliss, the original Delight of existence, the Lord of Immortality comes pouring the wine of that Bliss, the mystic Soma, into these jars of mentalised living matter; eternal and beautiful, he enters into these sheaths of substance for the integral transformation of the being and nature.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "Form is the basic means of manifestation and without it it may be said that the manifestation of anything is not complete. Even if the Formless logically precedes Form, yet it is not illogical to assume that in the Formless, Form is inherent and already existent in a mystic latency, otherwise how could it be manifested?” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Further, vision is of value because it is often a first key to inner planes of one"s own being and one"s own consciousness as distinguished from worlds or planes of the cosmic consciousness. Yoga-experience often begins with some opening of the third eye in the forehead (the centre of vision in the brows) or with some kind of beginning and extension of subtle seeing which may seem unimportant at first but is the vestibule to deeper experience.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Genius is one attempt of the universal Energy to so quicken and intensify our intellectual powers that they shall be prepared for those more puissant, direct and rapid faculties which constitute the play of the supra-intellectual or divine mind. It is not, then, a freak, an inexplicable phenomenon, but a perfectly natural next step in the right line of her [Nature"s] evolution.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "In other words, ethics is a stage in evolution. That which is common to all stages is the urge of Sachchidananda towards self-expression. This urge is at first non-ethical, then infra-ethical in the animal, then in the intelligent animal even anti-ethical for it permits us to approve hurt done to others which we disapprove when done to ourselves. In this respect man even now is only half-ethical. And just as all below us is infra-ethical, so there may be that above us whither we shall eventually arrive, which is supra-ethical, has no need of ethics. The ethical impulse and attitude, so all-important to humanity, is a means by which it struggles out of the lower harmony and universality based upon inconscience and broken up by Life into individual discords towards a higher harmony and universality based upon conscient oneness with all existences. Arriving at that goal, this means will no longer be necessary or even possible, since the qualities and oppositions on which it depends will naturally dissolve and disappear in the final reconciliation.” The Life Divine
*Sri Aurobindo: "In our world error is continually the handmaid and pathfinder of Truth; for error is really a half-truth that stumbles because of its limitations; often it is Truth that wears a disguise in order to arrive unobserved near to its goal.” The Life Divine
"Sri Aurobindo: "It has been held that ecstasy is a lower and transient passage, the peace of the Supreme is the supreme realisation, the consummate abiding experience. This may be true on the spiritual-mind plane: there the first ecstasy felt is indeed a spiritual rapture, but it can be and is very usually mingled with a supreme happiness of the vital parts taken up by the Spirit; there is an exaltation, exultation, excitement, a highest intensity of the joy of the heart and the pure inner soul-sensation that can be a splendid passage or an uplifting force but is not the ultimate permanent foundation. But in the highest ascents of the spiritual bliss there is not this vehement exaltation and excitement; there is instead an illimitable intensity of participation in an eternal ecstasy which is founded on the eternal Existence and therefore on a beatific tranquillity of eternal peace. Peace and ecstasy cease to be different and become one. The Supermind, reconciling and fusing all differences as well as all contradictions, brings out this unity; a wide calm and a deep delight of all-existence are among its first steps of self-realisation, but this calm and this delight rise together, as one state, into an increasing intensity and culminate in the eternal ecstasy, the bliss that is the Infinite.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "It is an achievement to have got rid so rapidly and decisively of the shimmering mists and fogs which modern intellectualism takes for Light of Truth. The modern mind has so long and persistently wandered – and we with it – in the Valley of the False Glimmer that it is not easy for anyone to disperse its mists with the sunlight of clear vision.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: ". . . it is this emptiness inward and outward that often in yoga becomes the first step towards a new consciousness.” *Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "It is true that when Matter first emerges it becomes the dominant principle; it seems to be and is within its own field the basis of all things, the constituent of all things, the end of all things: but Matter itself is found to be a result of something that is not Matter, of Energy, and this Energy cannot be something self-existent and acting in the Void, but can turn out and, when deeply scrutinised, seems likely to turn out to be the action of a secret Consciousness and Being: when the spiritual knowledge and experience emerge, this becomes a certitude, — it is seen that the creative Energy in Matter is a movement of the power of the Spirit.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "It might be said again that, even so, in Sachchidananda itself at least, above all worlds of manifestation, there could be nothing but the self-awareness of pure existence and consciousness and a pure delight of existence. Or, indeed, this triune being itself might well be only a trinity of original spiritual self-determinations of the Infinite; these too, like all determinations, would cease to exist in the ineffable Absolute. But our position is that these must be inherent truths of the supreme being; their utmost reality must be pre-existent in the Absolute even if they are ineffably other there than what they are in the spiritual mind"s highest possible experience. The Absolute is not a mystery of infinite blankness nor a supreme sum of negations; nothing can manifest that is not justified by some self-power of the original and omnipresent Reality.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: ” See God everywhere and be not frightened by masks. Believe that all falsehood is truth in the making or truth in the breaking, all failure an effectuality concealed, all weakness strength hiding itself from its own vision, all pain a secret & violent ecstasy. If thou believest firmly & unweariedly, in the end thou wilt see & experience the All-true, Almighty & All-blissful.” Essays Divine and Human*
::: Sri Aurobindo: "Spiritual force has its own concreteness; it can take a form (like a stream, for instance) of which one is aware and can send it quite concretely on whatever object one chooses. This is a statement of fact about the power inherent in spiritual consciousness. But there is also such a thing as a willed use of any subtle force — it may be spiritual, mental or vital — to secure a particular result at some point in the world. Just as there are waves of unseen physical forces (cosmic waves etc.) or currents of electricity, so there are mind-waves, thought-currents, waves of emotion, — for example, anger, sorrow, etc., — which go out and affect others without their knowing whence they come or that they come at all, they only feel the result. One who has the occult or inner senses awake can feel them coming and invading him.” Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: ". . . the divine Ananda, the principle of Bliss [is that] from which, in the Vedic conception, the existence of Man, this mental being, is drawn. A secret Delight is the base of existence, its sustaining atmosphere and almost its substance. This Ananda is spoken of in the Taittiriya Upanishad as the ethereal atmosphere of bliss without which nothing could remain in being. In the Aitareya Upanishad Soma, as the lunar deity, is born from the sense-mind in the universal Purusha and, when man is produced, expresses himself again as sense-mentality in the human being. For delight is the raison d"être of sensation, or, we may say, sensation is an attempt to translate the secret delight of existence into the terms of physical consciousness.” The Secret of the Veda
Sri Aurobindo: "The Divinity in man dwells veiled in his spiritual centre; there can be no such thing as self-exceeding for man or a higher issue for his existence if there is not in him the reality of an eternal Self and Spirit.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "The duality is a position taken up, a double status accepted for the operations of the self-manifestation of the being; but there is no eternal and fundamental separateness and dualism of Being and its Consciousness-Force, of the Soul and Nature.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "The faith in the divine Shakti must be always at the back of our strength and when she becomes manifest, it must be or grow implicit and complete. There is nothing that is impossible to her who is the conscious Power and universal Goddess all-creative from eternity and armed with the Spirit"s omnipotence.” The Life Divine
*Sri Aurobindo: "The Indian explanation of fate is Karma. We ourselves are our own fate through our actions, but the fate created by us binds us; for what we have sown, we must reap in this life or another. Still we are creating our fate for the future even while undergoing old fate from the past in the present. That gives a meaning to our will and action and does not, as European critics wrongly believe, constitute a rigid and sterilising fatalism. But again, our will and action can often annul or modify even the past Karma, it is only certain strong effects, called utkata karma, that are non-modifiable. Here too the achievement of the spiritual consciousness and life is supposed to annul or give the power to annul Karma. For we enter into union with the Will Divine, cosmic or transcendent, which can annul what it had sanctioned for certain conditions, new-create what it had created, the narrow fixed lines disappear, there is a more plastic freedom and wideness. Neither Karma nor Astrology therefore points to a rigid and for ever immutable fate.” Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "There are some who often or almost invariably have the contact whenever they worship, the Deity may become living to them in the picture or other image they worship, may move and act through it; others may feel him always present, outwardly, subtle-physically, abiding with them where they live or in the very room, but sometimes this is only for a period. Or they may feel the Presence with them, see it frequently in a body (but not materially except sometimes), feel its touch or embrace, converse with it constantly — that is also a kind of milana. The greatest milana is one in which one is constantly aware of the Deity abiding in oneself, in everything in the world, holding all the world in him, identical with existence and yet supremely beyond the world — but in the world too one sees, hears, feels nothing but him, so that the very senses bear witness to him alone — . . . .” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "There is no necessity in the essential nature of mind, sense, life that they should be so limited: for the physical sense-organs are not the creators of sense-perceptions, but themselves the creation, the instruments and here a necessary convenience of the cosmic sense; the nervous system and vital organs are not the creators of life"s action and reaction, but themselves the creation, the instruments and here a necessary convenience of the cosmic Life-force; the brain is not the creator of thought, but itself the creation, the instrument and here a necessary convenience of the cosmic Mind. The necessity then is not absolute, but teleological; it is the result of a divine cosmic Will in the material universe which intends to posit here a physical relation between sense and its object, establishes here a material formula and law of Conscious-Force and creates by it physical images of Conscious-Being to serve as the initial, dominating and determining fact of the world in which we live. It is not a fundamental law of being, but a constructive principle necessitated by the intention of the Spirit to evolve in a world of Matter.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "This truth of Karma has been always recognised in the East in one form or else in another; but to the Buddhists belongs the credit of having given to it the clearest and fullest universal enunciation and the most insistent importance. In the West too the idea has constantly recurred, but in external, in fragmentary glimpses, as the recognition of a pragmatic truth of experience, and mostly as an ordered ethical law or fatality set over against the self-will and strength of man: but it was clouded over by other ideas inconsistent with any reign of law, vague ideas of some superior caprice or of some divine jealousy, — that was a notion of the Greeks, — a blind Fate or inscrutable Necessity, Ananke, or, later, the mysterious ways of an arbitrary, though no doubt an all-wise Providence.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga *Ananke"s.
Sri Aurobindo: "We have distinguished a fourfold principle of divine Being creative of the universe, — Existence, Conscious-Force, Bliss and Supermind.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "We mean by the Absolute something greater than ourselves, greater than the cosmos which we live in, the supreme reality of that transcendent Being which we call God, something without which all that we see or are conscious of as existing, could not have been, could not for a moment remain in existence. Indian thought calls it Brahman, European thought the Absolute because it is a self-existent which is absolved of all bondage to relativities . . . The Absolute is for us the Ineffable.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "What the "void" feels as a clutch is felt by the Mother only as a reminding finger laid on her cheek. It is one advantage of the expression ‘as if" that it leaves the field open for such variation. It is intended to suggest without saying it that behind the sombre void is the face of a mother. The two other ‘as if"s have the same motive and I do not find them jarring upon me. The second is at a sufficient distance from the first and it is not obtrusive enough to prejudice the third which more nearly follows. . . .” Letters on Savitri
Sri Aurobindo: "Yet all the time the universal forces are pouring into him without his knowing it. He is aware only of thoughts, feelings, etc., that rise to the surface and these he takes for his own. Really they come from outside in mind waves, vital waves, waves of feeling and sensation, etc., which take particular form in him and rise to the surface after they have got inside. But they do not get into his body at once. He carries about with him an environmental consciousness (called by the Theosophists the Aura) into which they first enter. If you can become conscious of this environmental self of yours, then you can catch the thought, passion, suggestion or force of illness and prevent it from entering into you. If things in you are thrown out, they often do not go altogether but take refuge in this environmental atmosphere and from there they try to get in again. Or they go to a distance outside but linger on the outskirts or even perhaps far off, waiting till they get an opportunity to attempt entrance.” *Letters on Yoga
taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; carefully observant.
Temporary possession of people by vital beings who sometimes pretend to be departed relatives, etc.
the act of hearing or attending; the state of hearing, or of being able to hear.
::: "The ancient Vedanta presents us with . . . the conception and experience of Brahman as the one universal and essential fact and of the nature of Brahman as Sachchidananda [Existence, Consciousness, Bliss]. In this view the essence of all life is the movement of a universal and immortal existence, the essence of all sensation and emotion is the play of a universal and self-existent delight in being, the essence of all thought and perception is the radiation of a universal and all-pervading truth, the essence of all activity is the progression of a universal and self-effecting good.” The Life Divine
The Apsaras then are the divine Hetairae of Paradise, beautiful singers and actresses whose beauty and art relieve the arduous and world-long struggle of the Gods against the forces that tend towards disruption by the Titans who would restore Matter to its original atomic condition or of dissolution by the sages and hermits who would make phenomena dissolve prematurely into the One who is above phenomena. They rose from the Ocean, says Valmiki, seeking who should choose them as brides, but neither the Gods nor the Titans accepted them, therefore are they said to be common or universal. The Harmony of Virtue
"The Avatar does not come as a thaumaturgic magician, but as the divine leader of humanity and the exemplar of a divine humanity. Even human sorrow and physical suffering he must assume and use so as to show, first, how that suffering may be a means of redemption, — as did Christ, — secondly, to show how, having been assumed by the divine soul in the human nature, it can also be overcome in the same nature, — as did Buddha. The rationalist who would have cried to Christ, ‘If thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross," or points out sagely that the Avatar was not divine because he died and died too by disease, — as a dog dieth, — knows not what he is saying: for he has missed the root of the whole matter. Even, the Avatar of sorrow and suffering must come before there can be the Avatar of divine joy; the human limitation must be assumed in order to show how it can be overcome; and the way and the extent of the overcoming, whether internal only or external also, depends upon the stage of the human advance; it must not be done by a non-human miracle.” Essays on the Gita
"The call, once decisive, stands; the thing that has been born cannot eventually be stifled. Even if the force of circumstances prevents a regular pursuit or a full practical self-consecration from the first, still the mind has taken its bent and persists and returns with an ever-increasing effect upon its leading preoccupation. There is an ineluctable persistence of the inner being, and against it circumstances are in the end powerless, and no weakness in the nature can for long be an obstacle.” The Synthesis of Yoga
". . . the cosmic Force, masked as a material Energy, hides from our view by its insistent materiality of process the occult fact that the working of the Inconscient is really the expression of a vast universal Life, a veiled universal Mind, a hooded Gnosis, and without these origins of itself it could have no power of action, no organising coherence.” The Life Divine
::: "The Divine and no other is the flame of life that sustains the physical body of living creatures and turns its food into sustenance of their vital force.” Essays on the Gita
"The Divine Grace is something not calculable, not bound by anything the intellect can fix as a condition, — though ordinarily some call, aspiration, intensity of the psychic being can awaken it, yet it acts sometimes without any apparent cause even of that kind.” Letters on Yoga*
"The Divine Grace is there ready to act at every moment, but it manifests as one grows out of the Law of Ignorance into the Law of Light, and it is meant, not as an arbitrary caprice, however miraculous often its intervention, but as a help in that growth and a Light that leads and eventually delivers.” Letters on Yoga
"The Divine is a Being and not an abstract existence or a status of pure timeless infinity; . . . .” The Synthesis of Yoga
"The Divine is that from which all comes, in which all lives, and to return to the truth of the Divine now clouded over by Ignorance is the soul"s aim in life. In its supreme Truth, the Divine is absolute and infinite peace, consciousness, existence, power and Ananda.” Letters on Yoga
"The Divine is transcendent Being and Spirit, all bliss and light and divine knowledge and power, and towards that highest divine existence and its Light we have to rise and bring down the reality of it more and more into our consciousness and life.” Letters on Yoga ::: *Divine"s.
"The elementary state of material Force is, in the view of the old Indian physicists, a condition of pure material extension in Space of which the peculiar property is vibration typified to us by the phenomenon of sound. But vibration in this state of ether is not sufficient to create forms. There must first be some obstruction in the flow of the Force ocean, some contraction and expansion, some interplay of vibrations, some impinging of force upon force so as to create a beginning of fixed relations and mutual effects. Material Force modifying its first ethereal status assumes a second, called in the old language the aerial, of which the special property is contact between force and force, contact that is the basis of all material relations. Still we have not as yet real forms but only varying forces. A sustaining principle is needed. This is provided by a third self-modification of the primitive Force of which the principle of light, electricity, fire and heat is for us the characteristic manifestation. Even then, we can have forms of force preserving their own character and peculiar action, but not stable forms of Matter. A fourth state characterised by diffusion and a first medium of permanent attractions and repulsions, termed picturesquely water or the liquid state, and a fifth of cohesion, termed earth or the solid state, complete the necessary elements.” The Life Divine*
"The freedom of the Gita is that of the freeman, the true freedom of the birth into the higher nature, self-existent in its divinity. Whatever he does and however he lives, the free soul lives in the Divine; he is the privileged child of the mansion, bâlavat, who cannot err or fall because all he is and does is full of the Perfect, the All-blissful, the All-loving, the All-beautiful. The kingdom which he enjoys, râjyam samrddham, is a sweet and happy dominion of which it may be said, in the pregnant phrase of the Greek thinker, ``The kingdom is of the child."" Essays on the Gita
"The gnosis is the effective principle of the Spirit, a highest dynamis of the spiritual existence.” *The Life Divine
::: "The greater the destruction, the freer the chances of creation; but the destruction is often long, slow and oppressive, the creation tardy in its coming or interrupted in its triumph. The night returns again and again and the day lingers or seems even to have been a false dawning. Despair not therefore, but watch and work. Those who hope violently, despair swiftly: neither hope nor fear, but be sure of God"s purpose and thy will to accomplish.” *Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"The ideation of the gnosis is radiating light-stuff of the consciousness of the eternal Existence; each ray is a truth. The will in the gnosis is a conscious force of eternal knowledge; it throws the consciousness and substance of being into infallible forms of truth-power, forms that embody the idea and make it faultlessly effective, and it works out each truth-power and each truth-form spontaneously and rightly according to its nature. Because it carries this creative force of the divine Idea, the Sun, the lord and symbol of the gnosis, is described in the Veda as the Light which is the father of all things, Surya Savitri, the Wisdom-Luminous who is the bringer-out into manifest existence.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
"The message of the Gita is the gospel of the Divinity in man who by force of an increasing union unfolds himself out of the veil of the lower Nature, reveals to the human soul his cosmic spirit, reveals his absolute transcendences, reveals himself in man and in all beings. The potential outcome here of this union, this divine Yoga, man growing towards the Godhead, the Godhead manifest in the human soul and to the inner human vision, is our liberation from limited ego and our elevation to the higher nature of a divine humanity.” Essays on the Gita ::: *Divinity"s.
The Mother: "And this Vibration (which I feel and see) gives the feeling of a fire. That"s probably what the Vedic Rishis translated as the "Flame” – in the human consciousness, in man, in Matter. They always spoke of a "Flame.” It is indeed a vibration with the intensity of a higher fire. Mother"s Agenda 25 March 1964.
"The one original transcendent Shakti, the Mother stands above all the worlds and bears in her eternal consciousness the Supreme Divine. Alone, she harbours the absolute Power and the ineffable Presence; containing or calling the Truths that have to be manifested, she brings them down from the Mystery in which they were hidden into the light of her infinite consciousness and gives them a form of force in her omnipotent power and her boundless life and a body in the universe.” The Mother
the power or faculty of hearing or listening.
"There is no such thing as death, for it is the body that dies and the body is not the man. That which really is, cannot go out of existence, though it may change the forms through which it appears, just as that which is non-existent cannot come into being. The soul is and cannot cease to be. This opposition of is and is not, this balance of being and becoming which is the mind"s view of existence, finds its end in the realisation of the soul as the one imperishable self by whom all this universe has been extended. Finite bodies have an end, but that which possesses and uses the body, is infinite, illimitable, eternal, indestructible. It casts away old and takes up new bodies as a man changes worn-out raiment for new; and what is there in this to grieve at and recoil and shrink? This is not born, nor does it die, nor is it a thing that comes into being once and passing away will never come into being again. It is unborn, ancient, sempiternal; it is not slain with the slaying of the body. Who can slay the immortal spirit? Weapons cannot cleave it, nor the fire burn, nor do the waters drench it, nor the wind dry. Eternally stable, immobile, all-pervading, it is for ever and for ever. Not manifested like the body, but greater than all manifestation, not to be analysed by the thought, but greater than all mind, not capable of change and modification like the life and its organs and their objects, but beyond the changes of mind and life and body, it is yet the Reality which all these strive to figure.” Essays on the Gita
These notes were written apropos of Bergson"s ‘philosophy of change", ‘you" would refer to a proponent of this philosophy.
"The vital is the. . . being behind the Force of Life; in its outer form in the Ignorance it generates the desire-soul which governs most men and which they mistake often for the real soul. ::: The vital as the desire-soul and desire-nature controls the consciousness to a large extent in most men, because men are governed by desire.” Letters on Yoga
"This Divine may lead us often through darkness, because the darkness is there in us and around us, but it is to the Light he is leading and not to anything else.” Letters on Yoga*
"This eternity is not of Time; the eternity of Time is an extension in movement of the Timeless.” Essays Divine and Human
"This Godhead is one in all things that are, the self who lives in all and the self in whom all live and move; therefore man has to discover his spiritual unity with all creatures, to see all in the self and the self in all beings, even to see all things and creatures as himself, âtmaupamyena sarvatra, and accordingly think, feel and act in all his mind, will and living. This Godhead is the origin of all that is here or elsewhere and by his Nature he has become all these innumerable existences, abhût sarvâni bhûtâni; therefore man has to see and adore the One in all things animate and inanimate, to worship the manifestation in sun and star and flower, in man and every living creature, in the forms and forces, qualities and powers of Nature, vâsudevah sarvam iti.” Essays on the Gita ::: *godhead, godheads, godhead"s.
"This universal aesthesis of beauty and delight does not ignore or fail to understand the differences and oppositions, the gradations, the harmony and disharmony obvious to the ordinary consciousness; but, first of all, it draws a Rasa from them and with that comes the enjoyment, Bhoga. and the touch or the mass of the Ananda. It sees that all things have their meaning, their value, their deeper or total significance which the mind does not see, for the mind is only concerned with a surface vision, surface contacts and its own surface reactions. When something expresses perfectly what it was meant to express, the completeness brings with it a sense of harmony, a sense of artistic perfection; it gives even to what is discordant a place in a system of cosmic concordances and the discords become part of a vast harmony, and wherever there is harmony, there is a sense of beauty. ” Letters on Savitri*
Thought-images of themselves projected, often by people at the moment of death, which appear at that time or a few hours afterwards to their friends or relatives.
"To me, for instance, consciousness is the very stuff of existence and I can feel it everywhere enveloping and penetrating the stone as much as man or the animal. A movement, a flow of consciousness is not to me an image but a fact. If I wrote "His anger climbed against me in a stream", it would be to the general reader a mere image, not something that was felt by me in a sensible experience; yet I would only be describing in exact terms what actually happened once, a stream of anger, a sensible and violent current of it rising up from downstairs and rushing upon me as I sat in the veranda of the Guest-House, the truth of it being confirmed afterwards by the confession of the person who had the movement. This is only one instance, but all that is spiritual or psychological in Savitri is of that character. What is to be done under these circumstances? The mystical poet can only describe what he has felt, seen in himself or others or in the world just as he has felt or seen it or experienced through exact vision, close contact or identity and leave it to the general reader to understand or not understand or misunderstand according to his capacity. A new kind of poetry demands a new mentality in the recipient as well as in the writer.” Letters on Savitri
v. **1. Focused attention, thought, etc., on (something). adj. 2. Directed or drawn toward a common center; focussed. concentrating.**
"Vamana, the Dwarf, in Hindu mythology, one of the ten incarnations of Vishnu, born as a son of Kashyapa and Aditi. The titan King Bali had by his austerities acquired dominion of all the three worlds. To remedy this, Vishnu came to him in the form of a dwarf and begged of him as much land as he could step over in three paces. Bali complied. In two strides the dwarf covered heaven and earth, and with the third step, on Bali"s head, pushed him down to Patala, the infernal regions.” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
"We are not the body, but the body is still something of ourselves. With realisation the erroneous identification ceases — in certain experiences the existence of the body is not felt at all. In the full realisation the body is within us, not we in it, it is an instrumental formation in our wider being, — our consciousness exceeds but also pervades it, — it can be dissolved without our ceasing to be the self.” Letters on Yoga
"When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up the whole nature part by part and deals with it, rejecting what has to be rejected, sublimating what has to be sublimated, creating what has to be created. It integrates, harmonises, establishes a new rhythm in the nature. It can bring down too a higher and yet higher force and range of the higher nature until, if that be the aim of the sadhana, it becomes possible to bring down the supramental force and existence. All this is prepared, assisted, farthered by the work of the psychic being in the heart centre; the more it is open, in front, active, the quicker, safer, easier the working of the Force can be. The more love and bhakti and surrender grow in the heart, the more rapid and perfect becomes the evolution of the sadhana. For the descent and transformation imply at the same time an increasing contact and union with the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
without plan or intent; accidentally.
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1:From one thing, know ten thousand things. ~ Miyamoto Musashi, #KEYS
2:One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
~ Euripides,#KEYS
3:A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new. ~ Marshall McLuhan, #KEYS
4:To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate. ~ Heraclitus, #KEYS
5:morning tea
among yellow flowers
until the ten o'clock bell
~ Kobayashi Issa,#KEYS
6:I have of ten admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers. ~ Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, i #KEYS
7:A thousand days of training to develop, ten thousand days of training to polish. You must examine all this well. ~ Miyamoto Musashi, #KEYS
8:If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones. ~ Hazrat Umar ibn Khattab, #KEYS
9:this is the best season of your life. ~ "Ten Thousand Flowers in Spring" by Wu-Men, The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, #KEYS
10:To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things. ~ Dogen Zenji, #KEYS
11:Respond, don't react. Listen, don't talk. Think, don't assume." ~ Raji Lukkoor, author of "Inner Pilgrimage: Ten Days to a Mindful Me,", (2011)., #KEYS
12:Keep your heart clear and transparent, and you will never be bound. A single disturbed thought creates ten thousand distractions." ~ Taigu Ryokan, #KEYS
13:Pride is only one form of ego—there are ten thousand others. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Ego and Its Forms, #KEYS
14:Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold. ~ Nichiren, #KEYS
15:Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall, and the Self watches their return. ~ Lao Tzu, #KEYS
16:Wisdom streng theneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in a city. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ecclesiastes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
17:He who knows ten should only teach nine." ~ Far Eastern Saying. From: "The Essential Rene Guenon: Metaphysics, Tradition, and the Crisis of Modernity,", (2009), p.272., #KEYS
18:When we are alone, we must act with the same sincerity as if ten eyes observed and ten fingers pointed to us ~ Ta-hio, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
19:All that can be learned by going through the whole of the Gita, can be as well accomplished by repeating "Gita" ten times. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
20:To question too much is not good. It is difficult to properly assimilate even one thought. Now why should you trouble your mind by harbouring ten thoughts? ~ Sri Sarada Devi, #KEYS
21:A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied he is content. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #KEYS
22:morning tea
among yellow flowers
until the ten o'clock bell
~ Kobayashi Issa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
23:There are at least ten thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Each being has his own unique connection with god. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
24:My dear, is it true that your mind is sometimes like a battering ram running all through the city, shouting so madly inside and out about the ten thousand things that do not matter? ~ Hafiz, #KEYS
25:I (…) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. ~ Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See, #KEYS
26:The days of our years are three score years and ten, and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow. ~ Psalms XC. 10, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
27:When I return upon myself and find the heart upright, although my adversaries may be a thousand or ten thousand, I would march without fear on the enemy. ~ Meng-Tse, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
28:At times because of one man's evil, ten thousand people suffer. So you kill that one man to let the tens of thousands live. Here, truly, the blade that deals death becomes the sword that saves lives. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo, #KEYS
29:I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance." ~ Guru Nanak, (1469 - 1539), the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus, Wikipedia., #KEYS
30:Ten high virtues: benevolence; spiritual life; intelligence; renunciation; perseverance; energy; patience; truthfulness; love for others; equality of soul. ~ Sangiti Sutta, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
31:Concerning women who commit fornication, and destroy that which they have conceived, or who are employed in making drugs for abortion . . . we have ordained that they fulfill ten years of penance. ~ Council of Ancyra (AD 314)., #KEYS
32:Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. ~ Terry Pratchett, Mort,#KEYS
33:Spend one year and give up your ten largest, most impactful and ten most common vices to God, likely new ones would be aquired. but if any new movements arise they must pass by God first. If they pass then they can be admitted. ~ JB, #KEYS
34:The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.
~ Robert Heinlein, Ira Johnson in To Sail Beyond the Sunset.,#KEYS
35:One Thread Only
One thread, one thread only!
Warp and woof, quill and shuttle,
countless cloths and colors,
a thousand hanks and skeins with ten thousand names
ten thousand places.
But there is one thread only.
~ Bulleh Shah,#KEYS
36:Lord Naoshige said, The Way of the Samurai is in desperateness. Ten men or more cannot kill such a man. Common sense will not accomplish such things. Simply become insane and desperate.
~ HAGAKURE: THE BOOK OF THE SAMURAI, YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO, 1650 1720,#KEYS
37:In every moment you are creating your life with the thoughts you give primary 'attention' to." ~ Will Bowen, author of "A Complaint Free World: How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted", (2007), ten million copies sold in 106 countries., #KEYS
38:A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook. ~ H P Lovecraft, #KEYS
39:He who has made the Buddha his refuge
Cannot be killed by ten million demons;
Though he transgress his vows or be tormented in mind,
It is certain that he will go beyond rebirth.
~ Patrul Rinpoche, The Words of My Perfect Teacher, Sutra of the Heart of the Sun,#KEYS
40:Out of every one-hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one -- one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back. ~ Heraclitus, #KEYS
41:Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out." ~ Taigu Ryokan, #KEYS
42:Ten knots of bondage; the illusion of personality; doubt; belief in the efficacy of rites and religious practices; sensuality; ill will; desire of a future life in the world of form; desire of a future life in the world of the formless; pride; unquietness; ignorance. ~ Narada Sutra, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
43:Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames. ~ C S Lewis, #KEYS
44:The number 11, according to Crowley, is "the general Number of Magick, or Energy tending towards Change". The change is precisely the transition from one dimension to another signalized by the changing colors of the Shining Ones as they pass through the gateway of death to reappear in another dimension. The death of Osiris symbolizes the change. Furthermore eleven denotes the One behind the Ten. ~ Kenneth Grant, Outer Gateways, #KEYS
45:That man who is without darkness, exempt from evil, absolutely pure, although-of all things which are in the world of the ten regions since unbeginning time till today, he knows none, has seen none, has heard of none, has not in a word any knowledge of them however small, yet has he the high knowledge of omniscience. It is in speaking of him that one can use the word enlightenment. ~ Sutra in 40 articles, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
46:IN THE entire ten quarters of the Buddha land
There is only one vehicle.
When we see clearly, there is no difference in all the teachings.
What is there to lose? What is there to gain?
If we gain something, it was there from the beginning.
If we lose anything, it is hidden nearby.
Look at the ball in the sleeve of my robe.
Surely it has great value.
[ The first sentence of this poem quotes a famous line from the Lotus Sutra.] ~ Taigu Ryokan,#KEYS
47:Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money. ~ George Carlin, #KEYS
48:Mr. Venkatakrishnayya, a lawyer-devotee, visited Sri Bhagavan ten years before and asked Him what he should do to improve himself.
Sri Bhagavan told him to perform Gayatri Japa. The young man went away satisfied. When he returned after some years, he asked:
D.: If I meditate on the meaning of the Gayatri mantra, my mind again wanders. What is to be done?
M.: Were you told to meditate on the mantra or its meaning? You must think of the one who repeats the mantra. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks, 606,#KEYS
49:There are who do not study or who, though they study, make no progress; let them not be discouraged. There are who put no questions or, when they do, cannot seize well the sense of the reply; let them not be discouraged. There are who can distinguish nothing or only confusedly; let them not be discouraged. There are who do not practice or have no solidity in their practice; let them not be discouraged. What another would do in one step, they will do in a hundred; what another would do in ten, they will do in a thousand. Assuredly, any man who follows this rule, however poorly enlightened he may be, will acquire intelligence and, however weak he may be, will acquire strength. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
50:We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
~ R Buckminster Fuller,#KEYS
51:What we are desperately in need of today is for the individual to wake up in himself and realize that it is not necessary for him to be part of anything he does not approve of. It is not necessary for him to compromise. He may be penalized if he does not. If he does not follow the general way, he may be subject to certain criticism and discomfort, but he has to decide for himself whether these penalties are more important than character. He must decide whether it is better to get along with other people for a few years than it is to learn to get along with himself for the full duration of life. He must decide whether he wishes to make this compromise and be fashionable for a few years, and pay for it perhaps with ten years of lingering misery at the end of his life. He has to decide where his values are. ~ Manly P Hall, Accepting the Challenge of Maturity 1965, p. 13, #KEYS
52:Part 3 - Return
12. Refusal of the Return:When the hero-quest has been accomplished, through penetration to the source, or through the grace of some male or female, human or animal, personification, the adventurer still must return with his life-transmuting trophy. The full round, the norm of the monomyth, requires that the hero shall now begin the labor of bringing the runes of wisdom, the Golden Fleece, or his sleeping princess, back into the kingdom of humanity, where the boon may redound to the renewing of the community, the nation, the planet or the ten thousand worlds. But the responsibility has been frequently refused. Even Gautama Buddha, after his triumph, doubted whether the message of realization could be communicated, and saints are reported to have died while in the supernal ecstasy. Numerous indeed are the heroes fabled to have taken up residence forever in the blessed isle of the unaging Goddess of Immortal Being. ~ Joseph Campbell,#KEYS
53:Are remembrance and memory the same thing?
Not necessarily. Memory is a mental phenomenon, purely mental. Remembrance can be a phenomenon of consciousness. One can remember in all the domains of one's being: one can remember vitally, one can remember physically, one can remember psychically, one can remember mentally also. But memory is a purely mental phenomenon. Memory can, first of all, be deformed and it can also be effaced, one can forget. The phenomenon of consciousness is very precise; if you can take the consciousness back to the state in which it was, things come back exactly as they were. It is as though you relived the same mo- ment. You can relive it once, twice, ten times, a hundred times, but you relive a phenomenon of consciousness. It is very different from the memory of a fact which you inscribe somewhere in your brain. And if the cerebral associations are disturbed in the least (for there are many things in your brain and it is a very delicate instrument), if there is the slightest disturbance, your memory goes out of order. And then holes are formed and you forget. On the other hand, if you know how to bring back a particular state of consciousness in you, it comes back exactly the same as it was. Now, a remembrance can also be purely mental and it may be a continuation of cerebral activities, but that is mental remembrance. And you have remembrances in feeling, remembrances in sensation.... ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 290-291,#KEYS
54:During the stage of sadhana one should describe God by all His attributes. One day Hazra said to Narendra: 'God is Infinity. Infinite is His splendour. Do you think He will accept your offerings of sweets and bananas or listen to your music? This is a mistaken notion of yours.' Narendra at once sank ten fathoms. So I said to Hazra, 'You villain! Where will these youngsters be if you talk to them like that?' How can a man live if he gives up devotion? No doubt God has infinite splendour; yet He is under the control of His devotees. A rich man's gate-keeper comes to the parlour where his master is seated with his friends. He stands on one side of the room. In his hand he has something covered with a cloth. He is very hesitant. The master asks him, 'Well, gate-keeper, what have you in your hand?' Very hesitantly the servant takes out a custard-apple from under the cover, places it in front of his master, and says, 'Sir, it is my desire that you should eat this.' The Master is impressed by his servant's devotion. With great love he takes the fruit in his hand and says: 'Ah! This is a very nice custard-apple. Where did you pick it? You must have taken a great deal of trouble to get it.'
"God is under the control of His devotees. King Duryodhana was very attentive to Krishna and said to Him, 'Please have your meal here.' But the Lord went to Vidura's hut. He is very fond of His devotees. He ate Vidura's simple rice and greens as if they were celestial food. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
55:The Quest
A part, immutable, unseen,
Being, before itself had been,
Became. Like dew a triple queen
Shone as the void uncovered:
The silence of deep height was drawn
A veil across the silver dawn
On holy wings that hovered.
The music of three thoughts became
The beauty, that is one white flame,
The justice that surpasses shame,
The victory, the splendour,
The sacred fountain that is whirled
From depths beyond that older world
A new world to engender.
The kingdom is extended. Night
Dwells, and I contemplate the sight
That is not seeing, but the light
That secretly is kindled,
Though oft-time its most holy fire
Lacks oil, whene'er my own Desire
Before desire has dwindled.
I see the thin web binding me
With thirteen cords of unity
Toward the calm centre of the sea.
(O thou supernal mother!)
The triple light my path divides
To twain and fifty sudden sides
Each perfect as each other.
Now backwards, inwards still my mind
Must track the intangible and blind,
And seeking, shall securely find
Hidden in secret places
Fresh feasts for every soul that strives,
New life for many mystic lives,
And strange new forms and faces.
My mind still searches, and attains
By many days and many pains
To That which Is and Was and reigns
Shadowed in four and ten;
And loses self in sacred lands,
And cries and quickens, and understands
Beyond the first Amen.
~ Aleister Crowley,#KEYS
56:The Song Of View, Practice, And Action :::
Oh, my Guru! The Exemplar of the View, Practice, and Action,
Pray vouchsafe me your grace, and enable me
To be absorbed in the realm of Self-nature!
For the View, Practice, Action, and Accomplishment
There are three Key-points you should know:
All the manifestation, the Universe itself, is contained in the mind;
The nature of Mind is the realm of illumination
Which can neither be conceived nor touched.
These are the Key-points of the View.
Errant thoughts are liberated in the Dharmakaya;
The awareness, the illumination, is always blissful;
Meditate in a manner of non-doing and non-effort.
These are the Key-points of Practice.
In the action of naturalness
The Ten Virtues spontaneously grow;
All the Ten Vices are thus purified.
By corrections or remedies
The Illuminating Void is ne'er disturbed.
These are the Key-points of Action.
There is no Nivana to attain beyond;
There is no Samsara here to renounce;
Truly to know the Self-mind
It is to be the Buddha Himself.
These are the Key-points of Accomplishment.
Reduce inwardly the Three Key-points to One.
This One is the Void Nature of Being,
Which only a wondrous Guru
Can clearly illustrate.
Much activity is of no avail;
If one sees the Simultaneously Born Wisdom,
He reaches the goal.
For all practioners of Dharma
The preaching is a precious gem;
It is my direct experience from yogic meditation.
Think carefully and bear it in your minds,
Oh, my children and disciples. ~ Jetsun Milarepa,#KEYS
57:There is a story I would like to tell you about a woman who practices the invocation of the Buddha Amitabha's name. She is very tough, and she practices the invocation three times daily, using a wooden drum and a bell, reciting, "Namo Amitabha Buddha" for one hour each time. When she arrives at one thousand times, she invites the bell to sound. (In Vietnamese, we don't say "strike" or "hit" a bell.) Although she has been doing this for ten years, her personality has not changed. She is still quite mean, shouting at people all the time.
A friend wanted to teach her a lesson, so one afternoon when she had just lit the incense, invited the bell to sound three times, and was beginning to recite "Namo Amitabha Buddha," he came to her door, and said, "Mrs. Nguyen, Mrs. Nguyen!" She found it very annoying because this was her time of practice, but he just stood at the front gate shouting her name. She said to herself, "I have to struggle against my anger, so I will ignore that," and she went on, "Namo Amitabha Buddha, Namo Amitabha Buddha."
The gentleman continued to shout her name, and her anger became more and more oppressive. She struggled against it, wondering, "Should I stop my recitation and go and give him a piece of my mind?" But she continued chanting, and she struggled very hard. Fire mounted in her, but she still tried to chant "Namo Amitabha Buddha." The gentleman knew it, and he continued to shout, "Mrs. Nguyen! Mrs. Nguyen!"
She could not bear it any longer. She threw away the bell and the drum. She slammed the door, went out to the gate and said, "Why, why do you behave like that? Why do you call my name hundreds of times like that?" The gentleman smiled at her and said, "I just called your name for ten minutes, and you are so angry. You have been calling the Buddha's name for ten years. Think how angry he must be! ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,#KEYS
58:Sri Aurobindo tells us that surrender is the first and absolute condition for doing the yoga. Therefore it is not merely one of the required qualities, it is the very first indispensable attitude for commencing the yoga.
If you are not decided to make a total surrender, you cannot begin. But to make your surrender total, all the other qualities are necessary: sincerity, faith, devotion and aspiration.
And I add another one : endurance. Because if you are not able to face difficulties without getting discouraged, without giving up under the pretext that it is too difficult, if you are not able to receive blows and continue all the same, to "pocket" them, as it is said,—you receive blows because of your defects : you put them into your pocket and continue to march on without faltering; if you cannot do that with endurance, you will not go very far; at the first turning, when you lose sight of the little habitual life, you despair and give up the game.
The most material form of endurance is perseverance. Unless you are resolved to begin the same thing over again a thousand times if needed, you will arrive nowhere.
People come to me in despair : "But I thought it had been done, and I have to begin again !" And if they are told, "But it is nothing, you have to begin probably a hundred times, two hundred times, a thousand times", they lose all courage.
You take one step forward and you believe you are solid, but there will be always something that will bring about the same difficulty a little farther ahead.
You believe you have solved the problem, but will have to solve it again, it will present itself with just a little difference in its appearance, but it will be the same problem.
Thus there are people who have a fine experience and they exclaim, "Now, it is done !" Then things settle down, begin to fade, go behind a veil, and all on a sudden, something quite unexpected, a thing absolutely commonplace, that appears to be of no interest at all, comes before them and closes up the road. Then you lament: "Of what use is this progress that I have made, if I am to begin again !
Why is it so? I made an effort, I succeeded, I arrived at something and now it is as if I had done nothing. It is hopeless". This is because there is still the "I" and this "I" has no endurance.
If you have endurance, you say : "All right, I will begin again and again as long as necessary, a thousand times, ten thousand times, a million times, if necessary, but I will go to the end and nothing can stop me on the way".
That is very necessary.
Now, to sum up, we will put at the head of our list surrender. That is to say, we accept the fact that one must, in order to do the integral yoga, take the resolution of surrendering oneself wholly to the Divine. There is no other way, it is the way. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
59:Apotheosis ::: One of the most powerful and beloved of the Bodhisattvas of the Mahayana Buddhism of Tibet, China, and Japan is the Lotus Bearer, Avalokiteshvara, "The Lord Looking Down in Pity," so called because he regards with compassion all sentient creatures suffering the evils of existence. To him goes the millionfold repeated prayer of the prayer wheels and temple gongs of Tibet: Om mani padme hum, "The jewel is in the lotus." To him go perhaps more prayers per minute than to any single divinity known to man; for when, during his final life on earth as a human being, he shattered for himself the bounds of the last threshold (which moment opened to him the timelessness of the void beyond the frustrating mirage-enigmas of the named and bounded cosmos), he paused: he made a vow that before entering the void he would bring all creatures without exception to enlightenment; and since then he has permeated the whole texture of existence with the divine grace of his assisting presence, so that the least prayer addressed to him, throughout the vast spiritual empire of the Buddha, is graciously heard. Under differing forms he traverses the ten thousand worlds, and appears in the hour of need and prayer. He reveals himself in human form with two arms, in superhuman forms with four arms, or with six, or twelve, or a thousand, and he holds in one of his left hands the lotus of the world.
Like the Buddha himself, this godlike being is a pattern of the divine state to which the human hero attains who has gone beyond the last terrors of ignorance. "When the envelopment of consciousness has been annihilated, then he becomes free of all fear, beyond the reach of change." This is the release potential within us all, and which anyone can attain-through herohood; for, as we read: "All things are Buddha-things"; or again (and this is the other way of making the same statement) : "All beings are without self."
The world is filled and illumined by, but does not hold, the Bodhisattva ("he whose being is enlightenment"); rather, it is he who holds the world, the lotus. Pain and pleasure do not enclose him, he encloses them-and with profound repose. And since he is what all of us may be, his presence, his image, the mere naming of him, helps. "He wears a garland of eight thousand rays, in which is seen fully reflected a state of perfect beauty.
The color of his body is purple gold. His palms have the mixed color of five hundred lotuses, while each finger tip has eighty-four thousand signet-marks, and each mark eighty-four thousand colors; each color has eighty-four thousand rays which are soft and mild and shine over all things that exist. With these jewel hands he draws and embraces all beings. The halo surrounding his head is studded with five hundred Buddhas, miraculously transformed, each attended by five hundred Bodhisattvas, who are attended, in turn, by numberless gods. And when he puts his feet down to the ground, the flowers of diamonds and jewels that are scattered cover everything in all directions. The color of his face is gold. While in his towering crown of gems stands a Buddha, two hundred and fifty miles high." - Amitayur-Dhyana Sutra, 19; ibid., pp. 182-183. ~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Apotheosis,#KEYS
60:DHARANA
NOW that we have learnt to observe the mind, so that we know how it works to some extent, and have begun to understand the elements of control, we may try the result of gathering together all the powers of the mind, and attempting to focus them on a single point.
We know that it is fairly easy for the ordinary educated mind to think without much distraction on a subject in which it is much interested. We have the popular phrase, "revolving a thing in the mind"; and as long as the subject is sufficiently complex, as long as thoughts pass freely, there is no great difficulty. So long as a gyroscope is in motion, it remains motionless relatively to its support, and even resists attempts to distract it; when it stops it falls from that position. If the earth ceased to spin round the sun, it would at once fall into the sun. The moment then that the student takes a simple subject - or rather a simple object - and imagines it or visualizes it, he will find that it is not so much his creature as he supposed. Other thoughts will invade the mind, so that the object is altogether forgotten, perhaps for whole minutes at a time; and at other times the object itself will begin to play all sorts of tricks.
Suppose you have chosen a white cross. It will move its bar up and down, elongate the bar, turn the bar oblique, get its arms unequal, turn upside down, grow branches, get a crack around it or a figure upon it, change its shape altogether like an Amoeba, change its size and distance as a whole, change the degree of its illumination, and at the same time change its colour. It will get splotchy and blotchy, grow patterns, rise, fall, twist and turn; clouds will pass over its face. There is no conceivable change of which it is incapable. Not to mention its total disappearance, and replacement by something altogether different!
Any one to whom this experience does not occur need not imagine that he is meditating. It shows merely that he is incapable of concentrating his mind in the very smallest degree. Perhaps a student may go for several days before discovering that he is not meditating. When he does, the obstinacy of the object will infuriate him; and it is only now that his real troubles will begin, only now that Will comes really into play, only now that his manhood is tested. If it were not for the Will-development which he got in the conquest of Asana, he would probably give up. As it is, the mere physical agony which he underwent is the veriest trifle compared with the horrible tedium of Dharana.
For the first week it may seem rather amusing, and you may even imagine you are progressing; but as the practice teaches you what you are doing, you will apparently get worse and worse. Please understand that in doing this practice you are supposed to be seated in Asana, and to have note-book and pencil by your side, and a watch in front of you. You are not to practise at first for more than ten minutes at a time, so as to avoid risk of overtiring the brain. In fact you will probably find that the whole of your willpower is not equal to keeping to a subject at all for so long as three minutes, or even apparently concentrating on it for so long as three seconds, or three-fifths of one second. By "keeping to it at all" is meant the mere attempt to keep to it. The mind becomes so fatigued, and the object so incredibly loathsome, that it is useless to continue for the time being. In Frater P.'s record we find that after daily practice for six months, meditations of four minutes and less are still being recorded.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,#KEYS
61:Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]
1. Homer - Iliad, Odyssey
2. The Old Testament
3. Aeschylus - Tragedies
4. Sophocles - Tragedies
5. Herodotus - Histories
6. Euripides - Tragedies
7. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War
8. Hippocrates - Medical Writings
9. Aristophanes - Comedies
10. Plato - Dialogues
11. Aristotle - Works
12. Epicurus - Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus
13. Euclid - Elements
14.Archimedes - Works
15. Apollonius of Perga - Conic Sections
16. Cicero - Works
17. Lucretius - On the Nature of Things
18. Virgil - Works
19. Horace - Works
20. Livy - History of Rome
21. Ovid - Works
22. Plutarch - Parallel Lives; Moralia
23. Tacitus - Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania
24. Nicomachus of Gerasa - Introduction to Arithmetic
25. Epictetus - Discourses; Encheiridion
26. Ptolemy - Almagest
27. Lucian - Works
28. Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
29. Galen - On the Natural Faculties
30. The New Testament
31. Plotinus - The Enneads
32. St. Augustine - On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine
33. The Song of Roland
34. The Nibelungenlied
35. The Saga of Burnt Njal
36. St. Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica
37. Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy
38. Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
39. Leonardo da Vinci - Notebooks
40. Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
41. Desiderius Erasmus - The Praise of Folly
42. Nicolaus Copernicus - On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
43. Thomas More - Utopia
44. Martin Luther - Table Talk; Three Treatises
45. François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
46. John Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion
47. Michel de Montaigne - Essays
48. William Gilbert - On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
49. Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote
50. Edmund Spenser - Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
51. Francis Bacon - Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis
52. William Shakespeare - Poetry and Plays
53. Galileo Galilei - Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
54. Johannes Kepler - Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World
55. William Harvey - On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals
56. Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
57. René Descartes - Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy
58. John Milton - Works
59. Molière - Comedies
60. Blaise Pascal - The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises
61. Christiaan Huygens - Treatise on Light
62. Benedict de Spinoza - Ethics
63. John Locke - Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding;Thoughts Concerning Education
64. Jean Baptiste Racine - Tragedies
65. Isaac Newton - Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics
66. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding;Monadology
67.Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
68. Jonathan Swift - A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal
69. William Congreve - The Way of the World
70. George Berkeley - Principles of Human Knowledge
71. Alexander Pope - Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man
72. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu - Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws
73. Voltaire - Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary
74. Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
75. Samuel Johnson - The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets
~ Mortimer J Adler,#KEYS
62:Depression, unless one has a strong will, suggests, "This is not worth while, one may have to wait a lifetime." As for enthusiasm, it expects to see the vital transformed overnight: "I am not going to have any difficulty henceforth, I am going to advance rapidly on the path of yoga, I am going to gain the divine consciousness without any difficulty." There are some other difficulties.... One needs a little time, much perseverance. So the vital, after a few hours - perhaps a few days, perhaps a few months - says to itself: "We haven't gone very far with our enthusiasm, has anything been really done? Doesn't this movement leave us just where we were, perhaps worse than we were, a little troubled, a little disturbed? Things are no longer what they were, they are not yet what they ought to be. It is very tiresome, what I am doing." And then, if one pushes a little more, here's this gentleman saying, "Ah, no! I have had enough of it, leave me alone. I don't want to move, I shall stay in my corner, I won't trouble you, but don't bother me!" And so one has not gone very much farther than before.
This is one of the big obstacles which must be carefully avoided. As soon as there is the least sign of discontentment, of annoyance, the vital must be spoken to in this way, "My friend, you are going to keep calm, you are going to do what you are asked to do, otherwise you will have to deal with me." And to the other, the enthusiast who says, "Everything must be done now, immediately", your reply is, "Calm yourself a little, your energy is excellent, but it must not be spent in five minutes. We shall need it for a long time, keep it carefully and, as it is wanted, I shall call upon your goodwill. You will show that you are full of goodwill, you will obey, you won't grumble, you will not protest, you will not revolt, you will say 'yes, yes', you will make a little sacrifice when asked, you will say 'yes' wholeheartedly."
So we get started on the path. But the road is very long. Many things happen on the way. Suddenly one thinks one has overcome an obstacle; I say "thinks", because though one has overcome it, it is not totally overcome. I am going to take a very obvious instance, of a very simple observation. Someone has found that his vital is uncontrollable and uncontrolled, that it gets furious for nothing and about nothing. He starts working to teach it not to get carried away, not to flare up, to remain calm and bear the shocks of life without reacting violently. If one does this cheerfully, it goes quite quickly. (Note this well, it is very important: when you have to deal with your vital take care to remain cheerful, otherwise you will get into trouble.) One remains cheerful, that is, when one sees the fury rise, one begins to laugh. Instead of being depressed and saying, "Ah! In spite of all my effort it is beginning all over again", one begins to laugh and says, "Well, well! One hasn't yet seen the end of it. Look now, aren't you ridiculous, you know quite well that you are being ridiculous! Is it worthwhile getting angry?" One gives it this lesson cheerfully. And really, after a while it doesn't get angry again, it is quiet - and one relaxes one's attention. One thinks the difficulty has been overcome, one thinks a result has at last been reached: "My vital does not trouble me any longer, it does not get angry now, everything is going fine." And the next day, one loses one's temper. It is then one must be careful, it is then one must not say, "Here we are, it's no use, I shall never achieve anything, all my efforts are futile; all this is an illusion, it is impossible." On the contrary, one must say, "I wasn't vigilant enough." One must wait long, very long, before one can say, "Ah! It is done and finished." Sometimes one must wait for years, many years....
I am not saying this to discourage you, but to give you patience and perseverance - for there is a moment when you do arrive. And note that the vital is a small part of your being - a very important part, we have said that it is the dynamism, the realising energy, it is very important; but it is only a small part. And the mind!... which goes wandering, which must be pulled back by all the strings to be kept quiet! You think this can be done overnight? And your body?... You have a weakness, a difficulty, sometimes a small chronic illness, nothing much, but still it is a nuisance, isn't it? You want to get rid of it. You make efforts, you concentrate; you work upon it, establish harmony, and you think it is finished, and then.... Take, for instance, people who have the habit of coughing; they can't control themselves or almost can't. It is not serious but it is bothersome, and there seems to be no reason why it should ever stop. Well, one tells oneself, "I am going to control this." One makes an effort - a yogic effort, not a material one - one brings down consciousness, force, and stops the cough. And one thinks, "The body has forgotten how to cough." And it is a great thing when the body has forgotten, truly one can say, "I am cured." But unfortunately it is not always true, for this goes down into the subconscient and, one day, when the balance of forces is not so well established, when the strength is not the same, it begins again. And one laments, "I believed that it was over! I had succeeded and told myself, 'It is true that spiritual power has an action upon the body, it is true that something can be done', and there! it is not true. And yet it was a small thing, and I who want to conquer immortality! How will I succeed?... For years I have been free from this small thing and here it is beginning anew!" It is then that you must be careful. You must arm yourself with an endless patience and endurance. You do a thing once, ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times if necessary, but you do it till it gets done. And not done only here and there, but everywhere and everywhere at the same time. This is the great problem one sets oneself. That is why, to those who come to tell me very light-heartedly, "I want to do yoga", I reply, "Think it over, one may do the yoga for a number of years without noticing the least result. But if you want to do it, you must persist and persist with such a will that you should be ready to do it for ten lifetimes, a hundred lifetimes if necessary, in order to succeed." I do not say it will be like that, but the attitude must be like that. Nothing must discourage you; for there are all the difficulties of ignorance of the different states of being, to which are added the endless malice and the unbounded cunning of the hostile forces in the world.... They are there, do you know why? They have been.... ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1950-1951,#KEYS
63:How to Meditate
Deep meditation is a mental procedure that utilizes the nature of the mind to systematically bring the mind to rest. If the mind is given the opportunity, it will go to rest with no effort. That is how the mind works.
Indeed, effort is opposed to the natural process of deep meditation. The mind always seeks the path of least resistance to express itself. Most of the time this is by making more and more thoughts. But it is also possible to create a situation in the mind that turns the path of least resistance into one leading to fewer and fewer thoughts. And, very soon, no thoughts at all. This is done by using a particular thought in a particular way. The thought is called a mantra.
For our practice of deep meditation, we will use the thought - I AM. This will be our mantra.
It is for the sound that we will use I AM, not for the meaning of it.
The meaning has an obvious significance in English, and I AM has a religious meaning in the English Bible as well. But we will not use I AM for the meaning - only for the sound. We can also spell it AYAM. No meaning there, is there? Only the sound. That is what we want. If your first language is not English, you may spell the sound phonetically in your own language if you wish. No matter how we spell it, it will be the same sound. The power of the sound ...I AM... is great when thought inside. But only if we use a particular procedure. Knowing this procedure is the key to successful meditation. It is very simple. So simple that we will devote many pages here to discussing how to keep it simple, because we all have a tendency to make things more complicated. Maintaining simplicity is the key to right meditation.
Here is the procedure of deep meditation: While sitting comfortably with eyes closed, we'll just relax. We will notice thoughts, streams of thoughts. That is fine. We just let them go by without minding them. After about a minute, we gently introduce the mantra, ...I AM...
We think the mantra in a repetition very easily inside. The speed of repetition may vary, and we do not mind it. We do not intone the mantra out loud. We do not deliberately locate the mantra in any particular part of the body. Whenever we realize we are not thinking the mantra inside anymore, we come back to it easily. This may happen many times in a sitting, or only once or twice. It doesn't matter. We follow this procedure of easily coming back to the mantra when we realize we are off it for the predetermined time of our meditation session. That's it.
Very simple.
Typically, the way we will find ourselves off the mantra will be in a stream of other thoughts. This is normal. The mind is a thought machine, remember? Making thoughts is what it does. But, if we are meditating, as soon as we realize we are off into a stream of thoughts, no matter how mundane or profound, we just easily go back to the mantra.
Like that. We don't make a struggle of it. The idea is not that we have to be on the mantra all the time. That is not the objective. The objective is to easily go back to it when we realize we are off it. We just favor the mantra with our attention when we notice we are not thinking it. If we are back into a stream of other thoughts five seconds later, we don't try and force the thoughts out. Thoughts are a normal part of the deep meditation process. We just ease back to the mantra again. We favor it.
Deep meditation is a going toward, not a pushing away from. We do that every single time with the mantra when we realize we are off it - just easily favoring it. It is a gentle persuasion. No struggle. No fuss. No iron willpower or mental heroics are necessary for this practice. All such efforts are away from the simplicity of deep meditation and will reduce its effectiveness.
As we do this simple process of deep meditation, we will at some point notice a change in the character of our inner experience. The mantra may become very refined and fuzzy. This is normal. It is perfectly all right to think the mantra in a very refined and fuzzy way if this is the easiest. It should always be easy - never a struggle. Other times, we may lose track of where we are for a while, having no mantra, or stream of thoughts either. This is fine too. When we realize we have been off somewhere, we just ease back to the mantra again. If we have been very settled with the mantra being barely recognizable, we can go back to that fuzzy level of it, if it is the easiest. As the mantra refines, we are riding it inward with our attention to progressively deeper levels of inner silence in the mind. So it is normal for the mantra to become very faint and fuzzy. We cannot force this to happen. It will happen naturally as our nervous system goes through its many cycles ofinner purification stimulated by deep meditation. When the mantra refines, we just go with it. And when the mantra does not refine, we just be with it at whatever level is easy. No struggle. There is no objective to attain, except to continue the simple procedure we are describing here.
When and Where to Meditate
How long and how often do we meditate? For most people, twenty minutes is the best duration for a meditation session. It is done twice per day, once before the morning meal and day's activity, and then again before the evening meal and evening's activity.
Try to avoid meditating right after eating or right before bed.
Before meal and activity is the ideal time. It will be most effective and refreshing then. Deep meditation is a preparation for activity, and our results over time will be best if we are active between our meditation sessions. Also, meditation is not a substitute for sleep. The ideal situation is a good balance between meditation, daily activity and normal sleep at night. If we do this, our inner experience will grow naturally over time, and our outer life will become enriched by our growing inner silence.
A word on how to sit in meditation: The first priority is comfort. It is not desirable to sit in a way that distracts us from the easy procedure of meditation. So sitting in a comfortable chair with back support is a good way to meditate. Later on, or if we are already familiar, there can be an advantage to sitting with legs crossed, also with back support. But always with comfort and least distraction being the priority. If, for whatever reason, crossed legs are not feasible for us, we will do just fine meditating in our comfortable chair. There will be no loss of the benefits.
Due to commitments we may have, the ideal routine of meditation sessions will not always be possible. That is okay. Do the best you can and do not stress over it. Due to circumstances beyond our control, sometimes the only time we will have to meditate will be right after a meal, or even later in the evening near bedtime. If meditating at these times causes a little disruption in our system, we will know it soon enough and make the necessary adjustments. The main thing is that we do our best to do two meditations every day, even if it is only a short session between our commitments. Later on, we will look at the options we have to make adjustments to address varying outer circumstances, as well as inner experiences that can come up.
Before we go on, you should try a meditation. Find a comfortable place to sit where you are not likely to be interrupted and do a short meditation, say ten minutes, and see how it goes. It is a toe in the water.
Make sure to take a couple of minutes at the end sitting easily without doing the procedure of meditation. Then open your eyes slowly. Then read on here.
As you will see, the simple procedure of deep meditation and it's resulting experiences will raise some questions. We will cover many of them here.
So, now we will move into the practical aspects of deep meditation - your own experiences and initial symptoms of the growth of your own inner silence. ~ Yogani, Deep Meditation,#KEYS
64:Chapter 18 - Trapped in a Dream
(A guy is playing a pinball machine, seemingly the same guy who rode with him in the back of the boat car. This part is played by Richard Linklater, aka, the director.)
Hey, man.
Hey.
Weren't you in a boat car? You know, the guy, the guy with the hat? He gave me a ride in his car, or boat thing, and you were in the back seat with me?
I mean, I'm not saying that you don't know what you're talking about, but I don't know what you're talking about.
No, you see, you guys let me off at this really specific spot that you gave him directions to let me off at, I get out, and end up getting hit by a car, but then, I just woke up because I was dreaming, and later than that, I found out that I was still dreaming, dreaming that I'd woken up.
Oh yeah, those are called false awakenings. I used to have those all the time.
Yeah, but I'm still in it now. I, I can't get out of it. It's been going on forever, I keep waking up, but, but I'm just waking up into another dream. I'm starting to get creeped out, too. Like I'm talking to dead people. This woman on TV's telling me about how death is this dreamtime that exists outside of life. I mean, (desperate sigh) I'm starting to think that I'm dead.
I'm gonna tell you about a dream I once had. I know that's, when someone says that, then usually you're in for a very boring next few minutes, and you might be, but it sounds like, you know, what else are you going to do, right? Anyway, I read this essay by Philip K. Dick.
What, you read it in your dream?
No, no. I read it before the dream. It was the preamble to the dream. It was about that book, um Flow My Tears the Policeman Said. You know that one?
Uh, yeah yeah, he won an award for that one.
Right, right. That's the one he wrote really fast. It just like flowed right out of him. He felt he was sort of channeling it, or something. But anyway, about four years after it was published, he was at this party, and he met this woman who had the same name as the woman character in the book. And she had a boyfriend with the same name as the boyfriend character in the book, and she was having an affair with this guy, the chief of police, and he had the same name as the chief of police in his book. So she's telling him all of this stuff from her life, and everything she's saying is right out of his book. So that's totally freaking him out, but, what can he do?
And then shortly after that, he was going to mail a letter, and he saw this kind of, um, you know, dangerous, shady looking guy standing by his car, but instead of avoiding him, which he says he would have usually done, he just walked right up to him and said, "Can I help you?" And the guy said, "Yeah. I, I ran out of gas." So he pulls out his wallet, and he hands him some money, which he says he never would have done, and then he gets home and thinks, wait a second, this guy, you know, he can't get to a gas station, he's out of gas. So he gets back in his car, he goes and finds the guy, takes him to the gas station, and as he's pulling up at the gas station, he realizes, "Hey, this is in my book too. This exact station, this exact guy. Everything."
So this whole episode is kind of creepy, right? And he's telling his priest about it, you know, describing how he wrote this book, and then four years later all these things happened to him. And as he's telling it to him, the priest says, "That's the Book of Acts. You're describing the Book of Acts." And he's like, "I've never read the Book of Acts." So he, you know, goes home and reads the Book of Acts, and it's like uncanny. Even the characters' names are the same as in the Bible. And the Book of Acts takes place in 50 A.D., when it was written, supposedly. So Philip K. Dick had this theory that time was an illusion and that we were all actually in 50 A.D., and the reason he had written this book was that he had somehow momentarily punctured through this illusion, this veil of time, and what he had seen there was what was going on in the Book of Acts.
And he was really into Gnosticism, and this idea that this demiurge, or demon, had created this illusion of time to make us forget that Christ was about to return, and the kingdom of God was about to arrive. And that we're all in 50 A.D., and there's someone trying to make us forget that God is imminent. And that's what time is. That's what all of history is. It's just this kind of continuous, you know, daydream, or distraction.
And so I read that, and I was like, well that's weird. And than that night I had a dream and there was this guy in the dream who was supposed to be a psychic. But I was skeptical. I was like, you know, he's not really a psychic, you know I'm thinking to myself. And then suddenly I start floating, like levitating, up to the ceiling. And as I almost go through the roof, I'm like, "Okay, Mr. Psychic. I believe you. You're a psychic. Put me down please." And I float down, and as my feet touch the ground, the psychic turns into this woman in a green dress. And this woman is Lady Gregory.
Now Lady Gregory was Yeats' patron, this, you know, Irish person. And though I'd never seen her image, I was just sure that this was the face of Lady Gregory. So we're walking along, and Lady Gregory turns to me and says, "Let me explain to you the nature of the universe. Now Philip K. Dick is right about time, but he's wrong that it's 50 A.D. Actually, there's only one instant, and it's right now, and it's eternity. And it's an instant in which God is posing a question, and that question is basically, 'Do you want to, you know, be one with eternity? Do you want to be in heaven?' And we're all saying, 'No thank you. Not just yet.' And so time is actually just this constant saying 'No' to God's invitation. I mean that's what time is. I mean, and it's no more 50 A.D. than it's two thousand and one. And there's just this one instant, and that's what we're always in."
And then she tells me that actually this is the narrative of everyone's life. That, you know, behind the phenomenal difference, there is but one story, and that's the story of moving from the "no" to the "yes." All of life is like, "No thank you. No thank you. No thank you." then ultimately it's, "Yes, I give in. Yes, I accept. Yes, I embrace." I mean, that's the journey. I mean, everyone gets to the "yes" in the end, right?
Right.
So we continue walking, and my dog runs over to me. And so I'm petting him, really happy to see him, you know, he's been dead for years. So I'm petting him and I realize there's this kind of gross oozing stuff coming out of his stomach. And I look over at Lady Gregory, and she sort of coughs. She's like [cough] [cough] "Oh, excuse me." And there's vomit, like dribbling down her chin, and it smells really bad. And I think, "Well, wait a second, that's not just the smell of vomit," which is, doesn't smell very good, "that's the smell of like dead person vomit." You know, so it's like doubly foul. And then I realize I'm actually in the land of the dead, and everyone around me is dead. My dog had been dead for over ten years, Lady Gregory had been dead a lot longer than that. When I finally woke up, I was like, whoa, that wasn't a dream, that was a visitation to this real place, the land of the dead.
So what happened? I mean how did you finally get out of it?
Oh man. It was just like one of those like life altering experiences. I mean I could never really look at the world the same way again, after that.
Yeah, but I mean like how did you, how did you finally get out of the dream? See, that's my problem. I'm like trapped. I keep, I keep thinking that I'm waking up, but I'm still in a dream. It seems like it's going on forever. I can't get out of it, and I want to wake up for real. How do you really wake up?
I don't know, I don't know. I'm not very good at that anymore. But, um, if that's what you're thinking, I mean you, you probably should. I mean, you know if you can wake up, you should, because you know someday, you know, you won't be able to. So just, um ... But it's easy. You know. Just, just wake up. ~ Waking Life,#KEYS
65:One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, was drawn by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone.
The descriptions, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend.
The Chapters, headed 'Fairy Sylvie' and 'Bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for 'Aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing.
It was in 1874, I believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story.
As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to me--who knows how?--with a transitory suddenness that left me no choice but either to record them then and there, or to abandon them to oblivion. Sometimes one could trace to their source these random flashes of thought--as being suggested by the book one was reading, or struck out from the 'flint' of one's own mind by the 'steel' of a friend's chance remark but they had also a way of their own, of occurring, a propos of nothing --specimens of that hopelessly illogical phenomenon, 'an effect without a cause.' Such, for example, was the last line of 'The Hunting of the Snark,' which came into my head (as I have already related in 'The Theatre' for April, 1887) quite suddenly, during a solitary walk: and such, again, have been passages which occurred in dreams, and which I cannot trace to any antecedent cause whatever. There are at least two instances of such dream-suggestions in this book--one, my Lady's remark, 'it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does', the other, Eric Lindon's badinage about having been in domestic service.
And thus it came to pass that I found myself at last in possession of a huge unwieldy mass of litterature--if the reader will kindly excuse the spelling --which only needed stringing together, upon the thread of a consecutive story, to constitute the book I hoped to write. Only! The task, at first, seemed absolutely hopeless, and gave me a far clearer idea, than I ever had before, of the meaning of the word 'chaos': and I think it must have been ten years, or more, before I had succeeded in classifying these odds-and-ends sufficiently to see what sort of a story they indicated: for the story had to grow out of the incidents, not the incidents out of the story I am telling all this, in no spirit of egoism, but because I really believe that some of my readers will be interested in these details of the 'genesis' of a book, which looks so simple and straight-forward a matter, when completed, that they might suppose it to have been written straight off, page by page, as one would write a letter, beginning at the beginning; and ending at the end.
It is, no doubt, possible to write a story in that way: and, if it be not vanity to say so, I believe that I could, myself,--if I were in the unfortunate position (for I do hold it to be a real misfortune) of being obliged to produce a given amount of fiction in a given time,--that I could 'fulfil my task,' and produce my 'tale of bricks,' as other slaves have done. One thing, at any rate, I could guarantee as to the story so produced--that it should be utterly commonplace, should contain no new ideas whatever, and should be very very weary reading!
This species of literature has received the very appropriate name of 'padding' which might fitly be defined as 'that which all can write and none can read.' That the present volume contains no such writing I dare not avow: sometimes, in order to bring a picture into its proper place, it has been necessary to eke out a page with two or three extra lines : but I can honestly say I have put in no more than I was absolutely compelled to do.
My readers may perhaps like to amuse themselves by trying to detect, in a given passage, the one piece of 'padding' it contains. While arranging the 'slips' into pages, I found that the passage was 3 lines too short. I supplied the deficiency, not by interpolating a word here and a word there, but by writing in 3 consecutive lines. Now can my readers guess which they are?
A harder puzzle if a harder be desired would be to determine, as to the Gardener's Song, in which cases (if any) the stanza was adapted to the surrounding text, and in which (if any) the text was adapted to the stanza.
Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature--at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it come's is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune. I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story--I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it--but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen storybooks have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'--is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
Hence it is that, in 'Sylvie and Bruno,' I have striven with I know not what success to strike out yet another new path: be it bad or good, it is the best I can do. It is written, not for money, and not for fame, but in the hope of supplying, for the children whom I love, some thoughts that may suit those hours of innocent merriment which are the very life of Childhood; and also in the hope of suggesting, to them and to others, some thoughts that may prove, I would fain hope, not wholly out of harmony with the graver cadences of Life.
If I have not already exhausted the patience of my readers, I would like to seize this opportunity perhaps the last I shall have of addressing so many friends at once of putting on record some ideas that have occurred to me, as to books desirable to be written--which I should much like to attempt, but may not ever have the time or power to carry through--in the hope that, if I should fail (and the years are gliding away very fast) to finish the task I have set myself, other hands may take it up.
First, a Child's Bible. The only real essentials of this would be, carefully selected passages, suitable for a child's reading, and pictures. One principle of selection, which I would adopt, would be that Religion should be put before a child as a revelation of love--no need to pain and puzzle the young mind with the history of crime and punishment. (On such a principle I should, for example, omit the history of the Flood.) The supplying of the pictures would involve no great difficulty: no new ones would be needed : hundreds of excellent pictures already exist, the copyright of which has long ago expired, and which simply need photo-zincography, or some similar process, for their successful reproduction. The book should be handy in size with a pretty attractive looking cover--in a clear legible type--and, above all, with abundance of pictures, pictures, pictures!
Secondly, a book of pieces selected from the Bible--not single texts, but passages of from 10 to 20 verses each--to be committed to memory. Such passages would be found useful, to repeat to one's self and to ponder over, on many occasions when reading is difficult, if not impossible: for instance, when lying awake at night--on a railway-journey --when taking a solitary walk-in old age, when eyesight is failing or wholly lost--and, best of all, when illness, while incapacitating us for reading or any other occupation, condemns us to lie awake through many weary silent hours: at such a time how keenly one may realise the truth of David's rapturous cry "O how sweet are thy words unto my throat: yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!"
I have said 'passages,' rather than single texts, because we have no means of recalling single texts: memory needs links, and here are none: one may have a hundred texts stored in the memory, and not be able to recall, at will, more than half-a-dozen--and those by mere chance: whereas, once get hold of any portion of a chapter that has been committed to memory, and the whole can be recovered: all hangs together.
Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages--enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.
These two books of sacred, and secular, passages for memory--will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts. Let me say this, in better words than my own, by copying a passage from that most interesting book, Robertson's Lectures on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Lecture XLIX. "If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps."
Fourthly, a "Shakespeare" for girls: that is, an edition in which everything, not suitable for the perusal of girls of (say) from 10 to 17, should be omitted. Few children under 10 would be likely to understand or enjoy the greatest of poets: and those, who have passed out of girlhood, may safely be left to read Shakespeare, in any edition, 'expurgated' or not, that they may prefer: but it seems a pity that so many children, in the intermediate stage, should be debarred from a great pleasure for want of an edition suitable to them. Neither Bowdler's, Chambers's, Brandram's, nor Cundell's 'Boudoir' Shakespeare, seems to me to meet the want: they are not sufficiently 'expurgated.' Bowdler's is the most extraordinary of all: looking through it, I am filled with a deep sense of wonder, considering what he has left in, that he should have cut anything out! Besides relentlessly erasing all that is unsuitable on the score of reverence or decency, I should be inclined to omit also all that seems too difficult, or not likely to interest young readers. The resulting book might be slightly fragmentary: but it would be a real treasure to all British maidens who have any taste for poetry.
If it be needful to apologize to any one for the new departure I have taken in this story--by introducing, along with what will, I hope, prove to be acceptable nonsense for children, some of the graver thoughts of human life--it must be to one who has learned the Art of keeping such thoughts wholly at a distance in hours of mirth and careless ease. To him such a mixture will seem, no doubt, ill-judged and repulsive. And that such an Art exists I do not dispute: with youth, good health, and sufficient money, it seems quite possible to lead, for years together, a life of unmixed gaiety--with the exception of one solemn fact, with which we are liable to be confronted at any moment, even in the midst of the most brilliant company or the most sparkling entertainment. A man may fix his own times for admitting serious thought, for attending public worship, for prayer, for reading the Bible: all such matters he can defer to that 'convenient season', which is so apt never to occur at all: but he cannot defer, for one single moment, the necessity of attending to a message, which may come before he has finished reading this page,' this night shalt thy soul be required of thee.'
The ever-present sense of this grim possibility has been, in all ages, 1 an incubus that men have striven to shake off. Few more interesting subjects of enquiry could be found, by a student of history, than the various weapons that have been used against this shadowy foe. Saddest of all must have been the thoughts of those who saw indeed an existence beyond the grave, but an existence far more terrible than annihilation--an existence as filmy, impalpable, all but invisible spectres, drifting about, through endless ages, in a world of shadows, with nothing to do, nothing to hope for, nothing to love! In the midst of the gay verses of that genial 'bon vivant' Horace, there stands one dreary word whose utter sadness goes to one's heart. It is the word 'exilium' in the well-known passage
Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium
Versatur urna serius ocius
Sors exitura et nos in aeternum
Exilium impositura cymbae.
Yes, to him this present life--spite of all its weariness and all its sorrow--was the only life worth having: all else was 'exile'! Does it not seem almost incredible that one, holding such a creed, should ever have smiled?
And many in this day, I fear, even though believing in an existence beyond the grave far more real than Horace ever dreamed of, yet regard it as a sort of 'exile' from all the joys of life, and so adopt Horace's theory, and say 'let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'
We go to entertainments, such as the theatre--I say 'we', for I also go to the play, whenever I get a chance of seeing a really good one and keep at arm's length, if possible, the thought that we may not return alive. Yet how do you know--dear friend, whose patience has carried you through this garrulous preface that it may not be your lot, when mirth is fastest and most furious, to feel the sharp pang, or the deadly faintness, which heralds the final crisis--to see, with vague wonder, anxious friends bending over you to hear their troubled whispers perhaps yourself to shape the question, with trembling lips, "Is it serious?", and to be told "Yes: the end is near" (and oh, how different all Life will look when those words are said!)--how do you know, I say, that all this may not happen to you, this night?
And dare you, knowing this, say to yourself "Well, perhaps it is an immoral play: perhaps the situations are a little too 'risky', the dialogue a little too strong, the 'business' a little too suggestive.
I don't say that conscience is quite easy: but the piece is so clever, I must see it this once! I'll begin a stricter life to-morrow." To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow!
"Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says,
'Sorrow for sin God's judgement stays!'
Against God's Spirit he lies; quite stops Mercy with insult; dares, and drops,
Like a scorch'd fly, that spins in vain
Upon the axis of its pain,
Then takes its doom, to limp and crawl,
Blind and forgot, from fall to fall."
Let me pause for a moment to say that I believe this thought, of the possibility of death--if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life--that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds'--but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man--and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
One other matter may perhaps seem to call for apology--that I should have treated with such entire want of sympathy the British passion for 'Sport', which no doubt has been in by-gone days, and is still, in some forms of it, an excellent school for hardihood and for coolness in moments of danger.
But I am not entirely without sympathy for genuine 'Sport': I can heartily admire the courage of the man who, with severe bodily toil, and at the risk of his life, hunts down some 'man-eating' tiger: and I can heartily sympathize with him when he exults in the glorious excitement of the chase and the hand-to-hand struggle with the monster brought to bay. But I can but look with deep wonder and sorrow on the hunter who, at his ease and in safety, can find pleasure in what involves, for some defenceless creature, wild terror and a death of agony: deeper, if the hunter be one who has pledged himself to preach to men the Religion of universal Love: deepest of all, if it be one of those 'tender and delicate' beings, whose very name serves as a symbol of Love--'thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women'--whose mission here is surely to help and comfort all that are in pain or sorrow!
'Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.' ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 2:The cynics are right nine times out of ten. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 3:We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 4:And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 5:All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 6:One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 7:One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 8:It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 9:To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 10:Give me one man from among ten thousand if he is the best ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 11:Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 12:Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove 13:The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 14:In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 15:Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 16:When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove 17:The player who puts the ball through the hoop has ten hands. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 18:He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 19:I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 20:Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 21:It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 22:I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 23:Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 24:Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 25:If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 26:Woman is 100% love. Man is 90% love with ten percent something to do. ~ barry-long, @wisdomtrove 27:Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 28:Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 29:I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 30:I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 31:In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 32:Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 33:One on one, even ten on ten, we are embarrassingly similar to chimpanzees. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 34:If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 35:We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 36:For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 37:When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 38:Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 39:I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour. ~ richard-pryor, @wisdomtrove 40:I’d like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I’m gonna be on for an hour. ~ richard-pryor, @wisdomtrove 41:Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 42:No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 43:A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 44:What a childhood I had - I was ten years old when I found out Alpo was dog food. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 45:Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 46:No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 47:I learned to walk when I was ten months old and I've been walking this way ever since. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 48:It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 49:Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 50:The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 51:... the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 52:Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 53:In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 54:The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 55:If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall! ~ t-harv-eker, @wisdomtrove 56:I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 57:It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 58:Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 59:Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day. ~ kin-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 60:I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 61:The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 62:One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 63:There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 64:As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 65:If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 66:It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 67:I went to a 7-11 and asked for a 2& 68:Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 69:One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 70:Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove 71:Ten strong horses could not pull an empty baby carriage if they worked independently of each other. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 72:The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 73:To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 74:Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 75:It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 76:There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 77:To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove 78:I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 79:A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 80:Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 81:The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 82:For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 83:Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 84:If more than ten per cent of the population likes a painting it should be burned for it must be bad. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove 85:I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 86:There are ten thousand planes of awareness within the infinite mind of the diamond mind, your deeper mind. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 87:If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 88:A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 89:If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 90:In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 91:How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 92:Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 93:Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 94:A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 95:Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 96:for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 97:I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 98:One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 99:Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As "Thank yous" for good things "small"-or even large-done in the last two weeks. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 100:Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 101:In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 102:You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 103:I come from a stupid family. My uncle heard that most deaths occurs within ten miles of the house... so he moved. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 104:Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible! ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 105:And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 106:Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 107:There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 108:If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove 109:I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 110:Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep. ~ norman-cousins, @wisdomtrove 111:According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 112:If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 113:You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 114:A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 115:And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 116:And one of his partners asked "Has he vertigo?" and the other glanced out and down and said "Oh no, only about ten feet more." ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 117:Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 118:Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 119:Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 120:If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 121:What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is. ~ quentin-crisp, @wisdomtrove 122:Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 123:Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 124:I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work. ~ thomas-edison, @wisdomtrove 125:Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 126:The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 127:For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 128:A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 129:As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 130:Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 131:Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 132:Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 133:We are already taking care of people from jail. Hundred and ten non-criminal women are already with us in Shantidhan (abode of peace). ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 134:As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 135:Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 136:If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 137:In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 138:The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners. ~ fred-allen, @wisdomtrove 139:A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 140:In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove 141:If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 142:No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally ‚Äì and often far more ‚Äì worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 143:Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think. ~ thomas-edison, @wisdomtrove 144:With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 145:People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 146:The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 147:Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 148:Do they allow tipping on the boat? - Yes, sir. Have you got two fives? - Oh, yes, sir. Then you won't need the ten cents I was going to give you. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 149:Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 150:They took a survey: Why do men get up in the middle of the night? Ten percent get up to go to the bathroom and 90 percent get up to go home. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 151:Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole lifetime. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 152:There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 153:I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time. ~ walt-whitman, @wisdomtrove 154:I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 155:The difficulty of explaining ‚Äòwhy I am a Catholic‚Äô is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 156:Don’t let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that’s long enough! ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 157:Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 158:Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 159:Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 160:If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 161:Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 162:Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 163:The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 164:It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 165:When God puts something in your heart and deep down you know it’s a destiny moment, don’t wait for ten confirmations. Do what God is asking you to do now. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 166:How do you pray? Take the gospel of each day and spend ten minutes with it. Read it, and read it again. Walk into the world with the gospel in your heart. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 167:I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 168:That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove 169:The two exist because of the One, But hold not even to this One; When the one Consciousness -is not disturbed, The ten thousand things offer no offence. ~ jianzhi-sengcan, @wisdomtrove 170:Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 171:There are ten thousand aspects of your mind. Your awareness has ten thousand forms. There is something else. You have to step outside of perception itself. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 172:If the eye never sleeps, all dreams will naturally cease. If the mind makes no discriminations, the ten thousand things are as they are, of single essence. ~ jianzhi-sengcan, @wisdomtrove 173:It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 174:If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 175:Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ... One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years! ~ pierre-auguste-renoir, @wisdomtrove 176:The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 177:Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God. ¶For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 178:Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 179:Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule? ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 180:Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 181:When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 182:I sometimes think if someone appealed the Ten Commandments to some of our courts, they would rule - & 183:What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 184:Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 185:In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 186:The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten thousand states of mind as a dimensional plane. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 187:I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 188:How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I'd do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 189:Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 190:To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs, however, and not even your own sun is recognizable. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 191:Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 192:Every single person in the world could be a genius at something, if they practiced it daily for at least ten years (as confirmed by the research of Anders Ericsson and others). ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 193:The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 194:Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 195:The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build. ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove 196:It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 197:It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 198:The important thing is the 80/20 rule: 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This means that if you're doing ten tasks, two are going to be vastly more important than others. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 199:My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 200:Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 201:I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 202:Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 203:There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 204:Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 205:I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 206:The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 207:AIG would be doing fine today. It was one of the ten largest companies in the United States in terms of market value, over 200 billion, the most respected insurer and everything in the world. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 208:Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 209:All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are... .Ten seconds of silence. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 210:That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 211:You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 212:I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 213:When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 214:In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 215:I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 216:Advil has a candy coating. It's delicious. Then it says on the bottle, do not have more than two. Then why do they have a candy coating? I cannot help myself. Let me have ten Advil, I have a sweet tooth. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 217:What evidence is there that cats are so smart, anyway? Huh? What do they do? Because they’re clean? I am sorry. My Uncle Pete showers four times a day and he can’t count to ten. So don’t give me hygiene. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 218:People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 219:We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 220:Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 221:Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 222:Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good. ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 223:I look for businesses in which I think I can predict what they're going to look like in ten to fifteen years time. Take Wrigley's chewing gum. I don't think the internet is going to change how people chew gum. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 224:There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 225:Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move away from me. ... And now when I tell people what I do, they move toward me. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 226:The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 227:Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove 228:Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel like actively shifting anything in your life, there is nothing that person can do to change you. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 229:Water becomes clear and transparent when in a quiescent stage. How much the more wonderful will be the mind of a sage when poised in quiescence! It is the mirror of heaven and earth, reflecting the ten thousand things. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 230:I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and… it wasn’t that important – because I never did it for the money. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 231:The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 232:And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 233:While our world is shaking and crumbling, we need to realize that one thing will never change, and that is God. He is the same today as he was ten million years ago, and will be the same ten million years from today. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 234:As musician, Nature is maestro to ten thousand bird songs, chirping crickets, howl and roar of wild beasts, buzz of insects, trumpeting of elephants, organ music of the surf& 235:It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, defend against them; if weaker, be able to avoid them. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 236:I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 237:The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have no ocular knowledge of anything within ten miles, made no reply whatever. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 238:A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 239:That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 240:We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten... . Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 241:I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 242:And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 243:Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don‚Äôt know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 244:When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 245:A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 246:Spouses should spend at least one full hour each day talking together about subjects that have nothing to do with their work or business. Children need at least ten minutes of face-to-face contact with their parents each day. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 247:If you think it makes a difference if I have ten thousand sports cars, ten million girlfriends and lead a very flashy life ... I don't think you should work with any teacher because you don't know what it is all about yet. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 248:The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 249:There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 250:Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information. Ten thousand reflections hide the true gem. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 251:Elaine: What evidence is there that cats are so smart, anyway? Huh? What do they do? Because they're clean? I am sorry. My Uncle Pete showers four times a day and he can't count to ten. So don't give me hygiene. Seinfeld TV show ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 252:If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 253:I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book ‚ something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 254:The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 255:The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to step outside the conceptual framework they have and transmitting blocks of awareness to an individual psychically. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 256:Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord; Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it? ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 257:Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 258:We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 259:There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 260:Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different places and we shift in and out of them. These are the ten thousand states of mind that we study in Zen. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 261:Break things down into small tasks that can be accomplished in an hour or less - even better would be twenty to thirty minutes, or even ten to fifteen minutes. The smaller, the better, because then we’re more likely to actually get them done. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 262:If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 263:Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet; at the same time, it has to be vigilant so as not to allow any distracting thoughts or desires to enter. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 264:Do you resolve to do the right and to love the true, depend upon it you will get no assistance from this world. Of its maxims, nine out of ten are false, and the other one selfish; and even that which is selfish has a lie at the bottom of it. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 265:Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 266:Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 267:My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 268:Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 269:The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 270:Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 271:Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 272:There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 273:I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 274:A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said: "No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 275:If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again. If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much; But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 276:It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another's words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 277:True men" ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 278:I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, & 279:I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 280:Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 281:Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite perspective of all they’ve told me. Do you think that’s crazy? No,I said, shaking my head, I’d guess your method works quite well. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 282:Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 283:No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 284:When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 285:You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you're changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you'll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you'll be dead. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 286:I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 287:The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 288:Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 289:We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 290:What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer? ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 291:Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 292:And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 293:If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 294:It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that's not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It's a gut feeling. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 295:I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove 296:Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 297:I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 298:I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning, in a place called Bostwick, Florida, in northern Florida, in a little tiny church, and on a cold night, about 40 people. And I was so nervous. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 299:Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 300:When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 301:Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter, And spite of dogmas current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!) ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 302:For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 303:I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 304:If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 305:It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 306:The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 307:Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long,- Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more; Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 308:I don't like the sound of my phone ringing so I put my phone inside my fish tank. I can't hear it, but every time I get a call I see the fish go like this <<<>>><<>><<<<. I go down to the pet store and said, "Give me another ten guppies, I got a lot of calls yesterday." ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 309:In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 310:The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 311:Cézanne would never have interested me if he had lived and thought like Jacques-Émile Blanche, even if the apple he had painted had been ten times more beautiful. What interests us is the anxiety of Cézanne, the teaching of Cézanne, the anguish of Van Gogh, in short the inner drama of the man. The rest is false. ~ pablo-picasso, @wisdomtrove 312:It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 313:Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 314:And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: & 315:At my core, there is nothing. Neither is it parched wastelands. At my core, there is love. I'll go on loving that ten-year-old boy named Tengo forever - his strength, his intelligence, his kindness. He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 316:We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 317:Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 318:Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. I implore you, send him back to his father and brothers, who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary. I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 319:This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in 20 years from now than ten years from now. The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 320:If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 321:This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now? ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 322:To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 323:So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 324:To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what’s ten years? Well, it’s roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 325:I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 326:It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 327:The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside.The result of a business is a satisfied customer. The result of a hospital is a satisfied patient. The result of a school is a student who has learned something and puts it to work ten years later. Inside an enterprise there are only costs. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 328:Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another... Ten-thirty& 329:Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice& 330:How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 331:In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices. Your goal as an investor should simply be to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily-understandable business who's earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher five, ten and twenty years from now. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 332:But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected) he hath raised up a sect of such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified with the law, but gently exerted by the preaching of the grace of Christ. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 333:I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that that one little mountain has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere of the world than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind that people are so concerned about. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 334:If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men& 335:In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 336:In executing an Artful Strategy: When ten times greater, surround them; When five times greater, attack them; When two times greater, scatter them. If the opponent is ready to challenge: When fewer in number, be ready to evade them; When unequal to the match, be ready to avoid them. Even when the smaller opponents have a strong position, the larger opponent will capture them. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 337:You know, it’s the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist, you’re not the puppet of the piano, you’re not the puppet of the muse, but you’re not its master, either. It’s a relationship, it’s a conversation, and all it wants is to be treated with respect and dignity - and it will return ten thousand times over. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 338:I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. Even if I had no talents I'd not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man's son an automobile. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 339:I'm always on the road, and I drive rental cars. Sometimes I don't know what's going on with the car, and I'll drive for ten miles with the emergency brake on. That doesn't say a lot for me, but it doesn't say a lot for the emergency brake. What kind of emergency is this? I need to not stop now. It's not really an emergency brake, it's an emergency make-the-car-smell-funny lever. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 340:Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. We knew from that moment that things can go terribly wrong in our world-not because life is unfair, or moral progress impossible, but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions of our ignorant ancestors. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 341:Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if youve got talent yourself, and youve maximized your talent, youve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 342:The most fully actualized people that I studied over ten years consistently pushed the envelope. These people consistently demanded far more of themselves every day than anyone else ever expected from them. These people raised their standards and committed themselves from their hearts to be the best they could be and to live a life of uncommon wonder. This is what self-mastery is all about. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 343:The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 344:In 1948, I began coaching basketball at UCLA. Each hour of practice we worked very hard. Each day we worked very hard. Each week we worked very hard. Each season we worked very hard. Four fourteen years we worked very hard and didn't win a national championship. However, a national championship was won in the fifteenth year. Another in the sixteenth. And eight more in the following ten years. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 345:The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. ~ swami-satchidananda-saraswati, @wisdomtrove 346:The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with the business of the city so much competition, so much rivalry, so much necessity for industry, that I think it is a perpetual, chronic, wholesale violation of natural law. There are ten men that can succeed in the country, where there is one that can succeed in the city. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 347:Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you & 348:And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me... . And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. ~ walt-whitman, @wisdomtrove 349:Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing but this& 350:You have to lay down in the center of the action lay down and wait until it charges then you must get up face it get it before it gets you the whole process is more shy than vulnerable so lay down and wait sometimes it's ten minutes sometimes it's years sometimes it never arrives but you can't rush it push it there's no way to cheat or get a jump on it you have to lay down lay down and wait like an animal . ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 351:I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 352:It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call accumulative advantage. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 353:You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 354:Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and mine are identical, and significantly different from that of a pig or horse. You may be impressed by how much human beings differ from one another, but if you were to look into the fine details of the molecules of which they are constructed, you would be astonished by their similarity. ~ francis-crick, @wisdomtrove 355:I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 356:We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 357:Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in ten enjoyed the place and said he'd come again, that was enough. If one out of ten was a repeat customer, then the business would survive. To put it another way, it didn't matter if nine out of ten didn't like my bar. This realization lifted a weight off my shoulders. Still, I had to make sure that the one person who did like the place. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 358:Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 359:Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.‚Ķ You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice? ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 360:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country... . I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this... . It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 361:The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe - that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 362:For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. "Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break! ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 363:The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most brilliant intelligence of our earliest days - Thomas Jefferson - when he said, not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise. If the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, was Secretary of State, and twice President, could give it two hours, our children can give it ten or fifteen minutes. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 364:& 365:It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 366:The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‚Äòdoing‚Äô his ‚ÄòEnglish prep‚Äô and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 367:No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 368:Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove 369:Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. And if it comes to a choice between spending yet another ten million years finding that out, and on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 370:This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance to develop their talents. We cannot say to ten percent of the population that you can't have that right; that your children cannot have the chance to develop whatever talents they have; that the only way that they are going to get their rights is to go in the street and demonstrate. I think we owe them and we owe ourselves a better country than that. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 371:The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 372:A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 373:Depression is now ten times as prevalent as it was in 1960, and it strikes at a much younger age. The mean age of a person’s first episode of depression forty years ago was 29.5, while today it is 14.5 years. This is a paradox, since every objective indicator of well-being—purchasing power, amount of education, availability of music, and nutrition—has been going north, while every indicator of subjective well-being has been going south. How is this epidemic to be explained? ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 374:The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice. Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 375:You see everything depends upon the psychological headquarters from which we live. & 376:If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side‚Äôs battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 377:Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 378:I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 379:There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 380:We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 381:When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 382:Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands. I never met him. Who? Everybody. Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting? I am. Pardon me? I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational. Not all painting. No: housepainting is representational. And what does a housepainter represent? Ten dollars an hour. In other words, you don't want to be serious - It takes two to be serious. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 383:Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was a 78 rpm of "Hound Dog" backed by "Don't Be Cruel" and when I listened to those tunes I felt about ten feet tall and I grinned so hard that I felt like the corners of my mouth would meet in the back and the tip of my head would simply topple off. All I know about Rock and Roll is that it makes people feel good. Elvis Presley more than made me feel good, he enriched my life and made it better. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 384:Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know& 385:I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 386:If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for some less - the weaker should be given more chance than the strong. In other words, a Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten. For greater help must be given to him whom nature has not endowed with an acute intellect from birth. It is a madman who carries coals to Newcastle. The poor, the downtrodden, the ignorant, let these be your God. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 387:Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 388:I will say broadly that I have more confidence in the spiritual life of the children that I have received into this church than I have in the, spiritual condition of the adults thus received. I will even go further than that, and say that I have usually found a clearer knowledge of the gospel and a warmer love of Christ in the child-converts than in the man-converts. I will even astonish you still more by saying that I have sometimes met with a deeper spiritual experience in children of ten and twelve than I have in certain persons of fifty and sixty. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 389:It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called & 390:Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 391:The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 392:You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like. A flower is all purity. Try to identify yourself with the consciousness of the flower or with the purity of the flower. Today it is imagination, but if you continue imagining for five days, or ten days, or a month or two, then you are bound to see and feel the flower within you. First you may feel it, then you are bound to see the existence of the flower, and then automatically the fragrance and the purity of the flower will enter into you to purify you. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 393:One of history’s fews iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach a point where they can’t live without it. Over the few decades, we have invented countless time saving machines that are supposed to make like more relaxed - washing machines, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, telephones, mobile phones, computers, email. We thought we were saving time; instead we revved up the treadmill of life to ten times its former speed and made our days more anxious and agitated. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 394:IF you remember every word in this book, your memory will have recorded about two million pieces of information: the order in your brain will have increased by about two million units. However, while you have been reading the book, you will have converted at least a thousand calories of ordered energy, in the form of food, into disordered energy, in the form of heat that you lose to the air around you by convection and sweat. This will increase the disorder of the universe by about twenty million million million million units - or about ten million million million times the increase in order in your brain - and that's if you remember everything in this book. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 395:If you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe it to yourself to read some other scriptures. Once again, we need look no further than the Jains: Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: & 396:TEN GUIDEPOSTS FOR WHOLEHEARTED LIVING 1. Cultivating authenticity: letting go of what people think 2. Cultivating self-compassion: letting go of perfectionism 3. Cultivating a resilient spirit: letting go of numbing and powerlessness 4. Cultivating gratitude and joy: letting go of scarcity and fear of the dark 5. Cultivating intuition and trusting faith: letting go of the need for certainty 6. Cultivating creativity: letting go of comparison 7. Cultivating play and rest: letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth 8. Cultivating calm and stillness: letting go of anxiety as a lifestyle 9. Cultivating meaningful work: letting go of self-doubt and supposed to 10. Cultivating laughter, song, and dance: letting go of being cool and always in control ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 397:If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament"& 398:Relax and steady the mind, focusing on the breath. Pick a situation in which you feel someone has wronged you. Be mindful of your reactions to this person, especially the deeper ones. Scan yourself for any ill will. Now reflect on some of the various causes—the ten thousand things—that have led this person to act in the way that he has. Consider biologically based factors affecting him, like pain, age, innate temperament, or intelligence. Consider the realities of his life: race, gender, class, job, responsibilities, daily stresses. Consider whatever you know about his childhood. Consider major events in his life as an adult. Consider his mental processes, personality, values, fears, hot buttons, hopes, and dreams. Consider his parents in light of whatever you know or can reasonably guess about them; consider, too, the factors that may have shaped their lives. Reflect on the historical events and other upstream forces that have formed the river of causes flowing through his life today. Look inside yourself again. Do you feel any differently now about him? Do you feel any differently about yourself? ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Nearly ten thousand. ~ M R Forbes, #NFDB
2:Have a quick ten years. ~ Vic James, #NFDB
3:months was ten years. ~ Fannie Flagg, #NFDB
4:ten to one ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, #NFDB
5:Balls to ten minutes. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
6:Take another ten points, ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
7:This is a five; it cost ten ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
8:played any sort of game. Ten. ~ Mary Balogh, #NFDB
9:Jesus Heals Ten Men With Leprosy ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
10:Yes, about ten minutes. ~ Duke of Wellington, #NFDB
11:He had ten hopes to your one. ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB
12:Look, ten or two hundred and ~ Dakota Cassidy, #NFDB
13:The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
14:To rise at six, to dine at ten, ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
15:corkscrew staircase squeezed ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
16:TEN I RUIN A PERFECTLY GOOD BUS ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
17:To me marriage is for five or ten years ~ Cher, #NFDB
18:call ten blondes standing ear to ear? ~ Various, #NFDB
19:Chapter Ten Three’s a Crowd ~ Anica Mrose Rissi, #NFDB
20:Grief makes one hour ten. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
21:grief makes one hour ten. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
22:Habit is ten times nature. ~ Duke of Wellington, #NFDB
23:the ten little niggers, the ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
24:at least ten writing sessions. ~ James Scott Bell, #NFDB
25:Eternity ended ten years ago. ~ Brandon Sanderson, #NFDB
26:Jesus can turn loss into glory. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
27:money shaves off a good ten years. ~ Ben Fountain, #NFDB
28:Nine Men in Ten are Suicides. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
29:Nine men in ten are suicides. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
30:Quick. Name ten dead redheads. ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
31:Ten minutes, good, past eleven. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
32:Ten times dead was very dead indeed. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
33:The infant is ten and he stays, ~ William Goldman, #NFDB
34:The infant is ten and he stays. ~ William Goldman, #NFDB
35:Fall ten times, stand up eleven. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
36:had five kids under the age of ten, ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
37:I met this girl when I was ten years old, ~ Common, #NFDB
38:In anger, you look ten years older. ~ Hedda Hopper, #NFDB
39:Intelligence is ten million rules. ~ Douglas Lenat, #NFDB
40:Now, of my threescore years and ten, ~ A E Housman, #NFDB
41:Ölür ise ten ölür, canlar ölesi değil ~ Yunus Emre, #NFDB
42:Think ten times, talk once, ~ Suzanne Woods Fisher, #NFDB
43:that means I spend the remaining ten ~ Kelly Rimmer, #NFDB
44:A book in hand is worth ten on the shelf ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
45:Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses. ~ Peter Greenaway, #NFDB
46:I didn’t fail ten thousand times. ~ Thomas A Edison, #NFDB
47:.....joy runs deeper than despair. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
48:MINUS TEN POINTS FOR PUBLIC NUDITY. ~ Charles Stross, #NFDB
49:ten-thirty in the morning, being free, ~ Mike Lupica, #NFDB
50:The first time it happened I was ten. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
51:a pint brain and a ten-gallon mouth. ~ Teresa Burrell, #NFDB
52:had watched the shoot-out. “Ten ~ William W Johnstone, #NFDB
53:Ten masts make not the altitude ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
54:ten years since he'd seen Sara, and ~ Barbara Freethy, #NFDB
55:After ten forevers Dr. Reynolds returned. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
56:Hope dies to ten thousand small cuts. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
57:I'm always at least ten minutes early. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
58:In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
59:I pissed away over ten million dollars ~ Al Jourgensen, #NFDB
60:We only have ten years to save the oceans ~ Ted Danson, #NFDB
61:anything. He could end up with seven-to-ten ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
62:I love you a ten. - Savannah to Ken ~ Suzanne Brockmann, #NFDB
63:[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
64:Not ten yards away, Cael was facing off ~ Thea Harrison, #NFDB
65:Oh God. I was ten shades of mortified. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
66:ten thousand fathoms beneath the sea. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
67:Ten watercolors were made from that star. ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB
68:The next ten minutes took ten hours. ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB
69:A lot of good love can happen in ten years. ~ Jim Carrey, #NFDB
70:butter in ten years,” Gerald added. “I ~ Catherine Bybee, #NFDB
71:Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
72:The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
73:This is Frank Carson, News at Ten, Sober. ~ Frank Carson, #NFDB
74:You're like ten prismacolors all at once. ~ Jenn Bennett, #NFDB
75:I have made love to ten thousand women. ~ Georges Simenon, #NFDB
76:I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon. ~ Rob Lowe, #NFDB
77:I've been singing since I was nine or ten. ~ Kelli O Hara, #NFDB
78:Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
79:Most speakers speak ten minutes too long. ~ James C Humes, #NFDB
80:Oh Father! Betsie! If I had known would ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
81:One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
82:Pollux turns out to be worth ten Holos. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
83:The boy, a ten-year-old copy of the man... ~ Billie Letts, #NFDB
84:The cynics are right nine times out of ten. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
85:We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
86:A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. ~ Jesse Owens, #NFDB
87:Love should make you feel ten feet tall. ~ Heather O Neill, #NFDB
88:Ten, I thought, he's definitely a ten ~ Elizabeth Chandler, #NFDB
89:That’s got to be a ten blowjob movie, at least. ~ K C Burn, #NFDB
90:Victory is ten times sweeter for the underdog. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
91:A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. ~ Jesse Owens, #NFDB
92:All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes. ~ Brian Eno, #NFDB
93:from one thing, know ten thousand things ~ Miyamoto Musashi, #NFDB
94:God has plans—not problems—for our lives. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
95:I can teach idiots to squat in ten minutes. ~ Mark Rippetoe, #NFDB
96:Koniec i bomba, a kto czytał ten trąba! ~ Witold Gombrowicz, #NFDB
97:Love is the strongest force in the world. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
98:make myself count to ten before I speak to the ~ Anne Tyler, #NFDB
99:Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
100:From one thing, know ten thousand things. ~ Miyamoto Musashi, #NFDB
101:In darkness God's truth shines most clear. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
102:I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City. ~ Vin Diesel, #NFDB
103:My brother. Aleksander…Aleks.” “When?” “Ten ~ Sloane Kennedy, #NFDB
104:old age' is always ten years more than we are. ~ Joan Rivers, #NFDB
105:One touch is worth ten thousand words. ~ Harold H Bloomfield, #NFDB
106:staring at Lane’s two-and-ten grip on the wheel ~ James Hunt, #NFDB
107:ten ancient yet supremely effective rituals ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
108:Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
109:The worst can happen, but the best remains ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
110:Tiesa visuomet gyva ten, kur gyvas tikėjimas. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
111:Working ten times as hard will make you twice as good. ~ BoA, #NFDB
112:You're ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass. ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB
113:You’re ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass. ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB
114:After about ten seconds, he inhaled and shook ~ Alice Clayton, #NFDB
115:An overnight success is ten years in the making. ~ Tom Clancy, #NFDB
116:Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood. ~ John Heywood, #NFDB
117:for anyone to get lost. After about ten minutes ~ Enid Blyton, #NFDB
118:From one thing, know ten thousand things. ~ Miyamoto Musashi, #NFDB
119:One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
120:To know ten thousand things, know one well ~ Miyamoto Musashi, #NFDB
121:about as useless as a monk with a ten-inch cock. ~ T M Frazier, #NFDB
122:Happiness. One day. Ten thousand years ago. ~ Jean Claude Izzo, #NFDB
123:My major influence was my ten years older sister. ~ Willa Ford, #NFDB
124:Your love in me is stronger than the hatred. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
125:Flattery won't get you out of owing me ten bucks. ~ Dani Harper, #NFDB
126:One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
127:Ten years on a massacre can be tough on the soul. ~ Dave Cullen, #NFDB
128:Top Ten Reasons Why the Holidays Suck I’m fat. ~ J T Geissinger, #NFDB
129:average life span was only ten and a half years. ~ John Hargrove, #NFDB
130:He silently counted to ten in French and Spanish. ~ Nora Sakavic, #NFDB
131:I've had eyes on you for ten years,” he admitted. ~ Selena Blake, #NFDB
132:No! No! I'll get the ten cups, I swear it! ~ Megan Whalen Turner, #NFDB
133:No pit is so deep that God is not deeper still ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
134:One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
~ Euripides,#NFDB
135:Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. ~ Jon Bon Jovi, #NFDB
136:Ten, kdo často vydává odměny svým vojákům, je v tísni. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
137:That man, the watchmaker! He’s a Gestapo plant ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
138:A ten-foot keeper really should have stopped that. ~ Ron Atkinson, #NFDB
139:Better ten days of love than years of regretting. ~ Robert Jordan, #NFDB
140:For each ten coins I put in, to spend but nine. ~ George S Clason, #NFDB
141:How mad?” “Scale of one to ten, I think I’m at fifty. ~ E L James, #NFDB
142:Jonas is ten and already breaking girls' hearts! ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
143:Love is larger than the walls which shut it in. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
144:Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors. ~ Peter Mullan, #NFDB
145:One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments. ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB
146:Sensible people reinvent themselves every ten years. ~ Jeff Goins, #NFDB
147:Ten tiny breaths … Seize them. Feel them. Love them. ~ K A Tucker, #NFDB
148:Ten tiny breaths... size them. Feel them. Love them. ~ K A Tucker, #NFDB
149:Ten years is a pretty good run for anything. ~ Babatunde Adebimpe, #NFDB
150:Cuidado, ten siempre en mente pensamientos alegres. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
151:It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
152:I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life. ~ Jon Lech Johansen, #NFDB
153:love is larger than the walls that shut it in. M ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
154:On the road, I weigh 168. At home, ten more. ~ Justin Townes Earle, #NFDB
155:Ten cuidado con lo que deseas. Podrías conseguirlo. ~ Rani Manicka, #NFDB
156:Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
157:Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips. ~ Jack LaLanne, #NFDB
158:Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
159:A good model can advance fashion by ten years. ~ Yves Saint Laurent, #NFDB
160:And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog. ~ Connie Brockway, #NFDB
161:Better to have one woman on your side than ten men. ~ Robert Jordan, #NFDB
162:Coach like the coach you want to be ten years from now. ~ Don Meyer, #NFDB
163:Don't think of 60 as ten years older than 50. ~ John Walter Bratton, #NFDB
164:...he's about as entertaining as ten pounds of asphalt. ~ Tim Tharp, #NFDB
165:I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
166:I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day. ~ Thelonious Monk, #NFDB
167:Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
168:Jedna byla zlodějka knih.
Ten druhý kradl oblohu. ~ Markus Zusak,#NFDB
169:Montana Promise A McCutcheon Family Novel Book Ten ~ Caroline Fyffe, #NFDB
170:That beauty has a bitch streak as wide as ten rivers. ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB
171:The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever. ~ Paris Hilton, #NFDB
172:There are ten commandments, I've only broken three. ~ Courtney Love, #NFDB
173:The time to begin most things is ten years ago. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
174:Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids. ~ Mink Stole, #NFDB
175:Every good work should have at least ten meanings. ~ Walter De Maria, #NFDB
176:For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies. ~ Laurence Sterne, #NFDB
177:How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces! ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
178:I need ten thousand angels to walk me out the door. ~ Mindy McCready, #NFDB
179:I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
180:Joseph Williams, Style: Ten lessons in clarity and grace ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
181:people who were working that day, the ten-of-twelve. ~ John Sandford, #NFDB
182:Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict? ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
183:To feed ten mouths, she had to call on Mr. Welfare. ~ Big Daddy Kane, #NFDB
184:Watching us, our father seemed to age another ten years. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
185:yeah, I forgot, you’re a Mudblood, Granger, so ten for ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
186:Eat ten of your five a day and live twice as long ~ Benny Bellamacina, #NFDB
187:I bet you can't eat ten bananas!" "I bet you're right. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
188:I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do. ~ Nicholas II of Russia, #NFDB
189:I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
190:Why do I feel ten feet tall when I make her laugh? ~ E L James, #NFDB
191:On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven. ~ Sammy Davis Jr, #NFDB
192:To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate. ~ Heraclitus, #NFDB
193:You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump? ~ Johnny Knoxville, #NFDB
194:Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research. ~ Chet Atkins, #NFDB
195:I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years. ~ Jeanne Tripplehorn, #NFDB
196:To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate. ~ Heraclitus, #NFDB
197:Zapamiętajcie ten dzień, bo on jest początkiem wieczności. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
198:Every ten years there is a new generation of actors. ~ Barbet Schroeder, #NFDB
199:He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
200:Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. ~ Ten Bears, #NFDB
201:I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten. ~ Olivia Wilde, #NFDB
202:I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums. ~ Ice T, #NFDB
203:Kur pinigai, ten įprastos elgesio normos gali ilsėtis. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
204:palisade, built around the entire camp. Ten miles, he ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
205:Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
206:ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head ~ Euripides, #NFDB
207:Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
208:We sat by deathbeds that became doorways of heaven. W ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
209:You need at least eight or nine men in a ten-man wall. ~ Mark Lawrenson, #NFDB
210:Come up with ten ideas you can write newsletters about. ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
211:For the past ten years I have had no financial problems. ~ Gyorgy Ligeti, #NFDB
212:Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
213:I bet you can't eat ten bananas!"
"I bet you're right. ~ Sarah Dessen,#NFDB
214:If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
215:If you’re listening to this, you know that I’m dead. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
216:In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one. ~ Napol on Bonaparte, #NFDB
217:Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
218:On the Richter scale of bad ideas, this had to be a ten. ~ Robert Harris, #NFDB
219:Ten en Cuenta que la gente cambia, pero el pasado no ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
220:Ten thousand years ago, the state-of-the-art was a goat. ~ Cory Doctorow, #NFDB
221:The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
222:There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
223:There would have been ten squad cars there in a thin minute. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
224:Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
225:We all want to be a ten on the Mohs scale. But we’re not. ~ Anyta Sunday, #NFDB
226:We were ten, we didn't know what happened after you died. ~ Angie Thomas, #NFDB
227:What the hell was that for?"
The other ten percent. ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
228:When I try, I fail.
When I trust,
He succeeds. ~ Corrie ten Boom,#NFDB
229:A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
230:An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of afterthought— ~ Jack Vance, #NFDB
231:I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments. ~ John P Marquand, #NFDB
232:In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
233:Let's try to find ten good things to say about Albert Belle: ~ Bill James, #NFDB
234:Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
235:One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
236:She must talk to a man who was ten immensities away. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
237:Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
238:«Ten muy presente que tu enfoque determina tu realidad». ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
239:Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again. ~ A E Housman, #NFDB
240:We break down and rebuild ourselves every seven to ten years. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
241:When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten. ~ Moliere, #NFDB
242:... where there's one there's ten.'
That's crazy math. ~ Emma Donoghue,#NFDB
243:Willem didn’t try to change people, just to serve them. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
244:An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought. ~ Jack Vance, #NFDB
245:Ben is ten and he’s dead. But he’s not gone. Not for me. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
246:Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad. ~ Henry Kissinger, #NFDB
247:Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
248:He’d shot a 136—a full ten strokes better than Conner. ~ William Bernhardt, #NFDB
249:love of money is the root of all evils.’ Timothy, six-ten. ~ John Sandford, #NFDB
250:Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
251:nine times out of ten, romance is a problem, not a solution. ~ Chuck Hogan, #NFDB
252:ten-year-old Buick. I don’t have a license; I don’t even ~ Suzanne Jenkins, #NFDB
253:Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better. ~ Lucy Liu, #NFDB
254:The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. ~ Helen Hayes, #NFDB
255:The woman never used one word when she could torment ten. ~ Karen Maitland, #NFDB
256:What a childhood I had - I was ten years old when I ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
257:What do you call ten blondes standing ear to ear? A wind tunnel. ~ Various, #NFDB
258:What the he'll was that for?"
"The other ten percent. ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
259:I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record. ~ Conway Twitty, #NFDB
260:I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough. ~ David Bailey, #NFDB
261:Professional Wizard Incinerates Amateur Vampire. News at ten. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
262:quitting. But now, only ten days out, I was done. I wanted ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
263:The eyes of a woman in the face of a ten-year-old girl. ~ Tatiana de Rosnay, #NFDB
264:You know how I know you're a fighter? You called a ten a nine. ~ John Green, #NFDB
265:zoomable from a hundred miles per yard clown to about ten. ~ Richard Powers, #NFDB
266:but mammals have at their disposal ten times the resources, they ~ Nick Lane, #NFDB
267:but philosophy at half-past ten at night is somewhat late; ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
268:cases quite large fortresses, containing ten or more sub-bunkers ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
269:For one look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. ~ Robert Murray M Cheyne, #NFDB
270:Gazzy: "Just Ten?" Angel: "No." Gazzy: "Five?" Angel: "No. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
271:Give me one man
from among ten thousand
if he is the best ~ Heraclitus,#NFDB
272:He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
273:I am ten different kinds of badass now!
[Alucard Hellsing] ~ Kohta Hirano,#NFDB
274:I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand. ~ Kevin Gates, #NFDB
275:like a ten-speed bike,most of us have gears we don't use. ~ Charles M Schulz, #NFDB
276:Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
277:One eye of the masters sees more, then ten of the servants. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
278:She needed a nap already, and it was not yet ten o’clock. ~ Sylvia Brownrigg, #NFDB
279:the desert afternoon. It was a hundred and ten degrees, easy, ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
280:There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on. ~ Martha Gellhorn, #NFDB
281:When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
282:An overnight success usually takes about ten years. — Anonymous ~ Dan Millman, #NFDB
283:"Can you be happy right now? Not tomorrow, not in ten minutes?" ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
284:Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west. ~ Paul Bowles, #NFDB
285:For every good art critic there may be ten great artists. ~ Clement Greenberg, #NFDB
286:God hates a half-devil ten times more than an arch-devil! ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
287:I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long. ~ Mitch Hedberg, #NFDB
288:I’m insane for you, Amy. ‘Like’ lasted all of ten minutes. ~ Lisa Renee Jones, #NFDB
289:Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. ~ Landon Donovan, #NFDB
290:What feeds the soul matters as much as what feeds the body. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
291:you learn ten times more in a crisis than during normal times. ~ Geoff Colvin, #NFDB
292:A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
293:And in the meantime, I have to save the world and be home by ten. ~ Sarah Fine, #NFDB
294:Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
295:...For every ten jokes - thou hast got an hundred enemies... ~ Laurence Sterne, #NFDB
296:Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'. ~ William James, #NFDB
297:I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland. And ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
298:I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. ~ James Gould Cozzens, #NFDB
299:I'd rather have ten soldiers to guard than a single scholar. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
300:if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
301:I think appreciating Dickens goes with ten thousand in the bank. ~ Herman Wouk, #NFDB
302:It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
303:Just breathe. Ten tiny breaths. Seize them. Feel them. Love them. ~ K A Tucker, #NFDB
304:My horse went lame about ten days back and I turned him loose. ~ John Flanagan, #NFDB
305:No. I wouldn’t screw Duke with someone else’s ten foot pole. ~ Debra Anastasia, #NFDB
306:«Ten cuidado con lo que pides, Zampa, porque puede que te lo den». ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
307:Ten thousand years as Intercontinental Champion, Oooooh yeeeah! ~ Randy Savage, #NFDB
308:There is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
309:Upon your feet you have ten toes, they look just like PO-TA-TOES! ~ Jeff Smith, #NFDB
310:Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain. ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
311:Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over. ~ Steve Wozniak, #NFDB
312:I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas. ~ Demosthenes, #NFDB
313:I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
314:Just breathe. Ten tiny breaths … Seize them. Feel them. Love them. ~ K A Tucker, #NFDB
315:One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?"-Massie Block ~ Lisi Harrison, #NFDB
316:People expect too much of one year and too little of ten. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
317:Show me a ten-foot wall and I'll show you an eleven-foot ladder ~ Peter Bevelin, #NFDB
318:South Korea now has five of the world’s ten biggest churches. ~ Nancy R Pearcey, #NFDB
319:There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
320:There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
321:We hire five, work them like ten, and pay them like eight.”31 ~ James C Collins, #NFDB
322:All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth. ~ Graham Norton, #NFDB
323:Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousands truths ~ Alexander Pushkin, #NFDB
324:Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths. ~ Alexander Pushkin, #NFDB
325:cheatin' a colored man is ten times worse than cheatin' a white man ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
326:Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
327:If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
328:I'm always two inches too short and ten pounds too heavy. Figures. ~ Lyra Parish, #NFDB
329:It's like ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife. ~ Alanis Morissette, #NFDB
330:It was not unusual for him to read ten hours a day,” said Kimbal. ~ Ashlee Vance, #NFDB
331:Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
332:One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
333:Problems are like toilet paper. You pull on one and ten more come. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
334:Roses are red, violets are blue, they got ten, we only got two. ~ Gerry Cheevers, #NFDB
335:Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired. ~ Mae West, #NFDB
336:Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge. ~ Klemens von Metternich, #NFDB
337:What feeds the soul matters as much as what feeds the body. In ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
338:Give me one man
from among ten thousands,
if he be the best. ~ Heraclitus,#NFDB
339:If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late. ~ Vince Lombardi, #NFDB
340:I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it. ~ Tamora Pierce, #NFDB
341:It was only ten-thirty and it was already a craptastic day. ~ Denise Grover Swank, #NFDB
342:Ten, kdo nabízí mír, aniž by si kladl jakýchkoli podmínek, chystá lest. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
343:Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Five. Four. Three. Two. One! ~ Rachel Ren e Russell, #NFDB
344:Time is so fast that even ten years later is already a past! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
345:What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
346:A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it. ~ Nadeem Aslam, #NFDB
347:Coached by a rowing legend, eighty-two-year-old Jim Ten Eyck— ~ Daniel James Brown, #NFDB
348:crowded with buckboards, saddle horses and men. It was ten o’clock ~ Louis L Amour, #NFDB
349:If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand. ~ Paul Strand, #NFDB
350:I've watched snails climb over
ten foot walls and
vanish. ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
351:Nine out of ten children get their awesomeness from their mother. ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
352:Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt. ~ Sammy Davis Jr, #NFDB
353:There will be a ten percent surcharge for resisting arrest, ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
354:The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion. ~ John Adams, #NFDB
355:To receive one thing with gratitude is to give ten things in return. ~ Sri Chinmoy, #NFDB
356:A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new. ~ Marshall McLuhan, #NFDB
357:causing a refugee crisis rated at ten thousand katrinas. One ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB
358:Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. ~ Jan Masaryk, #NFDB
359:Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
360:I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week. ~ Theodore Sturgeon, #NFDB
361:In ten years I will become president of the United States Of America. ~ Tom DeLonge, #NFDB
362:It had been ten years since she’d called me a butt. We were overdue. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
363:It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw. ~ Andrew Loomis, #NFDB
364:I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home. ~ Andrew Eldritch, #NFDB
365:Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
366:Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
367:None of the Ten Commandments concern what humans must do “for” God; ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
368:One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
369:Ten la naturaleza de un derviche; entonces usa con un gorro elegante. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
370:You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books. ~ Sai Baba, #NFDB
371:A girl needs her beauty rest; all ten to twelve to fourteen hours of it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
372:Apparently alcohol increases charm and courage by at least ten points. ~ John Corwin, #NFDB
373:A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new. ~ Marshall McLuhan, #NFDB
374:Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers. ~ Tom Lehrer, #NFDB
375:But the film is a saddening bore, 'cause I wrote it ten times or more. ~ David Bowie, #NFDB
376:Cath couldn't stop thinking about Levi and his ten thousand smiles. ~ Rainbow Rowell, #NFDB
377:Humans, as a concept, were not among my ten favorite things in the world. ~ L J Shen, #NFDB
378:I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men. ~ Dwight L Moody, #NFDB
379:If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration. ~ Carmen Agra Deedy, #NFDB
380:I taught the Constitution for ten years, I believe in the Constitution. ~ Trey Gowdy, #NFDB
381:Kto nie dotknął ziemi ni razu,
Ten nigdy nie może być w niebie. ~ Adam Mickiewicz,#NFDB
382:Million-to-one chances,’ she said, ‘crop up nine times out of ten. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
383:Million-to-one chances,” she said, “crop up nine times out of ten. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
384:Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things. ~ Patricia C Wrede, #NFDB
385:People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life. ~ Isadora Duncan, #NFDB
386:Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten. ~ William Bernbach, #NFDB
387:Surely there is no more wretched sight than the human body unloved ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
388:ten dumb years I wanted things to be different furious proud I still feel it ~ Ikkyu, #NFDB
389:The average American consumes ten pounds of chemical additives a year. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
390:There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them. ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB
391:The ten thousand things rise and fall while the self watches their return. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
392:This morning I was ten years old. Tonight I am older than the stars. ~ Kathryn Lasky, #NFDB
393:A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch ~ James Howe, #NFDB
394:And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
395:Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. ~ J Robert Oppenheimer, #NFDB
396:A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message. ~ Drew Barrymore, #NFDB
397:Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them. ~ Philip Neri, #NFDB
398:If you think you can kiss her, you probably could have ten minutes ago. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
399:I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night. ~ Bill Hicks, #NFDB
400:In return for ten minutes of pleasure they design the rest of the day. ~ Edmund White, #NFDB
401:It was ten o’clock. Their quarters were filled with counterfeit sleep. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
402:I will make myself count to ten before I speak to the children in anger, ~ Anne Tyler, #NFDB
403:Kto nie doznał goryczy ni razu,
Ten nie dozna słodyczy w niebie. ~ Adam Mickiewicz,#NFDB
404:Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace. ~ Michio Kaku, #NFDB
405:My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure. ~ Alfred Tennyson,#NFDB
406:Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here. ~ Lenny Kravitz, #NFDB
407:People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
408:Providence makes use of instruments I'd not touch with a ten-foot pole. ~ Owen Wister, #NFDB
409:Rick, I’ll tell you what - ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet? ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
410:sen·ten·tious adj. given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner: ~ Erin McKean, #NFDB
411:Technology will have moved on to an unimaginable level in ten years. ~ Martin Sorrell, #NFDB
412:Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity. ~ Leonard Ravenhill, #NFDB
413:Tým chcem povedať, že som ten najnepraktickejší človek pod slnkom. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
414:We were ten feet away when we triggered the First Law of Percy Jackson ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
415:When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
416:And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
417:And Ten?” He turned at the door. “Yes?” “I’ll take the two grand in cash. ~ Lexi Blake, #NFDB
418:Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary. ~ Bonnie Jo Campbell, #NFDB
419:Every minute spent in planning saves ten to twelve minutes in execution. ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
420:Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate. ~ Louis XIV, #NFDB
421:frankly speaking, you look like ten pounds of shit in a five-pound bag. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
422:If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
423:If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.' ~ Robert Townsend, #NFDB
424:I take a deep breath,
count to ten,
and bury it,
way down deep ~ Sarah Ockler,#NFDB
425:It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
426:It scares the living crap out of me how good wine is at ten dollars. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk, #NFDB
427:I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten. ~ Sam Elliott, #NFDB
428:Neil Josten," he mouthed. "Number ten, starting striker, Foxhole Court. ~ Nora Sakavic, #NFDB
429:Our # imagination is ten times more potent than our # willpower . ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
430:...she treated the Ten Commandments more like the Ten Suggestions... ~ Jeannette Walls, #NFDB
431:Stands the clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea? ~ Rupert Brooke,#NFDB
432:ten kaygusu yüklü ağır bir haç taşımaktan tenimin olanca ağırlığı yokoldu. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
433:The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
434:The treasures of ten thousand years ago were not the treasures of today. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
435:To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. ~ John Churton Collins, #NFDB
436:You've got ten fingers,' said Morris. 'Why not stick them in ten pies? ~ Michael Frayn, #NFDB
437:Am I a romantic? I've seen "Wuthering Heights" ten times. I'm a romantic. ~ Johnny Depp, #NFDB
438:Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic. ~ Johnny Depp, #NFDB
439:Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. ~ Daniel Defoe, #NFDB
440:fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself, ~ Daniel Defoe, #NFDB
441:I backed horse last week at ten to one. It came in at quarter past four. ~ Tommy Cooper, #NFDB
442:If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty. ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
443:I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men. ~ Mary Queen of Scots, #NFDB
444:I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
445:Let us hush this cry of 'Forward', till ten thousand years have gone. ~ Alfred Tennyson, #NFDB
446:My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
447:Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
448:Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war! ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
449:Oh Lavinia, Lavinia, you are worth ten Camillas. And I never saw it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
450:On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don't use your scale. ~ Eugene Mirman, #NFDB
451:Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack. ~ Alexander Fleming, #NFDB
452:She and her daughter between them killed and ate as many as ten infants. ~ Stefan Klein, #NFDB
453:She’s ten years from a hundred and still thinks she deserves perfection, ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
454:These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. ~ James F Cooper, #NFDB
455:The world will break your heart ten times till Sunday,that's guaranteed ~ Matthew Quick, #NFDB
456:... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
457:We were two years in the making and ten minutes in the destroying. ~ Martin Middlebrook, #NFDB
458:And I would know again that in darkness God’s truth shines most clear. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
459:And since when had I become the guy that things happened to ten years ago? ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
460:Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world. ~ Douglas MacArthur, #NFDB
461:have not spoken to him for ten years, but I thought of him every single day. ~ Ruth Ware, #NFDB
462:He who reckons ten friends has not one. ~ Guillaume Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, #NFDB
463:I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes. ~ Anne Robinson, #NFDB
464:I need you ready in ten seconds''
''As my boyfriend told me last night ~ Shamim Sarif,#NFDB
465:Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great. ~ Sam Amidon, #NFDB
466:Ten cuidado, porque no tengo miedo y eso me hace poderoso. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, #NFDB
467:Ten, kto nie nauczył się mówić, zostanie na zawsze uwięziony w pułapce. ~ Olga Tokarczuk, #NFDB
468:Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season. ~ Don Meyer, #NFDB
469:The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
470:The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood". ~ Laura Schlessinger, #NFDB
471:The Vegan Pantry: The Art of Making Your Own Staples (Ten Speed Press, 2015) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
472:Why kill two birds with one stone when you could kill ten with a boulder? ~ Ella Summers, #NFDB
473:You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher. ~ Jeffery Deaver, #NFDB
474:ALAFAIR BURKE is the bestselling author of ten novels, including the ~ Mary Higgins Clark, #NFDB
475:Each of his workouts was attended by ten thousand or more spectators. ~ Laura Hillenbrand, #NFDB
476:Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ~ Ezra Pound, #NFDB
477:It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners. ~ Roberto Baggio, #NFDB
478:Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
479:One loyal friend,” Euripides reminds us, “is worth ten thousand relatives. ~ Stacy Schiff, #NFDB
480:Orders for backyard floodlights went from ten a month to six hundred. ~ Michelle McNamara, #NFDB
481:Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
482:The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
483:the ten thousand things are all reflections
the moon originally has no light ~ Hanshan,#NFDB
484:The Ten Worst Songs to Strip To: 1. That Midnight Oil song about aborigines ~ Diablo Cody, #NFDB
485:To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
486:Wait till you’ve washed and scrubbed for a man for ten or twelve years. ~ Christina Stead, #NFDB
487:A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
488:But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are. ~ Harry Chapin, #NFDB
489:coffee, followed by a nap of ten to twenty minutes, is the ideal technique ~ Daniel H Pink, #NFDB
490:Goshawks are nervous because they live life ten times faster than we do, ~ Helen Macdonald, #NFDB
491:He's given me enough homework to last ten years. I'm gonna die of nerdism. ~ Mark A Cooper, #NFDB
492:In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB
493:I think health-wise, pro-wrestling is probably ten times worse for you than MMA. ~ CM Punk, #NFDB
494:It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer. ~ William Blackstone, #NFDB
495:Just keep clear mind, go straight ahead, try, try, try for ten thousand years. ~ Seungsahn, #NFDB
496:Nine out of ten Afghan women will experience domestic abuse in some form, ~ Jenny Nordberg, #NFDB
497:On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
498:Stuart Pearce will be a massive influence but we also need ten others to be ~ Kevin Keegan, #NFDB
499:The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
500:To leaders, one trusted friend is better than ten well known betrayers ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
501:Whatever in our life is hardest to bear, love can transform into beauty. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
502:Important? It’s essential,” I said. “I’m always at least ten minutes early. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
503:I was tired of talking to you twenty minutes after I met you ten years ago. ~ Willy Vlautin, #NFDB
504:Nine out of ten introverts agree: The telephone is the tool of the devil. ~ Sophia Dembling, #NFDB
505:Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ’s that made the difference. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
506:Personally I’d give ten thousand bucks to be a psychiatrist and not a writer. ~ Anne Sexton, #NFDB
507:Stuff your eyes with wonders [...]live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
508:Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
509:Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. ~ Napol on Bonaparte, #NFDB
510:The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
511:When you use Cosmic Ordering you will move from cloud nine to cloud ten. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
512:Wish I had ten hands. I want to touch you everywhere while I’m doing this. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
513:You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content. ~ Sally Jessy Raphael, #NFDB
514:And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us. ~ Dat Phan, #NFDB
515:Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend. ~ Jackson Browne, #NFDB
516:God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
517:His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
518:I'll wager that in ten years it will be fashionable again to be a virgin. ~ Barbara Cartland, #NFDB
519:It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal. ~ Elizabeth Crook, #NFDB
520:Just breathe. Ten tiny breaths....
Seize them.
Feel them.
Love them. ~ K A Tucker,#NFDB
521:Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it ~ Lou Holtz, #NFDB
522:Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
523:Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. ~ John Henry Newman, #NFDB
524:Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
525:She was a ball of “do me now.” Twice. Ten times if he had the stamina and lube. ~ Celia Kyle, #NFDB
526:Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
527:Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. ~ Daniel Defoe, #NFDB
528:We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events. ~ Bryan Clay, #NFDB
529:Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in a city. ~ Ecclesiastious, #NFDB
530:With the right training, there are few things more savage than a ten-year-old. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
531:Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
532:You’re the sort that gets killed in the first ten minutes of a horror movie. ~ Reki Kawahara, #NFDB
533:and uncared for. Nor could I see the necessity for the complete undressing: ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
534:Crucifícame, juez! ¡Hazlo y, al crucificarme, ten piedad del crucificado ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
535:Half the world’s awake by ten, and the other half is sleeping in China. ~ Denise Grover Swank, #NFDB
536:If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial. ~ Herbie Mann, #NFDB
537:I hadn’t been there ten minutes before there were three turds on the carpet. ~ Helen Fielding, #NFDB
538:I hate it as one hates sin or pestilence or--the color work in a ten-cent magazine. ~ O Henry, #NFDB
539:I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was. ~ Christiane Amanpour, #NFDB
540:In nine cases out of ten a woman had better show more affection than she feels. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
541:In ten minutes she’d have propulsion again—if she could just hold out that long. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
542:Maybe it's because nothing ever tastes the same as it did when you were ten. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
543:Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. —Corrie Ten Boom ~ Megan Boudreaux, #NFDB
544:She commands King Hadoop and ten thousand Estonian footmen. She is unstoppable. ~ Robin Sloan, #NFDB
545:Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea? ~ Rupert Brooke,#NFDB
546:Ten was sick of farting peppermint from Ronan using the minty shampoo as lube. ~ Pandora Pine, #NFDB
547:Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again. ~ James Young, #NFDB
548:The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. ~ Chinua Achebe, #NFDB
549:The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better (than shooting in Tibet). ~ Joan Chen, #NFDB
550:the temperature outside has risen to approximately ten degrees hotter than hell, ~ Lyla Payne, #NFDB
551:Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
552:To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. ~ Jesse Owens, #NFDB
553:T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion. ~ Karl Lagerfeld, #NFDB
554:We at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC ... in any way, shape or form. ~ Bret Bielema, #NFDB
555:You don’t get to hold back. Not when I’m ten inches deep, Lucy. I won’t allow it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
556:You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
557:If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today. ~ Andy Warhol, #NFDB
558:In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
559:It takes ten times longer to get rid of your reputation than it does to make it. ~ Jay Reatard, #NFDB
560:May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
561:Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
562:Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it. ~ Tony Fadell, #NFDB
563:Scale of one to ten
How would you rate your demise?
Thanks for your input ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
564:...she imagines his head as a cabinet filled with ten thousand little drawers. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
565:the great is beyond ten feet square, the small enters the tiniest atom. ~ William Scott Wilson, #NFDB
566:The kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
567:The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back. ~ Kinky Friedman, #NFDB
568:to offer one-tenth to God; but under the new covenant, ten-tenths are required. ~ Watchman Nee, #NFDB
569:Whatever in our life is hardest to bear, love can transform into beauty. And ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
570:When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing. ~ Lindsay Lohan, #NFDB
571:You shouldn’t give yourself a hard time for not having a ten-year career plan. ~ Gail Honeyman, #NFDB
572:He looked perhaps ten years younger than his actual age, which was thirty-eight. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
573:How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
574:How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that marks a turning point. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
575:If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
576:It was going to be a tough ten years, he thought, for men with grown sons. Warren ~ Herman Wouk, #NFDB
577:jumped and spun. Ten paces back along the path stood a luminous woman dressed in ~ Eileen Wilks, #NFDB
578:May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.) ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
579:Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24. ~ Salman Khan, #NFDB
580:Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ’s that made the difference. The ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
581:OK, now write for ten minutes, keep the hand moving, tell me what you carry. ~ Natalie Goldberg, #NFDB
582:On a scale of one to ten, I'd say you rate a one. If the Porta-Potties are ten. ~ Carolyn Crane, #NFDB
583:She got herself widowed, divorced, married, and pregnant – all in ten days’ time. ~ Betty Smith, #NFDB
584:Ten Common Beliefs of the JPI Refugees are ignorant and have no formal education. ~ Mary Pipher, #NFDB
585:the temperature dropped by ten degrees just because they were so fucking cool. ~ Andrew Barrett, #NFDB
586:The Ten Commandments are the lowest possible standard of humane living. ~ Erwin Raphael McManus, #NFDB
587:Very few positive experiences begin with being told to count back slowly from ten. ~ Dana Gould, #NFDB
588:We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
589:What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
~ Corrie ten Boom,#NFDB
590:«Y no te limites a tener equipos de respaldo, ten también un plan de respaldo ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
591:About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas. ~ Mary Chapin Carpenter, #NFDB
592:But now there were ten bells. And the bell for Lost-Hope was ringing violently. ~ Susanna Clarke, #NFDB
593:every time you fill an appointment, you make one man grateful and ten resentful. ~ Robert Harris, #NFDB
594:He might have taken ten years. But he couldn’t have another minute of my life. ~ Nicole Williams, #NFDB
595:I can't rate myself, but if you ask Russell I'm sure he'd give me a ten out of ten. ~ Katy Perry, #NFDB
596:If a picture is worth a thousand words, a prototype is worth ten thousand slides. ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB
597:If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
598:IOX. Io means ‘shout.’ X is ten. It’s a Roman cheer for victory: ‘Shout ten times! ~ Noah Gordon, #NFDB
599:It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
600:I’ve washed that man’s underwear for ten years. If that doesn’t say love, what does? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
601:nine times out of ten they filling your head up with shit ‘cause they want what you have. ~ Shan, #NFDB
602:Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ~ Henry Kissinger, #NFDB
603:regulations allow for up to ten insect fragments per thirty-one-gram serving. ~ Leonard Mlodinow, #NFDB
604:The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39. ~ Tom Lantos, #NFDB
605:The Priddles were Irish twins, the second born ten months after the first, and ~ Michael Crummey, #NFDB
606:With eight minutes left, the game could be won in the next five or ten minutes. ~ Jimmy Armfield, #NFDB
607:Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
608:You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
609:Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. ~ Bryan Stevenson, #NFDB
610:Błogosławiony ten, co nie mając nic do powiedzenia, nie obleka tego faktu w słowa. ~ Julian Tuwim, #NFDB
611:By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB
612:Corrie ten Boom once said, “There is no pit so deep but Christ is deeper still. ~ Lorilyn Roberts, #NFDB
613:Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
614:Did you ever see yourself times ten in another person and want to cover your eyes? ~ Megan Abbott, #NFDB
615:For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
616:I am writing this book for people like me -- the person I was ten years ago. ~ Michelle Alexander, #NFDB
617:I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet. ~ Elizabeth I, #NFDB
618:If you're only ten feet above, then you're better than when you're on the ground. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
619:I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston. ~ Harvey Mackay, #NFDB
620:I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen. ~ Patrick Rafter, #NFDB
621:I'm the kind of person to wait until I've gained ten pounds to start exercising. ~ Yasmine Bleeth, #NFDB
622:Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague. ~ Paolo Bacigalupi, #NFDB
623:She died that evening and left me, in Louise fashion, sitting in ten kinds of dark. ~ Monica Wood, #NFDB
624:Ten alsjeblieft niet weg. En, eh, ik heb ook liever dat je me niet meer schopt. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
625:The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
626:There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
627:When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
628:Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, God can give us the perfect way. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
629:Don’t try to stay ten moves ahead of your opponent. Stay behind him with a knife. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
630:Having a ten-year-old daughter can be like living with a fairy. Something magical. ~ Cody McFadyen, #NFDB
631:He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more. ~ John Bunyan, #NFDB
632:How was she going to cope for ten days without instant answers to idle questions? ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
633:I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder. ~ Billy Corgan, #NFDB
634:Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
635:Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century. ~ C P Snow, #NFDB
636:Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ~ Henry A Kissinger, #NFDB
637:one in ten adults will attempt suicide, and one in five will suffer from depression. ~ Russ Harris, #NFDB
638:Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
639:Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. ~ Saint John Henry Newman, #NFDB
640:So I close my eyes, hum a single note, and silently count to ten, blanking my mind ~ Matthew Quick, #NFDB
641:Ten minutes? That's the women. It's not for the men; not for the real game, mate. ~ Lleyton Hewitt, #NFDB
642:Was this the stupidest thing I had ever done? Maybe, maybe not. Top ten, at least. ~ Dennis Liggio, #NFDB
643:You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs. ~ Glenn Greenwald, #NFDB
644:Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
645:Happiness is not dependent on happenings, but on relationships in the happenings. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
646:He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983. ~ Sandy Berger, #NFDB
647:If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
648:In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops. ~ Nataly Kelly, #NFDB
649:In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. ~ George Bancroft, #NFDB
650:I want to wipe away her tears. I want to take the last ten years and erase them. ~ Heidi McLaughlin, #NFDB
651:Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
652:Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter. ~ Bjarne Stroustrup, #NFDB
653:OK, so ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah? ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
654:On a scale of one to ten, I'm probably a six when it comes to flirting. I'm quite shy. ~ Liam Payne, #NFDB
655:Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
656:People get killed every ten or 20 minutes. When we die, we are just another statistic. ~ Snoop Dogg, #NFDB
657:potatoes off his pants. “Carbs,” he moans. “I’m going to gain at least ten pounds. ~ Sarah Castille, #NFDB
658:The quarry will be armed with a nine-millimeter Glock featuring a ten-round magazine. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
659:The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it. ~ Spider Robinson, #NFDB
660:A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse—not a remarkable mathematician. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
661:Aomame had mastered at least ten separate techniques for kicking men in the balls. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
662:Features are always a gamble. If you’re lucky, ten percent will get the desired benefits. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB
663:How can you tell if someone is a vegan? Just wait ten minutes and they’ll tell you. ~ Graeme Simsion, #NFDB
664:I can even work out your personality problems to ten decimal places if it will help. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
665:I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour. ~ Richard Pryor, #NFDB
666:I perform my job ten times a day. Seven days a week. For nine years. You do the math. ~ Anne Tibbets, #NFDB
667:It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
668:I’ve been collecting bugs since I was ten; it’s the only way I can stop their whispers. ~ A G Howard, #NFDB
669:I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it. ~ Gene Ween, #NFDB
670:Just breathe," my mom would say, "Ten tiny breaths... Seize them. Feel them. Love them. ~ K A Tucker, #NFDB
671:Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
672:Men!" I said. "You all a bunch of chauvinist morons" Stephanie Plum - Ten Big Ones ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
673:Mladí lidé vždycky doufají, že jim ten, jemuž svěří své nadeje, přinese nějakou oběť. ~ S ndor M rai, #NFDB
674:No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
675:No love could stand up against the sight of me in a sailor suit at the age of ten. I ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
676:Nothing I do can't be done by a ten-year-old...with fifteen years of practice. ~ Harry Blackstone Jr, #NFDB
677:Olivia, Time to pay up. Meet me in the library in ten minutes. -Caleb “Unbelievable! ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
678:Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product. ~ Ben Hecht, #NFDB
679:Ten minutes later, the army had made a thirty-six kilometer square computer motherboard. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
680:That's stupid. If anyone sees themselves in ten years they're lying to themselves first. ~ Lil Wayne, #NFDB
681:To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
682:To rise at six, dine at ten, Sup at five, to bed at ten, Makes man live ten times ten. ~ Noah Gordon, #NFDB
683:What is she going to do? Play the slot machines in Vegas to get my ten grand?” Clay ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB
684:When Chris was ten, we pushed him down the stairs. This was twice as entertaining. ~ Brigid Kemmerer, #NFDB
685:A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
686:All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
687:Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten. ~ Clint Walker, #NFDB
688:collected minerals and at ten years of age wrote poems but still played with blocks. ~ Richard Rhodes, #NFDB
689:Directing is to fill anyone with a yearning to get back at ten o'clock next morning. ~ Tyrone Guthrie, #NFDB
690:DURING THE LAST TEN YEARS we have learned that a tree actually remembers its childhood. ~ Hope Jahren, #NFDB
691:«Espera; ten perseverancia; la paciencia es un ensayo de eternidad». Sani ~ Jorge Angel Livraga Rizzi, #NFDB
692:I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars. ~ Lorde, #NFDB
693:I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
694:I make noises when I stretch, because it feels ten times better than stretching silently. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
695:I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism. ~ Martin Jol, #NFDB
696:Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone. ~ Tommy Cooper, #NFDB
697:Michael Jordan on his worst day is ten times better than Kobe Bryant on his best day. ~ Reggie Miller, #NFDB
698:No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities. ~ Ry Cooder, #NFDB
699:Of every ten three are ministers of life (to themselves); and three are ministers of death. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
700:Our faces were no more than ten inches apart, but she was light years away from me. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
701:Our faces were no more than ten inches apart, but she was light-years away from me. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
702:Poirot thought it not quite professional to begin a routine working day before ten. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
703:Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say? ~ Martin Amis, #NFDB
704:Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years. ~ Allen Klein, #NFDB
705:Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
706:Ten soldiers wisely led, Will beat a hundred without a head Euripides (fifth century BC) ~ John Adair, #NFDB
707:The statistical probability of being murdered in Norway was about one in ten thousand. When ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
708:The victim lay on his face, as most people did after being stuck with ten swords. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
709:You are ten times more likely to get hit by a car when the driver is aiming for you. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
710:Doomed with enfeebled carcass to outstretch His loathed existence through ten centuries, ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
711:Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people. ~ Marcus Buckingham, #NFDB
712:everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people. ~ Marcus Buckingham, #NFDB
713:Far down the corridor, she saw Vader leap down from a walkway ten meters above the deck. ~ Paul S Kemp, #NFDB
714:For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble. ~ Milton Berle, #NFDB
715:If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot! ~ Robert Baden Powell, #NFDB
716:If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately. ~ Robert Smith, #NFDB
717:If one-tenth of what you believe is true, you ought to be ten times as excited as you are. ~ Neil Cole, #NFDB
718:If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities. ~ Paul A Baran, #NFDB
719:If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will. ~ Paul Harvey, #NFDB
720:It must be a great disappointment to God if we are not dazzled at least ten times a day. ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
721:I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it. ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB
722:Kto miłości nie zna, ten żyje szczęśliwy,
I noc ma spokojną, i dzień nietęskliwy. ~ Adam Mickiewicz,#NFDB
723:Moses has the Ten Commandments, it's true, but I've got much better lines - King David ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB
724:Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
725:No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten PM on the second Saturdays. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
726:Ölür ise ten ölür, canlar ölesi değil”
(Only the body dies, souls can never be slain) ~ Yunus Emre,#NFDB
727:our welfare in the hereafter depended on how much we could accomplish here on earth. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
728:Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million. ~ David R Brower, #NFDB
729:Ten years ago he would have followed her, but middle-age is the period of sad caution. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
730:That was how the tears went down Cherry's face...a teaspoon full of ten years' sorrow. ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
731:The Shakers had a saying: "Live as though you had ten thousand years, or ten minutes. ~ Dennis Palumbo, #NFDB
732:Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
733:And Mama and Papa did have ten children.... It was all exceedingly embarrassing. Mary ~ Sally MacKenzie, #NFDB
734:Books do not age as you or I do, they will speak on to generations we will never see. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
735:'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years. ~ David Benioff, #NFDB
736:Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so. ~ William Carleton, #NFDB
737:Corollary to Moore’s Law: every ten years, collective wisdom degrades by half.* ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
738:Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
739:I have not failed. I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work. —Thomas A. Edison ~ Jay Crownover, #NFDB
740:I learned to walk when I was ten months old and I've been walking this way ever since. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
741:I like imagining your body is Saturn,
my body ten thousand rings wrapped around you. ~ Andrea Gibson,#NFDB
742:I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one. ~ Voltairine de Cleyre, #NFDB
743:It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
744:Less than ten cents on the dollar in the Clinton Foundation has gone to charitable causes. ~ Mike Pence, #NFDB
745:Men!" I said. "You all a bunch of chauvinist morons"
Stephanie Plum - Ten Big Ones ~ Janet Evanovich,#NFDB
746:Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten. ~ John Derbyshire, #NFDB
747:One of her in dirty sweats is worth ten of you naked on your knees, so get the fuck out. ~ Joanna Wylde, #NFDB
748:os·ten·si·bly adv. [sentence adverb] apparently or purportedly, but perhaps not actually: ~ Erin McKean, #NFDB
749:Sex is ten percent skill and ninety percent listening. Who’s a better listener than you? ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
750:Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic. ~ Douglas Hurd, #NFDB
751:Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect. ~ Horace Mann, #NFDB
752:Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat. ~ Will Rogers, #NFDB
753:Ten minutes of careful searching later, Maelyn faced the dismal truth - she was bookless. ~ Anita Valle, #NFDB
754:The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
755:When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
756:You think a man doesn't fall down, son? A real man falls down nine times and gets up ten. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB
757:Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves. ~ Lawrence Kasdan, #NFDB
758:And over the phone he could hear the ten legged insect already scrabbling across the keyboard! ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
759:Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!" ~ Chris Rock, #NFDB
760:Each minute, not knowing if Jacob was breathing or not, had seemed like ten lifetimes. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
761:Give a low man one ounce of power and he’ll throw ten thousand pounds of bricks on your head. ~ Lisa See, #NFDB
762:I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
763:"I could not find the world if I searched ten years. I've forgotten the road by which I came." ~ Hanshan, #NFDB
764:I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church. ~ Leonard Ravenhill, #NFDB
765:I laugh, but I'm still thinking about ten-year-old Margo having a crush on ten-year-old me. ~ John Green, #NFDB
766:I like imagining your body is Saturn,
my body ten thousand rings wrapped around you. ~ Andrea Gibson,#NFDB
767:I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes. ~ Claude Lelouch, #NFDB
768:I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
769:Lt. Dan Band and the annual Snowball Express, the Gary Sinise Foundation has ten programs, ~ Gary Sinise, #NFDB
770:Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food. ~ Gabriel Cousens, #NFDB
771:Okay, and yeah, he was hot as ten hells and could sing a girl's panties right off of her. ~ Caisey Quinn, #NFDB
772:Out of 4,063 pilots, not a single airman fit within the average range on all ten dimensions. ~ Todd Rose, #NFDB
773:Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
774:So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now. ~ Alvin Lee, #NFDB
775:The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
776:To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people. ~ Ho Chi Minh, #NFDB
777:TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras. ~ Kitty Carlisle, #NFDB
778:A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent. ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB
779:Als ik wist dat morgen de wereld ten onder gaat, zou ik vandaag een appelboompje planten… ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
780:Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
781:Ay,sir;to be honest,as this world goes,is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
782:[Barack] Obama has betrayed Israel, gutted the military, and apologized on ten world tours. ~ Marco Rubio, #NFDB
783:Before you flare up at anyone’s faults, take time to count to ten—ten of your own. ~ Suzanne Woods Fisher, #NFDB
784:every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB
785:Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB
786:If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall! ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
787:I favor candidates who are biblically oriented, who hold the views of the Ten Commandments. ~ Bill Bright, #NFDB
788:I feel bad for people who die on Valentine's Day. How much would flowers cost then, ten grand? ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
789:If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
790:I'm a beast when it comes to anything. I believe in givin' one-hundred-ten percent, anything I do. ~ Tyga, #NFDB
791:I thought I was good after a few years. After ten years I realized I was still improving. ~ Gary R Renard, #NFDB
792:I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten. ~ Joan Baez, #NFDB
793:kto zbyt niecierpliwie szuka dziury w całym, ten w końcu może ją nie tyle znaleźć, co zrobić. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
794:my words are like the sun and Cassidy is like a sunflower after ten straight days of rain. ~ Katy Regnery, #NFDB
795:Najlepszy przyjaciel to ten, który poda ci rękę zaraz po tym jak przestanie się śmiać ~ Mi osz Brzezi ski, #NFDB
796:One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
797:Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home. ~ Anatole France, #NFDB
798:Ten pages—and one sex scene later–my kindle hits me in the face as I fall asleep holding it. ~ B J Harvey, #NFDB
799:The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. ~ Joan Baez, #NFDB
800:We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart. ~ James Madison, #NFDB
801:What happens when ten foot tall and bulletproof asks you to spend thirty days alone with him? ~ Aria Cole, #NFDB
802:When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
803:When He tells you to love your enemies, He gives you the love that He demands from you. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
804:Within ten minutes of meeting, we'd exchanged love letters from the corners of our eyes. ~ Forrest Gander, #NFDB
805:You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up. ~ Maud Hart Lovelace, #NFDB
806:All seemed to be in order. The boy had two legs, two arms, ten fingers, ten toes. Richard ~ Jeffrey Archer, #NFDB
807:And spite of all dogmas, current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
808:But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
809:I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
810:It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
811:It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
812:I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him. ~ Vladislav Surkov, #NFDB
813:I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent. ~ Thomas A Edison, #NFDB
814:Nor could we say that you do more good by saving one million lives than by saving ten. ~ William MacAskill, #NFDB
815:Statistically, your first neutrino interaction probably happens somewhere around age ten. ~ Randall Munroe, #NFDB
816:Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
817:Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life. You didn't settle for it. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
818:Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness. ~ Lionel Johnson, #NFDB
819:You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first. ~ Ho Chi Minh, #NFDB
820:You will never be just some girl, Corin. Never. Not now and not five or ten years from now. ~ Caisey Quinn, #NFDB
821:A surfer who “hangs ten” is performing a maneuver on a surfboard, not staging a mass execution. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
822:Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
823:I fell in love with a boy—but it took me ten years to realize the boy never grew into a man. ~ Lauren Layne, #NFDB
824:If I knew what was going to happen in ten years I would do it now. I just follow my nose. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
825:If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen. ~ Horace Mann, #NFDB
826:intentions are always speaking ten times louder than your actual words. What are they saying? ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
827:In that moment i realize a circle of love is ten times better than a procession of sorrys. ~ Lisa Schroeder, #NFDB
828:It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.” Well, ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
829:I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs. ~ Gary Busey, #NFDB
830:Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance. ~ Placido Domingo, #NFDB
831:Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep? Down in the boneyard ten feet deep! ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
832:Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed ~ Douglas MacArthur, #NFDB
833:Not more than ten feet behind Walker stood Commander Sykes, reading through yet another ~ Michael C Grumley, #NFDB
834:Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
835:Put ten people together in a Laundromat and chances are you won't be the one who's worst off ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
836:Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play ~ Ringo Starr, #NFDB
837:Ten years from now you'll laugh at whatever's stressing you out today. So why not laugh now? ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
838:The teeth had roots the length of a human hand, and each one weighed nearly ten pounds. ~ Elizabeth Kolbert, #NFDB
839:The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out. ~ Peter Lynch, #NFDB
840:What did he make of the news that President Wilson was sending American troops to France? ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
841:What the Hell am I supposed to do with the extra ten minutes, when he finishes early today? ~ Georg B chner, #NFDB
842:WHAT WOULD YOU DO right now if you learned that you were going to die in ten minutes? ~ Daniel Todd Gilbert, #NFDB
843:A quarter of an hour more of this success, and there won’t be ten cartridges in the barricade. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
844:But in all reality, the ten-pound, black-and-white spotted pooch is more pussycat than dog. ~ Vincent Zandri, #NFDB
845:Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
846:Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
847:heliosferin, yani Güneş’ten kaynaklanan atomaltı par- çacıklarla dolu görünmez “balon”un ötesine ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
848:Hey,” Faraday said after a few seconds. “Did you know your clock’s still ten minutes fast? ~ Victoria Laurie, #NFDB
849:How many dead?” “Ten so far,” he mutters. “Three in the shooting, eight in the explosion. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
850:I ca'n't remember things as I used- and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together! ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
851:I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
852:I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance ~ E E Cummings,#NFDB
853:I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
854:It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes. ~ Edvard Munch, #NFDB
855:ten un respaldo”». Si tienes dos cosas de algo y se te rompe o pierdes una, te queda otra; ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
856:that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back. ~ Evelyn Waugh, #NFDB
857:The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
858:Ach panenkomarjá, ten život je stejně k zešílení krásnej. Ne že by byl, ale já to tak vidím. ~ Bohumil Hrabal, #NFDB
859:After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it. ~ Larry Hagman, #NFDB
860:Ain’t nothing to be afraid of, honey. Take a deep breath and count to what you are. A ten. ~ Georgia Le Carre, #NFDB
861:bottom of the list. No one there has a probability over ten percent. I’ve got a couple who hit low ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
862:Demands?” said Andy. “She makes it sound as if you’re asking for ten million in unmarked notes. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
863:Girls’ night out was sacred, and that meant nothing with a penis was going to be within ten feet ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
864:he was, sitting in a comfortable car, sweating blood because the man was ten minutes late. He ~ Steve Martini, #NFDB
865:Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
866:I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
867:it needed ten times more courage to look after a leper than to fight for the crown of Sicily ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
868:I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles. ~ Alex Flinn, #NFDB
869:I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for 'Moneyball' to almost 270-280 pounds for 'Ten Year.' ~ Chris Pratt, #NFDB
870:My theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that? ~ Gemma Halliday, #NFDB
871:No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
872:Nothing wrong with eggs for dinner at ten o’clock at night when you’re about to commit a crime. ~ M K England, #NFDB
873:Oh yes, on a scale of one to ten, ten being perfect, this kiss was a twelve. Maybe even a twenty. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
874:The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success. ~ Adam Horowitz, #NFDB
875:There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
876:The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests. ~ Edwin Louis Cole, #NFDB
877:The value of the matter is not worth one one ten-thousandth the value of the form,” said Drake. ~ Robert Shea, #NFDB
878:We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God. ~ Jen Wilkin, #NFDB
879:And after ten years of waiting, it was Victor’s turn, to get into Eli’s head and do some ruining. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
880:And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety—Oh ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
881:A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
882:As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
883:At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht. ~ Milton Berle, #NFDB
884:But if she loved me through it, couldn’t someone else? Couldn’t someone else keep a secret or ten? ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
885:Coming up with ten ideas a day is like exercise. And exercise makes the idea muscle stronger. ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
886:Donald Trump would never belong to a church that required a ten percent hit. He's too smart. ~ Gene Weingarten, #NFDB
887:If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
888:If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
889:If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year. ~ Randy Jackson, #NFDB
890:I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong, #NFDB
891:It was like my hormones had decided to stage a revolt whenever he got within a ten-foot radius. ~ Lili St Crow, #NFDB
892:Mikael had rarely managed to surprise Berger. This time she was silent for nearly ten seconds. ~ Stieg Larsson, #NFDB
893:My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind. ~ Karl Lagerfeld, #NFDB
894:Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
895:Power may have ten thousand faces, but the look in the eyes of every one of them is the same. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
896:- Tomu nevěřím. To už není ten Chick, jaký býval dřív.
- Ale je. Lidé se nemění. Věci se mění. ~ Boris Vian,#NFDB
897:A man weighing one hundred jin can eat ten oxen, each weighing ten thousand jin. He just needs time. ~ Jin Yong, #NFDB
898:Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
899:Deep learning still comes from approximately ten thousand hours of work on any given subject. ~ Hannu Rajaniemi, #NFDB
900:Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
901:Fifty-one hybrids and ten MINI coopers. We're the most eco-friendly assault force in history. ~ Victor Gischler, #NFDB
902:For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten. ~ Ethan Embry, #NFDB
903:I examined the ten feet I would have to walk alone and remembered my left mind made me a moron. ~ Ashlan Thomas, #NFDB
904:In ten seconds he had completely lost his appetite and gained on hundred thousand dollars. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
905:I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life. ~ Gloria Estefan, #NFDB
906:I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now. ~ Greg Iles, #NFDB
907:One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
908:Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
909:Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
910:There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. ~ Katherine Dunn, #NFDB
911:There's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now, two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow. ~ Tom Lehrer, #NFDB
912:The same ten minutes that magazines urge me to use for sit-ups and triceps dips, I used for sobbing. ~ Tina Fey, #NFDB
913:Treasure a handful of dirt from your home, But love not ten thousand taels of foreign gold. ~ Anthony C Yu, #NFDB
914:Vodka. Top shelf.” He slaps his hand on the bar top like he’s been waiting ten hours to be served. ~ Ruby Dixon, #NFDB
915:We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour. ~ Oscar Peterson, #NFDB
916:When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
917:You might be a redneck if there are more than ten lawsuits currently pending against your dog. ~ Jeff Foxworthy, #NFDB
918:... after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as three times a week. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
919:Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own. ~ G H Hardy, #NFDB
920:Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the King and keep it.1 —CORRIE TEN BOOM ~ Mike Bickle, #NFDB
921:Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name’s the mother
of the ten thousand things. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
922:human beings have created more information in the last ten years than in all recorded history prior. ~ S J Scott, #NFDB
923:I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day. ~ Errol Flynn, #NFDB
924:If you can’t describe your business model in ten words or fewer, you don’t have a business model. ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB
925:I knew I could stay at Mazda for ten years and get very comfortable or take a huge leap of faith. ~ Ashlee Vance, #NFDB
926:It consisted of nine levels, with docking facilities that could handle almost ten thousand ships, ~ Mike Resnick, #NFDB
927:I usually recommend doing it for a very minimum of ten days before you completely rule it out. ~ Andy Puddicombe, #NFDB
928:I will lose twenty pounds like... I can lose ten... I have. I can lose ten in a week and a few days. ~ DJ Khaled, #NFDB
929:Kings and Dervishes. Ten devishes can sleep beneath one blanket Two kings cannot rein in one kingdom ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
930:Love is not soft as water is; it is solid as a rock on which the waves of hatred beat in vain. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
931:Maybe he was going to hell. Except, he could’ve sworn that was where he’d been the past ten years. ~ Kelly Moran, #NFDB
932:Nie jestem tchórzem. Tchórzem jest ten kto się boi i ucieka a ja się boję, ale nie uciekam. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
933:There is another capital beneath the waves,” She plunged ten thousand fathoms beneath the sea. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
934:The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good. ~ Charles Kettering, #NFDB
935:Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get. ~ Barbara Corcoran, #NFDB
936:A man shrewd enough and clever enough to amass such a fortune in ten years does not throw together ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
937:America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments. ~ Anatole France, #NFDB
938:And besides, ten months is hardly long. I just haven’t met anyone interesting to share the night with ~ V F Mason, #NFDB
939:Be grateful for the love you have to share-share it, and it will return to you ten times over. ~ James Van Praagh, #NFDB
940:Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
941:Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
942:Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
943:Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
944:He sees it all. Hears it all,” another boys adds. Ten points to Slytherin for the creepy answer. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
945:Howie's doctor told him to lose ten pounds, and since Howie's been on a diet he's gained three. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
946:If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
947:If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business. ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB
948:I love doing Pilates and dance. It's fun to mix things up and change your program every ten days. ~ Lily Aldridge, #NFDB
949:In January of 1882, a group of eleven Rosetans—ten men and one boy—set sail for New York. They ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
950:Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty. ~ Catherine Drinker Bowen, #NFDB
951:Men like women who look like women, not ten-year-old boys with inflatable toys on their chests. ~ Kathleen Brooks, #NFDB
952:Nearly ten years had passed since the Dursleys had woken up to find their nephew on the front step, ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
953:Not surprisingly, smokers are ten times more likely than nonsmokers to develop alcoholism. For ~ Frances E Jensen, #NFDB
954:strange man came here last summer and he gave Mr. Moss ten dollars for an old quarter. ~ Gertrude Chandler Warner, #NFDB
955:Ten years, a hundred years, a thousand - once passed, I thought, time was all the same, all over. ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
956:The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books. ~ Dan DeCarlo, #NFDB
957:This might seem excessive; ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection, ~ Diane Setterfield, #NFDB
958:Wariatem jest ten, kto ma się za całkowicie normalnego, a za nienormalnych uważa całą resztę. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
959:Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
960:Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” Corrie ten Boom ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
961:About ten to twelve million people were forced to leave their homes and cross the new border.102 ~ Rajmohan Gandhi, #NFDB
962:Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends. ~ Vladimir Kramnik, #NFDB
963:Falling does not cover the speed and abruptness of being thrown from less than ten feet high. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
964:Halloa!" the guard replied. "What o'clock do you make it, Joe?" "Ten minutes, good, past eleven. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
965:Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create... ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
966:His father had a merciless eye that could find one bad straw in ten bales of good intentions. ~ Michael Cunningham, #NFDB
967:I'm outa here, I'm only playing one song, and I'm not coming back for ten years! And when I come back..! ~ The Rev, #NFDB
968:In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined. ~ Robert Metcalfe, #NFDB
969:In the field, one quickly learns that everything that was funny at age ten is funny all over again. ~ Neil Strauss, #NFDB
970:I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years. ~ Austen Chamberlain, #NFDB
971:It's not as if ten years ago, we were like, 'I wish I could take low quality photos of my dessert.' ~ Jim Gaffigan, #NFDB
972:It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good. ~ Jasper Fforde, #NFDB
973:I was a wolf on a leash, a leash that I held. And one night, when I was ten, the wolf broke the leash. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
974:Kto odbiera to, co dał, Kłopot z tego będzie miał, Bo kto daje i odbiera, Ten się w piekle poniewiera. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
975:On a scale from one to ten,” Captain Krasnitsky muttered, “I give this trip a negative four hundred. ~ David Weber, #NFDB
976:Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
977:Ten pojeb chce, żeby każdy dzień był Bożym Narodzeniem, ale ja mu, kurwa, urządzę Dzień Niepodległości. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
978:Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. ~ Biz Stone, #NFDB
979:Although 90 percent of people will marry in their lifetime, only three in ten will find enduring love. ~ Ty Tashiro, #NFDB
980:A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”
- Chinese proverb ~ Alvin Toffler,#NFDB
981:Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation that you don't want to have. ~ Gay Hendricks, #NFDB
982:Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States. ~ Nathan Deal, #NFDB
983:Dokonce i ten nejpříšernější zločin se stával malým a směšným tváří v tvář nekonečné věčnosti hor. ~ Bernard Minier, #NFDB
984:Every morning as I read the scripture, every night, I quote the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. ~ Bill Bright, #NFDB
985:Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent. ~ Cecil B DeMille, #NFDB
986:For I, too, had a hiding place when things were bad. Jesus was this place, the Rock cleft for me. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
987:If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
988:I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
989:I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments. ~ Anton Szandor LaVey, #NFDB
990:It will only take you ten minutes to rearrange your closet by category, so trust me and give it a try. ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
991:I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies. ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
992:Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
993:Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference. ~ Brenda Strong, #NFDB
994:Percy had made the feeling ten times worse. But now the knot of anger in his gut started to unravel. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
995:Riley decided the man was physically a ten, but intellectually he was a certifiable fruit basket. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
996:There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room. ~ Liev Schreiber, #NFDB
997:The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me. ~ Harvey Mackay, #NFDB
998:A lord who knows how to wield men is ten times more fearsome than one who knows only how to wield a sword. ~ Ken Liu, #NFDB
999:A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect. ~ William Petty, #NFDB
1000:Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten. ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
1001:Everyone is a liar. Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists.
p 398 ~ Jodi Picoult,#NFDB
1002:Her heart is so tender that she could not help but mourn even me—a man whom she can barely abide. ~ Beth Fantaskey, #NFDB
1003:I clear breakfast at ten o'clock. I set on lunch at one. Dinner I set on at six. It's ten o'clock. ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
1004:If I had ten sons and didna have ye, I'd be a pauper. Ye're all I have and all I need. Ye are my home. ~ Mia Marlowe, #NFDB
1005:I’m definitely ten seconds away from getting my organs burned on a pyre for some vengeful pagan deity. ~ Katie Henry, #NFDB
1006:I'm on cloud nine.. i wouldn't even say cloud nine... more like cloud ten... cloud nine was old news. ~ Darren Criss, #NFDB
1007:I’m on my way,” Ranger said. “I’m about ten minutes from Quaker Bridge. I’ll call when I have her. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
1008:It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1009:It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds. ~ Toni Morrison, #NFDB
1010:Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound. ~ Charles A Dana, #NFDB
1011:My mother and Alexis had said no more than ten words to each other. The long silences were deafening ~ Howard Norman, #NFDB
1012:Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head. ~ Robert Bresson, #NFDB
1013:Ten years after the Chernobyl accident, and am I the only one that's disappointed? Still no superheros. ~ Jimmy Carr, #NFDB
1014:The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
1015:There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
1016:The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be. ~ Ronald Ross, #NFDB
1017:WORLD IS RUN by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards, ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
1018:W polowie drogi mojego zywota posrod ciemnego znalazlem sie lasu. Las ten co gorsza byl zielony. ~ Witold Gombrowicz, #NFDB
1019:You haven’t become anything,” she whispered. “You’re the same man I fell in love with nearly ten years ~ Kylie Brant, #NFDB
1020:A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later. ~ George S Patton, #NFDB
1021:A.G. Riddle spent ten years starting and running internet companies before retiring to focus on his true ~ A G Riddle, #NFDB
1022:And girls are much more mature.” Eve nodded wisely. “So you’re about ten years older than Shane, then. ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
1023:Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
1024:„Hezký den na bitvu,“ řekl počítač. „Hezký den na smrt,“ řekl Ten druhý. „Díky, chlapci,“ řekl jsem já. ~ Ji Kulh nek, #NFDB
1025:I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
1026:I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic. ~ David Walton, #NFDB
1027:If one day equaled the age of the universe, all of recorded history would be no more than ten seconds. ~ Jenny Offill, #NFDB
1028:I keep saying that the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. And I’m not kidding. ~ Erik Brynjolfsson, #NFDB
1029:I must be alone ten minutes in the morning and ten minutes in the evening. – Without a programme. ~ Tomas Transtr mer, #NFDB
1030:I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000. ~ Artie Lange, #NFDB
1031:Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated." from "Village 113 ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
1032:...Montag paced the floor and came back and squatted down and read a page as many as ten times, aloud. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1033:no combination of one-week or ten-day vacations will truly take you away from the life you lead at home. ~ Rolf Potts, #NFDB
1034:Remember in all society nine girls out of ten marry for money and nine men out of ten are fools. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1035:Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine. Nine ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1036:Ten years might as well be a hundred if you are doing time for a crime you didn’t commit, he said. ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB
1037:The god of many cannot remain the true god. ~ James Richardson, Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001), #138, #NFDB
1038:The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1039:To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things. ~ Dogen, #NFDB
1040:We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet. ~ Molly Ivins, #NFDB
1041:When we are alone, we must act with the same sincerity as if ten eyes observed and ten fingers pointed to us ~ Ta-hio, #NFDB
1042:All you have to do is keep the animal in sight, and within ten minutes, you’re reeling him in. ~ Christopher McDougall, #NFDB
1043:A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. ~ William Faulkner, #NFDB
1044:And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1045:But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects. ~ Dave Rowntree, #NFDB
1046:Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1047:Gene has a joke: ‘How can you tell if someone is a vegan? Just wait ten minutes and they’ll tell you. ~ Graeme Simsion, #NFDB
1048:grief may kill, although it rarely does, and never in a day, never in an hour, never in ten minutes. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
1049:Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark. ~ John Bright, #NFDB
1050:I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money. ~ Michael Gambon, #NFDB
1051:I didn't move for probably ten more minutes. I wasn't sure if I could. If I moved, I just might shatter. ~ J C Daniels, #NFDB
1052:I didn’t tell you, but I sent out some résumés about ten days ago. I haven’t heard a word. Not a word. ~ Loretta Nyhan, #NFDB
1053:If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket. ~ Mickey Gilley, #NFDB
1054:If one student in ten had half his fire I’d teach with a whip and chair instead of chalk and slate. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1055:If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do. ~ George Lucas, #NFDB
1056:I look like I just got dragged behind a slow-moving horse through ten acres of wait-a-minute bushes. ~ Mercedes Lackey, #NFDB
1057:I’ve had my tongue on your pussy for ten seconds, Violet, but I could eat it all night. Stop talking. ~ Angelica Chase, #NFDB
1058:Pride is only one form of ego—there are ten thousand others. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Ego and Its Forms, #NFDB
1059:She and Zach Anderson were married for seventy-two hours ten years ago, and she still wasn’t over it. ~ Julie Brannagh, #NFDB
1060:Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books ~ Meles Zenawi, #NFDB
1061:stumped in at ten past ten, wearing a checked windcheater that looked as if it was made from a car rug, ~ Ruth Rendell, #NFDB
1062:Ten en cuenta que el sol no pudo brillar hasta que Papa y Rangi fueron separados. Disfruta del sol, Jack. ~ Sarah Lark, #NFDB
1063:The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
1064:Thomas Edison once said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.” Embracing ~ S J Scott, #NFDB
1065:Whenever you get deja vu that means you're on the right path. I get it, like, more than ten times a year. ~ Kanye West, #NFDB
1066:You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it. ~ Rei Kawakubo, #NFDB
1067:You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that? ~ Bernardo Bertolucci, #NFDB
1068:All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, #NFDB
1069:A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence. ~ Jackson Pollock, #NFDB
1070:A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. ~ Ted Nelson, #NFDB
1071:But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
1072:-¿Cómo te llamas?
Mis amigos me llaman Ira —dice Raffe—. Mis enemigos me llaman Por Favor Ten Piedad. ~ Susan Ee,#NFDB
1073:For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1074:Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1075:He stared for ten seconds or more, which, when eating a chocolate cake isn't much, but when staring, is. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
1076:Lenny’s face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life. ~ Lynne Rae Perkins, #NFDB
1077:No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1078:Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1079:That’s how it was when I was ten: nothing but trouble outside my head, nothing but miracles inside it. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
1080:The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people,” she said. “The hardest is with one. ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB
1081:THE WORLD IS RUN by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
1082:wasn’t sure who would win then. TEN KALDAR lay on a low ridge, wearing one of the Mirror’s night suits. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
1083:Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight... ~ Matthew Quick, #NFDB
1084:And I've never met anybody who said that they were sorry that the Lord Jesus had entered their hearts. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1085:Children under four were transported to their deaths without charge, and those under ten went half-price. ~ Wendy Holden, #NFDB
1086:Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles ~ Du Fu, #NFDB
1087:Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work. ~ Gordon Quinn, #NFDB
1088:Face a single foe as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
1089:Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful things. ~ Pawan Mishra, #NFDB
1090:Folded-over chips are preferable to flat chips—why is that? It’s one of life’s ten million mysteries. ~ Elin Hilderbrand, #NFDB
1091:God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
1092:he hasn’t cut his hair in at least ten years. For all I know that was also the last time he washed it. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
1093:He’s had ten years to make you fall in love with him. I haven’t had ten weeks! Tell me how that’s fair! ~ Sandy Williams, #NFDB
1094:He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely... ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1095:I don't know what I'm doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson, #NFDB
1096:If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!” —T. Harv Eker ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
1097:I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep. ~ Philip Johnson, #NFDB
1098:I had spent the past ten months cultivating solitude, but now I wanted contact, physical and emotional. ~ Helena Hunting, #NFDB
1099:I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it. ~ Jeff Koons, #NFDB
1100:I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison. ~ Daniel Berrigan, #NFDB
1101:I’ve admired Cyrus my entire life and then worshipped Eli the moment he rolled into town when I was ten. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
1102:Let’s be honest: in ten years, the man-bun of the 2010s will be equivalent to the rat-tail of the 1980s. ~ Julie Johnson, #NFDB
1103:Mrs Palissey and I tended to have the same conversations over and over and slightly too often.
~ Dick Francis,#NFDB
1104:People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1105:Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1106:So Emily, how's your pain level on a scale of one to ten?"
"My head's a seven. The boots are twenty. ~ Julie Brannagh,#NFDB
1107:Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie. ~ Robert Mark Kamen, #NFDB
1108:The Berbers have a saying: that God gave the world ten gifts, and that the tenth of those gifts is books… ~ Jane Johnson, #NFDB
1109:The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days. ~ Stephen Jay Gould, #NFDB
1110:THE WORLD IS RUN by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards, ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
1111:The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
1112:We'd all [with Mike Mitchell] been together at Dreamworks for over ten years, so we all had the same goals. ~ Walt Dohrn, #NFDB
1113:where would Christianity be today if Jesus had been given ten to twenty with time off for good behavior ~ William Gaddis, #NFDB
1114:A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly. ~ Leopold von Sacher Masoch, #NFDB
1115:didn’t matter if she had eight toes or ten, amber eyes or blue. What mattered was what she set out to do. ~ Robert Beatty, #NFDB
1116:don’t do yoga,” I told her. “Take it up and drop the bacon sandwiches and it will put ten years on your life. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1117:Dust floats through the feeble beam of the flashlight: ten thousand particles, turning softly, twinkling. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
1118:Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false. ~ Andre Maurois, #NFDB
1119:FACE A SINGLE FOE as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe. ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
1120:How do you learn to write? You sit your ass down in a chair, in front of a laptop, for ten years. Period. ~ Sean Beaudoin, #NFDB
1121:How many miles to Babylon?
Three score and ten!
Can I get there by candle light?
Yes, and back again! ~ E Nesbit,#NFDB
1122:How many miles to Babylon?
Three score and ten!
Can I get there by candle light?
Yes, and back again? ~ E Nesbit,#NFDB
1123:I bet you ten pounds someone falls in the pool. - Lottie
Twenty pounds says I push one of them. - Jamie ~ Connie Glynn,#NFDB
1124:I’d been right before. Ambrose wasn’t half the bastard I thought he was. He was ten times the bastard. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1125:I moved here over a year ago and I already feel like I'm ten times smarter than I was when I first arrived. ~ Jessica Pan, #NFDB
1126:I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume. ~ Shelby Foote, #NFDB
1127:it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
1128:It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat. ~ Diana Wynne Jones, #NFDB
1129:Jestli se ti zdá, že tě ten, ke komu mluvíš, neposlouchá, buď trpělivý. Třeba má jen špinavé uši. MEDVÍDEK PÚ ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1130:Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks." -Sharon, Library of Souls ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
1131:My job was simply to follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to Him in prayer. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1132:Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste. ~ Tug McGraw, #NFDB
1133:People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
1134:Sixty Royal Cubits probably correspond to a one week (i.e., ten days) on the ancient Egyptian calendar. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim, #NFDB
1135:Ten duvarını yıkmak için yılların geçmesi gerekmez, ölmek yeterli. Van Gogh gibi değil ama, Şems gibi. ~ D cane C ndio lu, #NFDB
1136:The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1137:The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
1138:Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word. . . . Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1139:What would it have been for you?” said Ron, sniggering. “A piece of homework that only got nine out of ten? ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1140:What? You search? You would multiply yourself by ten, by a hundred? You seek followers? Seek zeros! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1141:You've got to have gumption. You've got to be willing to stand up on the stage for no money for ten years. ~ Samantha Bee, #NFDB
1142:About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar. ~ Freddie Mercury, #NFDB
1143:An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1144:Anot tibetiečių patarlės: "Tavo šalis yra ten, kur turi draugų, o namai ten, kur esi mylimas." Dalai Lama ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1145:Because I’ve known you for ten years, and it feels so desperately like no time at all, and I need more.” I ~ Sierra Simone, #NFDB
1146:Count your blessings,” the captain says. “And if you count less than ten, cut off the remaining fingers. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
1147:Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart. ~ Marian Hooper Adams, #NFDB
1148:Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1149:Freedom through discipline is the idea behind what has become known as “the ten-thousand-hour rule.”[9] ~ Donald S Whitney, #NFDB
1150:Humans are better equipped for sight than for smell. We process visual input ten times faster than olfactory. ~ Mary Roach, #NFDB
1151:I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night. ~ Tracy Morgan, #NFDB
1152:I’m repairing alien tech with a sleeve, Gunny.” Torin glanced down at her cuff. “So, ten? Fifteen?” “Fifteen. ~ Tanya Huff, #NFDB
1153:Infernal woman, you nearly gave me an apoplexy. They ought to count you among the ten plagues of Egypt! ~ Kristen Callihan, #NFDB
1154:...I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people seem... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
1155:I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1156:I spend like $2 million a year on Chinese food and pizza for ten people in the studio who don't sing or produce. ~ R Kelly, #NFDB
1157:Nie to się liczy, że ludzie na ogół nie kontrolują tego, co myślą, ale że ten, kto chce, ten może kontrolować. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1158:Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone. ~ Georgette Mosbacher, #NFDB
1159:Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore. ~ Florence Nightingale, #NFDB
1160:Some of these people need ten years of therapy - ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy. ~ Jeffrey Zaslow, #NFDB
1161:Sometimes I wish I could go back to being ten years old. Even just for a day. Everything was easier then. ~ Brandy Colbert, #NFDB
1162:spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But finally he had a change of heart ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1163:Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1164:That vase is worth ten shillings at the very most. Look, it has a chip.” “That ain’t a chip; it’s a feature. ~ Emily Organ, #NFDB
1165:the entire world, sharks kill fewer than ten people a year, while coconuts falling from trees take out 150. ~ Stuart Gibbs, #NFDB
1166:When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1167:You're allowed to keep the lights on in your rooms as late as you wish until ten o'clock each night. ~ Trenton Lee Stewart, #NFDB
1168:Among the calves born in SeaWorld who survived more than ten days, the average life span is only 8.8 years. ~ John Hargrove, #NFDB
1169:Count to ten," I whisper to myself. "Count. To. Ten." Becuase when I finish counting, this horror shall end. ~ Tomi Adeyemi, #NFDB
1170:Dunellen was childless, an oddity in this milieu, where the average man had between four and ten offspring. ~ Jennifer Egan, #NFDB
1171:For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!! ~ Margaret Cho, #NFDB
1172:For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. ~ Spike Milligan, #NFDB
1173:I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life. ~ Marya Hornbacher, #NFDB
1174:Martin Seligman once told me, “The best it [psychoanalysis] can do is to bring us from minus ten to zero. ~ Matthieu Ricard, #NFDB
1175:Myleene Klass is just the bomb. Her boyfriend is very lucky. She is a definite ten in every sense of the word. ~ David Gest, #NFDB
1176:My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. Pure what, I don’t think I want to know. ~ Mercedes Lackey, #NFDB
1177:Of course they remember. But it's not gonna be about revenge; it's gonna be about the Big Ten championship. ~ Shannon Brown, #NFDB
1178:One grip shy of a steering column? Grimm suggested. Ten degrees short of a compass? Aviating without goggles? ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1179:Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring. ~ Carl Froch, #NFDB
1180:The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms. ~ Fob James, #NFDB
1181:The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that’s at least ten times better at ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
1182:There are ten thousand planes of awareness within the infinite mind of the diamond mind, your deeper mind. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1183:The region of Westmont in South L.A. has a life expectancy ten years lower than across town in Culver City. ~ James Hamblin, #NFDB
1184:The world is on fire; time is a bomb.
Ten thousand years are not enough
When so much remains to be done ~ Jeet Thayil,#NFDB
1185:To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things. ~ Dogen Zenji, #NFDB
1186:With all our sophistication, the remarkable fact is that the Ten Commandments are more or less all we need. ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
1187:About ten meters beneath us,” Yash says. “We'll be able to map its footprint, just like Stone says. ~ Kristine Kathryn Rusch, #NFDB
1188:If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1189:it took her ten minutes to unruffle in times when half of her feathers was up, but twenty when they was all up, ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1190:of Bloemendaal was said to be one of the most beautiful in Holland. I had never seen it, only the trees at ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1191:Ten dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forgot where you parked your car. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1192:The candidate who billed himself as a billionaire—ten times over—refused even to invest his own money in it. ~ Michael Wolff, #NFDB
1193:"To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things." ~ Dogen Zenji, #NFDB
1194:Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1195:You could do this every day for the next ten years and you still would not have killed as many things as I have. ~ Mark Tufo, #NFDB
1196:ALTHOUGH HE had not got to bed until two, Bond walked into his headquarters punctually at ten the next morning. ~ Ian Fleming, #NFDB
1197:Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this earth or you may get eighty years but nobody gets out alive. ~ Ariel Levy, #NFDB
1198:I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. ~ Billie Holiday, #NFDB
1199:I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV. ~ Janis Joplin, #NFDB
1200:I even set my alarm clock back ten minutes just so that I would have time for my daily existential crisis. Once ~ Lexie Dunne, #NFDB
1201:If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1202:If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
1203:I hope he’s just a scoundrel . . . because a saint can stir up ten times as much mischief as a scoundrel. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
1204:I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me. ~ Lars von Trier, #NFDB
1205:I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did you do to the King? ~ Diana Wynne Jones, #NFDB
1206:In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1207:In the entire world, sharks kill fewer than ten people a year, while coconuts falling from trees take out 150. ~ Stuart Gibbs, #NFDB
1208:I wonder when you stopped telling me everything Yuki.In ten years,that`s the only thing that has ever changed. ~ Matsuri Hino, #NFDB
1209:Jesus. Good thing he’s not a traffic cop, because he’s sending enough mixed signals to cause a ten-car pileup. ~ Sarina Bowen, #NFDB
1210:Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
1211:Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold. ~ Nichiren, #NFDB
1212:My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
1213:Our local department store had two Santas - one for regular kids and one for kids who wanted ten toys or less. ~ Milton Berle, #NFDB
1214:Ten percent of productivity comes from the top percentile and 26% of output derives from the top 5% of workers. ~ Laszlo Bock, #NFDB
1215:The dissection of Hawkeye will begin in ten minutes. All necessary personnel please report to the medical lab. ~ Chelsea Cain, #NFDB
1216:The first ten minutes of sorting through clothing was like choosing which child of mine should live or die. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1217:Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten! ~ John Burroughs, #NFDB
1218:The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB
1219:The things you're crying about today, you might be laughing about in ten years ... and then again ... maybe not. ~ Mark Lowry, #NFDB
1220:The trauma of discovering her body, unmoving in the brackish water of the bathtub, had aged him ten years. ~ Michael Prescott, #NFDB
1221:When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much. ~ Peter Mayhew, #NFDB
1222:who had not felt his daughter’s heart beat against his breast for ten years, “do you want me to die of joy? ~ Honor de Balzac, #NFDB
1223:Why will people be so stupid as to suppose themselves the only foreigners among a crowd of ten thousand persons? ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1224:Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day. ~ Romain Rolland, #NFDB
1225:Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings, Corrie. It’s something we make inside ourselves. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1226:I don't talk down to kids. Usually someone my age who's talking to a ten or twelve year old is yelling at them. ~ Mike Vallely, #NFDB
1227:Life is not all sunshine, but yet I would willingly consent to live ten centuries out of pure curiosity!” That ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
1228:Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold. ~ Nichiren, #NFDB
1229:Me: Because you like him. Bea: I’ll like him for about ten minutes while he bangs me on boxes of nacho cheese. ~ Michelle Lynn, #NFDB
1230:My God, ma'am, you're so pretty I'd walk ten miles barefooted on a freezing morning to stand in your shit. ~ Richard Brautigan, #NFDB
1231:No armor. No buckles. Only a few layers of cotton and ten feet of parlor separated his mouth from her breasts. ~ Meljean Brook, #NFDB
1232:Numbers larger than ten are no longer human: they fly from the hand into the imaginary sky we call hypothesis. ~ Richard Siken, #NFDB
1233:Osama bin Laden has ten look-alikes to fool us Americans. Ten look-alikes, and he's married to five of them. ~ David Letterman, #NFDB
1234:Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock. ~ Chanakya, #NFDB
1235:Söyle bakalım,' dedi en sonunda, 'Roke'ten ayrılmaya korkuyor musun? Yoksa buradan ayrılmaya istekli misin? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1236:Ten kilometers away, the lights of New York glowed on the skyline like a dawn frozen in the act of breaking. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
1237:There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
1238:We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes. ~ J William Fulbright, #NFDB
1239:when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1240:After eating a protein slab, she donned an envirosuit, then girded on her kinetic pistol with a ten-round magazine. ~ Tony Peak, #NFDB
1241:And that new Cadillac she came up in must have cost a bundle. Ten, twelve thousand, at least. Maybe more. ~ William W Johnstone, #NFDB
1242:A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. ~ Emily Bront, #NFDB
1243:... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
1244:Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. ~ Douglas William Jerrold, #NFDB
1245:Frances longed to Google it. How was she going to cope for ten days without instant answers to idle questions? ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
1246:He had that indefinable air which comes to young men who have had to make their way up from a ten-dollar start. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
1247:How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
1248:If you can’t find ten Lisp hackers, then your company is probably based in the wrong city for developing software ~ Paul Graham, #NFDB
1249:Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1250:My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already. ~ Milton Berle, #NFDB
1251:Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
1252:Norint susipažinti su kuriuo nors miestu, pravartu pasidairyti, kaip ten dirbama, kaip mylimasi ir kaip mirštama ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
1253:Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence. ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB
1254:She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1255:She wrinkles up her nose. "It's ten o'clock in the morning."
"So? It's never too early for chocolate. ~ Lauren Barnholdt,#NFDB
1256:Teacher: Suppose you have a box which contains a ten-foot snake. Student: But Mr. Malone, snakes don't have feet! *** ~ Various, #NFDB
1257:The markets are the same now as they were five or ten years ago because they keep changing-just like they did then ~ Ed Seykota, #NFDB
1258:The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law. ~ Cecil B DeMille, #NFDB
1259:We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more. ~ Piet Pieterszoon Hein, #NFDB
1260:What a child experiences between the ages of seven and ten will determine his actions as a teenager and an adult. ~ Laura Bates, #NFDB
1261:Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest. ~ Yasser Arafat, #NFDB
1262:Will you please move into my apartment and share this amazingly comfortable ten-thousand-dollar bed with me? ~ Rachel Van Dyken, #NFDB
1263:Wszyscy powinniśmy przynajmniej raz w życiu dostać owację na stojąco, bo przecież każdy z nas zwycięża ten świat. ~ R J Palacio, #NFDB
1264:Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone. ~ Shelley Winters, #NFDB
1265:A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
1266:A fine pickle we are in.” “A fine pickle? An Americanism?” “Yes. Ten years there and my language is polluted. ~ Kristen Callihan, #NFDB
1267:A lot of the time, even the CEO only has about ten percent of the info needed to make a good decision. Speaking ~ Sophia Amoruso, #NFDB
1268:A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
1269:Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times. ~ Sam Dunn, #NFDB
1270:Call me once you’ve taken care of that hard-on in your pants, so you’ll last longer than ten seconds when we fuck. ~ Tina Folsom, #NFDB
1271:Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou went observed by ten eyes and pointed at by ten fingers ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1272:For all that I lack in confidence, I'll make up for it ten times, a hundred times more, by forever trying my best. ~ Io Sakisaka, #NFDB
1273:Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. ~ Richard Ellmann, #NFDB
1274:It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten. ~ Rob Bell, #NFDB
1275:Nech nesúdia len ľudia príliš smele
tak ako ten, čo zbožie ide v pole
už šacovať, kým nie je ešte zrelé! ~ Dante Alighieri,#NFDB
1276:No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. ~ Henry Adams, #NFDB
1277:No one was good and no one over the age of ten was unscarred. Life was brutal and it made victims of everyone ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1278:Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008. ~ Larry Sabato, #NFDB
1279:Ten different questions popped into his mind. He forgot them all when Aria smiled and said, "You look handsome. ~ Veronica Rossi, #NFDB
1280:«Ten por seguro que lo que nos pertenece es nuestro en este y en todos los mundos paralelos que puedan existir.» ~ Lorena Franco, #NFDB
1281:Ten thousand years to plan the eradication of humans from Earth and this is the best they can come up with? That’s ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
1282:The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
1283:The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then. ~ May Swenson, #NFDB
1284:The theory that any idea that takes more than ten minutes to communicate is probably too complicated to be any good ~ W Chan Kim, #NFDB
1285:We don't get much of a spring or fall to speak of. Up here, for ten months a year, the weather has teeth in it. ~ Marcel Theroux, #NFDB
1286:What is it? Tea with the Queen?"
"Don't be ridiculous - it's only ten." Ian tapped his watch. "Tea's at four. ~ Sarwat Chadda,#NFDB
1287:You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win. ~ Ho Chi Minh, #NFDB
1288:A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1289:Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far? ~ Gretel Ehrlich, #NFDB
1290:and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
1291:Any shlub can pick up a girl at a bar. Want a challenge? Try keeping a beautiful woman happy for ten years running. ~ Peter Burke, #NFDB
1292:A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
1293:A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
1294:Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1295:FEAR THICKENS TIME, TURNS IT slow and viscous. One second of deeply felt terror lasts longer than ten regular seconds. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
1296:I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
1297:I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game. ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
1298:I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them! ~ Sonia Rykiel, #NFDB
1299:In every dance movie ever made—and I knew because I’d seen them all at least ten times—the two leads fall in love. ~ Una LaMarche, #NFDB
1300:Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history. ~ Michael Holroyd, #NFDB
1301:My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through. ~ Pamela Anderson, #NFDB
1302:Seven out of ten guests will go to a church website as a determinative factor in where they will choose to visit. ~ Thom S Rainer, #NFDB
1303:Šťastný je muž, který se ožení se svou milovanou, ale ještě Šťastnější je ten, jenž miluje ženu, kterou si vzal. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1304:Ten cuidado con tus sueños: son la sirena de las almas. Ella canta. Nos llama. La seguimos y jamás retornamos. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
1305:[when asked by his secretary if she should destroy all files that were over ten years old] Yes, but keep copies. ~ Samuel Goldwyn, #NFDB
1306:When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
1307:A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. ~ James Gould Cozzens, #NFDB
1308:And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1309:And I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
1310:And ten miles from this snowy spot, Lacey had helplessly watched Suzanne vanish into the dark night with a killer. ~ Kendra Elliot, #NFDB
1311:At ten, I couldn’t articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well. ~ Karen Russell, #NFDB
1312:Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
1313:Earrings are the same as sneezes: Two is okay, but ten in a row is annoying. If you have two then, God bless you. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
1314:Everything people call fabulous or amazing lasts for about ten minutes before the culture moves on to the next thing. ~ Kim Gordon, #NFDB
1315:Grab some caviar from the kitchen. You wouldn't believe the muck they feed us in Bartleby's for ten thousand a term. ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
1316:I broke a date for him. To-day I feel I'd break anything for him, including the ten commandments and my neck. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1317:I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. ~ Billy Wilder, #NFDB
1318:I knew that her love for me was vaster than the ten thousand things and also the ten thousand things beyond that. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
1319:I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldn’t have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1320:It is estimated that humans are capable of more than ten thousand different facial expressions (Ekman, 2003, 14–15). ~ Joe Navarro, #NFDB
1321:It was strange that a society which hid the facts of sex from children made no effort to shield them from death. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1322:I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood. ~ Chris Martin, #NFDB
1323:Kind of like getting married.” I smiled at him. “It’s easy to say I do, but ten times harder to say I don’t. ~ Denise Grover Swank, #NFDB
1324:Little did I realise how much I would miss those ten minutes, those ten minutes in which I lived an entire lifetime. ~ Faraaz Kazi, #NFDB
1325:Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years. ~ David Heinemeier Hansson, #NFDB
1326:Now, i'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1327:Of course, in my imagination, the ten extra pounds on my thighs and butt have miraculously relocated to my breasts. I ~ Kate Aster, #NFDB
1328:One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
1329:She would drive a saint to murder. Like, ten-stab-wounds-to-the-torso murder.” “Good thing you’re not a saint. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
1330:Ten books in and the Red Stone Security series is still going strong because of you, my wonderful readers. Thank you. ~ Katie Reus, #NFDB
1331:Ten en cuenta que si regalas algo a tu amante antes de haberla poseído, es muy fácil que te quedes sin regalo y sin amante. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
1332:There’s a security guard, like, ten feet away. I could have you kicked out of here.”
“For what? Being awesome? ~ Victoria Scott,#NFDB
1333:Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good. ~ Ingvar Kamprad, #NFDB
1334:What a child experiences between the ages of seven and ten will determine his actions as a teenager and an adult.” I ~ Laura Bates, #NFDB
1335:When I can make
Of ten small words a rope to hang the world!
"I had you and I have you now no more. ~ Edna St Vincent Millay,#NFDB
1336:While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. ~ Giovanni Boccaccio, #NFDB
1337:You never know the complicated deals two people negotiate in order to stay married beyond the first ten minutes. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1338:You think people never say what they mean. The truth is, nine times out of ten what they say is all they mean. ~ Zia Haider Rahman, #NFDB
1339:A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases. ~ Edwin Lefevre, #NFDB
1340:A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1341:And while from inside we would hear coughs and stirrings, there was never a rustle in the listeners out the door. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1342:A thousand days of training to develop, ten thousand days of training to polish. You must examine all this well. ~ Miyamoto Musashi, #NFDB
1343:A thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee (Psalm 91:7). ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
1344:Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years. ~ Thomas A Edison, #NFDB
1345:Eight in ten Britons report being too busy to eat dessert, even though four in ten say dessert is better than sex. ~ Brigid Schulte, #NFDB
1346:Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false, dangerous. ~ Andr Maurois, #NFDB
1347:He's meeting his girl now, a girl not much older than 14. A five-and-ten-cents store Cleopatra, a four letter word. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1348:Aingeal, there is only one thing on my body that's ten inches long, and if you'll recall, the scar is no' it. ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
1349:I felt like I was ten again and had been caught using my uncle's Cuban cigars as miniature canoes in the toilet. ~ Katie MacAlister, #NFDB
1350:If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
1351:In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy. ~ Yehuda Levi, #NFDB
1352:In ten months you can get used to some of the mechanics of being alone, but it takes longer for the hurt to heal. ~ Gilly Macmillan, #NFDB
1353:n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1354:... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty. ~ John Boyne, #NFDB
1355:Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As "Thank yous" for good things "small"-or even large-done in the last two weeks. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB
1356:Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. ~ Sam Levenson, #NFDB
1357:Star of my life, to the stars your face is turned;
Would I were the heavens, looking back at you with ten thousand eyes. ~ Plato,#NFDB
1358:Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1359:ten years of whorehouse joy I’m alone now in the mountains the pines are like a jail the wind scratches my skin Ikky ~ Stephen Berg, #NFDB
1360:The Black Death was a faithful visitor to Florence. It arrived, on average, once every ten years, always in the summer. ~ Ross King, #NFDB
1361:The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
1362:The maybe-groupie put her hands in the air. She wore, God help her, a T-shirt that read, “Ten-A-Fly’s Main Ho!” Pops ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
1363:The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
1364:[The wall will be] ten feet taller. And every time they [Mexicans] protest, it`s going to go up a little bit higher. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1365:We're sharing things in our lives everyday that we wouldn't have picked up the phone to talk about ten years ago. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk, #NFDB
1366:When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. ~ Martin Garrix, #NFDB
1367:When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten. ~ Erma Bombeck, #NFDB
1368:You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say. ~ Jonathan Meades, #NFDB
1369:You know, I watched the original 'Same Time, Next Year' on DVD about ten times this year, and I cried all ten times. ~ Mark Duplass, #NFDB
1370:A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men.
I have the strength of one small boy... with polio. ~ Woody Allen,#NFDB
1371:Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
1372:A thousand days of training to develop, ten thousand days of training to polish. You must examine all this well. ~ Miyamoto Musashi, #NFDB
1373:Author Malcolm Gladwell believes that one can be an expert at something after putting in ten thousand hours of practice. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1374:can take up to ten million years to clean an ocean—but if you are not in a hurry it is marvellously efficient. Perhaps ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
1375:Drop your lower jaw!” Mr. Moorman called down the long room. “Keep your mouth open and it will save your eardrums. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1376:...for every ten who worship you, one wants to see you burn. Those are simply the odds when it comes to people like us. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
1377:He could hear the amusement in her voice. It was the sound of the look she’d been wearing for the past ten minutes. ~ Becky Chambers, #NFDB
1378:Hi,’ Jake said. ‘I met you earlier today, but you were a lot younger then.’
‘I was a lot younger ten minutes ago. ~ Stephen King,#NFDB
1379:His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside of it! ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1380:I dabble in all kinds of spirituality. I studied Kabbalah for over ten years, and you know it's all basically the same. ~ Lisa Rinna, #NFDB
1381:If you know how to go back to her and listen carefully every day for five or ten minutes, healing will take place. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1382:It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
1383:It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
1384:I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes. ~ Jo Brand, #NFDB
1385:I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years. ~ A Trak, #NFDB
1386:Maybe, thought Alice fearfully, the other Alice who has been living my life for the last ten years isn't very nice. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
1387:Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before... ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1388:O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed. ~ John Keats, #NFDB
1389:One person with knowledge of his life’s purpose is more powerful than ten thousand working without that knowledge. It ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
1390:Sex with a married woman ten years his senior was stress free and fulfilling, because it couldn't lead to anything ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1391:Take two Afghans who've never met, put them in a room for ten minutes, and they'll figure out how they're related. ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
1392:the final toll of the Battle of Hue numbers well over ten thousand, making it by far the bloodiest of the Vietnam War. ~ Mark Bowden, #NFDB
1393:When you're dating someone, you need to have intercourse at least ten times before you start talking about The Future. ~ Mimi Strong, #NFDB
1394:You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician. ~ Dalton Trumbo, #NFDB
1395:As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance. ~ Huineng, #NFDB
1396:Damn it all to hell. Hemmick! You were supposed to wake them up ten miles ago." "I don't want to die," Nicky said. Dan ~ Nora Sakavic, #NFDB
1397:Doesn't matter how many people are in the crowd anymore, Delilah. Ten or ten thousand, I'm still only singing for one. ~ Sarah Ockler, #NFDB
1398:Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1399:Forgive me if I'm wrong. But are you-were you-did you come here on a train from New York about ten years ago? ~ Christina Baker Kline, #NFDB
1400:I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function. ~ Britt Ekland, #NFDB
1401:I come from a stupid family. My uncle heard that most deaths occurs within ten miles of the house...so he moved. ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
1402:I had this movie, Death Race, that was a passion project for me that I'd had in development for almost ten years. ~ Paul W S Anderson, #NFDB
1403:In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1404:It’s all right,” he said with the wisdom of his ten years. “He’s a polar bear, like me. I’ll take care of him, now. ~ Jennifer Ashley, #NFDB
1405:It was ten against ten. So, as Svengal later recounted, it was no contest. He had the enemy outnumbered three to one. ~ John Flanagan, #NFDB
1406:Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” ~ ~ Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, Ph.D. #transformation, #NFDB
1407:Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer, #NFDB
1408:My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years. ~ Condola Rashad, #NFDB
1409:Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1410:One does not leave so small and beautiful a female creature alone with ten heated men in the middle of the night. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1411:Ten paciencia y vive en la conciencia de que todo lo que buscas llegará tarde o temprano si te preparas debidamente. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
1412:The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
1413:The end never comes when you think it will. It’s always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
1414:The missile has a solid-fuel rocket engine with a ten-kilometre range and more brainpower than a roomful of nerds. ~ Robert Muchamore, #NFDB
1415:There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars. ~ Mary Roach, #NFDB
1416:These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored. ~ Langston Hughes, #NFDB
1417:We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged. ~ Bashar al Assad, #NFDB
1418:...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU. ~ Jacques Delors, #NFDB
1419:You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
1420:As ever, it was fifty percent fashion show, forty percent club, ten percent sex party, and one hundred percent annoying. ~ Alexis Hall, #NFDB
1421:Because I'm okay with you having ten other people be your favorite. But you're always going to be my favorite person. ~ Mariana Zapata, #NFDB
1422:Blondie?" Ten asked with a snort. "Hell, yes, she'll be fine. God wouldn't let something bad happen to one of his angels. ~ Linda Kage, #NFDB
1423:I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end. ~ Qin Shi Huang, #NFDB
1424:If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1425:I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into space. ~ John Glenn, #NFDB
1426:I'm standing on the balcony a full ten seconds before I realize it's raining, washing me clean of my boiling anger. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
1427:It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years. ~ Chath Piersath, #NFDB
1428:Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. ~ Claudine Guerin de Tencin, #NFDB
1429:Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
1430:Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about them. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1431:That was Father’s secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn’t know they were there. And ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1432:There’s a security guard, like, ten feet away. I could have you kicked out of here.”
“For what? Being awesome? ~ Victoria Scott,#NFDB
1433:The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute... ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1434:This was perfect. I was about a ten on the poison scale. If he needed venom, I could inject it directly into his neck. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
1435: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
1436:Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves? ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
1437:And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more. ~ Ogden Nash, #NFDB
1438:He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master. ~ Matsuo Basho, #NFDB
1439:I exercise a lot and I love it. I'm fine. But you know, I'd like to be alive in ten years, that'd be my first priority. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
1440:If I was married with ten kids, I wouldn’t be talking on the phone with you. I’d be shooting myself in the fucking head. ~ Joanna Wylde, #NFDB
1441:If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you ~ Calvin Coolidge, #NFDB
1442:I love anybody funny. I think my ten-year-old sister is really funny. She makes me laugh way more than most people do. ~ Chelsea Martin, #NFDB
1443:In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten. ~ Peter Lynch, #NFDB
1444:It also doesn’t help that there are ten guys for every cute girl. In other words, don’t sign up for a gym just for the girls. ~ Roosh V, #NFDB
1445:It is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1446:I want to hate you, to loathe you, to detest you, but for all my attempts, the need to touch you is ten times more powerful. ~ Nely Cab, #NFDB
1447:Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
1448:Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle ~ Chip Heath, #NFDB
1449:Over ten thousand people have signed a petition to recall Governor Schwarzenegger. I'm sorry, that is next year's joke. ~ Craig Kilborn, #NFDB
1450:scientist, identifiable by his Hush Puppies, walked across the plaza, deep in thought. Ten minutes later, Sandy arrived. ~ Scott Cramer, #NFDB
1451:Shall I count to ten and then ring a bell before I dive down between your legs?” Dustin teased and sent her a wicked smile. ~ Kris Cook, #NFDB
1452:Ten episodes goes by really quickly, especially when you've got a really tough shooting schedule of seven-day episodes. ~ Tricia Helfer, #NFDB
1453:The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets.
He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence. ~ P G Wodehouse,#NFDB
1454:There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1455:To be honest, I’m trying to maintain a Buddhist detachment about the whole thing to stop it taking ten years off my life. ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
1456:An area of land used for crops will feed about ten times as many people as the same area of land used for grass-fed beef. ~ Peter Singer, #NFDB
1457:Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. ~ Ted Williams, #NFDB
1458:because all I see when I look at him are eyes the color of a sky I ached to see but was kept hidden from me for ten years. ~ Carian Cole, #NFDB
1459:Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe. Then I wash my face and check my karma. ~ Drew Barrymore, #NFDB
1460:Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Every ten years a great man.
Who paid the bill? ~ Bertolt Brecht,#NFDB
1461:for every soldier who serves in a war zone abroad, there are ten children who are endangered in their own homes. ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
1462:If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
1463:If I dont get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh. ~ Chris Abani, #NFDB
1464:I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
1465:If you had witnessed life on Earth up to ten thousand years ago, that would not have prepared you for what was to come. ~ Pedro Domingos, #NFDB
1466:If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong. ~ Charles Kettering, #NFDB
1467:If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. ~ Calvin Coolidge, #NFDB
1468:I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle. ~ Henry Addington 1st Viscount Sidmouth, #NFDB
1469:I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
1470:I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over. ~ Jack Wild, #NFDB
1471:More than two million households had found ten shillings for the BBC license fee to bring radio into their homes, ~ Sarah Jane Stratford, #NFDB
1472:Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep. ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
1473:What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
1474:When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1475:You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1476:According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1477:And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, / No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
1478:And for the last ten or so years of my life, whenever my father was in the house, I've learned how to make myself scarce. ~ Jessica Brody, #NFDB
1479:Did he just use the word indubitably four times in the span of ten seconds?” J’ai asked. “Indubitably,” responded Elloree. ~ Sybil Nelson, #NFDB
1480:Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers. ~ Luis Bunuel, #NFDB
1481:I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect. ~ Guillermo del Toro, #NFDB
1482:I felt no repugnance- I knew I was wicked, ten times more wicked, and that thought both braced and delighted me. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
1483:If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments. ~ Zig Ziglar, #NFDB
1484:If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end. ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
1485:I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long. ~ Charlie Daniels, #NFDB
1486:Is anything illegal here?” Addison asked. “Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that’s just for paperbacks. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
1487:It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy. ~ James C Collins, #NFDB
1488:Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. ~ William F Buckley Jr, #NFDB
1489:My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
1490:on his own base. The Clericuzio estate in Quogue comprised twenty acres surrounded by a ten-foot-high redbrick wall armed by ~ Mario Puzo, #NFDB
1491:Shit of ten horses,” his twin said in the Old Language. “The new aftershave of the lessers,” Phury muttered, rubbing his eyes. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
1492:Su esmerado maquillaje le daba un aspecto severo que hubiera despertado la envidia de cualquier dominátrix profesional. Ten ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1493:Ten years ago. He was eight.” Dante’s voice shook with emotion and he dropped his eyes. “How old were you?” “Sixteen.” I ~ Sloane Kennedy, #NFDB
1494:There Kelvin proved himself such a prodigy that he was admitted to Glasgow University at the exceedingly tender age of ten. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
1495:They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun. ~ Maud Hart Lovelace, #NFDB
1496:This, my students, was the first cure I did discover for my lean purse: For each ten coins I put in, to spend but nine. ~ George S Clason, #NFDB
1497:You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
1498:You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
1499:A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
1500:And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
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99 William Wordsworth
82 Aleister Crowley
78 H P Lovecraft
65 Walt Whitman
61 Carl Jung
60 Percy Bysshe Shelley
55 Sri Ramakrishna
53 John Keats
52 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
48 James George Frazer
31 Robert Browning
29 Plotinus
28 Saint Augustine of Hippo
26 Swami Krishnananda
24 Friedrich Nietzsche
24 A B Purani
22 Jorge Luis Borges
22 Friedrich Schiller
21 Aldous Huxley
20 William Butler Yeats
18 Ralph Waldo Emerson
18 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
17 Li Bai
17 Anonymous
14 Vyasa
13 Swami Vivekananda
13 Ovid
12 Rabindranath Tagore
11 Lucretius
11 George Van Vrekhem
10 Rudolf Steiner
10 Plato
9 Nirodbaran
9 Edgar Allan Poe
8 Saint Teresa of Avila
8 Saint John of Climacus
8 Rainer Maria Rilke
8 Paul Richard
7 Sri Ramana Maharshi
7 Rabbi Moses Luzzatto
7 Norbert Wiener
7 Henry David Thoreau
7 Alfred Tennyson
6 Peter J Carroll
6 Jordan Peterson
6 Baha u llah
5 Thubten Chodron
5 Joseph Campbell
5 Jalaluddin Rumi
5 Bokar Rinpoche
5 Al-Ghazali
4 Swami Sivananda Saraswati
4 Alice Bailey
3 R Buckminster Fuller
3 Patanjali
3 Omar Khayyam
3 Lewis Carroll
3 Ken Wilber
3 Kabir
3 Jayadeva
3 Ibn Arabi
3 Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia
3 Franz Bardon
3 Aristotle
2 Taigu Ryokan
2 Ramprasad
2 Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
2 Mahendranath Gupta
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Jetsun Milarepa
2 Jean Gebser
2 Italo Calvino
2 Hafiz
2 Genpo Roshi
368 Record of Yoga
99 Wordsworth - Poems
87 The Synthesis Of Yoga
78 Lovecraft - Poems
62 Whitman - Poems
60 Shelley - Poems
53 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
53 Keats - Poems
53 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
48 The Golden Bough
44 Magick Without Tears
36 Savitri
35 The Life Divine
35 Letters On Yoga IV
35 Agenda Vol 03
35 Agenda Vol 01
33 Liber ABA
33 Agenda Vol 08
33 Agenda Vol 06
33 Agenda Vol 04
32 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
31 Browning - Poems
29 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
29 Agenda Vol 10
29 Agenda Vol 05
28 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
27 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
27 Agenda Vol 02
26 The Study and Practice of Yoga
26 Agenda Vol 13
26 Agenda Vol 09
24 The Human Cycle
24 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
23 Mysterium Coniunctionis
23 Letters On Yoga II
22 Schiller - Poems
22 Agenda Vol 11
21 The Perennial Philosophy
21 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
21 Prayers And Meditations
21 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
20 Yeats - Poems
20 City of God
20 Agenda Vol 07
19 The Future of Man
19 Questions And Answers 1953
19 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
19 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
18 The Practice of Psycho therapy
18 Emerson - Poems
18 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
17 Questions And Answers 1956
17 Li Bai - Poems
17 Collected Poems
16 Questions And Answers 1955
16 Labyrinths
15 Words Of Long Ago
15 The Bible
15 Essays On The Gita
14 Vishnu Purana
14 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
14 The Phenomenon of Man
14 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
14 Agenda Vol 12
13 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
13 On the Way to Supermanhood
13 Metamorphoses
12 Talks
12 Tagore - Poems
12 Let Me Explain
12 Faust
11 Preparing for the Miraculous
11 Of The Nature Of Things
11 Letters On Yoga III
11 Aion
10 Vedic and Philological Studies
10 Twilight of the Idols
10 The Divine Comedy
10 Some Answers From The Mother
9 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
9 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
9 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
9 Questions And Answers 1954
9 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
9 On Education
9 Isha Upanishad
9 Essays Divine And Human
9 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
8 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
8 Rilke - Poems
8 Poe - Poems
8 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
8 Letters On Yoga I
8 Anonymous - Poems
7 Walden
7 The Secret Of The Veda
7 Raja-Yoga
7 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
7 Hymn of the Universe
7 General Principles of Kabbalah
7 Cybernetics
7 Crowley - Poems
7 5.1.01 - Ilion
6 The Secret Doctrine
6 Maps of Meaning
6 Liber Null
6 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
6 Goethe - Poems
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
5 The Way of Perfection
5 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
5 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
5 The Blue Cliff Records
5 The Alchemy of Happiness
5 Tara - The Feminine Divine
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
5 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
5 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
5 Dark Night of the Soul
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
5 Borges - Poems
4 Words Of The Mother II
4 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
4 Letters On Poetry And Art
4 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
3 The Red Book Liber Novus
3 Theosophy
3 The Lotus Sutra
3 The Integral Yoga
3 The Book of Certitude
3 Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
3 Song of Myself
3 Sex Ecology Spirituality
3 Rumi - Poems
3 Poetics
3 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
3 Bhakti-Yoga
3 Amrita Gita
3 Alice in Wonderland
2 Words Of The Mother I
2 The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
2 The Problems of Philosophy
2 The Practice of Magical Evocation
2 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
2 The Ever-Present Origin
2 The Castle of Crossed Destinies
2 Symposium
2 Songs of Kabir
2 Selected Fictions
2 Ryokan - Poems
2 Milarepa - Poems
2 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
2 Arabi - Poems
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The biological process, described in what may seem to be crude and mediaeval terms, really reflects or echoes a more subtle and psychological process. The images used form perhaps part of the current popular notion about the matter, but the esoteric sense goes beyond the outer symbols. The sky seems to be the far and tenuous region where the soul rests and awaits its next birthit is the region of Soma, the own Home of Bliss and Immortality. Now when the time or call comes, the soul stirs and journeys down that is the Rain. Next, it enters the earth atmosphere and clothes itself with the earth consciousness. Then it waits and calls for the formation of the material body, first by the contri bution of the father and then by that of the mother; when these two unite and the material body is formed, the soul incarnates.
Apart from the question whether the biological phenomenon described is really a symbol and a cloak for another order of reality, and even taking it at its face value, what is to be noted here is the idea of a cosmic cycle, and a cosmic cycle that proceeds through the principle of sacrifice. If it is asked what there is wonderful or particularly spiritual in this rather naf description of a very commonplace happening that gives it an honoured place in the Upanishads, the answer is that it is wonderful to see how the Upanishadic Rishi takes from an event its local, temporal and personal colour and incorporates it in a global movement, a cosmic cycle, as a limb of the Universal Brahman. The Upanishads contain passages which a puritanical mentality may perhaps describe as 'pornographic'; these have in fact been put by some on the Index expurgatorius. But the ancients saw these matters with other eyes and through another consciousness.
00.04 - The Beautiful in the Upanishads, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
tenmtatvasyeena
O Lord of Immortality! Thy' heart of beauty that is sheltered in the moon
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The perception of beauty in the Upanishadic consciousness is something elemental-of concentrated essence. It silhouettes the main contour, outlines the primordial gestures. Pregnant and pulsating with the burden of beauty, the mantra here reduces its external expression to a minimum. The body is bare and unadorned, and even in its nakedness, it has not the emphatic and vehement musculature of an athlete; rather it tends to be slim and slender and yet vibrant with the inner nervous vigour and glow. What can be more bare and brief and full to the brim of a self-gathered luminous energy than, for example:
yat prena na praiti yena pra
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Art at its highest tends to become also the simplest and the most unconventional; and it is then the highest art, precisely because it does not aim at being artistic. The aesthetic motive is totally absent in the Upanishads; the sense of beauty is there, but it is at tendant upon and involved in a deeper strand of consciousness. That consciousness seeks consciousness itself, the fullness of consciousness, the awareness and possession of the Truth and Reality,the one thing which, if known, gives the knowledge of all else. And this consciousness of the Truth is also Delight, the perfect Bliss, the Immortality where the whole universe resolves itself into its original state of rasa, that is to say, of essential and inalienable harmony and beauty.
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0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
At this juncture let me call at tention to one set of attri butions by Rittangelius usually found as an appendix attached to the Sepher Yetzirah. It lists a series of "Intelligences" for each one of the ten Sephiros and the twenty-two Paths of the Tree of Life. It seems to me, after prolonged meditation, that the common attri butions of these Intelligences is altogether arbitrary and lacking in serious meaning.
For example, Keser is called "The Admirable or the Hidden Intelligence; it is the Primal Glory, for no created being can attain to its essence." This seems perfectly all right; the meaning at first sight seems to fit the significance of Keser as the first emanation from Ain Soph. But there are half a dozen other similar attri butions that would have served equally well. For instance, it could have been called the "Occult Intelligence" usually attri buted to the seventh Path or Sephirah, for surely Keser is secret in a way to be said of no other Sephirah. And what about the "Absolute or Perfect Intelligence." That would have been even more explicit and appropriate, being applicable to Keser far more than to any other of the Paths. Similarly, there is one attri buted to the 16th Path and called "The Eternal or Triumphant Intelligence," so-called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous." Any of these several would have done equally well. Much is true of so many of the other attri butions in this particular area-that is the so-called Intelligences of the Sepher Yetzirah. I do not think that their use or current arbitrary usage stands up to serious examination or criticism.
000 - Humans in Universe, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
compression and tension spars, sails, and rigging-replacing the trial-and-error
guesswork that had previously been used in naval and land architecture. This
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000.114 All structural systems are comprised of tension and compression
components. Stone masonry has a high compression-resisting strength of 50,000
pounds per square inch ultimate. But masonry has low tensional coherence; it can
withstand only 50 pounds per square inch tensing. Stone-Age-derived masonry is a
thousand times more effective in its resistance to compression than to tension.
000.115 Throughout the three million known years of the Stone Age humans
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they were shaken apart by earthquakes against which they had almost no tensionally
cohering resistance. Gravity pushed humanity's stone structures inward toward the
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water. But nature had invented low-weight wood of high self-cohering tensile
strength (averaging approximately 10,000 p.s.i.) and of relatively low compression-
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humans but not for floating heavy cargoes. Thus the high tensile strength of wood,
combined with the human discovery of the intertrussing principles of structuring
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iron, carbon, and manganese having a tensile strength of 50,000 p.s.i. as well as a
compression-resisting capability of 50.000 p.s.i. Steel has the same compression-
resistance capability as masonry, but it also has a thousand times greater tensile
capability than masonry and five times the tensile or compressive strength of wood.
Steel brought mankind a structural- tension capability to match stone's previous
millions of years of exclusive compressional supremacy. With far higher tensile
strength per weight than wood, steel made possible even more powerful watertight,
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000.118 As of the 1970s the human mind has developed a practical tensile
structuring capability of 600,000 p.s.i. The means of accomplishing this new and
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humanity has as yet no idea that this increase in tensile capability has come about or
how it came about or why it works. While humans cannot see the ever-lessening
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Gadadhar was now permitted to worship Raghuvir. Thus began his first training in meditation. He so gave his heart and soul to the worship that the stone image very soon appeared to him as the living Lord of the Universe. His tendency to lose himself in contemplation was first noticed at this time. Behind his boyish light-heartedness was seen a deepening of his spiritual nature.
About this time, on the Sivaratri night, consecrated to the worship of Siva, a dramatic performance was arranged. The principal actor, who was to play the part of Siva, suddenly fell ill, and Gadadhar was persuaded to act in his place. While friends were dressing him for the role of Siva — smearing his body with ashes, matting his locks, placing a trident in his hand and a string of rudraksha beads around his neck — the boy appeared to become absent-minded. He approached the stage with slow and measured step, supported by his friends. He looked the living image of Siva. The audience loudly applauded what it took to be his skill as an actor, but it was soon discovered that he was really lost in meditation. His coun tenance was radiant and tears flowed from his eyes. He was lost to the outer world. The effect of this scene on the audience was tremendous. The people felt blessed as by a vision of Siva Himself. The performance had to be stopped, and the boy's mood lasted till the following morning.
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The main temple is dedicated to Kali, the Divine Mother, here worshipped as Bhavatarini, the Saviour of the Universe. The floor of this temple also is paved with marble. The basalt image of the Mother, dressed in gorgeous gold brocade, stands on a white marble image of the prostrate body of Her Divine Consort, Siva, the symbol of the Absolute. On the feet of the Goddess are, among other ornaments, anklets of gold. Her arms are decked with jewelled ornaments of gold. She wears necklaces of gold and pearls, a golden garland of human heads, and a girdle of human arms. She wears a golden crown, golden ear-rings, and a golden nose-ring with a pearl-drop. She has four arms. The lower left hand holds a severed human head and the upper grips a blood-stained sabre. One right hand offers boons to Her children; the other allays their fear. The majesty of Her posture can hardly be described. It combines the terror of destruction with the reassurance of motherly tenderness. For She is the Cosmic Power, the totality of the universe, a glorious harmony of the pairs of opposites. She deals out death, as She creates and preserves. She has three eyes, the third being the symbol of Divine Wisdom; they strike dismay into the wicked, yet pour out affection for Her devotees.
The whole symbolic world is represented in the temple garden — the Trinity of the Nature Mother (Kali), the Absolute (Siva), and Love (Radhakanta), the Arch spanning heaven and earth. The terrific Goddess of the Tantra, the soul-enthralling Flute-Player of the Bhagavata, and the Self-absorbed Absolute of the Vedas live together, creating the greatest synthesis of religions. All aspects of Reality are represented there. But of this divine household, Kali is the pivot, the sovereign Mistress. She is Prakriti, the Procreatrix, Nature, the Destroyer, the Creator. Nay, She is something greater and deeper still for those who have eyes to see. She is the Universal Mother, "my Mother" as Ramakrishna would say, the All-powerful, who reveals Herself to Her children under different aspects and Divine Incarnations, the Visible God, who leads the elect to the Invisible Reality; and if it so pleases Her, She takes away the last trace of ego from created beings and merges it in the consciousness of the Absolute, the undifferentiated God. Through Her grace "the finite ego loses itself in the illimitable Ego — Atman — Brahman". (Romain Holland, Prophets of the New India, p. 11.)
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And, indeed, he soon discovered what a strange Goddess he had chosen to serve. He became gradually enmeshed in the web of Her all-pervading presence. To the ignorant She is, to be sure, the image of destruction; but he found in Her the benign, all-loving Mother. Her neck is encircled with a garland of heads, and Her waist with a girdle of human arms, and two of Her hands hold weapons of death, and Her eyes dart a glance of fire; but, strangely enough, Ramakrishna felt in Her breath the soothing touch of tender love and saw in Her the Seed of Immortality. She stands on the bosom of Her Consort, Siva; it is because She is the Sakti, the Power, inseparable from the Absolute. She is surrounded by jackals and other unholy creatures, the denizens of the cremation ground. But is not the Ultimate Reality above holiness and unholiness? She appears to be reeling under the spell of wine. But who would create this mad world unless under the influence of a divine drunkenness? She is the highest symbol of all the forces of nature, the synthesis of their antinomies, the Ultimate Divine in the form of woman. She now became to Sri Ramakrishna the only Reality, and the world became an unsubstantial shadow. Into Her worship he poured his soul. Before him She stood as the transparent portal to the shrine of Ineffable Reality.
The worship in the temple in tensified Sri Ramakrishna's yearning for a living vision of the Mother of the Universe. He began to spend in meditation the time not actually employed in the temple service; and for this purpose he selected an extremely solitary place. A deep jungle, thick with underbrush and prickly plants, lay to the north of the temples. Used at one time as a burial ground, it was shunned by people even during the day-time for fear of ghosts. There Sri Ramakrishna began to spend the whole night in meditation, returning to his room only in the morning with eyes swollen as though from much weeping. While meditating, he would lay aside his cloth and his brahminical thread. Explaining this strange conduct, he once said to Hriday: "Don't you know that when one thinks of God one should be freed from all ties? From our very birth we have the eight fetters of hatred, shame, lineage, pride of good conduct, fear, secretiveness, caste, and grief. The sacred thread reminds me that I am a brahmin and therefore superior to all. When calling on the Mother one has to set aside all such ideas." Hriday thought his uncle was becoming insane.
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Mathur and Rani Rasmani began to ascribe the mental ailment of Sri Ramakrishna in part, at least, to his observance of rigid continence. Thinking that a natural life would relax the tension of his nerves, they engineered a plan with two women of ill fame. But as soon as the women entered his room, Sri Ramakrishna beheld in them the manifestation of the Divine Mother of the Universe and went into samadhi uttering Her name.
--- HALADHARI
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Hardly had he crossed the threshold of the Kali temple when he found himself again in the whirlwind. His madness reappeared tenfold. The same meditation and prayer, the same ecstatic moods, the same burning sensation, the same weeping, the same sleeplessness, the same indifference to the body and the outside world, the same divine delirium. He subjected himself to fresh disciplines in order to eradicate greed and lust, the two great impediments to spiritual progress. With a rupee in one hand and some earth in the other, he would reflect on the comparative value of these two for the realization of God, and finding them equally worthless he would toss them, with equal indifference, into the Ganges. Women he regarded as the manifestations of the Divine Mother. Never even in a dream did he feel the impulses of lust. And to root out of his mind the idea of caste superiority, he cleaned a pariahs house with his long and neglected hair. When he would sit in meditation, birds would perch on his head and peck in his hair for grains of food. Snakes would crawl over his body, and neither would be aware of the other. Sleep left him altogether. Day and night, visions flitted before him. He saw the sannyasi who had previously killed the "sinner" in him again coming out of his body, threa tening him with the trident, and ordering him to concentrate on God. Or the same sannyasi would visit distant places, following a luminous path, and bring him reports of what was happening there. Sri Ramakrishna used to say later that in the case of an advanced devotee the mind itself becomes the guru, living and moving like an embodied being.
Rani Rasmani, the foundress of the temple garden, passed away in 1861. After her death her son-in-law Mathur became the sole executor of the estate. He placed himself and his resources at the disposal of Sri Ramakrishna and began to look after his physical comfort. Sri Ramakrishna later spoke of him as one of his five "suppliers of stores" appointed by the Divine Mother. Whenever a desire arose in his mind, Mathur fulfilled it without hesitation.
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Very soon a tender relationship sprang up between Sri Ramakrishna and the Brahmani, she looking upon him as the Baby Krishna, and he upon her as mother. Day after day she watched his ecstasy during the kirtan and meditation, his samadhi, his mad yearning; and she recognized in him a power to transmit spirituality to others. She came to the conclusion that such things were not possible for an ordinary devotee, not even for a highly developed soul. Only an Incarnation of God was capable of such spiritual manifestations. She proclaimed openly that Sri Ramakrishna, like Sri Chaitanya, was an Incarnation of God.
When Sri Ramakrishna told Mathur what the Brahmani had said about him, Mathur shook his head in doubt. He was reluctant to accept him as an Incarnation of God, an Avatar comparable to Rama, Krishna, Buddha, and Chaitanya, though he admitted Sri Ramakrishna's extraordinary spirituality. Whereupon the Brahmani asked Mathur to arrange a conference of scholars who should discuss the matter with her. He agreed to the proposal and the meeting was arranged. It was to be held in the natmandir in front of the Kali temple.
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He saw in a vision the Ultimate Cause of the universe as a huge luminous triangle giving birth every moment to an infinite number of worlds. He heard the Anahata Sabda, the great sound Om, of which the innumerable sounds of the universe are only so many echoes. He acquired the eight supernatural powers of yoga, which make a man almost omnipo tent, and these he spurned as of no value whatsoever to the Spirit. He had a vision of the divine Maya, the inscrutable Power of God, by which the universe is created and sustained, and into which it is finally absorbed. In this vision he saw a woman of exquisite beauty, about to become a mother, emerging from the Ganges and slowly approaching the Panchavati. Presently she gave birth to a child and began to nurse it tenderly. A moment later she assumed a terrible aspect, seized the child with her grim jaws, and crushed it. Swallowing it, she re-entered the waters of the Ganges.
But the most remarkable experience during this period was the awakening of the Kundalini Sakti, the "Serpent Power". He actually saw the Power, at first lying asleep at the bottom of the spinal column, then waking up and ascending along the mystic Sushumna canal and through its six centres, or lotuses, to the Sahasrara, the thousand-petalled lotus in the top of the head. He further saw that as the Kundalini went upward the different lotuses bloomed. And this phenomenon was accompanied by visions and trances. Later on he described to his disciples and devotees the various movements of the Kundalini: the fishlike, birdlike, monkeylike, and so on. The awaken- ing of the Kundalini is the beginning of spiritual consciousness, and its union with Siva in the Sahasrara, ending in samadhi, is the consummation of the Tantrik disciplines.
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About the year 1864 there came to Dakshineswar a wandering Vaishnava monk, Jatadhari, whose Ideal Deity was Rama. He always carried with him a small metal image of the Deity, which he called by the endearing name of Ramlala, the Boy Rama. Toward this little image he displayed the tender affection of Kausalya for her divine Son, Rama. As a result of lifelong spiritual practice he had actually found in the metal image the presence of his Ideal. Ramlala was no longer for him a metal image, but the living God. He devoted himself to nursing Rama, feeding Rama, playing with Rama, taking Rama for a walk, and bathing Rama. And he found that the image responded to his love.
Sri Ramakrishna, much impressed with his devotion, requested Jatadhari to spend a few days at Dakshineswar. Soon Ramlala became the favourite companion of Sri Ramakrishna too. Later on he described to the devotees how the little image would dance gracefully before him, jump on his back, insist on being taken in his arms, run to the fields in the sun, pluck flowers from the bushes, and play pranks like a naughty boy. A very sweet relationship sprang up between him and Ramlala, for whom he felt the love of a mother.
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While worshipping Ramlala as the Divine Child, Sri Ramakrishna's heart became filled with motherly tenderness, and he began to regard himself as a woman. His speech and gestures changed. He began to move freely with the ladies of Mathur's family, who now looked upon him as one of their own sex. During this time he worshipped the Divine Mother as Her companion or handmaid.
--- IN COMMUNION WITH THE DIVINE BELOVED
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The Brahmani was the enthusiastic teacher and astonished beholder of Sri Ramakrishna in his spiritual progress. She became proud of the achievements of her unique pupil. But the pupil himself was not permitted to rest; his destiny beckoned him forward. His Divine Mother would allow him no respite till he had left behind the entire realm of duality with its visions, experiences, and ecstatic dreams. But for the new ascent the old tender guides would not suffice. The Brahmani, on whom he had depended for, three years, saw her son escape from her to follow the command of a teacher with masculine strength, a sterner mien, a gnarled physique, and a virile voice. The new guru was a wandering monk, the sturdy Totapuri, whom Sri Ramakrishna learnt to address affectionately as Nangta, the "Naked One", because of his total renunciation of all earthly objects and attachments, including even a piece of wearing cloth.
Totapuri was the bearer of a philosophy new to Sri Ramakrishna, the non-dualistic Vedanta philosophy, whose conclusions Totapuri had experienced in his own life. This ancient Hindu system designates the Ultimate Reality as Brahman, also described as Satchidananda, Exis tence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute. Brahman is the only Real Exis tence. In It there is no time, no space, no causality, no multiplicity. But through maya, Its inscrutable Power, time, space, and causality are created and the One appears to break into the many. The eternal Spirit appears as a manifold of individuals endowed with form and subject to the conditions of time. The Immortal becomes a victim of birth and death. The Changeless undergoes change. The sinless Pure Soul, hypnotized by Its own maya, experiences the joys of heaven and the pains of hell. But these experiences based on the duality of the subject-object relationship are unreal. Even the vision of a Personal God
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Sri Ramakrishna accepted the divinity of Buddha and used to point out the similarity of his teachings to those of the Upanishads. He also showed great respect for the Tirthankaras, who founded Jainism, and for the ten Gurus of Sikhism. But he did not speak of them as Divine Incarnations. He was heard to say that the Gurus of Sikhism were the reincarnations of King Janaka of ancient India. He kept in his room at Dakshineswar a small statue of Tirthankara Mahavira and a picture of Christ, before which incense was burnt morning and evening.
Without being formally initiated into their doctrines, Sri Ramakrishna thus realized the ideals of religions other than Hinduism. He did not need to follow any doctrine. All barriers were removed by his overwhelming love of God. So he became a Master who could speak with authority regarding the ideas and ideals of the various religions of the world. "I have practised", said he, "all religions — Hinduism, Islam, Christianity — and I have also followed the paths of the different Hindu sects. I have found that it is the same God toward whom all are directing their steps, though along different paths. You must try all beliefs and traverse all the different ways once. Wherever I look, I see men quarrelling in the name of religion — Hindus, Mohammedans, Brahmos, Vaishnavas, and the rest. But they never reflect that He who is called Krishna is also called Siva, and bears the name of the Primal Energy, Jesus, and Allah as well — the same Rama with a thousand names. A lake has several ghats. At one the Hindus take water in pitchers and call it 'jal'; at another the Mussalmans take water in leather bags and call it pani'. At a third the Christians call it 'water'. Can we imagine that it is not 'jal', but only 'pani' or 'water'? How ridiculous! The substance is One under different names, and everyone is seeking the same substance; only climate, temperament, and name create differences. Let each man follow his own path. If he sincerely and ardently wishes to know God, peace be unto him! He will surely realize Him."
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On January 27, 1868, Mathur Babu with a party of some one hundred and twenty-five persons set out on a pilgrimage to the sacred places of northern India. At Vaidyanath in Behar, when the Master saw the inhabitants of a village reduced by poverty and starvation to mere skeletons, he requested his rich patron to feed the people and give each a piece of cloth. Mathur demurred at the added expense. The Master declared bitterly that he would not go on to Benares, but would live with the poor and share their miseries. He actually left Mathur and sat down with the villagers. Whereupon Mathur had to yield. On another occasion, two years later, Sri Ramakrishna showed a similar sentiment for the poor and needy. He accompanied Mathur on a tour to one of the latter's estates at the time of the collection of rents. For two years the harvests had failed and the tenants were in a state of extreme poverty. The Master asked Mathur to remit their rents, distribute help to them, and in addition give the hungry people a sumptuous feast. When Mathur grumbled, the Master said: "You are only the steward of the Divine Mother. They are the Mother's tenants. You must spend the Mother's money. When they are suffering, how can you refuse to help them? You must help them." Again Mathur had to give in. Sri Ramakrishna's sympathy for the poor sprang from his perception of God in all created beings. His sentiment was not that of the humanist or philanthropist. To him the service of man was the same as the worship of God.
The party entered holy Benares by boat along the Ganges. When Sri Ramakrishna's eyes fell on this city of Siva, where had accumulated for ages the devotion and piety of countless worshippers, he saw it to be made of gold, as the scriptures declare. He was visibly moved. During his stay in the city he treated every particle of its earth with utmost respect. At the Manikarnika Ghat, the great cremation ground of the city, he actually saw Siva, with ash-covered body and tawny matted hair, serenely approaching each funeral pyre and breathing into the ears of the corpses the mantra of liberation; and then the Divine Mother removing from the dead their bonds. Thus he realized the significance of the scriptural statement that anyone dying in Benares attains salvation through the grace of Siva. He paid a visit to Trailanga Swami, the celebrated monk, whom he later declared to be a real paramahamsa, a veritable image of Siva.
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In 1872 Sarada Devi paid her first visit to her husband at Dakshineswar. Four years earlier she had seen him at Kamarpukur and had tasted the bliss of his divine company. Since then she had become even more gentle, tender, introspective, serious, and unselfish. She had heard many rumours about her husband's insanity. People had shown her pity in her misfortune. The more she thought, the more she felt that her duty was to be with him, giving him, in whatever measure she could, a wife's devoted service. She was now eighteen years old. Accompanied by her father, she arrived at Dakshineswar, having come on foot the distance of eighty miles. She had had an attack of fever on the way. When she arrived at the temple garden the Master said sorrowfully: "Ah! You have come too late. My Mathur is no longer here to look after you." Mathur had passed away the previous year.
The Master took up the duty of instructing his young wife, and this included everything from housekeeping to the Knowledge of Brahman. He taught her how to trim a lamp, how to behave toward people according to their differing temperaments, and how to conduct herself before visitors. He instructed her in the mysteries of spiritual life — prayer, meditation, japa, deep contemplation, and samadhi. The first lesson that Sarada Devi received was: "God is everybody's Beloved, just as the moon is dear to every child. Everyone has the same right to pray to Him. Out of His grace He reveals Himself to all who call upon Him. You too will see Him if you but pray to Him."
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During this period Sri Ramakrishna suffered several bereavements. The first was the death of a nephew named Akshay. After the young man's death Sri Ramakrishna said: "Akshay died before my very eyes. But it did not affect me in the least. I stood by and watched a man die. It was like a sword being drawn from its scabbard. I enjoyed the scene, and laughed and sang and danced over it. They removed the body and cremated it. But the next day as I stood there (pointing to the southeast verandah of his room), I felt a racking pain for the loss of Akshay, as if somebody were squeezing my heart like a wet towel. I wondered at it and thought that the Mother was teaching me a lesson. I was not much concerned even with my own body — much less with a relative. But if such was my pain at the loss of a nephew, how much more must be the grief of the householders at the loss of their near and dear ones!" In 1871 Mathur died, and some five years later Sambhu Mallick — who, after Mathur's passing away, had taken care of the Master's comfort. In 1873 died his elder brother Rameswar, and in 1876, his beloved mother. These bereavements left their imprint on the tender human heart of Sri Ramakrishna, albeit he had realized the immortality of the soul and the illusoriness of birth and death.
In March 1875, about a year before the death of his mother, the Master met Keshab Chandra Sen. The meeting was a momentous event for both Sri Ramakrishna and Keshab. Here the Master for the first time came into actual, contact with a worthy representative of modern India.
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But he remained as ever the willing instrument in the hand of God, the child of the Divine Mother, totally untouched by the idea of being a teacher. He used to say that three ideas — that he was a guru, a father, and a master — pricked his flesh like thorns. Yet he was an extraordinary teacher. He stirred his disciples' hearts more by a subtle influence than by actions or words. He never claimed to be the founder of a religion or the organizer of a sect. Yet he was a religious dynamo. He was the verifier of all religions and creeds. He was like an expert gardener, who prepares the soil and removes the weeds, knowing that the plants will grow because of the inherent power of the seeds, producing each its appropriate flowers and fruits. He never thrust his ideas on anybody. He understood people's limitations and worked on the principle that what is good for one may be bad for another. He had the unusual power of knowing the devotees' minds, even their inmost souls, at the first sight. He accepted disciples with the full knowledge of their past tendencies and future possibilities. The life of evil did not frigh ten him, nor did religious squeamishness raise anybody in his estimation. He saw in everything the unerring finger of the Divine Mother. Even the light that leads astray was to him the light from God.
To those who became his intimate disciples the Master was a friend, companion, and playmate. Even the chores of religious discipline would be ligh tened in his presence. The devotees would be so inebriated with pure joy in his company that they would have no time to ask themselves whether he was an Incarnation, a perfect soul, or a yogi. His very presence was a great teaching; words were superfluous. In later years his disciples remarked that while they were with him they would regard him as a comrade, but afterwards would tremble to think of their frivolities in the presence of such a great person. They had convincing proof that the Master could, by his mere wish, kindle in their hearts the love of God and give them His vision.
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As time passed, Girish began to learn that the guru is the one who silently unfolds the disciple's inner life. He became a steadfast devotee of the Master. He of ten loaded the Master with insults, drank in his presence, and took liberties which astounded the other devotees. But the Master knew that at heart Girish was tender, faithful, and sincere. He would not allow Girish to give up the theatre. And when a devotee asked him to tell Girish to give up drinking, he sternly replied: "That is none of your business. He who has taken charge of him will look after him. Girish is a devotee of heroic type. I tell you, drinking will not affect him." The Master knew that mere words could not induce a man to break deep-rooted habits, but that the silent influence of love worked miracles. Therefore he never asked him to give up alcohol, with the result that Girish himself eventually broke the habit. Sri Ramakrishna had strengthened Girish's resolution by allowing him to feel that he was absolutely free.
One day Girish felt depressed because he was unable to submit to any routine of spiritual discipline. In an exalted mood the Master said to him: "All right, give me your power of attorney. Henceforth I assume responsibility for you. You need not do anything." Girish heaved a sigh of relief. He felt happy to think that Sri Ramakrishna had assumed his spiritual responsibilities. But poor Girish could not then realize that He also, on his part, had to give up his freedom and make of himself a puppet in Sri Ramakrishna's hands. The Master began to discipline him according to this new attitude. One day Girish said about a trifling matter, "Yes, I shall do this." "No, no!" the Master corrected him. "You must not speak in that egotistic manner. You should say, 'God willing, I shall do it.'" Girish understood. Thenceforth he tried to give up all idea of personal responsibility and surrender himself to the Divine Will. His mind began to dwell constantly on Sri Ramakrishna. This unconscious meditation in time chas tened his turbulent spirit.
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Narendra was born in Calcutta on January 12, 1863, of an aristocratic kayastha family. His mother was steeped in the great Hindu epics, and his father, a distinguished attorney of the Calcutta High Court, was an agnostic about religion, a friend of the poor, and a mocker at social conventions. Even in his boyhood and youth Narendra possessed great physical courage and presence of mind, a vivid imagination, deep power of thought, keen intelligence, an extraordinary memory, a love of truth, a passion for purity, a spirit of independence, and a tender heart. An expert musician, he also acquired proficiency in physics, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, history, and literature. He grew up into an extremely handsome young man. Even as a child he practised meditation and showed great power of concentration. Though free and passionate in word and action, he took the vow of austere religious chastity and never allowed the fire of purity to be extinguished by the slightest defilement of body or soul.
As he read in college the rationalistic Western philosophers of the nineteenth century, his boyhood faith in God and religion was unsettled. He would not accept religion on mere faith; he wanted demonstration of God. But very soon his passionate nature discovered that mere Universal Reason was cold and bloodless. His emotional nature, dissatisfied with a mere abstraction, required a concrete support to help him in the hours of temptation. He wanted an external power, a guru, who by embodying perfection in the flesh would still the commotion of his soul. Attracted by the magnetic personality of Keshab, he joined the Brahmo Samaj and became a singer in its choir. But in the Samaj he did not find the guru who could say that he had seen God.
In a state of mental conflict and torture of soul, Narendra came to Sri Ramakrishna at Dakshineswar. He was then eighteen years of age and had been in college two years. He entered the Master's room accompanied by some light-hearted friends. At Sri Ramakrishna's request he sang a few songs, pouring his whole soul into them, and the Master went into samadhi. A few minutes later Sri Ramakrishna suddenly left his seat, took Narendra by the hand, and led him to the screened verandah north of his room. They were alone. Addressing Narendra most tenderly, as if he were a friend of long acquaintance, the Master said: "Ah! You have come very late. Why have you been so unkind as to make me wait all these days? My ears are tired of hearing the futile words of worldly men. Oh, how I have longed to pour my spirit into the heart of someone fitted to receive my message!" He talked thus, sobbing all the time. Then, standing before Narendra with folded hands, he addressed him as Narayana, born on earth to remove the misery of humanity. Grasping Narendra's hand, he asked him to come again, alone, and very soon. Narendra was startled. "What is this I have come to see?" he said to himself. "He must be stark mad. Why, I am the son of Viswanath Dutta. How dare he speak this way to me?"
When they returned to the room and Narendra heard the Master speaking to others, he was surprised to find in his words an inner logic, a striking sincerity, and a convincing proof of his spiritual nature. In answer to Narendra's question, "Sir, have you seen God?" the Master said: "Yes, I have seen God. I have seen Him more tangibly than I see you. I have talked to Him more intimately than I am talking to you." Continuing, the Master said: "But, my child, who wants to see God? People shed jugs of tears for money, wife, and children. But if they would weep for God for only one day they would surely see Him." Narendra was amazed. These words he could not doubt. This was the first time he had ever heard a man saying that he had seen God. But he could not reconcile these words of the Master with the scene that had taken place on the verandah only a few minutes before. He concluded that Sri Ramakrishna was a monomaniac, and returned home rather puzzled in mind.
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Baburam Ghosh came to Dakshineswar accompanied by Rakhal, his classmate. The Master, as was of ten his custom, examined the boy's physiognomy and was satisfied about his la tent spirituality. At the age of eight Baburam had thought of leading a life of renunciation, in the company of a monk, in a hut shut out from the public view by a thick wall of trees. The very sight of the Panchavati awakened in his heart that dream of boyhood. Baburam was tender in body and soul. The Master used to say that he was pure to his very bones. One day Hazra in his usual mischievous fashion advised Baburam and some of the other young boys to ask Sri Ramakrishna for some spiritual powers and not waste their life in mere gaiety and merriment. The Master, scenting mischief, called Baburam to his side and said: "What can you ask of me? Isn't everything that I have already yours? Yes, everything I have earned in the shape of realizations is for the sake of you all. So get rid of the idea of begging, which alienates by creating a distance. Rather realize your kinship with me and gain the key to all the treasures.
--- NIRANJAN
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Jogindranath came of an aristocratic brahmin family of Dakshineswar. His father and relatives shared the popular mistrust of Sri Ramakrishna's sanity. At a very early age the boy developed religious tendencies, spending two or three hours daily in meditation, and his meeting with Sri Ramakrishna deepened his desire for the realization of God. He had a perfect horror of marriage. But at the earnest request of his mother he had had to yield, and he now believed that his spiritual future was doomed. So he kept himself away from the Master.
Sri Ramakrishna employed a ruse to bring Jogindra to him. As soon as the disciple entered the room, the Master rushed forward to meet the young man. Catching hold of the disciple's hand, he said: "What if you have married? Haven't I too married? What is there to be afraid of in that?" Touching his own chest he said: "If this [meaning himself] is propitious, then even a hundred thousand marriages cannot injure you. If you desire to lead a householder's life, then bring your wife here one day, and I shall see that she becomes a real companion in your spiritual progress. But if you want to lead a monastic life, then I shall eat up your attachment to the world." Jogin was dumbfounded at these words. He received new strength, and his spirit of renunciation was re-established.
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With his woman devotees Sri Ramakrishna established a very sweet relationship. He himself embodied the tender traits of a woman: he had dwelt on the highest plane of Truth, where there is not even the slightest trace of sex; and his innate purity evoked only the noblest emotion in men and women alike. His woman devotees of ten said: "We seldom looked on Sri Ramakrishna as a member of the male sex. We regarded him as one of us. We never felt any constraint before him. He was our best confidant." They loved him as their child, their friend, and their teacher. In spiritual discipline he advised them to renounce lust and greed and especially warned them not to fall into the snares of men.
--- GOPAL MA
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She spent about two months in uninterrupted communion with God, the Baby Gopala never leaving her for a moment. Then the in tensity of her vision was lessened; had it not been, her body would have perished. The Master spoke highly of her exalted spiritual condition and said that such vision of God was a rare thing for ordinary mortals. The fun-loving Master one day confronted the critical Narendranath with this simple-minded woman. No two could have presented a more striking contrast. The Master knew of Narendra's lofty contempt for all visions, and he asked the old lady to narrate her experiences to Narendra. With great hesitation she told him her story. Now and then she interrupted her maternal chatter to ask Narendra: "My son, I am a poor ignorant woman. I don't understand anything. You are so learned. Now tell me if these visions of Gopala are true." As Narendra lis tened to the story he was profoundly moved. He said, "Yes, mother, they are quite true." Behind his cynicism Narendra, too, possessed a heart full of love and tenderness.
--- THE MARCH OF EVENTS
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Finally, there was a handful of fortunate disciples, householders as well as youngsters, who were privileged to spend nights with the Master in his room. They would see him get up early in the morning and walk up and down the room, singing in his sweet voice and tenderly communing with the Mother.
--- INJURY TO THE MASTER'S ARM
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It was at Cossipore that the curtain fell on the varied activities of the Master's life on the physical plane. His soul lingered in the body eight months more. It was the period of his great Passion, a constant crucifixion of the body and the triumphant revelation of the Soul. Here one sees the humanity and divinity of the Master passing and repassing across a thin border line. Every minute of those eight months was suffused with touching tenderness of heart and breath-taking elevation of spirit. Every word he uttered was full of pathos and sublimity.
It took the group only a few days to become adjusted to the new environment. The Holy Mother, assisted by Sri Ramakrishna's niece, Lakshmi Devi, and a few woman devotees, took charge of the cooking for the Master and his at tendants. Surendra willingly bore the major portion of the expenses, other householders contributing according to their means. Twelve disciples were constant at tendants of the Master: Narendra, Rakhal, Baburam, Niranjan, Jogin, Latu, Tarak, the-elder Gopal, Kali, Sashi, Sarat, and the younger Gopal. Sarada, Harish, Hari, Gangadhar, and Tulasi visited the Master from time to time and practised sadhana at home. Narendra, preparing for his law examination, brought his books to the garden house in order to continue his studies during the infrequent spare moments. He encouraged his brother disciples to in tensify their meditation, scriptural studies, and other spiritual disciplines. They all forgot their relatives and their
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The words were tender and touching. Like a mother he caressed Narendra and Rakhal, gently stroking their faces. He said in a half whisper to M., "Had this body been allowed to last a little longer, many more souls would have been illumined." He paused a moment and then said: "But Mother has ordained otherwise. She will take me away lest, finding me guileless and foolish, people should take advantage of me and persuade me to bestow on them the rare gifts of spirituality." A few minutes later he touched his chest and said: "Here are two beings. One is She and the other is Her devotee. It is the latter who broke his arm, and it is he again who is now ill. Do you understand me?" After a pause he added: "Alas! To whom shall I tell all this? Who will understand me?" "Pain", he consoled them again, 'is unavoidable as long as there is a body. The Lord takes on the body for the sake of His devotees."
Yet one is not sure whether the Master's soul actually was tortured by this agonizing disease. At least during his moments of spiritual exaltation — which became almost constant during the closing days of his life on earth — he lost all consciousness of the body, of illness and suffering. One of his at tendants (Latu, later known as Swami Adbhutananda.) said later on: "While Sri Ramakrishna lay sick he never actually suffered pain. He would of ten say: 'O mind! Forget the body, forget the sickness, and remain merged in Bliss.' No, he did not really suffer. At times he would be in a state when the thrill of joy was clearly manifested in his body. Even when he could not speak he would let us know in some way that there was no suffering, and this fact was clearly evident to all who watched him. People who did not understand him thought that his suffering was very great. What spiritual joy he transmitted to us at that time! Could such a thing have been possible if he had 'been suffering physically? It was during this period that he taught us again these truths: 'Brahman is always unattached. The three gunas are in It, but It is unaffected by them, just as the wind carries odour yet remains odourless.' 'Brahman is Infinite Being, Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Bliss. In It there exist no delusion, no misery, no disease, no death, no growth, no decay.' 'The Transcendental Being and the being within are one and the same. There is one indivisible Absolute Exis tence.'"
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
The verse from tennyson is inserted partly because
of the pun on the word "break"; partly because of the
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Crowley to quote tennyson.
There is no joke or subtle meaning in the publisher's
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The tenth Emanation
The world.
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Yesod in the Third Triad, and Malkuth in the tenth Emanation.
It will be noticed that this cosmogony is very complete; the
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These ten words are four, the Name of the One.
[14]
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There are ten sections in this prayer, and, as the prayer
is attributed to Horus, they are called four, as above
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of the ten Sephiroth as an expression of Tetra-
grammaton (1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 = 10).
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In the silence of a dewdrop is every tendency of his
soul, and of his mind, and of his body; it is the
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These six and four are ten, 10, the One manifested
that returns into the Naught unmanifest.
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In the whole system of ten million times ten million
spheres upon the two and twenty million planes he
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That Thy one crown of all the ten.
Even now and here be mine. AMEN.
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Dhyana destroys the tendencies (Sankhara).
Samadhi destroys the consciousness (Vinnanam).
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known lines of the late Lord tennyson:
"In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove,
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the flames of violet were become as tendrils of
smoke, as mist at sunset upon the marsh-lands.
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Bite not, Zelator dear, but bide! ten days didst
thou go with water in thy belly? Thou shalt go
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in Asana before he becomes eligible for the grade of Practicus. The ten days
allude merely to the tradition about the camel, that he can go ten days without
water.
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third person plural of the present tense of Latin words of the Third and
Fourth Conjugations.
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from The Fool unto The ten of Coins.
Then, when thou know'st the Wheel of Destiny
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securing freedom have turned nine out of ten English-
men into Slaves, obliged to report their movements to
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PRO AND CON tenTS
(dots?)
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
But, all doctrinal writing is in some measure formal and impersonal, while the autobiographer tends to omit what he regards as trifling matters and suffers from the further disadvantage of being unable to say how he strikes other people and in what way he affects their lives. Moreover, most saints have left neither writings nor self-portraits, and for knowledge of their lives, their characters and their teachings, we are forced to rely upon the records made by their disciples who, in most cases, have proved themselves singularly incompe tent as reporters and biographers. Hence the special interest attaching to this enormously detailed account of the daily life and conversations of Sri Ramakrishna.
"M", as the author modestly styles himself, was peculiarly qualified for his task. To a reverent love for his master, to a deep and experiential knowledge of that master's teaching, he added a prodigious memory for the small happenings of each day and a happy gift for recording them in an interesting and realistic way. Making good use of his natural gifts and of the circumstances in which he found himself, "M" produced a book unique, so far as my knowledge goes, in the literature of hagiography. No other saint has had so able and indefatigable a Boswell. Never have the small events of a contemplative's daily life been described with such a wealth of intimate detail. Never have the casual and unstudied utterances of a great religious teacher been set down with so minute a fidelity. To Western readers, it is true, this fidelity and this wealth of detail are sometimes a trifle disconcerting; for the social, religious and intellectual frames of reference within which Sri Ramakrishna did his thinking and expressed his feelings were entirely Indian. But after the first few surprises and bewilderments, we begin to find something peculiarly stimulating and instructive about the very strangeness and, to our eyes, the eccentricity of the man revealed to us in "M's" narrative. What a scholastic philosopher would call the "accidents" of Ramakrishna's life were in tensely Hindu and therefore, so far as we in the West are concerned, unfamiliar and hard to understand; its "essence", however, was in tensely mystical and therefore universal. To read through these conversations in which mystical doctrine alternates with an unfamiliar kind of humour, and where discussions of the oddest aspects of Hindu mythology give place to the most profound and subtle utterances about the nature of Ultimate Reality, is in itself a liberal, education in humility, tolerance and suspense of judgment. We must be grateful to the translator for his excellent version of a book so curious and delightful as a biographical document, so precious, at the same time, for what it teaches us of the life of the spirit.
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This epoch-making event of his life came about in a very strange way. M. belonged to a joint family with several collateral members. Some ten years after he began his career as an educationist, bitter quarrels broke out among the members of the family, driving the sensitive M. to despair and utter despondency. He lost all interest in life and left home one night to go into the wide world with the idea of ending his life. At dead of night he took rest in his sister's house at Baranagar, and in the morning, accompanied by a nephew Siddheswar, he wandered from one garden to another in Calcutta until Siddheswar brought him to the Temple Garden of Dakshineswar where Sri Ramakrishna was then living. After spending some time in the beautiful rose gardens there, he was directed to the room of the Paramahamsa, where the eventful meeting of the Master and the disciple took place on a blessed evening (the exact date is not on record) on a Sunday in March 1882. As regards what took place on the occasion, the reader is referred to the opening section of the first chapter of the Gospel.
The Master, who divined the mood of desperation in M, his resolve to take leave of this 'play-field of deception', put new faith and hope into him by his gracious words of assurance: "God forbid! Why should you take leave of this world? Do you not feel blessed by discovering your Guru? By His grace, what is beyond all imagination or dreams can be easily achieved!" At these words the clouds of despair moved away from the horizon of M.'s mind, and the sunshine of a new hope revealed to him fresh vistas of meaning in life. Referring to this phase of his life, M. used to say, "Behold! where is the resolve to end life, and where, the discovery of God! That is, sorrow should be looked upon as a friend of man. God is all good." ( Ibid P.33.)
0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
As Korzybski, the founder of general semantics, pointed out, the consequence of its single-tagging is that the rose becomes reflexively considered by man only as a red, white, or pink device for paying tribute to a beautiful girl, a thoughtful hostess, or last night's deceased acquaintance. The tagging of the complex biological process under the single title rose tends to detour human curiosity from further differentiation of its integral organic operations as well as from consideration of its interecological functionings aboard our planet. We don't know what a rose is, nor what may be its essential and unique cosmic function. Thus for long have we inadver tently deferred po tential discovery of the essential roles in Universe that are performed complementarily by many, if not most, of the phenomena we experience.
But, goaded by youth, we older ones are now taking second looks at almost everything. And that promises many ultimately favorable surprises. The oldsters do have vast experience banks not available to the youth. Their memory banks, integrated and reviewed, may readily disclose generalized principles of eminent importance.
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Mind is the weightless and uniquely human faculty that surveys the ever larger inventory of special-case experiences stored in the brain bank and, seeking to identify their intercomplementary significance, from time to time discovers one of the rare scientifically generalizable principles running consis tently through all the relevant experience set. The thoughts that discover these principles are weightless and tentative and may also be eternal. They suggest eternity but do not prove it, even though there have been no experiences thus far that imply exceptions to their persis tence. It seems also to follow that the more experiences we have, the more chances there are that the mind may discover, on the one hand, additional generalized principles or, on the other hand, exceptions that disqualify one or another of the already catalogued principles that, having heretofore held "true" without contradiction for a long time, had been tentatively conceded to be demonstrating eternal persis tence of behavior. Mind's relentless reviewing of the comprehensive brain bank's storage of all our special-case experiences tends both to progressive enlargement and definitive refinement of the catalogue of generalized principles that interaccommodatively govern all transactions of Universe.
It follows that the more specialized society becomes, the less at tention does it pay to the discoveries of the mind, which are intuitively beamed toward the brain, there to be received only if the switches are "on." Specialization tends to shut off the wide-band tuning searches and thus to preclude further discovery of the all-powerful generalized principles. Again we see how society's perverse fixation on specialization leads to its extinction. We are so specialized that one man discovers empirically how to release the energy of the atom, while another, unbeknownst to him, is ordered by his political factotum to make an atomic bomb by use of the secretly and anonymously published data. That gives much expedient employment, which solves the politician's momentary problem, but requires that the politicians keep on preparing for further warring with other political states to keep their respective peoples employed. It is also mistakenly assumed that employment is the only means by which humans can earn the right to live, for politicians have yet to discover how much wealth is available for distribution. All this is rationalized on the now scientifically discredited premise that there can never be enough life support for all. Thus humanity's specialization leads only toward warring and such devastating tools, both, visible and invisible, as ultimately to destroy all Earthians.
Only a comprehensive switch from the narrowing specialization and toward an evermore inclusive and refining comprehension by all humanity-regarding all the factors governing omnicontinuing life aboard our spaceship Earth-can bring about reorientation from the self-extinction-bound human trending, and do so within the critical time remaining before we have passed the point of chemical process irretrievability.
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Intellectually advantaged with no more than the child's facile, lucid eagerness to understand constructively and usefully the major transformational events of our own times, it probably is synergetically advantageous to review swiftly the most comprehensive inventory of the most powerful human environment transforming events of our totally known and reasonably ex tended history. This is especially useful in winnowing out and understanding the most significant of the metaphysical revolutions now recognized as swiftly tending to reconstitute history. By such a comprehensively schematic review, we might identify also the unprecedented and possibly heretofore overlooked pivotal revolutionary events not only of today but also of those trending to be central to tomorrow's most cataclysmic changes.
It is synergetically reasonable to assume that relativistic evaluation of any of the separate drives of art, science, education, economics, and ideology, and their complexedly interacting trends within our own times, may be had only through the most comprehensive historical sweep of which we are capable.
0.01f - FOREWARD, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
spectacle to himself. Indeed for tens of centuries he has looked at
nothing but himself. Yet he has only just begun to take a scientific
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ness of mind tends continually to condense for us in a thin layer
of the past ;
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attempting to put forward here arc, of course, largely tentative
and personal. Yet inasmuch as they are based on arduous investi-
0.01 - I - Sri Aurobindos personality, his outer retirement - outside contacts after 1910 - spiritual personalities- Vibhutis and Avatars - transformtion of human personality, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
But those who knew him during the days of the national awakening from 1900 to 1910 could not have these doubts. And even these initial misunderstandings and false notions of others began to evaporate with the growth of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram from 1927 onwards. The large number of books published by the Ashram also tended to remove the idea of the other-worldliness of his Yoga and the absence of any good by it to mankind.
This period of outer retirement was one of in tense Sadhana and of intellectual activity it was also one during which he acted on external events, though he was not dedicated outwardly to a public cause. About his own retirement he writes: "But this did not mean, as most people supposed, that he [Sri Aurobindo] had retired into some height of spiritual experience devoid of any further interest in the world or in the fate of India. It could not mean that, for the very principle of his Yoga was not only to realise the Divine and attain to a complete spiritual consciousness, but also to take all life and all world activity into the scope of this spiritual consciousness and action and to base life on the Spirit and give it a spiritual meaning. In his retirement Sri Aurobindo kept a close watch on all that was happening in the world and in India and actively intervened, whenever necessary, but solely with a spiritual force and silent spiritual action; for it is part of the experience of those who have advanced in yoga that besides the ordinary forces and activities of the mind and life and body in Matter, there are other forces and powers that can and do act from behind and from above; there is also a spiritual dynamic power which can be possessed by those who are advanced in spiritual consciousness, though all do not care to possess or, possessing, to use it and this power is greater than any other and more effective. It was this force which, as soon as he attained to it, he used at first only in a limited field of personal work, but afterwards in a constant action upon the world forces."[1]
0.01 - Letters from the Mother to Her Son, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
the rule here, but a simplicity full of variety - a variety of occupations, of activities, of tastes, tendencies, natures; each one
is free to organise his life as he pleases, the discipline is reduced
--
they may be divided into two main opposing tendencies: those
that work for the fulfilment of the Divine work upon earth,
0.01 - Life and Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
HERE are two necessities of Nature's workings which seem always to intervene in the greater forms of human activity, whether these belong to our ordinary fields of movement or seek those exceptional spheres and fulfilments which appear to us high and divine. Every such form tends towards a harmonised complexity and totality which again breaks apart into various channels of special effort and tendency, only to unite once more in a larger and more puissant synthesis. Secondly, development into forms is an imperative rule of effective manifestation; yet all truth and practice too strictly formulated becomes old and loses much, if not all, of its virtue; it must be constantly renovated by fresh streams of the spirit revivifying the dead or dying vehicle and changing it, if it is to acquire a new life. To be perpetually reborn is the condition of a material immortality. We are in an age, full of the throes of travail, when all forms of thought and activity that have in themselves any strong power of utility or any secret virtue of persis tence are being subjected to a supreme test and given their opportunity of rebirth. The world today presents the aspect of a huge cauldron of Medea in which all things are being cast, shredded into pieces, experimented on, combined and recombined either to perish and provide the scattered material of new forms or to emerge rejuvenated and changed for a fresh term of exis tence. Indian Yoga, in its essence a special action or formulation of certain great powers of Nature, itself specialised, divided and variously formulated, is po tentially one of these dynamic elements of the future life of humanity. The child of immemorial ages, preserved by its vitality and truth into our modern times, it is now emerging from the secret schools and ascetic retreats in which it had taken refuge and is seeking its place in the future sum of living human powers and utilities. But it has first to rediscover itself, bring to the surface
The Conditions of the Synthesis
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But as in physical knowledge the multiplication of scientific processes has its disadvantages, as that tends, for instance, to develop a victorious artificiality which overwhelms our natural human life under a load of machinery and to purchase certain forms of freedom and mastery at the price of an increased servitude, so the preoccupation with Yogic processes and their exceptional results may have its disadvantages and losses. The
The Conditions of the Synthesis
Yogin tends to draw away from the common exis tence and lose his hold upon it; he tends to purchase wealth of spirit by an impoverishment of his human activities, the inner freedom by an outer death. If he gains God, he loses life, or if he turns his efforts outward to conquer life, he is in danger of losing
God. Therefore we see in India that a sharp incompatibility has been created between life in the world and spiritual growth and perfection, and although the tradition and ideal of a victorious harmony between the inner attraction and the outer demand remains, it is little or else very imperfectly exemplified. In fact, when a man turns his vision and energy inward and enters on the path of Yoga, he is popularly supposed to be lost inevitably to the great stream of our collective exis tence and the secular effort of humanity. So strongly has the idea prevailed, so much has it been emphasised by prevalent philosophies and religions that to escape from life is now commonly considered as not only the necessary condition, but the general object of Yoga. No synthesis of Yoga can be satisfying which does not, in its aim, reunite God and Nature in a liberated and perfected human life or, in its method, not only permit but favour the harmony of our inner and outer activities and experiences in the divine consummation of both. For man is precisely that term and symbol of a higher Exis tence descended into the material world in which it is possible for the lower to transfigure itself and put on the nature of the higher and the higher to reveal itself in the forms of the lower. To avoid the life which is given him for the realisation of that possibility, can never be either the indispensable condition or the whole and ultimate object of his supreme endeavour or of his most powerful means of self-fulfilment. It can only be a temporary necessity under certain conditions or a specialised extreme effort imposed on the individual so as to prepare a greater general possibility for the race. The true and full object and utility of Yoga can only be accomplished when the conscious
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The carpenter Y has taken ten days' leave in order to
get married again. He wants Rs. 40 advance, to be paid
--
unfortunate tendency to believe that the consciousness of those
around me is, at least partially and in its limited working, similar
--
unless one is ten times sure it is nothing.
22 August 1934
0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Yoga, a specialising and separative tendency which, like all things in Nature, had its justifying and even imperative utility and we seek a synthesis of the specialised aims and methods which have, in consequence, come into being.
But in order that we may be wisely guided in our effort, we must know, first, the general principle and purpose underlying this separative impulse and, next, the particular utilities upon which the method of each school of Yoga is founded. For the general principle we must interrogate the universal workings of Nature herself, recognising in her no merely specious and illusive activity of a distorting Maya, but the cosmic energy and working of God Himself in His universal being formulating and inspired by a vast, an infinite and yet a minutely selective
--
Afterwards we may more easily find the one common principle and the one common power from which all derive their being and tendency, towards which all subconsciously move and in which, therefore, it is possible for all consciously to unite.
The progressive self-manifestation of Nature in man, termed in modern language his evolution, must necessarily depend upon three successive elements. There is that which is already evolved; there is that which, still imperfect, still partly fluid, is persis tently in the stage of conscious evolution; and there is that which is to be evolved and may perhaps be already
--
Certainly, the mental life is not a finished evolution of Nature; it is not yet firmly founded in the human animal. The sign is that the fine and full equilibrium of vitality and matter, the sane, robust, long-lived human body is ordinarily found only in races or classes of men who reject the effort of thought, its disturbances, its tensions, or think only with the material mind.
Civilised man has yet to establish an equilibrium between the fully active mind and the body; he does not normally possess it.
--
She has harmonised the bodily life with the material mind, she is harmonising it with the play of the intellectual mentality; for that, although it tends to a depression of the full animal and vital vigour, need not produce active disturbances. And she is shooting yet beyond in the attempt to reach a still higher level.
Nor are the disturbances created by her process as great as is of ten represented. Some of them are the crude beginnings of new manifestations; others are an easily corrected movement of disintegration, of ten fruitful of fresh activities and always a small price to pay for the far-reaching results that she has in view.
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Moreover the whole trend of modern thought and modern endeavour reveals itself to the observant eye as a large conscious effort of Nature in man to effect a general level of intellectual equipment, capacity and farther possibility by universalising the opportunities which modern civilisation affords for the mental life. Even the preoccupation of the European intellect, the protagonist of this tendency, with material Nature and the externalities of exis tence is a necessary part of the effort. It seeks to prepare a sufficient basis in man's physical being and vital energies and in his material environment for his full mental possibilities. By the spread of education, by the advance of the backward races, by the elevation of depressed classes, by the multiplication of labour-saving appliances, by the movement
The Three Steps of Nature
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But what then constitutes this higher or highest exis tence to which our evolution is tending? In order to answer the question we have to deal with a class of supreme experiences, a class of unusual conceptions which it is difficult to represent accurately in any other language than the ancient Sanskrit tongue in which alone they have been to some ex tent systematised.
The only approximate terms in the English language have other associations and their use may lead to many and even serious inaccuracies. The terminology of Yoga recognises besides the status of our physical and vital being, termed the gross body and doubly composed of the food sheath and the vital vehicle, besides the status of our mental being, termed the subtle body and singly composed of the mind sheath or mental vehicle,5 a third, supreme and divine status of supra-mental being, termed the causal body and composed of a fourth and a fifth vehicle6 which are described as those of knowledge and bliss. But this knowledge is not a systematised result of mental questionings and reasonings, not a temporary arrangement of conclusions and opinions in the terms of the highest probability, but rather a pure self-exis tent and self-luminous Truth. And this bliss is not a supreme pleasure of the heart and sensations with the experience of pain and sorrow as its background, but a delight also selfexis tent and independent of objects and particular experiences, a self-delight which is the very nature, the very stuff, as it were, of a transcendent and infinite exis tence.
0.03 - III - The Evening Sittings, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
These sittings, in fact, furnished Sri Aurobindo with an occasion to admit and feel the outer atmosphere and that of the group living with him. It brought to him the much-needed direct contact of the mental and vital make-up of the disciples, enabling him to act on the atmosphere in general and on the individual in particular. He could thus help to remould their mental make-up by removing the limitations of their minds and opinions, and correct temperamental tendencies and formations. Thus, these sittings contributed at least partly to the creation of an atmosphere amenable to the working of the Higher Consciousness. Far more important than the actual talk and its con tent was the personal contact, the influence of the Master, and the divine atmosphere he emanated; for through his outer personality it was the Divine Consciousness that he allowed to act. All along behind the outer manifestation that appeared human, there was the influence and presence of the Divine.
What was talked in the small group informally was not in tended by Sri Aurobindo to be the independent expression of his views on the subjects, events or the persons discussed. Very of ten what he said was in answer to the spiritual need of the individual or of the collective atmosphere. It was like a spiritual remedy meant to produce certain spiritual results, not a philosophical or metaphysical pronouncement on questions, events or movements. The net result of some talks very of ten was to point out to the disciple the inherent incapacity of the human intellect and its secondary place in the search for the ultimate Reality.
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
ate my lunch and rested for ten minutes. At 12:00 I
went back to work; at 12:30 Z came to work and at
--
Today I prayed to You with my body2 for ten hours.
Next time I see You, I shall explain how embroiderers fix the sari on the frame. The frame has to be as big
--
I worked on the sari for ten hours. I think I shall
finish this sari before 24th April.
--
You with my body for ten hours.
Then use Coué's method5 and repeat, "I am not tired, I cannot
--
write "I worked for ten hours", You write to me, "It is
amazing"!
--
I dyed the big ten-yard piece. But it was not successful:
the dyeing is irregular: some places are dark and some
--
With my tender love.
18 June 1935
0.03 - The Threefold Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Nevertheless it is possible to make the material man and his life moderately progressive by imprinting on the material mind the custom of progress, the habit of conscious change, the fixed idea of progression as a law of life. The creation by this means of progressive societies in Europe is one of the greatest triumphs of Mind over Matter. But the physical nature has its revenge; for the progress made tends to be of the grosser and more outward kind and its attempts at a higher or a more rapid movement bring about great wearinesses, swift exhaustions, startling recoils.
It is possible also to give the material man and his life a moderate spirituality by accustoming him to regard in a religious spirit all the institutions of life and its customary activities. The creation of such spiritualised communities in the East has been one of the greatest triumphs of Spirit over Matter. Yet here, too, there is a defect; for this of ten tends only to the creation of a religious temperament, the most outward form of spirituality.
Its higher manifestations, even the most splendid and puissant, either merely increase the number of souls drawn out of social life and so impoverish it or disturb the society for a while by a momentary elevation. The truth is that neither the mental effort nor the spiritual impulse can suffice, divorced from each other, to overcome the immense resistance of material Nature.
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But if it is of ten difficult for the mental life to accommodate itself to the dully resistant material activity, how much more difficult must it seem for the spiritual exis tence to live on in a world that appears full not of the Truth but of every lie and illusion, not of Love and Beauty but of an encompassing discord and ugliness, not of the Law of Truth but of victorious selfishness and sin? Therefore the spiritual life tends easily in the saint and Sannyasin to withdraw from the material exis tence and reject it either wholly and physically or in the spirit. It sees this world as the kingdom of evil or of ignorance and the eternal and divine either in a far-off heaven or beyond where there is no world and no life. It separates itself inwardly, if not also physically, from the world's impurities; it asserts the spiritual reality in a spotless isolation. This withdrawal renders an invaluable service to the material life itself by forcing it to regard and even to bow down to something that is the direct negation of its own petty ideals, sordid cares and egoistic self-con tent.
But the work in the world of so supreme a power as spiritual force cannot be thus limited. The spiritual life also can return upon the material and use it as a means of its own greater fullness. Refusing to be blinded by the dualities, the appearances, it can seek in all appearances whatsoever the vision of the same Lord, the same eternal Truth, Beauty, Love, Delight. The
--
In India, for the last thousand years and more, the spiritual life and the material have existed side by side to the exclusion of the progressive mind. Spirituality has made terms for itself with Matter by renouncing the attempt at general progress. It has obtained from society the right of free spiritual development for all who assume some distinctive symbol, such as the garb of the Sannyasin, the recognition of that life as man's goal and those who live it as worthy of an absolute reverence, and the casting of society itself into such a religious mould that its most customary acts should be accompanied by a formal reminder of the spiritual symbolism of life and its ultimate destination. On the other hand, there was conceded to society the right of inertia and immobile self-conservation. The concession destroyed much of the value of the terms. The religious mould being fixed, the formal reminder tended to become a routine and to lose its living sense. The constant attempts to change the mould by new sects and religions ended only in a new routine or a modification of the old; for the saving element of the free and active mind had been exiled. The material life, handed over to the Ignorance, the purposeless and endless duality, became a leaden and dolorous yoke from which flight was the only escape.
The schools of Indian Yoga lent themselves to the compromise. Individual perfection or liberation was made the aim, seclusion of some kind from the ordinary activities the condition, the renunciation of life the culmination. The teacher gave his knowledge only to a small circle of disciples. Or if a wider movement was attempted, it was still the release of the individual soul that remained the aim. The pact with an immobile society was, for the most part, observed.
0.04 - The Systems of Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But in Rajayoga it tends to withdraw into a subliminal plane at the back of our normal experiences instead of descending and possessing our whole exis tence.
The triple Path of devotion, knowledge and works attempts the province which Rajayoga leaves unoccupied. It differs from
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ashram; he came at the age of ten. Interested as a youth in
music, painting and poetry, he later became a teacher of music
--
is a very frequent tendency in those whose vital is insufficiently
developed and seeks violent sensations in the hope of escaping
--
you, encouraging you with an unvarying love and tenderness.
My dear child,
0.05 - The Synthesis of the Systems, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Y THE very nature of the principal Yogic schools, each covering in its operations a part of the complex human integer and attempting to bring out its highest possibilities, it will appear that a synthesis of all of them largely conceived and applied might well result in an integral Yoga. But they are so disparate in their tendencies, so highly specialised and elaborated in their forms, so long confirmed in the mutual opposition of their ideas and methods that we do not easily find how we can arrive at their right union.
An undiscriminating combination in block would not be a synthesis, but a confusion. Nor would a successive practice of each of them in turn be easy in the short span of our human life and with our limited energies, to say nothing of the waste of labour implied in so cumbrous a process. Sometimes, indeed,
--
Will-in-Power executive in the universe. It was by learning and applying the intimate secrets of this Will-in-Power, its method, its Tantra, that the Tantric Yogin pursued the aims of his discipline, - mastery, perfection, liberation, beatitude. Instead of drawing back from manifested Nature and its difficulties, he confronted them, seized and conquered. But in the end, as is the general tendency of Prakriti, Tantric Yoga largely lost its principle in its machinery and became a thing of formulae and occult mechanism still powerful when rightly used but fallen from the clarity of their original in tention.
We have in this central Tantric conception one side of the truth, the worship of the Energy, the Shakti, as the sole effective force for all attainment. We get the other extreme in the Vedantic conception of the Shakti as a power of Illusion and in the search after the silent inactive Purusha as the means of liberation from the deceptions created by the active Energy. But in the integral conception the Conscious Soul is the Lord, the Nature-Soul is his executive Energy. Purusha is of the nature of Sat, the being of conscious self-exis tence pure and infinite; Shakti or Prakriti is of the nature of Chit, - it is power of the Purusha's self-conscious exis tence, pure and infinite. The relation of the two exists between the poles of rest and action. When the Energy is absorbed
0.06 - INTRODUCTION, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
the Saint an exposition (Chapters xviii, xix) of the ten steps or degrees of love which
comprise St. Bernard's mystical ladder. Chapter xxi describes the soul's 'disguise,'
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
About ten or eleven years ago I had an experience in Your
presence and through You. I was in a great difficulty and
--
It would be much better to dissociate yourself from the tendency
to fall into your ordinary consciousness.
--
one has nine chances out of ten of saying something stupid when
one speaks.
--
Mother, the inherent tendency of the material body is to
dissolve, and the mind helps it; how will You be able to
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
it is the perfectly effective remedy for the fatigue, tension and
exhaustion arising from that internal over-activity and noise
0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The two are equally true and they ought to be felt simultaneously. But human egoism always has the tendency to take rather
than to give. This is where that impression comes from.
01.01 - Sri Aurobindo - The Age of Sri Aurobindo, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Someone has writ ten to this effect: "This is not the age of Sri Aurobindo. His ideal of a divine life upon earth mayor may not be true; at any rate it is not of today or even of tomorrow. Humanity will take some time before it reaches that stage or its possibility. What we are concerned with here and now is something perhaps less great, less spiritual, but more urgent and more practical. The problem is not to run away with one's soul, but to maintain its earthly tenement, to keep body and soul together: one has to live first, live materially before one can hope to live spiritually."
Well, the view expressed in these words is not a new revelation. It has been the cry of suffering humanity through the ages. Man has borne his cross since the beginning of his creation through want and privation, through disease and bereavement, through all manner of turmoil and tribulation, and yetmirabile dictuat the same time, in the very midst of those conditions, he has been aspiring and yearning for something else, ignoring the present, looking into the beyond. It is not the prosperous and the more happily placed in life who find it more easy to turn to the higher life, it is not the wealthiest who has the greatest opportunity to pursue a spiritual idea. On the contrary, spiritual leaders have thought and experienced otherwise.
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Recalling the tenebrous womb from which it came,
Turned from the insoluble mystery of birth
01.02 - Sri Aurobindo - Ahana and Other Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And what an amount of tenderness he has poured into his little poem on childhood, a perfect piece of chiselled crystal, pure and translucent and gleaming with the clear lines of a summer sky:
O thou golden image,
--
And if there is something in the creative spirit of Sri Aurobindo which tends more towards the strenuous than the genial, the arduous than the mellifluous, and which has more of the austerity of Vyasa than the easy felicity of Valmiki, however it might have affected the ultimate value of his creation, according to certain standards,14 it has illustrated once more that poetry is not merely beauty but power, it is not merely sweet imagination but creative visionit is even the Rik, the mantra that impels the gods to manifest upon earth, that fashions divinity in man.
James H. Cousins in his New Ways in English Literature describes Sri Aurobindo as "the philosopher as poet."
01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Among the ancients, strictly speaking, the later classical Lucretius was a remarkable phenomenon. By nature he was a poet, but his mental interest lay in metaphysical speculation, in philosophy, and unpoetical business. He turned away from arms and heroes, wrath and love and, like Seneca and Aurelius, gave himself up to moralising and philosophising, delving 'into the mystery, the why and the how and the whither of it all. He chose a dangerous subject for his poetic inspiration and yet it cannot be said that his attempt was a failure. Lucretius was not a religious or spiritual poet; he was rather Marxian,atheistic, materialistic. The dialectical materialism of today could find in him a lot of nourishment and support. But whatever the con tent, the manner has made a whole difference. There was an idealism, a clarity of vision and an in tensity of perception, which however scientific apparently, gave his creation a note, an accent, an atmosphere high, tense, aloof, ascetic, at times bordering on the supra-sensual. It was a high light, a force of consciousness that at its highest pitch had the ring and vibration of something almost spiritual. For the basic principle of Lucretius' inspiration is a large thought-force, a tense perception, a taut nervous reactionit is not, of course, the identity in being with the inner realities which is the hallmark of a spiritual consciousness, yet it is something on the way towards that.
There have been other philosophical poets, a good number of them since thennot merely rationally philosophical, as was the vogue in the eighteenth century, but metaphysically philosophical, that is to say, inquiring not merely into the phenomenal but also into the labyrinths of the noumenal, investigating not only what meets the senses, but also things that are behind or beyond. Amidst the earlier efflorescence of this movement the most outstanding philosopher poet is of course Dante, the Dante of Paradiso, a philosopher in the mediaeval manner and to the ex tent a lesser poet, according to some. Goe the is another, almost in the grand modern manner. Wordsworth is full of metaphysics from the crown of his head to the tip of his toe although his poetry, perhaps the major portion of it, had to undergo some kind of martyrdom because of it. And Shelley, the supremely lyric singer, has had a very rich undertone of thought-con tent genuinely metaphysical. And Browning and Arnold and Hardyindeed, if we come to the more moderns, we have to cite the whole host of them, none can be excepted.
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The religious, the mystic or the spiritual man was, in the past, more or Jess methodically and absolutely non-intellectual and anti-intellectual: but the modern age, the age of scientific culture, is tending to make him as strongly intellectual: he has to explain, not only present the object but show up its mechanism alsoexplain to himself so that he may have a total understanding and a firmer grasp of the thing which he presents and explains to others as well who demand a similar approach. He feels the necessity of explaining, giving the rationality the rationale the science, of his art; for without that, it appears to him, a solid ground is not given to the structure of his experience: analytic power, preoccupation with methodology seems inherent in the modern creative consciousness.
The philosophical trend in poetry has an interesting history with a significant role: it has acted as a force of purification, of sublimation, of katharsis. As man has risen from his exclusively or predominantly vital nature into an increasing mental poise, in the same way his creative activities too have taken this new turn and status. In the earlier stages of evolution the mental life is secondary, subordinate to the physico-vital life; it is only subsequently that the mental finds an independent and self-sufficient reality. A similar movement is reflected in poetic and artistic creation too: the thinker, the philosopher remains in the background at the outset, he looks out; peers through chinks and holes from time to time; later he comes to the forefront, assumes a major role in man's creative activity.
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Poetry, actually however, has been, by and large, a profane and mundane affair: for it expresses the normal man's perceptions and feelings and experiences, human loves and hates and desires and ambitions. True. And yet there has also always been an attempt, a tendency to deal with them in such a way as can bring calm and puritykatharsisnot trouble and confusion. That has been the purpose of all Art from the ancient days. Besides, there has been a growth and development in the historic process of this katharsis. As by the sublimation of his bodily and vital instincts and impulses., man is gradually growing into the mental, moral and finally spiritual consciousness, even so the artistic expression of his creative activity has followed a similar line of transformation. The first and original transformation happened with religious poetry. The religious, one may say, is the profane inside out; that is to say, the religious man has almost the same tone and temper, the same urges and passions, only turned Godward. Religious poetry too marks a new turn and development of human speech, in taking the name of God human tongue acquires a new plasticity and flavour that transform or give a new modulation even to things profane and mundane it speaks of. Religious means at bottom the colouring of mental and moral idealism. A parallel process of katharsis is found in another class of poetic creation, viz., the allegory. Allegory or parable is the stage when the higher and inner realities are expressed wholly in the modes and manner, in the form and character of the normal and external, when moral, religious or spiritual truths are expressed in the terms and figures of the profane life. The higher or the inner ideal is like a loose clothing upon the ordinary consciousness, it does not fit closely or fuse. In the religious, however, the first step is taken for a mingling and fusion. The mystic is the beginning of a real fusion and a considerable ascension of the lower into the higher. The philosopher poet follows another line for the same katharsisinstead of uplifting emotions and sensibility, he proceeds by thought-power, by the ideas and principles that lie behind all movements and give a pattern to all things existing. The mystic can be of either type, the religious mystic or the philosopher mystic, although of ten the two are welded together and cannot be very well separated. Let us illustrate a little:
The spacious firmament on high,
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Touched by this tenant from the heights became
A playground of the living Infinite.
--
The high and luminous tension breaks too soon,
The body's stone stillness and the life's hushed trance,
01.03 - Yoga and the Ordinary Life, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The religious life is a movement of the same ignorant human consciousness, turning or trying to turn away from the earth towards the Divine but as yet without knowledge and led by the dogmatic tenets and rules of some sect or creed which claims to have found the way out of the bonds of the earth-consciousness into some beatific Beyond. The religious life may be the first approach to the spiritual, but very of ten it is only a turning about in a round of rites, ceremonies and practices or set ideas and forms without any issue. The spiritual life, on the contrary, proceeds directly by a change of consciousness, a change from the ordinary consciousness, ignorant and separated from its true self and from God, to a greater consciousness in which one finds one's true being and comes first into direct and living contact and then into union with the Divine. For the spiritual seeker this change of consciousness is the one thing he seeks and nothing else matters.
Morality is a part of the ordinary life; it is an attempt to govern the outward conduct by certain mental rules or to form the character by these rules in the image of a certain mental ideal. The spiritual life goes beyond the mind; it enters into the deeper consciousness of the Spirit and acts out of the truth of the Spirit.
01.04 - Motives for Seeking the Divine, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
What your reasoning ignores is that which is absolute or tends towards the absolute in man and his seeking as well as in the Divine - something not to be explained by mental reasoning or vital motive. A motive, but a motive of the soul, not of vital desire; a reason not of the mind, but of the self and spirit. An asking too, but the asking that is the soul's inherent aspiration, not a vital longing. That is what comes up when there is the sheer self-giving, when "I seek you for this, I seek you for that" changes to a sheer "I seek you for you." It is that marvellous and ineffable absolute in the Divine that Krishnaprem means when he says, "Not knowledge nor this nor that, but Krishna."
The pull of that is indeed a categorical imperative, the self in us drawn to the Divine because of the imperative call of its greater Self, the soul ineffably drawn towards the object of its adoration, because it cannot be otherwise, because it is it and
01.04 - The Intuition of the Age, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A new impulse is there, no one can deny, and it has vast possibilities before it, that also one need not hesitate to accept. But in order that we may best fructuate what has been spontaneously sown, we must first recognise it, be luminously conscious of it and develop it along its proper line of growth. For, also certain it is that this new impulse or intuition, however true and strong in itself, is still groping and erring and miscarrying; it is still wasting much of its energy in tentative things, in mere experiments, in even clear failures. The fact is that the intuition has not yet become an enligh tened one, it is still moving, as we shall presently explain, in the dark vital regions of man. And vitalism is naturally and closely affianced to pragmatism, that is to say, the mere vital impulse seeks immediately to execute itself, it looks for external effects, for changes in the form, in the machinery only. Thus it is that we see in art and literature discussions centred upon the scheme of composition, as whether the new poetry should be lyrical or dramatic, popular or aristocratic, metrical or free of metre, and in practical life we talk of remodelling the state by new methods of representation and governance, of purging society by bills and legislation, of reforming humanity by a business pact.
All this may be good and necessary, but there is the danger of leaving altogether out of account the one thing needful. We must then pause and turn back, look behind the apparent impulsion that effectuates to the Will that drives, behind the ideas and ideals of the mind to the soul that informs and inspires; we must carry ourselves up the stream and concentrate upon the original source, the creative intuition that lies hidden somewhere. And then only all the new stirrings that we feel in our heartour urges and ideals and visions will attain an effective clarity, an unshaken purpose and an inevitable achievement.
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I have spoken of the source of inspiration as essentially and originally being a super-consciousness or over-consciousness. But to be more precise and accurate I should add another source, an inner consciousness. As the super-consciousness is imaged as lying above the normal consciousness, so the inner consciousness may be described as lying behind or within it. The movement of the inner consciousness has found expression more of ten and more largely than that of over-consciousness in the artistic creation of the past : and that was in keeping with the nature of the old-world inspiration, for the inspiration that comes from the inner consciousness, which can be considered as the lyrical inspiration, tends to be naturally more "spontaneous", less conscious, since it does not at all go by the path of the head, it evades that as much as possible and goes by the path of the heart.
But the evolutionary urge, as I have said, has always been to bring down or instil more and more light and self-consciousness into the depths of the heart too: and the first result has been an intellectualisation, a rationalisation of the consciousness, a movement of scientific observation and criticism which very naturally leads to a desiccation of the poetic enthusiasm and fervour. But a period of transcendence is in gestation. All efforts of modern poets and craftsmen, even those that seem apparently queer, bizarre and futile, are at bottom a travail for this transcendence, including those that seem contradictory to it.
Whether the original and true source of the poet's inspiration lies deep within or high above, all depends upon the mediating instrument the mind (in its most general sense) and speech for a successful transcription. Man's ever-growing consciousness demanded also a conscious development and remoulding of these two factors. A growth, a heigh tening and deepening of the consciousness meant inevitably a movement towards the spiritual element in things. And that means, we have said, a twofold change in the future poet's make-up. First as regards the substance. The revolutionary shift that we notice in modern poets towards a completely new domain of subject-matter is a signpost that more is meant than what is expressed. The superficialities and futilities that are dealt with do not in their outward form give the real trend of things. In and through all these major and constant preoccupation of our poets is "the pain of the present and the passion for the future": they are, as already stated, more prophets than poets, but prophets for the moment crying in the wildernessalthough some have chosen the path of denial and revolt. They are all looking ahead or beyond or deep down, always yearning for another truth and reality which will explain, justify and transmute the present calvary of human living. Such an acute tension of consciousness has necessitated an overhauling of the vehicle of expression too, the creation of a mode of expressing the inexpressible. For that is indeed what human consciousness and craft are aiming at in the present stage of man's evolution. For everything, almost everything that can be normally expressed has been expressed and in a variety of ways as much as is possible: that is the history of man's aesthetic creativity. Now the eye probes into the unexpressed world; for the artist too the Upanishadic problem has cropped up:
By whom impelled does the mind fall to its target, what is the agent that is behind the eye and sees through the eyes, what is the hearing and what the speech that their respective sense organs do not and cannot convey and record adequately or at all?
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In other words, the tension in the human consciousness has been raised to the nth power, the heat of a brooding consciousness is about to lead it to an outburst of new creationsah tapastaptva. Human self-consciousness, the turning of oneself upon oneself, the probing and projecting of oneself into oneselfself-consciousness raised so of ten to the degree of self-torture, marks the acute travail of the spirit. The thousand "isms" and "logies" that pullulate in all fields of life, from the political to the artistic or even the religious and the spiritual indicate how the human laboratory is working at white heat. They are breaches in the circuit of the consciousness, volcanic eruptions from below or cosmic-ray irruptions from above, tearing open the normal limit and boundaryBaudelaire's couvercle or the "golden lid" of the Upanishads-disclosing and bringing into the light of common day realities beyond and unseen till now.
Ifso long the poet was more or less a passive, a half-conscious or unconscious intermediary between the higher and the lower lights and delights, his role in the future will be better fulfilled when he becomes fully aware of it and consciously moulds and directs his creative energies. The poet is and has to be the harbinger and minstrel of unheard-of melodies: he is the fashioner of the creative word that brings down and embodies the deepest aspirations and experiences of the human consciousness. The poet is a missionary: he is missioned by Divine Beauty to radiate upon earth something of her charm and wizardry. The fullness of his role he can only play up when he is fully conscious for it is under that condition that all obstructing and obscuring elements lying across the path of inspiration can be completely and wholly eradicated: the instrument purified and tempered and transmuted can hold and express golden truths and beauties and puissances that otherwise escape the too human mould.
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A Splendour burning in a tenebrous cloak,
It is our glory of the flame of God,
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He has made this tenement of flesh his own,
His image in the human measure cast
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As if in a tenuous misty dream-light drawn,
The outline of a dim mysterious shore.
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A packed assemblage of crude tentative lives
Are pieced into a tessellated whole.
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Suddenly shot from the tense bow of Time,
A ray returning to its parent sun.
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United were Time's creative mood and tense
To the style and syntax of Identity.
01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
One is not sure if such reasoning is convincing to the intellect; but perhaps it is a necessary stage in conversion. At least we can conclude that Pascal had to pass through such a stage; and it indicates the difficulty his brain had to undergo, the tension or even the torture he made it pass through. It is true, from Reason Pascal went over to Faith, even while giving Reason its due. Still it seems the two were not perfectly synthetised or fused in him. There was a gap between that was not thoroughly bridged. Pascal did not possess the higher, intuitive, luminous mind that mediates successfully between the physical discursive ratiocinative brain-mind and the vision of faith: it is because deep in his consciousness there lay this chasm. Indeed,Pascal's abyss (l' abme de Pascal) is a well-known legend. Pascal, it appears, used to have very of ten the vision of an abyss about to open before him and he shuddered at the prospect of falling into it. It seems to us to be an experience of the Infinity the Infinity to which he was so much attracted and of which he wrote so beautifully (L'infiniment grand et l'infiniment petit)but into which he could not evidently jump overboard unreservedly. This produced a dichotomy, a lack of integration of personality, Jung would say. Pascal's brain was cold, firm, almost rigid; his heart was volcanic, the faith he had was a fire: it lacked something of the pure light and burned with a lurid glare.
And the reason is his metaphysics. It is the Jansenist conception of God and human nature that inspired and coloured all his experience and consciousness. According to it, as according to the Calvinist conception, man is a corrupt being, corroded to the core, original sin has branded his very soul. Only Grace saves him and releases him. The order of sin and the order of Grace are distinct and disparate worlds and yet they complement each other and need each other. Greatness and misery are intertwined, united, unified with each other in him. Here is an echo of the Manichean position which also involves an abyss. But even then God's grace is not a free agent, as Jesuits declare; there is a predestination that guides and controls it. This was one of the main subjects he treated in his famous open letters (Les Provinciales) that brought him renown almost overnight. Eternal hell is a possible prospect that faces the Jansenist. That was why a Night always over-shadowed the Day in Pascal's soul.
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Pascal's faith had not the calm, tranquil, serene, luminous and happy self-possession of an Indian Rishi. It was ardent and impatient, fiery and vehement. It had to be so perhaps, since it was to stand against his steely brain (and a gloomy vital or life force) as a counterpoise, even as an antidote. This tension and schism brought about, at least contri buted to his neuras thenia and physical infirmity. But whatever the effect upon his inner consciousness and spiritual achievement, his power of expression, his literary style acquired by that a special quality which is his great gift to the French language. If one speaks of Pascal, one has to speak of his language also; for he was one of the great masters who created the French prose. His prose was a wonderful blend of clarity, precision, serried logic and warmth, colour, life, movement, plasticity.
A translation cannot give any idea of the Pascalian style; but an inner echo of the same can perhaps be caught from the thought movement of these characteristic sayings of his with which we conclude:
01.07 - The Bases of Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The French Revolution wanted to remould human society and its ideal was liberty, equality and fraternity. It pulled down the old machinery and set up a new one in its stead. And the result? "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" remained always in effect a cry in the wilderness. Another wave of idealism is now running over the earth and the Bolshevists are its most fiercely practical exponents. Instead of dealing merely with the political machinery, the Socialistic Revolution tries to break and remake, above all, the social machinery. But judged from the results as yet attained and the tendencies at work, few are the reasons to hope but many to fear the worst. Even education does not seem to promise us anything better. Which nation was better educatedin the sense we understood and still commonly understand the wordthan Germany?
And yet we have no hesitation today to call them Huns and Barbarians. That education is not giving us the right thing is proved further by the fact that we are constantly changing our programmes and curriculums, everyday remodelling old institutions and founding new ones. Even a revolution in the educational system will not bring about the desired millennium, so long as we lay so much stress upon the system and not upon man himself. And finally, look to all the religions of the worldwe have enough of creeds and dogmas, of sermons and mantras, of churches and templesand yet human life and society do not seem to be any the more worthy for it.
01.08 - A Theory of Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The method of unconscious or subconscious nature is fundamentally that of repression. Apart from Defence Reaction which is a thing of pure coercion, even in Substitution and Sublimation there always remains in the background a large amount of repressed complexes in all their primitive strength. The system is never entirely purified but remains secretly pregnant with those urges; a part only is deflected and camouflaged, the surface only assumes a transformed appearance. And there is always the danger of the superstructure coming down helplessly by a sudden upheaval of the nether forces. The whole system feels, although not in a conscious manner, the tension of the repression and suffers from something that is unhealthy and ill-balanced. Dante's spiritualised passion is a supreme instance of control by Sublimation, but the Divina Comedia hardly bears the impress of a serene and tranquil soul, sovereignly above the turmoils of the tragedy of life and absolutely at peace with itself.
In conscious control, the mind is for the first time aware of the presence of the repressed impulses, it seeks to release them from the pressure to which they are habitually and normally subjected. It knows and recognises them, however ugly and revolting they might appear to be when they present themselves in their natural nakedness. Then it becomes easy for the conscious determination to eliminate or regulate or transform them and thus to establish a healthy harmony in the human vehicle. The very recognition itself, as implied in conscious control, means purification.
01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indeed, it would be interesting to compare and contrast the Eastern and Western approach to Divine Love, the Christian and the Vaishnava, for example. Indian spirituality, whatever its outer form or credal formulation, has always a background of utter unity. This unity, again, is threefold or triune and is expressed in those great Upanishadic phrases,mahvkyas,(1) the transcendental unity: the One alone exists, there is nothing else than theOneekamevdvityam; (2) the cosmic unity: all exis tence is one, whatever exists is that One, thereare no separate exis tences:sarvam khalvidam brahma neha nnsti kincaa; (3) That One is I, you too are that One:so' ham, tattvamasi; this may be called the individual unity. As I have said, all spiritual experiences in India, of whatever school or line, take for granted or are fundamentally based upon this sense of absolute unity or identity. Schools of dualism or pluralism, who do not apparently admit in their tenets this extreme monism, are still permeated in many ways with that sense and in some form or other take cognizance of the truth of it. The Christian doctrine too says indeed, 'I and my Father in Heaven are one', but this is not identity, but union; besides, the human soul is not admitted into this identity, nor the world soul. The world, we have seen, according to the Christian discipline has to be altogether abandoned, negatived, as we go inward and upward towards our spiritual status reflecting the divine image in the divine company. It is a complete rejection, a cutting off and casting away of world and life. One extreme Vedantic path seems to follow a similar line, but there it is not really rejection, but a resolution, not the rejection of what is totally foreign and extraneous, but a resolution of the external into its inner and inmost substance, of the effect into its original cause. Brahman is in the world, Brahman is the world: the world has unrolled itself out of the Brahmansi, pravttiit has to be rolled back into its, cause and substance if it is to regain its pure nature (that is the process of nivitti). Likewise, the individual being in the world, "I", is the transcendent being itself and when it withdraws, it withdraws itself and the whole world with it and merges into the Absolute. Even the Maya of the Mayavadin, although it is viewed as something not inherent in Brahman but superimposed upon Brahman, still, has been accepted as a peculiar power of Brahman itself. The Christian doctrine keeps the individual being separate practically, as an associate or at the most as an image of God. The love for one's neighbour, charity, which the Christian discipline enjoins is one's love for one's kind, because of affinity of nature and quality: it does not dissolve the two into an integral unity and absolute identity, where we love because we are one, because we are the One. The highest culmination of love, the very basis of love, according to the Indian conception, is a transcendence of love, love trans-muted into Bliss. The Upanishad says, where one has become the utter unity, who loves whom? To explain further our point, we take two examples referred to in the book we are considering. The true Christian, it is said, loves the sinner too, he is permitted to dislike sin, for he has to reject it, but he must separate from sin the sinner and love him. Why? Because the sinner too can change and become his brother in spirit, one loves the sinner because there is the possibility of his changing and becoming a true Christian. It is why the orthodox Christian, even such an enligh tened and holy person as this mediaeval Canon, considers the non-Christian, the non-baptised as impure and po tentially and fundamentally sinners. That is also why the Church, the physical organisation, is worshipped as Christ's very body and outside the Church lies the pagan world which has neither religion nor true spirituality nor salvation. Of course, all this may be symbolic and it is symbolic in a sense. If Christianity is taken to mean true spirituality, and the Church is equated with the collective embodiment of that spirituality, all that is claimed on their behalf stands justified. But that is an ideal, a hypothetical standpoint and can hardly be borne out by facts. However, to come back to our subject, let us ow take the second example. Of Christ himself, it is said, he not only did not dislike or had any aversion for Judas, but that he positively loved the traitor with a true and sincere love. He knew that the man would betray him and even when he was betraying and had betrayed, the Son of Man continued to love him. It was no make-believe or sham or pre tence. It was genuine, as genuine as anything can be. Now, why did he love his enemy? Because, it is said, the enemy is suffered by God to do the misdeed: he has been allowed to test the faith of the faithful, he too has his utility, he too is God's servant. And who knows even a Judas would not change in the end? Many who come to scoff do remain to pray. But it can be asked, 'Does God love Satan too in the same way?' The Indian conception which is basically Vedantic is different. There is only one reality, one truth which is viewed differently. Whether a thing is considered good or evil or neutral, essentially and truly, it is that One and nothing else. God's own self is everywhere and the sage makes no difference between the Brahmin and the cow and the elephant. It is his own self he finds in every person and every objectsarvabhtsthitam yo mm bhajati ekatvamsthitah"he has taken his stand upon oneness and loves Me in all beings."2
This will elucidate another point of difference between the Christian's and the Vaishnava's love of God, for both are characterised by an extreme in tensity and sweetness and exquisi teness of that divine feeling. This Christian's, however, is the union of the soul in its absolute purity and simplicity and "privacy" with her lord and master; the soul is shred here of all earthly vesture and goes innocent and naked into the embrace of her Beloved. The Vaishnava feeling is richer and seems to possess more amplitude; it is more concrete and less ethereal. The Vaishnava in his passionate yearning seeks to carry as it were the whole world with him to his Lord: for he sees and feels Him not only in the inmost chamber of his soul, but meets Him also in and I through his senses and in and through the world and its objects around. In psychological terms one can say that the Christian realisation, at its very source, is that of the inmost soul, what we call the "psychic being" pure and simple, referred to in the book we are considering; as: "His sweet privy voice... stirreth thine heart full stilly." Whereas the Vaishnava reaches out to his Lord with his outer heart too aflame with passion; not only his inmost being but his vital being also seeks the Divine. This bears upon the occult story of man's spiritual evolution upon earth. The Divine Grace descends from the highest into the deepest and from the deepest to the outer ranges of human nature, so that the whole of it may be illumined and transformed and one day man can embody in his earthly life the integral manifestation of God, the perfect Epiphany. Each religion, each line of spiritual discipline takes up one limb of manone level or mode of his being and consciousness purifies it and suffuses it with the spiritual and divine consciousness, so that in the end the whole of man, in his integral living, is recast and remoulded: each discipline is in charge of one thread as it were, all together weave the warp and woof in the evolution of the perfect pattern of a spiritualised and divinised humanity.
The conception of original sin is a cardinal factor in Christian discipline. The conception, of sinfulness is the very motive-power that drives the aspirant. "Seek tensely," it is said, "sorrow and sigh deep, mourn still, and stoop low till thine eye water for anguish and for pain." Remorse and grief are necessary at tendants; the way of the cross is naturally the calvary strewn with pain and sorrow. It is the very opposite of what is termed the "sunlit path" in spiritual ascension. Christian mystics have made a glorious spectacle of the process of "dying to the world." Evidently, all do not go the whole length. There are less gloomy and happier temperaments, like the present one, for example, who show an unusual balance, a sturdy common sense even in the midst of their darkest nights, who have chalked out as much of the sunlit path as is possible in this line. Thus this old-world mystic says: it is true one must see and admit one's sinfulness, the grosser and apparent and more violent ones as well as all the subtle varieties of it that are in you or rise up in you or come from the Enemy. They pursue you till the very end of your journey. Still you need not feel overwhelmed or completely desperate. Once you recognise the sin in you, even the bare fact of recognition means for you half the victory. The mystic says, "It is no sin as thou feelest them." The day Jesus gave himself away on the Cross, since that very day you are free, po tentially free from the bondage of sin. Once you give your adherence to Him, the Enemies are rendered powerless. "They tease the soul, but they harm not the soul". Or again, as the mystic graphically phrases it: "This soul is not borne in this image of sin as a sick man, though he feel it; but he beareth it." The best way of dealing with one's enemies is not to struggle and "strive with them." The aspirant, the lover of Jesus, must remember: "He is through grace reformed to the likeness of God ('in the privy substance of his soul within') though he neither feel it nor see it."
If you are told you are still full of sins and you are not worthy to follow the path, that you must go and work out your sins first, here is your answer: "Go shrive thee better: trow not this saying, for it is false, for thou art shriven. Trust securely that thou art on the way, and thee needeth no ransacking of shrift for that that is passed, hold forth thy way and think on Jerusalem." That is to say, do not be too busy with the difficulties of the moment, but look ahead, as far as possible, fix your at tention upon the goal, the intermediate steps will become easy. Jerusalem is another name of the Love of Jesus or the Bliss in Heaven. Grow in this love, your sins will fade away of themselves. "Though thou be thrust in an house with thy body, nevertheless in thine heart, where the stead of love is, thou shouldst be able to have part of that love... " What exquisite utterance, what a deep truth!
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
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Sweet Mother,
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Sweet Mother,
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incense-stick. But how is it that I wake up early because
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worship inferior entities? And the Titans must be the
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are - by regular, daily exercise. Above all, turn towards the
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establish a programme that will satisfy everyone and
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This kind of comment is quite out of place at the moment. One
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that this ten minutes' meditation has become merely mechanical. I want a dynamic meditation, but how to have
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long. I have of ten tried to observe and find out the cause
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Sweet Mother,
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plunged into an unbearable melancholy. What should I
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a long time, especially since I have been receiving your notebook
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it, you may do so, knowing that it will not help you in any way
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(Regarding love) How can one direct this human love
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tainted by egoism. But as one tends quite naturally to become
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preparation of the future. The forms of illness vary according to
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The doctors are always anxious to throw the responsibility
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a tamasic tendency to simplify the conditions of life in order to
avoid the effort of organising more complicated circumstances.
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Sweet Mother,
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with Him so that He may be your enemy"16 (implying that you
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devoted. I do not think this is true. But then, why are
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Never forget where you are living and the true aim of life.
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make individual efforts to progress, it is because this progress is
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The experience must come first and the explanation afterwards. That is why Sri Aurobindo has said: Never distrust your
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of a benevolent God? Would he not also participate in
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to leave it? If one has to leave the body, there seems to
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Or is this feeling I have only a reflection of my own
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of hostile forces in revolt against this descent? And what
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And for both, you must want it with sincerity and persis tence.
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There is a tendency among most of us here to conduct our lives and programmes according to the customs
of society. We say: "We must also think of the opinion of
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(3) "Not everyone here is meant for yoga" - that
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the mind responds to the influence of the vital and also reacts violently. Any expression of anger is the sign of a lack of
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engaged in safeguarding the freedom of man? Is that the
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in order to attain some perfection, to make progress, for all sorts
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"For a year of great progress", etc. On what do all these
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of any danger. Was there a possibility of danger on that
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a hope. It is not that I don't believe in reincarnation, but
01.12 - Three Degrees of Social Organisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Declaration of Rights is a characteristic modern phenomenon. It is a message of liberty and freedom,no doubt of secular liberty and freedomthings not very common in the old world; and yet at the same time it is a clarion that calls for and prepares strife and battle. If the conception of Right has sanctified the individual or a unit collectivity, it has also pari passu developed a fissiparous tendency in human organisation. Society based on or living by the principle of Right becomes naturally and inevitably a competitive society. Where man is regarded as nothing moreand, of course, nothing lessthan a bundle of rights, human aggregation is bound to be an exact image of Darwinian Naturered in tooth and claw.
But Right is not the only term on which an ideal or even a decent society can be based. There is another term which can serve equally well, if not better. I am obviously referring to the conception of duty. I tis an old world conception; it isa conception particularly familiar to the East. The Indian term for Right is also the term for dutyadhikara means both. In Europe too, in more recent times, when after the frustration of the dream of a new world envisaged by the French Revolution, man was called upon again to rise and hope, it was Mazzini who brought forward the new or discarded principle as a mantra replacing the other more dangerous one. A hierarchy of duties was given by him as the pattern of a fulfilled ideal life. In India, in our days the distinction between the two attitudes was very strongly insisted upon by the great Vivekananda.
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What is required is not therefore an external delimitation of frontiers between unit and unit, but an inner outlook of nature and a poise of character. And this can be cultivated and brought into action by learning to live by the sense of duty. Even then, even the sense of duty, we have to admit, is not enough. For if it leads or is capable of leading into an aberration, we must have something else to check and control it, some other higher and more po tent principle. Indeed, both the conceptions of Duty and Right belong to the domain of mental ideal, although one is usually more aggressive and militant (Rajasic) and the other tends to be more tolerant and considerate (sattwic): neither can give an absolute certainty of poise, a clear guarantee of perfect harmony.
Indian wisdom has found this other, a fairer terma tertium quid,the mystic factor, sought for by so many philosophers on so many counts. That is the very well- known, the very familiar termDharma. What is Dharma then? How does it accomplish the miracle which to others seems to have proved an impossibility? Dharma is self-law, that is to say, the law of the Self; it is the rhythm and movement of our inner or inmost being, the spontaneous working out of our truth-conscious nature.
01.13 - T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Stray down, bend to us; tendril and spray Clutch and cling?
Chill
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Our poet is too self-conscious, he himself feels that he has not the perfect voice. A Homer, even a Milton possesses a unity of tone and a wholeness of perception which are denied to the modern. To the modern, however, the old masters are not subtle enough, broad enough, psychological enough, let us say the word, spiritual enough. And yet the poetic inspiration, more than the religious urge, needs the injunction not to be busy with too many things, but to be centred upon the one thing needful, viz., to create poetically and not to discourse philosophically or preach prophetically. Not that it is impossible for the poet to swallow the philosopher and the prophet, metabolising them into the substance of his bone and marrow, of "the trilling wire in his blood", as Eliot graphically expresses. That perhaps is the consummation towards which poetry is tending. But at present, in Eliot, at least, the strands remain distinct, each with its own temper and rhythm, not fused and moulded into a single streamlined form of beauty. Our poet flies high, very high indeed at times, of ten or of ten he flies low, not disdaining the perilous limit of bathos. Perhaps it is all wilful, it is a mannerism which he cherishes. The mannerism may explain his psychology and enshrine his philosophy. But the poet, the magician is to be looked for elsewhere. In the present collection of poems it is the philosophical, exegetical, discursive Eliot who dominates: although the high lights of the subject-matter may be its justification. Still even if we have here doldrums like
That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence
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Here the poet is almost grimly tense, concentrated and has not allowed himself to be dissipated by thinkings and arguments, has confined himself wholly to a living experience. That is because the poet has since then moved up and sought a more rarefied air, a more even and smooth temper. The utter and absolute poetic ring of the Inferno is difficult to maintain in the Paradiso, unless and until the poet transforms himself wholly into the Rishi, like the poet of the Gita or the Upanishads.
"East Coker"
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
necessarily tend towards this goal.
30 September 1968
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
perseverance and sincerity. The least tendency to deceive oneself
makes success impossible.
0 1955-09-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother suddenly everything seems to have crystallizedall the little revolts, the little tensions, the ill will and petty vital demandsforming a single block of open, determined resistance. I have become conscious that from the beginning of my sadhana, the mind has led the gamewith the psychic behind and has held me in leash, helped muzzle all contrary movements, but at no time, or only rarely, has the vital submitted or opened to the higher influence. The rare times when the vital participated, I felt a great progress. But now, I find myself in front of this solid mass that says No and is not at all convinced of what the mind has been imposing upon it for almost two years now.
Mother, I am sufficiently awakened not to rebel against your Light and to understand that the vital is but one part of my being, but I have come to the conclusion that the only way of convincing this vital is not to force or stifle it, but to let it go through its own experience so it may understand by itself that it cannot be satisfied in this way. I feel the need to leave the Ashram for a while to see how I can get along away from here and to realize, no doubt, that one can really brea the only here.
0 1955-10-19, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
3) To nestle in His arms, to melt in Him in a tender and absolute CONFIDENCE.
These movements may be accompanied by three formulas, or any one of them, depending upon the case:
0 1956-12-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
ten years ago, I had two intuitions the first of which, to my great astonishment, was realized. It was that I had something important to do in South America and though I never could have foreseen such a voyage, I went there. The second was that I had something to do in Turkestan.
Mother, this is the problem around which I have desperately been turning in circles. What is the truth of my destiny? Is it that which is urging me so strongly to leave, or that which is struggling against my freedom? For ultimately, sincerely, what I want is to fulfill my lifes truth. If I have ever had a will, then it is: LET BE WHAT MUST BE. Mother, how can one truly know? Is this drive, this very old and very CLEAR urge in me, false??
0 1957-04-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Thus I am so tense that I do not even want to close my eyes to meditate for fear of yielding. And I fall into all kinds of errors that horrify me, simply because the pressure is too strong at times, and I literally suffocate. Mother, I am not cut out to be a disciple.
I realize that all the progress I was able to make during the first two years has been lost and I am just as before, worse than beforeas if all my strength were in ruin, all faith in myself undoneso much so that at times I curse myself for having come here at all.
0 1958-01-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Whereas Joy is a golden rose color, a pale gold with a tinge of red, a very pale red. It is active, warm, fortifying, in tensifying. The first is sweetness, the second is tenderness.
And Blisswhat I spontaneously call Blissis the synthesis of both. It is found in the very heights of the supramental consciousness, in a diamond light, an uncolored, sparkling light containing all the colors. Joy and Felicity form two sides of a triangle that has Bliss at its apex.
Bliss contains coolness and warmth, passivity and activity, repose and action, sweetness and tenderness, all at the same time. Divine tenderness is something very different from sweetnessit is a paroxysm of joy, a vibration so strong that the body feels it will burst, so it is forced to widen.
The diamond light of Bliss has the power to melt all hostile forces. Nothing can resist it. No consciousness, no being, no hostile will can draw near it without immediately being dissolved, for it is the Divine light in its pure creative power.
0 1958-02-03b - The Supramental Ship, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
As for the people I saw aboard ship, I recognized them all. Some were here in the Ashram, some came from elsewhere, but I knew them as well. I saw everyone, but as I realized that I would not remember everyone when I came back, I decided not to give any names. Besides, it is unnecessary. Three or four faces were very clearly visible, and when I saw them, I understood the feeling that I have had here, on earth, while looking into their eyes: there was such an extraordinary joy On the whole, the people were young; there were very few children, and their ages were around fourteen or fifteen, but certainly not below ten or twelve (I did not stay long enough to see all the details). There were no very old people, with the exception of a few. Most of the people who had gone ashore were of a middle ageagain, except for a few. Several times before this experience, certain individual cases had already been examined at a place where people capable of being supramentalized are examined; I had then had a few surprises which I had noted I even told some people. But those whom I disembarked today I saw very distinctly. They were of a middle age, neither young children nor elderly people, with only a few rare exceptions, and this quite corresponded to what I expected. I decided not to say anything, not to give any names. As I did not stay until the end, it would be impossible for me to draw an exact picture, for it was neither absolutely clear nor complete. I do not want to say things to some and not say them to others.
What I can say is that the criterion or the judgment was based EXCLUSIVELY on the substance constituting the peoplewhe ther they belonged completely to the supramental world or not, whether they were made of this very special substance. The criterion adopted was neither moral nor psychological. It is likely that their bodily substance was the result of an inner law or an inner movement which, at that time, was not in question. At least it is quite clear that the values are different.
0 1958-03-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
On the way, I stopped at J and Es place. They are living like native fishermen, in loincloths, in a coconut grove by the sea. The place is exceedingly beautiful, and the sea full of rainbow-hued coral. And suddenly, within twenty-four hours, I realized an old dreamor rather, I purged myself of an old and tenacious dream: that of living on a Pacific island as a simple fisherman. And all at once, I saw, in a flash, that this kind of life totally lacks a center. You float in a nowhere. It plunges you into some kind of higher inertia, an illumined inertia, and you lose all true substance.
As for me, I am totally out of my element in this new life, as though I were uprooted from myself. I am living in the temple, in the midst of pujas,1 with white ashes on my forehead, barefoot dressed like a Hindu, sleeping on cement at night, eating impossible curries, with some good sunburns to complete the cooking. And there I am, clinging to you, for if you were not there I would collapse, so absurd would it all be. You are the only realityhow many times have I repeated this to myself, like a litany! Apart from this, I am holding up quite well physically. But inside and outside, nothing is left but you. I need you, thats all. Mother, this world is so horrifyingly empty. I really feel that I would evaporate if you werent there. Well, no doubt I had to go through this experience Perhaps I will be able to extract some book from it that will be of use to you. We are like children who need a lot of pictures in order to understand, and a few good kicks to realize our complete stupidity.
0 1958-05-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
No. From the minute it is conscious, it is conscious of its own falsehood! It is conscious of this law, of that law, of this third law that fourth law, this tenth laweverything is a law. We are subject to physical laws: this will produce such and such a result if you do that, this will happen, etc. Oh! It reeks! I know it well. I know it very well. These laws reek of falsehood. In the body, we have no faith in the divine Grace, none, none, none, none! Those who have not undergone a tapasya2 as I have, say, Yes, all these inner moral things, feelings, psychology, all that is very good; we want the Divine and we are ready to But all the same, material facts are material facts, they have their concrete reality, after all an illness is an illness, food is food, and everything you do has a consequence, and when you are bah, bah, bah, bah, bah!
We must understand that this isnt trueit isnt true, its a falsehood, all this is sheer falsehood. It is NOT TRUE, it is not true!
0 1958-05-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
As a matter of fact, my tendency is more and more towards something in which the role of these hostile forces will be reduced to that of an examinerwhich means that they are there to test the sincerity of your spiritual quest. These elements have a reality in their action and for the workthis is their great reality but when you go beyond a certain region, it all grows dim to such a degree that it is no longer so well defined, so distinct. In the occult world, or rather if you look at the world from the occult point of view, these hostile forces are very real, their action is very real, quite concrete, and their attitude towards the divine realization is positively hostile; but as soon as you go beyond this region and enter into the spiritual world where there is no longer anything but the Divine in all things, and where there is nothing undivine, then these hostile forces become part of the total play and can no longer be called hostile forces: it is only an attitude that they have adoptedor more precisely, it is only an attitude adopted by the Divine in his play.
This again belongs to the dualities that Sri Aurobindo speaks of in (The Synthesis of Yoga, these dualities that are being reabsorbed. I dont know if he spoke of this particular one; I dont think so, but its the same thing. Its again a certain way of seeing. He has writ ten of the Personal-Impersonal duality, Ishwara-Shakti, Purusha-Prakriti but there is still one more: Divine and anti-divine.
0 1958-07-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
You see, this is how it happened: theres this Ganesh2 We had a meditation (this was more than thirty years ago) in the room where Prosperity3 is now distributed. There were eight or ten of us, I believe. We used to make sen tences with flowers; I arranged the flowers, and each one made a sen tence with the different flowers I had put there. And one day when the subject of prosperity or wealth came up, I thought (they always say that Ganesh is the god of money, of fortune, of the worlds wealth), I thought, Isnt this whole story of the god with an elephant trunk merely a lot of human imagination? Thereupon, we meditated. And who should I see walk in and park himself in front of me but a living being, absolutely alive and luminous, with a trunk that long and smiling! So then, in my meditation, I said, Ah! So its true that you exist!Of course I exist! And you may ask me for whatever you wish, from a monetary standpoint, of course, and I will give it to you!
So I asked. And for about ten years, it poured in, like this (gesture of torrents). It was incredible. I would ask, and at the next Darshan, or a month or several days later, depending, there it was.
Then the war and all the difficulties came, bringing a tremendous increase of people and expenditure (the war cost a fortuneanything at all cost ten times more than before), and suddenly, finished, nothing more. Not exactly nothing, but a thin little trickle. And when I asked, it didnt come. So one day, I put the question to Ganesh through his image (! ), I asked him, What about your promise?I cant do it, its too much for me; my means are too limited!Ah! I said to myself (laughing), What bad luck! And I no longer counted on him.
Once someone even asked Santa Claus! A young Muslim girl who had a special liking for Father Christmas I dont know why, as it was not part of her religion! Without saying a word to me, she called on Santa Claus and told him, Mother doesnt believe in you; you should give Her a gift to prove to Her that you exist. You can give it to Her for Christmas. And it happened! She was quite proud.
0 1958-11-04 - Myths are True and Gods exist - mental formation and occult faculties - exteriorization - work in dreams, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The Greeks were not always tender either!
In Europe and in the modern Western world, it is thought that all these gods the Greek gods and the pagan gods, as they are calledare human fancies, that they are not real beings. To understand, one must know that they are real beings. That is the difference. For Westerners, they are only a figment of the human imagination and dont correspond to anything real in the universe. But that is a gross mistake.
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To give another comparison, it could be said that the physical body is at the centerit is the most material and the most condensed, as well as the smallestand the more subtle inner bodies increasingly overlap the limits of this central physical body; they pass through it and ex tend further and further out, like water evaporating from a porous vase which creates a kind of steam all around it. And the more subtle it is, the more its ex tension tends to fuse with that of the universe: you finally become universal. It is an entirely concrete process that makes the invisible worlds an objective experience and even allows you to act in those worlds.
In Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's terminology, 'psychic' or 'psychic being' means the soul or the portion of the Supreme in man which evolves from life to life until it becomes a fully self-conscious being. The soul is a special capacity or grace of human beings on earth.
0 1958-12-24, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I love you, my child, and I am near you with confidence and tenderness.
Doubt not of the Victory, it is certain.
0 1958-12-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
X is at the summit of tantric initiation, and his power is not the fruit of a simple knowledge. He holds it directly from the Divine, and these things have been in his family traditionally from ten generations. No black magic can resist his power. His action is not brutal, he does not mechanically apply formulas, he holds this Science and knows how to apply it like an expert chemist, always in Light, Love and sweetness. If you agree that he come to see you, he will immediately know the source of these attacks upon you and will even be able to make the attacking force speak. He has this power. Of course, neither X nor Swami will divulge this to anyone, and everything will be kept secret. You have only to send word, or a telegram: No objection.
The work can be done from here also, but naturally it will not be quite as effective. In that case, you would have to set a specific time to synchronize the action in Rameswaram and Pondicherry. Swami can also do something in his pujas. It is for you to decide, but I hope you will not want to prolong this battle unnecessarily.
0 1958 12 - Floor 1, young girl, we shall kill the young princess - black tent, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
object:0_1958 12 - Floor 1, young girl, we shall kill the young princess - black tent
author class:The Mother
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Two or three days after I retired to my room upstairs,1 early in the night I fell into a very heavy sleep and found myself out of the body much more materially than I do usually. This degree of density in which you can see the material surroundings exactly as they are. The part that was out seemed to be under a spell and only half conscious. When I found myself at the first floor where everything was absolutely black, I wanted to go up again, but then I discovered that my hand was held by a young girl whom I could not see in the darkness but whose contact was very familiar. She pulled me by the hand telling me laughingly, No, come, come down with me, we shall kill the young princess. I could not understand what she meant by this young princess and, rather unwillingly, I followed her to see what it was. Arriving in the anteroom which is at the top of the staircase leading to the ground floor, my at tention was drawn in the midst of all this total obscurity to the white figure of Kamala2 standing in the middle of the passage between the hall and Sri Aurobindos room. She was as it were in full light while everything else was black. Then I saw on her face such an expression of in tense anxiety that to comfort her I said, I am coming back. The sound of my voice shook off from me the semi-trance in which I was before and suddenly I thought, Where am I going? and I pushed away from me the dark figure who was pulling me and in whom, while she was running down the steps, I recognized a young girl who lived with Sri Aurobindo and me for many years and died five years back. This girl during her life was under the most diabolical influence. And then I saw very distinctly (as through the walls of the staircase) down below a small black tent which could scarcely be perceived in the surrounding darkness and standing in the middle of the tent the figure of a man, head and face shaved (like the sannyasin or the Buddhist monks) covered from head to foot with a knitted outfit following tightly the form of his body which was tall and slim. No other cloth or garment could give an indication as to who he could be. He was standing in front of a black pot placed on a dark red fire which was throwing its reddish glow on him. He had his right arm stretched over the pot, holding between two fingers a thin gold chain which looked like one of mine and was unnaturally visible and bright. Shaking gently the chain he was chanting some words which translated in my mind, She must die the young princess, she must pay for all she has done, she must die the young princess.
Then I suddenly realized that it was I the young Princess and as I burst into laughter, I found myself awake in my bed.
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Mother withdrew on December 9. In fact, She had been unwell for already more than a month before withdrawing. On November 26, the last 'Wednesday class' took place at the playground; on November 28 the last 'Friday class', on December 6, the last 'Translation class'; on December 1, the end of Mother's tennis and the last visit to the playground. On December 9, She again went down for the meditation around the Samadhi. From December 10, Mother remained in her room for one month. A great period had come to an end. Henceforth, She would only go out of the Ashram building on rare occasions.
A disciple
0 1959-01-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
In this regard, perhaps you know that X is the tenth in the line of Bhaskaraya (my spelling of this name is perhaps not correct), the great Tantric of whom you had a vision, who could comm and the coming of Kali along with all her warriors. It is from X that Swami received his initiation.
Your last letter gave us great pleasure, knowing that you have finally recovered physically. But we deeply hope that you will not again take up the countless activities that formerly consumed all your timeso many people come to you egoistically, for prestige, to be able to say that they are on familiar terms with you. You know this, of course
0 1959-05-19 - Ascending and Descending paths, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have also come to realize that for this sadhana of the body, the mantra is essential. Sri Aurobindo gave none; he said that one should be able to do all the work without having to resort to external means. Had he reached the point where we are now, he would have seen that the purely psychological method is inadequate and that a japa is necessary, because only japa has a direct action on the body. So I had to find the method all alone, to find my mantra by myself. But now that things are ready, I have done ten years of work in a few months. That is the difficulty, it requires time
And I repeat my mantra constantlywhen I am awake and even when I sleep. I say it even when I am getting dressed, when I eat, when I work, when I speak with others; it is there, just behind in the background, all the time, all the time.
0 1959-05-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I can easily understand that your task on this earth is not particularly encouraging and you must find our human matter stupid and rebellious. I do not wish to throw upon you more bad things than you already receive, but I wish you could also understand certain things. I am not made for this withered life, not made for putting sen tences together all day long, not made for living alone in my holefriendless, loveless, with nothing but mantras, and waiting for a better that never comes. For three years I have wanted to leave and each time I yielded out of scruples that you needed me, though also because I am attached to you. But after the [book on] Sri Aurobindo, there will be something else, there will always be something else that will make my departure look like a betrayal. I am fed up with living in my head, always in my head, with paper and ink. It was not of this that I dreamed when I was ten years old and ran with the wind over the untamed heaths. I am suffocating. You ask too much of me; or rather, I am not worth your expectation.
A love for you might have held me here. And indeed, for you I have devotion, veneration, respect, an attachment, but there has never been this marvelous thing, warm and full, that links one to a being in the same beating of a heart. Through love, I could do all, accept all, endure all, sacrifice all but I do not feel this love. You cannot give yourself with your head, through a mental decision, yet that is what I have been doing for five years. I have tried to serve you as best I could. But I am at the end of my rope. I am suffocating.
0 1959-05-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I will see you tomorrow morning at ten oclock and I hope that a few small misunderstandings may be clarified.
I am sending you forthwith the note that I had prepared for tomorrow morning.
0 1959-06-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
With all my tenderness.
Signed: Mother
0 1959-06-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
X gave me a new mantra. My body is exhausted from too much nervous tension. I am living in a kind of cellar with four inches of filth on the floor and walls, and two openings, one onto the street of the bazaar the other onto a dilapidated courtyard with a well. On my right lives a madwoman who screams half the day. There is only my mantra which burns almost constantly in my heart, and who knows what hope that some day the future will be happy and reconciled. There is also Sujata and you.
Your child,
0 1960-01-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
When I started my japa one year ago, I had to struggle with every possible difficulty, every contradiction, prejudice and opposition that fills the air. And even when this poor body began walking back and forth for japa, it used to knock against things, it would start breathing all wrong, coughing; it was attacked from all sides until the day I caught the Enemy and said, Lis ten carefully. You can do whatever you want, but Im going right to the end and nothing will stop me, even if I have to repeat this mantra ten crore1 times. The result was really miraculous, like a cloud of bats flying up into the light all at once. From that moment on, things started going better.
You have no idea what an irresistible effect a well-determined will can have.
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Of all forms of ego, you might think that the physical ego is the most difficult to conquer (or rather, the body ego, because the work was already done long ago on the physical ego). It might be thought that the form of the body is a point of concentration, and that without this concentration or hardness, physical life would not be possible. But thats not true. The body is really a wonderful instrument; its capable of widening and of becoming vast in such a way that everything, everything the slightest gesture, the least little taskis done in a wonderful harmony and with a remarkable plasticity. Then all of a sudden, for something quite stupid, a draft, a mere nothing, it forgetsit shrinks back into itself, it gets afraid of disappearing, afraid of not being. And everything has to be started again from scratch. So in the yoga of matter you start realizing how much endurance is needed. I calculated it would take 200 years to say ten crore of my japa. Well, Im ready to struggle 200 years if necessary, but the work will be done.
Sri Aurobindo had made it clear to me when I was still in France that this yoga in matter is the most difficult of all. For the other yogas, the paths have been well laid, you know where to tread, how to proceed, what to do in such-and-such a case. But for the yoga of matter, nothing has ever been done, never, so at each moment everything has to be invented.
0 1960-06-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Myself, I go to bed very early, at eight oclock. Its still quite noisy everywhere, but I dont mind; at least Im sure of no longer being disturbed. First you must stretch out flat and relax all your muscles, all your nervesyou can learn this easilybecome like a dishrag on the bed, as I call it; there should be nothing left. And if you can also do that with the mind, you get rid of a lot of idiotic dreams that make you more tired when you wake up than when you went to bed; they are the result of the cellular activity of the brain going on uncontrollably, which is very tiring. Therefore, relax fully, bring everything to a complete, tensionless calm in which everything has stopped. But this is only the beginning.
Once Im relaxed, I have developed the habit of repeating my mantra. But its very strange with these mantras I dont know how it is for others; Im speaking of my own mantra, the one I myself foundit came spontaneously. Depending on the occasion, the time, depending on what I might call the purpose for repeating it, it has quite different results. For example, I use it to establish the contact while walking back and forth in my roommy mantra is a mantra of evocation; I evoke the Supreme and establish the contact with the body.
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Sri Aurobindo said that the true or yogic reason for sleep is to put the consciousness back into contact with Sat-Chit-Ananda (I used to do this without knowing it). For some people the contact is established immediately, while for others it takes eight, nine, ten hours to do it. But really, normally you should not wake up till the contact has been established, and thats why its very bad to wake up in an artificial way (with an alarm clock, for example), because then the night is wasted.
As for me, my night is now organized. I go to bed at 8 oclock and get up at 4, which makes for a very long night, and its sliced into three parts. And I get up punctually at 4 in the morning. But Im always awake ten or fifteen minutes beforehand, and I review all that has happened during the night, the dreams, the various activities, etc., so that when I get up, I am fully active.
To make use of your nights is an excellent thing, for it has a double effect: a negative effect, in that it keeps you from falling backwards, from losing what youve gained (that is really painful); and a positive effect, in that you progress, you continue progressing. You make use of your nights, so theres no more residue of fatigue.
0 1960-07-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
With all my tender affection.
Signed: Mother
0 1960-07-23 - The Flood and the race - turning back to guide and save amongst the torrents - sadhana vs tamas and destruction - power of giving and offering - Japa, 7 lakhs, 140000 per day, 1 crore takes 20 years, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Something interesting happened last night exactly between ten and eleven. I was in some kind of vehicle. I didnt see the vehicle but I was in it. Someone in front of me was driving, though I could only see his back; I didnt bother about who it washe was simply the one meant to do it.
It was as if the doors of destruction had been flung open. Floodsfloods as vast as an oceanwere rushing down onto something the earth? A formidable current pouring down at an insane speed, with an unstoppable power. It was brackish waternot transparent, but brackish. And it was imperative to reach a certain spot BEFORE the water. Had the water reached there ahead of me, nothing could have been done. Whereas if I got there first (I say I, but it was not I with this body), if I got to the other side before the water, I would be completely safe; and from this safe position, I would be able, I would have a chance to help those left behind.
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In the beginning, I said Id do a crore,4 and if that were not enough, Id do ten crore. And one crore will take 20 years!
We shall see.
0 1960-08-10 - questions from center of Education - reading Sri Aurobindo, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
(Pavitra:) It has everythinghow to play bridge, how to play tennis, the art of carving a chicken
Fine.
0 1960-08-27, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The little basket I put them in can no longer close! I take 45 minutes every morning upstairs to write letters. And I receive six, seven, eight, ten letters a day, so how can I manage? In the end, Sri Aurobindo spent the whole night writing letterstill he went blind.
Myself, I cant afford to do that, I have other things to do. And Im not keen on going blind either. I need my eyes, they are my work instruments.
0 1960-09-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I didnt speak of it to anyone, but it caused me some concern. And just the next day the machine broke down! When I was informed, immediately I thought It was then repaired, and again it broke downthree times. Then the following night, just before ten oclock I should mention that during the day I had thought, But why not attract these forces to our side, take them and satisfy them, give them some peace and joy and use them? I thought about it, concentrated a little, but then I didnt bother any further. At ten oclock that evening, they came upon mein a flood! They kept coming and coming. And I was busy with them the whole time. They were not ugly (not so luminous either! ), they were wholesome, straightforwardhonest forces. So I worked on them. This began exactly at 9:30, and for one hour I was busy working. After an hour, Id had enough: Lis ten, this is quite fine, youre very nice, but I cant spend all my time like this! We shall see what to do later for it absorbed my whole consciousness. They kept coming and coming (you understand what that means to a body?!). So at 10:30 I told them, Lis ten, my little ones, be quiet now, thats enough for today At 10:30, the machine broke down!
I found out, of course, because they log everything at the factory, so when they came to inform me of the breakdown the next morning, I asked them what time it had happenedexactly 10:30.
0 1960-10-02b, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
With all my tender affection.
Signed: Mother
0 1960-10-19, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Its the same as when X tells people, I am feeding you, so eat! And he serves you ten times more than you can put in. If you tell him, My stomach cant digest it, he answers that this is nonsense: Eat, and you will see! And in fact, up above that is, once youve mastered itits perfectly true. But we arent there yet, far from it! He himself is sick all the time.
Then he would answer, Everyone is sick.But thats no reason.
0 1960-10-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And never in my life, never, had I felt such peaceit was absolutely luminous and soft a peace, such a soft, tender, luminous peace. After a moment, she bent down and whispered in my ear, One must never question ones master! It wasnt I who was questioning!
She was a wonderful woman, wonderful. But as for him well
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All the teachers are wanting to quit the schoolweary! Which means theyll begin the year with half the teachers gone. They live in constant tension, they dont know how to relax thats really what it is. They dont know how to act without agitation.
I think thats what this head came to tell me, and its precisely whats wrong in the Ashrameverything here is done in agitation, absolutely everything. So its constantly a comedy of errors; someone speaks, the other doesnt lis ten and responds all wrong, and nothing gets done. Someone asks one thing, another answers to something elsebah! Its a dreadful con-fu-sion.
0 1960-10-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
About two weeks later (in other words, ten days or so before September 26), some more news the boys older brother, who lives in Ahmedabad (not Bombay), came to visit his mother, father and grandmo ther (theres also a grandmo ther), and he asked about his brother. He had come with a friend. Your brother has disappeared, they explained, we dont know what has happened to him. So the two of them decided to search for him: Well find him .
The day before their departure, the elder brothers friend said he was going to visit the grandmo ther (she lives some hundred yards away). He went outand didnt return. Disappeared.
0 1960-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But that CANNOT be ex tended as it is, for everything is constantly changing! And to be immortal, you have to follow this perpetual change; otherwise, what will naturally happen is what now happensone day you will die because you can no longer follow the change. But if you can follow it, then all this will fall from you! Understand that what will survive in you is something you dont know very well, but its the only thing that can survive and all the rest will keep falling off all the time Do you still want to be immortal?Not one in ten said yes! Once you are able to make them feel the thing concretely, they tell you, Oh no! Oh no! Since everything else is changing, the body might as well change too! What difference would it make! But what remains is THAT; THAT is what you must truly hold on to but then you must BE THAT, not this whole agglomeration. What you now call you is not THAT, its a whole collection of things..
Formerly, that was my first stepa long time ago. Now its so very different I wonder how it was possible to have been so totally blind as to call that oneself at any moment in ones life! Its a collection of things. And what was the link by which that could be called oneself? Thats more difficult to find out. Only when you climb above do you come to realize that THAT is at work here, but it could work there as well, or as well here, or here, or here At times there is suddenly a drop of something (Oh, I saw that this morningit was like a drop, a little drop, but with SUCH an in tense and perfect light ), and where THAT falls it makes its center and begins radiating out and acting. THAT is what can be called oneselfnothing else. And THAT precisely is what enabled me to live in such dreadfully uninteresting, such nonexis tent circumstances. And at the moment when you ARE that, you see how that has lived and how that has used everything, not only in this body but in all bodies and through all time.
0 1960-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And then things dont happen at all as they do in ordinary life for three or four minutes, sometimes five or ten minutes, Im a-bo-minably sick, with every sign that its all over.
(silence)
0 1960-12-23, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I sat down shortly before ten oclock for meditation. I was in my normal state and I was interested to see if there would be any difference from earlier times. And really, at first there was no difference at all. Then slowly, slowly, I felt this type of smiling and serene peace that I live in entering into the body. The cells are still not always conscious of it (sometimes they feel a sort of tension of life I dont know what to call it). Theyre conscious of their exis tence and of what it means and of the Energy that is acting (yes, conscious of the Action and the Energy that acts), but during the meditation THAT descended and there was an extraordinary relaxation. Not the relaxation that comes with surrender,1 which I normally feel before sleeping, but the relaxation that comes from a kind of serene, immutable and eternal joy. At that moment the body felt it could remain like that forever! Oh, how nice I feel! it said. And as a matter of fact, Im not sure but I think he felt the meditation was over, whereas I was still I felt him stirring, so I stopped.
There was a marked difference.
0 1960-12-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I want to tell you that X completely changed my japa this morning. Instead of ten hours a day, I now have only about half an hour to do three times a day!
He told me that everything is in this new japa.
0 1961-01-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother gives Satprem a rose.) This is the tenderness of the Divine for for himself! The tenderness He has for his creation. Creation I dont like that word, as if it all were created from nothing! It is He himself, creating with all his tenderness. Some of these roses get quite big; theyre so lovely!
And I am how to put it? Nothing we say is ever absolutely true, but, to stretch it a bit, while I am not worried, not perturbed, not discouraged, I feel I cant get anything done; I spend all my time, all my time, seeing people, receiving and answering lettersdoing nothing. I havent touched my translation1 for over a week. T. sent me her notebook with questions and I had it for two weeks before I found time to answer.2 Nothing is ready for the Bulletin except what you have done.
0 1961-01-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For me it was in the head (not last night but over the past few days), when I was trying to do my japaoh, it was as though my head would burst! All the nerves were not just tense (Mother touches the nape of her neck), but cramped. And my head felt as if boiling oil were being poured inside it; it was about to explode, and I couldnt see clearly.
Something was obviously bent on preventing me from going down for the distribution.4 But by an act of will I went down. I will do it, I said. But it was difficult. There were moments when it sidled up to me: Now youre going to faint, and then, Now your legs will no longer be able to walk. Now. It kept coming like that. So I kept repeating the japa the whole time, and it was touch-and-go right up to the end. Finally I couldnt distinguish people, I saw only shapes, forms passing by, and not clearly. When the distribution was over, I got up (I knew I had to get up), I stood up without flinching and stepped down from the chair without faltering. But I was not careful and when I turned away from the light in the room to go towards the staircasean abrupt blackout. Not the blackout of a faintmy eyes no longer saw. I saw only shadows. Ah! I said to myself, where is the step?! And to avoid missing it, I clutched the railing. What a commotion that made! Champaklal came rushing up, thinking I was about to fall!
0 1961-02-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One could almost say that of all animals, the serpent is the most sensitive to hypnotic or magnetic power. If you have it (magnetic power comes from the most material vital), you can easily gain a mastery over snakes; all the people who like snakes have it and use it to make snakes obey them. Thats how I got out of my encounter with the cobra at Tlemcen7do you know the story? Theon had told me about this power and I was aware of it in myself, so I was able to make the cobra obey and he left. Afterwards (Ive told this story, too), I was visited by the King of Serpents I mean the spirit of the species. He came to me in Tlemcen after this and another incident when I helped a cat overpower a little asp (there are asps over there like Cleopatras, very dangerous)a big russet angora cat. At first it started to play with the asp, but then naturally grew furious. The asp struck at the cat, but the cat leapt aside with such swiftness that the asp missed it (I watched this going on for more than ten minutes, it was extraordinary). Just as the snake darted by, the cat would swat at it with all his claws outand the asp got scratched each time, so that little by little it ran out of energy, and at the end. I stopped the cat from eating it that part was disgusting!
Then after these two incidents, I received a visit one night from the King of Serpents. He was wearing a superb crown on his headsymbolic, of course, but anyway, he was the spirit of the species. He had the appearance of a cobra, and he was wonderful! A formidable beast, and wonderful! He said he had come to make a pact with me: I had demonstrated my power over his species, so he wanted to come to an understanding. All right, I said, what do you propose? I not only promise that serpents wont harm you, he replied, but that they will obey you. But you must promise me something in return: never to kill one of them. I thought it over and said, No, I cant make this promise, because if ever one of yours attacks one of mine (a being that depends upon me), my pact with you could not stop me from protecting him. I can assure you that I have no bad feelings and no in tention of killingkilling is not on my program! But I cant commit myself, because it would restrict my freedom of decision. He left without replying, so it remains status quo.
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In ten months Ive had time to read two books!
It doesnt matter! Put your ideas down on paper. There are things you already know you want to say. Put it all on paper. I assure you it will do you good. I have seen it several times recently and I wanted to tell you: begin your book on Sri Aurobindo! Begin anywhere at all, at any point the middle, the end, the beginningit doesnt matter! Whatever you feel you have to say, write it down. Its good to keep yourself occupied like that now, during this period. And for our next meetings you can work a little on The Synthesis of Yoga and we will look at it together instead of you always making me talk! I have increased your work, there will be no end to it. If it goes on like this, there will never be an end!
0 1961-02-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
55Be wide in me, O Varuna; be mighty in me, O Indra; O Sun, be very bright and luminous; O Moon, be full of charm and sweetness. Be fierce and terrible, O Rudra; be impetuous and swift, O Maruts; be strong and bold, O Aryama; be voluptuous and pleasurable, O Bhaga; be tender and kind and loving and passionate, O Mitra. Be bright and revealing, O Dawn; O Night, be solemn and pregnant. O Life, be full, ready and buoyant; O Death, lead my steps from mansion to mansion. Harmonise all these, O Brahmanaspati. Let me not be subject to these gods, O Kali.1
He invokes all these Vedic gods and tells each one to take possession of him; and THEN he tells Kali to free him from their influence! It is very amusing!
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Last night I had a dream about you that made a vivid impression on me. Its probably absurd, but it was so real! You had called me because you were going to leave your body: you had decided to leave and you wanted somehow to say good-bye. It was so real! I came to you and for a moment you placed my head on your knees, and I was filled with light; it was very tender. But at the same time, I knew you were saying good-bye, you were going to leave your body, and I wept in my dream. Then I went to sit in a corner because there were other people who probably had come to see you as well. I remained in that corner, strickenit seemed so real, you understand! Just then, aman I didnt know entered the room (I knew he was French), a stranger dressed all in black, and he started making a loud commotion. He was smoking a pipe,2 a very coarse man, and he wanted to make all the people there, the disciples, get out of the room .3 It was so real! I awoke with a start and almost cried aloud, Ah, its a dream! Its only a dream!
Oh, it was that real!
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You see, theres a curious fluctuation possibly indicating that your dream is part of the present attack which continues with such violence. The night before last, between midnight and half-past, there was a formidable attack. When I emerged from it, I felt that something had lifted, a victory had been won and that the bodys condition had improved. It happens like that, the horizon clears and this Certainty comes with. (The presence is always hereSri Aurobindo and I are together almost every night but the night when I saw that formation, the illness spell over the Ashram, Sri Aurobindo was quite sick in his bed, just as I saw him in 1950.) So when it lifts, all is well: once again there is harmony, there is joy, there is force and again the whole thing continues, the effort continues, consciously. Yet there is a kind of fluctuation: it will go on like that for a few moments or a few hours and then suddenly everything becomes muddled again and I am beset by a fatigue. A fatigue which is I cant say almost unbearable, because nothing in the consciousness feels it to be unbearable but it makes me like this (Mother clenches her fist tightly in a tension to hold on).
For example, at five-thirty in the evening, after Ive spent an hour and a half here with people, its a labor to climb the stairs; and by the time I get upstairs, I feel strained to the breaking point. Then I begin to walk (I dont stop, I dont rest), I immediately begin to walk with my japa, and within half an hour, pfft! it has lifted.
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Otherwise, concentration is very good, it doesnt tire mewhen my body is not drained, when it isnt constantly aware that it exists because it hurts here, hurts there, aches here, aches there (pain is what gives it a sense of existing), when the body is able to forget itself, things go well, its nothing. Now the Force passes through me without causing fatigue, while many years ago, too much Force created tension; but its not like that now, not at allon the contrary, the body feels better when a lot of force has passed through it.
I dont know. We shall see.
0 1961-02-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Almost (I say almost because the body hasnt had every experience), but almost all pains can be reduced to something absolutely negligible. (Of course, some pains it hasnt had, but it has had a sufficient number!) Its this anxiety resulting from a semi-mental vibration (the first stirrings of Mind) that complicates everything, everything! For example, take this difficulty I mentioned of climbing the stairs: in the doctors consciousness or anyone elses, pain causes it. According to their ordinary reasoning, pain is what tenses the nerves and muscles so one can no longer walk but this is absolutely FALSE. Pain does not prevent my body from doing anything at all. Pain isnt a factor, or rather its a factor that can be easily dealt with. Its not that: it is Matter; Matter (probably cellular matter, or) losing its capacity to respond to the will, to will-power. But why? I dont know! It depends upon the particular disorganization; but why is it like that? I dont know. Now each time I climb the stairs, I am trying to find the means of infusing Will in such a way that this lack of response doesnt last but I still havent found it. Although theres all this accumulated force and power and will (a tremendous accumulation, I am BATHED in it, the whole body is bathed in it!), yet for some reason it doesnt respond. Here and there, groups of cells fail to respond, and the Force cannot act. So what must be found is.
(silence)
0 1961-03-14, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And within oh! Its like waves, constantly, the equivalent of those nuances of color I was speaking about, waves of this joy of life, the joy of life rippling past, touching; but instead of being. At times, you see, the body is in a sort of equilibrium (what we, in our ordinary outer consciousness, call equilibrium that is, good health), and then this joy is constant, like swells on the sea (Mother shapes great waves): it seems to flow on behind everything; it comes and shows its face for a moment, then vanishes. In the very tiny things of lifeyes, physical life the joy of these things, the joy life contains, this luminous, special kind of vibration, rises up as if to remind us that its here; it is here, it mustnt be forgot ten, its here but its kept down by this tension.
Then, from time to time, everything seems to be on the edge of a precipice; the body doesnt fall simply because it keeps its balance but without this higher state of perfect faith, one would surely fall!
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In other words, this coexis tence or simultaneity of joy and tension, combat and peace, progress in the cellular consciousness and physical disequilibrium, form a physiological whole which is ... strange.
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0 1961-03-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We tend to apply the word natural to all spontaneous manifestation not resulting from a choice or a preconceived decision that is, with no intrusion of mental activity. Thats why a man with an only slightly mentalized vital spontaneity seems more natural to us in his simplicity. But this naturalness bears a close resemblance to the animals and is quite low on the human evolutionary scale. Man will not recapture this spontaneity free of mental intrusion until he attains the supramental level, until he goes beyond the mind and emerges into the higher Truth.
Up to that point, all his modes of being are naturally natural! But with the minds intrusion, evolution was, if not falsified, then deformed, because by its very nature the mind was open to perversion and it became perverted almost from the start (or to be more exact, it was perverted by the asuric forces). And what appears unnatural to us now is this state of perversion. At any rate, its a deformation.
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The experience occurred in a place corresponding to ours [the main Ashram building], but immense: the rooms were ten times bigger, but absolutely one cant say emptythey were barren. Not that there was nothing in them, but nothing was in order, everything was just where it shouldnt be. There wasnt any furniture so things were strewn here and therea dreadful disarray! Things were being put to uses they werent made for, yet nothing needed for a particular purpose could be found. The whole section having to do with education [the Ashram School] was in almost total darkness: the lights were out with no way to switch them on, and people were wandering about and coming to me with incoherent, stupid proposals. I tried to find a comer where I could rest (not because I was tired; I simply wanted to concentrate a little and get a clear vision in the midst of it all), but it was impossible, no one would leave me alone. Finally I put a tottering armchair and a footstool end-to-end and tried to rest; but someone immediately came up (I know who, Im purposely not giving names) and said, Oh! This wont do at all! It CANT be arranged like that! Then he began making noise, commotion, disorderwell, it was awful.
To wind it all up, I went to Sri Aurobindos rooman enormous, enormous room, but in the same state. And he appeared to be in an eternal consciousness, entirely detached from everything yet very clearly aware of our total incapacity.
0 1961-04-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have become only this (Mother slowly moves her arm forward with clenched fist, as if to show all her force tensed and pushing, inexorably pushing).
(Mother gets up)
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Religion always has a tendency to humanize, to create a God in the image of mana magnified and glorified image, but essentially always a god with human attributes. And this (laughing) creates a sort of intimacy, a sense of kinship!
T. has taken it literally, but its true that even the Spanish, when their god doesnt do what they want, take the statue and throw it in the river!
0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They say I have become deaf. I believe its the Lords grace, because when I make an effort to hear what is being said to me, nine times out of ten its completely useless and its absolutely stupid. Its better not to hear!
So there, mon petitand I said I wasnt going to talk! Its always the same thing.
0 1961-06-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
These are small details. I myself am unable to do it at fixed hours; I had always hoped to do it between 5 and 6 in the afternoon, but I usually cant manage to go upstairs before ten to six! So so I do it from 6 to 7.
Fundamentally, I have noticed one thing: if you yourself are in the right state, the right atmosphere is immediately created. And in addition, I am always in a sort of not even a convictionan ABSOLUTE perception that all that happens is the Lords doing. When He makes me late going upstairs its because He wants me to be late, and consequently, if I take it wellif instead of closing myself and getting annoyed I say, Good, thats fineimmediately a very interesting atmosphere is created, because at the same time I see all the advantages of this change. But this movement must not be mentalit has to be spontaneous.
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But it doesnt lastit ought to last. Usually it ends in a trance: I go off into the experience, I am in a beatific state and ten minutes later I notice that Ive been in that state with my pen poised in my hand. Its not favorable to the work! But otherwise its I cant even say its like someone dictating (its not that, I dont hear); it comes by itself. Oh, the other day there were one or two sen tences! I wrote something and suddenly saw what I was writing and doing so pulled me out of that state. Well, I said to myself, how nicely put! And plop! (Mother laughs) Everything was gone.
Be in that domain, and you will never grow tired.
0 1961-06-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At any rate, its the fourth day of this same silence (Mother clenches her fists, as if to show a compact mass). Not only silenceimmobility (same compact gesture), WITHOUT tenSION, without tension, effortless, without anything; like a kind of eternityin the body.
I have no trouble getting out of it I dont get out of it, to tell the truth; its not like a trance you have to pull out of, its not that. This state seems quite natural to me: I hear the clock chime.
0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I must say that there was a time when, as Sri Aurobindo had entrusted his work to me, there was a kind of tension to do it (it cant be called an anxiety); a tension in the will. This too has now ended (Mother stretches her arms into the Infinite). Its finished. But there MAY still be something tense lurking somewhere in the subconscient or the inconscient I dont know, its possible. Why? I dont know. I mean I have never been told, at any time, neither through Sri Aurobindo nor directly, whether or not I would go right to the end. I have never been told the contrary, either. I have been told nothing at all. And if at times I turn towards Thatnot to question, but simply to know the answer is always the same: Carry on, its not your problem; dont worry about it. So now I have learned not to worry about it; I am consciously not worried about it.
(silence)
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This came more than a year ago, I think. It has never left. Never. All anxiety and all conscious tension have gone.
Onlythere is an only in all thisif there were a more liberal proportion between the refreshing (if I may say so) freedom of solitude and the necessity for collective work, there would probably be fewer difficulties. Towards the end of the first year after I retired upstairs3 (perhaps even before, but anyway, some time after I began doing japa while walking), I recall having such sessions up there! Had there been a personal goal, this goal was clearly attained; it is indescribable, absolutely beyond all imaginable or expressible splendor.
0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Has the sleeper sensed my presence? For now he awakens and rises in all his grace and beauty. He turns towards me and his eyes meet mine, mauve and luminous eyes with a gentle, an infinitely tender expression. Wordlessly he bids me a sublime welcome and my whole being joyously responds. Taking my hand, he leads me to the couch he has just left. I stretch out on this downy whi teness, and his harmonious visage bends over me; a sweet current of force enters wholly into me, invigorating, revitalizing each cell.
Then, wreathed by the splendid colors of the rainbow, enveloped by lulling melodies and exquisite perfumes, beneath his gaze so powerful, so tender, I drift into a beatific repose. And during my sleep I learn many beautiful and useful things.
Of all these marvelous things, understood without the noise of words, I mention only one.
0 1961-08-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember once (I must have been ten or twelve years old at the time), there was a luncheon at my parents house for a dozen or so people, all decked out in their Sunday bestthey were family but all the same it was a luncheon and there was a certain protocol; in short, one had to behave properly. I was at one end of the table next to a first-cousin of mine who later became director of the Louvre for a while (he had an artistic intelligence, a rather capable young man). So there we were, and I remember I was observing something rather interesting in his atmosphere (mind you, although the faculties were already there, I knew nothing about occult things; if someone had spoken to me of auras and all that. I knew nothing). I was observing a kind of sensation I had felt in his atmosphere and then, just as I was putting the fork into my mouth, I took off! What a scolding I got! I was told that if I didnt know how to behave, I shouldnt come to the table! (Mother goes into peals of laughter)
It was during this period that I used to go out of my body every night and do the work Ive spoken of in Prayers and Meditations (I only mentioned it in passing).8 Every night at the same hour, when the whole house was very quiet, I would go out of my body and have all kinds of experiences. And then my body gradually became a sleepwalker (that is, the consciousness of the form became more and more conscious, while the link remained very solidly established). I got into the habit of getting up but not like an ordinary sleepwalker: I would get up, open my desk, take out a piece of paper and write poems. Yes, poems I, who had nothing of the poet in me! I would jot things down, then very consciously put everything back into the drawer, lock everything up again very carefully and go back to bed. One night, for some reason or other, I forgot and left it open. My mother came in (in France the windows are covered with heavy curtains and in the morning my mother would come in and violently throw open the curtains, waking me up, brrm!, without any warning; but I was used to it and would already be prepared to wake upotherwise it would have been most unpleasant!). Anyway, my mother came in, calling me with unquestionable authority, and then she found the open desk and the piece of paper: Whats that?! She grabbed it. What have you been up to? I dont know what I replied, but she went to the doctor: My daughter has become a sleepwalker! You have to give her a drug.
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But one day when my brother had disobeyed him (Matteo must have been ten or eleven, and I perhaps nine or ten), I came into the dining room and saw my father sitting on a sofa with my brother across his knees; he had pulled down his trousers and was spanking him, I dont know what for. It wasnt a very serious spanking, but still. I came in, drew myself up to my full height and said, Papa, if you ever do that again, I am leaving this house! And with such authority, mon petit! He stopped and never did it again.
Some very funny stories!
0 1961-08-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Three or four years ago I had to make a little effort to meditate or give a meditation to someone in a very bad condition. But now absolutely no more effort. No effort at all. And I dont notice a bit when X is having difficulty, not a bit. I prepare myself as usual before he comes and as soon as he arrives, all I have to do is call (although generally thats not necessary); I call, and then I become blissful. And I havent found more difficulties in certain cases than in others I DONT FEEL THE RESISTANCE, neither in the atmosphere nor in people. The Force is imperative. Thats why I was so astounded those other times when he began to say he needed at least ten minutes to put himself into meditationit seemed fantastic to me! He said so himself, otherwise I would never have believed it.3
Well, we shall see.
0 1961-09-16, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As if there were too much mental tension: something here at the temples.
(silence)
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These last two or three days I have been constantly seeing this for you. Then this morning it came for me, because the accumulation of work has become so tremendous that I would need ten times more time than I have merely to bring things up to date. So there I was, feeling a bit cornered; there was even a force wanting me to stop in the midst of my walk and RELAX, and I was resisting it with all my willuntil I realized I was doing something foolish. It was the same thing, he said the same thing for me. I relaxed and immediately everything was fine.
Essentially, we live with too much tension, dont we?
There you have it, mon petit, my message for the week.
What to do about it? Oh, that will come. But its true, we are always too tensealways. And I know that as long as we are controlled by that admirable mind, we feel that to relax means to fall into tamas and unconsciousness. All these old notions remain, prolonging themselves; and theres something like the residue of one of those marvelous censors, telling you: Be careful, tamas, tamas! Be careful, you are dozing offvery bad, very bad. And its idiotic, because tamas is neither joyous nor luminous, while this is an immediate joy and light.
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0 1961-09-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
With all my tenderness,
Signed: Mother
0 1961-10-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And this light was absolutely immobilevibrationless, totally compact and coherent. When I see Xs light, for example, there are always vibrations in it; it vibrates, vibrates, things are shifting about; out with this, not a single vibration, not one movement: a MASS that seemed eternally immobile but which was (how to put it?) at tentive, lis tening. It was a volume with the form of the head, as if that had wholly taken over the head. It was full, so full, yet with no feeling of tension or of anything resisting, none at all; there was only a kind of immobile eternity and COMPACT, compact, absolutely coherent, no vibrations. And it increased, increased more and more, it became heavy, but with a very particular heavinessnot a weight, the feeling of a mass.
And within all this, I no longer existed. I seemed to vanish into a kind of trance, yet I was consciousnot I: the consciousness was conscious of what Sri Aurobindo was conscious of. And he was following the reading. But I couldnt remember anything; at the time, it was impossible to observe. I can only describe it all to you now because the experience remained for at least an hour and a half afterwards; when I left here, I began to objectify it, to see what it wasaside from that, it was merely a STATE I found myself in. But in this state there was an awareness of what he was hearing, and at two or three places in your reading he seemed to be saying (I cant be exact, I can only give the impression), Not necessary. In fact, thats what made me call this passage too philosophical (although when you first asked my opinion I was in a peculiar condition, nothing was active in me). With him, it was very clear, it was almost as if there were a certain number of words about which he said, That, not necessary. That, not necessary. Not many, not of ten, but once in a while. Especially at the end (he was still there inside my head while you were talking), when you were saying that its necessary to explain to people; there he very clearly said, No, not necessary.
0 1961-10-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Curious, this impression the feeling of the body and the atmosphere when I was propelled into the future. Its something more more compact, denser than the physical: the New Creation. One always tends to think of it as something more ethereal, but its not! Theon spoke of it, but he didnt express himself very well; his way of speaking didnt have the power of revelation (it was based on experience, but the experience wasnt his, it was Madame Theons. She was a marvelous woman from the standpoint of experienceunique but with no real intelligence oh, she was intelligent and cultivated, but no more than that, and it didnt amount to much). But they really had come as forerunners, and Theon always insisted, It will have a greater density. Scientifically, this seems like heresy, for density is not used in that sense but this was what he said, A greater density. And the impression I get of this atmosphere is of something more compactmore compact and at the same time without heaviness or thickness. All this is evidently absurd scientificallyyet there is a feeling of compactness.
It was like that yesterday something so solid was with me (Mother touches her head); how to put it? Its solid, but not in the way we usually speak of solidity! Its not like that.
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All is reconciled. The Rishi is the son of two mothers: son of Aditi, the luminous cow, Mother of infinite Light, creatrix of the worlds; and son as well of Diti, the black cow, Mother of the tenebrous infinite and divided exis tence for when Diti at last reaches the end of her apparent Night, she gives us divine birth and the milk of heaven. All is fulfilled, The Rishi sets flowing in one movement human strengths and things divine (IX.70.3), he has realized the universal in the individual, become the Infinite in the finite: Then shall thy humanity become as if the workings of these gods; it is as if the visible heaven of light were founded in thee (V.66.2). Far from spurning the earth, he prays: O Godhead, guard for us the Infinite and lavish the finite(IV.2.11).
The voyage draws to its close. Agni has recovered its solar totality, its two concealed extremities. The inviolable work is fulfilled. For Agni is the place where high meets lowand in truth, there is no longer high nor low, but a single Sun everywhere: O Flame, thou goest to the ocean of Heaven, towards the gods; thou makest to meet together the godheads of the planes, the waters that are in the realm of light above the sun and the waters that abide below (III.22.3). O Fire O universal Godhead, thou art the navel-knot of the earths and their inhabitants; all men born thou controllest and supportest like a pillar (I.59.1). O Flame, thou foundest the mortal in a supreme immortality thou createst divine bliss and human joy (I.31.7). For the worlds heart is Joy, Joy dwells in the depths of all things, the well of honey covered by the rock (II.24.4).
0 1961-11-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He was a pastor at Lille, in France, for perhaps ten years; he was quite a practicing Christian, but he dropped it all as soon as he began to study occultism. He had first specialized in theological philosophy in order to pass the pastoral examinations, studying all the modem philosophy of Europe (he had a rather remarkable metaphysical brain). Then I met him in connection with Theon and the Cosmic Review, and I led him into occult knowledge. Afterwards, there were all sorts of uninteresting stories. He became a lawyer during the early period of our relationship and I learned Law along with him I could even have passed the exam! Then the divorce stories began: he divorced his wife; they had three children and he wanted to keep them, but to do so he had to be legally married, so he asked me to marry himand I said yes. I have always been totally indifferent to these things. Anyway, when I met him I knew who he was and I decided to convert him the whole story revolves around that.
As a matter of fact, the books he wrote (especially the first one, The Living Ether) were based on my knowledge; he put my knowledge into French and beautiful French, I must say! I would tell him my experiences and he would write them down. Later he wrote The Gods (it was incomplete, one-sided). Then he became a lawyer and entered politics (he was a first-class orator and fired his audiences with enthusiasm) and was sent to Pondicherry to help a certain candidate who couldnt manage his election campaign single-handed. And since Richard was interested in occultism and spirituality, he took this opportunity to seek a Master, a yogi. When he arrived, instead of involving himself in politics, the first thing he did was announce, I am seeking a yogi. Someone said to him, Youre incredibly lucky! The yogi has just arrived. It was Sri Aurobindo, who was told, Theres a Frenchman asking to see you. Sri Aurobindo wasnt particularly pleased but he found the coincidence rather interesting and received him. This was in 1910.
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Throughout the war Sri Aurobindo and I were in such a CONSTANT tension that it completely interrupted the yoga. And that is why the war started in the first placeto stop the Work. At that time there was an extraordinary descent of the Supermind; it was coming like that (massive gesture), a descent! Exactly in 39. Then the war broke out and stopped everything cold. For had we personally continued [the work of transformation] we were not sure of having enough time to finish it before the other one crushed the earth to a pulp, setting the whole Affair back centuries. The FIRST thing to be done was stop the action of the Lord of Nations.
The Lord of Falsehood.
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If that (Mother indicates the head) could only keep quiet! There is tremendous tension there (the temples). When you have problems that need solving, if you could just raise your consciousness and receive the indication, receive the inspiration from above. And keep that (the head) quiet, quiet, quietthis tension is what tires you out!
You know, two or three minutes of silence can do a lot, and it doesnt take much time.
0 1961-11-16a, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But worknot a stroke. Ah, yes, I am translating The Synthesis of Yoga and it seems much easier. I go slower, a certain tension has disappeared, and the meaning is far clearer than usual. In other words, Im interiorized there you have it.
But its deplorable from an external viewpoint! Unread letters are piling up; I dont reply to people, I forget everything I dont even try to remember. From an external point of view, Im pretty worthless.
0 1961-11-16b, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
With all my tenderness,
Signed: Mother
0 1961-11-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Im going to play you ten minutes of music.
I have taken a vow of silence.
0 1961-12-16, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was this need, this need. All the bodys cells began to vibrate with a more and more in tense vibrationit was much more than a need; it was a necessity, a necessity to vibrate in unison with Truth. The cells seemed to be sensing the vibration of Truth, and so the entire body was in a state of total tensionnot tension in the ordinary sense, but it was like trying to find a note that rings true. Thats what it was: to make the cells vibration ring true to the Vibration of Truth.
But you cant get that down on paper!
0 1961-12-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I could possibly scribble a few things down and have you write a book with them, but. I dont have the time and anyway, I just thought of it this minute. I hadnt an inkling of it ten minutes ago.
I am seeing this book now. I see it. But when I leave here, with that whole throng around me and all that work to do, it will fade away. I would need to be very quiet, have nothing to do, and just write when it comes to me; because I cannot do things in a logical fashion I have never been able to, never. The experience must come suddenlya memory, an experience then I note it down, put it aside and leave it. And when another comes, the same thing. In this way there would be (smiling) no plan to the book! It would be very simple: no plan of ideas, no plan of development, nothing; simply a story.
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But this was merely the beginning of my vision. Only after a series of experiencesa ten months sojourn in Pondicherry, five years of separation, then the return to Pondicherry and the meeting in the same house and in the same waydid the END of the vision occur. I was standing just beside him. My head wasnt exactly on his shoulder, but where his shoulder was (I dont know how to explain itphysically there was hardly any contact). We were standing side by side like that, gazing out through the open window, and then TOGETHER, at exactly the same moment, we felt, Now the Realization will be accomplished. That the seal was set and the Realization would be accomplished. I felt the Thing descending massively within me, with the same certainty I had felt in my vision. From that moment on there was nothing to sayno words, nothing. We knew it was THAT.
But between these two meetings he participated in a whole series of experiences, experiences of gradually growing awareness. This is partly noted in Prayers and Meditations (I have cut out all the personal segments). But there was one experience I didnt speak of there (that is, I didnt describe it, I put only the conclusion)the experience where I say Since the man refused I was offering participation in the universal work and the new creation and the man didnt want it, he refused, and so I now offer it to God.6
0 1961-12-23, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have met five women like that, the last two here (they were the most terrible). Its a phenomenon of hate and rage mixed with loves greatest power of attractionno sweetness, of course, no tenderness, nothing like that but NEED, loves greatest power of attraction, mixed with hate. And they cling, you know, and then what fun!
I had a session like that some days agoits a work Im pursuing. (Likewise, I have constantly been with the adverse force I once told you about,3 who keeps incarnating especially to harass meso theres also this phenomenon, amiably passing from one being to another!) Anyway, not long ago I had given an appointment to this woman and had decided not to say anythingbecause there was nothing to be done (the most beautiful things go rot ten, theres nothing to do). So I remained silent, indrawn, fully in contact with the Supreme Presence, with the external personality annulled (this experience, in fact, lasting almost one hour, is what gave me the key to everything that has been happening lately). There was only the Supreme, nothing else the Supreme THERE, in that very body, mon petit, in that whole agglomeration and in that apparently absolutely anti-divine influenceHIS Presence was there!
0 1962-01-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a difficult problem to resolve, because at no price do I want to stop the discipline (the tapasya,2 to be precise). I dont want to stop. And both things together are clearly too much for a stupid little bodystupid mainly because it lives in tension.
These past few days Ive had some interesting experiences from this standpoint. I had what is commonly called fever, but it wasnt feverit was a resurfacing from the subconscient of all the struggles, all the tensions this body has had for what will soon be eighty-three years. I went through a period in my life when the tension was tremendous, because it was psychological and vital as well as physical: a perpetual struggle against adverse forces; and during my stay in Japan, particularly oh, it was terrible! So at night, everything that had been part of that life in Japanpeople, things, movements, circumstancesall of it seemed to be surrounding my body in the form of vital3 vibrations, and to be taking the place of my present state, which had completely vanished. For hours during the night, the body was reliving all the terrible tensions it had during those four years in Japan. And I realized how much (because at the time you pay no at tention; the consciousness is busy with something else and not concentrated on the body), how much the body resists and is tense. And just as I was realizing this, I had a communication with Sri Aurobindo: But youre keeping it up! he told me. Your body still has the habit of being tense. (Its much less now, of course; its quite different since the inner consciousness is in perfect peace, but the BODY keeps the habit of being tense.) For instance, in the short interval between the time I get up and the time I come down to the balcony,4 when I am getting ready (I have to get this body ready to come down) well, the body is tense about being ready in time. And thats why accidents happen at that moment. So the following morning I said, All right, no more tension, and I was exclusively concerned with keeping my body perfectly tranquil I was no later than usual! So its obviously just one of the bodys bad habits. Everything went off the same as usual, and since then things are better. But its a nasty habit.
And so I looked. Is it something particular to this body? I wondered. To everyone who has lived closely with it, my body gives the impression of two things: a very concentrated, very stubborn will, and such endurance! Sri Aurobindo used to tell me he had never dreamed a body could have such endurance. And thats probably why. But I dont want to curtail this ability in any way, because it is a CELLULAR will, and a cellular endurance toowhich is quite intriguing. Its not a central will and central endurance (thats something else altogether)its cellular. Thats why Sri Aurobindo used to tell me this body had been specially prepared and chosen for the Workbecause of its capacity for obstinate endurance and will. But thats no reason to exercise this ability uselessly! So I am making sure it relaxes now; I tell it constantly, Now, now! Just let go! Relax, have some fun, wheres the harm in it? I have to tell it to be quiet, very quiet. And its very surprised to hear that: Ah! Can I live that way? I dont have to hurry? I can live that way?
--
This need for relaxation was never psychological with me. And I have seen that the habit people have of slackening has the same origin: its not necessarily negligence or vital weakness, the body simply gets winded. It bears up under the tension of vital energy, but eventually it gets winded, tired out, and needs rest.
Given the worlds present set-up, this is normal but if the supramental world were to be realized, it shouldnt remain normal. Clearly, a considerable change has to take place in the physical substance. That will probably be the essential difference between the bodies fashioned by Natures methods and those to be fashioned by supramental knowledgea new element will come in, and we will no longer be natural. But so long as this natural element is present, well, a certain amount of patience is probably requiredlet the body catch its breath, otherwise something gives way.
It gets much less winded, of course, when you have the inner equality of the divine Presence. So much fatigue is due to excess tension produced by desire or effort or struggle, by the constant battle against all opposing forces. All that can go.
We tire ourselves out quite needlessly.
--
Psychologically, there was no struggle, no tension, no effortnot ONCE; I was living in total and confident serenity. On the material plane there were attacks, but even these he took upon himself. Well, I saw it all, all those thirty years of life; not for a SECOND did I have any sense of responsibility, in spite of all the work I was doing, all the organizing and everything. He had supposedly passed on the responsibility to me, you see, but he was standing behindHE was actually doing everything! I was active, but with absolutely no responsibility. I never felt responsible for a single minutehe took the full responsibility. It was really.
For the first seven years he was doing the work, not me. He was the one who saw people; I looked after his personal affairs, his housekeeping, his food, his clothes and so forth. I kept myself quietly busy with that, doing nothing else, not seeing people, simply looking after his material lifelike a child at play. It was seven years of integral peace.
--
And the feeling was so strong that even during his illness (which lasted for months, you know), I had a sense of perfect security; so much so that the idea of his life being really affected in the least by this illness couldnt even occur to me! I didnt want to believe it when the doctor said, Its over. I didnt want to believe it. And as long as I stayed in the room with me in the room he couldnt leave his body. And so there was a terrible tension in himon the one hand the inner will to depart, and then this thing holding him there in his body: the fact that I knew he was alive and could only be alive. He had to signal me to go to my room, supposedly to rest (I didnt rest); and no sooner had I left his room than he was gone.
They immediately called me back. Thats how it was. Then when he came to me, when I really saw what had happened, when he went out of his body and entered into mine (the most material part of him, the part involved with external things) and I understood that I had the entire responsibility for all the work AND for the sadhana7well, then I locked a part of me away, a deep psychic8 part that was living, beyond all responsibility, in the ECSTASY of the realization: the Supreme. I took it and locked it away, I sealed it off and said, Youre not moving until until all the rest is ready.
--
And that door was opened again only ten years later, in 1960. Even then, it was done with great careit was one of last years major difficulties.
(silence)
0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Your practice of psycho-analysis was a mistake. It has, for the time at least, made the work of purification more complicated, not easier. The psycho-analysis of Freud is the last thing that one should associate with yoga. It takes up a certain part, the darkest, the most perilous, the unhealthiest part of the nature, the lower vital subconscious layer, isolates some of its most morbid phenomena and attributes to it and them an action out of all proportion to its true role in the nature. Modern psychology is an infant science, at once rash, fumbling and crude. As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mindto take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of Nature in its narrow termsruns riot here. Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood and it can have a nasty influence and tend to make the mind and vital more and not less fundamentally impure than before.
It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, and even of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners,is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole. The subliminal self stands behind and supports the whole superficial man; it has in it a larger and more efficient mind behind the surface mind, a larger and more powerful vital behind the surface vital, a subtler and freer physical consciousness behind the surface bodily exis tence. And above them it opens to higher superconscient as well as below them to lower subconscient ranges. If one wishes to purify and transform the nature, it is the power of these higher ranges to which one must open and raise to them and change by them both the subliminal and the surface being. Even this should be done with care, not prematurely or rashly, following a higher guidance, keeping always the right attitude; for otherwise the force that is drawn down may be too strong for an obscure and weak frame of nature. But to begin by opening up the lower subconscious, risking to raise up all that is foul or obscure in it, is to go out of ones way to invite trouble. First, one should make the higher mind and vital strong and firm and full of light and peace from above; afterwards one can open up or even dive into the subconscious with more safety and some chance of a rapid and successful change.
The system of getting rid of things by anubhava [experience] can also be a dangerous one; for on this way one can easily become more entangled instead of arriving at freedom. This method has behind it two well-known psychological motives. One, the motive of purposeful exhaustion, is valid only in some cases, especially when some natural tendency has too strong a hold or too strong a drive in it to be got rid of by vicra [intellectual reflection] or by the process of rejection and the substitution of the true movement in its place; when that happens in excess, the sadhak has sometimes even to go back to the ordinary action of the ordinary life, get the true experience of it with a new mind and will behind and then return to the spiritual life with the obstacle eliminated or else ready for elimination. But this method of purposive indulgence is always dangerous, though sometimes inevitable. It succeeds only when there is a very strong will in the being towards realisation; for then indulgence brings a strong dissatisfaction and reaction, vairagya, and the will towards perfection can be carried down into the recalcitrant part of the nature.
The other motive for anubhava is of a more general applicability; for in order to reject anything from the being one has first to become conscious of it, to have the clear inner experience of its action and to discover its actual place in the workings of the nature. One can then work upon it to eliminate it, if it is an entirely wrong movement, or to transform it if it is only the degradation of a higher and true movement. It is this or something like it that is attempted crudely and improperly with a rudimentary and insufficient knowledge in the system of psycho-analysis. The process of raising up the lower movements into the full light of consciousness in order to know and deal with them is inevitable; for there can be no complete change without it. But it can truly succeed only when a higher light and force are sufficiently at work to overcome, sooner or later, the force of the tendency that is held up for change. Many, under the pretext of anubhava, not only raise up the adverse movement, but support it with their consent instead of rejecting it, find justifications for continuing or repeating it and so go on playing with it, indulging its return, eternising it; afterwards when they want to get rid of it, it has got such a hold that they find themselves helpless in its clutch and only a terrible struggle or an intervention of divine grace can liberate them.Some do this out of a vital twist or perversity, others out of sheer ignorance; but in yoga, as in life, ignorance is not accepted by Nature as a justifying excuse. This danger is there in all improper dealings with the ignorant parts of the nature; but none is more ignorant, more perilous, more unreasoning and obstinate in recurrence than the lower vital subconscious and its movements. To raise it up prematurely or improperly for anubhava is to risk suffusing the conscious parts also with its dark and dirty stuff and thus poisoning the whole vital and even the mental nature. Always therefore one should begin by a positive, not a negative experience, by bringing down something of the divine nature, calm, light, equanimity, purity, divine strength into the parts of the conscious being that have to be changed; only when that has been sufficiently done and there is a firm positive basis, is it safe to raise up the concealed subconscious adverse elements in order to destroy and eliminate them by the strength of the divine calm, light, force and knowledge. Even so, there will be enough of the lower stuff rising up of itself to give you as much of the anubhava as you will need for getting rid of the obstacles; but then they can be dealt with with much less danger and under a higher internal guidance.
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0 1962-02-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because before you were told about your karma, I had already seen certain things about you and was trying to set you freenot from the thing itself, but from the tendency that remained in your nature. That, yes.
But Sujata, for example, was completely, COMPLETELY free of the whole (what shall I say?) what could be called the unhappy aspect of her karmacompletely free. For I know the people around me and what they carry with them very well, and there was nothingjust one thing remained, the one part that was rather constructive, so I had left that totally intact. And when the events of her past life were revealed to her, I took the greatest care to destroy the revelation as it was being given. And I did it ruthlessly. You see, it was like dumping a load of mud on someone completely unsullied, and I didnt let it happen (I couldnt stop what entered through her physical brain, but inwardly I utterly annihilated it). The only thing I left untouched was the constructive part of the bond that had existed between you two, and so when she met you, she. Thats all I left, because it was good, pure, lovelyit was good. But all the rest. And you saw how strongly I protested when I was told she had committed suicide. No, no, no! I said; even if somebody with perfect knowledge were to tell me so, Id still say NO.
0 1962-02-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A problem like that reaches a point of such acute tension that you feel you know nothing, understand nothing, you will never understand anything, its hopeless. When I reach that point, I always tilt in the same direction, its always: All right, I adore the Lord, as for the rest, it doesnt matter to me! I enter into a marvelous adoration and let Him do what He wants! Thats how it all ends up for me.
But this would only be suitable for those who have stopped thinking.
0 1962-02-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It takes such an effort to bring Light into this poverty, to bring a Force, a Reality, a Power, something, good Lord, something TRUE! Through constant effort and will, constant tension, suddenly, ah! I get two or three seconds and then it all ebbs away again.
In that former illusion, there were noble actions, generous actions, great, heroic actions, all adding color to life and capable of giving you some interesting hours. Now that too is gone: I see it all as childishness.
--
So the tendency is always to step back and go within. But thats not the way! Its a natural movement, but I clearly see that its false.
Both were there this morning.
--
I cant express it the minute you try to express it, most of it evaporates. And even if I did tell what little I could, surely a good nine and a half people out of ten would say, Shes batty! If I spoke to the people here that way, they would probably say, Shes soft in the head!
Strange. This morning it was strange, for both were there: the feeling of physical weaknessalmost a physical decomposition and AT THE SAME TIME, SIMULTANEOUSLY (not even one behind the other, but both together), a glory of divine splendor.
0 1962-02-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Eight to ten minutes, three times a day before my japa.
Oh, thats very good.
0 1962-02-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ultimately, absolute sincerity is the great deciding factor for those who predict or foresee. Unfortunately, because of peoples curiosity, their insis tence and the pressure they exert (which very few can resist), an almost involuntary mechanism of inner imagination comes to add just that small missing element to something not seen with precision or exactness. Thats what causes flaws in prediction. Very few have the courage to say, Ah no, I dont know this, I dont see that, this eludes me. They dont even have the courage to say it to themselves! So then, with a tiny drop of imagination, which acts almost subconsciously, the vision or information gets rounded outit can turn out to be anything at all! Very few people can resist this tendency. I have known many, many psychics, many extraordinarily gifted beings, and only a handful were able to stop just at the point where their knowledge stopped. Or else they embellish. Thats what gives these faculties their slightly dubious quality. One would have to be a great saint, a great sage, and completely free from other peoples influences (I dont speak of those who seek fame: they fall into the most flagrant traps); because even goodwillwanting to satisfy people, please them, help themis enough to distort the vision.
(Smiling) Are you satisfied? Have I answered everything?
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Theres a kind of ex tension of the physical senses. In American Indians, for instance, the senses of hearing and smell are far more ex tended than ours (in dogs too!). When I was eight or ten years old, I had an Indian friend who came with Buffalo Bill in the days of the Hippodrome that was a long time ago, I was around eight. He was so sharp that he could put his ear to the ground and tell, from the in tensity of the vibrations, how far the sound of footsteps was coming from. All the children immediately said, Id really like to know how to do that! And so you try.
Thats how you prepare yourself. You think youre just having fun, but you are preparing yourself for later.
0 1962-03-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it has become such a delicate play! A MINUTE thing, minute, can throw everything out of gearone simple ordinary movement. If through habit you slip back into the ordinary functioning (these are infinitesimal things, not easily seen, subtle, tenuous; one must be very, very, VERY alert), if this happens, the whole new thing stops. Then you have to wait. Wait until the ordinary functioning consents to stop, and that means meditating, entering into contemplationgoing over the whole path again. Then, when you have caught hold of That again and can stay there for a few seconds, sometimes a few minutes (its marvelous when it lasts a few minutes). And then it gets jammed again and everything has to be done over.
I am not saying this to discourage you, but to tell you that one must really and truly be patient. The only possible way to do it is in a sort of passivity: not to WANT the resultWANTING the result brings in an ego movement which spoils it all.
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One day I was all tensed up; things had become so intolerable, as people say, that something in the most material vital went into whats usually considered a fit of rage (it was totally under control I mean it was working as a safety valve and being observed as such in all its vibrations). I was alone in the bathroom, nobody to see me; I grabbed hold of I dont remember what and smashed it on the floor!
Aah, what a relief!
--
For instance, I am completely snowed under with material work, letters, people, matters to arrange and decide, big things to organize, all of it falling on me from every side and trying to take up all my time and energy. At times it really gets too much. So when its too much, I say, All right, Lord, now I will nestle in Your arms. And there I am, no longer thinking, no longer bothering about anything, and I go into Bliss. Usually after ten minutes everything is fine!
The trouble is, the mental mechanism isnt there any more. Before, with the mind working, I would take up this thing or do that thing, but now I dont let it function, so theres nothing to make me move!
0 1962-04-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(After a perilous month, Mother has suddenly had the formidable, decisive experience, and she gives her first message. She is lying on her bed in the room upstairs, and has become quite thin. It is around ten in the morning. Her voice has greatly changed. Schoolchildren can be heard playing in the distance:)
Night of April 12-13.1
0 1962-05-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
After you see him, let me know what happened. If possible, I will ask you to come at ten oclock to give me the details.
Signed: Mother
0 1962-05-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was a relation, I kept a link with it, but it took some days to get established (I dont know how many, because for a long time I couldnt keep track of anything). After some days (say ten days, twenty days, I dont know), the will began to function, the body was again under the control of the will. But that didnt happen right away for some days, the will that deals with the body was annulled (I was entirely conscious and alive, but not in my body). The body was merely something moved around by the people looking after me. Not that it was separate, but I couldnt even say, its a body it wasnt anything any more! Something. Having undergone so much preparation, the universalization of the body-consciousness and all that, the experience didnt even seem strange to me (in fact, it was certainly the result of all that preparation). The body was something like a mass of substance being driven by the will of the three people looking after it. Not that I was unaware of it but. I wasnt much concerned with it, to tell the truth; but as far as my at tention was turned to it, it was a corporeal mass being moved around by a few wills. The supreme Will was in full agreement; the body had been entrusted, in a way (I dont know how to express this) yes, it was like something entrusted, and I was simply looking on I watched it all for I dont know how many days, with hardly any interest.
The one really concrete link was pain. Thats how the contact was kept.
0 1962-05-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And suddenly, when I let myself go. You know, I have been advised (by the Lord!) to relax, relax, relax. He doesnt want action to result from the tension of an individual will; so relaxall right, relax. But when you relax and then suddenly get a horrible pain, you say Hey!but at the same time I laugh! What the people around me must think. I am crying and laughing! (Mother laughs.)
Well.
0 1962-05-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A lack of vitality, too much tension; I dont knowmaybe the climate saps me. A certain number of physical things making it. Anyway, thats whats behind the idea.
What youre asking of Sujata is nothing short of sacrifice. Not outwardly, perhaps, but it would be a sacrifice for her. She would be sacrificing something to you, something very precious. To help you she would have to sacrifice her own realization. Well, that in itself has a place in the spectrum of realizations.
0 1962-05-29, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What I see is almost a childrens book, fga, in the spiritual life: an elite. It is a book for an elite, not for the generalor a whole generation aged ten to eighteen, thousands of children. With lovely pictures.
(silence)
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But dont get into a meditation posture! And dont tense up; just let yourself go, as if you simply wanted to rest but not in an empty hole. To rest in a mass of infinite force a supple solidity.
(meditation)
0 1962-05-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Whatever comes from here (Mother touches her forehead, her face) from here onwards its all harsh, dry, crumpled upits violent, its aggressive. Even goodwill is aggressive, even affection, tenderness, attachmentall of that, its all terribly aggressive. Like the blows of a stick.
All mental life is harsh, actually.
0 1962-06-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It happened in a split second: I was sitting, waiting for you, thinking you were about to come; but the door wasnt opening, so automatically the body went like this (inward-turning gesture). And since it happened so suddenly, I noticed the difference in the way the body felt. What it normally feels is a formidable willvery tranquil, very peaceful, free of tension or agitation, yet so direct and clear, concentrated (not concentrated: coagulated) that it is almost hard. And thats what controls the body, thats what the body obeys. And when thats not there, its the other state: smooth, mellow, soft, woolly and what peace! As if nothing in the world could disturb it.
It took maybe a second or a fraction of a second thats why I was able to observe both states.
0 1962-06-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As a child, when I was around ten or twelve years old, I had some rather interesting experiences which I didnt understand at all. I had some history booksyou know, the textbooks they give you to learn history. Well, Id read and suddenly the book would seem to become transparent, or the printed words would become transparent, and Id see other words or even pictures. I hadnt the faintest idea what was happening to me! And it appeared so natural to me that I thought it was the same for everybody. But my brother and I were great chums (he was only a year and a half older), so I would tell him: They talk nonsense in history, you knowit is LIKE THIS; it isnt like that: it is LIKE THIS! And several times the corrections I got on one person or another turned out to be quite exact and detailed. And (I see it now I understood it later on) they were certainly memories. About some passages I would even say, How stupid! It was never that; THIS is what was said. It never happened like that; THIS is how it happened. And the book was simply open before me; I was just reading along like any other child and suddenly something would occur. It was something in me, of course, but I used to think it was in the book!
I found out many, many things about Joan of Arcmany things. And with stunning precision, which made it extremely interesting. I wont repeat them because I dont remember with exactness, and these things have no value unless they are exact. And then, for the Italian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa; and for the French Renaissance: Franois I, Marguerite de Valois,2 and so forth.
0 1962-07-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It had its good qualities (I seem bent on speaking in the past tenseits spontaneous), qualities it was built and chosen for. For practical purposes, this body was very necessary, but when it comes to manifesting!
But had it been truly expressive, something really eloquent, probably there would have been more reluctance to to give it free rein.
0 1962-07-07, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, thats where you have to give in. You have to put all this trying to make them understand out of the picture. If you want to include those things for your personal satisfaction, because it makes the thing more real, more living, I agree; but get rid of this trying to make them understand, its impossible. I tell you, as soon as you go beyond the matter-of-fact (Mother sticks her hand right under her nose), theyre lost. But tell them what they can see when they get off the train: All these houses, thats the Ashram; here is the library, those are the tennis courts, theres the sports ground, thats. Ah! They understand.
Its going well; it will be a very good book. But probably only a small portion of it will make them say, Ah, finally! Something practical!
0 1962-07-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In a few days it will materialize a few days, I dont know. Over there (gesture to the left), days, months, all have another meaning. Lis ten, there are minutes. You know, I walk around the room repeating the Words,3 and sometimes I go around ten times in a second! Yet its always the same pace; I doubt if anyone would see any physical difference. But sometimes there are ten, twenty, thirty rounds a second! And other times one single round will drag and dragoh, its endless!
And simultaneously there is an automatic perception of timeclock timewhich is rather curious (everything is regulated by the comings and goings of the people around me, you see: such a thing at this time, such a thing at that time), I dont need to hear the clock I am warned just before it strikes. I repeat one part of the japa in a particular way while lying down, because the Power is greater (these arent meditations, they are actions), and another part while walking. So I stay stretched out for a certain time, I walk for a certain time, and at a fixed hour this one goes, another comes, and so on. But none of them are people; I dont tell them so, but theyre not people: they are movements of the Lord. And its extremely interestingone of the Lords movements will have this particular character, another movement will have a different type of vibration, and they all harmonize very nicely into a whole. But I know what time it is just before the clock strikes: six oclock, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, like that. Not with the words six, seven, but: its time, its time, its time. And along with thisthis clockwork precision I have that other notion of time which is quite different, its. Although its a very rigid convention, our time is a living formation with its own living power here in the world of action. The other time is the rhythm of consciousness. So according to the in tensity of the Presence (theres a concentration and an expansion, I mean), according to this pulsationwhich can vary, its not regular and mechanicalwalking around the room takes either no time at all, or else an ENORMOUS amount of time. But this doesnt interfere with the other time, theres no contradiction. Our time is on a different plane, something far more external; but it has its usefulness and its own law, and the one doesnt hinder the other.4
0 1962-07-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Afterwards, when I came to Pondicherry, this unsteady condition came to an end. The Guru of the world who is within us then gave me complete directions for my pathits complete theory, the ten limbs of the body of this Yoga. These past ten years He has been making me develop it in experience, and this is not yet finished. It may take another two years, and as long as it is not finished I doubt if I shall be able to return to Bengal. Pondicherry is the appointed place for my yoga siddhi [realization], except indeed one part of it, and that is action. The centre of my work is Bengal, although I hope that its circumference will be all India and the whole earth.
I shall write and tell you afterwards what this way of yoga is. Or if you come here I shall speak to you about it. In this matter the spoken word is better than the writ ten. At present I can only say that its root-principle is to make a harmony and unity of complete knowledge, complete works and complete Bhakti [Devotion], to raise all this above the mind and give it its complete perfection on the supramental level of Vijnana [Gnosis]. This was the defect of the old yoga the mind and the Spirit it knew, and it was satisfied with the experience of the Spirit in the mind. But the mind can grasp only the divided and partial; it cannot wholly seize the infinite and indivisible. The minds means to reach the infinite are Sannyasa [Renunciation], Moksha [Liberation] and Nirvana, and it has no others. One man or another may indeed attain this featureless Moksha, but what is the gain? The Brahman, the Self, God are ever present. What God wants in man is to embody Himself here in the individual and in the community, to realize God in life.
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I know very well that Bengal is not really ready. The spiritual flood which has come is for the most part a new form of the old. It is not the real transformation. However this too was needed. Bengal has been awakening in itself the old yogas and exhausting their samskaras [old habitual tendencies], extracting their essence and with it fertilizing the soil. At first it was the time of VedantaAdwaita, Sannyasa, Shankaras Maya and the rest. It is now the turn of Vaishnava DharmaLila, love, the intoxication of emotional experience. All this is very old, unfitted for the new age and will not endure for such excitement has no capacity to last. But the merit of the Vaishnava Bhava [emotional enthusiasm] is that it keeps a connexion between God and the world and gives a meaning to life; but since it is a partial bhava the whole connexion, the full meaning is not there. The tendency to create sects which you have noticed was inevitable. The nature of the mind is to take a part and call it the whole and exclude all other parts. The Siddha [illuminated being] who brings the bhava, although he leans on its partial aspect, yet keeps some knowledge of the integral whole, even though he may not be able to give it form. But his disciples do not get that knowledge precisely because it is not in a form. They are tying up their little bundles, let them. The bundles will open of themselves when God manifests himself fully. These things are the signs of incomple teness and immaturity. I am not disturbed by them. Let the force of spirituality play in the country in whatever way and in as many sects as may be. Afterwards we shall see. This is the infancy or the embryonic condition of the new age. It is a first hint, not even the beginning.
The peculiarity of this yoga is that until there is siddhi above the foundation does not become perfect. Those who have been following my course had kept many of the old samskaras; some of them have dropped away, but others still remain. There was the samskara of Sannyasa, even the wish to create an Aravinda Math [Sri Aurobindo monastery]. Now the intellect has recognized that Sannyasa is not what is wanted, but the stamp of the old idea has not yet been effaced from the prana [breath, life energy]. And so there was next this talk of remaining in the midst of the world, as a man of worldly activities and yet a man of renunciation. The necessity of renouncing desire has been understood, but the harmony of renunciation of desire with enjoyment of Ananda has not been rightly seized by the mind. And they took up my Yoga because it was very natural to the Bengali temperament, not so much from the side of Knowledge as from the side of Bhakti and Karma [Works]. A little knowledge has come in, but the greater part has escaped; the mist of sentimentalism has not been dissipated, the groove of the sattwic bhava [religious fervor] has not been broken. There is still the ego. I am not in haste, I allow each to develop according to his nature. I do not want to fashion all in the same mould. That which is fundamental will indeed be one in all, but it will express itself in many forms. Everybody grows, forms from within. I do not want to build from outside. The basis is there, the rest will come.
0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then at a very young age (about eight or ten), along with my studies I began to paint. At twelve I was already doing portraits. All aspects of art and beauty, but particularly music and painting, fascinated me. I went through a very in tense vital development during that period, with, just like in my early years, the presence of a kind of inner Guide; and all centered on studies: the study of sensations, observations, the study of technique, comparative studies, even a whole spectrum of observations dealing with taste, smell and hearinga kind of classification of experiences. And this ex tended to all facets of life, all the experiences life can bring, all of themmiseries, joys, difficulties, sufferings, everythingoh, a whole field of studies! And always this presence within, judging, deciding, classifying, organizing and systematizing everything.
Then conscious yoga made a sudden entry into the picture when I met Thon; I must have been about twenty-one. Lifes orientation changed, a whole series of experiences took place, with the development of the vital giving interesting occult results.
Then, a period of in tensive mental development, mental development of the most complete type: a study of all the philosophies, all the conceptual juggling, in minute detaildelving into systems, getting a grasp on them. ten years of in tensive mental studies leading me to Sri Aurobindo.
So I had all this preparation. And I am giving you these details simply to tell you it all began with consciousness (I knew very well what consciousness was, even before I had any word or idea to explain it), consciousness and its forceits force of action, its force of execution. Next, a detailed study and thorough development of the vital. After that, mental development taken to its uppermost limit, where you can juggle with all ideas; a developmental stage where its already understood that all ideas are true and that theres a synthesis to be made, and that beyond the synthesis lies something luminous and true. And behind it all, a continual consciousness. Such was my state when I came here: Id had a world of experiences and had already attained conscious union with the Divine above and withinall of it consciously realized, carefully noted and so forthwhen I came to Sri Aurobindo.
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Is it different for men? I dont know. Sri Aurobindos case was quite special, and apart from him I dont see any convincing example. But generally speaking, what is most developed in a man, along with the mind, is the physical consciousness; the vital is very impulsive, practically ungoverned. Thats my experience of the hundreds and hundreds of men I have met. Theres normally a physical strength built up through games and exercises, and side by side a more or less advanced, but primarily mental development, very mental. The vital is terribly impulsive and barely organized, except in artists, and even there. I lived among artists for ten years and found this ground to be mostly fallow. I mingled with all the great artists of the time, I was like a kid sister to them (it was at the turn of the century, with the Universal Exposition in 1900; and these were the leading artists of the epoch); so I was by far the youngest, much younger than any of themthey were all thirty, thirty-five, forty years old, while I was nineteen or twenty. Well I was much more advanced in their own fieldnot in what I was producing (I was a perfectly ordinary artist), but from the viewpoint of consciousness: observations, experiences, studies.
I am not sure, but it seems to me that the problem of consciousness ought to come first.
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And I was very careful not to disturb it; I held it like that for I dont know how long, eight or ten days. Nothingnot one idea, not one thought, nothinga complete BLANK. In other words, from the outside, it must have looked like total idiocy.
But I was living in my inner joynothing stirring. I spoke as little as possible and it was like something mechanical, it wasnt me. Then slowly, slowly, as though falling drop by drop, something was built up again. But it had no limits, it had no it was vast as the universe and wonderfully still and luminous. Nothing here (the head), but THERE (gesture above the head); and then everything began to be seen from there.
0 1962-08-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Of course, our past, present and future tenses!...
(Laughing) Mon petit, I feel I am moving on in this yoga as fast as a jet planeeverything's zooming past in reverse!
0 1962-08-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, yes, I know what you mean there is Revelation; but the world isnt ready for Revelation that will come later, in ten years.
ten years?
Yes, ten years.
(long silence)
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It came and tried to descend. I said absolutely nothing, but Sri Aurobindo knew (though he never mentioned anything to me, he had seen it), and he simply (gesture) did what had to be done, brushed it aside. I hadnt thought about it for more than ten years: with that gesture of his, it had vanished.
Now it has come back.
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And I have noticed that now. You see, the body used to be like a little child, complaining when things werent right; it wouldnt revolt, but it moaned. But this time its only reaction was, Why am I not transformed? Why am I not transformed? I want to be transformed, I want to be transformed. Not with words, because there was nothing mental about it, but simply with a kind of tension the tension you feel when the door to the psychic being is shut and you push, push, push to get to the other side. The same thing, the same kind of tension: pushing, pushing, pushing towards what? I dont know. We call it the transformation because we dont know what it isif we did know, it would mean we had already begun to realize it. Theres a faint impression of what that state could be (but its very, very faint). And theres this feeling of tension, of pushingpleading and imploring. That was the bodys only reaction this time, nothing else, not even any sorrow. Because at one time something like fifty years agoit used to say, Why do I deserve this? and similar stupidities; thats been gone for more than fifty years. Then for a long while after, something disordered, unharmonious or nasty could bring me sorrow; thats gone too. But thats recent, it disappeared with the experience of April 13. And now: transformation, transformation, transformation; thats the only idea left, the only will.
(silence)
0 1962-08-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the Light that descends. You see, its as though as though I am SEEING that eternal, universal, immense, wondrous Vibration from without, from within, from above, from below, from everywhere at the same time. And at a certain place theres something so fine, delicate, of a silver-gray (something thats spread all around the world, all around the creation), and THE Vibration passes through it and it becomes ideas. Not ideas, something higher than ideas the origin of ideas. Things take form. And the sieve is fine, fine, fine, so fine and tenuous, and its everywhere (gesture enveloping the earth).
And its there all the time! I saw it the other day, I am seeing it nowit seems to be a permanent feature. And its the origin of all intellectual formulations (those closest to the Truth, of course, with no distortion). Very interesting.
0 1962-08-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mon petit, we had a meditation here on the 15th, at ten oclock.2 At a quarter to ten, I was sitting here at the table in a total silence. And then I cant say Sri Aurobindo came, for he is always here, but he manifested in a special way. Concretely, in the subtle physical, he became so tall that, sitting cross-legged as they do here, he covered the whole compoundeven ex tended a bit beyond it! He was literally sitting upon the compound; so to the ex tent that the people meditating were not closed, they were all inside him. He was sitting like that (not on their heads!), and I could feel (I was here, you see) the FRICTION of his presence in the subtle physicalan utterly physical friction! And I saw him (as you well know, I am not shut up in here [the body]), I saw him sitting there, very tall and perfectly proportioned; and then he started gently, gently descendingthis descent is what caused the frictiongently, very gently, so as not to give people a shock. Then he settled there and stayed for a little more than half an hour, a few minutes more, like that, absolutely still, but fully concentrated on all the people they were inside him.
I was sitting here smiling, almost almost laughing, really; you could feel him like that everywhere (Mother touches her whole body), everywhere. And with such peace! Such peace, such force, such power. And a sense of eternity, immensity, and absolu teness. A sense of absolu teness, as if all were fulfilled, so to speak, and one lived in Eternity.
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I have of ten seen him in his supramental light; he has come very of ten (he used to come when I went to the balcony; sometimes he was above the Samadhi; he came very of ten). But that first of all, the proportions were enormoussitting down, I tell you, he ex tended beyond the compound; and he materialized in a way that could be PHYSICALLY felt. And there was such confidence, such joy, such certainty; everything was so sure, so altogether certain, as though all had been accomplished. There was none of that anguish, that tension for things to get done.
It lasted about three quarters of an hour; afterwards things returned to normal.
0 1962-09-05, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For a long, long time, that was also the one thing I felt was worth living forConsciousness. When I met Thon and came to understand the mechanism, I also understood why I wasnt conscious at a certain level. I think Ive told you how I spent ten months one year working to connect two layerstwo layers of consciousness; the contact wasnt established and so I couldnt have the spontaneous experience of a whole spectrum of things. Madame Thon told me, Its because theres an undeveloped layer between this part and that part. I was very conscious of all the gradations: Thon had explained it all in the simplest terms, so you didnt need to be, as I said, a genius to understand. He had made a quadruple division, and each of them was divided into four, and then again into four, making innumerable divisions of the being; but with that mental simplification you could make in-depth psychological studies of your own being. And so by observation and elimination I eventually discovered that between this and that (gesture indicating two levels of Mothers consciousness), there was an undeveloped layerit wasnt conscious. So I worked for ten months on nothing but that: absolutely no results. I didnt care, I kept right on, telling myself, Well, it may take me fifty years to get anywhere, who knows. And then I left for the country (I was living in Paris at the time). I lay down on the grass, and all at once, with the contact of earth and grass, poof! There was a sort of inner explosion the link was established, and full consciousness came, along with all the ensuing experiences. Well, I said to myself, it was worth all the trouble!
And I am sure thats how the work is done, slowly, imperceptibly, like a chick being formed in the egg: you see the shell, you see only the shell, you dont know whats inside, whether its just an egg or a chick (normally, I meanof course, you could see through with special instruments) and then the beak goes peck-peck! And then cheep! Out comes the chick, just like that. Its the same thing exactly for the contact with the psychic being. For months on end, sometimes years, you may be sitting before a closed door, push, push, pushing, and feeling, feeling the pressure (it hurts!), and theres nothing, no results. Then all at once, you dont know why or how, you sit down and poof! Everything bursts wide open, everything is ready, everything is doneits over, you emerge into a full psychic consciousness and become intimate with your psychic being. Then everything changeseverything changesyour life completely changes, its a total reversal of your whole exis tence.
0 1962-09-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This would tend to show. I dont know if we can generalize or if this is just one special case being worked out (I cant say), but theres a very distinct impression that what ordinary human consciousness perceives as death might simply be that the consciousness hasnt been brought back to its true position fast enough.
I am quite aware that all this must seem confusing; I can feel how inadequate the words and expression are for describing the experience. When you want to be literary, you say its a reversal of consciousness but it isnt! Thats just literature.
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Dont let this visit ruffle you. Essentially, his approach has always seemed peripheral to me, just one part of an immense whole. It represents ONE aspect of the quest for the Divine on earth,2 and it is part of an entire line, like all the sannyasins, all the saddhus, and so on. X happens to have come closer because he has worshipped the Goddess of Love so much, the Shaktis aspect of Love, and that naturally led him here, brought him close, but. I see it as part of a whole worldamong many other things. You know, theres that festival celebrated every ten years, I think, when all the saddhus go to ba the in the Ganges3; Ive seen all the photosits painful. Its its painful. It is no more beautiful or harmonious than a stampeding mob in a revolution. Its there is no special grace.
Now, do you remember the story of that man who has been living at the source of the Ganges for twenty-five years? Here he is (Mother shows his photo). He was in his cave and V. said to him, Id like to take your picture. All right, he answered, and came out and sat down in the snowstark naked.
0 1962-10-16, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Very interesting. And Pavitra was telling me recently that the causes of aging and decay are now being very seriously and deeply investigated. Some quite interesting discoveries are being made: that the cell is immortal, and that aging results merely from a combination of circumstances. This research is tending towards the conclusion that aging is merely a bad habitwhich seems to be true. Which means that when you LIVE in the Truth-Consciousness, Matter is not in contradiction to that Consciousness.
And this is just what I am realizing (I dont think its anything unique or exceptional): the closer one draws to the cell itself, the more the cell says, But I am immortal! Only it must become conscious. But this takes place almost automatically: the brain cells are very conscious; the cells of the hands and arms of musicians are very conscious; with athletes and gymnasts, the cells of the entire body are wonderfully conscious. So, being conscious, those cells become conscious of their principle of immortality and say, Why would I want to grow old? Why! They dont want to grow old. It is very interesting.
0 1962-10-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Do you mean that what you are learning tends to show you that its not necessarily best to be buried?
Yes. It depends on the case, on the country, on all kinds of things. There are people in Europe who ask to be burned because theyre afraid of being buried alive. Here, when people are convinced that a person is conscious, hes buried instead of burned.
0 1962-11-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In Xs case, his personal contact rises to the heights, but its purely personal. While his overall vision (I am not saying universal: overall) stops at the vital-physical plane, with a touch of the mental, and THATS ALL. Theres a contradiction between his personal possibility, which reaches very high (although on quite a tenuous peak), and his overall vision. When his at tention turns outward, it is very limited; it may be terrestrial, but its its crusted over, so to speak.
So thats the explanation I gave. But the truth.
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But everything Sri Aurobindo said has always come true. You know he also said (but it was in jest, he didnt write it) concerning reuniting with Pakistan he told me: ten years. It will take ten years. The ten years passed and nothing happenedOFFICIALLY nothing happened. But the truth is (I learned it through certain government officials), Pakistan did make some overtures in that direction, asking for a union to be reestablished (they would have kept some sort of autonomy, but the two countries would have UNITED, it would have been a UNION), and Nehru refused.
How foolish!
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He had seen it happen. After ten years, when that man who headed Pakistan died,4 they found themselves in grave difficulty and were unable to get organized; so they sent somebody (unofficially, of course) to ask India to reestablish union on certain bases but they refused, the Indians refused. It was a repetition of the same stupidity as when Cripps came to make his proposal, when Sri Aurobindo sent a message saying, Accept, whatever the conditions, otherwise it will be worse later on. Thats what Sri Aurobindo told them. Gandhi was there and he retorted, Why is that man meddling? He should be concerned only with spiritual life.5
They have conscientiously ruined the country.
0 1962-11-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They have bombs in America and Russia (China hasnt boasted about it, but they may have some too) that can destroy a whole cityone is more than enough, you dont need two. The Russians in particular: a single bomb and a whole city, even the size of London: vroom! Nothing left. (Thats the theory, but still, theres always something true in it.) We saw what happened to Hiroshima, it was pretty bad. Well, if that was ten, then what they have now is a thousand thats the proportion.
In other words, theyve turned all their intelligence towards destruction.
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Personally, because every ten years (43, 53) something catastrophic has happened to me.
The qualifier5 we use depends on our limited individual vision, but the fact in itself is probably quite correct: there will be a serious upheaval. But this doesnt mean it will be catastrophic. You see, it may be precisely the opening to something higher, and a new birth to Truth. Personally, I am certain of a very rapid progress [for you], because I see it. But I dont see any personal catastrophes. I havent seen that at all.
0 1962-11-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I came out of it, I drew only one conclusion: Why am I not in such states more of ten? I waste my time with a mountain of external things: reading and writing letters, seeing people, doing this and that, putting some order into matter (theres a very strong tendency to bring orderan order of a higher logicinto SMALL material things)why? Then the reply came, not in words but very clearly: Dont worry (Mother laughs). It has to be this way and its a time of transition.
A time will come when it will all be done automatically, but right now that would be impossible. As it is, the way the Force acts is already making people here a little disorientedits verging on being unintelligible to them. In other words, its beginning to obey another law. For instance, to know at the exact moment what needs to be done or said, whats going to happenif theres the slightest bit of concern or concentration to know, it doesnt come. But if I am just like that, simply in a kind of inner immobility, then for all the little details of life, I know at the exact moment. What needs to be said comes: you say this. And not like an order from outside: it just comes, there it is. What needs to be said is there, the reply that needs to be sent is there; the person who enters, entersyoure not forewarned. You do things in a kind of automatic way. In the mental world, you think of something before doing it (it may happen very fast, but both movements are distinct); here it isnt like that.
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And with no effort, no tension, no as if they were the most natural things in the world. Things like this happen all the time.
As soon as I saw that I understood. Well, I told myself, if I were a philosopher I could write a thick book about this! It made me laugh. Because its not just ONE thing: there are heaps of them, all the time, all the time. Things like this are happening all the time.
0 1962-11-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
ten days ago (on November 20), the Chinese quite unexpectedly declared a unilateral cease-fire, just when a march on Calcutta had seemed imminent.
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0 1962-12-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
New Years Day and Christmas. Where there used to be ten letters a day, now there are twenty-five. Nolini comes and he just wont leave. I am late again.1
Did you bring your book?
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I have enough work for ten people.
If I spent the whole night writing, as Sri Aurobindo used to do, I might be able to keep up to date. But I have no in tention of doing that, because my nights are very interesting!
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I havent said anything because people here tend to think I am going off my rocker, and I dont want to add to their impression! But even for me, it left me it took me a little while (it didnt happen just once, but two or three times, for different things), I kept very still for a while to look into the phenomenon and try to analyze it.
But I havent yet found the key.
0 1963-01-02, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I feel the work is going fairly fast inside, there are some interesting things (what shall I say?) like promises. But the [bodys] sensitivity and the possibility of imbalance have heigh tened, in the sense that a mere trifle, which in other circumstances would have been totally unimportant and would have just gone by smoothly, throws the body off balance the body has grown terribly sensitive. For example, a wrong reaction in someone, a tension or some reaction of a quite ordinary order, causes a sudden weariness in my body, as if it were exhausted. Then I have to collect myself and plunge back into the Source so that
These are difficult days.
0 1963-01-12, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ill soon have finished my translation [of The Synthesis of Yoga], I have only a few more pages to go, ten or so. Its very incomplete, I mean its a translation. Meaning: correct; but at times the sen tence comes out very different, at other times its a pure Anglicism.
Its a strange phenomenon: as soon as I sit down to translate, in the space of one or two seconds, no more, I become a different person. I writeit isnt I who write, I know its Sri Aurobindo.
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And if it were all noted down clearly, accurately, down to the last detail, it would be worth it, but just look (Mother shows a pile of papers beside her): work everywhere! Letters and letters! Three, four, five, ten, twenty every day, not to mention all the decisions I must make instantly and write on the spot. This morning I wrote four urgent notes like that when Nolini was here, and you saw how it was with Pavitra.
And I cant say it isnt importantit is important, in that all those people depend on me. I cant make them overnight capable of receiving fully and clearly, without any external expression, all that I do. I cant ask them to transform themselves by a miracle, Ive got to help them!
0 1963-01-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It goes with fantastic speed, meaning that in ten minutes I translate ten lines. On the whole, only three or four times are there a couple of alternative possibilities, which I jot down immediately. Once, here (Mother shows a passage with erasures in her manuscript), the correction came, absolute. No, he said, not thatTHIS. So I erased what I had writ ten.
Here, read the English first.
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So I will go on. If there are corrections, they can only come through the same process, because at this point to correct anyhow would spoil it all. There is also the mixing (for the logical mind) of future and present tenses but that too is deliberate. It all seems to come in another way. And well, I cant say, I havent read any French for ages, I have no knowledge of modern literatureto me everything is in the rhythm of the sound. I dont know what rhythm they use now, nor have I read what Sri Aurobindo wrote in The Future Poetry. They tell me that Savitris verse follows a certain rule he explained on the number of stresses in each line (and for this you should pronounce in the pure English way, which somewhat puts me off), and perhaps some rule of this kind will emerge in French? We cant say. I dont know. Unless languages grow more fluid as the body and mind grow more plastic? Possible. Language too, maybe: instead of creating a new language, there may be transitional languages, as, for instance (not a particularly fortunate departure, but still), the way American is emerging from English. Maybe a new language will emerge in a similar way?
In my case it was from the age of twenty to thirty that I was concerned with French (before twenty I was more involved in vision: painting; and sound: music), but as regards language, literature, language sounds (writ ten or spoken), it was approximately from twenty to thirty. The Prayers and Meditations were writ ten spontaneously with that rhythm. If I stayed in an ordinary consciousness I would get the knack of that rhythm but now it doesnt work that way, it wont do!
0 1963-02-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I wanted the book [The Adventure of Consciousness] to come out for February 21, 1964. That doesnt leave too much time, because Thats another marvel, it must have been one of the things Sri Aurobindo was showing me: at the [Ashram] Press, theyre behind schedule for everything and they work night and day! They have never worked so hard! Very clearly, seen from above, its a lack of organization; for something requiring an ounce of force they have to put in ten pounds, and still it doesnt work.
It grinds and grates.
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To make some decision or organize something (I am referring to practical examples I have four, five, ten of them every day), all it would take is a few minutes of clear and quiet, but TOTAL vision, and things would work out perfectly well. But then there are four or five of them to make a decision. Each one brings in his own idea, his own viewpoint, his own little angle. They throw it all together, jabber away for two hours and nothing gets done.
So the conclusion is that I shall have to start again. I had stopped long ago taking care of everythinglong before I came upstairs, I told people, See to your business yourselves. And what chaos it has become! That, too, made worse by the fact that they stopped seeing me physically. The physical presence was simply keeping a rein on them.
0 1963-02-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Simply for want of training. If you train yourself, you remember quite well. There are small holes in the consciousness, gaps, and when you go through such a gap you forget. You may suddenly get a fleeting impression of something, and then it eludes youoh, its gone! Only, it takes a long time to train yourself; you shouldnt be in a hurry or too busy. I went through it at a time when I was bedridden for five months. I had nothing to do. (You cant keep reading all the timeduring those five months I read some eight hundred books no, nine hundred and fifty! But it tires the eyes.) So the rest of the time (you cant sleep too much either when youre in bed all the time), I trained myself: that was when I learned to have completely conscious nights. But its a discipline. When you wake up, either in the middle of the night or in the morning, dont budge, stay absolutely still, concentrated, very silent, and PULL the memory back. For one month, two months, you seem to get nowhere; after six months it begins to work; and eventually you remember everything. At the end, you do the opposite movement, in the sense that whenever you have an interesting dream, you wake up: you learn to wake up in the middle of the night every time you have a vision or a dream, or some activity (there are various cases), so that you can remember, and then you repeat it to your consciousness (once youre awake, you repeat it to yourself two or three or ten times, till youre certain not to forget), and then off you go again.
But you cant do that if, when morning comes, you have to leap out of your bed and at tend to fifty thousand pressing matters. It isnt indispensable for the yoga, not at all. Its a hobby, rather, something to amuse yourself with.
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Well, it gives you the pleasure of knowing whats going onwhich isnt necessary. Now I know, I dont care one way or the other! When I go to bed, at least eight times out of ten, when I am in bed, I ask, O Lord, grant me a silent night, which is very selfish of meHe keeps me working every night! And sometimes, you get tired of working and feel like being blissful. A blissful silence. Then I ask Him, Let me be blissful.
It works fairly well. But its one night out of five or six.
0 1963-03-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In fact, for education, people should always encourage both tendencies side by side: the thirst for the Marvelous, the seemingly unrealizable, for something that fills you with a sense of divinity, while at the same time encouraging, in the perception of the world as it is, an exact, correct and sincere observation, the abolition of all imaginings, a constant control, and a most practical and meticulous feeling for exactness in details. Both tendencies should go side by side. Generally, people kill one with the idea that its necessary in order to develop the otherwhich is totally erroneous. The two can coexist, and as knowledge grows, a moment comes when you understand that they are two aspects of the same thing, namely, a clear vision, a superior discernment. But instead of the vision and discernment being limited and narrow, they become absolutely sincere, correct, exactAND immense, embracing an entire field thats not yet part of the concrete Manifestation.
This is very important from an educational point of view.
0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, lis ten (this is not meant to be published or told), I dont know if Ive told you already. I was nine or ten years old, I was running with some friends in the forest of Fontainebleau (Ive told this story somewhere). The forest is rather dense, so you cant see very far ahead. We were running, and speeding along as I was, I didnt see I was coming to the edge overhanging the road. The place where we were was about ten feet above the road (more than a story high), and the road was paved with stonesfreshly paved. And we were running. I was racing ahead, the others were behind. Well, Id built up such momentum that I couldnt stopwhoosh! I went sailing into the air. I was ten, eleven at the most, mind you, with no notion of the miraculous or the marvelous, nothing, nothing I was just flung into the air. And I felt something supporting me, holding me up, and I was literally SET DOWN on the ground, on the stones. I got up (I found it perfectly natural, you understand!): not a scratch, not a speck of dust, nothing, absolutely intact. I fell down very, very slowly. Then everyone rushed up to see. Oh, its nothing! I said, I am all right. And I left it at that. But the impression lingered. That feeling of something carrying me (gesture of a slow fall, like a leaf falling in stages with slight pauses): I fell down that slow. And the material proof was there, it was no illusion since I was unscathed the road was paved with stones (you know the flint stones of France?): not a scratch, nothing. Not a speck of dust.
The soul was very alive at the time, and with all its strength it resisted the intrusion of the material logic4 of the worldso it seemed to me perfectly natural. I simply thought, No. Accidents cant happen to me.
But flung like that! For a very long time the memory of the SENSATION remained: something that went like this (same gesture of a leaf falling) and simply set me down on the road. When I worked with Thon, the memory came back, and I saw it was an entity: what people in Europe call angels (what do they call it?) guardian angels, thats right. An entity. Thon had told me of certain worlds (worlds of the higher intellect I dont remember, he had named all the different planes), and in that world are winged beingswho have wings of their own free choice, because they find it pretty! And Madame Thon had always seen two such beings with me. Yet she knew me more than ten years later. And it appears they were always with me. So I took a look and, sure enough, there they were. One even tried to draw: he asked me to lend him my hand to do drawings. I lent my hand, but when I saw the drawing (he did one), I told him, The ones I do without you are much better! So that was the end of the matter!
What did it depict?
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The memory of all these things returned AFTERWARDS, when I met Thonlong afterwards, when I was more than twenty, that is, more than ten years later. I met Thon and got the explanation of these things, I understood. Then I remembered all that had happened to me, and I thought, Well! Because Madame Thon said to me (I told her all my childhood stories), she said to me, Oh, but I know, you are THAT, the stamp of THAT is on you. I thought over what she had said, and I saw it was indeed true. All those experiences I had were very clear indications that there were certainly people in the invisible looking after me! (Mother laughs)
Interestingly there was nothing mental about it: I didnt know the exis tence of those things, I didnt know what meditation was I meditated without the least idea of what it was. I knew nothing, absolutely nothing, my mother had kept it all completely taboo: those matters are not to be touched, they drive you crazy!
0 1963-03-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It goes on every night. It takes the form of all sorts of scenes, of symbols, of memories, from words to images. It comes in groups and categories of tendencies, it represents the various human tendencies in detailits infinitesimal. Its only because they are multiplied millions of times that they can have some importance but theyre nothing! Mere nothings. Yet thats just what blocks the way.
It really isnt of interest.
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But its so dull! So dull, so lackluster, so unchanging, souninteresting, really dull that the slightest light shines like a bright star! The smallest, slightest, tiniest progress seems like an extraordinary thing. Like, for example, the attitude in certain cells towards a physical disorder which, naturally, like all physical disorders, tends to recur. The attitude in the cells changesnot the disorder (!), the disorder changes only because of the cells reaction, thats what makes it change; but it recurs with clockwork regularity thats its job. It is the way its received by the cells, their reaction to it, that brings about the change. And there is now a difference in the cells reaction. The result of my observation (an impersonal, general observation) is that there are two types of change (I cant call it progress), two types of change in the reaction: a change that goes on improving, in the sense that the reaction grows less sharp, the cells are less affected and become not only more conscious but more IN COMMAND of the reaction (something people are not generally conscious of, but which is what brings about the cure). And, on the other hand, deterioration: under the unrelenting attack, the cells panic, become more and more affected and afraid, and it eventually results in a terrible mess and a catastrophe. Well, the whole thing is observed, studied, experienced; but (laughing) in ordinary medicine its explained away in two words! You see, what I see now is the process they dont know the process, only the result. And, well, I notice that as the consciousness grows, the cells panic less and less and a sort of mastery develops. Of course, its a pleasing observation, if I may say so, but it doesnt even make me happy! It seems rather obvious. Also the proportion is such that to get a really telling result, it would take years and years and years! Oh, how many years! How slow things are.
So I dont feel impelled to talk about it. Id rather concern myself with something else I do the work, but thats all.
0 1963-04-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is always a vibration subtler than his vibration of peace, and that one must remain free, without getting enclosed in the other. For example, if something pulls and causes a mental tension in the head, just keep in contact with that peace (oh, he does have a capacity of mental immobility), and let it penetrate you, but without concentrating all your being on it: allow the rest of your activity to unfold as usual in an infinity. Its only the vibrations of the physical mind that you should keep in that stability.
Its difficult to put it into words. But if you are able to do that, it could do you good, it could be restful.
0 1963-04-22, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
tenderly
Signed: Mother
0 1963-05-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If I could only have the Word, as the Rishis said, the true mantra, I would keep at it, Id do hours of japa if necessary, but I would go right to the end. Its as if I were told, See this plot of land, there are ten million cubic feet of earth to dig, and at the end of it is freedom. Well, Id set to it, whatever the time needed, because Id know there is an end. But for that you need a pickaxe.
Nobody can give you the true mantra. Its not something that is given: its something that wells up from within. It must spring from within all of a sudden, spontaneously, like a profound, in tense need of your being then it has power, because its not something that comes from outside, its your very own cry.
0 1963-06-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I suppose people without solid heads become unhinged. Although truly, there is a remarkable Grace, because people are given a dose of experiences exactly according to their capacity. But this morning there was an hour an hour when I was absolutely conscious, absolutely conscious, and conscious of one single thing: the powerlessness the powerlessness to get out of Ignorance. The will to get out of Ignorance and the powerlessness to do so. It gave me a whole hour of tension.
When I woke up, the tension was such that my head was like a boiling kettle; so immediately, I said, Lord, its Your concern, not mine; its not my business. And naturally, everything calmed down instantly.
But those who do not have that experience (its not a question of words, its a question of experience), those who do not have that experience, were they to have that half-knowledge, the knowledge that we live in Ignorance, that we live in Ignorance with a sort of incapacity to get outThere is no way out, no way to get outand that human wisdom is like that little old man who comes and tells you, But why should you want to get out? Why should you thats the way things are, just the way things are. Its appalling. I felt, you know, like when you concentrate forces to the bursting point, as they do with their bombs; it was exactly like that: so concentrated, so overwhelming that I felt as if everything were about to burst. So much so that it would be utterly impossible for humanity to live with the awareness of the state it is in, if, at the same time, there werent the key to get out (the key hasnt been found yet), or the assurance that we will get out.
0 1963-07-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it isnt total Victory, no. It isnt the power of transformation. The other day, I told you, I think, that one of my present activities consisted of a sort of conscious concentration on one person or another, one thing or another, to obtain the desired result. For years on end, the Will and Force acted from above, and the outer conscious being [of Mother] wasnt concerned with anything further, knowing that it would only make things more complicated instead of helping them, and that the Force left to itself, directly under the supreme Impulsion, worked things out far better and far more accurately. But over these last months, there have come a will and a tendency to make the material being [of Mother] participate consciously in the details of execution. It has a kind of passive obedience, and so, once that was willed [the need for Mothers material intervention], it began to happen. There was a case recently, with a very good friend of the Ashram, a man with an important position who has been very, very useful. He had to be operated on (I wont tell the whole story, it would be too long); we received two or three wires a day, I followed the thing step by step. There was a very powerful force of destructionit was a very grim battle and there was a will to keep him, because in this body he had been very useful, he was still very useful and could still be very useful. He had a great faith, a great trust, and he was conscious (his consciousness was very sufficiently developed: I saw him constantly and constantly he came to me). He fell into a butchers hands; anyway, it was a wretched thing. Still, even though everyone expected him to leave his body, he held on and was constantly saying (we were kept informed by his son) and feeling that it was I who was keeping him alive. I could even see what they should have done and constantly I sent the formation, the thought, But THIS is what should be done, insis tently. Finally they caught my thought, but I think (I cant say, I dont know the details, the small material details), I think probably they didnt do exactly what they should have thats why I say they must have been butchers. Thus they performed three operations in a row, and after undergoing all that, he came to me (before also he used to come very of tenthey said he was drowsy all the time, in a semi-coma, but thats not it: he was living inwardly), he came to me, totally conscious as usual, but he said, I am afraid my body is irretrievably ruined, and if I survive now, instead of this body being a help and a tool of work, it will be a hindrance, an impediment, a source of difficulty, so I have come to ask to be freed I prefer to enter a new body. I answered immediately, But as you are, you are useful, very useful; the position you occupy makes you very useful; you are totally conscious; it would be good if you could recover. He lis tened, again insisted a little, I too insisted, and then he left.
The next morning, he was much better. I was hoping he had decided to stay, but we were without news for about twenty-four hours, till suddenly we were told he had stopped breathing and was being given oxygen. And then he left.
0 1963-07-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For five minutes, ten minutes (with one or two people I even went to a little over ten minutes), it happened that everything stayed like that, absolutely motionless: not a thought, you understand, nothing. The atmosphere was well prepared, but generally it doesnt last with people, even the best disposed in the world: after a while, they cant hold onthey cant bear it any more.
And the remarkable thing with him was the silence. The mental silence.
0 1963-07-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it means constant vigilanceconstant. Its infinitely more difficult than when one worked even in the vital; in the vital, its nothing, its childs play in comparison. But here, phew! Because, you see, in the mind or the vital, its all movements of organization, of action, of choice, of decisionits very easy to decide, to rule! But that cellular tension is there EVERY SECOND: its the activity inherent in material exis tence. Its only when you go into samadhi that it stops. That is, when outwardly you are in trance. Then it stops.
From time to timetwo, three times a day I am given a few minutes of it. Its a marvelous relaxation. But I always come out of it (I mean the BODY comes out of it) with an anxiety, in the sense that it says, Oh, Ive forgot ten to live! Very odd. Only one second, but a second of anxiety: Oh, Ive forgot ten to live!and the drama starts all over again.
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Yet it has a spontaneous tendency to find itself incapable; and it receives the same answer all the time: Thats still the ego. That happens so of ten, it says to the Lord, Look how incapable I am of doing what You want, and pat comes the answer, direct, in a flash: Dont bother about that, its not your business! Naturally, I put it into words to express myself, but it isnt words, its only sensationsnot even sensations: vibrations.
Voil.
0 1963-07-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A little before his death he had asked me for a new name. He had nearly died twice, but he was saved (the doctors were sure he would die), he was saved by his faith; he had such faith, such an irresistible faith that twice it pulled him through: he was paralyzed, couldnt see any more, it was terrible. And twice all his faculties came back (his eyes werent too good, but anyway he could talk and move around). The third time, he wanted to get completely cured, because he was a businessman and had made a resolve to earn ten lakhs1 of rupees for me (he had already given me four lakhs in the past, but he wanted to give me ten). So he absolutely wanted to live, but as he found himself not too well (he was quite deteriorated!), he called for one of those kaviraj (you know, those self-styled doctors), who finished him off: he couldnt eat or sleep any more. And the doctor went on telling him, Youre much better! While the poor man was sitting up all night in a chair. Finally, he was rushed to the hospital and died there. And the day of his death, about an hour later, I was informed that his son (hes not a child, hes a man) absolutely HAD to see me immediately. It was the time when I dont see people, but I said all right (I felt there was something to it), I said all right and went to receive him. It was 11:00 A.M. (I think he died at 9:30 A.M.). I go there (I dont remember if it was in the morning or early in the afternoon, anyhow it was very soon after his death), I sit down, the son is ushered in, and along with him comes a small boy, no taller than this (gesture), all golden, joyous, alive, happy! And he rushed to me. He stayed like that, leaning against me, quite still. And how he laughed! How happy he was!
It was M., his psychic being.
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I told you the story of the other one who came to be operated on and died2 (that makes two in a row, among our best workers). The other one had an important government position and did us some incredible services (he was a very intelligent man and had been chief justice for a very long time), he was very helpful and full of faith and devotion. This one [M.] had even promised to lend some money, but he died just beforea few days before he was due to give it!3 But the first one was a conscious, highly mentalized being, with a very well-formed mental being; he knew a lot and he told me, I am very conscious and now I know that I am fully alive and fully conscious, so I dont want an impo tent body that constantly requires someone to nurse it or move it around. I prefer to change. He asked me to find him a good one (!) This one didnt ask to take a new body, but the last thing he said (afterwards, he was paralyzed) was: I must live, because I want to give ten lakhs of rupees to the Mother. And he left with thatso an appropriate body has to be found.
But this one [M.] knew very little, he wasnt an intellectual, he was a man of action, very psychicvery much so! Lovely, oh, lovely! He was like a little child, naked, of course, a baby this big, with small arms, small legsdancing about, he was glad, laughing and laughing, he was happy. And all luminous. I immediately told his son (he did a pranam and rose with his eyes full of tears), I told him, Dont weep, he is now where he wants to be and perfectly at rest. I didnt tell him the storyhe wouldnt have understood a thing!
0 1963-07-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A few days later, Mother added: "There is also something I left unsaid: an urgent need to cease all material activity in order to enable the body to receive fullyas fully as possible the divine Force that will replace what has been removed. There is something absolute about that need: to stay totally still, quiet, letting the Force descendpermeate the body, rather. All physical activity must be suspended in some way, and if the material organization, or the habit, tends to make it continue, a kind of material impossibility, an excessive fatigue or discomfort, comes to oblige the body to keep still. Because simply to remove or change what shouldn't be there won't do; it must also be replaced by what SHOULD be there. Otherwise, there would be a dwindling or gradual reduction of substance resulting in dissolution. What has been sublimated or removed has to be replaced by something which is the true Vibration, the one that comes straight from the Supreme."
Mother did not eat anything this morning.
0 1963-08-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had that tendency very strongly in the past; thats what I called storytellingeverything, everything became stories: all the work, all that had to be done. But I stopped it completely, completely, as a dangerous thingit gives a great material power (thats probably why the Swami asked you to do it), what it gives is a material power, but its VERY bad, it falsifies all that comes from above.
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0 1963-08-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It seems to me (Ive been feeling that for a long time now, more than a year, almost a year and a half), it seems to me that all the work was done only to teach every single element of the body to have a physical, material consciousness, but at the same time to maintain that state of peacea positive, full, thoroughly comfortable peace: something that can last indefinitely. That is to say, I progressively teach the body what I could call all the divine states; I teach it to feel and live in the divine states. Well, the closest things (two things are close enough, but one is more comfortable, if I may say soits the word ease in Englishthan the other; the other is more tense [Mother makes a fist], there is a will in it) the closest things are the sense of eternity and the sense of silence. Because behind the whole creation (I mean the material creation), there is a perfect Silence, not the opposite of noise but a positive silence, which is at the same time a complete immobility thats very good as an antidote to disorder. But the sense of eternity is still better, and it has a sweetness the other hasnt; the sense of eternity includes the sense of sweetness (but not sweetness as we understand it). Its extremely comfortable. That is, there is no reason why it should changeor cease or start anew. It is selfexis tent, perfect in itself. And these are the best antidotes to the other state [of disorder]: peace, simple peace, isnt always sufficient.
After all, the body is an utterly wretched thing. Yesterday, I think, it was complaining, really complaining (I said it was a whiner, but yesterday it was complaining), really asking, Why, why was such a wretched thing ever made?Incapacity, incomprehension, oh! Nothing but limitations and impossibilities. A sterile goodwill, a complete lack of power, and as soon as some little vital power comes, its turned into violencedisgusting.
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Whenever I complain like that, I can be sure Ill have a night of tension, and the next morning a jolt.
It would be better to remain quiet, take things as they are and let the Lord do His work without without pushing Him all the time like that. I always feel that all our misfortunes are attracted by our impatience or discon tent. If we were blissfully con tent and let things follow their course, When You will it, it will be, thats all. I am an idiot, I remain an idiot, and when You will it to change
0 1963-08-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
During all that period of concentration and meditation on what happens in a body after death (I am speaking of the bodys experience after what is now called death), well, several times the same kind of vision came to me. I had been told (shown and told) of certain saints whose bodies did not decompose (theres one here, there was one in Goafantastic stories). Naturally, people always romanticize those things, but there remains the material fact of a saint who died in Goa, left his body in Goa, but whose body didnt decompose.5 I dont know the story in all its details, but the body was removed from India, taken away to China and remained buried there, in Hong-Kong, I believe (or somewhere in that region) for a time; then it was taken out, brought back here, buried again. For ten or twelve years it stayed buried in those two places: it didnt decompose. It dried out, became mummified (dried out, that is, dehydrated), but it remained preserved. Well, this fact was presented to me several times as ONE of the possibilities.
Which means, to tell the truth, that everything is possible.
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Can we ever overemphasize the fact that what happened to Mother ten years later, in 1973, is an unspeakable betrayal ... of which she had a presentiment?
***
0 1963-08-21, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At one point, the tension was so great that you wonder, Am I going to burst?
Then everything relaxed and opened up (gesture as if the cells opened out) OM.
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The experience came at the time when the condition was most acute in its nothingness. I dont know how to explain it, its inexpressible, but it was COMPLETE: there was nothing but that, that sort of meaningless and aimless nothing, without raison dtre or originand, therefore, without remedy. Then it reached the point when you know, when everything is about to burst and there is such a tension. (Is it tension? I dont know how to explain.) And all at once, a change as total as you can imagine.
So you understand, those old Talks, all thats a lot of talk!
0 1963-09-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Could this be what gave you that sense of death? But you say it has been there for a long time. While, for me, its recent (it was perhaps ten days ago), my study is recent. It was very interesting. I can still see them now, they were as if located in certain parts of your body.
But thats a favorable observation, not a dangerous one!
0 1963-09-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Above all, there is a kind of coexis tence, of juxtaposition of two things that are really opposite states yet always seem to be together: a Peace in which everything is harmonious (I am speaking of the bodys cells), everything is harmonious to the point that no disorder can occur, no illness, no suffering, no disorganization or decomposition can occurimpossible; its a Peace thats eternal, absolutely beyond time (though it is felt in the bodys cells); and at the same time, a tremoran ignorant and bustling and dark tremor, dark in the sense that its unaware of its ignorance, not knowing what to do and doing useless things all the time. And in that state you find disorder, decomposition, disorganization, suffering and at times it becomes acute, acute, all the nerves are tense and it aches all over and both states are together.4
Are together, I mean to the point that you dont even feel you make a movement of reversal, you dont even know how you go from one state to the other, you the reversal is imperceptible.
0 1963-09-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The other day, the process was less complete, but it was something similar, a first hint: K. had sent me an article he wanted to publish somewhere with quotations from Sri Aurobindo and myself, and he wanted to make sure it was correct and he hadnt muddled it (!) In one place, I saw a comment by him (you know how people delight in wordplays when they are fully in the mind: the mind loves to play with words and contrast one sen tence with another), it was in English, I am not quoting word for word, but he said that the age of religions was the age of the gods; and, naturally, as our Mr. Mind loves to play with words, it made him say that, now, the age of the gods is over and it is the age of Godwhich means he was deplorably falling back into the Christian religion without noticing it! And just as I saw his writ ten sen tence, I saw that tendency of the mind which loves it and finds it very oh, charming, such a nice turn of phrase (!) I didnt say anything, I went on to the end of his article. Then where that sen tence was I saw a little light shining: it was like a little spark (I saw that with my eyes open). I looked at my spark, and in the place of God, there was The One. So I took my pen and made the correction.
But my first translation was The All-Containing One, because it was an experience, not a thought. What I saw was The One containing all. And innocently, I wrote it down on a paper (Mother shows a little scrap of paper): The All-Containing One. But just then, I saw what looked like someone giving me a slap and telling me, Not that: you should put The One, thats all. So I wrote The One.
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I feel a sort of tenderness towards that person.
And all those children! Even the tiny little ones who could hardly walk, when they saw me arrive they would push their toys aside and make way for me.
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But that experience [of the crumbling stairs], I know what it corresponds to, because I know the experience I had when I went to sleep: its always when I am confronted with the Problem. I could put it this way (but that diminishes it a lot), Why is the world the way it is? Then there comes to me that sort of its an IN tenSE state of compassionin tense, almost painful for the condition of the world and humanity. When that comes, I have those difficulties at night. And then I ask, I want to know the REAL secretnot all the things people have told (which all seem to me just like a story to to comfort children), but the REAL thing. When I go into deep rest with that tension, its always translated by those things collapsing: I try to climb and crunch! crunch! crunch! all the time, all the time everything crumbles under the weight of my ascent. Until I see that ill will trying to stop me from finding what I want to find, so I get angry and it stops instantlyis angry the word? I dont know: I refuse, I refuse the situation. Then it stops short.
And I awake saying to myself, You see, its all your fault: as long as you accept, you cannot know, you are in the dark; when you really refuse, you will know.
0 1963-09-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It had always seemed to me that way [the earth as a symbolic point of concentration], but I am so convinced that Sri Aurobindo saw things more truly and totally than anyone did that, naturally, when he says something, you tend to consider the problem!
I dont know, I havent reached the end of Savitri yet. Because I notice (rereading it after the space of a few months, barely two years) that its altogether something else than the first time I read it. Altogether something else: there is in it infinitely more than what I had experienced; my experience was limited, and now its far more complete (maybe if I reread it in a year or two, it would be still more complete, I dont know), but there are plenty of things that I hadnt seen the first time.
0 1963-10-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I havent finished, I have no time left to work, thats the nuisance! I have so much work in the afternoon I dont call it work, its being busy with people to see, letters hosts of letters! And the entire organization: everything is in a terrible confusion. I should finish seeing people at four and take up my translation till fivethey leave at ten to five! So I have no time left for anything. One day out of four I get some translation done, so its going very slowly.
Ill have to change something in the organization againit goes wrong very quickly.
In the beginning [when Mother withdrew], I used to receive one or two letters daily, not even that many; now its ten or twelve daily, and when I dont reply immediately, two days later I receive another letter: I wrote to you but I havent had a reply. So immediately I scribble on their letter two or three very curt words (Mother laughs) to show them it isnt worthwhile to be too impatient.
Anyway
0 1963-10-05, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I was at least ten minutes later than my usual time.
I didnt have any sense of dangernot at all. Only that slight feeling of being upset: They ought to inform people before doing things of that sort! And they were the supreme heads of the organization (there was nothing religious or spiritual about it: it was very concrete, in Matter). But that water I kept admiring it, thinking, Oh, they have control over that water! It was like liquid diamond. It was a marvel, as if everything it touched were purified. And that being who came out of the huge swimming pool (it wasnt a human being: it looked like a vital being who was neither a man nor a woman) came out in a kind of bathing suit, wrapped himself up and disappeared. But otherwise ALL the doors were closed, there wasnt a soulonly me on my square, with the square around me and my back against a closed door, watching the whole scene from a great height. And everything was filling up with that substanceit looked like water, but it wasnt water.
0 1963-10-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had stared at that thingit went on for more than ten minutes I stared and stared at it, and with truly an extreme goodwill I tried to see if Sri Aurobindos vibration was in it (the light wasnt, but I tried to see if the vibration was), but I didnt feel anything.
Nevertheless, there was a very strong WILL to make me believe it was Sri Aurobindo I saw it, you understand.
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And yesterday, it was all very peaceful: X was there all the time with nobody in front of him, not pre tending anything. But the first time, as he expected some result, he stayed on for ten minutesprobably he was expecting some reaction (I never told him that Sri Aurobindo is with me all the time, that we talk to each other every night). Anyhow, he was probably expecting some enthusiasm on my part (!) There you are.
[Satprem cannot believe what Mother has just told him:] It was a will coming from him? It wasnt someone else who used that substance?
0 1963-10-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am coming to the conclusion that there must be a great power (a transforming power, probably) in the extreme tension of circumstances.
Let me explain myself:
The Help is ever present, in the sense that you unquestionably feel that the Force acts (the Force, that is, the supreme Consciousness and supreme Knowledge), the Force acts with a sort of pressure on all people and all circumstances, in a favorable direction so that what happens may truly be the bestand the best hierarchically; in other words, the highest and purest (you know my definition of pure) is a sort of center in relation to which things get organized; they get organized hierarchically, each with its right to progress, but as if to favor whats closest to and most expressive of the Divine that is going on constantly, I see hundreds of examples of it all the time. Yet, from the point of view of outer circumstances, there is such a tension that you feel you are close to catastrophe.
Sri Aurobindo told me that there are three difficulties, and they are the three things that have to be conquered for the earth to be ready (this is from the purely outward point of view, I am not speaking of psychological factors): government, money, health.
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But because of my inner work, I become increasingly aware of things, increasingly aware of the Care, the Solicitude and the hierarchical Organization of circumstances so that the most precious and useful thing for the divine work is favoredof course not conspicuously so, but inwardly. And yet, in the three domainsgovernment, money and healththings always reach a POINT, a point of such tension and complication that if you didnt have the inner certitude, they would always seem to point simply to the catastrophe, the fall. And its ALWAYS at that point that (gesture of abrupt reversal) everything turns aroundnot before, not one minute before.
Its not to give me faith I have it; its not to give me consciousness I have it; its for an outward reason. I cannot yet grasp why. Because inwardly, even if I were told that everything would be demolished in the most tragic manner, I would say, Very well. And in all sincerity, you know, nothing anywhere in me starts protesting or vibrating, nothing at all. I say, All right. But I see I do see that in that tension, a certain power is released, like a power in tense enough to cure a tamas, to change a tamas.1
Yesterday (this is an example I give you, but in all three domains its similar), yesterday it was a question of money. The question of money, for more than twelve years, has been a problemgrowing increasingly acute because the expenses are increasing fantastically while the income is decreasing! (laughing) So the two things together make the problem very acute. It results in things to be paid but no money, which means that the cashier (the poor cashier, it does him a lot of good from the yogic viewpoint: he has acquired a calm that he never had before! But still he is the one who has to stand the greatest tension), the cashier spends money and I cannot reimburse him. Very well. And then its not for me to run about, look for money, arrange things, discuss with people, of course, that wouldnt be proper (!), and those who do it for me have in them a rather sizable amount of tamas, which I cannot yet shake up. Anyway, yesterday they proposed something absurd to me (I dont want to go into the details, it doesnt matter), but their proposal was absurd and put me in a totally unacceptable situation. In other words, it might have brought a legal action against me, I might have been summoned before the court, anyway, all kinds of inadmissible thingsnot that I care personally, but theyre inadmissible. When they proposed their idea to me, I looked and saw it was silly; I was very quiet, when, suddenly, there came into me a Power (I told you it happens now and then) like this (massive gesture). When it comes, you feel as though you could destroydestroy everything with it you see, its too awesome for the present state of the earth. So I answered very quietly that it was unacceptable, I said why, and I returned the paper. Then something COMPELLED me to add: If I am here, it is not because of any necessity or obligation; it is not a necessity from the past, not a karma, not any obligation, any attraction, any attachment, but only, solely and absolutely because of the Lords Grace. I am here because He keeps me here, and when He no longer keeps me here, when He considers I am not to stay any longer, I wont stay. And I added (I was speaking in English), As for me (as for me [gesture upward] that is, not this [gesture to the body]), as for Me, I consider that the world isnt ready: its way of responding inwardly and outwardly, even visibly in those around me, proves that the world isnt ready something must happen for it to be ready. Or else it will take QUITE SOME TIME for it to be prepared. Its all the same to me: whether it is ready or not makes no difference. And everything could collapse, Icouldntcareless. And with what force I said that! My arm rose, my fist banged on the tablemon petit, I thought I was going to break everything!
I was watching the scene, thinking, Why the devil am I made to do this?! These people are, apparently, quite devoted, quite surrendered and intimate enough not to be afraid. (I dont know what effect it had on them, but it must have had some effect.) As soon as it was over, I started working again, looking into affairs and so on. Afterwards, once I was alone, I wondered, Why did that come into me? And in the evening, I had the solution to the situation: its here (Mother takes an envelope on the table). I didnt even look at it (Mother opens the envelope and looks at the amount of a check).
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No, concerning government, the issue is still undecided, and yet Only, there are so many things that tend, that draw near, and then they go off at a tangent thats the trouble, for when they go off at a tangent, then they go very far away (gesture showing the possibility coming very close to crossing History, then moving away along an immense circle backward, to return again) and they take a very long time to return.3
Something is being attempted now: there are some people who are in contact with us and are conscious; they have a possibility of action and they are trying. They have caught an idea: to bring Russia and America together so that the two powers united will be the agents of peace on earth. Its an EXCELLENT idea. Well see whats going to happen.
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But it comes only when the situation is extremely tense; which might explain that it is probably necessary to shake up all that Matter a bit, and that it can come only when all the other means wont do any more.
You know, at those times, I feel such a force in me, even a physical strength, greater than I have ever felt in my life, even when I was young and strong enough, and it makes me feel that peoples physical strength is nothing! The first time it came after my illness (I wasnt on my guard), it did so for no apparent reason (possibly as a test) and there was this instrument on my table (Mother points to a penholder mounted on a steel pivot). So the Force came, and for some reason or other I wanted to push this thing down. I put my hand on it without any effort, any force (but the Force was there, it was in my arm): snapped off! (It isnt easy to break.) Snapped clean off! Without the shadow of an effort. The doctor was here, he asked me Why? I told him, Oh, I didnt do it deliberately, a force took hold of my arm and went snap! And I did it consciously; I saw, I saw the Force, saw a sort of golden bolt of lightning, very strong, that came andsnap! I didnt make the slightest effort. The doctor was upset! (He is a man with a sattvic nature.) He told me, That is stupid, it breaks your things Ill get others!
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My faith doesnt waver, but I have the impression that except for a certain number of things I have to do and for which I receive a precise help, a help really from above, for the rest, nothing. You understand, its ten years now since I came here, well, theres nothingnot that I lack faith, but theres no development.
Maybe not the development youre expecting.
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I have been shown in a perfectly objective, but tenuous, way some effects that are insignificant in their dimensions, yet OVERWHELMING, I am telling you, overwhelming in their quality. And with a smile, as if I were made fun of and told, Oh, so you want results? Well, here they are. You want effects? Well, here they are. And then it went on (you know, what I call insignificant is what concerns lifes tiny little circumstances of every minute): You want TERRESTRIAL results? Well, these are far more considerable in their quality than you can see. And indeed, I saw small, very small things, movements of consciousness in Matter, tiny little things that were truly astounding in their quality, and that are never noticed because they are totally unimportant (outwardly unimportant). Only if you observe in a most tenuous way do you notice them, because they are, in fact, phenomena of consciousness in the cellsare you conscious of your cells?
(Satprem shakes his head)
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All these last few days, it has been coming as as proofs, proofs that can crush any doubt: proofs of the Supremes omnipresence in the apparently MOST UNCONSCIOUS MATTER something so overwhelming that the rational reason can hardly believe it. But it is forced to. Only, of course, you notice it when you have reached that most tenuous degree of at tention and when, instead of wanting great things that cause a lot of noise and movement and appear very dazzling, you con tent yourself with observing very, very little, very tiny things that are to our pre tentious reason perfectly insignificant, but to the Lord are crushing proofs.
But I dont need proofs! I dont doubt for a second, there isnt one doubt in my consciousness.
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There are times when one is disgusted, and thats just when one should remember this. Now, your disgust may have reasons of its own (!) But you have only to endure. You know, there is one thing, I dont know if you have savored it yet: as soon as you have a difficulty, dissatisfaction, revolt, disgustanythingfatigue, tension, discomfort, all, all that negative side (there are lots and lots and lots of such things, they take on all kinds of different colors), the immediate movementimmediateof calling the Lord and saying, Its up to You. As long as you try (instinctively you try to arrange things with your best light, your best consciousness, your best knowledge), its stupid, because that prolongs the struggle, and ultimately its not very effective. There is only one effective thing, thats to step back from whats still called me and with or without words, it doesnt matter, but above all with the flame of aspiration, this (gesture to the heart), and something perfectly, perfectly sincere: Lord, its You; and only You can do it, You alone can do it, I cant. Its excellent, you cant imagine how excellent! For instance, someone comes and deluges you with impossible problems, wants you to make instant decisions; you have to write, you have to answer, you have to sayall of itand its like truckloads of darkness and stupidity and wrong movements and all that being dumped on you; and its dumped and dumped and dumpedyou are almost stoned to death with all that. You begin to stiffen, you get tense; then, immediately (gesture of stepping back): O Lord. You stay quiet, take a little step back (gesture of offering): Its up to you.
But you cant imagine, its wonderful! Immediately there comesclear, simple, effortlessly, without seeking for itexactly what has to be done or said or writ ten: the whole tension stops, its over. And then, if you need paper, the paper is there; if you need a fountain pen, you find just the one you need; if you need (theres no seeking: above all dont seek, dont try to seek, youll just make another mess)its there. And thats a fact of EVERY MINUTE. You have the field of experience every second. For instance, youre dealing with a servant who doesnt do things properly or as you think they should be done, or youre dealing with a stomach that doesnt work the way youd like it to and it hurts: its the same method, there is no other. You know, at times situations get so tense that you feel as if youre about to faint, the body cant stand it any more, its so tense; or else theres a pain, something wrong, things arent sorting themselves out, and theres a tension; so immediately you stop everything: Lord, You, its up to You. At first there comes a peace, as if you were entirely outside exis tence, and then its gone the pain goes, the dizziness disappears. And what is to happen happens automatically. And, you see, its not in meditation, not in actions of terrestrial importance: its the field of experience you have ALL the time, without interruptionwhen you know how to put it to use. And for everything: when something hurts, for instance, when things resist or grate or howl inside there, instead of your saying, Oh, how it hurts! you call the Lord in there: Come in here, and then you stay calm, not thinking of anythingyou simply stay still in your sensation. And more than a thousand times, you know, I was almost bewildered: Look! The pain is gone! You didnt even notice how it went. So people who want to lead a special life or have a special organization to have experiences, thats quite silly the greatest possible diversity of experiences is at your disposal every minute, every minute. Only you must learn not to have a mental ambition for great things. Just the other day, I was shown in such a clear way a very small thing I had done (I, its the body speaking), a very small things that had been done by the Lord in this body (thats a long sen tence!), and I was shown the terrestrial consequence of that very small thingit was visible, I mean, as my hand is visible to my eyesand the terrestrial correspondence. Then I understood.
We are given everythingEVERYTHING. All the difficulties that have to be overcome, all of them (and the more capable we are, that is, the more complex the instrument is, the more numerous the difficulties are), all the difficulties, all the opportunities to overcome them, all the possible experiences, and limited in time and space so they can be innumerable. And it has repercussions and consequences all over the earth (I am not concerned with what goes on in the universe because, for the time being, that isnt my work). But it is certain (because it has been said so and I know it) that what goes on on the earth has repercussions throughout the universe. Sitting there, you live the everyday life with its usual insignificance, its unimportance, its lack of interest and its a WONDERFUL field of experiences, of innumerable experiences, not only innumerable but as varied as can be, from the most subtle to the most material, without leaving your body. Only, you should have RETURNED to it. You cannot have authority over your body without having left it.
0 1963-12-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I wasnt conscious of an instrument, but I was conscious of plenty of spots2 to which the thing clings. It clings not even to beings, but to ways of being of beings: to certain tendencies, certain attitudes, certain reactionsit clings to all that. Its not at all one person or one will, thats not it, but its a way of being. Its all universal ways of being that are destined to disappear from the field of activity and are being eliminated.
But the reaction on the body was painful, as it was the first time. The first time (according to X and the Swami), it was supposed to kill meit didnt even make me seriously ill, but it had a very unpleasant effect. I told you at the time that it was a mantra in tended to drain you of all your blood; Ive seen several examples of people who died in that way: it was found afterwards to be the result of a mantric formation. In my case, all it succeeded in doing was to make me sick, as if everything came out I vomited terribly. Then there was something pulling me and I absolutely had to go my consciousness told me I had to go and see someone (I was all alone in my bathroom when it happened), a particular person whom I had to go and see; and when I opened the door, Z was there, waiting to prepare my bath, but I didnt see him at all and I absolutely wanted to go somewhere, into the other room, so I pushed against him, thinking, Whats this obstacle in my way? And he thought I was fainting on him! It caused quite a to-do.
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And when there is For example, when there is a relaxation in someone, or when there is a tensing up, I feel it: something in me relaxes, or tenses up; but not in me here, like this (Mother in her armchair): in me THERE (Mother in the other person).
And I know the very minute it takes place, you see. But those [ tensing up, relaxation] are big movements, so it becomes obvious, but I realize that it goes on all the timeits like that all the time.
0 1963-12-29, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My tenderness is ever with you
signed: Mother
0 1963-12-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Almost half past ten.
Do you have anything to tell me? You want to hear more in a minor keythis was a major key!
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Tomorrow, I see here (Mother looks at her notebook) four, five, six, seven, eight people, and two over there, which makes tentomorrow morning between 10 and 11 A.M. (Laughing) All can be done if Gods touch is there!
So Ill see you next year.
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In fact, in Savitri, Sri Aurobindo went through all the worlds, and it so happens that I am following that without knowing it (because I never rememberthank God, I really thank heaven!I asked the Lord to take away my mental memory and He took it away entirely, so I am not weighed down), but I follow that description in Savitri without mentally knowing the sequence of the worlds, and these last few days I was in that Muddle of Falsehood (I told you last time), it was really painful, and I was tracking it down to the most tenuous vibrations, those that go back to the origin, to the moment when Truth could turn into Falsehoodhow it all happened. And it is so tenuous, almost imperceptible, that deformation, the original Deformation, that you tend to lose heart and you think, Its still really quite easy to topple over the slightest thing and you can still topple over into Falsehood, into Deformation. And yesterday, I had in my hands a passage from Savitri that was brought to meits a marvel, but its so sad, so miserable, oh, I could have cried (I dont easily cry).
The world grew full of menacing Energies,
0 1964-01-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had X told about a rather interesting encounter of mine with Ganapati1 (quite a few years ago), and how he had promised to give me whatever I needed and actually gave it for quite a long time, certainly more than ten years, and generously so. Then everything changed in the Ashram. It was after the war, the children came and we spilled over; we became much more complex, much larger, and began to be in touch with foreign countries, particularly America. And I continued to be in contact with Ganapati; I cant say I used to do a puja to him (!), but every morning I would put a flower in front of his image. Then one morning I asked him, Why have you stopped doing what you had been doing for such a long time? I lis tened, and he clearly replied, Your need has grown too large. I didnt quite understand, because he has at his disposal fortunes larger than what I needed. But then, some time afterwards, I had this told to X, who answered me from the height of his punditism, Let her not be concerned with the gods, I will look after that! It was needlessly insolent. Then I turned to Ganapati and asked him, What does all that mean? And I clearly saw (it wasnt he who answered, it was Sri Aurobindo), I clearly saw that Ganapati has power only over those who have faith in him, which means its limited to India, while I needed money from America, France, England, Africa and that he has no power there, so he couldnt help. It became very clear, I was at peace, I understood: Very well, he did his best, thats all. And its true that I keep receiving from India, though not sufficiently; especially as since Independence half of India has been ruined, and all those who used to give me a lot of money no longer do, because they no longer canit isnt that they no longer want to, but that they no longer can.
For instance, M. was greatly interested in my story about Ganapati, and I saw that there was a connection between him and Ganapati, so I told him, But turn to him and he will give you the right inspiration. And since then M. has been perfect, really; all that he can do he does to the utmost of his ability. So all this is very good.
0 1964-01-08, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The far end of the Manifestation (assuming that there was a progressive descent there may have been one, I dont knowthere have been so many perceptions of what happened, sometimes contradictory, always incomplete and humanized), but if you consider the aspect of evolution, you tend to consider a far end from which you proceed to another far end (its obviously childish, but anyway), or an extreme way of being that grows towards the opposite Extreme Way of Being; well, what seems to me the blackest and most inert, the total negation of that to which we aspire, is what constitutes Falsehood.
In other words, this is perhaps what I call Falsehood; because falsehood in the human way is always mixed with all kinds of things but Falsehood proper is this. It is the assertion that the Divine does not exist, Life does not exist, Light does not exist, Love does not exist, Progress does not existLight, Life, Love do not exist.3 A negative nothingness, a dark nothingness. And it may be this that clung to evolution and made Darkness, which denied Light, Death, which denied Life, and Hatred, Cruelty and all that, which denied Love but this is already diluted, its already in a diluted state, there has already been a mixture.
0 1964-01-15, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And this field of experience also includes the physical mindall the mental constructions that have a direct action on life and on the body; there is there an almost unlimited field of experiences. And everything takes the form not of a speculation or a thought, but of an experience. Ill give you an example to make myself understood. I wont tell you the thing as it occurred, but as I now know it to be. There is in France someone very devoted, born Catholic, and who was seriously ill. He wrote to me asking what he should do; he said that people around him naturally wanted him to receive extreme unction (they thought he was about to die), and he wrote to ask me if it had any influence on the progress of his inner being and whether he should refuse categorically. I knew none of this [as Mother had not yet received the letter], but I had an experience here, in which a priest and altar boys came to give me extreme unction! (Thats how it presented itself to me.) They wanted to give me extreme unction, so I watched I watched, I wanted to see; I thought, Well, before dismissing them abruptly, lets see what it is. (I had no idea why they had come, you understand; someone had sent them to give me extreme unctionnot that I felt particularly sick! But anyhow thats how it was.) So before dismissing them, I watched carefully to find out if really it had a power of action, if extreme unction had the power to disturb the progress of the soul and tie it down to old religious formations. I watched and I saw how thin and tenuous it was, without force; I saw clearly that it could have some force only if the priest who performed it was a conscious soul and did it consciously, in relationship with an inner power or force (vital or other), but that if it was an ordinary man doing his job and giving the sacraments with the ordinary belief and nothing more, it was perfectly harmless.
Once I had seen that, suddenly (it was as if on a screen) the whole story vanished and it was over. It had come only to make me see it, thats all. But it presented itself in that way in order to make me watch in tently, seriously, not as a mental consideration: a vision and an experience.
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And one, two, ten, fifty experiences like thatthose two struck me. The first, because the NEXT DAY Pavitra told me a gentleman had writ ten to ask me the question I told you: he had been very ill, he was in bed, anyway at deaths door, and he had writ ten to ask that question.
Curious, isnt it?
0 1964-01-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Human beings always do a thing FOR something, with a goal, for a reason, from a motive; even spiritual life, even spiritual effort are FOR the progress of consciousness, FOR reaching the Truth, for its a vibration that always has a taila tail in front. And these cells have realized that if you can have the vibration without the tail, the power increases tenfold tenfold is nothing! At times the difference is fantastic. And actually, when they said, To be what You want, it was a way of expressing a need they felt for that; but once it was expressed, they said, Whats this platitude! Whats this me poking its nose in! Then, all of a sudden, came the True Vibration the True Vibration, without cause and effect, which at every moment of the universe is total and absolute. And it was translated into: To be You, Lord, at every moment the supreme Spontaneity.
There was an extraordinarily dazzling lightwhich didnt last.
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But its a lesson. I could have been cured immediately (it was yesterday). At first, it met with the true consciousness and the true attitude (even in the body), and for hours it was under control. Then came the people who come every day, some in the morning and some in the afternoon (but it was in the afternoon, yesterday), with their truckloads of worka truckload, you know, its dumped as when a truck unloads, meaning they dont wait for one to be unloaded before bringing another: they throw it all together. So, all of a sudden, my nose started running, it was overthere was a tension. The Force that was there couldnt withstand it. In the night and this morning, it was brought under control again and could have gone away; then came the usual people with their usual truckloads (each his truckload, there are four of them); so, right in the middle of the work, again my nose started running. Its stupid, but anyway.
And always the same thing (the first vision was quite correct, I mean the vision of the cells was quite correct): it isnt something coming from outside, its the impulse that comes from outside, its the wrong vibration that comes from outside, and the difficulty is that you are unable to replace this wrong vibration or, rather, CANCEL it, with the True Vibration. Thats what I had already said: the proportion isnt sufficient, so it takes time. I can understand that with a sufficient proportion of cells remaining in the True Vibration, the cure should be instantaneous, that is, the effect of the wrong vibrations should be canceled automatically. But I had seen the thing and spent almost an hour, three quarters of an hour [in concentration], and the little bit that had been affected (it was in the throat) was canceledit didnt return. It was canceled. But after those three quarters of an hour, I had to resume my activities, see people, do things, take my bath, too (although the bath is always beneficial), and a sort of memory lingered. And then, from three oclock, a quarter to three, the invasion started: first one, then another, then two more, then a third, then So all at once, because my at tention had been DIVERTED to what I had to do (scores of answers to be writ ten, of blessings to be sent, of problems to be resolvedall of it dumped on me), as my at tention was diverted to that, naturally all at once I started sneezing and so forththere was nothing to do but go through it.
0 1964-02-05, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I wasnt in a special state when I saw it. But the second time, in the morning, when I looked at it, I was in a very special state: there was a tension in all the physical cells to know the truth, the truth, the truth no illusions, and a call to the Lord, and a will for all this world of illusions to disappear the Truth, we want the Truth. And when I opened the book, there was a great call to the Lord for things to be exactly as they arenot as they are, but as they are according to the Truth. But the photo wasnt there!
It gave me an extraordinary in tensity of aspiration in the body. I spent a part of the night in that tension: may all those illusions disappear, may there be only something wholly true, true, true ESSENTIALLY true, not what people are in the habit of calling trueone shouldnt confuse the real with the true (in this regard the body has made great progress!). But the photo isnt there.
I thought it was perhaps the beginning of a new series of experiences.
0 1964-02-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother, some fifteen days ago, I dreamed that very thing. There was a sort of enormous drill boring into Matter; then you came, and you were very interested, as if you participated actively in it. An enormous black drill, like the ones they use to drill wells, boring into a sort of Matter with a color like yellow clay. It struck me very much. About ten or fifteen days ago. A tremendous power.
Yes, yesterday I had the feeling that I was brought into contact with something thats going on ALL THE TIME.
0 1964-02-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If one could do the work quietly, without having to rush it wouldnt be a problem, it would be nothing. But one has to do in ten minutes a work that should normally take an hour, thats the bad thing.
(silence)
0 1964-03-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There seemed to be nothing but sparkling dotsdots that glittered like diamonds. It was like sparkling diamonds everywhere, absolutely everywhere. And it had a tendency to come from above downward. It lasted not just hours, but days; others saw it (yet I didnt say anything to anyone), others saw it and asked me what it was.
But there was nothing stunning or magnificent or astounding about it: nothing of the kind, nothing spectacular, nothing to give the feeling of a great experiencevery quiet, but very, very self-assured. Very quiet.
0 1964-03-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Only, I am in a transitional period in which I cannot actively look after people, that is, see them, talk to them, receive them, give them meditations I cant, its impossible, the body is unable to do both things. And it is clearly more important for it to attract as much Truth-Force as it can and work like this in silence (radiating gesture) than to help one, two, or three, or ten or a hundred people to progress.
Later on, I cant say. If a power of ANOTHER ORDER descends into the body, and if it recovers from the wear and tear of effort, then things may be different, but for the moment
0 1964-03-29, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
With tenderness and blessings
Signed: Mother
0 1964-05-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
With all my tenderness and blessings.
Tell your mother that I love her much, very much, because she is YOUR mother!
0 1964-06-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
With all my tenderness,
Signed: Mother
0 1964-06-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
With tenderness
Signed: Mother
0 1964-08-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had the experience (I knew what it was, but I didnt know the consequences or how to express it), I had the experience of my body consciousness going completely out of the body (that must be what happens when one dies, mustnt it?), and for apparently for ten or fifteen minutes, I dont know, it was over, the physical world no longer existed, the body no longer existed. But I was very conscious of a movement of forces and of an action; that corporeal consciousness was even repeating its mantra, that was very interesting: it was repeating its mantra and watching the effect of the mantra on the vibrations of forces. But the consciousness left the body over there (gesture to the bathroom) and came back into it here (on the bed). I was carried.. and what happened between the two, I dont know. But when you reenter your body (that is, when the most material part of the consciousness has left the body, when you faint or go into a state of cataleptic trance, and then reenter your body), its very painful, very painfulall the nerves hurt. So then, suddenly, I felt a lot of pain like that (it lasts two seconds, thats nothing), and then I felt that I was lying on cushions! (Laughing) My last impression was of standing over there!
Its the first time in my life that has happened. Always, whenever I fainted, I would remain conscious of what was happening to my body; of ten, I would even see it I would see it lying on the floor, for instance; but I would remain conscious. This is the first time.
0 1964-08-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, I understand that very well; in other words, the heart cells tend to form a heart again, the liver cells to form a liver again, and so on. But I am up against this problem: here is an aggregate of cells making up this body; do they have a will for this body to continue, or? But when a body decomposes, the cells do not remain cells: the end is dust.
Its only through the parents seed that the cell is formed again. After death, the body is reduced to dust.
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But all this is the psychological plane, its very comfortable; as soon as you come down to Matter you feel the work is endless! You feel youre not moving forward and you dont even know what you should do to move forward. And when it becomes very acute, very tense like that, I invariably have an experience. But at the same time with the sensation that He is laughing, that Hes making fun of me: Youre still a child, you still need some playthings! So I am a good girl.
It is clearly a transitional periodits interminable! If I start thinking and remembering what Sri Aurobindo saidhe said it would take 300 years. We have some time to wait, we neednt hurry.
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We know nothing, we know nothing, nothing. All the rules Naturally, the inner experience and the inside are very fine, theres no question. But that sort of tension every minute in your every movement You know, to do EXACTLY what should be done, to say exactly what should be said the exact thing in every movement You must pay at tention to everything, be tensed for everything: its a constant, constant tension. Or if you take the other attitude, trust the divine Grace and let the Lord take care of everything, isnt there a risk that it will end in the bodys disintegration? Rationally I know, but its the body that should know!
When there is someone who has made the experiment and naturally has Wisdom, its so simple! Before, whenever there was the slightest difficulty, I didnt even need to say anything to Sri Aurobindo, everything would sort itself out. Now, I am the one who is doing the work, I have no one to turn to, no one has done it! So this, too, makes for a sort of tension.
One cannot imagineone cannot imagine what a grace it is to have someone in whose hands you can place yourself entirely! By whom you can let yourself be guided without having the need to seek. I had that, I was very, very conscious of it as long as Sri Aurobindo was there. And when he left his body, it was a dreadful collapse. One cannot imagine. Someone you can refer to with the certainty that what he says will be the truth.
0 1964-09-16, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In this connection, there has been a whole period of study of this subject, on the purely physical level. To rise above all possibility of error, you tend to eliminate the opportunities for error; for instance, if you dont want to utter unnecessary words, you stop speaking. People who make a vow of silence imagine it gives a control over speech thats not true! It only eliminates the opportunities to speak, and therefore of saying unnecessary things. For food, its the same problem: how to eat only just what is needed? In the transitional state we find ourselves in, we no longer want to live that wholly animal life based on material exchanges and food, but it would be folly to think we have reached the state in which the body can live on without any food at all (still, there is already a big difference, since they are trying to find the nutritional essence in foods in order to reduce their volume); but the natural tendency is fastingwhich is a mistake!
For fear of acting wrongly, we stop doing anything; for fear of speaking wrongly, we stop saying anything; for fear of eating for the pleasure of eating, we stop eating anything thats not freedom, its simply reducing the manifestation to its minimum. And the natural outcome is Nirvana. But if the Lord wanted only Nirvana, there would be only Nirvana! He obviously conceives the coexis tence of all opposites and that, to Him, must be the beginning of a totality. So, of course, you may, if you feel that you are meant for that, choose only one of His manifestations, that is to say, the absence of manifestation. But thats still a limitation. And its not the only way of finding Him, far from it!
Its a very widespread tendency, which probably comes from an old suggestion, or perhaps from a poverty, an incapacity: to reduce and reducereduce ones needs, reduce ones activities, reduce ones words, reduce ones food, reduce ones active life, and it all becomes so cramped! In the aspiration not to make any mistakes, you eliminate the opportunities of making them thats no cure.
But the other path is far, far more difficult.
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(Mother smiles) Human nature is such that laziness has taken the place of aspiration (not for everyone, but still fairly generally), and license or libertinism has taken the place of freedom. Which would tend to prove that the human species must go through a period of brutal handling before it can be ready to get away more sincerely from the slavery to activity.
The first movement is indeed like this: At last, to find the place where I can concentrate, find myself, live truly without having to bother about material things. This is the first aspiration (its even on this basis that the disciplesat least in the beginningwere chosen), but it doesnt last! Things become easy, so you let yourself go. There are no moral restraints, so you do stupid things.
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That is why some have preached that the only important moment is the present momentwhich isnt true in practice, but from the psychological point of view, it should be true. In other words, let us live every minute to the utmost of our possibility, without foreseeing or wanting or expecting or preparing the next minute. Because we are forever in a hurry-hurry-hurry and we do everything wrong. We live in an inner tension which is totally falsetotally false.
All those who tried to be wise have always said it (the Chinese have preached it, the Indians have preached it): live with the sense of Eternity. In Europe, too, they said you should contemplate the sky, the stars, identify with their infinitudeall of which makes you wide and peaceful.
0 1964-09-18, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From the necessity of certain circumstances, it so happens that I am read things I said ten years ago (statements or remarks I made): I really feel its somebody else! I find it odd.
Yet, at that time, it was the most sincere expression of the consciousness. Now I feel, Ah, I hadnt gone beyond that. A strange feeling.
0 1964-09-23, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And in the morning, oh! All mornings are difficult. Its odd: life as a whole goes by with almost dizzying speedweeks and months go by like thatand mornings, about three hours every morning, last like a century! Each minute is won at the cost of an effort. It is the time of the work in the body, for the body, and not just one body: for instance, all the vibrations from sick people, all those problems of life come from everywhere. And for those three hours, there is tension, struggle, acute seeking for what should be done or for the attitude to be taken. Its at that time that I have tested the power of the mantra. For those three hours, I repeat my mantra automatically, without stopping; and every time the difficulty increases, a kind of Power comes into those words and acts on Matter. And thats how I know: without the mantra, that work couldnt be done. But thats why I say it has to be YOUR mantra, not something you received from whomever the mantra that arose spontaneously from your deeper being (gesture to the heart), from your inner guide. Thats what holds out. When you dont know, when you dont understand, when you dont want to let the mind intervene and you are THAT is there; the mantra is there; and it helps you to get through. It helps to get through. It saves the situation at critical moments, its a considerable support, considerable.
For those three hours (three or three and a half hours), its constant, constant, without stop. So then the words well up (gesture from the heart). And when the situation becomes critical, when that disorder, that disintegration seem to be gaining in power, its as if the mantra were becoming swollen with force, and it restores order.
0 1964-10-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But as soon as you descend into that realm, the realm of the cells and even of the cells constitution, how much less heavy it seems! That sort of heaviness of Matter disappears: it becomes fluid and vibrant again. Which would tend to show that the heaviness, the thickness, the inertia, the immobility, is something that has been ADDED ON, its not an essential quality of Matterits false Matter, Matter as we think or feel it, but not Matter itself as it is.
That was very perceptible.
0 1964-10-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In this School, they have a terrible tendency to turn everything into a system.
Yes, systems, rules.
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(Here Mother hands Satprem a letter of explanation from the author of the poster. The letter gives the references of Mothers quotation: a personal letter from Mother to a disciple writ ten ten years earlier.)
Thats it! A totally private letter! What right do they have to display it?
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When I was there at the Playground,1 after ten minutes (that was probably because of my presence), all the little children were deeply asleep, and as it isnt cold and they were lying on mats, they would sleep there quietly till the end of the show.
True, at that time films were shown only once a week. Nowadays, you know how it is, its the competitiveness: everyone wants to bring films. So one turned to the French embassy, another turned to the British embassy, another to the American embassy, another to the Russian, German, Italian embassies. From all the embassies, theyre pouring in. And how do you make a choice? How do you decide without hurting one or the other? Before, it was agreed that films would be shown only on Saturday, so that on Sunday morning they could get up an hour later if they felt sleepy. Now, in effect, it takes place two or three times a week. But thats the fault of these people! Everyone took pride in bringing films from his embassy. How can you refuse some and accept others?
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Thats the real evil at the School, and there is one: a tendency to turn everything into a system.
Yes. Dogmatism.
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These last few nights, an experience has been developing. There is a sort of objectification, like scenes unfolding in which I am one of the characters; but it isnt me, it is some character or other that I play in order to have the double consciousness, the ordinary consciousness and the true consciousness at the same time. There was a whole series of experiences to show simultaneously the True Thing and the sort of half-death (its his word that makes me think of this I am too dead), the half-death of the mind. In those experiences, the state of ordinary mentality is something dry (not exactly hard because its crumbly), lifeless, without vibrationdry, cold; and as a color, its always grayish. And then, there is a maximum tension, an effort to understand and remember and knowknow what you should do; when you go somewhere, know how you should go there; know what people are going to do, know Everything, you see, is a perpetual question of the mind (its subconscious in the mindsome are conscious of it, but even in those who are apparently quiet, its there constantly that tension to know). And its a sort of superficial thing, shallow, cold and dry, WITHOUT VIBRATION. At the same time, as if in gusts, the true consciousness comes, as a contrast. And it happens in almost cinematographic circumstances (there is always a story, to make it more living). For instance, last night (its one story among many, many others), the I that was conscious then (which isnt me, you understand), the I that was playing had to go somewhere: it was with other people in a certain place and had to go through the town to another place. And she knew nothing, neither the way nor the name of the place she was going to, nor the person she had to seeshe knew nothing. She knew nothing, but she knew she had to go. So then, that tension: how, how can you know? How can you know? And questioning people, asking questions, trying to explain, You know, its like this and like that, innumerable details (it lasts for hours). And now and then, a flood of lighta warm, golden, living, comfortable lightand the feeling that everything is prearranged, that all that will have to be known will be known, that the way has been prepared beforeh and that all you have to do is let yourself live! It comes like that, in gusts. But then, there is an in tensity of contrast between that constant effort of the mind, which is an enormous effort of tension and concentrated will, and then and then that glory. That comfortable glory, you know, in which you let yourself go in trusting happiness: But everything is ready, everything is luminous, everything is known! All you have to do is let yourself live. All you have to do is let yourself live.
Its as if a play were performed to make it more living, more realone subject, another subject, this, that. If you enter a certain state, then another time enter the other state, you can remember the difference and its useful, but in this form of a play, with the double consciousness, the opposition becomes so real, so concrete that you come out of it wondering, How can you go on living in this aberration when you have once TOUCHEDtouched, experienced the True Thing?
Its as if the body were being dealt with like a child who has to be educated. Because that mind I am talking about is the physical mind, the material mind (not the speculative mind: the vibration isnt the same at all), its the mind OF THE EARTH, the mind of everyday life, the mind you carry along in your every movement and which tires the body so much! Such a tension, an anguishliving is an anguish. Yes, the feeling of a living death.
This morning, when I came out of it, I said to myself, Thats odd. But the body is learning its lesson; that way, its learning its lesson. And yet it goes on with that nasty habit of wanting rules, of wanting to know in advance what it should do, of wanting to know in advance how it should do it, of organizing its life within a straitjacket, instead of letting itself live.
0 1964-10-24a, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the true version is this one (I replaced sapprochent with viennent and dispose with dtiens, and I put the present tense), its from the last sedimentation:
Ceux qui viennent a moi avec
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And I replaced the future tense with the present, deliberately too, because it isnt something new: it has always been that way; it isnt that I now announce they will be disappointed they have always been disappointed. And asserting this fact is what had the power of dispelling a whole mass of formations: not only formations of beings of the vital or hostile beings, but the false mental formations of human beings.
And here, I wrote: Je ne dtiens pas de pouvoirs [I possess no powers], which is better than Je ne dispose pas de pouvoirs [I have no powers at my disposal]. I had chosen the word dispose in French (chosen, I mean, not mentally), but the word dispose came along with the meaning that the power wasnt at my disposal there is a nuance. I mean that if, by some aberration (it would really be an aberration), if by some aberration I had the desire to work a miracle, I wouldnt be able toit would be contrary to the supreme Will. It isnt that I am deliberately making the choice, No, I wont work miracles I cant, thats not the way, it MUST NOT be like that.
0 1964-10-24b, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because the body lived for months, almost years, in a sort of constant tension; it was forever waiting for the next minute, the next second, forever tensed forward in a sort of haste or uncertainty, as though the next moment would be better. There was a constant instability, which created a great obstacle for the Vibration to become established (I am talking about the bodys cells, naturally). Well, on the 18th, with that experience, there was an assurance of Triumph.
And the bodys state didnt revert to what it was before, far from it: there is a sort of peaceful tranquillity that no longer feels, no longer has the sense of a constant uncertainty thats finished.
0 1964-11-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother points to a pile of papers on her table:) You see, its all like that, its a snowball. All my life its been like that with everything I touch, everything I do: it snowballs. So when it comes to material things, youre absolutely deluged! And now my time is spent like that. Every day, ten, twenty people ask to see meits impossible. And yet, as far as I can, I do it. Those birthday cards here alone there are 1,200 or 1,300 (in a year, that makes quite a few every day), but thats nothing, there are all the people from outside, entire families! So every day I write twenty, twenty-five cards.
But one cant say anything, its good. Its good in the sense that there is a great change in people, they are all much more interested in Yoga, much more, and in an unexpected way. But then difficulties are increasing in proportion, and expenses also are increasing in proportion that too snowballs!
0 1964-11-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, you were more so ten minutes ago.
Because I have concentrated.
0 1964-11-21, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember having writ ten somewhere, some ten years ago, that I would take it as a sign if my back became straight again.1 At the time, it wasnt much, but it disgusted me deeply, and I did it as a challenge. Naturally, now its very far away from my consciousness and my thought, I find it childish, but I remembered it a few days ago also, and I said to myself that now I didnt care a bit about that, because to me its nothing! All the rest rail the rest is equally inadequate, incomplete and miserable, you knowmiserable. If you think about a divine life, its miserable.
And curiously, everything comes and presents itself as images and possibilities; so I say to myself, But if after a time all this suddenly stops functioning, what will have been the use of doing all this work? And there is always something something that comes from a very absolute regionwhich makes me feel or understand or grasp the uselessness of death.
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It is still a remnant of the old tension.
(Mother goes into contemplation)
0 1964-11-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And anything that disturbs the Inertia is, for Inertia, a catastrophe. In the world, the earthly world (its the only one I can speak of with compe tence; of the others, I have only overall visions), in the earthly world, for Inertia (which is the basis of the creation and is necessary to fix, to concretize things), anything that disturbs it is a catastrophe. That is to say, the advent of Life was a monstrous catastrophe, and the advent of intelligence in Life another monstrous catastrophe, and now the advent of Supermind is the final catastrophe! Thats how it is. And for the unenligh tened mind, it really is a catastrophe! I know cases, for instance, of people who are sick: if they follow the routine of the doctor and medicines and treatment and disease, they get well; if by some mischance (!) they call on the Force and I apply it, the more I apply, the more terrified they are! They feel absolutely unexpected phenomena and they are terrified: Whats happening to me! Whats happening to me! As if it were absolutely catastrophic. The minute the Force comes and they feel just a bit of it, like one drop, they tense up, they resist, they panic, they become absolutely restless. Thats right: they become so restless, so absolutely restless! That is, the whole system spends its time rejecting and rejecting all that comes.
Its very interesting.
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ten past eleven! Oh, you see (laughing), the clock is calling us!
And you? I am asking you, but I knowit isnt that I dont know, but I would like you to tell me.
0 1964-12-02, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I have noticed, especially for those who have had a Western education, that they shouldnt change their external occupations abruptly. Most people tend to want to change their environment, to want to change their occupation, to want to change their surroundings, to want to change their habit, thinking that will help them to change inwardlyits not true. You are much more vigilant and alert to resist the old movement, the old relationships, the vibrations you no longer want when you remain in a context that, in fact, is habitual enough to be automatic. You shouldnt be interested in a new external organization, because you always tend to enter it with your old way of being.
Its very interesting even, I made a very deep study of people who think that if they travel things are going to be different. When you change your external surroundings, on the contrary, you always tend to keep your internal organization in order to keep your individuality; whereas if you are held by force in the same context, the same occupations, the same routine of life, then the ways of being you no longer want become more and more evident and you can fight them much more precisely.
Basically, in the being, its the vital that has difficulty; it is the most impulsive part and has the greatest difficulty in changing its way of being. And its always the vital that feels free, encouraged and more alive during travels, because it has an opportunity to manifest freely in a new environment in which everything has to be learned: reactions, adaptations, etc. On the contrary, in the routine of a life that has nothing particularly exciting, it strongly feels (I mean, if it has goodwill and an aspiration for progress), it strongly feels its inadequacies and desires, its reactions, repulsions, attractions, etc. When one doesnt have that in tense will to progress, it feels imprisoned, disgusted, crushed the whole habitual refrain of revolt.
0 1964-12-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well see now if we find something. This morning, it was magnificent. But even if that were there, I wouldnt be able to play it: it would take almost an entire orchestra! And moreover, its no longer there. It lasted ten or fifteen minutes I dont even remember what it wasits gone.
Well try, well see.
0 1964-12-10, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
tenderness
Signed: Mother
0 1965-01-06, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Take some rest, and by that I mean letting oneself flow into the eternal Movement without tensing up, without thinking, Ive got this to do, that to do, and this and that.
Dont let people pester you. I have told Sujata.
0 1965-01-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
tenderness
Signed: Mother
0 1965-01-31, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
With all my tenderness
Signed: Mother
0 1965-02-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Those things about mummies, I knew them when I was nine or ten, they are memories from that time. I would find again some objects I had used in the past (thats how I was later able to rediscover the track). I had at leastat leastthree incarnations in Egypt (three that have been found).
But my first contact took place when I was quite small, nine or ten, and it was with that mummy at the Guimet Museum: I was speaking about that experience.
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0 1965-03-20, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On the 19th I had a very clear experience: I was with A., who was in a dreadfuldreadfulstate of agitation, revolt, confusion everything one can imagine. And for certainly nearly three quarters of an hour, he kept throwing it all on me violently. I was there I didnt notice it! I was laughing, speaking, acting, moving around, and the body felt per-fect-ly fine. I came back to my room here, P. and V. were here and they had heard (he was shouting like a madman), they had heard the whole thing; they were full of a sort of horrified pity because of what that boy had inflicted on meand INSTANTLY the cells felt the fatigue, the terrible tension which they had NOT FELT all the while, not for a minute! When I got up to leave A., everything was charming, it was fun; and instantly when I entered this room, there was a fatigue and tension COMING FROM THEIR CONSCIOUSNESS! So then, I looked carefully (as an experience it was interesting, naturally), and I said to myself, Strange how it can influence the cells TO THIS EX tenT. Of course, I started drawing the consciousness within, and it went away. But it went away because I worked for it to, while before I hadnt worked not to be tired: it was spontaneous.
It gave me an interesting measure of the interdependence.
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It interested me. Absolutely no fatigue and that sort of feeling of living in the universal, eternal Rhythm, like that (great gesture in waves), and amused all the time, I am all the time amused; and instantly: tension, fatigue, a need to rest, to concentrate.
And visiblyvisibly for the consciousness the vibrations came from the others [P., V.].
0 1965-03-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Let us assume you have a pain somewhere; the instinct (the instinct of the body, of the cells) is to tense up and try to rejectwhich is the worst thing to do: it invariably increases the pain. So the first thing that must be taught to the body is to stay stillnot to have any reactions. Above all no tensing up, and not even a movement of rejectiona perfect stillness. Thats corporeal equanimity.
A perfect stillness.
0 1965-03-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In reality, I deserve some credit for asking people to eat well. You know that I had difficulties: for two days, it was nearly impossible for me to eatand I am so glad! But I always scold myself: its a weaknessa moral weakness. I am in a very good position to say so, because I have the same difficulty as you with those questions of food, and thats very bad. Its not out of personal taste for food that I am preaching (!), but in order to react against the other tendency. Every time something comes and prevents me from eating, immediately, spontaneously, the body says, Oh, thank you, Lord, I dont have to eat! I catch myself and give myself a slap.
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0 1965-04-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And strangely, the story of Paradise would seem to be a mental distortion of what really happened. Of course, it all became ridiculous, and also with a tendency it gives you the feeling that a hostile will or an Asuric being tried to use that to make it the basis for a religion and to keep man under his thumb. But thats another matter.
But that spontaneous, natural, harmonious lifevery harmonious, extremely beautiful and luminous and easy! A harmonious rhythm in Nature. A luminous animality, in fact.
0 1965-04-28, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It may simply be the incomple teness, I mean the limitation of our vision, our perception: we see the details too much instead of seeing the whole. You know, I had a sudden feeling with the tension of the concentration: What is the physical perception of the totality of the physical world? What is the consciousness of the totality of the physical world? Isnt, for that consciousness, isnt all that we call death and life a phenomenon analogous to the phenomenon of decomposition, assimilation, transformation that takes place in every living being?
Its enough to leave you completely dazed!
0 1965-05-19, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it shouldnt be forgot ten that its constantly changing, it isnt a static best; its a best that, if retained, wouldnt be the best of the next moment. And its because the human consciousness always tends to want to retain statically what it finds or considers to be good that it finds this best always eludes it. That effort to retain is what warps things.
(silence)
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Thats why certain minds have postulated that the creation was the result of an error. But we find all the possible conceptions: the perfect creation, then a fault that introduced the error; the creation itself as a lower movement, which must end since it began; then the conception of the Vedas according to what Sri Aurobindo told us about it, which was a progressive and infinite unfolding or discoveryindefinite and infiniteof the All by Himself. Naturally, all these are human translations. For the moment, as long as we express ourselves humanly, its a human translation; but depending on the initial stand of the human translator (that is, a stand that accepts the primordial error, or the accident in the creation, or the conscious supreme Will since the beginning, in a progressive unfolding), the conclusions or the descents in the yogic attitude are different. There are the nihilists, the Nirvanists and the illusionists, there are all the religions (like Christianity) that accept the devils intervention in one form or another; and then pure Vedism, which is the Supremes eternal unfolding in a progressive objectification. And depending on your taste, you are here or there or here, and there are nuances. But according to what Sri Aurobindo felt to be the most total truth, according to that conception of a progressive universe, you are led to say that, every minute, what takes place is the best possible for the unfolding of the whole. The logic of it is absolute. And I think that all the contradictions can only stem from a more or less pronounced tendency for this or that position, that other position; all the minds that accept the intrusion of a fault or an error and the resulting conflict between forces pulling backward and forces pulling forward, can naturally dispute the possibility. But you are forced to say that for someone who is spiritually attuned to the supreme Will or the supreme Truth, what happens is necessarily, every instant, the best for his personal realizationthis is true in all cases. The unconditioned best can only be accepted by one who sees the universe as an unfolding, the Supreme growing more and more conscious of Himself.
(silence)
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To have them tested? Mon petit, you can see ten people, those ten people will tell you ten different things! The instability of the diagnosis is for me something absolutely certain. Because there arent two identical casesthere are analogies, there can even be families of cases, but there arent two identical cases; so in everyone there are variations. And unless the gentleman is very intuitive, he will start reasoning and then he is sure to make a mistake, or else to tell you some vaguenesses like you are nearsighted or you are farsighted (!) So much so that there arent two identical cases of cataract there are symptoms that repeat themselves and are very similar, with a very close analogy, but there arent two identical cases. And those who are truly sincere will tell you so, but there isnt one in a thousand! And they will make great speeches they will authoritatively announce something that they dont know.
(To Satprem:) Your brother wouldnt be happy if he heard me!
0 1965-05-29, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He has become more sober, he doesnt speak so much anymore. You know he had made a prediction about M.s wife? What was her name? (Names its something rather odd: when people have left their body, their name goes away, I can no longer remember itits cut off, there is a break; I have to stop and let a sort of material memory come back, but in my consciousness its cut off, there isnt any name anymore: the name has gone away along with the bodywhich is quite as it should be, of course.) He had told her, Oh, you will live another ten years.The next month, she left. So I think it threw some cold water on him, because obviously people attach a great importance to those things. At any rate, he shouldnt have told her, because it interrupted all my workall my work was to make her unite with her soul before she went, so that all that could be taken along in the spiritual life would be taken along. And I was working at it, but then when the other one told her she was going to live ten years, naturally she wasnt in a hurry anymore! I lost at least ten days because of that. And she left the day after the contact was madeshe found her soul, she became quiet, very quiet and the next day she was gone.
I havent lost hope that X might be progressive. If he is progressive, all will be well. Maybe in two or three years he will be a new man with a new consciousness? The stuff is good.
0 1965-06-05, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its put in a childlike way, but its so true and so simple! The more you see things in detail, the more you notice that ninety-nine times out of a hundred, even more than that, if you are tense or hurt, or pained or bothered, its simply because things arent exactly as you had told yourself they should bethis is for intelligent people; for less intelligent people, its a sort of desire: they want things to be that way (they feel it much more than they think it), and then when things happen in another way, oh, they get a shock. But if they had wanted it beforehand, it would have been a pleasureexactly the same occurrence. The occurrence would be exactly the same. If they had wanted it beforehand, they would have said, Ah, at last this has been realized, and just because they didnt think of it, because they didnt see it: Oh, how horrible! Almost everywhere and almost constantly thats how it is. I see it more and more in the small movement of every minute.
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0 1965-06-18 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Last night, for a long time, we went to all sorts of places unknown to me: towns, countrysides, forests, etc. It lasted a very long time. And once, we were there, near a forest (near a road that crossed the forest) and we were busy and talking when all of a sudden, he leaped to his feet. You know, he never wears any clothes, so to speak; when I saw him the first time in his house (his supramental house), in the subtle physical, he was without clothes; but its a kind of vibrant matter: its very material, very concrete, and it has a sort of color that isnt a color, which is a bit golden and radiantit doesnt send out rays, but it vibrates with a radiant light. And at least nine times out of ten he is that way; generally, when we are together for some work, he is that way. Last night he was that way. So then I was busy (we had arranged something and I was busy) when, suddenly, I see him leap to his feet and run a hundred-meter sprint. At first I was shocked, I said to myself, Whats this?! And with great ease, you know: he darted off, then stopped a few minutes, and then ran back. Then he stopped again, and went off a third time on a sprint: like the 100-meter race they run. But the third time, he had grown tall, with a slim body. Grown tall as if to demonstrate to me: this is the way the body will be transformed. He had grown very tall, very strong.
It was very interesting and absolutely unexpected.
0 1965-06-23, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The financial organization, for the moment, is looked after by N., because he is the one who receives the money through that Sri Aurobindo Society and who has bought the landsthere is already a good amount of land bought. Thats going well. Naturally the difficulty is to find enough money, but for example, for the pavilions, its each country that will meet the expenses for its pavilion; for the industries, its each industry that puts its money into the business; for the residents, each will give the money necessary for his land. And the government (Madras has already promised it to us) gives between 60% and 80% (partly a grant, which means its given, and partly a loan, free of interest and repayable over ten years, twenty years, forty yearsa long-term repayment). N. knows his way about,4 he has already got results. But depending on whether money comes in fast or only little by little, it will go faster or slower.
As regards the construction, it will depend on R.s plasticity. I am not concerned about the details at all, there is only that pavilion that I would like to be very pretty I see it. Because I saw it, I had a vision of it, so Ill try to make him understand what I saw. The park, too, I sawthose are old visions I had repeatedly. But thats not difficult.
0 1965-07-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, yes, its a disorder. But disorder is everywhere! If its any consolation to you, my body too is in disorder. It isnt clearly a disorder but an almost total lack of harmonyits the constant condition of life; its the result of effort, of resistance, of enduring, and also of that tension of being in search of something you hope to reach, but which always eludes you the something that eludes you is That, its that Harmony (a Harmony which, in its perfection, is Ananda, thats obvious). And the constant state is like that. In fact, thats what causes fatigue, tension and so on. Last night, I spent the whole night looking at that, and I was wondering, Why is that so? We are constantly in that state, straining after something that eludes us. And then the senses, the whole realm of the senses seems to be in a constantly false state, and they use that state of tension to give you the feeling that this is going wrong, that is going wrong, and this and that. And if by ill luck there is a vague hint of mental collaboration (from that famous physical mind), then things go awry, they become something really unpleasant.
But its not inescapable. Its not inescapable and its not realwhat I call real is something that comes from the supreme Will directly. That is true; the rest isnt true, its the product of all the confusion (zigzag gesture downward) and of all the disorder of the human consciousness illness isnt true. I dont think that one illness in a hundred (oh, maybe in a thousand) is true. Some are the expression of a Will for something wrong to be well shaken, demolished, so that, in that chaos, something truer may take form but thats an exceptional state.
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I can tell you that doctors mental distortions are frightful: they stick in your brain, remain there, and return after ten years. I know it from personal experience, it comes back all the time: The doctor said it was this, the doctor said it was that, the doctor said Not with words, but it comes.
But that doesnt matter, we can tackle the disorder from that angle and then see.
0 1965-07-17, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And this body still belongs almost entirely to the old creation. And its own tendency is to say, Oh, thats not nice! We have goodwill, and the more goodwill we have, the more is demanded from us. But these are very human notions, very human. The more goodwill we have, the more is asked of usnot because of some decision or other: spontaneously, quite naturally.
We speak of transformation, even of transfiguration, but there is the passage from the old movement to the new movement, from the old status to the new status, which is a break in equilibrium; and always, for what still belongs to the old creation, a dangerous break in equilibrium is what gives you the feeling that everything eludes you, that you have lost your foothold. And thats when you need unwavering faith. But a faith that isnt like mental faith, which is self-supporting: it is a faith in the sensation. And that (Mother shakes her head) is very difficult.
0 1965-07-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was dinner time; there had been (there always is) a fatigue, a tension, the need for more harmony in the atmosphere its becoming a little heavy going; and there I was, sitting, when all of a sudden, all this straigh tened up like a flame, oh, in a great in tensity, and then it was as if this body-mind, on behalf of the body (it was the body beginning to be mentalized), were saying a prayer (Mother looks for a note) And it very much has the sense of the oneness of Matter (this has been very strong for a long, long time, but its becoming very conscious: a sort of identity); so there was the sense of the totality of Matterterrestrial, human Matter, human Matter and it said:
I am tired of our unworthiness. But it is not to rest that this body aspires
0 1965-07-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To begin with, last time I told you that this physical mind is being transformed; and three or four days ago, that is, before our last conversation, early in the morning I woke up abruptly in the middle of a sort of vision and activity, precisely in this physical mind. Which isnt at all usual for me. I was here in this room, everything was exactly as it is physically, and someone (I think it was Champaklal) opened the door abruptly and said, Oh, I am bringing bad news. And I heard the sound physically, which means it was very close to the physical. He has fallen and broken his head. But it was as if he were speaking of my brother (who died quite a long time ago), and during the activity I said to myself, But my brother died long ago! And it caused a sort of tension (gesture to the temples) because Its a little complicated to explain. When Champaklal gave me the news, I was in my usual consciousness, in which I immediately thought, How come the Protection didnt act? And I was looking at that when a sort of faraway memory came that my brother was dead. Then I looked (its hard to explain with words, its complex). I looked into Champaklals thought to find out who he meant had fallen and broken his head. And I saw A.s face. And all that caused a tension (same gesture to the temples), so I woke up and looked. And I saw it was an experience in tended to make me clearly see that this material mind LOVES (loves, thats a way of speaking), loves catastrophes and attracts them, and even creates them, because it needs the shock of emotion to awaken its unconsciousness. All that is unconscious, all that is tamasic needs violent emotions to shake itself awake. And that need creates a sort of morbid attraction to or imagination of those thingsall the time it keeps imagining all possible catastrophes or opening the door to the bad suggestions of nasty little entities that in fact take pleasure in creating the possibility of catastrophes.
I saw that very clearly, it was part of the sadhana of this material mind. Then I offered it all to the Lord and stopped thinking about it. And when I received your letter, I thought, Its the same thing! The same thing, its a sort of unhealthy need this physical mind has to seek the violent shock of emotions and catastrophes to awaken its tamas. Only, in the case of A. breaking his head, I waited two days, thinking, Let us see if it happens to be true. But nothing happened, he didnt break his head! In your case, too, I thought, I am not budging till we get news, because it may be true (one case in a million), so I keep silent. But this morning I looked again and saw it was exactly the same thing: its the process of development to make us conscious of the wonderful working of this mind.
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And usually my nightly activities are never in the material, they are always in the subtle physical, its densest part, if I may say so. Maybe I havent even had in my life half a dozen visions with the material reality as it is: I saw the room as it is and heard the sound of Champaklals voice clearly. Then I understood it was this physical mind dreaming, having an activity, and that it was to show me that attraction You understand, the door opening abruptly, the man coming in and telling me (Mother takes on a tragic tone), I am bringing very bad news, and that tense atmosphere, and then, He has fallen down and broken his head. Then I tried to know who the he was, and little by little and so on.
With this sort of work to establish perfect equality, I never drive something away immediately, saying, No, thats not possible. One must be calm and collected in the face of all things. I was calm and collected, thinking, Let us see, let me wait for two days, and if he has really broken his head (laughing), Ill find out! Of course, nothing happened. And when I got your letter, I had the feeling it was the same thing, but I thought, Let us see, let us wait. I looked, and didnt see anything. Through your letter and your words I looked, but didnt see anything. And I had the feeling it was this same physical mind that made contact with a formationa malicious formation, because such is the habit of the physical mind.
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And you can catch yourself ten times a day.
Yes, yes, that state is almost constant.
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And what gave me an indication of the falsity of that consciousness and its activities was when I made that efforta tremendous effortto recall that my brother had died years earlier; from that I saw the distance between my true consciousness and the consciousness I was in for that dream. I saw the distance of falsity of that consciousness. It gave me a very clear indication. Instead of that quiet and peaceful consciousness which is like an undulationan undulation of light that always goes like this (gesture of great wings beating in the Infinite), a very vast, very peaceful movement of the consciousness, yet which follows the universal movement very quietlyinstead of that, there was something strained (gesture to the temples), it was as hard as wood or iron and strained, tense, oh! Then I knew how false it was. It gave me the exact measure.
(long silence)
0 1965-08-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It followed a long curve. It began with a deep disgust for its [the material minds] habitual activity; I started catching (not now: its been going on for weeks), catching all its routine and almost automatic activities I have said it several times: this material mind is defeatist, always pessimistic, meddlesome, grumbling, disgruntled, lacking in faith, lacking in trust. Even when it tends to be joyful and con tent, something comes and says, Ah, stop it, because youll get another knock. That sort of thing. It went on for weeks, and a continuous, constant work. It always ended in the offering. There was a beginning of progress when No, first I should tell all that happened before. To begin with, the japa, the mantra, for instance, was taken as a discipline; then from the state of discipline it changed into a state of satisfaction (but still with the sense of a duty to be done); then from that it changed into a sort of state of constant satisfaction, with the desire (not desire, but a will or an aspiration) for it to be more frequent, more constant, more exclusive. Then there was a sort of repugnance to and rejection of all that comes and disturbs, mixed with a sense of duty towards work, people and so on, and all that made a muddle and a great confusion. And it always ended in the transfer to the Supreme along with the aspiration for things to change. A long process of development.
Recently there was a sort of will for equality towards activities that had been tolerated or accepted only as an effect of the consecration and in obedience to the supreme Will. And then, all of a sudden they became something very positive, with a sense of freedom and a spontaneity of state, and a beginning of understanding of the attitude with which the action must be done. All this came very, very progressively. And then this morning, there was the experience.
0 1965-08-14, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It must have been a great punishment I dont know who punished me! (Laughing) Probably myself, because I have put too much strain on my eyes. But the work takes me at least ten times longer.
(silence)
0 1965-08-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It appears that in 1958 we said one thing and that this time we said another, so they ask me which is correct. Its about Sri Aurobindos atmosphere which I felt at sea. So in 1958 (I probably remembered more precisely then) I said ten nautical miles (I remember having asked on the ship, just so I would know), and it appears that this time I said two miles. So they tell me
What does it matter!
0 1965-09-08, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
How many times, how many times have I seen that he had writ ten down my experiences. Because for years and years I didnt read Sri Aurobindos books; it was only before coming here that I had read The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, and another one, too. For instance, Essays on the Gita I had never read, Savitri I had never read, I read it very recently (that is to say, some ten years ago, in 1954 or 55). The book Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother I had never read, and when I read it, I realized what he wrote to people about me I had no idea, he had never told me anything about it! You see, there are lots of things that I had said while speaking to people that I had said just like that, because they came (gesture from above) and I would say them and I realized he had writ ten them. So, naturally, I appeared to be simply repeating what he had writ ten but I had never read it! And now, its the same thing: I had read this passage from Savitri, but hadnt noticed itbecause I hadnt had the experience. But now that I have had the experience, I see that he tells it.
Its quite interesting.
0 1965-09-11, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What I felt strongly was that something had to erupt: it was too absurdly tense and devoid of truth.
I dont know if I told you that the day before it was known that it had really become a sort of war, the night before that, I had an experience that has occurred to me only two or three times in my life, always in similar circumstances. This time, I wasnt expecting anything, and in the night, there was in the TERRESTRIAL atmosphere, with a concentration on India, a sort of something I might call a pressure of the Supreme. Its as if the Supremes Consciousness were exerting a pressure, and it produces a certain type of stillness with a solidity and a consis tency not found anywhere else. You know, its even more solid and substantial than the most inert inertia. And its the pressure of the Supreme Power. Its almost intolerable or unbearable for Matter, for material substance. And it goes like this (gesture of massive descent), absolutely impossible to budge, and at the same time you feel its the Supreme Power. Well, it lasted for hours that night, and I was extremely at tentive in order to know what it meant. And the next day, I was told things had all of a sudden broken out like a war: all that friction that had been there for years had suddenly taken that form.
0 1965-09-15a, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And an indication. The place where I was was very large (larger than a house), and I went about: I tried to rest somewhere, but the noise and din was so dreadful that it was impossible, so I got up. There were three people, two of whom have a body and the third doesnt have a body (I know them), and they werent at the same place. The first person was with me, where I wanted to rest, but I said, Its impossible, so I left that place and went to the other end, and there I found the person who doesnt have a body, watching in tensely through those glass walls, like that, quite tense (which would tend to prove that it is also taking place in the subtle physical, or even in the most material vital). Oh, no one can ever imagine that. There, I watched for a while, then I left to go back to the place where I was resting (with a slight inner work, saying to myself, Its all right, I will still find the way to get some rest). And on my way, I saw someone (N., not to name him) who was standing in a sort of corridor (but not narrow: a wide corridor), also watching in tensely.
The hurricane didnt quite have the same color (how can I explain this?) in the large place where the person without a body was, and there, in that corridor; in the first place, it was very red, as if all the leaves were red, the trees were red (there were other colors, but red was the dominant color), while in the corridor, the color was muddier. But it was so strong! So strong that it was hard to get out of it.
0 1965-09-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was in fact in the body a struggle between the two tendencies: one that was by habit subject to the old movement, and one that was trying to drop that habit, with the perception of the new way. It was it was extremely painful, difficult and absolutely grotesque all at once. And then, this body found itself to be a sort of battlefield, and that wasnt pleasant.
And the body consciousness (which is now taking form more and more clearly), even the one that is subject to the old habit, is conscious of the divine exis tence, I might say (the exis tence of the Divine and almost the divine exis tence), but it still has a sense of helplessness, and also, within that helplessness, of a complete surrender to the divine Will: If we arent ready, it will be like that [= the dissolution]. And there is a part that feels ready, that understands and knows how things must be and wants them that way, and the two clash. Its not that one is for the Divine and the other against, nothing of all that old business is there any longer: there is the complete acceptance of the Divine, but the sensation of not being ready the sensation that the world isnt ready (it wasnt at all an individual affair, not at all, it was a terrestrial consciousness).
0 1965-10-30, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
ten months. After ten months, I play much better, because when I play of ten I remember what I have played before, so thats no longer it. Its not at all a question of practicing: its a question of the hands not being afraid. Thats all. As soon as the hands become conscious, it no longer works.
And then, what I hear has a purity thats not there. Its very interesting. And curiously, when I told you I would play, I thought I wouldnt be able to, and the next day there came, oh, a cascade of music, for a long, long time. I said to myself, Very well, since it comes, I will see.
0 1965-11-03, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Today, for instance, my in tention was to have finished by ten clock and to see you quietly, then to go to the music room; I even expressed my in tention, but nothing doing! Its not bad will, its a sort of coalition of circumstances.
They leave later and later each time.1
0 1965-11-23, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Why? Are there lots of people who tend to pull?
People are in a hurry, they want to see results right away.
0 1965-11-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And it brings a great sense of rest. tension, friction, all that disappearsimpatience, too. All that had completely disappeared.
In other words, youre concentrating the work instead of diffusing it everywhere?
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There are lots of things like that. Since the 24th [the darshan day] I have been living in this new consciousness and have seen the picture of a lot of things. There are even experiences I had gone through which Ive understood now. Like for instance when I fasted for ten days (completely, without even a drop of water), without a thought for food (I didnt have time to eat), and it wasnt a struggle: it was a decision. And at that time there was a faculty in me which developed little by little, and when for example I breathed in flowers, it was nourishing. I saw it: you get nourished in a subtler way.
Only, the body isnt ready. The body isnt ready and it deteriorates, which means that it eats itself up. So that shows that the time hadnt come and it was just an experimentan experiment which teaches you something, which teaches you that there mustnt be a blunt refusal to come in contact with the corresponding matter, there mustnt be isolation (you cant isolate yourself, thats impossible), but a communion on a higher or deeper level.
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There is a sort of instinct which wants everything to be in agreement with the experience one has. But that is a tendency to uniformity, the Supremes uniform oneness, which is the nonmanifest Supreme, eternally unchanging, in opposition to the innumerable multiplicity of all the expressions of that Oneness; and instinctively there is always a recoil (gesture) towards the Nonmanifest, instead of (Mother opens her two hands) an acceptance of the manifestation in its totality. Its very interesting.
And its the first effect of the return to the Origin.
0 1965-12-01, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
tenderness
Signed: Mother
0 1965-12-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Truly, even materially and even in the present state of the world, nothing is impossible. All that is needed is the Lords Sanction (sanction in the English sense of the word). And it was He who wanted it, it was He who willed it. I, who cant remain standing for more than ten minutes without my head whirling, stayed there half an hour MOTIONLESS: I didnt feel anything, I was quite beyond all karmas! It took half an hour for everything to come to a stop, and it was clearly a momentary effect, meaning that it could have lasted one hour, two hours, I dont know, but with the inner vibrations of his being (lack of faith and so on) it could only be momentary.
But it happened. And it wasnt through an imposition: it was through a relaxation, with the Force descending like a mass, brrf! Tremendous, mon petit! Two or three times there was a loosening [in the doctor], then it resumed: it was as if driven out of the brain, and it came back into the brain; I drove it out and back it came. And the last time, there was a relaxation. Then I said, Thank You, Lord, I thank You.
0 1965-12-30, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
With all my tenderness
Signed: Mother
0 1965-12-31, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know. It always revolves around this problem of vision. If I had a beautiful vision from time to time Oncelook, once, in Ceylon (it was the only time in my life), I heard Music, it was marvelous, it was truly divine. Well, to me, thats a sign (it happened once in my life), I say to myself, Oh, good, Im not far, theres something. To me thats a sign. Or if I see a beautiful light or Then I am encouraged, I think, All right, its going well. I can descend into hell after that. After that I may do all sorts of absurd things, but I tell myself, At least I know I am moving towards that. Well, no! You see, it happens once in ten years. Of course, the vital seizes on it and turns it into dissatisfaction, but otherwise, in my normal reason, I simply say, Whats going on? I dont know. I am nowhere, I am waiting.
But so am I, mon petit, I am waiting I am millions of years old and I am waiting.
0 1966-01-22, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The tendency is to say that it takes much more time and is more difficult because you are surrounded with people and you act in the world, but if you werent in those conditions, a lot of things would be overlooked, a lot. A lot of things would remain undone. There are all kinds of vibrations that arent in affinity with this aggregate [Mothers cellular aggregate] and that would never have had an opportunity to touch the transforming Force if I werent in contact with all the people.
It is perfectly obviousperfectly obvious that one is put in the best conditions and with the maximum of possibilities for action when one wants it sincerely.
0 1966-01-31, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Satprem's letters to Mother having disappeared, he does not remember what caused the "sadness" Mother refers to here, probably certain ways of being in life that he found hard to accept, or perhaps his own incapacity to tolerate life in the world as is it and his tendency to dart off to the heightsunless it was the abyss. Satprem then asked Mother if he should not start writing a new book, "The Sannyasin," in which he would attempt to exorcize a certain refusal of life as it is.)
Tell me, why do you feel sad?
0 1966-03-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One would tend to say that its not a gain from the standpoint of consciousness, since things become blurred. I dont know, is that way of being a gain?
It can only be a transition. Its a transitory mode.
0 1966-03-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is true that up till now, the government has multiplied blunders of such stupidity! It seems a child with common sense wouldnt have committed such blunders. And naturally, even in those who have no bad will or vengeful feelings, it creates an unpleasant tension: you cant do anything anymore, youre bound on all sides! Whatever you do, there are oppositions and prohibitions everywhere. So people no longer know what to do, nobody can do anything anymore.
They have ruined the country, starved it.
0 1966-03-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And if you look at it from the wrong side, it1 is a tension, its like something that doesnt leave you a seconds respite. And its true, it doesnt allow you to fall asleep one minute; because in the ordinary consciousness, in the general ordinary life, rest means tamas. Rest means falling back into Inertia. So then, instead of a rest that benefits you, its a rest that stupefies you and then you have to make effort once more to recapture the consciousness you have lost. Thats how the vast majority of people sleep. But now, the lesson is different: when I lie down to rest my body and work without moving (work with an activity that doesnt force the body to move), as soon as there is the slightest not exactly fall, but the slightest descent towards the Inconscient, something in the body immediately gives a startinstantly. It has been like that for a long time, two years, but now its instantaneous, and it very rarely happens there is true rest, which is an expansion and immensity of the being in full Light. Its magnificent.
But during the day, there are perpetual lessons, all the time, all the time, for everything, all the time. The lesson is least pronounced when I have to write something or see people; but there, too, the exact quality of peoples vibration (not their permanent vibration but the vibration in them at that minute), the quality of their consciousness is immediately made known to me through certain reactions in my body (gesture on different levels of the body). The nerves began only a few months ago their work of transfer of power. (What I call transfer of power is that instead of the nerves being moved by and obeying complex and organized forces of Nature, of the character, of the material consciousness in the body, they attune themselves to and directly obey the divine Will.) Its the transfer from one to the other thats difficult: there is the entire old habit, and then the new habit to be formed. It was a rather difficult moment. But now there remain enough old vibrations to be able to gauge exactly (and this has nothing to do with thought, it isnt expressed in words or thoughts or anything like all that: just vibrations), to know exactly the state people near me are in. From that point of view the lesson is going on, its very interesting. And whats wonderful is that more of ten than not the most receptive vibration, conforming the most to what it should be, is in children, but the very small ones, the tiny tots. I see lots of people, but now I understand why: I learn enormously that way, through that contact (with people whom I dont know, sometimes whom I see for the first time, or whom I havent seen for years). Its very interesting.
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Mon petit, I dont know what comparison I should use, but I am certain there are some things that are invisible this way (Mother rotates her wrist in one direction), and visible that way (gesture in the other direction). My impression is that what we see as a considerable difference between the tangible, the material, and the invisible or the fluid, is only a change of position. Perhaps an internal change of position because it isnt a physical, material change of position, but it is a change of position. Because I have experienced this I dont know how many times, hundreds of times: like this (gesture in one direction), everything is what we call natural, as we are used to seeing it, then all of a sudden, like that (gesture in the other direction), the nature of things changes. And nothing has happened, except something within, something in the consciousness: a change of position. Do you remember that aphorism in which Sri Aurobindo says that everything depends on a change in the relation of the sun-consciousness and the earth-consciousness?2 When I read it the first time, I didnt understand, I thought it was something in the very subtle realms; and then, very recently, in one of those experiences, I suddenly understood, I said, But thats it! It isnt a shift since nothing moves, yet it is shift, it is a change of relation. A change of position. Its no more tangible than that, thats what is so wonderful! Oh, the other day, I found another sen tence of Sri Aurobindos: Now everything is different, yet everything has remained the same. (It was on one of my birthday cards.) I read that and said to myself, Oh, thats what it means! Its true, now everything is different, yet everything has remained the same. We understand it psychologically, but its not psychological: its HERE (Mother touches matter). But until one has a solid base From the standpoint of concrete, physical, material things, I dont think theres anyone more materialistic than I was, with all the practical common sense and positivism; and now I understand why it was like that: it gave my body a marvelous base of equilibrium. It prevented me from having the very sort of madness we were talking about earlier.3 The explanations I asked for were always material, I always sought the material explanation, and it seemed obvious to me theres no need of any mystery, nothing of the sortyou just explain things materially. Therefore I am certain this isnt a tendency to mystic dreaming in me, not at all, not at all, this body had nothing mystic! Nothing Thank God!
I saw that (not in my head, because for me there are no such limits), in this sort of conglomerate, here: the nearest explanation is a shifta shift, the angle of perception becoming different. And its not really that, words are incorrect, because its far more subtle and at the same time far more complete than that. I have watched the change several times; well, this change gives you, to the outward consciousness, the sense of a shift. A motionless shift, meaning that you dont change places. And its not, as we might be tempted to think, a drawing within and a drawing without, its not that at all, not at allits an angle of perception that changes. You are in a certain angle, then you are in another. I have seen small objects of that sort for the amusement of children: when those objects are in a certain position, they look compact and hard and black, and when you turn them another way, they are clear, luminous, transparent. Its something like that, but its not that, thats an approximation.
0 1966-04-13, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But for this book, we meet in quite a new place, mon petit, quite new, and then so wonderful! Its a wonderful place that has nothing of the necessities and compulsions of this earth here. It is so luminous, so new, and so precise at the same time, so exact. Last night, it was in shades from a certain silver blue to pearl gray, and it had such precise forms, but at the same time with nothing of the hardness and commonplace quality of earthly things. And we were working so simply, effortlessly. I get up every day at the same time, half past four; well, for the second time (I told you the other day), instead of half past four it was ten to five. And I came from exactly the same place. And since that is the time when you are sleeping, it seems to me it must necessarily be getting in, no? When one is awake, it may not touch, but here And then, there is a thoroughly conscious part of you there. So what prevents you from being influenced by that must be a whole layer of old things.
Yes, the whole old form of the book is there.
0 1966-05-14, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The other day I had an extraordinary experience, in which all the pessimistic arguments, all the negations and denials came from all sides, represented by everybody. And then, those who believed in the presence of a God or something something more powerful than they and ruling the worldwere in a fury, a dreadful revolt: But I want none of him! But he spoils all our life, he It was a dreadful revolt, from every side, a truckload of abuse for the Divine with such force of asuric reaction from every side. So I sat there (as if Mother sat in the middle of the mle), watching: What can be done? You know, it was impossible to answer, impossible, there wasnt one argument, not one idea, not one theory, not one belief, nothing, nothing whatsoever that could answer it. For the space of a second, the impression was: its hopeless. Then, all of a sudden all of a sudden Its indescribable (gesture of absolute abandon). There was that violence of revolt against things as they are, and, mixed with it, there was: Let this world disappear, let nothing remain, let it not exist! All that, which at bottom is a revolt, all that nihilist revolt: let nothing remain, let everything cease to exist. It reached a height of tension, and just at the height of tension, when you felt there was no solution, suddenly surrender. But something stronger than surrenderit wasnt abdication, it wasnt self-giving, it wasnt acceptance, it was something much more radical, and at the same time much sweeter. I cant say what it was. It had the joy and flavor of giving, but with such a sense of plenitude! Like a dazzling flash, you know, suddenly like that: the very essence of surrender, the True Thing.
It was it was so powerful and marvelous, such sublime joy that the body started quivering for a second. Afterwards it was gone.
0 1966-06-02, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So then, the result (laughing) is that the body is a little better! It no longer feels that tension so much. But it has been advised to be very peaceful, very peaceful, above all no excitement, no joy as one usually has it (the vital joy that is aware of itself and expresses itself), not that, nothing of all that: very peaceful, very peaceful. Its something so pure, oh! So translucent, transparent, light.
Its the first time I have felt this physically. Meaning its the first time these cells have had this experience.
You see, previously, they always felt the Lords support in the power and the force, they felt they existed because of Him, they existed through Him, they existed in Him; they used to feel all that. But to be capable of feeling it, they had to have enduranceabsolute enduranceto endure everything. Now its not that; its not that, there is something that smiles, but smiles so sweetly, so sweetly, and is, oh, extraordinarily amused, behind it all, and its light, light, so lightall the weight of that tension has disappeared.
And its the result of that awesome flow: a flow that carried the cells along; it wasnt that the cells were immobile and it was flowing through them: they were IN the movement, they were moving with that same velocitya fantastic velocity with a dazzling luminosity and unimaginable speed, felt materially, like that. It was beyond all possibility of ordinary sensation. It lasted for hours.
0 1966-06-25, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sometimes, depending on the activities one has had, the kind of life one has lived, there are intermediary parts (Mother draws a narrow strip) that remain undeveloped, so they act as a sort of padding: the consciousness doesnt go through. I also had one like that; but as soon as I met Thon, he told me. He told me, Your (Mother tries to remember) nervous subdegree (I think), between the vital and the physical, isnt developed. Theres a padding, the consciousness doesnt go through. So for six or ten months I worked carefully to develop itno result. Then I left (perhaps Ive already told you the story), I left for the countryside. One day, I stretched out on the grass, and all of a sudden, prrt! it came from everywhere, the consciousness had awakened. And indeed the way was blocked: there were lots of things that I never received because of that. But its a long work.
What could I do for that?
0 1966-07-27, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, it has made me understand something, but its something very (how can I put it?), very intimate. When Sri Aurobindo left, I knew I had to cut the link with the psychic being, otherwise I would have gone with him; and as I had promised him I would stay on and do the work, I had to do that: I literally closed the door on the psychic and said, For the moment this doesnt exist anymore. It remained like that for ten years. After ten years, it slowly, slowly began to open againit was frigh tening. But I was ready. It began to open again. But then, that experience surprised me when I had it; I wondered why it had been like that, why I had received that comm and and had to do it. And when there was in the body that identification with divine Love [a few days ago], after that had left, the cells were ordered to undergo a similar phenomenon [to what happened after Sri Aurobindos departure]. And I understood why the whole material world is closed: its to allow it to exist WITHOUT the experience [of divine Love]. Naturally, I had understood why I was made to close off my psychic, because because it was truly impossible, I couldnt go on existing outwardly without Sri Aurobindos presence. Well then, the cells have understood that they must go on existing and living their life without the presence of divine Love. And thats how it took place in the world: it was a necessary phenomenon for the formation and development of the material world.
But were perhaps nearing We are nearing the time when it will be allowed to open again.
0 1966-08-03, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When the mind is active, or rather, as long as the mind is active, when you have dedicated your life and are fully convinced that its your only raison dtre, you tend to imagine that if you work for the Divine, the whole being participates, and if you aspire to progress, the whole being participates. You are satisfied once all contradiction has disappeared either in the vital or in the mind, and once everything is in agreement and harmonious. You think you have won a victory. But then, now now that its the cells of the body that want and aspire, they have been forced to note that suffering, difficulty, opposition, complication, all that is only to make them be wholly, completely, totally and CONSTANTLY in their aspiration.
Its extremely interesting, really very interesting.
0 1966-09-07, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One crore = ten millions.
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0 1966-09-21, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, its RIGHT NOW, right now. The force of propagation is far greater, its out of proportion to the transmitting center [Mother], which, on a world scale, is so to say unknown and almost nonexis tent. But the center, the power of radiation and propagation is out of proportion, its rather remarkable: the response [to Auroville] is everywhere, everywhere; a response from new Africa, a response in France, a response in Russia, a response in America, a response in Canada, and a response in numerous countries, in Italy everywhere, everywhere. And not just individuals: groups, tendencies, movements, even in governments.
Whats proving to be the most refractory (and the irony of it is wonderful) is the United Nations! Those people are outdated, oh! They havent yet gone beyond the materialistic, antireligious movement, and they made a derogatory remark about the Auroville brochure, saying it was mystic, with religious tendency. The irony is lovely!
Besides, even quite outwardly, that fight between India and Pakistan1 was clearly (how can I put it? The words that come to me are English) initiated and driven, that is to say, set in motion by and under the impulsion of the forces of Truth that wanted to create a great Asian Federation with the power to counterbalance Red China and its movement. It was a federation that, as a matter of fact, needed the return of Pakistan and all those regions, and which includes Nepal, Tibet, also Burma, and in the south, Ceylon. A great federation with each country having its autonomous development, perfectly free, but which would be united in a common single aspiration for peace and fight against the invasion of forces of dissolution. That was very clear, it was willed and its the intervention of this United Nations that stopped everything.2
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Unfortunately, following the present tendencies, for Auroville they are trying to get UNESCOS support (!) I, of course, knew beforeh and that those [UNESCO] people couldnt understand, but they are trying. Because everywhere people (its a sort of superstition), everywhere people say, No, Ill open my purse strings only with UNESCOs approval and encouragement I am talking about those whose contri bution matters, lots of people, so
Only, to me, all this is the crust, the quite superficial experience the crust; and things have to happen underneath, beneath that crust. Its just an appearance.
0 1966-09-28, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This has become a certitude because the aspiration has been born in all these cells, and its growing more and more in tense and is surprised at the resistance. But they have observed that when something is upset in the functioning (which means that instead of being supple, spontaneous, natural, the functioning becomes a painful effort, a struggle with something that takes on the appearance of a bad will but is only a reluctance devoid of understanding), at such times the in tensity of the aspiration, of the call, grows tenfold: it becomes constant. The difficulty is to keep up this state of in tensity; generally it all falls back into, I cant say drowsiness, but its a sort of slackening: you take things easy. And its only when the inner disorder becomes hard to bear that the in tensity grows and becomes permanent. For hourshourswithout flagging, the call, the aspiration, the will to unite with the Divine, to become the Divine, is kept up at its peakwhy? Because there was whats outwardly called a physical disorder, a suffering. Otherwise, when there isnt any suffering, there is now and then an upsurge, then it flags and falls back; then at some other time, another upsurge It never ends! It lasts for eternities. If we want things to go fast (fast relatively to the rhythm of our lives), the whiplash is necessary. I am convinced of this, because as soon as you are in your inner being, you treat this with contempt (for yourself).
But then, when that true Compassion of divine Love comes and you see all those things that look so horrible, so abnormal, so absurd, that great pain over all beings and even over things Then there was born in this physical being the aspiration to relieve, to cure, to make all that disappear. There is something in Love in its Origin that is constantly expressed by the intervention of the Grace; a force, a sweetness, something like a vibration of solace, spread everywhere, but which an enligh tened consciousness can direct, concentrate on certain points. And thats just where I saw the true use one could make of thought: thought is used as a channel to carry the vibration from place to place, wherever its necessary. This force, this vibration of sweetness is there over the world in a static way, pressing to be received, but its an impersonal action, and though tenligh tened thought, surrendered thought, the thought that is nothing more than an instrument, that no longer tries to set things in motion, that is satisfied with being moved by the higher Consciousness thought is used as an intermediary to make contact, to build a connection and allow this impersonal Force to act wherever its necessary, on precise points.
0 1966-09-30, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Multiply a thousand times what very small children feel. (I am talking about those who are exclusively physical, human beings, not those who are reincarnations.) When they are purely physical beings, they cant approach me, mon petit! They start crying and trembling! Yet I love them and welcome them with all my tenderness and as much calm as possible they start trembling and then get frigh tened, its too strong. With those who carry something else in themselves, the reincarnations, its different: they open out, they are happy; but when theres nothing but this, that is, the external substance Ive seen adults come (I did the experiment: I charge the atmosphere, the Lord is present), well, Ive seen forty-year-old men enter that and brrt! literally run away, disregarding all social courtesy, and after having ASKED to come, you understand! Anyway everything was there to allow them to behave decentlyimpossible, they couldnt.
But even in my case, having the experience of you, knowing you well, at times its fearsome.
0 1966-10-05, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The spirit of organization, maybe not quite on an ordinary level but on a human one (maybe not just human, but anyway), the spirit of organization likes to have everything in front of it like a picture, and then to make plans, to organize, see: this comes here, that comes there. All that is useless. We must learn to live from minute to minute, like that. Its much more comfortable. And what prevents things from being so is (I think) that its exactly contrary to the reasonable human mind, and that everyone around me expects me to make plans and decisions and So there is a pressure; I think thats it. Otherwise, it would naturally and spontaneously be like that: the miracle every minute. My tendency is always to say, Oh, dont worry! The more you worry, the more difficult you make thingsdont bother, dont bother. But they stare at me with a kind of horror (Mother laughs): I dont plan ahead, you see.
Thats my little storymy little miracle. It was as though to tell me, Oh, youd like to see a miracle?Here it is, ready-made! (Mother laughs) Its a good lesson.
0 1966-10-22, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Quarter past ten. Youll quietly open the door and come in. I at least will have great fun!
Because personally I have tried everything, without any result. When I tell them, Time is up with all the authority at my command, they tell me, Yes. Thats all it means to them!
0 1966-11-15, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember, it happened several times. And my impression was that when I was tranquil, something (which wasnt human at all) was there, quietly acting through me (I wasnt even occupied with it) and doing it. That was my very clear impression. I even did some experiments at that time. For instance, once, in a bus, there was a man who was tense and weeping; you could see he was utterly wretched. Then without stirring, unnoticed, I saw that Force going out towards that man, and little by little, his face relaxed, everything calmed down, he grew quiet. This also happened several times. And thats how I knew Because at the time I wasnt very well informed yet; I always felt the Power up above, but didnt know what it wasthere was a Force that would come like that and act quietly. Its the same thing now, but fully conscious. Its the same thing: something that takes hold of the body. The body participates (meaning that it doesnt at all feel its acting, it almost doesnt feel itself), its only aware of a oh, so warm, so sweet a vibration, and at the same time so ter-ri-bly powerful! It comes like that, and the body doesnt need to want or try or anything: it doesnt think, doesnt strive, doesnt stir (Mother makes a gesture of bathing wholly in the Lord): its spontaneous and natural.
Sometimes, when its tired or something isnt quite all right or (that always comes from a contact with outside; afterwards I see, I know what the cause was, but while its happening there is simply a discomfort or a disorganization), then, oh, its exactly like a childs trusting abandon in something which is everywhere, around it, inside it, there, like this (enveloping gesture). And the bodys aspiration is just, May That alone exist. All the rest oof! its nothing at all, a nuisance. May That alone exist. If That alone existed, what a marvelous world this would be!
0 1966-11-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its true tenderness: that of the Divine. People dont know, they always think of something very human. But its not human (Mother closes her eyes and remains standing in concentration) Its extremely luminous, rose-colored, slightly golden always smiling. Its a very particular sensation. (After a long silence) Everything is like a beautiful pink rosea beautiful rose. Its better than that, much better (how can I put it?). No difficulties can existthey dont exist [when one is in that tenderness]. Its the side of life (of life, I mean of the manifestation) which is all beauty, smile, peace and lightspontaneously, effortlessly, with an impossibility for anything else to exist. Its very particular. And its very high up, very high up. Yet, now and then I see a drop of it here. The first time I saw it (Mother wobbles on her feet). I must sit down because Im going away!
(Mother sits down and resumes) It can only be realized in a world devoid of egoism. Which means that when the whole action of individualization is over and there is no more need for the element of egoism, then it will be possible for that to be fully manifested.
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Yesterday, lots and lots of things kept coming in that way while I was walking in the afternoon. Then I stayed quiet, still, for five or ten minutes after the walk as usual, and more kept coming and coming. So I said to the Lord, Cant I have five minutes of peace and quiet with You! (Mother laughs) If you knew this atmosphere, this light of laughter, and such a wonderful laughterso wonderfully merciful, in fact, and understanding and tender, oh! So I said to myself, Really, what an imbecile I am!
Its becoming a really interesting life.
0 1966-11-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
No, there is an insis tence (the same insis tence as this Gentlemans, at any rate) on the impossibility of the thing, and it gives such obvious proof. Naturally, the inside doesnt budge, it smilesit doesnt budge but the body that gives it terrible tension. Because its very conscious of its infirmity (it cant boast of being transformed), very conscious that its millions of miles away from transformation. So so it doesnt take much to convince it. Whats more difficult is to give it the certitude that things will be different. It doesnt even understand very well how they can be different. Then there come all other beliefs, all other so-called revelations, the heavens and so on. The whole of Christianity and Islam have very easily solved the problem: Oh, no, things here will never be fine, but over there they can be perfect. That goes without saying. Then there is the whole of Nirvanism and Buddhism: The world is an error that must disappear. So it all comes in waves, and the body feels very you understand, it would like to have a certitude of its possibility. That doesnt of ten happen to it. But the attack was too strong; it was from everything and everywhere at the same time, so strong: This Matter CANNOT be transformed. So it fought and fought and fought, and suddenly it was obliged to lie down. But as soon as it lies down and abandons itself completely, there is Peace, and such a strong Peaceso strong, so powerful. Then its fine.
It came with hosts of suggestions (they arent suggestions: they are formations), adverse formations of disorganization; like, for instance the one C. [one of Mothers at tendants, who has just fallen ill] received. I was warned two days beforeh and and tried my best: I couldnt I couldnt, he gave way. So now its dragging on and on (the doctor himself says theres no reason for it to last so long), its dragging on because he gave way. So all that must be slowly won back. And it comes to everyone, to every circumstancenot to me, never to me because it has no effect on me: if the suggestion comes, I say, So what! I dont care. So it doesnt try, its useless. But it comes to everyone, to disorganize everything and everyone, one after another. This morning, it was everybody at the same time, a complete disorganization of everything. I resisted and resisted and resisted, then suddenly something (Mother makes a gesture). So the body said, All right.
0 1967-01-04, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
She is tense about life (Mother clenches her two fists and stiffens): its something to keep an eye on and to be wary of! So if she could After all, its such a great thing when you can say, Oh, I can have trust, there REALLY is something concrete which is a Grace, I can have trust.
That would be a great progress.
0 1967-01-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Of ten the thought alone comes, but very of ten its words, I hear the words; and then, while speaking in French I tend to use the English words. While I take my bath, for instance, he always speaks to me and tells me the things I have to write or say; so afterwards, when I get out of my bath, I very of ten have to ask for a piece of paper and a pen, and I write.
Its constantly, constantly like that.
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That would amount to saying that falling ill (from falling ill to dying), is the incapacity to maintain the necessary tension to go from one state to another without falling back again, without the slackening of unconsciousness. Illness is always a lapse into unconsciousness through the incapacity to sustain the movement of transformation. And death is the same thing the same thing, somewhat more total.
In Bengal, a film on Sri Aurobindo's "political life."
0 1967-02-18, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is obviously in Nature a tendency to want a slow transformation from what was habitually regarded as good (expressive, good, harmonious) to the new Thing. And I was observing the ex tent to which there is attachment: the attachment of habit, something very spontaneous and uncalculating. Then recently (yesterday), I had an amusing example.
Do you know little S.?1 Have you ever spoken to her? Ive heard she beats sixteen-and seventeen-year-old boys at logic and new mathematics. I saw her today. She is obviously quite remarkably intelligent. And yesterday was her birthday. You know that Y. (her adoptive mother) has gone into hospital; and when she went she asked me to send something to Thoth every day (you know who Thoth2 is dont you?), because it seems that whenever he receives something from me, he is quite calm for two hours. Very well. So I sent something the first day (that was yesterday). And yesterday was little S.s birthday. I thought that rather than for her to fetch from the secretary the fruit I give for Thoth, it would be better if she came to see me at ten and Id give her her card and her bouquet of flowers at the same time. But then, everything is disorganized and not very efficient: she wasnt informed. When she came it was too late because it was 10:30 or 11 while I had said before ten. So she wrote me a letter. I saw the girl today, she is really very intelligent, no doubt about that, and here is her letter. (Note that when she came to live with Y., she knew French because she had learned it with the Sistersshe was a pupil at the Mission some three years agoand for three years Y. has been giving her French lessons.) So here is the childs letter:
(translation)
0 1967-02-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We may say that all experiences tend towards a single revelation that consciousness alone exists. And that it is the decision or choice (the words are inaccurate), a decision of the consciousness that creates the formall forms, from the most subtle to the most material ones; and the material world, the apparent fixity of the material world results from a distortion or a darkening of the consciousness, which has lost the sense of its all-powerfulness.
This distortion has been still more pronounced since the advent of the mind, which in its working, has taken the place of consciousness so much that it has substituted itself for consciousness as it were, and to the ex tent that the mind, in its ordinary working, cannot be distinguished from consciousness it doesnt know what consciousness is, and so (Mother makes a gesture expressing a shrinking or hardening).
0 1967-04-13, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
tenderness
Signed: Mother
0 1967-04-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As for me, I understood that you could already give the child ideas, aspirations, tendencies (I didnt know how that was possible), but she doesnt say anything leading to that.
Theres only one thing, she says somewhere that during the first few weeks, for the child the separation is painful, and so the physical contact is necessary the touch the contact with the skin to give the child the taste of life and the understanding of physical life.1 Thats possible. But nowadays doctors say, The last thing you should do is touch your childput it in a cradle. You should not touch it because that will deform it. It runs quite counter to her theories. Of course, she may be right to a certain ex tent, its possible. But anyway, its a very small detail, its nothing. I expected a lot and have been somewhat disappointed.
0 1967-04-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On the immense mass, the mass still plunged in Ignorance, it creates a sort of excitement that tends to become unhealthy. Those who are settled in a certain equilibrium protest; I have of ten heard them say, But we arent in a hurry, things are all right as they are! Why do you want to change them so fast, that will happen in its own time! Thats the attitude of those who have found a sufficiently harmonious equilibrium in life: Oh, you are in too much of a hurry, why do you want to upset everything? Let things just carry on on their own. It will happen in its own timelike that. All those who are somewhat sattvic, level-headed, have that kind of equilibrium. Then, among those who aspire, a small number are sincere, serious, level-headed, ready for anything: ready to go slowly, to go fast, to do much, to do little but they are steady and quiet. And finally, there is a band of people who like imbalance and, for them, its an opportunity for all kinds of crazy things. But the Pressure of the Force is clearly making itself felt everywhere.
Sri Aurobindo always said that the most important, but also the most difficult thing, is to know how to keep ones BALANCE IN IN tenSITY. To have the in tensity of aspiration, the in tensity of effort, the in tensity of the march forward, while at the same time keeping ones balance the balance of perfect peace. Thats the ideal condition. But its difficult.
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And for the bodys cells, the transition from the tranquillity of tamasic origin (the calm that was the result in olden days of Inertia, and what still remains of that tendency to inertia), for this calm to cease being inert and, on the contrary, to belong to the calm of All-Powerfulness, there is a difficult transition. For the cells its difficult.
These last few days, oh! Its this transition thats being worked out in the details, and its not easy.
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There is also the pressure of external agitation (the world lives in perpetual agitation), the external agitation: everything and everyone is rushing towards one really doesnt know why. They want to do ten times more things in a given space of time than is normally possible, so it goes like this (gesture of trepidation). And to have the strength to remain calm and well-balanced in the middle of it, in that whirl
Its very interesting, really.
0 1967-04-27, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I told you about that experience (which has been growing increasingly concrete and constant) of the Vibration of Harmony (a higher harmony expressing the essential Consciousness in its aspect of love and harmony and, as it draws nearer to the manifestation, of order and organization), and of the nearly constant and general vibration of disorder, disharmony, conflictin reality, Matters resistance to this Action. The two vibrations are like this (Mother slips the fingers of her right hand between those of the left), as if they interpenetrated each other and a simple movement of consciousness sent you to one side or the other, or rather, the aspiration, the will for realization, put you into contact with the Vibration of Harmony, and the SLIGHTEST slackening made you lapse into the other. It has become constant. And then, on the 24th, right from morning there was a constant aspiration, a constant will for the triumph of the Vibration of Harmony. Then I sat down at my table as I always do, about five or ten minutes before it began. And instantly, with a puissancea puissance capable of crushing an elephantthis Vibration of Harmony came down like that, massive to the point that the body lost the sense of its exis tence altogether: it became That, it was conscious of nothing but That. And the first quarter of an hour literally flashed by in a second. Then, there were three people in the room; one of the three, or maybe all three, felt a malaise (nothing surprising!), and that woke me up: I saw the light (I burn a candle on my table) and I saw the time, but it wasnt me something saw. Then there was a sort of pacifying action on the place, and thengone again. And one second later, the call of the end!1
Its the first time that has happened to my body. It always used to remain conscious. Sri Aurobindo, too, told me the same thing, that he never, ever, had samadhi in his body. Neither did I: I always, always, always used to remain conscious. While that only the Force remained, there was nothing left but the Force at work: there was a concentration here, a concentration on the whole country, and a concentration on the whole earth. And all that was conscious, like that (vast gesture above the head), at work. But something massive, as powerful as an elephan tenough to crush you.
0 1967-05-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In any case I dont know I dont know anything and dont want to know anything, I dont know. I wouldnt be surprised if nothing happened, but Because for me, it has ALREADY happened. I told you, it came on the 24th, I had all kinds of experiences (you too told me!), but never this one: the material personality, the bodyabsolutely dissolved. There only existed the Supreme Consciousness. And that, I must say, has remained. It has remained in the sense that I can no longer eat, I can hardly rest anymore, I see literally hundreds of people and things and papers and This poor body could say, Phew!but not at all. And if the tension in others at any given time happens to cause a slight loss of balance, the body spontaneously says like this: Oh, but You, You are there and its all over. Its all over immediately. So this is something.
We will see.
0 1967-05-06, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So, if one can make ones consciousness stable and bring those juxtaposed layers into contact with the consciousness of harmony, there are seemingly miraculous results. For instance, S. came back this morning, ten years younger; as you know, he was half-dead.
(Laughing) S. isnt you! Its someone from Calcutta.
0 1967-05-20, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the little children continue to be very nice. Very nice. About one in ten or twelve was born under an unlucky star, which means when they were conceived the parents were in a very bad state. It happens. But most of the little ones are nice, really nice; and a few are remarkable.
Its the fashion to send me the kids photo and to ask me for a name, so like that I see a lot of them. And really, about one in ten, yes, on an average, is an ordinary child. But the others are, very nice.
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0 1967-05-24, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I know it is the Russian explanation of the recent trend to spirituality and mysticism that it is a phenomenon of capitalist society in its decadence. But to read an economic cause, conscious or unconscious, into all phenomena of mans history is part of the Bolshevik gospel born of the fallacy of Karl Marx. Mans nature is not so simple and one-chorded as all thatit has many lines and each line produces a need of his life. The spiritual or mystic line is one of them and man tries to satisfy it in various ways, by superstitions of all kinds, by ignorant religionism, by spiritism, demonism and what not, in his more enligh tened parts by spiritual philosophy, the higher occultism and the rest, at his highest by the union with the All, the Eternal or the Divine. The tendency towards the search of spirituality began in Europe with a recoil from the nineteenth centurys scientific materialism, a dissatisfaction with the pre tended all-sufficiency of the reason and the intellect and a feeling out for something deeper. That was a pre-war [of 1914] phenomenon, and began when there was no menace of Communism and the capitalistic world was at its height of insolent success and triumph, and it came rather as a revolt against the materialistic bourgeois life and its ideals, not as an attempt to serve or sanctify it. It has been at once served and opposed by the post-war disillusionmentopposed because the post-war world has fallen back either on cynicism and the life of the senses or on movements like Fascism and Communism; served because with the deeper minds the dissatisfaction with the ideals of the past or the present, with all mental or vital or material solutions of the problem of life has increased and only the spiritual path is left. It is true that the European mind having little light on these things dallies with vital will-o-the-wisps like spiritism or theosophy or falls back upon the old religionism; but the deeper minds of which I speak either pass by them or pass through them in search of a greater Light. I have had contact with many and the above tendencies are very clear. They come from all countries and it was only a minority who hailed from England or America. Russia is differentunlike the others it has lingered in mediaeval religionism and not passed through any period of revoltso when the revolt came it was naturally anti-religious and atheistic. It is only when this phase is exhausted that Russian mysticism can revive and take not a narrow religious but the spiritual direction. It is true that mysticism revers, turned upside down, has made Bolshevism and its endeavour a creed rather than a political theme and a search for the paradisal secret millennium on earth rather than the building of a purely social structure. But for the most part Russia is trying to do on the communistic basis all that nineteenth-century idealism hoped to get atand failedin the midst of or against an industrial competitive environment. Whether it will really succeed any better is for the future to decide for at present it only keeps what it has got by a tension and violent control which is not over.
Sri Aurobindo
0 1967-05-26, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Right now there is a great tension. They have all taken positions as if to start war. It is the blind passion that men put into their international relations.
At the base of it all there is fear, general distrust, and what they believe to be their interests (money, business)a combination of these three things. When these three lowest passions of humanity are brought into play, that is what I call the abyss.
0 1967-05-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, thats because the natural tendency here is against the Muslims, so those who think they are superior say one should be above ones dislikes: Lets be with them. (Mother laughs) Theres the logic of it.
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A time may come when well have to tell Sri Aurobindos vision and how the world has evolved since he spoke about it (that would be very interesting). For that wed have to find again everything he said on the different subjects. From the religious point of view, I have been thinking about it for a long time. Those are the two things that cant be touched without instantly arousing human passions, and there, peoples vision is quite narrow, limited, so that they no longer understand anything. Politics and religion, it would be better to wait a little. In ten years, perhaps. It could be, things are going fast. In ten years, maybe well be able to see and say a little something. In any case, its better to put this letter aside. (Laughing) Its not the time to fling stones at them!
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0 1967-06-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It may be said generally that to be overanxious to pull people, especially very young people, into the sadhana is not wise. The sadhak who comes to this Yoga must have a real call, and even with the real call the way is of ten difficult enough. But when one pulls people in in a spirit of enthusiastic propagandism, the danger is of lighting an imitative and unreal fire, not the true Agni, or else a short-lived fire which cannot last and is submerged by the uprush of the vital waves. This is especially so with young people who are plastic and easily caught hold of by ideas and communicated feelings not their ownafterwards the vital rises with its unsatisfied demands and they are swung between two contrary forces or rapidly yield to the strong pull of the ordinary life and action and satisfaction of desire which is the natural bent of adolescence. Or else the unfit adhar [vessel] tends to suffer under the stress of a call for which it was not ready, or at least not yet ready. When one has the real thing in oneself, one goes through and finally takes the full way of sadhana, but it is only a minority that does so. It is better to receive only people who come of themselves and of these only those in whom the call is genuinely their own and persis tent.
Sri Aurobindo
0 1967-06-14, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because what took place is nothing new, it has happened so many times before, but the bodys experience was different. Previously, the consciousness of all the other inner beings was there and would fortunately counterbalance this idiotic tendency: even the vital, the vital being which also loves grand effects, but provided at least they are great, vast, powerful enough to be on a large scale and save it from being ridiculous; and then, positively above all that, all the rest, with a smile. But this time, this body was left TO ITSELF, to learn. And it has learned.
But death too, is the result of the taste for dramawhat a pretty drama, ugh!
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If, for this wear and tear, this deterioration (which comes from the Inconscient and is the result of the RESISTANCE of the Inconscient), if for this we can substitute the aspiration for progress and transformation (not with words the vibration) That experience has been given to me several times. For example, suppose there is something which goes wrong, there is a pain somewhere, something disorganized that no longer works properly; if there is the vision and conception in the faith (faith and consecration to the Supreme) that its deliberate, that the Supreme has allowed it to be (how can I express it? All words are meaningless), has allowed or willed it, or wanted it to be, because to Him it seems the best way to transform the thing, to have it make the necessary progress, if the cells that are somewhat disorganized and sick, as they say, are able to feel this then straight away it takes a marvellous turn for the betterimmediately, in five minutes, ten minutes. I could give concrete, precise examples, with all the details. So that means bringing the two extremes into contact, we could say. And if that can become the normal life of the elements which make up this outer form, then there is no reason why No, there is no need to die, no need whatsoever. There comes a point when death loses all meaning.
And one learns in the smallest detail, in the little cell or the faint sensation (and when it comes down to feelings, there is something which is the embryo of thoughtoh, then), the taste for drama. Ah, then everything is explained.
0 1967-06-24, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its as if, in order to replace that habit, there was a kind of effort to create another one(!) which is only an approximation. Does that state of consciousness, that way of being, that way of existing, reacting, expressing, does it strive towards the Divine Manifestation? Is it in conformity with the tendency towards the Divine Manifestation? The thought is silent, immobile, so the imagination doesnt function (all that is deliberate), and the movement is trying to be as sincere and spontaneous as possible under the influence of the divine Presence. Words distort too much.
From time to time, now and then, all at once the concrete experience, as in a flash: the experience of the Presence, of identification. But it lasts for a few seconds, then things revert to their former state.
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After two or threeor four or ten or twenty, I dont knowintermediary beings, there would come the new way, the supramental way of creating. But will it be necessary to have children? Will it not do away with the need to have children in order to replace those who go, since they will now live on indefinitely? They will transform themselves sufficiently to adapt to the new needs.
All that is quite conceivable in the long term.
0 1967-07-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had that experience in Italy when I was fifteen, while travelling with my mother, and it struck me very muchit was very striking indeed! It was the memory of having been strangled in the Doges prison. Quite a story. Afterwards I enquired; I enquired about the names, the facts, the events (I was able to enquire in Italy about what had happenedit was in Venice and it tallied marvellously). But the interesting thing, from an external point of view I was visiting the entire Palazzo ducale with my mother and a group of travellers shown about by a guide: they take you underground, where the prisons were located. Then the guide started telling a story (which didnt interest me) when, all of a sudden, I was seized by a kind of force that came into me, and then, without evenwithout even being aware of it, I went to a corner and saw a writ ten word. It was But then, there came at the same time the memory that I had writ ten it. And the whole scene came back: I was the one who had writ ten that word on the wall (and I saw it, saw it with my physical eyes, the writing was still there; the guide said that all the walls with writings on them made by the Doges prisoners had been kept intact). Then the scene went on: I saw, I had the sensation of people entering and catching hold of me (I was there with a prisoner I wasnt the prisoner: I was visiting him). I was there, and then some people came and seized me and (gesture to the neck) tied me up. And then (I was with a whole group of about ten people lis tening to the guide, near a small aperture opening onto the canal), then, the sensation of being lifted and thrown through that aperture. Well, you understand, I was fifteen, so naturally! I told my mother, Lets get out of here! (Mother laughs)
It was hard to restrain myself. We left.
0 1967-07-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is the action of a perfectly conscious aspiration, increasingly constant, and the Response which brings the immediate result of that aspiration. But its still a completely new fieldnew from that total, integral angle. Formerly, everything going on in the body (I dont mean this one, I mean it in a general way) was a reflection and an effect of the Thing, while now, it is the Thing itself. But the millennial habit of being otherwise is so strong that the impression is Its like (the comparison is poor, but anyway), like stretching a rubber band; so as long as you keep it stretched (gesture of effort, pulling on Matter), the effect is there; but if the tension ceases, even for a second (gesture of abrupt flat tening), it falls back out of habit. Which compels you to constant tension. But it wont always be like that. It is the transition from one habit to another; once the other movement is established, then it will be natural, this constant tension wont be necessary.
Well see how much time it takes.
0 1967-07-26, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I can recall only one instance when I took things seriously, and even then (laughing), I put on a serious LOOK. It involved my brother, who was still quite young (my brother must have been twelve, or less: ten, and I eightno, nine and eleven, something like that, mere children). My brother was quick-tempered, he was easily angered and would speak very bluntly, almost harshly. One day he talked back to my father (I forget about what); my father was furious and put him across his knees (my father was an extremely strong man, I mean physically strong), he put my brother across his knees and (laughing) started spanking him; he had pulled his pants down and was spanking him. I enter and see that (it was taking place in the dining room), I see that, see my father, look at him, and say to myself, But this man is mad! And I told him, You stop at once, or Im leaving this house. (I was two years younger than my brother.) And I said it with such seriousness, oh! And I was resolute. And my father (laughing) was flabbergasted.
All those memories have come back like that. So now I remember to what ex tentto what ex tent the consciousness was already there. But it was amusing.
0 1967-07-29, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And so the conclusion. Ive always heard it said (I dont know if its true) that men think in a certain way and women in another. On an external level, the difference is not visible, but the attitude the mental attitudeis perhaps different. The mental attitude on the Prakriti side is always action, always action; the mental attitude on the Purusha3 side is conception: conception, overall vision, and also observation, as though it observed what the Prakriti had done and saw how it was done. Now I understand that. Thats how it is. Naturally, no man (here on earth) is exclusively masculine and no woman is exclusively feminine, because it has all been mixed together again and again. Similarly, I dont think any one race is absolutely pure: all that is over, its been mingled together (it is another way to re-create Oneness). But there have been tenDENCIES; Its like that note about Israelites and Muslims, its just a manner of speaking; if I were told, This is what you said, I would reply, Yes, I said that, but I can also say something else and many other things! Its a way of selecting certain things and bringing them to the fore with an action in view (its always with an action in view). But for the moment, everything is like that, everywhere mixed and mingled together with a view to general unificationno one nationality is pure and separate from the others, that no longer exists. But to a certain vision, each thing has its essential role, its raison dtre, its place in universal history. Its like that very strong impression that the Chinese are lunar, that when the moon grew cold, some beings managed to come to the earth, and those beings are at the origin of the Chinese nation; but now there only remains a tracea trace which is the memory of that distinctiveness. And its everywhere the same thing: if you look at the individuals of every nation, you find in every nation that everything is there, but with the memory the memory of a specificness which has been its raison dtre in the great terrestrial unfolding.
(Mother goes into contemplation)
0 1967-08-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And as I said, the body asked oh, it had such a wonderful moment! A moment, a few minutes, so wonderful, when it KNEW how it ought to be. It was magnificent. Then the experience came.1 Till then, it was inexpressible: it was lived, it was a living consciousness, but the mind had become very quiet, so it was inexpressible. Then there came back that great complaint from the world, and the experience started being expressed (Mother looks for a note). It started being expressed, because it isnt just the anonymous demand of thousands of people: its virtually a shower of letters, questions, demands from people who believe who believe they are part of the Work, of the Action, who believe they have given themselves, and all their questionsand such futile questionswhich to them are of crucial importance, but which are so puerile, stupid, unimportant: how to start a business, the opening date, a name for a house, a message for a meeting. And what goings-on, its a deluge from every side. So it all was seen in the new attitudenot new, the consciousness was fully there, there had been a whole tendency to increasingly adopt that attitude, but now it was KNOWN, fully known: what one must be, how one must be. So I came down abruptly to reply to all that.
For some time there had been lots of questions from people I refused, quite simply refused to answer; I would reply with some jest or other: I am not a fortune-teller, or Its none of my concern, none of my business. Jests, and sometimes I would say, Ah, let them leave me alone, thats childishness. And people who think they are very dedicated, for instance a man who has already given at least ten lakhs of rupees (he knows it only too well, but still he did give them!) and who wants to work to bring more but then, his questions So instead of replying with a quip (that was my last experience: its like dictated answers, but they are quips), this morning something came in English (Mother reads her note):
We are not here to make our life easy and comfortable. We are here to find the Divine, to become the Divine, to manifest the Divine.
0 1967-08-26, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Both. There would be a difference. The ignorance and obscurity present in the world are what gives divine Action a distorted appearance; and naturally, that must tend to disappear. But it is also true that there is a way of looking at things which you could say, which gives their appearance another meaning the two are there, like this (intertwined gesture).
(silence)
0 1967-08-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I meet almost everyone there. I told you that you are there quite regularly, and we work. As for you, you dont remember. There are others who remember, but their memory is (Mother twists her finger slightly) just slightly off, that is, not identically what I saw. And when they tell me, my impression is, yes, its because of the transcription in their brain. The objective reality of the material world stems from the fact that if you see the same object ten times over, ten times it looks like itself, with differences that are logical, or that may be, for instance, differences of wear and tear but there too its like that! If you study carefully, even in the physical world no two people see things in exactly the same way. There, it may be more pronounced, but it seems to be a similar phenomenon.
The explanation becomes very simple and very easy when you enter the consciousness in which its the material reality that becomes an illusionits illusory, inexact: the inner reality is truer. Then, in that case, its simple. Maybe its only our mind that is astonished?
0 1967-09-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Some ten kilometres from Pondicherry.
Here are some brief samplings from the said letter: "... Someone said, Freedom is to be carried not like a standard but like a Cross.... In your book, there is no love for the Crosswhy? From all eternity the Cross has been the form that gathers up and rises. The form that will not rise alone; the form that, plunged into a mass, rises up again only with the entire mass the form that sticks to all the cardinal points and bleeds on all the cardinal points.... When I go to the lepers' workshop immediately after seeing you, I go and draw the Force not only to help them through financial means, a skill or friendship, but perhaps even to envisage being like them and going to the bottom of their real misery ..."
0 1967-10-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember, long ago, right at the beginning (I think I had just moved into Sri Aurobindos house), someone, I forget who (did Tagore have a sister?1), she was a tall and strong woman, rather awe-inspiring, who had come to spend a day in the Ashram, and she said to me, Why dont you keep some rooms and rent them out to visitors? You would get ten rupees a day. (Mother laughs) I stared at her, I was flabbergasted (she was teaching me to be practical!). And at the end, she said, God bless you. At that point I couldnt restrain myself, and I answered her, Its already done! (Mother laughs)
So its the same thing everywhere, a patronizing attitude.
0 1967-10-21, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But there is such idiocy in this body. For instance, there is at each moment (each second or minute), at each moment there is the choice between the continuation of the old habit or progress towards consciousness. Its constantly like that. And through (what can I call it?) sloppiness (what is it? Its not bad will because its idiotic; its more idiotic than bad will), there is a spontaneous tendency to choose deterioration rather than the effort of progress, and its only when there is something like a slightly awakened consciousness that says, You silly fool! Youve gone through many more difficulties than the little difficulty of making an effort of progress, then that has some weightnot always.
There is a sort of passive knowledge (not that the body doesnt know how it is, it knows how it isits sloppiness), but when it knows and makes the effort, it is always, every time, expressed as lights, yes, like vibratory waves, and those of progress are the ones which have all the colours, that stippling of all the colours: a light made of a stippling of all the colours. Those are the lights that choose the immediate little effort to reject the sloppiness. But they are not important events: its something going on each minute, for everything, all the time, all the time, all the time for everything.
0 1967-10-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, its water that rots things. Edelweiss doesnt die; I had one which was intact after ten years. When things are dehydrated, they no longer die.
Wait, Ill show you something (laughing), because you are really very nice. See this (Mother shows a big red rose of a particular kind), its Sri Aurobindo. Wherever people grow this rose on earth, its Sri Aurobindo. It grows as big as this.
0 1967-11-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its very of ten like that: I get nearly twenty-five or thirty letters every day; out of them, I have time to read eight or ten, and at the time of reading them, most of ten there is no answer: theyre at least ninety-eight percent useless. When there is something, the answer comes right away. Or when there is no answer right away, sometimes (of ten) I put it aside, and when I am alone, Sri Aurobindo comes and says to me, Why dont you tell him this? Then I immediately write it down. It happens very of ten. And always an answer, oh, with a sense of ridiculousness, of humour, touching the exact point where the weakness or unconsciousness lies. Its very amusing. So I never try to find, naturally, never ever, it comes like that quite simply. When I have to answer, it comes; then I just have to take a paper, my pen, and I write it down. Thats the part of the work which isnt work, but amusement.
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0 1967-12-16, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This (gesture to the forehead), you know, is like an empty box (very pleasant, its very pleasant), an empty, peaceful box, like that: not closed, not compact, its open, but its a boxan empty box. Inside its all white, nothing moving. And then, I dont even make an effort to bring something down, nothing: Its not my business. If I am asked, I answer, Nothing, I have nothing to say. Or else, something goes like this immediately (gesture on the alert, wide awake), stands up and remains at tentive, and after one minute, two minutes, ten minutes (I dont know), suddenly, plop! down it drops. Then I write it. And as it falls, it gathers words and makes its sen tence. Sometimes its in French, sometimes in Englishit depends mostly on the person its in tended for, but it also depends on the subject. So then, if (thats why I keep pieces of paper and pencils everywhere), if I have my piece of paper and pencil, I write it down and its over; if I dont write it, if I say, Oh well, Ill note it down a little later, then it keeps coming and coming and coming back every second until its writ ten down. And once its writ ten, gone!
But there is (what did Sri Aurobindo call it?2) something we might call a critic (there is constantly a critic there), that says, Are you sure you put the right word? Wouldnt this be a better way to put it? Is it exactly the way it should be? And also, Are you sure there arent any spelling mistakes, have you writ ten it properly? Like that. What a nuisance! So sometimes I say to it, Leave me in peace! (not even as politely as that). Sometimes I give the piece of paper, then take it back and say, Let me seeuntil its satisfied. Sometimes a word isnt quite correctly writ ten, then it says, Ah! See, see, youve made a mistake there. Sometimes there are spelling mistakes: See, see, youve made a mistake!
0 1967-12-20, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, the correspondence has become something fantastic! Twenty-four, twenty-six, thirty, sometimes forty letters a day. So naturally, try as I may When its just a line, its all right, but I can barely reply to eight or ten a day: I have only an hour and a half, thats not muchnot even that much! No, no, the hour is too much: I have half an hour! But I ex tend it: I have from 7 to 7:30 in the evening, but every day I ex tend it till 8. Dinner is supposedly at 7: 30, I take it at 8. Supposedly too, I go to bed at 9:30 and get up at 4:30, but when I went to bed last night it was almost 1110:30 is frequent, which means an hour late. So from time to time I get up late. You understand, between about 1 and 2 A.M. (around 12:30, 1, or 2), I complete the first stage of concentration to give the body a good rest; after that I start working, and before working, a little concentration so that whatever the work, I should be back at 4:30; but sometimes its later sometimes its 4:45. Then, afterwards, I have a certain time in the morning for washing and dressing, and thats when there have been really interesting experiences: with a certain concentration (which has nothing to do with willpower or anything of the kind: its a concentration, a certain type of concentration and making contact with the Presence and the sense of the relativity, the very considerable relativity of material time), with an in tensity of concentration, you can do the same thing much faster. I eventually found out that simply by concentration you can reduce the time by more than half. And you do things in exactly the same way, but they dont take timehow? Well, the secrets havent been revealed yet. But the phenomenon exists.
The same principle is at work (its not a principle, its a way of doing or a way of being), is at work for all things: with fatigue, the onset of illness, that is, the cause of the illness (the internal disorder or the receptivity to the disorder from outside), it works also in the same way. If you add to it the in tensity of faith or adoration, then its much easier, but it works in the same way. So what exactly takes place? To the inner perception, the perception of the consciousness, it is a sort of principle of disordera principle, almost a taste for disorder, I dont know, its between a habit and a preference for disorderwhich gets replaced by yes (to be as general as possible), by a vibration of harmony. But that vibration of harmony is full of light, of sweetness, of warmth, in tensity, and so wonderfully CALM! So when that takes the place of the other, then all that belongs to the world of disorder is dissolved. AND the rigidity of time disappears.2 Time perhaps we could say (its just a way of speaking), we could say that time is replaced by a succession (Mother remains absorbed for a long time).
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But the interesting part is that formulating it in words makes it sound artificialits much more sincere, much truer, much more spontaneous than anything expressed or expressible by the mind. No formula can render the sinceritysimplicity, sincerity, spontaneity, something uncalculatingof the material movement. There was a time when expressing or formulating caused a very unpleasant sensation, like putting something artificial on something spontaneously true; and that unpleasantness was cured only, to begin with, by a higher knowledge that all that is formulated must be surpassed. For instance, every experience expressed or described CALLS FOR a new progress, a new experience. In other words, it has tens the movement. That has been a consolation, because in fact, with the old sensation of something very stable and solid and immobile because of inertia (a past inertia, which is now being transformed but has left marks), because of that inertia there is a tendency to prefer things to be solid; so there is a thrill at being forced to No, no! No rest, no halt, go on!farther and farther and farther on When an experience has been very fruitful and highly pleasant, let us say, when its had a great force and a great effect, the first movement is to say, We wont talk about that, well keep it. Then after comes, Well say it in order to go farther onto go farther on, ever farther, ever farther.
There is a stability in the resolve and in the aspiration, a stability that can be found nowhere as much as here (Mother strikes the ground). Thats a characteristic of Matter. And you know, when it has given itself and has faith, it becomes so stable, so constant, and the joy, that sort of widening, of luminous expansionit becomes such a perpetual need that in no other part of the being has it ever been like that. Its something ESTABLISHED. And established effortlessly, established spontaneously, naturally, normally. So we can foresee that when this Matter will become truly divinetruly divineits manifestation will be infinitely more complete, more perfect in the details, and more stable than anywhere else.
0 1967-12-27, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At the very bottom of the thing, two tendencies or two conceptions are confronting each other. The first says, Its badly done: lets destroy it and well begin again, from top to bottom. The other says, Its not the way it should be: lets transform it. These are the two things opposing each other: the effort for progress and transformation, or the brutal and stupid method of breaking everything and starting all over again, so that it goes on endlessly.
It boils down to the fight between Death and Life; progressive life, more and more divine, and Death, which systematically abolishes all that isnt divine. Because only what is divine escapes it.
0 1967-12-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Some things are really interesting. For instance, Id like there to be To begin with, every country will have its pavilion, and in the pavilion, there will be the cuisine of that country, which means that the Japanese will be able to eat Japanese food if they want to(!), etc., but in the township itself, there will be food for vegetarians, food for nonvegetarians, and also a sort of experiment to find tomorrows food. You see, all this work of assimilation which makes you so heavy (it takes up so much time and energy from the being) should be done BEFORE, you should be able to immediately assimilate what you are given, as with things they make now; for instance, they have those vitamins that can be directly assimilated, and also (what do they call it? (Mother tries to remember) I take them every day. Words and I arent on very good terms!) proteins. Nutritive principles that are found in one thing or another and arent bulkyyou need to take a tremendous quantity of food to assimilate very little. So now that they are fairly clever with chemicals, that could be simplified. People dont like it, simply because they take an in tense pleasure in eating(!), but when you no longer take pleasure in eating, you need to be nourished and not to waste your time with that. The amount of time lost is enormous: time for eating, time for digesting, and the rest. So I would like to have an experimental kitchen there, a sort of culinary laboratory, to try out. And according to their tastes and tendencies, people would go here or there.
And you dont pay for your food, but you must give your work, or the ingredients: for example, those who had fields would give the produce of their fields; those who had factories would give their products; or else your own work in exchange for food.
0 1968-02-03, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was very interesting. It remained the whole time, for more than an hour, such a strong and clear vision, as if suddenly everything became clear. I of ten used to wonder about it (not wonder, but there was a tension to understand why things, here in India, have become such a chaos, with such sordid difficulties, and all of it piling up), and instantly, everything became clear, like that. It was really interesting. And immediately there was: Here is why you have made Auroville. I didnt know it, you understand, I did the thing under pressure, and it took larger and larger proportions (its becoming really worldwide), and I would wonder why. For a time I thought it was the only present possibility to prevent a war,2 but it seemed to me a somewhat superficial explanation. Then it came all of a sudden: Ah! Thats why.
And as that whole power was in it, I said, Put it. Well seethey wont understand anything, but that doesnt matter, it will act.
0 1968-02-17, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its worse than that: theyre going to hold a conference for the children in which the children will ask questions, and ten people or so will be there to reply, but mainly Y. and Z. So those children are coming with the idea of finding something a little true, and thats what they are going to find.
The city of love is probably not going to be understood as it should be. You know, the magazine Plante is sending Mr. D. to write an article on Auroville; well, I saw this D. a year ago when he came here, and hes precisely a great adept of this yoga of sexuality.2 I had a whole talk with him, a talk so heated that afterwards, I got a sort of revelation and wrote a whole letter on the problem of sexuality in yoga. But the man reeks with this business of sex. He is sent by Plante. So if they show him this, the city of love
0 1968-02-20, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But the nerves remember You know that after living with Sri Aurobindo for a year, when I left at the time of the [first world] war, because of the war, all the nerves fell ill: they were in a state of irritated tension (I think they call it neuritis, when all, but all the nerves are ill). Its particularly painful, and everything is disorganized all over: the circulation was disorganized, the digestion was disorganized, everything was disorganized (it was in France, in southern France). The nerves remember that, and I dont know why, once when things here were very difficult, they remembered. Sri Aurobindo was there and I told him (I think Ive already told you the story): I absolutely had the sense of a hand coming and taking the whole pain away like thatin one second it was gone. And it had never returned. Now, from time to time, when people are ill-disposed or their thoughts are bad, and when in addition theres no rest, no eating, no sleeping, then from time to time, here or there, the nerves get strained. Its a sharp pain at its height. In France, I had it for weeks. Sometimes it comes, and then I have to keep still and melt in the Divine Presence then its over, it goes away without a trace.
But when they feel ill at ease, they remember. They ask, I dont know what should be done to erase this memory. I take them to task, I tell them theyre stupid, but Then they keep still.
0 1968-02-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I told you that the Soviet consul is enthusiastic! He saw the Charterin English first (in English, there is Divines Consciousness, with the apostrophe1). He said, Its a pity, it evokes the idea of God. And S., who had been there, said, Its not that at all! Theres nothing religious in all this affair. Well show you the French. Then he read conscience divine [divine consciousness], and he was satisfied. He said, This is just what we want to realize, and without these words it would be officially recognized and supported by the Soviet government. Then they asked him to translate it into Russian, but finally whats being read out in Auroville isnt his translation, its the one by T. She has just come, and words dont frigh ten her. But I sent him my permission: I had it explained to him that words were just a more or less clumsy transcription not only of the idea, but of what is above the idea the principle; that it didnt matter much whether these or those words were used (each one uses the words that suit him best), and that, therefore, I allowed him to use the words that would be acceptable to his government. The Soviet consul said yes, he was very glad. He said, When the Soviet government officially supports something, its serious.Its true, I know it, they are very generous. So I hope it will have a favorable result. And you see, its just what I wanted: in America, for a long time they have been enthusiasticwhich is good, but perhaps they dont understand so well; the Russians, in their nature, are mystic, and as that has been oppressed, suppressed, naturally it has gained a lot of force. And now it tends to want to burst.
But if both together support Auroville, we wont have any more financial hassles!
0 1968-03-02, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont care. What I find quite petty is when they dont tell me and do it on the sly. To hope I wont know is childishness, and the tendency to hide things from me isnt very-nice.
But on the whole, it went off well.
0 1968-03-16, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This morning, there was an experience; it seemed an extraordinary revelation, and its something that was always known. So you mentalize it the moment you mentalize it, it becomes clear, but thats no longer it! You see, we say this creation is the creation of equilibrium,2 and that in fact it is mental error which makes us want to choose one thing and reject another that all things must be together: what we call good, what we call evil, what we call right and what we call wrong, what we find pleasant and what we find unpleasantall that must be together. And this morning, there was the discovery that through Separationthis Separation which has been described in all kinds of different ways, sometimes pictorially, sometimes simply in an abstract way, sometimes philosophically, sometimes all that is just explanations, but there is something, which probably is simply Objectification (Mother gestures as if to push the universe forward, out of the Nonmanifest) But thats still one way to explain. This so-called Separation, what is it exactly? We dont know (or perhaps we do, after all). It in fact created (to put it in colors) black and white, night and day (thats already more mixed but black and white too are mixed), its the tendency to create two poles: the pleasant or good thing, and the unpleasant or bad one. And as soon as you want to return to the Origin, the two tend to merge together again. And it is in perfect equilibrium, that is, where no division is possible anymore and the one has no influence over the other, where the two have become one again, its there that lies this famous Perfection which we are trying to rediscover.
Rejection of the one and acceptance of the other is childishness. Its ignorance. All mental translations, like that of an Evil eternally evil, giving birth to the idea of hell, or that of a Good eternally good all that, all of it is childishness.
0 1968-04-03, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We should note the datemaybe in ten or twenty years well understand!
Yesterday was April 2, yes, the 2nd. It was a curious date: 2-4-6-8 [April 2, 1968]. Two, four, six, eight. And the impression was of something going like this, like a page thats been turned, and then the beginning. Or if you like (its not a geometrical sensation, but), the sense of a curve that has come to its end, and another one starting. But thats not as good as the image of an immense page falling back, and something beginning. Its blank, its just the beginning.
0 1968-04-10, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One crore is ten millions.
This is the whole problem of the Ashram's "proprietors" (or Auroville's former proprietors) and this "misappropriation" which Mother was already referring to in 1960 (and before): see Agenda 1, July 23, 1960, p. 400
0 1968-04-13, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
R. [Aurovilles architect] has come for five days, and he wants to make what he calls a district of Auroville, that is to say, instead of tackling the problem of ten or twenty thousand people at once, he wants to start with two or three thousand, on the level of infrastructure, but above all to see how it will work: the experiment of life in Auroville. I had thought about it, and when I spoke to you last time, thats what came: in what direction should the experiment be carried out? You see, Y. has ideas in the field of education (I am not intervening); as for R., he has ideas in the field of construction (I am not intervening); but no one has studied the problem on the level of administration or organization, and of money, and that was precisely what I spoke of to you about last time.
So if you could read me what I told you, if it does Ill give them the text. There is also this communist Russian architect, who has become quite enthusiastic: to him Auroville is the ideal realization. He is a very strong boy, with some power (also a power of conviction over people). So it would be interesting if he could have a glimpse of the direction in which were going.
0 1968-04-27, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, not for one day have I been without connection with him; and I am not active, in the sense that I have a connection only when people call. So it means he has really been calling. And like this: continuously, continuously, with a sense of tension. The letter to F. came yesterday afternoon, then I understood.
But it shows that his vital is still not pure enough to be strong enough. The vital forces there [in the Vatican] are EXTREMELY powerful.
0 1968-05-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All these last days, there has been an IN tenSE work, extremely in tense, of impersonalization of the physical consciousness. It results in a sort of (unsteady gesture) You understand, the whole solid base that makes up the corporeal personhop! gone, taken away. So then, at times theres a wobbliness. For instance, for perhaps ten or fifteen minutes, I had a total abolition of memoryof recollection and memory. And Now I am used to those things (theres a tremendous number of them), so I stay like that, exclusively turned towards all the cells are still, silent and exclusively turned towards the Force, the Consciousness, like this (gesture with the arms opened upward), and they wait. And then, there is a sort of concentration of energy, of force, and suddenly, as if coming from elsewhere (thats a very odd sensation) You see, all that we do, all that we know, everything is based on a sort of semiconscious memory which is there thats gone. And theres nothing anymore. Its replaced by a sort of luminous Presence, and things are there, but you dont know how. Its not as if they had come back as before, its not that, its Theyre there effortlessly. And whats there is ONLY JUST whats needed at a given moment. There isnt all that baggage you constantly drag behind yourself like that, as before, its not that: theres JUST the thing you need. But you have to be very, very still; if youre restless or excited in the least, or even if you make an effort, theres nothing anymore. And on the most material level, there is also a sort of perception that the whole material equilibrium of the past has disappeared too, and that anything may happen at any time. Fortunately (that must be why its done), fortunately the cells have a very ardent faith, very ardent.
I told you just before that I had felt that avalanche of attacks. It came in a very subtle form: the unreality of the conception that has been admitted and adopted the unreality of the divine Presence in the body, the unreality of the world in transformation towards a more and more divine state; like an unreality surging up (gesture as of a wave from below), in a sly way, to cut off the base and support of the faith.
--- Overview of noun ten
The noun ten has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (8) ten, 10, X, tenner, decade ::: (the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system)
2. ten-spot, ten ::: (one of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face)
--- Overview of adj ten
The adj ten has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (71) ten, 10, x ::: (being one more than nine)
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ten
2 senses of ten
Sense 1
ten, 10, X, tenner, decade
=> large integer
=> integer, whole number
=> number
=> definite quantity
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
ten-spot, ten
=> spot
=> playing card
=> card
=> paper
=> material, stuff
=> substance
=> matter
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> part, portion, component part, component, constituent
=> relation
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun ten
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ten
2 senses of ten
Sense 1
ten, 10, X, tenner, decade
=> large integer
Sense 2
ten-spot, ten
=> spot
--- Similarity of adj ten
1 sense of ten
Sense 1
ten, 10, x
=> cardinal (vs. ordinal)
--- Antonyms of adj ten
1 sense of ten
Sense 1
ten, 10, x
INDIRECT (VIA cardinal) -> ordinal
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun ten
2 senses of ten
Sense 1
ten, 10, X, tenner, decade
-> large integer
=> ten, 10, X, tenner, decade
=> eleven, 11, XI
=> twelve, 12, XII, dozen
=> teens
=> thirteen, 13, XIII, baker's dozen, long dozen
=> fourteen, 14, XIV
=> fifteen, 15, XV
=> sixteen, 16, XVI
=> seventeen, 17, XVII
=> eighteen, 18, XVIII
=> nineteen, 19, XIX
=> twenty, 20, XX
=> twenty-one, 21, XXI
=> twenty-two, 22, XXII
=> twenty-three, 23, XXIII
=> twenty-four, 24, XXIV, two dozen
=> twenty-five, 25, XXV
=> twenty-six, 26, XXVI
=> twenty-seven, 27, XXVII
=> twenty-eight, 28, XXVIII
=> twenty-nine, 29, XXIX
=> thirty, 30, XXX
=> forty, 40, XL
=> fifty, 50, L
=> sixty, 60, LX
=> seventy, 70, LXX
=> seventy-eight, 78, LXXVIII
=> eighty, 80, LXXX, fourscore
=> ninety, 90, XC
=> hundred, 100, C, century, one C
=> gross, 144
=> long hundred, great hundred, 120
=> five hundred, 500, D
=> thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard
=> great gross, 1728
=> ten thousand, 10000, myriad
=> hundred thousand, 100000, lakh
=> million, 1000000, one thousand thousand, meg
=> crore
=> billion, one thousand million, 1000000000
=> billion, one million million, 1000000000000
=> trillion, one million million, 1000000000000
=> trillion, one million million million
=> quadrillion
=> quadrillion
=> quintillion
=> sextillion
=> septillion
=> octillion
=> aleph-null, aleph-nought, aleph-zero
Sense 2
ten-spot, ten
-> spot
=> eight-spot, eight
=> five-spot, five
=> four-spot, four
=> nine-spot, nine
=> seven-spot, seven
=> six-spot, six
=> ten-spot, ten
--- Pertainyms of adj ten
1 sense of ten
Sense 1
ten, 10, x
--- Derived Forms of adj ten
--- Grep of noun ten
akhenaten
american marten
aten
austen
batten
beech marten
benjamin britten
britten
capoten
corn gluten
edward benjamin britten
genus pecten
glisten
gluten
godwin austen
iron manganese tungsten
jane austen
kindergarten
kitten
latten
lofoten
loniten
marten
meticorten
mitten
mount godwin austen
one-ten-thousandth
patten
pine marten
platen
saint maarten
sauerbraten
sex kitten
st. maarten
stone marten
ten
ten-day fern
ten-gallon hat
ten-spined stickleback
ten-spot
ten-strike
ten-thousandth
ten commandments
ten dollar bill
ten percent
ten thousand
tenability
tenableness
tenaciousness
tenacity
tenancy
tenant
tenant farmer
tenantry
tench
tendency
tendentiousness
tender
tender loving care
tender offer
tenderfoot
tendergreen
tenderheartedness
tenderisation
tenderiser
tenderization
tenderizer
tenderloin
tenderness
tending
tendinitis
tendon
tendon of achilles
tendonitis
tendonous synovitis
tendosynovitis
tendrac
tendril
tenebrionid
tenebrionidae
tenement
tenement district
tenement house
tenerife
tenesmus
tenet
teng hsiao-ping
teng hsiaoping
tenge
tenia
tenner
tennessean
tennessee
tennessee river
tennessee walker
tennessee walking horse
tennessee williams
tenniel
tennis
tennis ball
tennis camp
tennis club
tennis coach
tennis court
tennis elbow
tennis lesson
tennis match
tennis player
tennis pro
tennis racket
tennis racquet
tennis shoe
tennis shot
tennis stroke
tenno
tennyson
tenon
tenonitis
tenor
tenor clef
tenor drum
tenor saxophonist
tenor voice
tenoretic
tenorist
tenormin
tenoroon
tenosynovitis
tenpence
tenpenny nail
tenpin
tenpin bowling
tenpins
tenpounder
tenrec
tenrec ecaudatus
tenrecidae
tense
tense system
tenseness
tensile strength
tensimeter
tensiometer
tension
tension headache
tensity
tensor
tensor tympani
tent
tent-caterpillar moth
tent-fly
tent caterpillar
tent flap
tent peg
tent stitch
tentacle
tentaculata
tenter
tenterhook
tenth
tenth cranial nerve
tenth part
tenthredinidae
tenting
tentmaker
tentorial sinus
tentorium
tenuity
tenure
tenzing norgay
tungsten
wheat gluten
yellow-throated marten